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t PAGE TWELVE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY. AUGUST 29. 1941 CJ by Klly tool tWl Chapter 29 Enter Greeley Morris Y"NCE I nearly got a Job, not a " good one, but a job," Carol went on. "A manager who had een my performance in Green Applet and had liked me. I got ai far as a week' rehearsal. That was all. Morris beard about it and I was fired. 'There was nothing for me In London then and so I came back. I changed my name to Carol Blan ton again so that Morris couldn't end me, couldn t spoil my chances with the managers here if he still wanted to. And I was afraid he did, T pounded the pavements here for months. I did get a few chances to read for parts, but I read so badly. And I had had no experience. I couldn't tell them a oout breta Apples. I had to say. 'No. No experience at all." Then one day I saw in the paper that Clint Bowers was going to do Green Apples. All of a sudden it came to me. There was a cart I could do. Jeff, you saw what that critic saia in Manchester. And Greeley Morris never came to America for anv of his Dlavs. He would never know if the girl who piayea uina was Lua liray. I was . . . pretty dpsoerate then. There was no money left, none at ail. wen. it was worth the chance and I took It" She studied her flniertiDS in tently. "You know the rest I got the job and the day we opened I heard that he was to be here. "I didn't know what to do at first And then I thought ... he was only to be here that one night and. if he shouldn't see me, if he anouia go on to Hollywood with out knowing I had to make Alice play that ona night "I did it I pretended my voice was gone, ana men, wnen you had gone to the theater, Haila, then I remembered the pictures in front of the Colony, and I knew it wouldn't work. He couldn't help seeing inai Dig picture of me plas tered there, and he would know. It would be better if I played. Maybe he wouldn't say anything, maybe I could keep him from say ing anything. You and Tommy came in when I was telephoning the theater to say that I'd be there. You didn't believe me, I could see that But I ... I couldn't explain. "I wrote the note when I was alone in my dressing room and after it was written I didn't know what to do with it I kept asking myself if it was worth while to plead with him or if I should just keep still and take my chance. Even after the play I was still muddled up. I didn t know what to do. And then, suddenly. I was sick. The kind of sick when you think you're dying and nothing matters at all I forgot about that rote and Greeley Morris and my job. ( forgot about everything but getting home and into bed. That was all. The next thing I knew I was in Bellevue." She sank on the couch and cov ered ner lace with her hands. After a moment Jeff said, "Did you think it was Greeley Morris wno.mea to Kill you, Carol?" "I ... I don't know. At first I did. When we met that morning In Bowers' office and he pretended not to know me. when he said that he had never heard of Lee Gruy, then I though he was the one. But the next night when Eve was murdered, he wasn't even in the theater. And then . . . then I knew it couldn't be he." "Carol, why were vou calling hrm at his hotel? When I an swered the phone?" "I nearly fainted when I rec ognized your voice." "Whera was Crowley when you tailed?" Crowley'i Fault HAD gone out for a walk and he was with me. And sudden ly I had to talk to Morris. I hsd to find out what he was going to do. I didn't want him to tell the police about Lee Grav. th way he'd tell it. it would sound ... if anyone told the police or Mr. Bowers or you. I wanted to do it." "But If Crowley was with you . . ." "I managed to lose him In the crowd and sneak into a comer drugstore without him seeing me. When I came out. he was running back and forth on Madison Ave nue looking fur me." JefT said ruefully: "If Crowley had only reported that he had lost track of you at that comer, and at that time, we would have known you were Lee Grav. Be rime I traced the call to that drugstore." "He was so embarrassed at los Ing sight of me that ! knew he'd never mention it to Peterson." "The lug!" Carol milled faintlv. "He didn't even know 1 had been in that drugstore; he couldn't have thought It would have mattered. I was only gone a minute. 1 knew the number and as soon as Jeff answerra i hung up and ran out 1 was afraid you had recocnired ; y voice. Jeff." I my ir I1U UIlL SHE SETTLED San Francisco. Aug. ?9 4V A strike of 1 300 Pacific Grey hound bus line drivers In seven states was averted early today when negotiators reached agree ment on all major issues. Barker's BIS Bala Sanforised WASH BLACKS $1.19 Store or Men v rY vm or rrt w rrn "You only ssld one word. But It I had it would have saved you a lot of trouble and worry." "Yes. Oh, I've almost told you all this ... a thousand times. But I couldn't." "Why. Carol?" Her eyes found Steve's and there was a glistening of quick tears in them. "Steve. I didn't want Steve . . ." He was beside her then, she was in his arms, sobbing into his shoulder. "It was such a nasty thing, all of It So horrible, not like what I wanted for Steve and me. I was ashamed ot it And I was afraid of what Steve would do if I told him about Greeley .. ." Tile white lines around Steve's mouth tightened like little bands, drawing it into a hard slit "I'm going to be glad to see Mr. Mor ris." "Steve!" Carol's face was ash en. "Steve, that's why I've been quietl That's why I've kept all this inside me! I didn't want you and Morris to . . . Oh, Steve, you mustn't see