PAGE SIXTEEN
MEDFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE, BEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1934.
T"
Judith Lane
bit JBAHSB UOW.UA.M
brs. .jo. The report that oil
ts being drilled tor up etream c
thort wny threaten to disrupt Ju
dith Dale's effort to build the Hio
Diablo dam according to Torn Bev
ins' plane, and with the live mil
lion dollars leu her bp Bevins lor
the purpose. 6he tears II HQ letnt
to anuou her. engineered by Uor
ton Lampere. who ie trying to
break the Bevins will in favor ol
Mrs. Bevins and her daughter.
She tears too that a visit from
Booogins. who holds a Hey piece ol
land, may mean trouble: he talke
about hie wile'e desire lor pretty
thinae.
' Chapter 36
PACIFYING SCOGGINS
"T7ELL, sir, then we looked in a
' ' store window and there was a
Areas all sblmmerln' like It had Osb
scales oa It," Scogglns went on.
"Sequins, they're called," said
Judith, "little metal things that
dovetail Into each other."
"Wen this one was a green one
and Mamie she looked at It and then
he looked at me and her eyes
were chock-full ot tears, Just beln'
nappy. 'Ain't It grand?' she says.
"Next mornln' 1 made like 1 was
goln' up to buy me a ceegar and I
went to that store aimln' to buy that
dress tor Mamie It It took my roll.
Whatcha think they asked tor ltt
Two hundred and fifty dollars. I
didn't get It."
Judith appeared to be as shocked
as Scogglns bad boped sbe would
be, but beneath her sympathetic ex.
presslon was worry. What In the
name cf goodness was the man lead
ing up to?
"Miss Judith, I got a chance to git
them things tor Mamie, an git
Tommy a car and send him to col.
lege, without waiting tor trees to
grow and him too old to go and
Mamie too old to enjoy things. I
got a chance right now.
. "You know that piece a land
got that Juts into your flood basin?
There's oil there and I'm here to
tell you, you caln't use It. for water,
One trick that Judith had learned
during her years as secretary to Big
Tom Bevins was to maintain l
lance In a crisis, to let tbe other
person speak first.
. Judith felt that the fate of the
Rio Diablo Dam bung In precarious
balance as sbe sat watching Scog
gins. Without his land there could
be no dam, It formed a queer shaped
snake's figure Jutting tar out Into
the flood basin.
Bg Tom's faith in ScQgglns had
been so complete be bad neglected
to gain his consent to its use in
writing. Judith remembered calling
bis attention to It the nlgbt of their
first vigil, but he had insisted such
a procedure would i. 9 Jeopardizing
Scogglns trust In him, after Scog
glns bad refused such a big price
for his land.
"Don't reckon you ' understood,
Miss Judy," be began again, trou
bled shame In his voice, "I'm going
to git oil on my land and I caln't If
Its flooded, see?"
"What makes you think there Is
oil on your land?" she Inquired,
with nothing but sympathetic Inter
est In her voice.
'"THERE'S been a man there with
a dlvlnln' rod working about the
place. To tell you th' truth, Miss
Judy," he leaned cIobb and half
whispered, "there's a great lake' ot
oil underneath this here valley, yes
sir. Just like they've got up to Long
Tlew." "Strange tbe man didn't want to
purchase It from you," she mused.
"He did," was the quick answer,
then loyally, "but 1 promised Big
Tom 1 wouldn't sell to nobody."
Judith repressed a smile at the
unlntentloned satire ot his re
mark "and then what did he say?"
"That he'd sink a test well and
take a percentage tor tbe slnkln' If
I'd see the place didn't get flooded."
"And bow was that to he brought
about?"
. "He said he'd go to court for me
and git an In-an In " .
"Injunction," offered Judith to
whom the word was fast becoming a
nemesis.
"Yes that's It. a court order be ex
plained, keepln' you from going
ahead with your work until we could
prove there's oil there."
"Is he going to do that?" Judith
asked, as calmly as she could.
"Not unless he has to."
"But Mr. Scogglns you know as
well as 1 do that the construction ot
the dera as It la going along now,
won't harm your land. Tbe gates will
be kept open tor the very sake ot the
dam until It Is completed. There
Isn't much chance ot having a flood
like you had here last year and If
- you did your oil land would be
flooded anyway, wouldn't It?"
"Yen, but he says once you get It
built we can't stop you, It we're
goln' to do anything we got to do It
now."
"Then what did you mean he
wouldn't get out an Injunction un
less he had to?"
"Unless you'd agree to quit work
without it."
Judith sat a few moments In si
lence. A crisis like this needed a man
like Big Tom; not Justin Cunard,
Judge Morgan nor any man she
knew could handle It
She was Big Tom's stenographer,
she repeated to herself and she waa
going to act as she hod acted In his
office when things came up sbe
couldn't handle during his absence,
Sbe would pretend he was tempor
arily absent
"Mr. Scogglns, have you signed
any papers?" she asked.
"No. Miss Judith, they was egging
me on to do It this man and Mamie,
but 1 says no, I'm not slgnln' noth
ing." "That's Una, Mr. Scogglns. 1 tried
to talk Big Tom Into getting you to
sign an agreement for our use ot
your land In the flood basin and ha
wouldn't do It He said he would
bank everything be had on your
word.".
"He said that?" came tbe pleased,
incredulous question.
"Yes."
"Miss Judy, I ... I ... I don't
want to do tbls. It's Just. Tommy
and Mamie and being able to glvs
them things, I've got to Miss Judy,
I owe it to them, that Ash-scale dress
and a car tor Tommy"
"I KNOW," Judith, like Big Tom,
A was putting her trust In the man
as she spoke, "I do understand bow
you feel, but I'm going to ask yon
to do sometblng for Big Tom. No,
not give up your oil. Mr. Bevins
would never have asked you to sac
rifice yourself for blm, would he?
