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MTE'DFO'RT) MATL TRTBTTN'E, MWFO"RT, OREGON. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 5. 1938.
ROAD MAP
gy, GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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By MAX SALTMARSH , -j
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The Character
Hug Bum. handsomt author,
. living on th French Riviera.
Archie Lomiden, mvel, Hu-
: oo' friend.
' Ben Oelu. a tinoularly un
:, pleasant eartooniet.
Teeterdfty: Summoned to Palm
j Beach by O'Oonnell, an Ameri
can detective, Hugo and I lee ve
I Monet murdered white the it tak
ing part in a mannequin ihou). '
j
! Chapter Five
Death Of A Red-Haired Man
"THE Chief of Police pulled out
notebook, and scribbled while
Hugo wu (peaking. Hugo told him
that the blonde girl had ap
proached us at the Carlton Bar.
also that Geiss had spoken to us
bout her and mentioned the
names of her friends.
"Venner. the banker?" Thiers
pondered. "Now. where navel
heard that name before? No mat
ter. It will come te me. Baron
Stan! I know, of course the great
financier. I fancy that he is stay,
ing now at Cap d'Antibes. Vladi
mir Rakovsky no. that one is un
known to me. But one or other of
them can doubtless tell us some'
thing about the lirl."
He paused again, surveying us.
"There is nothing else?"
' Hugo shook his head, but I sat
up in my chair. 'There's one
point," I said. "You say the girl
was murdered, which I presume
means shot, and in that case the
pistol must have been fitted with
a silencer, otherwise everyone
would have heard the explosion. I
Know tne noise a silencer makes,
and lust before the thins hap
pened I heard -.uch a sound, that
might very well have been the
snot. Behind my back.
. "And that is all. Monsieur?"
"No," I said bluntly, "it isn't. As
my friend has told you, I called for
a doctor, and while I was doing so
I saw two men leave the room hur
riedly, one after the other. In
fact,'' I added thoughtfully, "it
looked to me as if one was pursu
ing tne other.
That is most Interesting," said
the fat man, but with a certain
lack of enthusiasm. "These men-
Sow were they dressed?
I shrugged. "In black trousers
and white mess - jackets. They
might have been waiters or guests.
lor au t could tell."
"But their faces?" he Insisted.
"You could identify them again?"
.no, l said, l couldn u They
had their backs to me, and beyond
the fact that one was medium
sized and black - haired, and the
other shorter and ginger-colored,
I saw nothing to spot them by." I
paused, .racking my brains for
some deUil that might have es
caped me, and a sudden memory
came. "Hold on a minute," said I.
I did notice a ginger-haired fel
low, before the thine harjDened
standing behind the tables across
tne dance-nocr, signaling to some,
one on our sidt- of the room."
He pursed his lips, frowning
thoughtfully. "And you think it
might nave been the same man?
Well, we can discovei if anyone
left the building before orders
were given to shut the doors. But
meantime we will have Madame
in."
- He opened the outer door and
gave a sharp order, and next mo
ment a tall, handsome, middle
aged woman, a trifle mannish
looking in her tailored black satin
suit, entered the room. She was
pale and her mouth was grimly
set, but otherwise she showed no
sign of emotion.
Thiers bowed. "You are Ma
dame Lilli Stefan?" he inquired.
The woman inclined her head si
lently. "And this poor girl who has
met so tragic an end she was one
of your assistants?"
A Holocaust?
"CHE was one of my assistants,
-J for this affair onlv." she anld
In a deep, rich cont alto. "It wilw
be best. 1 think, if I explain exactly
how it happened. The girl Eve was
not one of my regular manne
quins. She was suggested to me
last spring by Baron Stahl. I had.
unfortunately, no opening at the
time, but I took her address with
the promise to nmpioy her when
the occasion offered. Two days ago,
when I was on the point of leaving
for Cannes, one of my girls fell ill
and I telephoned to this girl's
apartment, 3 bis, rue President
Ooumergue, near the Pare Mon
ceau, ana finding that she was free,
engaged her. Beyond that I know
nothing!"
"The Pare Monceaul" said the
chief of police, pondering finger on
Hp. "An expensive address, thatl
And her real namt, modame?"
Mme. Stefan shrugged. "1 know
no more than you," she retorted.
"Eve Monet was what she called
herself."
The fat man got ponderously to
his feet "Madame, he said, with
dignity, "I thank you."
