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BEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORU. OREGOX, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1932.'
KITTY FREW
by JANE ABBOTT
trNOPSIB: Kitty Freut leavaa
her husband. Oar. a few ehort
veeka after their marrtagt, and
eoye aha won't corns back until he
ia wilting to aupport her. Ha hat
been content to bring hte wlf to
hta parents' homa, and live on hie
mother'a money unite ho reata
jtrom the atrain of graduation Irom
college. Kitty diacovera that Ure.
Frew ia trying to make Oar regret
hie marriage, and uill not stay
in the houae. itra. t'rew'a ambi
tiona for her aon have been dlaap
pointed by hie marriage to an un
known plrl from a email town, but
ahe hopea to prove that Kitty doee
not fit into their environment. An
ether person annotftd by the mar
riage in Uarge Croaby, whom Oar
formerly liked, and who atill hopea
to ateot him away from Kitty.
When ahe leavea, Kitty calla up
David Frew, Oar't half-brother,
whom aha truata, but ujho haa
quarreled with the family.
Chapter 14
RUNAWAY
KCO you're run wr, bar and
baggage," David said.
"I had to, David. How could I
toy? Don't you iee that 1
oouldn't?"
Kitty's face, white and strained,
lifted pleadingly to David Frew's.
He turned from It a little
abruptly.
"Yes, I can see that you thought
that. I went, myself Just like
that But I've always been sorry
I did, for It gave her an inning."
Then suddenly he laughed. "Well,
we're sort of In the same boat,
aren't wet"
Kitty acknowledged that with a
wan little smile. But It comforted
her In a degree. She relaxed
against the shabby cushions of the
divan to which David on her com'
lng had led her, drew a long quiver
lng breath.
Though at the time her brain had
seemed to work with mechanical
precision now she had only a con.
fused recollection of her actual
flight in which Pound's face and Its
deep concern stood out most
vividly. Her bag was too heavy
for ber, Pound bad said, but she'd
known he had meant more tbsn
the bag. There was a sharp wind
blowing and Pound bad stood out
In It, bareheaded, until the taxi
he'd called had cdme up to the
curb. Oh, Pound was kind!
And David bad been kind. David
had listened to her story without
a single interruption. She knew
he'd been angry, listening; she'd
seen how be dug his hands savagely
into his pockets, how, now and
then, his lips bit hard over some
word he would not speak. He'd
paced up and down the floor. But
be hadn't interrupted her and she
was grateful for that because if
he bad she could not have gone
on with it, perhaps.
"What's your plan, Kitty? Do
you want to go home?"
"1 thought of that at first but I'd
rather not. I'd hate to go like
this to have them know for
Car's sake, you see " She faltered,
flushing, for she knew David would
not see.
He had the fraee to turn his
scorn from her.
"You seem too absurdly like a
child to start on your own "
"Ob, but I'm notl" Kitty pro
tested quickly. "Really, now I feel
as It I were middle-aged I I can
work. I'm not afraid of It. Or of
having to live alone until" She
faltered again.
David's anger reached a point
beyond his control. "Why in
heaven's name did you throw your
self away on Gar before you knew
what you wore getting?" he de
manded with savage roughness.
"David, pleasel I love Oar."
"Sorry. Kitty. I'd overlooked
that eurlous fact" He sat down
next to her on the divan. He took
one of her hands In his. "Anyway,
we're not fighting him. We're
fighting the other one."
"I am fighting tor Oar's and my
happiness." In her earnestness
Kitty oaught her hands over ber
breast and the gesture gave her
the look of a rellgleuse taking a
vow. David saw her like that and
a sudden swift tenderness softened
the hard lines of his face.
"You haven't eaten any dinner,"
he said abruptly. "I haven't either.
8o lot's cheer ourselves a little be
fore we tackle the situation. Sit
her while I wash up and then we'll
go out"
He went into an adjoining room.
Loft alone Kitty dropped her head
against the back of the divan and
closed her eyes. Oh, she'd been
right In knowing she could lean on
David's kindness! And Just for
nwhlls she bad to lean on some
thing When she opened her eyes it
was to her first realisation of the
room, a shabby room. In mannish
llsorder. It seemed to have noth
'ng in It but books, books on
helves put In between the win
""vs and against the end wall.
books on the table back of the di
van, old, worn-looking books. But
noting them, Kitty smiled. She'd
pictured David lonely but no one
could be lonely with so many books.
At one of the windows stood a
desk and a typewriter, covered
over with a wild confusion of loose
sheets of paper. That was where
David worked probably he'd been
working there when she telephoned.
