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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TE1T JIEDFORD IfAJL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON", THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1932. 'fOfiUAlf Moo Nothing Venture by Patricia Wentworth HYNl'falS: Buffering from 1 karth Mow Jervie Wear coins to hie eeneee it, a dark tidal cave, threatened momentarily by the ettaUhy rite of the tide. A flath o! light appeare; Robert Leonard, hie captor, comee to taunt him. Only a ehort dietance away Jer vis' distracted wife Kan searches ' rantically lor Attn. Chapter 45 "I PREFER YOU DEAD" RISING aboT Jerri was a sheer and nncllmbable rock. The light came up to the ledge where Leonard food. It was a mere 1U like a wide door-step, with the month of the passage rising la an irregular arch above It Leonard awung the light round past his own shoulder and let the beam play on a halt open Iron gate, heavy, rusty, and strong. Closed, It would nil the arch. A new chain and padlock dangled at its edge; the light picked out the bright steel links. Then the torch waa set down again. "Got thatr said Leonard. "No getting up without a ladder. The Jadder'a np here, and it'll stay here until we oome to terms. Now trhat about business?" I "What do you want?" said Jervis. ' ''Now you're talking!' It's not to much a Question of what I want because I're already told you that you'd suit me best dead It's a case of what sort of compromise I'm ' willing to make. You ought to be glad I'm willing to compromise at all." . . Jerris kept his mouth shut If he could hare laid his hand on a loose bit of rock, ha would, hare chanced It and had a shot at the pale blur that was Leonard's face. But there weren't any loose bits of rock; the drag of the tide saw to that Leonard went on speaking. "I prefer you dead but you can buy yourself oft It you like." v "Look here, Leonard " "I don't want you to," said Robert Leonard. "I keep telling you so. I want you dead. You'd be a lot safer dead. You'd be a lot safer, and I'd be a lot richer. It'i money In my pocket if you like to be a fool and Brown." There was a hard, bitter silence. Jerris held his tongue, and like Darld, It waa pain and grief to him. ........ "Well, It you're not going to ask ma why it would be money in my pocket if you insist on drowning, I'll tell you all the same, because I'd sooner hare all the cards on the table. Mine are all aces, so I don't mind showing them. It you're dead, Rosamund gets Weare and the cash and what Rosamund gets I get You see, she couldn't marry you the other day, because she was mar ried already. We re been married 11 years." i" ' "Is that - truer' said Jerris sharply. "You've got a nasty unbelieving nature as well as the devil of a temper! I don't think you'll be missed it the tide gets you.' True? Of course it's true! I married Rosa mund the day aha was 21. "So you see you're kept us out of Weare a good long time. You know, I shouldn't hare been heart-broken If you'd been drowned when you came to grief on the rocks of Croyston 10 years ago." "You were married to Rosamund then? "We'd been married a year. It would hare been rery convenient If you'd been drowned. I merely men tion this to show you that I've waited quite long enough, and I'm' getting a bit Impatient" "What do you wantt" said Jervis. "A hundred Bfty thousand dol lars," said Robert Leonard. "Talk sense I" ea!d Jerris con temptuously. The sum staggered mm. "Sense?" said Leonard. "I'm tir ing yon your life. It I lock that gate behind me and leave you here, 1 get Weare and a million, don't I? I'm asking you a seventh I might take the whole. I're only got to leave you here." ; "Then why don't you?" said Jerris. He really wanted to know. If r Leonard was married to Rosamund. tt waa quite obvious that Jervis ' Weare was worth a good deal more to him dead than alive. Leonard had put the matter In a nutshell. Only why didn't he crack the nut why any hesitation about leaving Jervis to drown? He telt quite unable to credit Leonard with a qualm of con science. "Rosamund has an objection," aid Leonard regretfully. Jervis threw up his head and laughed. "Not really May I ask why?" "Sentiment," said Leonard. "Rosamund!" 