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PAOE STX MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1939. by Franc Y ESTERDAY: Hldoiiu drain knowledge that Murchison was murdered, but lay! h wut i Moody paper on the path. The next day Gordon Deans' dog dropt dead from meat the Ferret tert were planning to eat. Chapter 2T Dog Burial AS MICHAEL put the ear into the garage at the aide of the house he heard the lound of ham mering coming from the Dearies'. He went to the house, called in to Tuck, "I'll be out for a while, honey. Over with Gordon," and went down the path and around to the other house. There, ai he ex pected, he found Gordon out in the yard, finishing the lid on the box that was to serve as Fred'a coffin. Gordon's eyes looked as if they might have brimmed over at some not distant time; but Michael took no notice. He dropped down on one knee beside the lad, and put out a hand to the box. "Good Job there," he muttered. "Taken manual training lessons?" "yes," said Gordon. He got up and carried the box to the gate, then lifted the dog's body, lying there beside the hedge wrapped in a torn blanket, and laid it gently in the coffin. "Give me one end," Michael said briefly, and picked it up. Gordon led off into the woods, toward the river bank, and Michael followed. The box was very light Fred had been only a small dog. The world, Michael reflected, was full of small dogs; but, in Gordon's eyes, there would never be another one exact ly like Freddie. The grave was already dug, ly ing open underneath a great pine tree almost on the edge of the river. They put the brx down, and Gor don lifted it to set it softly in the hole. He turned away for a minute before they started heaping dirt upon il Micnaei gamerea an arm ful of pine branches, while Gordon was finishing, and brought them to lay on the top. Gordon stood up. He blew his nose. Michael took out his cigarette case, looked at It, then turned and held it out to Gordon. "Have a cigarette," he said, as man to man. Gordon shook his head. "Don't moke," he said gruffly, and straightened his shoulders. Through the thin fringe of trees between them, and the river, the aunset was visible as through heavy lace. Gordon leaned his back gainst a tree and looked at it "Funny thing a fellow can't even have a dog," he said at last, with what started out as a nonchalance and ended with a hint of a catch In his throat. Michael did not answer. "Maybe they'll let me have i bike," Gordon said. "Mom thinks they're not safe." "Not any too safe, the way some Jtids ride through the traffic," Mi chn?l replied. "Nothin'a safe. I had a boat once. Mom never found it out. She'd have thrown a fit Dad did have a fit when he found out I had it." "How'd you get a boat without their knowing? "Found it It floated down one spring, and stayed here all summer without anybody coming after it. 1 took it Saved my money, and give it a swell paint job, and fixed ft all up." He scuffed at the pine needles, "Can't have nothln , he aid. "They take It away from you?" "Who? Dad? No. Somebody iwiped it." "Maybe the owner found it." I'll Get Even' XJO CHANCE. I had that boat hid. I kep' it up a ravine with branches over It If the owner had a wanted it he ouflht to a come for it sooner. It was my boat No, some . body that saw me In it ook it. Watched where I put it, and swiped it. I'd like to find out who, that's what I would. I bet it was the same fuy poisoned Fred. You lust wait 11 get even with him." "You're crazy,'' Michael said. "Who'd have it in for a kid?" Gordon looked at him sldewise. "That's all right" he said at last, as if a little ashamed of himself. "I'll take care of that I'm not such a kid. I'll show him." "Who?" ' 'That's It Who?" He looked at Michael directly. "You took that meat down town, I bet to have thtm And out If it had poison. Didn't you?" "Yes." "It will. You mark my words." He chose his father's favorite fhrase. "He poisoned my dog. an' V. sure get even." Behind them In the wood a lleenv bird cheened suddenly. Gordon jumped. "We better get home," he said in a low voice, lie bent double, and darted off to the right with the speed of a startled rabbit Michael following quite un ashamedly. At the gate Gordon looked at him again. It Isn't so safe out there in the woods with robbers and poi soners around," he said in a iow tone. "An' you just remember, Mr. Michael Forrester, he didn't in tend to get Freddie with that meat Tf nr.." I ha mtbi aftn- " In the study the two girls sat very quietly, waiting for him to 581 INCREASE IN Eugene, Dee. 11. 