Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 28, 1932, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextPXGE EIGHT JfEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDPORD. OREGON. THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1932. KITTY FREW .by JANC ABBOTT SYKOPSlt: Recently a brii. Kitty Frevt find hertelf working in a ttore. becaute her hueband Oar would rather live with hi wealthy parent than oet a lob. Rhe telle hi half-brother David that Oar will com for her. AW though. Oar' mother influence him aaainet her, Kitty expect him to core to work. , Chapter IT TWO KITTYS TNAYTD abook bit head. Ht did not look at her. "Oh, David whjr doesn't he lend me lomj word? I I can't, bear It!" "Oh. yes, yon can, Kitty." He poke gruffly. She'd eald that before, to David, and he'd answered her like that, And Invariably she'd stiffened her elf to her unbearable heartache, She did1 now with a quick lift of her chin which David saw. '"I'm eating with you girls to Bight , Oysters" be Indicated carton be was carrying carefully, "Maybe Max will drop In and give us some music." And Just as David wanted her to, Kitty thought of Max and his music. The fun of sitting around the old table, In what Dorcaa called her "night-club," eating the oysters. Dorcaa was there before them, a big gingham apron tied around her. The lamps were lit, a little fire kindled on the hearth. Coffee was botllng. Dorcaa usually enlivened such times with a vivid recounting of her day. Her assignments ranged from accused criminals to socialities, ' Today she had had a particular ly delightful experience. The Timet though Its publicity had been on covering rare old editions for local bookstore. A letter bad come to Dorcas' attention, written In ,flne script, Reading It, seeing the delicate pointed handwriting, she had tensed a story and followed It op. "I wish you could have seen him, David you'd use him for a char acter. He had a shawl around him, actually. ' white hair, like a fine little mist around bis head and . pink cheeks. And blue eyes like a child's. . And so - polite I must have the only comfortable chair In the room and he must stand bowing until I sat down. And David, what do you think he owns? A first edl tlon of the Old Curiosity Shop .Ton should have seen how he ca ressed It. It had been given to his father by Dickens himself. Will he ell It? Thank Ood, no." i But Dorcas' enthusiasm was for the little old man rather than for the rare old book. Ha didn't know anyone In Wlnton; he lived here because his grandson had put him here in the back room of a board ing house. Dorcas had touched on a hunger that had not been satis- Bed. "He's an exile." A mischievous look had leaped to her eyes. "I'm going to take him with me to Aunt Lydla's, Sunday. She says there aren't any real gen tlemen left In the world. I'm going 10 enow her she's wrong. Won't Ihey look sweet talking together?1 ; Frequently Dorcas spoke, with affectionate, amusement, .of her Aunt I.ydia, who was, she had ex plained to Kitty, her one root Kit- ly had gathered that to a certain age this relative had directed Dor cas life. She It was who had sent Dorcaa to the girls' school near Poughkeepsle, of which .Dorcas poke often, scornfully. Dorcas had left It to "go on her own." But her precious Independence hadn't quite narred Aunt Lydla. Every Sunday ha dressed with great care and to a degree of elegance In marked contrast to the carelessness of her appearance during the week and went to her aunt's for dinner. But Aunt Lydla, as far as Kitty knew, never came to Ketcbum Street Max Adler appeared with his vio lin before they had cleared the meal away. And after him Mark Qulnn, bursting In noisily. He'd been promoted at the garage. Now he contd afford an extra evening with the life class. He sat on David's cushion before the fire star ing Into It, dreaming, until David ordered him, off. . Emll Schelllng ran up smiling, expansive with the xood fortune of a new pupil. Max played for them, one thing after another, walking up and-down the length of the room while he played. Kitty, relaxed In the deep chair that was always hers, closed her eyes and her brain to everything but the thin, sweet, lifting tones. On his cushion David dropped his cheek against his hands, where they clssped his knees, and watched Kitty. Mark Qulnn, his back to the others, stared Into he little' fire, Emll Schelllng beat his flnirers noiselessly against the arm of his rhalr, his face Illumined hy aome Inner ecstasy. A great con tentment hung over them; Mme stood (till yesterday and the day to come were nothing. The evening was like other eve nings. After the music they argued, David with young Mark, heatedly, Dorcaa with both of them. Emll Schelllng grumbled