The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 29, 1933, Page 7

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY SEPT. 29, 1933. By BILLE DE BE"K NOW - NOW: == .- THE /COPS TOLD ME LITTLE SAWBUCK WAULD BE (HERE ANY. MINUTE-- THEN THE LAWYERS wWiLL HAFTA KIGK 1N WITH HIS Au.owAch. -2 AND ¥OU CAN YOUR BILL WERE PN EVER THING ===~ PSS TD LIKE TO HAVE A TALK WITH- . YOu, BUDDY-- THERE'S A DELICATESSEN RIGHT \N THE NEXT BLOCK = YA CAN BE c MON-‘NW—— CH ERER (LR~ kL ORDER YOU QOME LUNCH — ° iOutrageous Fortune SYNOPSIS: A dazed man picked wp after tha wreck of the Alice Ar- den is identified by Nesta Riddell as her husband, Jimmy Riddell, and taken to Nesta’s brother's home in Ledlington. e has been talking in his sleep of emeralds and murder, Bhortly after kis removal from the haspital. Caroline Leig). calls there, thinking he may be her distané cousin, Jim Randal. She is leaving, disapnpinted, wllm the nurse re- ¢calls o scrap of a letter {n the man's pocket, with the signature “Caroline.” So Caroling continues her apparently lopeless search. Meanwhile the man wakens. and is told by Nesta that he hay stolen ihe famous Van Berg emevalds—al- though he remem’ers nothing back of his awakening Now Nesta do- goribes their meeting and the bes winiing of the Van Berg “job.” Chapter 1. “YOU SHOT VAN BERG" ESTA laughed. “Well, that’s where I came in. You tried pretty hard to make me believe you were crazy about me, but you needn’t imagine | was such a fool ¢s to believe you. You were crazy about the emeralds, and you needn’t have troubled to make love to me, hecause I'd taken the length of your foot in the first five min- utes.” “But you married me.” “Did you thinkll was going to trust you? I married you because 1 meant to et my share.” “And why did 1 marry you?” Jim Riddell pieasantly. Nesta colored high. “For what you could get out of me,” she said. “You wanted my help, and you thought it was safer.” “It's very interesting,” said Jim. “Won't you go on? “Interesting!” She struck her cig- arette against the arm of the chair and sent the ash flying. “Very. Do you mind telling me how you helped?” “I was staying with old Caroline Bussell. I've known her all my kfe —she's some sort of twenty-eighth ceousin. She’s been housekeeper at the Hall since the year one, and she does what she likes with Mr. Ent- whistle. When you spoke to me that day in the drive—" “Yes?” “I was going to go next.day, be- cause the Van Bergs were coming. I will say you had a nerve.” “What did 1 do?” She stared at him resentfully. “Why you got me to work it so that I stayed on. It was quite easy for old Caroline. She said 1 was her cousin and the Van Bergs didn’t care. And then—" “And then?” She reached out for another cig- arette, struck a match, and looked at him over the li‘tle yellow flame. “Are you trying to make me be- said lieve I'm telling you something you | don’t know?” “I can’t make you believe any- thing,” said Jim. She threw the match into the grate just short of the spangled shavings. “Oh, have it your own way! Do you want me fo tell you how you pinched the emeralds?” He had himself well in hand. He said coolly: “I stole them?” Nesta laughed. “You make me tired, Jimmy Ria- dell! You stole them?” She tried to mimic his voice. “Do you think you ean act the lnnocent with me like that after the way heard you talk in your sleep? Wh'i Fou've.nev- er stopped talking, it | hadn't got you out of that hospital in dou- ble quick time, we should all have been inside.” She laughed again at bis blank look and flung out: “Jug— guod—stir! Haven't ever done time, ¥:suppose? Well you will over this if you don’t cure yourself of talking at n!ght. E LEAVED forward with MI el-| bow on his knee and his chin in | N! hand. “You say I took these emeralda?” . “I say you did—and I'll;say it was & pretty nippy bit of work. Pity you shot him, though.” He jerked away from the word. “What are you saying?” . “You shouldn’t have ecarried & gun,” sald Nesta maliciously. “I satd 50 all along.” He got up. His spine had gone cpld. He felt the sweat brenk out upon his temples. “What's that you're sny!n;!" Nesta got up, t00. {“I'm saying that you shot Mr. van Berg.” § He went over to the mantelpiece, leaning on it with his two bands, bis head bent between them, his eyes staring blankly at the lplnmd shavings in the grate. - What nightmare was mn He had broken Into a house, stolen proper- stones ... eight square green stones| —chained two by two with pearls— swinging from a man's hand, Whose hand? Van Berg's hand? He could see it under the light, it was as plain as anything he had seen in all his life—a powerful band, with spatulate fingers and an old healed scar running from the lower knuckie of the first finger to the root of the thumb. -He didn't see Mln 's carefully pol- ished grate with the dazzle of shayr ings and the small bright blue tiles; he saw Van Berg's hand with the scar on.it, and he.kuew how. the scar had come there. Out of all the things that he had forgotten.he res membered this one—that Van Berg had got that scar playing with a pet monkey. No, it wasn't a bite. The monkey had got fooling with a razor. It was a clean cut. He had forgotten every- thing in the world, but he hadn’t for- | gotten Van Berg’s monkey. His head swam for a moment. Then he straightened up and half turned, still leaning on the mantel- piece, He caught a curious look on Nesta's face, 8 watching look, but it went past him. “Is Van Berg dead?” he said. “Not yet,” said Nesta. “Is he bad?” She shrugged her shoulde “If he doesn’t die for a y a day, they can’t hang you.” His yoice came at her with an an- gry leap. *Is he bad?” “So s0.” And then fault he’s not dead. have it all right.” He went over to the window and threw it up. He had to push past the pink