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a PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFQKU, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1935. MORNING STAR ar MAJtzAN Sims ' BYSOP81S: Bmtiv Felton has relapsed into the dull routine of email toicn !( after graduation from Ardmore College- Her bright est memories are of Judith and David Carroll aha atill loves David, although when the Carrolle lost their beautiful plantation, David disappeared into China and has not been heard from since. At least by Emily. Emiluhaa the timtd and prosaic Edwin Barnes, and a job at the Elston library for cum pensation. She in note quarreling vtt her board over "u-icked hooks." Chapter IB ESCAPE? THE chairman looked uncomfort able. He had a reluctant admira tion for Emily, but she waa far too tmall and too pretty to be ao strong minded. She ran the library beauti fully, though, and the waa a decided oclal asset, ao there waa no ques tion of dismissing her. "I think It quite aa Important," be aald blandly, "that they be kept from old aa well as young. We cannot pan der to the low tastes of the major ity." "Then why expect the majority to read your hooka?" Emily demanded. "You have to choose, yon know." 6he rose, smiled charmingly Into their astonished faces. "If there's no further buslnesi I shall ask you to excuse me." She found the reading-room full to tbe window-sills with school chil dren, whom the assistant waa vain ly trying to quell. Her bead ached with their demands and with the September heat. The clock seemed to be moving backwards, Emily decided wearily. Almost an hour until she could usher the shuffling children out and go home for a quick swim before dinner. She began to catalogue a ship ment of new books, and wondered If Jt wouldn't be almpler to pbone for William and the car Instead of trudging home In the dusty heat It seemed ridiculous to be driven home from work by a chauffeur, but there was no tense In wearing a hair shirt just because you could afford a Kllk one. In the end she decided against phoning, and found Edwin, who had expected to be busy, waiting for her outside. He helped her Into hla car solicitously, grateful for the wel coming smile she bestowed. "You look tired,'! he aald gently, with a glance at the heavy shadows beneath her eyes. Emily's lids drooped. The light waa brilliant and grateful after the till, bested darknesa of the library. "I am. September In Alabama ought to be deleted from the calen dar." He waa shitting gears, staring bard at the gray-blue pavement ahead of him. The pavement was mottled with shadows from the great elms that almost met over head. "Are you going to work on there another year?" he brought out at last. "I haven't decided yet. After my outburst this afternoon they may regret having urged me to." He looked perturbed. If Emily In sisted on working, he considered the library the most genteel calling she could have chosen. He read very lit 'tla himself, but he had the non reader's almost superstitious respect for booka. "I hope you didn't offend them," he said. She smiled ruefully. "I did worse. I offended their prejudices. It was the heat, I think: spontaneous com bustion." She told him what had happened. Hla perturbation deepened. "But. Emily, I think they're right. There's enough unhapplness and Immorality In rel life" "Without readln; about It In booka," she broke In and finished for blm. "I don't understand why they haven't put you on the Board." TTE LOOKED so hurt that she was 'l ashamed of herself. Edwin had a positive genius for provoking caus tic comments that you Immediately regretted. She hastened to change the subject, but her mind went on turning over the problem with which It was Involved. Could she resign herself to an other year of It? She had lain awake a good many nights recently, wres tling with the problem. She had to decide It soon, she knew, because the longer she put It off the more Inca pable she would be of any derision One year of Idleness, one year of the library; surely that was enough. But after the library: Edwin? She glanced at him beside