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IfEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORP, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER f 1932. iOQ Nothing Venture by Patricia fen (worth Aer intuition and (A irtOu acta of Jervie Wtart't disappear' anc rends the mind 0 Ala wife Nan. intuition leJla aer Ae if In danger; the fact that clothing and toilet article art gone may indicate that he Acs left on a hurried trip. Nan can only vait to O0OM Chapter 87 , P. f. TRIES TO HELP rfERE was no latter from Jervis neit day. Nan did not know that abe was counting on one until the mall had come and brought nothing. She looked at Ferdinand, and Ferdinand exercised come In genuity. "Buck up, Nan, here's a thing be might bare done a thing I've done myself Then I've bad my mind all taken np with something. He might bare written a note to leave here, and hare gone away with it in bis pocket. It be finds It, he'll send a wire hut he mightn't And it till he gets back home. It's a thing might happen to anyone. "Why, In my own town there was the case of Reggie Lawson. Poor old Reg bad got It bad. Be was Just a shadow Cornelia Van Blen's shadow. And then all ot a sudden be disappeared and everyone was sure Cornelia had given blm the mitten. Knew what time it was when he went out. We are" She paused for a long time, and then said, "anxious." "Yes, ma'am," said Mrs. Hellish. Her plainly banded hair made the neatest possible frame to her plump, pale face. The hair was iron grey. In the morning Mrs. Melllsh dressed to match ber hair, in a strong iron-grey material which suggested in the most In sistent manner reliability and mor al worth. "Will you ask if anyone noticed anything?" "Certainly, ma'am," said Mrs. Melllsh. She left Nan to a feeling tbat she had been knocking Imploringly upon a door that was not made to open. Then, as she stood waiting for Mrs. Melllsh to return. It came to Nan that it was not so much tbat the door was not made to open, as that It had been deliberately slammed In her face. She stood there and thought about this. Why do people slam doorsT Either because they are angry, or else because they bave something to hide. There wasn't any reason why Mrs. Melllsh should be angry with her. Had Mrs. Mel llsh by any chance got something to bide? Nan and Ferdinand had a silent drive. "By and bys Cornelia began to look snadowy, too. Bhed never been robust, but she got so poetlo looklng tbat she nearly, wasn't there at all. And then one day ebe got a cable from Cape Town, South Africa. It said: , " 'Letter proposing marriage Just found pocket winter suit can you lorgire love you to distraction ca ble reply or shall go craiy Reg.' " Nan had been looking down at her plate. She had made a very Ht- tul breakfast. She beard Foril sand's roles, but she did not really hear what he was saying, because ber own thoughts were speaking so loudly all the time. She felt sud denly as If she could not sit there and listen to tbem any longer. Her lace changed, her mouth quivered. She pushed back her chair and got OP- "I must go and see Mrs. Melllsh," be said. She proceeded to the housekeep er s room, and was received with Mrs. Melllsh's usual austere respect a respect not In the least person al, hut Indicative ot the fact that Sirs. Melllsh knew her manners, Today Nan approved the menu without so much as reading It. She tood, and Mrs. Melllsh stood. She aid, "Yes, that will do very well, na continued to stand, looking past Airs. Melllsh In a manner which was secretly resented. "Was there anything further, sna'am?" she said in such a polite ly controlled voice that anyone less absorbed than Nan covld scarcely pave missed the offence behind It. Nan did not start, but she came out ot her abstraction and turned ber eyes upon Mrs. Melllsh's face. "Yes," she said. "I wanUid to Elk you whether you or the maids eard anything on the night Mr. veare went away. We think he has written, and that the loner has been mislaid." "Yes, ma'amr Mrs. Melllsh's tone was not really a very encour aging one. . "If anyone noticed anything," laid Nan, "it would be a help. Some sne may hare heard him moving bout. It would be a help If we Mrs. Melllsh came back Into the room with the alow walk ot a com fortably covered woman who Is concerned with her dignity. It ap peared that nobody had noticed anything. "And you, Mrs. Melllsh? Your room Is the nearest." "No, ma'am." Her eyelids came down over her rather pale and prominent eyes. There waa the effect ot a blind be ing pulled down. First the door ot the house had been slammed, and now the blinds were down. Nan found Ferdinand In the study. "I want to go and see Rosamund," aha aald. "Why?" Nan put her hand to her cbeok. "She talked too much on the tele phone I