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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER SO, 1939. by Frances YESTERDAY: Michael uy hi doesn't oelieue in th note it'e too vague. He Una a grav box in the cold-air remitter 0 the ftudy. Chapter 18 Just Pebble VjlCHAEL had put the box on the desk, and they had al four regarded it with breathless inter est, manifested in four various ways. The District Attorney puffed furiously at lis pipe. Michael pulled at his ear abstractedly. Bun ny frowned to herself, and Tuck pushed the hair behind her left ear, and wriggled ecstatically. "A can opener?" she suggested after a brief silence. "A hammer and chisel," Michael decided, and dashed to the base ment, to return in a moment with the tools. He inserted the edge of the chisel at the juncture of the hasp with the box; and several sharp blows broke the hasp free. He laid down the tools and put his hand out toward the box. Tuck held her breath. He lifted the lid There was an other moment of breathlessness, and then four audible exhalations. "Well, I'll be damned," said Mi chael limply, jfor here was no flashing, sparkling mass of gems, but only a thin sheaf of papers stuffed hastily, t seemed, into the box. He lifted them out, and laid them on the table, with only a hasty glance to see that they were covered with writing. Below them, covering the bottom of the box, was a solid layer of small, round pellets of paper. "They're . . . it's . . . " Tuck mut tered to herself. Michael lifted one out. He un folded the paper slowly, carefully, with the thing lying in the palm of his hand. He laughed. He held it out for them to see. It was nothing more than a small, round, common black peb ble. "Well, I'll be . . . " he began. "You said that before," Tuck reminded him crisply. "Open the rest quick, Michael! There were only twelve diamonds anyway . . . and there are dozens of those par cels." Michael obeyed. He pushed the box to one side, and laid the pellets one by one on the desk, unfolding the paper carefully. "I don't think ... it seems as if ..." he breathed as he opened them. "It isn't," Bunny said disappoint edly, as he came to the end. There was nothing remotely resembling a diamond lying there before them, only thirty round black pebbles on their opened wrappings of scraps of paper. The District Attorney picked one up, and scratched It thoughtfully with his thumb-nail. Michael caught his meaning, and did it to several. "Rocks," he said finally. "We've been bunked, ladies and gentle men." "Bunked?" Tuck repeated, wide eyed. The District Attorney had lifted the papers from the desk, and was reading them. He made no com ments. His face grew more and more furrowed, lie laid down his pipe. He read every paper before no looked up to find them regard ing him intently. There was a red spot in each of his checks. "Well?" Michael asked. There was an expression of the utmost disgust on John Forrester's face. "There's something for you to work on, Michael," he told his son. "It'll not be fit for ladies' ears." ( Love Letters 'T'UCK seized the papers from the desk where he had dropped them. "Come on, Bunny," she said, "this seems to have Its possibili ties." "My dear girl," her father-in-law said helplessly. "There's it's indecent" "Piffle, Father Forrester," she said nbsorbedly. "Nothing can hurt me." Michael twisted his mouth down at his father, and went unashamed ly to read over her shoulder. They were letters. As Michael put it later, they were warm, friendly, affectionate letters, seem ingly from a lady to a gentleman. "Beloved," the first one began, and went on, "beloved, I shall be waiting for you tonight as ever. Come the moment you can get away. Life is so short that we must not waste one precious moment of these wonderful hours together. Nothing matters tc me now but the hours we spend in each other's arms." "Dear, dear," Michael com mented. "I don t suppose the lady ever missed a great manv meals or she wouldn't talk like tliaL" "Michael." Tuck said severely, "your speech denotes a terrible cynicism." "Never mind, you two," Bunny said quickly, "read the next one. Tuck' Tuck turned the page. "It sounds Just like the last one," she mur mured disappointedly. "What do you expect, mv dar ling?" Michael said lightly. '"Mov ies? There isn't o much variety in the real thing, I assure you." SITDOWN SHE COSTS SET ASIDE Philadelphia, Nov. 30. tiTi The U. S. circuit court of ap peals, in a unanimous opinion, set aside today a lower court Jury which ordered a labor union to pay the