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PAGE SIX KITTY by JANE BYKOPSIS! "David U In low VUh you." Kitty Frew it told by Doroat Tiber. Out Kitty hat thought David, her hutband't half-brother, merely a loyal friend. She needt her frtendt, tor her husband Oar borrowt money from hit mother tnttead ot earn - $0 it. and it attracted by Uarae Crotby, Chapter 84 SUSPICION KITTY shrank as though the oth er had struck her. She made a little quick sound ot protest Her face flamed and paled and flamed again. "It Isn't so!" she answered faintly. Dorcas had quieted. She put her hand on Kitty's shoulder. "I was a beast to saythat. You didn't know, of course. David wouldn't let you know by any word or sign. You must forgive my telling you. I're messed things up, I'm afraid. I lost hold of myself You made me angry, you seemed so stupid, rjp see, Kitty, I happen to care a gjjwt deal about David's happl- Kitty stirred only enough to draw herself away from Dorcas' band. But Dorcas went on, unnc ticing. "I used to think that David would love me, some day, the way a man must love me If I marry him. But after I saw htm with you I knew. I'm not Jealous those are things one can't help. But I feel very sorry for poor old David." Kitty felt tears on her cheeks and put up her hands to wipe them away; Her hands shut tight over hr eyes. "You are just Imagining It, Dor cas " she whispered. It wasn't so, It couldn't be sol "Oh, no. We've talked it out, David and I." Kitty got up quickly, moving a little blindly. "I must go." Bbe would not look at Dorcas. She put on her coat. Jammed her soft hat down on her head. "I. wish you hadn't told me," she 'cried hotly, youthfully. "I wish I hadn't told you. David will never forgive me. Or you, per haps." She followed Kitty to the . door, and at the door she put out a hand and resolutely detained her. "Kitty, you must know what Da Tld's doing now. They refused that other manuscript he sent to them, but they want him to write another. He's gone down to his place to start It He's all enthusiasm over It You wouldn't know him, Kitty. He's found himself." "Poor old David," Dorcas had said. Later, thinking of this, Kitty thought later. Kitty struggled to smother a sympathy for David In ; her own beart She did not think any more: "It Isn't so." Somehow, she knew, now, that It was so. The memory of countless moments with David, expressions she had caught on his face, words he had not said, his concern and consideration came back to her with a new understand ing. He'd finished his book to prove himself to her, He was working desperately on another one. And sbe couldn't share It with him! Dorcas had made that Im possible. "I'll never forgive her," Kitty thought Indignantly, She bad no compassion for Dorcas, who hsd admitted so frankly that she : eared for David. "She's spoiled everything between David and me." That Margery Crosby was going abroad In April became an estab lished fact Every one talked ot It; Marge talked ot It "Mother and I are going to travel during the summer, and then I'm folng to stay In Paris." "Stay, Marge? For the winter?" "The rest of my life, perhaps." She said that, whenever she had a chance, always a little sadly, sug gesting that ahe was seeking exile for some mysterious reason. "Is Marge really going to live In Paris?" Kitty had asked Oar lm . pulslvely. "How do I know what she'll do?" Oar had countered with such obvi ous annoyance as to silence Kitty, leaving her troubled. She noticed that Oar was moody, cross, restless, these days. Her old torment of fear and unwilling suspi cion doubled. One evening Oar did not come home for dlnnor or telephone. He came In about eight o'clock, offer ing no explanation. No, he wasn't hungry. What did they have on for the night? Nothing? "Well, lot's go to the movies. I don't want to sit here, doing nothing." Kitty bad an Impulse to tell him she didn't feel like going to the movies. The waiting, the lonely dinner served by Carloy, the little suspicions that had lifted their ugly heads, had worn her almost to a breaking point "You might at least tell me where you've been!" ahe said sharply. "I atopped In at Mother's. You can't kick about that can you?" E SAN FRANCISCO, Mny 18, (AP) Slight trim improvement chmc tertned the Inst vtxfc Along the Pa cific eoMt, Brsdntreet't "Trad at a Glance" ntd today. The brlut Portland comment how d trade making alight galm in lome llnea. Farmer were encouraged by ralna aiding wheat, Spokane found wholesale and roUU builneM lagging, though city trade was "on the up grade" until closing of banks cur tailed activity. Seattle reported the lumber In dustry Inactive, with the farm out look favored by good seeding wea ther. Ban Franclaro recorded an upswing in lumber orders. FREW ABBOTT And she'd rather he'd said he had been with Marge! She did not an swer him. A round of informal parties in