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PAGE EIGHT MMORNING . S0PS18: Emily Barnes ean . decide whether it is tetter to .itomit to her husband's narrow iit-te and stupidity, or whether the must try to reform htm. Ber only ally at home ie her father; Jeffrey hae been a martyr to hie wife's sense of duty all hie life, and sw peste that Emily continue her fort. If it fails, he will stand by her. Then Edwin comes home and tells Emily all about the meeting 0 the merchants' association. Chapter 29 QUARREL ; pMILY paused before the book' case, seeking solace there. "I wonder what's become of 'In the Beginning'?" She was speaking is much to herself as to Edwin. There was no way, of course, for him to know what had become of a rolume of Norman Douglas. His paper rustled and was silent at last Edwin said: "1 burned It" She turned and stared at blm. 'You what?" "1 burned !(," he repeated dog gedly. Emilys eyes were almost black. "What precipitated that triumph it righteousness? He explained, almost sullenly. "I aeari you telling someone how much 'ri enjoyed it, and when 1 went to Birmingham last week I took It Hong to read. It was the vilest book ever tried to read." Her eyes never left his face. '"Honl solt," she murmured, and (topped abruptly. "What did you say ?" "Nothing. 1 was Just quoting a proverb that attributes evil to him rho evil thinks." "There was no question about the ivll there," he said hotly. "A book vhlch dealt, too graphically, with icenes a man hardly discusses with lis own wife. The fact that the icenes transpired between gods and foddesses didn't lessen their Impro priety." "No." Her voice was soft, thought lul. "In the midst of all that beauty four medieval mind would notice Ihe dirt." He dropped the newspaper, stung tato real bitterness. His motive in iBsaylug the book had been praise worthy; he wanted, In his lnartlcu . late way, to acquaint himself with Ihe things that Interested Emily, and this was his reward. "You can't resist slurring me, can fou? And yet you can enjoy a book lo suggestive that I was ashamed" "To have It In your bouse!" She matched the words from bis Hps and Dung them at him. "Shall we draw a Hue down the middle of It, Edwin, and let one-half o. it be yours and tba other halt mine? Or would you prefer It all?" "Emily!" Suddenly the room and Edwin and Norman Douglas grew unreal and tar away. There was a glorious sense of lightness and release, and then nothing. When she opened her eyes sbe was on the couch and Edwin was kneel ing beside her, his white, terrified face very close to hers. "Emily, sweetheart, what Is It? Are you all right?" The world came back, suffocating. crushing her. She closed ber eyes to shut It out. "Yes, I'm all right. 1 haven't been to a doctor yet," she whispered wea rily, "but I'm pretty sure I'm going to hare that baby you wanted." "Oh, my darling!" He laid his burning cheek against hers for an In stant and then very gently lifted her In his arms and carried ber to her room. He had forgotten the exist ence of a man named Norman Doug las; he was once more awed and (during and very humble. . PRANCES FELTON had found a new outlet for her energies and she was transformed. Already she ' was making Lists. "Of course we won't try to get everything at once, but William can drive us to Birmingham In the morn ing and we can make a beginning." Emily moved restlessly in ber deck cbalr. The garden was bathed In sunlight and the tulips and Iris were vying with each other for su premacy. The result was intoxicat ing. "Not yet, Mother. There's so much time for all that later. This Isn't the sort of thing that slips up on you." Frances looked a trifle upset by her levity. 'But you won't want to go later." Emily's eyes bad an unruly glint. "Why not? Everybody on earth got here by the same route." "Emily!" "I'm sorry." But she didn't sound particularly sorry. "It's Just that I'd rather stay out in the sunshine for a while and work my garden." "But you have no business work To Inspect Dam. VANCOUVER, Wash, Oct. a (API Governor Clarence Martin of Wash ington will fly here eVaturdsy from Seattle and be met by a delegation from North Bonneville, where he will b taken on an irurpectlon tour of Bonneville dam. STAR ay ivfARXAN Sims ing your garden! Dr. Proctor should forbid It." "Oh, not that actively, darling. But 1 can potter around and superin tend Andrew. And then during the last few months I'll sit and hem nap kins as much as you like." Her mother stared. "Sometimes, Emily, It's hard to believe that you are my daughter." "Isn't It!" Emily agreed cheerful ly. "I don't understand why you haven't cast me off before this." She thought with amusement of how easy It was to defy someone when you no longer had anything to lose. She derive a positive delight from shocking Frances now, . 