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EGE FOURTEEN ''MEDFOBD MSUJ TRIBTTNE, MEDFORD, ORE&OX, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 193i. Judith Lane J BAN SB BO WMA IV 8YN0PBIB: Judith Lcnt'e tn- f loycr, 0i0 Tom Btin, wt hag timed over to her the fob of coin plating the Rio Diablo dam, which Bovine ha$ undertaken chiefly for the relief of ttunarea 01 ( ,orm i.t tnrnheil land. Judith t paged to ttorman Dal, lata pa tier of Morton Lampere, and La per te trutna Diomo a am. 'armere en tart' am- veer the Rio om Bevine daugh ter Afathilm ia trulna to take Nor man from Judith, Jvdlth and Bis Tom are together in the tatter' of ' flee, going over the detail of the Chapter It INSTRUCTIONS f JUDITH turned to Tom Berlin, it J wllderment In her trey Ts. He iwaan't JoUng. Bbe had aerer seen him as serious, "Big Tom," she asked, "are you Manning another trip to washing, ton, or abroad?" i "No. Judy." he snsvrsred quietly. i"a longer trip than either. Thl mornlsi alter I had learned what Xampere was contemplating: what he bad tried to do, aometblng anapped Inside. The doctor called It a stroke. I know Better, m Bi me no hope. I may die at any mo ment I It going to be too mucn jot me to ask you to carry oni Judith had been '.rained In a item school. Becauae of this she accepted Tom Bavins' statement that he might die at any moment, with no more emotion than a grave smiie. "I understand what you. mean, now. Big Tom. I'll be proud to carry on for you. If It will make you any happier I'll relieve you of every de tail right now. Not that I believe your doctor, because," ahe aald brightening, "I think he was Just trying to frighten you into taking a lest" "He did suggest a rest," Tom Bev ina admitted. "He said if I bad the sense of a Jack rabbit, I'd board the Xaiad, cruise around and live to be a hundred. And then he said in fair ness to Mrs. Bevlns, Ma'teel and my firm, I should arrange my estate so my sudden passing would not make them suffer more than gner. Why don't you take his advice? If you trust me as much as you say you do, I could come Here . "It's not that I don't trust you, Jndy, hut I don't Intend shifting any burdens while I can carry my loau There's going to be a big battle over the Rio Diablo and it I have to die, I'll die lighting that battle. Oh. and Judy, nothing about this agreement of ours, to Norman. . "I was just going to ask you It you didn't want me to delay my mar riage." "No, Indeed, hurry It along." "I don't understand, you ask me not to tell him" "Judith, Norman Is junior mem' her of Dale, Lampere and Morrison. He is working with two brilliant. successful men, men whom his fa ther admired tremendously. We can't expect Norman to accept our condemnation of Lampere. He s the kind who must find out for himself. You'll have to be patient with him. Judy, he's slow, but he's sure now to work." Judith, looking back, thought of that night as a fantastlo dream. From time to time she would straighten from her task, walk to the water cooler and pause at the window to look out on the darkened city. Each time the lights in the win dows of other buildings were fewer, alternate street lights were turned off, display signs darkened, AT one o'clock, remembering she had bad no dinner and feeling sure Bevlns had completely forgot ten food, she telephoned the Rice grill. Standing beside the window wait ing for the messenger, she saw a late moon leering drunkenly over the Texas building, and thought of other moons she had seen on engi neering trips with her father, the white shaft of frozen light over the snow crusted Wasatch range, the slow ambling sphere with Its silhou ette of black lira, working up from the Cascades. ' Piping hot oyster stew revived the spirits of Big Tom, and he Inter spersed the rest of their work with anecdotes of early expeditions be had made. . And then, gradually, the buildings outside tbelr window became black blocks plied up by a careful hand against a grey curtain. Shortly after the first . sunlight