PAGE SIX
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY. NOVEMBER 26, 1934.
Judith!
Lane j
Marian Gordon
bv JEAXXK BOIKV.I.V
Chapter 4
NEW DAY DAWNS
f ARIAN waited, restlessly for bis
return. "Dad, hare you seen
LonV tae begged aa be came In.
"Yes, fine lad tbat buabasd of
yours. Game aa tbej make them," I
"la be ... la be atill In ... in Jail T"
"No, be haan't been In jail alnce
ten o'clock, I wired bla ball down to
blm and tba District Attorney waa
waiting to take blm down to nil of
See aa aoon aa tbat arrived. He bad
a little conference on there tbat
kept blm from coming out here. I
chartered a plane and flew down,
and the minute I landed be lent me
out here after you. Ready to go on
In?"
"Just wait until I get my bat and
coat. And, Dad, we can take Hero,
can't we?"
"You bet we can; ha uled t'o go
flatting with me and Lon, you re
member . . . hello old fellow, atll!
kind of abaky, aren t you!
Hero ibowed him leant attention
Growling deep In bla throat he made
a round of tbe room and atood be
fore the door.
"Go for a ride In the automobile?'
auggested Marian. "Go And your
leash." ,
Hla attention distracted, he went
for bis leash, but not in hla former
Joyous mannor. He walked sedate
ly, and as they went down hill to
the car In which Gordon had driven
from town, he circled her constant
ly, as It atlll Intent upon guarding
her from unseen enemies, ,.
"Dad," said Marian, aa they start-
ed off, "you said Mra. McSwaln waa
going to need Sllrer. What did you
mean?"
"McSwaln Just did wha't ha forced
hla son-in-law to do, only he made a
thorough job of It. He'a dead."
Marian atared at the bill they
were aacendlng, atarod at the mil
lions of lights below, as they topped
the grade and skirted the sky-line
boulevard, then dipped down-on the
other side.
"How did it happen. Dad?" she
asked at length.
"I don't know, Ian," he answered.
"We cam out by tbe way of Dublin
canyon. There was another car with
ns, with aome of the District Attor
ney's men In It going after McSwaln.
At the cross roada we met aome aer-
ranta whose car had broken down
going some place for Sliver. They re
fused to tell where, nut they told
01 McSwaln had received a ' tele
phone message and had then gone
Into the garden ... a summer house,
1 believe and ... finished off."
That summer house. With Diablo
looming up behind It, undisturbed In
Its tranquillity. .
A for momenta later they: were
driving up before the court house.
Marian hadn't seen It since the
Brown bribery trial. She blinked her
ayes aa they came in from tbe dark
ness outside, then stared In sur
prise. Seated about the big room were
friends and strangers. Hamlin, Cliff
Hondon, Nora Hondon, Anne and
Doctor Steele, William Brown, a tew
itrang men, and Lon.
Marian went straight to Lon, re
strained an almost overwhelming
desire to throw her arma about him
and cry. but aatlstted herself with
sitting beild blm, hli arm about
her, one band gripping hera'tlghtly.
"t V'E waited for you, Marian," the
' District Attorney laid In greet
ing. "Thought you'd like to hear the
whole itory."
"I I would," she faltered, then,
"Will Lon have to go to trial?"
"No," her friend answered.
"Thore's no one to charge him."
"nut, Lon, what were you doing
In Miater McSwaln'a office?" she
begged.
"Digging up black and white proof
of the material he waa using In the
construction of the school. I figured
I'd have to take a chance on robbing
him before be lent me to tbe pen
and 1 couldn't stand by and let that
building go on the way It waa go
ing." Marian looked at Clifford Hon
don. "When did you arrive In town?"
ho questioned.
"Yeiterday. Came in on the Ma
lola, docked at noon and found half
the east bay waiting for me."
"The reason I didn't call you,
Hamlin Interposed, "wss because I
went back to the Steele apartment
I remembered tbat on our way Into
Reno that day you bad talked aboul
your room-mate Anna and her
nance1, a Doctor Steele. I figured
these were the same people.
"I told them about our Interrupted
Interview, said I wanted to bolp you
and didn't l now bow, and Doctor
Steele told me tho facta that Mr.
Caiad had eonfiJcl to him."
"That's waorr you went thai
night," Marian said, turning to blm.
"Yes, I wanted to talk to someone
I could trust who wouldn't be preju
diced one way or the other."
. "After what they told me," Ham
lin continued, "I figured I'd better
check out, and atart tor Honolulu to
see Mr. Hondon, -personally. 1
crossed the bay and the next morn
ing I chanced to read in the morning
paper a list of passengers on the
boat duo In, and found Hondon'a
name there, ao I went down to meet
him." '
"But how did you happen to be
coming to the States?" Marian asked
Hondon.
