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PGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD, OREGON. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30. 193. READY MADE WIF .BY CORALIE STANTON Chapter 49 LAURIE'S MESSAGE TT7HERB was Rex Moore, then? Did he bear a charmed life, or was he dead? So the madness worked on that brilliant, unbalanced brain. Until, on the fifth day after Rex Moore had been reported missing, Mark Albery was found unconscious on the floor of his study In his Chelsea flat. When he recovered from the stroke, his mind was affected, and he babbled nonsense about having sent Rex .Moore to his death In a plane that had been tampered with. Nobody believed It. of course. His doctors sent him Into a nursing home for such cases, and declared that It was only a temporary break down and that he would recover his reason very soon. TT was on the following day that 1 Laurie received a wire from a doc. tor In a remote French village, ask ing her to come at once, as her hus' band was laid up there with s broken ankle. The journey was like a dream to ber. She flew to Chamounlx, and from there hired a motor car that took her up Into the mountains. And there she found Rex, under the shadow of Mont Blanc, the snowy giant on whose Icy slopes he might so easily have found his grave. He was bruised and shaken by the crash, but had no worse Injury than the simple fracture of his ankle. Ho had been delirious for three days. from the results of exposure In a high valley, where a party of guides had found him, hence the delay In letting anybody know of his plight They met In a simple room, with Tarnished wooden walls and scrubbed floor. From the balcony one looked on the tall, solemn pines and the eterzal snows, under the blazing sapphire arch of the August sky. Laurie walked slowly to his long chair. Then, she suddenly knelt down beside It. "Oh, Rex Rex I've found you at last!" "I had to tend tor you, Laurie," lie answered In a strangely solemn voice. "I didn't want to. I knew you wouldn't want to coma but you would come, because you think you ewe me something." "Oh, Rex, bow did It happen?" "That's what 1 felt I must tell you. Albery tried to kill me." "I knew It," she whispered. And he told him what bad happened at the London station. "He tried before," Rex went on. "That time whon you were going up with me. You romember, 1 couldn't find my usual mechanic. He must have told the strange man to All my tanks with the new fuel. Luoklly, I bad warning from the engine In time, and had a parachute." "And this time?" she asked fear fully. "This time the plana had boen tampered with. You wouldn't under stand. It was dona by an expert. No body could bave discovered It until the plane fell to pieces In the air. I was lucky again. I started off the day beforo I Intended to, and the job wasn't quite finished. So I escaped with my life. I had to tell you, Laurie. I couldn't bear the thought that you were going to marry a murderer." "I knew It, Rex. And I'm not going to marry him." She was distracted. "And 1 think an guue mad. They've put him into a home." .But hero there seemed to be no comfort, either. Rex Moore was still so far away, so remote. His face was set; his eyes had that Inhuman, snowy look; bis mouth was angry and stern. "1 knew that day at the station that 1 couldn't marry him," she went on. "Not for anything In the world, not even for ' She stopped abrupt ly. "Not even for what, Laurie? Why were you going to marry him? For his money, for his position for what else?" "No no!" She broke down. He was all she wanted In the world. He was her happiness; he was her man. Nothing mattered but that he should know the truth. "Rex, he forced me to say 1 would marry him. He found out about us; I didn't tell him. I had to He to you. And he threatened to ruin your ca reer If I didn't marry him. Ha said be could. Ha wouldn't help you any more, he wouldn't let anybody else help you. He said he had the power, and I believed him." She looked at him in an agony of fear lest he should not believe her. His arms closed around her and held her with a fierce tenderness. "T AURIE, you did that for me! How could I be so blind? Of course, Albery could bave ruined me in my job. Then, you do love me? You love me as much as that?" Their lips met. They were one In that tremendous and awesome rap ture that Is both violence and peace. A long time passed before they spoke again. Then Laurie said: "But your career will be ruined. Mr. Albery will never forgive us. You don't mind now, but later on you will oe unhappy. Can I make up for that?" "You would make up for anything, my sweet, my wonderful Laurie!" he told her. "But I'm no longer a penniless beggar, thanks to Wanda Steele." He saw that she did not under stand, and told her of Wanda's tragic death and of his Inheritance, She felt a lltle pang of jealousy that another woman could do so much for him, so much more than she ever could, even though she was dead. But, of course, she had to be. glad. Laurie stayed in the little village until Rex Moore could get about. Then they went to Geneva, and were married by the British Consul. "So now you're really Mrs. Rex Moore!" he said teaslngly the next day, as they strolled by the lake. "And how docs It feel to be married to a poor devil you started out hat ing?" "I never hated you!" she laughed happily. "And It feels too wonderful for wordsl And life Is wonderful and you are wonderful! And, what's more, it's real!" They went back to England to pick up Gladys. Rex agreed with Laurie that they could not leave the girl alone. And all the outside world ever knew was that Mrs. Rex Moore had gone to Switzerland to be with her famous husband after his accident, and the devoted couple sp dramati cally reunited a few months ago, were on their way to California, where the airman had recently In herited a beautiful estate. (Copyright. 