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AOF. SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1941. by Phoebe Atwood Taylor Chapter II - About Gun ASEY ihook Ms head. "Thii model the waa tryn' to walk off with," he said, "is a twenty-two, Jennie. It's a Colt It's what they call a Sports Model Woodsman, an' it's the gun that was on the floor when we first found her in the phone booth. To judge from that wound, I'd say, off-hand, that this Miss Olive was shot with a twenty-two, an' it seenu's if this ought to be the one someone used." "Well, for land's sake, ain't It?" "Wa-el," Asey said, "the gun I seen Washy stick into his hip pocket might be the twin of this one, Jennie. I know for sure that's a twenty-two, because when I run into him out in the woods, he spoke about takin' a pot shot at a chicken thief with his little twenty-two. An' Mrs. Clutterfleld's chauffeur said that washy'd been target shootin' around reckless this eve nin'. Maybe Mrs. Ooane thought this gun was her husband's. I don't know. What the average woman think about guns is somethin' I never been able to understand much. They don't seem to realize that guns ain't like cups an' saucers, somethin' you can shift around an' nobody be the wiser. No matter how much you try to ' shift guns around, the truth comes out in the wash, anyway." "What you mean?'' "As soon as Doc Cummlngs gets here an' gets his part over with, we'll put Hanson's experts to work on the gun situation," Asey said. "If there was a dozen twenty-twos lyin' loose around this inn, they could tell you in no time Just which one of 'em the bullet was fired from that killed her." "I ee," Jennie said dubiously. - "I see. "Vhat's keepin' that daugh ter, I wonder? You auppose Mrs. Doane's primin' her, maybe?" Asey shrugged. "Seems to me," Jennie vent on, ' "she'd ought to have been around. Beems to me someone must have been around this place this eve ning'! Miss Olive was at the four corners a little before six. 'Bout ten of six or so. She was here, dead, when we come at six. I do keep thinkin' someone ought to have been here, Asey. What about din ner? Wasn't anybody goin' to eat dinner here?" "Apparently not, near as I can make out," Asey said. "From what I gathered up her an' there, Mrs. Clutterfteld got sore because there might not,be clams Mr. Doane had double about you gettin' 'em here, I guess an' so she flounced off to the club. Rankin come back with Judge Houghton, so I gather he had dinner with him. I s pose with her migraine, Mrs. Hingham wasn't going to dine. But Washy was here, shootin' his little twenty-two. An' Mrs. Clutterfleld's chauffeur come back for her dress. An' this girl Freddy told me was there in the llvin' room all the time from three o'clock on, but I'm inclined to think she meant she was there all the time except when he "vas somewheres else. Jennie, want to help me out?" " 'Course, It I can." Srran .. Jennie "ITTHILE I'm busy with the doe. ' an ianson, an' odds an' ends, will you linger around Washy an Mr. Doane? Particularly her. No . tice anythin' they keep you from . seein' or lookin at Act just aa little like a business woman as she thinks you are." That won't be hard." Jennie aid. "Uh-huh," Asey said. "Well, don't be too dumb, but don't be terrible bright, either. An' for the love of Pete, don't dicker with her!" Jennie looked at him curiously for a moment "You're lot mora suspicious about her than you waa, Assey. I can tell by the sound of your voice. You are, ain't you?" "Wa-el," Asey said, "In a sort of wsy, yes. You remember when we was waitin' for the Armv column at the four corners? When you barged out to talk to the soldier with the lantern, I sat there in the truck an' watched that big sign on the opposite corner. It was one of those neon jiggers that flashes red an' then white, an' then sort of dances, an' make a figure." I "What of it?" "That" Asey said, "wu Joe's gas station." Jennie gave a little squeal. "It was? Why yes, I remember, now! The 'J' blinked all the time. Why, Asey, if she was waitin' there! Why she might have seen Miss Olive! Maybe she hailed her! Maybe, after Miss Olive drove across, after the trucks Jammed up, maybe Miss Olive picked her up an' brought her here! Whv, Asey, it sort of takes my breath away!" "It doe sort of open up new vistas, don't it?" Asey agreed. "Well, you pop Inside, Jennie, an' ehase that girl out here, an' "start In with your eye-peelin'." "Huhr Jennie said. Til eye peel, ell right!" The door had scarcely closed