THE NEWS AND THE HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, ORE.
SERIAL STORY
y NEW YORK JUNGLE
BY WRAY WADE SEVERN
COYRIOHT. IMO.
NKA sanvici. inc.
TTICHnAVl Hoaa aaeata
lark ih door aa laa alarm
rraihea abnat farm. Hnahlat; ap
alatra, (ae mra And all aonra and
'irtadomi larkrd, a aa Tlaal-a
af aa laraar. Taara la a
tram laa Jnaa-lr. ' raadlra
ara arnaakt. Braltwnaa' im
Ada!. Iraalaa alr aaalaai ka
iloaaaa. Maria MrrapSald la at ala
at. Kaar kr aaae la AdaM'a
DEATH IS THE JDNOLI
CHAPTER IV
A DAM LANGDON'S hands hum
V" stiffly forward, his feet ex
tended toward the floor like
flgure hung on a gibbet. A small
. red spot stained the bosom of hit
, .shirt. The gaping rigidity in his
face told the rest. So might some
dreadful scarecrow have appeared
to a passing farmer on a moon
less night tn a fingering ray of
lantern light.
Langdon'a buttoned coat had
caught over the lioness' head and
the scimitar, fastened to the
beast's neck, had penetrated be
neath his shoulder, both helping
to' hold him in crazy erectness.j
All this Braltwood saw In a
glance.
"Is it a double murder?" Craig
Gundrum asked.
. "Murder! Not thatl" Hugh
groaned.
e
'T'HK word had an eerie sound
in that dark room. Yet it
was no stranger there. The shad
owy beasts crowding the darkness
had all known violent deaths.
The weapons on wall and rack
had drunk deep from the wild,
free life of Jungle and veldt; the
ancient blunderbusses and obso
lete daggers had been employed
.. to grim purpose more than once.
But the six persons in the room '
reacted to It in oddly .different
way. It sponged the blond vigor
from Hugh Langdon'f powerful
face; Nella, had refused to uncover
her eyes and face the horror that
had been her uncle a few short
moments before. At the table,
Patricia Langdon bad frozen in
her seat, apparently unable to
utter a sound. Tog! trembled per-'
ceptibly. Cundrum'i eyes were,
; brilliant with excitement Bralt
: Wood was shocked, but calm, '
Sidney had dropped to his knee
beside Marta. It was only after
wards, when he tried to recon
struct the scene, that he recalled
hearing Gundrum whispering to
Pat Langdon.
e e
fARTA wis alive. Her pulse,
however faint, her breathing.
told Sidney that She stirred
slightly as he bent ever her.
"Marta has only fainted," said
Hugh. 'who had joined them. "I
thought at first it might be mur
der and suicide."
('Between them they carried
Marta to the window teat Sidney
-brought liquor from the table and
"forced It through her bloodless
lips, while Hugh and Togi began
a search of the Jungle for traces
icf ,tba murderer. It seemed in
possible he could have passed
them, on the stairway and made
his escape through the floor above,
hut there was no other exit
; ' Marta stirred. Her eyelids flut
lered'and then she had caught
.the Jewyer's hand in a desperate
.grip. ..:
.."Adam la dead, Sidney," she
whispered. "I felt hi face."
"Do you know who killed my
husband. Miss Hempfleld?" Pat
langdon had crossed to them. All
the strength of her young will
lay behind the question.
. "No, I do not know who killed
Adam, Mrs. Langdon," Marta
muttered, "but I know he is
dead."
"Please do not question Miss
Hempfleld. She is too weak to
talk," Sidney said, sternly.
"Marta. you are not to discuss
this with anvone."
a a
TIE was certain Langdon had not
ahot himself. No powder
burns framed the red spot on his
shirt front
And above all others, Marta
had a motive for murder. She
had been found lying at Adam's
feet all but grasping the weapon
with whteh he had armed him
self. She had admitted she knew
he was dead. Alert in her de
fense, the lawyer realized the
need for caution.
"Sorry." Pat turned toward the
lioness and its dreadful burden.
Sidney followed.
"Nothing must be touched," he
cautioned them. "We must wait
. for the police."
"Do we need to call the police?"
Nell a questioned plaintively.
"Can't you all see how this hap
pened? Uncle Adam was stand
ing on the lioness' block. I don't
know why, but he must have
been. Like the floor, it's highly
waxed and slippery. He slipped
forward. His coat caught and
jerked him back against the
scimitar. It's like a razor. Nat
urally his gun fell from hit hand.
