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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
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BOUND TO WIN Ben Remember.
JONffTHAN'a GO teg yES.HE ISAr-JoS
I WRAPPED UF If 13 1"0 Be. TOO. W B
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; 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
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MEM'S
CAMPAJ&KJ
JOE M QA3Bj
WAS ARRAMGEO
A SrOBKIUOOS
SCHEDULE. FOR
HIM A tOO TWE
CAMPAISM .
WILL. BE r-J
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MAKE
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10-13
MUTT AND JEFF
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MOT GOT ACW-1 HOPE ' " BRICK TOP" DOGSM'.
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I'VE GOT To TAKE THIS
MOT OUT ACW- 1 HOPE
MoBOOt EES ME-
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BRINGING UP FATHER
(HCLLO,tioe-Yo RCMOaBCr THflrs RlSHT, JeFfT l F-L DARNKtB r ?r 4ef- SlMMtl
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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."
AS SOON A9THP
rraeAsuFie hunters
WOULD THHM .
; THEY'D UP- AMD LEAVE
Mti IT-4 t-t-lt: AND
(?UIET--THEN ALU CD
HAVtss lO DO
WAS RITH
THE
DIGGINGS
r-OR THE
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MOUTHED STEAM
WILL HELP,
COURA&E TO COME UP ONJ THIS PLATFDRH
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BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. L. a. Calkins,
a daughter, weighing four pounds, at
the Community hospital Tuesday.
Broken windows glazed by Trow
Drldge Cabinet works.
Real Estate or Insurance Leave it
to Jones. Phone 796.
By GLENN CHAFTLM
and HAL rOBBESX
By EDWIN ALGER
By C. M. PAYNE
By SOL HESS
RUM A CLEAU CAMRAISKj!
AMD IF THAT LOUD- ' W
CA.LLIOPE HAS THE
By BUD FISHER
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By George McManus
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