TGE FOURTEEN
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1941.
by Phoebe At wood Taylor
Chapter 21
Room Five
AST summer I might have
J- wondered about Rankin, but
that'i all over now," Washy went
on.
"What's all over?" Asey asked.
"Why, he was kind of mitten
with her last summer," Washy
aaid, "but she turned him down
in August. He told me all about
it one afternoon over a glass of
beer up in Tony's. I don t think
he felt bad about it. Between
you an' me, t think he was re
lieved. He's the sort that'll take
one of Tony'r waitresses to a
dance one night, an' my wife an'
Miss Olive to a church fair the
next, an' play rummy with me
the next see that third window
from the end. right by that cor
nice? That'i Miss Olive's window.
She's had that same room for
twenty-six years, an' if you
wanted to, Asey, I don't see why
you couldn't shinny up an' get
In there without anyone knowin'.
Rankin's got the corner room, an'
Lady Boop's got two rooms on
IW. H I '
urn u HIE t tiui.
"I'll so ud the shed lattice.'
Asey said, "an' walk over huh. I
wish I didn't have on these city
shoes. Them roovea look slip
pery.'
"You can always sneak up the
back stairs," Washy suggested. "I
ran go in an keep people busy.
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Asey looked at him curiously.
"Room Five's Mrs. Hinghams,
ain't It?"
"Nope. The Hlngham's Is on the
other side of the house. Miss
Olives Five."
"But Room Five's what Mrs.
Hingham come out of this eve
nin'l" Asey said. "She'd been in
there havm' her migraine real
or Imaginary, I don't know
wnicni Anyway, mars tne room
she come out of when Jennie an'
I yowled around in the hall out
side!" "I guess you maybe Just made
a mistake. Washy said. "Mrs.
Hingham's door always has a big
sign stuck on it. Says, 'Don't Dis
turb.' Nobody ever pays any at
tention to it, but if any maid ever
takes it off, Mrs. Hingham
marches out an' sticks it back on
again! I tell you. Room Five's
Miss Olive's, an' she's had it for
twenty-six years, an' look up to
her window, quick, Aseyl I'd
swear I just seen a little light
flicker, like someone strikin' a
match in there!"
Through the Window
VTMME your sneakers,
VJ Washyl" Asey kicked off his
leather-soled brogues. "Gimme
oh. I can't wait! Gimme that
knife of yours, If you got ltl
Hustle upP
Grabbing the ugly little knife
Washy drew from his pocket,
Asey raced over the wet grass in
his stocking feet and was up the
shed lattice with a catlike agility
that left Washy gaping.
His lower Jaw was almost dan
gling on his chest as ha watched
Aspy's progress across the shed
roof, down to the lower level of
the next ell roof, up again and
ever the railing of a sun deck,
then up and along a precarious
trip of gutter.
"Gorryl" Washy murmured In
admiration. "Custer Mayo always
claimed that feller was part rub
ber ball! Well, by gorryl"
He held his breath as Asey
pulled himself, apparently by the
skin of his fingi'rnails, to a po
sition beside Miss Olive's win
dow. Washy had been right about
something flickering, Asey
thought, as he dug his toes Into
the gutter.
There had been someone In
Miss Olive's room. And there still
was someone in there, moving
about!
He thrust his hand Into his coat
pocket for Washy's knife, and
wished that Mrs. Doane had been
less extravagant with her guests'
screening. Copper wire screens
were all very nice, but a simple
length of netting across the win
dow would have made his Job
here something less than a cinch.
As he raised his hand to slash
across the screening, the knife
slipped from his grasp and fell.
Mercifully, it didn't fall far.
Only to the gutter. He could feel
it with his foot. But it made
enough of a clatter to put anyone
inside the room on their guard.
Awy edged himself down,
grabbed at the knife, got It, and
was once again ready to slash the
screening when the lights flashed
on in the room.
Muttering under his breath,
Asey peered through the slats of
the Venetian blind.
It was his Cousin Jennie stand
ing there in the doorway, look
ing dubiously and a little' guiltily
around.
Aey tapped on the screen.
The location of the sound
fiuzzled her for a moment, but at
ast she walked over to the win
dow, raised a slat of the blind,
and peered somewhat Ineffectual.
ly out.
