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PGE FOURTEEN MEDFOUD MATL TRTBTJNE, MEDFORU, OREGON, FEIDXT, XUGUST 24, 1931 SPOT MMSmSM Chapter 45 FINAL STORM "O0 B60 I oarer had anjooa to lora ma or eara, and 10 many men offered me the thing they called love that I began to think It a rather tawdry thing which grew out of hanger, and made orereatlng and Indigestion afterward. And that made me marry yon as I did. Then, It didn't eem serious." She paused and, because (he was weak, sagged a little. Ha stood up, settled back of her, and pulled her against him. "It Is better for yon this way," he explained, "you really shouldn't be sluing up," "I'd rather talk without looking at you too," she answered. "Do yon understand so tar?" lis said ha did. And ha added, "Let your head rest on my shoul der," and she did. "Well," she went on, after the new position was assumed, "yon loved me and I began to know what lore could be. The sort that is big enough to be gentle, to make real and tender care for the other per son, and to be happiest when the other person Is happy. Yon did de pend on my moods, didn't you, Bob?" "My desr, always." "I thought so. And all that made ma utterly mad no, entirely sane abont you. But I couldn't tell you because It was so real and big that It made me feel like crying lots, and as If something were swelling and crowding my heart. And I nsed to touch your coat and your things In rny room when you weren't there. I suppose that sounds silly." He bent bis head nntl' his cheek was against hers. He couldn't help it; he hoped she would forglre him, and let him hare, for tha tew min utes, that much. "And then," ha said In a rolce that was rough, "Geoff came, and rou found the old lore" "Just as rotten," she said ener getically and characteristically, "as I always knew he was!" "What do yon mean?" ha blurted out, as ha moved Quickly so that he might look at her. "I mean I disliked him loved you. No, there's more lots mors. He accused ma of forgetting. I bad promised to marry hlri sometime, you see, and I said 'I thought yon wero married,' and he made ma tell hlra that that was why I married you, (He couldn't make ma do any thing today!) and then yon came In. And later yon said you didn't want me." "I lied. I did! I will always." "No, It Isn't half over yet. Bob." He felt her grow limp In his arms; he, himself, quloted and controlled every emotion In order that he might soothe ber. "Comfortable?" ha asked, stiffly. He felt her nod, "Bohr ".My dearest?" , "You might kiss me before I go on." He canght his breath sharply and turned her In his arms only to be etopped with a semi-hysterical "No. I won'tl Don't, Bob , . , I'll go on. Hot I'll sit up to do It And you must face me. Flease, Bob." Reluctantly, he moved to settle so that ha faced her. T WANTED to be with you, and to go back with you, after after mother was through with me. Yon won't understand how much I want ed It, because yon couldn't know bow wonderfully beautiful I found It to hate people like you and your mother care. "It seemed sometimes as if It didn't matter how I got back with you, so long as I did. And I planned lot. Bob. how I would make yon lora me Again. It I could get off alone wltb you. You see, no one ever did really care for me before, nor had I ever cared for anyone either. But I am wandorlng dreadfully." "I don't mind, but, my dearest. I am getting close to tha breaking point 1 don't think I can stand much more without " He leaned forward, touched her hands, her arms, her face, her hair with broken little staccato caresses. Cently, but definitely, she put him away. "Not yet;" she said, and then, "Your mother didn't write that note. Bob." "What, dear?" "She didn't write it I wrote It." t Mho Owns Rocking pony MirEnSTBURO. Out. (VP) Karl Hunt owns a live rocking horse wrll, a pony with curling horns for hoofs that resemble sklls. Inhabitants from neighboring towns come almost dally to see the strange Shetland pony with ram -like horny hoofs. Zula, aa alio Is called, rocks like a toy horse when ahe walks on smooth pavement, the rounded hoofs giving her little stability. However, ahe can run much like any other pony In an open field. Earl said. He bent toward ber after she spoke, and lifted her chin with his band until their faces were level. Iler ayes wavered, but did not fall. "I was always a little clever wltb a pen," she said, "I could draw, and always could Imitate writing. I sup pose that helped me to do It and one day when your mother was very 111 I thought 'What shall I do when there's no one?' And It did not seem as If I could go on If there weren't "I was sitting by her desk Fd been writing notes tor her thore was a list In her writing for me to copy, and I wrote that note yon thought she wrote. Then I slipped It la tbe box, when she eh'owed me