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I page srx . AIEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFQKL), OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1935. MMORNING STAR ay Majiiak Sims Kmuv t tried with all her ability to make a an at mnrriant uith prim Edwin Baruet. But they art temperamen tally antithetical; Edwin con struct Emlly't effort to live tone ly at an affront, and Emily cannot bear Edwin' uncompromising atti tude. Emily just hat told her mother and lather that tht it di vorcing Edwin; her father tympa thiset, but Francet It a little wor ried about a divorce tn tht family. There never hat been a divorce in tht felon family. Chapter 35 CALL TO JUDITH PRANCES remembered onljr too well. She bent her head. "Well. Emily Bald, "I never got over It Even Edwin admits that It has fallen down. Do you think It . would be decent to go on after that with no bond except a common dread of what 'people' will ay?" Frances said at last, "No, I don't think It would." Emily went quickly to her and kissed her, and Jeffrey looked blind ly Into the Are and marvelled that after thirty years of marriage a woman should still retain her ca paclty for the unexpected. Nora knocked timidly upon the study door. "Mr. Edwin Is here, she announced In a voice that qulv' ered with excitement Even Nora knew that husbands In good stand ing didn't ask to be announced. They came in without knocking. Emily's head lifted. "I'll be right out tell him." But Edwin had followed Nora Into the room; had waited until she had regretfully departed. Then he closod the door and stood with his back against It "You needn't," he said steadily. ' "1 don't mind saying this before all of you." Emily looked at him In astonish ment. Edwin, too, had his capacity for the unexpected. He crossed the room and stood facing them, but his eyes were on . Emily. ' "I want to apologize for the way I acted," he began. "You wore right, and I was afraid to admit it I want you to know that I'll do all I can to make the rest of It easier for you." Emily fought back a sob. She had never, in all Jhe years she had known Edwin, belloved him capable of this. "It was my fault in the first place," he went on, "for persisting so long and almost forcing you Into It I think," he looked from Frances to Jeffrey, "that all three of ns were responsible tor that, because I knew you both were on my side." His eyes sought Emily's again. "And after you left 1 shouldn't have begged you to come back, especially when you thought I might die. You did everything on earth you could, but It was a mistake from tho be ginning. You won't believe It," ho smiled faintly, "but! tried, too: and even with both of us trying it wouldn't work." , "I hope," he concluded the longest epcoch of Its kind that Emily had ever heard blm make, "that we can do It as friends, because 1 admire you now more than anybody I've ' ever known, even If I can't agrpe with you. She was fighting for self-control. "Do you mind my saying the same thing. Edwin?" He smiled again, the tlgut-llnood little smile that had repellod her ao often In the past, and shook his head. "There's no reason to. It's Juat that I had to let you know how I felt before It was too late." When he had gone Emily covered her face with hor hands, trembling between laughter and tears. "If he had stnyod much longor I'd nave begged him to take me back, and that would have been the worst tragedy of all!" Frances said hopefully, "Emily re you quite sure that" "Quite, Mothor." she Interrupted quicwy. "Wo all have our momonts, and that was Edwin's. But unfor tunately wo can't keep on living up to idem. was like an oasis In a desert ol monotony. She decided suddenly to call or write tomorrow and see if the invitation still held; then, with the worst of her ordeal In Elston behind her, she might seek solace at Mor ton Hall; might decide, away from the tics of home, what to do next The ordeal In Elston didn't bear a groat deal of thinking about There was the problom of Mr. and Mrs. Barnes: In the face of Edwln'i courage she could do no less than go to them tomorrow and try, futile ly, of course, to make them under stand. She believed that Edwin would help her; his word was a guarantee of that; but she knew that no amount of protestation on his part would convince them that he had been at all to blame. He would simply In their opinion, be nobly and sacrlflclally shielding the graceless Emily, who had man aged (heaven knew how) to hyno- tlze him! And as for the divorce In spite of herself she 'shivered a little: Jef frey would help her with that. About six months, hadn't she beard, when It was by mutual consent? She blessed Edwin for htfl unex pected genoroslty: otherwise It would have meant Reno, or an In terminable period of waiting. In that case she would hare waited; not even this exaltation of rovolt would have carried her as far as Reno. And Anally, just before dawn, she fell asleep. '"THAT night she went to bed In the room that had boen hers ever since she could remember. Sho lay and considered plans for the Immodlnto futuro. Not Birming ham again, because a Job there was out of the question In times like these. Charlotte had taken two salary . cuts already, and wrote that she ox pocted each day to find herself In tho ranks of the unemployed. And life In Hlrmlncham would hava no Justlllcatlon without work to fill the days. She thought wistfully of Judith, and the long deferred visit There had been no word from Judith In months, but undoubtedly that was her own fault She hadn't been ablo yet to write about the baby, and of