Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1932)
PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUTE, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1932. Nothing Venture j by Patricia Wenlworth tYNOPBIB: Ferdinand Francie draw a net ot ctrcumata.ttial evi dence about Robert Leonard, con necting him Kith the myrteriou eeriee ot "aecidente" which have threatened Jervie Weare'e lie. Jervie stubbornly refueee to doubt Leonard, and demande that Ferdl nand prove a motive. Ferdinand dramatically aeterte that Leonard echemee to eecure the Weare ee tate through Roeamund Carets, Jervie' treacheroue former fiancee. Chapter II JERVIS GETS A JOLT THERE you have It," (aid Ferdi nand. He swung round In bis ibalr and addressed Nan: "Haven't 1 given him Leonard's motive?" be aBked ber. Nan slowly got to ber feet. She stood with one band Just touching the table and looked across tbe gripes and oranges at the two men. Her eyes snapped and her voice Was vibrant with tension: "Jervls won't listen to either of ns. He doesn't want to bear any thing against Leonard. Perhaps be really thinks yon loosened the wheel so we'd all die together. Or I do you think I bad a wrencb In my pocketbook this afternoon, Jervls? "Somebody's trying to kill you. If It's not Leonard then It must be Ferdinand or L Don't you know there's something between Leonard and Rosamundf I don't know what it Is but I've known It wss some thing since the other night at the hotel. "Why didn't Rosamund marry youT She wouldn't tell, would she? You should have asked Robert Leonard." She stopped speaking, bending over the table wltb her flashing eyes on Jervls. Suddenly he flung out of bis ohalr, strode to tbe door, and opened It. Then be stood back, hold ing It conventionally. Nan went out with ber head up, and a burning rose In each of ber cheeks. Jervls came back to tbe table. "We'd better shift out of here, or Monk will be coming In. Come Into the study." , He did not speak until tbey were hut In together. Tben be walked to tbe window, wnlcb was open towards the sunset, frowned at the Iblue and golden sky without seeing Bt, turned round, and said, "What's beblnd all this?" Ferdinand sat on tbe arm of a ahaboy leather ebalr. "Robert," be replied succinctly. "Damn Robert!" "Well, that's not my business." "Look here, F. F. " He broke vott. "There are tblngs I can't say, even to you." He walked to the end of the room and back again. "That business ten years ago you say Leonard was seen coming from the place where I'd fallen?" "Well, I didn't say fallen. It's my belief be laid you out." "And left me to drown T "You've said It" "What grounds have you" "I'm going to tell you, because I think It's about time you knew." "How long have you known?" "For about a week." "Well, what is It?" "It's a very curious tblng. The ehl!1 r:io saved your life by .' old' lng you up In that pool when you Tvere unconscious well, sbe Just 'happened to have seen Robert com ing away after he'd laid you out." "What did she see?" "She saw you go around behind the rocks, and she saw Robert come down tbe cliff close beside her. He didn't see her. He went after you. and by and by sbe saw him again walking away. That's wby she knew his back view when she eaw It again It's peculiar, you know, the way be walks with that big bead of his pushed forward. He went up tbe meit path on to the cliff, and when i the got worried about your not looming back, she went behind the .rocks and found you lying In the .pool with a bole In