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PAGE KTOITT MEDFORD MATL TRTBrrNTE, MEDFOTCTV OREGON; "MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 12, 1938. Villi L.rr-O.lAx riic ... Hugo Stern, handsume author, ((Ding on the French Riviera. Archie Lumiden, miiel, Hu 03' friend. Hen Ueiu. a ilngularl un pleasant rtrtoonist. yesterday: From a mattress in :hv Bar Alsacien we secure Eve't lut ky oennv and team that Eve fled from a dark man whose right Index finger was missing. Chapter 11 The Beautiful American HUGO started In pursuit of Geiss's red car at a breakneck speed. He was a magnificent driv er but a trifle too reckless for my liking at the best of times, and the pace he was setting would normally have made my blood run cold. But now I found myself yelling at him to go faster. The road was heading out into the country. Soon it seemed that we were running onto a cape, for I could see blue water on either hand, and as we climbed. Hugo slackened speed a trifle. "Now which will it be?" he soli loquized. "The hotel itself or Eden Hoc? I hate to damp your expecta tions, but it's more than likely we're about to surprise a simple rendezvous with a pretty lady. "Baron Stahl is staying at the hotel," 1 reminded him. but he shook his heao. "No, no. The man's devilish clever, and he won't take unneces sary chances. From now on it's a cast of 'Geiss jnd Baron scarce re gret that they must be strangers yet,' as the old song says." As he spoke he pulled in under the lee of a rough wall and I climbed out after him. We were on the crown of the cape. To the left a closed gate and an Imposing driveway led to a vast building that I guessed to be the hotel. Straight ahead another gate, half open, gave on a winding path de scending to shrubbery, through which I caught a glimpse of a long, low building. A painted name on one gatepost told me that this was Eden Roc, and next minute I saw. parked with a dozen other cars un der a clump of pines to the right, the red Delage. "Well, well," said Hugo, strolling across to her. "Our friend has been driving hard, to judge by the dust he's collected." He drew an explor ing finger across her bonnet. nd red dust, too," he added on a dif ferent note. "That means he wasn't traveling the main road. Let's have . squint at the gasoline-gauge. If your young nenchman was right and he filled up before starting, that ought to tell us something. He bent his big shoulders over the dashboard ana whistled softly. "Almost empty!" said he. "Archie, either he's got a leak in his tank or he's traveled farther than we have this afternoon " 1 had leaned over his shoulder to have a look myself, and now I slid a hand gently down the side of the cushion. Even into Italy and back," I added, fishing out a small, blue-gray packet of ciga rettes. "Uso Egiziano aren't sold this side of the frontier." He nodded, momentarily preoc cupied. "Italy it must have been, but not one of the coast towns. Geiss has a pretty taste in tobacco, and he wouldn't buy these if there was anything more exotic to be had. But where did he go, and whom did he see when he got there? I'd give a lot for a heart-to-heart talk with our gentleman." "You won' get it," 1 retorted. "The minute I set eyes on that bird. I'm goin" to crown him." "You'll do nothing of the sort," he answered tartly. "You'll have the goodness to remember that more than your simple pleasures ars involved. Express a mild sur prise at his faulty memory, if you must, but leave the rest to me." As he spoke, he was leading the way down the winding path and Into the little building and de scended a kind of ladder to a long, narrow, green-walled room with a well-stocked oar at one end. 'A Pretty Sight' THE place was built on the brink of a little cliff that fell sheer from the windows to where, far below, the sapphire sea surged and bubbled round jagged black rocks. From a door beyond the bnr a flight of stet led down to the water's edge, and there were ter races leveled from the rocky pin nacles crowded with sun-bathers on gaudy oranRe mattresses. There was one in particular who attracted my attention, a short, paunchy, dark skinned fellow, whose costume consisted solely of abbreviated green bathing-trunks. I watched him for a moment, then he turned and glanced upwards at the windowed terrace and I saw that it was Baron Stahl. "Well," salt" Hugo at my olhow. "what d'you think of the playboys of Eurooe? There are more mil. llonaires to the square inch in this Dar man anywhere else In the world." I