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MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MED FORD. OREGON, FRTDAY. JULY 12. 1940. Gasual Slaughters By VIRGINIA HANSON O YESTERDAY: Te Kay's dis may. Adam acts oueerly after kxstxng her. Then Julia and Kay eaten Sandra and lean in an em brace but prevent Jeff from tee ing. The party has soured for all f them. Chapter IS Death Warrant UVL DROVE to the dub. Jeff came in very aoon with an air or being quite alone, but with the chaplain at hi heel, curtly re futed an invitation to join us and went upstairs. Chaplain Henry lingered. oltenln hi own re fusal making manful attempts to prove himself a good fellow in spite of bis cloth, and Anally tak ing hi departure with ill-con' cealed relief. I think it was Gerald who fug- tested another swim. The lake breeze had died and the night turned sultry. Julia greeted the idea with enthusiasm but turned thumb down on the officers' - beach. The barge or else," she said darkly. The barge it Is," agree Gerald. Adam stood in the lounge look ing detached, aloof, and said that be believed he would turn in. "Keys are in the car." ha aaid. "You might put it in the garage wnen you get back- In vain Julia protested that the needed him for respectability, for a chaperon. Father wa tired of tending the children and waa not backward about showing it A compromise was finally reached by which I waa to act as chaperon, and the three of u set on once more in Adam' car, with Gerald driving. "Should we stop by your house for Sandra and Ivan? he asked Innocently. "In pig' eve," laid Julia ele gantly. That dizzy pair!" She fell silent, evidently brood ing. The moon wa low behind a bank of clouds that promised rain before morning. "Drive up the beach a way," Julia (Uggested. "I don't like that barge in the dark. It' sort of ghostly." Gerald agreeably parked a hun. dred yard up the road from the barge, but we could still see it a dark bulk against the sand, aecret and forbidding. I waited until they were In the water, before swimming out to them. The beach, as far as I could aee in either direction, wa com pletely deserted. It wa fun. Julia and Gerald played like seals, diving, rising, slapping the water with hand like flipper. We were resting on the and, veiled by the half-darknesa, when we heard a car and taw lights ap proaching from the direction of the post It stopped on the far aide of the barge and a car door slammed. "Into the water," aaid Julia, "until we aee who it Is!" It was poor advice, but we fol lowed it We kept close together ' In the water, watching for an ap- roaching shape along the sand, ut there waa none. "Someone on the barge," Julia said presently, and we all saw something move slowly against the gray aky. Whether man or Woman, the silhouette was too vague to betray. Not that we thought of that then. I think we all believed it to be a man be cause of the loneliness, even the ghostllness of the scene. And af terward, when we had discussed It until we were no longer sure of anything, we realized that there might have been more than one person, though there had been only one car door slam and no found of voice. Whoever the person or per son, w hatever the errand, it wa soon done. Perhaps ten minute after the arrival of the car, we heard the door slammed shut and the prolonged, patient wlfine of the starter. Where's Ivan?" I THINK we were all afraid that whoever it wa would not get away, when finally the motor coughed, started and turned, la boring in the sand. "Forgot to turn on his Ignition," guessed Gerald, but later Julia confided to me that it waa Muni's ear. "It's hard to start you always have to choke it" "But what in the world would the he doing out here?" I asked. "Where does she go on these long evening drives of hers?" Julia countered. Although she was to deny It that conversation took place. It wa not the sort of thing 1 would be likely to imagine. On the w ay back in the car she announced, rather plaintively, that she had vacated her room for Ivan, and would have to bunk with Sandra. There are only four bedrooms 'n that big house, and Mimi and Dan each have one. Dan snores, or something." I asked her to stay with me. of course, and she sccepted with alacrity. "Do you want to stop and get anything?" Gerald asked, slowing the car as we neared their quar ters. "I have an extra tooth brush." "ni Til lend you a nightie." "Swell Let not stop, then, til call up from the club. Adam was pacing the lighted club veranda. He saw us and hur ried down the walk before Ger ald could put the rar away. "Where's Ivan?" he asked, peer ing into the rar a if he expected to find him there. "At home in bed. I trust," Julia told him. "Whv this sudden de sire for hit company?" Britain Postpones Removing Children lxndon, July 12. iJ The British