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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY. JUNE 9, 1935. 8YSOPSI8: To set Quy We turn, to whom ahs owes a great ileal, ,4 Its oh Rede hat been forced to run away from her stepmother-to-be, Daphne Sumers. Daphne ban -( only bemused AH&on'a easy-going father, but has let Alison know she expects to rule her as well. And Guy fe.ems odd about Daphne, and suspicious, fie just has told Alison they must not meet or a while. Chapter 23 THROUGH THE WINDOW ALISON'S heart sank. "But suppose there's something 1 want to tell you," she protested. "Ring me. My number's under Dundas, Or, Noel Dundas. He's a friend ol mine and I'm staying with him. Any time between nine and twelve, or after seven, you can catch me there." "Thanks, Dundas. All right But there's just one thing. Vou haven't forgotten what 1 asked? About my getting a job?" she appealed. "I may need It." "1 haven't forgotten," he returned. "Let me know If anything else, any thing funny, happens." They had stopped at the corner and were standing on the pavement. He took her hand, held H tight, and for a moment Alison thought that he was going to say more. Then, abruptly, he dropped her hand, Jumped back Into the car and drove off fjutckly without looking back. Alison walked slowly along to wards No. 712 Chester Square. He had been very mysterious she thought. First the mere mention of Daphne had upset him, then, all through their long conversation he had given her the Impression that he was Intensely excited, almost nervous over her news. His questions about It all, partic ularly his question about her father's wedding, his statement that Daphne Sumers might be someone that he knew, all fitted In with the Idea that what he knew of Daphne was not to her credit. But If that was the truth, why did he not come and meet her straight away or suggest that he might And some chance to see her when she came to Chester Square? Surely he would know her If he saw her again. "It's funny," thought Alison. "It's almost as If be was afraid of her." Yet she could not doubt Guy. Whatever his reasons were for keep ing back what he knew, she felt that be himself was clean and straight When she had told him that she trusted him, she had meant It com pletely. She trusted him now. Only her curiosity was roused and she found herself trying to think of possible reasons why he should want that ten days silence. Why was he so anxious that she should not tell Daphne of their meeting? What was he going to do? Hating lies, Alison would have hesitated to give her promise hut for one thing her feeling that Daphne on her side was deliberately making mischief. And she had argued with herself that after all her lunch with Guy was no business of Daphne's anyway. If she chose to ssk questions about a matter that did not concern her, she must ex pect evasive answers, that was all! AT the time, with Guy waiting for her answer, she had not hesi tated, had felt that to refuse would sound as If she did not trust htm at all, so she had given the promise at once. But now, alone and back on the familiar steps of her own home, she foi nd herself hoping that neither her father nor Daphne would ask any questions, that she would not be forced to He. And she comforted herself with the thought "If he knows something about her, father ought to know it too, before he gets married. It'a In his Interest to And out" But to find out what? She wished that Guy had given her an Inkling of what he suspected, of bis connection with Daphne or the wouian whom he fancied might be Daphne. Was It a love affair? Alison wondered. Had he himself at one time been In love with Daphne Sumers, on the verge of marriage perhaps, and had (he found out something which had 'made him change his mind? Much as she disliked and distrusted the woman her father was to marry, Alison found herself hoping that that was not the truth. The Idea of Guy having been In love with Daphne hurt Vet the more she thought of It, the more likely that solution ap peared; it would account for his showing no wish to meet Daphne face to