0T) En rollment in Oregon universities and colleges increased 581 stu dents or 6.3 per cent over last year, a final aurvey showed Saturday. Fall registration was fixed at 9,767, a record. Oregon State had 4.618 stu dents, a 4.8 per cent Increase; University of Oregon 3,615, an 8.4 per cent increase; Oregon College of Education 480. 8.4 per cent incrense; U. of Oregon medical school 424, 7 per cent Shall W come in. Tuck was obviously re lieved when he did come In and sil down beside them. Bunny, sittine in the big armchair under a read ing lamp, shut her magazine and put it on the table. She looked at Tuck. Tuck nodded her head slightly. "Michael," Bunny said quietly, "you're going about this mystery business in your own way, aren t you?" "My own way, Bunny?" "Yes. Telling about half what you think. Keeping the most im portant things to yourself. Getting a grip on the whole thing and say ing very little about it. But I want to know somethfig. Will you tell me?" Michael considered. "Glad to, if I know the answer." 'Thank you. Now is that letter from Chicago a fake or is it not?" "I don't know. The Commission er is tracing it He's written a let ter to Police Headquarters there. We ought to know in a few days." "Yes. I thought so. And the logi cal next question is . . . why do you think it's a fake? Because of all this suspicioning around, or have you any proof that ... Dr. Murchison . . . migiii nave ucen muruereuf ichj proof?" Michael thought that over care fully. He decided. He told them about Higgins, the rockeries, the watch. "It is Edgar Murchison'i watch," he said. "There isn't the slightest doubt. It was Edgyr Mur chison's hat that someone left at McBain's the night he disappeared. Who? Why, I don't know. But taken all together, I doubt if a man would go off and leave his hat, his watch, and fifty thousand dollars worth of diamonds, to say nothing of his wife , . , voluntarily." 'Charming Person' "T SEE." Bunny put the tips of her long graceful fingers together and contemplated them carefully. Tuck got up from her chair, went over to Michael's, sat on his knee, pulled her feet up off the dark floor and put both hands under the edge of his coat She put her head on his shoulder. She was tafe, "Why, Bunny?" "Well ... I might as well tell you this. It's lust that . . ."she was hav ing a little trouble with her words. "IPs just that ... I'm afraid you'll be suspecting Duncan Murchison as well as the rest of them, and 1 wanted you to know that I've been out walking with him several times lately. He isn't trying to pump me or get information from me, and I don t think he has any ul terior motive in asking me. I'm going because I want to go. I find him a charming person. I like him very much. He isn a bit sulkv and rude when the Devoes or Mrs. Mur chison aren t around. She paused. Michael was stroking Tuck's hair gently. "I wanted you to under stand," Bunny snid at last "Thank you, Bunny, Were you, by any chance, with him this after noon?" "I was." "Between what hours?" "Ho came shortly after three, and he left about half past Ave." Michael stirred restlessly. Tuck shifted her position to one less like ly 10 precipitate ner on the noor. "Why, Michael?" 