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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
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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.
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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
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MORE 1b ORDER SCALLOPS AND
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the eastern boundary 450 miles.
Chief rivers through the state are
the Platte, which la the dominant
river of the state; the Niobrara;
the Republican; the Big and Little
Blue, and the Big and Little Nem
aha. The Loup and Elkhorn rivers
are the chief tributaries of the
Platte.
The typical Nebraska river la alow,
rather wide, and has a gradual fall.
The Niobrara, however, a stream
about 400 miles long. Is swift and
this river, as well as the Loup, with
their tributaries have several water
falls, some of them 70 feet high.
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.
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