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'V. PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON", FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1934. SPOT MAllMffi SYNOPSIS: All that really ttande between Bob and Uareha Power i Bob' reueal to under ton4 Mareha'e relation with one of her old trlende, and Itareha'e inability to force Bob to tltten to reneon. But It ie enough to bring them to the edae of a divorce. Boon Bob mwit return to Mexico: he con elders whether it mtnht be wlee to aek Uareha to ao wilh him. Chapter 39 BOB IN TROUBLE rHEHE was much to trouble Bob in hl third week at home. He heard that Geoffrey Tarleton wa attending a dancer who could hard ly write her own name, but who, for one sort ot male, had vast ap peal. With dlstatete, but thoroughly, Bob verified detail! to find that the rumors were bated upon truth. Marsha, with thatl It wa unthink able! There were good things about bar which were, he knew, too good to be wasted In such a way. Again and again be decided be would have It out with her; ask her, no matter what else she did, to keep tree f-om Tarleton's soiling touch. But she was obviously avoid ing every chance for Intimate talk with him and be did not once, dur ing tbe week, find the moment when be could force upon her tbe topic he wished to discuss discuss "coolly." He planned what be would say, with opportunity for words given, as he ley awake by night, and as be saw, by the silt ot light beneath ber door, that ebe too lay awake. She was even thinner and ber trail appetite bad dwindled yet more; that troubled Bob deeply. He supposed, with a chilling of bis tired, suddenly old heart, that she had beard ot Tarleton's deflection and waa wounded by It Bob knew that Tarleton would always wander thus and that she must, for the sake of ber future and tbe peace that might be In ber future, know It Conjecture, too, distressed him that week. Marsha had, before she married him, endured an unhappy life In ber aunt's company In order that no aspersion be cast upon the acid maiden lady by those who might wonder too deeply about Marsha'a living alone. He did not want Marsha to live with Miss Gertrude. "It would be absolute bell for ber!" he mur mured aloud more than once, con sidering tbe matter that with oth ers which were equally unpleasant, dogged his weary footsteps. He wanted to talk tbat over with her, and be had no chance to talk anything over with her. She eluded blm deftly; she squirmed from every net he spread to trap her. "She hates me," he thought; "It hurts ber even to be In the same room with me!" It did not seem quite fair to him that she should bate him; he felt he bad been fairly atolo about tbe blow that had come to him through bis realisation of how he had been cheated. Ot course, he reasoned, she bad not known how hard tbe blow had been, still was. He presumed, when be was an old man, ha would still be thinking of her with yearning and with the thought ot her return to blm which throve despite every real ind sometimes brutal discourage ment H ARSHA, on her aide, kept from I'-l Bob's path as much as was pos sible, and a deft woman can make that easily possible. She kept from him because, with him, she feared she might betray herself. If she said, "I want to go hack with you: I want another chancel" he would remember all she bad done tor him to respond with a consent be would make sound hearty. And then another hell tor them, with her wanting more than he could give her, knowing ber; and he forcing himself to give as a ges ture of gratitude. Marsha thought often: "If he bad been aa starved tor love as 1, be would know tbat the way rcar does count, no matter bow second- rate I am." She knew tbat no other woman would ever love Bob deeply, wholly and truly, and she felt that any woman who knew blm, must love him. Perhaps after the divorce be would marry again; tbat possibility appeared against the black curtain of dark, each night, to make ber sit up In bed. turn on the light, try to read. Trying to read waa all sbe could do; a page half understood, and she would lay down ber book to think. "1 do want hlra to be happy." She did. but she could not yet subdue Claims Hallowe'en Besting ST. CLAIRSV1LI.E. O. (UP Lester French celebrated Hallow-e'en by best ing her, Garnet French charged in a divorce petition. Wrappers Talk Code ASHTABULA. O. (UP) Trl-Stste Wrapping Paper association delegates st their convention here dlscus.ei the terror tbat came with, "He may, of course, marry again." If he married again, everything would be so entirely