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PAGE STTT 3 Outrageous Fortune SYNOPSIS: A man, picked tip on the ehore alter the wreck at the Alice Arden, hae been iakcn from the hospital by Neeta Riddell ae her husband, Jimmy ftiddell tie ie at her brother Tom'e house in Led llnoton. A tew moments after Nesta and the man had left, Caroline Leigh arrives at the hospital, searching for her distant cousin. Jim Randal She ie leaving, disap pointed. when the nurse mentions a serap of a letter she had found in her patient's pooket. with the signature "Caroline." Bo Oaro Une determines to continue her ap parently hopelees search. Jfean whlle the man wakene, and Neeta telle him he is her husband. Be declaree he doee not know her! nor can he recall ether events of the past. Chapter Nlns UNCOMPROMISING PAST TTE WOKE In ths morning to the sound ot Tom Williams clatter ing down the stairs and being softly hushed by Mln. He waa out ot bed In a minute and at the door. "I say, lend me a raior tbere't a good chap!" He found Tom embarrasaed but friendly. The razor waa produced. and Mln brought him hot water and asked him timidly It he felt better. When he ald, "1 don't feel better I feel well," ahe looked pleased; but when he added, "I expect I look like a cut-throat," she colored and ran away. He shaved, dressed himself, and was relieved to find himself no more than just a little shaky. Hla clothes he discovered in a neat pile upon a ahelf screened by a chlnts curtain. The ault had been pressed, but it still bad a smell ot sea-water about It; one or two rents had been neatly mended. He frowned at the clothes. They fitted him, so be supposed that they were his; but be couldn't remember them he couldn't remember any thing. When he was dressed, he sat down on the edge of the bed and put his :head in his hands. It was just as If a black gulf of nothingness were cutting him off from everything that had happened to him up till now. On this side of the gulf his mind was working in a perfectly normal man ner. Yesterday, for instance, waa on this side ot the gulf, and he remem bered all about yesterday; he could have repeated his conversation with Neeta verbatim. But as to wbat had happened to him on the other side ot the gulf, he had only her state ments to go by. He went over them with a sort ot puttied horror. His name was Jim RlddelL He was married. He had married Nesta Williams at the Drove Road registry office on July 25. He had been on his way to Glas gow when the Alice Arden came to grief. Hs had been going to Glasgow to "get oft the map." He ran his hands through his hair and asked himself why and why and why? Why had he married a woman who hadn't the faintest atom of attrac tion for him? You may marry a woman for her looks, or for money, or for ambition, or for purely animal reasons,. or for pity, or because you happen to love her. Not a single or ot these reasons applied to Nesta Riddell. She was not an object ot pity; the Williams were certainly not well-to-do; and mentally and physically she repelled him. Over and above all this, he had a sense ot her strangeness. He could not believe that he bad held her in his arms, that they had kissed. She was stranger to him than someone whom he had never met far more deeply strange than any ot the for gotten people on the wrong side ot the black gulf which cut him oft from hla past. HE LEFT that. Why had he been going to Glasgow? Nesta had given him the answer to "get oft the map." Why had ha got to "get oft the map?" a The answer to that was somewhere on the other side of the gulf. He went over everything that had happened yesterday down to the time when he had fallen asleep to the faint sound of an orchestra through the partition walL He had slept without waking, but not with out dreaming. He leaned his head on his hands, and knew that those sleeping hours had not been spent la unconscious City Government Cut Down. KANSAS OITY. Mo. (UP) The per capita cost of government In Kan sas City, Including local, state and rational, decreased from $98.01 in 19S1 to 183 53 in 1939. the Clvle Re search Institute announced. Phone 642. we'll naui away yotu nfuse- City Sanitary Service. NOW ness. The shadows ot swift clashing events moved In them. They were like the shadows ot fierce darting flsh seen through waters veiled by mist Mist fog. Fog came into It fog, and a voice. His voice? Behind the fog, strange