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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOUL), OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 5; 1934 SHU MMIMM1E SYNOPBlBl Bob and Uarshu Powers are on the vera of divorce, hecause of Bob's stubborn misun derstondtno of Marsha' former friendship for Geoffrey Tarlelon. But Bob's mother is ill of an incur. able disease and he decides that until her death Marsha and he must pretend happiness. Bob is leavina December it to close out his work in Mexico. Chapter 28 DEPARTURE -"HRISTMAS wa over. The small tre which Bob had put up and Marsha bad helped blm trim, "as a surprise," waa a little worn. And, Marsha realized waking, that It waa morning of the twenty-eighth of December, That Bob was going, that day. Weill She sat up In her bed. She had overslept she saw; she had been restless during the nlgbt, wak ening constantly to lie wakeful for long. Bob going at noon on a train that would carry him south to the border and across It. People were kid napped In Meilco; even people as big and aa strong as Bob, she sup posed. He must be careful. Bbe must ask blm to be very careful. And to tell ber where she could find a map of Mexico In the library. Perhaps be'd have time to mark It. He had prom- Ing to be right where you left ui when you come back!" she said brightly, "and perhaps on extra happy, dividend days, we'll tele phone you to say, 'Hello, are you there? (This line Is busy, please get off!) Bob, I can't hear. A little louder, please. Bob, are you there?' and repeat for about ten minutes, you know?" He smiled; took her Into his arms. For a moment, he held her close, hla cheek pressed to hers. Whatever she waa not, she was a sport. And selfless, as bis motber said. He had come upon her with Bartholomew, planning a luncheon that would tempt bis mother to eat. He knew she bad asked old friends NEW YORK DAY BY DAY By O. O. Mclntyre hopeless. More than most callings, writing demands stngleneaa of pur pose. The late Joyce Kilmer wrote vicariously and feverishly until he went to war. Over there be did much thinking and alow writing and those tedious efforts are the only trUngs of his remembered. The most filously paced writer of modern times, Edgar NEW YORK. Aug. 4. Riffling Wallace, turned out a dozen mystery through the pat In settled years pro- shockers annually over a period of vldfs many Ion? ago tweaks. Last J years. But the one volume to occupy evening a yellow- a permanency waa hla autoblograpny. that afternoon. The leave-taking with ber waa not all a masquerade for him . . . but Marsha need not know that. He kissed ber once; again; hit arms tightened. He htd forgotten hla mother; tben remembering ber, and that the "display" had been enough, be let Marsha go. SHE atood at the door with Mrs. Powers as he stepped Into the motor. He saw Marsha's arm around bis mother; Marsha waved at him, a Jaunty little figure with chin high; but Just before tbe motor door was ic: i ; B f Inn wratch - pad revealed sundry j activities of 20 years ago. I took every sort of Job that came along and that I kept so many balls In the air at the same time seem- f -i ed incredible, i Aside from the desperat effort to make this col umn walk alone, done with care. of his mother' to come In to tea i wa8 & theatrical, hotel and music have popped the question strolling a moonl it st rip of Ne wport 'a BaJley Beach. Now and then I hear from the rapidly dwindling commercial tra-vel-ers, the types who sported a blue and white enameled U. C. T. lapel button and stopped at my Dad's hotel In a Missouri town. They were "knights of the grip'" off every Monday on the din lev locals, visiting the same towns, same merchants, week after week, year after year, returning to families every Saturday. Aa a clsaa they were conscientiously loyal, sober and home loving. Yet the comic paper and vaudeville joke made them - appear life's supremest philanderers, always on tne make. There are one thousand and one variants of the traveling man A legend of the news-rooms is that panegyric to doom, "The City That Was," by the most excellent reporter, Will Irwin, snatched a few lines at a time from the typewriter while San Francisco vneled in flume aaint historic hills. I read It recently. The arwl tne 'ri"ers daughter gag title was magnificent Inspiration, but the essay no better than Martin Green or a dozen re-write men dash off every day before lighting pipes and dropping around to Joe's. Little of writing that lasts Is not painstaking. 