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BEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAT .3, 1932.
, KITTY FREW
tli ' by JANE ABBOTT
KYNOPSlll: safely hidden. Kitty
new nam tnongni nvrteii. A run
away from her husband. Oar. tht
it working In a ttort until he it
willing to forget the money he
trill inherit and tettle down to
tupporttna her without hit
mnther't aid. But tuddenly the
tret uart titter, corof, ana feart
awovtry.
Chapter 21
FIRM GROUND
AflSS LEE had not noticed Kitty's
lT agitation.
She was enjoying herself Ira
mensely; to talk with even a pre
tense of Intimacy of such people as
Margery Crosby and the Idyllers
had tor her as pleasant a taste as
the Chef's salad. "I don't care much
for amateur things, but I'm going to
the Drat show. -1 like to see who
In the audience, and It'll be a smart
one. That's the way t fix these peo
ple In my mind, you see. This Som
erset's coaching them. Ha may be
a good actor, but I can't say I like
bis looks, do you?
Kitty looked at Paul Somerset,
He was lean, dark'Sklnned, heavy-
browed, with, black hair; which he
wore plastered sleekly back from
prominent forehead. He was lei'
surely finishing his meal, apparent.
ly undisturbed by Carol's desertion,
"No, I don't like bis looks." And
Kitty was thinking of Carol, of
Carol's face as it bad looked when
he left the table. Carol had said
she had nothing she wanted. Did
he want Paul Somerset? And
he did there was Marge to reckon
with; Oar bad Jaughed over the way
Marge waa giving this fellow a rush,
The old alien feeling swept over
. Kitty, for Marge and Carol,. all of
, them, and then almost at once It
left her. Why now she had escaped
them she'd fonnd firm ground for
her feet to tread.
"I think I'll let yon take charge of
the displays after this," Miss Lee
wss saying.
The next Sunday, Kitty, leaving
taa nouse for breakfast, paused on
the top step to draw in a long breath
of the sun-warmed air.
Usually on Sunday she met David
at the corner restaurant to eat
breakfast with blm; to dally over
the meal, talking to him, to drink a
I second and often a third cud of cof
fee stood off the emptiness of the
; long dsy. Now she found him wait
ing at the table which they called
theirs by right of usage.
He rose quickly to greet her. The
concern with which he always met
her took note of her lighter step, a
little glow on her face, a softening
or trie too-set lines about her mouth,
t "Did you ever know such a day?1
she asked gaylyas she eased herself
In the chair he drew out for her. "I
wish I had wings I'd fly to a hill
top I know hack home!" Her whole
heart was, childishly. If her voice.
David smiled at her as If she were
a child, "we can go, without wings.
Not to your particular hilltop, but to
one that's particularly mine, If It'll
o.
"David! Ton mean to yonr little
Bouse?"
"Yes. There's a bus that goes
within a half mile. Will you mind
walking?"
"Ob, I'll love It. What a darling
you are to think of It, to know bow
much I'm longing to see real coun
try again. Can we take a plonlo
luncbT Can we start at once?"
"And you say you're grown uol"
"I feel young today. It's hut I'm
not going to tell you, now. I'm going
to save it. OH, David I'm happy
again. Did you guess when you saw
me?" He nodded. He'd seen that
. she was happy; perhaps she'd heard
from Oar. But he didn't want to
know, Just now.
"Yon'd better eat soma break
fast. Then we'll go around to your
room ana get an extra wrap. It
nay turn cold before night;- this
warmth is only one of the weather
man a Jokes."
"Might not Dorcas like to go?"
she asked after a moment, but with
auch lack of enthusiasm that she
had to explain, laughing: "I'm self
ish this morning. I want thla tun
Just for the two of us. If Dorcas
went I couldn't tell you things"
She was so wholly Intent on hav.
ing David to herself that she did not
ee the sudden swift kindling in bis
eyes. She went on, smiling fondlv
at blm. "David, you can't halt guets
wnai it means to me to have you.
You're so so listening! You're
even better than a brother. I think
my heart would have broken wlfli
everything shut up In It" She put
out her hand Impulsively and closed
It over David's, where his lay on the
table, thumb tight over his fingers.
"David, you're dear!"
He moved his hand out from hers.
"Don't give me too much of the
brother role I've never learned
that part. I might fall down on the
lines, Kitty. Have you finished? We
won't bother with a lunch we'll
and something out there. And we
won't take Dorcas along." He had
gotten up and was. standing behind
her chair, her coat in his hands. He
smiled down at the top of her head.
"This will be our day, It you want It
so."
They boarded an Interurban bus
at the end of Ketchum Street. It
took them through the city, on past
the suburban bungalows hanging
like a heavy fringe to the clty-llmits,
on to open fields and farm houses
and barns. Kitty's excitement waa
like a child's.
