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SrEDFORB 5LAITJ TRTBUXE, MEDFORD, OREGON. TVEDNESDT7, OCTOBER IT, 1933.
Outrageous Fortune
6y HdVuciA waumuh
1 synopsis: Kto Ridden telle
the man the found w fiering from
lot of memory that he it her hu
band, Jimmy, and that he has
Stolen the Van Berg emerald $. and
ehot Van Berg. Caroline Leigh be
lieve he it her eouein Jim Randal,
hut tfeata kettpe them apart. Now
Jim, wakened In the night by
ta'e prowling about, ha eeleed her
ay the throat ae an intruder, and
then ha determined to "get down
to case a" with her. But he etltt eon
remember nothing of hie poet, al
though he ha talked in hi eleep of
the emeriti.
Chapter IT
AT THE LIBRARY
XIESTA looked op t him aide-
' -rays f lanes, anger to H. and
omstblnf alia.
Ha said, "How maeh money havs
flfotr
"Ton know what wiu In yonr
jpackats, don't yon?"
Hs said, "No." And then, "Bat I
could seslly find out"
"What do yom meant
"I eonld ring np the hoapltal."
' A scalding rags swept over Nesta,
It aha had had anything to strike
hjm with, shs would havs struok
with all her might She had nothing.
Bbe stiffened against the raga, and
It went by.
"It would be quits saay to Snd
ent" hs said; and then, "Do you
want me to ring np In the morning?"
Hs laughed a Utile. "I don't think
you do. Bow much waa It? Fifty
pounds f" Re was watching her eyes.
"Forty? Thirty? Twenty?"
1 All the lines showed In her teee.
"Fire if yon must know."
Tire? To take me abroad."
- She laughed harshly.
Ton were going 'to Glasgow
(that's as much as yon told me.
rTou'd money to splash about as long
las I knew you, but you never told
me where It cams from. If you want
no know, you gave ms tsn pounds
when you went away, and said you'd
send me soma more. And live pounds
was what wu in your pocket-book.
That's straight And I'm keeping
what rrs got Ton can itng np the
hospital If you Ilka."
j He thought sha was speaWog the
truth. Hs said.
..'Til take the pocket-book."
. Nest hesitated, made a step to
srards the door, and turned again.
"What do you want tt for?"
"It's mine."
"I'm going to bed."
"As shs passed the threshold. Me
sraa aware that he wsa following
her. Shs swung round angrily,
, "What d'you want?"
"That pocket-book.!"
"If I say nor
"I shall coma and take It. You'd
better band tt over you haven't got
a leg to stand on."
He thought she was going to
strike him, but she governed herseK.
After a moment shs spoke,
"You think a lot of yourself
don't you. Supposs I go to the po
lice." "Suppose you do."
Bin turned with a Jerk and went
Wong the passags and up the stairs.
He heard her go Into her room, and
p minute later he heard her come
put again.
He was at the foot of the stain to
meet her. She snapped on the pas
bags light aa she came out and when
She saw him she stood still about
fcalf way down.
"There's your esse!" she said, and
drew It at him.
ranae. and It Is doabtfal whether
hs will recover.
The room wu In perfect order,
but Uie safe in which Mr. Van Bars
kept his valuable! was unlocked,
and a unique chain of emeralds,
eald to have belonged to the Bm
peror AUhualpa, last of the Inoa
chiefs, was mlsalns. These amer
aide, which had been recently 1d
herlted br Mr. Van Berg, are eight
In number, perfectly matched, flaw
leee, and of tmmenie value.
Mrs. Van Berg has fumiihed the
police a detailed deecrlptlon of the
mlulng Jewels.
Jim ran his ays rapidly down the
column. ... An Interview with the
housekeeper at Fackham Hall, Miss
Caroline Bussell. Bricks without
straw. Miss Bussell had retired
early, and had not known that any
thing out of the usual waa happening
until Mrs. Van Berg ran Into her
room between one and two In the
morning and said aomethlng dread
ful had happened. Shs then woke the
other servants, and when shs got
downstairs, Mrs. Van Berg had tele
phoned to the doctor and was ring
ing np the police.
to the next day's
HH tumsd
lssna:
WTLL MR. VAN BERO RECOVER
CONSCIOUSNESS?
This Is an all Important Question, -since
It le probable that he alone
saw hie aeeallant, though it appears
that Mrs, Van Berg narrowly miss
ed doing so,
"Elmer always eat up late," Mrs.
Van Berg eald today. "1 would go
upstairs, and sometimes 1 would
hear him corns up, and sometimes I
wouldn't hear a thing. Last night I
oame up ss usual at about eleven
o'clock, but 1 couldn't eleep. At
twelve I went downstairs to get a
book. As I passed the library door,
I oould hear voices, Elmer was
tslklng to someone."
