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MKDFORP MATT. TRTBUyR MEDFORD. OREGON. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 13. 1938.
THE ARMY POST MURDERS
'By Virginia Hanson'
The Characters
Kstherlne Cornlib, mveI vis
iting Elizabeth on a mid-tcertcrn
Army post,
Eliubeth. Colonel Wright's
daughter.
Adam Drew, acting command
ing officer.
Yesterday: Adam questions
Mcry Shaw.
Chapter 12
A Different Slant
' VOU knew her," Adam said im-
ply. "For some, time I have
thought she was unhappy, tor
mented. Do you know why?
She made a little artificial ges
ture with her long, brittle hands.
"Anne was not the confiding
sort One knows, of course, certain
things from experience. It is not
always easy to choose between two
men. One falters from inflicting a
tevere hurt. . . . Have you ques
tioned young Spencer?"
I missed Adam's answer. The
blood was singing in my ears. My
pencil rolled free in my lap and I
had to fumble for it in the semi
darkness. By the time I found it
Adam had launched a counter
attack. "Your husband and Nelson were
classmates, I believe. Did you
know him at the Point?"
There was a perceptible pause,
but the answer, when It came,
seemed candid almost too can
did. "Yes. I had been engaged to Phil
for some months when I met Bar
ney. I said just now that I could
understand Anne's problem. Be
lieve me, I, too, was very unhappy
until I found the right solution. I
tell you this, of course, in the
strictest confidence. Not for the
world would I have let Anne know
of it. I was very happy that he had
found the right girl at last in fact,
I may say I fostered the romance.
Poor Barney: One might almost
believe It an adverse Intel
Adorn made clucking noises and
aearched her face with his brilliant
eyes. He had another question for
ner. uonndentially, what did she
tninK of Barney s brier Hurry with
Elizabeth?
She got out of that one rather
neatly without casting a shadow
on Elizabeth, who, after all, was
the daughter of the commanding
otneer. i could not help reflecting
that Mary Shaw would have made
in able wife for a diplomat
According to her the thing was
vastly overrated. Anne had sent
Barney away until she could test
her own feelings and make up her
mind. Barney had sought compan
ionship and sympathy from Eliza
beth until Anne dismissed Charlie
and called him back. This she ad
mitted to be surmise; Anne had
confided in no one.
It was a singularly apt surmise,
I reflected. If true and I admitted
the theory was plausible Charlie
was the only logical suspect
Suddenly my mind was illumi
nated by a flash of memory. Was
it .eally only that afternoon that I
had leafed through the Howitzer
and found Barney's and Shaw's
biographies? Clearly I recalled the
last terse, descriptive phrase un
der Shaw's picture:
"Chief claim to distinction: the
man who tried to spoil Swede's
beauty."
I must tell Adam about that at
once. I gathered my closely scrib
bled sheets and waited, tense, for
Mary Shaw to effect her linger
ing departure. Certain formalities
must be observed, mutual sympa
thy and helpfulness expressed. I
rose impatiently and stood just be
hind the curtains, while Adam
ceremoniously ushered her out.
Short, Bull-Dog Figure
DUT I had no opportunity to 1m
part m scrap of information,
for the subject of it followed Adam
uneasily into the room, wearing
his most petulant defensive scowl.
It sat down again and studied
him a short, bulldog figure who
might be effective in a scrap. Why
had he mixed with Barney7 Over
Mary? But what connection could
that have with murdering Anne?
Once more I watched, with envy,
Adam's peculiar talent for putting
people at case. Shaw did not refuse
a cigarette. Adam leaned com
fortably back, legs crossed, and
talked through the smoke that
made a blue veil between them.
Ho asked no questions; he told
Shaw what he had been doing,
with an air of thinking aloud, and
presently the younger man re
laxed his defensive attitude and
put in a word.
"Say, what did you do to Wheel
er? Ho came out looking like he
had seen a ghost, and they hadn't
got out of the club before that
battle-axe mother of his was
pumping him hot and heavy."
"Did she get anything out of
him?" Adam asked idly.
"Not that I could hear," Shaw
admitted frankly. "His jaw was
shut like a steel trap. What was it
all about?"
"He Just talked out of turn."
Shnw snickered. "I figured it
might be that He'd be sure to
bring it up."
