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PXGE EIGHT MEDFORD llim TRIBUNE, MEDFOBP, OREGON, TTEDNESDSY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1932, -s Nothing knture ricta Wentworlh ITKOPBIBl Whnt at Unntr tn the Bottl Luxe Jtrvtt Wtort hat for tht Arl Hme thown oontid oration for hit ui, Kan. Bht hat loved him tinet at a girl tht taved hit Hit; ht hat married htr ot a meant of taving hit fortune from ftoiamuttd Carew. Rota mund and Robert Leonard, whom t.'an tutpectt ot two atttmptt on Jervit' lift, aUo art in tht rtetait- rant, Chapter It ROSAMUND'S DEMAND OOSAMUND CAREW settled her- eeir into in corner 01 a goia iota and lit cigarette. The smoke banc about her like a bluish mist Jerrls bad not spoken a single word. HI lip were smillni, bis eyes aloot and dark. For a minute or two Rosamund smoked In silence. Jhen sbe said lailly, "Hadn't we better talkr "Ob. certainly. What sball we talk about the weather? Tbey say It will be hotter tomorrow." "I want to talk to yon about my money," sbe said. Jerrls continued to smile. "Your money!" "Yes." "What money?" ' "You know as well as I do that TTnele Ambrose would bar left me wealthy It be bad not thought we were going to be married. He bad his own ideas about the man bar ing the purse-strings." "Yes rery sensible Ideas." Rosamund's laabes came down upon her cheek. Sbe conreyed without further effort a complete Indifference to Jerrls' approral. "Hadn't we better keep to the facta?" she said. "He left me twenty-fire hundred dollars. That's nothing I can't lire on nothing and you bare married someone else. Those I think are the facts." ' Jerrls' eyes hardened. "I'm afraid we're talking at erosa purposes. My grandfather didn't lear you anything at all ex cept a sum down for your trous seau." She lifted her cigarette again. The aab broke and fell, powdering the gold of her dress. She was silent tor a moment. Inhaling the smoke. In til silence thoughts moved be tween them rlolent, resentful, dominant, resisting. With halt closed eyes Rosamund continued to smoke. Whatever happened, he should speak next. It It was a battle between them she knew where her advantage lay. She sat entrenched In silence. In the end It was he who broke It "I dont think there's anything Is be gained by this discussion. You played me the dirtiest trick I've ever heard ot and now you want your legacy." - "And a bit over," said Hiss Ca rew, her blue eyea relied. : "I'm afraid you won't get It You can bare fifteen hundred a year, but I won't discuss tb matter with you. You must see Page." She held the cigarette a little away and opened her eyes upon him. "My dear Jerrls, what do yon ex pect me to dot" "On might work," he suggested. Rosamund's riposte was swift "I believe Mr. Page haa a vacancy for a typist Shall I apply tor It?" She smiled her exquisite smile, then leaned towards blm. "I'm not clever enough, I'm afraid. What's the good of quarrelling? Make, It twenty-five hundred, aud let's be friends. Family quarrels are eo ex hausting, and there's a heat-ware coming." She paused for an answer, and got none. "Come twenty-lire hundred and I'll owe my dress maker the rest." Jerrls ros to his feet and of fered her his arm. "Nothing doing, I'm afraid. Shall w dance?" Ferdinand Francis had taken Nan by way of a long corridor into one of those Immense rooms with gilt mirrors and brocaded furniture which are, mercifully, only to he met with In hotels ot the mora ex pensive sort They sat down tn a window-seat framed with rose coloured satin curtains looped with gold. Their feet reeled upon a car pet an Inch thick, also roue coloured. "Weill" said Mr. Francis, "If we aren't grandl Now last time I had the pleasure ot a conrersatlon with you" Nan coloured a little, but her dimple showed.. "Is that my cue? What do I say?" "You say, 'last time?' " Nan caught the corner ot her Hp between her teeth. "Hare we met before, Mr. Francis!" "Oh