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PAGE EIGHT HfEPFOItD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORI). OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1932. KITTY FREW .by JANE ABBOTT BrKOP'l': Christmas Bit pastes slowly white Kitty Frew waits for her husliand. Oar. At last friends brtna him home. This is unexpected, although (Jar leads a spendthrift, gov lite. While Klttu urges him to be practical, she does not refill: that his the.' ater work leads to Interest in Marge Crosby. , Chapter 21 "WHAT PRICE CHRI&TMABI" 1UBBY anticipated Kitty's cry o( alarm. "It's nothln', Kit he took a llttlo too much, that's all. Thli Merry Christmas business, y'know. Just let Red and me put blra to bed. He'll be Una and dandy In the morning, you'll see. The stuff was all right, don't worry." Kitty, wordless, retroated beforo them, her eyes averted from the sight of their dragging burden. A nausea seized her. She went to the window and flung It up, wildly, staring blindly out Into the black and white night. Oh, that wasn't her Oar that hanging, shambling figure! "I say. Kit," Tubby came out of the bedroom and stood beside her, his round face concerned. "Don't take It like that. It doesn't hap pen to Oar very often. Of all us fellows Oar knows the best when to stop. It got blm tonight because he hadn't had any supper. Come "You'll hate me al ways. You'll never forgive me," Gsr told her. 'You'll bate me always. Tou'll never forgive me. 1 don't deserve to have you forgive me, spoiling your Christmas. 1 waa disgusting. I won't ask you to forgive me." And ahe'd found that she could forgive blm when he clung to her so, and that such forgiving was sweet. ' "It won't happen again, sweet, you'll see. You know what I think of men who can make such beasts of themselves." She did know. She knew Oar's fastidiousness about his personal appearance. She could believe him when he said It never would bap pen again. During the days that followed be had been anilously devoted, loving, humbly appreciative of her forgiv ing. ' The play bad run through the holiday week with great success. Kitty had sat with Gar through the first performance, sharing hit ner vousness and his satisfaction. "Now we'll have to get busy on the next play," Gar had said and she had felt no rebellion; his ln torests were wholly hers. She Irowned down, now, at the envelopes before her; she wouldn't let these bills come between her and Gar. She knew the exact amount of m, Kit, oome away from that win low." He took her arm urgently. Kitty shuddered away from his touch. "I loathe you nlll" ".Vow, Kit, you don't, not any thing of the sort. Tomorrow Oar'll be aa sorry as hell, missing the party. Don't be bard on him. It's when a fellow stubs bis toe like this he needs his wife. You got a tree all fixed up and everything, haven't you? And a new dress? Kit, come on to the dance with me. Td like that." It got through Kitty's distress fiat Tubby was trying to help her. Ihe lled, a little wanly. "Oh, no, Tubby, thanks, I couldn't go. But I'm all right" She let him ahut the window behind her. She faced Red aa he came out of the bedroom. "Thanks. Red," she said to him, ler head up. her eyes proud. "He's sound asleep now, Kitty. Tou won't hear a peep out of him until morning." Tubby lingered after Red had tone out of the door. "Sure you won't change your mind and come along with met" "I couldn't. Tubby." "Well, then, Merry Christmas, Kit." The holidays well over, "What price Christmas!" laughed Kitty, dolefully, facing a little accumula tion of bills which had come In after the first of January. She had put them unopened Into a drawer of the buffet. It bad been a child ish thing to do. She'd been afraid of a quarrel. Garr always was so difficult when she touched on their finances. And Just now she could not bear that any rift should come Into the close ness that had grown out of that horrible midnight of Christmas Eva. She had lain that night through, uncomfortably curled among the pillows of the dlvsn In the living room, sleepless, wretched, shamed Long after a thin streak of cold daylight crept across the room she had fallen Into a troubled sleep from which aha had wakened to find Gar kneeling beside her. Ills remorse had been heartbreaking. He had been Incoherent, humble, self-debas ing, burying his face against her ehoulder ilka a little boy. some of them, Stratton's, for the new evening dress, the milk bill. She glanced over Bond's; she smiled. If Gar would let her buy his clothos tor him she'd And ust as good somewhere else for less money! She took up the florist's bill last Her glance running over Its Items stopped at the entry of two cor aagea bought on the same day, De cember third. Her calculation shol back to that night at the Rainbow Gardens. Oar had sent Marge the orchids. Or, no, he had Intended the orchlda for her and the flowers sbe had worn for Marge. "But It's all right," she said aloud. She put the bill with th others. "Only he must stop send tng flowers to anyone for awhile." She considered the total amount of Indebtedness, determined! crowding back the alarm the fig nrea gave her. They'd meet it bj living very carefully for the nv few months. But Oar must helt her In her economies. She'd tal) It over with htm, tactfully, wlthoui any reproaches. She'd wait for hit most amiable mood. He came home that evening, ver amiable, but with plans that pre eluded any talking over of thelt budget; He'd met Isobel Petera and she wanted them to come over foi a game of bridge. Buck Sewell wat going to make the fourth. Kitty liked Isobel Petera and en Joyed bridge. But Gar Invarlabl overbid, scorning any tear of losses Tonight he waa more recklest than usual. At one o'clock hi tossed twclvo dollars carelessly or the table. The next morning, while ha ant Kitty were eating breakfast, hi grumbled over what ha called hit rotten lurk. "Let me have a goor hand and my partner always holdt a bust!" "Gar, we ought not to play toi money." "We'd look like a couple ot nlci pikers If we refused!" "Well, then, let'a not play foi awhile." Now, now waa the time to tall to Oar about the bills! But not r though she were afraid! Copyright. Jans Abbott) Kitty mtflti David at a drsmat momsnt tomorrow, and gains a clL aeout Oar and Marge, 'SWAT THE DRY' ROUSES PROMS TAILSPIN TOMMY Ship News And A Modest Hero! m. m.KNN CHAkFIM WU) HAL rUBBkltt "rOU KNOO) ALL vABOUT ITi HOu THE DEUCE COULD V0U tSaY.YOUB ASCKHE feSr-r I4CCK. I UASKT WAEICk! t WA It KN0LO yTtll) LWirlVTS Y I OlDrW LAtT LONC. sftnKS 0U8T TOO RaTLESS TO LAV Uu.ABOOT tZH!M I DID IT, fiKEtTS; -r,, AROUNO. AND, PAL, I'VE SOT I IT! I Iff MM f g f KV-w , r Y'l-- 1 .SOT-IE HOT IMIiUUj' J IV 7i Mil I 9 n-fci Ml 111 II 1 I jPj? THS CTELOARO 10A& JO&T IN. 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P VI, . ) R TJ; kryII BRINGING UP FATHER By George McManus WASHINGTON. My 1J W Kxport ttebentttrea lor farm products were urged today by Representatue aumnera (D-. Texas) as a remedy for agricultural conditions created, he contends, by an arbitrarily ap plied Industrial tarltt. Before tne houee agriculture com mittee. Bumnera dtsgnosed the prob lems of agriculture aa two: Mer chandising and the protective tariff. For the tirt he advocated a system akin to produce exchangee: for the second, use of debenture. "The condition won't gel better unteu something basically la done and we are going to have hell pop ping In this country this winter unless something, la done." DAOOT-WMaM OO TOU think hothW i COING TO MAK.K UP HOI MINlO TO LCAVJS THI HOWHOVMLLACf! ' I IF I VTATIMTH. II ,lg I -TJ 1 I I THtTT OOMTtVEMl m - v ' I I H I I II I I I I I i II akaTi I l I 1111
