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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1939. -by Frances YESTERDAY: Smith lelU Mi chael that becausg ht needed money he agreed Co submit to an experiment by Murchison. Now he lives in fear that Murchison will ask him to keep hie bargain . . . Michael' other, the DU trict Attorney, comet to dinner. Chapter 16 Letter From Chicago "T WILL forgive you for keeping this mystery from me," Tuck solemnly told Michael's father, "on condition that you use your keen and agile brain in solving my little private mystery. Michael can't. He's too dumb. I can't. It has a mechanical bent that is quite be yond my poor feminine mind. Bunny can't I diked her. So it's up to you." "Certainly," jchn Forrester agreed. "And what is it then, my dear?" "It's my necklace," Tuck said. "Where is it? It's gone." "Gone?" "Gone. Disappeared. Michael says the inside of the pipes are smooth. And even ! can see that if you drop a small and slippery thing down the inside of a large pipe it would have a tendency to land at tne bottom, nut it didn t. Her father-in-law surveyed her Irom beneath Bushy brows. You are not talking .0 Michael," he re minded her, "whose mind works in a scatter-brained fashion. I am a bit slow and ponderous, perhaps, but I feel that I could do with a wee little more detail." Tuck explained. "It's not in the pipe? In the basement?" "No." "Nor yet In the furnace?" "No." . "Well, then." he said, and settled comfortably back in his chair, "it must be somewhere in between. "Very simple indeed," said Mi chael. Tuck sighed. "I suppose It's gone forever," she said. "I can't quite see us pulling the house to pieces for a string of corals. It will break my heart to lose it." She looked sideways at her father-in-law. "I thought perhaps it had found out where the diamonds were hidden and gone to keep them company," she said. "Humpf. Diamonds?" "Diamonds," she repeated firm ly. "You may all laugh if you wish, but I am more and more firmly convinced that the diamonds Professor Murchison's diamonds, are hidden somewhere in this house, and that someone knows it and is looking for them. Higgins, probably. Although, even though he and his five thousand dollars sound very very suspicious, I don't think he has sense enough to hang pots and pans on the doors. It's too bright an idea for Higgins. Somebody else, Father Forrester." "Mrs. Murchison," Bunny mur mured. Tuck seized upon the idea inslmtly. "Mrs. Murchison sounds reason able." she said. "I wouldn't believe anything she said anyway. I'm sure she's a double-crosser or whatever you call people like that. And I think she read 'The Bartered Bride' herself. It shows the kind of a mind she's got." "If we were sure it was murder," Tuck went on after a reflective silence, "if we were positive he was murdered, it would be sim ple." "Very," Bunny agreed dryly. "We'd just stand the whole campus In a row and say Eenie Meenie. Any of those people there at Deanes' might be guilty. Any of them." "Oh, Bunny, not Mrs. Dcane. Not Mrs. Deanc, Bunny." 'Just A Mistake' "TvJO. Not Mrs. Deane. Unless she did it with an electric toaster or a sewing machine. From the looks of her she has one or the other in her hand all the time." "I bet he's the kind of husband that simply makes a dreadful fuss about a button beinB oil." Michael looked at Tuck. She put her chin in the air, and averted her face. "You seem to be maligning me," he said bitterly. "I said almost nothing about my blue shirt. Noth ing." "I wasn't even thinking of you, Michael Forrester. I was thinking about Mr. Deane and those awful squinty eves that vou can't see. and the sarcastic thin us he savs to you when you play the wrong card. And didn't you see that he man t even have the same salad , that we did? She had to fix some thing very special for him." "We had lobster, and he had fruit, Uunnv contributed. Michael groaned. "Just because a poor man wears glasses and has a weak stomach. ... I tremble to think of you two being on the po lice force. I suppose you'd hang all the cross-eyed men iust be cause." "Well, of course," said Tuck with one of her lightning changes. "We aren't sure. Maybe none of them ire. Maybe its somebody else. "And maybe it isn't anybody at all," Michael added. "Michael, such nonsense. What about the diamonds? TO PROFIT FROM EUROPEAN STRIFE Washington, Nov. 28. (fl'l Senator Pittman (D.