VXGTZ TWELVE
IMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, HEDFORl), OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1934
HYVOfBli: The death of
ltareha Moore'e vorente hat tent
her to live with her tuintter Aunt '
Gertrude, Ten veart with Aunt
Gertrude and her harth regimen
have made Martha into a hardt
pleaeure-lovtna young woman who
hat ttrewn the town with her die
carded tuitort. Then Hob I'owtrt
arrivet from Mexico, and Martha
finds the can not drop him to
easily. Unable to hurt bob the hat
allowed him to give her a ring, and
now 810 it calling on hit old-lath-ionvd,
churning mother.
Chapter Nine
PASSAGE AT ARMS
l"r WISH," said Marsha "that I
were nice enough to belong In
jthls house." She realized It had been
long since she had done more than
jto laugh, at the word "nice," and now
she had said It seriously and her
eyes had brimmed.
"But, dear, you do belong In this
house and to us!" Bob's mother as
sured her. She added In an aside to
Bob, "A little nervous," and she
added to that, and more loudly,
"Bob," will you he so good as to ring
jfor tear
I Marsha had caught It all, Bob laid
:a hand on her shoulder as he moved
'toward the bell. They were both anx
ilous that she should be happily at
ease with them and boyond feeling
nervous while within their reach.
I "Ob, don'tl" she thought "don't
be so kind!"
I The tea was, patently, a gala af
fair: the best of all the good porce
lain was npon a huge, gleaming
liver tray which Bartholomew
brought to set on a solid table be
fore Mrs. Powers. Mrs. Powers
measured from a caddy tea.that had
come from China. Bob sat staring
at Marsha. Marsha tried to speak
nslly, naturally, but she could not.
I At dinner that night Miss Gertrude
was rarely loquacious. Shs had the
curiosity that thrives In persons
without Imagination to reveal spirit
ual toes upon which questions may
tread.
"I am, frankly, eager," she admit
ted with an acid smile, "to hear of
rour adventure of this afternoon;
I could not conceive the let us say
r-melange."
i "It was a bit strange,'' Marsha an
swered. She stared a little tragical
ly at the sliver which, having come
from such proudly respectable an
cestors, had always made her feel
more than evor the Pariah she knew
he was.
, "How did Mrs, Powers Impress
fnu?" Miss Oertrnde probed on.
"She Impressed me as a woman
who had gone Into caps at twenty
oven," Marsha answered pertly,
"and I know she knits those scratchy
rash-cloths that are wrappod around
the soap that smells Uke a dog be
ing treated tor mange, and I could
soe her giving the amalgamation to
the servants with advice. Is my
description adequate, or do you re
quire more?"
That was Marsha's old manner,
tut she had lost her way to the mu
sic and she could but ehant the
words with a new bitterness. Even
iMIss Gertmda who saw little beside
her own righteousness, noticed the
Change.
"I ntvsume you will break It off?"
she queried.
'I presume I shall," Marsha
agreed. She added, "It has been done
hofore."
"I think perhaps," Miss Oertrnde
commented, "that It will be the most
heartless and wicked thing that even
you have ever done."
"We'll not quarrel about that,"
Marsha stated. "I feel as do you.
Ho, thank yon, Alice, I don't care
for any sweet."
She rose then; "If you'll be good
enough to excuse me, Aunt"
"IIIEIXI" MIbi Gertrude mur-
' mured as Marsha left the room.
She had never thought anything
could touch Marsha and Marsha was
obviously touched. "But it won't last,
It can't last!" she thought trium
phantly. Marsha, nervous In the drawing
room, wanting to move this, that,
knowing sh dared not as each ob
ject had Us sacred spot wondered
.whether Geoffrey had telephoned
while she was out, perhaps.
I She wanted to see him, needed to
soe him.
She wantod to be taken back by
'him to the ground where one stood,
icarelota of others' hurls; to the
ground where one thought only of
"killing" one's own drearily stretch
ing tlmo.
She moved toward the dining
room. "Alice," she said, her voice
quick and sharpened by strain, "did
Mr. Tarletoa telephone this after
noon?" Alice answered with, "Xo, Miss
Marsha."