1 France decided upon an accept ance of the Inevitable and changed the subject. "Your father is like a ciilld over It" Emily smiled. "Bless him! It it's a boy I'm going to name It for blm." To herself she thought "He knows It's a good thing for me, too. That 1 won't throw my cap over the wind mill now." , 'I've . always thought a child should be named for Its father," Frances objected. It's ao confusing, darling. You end up by calling blm Junior, which Isn't a name at all, or Buddy, or Sonny, or Toodles, and he never lives It down." She chuckled suddenly. "Sppose Edwin had been called Toodles I It might have altered his whole nature. Do you know, I think one of the most significant things about Edwin Is that he's never had a nickname." Frances rose. I MUST be going," she said coldly. "If you need my help at any time 1 shall be glad to do what 1 can." Emily was smitten with contri tion. "Of course I'll need your help. I haven't an Idea how to begin. 1 only want a breathing space Drat to ad- lust myself; after that you won't have a minute to call your own." She kissed her mother, and felt from the relaxing of her body that she was mouthed. When Frances had gone she sank once more Into the deck chair and closed her eyes. At least there had been no scenes since the one about the book. In all the category of Edwin's fetishes, Motherhood held first place, and his attitude since that night had been compounded of reverence and awe. She heard his step upon the flag stones; dear heaven, was it lunch time alreadyl And then she felt bis kiss upon her forehead. He nearly always kissed her upon the forehead now. She opened her eyes and man aged a smile. , "Greetings. Aren't you a little early?" Edwin sat In the other deck chair and looked at her. He spent a good deal of time Just looking at her. "I may be, a little. But I thought you might want something. Are you all right?" "Quite. 1 can still move around, you know." She smiled teaslngly at him, won dering If she could maintain her bal ance for the remaining months on the rather dizzy pedestal upon which he bad enthroned ber. "I know you can, but I'm afraid you may overtax your strength." He was very patient with her lev ity and Irreverence now; he made her think of an Indulgent parent humoring a relractory child that bad been very 111. "I won't darling," she assured him. "I'm really laiy, anyhow, and 1 snatch at any pretoxt for idleness." "This Isn't a pretext" he sold firmly. ... There was no use In arguing It, of course. She rose. "I expect lunch Is ready." On the way to the home he kept his arm tightly about ber waist Charlotte's acknowledgement of ber news was characteristic and comforting. Charlotte's letters had a way of putting everything In Its proper perspective. Even Judith broke a silence of many months to rejoice with her. There bad been a brief announce ment three months before of the ar rival of David Carroll Morton, but Judith had been too occupied for letters. "I'm glad about this," she wrote, "for more reasons than one. I've guessed from the things you haven't said that Edwin Is by no means per fect and after the baby comes be won't particularly uatter." She smiled wistfully at Judith's enthusiasm, and wondered If the day would ever come when she could sun herself'once more In the radi ance of Judith's personality. (Copyright. ttSS. by llarlan Sims) Edwin object, tomorrow, to one f Emily's friends. MILWAUKEE, Oct. a (API Lucius W. Nleman, editor of the Milwaukee Journal and president of the Journal company, dfed today. He was 77 years old. Nteman. who toox over the Jour nal a few weeks after It wna founded In 1M3, had been 111 for more than s year. MEUFORD MAIL TOLD BY BANVELL H TALK BEFORE ROTARY A vlvlf. account of the epectacular and erstiy Galilpoll campaign against the Turks during the world war .aa given by A. H. Banwell as the STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN BIX Tot further proof ddres the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. S. Pat Oft p " - ' ' " 1 UtMuirndiatA. Criminal and detective who found- It profitable in more ways than one to oomblne his activities of crime and crime detection. Fran ools-Ju lea VI docq kept himself busy aa a detective by committing crimes and solving them, taking care, of