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rEDFOHD MATE TOEBTOE, MEDFORtr, OREGON, "UTDN'ESD'AT. OCTOBER' '18. '1933 -
Outrageous Fortune
trsOPSlH: Caroline Leigh M
found, quite by accident, the oouam
h had ttared vat drowned. He is
Jim Randal but he hat lost hit
memory. Gradually they pleet to
pether bilt from tht pant. And
Carolint learnt that Jim it claimed
by Ketta Riddell at her husband,
and that Ketta tayt Jim hot
stolen tht Van Berg tmeraldt and
Mhot Elmer Van Berg. Jim tan rt
tntmber nothing about It, excepting
drinking with Van Berg and tee
ing the tmeraldt. He teart the po
lite may have hit fingerprint!
llnfclito Mm with tht crime.
Chapter 31
HOUSEBREAKERS
CAROLINE nm nearer, pressing
against him as If she could pro
tect him from this something which
threatened. Whatever It waa, he
ni Jim, and hen. She had a pat-
donate conviction that (he could
keep him safe whatever happened.
"There's another bit about the
emeralds. I can tee them under the
light. I can't see Elmer only his
band under the light and the emer
alds hanging from It eight of them,
with little pearl chains between
(hem 'like a kid's green beads.'
Carolina put ber arms round him
"Don't, darling I"
"Do you think I shot him?"
"No!" said Caroline, In a quick
fierce voice.
"She said I did to get the emer
alds."
"That woman T"
"Tea, Nesta. She satd Jim Rid
dell shot him and took the emer
alds. She was In It too. And he hid
the emeralds and went off up to
Glasgow by the Alice Arden only
be never got there, because she was
jrrecked."
"What has that got to do with
you?" said Caroline, still In that
new fierce voice.
"She says I'm Jim Riddell."
"You're notl Why should you be?"
"I don't know Caroline, I don't
know." She felt a shudder pass over
him. "If I could remember but I
cant remember."
You will."
He was silent. Ber words went
echoing through the empty spaces
of his mind: "Remember remem
ber you will remember." They re
peated themselves endlessly and
died away. Suppose he didn't re
member. There was a six weeks gap
In his life. Suppose he never re
membered what had happened In
those six weeks. Suppose he did re
member. Suppose he had really shot
Elmer van Berg
"Yon didn't!" said Caroline. She
pressed against him and laid her
cheek to his. "Jim darling don't
go all away by yoursolf. Talk to me,
We'll find a way out."
He put hor arms awuy from him,
"Suppose there's no way out Sup
pose 1 did It."
Caroline sat back a little. She put
her bands In her lap and lifted her
face to the sky. She had a clear, un
troubled look that was very comfort
ing. She spoke softly and steadily,
as It she were reasoning with a
child.
"Why should you have shot him,
darling?" ,
"I don't know I was there I re
member drinking with him"
"You wouldn't have shot him with
out reason. You don't Just so about
shooting people tor nothing nobody
does."
"The emeralds are not exactly
nothing."
"That's rubbish!" The words were
touched with a light scorn.
"Is It?"
"Yea, It Is you know It Is, really,
Jim. Do you romombor anything at
all about that Nests woman?"
"No."
"Well, 'wouldn't you have. If you
bad married her?"
"I don't know." His voice sounded
bopeleas.
"She didn't touch a chord? I mean,
sometimes you meet a total stranger
and you don't know where they come
from or who they are, but something
goes click Inside you and you feel as
It you knew them. You didn't feel
anything like that?"
HE laughed grimly.
"I loathed her," he said.
"So did I." said Caroline happily.
Well, there you are If you loathed
her. you wouldn't have married her."
There was rather a horrid pause.
Then he said,
"Perhaps I loathed her because I
married her."
Carolina cried out quickly.
"Oh, you didn't!"
The silence fell again. She had to
break It herself.
"Jim, listen I've got an Idea. You
can look up your signature In that
registry office. No, It's not your sig
natureIt cant be! It's Jim Rid
dell's signature. You can look It np,
and then you'll know that It Isn't
yours."
"Or that It Is.
"It lsn'tl You can take the first
train tomorrow "
"That's Just what I can't do."
'Why can't you?"
"Because I gather that the police
are looking tor me."
"You?"
"Jim Riddell or Jim Randal I
don't know which."
"Why should it be yon?" aaid
Caroline.
"My dear, I waa there we've got
to face that. I was there, and I saw
the emeralds. I don't think I'm In a
position to walk Into that registry
office and ask to see the entry of Jtm
Riddell's marriage."
"I could," said Caroline quickly.
"You mustn't get mixed up In It."
