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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGOy, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1932. pjrm eight jlSiiyiiig Barbara ' k "A l Julia Cleft-Addam AMor -you owl maim- j ' : 1 i n ; 'J SYNOPBiai Leila Cant upnli tfia vounff milNemalrB barrel! Armltage to propose 'n her; in stead he telle her he hat deter mined to marry harbara Quenlin, whom he first taw by accident that afternoon. Leila offers aid and sends Farrell to fetch Bar bara to a dance. But Farrell takes Barbara to the little house she has prepared tor herself and Hark Lodely. cruel, a cripple, but a alfed artist. For she is to marry llark in five days. Farrell and Barbara find, amono some of Mark's paintings, a portrait of Leila Cane wearing the handsome emerald Mark fust has glren Har bara. But Barbara defends Mark, Chapter 14 BARBARA EXPLAINS i'VOTJ'LL go Mark's way? 1 won ' I der If yoa can tell mo why?" Barbara was tartled. But " She gestured round the room and the gesture was, to Far roll, pathetic "We are to be mar ried," Bhe said simply. "I thought I had told you." - "Oh yes, you told me! And I know you will tell me next that you are going to marry because you love each other. But what you feel for Mark Isn't love." She lay back In the chair, her heavy lids closed, her bands ex haustedly upon her knees. "Someone else has told you so already I" he exclaimed. And, as she nodded "Well, whoever It was didn't make you sei sense, so I'm going to. And I'm adding this bit of news Mark doesn't love you." "An but, you sen," she said, un stinting, "he does. He does love me." "I think not ' A man who loves a woman Armltage took breath for the brutality of It "doesn't put off his wedding-day tor a Jaunt to Town." A quiver ran through her and the faint color that had crept into ber face, drained away again; but she did not open her eyes. "Has he done that?" "Yes. Next Thursday he'B com Ing to stay with me for a bit, to meet eome people who may be of use to him. ... Don't pretend -that although It went against the grain, he felt he owed it to you, or any thing Ilka that, because " "I wasn't going to pretend. He has postponed our marriage before and not even for sucb a good reason is a visit to London." Bewildered, astonished, Armltage oould only give a quick laugh. "All the same," he went on, cut ting into his excitement, "he does love me. I know it, beyond any manner of doubt; In his own way, he always has and In his own way he always will. As for me, what ever you call that feeling that 1 have for him, it's the strongest I've ever known. The strongest, the clearest, the most unchanging." "Rot! It's nothing but a habit of mind a fixation, don't they call It? "-a childish misconception " "No. 1 didn't cultivate pity for Mark because I promised his father would. 1 was able to promise be cause of mj pity." "Pity! Pity Isn't love." "With me, It Is. And It Isn't only pity It's it's there's a sort of honor in being desperately needed. fulfill a need In Mark." He wheeled abruptly upon her. "1 want you, Barbara Quentin, to forget Mark for a few minutes, and think about me." She gave her faint, frank little smile. "I am thinking about you already, I was Just going to ask you why you Invited Mark to stay with you on a day which you knew was his wedding-day." He had hoped for this. Because 1 don't want you to marry him on Thursday. Or at all." Her smile vanished. "I want you to marry me," he (aid. Her heavy lids flow open. She struggled up In ths chnlr and he put out a hand to drnw her to hor feet But she Ignored It "You aren't Joking," she said half to herself, staring up at him. "No. Oh no, I'm not Joking. I've waited all my life for you and now that I ve found you I don't feel bit like Joking; 'hough I warn you that I may presently break Into ong. ... My dear, if you felt for Lodely whnt you are cnnnble ot feel ing or the man you lovo, I'd bow myself out and wlbh you well I'd do more, I'd ransack Europe tor a doctor wlio would mnke Mark walk. Td get his cleverness acknowledged, 700 marketed; I'd never let him want " "Oh, could you do all these heav enly things for Mark?" "Damn Mark!" ho shouted. "Yes, of course 1 could what's the good ot wealth It It doesn't stretch to things like that? Bu' tor the mo