slanted across Tom Bevlns' desk, he announced himself as ssttsfled, tele phoned someone at the Rice, then sat back to await the messenger be had called. "I'm sending these deeds down to Rio Mar by air. This young fellow I telephoned csn be trusted; he has his own ship too. This pile, Jndltb, goes Into a safety deposit box, here. Drop in the bank sometime tomor row, give them your signature ani got your keys." Judith nodded wearily, then went to the door to admit a tall young Texan In the nondescript attire of I commercial airman. "Judith, Miss Lane, this Is Bllnj Sanford." At the name Judith looked up and smiled "You're Clla's brcthfr." . "And you're small Jude. I can. all the way from China to meet you andi found you down In the Devil river country. Now that you're here I have to go down there , . . sever, mind, I'll catch up with you some' day." "I hope you do," she returned sln-i eerely. She did hope so, if he were half as fascinating as his slstorj thought him, he would make an Ideal' guest for her home ... hers and Norman's . . . she'd almost forgot-: ten Norman during the previous hours of work. ! She found herself recalling what Clla had told her of him, as he talked with her chief. Breath-taking adven tures mostly. Clla was always ex pecting a wire telling her he had cracked up in Timbuktu, He had spent a week on an arctic Ice floe while Clla haunted the telegraph room awaiting word, and there was another time when he had come down Inside some Chinese province to be captured by a doughty young war lord, who had later released him. "Slim" Sanford looked up at her and smiled. No wondor the war lord had been lenient, thought Judith at hlb flash of white teeth and nice blue eyes, Intensely blue. i OHB thought of him again when u she reached her apartment, found her food closet bare (ahe'd had no time to shop since reaching town), the refrigerator turned off. As far as anything edible waa concerned. It was a desert Island, and then the telephone rang. ' "Judy . , . good morning, Norman speaking, say dear, I've got things all fixed up with the architect Can you have lunch with me, then go to his offlco?" Architect, thought Judith? Oh yea, there bed been talk of a house on a hill, oaks behind It, terraced lawn. "Judy , . . what's wrong?" "Forgive me, Norman, I Just got In from the otflce and I'm so tired I'm stupid, could you make that late afternoon?" "Make It tomorrow, yon poor youngster, had your breakfast?" "No, I'm going right to bed. I'm sorry about the architect; It Isn't that I'm not Interested " - "Don't worry about tbat, dear, call me later." I Judith nodded at the mouthpiece,' laughed at her sleepy stupidity, said goodbye and went to ber bed. Too tired to sloep, she tossed and turned,' thought of Big Tom and his peculiar request, thought of Norman and his' kindness. There came a rap bn the door and going to It she found Lige, with a tray In his hand "Mo'nln", Miss Lane, Ma'ss Norman he sent roun'l some brekfuss Delphy tlx up. An'j Delphy she say you Is to eat every; bite." Judith surveyed the tray, steam- lng cereal with plump dates poking! their heads from the clotted cream,' golden peaches, flaked with sugar; thickly buttered toast snd a pot of chocolate. Delphy had boasted she'd "fatten thet child." I Overwhelmed with Norman's thoughtfulness, Judy sat eating and thluklng. Some men would hare re sented her lack of Interest In her future home; resented her lack of responsiveness, but not Norman. Had she the right to marry such a person while under bondage to Big Tom? 8uppose he died right away . , , foolish thought, the doc tor was probably trying to frighten him Into taking a rest That trip with Its Intense heat had been trying on them all . . . ahe'd call Dr. Kelly and make sure, out of fslrness to Norman. She reached for the telephone, called the num ber, talked to his offlce girl and then to him. 