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JfEDFORD MAIL TRTBUOT3, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, ' NOVEMBER 3, 1933.
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Outrageous Fortune
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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
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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."
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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.
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