face. "Mrs. Sumers has left, miss." There was a faint note of rebuke iu ASTORIAN GUILTY SHOOTING POLICE ASTORIA. Ore.. June 8. (AP) Arnold MattAon, fisherman, wa con Ticted In circuit court on charges of auault with a dangerous weapon here todny as the result ol an at tack on two members of the Oregon atat police Liny 13. Sergeant Kenneth Healea ana state trooper Cal Throme were shot when tliey approached Mattsons car iter thp latter's brother had in formed officers thnt Mattaon was armed and waa threatening to shoot Andy Gorman, driver of a car which Itguied in an accldpnt In which Mattson was injured aoveral months ago Dolense ba.-cd iu plea on tempor ary Iiim ni i y aswr i ed 1 y r e.Mi It 1 ng from in Junes sustained in the mis hap. Sentence was delayed and 3U days were grant -i t-j : motion for a r.ev. trial Cat Mai) Tribune want a da. Perter'i voice "ne waited half an hour." Half an hour late! If Daphne could enlist her father's anger on ei. small a point as that delayed answer over cream, what would she make of this? That vas Alison's first, dis mayed thought as she looked at the ball clock. Her second was that It might be worth while trying ro catch Daphne at her house. If she could see her for a moment and apologize! "Get me another taxi, Perter." She dived Into her bag to be certain that she had enough change. "Oh, what Is Mrs. Sumers address?" "Number 13 Bolleau Mansions, Fulham Road, miss." Perter prided himself on never forgetting details; he could always produce a telephone number, once heard, without the book. It took the butler a few minutes to get hold of a cab and though Alison told the man to hurry, be was either too deaf to bear or too old to care. His cab was even more mad deningly slow than taxis generally are when one Is In a hurry; he seemed to choose the longest route on purpose and hjs engine was aa ancient as the man Bolleau Mansions, too, was at the far end of Fulham Road and it seemed to Alison that that must be the longest street In all London! Unfortunate enough to be late doubly unfortunate today, for Mrs. Sumers would be sure to ask what kept her and whom she had lunched with and after all It would be neces sary to lie! VI f HEN the taxi stopped at last, ' Alison came tumbling out, her purse ready In her hand. She thrust money Into the old man's Angers without waiting for change and ran up the long steps. Bolleau Mansions was one ot those huge blocks which are on the divid ing line between mansions and workmen's dwellings; a grim, grey block with stone steps and no porter or elevator. A hurried consultation with a green notice board In the hall showed Alison that No. 13 was next door and would be a basement flat She ran down again and hur ried along the pavement, was turn ing In towards the right door when she stopped dead London waa darkening, as London can in late autumn, even D half past three In the afternoon. In the basement flat that faced towards the road, the lights were on, thin net curtains hardly veiling the Interior. Alison, turning up the steps, found herself looking down Into a lighted room, a sitting room furnished brightly1 but not expensively In modern furniture of red and black and shining chromium, a big silver divan with red shining cushions oc cupying the space under the window. But it was not at the room itself which Alison stared as sho stood there as though glued to the pave ment It was at the two people In side. A man and a woman. They were standing in the middle of the room, locked in each other's arms, their eyes closed, their lips clinging In a long kiss. A slight, very dark and foreign looking man with a smalt black moustache and Daphne Sumers. Alison turned suddenly upon her heel and walked away. She walked straight down the road, her mind whirling, her heart seething with anger. It was horri ble! The whole thing shocked her profoundly by its meanness that Daphne should choose to get engaged without love was had enough but to let another man kiss her like that! For It had been a lover's kiss. No mere relation would greet one like that Those two had been wrapped up In one another, lost to all the