PAGE EIGHT
- MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1939.
ME.
by France
I'tSTtRDAV. Gordc.-. wits Mi
chasl that flrrt nis boat wag
lunptd, then hit dog killed, but
he'll "get even." An analyiii
hotel no poison in the meat, but
a crop 0 it kills a cat .
Chapter 21
Garden Party
IT WAS Saturday afternoon be
fore the Sunday of Tuck's gar
den party. Mkhael sat on the edge
of his father! desk, swinging his
legs, and look ing gloomily over the
drab city root- visible through the
open window. His father sat at the
oig aesjc, wmsuuig luneiessij Be
tween his teeth.
Michael had been talking. He
went on witn nis story.
"So I tried to figure it out," he
said. "It seemed to me that there
must be some reason why it should
oe tne meat mat he ... to use uor-
don s term , . . chose to poison.
"You Just got through saying It
wasn i poisoned, nis latner said
tnarply.
Michael elanced at him. "Per
haps I did, he said mildly. "But
of course it war. The dog died. The
cat died. What Jethro meant was
that it wasn t iioisoned with anv
thing he knew anything about.
With anything that had any known
reaction. But we should have died
very suddenly if we had eaten that
meat. '
"You're moving Immediately?"
"No. We're not moving."
"No. It's too iate. It wouldn't do
any good to move. He doesn t know
how much we know, you see.
We're on our guard now. Watching
... at least,' I am. The girls don t
know of course. They think the dog
had a fit, or I hope they do."
John Forrester compressed his
lips. "Ye re tne only Doy rve got,
he said shortly.
"Always thinking of yourself.
rent you? Micnaei said re
Droachfullv.
The District Attorney glared.
Micnaei lit a cigarette.
"As I was savinff." he went on.
I wondered why it was the meat
and not tne soup or the pudding.
Or the bread. And I found out"
"Why then?"
"Well, you see, It's this way. The
butcher boy came without the
meat He left the shop with it he
was sura. Anyway, I phoned the
butcher, and asked. So we oame to
the conclusion that the meat was
intercepted on the way. Why the
meat? Because, my well beloved
father, the groceries and all the
' rest of the supplies come from the
city, direct to our door; while the
butcher is on this side of town, and
invariably sends the meat supply
to the University first The boy
stops his cart there at the back door
of the residences, and carries in
armloads of supplies. And, while
no is carrying in armloads 01 sup
lies, the meat for the Horseshoe is
. . . where? It should be roDosins
peacefully in the cart waiting to
De taKen tor a iurtner ride.
"Well?"
"Well, it wasn't."
"Where was it?"
Michael took an envelope from
his pocket From it he drew a
square of butcher's paper. In the
center of it was a hole, a neat round
hole that might have been punched
out with a lead pencil, save that it
bore no pencil marks. Michael held
it up.
Animal Souls
yOU see that hole?"
"Of course."
"Syringe," said Michael laconi
cal !v.
"Syringe?"
"Well, hypodermic. Clever. Gas
eous poison that leaves no trace.
Hypodermic so that he doesn't
have to untie the parcel. I don't
think our friend intended to take
the parcel from the cart, no. But
he'd scarcely dare stand tr ere too
long, even in the covered areaway
where the cart was. I think he
barely got his hands on It when he
heard something footsteps prob
ably, and he steps into a conve
nient doorway. The footsteps turn
out to be the butcher boy s. who
thereupon drives off."
"Who was around that door be
tween half past five and six?"
Michael looked down at his foot
"Well." he said slowly, "Katie
didn't sec everyone perhaps. But
she saw Duncan Murchison, com
ing across the campus. He probably
entered the back door, and went
up to his room. That was lust as the
boy's cart stood In the areaway
She didn't watch him, no. She just
saw him coming while she held
the door open for the boy. And
then, a few minutes after the bov
hnd driven off. she saw Mr. Dcane
crossing the campus toward the
Horseshoe, on nis way home. But
that doesn't meon a thins. Every
body who lives out here has to pnss
along the bnck of that residence to
get home. IJeano passes there si
most exactly at the same time
every day."
Forrester filled his pipe. "Does
the butcher boy call at the same
time every day?'
"Approximately."
Forrester lit the pipe carefully
and smoked for a moment in si
lence. "You've hnd the body of the
dofi analyzed? There might be re
action there to the poison."
"There's none in the body of
Jethro's cat. As for the dog . . ."
