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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, BEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1934. PAGE EIGHT HUE MMMM3IE BYS0PB18: Uartha iloore mar rles Bob Powers only because she believes Geoffrey Tarleton hae mar ried another girl. But her honey moon at Eaethampton. on Long Island, teaches her that Bhe loves Boh after all. Bhe teure thnt her having married him under false col. ere may eome between them, and has gone to her rector. Dr. James, to ask tor advice. Chapter IS PUZZLE FOR BOB IT WAS a trifle disconnected, Marsha'i story; delivered Jerkily and between gasps. Doctor James heard It with mur murs of "Hum" or "Well, well" and, "Now my goodness, me!" She found these Interruptions soothing, tor some reason, and heart ening. Sbe sat twisting her hands as she finished. "My child," he said as he smiled on her, "Aunt Gertrude has made s mountain of a molehill. Most youth, I'm sorry to say It, but I must admit It, Indulges In & few too many cock tails and a few too many kisses. Yon tell me the mstter, the amorous mat tor, stopped there." "Because," Marsha put in bluntly. "I was not Interested In going fur ther." "Which Is a good sign!" .tatcd Doctor James, "a good, good sign. You love your husband, I take it?" he asked, his eyes twinkling. "Adoro him!" she assured Doc tor James and not quite steadily. "Well," he advised her, "depart In peace!" She was a trifle dazed leaving the Rectory, and sbe could not yet credit the fact, that through cheating sbe bad gained a Paradise. "But wltb a little more of It, I will be able to believe it can last," sbe reflected. In her room at the otd Powers' house, a room that was next to Bob's, she loitered over her dressing for dinner. It was still early. Bob had not yet returned; she wanted to see blm a little time alone before they went down stairs. He came In at length to find the door between the rooms was open. He hurried to ber to And an unusu ally warm welcome. "Well!" be said a bit thickly. She was upset, he saw. Happily so, but upset, nervous, strained: she laughed without reason that be could And, as she clung to blm. "And what's happened?" he asked anxiously. "Nothing! The dentist always leaves me a wreck!" She had been to the dentist tor a few minutes, to make an unneces sary sppolntment to have her teeth cleaned. It wasn't a He. Bob knew that her dentist had been downtown that afternoon; they had happened to meet twice; be studied ber wltb surprise. Just what did It meant "Certain you went to aee Doctor Thrope?" he asked. Marsba saw nor aunt, doubting her. Saw a thickening of the old clouds. "Truly!" sbe assured Bob, "Truly!" "Well, we'll let It go at that," he stated, but he moved to his own room In a slow, numbed way and after a pat on her shoulder that did not ring true, or gay. It hurt damnably, he found; damnably. A.1 where bad she been? But he waa a cad to doubt her. He knew her . . . lovely, true, generous, fair. Yes, he was a cad. LET1TIA came in after they had dined and to wish her aunt, and Bob's mother, many happy returns of the day. Still the feline, Uetltla was In clined to resent Marsha's Intrusion. "I've always adored Bob!" sbe bad ssld to all her friends, "and the Idea of bis marrying Marsba Moore kills me!" "Saw an old admirer of yours, Marsha," said Letltla. "He says be must see you, that he baa affairs to discuss with you. I gave him your Easthampton address, Hope you don't mind?" "But I do!" Marnaa answered honestly. "Who?" asked Bob, "If I may know?" "Geoff Tarleton," Letltla an swered. "1 don't mind," Bob commented. "You soe, be was the brut person to whom Marsba, who bad been blow ing but faintly warm, and very co!d. announced onr ngatement. So be has a soft spot la tar aeartl" Marsha had iroa jtild. Her mile was forced. B) m this. Did sbe still aa'e eon t regard for Geoff Tarleton, Bos wondered? Bob moistened bis lips, forgot the on lookers In staring at her. Marsha waa thinking, "No one knows why I married him. but Doc tor James and myself. There's no reason why Bob should ever And oul. PENDLETON ENJOYS RENEWED GAS SUPPLY r,f.iviiwi. -my .-n-nu danger of a gas shortage in Pendleton t buildings and grounds In Utah de nes been averted with the arrival of clined from 3.018 000 in 1023 to 18,' new shipments, local dealers declared ! 000 last year, today. There was no advance in j t prices due to the strike situation last Um Mali Tribune want ads. Why am I so nervous? There's no reason why he should ever know!" She relaxed; talked, laughed and naturally. Letltla said the next day at a luncheon, "She's changed, mark edly changed. Really, you can't help liking her!" Marsha felt a difference In Bob that nlgbt. It hurt her cruelly. The doubt be tried to stifle, stiffened blm. She thought "It Isn't truel It can't be! Not with him." And she waa thinking of some one's saying that to keep love one must run away from It Perhaps she had dreamed as a fool, she reasoned bitterly. Perhaps she must tease Bob, as sbe had other men. But she could not! However, sbe would be more guarded . . . abe would not "bother" blm. Tables turned! Bob tried, during the course of the next few days, to dismiss tbe tor menting suspicion that Marsba bad lied to blm In a way that was not Justified. For tbe most part bis sus picion of her shamed him and It made blm bumble and tender; but occasionally It turned him stiff. Why had she had to lie about where she bad been? What had made the necessity? The question dogged his footsteps to assume gigantic size It he but glanced Its way. Marsha, who even at Arst had felt that life could be nelthei so simple nor smooth as Doctor James thought, considered wltb bitterness how sbe had planned to tell Bob a little something of all he meant to her and of bow sbe had had but to tighten ber arm around bis neck to know blm rigid, remote. Sbe bad craved full honesty, and wltb tor menting force; a thing Impossible, no doubt, to And through humans and In