-Nev.l pre dieted today an Increase In American shipping to Pacific and South American ports soon would recall to service most of the merchant marine vessels made Idle by restrictions in the neutrality act. ruUnuu, chairman, of Uie, Shelley Wee- "Poof," said Michaei There aren t any diamonds. "It's so nice," said Bunny with sweetness, "to know that there's no mystery. No diamonds, just a mistake. The Professor has mereh stepped out, Madam, and will be back in half an hour. Let's learn to knit. Tuck." "No suggestive remarks, please Bunny," said Tuck severely. Mi chael grinned. "You could sew the button on my blue shirt," he mentioned. "Or is that what you'd call a suggestive remark, too?" Tuck sniffed. "I am firmly con vinced," she said, "that the Pro fessor has been foully murdered, done to death in his own study, preferably by his wife, who then cleared away, pawned the dia monds and moved out. All we have to do is to find the diamonds, find a body, and hide the lady's mas cara so a self-respecting jury can hang her without any qualms." "What I'd like te know," said Bunny, "is where does the brother come in?" "Does he have to come in, Bun ny?" Michael asked plaintively. Bunny colored faintly. "Some thing is bothering him. "What about the pipe I found?" Tuck wanted to know. Michael rubbed his forehead. "I'm not just so sure about that," he said slowly. "What would you think. Tuck . . . supposing you well, supposing you were afraid that I had gone off on a trip with another woman and left you. You had been told that. And then, sud denly, someone comes along with my pipe, that I am never without. You know that nothing short of a cataclysm would make me give up my pipe. Yet here, apparently, I have forgotten it. Wouldn't you gel something of a jolt just for a min ute? Wouldn't you wonder or, perhaps, wouldn't it hurt just foi a moment?" "Well, perhaps, Just a very lit tle," Tuck agreed. 'Womanly Sympathies' BUNNY was looking at Michael shrewdly. "This display of wis dom and general deducing is very effective, she said. "Particularly the last bit of appeal to our wom anly sympathies. But before you rend our hearts any further, would you mind telling us quite frankly where you get this woman idea?" Michael sighed. "Life is cruel," he murmured. Then with a ges ture of resignation he said, "Weil. if I must. The Commissionei got a letter." A letter" "Urn." "Who wrote it?" "The Missing Professor." "What?" "Even so, my children." "Where is he?" "He didn't state his present ad dress." "What made him write to the Commissioner?" "He didn't write to the Com missioner. To his wife." "To his wife?" "Listen, don't sav things over after me like that. It makes me dizzy." "Well, tell us then. Michael I This suspense is awful." He wrote to his wife, and said he was sorry, that he didn't love her any longer, and that he had gone away never to return. And she took the letter to the Com missioner." "Oh, she did, did she?" "Yea, verily." "Michael Forrester, I bet you're still trying to play hide and seek wun us. was it in nis very own handwriting?" "It was." "Dated?" "Dated six weeks after he left." Tuck stared at him in silence for a long minute. Then, "Michael was it in the envelope?" "It was." "And the postmark?" "The postmark? Oh . . ." Michael grinned at her suspense. "Perfectly straight and correct, my love. Chi cago. And kindly don't make any remarks about machine guns or gangsters, Bunny, ' he finished sternly as he saw a remark trem bling on her lips. Bunny frowned. "Chicago? Chi cago, Michael?" "Yes." Tuck sank back Into the couch. "Isn't that simply awful," she said miserably. "It's iust like a balloon with a pin stuck in it," she reflect ed. "It can't be in his own hand writing." she said. The District Attorney looked at her. "It's in his own handwriting." "Is that certain?" "As certain as the best exoert e know can make it." Tuck sighed, "were sort of stopped, aren't we? Although . . . you can't tell me that all this sneaking around and crawling into people's houses and hanging pots and pans on