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PAGE ETOHT Outra0eous Fortune m BYNOPU8: Jim Randal and Caroline l.tvjh are ti-rtifui-j til Caro V.m'e car tor Seata Hlddell to leave her hauee and no to meet a won. Jim 6fUr the man i the rrfll thief uf the Van lltro cmtralile au though evidence jioitif to the tar.t that Jim himstlf etole them. Hit memory of recent event it ooaf, out he is rlear enough on one r." 1st, Jt ie that he U very much in itM with Caroline. Chapter 44 AT THE PRIOHY ABOUT ten minutes later Jim sud denly clutched Caroline and said, "Hush!" The front door of Happlcot had opened and someone was coming out. The door ahut again. Jim spoke under his breath. "Iff Tom" The light o' the stroet-lamp showed overalls, a leather cap, and goggles. "She's sending Tom," said Jim. They saw him go round the house Into the shadow. "Suppose It's a blind," said Caro line. Jim's hand tightened on her wrist. He said: "Lookl" Out of the shadow beside the house ;ame the figure In overalls, pushing Tom's motor-bike. "It Isn't Tom that's Nesta! Get ready to start as soon as she's mak ing enough noise not to notice us. :TVhat can you do?" "Fifty," said Caroline. The chug-chugglng of the motor cycle filled the julet road. A corner of the blind above was lifted. Some one was watching Nesta start. Jim thought Tom would probably bear all about that later on. Caroline kept about thirty yards behind. There was very little traf fic on the road, and It was now prac tically dark. They ran for five miles, and then the tail-light disappeared. "Where's she gone?" said Jim In a puzzled voice. "Sandy Lane," said Caroline. "Is It drlvable?" "They've made a parking-ground in a Held about a quarter of a mile along to the left. The road's all right as far as that, but I can get the car a good bit nearer the ruins. Do you think she's going there?" They turned off, and saw the red spark again. Caroline switched off her lights and crawled forward over a horribly rough surface. The red ii park drew away and then suddenly went out Jim whispered, "Has she turned off?" "Stopped, I think. Wo must too. I can't turn hero we shall have to back." 1 He opened the door and Jumped out. "Caroline will you do Just what I say? Back down to the parking place and turn, thon stay there till I come. Get as much out of the way as you can." He did not wait for an answer, but made off up the lane. He tried to fx In his mind the exact spot at which the red light had vanished. He must be getting near it now. And thon all of a sudden there was the motorcycle, Jammed up against the hedge, A bare yard far ther on he came on the wicket gate. The ruiu of St. Leonard's Priory Is one of the sights of the county. It cannot be said to be easy of access, but In summer weather It Is much In favor with school treats, sketching parties, and lovers. Jim followed the path nntll he could see the dark mass of the tow er loom up between him and a sky which was not quite so dark. At in tervals bo stopped to llston. And then all at once he Idn't hear, he aw. TTE WAS about a doien yards from the tower, which was real ly only a sholl, the hollow side to wards blra. The winding stair, which had once led to the top, had long since fallen, but the slits which lad lighted It remained, piercing the outer wall at regular intervals. What Jim saw was the lowest of these alits, and he saw It because on the other side of the towor wall some one bad struck a match. As he approached the slit, he beard the murmur of voices. He laid a band on the rough, damp wall of the tower, stooped to the slit, and from the other side of It hoard Nesta aay: "I want to see them." He listened eagorly tor the man's vole. All that he knew of him up to the present was the teol of his agile twisting body and the sharpness of bis teeth. He had not the sllghtost doubt that It was his burglar to whom Nesta was Breaking, The voice was as familiar to him JRUCK OWNERS MEET MONDAY AT TALENT A man meeting ot all truck owners, truck gardeners snd producers In Jackson county will be Held In the NOW IS THE TO BUY aa his own a rather soft-soundlmi voice, with no particular mark of age or class a smooth, low-pitched rotce. And It bad been sounding In Ms mind ever since the wreck of the Alice Ardon. In the shock of this recognition ha lost what was said. Nesta spoke again In a sharp undertone. "I want to see them." "Not much, you won'tl Anyway I haven't got them on me I told you that befoce not such a fool." Nesta did not speak any louder, but her voice had the true scold's rasp In It. "I'm to run your errands, and fetch and carry for you, and bo cheated out of what I've earned? You can think again I" "Look here," said the ms,n "that's enough I Do you hear? The sooner I'm out of the country the sooner you'll got your share. Stop talking like a lunatic and hand over the cahl" "Not till I've seen them!" They were so close against the wall that Jim could hear every movement and almost every breath. He beard the man step side ways, and ha heard Nesta take a sharp breath. "Hand that money over!" said thef man. , Nesta laughed. "Do you think I'm such a fool as to have It on me? Keep your hands