him! Something will happen, Steve, something will haDDen it you do. and we 11 . . . we'll lose each other, Steve!" She turned to JefT. She was cry ing. "Jeff, don't let Morris come here! You don't need to see him now. I've told you everything, I've explained it all to you! He doesn't have to come, does he?" Yes. Carol. Jeff said gently. "You see, we want Morris to ex plain a few things now." men . . . men mane Ejteve go before he comes. Don't let him Oh. I'm afraid for Steve! He mustn't tea Greeley Morris, he mustn t . . . We heard the elevator come to a groaning stop, quirk footsteps in uie nan outside, ana men tne im patient rapping at the door. Jeff turned the key in the lock. Peter son stepped to one side as the door opened, and Greeley Morris preceded him into the room. Another Story a voice monotonous with 1 fa fatigue and so low that at times Peterson had to lean forward to hear her, Carol retold her story almost word for word. Only once did he interrupt her. "London, huh? So that accounts for the blank between the time you left Salt Lake City and turned up here in New York. We were working on that now. Miss Blan ton." He nodded curtly and she went on, occasionally glancing furtively at Greeley Morris as u she feared, despite Steve's reas suring nearness, he might rise and start toward her. But Morris hardly moved during the long re cital except to light a fresh cig arette. Peterson moved to the window when Carol had finished and stood looking down into the street his hands clasped behind his back. At last he turned and. facing Morris, said abruptly, "So you knew Miss Blanton in Lon don." "I knew Miss Gray In London." "When did vou first know that Carol Blanton was to appear in your play over here?" "When Bowers cabled me the names of the cast." "When was that?" ' "Just before the show went into rehearsal." "So you knew," Peterson snapped, "that Miss Blanton was in New York and in your play." Morris smiled. "Naturally. But I didn't know that Miss Blanton was Miss Gray." "You have no way of proving that?" "Of course not." "But you recognized her as Lee Gray when you saw Green Apples on opening ntgnt: "Certainly." "And vet vou denied knowinff Lee Gray. Why?" "Tlint s fairly obvious. Isn't it? Miss Blsnton had been poisoned on tne very nisnt or my arrival, unfortunately. The police, appar ently, were searching for someone with a past connection to her. I saw no reason to olTcr the evi dence of my connection with her by explaining Lee Gray and im plicating myself. And since Miss Blanton seemed unanxious to do so . . ." "So. Very pretty. And the story Miss Blanton has just told . . . was it . . . has she been correct about your relationship with her in England?" "Would you expert me to ad mit it if It were the truth?" "Is it?" "That I'm a degenerate, a mani ac who scares little girls?" "Whv did Miss Blanton leave your show?" Steve jumped up angrilv. "Car ol's told you why she left! Must you drag her through all that again? Isn't it bad enough that she has to stay here and . . ." Peterson interrupted him. "She doesn't have to stay here. She can leave now if she wants to." "I'll stay." Carol said quletlv. Her hand reached up to Steve, drawing him down Wside her. "Steve, I've got to stav." am rent. Morris. Whv dM Miss Blsnton leave your show'" Te b. ,.tt,ra Coming from the conference room while they had been at tempting to rracli an accord ahead of tin- strike dcadlint- rt for noun today, Gregory Hum son. roinrany atturni'v. and Henry P. Melnikow of the Paci fic roast labor bureau. Jointly announced the agreement. Melinkow said further confer-' enres on working rule would! he held today and Saturday with the agrremont going Tuesday to a vote of the membership of the AFL Ama'gamnted association of Street. Klcctrio Railway and Motor Coach Emploves of Amrrt ra. He rrprrsentcd the union In the negotiations Turkeymen Elect Eugene. Aug. 2H i.-T; The Western Oregon Turkey Grow ers' association has elected Mau rice Buxton, Molalla, president. Other officers Include O. C. Brown. 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CUT MY SWITCH.lrf NO , SKEETSI f I IF IT AI NT SLAMP tR it- a.N-P AN-TMM WACKEY AW MANUEL MTS I I PROFESSO R... AN '.. . Thus MAN WMA't i HOTELS AWAITED San Francisco, Aug. 29. IIP) Safely past one strike dead line, 28 major Sin Francisco hotels operated normally today. HA UVEO IN THE sAME NEW VORK HOTEL UlTE FOR 35 yAKS He keep; lOO bottle op VINTAGE CHAMPAGNE STORED IN HIo ROOMS, AND ONCE A COLLECTION OF V i6 GAVE AWAY ?l 3tE05 OF , falls SlQ SEPD IS INOlAJrA ENT ADA QlGAS." WASHING UP ON EUROPE'S SHCPESLED MEN LIKE COLU,V8l5 TO CONTINENT ACRCrr,"VriE AUAvVTC THEORY tdhiv greatest ng OUT OF AH IS N -NEARLY A ( ALL AROUN' TH' ) V BLOCK NOW-AN' VTiN-NO RAIN.?" jS L00v( AT YOUNG SWASGEaXrvS IF WE HAO AS MUCM ASOve WIS ETS WE WAS BELOW Ml MSES WEO BE A WOW iv - - - h : " a -vy v tx: - - but the operators expected p walkout by their 3,030 employes. possibly as early as tonight. The time originally set for the strike was 9:25 o'clock last night, but it passed without any thing happening. A final effort by Mayor An gelo J. Rossi to continue negotia tions failed last night when AFL union spokesmen wnlked out of a meeting in the mayor's office as the climax to a stormy verbal exchange. by JOHN HIX a ff A iv IJ 61 OF THEa) DP TvAP apct By AL CAPP By HAL FORREST COME ON.'WELL follow EM-' I MET HAr LcAD THE WAY THIS MYSTIC MINPI By SOL HESS ; rET A LCT OS 50'S in MV DAY But i . MAS A MEAD U SWT AND iAL AS A N MEAD L-QSEED. MA w. z vr- 1 1 . dlnrrPST3 1 ASOUT AS SJ5STAM1 I director. ,
