MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1932.
By OLK.NN t'HAI-KIN
aud UAL FOBBtSt
TAILSPIN TOMMY Circumstantial Evidence!
CRAZ
lv GRACE PERKINS
tmopaiS! Out at Brief and
diaiUueion, Hope Roaa rcachea ma
turity though not happlneee. Hhe
' has not been her happvoo-lucku
eel atnce her runawrjy marrlaoe
to Dtrkev Dale ended by her
lather't command, eince Hope and
I Dickey were minor. Mr. lioee
w told 1J ope thai Dickey lelt her.
Chapter 25
A NEW HOPe
HOPE'S letters to Papa Ross
must have Indicated this to a
high degree, (or all of her special
delivery favors were granted to
ward the (all.
Together, In a bond of strange
friendship, Hope and Mrs. Manly,
the girl of nineteen and the woman
of sixty-eight, traveled on tHrough
the west To New Moxlco, to Colo
rado, to California, to Vancouver,
and even to Hawaii.
' A new Hope, with the same old
Baasy, still Immaculately white of
tar and grimly whiskered, returned
to Westchester the following
Christmas. '
Yes, a new Hope. Tall and slim
and strangely self-assured, hard
ened In bone and muscle and soft
ened In heart and tongue. A Hope
who seemed suddenly to realise
that Papa and Mama were lonely
and getting on In years.
Oh, a very different Hope. Who
ooos more gloried In flirting and
In triumphing this time with an
older crowd by (ar. An older
crowd who were naive. In the light
of the younger set In many ways,
but who taught Hope new and more
dangerous thrills. The thrill of
gambling that struck straight home,
both In amusements of roulette and
contract In the evenings, and In the
took market during the day.
For one entire year Hope crashed
this crowd, hewing a peculiarly en
viable and distinct position (or her
self. And Papa Ross, thankful to
see her buppy and agreeable, sane
and carefree once more, paid the
piper again and gladly. Great was
the cost, (or Hope counted no for
fait too great (or the tribute of
this new world.
"You are going to leave me half
of your fortune anyway," she would
remind Papa Ross crisply. "Why
not let me enjoy the money while
you live, so you may see how I use
r!I Let me be the one member of
this family who can live life rio
tously (or the sake of what life can
after."
And Papa Ross, gazing at her
through his cigar smoke, would feel
guilty tug at his heart, knowing
how truly he had robbed her of her
happiness once. Watch her, he did,
day and night, stunned that a girl
so young his baby should know
so much of life, and know It so
caustically.
And she certainly knew It. Mot a
haunt In all Now York but Hopo
visited, from the ordinary night
clubs and the regular speakoaslea
to the privately conducted salons
that the surfeited rich and aged
eould enter; from the Joints of
Harlem to the darkened rooms of
Chinatown, from the Colony Club
and the Rlts all the way out to the
airports of Long Island, where at
last she won her final thrill of
earning a pilot's license.
Such was that year tor Hope
Fairfield Ross, whose beauty blos
somed and ripened with a breath
less and appalling audacity. Far
sung and unchallenged were nor
triumphs but no longer were they
Innocent victims Innocently met.
Resounding were the names that
went down under her taunting and
full-throated little laugh; older
men all, wholly or partly married,
It hardly mattered so long aa they
measured up to her new standard
ot manhood and sportsmanship.
While all the time Rusty looked
on with pained and punished eyes,
realising the (utility of protest, and
trying desperately to Interest him
self In other and lesser lights. It
waa a strange roundelay Rusty
suffering over Hope and constantly
wondering and hoping, and Angel
(who had been promoted from be
ing Rusty's secretary to that ot the
vice-president and she never
would have taken the change so
ealmly If It didn't mean twenty a
week more (or her mother who was
ailing), oh yes, Angel waa suffering
over Hope, and constantly wondor-
log learning to hate the girl who
eould hart Rusty v deeply. , , .
Tt Hop ithtaa: ae savage races
and rrM it4 to fcHMTstttlona, to
esrtala Inwltraole habits and
MtkiMw Me longsr were there
weeping spells for Sasay to watch
sleepily. Hope bed passed the
stage ot weeping. But one old se
cret routine persisted with her
dally, nightly, and weekly. In a
light blue vellum hand-tooled vol
ume. locked with a tiny gold filled
key, Hope kept a seraphook. A
'.range little seraphook. with
strange little notations beneath the
Items pasted therein. Every open
ing ot every play that J. Hlckson
Dale had produced In the past four
yearn I Every notice of blr travels,
of his motion-picture activities, the
announcement of a time when he 1
was In a hospital with appendicitis
(and be could never guess who sent
a certain truckload of flowers), and
another ot an Island be had bought
off the coast of Maine as a summer
place.
