PSGE SIX
MEDFORD MAIL TRroUOT. MEDFORI). OREGON, MONDAY, JULY '9, 1934.
SYNOPSIS; The
Hare ha Moore'e gnu but i.
enta hoa left her to the "tetitlt,
brinatno of her Aunt Uertt r.
whose epinater Ufa comprehent.
"duty" but not kindneaa, tlaralt
carw out a hard, bitter exUtenet
for herself , and atrewa her path
with discarded admirers. Now the
has met Bob Powera, on vacation
from hie iob in Mexico, and die
cover to her anrprite that she doei
not want to hurt him.
You can put them In vases It 7011
el like It. Jean," sbe murmured,
.'hen aba hesitated. "I think I'll ar
range these myself," she added,
"and take them to mj room."
They were Bob Powers' flowers of
which she spoke, a bouquet which
looked as It It had been plucked
(rom an old-fashioned garden by
some one who loved flowers more
ardently than do most florist's
clerks.
His note lay atop the sweet mix
ture; a note addressed In a bold,
steady band which told pleasant
things to those who read the man
ner of writing aa well as '.he words
which writing writes. 1
In her room she set Bob's offer
ing to Eros upon a pie-crust table
and then she dropped to a chaise
longue with the messages to be
read. Geoffrey Tarleton had cabled
from Havana, "HOME TO THE OM
LOVE; WEAK IN THE HINGES
BUT READY TO GET HOT."
Chapter Fire
GOEFFREY TARLETON
MARSHA accepted Bob's flowers,
the books he sent (she liked his
tas'te In books), his candles; and she
thanked him prettily as she acted
the role Into which he had cast her,
the role of rarely lovely and kind
young woman who could do nothing
.that waa not fine.
At moments the old Marsha had
risen from the new surface; sbo had
said one day with him, "Are the
Mexican women pretty?" thinking
be might confosa some entangle
ment; prove himself as were the
rest; make her feel better.
But he said only, "They might be
If they ever bathed; I moan the
peasants we aee, working In the
wilds."
Then he had gone on to tell her
that sometimes for months they saw
no women save a few old crones who
did their .laundry by beating It to
nothing on the stones at some tur-
SHE had always admired bis hon
esty and she bad always felt that
she could get along better with Mm
than with any one else whom she
knew. But bis message rather an
noyed her and she knew It would
not hare annoyed her a month past
Of course one changed
She opened Bob Powers' note.
They were Bob's flowers. .
bulent river's edge. Her question
1 bad not aet upon his thin, browned
face a trace of consciousness, and
he bad learned that he could not
lie.
Ishe did not want to hurt him. She
really liked him, and she had never
oefore liked any man save Doctor
James; and liking again made her
long to hide.
"Are you going, to guard against
making a tragedy for this young
man?" Miss Gertrude questioned as
she finished ber coffee.
Marsha did not reply and Miss
Gertrude gave It up. "I suppose,"
she said coldly, "that there Is no
appealing to you, who think only of
self and nothing of the baroo that
you wreck. I have fought your seri
ous consideration of Geoffrey Tarle
ton, but I have come to the decision
that such alliance may be entirely
suitable. He Is equally depraved"
"I thank you so much, dear," said
Marsha, but without her usual spir
it She waa entirely used to her
aunt's estimate of her character,
but somehow, this day It hurt as It
had hurt her when ahe was still
young and really trying to please.
Her aunt paid the check and they
rose; she'd hunt up something to
do Marsha decided, something by
way of diversion , . , this was one
of the hours when she did not dare
think and when'actlvlty must be the
anodyne.
-pHEY rode silently toward Miss
Gertrude's chill apartment,
which was so faultlessly furnished
with pieces that had been handed
down by early-Vermont Mooros, an
apartment :n which Marsha had nev
er boen able to welcome her friends,
a pl.v:e where suspicion throve, and
where wrong conjectures were
roached too easily, and where a tow
acid-faced - women sowing tor the
box that was to go to Doctor James'
favorite mission, made "a stimulat
ing afternoon."
Jean let them In; the Scotch maid
who disapproved of everything, save
the rigid heaven for which she
hoped, and of everyone, save Miss
Gertrude. There were flowers, let
ters, and a cablegram for Miss
Marsha, Jean said. Marsha looked at
the flowers.
"My dear Marsha," ahe read, "1
have sent you these flowers becausi
I have sent Just the, same selection
to my mother. That should tell you
something of how I feel,
"I have thought of you every wak
Ing second since our drive and I've
come to the conclusion that whlli
most men would be more entertain
ing, none could be more happy with
you than I am.
"Perhaps that will mean some
thing. I hope so, for It means every
thing to me. I've been trying to
shorten the day by hurrying: It
helped a lot to aee you those few
minutes this morning. You'll never
know how beautiful you are and In
all the ways that count most, dear.".
Then "Yours, Bob."
Her eyea filled. She looked at his
flowers to see them blurred. She
wasn't beautiful In any way that
counted, she was certain. She was
beautiful only In ways that made a
great deal of trouble for her and for
others. Bob Powers had made her
aware of the trouble ahe could make.
