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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUXE, MEDFOKL), OREGON", WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1935 IIMORNING STAR ifiSssJRl I v WisrAtf SIMS SYNOPSIS: When Emily Fel ton returned to her parents' beau ttful home in Eleton, Ala., alter graduation Irom college, the had hoped to marry Davia Carroll, brother of Judith Carroll, her be loved college roommate. Hut the Carrolle lost their plantation,- and Xtavld disappeared into the Orient. Koto Judith has written that David' is in Istanbul, and intends to stay. Emilv has only timid Edwin Barnes to fail back upon; she endures him, but not much more. Edwin it in York on business. Chapter IT EMILY 0ECIDE8 TN Edwin's absence Emily found 1 herself forgetting the narrowness of his mind and remembering the breadth of his love; forgetting the little habits of thought and action that Irritated her, and remembering his honesty and stability; forget ting the angle of his hats and re membering Mi sheen of his hair. Was It possible, she wondered for the first time, that love as well as charm might be blurred by familiar . Hy? He was away two weeks, and ' when became back Elston had taken on the flaming glory of October, as : If to welcome him. Even the tone - of his voice as be called her on the telephone seemed different. "Was It a good trip?" she asked. "Yes. But the best of It was com ing back. May I sea you tonight?" : His voice throbbed with his eager , seas. "Of course. I waa expecting you." And that evening, before the fer : vor of his joy at seeing her, her defenses went down. "Oh, Emily!" he cried. "Don't make me wait too long!" She smiled gently at him, feeling tender and maternal and protective; feeling everything but the ecstasy that she had longed tor; the ecstasy which, five years ago, had been too keen to endure. David had been transferred to Istanbul, and Insisted that he was never coming back "Not any longer, my dear," she en Id. The wedding, they decided, would be the following June. Emily would have preferred, having burnt her bridges, to be married at once, but Frances had definite Ideas on the subject of weddings. You didn't get married hastily; you made the most of it, and al lowed your friends to make the most of you. You had to have the' re quired amount of linen and the prop-' er amount of attention and excite ment. A trousseau alone took sev eral months, If you shopped prop erly. And because this was, she hoped, the last episode of Frances' reg num, Emily yielded to her wishes. It didn't matter a great deal, and per haps It was wiser to accustom her elf gradually to the Idea of Edwin as a husband. There was a certain satisfaction ' In having settled the issue. Nothing, (lie decided, was quite so trying as Indecision, not even deciding a thing the wrong way. And it did simplify things. They would build a little house, not too close to her family or Edwin's, and the would be rid of that gnawing uncertainty about what to do with her life. You could travel 'a very rocky road, once your feet were set upon It; It was those awful moments when you wore deciding which fork to take that tried your soul so sorely. France's pleasure was one of the brightest spots In these months. "I thought you would never come to your senses," she said. "You've kept Edwin waiting so long, and he's been so patient about It. I can't tell you how delighted I am." A ND the rest of Elston seemed to echo France's opinion. Like all small towns, Elston loved a big wedding; It derived a certain vicari ous thrill from so Intimate a glimpse Into the lives of others. And unquestionably Emily was doing the "sensible thing." She wasn't cut out for a career; you had only to look at her flower-like face to know that. Only Jeffrey, surprising tear In her eyes one day, had seemed to doubt "Of, course he's a fine fellow honey," he said soberly, "but If you don't really love him and want to marry him, don't you do It!" She smiled at him, but the smile held a trace of desperation. "How on earth are you to know, Dad? I was terribly In love once, and it didn't work out. Maybe this will be bet ter." "Yes." agreed Jeffrey, who had worshipped the fluffy girl that Fran ces Felton had been. "Love's not In fallible either. After all, It's what you make of It yourself, and maybe this Is your best chance for happiness." And he had kissed her and changed the subject. And winter gave way to spring again, and instead of lagging as It Seven Die In "form LONDON. Eng. Sept. IB (AP) Beven persona were known to be dead today as the result of the most vio lent gale of recent years. The gale, which swept the Engltah cosst, mod erated toward nightfall, but heavy seas itjll surged at channel ports. had sometimes done, June rusi:.. with appalling speed to meet her. Emily looked dazedly