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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1939. by Francos Shelley Wees- YESTERDAY. At the garden party Mies Lissey taken Duncan aside and speaks to him vehe mently. Later the calls Michael, Tuck and Bunny over to her house, and telle them she knovii the murderer. Chapter 30 'I Know Too Much' "I'LL begin at the beginning," 1 said Miss Lissey. "The night school closed. I had been at a party. It was a very stupid party, and I hadn't been enjoying my self, but I stayed late. Very late. It was after two o'clock when my taxi dropped me at the Univer sity, and I started to walk through the back path." She must have seen the interrogation in Michael's glance, for she interrupted her self to say, "I had dismissed the taxi there, because I didn't want anyone to know how late it was when X got home. People are al ways looking for something about me 10 maKe gossip aoout espe cially that little cat next door.'' "Mrs. Murchison?" "Yes. So you can see that If I didn't want to be seen or heard coming home in a taxi at that time of night, certainly I wouldn't want to be caught walking through the woods. And just after I passed the fork in the path and turned this way, I heard someone coming, dis- iincuy. i snppea on tne path, and hid behind a tree." Michael's eyes were dark. Tuck was leaning forward in her chair. Bunny was as Dale as death. "For a minute I couldn't make out what I saw or who was com ing. It didn't sound just right- mere was a sort ot squeakin, noise, and as It got oonosite me realized that it was the wheel of a Darrow squeaking. The moon was low, but there was just enough light down the path to maxe me outlines clear. The man wneeiing tne barrow was in hurry." "The man?" Tuck easned. "Yes. A man ... we all know. I . Knew mm by his figure. But that wasn't what caught my eye. It was . . . what I saw in the barrow." "By nis ngure " Michael re peated strangely. 1 Miss Lissey shuddered. "I didn't realize then what I was seeing, it was such a strange mys terious business, I almost believed I was dreaming it, when I saw that man, bent with the load, that neavy barrow, with a man'a leg dangling from the end, and one white hand over the side near me. i thought ... I thought someone had had too much to drink. I didn't stop to wonder where, or who he was . . . that was the thought that flashed into my mind. The man and the barrow turned oft and went down toward the river . . . and I slipped out and ran home.' "The next day I heard that Pro fessor Murchison had gone away on a trip . . . and for a minute I believed it, until I remembered that thing I had seen the night be fore. When it was dusk I went out, and looked at the Murchison gate, and there were the marks of the barrow, clear and deep In the path. So I knew." Michael started to speak, but she held up her hand. "I'll tell it in my own way," she said. "There's a lot else you must understand first." She looked at him. "Where did that barrow go?" she asked sharply. "I've tried to find the path. I can't." She rubbed her head again with that same nervous ges ture. "The Murchlsons weren't hap py," she began after a minute. "It wasn't his fault ... it was hers. She's too fond of clothes and jew els, and . . . men. She has no breed ing. You can see that. That's why she hates me. She knows that I know what she was when he mar ried her." "A lady's maid?" "Yes. That was It. He met her In Williston, when he was a stu dent. I saw her there, too, In a friend's house. It was humiliating for her to come here as a Profes sor's wife, and live next door to me, when I knew her secret. She's as common as dirt. If she'd tell the truth it wouldn't be so bad. I'm wandering again. Where was I?" 'Spoil Ills Life' "VOU were saying they weren't 1 happy. But I want to ask one question verv much. Miss Lis sey. How does it happen that Mrs. Murchison was a servant? The Devoes surely might have helped her." She looked at him sharply. "Why the Devoes?" "Her relatives?" "Humpf. They're not her rela tives." "What!" "Not a bit of It. She's always been scared still I'd tell that too." "But . . . they say they are re lated. Miss Lissey. "Well, they're not You won't catch old Mrs. Devoe owning to any such relationship. It's just some other tie. that's all, and De voe and she have some devil's business together. She lived in fear that her husband would find out she'd lied to him." "Poof. It isn't very sweet," Mi chael said. "Kot very." "Does Duncan know u. asked Tuck. "He may. . . . He . , . I've got to get on. I want to tell it. I've some kind of queer feeling that I must hucry. There's somethine about him, Duncan ... I must make it very plain. It will surely come up later. I wasn't the only one who heard him ... if I had been I would never tell it . . . never tell. Duncan . . . he's a fine boy ... this will spoil nis me ior mm . . . sne stopped. "Please go on, Miss Lissey,1 Tuck begged, almost in tears. "It was one day I went over there through the back gate for someining. i neard loud voices in the study. ... I listened. It was Duncan talkme to his sister-in law. It nearly broke my heart. I thought I never thought she could make him look at her. I thought he was . . . above her. But I was mistaken it seems. He was saying . . . 