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Newspaper Page TextPJQE TCTCUTT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MTSDFORD, OREGON', WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1934. Judith Lane by JEANNE UOWMAS SYNOPSIS: Judith Halt. . .. to build the Rto Diablo dam with the I million dollar Big Tom Bevlna left in hie wilt tor the our pose has been complicated bu the discovery that Morton Lamvere. attorneu tor the Uevitte heire in a euit to break the will, hat begun mysterious activities htohcr up the river. Then she pete a letter from her husband, who sides with the heirs aaalnst her. saving that he intends to give up their home. Chapter 88 THE ANSWER JUDITH DALE wrote ar answer to her husband's letter at top speed, then raced down the hill to the Big Tom post-offlce and mailed It before he had time to change her mind. In bed she tried to remember cer tain portions of her answer. She had written, "I'd as soon consider cutting the house Into small bits and keeping those parts as 1 would taking part ot the furnishings tor myself. Hlllndale Is an entity. To bare a part of It would only remind Do of what I hare lost' Maybe seeing him wltb Mathllde would cure her of ber obsession, tor surely a love which could call forth the acute emotional agony she was uttering was an obsession. She turned her face nto he pil lows and tried to muffle the sobs which shook her entire body, dimly conscious that ber physical being from the tips of her toes to the dreadful pain In lier bead -was like a sensitive machine racked by a pow' r beyond her control. The springs of Delpby'a bed oreaked and caused ber to catch ber breath and He quiet a moment Foot steps shuffled to the kitchen, there was the click of metal on metal and a low-voiced monologue on a "danged contraption tha'H 'cause ma soul to sulfa fire for a cursln' If Delpby was . heating chocolate. The sobs ot her mistress turned to hysterical laughter, and when the old woman shuffled In a few mo ments later she found Judith laugh ing and crying In the same breath. "There, there, '.'cnoy lamb; Juss you shut yo' moutb an' drink this' chocolate." "How can I shut my moutb 'n' drink?" Inquired Judith, with a hys terical giggle. "I'll rub yo' back down soon's you finish It Wrought up you are, wrought up, what with dam bulldln', (hosts an' flyln' up where man's never sposed to be you're all a julver." When Judith had finished the "chocolate," Delpby, Ignoring her protests, rubbed some home-made concoction of menthol on the back of ber neck and began massaging her neck, her shoulders, her back. When she awakened the next morning she felt that something dreadful which had been on the verge of happening had happened. Delpby served Ler breakfast, relat ing some choice town gossip as she hovered about the table, and Judith, remembering her unselfish dovo tlon, pretended to enjoy the Oaky biscuits and to laugh at the gossip. The change In her personal af fairs made Delpby a fresh problem. Bbe should send ber back 'to Nor man or Mrs. Dale. She belonged to them, but somehow, having her made It seem she still retained some hold on her husband. She would let Delpby make tbe decision. CHE, did that evening. The grow " Ing heat ot the desert spring had driven them to tbe little poroh In front and pelphy, silent tor the mo ment was watching the approach ot the work train, crawling along like black snake. ' She explained things briefly, then waited for the old woman to answer. "Miss Judy, d'you mean you don't want me no mo'!" ahe asked plain' tlvely. "No, Delphy; not at all. But, as Miss Bevlns said In Llge'i letter, jou've always been with the Dales." "Miss Judy, none a the rest of the Dales needs me 'ceptln' you; and, Miss Judy. I just got to be neoded." Tears smarted In Judith's eyes at .