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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
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AMD THE PASSENS6R ARC 03OIN6
TO THROLO A SHIN-DIG FOR UV- BUT
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By C. M. PAYNE
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opynght. 1932. by The BtM Syndicate, fne.)
BOUND TO WIN A Few Questions
By EDWIN ALGER
MELt.AAtN VMS
MEET-- I'M GLAD TO
6EE VOU OUT IN
THIS SLOHIOU3
DEBENTURE ASKED
FOR FARM RELIEF
NSW YORK, May (-rrohl-bltlonlsta
have akrd postal authori
ties to ban "Swat the Dry" stamps
from the mail.
k UUIns atinarlnlainHanl tit '
Ihe New York Antl-8loon lengue.
told the Kings county W. C. T. V. he
bad written to President Hoover, ob
jecting to a proposal by entl-prohl-Dltlontsta
to circulate the stamps
through the matla. He aald the pro
test had been referred to the post
master-general.
The etsmp. which It lias bern pro
posed to sell to rslee a ej.ooo.000
fund to ftght prohibition, carry pic
tures of Inseeta over which Is polerd
a "awatter" labeled volee."
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AIM TO Keep I THAT S COOKE 1METON HAS ME miLEO --THE I l& loVH ciSSv MOIHE M WELL A
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THE NEBBS Experience Is A Good Teacher
By SOL HESS
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HE MI&HT HAVE SOME
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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!
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