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PAGE TWELVE arEPFOTtn mail tittou?, arcnFORn. otjegox. ,-MAT . , 1932. KITTY FREW IT by JANE ABBOTT BYXOrSM! Kilty frsa has raced across country to her hus band Oar leho hat been injured in an automobile crash. Bhe had eons home to llrldoewatrr otter a auarrel with Oar, but she forgets his interest In Moras Crosby uni his lavish spending, in her marry. David, Gars halt-brother, meets her. Chapter 36 A MASK STRIPPED OFF DAVID put his arm around her shoulder. "Oar'a all right, Kit ty," he aald quickly. "Ho'i con iclom this morning. He struck on his head but the X-ray showed there was no fracture o( the skull. His shoulder's smashed up and his ankle's broken but " "David, I want to to to him at once!" "Of course," David answered quietly. He directed a redcap to carry her baggage. He kept his arm through hers, steadying her as he led her through the station to the tail stand. He put her Into a taxi and sat down beside her, tak ing her hand and holding It tight In his. The Angers of her hand In his tightened convulsively, "David, we were angry with one another when I went awayl 1 said horrible things, David. I'll never forget them. I told him I wasn't coming back from Brldgewater, that It was all a mistake, a bad business, just as you'd said, You didn't have any right to say that to me, David, for me to remember, to say It to Gar!" Bhe dragged nor hand from his hold, she leaned away from him, tears stroamlng down her face. "If he dies before 1 have a chance to tell him that 1 didn't mean that " "You can tell him. He Isn't go ing to die," David retorted grimly. "I failed him," Kitty added, mis erably, "just when be needed me most." David offered no comment They rode In silence until the car turned Into the drive of the hospital grounds. Ha touched Kitty's arm as she hurried ahead. "There are some regulations, you know." To Kitty It seemed an endless Interval of stupid questioning and answering before she was admitted to the room where Oar lay. Why, he was his wife! David left her at the door of the room. She did not know It; she bad forgottenahls existence. Bhe saw only Oar's dark head against Ithe flat pillow of the high hospital Ibed. "Oar I" And then a tall figure came be- ,tween her and Gar. She faced Mrs, tFrew. "You cannot disturb him now,' Mrs, Frow said in a low cold tone. "Who let you In? You must go r.wny." Kitty stood, balked. For a mo ment she saw the older woman's face stripped of Its mask; hatred, consuming jealousy, triumph was on It. She faltered before It. drew back a little uncertainly, frightened. And seeing that, Mrs. Frew smiled, "Kitty!" It waa Gar, calling In halt-moan. Kitty pushed Mrs. Frew roughly out of her way. She dropped at the side of the bed, put hor cheek against Oar's hand where It lay on the white sheet. "Gar, darling. It's Kitty. I'm hero." "I thought yon wouldn't cornel He drew a fretful sigh. Ills flngera mvcd, caught In her hair, feebly troked it. "I came as far as I could, darling." "You won't go, sweetf You won't go now?" "No, Our." She heard a rustling of skirts, whispering, a door closing and gave no heed. "You mustn't let hlai talk, Mrs. Frew," a competent, trleodly voice aald over ber shoulder and she nod ded her head. As It she didn't know that Oar must be kept very quiet! When a doctor came In the room he rose to hej feet and moved to the window but she did not take ber eyes from Oar. "Doing very nicely,' waa the doc tor's verdict. Ha looked at KlUy and smiled. "Ho'll get along fast, now that you're here." It seemed to establish her right In tho room. The nurse conceded It to her with a sympathetic look. "We were pretty worried this time yesterday," she whispered to Kitty. "We didn't know, you see You wore out of town? He called for you, Arst minute he knew any thing Kltt.r had gone to the bed again, knelt there, her hand holding Gar's. T nurse pushed a chair up to tve bedside. "You wight as well be comfort-1 bit, X.-s. Frew. You can ring If j u need ire. That's the bell." I She tiptoed out of the room, leaving Kitty alone with Gar. The room was very quiet except for the drip of the rain outside. Kitty relaxed in her chair. It seem ed an eternity since that moment her father had turned from the tele phone, calling her. "Winton wants you, Kitty." Sally had been there with her, and her mother. They'd been looking at the bridesmaid's dress, laughing, talking. And then; "Gar has been hurt in an auto mobile accident Can you catch a train to-night?" David, talking. The hurry, the concerned facea of hor father and mother, Phil saying he'd drive her over to Albany, and then the endless hours of the night, the torturo of uncertainty. "Oh, Cor" She put her hands oul to him In an expressive little gos ture of longing. Every