suppose It was yester day." "How do yon mean, she talked too much?" Fordlnand's eyea dart ed questions. Nan pushed bak her hair. "She doesn't talk much to me as a rule. She wouldn't speak to me at all unless she simply hid to. But when I telephoned to ask her It she had seen Jervls, she talked a lot." "What did ahe say?" "I think ahe waa trying to make me angry. I can't remember what sbe said It wasn't worth remem bering." Her chin lifted a little. "I Just wondered why she said so much." Ferdinand frowned. "Do you want ma to drive you up there?" Nan nodded. They had a silent drive. When ihey came to the place where the wheel had come off Jervls' car two days before. Nan, on the seaward side, looked down over the cliff with a steady thoughtful irate. She turned her eyes from the aea to the square ugliness ot Robert Leonard's house. 'Leonard's been away," said Ferdinand. (Copvrteat. jiji, rippinrott) Where Nan should thy, tomorrow, aha liter acorn. And aym. finds only WATER PROJECT FOR RELIEF PRESENTED AT Mrs. Donald 8. Ciark and Mr. Oll feert Stuart appeared before the Kl wanls club Monday at luncheon at Hotel Medford. to announce the sale of tickets to the Tot raterlsn thea ter by representative of the wom en's division of the county council for relief of unemployment. The drive to secure funds for relief wort started October 1, and will con tinue through this week. Tickets purchased during that period will be accepted at the theatr at plcturea showing between now and November 6. Thirty-five per cent of the proflta from the ealea will be dontec the women'a division by the theater man agement. The work la In line with the other projects of tne women' division, beaded by Mrs, A. X. Keames. Representatives reported this after noon that they are meeting with splendid cooperation In the various sections ot the city. The bualneM district was being canvassed this morning and tlckete will be on sale at the Rex cafe. Those purchased at the bos office will not benefit the relief work, so all thtater-goers are urged to buy their tickets from the committee or at the Rex cafe. Railroads Reduce Fares To Coast CHICAGO. Oct. 4. (API Winter railroad excurslou raved, good on the beat trains, m put on the bargain table today for the first time, For a fare and a quarter, the travele: may ride to the coast and back, any time between November 1 and Janu ary as. with alwping car privileges that were not granted the buyers of cheap tickets a year ago. NBW YORK, Oct. 4 (Jl Export clearances of wher.t for the week end ed September S3 were announced t day as e.SM 'Ol bushels, the largest since May ot 1890, SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4. (AP) The Pacific coast building Industry continued Its forward march In Sep tember, gaining 0 per cent over Au gust In the five largest cities. Per mits Issued totaled S3. 48 l.OOO, com pared with 3,310.000 in August. The September gain was added to the August improvement of 13 per cent over July, when building In Los Angeles, Ban Francisco, Seattle, Port, land and Oakland totaled only about 3,051,000 In new permits. MONESSEN. Pa., Oct. 4. (JPf The national works of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company has reopened on a four days a week schedule, re turning about 1,300 persons to work. BUFFALO, Oct. 4. I AP) Former Governor Alfred E. Smith. Demo cratic candidate for President In 1828, was characterized by the keynote speaker, Congressman J. Hamilton Fish, as "the man with perhaps the largest personal following la the United states," as the Republican jtato convention opened today. A moment later the delegates laughed and applauded as Governor Plan referred to former Governor Smith as "the original forgotten man with Governor Roosevelt" and as "still a Democrat and up to the present moment a very still one." Rummage Sale, Oct. 6-7, In build ing next West side Pharmacy. Also cooked food. Daughters ot the Nile Petrol. JACKSONVILLE LADS ARRESTED FOR THEFT Albert B. Hueners and Cornelius Miller, both 18 year old. Jacksonville youths were arrested Monday by . nniioa frit- alleged theft ot a slot machine from the U. S. Hotel at Jacksonville, during the recent Peys of Gold" celebration. The slot chine waa part of the celebrts, equipment. According to the state policy a youths sdmlt taking the slot chine. They claim they seat, S13.60. The machine owners clq that the contrivance contained an ainn TMieat Pledged PENDLETON. Ore.. Oct. 4 (A Ranchers of the Pendleton area h signed up 150,000 bushels for a, proposed wheat sale to China. TAILSPIN TOMMY-Skeeter's Impatient! "LbT feT" An-tie wr mim erAcH rW1 trvutou r vex laaid "-v WcamT Co 1 4- (tmat bailoo ) v5 gSt -J "Sl eotocNSAHOS orate, ) ? 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