PAGE EIGHT
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1941.
by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Chapter 26
No Motlre
npHIS case, thought Asey, Is
A nothing but possibilities. If
Ann Joyce had been pretending
to be Mis Olive (U day, she
ought to have had Miss Olive'i
ear, and the car lhould be around,
now. Perhaps, Aaey thought, it
might have been parked out be
hind the Inn somewhere when he
and Jennie came. He hadn t seen
any trace of it when he chased
the prowler who knocked over
the clams, but that didn't mean
that the car couldn't have been
there. And still might be. If the
fog cleared, or If Miss Olive didn't
return by daylight, Hanson s men
would have to scour around.
But if Ann Joyce had Miss
Olive's car, then where was Miss
Olive now, and where had she
been all day? And where was she
keeping herseI
An4 uihvf
Asey sat 'up straight on the
bench. . .
Offhand, ha never remembered
case where there was so little
apparent reason to do away with
the two people most Involved.
And if there was a dearth of
motives, Asey thought, there was
a positive desert of. clews. No
ihreds of tweed, no cigarette butts
smeared with lipstick, no quaint
cameo pins, no goos 01 cnewing
011m. or anything else. There
weren't even any obviously false
clews that you could aangie in
anyone s lace ana aemana
nlnnritinna fnr.
That at least, was the way It
seemed.
But. of course, there was a mo
tive, Asey told hlmseir, mere al
ways was. There had to be.
"What I want," he murmured
lloud, "is a few roots!"
He had thought, once that eve
ning, that he had actually landed
on a root, until Freddy mentioned
that cleaning woman ana nippea
the root in mid-air.
It was such a simple, logical,
sensible root that it appealed to
Asey, and neither Cummings nor
nanson nor anyone eiw naa given
it a thought. At least, they hadn't
mentioned it
They had all simply taken It for
granted that Ann Joyce must have
been killed inside that telephone
booth.
It never seemed to have oc
curred to any of them that If it
had been so easy for Mrs. Ooane
to have moved that body from
the booth to the porch, it must
have been Just as easy for some
one else to have placed the body
there in tne nrst piaccl
The back door of the booth,
mat icu i.i uiv tun iipiij
could Just as well have been used
lor an entrance as It naa Deen
used by Mrs. Ooane for an exit
While Freddy and Rankin and
Lady Boop and everyone else
moved around in the living room,
the body could have been insert
ed in the booth from the other
side, without any of them being
a whit the wiser.
But the presence of the clean
ing woman in tne dining room
unocKea an mat conjectured pan
tomime into a couple of cocked
bats.
It did even more. It also put
n abrupt stop to another thought
Asey had been toying with, that
Ann Joyce might Just possibly
have been shot upstairs in the
Inn and brought down in one of
the two elevators Rankin had
mentioned. What with so many
people wandering around the liv
ing room, the elevator in the al
cove couldn't under any circum
stances have been used.
Quiet Exit
'A SEY knocked out his pipe.
1 The possibility that Alfred
himself might have carried a body
into the Inn was, on the one hand,
too absurd to consider seriously,
and, on the other hand, not quite
absurd enough to ignore entirely.
Alfred was (at Alfred possessed,
as Washy put it, a broad beam.
From a distance, any addition to
Alfred's broad beam would not
be as obvious as it might be in
the rase of a narrower person. In
the dusk of evening, Alfred with
a body might not appear visibly
encumbered to Washy, in the
woods.
Asey couldn't bring himself to
consider Lady Boop and Alfred
as a pair of murderers, but it
might not do any harm to seek
out Washy and have a talk with
him about Alfred, hist in case.
Even though Ladv Boop was as
rich as Croesus, there had been
something fishy in her giving
Alfred a cool thousand dollars in
cash to keep in his wallet for lit
tle eventualities like dead goats.
And, athough Asey hadn't con
sidered this particular angle of
the aituation twfore, he couldn't
stake his oath that the goat was
the only thing Alfred had buried.
And, after all. Miss Olive was still
missing.