at herBelf in the lighted plerglass. The glass, she felt, was playing a ghastly Joke on her. This wasn't herself, In white satin and a lace veil; It wasn't even her face. The face was white under Its rouge, and the eyes were so big and dark that they looked Inhuman. Emily usually wore simple clothes; plain little crepes in sum mer, beautifully tailored woollens in, winter; Emily had never worn white satin and lace. And although Emily's face was sometimes white and worn it had never looked like this. Someone was fussing with the veil; arranging It and rearranging It; pulling It this way and that. Sha wanted to snatch the veil from her head and fling It at Mrs. Mlms, who had male It and who was fussing over It now. She said distinctly: "Would you mind going away and leaving me? You can come back In ten minutes." Mrs. Mlms, accustomed to the out breaks of brides, smiled understand lngly and went out, closing the dooi softly behind her. She took an al most ghoulish delight In these last tantrums of brides. When Mrs. Mlms had gone Emily turned and flung herself face down upon the lace-coYered bed. What was she doing dressed In all this paraphernalia, almost married to Edwin? How on earth had It happened? IT a e T waan't difficult, really, to see dripping of water that had worn away a stone. It had begun with Charlotte's words In the woods, that day so long ago; "After all, my dear, there are worse things," and it had culminated on that night in October when she had mistaken hab it for love. She had missed Edwin, then, be cause there was nothing to take his place, but she wouldn't have missed him, she repeated desperate ly to herself, in Birmingham, for example, with Charlotte for com panionship. And in the Intervening months she had been JO drugged with ex citement end with the approbation of those about her that she had man aged, most of the time, to avoid the serpent of doubL But nothing had prepared her for the shattering finality of this; for the sudden Inescapable conviction that she couldn't go through with it. She shuddered it the scandal; at the thought of the wedding presents displayed in the drawing-room, and the caterer who was at the moment making creamed chicken for two hundred guests. But most of all, she shuddered at the thought of her mother's Indignation and her father's disappointment. The door opened quietly and Frances' voice filtered through the j clouds of lace. "Emily, dear, what' on earth?" 1 She sat up slowly. 8he wasn't! crying: her face wouldn't have! seemed halt so stark if she bad been. She said In a broken whisper. 1 "Mother, I can't do It" Frances Felton rose magnificently to the occasion. She neither stormed nor commanded. She sat down be side Emily and took her In her arms. "Emily," she said, "I don't sup pose there was over a girl In the world who didn't feel panic stricken at the last minute. It's quite natural." "It can't be." Emily scarcely recognised her own voice. "Not this." "Yos," Insisted her mother. "This. It's nerves, all of It. Haven't you ever felt this way before" she searched for a slmllle, "before a tennis tournament or an examina tion? When you wondered why on earth you'd ever gotten Into It?" "No," said Emily. She knew the feeling her mother meant, but It wasn't like this. "They were never this Important." "That's why the feeling Is so in tensified. When It's over and you'rs safely through It all you'll wonder how you could have been so fright ened. Going away with Edwin will seem the most natural thing In the world." "If you broke It off now," her mother went on gently, "It would be the end of everything between you and Edwin. And when he was com pletely out of your life you'd miss htm terribly, and wonder how you could have done such a thing." Emily rose slowly and wearily from the lace-covered bed. "Send Mrs. Mlms In here, then, and let her fix tills veil again." Frances Felton's fare dlln'l change. (Copyright, 19X3, bu Itarlan Sims) Emily plunges, tomorrow, Into a disastrous situation. Engineering compilation show thit J4O.0O0.000 kilowatt hours of elec tricity wtu be required during the building of the Colorado river aqus duct. The Zamberl Is the largest river of Africa entering the Indian o-fsn. Ill 111 L V IJLII Inll II I III I Wm seemed "able to Daas a sentence In a Arnt, iiv Mtin wnrVin IllVLu I AlillUlJIlUL wlf8 b"tln cas tnafc l satisfactory at the same jobs. Last night they I - " I Nl A 1 IILAIAI I 11 suggest me aenience burg Heljhu when an automobile " . i - 1 1 nrMllml rrP I rni 1 msl" th,t th' JudSment U1 and killed them ln.te.ntly. 1 ( I I SWAIN8BORO, Oa., Sept. 18. (AP) Judge Alfred Herrtngton, Jr., of the Swalnsboro city court Is letting worn en pronounce their own Judgments In wife beating cases. The first woman to do so gave her husband the maxi mum sentence 12 months at hard labor. