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PAGE FIGHT MEHFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON7. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 7. 1940. Casual Slauoht By VIRGINIA HANSON Cf- YCSTEKUA. Kay arranget to sleep with felicia, then aoet to her old room to pack tor an early departure. Jeff is there, holding Sandra'e shorthand notebook vhieh teas missing thai moraine. He lays he it trying to find some thing Sandra wrote and, put it in talt place. Chapter 38 The Vanishing Notebook TJOW did you get here? I de 1 manded. "Walked out." he whispered back, grinning sardonically. "Sent the sentry for a tray and the darn fool left the door unlocked." locked." "Well, you're walking right back in." I told him grimly. "Of all the fool stunts! Climb out that bedroom window on the side and wait for me in Adam's car. Here's the key to the garage celL And keep an eye out for the sentry long the back row." He did not argue with me. Maybe he thought if I knew as much as Sandra I might be equal ly dangerous. At any rate, he de parted informally by the window, and I had just started into the bedroom to latch the screen after bim when Felicia came in. "Anything I can do?" she uked. I pretended I was coming out of the bedroom insteed of going in. "No, thanks. I've been sorting my papers and just remembered something I left at the Pennants," I said, inventing hastily. "I'd bet ter go for it right now, before they go to bed. I'll take Adam's ear." What if she should offer to go with me? I held my breath, but she didn't I opened the door and held it for her, then I turned off the light and went out, closing the door behind me." "Guess I'll get eut of this gir dle," she said with a yawn. "I'll Probably read for a while, but if m asleep when you come In, your bed is the one farthest from the door. And for gosh sake don't creep in quietly unless you want me to wake up and scream my head off!" Jeff was sitting dutifully In the ear. I backed it out and turned it down the row toward the hos pital. "For a girl, you've got guts," he observed presently. "How do you know I'm not a murderer?" "I don't know it. I hope for Julia's sake you're not. But walk ing out of the prison ward tonight Isn't going to make matters look any better for you." "If Dan had put me In arrest (n quarters I would have stayed there," -he said resentfully. "I guess he really thinks I killed her. It's funny how few people will keep on believing In you when things look black. Sandra certainly acted as if she thought I killed Ivan. But if she did why did she marry me?" "Now you're asking something. You said awhile ago that it wasn t for love. There aren't many rea sons for a woman marrying a man she doesn't love, and you can sum them up in one word gain." "But what would she gain through me? I haven't anything but my pay, and she was pretty well fixed financially. At least she ought to hav been. Ynu don't spend twenty thousand dollars in a couple of years not without having something to show for it." Painful Subject " JEFF! You don't suppose she "Itambled it away on the mar- "No. She doesn't know a stock from a bond." . "But did she ever tell you how It was Invested, or how much in come she has?" "Not me. I wouldn't have lis tened. I didn't want anvthing to do with it. If my father wanted her to have it " He stopped, but not before bit terness had crept into his voice again. I hesitated for a moment, but something made me pursue the painful subject. "Julia tells me your father left you a house in Memphis and your great-grandfather's farm in the Orarka." "The Memphis house is so heavily mortgaged even the bank won't take it over. And the Orark property mavbe vou don't know it, but land up there isn't worth the paper the deed is writ ten on. I pay the taxt-s on it for sentimental reasons. The old gen. tleman loved it, and Julia and I had fun there when we were kids. There's another nice little trait of Sandra's: she never even saw the place, v,it she was plenty ore when she fnund out that I've willed it to Julia. You'd think ahe'd be satisfied " "Wait a minute." I said, my breath coming a little uneven. I slowed the car to a crawl. "Are you sure that property is worth less?" "No doubt about It nothing but rocks and hills. Why?'" "But is there anvthing Sandra nuRiii ne gji noia oi mai vou uiari i Know a railroad, or some project like Bmilder Dam. or oil Oh. I don't know snvthing about real estate, but mightn't there be some rrason for Sandra to think it was valuable?" "You don't dam a brook." he ssid. He sounded grimly amused. "Neither do you build railroads where there's no place to go. And British to Ferry Planes Over Sea Lot Angeles, Aug. 7. i.