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PAGE srs ITEftFORD MAIL TRTBTJNT5, MEDFORI), OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL li, 1933. TlieWIiite Codtafoo ftw Mttrnnn 47. Eherhari b KyNOPRIBt James Bundean cannot shake off a feeling of lore boding that assails him upon ar rival at his hotel in Armene, Southern France. Psrhaps it is the howling north wind, which shakes the haute. Perhaps it ie Lovschlem, the proprietor. Perhape it ie the paucity of ouesta there are only three: Mrs. Felicia Byng of Omaha Father Bobart. a red haired priest, and an interesting American oirl named Sue Tally. Bundean ie nervous but not sur prised when stlss Tally bursts in to hie room at midnight to take refuge from an abductor, he has ealmcd her when there is a sudden loud crash. Chapter S SUNDEAN'S ERRAND MT FRIGHTENED Tfoltor Half rose; we were silent a moment. Then the noise recurred, and we re laxed. It was a shutter banging In the Increasing wind. "Yes, I've Just come from Russia,' I went on. "An old friend of mine, Jack Dunning, and 1 arranged to meet here for a trip through South ern Spain. I'm a week ahead of time." The girl nodded, and after a mo ment asked: "What do you think of the hotel?" "It's rather large In the winter. Isn't It? The handful of guests must rattle around like so many peanuu." "We do rather rattle around. Espe elally when the summer staff Is dis missed. Just now there are only the cook, one porter and one maid, the manager, and Madame Lovschlem, bla wife. And you and Mrs. Byng and a priest. And myself, of course. It Is very quiet and lonely In- the winter." I must hare looked a question, for she added: "I have been here about a year. You see my mother was 111 and died here. Madame Lovscblem and her husband hare been rery kind to me and to my mother." As It she wished to change the subject, she told me about the hotel around my wrists and put me In the back seat of the car. He was hurried and 1 think frightened at what he' was doing, and of course I struggled. "npHPN he got Into the front seat land drove and drove and drove. I thought we were miles from Ar mene. I was In a panic, naturally, but I worked so frantically that I got my hands loose and the scarf 8 M-Uv if It had been, she said, an old and rery elegant family residence before being bought from Its noble owners, and converted Into a tourist hotel some years before, '"VF course." she said, "It has been "changed from time to time, dec orations renewed. There Is a private salon next door that has the original old satin brocade on the walls. The room is seldom opened, but you might like to see It There's a piano In It, as big as a barn, on which a long ago Pope Is said to have sung a mass. I doubt that however." I made a sound of agreement, and he went on swiftly: "There's a story about these old (looks, too; that they were bought In preparation for a visit from Napo leon. He liked clocks, yon know; but I donbt that one, too. Even the most passionate elock lover wouldn't want halt a hundred of them. Oh, you have the sword clock. It's the only one In the house." Her pink fingers touched the lit tle sword and slid It gently out of the bronse soldier's grasp, I must have looked surprised, for she laughed for the first time and flour ished It "Didn't you know It was loose? It's sharp too," She ran her linger tips along the edge. "Like a dagger." She stood there touching the toy word. Her bright head was bent Her velvet coat was buttoned as tight as a basque to her chin. Its skirt fitted her slender waist and hips and then flared long and full. Something to my astonishment I heard myself saying: "I want to help you. Won't you let me?" She replaced the little sword lowly. After a time probably only a few seconds she went on gravely: "Perhaps I'd better tell you what happened tonight It must have been around 10 o'clock when 1 went out. I was restless and wanted tr walk In the wind a little before trying to go to sleep. I often take walks In the evenings; there's never been any danger at all. "Tonight a car passing me stop ped. A man got out I started to walk away, but he caught me. He tied lomethlng over my mouth and She held the toy sword. from my face. It must have been more than an hour that he drove. Finally he stopped." She stopped, too, and took a long breath. "I had planned what 1 would do. As he got out the front seat