world. What should she do? That was the problem which faced Alison. Halfway down the Fulham Road, she boarded a 'bus and sat there still wrestling with the answer. Tell her father? On the face of it, he ought to know. Yet to Alison, scrupulously fair always, there was something unfair and dastardly about such a course. To look In a lighted window was in itself uncom fortably like overhearing a private conversation. To use knowledge gained like that to end Daphne's engagement was like playing the spy. Yet could It be right to let her father go on; allow him, unwarned, perhaps to ruin his tlfe? (Copvripht, 193$, Evelyn Jf. Winch Alison flott vary bad ntwi, to morrow, from her fithor. ALLIED VETERAN O RANTS PASS, June 8 AP) Formation of an Oregon Allied Vet erans Council by representative ol the four larger veterans organlta tlons. was urged In a resolution adopted by the state convention ol Disabled American Veterans of the World War here today. A Joint state convention of the four organizations D. A. V- Veter ans of Foreign Wars, United Span lab American War Veterans, and American Legion for next year was also proposed. Time and place of the 1938 con vention was left to the incoming nft'.rera. to be nominated and elect ed later today. The coin em ion will end tonight with a ball and with scenic trips to the Oregon Cave and other points Sunday. Use MaU Tribune want adj. SHORTER HIGHWAY TUNNEL THROUGH SEXTON MT. URGED Survey Also Favors Route Changes Roseburg And Grants Pass And Curve Straightening SALEM, Ore., June 8. (AP) The alignment of the Pacific highway be. tween Roseburg and Grants Pass was found to be generally correct, a rec onnaissance survey of a super-highway between the two points Just completed- by the state highway depart ment revealed. ' The survey has not yet been pre sented the highway commission but was made for the dual purpose oi finding If it were necessary to change the entire Pacific highway route, ana for the Improvement of the route tf federal money were available. The cost of the construction would be 87,684,000 and would save from 10 to 11 V& miles over the present route, depending upon selection of several alternates. The distance of the present route Is 77.23 miles. The new highway also would re- q'lJre at- laat three major tunnels and four small ones, the highway department's survey revealed. The maximum grade would be 0 per cent with a maximum of 10 degree curva S-MATTER POP- TAILSPIN TOMMY Mao "Signs Off! MAC! THIS IS OUR CHANCE 1 Hffl DROPPED tfc 12 BY ONE OP THAT TORE THE F-CDSRA PLANM, TOR.S A HOLE. THROUGH IN THE CO ALL" THE FRISON CELL. IN WHICH TOMMY iRE INCARCERATED ' 2205 -Jl jju 'ZV l $)e.s7--. BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Tending the Wounded Bv Edwi Alger I "TwHATRE VOU "VOONT ARGUE If BE DAD,An'A CjOIU' IK) I I W OHO! 'bUNWn' VOUR. EVK. 1 1 WELL. GOT ALU TUEIrT LUKE' WEVE COT TON AFTEH.TENDIN' NOW. LUKE- Ub- FOR A LITTLE SAFETY TOO, EH ? BACK FROM THE AmLLHW- HE'LL K ffifi I WHAi OUNDREL I GIVE ME ll, FIR9T ILL ROUND UP ? waL.HOW CHIRFTS? iN A MINUTE OUT Wte ' f 0V VFOR?SOMEWAIERi; WhEIR 6HOOTN' RON& sMk WAS IT DOWN THER6 f Jj TW6MlZ!? $ " j'UN ' ggjfj&! r-JTHESE MEN inc rtJUoDiS j H-nuy lueuvitig xuu nere f IU TUIS FORTUNje TELLER, BUT A&v?S vTOOP?SS S ' ftr-' CO THIS AFTgRKJOONJ SO T A BIT OUST AS A MATTER. OP CORIOS1TV tCERE MlSwr BSOME- 4 't v n I OUST CAME DOUJM HERE ) WlL SKJEAIIIO TO SEE LUMAT S)5sa TMiKJS TO THIS APTER. ' 4L t 'dK i l To SEE KJWO TME SAPS i 7 SHEW AS TO SAV UyH ALL. BUT 1 LUOULOki'T ? !" asJSt&jST' kLOEKE VUWO'O FALL FOR. f ZzZ inr; jjurtutiii I'AiuiLX Keiaiives versiis DiJoniacy Oh such netvei My sister Listen Jo. Ches' What has Just before we left J You mean I W Also.from what Gus said And who were in a deUr f,v I m h SbTd let's lose f man Um? ,n 4 Ches told fMd ,kowbw) 0'm PS' ive he knows whlre cares about) (one fd! move l Chi, Z,T,JL' l21hea,d3a1d ff war,C VlliewashlS to people who li we we and Ud that? Who wi fe UD L the rhi li4L M - j Tift U ! l n' SM' ture. Much of the new route would be over the present highway. The highway would leave Roseburg on the