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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1939. by Franc ShoiUy Wes Vi'i'i i. , . Michael tall hit tather that the unknown poison teas injected into the meat with a eyrinoe. The don't body ii stolen. The next Sunday, frying to make conversation at her dif ficult garden party, Tuck intro duce! the subject of the servant problem. , Chapter 29 Undercurrent! MARIE MURCHISON'S long, crimson tipped fingers played languidly with the pearls at her throat "I've heard that one can get maids at the residences very often," Tuck said directly to Mrs. Murcnison. "They train them, and &ay them very small wages, and le girls won't stay very long. Did you ever get one there7" "No, I never did," she smiled swiftly with a flash of white teeth. "1 get a trench eirl whenever can. They are so capable and quick, and I can speak to them in ineir language, it is a great ad vantage to know another lan' guage really thoroughly." There was something vaguely Ill-bred in the lift of her chin as she spoke across Alix Lissey. Tuck no longer icit sorry lor ner. "Had you a French girl Just be fore you left here, then? I rather wondered there was a French novel upstairs, a very battered and torn one. The kind a servant would read. I burned it. She flushed a deep painful crim son. Her mouth tightened. "It must have been there some time, she said. "I had no maid for month or two before we left the house." That was what Tuck had been after. No maid? Then, this woman herself had cleaned the study the morning alter ner husband s dis appearance. If anything had haD pened , . , Tuck remembered the pipe, fallen from nerveless fin gers. If there had been marks of a struggle, anything of the sort . . . this woman Knew ail about them. Charlotte Jean Interrupted with the tea tray. At the same moment tne Mcuains arrived, and Duncan Murchison came ud the oath through the woods and into the garden. His step was light and uoyant, and he smiled cheerfully t Tuck, who in moving back to the tea table had seen him and (one a few steps to meet him. His iuco ieu as ne saw me people oe hind her. "Oh, it's a party?" he said In dovish disappointment. "Yes. Didn't you know?" "No. I thought It was lust vour elves. But it was nice of you to have me, anyway." he said. ' She laughed. "Sometimes It's dreadfully hard to be polite. Isn't it win you come, sometime, when it's just ourselves, then? We d love to have you. His quiet face lit up. "You Just ask me," he said. His glance went past ner, over ner shoulder. ruck turned and walked back to the tea table. Sinister Stress AND then occurred that Incident upon which so much stress was laid at a later and more sin ister time. Alix Lissey, upon catch ing sight of Duncan, had sprung up with sudden animation, and had almost run to meet him. She reached him Just as Tuck turned away, perhaps a dozen feet from the edge of the group. Her first words brought back that dark sullen look to his face. His blue eyes were black, and his mouth tight and hard. She took his arm, and led him off to the corner of the house, and there she spoke for several minutes with force and vehemence. No one could have heard her. Her voice, as was pointed out later, was kept sus piciously lowered. Duncan lis tened; and then be glanced quick ly at the rest, spoke one sentence to her angrily, and left her. The rest of the party had ar ranged itself in an attitude for tea. Tuck poured almost absently. The men passed the cups and the bread and butter, and later the little cakes. Afterward, in re membering, Tuck knew that Dun can Murchison had certainly helped with the rest. She would have been so happy to say defi nitely that he had not, that only Jared Devoe had. Jared Devoe was thoroughly objectionable in his oily, unctuous way. But he had not been the only one. All of them, Michael, Duncan, Mr. Deane, and Dr. McBain had helped. Her mind was busy with con jectures as to the inner meanings of the facial expressions she saw, of the words and tones she heard. Mrs. Devoe brooded all afternoon. Marie Murchison, for some not too obscure reason had fallen si