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THE ARMY POST MURDERS
By Virginia Hanson '
The Characters
Katherine Cornish, myself, ve
iling Elizabeth on a mid-uieitern
Army post.
Elizabeth, the colonel's daugh
ter. Charlie Spencer my flanei.
Yesterday: Anne Carewe it
murdered during the balloon
dance.
Chapter Eight
Capnhle Of Murder
OOMEONf! was breathing hard at
my snoulder. I turned.
"Charlie!" I whispered. Fear
snot tnrougn me and left me
trembling.
His face was paper white under
the golden down that covered it
like peach fuzz, and his odd, yellow
cat eyes had the brilliance of topaz.
He looked wild, tigerish; his hand
closed on my arm and the fingers
sank in like claws. But he was
looking past me at that tragic,
aown-nung rorm.
"She's dead," he said suddenly
in a snocKingiy ordinary voice.
The crowd panicked. Some wo
man began to laugh. Doc Moore
glanced up from his examination,
said something in a low voice, and
Adam, with courteous, relentless
nnauiy, rorced its all out of the
room.
"Everyone wait, please," he di
rected and closed the door.
"Quick, someplace where we'll
be alone," I whispered to Charlie.
He merely stared at me stupidly.
I took his unresisting hand and
hurried him across the floor"to the
rending room. For the moment we
had it to ourselves.
"Listen, this is serious," 1 said,
trying to fix his wandering, fever
ish gaze. "Listen, Charlie please
pay attention to what I am saying.
You realize this is murder, don't
you?"
The vacant yellow eyes looked
back at me impersonally.
"Well, what of i?" hn asked
crisply; and I saw what I had
missed before, that he was very
aruriK.
In that moment of horror It was
possible for me to believe anv
thing. I remember lookina him
over quickly for suspicious sags
or bulges. He was untidy his
tawny hairwos mussed, there were
wrinkles in his white mess jacket
and slacks; but there was no sus
picion of a gun on his lean, tail
ored iorm.
"All right, Charlie. I just wanted
to make sure you remember you
were with me in this room when
tne shooting took D ace."
Maybe I was a fool, but at that
moment I thought I had to get him
out of it. I'd take a chance on fixing
i. wiin main.
"With you? I don't believe
was." said Charlie with a flash of
intelligence.
I siehed in assumed imrjatlenre
"I was afraid you were too tight
to remember. I suppose you've for
gotten I asked you not to take that
last drink?"
"Tight? Nothing of the sort. Of
course i remember. The trouble
witn you, Ked, you re a prude.
Cut out to be an old maid.'"
And with that distinctly uttered
pleasantry Charlie tipencer drop-
peu onto mc leatner divan and
went instantly to sleep.
i stood jooKing at film Tor a
moment In baffled rilence. There
was no telling what he had done
and no cl ance of finding out
from him now. It seemed to me
he was perfectly capable, bolstered
by a few drinks, of killing a girl
to keep another man from having
her. But had he? And how could
I find out?
A Man-Hunting Weapon
T TURNED out the ligh- in the
reading room and pushed the
door nearly to, hoping that he
would not be found for a while.
Then I slipped through another
noor i round unlocked which
opened direct from the reading
room on the strip of side yard
between the Service Club and the
chapel.
The club stood back from the
street a short distance like a pri
vate residence, and the block was
lined with parked cars. Avoiding
the front of the building, I cut
across In front of the darkened
chanel ..nd hurried along the side
walk, searching for Charlie's car.
A pissing sentry eyed me curious
ly, I thought, before he sauntered
on.
Under the next street light I
found the roadster that had been
Charlie's pride and Joy for the
summer before, when he was on
graduation leave.
I slid behind the wiiecl, con
scious of a homesick pang. I had
driven this car In lighthcartcd
moments. . . .
Only a year ago.
It had been a good summer
commencement behind me, and
ahead vague rosy dreams of fame,
based on nothing more tangible
than a small cheek for my first
story. Beside me. Charlie, looking
like a new-hutched chick In his
spanny olllccr's uniform. The sum-mcr-whonl
gang; campus parties;
miles and miles along the lake in
the roadster with Eileen and her
current youth singing like angela
in the rumble seat.