Michael got up and sauntered to
the door. "Do you suppose dogs
have souls? Freddie must have one.
Because he's walked I tried to dig
him up Just an hour or two after
we Buried mm. Freddie had gone.
Sunday dawned bright and clear
and warm, a perfect dnv (or a tea
party in the garden. Tuck had the
wicker tea table set out of the sun
on the east side of the house, facing
Miss Lissey s.
Whether the Dcvoes and Mrs
Murchison would accept Tuck's In
vitation had been rather a matter
for speculation. It seemed scarcely
possible that they would after
Rum Store Costs Cut
Snlcm, Dec. 12. (A1) State
Liquor Administrator J. J.
Hague told Governor Sprngue
today that costs of operating the
liquor control administration
have declined materially dur
ing th past iix monthi.
Shelley Wees
Jared Devoe's elaborately con
structed alibi for them, and consid
ering the fact that Tuck wat violat
ing one of society's rules in inviting
them when they had not called
upon her. But in spite of every
thing, they came, at four o'clock
almost too promptly, Tuck thought
Mrs. Murcnison naa gowned ner
self in red ... a color quite inap
propriate for Sunday afternoon in
the garden but Mrs. Murchison ob
viously was not thinking of the
garden.
Her eyes flashed at Michael as
she shook hands with him, and
Tuck got a sudden shock, a sudden
insight into the woman's mind.
Did she think that her smile might
accomplish what Devoe's disarm
ing manner had failed to do? Tuck
stiffened mental!.
"We're so glad you could come,
Mrs. Murchison," she said sweetly.
"We have been looking forward
to coming," the red lips said, Just
as sweetly. The eyes were so dark
it was difficult to read any expres
sion in them.
Subjects For Conversation
MRS. Devoe stood behind her.
She looked ill. Her eyes were
heavy and lusterless, and the flesh
on her cheeks hung .flabby and
pendulous as if she had suddenly
lost weight. She was in black again,
a heavy shapeless black, that some
how seemed more rinister that the
red. Tuck shook herself.
"It's a lovely day, Mrs. Devoe."
"Yes." Her hand was limp limp
and cold.
"I think you'll find this chair
comfortable," Michael said as he
greeted her. She sank into it with
out a word of thanks, and sat there
all afternoon as inscrutable as any
Buddha. Inscrutable, but never tin
noticing. Her heavy eyes saw every
movement
Her son was as affable and pol
ished as ever. He complimented
Tuck on the condition of the gar
den, and moved on to Bunny with
suspicious haste. Bunny sat quietly
in her chair, and let him talk into
her ear without evincing the slight
est interest in wnat ne was saying.
Mrs. Murchison and Michael
drifted off together. Tuck caught
one gray amused glance from Bun
ny, and turned resolutely back to
old Mrs. Devoe. She picked a sub
ject out of the air at random, as one
reaches for a mosquito on a hot
summer night.
"Have you seen our lovely sun
dial?" she asked. "I suppose you
must have when your niece lived
here."
The heavy lids f uttered for the
merest instant, and the eyes turned
toward Tuck. "My niece?"
Devoe broke in. "It was the sun
dial she spoke of, mother," he said
with a swift glance that Tuck
caught.
"The sundial. Yes. Yes, I havt
seen it"
"I never owned a sundial before.
They're so romantic, aren't they?"
Mrs. Devoe did not answer, and
Tuck was casting about wildly fot
another subject when she saw witn
relief Miss Lissey, smart in a flow
ered chiffon, coming hastily down
the outer path. Tuck almost liked
Alix Lissey at the moment Cer
tainly, she told herself, there
would be no more of these awk
ward pauses in the conversation.
Then she remembered what Dr,
McBain had told Michael about the
Devoe-Lissey contretemps, and
groaned inwardly. That would
probably stop even Alix Lissey's
agile tongue. But other than
slight raising of her chin Miss Lis
sey showed in no way her disgrun
tlement at Devoe, and Devoe was
very polite, if a trifle distant, with
Miss Lissey, so affairs moved
rather more smoothly than might
have been expected.
But the afternoon was fated not
to go smoothly; not with the east
and lack of restraint that had char
acterized Mrs. Deanc's party. II
may have been the fact that the
rorresters and Bunny . . . and Lr
McBain too, when he finally ar
rived, . . . were putting every
movement, every word, under s
strong microscope, that put the
tension into the atmosphere. Not
only that, but Tuck had a feeling
that everyone, excepting perhaps
Mrs. Dcane and Mrs. McBain. was
conscious of this. There was appre
hension, wonder, mystery, ever
fear in the air. No conversation
seemed able to live.
