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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1940. i by Frances Chapter 48 The Shining Knife THE man came back through the doorway and went back to the little stove. Tuck was bathed In cold, Icy perspiration. Her heart was pounding in suffocating beats. She could hear it distinctly. He lifted his head and stared at her. Could he hear it too? Bump . . . bump . . . bump. His face was black with wrath. He looked up at the ceiling. He came over to her swiftly and glared down at her. "Was he at Rome when you left?" he demand ed in a desperate whisper. She would not answer. She eould not answer, for the moment he had spoken he put his hand tightly over her mouth, and then picked up a long roll of bandage and gagged her. Suddenly the "man smiled to himself again. He went noiseless ly to the cabinet and took a little bottle from it, with a thick pad of cloth. He went to the end of the room she couldn't see, and she beard nothing; but a wave of fresh sweet night air poured over her. Then it was gone, and the heavy air of the room settled around her again. The gag hurt badly and it was so dry. Her mouth was so dry. She twisted her head and chewed at the gag, but it would not budge. She pulled at her wrists until the bonds cut Into them, but she could not move. That would be Michael, alone up there. Alone, come to And her. She couldn't warn him. Michael. The light went out. The world was black again, forgotten. The sweet night air revived her. He had left the door open, this time when he came in, and a cool breeze swept gently over her face. The water in the pan bubbled and sang. She turned her head. There was a sort of wide bench gainst the wall on her left-hand side, opposite the big cabinet . On the bench Michael was half sit ting, propped against the wall. By the time Michael opened his eyes his feet were tied together and his hands were bound firmly be hind his back; but worse than that, his wrists were tied to a ring In the wall Michael had seen Tuck lying there on the table. He had stared at her with terrified eyes for a moment, and then he had smiled at her, his own, dear impish smile. Tuck's heart skipped a beat, and then the warm blood flowed through her veins again and she felt alive. Her brain worked again. ' The man spoke. "You were lone?" "Oh, no," Michael said, "Do you think I'm crazy?" "Indeed? You lie well, Forres ter." "And you? What am I to call you? Murchison?" "Whatever you like. It won't make the slightest difference. Luck has played into my hands to night." he said exultingly. , "Yes?" "Yes, indeed. I had thought of something of this sort, but I hadn't dreamed I should be able to man age it. Once or twice I was almost afraid of you, Forrester. Afraid that you would discover the truth, perhaps, and so end my work. It is very Important work. If the world could but realize it, it Is a great thing I am endeavoring to o for humanity. "Now I am going to finish my experiment, Forrester, and you shall have the pleasure of watch ing me." Tuck shut her eyes. There was a long silence. Then Michael spoke, and his voice was terrible. "You devil!" he said. "No, you ore wrong. Forrester, this must be done. For years I have been on the verge of this discov ery. Again and again I have been thwarted by the stupidity of au thorities, by the hide-bound bit terness of ass"';iates. I must do It. I miut do it, do you understand?" His yoice dropped almost to a whisper as he stood there by the kettle, his hand reaching out to ward his instruments. Ufe "FORRESTER, do you know what I am searching for? Lifel Do you understand that? Lifel The Vital Force. The thing that preachers call the Soul. Soul!" He was breathing heavily. He moved aside and pulled up to the stove a small wheeled table, glass-covered. On it he laid a sterile, white cloth; then he took from the water that tray of shining, kecn-blodcd knives. "I know where to And It. For rester. I know exactly where, In the brain, it lies. Do you know why they have never discovered It? Because, when they look for It In dead bodies, it Is gone. Be cause, when they look for it In anaesthetized bodies, it is dissi pated. It cannot be captured. It is too small, too weak. But I know the way." Tuck's heart was In her eyes, taring at Michael. Michael was straining at his bonds, twisting, turning, his face the color of paper. His eyes were blazing. The man at the table took a test-tube from a rack and laid it carefully beside the shining array before him. He was working very