PAGE 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. "T) Agri
culture marketing service esti
mates today showed that Amer
ica's creameries turned out 203.
800.000 pounds of butter during
June, the heaviest output for
any month in the history of the
butter industry, according to
the Chicago Mercantile Ex
change. This brought production for
six months of 1940 to 928.120.
000 pounds, the largest tor any
corresponding period on record.
Texas leads the t'ntted States
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5,000 Trout Killed
By Colorado Bolt
Alamosa. Colo., July 30. (U.PJ
Fishermen had a field day
along the Rio Grande today,
substituting baskets, boxes and
wash tubs for poles, flies and
other tackle.
Hundreds of Alamosa county
residents gathered more than
9,000 mountain trout, weighing
as much as seven pounds, that
were killed. State Deputy Came
Warden Clarence Goad aaid, by
a bolt of lightning.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
UJArtA
GitWa.
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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
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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
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AN
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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
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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
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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
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international crook.
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