PltGE EIGHT
BEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, 1IEDFOKU, OREGON. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1935
STAR
by Marian Sims
SYNOPSIS: Tht tov of David
Carroll and the deep friendship of
David's Jleter Judith art the chief
trophies of Emily t'elton's first year
at Ardmore College. Sola the Car
rolls have lost their fine old planta
tion, and David, rather than ask
Emily to share something second
rate, has written her he is point!
away, Emily hae left only her duty
bound mother, her adoring father,
and Erlwm Barnes, who la both shy
and dull.
Chapter 10
CHARLOTTE
EMILY read Davld'f tetter dully,
over and over, until she (elt that
tt was probably engraved on ner
heart like Calais, wasn't It on the
heart of Bloody Mary? Then she put
It carefully away, and her small face
becarqe once more composed and
withdrawn.
Late In the summer there was an
other letter from Judith.
Emily, darling
I'm golnt; to be Married next
month to Aubrey Morton. He wu
at home when you were there, but
you probably don't remember htm
fattish, with glasses and not
much hair. But he has character
and a bis house and will In time,
1 hope, help produce the f ve chil
dren. And I'll make him an excel
lent wife I
I wish 1 could have you for the
wedding, but it Isn't going to he
that kind: I have scruples against
making the groom pay in advance.
But you've got to come and see me,
afterwards; I'm determined that
this shan't be the end of it.
I'm a rotten correspondent, aa
you've doubtless observed, and If
view, and belonged very definitely
to the Left Wlr.g.
She had sought Emily's room at
the opening of school, and seited
herself In an uncomfortable straight
chair. J'lultL, Emily thought long
Irur'., would have been stretched
full length on the most comfortable
bed.
"I understand that Judith has de
serted you for matrimony." Her
voice was clipped, but pleasantly
low-pitched.
Emily admitted It.
"My room-mate Isn't coming back,
either; couldn't finance It, She's
taken a newspaper Job In the hope
that she can make It next year. Is
there any reason why we shouldn't
room together?"
There were a number ol reasons,
Emily thought, none of which she
could tell Charlotte. She caught at
one that seemed safe.
"I couldn't begin to keep up with
you, mentally Your friends would
want to come here, of course, and
they'd be bored beyond words at
having me around. And being what
I am," she added honestly, I d prob
ably be boret' too."
CHARLOTTE disagreed. "I would
not think of letting them over
run the place. And 1 don't believe
you'd be bored with each other." She
outdid Emily In frankness. "Yo
Emily read David'a letter over and over.
you don't hear from me tt won't be
because I've forgotten. Just bear
with me, and whenever you can
get away Just write and say, "I'll
be there tomorrow," and I'll blesa
you for It.
Mother and Dad are moving to
New Orleans, where Dad will be
with a big firm of cotton buyers. I
hate having them go, but I think
they'll both be happier there.
And David Is In San Francisco,
tiling this week for China. He's
with the British-American Tobacco
Company, and how he managed It
without the usual period of train
ing, both you and I can under
stand. He simply went up end
talked Uiem out of IL You can
Imagine how I feel, end I can
Imagine how you feel another
reason for our sticking together.
I'll always love you, darling I
Judith.
pMILY had come very close, that
- summer, to "making an Issue"
of going back to Ardmore.
"I can't! I can't bear the Idea."
Frances was kind, but very firm.
"My dear, you're being childish.
There are five hundred other girls
tt Ardmore to choose your friends
from."
"I can't hol It Everything will
remind me of Judith. Besides I'll
have to room with some freshman;
all the other girls have made their
plans. Why can't I go to Newcomb
Instead?"
"Even If I were willing you
couldn't tutor so late. And you know
bow girls are regarded who change
schools In the middle of their work.
Everyoue wonders if there was some
reason why they had to change."
There was a modicum of truth In
that, Emily realized unwillingly.
"Furthermore, my dear." Francos
went on, with one of her rare de
scents from the heights of abstract
virtue, "I hope this will teach you
something. Never, as long ss you
live, allow your happiness to de
pend entirely upon one person or
one thing. It makes you too vulner
able. Try to arrange your life so
that no mattet what happens there
will be somothlng left to fill It."
And so .he had given In. with the
hopeless conviction that she had
been beaten from the beginning
She roomed with Charlotte Boyd
not because she wanted to, but be
cause there seemed to be no al
ternative that was preferable.
Charlotte was a Junior: tall and
thin, with dull black hair that never
seemed quite t.ean. She majored In
biology, edited the Quarterly Re-
have a mind; I could see that In
English Twelve last year; and we'd
probably be good for you."
Emily smiled. "I'm afraid I'm be
yond all hope."
"Rot! Did you have anyone else In
mind for a room-mate?"
"No," she confessed, "I was go
ing to take a chance on some fresh
man." "Then why not take a chance on
me Instead?" Charlotte smiled, and
Emily realized that her xeen brown
face had a very definite charm. She
gave In.
