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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWELVE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. FRIDAY. JULY 19. 1940. Gasual Slauakt By VIRGINIA HANSON HtSTLHOAY: US and San dra, now married, arrive at the Inn just at Julm and Kay ara leaDtn0. Julia aceuttM Sandra of playing a dirty trick on Jeff be cause people ara saying she married him to protect htm. Chapter 22 Ivan' Play I GOT up end straightened my hair and wandered around the room until 1 found cigaretui. Adam held a light for me in si lence. He had laid all he meant to ay for tht preienU "I'm not aura I know what be havior you're referring to," I told him at last. "Let's put It this way. then. If I did or Mid anything lait night that offended you I nop you'll forgive me." "You're forgiven," I said. He grinned. "I'll be discreet nd not ask what for. May I fit down?" "If vou like." He accepted the grudging Invl tation ana changed the subject "What's your idea about this murder?" "I haven't any. What Is thert to go on?" "Nothing, that I can see." "Have you questioned Sandra tnd Jeff?" "Not yet They camt back to the colonel's quarters a while ago to get her things they've taken a suite of guest room down the corridor here. The Pennants tried to get them to stay there, but they wouldn't And well, there was so much talk and fuss that I cleared out "How Is it going to be if on of them did it?" I asked bluntly. "You mean Sandra or Jeff?" "Or the Pennants. The reigning family." "It's going to be tough? He got up and prowled unhappily about the room. "I've been appointed to head the board of inquiry on this and those stolen cars. I'd like to ask for a change of station." "But you wouldn't et it You've only been here a couple of months. "No." He sighed. "It wouldn't be soon enough, anyway. And it couldn't be one of them. Ivan wouldn't have been worth it" Wandra thought he was." "Worth murdering?" "That isn't what I mean, of course. Worth worth revenging, at least" Adam blew a cloud of smoka and looked at ma through it "Ara you sure you Ljiow what you do mean?" "I suppose I shouldn't have brought the subject up in the first place. Adam has u discon certing habit, one I know well, of making you be explicit I as sembled my thoughts hurriedly. trying to sort the things I could tell from the ones I had obligated myseu to oe silent sDout "Its an impressitm I got this morning," I said finally. "This humed-up marriage, foront thing. I don't care what Colonel Pennant says, she was the one who pro moted it I heard her. She practi cally hypnotized Jeff into going for the license. And I had a strong feeling that she was doing it o fet even with with someone, lavbe all of them." "Then you don't think It was meant to protect Jeff?" "Maybe it was meant to look as if she were protecting Jeff." "For what purpose?" "Your guess is as good as mine. The Pennants are preity fond of him, aren't they? She could hit at any or all of them through him." Agent of Vengeance' HE was silent for a while, think ing that over. He slretched his long legs out snd crossed them, but the rest of his body did not slouch Adam gives me the impression that his mind and his body are always under perfect control, leady to act with speed and precision at an in stant's notice. "That Hi ikes me as a woman's line of reasoning," he said finally in a rather pedantic manner. "Which doesn't necessarily mean it's faulty. Set a woman to catch a woman. Perhaps. But I'd like something a little more substan tial to go on. A little more logical. Why, for instance, is she a seli appointed agent of vengeance?" "I think she was in love with him." "Then why marry Jeff? In the Brst place. I mean. Brfore the mat ter of revenge conies into the nc ture? Money?" "No. Jeff hasn't anvtliirg." I re peated wnat Julis had told me of Colonel Tack's will. "I don't kno v wny. Spite, possibly But that's even thinner reasoning A woman might marry f.ia spite if she were not in love w lib anvnne else at the time. Hardly otherwise." "Perhaps Ivan h.d other Ideas nd she was trying to bring him around, make him jealous. You haven't said he was in love with her" I was silent This was skirting too close to the scene on the barge last night. I wanted to tell Adam about that; I was used to confiding in him. But I didn't dare. I had to rememb.