and grunted and Max Adler denounced all their Ideas. Kitty let their voice tide over and around her, while ber thought went off on a much-traveled course of their own. Another day without Oar! That It bad come and gone and that she had lived through It gave her a dull amazement, a If she saw before her a girl who was neither Kitty Brandon, for whom life had been so joyously simple, or Kitty Frew, a girl who could go on eating, sleeping, talking, laugh ing, taking down tweed ensembles and hanging them back again, un folding and folding sweaters and blouses, saying briskly over and over: "Can I help you. Madam?" and come back here to count what she had gained In self-respectl To night she shrank from that other girl who could so go on; all that was tired and disheartened and lonely in her cried out against that self-respect, sbe didn't want It! She wanted Oar, Oar! The sudden un bearable longing tor him brought hot pricking tears to her eyes so that she bad to shut them tight and hold them so. But after a little she opened them to meet David's kind, concerned glance. - He gave ber a quick smile and she felt steadied, as if a hand had been put on her. When they were all gone, when. Dorcaa had put out die lamps and spread the fire and eald good-night, Kitty went on to the little room that waa hers. ' It was not much, of a room for It was bare and fur- nlshed only with a pine bureau and small iron bed and a table and a cbalr and its wall-paper wag faded and a little dingy but It was hers, for the total of three dollars a week. Before she undressed she sat down at the table and entered the day's expenses In a small memo randum book. Breakfast, twenty five cents, lunch, thirty cents, stock ings, a dollar and a quarter. She contemplated ,the figures she en tered. . Upless some unexpected ex pense came up she could save eight dollars this week. She'd saved ten the week before. When the amount reached fifty dollars she would put It In the bank. She put the book In her bureau drawer. She laid out a fresh blouse for the next morning, hung away her suit Undressed, she wound her alarm dock, switched off hot light and opened her window wide to the cool darkness of the night, She turned her back on the dark ness as It filled her room. She closed her oyes resolutely. Sleep sbe must have for the strain of the next day. She picked a safe thread of thought and followed It. Those tweed thlnga simply must be sold another week or so and no one would want them! Mrs. Frew's day began early wltb prescribed system of exercises. After this she ate her breakfast which Cora brought to her room. She ate leisurely, heartily. When Cora carried her. tray away she lay on her chaise-longue and read for an hour, the morning paper, a mag azine, perhaps a book of new fic tion. After that, for another hour, she submitted herself to Cora's clever fingers and Cora's cleverly directed flattery, finding both stim ulating. At eleven o'clock she re ceived Pound to go over with him the orders for the day. But on the morning following Kitty's flight from the house, Pound came to her door a full half- hour before she expected to see him. Pound was so obviously disturbed that Mrs. Frew dismissed Cora at once. ... 'Well, Pound r It's Mrs, Oar, madam. She's gone" Mrs, Frew's expression did not alter though Pound, if ha had not been so. completely held In his dis tress, might have heard a quick In drawing of her breath. What do you mean, Pound?" She went last night She went alone. Mr. Garfield had gone out- think he went out to dinner, likely. And she went out ust after him. She took her hag, madam. I called a taxi tor her. She scorned well, she teemed upset, madam. If may he so bold, I'd say Mrs. Oar hasn't been happy all the time. She acted like she had something on her mind. I worried about her go ing like that, I thought maybe 1 ourV.t to tell tome one. But Mr. Gai Isn't In his room." ' Copyright, Jan Abbott) TAII SPIN TOMMY In The Clear! Oj tlLENN CHAFFINS Dd UAL r-OKKfcsl t- KIDj I SOT To TAk.c nee MV HEIM6T TO YOU! I NEVER. UEAU.D SUCH A HAE.D LUCK STOR.V . in all try ure i YOU NEAR.L.V HAD HIM CR.YIN Oar's tvcltsd plant for racovarlni Kitty comt In eonfllet with Ms mothtr't Inttnts tomorrow. THREE AUTO THIEVES AT ROSEBURO, Ore., April 3. UP) Sheriff V. T. Jackson eald today that Charlea Fuller, 14 Batey and Archie SearU, ell of Rutaelvtllt In MulVqomah county, have confessed not fcnly to the theft of eq tutomo bile belonging to w. S. Woodward of Salem and Albany, but to the tteallng of two other maoMnes. The three were arrested late Tuesday at Drain following recovery of the Woodward car which wsj abandoned at Leon. , Real gfctate or Insurance Leave It to Jem. 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