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MEPFORP MATL TRTBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON. FRIDAY. JTJXE 2S, 1940.
Gasual Slaughters
By VIRGINIA HANSON P
YtSTCRDAY:Thlian4tomn
yovna "tan Kov aas tvtr trtn,
Gerald Beauart, boot talesmen
of London, arrivu on Wis post
Felicia BrtdW(ll, (Jit hotM,
Colonel Pennant, the command
ing officer, Adam and Kay are
till duruMina the chaplain'! caie
et lunch.
Chapter Four
Felicia' Shopping
TIE WAS Just leaving Field
I atone Inn," continued the
Colonel, "where he had dinner
when he aaw man walking
along the road and atopped to
ask nim how far it waa to Fort
Michigan. The man taid ten mile,
and that he waa going there him
elf, ao Henry told him to get in.
Unfortunately he didn't get a
good look at the fellow'a face
he had on a aoft hat pulled down
over hia eyea and he didn't have
much to ay. Henry deacribed
him as a email man, short and
rather slender. They had covered
about nine miles when he pulled
a gun and, a few minutes later,
directed Henry to turn onto the
dirt road back of the post."
"They ought to be 'able to trace
the car," Gerald aaid reflectively.
"Oh, they've found that I had
word juit before noon it waa
abandoned about twenty miles
from here, between here and
Chicago. It had been well driven,
too you see, the car was bought
new in Chicago yerterday and
driven directly here, so the troop
ers knew just what the mileage
reading should be, and it was
almost exactly twenty miles short
of three times what it ahould
have been, if you follow me. In
other words, the car could have
been driven to Chicago from
here, then back to the place
where it was abandoned."
Felicia looked thoughtful.
Any clues in the ear?"
"None. The luggage was gone
it was empty as when he
bought it; and there wasn't a
fingerprint in the car, not even
Henry's. It must have been gone
over carefully and wiped clean
by the thief. Probably used it to
pull aome very unsavory lob In
Chicago last night." The colonel's
face darkened. "If It's one of my
men I'll get him if it takes until
Christmaa."
Gerald leaned forward and
looked at the older man in some
surprise.
"What makes you think It's one
of your men, sir? Surely that
doesn't follow?"
"Only because this Incident so
closely resembles one that pro
ceeded It, one which we have good
reason to believe involved some
one on the post"
He went on to tell them of the
affair of the taxicab, which I had
heard from Adam that morning.
"The presence of that regi
mental Insignia In the cab Is
rather good proof," he concluded.
"Pleasant thought," observed
Felicia brightly. "A gangster
right on the post with us. lmmer
man, that's the second dessert
you've brought Miss Cornish; snd
with all deference to her taste
and her figure, I can't believe she
wants two helpings of bread pud
trig." "I wondered If I was seeing
things," I murmured as Immer
xain s agitated hand removed the
second dessert.
But Gerald was still pursuing
the subject.
"And you say, sir, that the taxi
driver waa also er, divested of
his clothing? What a beastly
criminal! You'd think one might
be left a garment or so, what?
I mean to say at least his boots.
Man is so helpless in bare feet."
"Probably the idea exactly."
taid Adam. "Wonder they weren't
put permanently out of the way."
"That's so, too. Can't hsve been
very desperate, eh? Just in a
hurry." Gerald Beaufort paused,
a serious gleam in the gray eyes.
"1 say, sir, did they gi-t away with
til the poor chaplain's belongings
uniforms and all?"
"F.verything. He was In civilian
clothes, but he had a small trunk
full of hia uniforms and arcouter
menta in the bark of the car.
Even a full outfit of the new
blues darned expensive, I can
tell you. And of course they can't
be sold for a fraction of their cost
pure vandalism."
The fringed gray eyes were
dreamy.
Too Attractive'
I UST ask when I can see him.
i' Bit of business, what?
Boots, belts. Must see what I can
do for him?"
Mrs. Bridewell pushed back her
Chair.
"Bit cf business for me, too."
the remarked tartlv. living the
englishman a withering glance
of which he seemed happily utv
conscious. "I'm a good shopper
If I do say It, and he sounds help-
lr,s.
She rose, put down her napkin.
"Boots snd belts, indeed! the
said scornfully. "What he needs
is shirts and shorts, and I'm the
one to ui that he gets them with
what money he has left."
