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PAGE TEN Chapter i: I AGREEMENT "pDT you wanted to deitroy the note?" Bob probed on, baffled. She, dropped back to turn ber tac trom bim; ber muted "Yea" failed to reacb blm. ; "What, dear!" h asked, at be leaned over ber, Sbe turned to look up Into the eyes that were bo close. "Yea," ebe repeated. "Why did you want to deatroy It?" he went on, "Can ou toll me that, or would you rather notT" "1 didn't want you to take me If yon didn't want to, and I telt lore you didn't want to " ber rolce broke, and taded to nothing. "But Maraha " "I want to go with you! But I don't want you to take me unless you want" "I won't bother you In any way, you know, Marsha?" She laughed shortly; mirthlessly. "You don't have to explain," he said, "I know bow you teel abont me I" "No you don't," he combatted. "No human ever knows wbat an other thinks. 1 realised that, Mar tha, aftor I left you last night. Will you go back with me and go wltb me wbororer 1 go for as long at you teel you can stand It? I want you to 7ery much." She hesitated. She drew a tharp breath, and turned to blm eyes In wblcb were question and tome fright When the at length tpoke it was to say "Yes!" and a trifle over loudly. "So you feel that way!" he fought, certain of ber fear, "It Bjn't be to bad," be promised; "I ahall do my best to make things pleasant tor you. We'll hare a piano. We'll go to Mexico City whenever 1 can get away you'll Ilka the place." (Ho taw that she wax listening to blm hungrily) "and we'll try to be good friends, and I'll boss things . . , probably toll you not to step from the porch when I'm off work ing. How will you like that?" he ended. "Very well," sbe answered In a whisper. Sbe hesitated; the aald. "Suppose you want to marry tome 'efla else?" i "I am married," he answered 'Coldly. "Don't make me foel your disap proval of me to thoroughly!" the .begged. "I didn't mean to; but It's once tor me. It could be only once for me," he tald heavily. "And tor mol" jhe assured him with a leaning toward her old flip pancy, "so I presume we might u won make the best of a bad job!" "If you look at It to," he replied, and agalu coldly. He moved In a daze for hours that followed tholr "deciding upon wbat to do." The miracle of which he had dreamed was going to be, but the happiness that he bad felt must come wltb It was donled him. Myri ads of disturbing Questions bussed within blm. Then, with a tQuarlng of tired shoulders be dismissed the doubts that he saw as a weakling's. "Clod!" he thought, "I am no good! But I will make a go of It." TVERYTHING was being done for Marsha that could be done. Bob reasoned a week later, (and as be bsd a hundred times each day of that week) and she did not grow better. The fever persisted; she was los ing weight with alarming rapidity end during the morning, subnormal hours, she was plteously white and chill. Bob was badly worried and bis one outlet was sitting by ber bed; caring for her as be could; planning small diversions tor her; romomberlng everything bright he heard, to tell her. And he learned sitting by her bed. his utter certainty which was Ws deep, and enduring love for her; a love that would live no matter what she did, or thought of him. She dependod upon blm, he taw, and It helped her to have blm near, "Shall I read to you?" he asked often. She usually answered with "No." Early In his vigil she had said, "Not unless you want to; unless lt't too tupld for you to be here wltb no'b Ing to entertain?" "I love 111" ha had said that day. "So do I," she agreed. "You tee, ve're becoming (rlonds!" he tald triumphantly and to bis surprise and hla consterna tion, ber eyes brimmed. TOO 1CH SAL! FOR SALT LAKE B.U.T LAKE CITY, Aug. JS vT; Great Salt take. 14 timet at saline as the ocean and at the loweat level In rrcorded lilatory. holds more