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MEDFORDMATL TRTBTTNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1932,
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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
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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."
"It liberalism had a voice and a
backbone and went out now and
proclaimed liberty, from old entan
glements, liberalism could conquer
seven-eighths of mankind. Other,
wise, the people will turn to communism."
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