life. YET, she remembered later, there were In the calm that preceded the storm moments so satisfying that they left her bushed: upon ber knees mentally, it not physically, and tremulously grateful. Tbe momenta came at oddly as sorted times; wbeii she caught a glimpse of Bob shaving, perhaps, In tent on getting tbe last whisker. Or when sbe saw blm struggling, a light frown on his face, to repair a broken cbalr round. Before dinner on tbe evening that prefaced Geoffrey Tarleton's call, she walked the gravel paths of the garden with Bob past straw-wrapped rose bushes, a sun dial around which drying vines sang a brittle song In the sweep of tbe wind, facing the sea one must push sgalnst tbe gale; battle to be on. Sbe loved It, Bob'a arm through hers, the way be held her, close-pressed. "I'd like," she said, "to come back when we are very old and In June. I'd like to know how It looks In June dress this place and to come back after we've traveled a long, long way!" He paused to glance around tbe gray, frost-bitten stretch and after he bad dropped to a sheltered bench to draw her down by him, be spoke. "And I." he said, "shall say, 'Here la a Harden that was made June In lata N'o' ember by a woman's love." "terhaps," she suggested, "you will not feel like saying that when 1 am very old. and you have known me through many yeara," "Neither ot ua will grow old." be explained, "for you know people don't who have gardens and sum mer, wherever, whenever, they want them." Sbe said nothing; she wanted to slip her hand In his, hut sometimes the least of little moves of such sort made him stiffen. He looked down at her problngly and close to trag ically. It seemed to him that, each day, sbe drew a bit farther away. Well, be would give her time, all the time she needed. Sbe vas rarely sweet, generous, at moments. At others, as now, sitting uncaring, while be tried to tell her something of the way be felt. He leaned forward to pluck from a drying stalk a pod In which rattled seeds. Marsha saw those last lines of Muriel Stewart's poem. "Here I can blow a garden with my breath, And In my hand a forest lies ssleep." Bob heard her quote, "Yes." he sgreed. Tbe pod opened, and In his palm were black pellets that would make green leaves and dowers and summer. He felt an anal ogyvTbey were planted side by side; he and Marsha and the yeara ahead rera tor them. What soil Is to a last e tree . . . they could thrive, or grow grudgingly with twists such as one tnds in stunted trees on a coast. It would depend, of course, upon bow they enriched the years. fCVrt'il'. I'll. J, X. H.;Ui-T ,!) Martha hat, Monday, en unwtl. com vititor. wik In which It was feared Pendle- 1 ton and farming communities would face a gas famine. i Capital exnendlturea for si hncl i E T AT TRAIL FIESTA EUQENS, Ore., July 24. (Special.) Eugene will be ready Thursday to welcome citizen of the entire state, and thousands of people from other parts of the country, to the third tri ennial Oregon Trail events. It was announced here following complete rehearsals of the famed pageant. Of ficials of the event are enthusiastic, declaring that evjry phase of the epic will far exceed either of the two pre vious spectacles, held In 1028 and 1029. During the rehearsal last night a cast of 2000 people went through more than a score of elaborate scenes In a way that aroused Am bounded enthusiasm among the small group of officials who observed them. Per formed on a newly designed sfego 240 feet long that rises to a height of 46 feet, the pageant will undoubt edly be the greatest performance of this type ever attempted In America It Is declared by drama experts. For weeks thousands of Eugene and Lane county citizens have been hard at work on the event. In addition to the 2000 cast members, a number equal to this have been aiding in va rious ways. Even men not directly connected with the pageant have been wearing old time wtskers and costumes, while women of the city have appeared on the streets clad In quaint and charming pioneer cos tumes. 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I The mill re-opened under an egree- ment with the NRA which restored us iviuc cngio gnu piuvmca iw set tlement of a strike out of which the long controversy grew. PARACHUTE JUMPER DROWNED IN RIVER VANCOUVER, Wash., July 24. (AP) Qr&pplers continued today to search the Columbia river for the body of Eddie Wlnfleld, young para chute Jumper, who lost his life Sun day when he landed In the river at the end of a delayed drop. Wlnfleld, 20, of Jersey City, N. J-. i claimed the title of "world champion ' Junior parachute Jumper." He had mode about 300 drops and had ap peared In motion pictures. SAYS PASTOR WEATHERFORD Using as his topic "A Challenge and a Surety for Modern Youth," Fred M Weatherford, pastor of the local church of the Nazarene, In speaking Sunday night, drew his text from the 119th Psalm, 9th to 11th verses In clusive. In part he said: "This age Is preeminently a young people's age. The rapid climb o: youth has been an outstanding monu ment to this generation's achieve ment. "In discussing the question of di rect personal importance to youth to day, we are constrained to consider such Issues as national, church, home life, the moral fiber of youth, and the Inlet to divine revelation. "In our race for enlightenment wc would do well to seek an answer to the text 'Wherewithal shall a youn? rruu cleanse his way?' The question bespeaks a noble Incentive expressive of the soul's outreach for betterment "It is not mln eto denounce the rtftlng generation, rather I presume to project to view the moral and spirit' ual escalator that will elevate us to the great constructive source of hu man enlightenment namely, our Lord Jesus Christ. It Is He who can give us a satisfactory answer to th Inquiry. He assumes to do It through His Holy Word." Employes of the London transport board have organized their own avia tion club. 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