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(TOTE TWELVE JfEDFORD MAIL TRTBUOT3, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, ' NOVEMBER 3, 1933. i rnmm Outrageous Fortune bif HdVutt yVMOmUA BYHOPSIM: First Carolins Lsigh learns from Suslsf Van Berg that Jim Randal anil Elmer Van Berg had quarreled the night Van Berg viae ehot and the famous Van Berg emeralds icere etolen. Busts threat eve to tell the police it Klmer Alee. Then, frightened by a etorm, Caro line blunders into Caroline Bus sell's room and overhears a "seance" in which the . "Blue Room' at Bale Blare, Jim's bog hood horns, is described in connec tion icith the emeralds. Caroline loves Jim, and is surs hs had noth ing to do icith the theft but Jim's memory has gons, and hs cannot Kelp prone his Innocence. Us is hid ing at Hals Place, Chapter It HALE PLACE AQAIN it wa mors, than an hour past mid night when Carolina came to llale Place again. Out In the dark, with the damp air blowing in her (ace and the trees o the avenue malting a soft (wishing sound overhead, Caroline had her first chance to think over the events of the afternoon. The more aha (thought about them, the more they frightened her. It Elmer Van tierg died and Susie went to the police with her atory ot Jlm'i llnger-prlnta . . Caroline slmplr couldn't force iter thought any farther. It encoun tered an Icy wall of fear and shud dered back. . She passed to the scene In Caro line Bussell's room. The woman ter rified her with her smooth voice, and her hints, and her pool ot Ink. But she hadn't looked Into the pool while she described the Blue Room, Caroline wondered, shivering, whether she knew what room It was, and where. She felt sure that Kesta didn't know. How could Susie Van Berg's emer alds be at Hale Place? How could they be In the Blue Room? Caroline BuBsell had never said that they were there, but she had described Ithe room. She had described the iroom, and she had begun to describe the bed. Was It possible? Noata had topped her. If she had only known. r . . "No, It's silly to feel so fright ened. She doesn't know she Idoesn'tl Suppose Caroline Bussell 'tells her. , . . She mustn't oh, she linustn't! Hurry hurry and tell ,Jlm!" She ran the last part ot the 'way and eatae breathless to the Ibackdoor. , It was wide open, and that halted Caroline. She had brought a flash light with her this time, and she cent the little bright ray questing ahead of her before she entered. ALL at onc4 she felt that the ray of her torch was a danger. Sup pose yesterday's burglar had re turned. Suppose Jim were not here. ... She did not wait to suppose any more, but turned oft her torch and wont through the hall and up the stair In the dark. The house bad an empty, friendly fooling. It did not frighten her to be alone In It Generations of her own people had gone up and down these same stairs, bad been born and married and had died In the dark rooms on either hand. She came to the door ot the Blue Boom and, feeling before her, found H open too. She knew that the room was empty before she orossed the threshold. She stood In the middle ot the floor and switched on her torch again. This was what Caro line Bussell had seen with those pale, fixed eyes. "I am In the middle ot the room I am turning" That was what Caroline Bussell had said. Caroline Leigh stood In the mid dle of the floor ard turned slowly, counting the windows as Caroline Bussell had counted them one, Itwo, three, four, five narrow win dows like silts. Then the fireplace two candlesticks on the shelf, one of them broken, with the candle lying beside It, She went on turning, Caroline Bussell had said, "I am still turn ing." The door came neit, then a space of wall, and then the recess Oat held the bed. The torch shone on the wall and flickered over the bed foot and the two oarved pillars. Caroline sent the ray ot her torch straight to the head ot the bed, a piece ot massive carving supported by pillars. The pattern of the carv ing was as apple-tree with Adam and Ere on either aide of It, and In the middle of the tree a shield with the arms sA Ralph le Burgh, whose heiress had married a Randal and brought this bed with her. The arms should have been there, a castle and three spear-heads, but Caroline caught her breath. The beam wavered In her shaking hand. With both hands on the torch