And you could have depended upon
blm to play fair with you, always,
couldn't you?"
"Yes, Indeed. Miss Judith."
"Well, Mr. Scogglns, I'm acting
as his secretary now and I'm going
to carry out his orders, so think of
yourself as dealing with him. Give
me a few days to think this over. I
want to explore an angle I've Just
thought about and then I'll meet
you and give you my decision. Is that
fair?" .
"Yes It Is."
"And you will give me your word
that you will not sign anything un
til after I've talked with you, nor
go abead with any of tbe plans this
man offers?"
"Supposln' he won't wait?".'
"If he's honest and there Is oil on
your land, be will wait"
"Ot course . . . yes, of course ha
will, won't he?"
They shook hands. Scogglns
started to go but Judith had mo
tioned Delpby and the old woman ap
peared with a coffee pot and a
frosted cake. They talked of every
thing excepting oil and dams and
when Scogglns left be bad forgotten
bis dogged, halt-shamed manner of
the earlier evening.
After he had left Judith slipped a
light sweater over her head and
trudged up to the "Ship Rock".
Wearily she stretched out on the
rock and looked out on tbe plains, a
blue-black bowl topped by a blue
black sky.
Was It worth the heartache and
worry, this bulldlni ot Diablo Dam?
Surely It seemed that el dlatlo waa
at the bottom ot It something devil
ish seemed to dog her footsteps as
she sought to carry out her In
structions.
She had sacrificed her husband,
her home, herself on the altar of
Big Tom's Ideal and tor what? He
had been building for the people
and now they didn't want the proj
ect that had Indirectly robbed him
ot bis life.
She laughed, a broken catch In
her voice as she realised It was
memory ot 8cogglns' houss being
swept from Its foundations In the
storm, that had sent her away from
Norman In the moment of her de
cision. And now Scogglns she
heard a noise and looked up. A
huge figure was silhouetted sgalnst
the milky glow of a million stars.
"Delpby," she cried, startled.
"Yassam," came' the plaintive re
ply. "What are you doing up here? I
thought you were In bed."
"Nome."
Without words they went back to
the house, Judith meekly accepting
her bed-time drink and massage,
wblcb she suffered In an effort to
repay Delpby for her devotion.
Morning brought Slim Santord,
and with blm one ot the foremost
geologists ot the country.
ICopyright. JSJl. by Jeanne Bowman)
Judith ind Slim go, tomorrow, on
a acoutlna trie.
VOTERS PAMPHLETS
SALEM, April 20. Pt Tile actus!
mailing ot the voters' pamphlets tot
under way today when 433.000 of the
leaflets were placed in the mails.
Thlrty-two different pamphlets wore
printed this year ranging from one of
106 psgts to Mxiltnomih county to 33
pages to smaller counties. The pamph
let contain both candidates' state
ment and arguments on measures.
I
RIGA. Latvia, April 30. (UP)
Blonde Laura La Plant. St. Lo'ii
motion picture comedienne, was
granted a divorce today from William
A. Belter. Hollywood director.
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LAIS, IS CLAIM
According o Water Superintendent
Robert A. Duff, many water UMrs in
thu city ruin their lawns and perma
nently Injure garden toll by excessive
us of watr during the summer
months. The quantities of soil essen
tial to products an excellent lawn do
not always exist and flooding the en
tire premises and allowing water to
run down over curbs will not improve
any lawn.
No lawn can b produced by water
alone, and If proper attention has
been paid to placing food by fertiliz
ing the soil far less water is neces
sary for the making of a rich and
velvety lawn. It should not be expect
ed that grass, which la naturally a
deep-rooted plant will thrive and
grow luxuriantly upon water and a
few Inches of soil. Use of fertilizers
will supply your lawn with plant food
that all the water In creation cannot
supply. A thorough watering .twice a
week Is all that is needed. Among the
evils of over-watering may be 11a ted
with the following: 1
Keeps the plant roots In cold water
a odnslderble portion of the day.
Washes the soil from the roots and !
exposes them to the air.
Sours the soil bed.
Subjects the grass plants to a vast
change In temperature from 90 de
grees under the summer sun, to the
chill of the water at 80 derees.
Forms a surface crust of baked soil.
Where the soil Is deep over-water! rig
has a tendency to "leach" the sail of
the very plant food which should be
carefully retained.
Study intelligently the results of
your treatment of your own lawn acid
avoid gauging the quantity of water
you use by the amount used by your
neighbor.
DEVERS GRANTED LEAVE
TO CONDUCT CAMPAIGN
SALEM, April 20. ( J- M. Dever.
attorney for the state highway com
mission today was granted a leave of
absence, effective Monday.
Oevcrs said he would start his cam
paign at that time for the republican
nomination for congress from the
first Oregon district. Devera will con
teat the nomination with James W.
Mott,. Incumbent.
By GLUYA5 WHJJAMS
Oregon's Apoplexy
Toll Increasing
SALEM, Ore. (UP) In 1926 there;
were 909 Oregonlans who died from j
apoplexy, the state health board re- j
ported today. In 1932 there were!
1,128.
Apoplexy la caused principally by
hardening of the arteries. Best pre- j
ventative Is fresh air, wholesome food,
plenty of sleep and regular exercise,
i d VMlial.lUMIlll sgrwsM a i si si
Wril) SAY YOU
FINALLY POUND THE
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QfiLL WHEN THE CROWD GATHERED. HE TRIED T& EXPLAIN HIS
INNOCENCE, BUT THE ONLOOKERS WERE SKEPTICAL. ESPE
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(Copyright, 1934, tiy The Bell Syndicate, Ino.)
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