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PAGE SIX JifEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1932. lb Nothing Venture BEER BY MARCH 4 ZX p""e" '""" i pinMrn'p iioinii MjrxtH: At u jruitteae tearcn i tmr him goes vn almost over hie Mai, Jervie War comet fo Mov 1 in a forgotten cave ueed year ejre 6y smufwiers. realise eolth terror that toon the tea toill -rift above where he liee; that treat iron bare are between him and eafetv. Nou he realixet rueul ly that Kotamund Careto and Rob ert Leonard brought him here and that hie wife Kan had warned him against them. Chapter 44 A VISITOR APPEAR8 JERVIS did not know bow long ho bad been listening to the tide. There bad been a moment ot horrid panlo when be knew that the tide vat coming in. It bad been high tide last night Tuesday night at nine o'clock. It would be high tide, and spring tide, at ten minute past eight on Wednesday morning. That made low tide just after two. It muBt have been somewhere about three o'clock when be was knocked out Eajr that was an bour ago. . . ,,It ,was verr difficult to gauge time, and he had no watch. He regretted hie watch, with Its luminous dial. Well, It It was four' o'clock or thereabouts, the tide had turned two hours before, and bad another three hours to go. The question was how tar up was It going to come? Be was on tbe landward side ot tbe bars In the Inner cave. Where did Foxy store his kegsT He didn't Just leave them banging about In the tide-water. A little careful exploration showed him that be was on a raised ledge about six feet by eight On one side It was bounded by a slip pery tilted boulder ot unknown height, and on tbe other three aldos by an equally unknown drop. He couldn't climb the boulder; It was water-worn and as slippery as glass. Water-worn and that tide was coming In., He could hear It moving stealthily. There must be some ledge to which he could climb. . , . The thought of tbe passage came Into . his mind. Leonard must have brought him here by the passage. Then there must be a way down Into the cave and not too hard a way, because Leonard couldn't have car ried him down much of a slope. He wondered if there were steps out in the wall, He must wait until there was enough water to float blm, and then swim round the cave feeling tor a toot-hold. His head was better now, hut he felt terribly thirsty. The lap ping of the water suggested a long cool drink. His thirst became In tense. Thirst, and the lapping of the tide.... "I should hate that death ban daged my eyes, and forebore and crept past." . ' Where did that come from? He didn't know. He must have read It And there was something farther an about the "black minute." Black minute black eternity the lap ping, rising watqr, It he could only see. ... With tbe word In his mind, he aw. , A harsh dragging, grating sound made a confusion among the echoes ot the cave, and cutting through the black darkless and the contusion, came a white and brilliant shaft of light. Jervla looked up at it, tingling with a sense ot shock. Light a level ray ot It overhead. It sprang out ot the darkness' Into which he was staring, and be saw black scarred rock all wet and shin ing, with Assures that ran moisture. Someone had come down the passage from Old Foiy's house and was standing In the mouth ot It with a powerful electrlo torch In his hand. Then suddenly the beam swung down and hit hltn In the face. He threw up his arm Involuntarily, as It to ward a blow; and from the black mouth ot the passage Robert Leonard laughed. "So you've come to, have you!' "Take that damned light oft me!" (aid Jervls furiously. He felt It go, and then flick back and catch him blinking. : Robert Leonard laughed again, "Not looking quite your best aro you? Like a wash and brush up? Oh, I see you've had the wash. What about a