'Army Aviators Crash To Death 8AN ANTONIO, Tx., Oct. IS. (P) Lieut Joseph A. Barnes and Pri vate Frederick R. Douglass were killed when their plane cruhed at Brooks field today. The plane burst Into flames and the oodles were cremated. KEEPSUlX TASTEFR j p?' Jg "Vou wouldn't suspect her of It But that's how it la with women you never know where you are and it'a lucky for you. It you ask me, I should say a hundred fifty housand is letting you off dirt cheap. You'd better close before 1 raise it" There waa a pause. Then Jerris laughed again. "In rase you're forgetting it this Is the twentieth century. One doesn't just disappear, and so notice taken." Who's going to disappear?" said Leonard. "You either pay up, and explain your absence any way yon like, or else " "Year' "Or else you're washed ashore somewhere along the coast and there haa been another unfortunate swlmratag fatality. Rosamund will remember your baring cramp once or twice this summer when you were bathing together." Jervis said things. They may or may not hare got through Robert Leonard's akin; they certainly re lieved Jerris. Leonard's voice did not sound as If he had been touched. He said, "None ot that's buslneesl We're supposed to be talking business." "Do you think I carry 150 thou sand dollars In my pockets?" "No and I don't expect to cash a check across the counter either. Rosamund says she's never known you to go back on your word in your life, and she's prepared to go ball that you'll ante up and hold your tongue. So you see, that makes the whole thing perfectly simple. "You give your word I drlre you orer to the Junction you put np any story you like to account tor your absence and not later than tomorrow you buss up to town and tell old Page you're decided to set tle 150 thousand on Rosamund. It's as easy as falling oft a log." Jerris leaned against the rock. He waa thinking hard. It had been In his mind that when the tide rose he could hold on to the Iron bars which divided the inner and outer caves. It the bars didn't reach to tbe root, he might get over 'When the wa ter waa high enough; and, once in the outer care, he would hare a pretty good chance of getting away when the tide went down. ' He could float for hours In this warm water with the bars to hold on to. He reckoned that tbe water would be up to his waist In another halt hour or so. He might hare to hold on for fire or six hours. Well, he ought to be able to do that. "Thinking it over?" said Robert Leonard. "You're not got too much time. Better speed up the thinking machine!" He picked up the torch again and sent the beam glittering down upon the pool There wasn't a pool any longer; there waa one smooth blacknoss of water-rand the edge ot it waa level with the rock on which Jerris stood. The light shifted and showed that smooth blackness everywhere. It came back again and rested upon the edge ot the rock a yard away from his feet It showed the water and the rock In a silver ring; and as Jerris looked at the ring, the water lifted very gently and flowed over the rock. The beam swung up wards, and the torch was set down again. The light bad never touched the bars. Did they go up to the root or didn't they? ( "Well, are you going to come to terms?" said Robert Leonard. Jervis said, "No," almost absent ly. His mind was on the bars and the question ot whether it would be possible to get over them and into the outer cave. He could do It If thore was a space. But was there a space? He became aware that Leon ard waa swearing at blm. "Do you mean that 'No,' you fool?" "Oh yea." It being absent and a bit dreamy was the way to annoy Leonard, then Jervis waa prepared to go on being dreamy till all was blue. It wss less wearing than letting oneself go easier easier too easy. . . . He found hlmset on his hands and kneea in an inch or two ot wa ter. He must have turned giddy. Leonard'a voice echoed above him In the dark. "All right you've had your chance. It you won't take It, that leta me out You've only to stay obstinate, and I scoop the lot Drown, and be damned to yon I" The gate