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Newspaper Page Textpros STX MEDFOTiD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREO OX, MONDAY, .MARCH 28, 1932. TAILSPIN TOMMY Aerial "Hitch-Hiking" Across Asia By OLENN CHAFKIN and HAL to Kilt ST KYVOPSIS: Hope Ron flnda r marriage tclth Olckey Dale ttl rufni through her father1 tactlce. Ur. Rosa "convinces" her that Dickey U not atandlng bu her. and keepe Dickey ateuy from her. At' ter the marriage ie annulled, Hope gore to Dickrv'a college and i very pay to ealve her vride. Chapter 24 PRICING A COUNT riN days after the Harmouth scandal, Hope and Sassy found themselves headed for Cherbourg, with Mama Ross bravely facing sea sickness, and dellcatoly raising her eyebrows at the hoi pollol that were her fellow passengers. To certain people a trip to Europe seems to be the only answer to every emotional upheaval. But nobody on the boat was quite food enough for Mama Ross, who kept magnificently aloof as she paced the deck In her English tweeds, and confined herself other wise to her five-room suite. Never once did Mama appear In the dining alon or attend the evening gaieties which the ship proffered to less sen sitive and cultured souls. After hav ing glanced over the passenger list, she had tossed It aside, and devoted herself to her books and her daughter. This routine, as it happened, suit id Hope completely. Hope had con siderable crying to accomplish, an unwonted amount of thinking to do. and innumerable questions to an wer herself regarding life and Its possibilities. The disgrace which had attended her being sent home from Harmouth, the degrading ex pianauons she bad Insisted upon making, to take all the blame (so that Tuck might merely be sus pended Instead of actually expelled from college), Papa's red-eyed dis gust with the entire disgraceful pro ceeding; all these things mattered " little to Hope except to make her thoughts the more Involved. What he really cared about was Dickey. and what Dickey thought of ber when he returned to Harmouth and beard of her fraternity house scan Sal. ,. , Not that she really cared. . . No, not that she really cared, she told Sassy. For Sassy, kept in the suite by crook, since It couldn't be done by hook, gazed back Into Hope's troubled eyes with a quiet and ancient wisdom that seemed to comfort his mistress. And Bassy's purring, Bassy's blinking stare, or Bassy's comforting silence were ol the company that Hope wanted In those particularly tumultuous hours. Negatively she almost wished her mother were not about, though oni could hardly call Mama company All one had to do to please, entor taln or distract Mama was to play yes-woman to her every remark. Hope wasn't used to playing yos woman. That bad been Goody's oc cupation. But now It came easy enough. Anything for peace and .'.'' tude. Hope was sadly amused at her self, and sadly amused at Mama who In her beet days was no con Tersationallst. How often had Paps Ross said yes to her, Hope won laved, as she found herself nodding agVoement. "Do you think Goody is happyr "Oh, yea, Mama. Sure." "Think of Itl My daughter mar rledl Sarahl A wife hersoir now, beginning to face life and Its re sponsibilities. Oh, I do hope the doar child Is happy and comfortable. Charlie's such a nice boy. but all men are a handful.' "Yes, Indeed, Mama." "You're the one I wish were mar rledl You'ro the one I worry aboutl Goody could always take care of herself. You're the one, Hope, who needs a strong hand, a Arm love to guide you and bring out the best that's In you. Because I'm sure thore's a beat somewhere, I've teen It! Besides, it's in your blood. Oh well, some day you'll meet the right man." "Yes, I suppose so." "Certainly you Willi Don't look so gloomy, child. Think of all we do tor you I You think too much of yourself and too little of others. Won't it be delightful to see Goody In Paris T On her honeymoon!" "Yes. Rather." "Oh, I hope she's been dieting like she promised. Perhaps we can pick up a fow trinkets for her. Bhall we stay In Paris about a month?" "Yes. That would be nice." "Yes, that's long enough. I don't want to be there when the tourist crowd starts. . , ." Obediently, Hope met Goody and Charlie In Paris, Went the rounds with them. Met their friends, and Mama's friends, and attended the spring openings of the couturltres, the rsces, the galleries, tie private parties, the night clubs. , . . Dew to England with Charlie and Ooody while Mama peraUted In crossing the Channel by tin. nade Goody a mute good-bye at South ampton and watched the boat out of sight, wondering at her own humble awe at Goody's quiet bliss. Yes, Goody was happy, and so waa Charlie so happy, both of them, with their nice, correct, paddy-cake marriage. Was that the right kind of love, Hope wondered good and complacent, doing the right things, seeing the right people? How ec static Goody looked. How changed! For the entire summer Mama and Hope did the Continent alone, and late in the fall Papa joined them. Hope had found distraction verg ing on the romantic with one noble, good-looking, monocled, mustached, military attache of the royal house of Italy. It was Hope's oft-repeated boast that no possible objection could be found to her now play mate. Since she must eventually be married, certainly fate bad sent her the best. A Ood-sent answer to the old alternative of Rusty Cran- dall back home or mummifying loneliness