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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE,- MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1934.
SFHTIE MMMME
61 wul'blM: Bob Fowert de
mands that Martha divorce him and
relutet to listen to her explanation
of the incident with Oeoffreu Tarle
ton which hat caused the etorm.
Tlieu are at a New York hotel. But
Bob has none to eee hit mother, and
has learned that the it danger
ouslv ill. He teart that newt at the
imnr'ft'na dtvorct may kill her.
Chapter 24
THE DECISION
BUB crushed hie cigarette to a
llreless, corrugated aro on a
tray, and hands clasped, and frown
ing, be turned thoughts, quandarlea,
Into words. "I're been considering
erery phase of It," be confided; "I've
walked about a good deal since
luncheon time. 1 left mother then.
I thought of what It might mean to
you, this hold up. I don t want to
hurt you.
"It Is what 1 want," she told him,
Again she met his bewildered,
Questioning look. "Suppose." be
suggested bluntly, "Tarleton tires
of waiting for your Of course, you
eould explain, but"
"You need not consider that," she
assured him in1 a little bitterly.
"It won't be," he paused to rub a
clinging shred of tobacco from his
lip. and then, able to apeak again,
he continued with: "More than a
year. Of course," his voice was un
steady, sharp, "It would be vastly
better for her to die believing a He
of us. Could you, do you think, with
out too much wrong to yourself, to
. your chances for happiness man
sge Itr
"1 couldl I wllll I wish you could
believe that 1 want tol That I want
nothing so much I" she replied,
For a moment be covered bis face
with bis big. tbln, tanned hands.
"I'll never be able to thank you
for It," she heard. She smiled: she
waa. aba felt, thanked dlspropor
tlonately for that which abe longed
to do: tbanked by hla trust and by
his asking ber to do something for
him.
Hla hands dropped. "You will stay
with mother," he said, and as If he
were Issuing an order. "I have to fln
Isb my work; no one elae can; but
I'll go right along and hurry It
through to come back. I have decid
ed tbat'a safest. And I shall trust
you not to do anything tbat might
make her suspect the truth. You can
tell Tarleton why you are going so
cautiously and afterward make It
op."
"It la not necessary for you to
think of that ... of Geoff as being,
In any way, connected with met"
ahe responded; her cheeks bot, her
voice unsteady.
"We need bava nothing to do with
one another aave before her," Bob
atated, without heeding Marsha'a
outbreak.
Her anger died. "1 quite under
stand, she said dully.
"An occasional kiss or two, and
gentle words," he murmured, "Dec
enary, those pretenses." A muscle
at the corner of his mouth twltcbed.
To pretend these frail sign posts
to all tbat he bad felt, to lose hla
two women at one time. "I am a
weakling," be thought; "I'm letting
It down me!"
"I understand, Bob."
"It may not be very long," he
said again. 1
CUE leaned toward him to lay ber
J band upon his. "Oh, Bobl" she
said. He felt her sorrow for him and
It almost melted him; hut he saw,
too, that "exhibition." the one that
bad ended bis erUsy for him
Marsha In Tarloton's arms: Tarle
ton's lips crushed against hers. 11j
rose bruskly to leave her.
She heard the door of his room
close against her. hut he had asked
ber help and she had that fact to
treasure and she would Help him
and lire In his house. And dream of
blm as having lived In It, and dream
too of how ha bad loved ber, and
know bow she loved blm. And bow
ahe could love him with ever the
chance for It again.
But fnlnt, that chance! Ills
square, firm chin! And how she
loved It, and him!
The next mid-day found her set
tled In the Powers house and by
the tea hour she could see the way
ahe waa to follow.
"When are you going to start for
Mexico?" she asked of Bob that eve
ning when tbey were, for a mo
ment, alone.
"When I am certain you know the
way around." he answered.
"You trust me 7" ahe questioned.
"1 am going to trust you," he said,
and almost grimly.
The mirthless smile ahe was
learning, a smile that had roots In
pain, appeared at that.
"People deal so," she commented,
'with bad ULtiw cnuureo aoo. morons
to whom evil suggestion means evil
action. But you don't need to build
up tbla particular part of me. You
can trust me without being dramat
lo about It and without assuring me
a bit too loudly tbat you will
trust me. As It happens, 1 am having
a chance to play the role I moat
want to play." .
