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PAGE STX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKI), OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1933. Outrageous Fortune BYXOPSIS! Caroline Leigh lull hat heard Susie Van Berg declare that the hat routed the attempted murder of Elmer Van tlcrg bv mnkW Elmer iealout of Jim Ran dal; friend of Susie, and the man Caroline 'me. Jim it in hiding, hit memory loet. beoaute evidence teemt to point to hit hating thot Elmer and elolen the tamout Van Berg emeraldt. But Caroline kitoiol ilm could not have done euch a thing. She enoouraget Butte Van Berg to continue her story. Chapter IS ( MRS. VAN BERG'S STORY 'T MOST tell someone. It Just goes I on and on In my head all the time. I don't alee;, jou know." "You can tell me I'm s&ie," aald Caroline. And then as aoon aa the bad aald It she had a revulsion ot feeling. "No, dont tell mo don't! Don't tell me anythlngl Because If you did It, and they thought It was Jim, I should have to tell them. Susie shook her head again. "It wasn't like that What did you think? I didn't shoot Elmer I didn't mean that Did yon think I did?" "I don't know. I didn't want you to tell me anything you'd feel sorry bout afterwards." "I must tell someone," said Susie piteously. "If I don't I'll go crazy." She broke off with a start "Look eut ot that door and sea there's no tine listening!" Caroline opened the floor and looked out. There was no one In light The contrast between the room and the passage was extreme. The air waa cold. Against an uncur tained window about three yards away the rain was beating. An Inky cloud hung like a'curtaln across the, sky. It was ao dark that the sun might have set already. She went back to the sofa and sat down. . "There's no one there." And at once, without any prelimi naries, Susie Van Berg eald: . "Jim ahot Elmer." . "No!" said Caroline. "K.' . : "Jim shot him. It was my fault I made Elmer Jealous. You know I can't help flirting I'm made that way. What did Elmer marry me for if ha didn't like It? It made him mad, and you know the way It Is I liked making him mad. .But he ought to have known there was noth ing In it." - . . ' Caroline heard her voice, harsh and unfamiliar. "Wasn't there anything in It?" "Only nonsense and Jim wouldn't even play up to that He thought a lot of Elmer, There was an Invention they both thought a lot ot. That'a what Jim came to see him shout that night Did you know he was here the night Elmer . was hot?" Carolina nodded. "What hap pened?" : "Did you read what I told the police? I didn't tell any Has, but I didn't tell all the truth. They'd have arrested Jim straight away If I had." "What didn't you tell?" ', "I told them I went downstalra to get a book, and heard voices In the study. I didn't toll them that It was Urn's voice I heard." "What did you hear?" "They were quarrelling that'a why I listened. I heard Elmer say, I'm through with you!' And I hoard Jim say, 'I'm damned K I'll be spoken to like that!'" "Was that all?" "No, it waen't Jim said, You take that back!' And then Elmer got up I heard his chair scrape along the Boor and he came towarda the door, and I thought how angry he'd he If he found me there and I ran away." "Jim never shot Mr. Van Beig," aald Caroline. "Jim Isn't a thief. The person who shot Mr. Van Berg is the person who stole the emeralds." SUSIE VAN BERO put her hand to her head. She spoke In a weak, extinguished voice. "I don't mind about tha emoralds shot Elmer. And I tore the page with his Bnger-prlnta out ot Elmer's book. I knew It the police found It ithey would arrest him, ao I tore It out" She eat bolt upright her jhanda locked upon her knee. "I tore lit out, but I didn't tear it up. Do you Iknow where he Is? If you do, will you tell him that?" ' f "That you tore it out?" '' "Tell him I tore it out but I didn't 'tear it up. It Elmer geta better, I'll tear It up, but if he doesn't" Her lacked hands strained one against the other; a line ot livid pallor showed beyond the painted line of her Upa. "It he doesn't If he dies I'm coins to eivo those finier-D-lnts to the police, and I'm going to swear I that I heard Jim's voice and that I heard him threaten Elmer." Caroline fought the aharpest fear she had ever known. What had real ly happened In the library that night? She steadied herself. Susie