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PAC5 SIX
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24,-1941.
by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
. STIRDAY: Asey Mayo, th.
Jape Cod detective, teas only U
Avertng clams when he ventured
into the Whale Inn. He found it
detirltd, lighted with candle be
cause a norm had put out the
liphu, and what if mora impor
(ant, ha found a corpse litttna on
a chair in tha phona booth. And
now, just after verifying tha fact
that tha carpi ij atill in tha
booth, ha ia accottcd by tha vary
self-posternd daughter , of. the
proprietor.
Chapter Six
'. Through The Keyhole
ASEV chuckled.' "I must," he
uid. "look pretty much of a
tramp."
The girl didn't deny it
"But," Asey continued, "my ap
pearance ii deceivin'. I've done
tome trampin' this evenin', only I
ain't one. Mia Doane, how long
have you been lnthia room?"
"Since three this afternoon," the
flrl aaid tranquilly. "And now,
m aure you're in a hurry to get
to the Commercial"
"You mean," Aiey aaid, "you
been in this room ainoe three thii
afternoon? All the time?"
"Yea," the girl aaid firmly.
Asey'i eyea narrowed.
"And if you'll be good enough to
come to the door,' the girl con
tinued, "I'll point our the direction
of the Commercial Home."
Asey leaned back his head and
opened his mouth wide.
"Jenniel Ahoy, Jen-niel"
The girl jumped aa his quarter
deck bellow roared out -
"Jennie!" Asey took another
breath. "Jen-nle!
"Look here," the girl said sharp
ly, "you've got to atop that din!
I can assure you that there is no
one named Jennie here!"
"Asey! A-aeyl"
"Who'a that?" the girl de
manded. "That" Aaey aaid, "la Jennie.
Ahoy, Jennie, where are you?"
"Upstairs! Come up here, Aseyl
I got her, right here!
The girl ducked down, opened
the low-swinging cupboard doors,
squeezed herself through them,
and ran over to the staircase in
front of Asey.
"Absolutely, you can't go up "
"Aside, youngster," Asey said,
and took the stairs three at a time.
He found Jennie on her knees
with her eyes focused on the key
hole of a room down the corridor
to his right
"Whats coin' on.. 'Jennie?
What're you glued to that keyhole
ior? wnoa in mere?
Jennie put ber flnier to her IIds.
"Sshh!" she said. "She's in this
bedroom! Right in here! Sshh!
"What's the use of shushlnT
Asey wanted to know. "Between
your yells an' mine. I guess some-
Doay Knows we re in mis general
vicinity! Jennie, who'a in there?
What you been doin ? '
"Look!" Jennie got to her feet
and held out something she'd
picked up from the floor beside
her. Look!
Asey took the white-stltched
leather pocketbook from her and
glanced at the initials.
"O.E.B. Thls'a the on from the
phone booth?"
"Listen," Misa Doane had been
desperately trying to get a word
in edgewaya. "Listen, will the two
of you simply atop this and"
"Oh," Asey said. "I forgot you.
Go downstairs, will you, an' phone
Hanson of the state police, an' Doc
Cummlngs, the medical examiner,
over in Wellfleet Tel' 'em Asey
Mayo wants 'em at the Whale Inn
right away. Hurry, will you? Now,
Jennie, wnat'd you take this from
the phone booth for?"
"I never did, Aseyl I took It
from her!" she pointed toward the
door at whose keyhole ah had
been watching.
Misa Doane broke In before
Asey had a chance to speak.
Th Pocketbook
yOU don't look like Asey
1 Mayo!" she said. "I've seen In
numerable pictures of him. He
weara a yachting cap, and a duck
coat with lota of little pockets,
and he carriea a gun. And, besides,
he's in Washington right this min
nute! I saw a picture of him in the
paper this morning, shaking hands
with people who make engines
or something!"
"I'm back, Asey Informed her,
"an" these are my city clothes.
Now, hustle with those calls, will
you?"
"Well all right" But ahe still
looked skeptical as she turned and
walked back along the hall to the
tairs.
"Now, Jennie," Aser went on,
"let me get this straightened out
What's the story on this pocket
bonk, anyway?"
"I tell you, I took It from the
woman that's in the bedroom in
there! 1 didn't take it from th
phone booth woman!"
Asey sighed.
"Let's start at th heglnnln',"
he said patiently. . "Somebody
knocks over a bucket of elama, an'
I ruth out into the rain. What did
you do then?"
"The minute you left" Jennie
aaid. "I somehow begun to feel
awful acared an' trembly. All
alone there with those candles
flickerin", an' her In that booth!
Why, for a minute or two, I Just
ahook! An' then I shut th closet
door, an' then I begun to . .
little better. An' then in .
come!"
"Who?" Asey demanded. "Thi
Doane girl that was just here?"
"No, no, no! Th woman at the
red lights! The one with the um
brella! The one"
"Look, Jennie," Asey said sooth
ingly, "I don't blame you for bein'
confused. I tell you what I'll do.
I'll phone Sam over at the garage
an' have him drive my roadster
here an' take you home. You need
to lie down. You had a hard day
even before you got to this place,
an' what'a happened since hasn't
made it any easier. I'm not a bit
surprised you seen a ghost! Come
on downstairs, an' I'll call Sam."
It waa not until he took hold of
Jennie'a arm that Asey realized
his error. The sudden gleam in
Jennie's eyes was not gratitude
for his consideration, but sheer,
unadulterated anger.
"You think I'm a fool, Asey
Mayo? You think I don't know
what I seen? You think I don't
know what I'm talkin' about? I
tell you, it was that woman, an' it
wasn't no ghost!"
