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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MATT TRTBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1939. Ti.i-u4iMM.ii,fci7flEra by Frances Chtf.... 1 The Deserted Home HE TURNED the light farther up the rock. There, a yard inland, was another bead. They were difficult to follow. Sometimes they were two yards apart on the rocky shore and thrn it took a long time; but in not more than ten minutes he found himself past the rocks and standing at the foot of a narrow winding path leading straight up the cliffs. And then he knew where he was going. "Gordon again," Michael told himself thankfully as he ran up the path, dodging the bushes that truck at him and scrambling over rocks that tripped him. Thoughts raced through his brain. He re membered the talk he had had with Gordon when he had asked why he had needed a boat; and Gordon had told him of the old de serted stone house across the river, pointing out its position as a first class place for a warrior's strong hold and robber's castle, where the gang could meet on rainy days. And Michael had said, "But it isn't deserted, my lad; I saw smoke com ing out of the chimney only the other day." Gordon had insisted that he was mistaken. Smoke ... a furnace perhaps. Another thought came into his mind. Jameson had wondered what happened to the bodies of the tor tured animals from the University lab. Here. He shivered again and went more quickly, reaching the top with one last bound. His reasoning had somehow brought him to expect to see the old house blazing with light, but as te stood there peering ahead of im into the darkness it was not visible at all. There seemed to be thick grove of trees; then he re membered that from the opposite bank the place was, indeed, sur rounded by trees. Perhaps they ob scured the light which must be shining there behind the old walls. He went forward cautiously in the direction in which the house must lie, using his light only rarely and men for snort moments. His foot struck something hard, uid bending quickly he discovered It to be a brick. So. He must be close to the house. He went on very slowly now, and very quietly. In a few seconds the hand outstretched before him touched a wall instead of branches, and he knew he had reached his goal But it was dark and quiet; not t sound or glimmer betrayed that this was anything But wnat it ap peared to be, an old, tumble-down stone shell of what once had been a house. Michael stood there on the porch and listened intently for sev eral seconds. There was nothing. He risked the flashlight; turned it down on the stone floor at his feet, and there, just in front of the porch, another of the coral beads. He turned the light oft instantly nd flattened himself against the wall. In that manner he edged through the open door and stood In the musty darkness, listening again. He looked up, and there was no roof over his head. The stars shone through, winking at him faintly. He frowned to himself. This was no laboratory . . . what if , . . perhaps only the doomed were brought here that curling smoke he had seen. He swallowed hard. It seemed to be an impasse . . . and yet, surely Tuck had not dropped' the beads for nothing. Thinking it over, there in the. blackness and gloom, he groaned involuntarily. That clever, schem ing devil ... he might have put the beads there purposely. And Tuck? Michael flashed the light full on and walked boldly forward. He went through one door after an other until he had been all through the house. He turned back hopelessly to the door by which he had entered, and as he did so he stopped short. No sound, no light, had brought him up short, but an odor, faint but distinctly perceptible in the still air. He sniffed again. Chloroform. Iodine . . . drugsl A laboratory? Smoke! The fireplace ... he swung the light around until it rested on the old stone chimney at the side of the house, and went across to it, more cautiously now. The hearth was empty; no fire had been kindled there for long years. Yet it smellod of smoke. Strange. Certainly he had seen smoke com ing from it And then he knew the answer. Like a flash he was through the door and feeling his way around the house, and there at the side he came upon one of those old-fashioned outer entrances to the base ment. Without a moment's