"Look, David I ' Those willows.
Couldn't you think it was spring?
David, see those ridiculous geese!
David, why haven't we done this ev
ery Sunday?"
They left the bus at a cross-road
and' followed It where It wound
through brown orchards np over a
hill. Kitty matched her stride to
David's freer swing. She took off
her hat and carried It, and the softly
stirring air roughened her hair and
brought a higher color . to her
cheeks. Her chin was lifted, her
eyes were going hungrily ahead to
the edge of the hilltop.
They, paused before they started
down Into the further valley. David
pointed to housetops, a white church
spire, visible among the tree-tops In
the distance.
"That's White's Corners. It's a
mile beyond my place. It's ramed
for my mother's people. Most of
them aro burled there. At one time
my great-grandfather owned a good
part of the valley. There's a mill
the other side of those woods it's
gone to plecet now " A new Qual
ity in his voice brought Kltty'B eyes
to his face. It was alight with a
strong pride. .
They walked on down the hill and
at Ita bottom turned into a narrow
road that ran off at a sharp angle.
And almost at once David said:
Her we are."
It was a low-built, gray clapboard
ed house, old, but with no dreari
ness or neglect In Its age. It bad
no look of desertion, rather one of
waiting. Kitty remembered what
David had said of it a place that
put arms around you.
David unlocked the door and
stood aside for her to enter, an odd
smile on his face. Kitty found her
self . In a low-ceiled living-room,
clean, fresh curtained, furnished so
much like her mother's llvlng-roon
In Brldgewater that she gave a little
cry of delight
"Why, David, I could believe I
was home! That old sofa I know
It's ours. Is one leg wobbly? And
George and Martha Washington!
And the clock!" She began to laugh,
and then her laugh broke off sharp
ly. "O, David, it's so flood Just to
aee things that look like home. I
didn't know "
He left her and went on to the
kjtchen beyond, opened doors and
windows. When she followed him
her gay mood had come back but her
blue eyes were misty, as if they had
shsd tears.
David was taking cans down from
a cupboard.
Soup.- I've a tin of crackers
somewhere. Corned-beef, apple
sauce, coffee "
"But, David, we can't eat now
must see every corner of the house
and the brook and the hill. David,
how beautifully clean you keep ev
erything."
Not me Mrs. Dundy doea that.
She's my neighbor, Walt a min
ute" He went to tho open door
and whistled. At once there was
a shrill barking, and presently
through the woods came bounding
a collie dog, The animal leaped on
David, whimpering in his Joy. lick
ing David'a hands and face.
"Jan,, thla Is Kitty."
The dog g.eoted Kitty with more
dignity, sinrply nuiillng her out
stretched hand and returning at
once to the adoring of his master.
I've had him alnce he was a pup
py," David explained. "The Dundya
keep him ft.- me." He was holding
the dog's head close to his shoulder,
Jan, old fellow, have you missed
me as much as that?"
Jan went with them while thev
explored the house. Narrow steps
led to the sleeping chambers above,
small rooms, with sloping celling!
and narrow, small-paned windows.
This was my mother's room-
when she was a girl," David said or
the threshold of one. Kitty madi
no move to enter. She saw th
no more to enter. She saw thi
books, the pictures, the little blui
glass lamp on the table at the win
dow, the low rocklng-chalr beside it
the gay, piece-work quilt folded at
the toot of the narrow wooden bed.
She slipped her hand through Da
vid'a arm. "David, I wish you'd tel
me about her, sometime," she sail
softly,
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tuttom abobt Oar, tomorrow.
"Havant you Uarnod th truth'1
hi Mka.
SUPS ARE SELLING
No notice hat been rtclve4 by tht
local poitofflc ot anr chang In tht
prlc of poataga atampa, accoritlng to
local poatoftlca hetdi, and the a-nt
denomination la atlll nliing at that
prlc.
Numeroui Inquiries . have been
made at the local office whether or
not the 8rent ttampa were now aell
Ing at g oenta.
Ak Pardon fur fuur.
WASHINGTON. May S. () A
eongreMlonal pardon for the four
defendants convicted of manslaugh
ter In the Mass! esse was proposed
In the house today by Representative
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By SOL HESS
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ish Columbia polio used Itch pow
der and short lengths of garden
hose as weapons yesterday when they
encountered 300 Doukhnhnr In r.
'rade at Thrums, la miles from Nel
son Authorities arrested 117 men I
and women, many of whom were
nude.
The police sprsyed the powder on
the exposed bodies of the men and
women, finally herding them Into
sn orchard where they were held
until trucks arrived to bring them
here.
Deilrable houses always In tint
class condition, for rent, less or sale.
Call 109.
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