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PAGE BIX MEDFORDMATL TRTBTTNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1932, IfOftfjUu fjfiPtfQOJ Nothing Venture by Patricia Wenlworth SYNOPSIS! Jervt Wear ha refuted money to Hotamund Ca rets, hi former tlancte. who threw him over in an attempt to cheat him of a fortune. Ferdinand Franott hae recognlted Kan Weare. Jervi wile. a the airl who ten year before aved Jer vi1 life; Nan need an ally, and telle Ferdinand that Hoeamund't friend. Robert Leonard, hae tried to kill her hueband. she i tor tured with worry becaue Jervt refute to believe in hi danger. Chapter 16 A GIRL WITH GRIT IERVIS was going down to iwlm," I Nan Weare told Ferdinand iFrands, eager because at last she had found a trusting listener In jvhom to confide her gnawing lean. "'He went behind those rocks wbere the pool was. It was ten years ago." "What were you doing?" asked Francis. "I was sitting on the beach," said Nan with her chin In the air. "There was a waj down the low cliffs just beyond He. A man came down and went across to the rocks where Jer Tls was. I didn't see bis face. I think he was walking on the cliff and saw Jervls and came down. "He went behind the rocks, apd In about five minutes I saw blra again. He was going straight to another path up the cliff, before you come to Croyde Head. He went up that I saw him half way up It. I never saw bis face at all." "Go on," said Ferdinand. "I waited a long time. The tide began to come up. I wondered where Jerris was. I climbed up on to the path and looked out to sea, but I couldn't find him. The rocks bid the pool I want you to remem ber that I don't think anyone on the cliff could bare seen It." Mr. Francis nodded. "That's true." "I got frightened about Jerrli. I went down to the pool, and he was lying halt In and half out of It with his head bleeding and the tide com ing In. The water was up to bis shoulders. If I hadn't come then, he would hare been drowned. If you hadn't come later, we should both hare been drowned." "What are yon meaning?" asked Francis. "That man went behind the rocks and came out again," said Nan rather breathlessly. "Now what do you mean by that?" "You know what I mean but I don't mind saying It. I mean that the man went behind those rocks because he knew that Jervls was there and that they couldn't be seen from the cliff. I mean that ha picked up a bit of rook and struck Jervls with It, and went away and left him there with the tide coming In." "You can't prove that, you know." "Of course I can't," aald Nan. "But you can be sure of lots of things you can't prove." "That's so. But you didn't see htm strike Jervls you didn't even see bis face; and now you say he's the Robert Leonard who Is with Miss ;Carew tonight," ' I Nan nodded. "Let me go on. Alter you'd got lus out of the pool you went to get i help, and I stayed with Jervls. As soon as I heard you coming back, I got away up the cliff path. You see, Cynthia and I were down at Croy aton with an aunt, and we were go ing back to town by the afternoon train. I got Into a most frightful row when 1 turned up at our cottage drlplng wet with my dress spoilt and my arm cut I was bundled Into dry things, and we just caught the train. "And afterwards I was 111 I be lieve I was very 111 and all the time I kept seeing that man, and Jervls In the pool. I want you to under stand how It was that I could rec ognise him ten years afterwards. He waa printed Into my mind." Ferdinand saw ber eyes darken In face that had lost all lis colour. "You say you recognised him," be said. She gave another of those Quick nods, "Yes at once. There was a photo graph In Jervls' study. It didn't show his face; It showed htm walking away from me, Just ss I'd seen him in my mind all those years. I recog nized him at once, and Jervls told me bis name." "Ten years Is a long time," ssld Ferdinand, "and there's a good proverb about letting sleeping dogs lie." "They're not sleeping," said Nan. "He tried to kill Jervls ten years ago, and be tried to kill him again today." "That's a whole heap more Inter esting!" he said. "I'm listening." Again Nan found It difficult to be gin and, as before, she plunged. "I saw Kobert Leonard get out of a taxi. He was with Rosamund Carew. She went Into the house." "What house?" "Her house. She went In; but he came back and spoke to the driver. I was on the otber side of the taxi. I wasn't trying to listen, but I didn't want them to see me. Robert Leon ard said, 'It's the tour-fifteen. You'll have to hurry. He's sure to walk be cause he's got a craze for exercise.' " "No names?" She shook her head. "No." ''What made you think" "I didn't at first. Let me tell you. The driver said, 'Suppose he takes a taxi?' And Robert Leonard said, 