; "I came because the District At
torney cabled me to."
"Well," tbe Dlatrlct Attorney took
up tbe tale, "In the meantime, I had
bad my office check up on the two
men with whom your husband had
been out the night the check was
cashed. I brought them In. They con
fessed they had switched checks on
Mr, Casad, at McSwaln'a orders."
"We couldn't a done different,"
broke In a husky voice, "he bad It on
us, it waa that or taking a trip to the
Island."
"I believe that," said the District
Attorney, "but I still can't aee wby
you'd let him place another man In
the same position."
They talked amongst themselves
tor a few minutes, then left tbe
court house for home some time
later, the faint grey of a new day
tinging the sky above them. Marian
and Lon and Mr. Gordon drove out
to Lonlan Lodge, but while Mr. Gor
don waa ready to rest tbe moment
he arrived, tbe two younger people
were restless.
"Put on a heavy coat and let'a go
to the hill top," suggested Lon.
With rugs over their arms, they
walked out to watch the day break,
Hero stretched out beside them, his
nose nuzzled into Marian's tree
hand.
,'TpHEY talked for many momenta
x over what had happened In the
past, why she had acted aa she bad,
wby he had acted aa he had. Marian
told Lon a little of what had hap
pened at the lodge that night. She
told him because she wanted Hero
to receive full credit.
And then silently they sat and
watched a golden line creep along
the horizon, edge the pyramid of
Mount Dlahlo's peak, then break Into
golden glory over the valley.
Guess we'd better go back to the
bouse," Lon suggested.
They gathered robes and coats,
covered with the warmth of the late
fall sun, then paused a moment on
the opposite aide of the hill to look
down on the lodge, and beyond to
the ticaerted development project.
Ian," said Lon, "the Hondons are
coming out tomorrow. Cliff Hondon
says he'd like to look our place over."
"Lon, you re not going to sell?"
"Sell this? Sell our home? I should
say not. No, It seems that Hamlin
had Hondon talk to the Steeles. Doo
told him all about my dream of little
homes, and how It had been busted
up by Lansing making off with my
money. Hondon said he figured he
owed a lot to you and he'd like to
ropay It someway, and Anne told
him anything he did for me, he'd
be doing for you.
And so, Inn, he's going to back
me. I'll have to go slowly, and things
may be a little strained financially
for awhile, but "
Oh Loo. I'm so happy. You know
I don't care for money; for anything
but for rod, don't you?"
"I do, Ian," he answored softly;
They stopped outside the lodge,
looked at the shadows of bare limbs
on the house, at tawny chrysan
themums which lined the path, then
went In, closing the door gently on
the new day.
TUB END
SrniNCIFIKLD, Mo. (UPI Scien
tific knowledge, tntbllng on to en
gage In a forthright, two-(Utd grap
ple with evtn the most potent onion,
hai bren mane evsttsble to a waiting
world by a high ichool English clnsn
here.
Required to write a composition
one of the itucunta selected (or IiIr
subject the theory nnd practice of
onlon-sklnnlng. He declared thit
the proper technique was to sub
merge the onion In water before be
ginning the operation, thereby elim
inating the pungent mill which cut-1
tomarlly srleet from the union and
starts a flow of tear from the eyet
of the operator.
Unrominred. a clmumatl decided
to refer this theula to a reeognlrett
expert In onl:n peeling. Rhe wrote
K. I,. Devereauic, cnef ot the Waldorf
A'tnrm In New York, snd was ni
v. ered as follows:
"In r?ply to your recent letter re
nr.r:!ing our imthod of peeling onion
v. j.:UI any that we he.ve found the
ftr.hmrriitnv. the onion In Ice water
while removing the iklm eliminates
th! objectionable remits on the ter
il.cn. We elmerely hope this In
IrrrMlon mil aMlsl you In the m--
itnplesftant task of peeling
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SMS BIG suns
EUROPEANTBWNS
CHICAOO. (UP) Huge savings !n
the purchase of supplies could be ef
fected by American cities If they
were to take a lesson from European
oltles with their hlftily developed
methods of co-operative buying.
Paul V. Betters, executive director
of the American Municipal associa
tion and the United States confer
ence of mayor, reported this to the
association after a summer's study
of municipal problems abroad.
Amazing advancement In pool pur
chasing has been made In countries
all over Europe and especially In Brit
ain, Belgium and Denmark he re
ported. "In these three countries," Betters
said, "the cities have banded to.
gether to operate their own Insur
ance companies. As a result. Insur
ance ratca have decreased tremen
dously." Cities In Holland and Belgium op
erate their own co-p;ra.tiv jank-i
and loans are secured at low Interest
rates, he said.
- The co-operative purchasing move
ment In this country has gained mo
mentum In Michigan, Wisconsin,
Virginia and New York. State leagues
of municipalities are responsible for
the action.