"Lift the blind an' open the
window!" Asey said impatiently.
"Hurry up!"
Jennie struggled with thf
blind, finally solved the problem
by ducking around in front of it.
opened the window, and asked
him sharply what he thought he
was doing anyway.
"Scaring me ,iear to deathl
What you doin' out there, playin'
Superman?"
"Unhook the screen, will you?
Hurry upl Jennie, you been in
this room before? Just a minute
ago? Did you light a match in
here?"
"Gracious, not What'd I be
llghtin' matches in here for?
How'd you get out there? Where,"
she added as Asey swung one leg
over the window sill, "are your
best shoes?"
"I don't know, Jennie, who'd
you see as you come in here?
Who was in this room?"
"Nobody."
"Nobody except who? Listen,
this is important! Who'd you see
out in the hall? Outside the room?
Did you see anybody comin' up
the stairs?"
"Not a soul, Aseyl Everybody's
down in the livin' room a couple
of men come in an' they're takin'
pictures of the phone booth for
Hanson, an' Doc Cummings
phoned Just now an' said he was
on his way back here to see you
what's all this about, anyway?
Where you think you're rushin'
to?"
Nobody Home
"I WANT to find who was In
herel Come on!" Asey strode
past her Into the hall. "Take the
rooms on that side an' yell if you
see anybody. I'll take this side."
Five minutes later they met at
the other end of the hall.
"I didn't see anybody any
where," Jennie said. "Did you? I
looked under beds an' in closets,
too. My, I'm all out of breath!"
"Wasn't Lady Boop in her
room?"
"Mrs. Clutterfleld? Oh, she's
been downstairs a long time."
Jennie said. "She ain't quite so
scared as she was, but she still
kind of jumps every time Hanson
walks past her Asey, what is all
this about?"
"I don't know," Asey said.
"That's what I'm tryin' to find
out hullo, Washy," he added, as
the latter appeared at the head
of the rear stairs, "you see any
body?" "Gorry, no!" Washy said. "Was
there someone? I flggcred there
must be. when you didn't call out
to me or make no noise, so I beat
it Inside quick to the hall outside
the dinin' room. Nobody come
down these back stairs, an' no
body used the elevators, either.
You can always tell when any
body uses them, because it cuta
the lights for a second when they
start an' stop."
"Huh!" Asey said. "An' you're
sure you didn't pass no one on the
main stairs. Jennie?"
Jennie told him acidly she
guessed she knew when she
passed someone and when she
didn't.
"How's about an attic?" Asey
asked Washv.
"See that hatch?" Washy
pointed up to the ceiling. "That's
the only way you can get to the
attic, through that hatch. We
made so many changes here, we
had to cut out the attic steps alto
gether. It's hooked, see? Nobody's
gone through that. An' this other
wing," he pointed to a bolted
door, "that ain't been opened up
for the season yet Nobody went
through that door an' bolted it
after em, that's one sure thing!"
"Somebody," Asey said, "was
In that room! I know they was!
I heard someone movin'l Huh!
Ain't got any secret panels
around, have you. Washy?"
"We did li'cd to have a slave
hole once," Washy said, "over in
the old wing. But we use that for
a linen closet now, an' we don't
ever speak of it as a slave hole no
more. Scared the boarders gurry,
tnere i go againi carea me
miosis stiff, I don't know why.
Nope, Asey, we ain't got any
passageways nr secret panels
believe me, I'd know if thers
was!"
Asey leaned against the newel
post at the head of the real
stairs, smoothed out the brim ol
his now thoroughly battered
gray felt hat, and looked down
thoughtfully at his wet feet.
"I wonder," he said at last. "If
this Is what the newspapers call
bein' confronted by a seemin'ly
blank wall, or if we just reached
a sort of impulse. Huh! I wonder
what he was doin',' an' what he
was after, an' how he got away,
an' I wonder if our prowler an
peeper was Freddy's boy fricndl
Washy hang around outside an'
keep your eyes peeled, will you?
1 know somebody was here, an'
there's always the off chance that
maybe he'll try comin' back. You
stand watch."
Te be rnUnoa
JAPS ADMIT FIVE
Tokyo, Dec. 19 OTV-Official
Radio received by AP) The
Japanese naval command admit
ted today that five of Its "spec
ial type" submarines failed to
SKI AND SKATING
SWEATERS!
