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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,-
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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-
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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
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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
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comprise the entire campus ,
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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.
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inventions. They were used by
the Romans, and before them,
the Egyptians.
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