hesita tion he went down the steps and stood with his ear pressed against the solid barred door he found there. The odor of druffs was very strong now, oppressive. A hand from above caught him bv the throat. A cloth pressed tight over his nose and mouth. He was held as in a vise. "So. mv friend." he heard voice say through the haze that seemed to envelop him. "we meet on common ground at last?" Bad Dreams TUCK turned her head wearily and tried to put her hand up to It She was so tired. Such terrible dreams. Pictures out of her dream floated disjointedly through her mind. The stump had come apart like a door. How queer. And Don ovan hadn't been Donovan at all. Strange how clearly jhe could see the cave in the rock and the boat lying below her . . . she could feel the movement again, hear the splashing of the water as the oars went down again and again. The same black panic came baci; to her. the panic of her dream. She had decided to jump into the fiver, she remembered now. McNARY SEES HOPE FORI T. ORFORD BREAKWATER Washington. Dec. 30. iTi Senator Charles McNnry noti ced S. A. Lnwrencc, Port Or !ord recorder, today he "had eason to believe" the nrmy en ineers had reported favorably n the need for a breakwuter it Port Orford. Shelley Woes- Wasn't that funny? Because she couldn't swim. Jump into the black rushing water . . . she was afraid of something. She had screamed and tried to jump. It didn't seem as if she jumped, though, because she couldn't remember the water. Why hadn't she jumped into the water? Somebody wouldn't let her . . . somebody had grasped her arms so tightly that they hurt very badly. Somebody . . . with a dreadful face and blazing eyes had looked at her and laughed. And Michael couldn't find her, she had thought. She had been afraid. He wouldn't know where to look. So she had broken the cord of her coral beads and dropped them. She could hear that awful laugh yet . . . even if it had been only a dream. She shivered and put her hand over eyes. It was almost as if that face were still looking down at her. Someone took hold of her wrist . , . She must wake up. She tried to rub her eyes. Her hands wouldn't move. That laugh . . . again. Her eyes opened themselves suddenly. That facet That dreadful, sneering, mocking smile again. She stared at it "You are awake," the voice was saying. "Come now, revive your self. Take a deep breath of air. The air here is quite fresh and pure, I assure you. She couldn't believe what she saw. It must be still the dream . . . if only it would stopl Her throat hurt and she couldn't swallow. She starpd up at the face. It was the face of the man who should have been Donovan and wasn't. He was bending over her and holding her two wrists tightly together. She struggled. He smiled again. "You are not quite strong yet, I am afraid," he said kindly enough. "I don't want you to use your hands, do you see, so I am just binding them down to the table, like this. You would spoil every thing if you could use your hands. You might knock my hand the merest fraction of an inch, and spoil everything. That has hap pened before, of course. It is most "What do you mean?" her voice was only a whisper. "Ah, so you are yourself again? Do you know, for a moment I was afraid I had given you too heavy an anaesthetic." "No One Suspects' "VUHERE am I?" she muttered. He stood up. Her hands were bound down to her sides now. He pursed his lips. "Does it matter? You are safe. Quite safe, I am certain of that You see, your husband was not at home when we left, nor your friend, Miss Temple. They will not discover that you have gone, and when they do, they will not know where you have gone." He turned away and went lei surely across the room to a great cabinet standing against the wall, a great cabinet with glass doors be hind them, rows and rows of shin ing things like silver knives and forks, perhaps. Beside the cabinet was a square iron stove upon which stood a copper cauldron. The man looked down at it reflec tively. "I'm afraid I hadn't better use it," he said with regret. "The sparks might possibly betray us, and that would never do. I have worried about the fire at times, you know," he said, turning back to her. "The smoke would be so clearly visible to an observant eye. But of course, do you know, I have been using this place for over a year now, and no one has even