violent things, happening at an in credible speed, flashing through bis mind too quickly to be grasped . . . like beads ot light, strung on a dark chain . . . like a kid's green beads. For an Instant he saw a small brightly lighted picture. The light came from above, and awlnglng to and fro beneath It waa a string of square green stones. They swung from a man's hand. There were eight of them big, squara, green atones; a double chain of pearls between every two. He saw '.he man's hand, and the square green stones, and the pearls, and the light shining down on them. The voice said, "Like a kid's green beads," and everything went dark. Some time after this Nesta was at the door. He thanked heaven that he was up and dressed. It he had had to lie there whilst ahe sat on the edge ot his bed snd talked, he might not be able to bide tbe violence of hla recoil. Women always bullied a man when they had him at a disad vantage. The thought of yesterday set bis teeth on edge. To-day they would meet on equal terms, and ha would try and remember that the situation was a horrible one tor hor. For him self It was very nearly Intolerable. He hadn't a Job, and aa far as he knew, he hadn't a penny in the world. What was he to do? Live on Nesta borrow from Nesta? The situation was not only nearly, but quite, Intol erable. These thoughts went to and fro in his mind aa they sat at breakfast In the small bot kitchen. Tom Williams bolted a couple of rashers of bacon, gulped down his tea, and was off, saying that he would be late. The chug-chug of his motor cycle came back through the thin walls of the little house. WITH recovered confidence Mln began to tell him how wonderful Tom was at almost everything "Why, he can cook as well aa I can. And every bit of paper In this house Is what he hung himself." It waa a great relief to have Mln's prattle to got them through the meal. She bad shy smiles for him now and no longer kept her eye on the door. So much for a shave! When broakfast was over, he spoke to Nesta directly. "Is there somewhere where we can talk?" With no more than a nod she led the way Into the parlor, with Its saddle-back suite In bright shades ot red and blue, Its crimson Axmln ster square, and Its silver photo graph frames. Into this room, so new, so garish, so commonplace, there came these two angry. Incongruous people; and at once its slight emptiness became charged with strain, pressure, re sistance. Nesta waited for him to begin. She stood with her back to the window, loaning forward over one of the red and blue chairs In a would-be easy attitude. He walked to the woolly mat In front of the hearth, and said what he had planned to say. "This is a rotten deal for you. I want to tell you I'm awfully sorry about it." Heavens! How Incredibly difficult she made it! Hla words, his efforts to get her point ot view, slipped back from the hard surface she turned towards him. It was like see ing a fly slip on a pane of glass. She was angry, hard, resentful, cold. But there was something else. He could feel the pressure ot her will. Why should she be putting out ber will against him like this? It got hla back up. It made It too damned difficult to feel or aay the decent thing. What waa she to him after all, but a stranger whom he disliked? He said, "I really am sorry," and the room filled again with her scorn ful silence. She stood there leaning over the back of the chair with bright close set eyes and Just a hint of an angry smile breaking the strslght line ot her lips. There was something secret about that smile, something that said, "Take car I can be even with you if I like." He spoke before be knew what he was going to say. "Why do you look at me like that? What's behind sll this?" "Ah!" said Neeta very softly. "You'd like to knew wouldn't your (Copyright, ISM, J. B. Ltpplnntt Co.) Tomorrow Notts tatfct "business" with Jim. . 