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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1941. by Phoebe Atwood Taylor Chapter Eight Brief Retreat HE EXPECTED that Jennie would register an immediate protest against a retreat, but Jen nie waited until they were on the top step and the door had been alam.Tied to behind them by Mrs. Dnane before she let out a loud sniff of indignation. "Asey, you loin' to stand for this?" "Nope," Asey laid. "Climb Into the truck while I pack up our clams. I just wanted to fee how anxious she was to get us out of the way." "What you goin' to do?" You don't intend to leave, not knowin' what become of that woman in the phone booth!" 'wa-el, Asey said, "to make Mrs. Doane feel good, we'll leave temporarily. Right now, I think It's best that she thinks she's won. Later" "Later what?" Jennie asked after Asey had returned the clams to the truck and got in himself. "Asey, what happened to that Body? that woman s Doay was in that phone booth when you an' I come, an' it was there when I closed that door! "Uh-huh." Asey'a foot bore down on the starter. "An' it was there when I come back from rushin around outside. Lets see. 1 was gone fifteen minutes or so. Huh. I probably come back around six-twenty-five, I'd say. It was only six-forty when we left the livin' room just now, an' we'd been downstairs listenin' to Mrs. Doane talkin' to her daughter for four or five minutes. 1 think, Jen nie, this kind of resolves itself Into what you might call a time problem." "I don't see how It's'any time problem." Jennie said as Asey backed the truck out of the Inn driveway. "Seems to me as if it was more of a body problem. Asey, where did that body go7 Asey chuckled. "It didn't go. It got moved, Jen- Dle." "Where? Ain't you goln' to try an' find it? Where are you goin , anyway?" "I'm goin' to turn this corner," Asey said, "an" park the truck. Then you're goin to the nearest store, an' phone Hanson up at the barracks. I got a suspicion that girl Freddy didn't phone him. You find out. If Hanson's there, tell him where the truck is, an' then go back an' wait for him. When he comes, tell him what's hap pened. If they say at the barracks that he's on his way you try an' hail him when he goes past. By rights, he ought to go past here. ''An' just where are you goin'?" "Back to the Inn," Asey said, "to sort of meander around. I got a hunch. You know, Jennie, no matter how you look at it, some one only had at the most about eight or nine minutes to move that body in. That'd be from the time after I looked in there, be fore I bellowed for you, till the time we come downstairs after rousin' that Mrs. what was her Dame? "Hingham. An' you know what? i minx i Know who she It, Jen nie said. "I heard 'em talkin' about her at the Sewin' Circle. She's the one that's been divorced 10 many times an' has ail that money an' " Plans "I'M GOIN to park right here," Asey aaid, "an" I only hope Syl's lights last They're the fee blest lights I ever seen on a four wheeled vehicle. The point about all thia body-movin', Jennie, is that people didn't have much time." "Who moved It? An' why didn't aomeone see 'em?" Jennie de manded. "Why, after you come upstairs, that girl went right down again, didn't she? She was there!" "We took It for granted that she was," Asey said, "but I don't know." "You think she moved It?" Asey smiled. "You ever move a body, Jennie?" "I should hope, not!" "Wa-el," Asey said, "It ain't one of the easiest things in this world to do. Not for one person. Unless you was a city fireman, say, or an ambulance worker, or had some kind of apecial trainin' in luggin" people by yourself, I should think it would take a good eiaht or nine minules for you to figure out where to start hoistin'. That phone booth would add a kind of conflnin' angle, too. Some how, Jennie, I don't think that body's gone so far that with a little meanderin' I can't locate It You net started, now, an" call Hanson." "I don't suppose," Jennie said tentatively, "it could hava been h'.T I seen." "You