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PGE EIGHT READY MADE WIFE BY CORALIE STANTON da .BY COR SYNOPSIS: Because she and her Bister Gladys laced starvation and worse in Australia, Laurie stoore permits a mistake to continue she pretends to be the widow ot Rex Moore, the airman, works in Lon don tor Hark Albery, Rex'e em ployer, and attracts hie favorable attention. But ilea was not lost in the Pacific- when his plane crashed. He was blinded, and returns after two years, his sight recovered. Sow he tells hnurie jhe muet continue the deception to preserve hit job with Albert. Chapter Eight BAD BARGAIN "T7R0M our meeting last week, you're most certainly not the kind ot girl I'd pick out for a wife,' said Moore. "Then, why do you say I must go on pretending to be? she flared up. "I tried to make it clear, but you don't seem very quick on the uptake. Rather surprising, seeing that you must be brainy enough to have tooled all these people. Just try to get It this time. I let Albery think 1 had a wife, that you were my wlte. I didn't tell him you must be an lm postor." "But you can tell blm now." "He'd never forgive me. He can't stand being fooled. He thinks a whole heap of himself under that quiet, silky way ot bis. As I've Just remarked, I'm broke to tho wide. and he bas my future In bis band." "But he'd oniy biame me," she In slsted. "It's I who bave fooled blm It's I who'd get tbe sack." "That wouldn't help me. Don't ar gue! You'll have to do what I say. I didn't know bow right I was the other day when 1 said you were prob ably taking a man's Job. And I'm damned If I'm going to let you take mine.1 "You're unfair, you're hateful!" There was a sob ot rage In her voice. Ho was so deliberately Insulting, so determined to hurt, so bitter In his obvious contempt tor her as an un scrupulous adventuress. "What do you mean by taking your Job?' "If you don't go on pretending to be my wife, you will take my Job from me. Gosh, how hard It Is to get anything Into your head! Must I say It all over again? I'm supposed to be dead. 1 come back. I lie to Albery from the beginning. "I let him tblnk 1 have a wife. He gives me ber address. I say I am-going to see ber at once. He thinks a great deal of her. He congratulates me. He praises her work, bor pluck. He tells tne that I am to go back to my Job, that be will be behind me, as he was before. But, be says, we can talk about that later on. He Is full of sympathy. I leave him to go to my wife. The scene Is all set "What would he think It I went back and told him 1 never had a wife, but simply wanted to sea the girl wbo had played such a trick on us both? Ho'd never forgive me. He'd think I was either mad, or I wanted to make him look a fool. I know him. It would finish ma with him." LAURIE had listened In stony si lence. "You sny the scene Is set, Mr. Moore," sho said coldly. "It Is set for you." "For you, too," he retorted. "It would finish you with Albery as well." "1 could get other work, I dare lay." "As you 6ald Just now, everybody would know that you were a cheat tnd a fraud." "I'll risk that" She was quivering with defiance. "I don't know that 1 couldn't prosecute you and have you sent to prison." "I'd risk that, too!" His voice changed. It was Just as gruff, but less dictatorial. "Look here, I didn't mean that, of course. If you're such a good work er as Albery says, you must be business-like. Don't you think you owe me something! Haven't you benefited quite a bit by passing as my widow?" "I have." she admitted, and again the warm color flooded her pale cheeks with shame. "You said something about It sav ing your sister's life." He spoke quite gently, for him. "It did." "Well, then, whether you like It or not, don't you think you owe It to me to go on with the farce, so that I cr,n get on with my Job?" She was silent for a few moments, looking at him with undisguised an tagonism. "Are you sure It depends on me?" "Definitely. I know Albery." DELAY Mtss rrsnees Porter, 17, who was taken to the Sacred Heart hospital Thursday evening suffering from shock received when the auto In which she was riding was tn a colli sion with one driven by C. W Ellis of Medford at the corner of Central avenue and Twelfth street, was rest ing easy last nipht. 