her, driving deliberately and carefully; hie hat perched primly upon hla head. Why couldn't he, Just once, slump down In his seat and. with the wind playing havoc with his hair, drive his car as fast as It would go? He couldn't, she knew, because he waa Incapable of anything ao juve nile and unconsidered. "Why should I risk your life and mine," he would have asked In sur prise, "when It Isn't at all Important that we hurry?" His car, too, was typical of him; an Immaculate small sedan, practi cal and comfortable. With a quizzi cal smile she remembered David's roadster of four no, dear heaven, It waa Ave yeara ago! Tbe roadster bad bad a top, just aa David had had a bat, but neither of them was ever used. But like Da vid, she admitted honestly, the road ster had been enjoyable only In fair weather. Edwin swung the car into her own driveway, and tbe air waa Imme diately cooler with tbe mist of In numerable sprays. The lawn was green-gold la the fading sunlight, purple In the shadows: not even Sep tember, ehe thought disrespectfully, dared ta lay Its aearlng hand upon Frances Felton'a gardens. "Won't you stay for a awlm?" she asked him lazily. "The prospect of one has kept me going all afternoon." He hesitated, because he wanted ao badly to stay, and because he bad never outgrown his youthful lack of self-confidence in her presence. "I'd like to very much." "Then I'll see you In ten minutes. There's a suit for you In the bath house." The jade-green water, amazingly cool, was like a tonic. She dove and , swam like a porpoise, trying valiant ly to shed the day'a lethargy, while Edwin watched her with a dog like devotion. He awam as he drove: pre cisely and efficiently, without exert ing any more speed or effort than the occasion demanded. If It were a case of rescuing some one he would put forth the last ves tige of his strength, and, if that was Insufficient, would quietly and mat-ter-of-factly drown, without ever realizing that he had been berolc. It was a pity, she thought for the hundredth time, that all the major vJrtues were so uninspiring to live with. The awlm over, Edwin hesitated at the door of his car, tbe stiff straw hat In his hand. "Are you doing anything tonight?" The same question, hopefully and hesitantly put. Edwin still went through the formality of asking for evenlnga that had been hla tor two years. Thla time ahe surprised him. "Nothing but going to bed." She smiled to soften the answer. "But you must he sure to come tomorrow night." His face glowed, thanking her for the twenty-four hours of anticipa tion with which ahe had presented him. He drove almost gaily away. I TMNNER was on the terrace, beautifully cool In the Septem ber dusk. Frances looked very young In the muted light, but her hus- band'a face looked shadowed and old. Emily felt the old surge of pity for Jeffrey, who had been sentenced to spend his life In the rarefied at mosphere of his wife's Ideals. She hated to shatter the evening's peace by Introducing a controversial subjoct, but there was no choice. She could postpone the discussion but, she couldn't avoid It. She drank! deeply of her Iced coffee. "Mr. Small asked me at the meet-' Ing today ahout this winter." Her mother glanced sharply at her. "About taking the library, you mean?" 1 "Yes. My year Is up this month." "What did you tell him?" She could see that Frances had guessed at her Indecision; had dreaded It. Her father waa silent. "1 told him I hadn't decided yet." Francea ate her salad daintily. "If you are still undecided It seema to me an excellent position to have." She had been very democratic and consistent about Emlly'a working. Emily had seen her, fairly glorying In her own consistency. "I'd hardly call It a position. Sixty dollars a month and no authority whatever. I could make the thing a success If they'd only give me a chsnce." "But the money," Frances pointed out, "Is secondary." "No, It Isn't." Emily said quietly. "It's humiliating to think that what you do Is only worth sixty dollars a month. That's why I want to go away?" Her mother's head came up. Her father'e fork clattered against the plate. A momentary breeze fluttered the shaded candles. (Copyright. 