-r his of ficial position in the case, that nothing 1 told him in the wav of actual evidence could be consid ered rpnlirlrntial. "Who was Ivan, anyway?" I asxed. hoping to lead hin awav from dangerous grou id "What do you know about him"" On the Radio Chains a I tlliisa Thera to rind Ihin on the Dial: kt.V I P.O. IMrllatid: ktl ilo tjua Article; K41V t:u Spokane Mil). :ai. San t miKlMu, ht,tt r.'O. Portland fcJH. V7i. "rattle dSV loan. I AnirlMi hM M Oener; H.UIV S4v I'nrtland fcMMll 9M IMlitle; KPII. dsn. San tnn,l..: fcl mo ' lak- Irldar. a 00 Dant's Mutlc. KOO KJR. KEX; Walts Tlm KPO. KCJW; Ore alliens Orrh.. KNX 8:30 Kufrn's On h KOO KJK. What's My Name?. KPO. KuW, Dra ma, KX, KXL, KOW. :ers "Not much, yet. 1 haven't had a chance to question Sandra. Ail she told the Pennants was that she met him in dramatic school. We've been through his luggage, of course. It didn't take long one suitcase, and it was not full. Maybe he left a trunk in Chicago. I'd hate to think what we saw was all he hsd in tha world. Two clean shirts and tha one he ar rived in. A pair of pajamas. Shaving kit A change of socks snd underwear. His only suit was hanging in the closet Colonel Pennant loaned him the bathing trunks he was wearing when he was killed." ' "Wss thera anything in tha pockets of the suit?" "Soma small change and less than five dollars in bills. No watch. An address book full of names some of them sounded fa miliar to me, but I brought it along for you to look at Brought something else, too, that we found in the suitcase. It may in terest you. Anyway, it's mora in your line than mine." He picked up the folder from the table where he had placed it opened it and took out a small piper-bound address book which he handed to ma without com ment I opened It and began to read tha scrawled names snd ad dresses. I could feel Adam watch ing me. "Here's one that I .now," I said presently. "It's a firm of literary agents in New York. Here's an other two more. And who's this man Fremont? The name's fa miliar. Isn't he a producer? The next one is, snywsy. Everyone knows him. And Jane Urshell. the actress how do you suppose he got her address?" 'Reunion In Moscow I TURNED the pages, noted that 1 tha list was long, that it changed abruptly from New York to Hollywood. Studios, names of famous and not so fa mous directors, firms that were probably theatrical agencies. "Looks as if Ivan had been can vassing the field pretty thorough ly. Looking for work. I suppose." "Possibly. But that isn't sll. There's this thing here." He took it out of the folder and looked at it rather helplessly, then gave it to me. A manuscript dog-eared and grimy, bound be tween heavy cardboard covers which had been ornamented in heavy, scrolled k-tterinK. "Reunion in Moscow," F read. "Cribbed title. Bi; Iron. That wasn't so dumb. Better than an unpronounceable last name. But a little precious. Like the letter ing. Like Ivan himself." I opened the stiff cover, glanced at the worn, typed pages. "A plav, by all that's wonderful! He certainly be lieved in starting at the top. Have you read it?" "More or less." Adam admitted, looking down his nose. "It's well, I'm no judge of these things, and I don't want to in fluence you. I want your un biased opinion." "My opinion Is worthless. I don't know anything about the theater, and from alt I've heard few people do. Nobodv knows what will make a successful play. But I do know that for an ama teur to try to write and market one without help from the inside is ss hopeless as building a snow man in hades. Making bricks without straw is a picnic in com parison." He seems to rave found that out. Apparently he's even tried Hollywood." That s worse. The onlv hone of selling anything to Hollvwood is by getting it published first and well published. Even then it's only a chance. As for unsolicited manuscripts I thought everyone knew by now that they don't read them." I spoke from experience. My own, and that of others I knew. The dream of every writer is a movie sale: so far that bene ficent lightning had failed to strike In my vicinity. "No, poor Ivan. He would have been better off to take the money he wasted on postage and plav the horses. That way he would have stood some chance of win ning." I paused at the sound of foot steps spproarhing along the un carpeled corridor. We looked to ward the door which Adam had left standing open, in deference to the proprieties. The footsteps stopped, and San dra appeared in the doorway. "Oh! I beg your pardon, she said. "I didn't mean to inter rupt " No interruption." I ald stiffly. I hate people who are alwavs apologizing, making something out of nothing. "Won't you come in7 She started to make excuses but Adam sprang up and greeted her as if she were the one per son in the world he wanted to see as indeed she probably was. But there was no professional gleam in his eye to betrav that his interest in her was other than social. I can lmnaine Adam trsna. lated, like the Yankee at Kine Arthur's Court, bodily to the court at Versailles; but unlike tie Yankee, Adam would fit. He might have to take a few lessons in the prevailing fashion In bows, and the lace kcrc'ilef might em barrass him at first but those would be details. 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