"There won't be anything to mix
me the registrar won't know me
from Adam."
He put his head In his hands for a
minute, trying to get through the
dull fatigue which clogged his
thoughts.
"I don't want you to have anything
to do with It I'm too tired to think
properly but you're not to get
mixed up with this you oughtn't to
be-here."
She put her arms round him again.
"You'll come home with me I'll
make you a lovely bed on the sofa."
"No I can't"
. "Because of us, or because of
you ?"
"Both. I'll get In here somehow. I
shall be all right"
Caroline laughed.
"The back door key Is under a
loose stone In the yard Mrs. Led
ger always puts It there. She comes
up once a week to light fires and air
the house. Robort said she'd better
when he heard you wore coming
home. She says the key Is too 'drat
ted heavy to traipse up and down
with.' This was one of her days, so
the kitchen will be nice and warm."
Jim felt a curious thrill of antici
pation as they skirted the house and
came Into the dark yard behind It
There was no moonlight here. The
shadow of the house lay across It
like a fold ot black cloth.
Caroline caught his hand and
drew him lightly on.
Presently she was feeling with
her foot A stone tilted. She stooped.
and came up with the key. She put
It in his hand, cold and heavy, and
hs opened the door.
IT7HATEVER else he had forgot
ten, he had not forgotten the
ways of the house In which he had
grown up. He took Caroline by the
arm and walked along the pitch
dark passage to tho kitchen without
so much as a false step.
Caroline found matches and lit a
candle end. Mrs. Lodger had stuck
It into one of the old brass candle
sticks. The yellow light showed the
brass turned bronze with streaks of
verdigris. The kitchen was warm
and pleasant There was ash still hot
In the range, and a line full ot blan
kets had been wound up on a pulley
and hung Just clear of their heads.
They look like ghosts," said Caro
line under her breath "sheeted
ghosts. I don't think I like thorn very
much."
But Jim was pulling them down.
"They'll make a good bed," he
said.
Caroline gave a faint shriek.
"I saw two cockroaches! You can't
sloep here!"
'Til go Into the study."
"There's nothing for you to eat.
I'll run home and get you something."
I bought things in Ledllncton.
I've got plenty left"
Oh" said Caroline. She stood a
minute; then she said, speaking
rather fast "Could yon get along
till tomorrow evening?"
'Oh yea."
'Because I don't think I'd bettor
come up In the daytime someone
might see me. People have most
awfully sharp eyes when you don't
want them to. Will you be alt right
till then?"
Of course I shall."
All right then I'd bettor go." She
came up to him and leaned towards
him across the blankets. "Jim
you'll be here? You won't go away
will you? Swear?"
All right."
You won't go without seeing mo?
You won't Just vanish? Because I
couldn't bear It You won't?"
He shook his head.
Caroline flung her arms round his
neck, held hint for a moment In a
tingling clasp, and ran out ot the
kitchen and along the black pas
sage. Her footsteps rang on the
stone, and the door shnt
(Copyright, Jill, J, B. llpptneort Oo.)
PRETTY BOY SHOT
OKLAHOMA CITY. Oct. 18 fAP)
Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, a
name pretty well crowded out of Ok
lahoma's crime news by the "ma
ohine gun" Kellys and Harvey Bailey,
was back today, linked with a story
of wounds and a spurned offer to
surrender.
Gov. William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Mur
ray, said the desperaao had offered
to "give fclmself up" through an em
issary after a atate operative had
wounded him In a gun fight near
Coalgatt, Okla., several weeks sgo
But the surrender offer, said Murray,
was on the condition the state would
not seek the death penalty. "I
couldn't make a deal like that," the
governor added. "We'll get him.
though."
Rubber Is used for more than 300
parts In manufacturing of some au
tomobiles and trucks.
SPECIAL SESSION
TO C0ST$25,000
SALEM, Oct. 18. AP) Oregon's
20-day special session of the legis
lature will cost around 135,000, of
ficials estimated.
The formal proclamation calling
the legislators to meet in an extra
ordinary session November 30 will be
Issued Saturday by Governor Julius
L. Meier, It was announced at the
executive department.
State department officials said the
work of arranging the bouse and sen
ate chambers for the session would
get under wsy within the next few
days.
More than 5,000 applications were
filed for 60 positions on the newly
organized Ohio state highway patrol.
Indiana unemployed relief rolls de
creased 8.2 per cent In August, as
compared with July.
Caroline turns deUetlvs, tomorrow.
About 10 3 per cent of Ohio's roads
are surfaced for all-weather use as
compared with the national average
of 04 per cent,
Sunflower seed Is being grown on
a commercial scale near Clarendon,
Texas, for chicken feed.
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