PAGE EIGHT
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1941.
by Phoebe Atwood Taylor i
Chapter 11
Kumping Rankin
TOW look. Mayo, who has been
i killed," Rankin demanded.
"Elissa Hiniham?"
"What makes you think (he
miKht've been?" Asey countered
with another question.
"You've heard of people who
were born to be killed, haven't
you?" Rankin aaid. "Well. Eliua
It one of those. She'i been asking
to be killed all her life, and I
shouldn't be at all surprised to
find her lifeless body crumpled
in a little heap somewhere, un
der the present circumstances.
Was It Elissa?"
"What do you mean by the
present circumstances?" Asey
wanted to know.
Rankin took a few steps down
the driveway.
"Right around her Is where I
lost that lighter," ha said. "I bad
my raincoat slung over my shoul
der, and it popped out of the
pocket ahal I thought I'd find
He bent over and picked
something up from the side of the
driveway.
"What about tha present cir
cumstances?" Asey persisted.
"See?" Rankin displayed a
small chromium Docket lighter,
"I mean .ler husband. Mavo. And
if you don't know about him.
then I don't think ii waa Elissa
after all. And If there's really
been trouble here. I'm not going
to prejudice you against her by
bandying her private life about
If she hasn't been killed., her
domestic problems don't matter.
I wish you'd tell me I say, it
wasn t Lady Boop, was 117
"Who?"
: Rankin laughed.
That's my own private name
for Mrs. Clutterfleld. Violet Clut
terfleld. You know her, don't
rou? You don t? Really? Mayo,
m beginning to think that you
don t get around mucn in yuiS'
set's UDDer crustl"
"I don't," Asey told him. Tor
tne last six months, i vi Deen so
busy trailin' Bill Porter around
that I haven't even been on the
Cape at all very much. I know
some folks here, of course, but
Ouisset't never been a town I
seem to get to, somehow, an' if
I do. I Just pass through it with
out noticin' if it's got an upper
crust or a meringue, ieu me
about Lady Boop an' look, let's
stroll down the drive a bit so's
we ain't quite so visible from the
Inn."
"About the only place you're
visible from now, Rankin said,
"is my bathroom window. Why
don't you want to be seen?"
"I'm tryin' out the enough-rope
theory," Asey said. "It bein' about
ill i can ao till lieutenant nan
son of the state cops shows up.
What about Lady Boop?"
Rankin smoothed his neat Van
tyke and looked at Asey reflec
tively. "D you think It's entirely fair,"
he asked, "to pump me this way.
without telling me who's been
killed? I can only give you my
opinions, which are largely
oiased, and might not coincide at
fll with someone else's opinions,
or all I know, I may be either
maligning the dead or supping a
aoosa around someone' throat I
You're out of sight here, by the
way, but you can still get a pretty
good view of the place, if that s
what you're after.
"It is." Asey paused by a clump
of pines and looked back at tha
Inn. "I'm also after a kind of
panoramic view of tha people
here; I want to get 'em sorted out
in my mind. An' like I told you,
I dnn't even know who the body
Is that we haven't got But I'm
considerably interested in Lady
Boop."
Lady Boop
"IVELL, she' a large, plushy
' lady," Rankin said, "whose
husband died ten years ago and
left her a fortune, and since then
her mother and two sisters have
all died and left her their for
tunes. Also a grandmother and a
fireat-aunt. And last month, I be
teve it was another great-aunt
who contributed. As Freddy
Doane quipped, everyone who
goes to their reward seems to
kick hack a good share to Lady
Boop."
"Rich as that, is she?"
"She pays more taxes annual
ly." Kankin said with a trace of
bitterness, "than you and I will
ever earn in all our lives. I can
easily picture her dying of
apoplexy, but I suppose people
with all that money are a con
stant invitation and challenge to
murderers. Was it Lady Boop?
Because if It wasn't, by the pro
ws of elimination, that leaves
only Horace and "
"Hey!" Asey said suddenly,
'What's the matter?"
Asry drew Rankin back Into
the shadow of the pines and
pointed up toward the roof of
the Inn.
"Look up there. D'you see
somebody on the catwalk by the
small chimney?"
Rankin put on a pair of glasses
"Yes! Yes. I do! It's a woman!
For God's sakes, it's Elissat What's
she up to?"
"Not so loud!" Asey cautioned.
"She's craiyl She can't get
down from there) What's she do
ing'" Shush!" Asey said. "She'll
hear!"