"If that goat was a red herrln',"
Aey murmured to himself, 'I'm
soin' to look one plumb dumb
fool!"
He strode over toward the
kitchen ell.
The lights went out before he
got there, and as he peered around
the comer, Washy, In a belted
Mackinaw and with his litle blue
knitted cap on his head, sidled
out the kitchen door and started
down the path.
He didn't exactly run, but he
walked so rapidly on tiptoe that
the effect was the same, snd he
held his head down and his shoul
ders crouched a little, as if he
were trying to make himself
small.
With a puzzled look on his face.
Asey watched for a moment, ana
then quietly set off down the path
after him.
He heard a crackling sound as
Washy left the path and skirted
the brush pile, and then the soft
crunching of his sneakers as he
hurried along down another gravel
path.
Keeping well behind him, Asey
followed him around a small
pond, through a pine woods, and
down a little sloping hill to the
bay shore.
washy paused for a moment at
the edge of the beach grass and
then continued more slowly to
ward the gaunt outlines of a bath
house that loomed out of the fog.
Waves lapped on the shore be-
f'ond, and a bell buoy rang hoi
owly from Quisset Harbor, and
then Asey heard the rattle of keys
and the click of a padlock.
Washy swung open the bath
house door, emerged a moment
later with a shovel, and then be
gan to dig industriously in the
sand.
After a few momenta he
stopped, jabbed his shovel upright
mio me sana. ana iook someining
from the pocket of his Mackinaw.
"The Papers'
ASEY strolled forward.
His hands were in the pock
ets of his coat, a nd he almost
sauntered up to Washy, but he
was ready to meet anything from
a frontal attack with the shovel
to what used to be Washy's piece
de resistance, a sort of elementary
flying tackle.
"By gorry, It's you, Aseyl"
Washy said in a voice of pleased
relief. "I must say I'm glad! I been
tryin' to get noid or you ail
evenin' long to see what you
thought was best for me to do
about these cussed things. Here,
You take 'em."
He held out a flat fifty cigar
ette tin.
Asey took It with caution.
Washy was also a past master
of the extended hand and the
hearty grip. And when you came
to and picked yourself up, you
found your arm was broken.
wnats mis, wasny7
"It's them cussed papers. Hon
est, Asey, I been like to go crazy,
with them cussed cods stickin
their cussed noses into everything,
lor tear they d nnd em an start
askin' my wife say, you met my
wife now, ain't you?
-un-nun.
"Then vou know. If they find
these papers an' ask her about
'em, I'm a gonerl I kept thinkin'
I'd be all right as soon as Miss
Olive come back. But with her
away, no one wouldn t ever be
lieve me. Anyhow, now you got
'em." he hooked his arm chum-
mily In Ascy's, "an' everything's
okay. My. mv. it's flood to set
them cussed things off my mind,
I can tell you. Coma on back up
to the house. Asev. an' let's us
talk about the ole days"
'Wait up," Asey disengaged
himself warily. He atill didn't
trust Washy even in this mood
of benign good humor. "What's
all this about papers?"
"Oh, they're in the box. Come
on out of this damp an' fog an'"
"Hold on. Washyl Come back
here! What are these papers, an
wnat s tne laea or Duryin 'em7
'I told you!" Washv said imDa.
tlently. "I don't want them cussed
cops to take 'em to my wife an'
V. .... .. n . ! . 1 .
because then I'd be a gonerl So 1
thought I'd just bury em out of
the way till Miss Olive come
back, because then penple'd be
lieve mesay, Asey, you don't
think nothin' happened to her, do
you?"
I nope not. Washy, stop dsncin'
around, an' tell me what these
papers are!"
'They're just the notes." Washy
took Asey a arm again. "She
wouldn t never take 'cm. you see.
She said she trusted me. But I
said, 'Miss Olive, with a sum of
money like that you got to have
a note.' I told her that ten years
ago. So I makes out a note. N'en
as I paid her back, I made out
other notes. She gives me a re
ceipt every time f pay her back.
