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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFQRD, OKEGpy, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1935.
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ON TIME
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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BYNOPBIB: Aliaon Rede realiaea
aha ta beaten. Bhe knowa that
Daphne Bumera, who it marrying
her father tomorrow, to an adven
tureaa. and that her tovor U the
proprietor of the Bpanteh hotel in
which the Redee plan to apend their
honeymoon. Daphne hae even con
vinced Ur. Rede that Alteon ie "a
I1KI0 touched," and ehe hae poi.
eoned Aliaon'e mind againal the
man toho might be her only friend
Guy Lumley.
Chapter it
BURNED LETTER
rvAPHNE u at the door; Robert
Rode opened It (or her. Alison
standing rigid, paralyzed bj shock,
watched them go out together and
heard Daphne, In the hall, murmur
My dear, that's It! I'll speak to
Doctor Mortimer for you and 1 know
a wonderful maid."
Alison did not move but she found
her knees shaking, her hands trem
bling, as It she had fever.
No matter what happened now,
her father would never again be
lieve herl She would be carted off,
helpless, to Spain with some grim
maid chosen by Daphne to support
rthe hideous pretence that she was
victim of hysteria and nerves!
She stared at the fireplace blank
ly, wondering If she were to run
away tonight, escape, whether she
would be safe. Would they chase
her, catch her, bring her back, even
shut her up, perhaps. In some
ghastly nursing hornet
The whole familiar room seemed
to have grown cold and horrible, un
friendly, as she stared down Into
the fire.
Suddenly she stooped, caught up
a scrap of torn paper.
Charred at one corner where It
had been lying on the Iron bars, It
burned her but she did not know It.
For she was staring at the words
scrawled In a clean, firm, hand, cut
short by the diagonal tearing of the
sheet
" f you know, Allso " and be
low " et no answe " with at the
bottom the bold signature "Quy
Lu " ending In burned dark brown
edges.
A letter to herself from Guy!
She had a swift vision of Daphne
standing by the oak chest In the
hall. So that was what she had been
doing there I That was why she had
stood with skirts outspread before
the fire!
A red blase of angor swallowed
Alison's fear. She dropped on her
knees on the hearthrug, gathering
up all the charred bits she could
find not more than bait a dozen
little pieces and two of those al
most burnt!
She hoard the front door shut, as
she stood up. Her father was at the
door when Alison pushed past him,
both hands guarding those small
fragments of a lettor. She heard him
call after her and paid no heed as
she fled up the stairs, gained her
own room and locked the door.
rpHEY would not fit.
Here a word, there a tiny bit
of a sontonce clear, tantalising her
by hinting at the uncompleted mean
ing. She had pushed aside her brushes
end little pots, had spread the
burned paper out on the glass top
of her table, trying each bit to each
as one trios to Bt a Jigsaw puizle,
but they would not make sense.
Guy bad written to her; had left
the letter, probably, since he had
not bad time to reach her by post;
that was all that she know when she
sat back at last, bafTled. Twice dur
ing that long session, she had hoard
her father's knock and had listened
to hlrn pleading with her to open
the door. She had answered care
fully, reasonably, sanoly, "1 don't
want to talk just now. I'm going to
bed. Please leave me alone."
She bad heard him go back at last
to his own rooms and now, looking
out, she could see that his light was
off.
Half past two; too late to steal
down and ring up Guy. By morning
Daphne might have the doctor wall
ing, have engaged a maid to spy on
her, she might be a prisoner!
She opened her evening bag and
counted out her small store of
change; nine shillings In cash. But
she had jewelry, enough perhaps
to keep her until she found work
Best to go at once, tonight, to an
hotol whoro her luggage would In
sure her having time to sell what
she possessed.
Her own suitcase was upstairs,
stored In the attic; she dared not
get It, since that would mean tip
toeing past her father's door and
up the servants' stairs. She found
an old round hatboz which she had
used to keep some private, treasured
school mementos.
