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LI MEDFORD MATL TRTBUXE, MEDKOKD. OREGON. MONDAY, if ARCH 30. 1936 SUNDAY SNOOZE By GLUYA5 WILLIAMS - uoiaen Main STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, Inclosing stamped envelope for reply, tteg. TJ. 8. Fat Off. l&prrigbt, 1836. hy The fell By El eX htxtjargartt CWfddtmer adloau.1110.) outfit. BYNOPStS! Irf ttunlll M (Iff'tumed that tA unburdsned nr 10 tho strange young man una oved AU way rom her. She Kae fold aim that eha U a little tired of being a povertg-ttrieken aristocrat, and alto a living sacrifice to the memory of her geniue father u-ho got all the good thinge tine impover Uhed tanning could provide, until he died. For ichen Iris reached homo ehe found that her Aunt Ella had taken Morgan Black at a boarder, and Morgan Blook it the etrange young man! Chapter Fonr FIRST MEAL . IRIS flunc hartal! across tha honey comb counterpane, sick with ishamedness. All her fayety and braver; were gone. To tell things to a man who would be living In tha honsel "The one thing I hare!" aha half lobbed. "Privacy!" There waen't much of that even at the moment Aunt Ella clicked the door open. "Supper'e ready, darling," aha said. Irla eat up and brusbed her hair. "Aunt Ella, what made you take a boarder?" Mise Lannlng looked surprised. "Why. darling! It will more than pay for the table." "I'd rather not have a thing to eat than somebody round the house all day!". "lou're wrong, my dear," aald Miss Ella mildly her invariable1 re ply to Iris'a protests. Miss Ella was small and thin, with untidily-coiled tron-gray balr and Intensely-bright restless dark eyes. She was dressed in a neat un fashionable dark wool dress with a white apron to keep It clean. As ebe stood, her eyea and bauds moved, restless; but spiritually she was Immovable. The god on her al tar, to whom she sacrificed herself, and everybody within reach, dally and hourly, had been her brother Lawrence, Iris's handsome gentle oblivious father. When you have lived under such a regime all your life you accept IU But Iris was be yond berself tonight. "Supposing I am young,' she cried, still with lire, "what haa chat to do wltb a boarder's being a nuisance?" "When you're older," said Aunt Ella, still with kindness, "you'll And that one does what one must, not what one wishes." "You're taking away the last thing that made, lite worth living!" Iris aat erect In the middle ot the mended counterpane. "IRIS, what possesses youf Would a you take the money from your father's memorial for your selfish pleasures! Don't you know that en dowing one room in the town mu seum for his permanent exhibit will take all we can aava for two years? I'm hurt and astonished at yonr self ishness." said Aunt Ella. Then aba patted Iris's shoulder. "If there'a anything In my oloaet yon can use to make over for Kath arine's tea, dear, you must take If." Then she heard some domestlo noise and scurried away. ' Irla lay still. Aunt Ella's attitude did not seem strange to her; she had always lived wltb It. Presently she rose and dressed. There wasn't much she could do; she put on an old red frock, nearl) as short and shabby aa the other, but sotting off her vividness of Ivory and dusk and rose more sharply than she knew. She wen reluctantly down to the dining room. Her uncle and Morgan were there before bar. The dining room bad been a state ly place; tbo motb-eaton, deer heads, the enormous engravings, the thick faded carpot, an Empire museum piece of a sideboard, all said thst. So did tha fish and game pictures of a departed day, brightly dead In their oval frames, and the portrait of an unmistakable arrogant Lan nlng In the rohea of a Supreme Court judge of Madison's day. Tbe price of that picture, Morgan mused (tor he came of Bound com merclal atock on one aide), would certainly run to new carpets and wallpaper for the whole bouse, not to speak of new :lothcs for the poor kid. Well, everybody to their taste, lie hoped the food would be good IT was. Iris waited on the table, altering provocatively from a flushed silence ,o dashes of gayety Morgan was a little annoyed girls, even bere! And her occasional looks mat e him think she wasn't much more pleased than be. But the table-talk was dellibtrul. Miss Klla and her brother and niece had apparently bought all possible books that a small Income allowed, and got everything else ttom the li brary: Miss Ella was genuinely musical and artistic: Mr. Latinlng LOVE FOR FELON GETS WIFE CELL 8 A CP A MFNTO, Mnirb St. (AP Twenty-four fiour ftr Owg Hull n htiKM t Piltim prlpon. hU tf, Ann. plciirtfd pr'iilty SAttirdr to rhMifc of tiiucl,ng two guna tnt the prwn ind wu rTtnci to a trm of nn to Uvn warn. Mrik. HhI wm iwntnoM by PtipAT t ifttric t attorney, Otis D. DaNsx-A. hat) moved for cllAmlM! of 4 nwond rharftr of titrmptlng to llbrat f-lon from pnltntIiiTj. Thl rharg, rairtes a pnlfy of on to 14 years. Th entire court irtion UMed )er than fhf mlnutfti during hl n Bab co-.k pictured Mrs. Hail u wo mm had a slow discursive way that broke from time to time Into Ironic wit, and a historical bobby or two. Iris flashed in and ou of tbe talk "like a highly educated firefly," Morgan told himself. Talk of Ds Qulncey, of Peacock, of the hidden history of Mary Queen of Scots, of back-country folklore, of states men's plans and literary move ments, went lightly round the table. It waa not pedantic, it was salted with small jests, light allusions. II waa Morgan's Brat discovery that such scholarly talk could be gay. ' Uncle William awept him off en Joyably for further talk at tbe meal's end. Iris piled plates on a tray and carted them to the pile on the wooden dralnboard of the old Iron sink. Iris went reluctsntly down te the dlntng room. "I hate strangors round at meals," she said crossly, getting her apron from behind tbe door? "Are you chilly, dear?" said her aunt solicitously, from whore she knelt putting away food In tbe high yellow wooden Icebox. "Or are you still upset about Katherlne Oliver's tea? Why, when her people were blacksmiths the Lannlngs were en tertaining Washington's staff. She ought to be glad to bavb you come in a waterproof!" - "Italncoat And nobody remem bers those tblngi now. I wish I bad some of the money they spent on General Washington!" "Darling, you aren't yourself. Now wash your .hands and put glycerins on them, and go In and help Uncle William entertiitn Mr. Black. Show him your father's studio." She went obediently. And she found to her dismay that Morgan Black was for some reason Just pas log the kitchen door. Uncle William must have been showing him the back garden, brave with tulips and hyacinths. Oh, hy what evil chance was he always to overhear her pri vate affairs? Nevertheless, she came out. and said, stiffly but politely, "My sunt says she would like me to show you my father's studio." Morgan assented with more than conventional politeness. Ha was eager to see tbe possessions of the dead man whose ahadow brooded over this house. He followed the alert young figure In the worn red cash mere Into a room which had been obviously, the long salon parlor. tCetmttt. !')!. M,.rH WUil) Moresn s.r-.rlcncst eemtdsr M di.Mlu.icnrrt.nt. tomorrow. who rltxkiKl hr Ufr snd freedom only berauM of her depfrat lore for her mue. Sense of Humor Is Boon to Gov. Martin BAlEM. Mftrrh SO ( AP, Medlra mn diwov?nM wh? Oovnior Murtin doA not lt the rare of offlr 'get him down," drpif hi 73 yeiira ol ase. At the lonf conferenoe o! medical men before the board of contnU fUturday. thfy made thtr dtirovej-y hi rwn-K? of humor. 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