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PAGE TWELVE BEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MED70RD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JTJLT 20, 1931. OTE MM13M3IE HryOPSlS: lforeha Moor lilts Hob Powers, because she believe that Geoffrey Tarleton is "mors her tyve." But she disoovers that Tarte ton apparenlu is married, and takes Bob after ait. Now they art await inn dinner in the charming house Bob has chosen for their honey, monti fitirt starsha, finds that Bob is very dear to her. Chapter IB THE DINNER ,f ARSHA moved to stand by him x befors the hearth; he sllpped an arm around her. "Dear," Bob said, "I're leen how you hare felt all day. I want you to know and to remember that there'i nothing you need tear, because, yon ace, no need of mine le ao great as having you unafraid, content, ai happy as I can make you. Do you understand?" A hand on her shoulder, he turned her to him. 'Tea," she answered. "I love you rery much," he said next; "You don't at all sense what that means, now . . . you will some day. It means that I don't want to take from you, but that I want to Hire to you. Do I make myself at all clear?" "Yes," she answered again. "You are not afraid of my taking your hand now?" he queiitloned. "You were this morning at about ten minutes past eleven when you thought 'I'm alone with htm and I'm married to hlml' You wore a pit iably frightened child and It would kill me to hurt you In any way.1 She moved closer to him; he felt her bands clinging to his. And look Ing down, he saw her lean forward to kiss the shoulder of ilia coat. He held her close; "Thank you, he said, "and I shall hope that with time you'll aim a little higher. She raised her face to his; "You don't need to pretend gaiety, light- ness." she said. "What I want Is to have you happy. I have never wanted anything so much." 8he had never spoken so much of 'trnth, she knew. She must, deficient thing though she was, make him happy. lie must nevor be hurt by 'Jier; his fiueness must never be lessened by her. His arms tightened. "Are you certain?" he whispered, latter a sharp lntni - ' ' , X BSI He bent his face to ben. Later, they drank to the future, after Ella had appeared, with a dis creetly prefacing cough to announce dinner. The wind howled around the cot tage as they ate their first dinner to gether; a very gay meal that was punctuated by odd, shaken silences when he stared at her, tried to smile and could sot. "Whero are we, Bob?" she asked onco. , "Paradise," ha answered. 1 "Oh, I know that" (She was go Ing to be able to do It easily after all, she decided) "but the name that others call It?" "Kasthamplon, dear." I "Really? It haa been so odd not knowing where I stood In any way!" "Yon're going to learn. No thank you, Ella. Oh, Ella, I will. I didn't aee what waa on your tray." TTB TOOK a generous serving of - the candled aweet potatoes which he liked usually, Ella knew, !but he hardly ate anything. She 'blinked. ' Bhe remembered him so clearly as ia boy, and his bravery atter his 'father died In that "cruel, quick way" ... hit In one of the old "light buggies" on the railroad tracks. Aud how he had helped his mother by his bravery. None flnor, and young Mrs. Pow ra, Ella Vr.aw, was worthy of him ... a beautiful, beautiful young lady with eyes that looked as If they must cry, whlla turned on him. And "gcntlctpoken and seeming rather why-like." "She asked me to tell you," said T.lla later and In the pnnlry, "how he enjoyed the dinner." ! The cook waited by the table. I .Well, go on" she ordered. "I never saw two more In love," (ald Ella. "She liked my serving. She said, 'It was a delightful din Bar, Ella, and so beautifully served," and be stood, as she spoke, his hand on her arm. She wore the dross he liked best. I heard him thank her h, . . and she says to him, at that, ahe says, 'I always want to do what Jou want me to,' she says, and ahe choked savin' It, "It seemed like they'd !oth been a bit lonely, to me, serving them. I never saw two more In love, sor needing of each other!" By the end of a week, Marsha realized that marriage was mora serious than she had dreamed It, or anything, could be. It awed her and It filled her with discomfort. "Do be less tragic about this. Bob!" ahe begged once. "The solemnity is dreadful! I And It getting on my nerves!" "Anything yon order or want, my dearest," he answered; but he could not change. He waa carried upon a current that waa stronger even than his strong restraints. And Marsha found herself fright ened; never by blm, but by the way she mattered to him. Her enduring of his love was equivalent to the facing of a mid-day sun by one who has long been confined In a prison where light Is ever gray and muted. If only, she thought, again and again, he would not see her as a perfect blend of all that waa most beautiful In spirit and flesh. Life would have been simpler If he said. aa would Geoffrey, "You're Satan's little sister, Marsha; don't think I don't know that! But I have the bad taste to love youl And, that's that!" Instead, Bob, being Bob, said. I can t believe It even yet, ycur having stooped to me!" The words disconcerted her, but not so greatly as the adoration that was In his eyes. SHE knew herself, she was certain. She was no eood. But nn tn this point she had not lied. She bad not bad to, with her aunt. Miss Cor- trude, who from almost the first. had classified her niece. In a Grand Central Station train announcing tone, as "A moral Irresponsible." Now she had to lie; to pretend tc be all she felt she was not and oevel could be; she must pose as a gentle loving woman who waa not given tc tree gestures; who considered otb ers, their comfort and who thonghl nothing of self. She prayed, In her manner, to hi able to hold the posture. "It would kill me to hurt hlra In any way!" she thought Intensely, at least i hundred times that first week; s week when she knew she waa "reallj happy," that she bad never been happy before and that happlnesi could ache within a heart. If, ahe had heard, a