'There's something I want you to understand too," he said slowly. "I can't count Duncan out because he's a charming person. I liked him too. He's a fine upstanding sort of young chap. Everybody has a good word for him. But, as dad says, this is a queer unlikely sort of business we're engaged in, and I've got to follow where the track leads, Bun ny. Likes and dislikes don't count so much in an alfalr like this. I haven't got a thing agninst young Murchison yet. Not a thing. But if I do get the end of a string leading his way, I've got to follow it Per sonal considerations can't be counted when it s murder, Bunny." She flushed. "No," she said quiet ly. "I just didn't want you to think I was trying to put anything over on you. I want you to have the facts. I have the utmost confidence in your Judgment and common sense." "I wish his tongue were looser." Tuck said wistfully. She put her hand up and patted Michael s face. The telephone shrilled suddenly Michael lifted Tuck, and dropped her unceremoniously to the couch, and made one leap for the rece'ver. "Hello?" he said. Then "Yes, yes. Forrester speaking." "It's not eh? Positive?" There was a pause. "I see." "Yes. Thanks." He turned back...It's Jeimo," he said. "He says there isn't a trace of fioison on that meat He's tested t for everything. He says he'll swear to that" Both girls looked up at him. 'Then what killed the dog, Mi chael?" He shook his head. "I don't know." he said. But he did not tell them all that Jethro had said, lie emphasized the fact that there was no poison on the meat no poison of any kind. Not a trace. And then he had said. "But it's some strange and damnable business, Forrester; for after I'd tested It and mad sure there was no poison on it I gave the merest scrap of it to my cat. and It dropped dead at my feet." Continued tomorrow decrease; Eastern Oregon Col lege of Education 331, a 17.3 increase; Southern Oregon Col lege of Education 21)8, a 12.9 per cent increase. Weather Northern California: Fair to night and Tuesday but becom ing cloudy In extreme north portion Tuesday; cooler In the interior tonight with light frosts; light northerly wind off the coast. Church Leader Dies Portland, Dec. 11. -!? Dr. Ebcn Samuel Johnson, 73, re tired Methodist Episcopal bishop died at the veterans' hospital Saturday. He served 20 years In African missions where he became bishop and general su pcrintendent. He retired in 1936. On the RADIO CHAINS STATIONS Where to Find Them or the Dial: Kei, Portland. 1180: KFI. 40. Loe Anteles; BOA. 1470, Spokane; KOO, 180. Sid FranclKo; KUH 810. 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I have STRANGE Tor further proof address Vim rORCED INIO A WhJHXm PAkiV 8 "i v IHS tJOvCKNfntNT FK0 tits Wovti mmMtef iy DURING Trie CIVIL WAR y,v"3 DICTATOR AGAINST HIS WILL Strange as it seems Estonia, tiny Baltic stale bordering on Russia and Latvia,' is ruled by a dictator who never wanted power. Konslatin Pais became president in 1934 under an ex ceedingly democratic constitution which provided a one-chamber parliament with a president and prime minister and permitted many parties. Unfortunately this system hindered effectual government and in protest a Fascist party sought a new president. But the new constitution provided the president be elected for an "in definite term." As Pats was already in office he had his job as virtual dictator to fight the new Fascist party from the top. TOMORROW: Biggest Secretl THAT'S FOR. OUR NEXT Oet-IONSTRMTOKI (.WE. WONT TAKE. A 1 CHANCE. WITH NOUG isievw CAR the proof to show who is the murderer. I'm not going to give my life to protect 'em." Deputy Prosecutors Charles C. Ralls and James W. Mifflin, who conducted the trial, said they were unimpressed by his statement. Mrs. Isabel Frances Wunders, his 23-year-old wife, who ar rived in the courtroom soon after the verdict was read, ap peared mystified, court attaches AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX the author. Inclosing a stamped enrelope for reply. Reg. U. S. Pat Off. DICIfflRSHIP WHICHTRiePTc ( r JTXt WSJ VJ-f tJ& aTa"a TW.'S-I.-. Wi e- l - v,i, J1 5 csrstk .-.'Coor. Igjlbji United Fetturt Srodiulc, Ine. ?THE ENGINES ALLRISwrJ " NE.5D3 Iuy,Mt3 W A DH JU WUNT 1WC "N' M CHNC& WHEN YOU DRIVE. II-1. V.UI UUWN IMfc. r-VWfcKJVSTAJVINO A.UVE. TO ONE-POURTH -a. WHAT 1 J used forthe rKT? said, by her husband's statement. Loses Health Suit Oklahoma City (U.R) The state supreme court has allowed damages of $100 against a gas company on the allegation of two women that they caught cold when the gas pressure fail ed during a cold wave. 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