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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT MEDFOKD MAIL TRIBUTE, MEDFQRD, OTSEGO'S. SUXDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1933 M Outrageous Fortune 8YSOPM8 : The first step toward proving that her cousin Jim Randal it not Kesta RiddtlV husband It, Caroline thinks, to tract down Vesta's marriage record. Hhe starts to London to do it, pondering mean tcHle Nesta's further etatement that Jim has stolen thm Van berg emei-alds and shot Elmer Van Berg. Jim himself cannot be sure what he did. tor his memory is mostly gone. In the train a lire. Rodger drops the information that the police are taking fingerprints from some glasses found in the Van Berg library. And Jim doee remem ber drinking with Van Rergf Caro tins hastily follows Urs, Rodgers from the train. Chapter It FINGERPRINT BOOK CAROLINE bad the sensation ct having made a horrible error. That she ihould hare followed her old nurse's sister was a piece of the most devastating bad luck. Perhaps she didn't know her Mrs. Rodgers nodded again. . "I knew yon at once, miss, though I could see as you didn't know me. Ton haven't changed a mite since Harry nd bring yon In tor a cup of( tea and some ot my mint honey. I've put on a bit since those Says, so I made sure you didn't know me." , "Mrs. Rodgers" "I'm a-golng to tell you what Mrs. Henry told me, and I'm not .a-golng to ask yon why yoa want to know, because maybe I know already and maybe I don't and anyway least said, soonest mended." "Yes?" said Caroline In a whisper. "What I said In the train Is nei ther here nor thore. There Isn't a servant up at the Hall as don't know there was a tray and glasses In the study the night Mr. Van Berg was shot, and the housemaid see with her own eyes how the police took the anger-prints a clapper-tongued woman It there ever was one so there ain't no secrets there. No It was the butler told Mrs. Henry what I'm a-telllng you." "What did she tall your "When they bad finished taking the finger-prints and all the rest of It, the Inspector he sees all the serv ants separate, and then he has the butler back and he says, " ' I understand,' he says, 'as Mr. Van Berg kep' a book with all his friends' finger-prints In it,' ha says. That's right,' say Jackson that's the butler's name. 'Well, says the Inspector, 'I wants to see plat book.' "And Jackson, he says, 'It's al ways a-laylng on Mr. Van Berg's ta ble, and whenever he has a visitor he gets him to make his mark and sign his name.' And the Inspector laughs and says, 'Vory handy for us, Mr. Jackson.'" Caroline's eyes widened. "And then It wasn't so handy after all," said Mrs. Rodgers 'for lo and be'old the book wasn't nowheros to be seen." The blood oame hack Into Caro line's cheeks with a. rush, "And whore was It!" she de manded. "Pushed right down'bo'lnd all the books at the back ot the bookshelf. They went on looking till they'd found It. And then what do you think!" "I don't know," said Caroline, trembling. Mrs. Rodgers lookod at her with a kind ot awful pity. ' . "There was a page tore out," she laid. Perhaps It was, because she had been awake all night, perhaps It was because she bad had a droadful pic ture In her own mind of a finger-print with Jim's name signed undorneath It, but at these words, she fainted. SHE! was really only unconscious for about a minute, but It was long enough for Mrs. Rodgers to have laid nor down flat. She had got a new cabbage-leaf out of the basket and was fanning her with It. Caroline opened her eyes wide. She got up on her elbow, and re membered why she had fainted she had been so horribly afraid that Mrs. Rodgera was going to say that the police had found Jim's linger prints. A page had been torn out Was it that pago! Who had torn It out? Mrs. Rodgers was kneeling on the grass. She sai back on her heels, fanning herself now Instead of Caro line. "Who tore out the page?" said Caroline. She didn't feol as It she could wait a single moment before she asked that question. "Who do you suppose?" seld Mrs. Rodgers. "I don't know." "Who would tear It out. If H wasn't the one who shot Mr. Van Berg? It stands to reason he wouldn't go away and leave his finger-prints there all ready for the police, and his name signed to them would he?" Caroline bit her Up. There was 1 something wronn about the