deliberately, very carefully. "I have been handicapped," he went on. "I tried to work- with animals because of the absurd prejudice against the risking of human life. How foolish that Is. There are literally millions of lives that would be better sacri ficed to science. If they had given me only a dozen subjects to work on, I should have been successful long ago. Do you know what it would mean? It would mean that Thug Sentenced Portland, Jan. 1. (Pi Wil bur Brown, 24, one of two men indicted on charges of holding up a tavern here December 4 pleaded guilty Saturday and was sentenced to two years in the state prison. Notice I will not be responsible for any hill lncui:rci by n-.iv ne other than ui)elf. K. I. Wolitr. Shelley wees I we could create perfect beings in the laboratory, . Perfect a race ; of gods. The operation, 01 course, is very painfuL Very painful, in deed. You can understand that i must be." . "You will hang for this," Mi chael said. His voice was calm and he had stopped struggling. H sat quiet. He must have found out that it was useless. "I doubt it. You see, after to night, I shall do nothing more. This is the final test. Once before I thought I could say that, but unfortunately, my subject strug gled rather violently before 1 could induce him to come here, and I was forced to give him severe blow. He has been very ill ever since rather, he is quiel now, but in no physical condition as yet, to stand the operation. 1 have had to keep him drugged in order to keep him from escaping or making a noise, and his nerves are not in a good state at all. Still, I expected to use him eventually. But I shall not have to now. If the operation fails on your wife, and anything unforeseen happens, there will still be yourself. He made a little courtly bow. "Two such young and healthy speci mens, both mentally and physi cally, are all that any scientist could desire. If the experiment fails twice tonight, I shall merely set Are to this basement room and leave it as it is. I shall be con vinced that mine is not the hand to carry out the research. But we will not fail tonight." He was ready. He wheeled the little table over close to Tuck. He pulled open a drawer in the table and took out a white mask which he unrolled from its sterile wrap pings and tied across his face. "Perhaps," he said to Michael, "you will And this a little trying since this lady is your wife. But you can scarcely fail to find it in teresting. With this knife I shall make the first incision, a small three-cornered one at the base of the brain. But first, of course, I must sterilize the area." You Devil' HE turned her head gently away from Michael and she felt his hands at the back of her neck. He untied the gag and took it off. "It is in my way," he said regretfully. Her mouth was stiff. Then she felt the coolness of water on the back of her head, and. in a moment, the scrape of a razor. She heard him move. She knew he was still trying to break loose. He never could. Her own bonds cut into her wrists and ankles. The man laid down the razor. He picked up the shining knife. And in that instant Michael threw the severed bonds from his hands and sprang. The man gave a cry like the roar of a wild beast as he went down beneath Michael. Tuck did not see that battle on the cement floor, but as she lay bound and helpelss on the table she pictured it and agonized for Michael. The other man was bigger, and very strong. He had a grip like steel. "Michael, Michael, she called In agony. . The other man was bigger and very strong, but Michael was fight ing for Tuck and for her life. He got on top at last and pounded that dark head again and again on the cement; and then he dragged him and tied him, in turn, to the ring in the wall, where he stood with frightful blazing eyes. "You devil!" Michael panted. And then he turned to Tuck. As he lifted her tenderly in his arms from the table she clung to him and choked out, "Michael . . . how ... I can't believe , , . Michael darlingl Oh, you are really Oh, Michael!" "Why, sweetheart, my fingers were free, d'you see, and I was sort of half sitting there . . . and my jackknife wns in my pants. 