PAGE 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""
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"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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