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Newspaper Page TextV PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1941. by Phoebe Atwood Taylor Chapter 14 Madame Can't Drive FOR the safety of the general public Asey decided. It would be best to pull her off the road entirely. He blew the horn urgently and ttarted alongside. At once, Mrs. Clutterfleld steered sharply to the left. Asey braked, muttered things under his breath, and started to cut past her on the right. Mrs. Clutterfleld steered sharp. It to the riehL Asey tried again to pass on the left, with very nearly disastrous results. "By golly," Asey said. Til force you overl He abandoned that plan when It became apparent that the only person who was going to suffer was himself. Hanson's light car couldn't stand up against that heavy, long, wheel-based thing. As far as nifty blocking was eoncernea, ne tnougnt, Mrs. Clut terfleld might have spent three years in Stanford's backfleldl "Okay," Asey said with resig nation. "Okay, Sister Jane. I ll follow your He did. cautiously, and with growing admiration for her hair- oreaam escapes. Her turn off the main road re minded Asey of an old-fashioned movie comedy when the cross- yed comedian's car would swing up a crowded avenue, weaving in ind out of a conglomeration of nreetcars, nre engines, trucks, baby carriages, and pedestrians. Ha followed her up a rutted lane. Sometimes the sedan's two front wheels canted over the ruts to the right, sometimes they ranted to the left In general, Mrs. Clutterfleld's progress resembled mat o: a mortally sick earth worm. V 11,. ,1 U l-l. . matijr, a. au auKio wuiwi Gum plctely blocked his way, the tedan came to rest with its front wheels sloping gently toward a ditch. Something about it re minded Asey irresistibly of a dog playing dead. He swung open the car door and got out, and was halfway to the sedan when the fat figure of Al fred appeared from the bushes to bis left "Inspector!" Alfred said breath lessly. "Inspectorl Hey, Inspec tor! Asey turned around. "Inspector," Alfred went on, let me explain all this to you, Inspectorl Here." Asey stared down at the heap of bills, clearly visible in the glow of the headlights. In Alfred's outstretched hand. "I knew your lights," Alfred laid. "I know the fog lights on your cars. Here, Inspector. You take this and let me explain. I was afraid this'd happen. I tried to stop her, but she got away from me. Let me explain, Inspec tor, will you?" "Go on, Asey said. "The trouble Is," Alfred low ered his voice confidentially, "the madam can't drive, see? She can't get a license. She's been turned down lor a license about ten He was mopping his forehead when he returned to where Asey stood. "Now, Inspector," he said, "let'i us " "Just what," Asey Interrupted sternly, "was you buryin', some thing she run over?" Alfred's eyes almost popped out of his head, and he wet bis lips nervously. "Cat?'' Asey said. "Dog?" "Goat" Alfred seemed sud denly deflated. "Say, how'd you know I buried anything?" "I know a lot," Asey said dark ly. "Where is it?" Alfred produced a flashlight and led the way to a little mound near the side of the road. "Here it is. Look, Inspector, here's the trouble, see? If we go tell people what we run over, they take one look at my uni form, see, and the car, and her diamonds, and why then a cat costs its weight in gold, see? And it isn't like we didn't make It up. We do. Next day we go to the place, see, and wa buy an an tique." What?" "Yes, that's the way the madam figured it out Next day we stop at the house and ask tl they got any antiques, and then we buy something any old thing, see? And pay a crazy price for it. We're going to this place where the goat was tomorrow, see, and buy a well sweep." "Alfred. Asey said, "yourt makin' this up as you go along!" "It's God's truth, Inspectorl God's truth, so help mel She has dinner at