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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDEiJRD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 193. PAGE TWELVE SIMM MAMMffiE si'SUl'tilS: Tht ont thing Mar ilia feurt to havt Boo Pouttrt knout it that tht hat marritti him eautt tht btlitved Geoffrey Tarle ton married to another girL And now Geoffrey hat eome to tee her, and Bob hut overheard tht truth. . Too late. Geoffrey realitet that Uartha hat grown to love Dob tar more Aeevht than tht tver had cared tor him. Chapter 1 HO COMPROMISE pERHAPS thro minutes alter Marsha had dropped to tht atool sear the Sre, aha heard Geoffrey Tarleton'i car start, Ita motor grow loud and then, with distance, dim and tads to notblni. Shock had Im bued for her ererj faintest sound with a fierce and an unnatural In tensity. She raised her head to (lance around the room wherein she bad found new Ufa and tba code she needed. Tbe tranquillity of the room mocked ber. The tranquillity now was one of the ilea ah had one thought necessary for the existence pt any beauty. It was not true; It only seemed. She heard a dull descending tread bpon the stairs and she rose quickly to wait, tense, trembling. Bob entered tbe room to more toward her. His soddenness, his pal lor and bis blank eyes told ber something of bow deeply he bad been hurt; abe felt the smart of tears In her eyes. She had entreated the vague, far something to keep her from having any part In hurting blm. And abe knew auddenly that bis suffering mattered more to ber than ever could hers; or ratber, that it waa mora truly hera than could be her own. "Bob." she appealed. He looked at ber but a moment, and then away. He answered after a long-stretched, pulsing minute with, "Well?" "Will you listen to me. Bob, and believe me7" ahe queatloned. "How can I, Marsha? 1 he floundered, paused. "I am going to apeak tht truth," she stated In a voice that broke. "I want the truth I" be said loudly. Ho drew a deep breath. "Answer this question. Had you decided to marry me before you thought Geof frey Tarleton waa married?" i "Bob " "Had you?" There vas an awing Insistence and weight In hla tone; bearing It, her face grew more white than It had been. She fal tered, she became confused, ah felt her last chance for happiness slipping from her because sbe could not lie as she bad before knowing blm. He repeated bis question; she stammered, in answer. "No, Bob, no, but I you must believe me Bob!" she ended, but she could not soften him with any frantlo appeal r ,xior, with appeal, keep him near. I He had turned to move toward 'the door; she heard blm cross the hall to mount the stairs. She closed .her eyes to shut out the whirling of very object In the room. There wore curious and disturbing black spots In the air too. When she opened her eyea sbe aw her world as steady, but tbe new, numbed normal waa worse than had been the sudden onslaught of sickness. She drew a deep breath. In an effort to dispel the drawn feel ing that oppressed her lungs and that cramped her heart, but found no easo. j"pTJlUOUS." she thought, "how physical thla Is." And yet. ahe reflected further, she hsd learned through Bob that blend of flesh and pint that makes perfection. Thst perfection that waa now gone, of course. And perhaps some day she would see Gooff's "dropping in" as amusing. "No." she said half aloud, "It will nover be amusing." She found herself straightening the turncd up corner of a rug. That wns strange to do. But on kept on with the absurd, small, meaningless motions; squirrels In cages. She gathered In her palm some rote petals that had dropped to the lop of the ptnno, roses Bob bad brought her. She dropped these to a basket. She had never liked to toss thorn to tho leaping flames . . . they eoomed, somehow, still alive. What strange paths a mind would follow, It loosed from th leash, ah thought. Her eh wss