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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEUKOKO. OREHOX. SUNDAY. APIRL 12. 1936.
Golden Rain
BYNOPMB! IrU Lannlng. vilh
Morgan Black' help, hat found her
brother Otcen, ana Ukewtee her
dead mother's sister, Joeephlne.
Owen U) a likable young man at the
world quite unlike anyone in trie'
limited circle; Aunt Joeephlne te
Phina Weatherley, the moll a
moue eouluriere In America. And
Morgan reecnte the taat that Phina
Intende to take Irie away from her
eimple. gentle Unrle Will and Aunt
Ella, and place her in the eophte.
Heated world where Morgan teele
ehe doee not belong.
Chapter 15
MAD PROSPAL
pARDON ma," Ella tanning aald
In a detached voice. "1 did not
know anyone waa here. It la Jo-
epblne Ron. i think t
She paaaed between the two en
grossed people aa If Joaephlne were
not there. "Tour tea. Will." and ahe
would bare gone out again In her
quiet, automatic way If Phlna had
not reached out a hand and atopped
her. "Let me paaa, please," Aunt
Ella aald, (till In her quiet rolce.
But Josephine held the thin little
wrist.
"You'll look at me and you'll Ha
ten to me, Ella Lannlng, you that
(mashed everything In (our lives
because you had a complex on one
laty brother," ahe aald.
Ella stood and looked down at
Josephine's white, atrong band on
her wrist aa It It were a apeck ot
aoot fallen on It
"I can't dlacusa thlnga with you
that you don't understand. Jose
phine. Lawrence waa a genlua,
That came before everything." ahe
aald, and would have moved away,
"Do yon think I'd try to convince
a fanatic?" aald Josephine with an
edge of contempt on ber voice.
"That's not what you're to listen to.
It'( thlc When 1 went off, 1 (aid
something to myself, Ella Lannlng,
and aa long aa I'm here, I'll say It
to you.
"1 aald to myself that you'd
broken my alater'a heart and kept
me from believing In men or love
any more, because the (rand tan
nings that were genluaea and aristo
crats were too good for us. And I
aid that some day I'd come back
here with everything they'd ever
bad and more.
"I'm a tamoua, auoceaaful woman
now. But there's more, and I'll come
back and ahow It to you. Ferhapa
I'll help you out with a little money
If you aak politely. That's all, now
you can go. 1'U be back when I've
got everything, and It won't be long
now."
She released Miss Ella's wrist.
"You are quite through. WHIT If
sot, I'll come back later," Ella aald,
taking no notice of anything Pblna
had aald. Phlna might hare been a
scolding servant-maid. 8he went
quietly out without the tray,
smoothing down her cuff where
Phlna had rumpled It
"Josle, my dear, you ahouldn't
talk to Ella that way. Just one of
your old storma." aald Dncle Will.
To Iris, young aa ahe waa. It waa aa
It ahe were watching the third act
of a play whose second act had
been played yeara before. They had
all taken up their roles where they
bad dropped them when they were
young.
But aa ahe atood there halt be
hind the door, still forgotten and
unheard, Phlna auddenly changed
again from the turloua woman she
bad been to the smooth and capable
lady Iris bad eeen Brat and aat down
In the cbalr by the bed.
"Very welt Wilt It's Idlotlo to
lose one's temper, but rather pleas
ant Now let'a talk about the thing
I came for."
IRIS, limp from the brushing wings
of the storm, moved unseen from
the doorway. Owen waa no longer
with Morgan In the email room at
the etalrhead. Morgan waa alttlng
there alona with a moody face. He
rose and came to her Impetuously.
"So you're going to let them sell
It to him?" Morgan demanded with
a darkening face.
"Morgan, how can youT" Iris pro
tested. It did aeem to her that one
icene waa enough. "You talk almost
aa If you hated me."
"Hale you?" Morgan said passion
ately. "That'a Just tha trouble, I
wish I did bate you. Here, wa might
is well have It out"
He drew ber Into the queer little
room at the stairhead, once prob
ably a eewlng room whence the
mistress of the house could watch
ber maids aa ahe worked. He ehut
the doors, and put a band on her
silk-sleeved arm. Hla force was more
than the pbyalcal bold. She had been
poised to escape, but ahe found her
self meekly waiting.
"I came here." he went on, "after
going through an experience never
mind what happened. I wasn't to
blame. But the gtrl I'd believed in,
bad thought honestly loving she
threw me over. My friends, that I
thought had liked me for myself,
nearly all walked out on me. I aald
good-by to the only two people who
did care, and walked out . . .
came here, finally. 1 didn't be
lieve In anything or anybody, any
more. Well. I found Uncle Will
and you. Honest Innocent unselfish
people who would rather give than
take. 1 got to believing In thlnga
again.
"And by the time 1 waa that far l
found I waa In love with you. Iris. If
you'll atay here and marry me you
won't ever have to dress badly or
go without normal little pleasures.
I'll spend my life trying to make
you happy. I love you. 1 I need you.
You're my faltb In girls. Stay here.
Marry me."