word of that night's quar rel came back to her, to Aay her. She'd goaded him to aay things he didn't mean; she said things she didn't mean. They'd insulted one another, hurt one another. He'd Aung himself out of the house and she'd locked the door of the bed room. And the next day she'd gone to Hrldgewstor without seeing him. "The room next is empty, Mrs. Frew. Why don't you take a nap? I'll call you when be wakens." The nurse had come In, "I know how you feel," she went on. In her half-whisper. "But he's all right and you don't want to be sick yourself. When he's better he's going to be awful fussy his shoulder and ankle, you see." Reluctantly Kitty yielded and let the nurse take her to the adjoining room. It was cool and white and quiet; though she thought she could not sleep, In a few minutes she wss sleeping on the narrow bed. She wakened, bewildered for moment by her surroundings. She'd been dreaming of Sally. Why, to morrow was Sally's wedding day! sne must go to Brldgowater, talk to Sally about taking things so seri ously- Then, fully arousik', she sprang out of bod, alarmed. That nurse should have called herl Perhaps Gar needed her. She rushed out Into tho corridor and there stopped snort racing Carol. "Gar?" ahe askod, frightened. Carol shrugged her shoulders. "Oh, I guess he's all right, 1 don't know" She was moving toward a door across from Gar's. Her man' ner said plainly that her presence here had nothing to do with Oar. She was carrying a long box of flow, ers in her arms. , . "I suppose you know Marge Cros by's gone?" And with that she opened the door she sought and closed it softly nenind ner. Paul Somerset she'd gone In to Mm, of course. The brief lines she had read in the paper, crushed In her Angers, came back to Kitty. The exultation that had edged Car ol's voice struck ber with sickening meaning. Carol expected that she, too, must rejoice at Marge's going! The old tear assailed her as she opened Gar's door. The nurso was carotully nutting a pillow under Gar's head and he was muttorlng crossly under ber ministrations. But when he saw Kitty his face cleared. "I told him it was a shame to wake you up, Mrs. Frew, you wore sloeplng so soundly. I pocked In. And ho almost took my head oil " "Can he talk now?" "A little. But you mustn't let him get excited or move around. You see they haven't got his shoulder In a cast yet. To-morrow, maybe. I tell him he's a lot luckier than thai other poor fellow they brought in witn mm " But Kitty's arms had slipped around Oar; her face was against nls. Neither of them heard what the nurse said, or cared. She went out "Kitty, you haven't told me" "I love you, Gar, and more to morrow and more the noxt dav " "Kitty, I didn't mean the othei night." 'I know, Gar, I know you didn't 1 didn't, either. I hate myself foi what I said." I don't suppose It would make mo any worse It you kissed me, the way" She put her lips on his. Her closed eyea were against his, their breathing was one. Gee, Kit, what it It had knocked me out?" "But It didu't, Oar. Just joni shoulder and your ankle" "What it I had never seen yoi acnln? Kit, you've got to bellevs me, all the time I never cared i hang for anyona but you" (Coryrtil, Jirt Abbott! Mrk. Trtwv tilts to rtQaln eon. Irel ttf air, In th next Initallmtnt. nd Carol UKtl bold sup toward frfffdom. FACING PROBE ON ALLEGED ATTACKS SALEM, May 30. AP Ornnd Jury invMtlgAtlon of ftlttgrri turh on tat officials through th me dium of the "Sitlurttny Night" and MKW8 -Exam! tier,, Portland publica tion, will Rt under jr In Mult nomnh county within the next lew weeka, Burnett Goldstein, apodal at-tomey-general, advised Jam W Molt, atate corporation comm la loner, today. In a letter aent to Goldstein laat Sunday, He alleged that the attack were being made for the apparent purpose of thwarting the activities of otfldnU charged with the en forcement of various laws. Mott made special reference to the law pertaining to the operation of sav ings and loan assentations and libel, "I have caused an examination to be made on the tiles of these publi cations with particular reference to I matter contained in your letter, ! Goldstein wrote to Mott. "I am ;Of the opinion that they appear to : Indicate deliberate attempt, thru Ithe medium of these; publications, , to attack certain official charged i wllh law enforcement." j Ooldjteln made special mention In his letter of J. A. Char 1m worth, I publisher of the "Saturday Night," j and C. A. Degrace end Carl John ston, alleged owners of the "Newa- j Examiner." Degrare aiui Johnston j are now under indictment In Mult- j nomah county. TAILSPIN TOMMY-Radio Tip-Off ! By ULBNN IHArKUt and UAL t'uUKLSI A Mf 5SA6E FRofl THAT STEAMER ET ' t?'-VS. 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