PAGE SIX MEDFOItD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1931 SPITE MMMMal WRERE TO PICNIC? Rv GLUYAS WILLIAMS KYttOfHlBt Th9 4tvorc tnnt Fob I'owers has demanded that Marsha Qti hat been puatjiuned be cavas Bob's mother it dying. Bob in hurriedly ctnainQ up hit work in Mexico: Marsha it carina for Mrt. Powers in Sew York, Martha' lovt of the old ladu leads her to foralvt Hob's stubborn miaunderatandinp, which has disrupted their mar rtane. Urs. Powers grows weaker day by day. Chapter 35 THE BLOW TT WAS early In March that Bob planned his start As the result of almost superhuman pressure, he found himself free to go two days before he had thought he could start and packing! Packing made him rather absurd ly tremulous. Once and again be paused to stare blankly at the most familiar objects; a military brush, a comb, some such unromantlc thing. Then he would pull himself, with a bard Jerk, from that wblcb he scorned as "mooning," to go on sMrts, collars, he must not forget to open and to empty the bottom draw er that had turned to a safe during one week of hard rains. Less than six days of travel and be would see his mother, Marsha. Bartholomew would open the door to hfm; perhaps his mother would wait bis coming In the drawing room; perhaps Marsha would be In the hall? Or perhaps because of his mother and the game they played for her, Marsha would meet him at the eta tlon. He hoped, fervently, that he wouldn't go to pieces to show her how much Bhe still mattered, and to give her hint of the fact that she would always matter. He did not want to bother nor In any way. Young Todd, Idle that day because of a touch of the fever that makes nomads cautious, wandered In to say, "Packing?" Bob laughed. "Might think so," he responded, "but in reality, I'm trout fishing." "Damned funny, aren't you?" questioned Todd. But he was not af fronted. It was good to seo old Bob coming back to his old self. Bob had been one-of the most light-hearted of the crow before bis marriage. , "Guess you'll hate to see your wlfo?" asked Todd. "Groat hardship," Bob agreed. Tod realized be bad been wrong about It; be saw Bob's eyes brighten and a flush croop under his tan. "Hate her, don't you?" ventured young Todd. "Suppose you mind your business, you nervy bratv" said Bob. He added, as he stepped on a bulging suitcase in order to close It, "And suppose you clear out. It Ling hadn't been full of hop, I'd have stationed him at the front door Just in order to tell you that I was not at home. Is that clear7" Todd admitted It was; be grinned, leaving. As he galnod the open he saw Vicente disappearing Into the gulch and, he waited. "No one's little racer," he murmured, as Vicente kicked his mule Into following the twisting, rising path. "Lotters, you lop-eared, unwashed son of a razor back hog?" asked Todd, who tried to bo virile, five min utes later. T'ICENTE hold forth a tolcgram, addressed to Bob. Todd hoped It did not contain bad news. "How fearful that would ho!" he mur mured, comlnK back to himself and to natural expression. He plucked at a hangnail as he looked norvously towanl Alexander's and Powers' shack, which Vicente had entered In his usunl slow way. Vicente came out. There was no 'stir from the shack; no slightest nolso came from it to liven the Jungle silence. Todd moved, stealthily, townrd the opened door. And this time a wish to help, not curiosity, took him. At the doorway, he looked In to de cide thai It must have been bad news, very bad nows. Powers was sitting, slumped by the table, head dropped upon bis arms and shoulders moving. There was a llznrd at hla feet, it scurried through crushed papers, darted across the room; up the wall. Todd said a cramped, muted, "Powers!" But Hob didn't snswer and Todd barked away. Hob sat up, squared his shoulders, he novor knew how much later. Then Kaln he rend the word thut told htm that the feehlo flame In his mothers weary body bad gone out; the mes saco was signed. ".Marsha Powers." He would return now to arrange lll Marsha Powers for their di vorce, not to pretend for his mother with kissing Marsha as he met her. "I've been thinking too much of that," he said lendenly and aloud. ttr-tlronp t nhrr.ltr SFATTI.E. Aug. 13. t AP creation f the ' university CollrRi-" and gen eml rr-nroiiiilnu. or (lie UiiirrrMiy of : niilni!tim -drnle dlvlmrmi m-rra 1 announcrd todny tiy nldrnt l.ep rmil BlrR, Um Mnll Tribune nnnt Ida. tie realized then, ai be itared at a calendar (the leaf two month! old) that ha bad never once dreamed h would not tee his mother again. Marsha had signed It "Lore, Marsha Powers." , What an odd thing, a mind when shocked. It wjnt on as It pleased; turning abruptly from one thought to another that seemed unrelated. It had not his falling to ses his mother again seemed possible. She had so looked forward to bis com ing, Marsha bad written, because the doctor had felt she would live months, and probably beyond the stretch of that specified year. And