PTGE EIGHT
MEDFOTID MATE TTtlBTjyE, UEPFORD, OREGON, THTJRSDAY. OCTOBER 12, 1933.
Outrageous Fortune
SYNOPSIS: Neeta Bidden says
the man uhom ah found euffering
from to ot wmoru t her Auj
band, Jimmy, and tell htm that h
ttole the Van Berg emerald, and
ehot Van Berg. He de.ee not believe
her, but cannot duprovm the elate
ment. Finally he force her to turn
fver the money he had had in hte
picket, and goee to the Ledlington
library to read the detail ot the
Van Berg eate in the paper. Ae he
reade he become convinced that h
did know Van Berg, and had eeen
the emmraXf in hie hand. If he
did not ehoot Van Berg and tteal
the emerald, who didt
Chapter tf
JIM IN FLIGHT
IN the ad he knew Try little
more. The polle wr ald to
hay a cine. Elmer Van Berg bad
not recorered consciousness. His
condition waa extremely grave.
There waa no trace ot th emeralds.
He aat back In the bard upright
ebalr and (tared straight In front
of blm. What next? He bad left
Hanpicot, and no power on earth
would take him back there. He
would have to make that quite clear.
He had bought tome tbeeta of
paper, a pencil, and a couple of
tamped envelop aa he came along.
He wrote a few line of tbanke to
Mln. A nloe little thing kind,
pretty, timid. He boped tor her sake
that Keeta w ain't (topping there
long. It was quite easy to write to
Mln.
It wain't at all easy to write to
Neeta. How did yon write to an un
pleasant stranger who happened to
be your wife, and make It perfectly
dear that yon never Intended to see
htr again T
He couldn't Imagine how be had
ever come to be mixed up with her.
Or with this Van Berg affair. Ac
cording to all the available evidence,
be had shot Elmer Van Berg and
.taken the Inca's emeralds. Unless
or until he got his memory back he
could neither rebut nor explain this
evidence. All he could do was to try
and get away from It.
He might remember why be had
gone to see Elmer Van Berg. He had
gone to see him, and they bad talked
and had drinks. That was a funny
thing there was nothing In the
paper about those drinks. But be
remembered drinking with Elmer.
That Is to say, he had remembered
it It bad come and gone like a flash.
Elmer standing up, with his hand
on the syphon. If be could remem
ber that, he ought to be able to re
member the whole thing. He might
remember It at any time. It was
utterly damnable. He'd got to get
away out of Ledlington out of tbe
country If possible.
It came to him that there had
been so mention of those drinks, be
cause they were a police clue. His
finger-marks would be on tht glass
that he bad used. Tbe Incident
hadn't been given to the press on
purpose.
He leaned forward with determi
nation and wrote:
"I am going away. When I am in
position to do so, I will come to
some arrangement with you."'
He signed, J. R and fastened the
envelope and addressed It to Neeta.
FIVE pounds Is not a very large
sum. Carefully husbanded, ot
course, It will go quite a long way.
It you tramp the roads, sleep out,
and live on bread and cheese, your
lodging costs you nothing, and your
food not very much. On the other
hand, a toothbrush, a cake ot soap,
and a raior are necessaries, and so
Is a change of linen. Money melts
as soon as you begin to buy clothes.
How long would his suit last It he
lept out In It? It was none too
grand now.
He pushed all these things away.
He had got to get out of Ledlington,
and he was lucky to have Ave
pounds to take the road with.
Aa be passed a newspaper shop at
the corner ot the Station Road, a
headline stared at him tram a yard
away:
ARREST NEAR IN VAN BERO
CASE
A mile out ot Ledlington he left
tbe high road tor a footpath across
fields. It took him Into a lane which
climbed to an open heath.
He sat down to rest on the stump
ot a tree and looked about him. The
day was fine, but not clear. The blue
of the iky was misted over, and the
us came palely through. There
was a purple bloom ot heather a
tar as tbe eye could see. He stared
across It at the veiled horlton. A
hill like a cloud stood up against Its
Van Eck Chairman
Shell Union Oil
NEW YORK, Oot. 13. (AP) J. C.
Van Sok, president of Shell Union Oil
Corp., today was named ohalrman of
tbe executive eommlttee, a new po
sition created by the directors.
R. O. A. Van Der Woud. former
president of the Bhell Petroleum
Corp., a fcubsidary, was named prpi
Ident. W. p. Durkee, Jr., and O. H.
Van tden, both connected with th
Bhell Union many yeara, were made
vIm presidents.
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Va;4cJth perfect cum rj yZy
C,..m
northern edge a bill with a double
top.
He sat looking at It tor a lone?
time, and for as long as he looked)
at It there were pictures In his mind
broken picture that cam and
went, forming, dissolving, and re
forming. When be tried to think1
about them they were gont. He waa
left with a sense of things most deep
ly familiar.
He walked on towards th hill. , I
He had bought food In Ledllngton.
