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MEDFOKP TStAHj TRIBTJNE, TfTEbfffrft'fii ftftjCGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1933 Outrageous Fortune tn HaVucu, BYNOP81B: By ehanc Caroline Leigh has found her cousin, Jtm Jtandol Be telle her a fantastic a'-t-y; claimed at husbanit by Set la Hidden, he it told bu Kesta that he stole the famous Van Berg smer-t aids and shot Elmer Van Berg. The worst is that Jim cannot remember the immediate past.exoept in flashes and one of the flashes shows htm drinking ioith Van Bero, and the emeralds in Van Berg's handl Per naps he did shoot the man, Jim tells Caroline. Carotins refuses to believe it, and plans to trace doum Jt'esta's marriatie record. Bhe leaves Jim in Hale Place, his old home, but closed for the last yeare. Chapter U TO. LONDON CAROLINE caught th seveu thirtr to London. All the time she and Jim ware getting Into Hale Place, while he waa nulling down the blanket! and ahe waa Baying Bomeone might Bee her it she came hack by day, ahe was concocting a eecret plan. In the end ahe ran away becauae ahe waa afraid that he would gueas what ahe meant to do. She thought he would have guesaed It he hadn't been atupld with fatigue. She thought he waa like a man halt drugged. That waa why he hadn't guessed ; and It waa lucky tor her, becauae It he had guessed, he would have tried to stop her, and she meant to go. , It was paat two o'clock when she came back to the cottage. The gate waa unlatched and the door stood wide open as ahe had left It. If Patey Ann had only known I To Patsy, there was always a burglar round the next corner. Caroline undreaaed and lay down under her great-grandmother's em broidered quilt, but she did not Bleep. She waa too flooded with Joy to sleep. Her handa still kept the Itouch of Jim's hands; her ears still 'rang with all the sounds of his voice. iShe had no time to fall asleep. At six she dressed, went tiptoe down tha stairs, made tea, and soiled herself an egg. Then she wrote on the slate, "Gone to town,' and propped It up against the bowl let fruit In the middle of the gate-leg table; after which she set oat to walk four miles across the fields to Ulnton, where aha caught the train. She had the compartment to her- aelf aa far as Ledllngton, where It tilled up. She wondered what she would do It Nosta Rlddell were to get in. How dare she say Jim waa her husband f It waa the most unbe lievable. Impudent thing. Caroline tripped up over her own word. This wasn't unbelievable, because she had done It. The unbelievable thing was that she should claim a strang er. Hut she had claimed a atranger. Had sheT It It waa unbelievable, then Caroline didn't believe It. Then he wasn't a atranger. Where did this take her. She had a terrified sense of having betrayed herself and Jim. She pushed the word that had tripped her right out of ber mind and shut the door on It, She hadn't got to account for what Nesta Rld dell had dope. She had only to go to tha Grove Road registry office and ee James . Riddell's name In a Btranger'a writing. That would prove that Nesta was lying, and that Jim waa free. It was tha easiest thing in the world, and ahe felt that ahe couldn't bear to see Jim gain until aha had the proof that It waa not he who had signed the register as Nesta Riddell's husband. The train Jogged along. It stopped at every etatlon, but after Ledllng ton the compartment was too full to take tn any more passengers. 