drink? You've got a bit of a head, haven't you?" As he apoke he swung the light to and fro. Jervls steadied himself against the Intermittent dattle, and got what he could from It Only a tour SECOND BIG FIRE .ALBANY, Ore.. Oct. 13. AP) Fire that destroyed three warehouses last night at Brownsville threatened for a time to apread to two large oil tank on either side of the flam ing buildings. An eiploeton was pre Tented when firemen saved two other nearby wareiHouaea. The loss was estimated at 94.000. ar.vv-3ifl ; At a iruilteee eearcn I ia3l Ol'un Irom waera hn wru in nnnl 1 l-linmrn a illllliv 1031 oiop Irom where he was to pool level. There were two pools, one : - imiiiiiiiii in running right back to the wall of the cave, and another between him and the Iron bars. Tbe tide was right up to the bars now, and the step was bidden. The passage from Foxy 's house had been behind him. The beam cut down from It at an angle and swung to and fro. There must be a fairly foot- worthy path between tbe edge of the pool and the tilted beulder, because Leonard must bare brought blm that way. The cave was about twenty feet across, and his rock a little on one side of the middle say eight feet from the wall where the passage came out The light swung In. He saw that there was Just euch a narrow path as he had guessed at The ray poured down almost vertically for a moment, and then cut right across the cave and made a steady circle on the dripping wall. Jervls guessed that the torch bad been set down. I've come to talk business." said Robert Leonard. Jervls spoke to him for the first time. He said. You swab I" . And I don't want any of your back-chat," said Leonard. His voice was the voice ot a man who stands la a lounging attitude with his hands In his pockets. "I've got you cold and It you haven't got enough sense to nee It, and to keep a civil tongue in your bead, you can stay here and drown it would suit me better. "D'you get that? I'd sooner you were drowned dead men tell no tales, and all the rest of It. It would suit me a whole heap better to let you drown. You get that by heart and keep It In mind!" Jervls could Just see blm now that the light was still. He had set It down, not nt at his feet, but on some sort ot ledge on a level with his hand. His hands showed, and his face, and a light patch that was collar and shirt They looked like pale funguses In the dark. The rest was shadow. Well?" said the easy voice. "Go ing to be sensible and talk? You're up against It, you know." Jervls got up and stood against the tilted boulder. He set an elbow on It and leaned, bis bead on bis hand. Moving made him giddy tor a moment He said, "What do you want?" The thing seemed still so Incon ceivable. His thoughts felt stiff; he couldn't really bend tbem to deal with It There was a blind rage wait ing to sweep him off bis foot, but he'd got to koop that back, A blind rage a blind tide rising tide spring tide storm tide waiting to carry him away, to sweep him ngalnst the rocks, to dash blm sense less, to drown the cave and him. He leaned heavily upon his hand. He heard Leonard speaking, but the words went by blm. It was like a wrong tuning on the radio a blare of sound without words or sense. Thon, all at once, his name sharp and clear, and the contusion gone. "Jervls!" and, "What about It?" He looked up stupidly, blinking at the ray. "I didn't hear what you said." Robort Leonard swore with an obvlousersor which Jervls found heartening. Come to think ot It It was annoying- to breathe flro and slaughter, and find that the victim hadn't been attending. Jervls laughed Inwardly. "Perhaps you wouldn't mind say ing it again," he said politely. Once more Robert Leonard swore. He had quite an extensive vocabu lary and appeared to be In good form, "Look bore, I've come here to talk business, not