'You must Just do the best you can.' He said he wasn't as keen on the Job as he had been. "And Robert Leonard said, 'What's a couple of months for dangerous driving?' And the driver said it might be a lot more than that, but he'd do It because be was a man of his word." "Is that all?" asked Francis. "No," said Nan. She held ber voice steady with all her might "1 met Jervls. I told him, and he wouldn't bellovo me; but because he was late for bis appointment with Mr. Page be went by subway Instead of walking. He would have walked. And when he came out of his house on his way here, a taxi knocked him down. He saw It coming and Jumped, or he wouldn't be here to night" "You saw this?" "No. He was getting a taxi for me. He told me. His arm was cut he had to go back and change." "But you never beard any names, Mrs. Weare. What made you think this Robert Leonard was talking about Jervls?" "I don't know I Just knew It Don't you ever hare 'hunches'?" "Yes," admitted Mr. Francis. "I shouldn't be here now It I hadn't" "Well, that's what I bad, said Nan "a hunch." "A hunch Isn't evidence. You know, Mrs. Weare, there wouldn't be much left of that story of yours If you took It Into court What does be want to kill Jervls for? You must have a motlre." "The money," said Nan. "But he doesn't get the money." "No Rosamund gets It" "Don't you get It after Jervls?" She shook her head. "I was In Mr. Page's office 1 know all about the will, because I typed It I've got a settlement 1 shouldn't get anything else. If Jer vls had an accident everything would go to Rosamund Carew." She pushed back the rose-coloured curtain and stood up. The big, still room was empty. "I'm frightened," she said. Her eyes Implored htm. They crossed the room In silence. At the door Nan turned to him, "It he asks you to come down to Weare, will you come?" "Well, as a matter of fact he asksd me," said Mr. Francis. "And you said?" "I said I'd got a lot of work to got through." "Please, please come," said Nan. "Well I'd like to," said Mr. Fran cis. (Copyrioht, .rut, Ltpplncott) Roiamund and Leonard eeneoct a plot against Nan'a honor tomor, row. Keeps Sons From Films lV"tV 1 NiL.ta nia mm i ii lilflUHI, Amoclated Press P.hoto Charles Chapllnl legal flint to keep hla former wife, Mrs. l.lta dray Chaplin, front plarlng his two Utile nana In motion plrturra, was croon ed with eureraa Friday when a Loa An trie, jurise declared valid the famous comedian's claim that entry of KM net. 8, (left) and Tharlra Jr., 7, upon a movie career a: atirh tender age would prove detrimental. Mrs. Chaplin la shown with (be children. TEN PER CENT CUT BY ECONOMY ACT WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. (AP) Comptroller-Oeneral McCarl ruled to day that the ten per cent reduction In expenditure for public ontruc tlon, specified by the economy act, should be applied to work under the 322,000,000 relief fund. Opinions rarted as to whether the ruling would reduce the total by ten per cent or whether the reduction would be made tn the limit of coat of each project thus spreading the amount over a wider field. Treasury officials took the latter view. The ruling was submitted to Secre tary Mills In response to a request for Information as to whether the ten per cent reduction In the economy act on all public construction would apply to the relief provision. McCarl ruled that It would. RICHLAND Work on new Eagle Valley market road progressing. RAY ON CEILING CORMORANT LAKE, MAN., Sept. 8. (AP) Flying Officer R. A. Gordon and Aircraftsman John Fortey arrived here late today after a flight to an elevation of 21,000 feet with Instru ments to measure the cosmic ray. The two airmen hopped off from here yesterday under Instructions of Dr. Robert A. Milllken, American sci entist, to cruise "at the celling of the plane for as long as they could." Their return ended searches for the fliers by other pilots, who set out this morning to surrey a wide area. Gordon and Fortey were expected to return yesterday after only a four hour flight. 1 CORVALLIS. Bids opened for con struction of bridge here to replace structure which collapsed recently. Bridge estimated to cost $30,000 with roadway of 24 feet. H. G. WELLS HAS OXFORD. England. IJP) "A totter lng civilization staggering down to chaotic violence and decadence, in a world for the gangster tribe," Is B. O. Wells' picture of the future of mankind, unless rescued by "revolu tionary liberalism." "Liberalism In the United flutes has been suppressed for a hundred years." Mr. Wells said. "In France and Germany It Is Inaudible. Is Russia Is In blinkers." Yet this Is the time, he assured his bearers at the Liberal summer school here, for "the liberal giant to rise." 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