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PAGE SIX IIEDFORD MXTJJ TRIBTJXE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNT) AT, SEPTEMBER 25, 1932. 3t j Nothing Venture by Patricia Wentworth BYNOPMB! Roacmund Carew, Jervie Weare'e former fiancee, de maniJi 1100,000 from Mm, offering minister hinte about "bad luck" token he refute her. Jervie and hit youlip wile Nan are at lunch eon with the Tetterleye, where Kan and Ferdinand Francie prove to their own eatiefaction that Jtoeamund'e friend, Robert Leon ard, weakened the bridge that ai oir plunged Nan and Jervlt to their death two daye before. Chapter M "ARE YOU HURT!" NAN fot up to say goodbye at a quarter to three. Her heart was like a hot burning coal. She had had to lit by Robert Leonard, to take her coffee from hla hand, and to listen while he talked. Her burning anger lit a bright color In her cheeki and made her eyes brilliant. She telt as If anything he touched would be liable to corch or go up In a little puff ot moke. It was a dreadful feeling of course, but It made her rery ure ot herself. When she got up to go, Leonard looked at hla watch and exclaimed. "I'd no Idna It waa to latel I ought to be attending to my lncu' baton at this Tery moment. Olve me a lift as far as my gate, will you, Jervls T My car's dead till I can get someone out from Croyston." Impossible to refuse ot course. Man wondered whether Jerrls would have liked to refuse. He said, "All right." with an air of complete Indifference. At any rate she wouldn't bave to sit next to the man. F.F. would bare that pleasure. F.F. wouldn't mind ot course. It was only she who folt like an exploding bomb when Robert Leonard was any' where about. She got In beside Jervls, and heard the other two settling themselves behind her, F.F. full ot amiable chatter. "Did you hare a car In South America? I forget where you were. were yon ever In Mexico? Shock' lng roads, but not as bad as SanH 'Pedro. The Madalena roads are 'pretty hard to boat. I had an old 'flivver there. She was a wonder. She Jumped the holes like a rabbit.1 They moved off, slid down the drive, and coasted as far aa Mr. .Leonard's gate. He got out and Inada his farewells. "You must coma and see my place .gome day, Mrs. Jerrls. Thanks for the lift, JerWa. Good-bye, Mr. Fran ids." . "Au revolr," said Ferdinand, The afternoon was very hot There waa nothing surprising In the tact that Robert Leonard found It necessary to pass a handkerchief across hla forohead. Ferdinand, looking back, admitted this, hut could not understand why Leonard should have quite so shaky a hand, Jervls wasn't thinking about Robert Leonard. He looked once at Nan, and was aware of distinct re lief. She bad not golden hair, sea- blue eyes, regular features, or statuesque figure. He was feeling a strong distata for all these things, Nan's Arm round chin, her brown hair, her steady grey eyes, and the rather childish contour of her face were as complete a contrast ould be found to the charms ot lis cousin Rosamund. His gate dwelt upon his wife with approval, Thoy began to descend the hill, and before they came to the stoep- est part he put the car Into low gear. For a couple of hundred yards the gradient was about one In even, and the surface had. They had on their right a high bank out of which the road bad been cut, and on the left a narrow strip ot rough grass with an occasional scrawny bnsh, and beyond that a low parapet of loose stones which defended sheer drop to the sea below. Jervls had scarcely shitted down, when amongst hla other thoughts there slid Into his mind a conviction that there was something wrong with the car. The conviction became a certainty and took entire posses. Ion of him. The steering was bad: the wheel wobbled, and there was drag to the left A drag to the left waa a drag to the cliff. The wbeel kicked In bis hands. He wrenched It over and jammed on the brakes, and as he did so a number ot things hap pened all at once. The left tront wheel came off and went bounding down the hill, Its scarlet and black catching the sun. The front axle came down with a heavy bump on the left The car swung round, slid, tilted, and tell over with a crash. Robert Leonard heard the sound of