PAGE ETGHT
by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
w.upter 30
The Pincnahion
FIVE minutes later, Jennie
paused.
"Uh-nuh." Asey said.
"You ain't listening Asey, can't
you stop starin' oR Into space an'
tell me the answers to soma of
them things?"
"Your guess's just as good as
mine."
"Another thing I want to know
about!" Jennie went on. "You lis
tenin' to me? Well, nobody's tried
to harm you, have they?
She broke off as something
crocKiea sharply against trie Ve
netian blind.
Jennie uttered a shrill squeal
of terror and jumped from her
chair, but Asey looked at the lit
tle pieces of gravel on the rug
and grinned as he strode over to
the window.
"Ahoy, Asey!" Washy called up
hoarsely, "Ahoyl I can't And no-
Dorjyr
"Keep on watchln', anyway,
Asev told him.
When he turned around, Jennie
was viewing with acute dismay
the contents of the workbasket,
strewn oil over the floor.
"How'd that happen?" Asey in
quired. "Oh dear, ain't that an awful
mess! I had the basket in my hand
when I jumped, an' it popped
right up into the air my, that
sravel startled me! Hem me
pick things up, will you? I looked
under so many beds in such a
rush, I'm stiff an' creakin' from
bendm' over. 1m tired, anyways.
You know it's most one o'clock?"
"Feel like call in' it a day an'
goln' home?" Asey knelt down
and started to gather up the
spools.
"I thought," Jennie sounded
discouraged, "that I'd be a big
help to you, Asey. It always
seemed to me when you had cases
like this before that I'd have
guessed things an' figgered things,
right off. Maybe not as fast as
you. but anyway as fast aa Han'
son. But I guess It's easy enough
after someone's shown you. He
oh, don't stuff things back that
way, Aseyl It was just about the
neatest worKDasxet I ever seen,
an' we mustn't leave it all
messy!"
"There!" Asey gave her the
basket and tossed the last spool
into her lap. "See anythin' I
missed?
"Seems like there'd ought to be
pincushion," Jennie said.
"There's always a Asey, that's
"What? Where?" Asey looked
round on the tut.
"Not on the floor, nlnnyt I
mean, the pincushion s somethin'
else I don't understand. Look,
when we first come here tonight,
didn't I pick up pincushion off
the floor in the livin' room? It
was a pincushion that looked like
a tomato, wasnt it?"
Asev thouiht for a moment.
"I don't know's I remember
whoa! Yes, I do, tool I remember
It now. What about it?"
"Why, tonight while we was
waltm there in the livln room
while you was off huntin' Miss
Olive, Mrs. Doane picked up her
sewin oasxei an- started aarnin
sock. I said. Just to kind of
make conversation, that I'd picked
up her pincushion off the floor,
an' she said she was very fond of
that pincushion because it was
her mother's, an' so different from
most shaped 'ike an orange! So
I said now, Asey, stop lookin' at
them pictures an' listen to me!
I said, what I picked up was a
tomato, an' she said to take the
basket an' look for myself, there
wasn't any tomato there, only the
orange, an' I must just have made
a mistake with the candlelight
an' all. Well, like I said. I was
gettin' tired of havin' people tell
me I just made a mistake, an' I
got sort of mad, an' Freddy
stepped In quick an' said that
Miss Olive had a tomato that be
longed to her mother, a real old
fashioned tomato pincushion"
"What's that?" Asey said. "Say
that again."
Jennie repeated It. "I wasn't so
upset an' worried that I couldn't
tell a red tomato from an orange
orangei i saia so. too, but Mrs.
Doane iust smiled that sort of iu.
perior smile of hers, an' said I
could see, couldn't I, that there
wasn't any tomato there then!"
"Wasn't there?"
"No!" Jennie said. "I looked
tnrough that basket twice!"
uia you hunt around any
wheres besides the sewin" basket?"