beind her when Asey hea'd the Bend. Dec. 8. (A Nearly 1000 CIO lumber workers ac cepted a compromise wage pro- GIFTS FOR HIM 25c to $25 Store for Men scrunch of gravel as car rolled up the driveway. Stepping off the porch, Asey looked around tha side of the elL It was Hanson and Rankin, get ting out of a large, red, grocery supply truck, which backfired sev eral times, then lurched around the turntable and drove away. Asey whistled to them, and chuckled a he saw them look at each other meaningly before they strolled over to him. "Mr. Mayo, I presume?" Rankin inquired. "Er remember us?" "I'm sorry," Asey said. "I had to see a fat lady about a dead goat Hanson, Jennie found the body. Come take a look." Rankin nearly fell off the porch when Hanson's flashlight illumi nated the face of the woman under the Boston rocker. "It's Miss Olive!" he cried. "I thought of everyone else at the Inn, out I never even considered Miss Olive! Mayo, this is ghastlyl" "Who is she?" Hanson de manded. "She's a schoolteacher." Rankin still sounded dazed. "Miss Olive. Miss Olive Beadle. She comes from somewhere around Boston. One of the Newtons, I think. She stays here at the Inn every summer. Has for years. Everybody in town knows Miss Olive. She s an institu tion here at the Inn." "You never said a word about her when I asked you who was staying at the Inn! Hanson said. "I never thought of her! It's Just as I told Mayo, just now! I never thought cf her in connection with anything like this! Elissa, or her husband, or Lady Boop yes! I could understand that! Particu larly Elissa! But Miss Olive why, I Just can't believe this! What hap pened? Was she killed out here?" "She was shot in the phone booth, In the livin" room," Asey said. "She was there when Jennie an' I first seen her." "They Don't Agree" THE phone booth? Rankin sat down heavily on the step. "My God! I saw her go in there!" "When?" Asey asked. "I came down the stairs with herl She said she hsd to phone, and asked me if I had two nickels for a dime, and I did, and I gave 'em to her, and she went into the phone booth! My God!" "What time waa this?" Asey asked again. "This afternoon oh, half past four or quarter past four, some time around there. Freddy was there at the desk in the living room. I gave her the nickels and went on uptown that was when she was killed, wasn't it. Mayo?" "I don't think so," Asey said. "Jennie an' I both saw her at the four corners this evenin'. She waa killed in the phone booth around six, I'd say. Then Mrs. Doane found the body an' moved it here." "Mrs. Doane?" Rankin said. Mrs. D? She moved her- Is that how you lost the body? Mrs. Doane moved her? My God, I don't un derstand any of this! You mean, she really found the body, and she moved it?" Asey's summary of the proceed ings to date and the part that Mrs. Doane played waa a marvel of brevity tnd conciseness. "Say, I don't like this! f'anson said when he finished. "This don't look so hot to me! You say that chauffeur said he saw Mrs. Doane here when he came to get Mrs. Blutterfleld's dress" "Clutterfleld," Asey said. "Well, whoever ahe is. And Mrs. Doane says she was at Joe'a gas station why, there's no reason why this Miss Olive might not have picked her up, right there! I bet you we'll find out the two of 'em had a quarrel, or a fight, or something! That's what I bet!" "I bet you don't!" Rankin said. "I never knew Miss Olive to fight with anyone. And she's a particu larly good friend of Mrs. D. In fact I don't think I ever knew anyone to get along any better with Mrs. D." Hanson shrugged. "Well, if she was killed In the phone booth around six. let's round up all the people who were around then, A-ey. and get towork. Ought to have been plenty of people around about that time." "Uh-huh," Asey said. "Seems like there ought, don't it? But the Rlace was empty, except for this Irs. Higham, ar.'t it took a whale of a lot of effort on Jennie'a an' my part to drag her to the door of her room half an hour later. She was sick with migraine. An'" "I thought you understood Mayo," Hankin Interrupted, "that Elissa's migraine was a fake." "Well, if Mrs. Hingham was here, that gives us something to start with, Hannson said. "She'd ought to know aomething about this Miss Olive, and what went on." Rankin smiled. "If Elissa knows more than her name, or ever troubled to say more than "Good mornln' to Miss Olive, I'll be very much surrpised." he said. "They don't get along, huh?" Hanson asked quickly. Te a eentlneed posal Saturday ending 10-day strike at the Brooks Scanlon Lumber company. The proposal, negotiated by federal conciliator, offered a 2V?