thinking about rose petals with surfs thoughts and In the deep still pool oc the mind which never sleeps and never rests wns tho feeling of final ity; the knowledge that It was over, thst Bob wss suffering. She settled In a stiff-backed chair !roni which (ho could see the stairs. Jaw of Dinosaur Skeleton Is Found BARl.EM. Mont. (UP) A dln-waur rxrlrton has been found on a farm on Thirty Mils creek north of here. Only the Jaw Is expound. Darrln Harbrlcht. well known ra'-eontoltigUt, "Of course," ah decided leaduuo "I didn't deserve any more and 1 might hav known I did know It couldn't last But It does seem strange to feel aa I hav and then to know that It, with everything else, leads only to deeper dark." Again she breathed deeply; but th breath did nothing to release th stricture In her breast. She moved. She bad beard no stir from overhead; listening waa be coming an ache. She rose and, hesi tantly, aha mad way toward th door. She crept up tbe stairs slow ly, silently. At th top sha paused. Through a doorway ah aaw Bob throwing bla tblnga on the bed, shirts, under wear, ties, th brushes which still looked strange to Marsha on tba old-fashioned bureau top, near hers; tbe lounging rob that had contrasted amusingly with the soft and feminine garments she wore during resting hours. After a moment he turned, per baps feeling her eyea. "Come In," he Invited, "we must talk a little; but don't let'a row If we can help It. Per haps w can Infuse even this situa tion with a sort of dignity, keep It from being more sordid than It Is. "Odd you didn't know Geoffrey Tarleton'a younger brother was married. Everyone talked of It. We heard It even in our house had to and my mother and I don't en courage gossip." Maraba dropped to the foot of tht chats tongue: "We" now meant Bob and hla mother; "We" was now a duet, not a trio. Curloua bow It hurt, ahe mused. For sba had real ized that tbe marriage would end, from the first. DOB went on. "Tarleton'a brother " waa still In college, I under stand; the girl waa at th switch board of some hotel exchange. And the old people didn't like It; they were rather badly cut up over It, 1 waa told. Tarleton, tbe boy scout, reconciled them. Sorry If I'm a trifle bitter at-momenta, Marsba." She said nothing. He bad spoken In Jerka aa he assembled his ap parel; assembled It slowly, some what atupldly and In a way that re reeled th shock which still gripped him. "Of course you can hav a di vorce," hi stated. "We'll manage It, somehow." "I don't wsnt," she began. Breath failed her. "I don't want a divorce," she managed to Bay, when she saw he meant to speak. Hla "1 do," waa mitter-of-fact In the extreme, flat and loud. "You see," he continued, "this has changed It . . . the person I thought you were, was a dream. I never loved a woman who could give her self entirely to a man In order to avenge her sense of wrong. I never but there's no need of talking about this." He picked np a leather case, Itted In It some brushes, snd then hunted a spot for the case In bis bag. She looked at him miserably as he bent above hla bed . . . lean, tall, thin. Hla narrow face now set and harsh; bis bronzed skin looking as It It were atretched over dead white plastsr. "I've changed," ahe said. "It looked It," he commented through set teeth, "as I came In and saw you In that that " ha had to stop. Sh saw the color heighten that bad been driven to hla cheeks by anger. It receded; he managed to speak again and calmly. "Saw you tn Tarleton'a arms," he ended. "He lost his head," she said hotly. "1 bated It. I did. Bob, I dldl I don't He I" "How about that evening when you said you loved me and that yon would marry me? You loved ma that evening? Don't ask m to be Hove that, now. 1 keep romemhor Ing bow I felt, t was a beholder of miracles when I found myself ac cepted by you, the one girl who ever counted. Do you remember how you said 'I do care!'