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MEDFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1933
Meet Mr. Lochinvar
By Mario Bliiard"
YESTERDAY: Tony misses a
tapphire bracelet the intended to
wear to Mr: Brewster's dinner,
Philip thinks the must have tnie
laid it. The party arrive t at Aire.
Brewster1: and meet Iord and
Lady Rathbone.
Chapter 25
Diamond Pin
!
CONVERSATION flewed gently,
ioftly, about the table. Like
the red roses clustered richly in
the center, above the priceless
'ace, mere was an air or formality
about it that was at once imper
sonal ana pleasing.
The American visit of the klne
Was Honolulu truly the garden
spot or the world? The recent bi
ography of an English statesman,
Historic vignettes of the past that
seemed somehow to be brought up
to aaie in Mrs. Brewster s dining
room. The cultivation of the ca
mellia. Mansions in Natchez. Lady
Rathbone must set Mississippi
ana us oeauiuui oia ..omes ana
gardens before returning to Eng
iana.
Lady Rathbone. with her beau'
tiful, slim neck, her startling way
of smiling showing huge teeth
in a grim smile was definitely of
a genre not to appreciate Natchez,
teeny thought.
Mrs. Brewster rose. Her guests
louowea ana, Dowing to the gen
tlemen, she led the ladies back to
the drawing-room.
Ill be darned!" Tony mur
mured Into Cecily's ear. "They're
realty going to stay to nave port
and cigars! Do you suppose if I
have a cigarette, I'll turn the
Brewsters over in their graves?
Lady Rathbone halted, blocking
the girl's way. "Excuse me," she
murmured and went back to the
dining-room.
Frankly curious, Tony stared
after her. "Undoubtedly gone back
to tell His Lordship to go easy on
ine port, she commented.
The ladies had cigarettes, ash
trays having appeared out of thin
air. Cecily, blowing smoke slowly,
suddenly felt all her party spirit
evaporate. She was bored, wish
ing she was at home, or that she
had some knitting to do. Her eye
traveled to tne ormolu clock on
the mantel. Only a half-hour to
ten and then, thank goodness, the
tarty would be over. It was so
utterly lacking in animation. Her
lazy glance went from cnair to
chair, to the sofa where her aunt
and Lady Rathbone were talking
logetner.
His Lordship came In, bent over
to speak to his wife.
"Excuse me," Cecily heard Lady
Rathbone murmur, "I must go up
stairs. I have asked Cecil to get
something for me and he can't
find it,"
It seemed but a moment later
when she reappeared in the door
way, her face white. "Mrs. Brew
ster, may I speak to you for a mo
ment?" Mrs. Brewster was saying, "Dear
Lady Rathbone, are you quite
sure?"
Then Mrs. Brewster, turning
back to the room, said in a very
clear voice, "Lady Rathbone has
lost a valuable pin. . . ."
"I hauen't lost itl I left It In my
Jewel box on my bureau. I opened
the box before lunch and took out
the things that I am wearing. The
in was there then. It is gone now."
ady Rathbone looked even more
grim than when she smiled, Cecily
thought, as well she might.
Mrs. Brewster laid her wrinkled
hand on Lady Rathbone's arm.
"Couldn't it be possible that your
sleeve cat ght in the pin? Let us
all lnnk for it. I'm sure we'll find
it. Will you describe it for us?"
"It is a sunburst design. There
re forty diamonds surrounding
a large central stone. There is a
a.neiy .-iasp ana im quite cer
tain . . ."
Mrs. Brewster interrupted, tact
fully suggesting that each of the
ladies search an upstairs room.
The men had come into the draw
ing room and Mrs. Brewster ex
plained the situation to them, as
signing them to the downstairs
floor.
Tony, Gloria and Cecily drew
the upstairs hall and the ladies'
dressing room.
Gloria closed the door behind
them. "Am I wrong, or .s the old
gal suggesting that her pin has
cen stolen?"
"Right! Quite right," Tony
agreed. "And it looks as though
our hostess were pretty much an
noyed about it. Which one of us
will do the noble thing and con
fess and get the agonv over?"
Cecily was horrified. "She can't
think any of us would steal her
pin!"
"She's quite sure It was stolen.
Perhaps one of the servants."
Tonv ventured.
Gloria looked up from her posi
tion on all fours on the floor. "I'm
sure Mrs. Bivwster would 1 e ready
to suspect Mother's tnking it rath
er than one of her servants. She
only has four and they've been
with ,ier for 'niqli onto forty
years'. They wouldn't be likelv
to embrace a life of crime at this
late date. Most likely l.adv Rath
bone will find it pinned In one of
her own things. Come along, it's
not here."
car, "our hostess certainly handled
that to the queen's taste. It looked
rather unpleasant for a few min
utes. Lady Rathbone was so deter
mined to make it unpleasant!"
Olivia said thoughtfully, "It all
seems very strange. Lady Rath
bone was certain that she had left
her pin in her jewel case. She told
me it was a family heirloom, in
addition to being worth a consid
erable sum. I don't believe that
she would be so ungracious, or so
unbalanced in her point of view,
to state the case wrongfully."
