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."
I remembered that conversa
tion later, when the question of
inheritance assumed grave im
portance. Te eentlneee
D.l.nt. Lacking
y,,,
Washington, July II. tl'i
irre member nf lh hnui
military committee, after sur
I veymg northeast coast drfeiiws
i recommended today that the
United Statei acquire and for
) tify fleet and air haset In Nova
Argentina Moves
To Keep Jews Out
Buenos Aires, July 12. (P)
The government ordered 100
members of the Argentine na
tional gendarmerie to the Bo
livian border today to bar Illegal
entry of German Jewish refugees
who found a haven in Bolivia
when they were barred from
other South American countries.
The order followed receipt of
Information from the governor
of Salta province that a large
number of Jewt, many of whom
were placed in farm colonies by
the Bolivian government, were
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Robert Service
Reaches London
London, July 12. IIP) Rob
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famed for his narrations on life
in the Yukon, fleeing for the
second time from German in
vader, has arrived in London
with his wife and daughter.
Service, who fled from Poland
last fall, caught a boat at St.
Malo shortly before German
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Rainier, Ore., July 12. MV
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