still think you aeen some one walk through that room?" "I still know I did'" "Don't try to tell Hanson about II. Asey aaid. "There's no use confusin him at the start Oh before you go. You better call Sam at the garage home an' have him drive my roadster over. He can hang around till Hanson's come, an' then driva you back in the truck, or he can drive you back in the roadster. Figure it out between you, but get my car here." Jennie protested vigorously at his suggestion that she go home in any sort of vehicle at all. "Why, the idea of my leavln' now!" she said. "1 want to know what happens! I don't want to go kitin' home now!" "What about your poor husband an his sprained ankle?" Asey in quired. Jennie uttered a little cry of remorse. "I forgot all about hlml An the poor man ain't had a speck of supperl Oh, my goodness! 1 guess Sam had better drive me right home in your roadster but Asey, you'll phone me when you find out what become of that poor woman, won t you? Asey promised that he would. "Hustle along an' call Hanson, now," he added. Jennie took a step or two along the sidewalk path, and then aha stopped. "Seems too bad, don't It, Asey, that she thought up that plan?-If she'd just been content to wait right there an' been late for her date, maybe she wouldn't ever have been killed at alL I s'pose it goes to show you that you shouldn't ever fry to plan ways to change the course of things." "Hey, wait!" Asey said. "Jennie, you mean that she thought up that hat-tossin' an' not you?" Jennie was surprised at his amazement, and she said so. "Why, I thought you knew she thought it up! It was her idea, but I said I'd better do it instead of her, an' then if there was any fuss, why it would come out all right for me because you was there. I told you all that, Asey I" A Little Light " TH-HUH, only you didn't both er to add that it was her original idea. What was this date she was so all-fired anxious to get lor um sne leu your Jennie shook her head. "No. she lust aaid she didn't want to be late, an' it was very important that she was on time. an if only she could manage to get across tnat Intersection, she Knew she could get there on time. Course, I thought she meant that once she was across, she could rip an tear along to Provincetown, but I guess what she really meant was that once she lot oast the soldiers with the lanterns, she hoped she could cut across thai Army string at the next turn. Asey, I think It's awful strange." Jennie's plaintive reactions, he thought as he walked rapidly along, were certainly justified. He felt thwarted himself. But after vou thought thlnsa out, they weren't nearly as con tusing as they appeared. Not to be sure, that they made sense. But they at least made more sense than they had at first It hadn't seemed possible to him at first that the woman at the four comers could get back to the Inn netore ho and Jennie reached there In the truck. She had given me detinue impression of want ing to go in an entirely different direction. She actually had start ed out in that direction. But it was easy to see how, on being held up by the Arm v. ahe might have aaid she wanted to go straight ahead even though her goal actually was the Inn. She had wit enough to know that her chance of being permitted to go straight ahead was greater than her chance of being allowed to cut across the column. Once past the intersec tion, she had probahly taken the first left turn, cutting cast the stalled Army, stepped on the gas. and been back inside the Whale Inn before he himself had finished picking up Jennie from the oddo- site corner. That the woman could have been shot in the phone booth of the Inn's living room without someone having discovered her or having heard the shot also seemed incredible at first But that situa tion was clearing up. Mra. Doane had been nut on the road some where, waiting to get gasoline for her car. The Doane girl had been outside somewhere, trying to fix up the Delco system. Neither of them had mentioned or sum moned any other servants or