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MEDFOItD MAIL TRIBUNE, 1IEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1932. U, ULtNN L'HArTIN and HAL rUBKtSI TAILSPIN TOMMY It All Depends On The General ! .KITTY FREW 1 by JANC ABBOTT 1 unropaisi r.ett oiom in big empty house by Iter young husband, Kitty Frew finds unex pected company. Her husband's family is out, and David. Mr. Frew s son by a former marriage, who has quarrelled with the pres ent itrs. Fret, is i nuoaled in by the butler, found. Kill) finds David easier to know than the boys and girls of her husband, Oar's crowd, and they quickly be come friends, David warns her to look out tor ilrs. Frew, who feels ehe has prior claim to Gar, Mrs, Frew's hostility to the recent mar riage is mainly shown in the way ehe encourages Gar not to go to work. Kitty and Oar have quar relled because she wants him to earn his own spending money. Car has left in a rage, saving that it she thinks golf a crime she needn't go with him. Temporarily, Kitty forgets her worries. Chapter a NEW VENTURE "OOD heavens. It's ten o'clock I may be caught hers, and old Found will be told to throw1 me out by brute force." He took Kitty's two bands and pressed them. "You've made my stolen evening very pleasant As you may have gathered, I like you. I wish we might be friends.' "I like you," Kitty answered quickly, childishly. "Thanks. Remember, now, Mrs, Gar, you haven't got that square chin of yours for nothing. Remain- ber that you've chosen to marry a boy who hasn't learned yet that living Is a mau's-slze Job." After David had gone Kitty sat on alone by the dying tire. Now the room did not seem unfriendly their pleasant evening together here had changed it. She mused over what' David bad aald of Gar of herself. He.tbought of them both as children. Out he'd been right Gar was Just a boy. And she'd been too critical of him. She should not have expected blm to adjust himself at once to bis new responsibilities. She recalled, with a little com' passion, the hardness In David's voice when he bad spoken of Gar's mother. Poor David. She would ask Gar more about him. What had made blm so bl.ter. so Intolerant? Perbaps she could coax Gar Into a more cordial relation with his half brother. No,?, In her new-found confidence, the could plan a more secure place for herself In this household. As David had put It, she had been living only on the edge of It, but probably that was her own fault. She'd be gayer, after this,' with Gar's friends. Perhaps It she bought herself a new dress she would feel more really gay. The poor rust-colored silk and the flowered crepe bad been worn to death. Sbe had one hundred dollars of ber own saving from the winter before. She was really happy as she went upstairs to their room. Her fear that an accident bad detained Gar had completely vanished. She was asleep whtn Gar came in, late. He sat down on the edge of tbe bed and slipped his arms about her, kissing her eyes to waken her. "Kit, 1 was a beast to leave yc ' alone so long. I didn't stay away because I was sore, Kit Red's car broke down and the four of us bad to go out In mine. Kit, were you awfully lonelyt I missed you hor ribly, sweetheart." His nearness, the tenderness of his ardor enveloped her, She snug gled closer into his arms. "Kit, Rod's been talking up a prop osition to me. There's an automo bile Agency going 'o open that new Swallow car I pointed out to you the other day. Red thinks I could et It. . ' "Things were dead for me wltbout you, Kit. . . . Everything all right, now, sweet!" She put her head In the hollow of his arm, with a little breath of con tentment "Everything." During the days that followed Kitty thought often of David Frew. She had not told Gar of his coming to the houBe because she remem bered that David had apoken of It as a conspiracy between Pound and hlmaelf. Sbe pictured Us workings. Pound telephoning to David when he knew that Mrs, Frew and Carol and Gar all were going to be out "Don't you ever soe David, Gar?" she asked, once. "Not any ottcner than I can help." "What does he do?" "Not much, Thinks he can write, but I guess nobody agrees with him." ' "Where does he live" "I'll drive you past his apartment same day and then you'll see what 1 mean when 1 say he's a wash-out. But why all this Interest In David?" "He's your halt-brother, Gar." "Well, that's nothing to me, or to you, Kit." She dropped the subject of David. But her frlendlluesi. toward blm stood against Gar's scorn. David had been kinder to her than he knew. He had done more than SUICIDE RESULT OF QUARREL WIH WIFE ALBANY, Ore., April 19. (P) R. W. Clfsrhart, as, of Roneburg. committed suicide In a local hotel here some time last nleht or early today by shooting himself In the head. Hit body was found In his room. Notes left by Clarhart Indicated he and his wife had quarreled. Mount Scott Bank