-cent-an-hour wage Increase and a week a paid vacation. The union had asked the vacation and a 7's-cent Increase. GALLS CREEK RANCHER BUYS 240 ACRE PLACE Gold Hill. Doc. 8 (Spl Jamra Estremado, Galla Creek rancher, has recently purchased the property known as the Sleepy Hollow ranch, from the Federal Lund bank. The prop erty Is a 240 acre ranch located at the mouth of Sardine creek, across the railroad track from the Pacific highway. The Estre mados plan on building new home there In the near future. Closlnt lime Cltaatflrd Ad i to. Too Late so Claaailj 13 JO ( On the Radio Chains STATIONS: Chain affiliation and where they are on tha dial: KALE (MHH) isso. Port Ian 4; KEX NBC-Blae) llim, Portland; KOA (MM"-lllu MB 1.11(1. Spokane; KCio (NBC-Blur) SIO. Ken Franeiaroj KUW (MW:-Rd 620, Portland; KJK (NHC-Ulurl 1000, Brattle; KNX (CBN) 1070. Lm A (Iff 1m: KOA (NBC-Krd) SJO. Drnver; KOIN (CBft) (70, Port land: KOMO OBCHrrt) B.VI, Srattlr; KPO (NBC-Krd) W. Kan rranelx-o; USL (CBS) 1164). Salt Lake City. Time Shown la PST """" " Monday 5:00 p. m. Adventure stories. KOO. KJR; Vox Pop, KSL. KOIN: Adventure In To? land, KEX; Atare of Today. KOW; Jane Arden, KOMO; Don Wlnslow of tha Nary. KPO. I SO p. m. Nrwa of trie Wcrld. KOO. KEX, KJR; Cocktail Hour, KOW; BUI Henry, KNX; Leon P. 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Battle of the Seses, KPO. KOMO, KOW; Arkanaaa Trav eler. KNX. KOIN; Mai Hallett's Orch, KOO: News, KJR. KSL; Moonlight Serenade, KEX. 10:00 p. m. Ran Wilde's Orch.. KOO, KEX; Reporter News, KPO. KOMO, KOW; Masterworks of Musle. KSL; News, KNX: Five Star Final, KOIN. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS rflf RicHARP5gsr jockey ,wa winners In all he bootep . HOME 101b WINNER BEING PROCESSED rS KvN THR0U6H A NAPKIN RINQT I "iHE CiRAVUTE NIGHT LIZARD A It a . . . 7 . . . -T If UHn MA -letlTiPi" ALMWal INSTANTLY Ir - 11 da,k,,-, Ti- V, EXPOSED TO THE SUN jf Jj DRAINING WHATEVER 17 " " Caw 11 r VmH4 rattwr trvrsrssmssv IW. Tf V fin. Keg I', t. t4. Oft. AJ1 rtfhta ntetrrejsl MONEY WINNER Until 1933 the record made In 1885 by Frad Archer. English jockey, of 248 wins In on year was considered unbeatable. Then Gordon Richards, who had already chalked up 14S victories in 1931 and 190 by 1932, began to get up steam. By October 19, 1933, he had won 213, with 13 consecutive wins in three daysl He had won tha last two at Nottingham on October 3, all aix at Chepstow on October 4, and then gone on to take the first live on tha second day of the meetl With 38 racing days left In the year, ha went on to top Archer's 48-year-old record by 13 wins making 259 victories in alii TOMORROW) Real Ship o( tha Desertl te-CZ. a. aV 1 FM. rtaT SO-Of THIS-S IS-S THE SENOR. YOU IOLO ME DAUGHTER? WELCOME TO CASA DE LA SEPULCHRE. LT. MILLIOAN...W6 SHALL TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOU...YiRY GOOD. CARE YO And as skeete ENTERS THE OLD MANSION... OF3SA WHrn fT,r Ml -s. sr-enw p.w ticnsWa t rm.'-w r .-xsis. t wr arm i vi",.. ii y.mwr m i 'j j m i vji r 1030 p. m. Tiny Hill's Orch, KSL; Charles Dent's Orch, KOW; Stanley Kenton's Orch.. KOO, KJR; Broad way Battdwafon. KEX: Masterworks of Musle. KNX: The World Today, KOIN; Concert Hall, KPO. 11:00 p. m. Chuck Wagon Days, KPO. KOW; This Mortnj World. KX, KJR; Ken Stevena and Edwin Yeo. KSL. KOIN; News. KNX; Rev eries, KOMO. . Bighorn sheep prefer tweet mountain grasses and flowers and eat coarse food only when grasses are not available. "Colonel" AMERICAN YOUNG ABOUT 1 THE.TS JwAt J VURRY V IS : PE.r-KOOL.YAR 1 mSkwyU rsf LETTER 6UOTCME 7f V J AT TH 1 7 A END if ' OF IT? J U IfT-THANsCSCGOSHFn I AIWOT A P-PECULIAR. N I rl N NAME F FOR A Jl l I P P PLAMTATIOM J f vl 1 Cv, Si ANNUAL BENEFIT DANCE AT GOLD HILL SATURDAY Gold Hill, Dec. 8. (Spl.) The annual Christmas benefit dance will be sponsored by tha Oddfellow lodge on December 20th. It is expected that tickets will be placed on sale soon, and music will be furnished by local talent, according to present plans. Gee Mall Tribune want a da by JOHN HIX CoWBOy Samuel. Cody, - BORN PIONEER OF BRITrbH AVIATION BEGAN HY CAREER IN A TEXA-, WILD WE'ST 5W0VVAND BECAME INTERESTED IN AIRPLANES THROUGH Holder of many , british and world's RECORDS (1909 TO 'I l) HE BUILT AND J FLEW HIS OWN PLANES THOUGH HE By AL CAPP y HAL FORREST A VERY FITTING NAME FOR. THIS PLANTATION SKEETS, AS YOU SHALL SEE By SOL HESS ( o 0