1HE FAMILY ALBUM-PACKING house press agent Sandwiched In were random verse, short stories, ar ticles and a somewhat lazy try at ! The Great American Novel. A hap I hazard career of broken bits, j During one auspicious week, a i week 1 did not step out of my hotel i room for fear the keyhole would be j plugged, I supplied the entire con cents oi a ao-page nouae organ aiong with other chores. Among the pseu donyms I used and which suffers a faint blush was Donald MacGregor uuprez. I No place In cliffed-in Manhattan All of this tiddledy was naturally , w 8pacloujli s(cyey and Irieny liliro. fate, ajiejjctoiuts vimnvj tuai meant nothing. But because life was! young it seemed pathetically lmpor- Another specloua romsnza of the editorial shop concern William Al len Whites "What's the Matter With Kansas?", reputedly flotsam filler a foreman plunked Into the forma on a dull day. The myth persists It sky rocketed White Into Journalistic im mortality over night. It waa not a remarkable editorial, then or now. White's lasting fame la grounded In years of superb editorializing. A drama of the 14th street subway steps and Its forlorn beggar. For I many yeara he held forth pencils and mumbled to paaaeraby.. One day a gentleman dropped a quarter and hurried on. Then minutes afterward he returned. "I want to apologize for Insulting you," he said. "You are a merchant with penctla to sell. I treated you aa a beggar. Please give me my pencils." A few years later the same gentleman appeared at a spruce news-stand blocks away. The owner In handing out a paper and accepting the change remarked: "You don't remember me but I owe you a lot. You made a beggar turn respect table." The beggar of the subway steps! as Battery Park on a moonlit evening. The vast quiet, relieved only by the tant. Once the slim pickings of f ree ' ; ... lLa., , t.Mr.. h.imrf .-.I i t..r-l : Inspires confidences. O.Henry to a regular job but there was none.i"n, curl1 w' ' Ph"?: There were depressions In those days, I P"? ,rom mm who suddenly revealed jOQ j thoughts on Battery Park benches. Vincent Astor, like many awains ever 1 tongue-tied over proposal, la said to Warrant Call. School District No. 6. Notice la hereby given that there are funds on hand for the redemption of all warrants up to and Including No. 701. Interest will cease on the 2nd day of August, 1934. Warrants are payable at The First National Bank, Medford, Oregon. GUY TEX, Clerk. School Dlsini:'. ti. Central, Point. Oregon. By CLUYAS WILLIAMS CAllS 10 HUSBAND DOR HE WANT HER To PACK HIS OLD 6RAV jWrATfR? GEYS NO REPlV. REMEM BERS H SAID SOMEf&Hte ABDltf 60IK6 OUTfo rue mttbZ lb WORK OlsT CAR us Over BAKlis-Tefts suriev's uwnrfisHED . 15 WILFRED 15 RUN Ouf PACKIM6 ArJD WISHES 16 6ARA6E AND ASK PAD WlLfREP WOULD HIPRY DOES HE WANT 1& HIS OLD vSRAV SWEATER? WILFRED EVENfUAUY re-Turn's With the ks PLY 0 WHKT 6PfcY SWt-AfER?" sends back a derailed description, Wilfred rel6vin6 8rck the mew's THAT PAD DENIES OWNlffe WN SUCH SWEATER HOLDS rf UP AT WINDOW" DECIDES IN FUTURE FOR HUSBAND TO VlElA WR To PACK WiTHOUT HIMSELF. AFTER SCRUTINIZING CONSULTING FAMILyI fT, HE CAL25 UNIN1EU.I6IBLE ABOUT AtWHirte REPLV AND DISAPPEARS INTO 6RRft6 (Copyright, 193j by The Bn Syndicate, Inc.) "I'm sorry I overslept.' bed to wire them regularly. Bob going at noon. He tapped on her door; "Come In," she called. He entered, crossed the room and with a "May If settled on the edge of the bed. "If anything changes here, you'll wire, won t you?" he asked. "Immediately." 