?" She began to sob brokenly, to pro test, to explain, to entreat. And sh achieved nothing. Sh saw him unsteadily through, th rise and fall of tears. He said, "I hoped we could avoid this." Sho turned away and groped along the hall. At flv ha approached ia otter her help with packing, anj sha found his gentleness more trying than bis condemnatloa. "I'd he glad to help," ha stated, bis eytc fastened on the wall above her head. "1 remember you said yoi didn't like packing And I'm not a bad packer" fCWmV, I'll, h A. Vmile-J-Ttrltt) T'.mtrrcw. Bob and Mirihi b Jlil tntlr nw. and terrifying lift. ) tatlmatpd the Jawbone Is from 23 to j 50 fret long. I Dans are afoot to excavate the re- I maltidfr of the hues braat which I roamed Montana tn pre-hlatorlc days. Danclnj Bonnry'a Orltl, Saturday night, July 3th. 1M4 Bounty's famous fried chicken dinners. HEALTH HEADS IN In furtherance of the cancer con trol campaign of the American. So ciety for the Control of Cancer,. Ar thur M. Geary, a Portland attorney, formerly a rerMent of Med ford, with Mrs. Geary has been visiting here for the last two days. He has called upon officers of the Jackson County Medical society and of the health de partment, to secure their co-operation In the cancer control campaign. Recently, Mr. and Mrs. Geary return ed from a trip to Europe, their Itinerary-Including portions of England, Prance, Belgium, Germany, Switzer land and Italy, . Mr. Geary Is a eon of the late Dr. Edward P. Geary, pioneer physician of Medford and southern Oregon, who waa a former mayor of Medford. For the last year and a half Mr. Geary has served as lay president for the Oregon branch of the American Society for tha control of Cancer. "Jackson county Is surely to be congratulated upon the splendidly equipped offices of the health de psrtment In the court house and upon the educational and other work being conducted throughout the county.' atatea Mr. Geary. "The educational campaign mate rial Issued from time to time by the American Society for the Control of Cancer has ready dissemination," continued Mr. Geary, "through a health department such as la found here In Jackson county. "Prom the data assembled by the 8 'MATTER POP By C. M. Paynei iyc x6" "V TAILSPIN TOMMY The Woman In The Case Appears - ' By Hal Forrert Ithmwas a nice Sagf. didn't vot-Cgi nou, suppose you je? Ca ladv toiSHeOSfsgij teu mgb to oat.'"S igf f f - II LOTH. OUVTIttE. ifllflaP gU3lLXINS. t TEU.1 TL1. US JUST HOVJ TO CCt VOU, ! CANT YDU SEE 1 -I If Vi STORY, eoLTS-BUTjl A-JP VOU- THAT'S MY YOU DlO KlUV. "T MR.OUSBY- Sr ' BUSY? jjf I ( igSSbx I IJ 7l IF YOU EXPKT USJ!fCy ? TOR.Y-AN' I'LL WILKINS- ITH , JtjraC S lYS ,"P0RTA','g g-iVfp I g2Fi if, "I, TO GEUtYC IT- AhMl S. STICK TO IT- J WHAT'S. THAT, S &, t. CHC SAYS" -ftfrlS? SfjEjlWlVP I Iri-MktY V j p BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Cap'n Ike Backtracks By EDWIN ALGER K I'VE TOLD W I'VE I f Aa YOUR. 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' ' THE NEBBS Keep a Stiff Upper Lip " ' By So) Hess fTWE MRST WEEK ..TO ME IT VCWARSe HEU AMYTWIIsJ&) ( KJOTW.NJ' UP RUT OUST SSCAUJE A L j liT LtZJr arS,J??J TlitiS7!- toM'T read uke NfJween.JiPYOo say so but it UrM as-HeABTED,Yoo domt have ) ' ; k k?w exSS, sJl?r N IP SHS 6CT3 A LITTLE VwAS WOO UJHO INJVITEO to 6CT OUT VOtjA CHUSL AMD J S : ( 1 UGWT HER A BREAKFAST IN) TWE ROOM yV WEWDOAJKJ AtOO IF VOOPE) STO.T CHOPPlVJS IT SOUWDS JO L r ''. V I ' M OOTTA SYMPATWV. 1 DO YOU HAVE T-V-DiSAPPOIKUTEO IrO puwy-ue To CHAC&E TEW-CCMT ROOM I? 1 I i! !j . 1 LL V WE 'LLS LIKE I LIKED 1 TO CHARSE ff7J' f X Ar ftiWE PRESENJT SECVllCe MHtM HE CATS A THlRTy-J 11 'i i V 'T- VLU JUST SUCFER 1KJ OTEM CFJTS AX , ;l , ?p Jft APPEARQjoCE, ILL Vf EWT rM?eAKFAT IM HtR -r-Sl l i.-uTTi '. J ,PRiVATe!! J k. V IS r-TKvi BS .1 9, ' ," g-ZZ' .TTirrL. Lj: L .r 3Hr . U ! BRINGING UP FATHER By George McMamu . . . - - i , . r " V "y-T ' '""TT . . I f ' . , 7"1'"' li I ' - t k Lf'I Wi ' rT f' M U CUT HUNT- I I HHIOU-UCWtiM I " 'Ol - Ht DOrIT KNOW A VI NCNV-WHEMI ? 