Marge's bonor began. Every nigbt Gar and Kitty Joined the othera to dance somewhere. "We'll need to go to Bridgewater to rest," Kitty said to Gar, laugh ing. "Why, I've lost ten pounds, 1 believe." Sbe was thinner; her bright color bad gone. But Gar had not noticed. The bridesmaid's dress bad come from Felicia's. Sbe put it on for Gar to see It "Isn't It lovely?" And Gar said briefly that It was ail right he guessed. He'd scowled as it Irritated by something. Fear grew sharper In Kitty's heart a nameless fear, for she would no ,ive It any name. She had a emnatlon of fighting with empty hands, blindly. She was In expressibly lonely; she realised sharply that after all these months In Winton she bad no real triendsl She would not go to Dorcas, now. Carol, wrapped in her own trou bles, was no comfort She could not talk to David and most of all she wanted to talk to David. Bbe allowed herself a little angry re sentment that David had been so stupid. He hadn't had any right to fall In love with herl "Everything's so melett," shs cried aloud one evening when she was dressing to go out with Oar. And the sound of the words fright ened her. It was so, "Go back to Bridgewater, call It a mistake." The words leaped out at her. What If she did? , And then Gar came in, hurrying. "I'm sorry I'm so late. Kit Ready? It won't take me a mlnnti to bathe." She clung to him. "Why, whafs the matter, sweet? You're trembling!" "I guess I'm Just horribly tired. Gar." That was It of course. Her lips pressed Oar's, sbe felt humble, shaken. "Do. you want to go to-nlgbt? Sure you're up to It, Kit?" Gar was all concern. Sbe was ready to tell him that sbe'd rather not go; she thought swiftly ot an evening, alone with Oar "Isobel will understand. I'll tell her you're bushed." "Oh, I'll go. I'm all right Oar." And then that nagging suspicion that maybe Oar'd rather go with out her. Paul Somerset was always one ot every party. More often than not be escorted Marge. Kitty knew that the others laughed at his de votion, commented on the Indiffer ence Marge showed him. And Oar, to Kitty, talked scathingly ot him. After Isobel's party, talking It over. Gar said: "That big bounder, Som erset I'd like to punch his face In for him." "But why does Marge bother with him?" Oar did not answer her. She saw him scowl. She changed the subject quickly. More end more she looked tor ward to the respite of two weeks in Brldgewator. Sally had written: We're only going to spend a fow days on our honeymoon, Kitty. We ll be back In a week at the longest. I hope you stay on tor awhile. You can help me get set tled." ' "And atterwarda I'll begin again." To think It was to admit failure but Kitty faced It honestly. Here evehythlng was too muddled to see it clearly but there some day she'd walk alone to the top ot Cow- per's hill, and think things out squardy. And thon, perhaps, when she had herself in hand, she could talk It all over with Gar. She'd begin: "It's my fault partly. Gar" They d move Into a less expen sive apartment; she'd budget their money again. An errand took her into Strat- ton's and as waa her custom when she went there she hunted out Josle for a moment's chat Josle beamed on her. "Say, It you'd come in a day later you wouldn't ot found me here, Kitty. I'm going to be married." Sbe said it loudly and the other girls, within hearing, smiled but In a friendly way. Joule's love-affatri were theirs. Vtty rejoiced heartily with Josle. And when she loft her It was with a deep respect for this girl who knew so well how to meet lite. She was thinking so Intently ol Josle that she did not see David, approaching, until he was confront ing her, speaking her name. "Oh" The color poured to her face. (CopvripM, Jane Abbott) When Kitty nxt tet Divld, en Monday, h It In a panlg of Urrer and suspense. SISKIYOU ESCAPES YREKA. Cftl.. May IB AP Two county Jail prisoners who escaped yes terday from a Siskiyou covin ty chain gang were back In their cells today, although It took deputy aherlffs 19 hours to trail them down. The two, Francis Owen, II, and Olen Ca moral, 18. serving six months each for automobile theft, escaped from the gang near Oaxelle. They were arrested recently at Medford. Oregon. WOOD FOR SALE 8o tier, 13-ln. green pine slabs; 5 00 per load 0 tiers. FU KK one losd of kindling with each 8-load order. V A LUCY FUEL CO.. Tl 70. OHD&B NOW, MEDFORD MAIL TRIBTTNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAT' 18, 1932. TAILSPIN TOMMY CNTECTAIN TUT MUCNant wurl oone FIYIN6 STORIES (HEY iL BE RUNNING US tu au lay if you i . rvt SOT TO H MIKE. S'MATTER POP BOUND TO BeM and me MADE UP OU 1 MR. BRANWN , Qs. Vfl " JA kss (Copyright, 193Z, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc. J i SOME TIME IM HAVNIE, AN' THEN AGPilM VJE MAV MOT WE MIM IU tOVCK M LPlKGfc 1 KHvbLo CicrORc WERE X. 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