TAGE TWELVE
MEDFORD MATt, TRTBUNE. MEDFORR OREGON THURSDAY. "AUOUST 15. 1940.
Gasual Slaughters
By VIRGINIA HANSON Gf
Chapter 43
'Not Discerning Eooagb'
"I REMEMBER now that the
chaplain wu shocked when
we told him about the piece of
driftwood," ' said. "But Gerald
wouldn't the have auspected him
then? And if ahe did, why keep
silent?"
"She waa stupid, ahe wanted
money and she had grudge
against the world. So had Felicia.
"Felicia really told me fhe wu
the widow of an FBI man; and I
found, on Investigation, that ihe
had told the aame atory when ihe
applied for the poaitlon of hostess
here. Furthermore, ahe had refer
ences in proof of her assertion.
There was such man; and short
ly after his death his widow dis
appeared. I won't bore you with
the details of the undercover work
we have done, from both ends.
checking the story. I had the re
port this morning. The widow Is
living abroad. Felicia was a girl
hood friend whom she had not
seen in recent years, but with
whom she kept up an intermittent
correspondence. When her hus
band died she had sent Felicia
copies of her references in the
hope that Felicia could find a lob
for her, and had never thought
to ask for them back.
"Felicia, she said, had been en
gaged to a stockbroker who lost
his shirt in the depression end
then disappeared. And there was
some talk of Randly a midas hand
being behind the failure. I think
we can safely assume that Bride
well is the missing broker. In
what company he has spent the
intervening years, we can't yet
say. He has managed to keep out
of jail, otherwise his prints would
be on record. But one can imagine
the two, separate and penniless,
nursing their wrongs, coming to
gether again and hatching their
plot for revenge and for financial
restitution. That would have been
all, at first Then the panic of near
discovery, the Intoxication, for
Felicia, at least, of pitting her
wits against the law. She had
never seen the chaplain. Why
would she hesitate to sacrifice a
life that meant nothing to her,
for one that meant everything?"
"But how could they hope to
keep up the deception?"
Ingenuous Disguise'
THEY didn't Colonel Pennant
tells me that the chaplain had
already put in for a change of
station because of his health. That
poison oak was a diabolically In
genuous disguise it would even
account for any variation in his
signature, because of his dis
abled hands. And they wouldn't
have permitted it to wear off
until he waa safely away from
here. I think that, somewhere en
route to the new station, the
chaplain would have disappeared
from the train. And after a safe
Interval Felicia would have given
up her job and followed. The
money is probably in a safe-deposit
box in Chicago. We haven't
discovered it yet, but we will.
All but the twenty-five hundred
one-dollar bills. And Randly will
consider that well spent "
"There's only one thing I don't
understand." I said, after a little
pause. "Why did they kill Ivan?"
"Ivan's was the most casually
vindictive murder I have ever en
countered. And it was a mistake.
A most fortunate one for me, by
the way. It leaked out after Ue
ransom was paid that an FBI man
had Impersonated the butler that
night. Of course he didn't see me.
he only heard mo speak, and h'l
may sy I csn do a very nice Cock
ney when h'l 'ave to. My father
was English, you see, and we
lived over there until his death.
Now I'm an American lika my
mother.
"It was Ivan's misfortune that
he had fallen into a slight con
fusion as to the manner of speech
of the typical Oxford man. It
wasn't very good Cockney, either,
to a discerning ear but it at
tracted the chaplain's attention."
"Oil, there was something else,
too!" I exclaimed. "I've just
thought of it. The night of the
beach party I asked Ivan if he
was an actor and he quoted
Shakespeare about all the world's
a stago and one man in his time
plays many parts. Then he said
his vocation was more important
than acting. It must have been
just his dramatic way of leading
up to his writing. Perhaps he
felt he had a mission; but I
thought Sandra shushed him.
Anyway, he didn't go on. And the
chaplain was listening. He must
have thought " I paused, hor
rified bv the reallration that, but
for that speech. It might have
been (jeralrt.
"Exactly," Gerald screed grim
ly. "I'm afraid he acted hastily
in pure race and without refer-
inre to Felicia's more subtle
brain. She might, perhaps, have
LISTENING POSTS ON
AIR WAVES OF 1ST I
TO BE SET UP
San Francisco, Aug. IS. (Ti
Far-flung western links in a
chain of monitor receiving sta
tions to guard the nation's air
waves against illegal communi
cations of unfriendly agents will
be established very soon, it waa
disclosed here today,
V. Ford Greaves, chief in-ixt-tur
of the federal communi
cations commission's western
area, will leave Saturday for
Nome. Alaska, to arrange for
sites of three stations, to aug
ment receiving equipment now
In use at the junior office. Early
next month he will fly to Hawaii
set him on the right track. It has
been on her account, I may add,
that I have plsyed the fool. She
is not quit subtle enough, fortu
nately for me, to realize that
more than one can play at thst
game. Though ah may have had
doubts of me originally she
quickly lost them. I could almost
hear her think that no man would
deliberately make such an idiot
of himself."
" saw through that," I re
marked complacently.
"As I have said elsewhere,
you're a discerning young per
son. But not, fortunately, dis
cerning enough. I blame myself
for not making sure you under
stood. But you see, I thought you
were perfectly safe at the Pen
nants. You told me, if you re
member, that you were spending
the night there," ha added re
proachfully. "Circumstances r, arose," I
said weakly.
"I hope youll be more care
ful about circumstances in fu
ture, then. Have you any idea
how you disrupted the forces of
law and order last night?"
"What do you mean?"
