PAGE 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-
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1 Orch, KFI.
10:00 News, KPO, KFI. KOW;
. Duchln's Orch, KOA; Jurgen's Orch,
KNX.
10:30 Sudy't Orch.. KOO. KOA:
' Owens' Orch.. KPO. KGW; Garner a
Orch.. KNX. KSU KOIN.
11:00 Nottingham's Orch.. KPO;
Busses Orch.. KSL, KOIN: This Mov
ing World. KOA, KEX; News. KNX.
KGO, KOW.
. fcaturriay
SOO Oold Cup Race. KNX. KOIN:
Master Worti. KSL; Jenkins' Orch..
KOO, KOA. KJR.
t:30 BusM'a Orch.. KNX. KOIN1;
Boys' Orch., KPO. KFI, KOW; Con
cert, KOO, KOA, KEX, KJR.
o:45 S-rrnade. KNX, KSL. KOIN;
Sports, KPO.
8:00 Uncle Esra, KPO, KOW;
Newa. KEX: Message of Israel, KOO.
8:18 Public Affair. KNX. KSL.
KOIN: Monroe's Orch., KOA, KEX.
8:30 Dance Orch, KPO. KOW;
War Newa. KNX. KBL, KOIN: Night
Melody, KOO, KOA, KJR. KEX.
7:00 Sky Blazera, KNX, KSL.
KOIN: Bam Dance, KPO. KOW;
James' Orch, KOA. KEX; Jewels
From Operas, KOO.
7:30 News Voices of 1040, KNX.
KSL; 8. 8. Fiesta. KOO.
8:00 Dorsey a Orch.. KOW; City of
St. Francis. KPO. 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.
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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
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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?
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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.