done for ber. Doubtless, in time, sbe would reach tbat tepid ground where sbe could drug berself by collecting little pieces of porcelain; rare books or fans or dolls. Dolls, she dismissed, after consideration. No, she would never collect dolls. Mrs. Powera bad thought she would be a lovely mother. Tbe tears rolled down her cheeks remember ing this of the woman sbe bad called "Mother"; the woman whom ahe had felt to be "mother." She ached from her need of tbe small, old lady; and sbe never suf fered thus without thinking. "Poor Bob! Poor Bob!" But Bob's suffer ing, real as It was, was not so tragi cally real aa was Marsha's. She could not speak of Mrs. Pow ers without a trembling of Hps, a harsh aummonlng of control wblcb made her tense. Bob, seeing this, realized she bad cared; it touched him deeply. One day, at the end of tbat long, third week, he laid bis band upon ber arm to say "How shall I ever thank you tor all you did?" She cried to answer, "Love me! or if you can't do tbat let me follow you, around the world, wherever you go." She aald: "You gave more to me than I've given to you and some thing that has lent a light to my living, tbat will never dim." Then she had left him quickly, realising that she had spoken a truth tbat was beautiful, but a truth that had left her uncertain and tragically lonely. She sat a great deal In Mrs. Pow ers' room, Bartholomew told Bob after a cough and a little hesitation. "It isn't tbe best thing for her, Mr. Robert," Bartholomew pointed out, "to brood so." TTANNAH said her clothes were 1 only hanging on her, so thin she waa. Bartholomew reported this to Bob, adroitly and after a plea for pardon. "I know," Bob answered, sharp from strain. "God!" he flung out then, running nervous fingers through bla hair; frowning. "I have a definite feeling, sir, if you will pardon me, please, Mr. Rob ert, that something Is weighing on Mrs. Powers' mind, a something be yond her sorrow." Bob turned to Bartholomew who, years back, had taught a small, lean, freckled Bob to make sailors' knots and who had helped this same Bob to collect marbles and to make fish nets from twine. They had once been punished to gether, tor trying to get a hornets' nest that Bob wanted In bis collec tion. Bob atlll bad a tiny ahlp that Bartholomew had whittled tor him . . the bond between them was an old and tight one and memories made their relation gentler and more real than tbat of man and ser vant Bob could remember Bartholo mew's weeping at the death of his father, and how Bartholomew had said, "So long aa you'll let me serve you all, 1 shall do all I can. and thank you and God for the chance given me!" Yes, the relation was more than that of man and servant "What can 1 do, Bartholomew?" asked Bob. "What haven't I done?" "It you'll forgive me, sir, she's that painful dependent upon affec tion. We've all noticed It to speak ot it, end it baa quite touched us. Never have we seen the like. She Is like a child, as one might say, sir. when she feels affection : like a child wbo baa been a bit naughty and who la forgiven and that Is tremulously grateful for it! 1 think with an un usual gentleness, she would tell you what Ilea on her mind." "Thank you, Bartholomew." "Thank you. sir! That will be all, sir?" "That will be all." For some time, alone, Bob stood by a window staring upon the misty, chill world. He had never known, he reflected heavily, ao dismal a spring. He tried to draw Marsha out that evening at dinner. "Child." he said, "la something troubling you?" For a moment stark panto was In her eyes; she grew pels then she flushed hotly. "Why do you ask that?" she ques tioned. Did he know, she wondered, what sbe had done one day when it seemed she could not go on alone? But he could not know. No one save she knew; no one save she could know! riTtll. Kit. K jr. Snilni-Terler) Tomorrow, Marsha trlts to optn a box. cod provisions and trade practices William 8. Hewlns, Ashtabula, pres ident, presided. PUIM tor Religion 8TEVBENV1LLB. O. (ITI Wrien Raymond H. Sthrol dlsls for arty program other than a religious ont, his wit,. Bella, turns ths switch, he testified hers In a divercs action. COUNTRY ENJOYS N WORLD TRADE Broad Bargaining Powers Given Roosevelt Also Fac tor in Continued Lead Japanese Inroad Slight By RICHARD ORIDLEY United Press Financial Correspondent WASHINGTON , (UP) Amerlca'a already strong trade position, broad bargaining powers given President Roosevelt, and the revival of world trade will assure the United States continued lead in the foreign com' meree of the world In