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1IEDF0RD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1932.
Nothing Venture
by Patricia Wentworth
BYSOPBIB: At... .icrvet
are torn by her ;..i,,- i.uattion.
Bhe lovea her huabund Jvrtte dear
ly; ha tfjttorea her. She beltevee
that today, tor the aecond time,
Robert Leonard hae tried to mur
der Jervie. Jervie taught at the
idea, Bhe doee not want Jervts to
know that ae a child, ten yeare
coo. ehe eaved him from Leon
ards flrtt attempt, and ehe it
afraid Ferdinand Prancle will tell.
Francie ie entertaining her and
Jervie at dinner iit the Botel
Luxe.
Chapter It
A BATTLE OF WITS
NAN said, "Please tell me," and
heard her voice hurry and stum
ble. Ferdinand couldn't know he
couldn't know anything. And It be
did no, be couldn't she couldn't
face It not here, not now, with
Jervls looking at her. No, he wasn't
looking at her, be was looking wltb
halt-frowning tolerance at F.F.;
and F.F, was saying,
"Don't look so frightened he got
out ot It all right, thanks to the
pluckiest kid I've ever run across."
Be flung round on Jervls. "Did you
ver And out who she was?"
Jervls said, "No."
Nan leaned forward wltb her el
bows on the table and her chin In
her cupped bands. The movement
was purely Instinctive. Her heart
was beating and her Hps trembling.
Sho pressed bard with one of her
fingers against the corner of her
mouth.
"Well then, Mrs. Wears, you shall
hear the story."
"It won't Interest her," said Jer
vls. 1 "Oh, please tell me," Nan begged
Quite steadily. Her grey eyes were
dark. They met F.F.'s dancing question-marks
wltb a certain soft dig
nity. ' He knew her and he knew that
Jervls didn't know.
' She dropped her chin on her band
again, and waited for what be was
going to do with bis knowledge.
; "You shall have the exclusive
'story. If Jervls doesn't want to
listen to It, he can leave us. Now,
let me see . . . nine ten it'll be
ten years ago. Yes, exactly ten, be
cause It was August and I'd gone
down to Croyston well, I can't re
member Just why I had gone down,
but there I was, and being there, I
went for a bike along the beach and
as near as possible got cut oft by
the tide.
"How many thousand words does
ibis run to, F.F.t" said Jervls.
Ferdinand took no notice. He went
dramatically on, retelling the story
ot Nan's rescue, and ot bis own part
In It Nan appoared to listen wltb
all her facultlos, her concentration
a means ot hiding nor nervousness.
Her mind skipped away for a mo
ment; when It returned, F.F. was
saying:
". . . The last wave broke clean
over her head, and the return ot It
out her arm to the bone against the
rock. I should say she'd a scar there
Ibe'd never lose. And all she said
when I pulled her out was, 'Is be
lllvet' Extraordinary, what?"
The scar was on Nan's left arm,
three Inches below the elbow. She
Bored naturally as F.F.'s bright
yes swept her face. Tbe movement
took her back, turned her towards
Jervls, dropped her hands Into ber
lap, and bid the small white scar
against the cloudy grey ot her
(rock. She caught a queer remem
bering look on Jervls' face. ,
7. F. was speaking to him.
"Pity you never found out who
he was."
The queer look deepened.
"Is It a pity? I don't know," he
said slowly.
Nan heard her own voice wltb
surprise She bad not meant to
peak, but she hoard herself say,
; "You would rather not know ber,
l-eally?"
' As before, something passed be
tween them a curious flash of un
derstanding. Thon he said wltb a
hort laugh,
"Well, It would be rather difficult
to live up to that sort ot beginning
Ts
wouldn't It?"
She nodded slowly and gravely.
' "Now, that's Just fear. You're
afraid ot meeting that plucky girl,
not because you wouldn't know what
to say to her, but because you'd
know very well, and you'd be afraid
ot rushing Into words which you'd
neror be able to think ot again
without biushlng scarlet" He turned
to Nan, his ginger head on one side,
his eyes snapping. "Jervls Is very
romantic but It's a secret vice he
considers It Indelicate."
