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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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