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PSGE SIX mm mmrnm Chapter 42 ILLNESS 'll'U a murmured response Bob settled; ha saw, with tight ening at heart, that Marsha's placo at the table was undisturbed. Per haps she would appear soon. Bartholomew left the room; Bob looked at Marsha's empty chair to see ber face as be bad seen It the night before. Sh had seemed a lit tle girl from the wild fear that bad filled her eyes and her stammered explanations that had told him noth ing. Why had he said that about her pretending his mother gave her this, that? What particular derll had prompted those wordsT He glanced quickly away from her chair and toward the sunny windows. A bowl of Jonquils In the center of the table echoed the out lle light with a yellow blare. One window, slightly raised, admitted a frail, Bmall breeze, which carried the promise of the warmer days that wore to come. With the mood, and the heart for It, one would know spring had come. Bob realized. He tried to eat and failed. Ha was grateful to her, he decided, aa he pushed away his hardly touched cof fee cup, tor not coming down. If be only could get beyond seeing her as she had looked! Beyond remember ing that panic In her eyes, beyond fueling ber sob c she had, In his arms! Bartholomew stood near, crest fallen from knowing another disap pointment. Affairs were obviously tar from being as he had hopedl Mr. Robert had no mora than touched his food and his face wai gray and strained. "Has Mrs. Powers breakfasted?" Bob questioned abruptly. "No, sir; I presumed, Mr. Robert, that she had slept late and would breakfast In her room. I had hoped tut she was getting enough over the shock, sir. She worked steadily and bard these last, long months. Night on night up." "But the nurses?" Bob prompted sharply. "Yos, sir. But your mother wanted her, Mr. Robert. And she knew It. And she answered every want and need of your mother's without a word of complaint and when Han nah or Ella or I would remonstrate, sir, she always answered with, 'But I want to be with Mrs. Powers; I could be nowhere else If she needed me!"' "Hum," Bob murmured. "And Mrs. Powers, It meant everything to her, Mr. Robert, If I may go on?" "Go on," Bob prompted heavily. "Mrs. Powers said one day to me, sho said, 'We knew, didn't we, Bar tholomew, that Mr. Robert would marry someone like our dear child?' mid I agreed, as one must knowing hor, your wife, sir. That was the day Mrs. Powers gave your wife the pearls." "God!" Bartholomew stiffened; perhaps, be reasoned, he had gone a bit too far. "I bog pardon, Mr. Robert?" be said unsteadily. "It's nothing, Bartholomew. Will you fill my glass, please?" Bartholomew ailed the glass; Bob drank deeply from It and rose. WHEN be reached the upper hall he found Hannah, a disturbed Hannah, stepping from Marsha's room. "Mr. Robert," he heard. "Yes, Hannah." "Mrs. Powers Is not at all well this morning, Mr. Robert. I Just now ran her tub for her and as she made way to the bath room she was very unsteady. I touched her skin as I put hor nogllgda around her. She's afire with fever and I thought per haps we'd best have Doctor Jackson In." "I'll call him, Hannah, thank you. Mrs. Powers you say la bathing now?" "Yes, Mr. Robert." He turned Into bis own room; with hor roturn to her room from tho bathroom whlcb adjoined It, he would hear her. And meantime, with a vlow of understanding Map sha bettor and so, perhaps, giving her more Justice, he would open the box. He stepped Into his room, closed the door after himself; locked it. The box opened readily. Bob took from It a miscellaneous assortment that made his eyes smart and his throat stiffen. Evory small marker that had had to do with him. In all changing boy-tomanhood eras, bad boon preserved, neatly ticketed and with Mrs. Powers" Spcncerlan writ ing upon every tab. FRUIT SPRAY TEST IS BY LATEST SEATTl.K, Aug. JI..,fAP)A n,w mrjhod ot tosllng for the residue of lead left alter spraying fruit for In sert control which produces result In about half an hour limb-ad of the three clays needed by the old method Mas announced todsy by the U. 8. de partment of agriculture. "The apparatus Is simple and the testa will be less exjenslve," a depart ment bulletin said, "The new test Is also being employed by federal chemists In connection with regula tory control of sprayed fruits under the federal pure-food law." The new method, which the bulle tin did not ileacrlbe. was developed by H. J, Wlnclnnan and associates la. tht He had had a strangely epola getlo feeling about opening the boi and touching Its contents. But tht key had been sent him with tht word that there were things In the box for which he would care. Well, he did care for them, and It hurt to care. The younger, rounder writing ot bis boy-written letters gave him an other, even deeper pang. He bad dreamed then, with enchanting in nocence, ot marrylug some nice girl and ot being very happy. He had never dreamed, he could not have dreamed then, he realized, that be could marry, as be had, to be acutely unhappy and that be would (through the "nice girl") lose self control, go to pieces, hurt ber and himself as he had the night be fore. Quite aa well that the future was shrouded, for to suffer before a trag edy as well as after would be a bit more than any man could