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PAGE SIX" MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOIII). OREO ON. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 3. 1936. mvm aunt nfl u$? torvu mno nm uov mvu mino mi uuv mcvu mino ihi iadv NEVERMIND THE LADY By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor farther proof address the author. Inclosing a stamped envelops for reply. Reg. TJ. B. Pat Off. ENTERTAINER MVtS UNS IW UDT zzzby David Garth MfVll MINO IMI IAOV NIVU MINO IHI UOT NIVU MINO IHI UOT z-3 Chapter 1 BLACK WATER "lORRIOAN had lanterns lUhtlnj the way from the storshousos t the dam. They were (Melded bj it.?l guards stuck :n the ground, but even at that their light was un certain. That dam I Wlllett plowed through to the edge of the river. The dam wai going, all right. He went Into action on the spot. "Sandbags!" he shouted. "And matting! On the runt Come on. Bucky, chase 'em along. The women too." He was In six places at once, di recting, ordering, slinging the heavj sandbags around as though they were filled with cotton, and the gang got Into It as though they were fighting for their lives. The women Joined the fight too. There was a worse fury than the storm abroad tonight it was the fury of that tall figure who snapped back viciously at the wildly surging river. How they fought! Sandbags but tressing the dam at vital points to withstand the tremendous pressure of an unchecked river. Water was spilling over the top. That was all right, the halt-finished construction work helow could stand anything but the sudden wild break of the whole river. Wlllett was out on the dam, the water swirling all around him, black water that sucked at bis knees, and poured Into bis face as he knelt and gripped the edge. And as Wlllett fought, he thought of the girl back In the hut with only Rosa, saw her hand groping tor his, felt a deeper courage somehow. But It she didn't make It! "Look down, look down that lonely road I" He knew how his father bsd felt Life had gone out of his father too, left him ataggerlng, stunned. He'd never been able to love anybody else but Vic, and Terry knew from the moment he'd seen Allaire she was the only girl he could over love either. Fight, you Quaking wretcheal Tour boss has to be strong no mat ter what happens. He has to look down that lonely road and he haa to travel It alone, gallant and strong. And so they strained through the hours, Corrlgan a wild man with the Cbalkls hopping before his blasts, and Wlllett keeping the res cue work traveling surely and swiftly. Governor, you're going to be served this Job In Valhalla, and you can thank a girl for It. But he dared that surging river's force once too often out there on that Quivering dam. His grip was torn loose as he tried to got a sand bag Into place. He felt himself spun around In the wild water and an Instant lator his head was driven against the dam with stunning force. Lights flashed before bis eyes as a terrible dizzi ness ovorcama 1 '.m. Ha gasped for breath and the water poured Into his throat He was going down, exhausted, stunned, naif dead. T'HE water seemed very soft sud - denly, soft with the heavy muf fling feeling of a woolen quilt thrown over the head. And the not torn of the river was soft too, oory, shirty, soft muck that had been tlrred Into a putrid cloud that blind ed and ttiiunioj ihi Cbiuuied blS senses. Terry Wlllett could find no breath, no strength. His strength was ebbing fast Tou'll have to look down, Allaire. look down a lonely road the guy you married la through. Allaire! He seemed to see her hand as It had reached out for his in those shadows caused by the flick ering lamp. A girl who had followed hlra to Pluto's Playground and was standing botween Ufa and death herself now. Allalrel Wlllett stopped right oa the threshold of unconsciousness. With a terrible effort of wll he roused himself to battle, to And some more strength from somewhere. He couldn't leave her alone, he couldn't. Allaire was fighting for her lite too. Krom somewhere his dispersed forces rallied He snapped the mind paralysed spoil of the water that whirled him around and blinded and deafened him; he fought for the surface, holding grimly to the last of his ebbing strength, straining fnr what seemed to hlra a white hand DUBARRY SETTLES PORTLAND. On... Ftb. S (API Frank S. Scnn, attorney for thi Aetna Life Insurance company. Mid today that an out-of-court arttlfmrnt end ed the unusual case of Oeorge H "Count" Du Barry. The company will drop lta tult to cancel disability benefit to Du Barry, of OoWt Brach, Ore., on a 913.500 pol icy. Both hla hands mere Injured by a ahotfiun blaat and amputated at the wrists. The company claimed he plan ned the deed ftw the purpose of col lecting Insurance. I) it Harry, who claims desrem from the famous Madame DuBarry of France, won a federal court decision here last mmnmr when the company sought to cancel the pot Icy. Last week the Insurance company filed notice of appeal from Federal Judge John McNary't decision favor ing DuBarry. stealing toward him out ot the stormy shadows. It was closer, that hand, closer closer, beckoning him out of the Dark Places, 'showing the way. He reached out for It and held on. His Angers were gripping the edge ot the dam, and as he hung there, his body was flayed against Its surface as though caught between the Immovable Object and the Ir resistible Force. Let go, let go, something whis pered. Let go, and Nature will take care of her own. But Willed wasn't holding des perately