He stared at her stupidly. Difficult
to believe, and yet she seemed most
sincere.
"I love your mother; some day
you'll know It, 1 hope," abe said
slowly. Then Mrs. Powers joined
them. .
A few days and Marsha knew the
road well; a road that waa wholly
new to her.
She was used to women who
looked upon ber wltb fear or a thin
ly veiled scorn, and to those who
looked away from her or over ber
from Intention, but she waa not
used to any woman's looking at her
wltb a smile tbat revealed an abso
lute trust.
Tbla did something to ber that
produced an emotion utterly un
like any ahe had ever bad before. It
made ber say, two daya after abe
bad taken up abode In the old Pow
ers' house, "1 wish you wore laced
or buttoned shoes!"
"And why. dear?" aaked Mra.
Powers, as ahe looked up from her
endlesa knitting.
"Because I feel that 1 would Ilka
very much to lace or button them."
Mra. Powera smiled because
Marsha waa smiling, but she
thought, as she considered the qual
ity of Marsha's smile, that Marsha
was much upset over Dob's coming
departure. After Mra. Powera
smiled, she answered In a way
Marsha would have once termed
"appallingly Huffy!"
"1 am afraid. If 1 did wear either
of those kinds Instead of low slip
pers. Hannab would want to lace or
button them." Mrs. Powers ex
plained carefully. "You see, Han
nah has alwaya done tblnga of that
sort for me, and she would be hurt
If she thought hor work criticized
by my relegating It to aomeone else.
Don't you think Hannab Is a nice
name?"
Marsha said ahe did think Han
nab was a nice name, and together
they agreed tbat It aounded strong
and durable.
I am quite certain," Marsha add
ed, "that It would waah without fading."
TIER new mother said, "Yea,
n dear," aa sbe decided tbat her
Bob's wife must be very clever, be
cause she said so many things tbat
she. Bob's mother, could not quite
understand.
Theirs was a curiously easy fall
ing Into adjustment. None of the
Jealousy which will sometimes live
In the hearts of the best of moth
era, was left to the faded, fading
woman; all petty emotion waa
crowded from ber by the vast re
lief which rose from tbe tact tbat
Robert would not be "lonely."
Marsha left him much alone wltb
his mother. She made blm Ond It
easy to meet her. She became,
through her will, the kind, un
erring tactful stranger, unless Mrs.
Powera were near, and then, ahe
became his wife.
Those were his most difficult mo
menta. The skill wltb which she
helped him to help the woman who
was to die, hurt blm beyond all
words. He could believe nothing
good or true of ber. after ahe looked
up, smiled, and said: "My dear.
we've missed you dreadfully;
You're been gone several thousand
years, I thlnkl Tell us what men do
at clubs, won't you?" or some like.
seemingly affectionate light, happy
greeting.
Of course It waa what he had
sked her to do: It would be bldeous
It she faltered, but beavensl how
he wanted ber to falter! To tell
him thus that ahe did not He easily.
It was a relief when the calen
dar told him that only a week was
left before he must go back to hli
work which was work that no one
las could do. A relief, and yet
torture.
Again and again be made himself
believe that Marsha would not meet
Geoffrey Tarleton, because she bad
said she would not.
And then, a smile from her and
every belief would crumble. Ha
would see Geoffrey Tarloton's tight
ening arms; the bend of his head
nd he would hear his wife's words
which bad been spoken to Geoffrey
Tarleton; words that told why sht
had married him, that told him thi
whole grim talel
(Cetrmti. lJ4. I. It. KeetleeJ-Tetlerl
Marsha dtscovtrs. Monday, that
h like "family fc'ta."
VOTE FOR CODE
8AI.KM, July 31 (API An al
most unanimous vote wea accorded
the proponed prune code agreement
here late yesterday by 330 prune
growers, gathered here from all parts
of Oregon. Only two or three grow,
crj volet SRnlnst the proposal.
The marketing aRreemenl petitions
signed by eo per cent of the growere
In the state were turned In to Max
Clfhlhar, atate director of agricul
ture, lat week. The proposed code
will now be taken under consider
atlon by Oehllmr, who will amend It
as he aeea fit, and name the date
when It will become effective.
