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PAGE TWELVE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1941. by Phoebe Atwood Taylor Chapter 1 " About Mis. Olive IJETWEEN mouthful! and iwal- L lows. Aw; told her, and when he concluded hi story Jennie shook her head. Custer Mayo talk about Washy Doane, an' it doe aeem as U Syl ought to of known himl But Syl never barely mentioned him. Only person he ever apeaka of here is tin. Doane. Asey, you Know wnai aeems queerest of all to me?" Asey chuckled. "Sure. The wo man who walked paat you. Your ghost "Still don't believe me, do you?" Jennie retorted. "Well, just you waitl Sooner or later, fm goin' to Drove to vou I seen someone. but what I think is the queerest is Mrs. Doane herself, Asey. bne a worked hard to build this place up from a common boardin' house to what it is now, a nice inn with guests an' a fine reputation. It's taken her years an' years why, this woman who's been shot; she's been comin' here -more than twenty years, Aseyl" Asey choked on his raspberry tart. "Jennie, you mean to say you know who she is?" he demanded. "Why, of course, don't you? Land's sakes, Asey, ain't you even found out who she ii yet?" Jennie tcur.ded slightly shocked. Asey pointed out that having practically only just discovered the body he had hardly bad the time to accomplish much in the way of identification. "You knew what she looked like, didn't you?" Jennie said. "Why I met Angie Harris up in the drugstore, an' she knew the woman in a minute when I de scribed her. Even the counter boy, he knew her." "Who Is she?" ' "Why, she's a schoolteacher lives here at the InnI" Jennie aid. "Everybody know her. An gie said there wasn't probably anyone In Qulsiet that didn't know Miss Olive. Miss Olive Beadle, that's who she is." "Mess beetle!" Asey said. "Mess beetle. Well, well!" Jennie wanted to know if he felt all right "I'm improvln' rapidly," Asey told her, "thanks to you. Remem ber that phone call we didn't un derstand, Jennie? Somebody was phonin' her, don't you see? They was atkin' for her, only we didn t get it Huhl Go on, Jennie, tell me more." "Well, she's been comin' here," Jennie said, "it's either twenty four or twenty-six years. Angle Mid It was either the year the ole Ice house burned down or the year the livery atable bumed down, an' she couldn't remember iust which. She's a quiet little body, Angie says, goes to church every Sunday, an" to all the sup- pera an' fairs, an' to the movies most every night She pays more attention to the town an' the townfolks than the rest of 'em at the Inn. Angie says the others are awful high-hat She says one of rm, a Dig rat woman that drives around in a big car with a chauf feur, she wouldn't even give a measly little dollar to the ambu lance fund drive." '' ! Star Boarder "YOU'LL be glad to know." Asey said, "that the fat lady has made thumpln' good contribu tion tonight, though aha don't know about It So Angie thinks this Miss Beadle's all right, huh?" "Angle likes her. Says she's helped the Women's Club, an' mado fancy work for their sales, an she'd helped some of the town boys through college. She didn't give 'em money I s'pose she couldn't afford anything like that but she introduced 'em to people in Boston who got 'em started. She has a little car she drives around a lot an' " . "I wonder, where is that car now?" Asey Interrupted. "I ain't noticed it anywheres around here." "Goodness, why worrv about her carl 'Course, A'.igie said ahe was a woman kind of set in her ways. She used to have a special rocker she liked when it was