MEDFOP.D MAIL TRIBUNE,- UTEDFORn. OREGON. MONDAY.-JULY 1S.1940.--
Gasual (Slaughters
By VIRGINIA HANSON CT
TtSTIKDAT: Sandra comes
to Kay's room tor a ptintt
- Mlk with Jeff. Sht xoanu to mar
ry him immediately. Ctrald rup
gttts to Kay that a ieia cannot
lestty flffainat hot husband.
Chapter 18
Definitely Murder
SANDRA'S eyes were unnatu
rally bright and her eheeka
were crimson not. I thought,
with rouge. She wasn't Just my
idea of the radiant bride ahe
waa more feverish than radiant,
more excited than happy, more
determined than eager. But while
f never for a moment doubted
that ahe was getting what she
wanted ahe had the air of
achieving a long-felt purpose I
could not reconcile that air with
the swollen eyes and twisting
hands of the girl I had admitted
to my rooms only an hour before
girl who hsd lost iier lover
and waa wracked with grief. That
Sandra waa genuine.
Her tortured worda cam back
to me:
"Thev made fun of him. They're
glad. They thought he wasn't
good enough "
And now all that forgotten in
feverish triumph. Or was it for
gotten? Wasn't there a quality of
malevolence, of vindictiveneaa in
her excitement? Waa she, in some
way I could not imagine, plan
ning to avenge Ivan's death?
I am altogether too Imagina
tive, a fact which is always being
pointed out to me. I mentally
shook oft a chill of foreboding
which I knew was nothing but an
Irish ancestor hanging crepe; but
I could not shake a reasonable
question which kept asking itself
of me. Why was she marrying
Jeff?
"Sandra." I said, without pre
meditation If I had thought
twice I might have kept silent
f have you considered that people
will say you are marrying Jeff to
keep from testifying because you
think "
For some reason I was unable
to finish; and it was not neces
sary, I aaw. She understood what
I meant and it was not a new idea
to her.
"I've thought of that," she said
patiently, as one explaining to a
backward child. "But I'm doing
what I think best."
Her eyes met mine perfectly
steadily, but without candor. She
waa not rebuffing me; but on the
other hand she waa making me
no present of her thoughts.
I gave up. After all, it was no
business of mine.
. It was a Sunday I shall not for
fet. Sandra made no move to go.
She curled up in a chair and. like
a well-behaved guest, turned the
pages of magazines. The sound,
repeated too often to permit her
to do any reading, ao annoyed me
that all I could do waa sit and
glower at my typewriter and de
cide that I'd better be going back
to Chicaio where the roar of the
el seemed to hsve no tendency to
aerau my train or thought, and
wnere I could get som,. work
done before I hsd to break out
my safety fund and start spend
ing it tiere I waa again, mixed
up in murder
I quit listening to the annoying
rasp of the turning leaves and
wondered why I thought it was
murder. I remembered that Ger
ald had so referred to it and that
I had not challenged his assumr.
tion. I wondered now if he knew
or waa only guessing. And if he
knew, how?
After the discovery of the body
the nisht before. Adam had sent
Gerald to take us home from the
barge for the last time and to
bring back help. Adam had staved
there, keeping a lonely vigil, and
I had not seen him since. What
discoveries hsd they made down
tn that horrid black hole what
clues to murder and to a mur
derer? Very Painful'
FELICIA ranned twin anrf
r opened the door. She was
j i . . , ,
nresara, nsuea ana giovea, and
looked moderately devout.
"Going to church," she an
nounced aelf-righteously.
"Where, in town?" I asked, and
he said no, the chapel.
"Services announced for today.
nsni to comer
fore
Sandra said "Yea." eaeerlv. he.
I had time to reply. "'If kath.
erine will lend me a hat an4
gloves?"
I said that I would lend them
gladly, and I meant it, I was in
one of those moods when I felt
there was a conspiracy to keep
pie from doing any work and that
if It persisted I might as well cut
my throat before I starved to
death. A mood common, I dare
say. to most writers.
While I sought out the required
articlea Felicia was expressing
her sympathy to Sandra. It w-j a
rotten way, she said, to lose an
old friend.
