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PAGE TWENTY MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORU. OREGON. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 16. 1934. Judith Lane Marian Gordon bv JEAX.XE ttOWM W KYSUl'SW: Uarian casad's A-is band .oil is worried almost be yond endurance. Bit bote, the cranked contractor UcSwain. holds a check over Lon's head tohteh he eavs Lon hae raised, and vlans to use it to force hie employee to vase defective material in a high school UcSwain's Arm is building. Ifartan wants to tree .on. and to do it ehe must And Max Hamlin, who is the only man tvho can furnish the evi dence necessary to control sic-Strain. Chapter 41 MESSAGE FROM KING THE District Attorney bad laid tbat be believed McSwaln would force Lon to bear the reaponslblllty of the blgb school. Perhaps Lon was realizing tbl; peruana this was what waa worrying Mm. Marian wondered If ha would have to choose between McSwaln'a orders and prosecution . . . persecution. Choosing wouldn't be an easy mat ter for be wculd have ber to con sider. She must hurry her counter at tack. King should have an answer to her query before rery long. Lon stirred, awakened and Ma rian thought aba detected a new attitude as ha arose and prepared tor the day. it was as though be had made a decision tbat night and bla mind was at rest. "Ian." he aaid at breakfast. "I'm going to be late again tonight, only," and be gave a wry smile, "I won't be out with the boys." "Oh, Lon." Sho couldn't help the fears which arose like a bost about her. "Tell you what, Ian, you come tn on the five forty-five and we'll have dinner together; then I'll take you to a theater and call for you." Marian hesitated a moment. She felt tbat after bis vigil of the night before he waa going to someone, either for advice, or with bis de cision. "Lon," she said, "you don't want me to go with you, or know where you are going ... no, don't misun derstand, I don't need to know . . , but, would you want anyone else to follow you?" "I don't know what yon mean.' "I mean tbis, and don't laugh or be bitter. This house Is being watched and I am being trailed. Wherever I go, one of McSwaln'a Kanaka boys follows." "Ian!" He was .shocked, she saw tbat, hut she saw something deeper. He believed ber. "That's why I didn't want bis jgardener here. That Is why I keep : Wakl here. He understands and will ;protect me." He waa silent a few moments, i Marian saw the steeling cf the grim 'lines about his mouth, then be spoke. "Can you find someone to come out and stay with you?" "No, this is the Steeles' Saturday night on duty. I'm not afraid. Hero will give the alarm; I have my re volver and as I said, I know bow to use it." "Maybe we'd better take an apart ment in town," he aaid in a worried voice. "No, I'd rather not leave here." She didn't say she considered It In advisable to frighten McSwaln Into action before aha had tha evidence she needed. "There's really no dan ger, aside from having someone know every step 1 take." "I won't be out late," he promised. TJE wasn't, but until he waa well 1 within the gatea of borne Ma rian stood guard at the window. As he approached the house from the garage she noticed that his arms were II lied with bundles. "Ran Into Tony Oaiettl, and he aent these things out to you," he explained, handing her a box which she found contained Mrs. Gatettl's famous chicken ravioli, "and this." be banded her an armful of ahaggy astega In rose and purple, pink and mauve. "These, 1 brougbt," and Marian accepting the two small cornucopias flashed him a smile of understand ing. Violets and marigolds. It proved that by some alchemy of thought, his understanding of ber and belief In ber bad been restored. "Ian." be said, after ahe bad ar ranged the flowers In bowla and joined bim at tha Oreslda, "I'd like to hare a aerlous talk with you. To begin with, do you trust ma?" "Trust you? In what way?" J mean, if in the fulure I were to do things that looked mighty strange to you, would you and could you overlook them, knowing I did them with a purpose?" "Now that you've forewarned me I could and wcu'd." "I am going to