There there it is."
She pointed to the old-fashioned
weapon on the floor and burst
into a fit of hysterical weeping.
"I differ." Instantly Gundrum
had lifted the back of Adam's coat
"The scimitar hasn't penetrated
deeply," he aaid with relief. "It
could not have caused death. I
shouldn't like to believe that my
carelessness had been responsible
for a tragedy, but there is no
doubt about the block being slip
pery." "In cases of violent death, no
matter what the cause, the police
must be summoned, Nella," Sid
ney said gently.
a a
'T.IOW extraordinary to have
them in on one's first house
party after marriage," Pat
breathed. "N'ella, you had better
go up to your room and lie down."
She was calm, apparently emo
tionless. How can she be so cold,
Sidney thought with Adam. . . .
"It's my unpleasant duty to in
sist that we all remain together
until the police come," he said,
again the formal attorney. "You
understand that we shall all be
searched for the weapon that
killed Adam."
"Weapon?" Nella sobbed stub
bornly. "Adam was shot" Sidney said.
"There is a bullet hole in his shirt
front' Nella. The rest of ua no
ticed it"
"The police will not have far
to look. Miss Hempfleld all but
had the gun in her hand," Pat
put in quickly.
"A ballistic expert will have to
determine whether or not a bullet
from that gun killed Adam, Mrs.
Langdon," Sidney reminded her.
"We don't know yet who handled
it"
"You knelt beside Miss Hemp
fleld, Mr. Braltwood. Could you,
by any chance, have wiped off her
fingerprints?"
"Not by the remotest chance,"
Sidney replied, evenly.
"I come In with Mr. Braltwood,
He no do," Togi Interrupted ex
citedly. "Mr. Hugh, he no wipe
off. I see both."
"Let's get upstairs into the
light," Hugh suggested. "The
thieves, if any, will have left the
house long ago after nil this com
motion. I need a drink."
Led by Hugh, and with Sidney
supporting Marta, they walked
from the room of death.
(To Be Continued)
OUT OUR WAY
r
On a bulletin board in his cam
paign car, Wendell Willkie
keeps score on the rocks, eggs
and assorted fruits and vege
tables thrown at him or his
train. So far there have been
no duect hits on the candidate
recorded.
THIS CURIOUS WORLD
By William
Ferguson
IF VOU WERE
TOO ILL.
TODAY TO CO
VOUR wox,
you i-lad
PLENTY OF
COMPANy
IM YCPtjee .
AMSERV
THERB ARe
ABOUT
SIX
PERSONS
IM THH U.S.,
dFVWV
TOO SICK
TO CARHVON
THEIR TASKS.
BUS PHONE, f
AND COON
ARe coNrrRAcnoMS op
1 MUHAT WORDS - I
. .
EARTH
HAS A BOOT
SCJCtARE MILES
oi
DESERTS.
aaaa. lata av at trance aal
ANSWER: Bus. omnibus; phone, telephone; coon, raccoon.
QUAKER COLONIST
HORIZONTAL
1, 7 Quaker
colonist in
America.
10 Bird's beak.
U Southeast
(abbr.).
12 Peasant
13 Small hotel.
14 Beast ot
burden.
15 Signal for
help tt sea.
17 Sewing tools.
IB Bill of tare.
20 Doctor
(abbr.),
Answer to Previous Funle-
' I Ml
nAjwERinoAi
38 Drunkards.
21 Fixed routine. 39 Carpenters
22 South
Carolina
(abbr.).
23 Months
(abbr.).
24 Indigo.
26 Opposite)
of cold.
28 Makes
reparation.
31 Woolly.
33 Short letter.
34 Habitual.
17 Goddess of
discord.
rule.
40 Church titles.
41 Toward.
42 To exercise.
43 Emmet.
45 Palm lily.
46 Postscript
(abbr.).
47 Drone.
48 Coddesi of
dawn.
$0 To fare. '
52 Dark blue.
64 Shaft parts.
terms with
the .
14 Shad.
16 His colony
was a
decided .
18 Bees.
19 Crescehted.
23 Maxim.
25 Pronoun.
26 Laughter
sound.
27 Playing cart,
29 Honks.
30 Without sun.
31 Dweller on
56 He was a llano.
by nationality. 32 Shrinking.
