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PAGE BIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGOX, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1932. Nothing Venture by Patricia Wenlworth BTNOPSlg: The dramatic mind of Ferdinand Francis grasps at ones from Nan's story the posst btlity that Robert Leonard has made a third attempt on the Ule of Nan's husband, Jcrvis Wears, by weakening the bridge that al tnosf plunged Nan and Jervie to death the day before. Ferdinand worms out of Nan the further fact that it was her self-saerifteing at tempt to protect Jervie that put her in danger, Ferdinand inspects the bridge. Chapter It P. P. MAKES A POINT 'T'HEY lunched next day with the - jeueneya. janet rang up ana Invited them In a caaual. Inconse quent manner. She aald Basher was dying to meet Nan. 8ne extended her original Invita tion to Include Ferdinand, and finished np bj hoping that they wouldn't be poisoned, because abe bad a new cook and Basher aald ahe had a Lucrezla Borgia sort of look about her. The heat held. After a time their road lav along the low cliffs. The blue of the sky and the blue of the ea swam together In a trembling base. The car was an open one. The aun flooded down upon them, and there was no breeie but what tbey made themselves. They skimmed down a steep hill and tore up the other side. Nan felt exactly as It she were In an elevator; but there was something exhila rating about It too. She laughed as they raced at the hill, and Jervls looked sideways at her and smiled. "Nice view here." The road was on the edge of the cliff. The sea was blue beneath them; the water sparkled In the sun. "Bad bit of road on that hill, F. T. Quite like old tlmesl I can't get anyone to do anything about It, and what It'll be like after another win ter, Lord knows." He turned to Nan. "That's your friend Leonard's chick en farm." Nan sat up straight. She saw a green Held dotted with hen-houses, and a neglected garden that had grown rieht up to the walls of an tAS stone house. The whole place looked nncared for. "What a frightful placet" ahe laid. Jervls laughed. "A bit untldyl It'a been empty for ever 10 long. I must say he doesn't seem In a hurry to get things straight." "It's a hateful house," said Nan, looking at It. "I'm not surprised It was empty a long time I shouldn't think anyone would want to live there ever." Jervls slowed down as they went past. ' "It belonged to a famous smuggler called Old Foxy Flxon. He lived about a hundred years ago, and after his grandson died people said the place was haunted,', and nobody would live there. It's still called Old Foxy Flxon's bouse. It belongs to the Tetterleys, and I expect tbey were very glad to get It let" A bare quarter of a mile farther on they turned in at the Tetterleys' gate. Basher, alias George Tetterley, proved to be a massive, silent person. He had kind eyes, and a ridiculously soft voice which he used as little as possible. Janet Tetterley talked enough for bait a dozen. Rosamund did not appear until lunch bad been announced, when ahe strolled In looking exquisitely oool. "Robert's going to be late. Some thing's the matter with that car of his. It Just got ns here and no more. He'a tinkering with it down at the garage. I say the Junk-heap's the only cur. The brute nearly killed us yesterday, and I've told him I'm not going out In her again." Leonard came In bait way through lunch. He looked hot, and explained that he hadn't been able to get his oar going. Nan had been placed be tween him and her host She had, therefore, an empty chair on one side of ber for the first twenty min utes or so. George Tetterley made one re mark about the weather, and an other about the crops. Before, after, and between these remarks he ate his lunch. Oddly enough. Nan did not find this silence unpleasant He looked at her kindly and seemed to take It for granted that they should both lliton to the flow of conversa tion from the rest of the party. He smiled appreciatively once or twice, frowned when his wife produced a piece of unploasant gossip about a neighbor, and did more than LEAPS 10 DEATH HOLLYWOOD, Oal, Sept. (AP) Tne young blonde woman who leaped to her death from top of a glgantlo "H," part of a 60-foot high Illuminated sign In the Hollywood hill, waa Identified today at Lillian Mlllloent ("Peg") Bntwlatle. New York stage actreat, graduate of the Theatre Oulld, who had failed to find recognition In the movies here. The body wat found yeatrday at the foot of the tlgn. The girl appar ently .had been dead a hours. She left a note aaylng: "I'm afraid I'm a coward. I am