A good summer, our last at
home. It was all changed now: Dad
rambling through southern France
on his sabbatical; Charlie's father
transferred to Los Angeles, their
house sold; Eileen singing de
terminedly against the incessant
clatter of my typewriter and the
periodic, devastating typhoon ol
the elevated outside our window.
And Charlie Charlie drinking
himself out of the picture because
a girl named Anne Carewe had got
herself engaged to another man.
And Anne Carewe lying on a
chaise longue with a bullet hole
in her back. . . .
I remembered his conversation
with Elizabeth that afternoon and
ran my hand along the back of
the driver's seat. The gun was
there, wedged in behind the cush
ion, the grip where he could put
his hand on It
I drew it out and looked at It
with the distrust I always feel
for pistols. I had shot Charlie's
twenty-two rifle when we were
kids, but this was different an
ominous, heavy thing, a man
hunting weapon.
It was Id: but I didn't Vn nra
how long it would stay warm after
ii was nred. i didn't know how, to
break it to set: if it had hp.n flrorl
I didn't know anything about the
thing except that I was eoine to
get rid of it for a while.
I considered. It would not do
just to throw It away somewhere
in tne dark; for eventually it would
be found and traced to Charlie
the numbers, or something, were
registered. I knew. Where, then
could I hide it?
The only place I could think of
was my suitcase in Elizabeth'i
guest room.
Fantastic Thought
THE thought of Elizabeth
brought mA Itn with on (M.
shock. She must be still at hnm
waiting for her call. She ought to
t . told about the tragedy. I would
make that an excuse for my actions.
The keys were In the car. I was
relieved but not surprised to find
them. Charlie was casual about
such things.
We warmed to each other like
old friends, Charlie's roadster and
I. The quarter mile or so from one
end of the plain to the other van
ished behind us like a thread of
smoke and we drew up in front of
Colonel Wright's - arters.
I was conscious of a pang of dis
appointment Elizabeth must have
gone back to the party. Her car
was not in sight. Well, I would go
in, hide the pun and leave. I could
at least say I had been looking
for her.
The knob turned under my hand
doors are never locked on a post
and I entered softly, remember
ing Annie's promise to be in early.
The lights were on in the front
of the house, but I saw no one as
I tiptoed through the hall and up
the creaky stairs. I found my suit-,
ease in the dark, removed the
pistol from the capacious sleeve of
the mandarin coat where I had
been carrying It, and buried It un
der some lingerie. Then I locked
the suitcase and out the kev In m
evening bag. That much, at least,
was done.
But on I., wav dnumct.ir.
disturbing thought came to me.
How long had Elizabeth been
gone? Could she prove an alibi for
the time of the shot?
I tried to dismiss the fnntmstio
thought, but it keDt
and with it Adam's recital of
Bar---" Nelson's lovn mnoU i.ih.
tnbloids would have phrased it
ui inai i Deneve Kiizabetl- capa
ble of murdei. The thing, I re
peated, was fantastic Rui ivhot
about the gossipmngersj Would
n't they be the first to scream
"'Motive"?
And so. with the hieh-mlnHed
intention of Drovinc on nlihi Inr
her, I snooped. There may have
been some excuse for mv mid
dling in Charlie's affairs. There
was none for what I did now.
The telenhone was nn th.
colonel's desk. I entered the den,
closed he door and spoke softly
into the transmitter. A man's voice
answered me the soldier operator
of the private exchange.
"I'm expecting a long-distance
call, I said In a voice I tried to
make casual. "Can you tell me if
anyone has tried to qet this num
ber in the pan half-hour?"
I was prepared to hear that
Omaha had called, whereupon I
would ask the time of the call. But
the operator dashed my plans.
"No ma'am, Theres been no
long-.;:stance :! tonight."
1 replaced the instrument r.
gretting my Impulse, trying to dis
pel m. awakening suspicions with
the reminder that Elizabeth had
said her father mifl' ; telephone.
One thir ,.hS certain, however.
Not even to Adam would I con
fide what I had learned
I opened the door of the den.
and there, at the far end of the
hall, framed in the outer doorway,
was Elizabeth.
She looked startled at sloht of
me, and 1 thought she even caught
ler lirealh.
(Copyrfgar. rtrglnla HansonJ
Monday: The bullet
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PORTLAND, IVr. H (API Cm.hy
appllrd to the Bonneville dm mi
thnrity Kdnv fnr 3 Ml kllowntl-ymrft
of C-lumMa rlvr electrical energy.
