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.
The municipal building and
a school were brought down at
Santiago, a Panama provincial
capital of about 2.000 population.
Closing time tor Classified Ads
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attempted to learn whom the picture represented. Finally a nawpaper ran a storv about it
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