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PAGE SIX BEDFORD MAIL THIBUXE, MEDFORD, OREO ON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14,1932. M Nothing Venture Y by Patricia Wenlworth BYKOP'ISr Kan Is eeaWnrei the man she eaw lurking near tht Wear country home during the etorm viae Robeit Leonard and that hie presence mean danger for her husband. She knouit Jer vis would ridicule the idea, Ae Han and Jervie approach the deep tidal pully next morning Bran. Jervie dog, becomee agitated and refuses to enter the bridge. Jer vie tries to force the dog aeroee but Wan. sensing something is wrong, iumps on the bridge to block her hueband. Then there is terrifying crash. Chapter 20 A SERIOUS QUARREL NAN did not hear the crack of breaking timber, because It was lost In the roar of the fall, but he felt the shuddering Jar of it The bridge eeemed to be wrenched beneath her. She did hear Jervls' about, ehe felt hla graap like an Iron clamp apon her shoulder. She thought ahe acreamed, and the pray and the foam and the cold came np upon her face, and her hands, and her breast. She swung giddily aboTe the torrent, and there was notblng between her and the pool below a long, long way be low. The bridge waa gone every thing was gone. She awung gid dily, a frightful noise In her ears, and the water waiting for her. She bad no thought for why ahe did not fall. She awung to and fro. It was all a contusion, like the broken bits of a dream. And then suddenly sbe came shuddering out of the dream, to hear Jorrls' yolce above her: "Can you lift your arm?" The aound of the words had reached her before, but not their sense. She made a alow, weak effort to raise her right arm, but something clamped It down. Then Jervls' voice again: "Your left arm." one mw, reacnea np, ana teit him grasp her wrist Then she was being drawn up, slowly, dread fully slowly, while the noise of the falling, churning water seemed to be right Inside her bead. She' didn't seem able to think. The mo ment went on Interminably. Then sbe felt a scraping sensa tion across her ahoulders and back, and the feel of something solid be neath her. Something went round and round In her head. She gasped and struggled to sit up. She felt as If ahe had been wrenched In two. She got up on her knees pant ing. The middle of the bridge was gone. A yard away the broken Umbers atuck out over empty pace. On her left Jervls was get ting to his feet Bran pressed against her and licked her cheek. She caught him about the neck and struggled up. "Are you all right?" - She nodded, holding Bran tight And added In a flutterlnr voice that was much less audible tban she meant It to .be, -"What happened!" Jervls said harshly, -;'The bridge broke." 1 She said, "I went down." He threw her a curloua look, It was almost as It he accused her in angry look. "You might have been killed." "You aved me." "I grabbed your shoulder. We came down together." Nan's heart . contracted, She might have pulled him over ahe might so easily have pulled him over. The words said themselves aloud: "I might have pulled you overt" Jervls stood there frowning. "You very nearly did. If I hadn't come down full length before the bridge actually fell, we should both have gone with It As It wae, I managed to hang on, and old Bran took hold of my coat and pulled for all be was worth. I got a good thandful of your dress, and thank goodness the stuff was strong!" "Was It a long timet It felt very long." "No. I couldn't have held you for more than a moment I aald 'Put sp your arm,' and I got hold of It; but if It hadn't been tor Bran, 1 dont think ' could have got you P" At the aound of his name Bran thrust his head under his master's hand, jerking It up. Nan felt an nvy of him. He had saved them both, and he could say bow glad be was. Sbe oouldn't It came over her how strangely they were stand ing here, speaking cold conven tional sentences on the ragged dgea of death. She. turned from the broken bridge and began to move stiffly down the path. Her kneee shook a little, and before she had taken halt a dosen steps Jervls' hand waa on her arm. RUSSIAN SLAYER OF DIES BENEATH AXE PARIS, France, Sept 14. (AP) Prance exacted the supreme penalty today for the slaying of her vener ible president. Paul Doumer, by