present road to Shady cross ing, where It would run on the east side of the Southern Pacftlc railroad 'tracks and Join the old road at Kelly's corner. About five miles south of Roseburg the route would go by the way of Roberta mountain for the major saving of the entire stretch, a distance of four miles. If that alter nate is adopted. This route would require a 1300 foot tunnel and would eliminate the old road through Dlllard. After Join ing the Pacific highway on the other side of the mountain the super pro ject would follow the present system nearly to Grants Pass, with the exception of straightening curves and eliminating some grades. In the lat ter process three small tunnela would be built approaching the summit of Canyon mountain, and a 1752-foot tunnel at the summlnt of Stage Road pass and a small one approaching It, the survey showed. The second big alternate would be at Sexton mountain. Going through the mountain a 3100-ft. tunnel would be necessary but the distance would be shortened by more than a mile over the other proposal which would go around the mountain near Leland, requiring but a 1400-foot tunnel. By the Sexton route the distance between Roseburg and Grants Pass would be reduced from 77.21 miles to 65.07 miles. By way of Leland the distance would be 66.72 miles. The highway could be traveled at a speed of 100 miles an hour. Madame Perkins Talks i SOUTH HADLEY, Mass., June 8. (AP) Prances Perklna, secretary of. labor, returned to Mt. Holyoke col lege today to attend the reunion of the clasa of 1002, of which she was president. ! 80MB A HOLE J OURCHANCHl NA-zlLiANSO SAV-'PBoivn-o I 1 Wa CAN G6T TOTHEY u3CTTCHeR'H!3L ( "MwE MAY BE ABLE TO . I'M SONNA &RAB TH' F IRST L,1 THAT SOCIQ DARBMOS UMA VUECTA' BSAROROMt BEraE,-ri.It SONNA SsUs'k-(i" pBAB A PLANE.-Xi?.) BANANA EOAT OUTTA HETiffi "5 TCR A HOLE JL Me AN' VOu lOill TAKE K TUcv huc no- aCjSS328 DO? rSfiB?j. Vfc' kr, .--?( Lckkiov'SDOOLuck' Av A IOAUK- FTWJirii IS 8 I WUU.NES3S IT- , I msmzvi z.7r A$wnLvsejr awar ai js& t VEIERAN TEACHER SAYS KIDS EASIER SALEM. Ore. (Up) "Children are easier to handle these days than they were when I started teaching," aald Miss Margaret J. Cooper, who re tired this month from active teach ing service after more than half a century In education 53 consecutive yeara as teacher and principal. "The modern teacher facea few real problems of discipline. In the old days we were supposed to use the rod on puptla. I never did much be cause I soon found It did little last ing good. Talking to an unruly stu dent was easier and more effective," she said. Mlaa Cooper started teaching In 1883, immediately after her gradua tion from Willamette university that year. For 19 years she taught claas and for the laat 33 yeara ahe has been principal of Garfield, Park and Cen tral schools In Salem. Her first teaching Job paid $40 per month for handling 60 puptla In the ft rat three grades. Many families have had two gen erations educated under Miss Coaper and in one instance three genera tions. Little David Berger entered her achool a few days ago, both hla father. Dr. Armln Berger. and his grandmother, Llllie Steiner Berger. having gone to school under her. Legislation passed by the general assembly of North Carolina In 1913 makes It a crime for college boys to haze. 1 " 1 IT . y y- --- - ; LOST if EtiYERS MOVIES WITH WiFf. cwfr see a -Thing, ccme in trom -rue um friE DARKLESS HURRIES BACK UP AISLE, 6RABS HER ARM AND TELLS HER lb C0C1E ALONG 5 "TELLS WirE 1b SfiCK C1ASE sohev joN'retf SEP ARATED AMD HURRIES DOWN 1HE AISLE lb CATCH up with The usher in -the blackness CRASHES INfO WOMAf) WHO IS ON HER WAV 0U s-mansE voice cries ".SIR!" realizes rr 6Nif H wire , AMP dashes off up The: WALKS up and down AISLE 11RVINS fO LOCATE WIFE BV' S0TTLY CHlMb her hame: (Copyright, 193S, by The Bll SynJiMtt. Inc ) By GLUT A WILLIAMS WW6I2E5, puus him self fogEfriER AND RE ALIZES his Wife is Ho LON&ER BESiPE HIM viont BEsitf to fifffl?. DROPS I Nib SEW Af REAR AKD NERVOUSLY" WArfS TbR THE LI6K& 1b COME UP tf" irJfER -M'SbiOM By C. M. 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