yes, Mrs. Wear." "Hare we? Are yon sure?" " "Oh, quit sure. I've been quite sure since twenty minute past four this afternoon." Nan caught her eyes away from bis. Tbey were twinkling, but under the twinkle be was dead se rious. Sbe looked down Into her lap, and then ot her own free will ahe tilted ber head and looked back at him. "Well?" sbe said. Her lips lust parted on tbe word, and then closed in a firm, sweet curve that was not quite a emlle. "If you'll go back In your mind," aald Ferdinand, "maybe you'll re member that after I'd picked Jerrls out of that pool on Croyston rocks, I came back for tbe plucky child who'd eared his lite by hold ing blm up In the water. Sbe grabbed me with both bande and said, 'Is be dead? And I said 'Not within eighty years ot It thanks to you.' Come you remember that" 'I?" said Nan. 'Yes, you. I said, 'I'd like to know your name," and abe said, 'Nan. And when you said 'I'm Nan,' this afternoon at twenty past tour In the ferry bouse, well, I knew you at once so wbat's the good ot all this In and out fighting? I'm an Inquisitive man, and I'd like to know what's behind all this, and why Jerrls doesn't know you sared his life." ' Well, I think you sared It," said Nan. Ferdinand ahook his head. "He'd hare been gone long be fore I got blm out of the water if It hadn't been for you." The bright darting eyes went through her ar mour. "You were clerer at dinner. but I saw the scar before you moved your arm just where I knew It waa bound to be. Well, now I'm being Impertinent but why doesn't Jerrls know?" 'I don't want him to know." Then, as If putting all that on one side, "Mr. Francis, I want to talk to you. I I must talk to someone, and perhaps Jerrls will listen to you." . "What Is it Mrs. Weare?" Nan clasped her bands In her lap. "I'm rery frightened about Jer rls," sbe said. "He's In danger, but he won't bellere It." "Danger?" said Ferdinand. "That has a rery Intriguing sound." "You're laughing at me," said Nan In a despairing rolce. "How can I, when I don't know the first thing about the situation? What's the matter with it anyway?" You don't belter me," said Nan. "But it's true. He tried to kill Jerrls ten years ago, and he tried to kill him again today." "My eye I" said Ferdinand, and then, "Who did?" "Robert Leonard did." "Is that so?" he said. "The chap with the bulging brain-box and the Jaw-bone of an ass?" "Yea, be did," said Nan. "The Derll," aald Mr. Francis, with simple fervour. "He did, did be? Why?" Rosamund would get all the money," said Nan. Mrs. Weare, you're not telling me that that beautiful lady Is gun ning for Jervls." I don't think she knows." She threw out her handa tn a passion ate gesture. "Oh, she can't knowl" They were alone In the huge for mal room. Nan's little rolce quiv ered In It and was smothered by the sllenc and the emptiness. To say the word murder In this gilded, rose-coloured room, with Its soft carpet Its glittering chandeliers. Its painted celling, waa like firing a rerolrer ehot In a puppet show. Mr. Francis looked at her. I'm an Inquisitive man," ha aald, "and If you'd begin at the be ginning and give me an Idea ot what this Is all about I'd appreciate It rery much." Nan leaned back too. "It's all so tangled up but Vm frightened I'll tell It as well aa 1 can It goes a long way back." Take your own time," said Ferdinand. "Nobody's thought of taxing that yet ao you can havo as much as you like." The colour stood high In Nan's cheeks. Sbe didn't care whether he was listening or not She wasn't going to tell Ferdinand Francis that ten years ago she had bad a child's adoration for Jervls which had made ber follow him like an un seen shadow. Sbe began without any proper beglnlng at all. I aaw Jerrls come across the rocks. ..." (CopvHsM, it!, Llpplneott) Whit waa (he true story of that fstoful day by the ssaahoror Nan tells tomorrow. Farmer a Reducing Acreage In Wheat WASHTHOTOH. Sept. T (AT) Taa Department of Agriculture an nounced today that report from far mers' Indicated that they Intended to plant about 80.60B.0O0 acres of winter wheat thte fall. An area of M0.1T3.000 acres waa planted last fall, Thte year's plant ing will be below the 4S.S3,ooo acres own In 1990 and 48.847,000 acres In INT. Hoodlums Beat . Portland Youth PORTLAND, Sept. T. (AP) An at tack by a gang of fir hoodlums sent Stanley Klyce. 