At mid-day n sat on a sunny slope
and at. Afterwards be fell asleep
and dreamed about the emeralds. It
waa th aam dream every time be
slept, but It was getting clearer. In
the dream he always knew where
the emeralds were, but as soon as
he woke up th knowledge faded.,
Sometimes ht could hold it for a
moment by shutting bis eyes and:
keeping his mind empty; but as
soon as he tried to keep it, It waa
gons.
The dream always began th sam
way. He could remember the begin-;
nlng Elmer's hand with tbe scar,;
and the emeralds dangling from It!
under tbe light eight square green
stones with pearls between them.
Then th dream broke up Into a!
rush of colored fragment. There
was a vole In a fog. There was tbe
sound of a shot a long way off. There
was the voice, and ther was a pic
ture In his mind ot tall stone pillars
with pineapple tops, and a drive
that wound between tbem out of
sight The voice said, "Like a kid's
green beads," and,' "Nobody knows
where they are." But In th dream
he knew. A round room with five
little windows like silts a plac
where you might look tor a year
and never And them.
He woke up, the sun hot on his
face. The dream was gone, but the
hill still broke the horizon. In some
strange way he associated the hill
and the dream. He made a pillow
of bracken for his head and lay on
the alope watching the hill. Pres
ently he would get to It present
ly. .. .
He slept again.
"IT'S eleven o'clock," aid Carolina
to Patsy Ann. "I'm going to
bed."
She went up the stairs, which
ended on a tiny landing with a door
on either elde. Her room was on the
left, and you went down two steps to
It, Both the steps and the floor ot
th room were old polished boards,
very wavy and uneven. The window,
which, looked to the front of the
house, was set In a deep embrasure.
She shut tbe door and turned on
the light In the lamp beside ber bed.
Hazelbury West had had electric
light for the last eight years and
considered Itself very up to date In
consequence.
Caroline turned down her bed,
folding the quilt carefully and lay
ing It on the cbest In whloh she kept
her hats. She had said she wanted
to come to bed, but she wasn't really
sleepy.
She opened tie bottom drawer ot
tbe cbest ot drawers which faced
tbe window and took out a bundle
of letters tied with, a twist ot pale
blue knitting silk. Then she went
over to the bed. Sitting down on the
edge ot It, she untied the bundle and
turned the letters over,
Ther were not a great many ot
tbem. Two th first year after Jim
went out one for her birthday, and
one for Christmas and two again
the second year, and the third, In
the fourth year he only wrote for
Christmas. The pain ot that missed
birthday came across the three
years' Interval and hurt her still.
In the fifth year there was no let
ter at all. On ber birthday and on
Christmas day Caroline read the old
letter and tried to make believe
that tbey had Just come. It was not
a very successful make believe.
In the sixth year there wer still
no -letters.
And then in th seventh year
this year tbey began again. He
bad written at Christmas from New
York.
Caroline got out the letter and
read It again. It was a vry sic
letter. She hugged herself a little
over It It began, as all his letters
had begun, "Darling Caroline"; and
It was quit long. He had been
building a bridge In Mexico, and he
had been In Chile, and Peru, and un
In wild places In ths Andes. He waa
bars, Jim. He always signed Just
like that: "Yours, Jim."
(Copyright, till, J. B, LipptnoeH Co.)'
Tht movemtntt of Jim fUndtl
btcomt oltartr, Monday,
Britain Planning
System Like NRA
LONDON, Oot. 13. (AP) The
sdoptlon of the forty-tour hour week
along the lines ot the American NRA
In Important sections of the British
Industrial world, without reductions
of wages, waa foreshadowed today by
announcement of an agreement of
the Amalgamated Engineering Union
with th Imperial Chemical Indus
tries.
Broken windows glased by Trow
bridge Cabinet work.
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tim, bad been murdered police a&ld
today they h&d aire ted two women
and tlx men lor questioning. 8 wet
land, an advertising man, was found
dead In bed last February 8 by bis
wife. There was a bullet hole
In his head ana ths comor pro
nounced bis death a suicide.
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in the world war. He dispatched
the message sent by Gen. Jaftn J.
Pershing Nov. 11. 1918, ordering that
firing cease, according to Mrs. Bwet
Uad. Heating costs eaa be reduced- For
complete nesting service, oall Ait
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PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 13. (AP)
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annex on the slope of Mount Rood
on the Loop highway, was destroyed
by fire today. The tall, three-story
wooden structure was quickly con
sumed by the flames.
The lodge was one of the best
known resort hotels In the Pacific
Northwest. It was built In 1907 and
was transformed last year Into a
Swiss chalet type.
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EX-GRID STAR CRUEL
IS WIFE'S COMPLAINT
SEATTLB. Oct. 12. ( AP) Mrs.
Virginia Tesreau filed suit Is super
ior court here today for divorce from
her husband, Elmer L. Tesreau, for
mer University of Washington foot
ball star, charging he bad "conduct
ed himself In a manner constituting
cruel treatment."
By EDWIN ALGER
By SOL HESS
By George McManus
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