suspected that it exists. The blind ness of humanity is remarkable. There have been one or two unfor tunate episodes in connection with it, too," he said unhappily "My subjects have not been in the best of health, of course, and that ex plains it. I am sure of success to night." ''What are you going to do with me?" Tuck's throat was so dry. He lifted something from the cabinet before lie answered. It was a little alcohol stove, she saw, and he lit it, and put a rectangular basin of water over it to heat. "Do with you?" he asked smil ing. "You know. I don't believe I'll bother explaining it to you. I have explained it to one or two of them and I believe it really interferes with the success of the experiment. It is. of course, a very delicate one: and perhaps the state of mind of the patient really has something to do with it. In fact I am sure it has." He was working, now, as he talked, his hands moving quickly over a strange-looking thing he took from the cabinet a thing of bright, shin ing metal and long rubber tubes with metal caps. There was a door down at the end of the room opposite her, a door set into the dingy gray ce ment of the walls. She did not hear anything, but suddenly tha man turned and stared at it. He walked swiftly across and through it. and she could see him looking down at something below him in there. Lifting her head as far as she could, and straining her eyes into the darkness, she could make out the outline of the foot of a bed and white sheets above. Then there was a sound of heavy breathing in there, a faint moan. Someone else was here too! He was speaking. "Re silent!" He said "Not a sound. I must not be disturbed." Disturbed? At what? Suddenly Tuck wondered what this thing was that she lay upon, so high and narrow. It seemed a little familiar, somehow, quite in accordance with some queer odor in the air. Drugs. A hospital. That was it. And this? This thing she was lying on? She was. she knew In that In stant, strapped to an operating table. Conttnufd tomorrow 11,0 sonnlor replied to Law- I rence's letter which said a j breakwater would revive busi ness, afford a sate harbor dur- ing winter storms and brin new industry to the southwest ern Oregon section. Nothr I will not bp rciMnsl!i!f for any 1)111 iln.wr;,,l by am one other than myacll. E. G. Woliar. On the RAD20 CHAINS STATIONS Where to Find Mem or. tha Dial: Kei. Portland, 1180: KF1, 640 Los Angeles; KG A. 1470. Spokane: KGO, 730, San Francltco; ttUW 620, Portland; KJIt. 070, bealtle. k.NX. 1050, Los Anjelei; KIM. 830. Denier; KOIN. U40, Portland. HOMO. B26. Seattle; KPO. 630, Sao traneltco; KSL. 1180, Salt Lake Sunday 8;00 Hour, KPO. KOW. KFI; Fes tival of Mualc, KGO, KJii, KX: Adventures ox EUery Queen, KOIN, KNX, KSL. 0:00 Manhattan Merry-Oo-Round, KPO. KOW, KFI; Sunday Evening Hdur, KNX. KSL, KOIN. 8:30 Organist, KOO, KJR; Family of Familiar Music, KPO, KOW, KFL 7:00 Commentator, KOW; Play house, KNX, KSL, KOIN; Sleep Sere nade, KPO; Hour of Charm, KOO, KEX, KJR, KFI. 7:30 Carnival. KPO, KFI, KOW; Cherrlo's Musical, KOO, KJR. 8:00 Measner'a Orch., KGO; Hob by Lobby, KOIN, KNX: Night Editor, KPO, KOW, KFI; Kewa, KFI, KSL. 8:80 Sweet and Low. KOO, KJR; Jack Benny, KPO, KGW, KFI; March of California, KNX. 8:00 Walter Wlnchell. KPO. KFI, KGW; Ben Bernle, KNX, KOIN; Mr. District Attorney, KGO, KJR, KEX. ICE BREAKER wishes -there were-some SrlDWlbPlflVlN BECAUSE IT'S TM 6EtirJ6 WEY COMES ON ONE THAT RE SI5TS HIM M SPITS OF HIS STAMPIN6 OK IT" TAILSPIN TOMMY What Happened To Chuck? LEM AND CHUCK MAKING THEIR. F-IR.ST t' l tffV ja . I. .I'M 06AO ..V Vyl , ,( SORR.Y.A I f W-WHERE'S CHUCK.' solo AoAinst orders, Argue over. Lk1 lw tfcs i..i..oost h but M 1 d-don't tell me J CONTROL OF THE. SHIP, AS IT COMES ,W hWlK W W KNOW I AM? Xfafs "YOU RE W i V HE'S ...... S roar.no down onto the held A t Jpf J lMv Vp.noy W M' J lS - SfL. " a " BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Attendance Almost Nill By EDWIN ALGER frT v'EATA 'XT NO, BUTigiJ f MAYOR BAUtNGERVj I I YES, OH. YEAHl THE MAVOtA I I MMM! WHO'S GONNA Hi -" yX CANAR! M fV SOT K?- ISN'T UCKEO ON WWj. HAS CALLED A MASS BE THERE BESIDES W s$g.$& BEH? JjL 6000 , 'S THINS! WT MEETINS FOR T0NI6HT- YOU AN1 ME AN BRIAR fe? -t'i7iNEVL HE'S GOING y OH, HE WANTS THE POLKS WHO ) AN' THE MAyoR1? ZJ l S5- r THE NEBBS Merry Xma? I ; merry CHRISTMAS, "V T MERRV W This SHOULD BE A WOHVHS YES- A 1 11 THAT GUY OUST ,' , UlZZDC3i) fei f RUDY ! CHEER UP -VaJE A CHRISTMAS,) WPPV CHRISTMAS pf) NEXT CUR1STMAS 1 fNATUttM.LY ADOPTED ME I' ; 1 VHvE- E.VERYTHIMG. 