PA'GE EIGHT
MEDFOItD MAIL TRIBUXE, MEDFORD, OREGON', SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1933.
Outrageous Fortune
.iYXOPSIlt A ieit Ut$ mum.
Unta in nil sleep in ths Eltto hos
pital. He was picked up on a eea
side ledge after the wreck of the
Alice Arden in a gale; nam he
whispers of "Jimmy Jiiddell," and
of something "preen like a kid's
beads." Xesta niddell, having heard
by radio of the man's plight, comes
to the hospital to see whether he
may be her mlJilKp husband. The
day nurse tells Nesta vhat she
knows of the man.
Chapter Two
THE MEETING
THE day nuns wasn't going to be
hurried. North country people
take their own way and their own
time.
"Well, ho was found on a ledge
on that cliff Just to the left ot the
gap over there. That'i where the
Alice Arden broke up. She wae
driven In with the gale, and there
the current got her and she smashed
on the rocks. You must have read
about It. It's a Tory bad bit ot coast
because of the quicksands.
"The lifeboat people picked up a
few of the passengers, but this man
wasn't found for getting on thirty
six hours. The gale went down very
suddenly, and then there was a fog,
one of the worat fogs I've ever seen.
Ton couldn't see your hand before
your face on the cliffs, and it wasn't
till It lifted that they found him. He
Nesta touched the
must have crawled up on the ledge
and then lost consciousness.
"Dr. Sutherland thinks he's had a
knock on the bead. When he came
round be didn't teem to know who
be was or where he came from."
"Thon I don't see"
Tbe day nurse Just went on as If
, there had not been any Interruption.
"But when he la asleep he keeps
muttering, and one of the. things he
keeps saying is that name. The
Jimmy Is plain enough. That Is to
say. Matron says it is Jim and sho
made out the message that was
broadcast but when it came to the
surname. Dr. Sutherland said It waa
Randal, and I thought Rlddell but
Matron said Reddell, so she put In
all the three. Anyway his linen's
marked J. R."
MRS. R1DDELL was folding the
piece of paper with the broad
oast message on It. She stopped for
a moment, pinching the edge ot the
paper hard. Then all at once she
asked what some women would have
asked before,
"Is he bad?"
Tbe day nuras hesitated.
"He's not 111," she said "It's Just
that he doesn't remember anything."
Nesta folded up the paper with the
radio message on It. She folded It
Quite small. Then she said,
"He hadn't any letters or papers
on him, I suppose?"
"A note-case with soma money In
It pound notos seven or eight, I
think."
"Nothing else?"
The day nursa hesitated. Then
after a moment she asked in her
low voice.
"Do you know anyone called Caro
line?"
"I might," said Nesta Riddoll.
Why?"
The name went round In her mind.
The only Caroline she knew was old
Caroline Bussell. Had she written?
!Vhat had she written?
"Why?" she said sharply.
The nurse hesitated again. She
didn't want to make trouble be
tween husband and wife. Then she
BIRTH TO 4-LB. BABY
LONDON, Sept. 23. (AP) The
ease of an Indian Rlrl giving birth
o a baby before being seven years
6y HaViuiA WMUWCUi
gar war before the pressure of
Nesta's will.
"Oh, It was nothing reallr fust
the torn-off end of a letter with tht
signature."
"Caroline?"
The day nurse nodded.
"Nothing elser
"No."
Anything the other side?"
"No. It was really only the smsl)
est scrap."
Nesta slipped the paper she was
holding Into her red bag and
snapped down the catch.
"I'd like to see hlra," she said.
As she walked beside tbe nurse
along the left-hand passage, she
was wondering about that marked
linen. What would Jimmy be doing
with his Initials on his shirt and
pants? Why, the last thing on earth
he'd want when he was out on a job
would be anything like that and
this had been the biggest Job yet.
It his things were marked, It
wasn't any ot ber marking; and
that was certain. AU her muscles
tightened up a little as they came
Into a light airy room with a row
ot windows down one side and a wide
verandah at the far end.
The ward was rather empty. Halt
a dozen beds were out on the veran
dah, and the sound ot cheerful con
versation came back Into tbe empty
space and echoed there. Between
arm that hid his face.
two of the wlndowa there was
bed with a couple of screens about
It. The day nurse pulled the nearer
one back, aud Nesta Rlddell went
past her and stood at the foot of tht
bed.
THERE was a man In the bed, and
he was lying on his aide with
one arm thrown up across his face.
She could see the line ot his legs, the
hump of bis shoulder, and the crook
of the arm. Her heart began to beat
very fast.
"Is It your husband?"