'TWERE wss an old woman with a string bag full of vegetables and an enormous sheaf of cottage flowers crimson phlox, red and yel low single dahlias, full-blown cab bsse roses, and clove carnations which scented the whole compart ment. She had a crushed black straw hat en the back of her head, a black Cashmere dress, and: a thick black cloth coat. Her face was broad and red under scanty wisps of grey hair. She waa very hot, because she lived two miles out of Ledllngton and had hurried to catch the train. She tanned herself with a cabbage leaf, and as soon ae she had got her breath she began to talk, first about the weather, and then about the Van Berg case. Three girls on tha opposite seat, Dlmally dressed slips of things with salmon-colored stockings, bereta, and magenta lira went on whispering and giggling to gether while she told them how the snails wore over-running her garden from one end to the other, and how ahe had aet a slug trap "And If I was to toll you what I caught, yon wnniun t believe me. Blver Traffic RrvlTrd PORTLAND, Oct. 18. (AP) The stern-wheel river steamer Northwest ern will return to her Salem-Port-land freight run some time next week. It waa announced here today. The boat left drydork yesterday and was undergoing federal Inspection to day. Aa soon as the Oregon City locks are re-opened ths regular freight run will stsrt. WE'RE I V W . M V. M aft W bS Baaa A sly young man who was Idgev lng with an unltghted cigarette looked out of the window. The Mlia Borlnga, who kept a genteel wool ehop In Mlckleham Street, tat prim ly aide by side In their neat, dowdy blue serge coats and sklrta. They wore identical tucked muslin blouses with high collars and rolled, gold collar-supports, and twin haU of dark blue straw with plain black ribbons. The schoolboy next to them waa Immersed In the latest mystery thriller. The old gentleman with the beard went on filling his pipe. And the young married couple opposite Caroline continued to hold one an other's hands. ' Snails hare no charm to unit a carriage full of strangers In a com mon bond of Interest But no sooner had the stout woman pronounced the name Van Berg than everyone had something to aay. "It's a queer thing they dont seem to catch the man that shot Mr. Van Berg," she said, and the school boy emerged from his thriller with a Jerk. "They say they've got a due," he began. "Tl at doesn't mean very much," said the old man. He tapped his pipe. "The sort of thing they say to keep the publlo quiet like throw ing a bone to a dog." The girl with the large blue eyes rolled them at the shy young man and giggled. The stout woman fanned herselt "I waa up at the Hall yesterday" "Pack-ham Hall'i" aald both Miss Borings together. THE stout woman nodded. "Cook's my brother's second wlfe'a cousin-in-law, and I took her over a couple of pots of honey. The shop stuff's that watered down she don't relish It, so I took her some of mine nover been before where they didn't keep their own bees, and don't like it. "And then to have a murder, or next door to it, well, ahe don't think she'll stay such an upset, and not what ehe's used to, Why, when she heard the ahot, she come over that queer she couldn't have got out of bed, not if It had been the house on Are.. " 'Mrs. Rogers.' she says that be ing my name 'Mrs. Rogers, I give you my solemn Identical word, I Just pulled tbe clothes over my head and waited to aee It I was going to be murdered in my bed.' She don't look her right color yet" "I don't know how I should feel If I waa to hear someone being shot In the middle of the Bight," said the young married woman. "I know what you'd do," aald her husband "pinch me, same as you're doing now." The girl giggled, and the Miss Borings coughed. "Ah!" said Mrs. Rodgers. "It Isn't everyone that's got someone to pinch. I'm a widow meself, and ao's Mrs. Henry that I've been telling you about. Her 'usband waa a p'llce- man, ao It doesn't put her about having the police In and out and all over the place, as you might aay and maybe she'd got told a thing or two aa she wouldn't have got told It If woren't for her 'usband's official position." Everyone leaned forward a little. The shy young man burst Into speech. "Did she tell you whom they sus pected?" Mrs. Rodgers shook her head. "Were there any finger prints?" said the schoolboy. "They'll get him if there were." "Ah!" said Mrs. Rodgers darkly. "Well, I don't know aa I ought to say, but seeing aa we're all friends here " She paused, fanning her self. Caroline caught the