J. D. How. dam Rcimlnlstrntnr, etl.
muted the city would y appMxl
nvitcly I I mills for the power,
P.iw.t s-. 1 1! Mip p!n would cut the
ri t rift'a cost ,i i: a l r a well im pro
x.i'f In onic to educe thr city's
C'itv r. p:vcntt1ivtk n4wr1ed their
pm(-r mil rt ttvi. private util
ities W'.m'.d b i,vhed U $2&A(t ft
year undfr the new pmpoMl. The
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PASTOR SAYS J
IS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
For farther proof address the author, Inclosing stamped enrelope for. reply. Rff. TJ. 8. Pt Off.
WAMUNOTON, txv. 8 (API The
Rr. Hnwnrd Rtone Anderson, On-rrsntl-nsl
psstor hftr. salil t.vlay
unless Jmim noowvelt Infliirtnt his
church contributions in his Income
tux returns, he would be considered
"ft M object levon to the coun
try." "It Is entirety lrul tor msn to
msKe these rirrlu.-ttons end whore
there Is eurh s lack of evidence ot
them as In his rov, one emit help
but Interpret It the way I did." Mr.
Anderson Mid.
The minister, relyini; on published
Income tiu rre-rds o( rresUont
I Ito-srvelt's ellest son. told the iim
coauultter ua uii-Ameilcua acUMUes
ton aMtrte ehu&Je&es, HfPt QuJ&y K
HrWftowN 1,000,000 Mltf V SsuZ Fl
150,000,000-fVEftR H MggEBSPte '
RMStN INDUSTRY SWr WteOHW
6ROUflrtT-roCftUfORNIftWorA .
Cloud sisters
With eight years and 1,000.000 miles
of airline service to their credit.
Annese and Agnes Pugh are tho only
twin alsters to hold Jobs as skyway
stewardesses.
After becoming a nuree, Agnes five
years ago Joined United Air Lines
a a stewardess. Two years later
Annese followed her sister's example
and took to the air with American
Air Lines. Recently they added tip
their mileage and found they had
covered 1,000.000 miles between them.
St 50,000.000 Twig
Btrange aa It seems, from the single
twig of a Spanish grape vine, brought
Into California from Mexico by
Franciscan padrea In 1769. sprang this
country's entire raisin growing In
dustrya 150,000.000 a year aftnlr.
Planted at the Mission of San
Diego, the vine grew luxuriously. In
two years It yielded fruit and pro
vided CUttlnffK which were ntnntocl
at other missions as the padres press
ed north.
One of these original vines, plant
ed by the Franciscans at Mlaslon San
Gabriel In 177S, still produces at the
rate of five tons a year. In 1771
the padrea blessed and shipped lrom
California the first keg of wine
Bent from this country to the Vati
can In Rome.
Cuttlnga from Prance, Turkey. Per
sia and other countries were Intro
duced Into the United States when
the success of the Spanish vines was
apparent, and today crop yield of
some three billion pounds are pro
duced each year.
yesterday James' apparent failure to
make church donations causes "loss
In support" for benevolent organi
zations. "And aa we weaken our spiritual
instltuttcna we weaken America," he
added.
James Roosevelt aalri in itA.
ment at Holllater; Cel., he actually
did make such contributions but ua
ually he did not claim deductions
for them. He said If Mr. Andin
was Interested, he would be glad to
iniorm nim oi his donations.
Use Mall moune want Ads.
WPA Employment
Ebbs During Week
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. (API
Works Progress Administration un
employment rolls declined 33.088 dur
ing the week ended December 3.
Workers on that date totaled 3.183.-
418, compared with 3.216.506 for the
week ended November 36.
The reduction was not felt In Ore-
son. On the contrsrv WPA .nr.-n.
ment Increased there from 18,393 to
18.498.
I Uae Mall Tribune want Ads. I
TAILSPIN TOMMY On Wings of Disaster!
SHADY COVE CLUB TO
SPONSOR OASIS DANCE'
SHADY COVE. Dec. 8 (Spl.l The
Shady Cove Community club will
sponsor an old-time dance Saturday
night at the Oasla In Eagle Point.
Refreshments will be served and the
public Is Invited.
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McCloskey mayor and Homer Wilson
recorder.
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