lent, and Devoe hadn't wanted her to foil silent. He sat down beside her and talked brightly, trying to draw her into the conversation. He spoke to her directly. He made little complimentary speeches that were meant for her. Alix Lissey sat in her basket chair, a little withdrawn from the others. She, too, since her talk with Duncan, looked haggard and weary. Her eyes were dull and from time to time she rubbed her forehead nervously. Mrs. Deane was her usual calm, self-contBined self, save when Gordon's name came into the con . vcrsation. Then she sat up, and became a little Incoherent. Gor don was to his mother a quite un intelligible person. Mr. Deane was very subdued. His eyes behind their thick glasses darted from face to face quickly, and he drank his tea in quick gulps. He said al most nothing, and seemed not to be interested particularly in any thing that was said. It was a relief, after all the wondering, to look at Mrs. Mc Bain. Dressed all in white she was the most beautiful thing, Tuck de cided, that she had ever seen. She didn't look like a Greek statue as much as like one of Rossetti's painted women; her lids over the violet eyes were like the petals of heavywhlte camellias. Her hus band knew her beauty; often and often Tuck saw his eyes go to her, as she sat with consummate poise and turned Devoe's compliments on as ngntiy as 1: they had been made of nothing more solid than fog. Tuck could not refrain from mentioning that loveliness to Mrs. Deane, who was at the moment beside her. "Isn't Mrs. McBain perfectly beautiful?" she asked. Who was she before she was mar ried?" "I don't know, I'm sure, except that her people were very wealthy. It was a love match, as you can see, and McBain was still at Medical school and had no money at all. He was an orphan or something out of a home. It's remarkable now he's gotten along without any help, and they're so happy together." Tuck was glad someone was happy. Nearly everyone else in the, sunny garden was carrying, it seemed, a heavy secret burden, 1 Know Who' ONLY a few moments after the Devoes, who were the last to leave, had gone, the telephone rang. Michael lifted it from the desk and answered. "Hello." He shook the phone. "Hello! Oh . . . yes, it's Michael Forrester." He listened, said, "Yes, we will. Right away," and set it down. "It's Alix Lissey." Ho turned to the two girls. "She wants us to come over. Right away. Her voice sounded queer." "I wonder if she's sick?" Tuck said. "She looked so tired when she went home. I asked her if her head ached, and she said no. "She didn't sav she was sick." he replied as they went out the gate. "She Just said she wanted to see us immediately. I rather think she wants to talk." Doesn t she alwavs?" Bunnv asked dryly. Miss Lissey's door was open, and her voice called "Come in," from an inner room. Michael closed the door carefully behind him, just as she appeared in the arenway to tne right. She still wore the hat she had worn all afternoon, and she still clasped In her hand the chiflon handker chief she had carried. It was twisted into a string. There was a high spot of color on each cheek, and her manner was strange, ex cited. "Come In. she said, and turned to precede them into her living room. "Sit down." She would not sit Hnwn heralf but paced the floor restlesslv. "I've come to the conclusion it s time to talk,' she said after a moment. "Don't know what's come over me. That creepy feeling at the tea you felt it?'' She looked directly at Tuck. I don t know what vou mean. Miss Lissey." "Don't beat around the hush. You know they were all hating each other watching each other like cats and mice. Cats and micel That's it." What do vou mean. m-rari)vV Michael asked. 1 11 tell VOU what I menn. Vnn know . . ." she stnnnprl in frnn M him. "You know Murchison Is dead?" Michael hesitated. "This is no timn fnr hnvltnlinn I want to get this thing straight! It's driving me crnzvl" "I think he Is," Michael said quietly. "Think he Isl I know. And 1 know he was murdered. And I know . . ." she sank wearily into the chair behind her. "I know who murdered him," she finished tensely. "Whatr She naid no attpnilnn tn Mi v. clamation. The handkerchief in her hand was still. Her eves were fixed on some distant and terrible remembrance. Listen." she said more miUtlv "I want to tell vou all ahnnt It Then you can do as you please. I can't do anything. 