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1IEDF0RD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1933.
READY MADE WIF
.BY CORALIE STANTON .
BYXOPSIB: Rem and Laurie low
each other, but email thinoa have
a'porated them. This ia their aitu
a'.ion. Both work 'or Mark Albery,
the airplane manufacturer. Laurie
hoa promised to marry Albery, to
hrlp Rex with hla career. Hex la
boring lunch wtth a Wanda Steele,
whom ha owes much, but whom he
eannot love. And Wanda juet haa
told Hex that aha knowa of hia and
Laurie's estrangement.
Chapter 4ft
REX'S PROMISE
"T BELIEVE In you," Wanda said.
"I know that you'd never let t
woman down. I'm a tool about you,
Rex. It's no good disguising It For
ma you can do nothing wrong. As
I've told you before, I always think a
little tiny bit of you must belong to
me. Perhaps a bit no bigger than a
drop of water in the Pacific but
Just that!"
It was touching. She showed her
adoration of him with a simple
pathos that put him to a kind of fiery
shame, and left hla heart cold. It
was as If he must do something to
please her, to show that he was not
so crassly ungrateful as he seemed.
He owed her everything his lite,
his eyesight. For the millionth time
he repented it to hltn5lf. He knew
"Wanda," he said abruptly, "you
have been so incredibly good to me.
I am not worth It. But, If you would
care, when all this is settled, to be
my wife, I should be deeply hon
ored." A lame proposal. But the woman's
face became transfigured, as she rose:
from her chair and came towards
him, ewaylng slightly.
"Oh, Rex, my darling, you shall
never regret it!" she murmured, as
she fell into bis arms.
"OU have apparently been very
foolish, Laurie." said Albery, in
bis London office the next morning,
as she came In as usual to do hit
work. "You have been seen with Rex
Moore since you left him. The porter
at the Chelsea flat told me you had
been there alone with Moore the
other day. Surely you're not such a
fool at to think you can eue tor a
divorce from blm and be seen with
him at the tame time?"
"I didn't know he wat there,"
Laurie answered. "I went to the flat
to fetch soma bookt I had left be
hind." "Well, be more careful In future."
Albery epoka angrily. His raging
Jealousy never gave him any peace.
"It might spoil everything. I am Just
finishing up this particular business
with Brazil, and then you and I will
-' away and get married and leave
Wanda had seen the whole of the world.
that she would not change, even If
he were to go blind again.
Ha looked at her, titling there In
her soft ivory crepe dress, with the
priceless old lace frills tor sleeves,
and the rosy cream pearls on her
white neck: with her long, pale face,
powdered with faint golden freckles:
with her smiling lips, and dark eyes
glowing with love.
She was attractive enough In her
sophisticated elegance. She knew all
about life and men, and how to treat
them and make them comfortable.
She had the charm of experience. She
had seen the whole of the world.
She was Intelligent, and artistic,
and spent her money without osten
tation or extravagance. She had no
glaring faults. She- was older than
ho, but not much. She wne, in fact,
supremely a woman of the world.
But the was Just not the woman
for him. And that said everything.
It was to his pity that she ap
pealed. Against him she was defence
less. Her lonely heart was reaching
out to him as the only thing she
asked of lite.
Well, did It matter what became
of him now?
TIE had done with the emotional
side of life. Romance did not ex
ist Love and human passion were de
luslons. Laurie had trembled In his
arms, had clung to him. had denied
with her lips that she loved hlra.
while tho whole of the rest of her
being told him that she did.
What mattered that? She had
chosen. She waa going to marry
Mark Albery at once. She wanted
money and position. She was false
and hard and mercenary. She had
not only made a fool of him, but low
ered him In his own sight
This woman gave him back his
lelf-respeet with her flattering eyes.
her caressing words. Wanda Steele
was asking nothing of him. Only
irantlug to give him everything.
He got up and walked to the win
low, with a curious Instinct, putting
greater distance between them.
England, and you certaluly won't
coma back until Moora has started
for South America, The only thing
for you to do la to disappear for a
time. You'ro quite clever enough to
understand how difficult this Job Is
going to ba and how carefully It
haa to be done."
"1 do understand. I don't know
how you're going to do It!" blurted
out Laurie In a miserable voles.