Five minutes later, having of
ficiated with her charming smile
at Colonel Pennant's leave-taking,
she turned her back on the
rest of us who had dropped lazily
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into easy chairs on the versnds
and, her spike heels tap-tapping
across the polished floor of the
lounge, made for the guest wing.
She waa not a tall woman, but
her slenderness and the slim per
fection cf her navy-blue slacks
snd shirt made her appear to.
Her hair, which the wore alwaya
in sculptured ringlets, was uni
formly gray; but looking at her
now, at the taut smoothness of
her bare arma and the spring of
her step, I doubted if she was
forty.
To my considerable annoyance,
Gerald Beaufort sprang to his
feet and pursued her, after only
the most perfunctory excuse.
"Too bed," said Adam, eyeing
me sympathetically. "Losing the
old grip.
"You mind your own business."
"Very pretty. Girlish flush."
"And don't be a fool. But I say
again what I've taid before, that
Felicia Bridewell is altogether
too attractive a woman to be
hostess for a crowd of bachelors.
It's why it's "
"Go on, say it," urged Adam,
grinning. "Iva heard you on he
subject "
And together we chanted
"It's downright unfair!"
Adam had gone back to duty,
and I had retired to my rooms
with every intention of doing
some work when I discovered that
I waa out of cigarettes. I do my
heaviest smoking when I am at
work; and, like most writers I
can seize on the smallest excuse
to postpone the final, evil moment
of facing a blank sheet of paper,
Insignias
I ALMOST collided with Felicia
Bridewell In the corridor. She
waa dressed for the city and car
rying a suit box, and for a mo
ment I thought she was annoyed
to see me. But the annoyance
proved to be for her errand.
"They've sent me the wrong
girdle. They were having a big
sale of them yesterday at Mar
shall Field's, and I'm afraid the
kind I want will be sold out, so I
have to go back."
"I should go into Chicago and
collect some unfinished manu
scripts," I said, pursuing another
excuse for idleness. "I didn't ex-
Fect to have time to work when
came."
"I'll let you know when 1 go
again." the promised. "I've rot
to call up a friend tonight and
I may be late grtting back.
I taid, "O.K. Drop me at tht
Post exchange, will
U yo
She gave me the box to hold
while she unlocked her cell of the
long garage behind the club and
barked out her rord coupe.
"Do you mind just keeping that
on your lap?" she suggested as I
climbed in. "The lock of the lug
gage compartment sticks that's
another thing I have to see about
today. I don t know why I don't
just move Into Chicago and com
mute out there." She hesitated
"There'a that poor soul of I
chaplain, too, without any clothes.
Suppose I ought to offer to gel
him some panties, at least. Won
der what size he wears."
She stopped in front nf the Post
Exchange and I got out.
"I believe I'll atop by the hos
pital," she said. There was a
wicked gleam in her eye. "It will
be worth it just to see his face.
Perfectly strange female popping
in and demanding to know what
tize shorts he wears."
Vi ith little persuasion I would
have rejoined her in the car, but
she waved her hand in casual
farewell, said, "I'll tell you about
it," and the little car shot away
from the curb.
There was only one clerk In
sight in the salesroom and he
was waiting on a soldier. I drif'ed
over that way. There was a tray
lull of assorted metal insignias
on the counter between them. In
his hand the aoldier held a little
pin formed in the shape of sabers
crossed below the number of the
regiment
"A pair of these." he was ssy
Ing. "I gave a couple to my girl.
You know what tuckers women
are for this stuff."
I laid a dollar bill and a quarter
on the counter and asked for a
carton of cigarettes. The clerk
turned, reached a practiced hand
to the thelf, and auddenly the
trayful of insignia was scattered
all over the floor. The toHier
knelt down with his back ti me
and began to collect them with
fumbling flngera; but it wai not
until I was nearly home that 1
realized why that had teemed a
fsmiliar sight
The soldier wss Immerman,
the waiter at the club. Immerman
was still on my mind at I combed
my hair up on top of my head
and put on a long-skirted or
gandie dress. Adam must have
come in late from duty, for he
had not stopped in for a cigarette
and a chat as he sometimes did.
I went into the lounge early.
noping tor a woru wnn nun aione,
but he and Gerald Beaufort were
together in the bar, waxing
friendly over cocktails. I declined
their imitation to Join them and
settled myself on the veranda
with a magazine, hoping Adam
would join nie presently. For
some reason which I could not
explain. I was reluciant to tell of
that incident at the Post Ex
chanje in frost of Gerald.
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