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MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ' OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1939.
by Frances
YESTERDAY: Tuck bazar dt
the opinion that perhaps her
necklace haj found the same hid
ing place aj the Murchiton dia
monds. Later Michael tallcj with
an old friend the janitor of the
Afedical Buildtno who describes
the furor caused by Murchuon'e
vivisection activities.
Chapter 14
Man Willi Crutches
"UfHEN Murchlson asked what
' proof the delegation had that
he was torturing animals, they
showed him the order he had at the
pound, signed with his own hand."
said Jameson. "He was sure In
wrong around here all last year
over it. Most of the profs was away
when it all happened, but ft
seemed like an awful lot of them
felt like they had to light in to him
when they come back. He took it
not too bad from the Medical profs,
but when it come to some of the
Arts and Law faculties comin' over
here to give him hell about the
credit of the University and profes
sional etiquette and all that, he
limply told 'em off to a fare-you-well.
You can't blame him. It's not
so much their business."
"He and Deant had blow up,
didn't they?"
Jameson pursed his lips and let
out a long wnistie. "And did they!
Well, you just better guess they
did. I never heard so much lan
guage from people that's supposed
td know better in mv life. I saw
Deane come in that day with fair
murner m tnat little lat lace of his,
and I saw him stamp up to Murchi
son's lab and oound on the door.
and I made it my business to be
around. They was Inside with the
door shut, but the row was as plain
as you like. Deane sure got what he
come niter ana tnen some 1 Kind
or felt like standin ud for Murchi
son there. Dcane's such a snoopy
old busybody. And when he come
out of there, after Murchison had
told him he was a stumd old fossil
that only held his job because the
college didn't have pensions for
worn-out wrocics. nis hands war
just shakin' like they do when he
ffi
p?ls excited. He went out of here
ike a whipped kid fair daft with
rage."
"Urn," said Michael He looked
up at the glass jars filled with
strange and awful specimens in the
cabinet. "What do you suppose
Murchison was doing with his cats
and dogs?" he asked lightly.
"God knows. But It was some
thin' queer." Jameson turned on
Michael suddenly. "What hap
pened to their bodies after he was
through with them?" he de
manded. "Bodies? Well what should
happen to them?"
"That's it. I ought to know. I have
to take care of that. But I tell you
even after I heard the groanin'
and yellin' and knew damn well he
was doing infernal things to the
poor beasts, never a hint of a hide
or hair was there left around in the
morning."
"Urn," said Michael again. "Fifth
dimensional stud. Maybe he's a
wizard, Bill. Maybe he can wave
his wand and change you into a a
piece of cheese."
"Maybe he can that. But there
never was no pieces of cheese lay
in' around in the mornin' either,"
Jameson said good-naturedly.
"Mystery number one," Michael
said portentously. "What about a
furnace?"
"No bones."
"Dear, dear. No bones?"
"Not a bone."
"Well, well. Indeed. Strange."
"Mystery number one, you calls
It." Jameson said, his tone lowered.
"There's another mystery I ain't
got straight yet."
"Bill, you ought to quit running
this University and get a job with
the police force."
"loo fat," said Jameson conten
tedly. "What's your mystery?"
Shlverin' With Fright'
"IT'S a man. He comes here every
1 Thursday afternoon. He asks
for Murchison, and he's shivorin'
with fright every time. Then when
I tell him Murchison's still nway he
straightens up and goes oiT with a
bit of color in his cheeks again. He
won't tell who he is or what he
wonts, and I say iff, something
fishy. Blackmail, I think, or some
thing like thot he's ashnmed of.
Won't say nothing but that he
wants Murchison."
."Every Thursday?"
"What kind of a man?"
"That's it." said Jameson. "He
thinks I don't know anything about
him, but you just have to take one
look at him, and vou can guess.
Sandy-haired chap. He has to have
a crutch, and he's got a service pin
in his coat, and he comes only on
Thursday. Any fool would know
he's from the Veterans' Hospital.
Thursday is their day out."
"And he won't say what he
wants ?"
"No. Only Murchison."
"Well. Indeed." said Michael.
Bill ground the stub of his cigar
ette acainst the side nf his riusi hin
and threw it in. Michael copied
him.
"Afraid I've been talkin' an aw
ful lot." he apologized. "I work
here alone a lot, with this fussy
stuff I don't dare let the new men
touch, and I get a talkin' streak
whenever anybody'll listen to me."
"Crutches?" repeated the voung
Interne in the hallway. "Crutches?
There's a whole room full of leg
cases."
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Frank E. Gnnnctt, Rochester,
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will run for I third term.
Shelley Wees-
"At the present moment?" Mi
chael inquired.
The interne stared.
