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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWELVE Gasual Slauokt By VIRGINIA HANSON tlSTkKDAt: A wrd-Mcd run approaches Gerald at F iUJ stone Inn and caitt him -Frtn ey." Grratd professes not to knots htm but Kay 1 suspicious. After dinner they inquire about the chaplain' unknown passeis r. Chapter 28 Visit To The Hospital pHE mistress of tha establish ment shook her head In dls eouraginc way. "W have ao many people here every night, I doubt if I can tell you a thine. What night did you aay he wai here?" Tuesday night of last week," Gerald said hopefully. She looked relieved. "Oh, I couldn't tell you a thing about It, then. I'm never here Tuesdays I broadcast two nlghu a week from Chicago station" "No fooling!" ejaculated Ger ald, looking at her with great re spect "Sing, dance, play the fid dle, turn handsprings?" I'm a torch sinner," the aaid calmly, and told him the station and the hour. I saw Gerald's eye wander over her motherly figure aa he made ner little Dow. "Madam," he aaid respectfully, 1 shall make it a point to listen In. I'm sure that knowing you will make it particularly interesting Now about this Tuesday night business who looks after things In your absence?" "My husband, but he's away for the week, so the headwaiter will have to take charge tomorrow night." "But your husband was here last Tuesday?" "Yea." "And he might remember Chaplain Henry leaving, and any atrange person loitering about? It's possible, you know, that the fellow rraks a habit of spotting at car paiked at e roadhouse, or of waiting until some solitary diner drives off, thumbing a ride and making off with the car." "Oh no. I'm sure it's never hap pened before. I should have heard bout it" "Nevertheless, I'd like to ques tion your husband when he re turns." That will not be before Satur day or Sunday, I'm afraid." "We'll come back. And now. If I could speak to your headwaiter for a moment" The headwaiter, with the bland face and obsequious manner of his kind, listened attentively; but he was no more help than the woman had been. He recalled nothing in particular about Tues day night the usual number of diners, all stringers. They were not near any village, there was a large percentage of transients among their patrons. No. he did not specially recall anyone of that description there were oiten two or three solitary diners on any night He would not be likely to remember one more than another. And he had not been out of the building all eve ning, so he couldn't have seen a auspicious loiterer if there had been one. "So that'a that" said Gerald de jectedly, as he slid under the wheel of Adam's car. "I'm afraid we're washouts, girls. Innocents, babes In the woods" "Three little maids from school are we," caroled Julia as the car swerved between the stone pillars and turned toward home. Gerald'a voice rose sweetly to join hers, his stranger's tongue shaping the syllables Into the sharp bright crystals they were meant to be. Pert at a arhool-eirl well ran b Pilled to the brim with pirtith ale Thrse little maids from school t listened tor a moment, then, with the irresistible enthusiasm of another Gilbert and Sullivan addict added my shaky soprano. We went on to Tit Willow,1 "The Ruler of the Queen's Nay-vee." the one about the unclea and the cousins and the aunts, and a half dozen others I have forgotten. De liberately I closed my mind to my loneliness for Adam, to the mem ory ot Sandra and Ivan and to my unwelcome suspicions of Ger ald. Music lay behind us like smoke on the hot, still air as the car drifted lazily toward home. The Same Technique THE next afternoon I drove Sandra to the hospital to see Chaplain Henry. I had spent the morning dictating to her, just to see u 1 could, with somewhat cockrvrd results. It is one