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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE, MEDFORR- OREGON. TUESDAY. JULY SO. 1940. Qasual Slauakt By VIRGINIA HANSON O- . ttiUAt. Julia indignant ly insist (hat Jtff would nrvtr harm Sandra, The moraine after . the party Kay Una Sandra mur dered. Jiff if put undtr arrttt. Chapter 31 Evil Spirit JULIA parked In front of her houae. lot out and took my overnight case from the open rumble teat "It wasn't Jeff." the (aid (tub- bornly. and led the way up the walk. Miml looklnj pala and fright ened, met ua at the door. Kay," the (aid fervently. "I wouldn't have bad an easy mo ment with you alone over there. Something is terribly wrong on thia post I don't know what It la, but I feel it something like an evil spirit roaniinn about a house something that doesn't belong nere. An evu invasion -Julia was staring at ber. "Do you by any chance think uiese murders are supernatural? "Of course not Julia. Don't be illy. What I mean ia that we're all quiet peace-loving people, we army people "Contradiction in terma, old dear. But go on. 1 know what you mean. "I haven't been part of tt very long myself, I know," Mimi went on with dignity. "But it was one of the first things I noticed when I married your father. It'a like I imagine the lite must have been In these religious communities. The army lives to itself, too, has Its own community or Interest and little reason for contact with the outside world. We have our own tnside quarrels, but aside from that we live together in compara tive peace and harmony. This Is like something that has crept in. You understand what I mean, don't you. Kay?" "Yea. I understand." I understood something else, too: that Sandra's death was par ticularly frightening because it ' had struck almost within the charmed circle. And because, say what she would, suspicion logical ly pointed to the few members of the garrison who had known Sandra well. What had the chap lain said? "Murder ia an intimate thing." I remembered, with a little chill, the way opinion had turned against me, the outsider, when murder hsd struck at Fort Havens. They banded together, these army people. They stood back to back when there was trouble; and it was too bad for the stranger within their gates. After they had taken me to the guest room the room Sandra had occupied until her marriage and left me to make myself at home. I reviewed the strangers, realizing that except for myself, there were only two Gerald and Fe licia. Could either of them be the creeping evil that Mimi had so chillingly (uggestedT Gerald, when he had found himself In aole charge of a fainted female, had carried me into Felicia'a rooms and brought me to with the good old-fashioned remedy of plenty of cold water, externally applied. I had recov ered enough to tell him the trou ble when an orderly, looking scared, put in an appearance. Gerald sent him for Felicia, who waa somewhere in the kitchen regions in the opposite wing of the building. They hsd looked after me. Fe licia and Gerald; Gerald himself attending to the unpleasant busi ness of making sure that Sandra waa past help, then sending for the doctor and the commanding officer. I have aaid that it waa late when I rose. The officers who lived in the building had gone to duty. There were only the three of us. the three outsiders, left with murder. Felicia, when she heard the news, had looked aa ghastly as I felt Genuine horror is difficult to fake. Looking back on it now. I felt sure she had been unutter ably shocked. But Gerald? Gerald was no longer the pos turing idiot. His eves were cold and wary, his manner business like. The clowning was a mask that he took oft, and without it he seemed hard and ruthless. I was suddenly afraid of him. Like A Wax Model' HE waa In my room what seemed a long time before he went to telephone, but he came back to Felicia and me to wait for the doctor and Colonel Pen nant. "Odd that you heard nothing In the night," he said In the clipped, dispassionate accent that belonged to the strange, new manner. His eyes, revealing nothing, regarded me "But I did." I told him. sur- Tirised. "There was someone mov ng sbout in my sitting room. I thought it was Sandra. "At what time?" "I don't know. I had keen BRITAIN TAKES Oe Fl Seattle. July 30. (Tt Great Britain has taken over a French order for 300 attack bombers, Boeing Aircraft company nffic ialt disclosed today. The French order had result ed in a plant expansion pro gram, aoon to be completed, costing the French $3,000,000. Officials said that the order for planes, while made for the French, waa handled Jointly by the Anglo-French purchasing mission and the contract con tained a clause permitting the British to take it over. ers asleep, 1 don't know how lone. And I went to aleep again. 1 dido it think to look at my watch." He stood up abruptly. Then were voices in the corridor. "Wait here ru be back." After be had Joined those n in the hall. Felicia opened the door a crack and applied herself frankly to peeping and eavesdrop Ding. "Jeffs here." ' she " whispered once. "He looks like a wax model of himself, . . . They've got the post photographer taking pic tures.1' And later. They're taking her away. Oh. the poor kidl 1 heard Doc Jonea aay she's beta dead at least eight hours." . Captain Jonea came presently and took my pulse, said I was all right but to lie still for a while. Colonel Pennant came In. looking pretty grim, announced that Mimi would call ma up and, with a glance at Felicia, that he would queation me later, at his quartera. I did not Jeff, and I was glad. After they had (II departed Gerald came back and asked me if I felt well enough to go to my room. I got up shakily and fol lowed him. I think Felicia would have liked to come, too, but something in Gerald's manner must have dicouraged her, for aht remained where she waa. There waa an armed enlisted man in front of my door. "Miss Cornish hsa to get some of her things." Gerald told him. "Colonel Pennant