sorry for everything. If I had done this long ago It would have saved a lot of pain." A workmen's ladder which had been used at the sign provided the actress her means of reaching her Imping point. Phone 843. We'll haul away your refuse. City Banltary service. Broken windows glased By Trow (uidai phlnt Work Justice to the efforts of the sew cook. When Robert Leonard took the empty chair beside her. Nan would have preferred a more conversa tional neighbor on her other side. In desperation she leaned towards her host and said, "Mrs. Tetterley said you used to know my father's people." He nodded and aald, "Long ago." "Will you tell me about tbeml They quarrelled with him about his marriage, and I've neverseet any of them." "Haven't seen them for years," said he, "twenty years. Used to stay there when I was a young fellow very kind to me and all that" "My father had a sister," said Nan. "I'm called after her." "Yes," said Mr. Tetterley, "that's why I thoughfyou belonged to the family. She wasn't Anne, you know; she was Nan christened Nan." "So am L" said Nan. "Am I Uki her?" "Yes," said George Tetterley "very." His face and his voice wen quite expressionless, "Do tell me about her. Ia ah alive?" He shook his head. "Did she marry?" "Yes quite a good chap." From the other side of the tablt came Ferdinand's voice: "When I was in Mexico In 'S( . . . ." He proceeded to tell a llvelj story of an encounter with I guerilla band. The name of Pedro Ramlres emerged from It It ap peared that Ferdinand bad been uncommonly lucky to have escaped the undeslred role of providing n tertalnment for a temporarily Idle band. "They'd got a really high class show all fixed up, with me foi the star performer. There waa a Maseppa turn, with me for Mazeppa, and the worst-tempered broncho In the bunch for the Wild Horse of tht Ukraine." "Did yon do Mazeppa?" Inter rupted Janet Tetterley. Well," said Ferdinand, Ignoring her, "this Is a very Instructive tale one of the mother's-knee kind, on the text of 'If yon do a good turn, It'll come back to roost' I'd done my good turn eight years before and forgotten all aboit It I'm not go ing to tell you what It was, because I've got a modest disposition, but Just when those bright boys were going to get going with their quick shooters, that good turn came home to roost" "You're not talllnr us how vou got away," aald Mrs? Tetterley. Pardon me, Mrs. Tetterley, that Is what I am doing." He paused and looked around the table. George was smiling ; Rosamund Carow lighting a cigarette wltb an air of calm detachment; Jervls well, JuBt Jervls; Janet Tetterley faintly bored at the digression: Robert Leonard In the act of lift ing a tumbler to 1)1 b Hps; and Nan an eager child waiting for the end of the story. My 'good turn was a man called Hermann ElBenthal." Robert Leonard's glass continued Its upward way. He drank as If be waa thirsty and set It down. Ferdinand was looking at Janet Tetterley. But those glancing eyes of bis certainly had the faculty of being able to see two things at once. He had most certainly seen the knuckles whiten on Robert Leon ard's broad red hand. Ferdinand Judged that the glass It was hold ing had missed becoming a casualty by a fairly narrow margin. He finished his atory. "Hermann Elsenthal remembered the good turn which F. F. had for gotten. He had the guerilla chlel In- his pocket And If you've ever been all trussed up and ready to take the floor as a high-class target you'll know Just how glad I waa to see Hermann. I tell you he'd got Pedro Ramlres eating out of his baud. Well, I've often thought It would be Interesting to know what the bait waa." Ferdinand's bright brown eyes went past Robert Leonard to Nan. Perhaps they were looking for some thing as they passed. Perhaps the; found what thoy were looking for. "Your husband wasn't with me that time, Mrs. Jervls," he said, "or I'd have put the whole thing down to bis luck. He's the sort that falls on his foot, yoa know." (Copyright, list, Lipptnpott) A molt Important txptanatlon It suggested, tomorrow, by F F. STUDY OFFERED Announcement was made today that the University of Oregon extension division will offer In MM ford a course In modern European drama, providing a sufficient number enroll. Profea sor Arthur 0. Taylor will be the In structor. The course, to be conducted one evening per week at a time best suited to the group, will count two term hours of regular university credit. Tuition will be tR. the an nouncement states, with the first meeting to be called during the week of September 2(J. Professor Taylor, who la offering the course, Is Just finishing