PAGE SIX
MEDFORD. MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1935
MORNING STAR
SYNOPSIS: After ffta death at
jrrfwiM and Emily'a baby. Emily de
termine not to publish her grief to
the world, but to do the beet she
can to pick up the thread ot her
normal lite and live again, Edwin's
primness and stubborn narrow
mindedness were difficult enough be
fore; now. however, he seems to
feel there is something rather dis
graceful in Emily's actions. Grief
is grief to Edwin, and on should
wear black to prove it.
Chapter SS
TRUTH COMES OUT
CUNDAY, th day after Christmas.
Emily moved restlessly about,
throwing out faded flowsrs, cutting
reeling carda Into i box to be used
as an Index to next year's list,
amptylng ashtrays that had been
Oiled by their Christmas callers.
The box of cards, aha decided,
could go In the guest room desk,
where they would be quite out of the
way until next year. Sha opened the
guest room door and stopped short
upon the threshold.
Edwin was Inside, quite motion
less, staring Into the opened cheBt
that held the tiny possessions of
Jeffrey Felton Barnes.
She had carefully refrained dur
ing Christmas day from any mention
ot the thing nearest her heart and
the sight broke her completely. Wltb
a tearing sob aha crossed the room
and put her arms about him.
"Oh, my darling, can't we help
ach other?"
The silence that followed was like
a cold band upon her heart. She
realized suddenly that Edwin's arms
were not holding her; they were
merely about her. She raised her
bead and looked Intently Into his ex
pressionless face. ' -"1
didn't know," he said finally,
In a level, monotonous voice, "that
you needed help."
In that Instant sha understood.
Dnderstood his first rush of tender
ness after tho baby's death and his
gradual withdrawal during the past
few weeks.
Edwin had been trained to a rigid
code of respect for the dead and ho
had expected her to mourn, visibly
and audibly.
Me had doubtless expected her to
wear black clothes for a year as an
outward Indication that her heart
was broken, and at the end of the
year to take them off because her
heart had mended auddenly. In a
day.
And understanding that, she saw
for the first time how hopeless It all
was; how useless her struggles and
concessions and sacrifices had been.
In a year and' a half Edwin had
learned so little about her that he
could think she didn't care.
He still measured her conduct In
terms of conventional behavior, Id a
thing that lay so close to her heart.
She realized that after this she could
never try to ploaBe, or even to live
with him, no matter what she had
promised.
She looked Into his eyes tor a great
many seconds. "Would you mind
coming Into the living-room where
It's warm?" the asked steadily.
"There are a lot of things I'd like
to talk to you about"
He followed her wordlessly and
they faced each other on the hearth
He politely offered her a chair but
she shook her head. You didn't fight
tor your life sitting down.
"Edwin," ahe said finally, "you
don't love mo at nil, do you?"
He hesitated. "You make It diffi
cult, don't you?"
"That isn't what I'm asking just
now. Do you?"
"I don't fool as I once did," he
confessed honestly. "You're such a
different person."
"Meaning that you loved me once
but that you don't care any moro?"
the Insisted. "Don't be afraid of my
feelings; I haven't any left."
"1 know It," he said. "That's why
can't love you as much."
""pHATS what 1 wanted to find
out." She was amazed at the
stoudiness ot her own voice; sho
scarcely recognized It. "Now then
will you tell me why you changed?"
"Because you did," he said prompt
ly. "Your leaving me was the first
blow; you'll never know what that
cost me. And you've been different
ever since you came back (rum
ninulOEhain. You knew how I telt
about things before you married
Die, and Instead of respecting my
views you've disregarded them en
tirely. Laughed at them; not open
ly, hut really, from the vory first."
"Has it occurred to you. Edwin."
the asked, "that the reason I left
you in the first place was because 1
wasn't altogether In accord with
rour views ahoul things?"
"You never said so heforo we mar.
rled."
lou would never give me a
tbance. You avoided talking about
Important subjects as if they had
been Indecent. But It didn't mattor
Weather.
Northern California: Kilr tonight
and Tuesday; fogs on south and cen
tral coast; temperature a'jove normal
In Interior; gentle to moderate north
erly winds off the coaat.
Wife SSectlJJ
BY MAillAtt SIMS
ao much then because 1 wuu I juui
property. I didn't belong to you."
He made a gesture of protest but
she disregarded It. "And did It never
occur to you," she drove her arrows
mercilessly home, "that having left
you once and having come back, un
der durc-ss, as It were, because 1
promised when you were so des
perately III, that 1 might need to be
humored In my eccentricities It I
waa to be happy wltb you? You were
so frightfully upset over the discov
ery that 1 wasn't making you a good
wife that you overlooked complete
ly the possibility that you might be
making me a bad husband."
He defended himself hotly. "I've
never been unfaithful to you even
In my mind."
She laughed ruefully. "My dear
man, you might have betrayed mo
half a dozen times and it wouldn't
have been half so fatal as constantly
disapproving of me!"