governmeni w at reported lonigni to nave postponed Its srneme lor moving British chil- aren to the dominions. "He's not it home. Sandra oiled up about ten minute ago -aha thought ha waa over here. "Kay, it must be you I'm aura I'm not feminine enough to make him run out on Sandra. How did he get away (rom her? Climb out a window? "He didn't get away from her. He didn't come home with her. It aeema to be one of thoae fool mis understandings. We thought he waa with them, they thought he was with us." "Oh, goody!" aaid Julia. "He got left!" "Then where la he?" demanded Gerald practically. "He wasn't on the beach just now or he would have aeen our car light and joined u." "That waa a break," commented Julia. "He must have tried to walk home." Adam sounded worried. "I suppose be'a lost out there somewhere." Julia burst Into song. Through (ha dark of nfoht I go! to 00 where you are; If it's wrong or right, I got to go where you are. Ain't no chain can bind you, if you live I'll find you . . . "Shut up," aaid Gerald kindly, "and climb in the rumble aeat What you need is a little ride in the night air to cool your beauti ful head." Adam said, The girl better go In and go to bed. Thi may take some time. Probably have to turn out a detail of men." "Bed?" asked Julia Indignantly. "With the night but a pup? Don'l be an old granny." Supine Form I WAS getting to know every rut in that road. We did not stop at the barge this time, but drove on for a mile or two through territory I had never ex plored, stopping from time to time to honk the horn and listen for an answering calL "In case he lot turned around and started walking the wrong way, warn remarked. But except for the purring ol the motor and the chirring ol cicadaa in the thick undergrowth beside the road, there waa no sound. Perhapa we'd better go back to the barge," Gerald auggestrd "Maybe he had a date there." 1 said, fired with the idea. "Thai would explain why he kept emiet and stayed away from us." And then I remembered about Mimi'j car and could have bitten mj tongue out. "By Jove the person who cam to the barge!" agreed Gerald en thusiastically, and told Adan about it But whoever It waa, he didn't stay long," I added, stressing thi pronoun. Julia waa not sayini anything. "Maybe they went away to gether," Adam suggested. "I don't think so, ' aaid Gerald Neither did 1, but we could givi no reason except the obvioua oni that there were no voices. And so we went back, after all to the bargee, Adam lighting out way with his flashlight and. sinels file, climbed the crude ladder and walked the narrow deck. And in the black, deep hold the light ol the flash found, not the mirrored moon, but the supine form of the one who had been Ivan, with a acum of black water across hii face. According to the fiction 1 read. the French have an infallible method of solving a crime. They follow the essential clue. It sound! very simple. The only part I can't understand is how they can dis tinguish, in the confusion of clues that attend murder, the essential from the nonessential. Once that important distinction is made, il seems to me that the puzzle is ai good as solved. For instance. It la easy to look bark now and aee that Sandra and Ivan between them practical ly signed his death warrant that night. But how could anyone nol gifted with second eight have de duced that from the event which took place? Even Sandra, at thai time, must have had no suspicion that she was playing with dyna mite. It is less easy to see why she was not warned by Ivan I death. But there waa her obses sion and her essential stupidity. btupidity may be too strong a word. She waa clever about get ting what she wanted, about win nmg people. Aa she seemed tc have won Colonel Pennant and Minn; as she must have won JctT'i mother and father. Julia had told me with acme bitterness, only a few days before, that Colonel Tack had made Sandra benefi ciary of his trn-thousand-dollat life insurance policy. "That'a about all most army of ficers leave," she explained. "Hi owned besides a house in Mem. phis, heavily mortgaged, and tin farm in the Oznrks. He left those to JefY. who can't find anyone who wants to buy either one. And Sandra didn't need the money she had ten thousand from her own father that she got control ol when sh was eighteen. Oh. I know she Couldn't live in luxury on the income of ten thousand, but it would have kept her until she got a job or a husband." "Good husbands come hig!i," 1 told her. "Twenty gets you belter than ten." I w as sorry the Instant I said It, but I needn t have been, for Shi seemed a little comforted. "I'd rather think he's marrying her fr her money," she confessed, "than because he's In love with her. Only I know it isn't the money. Jeff isn't that sort." 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