PAGE EIGHT
MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1939.
by Francf
YESTERDAY. Altrr th ttudv
it broken into. Michael UlU Tuck
and Bunny about Murchiton't dis
appearance, and the anonymous
diamond note, in turn, Tuck tells
him about the proeiior's pipe.
Looking in the drawer where
Tuck found the pipe, Michael
finds a piece of paper with the
print o a bloody hand.
Chapter Nina
Inviliilion To Bridge
MICHAEL had crumpled that
paper in his hand slowly, as
if unconcerned; and neither of the
girls had seen the telltale stain.
That the rusty dark pattern was
made by blood he had not the
slightest doubt; and, as he lay
awake in the early morning hours
there had come to him a strange
picture. The picture of a man,
seated at the big desk, a shaded
lamp throwing the light on the
naoers before him: of the open
drawer holding his pencils at his
right hand. Of something coming
out of the shadows there behind
him . . . something ... the pipe
had dropped from nerveless fin
gers into the open drawer; the
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crushed the corner or me news'
paper lying there.
But was it a true picture? If it
was, if it had been Murchison's
hand that had left bloody stains
on the paper, where had the blood
come from? And if ... if a mur
derous hand had left the stains,
how had it clutched and left the
paper?
Michael's face when he came to
the breakfast table next morning
betrayed nothing but the quietest
mind. Murder, he had decided,
was not to lie within the con
sciousness of his wife if he could
help it. Not that she had not wit
nessed it before now; but, of
course, she had not been his wife
then, and he had not been respon
sible for her.
The little breakfast room was
bright with sun.
"It's queer," said Tuck, pouring
out the coffee, "that Charlotte Jean
didn't hear the commotion last
night and come down, curl papers
and all. She sleeps right above the
kitchen. I don't see how she could
have helped hearing it."
"Did you ask her?" Michael
looked up from his toast.
"No. I thought if she didn't hear
It, it might be as well to leave her
in ignorance, after what Gordon
said about maids and burglars.
Michael," Tuck demanded, "what
did he mean? About burglars?"
Michael considered. "He doesn't
know anything, Tuck. I imagine
he's been reading mystery stories
or listening to some ignorant
maid."
"He looks like a bright young
ster." Bunny murmured.
Charlotte Jean, immaculate in
blue and white, her sparse hair
crinkly beneath her cap, came in
with a tray. "It's the mail, Mrs.
Forrester, ma'am," she explained,
holding it out to Tuck.
"Oh. Thank you, Charlotte
Jean," Tuck murmured, taking
the envelopes absorbedly.
Michael buttered another piece
of toast. "How do you like it out
here in the country, Charlotte
Jean?" he asked her.
Her broad face spread into an
expansive smile. "It's Just swell,
Mr. Forrester," she replied. "I like
it fine. It's so nice and quiet"
"Don't you find it lonely?"
"Oh, no. I was raised on a farm.
There's a lot of people around
here." She blushed under Mi
chael's scrutiny. "I get awful tired
of them fool girls in town, she
went on hastily. "All they ever
think about is shopping at the ten
cent store and going to the mov
ies." She made her exit. Michael
cocked a reflective eye after her.
Uncanny Luck
IT'S the gardener," Tuck said
1 absently, her eyes still on the
letter in her hand. "You might
know it."
"Tough. We'll probably lose
her. Is he the only man around?"
"Apparently. But don't worry
she'll find some more. It's a letter
from Mrs. Dcane," she went on
without a pause. Bunny looked at
her frowningly until she under
stood. Michael pulled one ear as
he thought it over. Tuck went
right on. "She wants us to go over
and spend the evening."
"Tonight?"
"Umhm."
"Do we go?"
She looked up at him and low
ered her tone. "It's so lucky for us
it's almost uncanny," she said. "I
almost believe your father's had
his finger in this pie, too. Listen to
what she says. . . .
T hope you'll excuse the
haste and informality of the
invitation, but I thought it
would be nice for you to meet
your neighbors, and so I have
asked three tables for tonight,
just the people on the campus
and Duncan Murchlson to
make the twelfth. Please tell
your husband it's only dinner
jackets, quite informal and I
do hope you can come. "
"Three tnbles?" Michael
quired blankly.
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IN AUTO INCREASE
Salem. (U.R) Oregon led the
notion In the percentage of In
crease In passenger car regis
trations for the ten-year period
from 1929 to 19:19, Earl Sni 11
secretary of state, reported hero
upon receipt of a national sur
vcy of automobile registrations
made by a finance company.
Oregon's gain of 33 pet cent
was far above the national in
crease of 11 per cent. The
greatest increase. Snell said, was
on the Pacific coast where, In
addition to Oregon teptut, '
Shelley Wees
"Bridge," aald Bunny laconi
cally. Michael groaned.