"You can leave that to me. Do your
own bit, my dear girl. And that la
never to tee or speak to Moore
again."
Later on, when he came back from
lunch, he told her a piece of news
that caused her a fresh pang ol
anxiety.
"I lunched with Dagenbury. He's
in a terrible etew over that hoy ol
hit. D'you remember Jimmy Dallas,
you met blm at Fen Qretton? 1 asked
him over to amuse your sister.
There's evidently been a dust up in
the family. Jimmy Is a bad lad, and
It's got to his father's ears that he't
been carrying on with some chorus
girl up here. Of course, to hit father
that meant going ttralght to hell.
He's to out-of-date In hie Ideae about
young people."
Some chorus girl! Laurie waa ter
rified. Could It ba Glad? Glad, who
had been with him In a taxi that
Sunday night, and bad brazenly lied
about It?
"What did you think of Jimmy!"
asked Albery curiously.
"I didn't much like him," she said.
"But. of course, 1 only saw him once."
'Personally, I believe he'a a real
bad lot."
Laurls was more perturbed than
ever. What could the do? Whatever
she said, Glad would go on lying. She
wat ture of that. Lying to her. It
hurt her so much that It was a physi
cal pain.
Such pain that the felt nothing,
not even disgust, when Albery took
her In his arms and covered her face
with kisses.
tCopyrlght, ZJ.U. Corolla Stanton)
Laurie makes a terrible discovery,
Monday.
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BLEAK LLAO ROCK
CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK.
Ore. (Spl.) nit? lava cliffs of grim,
forbidding Lino Rocx, reaching out
e? the teluc waters cf Crater liXe
for a height of 3000 f t t . w re
araled laat wee for the first 1 1m
Thft ascent. Involving considerable
danger, waa made by David T. Griggs
of Harvard university while carrying
on a special geol-gie etudy ol the
Crater lake area.
Llao Roclt, a true cross-section 01
a lava flow, presents one of the moat
difficult scaling problems in Oregon,
especially when the steepest section
of the cliff Is climbed. Crises made
the climb in an effort to gain more
scientific Information In hts re
search of the rim area.
The climber Is the son of Robert
F. Origcs whose enlightening studies
of Mt. Katmal In 1013 and discovery
of the Valley of Ten Thousand
6mokea brought the latter world
wide .'a ma. The summit of Katmai
in Alaska was destroyed by explo
sive action and Is compared by nu
merous geologists to Mt. Mazama,
ancestral mountain of Crater Uk
CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK.
Ore. Spl ) Another substantial
travel gain for the week ending
Agu? !3 waa reported today for
Crater lake with the arrival of P311
visitors in 3MO cars, aa compared
to 76M people In 3378 eara In 1934.
This Is an spproxlmst Increase of
30 9 per cent for the week, which
also Included the biggest travel day
of the year with 3SJ6 people arriv
ing laat Sunday.
The season total la now up to ap
proximately 70.000 people. It Is prob
able the total will reach 100.000 by
September 1 at the present rsta t
travel.
California leads the list with the
greatest number of first entries while
Oregon haa the greatest number of
visitors In first and second entries
Of the eastern state. New York.
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois sre
leading.
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RRIGATiON TRIP
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.(AP) Dr.
El wood Mead, reclamation commis
sioner, announced today he would
leave tomorrow for a six weeka ln-
Ltjctlon tour 'of projects coming un
der the 100.000,000 work relief recla
mation program.
He will reaueh Spokane, Wash.. Aug
ust 33 for a three-day visit to the
Grand Coulee project. He goes to
Yakima, August 27.
In addition to conferences with rec
lamation engineers and public offi
cials Mead said he would make a spe
lal study of methods of transferring
distressed farmers to Irrigated land.
"The bureau recently separated Its
operations and maintenance work
from Ha construction activities In or
der to provide a closer contact be
tween the commissioner's office and
the water users on the various pro
jects". Mead said. "This has Indicat
ed the need for establishment of new
policies, and conferences will be held
toward that end with field represen
tatives on operating projects."
In addition to his stay at Spokane
and Yakima, Mead villi spend one
day at Seatttle and two days at Port
lsnd. Ore. He will leave Portland on
Sept. 1, spending the next dsv at
Bend, Ore., and September 3 at Klam
ath Falls, Ore.
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crater lake an extinct volcano form
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