thing to put words or molten passion privately on paper it's auite an other to recite them aloud to a calmly attentive listener with businesslike pencil poised over a stenographer's notebook. I kept internioting myself to open the corridor uoor and peer up and down to assure myself that there ere no listeners: and when San dra singsonged my own words DscK to me trom her notes I re ¬ lapsed on the couch in hysterical laujthtcr. Not so Sandra. She assured me earnestly that it read verv well. that I had a miraculous gift for expression, that she envied me my talent She waa using the same tech nique now on the litt'e chaplain She had been so sorry to miss his service on St.idiy; she remem bered so well his silver-tongued oratory, his rhounhtful lessons and she wai doubly sorrv not to have had him perform the wed din ceremony. "We came looking for you, you IF Gold Beach. Ore , July 28. Mnl An interruption In the faithful, hourly radio reports to :ers V 0- know, only to learn that you were in the hospital again." The chaplain groaned. "I should never have gone on that beach party neverl Not but that ; waa most kind of everyone to insist you in particular, San dra, my dear. And I found it most enjoyable, moat enjoyable indeed. Aside, of course, from the tragic sequel not my own indis position; naturally that la not what I have reference to. That is a slight . thing, painful, but slight " He shifted a little in bed he was lying on his side and an expression of utmost concern warped hie discolored counte nance into a ferocity unbecoming to a saintly man: but he ironed it out wit!, an apparent effort and resumed his involved discourse. "No, what I refer to, ot course. Is the sad accident to that young man I say sequel, because I un derstand the tragedy occurred after we had left the beach. I should feel deeply concerned more deeply concerned. I should say. If I felt that he had been lying there, perhaps trying to summon help, and we but a stone's throw from him. nevei dreaming" He paused to draw breath -and Sandra took advantage of the pause. "He did not try to summon help." she said calmly. They say he died instantly. And It was no' an accident Chaplain Henry. I' was murder." The chaplain looked pained. "I know the papera said that but 1 feel sure there haa been some mistake" I told him. then, of the silent evidence of the piece of drift wood, and watched his preposter ously mottled face pale in patch es. Little beads of jnoisture ap peared on his brow. "But that'a dreadful! Who would want to kill that nice young man? Why, we had only Just met him all but you. my dear Sandra, and ot course no one " Saccharine Leer HE HAD a trick of falling silent in the middle of a sentence, as If his thoughts had become too involved for words. I thought that perhaps he was accustomed to let his eyes speak for him. but in his C resent situation those puffed and larkened orba were restricted in expression to a sort of saccharine leer. Sandra looked at him, then averted her eyes as if she, too. found the spectacle slightly shocking. "Jetr knew him, she said thoughtfully. "And I believe Julia and Mimi met him once at my apartment in New York." "But my dear girl! That ol course, meana nothing. Murder is. one might say. an intimate thing It grows slowly, on long acquaint ance. Can one imagine murdering a comparative stranger?" It was a brilliant speech for the Uttle man. I looked at him with new respect He must occasionally have thoughts, and And words to to express them. That comes back to the matter of the motive again, doesn't it?" I asked. "You're speaking of a murder of passion. Perhaps this was done in cold blood. To gain a point Money, security" Or tinner orders, said Sandra grimly. "Even here there may be spies." She sounded quite Iooov. If vou know what 1 mean; apparently the