PAOE SIX
AfEDFORD MAIL TRTJ3TJXE, MEDFOm), OREGON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1933
Outrageous Fortune
HYSOPSIS! Jim Kandal det'r.
mines to remain in huling at hit
boyhood home Hale Place, in an
effort to regain his memory of the
last eta weeks, and ur.f male the
situation in which he Ji.ids himself.
He may. tor all he can vrove, be
both the thief who took the van
Berg emeralds and the husband at
a woman he detente, Nesta Itiddell.
Moreover, from what Caroline
Leigh tells him, clues found bu the
pmtre at tne van hero house scan
to bear out Neeta'e story.
Chapter SS
THE LETTER
pAROLIXB Interrupted Jim with
a frightened, "Stay here?'
"Why not? You ald Mra. Ledger
only came once a week. If she was
here yesterday, that glvet me Ave
clear days. If I can't remember
things by then, I shall send for
Robert and put myself in his hands,
He stopped In the middle of the
floor. "And now you must go."
Caroline got up.
"Have you got enough blankets
Are they aired?"
He laughed a real laugh this
time.
"Who do' thlnk's been airing my
bedclothes tor the last seven
years?"
"I don't know," said Caroline.
"And you needn't laugh It's nice
of me to want you to have dry blar
kets. Don t you think so?"
She came up close and stood on
tiptoe, putting up her face.
"Good-night darling ungratoful
Jim!"
He said,
"I'm not ungrateful."
In the middle of the short Ben-
tence his voice changed. He would
have stepped back, but she held him
with a hand on either arm.
"Perhaps you'll be grateful when
you see what a nice supper I've
brought you. I bought the things In
town. Good-night!"
She kiBsed him as If It were seven
years ago, and she a child and be
her all but brother. But all of a sud
den her heart beat quick and hard.
When she had kissed Jim last her
heart bad not beaten Ilka this. She
stopped back, too confused and
troubled by her own feelings to be
aware of his. She wanted to be out
of the room and out of the houBe.
She went to the door and opened
It The dark passage lay before her.
She stepped out Into It with her
thoughts still In great confusion.
Why should it make her feel like
this to touch Jim's cheek with her
Hps? She had always kissed him.
What was there to moke this kiss
any different fron. all the other
kisses?
His rigid silence escaped her. She
was scarcely aware that he had
taken up the candle and was follow
ing. They walked along the corri
dor and down tho stair without a
spoken word. Words unspoken cla
mored In them both.
lie walked with her down the
dark drive and through the sleep
Ing village. At the cottage gate he
broke the long silence.
"You mustn't come again."
"I must," said Caroline.
"No, you mustn't."
"I shall come tomorrow," said
Caroline, and was gone betore he
eould anawer.
THE first mall In the morning
brought a proposal In du form
from Robert Arbuthnot. Patsy Ann
glowed and blushed over It as It it
had been the most ardent of love
letters. She read It aloud In snatch
es, with agitated and enthusiastic
comments. It concluded:
I have, for some time, nesn con
sidering the question ol matrimony.
I hope you know me U'oll enough
to be euro that I should irlve sm-h
a subject the most eerloui coneld
ration before taking what I re
gard ei an Irrevocable step. Prom
the tenor of your conversation yea
terday I gather that you would not
consider a distant degree of rela
tionship, eiioh as exists between
yourself and me, as an Insuperable
bar to marriage. May I therefore
ask whether you could entertain
the Idea of accepting me as your
husbandT
Patsy broke oft and dabbed her
ayes.
"He makes It sound so solemn
doesn't he? I think It's a wonderful
letter. Don't you?
Pntay dabbed her eyes again.
"I don't know how to answer It
I can't write a beautiful letter like
that."
"I shouldn't try," said Caroline.
"That'a Robert's sort of letter. You
write your own sort, and perhaps
he'll sit down at the other end and
wonder how you did It."
"Do you think so? Do you think
I could Just say that he'a made me
very happy would that do?"
"Beautifully," said Caroline.
As she said It the telephone bell
began to ring. A acarlet Patsy
caught up the receiver.
Colorado Valuation Pnnn.
DENVER (UP) Valuation of the
state of Colorado showed a decrease
of 7.B per cent for the year 1933.
The valuation for 1033, upon which
the 1934 taxes are haaed, was offi
cially aet at 1.178 DH7.B03, aa com
pared with $1,260,903,890 last ear.