1 nearly died getting it out and cutting those damn things for fear he'd hear." And at that moment two things happened. The first was the ap pearance of an apparition from that inner room, the figure of a tall, ghastly pale man with cadav erous cheeks and sunken eyes. He supported himself against the door, said, "So you've got him at lost," and fainted. And the second wos the sound of many feet rush ing into the house above, and Bunny's voice calling. "Tuck. Tuck! Michael, where are you?" Michael flung open the door and shouted, and in a moment the basement was Ailed with people: strongely Duncan Murchison was there with the Commissioner, the District Attorney, a group of po licemen, and Bunny with Aga memnon In her arms. "I had to bring him," she ex plained, "because I thought per haps if we couldn't find you he could. But we saw Michael's boat and the handkerchief tied to the tree on the path below." Michoel held Tuck in his arms still. She leaned her head against him and the room whirled round her. Duncan Murchison had raced across the room and dropped down on his knees beside the sick man from the inner room. He lifted the drooping head and held it on his arm. "My God," he said brokenly, and there was deep silence at the sound of his voice. "It's my broth er. Edgar!" The District Attorney frowned. He took his hand from Michael's shoulder. He turned and surveyed the icy rigid figure of that other, gowned in white and tied against the wall. 'Then U'ho is that?" he cried. "That?" said Michael, and reached out to tear the operating mask from the angry face. "Oh, that is Dr. McBain. ' Continued tomorrow Stat Police Busy Salem, Jan. 1. (P) The Oregon state police department made 4562 arrests during No vember, Supt. Charles P. Pray reported today. 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Havana stood as a city fully 100 years before the first houses were built in what was to be come New York. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS I LI NtVtR FLT. AOMn.'.j'm coin' back to brooklyn , an' git a jos iu iikjfi e A I WOT 0" ME A AGAII AOOLPH'f BAKERY' 7 ONE MINUTE HOW A V f MAYBE IT'S A PLOT- 1 1 I'LL BETCHA FOLKStL 1 "V V JEST STAMPEDE IN- WH'KE ALMOST KEADVUSm W-TO GO NOW-JUST A FEW YfHC MINOR THlNoS AMD TUEM 'ZZ-i&t?-W PUT TOGETHER OUR RELIGIOUS SECT HELD FOR DEATHS Lawrenceburg, Tenn., Jan. 1. ifP) Accused of refusing med ical treatment in five deaths, seven members of a rural reli STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, lncloslnf stamped envelope for reply. Reg. U. 8. Pat OS. 3 vAW J ARMCHAIR rtt HIIltsA EVERY MORNIN6 1 1 1 lJjMjfflr TW Mrs. Ivan Martin, ;- TajM; M his aamb from i I Cvt&Jfe h'Ah school CO-ED. ?lh on Trie Boys' I VARStty foo7BAU TEAM 4tfE 6oE5 iKToTHE GAMS To CONVERT tWh POINTS -&cambia County Hfeh, firmer?, nm. l-t Coif. IHIkTl'nllrtaUrBydiaU.Iat. ' Tn. Bn. II. a raL 00 AS rtjau rncm4 GRIDIRON GIRL Strange as it seems, the Escambia county, Ala., high school football team has but 10 men on the fieldl Eleventh player is pretty Luverne Wise, 17, a US-pound kicking threat to all "enemy" teams. She is a junior student. ' RUBBER STAMP TIRES Carving his name and address on the rear tires of his auto, George Spencer of Spring dale, Pa., recently made a .coas Mo-coast trip, printing his legend at SO miles an hour. Walls under the fenders supplied ink. "DILIGENCE" COACHES . Cumbersome French coaches that never exceeded six miles an hour were originally known as "diligences." TOMORROW: Invalid's Masiorpiece. so...thet'3 An Airplane WRECK, HEYr.. AN' I GOT out of it Without a &cratch..g-g0sh?... i ALLUS THOUGHT AlRPLtVNF WRECKS WERE TURRIBLe THERE'S L6MME THE FIRST f CHECK I PERSOM-Jrt HIM- 10 gious sect are under indictment on charges of involuntary man slaughter. The sect trusts faith for healing powers and scorns medical aid. The deaths occurred within a year. Assistant District Attorney General Paul Bumpus said com plaints of neighbors prompted an inquiry leading to indict ments by a county grand jury rSiiasSra .1 i if. vr if MR.TOMKINS,X TOMMY.' i'VB I OH, OH.' I KNOW I'LL ( GOT a bio I) MOM MAKE A PILOT J0B FOR. I TROUBLE NOW.'AN'SOME IvYOU' f NCOMIN' .0 VOU HERE TmV FRIEND, I AM FOR MAYOR 1 HERE TO HEAR 1 BALUN6E0?j FROM EAR 'l'M AM HONEST MANlfTME MINISTER CAN ff5AY THAT TRUTWFUU.Y WHEN POLKS ARE TRYING TO LOOK. SAD OVER MY REMAINS; AND YT IM AFRAID TO TELL. THIS BIRD n ,r- i i s. t?- a .irNrr vr r"rm i. icr vr i ilc t- -rcri MV5ELF WHAT 1 THINK &T "IDO CONSIDERATE :''7' c-. I ! B two olfjlPP of Joe Brady, Ashley Luna and' wife, Charles Gray and wife, and Lowell HcGee and wife last September. Brady is accused in his wife's death, the Lunas with the deaths of their infant daughter and 18-month-old son, the Grays with the death of a baby daughter and the McGees with the death of .in infant son, the assistant district attorney said. By HAL FORREP" By EDWIN ALGER By SOL HEP I LOST MY HALF OF I I 4. V Li