and reetlessness. County, as she Insisted upon call ing him, was agreeable and could tango; and be would let her do as she pleased and had suggested to Hope that after marriage each could go or come as was desirable, each could havo their separate fricnii, and they could make dates with each other when It appealed to them. It sounded intrigulngly and surprlBlngly fair-minded for an Ital ian; but It left Hope with just a wee spasm of nostalgia, and with a sharper tongue, a growing sarcasm, and a quiver In her left nostril that made her feel as it the whole thing were distasteful. It was, for that mattor, but aside from her private opinion of her fiance, he offered a new freedom. Didn't he promise freedom from himself and In addi tion, there would be freedom from Mama and Papa, and the sight of Goody's contentment, from more pleadings on Rusty's part from the whole United State that held Dickey Dale. Mama had agreed without being the slightest degree Impressed. Presentations at Courts were old whoopees to Mama Ross, aud who was she to raise an eyebrow over an aristocracy that happoned to equal her own? What was a mere Count? Still, however, she did agree. Bo Papa waa summoned, and for three weeks great to-do and what-all was made over the mooting of the two unctuous, ororpoweringly polite, and tlresomely concerned families. Business of looking Into and being looked Into caused magnificent pastime, and Anally both American and Italian Papas and Mamas came to a delightful agreement of hitch ing up names, matching titles and assigning chattel; a great and re freshing little game, especially when played with Duces wild. It so happened, however, aa soon as complete arrangements were made, that Hope decided to change her mind. But Hope said no word of the real reason. She put It down, and truthfully toota little matter of a dance who despised cats. Her decision was prompt and Immov able; yet that was hardly a At ex planation, and left Papa and Mama Ross with a new pastime that waa neither entortalnlng nor comfor table, of undoing and unpromising, and dodging a paymont tor discom fited noble toolings. Be that as it may, Hope sailed home to America with hor nerve racked parents, and her shrewd and plume-tallod Sassy early in Decem ber. To spend Christmas Bra In Goody's bravely furnished new home, sot near one of llio dotting lakes et Westchester, In a now resi dential section that Doomed to be a sort of barnacle ot a golf club. Tut bouse Itself was a stolid 'pt-room monument to the tbo opinion Char lie's naronts had held ot the union. The ontlre furnishings and equip ment from the black-and-rose tiled kitchen down to the monogrammed door mat outside the heavy green pnlntod front-door, were the con tribution of the two who had one been bitterly disappointed because Goody was not a boy. Christmas and New Year'a were spont with Goody, partly because they wore Goody's Arst big and ln portant parties, and she waa ao t slstontly anxious that hor "tolrs' be with her on hor Arst Yuletlda; partly becauso Mama asd Ptpo were baroly speaking to Una: ) partly because Hope, tor ttse ant time In her lite, dldnt oar to gtv a tree party, and baiety nott4 that the servants put up a tre. After the holidays, life plodded relentlessly onward, whether Hope liked It or not With a shrug ot her sloping shoulders, Hop realised that In the scandal ot Harmouth. she had hammered the last nail down In the coffln ot her reputation. (Covvitoht. Qrae Ptrkint) Hope reslliet htxttlf that shs Is eMngedj on Monday. Out aha It the old Hope when danger threat, ene Sassy. PLANS FAVORED WASH I NO TON, March 88. AP AuerUng conditions hav ehrmd tlnos th Improvement tu first un dertaken, the wer department today recommended to Chairman Mana field of the houte rlvera and harbora committee a ai ,200,000 modification In the Umpque project. "Lumber prodyca now are trans ported In deeper draft vwMto to dis tance market and unlets adequate depth la provided for euch veseelt benefits from further expenditures on this harbor will be limited," aald Major Oeusral Bros, oMt of axmjr ctlosaxe HITS LEGAL TANGLES CRE8CKNT CITY, Cel., March M (8pl.) one hundred prospectors who staked claims on an old river bed reputedly rich In mineral otea during one of the wildest gold rushes seen here In years were worry In over a legal obstacle which msy bar them from profiting. Most of the staked land Is owned by the Del Norte Timber company of Xu Claire, Wis., and the owner ship of the mineral rights Is disput ed, It la reported that gold, qutrkell ver, platinum ami Iridium average as to the cubic yard, and otVr reports have It that In some places the value run to 1100 a cubic yard. WHAT A COUPLE TW OF HITCH HIKN6 PAL S THE PADtVt DAHONO THVeS TURNCD OUT TP 3. THV H4V HID IO TOW1V AMO SMTR AND TPAVSPOKTATWA t-fiori 'riiz PALACcT V TO HOteAX6. ' OBJ 1201 LISTEN, YOU DON T KNcXM F I'LL DO THE. gll SUTUe'RE UFUL ; JSS'"1-S rMJCH ABOUT FLYINSOO M WORRVIN' M gglglligL LOW ON C5A&-MTUATS ASl OLD I Ullf Y0U?LO6 CAN'T STAgT ABOUT THATl IB V, . .Jllli STALL-WIND 'ER Nil - r OUT ON A LONG TRIP GET IN THAT M j ,'iW UP AND LETS SO-' H --rnrEv. LIKE THIS WITHOUT. SHIP AND FLV r vZ-!Sssim. vnua i iff nrtN'T Bg S PKETTy coto, so rit HAVE TO AMSS IT ACOAS FOR A UTTIE (JHi- f I KrVOk) EN0U6H ABOtlA 5THA T' BUT DONT . mPUU Anr TXCKS I fCopyhght, IW.'by ThTjrrLitJU. 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