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'MEDFORB MXIE TRIBUTE, SIEPrOHD, QBEGOy, MONDAY, TCSE 27, '1932. PAGE STS Yu Cant Marry BYNOPX1S: "Ms cltvercit Ml. tie vamv i ever met," Garth Ave ney calle Jenny Revell, because ehe has encouraned htm, and now her cousin, Ueoryie, announce! Jenny', marrtnoe to Eddie Town tend. Jenny hn promleed not to tell that Oeorote really t married to Eddie, because Oration Match tnu, Oeorale'i employer, discharges all married women. Chapter 27 COMPLIMENT TO THE QUEEN BEFORE Jenny could tel! him, man's form came rounfl r, cur tain ot the tour-poster. She saw that he was short the ehouldor and neck, and that he had a soft, quick way ot walking. He looked deferentially at Gratton Matching and murmured: "I thought perhaps you required me, sir?" "Why should I require you? Eh?" His employer's voice rose Into a rasping squeak that startled Jenny still further. "Get outl Go away! I'm capable ot ringing tor you, I hope, when I want you." The sott, sliding walk took the valet over the expanse ot carpet to a door In the panelling ot tbe wall. A moment later It closed behind him. Jenny found that her eccen tric host was watching her again. "Have you seen that fellow be fore?" "Yes. Just for a seeond, when be carried my cousin's bag down, on the day that she went away with you." "Hal You've a memory for faces. And you're a judge ot character, too, - by the set ot your lips and the breadth between your eyes. No need to blush I'm old enough to pay a compliment to tbe queen herself without offense. . . . What do you think of him?" ;i don't want," said Jenny firmly, "to discuss your nephew." "But I was speaking ot that fel low, my valet," the old man pointed put; and the sly grimace that was his smile, made her blush anew. "It doesn't seem fair to come to ' conclusions about a man I've only seen twice for a minute or so. But" "You don't like the look of him? Don't trust him?" "It might bo better," said Jenny, unwillingly, "not to trust him In a matter ot great Importance. But that's only my opinion." The strange old man lay back, ipon his pillows, wriggled twice whether with satisfaction or annoy ance Jenny could not tell and re mained flat upon the bed. She could barely see him and when he spoke he had the greatest difficulty In following his words; for he was not using bis dreadful, nerve-racking squeak but a monotonous thread of sound that blended with the rustle of brocade at bis opened windows and the sound ot the satin coverlet under bis bands. "My wife was so very like you, little Miss Jenny. You've got her same tricks and graces and her same sound judgment under all that pale gold hair. Only, I wouldn't listen to her, d'ye see? Shut her up, laughed at ber, cowed her; and then, when she was gone, found .that she bad had the right ot most things. People she warned me against and people she believed In, : she was right about them all and I was wrong. But you're not so timid as she was. You speak up you stand up to me I couldn't cow yon without without meaning to. Eh?" "Well, I bad the advantage ot a very bullying oltl grandfather," ex plained Jenny conscientiously. And they laughed together Jenny Re . veil and the old man who, people aid, hadn't got a heart. On Im pulse, she put out a hand to cover bis as It plucked at the coverlet. "Please shout at me, It you'd rather. I shan't care a scrap." How thin and cold old people's hands werel she remembered Grandfather's being llkelhat, and on nights as hot as tbls. She slipped ber other hand under It and cradled It gently, trying to give out ber own thrilling warmth. "Old bones, cold bones," muttered Gratton Matching, as though he read ber thought "What's botween you and my great-nephew Aveney?" She began to draw her' hands away but be retained them with sur prising strength. All ber vitality seemed to flow out from her and Into that strange, compelling old creature whom one could lore and detest all In one breath. "There's nothing. That Is we dislike each other." ' "He thinks badly ot me and I'm not free to defend myself. But as we're not likely to see anything ot each other, his opinion doesn't mat ter to me. He simply doesn't manor at all." "My wife said that ot me nr, when we had a courting Qimrel. She had spirit, then." "We haven't It Isn't you're a'l wrong about everything." She ZORN IN ANSWER 10 PORTLAND, Ore, June T (API Henry Zorn, president ot the Tax payer' Equalisation league of Mar lon county, took Issue with Gover nor Julius L. Meter Saturday In reply to a letter fie governor had writ ten him and In which the executive expressed himself aa opposed to the physical consolidation of the Uni versity of Oregon and Oregon