"You mean, ahe recognized you,
an' spoke to you?" Asey asked.
Jennie shook her head.
"She walked straight past me,
Asey! Never said a word. I don't
think she knew I was there!
Straight past me, an' across that
livin' room, an' up the stairs!"
"What did you do?" Asey de
manded. "Did you speak to her, or
put out your hand an' touch her?
what did you say?"
"I was so flabbergasted," Jennie
said, "I didn't do a thing but gape,
an' I think my eyes nearly popped
out of my head, Asey. They ain't
felt right aince. Why there one
minute I'd closed the door of that
booth, an' the next minute there
she was, com in' in the front door
an' walkin' past me! I thought it
was a ghost first. But that woman
wai just as real as could be."
"Honest Jennie, d'you "
"I kept thinkin' of things to
say," Jennie went on. "Only they
all stuck in my throat She was
halfway up the stairs before I
could unloosen my tongue an' find
my voice. Then I let out a scream.
A good loud scream. It even scared
me! Scared her, too. She went up
the rest of the stairs like a streak
of greased lightning. Then I come
to an' rushed up the stairs after
her. An' right on the stairs was
this pocketbook here. I guess that
proves she was real, don't it?
Ghosts don't cary pocketbooksl"
"An" She Dripped!"
ASEY restrained himself from
remarking that ghosts had
been known to carry far stranger
objects than ladies' handbags.
"Huh," he said. "Then you didn't
actually take this bag from her,
did you, Jennie? You just found
it on the stairs."
"Same thing!" Jennie retorted.
"She dropped it when I let out
that scream! Don't you look so
doubtful, Asey. She had on that
(elt hat an' that tweed coat I tell
you, it was her."
Asry frowned, and played with
the clasp on the pocketbook.
"An" you saw her go into this
room?" he asked, as he casually
opened the pocketbook and peered
inside. "Where is she now?'1
"Oh, I didn't see her go in, be
cause she reached the top of the
stairs before I even got started,"
Jennie said. "But I know she's in
this room. This is the way she ran.
An' I been in every room on this
floor that'a unlocked, an' I listened
outside every room that's locked,
an' this is where she is. I heard
a nisllin' sound. Twice."
There's nothln' in this pocket
book," Asey said. "It's empty. Tell
me. Just where did you And it?"
"On the curve of the stairs, to
one side, just where she dropped
it when 1 yelled." Jennie told him.
"An' I wish vou'd stoD askin' a lot
of fool questions an' either tell her
to come out, or break that door in.
I knocked an' banged, but she
didn't pay a speck of attention!"
Asev reached out and raooed
his knuckles against the door.
"A self-respectin' flea," Jennie
said with scorn, "wouldn't hear
that knockin . An if it did, it
wouldn't Dav anv attention to it!
Tell her to come out here!"
Will the occupant of Room
rive," Asey said, "be good enough
to open the door?"
Nothing happened.
Asey repeated his reauest and
then he drew a long breath.
Honest Jennie, don t you think
that maybe perhaps it was Just
possibly an imaginary woman.
sort of a picture in your mind?"
"I do not! sh dropped that
pocketbook!"
"Maybe. But someone mleht'v
been goin' out in a hurry, an' shift
ed things from one pocketbook to
another 1 v known you to do
that Jennie an' left the empty
bag on the stairs."
"I tell you.
the dropped It! An'
she dripped!"
she was?'
"She dripped rain. Sh was
wet."
"Let me tell you what 1 think."
Asey said, "an' don't interrupt ma
till I get through. I think it was
perfectly natural, after your clos
ln' the door of that phone closet
to look up an' think you seen that
woman s image. Most likely you
did."
Jennie's lips pursed themselv
Into a thin, stubborn line.
To be eenUnacd
FREIGHTER LAUNCHED
Portland, Nov. 24 P The
John Barry, fifth liberty freight
er launched In Portland In the
emergency shipbuilding pro-
Timely Tuff-Twist
Suits hold thair lhap
and won't wrinkl
$39.00
Sold only at
73aXk$C4
fstor for Moo v
gram, entered the Willamette
river from Oregon Shipbuilding
corporation ways yesterday. A
sixth is scheduled for launching
next Sunday.
SMELTER HOPE DASHED
St. Helens, Or., Nov. 24 ?)
Th OPM advised the Colum
bia county central labor council
today to forget its hopes for an
Iron smelter here. Edwin M.
Martin, assistant to the chair
man of th OPM plant ait
board, wrote that the necessity
for speed in inci easing iron pro
duction forced expansion of ex
isting facilities Instead of new
construction.
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BRINGS LUCK
Perth, Australia. (JP) An
noyed because he continued to
tub his toe on a jagged piece of
rock on the way to hli camp,
Thomas Starr, a prospector in
Kalgoorlie, applied his pick and
shovel. On breaking th rock
out of its earthy bed he noticed
yellow gleam on the underside.
He had the atone assayed and
found that it contained gold
worth $875.
Cy Young, one - of baseball!
immortals, was traded to th
old Cleveland team for a suit
of clothes.
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS
by JOHN HIX
RESTLESS AUDIENCE
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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seat of a chair. Symbolising A-.hanti national unity and spiritual existence, it has never been
aat upon by anyone In more than four centuries of its reoorJed history. In 1900 th British
governor of th Gold Coast dananded Its surrender and th Ashanti declared war. Later,
when they had been subjugated, th stool had diiappeared. Mor than 25 years later tha
lders of th tribe retrieved it from its hiding place and rebuilt It. With rare understand
ing th British colonial government decided never to demand its surrender again.
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