-the hunger In the old woman's voice, "You're right, Delphy, and I do need you . . . you know that don't youT" Tbe train was In, the mall courier coming up the hill. Judith's heart beat like a tom-tom In spite of her tern efforts to control a hope she knew to be futile. Letters tor her ... she aoanned the handwriting. Clla'a sarawL She tore open tbe envelope, pulled ool the rough copy paper, and out ot ihe mass ot letter ing one line seemod to stand Il lumined. "Norman has quit the firm ot Dale, Iampere and Morrison." Judltb read on breathlessly. "The othet day In court. iom- on laformtd ir. that llortiian Dala'a ntnii had dlipij,rM trum tha door ot the aim's nlflcaa, 1 tla- R honed lhm and the alrl told me orman waa out of town. SILVER ADVOCATES TO CONFER WITH PRESIDENT WASHINGTON. April lfl APt Senator Kin; CD., Utah) Mid today h hfld arrnnged for conRrroalonil leaden of tha mova to remonetue "IVhm i aakod whar 1 could reach htm, -ha aald ho had Baked that hla addreaa b kept aecret Nor did ah know when be could return nor when that address would be available. "(Watf'tlll 1 take a atory over the phone . . . luat a mort, okay, ready to go again) "I asked to talk to Lampere. He ' waa aa amooth aa Silk, or aa uaual, and aaid Norman had left town to reau 1 aaked why hla reattng made it neceaaary tor nia name to be re moved and he aald Norman had thought It advlaable aa he waa liaule to remain away for aeveral yeare, might never return, that due to hla 'late embarraaament' (mean ing you and the Bevlna money) he might remain away permanently, -even taking bar examinations In aome other elate. "I aald, bologna, and he aald, what, and X repeated, how Inter eating, may 1 uae this In a newa atory. At that he nearly Jumped ' through the telephone at me. "However, Judy-girl, In case you don't all ready know It, your hue band la no longer aasoclated with Morton Lampere. "Mathlle had ceased grieving In Galveston, alnce Norman won hla caae and returned here. She evi dently found ahe could grieve here aa effectively aa there and appears now and then In publlo ptacea, dreaaed In devaatatfng mourning (how that girl can make clothes apeak for her. 1 almoat amlled at her the other day on Texas and . Main, Juat becauae of the hat ahe wore). "And that reminds me. 8he : framed Norman Into a picture : Lampera'a aheet uaed in their roto gravure. Seema Mra. Dale and aome other woman won that fool , bridge tournament Froat of the Union went down to take their pic- , ture. Norman was with hie mother and went out on the terrace with her, then aat down in a chair to atudy aome papers he happened to be working on. "Mathlle, Mrs. Dale's shadow, was not far away. She gracefully j effaced herself from Mra. Dale's ! side ao she wouldn't interfere with i the picture, and aat down close to ' Norman. Froat, having received his , orders, took them In thle coay two eome, then turned his attention to the other women. "Norman waa ao abaorbed In his , work he didn't know what had happened until he aaw the paper. , Waa he mad I If Lampere hadn't s held him down he'd have wrecked the Union, Froat and a few othere. "I wonder if your Innocent Scotchman lan't getting onto the fact that Lampere Is using this atufr to psychologize the puhlto and get future Jurore Into be lieving that Norman la the man be hind the Bevlna women's light for .your money." r . JUDITH laid the letter aside for a moment So that waa how that picture was taken, and Norman hadn't known. No longer with Lam pere, he'd left tbe firm his grand father had founded . . . that meant either a tremendous concession or a tremendous , disillusionment . . . and that was why he hadn't bees able to keep Hlllendale. Poor Norman. She could see the small-boy look of bewildered pain on his face. He was too fine to un derstand the motives behind the others. "So straight 'bis head touches his heels at times," Clla had said. - ' With maternal fear, she won dered what this cataclysm would do . him, embitter him or send his stubborn chin Jutting forward for tresa battle? It only she could be with him ... at least she could write with relied encouragement There were other pages of gossip auri other letters, but the sight of Cunard coming up bill waring tele grams erased them from ber mind. "We're won this far," he greeted. "They're sending an Injunction In from the Stale commission, with rangers to follow. I'll leave In the morning for Austin, and arrange to meet Scathborne Informally, then If necessary, we'll have a bearing." Cunard left Big Tom Town the following morning. "Not that we're won yet Judy," he admonished. These fellows are too slippery to be trusted. Keep your eyes and ears open and whenever Slim comes down bare him take you for an air cruise over Scathborne's holdings. I'll hare a list of hla holdings sent up from Del Mar." A few days later she received word that Scathborne had agreed to abandon his dam. "He agreed too readily," wrote Cunard. "I think he has something else up his sleere. Watch for It." Slowly the days passed. Judith watched the malls eagerly and arter a lapse ot time was surprised to find b"r last letter to Norman returned unopened. A tpost office (tamp. In formed her that the "Addressee has moved, left no forwarding address." The same mall brought word from Llge which stilled the fear In Jud ith'! heart "Ma'ss Norman had dress In his hawk! cloves an' gone huntln.'." "Mrs. Dale, ahe say she don't know where he gone, hut she ain't worrying none so I guars she know. She's lookln' after Hill and Dell, which la been loose to Mis and Mil ter D Mao. from Boston. Tbey Is French and Boston which It same ai United States and they sure la nice. Rose she like thm line. They think this house sure l - pretty and didn't make no change what-all." Judith gave a deep sigh ot rollef, (Copyright. ISJJ, by Jeanne Bowman) Judith, tomorrow, Is reason to worry. allver to confer with President Booae Vf It Trtuwday. King told reporter he did not know who would be Invited to tha conference, but aaeuived the commit tee representing tha aenat atlver bloc, ot which he la chairman, would he Included. CROSSED EYES YIELD TO INSTRUMENT MADE BY CALIFORNIA PROF. BERKELEY, Cal. (UP) Straight ening ot crossed eyes, once consider ed Impossible, waa being accomplish ed In the University of California optometry clinic through use of an Instrument perfected by Prof. Fred erick Mason, lecturer In optometry. The device, which operates by means of light projected directly Into the retina, trains and re-educates crossed eyes to act slmultanlously and correctly. Stimulation of the brain functions, which make two eyes see as one la the principle upon which the instru ment works, Dr. Mason revealed. Two small "targets" viewed through lenses and magnified by them, serve to fo cus the eyes, the first and most im portant step In the process. The targets are enclosed In optical ays terns which can be fixed before each eye, - Mason further explained that these systems are operated by means of a motor, ao. that the targets viewed by the eyes move to and fro along a horizontal line forcing the eyes to follow them simultaneously, regard less of the state of crossing. At first the systems are so ad Justed that light Is poured through the pupil of the eye in spits of Its direction. As the patient "works" on the machine, the eyes gradually are moved more and more toward a normal point until the eyes are "educated" to act properly. "All eyes cannot be straightened," Dr. Mason explained. "Treatment Is useless unless it la possible to stimu S MATTER POP BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER f T3U5TE1 T-rfE. L" N. IT I -AKl' &!T MAW F HOME. U A M1WUT&! ) ( vjiw ta4- If n 1 9 Vfo 4?ank" me. ) Va meam ) f . 