'Miss Lane? Oh, yes, Big Tom's secretary. I've Just come from there, Miss Lane, they called me to his offlce." Judith listened to Tom Bevlns' physlclsn in alarm "Did you say you were called to his office? Is he III?" she cried. "He's all right now, but why did you let him work all night? My good ness. Miss Lane, you should know better." "Why did I . . . let blur gasped, Judith. "Doctor Kelly, do you think' he'd mind me any qutckor than he minded you?" (Copyright, Jril. by Jiaunt Boteman) Tomorrow, Judith Itarni more about Tom Bvl- Ttarrie Tlldnt Help Hint PAU, RIVER, Mm. (UP) Fined 130 for drunken drlvlnp after his au tomobile had hit a tratflo stand, in juring a policeman, Stanley Hughes rattled oft his automobile among fr't friends and the tickets netted him 13a. Then, before he could pay bis fine, somebody stole The money. A Foremost British Chemical Experts Deny Horrible Possibilities Pictured by 'G. B. S and Others By LEE WILLS 0 United Trest Staff Correspondent LONDON. (UP) War mongers and poctflaU are spreading the fear of future aerial gas attack. They draw horrible plcturea of civilian population! wiped out by vaporized, poison dropped from the skies. Bernard Shaw, in a recent radio broadcast, said that the next war would result In mossed bombing attacks on the capitals of the war ring nations, and that each of the capitals will surrender. He urged scientists to Invent a more deadly and surer gas w.hlch would kill In stantly and humanely. Expert leny Progress In answer to all this, one of the foremost British chemical experts flatly denied the possibility of any great mortality among civilians or soldiers from aerial gas bombs. And in response to Shaw's plea for a more deadly gas, he aald that there had been parte tically no advance along that line since the world war. Dr. F. A. Preetrt, P. B. S., O. B. E.. 7. I. P., T, X. 0., the scientist, la chief chemist of the Imperial Chemical In dustries, and the man who mainly waa responsible for the development of large-scale production of high ex plosives during the war. By his suc cess In evolving a method of produc ing T. N. T. in tons Instead of pounds Major Preetrh Is aald literally to have saved the allied forces. Mustard gas was considered the most efficient gas used during the war. But thetftapercentage of deaths from this gas to casualties was well under four, Dr. Preeth pointed out. Chlorine Gas Chlorine gas, which was used first In the war, Is fairly deadly, Dr. Preeth admitted. But Its deadllness Is dependent upon perfect atmos pheric conditions. Its effects were exaggerated because Its orlglnsl use had so struck the world's Imagina tion. Probably the most lethal of all gaiics is hydro-cyanic. This is a real killer at close quarters, but, like carbon-monoxide, It Is rapidly dispersed in the air. Phosgene, which was used In the war, Is deadly and much heavier, rolling along the ground a few feet high. But If people didn't panlo at its approach, and either ran away from it, or took a deep breath and ran through It, the gas would cause few fatalities, Dr. Preeth asserted. SUBURBAN HEIGHTS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS I FRANDS WIZ ZE NEW -BUT hypnotic power y Professor' xxO; 1 havf convince f He.s sot a Vlf'A ZE MOTOR CAR.1 BETfEiaGNE ?P ACHO&- fKIWj &TAKIDAR.P "1 rr UNABLE TO MAKE fUE HEV OF HIS CAR WORK, ATTER A KECEHf PARtV, PREP PERLEY H&D COMPLETELY .lost his Temper and had bent the kev into untie. USELESSNE5S BEFORE HE DISCOtfEREP IT WAS RV LAPPETT'5 CAR, WHICH 15 THE SAME MAKE AND MODEL, WAT H WAS TRV1KG TO GET IhlTO ' 6UJVA& (Copyright, 1834, by Th. Bell Syndicate, Inc.) WILUMTS S 'MATTER POP By 0. M. Payne ( V"Rjr .Lue om m Jr -L -tied- A. some comic J vnih.VuM' f ma1 riOWlAw V v L3-- ( L r5?a-j lV. (Oopyrtgttt, 193,' ty The Boll 8yadlcat, he.) TAILSPIN TOMMY Louie Is Interested By Hal Forrest BUT. MB. smith , VOUft CXP6-R.T R.VCB, TOMMY TOMKINS, MAY B THS GST PILOT IN -THE. bOOTU-D UT AS, AN ACTOR' Loeu.- I MERELY CFPEtl TUIC AS A SU(S&&STON, NTLiMeN rYOUft. STAR, li IN A VBR.Y PRECARIOUS CONOITION-IN ' THE HOSPITAL" YOU HAVE. 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