the club, see? And on the way home well, maybe she had a cocktail with her dinner, I don't know. Anyway, nothing'll do but she's got to drive, see? Well, it's a long straight stretch there, see, and I thought if I let her drive along it then she'll shut up and give me some peace lor a day or two. maybe. I thought it'd be safe enough there. It's a wide road, and only one house the whole lensth of it So I give in and let her take the wheel. And bang! She gets the goat Look, I'll show you." One Grand HE uncovered cu.'HcIent evi dence tn ponvtnpe Aev. There." Alfred smoothed over the loose earth and then shoul dered the shovel that had been lying on the ground. "Now I ve given you the whole story, I'll get back and see to her." He fumbled in his pocket "What's that?" Asev inoulred. pointing to the small bottle Al fred had brought rnrth. "Smelling salts. She'll be all to f lecea by now. Let me tell you, nspector," Alfred said in a burst of confidence, "I drove for the best people twenty years, but I never knew what it was to work for a living till I worked for the madam!" "Tough, huh?" "Tough! Say, I'm telling you she watches the mileage like a hawk to see I don't waste a drop of gas. but if I was to give you Ave hundred buck.- to keep quiet about the goat and her driving -around without a license, she thousand tima Rut ah'. crazy to drive. Can't keep her w,?uIdn't never t an eyelashl hand! off a wheel, see? And lust whV ! wouldn t give ten centa now when my back was turned, off she went see?" "You mean, you'd left her alone In the car? What did you get out Cor?" Asey demanded. Odd Corpse ALFRED said In hurt tones that he'd just stepped out of the ear for a moment, that was all, and when he came back, the car was steaming up the lane. "The madam's all right you un rtrrstand, Inspectorl" he added. "There's nothing the matter with her only she just can't drive, and she's crazy to uh what'd She hit?" "Plenty," Ajey said gravely. "PIrnty Alfred's hand dug Into his pocket Listen, Inspector let's you and me settle this, huh, shall we? My name's Moriarty,- by the way. Most likely you (enow my brother. Captain Moriarty, Station Forty, up in Boston? Anyway you know my brother in the registry. Every body knows Pat. Say, maybe we can settle everything, huh?" "MeaninV Asey said, "that If we can't settle it now. It'll get settled anywava?" "Oh, 1 wouldn't say that!" Al fred said hurriedly. ' You got me all wrong. Inspector! Only there's more than one of your boys around here that's maybe going to get into trouble if we do. There's more than one of your boya wearing hundred -dollar suits of clothes because of the madam's little) weakness. Yes, air!" "Sn?" Asey, who knew Inti mately most of Hanson's troopers in the vicinity, was pretty sure that Alfred was lying. "And if you don't mind my say ing so," Alfred observed, "you could do with a hundred-dollar suit yourself. Inspector. Maybe a couple of 'em, nun?" "Alfred!" Mrs. Clutterfleld fulled out plsintively. "Alfred! Alfred! Where are you, Alfredl I can't work the doorl" "Oh, God, she's stuck again!" Alfred scurried off. Asey watched while Alfred Jig. glr.t the sedan's door handle and extricated Mrs. Clutterfleld from the front seat Gripping her firm ly by the elbow, he put her In the back seat said something to her, and pointedly closed the door. to a blind begger froze solid in a snowdrift for a cup of coffee to thaw him out," Alfred said bit terly. "But you know how much cash she gives me to keep in my pants pocket to ease her out of the trouble she gets into with her driving? A grandl And ninety five per cent of the time there isn't a guy humane enough to cut me in on as much as a sawbuckl And me with a wife and four kids! Honest to God. Inspector, tough ain't the word. If I can't settle you, bang! I'm out on my ear." "A grand, huh?" Asey said with sudden Inspiration. "Alfred, I'll settle." Alfred