Inside of her Up between her teeth. Her handa held each other hard. A general mur mur encouraged Mrs. Rodgera to proceed. "Well, lt'a something as hasn't got Into the papers I can tell you that and everyone tn the house told not to say .a word. They'd have kep' them from knowing It so be they could, but when there'a a tray and glasses took tor finger prints, there's going to be talk In the servants' hall whether or no." "Ah" said tha old man with the beard. Caroline's grip relaxod a trine. She knew this already; It was what Jim had told her. But thon tt meant It meant he had remem bered right I IConright, 1)11, J. a. Uprmoott Oe-i Carolina lump! suddenly frees tha train, Monday. Montana's law placing petroleum products In the publlo utility classi fication and authorising price regu lation waa declared unconstitutional by the atate supreme court. Eclipse, the race horse that won over Henry In 1833, eatabllahed a breeding strsln from which race horaea even to this day have been developed. CARRYING OUR END FORST.MARKSSET Sunday, October 22, has bean deslg- nated "Oo to Church Sunday" by the S'MATTER POP- TAILSPIN TOMMY V V ok, mb- y as wot S, i '-"- "' .1 J- Or I , - rf V. CVSaXKI MOVlkJ -fir JV4- V oolSwt UT jLQS I -A.J-lft u-PS An' -6B.TS. If T Me- uP ! V ifQffi X. Me. 6"PAM vfe2: V HaW. . HS.UL.O--WUE.a.,MA,t, H6LLO"7)Wggf-gW7- MFANHHILF- Y iWPyX kAS OROi-SNie'S V T-AS FAR A 1 KNOU3, nSitAK Atxvr-T -r sgr otiotaNiE. 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'l OlO YOO FORQIT BY Hl fit JoOWCKHOMEBUWilMY ?f f TH.NG , ' I wwfc SOMETHlN'? TONE OF ( ifB HUSBANOWNOblT-MSMUtT ,: V .CE-BOX V TT U ' M StCT 1 I VOICE- NOT KNOW I'VE. BEEN ' ;. L . J jify. j) f gi, I I . ! . eiilisV yATTe "j There's No Guesswork in Tribune A. B. G. Circulation ve-'try of St. Mark's Episcopal church, and worahlp with the members of the and It la earnestly requested that all : Ep"wopl church. members of the 8t. Mark's church and pEIPINO. China. Oct. 18. (API congregation and their Mends attend Dr. even Redln. Swedish eiplorer the 11:15 service. who has been engaged by the Chi- There will be special music and all ' naaa government for a trip to 81n atrangera in ths city will be welcomed, I klang province preliminary to an as well as all other persons, who do I attempt to open up the territory eco- not have a permanent church home. They are cordially Invited to come On The Wings Of The Storm! I nomlcally. will depart on the Jour- ' ney Saturday. By C. M. PAYNE SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1 (API PI res in long-dry timber and brush SPECTATOR wWtHES FATHER fVf flM6 UP SHELF ASKS "DID HE HURT Hlf)- ASK6 SaF MORE THAN THE FATHER time he tripped on THE BUCKET ON THE CELLAR STAIRS? iwauAn o-q became sn Increasing menace In Cal ifornia today as an October heat wave clung on. Three brush blazes In the Los Ang eles region and two ftrea raging through Redwood timber in the vic inity of Santa Cms were attributed by officials to tbe heat. Two cases of heat prostration, neither fatal, were reported In Lob Angeles yesterday ss the mercury BrtHER HlfS HIMSELF a crack on -Thumb UlrfH HAMMER . ASKS FATHER, VvVtO 16 DAMONS R0Uf& W50M HOLDite Thumb, did HE HURT HJMStLT ? WHAT IS If ASKS CAN HE IS SAVINS SbRf THUMB WHERE OF UNDER HIS BREATH? HIMSELF WITH (Copyright. 1933, by Tbe Bell Syndicate, Inc.) rose to 83 degrees, three degrees be low the previous day's maximum. Sultry sir movements from the In terior, which for three days have replaced the usual ocean breezes, brought San Francisco the warmest October 18 of record. The high thermometer reading was 88. Kentucky had 539 homicides 1833. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS F6U.OW5 WMROONP ASKlNfe WHV P0E6KT HE ANSWER ? DID HE HURT HIMSELF 1TFtV PWCH? SEE WIS 6EfS THE IDEA HE ISN'T HE Hlf HOPING FATHER MUCH HAMMER? 1b 6Ef OVER HIS INIURV, AND 60E5 OFF W0NDERJN6 IF MOWER KNOWS WHAT WOSE WORDS MEAN friKri FATHER USED By GLENN CUAFF1N and UAL f OBKESZ By George McManus la