Mrs. Mercer's Boarding House, an' she's made Mrs. Dosne keep it on the porch for her even now. I 'spose," Jennie added, "that'a the very rocker she's under now. Makes your flesh creep, don't It?" You payin' any attention to me?" "Un-huli. I'm just thinkln'," Asey sud. "an" watchin' that porch. A light went on lust now ) ' the room beyond." "That don't mean anything," Jenn.e said. "It's been on an' off a down times. Now. of course, I iiid.i t tell Angie anythin' about what'd happened here tonight, but from what I found out it seemed to me you migh, say this Miss Olive Beadle was a kind of a star boarder, loo. That's what I meant, Asey. when I said I thought it was queerest about Mrs. Doane. If she kills anyone, she just is killin' her business too, ln t she? An' somehow, you wouldn't hard Iv expect that anyone would kill off their alar boarder, would you?" Asey shook his head. n "No," he said, "you wouldn't." "I got the idea from Angie, Jennie said, "that this Miss Olive, as Angle called her, she'd sort of stuck to Mrs. Doane through thick an' thin. This place half burned down one year, but Miss Olive, sae come just the same on June tenth an' lived in the room she always has, even though half of it was just boarded up an' covered with tar paper. An' one time there was a lot of talk that the water at the Inn was bad. Seems some body come down with typhoid. Everybody packed up an' left but Miss Olive. She stayed right on. An' when some of them that'd left found she was stay in', why they come back. Angie said Miss Olive an' Mrs. Doane, they got along fine, an' moren'n once. Miss Olive's smoothed people over when Mrs. Doane had riled 'em. I tell you, I do think it'd be awful queer for Mrs. Doane to be killing Miss Olive now, Aseyl But if she didn't, then why" "Hold It," Asey said softly. "Is she comin' out again? Is" "Shush." Mrs. Doane slipped out the door on to the little porch and softly closed the door behind her. Removing the tarpulin that cov ered the rocker, she bent over and looked down. Asey moved from the shed tq the porch so quietly that slid wasn t aware of his presence until he cleared his throat and spoke to her. "What you doln', Mrs Doane?" Shocking Jennie HE STARTLED her so that shs jumped, and for a moment Asey thought she was going to rush back into the house. But her voice, when she an swered him, was even and com posed. "What are you doing here?" , "Conf rontin ," Asey told her. . "What?" "Wa-el." Asey said, "call It con frontin' an' confoundin', if you prefer It that way." "What are you talking about?" "That's tha way they always put it in the newspapers," Asey said. "You don't ever just happen on someone vou find who's anuar- ently committed a crime. You con- front em in the act You don t ask for explanations when vou confront .You confound 'em with the evidence. Like, 'Mrs. Doane, proprietress of Quisset's well known and highly thought of Whale Inn, was confronted while bending over the body of her star perennial boarder. Miss Olive Beadle, and confounded ' " Who are you? Mrs. Doana de manded . "Asey Mayo, Syl Mayo'i cousin. I told you who I was. Mrs. Doane stood very still. "You just said you waa his cousin," Jennie, who had just skirted the flower bed, informed Asey. "You didn t sav vou waa Asey. Huh. I guess you confound ed her. all right She kind of looks like she was wiltin'. She looks like" Asey motioned for her to ba still. , "What you aoln' to do. Mm Doane?" he Inquired. "Goin" to tell me the truth about all this, or. do you want to do things the hard way? It's up to you.'1 In .mother ten seconds, Asey