jerked my thumb towards the window. "The onl one that Inter ests me," I said, "is displaying his unbeautiful person on the rocks down there. Hut where s his part ner in crime7" FATHER IS KILLED IN SPEEDING HOSPITAL THIS DALLES, Ore., Sept, 13. AP) Crwhing Into the rear of truck u he waa rushing hla Injured daughter to a doctor at The Dalle. Leo Rose, 33, Mosler laborer, tvoa fa tally Injured Sunday. Che fltrl, Irma. 13, ran a screw driver Into one eyeball nhlle at play Rnae apparently lost conlrol ot hl oar on a curve four ml lea went of here. The girl suffered cut and brulies In the crash. UNIVERSITY ENROLLMENT DUE FOR BIG INCREASE EUOENE. Sept. 13 (API Dr Donald M. Erb aatd today that with applications fr:m new students ap proximately 10 per cent greater than At the aame time last year, a sub SA LTM ARfH.a "There he i uro replied. I followed the direction of hit pointing finger and saw the man we were looking for. squatting. solitary, on a pinnacle ol rock over hanging a small aaegreen pooi, strangely like a morose and brood ing bird of prey. T'What' he up to?" 1 pondered. "And what do we do now?" Hugo grinned. "Ope answer does for both questions. We wait here till we find out." He broke 08 sharply. "Hello," said he on an other i.ote, "there's a pretty sight." A small speed-boat had come into view, swooping down in a graceful arc towards a jetty on the right, and in its wake, skimming on a pair of water-skis and straight and beautiful as some statue of Praxiteles, came a girl in a white bathing-suit, ner arms outflung to control the guide-ropes from the boat The boat drifted casually alongside the jetty, and she climbed on phore. And then she looked up and . got the shock of my life. She was staring straight up at the open windows where we stood, as if she were looking for some one, and for an instant I had a clear view of her face, with the wide, dark eyes, the delicate tip-tilted nose, and the warm, red mouth. I gasped, feeling as if 1 had taken a punch in the win i. Hugo, snes the living image of " Ottllle Wills HE TROD on my foot, accurately and a good deal harder than was necessary. "Of someone who isn t living," he finished for me. "Take a reef in your tongue, can't you? We mustn't speak that name here, and what't a casual like ness?" But I noticed that his eyes never left the girl's face and he was white under the sun-tan. She had left the jetty now, and an elderly woman in the black uni--form of a lady's-maid was swad dling her in a thick white woolen wrap, when suddenly, from just under our window, sounded a voice lik. an angry foghorn. "Ot tiliel" ft bawled. "Will you come here this minute? you'll catch your death of coldl" I looked down, straight on to a head covered with a shock of iron gray hair, set on a pair of broad shoulders. The voice had definitely emanated from the head, and as I watched, its owner emphasized his point by thumping violently on the naked rock with a formidable looking, rubber-tipped walking stick. The girl waved back at him, laughing; then with a leisurely grace that was very pretty to see, she strolled towards him, wrap ping her white robe more closely about her. "Why, Uncle!" ' she said, In a deep, husky voice that carried clearly to my ears, "it isn't as cold as all that!" A man had come up and was standing behind her, a stocky, swarthy man in green bathing trunks. High Up as we were, I could see the uncouth mat of black hair on his chest and the obsequious smile on his fat little face. "Baron!" she said, and all the laughter had gone from her voice. "How did -you get here so soon? It's only ten days since we said goodby in New York!" The short man Bowed rrom where his waist should have been. "It is so simple," he explained, but on a lower key, so that I had to lean out and strain my ears to catch his words. "I say goodby to you in New York, and five minutes later I get a cable calling me to Paris on business. You cross in one fast ship I in another. I transact my business and say to myself I like a little holiday. 