'All right. It will probably be
harder on you than on met"
And so Charlotte had moved In
that afternoon, bringing with her
three rather macahre Dilrer etch
ings and a trunk containing mote
hooka than clothes. Astonlshlr?
books for a girl some ol them:
Herbert Spencer, Darwin's "Origin
of Species," Nietzsche's "Anti
Christ," Cellini's "Autobiography,"
half a dozen volumes of Anntole
France.
The clothes wtro equally astonish
ishlng, but Emily was prepared for
those; a great many of them Char
lotte haa worn the preceding year.
She admitted to herself that the
clothes were perhaps better suited
to Charlotte than more conventional
garments would have been.
Charlotte unpacked swiftly, tak
ing scrupulous care not to encroach
on Emily's sld- of the room; a char
acteristic. Eml y learned afterwards,
that held In all her human relation
ships. While she unpacked she
talked.
"It's probably a blessed thing for
you that you have curtains and
nigs; that Is, It you're anything of a
sybarite, and I have an Idea you are
Jane brought the rugs last year and
1 got curtains, but 1 bought them
at a ten-cent store, and they looked
like distress signals before the yent
was over."
"Don't worry about any of that,"
Emily beggod her. She knew In
atluctlvcly that the financial effori
entailed by a degree was conslil
erable for Charlotte. "Mother's sem
more stuff than we'll have room fot
as It Is."
(Copyright, I5.IJ, hy IMrloi Sims)
Emily learnt. Mondsy, of a new
kind of fnendihio. and a new view
or coneg) at
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DESERT MYSTERY
BUCKEYE. Arte. Sept. 10. 1AP1
Author. Mm oi:gtit today to unlve th
Arisen dfwrl'i latent mytry the
death of two womn. whow bod leu,
one hesdiew, wr found nide-by-Md
In a lonely homi tender' ahack 10
mile northwest of here.
The gruenome dlJioovery vu reveal.
el by Al Mttin, constable. He de
ktI&Vj the scene tm the 'Vtrancwt
dftwt death ever uncovered In Art
rona.
In a bed In a teml-eltting posit inn
aa the body of Mm. Judla Atklnnon.
70. negrea. while bealrte her In a
rocking chair was the headlew body
of hex 40-veaj-old UuM'Q
Rolla Thomprvm. On the floor waa
; the Utter a head.
i There waa no evidence of foul play,
not e ve n ao m uoh aa a Man of a
struggle in the, tiny two-roomed
cabin.
I Olflcera found aeveral pound of
i baron, a loaf of brMd and ether food
in the kitchen, .ne tting neither
; had aturved.
PhyMciaiu iald the two had been
dead about Ix week.
PORTLAKD. Sept. 10. (AP) Three
port officials whom he sought to re
move two years ago, were absolved of
blame today by Bert E. Haney, presi
dent of the Port of Portland commission.
I now am convinced I was wrong
in making such recommendations."
said Haney In resigning hia post, "and
that I did a great injustice to each
jof these men."
Haney resigned because of his re
cent appointment to the federal court
of appeals.
The men he sought to remove In
the course of an Investigation two
years ago were Jamea Polhemus, port
manager; J. P. Doyle, assistant .secre
tary, and James Healy, drydock superintendent.
Ruth Luy Dance Studio. Enroll
Thursday or Friday, Sept. 5 and 6.
Sparta Bltlg. Phone IMS.
CRAZED FILIPINO KILLS
3 MEXICANS IS SLAIN
DELANO, Cal.. Sept. 10. ( AP) A
crazed Filipino shot and killed three
Mexicans and was later slain by a
city traffic policeman after a trivial
argument In West Delano restau
rant today.
Two others were stabbed and
slightly Injured by the apparently
maddened man.
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'lO'? WtNutit By-idicaU. foe.
Six hundred men, called the "Eu-
choltmea, attached to the court ol
the Celtic king or the Sotlnns, form
ed one of the strangest bodies nt
men ever known In history. A royal
company of kingly comrndes, they
cho to be the king's companions
In life and In death.
Each of them was tended like a
king. All of them lived with the
kins and ate with him. All wore
kingly garments. But they had one
gruesome duty to their king whn
he died they riled and accompanied
him to the grave. j
Tie strange will above was hastily
drawn by Francisco Bosch snort ly
before he died In Los Angeles. By
Its terms he left $1600 to a life
long friend. Officials examined It
with a microscope and admitted tt
to probate In court. The writing cov
ered the bottom and ends of a match
box.
Inmates of the Phoenix, Alabama
Jail experience the strange status
of living nt home and being In
Jull at the same time. They sleep
nt home, have breakTast ind dinner
there, but come to Jail In the day
time. If they want any lunch they
have to bring it with them.
Peter of Blois, noted aa an author
and traveler, was a man of remark
able learning. He knew civil nd
canon law, something of medicine
and was well acquainted with Latin
classics. In dictation one secretary
was not enough. He employed three,
dictating different lettera to each
of them at the same time and still
had time to pen a fourth letter, himself.
Tomorrow: The Flea Cure.
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