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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
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KANSAS OITY. Mo. (UP) The
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sas City, Including local, state and
rational, decreased from $98.01 in
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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
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Tomorrow Notts tatfct "business"
with Jim. .
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exhibit here and won the sweep.
stakes price. The quilt was inherited
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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.
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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
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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
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MUTTERS HE CANT ENJOY
TrIE TAPER UNLESS tf'S
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Th,KIN6LV REARRAM6ES if
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trial TJi-i lYjfir-
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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.
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