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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MED FORD, OREGON, THURSDAY. AUGUST 1. 1940. Casual Slauaht By VIRClMA HANSON . cSltHDAY. Pie tnttniew with Jeff is unsatisfactory. Kay decides to tell the Colonel about seeing Sandra and Iran on tht barot Although tt makeu JeS't east blacktr $ht behevet It belter to examine alt tht evidence. Chapter 33 Convirliun of Cuill "THAT'S Important." he said gravely when 1 had finished. "You tea what it means, don't you? That Ivan was probably killed before the rest of you left the beach during the time when everyone was scattered. As I un derstand it, the men all went off alone first Adam, ' then Gerald or the chaplain, and finally Jeff. You three girls were together, which gives you an alibi not that anyone would seriously con sider that one of you would have killed Ivan "Sandra could have killed him before she left the barge, pointed out.' But it was a purely academic observation. Sandra herself had been murdered. "Of course there is the possi bility which someone has sug gested," he went on, "that Jvan deliberately remained at the beach to keep an appoint ment " "I was coming to that," 1 said miserably. I had committed my' self to telling him the whole truth, but I knew that what was coming was pure dynamite. "There was that car " "Can you place the time you heard the car? he asked, uncon sciously granting me a reprieve. "It was soon after eleven. I heard taps as we were driving back out there for our swim. He asked me to describe again iust what we had heard and seen, told of the arrival of the car, the sound of a single door slam ming, the dim sight of someone moving on the barge, the brief wait, then the car door again and the repeated whine of the starter. "And while we were dressing Julia told me Colonel Pen nant, I hope you won't think I'm Just trying to make trouble. But I said I was going to tell you ev erything. And Julia can deny it now all she likes. I'm positive she told me it was Mimi's car; that they had been having trouble Parting it." His eyebrows lifted, but he did not snub me as I had been afraid he would do. Instead, he got to his feet and went over to the door where he pressed an old-fashioned bell push that I could hear ring in the kitchen regions. "We'll ask Mimi if she knows anything about it." he said easily. Cora came to the door pres ently, and he asked her to see if Mrs. Pennant was in her room and if she was to ask her to come down. "Now about Sandra being killed in your room " be be gan. I told him then, reserving noth ing, of Sandra's admission to me that she was afraid of Jell, of the bruise she had shown me, and of the fact that she had shared my room since their marriage. By the time 1 was tluough 1 was frightened by the weight of the case 1 had made out against Jeff. 1 had not thoroughly com prehended it myself until I put it Into words. And when I went back and told of the encounter at Fieldstone Inn, and Sandra's p parent conviction that Jeff had seen her with Ivan on the barge, and her blunt reminder of the lime Jeff had knocked Ivan flown I looked at Colonel Pennant then and saw with a tick sense of remorse what had been unwel come suspicion on his part A1 as now a conviction of Jeff's guilt. Well, maybe he was guilty. Julia might never believe it, might never forgive me frr what I had just done. But if he was innocent something would eomething must come to light to prove it. And if ,ie was guiliv there was no use in withholding damning evidence. Craven Of Me IV JIMI came In then, looking rather drawn and tired in pite of the fact that she had ob viously been asleep. She had on a fresh frock and her hair was neat, but her face was flushed like a baby's w lien tt first wakes Up. and her eyelids looked heavy Colonel Pennant repeated to her what 1 had said about the car. and she sat down rather abruptly "Its only fair to lell you." 1 put in hastily, "that Julia dcx-sn't remember saying any such Hung It's possible that she merely aid she'd been having trouDle stall ing your car recently No doubt it was craven of me. but I would hae given a lr,t to hack out of tins particular situa tion. "Julia ought to know the sound of my car.' M;tni s.nd with me chanical courtoy. "And I'm sure ahe must have said it if you think so, Kay But I certainly did not go back out to the beaci that night, or any other nig it. I wou.d have been afraid to, after the things that have been happening round here." "Suppose you tell us Ju?t whit you did after we left the beach," Colonel Pennant put in pleas antly. Wally to Undergo Plastic Surgery New York, Aug 1. The New York World Telriiram says It learned from clusc friends of the Duchess of Windsor that she tied! reserved room at a small private hospital herp for a plas tic surgery operation Sept. 9. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor are expected here soon en route to the duke's new post as (overnur of the Bahama lers Cf- "Well, I followed you until we got back to the quadrangle. Then you drove out of the post, remem ber, to that boy scout meeting, or whatever it waa vou had that nighL Mrs. Bridewell wanted to be dropped at the club, and when 1 had let her off there 1 took a little drive for about an hour, then went home and to bed." "Where did you drive?" asked her husband, and I'm afraid we both saw the flush thst rose in i ner cneena sua uiv irapijcu iw ; hi iter cjc. "Oh just around she said with a rather pitiful attempt to I SOUnu casual. 1 ucucve t uiuvi down the highway as far as Field stone Inn just ambling along, getting the breeze, I didn t atop anywhere." "And you cams horns at what time?" "Nine, or nine-thirty. I didn't notice exactly, but it was after dark." "Then you were boms when Sandra got here?" "Yes. 1 had gone to bed. 1 heard the car slop and someone come in. Then presently, because, I didn't hear any voices, went out in the hall and calL'd down to see who it was. Sandra an swered and said she was a Ion a. She thought the others had prob ably gone on to the club, but she had a headache so she was lust going to read for a few minutes and then go to bed. I went Back in my room and went to sleep. And that was all I knew until a couple of hours later when they came here after you, Dan." "You put the car in the garage when you came home?" "Yes. Of course you know I never lock it everything is to sate here," she said with incon scious irony. "I suppose someone could have taken it out again. 1 I don't sleep on that side of the house. 1 probably wouldn't nave heard anything." Colonel Pennant rose. "All right, girls. Thanks for helping. Now I think I'll see Julia, will one of you ask her to step down here?" I followed Mimi' upstairs and took refuge in the bathroom, so that she would be the me to de liver the message. I waited until I heard Julia go down, then I went to my room and found Mimi waiting for me there. She Was Bad' "IF YOU want to work, or sleep i or anything just say so and I'll go away," she said nervously. "Not at all I didn't brim any work, and I slept for an hour this morning I'm glad you came in. I I want to thank you for taking it the way you did- what I said. It's not that I'm trying to im plicate anyone in this thing. I feel rather unnecessary here, especially with Adam gone. Per hups I would do better to keep out of It entirely." "No, no, Kay. Don't feel that way. You're quite right to tell anything you know, and I'm sure we're all very glad you're here. I don't resent your telling about the car. Why should I?" "That isn't all I told I said miserably. "I'm afraid Julia will never forgive m. But I got into this thing. Sandra was with me much during the last few days " I needed to lustifv mvself. Somehow I felt that I had put a noose around Jell i neck. 1 want ed someone to reassure ma. I was ready to pour out the whole thing; but before I could go on Mimi burst into sudden, passion ate speech. I m clad she a deadl I don't want to know who killed her I dnn't care." Her cheeks wore scar let, her eyes blazing. "You needn't look at mo like that, Kay. I'm not insane. And I don't cart what you think of me. It's true and I have to say it. I'm glad she's dead. You didn't know her the way I did. She was bad. Kay, Bad through and through!" I stared at her tn horrified si lence. Mimi. the self-contained, the soft spoken. She had seemed fond of Sandra, I thought wildly. Or had she? I began to remember Utile things. . , . "Mow I wish I had never seen her!" she cried distractedly. "Kay 1 don't know what there is about you, hut I feel I can trust you. And if I don't tell someone I think I'll go mad with it " With a real effort I Interrupted her there. "No!" 1 told her. "You mustn't trust me. You don't know wh.it I've (ust done to Julia and Jeff " She looked at me strangely for a moment. "But you don't know what I have done to Julia and Jeff." she said more quiellv. "It's all my fault, the whole thing. 