8ha will return to her home at the Holloway orchards today, according to hospital attend ants. The accident occurred when the car in which Miss Porter was riding, driven by Betty Shannon, an Albu querque, N. M., girl visiting friends in Medford. was returning from Ann land. MIm Shannon wa in the act of turning left from Central onto Twenlth street, with two autos ap proaching from the opposite direc tion. One car was driven by Ben Nivlson of Ashland and wns flowing down near the curb to allow the Shannon cajr to two. Tbe other maclilue, Unwillingly, she was forced to agree with blm. "How long would we have to keep It up?" she asked slowly. "So you admit my claim on your gratitude? That's something." The mocking smile came Into his eyes, and she stared back at blm, and from the friction ot that glance flew sparks of very positive Interest. "I suppose It depends on what happens how long we have to keep It up. We can, no doubt, quarrel, and find we are not suited, and part. There's enough of that going on not to make It noticeable. After two years' sepa ration, you know!" How she hated him, bis bitterness, his cynicism! "You dislike women so much that you won't want It to be long," she said. "I don't suppose I shall get in your way much," be answered. "All going well, I shall be mostly in the air. Well, thanks. It's a bargain, then. I'll see Albery tomorrow, and we can settle things. I'll say good night now." "Good-night!" I HE TURNED In at the door. j "You said In the train that you never wanted to meet me again." "I haven't changed my mind." 1 "You must admit It looks like fate, as If we had to meet" "There are different kinds of fate." "And you bate this particular kind?" "I do." He gave ber one ot his Intent, penetrating looks. "You haven't told me all the truth," be said. "I feel sure of that.' "About what?" "Why you did It. What drove you to It Won't you tell me now?" There was an appeal In bis voice, but Laurie was too angry to heed It She threw up her head. "I bave told you all." His voice hardened. "Then," he said brutally, "you are like most women. You get what you can, how you can, and when the time comes to pay, you don't Ilka It and you squeal." With that he went out of the room. Laurie heard his firm, light tread down tbe rlcketty stairs. She heard tbe front door bang. The old house was not made for blm. He looked so big In It There was something un tamed, free about him. You felt that his borne was In the air. She went Into her bedroom. Angry teara gushed from her eyes. She opened a drawer and took out a box of Australian eucalyptus wood, unlocked It and fumbled among a lot ot papers. But she could hardly see for her tears. No, she wouldn't tell him the truth. Wild horses wouldn't drag It out of her. She hated him too much. She could not expose to him the agony ot those days In Sydney when her lovely little sister, a child for her years, had disappeared from their lodgings, and she bad searched for her distractedly for days, and found at last that she had been kidnapped by a gang associated wtth their land lady. That If Laurie had not by a mir acle been In time, she would have been shipped off to -some unknown destination and swallowed up In the nlgbt ot a distant underworld, lost to her for ever. That It was to cover their attempt ed crime that her landlady had ac cused her of theft. That she had been literally out of her mind when Glad went down with pneumonia, caught In some slum hovel where her kid nappers had hidden her, and nearly died. That when deliverance came, angel-wise. In the person of Mark Albery'a friend, she had snatched at It whatever the cost No, she could not tell him these things. He would not understand. Ha was cruel; he only cared for him self and bla career. Let him think what he liked of her! She found what she was looking! for, a photograph of Rex Moore that she had cut out ot a newspaper. I The Rex Moore of more than two years ago. It was a good likeness, aa newspaper photographs go, but she would never have known him from it Not only had he a moustache, and looked much younger, but the ex pression was quite different It was an eager, happy face, although the rugged strength was there: and the eyes were laughing and kind. How he must have suffered to be come this harsh, embittered man! (Copyright, Itss, Cordite Btantoni Leurle gete deeper, tomorrow. Into the tengle she hee mede (or hire.lt. driven by Ellis, hid Just passed the Nivlson car and hit the Shannon car in the side. Ellis told the police that he did not see the Shannon car. Due to the Illness of City Police Judge Allen D. Curry, a hearing set tor Friday at which Ellis was to ap pear on charges of "hazard st an in tersection," was postponed Indefi nitely. CHIEF BLAME FOR FIRES ON SMOKERS PORTLAND. Ore., July IS. ( AP) Careless smokers were blamed for lfl of the 30 fires reported in national foresti of Oregon and Washington lor the ten-day period ending July 10. Lightning caused 13 fires, camp ers 5. debris burners 4. lumbering operation 1 and the origin of one was undetermined. The forestry service revealed that smokers and campers have been re sponsible for 111 of the total of 305 fires In the national forests so far tills stasoo. