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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1932.
j uuyimg Barbara
BY.VOPS13: Twenty years ayv
the firm of Quentin, Lodcl'i and
Cane made good a fortune it had
Jost for Farrell Atmttago. Bmifc
rupt, the senior partners, died.
Cine prospered, b eo a me Sir
Jan.cs. A'ow Farrell line been ex
pecting to propose to Leila Kir
James' daughter but he met Bar
bara Quentin. Farrell declares he
will marry Barbara, althouqh Bar'
bara le to marry the crippled
Mark Lodely in five days. Leila
ftefjja farrell by sending him to
take Barbara to a dunce. While
Barbara dresses Farrell buys three
pictures from Mark, and Mark ac
cepts an invitation to visit Farrell
in London on Thursday the day
Met for his tceddmff. Farrell goes
dotrn to meet Barbara; ahe is
wearing an' emerald givtn her by
Hark. Farrell does not W;e it.
Chapter It
BARBARA did not Bosra either
astonished or offended by his
protest. There was not an atom
of coquetry about her. She Just
looked enquiringly at him, the
emerald taking all the color from
her hair and her eyes.
"I beg your pardon," Farrell
amended. "One of my vanities Is
that I'm a Judge of pictures" he
shifted tho three landscapes slight
ly under his arm "and that
emerald isn't right It Isn't your
tone. You should never wear
anything but pearls and Jade and
and perhaps occasionally little old
fashioned sets of garnet or black
opal. But mainly pearls."
Mrs. Lodely 's burst of laughter
crashed out from the doorway.
"So now you know, Babs! Pearls,
pearlst Poor old Babs!" Her hoarse
geniality filled the air. "Fact Is,
Mr. Armltage, you've not been prop
erly Introduced to our Babs. She's
Toxeter's only dress-designer and
Interior decorator and general ad
viser on Art in the Home and so
forth. And the only pearls comln'
her way are her own pearls of wis
dom "
'"Cast before swine'," supple
mented Armltage, gently.
Barbara made no answer. She
took from a peg the fur coat that
she bad been wearing when Arml
tage first saw her aad with a quiet
"Tomorrow evening as usual,
Judy" she left the little nouse.
Armltage lingered to take leave of
Mark's mother.
"Your son 1b coming up to Town
In a few days to stay with me, Mtb.
Lodely. I'm hoping you'll come,
too?"
She looked astonished.
"In a few days?"
"On Thursday, to be exact I'm
ending down a car for him."
"This comln' Thursday? Oh,
but" She was bewildered and, as
bo expected, she covered It with
her inevitable laugh. Then she
swung away from him and went
plunging up the stairs.
He slammed her door shut and
strode across the pavement Bar
bara had got into the car the De
valet sedan that bad brought him
down from London to Kings Mai
lard. Under the light of the street
lamp he saw her eyes wander round
Its shining Interior.
"This Is a nice car, Mr. Arm
ltage." "Why not try bor out? You might
11 ko her."
"You mean I may drive this
beautiful car a little way? Now?"
She bad slid along the sont and
was behind the wliool. Ho gut in
beside her. In the Intimate half
darkness of tho car, he noted that
she used no porfume but that her
hair had a natural fragrnnco, too
delicate to deBcribo.
"I can't drive veil," she said.
I don't, you see, very oflon got the
chance of driving at alL But 1 will
be very careful."
She had turned out of Mio roid
and was hemling cautiously for the
open country round the bay.
"You're perfectly all rlKht. You
drive intelligently. Let her out a
bit if It amuses you."
"No, I m not sure or niyaolf. Be
tides, we mustn't go far. Tho
dance "
"Wouidn't you rather drive my
car than dance wltu me?"
"Oh J" on," she admitted. Then, as
be chuckled "I'm afraid that
sounded rude, but when you're a-
a business-person you got rather
tired by the end of the day and
dm elm In a crowded room Isn't
much fun. You feel too flhatteied."
She brought the Dovalet to a
standstill. A second car rattlnj
past them and Us lights showed
him the faint rose staining her
cheek and the darker gold where
the Blfbwind stirred amongst the
roots of her hair.
"Sure yos're not cold?"