1 S-T 1 'NO WME' 'SkrA ' FWE-POT W ANYTHING ABOUT I ),a .W,.- OBT HOM8 IVU ..-'.-,: S .r-yi L r I illTV ,11 I GutW X fl i FlOHTlNQ 1 " r1 cE-jj MkffiWlllj. ' American society, the fact U clear tha certain types of cancer are read ily controlled when diagnosed early and scientifically treated. There prob ably la no scourge of mankind that calls for more prvmpt diagnosis and action than cancer. Cancer today ranks second to heart disease tn the cause of death. Ten per cent of the deaths In the United States are at tributed to cancer. "Amid the turmoil In Europe over economic, political and military questions, scientists are making a. vigorous effort to curb the ravages Sf cancer. Anyone traveling in Great Britain is Impressed by the wide spread propaganda and education di rected toward early diagnosis and prompt scientific treatment of can cer. Tie British prens tells of con tribution! to the Empire Cancer Con trol program being made by rich and poor throughout the country, even by 'bookies' at tbe derby. Similar campaigns are found In moat of the European countries. "In the United States the Ameri can Society for the Control of Can cer for a number of years haa been spreading educational propaganda calculated to lessen death by cancer. Dr. Clarence C. Little, former presi dent of Michigan university and a noted biologist, Is the managing di rector of this society. On Its board are leading physicians and surgeons who have made a special study of cancer. "The American society and Its state, wide branches work entirely in har mony with the established medical societies In spreading information as to symptoms of cancer tint are recognizable by laymen and that call for immediate attention by family physicians." 4 Oil released from the deepest wells of the Kettle man hills field in Cali fornia has bee a found to expand to about 120 times Its original volumes when brought to the lower atmos pheric pressure at the surface. I Ma J. W. R. Mann, U. 8. army re cruiting officer, 323 poetofflce build ing, Broadway and Oilcan streets, Portland, Ore., announces that he haa authority to make original en listments for the 7th United States infantry, atatloned at Vancouver Bar racks, Washington. An organization of which the army is Justly proud, the 7th Infantry haa written some of the brtgheat pages into the history of the United States. It Is one of the oldest and mora famous regiments of the army. Van couver Barracks, the home of the 7th, has a desirability of location equa'ed by few army post through out the United States. Situated In the hert of the city of Vancouver, Wash., it Is only "36 minutes from Broadway," the center of Portland's business' district, and less than ten minutes walking dis tance from Jantzen Beach, one of the northwest's finest pleasure parks. GOOD JAIL MEALS LURED TRANSIENTS MANHATTAN, Kn. (UP) Chief H. B. pwry learned why so many transients come to his Jail. Chalk marks about town could be translat ed by those who knew how to read them: "Swell grub at Jail." Peery announced that hereafter only bread, bologna and water will be Jail fare." The mere odor of cedar In card board boxes and closets does not pro tect clothing from moths, according to department of agriculture ento mologists. SUBURBAN HEIGHTS r FRED PFRLEWHO LR5T YEAR' CALLED TrtEPOtKf T5 llWRTteftTC L16HTS IK ERNIE PLlMER'S SUPPOSEDLY EMPTY" HOUSE, NOf KNOWING THAT ERNIE HAD UNEXPECTEDLY RETURNED, DOES NT BELIEVE Iri MAKIN6 W SAME MISTAKE TWICE. SO LAST WEEK WHEN LIGHTS WERE SEEN DURIW6 THE PLUMERS' ABSENCE, HE PERSUADED THE NEIGHBORS HOT To DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, AND IHt TrilEVtS MADE 7 . BOILING (CoBrHrfct. 1184. hr Taa BtU Bridie". Inc.) Y-J 1 A PRETTY GOOD HAUL, AND MAD ABOUT IT By GLUYAS WILLIAMS . . l II l II 3 1 ERNIE'S