Permanent waves that are soft and
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"Caroline If It's him 11
I say?"
Then as Caroline, laughing and
shaking her bead, was about to run
out of tne room, there was a change
In voice and manner. A puzzled look
came over Pitjy'a face; her color
receded, and her voice took on a
tone of disappointment
"Oh . . . Yes, she's here. Who shall
I say? . . . Oh . . . Very well, I'll call
her."
She turned from the Instrument,
which was fastened to the wall at
the foot of the stair.
"Caroline someone wants you.
She won't give any name."
Caroline took the receiver with 1
some Impatience. It was so stupid
of people not to give their names.
If you were cut off, you never knew
who had been calling you. She sim
ply hated that.
There came to her along the wire
an almost Inaudible voice.
"Is that Caroline Leigh?"
"Who la speaking?"
"Is that Caroline Leigh?"
"Yes. Who is speaking?"
"Will you come and aee me? I
want to see you very badly."
"But who are you? I dldnt
hoar "
"I didn't say. I want to Bee you
about Jim." There was a faint des
perate catch In the voice before the
name came out
IT took Caroline a moment to get
her nron vnlrft atnnrlv.
'Are you no, you're not Nosta."
"Who Is Nesta? No, never mind
I'm Susie. You know now, don't you';
Will you come and see me?"
Caroline's heart leapt. Susie Vai
Berg wanted to see her. Why? C
all things In the world, she wantei
most to sea Susie Van Berg. Sh
wanted It ao much that she wa
afraid to say yes. Could she go-
might she go? Was there any pan
slble hurt to Jim In her going? She
couldn't see any.
Susie Van Borg spoke again, a
little louder, a little more Insist
ently.
Are you there? Will you come?"
Yes," said Caroline, and had the
feeling, like Robert, that she waa
taking an Irrevocable atep.
"How will you come?" said Susie
Van Berg. "I would send the ear-
but then the servants would talk "
"They'll do that anyhow," aald
Caroline with the ghost of a laugb.
"But you needn't bother I've got
my own little car. When shall I
come?"
The voice said, "At once."
Corollne's thoughts moved rapid
ly. She said,
Not If you don't want to make
talk. It Isn't as If I know you very
well. It would be bolter it I came In
the afternoon anyono can come In
the afternoon."
"What time?" The volco lluttorod.
"Between live and six," said Caro
line. "Will that do?"
The voice said, "Yea." The click
of the receiver put a full stop to the
word.
Susie Van Berg turned from the
telephone, clutching with both
handa at the pale blue satin wrap
she was wearing. She had locked
both doora before she rang up Caro
line Leigh the bedroom door, and
the door of the big dressing-room
which she had turned Into a sitting
room for horaolf.
The communicating door stood
open between the two rooms. The
tolephone waa I the sitting-room.
She had hung up the rocelvor be
cause she had heard someone try
the handle of the bodroom door.
She stood for a moment, listening
In a strained position, the light of
the grey rainy morning falling cold
upon her pallor. She had the type
of looks which needs the sun. Her
hair waa ao pile as to be almost sil
ver, her eyes a forget-me-not blue.
her skin as white as privet, with no
more than a faint rose to tinge the
cheeks, and deepen to the color of
pink hawthorn In the lips.
She stood there listening, and
heard the handle tried again. In an
instant she had stepped out of her
slippers and, picking them np,
crossed the floor and gone through
the communicating door, moving
without a sound. The bedroom blinds
wore down, and the curtains drawn.
The only light came from the sit
ting room.
8usla Van Berg slipped Into the
turned-down bed and, leaning over
the edge, set her slippers down be
neath it Then, pulling the clothes
about her, she reached out her hand
and rang the bell.
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conservation corps camp in Iowa
checked up t complaint from a
mother that her boy was not getting
sufficient cake and pie.
The officer put the boy on the
camp scales. The dial showed a net
gain of twelve poioxds In weight
since the boy had enlisted.
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slrlans show that the younn men j hlblt at the Loyola University College
have averaged eight pounds gain In 'of Pharmacy.
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tratlon figures for Oregon State Col
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cates an approximate eight per cent
drop from last year at this time.
Mountains Lured German.
DENVER, Colo. (UP) Paul Max
Weber, 23, of Berlin, Germany, trav
eled 6,000 mi lea to attend Denver
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acres. The state park system was ere- apply for fedeial farm relief, and dls
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Seventeen Children Freed Him.
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liquor offense after he told Federal
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