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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
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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,
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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.
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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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pital In Portland, stating be had been
realcsed from the hospital and would
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mates and teacher will be glad to
welcome him after so long an ab
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