ALBANY. Ore., June 24. ( AP) Linn
county farmer In large numbers are
moving to take the "dryness" out
of farming by Installing Irrigation
systems.
County Aent Floyd Mullen today
ssld approximately 40 Irrigation
plsnts have been Installed the lait
two weeks with still more planned
Practically all the new plants In
clude centrifugal pumps, Mullen aald.
and the motive power most popular
Is electricity wherever It la available.
Wells and streams are the water
sources, In about equal proportions
Farmers are about equally divided in
favor of overhead sprinkling and
gravity flood ayatpms.
flpring planting mas so delayed and
She put these on the shelt and
tilled the hatboz up. She changed
quickly Into the grey suit, added a
grey felt hat and little marten fur,
her stoutest pair of gloves and thick,
dark shoes. Yet It was already past
three when she unlocked the door
quietly and stole very softly down
the thick maroon carpet of the pas
sage to the stairs.
What a noise each step seemed to
make at night! She did not dare to
turn a light on but found the front
door and felt for the chain. The latch
gave under her band and a rush of
cold air nipped her as she got the
door open. The square looked dark
and unfamiliar at this hour, with
nothing moving and the lamps dim
In a rising fog.
Victoria St. Pancras? She had so
little money that she chose Victoria
although It was near, almost too
near tor safety. The hatboz weighed
heavily on her arm and she was
afraid that some policeman, noticing
her, might stop her to ask what she
was doing at that hour, carrying a
bag.
She went Into the station; It was
empty but there was a waiting room
with many people sitting, half
asleep, along Its shiny benches. She
chose to wait In the third, as being
less likely to contain anyone she
knew. It was halt an hour before
the bustle of a train arriving re
leased her from an uncomfortable
vigil between a fat old man and a
brightly painted, all-too-frlendly
Frenchwoman.
Bag In hand, Alison made her way
towards the Incoming train, min
gling with Its passengers, and with
them she went Into the hotel.
"A single room, please; a cheap
one." The clerk behind the booking
desk barely looked up; young wo
men with hand luggage are not un
common In a railway hotel at nlgbt
"Number 317," he said briskly.
"That'll do."
Ton mlnutos later, Alison lay
curled up In a strange bed, trying
to realise that she had run away
from home.
rUNDAS; the telephone book
'-' gave her the number and street;
but when she found It, she got a
slight shock. Such a squalid, wind
ing little back street, with ragged,
white-faced children playing on the
pavements, uncleared of refuse from
the day before!
Even her old grey suit soemed too
smart for this street, an Insult to
the draggled women who stood eye
ing her in doorways. She felt almost
glad when she reached the end door
with the red sign above It and Sur
gery written In white.
Once there, she had Imagined she
would see Uuy at onco; but the door
stood open and the room Inside, bare
but for woodon benches round the
walls, was crowded. There was no
sitting space left, and the people
who were stnndlng looked as though
they had been waiting for some time.
A bare grey room, full of people
whose poverty was real and who
took It as part of the day's work.
Alison, who had never socn these
things, remembered Guy sitting In
the little restaurant In Soho and
saying, "Thoy don't want any fairy
godmother stuff. They want under
standing, sympathy. And that means
ozperlenee."
She had thought him brutally frank
then but now she saw that he was
right What had she got to give to
these tired or busy people? She felt
rather bumble as she chose a fnr
corner, well behind tho crowd, to
stand and wait.
Sho waB so Intent on the crowd
that sho did not hear tho door open.
"Come again on Friday. Who's
next:"
She looked up and met his eyes.
Ho was across the room In three
strides.
"You! Down hero! You got my
letter?"
"I want to talk to you about It.
But 1 can wait." She Indicated the
roomful who wore watching the two
of thorn with Interest and sundry
halt hidden winks.
"Come In and wnlt In the back
room," he suggested.
"No. thanks. I'd rathor stay here."
That was nil; he vanished again
accompanied by his nezl patient.
