PAflT! SIX
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1939.
Meet Mr. Lochinvar
By Man Bliiard1
iupler 36
U:fl Foot. Right Fool
THERE were excited whispers
all about them. People stopped
at tables on the way to weir own,
leaned Jown, whispered. The
dance floor was deserted, and
thrnuffh the windows Cecily saw
the men down on their knees, the
porters with I ng brooms, r ine
combine the room. She prayed
they'd find that which they sought.
"Must be worth ten thousand
dollars. ...
"It couldn't have been stolen
"She said the clasp was
weak. . . ."
"Did you know that there's a
rumor that tne reason iaoy nam
bone left Mrs Brewster's suddenly
was because she said a valuable
diamond pin had been stolen? I
told my nusDana . . .
Cecily heard it all.
"StuniH woman to wear a Jewel
like that to a place like this,"
Gloria said.
"Why?" Philip asked. "Every
body knows everybody else. If
there were any suspicion that it
had been stolen, the committee
would have gone about it more
quietly, searched tne guests.
"That sounds reasonable," Jim
Penny said. "Why don't we sug
gest it? Then there won't be any
question about it. The men might
submit 'o it without letting the
ladies in on it."
"Good ideal" Philip agreed. 'It's
nasty business. I'll tell Lochran.
Suppose we go In first?"
Gloria said, "Don't be silly,
Philip! Mrs. Goodale herself said
the clasp was weak. It'll turn up.
If you're feeling so energetic you
might see if you can snag a waiter.
I want some more coffee."
Mrs. Goodale came back, look
ing haggard under her smile. Im
mediately all heads turned toward
her.
She stood In the door, holding
up her hand. "It's all right, every
body. I'm sorry my carelessness
spoiled the party. Please forget
that it happened. We're sure it
will turn up somewhere. Anyway,
it's insured. I'm afraid there isn't
going to be any more dancinf, be
cause the search isn't over and . . .
So, the orchestra is moving over
to my place and yuu're all invited I"
Immediately there was con
certed movement as chairs were
moved back. As she got up, Cecily
saw that the food on Laura's plate
was untouched.
Olivia came over to their table.
"Children, it's after one. I'm going
home but you all go on to Mrs.
Goodale's if you wish."
Tony said, I'm for going home."
"So am I, Mother. The edge is
off the party."
They all decided to go Tiome.
Laura leaned toward Cecily and
said in a low voice, "Insurance
companies don't pay large sums
without making extensive in
quiries, do they?"
ucciiy snooK ner neaa.
Oh. definitely not. she thought.
The time that Doug had lost his
gold cigarette case given to him on
his twenty-first birthday, the
place had been over-run with in'
vestigators. If thev'J do that be
fore paying a two hundred dollar
ciaim, wnat would iney ao ror one
as large as this one must be?
They'd send detectives. They'd
question everybody. They'd say.
"Exactly who was at that party?
They'd as1, if there were any sus
picious characters seen about the
grounds. They might even tie this
up to the Brewster affair.
Nightmares
THEY might learn of the figure
on the veranda. Had anyone
else seen it? Had anyone heard
her call, "It's Cecilyl"
All that night she dreamed
nightmares. Dreams in which po
lice stood over her menacingly,
threatening her with prison. They
finger-printed her. They said,
"You know all about it and we'll
make you talk." And she sold. "Nol
No! But Laura knowsl"
And then in horror of what she
had said, she woke up and was
unable to sleep the rest of the
night.
A sudden thought assailed her.
It wasn't like Laura to be secre
tive. Then why was she? Was
Laura being blackmailed! Some
one or some group, had gotten
poor little Laura into his clutches.
Elicit was why she couldn't talk.
What had happened to Laura the
night she went to Locke's cabin?
Poor girl, she had looked fright
ened and ill I
Laura had said, "1 can't tell you,
Cecily ... I don't know any more
than you do."
Try as she would, Cecily, In
spile of all she hat' seen, couldn't
make a villain of Locke. His eyes
kept coming between her and the
fiicture of him with horns sprout
ng from that clear forehead.
Trying Ionian her course, Cecily
dropped off to sleep. When she
woke it wns bright morning. She
felt under her pillow for her
watch and .icered at it through
sleepy eyes. Ten o'clockl
She swung her legs out of bed
and, not stopping for her exercises,
washed and dressed hurriedly. She
wouldn't even stop for breakfast.
She felt she must be oft to the
shop, to Laura.
She put on a knitted dress, ran
a comb through her hair and
matched up the polo coat she had
worn the night before. The house
was still sleeping when she let
herself out The first deep breath
of morning air made her feel
dizzy. She was hungry but she
could get something to eat after
she had seen Laura.
Hunger and lack of sleep made
her feel cold. The late September
air had a sharp wintrj tang. II
bit at her eyes, making them smart.
She tightened the belt of her coat.
pulle. the collar up around ner
throat and plunged her hands deep
in the pockets.
