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Newspaper Page TextMBDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEPFORD, OREOON, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1938. PAGE SIX i'be Characters Hugo Stem, handsome author, living on th French Riviera Archie Lamiden, miiel. hit friend. Oltllle Willi, beautiful Ameri can helreu. testerday: The dog Lulu saves Vlrooe (Villi' lilt bv killing Ml master's murderer. There it still no lion of Ottllle. Chapter 42 Kidnapped! IVE lunched, which is to ay that " Dunning and 1 gulped down some mouthfuls ol food while Hugo sat. refusing everything. Then Dunning suggested inquiring at the various gas stations on the roads out of town, to bear If they had seen the yellow car pass, and though it was. a forlorn hope, any action was better than nothing, so for a couple of hours V7 scoured the dusty countryside, all to no Purpose, ine tsiereis werss iuu urning bravely, but for the mo ment such a small event as a con flagration held no interest for me. and Anally, just as dusk was fall ing, we pulled up again on the main square. Across the crowded promenade pulling up outside the Grand Ho tel, was a shabby Renault with dust thick upon it A stocky, middling-sized man descended from it and started to climb the steps of the hotel, but before he had , reached the door, 1 was across the promenade and gripping mm oy uie snouiaer. . "Fleuriot! l said. . "You re a sleht for sore eves!" He swune round and his face lighted at sight of me. "Tientl" he answered warmiy. mere is a imu matter of a wager to b'e settled be tween us, a wager connected with the word 'Ammirii: You were riehL mv friend, he added. tap pint me in a friendly way on the shoulder, "but I could wish you had been a trifle more explicit, for you see, when I got there, tne bird he had flown!" I stared at him stupidly. "What bird? 1 echoed, ana ne shook nis head, gently reproving. "Do not priten'l you did not know. The chasseur, of coursel 1 guessed, naturally, that the word must be a street name in one of the older towns, and I made a lucky decision in trying Antibes first, but It .took me some little time to lo cate the street, for it is now re named. I discovered it at last, how ever!" he finished triumphantly. "And more, I found the house it self, the former dwelling of the armourer who gave it its name. So I added to myself certain of the local police, and between us we . Drone down tne aoor. "Goshl" I said wistfully. "1 wish I'd been there!" "And I. too." he assented Dolite- ly "With your weight, we had needed three policemen the less but I digress! The ground floor was empty, but I ascended to the first story, even to that upper room where the old printing press stands." He paused, nodding his head solemnly. There It stood, the whole equipment for that interest ing little astrological magazine. We had received inquiries at the Sflrete about this strange publica tion, notably from the Dunning Agency of New York." I know all about that 1 made em. I'm Dunning," said the big man hollowly. "But now I found proof positive that Monsieur Rene Gelss was the author notes, proof-corrections, unfinished sketches, what you like. You knew this. Monsieur Lums den!" he added accusingly. Help!1 "VfE guessed it," 1 corrected him, ' "but we hadn't a shred of proof. Go on, man, go onl" "Hiding in an attic under the eaves, I discovered a woman, a Negress, who said she was In charge ot the hoa.e." "B'atma," I said as he paused, and he flashed me a swift re proachful look. "You see, you know all. Monsieur Lumsden. This Fatma I questioned, and she told me what I suspected. The chasseur had inSaed sheltered there for two days, but that very morning he had left, for where do you think? For no less a place than the villa of a certain Monsieur Vladimir Ri kovsky In Italy." "And you believed her?" said Hiiro hoarsely. The other shrugged expressive ly "1 believed her. yes, for I had no reason to do otherwise, and her story was circumstantial Also. I had other things to gc on. as you shall hear So to Monsieur Rakov sky I went, but when 1 arrived, it was to And I had been on what you call a wild-duck hunt Our friend was not there he never had been there, and Monsieur Ra kovsky was a very indignant man at the mere suggestion that he might have been thcrel So back to Cannes 1 came, like tht game-dog who has lost the game!" "Too bad!" I said mechanically, for there was something in his -runner that told he still had a sur prise or two tucked away up his sl ve "Look here, Fleuriot, i added, "this other evidence that . convinrea vou you were on the right trail what was it?" ('Ahl" said he, on a long-drawn sigh, and his eyes, sharply intel ligent searched each of our faces in turn. "It was such a little thing, PHYSICIANS LIS! BETTER HOSPITALS Tin- AmcTimn CoIIcrc of Surgeons tocHy announced IU 3 1st inmwl ilt of tvttpitiii which It hM fully and prnviRimiftily npprovrd. Thr liospi'ni lttHt ait principally In iiir United Bute mid Cumuli. . p prnvl Ik ttlven after ytematlc per sonal survevf nd thr prornrlmr nl ft.v trfrtrrnfMon from vnm ouicee), Mvuluid tfO tbt Ul. a mere scrap oi i-. -cealed under the pruning uiess, and yet to me, it said a great deal!" And with that he fumbled in hL pocket and drew out a crumpled sheet of soiled paper, presenting it with a flourish for our inspec tion. 1 took it, unfolding it dazedly, while Hugo and Dunning craned their heads over my shoulder to read, and there I saw, scrawled in red chalk, in crude -apitala an inch high, the words: "They are taking me to Italy. Helpl Ottilie Wills!" "And she wasn't there?" said Dunning, in a queer, hushed voice The man from Marseille gave him a sharp, quizzical look. "It is correct then, that Miss Wills has disappeared?" he demanded, and at the others hopeless gesture of assent he nodded slowly. "So? Then 1 will answer you. Not only was Miss Wills not there, mon ami, but she had never been there if by 'there' you mean the villa of Monsieur rlakovsky. She has not been taken into Italy, and 1 telj you this with my hand on my heart for two hours of my precious time were spent in questioning the frontier guards to determine that fact" He stopped, with a sigh ot sheer weariness. "I am very tired. May I suggest that we adjourn to the lounge?" We filed after him into the big, empty room and sent a waiter scurrying for refreshment "And now, messieurs, ' said Fleuriot quietly, "1 think that you have a great deal to tell me, but first let me make my own position clear. I had already heard, as I have told you, of the Inquiries made by Mon sieur Dunning here and others as to the authorship of Le Grimoire astrotogique inquiries which we had not unfortunately, been able to answer. 