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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOUU. OREGOX. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1934. sfcj4ljl Judith) Lane j Marian Gordon bv JE.iX.XE ttOWMAX A I'., ui't IS . Marian Vaead knows that UcSwatn. the contrac. tor tor whom her husband, Lon Caead, works, is a crook. Nou lie Swain hat pot the upper hand of Lon because ht hold a raised check, apparently ton' pav cheek, and ha convinced Lon that he raised it while drunk. But Harlan, who is lure Lcn t to be made the 'lall guy" in an even more impor tant matter, has sent a letter to the district attorney throuah Wakt, a Japanese gardener she trusts, asking ftjr a eecret meeting at the nursery el TValei'e relative, uashya. Chapter 89 THE MEETING AKI appeared the next morning, (ace wreathed In smiles. He had delivered the letter through Hasbya, and the Gentleman At torney had hurried orer to talk to him. "1 tell him aomealnf." Wakl aald earnestly, "I tell blm. man McSwaln he make rother. he fend him Kanaka boy alia tame watch, alia same bide In bush. 1 link Gentleman Assorney be very much excite. He aay, 1 come two clock before." Marian Informed Lon that night that she Intended driving to town with Wakl the following day to shop for shrubs. "You're an optimist," I.on In formed her. "Do you think his fire eating chariot will make the hill grade?" Marian wondered that afternoon It It would, t seemed doubtful until a powerful car pulled up behind and offered to belp It orer the bump, much to Wakl's embarrassment. During the drive Into the city Marian was conscious of a truck which trailed them at a conserva tive distance, and which parked across the street when tiey pulled up before the florist's. With Wakl and one of the clerks he wended her way through the shrub-dense gardens until she bad lost sight of the waiting truck, then by a rear entrance approached tbe florist's office. "Well young lady, what kind of a mesa are you In now?" The District Attorney rose as she entered. "A Jim-dandy," she admitted, and plunged into a detailed account of everything that bad happened since the night she bad gone to Reno to aee Silver Hondon. "Why In the name of Heaven didn't you bring that letter to me?" he Interrupted as she told of finding tbe letter In her pocket and learning of the un-read page which connected McSwaln with the bribery of Wil liam Brown. "McSwaln'a In so deep be has to take the same rosd out he took In," her friend Informed her, then, "go Marian continued with her ac count of their connection with the McSwalns. When she told of con fronting him with her knowledge of tbe letter, tbe District Attorney stood up. "Good Heavens," he said baking bis bead, "I don't know whether you're brave or foolish." "Foolish," Marian Informed him, "however at the time I was so angry at blm 1 didn't reallre what I was doing." "Little Red Pepper," remarked the attorney. However be did not In terrupt her again, and after she bad finished he sat for a few moments thinking. "Without that evidence 1 can't come out In an open charge against McSwaln. If you try to, he'll close In on Lon and 70u will be a 'felon's wife,' whose testimony would be looked upon as an attempt to gain vengeance for his prosecution of your husband." "Then what can I do?" asked Marian, "I can't let Lon go on this way. I know It would be practically Impossible for Lon to defend him self by saying be was drugged be cause he himself doesn't believe It." "'"PHE only thing you can do," re ' marked tbe District Attorney, thoughtfully, "is to produce the evi dence of McSwaln's bribery and charge him before he has a chance to touch your husband." He paused to look In astonishment at Marian who was laughing hysterically. "What Is so tunny?" he Inquired "1 am." she answered. "I'm the funniest girl that ever lived." "And why?" "Because, Cliff Hondon Is the only msn who can produce that evidence and 1" "Yes, go on." "I spoiled any chance of his doing that. I lied, thinking It might save his life. 1 fought Silver In order to reach the telephone and send a mes sage to him to fight to live. 1 let Hondon and the world believe that It was Silver who sent the message and now be feels he owes bis life to ber, aod be wltl never do any thing to hurt her." "Little old Don Quixote." mur mured her friend, "so you were the one i .. . message. I remem- br tbb Hi-- j l the Emergency Hos pital talking about It. Marian," he said suddenly, "why not go to Hon don and tell him tbe truth?" "Do you think he'd believe me?" she asked bitterly. "I wasn't satis fied with telephoning; I accom panied Sliver to the hospital and prompted ber on what she should say to him." "Isn't there any way of proving this? Isn't there anyone who knowa the truth?" Marian shook her head In the negative, then stopped. Max Hamlin, of course. "Yes, there is," she an swered, "there was a man there; he held Silver's arms while 1 tele phoned. He was the one, I'm sure, who slipped that letter Into my coat pocket You aee. Silver liked Lon as soon as she saw him. She's since threatened f. take blm from me. Hamlin realised 1 might have to fight for him. because Lon knows only tbe Silver I created with my He and thinks she's a grand little sport 'But," she concluded, "1 don't know where to reach Hamlin." "Thare Is only one course for you to take," the District Attorney told Marian. "It's up to you to find Ham lin, let him give you the evidence you need, then go to Hondon and tell him you were tbe one who saved his lite." "Oh, I couldn't do that," protested Marian, "I told that He, It's up to me to take my punishment." ' "You think it wouldn't be honor able, eh?" he questioned. MARIAN thought a moment . . . thought back to the night she had flown to RenV to the scene In the courtroom while the crowd waited for tbe verdict In the Brown bribery trial. "It wouldn't be honorable," ahe conceded In a faltering voice. "And you'd aooner let your hus band go to the penitentiary, either for cashing a check, or as the case now stands, taking the tall for the Maddrn Construction company wben I Insist upon a State Inspec tion " "What do you mean?" she asked, startled. "1 mean that 1 ahall demand an Inspection before the city accepts the East Braioa High school. 