But she wos very leg-weary before
the last of the patients had gone In
and out again, before twelve o'clock
struck and her own turn enme.
"Have you a car ontstdf?" H
was standing by a desk, very busi
nesslike In a white overall and a
pair of horn-rlmmed glasses.
"No." She laughed a little shakily.
"1 haven't even got my fare back to
Victoria.
Copyright. I93S. Evelyn U. rt'tiii'M
Quy confcMet his fear for Alison,
Monday.
precipitation during May and June
ha been so slight UiAt crop condi
tions have become alarming and lr
rlgatton has become imperative. Mul
len Mild.
He pred Icted most crop now
sprouted can be at least partially
saved If brought Immediately under
Irrigation.
More than 100 irrinatlton pUnts
have been Installed in Linn county
the last yc&r.
ASTORIA. Ore. June 24 lAPi
Finding of the abandoned crntt be
longing to Charles Karajoata, 54. had
given rise tinisy to fears the veteran
Antorla fisherman had fallen over
board and drowned.
W 1 11 YntiUi Hunted
PORTLAND. Ore, June 24. (APt-
Depuiy Sheriff Mi'Fnrlane n-ported
last niht that a gang of youth had
wounded William Smith. 60, of Th
coma. and pursued two of lus com
panion on the railroad tracks near
Portland.
A cooking and canning school will
be conducted at Montgomery Ward
from Wednesday through Saturday
with clajwes each day at 3 p. m.,
which will be open to the public, ac
cording to H. L. Brown, store man
ager. Instruction In the preparation of
all types of food with npeclal atten
tion given to tho .we of the pressure
cooker, will be given by a demonstra
tor. Local women's clubs and organi
zations have been Invited to attend
In groups.
"The Importance which Is attach
ed to this school." said Mr. Brown,
"may be easily appreciated when It
Is realized that more than 2,000,000
pressure cookers are In use in this
country and that the United States
department of agriculture recom
mends them as the only safe method
for canning all non-acid vegetables,
meats, fowls and fish. With the gr:U
number of these cookers in the
homes. Wards feel that expert In
structions should be given the pub
lic so that they may obtain the best
results."
The reason the department of ag
riculture endorses the use of pressure
cookers, according to Mr. Brown. Is
because high temperature and steam
under pressure effectually kills dis
ease breeding germs. All commercial
ly canned foods are canned under
pressure.
Be correctly corseted In
an Artist Model by
Ethclwyn B. Hoffmann.
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SALEM, June 24. (AP) Three
cents a pound to the grower was the
minimum price set for all logan
berries sold in Oregon under the
Oregon Loganberry growers' code, and
announced by members of the con
trol board here.
The board said the price would
apply at the customary place of de
livery for the grower. A deduction
of 75 cents a ton by the canner or
processor was authorized, the funds
received to be used as operating ex
penses for the board.
The price Is effective on all grow
ers, Irrespective of whether or not
they have assented to the code. Wil
liam J. Llnfoot, counsel for the con
trol board, stated.
Phone 642. We'll haul away your
refuse. City Sanitary Service.
Has an Ideal
At the Ranch
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lot or tiling
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Dr. W. P. Shepard, nationally
known physician, will be the main
speaker at a forum luncheon to be
held at the Hotel Medford on
Thursday noon, June 27th, it was
announced by Chamber of Commerce
officials today. The luncheon will
be sponsored by the Jackson County
Health association, Jackson County
Medical association, and the Jackson
County Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. Shepard, whose home Is In San
Francisco, has held many national
and regional offices In connection
with the American Public Health as
sociation and li a recognized author
ity on matters of public health. His
subject will be "Why Public Health."
The toastmaster for the occasion
will be Dr. Oames C. Hayes, who
urges that everyone cm tain reserva
tions immediately at the Chamber
of Commerce in order to hear the
interesting address of Dr. Shepard.
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( too. when I catch tne babu
-T-P'Viwho 5pt them.
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