She murmured a ahort, sharp
"Damn!"; Bank back to think. The
man ahe needed waa Geoffrey; who
understood her; her needs. He nev
er pretended she was even half de
cent; he said, only, "I'll wander, but
I'll tome back to you. Delilah, we're
aulted; we belong",
In her way, she loved Geoffrey,
She thought longingly of bis re
turn. He might not look her op right
away; sometimes he did not and she
knew him well enough to know that
an appeal would make him turn
away. ,
Sho would not make that appeal,
she understood Geoffrey too well to
play Into his handa that way. Yet
she was hsrnssod and troubled, and
not on Geoffrey's account.
Bob Powers, If she appealed,
would come running with a humble
longing to serve. She wished she
had never met him. . . . Bob Powers
was "absurdly good," one could aee;
and It was downright disconcerting
to have anyone suppose that you.
were absurdly good too.
Tomorrow, Marsha his prtmonl
tlont of tragedy.
Kenneth Lcenlrrtn, half-mi'.e
ace of the Wulilnston Slate college
track squad, will captain the team In
1033.
Farmers of western Kentucky were
paid S750.000 for their strawberry
crop this season.
More than 35 residents of Cstallna
Island, Csl., playground, participated
In the first annual Island tennis
championships,
The 18 mountain covintles of North
Carolina have a popvilatlon of 300,359,
or 52.7 persons per square mile.
BRITISH IVIES
GIVEN PRAISE BY
Films As Good As Any Made
in U. S. A, Can Be Turned
Out in Britain But There
Is Only One Hollywood
By HENRY T. RL'SSELL,
United Press Staff Correspondent,
LONDON. (UP) Picture aa good
as the U. 8. produced variety can be
made In Britain, but E la tree never
will replace Hollywood, according to
Douglas Fairbanks, ftrr.
Fairbanks talked between tiresome
posing tor still pictures at British
and Dominion studios, Estree, where
Alexander Korda's team of film stars
led by Fairbanks, Is at work produc
ing "Don Juan."
Good Productions.
"Bistre never will replace Holly
wood," , Fairbanks said emphatically,
"but there Is no reason why It should
not be possible to produce pictures In
Britain which are every bit as good
as the Hollywood productions. Of
course, for the moment, production
Is not so easy here as It would be
there. Hollywood can call upon thou
sands of motion picture minded peo
ple as extras. Here the numbers are
restricted.
"In some ways the cost of produc
ing a picture at Elstree Is bound to
be much lower than at Hollywood.
Labor Is cheaper, for Instance. But
In Hollywood any extra can get to
work for a dime carfare whereas to
get extras from London to Elstree we
have to charter automobiles.
"There are at least ten actors or
actresses, to choose from for any Im
portant film part to be acted In Hol
lywood. Here the choice Is nearly
always restricted between two or
three."
. Film Quota.
The main reason for Fairbanks'!
choice of Elstree for the production
of "Don Juan," he said, was the
British film quota. According to ex
isting regulations, at least 25 per
cent of the pictures shown at British
picture houses must be British. This
led a number of foreign companies
to produce a certain number of small
pictures In Britain for the express
purpose of complying with the
uota. Many of them, once registered
with the authorities, never were
shown. They were simply "quota"
films, and, aa such, straight losses.
They were, In other words, the price
which motion picture producers of
foreign extraction had to pay for the
privilege of selling their big films.
"United Artists now is going to try
to produce Its quota films at Elstree.
"Don Juan" Is the first one, ex
plained Fairbanks, adding that oth
ers would follow it, he found suita
ble stories.
"Moonshiners" In the southern
mountains are said to find rhododen
dron roots excellent .fuel for their
liquor distilleries because they make
no telltale smoke for revenue officers
to see.
Four large tents, were erected at
the Longacre racing plant near Se
attle, Wash., to accommodate the
overflow of horses shipped In to race
In - the second legalized, meeting of
the track. Stable space was exhaust
ed when approximately 700 thorough
breds were entered In the meet.
T
OF ROGUE
PUT IN CONTROL
GRANTS PASS, July 0. (Spl.)
After burning over 000 acres of pine
timber In Dead Horse, canyon of
Evans creek valley In Jackson county,
southwestern Oregon's largest fire of
this season, to date, was brought
under control Saturday.
For a time a shift In the wind
might have endangered the town of
Rogue River.
The word was brought here In a
telephonic conversation between the
two district fire wardens, A. L. Mc
carty of Josephine county and Dwlght
Phlpps of Jacxson county.
Phlpps told Mccarty the blase waa
probably started by a cigarette at
about 3:30 Friday afternoon. A strong
wind fanned the flames Into a fire
that defied efforts to halt It for
several hours. Sixty men, mustered
from CCC camps and from the trans
ient camp at Talent were rushed to
the scene and directed by Phlppa and
his assistants.
The fire started about two miles
from the town of Rogue River, Phlppn
told McCarty.
It raged up Ward's creek canyon
but a short distance north of the
town they said. The blaze 'started
on a small hill near the town, away
from roads or buildings, they said.
Oregon Heather.
Fair tonight and Tuesday but
cloudy northwest portion: no change
In temperature; gentle to moderate
northwest wind offshore.
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