his doc torate at the University of Southern California, and has studied special courses under prominent men who are well educated on this subject. P. W. Bartlett. Medford's Taxider mist and Furrier, has opened shop, 43 So. Central St.. Craterlan Bldg Prices on all taxidermist and fur work groatly seduced, ' EYES F TO Official Inspection of the "terrible situation" In Med ford wu started this morning by a gentleman In a good looking gray suit, who smoked his pipe, while posing as "Inspector extraordinary" and sighed deeply In punctuation of his conclusion, "there's nothing we can do about It," after calling at several local stores. His visitation was reported about noon by several members of "Don't Quote Me. Inc.", rapidly becoming one of Medford's largest associations. The figure, although Inconspicu ously and appropriately attired, at tracted the attention of a modern Pled Piper of Hamlin and had numer ous shopkeepers trailing after him, several steps behind ( as he went the round of stores. "Don't bother me", he Informed one store proprietor as he strode Into the shop, "I'm here on Inspection.1 TAILSPIN TOMMY BOUND TO WIN FIRST QfJ, FQLKa , VU. REUevB YOUR MINDS Pi evr fev TeuUNA you THAT Bl BRANMM AND' BIS FcHV must know, BY NOW TWT VVIHPfT "TVABY S'MATTER POP Pop's A Diplomat - y"'" ' " " Z (Copyright, m2. by Th Btll Syndlc.le. InQ THE NEBBS- MUTT AND JEFF i I 1 : I b?WVWiK -fr-ra IV iiMLM( fefe? 4&&mr ,T2J Us!.. ' 9rK HtH. (MMhtalMMt T-1.M Bar IPkCHm Vyilv Jj2yH BRINGING UP FATHER I rou MBM TO I f SHOW THEM IM THE I domt 0w RCT DOWi TOu 1 I WiiH -Oo D 711 'S j I SECMR-JICG- IMUW.OB A.MDTKIA. MUT WEM W Wt AUWAT FIMO I 1 j J -THEM TO WA.lT- fLA. AM IMPORTANT PERSON- TWRY OuTWUOlTlV I ft ' 1 L TEU. 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' Desirable bouses always In first class condition for rent, lease or sale. Call 105. m g Straub Funeral This Afternoon EUGENE, Ore., Sept. 71. (AP) Fu neral service for Dr. John Straub, 81, dean emeritus of men at the Univer sity of Oregon, will be held at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon In the Music building on the university campus. The Rev. Milton 8. Weber, pastor of Central Presbyterian church, and D. E. V. Stivers, formerly pastor of the First Christian church, will conduct the services. Willamette Shows Registration Drop SALEM, Sept. 31. (p) First day registrations at Willamette university yesterday totaled 413, a decrease of 105 over the initial registration last year. . Many more are expected to register soon aa S10 registration cards were taken out yesterday. Classes a re starting today. Few Fat Lambs In Southern Oregon CORVALLIS, Ore., Sept. ai (AP) Scarcity of choice fat lambs In southern Oregon and firming prices for ewe stock are shown In the weekly THIS PAGE WHEN SHIPMENT western lamb report review Isued here today. Sales of choice stuff In south ern Oregon sre mostly at a to $4.25. Northeastern Idaho reports fat lambs 4 to 14 35 per hundredweight. Whitney Backs Bonus Payment GARDEN CITY, N. Sept. 31. (AP) Cornelius Whitney, democratic candidate for the house seat now held by his personal friend, Robert L. Bacon, today urged Immediate pay ment of the soldiers' bonus, taking a view directly opposite to that of Bacon, who is seeking re-election. Grape Juice Plant Running Full Blast ERIE, Pa., Sept. 21. (AP) Officials of the Welch Grape Juice company today announced that 'Its plant at Northeast, near here. Is operating day and night with a force of 400 per sons, mostly women. The official attributed the full time operations to Increasing orders. Dee's Place, formerly Mac's Barbe cue, between Central Point and Med ford Specializing in Spanish Dishes and Sandwiches. Esther Downing. Tel 498-M. IS RECEIVED FROM NEW thet re Cone- o i everything ,Nl the PARLOB.-THEV EVEN TOOK THE PI AMO I'M Git Tim' tired OP POLITICS Mayor Blamed In Strike Tragedy SOUTH RIVER, N. J., Sept. 31. (AP) The four men who serve with Mayor James B. Armstrong on the borough council, in a ststement today blamed him for bringing to the borough the 40 private detectives whose presence precipitated a riot that cost the Ufa of a nine-year-old boy. Walter Rojefc. Navy Will Spend Ten Million Soon WASHINGTON, Sept. 31. () The navy today announced plans for a 110.000,000 construction program authorized by the relief act passed by congress to aid the employment situation. Kerrs Live In Eugene. EUGENE, Ore., Sept. 31. 7P) Chancellor and Mrs. W. J. Kerr hav established residence In Eugene. They will occupy the home of the latsj Mrs. Prince I. 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