PGE FOURTEEN
MEDFOUD MATL TRTBTJNE, MEDFORU, OREGON, FEIDXT, XUGUST 24, 1931
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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."
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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
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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
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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.
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