PAGE 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
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HOME AGAIN
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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if IV WW 1
COMES URS1M5, CfiWHb
CHKRlW fO WIFE iHAf
HE'S HOME FROM YHE
OFFICE
6tfe HO ANSWER. HEARS
R0NNIK6 FULL
FORCE In BATHTUB ASP
CAU IS THflf SHE IN
There ?
pirtsMoofn close -to-poor
AND SHOUfS AGAIN1.
FirJAllV 6EfllH6 A REPlV
WHICH HE CANT MAKE Ol)f
SHOlWS HE CANT HEAR!.
WHAf SHE'5 SaM6 WrtH
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BEPROOM 10 CHANGE
MOMEKtTWIFE UlRNS
OFF WATER AfJD CALL5
SOMETHING HE IS NOW TOO
FAR AWAV To MAKE OOT
RUSHK To BRIM ROOM
CflLLlHS WHAT DID SHE
sbv, wife hmk6 mem
Wile Turned water
ON ACAiN
WIFE SH0CT5 FOR PifVS
sake. whhT is if, while
HE SHOOft NEVER MIND,
IT DCfSNtf MATTER.
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OUT OF TUB AND OPENS POOJf.
EXPLAINS TO HER HE JUST
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Plan To Salvage
Wrecked Bridge
Washington, Nov. 28. (JP)
The OPM announced plans to
day to salvage approximately
3,500 tons of scrap steel from
the wreckage of the Tacoma
Narrows bridge which collapsed
in November, 1940.
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
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XVy,!m AND WILLIAM LEA OF h)VhCfjYI
' tf-'&tS ENGLAND PUAVEP kkaUk$&2&
f .Vf V CORRESPONDENCE GAME rtjr
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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)
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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.
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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
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