thought, Mrs. Doane was going to bite clear through her underlip. "In your place, Mrs. Doane." he went on, "before I made a deci sion one wsy or another. I think 1 a d inclined to consider one pretty important angle. I think I'd consider just what publicity of this sort would do to my Inn. "What do you think, Mrs. Doane'a voice was vibrant -with feeling, "that I am considering? What do you think that I have been considering? Why do you think I moved this body out of the telephone booth in the first place?" "So it was you who moved It!" Jennie said. "Well all I've got to say is, I should think you'd ought to be ashamed of yourself!" "I'm not!" Mrs. Doane said de fiantly. "I'm not! I'd do it again! And if you want to know, if you two hadn't come, I should have rut her body in the car later, and should have driven it just as tar away from the Inn as I could!" Jennie was genuinely shwked. "I think that's awful! You mean, you'd pick up the bodv of a wo man that's been your best boarder, an' stuck by you all these years through thick an' thin, an' you'd f:o movin". her body like well, ike she was some die tramp?" Mrs. Doana burst suddenly and violently into a flood rt tears. Between the intensity of her scbs and the unexpectedness of her breakdown, Asey felt strange ly helpless. But Jennie, after watching Mrs. Doane for several minutes, made a decision and took the situation in hand. "You got a handkerchief, Asev? Now, Mrs. Doane, Here's a hand kerchief. You'll feel a lot better if you'll blow your nose an' wipe your eyes. You know perfectly well you wasn't goin" to move poor Miss Olive's body to some ole ditchl You couldn't'have gone through with it could you, really?" "I didn't want to!" Mrs. Doana said brokenly. "Oh. I didn't want to! I didn't want to move it out here!" Te he rentlnvetf INDIAN HAZARD Bombay, Dec. S. (At The Bombay-Lucknow mall train was held up an hour today while the railway workers re moved from the tracks an ele phant which the train struck and Injured. FRENCH AID NAZIS New York, Dec. 8. (T) The German radio reported today that the first French volunteer legion members had arrived on the ea.ttrrn front to participate in the war on Russia. Say "Merry Xmat" to him with a beautiful topcoat from Barker's $23 and $27 Store for Men Mexico City, Dec. 8. (Pi Pointing out that today's hero may be tomorrow's villain, President Manuel Avila Caiua rho has banned the naming of Mexican schools for living per sons. Redmond, Ore., Dec. 8. iPi Named on the Redmond volun teer fire departments commit tee to gather money for a first aid car were "Sparks and Berning" Firemen Virgil Sparks and John Berning. A newly born kangmoo meas lures barely an Inch in length. On the Radio Chains stations: Cbaln affiliation and where they are en the dial: KALI. (Mlini ism, Portland; KKX (MlOHIne) 11W). Portland; Ki4 (MH'-Hlue Si Mils) 1510. hpokane; KGU OHC-Blne) 810, Han trsnrltra; K.W OKC-NXl) !0, Portland; KJK (NHOHlur) IWK). entile; KNX HH) lu;o. Utt Anielri; K(M OBC-Rrd) SVi. Denier; KOIN rn VIU, Port land: KIOIO (MU'-Mrrt) II VI, Seattle: KPO (NBC-Hd) m. nan Iranelw-o: KSL (CBS) 11SU, Halt Lake Cltv. Time shown Is PSI " Irlday 6 00 p. m. 