"Not a scrap. Will you turn her
or will yon trust me not to tempo
anylhlng"
"Have a cigarette first. It's
rather pleasant here. Isn't U along
this bay that there's a cova called
Bogey's? And didn't Mrs. Lodely
organize picnics there and tell us
that the Bogey was hidirg In a
cave and would eat us If wi waded
too far out? 1 remember hoping
that he would Just peaceatly let
me drown. Instead."
She had accepted one of his cigar
ettes and he put a box of matches
into her other hand. He watched,
absorbedly, the miracle wrought by
the little point of flame. Out of the
crisp darkness sprang her glowing
curve of cheek and chin, her child
ish tip of nose, her woman's red
lips. ... He thrust both hands Into
his pockets and held tightly to the
keys and coins he found there.
"I want to know two things," be
said with determination. "The first
is why don't you call me Farrell,
when it is obvious that only by ac
cident did we miss playing together
in Bogoy Cove? And tho second Is,
why not go down to Bogey Cove?
I'm going back to Town tomorrow
and I want to see the Bogoy before
I go."
"Yea, If you like. And certainly
I'll call you Forrell, If you want me
to. Only, when we've looked at
Bogey Cove, could you drive me to
Toxoter?"
"To Toxetor?"
"To my our new house; where
Mark and I are going to live. A
good many of our possessions are
there already, and amongst them
is a cupboard of which Mark has
lost the key. 1 believe I've found a
key that would fit and I want so
much to try it"
"Tonight?"
"Yes. Then, If we can open the
cupboard, you can' see more of
Mark's work. I believe there are
some portraits there. . . . Don't you
want to go to Toxeter?"
Farrell flung out his cigarette.
"On the contrary, it's Bogey Cove
that I no longer want to go to."
"Oh, but why? Of course, Tox
oter's quite in the opposite direc
tion" "Quite!" said Farrell, stepping
out in order to go round to the
driver's soat. "We'll leave out
Bogey Cove . until some other
time."
Wherefore, he shortly brought
the car to rest before the gap where
Barbara's gate would be and helped
her out He looked reflectively
round him. The road that led past
her house was not yet completed.
The last lamppost was sixty yards
away. It was all dark and uncom
fortable and new. He disapproved
of everything.
He loathed the neighbors' smug
little curtains and he loathed the
distant cathedral. What he had
seen of the rest of Toxeter be
spurned likewise. ... He followed
her silver slippers across the gravel
that strewed her front pathway,
and Into the bouse.
She put up a hand and switched
on the light There was laid bare
to Armltage's inimical gaze a big
room, Inadequately rugged and cur
tnlncd. Some battered furniture
filled one end and there wns a gas
fire. Shivering a little, Barabara
asked for a match."
"I'll see to it" said Armltage
shortly, "You know you've got a
ghastly bad habit of not making
men fetch and carry for you. It's
got to stop."
She laughed. It was tho first
time he had heard the swoet, merry
sound. The match burned down to
his linger tips and he had to light
another.
"I'm nearly always with Mark, I
suppose." She was sober again.
"And he, of course, can't fetch and
carry."
Armltage lit the fire and drew
the curtains. At once the room held
a somblance of homeliness. One
could Imagine it full of people, of
tobacco-smoke, of voices, even of
gramophone music and shuffling
feet He wandered round It while
she dipped into the pockets of her
coat and produced a key.
"it Is the key!" she exclaimed.
"Or, at least It fits the cupboard.
Ob, .Mark will be plonsedt And
there aro portraits here."
Unwillingly, Armltage sauntered
up to Inspect the portraits.
"Or aren't you would you rathor
not bother?" she asked, suddenly
shy. ".Mark would hate me to to
tout his work to anyone."
Armltage had looked at the first
portrait for quite a minute before
he realized that It was a portrait of
a girl before a mirror. She wore,
on a platinum chain, an emerald
not In a spider's web of platinum.
Nothing more.
Her faco was perfectly familiar.
She was Leila Cans.
(Copyright, iPil, Julia Clcft-Addamt)
How will Barbara mirvlva this
Intnt jibe of tho cruel Mark,
Monday?