way I Mrs. Rodgera was arguing, bat she conldn't quit get hold ot It only I there was something wrong. She ' thought of Jim, and she said with rush, "Oh, ha wouldn't! A friend wouldn't!" Mrs. Rodgers shook her head. "Nobody can't say that Folks gets Quarrelling, and you can't aay what'U happen. But Mrs. Henry, she says, and she holds to It very strong, " What 'ud be the good of his tear ing the finger-prints out of the book and leaving the glass he'd drank out ot fairly plastered with 'em? It wouldn't 'ave took 'lm 'art a minute to 'ave wiped them off,' she aays and there's something In that" She got up and dusted her kneel with the cabbage-leaf. "'I can't alt on my 'eels like I could when I was a geL Two hundred pound'! 300 pounds, and I shouldn't wonder If K wasn't more by now," She sat down on the stile again. A little color came back Into Caro line's cheeks. That was It that was what she had been trying to gat hold ot If It had been Jim who had torn the page out ot the book, then why hadn't he wiped his glass? Every one knows abont fingerprints now adays. He hadn't wiped his glass because he hadn't anything to hide. He hadn't shot Elmer Van Berg. She knelt by Mn. Rodgers and laid a hand on her knee. "T.V the'traln you said" Mrs. Rodgers looked glum. "And I'd better have held my tongue. No need to tell me that" 'Oh, I didn't mean that I didn't truly. Oh, dear Mrs. Rodgers 1 didn't mean anything like that" Mrs. Rodgers relaxed a little. " 'In for a penny, In tor a pound.1 What did I say?" "Something about Mrs. Van Bergl maid." "A French "ussy!" said Mrs. Rod gers. "And It Mrs. Van Berg 'ad 'art of the things that 'ussy's been 'Int lng Not that It's only foreigners that's given to It for that there Mist Bussell that's housekeeper at tb Hall she's the worse of the two, and the dear knows how Mrs. Henry's stood It, for I wouldn't' " Caroline patted Mrs. Rodgers' knee. "What did the maid say?" "Miss Louise, they cay her. Well, she don't say nothing. That's lust her aggravatlngness she'll 'lnt and 'Int until you're sick, sore and sorry, and then she'll slip out ot the whole thing and protend she never said nothing." "What does she hint?" Mrs. Rodgers gave a kind ot snort '"Int? She's as good as said It wasn't no secret to her what name was tore out and then went back on It." How could she know what nam had been torn out?" There isn't much goes on In th houBe as she don't know picking, and prying, and 'lntlngl 'Orrld, 1 call ltt Letting on she knows things about Mrs. Van Berg tool" "What sort of things?" "She's a wicked 'ussy," said Mrs. Rodgers, "and I wouldn't repeat what she says, It It weren't for a warning. You might know someone as wanted warning, or you mightn't If you don't there's no harm done. Now, my dear whether the police have got wind of It or not I can't say, but what that 'ussy keeps 'lntlng Is just this, that her mistress, Mrs. 1 Van Berg, knows a sight more than she lets on. , A gentloman quarrels with an . other gentleman aooui a taay ana t suoots Dim won m uuu juea iv hide the emeralds and say a thief hss done ltl' she says. And when Mrs. Henry and me presses her, she saya she Is talking about a story she I has been reading In a magaslne and how I kep' my hands off her, I don't know and I can't say. Caroline got up a little uncertain- . ly. She held to the cross-bar of the slile and leaned against It Shs wanted to get away from Mrs. Rod gers before she said anything more. Jim wasn't In love with Susie Van Berg It couldn't be true that ha was, or that he had quarrelled with Elmer Van Berg and shot him, and hidden away the emeralds to maks It look like a burglary. She said. "There'll be another train I must catch It" Mrs. Rodgers got p toot (Oopvrlght, tut, J, . ItppMeeM OW I TH1 DALLES, Ore.. Oct. 31. (AP) -The city ot Baker wu today award ed a 114,705.40 claim agaiuat Baker county In a decision rendered here today by Circuit Judge Wilson. The city sued the county for 20,10336 which It claimed was due onroad taxes the county collected but did not turn over to the city under statu tory provisions requiring counties making special road levies to turn back 60 per cent of the amount col lected to Incorporated municipalities. The case was assigned to Judfre Wilson from Baker county and was argued on written briefs. 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