1 suppose vou man they're in love with one another I've tried not to know it. I've told mvself that Jeff really loved S.imlra, and that Julia was lust a child, that she would out grow him. But I've always known, in spite of myself." She paused, her eyes desperate ly searching my face. "I'm going to Ull you k..jrway." she said at last. "I've lived with it so long, snd there's been no one I could talk to. I won't ark you to keeo what 1 say confiden tial. I'll trust you. Only only iut let me talk to you." She sounded terribly shaken. I nodded. It would have taken more resolution than I had to re fuse to listen. T be continued ROSEBURG BOY KILLED IN TRUCK COLLISION Rosehiira:. Ore. Aug. 1. (.PI Dillv Witcher, 17 year old Rose- burg youth, was killed shortly before noon today in a collision between a logging truck, driven by Witcher. and a U. S. army ! truck, driven by J. Berkeley. ) The accident occurred one mile south of Suthcrlin. 1 The army truck was a part of I the 30th Infantry unit, moving north today on the way to Fort j Lewis. On the Radio Chains TViinsi Where ( Una tan oa the Dial: ht. I lull. PurtUiiil: aH. Ml M m. UUV H3U apukaiie kuu. ltti. Sid rranrlaru; ki,W ISO. Purl Hod KSK. tr.lt. Seattle; kNX. I OSU. l.m Anti-lea: MM. M Denver; HOIS. Vlo, pitrtland: kOMO rt amine: kPo. sso. aa trnnrlvii: Kl. I Wl, fait lake Thursday. 8 :00 Slrujinj and Hwlrwlrw. KGO, KOA. HEX; Mualc Hall. KPO, KPI. KOW; Major Bowes, KNX, KSU KOIN. t:30 Voice of Camllle. KOO; Con cert Orch, KEX. 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KSL, KOIN; Nottingham's Orch, KPO; Man With a Pipe, KOA, KEX. FE.RED IN U S. MARKET Olympla, Wash.. Aug. 1. fP) In an effort to prevent prospec tive flooding of United States markets with Canadian apples. Governor Martin telegraphed President Roosevelt and other federal officials today urging immediate action. There is a movement afoot in Canada, the governor informed the officials, to take advantage of American markets by sending here thousands of carloads of Canadian apples, that have lost their export markets due to the war. Use Msll Tribune want ads. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS I SHOULDA PICKED IT UP . P NOTHIN'S SAFE AROU, C HERE UNLESS IT'S NAILED DOWN. EVER.VTHINO IS All right again, ) JUST A SHORT OR.CLIIT r-y O - OO OH !fyJy f AM RUDOLPH NEr?Bi " (10 UKE A NICE LARGE) CORNER BOOM WITH A A LOTS CP FRESH ) ir u : y i M t'i ' i London, Aug. 1. (D Britain today ordered a blockade ex tending from the Arctic to northern Africa, effective at midnight tonight, an order in council giving effect to the pol icy announced in commons yes terday by Hugh Dalton, minister of economic warfare. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS ' tfSCHAR&ES " iTsELF $i 41&RINSTHB ST1H3 WfAPoH 0? If4 VICTIM iNIHe . fllMENTS Of fit &ACK ja.-.-Vll' A7 SPIkIN five Vsa lmb? AS ThEMcXreEfilfliFUL 6IRL J in Lnnunnuouni A !AMt?$ PIL6RIM "TRAVELING To MECCA &Y BoAT, Achieve? 6MNJHootBrkuiN6 overboard! , T r i CRIPPLE TO CHAMPION At eight, Yvonne Erwin of Chattanooga so badly Injured her leg by tap denclng that doctors feared it would be disabled permanently. By rigorous exercise, at 13 h was able to win a beauty cortest, although the youngast and smallest of 57 contestants. SAINT OVERBOARD Bound for Mecca, a Siamese pilgrim fell into the shark-infested Red Sea. but remained afloat unharmed until picked up by the P. & O. liner "Strathaird." Among local Arabs, thereafter, he was hailed as a saint. TOMORROW: How Many Wars Has the U. S. Had? MTEft"? ( LOOK.'.. LOUD : s sy aM . I MIMI r-atvew nasTttalr t I f MISTER, YOU GOT MY DOG SOMETHING TO EAT AND YOU 60T ME SOMETHING TO EAT I YOU'RE NOT TO BLAME VTH' LOSS OF MY SUITCASE fORGST IT f MR NESS OiO VOU SAY? L -,, . JT,T Awe A I JSVJH' LOSS OF MY SUITCASE - 11 occati SI AtrrrANV PLACE'. TweV'OTCSS SObxEO UP TO " - ' - w m m m I N ,r- err- e?Ak i In future non-British shipping companies will have to agree always to employ navicerts a form of passport for ship car goes in order to enjoy services such as coaling, drydock and in surance facilities at Britain's worldwide ports. Ships of offending lines enter ing British ports may find diffi culty even in getting water. Timber Fall.r Killed Dallas, Ore., Aug. 1. (P) A logging camp accident at the Welty operations near here fa tally injured Henry Hagans, 31, timber fallcr, yesterday. fif? FAST3 ? was chasm FOR I THE GREAT MS nEBB NOU COULO GET 1MTO W'E KISIA a. itii ta n iCOC ADS THE I'LL BE D0660NED IF HE . i, AIN'T A SPUNKY KID.' AN' ALL 1 jfC VI THE TIME THINKIN' OF HIS riJ x hn 000 FIRST' 7001 ) TT f KILLS 2 OFFICERS Boise. Idano. Aug. 1. (P) . A Negro sought for a minor crime shot and killed U. S. Marshal George Mcffan and his deputy. John Glenn, and waa himse'f badly wounded and cap tured by a posse in the Boise) mountains yesterday. Use M.itl Tribune want ads. by JOHN HIX By HAL FORREST Be EDWIN ALGEH By SOL HES." VOU MEAN rVUERE ARE V GOlrslS TO LIE OCVsM-'J rar ! tt t MV4 rsjf ?nraa law. mi w f Y wl I GREAT GUNS !... HE'S..HE'S DEAD J TmAT GUY TOOK.TWE SLEEP OUT CP This NiGUT FOR ME MAVBE.ECAW SIT UP IN PLANE -1 OlO IT islands.