A uniformed gendarme stood In
the doorway, the same that had
departed on his errand a short
time before. His sallow face was
pearled with sweat: his beady eyes
sparkled with the pleasurable an
ticipation of one who bears star
tling news, the points of his
moustache quivered. "Monsieur le
Commissaire!" he said excitedly,
and stopped at sight of us. "One
speaks? he demanded dubiously
"Yea, yes!" said his superior
testily, and he went on with a rush.
"I nare demanded at the doors
If any person was seen to leave the
building just after the tragedy,
and one has said to me that yes,
wo men had been seen, one black-
haired, the other red. They left
hastily, one on the heels of the
other, but there are many cars
ranged outside, and the night is
dark. It was not seen in what di
rection they went I then demand
ed of the chauffeurs if any car had
been taken from the ranks and
was told no. No taxi had been en
gaged from among those waiting."
He stopped and wiped his fore
head with a gaudy cotton hand
kerchief. "But as 1 returned, by
chance I observed something in
the shrubbery protruding from
under a bush. I looked. It was a
man's shoe. I looked farther, and
behold, the body of a manl The
red, Monsieur le Chef he lies
there, shot through the heart!"
He paused dramatically, looking
from one to the other of us, an ac
tor seeking applause, and he was
not disappointed in his audience,
Hugo whistled, I gasped, and the
fat man swore, sharply and vi
ciously, like the spit of a cat
"Sacri bleu" he said. "But this
ceases to be amusing. What have
we here a holocaust?"
"I should rather say the mur
derer escaping, finding himself
pursued, and making short work
of his pursuer," suggested Hugo
mildly. "Archie" he turned to me
"that must have been the ginger-headed
bloke you spotted."
The chief of police gave him a
quick stare. 'That is possible," he
agreed. "Messieurs, I must ask you
to accompany me to view the
corpse the second corpse!"
The casino opened on a square,
the far end of which touched the
sea-front. The building was edged
by a thick fringe of shrubbery,
bordered by a grass verge, and
half-way alcng it I saw dimly, by
the light flittering through cur
tained windows, two motionless,
uniformed figures standing on
fluard. with a second group of on
ookers halted Inquisitively a lit
tle way off.
Tery Interesting
VfJE made our way towards them
' ' with a majestic, official slow
ness that I found profound r irri
tating, for every nerve in my body
was tingling with the desire to see
if I recognized the dead man, but
at l.st we hal.ed, the dim, uni
formed shapes melted to right and
left, and the gendarme who had
brought the tidings flashed a pow
erful torch on something that lay
on the dry earth.
The chief of police bent over It
Then he crooked a finger at me,
and I, in turn, stepped forward,
bent down, and looked.
The man lay face-upwards on
the ground. His sandy hair was
tumbled, so that a lock fell across
his forehead: his small, humorous
face was pinched and drawn: his
eyes were open, staring with a
startled look at the night sky
above him.
"Yes," I said, straightening up.
'That's the fellow, poor devil, who
was signaling across the room, and,
for all I know he may be the one
who skipped out after the shoot
ing." A curious muffled exclamation
broke from Hugo. "As God's
above," he said softly, "it's O'Don
r.elll" There was a moment's startled
silence, then: "Sacre bleul" said
the fat man, "he is known to you
then, this unfortunate?"
Hugo was a long time replying.
He stood there looking down at
the dead face with something in
scrutable, something menacing In
his expression. "He is known to
me," he agreed at last "His name
is O'Donnell. He is an American
citizen, and I saw him last in the
Ritz-Savoy Hotel In New York.
I believe he was working as a
bond-salesman. I know nothing of .
his family or connections, but he
was a nice fellow, and I asked him,
if he was ever on this side, to look
me up. Only this morning I heard
that he had called at my villa
while I was out, but what he's do
ing over here I can't tell you."
I noted, with some surprise, that
he had omitted to mention O'Don
nell 's real profession or the note
that he had left, giving a rendez
vous at Palm Beach. But as I rjon-
dercd his possible reason for the
omission, another thin; was forced
on my notice. The chief of police
was regarding him with a very
curious expression.
bo? he said slowly. 'This man
was a friend of yours? He called
on you this morning? And the girl,
too she also spoke with you to
day? Now, that is strange. That
is " he hesitated for a word-
very Interesting.
"I agree with vou ." said Hueo
dryly. 'Though intercsting's hard
ly the word I would have chosen.
Now, see here, Thiers. This has
been a fairly full evening for my
friend and myself. If you've no
further use for us at the moment,
we d be glad to go home to bed.
