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page r?ix fff-tt MEDFORD MATT, TRTBTTNE. MTCnFOKI). OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1934 Is Marian Gordon!' j ft Smi bv JEiXXH w--v I tfr.vuriia. MTartun oord. porter for the Morning lapuw hae eent the tooutd-bo eutcttle, l.'' Hondon. word that Silver, hie wt'( te reconciled. It tavet CUII'e tile, out the meeeaoe te not true. Sow Silver is trying to take Lon Caead, Uarian'e lionet, away Iron her. Uarian hae returnci to Oakland rom Iteno. and i looking over the panere vhioh oontatn the Hondo etoriee. Chapter IT SILVER'S RETURN ,f AKUN turned back to tbe Brat paper and found t aecond atory d the Hondon case. In aurprlae he read the contenta, then aat back orerirhelmed at what the had done to CUD Hondon, In tricking him Into , light Cor life. ' After reading his letter to Bllrer, abe bad realized he waa on the rerge of bankruptcy, but ahe bad not refi lled how deep) be waa lorolred. The newspaper account gare thla In detail, and tbe Inference waa tbat hla suicide bad oeen an attempt to evade bla creditors, ratber than any thwarted lore for hla former wife. Criminal conspiracy to cbeat these creditors waa Indicated, as It was proved large auma of cash bad been withdrawn and bad vanished. While he was lying at the hos pital fighting for life, the sheriff was conducting a sale of tbe remains of bis once valuable estate. Everything save the property be bad given Sil ver aa settlement was being liqui dated. CHS Hondon would live. He would come back from the border of death, weak, broken, to face destitution or worse, a criminal charge with Its ac companying penitentiary sentence. This was what she bad done by In terfering In someone's else busi ness. Eyes wide with apprehension, she sat staring at a bowl of tulips. Five tulips, yellow and purple, rose and red, and one a mottled cup of red and yellow. She didn't aee them. Wben Cliff Hondon bad chosen bis way out, preferring suicide to an eipose of his faiher-ln-law'a crooked method of conducting n!s business, and the subsequent crush ing of Bllver'i life, ahe. a total! stranger had mode blm believe 811- ver waa really tbe woman be bad Idealized, made blm believe be might come back, face the odds and win. ' "Marian Gordon, what In the name of goodness Is wrong with youJ" Anne, pushing a tea cart before her, bad stopped to look down at the girl In the chair. "Nothing," 'Harlan answered. "Nothing . . . and you look like that.'" She stopped closo, shook the other girl. "Snap out of It: tell me what's wrong." "I don t dare tell anyone, mur mured Marian, then "but I've got to tell someone. Anne, promise me If I tell you this you'll never breathe It to a living soul?" "That's an Insult," snapped Anne, "you know 1 don't talk. Ian. What il the matter?" "There are only four persons In the world who know this now. Sllvor Hondon, a man named Max Hamlin, Bowen and myself. Anne. Silver didn't send that message to Cliff. did. 1 made It up and got It across the wire to Dowen before she could tear loose from Hamlin's bold and crab tbe telephone." "ITTHEWI" breathed Anne and sat down In tbe nearest chair. Then sturdily, having recovered ber breath, "You aaved bis life, What are you getting all bat up about nowT"- ' "But, Anne, what good la that life to blm? He'll learn Silver doesn't earn for blm. He'll face tbe charges the newspapers mention and I know be won't tell the trutb and clear himself. Ho'll come back broken to aplrlt, in hope, In belief In anything, and : for what?" Anne didn't answer. She bent ber aleek head over the silver nrn, poured a cup of coffee and thrust It at Marian. "Drink that and see If yon can swallow what I'm going to tell yon at tbe same time. "Ian. I've spent slj years holding the bands of Impulsive men who thought they wanted to die, while they, tried 'heir darnedest not to do IL I'm willing to bet anything I own that It you were to tell Cliff every thing right now, he'd still tight to llva "Aa far aa Sliver's concerned he's lived with her long enough to know ber. As soon aa be gets over the maudlin stage he'll admit she's a tatural born