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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1934. HYNOl'MS: ttob Powers has rrtitrncd hastily from his work in Mexico to find hi mother dead, and hit wife, itarsha, worn out trilh carina tor her. Hefore ht left then had been on the edos of di vorce because of Hob'e stubborn refusal to understand Marsha's relations with a friend of hers. Now neither quite knows what he wants: ftob is tnlktno over tho close understanding between him self and his mother. Chapter 87 OLD PROBLEM "AND you know," Bob went on, "how awkward I am; I never could get along with girls. I novar could, or wanted to. You wera the only one." He paused abruptly to continue with, "and my not know ing other women ot any age, well, added to our closeness, my depend ence jpon her, hers upon mo. It does seem ?.s It I might have been permitted to get here In time, or have been let out ot that Job!" Marsha found comforting blm with words to be suddenly beyond her reach. Speech was too difficult; words would betray her! And, com promising upon the only possibility of uhowlng him her sympathy, she leaned yet more toward him as she tightened her small, nervous, hot hands. Very eager no was, sue l make her understand that soon, them both, the time together woi. be a matter (or memory. She h: drawn too close to blm to suit hln. she saw, too; his definite withdraw al bad told her that And Bbe had been hoping, and i fervently that she shook with tin hoping, that somehow Bob would forget all his stubborn doubt, to re member only all she would try tr be. lie moved toward the doorway t turn back. "Please," he begged he: stlltcdly, "don't cry any more!" "I don't think I shall," she an swered, and she smiled In a wa? that troubled him. He found blmsell remomborlng her smile with anil ety, but with the feeling and this made for a certain relief that she wouldn't cry If she said she would not. And In this he was right, BOB knew certainly, with a week passed, that Marsha bad nc more wish than he to hurry any thing; "anything" being the di vorce. "There's no use of our having done all that we have and then messing It up when our noses are almost ovei the ropes," she pointed out In hei characteristic way, "No," he agreed. mm - ml m She saw that It helped him. He spoke loudly, quickly, of momorlos, hopes; a melange that, to a cool listener, would have seemed oddly unrolatod, but that In his mind and hoart know poignant connection. As he finished Marsha said; "1 cared so much for your mother and she cared for me; she really did! And after hor dea'b I thought she must know all about me and every thing of me, you know, that I had hidden from hor, and It tortured mo. "1 folt that It she did know me as I am, or rather as I was, she could not care for mo. Then, night before last I began to feel that the dead know everything to forgive every thing! or that their sleep Is too deep to be troubled by the small compunctions of those who go on. "And I bellove that thoso dead know ono or the other; a doop. good sleep or an undeisnndlng. And both are kind!" nOI) felt his tears start to slip down his loan checks; his ten sion ifolnxod and he knew ease until he saw that Marsha too was crying. Then enme tho chilling cqrtalnty thnt she wns being hurt and that he could not comfort hor as ho ' would. She held his hand against her heart nnd ho rose suddenly. He wunted hor In Ills amis with a want n Intolerable that he had to draw away sharply, quickly, lest he be mastered by his need. Ilnnds limp on hor knees, she looked up at him. Ho saw, with ro ller, that her tears hod stopped. "I want you to know (hot I shall never forget your kindness," ho said unsteadily. "And I wouldn't have anyone think that your mother mads us stick together." 'Nor would I," he agreed again and this time morosely. They were talking It over at the finish of a luncheon, after Bartholo mew had loft them. Marsha had made tblngs more easy than he had supposed they could be, Bob rcfloctcd as she poured his coffee; b!iu bad changed the Bhnpo ot the table to bring It down to cozy, new smallness and she had had It moved. The arm chair In which his mother sat, had disappeared. Mar sha had been wholly, considerate, rarely understanding. Bob sat star lng at her, wishing she weren't so pale, so thin; that bIio would eat more; that she could sleep. He knew she did not; he saw her light too often, a slit of gold, beneath the door that divided their rooms. She had not moved her raiment, herself, to tho lavender or the blue guest room. He was gratoful, deeply grateful, that she bad not; It helped him, during the sleepless nights, to know she was near and perhaps, he thought, heart qtilckonlng, his being within hail comforted her. Ho longed to ask her ot that and of othor matters, hut he kept him solf, by forcing his strong will, to tho Impersonal and apart from her whenever he could, without making the Borvants suspicious. They sat together each evening, usually pre tending to read. They had their meals togothor. Twice, and on dnys when tho grudging, chill spring bad ropontod Us mood, they had mo tored, "Aro you In a hurry for the di vorce?" he heard. "Certainly not," he replied stiffly. "I'd thought wo'd qulot all talk. If after you went back I'd stay on here. A good many women would not consider going to Mexico pos sibly anyway, you know. And cer talnly, If I stayed here, for six or eight months, no one could suspect tho truth. And when we do get our divorce everyone will thli.k only that It has lasted rather longer than do most marrlngea. You see?" Ho presumed she was right, but ho wished she would not talk of It so lightly. The Idea of the divorce shook him ns It novor hd before. Ho kept thinking of 11, sitting with her dining the evening. And now, with a few months done, so that no one would suspect they had acted a lie, the dlTorce would bo real, accomplished. fiVfl'i4, lilf. I, K. Kn-.lsTstlnl Tomorrow, Bob and Mtrahi havs SALEM. Auj. 13. (V) Governor Julius L. Meter todny Announced sus pension of the 80-ctny Jail sentence Imposed on William MrDcrmltt of 8t. Helens. The suspension was In the nature of a conditional pnrdon. Mc Dfrmltt wns sentenced July 3S to 30 rinys In Jail, nnd lined UDO for driv ing while lnttrntfd. Ferry sink. OIUXION CI TY. Aug. 15. Tho I'anhy Jerry, operated by the county, inn In tho Willamette rlvr ycaterdny while carrying a large truck, load of gram. The accident occurred In shallow water, nnd the boat wns risen a few hours later without se rious dnmnge. 