Miss Gertrude smiled without
raising her eyes from her plate; her
smugnoss sang, "The way of the
transgrossor Is hard." and Marsha
saw, through her, that Pharisee who
IMipi HnvcH with nattier
THE DAMjES. Ore. (UPI Mr.
Walter Wiuwon wss horrttled to Unci
her three-year-old son. Jerry, with
his two pups, playing with a rattle
anaxe In the yard. The snake was
atrlklns at the auplclons pupa, with
the little boy encouraging them.
thanked his God that be ins not a)
other men.
She could not stand much mere,
she felt, as she stood by a window
of the drawing room to trace the
cars, by their gleaming lights that
followed the avenue. Years, It had
been since she had suffered thus
from her aunt's smile and Us Impli
cation. ;
Why must she turn back to the
younger heart that could suffer!
What had made her turn?
What could she do about Bob? II
was Geoffrey she wanted. Geoffrey.
Close to throe weeks be had been
In town now, and without sending
a word to her.
She puffed deep on her cigarette
to see, In the blue, floating smoke,
Mrs. Powers, saying, "But, dear, you
do belong In this house and to us."
She belonging In that housel Why
couldn't she laugh at It? She had
sneered at nervous breakdowns.
Was she to suffer one? She mustn't
cry, and she Wanted to cry all the
time. I
"Countless Mrs. Powers will be re
lieved," ssld Miss Gertrude who ap
peared to pursue the theme, "but It
will soem hard to the young man for'
a time . . . although I presume ho will
live to thank you." .
That stopped Marsha's Impulse to
tears. I
"But you're simply too fond of
me, Aunt," Marsha replied, "you
think everyone must love me as
you do!"
It sllonced Miss Gertrude. She
glared, and making her angry helped
a little. Alice appeared to say, "The
telephone, Miss Marsha."
Marsha's hoart beat hard, but It
was not Geoffrey who had called her.
It was only Bob. I
"Yes?" she said wearily after his
short, heavily-charged and eager,
"Dear?" She could not keep It up
much longer, she knew. It wss, ac
tually, making her lit. . , I
NOVEMBER had frozen and
thawed again and again; the last
of Its weeks was held, for the most
part, In a fog which turned the river
and harbor craft clamorous and that
made old scenes strangely and
eerily new. ,
Miss Gertrude was loud In her de
scriptions of the deaths from Influ
enza, which was "creeping over the
city to paralyze It"; she shook hei
head and gloated, a blue-blooded
ghoul, who called her fascination
for the morbid, "my ready sym
pathy." Marsha forced her smile and dwelt
upon those lines of Housman's
which hare to do with dressing and
washing and eating and thinking
and "God knows why." She tried to
All her time and she tried not to
think. She thought a great deal and
she could not fill her time.
"You're so strangoly and unhap
pily restless!" Miss Gertrudo com
plained over bor solitaire cards and
her never-ending games.
It was a relief when Marsha real
ized Bob knew. He came the last
evening of November. Alice admit
ted him in her grim and silent way;
Marsha looked np from the book,
which was with all the rest she'd
read lately, "so dulll" to see him
standing In the doorway that led
to the hall and soemlng to fin it.
She appreciated his silent entrance;
it was novel and like him.
"I didn't hear you," she said.
"Come In" I
He moved across the room with
out speaking and with the long
stride of a tall man whose waist
has been thinned by work outdoors
and whose shoulders hare been
broadened by it. 1
Marsha looked up at him testlngly.
"I think you're not very glad to see
me," she said.
"God help me, I ami" he an
swered; his voice was roughened
and he breathed a bit unevenly.
She rose to stand bv him; he had
ovldently been walking, coat open
and blowing. Little beads of mist
were on his waistcoat; bis stiff shirt
wss pock-marked.
He looked more ruffled than she
had d roamed he, who waa so con
tained, could look.
"Why the Paaro Nurml feat on a
night like this?" she asked; she
know woll enough; but anything to
get It overl "There's a lovely dew
on your shaggy fierce eyebrows.
"I do like thorn, Bobl You really
are as gentle as a lamb and as lnno
cont as those old maids who serve
on comnilttocs tor the suppression
of vice, but you can look so alarm
Ingl" He said nothing, staring down on
ber.