"I was just mad enough," Jen
nie said, "that I pawed around the
floor for It. an' peered among the
magazines on the table, an' I even
poKcd in the nower bowl there.
Freddv an' Rankin an' Wash all
helped me hunt they was polite
enough, an' they pawed things
around on mat la Die every which
way. But it was plain to see they
inougni io marie a mistake, too.
After a while. I cot to wonderin'
if maybe I wasn't wrong, because
they all thought so but Just the
same I was positive sure I'd
picked up a tomato pincushion an'
put it in that basket Now, what
do you think Asey. what's the
matter with you You looked
glum as a fish two minutes ago,
OPERETTA GIVEN BY
GOLD HILL STUDENTS
Gold Hill, Dec. 22. (Spl.)
A Dutch Christmas operetta In
two acts was presented by the
grade school here on Dec. 18.
in the school gymnasium. In
strumental music was furnished
by the school band and singing
Give Him . . a
A SWEATER
$3.95 to $12.50
T3axk&a
Store for Men
an' now you're grlnnln' from eax
to ear!"
"Cousin, d'you realize what you
done?"
"What I done?" Jennie sniffed.
"Well. I must say, if I'd realized
all the fuss an' bother an' to-do
there'd be over a simple little
thing like my plckin' up a pin
cushion, let me tell you I'd have
let it lay right there on the floor!
Mercy" i sakes! A body'd think
"You got me wrong," Asey in
terrupted. "I don't think it's bad.
I . think it's good. I think it's
more'n good. I think it's Just
about the best thing that's hap
pened here tonight!
A Clue
"IVHAT you done, Jennie," Asey
'continued, "is to put your
finger on somethin', see?"
"I never!" Jennie said with
spirit "I didn't put my finger on
it, Asey Mayo! I tell you, I picked
up that pincushion. With my
hand!"
Asey'g gfrln widened.
"An' presented it to me on
platter, he said. "Just so. Look,
there was somethin' belongin' to
Miss Olive, Jennie. On the floor.
You pick it up an' put it some
where, but it ain't there now!"
"I can't help that! I"
"Wait It must be Miss Olive's
pincushion, all right You say
Freddy said she had a tomato
pincushion. But there's none in
her own basket here, is there? An'
you said yourself it was the neat
est basket you ever seen! That
tomato pincushion ought to of
been right here. Only you found
it downstairs on the floor. So that
means that somebody"
"Asey, you feel all right?" Jen
nie inqured anxiously. "Don't
you think you better go He down
somewheres? You're talkln' kind
of wild!"
"Look," Asey said, "You got
somethin' that indicates that
someone was here an' took the
fiincushion, an' somehow dropped
t downstairs, an' then cared
enough about it to come back an'
remove it "
"I bet." Jennie said, "It was
that fellow that knocked over the
clams,. Asey! That's what he was
snoopin' around for! Don't you
s'pose that's the fellow the doe
seen, too? He was tryin' to get in
an' get the pincushion!"
"May be, Asey said. "Seems
logical. But the big point is, at
last we got somethin' belongin' to
Miss Olive that somebody seems
to of wanted! We don't need to
waste time speculatin' If she left
the pincushion down there on the
livln' room floor herself. Folks aa
neat as her don't go atrewin'
their belongin's around. An' if
this belonged to Miss Olive's
mother, like Freddy told you,
then probably she's Just as choice
of it as Mrs. Doane is of her
mother's orange model
"But look here, Asev," Jennie's
forehead was screwed up into a
frown, "what'd anyone want a
little ole pin cushion for, for
mercy's sakes? I see what you
mean, all right but I think it's
kind of a silly idea, Aseyl If it
was jewels or money or somethin'
valuable, I can see why someone
might want to steal it but stealin'
away a little ole tomato pincush
ion seems to me about aa silly a
thing as I ever heard!"
'That's Just it!" Asey said. "Iff
so silly an' unimportant that I
didn't even remember your pick
in' the thing up at first!"
