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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOKIJ, OREGON, MONDAY. DECEMBER 23, 1935.
NlVli. MIND THI UDV MfVU aUNO THt lAOT
mvm mino mi uwt ncvw mind thi uot
NEVER MSND THE LADY
THE WORLD AT ITS WORST
By G"iVAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
For furtlMT proof address tlx author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply, Reg. TJ. tVlPat Ot?.
NfVM MINO IMS LAOT
by David Garth
MVII MIND IMS UtDT
NIVII MINO IHI IAOT
NflVlS MINO IMS LADY
N1VU MINO mi uor
..a: Terry Wllletl f-
li itil ltat his shipment o
etjuipiuctil should sail lor th up.
river construction camp now being
held In check only by the eenlor
WilleW revolver, ha gone to the
dock and caught Hildee, the load'
ing bo substituting dummy boxe
for hi own. Allaire Wet ha toh
tawed him: more than that, the
gave hie (if by hoottng Ulldet
before llilde could draw. Sow
Terry it covering the cowed load
ing gang, expecting momentarily a
knife thrown from the dark, and
knowing there will be dtplomatlo
complication for hi friend flcorge
Fox, at the embassy, to straighten
out.
Cbapter 10
"SELF-DEFENSE"
STEADY." Terry said to Allaire,
"I'm following you."
Ha waited only long enough to
inatcb up ber tag, retreating warily
:o tbe warehouse alley with tbe
reapon on that Irresolute group on
the dock. Once In the alley be
rabbed ber arm and ran (or the car.
She didn't know how to use an
tutomatlc from a shovel! No, and it
would be a long time before Hlldcz
ran Coffee Company shipments
igaln. If ever
Amazing girl ahe'd learned fast.
Wlllett spok' only once before
they reached the Balnearlo Drive,
r. earing under bis breath as a car
riage lolled along in the middle of
the road ahead of him.
The rlrl was very quiet. She sat ao
"I shot htm." She
ilose to blm he could feel the
trarmth of her bare arm and the
ivhole pliant yield of her body.
Too bad for her it wasn't the
Bataclan they were leaving, and the
iprawllng hulk of Luis Hlltlcz
wouldn't rise to his foot and wait
tor the next customer seeking staged
sxcltement (or fifty centavoa.
Then as they swopt Into the
beautiful, broad drive she uttered a
low slgb.
"1 think I'm going to be so awfully
lick"
Rut she wasn't She exerted her
self Immediately and fought off tbe
nauseating attack. She was funda
mentally strong, this slim girl with
the honoy-colorcd hnlr.
Wlllett, who recognized atrongth,
abruptly found blmnolf looking
upon death with a different view
point. pEATH he had aeon in many
forms, extending from t mine
explosion In Swansea to that old
paymaster of his father's who'd
fallen off his horse on a six-foot
grade In the Darlsan foothills.
Ho bad become hardened to it as
something that fitted in naturally
with tho twisting pattern of this
thing called lixlslonco. Hut watching
this girl draw a long quivering
breath In her struggle for control,
he romembered how terribly weak
and helpless ho'd felt years ogo. He'd
been vory young, a kid be d cried
"Take It easy," he advised gently.
"You shot In self-defense"
"I shot htm." She spoke queerly,
like somebody trying to feel out a
geometrical theorem. "I Just found
It In my hand and It was Just
there."
She laughed shortly. "How ridicu
lous. I sound like a bnhy-faced wlto
tolling the Jury how she made her
self a widow."
"You only winged the buzznrd.
Shucks, these South Americans
cream over a stomach-ache."
She shook her head slowly.
"He didn't scream. He didn't say
a word. What shall I do? Give myself
IP to tho police -j"
"No!" Ills voice crackled with em
phasis. "You were at the Legation
Club all night, understand? Fox will
llx that end of 1L You don't know
'NEUTRAL'
WASHINGTON. Dec 23 (VP)
Sen. Hiram Johnson, tR, Cal ) ex
pected by political lrsdfrs here to
support President Roosevelt BRUin in
1030, returned from the const todny
tnd nnnuunced a temtornry "hands
off Attitude towsrd politics.
He did, however, discuss huslnrwi
conditions In ft vaguely poinicni
way.
"I sin of the opinion thnt we are
st the very end of the cycle of the
depression snrt wo are emrrRit.R.
he said. "There Is no dmibt that
whst the ledersl (rover n men t ha
done hna hen of value and will
eoutmue to produce results."
whether Roslna B Is the came of a
Spanish dancer or a tugboat"
He paused a moment.
"Fox la the only person who will
know. In the meantime don't worry
about a thing. I'm covering."
He was covering! She looked at
him then, the clear, strong line of
tanned Jaw and straight nose pro
filed against the street lamps.