Van Berg had not moved. The patch ot color on either cheek had spread a little, aa a stain spreads In milk, j Caroline said, "Why?" Then as Susie went on staring at her she made a quick movement "I don't I understand. Why did you tear the paite out?' "To help Jim because It was my ! fault." j "You won't have helped him very much If you mean to tell the police in the end." j "Only If Elmer dies," said .Susie with dry Hps. Her eyes stared past Caroline at a picture of Elmer dead. "Jim didn't shoot him." "Yes he did. It -Elmer gets we)l, he'll tell me what to do. That's .why ' I tore out'the page, 'and why 1' didn't, tell the. police. But.if'hV.doesn'tget well, I shall aajr that Jim'shoi him 'and that It waa-my. 'fault' f ;can.'t go on likethls." TheVe'was a dVeadLul finality about tbe'way she said It Caroline- got; up-and.put,- on.-hei-'j coau - . . . ."Are you going?" ; ."Yos," said Caroline: . Quale drew- a' 'ong.slghl:'": ';realhH ana turned ner neaa. . . "Is it etui raining?" ' ..- , . "I .expect ao It .'looked very black.'.' ". .-' Susie shuddered and stood up. ' "There's a storm. You can't go It there's a storm." "I'U.get'homs before It bresks," said Caroline. ' Now tbat she was on her feet she wanted to b'e gone. Her head burned with the heat of tlje room, and her knees' were trembling. Outside, In the wind and. the rain, It might be easier 'to feel sure about Jim .She said "Good-bye," and went out with out touching Susie's hand, AS soon as she had shut the door he began to ?itn. She wanted to get. rlgtjt away, &nd she had a feeling that Susie might call her back. She turned the corner, and then' turned .'again. The passages were very dark. 8he stopped run ning and wondered if she had taken the wrong turning. ' The house was old and rambling. She had, a 'bewildered feeling ot having lost her sense ot direction. A sudden .flare ot lightning gave a blinding' picture ot two corridors meeting at the toot ot a narrow stair. Darkness followed Immediate ly, 'and one ot 'those poals of.thun. der which 'sound like giant girders being thrown down upon an Iron roof. The noise' was .deafening. Caroline shrank instinctively away -from -the wlndpw,.-and found herself six or. seven steps-, up the ' stair, 'holding to the' narrow baluster and walling tor the horrible noise to . stop. When she opened her eyes, she saw above her a very faint etreak ot light There was a door a tew steps up, and the light' came from under It It waa Just a. thin pale streak, but It meant that there waa someone. In the room. Caroline bad a foellng that someone else's company woqld be pleasant Shd could, say uiat she had lost her way in the passages. - She went up to the level of- the door, and as aha Ijfted her hand to knock, tha light of another flash flared up from behind her and below, and a crash more violent than either of the others followed. Urged by a blind Instinct for shelter,. Carolina opened the door. ' She was Inside the door and lean ing against the Jamb with the door shut beblnd her before the second crack ot thunder came. She could not have moved to save her life.. She was In the room, but she coiild not see It at '11, because a four-leafed screen covered the door, one panel being flat aa.lnst the wall on her left while the other three fig-sagged out from it at an angle. Caroline had taken about three steps, when, In the room on the'other side ot the screen, someone spoke, "Do you think Jt a going over?" Caroline stood still Just where she was. She had only heard.that voice once before, but she would have known It anywhere. It was Neata Rlddell who had spoken. rCoplrlfflf, HIS, J. B. Llppincolt Co.) Tomorrow, Caroline wltneiets a mysterious set-to. E PLANS F SALEM. Nov. all five bridges 1 AP)--Plan for for ttie Oregou coa&t highway, are now in the hands of the public works administration at Wash ington, D. C. This Information was contained In telegraphic communica tion today from Senator Charles L. McNary's office at the national cap Itol. The telegram quoted Colonel Clark deputy admlnatrator of the national public works department, to the ef fect that plans for the Slualaw and Umpqua spans had Just been re ceived. These were the last two sub mitted, those of the Alsea, coos Bay and Newport having been forwarded previously. 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