Tuck decided mentally that 11
was no use to keep to harmless
subjects. With an air of utter inno
cence she introduced one, that
might have a sting . . of which
she, of course, couldn't be expected
to know. The servant problem.
"We were told that it was very
difficult to keep a maid out here,
she commented. "But luckily.
Charlotte Jean likes it very much
and hasn't any notion of leaving
us. I'm very thankful."
Mrs. Dcane, hot and puffing a;
usual, spoke. "1 have always a per
fectly terrible time with servants
I always think my boy Gordon
Just miRlit have something to dr
with it. He's very trying, at least
we find him so, even ourselves
Really I don't know what to do
about it so I rarely try to keep a
maid at all."
There was a curiously furtive
look in Marie Murchison's eves.
She glanced at Tuck with a little
frown, then looked immediately
away.
"Well. I have an old country girl,
and I couldn't get along without
her." Miss Lissey said. "She's hard
working and sensible, and she
hasn't any of the silly notions of
servants In this country. She be
longs to the servant class, and she
knows it, and she stays where she
belongs.
"Is there a jervint class. Miss
Lissey?" Bunny asked.
"Of course there is. Some people
are born to be ladies' maids just
as some aren't. Let them keep to
their own levels, I say It's no use
their trying to pretend they belong
to another class." She tossed her
head angrily, and the red flamed in
her check.
Continued tomorrow
Record
Missoula, Mont. (tV) Mon
tnna State university claims the
largest majorette corps of any
college tn the Unilid Stutes.
Fifty-right cords spin batons in
their twirling drill between
halves of football games.
On the
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Berlin, Dec. 12. (P) The
German supreme command an
nounced today two British tank
ers of a total tonnage of 18,
000 had been sunk in the Eng
lish Channel. They were not
identified.
The official communique cov
ering yesterday's war operations
follows:
"Slight artillery disturbance
By GLUYA3 WILLIAMS
WISHES THERE WERE SOME WAY 6F SFfflNt THERE
EXCEPT BY CRETPIN6 . HUMPS HIMSELF UP ON ALL
FOURS
HIMSELF FORWARD, SlttiNfe UP BUT
TTC1W MUCH IH 1flE SAME PLACE
DECIDES THAT OLD-FASHIoNED METHOD OF CRE6PW6
A.L0N6 ON HIS SToMACH ISTriE ONLY SURE WAV
OFGEfTINfe ANV WHERE
fire on some parts of the front
between the Moselle River and
the Palatinate forest.
"Otherwise, the day passed
quietly on the entire western
front. Two British tankers, to
gether 18,000 tons, were sunk
in the western exit of the Eng
lish Channel,"
Closing time for Too Late to Claa
slty Ada la 1:30 p. m.
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
Tor farther proof address the author. Inclosing a stamped envelope tor reply. Reg. TJ. S. Pat OS.
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WOOLWORTH'S SECRET
One of the oldest practical jokes of all time was the effort of Frank Woolworth to keep
the height of his giant skyscraper in New York a secret during construction. According to
Louis J. Horowitz, the builder, Woolworth sought to insure for himself for a long time the
glory of owning the world's tallest building.
When first projected, the Woolworth Tower was designed to rise 692 feet, but when the
building opened in 1913, Woolworth revealed its real height was 792 feetl
DYE DISCOVERY
Sir William Henry Perkin, at 18, discovered the first aniline dye. mauve, in 1856. While
oxidizing aniline oil he obtained the dye because of the presence of impure chemicals. Re
peated with purer aniline, the experiment failed.
TOMORROW: Mystery of the Extra Skull.
SKATES NOT NECESSARY
FOR GIRLS ON JOY RIDE
Portland, Dec. 12. Ph-Roller
skates aren't necessary as
"Just in case" equipment for
girls who go for automobile
rides, a resourceful young girl
demonstrated last night.
The girl left her boy friend's
car on the edge of the city
OUILPINQ.
limits and called police, who
drove her home.
Can't Tall.
Lexington, Ky. VP) Procla
mation of a new date for
Thanksgiving this year probably
led to this sign on a local mer
chant's store: "Do your Christ
mas shopping early! Who
knows? Tomorrow may ba
Christmas!"
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