1,15, fiy J--'--. Kmlly pfine8i detest, to morrow, but not in lha uaul way Rain In Klamath KLAMATH PALLS, Bept. 14 Oft Khunat-h Fails" long dry apell wee broken tbt morning when a llht rain began fajlln. There wti a strong wind blowing and considerable dust waa onmliut tip from the dry bed of lower Klamath lake to the south. rommiinltle Squirrel FOLrAI PBZC. Wis Solution of a battling myatery of the disappearance of small American flaps from the Rravea of veterana was reported by Oto Jena, aexton of the cemetery. He found 14 of the flans lining a aqulr rei's nest in the hollow of an oak tree us ill mutmmmttttmnmeeswmmmfmnmm mm a m m i m r m mm . A-nrtw, ta.' DRUG ADDICTS SEEK STATE AID IN CURE OLTMPIA, Wash. (UP) Although In operation only eight weeks, Wash ington state' new f&rm colony for curing drug addicts has "enlisted" 25 patient, eight of them women. The colony vu created 07 the 1935 legislature and Is housed In ward of the Northern State hospital for the insane at Sedro-Woolley. Addicts are committed to th In stitution by courts, or may go there voluntarily to take the cure, provided they can pay M 50 a. week expenses. When Superintendent J. D. Doughty finds the Inmates have been "off the dope" long enough to be considered "aafe," they may be released. ITALIAN CLAIMS BOLT PARMA, Italy. (UP) It la certain that Luciano Codeluppt had a beard and mustache and It Is Juat aa cer tain that after a thunderstorm he waa clean ahaven. He aaya the light ning enavea htm. Here la hie utory: Codeluppl who Uvea In the TlUjge or r.-aore ai ts&n pancrasio, vet lean ing out of the window watching the lightning flicker across rae field when a sudden flash seemed to hit the house, and threw him back Into the room. .When he put hla hand to hla face he found that hla mua tache and beard had disappeared Otherwise he waa uninjured. A atate highway patrol officer re- eently was arrested by a city motor cycle-officer for speeding In Raleigh, N. O. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof addross the author,' Inclosing, a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Pat Off. if s6& , k Strange aa It seems, Nebraska, flat mid western farm state, has more miles of risers than any other state In the Union. A network of Important waterways and their trib utaries spreads throughout Its 77, 000 square miles, running generally toward the east. In, addition, the state has more than 3,000 named lakes. All drainage of the state reaches the Missouri river which runs along SPECIAL COMBINATION By GLUYAS WILLIAMS loOkS OVER SPECIAL UlNCHEOtfS OK THE MENU NARROWS CHOICE DOWN TO NUMBER SWE FRIED SCAl LOPS AVID ri)D6ECAKE,WEJr HE D0ESNf LtWE F1JD6E CAKE Jtsxs wath?e6& cm he hwe APPlE PUT INSfEAD OT FOTteE CAKE OH NUMBER SEVEN ? . WAITRESS SEEMS T0l)Bffl)L BlK 5AV5 SHE'Ll. ASH TtlE MANA6ER. WAITRESS RETURNS PRESErftiV AND SRVS WSluVELS' U6 CHAMSES OW 5TEOM. 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Abraham Newland was employed by the Bank of England for nearly 60 years, entering service aa a clerk at the age of 18. During 35 yeara of that time, he slept every night In the bank. Newland'e association with the bank waa so lasting that "New land" became slang for a "bank note" throughout the Island. Tomorrow: Island of Kings. TAILSPIN TOMMY Jose Attacks! iTL CONDOR i-J HAD OUST TAKEN OFF WITH CONCrllTA, UOWEN J ose JOULA. SCARLET ace ano the: commander of the Reav AIR. FOft.Ce FLElO OVER HEAD. EL CONDOR!'.! - o-" I HAVE HOT -v--r--r STALKED YOU x V vS? thess long w vXTxr' KEEP YOUR HEAD UNdePL THEi. COU5HNS, CONCHVTA- 1 BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Cal Hops To It! By Hal Forrest lSli r-sTSL TO FGHF-THS . : " A IE? COME CM. BRAR I JIST TWOU6UT C ' 0METUIU7WE 60T TO SHOO THEM VJ1LD HOse vi.f!TiV- OUT THE ViSf S CORRAL SI IF VOUR BOeS lilM emm OKI LOMESTAR, THEVU 6CTM 1 DC NtEWN WATER AFORE LOUS AM -t- THE NEBBS It's All Your Fault By Edwin Alger -1 AIM TO HAVE TWE CORRAL DOWN TO THE CREEK. 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