It as he walked up the path from tbe gate to his house. He stood still. Then he walked on again. Of the three people In the car, two were taken entirely by surprise. Ferdinand had a moment ot wonder ing why the road should be so much rougher going down than It had been coming up. Then he saw the black end scarlet wheel go bowling down the road like a child's hoop gone crazy. And then the car turned over and threw him clear. Nan did not see the wheel or notice the Jolting. She was looking over the steep edge of the cliff. She had never seen anything so blue In all her lite. The tide was high, and the water came up to the toot of the cliff. The first thing she knew ot the accident was a violent Jolt and then the side of the car dropping away from her on her left She gave a little cry and put out botb her bands. Something struck ber right shoulder. Then tbe car turned right over with a sound ot smash- ng glass, and she was on her hands and knees on the rough grass with the leather seat pressing down upon her back. Ferdinand picked himself up out ot the dust ot the road. He felt rather dazed. He wasn't sure whether be had been thrown clear or whether he had jumped, but he was In the middle of the road with the knees of his trousers torn and tbe car across the road, very neatly upside down, her bonnet hitched up on the stone parapet He couldn t see Jervis, and he couldn't see Nan. He felt .grateful lor the parapet, because If It hadn't been there, tbe car wouldn't bave been there either, but at the bot tom of the cliff like a smashed egg. He came out of his daze with a Jerk and ran forward Just as Nan crawled out from under the front seat. She pulled herself up by the wall and said. "Where's Jervls?" Ferdinand ran round to the other side of the car. She said, "Where's Jervis?" again. She couldn't run, because Tier legs didn't feel as It they belonged to her. She crawled round the car, holding on to It It looked so odd upside down. The sides were smooth; ber fingers slipped on the paint She got ronnd to the other side and saw Ferdinand dragging Jervls dear, Jervls did not move or help him self at all. Then she saw his face. And when- she saw his face, she forgot all about her legs not be longing to her, and she let go ot the car and ran to him. There was a most dreadful moment Was he dead? Everything stood still, her thoughts wouldn't move. She couldn't draw her breath, and a blackness like the shuddering dark ness of a nightmare made a wall around her. It was like being burled alive; her mind switched crazlly back to that Incredible stage hypno tist she once had seen to him and his bedraggled subject whom he "burled alive" In a dirty white robe. She didn't know how long It last ed. At last Ferdinand's voice came through the blackness. Ha shook her arm. "Nan! Nam" Ferdinand turned back to Jervls. He had dragged his inert body to the roadside, and now was bent over him, his hand to Jervls' heart "Is he dead?" asked Nan in a curiously small voles. Ferdinand did not answer; be signalled her to come, and when she bad sat down with the wail at her back he lay Jervls head In her lap and quickly scaled down the cliff to the sea. He came back with hla hat full ot cold salt water. Nan wet Ferdinand's handkerchief, and bathed his face. There waa a smear of blood mixed with dust "Oh Jervls 1" she cried. .His eye lids fluttered. He sighed, and was st 111. (Copyright, Kit, tlrplnootO Ferdinand Francis does eome' reaionlno, tomorrow, that Inftu oncoa several Uvea. INSULL COMPANY HELD BANKRUPT CHICAGO, Sept. 24. fAP Corpo ration Securities company and Insula Utility Investment, Inc., the two In aull Investment trusts In which the public had $300,000,000 Invested, were adjudged bankrupt today by Federal Judge Walter C. Undley. The decrees, which Judge Undley had Indicated last night he would sign, were filed with the cleric of United States district court during Judge Llndley'a absence in Danville, hla home. "It seems unlikely,' Judge Llndley declared last night, "that the stock holders will receive anything of their investments. The best course ot ac tion Is to Institute bankruptcy pro ceedings, under which something may be saved for the creditors of the concern." Four