She stared up at hla dark, excited
face. She had grown to care for
Morgan, to be grateful to him (or
the way he had atood by them
through trouble. But marry him?
Marry thla strange moody man who
terrified her aometlmea, whom ahe
had grown to care for without think
ing whether It waa brotherly or
what? What ahe found to answer
sounded Inadequate.
I I never thought about any of
that."
"Think then. Iris darling Iris I"
But before ahe could say more.
before abe had time to more than
move away from blm, Phina'a taut
tailor-made figure stood at the door.
Your uncle wanta to apeak to
you, my dear, ehe aald; and the
moment was over which might have
made Iris yield.
Uncle Will spoke quietly.
"Your aunt and 1 have been dis
cussing your future, dear," be aald.
She wants you to go with ber. I
have no right to Influence your de
cision. Decide what Is best and hap
piest for yourself. Both of us will
alwaya love you Just the same."
A DNT Josephine, who had done
everything possible to Influence
Iris's decision, waited like a sen
tinel. Owen had reappeared and aat
motionless by the window, aa honor
ably neutral aa Uncle Will, but hla
eager face apoke tor him. Iris stood
silent (or a long two minutes.
"Which la It Iris?" Owen aald
eagerly.
Oh, Uncle Will!" She ran over to
the bed and threw her arms tight
round his sagging shoulders. "If you
say ao I'll atay I"
'But what do want to do, dear?"
'Owens my own brother," she I
said pleadingly, "And I would like
aome of the plenaurea and palacea."
She looked at blm with awe;, ahe
had Juat aeen blm going through the
sort of scene one doesn't aasoclate
with one's elders. "Bu If you want
me if you need me. dear I'll atay."
He ahook hla head. "No. You're
right you should go with your
brother tor a while at least And
waan't (air to you. Josle. I see It
now. Perhapa It will make up a little
I give you my little girl."
Phlna, alight with triumph.
ruatled out ,
"Come upstairs." ahe aald, "I must
see what you can take with you.
Not much, I imagine."
She waa golngl
Her (oot waa on the atalr to fol
low Phlna to ber bedroom on the
third floor, when Morgan, atlll
atandlng In the email room at the
stairhead, caught her wrlat
"Listen to me. Iris," be aald pas
slonately. "I'm not talking about
myself now, I'm not being selfish.
I'm talking about you. You've lived
a stranger, more unworldly life than
you know, here with a couple ol
romantic elderly people. You've
seen a tew village boya and girls.
Tha world your aunt'a taking you to
Isn't Ilka that"
"You aound aa If I were going to
darkest Africa among the eavagea,"
Iris aald lightly, her eyes alight with
the excitement of her coming Jour
ney. "I'm not an Idiot I'll have Aunt
Phlna and Owen. I can take care ol
myself. If I can't I'll write and tell
you."
"Then you won't stay either foi
me or yourself?"
Iris' temper that honeat, brush
wood flame that flashed up and was
down again In a half minute flared.
"I'm going! And I'll win out! And
that'a all there la to that!'' ahe said.
She turued and followed her aunt
upstairs, leaving Morgan standlni
below.
Cetrt'l. leH Se. .-,.( Viddtmtr)
10
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BOSTON, Mi-SB.. April U (API
Boston university's .6000 women stu
dent have been given tn com
mandments by Dean Lucy Jenkins
Frankly n.
In brief here they are:
1. "Thou ahalt never allow a stran
ger to take you to your destination.
3. "Thou ahalt never drink In
public.
8. "Thou ahalt not sit out dances
In cars.
4. Thou ahalt not be seen with
young men who are not careful to
obey conventions of society.
6. 'Thou shalt not use a pet phrase
In conversation.
6. "Thou ahalt um discretion In
using slang.
7. "Thou shalt not pat or nudge
a person when speaking to one. Keep
your handa to yourself.
8. "Thou ahalt never go to a man's
apartment alone.
9. "Thou salt not Indulge In care
less affect lone.
10. 'Thou salt not powuer your
nose on the street."
PRECIOUS GLASS DISC
ARRIVES AT PASADENA
PASADENA, Calif.. April U. (AP)
The 20-ton dlac for the Mt. Palo.
mar 200 -Inch telescope arrived safely
Friday at the end of a 3300-mile
Journey across the nation.
Preparations were made to load
the world's largest glass casting on
a low-backed truck to carry it eight
more miles to the building of the
California Institute of Technology
campus where for the next three
or four years it will be ground and
polished.
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after his birth the cause of the
Bonapartea waa lost.
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In nnmr only whrn. in IBM. his
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bury, Ohio, on a Los Angeles golf
course. The ball shattered the bam
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orvite mediums used by E. L.
atone "Bly, the Rice Writer,
his miniature writings. He can write
two lines on one side of a single
strand of grey hair, and can make
his letters so small that one grain
of rice Is large enough for 14.000
letters. Other extraordinary feats of
miniature writing by Bly are the
Lords Prayer on a single hair less
than one Inch long and seven lines
of writing on the edge of an ordinary
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PORTLAND. Ore. April II (AP)
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