31, to a hospital laat night, ebortly after he had returned horn from the emergency hospital, a-here he was treated for a eerere laceration of an arm Buffered In an automobile crash Monday. The five uen beat him severely. Inflicting a skull fracture. He waa unconscious t tea lraepjt4 todaj. Two Trapped In Blazing House COLVILLS, Wash., Sept. T. (API Trapped In their blazing farm house early today, Ernest Johnson, 38, waa burned to death and D. Dee Fryer, 88, waa ao badly seared he may die. Fryer, brought to a hospital here, said he waa awakened by the flames, and he broke a window through which to crawl to safety. He attempted to rescue Johnson, who was overcome by smoke, but the heat became ao In tense he was forced to retreat, he aald. Canadian Dollar Climbs In Value NSW ORK. Sept. 7 (API Re cent strength ot the Canadian dollar Is attracting the attention of foreign currency osiers. In the put few weeks the dollar has been climbing steadily. Today It was quoted at POSlt. cents, almost cent above It closing figure last Saturday. Its low for Vie year was 83.7 cents, recorded January I. ERTOWI NEW YORK, Sept. 7. (AP) Har vey 8. Firestone', rubber magnate, re turned yeaterday from a rlalt to England, Prance and Spain. Mr. Firestone expressed the rlew that the two big problems before America today are: "First, Henry Ford's program to co-ordinate agri culture and manufacturing, and, sec ond, the bankers' program to adjust our foreign exchange." He slad he believed President Hoo ver would be re-elected. Smart Fall Coats Suits Dresses Hats arriving dally. All at prices you can afford. Cinderella Shop, 44 S. Central. Pender and body repairing. Prices right. Brill Sheet Metal Works. Graves' Jewelry Shop, now located 41 So. Front. Fratracide Faces First Degree Trial SALEM, Sept. 7. (AP) Melvnl Sorell, 31, waived preliminary hearing and waa bound over to the grand Jury when he appeared In Justice court here today to answer a charge of first degree murder In connection with his father Leon D. Sorell, September 3rd. Kaiser on Visit ZANDVOORT, Holland, Sept. 7 (AP) Former Kaiser Wllhelm and Princess Hermlne and her two daugh ters arrived here today to stay a week. A report that the former Crown Prince Preldrlch Wllhelm would visit his father here could not be confirmed. DISSATISFIED HOLDUPS KILL JOINT PROPRIETOR PORTLAND. Sept. T. (AP) Dlo aattafled because they did nut receive enough money tn a holdup of a beer parlor on the east aide here, two gun men early today shot and killed Merle Barr, 81, who police aald was the pro prietor of the place. Boise Would Rid Schools Of Frats BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 7. (AP) The Boise city board of education sought today to suppress high school clubs and fraternities and their "baneful Influence." Every student registering tor high school courses waa required to sign a pledge not to belong to such an organization. Desirable houses alwaya In first class condition for rent, lease or sale. Call 10s. Cloudburst Hits Nation's Capital WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. (API The capital waa drying out today from a cloudburst that laat night flooded tone sections of the city to a depth of eight feet. Damage to homes from the torrents of rain waa report ed In the thousands, while more than 40 automobllea practically w e r ruined by water. . . Three tier body fir. 5.35. Quality and msasure guaranteed. 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