'Mane, Marie, this can't go on. i can t stand it. We ve got to end it somehow. I'll kill him, I tell you. That's one way out!' " Bunny's head went down slow ly, as a flower droops on its stalk. "I ... I must have a glass of water,- miss Lissey said queerly. Her eyes were strange. She held a hand to her heart Tuck ran across nnri rntifhol her hands. They were as cold as ice. "Hurry, Michael. She's faint ing!" Michael came with the water. He forced a few drops between the woman's clenched teeth. Her breath came in gasps. Her fore head was wet with perspiration. She opened her eyes and looked up at him. "Maybe I know ... too much . . ." she muttered faintly. "Miss Lisseyl Miss Lissey!" Tuck shook her shoulder in ter ror. "The . . . hat," she breathed, and her head dropped back against the chair. Bunny was already at the tele phone, and it was only a few min utes before they heard the doc tor's car coming from the Univer sity. He ran in, put his hand on the unconscious woman's head glanced into her eyes, and felt her pulse. He turned to Michael. "I'm afraid it's too late," he said. "She's dead." It's My Fault' ATICHAEL was In the Commls-J-'1 sioner's office early, after a sleepless night. The District At torney was there before him, standing at the window. He turned as his son entered, then turned back Without n urnrA TTi ,,.. tt. was tight. The Commissioner looked up from the paper in his hand. "It Ivm nnisnn Ali.l,nAl Vm. were right. ' , Michael went over and stood beside his father, surveying the landscape. "Thnv niioht tn naint tUne ..1.1 street cars, don't you think so?" ne inquired. His fnlhpt Ihntat m deeper into his pockets and jin- Kiuu ina Keys. The Commissioner spoke again. You . . . had no trouble during the night, Michael? The house wasn't molested?" threw his hat suddenly to the desk, and pounded his palm with a clenched fist. His gray eyes were bitter. "Damn It all!" he said. "It's my fnll If T fVillIrl Win..A J Si, There s no excuse for me she neean i nave died. It s my fault." DnUl'pq fnlriort Vila noa-iawi - . ... v. v hid papcia lu" gether carefully. "I don't see how you make that out, my boy." "I rtn I ihnnlJ Uu. I should have been watching more His father swung on him sud denly. "You know?" "I don't know. I can only guess I can't prove it yet. But I will! I will!" "You can't stay there, Michael." "I'vi ffnt tn ctpu Ikapa Ft'.. as safe for me as for anybody, and I knnw mnrA I Vnniu It A 1 prove it nobody else could step in nuw. mm mis lasi terrioie business . . ." he ran his fingers uirougn nis nair. and looked up sharply. "How long before she uicii uiu sue inse me potsonr "Not mnrA (hnn turn hn.it.. coroner thinks." That means about five o'clock. So she certainly got it at our place. She was there from quarter past four until seven." "Whn hail nrvac, tr that 9nnA -k. .. ,w iuuu one ate?" "Everybody. That's the damns hle nnrr. T hmM k,B better." "What Hn Vnil moon iam. bodv?" "Just that. Ourselves, of course: Charlotte Jean. All the men helped to serve, and the women were milling around. There's no possible way of sorting out any one particular action. We'll have in get ai u ouierentiy. The person whn IrillnH Fn.tn.. Kf..nAui killed her." "And wont stop there," his father said quietly. "Rnt rinH An vmi ti.anf -... .-. leave?" . "No." "Well, there you are." "The girls?" MilMiflp urnnnnrl "T1...- all night to them. It's no good. Tuck won't leave me, and Bunny won't leave Tuck." Continued tomorrow JAPS 10 NEGOTIATE WITH RUSSIANS FOR Tokyo, Dec. 14. (VP) -Yakl chlro Sunni, Jnpnncsc foreign office spokesman, confirmed to day Jiipnn would open negotia tions with Soviet Russia Janu ary 10, looking toward a trade treaty, but said hopes still were held for a new treaty with the United Stntcs. The present pact has been de nounced by the United States, effective January 26. Suma admitted the Russian I market "presently" was insuf ficient to replace that of Amer ica, but said "if she cannot buy from one country. Japan should turn to another. He contended non-existence of a treaty with the United States would be "harmful both to Japan and the United States materially and physiologically." For example, he said, "seven ty-eight per cent of California's whole trade is concerned with Japan. 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