"Are they all in one room at the
present moment?"
"More or less. Yes, I suppose you
might sny they are."
"May I accompany you to the
door of that room and ask you to
deliver a message for me?"
The interne eyed him thought
fully. "It sounds damn funny to
me, ' he commented. "You want a
man and all you know about him
is that he has sandy hair and wears
crutches."
"It is damn funny," Michael
agreed. "I wish I had time to ex-
Elain all the details to you. You'd
e interested."
"Well, maybe. I haven't got time
either. We're under-staffed. Come
on, then." Michael followed him
across a polished floor, down a long
hallway toward a glass door
through which eddied sounds of
conversation and wisps of smoke.
The interne pushed the door open.
Forty pairs of eyes looked up at
tnem.
"Say you're looking for a man
who is expecting a message from
Dr. Murchison," Michael said
quietly.
"Any of you fellows waiting for
a message from a Dr. Murchison?"
the interne said loudly.
Silence. No one stirred.
The interne frowned. "No go,"
he said to Michael.
But Michael's keen eyes were
roving over the group. One face
had paled dreadfully at the in
ternes first speech. Michael looked
straight at the man. "I think I see
him, he said pleasantly, raising
his voice the merest trifle.
At his words the man stirred in
his chair and reached for the
crutch at his side. He stood up, a
shell of former bravery and cour
age, a husk of lost strength. His
voice was small, tense.
I'm Not Coming
"T'm not I'm not coming," he
said.
Michael waited. He looked at the
man. The man stared back at him.
"I'm not coming," he said a little
louder. "I don't have to come."
A big, black-haired chap beside
him looked up at Michael. "Is that
the doctor fellow. Smith?" he
asked.
The smaller man's mouth
twisted. "No. that ain't him." he
said. "I never seen this one before."
Never mind all that talk, the
interne said sharnlv. "Are vou the
man who is expecting a message
from Dr. Murchison?-
Tm the man. Smith said heav
ily. "But I'm not coming."
"That's all riRht with me," Mi
chael said lightly. "I don't want
you to come. I want to have a talk
with you."
The little man stored at him.
The big man spoke truculently.
"You Better go oil and leave him
alone," he said. "He's been half off
his nut worryin' about your doctor
friend. You can't make him go. He
don't have to go. We'll get the law
on you if you worry him about it.
It ain't right."
Michael left the door and went
down beside the two men. Smith
was breathing hard. The room was
very still.
"I don't want you," Michael re
peated. "It ain't no good askin' for the
money either, the big man said
again. "It's gone. But you can't do
nothing about it. Just try it and see
what happens. We'll have the law
on you.
"For the love of Fete," Michael
said gently. "Shut up, will you?
Let me get a word in edgewise. Is '
there any place where we can have
a quiet talk?"
The big man eyed him suspi
ciously still. "I haven't got a gun,"
Michael assured him. "And I'm not
a kidnapper. Your friend will be
quite safe with me."
"He don't go nowheres to talk
without me," the big man growled.
Michael turned to the interne.
"D'you mind if we go to the wait
ing room to talk?"
'That's all right. Look here,
Smith, ston that chitterinff. will
you? You'll have a temperature
again, you ass."
bmitn passed a shaking hand
over a trembling mouth, and en
deavored to control the nervous
spasms overcoming him. The big
man took him by the arm after he
hod raised himself laboriouslv
from his chair. "Come along, old
bird," he said, "we might as well
git it over with."
in the waiting room, Michael
looked at Smith shorply. "Why
are you afraid of Murchison?" he
said at once.
Smith looked at him and swal
lowed. His hand went to the breast
of his coat and frit for something
there. His lips moved but made no
sound.
"Why aren't you coming?" Mi
chael said again.
The big man broke In. "See
here," he said, "it seems to me you
don't know much about this busi
ness. Did that Murchison send you
here?"
"Not exactly."
"Do you know what he wanted
of Smith, here, or not?"
"I have merely a glimmering of
on idea."
"Then, what the hell are you
here for?"
"Information," Michael said
promptly and truthfully.
"Who are you anyway? A friend
of Hint ... of Murchison's?"
"I have never mot the gentle
man. 1 am a lawyer."
Smith gasped. "A lawyer!" he
said weakly. "Then maybe . . .
maybe ...
"Kxartly," Michael agreed with
him. "Now will you tell?"
Continued tomorrow.
"I don't see anyone cl.ve in his
party who enn carry his ban
ner, the publisher, a republic
an, said here Inst nii;M.
Gannett stopped here on a
detour from his trip to the Pa
cific coast as chairman of the
nutionnl committee to uphold
const itut ionn 1 government.
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Palo Alto, Calif., Nov. 25
(iT) Funeral services were
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