1MW MBS OF DIES IN (By Gertrude Haak) EAGLE POINT, , Aug. 15. (Spl.) Mother Howlett received word or the passing of her daughter, Sarah How lett Lewis, on Sunday, August 12, at her ranch home near Spokane, Wash. Mrs. Lewis was born June 3, 1860. on the old homestead of her parents, Alfred C. and Sarah Howlett, which was located about three miles from Eagle Point on the Big Desert, south of the present Charles Clngcade home and was the eldest daughter of 13 children, only two of whom are still living. Raised In this community, she was married to James M. Lewis on Sep tember 3. 1890, while living on what la now the Ala Vista orchard and where her parents lived for 18 years. The first 10 years of her married life was spent with her husband on the Brltt place and there, their two children, Edward and Vlrgle, were born. They moved to Sterling on the Applegate river In 1900, where they lived until 1906, then went to Kansas for a year, returning In 1907 and, moving to a ranch near Spokane, which has been their home ever since. I Her husband, James H. Lewis, passed j away In April of this year. Mrs. Lewis had been in poor health for several years, but with the passing of her husband she became more subject to heart attacks, which resulted In her death. Besides her aged mother, Mrs. Sarah Howlett of Eagle Point, she leaves to mourn her passing, one son, Edward Lewis of Colvllle, Wash., a daughter, Vlrgle Potts, of Bprague, Wash., two grandchildren, Donald and Delbert Lewis and two sisters, Octavla Shaw of Portland, and Hattle Howlett or Eagle Point. She was burled near her home at Spokane. And to Mother Howlett, beloved pioneer mother, who has endured all the privation, the heart aches and suffering, as well as the Joys of the pioneer mother, the proprietress of the Sunnyslde Hotel at Eagle Point, who, though nearlng the four-score-and-ten mark. Is still actively engaged In the performance or her dally duties, who has burled husband and eleven children, and to her daughter, Hat tle, the sympathy of the entire com munity and of all of southern Ore gon Is extended In this new sorrow. L PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 15. (VP) Work project totaling many thou sands of dollars the largest running around $20,000 and giving employ ment to hundrdeds of men and wo men on relief rolls of Oregon, were approvod here today by the state re lief committee. The 20,000 project Includes clear ing, grading and Installing culverts and bridges on a four-mile section of the Wilson River road from Smith creek to Fall creek In Tillamook county. Materials will cost about 95,000, WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. () Oscar Chapman, aslstant secretary or the Interior, said today upon his return rrom a serlea or conferences In the mountain states, that already appli cations had been received for the es tablishment or more grazing districts than could be organized In the next six months. Chapman and his fact finding com mittee held hearings In . Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. He said the committee would leave here early In September to hold an other series of preliminary confer ences to discover the wishes and prob lems of stockmen and local officials In Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, CaU rornla, Oregon and Washington. "The stockmen with whom we talk ed on the trip are accepting the Tay lor grazing bill 100 per cent," Chap man aaid. "They admit they have been ruining their own ranges by over-grazing and are anxious to have us cooperate in working out their problems. And that is what we In tend to do. "We have found that there can be no general application of detailed regulations to various grazing dis tricts," Chapman said. "Each local ity In which grazing districts will be established has individual problems! and conditions. Perhaps there can be a aeries of general regulations in ' the character of definitions adopted for all districts, but even these prob ably will have to be restricted in many of the districts." KEEPING JUNIOR OUT By GLUYAS WILLIAMS DRWES JUKlOR oOf-Of DOORS lb PLAY, DCPLAIrJ IK6 SHE'S HAVIH6 A TEA PAMV AND WAHfS To BE FREE RR HER 6UE$fS SfARft P0URW6TEA. 8' COMES AWARE TrtM" JUN IOR has wandered m A6WK 16 ASK HAS HE BCD) Oltf L0X6 ErOOtti NOW DRIVES HIM OUf AJD LOCK TROrrf POOR. PE' TORNS ToTEA PARlY, POOR BELL SfARlM& TO fttW& VlfcOROOSlV TlKPS IT'S JlMOR WltH "(HE UEWSThWHE IS THIRSTY . 6fS HIM A PRJtfK OF WATER. SErjDS HIM OUT ADD RE' T0RN& TO HER GUEST'S, BECOMING UHEASILV A WARE. THAT OUHIOR IS CALWK6 To HER OOfSlPE S-5 CAUIH6 6UES WAY To RIN6IH6 OF DOOR BEIL, JUKlDR REPoRfirlfe THAT BUDPY, 6E0I&IE AND PICK WOULD LIKE DRINKS OF WATER. TOO WEARILY SUPERINTENDS DRINKS IN THE KlfCHErl, 6EfsTriEfiAW6 OOT, AMD PEfURHS To HEP-PARTY Af END OF FIVE UNINTER RUPTED MiiOTlS, JUNIOR reports he's Thirsty" AfcPM. DECIDES, SlfcHINfcJ HE MlfcHT AS WELL STAY IN (Copyright. W4, by T Bell BluiiciU, lap 8 MATTER POP By 0. M. Payno - L t-i-W - -llfc ' jyl ' Ji (Copyright. 1934. by Th. Bell Byndlote, Inc.) f wfj ! . .... 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