1 knew that a plot against the life of Monsieur Virgoe Wills was suspected,but I tell you frankly that I thought the idea fantastic, and neither we of the Surete nor the local police were unduly disturbed when Monsieur Wills and his niece arrived here. When, however, I saw this note, I realized that the idea of the young lady's abduction was not as fan tastic as it might otherwise have appeared, and I realized too that Monsieur Rene Geiss was in some way implicated." 'West, Not East' HE paused to sip appreciatively from his glass. "It is not so hard to be wise after the event!" ho admitted with a wry little smile, "But me, I felt a spiritual indiges tion at the knowledge that was suddenly heaped upon my plate, for, from the fact that the chasseur had been hiding in that house. I deduced thbt there was a Connec tion between this Wills affair and the murder of Monsieur Venner, and more, that you, Monsieur Lumsden, had been in possession of this information for some time, but had not thought fit to inform me!" I shifted uneasily. "Let's not go into that now," 1 suggested "You'll find I had good enough reasons when the time comes to spill them." He waved his hand magnani mously. "I've heard of the i egret table attempt on Monsieur Wills' life and the not so regrettable fate of the assassin. Now T see that the disappearance of Miss Wills is a very serious matter. You believe, do you not that Monsieur Geiss has abducted her? My friends, you shall tell me all you know, and th'T we must act and act quickly." "This will be news to the lot of you," Hugo said. "Whether Ottilie has been abducted or not one thing is certain. She didn't write this letterl First it's printed in lipstick." Fleuriot grinned. "The classic method for ladies in distress who have no pencil." "Just so," assented Hugo dryly "But I think you will admit thai, ladles are not in the habit of car rying an assortment of lipstick around with them. 1 happen to know that Miss Wills uses what I believe is known as carmine whereas this letter, you will note is printed with an orange stick." Fleuriot rapped out an oath ana sprang to his feet "You are sure of this. Monsieur Stern?" he de manded sharply. Hugo swung round on me. "Ar chie, you saw that Negress the other night what shade of lip stick would you say she used?" 1 cast my mind DacK to that bi zarre scene under the night sky. "Orange it was!" 1 admitted, and he gave a short triumphant laugh. 'Tfou see? It was the Negress who wrote this letter, and she wrote it under dictation with the sole object of making us believe that Ottilie had been in Antibes and was been carried even farther east into Italy" He broke off, studying our intent faces. "Gentle men," he finished, "there's only one possible explanation for that maneuver Ottilie never was in Antibes. and if we want to And her, we must look, not east but west. Fleuriot struck his forehead. "West, that Includes the whole of France!" "Steady on, man!" said 1. "That car of Gclss's should be easy to trace, and if Ottilic's gone with him unwillingly he couldn't well shift her Into a train." "The carl" he echoed. "Imbecile that I ami If the car is on the road it shall be found!" And he ran like a two-year-old to the private tele phone in the managers office (CopyrtcM ttSU Ufim Siltmarthi Mondtvt On the lra.lL "Tr.it hoftpitn, which conform to all the requirement 1 on tn which the patient can place, the utmost Im plicit conflilenre." iwld ft reload from the collcRe. "That factor U Sti 1 tar If an Important first step toward recovery.-' "A hiph ttcnein) tuiiltt) average i one of the grcateat aaet a commun ity can have." the collene. releaae con eluded. "Qood hospitals help to I maintain It. lt'a support them." COMMONWEALTH BACKS BOURBON CANDIDATES PORTLAND, Oct, IB .. The "f-ann rom"Vtvv'altb Kerteri "m at it auuual cuuuuLun unutt u doraed tU Democratic candidate for tat and federal office with one exception and called on President Root eve It to run for a third term In the absence of another "progres siva" Democratic leader, Alex Barry, candidate for the abort term to the U. 8. senate, was the only Republican endorsed. PAINT IS DONATED FOR JACKSONVILLE CHURCH JACKSONVILLE, Oct. 18. (8pM Thanks to generous donors, the old Methodist church has received two coats of white paint, the work oe- lng done by Walter Anderson. The firms, each of which donated one gallon of paint, were: Pittsburgh Paint Co., Pick Hardware, Big tliifB Lumber Co., Lamport, Hubbard Bros., Porter Lumber Co., Medford Lumber Co., Hansen Hardware, Montgomery Ward, Eckerson Paint company, aud the Woods Lumber Co. Townsfolk as well as countless others to whom the church Is a shrine, greatly appreciate these gifts, . S 'MATTER POl Wyi -SOCrfY . TAILSPIN TOMMY Oh, Happy Day! pzz t lELIEVIMS THAT 'THE SHOT WHICH ONE OF TH6 THREE SAIiGSTERS HAD fired through a high-powered telescopic-sight Rifle, killimo Ben 5MOOT, HAD INSTEAD KILLED TOMMY, 3KEETER WENT 8ERSERK AMD, fAJH THE .AID OF JERRY CLEANED HOUSE CAPTURING ALL THREE OF THE KILLERS AMD THEM . . . 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