month earllei of the activities that filled thai week, she would have murmured But how woefully dreary!" And Tel It was not "woefully dreary." Tb simple days were so satisfying, ac lovely, that they, too, hurt. People did have family Jokes. "They really dol" ahe reflected won- derlngly. Thelra had begun. Fragile joaoi that would have amused no one else; wrought from such sketchy material aa uooa whistling of 'Ole Man River' as he always did. while be splashed In the tub. She had, with a fow days of hear ing this, burlesqued the perform- nce; the neit morning, scrubbing he had whistled something of Brahms, calling loudly and trlumnh- antly, above the running water. That'll set you!" And it almost did, for she didn't whistle very well. It went on, with uob scowling as he tried to remem ber melodies that would "stump" her. He said one morning across the table; "You follow everything I whistle amazingly." She thought, and again the prayer without her seeing It thus, "I hope I'll never falter, following .vou!" "Do you play the piano?" he askod then. A little," she answered. And holding out on me, weren't you? Hum? Nice thing to do, and me, I'm craiy about music!" I didn't know whether you'd like my playing." ahe explained; "Aunt Gertrude never did and I feared you migm reel you must be polite and pretend to Ilka It, you aee?" I don t feel that your aunt's meter registers correctly," be said with a frown. Marsha considered that long: her eart beat swiftly, thickly. "What is it, dear?" he asked. A "Bob." ; "Yes, darling?" "You know I sometimes do lie. don't you?" "What's your latest Her he asked. She looked cautiously toward the swinging door that led to the pan try. I told Ella that she looked charm ing In caps," she answered In a hlsper. Bob roared. Tomorrow. Bob ind Mirths con tinue (heir love Idyl. SCHOLARSHIP CHANCE T VANCOUVER, B. O. (UP) Re port that iurvlvora of the tribe of wild men known at "Baaquatch," a race, of ferocious hairy giants who dwelt In cavea In British Columbia yaara ago, are still roaming the rocky wilds near Vancouver, have bv.cn revived here. The tribe was believed to have be come extinct 30 years ago, but dur ing the last year It frequently has been reported that survivors have been seen prowling near cattcrrd settlements around Vancouver. The wild men are described aa "hairy giants, nine feet tall, with a fero cious appearance and demeanor." fteen by Woman Mrs. James Cnufleld, living on a farm near Harrlaon, B. C. la the lat est to report seeing one of the giants. Mrs. Caufleld relates that ahe waa washing clothes In a liver when she heard a buzzing sound similar to that made by a humming bird. "I turned my head." she said, "but Instead of a bird there stood the most terrible thing I ever saw In my life. I thought I'd die for the thing that made the funny noise was a big man covered with hair from head to foot. He was looking at nv and I couldn't help looking at him. I guessed he was a Battquatch so I cov ered my eyes with my hand, (or the Indians any that If a Sasquatch catches your eye you are tn his pow er. They hypnotize you. I felt faint j and as I backed away to get to the 1 Storm Troops Chief Thli It a new picture of Victor Lutze, new chief of staff of Adoll Hitler's storm troops. He succeed ed Ernst Roehm, who was executed In the abortive German revolt (As sociated Press Photai house I tripped and fell. As he came nearer I screamed and fainted." Screams Itrouglit Husband Mrs. Caufield's screams brought her husband running out of the house Just In time to see the giant run off Into the bush. On another occasion two .canoeists reported that the giant saw them paddling down a river and started hurling rocks at them. 281 ARRESTS BY . BRECON POLICE Use Mall Tribune want ads. SALEM, July 30- (AP) Two hun dred and eighty-one arrests, Including one for murder and one for man slaughter, were reported by the state police department In genera law en forcement activities for the month of June, resulting In Jail sentences totaling 64 years and t2.401.60 In tinea. Acquittals totaled 29, and BO cues -vere still pending In the courts. Disorderly conduct torouslit about the most arrests with 2B; drunkenness the Oreensprlngs Highway Junction close second with 24 and 23 In the flsli and game law "division 89 persons were sentenced to a total of nix months In Jail and paid $1,612 In fines. Thirty were acquitted. In the motor vehicle department state police traveled 301,11? miles and spent a combined total of 3,271 days In the field In arresting 350 erring, motorists, and Issuing 12,042 warnings. Fines totaled 16,500.55, with no arrests reported for motor law vio lations. Approximately 16 per cent of the fines were suspended. The greatest number of arrests In the latter division - were occasioned by failure to procure operators' licen ses, as 106 automobile drivers were hailed before the court for this neg ligence. Seventy-five truck drivers were apprehended for failure to dis play public utilities commission per mit tags. THE MINUTE THAT SEEMS A YEAR By GLUYAS WILLIAMS , . . y FAMILY NOT TO LOOK BACK BECAUSE 1 THERE'S A MOTOR CYCLE COP BEHIND AND YOU WANT TO SLOW DOWN WITHOUT LEfflKG HlW KMOW THAT VOV MOW YOU'RE BElKfc FOLLOWED 6LUVA6 S 'MATTER POP V IV-ren Oregon youths, Including one 1rom Med ford, have been recommend ed by sWionl authorities or rev.m lit red boys' activity leaders, and at buMdliit; moOei iioleonlc conrhrt 000 are being offered this veil. for entry In the 1934 Fluher Bcxiy Craftman'i Oulld competition, It wsa learned here todny. Carson Thatchrr, 16 years old, 613 N. Central street, Is the local entrant. He Is being sponsored by A. H. Fitch, industrial wtstructor, and C. O. .Hmtth, principal of the Senior Mth iH-nwi. as a consequence, uw jouin has the opportunity of winning a (complete eoUeue education. University scholarships valued at By C. M. Payn 3 By Hal Forrest aa a" - -ffls as u j ' L. J p " (Cayyrljtt. 19H ty The Bell BrinHot.. tne ) " WATT OTlTM IPnMlirTf I1T1 Wit i. 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