1 "I'll come running." "I know." s "I'll be back, anyway, lu March at the latest I think I can hurry my part of It through before then. Lord, I hate going! But can't let them down." "I know; I'll do everything I can, and exactly as I think you'd want It done." "I'm comfortable enough about that," be said slowly. "You're gen tler and more understanding than I can be with all my trying." ""H, not I'm sorry I over-slept." "I'm glad you did. I saw your light beneath the door. I knew you'd bad a bad night." "And you did too?" "Well, more or leas, I suppose. It doesn't matter. You'll write me about things?" "Regularly, and as often aa you like," she promised. "Twice a week, if that 'a not too much ?" "Oh, no. I'd do that anyway." He rose. "You must not let your aelf be worn out!" he warned anx iously. "Promise me you won't! Get any help you need, Marsha. Will you promise me you will get all the help you need?" "Yes, I do promise you anything you want me to promise, Bob!" "Very well, and 1 thank you I" he aald as he hurried toward the door. Mis mother smiled bravely aa she said goodbye; he looked on ber. yea tragic. Llewellyn had said "A year at most " Perhaps before he could get back even, she would be gone. Perhaps be might lose bis last days with ber through bis obli gation to finish a Job that no other man could swing. , He turned to Marsha. "We're go- closed, she ran down the steps and after he had put his hand Into hers which she'd stretched to him he felt ner kiss on It. "I'll do everything everything for her and for you!" ha beard. He had not even thanked ber, be realised, riding away. He looked down at his big, browned hand that she had kissed, and suddenly he held It to his lips. She mattered terribly and deeply to blm and she always would, she who had married him to show an othe&an that he had not hurt her . . . wuo admitted this . . . who bad kissed this other man . . . who lied who He had grown tense; he sank back, spent. He must not let him self brood about It. No doubt she had been wltb Tarleton that day when ahe lied about being at her dentist's. Lord, how he had trusted her! On certain days she was good; better than the best of women he had evu known. His varying regard of her, the changing emotions that this made, had helped to wear him out. It he could only get away from thought of her. He must write ber, of course . . . the sort of letters from which she could read bits to his mother. Suf ficiently sentimental to satisfy his mother, but not the letters he would write to Marsha If she were all hi had once dreamed her to he. He had not spoken to ber of the letters; their necessary tenderness, but she would understand. She un derstood a great deal without words. Heavens, the traffic! She had clung to him, while say ing goodbye to him, In a curious way. For a shsken second he felt her agiln in his arms; his cheek against hers. "And that way. mad ness!" he reminded himself. He tried to think of the ravin- across which bla bridge would creep, but It waa useless; sod only a tew months before, his keen mind always obeyed his wish. fCWti4. till, t, K. Kstilsmd-Teyler) Tomorrow, Marsha enters upon hsr routine of msrey. EUROPEAN BUYING CHICAdO. Aug. 4. (AP) Active European buying of wheat futures at ChlfftfiO caused broad speculative demand for all grain today. ChU-ago wheat oared 3'i centa a bunhe and corn 2 centa. with til dellverlea of corn and ry hre well aa all wheat future In Liver pool. Winnipeg and Buenoa Aires overtopping the seasons top prlc record. An outstanding immediate In centive (or purchaae orders came from report of abnormal dearth of niointure curtailing the estimated yield of corn In the United States and of wheat In Canada. Leading authorities said the world grain trade appeared to have sud denly commenced to take notice of drastic changes In the supply and dfaw4 UUiU04 (Mating itjpitt perylstent drought and heat through, out vast areas. Despite, profit-taking on a large acale, wheat closed buovant at but little be?ow the day's peak, 1', to 'J'i above yvaterday'a finish; corn 1' i to 1H P' oat s to S advanced, and provisions unchanged to a rise of 30 ceiiU. COPS EllflCK CHICAOO, Aug. 4 (AP. Cattle and h fy a we re d r l ve n In to t lie Chic v ' stockyards todav under police- escort aa oommlsAlon men eoucht to resum trading, stopped for nine d.wa by a strike of hand'ers Pour hundred more sto-.kysr1 e.rt ployes. the oommUs4on men's h-in-tflers. 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