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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
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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.
The taxes In question were for the
years 1923 to 1980.
Judge Wilson held the county was
not liable for tAe years 1028, 1924
or 1926 because no separate law bad
been made during those years, but
that It was liable for the other years.
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bulls, and th aristocracy of sheep,
awlne, fowls and pets were gathered
under the vast roof of the Pacific In
ternational Livestock exposition build
ing here today, groomed for the for
mal opening of the annual show to
morrow.
A. P. Fleming, manager of the ex-
I position, said the class of entries this
PORTLAND, Oct 30. (AP) Horses ! year surpasses that of several pro
of matchless beauty, blunt, powerful ' vlous shows because stockmen and
horse raisers, obliged to economize,
brought only their finest animals.
Prom the east, north and southwest
train toads of prize atock have been
reaching Portland this week. About
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