the back of iyour bead." "This Is very convincing ten .years atterl" Jervls laughed. eould make np a better yarn than that 1! I'd ten years to do It lnl "There's no one making np a lyarn." "Why didn't sbe say all this at the time?" "She was down at Oroyston with aome kind of an aunt, and they were leaving that afternoon. Sbe was late for the train and soaked through, and the aunt punished ber. And when they got back to where tbey lived, tbe poor child was in a fever end sick for weeks." "And you met ber again?" "Last week." Jervls paused. The room filled with silence. Ferdinand did not break It. Ha kept bis bright dancing eyes on Jervls' face and saw the color rise In It to tbe roots ot the black balr. Jervls said, "Nonsense!" sharply. "Have It your own way." "What are you talking about?" "Nan," said Mr. Francis. Jervls made a step towards him. "If you're fooling" "I'm not" "Nan!" said Jervls. "You mean It was Nan?" "I recognized ber at once. When I saw the scar on ber arm, that clinched It I've told you about that before. She'd cut herself pretty well to tbe bone holding your bead off tbe rocks every time a wave came Into that pool. It was ber arm or your head. And she made It her arm every time. There was bound to be a scar, and when I saw that scar on your wife's arm at the Luxe, I thought I'd stumbled upon a very pretty romance." Jervls stood for a moment wltb a perfectly blank face. Behind It his mind, like a shuttered room, was being violently shaken as It by an earthquake. His thoughts slid together, collided, broke. With a violent effort be turned about and walked to the window. The sun was gone; a kind ot gold en bsse tinged the dusk. There was no wind at all; each tree and bush stood np dark and solemn without the slightest' movement The whole scene might have been painted on glass. Tbe contrast be tween Its stillness and tbe turbu lent confusion of his thoughts gave him a sense of being In some re mote and unfamiliar place. He did not know bow long be stood there. Tbe gold went out of tbe air and left It yet more gravely still. A very faint green light came from the horizon. This too faded. An Impalpable stream ot darkness flowed between him and all tbe world. Suddenly he crossed to tbe door and switched on the light The room had been quite dark, As the light came on, the windows seemed to recede. All the shades and de grees ot the outside darkness vanished. The straight crimson curtains framed blank, black win dows. Ferdinand bad not moved. He was sitting on the arm of one of the big cbalrs with bis bands In bis pockets. "You're sure It was Nan?" "Quite," F. F. answered. "She told you so?" "No, she did not I recognized her. And then, when we were at dinner, I told the story of the pjucky kid who saved your life, and I watched her. I could see she didn't want you to know. I'm an In quisitive man and, though I'd like to get to the bottom of wby you didn't know and why she dldnt want you to know, I haven't got to the bottom of It yet" Those bright' yellcw-hrown eyes of bis twinkled with questions. He crossed one leg over the other and leaned sideways against the back of the chair. "Well?" he said. Jervls stood by tbe jamb ot the door. He looked at a bare, blank window and spoke. "Did she know when sbe mar ried me?" Ferdinand twinkled more notice ably. "What do you think?" Jervls made a gesture. There was no expression on bis face. "Why not ask her?" suggested Ferdinand. "I'm asking you," said Jervls. "You soem to be well behind the scenes. Did