course Judith was waiting to hear. But the memory of Judith's glamor i nECAUSE she felt that the pros it poet of Judith's company might help her through tho lmpendlug or deal, Emily called her the next morning on the telephone. She waited with a quickened heart tot Judith's voice, wondering It It would have changed in these last intermln able years. The voice came' Anally; thin and distant, but with that unmistakable vibrant quality so characteristic ol Judith. "Emily? I don't believe It!" Emily laugbed unsteadily. "It l How are you?" , "Vulgarly well, aa usual. How an you?" "I'm not so sure yet. Judith darling, you Invited me to visit you once " The voice was scornful. "OncoV Where do you get this 'once' stuff?" Several times, then. Does the In vltatlon still hold?" Judith said stoutly, "You know darn well ft docs. When can you como tomorrow ?" The precipitate Carrolls! Emily thanked hoavon for the quality. "Not tomorrow. Will next week do?" If you can't come sooner 1 sup pose It will have to." "This Is Monday. Suppose I come a week from Wednosday?" Judith said resignedly, "All right. If that's the best you can do. Let me know what train you're taking and the car will meot you In Montgom ery." "You're an angel. I'll write In the meantime." "Swell!" Judith hesitated. "Any thing wrong, darling?" "Yes," she said quietly. And re peatod, "I'll write, today." Judith.' sho realized, didn't oven know about the baby, but Instinct must have warned her, slnco she had re trained from asking. 1 11 try to wait, then," Judith snld. "But plonse hurry." I will. And a thousand thanks. She hung up tho recolvor with a lighter heart, and went to Jeffrey's study to say goodby to him. Joffrey. aha know, had waited to hoar the outcome of the conversation before he went to Ills ofdee. It's all right. Dad. I'm going a week from Wednesday." Ha brightened. "Tliat'a Ano. The chango will do you a world of good.' He looked koonly at her. "You didn't want to go soonor?" She shook her head. "That would look like running nway. I wanted to atny and face the music hore Aral and got that over. Then 1 can enjoy myself. That's what I'm going for.' site concluded calmly, "to onjoy my-solf." Ho smiled at her. "And I know you 111. About this other business. Mick," his voice wos carofully matter-of-fact, but he couldn't yet speak the word "divorce" casually; "I sup pose you'll want It over as soon as possible?" "Yes. I may never marry asaln. but I hate being neither, maid, wife nor widow. Is It vory ililllcult?" Not very, under these circum stances. Two torms of court; one for tho Arst, and one for the Anal decree. We can arrange It very quietly." Jeffrey thanked heaven for Ed win's scrupulous sense of falrnoss. (Copyright. Itst, by Marian stmt) tvtn Elaton, Ala., wh,r Emily hit hvtd all hr life, lurpmci htr tomorrow. Dollar Wheat Peps Canadian Growers W1NNIPBO. Oct. . (A, A new tay hM dawned for the Canadian prairie planter at least thOM prairie plant ers wfco have groin to sell or had grain to Mil after threshing tu over. Poreten Importers have become ccn aoloua of Canadian wlieat and stock are being ruaned rapidly enatwai-u. Dolar wheat' hna come back to the Wlnlpot uraln exchange after a year's absence, bringing with It allvcr lin ing for the pockets of farmer hi threahed a crop. j SLOT MACHINES SALEM, Oct. 9. (TP) By ft vote Of nine to three, the Salem city council loat night passed an ordinance mak ing It a city crime, punishable by a 500 fine, six months in Jail, or both, to possess, operate, play. Mil, dis tribute or manufacture slot machine, marble board, punch board or dPrt game equipment. The measuM provided not only for seizure of the gomes and arrest of the owners o operators, but alxo for their destruction by the chief of police un der orders from the municipal Judge, i 1 , Head-Hunting Band Caught By Police B ATA VI A, Java, Oct. 9. ypj Police reported tcday a round-up of 58 na tives of the south coast of New Gui nea, members of a head-bunting par ty sold to have killed and eaten two native women. The arrests we.-o said to Include 17 children. The head hunters, who have been scourgla? the New Guinea coast since August, are said to have killed 11 natives and kidnaped two children. Nazis In Jewish Area Cause Riot NEW YORK, Oct. 9. (Jpy The sight of five men wearing nazl uniforms In the predominantly Jewish, garment workers' district yesterday precipi tated a short-lived riot. Displaying swaatikaa, the five men drove Into the section In a truck ad vertising a nazl rally. About 8.000 persons, police estimated, stormed the truck, yanked out the occupants end beat them. 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Buying paradise forever at the cost of a railroad ticket seems cheap enough to them, hence the believers prepare against the future by arrang ing to have their bodies taken to one of the sacred cities for burial. Mecca, the great Holy City of Islam. Is the chief town of Hejaz, in Arabia. It was here In this trading center cen turies ago that Mohammed came with lila vision of religion, and hern that vision book shape. Mecca was the starting place for the crusade against non-bcllevcrs thAt carried the word of Mohammed throughout the then known world. Medina, likewise, sacred to Moham medanlsmrlays its claim to religious fame to the fact that it was there Mohammed took refuge on his eml gratln from Mecca, and there, it Is said, is his tomb. Medina, a city of agriculture before Mohammed's time, became a holy eanctuary at hla com mand. Tomorrow: Crowt-Eyecl Beautlen. 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