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ii-W -V&M PAGE "FOURTEEN MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1939. ffllMMM.ll.MlflPiai by Frances Shelley Wees . LSTERDAY; Thev open the but iiulead ol diamond, find psbblaf wrapped in paper, and lo letters. Tuck diicooeri that lArre art two klndi o paper, bond ami newsprint. Sft dividei the scraps into tiro piles. Chapter 19 The Sundial V 1ICHAEL tapped his right tem " pie meditatively and fingered the papers. Tuck put her hand aver her eyes ad concentrated. The District Attorney was listen ing, his hand shading his eyes. Michael picked up the larger pile of papers and counted them absently. "Eighteen," he muttered. "Eighteen," Tuck echoed under her breath. The District Attorney bent for ward suddenly and looked at Bun ny. "It's a cool night," he told her. "Strange how cool it gets of an evening." Tuck looked at him. She gasped. "You've got it!" she said. Michael raised his eyebrows. "Eighteen!" ihe cried. "Eighteen, and there are thirty all together. That leaves twelve, Michael!" "I have been led to believe so," he said gravely. "And ?" Her eyes were shining. 'The words fairly ring In my ears . . . twelve of them, on a fine chain. Don't you see, Michael? It is the diamonds! Michael looked down at the peb bles incredulously. They ,ay all together in a little heap on the table, tie picKea one up, ana lin gered it. "Damn!" he said fervent- y,'Damn, Michael?" Bunny in quired politely. "We shouldn't have mixed them Maybe the child's right. Maybe twelve of them do mean something . . . although they're certainly all rocks together." "Why are they wrapped up? I don't get It. "To keep 'em all nice and warm, like the letters." he said soberly. "Don't be a fool. Could he have written a letter on the paper that wrapped these pebbles, then torn It all up into little bits nice timy "What for?" "How do I know?" "There's no writing on the pa per." "Those pencil marks. Maybe It s ene word, in big thin letters. Torn up. All the marks I found were on the smooth paper. It means some thing." "I think they kept the pebbles to count the days by," Tuck said moodily. "One for each day of the ,3ionth. If they sent each other five pebbles it meant they would meet on the fifth." "Tut tut," said Michael. "Come on with your pencil marks, Bun ny. Her mind's wandering." "Do you know," Bunny said sud denly, looking up from the paper in her hand, those lines go right along the edge. If the paper were torn exactly straight they wouldn't how at all." Michael stared at her. "Torn along the mark, eh? Well, then " '"Well then," Tuck repeated in I choked little voice, "we can fit them back together again the way he tore them. Because if he tore them on lines he must have meant H t . John Forrester had left his chair again, and stood at the desk. He looked down at the twelve bits of bond paper, pushed into a heap by Michael's long restless fingers. "It's a picture puzzle," he said llowly. "I never was good at puzzles," Michael said. The puzzle was not easy to solve, but time and patience did it at last. On some of the papers pencilings were not to be found even after the most careful scrutiny; the con equence was that no one knew which side of those pieces should go uppermost, and as all of the its seemed to be of much the same shape, roughly trianxular, for a time it seemed as if they were getting nowhere. But Tuck started them on the right track when she pushed to one side four pieces which were less triangular and more oblong than the others. Shiny and Dull "IT'S some sort of pattern," she 1 said absorbedlv. "Not just torn any old way." She fingered