she know when she married me or did she find out afterwards?" "Know? Ot course sbe knewl Wby do you suppose she married you?" Jervls set his Jaw and was silent "Better ask hart" said Ferdi nand with a short laugh. Jervls turned abruptly, flung open the door, and went out Ferdi nand watched him with a quizzical smile. He went Impetuously through ths hall and out at tba front door, shutting It bard behind him. (Copyright, nil, tlpplnroll) A nocturnal vitltor, tomorrow, brines ttrror to Nan. HOMEWITHDEER According to Game Warden F4 Walker of the atate police depart ment, there are plenty of deer In Jackaoa county and plenty of hunt ers. The rraaon more have not been killed, according to Walker, la because th deer are "too foxy." The war den aaya that according to a check made by hi department, the deer slaylnga to date have run about one deer to every 13 hunters. Warden Walker says the dry state of the timber la another factor In favor of the deer, who with acute hearing and noses can detect the ap proach of a hunter for half a mile. A general rain would Improve hunt ing conditions, Warden Walker saya. He saya the woods are full of deer tracks, and the claim there U a shortage of deer la not founded on facta. Start Highway Work, Oak Grove MILWAUK1E, Ore., Sept. 28. Forma for concrete work on the atate highway near Oak Orov were started Monday. At present only a few men are working, but a larger crew will be added next week, Stanley Scott, foreman, said. PAL IN ADVENTURE Robert Edmonds ot Tlgard, Ore., Is at the Allen (Nash) hotel, and de sires to meet a man who wants to go to Alaska, and trap and mine, and "get rich." Edmonds would like to meet anybody wbo would like to t&Jte such s chance. Ho says he has min ing property near Anchorage, with good cabins and a railroad hard by. Edmonds, an Alaska "sourdough" of the old school, says he went back to West Virginia and engaged In business, but encountered hard luck. He Is now anxious to get a partner, and go back to Alaska. He says If his partner doesn't know how to trap or mine he will teach him. Edmonds has one condition the partner "must be single, as we dont want any woman trailing along la tbe road " Cave-In Kills Two High School Boys MILTON, Ore., Sept. S7. (AP) Fred Rauachaulb, Jr., 14, and George Vincent, 15, McLaughlin Union High school students, were killed In the collapse of a cave In which they were digging near Ferndale station. They were smothered. G. 0. P. IN SENATE BY APPOINTMENT DENVER, Sept. 38. F) The Dem ocrats outnumber Republicans by one today in the United States senate, with the appointment of Welter Wal ker, Grand Junction newspaper pub lisher, to that body to fill a va cancy caused by tbe death of Sena tor Charles W. Waterman. On the roster of the upper house now are 48 Democrats, 47 Republicans and one Farmer-Labor member. Appointment 01 Walker by Oov ernor William H. Adams yesterday was not unexpected, but Colorado political circles were still uncertain today whether the recently retired ehalrman of the Democratic state central committee would serve In the lame duck session of congress, which convenes In December, or whether he will serve only until a successor to Waterman, is chosen at the general election. November 8. Waterman's term expires March 4. Colorado election laws make no provision for the nomination of can didates In circumstances of this na ture. Oovernor Adams said he hss received widely varying advice on the matter. He declared his appointment was made to