MEDFORD MHC TETBTJXE, JIEDFOED,- OREGON, FRID'AY, SEPTE3IBER' 2, 1932.
PXGE EIGHT
Nothing enture
Ay Patricia Wentworlh
BYSOPSint wut tuuim a
ffoicit or lAe dinner wnlca Fvrai
tin ik) rrandl is olvinp horult and
eni Wears a I ls Jllllerlno
ZJofel Luxe, A'art is haunrnd by ffte
sap that Jcrvtt will be fcfiled. She
ka overheard Hobert Leonard
tlottlno death for a man the be
teves (o be Jervie. Although Nan
and JerviM art married and Nan
lovee her husband dearly, the
Itnoies eho tepreeente to him only
the meant by which ho hat taved
hit property from tho ochemee o
hi former fiancee, Roeamund Ca.
row. Kan waits tearlullu for
Jervitt who iolato.
Chapter It
IS HER 8ECRET SAFE?
nrHH last itroke of tight died
' away and left Nan shivering.
Bhe couldn't go on standing on the
doorstep. She must do something,
put she didn't know what.
She moved, and Just as It her
movement had broken Into a set
pause, a car drew np at the curb.
JervU jumped out, and at the sight
of him Nan knew how frightened
be bad been.
"I'm so sorry to have kept yon
waiting. I'm frightfully late, but 1
bad to go back"
She said something she hid no
Idea of what It was and then they
were In the taxi, and she was star
ing out of the window and trying
to quiet the beating of her heart.
Just for an Instant she caught sight
of the edge of a bandage where
bis left cuff slipped back. She was
ready to swear that It bad not been
there this afternoon.
She got herself quiet, and turned
round on blm.
What made yon so late? I
thought something had happened."
"Well, something did happen."
Bhe took a breath. "My tie wouldn't
Ue."
Nan looked at the tie. tt had a
Tory ordinary appearance. Her
yes, suddenly bright, gave him the
Me.
. "What has been happening?"
"Happening?" His eyes met hers
with hint of distance and a bint
pf mockery.
"Yes."
The distance went; the mockery
remained.
"First news bulletin, copyright
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" yM." ' WW
' "Barometric pressure ' said Jer-
Ms.
"Is your wrist broken?"
"Certainly not Why should it
be?"
"Barometrlo pressure." suggested
Nan.
"Nothing so original."
"Please tell me."
"There's nothing to tell."
"How did you hurt your wrist?"
Jervls leaned back Into bis cor
ner of the taxi.
"You might say I had bumped It
up against a coincidence,"
"What sort of coincidence?" said
Nan In x rhlsper.
"A very neat one," said Jervls
"very neat and pat You warn me
against a villain In a taxi. I pro
ceed to old Page's by subway
not I'm afraid, on account of the
warning, but because our agreeable
conversation didn't leave me tlmo
to walk. I see Page. I walk un
eventfully to the bouse and put on
my best tall coat I then stroll
along the street to the cab-rack,
and Jnst as I'm turning the corner
a car swerves to avoid a dog and
ends me spinning. It I hadn't seen
blm out ot the tall of my eye and
Jumped for It I'm afraid you'd
bave had to dine iefe-4-lefe with
T. F."
"Are you hurt?" said Nan quick
ly and lrrepresslbly.
"The tall coat Is a wreck. That's
what made me late. I had to fall
back on my reserve, which really
won't stand daylight"
I "Your arm" said Nan.
I "A messy cut efficiently ban
daged by Jenks, who would be per
fectly happy It I would arrange to
bave a minor accident once or
twice a week to keep bis hand In.
He was a great performor with a
.first aid kit In the war, and com
plains that he's getting rusty. He
buttles rather under protest
I "Did you see the driver of the
ear that knocked you over?"
" I did not" said Jervls. "I saw
nothing except a lot of vory line
coloured stars, and when I stopped
eelng them, there was no driver
to see."
"He didn't stop?"
"He did not"
( "And you call that a coinci
dence!"