salt than It can carry. It it laying Its burden down In the form of fantaatlc roik aalt crystals, which It deposit on the lake bottom and (lie to the koela and aide of boats and plert. Fine, crystal of salt cover the sand on the ahores of the lake and boaters have slRhtrd huso mound of cube like rix-k aalt crystals. J. Cecil Altar, government meteor oloxlst here, eatlmatea the salinity of the water at 38 per cent, and aaya It evidently Is greater than when Gen eral John C. Fremont visited the lake In 1R4.1. The tnmotu explorer report ed that he got one quart of salt from luui UUMto ol latcfj I "Marsnal" no nroke out. "It's nothing! I don't know wbat makes me so tlUyl" she said with childish anger, to realize sbe bad told him another He. She did know wbat made her "to silly," and too well. He bad risen at that; unable, through nervout restlessness, to sit longer. "No, of course there't no excuse for It I " he exploded. "You're only burning up with terer every day, starving, and no one does any thing!" "You're not worried about me, Bob?" He sat down Instantly; be tried to relax. She must not know how wor ried he was about ber. "Certainly not!" he protetted. a bit too ener getically. "Wby should I be, child? I only meant that you have every excuse for bolng a little nervous." He laid hit hand on her forehead. So hot again! She would not have a nurse and In a way Bob was glad, for a nurse might keep him out of the room, keep him away from her. But he wanted ber to have the best of care and all of care that anyone could need. "It's only a little reaction, and from strain, Marsha assured Bob at the end of that week and after the third specialist had looked her over; "and I don't need a nurse. Doctor Bolt says I'm not really 111, Bob." "What doet he call It?" Bob ques tioned belligerently. "'Not really 111 when you're lying here, losing weight, hour by bour! But of course 'when earth's last picture Is paint ed' the medical profession will be grafting pollywogs' tails on police dogs and calling It a day!" HE MOPPED his brow. Marsha laughed suddenly, loudly. "Today's," she tald, after she bad sobered, "was even more amusing than yesterday's. Yesterday's spe cialist was more Impressive, but to day'syou towered over this one so. Bob, and you know you're rather long and lean and sometimes, late ly, rather desperate looking, and this one was so fat and abort and comfortable looking and the con trast! Didn't It amuse you?" "No, It didn't," he snswered, and to his shame, not quite steadily. He had found no help; be bad so con fidently expected help from Bolt. He turned his face aside, blinked quickly . . . her getting weU was the one thing that mattered now In life. Instantly she sobered. "You're tired," sbe said, and her voice shook a trifle, "so tired that the Idea of a sick wife Is almost too much." "It Isn't that, Marsha, It's" he paused. "What, Bob?" "I am worried about you, I guest I'll have to acknowledge. I've al ways had the greatest respect for the medical profession. I know wbat they can do do do from living In lands where the 111 must stay 111 It the devil-doctors can't help. "But lately I've grown discour aged.. All they tell me Is that yon have something on your mind and you tell me you haven't." "I know I did tell you that" ahe answered wearily. "Wasn't It true?" he asked, eyes again on her and narrowed. "No, It wasn't true." "Is It anything with which I ean help you?" he asked. "Well, In a way ... If you can forgive me. But I don't suppose you will or could," she responded slow ly, lovelly. "If a woman loves a man she forgives him anything; but If a woman errs. It's quite another atory. "Perhaps that Is ss It should be. I don't know. I know only that It makes life difficult. And you needn't be worried about my getting well. I shall. It may take a little time, but you won't Lava to