to yourself, and keep your dis tance!" There was another movement. Jim thought the man stepped back. "Where's the money?" The smoothness of his voice was broken. "That's it," said Nesta "where Is tt? It's not a dozen yards away. It's where I put it, and there it'll stay until I've seen what I want to see." There was an empty, dangerous pause. It occurred to Jim that It would be bad luck If he were to get mixed up In another murder. Some day Nesta would go too far. The pause broke. The voice was smooth again. "That true?" "Cross my heartl" "You'll get It crossed with a knife If you're not careful!" "Come on, or I'll think you haven't got them I And If you haven't got them, I'm off." A match head scraped on emery, and the slit In the wall flared yel low. Jim, stcoplng forward on the Inner side, saw, framed by the black wall, a man's hand with eight green atones dangling, Just as he bad seen It In his dreams. In his dreams It had been Elmer's hand, but this was a smaller, smoother hand than El mer Van Borg's. The match was out of the picture. It w-'i above and be hind the green stones, making a tranaparency of them. Jim heard Nesta exclaim, then saw her face, avid and dark, Hps parted, close-set eyos Intent. On the othor side there came Into view a man's profile straight forehead, long nose, straight thin Hps, long ohln and all In a moment was blot' ted out again. The match fell, trail ing a apark across the darkened picture, and In the same Instant Jim reached at arm's length through the slit, caught the swinging chain and Jerked It clear. CAROLINE sat In the car, and felt the darkness and the silence come blanketing down. She had baoked Into the parking-ground and run up close under the hedge, so that on one side she bad a black wall of thorny twigs, and on the other the formless shadowa of the field. She had awltched off her lights lest by any chance she should be seen. The time went slowly. After a bit she shut her eyes and began to think about Jim. He had kissed her differently, and he had aaid, "I love you with all my heart and soul." And i t had said, "It I get i out ot this, we'll get married." Carolina thought about these things. It was like looking out from under an angry black cloud Into a heavenly sunny place. It was like looking into a dream and finding beauty and gladnoss beyond any thing you had imagined. Caroline looked. She was not sure how long she had been dreaming, when a light startled her broad awake. It shone red through her eyelids, and sha opened them, daisied, to meet the headlights of a car. As she ex claimed, someone shouted. The light swung aside and a car drew up at ' right angles. Instantly the doon were flung open and she was hailed by name. Two people Jumped out. (Covvritiht, mi, J. a. Upplnooll Co.1 Carotins and Jim are In danger, tomorrow, from an unoxptottd source Talent city hall tomorrow evening November IS at 8 o'clock. Oeorge B. Barton of Medford and C. Thomas Oilier, of Roseburg, chslr- man of the seven southern Oregon counties In the Oregon Truck asso ciation will be the principal apeak' era. Those In charge of the meeting have requested thst all Interested parties attend, aa this will be the last meting before the legislature meet November 80, TIME i EVERYWHERE iri'TTI.'V. J,rEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD. OREGON, SUNDAY, Jacksonville JACKSONVILLE, Nov. 11. (Spl.) 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El Team-AMD PLAY ON '-UHE MOT TO HAVE AMY- I I I I I 1 BROTHER BEEN , . II JxJr,rCr-:. THIMCi MAPPCN ON THAT DAY- M I I v PUT ON THE FOOT- o UE. L I CJEW II I I IJ twhtVfk T u- . ' There's No Guesswork in Tribune A. B. C. Circulation Backus, Mrs. May Forbes and Mrs. Vivian Beach. Rev. and Mrs. S. Johns entertained Wednesday with a dinner for Mrs. Cora Blxby of Jacksonville and Rev. and Mrs. E. Iverson of Medford. Mrs. Blxby Is going east soon to make her home. Mrs. H. E. Neuber of Portland 1 the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Hanna for a few weeks. Mrs. One Of Those "Unaccountable" Accidents! flW i i w. -f ' - I -T-i' ' '- ' ' ' ' Intl.. ' ' lJ "-'- I V. W1M 1 y HE OlDWT WANJT TO WtfcE A ,s ARRAMGED FOP A ( THEY'LL SGT MIM ONJ THE P r- 1 2iV-A'0 ftTTORWEV J fl I PRIENJDLV DIVORCE- 1 POORHOUSE 3TEP5 J r I " TT I 11 AMD MOW, COME OmA FDR AKJ AO J r ' I IsaT I ' ' ' KH: 1 T II' U 1 aV ) IM 'li I I V i I I II n Neuber Is Mrs. Henna's slster-ln-law. Mrs. Ellen Sutotn and daughter. Mrs. Ellen Mullln, snd twin babies spent Tuesday visiting Mrs. Sutton's niece, Mrs. May Forbes, here. Mrs. H. K. Hanna and Mrs. John Knight are among the ladles canvass ing for the Community Chest here this week. Mrs. May Forbes visited Mrs. Fred Lewis of Reese Creek November 5. By C. M. PAYNE NOVEMBER 12, 1933. Ladles' Aid will hold an all-day socla 1 meeting with covered dish luncheon at noon November 10. It will be open to all ladles. George Backus and Athel Dudly returned November 8 from San Fran cisco, where they delivered a truck load of beef cattle. Ernest and Albert Olson were vis iting their mother. Mrs. Fred Lewis, ot Reese Creek, November a. 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