57 He was the 35 Kind of beta
ot
Pennsylvania.
VERTICAL
2 Interior.
3 Smooth.
36 Wine vessel,
42 Sprite.
44 Balsam.
46 Fruit pastry.
47 Wood apple.
4 Pound (abbr.) 49 Male child,
(Valuable 61 Plural
property.
6 Muddled.
7 Point (abbr.).
8 Comfort.
"9 Middays.
13 He was on
friendly
pronoun.
52 Portugal
(abbr.).
53 Exclamation.
54 Preposition.
55 South Dakota
(abbr.).
n - - IF" 16
F- TT;
rp" LaL2J fTr2
Si "JTiS 36 HpT
IS" " 13 po
t-"m fja - Lasa. -37-
54
It
X WISH VOO FELLOWS
WOULDN'T TWINK THAT
I'M POIGHT6R THAN VOU,
FOR I'M NOT" WHAT
RCALLV HAPPENEP WAS
THAT X LEARNED TH'
FIRST GRAPE BSFOR6
X WBNT TO SCHOOL SO
t HAD TIME IN TH' FIRST
TO STUDV TH' SECOND.
AND THE THIRD IN THB
SECOND AND SO ON
By J. R, WILLIAMS
7
OUR BOARDING HOUSE With MAJOR HOOPLE
WELL,
NOW
sincs
VOU'VB
EVPLAINGn
THAT
DON'T
6E6M
SO BAD,
DC El
Tf
IT SOUNDS WORSE
SINCB USS EXPLAINED,'
BECAUSE I DID THE
SAME WITH TH' SLIGHT
EXCEPTION THAT X
DIDN'T DO ANYTHING.
AdOUT TH' SECOND
while x was in th'
first, an' vm afraid
that little sli&ht
will make me a pav
late and a dollar
SHORT ALU MV LIFt.'
DC El
V T?
V A
. a wo . a .t ot
THB WORRIER
0"rf unM
AND THERE VOO HAVE IT, MR.UMM ' - 7 I KNEW BY TUB SLIMT IN Hl HVB ,
"THE HOOPLB AUTOMATIC Cm Jjf TMt WOUIO BB A BAD ONE I
BRANOER.' IT'6 NEW, IT'S' tfr'cM POT A DOODLEBUG EVERY J
HAR-KOMPHf? REVOLUTIONARY,) t TIME.' VJELL.MOVJ TO TELL WlM '
KNU LL L NB6U I A BIT OF"
FINANCING.'.. E6AD, fclR ,
. YOU HAVE A FORTUNE- RIGHT
Within NOUR GRASP
NO VNiTUOUT bringing uphisbloodI
;,, CJT rNCWUKcHC LOOKto LIKE A
aoor7v-
OM-MM, WELL, MAOOR
AH, HOOPLS, A. A BANKER.
I HAVE A FEW T" IU
QUESTION'S
1
I MA
II ANlC
'A- '
ltumo the
MAJOR COULONT
answer Them
RED RYDER
BY FRED HARMAN
-Tue
FEELIMeJ
COVJMEN
ANIO THE
RAiLRQAD
fS BRDOGHT
7l77 f Slow it. Fella ill ro ' J firTS
gJIC . IbO VJTH' TALKIN' HERE I J ;1 ;
TBH BUT XjiJl
0O9T LOOK lyvl
OUTSlDBt V VAU
" T It'i BMANt.' how'D TUET Find V
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE
BY HAROLD GRAY
THfJRE.
TH6RB.BIU.y-
lULCOMETO
SEE YOU
REAL OFTEN. -
f GO(t3 AVaY? f
I BUT-BUT I OOKT tu.l
I UMCaSRSTAHO-- SfA
I IT- IT CAKT BE- J?,?
l sllAeimwr
IU. GET A JOe)- ArfrTHa-r3T
TO PC YOU BACK--WHAT YOUVE
GWSN MB CMT 68 PAIO BACK-
OUT. r LIAT, ILL NOT 8S A
BOROCN AW LOtGSR OH FOLK At
FINS YOO-tM NO CHtCELER-
I YOU WCFtg W YOU TOOK MB IH- I If
I SCXNG TO LEAt C 1 NURSED ME-FSD MB- I
I WHY. PEG? !- I 6WEO MY UFB I B
BELIEVE rr-. (9 ON ACCEPTING 1 1
WHY? I EVERYTHING -QtVtNG I R
av. l NOTHING At rv J&a
mi nai dcrIsmim CAVMWfl.