"She's dragging something
Mnvo," Rankin said in horror,
"if a bodyl"
"Can't bet" Asey seemed to be
trying to convince himself rather
than Rankin. "Can't be!"
"It certainly is a bodyl" Rankin
insisted.
Asey peered up at the root
When the wind blew them ust
the right way, the leaves of the
maple trees in front of the Inn
swayed and let the street light
shine on the figure on the cat
walk. It was Mrs. Hingham, all
right, although she'd changed her
billowing, satin house coat for
something more practical. A
trench coat or a polo coat, it
looked like. And she certainly
was dragging something.
But it couldn't be a body, Asey
told himself. At least, it couldn't
be the body he and Jennie had
seen. That had been downstairs,
and its removal up a flight of
stairs was a physical feat beyond
the ability of Mrs. Hingham. It
couldn't be the body, and yet
Asey couldn't imagine what Mrs.
Hingham was alternately tugging
and dragging at if it wasn t a
body.
"Rankin." he said suddenly.
"would there be an elevator in
the Inn?"
Two of 'em. Let's
Two?" Asey asked in sur
prise. One was unusual enough
in a lap inn.
"One to the dining room, and
one in the alcove off the living
room. For the aged and gouty.
They're more what you'd call lifts
than elevators. Mayo, let's go and
look into this!
Hanson Arrive
ASEY took hi arm and pulled
him back.
"Wait."
"For the love of God, what
for?"
"If w surprise her now," Asey
said, "I have a horrid feelin that
by the time we get to the Inn
we'll find Mrs. Hingham back in
her bed, sufterin' terrible with
migraine."
"So she' been pulling her mi
graine act again, has she?" Ran
kin demanded. "Hml But we can
see her! She can't deny being
there when the two of us saw
her there!"
"Maybe she can't," Asey said,
"but I bet you she will. Wait, Mr.
Rankin. Wait an' see what she's
aimin' to do. After all this to-do.
I want to see what her underlyin
plan waa."
Rankin said - In exasperated
tones that he didn't see that wait
ing and watching and generally
prolonging the agony would get
Asey or anybody else anywhere
at all.
"Get her." he added, "get the
body, and get to the root of the
thing!"
"ill admit it's sort of the first
lmDulse vou let." Asev said. "But
consider. If she rinds a body in
her room, say, an' she thinks it's
the best thing to put the body
elsewhere, she 11 probably drag ft
along to that adjoin in' sun deck
an' leave it there. Could happen,
you know. But, on the other
hand, if it's a body she's responsi
ble lor, as you might say, she
probably got some idea of re
movin' It to as far distant a place
as she can manage. The more ef
fort she makes to take it away.
an' the further she takes it, the
redder her hands are, an' the
harder it's coin' to be for her
to deny anythin'. Then you really
got her."
"I think that' nonsense," Ran
kin said flatly.
' Maybe so, but you, Asey said,
ain't seen what I seen tonight
in the line of bodies bein' one
place one minute an' elsewhere
the next, an' nobody seemin'ly
knowin' anythin' about it, or
bein" involved witn it. now that
I got someone with a body. I
want to run 'em to the ground
with It. I think what in time!"
She running back to that
eave door!" Rankin said. "Some
thing's frightened her!"
-Asey pointed to the man march
ing down the middle of the
driveway.
It s Hanson! Golly, he would
turn up now!" he said. "If he
goes bargin' into the Inn, he'll
spoil everything. An' if Mrs.
Hingham spot us rushln' up an'
hailin' him, that won't work out,
neither hey. gimme your little
lighter, quick, will you?"
Rankin looked puzzled, but h
dropped the lighter in Asey'
outstretched hand, and Asey
promptly raised hi arm and
pitched the lighter straight at
Hanson.
It hit him on the shoulder, and
Hanson stopped and looked
around him curiously.
"Keep on walKin', Hanson,
Asey sstd as ha neared them.
"Don't stop. Keep walkin' about
six feet more, an' .hen turn
around an' march out the way
you come. Go down the road a
far as that locust grove, then cir
cle around back here to us so'
vou won't be seen from the Inn.
We'll wait here. I'll explain
later."
Hanson obeyed without Ques
tion.
Dttou mind my saylr.g." Ran
kin sounded amused, "that thia
seems really rather involved?"
"Nope," Asey told him, "1
don't mind a speck. It is involved.
But 1 hope it s going to have a
simple endin', which you wouldn't
get if you barged inside the Inn
right now an started slattin'
around, yellin' for explanations.