tee tbe struggle. I than't be going with you." Hit heart (rose; but ha managed to aay a tteady "No?" wblch the answered with one ss even. "I want to tell you about it," aba said, "and I wonder whether you could come here to sit on the edge of my bed and hold my hands very tightly at you uted to while I tell It? And don't, please, stop holding them so until I'm quite through, be cause . . . but you'll know later. You won't. Bob, stop holding my handa and holding them tightly?" "I won't," be promtaed. "It beglnt with Geoffrey Tarle ton," sbe explained (for a aecond hit hands relaxed and then grew tight again, at pain atood forth In her eyes), "whom I don't care for don't care for at all, Bob." fCtttriiH, ltJ4. JT. Kmltd-Tstlt) Tomorrow, Martha ttllt htr piti ful ftory. MUNICH. Germany. Aus. 33. (API William Randolph Meant. Amerl can newspaper publisher, said today that th, v'rrjl"'!! In Clermany last Sunday ercmrrt to him to be tanta mount to a unanimous expression of popular mill. Hearst iUsx-uum! tha Oerman tote approving Chancellor Hltlera a- aumpttou of the powers of tha relch prealileney lth rmat llanlttaengl, Nar.1 preoa clUef. Such overwhelming majorltlea for Hitler, which we have learned hy thl time, to take aa a matter of oourne open up. In a aene, a new chapter tn modern history," the American publisher aald. Ha added that anything that bene flta Germany would. In the laat an alysis, benefit the whole world, and at such ha cordially welcomed any- thing thai would do gowd to Oct. MEDFORD MAIL FOR CHILDREN TO TO The time ha come for another March through ell clothes closete of the valley, to the report lwued yes terday from the Welfare Exchange, which will resume work next week for school days are almost here and mothers of school children are al ready wondering what their children are going to wear, and where that "what" Is going to come from. The Welfare Exchange will a&alAt again In solving the clothing prob lem. Miss Helen Carlton, chairman announced yesterday. And, In assist ing, will need the generous coopera tion of every person, who has some thing extra In the closet. The Exchange wilt open In the city hall for rearrangement Monday and will be open to the public Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Anyone with any articles of men's, women's or children's clothing to give Is asked to deliver them to the police station In the city hall or to call Miss Carl ton at 890-J-l or the relief committee headquarters at 024. There is a great need this year for all types of clothing and mothers are more than willing to make over partially worn or off-size garments. The sewing room will be opened In the city hall at an early date to of fer them an opportunity for this work. It Is necessary that these mothers do their planning early so a ready response and a generous one Is urged of the public by Miss Carlton. 8 MATTER POP ( f Vou mak-6. aw sS r (WORD UUleSS Z tOftZ JJ ( J VtS-rr- tf$L i I fr-tw" (-A --1 4 L (Copyright. 1934. by Th. Bell Syndicate, tac.) TAILSPIN TOMMY Skeeter Arrives! By Hal Forrest WmM 'v.-5SV trt 77l- THAT & wUf )Wwf IOeA--HOLD1N' MV WM vC ctfes ? ' yZzty pal for murder. ? J a uUS & jP U3H O BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER The Nght T ' ' l, IFThEV'RE ALL ASLEEP, WTflllllflflllllll IHGOSH, I DON'T WANT TOIjji AFTER LONG ANO WEARV HOURS OF DIFFICULT Ittjl WON'T CALL FOR BRlARif fljMl yi I CAN GET TO FISHTOWN 1l $Bjj GET LOST IN THIS JUNGLE.' wASim TRAVEL. 8EN REACHED THE KHOU OVERLOOKING I J BECAUSE IF HAL JAEGERS i ALONE I JUST KNOW. THAT 1 fM' I'M GLAD I tROUGHT THIS THE. DESERTED CITV - : I GOT HIAA THAT WOULD GWt ! M THE NEBB3 The Spendthrift ' B 801 Hcy (LITTLE CHEAPER r VOU I k.T inkir rUcr-r- TrT nc BO-SP twfv LUERE FOB TCrlRlRLV 5ECA.U5E UJHEM I L v ..'