"You see?" he cried. "That's exact
ly the sort of thing I'm talking about.
You deliberately laugh at every
thing 1 hold sacred. You'd laugh at
anything on earth."
"I've laughed most ot the time,
Edwin, to keep from crying. And at
least 1 haven't tried to change your
opinions; I've let you cherish them
In peace."
"There's no need to be ashamed
of them," be Insisted complacently.
"At least, their morality Isn't ques
tionable." She sighed. "It must be lovely to
be so sura ot your own Infallibility.
That's the spirit that makes mo
think that uncompromising morality
does more to foster vice than any
thing else In the world."
SHE broke off suddenly. It was as
if she and Edwin were speaking
different languages, and there was
no Interpreter present. She realized
with amazement that she disliked
Edwin more than she had ever dis
liked anyone In her life, and that
sbe had always disliked him.
She bad lived with blra a year and
halt, and in that time tholr spirits
had never even approached each
other. And having made her dis
covery ahe asked only to be done
with the whole relationship. She
pushed on.
"Laying aside the question ot my
views, in what other ways navo 1
failed?"
"None," be admitted readily.
"I've been a good bousokeeper,
haven't I?" She know the respect
he had for the domestic virtues. .
"Yes," Edwin- said honestly,
"you've been perfect."
"And I've boen Interested In your
affairs," she thought of hours ot the
wholesale grocery business, "far
more than you've ever been In
mine."
He could not deny that, but his
silence Indicated plainly that there
was very little In a woman's affairs
that merited intorest.
"And I've been affectionate, Ed
win." She was determined that he
should acknowledge her vlrtuea as
well as her fallings; this time her
conscience waa going to be clear.
"There have boon times when I've
put a great deal more Into caresses
than you have. I've often kissed
you lately when I've had the feeling
that you would never have thought
ot It."
His silence was a tacit admission
of that. With all his prejudices Ed
win waa as honest as herself.
"And as for the baby" hei
voice broke on that, "you've novel
known about the nights I've cried
myself to sleep, becauso you were
already asleop. I've tried to fill tin:
vacuum, and you haven't realized
that the reason I've worked so hard
to fill It was because the vacuum
was so unbearable!"
She couldn't talk any more ot
that If she was to get through this
thing. .Sho stendied, summed It un
tersely.
"Then the reason I've failed lost
your love is because I haven't been
able to change my self?"
"If you want to put It that way."
"And you enn't, or won't, see thol
my self Is Just as Important, Just hs
vital, to me as yours Is to you? It's
the one thing I'll never change, even
to make you happy."
"1 don't expect you to. I stopped
expecting that a long time ago."
She gathered her courage Into her
hands. "Then, Edwin, we're going
to get a divorce."
"What!" He was speechless with
amazement.
"Yes." She almost smiled at his
consternation. "I promised to stay
as long aa you wanted me. You've
admitted that you don't lore me;
I'm telling you now that 1 don't lovo
you. That ends It automatically."
Her only thought now was to get
away. She caught up a hat and coal
and without a backward glance
walked swiftly trom the house.
(Copyright, IPJI. by itarian Sims)
Kmlly finda two valuable alliav,
tomorrow.
Oregon: Vnlr tonight and Tuwday.
but fogs locally on coaat; warmer In
terior wrat portion Tuf&.Uy, with low
er humidity; moderate tc treah north
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Use Mall Tribune waul ada.
RELIEF COIN FOR
JOBS TILL JULY
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. (AP) Em
ployment for an average of 2,500,000
periona In the nine months begin
ning November 1 waa named today
aa the aim of Harry L. Hopklna'
works progress administration, the
mainstay of the work relief program.
High officials estimated that $500
of federal funds, would be the aver
age WPA expenditure per Job to carry
the program up to July 1. On that
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
For further proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Fat. Off.
WlH. MUT IN 1H&
Strange as It seems, lead mixed In
the correct proportions with bismuth,
tin and cadmium, all of them metals,
produces an alloy that will melt at
65.5 degrees Centrlgrade, or a bolt 150
degrees Fahrenheit. Although It Is
generally classed as a lead alloy, tlnre
is nearly twice as much bismuth In
It as lead. Wood's alloy la made of
15 parte bismuth, eight ports lead,
four parts tin and thro epnrts cad
mium. Melting points or these met
als are: bismuth, 51b 8; cadmium,
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MODESTO, Cal, ( UP) Low fly
ing airplanes have been held respon
sible for a number of fires which
burned over hundreds of acres or
grain on a ranch near Varnalls.
George Fink of Crows Landing said
a careful check and observation re
vealed particles of carbon from
planea flying at low altitudes for
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fires. The minute pieces of carbon,
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much higher than the melting point
of their alloy.
William de Morgan, .son of the
great Augustus de Morgan, was born
In London In 1830. Most of hi life
he spent as an artist and potterer.
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