fill the vacancy as pro vided by the law and that the term ot office la for others to determine. T " SLAYS TAILSPIN TOMMY-Hope Renewed! By (JLLNN t'HAFFIN and UAL FORUKSX BOUND TO WIN The End Of Ratty Sims! By EDWIN ALGER IT WA HERS, f,ENTLeMEN THAT I DISCOVERED AVi-THAT KbMfflNED RATTt fair H.S fiWELETOiNl? SOMEHOW 'OTHER, ABOUT FIVE OR 6lX RETURNED TO THE INLAND HE MLroT HAVE BEEN MAKOONCD TO ESCAPE wt : .titr . ...... vj,-rf.:wyr,vJvi rrtsr . .... mw&''si-vfJssyysVA ir t- ?JJ KILLTVJO BIRDS VOITH ONE WM'jWW- I JONATHAN, VmfffM 3 ) ;'ZfTOr5a BEHIND THIS CURTAIN W'MWM, I THERE'S ONC ttWMWZifl A I 'ia IS 6TAIRWW, CARVED OUT KffVtSWM i f A Ft w STEPS Ymfealn:', MMgigiS??? a "Ik Op SOLID ROCK, WHICH LEADS J'jWW, IV MORE--! CAN f . AlO THE TOP-- FOLLOW ME ! ThhM ! . SEB THe ,1 MTkt wSWffltf, 1 7fffcT J-rr-, sJimrf,u Wfflfm Flight above MWmVMWsmW, 3 He HAD BUILT eonFIRe AFTER ATTENTION OP PASSING SHlPS- wp nan 1 own c.icroALj? eiyv ALL lr-J VAIN J THE PAPERS HE LEFT WHICH I FOUNOi TELL IHt fcN WVCfc TRAGIC STOR-V ! AMD BESIDE HUM VJERBTHE CHESTS HE HAD STOLEN FROM THE: 2 S'MATTER POP Trademark Registered By C. M. PAYNE l" - IsV. (Cewrritht. I9. by The fen THE NEBBS The Balky Horse By SOL HESS OUT FAL,Tt3 Be CM WAMO THURSO A.V wieuT... FOP. THE BIS DEBA.T-G Roscoe KIOOOUS fiklslO RUOOLPW WEBS ... f pp aoinji TWROUSW VvftTM THAT SEMO.TDR MOODUe; f -rvipoe WASklT AWV- I -rwiSJG ELSE 1. COULD OO L OUST HAD TO ACCEPT T f THIS SUV klOODCE, SESIOES BEIMG A GREAT POLITICAL ORATOR, 6tT3 PlEMW DOUGH GOINJG ABOUMO TVle couwtrV speawmS-mecaki tal. OM AtvW SUBdECT. I SUPPOSE IP CHAMPiOtvJ OAC -SHARKeV CRAVUL IMTO RDOQ NJUITM him r TUft-rs wwat i seew TPLLIKJ' HIM GET OUT OF IT 1 .STASH A FAKE M0LCHJP .LET'S TAP HIM OM THE BEAM AMD LAV MIM UP. T VWOMT HURT HI5 IMTELJJGEMCE ArslD ITXL ORAVJ PUfcLIC .SEKJTIMeWTV IN HIS I MEED A PAT OM THE BACK VWORSE THAW A TAP OM THE BEANl . AIMO IP NOO HAVEWT GOT A FEW OP THOSE WITH WOO, (SO BACK AMD Tea THE BOSS MESS'S PLAVISJS SOL1TAIRB. 1 I sA . I II II MIL -51 I I I I I e , Uk 1 . . . . . I BAKER, Ore., Sept. 28 Richard Pope who lives near. Eugene was killed by a bullet from a high pow ered rifle while on a hunting trip 30 miles southwest o( Unity Monday evening. Pope was shot through ths back from the rear. Whether he acclden- s ONK GROUP OP PAliL FROCKS In cluding silks and lightweight wools. on sale this week st Adrlenne's for I10O3. SMART NEW PAU. COATS on sale this week at 118.85 Adrlsunes. MUTT AND JEFF Jeff's Gonna Shoot Mutt At Sunrise By BUD FISHER what a lifc. (av wipe 1 oh Boo hoo hoo; n'j awful. i camt vrAuoA tHirtt-thiktt-fnc-1 fviux, wtLt, ths, wor.u o'veah! well, x'lc bet nou I HU'T HAD A Neul HAT V " OUR CoPBVMb li BARS A.Mt J (TO sea A. StreoMOj I FoBr,. b,stoJ 5Sti CoMtt OF THIS FoRTV OW ttle CUBSi , ' UUCe TH lml.T,v,il .A.r.T) T "' VMt"ve. HOCKGD eutRITHIMIi HC-fAAtJ CfY, r r W44K. WITH BOTH, V ' BARC.rm.B.tA.1.. TAillrl 7 AUIiTHt SMALL SOM F X QLtJir. I orM.VL STARS-iVt A I ytYl ' , , pf??? IT&T J Z rsrv Soc, LvieoLt, POT) Tg ftWS 3 U SF 1 SHO. IT'S - ' I"6 ""frfV) V r,t -fS 47 -TtAlA WALK-OKI. C CALLS I JV f V 5 L 1 J 1 BRINGING UP FATHER B- COLLV. MACC'.S A TWI. FRJLNCH COOiM'- I CAM'T TELL WHAT T 1- EVEU IP IT WUZ SJMCLIH- t JUST CANT KAT IT - i By George McManu oaolty; oiotou as the J FROM THAT FOOD g " ' J X ARTICLE THAT MOTHER PoT IN J TM COMMA TAKE 1 S. C 4 f&jfy ThB PAPEB.? .T 5aT Th AT VOJ teJ LaVL A NAP- Jj i t 4W$95 ff ,N"TON)VOuWltr6 CooKlt-JC - M &wrn n t mi3 a Fy jajilj ianotatnotmincoot flench