he would never see her again ; his mother; a curious, flat fact It was, that numbed him. lie had been whistling as Vicente came In, and thinking of Marsha. And then Vi cente had come In to say something In his low-class Spanish of telegrams and Bob's heart had dropped. And only after a real effort could he open the wire. "Absurd to feel so," he bad rea soned at that moment. But It had not been "absurd to feel so." "Love, Marsha Powers" . , . she was, what ever else she was not, kind. She had been wonderful all through, and square . . . writing him of having had to speak with Geoffrey and of how she regretted it and that It would not happen again. The most doubting soul would have believed her; that line and her promise. "pHEN came a dull, long Interval -I- In which be did the usual things that one does living. He ate; he re sponded to the sympathy of his crew. They were very kind, he reminded himself constantly, In order that he might remember to tell them so and to thank them . , , everything was so remote! He slept a little that first night. to waken without remembering and to remember slowly; and that was pretty bad. Then the next day they all saw him off from the nearest village and on a train that, the month before, had been held up by bandits who had a regard that was not too deep for human life.' Hard gripping hands ... and the gang saying kind things about work ing under him. People generally wore pretty kind, he realized, and that it did not now matter, and that nothing could. After he crossed the border, his mind began to strotch and to grope toward the normal where the strick en suffer most acutely. He starod tragically from car windows, there, at some oaks and a tangle of under growth. He would lose Marsha too, he renllzed. And not that be would hold her, or any woman, against her will. He was, he reasoned on, glad she was to And everything he had missed. But would she, or could she, And anything with TarletonT But he would not let himself think of that, he decided. Even woll balanced. It did strange thingi to blm; that won der, with the thought of her loving Tarlolon. Loving Tarloton, perhaps. as he. Bob, had early dreamed that she some day might come to love blm. How would she groet hlra? (He hoard "First call for Dinner"; be must eat, wanting to or not; but he'd wait a time). Would she leave the bouse Immediately or was he to suffer once more that combination of misery and hopplness which, since thnt day, had risen from the knowledge that she was close, but beyond the reach of his arms, no matter how close. Would she sleep In the next room. as she had? Or go forward to the lav ender or tho blue guest room? He hoped she would stay. It seemed to him that that would rather flnlsh the affair for his mother. If she stayed no one could say. "It was only a week after the funeral that she went off: left him!" And so she woi 'd drag the little Vlo torlan Indy into 'he mess. He realized as he neared New York, that he was afraid of the house, and all that Its changed aspoct would force upon him. He was so certain that It would be dif ferent that he was surprised by the presence of umall fir troea, which had graced tha brown stone steps for as many winters as he could re member. He fumbled a bit with his keya and before he could find the right one the door was opened by Barthol omew, who, as his eyes brimmed. offered a choked greeting. Then Bob, raising his eyes, saw Marsha hurry ing down the stair and toward hlra. (.''. If-", ly It. ffjTiJW-r,brJ Tomorrow, Bob Is swopt off hit feet. Stair tnlt Falsi. 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(AP) A request for Information on which a preliminary survey of Oregon and Washington flood areas has been sent out by the office of the United States district engineer here, Captain S. L. Damon revealed today. The districts involved will be the lower Columbia, the Willamette val ley and the Tualatin valley. Hearings on the flood control problem will be held In each of the districts at a later date, Captain Damon said. Pickers and packers' tally cards. In large or small quantities, ready for delivery at Job Department Mall Tribune. 28-30 N Grape. 10ftf5 TiCMiC &A5VXf5 AND TfcMUV Stfii OVf. ASKS WMERE SHAUIWV SOtfE MilXS LATER WlfE PEClpE BEACH Wia BE TOO CROWDED 0U A PAV LHt THIS AllrtfElA PRESENTLY REMEMBERS THATTrtELAST TiME SHE WAS ATTHERlVER, MOSQllrfoft AIT HER UP. W6ULDNT If BE BETTER ON SUfJsEf Mil.? WIFE PBC01ERS SHE FflRCOT 1WE OLIVETS AND AS LON6 A THEV AREN'-T FAR FROM HOME.THEY HAD BETTER STOP IK FOR 1HEM FAMILV AT LAST IS IK OPPOSITE (Copyright, 1934, by Th Btll Syndicate, JKfo CAR JD 60 PEODES ON BEACH At ftE lAkWlia) PlREGllON. TORNS CAR AROUND EuTTcVoNE A6HEE1N& TvW If WILL BE QOlEfER ANI? rWfiER A10K6 1hE RiVER, HEAPS BACK i Turns back for siwsEf hu., remembering a LiTTlE LATER 1HAT iWrT R0AP 15 CLOSED FOR REPAIRS AND 6Effirl6 HOME, FiND IflS SO LATE HOW THrV'jJ fcEvTEX VKHtc ON Their own lawn Ingl By C. M. Payna.