"You s'pose the girl might have
taken the pincushion?" Jennie
wanted to know. "You don't
s'pose Miss Olive might of killed
the girl herself? S'pose she was
mad at the girl dressin' up like
her? WouldnH it be awful, after
how sorry an' worried we been
about Miss Olive, if she was oh,
no. I guess," Jennie said wearily,
"that I'll just get along home an
make myself a nice cup of tea an'
go to bed! You. too. Maybe the
real answer'll come to you over
night."
"I think I got enough now,"
Asey said reflectively, "to tackle
them an' bluff somethin' useful
out of 'em. But this pincushion"
"Oh, that little ole pincushion!
I tell you that r nice cup of tea
what's the matter now?" she
added, as Asey walked over to
the window and peered out
through the Venetian blind.
"I thought I heard my car start
up!" Asey said.
"You never did see, you're
Jumpy! You ought to rest an'
"Well for the love of Pete!"
"Asey. come back herel Where
you goln'?"
"Goin' to rescue my carl"
"You musn't go out that win.
dowl Come back here! Asey, are
you stark ravin' madl Coma
back!"
Jennie hustled over to the win.
dow, struggled again with the
Venetian blind, and finally duck
ed around in front of it in time
to see Asey land on the lawn
below, scramble to his feet, and
dash toward the driveway.
She could just make out the
sleek lines of Asey's chromium
plated roadster sliding off through
the fog.
Jumping Into the coupe parked
at the head of the driveway, Asey
started it, barked out, and set out
in pursuit of his roadster.
Te a eenUnas4
by the grade school chorus, high
school glee club and sextette.
The operetta was directed by
Mrs. Opal Mooter assisted by
other grade school teachers.
The cast included Jessie Dally,
Bruce Galbraith, Jocelyn Men
nler. Fern McCoy, Raymond Dti'
senberry, Arlene Gascon, Jewell
Cook, Donald Dusenberry, Rob
ert Learotte and Harold Colvln
NEW SIREN TO WARN
i GOLD HILL CITIZENS
! Gold Hill, Dec. 22. (Spl.
The city council has authorized
the purchase of a new flv
I horsepower siren to be used In
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KOIN. KSL; Monaay Merry Oo-Round
KEX. KOO, KJR; Contented Hour.
KPO. KOW. KOMO.
740 p. m. Cavalcade of America.
KPO, KOMO. KOW: Blondla, KNX.
KSL, KOIN; Boxint Bout. KOO; Mod
ern Muaie. KEX; Greater Washington
Hour. KJR.
6:00 p. m. Amoa n Andy, KMC.
KOIN. KSL: Fred Waring. KPO.
KOMO. KOW; Herbert Marshall. KJR,
KOO. KEX.
6:16 p. m Lenny Roes. KNX. KSL.
KOIN; Lum and Aimer. KPO, KOMO,
KOW; Shall-Bert Wheeler, KJR.
SO p. m I Love a Mystery, KOO.
KEX, KJR: Voice of Richard Crooks.
KPO. KOW, KOMO; Oay Nineties
Revue, KNX, KSL. KOIN.
8 :00 p. m. Telephone Hour, KPO,
KOMOr KOW: True or Pslte. KOO.
KJR, KEX: Vox Pop. KNX; Excurs
ions In Science. KSL.
6:30 p. m. Hawthorns Houae. KPO,
KOMO, KOW; Hollywood Showcase.
KNX, KOIN; Natl Radio Forum,
KOO; Newa. KSL, KJR; Moonlight
Sonata, KEX.
10:00 p. m. Ran Wilde's Oreb...
KOO, KEX, KJR; Reporter News,
KPO. KOMO, KOW: Maaterworki of
Music, KSL: News, KNX; Five Star
Pinal. KOIN.
10:30 p. m. Ed stoker's Music,
KOW; Stanley Kenton's Oreh., KJR:
Alvtno Ray's Oreh., KSL; Broadway
Bandwagon. KEX: Maaterworka of
Music. KNX; The World Today.