exe silting on the guillotine Dr. Paul Oorguloff, Russian physician, who ihot him May 6. Oorguloft wae executed at 5:M a. ae he muttered almost Incom prehensible reterencee to Ala "Idea." He was accompanied to the ecaf told by Pather Olllett, a priest of the Greek church. The priest kissed bun Just before the guards fastened blm on the block under the knife. Daws wee Just breaking. The pro- "Ifou're a bit sbaky." "A little. It'a nothing." They came out of the trees, but instead of climbing the alope they followed the easier gradient of the path. The sound of the fall re ceded. After walking silently foi some time Jervls burst out with a sudden, "I can't understand It" Nan wondered if be felt the ac cusing leap of her pulses. "He did It," she said. Jervls stopped dead and swung her round to face him. "What's that?" He still held her by the elbow, and his grasp felt rough and strong. "He did It" "What are you talking aboutr "The bridge." 'You've got to say what you mean!" "Yes I aaw him." "What do you mean? Whom did you aee." "Robert Leonard." He let go of her so suddenly that she felt as If he had pushed her away. There waa an angry color under his dark skin. "We've got to have this out! You've got to say what you mean I" "Yes, Jervls. I woke up In the night something waked me I don't know what It was. Then I heard Bran downstairs." "You heard Bran?" with angry suspicion, ' "He waa walking up and down and whining. I went to the top of the stairs and called him. He came Into my room with me, and we both looked out of the window. He wae very excited. I thought It was be cause there was a storm coming up." "You seem to think he's a Pek inese I He doesn't mind storms." "I know he doesn't It wasn't the storm he was minding." "No I suppose It was Leonard I" Nothing could have been more In credulous than hla voice; his eyes hold a hint of fierce amusement Nan lifted her bead. "Yes. Bran Is cleverer than you are he knows when there's danger he wouldn't go on to the bridge." Jervls laughed angrily. "Well he was minding Leonard? And then, I suppose, you both saw hlra!" "I did. I don't know If Bran did. I don't think he goes by seeing he's got something else." "You saw Leonard?" "Yes, I did." "Where?" "Where the path goes Into the trees." Jervls laughed again.' "From your window 1 In the mid dle ot the night I" "Yes I did. The moon went In. and there wae a flash ot lightning. I could see everything very clearly, and I saw Robert Leonard. I did aee him." Jervls' manner changed; It be came colder and lost Its rough edge, "I'm afraid ycu have rather an obsession about Leonard. I hope you won't go about saying this sort of thing to anyone else It might get you Into trouble. You see, It's quite Impossible that you could nave recognised him at that die. ance by a flash of lightning." i am recognise him," aald Nan, She began to walk on towards the house. Jervls came up wltb her. A man you've seen once!" ht said In a taunting tone. I ve seen him more than once and I should know him wherevei I aaw him." He gave an angry lerk of thi ahoulder and walked on In silence The path entered a thicket and presently cama out upon the lawn. Just before they came to the houss Jervls spoke again. What have you got against Leo nard?" She looked at him with a dlreol simplicity. "He wants to kill you." Jervls was startled clean out m hla angry Impatience. You t-ii't possibly mean a thlni like thai! I do mean It" You can't! I don't like the man but It's a perfectly foul thing to say about anyone without proof." Nan looked away. There was a note ot appeal In his voice that weakened her. She took a step towards the house. 