-Tl Captains Donald C. T. Bennett and Robert Humphrey Page of the British royal air force are here to complete rlans for fly ing California-built warplanes from Canada to England. They said it would be neces sary to install extra furl tanks in some of the ships, which will be "ferried'' across the Atlantic by English and Canadian pilots ers there's no oil in those parla inn I ever heard of. But as far as Sandra is concerned, maybe you've got something. That girl was the most credulous fool I've ever encountered. She could be lieve anything. If she was any kin to us I'd say she got it from the old gentleman himself. He swore until the day he died that there was silver on the place. He kept sending ssmples to be as sayed and tearing up the reports when they came " His voice trailed off. "And if Sandra had ever heard that story she would hava be lieved it?6 I asked tensely. "She might, I suppose. Even Father liked to toy with the idea, though he knew better. He al ways said he'd go back when he was retired and spend a little money proving to his own satis faction that there was nothing there. Maybe he talked to Sandra at the last maybe he got to be lieving it himself. Anyway, she and I quarreled about it when we were first engaged, and almost as soon as she got here last week she was at me again to change my will. I didn't think even she would be that cheap." "Did you change it?" "No. Why should I? Julia has never known anything about it, but I intend her to have the place if anything happens to me. Then, when Sandra practically accused me of killing Ivan, I told her that finished things, as far as I was concerned. I'd married her, but I didn't propose to pay any more for her silence. She ran to you to make it appear, I suppose, that the breach was of her making. And it was part of her spite to go to the reception with a black eye. Kay, I swear I didn't even know she had it until right there on the front walk when she took off that scarf thing she was wearing. 'Just Bluffingr "CHE was shut in the bedroom J with a headache when I came home at noon, and after duty she was still in there. She had laid my things out in the silting room, so after dinner I dressed in there and got out. I never had a good look at her or I wouldn't hava let her go a step. "I felt like blacking the other eye when I got her home. That was when she told me it wouldn't do me any good to kill her. After she went off to your room I looked through everything she had, because I thought if she was leaving anything written down in those rooms that nosey hostess or one of the orderlies would be into it. But I didn't And anything. That's why I thought about the shorthand notebook. Only I can't read shorthand, so I wasn't any better off when I found it. Can you? Do you know what was in It?" "Just some dictation I gave her. That's all, as far as I know. I can read it fairly well, if it's Gregg. But I haven't looked at it I'll see when I get back. But I think she was just bluffing, don't you?" "God knows. It doesn't pay to take chances with people like her." The prison ward was on the ground floor of the west wing. At Jeff's suggestion, I parked by the side entrance, got out and went in. The sentry was sitting in front of the door to the ward, his face as white as chalk. He jumped a foot when I hissed at him and came at me with his hand on the butt of his automatic. "You haven't reported Lleuten ant Tack missing?" I whispered, and I thought the man was going to faint "It's all right, sentry, he's out In the car. We were hop Ing he could get back without anyone knowing." The enlisted man took his hand off the gun and brought out a handkerchief with which to mop his brow. He became suddenly garrulous, in a strained whisper. "Listen, I just missed him, see? I come back with that tray, and the room was dark, and he had rolled a blanket up on the bed, so I think he's asleep, see? Then I get to thinking about me leaving that door unlocked, and about two minutes ago I reaches In and turns on the light. Lady. I'm in the lieutenant's troop. I was go ing to wait to report it until I seen the Officer of the Guard comin' down the hall. He's due any time now. Lady, I sure am glad you bning him back!'' I saw Jeff safely behind that door, locked this time, then I drove back to the club. It must be nearly ten o'clock, and I still hsd my packing to do, and that short hand notebook to inspect. The rejected manuscript was on the seat beside me. I had found myself still treasuring its ham pering shape when I followed Jeff out to the garage. I had clung to it unconsciously, as I had to my pocketbook, while all the time my mind was on other things. I put the car in the garage, col lected manuscript and pocket book, locked tie garage, and went back to my rooms. It did not occur to me to be frightened a second time. My mind was on the shorthand notebook. I was thinking ironically that I had practically pledged mvself to keep a secret that I had broad cast a couple of hours ago. But when I turned on the light and went to look for it, the short hand notebook was gone, Te be centinord Hop Sale Quota 184,662 Dales Portland. Aug. 7. i.