"you didn't go la, Mrs. Van
Berg?" asked the Examiner.
Mrs. Van Berg shook her bead.
She la a platinum blonde with grey
eyes and the slimmest of modern
ngurea,
"No. I wish I had I It might havs
saved my husband's life."
"Were the voices raleed? Did It
sound as if there was a quarrel?"
Mrs. Van Berg shook her head
sgaln.
"Oh no they sounded Just ordi
nary." "Could you distinguish anything
that was said?"
Mrs. Vsn Berg appeared to hesi
tate for a moment
"Oh no I wasn't Ustenler of
oouree. I Just got my book anu
went upstairs again."
"And then?"
"I don't know I guess I
drowey but all at once I tnoui
neara a snot."
"Was that long after you cams
upstairs?"
Mrs. Van Berg hesitated again.
"I don't know. It seemed to roues
ms up."
"And then?"
"I ran downstairs, and as soon
Si I opened ths library door I safcr
Imer lying there."
Mrs. Van Berg wse overcome.
r 3DLINQT0N has quite a, good
publlo library. At a quarter past
Bine In the morning Jim sat at a
olid wooden table and turned over
the leave of a fat pile of newspa
pers. He had asked lor the die of
Wht Dally Surprise, because It oould
be trusted to leave nothing out
Evory available detail of the assault
r-a Mr. Van Berg and the theft of
the Van Berg emeralds would cer
tainly be found In Its columns.
Jim turned the pages. Ha waant
holts sura when K had happened.
Nesta had been rather vague, per
bapa purposely . . . Ah! Here was a
piece about the Alice Ardent He had
batter read It But it didn't get him
anywhere; there waa nothing he
)iadn't gathered from Nesta. He
must go back a bit ... He came on
I headline:
VAN BERO NBAS DEATH
He frowned, hesitated, and went
E turning the leavea backwards,
tter begin at the beginning.
He found It at last and read, his
lace hard and expressionless.
Ths vtllagv of Parkham, twenty
ttllea from Islington, has been
the scene of a most amatlng crime.
Elmer K. Van Berg, eonnolasenr
0 precious stones, was discovered
shortly after midnight In hie li
brary st Packhsm Hall, uncon
scious, Us hsd been shot at sloes
Oh. It wee dreadful !H eh a&M
when she could epeak sgaln. 'I was
sfrald to touch him. I ran up and '
oalled Miss Bussell, and telephoned
to the doctor and the police."
"And when did you miss the
emeralds?"
"I wasn't thinking about ths
emeralds I was thinking about
my hueband I"
"But you must bava missed them
some time."
"Yea when the police earns snd
began to aak questions."
"And wsa anything missing bs
sldea the emerslda?"
"There was nothing slee there
nothing elee of value. My. other
Jewela were up In my room. I was
going to wear ths emeralds that
week, so my husband had got them
out of the bank. He always kept
them In his own safs when I was
going, to wear' them, beoauss they
were so valuable."
"Then It looks as If ths thief waa
acquainted with his habits?"
"Yes, It does."
Thai waa all that really signified,
though there waa a lot about the
emeralds, and the Incas, and the
Mr. Van Berg nncle who had started
the famous gem collection.
Jim sat staring at the page, Elmer
Van Berg had sat talking In hla li
brary with the man who had robbed
him. He had the odd feeling that he
knew Elmer Van Berg, and that
what he knew of him made It dim
cult to believe that he would have
engaged In talk at that hour with
any chance-come atranger.
And It hs knew Elmer Van Berg,
and If U waa he who had talked to
him In that library at midnight then
there waa no question of Its being a
stranger. And he did know Elmer
Van Berg. He knew the way the
straight Iron-grey thatch, of hair
atood np above hla forehead, the
way the shrewd, pleasant eyei
looked out under the Iron-grey
brows.
Ha had only to shut his eyes to
aee these things, and the hand and
the scar, and ths emerald chain
dangling from It under the light
All of a sudden his templea were
wet It was true! He had gat and
talked to a man as a friend and shot
him downl
It aa a lie.
He wiped hla forehead. K It was
a lie, why oould he ae that hand
with the scar, and the emerald
hanging from it?
With a dogged determination he
went on reading.
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APPEAL TO PRESIDENT
KANSAS CITY, Uo Oct. 11. (T7P)
-Prtwidi of Conrad Mann, convicted
on lottery chrg In connection with
the ffalr of th Fraternal Order of
EsglM, pUn an appeal to President
Franklin D. RooeereH te behalf of
Mann.
The United State iuprema court
refined today to review the federal
court trial In which Mann, praaldent
of the Kaniaa City chamber of com
nerce, waa fined 919,000 and aen
enced to five months In Jail.
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