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
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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?
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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
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