Think of all the Ooanes an' Mrs.
Hingham, all denyin an amrmin
an' talking at once."
T MBttaat.
More than 43,000 campers
made use of public camp
grounds in national parks In
western Canada during July
and August.
Warm, wrinkle-free fleece
overcoats with tha new
water proofing process.
$27.00
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Available In Pacific
London, Nov. 29. ?) Unit
ed States aid in the battle of the
Atlantic has enabled Britain to
delegate to the Pacific the sort
of ships (that Is, battleships)
needed to meet a "really great
naval power." an authoritative
source said tonight.
The Informant meant Japan,
whose strength in capital ship
la far superior to that of the
Italian or German navies.
Against the axis Britain needs
lighter craft.
On the Radio Chains
STATION!
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tney art oa tha dlalr
KALE (MUSI 1330, rortlan.
atX (NHC-blue) 1 1 Ml. Portland;
kOA OBC-Hlua j MHS) I.1IU.
apakanc; kOO NUC-Hlue 810
an I'ranrlaro; KUW OHC-Kedl
830, Portland; KJH (NHL'-Hlurl
1000. Seattle; KNX CBS 1010.
Lot Anselea: KOA (NBC-Kfd) UO.
Denver; KOIN (CHS) (70. Port
land; IIIMO (HORed ..
Seattle) KPO (NBC-Krd) 0.
San rranclsro; SSL (CBS) 116.
alt Laka City.
lima a bomi Is PSt
Sunday
8:00 p. m. Edgar Bergen. KPO,
KOW, KOMO; Blue Echoes. KOO.
KEX; Columbia Workshop. KNX,
KOIN; Ootpel Clinic, KJR; Off the
Record. KSL.
3 SO p. m. Fiord Wright. KJR,
KEX; On Man's PsmUy, KPO, KOW.
KOMO: Bpelllng Beellner, KNX; Mu
sical Highlights, KOO; Defense Back
Rome, KOIN", Off the Record. KSU
0:00 p. m. Sunday Evening Hoir,
KNX. KBL, KOIN: Orandpappy and
His Pals. KOO, KEX; Manhattan
Merry-Oo-RouDd. KPO. KOMO, KOW.
:30 p. m. Bookman's Notebook.
KOO; American Album of Familiar
Miialc. KPO, KOMO. KOW; Newt.
KEX; Conf. of Jews and Christiana.
KJR.
7:00 p. ra. Hour of Charm, KPO.
KOMO, KOW: Goodwill Hour, KOO.
KEX. KJR: Take It Or Leave It,
AAA, HOI JWid. j
7:30 p. m. Helen Ha re Theater, j
KNX. KSL, KOIN: AdnntUTM of
Sherlock Holmes, KPO, KOW, KOMO.
fl:00 p. m. Crime Doctor, KNX.
KOIN: Vers Vague. KPO, KOW,
KOMO; Inner Sanctum, KOO, KEX,
KJR; Newt, KSL.
8:30.p. m. Jack Benny, KOO. KEX. j
kjk; I was Tnere, ssx, auin; Beau
Sou- Mutllalt, KOW: Highway Nlfht
Express, KOMO; Etchings In Brass,
KPO.
:O0 p. m Walter Wmchen. KPO,
KOMO, KOW: Irene Rich. KOO. KJR,
KEX: Leon r. Drewt, KOIN; suing
Eruemblt, KSL.
0:80 p. m. Richard Hlmber't
Orch.. KOO; What't It All About,
KNX; Quia 0f Two cttlet. KOW.
KOMO; Baker Theater. KOIN; Regtl
Amblings. KPO; Sunday Craning on
Temple Square, KSL.
10:00 p. m. Reporter Kewt. KPO,
KOW, KOMO: Screen Oulld Theater.
KNX; Stanley Kenton's Orch., KOO,
KEX: Newt. KOIN: Maaterworka of
Mualc, KSL: National Vespera. KJR.
10:30 p. m. Paul Whlteman't
Orch., KOO: Harry Owen'a Orch..
KNX. KOIN; Amen Comer, KEX;
Sabbath Reveries, K6L.
11:00 p. m. Bill Cliffords Orch,
KEX: Ken Sttvena. KOIN, KSL:
Btrlngt that Sing. KPO, KOW; Newt,
KNX, KOO.
Monday
0:00 p. ra. Adventure stories KOO.
