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tXGE FOTJRTETTO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1941. by Phoebe Atwood Taylor Chapter Ten Body In A Trunk "WELL," Alfred laid Judicially, ' "it would, ma'am, but for the take of the trunk. I think I'd better set a ipade and a (hovel and bury it like we planned, tonight After all, Mrs. Clutterfleld, we don't want anyone to find' that body in our trunk. Remember that old lady in Bar Harbor, and tne trou ble we had there. Cost us quite a tidy turn in bribes before we was through, that time, and all because we didn't bury the body proper." Asey pulled himself together and took a step forward, and then he paused as the front door of the Inn opened and Mrs. Doane (merged to inquire from the top step if Mrs. Clutterfleld was all right. "Quite, thank you," Mrs. Clut terfleld told her with icy pome' Bess. "The elams came, after all,' Mrs. Doane said brightly. "You should have stayed here for din ner. I told you I thought they'd come. "Really?" Mrs. Clutterfleld said. "I had an excellent meal at the Country Club, thank you. Very good clams, and no waiting." She turned suddenly and walked down the steps and got back into the car. "Aren't you coming in?" Mrs. Doane sounded lainuy worried. "I have changed my mind," Mrs. Clutterfleld announced. "I am going to accompany Alfred on an errand. 1 may be quite late. Asey didn't jump for the car at once. His plan was to saunter up about the time tnat Airred was bundling Mrs. Clutterfleld up with the lap robe, and request some explanations before either of them could recover their poise. . But his plan didn't even begin to work out. It never had a chance. With a speed that Asey never expected from a man of Alfred's wide girth, Alfred adjusted the lap robe, got in front, started the car, and had it rolling around the driveway turntable and out of the Inn grounds almost before Mrs. Doane had the front door shut, nd seconds before Asey thought of moving. "Flat foot!" Asey muttered In disgust "Ole flat foot, that's what you are! There was no excuse for him. But at least he thousht as he rrossed from the clump of lilacs to an arbor on the other side of the drive, at least Mrs. Clutter field's license-olate numbers were engraved for all time on his mind. and there still might be time, when Hanson came, to look into this fantastic business of Mrs. Clutter field and her man Friday. From where he stood he could see Mrs. Doane talking to Freddy in the livinc room, and Asev found himself wondering just what would happen if he were to barge in and demand to be shown the body at once. With almost any other woman, and in almost any other house, his bluff would prob bly work. But at the thought of tne combination of Mrs. Doane and all that mare of ells, Asey shook his head. He had nothing to back up his bluff, and they could deny everything till the cows eame home. It would be bet ter to wait for Hanson and see what effect his brass buttons and official manner might produce. Idea A SEY leaned against the arbor. To him, the time element was itill the most puzzling thing about the removal of that woman body. It the girl Freddy actually had gone directly downstairs and phoned Hanson when he told her to, and if she had stayed there In the living room until her mother returned, that margin of eight or nine minutes would be sharply reduced to only two or three. The thing, Asey thought smacked of Thurston and Mulholland and HoudlnL A woman was in a box. You saw her in a box. Then, pres to! The box was empty and the woman gone. "Mayo," he said suddenly aloud, "you're a fnoll That's what hap pened here!" He could see now, as he looked cross at the Inn, that the ell in which the telephone booth was located, at the left of the living room, was far wider than the mere width of the booth. It was cer tainly three times the width of the booth. Asey grinned with pleasure as he strode across the driveway. The tide of the telephone closet op posite the door opened, and he ought to have known as much, even in candlelight and with a body against it lie had a closet at home in Wellfleet, under his front stairs, that could be entered from the hall on one side and from his sitting room on the other. Neither any latch nor hinges had been visible here at the Inn, but another door was the answer. Asey felt sure it hsd to be. He went close to the little win dow in the ell and was reaching lip to unhook the screen when the lights conveniently flashed on in side. Before he ducked down. Asey aw all that he needed to convince him that, for the first time this evening, he had managed to hit the nail on the