course, not to solve them bo completely that he In volved himself. Vtdocq was born In 1775, Joined the srmy and became a lieutenant. Later he was Involved In & forgery and was sentenced to the galley for eUiit year. H ewviped three time, wn captured twice but finally managed to elude police and lived quietly In Paris, TAILSPIN TOMMY The "Big Push"! rau LIBERATOR , 15 JUBILANT ANO 15 a bit too CONFlDS NT - -RVOEi AT THE HEAD OF MVS ARMV TOiOARJD THE CAPITOL CITY OF NA-ZIL PijE IS FORTIFIED VAXOITH THE VERY LATEST WAETIME EQUIPMENT HIS Men wave tooM "TLOO nA-iORL ATTLEIS 230 BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER THE NEBBS The Sick Mr. "TUCTV5 STILL IN) A DAZE - the: mews of TUE RlCW 60L0 STRIKE FLOORED WIM ASJO OUST AFTER WE MAD SOLD MIS STOCK. f " ("WELL, 0OWAr4& I YhA A AAANGY CONOTE AlPH I f PlEMTV, AT H ADDOCKVILLE -THES 1 1 f CO VOL! KWOvV OTU. IM BUSINESS- .. T- IF U A1MT BEW WE8STBR.' T A. COUPLE O' HOT EA-STERM SfGRTS THEIR NAMES J : GUESS, ILL STOP S ' l&mm HOW'BE.MDU, ',21 THAT "5 MOVEO IN, ANO THEVRE JIM ? r ' S AND SEE HIM- J . : - aVffc'"! 1 80V f I SiPENOlN MONEY LIKE (TVWSWiTtR-l J " -rprFT, I 'last chance & yO, Aw$si Ruaaor is weyve stumbled on r-J . C OV J7JV. 1 --rr VjpOLD BACK. IN THE HILLS i 1- ) I . J ; .yWfe5ift..l .hMV Vr someplace-r MA TKiBUME, JMEDFOKU, feature of Tuesday's program at the Mdford Rotary cQub. Mr. Banwell, who aerved with the Sixth Haurakl regi ment of the New Zealand expedi tionary force during the famoua Egyptian campaign of 1916, and the dlsastroua Balkan campaign of lOlo, told of the experiences of the Brit ish, Australian and New Zealand troops In the thrill and horror packed struggle of the Dardanelles. A full attendance of Rotarlans and several guests, many from Grants Pasa, entbuaiaatlcally applauded Ban wire Intensely Interesting descrip tion of the campaigns which were WON theit was discovered before he had devoting himself to a study of crime and methoda used by criminals. His next contact with police came In 1809 when he volunteered his ser vices to them aa a spy on underworld characters. His success In this line was surprising, and he was placed In charge of a small force of ex-con-vlct police. He retired from hla Job to engage In private business, but falling In this he returned to the force. In order to regain his pest as detective, he engineered a brilliant theft which he later expected to "solve" In order to snow what a good detective he was. His part in the Ben's for Action Nebb I oA , RUDV VOU8.E SM ART ! ! f OM, OUST TO-TUINK-WOW AMD I SOLO OUTlF 1 I OOD&MENJT A&AIM-. WAVE SOU) uLlpn So?l 0(2. J M S SKe&T RESPECT FOR V AMY IDEA JUST MOVW rTcM J JSA? W 7 lt J J ; .,.f ' J OREGON', WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1935. among the most colorful of the world war. The speaker Interspersed his talk with bits of humor, which re lieved the gruesome accounts of the many horrors of ihe bitterly fought battles of the Turkish campaign. THE MARBLE CORNER Jacksonville. Dancing and good times. Good music. Spend an evening here. D. E. Hartman. GUNSMITH. Repairs for all makes of guns. Sims Bros., 33 N. Fir. Off ICIAU 0?lM WWE f RMCOfc VIPOCQ, FAMOUS ffiencrt PETecriVE criminal nw rPilvic yl 10-2-35 a chance to prove his crime-detecting ability. For this he was dismissed from police service. Vldocq died In 1867, penniless. Strange as It seems, the people of India have no name for their coun try. Although the name India la now generally accepted. It cornea from the Sanskrit for river and is not the true name of the country. Hindustan ap plies only to the northern part of the country, and the one name that might apply to the whole country. Bharatavarsha, i& Sanskrit ttB dead language of the East. Tomorrow: The 25,000-Carat Gem. IHE MINUTE THAT SEEMS o-i S-MATTER POP 1"J)REW A OME-E-f'Et) MAN! 1MA6IWAT PPB89'5ir VkVAT "r4Ar.""PJ,WE.-t-i. WOW Aa. (Copyright, 1935L by The Bell Byndicste, Inc.) aJif &i 9k TB v y TKfigai. A YEAR ORDER! N6 FOR A FAMILY PAR1V, SOME OF WHICH CAN'T" MAKE UP THEIR MINPS, OTHERS PAY HO AffESTiOfv 1b "THE KIEMU Af ALL, AND fHE REST ALL TELL VOl) SlMULf ANEOUSLV WHAT fHEv' WANlf SO YtfAT YOU CAM UNDERSTAND NONE OF fHErO (Copyright, 1938. by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ML Maw Ai2E M ffsp23 tl i r ar . . Tm fa By GLUYAS WILLIAMS filllVD'. Bv C. M Payna By HAL FORRESU iS By EDWIN ALGER ( YOU BET,' OWES CUTHBERT BOON, THE OTHER, AMOS SOUiaCi-WHY VWOOLDNT I KNOW THEIR. NAMES WHEN THEY'VE ENDED THE DEPRESSION! FOR. j HADDOCK VI LLC f m . r0 By SOL HESS