"On the other hand. Olivia."
Helene said reasonably, "Mrs
Brewster was equally certain shi
had. She knew her guests and sh
knew her servants. And she
every right to believe that Lad
Rathbone was mistaken. Wh
should we all be disturbed abou
it?"
"We shouldn't" Olivia agreed
"We've had a very pleasant eve
ning, up to a point, and I sugge:
that we forget it It's all quite im
possible. Things like that jus
don't happen in Vickersport, . .
Anyone feel like a little bridge
when we get home?"
Tony said softly for Cecily ti
hear, ''I'm glad I didn't give wa
to my impulse to explore the
ladies' dressing room before din
ner. I d be sure to be accused
Would you sav I had anv of the
earmarks of a Raffles?"
All of them." Cecilv retorted
obligingly, "even to getting sus
picion away from yourself. Didn't
you announce before we left that
you had missed a sapphire brace
let? That's supposed to be part of
the plant."
Tony brought her full glance to
bear on Cecily. "So. it is,'' she said
slowly. "So i: is. Things like that
don't happen in Vickersportl
Maybe we'd better look into it
when we get back."
"Count me out. As a lietective.
I'm a verv good librarian." Cerilv
said. She disliked any echo of the
unpleasantness, it made her fee!
as though she wanted to get into a
tub of water and wash away the
thought of it.
The big house at Darelea looked
pleasant, warm, inviting, after the
strained atmosphere they had
left. The brief charm of the Old
World juaintness that Ceeilv had
enjoyed earlier in the evening
was dispelled by the ugly sus
picion that had invaded it later.
ihe girls went upstair" to leave
their wraps.
Philip and Manuel were already
getting out the bridge tables and
cards.
When Cecilv came downstair.
Gloria was saying, "Let's have a
little gayety to get the cold out of
our bones. Could we have high-
Dans, MotnerY
Olivia nodded to Philirj who
went to the dining-room and re
turned with a tray of bottles and
glasses.
lony came running downstairs.
"I found mv bracelet." she an-
notinced. "It was lying right on my
bed. I can't imagine how I could
ave Deen so careless as to leave
t there! I'm rather fond of It-
It's an expensive trifle."
"I told you vou'd fit d it." Phllln
said, bringing her a glass.
Cecily shuffled the cards. "Now
everything is all right." she said.
onaii we cut tor partners?"
Very Strange'
IX 'HEN the girls returned to the
' ' drawing-room, they found the
ethers gathered there. Mrs. Brew
ster, looking older than Time
i weary, but with a manner that as
sured them no one would be made
uncomfortable, was already bid
ding them good night.
"Well," Ileleno Fernandez said
when the women were in Olivia's
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TOKYO, Tuesday. Sept 20. (UPI
fitrlklngly similar editorials today In
the Aahl Yomlurl and the Meyako
Phlmbun asserted that the Unltrrt
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Nothing Wrong
CECILY opened her eyes,
streicneti, curling her toes like
a cat. extending her arms in a
rigid movement. Then she lay re
laxed. Her eyes felt clear, re-
reshed, as though th: early morn-
ng sunshine, warm with crisn
edges, were a celestial bath.
Out of doors, she heard the
proud cackle of a hen, the tinkle
of cowbells in the meadow beyond
the pines. The cry n seagulls rose
on the clear air. The sweet smell
r nay mingled with the lavender
scent of her bed-sheets.
Nice! Nice! Nice!" she said, as
though she were biting into the
word with pleasure.
She turned her head to look at
the clock on her bedside table. It
was only seven.
For a few moments she thought
of the night before, of Lady Rath
bone's cold, angry face. Then she
dismissed it. Surely, in the clear
beauty of this new day, that would
be righted. There was nothing
wrong could be nothing wrong
on a day like this that the day
would not clear up.
She let her thoughts swing In
the inevitable circle back to yes
terday. It was no good trying to stay In
bed any longer. Cecily hopped
out, grasped the foot-rail of her
bed, bent, twisted her body in ex
ercises like a dancer limbering
up. Then she plunged her arms
into the cold water she had poured
into the washbowl and splashed it
on her face. She dried It hastily,
rubbing her skin until it glowed.
Hunger hastened her as she
dressed. I would have made a good
pioneer wife, she thought I like
to get up early in the morning. I
love the out of doors. I'd get meals
on time lust because I'm always
hungry.
Mrs. Batson was not In the
kitchen. Wouldn't be fo. an hour.
Into a small tin pail Cecilv poured
a glass of thick cream from the
crock where it had been left at
dawn. Then she went out to the
barn and foraged in the hay. She
found a half-dozen eggs, still
warm, and put them In a papet
bac.
With her booty, she struck out
the back way toward the beach.
In long Mricir-s she covered th
smooth stones, scrambled up a
cliff and struck off through a short
cut toward Cramer's Road.
She was going to give a surprise
party to Laura.
Continued tomorrow.
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The lHttcr advocated a Japanese
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threatening to protect llrttlsh and
French Interests In China, thereby
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CAUSES $75,000 FIRE
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Today was wedding day for Alberta
St. John, 17-year-old Indian girl
Before the ceremony she was riding
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