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PAGE STX Gasual Slaughters By VIRGINIA HANSON Cf VtSTlRDAt: Kay oiuru c. Mimi's story to the Colonel, the feeling thoroughly unpopular, re turns to her old quarters. meets the chaplain who is bring ing a lurid book lo Felicia. The orderly relates seeing Sandra in the dining-room one night taking vinegar from a cruet. Chapter ST Furtive Figure AS both tha orderly and the chaplain seemed disposed to linger and continue tha subject I took my overnight case and my rejected manuscript and went off down the hall to Felicia's room. But it did strike me as odd that Sandra should hava been filling her medicine bottle in tha dark. And there was something else tha orderly had said that rang tha little bell in my mind. Something that for tha moment eluded me. Felicia was in. She cama to the door looking pale and weary. I told her I had decided to leave in the morning and had come back to do my packing. Was there a vacant guest room whera I could spend the night? "Yes, plenty of them. But why don't you stay with me? I'm not looking forward to tha night alone. I ssw then that sha looked as sha hsd the night her car was stolen. Even her steel nerves hsd been shaken by this last catas trophe. "All right," I said. "If you're sure you want me." The only thing Td like better Is a whole troup of cavalry, armed to the teeth." "Has the guard been withdrawn from my room?" "I suppose so. I haven't aeen anyone around since noon." "Then there'll ' no objection to my getting my things." "I don't know. Perhaps you'd better ask Colonel Pennant." "Oh, he didn't say I couldn't," I told her brightly. I put a period to that by tak ing my case into tha bedroom. I left my hi-t there, too. But the big manila envelope and my pocket book I bore with me back to the aiding room. "I may as well pscV that" I said disgustedly. "Barren fruit of tnv visit at Fort Michigan." "What is it?" "Rejected manuscript Sent it off on Monday and back it comes on Friday. Nice ;oing." "Quick work," she commented. "It's even got an air-msil stamp on it." "Why. so it has. I didn't notice that Rosabelle is getting lavish. Now what might that mean?" "You might find out by opening It." Felicia suggested dryly. "No. waitl There waa a letter. too." I opened my pocketbook and took it out "Another air-mail stamp. Curiouser and cunouser. I was conscious of Felicia's eyes as I opened the letter and scanned it hurriedly, murmuring phrasra aloud. . "'Dear Miss Cornish, this starts off awell but about the middle it starts to go haywire. Sounds like two stories mixed up. I'm rushing the manuscript to you as I need it for the November book. Please clesn It up and Are It back ' "Nerta, I commented, thrust ing the letter back In my bag. "She needs new specs. Well, I'm certainly not going to tackle it tonight. I've a notion to send It back without changing a line. She wouldn't know the difference they're a dizzy lot, these love-pulp editors." "Sounds like It." said Felicia Indifferently. "Speaking of dizzy reminds me the chaplain wants ome more towels. Wonder if the laundry can bleach out that black stuff he puts on his rash? And when I collected the lioen from Jeff's room this morning there waa a towel that looked as It he had been polishing brass with it Honestly, peonle show less con sideration " Animal At Bay SHE had started out, but she paused at the door, "I'll be back in a minute. Need any help with your packing?" "No thanks. I just brought a wardrobe suitcase. I can pack it in a half-hour. I may as well do It now and get to bed. I want to rttch an early train." I followed her out into the cor ridor, where we separated. Sub consciously, while I hesitated at the door of mv rooms, I heard the sound of her tapping heels diminish and cease u she round ed a corner. Then I mustered courage to turn the knob. The door was not locked. I opened it slowly, fesrfullv, hslf expecting to feel It impeded by the prone form which had been there in the morning. But it swung In easily enough and, my hand on the light switch, I pre pared to follow it. Then I saw that there was al ready a light In the room. A dim, furtive light over by my work table. Someone was bending over the table, focusing a small flash light on something that lay there. Someone who had not heard me at tha door, or noticed tha light New York, Aug. J. Directors of General Motors Corporation voted today a divi dend of 11 a share on the com mon stock, payable September 12 to holders ct record August IS. The previous common stock payment was $1 in June. In March 7J cents was paid. In 1930 .three payments of 73 rents each were made, with a $1.25 year-end payment The payment will total over $43,000,000 . .om tha corridor which I had let in. If ever I fot my mental ilgntU lammed, it wu at thil moment. Terror ii supposej to lend wing to th feet I'll never know why I flipped the light switcn. n might hava meant euruirvt for me. The figure whirled like an ani mal at bay. and I aaw it was Jeff. I stepped inside and closed the door after me. Then I asked him what in the ao-and-o he waa do ing there and would he like a few of my deathless works with which to while away the hours of his confinement? He didn't answer. Just stood there turning first one color, then another, as if the stagehands were trying out lights on him. I waited and the silence grew un comfortable. "Why don't you yell?" ht burst out at lait In a cracked voice. "Why don't you do something? Go ahead scream for help! Noti fy Dan call out the guard. You don't seem to realize the mur derer ia at large!" There was enough bitterness In the last words to flavor a carload of quinine. "First