Plana Liquidation PORTLAND, April 1. W The Mount Scott state bank waa closed today after having been turned over to the state banking department Sunday. help her through a lonely evening; he had given her a new attitude to ward Gar. That it had In It some thing of his mother's Indulgence did not occur to her. She counted only its effect under It Gar became the charming lover he bad been in Brldgewater. He had gone with her to buy the new dress; after all, Kitty decided, that was the way It should be. ' 'Do you like It?" Kitty would ask, anx iously, each time sbe appeared from the fitting room to meet his Inspec tion. Gar was prompt to praise or disapprove, speaking always In a masterful way that gave Kitty a lit tle glow of pride. Finally his choice fixed on a corn-yellow gown of ex quisitely soft chiffon. But It was ninety dollars! Kitty bad gasped at the price. "Gar, I could buy two dresses for that!" "Stuff! You can have all tbe dresses you want! Take it Let's get out and go somewhere for lunch." She had worn the new dress that night to a dinner at tbe Country Club. She had felt gayer in It Tub by had told her that she looked like a million dollars. Marge bad ad mired It "You made a hit tonight Kit That's what clothes can do," Gar had told her afterwards. When Gar Insisted she consented to a lesson In golf. She was not much Inspired by It and she knew she was stupid In sensing what tbe instructor wanted ber to do, but 't was pleasing Gar Gar had not gone yet witb Red to see tbe man about the new agen cy. For one reason or another their going waa delayed from day to day. He always had ready plausible ex cuses. Red was busy one day, the man was out of town, another. Frequently she sent Gar off with out ber, usually to play golf. "I've' ever so much I want to do. 1 won't know you're away," she'd assure blm. And she'd busy herself quite contentedly. With Pound's help she re-arranged Gar's room more to her liking. Pound talked about the country while he worked. She wrote long letters home, hap py letters. Sbe wrote to Sally With ers, telling ber of the new dress that had cost ninety dollarB. She lid not tell Sally she had paid for It out of her own monoy. Sbe had lost much of her feeling of timidity In tbe bouse, before Gar's mother, even with Carol, She laughed a little, thinking how, ex cept tor David, ehe might have stayed on the edge of the house hold. One day, passing the half open door of Mrs. Frew's sanctum and hearing Gar's voice from within, she ventured quite boldly across the threshold. "Kitty?" There was a hint ot Inquiry In Mrs. F-ew's tone. It might have been Pound Intruding and his mistress asking: "What Is It Pound?" But Kitty managed a smile. "May I stay?" Unbidden, she sat down on the arm ot the chair In which Gar was sprawled. She felt a little shaky at her daring and Instinctively she leaned close to Gar's shoulder. Sh did not notice the curious kindling ot Mrs. Frew's eyes at they went swiftly from her to Oer, . The severe simplicity of the room surprised Kitty, held her attention. It could serve an eccleslast for his meditations! "I think It's very splendid ot them to have asked you, Gar." Kltty'a attention came back to Mrs, Frew and what sbe was saying. , Sbe turned eagerly to Gar. Gar explained, - with much self satisfaction. "The Idyllers are getting up a company of players. Kit find a barn somewhere and turn It Into a little theater. It's Marge's Idea and she wants me to help her run the thing. There'll be a lot ot detail work to get It started and It'll need someone who can give the time to It" 'And money, ot course," Mrs. Frew put in before Kitty could say anything. "Let me give somothlng." Oh, Marge's going to take core ot that end of It But It's mlghy nice In you, mother, to start the subscrip tions." He took the check his mother had signed. "We're going to try some revivals they're the thing, now. Lots of laughs In them. Marge has dug us a professional who'll coach us. rani Somerset He's here writing on a play guess he's good, all right. Been In Shakespeare and stuff like that." Kitty's first excitement was giv ing way to dismay. If Oar went Into this venture what of his Job? rcosM-fasr. Jane Abbott I Carol wirni Kitty of a pint against htr, tomorrow, and Kitty btslna to raiant Marga'a hlghhand. tdnsaa. ASK HUGE SUM FOR WASHINGTON, April 1. (if) Authorisation for SJID.OOO.OOO for de veloping the Columbia river was ought today In a olll Introduced by Oregon's two Republican aenatora. McNary and atetwer, WASHINGTON. April IB. Tl Richard Whitney, president ot the New York stock exchange, said to- y the market Aould have closed after England went otf the gold standard If short selling had not been forbidden temporarily. WASHINGTON," April IP. T Senator Wm. J. Harrla of Cleorxla died Mm lay after an Ilium of sev eral weeks. 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