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KOW, THE WORLD AT ITS WORST By GLUYA5 WILLIAMS SMAll BOY WHO HAS SUCCESSFULLY AVOIDED 60IN6 fo HIS MNf ALMlRPt'5 YEA PARTY BY HIDIN6 IN THE MTlC UNTIL HIS PARENTS HAVE 6.VEhl UP L00K1N6 TOR HIM AMP HAVE 60NE WITH OUT HIM, DISCOVERS THAT HIS CAREFULLY TH0U6HT-UP ALIBI IS " 60IN6 "TO 6E OF NO OSE BECAUSE HIS FATHER HAS VARNISHED HHE ATTIC STrWS (Ret ry Th Btfl Brvdtrat. ffc va-5 KOMO; Henry Busae's Orch, KOO. KEX: Tour Hit Parade, KNX, KOIN; Serenade, KJR; Sport. KSL. S 30 p. m. The Edward. KOO. KEX: Best of the Week. KPO, KOW, KOMO; News, KSL, KJR. 10:00 p. m. Two Round Jamboree, KOO, KJR, KEJfc Larry Carr, KOMO. News, KOMO: News. KOW, KNX. KOIN. KPO: Dance Orch.. KSL. 10:30 p. m. Two Round Jamboree, KOO, KJR: Reld Tanner's Orch, KSL; The Quiet Hour. KEX; People's Platform. KNX; World Today, KOIN; Bob McOrew's Orch., KOMO; Concert Hall, KPO. 11:00 p. m. France Wetner, KPO. KOW: Martha Mean, KSL. KOIN: Carl RavazzaY Orch.. KJR, KEX; News, KNX, KOO: The Quiet Hour, KJR; Reveries, KOMO. MAIL LOST , London, Dec. 5. W) The t,:neral post office announced today (.. t letters, printed pa pers ana parcels posted in Eng land for the United States from October 23 to 26 had been "lost by enemy action." Salinas Shot U-Boat Is Navy Revelation Washington, Dee. S.iJPl The navy reported today that the torpedo-damaged naval tank er Salinas, which made port without loss of life, counter-attacked lid apparently damaged one of the submarine which launched a total of five torpe does at the vessel In the north Atlantic. Oct. 30. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS by JOHN HIX mm H . . 1 I? 1. 7 2 ' J F?v -casr N A 75T Tunc. The amphi,baena LIZARD SPENDS IT5 UFE UHDERjROLlND AND LOOK'S LIKE A HUQS. WORM...YX TRAVELS AS EASILV . BACKWARD AS FORWARD "south Amena... -ssjaa, Jswr LAND, A AND I I LJ TUC mrsi iiiim - . bf. m , 1941 KIEVAPA Q -'V5. WILL TRAVEL I28b0 MILE'S TO COMPLETE ITS SCHEDULE LI'L ABNER Whan Strong Men Weepl husbjndof QuEenVidbria- . t. AS THE LA"5T OFFICIAL ACT OF HIS LIFE, f PREVENTED WAR, BETWEEN QKEAT BRITAIN ANP THE L.S. DIPLOMATIC NOTE f Written in nmfixf : jL seizure of Confederate i- j - - w 1861... DEATH BED ACT Because the Federal government believed the British were showing undue favoritism toward the South, during the American Civil War, bad blood existed between England and the U. 8. When a vessel of tha Northern navy- stopped the British steamer "Trent" and arrested two Con federate envoys aboard. Lord Russell, British Foreign Secretary, penned a drastic note of pro test to President Lincoln. Queen Victoria believed the note too severe and Albert, the Prince Consort, arose from a sick bed, rewrote the note, and smoothed over what might have become a war-like situation. It was the last official act of his life. A few days later he died. Tomorrow: What Price Glory? By AL CAPP LOOK -THE. FAVORITE., "GREASED LIGHTNING? ' IS EJEJNCs OVERTAKEN BY THAT XOTO I NAG-"CHERRY 'Cherry blossom. 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AND SHEETS WAS ABOUT TO BECOME A WOMAN HATER. WHEN ALONG-CAME THEN IT WAS LJUST MY SERVICE PIN .. .THAT ATTRACTED YOU, LIEUTENANT MIlLI&AN' 1 TB r ' kj GOSH NOf... UH I.. MEAN- YOU AMERICAN FLYERS ARE SO DELIGHTFULLY NAIVE ..SUPPOSE WE TALK NOW.. NOT OF SERVICE PINS.. BUT OF AERONAUTICS, SI? WELL. I HAVE MADE THE ACQUAINTANCE FREDA, V OF A YANKEE PILOT, DOkTOR WHAT SJHE BORROWED SERVICE PRO&RESSXJPIN WAS A HELP.. BUT, OF HAVE YOU COURSE I COULD HAVE MADE ? SUCCEEDED WITHOUT IT S! 'C YES S" YES S AM COGNIlAN OF YOUtl-ER., CHAR.MS, MY DEAR. FREDA ..BUT THIS PILOT?.. ARE YOU CERTAI TU AT ll C a I n mi ' V 77 LEAVE THAT TO ME. DOKTOR..' I SHALL DELIVER. HIM TO YOU AT THE APPOINTED N V NTIMEyH THE NEBB5 The Ms9.t T SOL HESS I'LL SO OVER ON A PRETENSE Y f "eJHAT IS "rvilS..THeX ' , f NOW, C.OVS,YOUO KEVER KNOWED MOW MANY " ( CP SEEING EMMA AND SET A I UNION DEPOT ? '; . 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