It was perhaps a minute later that
Mr. Francis, looking round to catch
SLAYING FAMILY
LAint CHARLES, La.. Sept. 3. (AP)
-Sheriff Henry Held said Philip Mor
gan, negro, had confessed he killed
white family. Including father,
mother and three children and then
set tire to the nous In whose ruins
the five charred bodies were discover
ed by a neighbor today.
The dyad: Robert Vincent, 33:
Mrs, Eva Vincent, 80; Marie, 19; Jo
seph, 10, and Glayton, 0.
The Vincents lived In a farmhouse
six miles south of Sulphur.
ir
IN NEBRASKA'S 'IVY
OMAHA, Neb., wp. a (AI'i -..hen I
Jack Detnnsef oanie to pmaha, last
the waiter's eye, saw somethlna
which distracted his attention. He
gazed with frank interest at a table
set against the wall on the far side
of the room. Two people had Just
risen from It, a man and a woman.
Mr. Francis gave his whole-hearted
attention to the woman.
"Now that's what I call a looker!"
he said.
The woman stood against the
golden wall. She wore a dull gold
dress that matched ber hair. It
clung as closely as a dress can cling
to a singularly perfect figure. It
was so plain and so heavy as to give'
her the appearance ot a statue a
golden statue set against a golden
wall. Then, as she moved, the statue
came alive. The glowing white of
her neck and arms, the brilliance of
her eyes, took the light and en
chanted it
F.F.'s admiration rose to enthusi
asm. "Too marvelous;" he repeated.
"Do you see her over there against
the wall?"
Jervls Weare bad seen her twenty
minutes ago. It was like Rosamund
to be facing tbe music he could
still admire that In ber. Sbe was
wltb Robert Leonard. Was ehe fac
ing the music? Or had she perhaps
counted on meeting nobody who
would know ber? A bit ot folly, that;
for nowadays even August Is not to
be counted upon, since anyone may
turn up from anywhere at any mo
ment He smiled slightly as he glanced
about tbe room. Already, as they
came in, he had returned an Inter
ested bow from Mrs. Manning Tem
ple, From where he was sitting be
could see at least half a dozen peo
ple whom he know old James Mul
roy, a very competent and Indus
trious gossip; Janet Tetterley, his
nearest neighbour and a far-away
cousin on his mother's, side; the Car
ters Nonle Carter pop-oyed with
Interest; and Mrs. Monitor, wltb
Enid who was to have been one of
Rosamund's bridesmaids.
With a faintly sardonic gleam In
his eye bo turned from Enid to
watch Rosamund. She spoke smil
ingly over her shoulder to Leonard
and moved clear of the table. He
looked away from her to Nan. She
was sitting back In her chair, and
she too was watching Rosamund
Carew. Jervls looked at her, and,
for the first time, really saw her.
It was as It Rosamund had flung
him a challenge, and he must look
to his, weapons, From the first, Nan
had been a weapon against Rosa
mund. Now, In this publlo place,'
there came the first encounter.
He looked to see how his weapon
would serve him, and was faintly
startled. She was sitting back In
her chair. A pretty turn of the neck
and a graceful pose that was what
he saw first And, directly upon
that he received the strongest Im
pression ot youth, Rosamund and
he were nearly ot an age, Rosamund
a few months the elder.
Nan, sitting there, with her eyes
wide, ber Hps a little apart, and a
flush on her cheeks, bad the air of
a child. Rosamund was a beautiful
woman. Nan had freshness and
grace, a direct gaze, a young round
chin, and on occasion a dimple. Her
hands lay In her lap. The direct
gase was fixed wltb Interest and ad
miration on Rosamund, but the In
terest and admiration were alike
tinged wltb something else. Jervls
did not know what the something
was. It drew her brows together
and put a faintly distressed curve
upon her mouth.
