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. Kate Smith Hour, KBL;
Adventure Storlea. KOO. KJK. KEX;
Jan Ardtn. KOMO; Stars of Today,
KOW; Don Wlnslow of tbe Nary,
KPO.
6:SO p. m News of the World,
KOO, KJR. KEX; Bill Henry. KNX;
Scattergood Balnea, KOIN; Novem
ber Overcoetera, KOMO.
6:00 p. m. Secret City, KOO. KEX;
What's On Tour Mind. KNX. KOIN,
KHL;. Walts Time. KPO, KOMO,
KOW; Scandinavian Reporter. KJR.
30 p. m Michael and Kitty,
KOO. KJR, KEX: Uncle Walter's Dog
House. KPO, KOW, KOMI ; First'
Nlghter, KNX, KHL, KOIN.
7:00 p. m. Shirley Temple Time,
KSL, KNX. KOIN; Wings of Deatlnv.
KPO. KOMO, KOW; Candlelight Con
cert. KEX; pun Finder. KJR. .
T:30 p. m. AI Pearce's Oanf. KMX,
KSL. KOIN; Orand Central Station.
KPO, KOW, KOMO: Weekly Specta
tor. KJR; Modern Music Box, KEX;
Amateur Hour, KOO.
1:00 p. m. Fred Waring. KPO.
KOMO, KOW; Romance and Rhythm,
KOO, KEX; Amos n' Andy, KNX.
KSL, KOIN; Buy Washington, KJR.
8 80 p. m Don't Be Personal, KPO,
KOW, KOMO: Oang Busters, KOO.
KEX, KJR; Playhouse. KNX. KSL.
815 p. m. La tiny Row, KNX, KSL.
KOIN; Lum and Abner. KPO, KOW.
KOMO: Along the sidelines. KJR.
9:80 p. m. Paul Wnlteman's Oreh.,
KOO. KJR; Dark Fantasy, KPO;
Muonllght Sonata, KEX; Symphony
of Melody. KOW; November Over
coaters, UOMO.
10:00 p. m. Hollywood Legion Sta
dium Fights. KOO, KEX: Reporter
Kews, KPO. KOW, KOMO; News,
KNX: Masterworka of Music, KSL;
Seattle Public School Prgm., KJR;
Five Star Final, KOIN.
10:30 p. m. Hollywood Legion Sta
dium Fights, KOO. Dance Orch.,
KOW; Broadway Bandwagon, KEX:
Northwest Bible Institute, KJR; Mas
terworka of Music, KNX; The World
Today, KOIN: Bob McOrew's Orch.,
KOMO: Eight Mysterious Hats, KPO.
11.00 p. in. Picks nl Family. KPO.
KOW; This Moving World. KEX;
Harry Owens Orch.. KSL. KOIN;
News, KOO. KNX: Scandinavian Mu
sic, KJR; Reveries, KOMO.
Saturday
IM p. m. Ran Wilde's Orch..
KOO. KEX: Music of the Americas,
KPO, KOMO. KOW; Sport story,
KNX. KSL, KOIN.
S 30 p. m Ed stoker's Music, KPO,
KOW, KOMO; Boy Meets Band. KOO,
KEX; Saturday Night News Review,
KNX, KSL: News, KOIN.
fl :00 p. m. Tour Hit Parade, KSL:
Natl Bam Dance. KPO, KOW,
KOMO: Meauge of Israel. KOO,
KEX; Who. What. When and Why,
KNX, KOIN; Scandinavian Reporter.
KJR.
6:30 p. m. Toeeanml Treasury
Concert, KJR, KEX; Sports, KOIN,
KNX.
7.-00 p. - m. Toacanlt Treasury
Concert. KOO. KEX, KJR; Sports
Newareel, KPO, KOMO, KOW.
7:30 p. m. orand Ole Opry, KPO,
KOW, KOMO; HI. Neighbor, KNX,
KOIN; University nptorer, KOO,
KEX. KJR; American Challenge,
KSL.
8:00 p. m. Bishop and the Oar.
(oyle, KOO, KJR, KEX: Truth or
Conaequences. KPO, KOW, KOMO.
Ouy Lombardo's Orch, KNX, KOIN,
KSL.
6:30 p. m. Knickerbocker Play
house, KPO, KOMO. KOW; Spin snd
Win, KOO, KJR. KEX; Hobby Lobby,
KNX. KOIN. KSL.
8 00 p. m. News, KPO. 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
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The amphi,baena
LIZARD SPENDS IT5 UFE
UHDERjROLlND AND LOOK'S
LIKE A HUQS. WORM...YX
TRAVELS AS EASILV .
BACKWARD AS FORWARD
"south Amena...
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LAND,
A AND
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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.
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ON ACCOUNT THAS
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DIDN'T EVEN
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