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PAGE TWELVE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1941. by Phoebe Atwood Taylor Chapter IT .tin. Ooane Talk - IVHEN'D you And tht body, ''Mrs. Doane? Asey asked quickly. "When'd you move it?" Punctuated by sobs, the story teemed longer than it actually was, in iplte of Aaey'i prompting. "I tee." ht aaid at last "Boiled down, you teen Syl'a truck out front when you come home, 10 you went in the back way, intend in' to give blue blazei to who ever brought Syl'i elanu over for leavin' that truck where it was. An' when you didn't find anybody out back in the kitchen, you bo sun to wonder if mavbe Svl's sub' stitute had had the nerve to sneak into the front part of the Inn. Right? So that was why you went up the little narrow hall an' slid open the back door of the phone booth so cautiouslike. You was goin' to listen, an' then pop out an' confront whoever it was that brought the clams. Only, instead, you found yourself confronted with Miss Olive's body. An' right away, you knelt down, slung the I J .. 1 ...... .Ui.t.. lugged it out here to the porch. mat s the story, am i it Mrs. Doane nodded. "I had to move it, don't you see? I couldn't let it stay there! I couldn't leave it there! I couldn't let it be!" Jennie wanted to know why not "Why not?" Mrs. Doane laughed bitterly. "Why not? You stop and think! If something like this hap pened in tne city, wouia tna no te! ever be mentioned by name? tool "They'd call It a downtown ho tel, or a small hotel near Smith Street, or an old-established hotel. It would never be mentioned by name. Never! But d'you think for a minute that would hold true here? D'you think the papers would just be content to call this a small Cape Cod inn. Never! It will be named. Murder at the Whale Inn. The Whale Inn killing. The reputation I've built up over all these years, the clientele I ve built up, everything," she made a helpless little gesture, "that's the end of it, over night. That's why I moved the body, don't you see?'1 Mrs. Doane, who had been w ip ing at her eyes, straightened up suddenly, "Twenty-six years ago, my sis ter wiary mercer aiea, and lert me this place. Mrs. Mercer's Boarding Honse. Ten dollars a week top, ' and no plumbing. I saw what it could be, and I set to work. It isn't much when you compare it o the Waldorf-Astoria, but I've epent twenty-six years making it wnai it is. jnats wny 1 moved tier body. I didn't kill Miss Olive. But I moved her body. And I wonder," Mrs. Doane was looking earnestly at Jennie, but Asey knew she was talking straight at him, "I wonder if you wouldn't perhaps have done tne very same uiing, u you a oeen me; The Martyr JENNIE thought for a moment, and her answer was exactly wnii iey expected. "I don't know," she said hesi tantly, "but what maybe I might have wanted to. When- you work awful hard on a thing, you hate to see it smashed into smithereens. But, on the other hand, I don't think I'd have been able to bring myself to move her. Not someone I knew an' liked, who was a frirnd." Mrs. Doane's manner underwent smother sudden change. There was the same alight touch of the mar tyr about her that Asev had no ticed when she was talking to her daughter Freddy. "Of course," she said to Jennie, "you've never run an inn, have fou? You've never had to run a business! You're not a business woman. Let me assure you that women In business can't alwaya ITnrd the luxury of indulging their feelings! The business must come first!" "I s'pose," Jennie said, "that's o. That reminds me. Here, This is for you." v Fishing around Inside hercapa rious pockelbook, she finally drew nut a folded paper and presented It to Mrs. Doane. "What's this?" Mrs. Doane de mtmded in some bewilderment "Syl's clam bill," Jennie told her, "an' if you hadn't spoke about business, I'd have forgot all about it Shows you the kind of a business woman I am, I guess what you chucklin' about Asey?" "I just cotnthed, that's all." Aiey said. "Kind of a tickle In my throat. Mrs, Doane, there's a little somethin' I'd like to ask vou ebout, if you don't mlndj an' then "Before you get started off on some other track," Jennie inter rupted, "you can see to it thev call It just a Cape Cod Inn, can't you? lou can make Hanson see to that an' Asey, where is Hanson, any wav?" "Colly!" Asey said. "I forgot all about him an' Rankin! I never give 'em another thought after I drove away from Artie diner! I Just left 'em there!" "That's what It sounded like when you told me wiiat youd been doin'," Jennie ald, "but 1 thought Id heard wrong. What you goin' to do about 'em?" "Nothin"." Asey said. "I gues they can manage to get them selves back here. Jennie, pop in. side an' phone Doc Cummings an' ask him to hustle over