Numerous speakers aald the prune
Industry faced bankruptcy end
pleaded tor the code m of benellt to
producers and cannera alike.
Canners were less optimistic about
SEATTLE GOLFER
TOPS QUALIFIERS
LOCATED IN WILDS
Glacer Priest Reaches Pre
viously Unexplored Area
After Hardships Huge
Bears Give Party Fright
FALSE PASS, Alaska, July 31.
(AP) Discovery of a new inactive
crater even larger than the famous
Anlakchak near the tip 'of the Al
aska Peninsula was reported today by
Father Bernard R. Hubbard, the gla
cier priest, after a month of hard
ships and adventure.
Unprecedented floods, encounters
with giant' Pavlof brown bears, sep
aration and near disaster ber el the
expedition In the unexplored region
between Pavlof volcano and the tip
of the Alaska Peninsula.
"The party left Its base camp here
on June 22 for the fantastic Aghlleen
pinnacles, a group of weird and needle-like
peaks visible from the sea
coast but hitherto unexplored and
uncllmbed," Father Hubbard said.
One of World's Wonders.
"The pinnacles constitute one of
the unnamed wonders of the world."
Carrying heavy packs of scientific,
camp and photographic equipment,
the party trekked through virgin 1
country over mountain ridges and ,
fording unknown rivers and lakes un-;
til It established Its final camp at J
the base of the Aghlleen pinnacles.
Good weather which marked the
trek inland deserted the expedition
as they prepared for tbe climb. For
eleven days torrential rainstorms
flooded the entire country, maroon
ing the party and exhausting the
food supply.
Eighteen Inches of rain fell In
three days, swelling the rivers and
turning the whole area Into a huge
Inland lake.
Another "Crater of the Moon.
"The moat Important discovery,"
Father Hubbard said, "was a huge
blown out and greatly altered crater,
another crater of the moon. The
Aghlleen pinnacles and other nearby
mountains being merely radical
ridges to the hole In the earth
which I estimated Is much larger
than Anlakchak volcano In the cen
ter of the Alaskan Pen Insula,
"The original circumference of
this new Inactive crater mass Is es
timated at close to thirty miles i
around and Is filled with rivers and
I lakes, smaller craters and lava flows.
I "Dozens of brown bear were
sighted from the camp at the base
of the pinnacles and on two occa
sions the giant animals came Into
our camp during the night to steal
meat.
Bear Olves Frlcht.
"Edgar Levin, while breaking his
way through some alder underbrush,
surprised a ten-footer who charged
him without warning.
"Quick action with an automatic
rifle by Levin and a final vital rifle
shot by George Peterson, our Alaska
guide, dropped the Infuriated Pavlof
monster less than his own length
from Levin who was so entangled In
the alders that retreat waa Impossi
ble." After a few days at Its base camp
here the party expects to continue
Its explorations.
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PICNIC FARE
SALEM, July 31. (AP) Conflict
ing dates will prevent Sam Heller, of
Virginia, chief do chemln de fer
(national president) of the 40 Et 8
Socle tie, from attending the Oregon,
state convention of the American Le- (
Bion in Astoria. Ancimt 23. Cl. us '
Ardery, of Indianapolis, correspond
ent natlonale, advised Dewey Powell,
of Klamath Falls, grand chef de gare.
Both Heller and National Comman
der Ed Hayes will be at the Washing
ton state convention In 8pokane for
the opening date which conlncldes
with the Oregon convention, It was
learned here. Commander Hayes has
abandoned his plans for an airplane
trip from Spokane to Astoria and
will come by train. The original
schedule Included the trip by air
between the two convention cities by
tne national leaders.
Heller has an engagement In Grand
Island, Neb., for August 26.
I STATE CLERK'S BACK
IS BROKEN IN FALL
SALEM, July 31. (AP) James G.
Calllson, clerk in the Industrial acci
dent commission, was In the hospital
here today suffering from a broken
back received in a fall from a tree
late yesterday. Hospital attendants
reported his condition as fair.
All kinds of legal blanks for sale,
for rent, no hunting, no trespassing
and other cards for sale at Commercial
Printing Dept of Mall Tribune.
NEW YORK (UP) Joseph De Bar
tolo, 32, saw a black cat starting
across the path of his car. He swerv
ed, the car skidded Into a telephone
pole and De Bartolo died.
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