APPLE GROWERS
TO SEE BETTER
IS
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 28. (AP)
The belief that better days appear
in right for the apple grower was
expressed here today by V, O. Pol
len his, general manager of the Apple
Growers association of Hood River,
who recently returned from a sales
trip In the east.
There are two factors of import
ance in suggesting betterment in the
apple market situation, he said. Per
haps the chief of these le the les
sened competition from Canada.
Holdings there have reached close to
the vanishing point, according to re
cent word.
Affecting the situation generally,
Follenlus said, Is the fact that hold
ings are less in two of the varieties,
Newtown and Spltzenberga, than
normal for this period. Anjou pears
show a like situation.
"There is a general feeling among
business leaders In the east and
south," Follenlus said, "that the bot
tom of the depression, In its national
aspects, was reached some time last
August, and that since that time
conditions and values have become
more or less stabilized.
"Conditions are certainly no worse
than Z found them on my previous
sales trip last August."
CHRISTMAS AIDES
Miss Lillian Roberta executive sec
retary of the local Red Cross, yester
day expressed her appreciation of the
fine co-operation of organizations and
individuals who contributed food,
toys, and other things which made
possible the .distribution of Christ
mas baskets to needy families
throughout the county.
All day Saturday, representatives
of families unfortunately unable
themselves to provide the material
necessities for a happy Christmas In
their homes, called at Red Cross head
quarters for the generous supplies
which gladdened many a child's heart
ami meant for them proof of a real
Santa Cleus.
Miss Roberts asked the Mall Trib
une to express to the public her ap
preciation of the assistance of the
Klwanls, the Episcopal Sunday school,
the Business and Professional Wo
men's organization, the Mall Tribune
and KMED station and the many in
dividuals who contributed either di
rectly or through purchase of the food
baskets arranged at Marsh's grocery
and the Groceteria to be given out
to needy families by the Red Cross.
Pender ano body repairing, prices
right BriU Sheet Metal Works.
BELLVIEW, Deo. 38. (Spl.) A
happy meeting of Upper Valley Com
munity club was held Wednesday
afternoon, with 34 members and
guests present. As Mrs. Clara Klncald
was not able to attend, Mrs. WUUs
acted as president. During the busi
ness meeting a report of the treas
urer. Mrs. Clark, showed a balance
of a hundred dollars In the treas
ury. It was decided to rent the club
house to young people of the com
munity for 94.00, If properly chape
roned. Several members agreed to
make popcorn balls for the school
children. Mrs, Homer Moore was op
pointed chairman of the program for
the January meeting. Mrs. Clark, Mrs.
Wallls and Mrs. True will he hos
tesses. Mrs. L. D. Meservey. as chairman,
announced the following program:
Recitation, Mrs. Ada Byrd; Christ
mas play, Nell Dunn, Cora True, Mil
dred Clark. Bess Homes, Cell a . An-
drews; recitation, Nell Dunn; skit,
Mrs. Wallls and Mrs. True; recitation, i
Mrs. Deadman and recitation, Mrs.
Koble. I
Several games followed In which
Mrs. Dunn and Mrs. Homes won
prizes. Each girl was presented with
a bag of candy and a gift. Prizes
went to Cora True as the "Pert Kid,
to Bess Homes as the "Na.ightlest
Kid" and Floy Moore as the "Pret
tiest Kid."
Mrs. Inlow and Mrs. EdgehiU were
guests of the club.
Mtsa Eunice Hager took her primary
nferifnrH Ruturdav where they
sang several two-part songs. Making
; the trip were Albert Newbry Kenneth
Thompson, Josephine Peachey, Kath-
erlne Peachey, Betty uunn, .
Alberta Russell and Fern Biers.
LA
WHEATON, 111, Dec. 28. (AP)
Gangland today continued to hide
t.h iprt. of the slavlnsr of 19-veor-
!old Gertrude Modrow as police turn
ed irom one clew to anotner witnom,
penetrating the veil of mystery that
surrounded the case.
Police said circumstances of the
ftnrtlntr nf t.hfl Ctrl' bodv earlV
Christmas day alongside a lonely road
near Addison, 111., bore all the ear
marks of a "ride" victim.
When needle duplicating sales
books, flat-packs or fan-fold cash
register forms, ledger sheets
for bookkeeping machines 01
any other kind of printing
don't order from out-of-town firms
and pay more. Phone 76 and one 01
our representatives will call.
