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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.
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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.
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Martha hat, Monday, en unwtl.
com vititor.
wik In which It was feared Pendle- 1
ton and farming communities would
face a gas famine.
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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. The Oregon Trail will again have
three feature events, In addition to
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a live'. y program of leaser attractions. '
The pageant will be held each night,
while on Friday the pioneer parade
will take place, and on Saturday
practically every city In the state
will Join In for the parade of prog
ress. The pageant will open wltb a mln
ature covered wagon train prologue,
composed of children from five to
nine years old. Small boys as "oxen"
will draw covered wagons made from
express wagons, tiny pioneer women
will ride in them, and on the trail
"Indians" will beset the caravan,
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HARRIMAN, Tenn., Jujy 24. (AP)
Shouting and singing, approxi
mately 400 men and women raairhed
back today to Jobs they lost a month
j ago when the Harrlman hosiery mills
'shut down after losing Its blue eagle.
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
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