I'd like to know what you've found that's so interest ing." He brought It reluctsntly from behind his back. "It doesn't belong to you," ha said stiffly. "I don't blame you for being aore at me for prying among your things, but this was what I waa looking for, and it's the only thing I've bothered " It was Sandra's notebook. The one In which sha hsd taken her shorthsnd notes. "Where did you find It?" I asked with a little stirring of ex citement He looked surprised. "Right here. It waa on top of those pa pert." "But It wasn't there this morn ing!" Conceited Maa "A RE you sure?" "Of course I'm sure. I wsa looking for it But what on earth do vou want with it?" "Suppose I don't tell you?" ha suggested coollv. Then I will lift my lovely voire and startle the echoes." "And if I do?" I looked him over carefully. "I see you're not armed" "Think I'm an utter fool?" "I'll tell you better when I know how you come to be here. But on the whole, yes. Any man who lets himself be blackmailed Into mar riage any man conceited enough to believe three beautiful women were all In love with him " His fare turned the color of a ripe plum. He opened his mouth to speak, but nothing cama out I took pity on him. "Mimi told me. She knew ex actly what Sandra was doing, but the was afraid to tell Dan about it If you had only let her talk to vou " "It wouldn't have done any good." he said dully. "Sandra could make you think black waa while. And she always had made trouble when she didn't get her way. Even when we were kids. God knows what she wanted to marry me for. Not for love. But if it would make her leave Dan alone "Listen!" he went on desperate ly. "Dan was the best friend I had in the world. When my father got sick Dan waa well, he was pretty fine. All the time I was a cadet he was my pattern of what an officer and a gentleman ought to be " He paused and kicked the tabla leg. "So you didn't want to take a chance of mixing things up for him. I see." I saw more than that. I aaw a little of what Julia had been trying to tell me about Jeff his loyally, his a-nsibilitv. his stern sense of honor. "Forget that crack about the three women, T told him. Then add'd lamely, "I hope everything ia going to be all right." To him that wax probably just an Inane remark, but I meant every word of It. I waa remem bering, with an unpleasant chilly feeling tinder mv rihs, that mo ment in the colonel's library when I had let mv red hall get the best of me and had told what thea two. Mimi and Jeff, had been will ing tn sacrifice much to keep. With an effort I brought back mv wandering wits. "So that was why you wanted the notebook." I said. "You thoueht there might be something in It." "Some lie." he said savagely. "She told me last night that ahe hsd written down a few things she knew about people and nut it In a safe olace. That waa after she made the pleasant remark thst It would do me no good to kill her. I was tempted tn when she said that. But t didn't." I was still standing against the door, and I could hear Felicia coming hark down the corridor. I held my breath until I heard her turn In at her own rooms, hut I was suddenly awara of JrrTs position. "How did you get here?" I de manded, dropping my voice to a whisper. Te esoUaase By 1. EDGAR HOOVER Washington. Aug. 9. iT J. Edgar Hoover disclosed today that acta of sabotage against the national defense program tin- covered by the Fill Included the placing of emery dust in airplane englnea and destructive metal in the motive power of naval vessels He told a national conference of federal and state law enforce ment officials that subversive agencies conducted schools for i teaching "th most terrible meant of creating destruction MEDFORD MATL On the Radio Chains BTATIONS artier Una 1mm the Dlalt KIX. II. fortUiid; kt, tie. ooa a !; tut, 141. apotan duo, tau, San Franrtaro; Ktiw ), rorthtna: KJB, ;. Rrstlle: KNK. IOSO, l-na Aneeleai a. 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Tim and equipment used account for tha high cost. Tomorrow: Armless Wonder. YOU WERE SEATED BEHIND HIM WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT.. LEARNED THAT VOU HAD BROKEN OFF YOUR ENGAGEMENT WITH LORD TWEtDLY.. AN D I IN IS THAT HE'S MV FEROCIOUS V BRIAR, AND LOOKIN' HE ISN'T BEAST FEROCIOUS YOURS? a. l- - hospital, Mrs. King was report ed suffering from a skull frac ture, chest injury, a fractured leg and possible internal in juries. Mrs. King became known as the "Flying Godiva" a year ago when she was enjoying a sun bath while flying at a high alti tude between Bakersfield and Los Angeles. A motor failure at that time caused a forced landing in which she received only minor injuries. Extend Radio Deadline. Washington, Aug. 6. &) The communications commis VE SINCE RECENTLY FOUND THIS HIS CHAIR DOG, - soTN sxra A.-A J V S I'LL Bf: AFTER A s ' -S. THINKIN" THIS OKAY, OVER FOR A tY MR. MINUTE OR TWO-pi CLANCY- J VOU WAIT I e 1 ' OUTSE HERE- J8 sion extended for one month today the time for compliance with ita order requiring all li censed radio operators to sub mit proof of citizenship. Tha new deadline was set at Sep tember 15. Portland Budget Up. Portland, Aug. 8. 'J' The price of running Portland will jump $36,271 next year if bud get estimates submitted by all departments are approved. Bud get Director Charles Alphonsa said the total was $6,092,157. Closing time tor Too Lat to Clas sify Ads la 1 30 p. m. by JOHN MX Ml4$JcJriNNieMcVAV- in 7 cm? By HAL FORREST YOUR, Lie-STICK LANS ir.c atuane. MATCH EV OR LIPS, Tut; P ri net r uA. '! l1IMKWla DOfelll HID THUD AB1 . I lND THAT SEEMS TO V put Biiaisi V . on a tough spot 3TS v.vriNUfcp. Bt EDWIN ALGER Br SOL HESS