to steady it, she came up to the bed. jrpHE shield stood out at an angle , like a door and showed a dark aerify behind It. Caroline knew the trick ot It well enough. Jim l.j showed It to her when she was tour teen. You twisted the third apple from the bottom, and it turned the latch which held the shield In place. She kneeled on the bed and focused the torch upon the cavity. It was a little cupboard with a shelf across It In the bottom ot It was a pencil and a button. Caroline re membered them Quite well; she had put them there ages and ages ago. There was nothing else at all In the little secret cupboard. Only someone who knew the trick could open the shield. Who had opened the shield? Caroline went to the door and Caroline fboussed the torch upon the cavity. . looked down the passage. It was empty. Where was Jim? . Caroline came slowly downstairs Into the hall. The house wnsn't empty now. It was full of all the people she had known when ehe was a child Mrs. Crofts, the very fat cook; Miss Milton, the Jolly young governess; Aunt Margaret's maid, Halllday, frightfully grim; Nanna, who spoiled them all; and a suc cession of maids, with one or two standing out from the rest that very pretty Clssle Jones; Maggie, who had to be carted by her sur name, because her Christian name was the same as Aunt Margaret's, and Emily, whom nobody liked. There had been a little mystery about Emily she Just went without any notice. That wasn't like Aunt Margaret Looking back, Caroline wondered what Emily had done. Caroline had looked Into the draw ing room and library. It was whilst she was opening the dining-room door that she remembered Emily's surname, Rudd. It came to her In one ot those quick Irrelevant flashes which sometimes show one things which have bn,n forgotten for years. i The dining-room was quite empty. , She came to the back door again. The house was empty behind her. Jim wasn't there. She felt very tired. She switched off her light and stepped out Into the lik yard, clos ing the uoor ot the house behind her. (Copyright, HIS, J. n. Mr-plncol! Ce.) Jim miktt a terrible eleeovery, tomorrow. Perl Batemans Welcome Heir- Mr. and Mrs. Perl Baternan ot 931 Mary street are the parents ot a boy, weighing I pounds, S ounces, born Wednesday at their home. He has been named Clarence Theodore. Clarence Theodore t the tenth grand, son of Mr, and Mrs. Bam Batman. Br, who are making plana for form ing a.f,ootHairtem,thVy jsld. todSy, . 11a inning .unK'urr t,i. aim iviib C n, Battmnrt vfir be booked f Jmephlne Pays Tat. BAUEM. Nov. . AP) Complete second half stste taxes for 1033 Amounting to S10.6J1 were received today from Jcwphlns county, the treasurer's office announced. NOW IS THE TO DUY TIME uITTTTiTTTsI I WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. fAP) The end of forest exploitation In th United States was foreseen here today at a check of national and itat-a for aster and representatives ot the lum ber Industries found all' groups -emphatic In the opinion "that forest perpetuation has been definitely de termined upon." Lumbermen and foresters have found a common ground, of action In their pledges to "mak sustained production of forest resources a defi nite part of their operations," thus ending "the war between lumbermen and foreetera." ii i ' SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 8. (AP) Stockholders, members and investors of the Western Loan and Building company, scattered over eight west ern states, have been called to meet here December 15 to vote on a pro pond plan, for reorganisation of-the 25.000,000 concern. County Assessor J. B. Coleman, Ray Coleman, Oscar Lewis and Dan Schuss of JacKsonvUla. returned last week from an elk hunt In tbs Wal lowa mountains near Enterprise nd bad good luck. J. B. got five point, Schuss one with seven points on one side and six on the other and Lewis a tour pointer. They secured, some nice specimens of elk's teetn for watch charms or rings. Two Killed When Plane Strikes Sea AVALON. Catallna Island, Cat., Nov. 3. (AP) McFarlane Moore, son-In-law of the late Rear-Admiral Wil liam A. Moftett, naval slrman. and George Baker. Long Beach, airline co pilot, lost their lives today In a hydro- . airplane accident offshore from here. S'MATTER POP- By C. M. PAYNE itV! 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