1 come here and have the sui prising fortune to meet with you again!" "Most surprising," she said dry ly, "considering that my uncle told you himself whero we were go ing." She drew her robe closer still. "I believe I am cold after all." she informed her relative. "I'll meet you in the bar." And in a flash she was gone, running towards the foot of the stairs. I looked at Hugo. "He followed them here!" I said under my breath, and leceived his foot with still greater force on my instep. "What your mouth wants is ad hesive tapel" he said bitterly. "Come over and have a drink." The crowd at the bar had thinned and we found a vacant place at the counter. "Tell me, Charles," said Hugo, as the barman set a couple of White Ladles before us, "who's the old gentleman in black down below there?" The man's face lit up. "That one, Mr. Stern?" said he. "The old American gentleman? Why, that is Mr. Wilfi. And the young lady is his niece. Miss Ottilie Wills. Very pretty, eh?" Hugo whistled softly. "You mean Virgoe Wills?" he asked, and when the man nodded. "Archie, that's devilish interesting. That's Virgoe Wills, the American banker. As rich as Croesus, but much mora human." I fumbled for his foot on the bar rail and made satisfactory contact with it "What your mouth needs," I retorted, with a beautiful feeling of being all square at the turn, "is an oversize bath-towel stufTod into it Can't you sec she's hore?" Copyright. I9SS. Una Saltmartttf Tomorrow! A voice from the dead. stantial Increase In enrollment at the University of Oregon Is assured. Figure compiled by the registrar's office Indicated that the freshman class, which totaled 1133 1M year, will reach about 1300 this year. PHEASANT PAYS VISIT THROUGH FRONT WINDOW ALBANY, Sept. 13. ( AP) When Mr. and Mrs, Steve Benedict returned home from the state fair they found glaM from a shattered window scat tered about their Hvln rvom. feath ers from a phmsant scattered about and a reading lamp broken. The Benedict came to the conclu sion that a pheawxnt had flown through the wm.vtv. nut could not find the pheasant. WINDOW CH.AS8 - W sell window iilasa and will replace your broken windows iaonably. Trowbridge Cab inet Work. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the anther. Inclosing stamped envelope for reply, - Rat;. V. & Fat Off. S M SIT j S u 1 f -Jv. .til ' fc Mm 6r y M rfc UoLlSbJOOD. IaIFMT lb FNLAhID To 3RhK iHTo TriS MOWS b Finnish ?im w Wo Home rung iHE BASES LOWED" HlT IN THE GAME HhlF-INNlM F3V PfcRKER ftNP CONNER'S, Shweporf La.. BATSMEN ... ( vs. Houston, lews League, July lo, m&) MtHiugkl SrndJeaU. hie Fame In Finland Hollywood la Just "the old 'home town" to Helen Runo, Finnish mo tion picture star. Strange a it seems, although she spent most of her life In the shadow of the world's largest movie studios in southern California, Miss Runo traveled half way around the world to find fame and fortune as an actress I Helen Runo her real and Finnish name Is Tuullkkl Paananen is an honor graduate of Hollywood high school, an Institution located in the very midst of Hollywood's film fac DUNN GETS CONTRACT ON S. P. RELOCATION WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. (AP) A $173,320 contract waa awarded to Clifford A. Dunn,, Klamath Palls, Ore., for construction of abutments, pedestals and piers of the Sacramen to river bridge, first crossing. In the Southern Paclflo railroad relocation resulting from development of the Central valley project In California. TAILSPIN TOMMY From One THE KEBBS It Just Couldn't s Bi BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Developments! Ey EDWXN AXQEB in i iiifBXm , 0IONT seu. BUT",,, I MR. SAXTON, HAVE VOllIf EXPECTIhf 'EM, I I GIANT 1 J LAW ME, YES! T" '"I fT WHAT'S THIS T RECKON YOUU LEARN I I I ONE DOZEN O" VOOR I J ANY OF THOSE 6IANT MISS ALFORD, I I CHICKEN 1 1 AIN'T YOU I 1 1 ALL ABOUT? I RI6HT SOON, WILFRED-1 L --t I ES6S VESTIDOV! I ?T -j CHICKEN E66S BUT THEY E66S? I 1 SEEN 'EM? I Tfc ll i - PI "Ti- ir'T HTrT r , 1 1 1 AlN'T SH0WN P"gfeM' FRIT! ( STKVE, VM TWlKJKlMG A -V.'' " I ALTO6E.TMEQ. OP NOJR. tories. Yet under the very eyes of talent scouts she slipped away to Finland, where she has since starred In five Finnish feature film. Home Run Inning Known to all baseballdom as a "Texas leaguer" Is a short hit Just over the Infield but not quite Into the outfield. Strange as It seems, on July 10. 1D38, two battera In a Texas league game proved that southerners can and do hit long onea by scoring two home runs with the bases loaded In the same Inning. The award was made by the Interior department. STATE FAIR ATTENDANCE EXCEEDS PREVIOUS YEAR SALEM. Sept. 13. (AP) Larpo crowds Sunday on the ftnal day of the annual state fair shot the week's attendance to abaut 110,000, ' Leo Spltzbart, assistant manager, re vealed today. Paid admissions a year ago were Danger Into Another! Happen me m 9 states MAILER "MM , HHODE KlANP (ACCORDING To POPULrVTloH) 1 UfWA COVERED WiTH lAVftMoU?" 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