He was still the brass band, t his
rangy, auburn-haired young man
who moved ao surely and calmly In
a world of flares and battle.
"I'm a coward," she said quite aim
ply. "I'm afraid. Of lota of thinga
And yet," she smiled wanly, "when
you aay 'I'm covering' I don't fee)
afraid. 1 don't know why."
To Wlllett she was only a strangi
and lovely girl who'd amazingly shot
from the blp to cover his horrible
carelessness in turning his back and
was now slightly Incoherent from
the shock of gunsmoke and a sway
ing thing back on Roslna B. He fell
it was only natural.
BUT to George Fox she would hart
been somebody entirely differ
ent from the girl of qulcksllvei
tastes and atrange, moody deslrei
that led to explosions and headline!
In a world of town houses, sport mo
tors, and blue ribbon hunters.
She was the girl who at flashing
Intervals tried desperately to read
spoke queerly.
Into her ancestry for qualities thai
her parents disregarded courage,
perhaps; sincerity, assuredly. And
George Fox would have marveled.
Wlllett drove her to hor hotel, the
regal Alvlo Palaclo, house of gleam
ing shirt fronts and polo players.
He snapped off the engine and
turned In his seat
"Oct hold of yoursolf," he urged.
"Fox and 1 will take care ot things
Now! all set?"
"Yes, pard."
He rollecled briefly on that "Yes.
pard."
"You saved my life, you know," he
snld wonderlngly. "For the Lord's
sako, I'd forgotten that "
Sho nearly regained the gift ol
laughter. Ho seemed so Incredulous
tin If somobody had told him. but
ho didn't believe It. Evidently his lite
was something to Juggle around,
and nearly dropping It occasionally
was nothing very surprising.
"Easy does it," ho counseled anx
iously. "You've Just come back from
tho Legation "
She nodded darkly.
"Watch mo, buddy. This here
stained woman once walked a chalk
line In a Connecticut police station."
He saw hor walk steadily through
the great doors of tho Alvlo Palaclo,
nodding calmly to the doorman; saw
her long, graceful flgure fade Into
the Alvlo's Into cocktnll crowd and
dlsnppenr.
"Nerve," Wlllett muttered and
flirted a fnrowcll hand. '
Tho lights and music of the Lega
Hon Club still twinkled serenely on.
The world dlea and the world
dances
"If Hlldcz Is dead, hell Is going
to pop, Terry. Allaire's traveling on
a diplomats passport and things
are ticklish right now. lie on awful
mess.' .
Ho looked vory strained, George i
Fox of Hnrvnrd and tho American I
Foreign Service. He lit a clgnret
Ills hand wns shaking slightly.
"Self-defcnso " he begnn.
"Sure," said Terry, "but Hlldez Is
In the doubtful column Just the
same. Get her out of tho country,
George, as soon as you ran. They
hate Americans down here, you
know that."
(Copyright. J?JJ, by Pavld Garth!
Qeora Fox hears from his su
perior, tomorrow.
BOSTON DEALER
I
nOSTON, Mum,, Dee. 33.
American newspapra were acrtuted
Saturday by Edward A. Filene, Boston
merchant, of vnuriurtitiK "an ahjmrd
and unfntr" nttaik on President
HiHMvdt while their newa columns
heralded a bu.ilneM revival his "ad
mlntatration has hrnmtht about."
Hfplytiift to crltira of govemment
spendinti fur rcliof mfMiirea. Fllene
charged anch tpendiutx wou.d have
been unnecessBry had "American bua- !
inea whti h happens to own nd con
trol an many of our nrwspapors
been wllllriK tn c.i.nprrnte with the
new deal "
Um M.ai 1'iiuuue wajjt a a.
"
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VWRKlNG foK Trl6
Milwaukee, Ms.
Today and for centuries yet to
come the North Star we use now
will still be the true north star of
the earth foiarls. But eventually
It will no longer aerve, and the
earth will have a new North Star
Vega. These two stars alternate
as the polar star,- first one, then
the other serves as the North Star.
This Is due to the fact that the
earth wobbles slightly as It turns.
similar to the slow gyrations of a
spinning top that Is slightly oil
perpendicular. The earth's wobbling
axis describes a circle every 20,000
year half that time the other.
Vega will become the North Star In
about 12,000 years.
John M. Hogan began working for
was 17 years old. His Job then was j
to carry wood to the locomotives.
He has worked continuously for the !
same company, serving as tender
loader, machinist, engineer. ' travel
ing Inspector, and now as a boiler
washer Inspector. After 80 years
a pension. It Is Hogan's boast
a pension, tl la Hogan's boast :
that during all his years as an en- i
glneer he never missed a call be- j
cause of sickness, and all during
his 80 years of railroading he has j
never had an accident of any kind.
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The Oregon State Dairymen's con
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