I got out the back seat, on the oppo site side, and ran. The wind was blowing, and It was dark, and he didn't hear me open the door, and It was a moment before he found 1 was not there. "Then I saw a light, and It was the light at the entrance of the hotel. I didn't stop to think how strange It was, I just ran. The gate was locked, of course; but I know the way In. He was niter mo." Somotlilng must have come from my throat then, for she stopped, gave me a questioning look, and then went on, "He could see me under the small light Ho wns so close, and thero was no light In the hotol, and he, too, know the wny Into the court Then I saw your light I ran Into the shadow and up the stairway. I think he wasted time looking In the courtyard for me. "1 don't think he heard me call to you; the wind was too loud. But I'm afraid he saw me against the light You can c your light from the court you know, when the door Is open. And that's that's all. Except that I want you to tell no ono espe cially the Lovschloms." "Who was the man?" "I don't know." "It wasn't Lovschlem?" "Oh, no!" she cried. "It wasn't Lovschlem, (Ie Is so fat, you know. This man wasn't fnt." I said that the fellow ought to be killed. I believe I said I would enoy the Job of doing It "I've troubled yon enough," she said. "I can't thank you. Now I'm going." "But wait Look here. Are you sure you'll be safo? I can't let you go like this." "I'm quite alright I shan't go for walks on the bridge again, at night anyway. And there's no need to call Madnme. I'll lock my door." An ex pression of consternation orosBed her face. "My koy." she said, "I left my key on the board In the lobby." "I'll get It. What number Is it?" "Nineteen. But" "Don't leave until I return." (Copyright. I9JJ. Utgnm O. Bberhart) Bundean itumblei, tomorrow, over a terrible object In the hallway. LUMBER CONFERENCE CALLED AT SEATTLE BHA.TTLE, April 11. (AP) The West coast Lumbermen's amoclatlon announced today that lumber man ufacturer and wholesalers Inter tl In the Atlantic coast lumber trade are to meeet with 8. M. Hauptman, newly appointed manager of the lum ber bureau. United Stale intercostal conference, at the Olympic hotel here at 9:30 a. m., Thursday to discuss details of shipping problems In ad vance of the plnnned New York meet ing o the conference. Scio Beer Sold Only In Package SCIO, April 11. (AP) uniy in or iginal packftRCs may beer be sold In Sclo, the city council here voted un animously, nrlnklng the 8.3 per cent beer on the premises of the vendor, telling It to any person under 18 years of age or to sell or give It away within 400 feet of any school house were "bannM by the council. WRIGLEY'S M liViifjl HOW EVEN BETTER E INDEPENDENCE, April 11. (AP) Three men. connected with the local fire department have confessed to "fire-bug" activities and will receive sentences by Judge Arlle Walker in a few oays. George ArreU, a fanner member of the fire department, confessed, to partial responsibility for some recent fires and implicated, "Cy" Craber and Harold Sorg. According to Arrel"s statement he helped to fire buildings to get the '3 fe,e, which Is paid firemen by the city of Independence, and induced the other two men to assist him for Like reasons as they would, receive the same compensation. . 6x10 Photo for 7&c opp. Holly Theater. The Peasleys. Broken windows glazed frow bridge Cabinet Works. 3J Espee Offering Easter Holiday Travel Bargain A. S. Roeenbaum, district agent for the Southern Pacific company In So. Oregon and No. California, stated to day that the several ticket offices in his district were being besieged for Information regarding the cent-ami le rates over the Easter holidays. Numerous reservations were being mads and all indications point to many taking advantage of the excep tionally low rates. Many attractions await the excur sionists In the larger cities to the south and north and the limit on the tickets being good for twelve days from April 13th makes the rates par ticularly attractive and it is apparent that many are planning to take ad vantage of these excursions. Italy Teaches Fishers to Fish. GENOA, Italy. (AP) A govern ment fishing school has been opened here to teach efficiency to the pres ent barefoot casters of nets. ' It is under the Joint auspices of the min istries of agriculture and education. 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