at the mouth ot the passage banged wit. a violent me tallic aound that filled the care with clanging echoes. Jervis sat In two Inches of wa ter, and waited for the noise to atop. Copyright, 1JJ, Llppincott) Jrvll trie to swim evtr the ear, tomorrow. Will he fallf Curtis Stumping Spokane Region SPOKANE. Wash.. Oct. la. (API Vlce-Jrealdent Charles Curtis left by automobile at 8:43 o'clock for Pull man, Wash., for a short stop an route to Lewlaton to deliver hla flrat cam' patgn epeech in Idaho. Old Romance Renewed Though Eyes Now Blind PERTH, Wei tern Auitnllft. Oct. 18. (APj Many yean ago whenever young Charlie Sparkee went to a dance, he looked for a girl named Annie. She was pretty and graceful, TAILSPIN TOMMY JLJ 9 A J AND SKETER X y 0F THE THEIR NUT? J fmtfh If VSm 7 - I it thev mao 6omg wmvjx 7 rope? i gitU 'J-.Jm l--s sr v2jkvju BOUND TO WIN Ben Remember. JONffTHAN'a GO teg yES.HE ISAr-JoS I WRAPPED UF If 13 1"0 Be. TOO. W B ; CW6BHEARINS TMI6 Vi VOO DDr-4T E ; LATEST SftNS, J ( SEEM SO SURE fp WETS BETTER N v . BILLt 1 COME UP HERE I ' J A S'MATTER POP-No Pr) XrlAS TUVlW OVtVR V J 'A CAV fPU WANTED THrCit . CVJIJiyS 015. THE NEBBS The People' Candidate THIS ebss MEM'S CAMPAJ&KJ JOE M QA3Bj WAS ARRAMGEO A SrOBKIUOOS SCHEDULE. FOR HIM A tOO TWE CAMPAISM . WILL. BE r-J PULL BLAST FROM MOVAJ .. asjo WECKL.E MAKE OKI 10-13 MUTT AND JEFF 1 vU I'VE GOT TO TAKE THIS 1 I I v I I WELL- IF IT AJNT 1 MOT GOT ACW-1 HOPE ' " BRICK TOP" DOGSM'. , . ' . .. ft aTu I'VE GOT To TAKE THIS MOT OUT ACW- 1 HOPE MoBOOt EES ME- M n I lAJf, m. r BRINGING UP FATHER (HCLLO,tioe-Yo RCMOaBCr THflrs RlSHT, JeFfT l F-L DARNKtB r ?r 4ef- SlMMtl MONTHS rSO VOO.J Crd HXJ Do YoO FCCL UMCOMFoRTiBLe - Mt g- "ma BOARft J" cR.rui mot to 6tT ) - t Icantakc r BATWJ Jtw ifc?afejraLOF HeAcTH-J for and there waa no one elae with whom he liked to dance so well. Then he Joined the gold rush to the west. He was never to see Annie again for one day a piece of flying Aerial Polo! THERE ISKfT A tOKLD TO VJORRY ABOUT, BEN PtiT A COUPLE SOI lOfcje PReTTT TIRESOME j - MTl ANOTHER OFF THE f a-X jTsLvT S INLAND 60 Problem At All IS A MEETIKJS OF THE LEAGUE OF EARLVILLE NOD MAKE. MUMBER THREE SPEECH we 6oT twe same guv to VOL) AKJD VOUVE SOT THE ArslSVAER FOR Wlr-0 THAT WILL. 'EM SIT UP AMD TAliE KJOTICG t ' :r. . : Jeff Took The Doc's Orders Too Literally quartz i truck him In the eye and destroyed his sight. Charlie Sparkes, old and blind, waa sitting In the Braille society's home tbe other day. A woman Joined him. She. too, was blind. She talked to him of the daya w.hen she was a light-hearted girl, 50 years ago. She told him of the dances she had been to In Melbourne, and of a young man she alwaya THIr-MS Ms THE MORE CUCCTTA 1HA ANOTHER SCrVEIRKJ MENJT SUPER.VISIOKJ OF 6TOCKS AKJD ROMDS TO MAKE THEM SAFE ISJVJESTMEMTS FOR THE PEOPLE IF THEV EVER. GET MONJEV TO INJWEST A(AINJ ASJ EQUAL OISTT?IBLTIOIO OP THAT V EVERVeoDV IXMONJEST danced with there. "Bla name,' she said, "was Charlie Sparkes." They meet often now. They can not see white hair and wrinkles. To each, the other la young and hand some gay, dashing Charlie Sparkes, and beautiful Annie. ROSEBURG CONTRACT TO PORTLAND FIRM WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. (API George laacluon, Portland, with a bid ONE TWF? IMiltkl 7 uaa I WHirwwu i MUttVVt BOUGHT emeralds and about the 6AMB NUMRE& OECHECre JOU KNOVJ.THE KINO OF CHESTS BURV CO AL.WAVS HAVE TWO , f " AnfUi mi Tt Srndlcf. Inc.) Ves. eEMTLEMEKl . RUDOLPH WEB& STANJDS OUT FOR THREE THIMSS LAWS FOR. AJOklT HURT AMVBOOV AMD - AMD FIRST, LAST" AKID ALWAV5, ADMIMISTRATTlOrJ OF, what's OKI I XCorMINO? j t'M GLAO TO SEE VOO-I SOPPOE ToU'RE COMMAj VOTE FER. ME? of $39,800 was low bidder for the storehouse for the national soldiers' borne at Roseburg. Other bids were Murch Brothers, Bt. Louis. S3 1.500; Devereux Olson Construction com pany, Minneapolis. 132.200. DRESS SALE 200 new dreaaea Just arrived. A regular value special at ea 95. other dresses up to $12.50. Coats $8 95 and up. Shoes $1 49 50 4.95. THE BAND BOX is SHOE BOX, "The store that saves you money." 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