1SSS. CoraHa SIdWc THE END. ROOSEVELT SIGHS BILL REPLACING WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. AP) Legislation letting up a nw rail road pension ayetem to replace that killed by the supreme court waa signed today by President Roosevelt. He also signed a bill levying taxes of 3'i per cent each on railroad pay rolls and rail worKera' Incomes to pay the bend Its. Pensions for retired employe 01 11 railroads operating Interstate are provided. Those eligible for pension: 1. Any employe or representative of employes 65 year of age or older. 3. Any employe or representative of employes more than 50 years old with 30 or more years of service. 3. Any employes with 30 or more years service retired because of men tal or physical ilability. Monthly benefits sre to be two per cent of the first S0 of the employe's average monthly wage, snd one and one-half per cent of the next $100. nd one per cent of the wage over $150. Tne maximum monthly wage for purposes of the comp-.itstlon is 1300. The legislation also provldns for Appointment of a retirement com mission of thre. and a Joint con gresslonsl committee to study the whole subject of railroad pensions. A Similar measure enacted last year was held unconstitutional. In an effort to meet objections of the court, the new legislation was split Into two parte pension and tax and a provision to Include all em ployes who had been retired within 13 months before enactment was re moved. Cost of operation during the first yesr wsa estimated by the railroad unions at $50,000,000. The pension plan does not go Into operation until next March 1. PLAN ORGANIZATION BIO APPLEOATE, Aug. 30. (Spl.) Receiving requests for another grange organization In the Apple.ite district, R. t. Nealon of Central Point, county grange deputy, ha an nounced that a meeting will be he-Id WedneAdsy, Sept. 4th. At th Union town school house to discuss possi bilities of organizing that commun ity. Arthur Brown of Salem, state dep uty, will be present with Mr. Nealon to explain the purpose and functions of the grange and to put out its nu merous benefit to the farmers. The meeting will open at 8.00 p. m . and attendance Is expected from Ruch. Big Applegate and Little Applepste and Little Appltwave sections. Mr. Nealon waa In this community Tuesday interviewing farmers on the subject. f KEYS sjid sxvert lock repairing Med ford Cyclery, 33 N Fir. Ph. 301 "gJ-jggEJ'U""" "' sin jjaatTW!SB 3 NEW TEACHERS FOR APPLEGATE BIO APPLEGATE, Aug. SC. (Spl.) Schools of the Applegate valley will open the first and second week In September with last year'a teachers in charge again, with the exception of three. The new teachers are Mrs. Opal Mooter of Med ford, who will teach at Ruch; Mrs. Wallace Hasklns. recently of Ptkln, HI., at Beaver creek; and Miss Mary Beatty of Ash land, primary room at Applegate. The remaining force of teachers in clude Mrs. Ina Purcel of this com munity, watklns; Miss Eleanor Maule of Portland, Union town: Mrs. George Brownlee of Jacksonville, Sterling; Carl Ayres of Portland. Little Apple gate; Wm. Ludwig of the community, Applegate upper grade room; and Miss June Rudd, Thompson creek. Blackboards are being resurfaced, floors oiled and cleaned, and other preparations made about the build ings for opening of the new term. COUZENS CONDITION DISAPPOINTS MEDICS ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 80. fi) Senator James Couzens of Michi gan was given & blood transfusion by Mayo clinic physicians, today. They admitted disappointment over the "progress he has made In the past two days. BEACH PATROL By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address the anthor, Inclosing- a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TT. .8. Pat. Oft. 6fAOfFKIftWCpRRUPK7M dAl MATlONS IN M?fMi, Arm m4L WrV&40U6tfTft?R )(00 VEAfft KftTfTE IT WA6 HNl InCN U WAS NVEf? IKEP UcNtDfta ftrnditat. Int. For centuries navigators end ex plorers sought the northwest passage a route by water westward across the northern reaches of the Amer ican continent, on Into the Pacific and thence to the ports of the Orient. Century after century they missed their goal and It was not until a few years ago. In 1906. that the Northwest passage was actually dis covered. Amundsen in the "GJoa" waa the first to complete the pas sage. Strange as it seems, this wsterway that men, for centuries, had given their lives to gain, proved wcrthicss. Cold and dangerous, Its waters checked with treacherous ice. the Northwest passage is of absolutely no value to commercial shipping. Search for this passage began not long after Columbus' first voyage, for It was soon discovered that he had not found India, but only a contin ent between. Explorers firmly believ ed that by sailing northward and westward they would discover a waterway to the Orient. 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