Bute college. "Any business man understands that two great bualneae institutions cannot be operated aa cheaply aa one," he lUiod In his reply, Sold at the Jumbo wmon delic ious home-made fudge. Made by Mrs. Jfran odw, . . dragged her bands away, crying out: "I shall make him apologize and then 1 shall forget" Her voice broke and she bad to stop. "Who's shouting now?" enquired Gratton Matching and wriggled flatter In the enormous bed. I splto of ber misery, Jenny laughed. He really was like a mis chievous old wizard, lying there half-hliden, baiting her, drawing her out! It was a pity that Georgle should hate him and fear him and so lightly deceive him. It wasn't dig nified, all this secrecy and Intrigue about Eddie . . . "All this nonsense about you mar rying my pilot, Townsend," said the Old Man and, gasping, Jenny shrank in her chair. Magic, this or else he really could read her mind! "That's what has come between you and Garth Aveney, all this non sense about Townsend," concluded Gratton Matching. "Do you like butter-scotch?" "No, I hate It," Jenny answered, too bewildered to be polite. "I don't really eat any sweets." "Nor do half the people I give them to, but they're such sbeep they daren't say so. All the same, little Miss Jenny, I know what you like and I'll have them next time you come and see me. Tomorrow. You'll come tomorrow, I daresay. You might come every day." She could not decide whether It was a request or an order or a prophecy. But she forgot that he bad bewildered her and angered her and teased her and, bending down, she put her Hps to his frail, cold bands. "Yes, I'll come as often as you want me to," she promised him. "And now I must go and look after after Eddie. Good-night" She believed that he was laughing as she left tbe room. At her? At Eddie? Georgle would maintain t at the Old Man knew well enough which of them bad married bis pilot Perhaps she was right and tbe mocking old laugh was a sign of It But why should be have spoken of Garth Aveney? He had Ul'.ad as though It were she and not Georgle whom Garth had loved at first sight And and at dinner, Garth had talked like that too. She bad barely a glance for the butler who proffered her shawl and put ber Into the big car that, he assured her, waited hor pleasure. She knew only that she must get home to the apartment and ask Georgle many things. Georgle stood on the stairs and watched Jenny go on her way to dine with Gratton Matching. A shim mer ot silvery green and a flash of jade and she bad vanished from sight Georgle was left face to face with something that she had never admitted to herself before that her little cousin was not a child, not an enchanting little plaything, but a woman grown. A very lovely woman. Georgle took out her powder and lipstick and lavishly repaired her complexion. She wished that she had not lost her temper with Jenny; not only because there was after all no reason for her jealousy, but be cause she bad planned to come home cool and competent and to be a tower of strength to Eddie and Jonny as well. And now she was ac tually crying! It Is useless to dust powder over cheeks that are wet with tears and so she sat down on the stairs for a moment and waited for the old con trol over her nerves to return. She could hear GUI downstairs In his office, moving heavily about, and she could bear the muffled noises ot the street outside, the hootlngs and grlndlngs ot the cars and tho cries ot the children on the pave ment For some odd reason, aha re membered that at this hour Eyle Street was on the very edge ot twi light and that Jenny, tunny kid, loved watching the dusk. She shivered but got up, and turned resolutely up the stairs. Face things, face things! cried ber courage. Face the fact that Jenny Isn't a child and that Eddie always really wanted a home-loving little wife who would leave all the adven turing to him. Face the fact that Eddie can't go advonturlng at all, for a bit, and that, being a man and Illogical, be will want a home-loving wife all the morei She faced all these truths and, with her head up and her reddened lips smiling, she ran up the flight that led to hor apartment Never theless, as she laid her hand on the door and heard a step on the Inner side of It, she darted away and up the next flight and stood there panting while Eddie opened the door and came out on to the landing. (CepvrigAt, Julia Clett-Addam$) "You'll cheoss bstwtsn ms and your Job, and you'll chooas now," Eddis tolls aoora.1 In tho noxt In atsllmaMt. JOSEPHINE JOBLESS GRANTS PASS, Ore., June .37 (AP Ths unemployed of Jooephlne county were organised here Saturday night. 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