the things that very afternoon. "I suppose you won't understand. But I kept thinking of being with you, and I suppose I was a little un balanced. It didn't seem to matter much how I got with you then." Her mixed narrative dropped to nothing; she looked at him appeal Ingly. "That's all," she said, "and I suppose the end." And she tried to smile. "No," he said, so seriously that he seemed stern, "It Is the beginning." But she did not understand. "What made you tell me?" he questioned. "I care too much to lie," she an swered simply. "When I felled to destroy It and you found It, I thought I'd let It go. But I couldn't. And trying made me sick, and that's all!" "No!" be answered unsteadily. He stood up, leaned over, and gath ered her up In his arms, and then, with the tangled covers trailing after them, he carried her across tha room, to settle with her In a deep chair. "How long," he asked, when be could manago a whisper, "hare I let yon feel this way?" "Oh. Bob!" Ha felt her groping hands on his face, his hair; felt her sob suddenly and deeply. "You are you ar going to let me go back with you?" she questioned. Ha could not speak, be had no voice; he could only press hla face to hers and tighten his arms. "You," she murmured against his cheek, "you do forgive me?" "Don't," he begged, unsteadily, "It's the other way. My darling!" "yOU'RB really here," she stated after an Interval. He had to bend his head to catch her words. "Dearest, yes!" be answered. She drew a deep breath, and closed her eyes. "A person becomes rather fool ishly uncertain," she explained. "You sea I have thought so much of this; I have dreamed dreams, awake, that were quite as real. I know that it Is not entirely eane, but I'm not sans about you!" And be had once tried to make himself believe it was well, that one of thera was balanced! He mur mured incoherently, as be felt his cheeks grow wet "You know," be heard, "how you used to tell me things things about us, you and me, and athjut being to gether? And you remember how I stopped you? It was because I was conscious of cheating. I am so starved to hear those things, Bob! , Please, please say you care " But he couldn't I Her hands found his cheek wet and the reason for his silence. "I'll make this up!" she promised stri dently. "You'll see, my dearost, how I love you! How I lore you!" Then, with a gasp, he bent his (nee to hers. "And that sudden," sold Bartholo mew but a few days later, "she was well and quite hersolt as one might say." The policeman who had dropped In tor his cup of coffee, nodded, say ing, "And she wss close to a decline, Ella, sba tells me." "Into one," said Hannah. "One ot them miracles, as one might say," Bartholomew added. "Tboy happen," said the man of the law who knew that laws and rules do not corer erery happening. "She's playing," said Hannah In I whisper. From tha front of the houst came tha sound ot tha piano. Sud denly It ceased, that tune, ceased abruptly, because yet another man had become too acutely awara ol ona ot the miracles, and must wltt touch know It to be real, v.- TUB END, milliner, 9r., Takes IMnne Rtde AKRON. O. (UP) John Pllltnger. Sr., spotlighted into peculiar Rlory since the demise of hi desjwrado son, lmd a new thrill here. II went, for his first airplane ride. B. B. Ful ton, Akron airport manager, took the Hoosler farmer sloft while the eMr iMllinger and family were here for a stage appearance. Vital atatlntlrs show 1.0,"7 pairs of twins a net 30 triplets were bom In Kentucky during 1933. SCIENCE PROBING KBW YORK. (UP) What the significance of the recent and con templated Inquiries Into the realm of the cosmic ray? One of the foremost uses of these rays la their application as toots for tlie prosecution of further investiga tion Into the construction of the nucleus, or the core, of the atom. Such research la made possible thru the enormous energy that the cosmic ray possesses. Tli rough this energy It la capable of disrupting a nucleus with greater effect than that which la provided In manufactured and artificial agencies. In this way cosmic rays present a most unique weapon for the further ance of such scientific determina tions. These euper-X-raye, whose pene trating power I the greatest of any ray with which physicist are ac quainted, are called cosmic rays be cause It Is believed that they origin ate far out In lnter-stellar space. What, asks the layman, are the characteristics of these cosmic rays? Come eperlmenta thus far per formed do not completely reveal whether they are ether-light-waves fphotons) or electrified particles. At least part of them, however, do con sist of electrified particles, as has been supported through experiments conducted by balloon ascensions 17 miles above the earth. These bal S MATTER POP BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER BEN SIUNUY ArtO STEALTHILV WAV THROUGH THE DARKENED BR1MU1NQ UP FATHER WILL VOU TAKE VOUR FEET AWAY FROM THAT WiMDOW?HAVE VOU NIO AT AL.L ? iiiiii! s- sj( It4- (Copyright, 1934, by Th Bell Syndicate, Inc TAILSPIN TOMMY Skeeter Checks Up I . . . " ' B? Hal Fo"est -"7 WHAT HAPPENED ")f& HAD IT HAULED I vC SAQ YOU'D VES-THE MAN tOHO IvOU SAY HE. HAO & ''he COULDN'T HAVE '5 4 J) OOHAT OlDYtXJ DO yr) INTO THE HANGAR. V BEEN AlTACIcEJD Zk lOAS SHOT A 3RIEF CA&E Y f& THROWN IT OUT- I N- H j&m tOlTH TH' IQRECtcED Vy UNTIL. WE, COULD V A STRANSE A ROE omt ME-- HE tOHAT HAPPENED TS. "WTCHINS HIM Vg SHIP, TOM? -. ,Jgfe RE.PAR. IT-- lZ5 PLANE.'