ment I'm telling you that you're de luding yourself. Your pity la for Mark all right I don t deny that But your love Is for me." She put her bands up to her temples as though they throbbed. Am I mad or did you and I meet this evening Tor the first time, when you helped me with Mark?' INT WALL STREET DBE WILL RIVAL TEA POT SCANDAL (Continued from Pago One) I investigators on his last few senato , rial appearances. His recall will be a grudge battle. Steuer would be able to do a better Job with him than ! anyone has done so far. One of that he ttons that might 1 fore March 4." Top f.nanclal authorities In Wash ington are Inclined to think the presi dent may have been unduly appre hensive. The International situation is foggy. A debt settlement would help. It Is a little absurd to sit around 60 days In the mire before figuring a way to get out. Disarma ment Is sunk. The world economic conference is off until next summer or fall. Yet with all these things the world j President Hoover waa really agl I tated about the International finan- He sat down again on the wooden 1 rial situation before he started seek- chair and faced her across the mean '"B war debt co-operation with Gov. little fire, - Roosevelt. There Is nothing to aug- "The Dolnt Is that I have found ! 8t he had any confidential reports you and you are not yet married to indicating imminent danger. Twnn ni Vnn mnw think i hRv ! hte best friends whispers played a trick upon you by taking " , u 7 l. Z . k- luaitt. away uv&i j. uuiouaj uui yuuu admit It was my only means of gain ing a short time; a short chance to make you Bee that if yon would allow yourself, you could love me." I don't know what to say to you. "There's no need to say anything. In a way, Lhe definite things were said when we were born " "You must please let me apeakl I meant, of course, that 1 don't know what to say jecause I should ter ribly hate to snub you. But " 'It's quite useless for you to turn me down. Or rather, I've allowed for the probability of your turning me down again and again " "In that one respect then," she said very crisply, "I shall not dis appoint you." She dragged herself out of her chair and turned away. He consid ered that she looked lovelier in her anger than tn any other mood, her face stung to the pale rose color and her eyes dark and bright and cold. He watched hera without a glance at the portrait on the floor, to where she had laid aside her coat. - "You'll take me back now, please?" she requested, shaking out too furs. Oh yes, I'll take you back." Armitage sighed sharply. "I'll let you drive, too, if you want to. My generosity of spirl) is an aspect of me that I particularly want you to study." He could not see her face as she bent over the furs, but he sensed that again her mood was veering. 'We will resume our discussion," he said, carefully flippant. "And we shall yet go to Bogey Cove by moon light and either be devoured or per mitted to drown." "Have you told Mark why you Insisted on Thursday?" "No. You'll do that" She still kept her face averted but she put aside the coat. She stood there for a few min utes, by the door, and gazed back at the Are she had -eft; she gave the curious suggestion that it was tell ing her something forbidding her to leave It until or unless? Then she walked back to It very slowly and as though magnetized. She dropped again into the deck chair and sat leaning forward, her hands clasped and drooping, her mind utterly withdrawn from him. He, too, had returned to the fire. He stood with an elbow on the nar row ledge above it and waited. She was now so many fathoms deep In herself that he knew the humilia tion of non-oxistence; and yet he was afraid to make any noise that would shatter the delicate world Into which she had gone. All his life, he was to remember these slow minutes these fascinat ing. Inexplicable, maddening min utesin which he waited motion less for her to come back. The quality of their Bilence had nearly mesmerised him also, when suddenly she spoke. Only her voice, he thought, could float out like that, eo low, bo clear one with the firelight, the stillness, the night hour, "Is It possible," she said, "to make a bargain with you?" He still waited. "If I promised to marry you with out loving you, without even liking or admiring