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.
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Until 1933 the record made In 1885 by Frad Archer. English jockey, of 248 wins In on
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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
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AT GOLD HILL SATURDAY
Gold Hill, Dec. 8. (Spl.)
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dance will be sponsored by tha
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20th. It is expected that tickets
will be placed on sale soon, and
music will be furnished by local
talent, according to present
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