--TiFoS SEVEN! VeftRS ! V CARD FROM AMBVlX TME ROLL, ITS LlKH. UNJROLUM, I V BE MOTMIM BUT PR ICKERSA MOO DOOT COST V ' i -r2 , . . ADHESIVE TAPE. J ,.rV- couPt-E DvsZi-v prTW?fel' , C P rr 1 i y , BRINOINQ DP FATHER B? George MctYlanu O-I f.CTnuTOFMy I WI"lH m HAW BIO IT I WELL1. I MIGHT I 1 I SIGHT BEFORE hfOO WOULD ri hPPEM ThM I WELL . "TUAT' ( LOSC MY I LOSE T- f l I Tv-ti DiDM'T fTI COMDLSTE 7rf I nA I TE.MPB.R- j V - 1 Si I BREAK? " J MJ I TMEOOB- "THT' L1 .V7.V : I I ' ,.-'C A H t ' TRIBUNE, SrEDFORD, Any article not delivered, will be called for If Miss Carlton or the committee Is notified. . CLEVELAND (UP) Is a parking lot responsible for a, stolen automo bile? The Ohio supreme court has under ad v lament a caso that will decide this question and which may have a far-rcachlng effect on all parking lot. The plaintiff. Prank T. Sheehan, whose sedan was stolen July 13 from the Syndicate Parking Lot here, re ceived a Judgment of $680. This de cision was later reversed by the Ap pellate court and Is now before the supreme court. Attorney J. R. Jenvttt, in his brief, said that the negligence was obvious, since attendants should have been on hand to see If the person who took the car had his ticket. "This court should lay down a rule of policy by protecting the public for such instances, as It lies in the hands of the parking station companies more adequately to protect their cars, and If they are not equipped to do k, the owner of an automobile had best leave It at home or park It on the street," RICHMOND, Va., Aug. J3. fAP) Walter Legenza, charged with being one of five men who shot and killed a federal bank mall truck driver dur ing a robbery, was found guilty early today at a trial which lasted only 13 hours. He was sentenced to die In the electric chair October 22. OR EG OX, TITCTtSDAY, AWARD CONTRACT 24 NAVAL CRAFT WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. (AP) The program to raise the United states navy to a power unsurpassed on the seas swung forward today with award of contracts for construc tion of 24 fighting vessels. Eleven of the ships will be built by private shipbuilding yards and 13 by navy yards. The construction awards were: One 10,000 ton light cruiser to the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company, Newport News, Va.. $11,650,000; another light cruiser to the New York Shipbuilding Corpora tion, Camden, N. J., $11,975,000; two 1850 ton destroyers to the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company, Kearney, N. J., $3,046,000 each; two 1500 ton destroyers to the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation, Qulncy, Mass., $3,784,000 each. DURING PAST WEEK WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. (P) The most favorable weather In many months for growing crops was report ed today by the weather bureau in its summary of conditions during t;ie past week. "The best feature of the rains of the week was that they came to areas where the moisture will be of the greatest benefit to crops," it said. AUGUST 23, 193 f. SNAPSHOTS OF A WOMAN C0C1K HOME WHM A LOT OF PlCfJRE POSTCARDS TO SEND TO f RlENDS IK -THE ClfY. FAMILY 3flR$ UNEASIlY SEfS fO WORK WRrfite Fa rtf rm rm SENDING PICTURE POST U K ml SITS pOvVrllbSEHPTrim FiHDIrte THAT PEN HAS 60we drv, which meaxs That hdsbm hasio UP-STAlRS To 6ET HIS BE&IK5 TO SORT CARPS, W0NDERIM6 AOplBW WHICH TO SEND TO WHOM EMBROILS WHOLE FAMI LY IH ARGUMENT OVER COUSIN EMILY WIMPLE'S PRESENT ADDRESS THAT HATTER BEItf & SETTLED JETS FAMILV TO SEARCHING FOR ONE CENT STAMPS, THERE BEING NONE IN DESK (Copyright, 1934. by Tb Bell Syadleata, Inc.) CARDS by glutas wiuiams UULArd MAKES EVERYONE WOK UFf FROM THEIR REAPIH6T0 5EE WHETHER THIS BEACH SCENE OR THE ToWN HALL WOULD BE BEtfER ftR AW MATILDA KO STAMPS BEINfe FOUND PUfS CARDS AWAY FOR F0 TURE MAIUN6 (FROBABLY AFTER SHE 6EfS BACK TO CiTY) AND FAMILY SEfliES DOWN TO PEACE A6AIM By C M. Payno