you very much, would you make Mark well?" "No," he said politely. "No, I'm afraid that wouldn't be at all pos sible." He was so angry with her that he dared not move. Copyright, 193!, Julia Cleft-Addama) a long vJflll should be able to worry along until Marcr 4. The best dry leadership In the house beer fight came privately from the White House. Profeslonal dry pomoters did not even alt together in the gallery or speak to each other. Mr. McBrlde of the Anti-Saloon league was on one side of the chamber. Bishop Cannon was Just as far away as he could get on the other side. Walt&r Newton, presidential politi cal secretary, rushed Into the breach. He called the congressmen on the telephone offering suggestions. One was that they bring out that the bill would only raise $125,000,000 In reve nue. They df3. If you ever had any doubts about where the White House stands on beer you may get an idea from this Inci dent. . Senators still double up laughing In the cloakroom when anyone men tions the trick they played on Huey Long In the Philippines fight. The Louisiana senator fought long and hard for the kind of a bill he wanted. He made himself such a nuisance the bill waa substantially altered to suit htm. Sugar Importa tions were reduced in deference to Louisiana sugar producers. The bill was passed. Huey went away on busi ness or pleasure. No sooner was he out of the way than action started. House and senate conferees reached a swift agreement. Long's Ideas were disregarded. Al lowances for sugar Importations were Increased. The bill was alapped through the senate without a vote be fore you could take a full breath. Usu ally such procedure requires days and sometimes weeks. BITING REPLY BY WASHINGTON, Defl. S0-(p) An assertion that "the Democrats have no program" was made in the house today by Representative Schafer (R.. Wis.), In what he said was a reply to "untrue statements" ty Senator Robinson of Arkansas, minority leader. "The Arkansas senator," Schafer said, "charges the Republicans and Republican lame ducks with attempt ing to block the Democratic program to force a special session. "He doesn't know what he is talk ing about. All seven of the repre sentatives from this state voted against repeal of the 18th amend ment. Why doesn't he use some M his Influence with them? If six of the Arkansas Democrat had voted for repeal It would have passed. Only one of the Arkansas representatives voted for the beer bill. What about this repudiation of their platform pledges?" Schafer said the Democrats had made the tariff a campaign issue and yet while in control of the house they "hadn't even lowered the duty on aluminum pants buttons, for all their talk about Andy Mellon." Actress Arrested Mary Nolan, stage and screen actress formerly known as Imogene Wilson, was arraigned in New York on a charge of being a fugitive from Minneapolis where she Is accused of having passed a worthless check. She is shown leaving court with a bondsman. (Associated Press Photo) When needing duplicating sales books, flat-packs or fan-fold cash register forms, ledger sheets for bookkeeping machines or any other kind oi printing don't order from out-of-town firms and pay more. Phone 75 and one oi our representatives will call. IVAN THE TERRIBLE MOSCOW (AP) Twenty feet un der ground near the bank of the Mos cow river, excavators have come upon the grave of Maluta Skuratov, chief executioner and torturer for Ivan the Terrible. He died In 1073. The grave was uncovered by work men digging the foundations for the "palace of the Soviets," which Is to be erected on the site of the destroyed Cathedral of the Redeemer. As chief of the Imperial bodyguard, Skuratov had a reputation for cruelty which matched that of his Imperial master. Hla duties Included the In vention of new tortures for hapless victims of Ivan's wrath. SON BEAT FATHER TO DEATH IN BRAWL, HINT BAKER, vDec. 30. (AP) Claude Hamilton of Baker was placed in the county Jail this morning to await further Investigation Into the death of his father, John H. Hamilton, 70 year old retired Pine valley farmer, who was severely beaten Saturday evening at hla home and died in a hospital Tuesday night. , FREE Pioneers anu descendants Dhotoeraphed without charge for pioneer historical collection SH ANGLE STUDIO. Phone 642. We'll baul away your refuse. City Sanitary Service. MODERNISM CUT 'g 'Mlblllty that with?; !?