"Such stupidity," said Tuck
evenly, "I have rarely encount
ered. Bridge, as bridge, is never
played at a mixed party. One
talks. One listens. One gathers im
pressions." ,
"Where does she get twelve?"
"Well apparently, two Mc
Bains, three Forresters, two
Deans, one Lissey, two Devoes and
Mrs. Murchison and Duncan.
That's twelve."
"I forgot Mrs. Dcvoe," Bunny
murmured, helping herself to the
marmalade.
"Isn't it grand?" Tuck wriggled
ecstatically. "Just think of all we'll
be able to find out? There's simply
no place like a bridge table for
watching people's expressions and
sizing them up without their sus
pecting it."
Michael frowned a little. "Don't
let them see you doing it, honey,"
he warned.
Tuck was Insulted. "You forget
that I have an I.Q., Michael," she
said bitterly.
"I apologize," he said handsome
ly. "I apologize abjectly."
"You'a better. I suppose you
think I'd walk right into that
bunch of people and hint and ask
questions, and I'm ashamed of
you. Don t you suppose I realize
that this is about the trickiest case
a person could possibly handle?
We don't know anything, and we
don't know that anybody else
knows anything, and maybe no
body does, and yet we don't dare
take our eyes off them for fear
they do."
'Bloodthirsty'
"T UCID," Bunny congratulated
- her. Tuck put her tongue out.
"And what's more, Michael
Forrester," she went on, "I notice
that you didn't tell us, last night,
just what you'd been doing to find
out about the Missing Professor."
"Not much. I've been hanging
about at the University a bit. ana
asking questions here and there,
but I've really been waiting for
matters to take their course here
in the house, my love. In other
words, I've been depending on
your little nose to smell things out
and tell me."
"If you'd told me sooner I'd have
smelted out a lot more things."
"Undoubtedly. But you might
have been heard sniffing."
Bunny put down her coffee cup
"I should scarcely call this an ele
gant mode of conversation for a
breakfast table."
"I don t believe in elegance.
Tuck said firmly. "And what's
more if you're going to talk
about murder you ve got to use
bloody words."
"Murder?" said Michael with
lifted brows.
"Well, what else?" Tuck de
manded. "He's gone, isn't he? He
isn t anywhere around the coun
try. He didn't walk anywhere, 01
ride anywhere, and if he did, he
didn't get anywhere. This isn't
like a tremendous big city, where
he might be hiding in somebody's
cellar. And if he committed sui
cide, what did he do with his
body? Unless ho fell in the river
by accident."
"He'd turn up down-stream If
he did." Bunnv said. "And he
hasn't has he, Michael?"
'No."
'So. somebodv must have mur
dered him. We're looking for a
murderer and some stolen dia
monds and a body. You can't hang
anybody unless you produce a
body, can you, Michael?"
"Tuck, you sound positively
bloodthirsty. You look like a two-year-old
baby sitting there in that
pink dress, and you talk about
murders and bodies and hanging.
as calmly as an executioner. It's
indecent. It isn't right."
"It's just too bad that you feel
that way. Michael. It's very foolish
of you. You ought to be glad thai
Bunny and I are hardened crea
tures. Some people would weep
and wail and shudder and gel
afraid of the dark. I don't see any
sense In it What we've got to do
is decide which of these people
killed Professor Murchison and
how they did it, and why, and get
them arrested, and then move back
to our own little bungalow. 1 can't
say that I'm any too pleased with
your father for nutting us into it
without consulting us, and I am
certainly going to give him a piece
of my mind: but now we are in it
1 wouldn t leave for ten million
dollars until it's settled, and I am
not going to get all shivery about
it. All I'm scared about is that the
people who are guilty are cleverer
than we are."
"What is it De Quincey says
about murder, Michael? Some
thing about it being rude to mur
der a sick man," Bunny mur
mured. "The child's been reading
him. She's got his attitude exact
ly." Michael did not answer. He drew
a deep breath. "I am relieved,"
he said after a moment. "I have a
fear I confess that this thing
may not turn out to be very pleas
ant. I was dreading telling you."
They waited.
"There arc aspects of It , . he
began, and stopped.
''Go on," Tuck urged.
Continued tomorrow
California showed an Increase
of 27 per cent and Washington
reported a gain of 18 per cent.
In the south and southwest large
increases were also reported.
Passenger car registration In
Oregon for the first nine months
of this voar showed nn increase
of 2 65 per cent, Snell added.
Hunters Welcome.
Billingj, Mont. (U.R' R. E
nntoman, district agent for the
Biological Survey, has sent out
an SOS fi-r more hunters. Preih
tory animals some of them big
game arc overrunning his dis
trict. During the past three
months bi ar killed 487 sheep. 7
calves, 2 cows and or pig. Coy
otes kuied 74H rheep, 2 calves,
792 '!"-ktvs, 280 Kiousc U deer,
19 teesc. and one w.-k. a mmm.
lain lion killed a deer.
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