head. The telephone booth backed onto a narrow hall, and on the opposite side of that hall was a se ries of doors, apparently leading into closets, which Asey found himself yearning to explore. He looked up cautiously to And Mrs. Doane in the hall, removing a dustpan and brush from one of the closets. Then she turned her head and listened to some sound in the house, hurriedly returned the dustpan and brush to their place, and slipped away, leaving the lights on. A few seconds later, rather to Asey's amazement, Mrs. Hingham slipped into the hall, walked along to the rear door of the phone booth, flipped a latch, and went inside. tven from the brief glimpse h had of her face, Mrs. Hingham didn't look to Asey like a woman suffering intensely from migraine. She looked to him rather like a woman suffering from intense bad temper. She looked even angrier when she came out of the phone booth. Asey looked after her thought fully as she flounced up the nar row halt He had eliminated Mrs. Hing ham from his mental list of people who might have removed the body from the phone booth, but now that he turned the matter over in his mind, it occurred to him that Mrs. Hingham, after sailing out of her room past Jennie and him self, had not appeared again until the conclusion of Mrs. Doanes lec ture to her daughter. Nervous Landlady MRS. DOANE was tiptoeing back into the hallway now, and a look of irritation crossed her face as a car horn sounded in the driveway. Asey could see how hard she gritted her teetb as sh again departed. He turned and looked expect antly at the headlights of the ar riving car. It ought to be Hanson, but it would be all right with him if it turned out to be the over stuffed Mrs. Clutterfleld and her nimble-footed yes man. That pair, Asey frankly admitted to himself, were preying on his mind more than Mrs. Hingham, Mrs. Doane, and Washy the Biffer all put to gether. But the car which drew up to the front door was a custom-built Porter which he recognized as be longing to Quisset's leading citi zen, Judge Houghton, a frequent visitor at the Porter house. His passenger, a tall, bearded man, jumped out after a brief conversa tion, ran up the steps and into the Inn. At least, Asey thought as the Judge's car swung around the turntable, the Whale Inn possessed one guest who seemed to be nor mal, without headaches or with out a body that required burial. He felt less sure of that conclu sion a moment later when the bearded man came out walked down the steps, and looked cau tiously to the left and right as if he expected something ferocious lurking in the bushes to leap oul and jump at him. Then, staring down at tht gravel, the man walked slowly along the driveway. "Lost somethin'? Asev Inaulred as the man passed by him. With a start, the man looked up located Asey, and smiled. "Yes, a cigarette lighter," hi said. "Last time I lost it, a heavy rain turned it up-I say, I know youl Mayo. Asey Mayo, isn't it! I thought so. I called on you ones a couple of summers ago. Remember?" "I was trvln' to nlaca vom beard." Asey made his way around a flower bed and walked over to the man. "First I thought you was Bill f orter's explorer friend. But you're the genealogist ain't you?" - inais rignt nankin la the name. Jonathan Rankin. Ha shook hands with Asey. "I'm pleased you remember me. I re member our chat about the Mayo family, and also your excellent cousin Jennie, wasn't it? She fed us hot sugar gingerbread and told me more about the Mayos in an hour than I'd learned in ail months. What in the world an you doing here. Mayo?" 'U' A 1 I.J - 11..,. ,, nJjr umwira lime, It's sort of an involved atorv. Mr. Rankin. It's my impression that there's been a murder here, but" -wnat!" "Ilh-huh. But right now." Asev went on dryly, "if you wai to ask me inr proor, 1 a look awlul silly." v nai oo you mean, man? Asey smiled. "I mean we hail a body In a phone booth, an' now it ain't" 'lou mean It'a enne?" Rankle demanded. "Where?" "It mitht not seem that wir ta you, Asey said, "but that's what I'm tryin' to find out right this minute. Look, you're stayin' here, mi your men, n added at Rankin nodded, "will you. for Pete's takes, tell me somethin' about this setup?" "The Inn? Oh. it's rather a de. cent place. I've put up hen off and on for Ave or six yean Tell me, who'j been killed? If you asked my Cousin Jen nie." Asey said, "she'd tell you i was a woman she seen first alivi an' then dead, an' then walki past her. But don't let's go in that right now." Te be Mntlnaea MESSERSMITH CHOICE AS ENVOY TO MEXICO Washington, Nov. 28. W George S. 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