The receipts Is in that box, too."
"Do I understand." Asev was
honestly bewildered, "that you
owe ner money r
"Only two thousand now
Washy said with pride. "I paid
bark the other five."
Washy." Asey said, "come over
here an' sit down on these bath
house steps an' let me get this
straightened out. Miss Olive once
lent you seven thousand dollars!
What for?" Asey asked.
Washv understood his Question.
"You see, ten years ago the bans
lurtMruwu. ima 01 nara. umea
was then. An' the cussedest part
was, Asey, I had the money tc
pay 'em with, only it was all tied
up in this schooner. Ever kno
Sim Smith?"
Te at sentlnactl
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Education, Ashland. Dec. 17
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first aid class will be conducted
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structor In first aid. will carry
two hours of standard college
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three months. Following this
class, there will be offered, be
ginning the spring term, a class
in advanced first aid. The conv
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lead to a Red Cross Instructor's
certificate in first aid.
The college is also planning
to offer additional evening clas
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By CLUYAS WILLIAMS
SPREADS HfR PRESENTS OH HEARS BACK DOORBELL TitfM IT'S 1r)E E6fe MAH SHOUTS HIM rfottO
BEnf66EfTHEM AIL
WRAPPEP AND MARKED
NOW "fHAf SHE HA& 1,)E
HOUSE 10 HERSElF
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AHt AT SAME MOMEHT 60 UPATAlRS Urtth SHE
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Driver of an automobile which
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was identified by police today as
Joseph Gordon, Ladner and
Haney, B. C, theatre owner,
when a hoist pulled the car from
the river, 50 feet from the scene
of its fatal plunge.
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STRANGE AS IT SEEMS
OOO'WZ-OlD
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DATING PROM
Wt; I0TH CENTURY.
CANTERBURY,
ENGLAND...
by JOHN HIX
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RIFLE'S LIFE
Although a rifla may serve its owner for a lifetime, the actual life of the gun itself to
shorter than the time it would ordinarily take to load, aim and fire It oncel Using, as an
example, a model 70 Winchester chambered for the 30-06 cartridge, giving a muille
velocity of 2.700 F. S. in a 24-inch barrel, the average accurate life of the piece Is esti
mated to be 3.000 shots. The actual time in which the bullet is passing through the barrel
for these 3.000 shots would be 2.222 secondsl
Tomorrow: Visible Speechl
By AL CAPP
FOR WEEKS NOW -YOU'VE.
BEEN RELATING -EVERY
INCIDENT IN EVERY
DAY OF YOUR PAST
LIFE IN THE MOST
BORING DETAIL. .r-(Sie,H.n
YOU'RE. UP TO THt
MORNING OF YOUR,
SIXTH BIRTHDAY YOUVE
ALREADY TOLD ME. WHAT
VOU ATE FDR
GULP.'-
C-CAINT
AH
S-SKIP
THET
one:
MAWNIN i
I -SOMETHING
' IN YOUR PAST LIFE
WILL EXPLAIN YOUR
STRANGE CHERRY
BLOSSOM-AND-SOEf
COMPLEX.'-WHAT
HAPPENED ON THE
MORNING OF YOUR
SIXTH BIRTHDAY 7
AH WAS POW'FUL MAD.'
THAR WAS A GUN
LYIN' ON TH'
GROUND.' AH
PICKED IT UP
AIMED IT AT HIM.
AH LET HIM HAVE IT
BETWEEN TH'EYES.'.'
TAILSPIN TOMMY Any Delay Now Is Fatall
KEETEH. UNDER.
THE INFLUENCE-
OF THE POWERFUL
HYPNOTIC DR.OG.
WHICH DO. VERMIN,
a member. of
the barons spy
ring, in0culwed
him with, has
rejoined mis
squadron
Meanwhile...
oonchita-; alias
freda, espionage
agent for. tm e
baron, has been
apprehended by
intelligence
officer.s....
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KNOW TH" 4 v PW'''h-4
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KAUIO IN THf
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Meanwhile.the baron
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