the four papers she had pushed aside. She put them in a row next each other, but they did not fit. She tried making a jcniare with them one t each side, but thev were not wide r-nnuqh. Then, systematically, she pirked up each of the other eight pieces and fitted it. first one side up and then the other, to each of Ihe oblongs, until she round where it belonged. That was the correct procedure; and in a short time the fitted pattern lay uri'ire inrm. The four obloncs. it seemert radiated at right angles from a common center, and between each pair two lorn trianslM P'teH nm. ly. The outer circmr.fi-rtr.ee of the pattern was t rounded square and the center was round lioie. Turn !teii et ::. Hur.nv tapped ibsentiy on th tub'.e-tup. Michael pulled his ear. There something about it that looks wt of fainil he mut tered t M:ne'.. "Hal I'm hanged If 1 gel ii Do you, ited? Mean any thing to you?1' TO Sacramento, Dec. 1. i -T A .S.I.'t'.WjfV cunt met for the con .'. 'tutinn of 4.1 miles of new .i.hvay and a concrete viaduct I'l l King between Bass hill ; i.l YLrien s iinniil in Shasta .int. was awarded today to C;.-rifeM, Farrar & Carlin of San Franrisco. The pio.'ect is the first unit in wc Mate's share of the re alignment of the Pacific high fciuuiid ShutU dam. Bids John Forrester grunted unin telligently. "Pebbles." Tuck murmured. "Pebbles. Patterns." "Is there any way," Bunny asked suddenly, "of knowing which pebbles were wrapped in those pieces of paper, even if we have mixed them; are they all just alike or not?" Michael looked at her approv ingly and pushed the heap of peb bles into a long row. "TJjey aren't quite all alike," Tuck said dubiously. "Are they? It seems to me some of them aren't quite as shiny as the rest." "Isn't it the way the light strikes them, Tuck?" "I don't know. Can you see it?" "I don't think I can, not quite." "I believe I can," Bunny said. "That third one looks a littie mud dy. Is that what you mean, Tuck? Those on either side of it are black and shiny." "That's what I mean. Now . . . Bunny, you watch and tell me if I'm right. I'm going to move out of line all the ones that look black and shiny." She put her finger out and went down the line slowly, carefully, pushing here and there a pebble out of line. "There they are," she said, when she had finished. "You've got sixteen black ones, and fourteen dull ones, Tuck," Bunny counted. "Try it again," Michael said with a queer note of excitement. Tuck went down the line again. "Here's one I'm not sure of," she murmured. "It might be either." She picked it up and scrutinized it closely. "I believe it's a black one, though." She went on; and when the ex periment was over, they had eighteen black and shining peb bles in one heap and twelve, a lit tle duller in the other. "Those are the pebbles that came out of these pieces, then," Michael said. "Now, what the devil gosh, this is getting exciting." Bunny shut her eyes tightly, and leaned back in her chair. Tuck wandered around the room, head bent, in deep abstraction. Gordon Deane's dog, next door, set up a furious barking. Tuck stepped out on the sun porch, and peered anx iously about for Agamemnon. The garden, white in the moon light, lay before her. The Pattern SUDDENLY she called Michael in a strange voice. "Look," she said. "There it is! There it is, Mi chael! Bunny!" "What, tuck? wnere is ltr "The pattern don't you see? The pattern I I knew it was fa miliar. I don t see anything but the sundial, Tuck ... is that the pat tern? ' "No, don't be so stupid. That's the hole! That's the thing that he left out, the sundiall Those long oblongs are the four paths, and the triangles