-f pOMlblllty that ..: !?" generation, ther. m h! S human race 1, . u.,7 ' " Jt A. Erlkson, phyjlclst ut?" of Mlnneaota ' " h,.N it. on of Terminw ti. , . o worm's smi.,, accraenta mutalned Ire hX f: '"nit tran,port iSriwm"" Erlkson .tated rhJ1" Improvement. method, portatlon and .V" ervationofraM lmDoulhlo " ' 04 ul"! out"::...i. bring under the new ort"" ' cautioned, hanliM ft quieting." Evolution. L.. yond human control win brlnT.J th trnmlHnn u- . B1 """PMniM" will as gradUBl an possible, N'T PH' w, TAILSPIN TOMMY A Friend In Need In A Hurry! 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I WE HAVE TO J HlA WHAT IS YOUR ) I SCARED BY THE SKELETON , AND EVERYBODY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD EWEPJJ aP J ARREST, BUT YOU HCOUNTERFEITER6 ? teA WORK FAST V, HUNCH? V Ik MRS. BLACK. BEING SCARED THE I TITUS CANSY AND MY HUNCH IS tHrtT WgO ;H81 SAVED JONATHAN M -, ?KBn. Ml SAME WAY, THEN US FINDING THE BETTER FIND TT 7 ' 5ft S'MATTER POP Pop Refuses To Listen To A Practical Suggestion By C. M. PAYNlfe f ,1 A I Toot tfJ TSATvrs rr. itt&riwas' pwrric-rMA it Sh fRm2tT v1 WklMfl Wr- TTb1blTJ TOOT, j Ik TcVP fglVT. r-Al -EnAT) LUCrT W es") xkllNW ff A To-B Tlis ht&SSIOW fX-)trT-"' I Tfc-HANffi. IT TOO IT" W, J CV Lr. SW( V 1 E THE NEBBS Meow, Meow By SOL HESp Farrell undertakes tomorrow. COSMIC PINWHEEL SEEN BY SCIENCE ATLANTIC CITY. If. J., Dee. 30. (AP) Out in spare w gigantic pin whwl of two balls of fir as big n 34 euns hw been discovered. It 1ft whirling at tho rnto of nbout a mil lion miles an hour, In ft epnee only about as wide na a fifth of the dis tance between un biu! earth. The results of 13 years observations which have proved the exlstenco of JACKSONVILLE, 111., Dee. 80. (AP) Vandalism was blamed today by State's Attorney Wolford H. Absher aA ho Investigated the wreck of a Wabn.h pcsener train that cost the 1 1 vca of two pe rflons, 1 n J ured t wo others and endangered the Uvea of several passenpers. The train swerved from the main line Just Inside the city limits last I nlcht at 7:30, shuntt-d onto a switch this fireworks monitor were reported I and crashed Into an oil tanX car. i nc cncine ana one ear overturned, drenched in a flood of burning oil. which firemen quickly extinguished. Deputy Sheriff Held In Assault KLAMATH FALLS. Dec. 00. (AP) Deputy Sheriff Holcomb of Lassen to the American Arclntton for the Advancement of Science today by Prof. Raymond 8. Dugnn, of Princeton university. The pin wheel la the star Sx Cas Sloplne, no distant that even In a telescope It la Just a pin point of light to a man's eye. This star Is really twine, ono whirling nbout tho other, ono sixteen times the sun's county Is In the Lake countv Jail, diameter and the other elht times, charged with assault with a dangerous The big twin Is mndf of a flaming : weapon In connection with a quarrel substance averaging only half the over a stalled automobile on the density of air. The pnlr Is "unusu- ' KlamatiLakeie'V highway Christmas ally close together," for twin atnrs, j day. that Is, being separated by nbout lit.- I Holcomb Is alleged to have shot 000,000 miles. They rovolvo around ' Joe Moss, one of his companions, each pthor once In, 10 hours, twice during the quarrel. 1 SUPPOSE VOU'RS SOIWG TO THE V PAwTV T kCAIvl VOU IMASlkje f THAT ?CAlvl NOU 5EE cue -aDOIPS weRSEtF AKWTMIKJS INJ THAT , TUA.TS VWMAT VJOMAKJ TO ItvlTEREST UKE TO kMOW-SWES wt LOOKED AT MVSS-F ii'M UtOOE A 1 "J- ( IW TWE MIRROR AWO 1M KJOT, FtWJOR but F 1 WAVEUTX SOT IT OM MGR. , 1 iTO 3AV 1NJ MY r to II l, ' 1 1 ' -c- TT - J EMJM BRINGING UP FATHER TAKE THI BILU RIGHT OVER TO MR- HAROCRACKER' OFFICE -TELL HIM THI'b OUAN'WE INSIST UPOIM IT BEIN' PAIO- WEUL- 'WHAT DO 1 f t 1 7 VOU WAN1T? J r t " . I ' HA'N'E A BlU-HERE. , 1 ve-MR-JIC6, tr IVIXW ACAINSTYOUFOf) fUjtJ VLU CO RIGHT I J 1 .TWO HUMORED J flf jfPQ-AR' - What ' ' . ' ; iMtTtae.. By George McMan gee-1 want to git rio of c that clwtmw maggie picked to 66 my Secretary- but Shouldn't ha Sent him To -ir- rwuottCKEK. HE'LL KILL i-lir! IP WE TRIETO Mtt K '-1-L6CT THAT 'I r J l MR-HAROCRACKER, OMt-Y j HAD ONE HUMORED AND ninety dollars-soi MADS HIM GIVE ME HI VATCH FOR THE, BALANCE- WHAT?