Jantien'i Norwegian
sweater, for men and
women
Store) for Men
on the United States Hawaiian
naval base at Pearl harbor.
((Apparently the crnft refer
red to were Japan's 41-foot, two-
man submersibles, one of which
was raptured by United Stati-s
forces in the attack on Hawaii
while another was destroyed.
The pocket submarines, electri
cally powered, have a range of
200 miles.)
The Japanese also admitted
the loss of 29 planes in that at
tack and said that a United
States aircraft carrier which on
Dec. 8 had been reported sunk
"now is believed to have escaped
to a certain port."
"No Available Available''
Santa Fe, N. M.(t'P Direc
tor Joseph Btirsey of the state
tourist bureau says "no avail
ables are available." That Is his
reply to a man In Lincoln, Neb ,
who wrote the tourist bureau
asking: "Will you please place
me on your mailing list for any
availablcs?"
On the Radio Chains
STATIONS!
Chain affiliation and where
thvy are on the dial:
KALK (MHS) mn. Portland;
KIX (Mic-Hliie) 1180. Portland: I.
KG (NBC-lllu Mills) IS 10.
suukani!: M.o (MlC-lllnf) sio.
han Iranrlwo; KfjW (SHC-Rtd)
SMI, Portland; kJH (NHC-Blur)
OHO, Seattle; KNX 'H
Lw AnsHra: KIM (NHC-Krd) 890.
Denver; KOIN (I HO) ;, Port
land: HOMO MM'-Rd 80.
Seattle; KPU (NBC-Red) .
Han Sranclarol KSL (CBS) 11 l.
Hale Lake City.
' lime Shown Is PSI ""
Friday.
1:00 p. m. Kate Smith, KflL; Ad
venture Stories, KOO. KJH. KEX;
Jane Arden. KOMO; Stars of Today.
KOW, Don Wlnaow of the Nary, KPO.
6:30 p. m. News of the World,
koo. kjb. kex: Bin H. nr. knx:
Cocktail Hour. KOW; Leon . P.
Drews. KOIN; November Overcoetc.a,
KOMO.
S 00 p. m. What's on Tour Hind,
KNX. KOIN, K6L; Walts Time, KPO.
KOMO. KOW; Cinnamon Bear. KEX:
Judy Splinters, KOO; Scandinavian
Reporter, KJB.
6 :30 p. m. Michael and K 1 1 1 y,
KEX, KOO. KJR: Uncle Walter's Dog
House, K O. KOW, KOMO: First
Nlghter, KNX, KSL. KOIN.
7:00 p. m. Rochester Civic Orrh..
KGO; Shirley Tempi Tim. KSL,
KNX. KOIN: Wins or Destiny. KPO, !
KOMO. KOW; Candlelight Concerts,
KEX; Pish Plnder, KJR.
7 80 p. m. Al Pearce's Oanf. KKX.
KSL. KOIN; Grand Central Station.
KPO. KOW, KOMO; Weekly Spectator.
KJR; Modern Music Bos, KKX; Ama
teur Hour, KOO.
1:00 p. m. Fred Waring. KPO.
KOMO, KOW: Amos n' Anilv. KNX,
KSL, KOIN; Buy Washington. KJR.
8:15 p. m. Lanny Roaa, KNX. KSL,
KOIN; Lum and Abner, KPO, KOW.
KOMO.
8:30 p. m Don't Be Personal.
KPO, KOW, KOMO: Oang Busters.
KOO, KEX: Playhouse, knx, KOIN.
KflL.
0:00 p. m Radio Chatter, KPO.
KOW; Three Ring Time, KOO, KEX.
KJR; Kate Smith Hour. KNX. KOIN;
Puncn and Judy, KOMO: Sports, KSL.
9:80 p. m. Ran WUde't Orch..
KOO; Moonlight SonLta, KEX: Mary
Bullock, KOW; News. KJR; Novem
ber Overcoaters, KOMO; Floyd
Wright, KPO.
10:00 p. m. Hollywood Legion
Stadium r.ghts. KOO, KEX: Report
er News, KPO. KOW, KOMO: News,
KNX; Masterworka of Music. KSL:
Seattle Public School JTgm., KJR;
Five star Final. KOIN.