"Yes." said Ssndra. "Very pain
ful." She said it quite steadily, and I
began to wonder If I had imag
ined the grief-tortured face ahe
hsd brought to my door.
Thankfully I watched then, de
part now i couia worn. But first
l ought to see Julia. After all. It
waa Sunday, a day of rest And I
really ought to see Julia.
Because it was Sundsv I had
dressed with care; I would not
need to change. I fixed my hair
and my face briefly, feeling
sudden urgency, and set out along
Officers' Row at a brisk walk.
There were two cars in front of
the colonel's quarters. One of
them waa Adam's, and at sight of
it I hesitated, wonde. Ing if he
would think I was forcing my wsy
into matters that did not concern
me. But the other csr a police
car from the neighboring town
decided me. I had to see Julia,
Sulky black Cora answered the
doorbell and grudgingly admitted
me. She would aee if Miss Julia
was home. She went upstairs
muttering about morning callers
and Sunday dinners. I waited In
the hall, hearing men'a voices in
distinctly beyond a closed door
and trying, with a horrible sense
of guilt, not to know that some
thing was scorching in the
kitchen.
Cora must have gone down the
back stairs hurriedly, no doubt
for I did not see her again. In
stead. Julia came to the landing
in a tailored satin robe the shade
of a red peony and beckoned me
with gestures warning ailence.
"We'll go to my room," she
whispered as I reached her, and
led me, feathered mulea hurrying
along the oriental runner, to a
room at the end of the hall a
neat room of Quaker aimplicity,
furnished in early American ma
ple, with two brown hooked ruga
on the floor, a white candlewick
spread on the poster bed, tailored
yellow curtains ct the windows
snd two framed photographs on
the plain, cream-colored walls.
The pictured women must have
been Julia's mother a woman in
wartime fashions a woman of
that same strsnge, salty ugliness
but with a light of great happi
ness in her eyes such as I had not
aeen in Julia's.
The other picture wsa of Jeff,
In cadet uniform. And his eyes,
too, surprised me. Though it must
have been taken no more than
two or three yeara before, he
looked much younger, anuch more
trusting. I thought of a dog who
hsd lost a good home and found
that the world is not all cracked
marrow bones and an easy chair
by the fire.
Driftwood
JULIA said, In a voice pitched
very low, "You haven't told
anyone what we saw on the
barge?"
"Of course not. That's what I
came to warn you about, . . . How
do they know it was murder?"
She motioned me to a low
slipper chair and, dropping down
on a rug at my feet, leaned back
against a pine chest.
"I listened at the landing be
fore they ahut the library door.
When they moved him the bodv
there was a stick of driftwood
under It. The .tick waa. still
pretty dry, especially the part
he was lying on And there was
blood and hair or. it from a
wound on the back of his head."
"So they think someone hit him
over the head and pushed him in?
I don't see why he couldn't have
fallen in and struck his hesd on
the stick it may have already
been in the water."
"No, because it wasn't wet
enough, or something. I don't
know just how thev know, but
thev do; it was murder, all right"
We stared at each other, and
I saw dread tn her eves.
"I wonder if Sandra knowa
that." I aaid. thinking out loud.
"How could she? She's still
asleep."
"You mean to say you haven't
missed her?"
Julia looked shocked, so I told
hi'r of Sandra's early call, of her
interview with Jeff, and of the
construction Gerald had put upon
Julls's face was flushed when I
finished.
"She can't do that to him." she
said angrily. "I ll tell her ahe
can't.
I felt bound to point out to her
something which hsd Just oc
curred to me belatedly.
"There'e a chance she may be
right Maybe she does know
something she'd rsther not be
forced to tell. About Jeff."
"That's the same as saving vou
think he murdered that that
screwball." Julia retorted with
heat. "It's what everyone will
think. I ll talk to her I'll show
her what ahe's doing to him." She
paused, looked suddenly tired. "I
suppose they'll both think I'm
Jealous," she added bitterly.
"Where Is Sandra?" .
In church. I told her. She stood
up and dropped the cerise robe
at her feet and stood, hieh
breasted and proud In a belted
white georgette gown. For a
moment she might have posed for
a Red Cross poster, or something
equally noble and self-sacriflping.