Nesta .Rlddell turned slowly
round. The nurse was behind her,
with a hand on the screen.
And then all at once the rosy girl
who had opened the door was there,
full of hurry and Importance.
"Oh, nurse Dr. Sutherland wants
you on the 'phone, There's been an
accident"
Tbe day nurse was gone before
the girl stopped speaking.
Nesta Rlddell put up her hand and
closod the soreens. They made a sort
of red twilight about the bed. She
went past tbe foot and stood above
the sleeping man. His head was not
bandaged. Sbe could aes rumpled
brown hair, and a bit of brown fore
head, and a bit of brown unshaven
chin. Her heart went on beating
very fast.
She bent down and touohed the
arm that was hiding the man's faoe,
and at once he said, quits clearly
and distinctly.
"The finest emeralds in the
world."
Nesta draw back her hand with a
Jerk. A look of terror passed over
her face. To lie here in an open
ward and talk about the emeralds!
Ths man's voice lost Its distinctness
and fell to a mutter, but she conld
hear what ha was saying well
enough:
"Like a lot of green glass .... like
a kid's green beads .... funny to
think you'd kill a man tor a thing
like that .... kid's beads .... green
.... Jimmy Rlddell ..."
(Copyright, 1US, J. B. LipvmcoH Co.)
Nests GDmii t m auddn SmIbIoa.
tomorrow.
of age waa reported by ft Delhi doctor
today In the "BrltUh Medical Jour
nal" of London.
The baby weighed (our pounds,
three ounce at birth, the doctor re
ported. Beyond axifferlng from fright
for three days, he added, the mother
recovered perfectly and wah ah) to
nurse the Infant for nine months,
when It weighed 11 pound. 3 ounce.
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There's No Guesswork in Tribune A. B. C. Circulation
irrigation and drainage districts thru
loans from the federal government
centered a-bout the problem of delin
quent state and county taxes on land
in reclamation districts at this morn
ing's teuton of the Oregon reclama
tion congre&s which Is holding lta
23rd annual convention In Baiter.
The proposal moat favored calls for
the deferrjient of the captal payment
on the land for e period of three
fCnnvrl-ht, 1933, by The
Jolla Puts On An Act!
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portunity to pay their delinquent
taxes Under the proposal settlers
would borrow from the R. F. O. and
repay the money over a period of 40
years.
Heath's Drug Store la open for busi
ness in Its new location, 29 N. Centra
Ave. Their phone number remains'
tbe same. 884.
By C. M. PAYNE
Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
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PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 23. (AP)
For the first time in four years.
THE PR17F.
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CALLS TO TffcH WMOR,
HOME FROM BIUV BE-
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BEMIS HPS HERE NOW.
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WHILE HE
SEARCH
TEN MINUTES LATER HE
RETURNS SOT HAS LOST
ffit PR!2E
general optimism prevailed In re
ports on business conditions In the
Pacific northwest submitted yesterday
by special commodity committees to
the Pacific northwest advisory board.
Paul A. Scnerer. Medlord fruit
grower, was elected president of the
advisory board, suceedlng J. A. Swal
well ot Seattle, who advised the meet
ing he could not undertake the duties
next year. Scherer will be succeeded
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JUNIOR RIMEMBERS Hf
HASN'T 60f THE PR12E
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he sos ib imi.rm. rf
1& PTRSUADE JlW- ATfER WAITING QUARTER
come home with- of am hour.fouows OhJ
VW.I THREATENIK6 JUNIOR'S TRAIL, F1WDIN6
ON TEARS, WAIT5 HIM WRE6UIN6 WITH
S0E6 8ACK TO ANDY MFf , WHO CLAIMS
TOR IT IT!5 HIS PRIZE
(Copyright. 1333, by The Bell flyndlcats. Inc.)
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ss vice-president by Prank M. Smith
of Spokane. Ernest Doige of Tacoma,
executive secretary, and R. B- Clark
ot Seattle, secretary, were re-elected.
Heating costs can be reduced. For
complete besting service call Art
Schmldlt 4181663.
Real estate or Insurance leave It
to Jones. Phone 693.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
J0W0R FAI11H6 1& REAP
PEAR. MRS. BEM1S VOL
UNTEERS 10 F1NP HIM.
A MOMENT LATER, JlW
10R SHOWS UP
PEACE B0N6 RESTORED
BY F1NDIN6 ANDVS PRIZE
STARTS FOR HOME, THREE
BLOCKS AWAV JUNIOR RE'
MARKIN6 HI HASN'T
60T HIS HAT
By GLENN CHAFFDI
and UAL FOKRESX
By EDWIN ALGER
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