Apex Hosiery company J711.9H2.55 for dam tiki's resulting from a sitdown strike. However, the court inid it had "no d.nilit" that the union and its president "should be compelled in the appropriate forum to answer In damages" to the Apex company. Shelley Wee She regarded him with stony disapproval. He did not look at her. His eyes were fixed on the next let ter. "There's an interesting phrase," he pointed out "There . . . where she says 'What does it matter if we are discovered? There is always a way out; for us; the beginning of life at last, had we only the courage to take that way out' " The District Attorney snorted. -" "So." Michael went on, "they took the way out." "Who did. Michael?" "Well, the lady and the tiger. Otherwise, the professor." "What lady?" "That's it. Too bad we haven't got one of those handwriting ex perts who could describe her down to the crook in her little finger." He picked up the pagen where they lay in Bunny's quiet hand, and locked them over closely, anxiously. "What ore you looking for Mi chael?" "I thought perhaps one of them would have a golden hair stuck to the back, or a bit of twesd from the lady's skirt Then, we would have something to work on." "Don't De an ass, Michael," his father said bitterly, Michael sighed. '1 have never been properly appreciated," he said disconsolately. "My parent and my wife repudiate me. I am the picture of injured and misun derstood innocence." "I don't think that picture was very well developed," Bunny said. "Better throw it away, Michael, and let's get down to earth. What does this mean?" "Doesn't it mean we've cher chezed the femme? Only . . . who is she? What more can we find from these sweet and beeutiful protesta tions of love, save that there exists somewhere a fond and unsquelch able passion, preferably between the Professor and a lady as yet un known. She loved him. and they left for parts unknown together. They have taken the way out, evi dently to Chicago." Bond And Newsprint "tT AVE it your own way," Bunny J said shortly. "Don't talk sense if you don't want to." Michael eyed her in surprise. "Bunny, such a temperl" He folded the letters together and thrust them into his pocket. "You know very well there's nothing to talk sense about. We find a little box full of rocks, and letters, and I can't deduce anything from them. Can you? So what's the use conjectur ing things about thines? I shall have a gentleman who understands these little matters go over the let ters very, very carefully, with of course a warning to him first that he may scorch His fingers rather badly. And in the meantime . . ." In the meantime, Tuck inter rupted him ruthlessly, "I am going to find out what these pebbles mean. They must mean some thin o." The District Attorney sat down heavily in the big red leather chair beside the fire, irossed his knees and leaned back. "I am confused," he said after a moment "Utterly bewildered." "Blown about like a leaf in the wind," said the irrepressible Mi chael, "facing now this way, now that. Never getting nowheres." "Do be quiet!" said Tuck rudely. She was spreading the small pa pers out on the desk and regarding each one intently on both sides, be fore she laid it down. Bunny got up and went over to her. She lifted a paper and scrutinized it careful ly. "I don't see anything on it," she said doubtfully. "I don't either. I thought I had found a pencil mark on one of them a minute ago, but perhaps I was mistaken. It was very faint." Michael moved nonchalantly across the room to stand beside her. "A pencil mark?" "Not writing. Just a sort of mark." "Where?" She picked up one of the little papers and held it out. "There, just at the edge," she poinjed. "Just a long sort of mark. "What about invisible Ink?" said Bunny suddenly as Michael looked. "We can find out, of course. I don't know whether this is a pencil mark or just a mark from an old crease in the paper, Tuck." "It's a pencil mark. Here's an other." "Let me see," Bunny demanded. "I think I've found one too." "Put all the ones with decided pencil marks on them out to the side, shall we?" Michael asked. But there weren't very many; not more than live or six with cer tain marks and three with doubt ful ones. However, the sorting and the close scrutiny led them one step onward. 