ftf BACK? BUT YOU Cp.Nl AND MANY
Times over--by string look
AT UTTLS BILLY" WHY. HI
LOVES YOU A9 IF YOU
WERE HtS OWN MOTHER-
RTTTTT-
HUOt
THis
WASH TUBBS
BY CRANE
MM 'THIK:JtrTvS4,0 AUSAO AMO CALL THE CO, VA IPl a v "
ASE flNttMEO, V 1.TOOT TMCBli THE TEUPHOall Jl I THAWkJS )
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
ASV LeTtt THE BBCamffR AMP .j---
uAyi.MAviiX'w'f ::v'
J iimi wo &S4''Jf-
I PHOMt WA4 A Hfi "THW--'&
VmM TO TRAP ,,.'., i ' S r f
r iw yoifr sutPQeiez
fx IO BE FUN '
Sal I
f Freckles , ive
NEveat had so
MUCH FUN IN MV J
LAOO FIGURED THIS ALU
OUT TO MAKE, PEOPLE?
SORE AT MB .' IT
WAS Cooked up ,
TO BE A TuW
COLOSSAL LOOK
DISAPPOINTMENT I DlSAP-
ro EMERyeoov; ponteo
r
I Do 1
BY BLOSSER
BoY, we surs hao
TfcoftLe FINOtNO
This place, TO warn
YOU ' THE COPS ARE
ON TLIOR WAY OUT
HERE 90MS FARMER
SAID VtHJ WERE MAK
ING TOO MUCH NOISE
Well .TUat U.
GlUB YOU AN IOA
. ,
TWUR8 MAKINO I J
ft r w - -v-
I Uri rAi r Tum our. "Si J
II 19 ai leas I A rviiwai I
FOM TUB NEAREST J
LI WO"" ' r-r-TTTl
IT fTTTn i v
' A J. k',WX
1 1"!!
BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES
BY MARTIN
HO"! COP ov 1" oVaaT
yiW.VOU "wowivw ou.t..
I fine coKtcwn,
GRIMlOW
Ml 'ft
W r, m srcTTs T.-or. -S
."L MCXS WKMV.TOO VfclVOO
to -xoulv, T
M7TK
wmm
ALLEY OOP
corAl4oi7mtl.n.t.wc
BY V. T. HAMUN
cirr Kfvrrr c n n.fu . . .
uuuu row l-lltNDi IO tLtOKAIRA.A PtR-
uwot KcnARKADLC ONLY TO DR. BROMWN,
THE 2010 CENTURY KEMBeR. OF THE MRTY
BUT 6HF.U.
I QUEEN
I YOU'RE MOT THE I WOULDT V
K CLEOPATRA WHOVtl WJOW ABOUT)
FAME HA JON V THE FAME
ksai down the vjfs7riE&yPT 'and)
cEwoRiesj "XmsZTroj
(f BLrrVEIfoHTEEM FLOODS)
AVOU'RE HAVE BLE5E0 V
iOYOUNfelTHE WILE HMMWT
- MOT OVERS slUCe MY ( HOW
NIKIETEENJ BIRTH ? ABOUT
VlD aY Ai rS THE DRV J
THAT EKPUMN6 IT fy-
IT'9 COLOSSAL f ytJA
AH, MO&T --'veRN
6RACIOLS PRETTY, MV N
QUEEN, 6ALLAMT SIRE,
WE ARC I BUT WHAT IS
HONOREOV IT THAT MY l)
WHY, MV DEAR, THAT YOU COOLD
INDLtD BE THE CLEORATRA .
ANU Al THAT PERIOD OF
VOUR LIFE THAT HAS
REMAINED A MYSTERY
KJfi 1WO THOUSAND
YtAK
r
v.
i:
YOU SPEAK OF
.THING THAT HAVE
YET TO COME TO
VNfo BUT, OH,
DOCTOR, IT
,A LOVELY
Lllfa.
PRACTICALLY NOTHING KNOWU TO HITORiAn. Of 1
IMI PART Or CLEOPATRA LIFE, T'EARS B.C.
V MIIIMITIIUIIIVJCL ,UTl t,u ,, a ... ifitfl&ij JJ