to the edge ot a groaning shaking dam that was ready to break up. He was holding to the white hand of a girl, and be came out of the Shadows to fight again, get a toehold and shove. He pulled himself slowly, labor iously out, struggling to get free of that sucking, swirling water. Ho got up halfway and then as a hand gripped his shoulder and pulled him the rest of the way, he lost conscious ness. HE came to lying on the ground with the rain pelting Into his face and the thick slimy silt of the river oozing up under his clothes. Bucky Corrlge.n was leaning over him, Bucky, with his face white end his bond shaking as he held up Wllletl's head and stuck a flask at him. It almost got you, fella," he said hoarsely. "When you were knocked loose 1 thougbt you wore finished." Corrlgnn's square fighting Irish mug was twisted with the agony of his memory. A man bod lost his grip In that black water, Bure death, and yet a man had fought his way back again. The Cbalkls were huddled all around blm, staring, their black balr in drenched mops ovor their brown faces. Wlllett took a deep breath. He waved the flask aside; too much liquor Inside of blm already. Ho started to got up. "Take It easy," ordered Corrlgan. "You can't etreln yourself, fella" Wlllett flung off his restraining hands. He stood up and eyed the paralysed constructlob gang all around him. Work bad ceased! And the river was still threatening to break through at any minute. What the hell were tbey standing around tor? Como on, Bucky, lot's go!" Hey!" yollcd Corrlgan, "you can't go back there. That thing's ready to break up. By Qod, If you try It, I'll slug you, Terry, so help me, I will." He drew back his great brawny list and hla face waa wild. Terry Wlllett wasn't going back to flirt with death again, Job or no Job. Come on, you Irish lump," h shouted. "Chaso these guys along. Let's go!" And he grabbed up a snndbag and went back on the dam, stumbling s little on hla precarious path, but back In the battle again, and the trembling Chalkos Jooked after him with eyes popping out ot their heads. The man wasn't human, por Dlos! And hope grow strongor with the passing hours. They staggered through with that creaking, patched structure to do what Corrlgan wouldn't have thought possible bulwark It against the adverse de cision ot the river. But then Corrlgan hadn't foreseen the possibility of Terry Wlllett stick- Ing with It right on the brink ol eternity, holding on the Job by the skin ot his toeth, with the law of averages and the odds ot Nature against him. Ha had fought, and he had made them fight as the Crusaders must have fought bofore Jerusalem, In spired, with the Inspiration that Ignores the law of averages. with the light of dawn they knew they were coming through. The river would be held back. The storm had spent Itself, Its fury gone, and In Its plare was only the stolid rain. Wlllett's bands were torn and bleeding, he was drenched and muddy and brlused from head to toot and ha stumbled with exhaus tion ss he stepped on shore, lie rubbed a hand across his face and took a deep breath. We'll bent It now, folia," Corrlgan was saying at his shoulder. "Over the wire, end a hip. hip, hooray!" Wlllett nodded mechnntcally. "Bucky, my thanks to you and to all." lie put out bis hand. Cor rlgan gripped It briefly, and then sow him turn toward the hut, and It was the longest, hardest, most agonizing trek Torry had ever made. (Copyright, list, bti David Oarth) Allaire snd Trry start en a long Ifturntv. Inmnrrow. STREET FLOODING L A project designed to prevent the flooding of street In the southwest part of the city waa today awaiting approval of VTA headquarrrs In Port land. Plans call for the construction of a dralnnge ditch along the south side of Stewart avenue and the cleaning out of Crooked creek to King high way so that the stream mill be able to take care of heavy rains like those of last month. It la m S-way project, with the city, the county and the Med ford Irriga tion district Interested a sponsors. 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Strange aa It seems, flngcrllng fish can be and. In fact, have been "planted" In mountain lakes by dropping them from airplanes. The j fish, falling a thousand feet and I more, apparently suffer no Injury. according to officials of the Quebec i FUh end Game bureau who have 1 conducted experiments In this con nection. The Canadian bureau stock ed! lakes by airplanes where it would : be difficult end costly to bring the young fish overland. WRIG LEY'S. THf PERFECT GUM r TO REGARDS VISITOR, WHIIE MOTHER 6OEST0 6ET TEA. FEELS HE 0U6Hf TOTIO SOMETHING TO Etf fCRTfllN HER DEMONSTRATES, WITH FEET WAVING CLOSE TO VASE ON 10W TABL-E- ALSO POESiOMC CRASHING SOMERSAULTS. S MATTEB POP- & IJU ITT I ONt-y 6oTA T'smnV w N f l,i, I I II - I -Uf f V. a. I JA 1 S al'ill f I W " . IW W U 4 H7 5 M ATT E-T .. climbs dp ok chair, Visitor nervouslV CAlHlOKlr)6 HIM TO BE OW0L SUDDENLY Vl-M A Whoop throws him self OFF CHAIR. CLIMBS ON COUCH) LANDS WITH A AMD SftVS NOW HE'LL. SHAMIN6 THUD. SHOW HER HOW FAR TIN& ON R06 AND HE CAN OLW UPSETTING. WAIT!. (Oopyrlght, 1036, by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.) MW7s t30-ttJ et V"SS?H ' rr CO ' 'A ow, See -How mucM , 1WDS It) A HEAPj BEAMS A VlSVfOR ,WHD IS STiLL 6A6PIN&, AND SAYS HE CAN STAND ON HIS HEAD, TOO HOUSE - SAV5 HE CAN PO A FINE SKip- TRICK IF SHE'LL LET HIM stand on her shoulders, visitor mops brow and savs she'd better oust :rest Quietly . By C M. PAYNE By HAL FORREST By EDWIN ALGES By SOL UESS