Killed In Oregon Industry SALEM, Sept. 24. (AP) Four men were killed In Industrial accidents in the state ta past two weeks, it was announced today by the Oregon In dustrial Accident commission. The total number of accidents during this period was 900. RICE HILL ROUTE TO BE RELOCATED . R08EBURQ, Ore., Sept. 24. (AP) Relocation of the Padxlo highway at Rice Hill. Douglas county, to elimi nate one of the moat dangerous I stretches of the entire system la be ing started by a surveying crew di rected by S. 8. Umphletu, location engineer, according to B. A. Collier, division engineer In southern Ore gon. It Is planned, collier states, to relocate approximately one mile of the highway, reducing steep grades and doing away with the present sharp turns, which In the part have been responsible for many serious ac cidents. It Is planned. Collier odds, to com plete the survey In time to permit the granting of contract during the) fall. ' Bolivians Uie In Battle. ASUNCION, Paraguay. 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THE NEBBS The Orator By SOL HESS HIT MOVE 10 CUT RELIEF MEASURES It Is now known that at the next session of congress determined efforts will be made to Insert requirements of proof that disabilities are of service origin Into pension laws and other government measures for the relief and benefit of veterans, widows and dependents of veterans of the Spanish American and World wars. If this Is done, most of the pensions now being received by Spanish war veterans and widows, the disability allowances of a large number of World War veterans and a considerable pert of the hos pitalisation privileges now extended to the survivors of our last wars will be discontinued. At the present time. 4 years after MM, It Is probable that comparatively few Spanish war vete rans would be able to prove service causes for their physical disabilities, although It Is reasonable to believe that these disabilities for which Uisy are pensioned are In large part results of campaigning In swampy and un healthtul tropical regions, sometimes under the necessity of subsisting on unsuitable and 111 prepared food and subjected to other unhygienic Inci dents of experience In the Spentsh American war, the Philippine Insur rection, and the China relief eipedl- It can be shown that the state ot Oregon, Jackson county, and the City or Medford have both a sentimental and an economto interest In this sub. Ject. It Is stated that payments made In the state of Oregon on account of Spanish war pensions amount to sbout 1150,000 per month or about 11,800.000 per year. Payments to World War veterans ot this state on account of disabilities not regarded ss due to war service are probably not greatly under the same figure. Local veterans are constantly receiv ing treatment In government hos pita Is. Without doubt most of ths pensions and money allowances are lmme dlately spent locally for necessities and living expenses. If vie threatened changes made In the lews, age and Impaired physical condition together with the present business and Industrial de pression will force many veterans Into the already vast army of the unemployed who are without means of support where they will Increase the social snd economle problems thst are confronting us. Not without Importance In the consideration ot this subject Is the well known fsct thst of every six dollars sxpended by the United States government In the state of Oregon for all purposes, tncludlng veteran benefits, this state contrib utes only about one dollar In gov ernment taxes and through ths var ious source of revenue. (Signed) DR. I. W. HOFFMAN. Commsnder. Colonel Sargent Camp, United Spanish War Veterans. P. WILSON WAIT, Commsnder, Medford Post No. 15, American Legion, 1 LET MV MOUTM RUM AWAV WITH MV JUDGMEMT AKIO ACCEPTED BOSCOE NOODLE3 CWAI.LEMSE VTO PUBLIC DEBATE tVE GOTTA AT LEAST POSES- THATS HALF, v-rwe BATTLE ' 1 f 1 LET MV MOUTH .TTr.LEASr W. t 1 W AMD TU OME K 7, ATu IT ( L. V"3 ' WHtKC TUU icu. W VWHFR& VOU I S I tONlNUNO' rnMiu'-i"-iu i i ' VNOUR STORY y V DRIVE IT HOME "' 14" ) T U AR&UM EtvlTER I EVER SAW. MOU I y V . r-fl , ri i IP sou cam get wor.ds TO FIT J ilO. 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