Mr. Lumsden Is staying with me.
and you can get us any time vou
want In the morning."
The fat man hesitated, looking
from one to the other of us with
a considering expression in his
small, observant eyes. "No," he
agreed at last. "It is true, there is
no object in detaining you now.
Monsieur Stern. I have much to do
here."
Monsieur Gelss will be In
formed of the murder?" asked
Hugo.
Certainly, said the other, sur
prised. "He was acquainted with
the poor girl. I depend on him for
information and for the rest he
knows how to keep his mouth shut
that one."
Then, said Hugo casually, ai
we turned away, "there will be no
harm In my mentioning it to him
if A-e chance to meet . . ."
fCopvrtoM. UaM SttUmarth)
Tomorrow Encounter with Gelia.
HARRY C. EVANS, 84,
PASSES IN HOQUIAM
Harry C. Evens, M, for many yr.ira
a realdent of Medford, paaafd aay
August 34 at the home of hit oMm
daughter, Mrs. Bertha Hansen. In
Hoqulam, With. Mr. Erana left MM
ford last March, soon after the drath
of Die wife, Mra. Uu Evane.
Left to mourn the passing of their
father are three daughters and three
eona, Mrs. Btrtha Hansen and Mrs.
Ethel Scott, both of Hoqulam, Wash.,
and Mra. Eudora Bohi.art of central
Point: Harry and Ernest of Hoqulam.
and Russell of Klamsth rails. Also
IS grandchildren and eight great
grandchildren. Interment was In the pioneer rem
etery at Humptullps. Wash, where
Mr. Evans took up a homestead in
1BB9.
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Early In life Joseph. Francis, Bos
ton, Mass., Inventor (1801-1893) care
ed the outline of career he was
destined to follow all through his
life.
At 11, with no model nor precedent
to guide him. Francis designed and
built a. non-slnkable lifeboat, It bow
and atern cork-filled, which would
tloat four men even when capsized.
Encouraged by Its success, Francis
designed more boats, many along rev
olutionary lines. In 1825 he built o
lifeboat with cork In the bow and
stern and air chambers along the
aides yet Its bottom was perforated
like a sieve I
He built a "knockdown" boat lo
three aecelons; a hydrogen lifeboat,
having copper tubes In Its Interior,
filled with the ges; and a ilfe-launch
for 75 persons. By 1841 all govern
ment vessels and most merchant
ships sailing from the port of New
York were equipped with his life
boats. Within four years his boats
saved over 2500 Uvea.
Soon the entire shipping world was
using Francis lifeboats. He organized
the American Shipwreck and Tumeno
society out of which grew the United
States Life Saving Service.
One of Francis' most Important
and far-reaching Inventions was a
method of corrugating Iron and other
metal plates for use In shipbuilding.
To this development originally in
tended to be used solely in building
lifeboats ts credited the birth of
Iron shipbuilding, one of the great
est steps In naval architecture.
Llon-Ketriever
"Jerry" 9-year-old 210-pound
Hon is the constant hunting compan
ion of Ben Magavern of Brldgman,
Michigan. Jerry will retrieve garni
without harming It, Magavern says.
Tomorrow: Where do
boats with their legs?
men row
FARMER CHAMP KEEPS
TITLE ANOTHER YEAR
WALLA WALLA, Sept. 8. IP) Will
Loney, world's champion larmer re
tained hla title bucurday by excell
ing In building a pig pen, harnessing
a pair of horses and driving four of
tne Animals -tnrough several maneu
ver at the southeastern Washington
fair.
The three-man 4-H livestock Judg
ing team from Umatilla county Ore.,
won first place tn that division.
Rodeo Rained Out
LONOVIEW, Sept. B (AP) The
second day's show of the Longvlew
Labor Day rodeo was rained out yes
terday when a heavy thunderstorm
caused the arena to become so slip
pery It was unsafe for contestants or
animals.
Schooner Freed
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 6. (iP)
The Whitney Olson, steam schooner,
was pulled free by a tug Sunday af
ter she went aground In Willamette
slough.
LOGS KILL FATHER OF
SONS GRID CAPTAIN
REEDSPORT Sept. 5. (ff) A cold
deck of logs shifted yesterday ana
killed Al Esselstrom. 49, at the Bal
drldge Brothers logging camp on
Smith river. His son, Al, wis captain
of the Southern Oregon Norma.
school football team at Asuland last
season.
The victim's widow and another
son also survive.
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