geraniums; one of the bright blooms snapped off. The room had suddenly seemed crowded with'used air. Outside, a light wet wind blew veeringly. There was ‘rain in the wind, but it would not fall yet awhile. It struck damp and cool against his face, and he was glad of it. Nesta’s voice came from close \e- hind him. “Where did you put the emeralds, Jimmy?” He turned blindly, pushed past her, ‘and went blundering through the door and out into the street. and “It's not you. You let him AROLINE drove to Marley, which, as the day narse had told her, was only eight miles from El ston. She found a charming little vil- lage with stone walls and thatched | roofs. The thatched roofs were doubt- less a refuge for earwigs, but though Marley containgd some six hundred inhabitants, with the usual allowance of cows, cats, pigs, hens and children, it did net, so far as Caroline couid ascertain, conceal Mr. and Mrs. James Riddell. At first this made Caroline angry. A very bright color blgemed in her cheeks, and she thought of several things which she would have liked to say to Mrs. Riddell. Later on, while:ighe was having tea in the prettiest of the cottage gardens, she had a brain-wave. There were ear- wigs in the thatch. She had just fished the third out of her tea, when the brain waved and she wanted to know why Mrs. Riddelkbad said she was coming to Marley when she wasn't coming to Marley. Caroline had, of counse, taken the greatest possibla dislike. to.what she described as that snatching wo- | man. But even people whom you dis- like very much don’t as a rule tell entirely purposeless lies; so. why. had the Snatcher said she was com- ing to Marley? Caroline drank some of her tea hastily, because she was very thirsty and she wanted to get in be- fore the next.earwig. She had a feel- | ing that there were going to be more earwigs, and sure enough.when she put down her cup there was ene in the saucer, She thought very seri- ously abewt Mrs. James Riddell. | And the more she thought, the less | she could think of any reasen why she should bave told that lie—un- less— The “unless” was so exciting that Caroline felt quite dazzled by fit. Why does anyone give a false ad- dress? Because they don’t want to give.a real one~aund ‘they only don't want to give a real one because they've something they're ashamed of or something they've got to hide. Mrs. Riddell-had come and fetched Hm away from the Elston cottage hos- pital She had gaid that he was Jim. Rid- deil, and she had said that she was going to Marley; Well, she bagin’t told the truth about going to Mar- ley, sa why ‘shoyld: she have. told the ‘truth about Jim being Jim Rid- deli?, 28, ¥, 2 (L'wrflam 1933, 7. B. Ilpplucou co. 1 tpta ,{)HII.KAT RIV BRIDGE WORK IS NOW COMPLETED Dave . Dishaw, Contractor,| and Crew Return Here on Yukon from Haines Dave Dishaw, contractor, re- | turned to his home in Juneau this | morning on the Yukon from | Haines where he has had charge of the construction of the 820- \foot. long bridge over the Chilkat River for the Alaska Road Com- mission. The contract was let by the Alaska Road Commission several months ago and Mr. Dish- aw has been away for two and one-half months supervi:ng the work. The. bridge, which, is nearly | one-sixth of a mile long, is built over the Chilkat River at Walls, Alaska, twenty-four and one-half miles inland from Haines. The contract involved the spending of over six. thousand dollars. Mrs. Dave Dishaw, who has been with her husband in the Haines | district, also returned. . today.. — - — FRED NELSON RECEIVES CUT FROM FALLING ROCK Fred Nelson, who is employed by the Warrack Construction com- pany on the foundation work of the Shattuck Building, to be con- structed on Third and Seward Strects, suffered a slight cut on the head this morning when 2 dislodged rock hit him. Hz was back at work in a short time after receiving first aid treatment at St. Ann's Hospital. ———— — J. K. JACKS! LEAVES FOR WINDHAM BAY MINE ON SMALL BOAT FRIDAY With a small experimental mill and other machinery, recently purchased, J. K. Jackson, manag- er of the Windham Bay Mining Company, will leave Juneau to- night for the mine on the gasboat of Nils Landin, which he has chartered for the trip. Mr. Jackson will remain at th mine for several weeks installing the machinery and looking over the work that has been done dur- ing his absence, before returning to Juneau. ?Idi cu’i afford PRIVATE === DOUGLAS NEWS DOUGLAS P.-T.A. MEETS TUESDAY Business Meeting, Short Program, Reception to Teachers Arranged The fitst meeting of the Doug- las Parent - Teacher Association, this term, will be held next Tues- day ium, An interesting business ses- sion is scheduled for the meet- |mg after which a short program | will be given. Following the pro- ;gram there will be an informal; | reception for the teachers and re- f| freshments will be served. Ev- sryone is invited to attend the meeting. The program to be given is as follows: Piano duet by the Misses Mamie and Elizabeth Feusi. Reading by Geneva Feero. in the High School auditor- BACK "~ TWO MINUTES = Vocal w. E. Cahill selection by Mrs. REBEKAHS OBSERVE 82ND ANNIVERSARY In celebration of the eighty- second anniversary of the found- ing of their Order, Northern Light Rebekah Lodge Na. 1 rentertained meémbers from the Juneau and Douglas lodges last evening at a card party following their regular meeting in the Odd Fellows Hall | . Whist was.. played, the high score prizes going to Mrs. J. D. Van Atta and Jack Langseth, th2 ' consolations to Mrs. Charles Car- ter and Eno Erickson. After the cards, refreshments were served, an unusual feature of which was the presentation of a lovely birthday cake lighted with 82 candles by Mrs. Van Atta. 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