10:30 p. m. Hollywood Legion
Stadium Fights. KOO; Dance Orch..
KOW; Broadway Bandwagon, KEX;
Northwest Bible Institute, KJR; Maa
terworks of Music, KNX: The World
Today, KOIN; Spark pi and Sun
shine, KOMO: Concert Hall, KPO.
11.00 p. m. Plckard Family, KPO,
KOW; This Moving World, KEX:
Harry Owens Orch., KSL. KOIN;
News. KOO. KNX; Scandinavian Mu
sic. KJR; Reveries, KOMO.
Saturday
8:00 p. m. Ran Wilde's Orch.,
KOO. KEX: Modesto Junior College
Chorua, KPD, KOMO. KOW; Sporta
Story, KNX, KSL, KOIN.
8:80 p. m Ed Stoker's Mualc. KPO.
KOW, KOMO; Boy Meet Band. KOO.
KEX; Saturday Night News Review.
KNX. KSL: Newa. KOIN; Along the
Sidelines, KJB.
6:00 p. m. Tour Hit Parade, KSL:
Natl Bam Dance, KPO, KOW,
KOMO; Menage of Israel, KOO, KEX:
Who. What, Where and Why. KNX.
KOIN; Scandinavian Repurter, KJR.
6:80 p. m Frank Black Present.
KJR. KEX: Sport. KOIN, KNX; This
World. KOO.
7:00 p. m. Hemisphere Revue,
KOO, KEX, KJR: Sporta Newsreel,
KPO. KOMO, KOW.
7:30 p. m. Grand Ol Opry, KPO,
KOW. KOMO; Hi, Neighbor. KNX:
University Explorer, KOO, KEX. KJR;
Leon F. Drews, KOIN; American Chal
lenge. KSL.
8:00 p. m Bishop and th Gar
goyle. KOO, KJR. KEX; Truth or
Consequence. KPO. KOW, KOMO:
Ouy Lombardo'a Orch., KOIN, KSL,
KNX.
SUBURBAN HEIGHT5
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
Ff?EP TmW WAS 0HLYlf?vW.$ 1& BE HELPFUL WHEM
HE UNDERTOOK 1& DELIVER HIS WlFE'5 "PRESENTS TOR HER
AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BW HE "THREW HER CHRISTMAS
6IVIN6 INlTO UTTER CWUSIOH WHEM HE SKlDDEP ON A CUR&,
SPILLED ALL THE NAME TAGS OFF THF PACKAGES AHD RATHER.
TriAM 60 BACK ID BOTHER HER, REPLACED THEM AS BEST HE COVLV
Rfl e far The Bell Srndtrala. Inc.)
8:30 p. m. Knickerbocker Play
house. KPO. KOMO. KOW; Spin and
WIN, KOO. KJR. KEX: Hobby Lobby.
KNX, KOIN. KSL.
8:00 p. m. Music of th America.
News. K"C. KOW. KOMO: Henry
Busse's Orch.. KOO. KEX; Tour Hit
Parade, KNX, KOIN: Serenade, KJR;
Sports. KSL.
B 30 p. m. The Edwarda, KOO.
KEX: Beat of the Week. KPO, KOW,
KOMO: News, KSL, KJR.
10 :00 p. m. Two Round Jamboree,
KOO. KJR. KIX: Larry Carr, KOMO:
News. KOW, KNX, KOIN. KPO; Dane
Orch, KSL.
10:30 p. m. Two Round Jamboree.
KOO, KJR; Harry Owens' Orch, KNX.
KSL: Th Quiet Hour. KEX; World
Today, KOIN; Bob McOrew's Orch-,
KOMO; Concert Hall, KPO.
1 1 rOO p. m. France Welner. KPO,
KOW; Martha Mean. KSL, KOIN;
Carl Ravazxa'e Orch, KJR; Newa.
KNX. KGO; Th Quiet Hour, KEX;
Evening Reverie. KOMO.
NOTHING TOO GOOD
Ketchikan, Alaska (IP)
Where else could this happen?
Fifteen-year-old Gigrid Olson,
a news boy, earned $700 In a
few months work at a cannery
this summer. He didn't want to(L
wait for a cannery tender to
take him home. So he radioed
and chartered an airplane and
rode home as the only passenger.
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