chaplain thought so too for he looked over his shouldei nervously, and again the mottled purple patches of his complexion stood out against sudden sur rounding pallor. You and Adam have been reading Oppenheim." I laughed But I remembered, suddenly, a pair of sharp gray eyes glancing too quickly at me from long. low. ered lashes. Fringy, that man had called him. "It was Adam's Idea," Sandra protested defensively. "I never would have thought of such a thing. All I told hrm was that 1 couldn't imagine why Ivan was murdered, or by whom. You know that, Kay." "Yes, I know. And he was talk ing through his hat Lurid imagi nation." That of course, was slanderous. Adam Is a practical person. He had simply talked to her in her own language, hoping to surprise her into saying more than she in tended. But I could not tell them that And for some reason not entirely clear to me. I did not want them to begin thinking about Gerald Beaufort and decid ing he was a spy. The chaplain appeared more elieerful. "Yes. my dear girl I agree with Mist Cornish that the ioea la rather what was the word? Lurid verv well chosen. But vou deal in words, is it n.it to? They tell me you're a writer" He quirzed me for a few min utes, in a nice way. and I thought he was trying to forget or make me forget tiie embarrassing cir cumstances of our first meeting. 1 mei him halfwav. describing the type of thing 1 write and. because it as fresh in my mind, my ex- fierience in dictating that morn ng. He delivered a weighty ob servation to the effect that it had often been his experience that the spoken word differed from the written word Sandra contributed that the lines of a play which r-ad poorly often sound much better spoken; and so on. from filays to pulp stories to sermons n a conversation that finally died of its own weight. Te be ranUnass forest fire patrol headquarters probably saved the life of Pa trolman Lloyd llukok at John son Butte. He compomed of severe pains and failed to call in on his next schedule. Investigators found him ill at his station and brought lilm here for an rnier- jenry appendicitis opciation. On the Radio Chains stsiions There te find This eo the Plat: KLX. II6U. Portland; kit. a4. uM anirlas; kO. 141 apoaanr k. Jan. Saa traixiiru; hl.rV 150. rortlaad JH. :o. SrattW: kX. WSO. lot Antrim KIM, M (tenter; kOIN. Mil. Pert land HOMO fit Brattle; KPO, 6S0. HI rranrlarn: Kl.. 1130. "alt lake. rnday. t:0O Dsnte'i Music. KOO. KEX: Walts Time, KPO. KOW; Brazilian's Onh, KSX. 6 SO Kaeen'a Orch, KOO. KEX: What My Name. KPO, KOW: Orand Central station, KNX, KSL. KOIN. a :00 Public Altai. KNX, KSL. KOIN; VarlHy Hrtow. KPO, KOW; Nrws. SUA, KEX; Filbert FUhar monlc, KOO. 6:30 Al Pearee. KNX. KSU KOIN: Quls Kids KPO. KOW; Calvert Orch.. KOO, KPT. 7 00 Fred Waring. KPO. Kn. KOW; Amos and Andy, KNX. KSL. KOIN: Meeaner't Orch.. KOO. KEX. KJR. 7: JO Johnny Presents, KNX. KSL. KOIN; Dance Orch.. KOO. KOA. KEX, KJR; Show Boat. KPO, KF1. KOW. 8:00 Treasure Island Varieties. KPO; 8 porta. KOO: Otrber's Orch.. KSL: John Clark, KNX. 8:15 Baseball. KOO, KOA. B:SO Death Valley Days. KPO. Kn. KOW; La Baron's Orch., KOIN. KHL. :0O Big Town. KPO; Dorsey's Orch.. Kn. KOW; Paul Sullivan. KNX, KSL. KOIN. 8:30 Klnga Orch.. KOIN: Wood- LAWN MOWER VlUW 1b WiffS rTRSvMutf Sll66E5TiON$ AMD.Si&Hira, SfAR5 0 MOW LAWN 5Pf MD3 HALf AN HOUR L0OklN6 FOR If, TlNW rf, 60ES0UT AND "THEN BKK IH FOR A GLASS OF WATER luiuiAr74 TAILSPIN TOMMY Suspicious Passengers! COMMANDER. TOMKIMS, MERI STUWA.Is.0 ?? ?. . I HERE'S YOUR MANIMST. AND . I I OH. VeS?..COUNT6S fcNOUOH V...IP I f "THAT'S HIM .TONYfMI fAj AR6 YOUR. OF-FICER.S.' NiD OIP.' I THOUGHT VVSO.TH ER. CWAR.T , TOM CPS-SY.' OREN64 LO,TR.OC,-, 1 YOU KEEP ON fV V MAN WITH CLASSES, ON-. 