'You've no proof," said Jervls. She looked back over her shoulder for an Instant "The bridge fell." she sail She went Into the house. Copyright, nil, Llpplncott) Nan stands by htr guns tomer row, although li means defying the man ahe ievaa. cedure moved swiftly. Only 40 sec onds after Oorguloff stepped down from the prison van hla head rolled Into the basket. Only a email crowd saw the execution. When ,he wae awakened In his cell, Oorguloft muttered prayers In Rus slan and then began to talk about bis "Idea." "X am neither a royalist nor a com munist," he said. "1 die for my Idea. I hope my child (which Is still un born) will be a boy end I hope he wont be a communist 1 asked par don of everybody." During the mass of the Oreek church which preceded hla execution, Oorguloff continued praying and be gan mt'ln to talk ot his "Idea." "I die for Ruisla," he said. "I die for my Idea. I pardon everybody." KLAMATH FAUa work of exca vation on ll.ooo.ooo-gallon reeervlor at Moore Park, started. , REXDSPORT Mr, and Mrs. Jtck Connelly eold Umpqua Hotel to Mra. 0. L. Wllhelm of cottage Drove. SALEM Blda opened recently for boiler for Oregon state penitentiary. Talent TALENT, Ore, Sept. 14. (8pl.) Mr. and Mra. DIUworth of Prospect were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wylle Jones onSunday. Mies Esther Holdrldge was the guest of Mr. and Mra. Tuttle at Table Rock several daya this week. Mr, and Mra. Harrell of Eugene and Mrs. Cbaae Hedges of South Bend, Ind., were guests of Rev. and Mrs. TAILSPIN TOMMY S'MATTER POP w BOUND TO WIN The Meeting By EDWIN ALGER; mb. w a jr a a iswtcd ii A (DS?-fT5v1g'.sK' mw yHsi.FS!Ef-10'.'s9 RPT vvastb Yi name wt Y name is W " t kvIa LO,L T . 1 LrV, , 5V cr rss-. 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AgrfcrfamS ' ' i a .wS t what ARe you D0iN6jr' just cot a, apivokc6to rf AYteswoRM says, "tmc- Xti, miss scwucrr as soon Asrf rf- PilTkl V JZLJff I 0,vi-Tr v --irti)'- 3t JSmVW schulti.' hj secoNOnNC- DoeswTDc-siiRver BRINGING UP FATHER By George Ma7u, THEN CFFd 5TSLS THE FOr4DS FROf-1 OOT "BRiCK-Top-'H-VM AVT c2N'VlOTOF f ' M'MlNNETT -'L THAT MONET TOO RECEWEO BLMMCT- WHAT5 CONNA. HPPtM J CFFCT J WTX TH6 rMNO-J THAVEUtIM'- f rNJA.rMOV;- FHOM TOUR FRiENOS BOGuS- VH&M flNO ? t l I ,J :; ' ' ligu William Leeadder thla week. Mr. Ira Coughman and eon, lealle, were dinner guests of Jack Morris Priday. The ladlee of the M. B. church gave a ahower at the borne ot Mra. Prank Holdrldge on Tuesday honoring Mrs. Wayne Holdrldge, whp received many beautiful gifts. Dr. and Mrs. B. A. Johnson of Cor vallla, with whom their grandson, Lyndal Newbry, has been ependlng the past month, brought him ae far aa Roseburg the flrat of the week, where hla parent. Mr, and Mrs. Earl Forced Landing In The Everglades! Well, There's Plenty Of The Deacon Evidently T. Newbry. met them and brought their son home. A. E. Walker feU off ot a ladder while picking pears tor Hewbrys and was quite severely hurt. Dorothea Borf waa an overnight guest ot Dorothy Mathea on Tuesday. On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Ed munson entertained at dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Carl Arthur and daughter of Klamath Palls and Mr. B)U Murray of Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kellng and children of Klamath Palls spent the day Sunday with Mrs. Sue Clayton. - Volume Said A Mouthful! Mr. and Mrs. Prank Sorrel of Kerby, Ore, have been the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Skeeters, have returned to their home. . Mr. and Mrs. Mike Allmlck, who have been spending the summer on their ranch on Anderson creek have returned to their home In Talent for the children to enter school. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Adams and Mr. Adams' mother of Los Angeles, were week-end guests of their cousin, Mrs. Rudy Connor snd Mr. Connor en route to Portland on a motor trip. Mr. Charles Campbell came In from Yreka to visit hla family over the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Adamson and grandson, Charles Badger ot Medford, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Crawford on Sunday. Dr. and Mra. Miller and Mra. Roa coe Conklln, nee Marie Miller, left on Saturday for Mra. Conklln's home at Ontario, Ore, by motor. ' Mra. Chase Gardner and Mrs. Pred Morse attended the recreational school at Central Point. The Talent teachers will be found at the following addresses this year: Mr. and Mra. Ralph Southwlck will 4 occupy the Lacy house on Wagner ave.: Miss Dorothy Baughman, Miss Esther Spangenberg and Miss Opal McLarnan at Jay rerrui s, ana Helen Shipley. Mise Edna Wisely and Miia Plov Young will have an apart- ment at J. R. Webster's. ; HUBBARD New pump tor city water works Installed. ONTARIO New stage service start ed between here and Bend over John Day highway. By OLfc.NN CHAFF1N and UAL FOUBEST By C. M. PAYNE By SOL HESS By BUD FISHER