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PW&M OK1HRSIE,TOO l&sAQMSt TC) THANK VUU IN PtKUN NUW THtN, 1 r X , 'rsK: eevo' y MiW&tWinBm wantnoutopome-kwithmeandgo y-.l THE NEBBS I'm Sorry , By Sol Hesi Sup VILLAIM ' r Tt& f'SW SOT FP VOUR LINeTvOO S'lrT' l OOKJT HCwVETO.ME QUIT. llf IFT T"g 1 VAlT , ""fl -iiWEVlLLAIN, SWD,"VLl- DIME. HIM AMD EWTERTAlW MIM f AMD WES THE MOST PcnMIMUS j( TQ PUT A DEALfWERV USE VOUR 0WNJ . 6EMROO, IS ; luMTIL HES SO OBLIGATED WE'LL SSM vOuSg WevI J TADIoutlD fL SEE HOWR I OUOGMEMT, CALES, OUST BEIK1G AKJWTM.KJS 1. ASK HIM TO LU.TM H.S 1 7m WEARS HE SXTo HE waStS V CAM 5TAV AAV I THERE'S A WHOLE IM FORMED hfAC TO MAte H,f MEV MMaya, THAT HIS AA C bTsJ)'5 SUDER ANOTIP5 ) OTHER PEOPLE-MAKE IT- WE -ssT !igB-,,nT;r. y K SIDE OF U5 jA SCWEMETO -fc ( JKtST OPP THE VWHOLE SCHEME I DOESWTWAMTTOTRAIM fO. 'r' ' 'P3 S- -rrf I SCHEME TO tyfl jLjrH ffAvOO MUST HAVE HAD ITpfeS VWITH AVJ IKISTITUTIOKJ THaWJ? 11! L 'OL 7Trm!TS ! BRITMOINQ UPFATHER By George McManm T C:I ( IT? A I FTTFP ggnu Hll Tl II JOSTWAlTUHTlLTHAT I I I ' 7 M H5 WCHNE65-OMOR AMPA'YL.E'S'b, I I " " 1 1 frPrS5 MlGHNrCo-OMOR ANPAW-E- HORTOD MWS. LOTTA j 5EMT THIS PRESENT- ONE OF AJS n HE SAID HE MAO SUCH A J CHATTER SEES THE HIS ELEPHANTS, WITH MI'S r-. r-Vi. . . . r'alU 'l ajrt; .1 . I MmID G'"ft co' MEStT5-J ELEPHANT! MOTHER? L r",:Sr7T.!' HER COME OVER ANO ill Tjfiiil ilLssirflT 1 ill , ' late a function practically born with people that of binocular vision. REVENUE MEASURE IS TO WASHINGTON, April 18 (AP) In a more foreshadowing the possible veto of the 9480,000,000 revenue bill, the senate today returned the measure to the house without seeking reconsider Uncle Nat's Plea IjJP JS& a great big-tank.'. I - ation of taxes on Philippine coconut t oil opposed by President Roosevelt. I President Roosevelt has Indicated j he would veto the legislation If trie coconut oil levies are retained. He maintains that action violated the Philippine 'independence act. 4 ROME, Italy, April 18. (AP) Wheat acreage reduction on a world wide scale was. outlined this after-' noon by the world wheat advisory j, commission. Just at a moment when! its labors were about to end, it found 1 Itself faced with what Is perhaps ' the most important subject of its meeting. k i By 0. M. Payne PATERNAL FEEDING HWIN6 REDUCED BABV1& TEARS BV AfttMPf Af roRCIBlf FtfDINS, DECIDES fOlkY 6UILE DKIDES HE PIDN'T MAKE T IMPRESSIVE EKO06H. REAU." SWALLOWS A SPOONFUL TAKES A TEW MORf SPOON FULS. FiNDS It INCREASIN&Y HARD 1b REGISTER PLEASURE CAJErUHE SfoFF PREfewps To Take a spoon tul, smacking m ups PATS TOMMy, SMACKS LIPS AND SflVS M-M-M.WHAT DEUO0U& 6RUEL Af THIS POINT DISCOVERS HE HAS ST1UEP ON HIS NECKHE (Copyright, 1934. by Tha Bell Bt GLUYAS WILLIAMS 4-8 SAYS KOW Trtflf DADDV HAS . TAKEH SOMP.BABV WILL EAT HIS 6FUEL,W0NT HE? 88 VEfoES TriE IDEA HOXDS 0U A STOONFlfl. TeMPtlW6LV, BABV INDICATING HE'P LIKE It SEE PADDY EAT SOME fWE CARRIES SROEL OUT, MUffENNfo UNDER HIS BREATH. BPBV COH--fENfEDLV SUCK", HIS 1H 0MB Syndieata, Inc.) By Edwin Alger NOW.BEN.I WON'T TAKE "HO" FOR I AN ANSWER T REALIZE VOL! U HlNtU 1 WMtTHlNS, BUT I Netf YOU WITH ME. BEN JUT MUST COME.