wash-out. "About bla financial condition. trlend CUB la an ostrich. Ha tuck bis head In a bole and didn't I .nnw th rinnert wee full nt frtunilm. By the time yesterday'! paper waa on the street we bad a run of visi tors at the hospital that nearly pot ua out of business. Fraternity broth era, crew brothers, yacht club broth ers. And tbey came bearing gift. Blank checks with signature signed, business offers. One brought a note tbat tbe yacht club bad bid la on the Island home and U tt got It, Cliff bad a permanent honorary res idence at the club. "We got all of these messages through to Cliff. So don't yon worry about Cliff and bla future, Tou'v given blm a chance to live, clean np the meaa be left and when be does check out, he'll have left bli lift la order." She refilled the cup. "When yon get through drinking tbat, to bed with you." Relieved, Marian took Anne's ad vice and when ahe again opened her eyes she lay staring at tbe twilight outside her window. "Should call tbe office," ahe thought, then beard tbe whirr of the telephone and Anne calling that Bowen was on tbe phone. "Well, where In Hades have you been?" waa Bowen's reception. "Llstos, grab a cab and beat It to the airport." "1 won't go to Reno again, pro tested Marian sleepily. "Walt 'til you're asked. Tonr friend Silver la due In from there, en route to Meredith. (Jet In on tbe reunion and give ns a yarn for the early edition. And aay, Ian, good work on your Reno atory; you've got a raise coming" "Don't want It," aald Marian fee bly. And "What?" came the Incredu lous reply. FROM tbe mirrored cubicle where she was dressing, Marian beard tbe sound of tbe ball door buzzer, heard Anne answer and a moment later beard a voice that sent her heart beating double time. "Loo's here," said Anne, unnec essarily, as she entered. "He apolo gized for waking yon, and when told blm yon were already awake, dressing to go on an assignment, he nearly threw a fit, began waving a telegram . . , wait, I'll book that, now you're all fixed; go see what be wants." Marian, wondering at the tele gram, went Into the other room to And Lon, half laughing, bsir per plexed, a yellow slip In bis band. "Little Cheerio," he explained, "look, she's wired that she expects me to meet ber at tbt airport. D'yon suppose she thinks I'm In tbe taxi business?" Marian looked at the length of the missive and said: "At least sbe'e helping the telegraph company." She took the slip and read: Lon my dar, so sorry I mluted you. Am riylni to city to vlalt the ei st the honpltal stop. Dread or deal terribly itop mull hsv. some one I can depend upon to go with me atop feel you are that person atoo cried all morning so disap pointed didn't M rou nervee wrecked don't fall n,e need you stop don't brlna dog stop mint eee you alone etup Mil eipect you at air port elnht twenty thla evening stop your Sliver. Marian bad a desire to tear the slip to shreds. Instead she said cool ly: "Well, what are you going to dor "Dor" be aakej perplexed, "1 don't know. I never ran Into a wo man like thla before. What does one do with them?" "I could mention several things," returned Marian, "cyanide, for one. What on eartl, did yon do on your trip In from tbe cabin that made ber believe you belonged to ber?" "I don't know," he answered honestly, "unless listening to her rant " "Lon, what did you talk about? Think hard did she talk about love or marriage or anything like tbat?" "She atked me If I had aver beta married and I said tbat I hadn't. I'd never considered It until very, very recently. Then sbe wanted to know If the girl waa In the East, and I said that she was In Nevada at tbat moment. 