Adam put both feet on the floor.
"What do you mean?"
'The same thing you mean. 1
don't know how you missed hear
ing about it before. He's shot off
his mouth enough since it hap
pened." "You mean about Anne?"
"Yeah. Now don't get sore at me
too. I know all about it, and it's
true enough as far as it goes. Only
it was a put-up job, and Wheeler
doesn't know that."
Adam eyed him coldly. "Go on."
"Well, you see, it was several
weeks, maybe a couple months ago
about the time Charlie Spencer
started dragging her. We had some
house guests and Charlie and Anne
dropped in. You know the Wheel
ers live in the other half of our
quarters and Anne saw him sitting
by the window reading when they
arrived. Ma Wheeler had gone to
Chicago on a shopping spree. Don't
know how she could bear to let her
little boy out of her sight, but she's
go him pretty well trained. You
know he's not allowed to mingle
with us bad boys and girls.
"Well, Anne said there was poor
Wheeler all alone over there lis
tening to the party, and why didn't
Mary call up and ask him to come
over.
"Well, Mary did ask him once
and he declined with horror. So
she said never again. And she said
why didn't Anne go on over and
cheer him up if she thought he
needed it. So Anne said he'd prob
ably call out the guard.
"Pretty soon it began to look like
a swell idea to rib Anne up to
breaking in on Wheeler. The girls
got to work on her, and I think
somebody dared her. We went out
in the yard and we could see him
still sitting there all alone, read
ing. Though how he could get any
sense out of a book with all the
noise we'd been making, I don't
know.
Thinking Fast
"ANYWAY, Anne promised to
' give him the thrill of his life.
The front door was open and she
just walked in. He was facing the
other way and before he knew she
was there she had plumped down
on his lap, wrapped her arms
around him and kissed him like he
was Clark Gable.
"We could see it all as plain as
day from the lawn. The blinds
were way up and the lights full on.
Well, you've seen a woman get
mixed up with a mouse at close
quarters. That was Wheeler. He
let out a queer sort of bleat,
jumped up and tore her loose from
him like she was so much poison
ivy, DacKed into a corner and held
both hands straight out in front ol
him to make her keep her distance.
He needed to, too. She turned on
all the old siren stuff, stretched
appealing arms toward him,
looked at him soulfully. Been any-
body but Wheeler he'd have
smelled a rat."
What happened?"
"That's about all I know. One ol
the girls was laughing too loud, so
I took her back in our house. The
rest of them said V'heoler came
to and ynnked down the blinds, so
they came in too. But it wasn't Ions
until the two of them, Wheeler and
Anne, went past, going toward i
Anne's quarters. She was hanging I
on to his arm and half running, he I
was traveling so fast. I guess he
took her home. Wheeler's been i
talking his head off ever since. Not ,
the circumstances, you know. Jusl
hints of what he could spill." i
"And none of you ever told hire
the truth?"
Shaw looked uncomfortable. 1
How could vou tell a man a thins
like that? I guess everybody else
on the post learned what really
happened, so his talk didn't hurl
Anne any.
"What do you make of this?"
Adam asked him.
From the table in front of him
he picked up the envelope ink
which I had seen him put the little
lead slug which he had dug from
the pillar on the dance floor.
bhaw poked at it with a thick
stubby finger.
"Thirty-two. Isn't it? That's thi
one . . .? His voice ..ailed off.
'No. The bullet that shot hei
lodged in the wound. This one hil
a pillar on the far side of the floor.''
bhaw whistled. "Are thev Iron-
the same gun?"
"I don't know. The federal mer
will have to pass on that. But thii
was a fresh siiot. . . ."
Something was d a w n I n s nr
Shaw's face.
Sayl Mavbo I know some
thing" His thick, stubby hand
darted across the table and fas
tened on Adam's arm. "Could that
shot have been fired several hours
ago this afternoon?"
"Probably. What are vou eettino
at?"
You could see Shaw thinking
fast.
Well, I'm not sure. It sounds
crazy. But they were dressed alike
those big red hearts. It would
mean that somebody n.ade an aw
ful blunder that the shot that
killed Anne Carewe was meant for
Barney Nelsonl"
(Copyright, 19SS, Virginia Raison
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