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBTTNE, MEDFORD, MEDFORD DELEGATES RETURN FROM STATE AT The Medford delegate and drum corps of th Veterans of Foreign Wan, Crater Lake Post No. 1833, and Auxiliary have returned to Medford after attending the state encampment at Newport. Commander Etna W. Wall of Crater Lake post, and I. D. Can field, O. E. Huklll and W. W. Coe, delegates, represented the local post. Canfleld, past commander of Crater Lake post, was appointed council member of the sta te department. The encampment was the largest ever held by the V. F. W. In Ore gon. Commander-in-Chief VanZandt gava an Interesting review of leg islative affairs, and predicted that the bonus bill would come up in a modified form during the coming session of congress. He stressed the fact that until all four major vet eran organizations got together, they cannot expect to obtain their ob jectives, protection and furtherance of veteran rights. State department commander, Joe Chamberlain, of the American Legion was present and gava a splendid talk as also did the state com mander of Washington V. T. W. Tuesday afternoon the big parade was staged. All the little princesses, candidates for the honor of queen of the encampment, were there. Portland Post, composed entirely ot policemen, Pendleton "Let 'er Buck" post, with Indian entertainers. 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What r-A happened ?f (A Uf r huge Multnomah band sponsored by Pep post of Portland, the Crack Cootie drum corp of Portland, two Portland auxiliary drum corps, the Medford drum corps and the Devil Dogs of Devil's Lake, Ore. Tuesday evening was given ever to the "Cootie" and his followers. There was a big parade, followed by Initiation on Nye beach, with the. driftwood fires throwing wlerd sha dows over the whole crazy cere mony, afterwards all repaired to the "dugout" Jor the secret part of the affair. Tne drum corps of the Ladlee' Auxiliary of Crater Lake post helped put Medford on the map, as It is the only ladles drum corps of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, outside of Portland. The drum corps includes Julia Canfleld. Lillian Flynn, Lillian Huklll, Ruth Walters. Bebe Woods. Dorothy Wandry, Mar garet Ingllng, Betty O'Brien, Au gusta HaH, and the president. Lenore Wall. Mrs. Laura, Shurtle, past presi dent of the Nevada, Calif., Auxiliary, appeared at Newport .as chief of staff for the national president. Mrs. Winifred Toussalnt. COAST BUSINESS AHEAD LAST YEAR SAN FRANCISCO. Business in the 12th reserve district is reported con siderably aheai of this time last year. Bank debits the first 10 days of July were 28 per cent ahead of 1934, Including corporate refinancing. Citrus fruit prices have advanced and shipments are reported Increasing. Tourist trade is lively. Pacific coast stock markets have advanced further. Peggy I I saw w Hartford Cawae ;toivn. Walking alcnJ dortnt w ith that Count. When I walked across the street to sag helloJ ne was too dusu t, nod to me y OREGON, SUNDAY, LONGSHORE CHIEF COMMUNIST TOOL NEW YORK, July 13. (AP) Open warfare flared up again today be tween Joseph P. Ryan, president of the International Longshoremen's as sociation, and Harry Bridges, west coast leader, with Ryan calling Bridges a communist and Bridges re torting: "It's a frameup a lot of de liberate lies.' "Bridges is Just a tool to bore from within and the comunlsts are using him," Ryan told the last session of the longshoremen's convention. He expressed the hope that Bridges, who "had the temerity to attack Mr. Green (William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor) would not be a member of the asso ciation for long. "I don't know whether Bridges Is i citizen or not." Ryan continued. With all due regard for the west coast delegates, I want to say that they are to an extent discredited be cause they have a man with them from the communist party." Ryan said he received an anony mous report from the west coast deal ing with communist activities which frequently mentioned Bridges' name. Peath Ends Driver's Test. SUNBURY. Pa. (UP) For several weeks 16-year-old James Tocum prac ticed driving an automobile. On the day before he was to take the test for a driver's license, he wrecked an automobile and was fatally injured. ' And that...? threw l'ou into hysterics ? -7 JULY 14. 1935 SUBURBAN HEIGHTS 7 ifprt 1 i wwvpnr FRED PfRlEV MISSED HIS 60Lf 6AME YeSfERDAV, BECAUSE HE SHOPPED ON frtE WAV 1b BUV SOME CI6AR5, CAP.EF0U.V L0CK1K6 UP THE CAR 3 AND WHEN HE CAE 6L)f HE FOUND -THAI" A TRUCK HAD PARKED AIDNSSIDE". SO CiDSE THAT HE COULDN'T SEf IN ASAlN Ch Motner, you don t Felt silly! Well that understand. There were ; , r three iawky locking v'omen standmi there w ho started to tice. I n i certa:n!y rj&. . stand. rt?lt so f t .T. I'V i rrrrH - r fi. Copyright. 1938, by The Btll gyndicete. Inc.) Well anyhow, it won't part of it is happen aam. I m... Oh Mother, 1 know t sounds just trivial " 1 under- I.. t" .9 I IDt'Oll. fi S '-s r. YC.Z Vit ri - 'K By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Su)VA Willi mis By 0, M. Payne By Harry J. Tutnill Imaiine! You! Tossini your head. Eattincj. your eyes. rly'n&i.Tto a tantrum. Lh carli.ij please con t imagine you re the only or.e who ree s (