to waste my time!" "It's valuable ot course," said Jer vls. Leonard's voice took on a nasty rasp. "Yours Is, If mine Isn't Perhaps you've noticed that the tide's com ing In. Well, either we're going to talk business, or I go away aqd leave you. See?" He snatched up the torch and turned Its circle of light straight downward. Jorvle had thought there mint be steps cut In the rock. There were no steps. (CopyHpM, l'St, tfpptneott; Jervls learns the true reason, to morrow, for Rosamund's strange conduct. The three buildings were owned by the defunct Brownsville bank. A transient was held for question ing today by state pollc as an In wndtnry atwpect but today had not been Implicated In the cavw. Brownsville suffered another seri ous fire two weeks ago. Adrlenne'a has Just recelTM ft fourth shipment of popular Auede und Korrio-hlde. washable leather Jackets. Smart new styles In dark brown, sawdust, mandarin green and rhum brown. - LOOK! A BIO HAT 8 ALB all thU week; 800 new hata at 95c and $1.03. The greatest values we have ever of fered. The Band Box & Shoe Box. UMI1IILIIU IIUIVII NEW YORK, Oct. 13. (API- Speaker John N. Gamer, democratic vice presidential candidate, eald to TAILSPIN TOMMY I DON'T rCNOtO WWCTHE9 00 e CAN DO IT OR NOT, BUT IF WE CAN II WILL lit A RIOT. BOUND TO WIN Hassett's Invitation I CANT HEAR fiSM NO.THerVB JUST r"ie JUST W5CONNECTED VOU FROmW Froe- OUGHTW GOSH i'thWWA frHE STOCK A ALL RIGHT, ALPHEOSS THlKlS NOW, ( MOVED ON WATT fi Die OAS6ER COVE MICROPHONE EEM TO Be OKI THE Wljh TMGYRE V'dMrWn MARKET'S I MUCH OBLIGED SAV, BEN, BILL. T DO YOU iAMINUTEANDVLL sj i THE66 CTTHER HOLES? 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I dTH Always cools his i J " K. BY FANMIM6 IT C"?CVv an r WBSsJr -' CHECK TOR 400. AND THAT'S AU. TO eV THAT of DRESS SALE 200 new dresses Just arrived. A regular W value special at $2.99. Other dresses up to 1350. Costs 8 95 snd up. Shoes SI 49 zo (4.99. THE BAND BOX tc SHOE BOX, "The store that asves you money." Rummage Sale, Wednesday snd Thursday, next door to West Side Pharmacy, auspice Lady Lions. Oy Yoi! ! ! OUT A " WEU,HUKRy UP THE GANCj IS WAITIN' democratic congressmen, many whom are now up for re-election.' ri r FARMERS HINDER STOCK DELIVERY MINNEAPOLIS. Oct. 13. (AP Thirteen livestock trucks were escort ed into Minneapolis by officers to BUT If VfJKAT I HARD THIS MORMUJG IS TRUt- Trlfe KID S 5oPrtM4M& UP A IT- CVItN ? PoUTfr 192, King Frtrurrj Srnici(e, Inc, Vri r x- - -tlL3 E ( I GOT TO GET 1 V " V THAT'?,) some csas ko? WA irtrniBv -t-Hat- 9 KV GAR j r IGOTTWO V J I ' ' ' TICKETS FO? XI Y ' SO DO I THE. FIGHT T V-? a I RESERVED OfTfJ rWSi $10.33 MORe;7 J lM& Hh?ri I and the rfcDNT youf fUn rjLZrv. -- V -TONIGHT VTS J LTf, w3--i I III - o day after being pursued and delayed three hours by farmer-pickets. The trucks, en route to South St. Paul, were forced beck near Anoks, 18 miles from here. The drivers fi nally entered over snother road, not patrolled. Anoka county pickets learned of the plan and cut in ahead of the caravan In Hennepin county. Nall Etudded belts were apread on the road and tires punctured before the trucks stopped. VJHO MOM1MATEO VOU OUT OF POLITICAL. OSSCURITV AMD J vou'Re oust like VJORKS OKI THE him through THE- KID'S ASHAMED P Gft 8htuo ripfeo wmtJ. : . I X I p. ,T- pres.TeY tcll n hg.6ot up) vJ-r' 1J Mt GAe HIS SCAT TO A J III Hll Sheriff John Wall sent seven depu ties from here, but the pickets had fled back Into Anoka county. SAMS VALLEY HIT BY FIRST FROST OF FALL SAMS VALLEY, Oct. 13 (Spl.) Plrst local frost reported for the Ma son came Saturday night, doing email damage to gardens. Uy OLtNN CIMrTLN and HAL FOttUESX By EDWIN ALGER By C. M. PAYNE By SOL HESS VOO? VWMQ PlCKfED 3 a, cuv whose father EMD OF A PICK TO 5EKJD college amo them HIM. By BUD FISHER By George McManus