beamed, put down the shovel, and proceeded to count out bills." "There." he said. "A grand." Asey presented Alfred with a hundred, folded the remainder and tucked It Into his wallet Betsey Porter's ambulance fund, he thought, might iust as well profit by this dead goat and it was better for Mrs. Clutterfleld's money to be in circulation than stagnating in Alfred's panta pocket "Thanks," Asey said dryly. "Now, wait a sec before you re vive Lady Boop. Let me get somethin' straight You an' she was at the club for dinner this evenin', wasn't you? Say, around six." "She wss." Alfred said. "1 wasn't Think she'd waste money buying me a meal at the club? I ate at the boarding house I live at off the main street over In Qulsset" "You don't live at the Whale Inn, huh?" "No. At this lousy boarding house say, how'd you know sht lived at the Inn?" "I'm part Yogi." Asey said Then neither of you two wai anywhere near the Whale Inr around six or so this evenin'?" "Well. I was there oh, I don'' know Just what time It was," Al fred said. "The madam had this dress to go to the cleaner's, see! I forgot it, so after I left het at the club I went back to the Inn and got it come to think of It I guess it was around six." "Alfred," Asey said, "sit down on that nice rock yonder an' tell me things. Who'd you see at thr Inn? What was goin' on there?' Te be tantlna.4 Cm hat) Tribune want ala. WHERE can you find a more beautiful overcoat for so little? $231 Store for Men King of Racketeers And Aides Must Die New York Dec. 3 (.P) Lou Is (Lepkc) Pucha!trT, onetime kingpin Industrial racketeer, and two co-defendants, Emnnuet (Wendy) Welsa and Louis Ca pone, today were sentenced to die In the electric chair the week of January 4. 1942. fur the staying of Joseph Rosen, a Brooklyn storekeeper The three were convicted of slaying Rosen by a Jury early Sunday morning. 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The treasury revealed today on the eve of new tax legislative program that it took in only about $1 for every S3 it spent in the first five months of the fiscal year ending with November. Kangaroo rata of the Americas) Southwest can live for months with out water. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS by JOHN MX Prime ftimder of Ergand- DID ALL WIS, WORK STANDING ATA HIGH I860'... . .aCI rr 'L IB 33JP JOS 4.. A'ata - X H0AA6 OF LUCIU'3 WRU3H1", BUILT WITH A 60-FOOT TOWER 10. Bemuse a lens could NOT BE DELIVERED' THE 7 'i,r NEVER USED... Logan, Ohio. PA1SY gATE, FORMER NEWSPAPERWOMAN LIVED WITH UNCIVILIZED AUSTRALIAN NATIVE'S FOR. 35 yARSmy oHE THQUGUT TMPAA A OVlNrt RACE AND WANTED TO VAKE THEIR. PASSING, EASIER.... HER HOME WAS A TENT AND A SHACK OF SOUGHS AND UNTIL SHE WAS OVER. 70 SHE WALKED A MILE. EACH DAY FOR. WATER IN TEMPERATURES WERE DEOPPEQ IT PARACHUTE TO ITALIANS CUT , OFF FROM THEIR. MAllsJ FORCES DURING THE. , WAR IN ABYSSINIA mm m -f. f .f''.'A.mt mm . aa v 17 a a ..r. niuiiMMi in 1 Ti - LI'L ABNER He's Off Againll LIFE FOR THE DYING In the early 1900'a Mrs. Daisy Bates' husband, an Australian cattleman, died and she decided to sell the stock and property and devote her life to the aborigines lest they be come extinct. For fifteen years she moved abeut. following tribes or attending gatherings of tlie people. During the first world war she settled, finally, in a tent in the sand-hills of Ooldea, There she lived for twenty years, until she was more than 70 years oldl When she left the pitiful remnants of her black people, a few years ago, she recited to them the old hymn "Now the day is over." f Tomorrowi Smallest newspaperl By AL CAPP TiffileTT I 'COURSE NOTr-FORTCH-V THAT'S 4 --v HOOrllUATEb Yv&WV V K WILL THAR BE I ARE. L NITLY IT HIT ME IN Mi-GRAT-AS 11." V YOUR NAME. IS yVJWfflibX f ANY DAMAGES YOU TH' HAID WHAR AH J A FORMALITY k. ' , 'CHERRYi &LbfsOtl'? 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