Real Estate or insurance Leave it
to Jones Phone 706.
BITTER ON DEBT
ATTITUDEOF F. R.
(Continued from Page One)
recently published here that certain
European governments were privately
complaining about getting bad debt
advice from their New York banking
connections.
Roosevelt private messengers are
running around, town thicker than
Western Union boys. All claim to
have the latest word from Albany
about what should be done on this
and that. Few carry credentials.
Friends of the president-elect here
are getting worried. They hove passed
the word privately down the line that
Bernard Baruch acted for Roosevelt
only in the debt matter. They say
the governor has not yet fully for
gotten the Chicago convention when
Baruch was an active antl-Roosevelt
promoter. .
Drinking does not seem to have
anything to do with voting in con
gress. Most of the wets in the house
do not drink. Many (but not most)
of the drys do.
There Is the strange case of a
Brooklyn, N. Y., congressman. He
has always been wet, but does not
drink
and li trr.,
he i ...Til! " lht th.
doctor, mad. 7r'' "
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that
his
Tho
brandy
Mnxt nf Ik I L
not lnt.!-Pi,i ""Mot.
al? tax and tli. ,, ' "'"'"J
gt mixed no with v.. . ""
want to protect Mr. Hwrei
embarrasslnsr nro.ru,-. . d
lane. In one measure
, .v vn lne Doak iw
studying technologic.! m,,?!"1
can. u nheDoaksoo.","
Only four new,pnper W
to go to Florid. LI V
jver Before the
j have gono with him. 1
Tammonv Tj0h
move 1. not what It i2'J
the niirfn..,. .... !" !U
Farley Itl the head T..H
U. ... "
: of " .'?".? u hj
salvo of aboldnnddeswra,,
deslaned to ntM.t '""""M
for th, nl, k. :, .a'tmz,
Currv htm riar.i.i.j L '
veltihm .TKS... "Z
chorus. So h. i. J.t.?. .""
out to create a maximum
value for himself in ,,,
pel a bargain when the time for
when the new 1k,i,i.,..
to March 4 to show the op.
What in liKiMnn. ..... "rV
., iclu)w
that Farley', patronage tmZ
nimh him li .u- ... . t,wet
' oacKground.
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KILLED IN L A.
lJV AVOfLES. fVc. M 'ffpl )
Ji. rr ?r W 1sh of Hmi'.ird J
fvlfn, fin, rm placed bv a coroner's
Jury yrterlay upon S:nM!iv Nixon.
3S. of Wtl WviHorn avenue, wlio
will face a drunk driving charge and
pebbly a mam'anjhtcr aociiMtlon
for puft'.i'njr Of n off the runnlnc
bntrd of his mov:ti( enr in the mid
dle of havy traffic.
Wlinfwd st. the inq-.vn tinned
that Iat stinrln? aferT.xn Nixon rnn
Jnto Orien's car and t n aVnipted
to drive awT. A he did to. fie
ide-lf man jumped tr t':e running
board of Nixon's machine In ftn el
fort to stop him. For tvveriij blocks
Oden finiii to tlie cr nii'.U, a Al:.co
nd To Angina n'roft. Nixon pueii
d tynt'otf and drove, 03
A motorcyclo officer, who pursued
nr.c! arrested Nixon, reported that the
mnn was intoxicated.
Oden, terribly injured aa he wa5
hurled to the pavement, died a few
ho.ira Inter at the Methodist hoapltnl.
Howard J. Oden was a resident of
the Talent district for several years
and lift mnny friends in the Rogue
River valtcy. He wu a brother of
M:s. .Vhu Millard of Met! ford.
Loan President's
Sentence Upheld
Ol.VMIMA, Wash., Doc. 28.?)
Conviction of W. D. Comer, former
pre.Vtlrnt of 1lie now defunct Put
found Pivtns and lan nAwlatlon
of Seattle, of publl?hl:if a false state
ment of iM't of the Institution,
was affirmed today by tjie state su
preme court. Ills appeal was based
on the contention Ills Indictment
was Insufficient, that it failed to
ciuree to wlioni the statement was
laeucd.
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