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PTGE FOTJE Outrageous Fortune BTNOPtlBl Bp tUw aeotdent, Caroline had found her eousin, Jim Randal, whom oho had thought droumed. But his memory of past ovonto is confused: ho hat been told by Notta Rlddell that he U her husband, and wont, that ho hao otolen tho Van Bora omoraldt and ohot thoir ewnor. And hio memory thoico him flaeheo ot himself drink ing with Van Berg, and of tho emer oldo in Van Berg t hands I Jim can not disprove Nosta, since ho cannot remember hio immediate past. Bo Caroline etarto to tendon to chock up on Neota'o marriage, and on tho train hears that glasses are being levied for finger printo bp tho police, tho lo frightened. Chapter II SUDDEN DECI8I0N MRS. Rodgers tank her rata to a sepulchral whisper. "Thar was a tray with whisky and loda and two glasses In Mr. Van Berg's stndy, and the police took 'em for Anger-prints. And Mrs. Henry says to me, 'That wasn't no plain straightforward burglar,' she says. .It a burglar comes In on a gentle man In the middle of the night, they don't, sit down and hare drinks to gethernot much they don't,' she says." "Were the glasses full or empty?" aid the ehy young man. "Empty down to the last drop," said Mrs. Rodgers. "And what's more but there, p'raps I didn't ought to repeat that." ' "I'm sure none of as will let It go any farther,' said the elder Miss Boring. . "Well, I don't know aa Td better, seeing as Mm. Henry wouldn't ha' sold me If It hadn't been for me arerhearlcg what passed between her and Mrs. Van Berg's maid." Caroline's heart began to beat hard and fast. What was she going lo hearT She felt as If at any mo ment this fat good-natured woman might aay something that couldn't rer be unsaid again something dangerous, something that might hurt Jim. Everyone was begging Mrs. Rod gers to go on. "Wall, I dont know as I ought That's Ufa worst ot talking you run on, and then you can't take It back again. Lor bless me If we haven't gqt to Meade already! and perhaps Just as well, or t might hare said more than I ought. Now, I wonder If anyone 'ud be good enough to hand my basket out after me. It's a deal easier to got out back wards when yon come to my site." The train jerked and clanked to a standstill. The shy young man opened the door. Mrs. Rodgers backed out, took her basket, and bade the carriage at large an affable farewell. lyil'HOUT having thought of It ' beforehand, Caroline found her- aelf saying, "Please may I pass?" She had to say that because the choolboy was standing right In the doorway. He moved as the guard am along to shut the door. Caroline said In a soft breathless -roles, "I'm getting out," and jumped down on to the platform just as the train began to move. She didn't wait for the guard to acold her. Mrs. Rodgers was already giving p her ticket. Caroline ran after her and caught her up just outside the station where Meade Hill runs steep ly up between hedges full of bram ble and'elder. Mrs. Rodger stared at her In as tonishment, and Carolina realised that she had no Idea what she was going to say. It must have come ever her suddenly that she simply couldn't let Mrs. Rodgers go, and bow that she had caught her up aba aald the first thing that came into her bead. "Can I help you with your basket?" Mrs. Rodgers looked her up and down. . - "What's a young lady like you want to carry my basket for?" "I'm going your way." "And how do you know what way Fra going, miss?" Caroline looked rather as If she Bad been caught stealing jam. Her lips trembled Into a smile. "1 r-ran after you," she said. Mrs. Rodgers set down her basket in the road and nodded. "Honesty's the best policy. What brought you after me? For by the - look of you you hadnt any thoughts of getting out here." "No," said Caroline," "I should truly like to carry your basket" She picked 1t up, and they began to mount the hill. "And that's what you cams after ma for, I'll b boundl" "No I cam after you because I wanted to talk to you." "That's straight anywa And what hay yo got to sayt "I didn't want to say anything. I wanted yoi to tell m what Mrs, Henry told you." A t R8. Rodgers swung her ampVt black skirts In silence. They Just cleared the dust of the road. Hsf color deepened as she climbed. "Mrs. Rodger " Mrs. Rodgers turned a streaming crimson fac upon her. "Talk on this '111, I can't" ah panted, and Caroline had to get wbafc comfort aha could from that At the top ot the hill there was a stile, and on the step ot the atil Mrs. Rodgers seated herself and prooeeded to get ber breath. Caro lina stood before her with the bas ket and fslt her courage slip and slip away. "Well?" said Mrs. Rodger at last Caroline looked at her Imploringly. "I'm going your way," Caroline aald. "Well, since we're 'ere, we'd best have It out." Caroline spoke before all her cour age loft her. "Will you please tell me what Mrs. Henry said?" "And why?" "I thought I'd like to know." said Caroline rather faintly. "And why?" said Mrs. Rodgors In an even slower and more porten tous manner. Caroline began to speak quickly. "You were telling us as the train stopped, and I I wanted to know. You were telling everyone in the carriage." Mrs. Rodgers nodded. "What's taken light can bs told light 'Twasn't nothing to them, no more than It wasn't to me. Stands to reason ererybody'U talk about a murder and this Is as good aa one by all accounts." Then won't you tell me?" I dunno " said Mrs. Rodger. Sh parsed her Up together and cast an odd look at Caroline. "Do you know where I'm going?" she said with apparent Irrelevance. "No, I don't suppose yo do. WeH, I'm walking aoross the field by this here footpath to Stowbury to spend the day with . my slater, Harriet. Brown, that used to be Harriet Welsh." Caroline's color ohatifted sharply Sh had the horrible lensacton of having walked Into a trap. fOoeyi-tpM, Mil, . B. HopmooM Co.) Mrs. Rodasre glvse CtroHne somt tfrrfyVna InfcfrnslKk Vs. morrow. OF DAMAGE SUIT Two dsm&ge suits were filed circuit court Thursday against Philip Coffin and the Firestone Service Stores as the result of an accident on Riverside avenue In this city Oc tober 0. The first, filed by Valentine Rltseh, asks 130.000 and attorney's fees of S360 on the claim that the I plaintiff received serious injuries In a wreca cere, causea oy we aerena In ant. The second, filed by Alice Lowder. administrator of the estate of R. N. Lowder, deceased, asks S10,r3o on the claim that Mr. Lowder died In Jose phine county on OctoU-. 1 of In juries received In the same collision. She also claims that the defendsnt was responsible for the wreck. Ouy 0. Maeaey, 22, of Zebulon, M. C, Is the youngest deputy sheriff ever appointed In his county. T RULES IN EFFECT LOS ANGELES, Oct SO. (AJ) W. E. Ooodspeed. manager of the wal nut control board with headquarter here, announced today ttiat all wal nut growers In California, Oregon and Washington are operating un der thi "license for packers of wal nuts grown In California, Oregon and Washington," as signed by Secre tary, ot Agriculture Wallace, Octo ber 11. "One If the Important regulations established by this license," aald Goodspeed, "requtrea every ot of mer chantable walnuta shipped or other wise disposed of by packer to be covered by certificate." A historic blockhouse on John son's Island in Lake Erie, where Con federate officers were imprisoned during the civil war, Is to be re stored and preserved. It has been used as s stable. S'MATTER POP By C. M. PAYNE I ( MS. 1 U ' r 1 I I VsUhSty I,, ' (Copyright, 1833, by Tht Bell yndloatsjns.). 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