stalT, so it seemed reasonable to assume that none were around. Prnbahlv. so early in the season, the Inn wasn't overburdened with guests and the staff was correspondingly small. So, the woman from the four corners had come Into the empty, candle-lit living room, gone to the phone booth, and been shot Asey dismissed Jennie's vision of her walking across the living room, and attacked the problem of who could have moved that body in so short a time. He shook his head and mentally checked off the clam-tripper. The hearty bald man who was trying to snare his chicken thief was too far away. That left the Dnanes. mother and daughter, .and Mrs. Hingham. whom Asey at once eliminated. Asey considered the Doanes. The girl, he decided, was out. Ta be eentlnatd On the Radio Chains STATIONS! Chain affiliation aaS waera thry are on the dlult K4I.E XHal rortlane RtX (NHC-Hlue) 1 1 no. Portland: tut (NHC-BIlM MHa I.MU Spokane; KliO (Mtl'-Hlue) Sill dan rranrlpwo; KI1W (NrlC-Hrdl 82(1, Portland; KJH MM.'-Hlurl looO. Kratlle: kSX (CBit) 1010 Im Anfeln: KOA (KHC'-Hrd) K.MI Uenter; Mils (IBS) )o, Port land; HOMO (MM:-Krd eta. 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Officials previously had said the damaged bridge structure and cables would be droDDed into Puget sound because it was believed the cost of reclama tion exceeded the immediate scrap value of the metal. Las Mall TrlOuu want ad. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS by JOHN HIX 53Si!fev Lff!aJ5X'' r Roman women . x VXSyj Ovi r often Htvo pesows v3tri V SvX ON THE S0t5 OF A Gem of the 'Sea ) iheibsahoaw ivi SP0fMP0SEP fJ -VfAR CHESS 5AMe yj XVy,!m AND WILLIAM LEA OF h)VhCfjYI ' tf-'&tS ENGLAND PUAVEP kkaUk$&2& f .Vf V CORRESPONDENCE GAME rtjr ' ' iJi OF CHESS LASTING r tf&jYljlyJ&lf 'j''.'-.. V t&i' Lr V FROM NOVEM5Efc?1870lpy,f "" '.'7 I A Ki I TO FEBRUARV Wll r .z7r 'Zik s&u -v v a M tr r ifler V- e. M frptf RopucTiom AteS. GRIFFIN MARTIN A gUSV CIVIC LEADER, N ZSS TWAN A YEAR KNITTED 96 SWEATERS. 3b CAPS, 11 PAIRS OF SOCK'S, 2b PAIR OF MITTENS, 2 SCARVES AND A MUFFLER WORKING ONLY IN HER SPARE TIME VP the Red Cf oss and Bundles fornlain) - Octcber Gas Sales Largest in History Salem, Nov. 28. JP Gaso line sales In Oregon during Oct ober totaled 27,377.370 gallons, largest October figure In his tory, and a gain of 4,182.433 gallons over the same month State Ring the (Xmas) Bell with a new Timely Suit $38 to $48 Store for Mta last year, Secretary of Earl Sncll said today. Sales for the first 10 months of 1941 were a record high of 251, 324.777 gallons, a gain of 31.102.338 gallons over the sim ilar period of 1940. Gas tax col lections during the IB months were $12.5(16.2.19. a gnln of $1. 333,118 ovrr the similar period last year, and more than the collections for all of 1939. In the United States more persons die at age 71 than at any other age. except in the first year of life. The age group 13 to 19 years now contains more persons than any other five-year age period, according to 1940 census figures. Lurien Muratore, retired op era singer, was once mayor of town in France. LI'L ABNER No. No, No Notll ll-7b KNITTIN' FOR BRITAIN "It's the minutes that count," says Mrs. Griffin Martin, speaking of her vast knitting output in the space of less than a ynt. She carries her needles and yarn with her through a busy day devoted to many civic and social affairs. JEWEL OF THE DEEP The Venus flower-baiket sponge, found at great depths In East Asiatic waters. Is com posed of a delicate meshwork of glassy-like fibers and spicules of silicic acid. The forma tion of one ounce of such spicules by one of these creatures uses all the silica in a ton of sea waterl Tomorrow: Too Hot to Handlel Br At, CAPP Hnr-ALTHOUOH FOR TWO WEEKS WE'VE FORBIDDEN Hill ANY FATTEJ1ING FOODS -HE SEEMS TO BE GETTING LOOSE. AND FLABBY AROUND THE MFCK- AND -THAT'S BAD T ) - J A GULP.r- AH D-DO A LI'L ICEBOX FtAIDIN' NIGHTS. DON T EAT MUCH THOUGH.' tiUST ONt SANG- WIDlot. A NIGHXT ONE SANDWICH.' 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