STEELHEAD GOING
FAST IS PLAINT
Dr. Cha. Wlborn, sportsman ot In
ternational reputation, passed through
Med ford yesterday, en rout to Cali
fornia. Having Just returned from a
fishing trip with Sane Gray and
Homer Grey, well-known writers, hie
talk while here was devoted to fish
ing, and he expressed great regrets
regarding the wane of ateelhesd fish
ing on the Rogue.
Dr. Wlborn made the trip by host
frrao Orinto Pass to the lower Rogue,
Just sfter fishing the Umpque. and
announced that ateelhesd fishing Is
now better In the latter stream. He
haa been visiting the Rogue regularly
for many years, snd upon each trip,
he stated, has noticed a depletion of
steelhead.
Rogue river, once the angler's para
dise, he atated, la being destroyed.
The Interference of commercial fish
ing with game fishing, he said, ts
largely responsible for the depleted
runs of ateelhesd.
Dr. Wlbcun Is making plans for an
extensive fishing trip to New Zealand.
e Je, yWsljf aoun, as sfi angler and
"I think we will both call it a co
incidence," eald JervH. His tone
wss light, cool, and even.
Nan took a breath and eat back.
She felt easily, coolly, airily put in
her place. Her place was a long
way oft, But by the time they
reached the Luxe she had herself
In hand. Jervls talked pleasantly
and lightly all the way; she bad
only to sit In her corner and listen.
Ferdinand was waiting for them
In the lounge. He looked very odd
In evening dress. His tall coat was
not only an arcbalo model, but It
looked as If he had made a habit
of sleeping In It for years. His
white tie was ready-tied. Beneath
the electrlo light his hair was like
a newly scraped carrot A pro
longed band-shaking attested his
enthusiasm.
"This Is topping," he said, and
went on saying It at Intervals aa
he piloted them to the famous Oold
Room.
He had an eager, affectionate
manner that waa pure halm to Nan.
For the first time, she could seo
herself as Jervls' wife. F. F.'s ad
miring gate approved her. It darted
from ber to Jervls, and told Jervls
that he was a lucky man.
It you aren't hungry, yon can
go Home, im going straigm
through this menu and I shan't
ssy that I mightn't have a second
helping here and there.
I've felt hungrier, but I ve never
felt greedier."
He skidded off into the story ol
how be once walked from Vleuna
to Berlin without a cent
Nan enjoyed her dinner very
much. It wu rather like a dream
to be wearing a pretty frock and
dining at the Luxe. In a dream
there la no past and no future. She
gave herself np to the dream, and
a reviving tide of happiness rose
in ber and blotted out everythlnc
except the present
She watched a new Jervls. She
had never seen Just that amused
sparkle In his eyes or beard that
warm, bantering note In his voice.
She listened In a smiling silence
whilst they capped stories and re
minded one another ot ridiculous
or strenuous adventures shared.
She learned by piecing scraps of
their talk together that they bad
knocked about Europe and the
Near East for the best part of a
year In one another's company.
"I was doing awful articles on
Great Ken's Hals, and Brigands'
Shoei that's why we had trouble
In Anatolia and What Criminals
Like tor Breaktatt. The biggest rip
of the lot began the day on bread
and milk In a bowl with pink
rosebuds round the edge."
"You were writing articles. And
what was Jervls doing?" said Nan.
"Jervls was mending a bole in
his head," said Ferdinand Francis.
Was It fancy. Or did he hold her
eyes with his for a moment? She
repeated bis words mechanically.
"A hole In his head?"
With a wrenching sensation she
looked ' away and saw Jervls
frowning.
I'd had a fall," he said. "I came
down on some slippery rocks and
broke my bead. I was Just home
from Harvard, so I got a year's
holiday and went racketing round
with F.F. He picked me up Just
as the tide was going to finish me
off, and has stuck to me like a
burr ever since."
Do burrs pick people up?" said
Nan. "I thought tt was the other
way round." She laughed to cover
the faint tremor In her voice, and
was aware ot Ferdinand's eyes
upon her.