spend tomorrow with .McSwaln." "Oh. Lon." the words fleshed out of their own volition, "be careful." "Don't worry," he sitlled at her, .a t worry, be bad said, aa If ttio could keep from worrying while he was with any member of that family. And then a new question arose. Is McSwaln In town again?" aba asked. She remembered Lon having said be bad returned to the northern part of the 8tate where he was bid ding on a building. He comes In on Sunday).," Lon said. "He sent word today that be wanted me there for a conference." But tbat won't take long," Ma rian Interposed. "No, but he also left word that I was to come prepared to stay tor dinner." Oh," a monosyllabic answer. It sounded stupid. She felt stupid, but after having promised to trust bim. . . . "Will you ba too lonesome here?" he asked. "Why don't you telephone your folks and have them drive down, or you might tako me over, then drive up and sea them." "No," she answered, "I'd rather be here . , , right here uu the spot I'll read and then there's the radio." But she didn't read and she didn't even look towarda tha radio. Tbe day waa warm and clear and aba worked In tha part of the garden from ffhich sbe might bear a tele phone, and when she could find nothing else to do, followed Lon'a newly formed habit of pacing up and down the path which led to the bill top. , Inaction, ahe decided was more trying than actual suffering. To be forced to wait while unseen forces seemed to be gathering about ber was tbe most nerve wracking ordeal aha bad ever faced. "Here I sit while be goes putting bis bead Into a noose," sbe thought once. Not tbat she waa sitting, or felt sbe would ever sit peacefully again. HERO gave a short bark. Some one coming. She raced to tbe top of the bill boplng to see the fa miliar V of Lon'a car; Instead aha saw tbe snub-nosed top of Wakl machine valiantly trying to make tbe grade. Wakl bent earnestly over the wheel as It by pushing ha would help. His face waa beaming when be arrived. May at hla side. Tbey bad coma to call, he explained. May wished to see the garden, but first tbe Inside of the bouse. Marian conducted them inside and, assured that be wasn't being observed, Wakl brought a telegram from the Innermost recess of tbe coat, sweater and vest ho wore. Marian tore It open eagerly. It was from King. "Have locatd party stop h IS walling at Oakmera for word from you stop suggest you telephone for appotntment atop advlsa Immedi ate contao' John." Marian read the telegram, then looked at the mantel clock. It was five-flftoen. She could make the five forty-live wltb Wakl's help, and the car would go downhill, of that she was sure. She would leave May tu catch any cbanco call from Lon, and to guard the bouse. Like a whirlwind she flew Into town clothes, pulled tbe new bat down over her hair at a rakish an gle, grabbed gloves, purse, keys, talking meanwhile to May. "If any strangers come, don't lot them In," she admonished, "and don't let Hero out. Better keep the lights on, and tba blinda drawn. If Mr. Casad cornea home, tell him I went to . . . let'a see . . . to Mrs. Steele's. Remember that?" "I remember sat," May assured ber. "I say, Mis Casad, she go Mil Seeles." "You'd better say Anne Steele," Marian decided, "and It he needs ma you have bim telephone there, won't you. May?" "I do." Tba Wakl car charged down tha Hill, V.irlar, huddled down In tbe front seat trying to look as much Ilka Mra. Wakl as her tall form would allow. Perhaps her ehadow would decide the Wakls had mere ly come to call and were returning home, and would atay on, guarding the bouse. They reached the depot Just aa the electric train pulled In and Ma rian was relieved to And no trace of a Kanaka boy or anyone else wbo seemed Interested In her, tn the background. Aa they sped towards tha city, she thought of tha wire. The Oak mere. je of tbe more obscure ho tels. She would go directly to Anne's, then telephone frcm there and wait tor bim. (CsiwuU, I'il, r hens ,...) Marian's talk with Hamlin Is dis turbed, tomorrow. E GROWN 100 EASY SMS I COURT 1 DETROIT. (UP) IVno soon will be crowded out of the divorce pic- AKRON, O (UP) Ohio's Mason