Like the answer to some wire
less message tapping at her mind,
she slowed her steps, and her
right nana in the pocKet 01 ner
coat felt around in the depths,
finding something unfamiliar.
She knew what it was before
she drew her handkerchief out
Knew instantly what that cold.
hard substance was.
Mrs. Goodale a necklace lav
there bunched in her hand. The
sun striking the emerald flashed
a cold green fire.
As though it were Are. Cecily
thrust it back in her pocket.
Solution
I EFT foot. Right foot. Mrs.
Goodale didn't lose her neck
lace. Left foot, right foot. Hard
little marching steps increasing
their pace. The necklace was a
leaden weight in her Docket. On
her mind. In her heart. Don't walk
so fast When you come to the end
or your journey, you 11 nave to ao
something. There, Cecily struck s
snag. She didn't know what to do
about it. Take it back to Mrs.
Goodale and try to explain how il
got in her pocket?
Cecily opened the door to hei
shop, fumbling the key in the lock
because her fingers were stiff.
She took her hat off and ran hei
Angers through her hair. There
was a fire laid in the hearth. She
touched a match to it and tried to
warm herself befo.e the blaze.
hoping with the heat to melt the
bands that bound her brain.
She sat there for twenty min
utes ... an hour' . . . she didn't
know how long, and .hen a solu
tion came to her. The situation
was now beyond her control. She
could no longer accept responsi
bility for what had happened. She
would have to take it to someone
else.
That souieone was Donald Hem
ingway. It might seem strange
that it was Donald Hemingway
who came to her mind. It wasn't,
when you followed her thinking
processes.
Donald Hemingway was a bal
anced person, a man who was ac
customed to weighing the prob
lems of others, to finding solutions
from an objective point of view.
And Donald Hemingway cared
for Laura Atwill. Cecily s intui
tion told her that. She dismissed
Donald s attitude toward Laura
in the past week, knowing that it
was a misunderstanding thai
prompted it.
bne must still have had faith
in Locke, she thought, or she
wouldn't be going to see Donald
Hemingway
In Donald's old-fashioned pri
vate office at the rear of the bank
where they would not be dis
turbed, she laid the necklace in
his hand and told him the story.
She told him all she could. She
told him '.low she had first found
Locke. She told him other things
that revealed more than she knew
but she did not tell him in words
that she loved Locke. She was as
honest as she could be. She told
him about the incident of Lady
Rathbone's loss, took the respon
sibility for Laura's going to
Locke's cabin. She told him every,
thing that she knew about the
night before.
When she finished. Donald was
silent for a few minutes, drawing
tnotigntluny on his pipe.
"Why did you come to me with
this?" he asked finally.
"Because . . , because I want
your help. I want you to tell me
the right thing to do. And . . .
and I want you to find some way
out of it without calling in the
police. You see ... I ... I don't
seem to know the right thing to
do. I know that on the face of it
all, he appears ir a very bad light,
and yet . . . yet I don't believe he's
guiltv. I don't believe he is
thief!" '
Don t you. my dear? He smiled
slowly.
"Nor
"I don't know him." he said.
"but I'm Inclined to trust your
judgment of people. Also, I'm
graieiui to you tor making me see
myself in an unpleasant Tight."
His remark surprised Cecily. "1
don't understand ..."
He got up and took di hat from
a peg near the door. He held the
door open for her.
About Mrs. Atwill, he said.
"I'm going to apologize to her."
At that moment Cecily's con
cern was not for Laura's mora
personal predicament "But what
about the . . ."
"The handkerchief you found?"
he asked blandly. "I'll drop in at
the Yacht Club on my way out
to Mrs. Atwill's and leave it in the
owner's locker."
Oh. thank you." Cecily couldn't
say more. The weight dropping
away irom ner snouidors left her
weak.
"And my dear. I suggest that
you have luncheon with us if Mrs.
Atwill can join us. In a lower
voice he snid. "I think we should
ask her advice."
Continued tomorrow-
SUPREME COURT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. ;p Con
fronted by a number of Important
legal controversiei, the vupreme court
JustlceA met Monday to open tlielr
new 1930-40 term before going uAhe
White House to pay their respecu to
President Rooaevelt.
Justice Pierce Butler, 111 In hos
pital, wu the only one of the nine
Justice missing as the members of
the court, clsd In traditional blnek
robe, marrned solemnly into Ihe
chamber while the crier Intniwd the
euetomsry "Oyrr, ojcx. oyre."
torneya to practice and receiving a
few motions, the court adjourned
until next Monday. At that time
It will announce whether It will re
view approximately 300 cases filed
during the mimrnrr.
Same Territory
LARAMIE. Wyo. AP) The trailer
camp ground is a favorite place this
year for University of Wyoming stu
dent. So ninny wanted to pnrfc
their trailers there for the winter,
using them as college living quar
ters, the place became overcrowded.