The Michigan State League has
contracted for fire hose for a large
number of Its city members. In
Wisconsin a similar plan has be n
started. In New York and Virgin,
the state leagues have undertaken a
purchasing Information service which
provides to all cities a confidential
Hut of unit prices at which other
cltle are buying materials and supplies.
GRID ACE EATS BUG
TO BACK UP BOAST
FOR7 WORTH. Tex. (UP) Jim
my Lawrence, star Texas Christian
University halfback took the cog
nomen of his team the Horned
Frogs to such literal application
that he went so far as tn eat a bug.
One afternoon after practice some
one entered tho dressing room with
a bug popularly known as a devil'
horse. Some of the boys shied from
it. Lawrence disdainfully reproached
their ttmldty.
"Why, I'd eat the thing for a
quarter." he bragged.
Within ten seconds someone had
produced a 25-cent piece, and Law
rence, after turning a bit pale and
gulping once or twice, thrust the
devil's horse Into his mouth and
swallowed It,
Dances of Spain, Buss la, England
and Japan In costume will be the
feature at open house at Medford
senior high school Monday, Decem
ber 7, at 8 o'clock In the evening.
The public Is cordially Invited to at
tend. Beside the dances, songs will be
sung by the girl's octette and the
boys' octette.
Open house at the high school has
become a- regular annual feature.
Medford oltizens who are interested
in reviewing the equipment and the
work done by the high school stu
dents should by all means attend.
The program will probably take about
45 minutes.
WINDOW GLASS We sell window
glass and will replace your broken
windows reasonably. Trowbridge Cab
inet Works.
THE CLEAN SHIRT
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
II JLJU
6 PlPtfMb URSfAiRS
WHEe, MOTHER CAUi HE
HAD BETTER PUT ON A
CLEAN SHIRT FOR SUPPER
ABWDOMS VIP,! 16 LEAN
OVER KAIL RAILIH6 AMP
AR6UE "THAT HE DOESN'T
fJEEP 1b CHAN6E , This
SHIRT IS JOTECtW CLEAH
COMES DOWKSTAlRfj 1b
SUBMIT1 SHlHf TO fAMIiy
WSPECTiOH
60ES 0PA6AIKI, MW
TER1K6 fHfVf ANVuWf'
HE DOESN'T SEE HOW
HE HAS TIME Tb CWMteE
ST0P6 HALWas' UP To
ask would n'T if be
ErioUfeH jUST To put a
NECKTiE OH ?
EMER6ES FROM ROOM
PRESENftY TO CALL IH
TRIUMPH iHHf HE HASU'T
60T A CLEArJ SHIRf
MOWER DIRECTS HIM
WHERE 1b FiHD ONE
aSK?i COULDNif HE IN '
STEAD Puf A COST ON
Them This shirt. Wouldn't
Show so MUCH
(Copyright. 1934. bjr The Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
LISTENS TO REMARKS
6V FrfHER, SI6HS AND
CHANGES SHIRT
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S MATTER POP
M. Payne
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TAILSPIN TOMMY One Crime Leads to Another
By Hal Forrest
FORTE R PROMISED
he'd coven, n
SH0RTA6E AT THE.
BANK AND GIVE
ME FIFTY THOUSAND
DOUARi IF
MJOULO-
.SO IS STEILINS MONEV
FROM A eANK, RATHBUR.N
I DID NOT EXACTLY .SAY TO
KIDNAP HCR-JU&T KEEP HER
IN-ER.R-3ECUUSION FOR.
TtOO tOeeK.S--THEN tET
HER. SO FRE.E.--AMD VOU AQ
ALSO TOEt
ELKS PLAN DANCE
THANKSGIVING EVE
On Wednesday, the night preceding
Thankuftivlnft, the Elks' club la giving
a dance for Ita member and thrir
Invited gurstfi. at the Elks temple,
Thla ta the wcond of a nor lei of
danciiiK partlea planned for the wtn-
tF MkHstnn It la rit4 Ihit
a lrKe number will be In attemlame. 1 WRINGING UP FATH KR
Robert Strana, chairman of trip C7
dance commutes for the lodte, has
announced that arranRementa are be
ing made for good mmie and that
HS'lal decoration in keeping with
the Thankftgtvins tut son are beln
put up.
SCIENTISTS TO HOLD
THANKSGIVING RITES
nrt Church of 0iat. Scientist ot
Medford, authortreci .jranch of TIk
Mother Church The Flrnt Church ol
Chrlut, Scientist In Owton, Mass
will hold a TliankJVlvlng aervice
Thursday morning, Nov. 2V. at I'
o'clock in the church edtttre '212 N -Oakdsle
avenue. The puhllc is ro
dlsllv Invit-d to attend.
The pro
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