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KPO, KOW, KFI: Aloha Land, KOO. 8:181 Love a Mystery, KPO, KFI. KGW: Lum and Abner, KNX, KSL. KOIN; Doe's Music, KGO: Courtney's Orch., KEX. 8:30 Cutler's Orch., KPO, KFI, KOW; Breese's Orch., KEX; Bug Band, KOO: Model Minstrels, KNX, KSL, KOIN. 9:00 Sherlock Holmes, KPO, KFI, KGW; Tune Up Time. KNX, KSL. KOIN; True or False, KGO, KEX. KJR. 0:30 Hawthorne House, KPO, KGW. KFI; Hawkln's Orch.. KGO; Welk's Orch., KNX; News. KJR. 20:00 News Reporter. KPO, KFI, KOW; Heldfe Orch., KGO, KJR: News, KSL, KNX. FlNDS A PDDDIE IrllrlE. ROOD, FROZEN OVER.. WONDERS WHETHER rf Will hold him 16 PE116HTEP "TO FIND friM IT WON'T". LIKES IrlESPLlWTERV SOUND TriE ICE MAKES WHEW If BREAKS backs off akd -Takes a running jump 5UCCE5S (Roleasfd by Tha Bpll Syndicate. 1.. 10:30 Foeter'a Orch.. KOO, KJR. KEX, KFI: Music by Woodbury. KPO, KGW; Tucker's Orch, KOIN, KSL. KNX. 11:00 Ravazza'a Oreh, KPO, KFI; This Moving World, KEX, KJR; Or ganist, KOIN, KSL; News, KG.O. KNX, KGW. NEW QUAKES HI! Ankara, Dec. 30. (JP) New violent earth tremors in the vicinity of Tokat in Northern Anatolia brought fears today of an additional disaster as offic ials reported direct from Erxin- can province that deaths there would total at least 40,000. The new quakes were accom panied by deep underground rumblings, but the extent of damage was not determined im mediately. The first trainload of injured from the great earthquake of Wednesday was enroute to An- kara. The victims, all in need of surgical attention, included a number of high ranking Turkish officers and one general. Military planes flew over Er- zincan, dropping bundles of By GLUYAS WILLIAMS SPEWS AHAPPV-flME CRUNCHlK6-1HR6lef,1'r)E ICE IN AU.-fHEPUimi.ES HE CAW PINS GOES HOME FOR frtE IN EirfABLE bMitib OFF AND 5C0LtN6, FEEUN6 litM THE CAV HAS BEEN frtOR 0U6HLV ENJOYABIE food and clothing to survivors who huddled half-naked in snow-covered fields. Rescue of many persons in the Isolated districts appeared hope less as snow continued to block highway and rail communica tions. Officials said children and women particularly were fall ing victims to the continued bit ter cold, 25 to 30 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit.' The entire Turkish nation was STRANGE For farther proof address T rim BIRD!! O ftn9 SlA.r-1-rJ.eV. i?37 British amateur champion. wflM ft eow eftu., dr&prms MM MTMN ONE FpoT Of THE Hole MAKES HisHoMZ fifllNS the CABIN VIIW HlSOWM FtRSONAl. fURNmiRC K HrVJ 4PMT ? MONTHS ON LAND SINCE SEATTLE, Washlnght?, OWNS 62, 0OO ACRES OF TREE?- uARsesr eoMMunrry forsst lMTri U.S. HOME ON THE WAVES Finding life in England cramped after 36 years of army service. Major W, E. Long, a widower, chose to make the oceans of the world his home. Partial toward the England-Australia run, he lived on the "Barabool" and the "Mongolia" of the P. & O. Line. Later he moved to the "Saint Rosario" on the Brazilian and Argentine run, but came ashore to the French Riviera when his niece and constant companion became ill. Major Long recently wrote to me: "I plan to start living at sea again, this time on the run to New Caledonia, via Tahiti and the Pacific Islands. I have called four ships 'home' seeing that the cabins are stripped for me, as I put in my own pictures and furniture." MONDAY: Gridiron Girl. mobilized for relief, and help was sent from other countries. Paris, Dec. 30. (JP) Six hun dred German legionnaires cry ing "nieder mit Hitler" down with Hitler departed today to AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX the author, tn-WIri stamped nrelope for reply. Reg. TJ. S. Pat. Off. Of London, ONOCBhN LINERS. IN lt-1o join the French foreign legion at Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria. The men are Bavarians who fled Germany and were in terned in France. They were permitted to join the foreign legion after investi gating their histories. Later tney may join allied troops on tha western front Butter Unchanged San Francisco, Dec. 30. (AI. USDA) Butter unchanged. v i mm a, - it -ni II . S' v $5oo,ooo WorTh of Bum 'whips VIZRZ 4ol0 IN THE PNITEP STATES Kif6 By HAL FORREST By SOL HES 4 1