1 can't tell the police, these people they have been my friends. It's a terrible position. It's it's unnerving." Bunny suddenly got up. walked across the floor, and put her hand on the older woman's shoulder. We can understand that." h said softly. "It has been hard for you." The woman leaned back, and looked up into Bunny's face. "I saw him look at you this after noon," she said. "You won't be so kindly to me when I've told you what I've got to tell." Bunnya hand dronned. There was a look of horror on her face. hit down. Miss Lissey said again. "Ill begin at the begin ning." She drew a deep breath. "It was on the night school closed," she said. Continued tomorrow GERMANY'S WAR CASE Berlin, Dec. 13. (0 The German government tonight Is sued a statement of Germany's case In the war In a lengthy white book covering European diplomacy from the Versailles conference down to the present and replying to the British blue book on war causes. The book contains 482 docu ments, some of them previously unpublished, beginning with- an excerpt from David Lloyd George's memorandum to the Versailles peace conference on March 25, 191B. The former British prime minister was quoted as allying the Versailles creation of Po land would bring war eventu ally. Flu Cloiss School. Oregon City, Dec. 13.--T) The rural Concord school near here closed until January 2 yesterday because of an Influ enza epidemic. Of the 1.1 8 pu pils enrolled, 79 were absent. On the RADIO CHAINS STATIONS Where to Find Them on the Dial: Kes, Portland. 1180: BFI, 640. Los Anteles; It OA. 1470, Spokane; KOO, 790, San Francisco; tlitt 620, Portland; KJB. 870. Seattle. KNX, 1050. Lot Anfelfli KOA, S30. Denier; KOIN, 8)0, Portland-. HOMO, 926. Seattle; KPO, 630, Han Francisco; K8I 1180, Salt Lake. Wednesday 8:00 Prink end Archie, KJR; Bun Kt Shadows, KOO; Warlng'a Orch,, KPO, KOW, KPI. 8 30 Keloey'e Orch., KPO; We Pre sent. 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KNX. 11:00 Martin's Orch., KPO, KFI; This Moving World, KEX, KJR; Gray's Orch., KSL, KOIN; Young's Orch, KOMO; News, KOO, KNX. KOW. SEA SUPREMACY Berlin, Dec. 13. (P) Ger many has placed British sea power distinctly on the defen sive, the official German news agency, DNB, asserted today. DfJB argued that in announc ing shipping in certain terri torial waters and river mouths had been placed under juris diction of naval authorities the British have admitted pure trade routes to Britain no longer exist. Even neutral shipping, DNB SUBURBAN HEIGHTS iGlOYAS By CLUYA3 WILLIAMS SNIUIM75 I M f. I said, has been placed under Bri tish .naval protection. The news agency said this protection, however, was not proving adequate and at least six ships had been sunk off the English eastern coast yesterday. On the western front, DN3 reported French artillery fire Closing time (or Too Late to Clas sify Ads Is 1:30 p. m. . Award Road Job. Salem, Dec. 13. (VP) Con tract for grading four miles on the Cow Hollow Creek-Owyhee section of the Vale-Adrian coun ty road in Malheur county was awarded by the state highway commission today to M. M. O'Neil & Son, Eugene, on a low bid of $13,199. Use Mall Tribune want ads. Native Son Dies. Silverton, Ore., Dec. 13. UP) Ernest S. Palmer, 64, son of the Marion county natives, Ma rion and Josephine Palmer, died yesterday. He was the grand son of the pioneer, John H. Palmer, whose original land do nation is now the site of Mt. Angel. Use Mall Tribune want ads. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. S. Pat. Off. , -famous auihorof wvtrc& tu? QKfwt win mt SKULL OF M UNKNOWN PERSoH (Gt Pa trick Cztiefal, Dublin) It WASN'T UNfll PPFT) trPl FW -flic I n? f . r,- -r.r- md ilM! m AKD A CONSPICUOUS ' .OID WHERE -friE KEY OF THE CAR OUGHT fO BE , -IHW HE REALI2ED IfaATHL HAD SOME ONE EIRE'S COAT AND SOME ONE OS? 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