- AN' TH' SAID HE WAS INSPECTOR TO T-- HO HE. MO&T OK THE TIME Sj :TirC rmTng: -r--Wt "an with vou JTfk ioalters, of the. throo it out op 'jkjx&,Z HE was shooting gl-ir B a t WAS KILLEO-5 lDPfi TKWT jggfg THE NEBBS It's a Bargain By Sol ., roOKJIps- II' MR5. COKJNJte, -v IP MR.POTTS " f VU. EVEtO ROOT THE WOU5G TO VOU i-iko. . x . WAVE VOU GIVEX) YAM 1 SREeiO WJ FURMISWED - DOM'T LEr HIM BUILD vtoodie:-oe-doo. i t akjw odkisidercvtiom Jmvtrimokw, me IffSfm amotwer. house because, iuheu vour V MRS. coMKJie; y ,-tt? buvinjo mv fiwiU- a.ttewd to I eerr vour divorce, well both have ,-i , , . . HOUSE? V THAT AFFAIR. S IAS A HOU5E.OM OUR. MMJD5 AMD VOU y. . iwuii p r.tttfi . , .a l .f.n vf II ..ifpLy ; v . t I loons. Incidentally were not of the size, nor did they carry men aa do the present stratosphere balloon, but they did carry a certain amount of requisite equipment. FARM BQY FELL OUT OF STEEP CORN FIELD BIO LAUREL, Vs. (UP) Corn fields in this section are noted for being steep, but Worley Kllgore, Guest River farmer, has the record steep field. While hoeing corn a few days ago, Wlnfred Kllgore, his 14-year-old son. fell out of the field ana slipped down an almost vertical slope 40 feet be low. Wlnfred landed astride a splintery stump and his thigh was ripped open by a splinter, lie had to be carried to a hospital for treatment. TO BE PURCHASED SOON PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 34. (AP) The agricultural 'adjustment admin istration will begin sheep purchases In Oregon drought areas shortly after August 27, Senator Frederick Btelwer announced. Senator Btelwer said Harry Pctrle, of Denver. Colo,, In charge of process ing of drought-purchased sheep. In formed him that binds on processing and canning mutton would be opened in Washington August 37. Purchases of sheep will begin shortly thereafter, he said. Observation Post MADE HIS AND DKEOTED W AH' THAT mci it uwu; hnu ir MV WATCH 16 OKAV IT OUGHT TO 6E ANOTHER ALL VOU DO TO WAIT UNJTIL VOU SEE GlT COMFORTABLE PO&1TIONJ - THEM VOU HOLLER AT OF MEN'S ORGANIZATION PITTSBURGH, Aug. 24. (AP) The notes of a bugle sounding taps brought the 38th encampment of the United Spanish-American War veter ans to a close late yesterday after election of officers. Judge Leon McCord of Alabama was elected national commander-in-chief by acclamation. He was unopposed. Robert 8. Cain of Pittsburgh, a past department commander, defeated A. F. W. Bselbel of Illinois, 618 to 372 for senior vice commander and Ralph Edmunds of Idaho polled 830 votes to 257 for George A. Marshhall of California In the race for Junior vice commander. Retiring Commander-in-chief Wil liam H. Armstrong of Rafcine, Wis., was presented a chest of silver by the convention and with a pipe by the auxiliary. Rice W. Means, chairman of the legislative committee and former senator from Colorado, was given a check for $2,000 contributed by the Teterans. Means said he and his wife will use the money to go to the Philip pines, where he has not been since the war. Next year's convention will be In San Antonio. v City Sued for Frogs SEATTLE, Wash. (UP) Ja and Mildred Harrington sued the city to day for $10,360 for loss of their frog raising business. They contended the city dug a ditch In their gravel pit and spoiled their profitable business. LOOKS LIGHT HOUR- IllllllireiWrailfflJjrar A.,. winnow G1ve", .' JIIIIUW' as- ... Pr$5MOTjflff ME A BIRD'S-EVE VIEW OF If IB Kf SUT BBM iWMM$M& FISHTOWN, tUT I HAVEN'T i VAM ISN'T WITH HIM faHflU j& JM HOW CAM VOU BE SO SULGAR, AMD COMNOtsl? I AK VOL)'. 1 DOMT KMOW I UMLEI) IT S A r u-.-,,: II tins THE WORLD AT ITS WORST THE CERfAlNTV WITH WHICH A COONTWSIDE "MAT - J FAIRLY BRISTLED WITH "TOURISTS ACCOMMODATED EARLIER INTrtEPAV CHANGES AT DUSK, WHEN VOU DECIDE " iT& Time -To call it a dav to a region of abamdomed FARMS, CLOSED H0T-D06 SIMPS AHD WASTE LANP OH' DEAR.'. WHEN1 THIMK OF TME MUM6ER OF CEMTL6MEN COULD HAVE MARRIED- i;-3 r-iS ALL OF' EM WHOEVER i HtT WERE' MUcjT HAVE SEEM VERV CAHE LE? Mil AlhJ By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Bv C M By EDWIN ALGER HI By George WcMamui n m OH-V7ELL 1 WU2. COIN OUT. fMYWAY. Payni V FTcsl I