are the flower beds!" Michael straightened up sudden ly. "She's right, by George!" "And he left out the sundial," Tuck said to herself. "He left out the sundial." "It made one piece too many. Tuck." "Umhm." She stared out at It, white under the moonlight. "It's very pretty," she said. "It's too bad he left it out." Her eyes danced suddenly, and she turned or. them. Dont you see? she cried. "Can't you guess?" "I admit I can't." Michael shook his head. "Nor I, Tuck." "That sundial . . . it's carved out of something, sandstone or something, I suppose. And around the bottom is a row of round stones; and around the top, just at the edge of the face, is another row of round stones . . . only they're littler. Pebbles." She ran Indoors and sized one of the little dulled pebbles, to rub it with a moistened finger. "Whitewash," she said succinct ly. "He couldn't wash all of It off." Michael whooped suddenly. "If you aren't the brightest girl!" he said happily. "That's where they are!" "The diamonds, Michael?" asked Bunny. "I suppose It must be." "Hadn't we better wait until it's darker, Michael?" "No." "In a moment all four were grouped about the sundial, staring down at its calm face excitedly. Tuck touched the row of pebbles around the outside. "They are ex actly the same size," she told them. "There are a hundred and forty four of them," Michael murmured after a moment. "I suppose that's what gave the old bov hit idea. It'll probably be every twelfth pebble." "But where do we start? Mi chael. I think I should iust col lapse if this turned out to be a mistake! I couldn't bear it." Michael touched a pebble slow ly. "1 think this is the first one, right at the top of the sundial, he decided. He shook it with his fingers; it was firm, although some of the whitewash came off in his hand. He took out his penknife and thrust it underneath, and the peb ble came out of its'setting easily. Michael cut at it with his knife. "Might." he said "That's no peb ble. It's a lump of wax and here's I the first diamond, mv dears. I Continued Monday for the division's second job the building of a bridge across the Sacramento river near Ant lor, will be opened December 6 Yamhill to Abolish j Unsafe Poor Farm I Mi'Minnville, Dec. 1. i.-D The Yamhill county poor farm, criticized by the grand jury ' as "unsafe," will bo abolished ! January 1, the county budget committee decided yesterday. The committee transferred the farm's 1040 appropriation to the relief fund after it had been Informed the majority of in mates would be eligible for old age assistant-? niul other forms of public assistance. On the RADIO CHAINS STATIONS IVhere to Find Them on the DlaJ: Hex. Portland. 1180: bil. wo. Las Angeles; KGA. 1410, Spukant; KUO. 7!lu. San rranclKo; Kutt SiU. Portland: KJK, a 70. Seattle; KNX, 1(15(1, Los Anrelea; KOA, HSU. Denver: KOI.N. 840. Portland: HOMO. 9i. Seattle: KPO, 030. Ban frnnrlhco; KSL, 1180. Halt Lake. Friday. 6:00 Frunk and Archie. KEX, KJR; Mdofly Time, KPO; Don' nor get, KUW, KFI. ' 6:30 Etchings In ! Braaa. KOO, KJR; KHsey'a Orch., KOW, KFI. 6:00 Plantation Party, KOO. KEX, KJR; Wnltr. Time, KPO, KFI, KOW; Prot. Quiz. KNX, KBI,. K UN. 8:30 First Nlgliter, KNX. ::HL, KOIN; JessePa Vurlety Prognim, KPO, KFI, KOW; Whoa In Town To night. KOO: News. KJR. 7:00 Drama. KNX, , KOIN, KSL; Lombardo'a Orch., KPO, KFI, KOW; Boxing Bouts, KOO, KJR. 7:30 Behind he Headlines, KOW; Young Man With a Band. KNX. KSL; Boxing Bouts, KOO, KJR; Big Town, KPO. 8:00 Fred Waring, KPO, KFI, KOW; Amos and Andy, KNX. KOIN, KSL: Buckaroos. KOO, KEX. KJR. 8:15 I Love a Mystery. KPO. KFI. KOW; Lum and Abner, KNX, KOIN, KSL. BEDTIME STORY 