the opinion Of administration leaders and Important business Interests. The No. 1 position of the United States as the world's largest exporter of goods is not believed threatened by the series of "trade wars" In va rious sections of the country, or by the encroachment of cheap Japanese, or other foreign goods, on the domes tic and foreign United States markets. After leading the export nations of the world In the volume of foreign exports for many years, the United States, according to official figures, further has increased Us gains since, the' start of the current year. United I States exports through April were 62 per cent ahead of a year ago, com-i S -MATTER POP 5?tsU he m Tor's f 3itfcMT j K,, ,T tilu sf ' Cy .f-'S-a " Lf) UKit. 1934, by The BeO Syndicate, 11 TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy in a Tough Spot! 5-"5SSE DON'T TRY TO ALlSI,"ll IVou'RE. AU WET, SHttJWF.' ifJU&T THE. SAME PtTEjVOU igSpiSiiSP KTT. ,ViSl ARE VOLJSgS KID" WE GOT THE J I KNOlO THIS CHAPj HE'& I'M GOING TO 6E.T INTO THAT S g5fHE. 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WKJD I'D LIKE: TO smRY NOO Oj&tySikf JSsPf-S"' NEASi A&O VOO LOVED NOT CkiH!SLlJ;jT 1 TVJOU&MT UJOUt-DM'T A 1 B6EKJ TAUXIVJ IT OVER UJITW W ! , jl&Vl I ME tsJOuJ VOU SHOUlEO THAT f. I BlS &E FICKLE .HE OUOULDM-H MVSEUF ftMO 1 GOT MV56l-PAS5MTf'4P PLAvIKJ1v UJWENJ 1 CAME OOSAJtO MEBeJJ 't V l KM tAKSE SICK BROKEM-OOUJra PURTVUJEU. CONJVIMCEO HrW&y'l iw WOJIOWT 6S MADPY SO LETS J-3 W AH VcOKjjjIE ZlL MIS LoteJ BRINGING UP FATHER By George McManna I ITvS'SrK: i (bycollVmy 1 I I I I'M comma, put me 1 I i I I VV-''&lH 1 1 I how nijvmv tinier " WffrM lmi.u I Jl II -- II liffl .-r;, I imTt; pared with ft gain of only 30 per cent by Japan, Ita nearest competitor. Blight Inroadt by Japan. Some lnroida on American trade by cheaper Japanese good have been admitted, but the United States had more than made up for these loaaea elsewhere. Oermany at the present time appears to be the largest loser Of foreign trade, but atlll maintain third place m the leading export na tions of the world. It was pointed out In responsible circles that there Is little fear of Japanese domination of world trade, j President Roosevelt, In addition to the huge resources of the United oiaitrs, nas am pie power mrougn reci procal trade bargaining powers, to secure Important agreement for trade with other nations of the world, and thus offset any alarming foreign ln roads on American trade. WEATHER TOO WARM J RAVENNA, O. (UP) Ironically, nudists of the ''Natural Mends League," near Rootstown, found the weather too hot for nudity recently. That's the way Chester Rlel, colony head, explained the shortage of members when Shrlff Leroy Jones raided the colony. Only three. In the nude, were found by the sheriff when he pene trated the mass of undergrowth sur rounding the camp. All were men. sitting around a home-made picnic table. Rlel, at his office, explained the scant numbers: "It's the weather. Too hot. P. W. Bartlett, Melford a Taxiderm ist end Furrier, will open shop on or about Sept. 1st, at 20 S. Central. 1 JAZZ ERA GOING CINCINNATI, O. (UP) Dr. Iraesl U Talbert, associate professor of psychology at the University of Cin cinnati, believes that society's pen dulum Is swinging back from the day typified by the "flapper and the Jazz hound toward a more con servative era, he told student here recently in a campus address. "The social sciences, once a sub ject for Jokes and ridicule, are ris ing In popular esteem. The generous support given to the courageous and humane social philosophy of Presi dent Roosevelt Is Indicative of col lective attitude. Whatever may be the outcome of his efforts, for the time being there Is an upturn In the status of the social scientists," he said. SUTED SEPTEMBER 1 7 SALEM, Ore (UP) September 17 has been set as the date for opening of Willamette university this fall. Acting President Prank M. Erlckson announced today. The day will be devoted largely to registration of the freahman class and other activities to Introduce the newcomers to the school. Sophomores and upperclassmen will register on the following day, and on Wednesday, September 19, classes will begin. v.-t?SS "'x11""1 ,,v,,, mvf W HOUR BEFORE TrIE" START Of A 6ftME, the: -term learned that their BEST" PITCHER COULDN'T PLftV UNTIL MIS LftWM. MOWED 3 BirC 8V TOMMANDEET?lK ML THE LAWW ON" TrlE STREET THV WERE ABLE 7&PJ.AY OKI TiME1 AND WlTJ4 TOIX FORCES (Copyright, 1934, by The Bell Syndicate, Bv GLUYAS WILLIAMS (AJIUlAttS IncV By C. M. Payn y By Ha Forrest
