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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 :
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THREAT IS DENIED
LONDON, Aug. 21. (AP) Rumors
of threats to kidnap the Princess
Elizabeth and Margaret Rose of
Grsat Britain's ruling house were de
nied today by sources close to King
George.
Col. Bowes Lyons, brother of the
earl of Strath more, said no special
precautions are being taken to guard
the granddaughters of the king, and
that an outbreak of scarlet fever was
the reason the girls had not been out
on shopping trips.
HINDENBURG'S WILL
FALSIFIED, IS CLAIM
PARIS, Aug. 21. (AP) The newspa
per Paris Solr charged today that the
will of the late President Paul Von
Hlndenburg of Germany had been
falsified so as to eliminate a recom
mendation that former Kaiser Wll
helm should "succeed" him.
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CHICAGO, Aug. 21, (AP) The
"injection" treatment for hernia was
described today before the American
Association of Railway Burgeons as
offering a strong possibility for defi
nite and permanent cure.
The statement wns made by Dr.
Lawrence J. Qulllen of Chicago, dis
trict surgeon for tho Illinois Central
railroad.
The method consists of the Injec
tion of one of several different irri
tant solutions under the skin around
the hernia, which Is a separation,
due to excessive strain, of the mus
cles composing the abdominal wall.
The drugs Irritate the separate edges
of the muscles and cause adhesions
which close the opening.
Recurrences totaled less than four
per cent In Dr. Qulllen's cases, he
said, while It was not necessary for
the patients to stop work while un
der treatment.
ROOSEVELT RETURNS
FROM POTOMAC TRIP
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. (API
President Roosevelt returned to his
desk Monday from a week-end
cruise on the Potomac aboard the
government yacht Sequoia.
He was accompanied by Raymond
Moley, former assistant secretary of
state; his secretary, Stephen T. Early.!
and Mrs. Early, and Mtss Marguerite;
Lehand and Miss Grace Tulley, pri-
vate secretaries.
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