-Pl The national hop control board esti mated the Oregon, Washington and California hop production today at 35.000 pounds or ITS, 000 bales. The board adopted a recom mendution by the secretary of agriculture to establish this year's salable quantity under the new federal marketlnff On the Radio Chains T41IONS There to Hue) Thru od the Dial: fclx. lltu. Portland: kn. iitt. uoe 4nele; Hi. 1470. apofcane tljll. liw, tan I'raarlaral koW lie. Potlleod: kjH. ;. eeaitie: kNX. IOSO. U angriest kOA. KM. Denver: kUIN. aw. Portland: HOMO -W ttnattie; KPO. SIO. md Trinrlwo: Kl IIS". "lt late. Wednraday. a 00 Summer Show. KMX, 1C6L. KOINOreen Hornet. KCJO. KJR. KEX: Paul Canon. 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KOW. 10:00 Reporter. KPO, KOW; Arn heim's Orcb, KOMO; Jurgen's Orch.. KNX. 10:30 Safety Pint, KPO: Harpa's Orch, KNX. KSL. KOIN; Prlml, KOO. KJR. KEX. 11:00 Nottingham's Orch, KPO; Man With a Pipe, KEX: Busses Orrh, KSL. KOIN; News. KOW. KNX. CR1AM TOR CEWcAl, WV WArmESb shows up and savs 5Hrn CEREAL, tVD. . Plans Are Up.ell TIM, THERE'S f IS THERE, POP? f MIND VOU NOW, f I WON'T 1 f DUCK OUT THE BACK f AN' I'LL BE AFTER HAVIN' A ANOTHER j 6E6, THE LAST I GO EA6V ON J WUSS HIM " TOOR AN' COME IN THE M6SILF A GRANDSTAND SEAT 1 , KID FOR VOU IV. FOUR WERE j HIM -SEE, HE'S II UP MUCH. I FRONT GATE I'LL GIT I FOR THE FIREWORKS AN" THE "T rsfl TO TAKE OH I I CINCHES-J VSMALLER THAN yiVPOP ft HIS DOG IN HERE AN' J " EXPLOSION YVHOOPIB! kcJ' ' V" R XTV LCHARM'S WAVT " yr- ' j D. H. FERRY FORCEDi OFF ROAD Bl CAR Grants Pass, Aug. 7. VP) Four wera injured in the worst of a aeries of automobile acci dents Tuesday. Rosie L. Rector, 19, suffered a broken collar bone and three others were less severely hurt when Jay L. Rec tor failed to signal a turn and was struck from behind by Hubert DevTolf, who hud no license, state police charged in Justice court. One-armed William Gardella of Oakland, Cal., took his hand from the steering wheel to light a cigarette on a Pacific high way curve north of here and clmbed unhurt with one pas senger out of the resulting wreck at the base of a tree. D. H. Ferry of-Rotjue River left the road to avoid a col lision with another car, but struck the rear ends of two other machines. They were dismantled vehicles in a wreck ing yard. Presidents James Monroe and John Tyler both were buried at Richmond, Va. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS 8-81 FIASJ A WarfRISS WHO irTMEDUXTEW PS" APPEARS IX ANOTHER fXRecflOtJ tPf m RE6UIAR WAITRESS 4 RE601AS WAMKESS COMES AMD I06KS, SOS PlclOOSW AT CREAM PrftHER WIRE TAPPING VOTED AS DEFENSE MEASURE Washington. Aug. 7. (4 Legislation authorizing the jus tice department to tap wires in making investigations of sabot age, treason, espionnge and se ditious conspiracy was passed today by the house and sent to the senate. The measure carried a clause which asserted that information riKtainAt hv u'ir.tannina rti 1 1 H not be used except in the spe- cified, named investigations. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS -trie wtttf w oftct! m floor, mm?, W0f?i.tf& only , 1 ARMLESS WONDER Winner of a national penmanship award, 14-year-old Edward Higgins was born without arms. To overcome his handicap, Edward trained his toes to do iha work of fingers. He can whittle, drive nails, remove bottle caps and, in fact, do almost anything you could name. Last May Edward attained the highest honor in his graduating class, excelling in reading, writing, arithmetic, history, geography. English, spelling and art. Tomorrow: Horace Greeley's Surprise. THREE GUARDSMEN DIE AS TRUCK OVERTURNS Alexandria, La., Aug. 7. HP) Three National Guardsmen at tached to Company I. medical detachment, 142nd infantry of Gainesville, Tex., were killed early today in the overturning of an army water truck. The dead were: Private Ken neth Simms, Corporal John L. Arnett and Private Bill J. Goodman. Card of Thanks. We wUh to expretu our sincere ap preciation for the kindness and sm pathy and also te beautiful floral offerings, durlryr our recent bereave ment Clsrence Miller, Lloyd. Prank and Jim Parker. j I yt h a FOR IN-' Rangoon. Burma. Aug. 7. (T) An official announcement to day said traffic had been re sumed over the Burma road to j China for goods not prohibited by the British-Japanese agree ment closing the road to war supplies for China. The road had been closed en tirely while control arrange, ments were worked out. 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