aaid it would be all right" I looked at him suspiciously. Colonel Pennant had said no such thing. But the enlisted man -topped aside and let ua go In. "Now " aaid Gerald. "I want you to look the place over care fully and tell me if there'a any- thing missing. Anything at all no matter now small. I must have soent at least half an hour examining that room, go ing through the drawer of my worktable. looking through a stack of manuscripts and corres spondence; but I couldn't see that there was anything gone, or even out of place, and I told him so. Racing Dreams HOW about Sandra? Did she have anything in here?" "No. She never brought her things here except a stenog rapher's notebook once, to take some dictation from me. "Where Is it?" "I suppose she took It away with her." I don t know lust when I becan to resent his questions, or to want to get out of that room where I was closed up with him. There waa the memory of that dreadful form in front of the door. There waa fear in the room and Ger ald was a stranger. 1 must dress and pack a few things." I aaid. trying not to let him aee that hla company was beginning to frighten me. "If you'll wait outside?" "I'll wsit here in the sitting room." he said, and I had to be content with that Gerald? I lay on the bed In the Pennants' guest room and remem bered the ahrinking fear I had felt ahut in with him In that room where murder had been done. And I wondered if he was the evu invader the creeping in truder who. if Mimi waa right had brought murder to Fort Michigan. But what of Mlml herself? Mimi.' who took long, solitary drives at night: Mimi, whose car had returned to the barge an hour before Ivan'a body was found there: Mimi, whose past to me at least was shrouded in mystery. And what if you came to that, of Julia, who had aaid onlv last night of Sandra: "I could kill her ' My head began to ache. I closed my eyea and slept uneasily, har ried by confused, racing dreams, until lunch. Colonel Pennant telephoned that he was too busy to come home. I heard Julia taking the message as 1 came downstairs. Then she asked him If ahe could see Jeff. He must have aaid yea, for as aoon as we rose from a scarcely tasted lunch she proposed tnat I go witn her to the hospital. to the prison ward, i , . i wiinu naa urrn summnnea so the kitchen by the cook. We were alone for a moment "Dan aaid he'd leave word for us to be admitted," Julia went on, "but he insisted someone had to go with me. I'd rather it was you than Mimi. And Dan aaid to tell you he'll be home at four, and he'd like to question you then." I didn't want to aee Jeff. I hate the sight of death and of Its grief sickened survivors. But I under stood that Julia could talk to him more freely In my presence than in Mimi's. to I consented. But Jeff was not grief sickened. Felicia had said he was like a wax figure of himself, and he did look white and stiff. But in his deep set rather unexpressive eves, I could see only bewildered hotror and resentment no anguish. Te be eratlnata IE BUM OUTPUT Chicago, July 30. 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M HEARS A RUSHE Kf THE DOOR, "THEN TBOTSI'EPS -flPToElKS AWAY", AND REALIZES A 5C0jr MAS 66NE fo REPORT HE IS NT AS1EEP VEl' turning of the doorknob seutral ioud shushes J31 INS Or IE OP NOO AnO fOUd MM CHALLENGES WILLK1E 10 OUTLINE CONSCRIPTION STAND Washington, July 30. (U.P Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D.. Mont., late today challenged Wendell L. Willkie. Republican presidential nominee, to "tell us where you aland", on conscrip tion and war. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS WORTH OVtR4fr,000, - Mom in collection of F. W A.-.V.Mu ntiuiiiiQiuif, AN fdOMILSS W(JH vl 'Jim ji. ytiti u I mi?. SUPER HIGHWAY Stretching 160 miles from Irwin to Middlesex, the new $70,050,000 Pennsylvania Turn pike. America's most modern highway, has no grade crossings, no stop signs, no red lights and no left turns along its entire length. Tha four-lana concrete strip, divided by a 10 foot center parkway, will be of great strategic value in time of war. Strange as it seems. 4'i miles of the seven tunnels wera in place when construction began. Tha turnpike utilises much of the right-of-way of the old South Penn railwoy, start ed but never finished by Andrew Carnegie and associates. TOMORROW: Shadow of the Swastikal I'M BEOE.COUA.TiMo AJslO REJRNJiSUl TME COQMER oUlTES WIFE-TS GOlMGTDBE v. iTj rrMDi e. tl' o.-Nk eeevire u SHE YOsfT WtVVE TO DO A.TUIMG V Wheeler, opposing the admin istration's conscription plan, said "I shall propose to permit enlistments for. a period of one year, and I am sure we will get all the men needed." "The presidential candidates ought to tell us what they Winn about conscription and about war," he continued In a state ment. "Mr. Willkio has told us how he stands on the controvers ial proposition of suffrage for the District of Columbia. Now. Mr. Willkie. you ought to tell the mothers of America, the workers of America, the youth of America and millions of oth Fields f J, ONLY WMhN I bmm prompter! He Alto MS AdC Announcer anp hthWmiV RAILROAP NO CRO&RoAtt.. I . I -- V V vA TUTS ip that OMDERFUU Op ou,Ma INj IDE i tv.. HtK MOVE TuE ' " "" c IW TwUM Wilwi li iSMH, s , a. a. r t. m U AJ rtckta mil 7-SI X KiEcS ers whether you are In favor of changing our traditional policy with reference to voluntary en listments in time of peace and also whether you subscribe to the policies laid down by many of your friends who want to do everything short of war which means war." Head Federal Employee Portland, July 30. OP) L. J, Canfield of Portland became president, and Clarence K. Rand, Roseburg, vice-president of Oregon federal employes at the annual state convention Sat urday. by JOHN MX Br HAL FORREST -il--PO NOT KNOW HIS NAM6...M6 MAS MANY aliases. . but he is an ' international crook. And hi is aboard this PLNS.'...I MUST IStND i AT liKnUM DISVTN .RIDES WITH TM PLANS. I TatLL YOU.' 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