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
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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
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PUfS CARDS AWAY FOR F0
TURE MAIUN6 (FROBABLY
AFTER SHE 6EfS BACK TO
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By C M. Payno