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Newspaper Page TextPAGE ETGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 16. 1940. Gasual Slaughters "By VIRGINIA HANSON GT sTliRDAYi Kay tells Julia , Sandra's intention to marry Jeff immediately. Julia it furious ' at Sandra't intimation that Jeff it connected with the murder. Chapter 19 Routine Questions "TOU Just don't understand San . 1 dra." Julia aaid patiently, running a comb through her long bleached bob. "She likei men different men, lota of them. Last night it happened to be Ivan. To morrow it might be the chaplain or Gerald or or Dad. But Jeff's tht one she wants to marry, for the perfectly simple reason that he's the one she's in love with. There couldn't be any other rea son he hasn't a dime." "Maybe she is doing it to spite you." "She doesn't hate me that well." We went down the back stairs, past the sound of Cora muttering In the kitchen and out the service entrance. "We'll take the coupe; Mimi won't want it," Julia said, cross ing the graveled back road to the douoie garage. in time iur chapel to let out. We'll have to Hurry. But the chapel was closed and showed no sign of tver having been open. And when we went on to the club the first person we saw was Felicia Bridewell seated on the veranda surrounded by the Sunday paper, calmly darning. "My babies are all getting so bigl" she simpered, holding up a man a sock. "I thought you were at church," I said, failing for once to appre lat mv favorite brand of humor. "No church. The chaplain fell afoul of more poison ivy last night That poor man." She sighed piously. "I believe he sat in it wis time. Dnr continued sobriety drew from her a shrewd glance which passed from one to the other of us. She became pleasantly matter of fact. "So we came home again. Or at least I did. But if you're looking for Sandra I can only say that she s some distance irom here oy now." "With Jeff?" demanded Julia with remarkable self-control. - "With Jeff. He met us on the way home. He was driving and he had a marriage license. When he learned the chaplain was non compos mentis, or vice versa, as you might say. they set out for parts unknown. They asked me to go along, but I have Sunday dinner to supervise. Then they came here and looked for you. Kav, and when you were not to be found they up and decided that maybe two was all it took to get married, so of! they went I did not wait for her to finish her cheerful rattling. Julia was as white as her hat. I took her firmly by the elbow and propelled her to my rooms. The Trap J DON'T know where our minds were that we didn't see the trap that was waiting for us, didn't make our plaru and decide on our stories. We were agreed to keep silence on one thing only our glimpse of Sandra in Ivan's arms. That agreement seemed simple enough to carry out until Colonel Pennant, smiling at me across the big mahogany desk in the library of his quarters, asked me kindly and with an obvious air of putting only a routine question, when I had last seen Ivan alive. Consider that question for a moment and you will understand the predicament I was in. To ad mit having seen him on the bsrge, where he waa liter found dead, would be to point to the very thing Julia most wanted concealed. The ensuing questions would be Inev itable: Was he alone? No. Sandra waa with him. Did you see anyone else on or near the 'jarge at that time? Ves Jeff. Raised eyebrows. I hesitated. Julia was sitting to one side end a little behind me. I dared not look around at her before I answered, but I could feel her tension, the ailent plea he was sending me. I turned to Adam, seated at one end of the big desk with a notebook and pencil; and, with such candor as I could summon, give my answer in the form of an oblique question. "When we walked off down the beach they were all together sing ing, weren't they?" That's the wav 1 remember It," Adam admitted, but he looked at m for a fraction of a second longer than was necessary, and I could not gurts what he was thinking. He might have been re membering that moment on the beach: or he miaht have been recisterins mv evasion. If they had pressed me further bout Ivan I think I would have BI1 11 CLOSE BURMA ROAD IF JAPS Ml SEEK WAR END London, July IS. (Ti Auth oritative Brl'is.-i clrc'es said that Britain had told Jap-ir ht would close the only route by which war supplies, mainly American, roach the Chinese central government for three months if Japan would u;e that time to seek a peace. These circles said the United States government had been kept Informed of the offer to close the supply n,ute the Burma roa.l and thus f; had made no objections Washingtsn, however has sent "detail' d comment' on the British-Japai eso negotiations it was said. These amnorilatlve circles 114 that, although, torn critics told them the rest of what I knew. Perhaps I would have told it any way if I had been able to realize that the lean, friendly man in uniform with the ailver eagles on his shoulders, the man who had danced with me, played bridge with me and told me funny stories about the service and about West Point reiiresented an authority that went beyond the county. even the atate. An authority com nlete within the boundaries of his garrison and answerable only to 1 a couple of superior officers and ' to the President of the United I States. I knew that In a general way. I through my unforgettable experi ence of murder at Fort Havens. But it waa difficult to feel the wholesome awe that the normal civilian has for the customary forcea of law and order. Besides, he waa Julia's father, and Julia was prepared to pull the wool over his eyes in an effort to pro tect Jeff. She knew the service better than I did. and my eym Dathies were all with her. If pos sible. I wsnted to leave this for her to handle. Profound Amazement IT waa possible. Colonel Pen- - nsnt did not ask me main when I had last seen Ivan alive. He accspted my evasion as an an swer. And if my conscience troubled me a little I comforted myself with the unspoken grati tude in Julia's eyes. For her father turned to her at once. "What happened when the sing ing broke up?" Julia shrugged, avoided hit eyes. "Gerald and I decided to turn cartwheels. It seemed like a good idea at the time." She smiled faintly. "I didn't notice what the others did." "And when you came back, Katherine?" "They were still turning cart wheels. And Jeff was asleep on a blanket" I saw then that It would have to come out about Sandra and Ivan on the barge. But perhapa we could avoid the suggestion that Jeff had known anything about it "See anyone else" I remembered the chaplain plodding down the beach and I told them about that "hen Sandra and Ivan must have been together." he said. And as that seemed to require no an swer I was prudently silent An instant later "Where la Sandra?" "By now shes probably Mrs. Jefferson Tack," said Julia, in a voice ahe contrived to make casual except tor a break at the end. A break in her voice that waa the first break in her com posure since I had taken her t my rooms and made her He. white and tearless, on my couch while I looked at her helplessly and tried to think of something comfort ing to say. They had sent for us both then to come back to the colonel's quarters: and with relief and ad miration I had seen her Dull her self together and assume a fair imitation of indifference. But it could not last much longer. Her father was regarding her with profound amazement. What did you say? he de manded. I broke Into nervous speech. relating my story of Sandra's early call and her sudden deter mination to get married. The two men listened without comment but when I had finished Colonel Pennant's normally genial face expressed angry disapproval. "Why waan t 1 told of this7" he asked coldly. I answered, stammering a little. that I had considered it none of my business, which was true enough, but did not salve my sense of guilt for the other things I had not told him. I had never seen his official manner had not realized he could seem so for bidding. Julia came to my defense. "We tried to stop them, but thei hsd already gone, ahe aaid dully. parents can be surprisingly blind. He seemed unconscious of her personal trsgedy in bis own sudden wrsth. 1 11 have a word to sav to Lieutenant Tack about this, he announced grimly. But it wasn t his fault Julia protested. 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