"Mrs. Wears, don't take any
notice of blm. He's rotten at tell
ing a story, and I'm a whale at It
Besides, he was unconscious, and If
the tide had drowned blm, be
wouldn't have known a thing about
It
His restless, curious eyes thrust
questions at her: "Am 1 going to
tell this story? Do yon want me
to toll It? If not why not? Yes
why, why, why?" The high light
In the brown eyes was like a bright
elusive question-mark.
Jervls' voice broke In on them.
"There's nothing to tell. F.F.'s
a professional yarn-splnner."
"Don't you want the story, Mrs
Weare- exclusive tale of eye-witness?
Or do you know tt alresdy?"
Panlo knocked at Nan's heart
(Cepyrtsftl. Ills, KpelnralO
Nan meets rival tomorrow,
whom the must tight on hr own
orsuns.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. . (Pl
Believing a revival of business has
begun, the Bherwln-WIUIams compa
ny, pslnt manufacturers, disclosed
plans today (or a $1,000,000 advertis
ing campaign. President George A.
Martin said the advertising will be
placed In 3.641 newspapers.
"Encouraging orders from large key
Industries and rsllways are simply the
forerunner of a pickup through all
Industries," Martin aald.
CHOLERA KILLS 30,000
IN CHINESE PROVINCE
HANKOW. Chins. Sept. . (AP)
The cholera epidemic In Shenal pro
vince had killed 80,000 persons up
to August 15, says a provincial gov
ernment report from the capital,
Salnfu. The epidemic haa been wide,
spread several montha. Intensified In
several parts of China by flood oondl
tlons.
Is one of the orgsnleers of the fam
ous Tree club at Oampbell rlvsr,
Vancouver island, B. c,
OHIOAOO, Sept. a lfi Dorothy
Pollak was acquitted by Chief Jus
tice Harry M. Fisher yesterday of the
murder of her husband. Joe Pollak.
whom ahe killed with a single pistol
bullet July 37.
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matic recital by the widow of an un
happy wedded life with "Poor Joe"
culminating in the pistol shot as he
advanced upon her brandishing a
knife.
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ths Judge, without a Jury snd the
judge, after a brief statement of the
evidence as he saw It, announced that
he found a "reasonable doubt' thst
the widow was guilty of murder snd
he wss "forced to give her freedom."
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CAUSES DEATH
LA GRANDE, Or., Sept. 2 (F)
Lon Lillys about 30, was dead and
two companions Injured today aa the
reault of the oollapae of a wheel on
their automobile as they were re
turning to La G rami e laat Wednesday
from a fishing trip. '
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Lilly died alter ne.wa brought to
LaOrande by a tourist, who picked
blm up by the roadside about seven
miles nortbeast of Elgin. Ore.
Dewey Cooper, Lilly's brother-in-law,
and a man named Atkins were
not seriously hurt.
Lilly was the son of P. J. Lilly,
local contractor.
Free Picture of your baby made by
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for the mo there.
Gravee Jewelry Shop, now located
41 So. Front.
SEES FIRST FILM
AT 84, LIKES IT
PORTLAND. Ore., Sept. 3. (JP)
James Anderson, who said he had
"lived In the sticks" all his life came
to Portland laat night and for the
first time in his 84 years saw a mo
tion picture show. He liked It.
After the show hs returned to the
box office snd begsn ssking ques
tions. A relief operator took him In
hand, showed him tho projection
room snd explslned how ths ma
chines worked.
"I'm going to see some more of
these things," Anderson ssld ss he
left.
Banker Held.
PORTLAND, Sept. 3. IIP) Jesse
L. Sexton. 38, charged with embes
zllng more than H.0O0 from the
First National bank of The Dalles,
where he was employed, was held hero
today to await action of the federal
grand Jury. -
By GLENN CHAFFIN
and HAL rouKCBt
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By C. M. PAYNE
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By SOL HESS.
By BUD FISHER
By George McManus