He came In to find her still smil
ing. "Fine You re looking more
like yourself, Kitty. Ready?
There's a little place on the corner.
not many frills to It "
"Oh, I'm glad of that." Kitty's
tone was fervent
The restaurant was almost
empty. The table to which David
lod Kitty was marble-topped, cen
tered with salt and pepper cellars,
an enormous sugar-bowl and vine
gar cruet A sign on the wall be
hind It waned patrons to watch
their own hats and coats.
Kitty had a swift disturbing men
tal picture of Oar at the Hoffman,
Marge, Diana, Red, the others
"I can recommend the beefsteak
and trench fries," David was say
ing.
"I'm really not hungry."
Yet when her dinner was set be
fore ber Kitty ate, because she
knew it would please David if she
ate.
"Now," David pushed his empty
ple-plate awsy from him. "I've been
thinking, Kitty"
She had to Interrupt him. "Oh,
David, I'm so sorry to bother you
like this. But you see I had to
talk to some one." She flashed a
smal grateful smile on him.
David laughed. Don't worry
about bothering me. No one be
fore, to my knowledge, ever has
looked to ma for help of any sort
It sets me up Immensely. But what
I was going to say Is that we'll take
the whole problem to Dorcas
Taber."
Kitty shrank back Into her chair
with a quick sound of protest
"Oh, Dnvldl I cant!"
David Ignored her pleading. "Dor
cas Is the most understanding crea
ture In the world, Kitty," he told
her. "I call her a doctor of souls,
an agel to the damned"
But his extravagant hyperbole
did not reassure her. 8he couldn't
take her story to a stranger: David
ought not to ask It of horl
David, I can't" ahe repeated
miserably.
Well, one thing, Kitty, I can't
put you up tonight Not that I
wouldn't sit on the curb all night
quite happy knowing that you were
comfortable In my bed but my dear
stepmother might not believe that
I occupied the curb. Another thing,
I can't advise you about getting
work as well as Dorcas can. And
we don't want to start off on the
ktvrong foot, you see."
A painful flush had crept over
Kitty's face. She had put David in
an awkward position and now was
balking his most reasonable way
out of It. She nodded her Lead
slowly In mute acceptance of his
suggestion,, averting her eyes as
she did so.
"Thnt's a good girl!" She might
have been, Indeed, the child he
thought her. "You'll like Dorcas.
She lives Just two blocks down the
street We'll go there now, Maybe
we'll be lucky enough to And her
without any engagement thla
evening."
Outside David drew Kitty's hand
through his arm. In spite of her
self her step dragged; It still
seemed unthinkable that she could
bare to anyone but David the situ
ation that had brought her here.
David stopped before a short
flight of stained worn stone steps
flanked by rusty Iron railings. That
these had had beauty, that the wide
door above them must have opened
at one time to the cheer and
warmth of a gracious hospitality
could not cross Kitty's fancy then;
her shrinking hsd grown to terror
and she pulled Involuntarily on
David's arm. "I can't" she Im
plored. But he only laughed. "Walt 'til
you see Dorcas."
The door was slightly ajar as II
It were any one's business to enter
at will. The hall was long and nar
row and bare and lighted only b
a single globe far up In the celllni'
David appeared familiar with th
emptiness and the dimness; h
started at once np the long fllgii
of stairs, emlttltng a peculiar
whistle as he went At Its soum
a door on the second floor open?,!
lotting out an oblong of yellov
light
tCopyright, Jan Abbott)
Kilty's fright chsngss to surprlss
when the etee Dorcst, in the next
Inltsllmtnt, Can thers be a Solu
tion for her problem!
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BUrtN8. Ore. April 99 (AP) Re
ports from the range country west
of here In the Hallway district say
more than 100 head of range and
milk cattle have starved to deem,
and more are dying dally as the re
sult of a shortage of feed, due to the
long winter and heavy snow.
Some of the antmala which were
alive wnen grass became available
were so weak they were unable to
forage. The lose of cattle In and
near Pine Valley Is said to be the
heaviest In the history of that sec
tion. Auto slaae tnsuviled a,.e 'i ten
Most right Brill ttoeet Mete Works,
BE THOROUGHFARE
PORTLAND, Ot, April 25, (AP)
A IrgM ruling that tht city of Port
land bu ft lt;al right to cut a atrvet
through th center of the Pacific
Coaat lcagiw baaebaU flrld hare waa
handexi down tn circuit court today
by Judge L. P. Hfvttt. Thla declalon
waa tht moat recent development la
ft long court battle between th city
and Portland baseball club. What
action the city will take toward ex
tending the itreet had not been de
cided upon today.
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