"Well." she went on, "the day has
been dulll Get at Itl You're going
to ask me whether It's all been a
game, aren't you?"
(CetyrltU, It Si. h K. ITeri)mi-Tetir)
Martha gin through a bitter
leant, tomorrow.
Mav rirnMer Criminal.
PHILADELPHIA (UP) Heglatra,'
Hon o all criminals within 34 hours
after they arrive In Philadelphia, was
aungerted by Police Superintendent
Joseph te strange as a method of
checking their activities while In th
city.
NEW SCIENCE IS
SUGGESTION OF
NOTEDJAVANT
Cosmecology Would Bind
Together Sciences Gov
erning Earth Says Dr.
Stetson of Harvard.
By Alfred Berthtoet
United Prp Staff Corrwpondent
NEW YORK (UP) Cosmecology
a new acienc haa been suggested by
Dr. Harl&n True Stetson, research as
sociate In geophysics at Harvard uni
versity. More than merely adding a new
word to scientific dictionaries, this
recent acquisition to the terminology
of science would, according to Its
author,, bind together the sciences
governing our earth. Its Uthosphere,
hydrosphere and atmosphere with
those dealing with interstellar space
such dm astronomy and astrophysics.
Co-ordinate Allied Sciences
Dr. Btetoon In hie book, -"Earth,
Radio and the Stars," Just published
by Whittlesey House, claims that co
ordination of these allied sciences
should be effected. Practically every
science would be enrolled under the
banner of this new and all-embracing
one. All the representatives of the
various sciences would correlate their
findings toward a common end, the
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Dr. Stetson, who has been director
of Perkins Observatory and Professor
of Astronomy at Ohio Wesleyan uni
versity for the psat five years, pre
senta a series of graphs. Research has
Illustrated that the levels of certain
African lakes correspond closely with
sun-spot cycles. '
Run Hpofc Frequency
Biological and biophysical reactions
have been linked with sun-spot fre
quency; variations In the number of
rabbit, lynx and fox pelts approxi
mated quite closely the Increase and
decrease of sun-spots. As the spots
Increase, so did the pelts, and vice
versa. Business, too, if affected by the
aun-spote. Indices of various busi
nesses, correlated with sun-spots
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when the solar constant decreases
business takes an upswing. Four or
five of the last business depressions
followed a sun-spot maximum.
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contrast to that of the past which
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PENDLETON RESIDENT
IS BITTEN BY SPIDER
PENDLETON. July 13. (AP) Cal
Hanlon, former fire chief of Pendle
ton, was bitten by a spider, believed
to have been a venomous, black wid
ow, yesterday while repairing an elec
tric meter In an Athena flour mill.
Hanlon drove to Weston for medical
attention and collapsed at the phy
sician's door, but was soon revived.
MILTON, Ore., July 13 (AP)
Bishop James Cannon, Jr., famous
prohibition advocate, arrived today to
preside over the 60th annual session
of the northwest conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south.
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PORTLAND. Ore.. July 13. (AP)
Fred Plath of Yakima was elected
president of the Northwest Tree
Fruits Industries at a meeting of the
control committee here Thurbday. He
succeeds Paul Schercr of Mcdford.
Jack Rogers of Wenatchee was
elected first vice-president, and Glenn
Marsh of Hood River was elected sec
ond vice-president and treasurer.
Asked whether the committee had
decided whether any control should
be exercised over the apple deal this
year, Scherer said no action had been
taken but the committee had ex
pressed the wish to give the control
authority to commodity commissions
which would regulate prices and ship,
ments. No action had yet been taken
on the question of establishing a
minimum f, o. b. price.
PIONEER ROSEBURG
MERCHANT PASSES
ROSEBURG, Ore., July 13. f AP Isa
dore Abraham, 64, engaged in mer
chandising at Roscburg for the' past
42 years, died last night as the result
of a sudden heart attack. Born In
Germany, May 6, 1870. he came to
the United States at the age of lo
years, and was engaged In business
for a short time with a brother at
Belllngham, Wash.
American colonists carried on a
thriving trade with the Creek Indians
of Georgia as early as 1680.
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