Other and even dearer things were
pasted in that scrapbook too. A
full-page picture of Dickey Dale In
the Year Book of Harmouth (whee-:
died out of Betty Preston adroitly),
the picture that was published In a
newspaper when he graduated with
bonors, bits ot gossip published by
New York columnists, and proving
that Dickey was a gadabout In the
theatrical world, an Item announc
ing a sketch written by Dickey and
Incorporated Into a small but suc
cessful revue, and finally the cur
rent pub'lclty of strange and excit
ing reports that Dickey Dale was
adapting an old play of his father's
Into a musical comedy libretto)
Scheduled to appear on Broadway
In the (all!
Certain people knew, that year, of
Hope's great devotion to Charlie
Rand, Jr., born on Hope's own twen
tieth birthday. In September, nine
teen twenty-seven.
And certain (oik knew of Hope's
unceasing concern over Judy, who
had been fighting desperately since
her debut to keep on In a world
she could no longer afford. Judy,
who should grab the opportunity at
her doorstep to marry Into the
wealth of the Frisky Hall family,
and who was fated to love a man
even poorer than herself. Tom
Post, the faithful saxophone player,
never saw Frlsky's aeventeen-carat
ring. Judy always hid It and wore
Tom's quarter carat in his -presence.
She hated the ring as much as Tom
did, and she hated Frisky mors
with each day that dawned.
It was growing harder, month by
month, to see Tom; and Tom In
desperation sneaked off to Chicago.
Tom did wrong. He didn't explain
to Judy that he had a big chance
In Chicago, nor that he couldn't
stand not seeing her. ... He Just
left and then wired her he'd he
back when she'broke with Frlskyl
Poor Judy! Hope had a new henrt-
break on her hands, for wasn't
Judy's sorrow as great as her ownl
fine knew how Judy felt only too
well but she had the sense, ths
money, the determination, and love
enough to trace Tom and find the
real reasons tor his departure, and
make him write them to juay.
But In the meantime Judy was
dlssy with grief. For how could
she break with Frisky when both
her parents were so desperntoly
adamant, and so desperately In
need? One can fun away under
normal circumstances, but one can't
run away from a sick mother. Nor
could one unburden oneself of the
orersweet Insistence of one's
fiance's family, who wore Just as
adamant as the Hunts lnnstmieh as
they needed 'family" to salt their
money."
It was the combination ot Hope's
Interest in Judy and in Goody s
baby that gave Hope the brilliant
Idea that sent Mama Ross pale,
brought a gleam ot pride Into Papa
Ross's eyes, and a buss of Joking
gossip In the town.
For in November, Hope and Judy
went Into business together.
In an enviable snot on the main
street of their home town, a unique
ly decorated shop was brought Into
existence, and called the "Punch
and July." Incongruous Hope!
Opening a shop for children's dross-
and baby things!
Running Pnpa'a lawyor ragged
with papers and leases and conrea
slens to be signed, and disturhtni
the local bank wtlh a new and pe
culiar account Here was a way In
deed for Judy to make money and
feel guarantoed of an Income. Done
In the social manner, with an open
ing by Invitation (whero tea was
served), the shop caused consider
able Interest from the start.
Judy was a demon for work, and
Hope had a head on her shoulders
even If It tros blond! Most of ths
decorations and halt ot the chit
dren's rompers and dresses she hat)
designed herself.
Hope was wide-eyed with delight
Here waa a new thrill, a terrtfli
gamble, a vital Interest. Here wai
companionship with July that
meant something. Here was a ncn
and satisfying way to shock the sur
rounding universe In to a fresh 111
Hp of gossip. Here was trorfc
the dltsy flavor ot success.
(CepvWost. Ora- frrMns)
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tht next Intullmint. Hops'i,
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By BUD FISHER
FIFTEEN DEAD IN
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and down the North Atlantic Mtes
yesterday toot al least 19 Urea and
caused widespread damnge.
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with stalled automobiles In snow
several feet high. There and In up
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