bear. Why had Marsha tried to pry the box open? Why had she meddled with a thing that was, so' obviously, not to be meddled with? How had she dared? As he looked at the collection he felt anger against her rise again. Possibly, he thought hotly, she would have been amused at the col lection , . , amused, It she bad suc ceeded In picking the lock. Ho frowned as he wondered over her reason, and then he saw and picked up a little foldod sheet of bis mother's stationery. She had al ways clung to her mourning and a narrow black line edged her paper. He opened It with Interest and the feeling of the imminent disclosure of a secret. It was evident that his mother had written the fow lines In haste. "I want you to take Marsha back with you." h read. "It may not Hen to you. as you read this, wise, but It Is my wish. My disapproval of modem separation la entire and I have gleaned from the atmos phere, that you and Marsha con sider It. "For my sake, and because much wrong may be righted In the space ot a year, 1 am going to auk you to take Marsha with you, wherever you may ko for that spaet of time, and to give her what chance you can, and every opportunity, to show to you the aftoctton that she bears you. "1 think no woman could love you more." THAT was the end ot the messsgs which had, evidently, been writ ten In haste and with some consid erable emotion. So she had known, and Marsha had known that nls mother's appeal was In the painted box. He opened Marsha's door. She sat up In ber bed as be moved toward her. He saw fright in her eyes; did she think he was going to belabor her again? "Please, please!" he begged, "don't be afraid ot me, Marsha!" "I'm not, truly!" she assured him, a trifle unsteadily, and the lay back. By the bed he stood looking down on her; he was alarmed by the flush on her cheeks and by the brightness ot her eyes which were raised to his. He ventured to lay a hand on her forehead. As Hannah had said, she was "aflre with fever." She drew a little away; he moved to settle on a small chair that stood near. 'Marsha " Yes?" "It's difficult for ma to say all I feel. I've never been so deeply ashamed, if that's anything in the way of apology. I don't know that it is." Again she sat up. "It's all right, really. It doesn't matter. As you said, a great many men have kissed me. I don't know why It hurts me. But I didn't expect you to when I didn't want you to. But It doesn't matter." It matters rather terribly to me. Marsha." She looked at him vaguely. "I put the pearls and the bracelet on my dressing table top," she said. Marsha," he stretched an ap pealing band toward her. "I didn't moan that! I know my mother gave them to you. I want you to have them." "No, I couldn't really. I'm so sor ry. I don't want to hurt you, but I couldn't. And I know that she gave them to me and that's all that mat ters; I don't care about having them ... all I need Is the feeling that she wanted to give them to me . . . and she did!" She dropped back again,, and turning a little from him she hid her face In the crook of her arm. He saw her shoulders shake. Ob, iarsha, please!" he begged frantically, voice roughened. Bob tells Marsha about tht note, Monday, food control laboratory of the federal iooa and rtrug administration. CHICAGO TOT SHOT CHICAOO, Aug. 31. (AP)-Shnt In ins neaa ts tie eat with his baby brother ln,a Utile red wagon, two and a hair year old Itobert ruts, Jr.. died Monday in a hospital. A bullet had Interrupted his happy command of maanp, nnrseyt," given to tl par ents. The shot ss fired by one ot tour men riding In a sedan. The parent, Mr. and Mis, Robert Pit to. Sr.. wets Imitating a team of horses lor their children. Aa they drew the wagon down the sidewalk of Stony Island avenue near SOth street, a shot rang out. "Then Robert save s little cry." i said Pitts. "We look around and I there he was. toppled out of the t wagon s bullet hole lu hit head." BYGANGINSEDAN MEDFOKD MAIL NEEDY FAMILIES URGED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SERA CANNING DEPOTS Relief caws ara again reminded to take advantage ot the 8ERA food preservation program carried on through the Jackson County relief committee In various parts of the valley. Beans, tomatoes and other vegetables, meat, fish and fruit are the products being canned. Needy families are urged to make appointments. If eligible under the relief rules, at their nearest kitchen. Families uncertain of their eligibili ty should report to the relief com mittee headquarters on the third floor of the city hall. Canning kitchens are located at the Medford armory, where opera tions are underway six days of each week; at the Ashland armory, six days of every alternate week; at the Eagle Point grange hall Thursday, Friday and Saturday of every alter nate week, and at the Rogue River community center, on the same days. Mrs. Effle Blrdseye la supervisor it Medford, Mrs. Mae Davis at Ashland, Mrs. Rita Meyers At Eagle Point and Mrs. Elizabeth Fowler at Rogue River. TO FEED PRESS The United States civil service commission has announced an open competitive examination aa follows : S 'MATTER POP BRINGING DP FATHER MR.JlCC'a-OOE's YOUR WIFE EVER TALK TO HEf?tKLF? I'M TO TAILSPIN TOMMY Exciting News By Hal Forrest! I I V SREAT CATS! 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