people's doors, and getting the pots and pans away again before anybody can get a look at them, and turning pale and holding their breaths is imagina tion. I refuse to believe it. There's something in the woodpile." Michael still paced the floor. "There's many a gocd man," said the District Attorney to the gas-log. "hung on circumstantial evidence." Contiuur d tomorrow senate foreign relations com mittee, said he believed sink ing of belligerent and neutral vessels by loose mines In the European war area would be reflected quickly In withdrawals of other ships of those nations from Pacific and South Ameri can service. "If this war lasts another year," he told reporters, "I don't think we will have any of our ships idle. 1 think they will all be in trade, replacing the ships of other nations which have been transferred to Eu- If you ran, get a contract to gc to work for one cent on the first day providing your salary is doubled every dnv for 30 days. At the end of the month your day's pay would be J5.3B8,- On the RADIO CHAINS STATIONS Where to Find Tnem on the Dial: In, Portland, 1180; KFI, 640. Los Angeles; KG A, 1470, Spokane; KGO. 790, San FranclKo; HUH 620, Portland; KJB. 870, Seattle; KNX, 1050, Los Ancelei; KOA, 130. 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TURKEYROBBERS Hoseburg, Ore., Nov. 28. lf) Awakened by a disturbance among his roosting turkeys, M. A. Schwarzlose, Tenmile farmer, last night grabbed his shotgun and captured Louis Wright, 22, and Charles Palmer, 20, both of Roseburg while allegedly at tempting to steal turkeys, Sher- By GLUYAS WILLIAMS ABANDONS FORK AND bkomes "TftKK A TlRPl GRIP Or) JRUM'STiCK SINKS INTO CHAIR and discovers he rwj 60TTOPUTANV5WH IN6 ON "PLATES Inc.) iff Percy Webb reported today. Schwarzlose forced the two men into an automobile and brought them to Roseburg where he turned them over to the sheriff and filed a complaint against them charging attempted larceny. In another alleged poultry theft case, Joe Powell, 25, and John Kred Hastings, 21, both of Roseburg, were bound over to STRANGE For farther proof address TEA- -rAW J y.fl Cr.llfcTFnltrrfrrtluBrndlrkU.lne.. " V TkBm. U. aru-OO-AIlrtibURMnta' PIEDMONT CAMPUS Strange as it seems, more students of Piedmont College, Demoresi, Ga., attend courses off the campus than on receiving full college credit for field trips extending more than 9 000 miles. The ten Piedmont buildings were not planned for college. A former hotel is the dining hall and girls' dormitory; a livery stable is the biology laboratory and class rooms and a doc tor's office, hardware store, chatauqua hall and four residences make up .the unique campus. GUN WIELDER Pretty Gloria Jacobs, 16, of Woodland, Cal., recently defended her title to the California State Women's Pistol championship with a score of 197 out of 200. TOMORROW: Mystery of the Buried Crosses. . the grand Jury and were con tinued in custody in lieu of $300 bail each, after waiving prelim inary examination on a charge of breaking into a chicken house belonging to P. P. Sullivan of Roseburg and stealing five chickens. Justice of the Peace R. W. Marsters stated. Lumber Production Up. Washington, Nov. 28. JP) Reports to the National Lum AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX the author, Inclosing stamped enrelope for reply. Reg. V. S. Pat Off. RcV ALCIM&R6-- . Proprietor of Anbme's Restaurant, Neti Orleans, RECENTLY SERVEDTHE 10 00, OOOTH ORPER oF "OysTERS R0CKEFEU.ER" ( TnierfeJ fyfo grandfather) iHERKfaURftNTIS 100 ytftRSOLOm V, VS4LH tM - .ic5 ; ' HoTEL, INN, HftRDWftRE ToRE, , PocToRS OFFICE, CHAUTAUQUA Ml hw Four residences comprise the entire campus , ber Manufacturers association showed today that lumber pro duction during the week ended November 18 was 33 per cent greater than last year's seasonal weekly average. Shipments were 21 per cent and new orders two per cent greater. Glass eyes are not modern inventions. They were used by the Romans, and before them, the Egyptians. tfi.vvc,;,; km V6l0RIP JACOBS --It, California VJomens Pistol Champion, 4CORB0 279-300 IN A. HIGH WIND WITH k ,TL CPiUBER PfSToL, PfEMiN6 THE mTlRE FIELD OP mil ZHooTERS $anIranciscolJiliflif3j ;l. mm ! T el By HAL FORREST By SOL HEP" 00.13.