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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