Then a wry grin tw jtted her face.
"All-right" she ssid. "I am
Jealous. So what? Let them think
what they please. People aren't
going to have a chance to sav
things like that about Jeff If I
can help it."
She swirled the rntra nv.r
head and drnnned It in (H.
with an expression of defiant du-
dain.
I watched her Hreti mnA aM
her that it wasn't any use, that I
had tried, that no appeal on he
half of Jeff Would mnva Qnr-
because it was lysn she hsd loved:
out juna dismissed that with a
little frown.
Te be tanUnerd
DEWEY SUPPORTER
TO AID 1 WILLKIE
Colorado Springs, Colo.. July
15. Mrs. Ruth Manna Mc
Cormick Simms. one of the chief
backers of Thomas E. Dewey
for the Republican presidential
nomination, aaid today she
would work actively for the
election of Wendell L. Wlllkie.
"Those members of Mr. Dew
ey's campaign with whom I
have been in touch are 100 per
cent for Mr. Willkle." Mrs.
Simme asserted.
"Mr. Dewey and Mrs. Simms
have been 100 percent magnifi
cent," Willkie interjected.
Mrs. Simms said ahe w,ml,l
be "Just as active as I can" in
making speeches and writing
letters In Willkie's behalf, "nut
after all." she remarked tn the
nominee. "I'm, old and I'll need
a little vacation."
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By Associated Press.
(Time la Pacific Standard.)
New York. July 13. The
keynote address at the Demo
cratic convention in Chicago, to
be delivered by Speaker Wil
liam B. Bankhead at 6:30 to
night, will be broadcast by
NBC, CBS and MBS.
Tomorrow, in addition to the
day session, expected to get
under way around 9 a. m, and
which will be carried by the
networks on a high-spot basis,
a special morning program has
been scheduled for MBS at 6:45
a. m., with talks by Sec. of
Labor Perkins and Rep. Mary
T. Norton.
Tonight: Europe Including
convention, CBS 4:55; WJZ
NBC 6; MBS 6; NBC 8.
Tuesday: Europe Including
convention, subject to chance
NBC 4 a. m.; CBS 4 a. m, 2:45
p. m.
WEAF-NBC 9:13 Mrs. Roose
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SUBURBAN HEIGHTS
By CLUYAS WILLIAMS
7-6
FRED PERLFV KNEvV HE WOULD NO LONGER RE AM SPEAkMMfi
terms with half the members of the bridge club whK
arriving home he found thev had waited for him fo
decide 1he correct pj.av of a hand which hfid
SPLIT THE CLUB WIDE OPEN 3um
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RAID BY PARSONS
NO! VERY COSILY
Kenosha. Wis.. Julv 15. JP
Two Kenosha ministers visited
five taverns and two fraternal
order clubhouses and played slot
machines Friday night.
Saturday they obtained seven
warrants chareinsr the owners
with operating gambling de
vices.
The evening cost them 36
cents. Slot machine dividends
paid for the rest.
WAITRESSES WORKING
TOO LONG IN CALIF.
San Francisco. July 15. (UJH-
George C. Kidwell, director
of the state department of in
dustrial relations, yesterday an
nounced a drive to enforce labor
laws in small restaurants and ho
tels, where, he said, women have
been found to work as long as
77 hours week for $7 a week.
The campaign for stricter en
forcement will be made by Mrs.
Margaret L. Clark, chief of ths)
division of industrial welfare.
Mrs. Clark said sworn payroll re
ports by employers had revealed
some employed girla for 56, 66
or 77 hours week t l day.
Langlie Will Run.
Seattle, July 13. (JP) Mayor
Arthur B. Langlie, who will b
40 years old this month, an
nounced Saturday h would
become candidate for the
Republican gubernatorial nom
ination. Closing tlma tot Too Lata e Claa
slfy Ada U I SO p m.
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GLASS METEORITES
Origin of strange, green-hued bits of glass picked up In Bohemia was a baffling mystery
until similar specimens were found in Australia, when they were believed from outer spae.
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