KEX. KJR; Vox Pop. KSL. KOIN;
Start of Today. KOW; Jane At den.
KOMO; Don Wlnalow of tha Nary,
KPO.
8:80 p. m. News of the World.
KOO. KEX. KJR: CoekttU Hour,
KOW; Bill Henry, KNX: Scatter
good Balnea, KOIN; November Over
cot ten, KOMO: Walts Rhythm, KPO:
Voices of Tetterday. KSL.
0:00 p. m. Radio Theater, KNX.
KOIN. KSL: Dr. I. Q.. Jim McLean.
KPO. KOW, KOMO; Secret City.
KOO. KEX; Scandinavian Reporter.
KJR.
0:80 p. m. For America We Sing.
KOO, KJR: That Brewtter Boy, KPO.
KOMO. Beat of tha Week, KJR.
7:00 p. m. Mercury Theater. KNX,
KOIN. KSL; Monday Merry-Oo-Round,.
KEX. KJR; Contented Hour,
KPO. KOW, KOMO.
7:30 p. m. Cavalcade of America,
KPO. KOMO. KOW; Blondle. KNX.
KSL. KOIN: Modern Mutle Bos. KEX;
Greater Washington Hour, KJR.
8:00 p. m. Amos n' Andy, KNX.
KSL, KOIN: Fred Waring. KPO,
KOMO. KOW: Herbert Marshall,
KOO. KEX. KJR.
8:15 p. m. Lenny Roes. KNX. KSL,
KOIN: Lum and Abner, KPO. KOMO,
KOW: Shall-Bert Wheeler. KJR.
8:80 p. m. I Love a Myatery, KOO,
KEX. KJR; Voice of Rlchtrd Crookt.
KPO, KOW, KOMO: Oty Nineties Re
vue, KNX, KSL, KOIN.
S 00 p. m Telephone Hour, KPO,
KOW, KOMO; True or Faltt. KOO.
KJR. KEX: Vos Pop. KNX; Ntws.
KOIN; Sports. KSL.
JO p. m. Hawthorn Bouat. KPO.
KOMO. KOW; Bollywood Showcase.
KNX. KOIN; News. KSL, KJR: Moon
light Sonata, KEX.
10:00 p. m. Paul Whtteman'l
Orch, KOO, KEX, KJR; Reporter
News, KPO. KOW, KOMO; Maater
worka of Music, KSL; News. KNX;
Five Star Final, KOIN.
10:30 p. m-Ed Stoker's Mualc.
KOO, KOMO: Stanley Kenton's
Orch, KJR; John Sullivan's Orch,
KSL; Broadway Bandwagon, KEX:
Ran Wilde's Orch, KOO: Maaterworka
at Mualc. KNX: The World Today.
KOIN; Concert Hall. KPO.
11:00 p. na. Bob Bradley and Ir
win Teo. KSL. KOIN; String Sere
nade. KPO. KOW: Thlt Moving
World. KEX, KJR; Newt. KNX, KOO;
Reveries, KOMO.
ZELLCRBACH PAYS
New York, Nov. 29. (JP)
Crown Zellerbach Corp. and
subsidiaries. Pacific coast paper
manufacturers, have reported
net profit for the October quar
ter of $2,224,233, after J2.053.
711 provision federal and Cana
dian taxes, equal to 69 cents a
common share.
Alx En Provence, Unoccupied
France, Nov. 29. (P) Three
residents of Nice and one from
Grasse on the French Riviera
were sentenced today to prison
terms up to three month for
listening to the British radio).
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STRANGE AS IT SEEMS
"Life on the ocean wave..."
by JOHN MX
A
SPECIES 0? WATER
iQ spends rrs WHOLE
LIFE ON THE SURFACE
Or THD "stft
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corps operated 563 mile
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CAMPS AND .TATlON
Equipment includes ifO
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porrTEAi i-
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SHE WAS 7 BUT SINCE1 15
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ARMY RAILROADS
A typical example of a small government railroad Is to fa found at Fort Benning. Ga.
At the camp there are 19 small narrow-gauge locomotives, 112 gondola cars, 53 flat cars, and
34 passenger cars. This equipment is operated ever about 19 miles of track within the reser
vation boundaries. At Camp Blanding, Fla a 100-ton Diesel electric locomotive la in operation.
LONG GAMES
In 1894 playing time of football games was reduced from 90 to 70 minute. Not until
1908 was the present playing time of 60 minutes adopted.
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By KL CAPP
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