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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.
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