He looked where she was gazing,
and saw Rosamund and Robert com
ing towards them. Something In
side him laughed a bard, angry
laugh. The challenge was to be
pressed. And bow damnably cleverl
If he could be pricked Into rudeness,
Rosamund would most undoubtedly
score. She was counting on his
quick er.d sudden temper.
Rosamund Carew came on with
Robert Leonard at her shoulder.
Nan's Hps parted wistfully, her
heart sank. She was so very beau
tiful. Her hair went back In a
smooth gold wave from her brow to
the nape ot her neck, where It broke
Into tiny curls that were caught In
a dull gold slide. Sbe moved as If
she knew how beautiful she was;
ber eyes held the certainty of It
She stopped at the empty side of
the table, touched It with a hand
that wore one big sapphire, and
sent a faintly smiling look across It
"Well, Jervls?" she said.
Copyright. Hit. Hvplncott)
Nan facts a harth struoqla, Mon
day, and haa an Important talk.
week to fill a vaudeville engagement
he was merely a former heavyweight
boxing champion ot the world. Now
he's an admiral In the "Oreat Navy
of the State of Nebraska."
Lleut-Oov. Theodore W, Metcalfe of
Omaha, custodian of the membership
roll In the Imaginary navy, conferred
the new title upon Dempaey.
BIG TURTLE TAKEN
MONMOUTH BEACH, N. J., Sept 3.
(AP) A 310-pound "leather back"
turtle which strayed far from lt
tropic haunts, started today on a
ride to the American Museum of
Natural History In New York.
The turtle, known also as the Bra-
tlllan Luth, was caught 30 mllea oft'
shore by two lobster fishermen. After
a fierce tussle they laboriously towed
It to shore.
Pender rnd body repairing. Prices
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SEATTLE, Sept. 3. (AP) The Jinx
has startea working again for Tuslco,
the Pacific northwest's misbehaving
seven-ton elephant but this time It's
not hla fault.
George W. Kreuger, 44, who says
he Is booking agent for the giant
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animal, was jailed lut night on a
charge of exhibiting Tub to without
a license.
Kreuger had his say about It.
"Tuako was brought here at the
Invitation of Mayor John F. Dore,
as a frolic week attraction," he ex
plained. "We havent exhibited him
since."
Tusko's recent years In the Pa
cific northwest have been marked
with Incidents of 111 fortune.
Even as recently as while being
brought to the city, hut trailer over
turned, throwing him roughly onto
the pavement, and then he was bar
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because ot his reputation for misbehavior.
Knife Required
To Subdue Fish
HELENA, Mont., Sept. 3. (AP) Bob
H e 1 s 1 n g, 16-year-old Minneapolis,
Minn., high school boy, tells this
flah story: He hooked a 22 ;4 -pound
bull trout In a stream near Lincoln,
and after a futile attempt to land
It, waded into the stream and killed
the fish with a small knife. He ex
hibited the fish.
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PORTLAND, Sept. 3. (AP) People
who complain that "It doesnt seem
that we had any summer at all,"
will be surprised to learn that Ed
ward L. Wells, government meteor
ologist here, doesn't agree with them.
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Wells said today that Portland, and
the rest ot the state, too, as a mat
ter of fact, had had a warmer, drier
summer than normal.
The mean temperature for the past
three months In Portland was 1-3 de
grees above normal. Wells said to
day. Rainfall was only about 40 per
cent ot normal.
June was the driest Portland has
ever had: August was warmer and
drier than usual.
They've arrived. Pall Nelly Dons In
light weight wool. And they're only
S3.95 to 10.95. See them at Adrl-enne's.
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Lakevieu) Mill
Operating Soon
LAKEVIEW, Ore., Sept. 3. (AP)
Lakeview's new sawmill will begin
operations within a few days and the
mill will employ about 100 men
throughout the winter, officials said
today.
All Lake county sawmills have been
operating at capacity during the past
90 days, operatora report, and will
continue to run until snow forces a
shutdown about November 1.
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