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KOO; Hit Parade, KNX. KflL, KOIN. 8:30 Sporta Forum. KOO; Bora Orch, KPO, KFI, KOW; Baseball, KEX. :0O Marriage Club. KOO: MoT tin's Party, KOW; BUI Henry, KUX. KOIN. WbRJ EvTRHf HiriS WHILE HEtKft MID MUtfERS HI' CERfPilKLV ftT"fo6Ef IrllSinwM MDWP? SHARPErlED COTS AHOfHER SfRlP 6F ANP1HDI STANDS SlUL, WNNlNG mower op ArlPPOWM, U6ffHlN61brf DOES A YriOROUbH JC OF C11.IH6 IAWN MOWER AND FlKDS THAT WP0W6 SO HE 6DT A SPOT ON lfcOUSER& 60E5 IH 1b 6ET WIFE fo PO 50MElWlrf6 ABOUT SW 8 :30 Welk a Orcn, KOO: King's j Orch, KNX. KSL, KOIN; Owens' Orch, KPO. KOW. 10 00 Jones' Orch, KOW; Jur fen's Orch, KNX: Frlml, Jr, Orch.. KOO. KOA. News. KPO: Kent's Orch, KSL. 10 30 Oarbere Orch, KNX. KSL. KOIN: Martina Party, KPO; Boys' Orch, KOO. 11:00 Puzpatrlrk's Orch, KSU KOIN: OTRanlss. KEX, KOA; News. KOO. KOW, KNX; Nottingham's Orch, KPO. BURGUNDER EXECUTION INVITATIONS SENT OUT Florence, Ariz., July 26. (IP) Invitations were Issued today by Warden Gene Shute to the execution of Robert Burgunder. 23-year-old former college stu dent, at 5 a. m. August 9 in the state prison's lethal gas cham ber. Burgunder, formerly of Seat tle, killed two Phoenix auto mobile salesmen. Jack Peterson and Ellis Koury, on the desert near here April 29, 1939. Midget U-Boats Rome, July 26. (UP.) Midget submarines, equipped with spec ial motors which cannot be de tected by listening devices aboard enemy warships, are being used by Germany in Brit ish waters, the newspaper Popolo Di Roma said in a Berlin dis patch today. By CLUYAS WILLIAMS Wit COriSiDEKAmX 1ksT INS, DECIDES If NEEDS 0iLlrl6,ftrlD60ES ItJ 1b 6E Oil. CA) MIS DECIDES IriERf ISNTTJrlE Befsrt supper To po ahVh W!r& MORE, AND IfWrTOlES lawn mower back to 6ARA6E 7-27 HUGE GOLD SHIPMENT BEING PREPARED FOR ft Washington, July 28. (F The treasury started packing about $3,000,000,000 worth of gold at New York today for "mailing" to Fort Knox, Ky. An army of guards, composed of postal inspectors, secret serv- STRANGE AS IT SEEMS ssVaV I M A poor 5fi? E2? I: LEGAL MONUMENT In Metairie cemetery. New Orleans, stands one of the strangest monuments In the world, erected to the memory of a court decision. In 1698 Mrs. Pauline Langles and her unmarried daughter. Marie, executed reciprocal wills, and both died soon after in an ocean disaster. Under the Code Napoleon, the legal assumption was that the daughter survived. As her will directed an expenditure of $3,000 for a tomb, the Louisiana supreme court ruled that a monument could be erected. Its unique legend refers io the appropriate volume and page of the Louisiana Reports Tomorrow: Cement Forest. ice men and regular army squads. Is being mobilized to accompany the mt'al. Technic ally, Postmaster General Farley will be in charge, because the gold will go as "registered mall.' The treasury will pay the postoffice about (1,000,000 in postage. Gold has been coming trom Europe to New York si. fast as much as $400,000,000 in one week that vault in the big city are crowded. The treasury accordingly ob .ained a $1,608,000 appropria tion to ship some of it to the bombproof depository located IT I I fim IN WlffclRfKl. hWi - E or, f Calif.- 1 1 i est ii Vf crnr(iii.-?nrM i , inscribed: . IN MEMORY Or COURT DECISION DISPOSING (deep To ERET-Trie shaft) -Mehirie Cemeferi, on the army's mechanized cav alry center at Fort Knox. As soon as packing is com pleted and other arrangements are concluded, special trains will carry the metal in about $100,000,000 lots, but the sched ule will not be disclosed in advance. Portland, July 26 CPi Twelve heirs residing in Ger many will receive $40,432 from the estate of the late Kola Neis, ' an Oregon hops and brewery supply merchant. Closing t-u tor Too Lata to Clas sify ads l U0 m by JOHN HIX famous 3n'ffof, Mzs., boat MiMer, HAS KIND FROM aWKI WlWrVA cARR, , WA4 6fWTeW60 -fn FOR PIAYING MnK5Lc5 By HAL FORREST pub.