nre going to battle om propaganda" whlrh lieve largely renpormlble 35.000 insidl- they be for "law- lesfnesa and lowering tone of mor- ture In favor of Michigan. Judge l,, "7"uu; . Theodore J. Rlchter of the Wayne Circuit court believes. Divorces have become as easy to obtain here aa In Reno and Michi gan will soon be the divorce centre of the United State aa well as a large portion of Canada. Children are the Innocent victims of these divorces." he said. "Ninety per cent of the caws tried In Juve nile Court concerns the children of divorced psrents. They have been robbed of their homes and left with none tA guide them. If you study the background of most criminals, you will find they never had a home In the real sense of the w ord . The y a re of d 1 vorced parent, or there waa no religious training In their homes." Judige Rlchter suggests that the ; church takes Its part. He listed three , things the Church might do: ; Work for uniform divorce laws. For the establishment of a court ' of domestic relatlcns. Set up domestic relations com mittee to go Into families which face - a break up, follow the cese through the divorce courts tf the divorce cannot be prevented, and see that, the children are properly cared for. unanlmoua support of the 105th annual grand assembly of the grand council of Royal and Select Masters held here. "We declare our unalterable op position to eommunlcm, socialism. sovletlsm and fascism, or any other administrative system opposing our representative and constitutional form of government," the resolution said, "well knowing that In those countrle in which these systems pre vail, personal liberty ceases, free speach and a free press are pro hibited and the Institution of free masonry destroyed." QUINTUPLETS GET (MIMAS GIFTS CALLENTJAR, Ont., Nov. 16. (UPI Christmas gltts have started com ing early to the Dlonne quintuplets and today five tiny girl babies all had new mittens to keep tneir hands warm during their dally open air naps and new preambuiators tor their outdoor naps. N Slcplng baps were given them some days ago. Identification necklaces, from the North Bay Ola Home Week committee, will be presented shortly. The only additional present the babies need now. Dr. A. R. Dafo?. said. Is an ultra violet ray lamp tor their sun baths. SUBURBAN HEIGHTS By GLUYAS WTLLUMS The motto of Minnesota la "Etolle du Nord," meaning, "the Star of the North." The huge lake formed by Boulder dam In Nevada Is expected to be 115 miles long and 8 miles wide. One bucketful of water may breed i enough mosquitoes to Infest a com- rminlty. 'I tSf ON THE APttRNOON TriKT THE LADIES' J lhJ CLUB MEEf5,'Ei;ERV OWE ENVIE6 X &r ERKllE PLUMER WHO 15 THE ONLY j prA MAM INI -fOWNf VHO DOESN'T HAVE ! TO WALK HOME FROM THE STATION, ; jjp - BECAUSE HS vVlFE DOESN'T PiAV &RlD6 j: 1Mb Copyright, 1934, by The Bell gyndkate. Inc.) AMlUftr5l ' S 'MATTER POP TURTLE EGGS HATCH AND THUMP ON PIANO $3,158 IN CAMPAIGN' HOUSTON. Texas W, Two month ago Mrs, Ethel Reich el Houston and her hushsnd went fish. Ing on a cree. near Bugarland. Tex where they found a soft-shf tr tie's nest and took from It nine eftrs Agalmt the advice of her hurnand 9ALFM, Nov. IB APt Peter Ztn. merman, who placed second in the .ontet for tne governorship of the aute, as an Independent canrtl- ! dAte, stent I3.1M In hla campaign, he repoted to the 8tM Depart ment toda.. Bruce Ppa'ildlnf. PemocraMc candt- date for district attorney of Polk Mrs. Reich washed and pMlahed theJ.0UntT f,rrnf,(i im snd Chnrles egrs and tk them home where they edorned the piano top aa decoration. Several ntghta later Relrh was awakened by noise emanating from the puna similar to those n-nlch might he expected from an unskilled planlat. He found tha eggs had hat-hed nine blinking, but very much alive turtles. They were slowly walking along the keyboard. M Crandall, publican candidate for d'atrlct att-vney of Malheur county apent CLEVELAND V?i Hot dogs numbering 4VAOO, IS barrel of sauer kraut. lOOO loavea o! bread. S(H pounds of coffee, were M ftOOO per sona at Republican pol.ttcal rally , her. 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