't seems to me," said Bunny slowly, "that there are two kinds of paper here ... a sort of news print one and a letter-paper that you could use ink on. Am I right?" "You arc," said Michael prompt ly. "Bright girl. Bunny. Brains." He laid two pieces of paper down in front of him. "One bond and one newsprint," he said. "We will sort them." That was an easy matter, since the two kinds of paper were quite unmistakable. In a few moments all the papers lay in the two piles. Continued tomorrow The verdict was returned here last April 3 by a district court Jury against branch 1 of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers and Its presi dent, William Leader. Apex officials had charged violation of the Sherman and Clayton anti trust act, contend ing Interstate commerce was hindered when the strikers were In possession of the Philadelphia plant one of the world's ln.-g-est hosiery factories for seven weeks In the spring of 19.17 The union leaders contended the strike started "spontane ously." In its opinion today, the cir cuit court ordered the case re turned to the district court and a verdict directed in fiivor of the union. On the RADIO CHAINS STATIONS Where to Find Tnem on the Dial: K, Portland. 1180; KF1, 640 Los Angeles; KGA, M70. Spokane; KGO, 700, San Francisco; KOW 620, Portland; KJB, 070, Seattle; KNX, 1050, Los Anfeles; KOA, 630. Denver; KOIN, 040, Portland; KO.MO. 926. Seattle; KPO. 630, San Francisco; KSL, 1180, Salt Lake. Thursday 6:00 Prank and Archie, KEX, KJR; Aurandt'i Orch., KOIN; Sun set Shadows, KGO. 8:80 Keleey's Orcb., KOO. KEX, KJR; Army Band, KPO. KOW, KFI. 8:00 Major Bowes. KNX, KOIN, KSL; Oood News of 1940, KPO. 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' 1 10:30 Madrlguera's Orch, KPO, KGW, KFI; McDonald's Orch, KGOj KJR; Owens Orch, KSL. 11:00 Nottingham Orch, KPO; Grays Orch, KSL, KOIN; This Mov ing World. KEX, KJR; News, KGO, KNX, KGW. FROM LOVE NEST New York, Nov. 30. UP) Mrs. Adelaide Tate, 38, a di vorcee, fell to her death today from the 17th floor Greenwich apartment of a man to whom she had directed three cryptic telegrams. Mrs. Tate lived in a River side Drive apartment where another tenant, Mrs. Helen Van Valkenburg, described her as the By GLUYAS WILLIAMS sieves UK (.UMTS last. FiRM Pl.AY6(STHWl!6n FIRMLY HIM m ATOUCHDOWK N ONE HAND AMD CRIES, TjEQttJSE HE HAS ft. COtf "LEf'6 60! " CEvITRATE On KEEPlKS TANfS UP IrrttRCEPfS PASS AND WITH A CLEAR FIELD, TRIPS OW PANTS FOR tfO 6H)N. mUtlArlfiV 60E5 HOME ArlD CHAINS former wife of a West Point graduate, now in the oil busi ness in the south. The owner of the apartment, Age Skiolvig, a chemical engi neer employed by the Shell Oil company, said he had known Mrs. Tate about two years. He said she had a key to his apart ment. He was in the middle west on business, he said when STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HJX For farther proof address the author, tncloatng a stamped enTelope for reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Pat OC fn 5tflMll.ES DOWN A RIVER AND . TVJR Nfi A FLOOD . IA V SUBMERGED INMUPFOR 6MmTHS, y 1HCN KftN fSKfCCILI WflfN UU5 Dl lliicn lull S .1.1 (pwredty MK. S.LSaMisJntenOKhartmKy 'l-3o SNAPSHOT COLLECTOR Using an ordinary box camera. Vergil J. Morris of Pasadena, Cal., has kept a photo graphic history of his life since 1906. Morris owns the largest private collection of World war pictures, comprising 500 snapshots he made in France (against regulations) while over seas as a battalion supply sergeant. He smuggled 80 rolls of film into France by sleeping on them. REFRIGERATOR'S RIDE Swept more than five miles down the Chickopee river, Massachusetts, during the Septem ber, 1838. flood and hurricane, an electric refrigerator was dug from three feet of mud, after six months, and ran perfectly on being plugged in. Owned by Mrs. B. L. Sannis of Indian Orchard, it had bumped against two bridges and passed over four dams. TOMORROW: Crippled Champl he received a series of tele grams. When he returned to day, he told detectives, he re buked Mrs. Tate and she went into the bathroom. A short time later, he said, he opened the door and found the room empty and the window open. Tragedy In Home Seattle, Nov. 30. JP) Seven months old Carletta Plant 4a OVER 4-PAMS toll- UIVS OVER t , , . 'I730 : FLY Me--CATcH FLY AMP flNISrtep WIN, PLACE AMP $HoW , IN 1H& fiRST RAC6, Detroit, June 6, lf39f strangled yesterday on fruh juice from a nursing bottle io her crib, a coroner's deputy said today. A twin sister, fed on the same formula in an adjoining crib. Roses may be planted any time during November. Ths plants will remain dormant ia winter and will bloom in the spring. ST I J. MoRR6-v? TAKEN AND CATALOGUED IO.OQONflPSHCffe. v wcoivia -rue 1 K&fWZ inw rn'i i t-ni of. His life By HAL FORBES By SOL HE'