1 firm ly believe that McSwaln Intends to bold that check aa a threat over yo-ir husband, forcing blm to take tbe responsibility of tbe school's construction. When it Is discovered that faulty material Is used, your husband will be beld responsible." "You would do that?" she asked. "Can 1 do anything else, knowing what I know?" ha countered kindly. "Marian, on your way home, do this. Drive by Telephone and 42nd, ar rive there at 'bree o'clock, you'll Just bave time. Get In toucb wltb me later on and tell me what you Intend to do." He shook' bands with her, gave her a sturdy pat on the shoulder, then went back to wait until she and her shadow bad left. Marian Joined Wakl In the gar dens, found he had accumulated the shrubs they were to take back with them, then went wltb blm to tbe car and told him where to place them, conscious she was being watched from the truck down the atreet She told Wakl where to drive and fortunately for them they were caught and held In a traffic Jam on the corner, until she bad seen what ber friend had wanted her to aee. There was a high school tliore. the building and grounds covering two blocka. Classes bad Just been dis missed and the atreets were thronged wltb girls. On the parade grounds the khaki clad boya of the R. O. T. C. were drilling. At their head was a slim, sun browned boy In officer's uniform. He looked like Lon must have looked at that age. She saw him wheel to face hla company, shout an order, heard It repeated by bis lieutenants, saw hlrn wheel back, hand ome to his cap in a smart salute. "Howdy, Miss Marian," be called. She recognised him now. He had been captain of a Boy Scout troop she bad accompanied to summer camp for a story and she had been adopted by his group of boys. She responded to the sslute, found It ruined by the sudden forward lurch of the Wakl car, and half laughing, half crying, took one backward glance at the school grounds. Of course 'he District Attorney could do nothing else. She could do nothing else. "I'll fight." she thought, as the car continued Its lurching progress. "I'll reach Hamlin somehow." (CtyrtU, 1W, jr WtjeJ Tomorrow. Lon ones again blor-ks Marian's plane. Ill and lndebtdnes adjusted In line with the farmers' ability to pay. "The Orogon farm debt .adjustment committee," Secretary Brelthaupt and, "are broadly representative of agri cultural and commercial Interest! tn the state. The committees are com posed of state and local agricultural leaders who work on a- voluntary basis without pey and are actuated by a purely unselfish Interest, .having no reason to devote their time to this work, except for the good of their respective communities." PORTLAND, NOV. 14. (Bpl-) Over 3000 heavily Indebted Oregon farm ers have obtained voluntary settle ments with their creditors during the past year and a half, largely through the work of the county farm debt adjustment committees, according to a atatement made here by Secretary L. R. Brelthaupt of the Agricultural Advisory Council of Ore Ron. Mr. Brelthaupt Washington consulting with officials of the Parm Credit administration. The 3fl county farm debt adjust ment committees In Oregon have been Instrumental In settling over 75 per cent of the casea of exces sive farm Indebtedness brought to them, Mr. Brelthaupt ' said. Each county committee la composed of about 5 representative farmers and business men appointed by the state j governor. The settling of most of the exces sive debt cases, Mr. Brelthaupt said, has been a result of personal con tact work of county committee mem bers. The more difficult cases are handled before ft regular meeting or the full committee, the interests or the farmer and hla creditors being presented and the recommendations arrived at by the committee sub mitted to each party concerned. Mr. Brelthaupt stressed the fact that only meritorious cases are being con sidered by the county committees !ED 8EATTLE. Nov. 14 fAP now in j judge jonn c Bowen. acting upon the petition of the Associated Press, tcday Issued ft temporary' order re straining radio station KVOS at Bel llngham from using Associated Press news until a hearing November 19 In federal court upon an application for a temporary injunction against KVOS. Attorneys B. W. Howard and J. W. Kendall of Belllngham filed the com plaint. The defendant was ordered to ap pear November 19 and show cause why an injunction should not be issued against It. The radio station was ordered In the temporary restralner not to "pi rate, appropriate, use or disseminate" any of the news gathered by the Associated Press, or Its members, during a period, not less than 24 hours, in which the news has com mercial value. It was also forbidden to use excerpts of the news or to re write it, ' Klsfted After Dlvorc ST. LOUIS (UP) Mrs. Haze F. Holrkamp was granted a divorce from her husband. Irvin. in a routine suit. Federal But court attaches stared In sur prise at the end of the trial when: Irvin smiled broadly, handed his former wife 150. kissed her and they strolled out of tho courthouse, arm In arm. Use Mall Tribune ant acU THE TABLE LEG By GLUYAS WILLIAMS SlfS DoWU ftR OWNER IN BOSV RESTAURANT. WmiC SfODYlUG MENU, KcfiCES fHW "TABLE WA&B1ES ATfER CDfWERABLE TW 6ER SNAPPING 6E-C& Af 1EHfO OF WftrrER, AHP ASKS HIM "to POT SOME THING IWDER IU OF TABU REM.UES THAT, WAITER HAVIK6 fOLDED THE MErJl) AS A WEP6E, HE HOW HAS NOfHINS TO ORDER f)?0M 10K6 WHILE LATER 6ET5 AK01HER meno, akd tVENTlMLV SOME SOOP. REALIZES fHATYASlE STiLL WABBLES rut- n cecipes the wedsc SHOULP HAVE BEEN Wf UNDER OTHER LE6 AND sniffs rf WHILE D0lW6 SO, B0& bov 1himkin6 he has Finished takes his soup. rWM.-roo.Yrmf table is UNSTEADlER THAN VR feels The root of The TROUBLE MOST 6E ONE COMES UP AT LAST To FiND LARGE MAN SlffiN6 Of tUC OTHER LE&S. AND IrJ HIS PLACE . 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