11-17 PROMISES 1b REPP A SfoRV 1b JiMOR Af BED -TIME m BBIrfe CHKRILY TRIES To SKIP, BUT JUNIOR, WHO KNOWS THE STORVBV HEART, CHECKS UP AND MAKES Hlrl SO BACK AND READ EACH OMISSION TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy Gets a Degrea fob. me, ; I AN BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Tha THE NEBBS Take Your Cholca fccrXncrMkci.iTlMft ft CH 1 6. r i 'oe'Vf.. "anAatiiunii-.; 'Tui PELL OV.S ELMBE.QT ? I YOU RUIM VOUR I VOURSELP ARRESTfcU TKIIMo A CHAMC OF V .KLLtMeOUR.5E.LFi 8 :30 Miller's Orch.. KEX: Death Vatley Days, KPO, KOW, KFI; John ny Preaenta, KNX, KOIN, KSL; Aloha Land. KOO. 8.00 Austin's Orch., KEX, KJR; Nobel'i Orch., KPO; Kate smith. KNX, KOIN. 8 :30 Muslcale, KOO, KEX: Uni versity Explorer, KPO, KFI; News. KJR. 10:00 Martin's Orch.. KOO, KJR, KEX; News Reporter KPO. KFI, KOW; Paul Sullivan. KNX, KSL; News, KOIN. 10:30 Madrtguera Orch.. KPO, KOW, KFI; McDonald's Orch., KOO, KJR: Owens Orch.. KSL. 11:00 Nottlnxhams Orch.. KPO; Orava Orch., KSL, KOIN: Thla Mov ing World. KEX, KJR; News, KOO, KNX, KOW. Saturday 8:00 Fifth Quarter, KNX; Miller's Orch., KOW; Organist. KOO; Master Sings, KPO: News, KFI. 8:30 Drama. KPO, KFI. KOW; Klng'a Orch., KNX, KOIN. KSL; QuUs Program. KOO, KJR, KEX. 8:00 Aurandt'a Orch., KOIN: Obol era Plays, KPO, KFI, KOW; Beyond Reasonable Doubt, KOO, KJR, KEX. 8:30 Maurice's Music. KOO: Music and American Youth, KPO, KOW; Newa. KJR. 8:46 Saturday Night Serenade, KNX, KSL, KOIN; This Moving World, KOO. 7:00 Ooodman'a Orch., KPO, KPT, KOW. - 7:30 Sports Huddle. KOIN. KNX: Wbafa My Name, KPO. KFI, KOW. 8:00 Barn Dance, KPO, KFI, WiSHfS HE HADN'T StlKftD 50 loNbAONE.AnfeRA WHILE PAUSES IK THE HOPf JlMOR H DROPPED OFF VOICE FROM BED REPORTS BRIGHTLY THAT HE ISH'f A5LEEP. 60E5 0KI AFTER A L0N6 WHILE, STOPS, PEERS CL0SE1.V AND DECID5Ti)E80V 15 ASLEEP AT LAST CLOSES BOOK SOFTLY, INCH BV INCH EASES HIM SELF OUT OF CHAIR AND TIPTOES ACROSS ROOM (RMeuwd by Tb Br-11 PyndtmH-, tnM YES . TOMMY' Wt'Rr GOING TO OPEN UP AIR. COLLEGE AT THREE POINT Fun' Begins! THE NIGHT BEFORE ELECTION1. STEPLOCK IS ON THE PLATFORM THE CROWD IS TREMENDOUS, BUT MOST OF THE FOLKS ARE WAITING TO HEAR BALLINGER STEPLOCK, ALREADY 15 MINUTES BEVOND HIS TIME, DRONES ON... AND, AW DEAR FRIENDS, ELECTIONS ARE NOT WON Br EMPTY PROMISES ft irs not my WilTVl PAULT THIS TIME. Tms fp-llosv oust CAR - ViET NATURALLY FORCED HIMSELF OM ME KOW; Symphony Orch., KEX. KJR; Lelghton Orch.. KOIN, KNX. 8:30 Oang Buateri. KNX. KSL. KOIN; Courtney's Orch.. KOO. 9:00 Olaen'a Orch.. KPO; Hit Pa rade, KNX, KSL. KOIN; Drama, KOO, KEX, KJR. KFI. 9 :30 Ravazza's Orch.. KOO, KEX; Saunder'a Orch., KPO, KFI, KOW; News. KJR. 10:00 Madrlguera'a Orch.. KOW; Foster's Orch., KOO. KJR. KEX; Concert Hall, KPO, KOIN. KFI, KNX. 10:30 Noble's Orch.. KOO. KJR: Oray's Orch., KOIN, KNX: Martin's Orch.. KPO, KOJV. 11 :00 Nottingham's Orch.. KPO, KFI; Owen's Orch.. KOIN, KSL; Or ganist, KEX; News, KOO, KOW, KNX. Lovely Weather Proving Costly Portland, Dec. 1. (P) C. P. Osborne, general superintend ent of the Portland General Electric company, has a hard time replying in the affirma tive when people remark, "Isn't this lovely weather we're hav ing?" Lack of rain costs Vie com pany between $3000 and $4000 daily to generate power by steam. Streams near Portland are so low it is virtually im possible to produce power from them, he said. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads Is 1:30 p. m. By CLUYAS WILLIAMS LOOKS To iff HOW MAhY MORE PA6ES THESE ARE, 6R0AWIM6 WITH HAND ON DOORKNOB HEARS JUNIOR. WIDE AWAKE, ask what is he5t0ftih& fop, daddy? wearilv re turns and Finishes tnerrn uimsfifow V v YOU ? LIKE A DISH OP ICE CREAK OM A CHILD YOU MET HIM WITM OUT STRETCHED ARMS- YOU DID EVERYTHING. BUT KISS HIM 0Or.fiyAORRE:CT5ON' THE BUT THE CIVIL AEHONAUTIciN BUT-.. WE'VE GOT TO BUILDf PROFESSOR. A PLILFS ) GOVERNMENT WANTS AUTHORITY WILL RATE THEM )( WHERE OUR. SCHOOL OP M TOMMY TO SCHOOL ? J TO TRAIN THOUSANDS NATURALLY, THE COLL606S y f DO I QUICKLY AND G'T Mvou CHi(? , OF COLLEGE WILL ONLY . t ELECT . ' f rnM- -A-r a o.k, V0U'CHIEFiJ Y(ft s'ILSlsSiool OmT VUflm Uta vou, tommy... .1 ' ' By EDWIN ALGER I I I i a j i MORE THAN M WHEN'S HE If GOSH, I WONDER TM-fJtf GEE, BEN, I WAS YOU BET, p:fSST PHONY HEROISM r GOINS I WHERE MY BUNCH KJKtef BEGlNNIN' TO AND WE'RE I ''-'' ?' IS NEEDED FOR kjo STOPfjj H IS? THEY OUGHTA VjpfTi WORRY BOB SHOOTING M .Ofcf THE SACRED P- 1 R BE HERE BY NOW jpifjS'ij ALLEN'S WITH L THE Bijp i- TRUST OF PUBLIC I f THAT'S r4tm YOU, EH? ARE WORKS! fTPvA, &9mc-Jml OLD J rAlft f ALL OF US SOW' R- - iF&'&h'iik TT V-rA stuff -j n u- a up to the JesrT, i n 'i5 got up his z m f-.f: m rr -rtr.jm IK I LrtfVJ sleeve? M- Ii fJU'.' i-ff I iVNssS. A.fcar V X & zr? ' nLJB,IUVJ,,'SL...I'j2r5tiAr W-'kJ 1 1 I;' :S. rr BT4 mk i 1 , TV ,ri-k KLAf IATH STORE Klamath Falls, Dec. 1. VP) -Fire of uncertain origin roar STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author. Inclosing a tamped envelop tor reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Pat Off. -frig BlooDHoUND feTHE ONLV Do6iWoil EVIDENCE 15 ACCEPTED IN COURT'S OF LftW I i X 1 iu til pr. DMbr rnllrt rei'tcn-STH1cmt-. inc. Z X-'IW( it Wfe'' yj rm. Bcc tl. S. 1-nL Off All ritht. -l Si CRIPPLED SKEETER From six months in bed with an infected foot, Clayion "Red" Boardman, 12, of Augusta. G., traveled to Tulsa, Okla.. in September, 1938, lo retain his national sub-junior skeet title by breaking 95 out of 100 targets. Boardman this year also won the Georgia state junior skeet championship, ihe 16-yard junior trap title of Georgia and the southeastern junior skeet and trap crown. BLOODHOUND CONVICTIONS So accrurate is ihe scent of the bloodhound that It It the only dog whose identification So accurate is the scent ourts of law. Four bloodhounds in the kennels of Captain V. G. Mllikin, Kentucky, have more than 1,000 convictions to their credit. Strange as it seems, "bloodhound", has no allusion lo their man-hunting abilities, but is a contraction of "blooded hound." TOMORROW: Napoleon's Paradoxl T1 IS THAT SO? HE WAS IN THIS hotel COOKING - up his power pills BEFORE 1 KNEW IT- iM clUST HUMORING HIM TO oET HIM OUT ed through the store of Kay Sugarman, pioneer Klamath clothing merchant last night, doing damage' variously esti mated in excess of $20,000 to stocks on hand for Christmas. A n unexplained explosion jarred the two-story building shortly after the fire started, hurling window glass across the WmPRoWWIISoN-PRESIDENf Of PRINCETON UNWERSrtV t.rt). i.tt iT wnw wfTP nw g A CLERGYMAN INVALIDED WITH AM INFECTED Foot 6d(oUXof BED To RETAIN Hl5 MTlONM. U8JUNt0RSKffl 'TlTlE tcoRimqs out of ioo - HUMORING HIM f GOING TO KILLVOUR5ELP UOINGf IT f" HE GOES OUT OF HERE WITH EVERYTHING Ht'i toUl INLLUUIMV3 HIM5ELF CH 1 QjU- NOW TAKE VOUR PICKS And pick quick ; street. The alarm was turned in after the store was locked for the night. Fireman Scotty Robinson was slightly injured by broken glass. Radium is enormously expen sive because it takes 14,000 tons of ore to produce one ounce, worth srUO.UOu. FOR & MoHTHZ By HAL FORREST By SOL HESS r WELL.SINCE I HAVESO LITTLE CHOICE IN THE MATTER. I'LL GET HIM OUT AND KEEP NCU HERE.. 1 lVt LIVED VsITH VOU 50 LONG NOW I PEAR iD NE'ER BE WAPPY LIVING 1 C L-3, 4wuitiiKt.t1 ICoA