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the nil ON M M6ef?woSETr(e ams pfiR twice VMi. 1 ' AeMW MORGAN - t-PiRWe And ueuT. 6n), Of .JAMAICA, 6MZ A SUMPTUOUS t5AM(?uerfti7'seAMEM, HMGEO fflMAU THE Strange &s It seems, you can actu ally see sir In motion Just as you can aee water In motion. The best way to prove this Is to take a, straight edge the back of an ordinary car- peter's saw will do very, well and hold It up so that the wind blows against the side. Now sight along the edge and you will see air flowing over the back of the saw like water over a dam. Air currents of differ ent temperatures have different re fracting properties, and their move ment can therefore be seen. The eccentric Francis TAILSPIN TOMMY El Condor Sl condor to as JBOUT TO T&WSP08.T FEDEAAL -SPY, CONCHTA, TO Ro voters M HAS F-i. WV IOHEV HtT tOAS 4TT)0EO ey coi. Jose joioi, SCARLET ICe OF- THS AS FOC- BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER 5--5-5t BEVl A k , f VOL! W coSri.CAL, HEW.'EVEttV 6EKl,VOljRE TUel 01 ( COME OW OUT.' VOL), j f'?-! IT, BEN YOU) LET ME UE BONE M MX GREATEST TWJ Q( VTOO, BBAAR Y.ff JrX PID I OOWW AND BOW ACHES- fOOR j RIDER. IN J Jffl v S . THE MEBB3 Poor Fanny By gQL HEg8 CArt' A' VcJn-J' II l47rj'VE BENJ OUT VvITM THEM TWICeN 11 KNOW THAT I'M A MOTEL MAN'S WIFfcT'' - 1 I THRpUghir . X-5$T ME A4 njow I VE SHOWED THEM MY ENTIRE AND I KNOW AS SOOETV GOES VIA ABOUT V: , ro $VJTDUEL.J ENrERTAlN . 13 WARDROBE SME CAME WlTM TWO ) ( TALL AS A PHONOGRAPH RECORD I Klwwp V THE TECHS ANYMORE. V I 11 TRUNKS EITHER ONE WOULD MAKE J HAVEN'T MUCH MONEV I KNOW IT 'fpSmW E ' v r ' 3CA COMRORTABLE HOME FOR AN VTHE INSIDE WHY DO t HAVE TO GET IT 1 Judge Herrtngton, saying lie never seemed "able to pass a sentence In a, wife beating case that la satisfactory to the wife," announced: "Henceforth, It ihall be my rule to let the wife suggest the sentence and I wilt make that tha Judgment of the court." A 35 -year-old negro farmer who pleaded guilty, was the first to feel the effect of the novel plan. 59-YEAR OLD TWINS MEET DEATH TOGETHER CLEVELAND. 8pt. 18. fAP) Wil liam and Oeorge Buellow, twins, went author, Inclosing s stamped envelope rN NCIrt fftltt la Crippled I Congratulations ! . Oe-- J GtuciDe ATTEMPT; 1W6 HAZARDS OF A WIMWM6 JEM?" -SHrs. ' ICE-CREAM CONE IN tE OTHER, JWL- '3P anD A BEE WHICH HAS JUS"f iMj ' TLOWN-'IN HE WINDOW f8" Sptk .6U3YA& I 'illPi 1 WlUlftTO (Oopyrlght, 1938, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ?7 I O M ADTPT) ri-M"j r r WJt Dmaai Egerton. Earl or Brldgewater. who , ma.ca, as he was by peaceful voyag. 1 ,t c MM """T ' tg" H SsbcS-v' I - II lived a little more than a century era In his pirate days. Nobody knew 'riViV 7 O U K T5 " j tjgk JK V 1LVJmJ5 ago In England, kept track ot the plratea as well as the old ex-plrate "j5S': "V, 9 r)JpS . Z date by the number ot shoes m hla himself so when a strange ship put X ( jK s i JwffiSfS'l tlerV jsJrZF wardrobe. He wore one pair ot new into port Morgan's suspicions were !.' ) g rft1 I TA. Vi shoea every day. never wearing a pair, aroused In spite or the fact that the ViXx JSls W Is L )l J stf?L T he always kept them row after row crew was well behaved and orderly. xT j), I 7K -1 rVl" Vj'J5 ' ' of them marked off like s calendar Morgan Invited officers and crew the (fTTV 7 ffilSf 1 I I 1 GJ-k with days, weeks and months. Thus entire company to his house for din- iiSeslfci I WMm&S I II f ' CV&l&i ' ' with 37 pairs of Bhoes on the July ner. There they talked over many r?r tfegv I If E$3ift A ' row, he knew that the month was glasses of wine so many In fact that ffl5-!SEi& VVNJ Z M 1 "SI If I fMAli I about over. the guMts tslkKl Ire(,lv 0( ther pl. ErMffi&' (JJ W&A 12 fl ? . SlPy ' rate activities and nin N.it kHI'ii&riek:!! C. 1? i rXVaIL aeV E'yii) I Sir Henry Morgan, once the pirate h f-pt, -jyej VrfS 1 flSMr'Ri Mt W .11 terror of the was. waa fully aa much " v( S U VT B 'VW LMV feared by former associates after he I Tomorrow: The Human Grain of II 1 --fiT 'f -r--a 111 111 Henry 1 became lieutenant governor of Ja- Wheat. I I rWgWB hU -j (Onpvriglit, 1936. by The Bell Syndicate, W) H A) through 69 years of life together, dressing alike, eating alike, working at the same- jobs. Last night they met death together. The brothers were walking along a road In Middle burg Height When an automobile struck and killed them Instantly, f PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 18. (AP) Those brazen "bike" bandits have struck again. Mrs. Bertha Townsend told police two youths snatched her purse yes- terday and dashed away on a bicycle The purse contained only a few cents. This was the second bicycle bandit theft in two days. for reply. 4' THE WORLD AT ITS WORST L 1 CA rr mm v xggBmWmBm- n g g f By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Bj Hal Forre By Edwin Alcer