here, will you? I didn't want to drag him out till we had somethin' concrete for him to look into. Cummings," he turned to Mrs. Doane, "is med ical examiner for this district, you know." . "I didn't know what but I know him," Mrs. Doane said, "I'll go right In and oall him," "Jennie can go." Asey said. "There's something I want to ask Sou about, if you don't mind, Mrs, loane." "Of course!' But she eontlnucd to stand blocking the doorway so that Jennie couldn't get past. "I'll be glad to tell you anything I can, only I think my daughter Freddy probably can tell you more. I wasn't here at the Inn this eve ning, you know. I'll send her out to you and call the doctor. Two birds," she added rather brightly, "with one stone." The Gun " JUST a sec," Asey said, "before " you start your stone-throwin', If you're bound an' determined that you're goin' inside an' call the doc, I suppose you can. Only first hand over that gun, will you?" "Gun? What gun?" Mrs. Doana demanded. "Did you say gun?" "Uh-huh. The one you took out of the pocket of Miss Olive's tweed coat I don't know how it got there. It was on the floor of the phone booth when I seen it first but I s'pose you put it in the pocket when you brought her out Here. Give it to me please." "I'm afraid," Mrs. Doane said, "that you're sadly mistakenl 1 didn't see any gun!" . "Maybe you didn't get a good look at it in the dark out here," Asey returned, "but it's that thing you drew out of her coat pocket an' put into your aweater pocket just before I spoke to you an' asked what you was doin'. It's a small, hard, metal thing. Just you fumble around in your sweate: pocket an' I think you'll manage to locate it without a lot of trou ble." Mrs. Doane started to protest and then apparently thought bet ter of it Without another word. she gave Asey the gun. inanKs. wow, you really want the name of your inn kept out of the papers?" Asey inquired. "You know I do!" "Then let me give vou a few words of good advice," Asey said. instead oi tryln to ball things ud any more'n you already have, try an cooperate for a change. I haven't got enough official power so't irritatin' me will make much difference, but don't go irritatin" Lieutenant Hanson when he gets back. Don't try to fool him. Don't lie to him. Don't try to cover any body up. Tell him the truth. And lei mm search the whole place, and question everybody. You'll come out a lot better. If you co operate with Hanson. I think you'll find him wlllin' to protect you from sightseers an' thrill. seekers an' candid-camera fan an' such like pests. If you're half way decent to him, he'll probably try to ffiva vou a break ahmit thm r Inn's name. In short nobody's go in u .u;.. i i T. " don't You take anything else?" "Except what?" Mrs. Doane hesitated. "Well there were lier glasses," she said. "They were broken on the phone booth floor. I swept the glass up into a dustpan and threw the pieces out here in the bushes. The frames I Dut in the rlrnta-a and covered with wood ashes." Anythin more? ' No!" What (as atatlon did van wait at for the current to come back ao's you could get gas for your car?" Asey asked. "What's that got to do with" "The name of the e&a atntinn- please." 'Asey said. joes." 'Oksv. Now vou ran en nhnna the doc. An' I'd like your daugh ter to step out here." Jennie sighed as the door closed behind Mrs, Doane. "Isn't she a changeable one, Asey? There I was, feelin' so sorry for her after she told me about the Inn an' how hard she worked for it all these yesrs! Didn't she make it sound hard?" Asey agreed drvly that It r!!d sort of sound like twenty-six years before the mast. "An" wasn't you feelin' sorry for her, too?" Jennie .vkrd. "Why, I was almost forgivin' her In my mind for movin that bodv an men to think she stole that gun! Asey. what do you make of her?" wa-ei. Asey said. "I a nose If you ve spent twenty-six years try in' to please boarders an" cuesta. an toadyin' to 'em, you most like, ly get into the habit of savin' what you think someone would line to near, whether you believe it or not. Havm' made M ri. her lifework. as you might say. I s'pose it's a lot more important to her than anythln" else is." Te as enUno,4 COSTA RICA till BY SEVERE QUAKE San Jose, Costa Rira, Dec. 8. fell him Merry Christmas with a gift from Store for Men (Public buildings and hornet in central Costa Rica and northern Panama were destroy ed and some residents were in jured yesterday by an earth quake felt throughout virtually nil of Costa Rica and part of Panama. Rescue workers early today had reported no deaths. Ten home were destroyed at Santo Domingo llederia, 10 miles north of San Jose, and property was damaged at Guad alupe, Carralillo Cartago and Puerto Jlminei. 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