8ht wanted to know wbat aha looked like and I told her the had golden balr and tbat tbe waa the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen and If I had my way about It I'd bave proposed to her tbe moment I saw her but I felt I should let a few daya go by without showing now i a crashed." Marian slid Into tbe nearest chatr and started to laugh. "Tbat't what you get (or calling my balr gold Instead of red. She thought you meant her." (Cttr"4, I'll, h t.) Tsmorrew, Mtrlan gets s present LUTHERAN LEADER IS RE-ELECTED ON FIRST OF BALLOTS SAVANNAH, Oa.. Oct. 19. (AP) Dr. 7. H. Knubel of New York, pre ' ideut of the United Lutheran Churcrf In America since Its organization in 1919, wu re-elected yesterday on the first ballot of the opening session of the ninth biennial convention. Also r -elected on first ballots were Dr. B. Clarence Miller of Philadel phia, the treasurer, and Dr. W. H. . Oreever of New York, the secretary. I A three -fourths vote Is required, j The oonventton enrolled the Even Igellcan Lutheran church of Japan as Ian associate synod. The forming ot a new synod, the Kentucky-Tennes- see, drawing its composition irom tne synods of Indiana and Ohio, also was approved. A change in the method of making nominations to fill vacancies on Church boards and commission and commit too also was approved today and will bo finally voted upon aa re quired by by-laws tomorrow. The change requires that nomina tions must be more than double the number of vacancies so the conven tion will have more than one set of candidates to consider. ATLANTIC CITY, W. J.. Oct. 19. (AP) A warning against the Inter ference of the church In government and the preaching of "radicalism" by the clergy, was heard today by the 61st triennial general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church. "It Is not the business of the church to try to run the govern ment," the report of the committee on evangelism presented to the house of deputies declared, but It Is the business of the church to make good men out of bad men, to convert a paganlatle nation Into a Christian nation by the meth od of the early primitive church the Indivldttal contact, the Impact of the Christian life upon the non-Chris-tlan life. " It Is not the business of the church to undermine governments by preaching pacificism or communism or any form of radicalism, but It Is the business of the church to teach Ita own people to Ih's so that others may see our dally lives as lived In the spirit of Jesus, In order that they, too, may be Influenced to follow the same Lord and Master. A resolution a&klng federal regu lation of the motion picture Indus try was endorsed by tne convention. A resolution offered by the Rev. George Ployd Rogers of Ashevllle. N. C. calling for "supervision (not censorship)" of films before they ar made, was adopted by the house of bli hops ratifying earlier action by the bcSuse of deputies. . COMMUNIST CANDIDATE ARRESTED IN PORTLAND PORTLAND. Ore., Oct, 19. (T) A communist raid by police here last night resulted m the arrest of Earl C. leeward, a, of Morro county, "Communism against Fas clem" candidate for secretary or state. Steward, described as the main speaker at the meeting, was charg ed with disorderly conduct and blocking traffic t RENO, Nev., Oct. 19. (Jp) Di vorce suits filed here toouy Included: Rosa B. Holmqul&t vs. John Holm qulst; married Grants Pass, Ore., Au gust 14, 192S; cruelty. OLD SALOON EVIL SEEN RETURNING WASHINGTON. Oct. IB. (AP) F. Boott McBrlde, general superin tendent of the Antl-Bsloon LMgue of America, said today "everything that belonged to the old order 01 the aatoon la coming baek." "I have not found a governor In any of the thirty-one states 1 have visited sine the first of last January who will openly defend the present liquor regime.' McBrlde said conditions were be coming such that one distillery had circularized Brooklyn nteb school sorority girls "Inviting them to the cocktail hour and expatiating on the delights of drink." As a result, he concluded. Inter est la growing In temperance work- DIFFICULT DECISIONS DENTIST AD LAW TO i I SALBM, Oct. 19. UP) Appeal from the decision of the Oregon su preme court upholding the statute prohibiting advertising by dentists was made to the supreme court of the United States today by attorneys for Harry Semler, Portland advertising ; dentist. ! The suit to test the validity of the statute prohibiting denist advertise -merits was brought by mler against the state board of dental examiners. The Oregon court recently upheld the , validity. 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