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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
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6MZ A SUMPTUOUS
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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
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FEDEAAL -SPY,
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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 !
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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
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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,
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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.
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THE WORLD AT ITS WORST
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By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
Bj Hal Forre
By Edwin Alcer