KOIN: Christmas Fund, KOMO: Con
cert Hall, KPO.
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Tuesday
6:00 p. m. Adventure Stories, KOO.
KJR; Are You a Mining Heir. KSL;
Jane Arden. KOMO: Kews, KOIN;
Adventure tn Toyland. KEX: stars
of Today, KOW; Son Wlnalow of the
Navy. KPO.
6:60 p. m. News of the World.
KOO, KJR, KEX: Bob Burns Show.
KSL; Horace Heldt'a Treasure Cheat. '
KPO. KOMO. KOW: Today's Beat;
Buys. KNX; ryes of the World.
KOIN.
fl :00 p. m. Burns and Allen. KPO,
KOMO, KOW; We. the People. KSL;
Ken Stevens and Erwln Yeo. KOIN;
Cinnamon Bear. KEX: Scandinavian
Reporter, KJR; Second Husband,
KNX.
6 AO p. m. Symphony Concert,
KEX, KJR; Report to the Nation,
KNX, KOIN: Fibber McOee and Molly,
KPO, KOMO, KOW.
7 :00 p. m. Bob Hope Variety
Show, KPO. KOMO, KOW: Olenn
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7:30 p. m. Red Skelton, KPO,
KOW, KOMO: Treasury Chest, KJR,
KEX. KOO; Leon F. Drews. KOIN".
Second Husband, KSL.
8:00 p. m. Amos 'n' Andy, KNX.
KSL, KOIN: Fred Waring. KPO.
KOW, KOMO.
8:16 p. m. Lum and Abner, KPO.
KOW, KOMO: Lanny Rosa, KNX.
KSL. KOIN.
8 30 p. m. Johnny Presents. KPO.
KOMO, KOW; Information Please.
KOO. KEX. KJR; Are You a Missing
By GLUYAS WILIJAMS
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6:30 p. m MM Hallett's Oreh..
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KOIN; New.. KJR, KSL; Moonlight
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KOO. KEX. KJR; Reporter News.
KPO. KOMO, KOW; Masterworks of
Musle. KSL; News, KNX: Five Star
Final, KOIN.
10:80 p. m Howard Barlow's
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an impediment in his speech, he was advised by an actor to recite with pebbles In his mouth, to
correct his vocal defect, and to shout above tha roar of the sea to strengthen his voice. He became
the greatest orator in history. Like Demosthenes, Winston Churchill was hissed and heckled at hia
attempt at oratory, while running for Member of Parliament from Oldham. To increase the power
of his voice he stood on the deck of a ship alone and threw oratory into a gale.
TOMORROW: Secret Plantl
MAYBE I AO HALF CRAZY.'
MAYBE I All HYSTERICAL
BUT WHO WOULDNT BE-
AFTER LISTENING TO
YOUR BORING DRIVEL
FOR WEEKS.' HA? HA.'
I DON'T GIVE A HOOT
ABOUT YOUR CHERRY
BLOSSOM HAW
U MAW.' HAW."
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KJR: Broadway Bandwagon. KKX;
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World Today, KOIN; Concert Hall.
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News, KNX: Reveries, KOMO.
USES PARSING METER
Amarlllo, Tex. (U.R) A cow
boy who dropped the bridle
reins over the metal post was
the first person to use the city's
new parking meters. Workmen
1re FEMALE OP
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CARPENTER SEE
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WHY DID AH
TUFT?
are busy installing the parking
meters. City Manager A. r,
Hancock said all the meters
would be In operation by Janu
ary 1.
PULCHRITUDE PRINCE
Loveland, Colo. (U.R) When
Philo club started Its annual
drive for charity funds its mem
bers decided to elect the town's
most beautiful man at the same
time. Townsfolk paid a penny
for each vote they cast for their
favorite "prince of pulchritude."
All money went to charity. ,
by JOHN HIX
POCKfcT
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