Locations, with Hunt and water con
nections, rent for 5 to 110 a month.
Manes riant Heeds
TUCSON, Arl. (AP) Airplanes
now sweep over the wide open spaces
of the southwest, droppln seeds
The aim Is to prmot growth of
tw1 strnv-n on th mmr. thus Im
fjpviUf giatiug oottOitlona,
On the
Radio Chains
STATIONS
Where to Find Them on the Dial:
HEX, Portland. 1180; KFL. 640.
Lot Angeles; KOA. 1470. Spokane.
KUO, 780, San Francisco; KUW
620, Portland; KJK, 070, Seattle.
KNX. 1050. Lot Angeles; KOA. K30.
Denver; KOIN, DID, Portland
HOMO, 920. Seattle; KHO. ISM. Han
FranclK-o; KSL, 1180. gall Lake.
Tuesday.
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6 :30 Adventures of Sherlock
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:0O The Almanac, KOO, KEX;
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Present. KOMO: Fred Waiing's Orch..
KPO, KEX, KJR, KOW.
5:30 Buenos Noches Aminos, KPO.
KPI. KOW; Concert Orch., KGO. KEX,
KJR.
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KNX: Horse and Buggy Days, KGO,
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KOW.
8:30 Martin's Music, KOO, KEX:
Hollywood Playhouse, KPO,
KOW; News, KJR.
7:30 Burns and Allen.
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7:30 Burnas and Allen,
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8:00 Wartng's Orch., KPO, KGW:
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Amos and Andy, KNX, KOIN, KSL.
8:30 Whlteman's Orch.. KNX, KSL.
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PORT ANGELES, Wash.. Oct. 8
W Ernest Brock, 23. of ths Round
mountain district near Port Angeles,
shot himself accidentally through the
thigh yesterday when he stumbled
over s log while deer hunting.
He told hospital attendants here
his rifle discharged when he stum
bled and the bullet grazed his wrist
and passed through his right thigh.
Intern Hitler's Friend
LONDON. Oct. 8. JAP) Dr. Ernst
(Putzl) Hanfstaengl, American-educated
publicist and one-time close
friend of Adolf Hitler, was said to
day by acquaintances to have been
Interned by the British government.
HAIR TROUBLE
Is
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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tHIrte ABOUT HIS HAIR ON tiUOM
OF COMPANY C0MIK6
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IN" SfAHDIK6 UPRIGHT
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whole head in water.
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( Released by The Bell Syndicate iBft.)
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ENM '39 PACK
PORTLAND. Oct. 8. Edgar M.
Bums, secretary of the Northwest
Canners' association, said today ap
proximately 65 Oregon and Wash
ington canneries had sold or con
tracted their entire 1939 pack.
By January 1, Burns added, buy
ers would have to dip Into the 193S
surplus for supplies. Prices are low.
but Burns declared a profit margin
for fruit and vegetable packers ex
sited for the first time In years.
Burns said sharply curtailed mid
western packs and slightly reduced
northwestern volume, combined with
sudden demand arising from the Eu
ropean war, had created the situation.
Weather
Northern California: Fair and mild
tonight and Wednesday but cloudy
extreme north portion Wednesday!
moderate northwest wind off th
coast.
Oregon: Cloudy tonight with rain
In northwest portion, warmer In west
and cooler In extreme east portions;
Wednesday cloudy with rain In west
and north portions; gentle northwest
wind off the coast, becoming variable.
Marriage Teat Accepted
CAMDEN, N. Jj (UP) Southern
New Jersey couples have withdrawn
opposition to New Jersey's pre-marital
blood test law. according to the
marriage license bureau.
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
For further proof address tho author, inclosing a stamped enrelope for reply. Reg. TJ. S. Pat OS.
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NATURALLY MARKEPpNJT.'
IIUXCIinACK OF SWINC1
A little Negro youth lay crippled for life In Baltimore by a fall that made him a hunrhbaek. Young Chick
Webb's mother was told by the doctor that the boy could stand no exercise, except, perhaps, the wielding of
drumsticks. He developed, on his mother's pots and nans, a sense of rhythm that eventually won him natlon-wlda
fame as a drummer. He wrote several hit songs before death halted his career last summer.
ARKANSAS' CAPITOLS
Still In exlutcnee are Arkansas' three capltol build Ings the first territorial capltol; the one used from
1836-lfUO, and the one In use today.
TOMORROW: What state had four governors In two weeks In 1935?
TAJXSPIN TOMMY Tommy Blunders
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BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER-Idcntity Revealed! Bv EDWHJ ALGER
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Sa THE RI6HT ANY CITIZEN TELUN" IT HE SOMEONE I AIN'T PACKED AM VERY HAW lo Y
mmBk TO ASK A MAY ASK MB HIM, ON, HANDSOME! ASK WHO I I WITH WAX, ANSWER YOUR QUEStToN-
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THE NEBBS An Invitation
By SOL HESS
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