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PAGE TWELVE MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEPFORD, OREGON. FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1940. Gasual Slauaht By VIRGINIA HANSON lers VtSTiRDy. Unable to sleep. Kay starts thinking. She comes to tht rOTwlujlon that Sandra vat blackmailing the murderer. Suddenly the remembert her rs iected manuteript and decides to get it. Chapter 40 Lover's Return' THE corridor wu not quite dark. A dim 'tajht had been left burning on the cross hall that led to the lounge, and a amall fanlight over the aide door let in a little light from the street To my left, not more than a dozen stepa away, was the door to my rooms. Directly opposite Telicia'a door and mine were those of two empty guest rooms which I knew were kept locked when they were not in use. To my right, beyond Felicia'a room, and beyond the cross hall, stretched a double row of crypti cally closed doors. Now that San dra and Jell were gone, only one other room In this wing was oc cupied, and that by the chaplain. Gerald was upstairs somewhere, among the bachelors. There was no one In sight in either direction. Nevertheless that strange chill persisted. I told my self that I had imagined the creaks and rustles, the click of the door latch. I had to get that manuscript! It would take me only a moment. I would simply unlock the case, open it, extract the manila envelope and bring it back to Felicia's room to read. It was nonsense to suppose that I was in any danger Clasping my pocketbook tight ly in hands that were suddenly damp, I edged along the wall that distance of twelve steps, found the knob of the other door and pulled myself toward It as if I were walking a tight rope. I was tempted to turn back as I faced the mystery of what might lie within that closed room, but I listened as well as I could above the hammering f my heart, and heard nothing: so presently, re buking myself for a coward, I turned the knob and swung the door wide. There was no light, no sound within the room. Fearfully I pressed the switch and inspected the light-flooded room, not neg 'lecting to peep through the crack behind the wide-swung door. I had been fooled by that just once In my life, and it had been a costly error. There was no one there. I crossed the room on light steps, leaving the corridor door open behind me, and repeated my maneuvers In the bedroom. I looked under the dismantled beds; I looked in the closet; I looked in the bathroom. There was no one in the suite. Feeling considerably better, I went back Into the sitting room, closed and locked the corridor door and switched oil the over head light. There was a small, haded lamp on the table. I had turned that on Instead, after pull ing down the thick blinds of the sitting-room windows. Then I closed the door to the dark bed room and, reasonably safe from interruption, unlocked the ward robe case and got out the manu script. It was Just where I had left it, th seal still unbroken. I carried It over to the table, sat down facing the corridor door, and pre pared to open it. I had thought better of my resolution to return with it to Felicia's room. I did not want her waking up and coming in on me with her ever lasting curiosity. For the matter of that, how did I know I dared trust her? I was in no mood to trust anyone. And suddenly I saw Sandra's notebook. Rear Vision IT was lying on the table, Just beyond the lamp. On top of tome magazines 1 intendrd to give the orderly. Where Jeff had found it: where I had looked for It in vain when I returned from the hospital. If it had been a coiled snake I could not have felt a more fas cinated horror. Then someone had been in this room since I left it! I forced myself to reach fr it, but as I drew it toward me I felt a sudden consciousness of the spot between my shoulder blades that acts as a third rye. I glanced ner vously behind me, but there was nothing there nothing but the closed door to the bedroom which I had Just thoroughly searched. Don't be a fool. 1 muttered eossly. But I reflected that if human beings were cars someone would long ago have contrived for them some form of rear vision. Rear vision Why not contrive a little of my own? There was a fair-sized mirror art into the inner side of the flap of my pocketbook one of those envelope-shaped alTairs. I turned it inside out and propped it against the lamp so that the mir ror reflected the knob of the bed room door. I still have that pocketbook. I expect to will it to mv grandchil dren, if any. For if thev ever have any existence, thev will owe it to that mirror. Without it I would hive lost my life that night. For the moment it gava me a falsa sense of security. I opened the unstable notebook, aaw that it contained about three pages of competent Gregg shorthand and, concentrating on the little I could remember from a high school course, set myself to decipher it. A few lines were enough to tell me that this was merely the dictation I had given Sandra on Tuesday. I began to skip, puzzling out a phrase here md there, turn ing the pages, reassuring myself that there was nothing more. Nothing more? I turned the last page and saw, detached from the rest of the text, a line of four characters. I puzzled wer them for a mo ment. The first was the little curved stroke that denotes the hard sound of the letter c kuh, or k or can. The second character seemed to be red. Can red that didn't make sense. No, wait can read! I went on to the last two. which were more complex, with the two little strokes under each that mean capitals. A title. With that as a clue I deciphered them. Lover a Return The manuscript she had helped me copy. I was rilht! Can read nol What a fool I wasl Kay, read Lover't Return! My Angers trembling with al most unbearable jagerness, I tore ooen the manila envelope ana drew out the eighteen or twenty typed pages. I started to read. I don't know what I expected to And under lined words, interlineations 1 Have Decided' THERE was nothing. This was Just the story I had written. the pages I had copied ana prooi read myself. Sandra had done the last six or eight pages. I flipped the manuscript over, chose a page at random, scanned the lines. But I had proofresd these pages, too, as she typed them. What And then I remembered me letter: "About the middle it starts to go haywire " I fumbled the psges apart, grabbed a section out of the mid dle and began to read. Page ten, what ani of vou say, I lust can't go on without him. He's why, don't V" understand? He's part of my life That was no good. My own deathless lines. I had started to turn the page when I was struck by the strange ly solid look of the lower half of the sheet. No dialogue. Para graphs that begged to be short ened. Why, that would be a solid block in print AfaribrI flunff back her silken curls and stared up at him trop ically. 'It's no use, Alred. Sit down and I wilt tell you my story": What was this? Maribel had silken curls, all right, like all proper pulp heroines and maybe she had a past, too. But this was no way to introduce either. Mari bel had certainly gone hay wire With more eagerness than any shopgirl, I began to revel in Mari on's past. There it an Imposfer here, and f am the only one who knows it. in the beginning was assured that would only do harm by ex posing the imposture, and I agreed to keep silent, for a price. I saw, and still see, no reason why I should not be paid for a service rendered. I needed the money not jor myself alone, but for the man I lored. There is nothing quite so bitter as to be denied love because of poverty ana fnat poverty caused by a callous world's rejection of genius. And then ne was Kinca. i situ mm my husband killed him, and mean him to suffer for it. But my own future was at stake, too. I had to decide between immediate revenge, or security first. I've never been anybody or had any thing but the chanty of strangers. When the only person I loved lay brutally murdered cared about nothing but power, money, the means to revenge myself on a world that hat shown me no kind ness. But something was said about spies which has set me thinking. And I have not yet been paid for my silence. I intend to give the imposfer one more chance, but to safeguard myself from one who may be a spy, I have decided to record what I know A shiver like a tickling feather had started at the nape tif my neck and was zigTacaing down my backbone. Mv fingers fumbled as I tried to flip the page and something. 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