100-Yrar-Old Quilt Winner NAMPA, Idaho (IT I Mm. Flor ence Duval Matmt entered a 100- ear-old quilt In the annual women's exhibit here and won the sweep. stakes price. The quilt was inherited from her grsndmother. Broken windows glazed by Trow bridge Cabinet Works. ITS UP R7J TO YOU U&J -sssssssrsr T m M K emW m JEW TORTURED TO DEAIHIS CLAIM VIENNA, Oct. 2. (JPt The socialist bewipaper "Der Morgen" printed an S'MATTER POP TAILSPIN TOMMY UX)KK0 SO AW RISKEP Td SIKH, 0uT OTWIKIOIS eZ StWX4Ve VO it. FFC7X f-KOv) VSi. "V TOMMY. SVOTf sesvae: coKaiio ys. Mi''o -JOSE OA Wf. JZ eosoy TO 10 Ait- BOUND TO WIN Some Mansion! AIM T HE GOT A "T ( HEVER 3AW If AND HE DIDN'T W WELL. HE SAIcT NERVE .THOUGH? SyHIM BEFORE 1N I 6TOP THIS WE'D 6EE IS? CALLIM' ME, EGBERT Y MY LIFE NEVER i TIME -FIRST TONIGHT AT TW 5 BLIMPSON. -BLIMPY? HeARD HIS TIME HE'S SONE wIoDINS--COMP IefSrIIKV rAvp,CE BEFORE! WITHOUT 1 OBRMARsTbT rV ha-. lds?!K vT?"" THE NEBBS Contrary Sylvia Sr OOD MORJvJIr-l&.MRS. ATME OMW TMINJG N A VJMY DOKJ'T VOO &JS. " 1 WAMT6D TO 1 i nOMT TMIMK X-- ITS klO HaioDlCAO TO ME. I'VE J POTTC5 YOUR. LIVISJ& ALOKJEU MISS 6 SOMEBODV 1 AM BY A OlVOR.CE.?- J MIM MIS FREEDOM T!-IA.T'S JUST THE foOT HI3 HOME AAOD FIFT&EM DOLLARS SEEMS TO IMPROVEVOO- RMDIM& FAUL.TWITM YOORE. STILL YOONJS AMD YONJCE AKJD ME VAOULD f RISMT SPIRIT AKJD A VJEE , BAI SJ OR SHIfOE AKJD WHEM ) I'VE WEVER SEEM SUCH IV HE.l GET ALOMG WOtvyE OPPORTUNJIT1ES TOJmOT TAKE !T NIOVU UvjOTWlFP TMItOC S6- TIME COMES TO PCETENJD ' I APPARENJT COMTESJTMeMT N!P0 WELUJIJWy PC A MATE TW A"H5 HE WAtOTS IT AMD WEM TWO PEOPLE Pi r-DEEOGBlEP AWO DRAPE AvVJRAPPEO UP INJ r? m5ELA VCOWGEWIAI VOUKWCW.l 1 JUST VWOM'T CAM LIVE APART ("Z2p I PffaJE'S 5EI-F IVJ SOMBER yJ2?llLulfn. tTirTin LIVE HAPPV EVERiASNE IT TO HIM ' VOITH SUCH LITTLE Cf'J& J COLORS AklD TME BRINGING UP FATHER By George McManus WELL-A3 LONGAS S I I 1 r WONDER HOW LONJCi I'LL. Ill fl I WILL -yOJ STOP V 1 TFI 1 , ,-T,.,- 1 1 There's No Guesswork in Tribune A. B. C. Circul?.tion account from Unz. Austria, today which said the post-mortem of a Ger man Jew whotte iody was found float ing on the Danube revealed- he waa 'tortured to death" and "apparently crucified." A tailor ' label Indicated be was from Nurnberg, Germany. Una la on the Danube. In reply to an Associated Press rep resentative's query to officials in Llnx. y J) (Copyright. 1933, by The Bell 'gyndicsMII "Much Obliged" Is Pay Enough ) spoil your. fejggaa,gB;ill rf mjnig Y mi$1' f mi 1 1 1 1 iii 1 1 jtMlJiw TT see vrja in . S5(3 win sone-7-f. wiC -end wahi SfsseNeefts' r?ggg5?t- B (Cm in a mur.r.v- 1 w wavana-- $ IS"th,ns, fib, WSi when he. t-t.fVlR.TY! , cn Tl "S i NoTA BIT! sfj'liOON AS U3E.. feg BEFORE VOU S wiY?Ufc; SEES ArNOHE JTT T" rO It was aald the man died violently, "whether from a fall or from a blow on the head could not be determin ed," but that Indications of turture or criclilxlon were completely lacking. Bowman ' Beauty Parlor and Bar ber Shop now located In attractive new quarters at 10 and 18 South Central Avenue. By C. M. PAYNE PLAYMATES WITNESS AUTO DEATH OF TOT SALEM. Oct. 2. M Three email children were the only witnesses of THE FAMILY ALBUM SUNDAY PAPER BRllteS IN SUNDAY NEWSPAPER T015 If ON ARM OT HIS EASV-CHAIR. AND 60K UPSTAIRS ft &( PIPE 16 CALLED 1b fElEPHOtJf. REtiJRKS To Fit MILDRED READING PAPER, BUT SHE HANDS If OVER AT ONCE. NRtfLY FOLDED J2i BE6IN6 READIN6, Btff 6E1S All MIJCED UP, BE CAUSE MILDRED HASN'T POT THE SECtfONS BACK M REGULAR ORDER. 5 BEN AND BRIAR STRODP npp -v uom TUP: Ulrt-PC Tuo nn.. THOUGHTS CENTERED ON THE i- j-oi csrMULTca'-iMifciKX 1 VODNOBO AJH- IKJ TUGS WORLD HE K3 ? SOMEHOW HIS VOICE DIDN'T SOUNO JUST R1SHT SEEMED KE HE WAS TRYING TO DISGUISE T a fatal accident here Saturday when !our-year-old Lawrenoa Patrick Sul livan darted out from a curb Into the aide of a passing automobile. He died shortly at a nospltsl. j. Wholley chenworth. driver of the "bug" type car, waa arrested for not having a new driver's license. The victim was son of Mr. snd Mrs. Law rence P. Sullivan. REfURNS 1b TlND PAPER. SCAfftREP IN DISORDER 0W1N6 10 WILFRED'S HAV1N6 BEEN 10OKIN6 AT 1H SPORTS SECTION". MUTTERS HE CANT ENJOY TrIE TAPER UNLESS tf'S IN ORDER, AMD PAINS Th,KIN6LV REARRAM6ES if (Copyright. 1933, by The Bell Syndicate, trial TJi-i lYjfir- Portland Gravy SALEM. Oct. W. (AP) The S86.000 -federal funds proposed for tbe Lorn- T bard street and baseline road improve ment project at Portland will be recommended for transference to the 82nd atreet project, the state high way department said today. For Sale Fresh Chinook salmon eggs Valentine's Cafe. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Sal SI6HS AND REARRANGES SECfiONS Or PAPER NEATH W ANp IN PROPER ORDER SHUTS HIMSELF IN DEH To trtUOY IT IN PEACE, UN aware That wife has abstracted The news SECTiOfJ AND IS BEADlffe ff UPSTAIR5 Inc.) By GLENN CHAFF1N and UAL FOKBEST By EDWIN ALGER mm. mm By SOL HESS