1 thought you probably
wouldn't know. Well, to begin
with my movements last night:
I left you at the Pennants' before
dinner snd drove to Fieldstone
Inn where I had an engagement
to meet a colleague. No, not the
gentleman in need of eyelashes.
That was a reporter. The man I
met last night was the operative
who hopes to Identify Bridewell
as soon as the poison oak heals.
I concluded my business, cam
back to the post, to the club
to your rooms, to be exact I was
still concerned about that short
hand notebook which I had not
been able to locate. And there it
lay. in full view on your table."
While I was bsent with Jeff,
I reflected.
Impassioned Slush'
"T SEIZED upon it and took It to
my rooms. I'm no expert. It
took me a while to decipher that
impassioned slush. Ksy, I'm sur
prised at you. I did think it might
be in code, but I gave that up
when I came to the line at the
end. I gave it up in favor of a
search for Lover's Return. I seem.
by the wsy, to have been the
only person involved who did not
know about that manuscript
Next time you're passing the in
formation, please give me a sue
too!
"I came bsck to vour rooms
because, of course, ft had to be
something of yours. I went quiet
ly, because I had no desire to at
tract attention. And of course I
saw your things were packed. I
tnougnt you had been there,
nacked up and gone back to the
Pennants, leaving your things to
be called for In the morning. You
see, everything was dark. I had
no way of knny Ing you wer
bunking with Felicia."
"You thought Lower's Return
might be a story in a magazine,"
I ssid, smiling a little at memory
of my fright. "So you leafed
through the stack on th table,
didn't you?"
"How did you know?"
"Never mind go on."
"Well, of course, I thought of
manuscript and did what I should
have done earlier went back to
the colonel's quarters to ask you
about it."
"Leaving the notebook behind."
'Forgot It." he said briefly.
'Though I can't say it seemed an
important oversight."
It wasn t, 1 assured htm. If
you mean that by doing so you
endangered my life. I had already
thought or the manuscript and
gone to find it when I saw the
notebook. I suppose they had it
all day?"
"Unquestionably. And the night
before, when you heard someone
moving about in your rooms, it
must have been Bridewell look
ing for Lowers Return. I have a
theory that Sandra was carrying
the notebook, probably just hav
ing added her postscript, when
she was killed. But didn't you
have a copy of the manuscript in
your papers?"
'Yes. but 11 wasn t named. I
couldn't think of a title until I
was copying it; snd of course
Sandras story wasn't in the cops
I kept. And that makes me think
of something else "
I told him then about the li
brary in the chapel snd the book
Come Back, Mu Heart. "It must
have been that by then they were
grasping at straws."
"So Anally they decided to
leave the notebook there for you
to And and lead them to the right
storv."
"f wonder If Felicia didn't guess
when I read her the letter. She
went right to the chaplain's
rooms said he needed towels."
"You can depend on It, they
would leave no stone unturned.
He waa probably on his way to
break open your suitcase when
he found you there ahead cf
him "
Te be centlnaf
to seek a site there.
The complete plan. Greaves
said, rails for establishment of
more than 100 such "listening
posts'' at 200mile intervals
across the country.
"The stations will be equipied
with rnnge finders and manned
by KCC inspectors," he said.
"They will be on the lookout for
subversive propaganda, and pos
sible messages regarding foreign
ship cargoes leaving the Pacific
coast, which might be sent out
by foreign agents."
Award Tongue Point Job.
Washington, Aug. IS. (Jt
The yards and docks unit of
the navy department has award
ed II. J. Settergen. Portland, a
$190,980 contract for construc
tion of a seaplane ramp nnd
railroad track at the Tongue
Point air station.
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Colvllle, Wash., Aug. 15. P)
A large oiled silk bib was blam
ed here today for the death of
a six-months-old baby it had
been used to protect.
Dr. Wesley Minzel said the
bib had smothered Janice Peter
son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl E. Pet'.-rson, as it lay in
its crib in the Peterson home at
Bossburg, 25 miles north of here.
The parents rushed the baby
to the physician's office when
it was found unconscious, but
the child was dead on arrival,
Dr. Minzel said. The bib had
been kicked over the baby's
face.
FEWER APPLES IN
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Growers and shippers will have
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83.000 000 bushels of apples to'
distribute this year, or 5,000,000
bushels less than last years
crop, it was announced today at
the 45th annual convention of
the International Apple associa
tion. Shippers said the 1939 crop
was "cleaned up" despite loss of
European markets, although the
government had to do consider
able purchasing of surplus
apples.
Washington leads 24 apple
growing states in production.
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LAUGHING BOY
Herb Ohrenberger, at a Boston theater In 1935, couldn't stop laughing when the picture
had ended. He laughed so long and loud that th rest of the audience couldn't help laughing,
too. In appreciation, the manager presented him a lifetime pass, for "the most infectious laugh
he had ever heard."
AIR MONSTER
Built lo carry 100 passengers, a giant Capront transport, tried out in 1321, actually had
nine wings. It flew successfully, but was accidentally destroyed by fire before lest flights
were completed.
TOMORROW: Original Flam Throwerl
O.S.C. APPLICATIONS
SET MARK THIS FALL
Oregon State College, Aug
15. (Spl.) Applications for ad
mission to the college this fall
are being received at a greater
rate than ever before, reports
E. B. Lemon, registrar, indi
cating a freshman class at least
as large as last fall when 1504
enrolled. Freshman week ir
September 23 to 28, with regis
imp
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f
tration of old students Satur
day, September 28.
An aunusually large number
of women have applied for ad
mission this year, in fact more
women have been accepted to
date than men, though this ratio
is not expected to continue.
About the usual number of out-of-state
applications have been
received.
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long and almost entirely double-tracked.
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