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MEPFORD 'MAIL TRTBUNT1. MEDKOKD. OREfiOy. MONDAY. APRIL 20. 1936. PAGE SIX LAP READING Gnldpn Pain STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot farther p. roof address the author, Inclosing stamped envelope for reply. Reg. V. 8. PaL Off. bi)Aarqartt CTWIddemer. -dtj nT r.i lfYAS WILLIAMS .it.vrttl8: Irit tanning u at tending her frtt New York cocktail party, and perhapt because it it her tret, the it enjoying it immenetly. She hat tun enatched from her tmall town environment till her Aunt Phtna, the tamoue eouluriire, and her brother Owen, who deeigne tor Phtna Sow the it talking with Allan Beckley, who it piqued by trie' "differentnest," ana it draw ina her out to tell her whole tlory. Irit talkt eagerly, and well' Chapter 21 CAMILLA AGAIN "T onlj wanted what the other girls had," Iris ended limply; "money (or movies and nice clothes like the others, and to give back lit tle parties for their little parties. And sometimes to give Uncle Will things thatl knew he never had. And run In to town to a show, and maybe own a Fc-d." She laughed. Quite his friend again, he had listened so eagerly, amlled so sympathetically. "Just a small-town girl In the city; but, oh, It's a heavenly city. Aunt Phlna giving me everything In the world, and a perfectly strange bunch of people asking me to a party the sec end day out. And I'm buying Uncle Will a radio tomorrow, and a dozen Dicky caught her up. of the kind of shirts he always wanted." Her eager gray eyes, with their dilated black centers, her whole liv ing Intensity and charm, were close to him. But he answered quietly, mlllng at her. ' "I'm sorry the Ford and the movies re all you wanted; 1 am a collector of sorts; 1 was hoping you cared enough for Matisse to come see my place." "Why, thank you, I'd love to," the said politely, , "But not mad about It? Like this sort of thing better?" His voice was piqued, and yet little relieved. . "1 do love It!" she answered Joy ously. "I hope lots of people ask me to lota more parties and I have ones , like this myself." He glanced around them. Tbe ac tordlon was playing Jauntily with loud exaggerated rhythms. The dancers In their reds and blacks and tinsels swung and moved and sang the whining ucltlng silly words to the negro's tunes. "1 don't," he said wearily. "Then why do you come to places like these?" "Because," he ssld, "I come of a race that's run out; too tired, too devitalized. 1 happen still to have a sufficiently good brain to realize that And so 1 play about with these yell ing dancing children Instead of my own generation because they have what 1 want. Life, vividness, vitality. That's why 1 come to Georgia's Ml tle parties. Georgia Is vital. Tbe parties aren'L" "Why, everything's alive, every thing's vital!" Iris said, surprised. She did not understand blm. "You are," he said. "More than anyone 1 have seen for years Iris" DICKY, lit to his usual state, caught her up and away In the lance before she heard the end of what Allan had been saying. "Where you been all my life?" he demanded Inevitably. "Just waiting for you," Iris said, as she would have said bark home. "Tbls Is noble of me. taking you away," Dicky Informed her. "1 like It, you know. But's nobility. If Georgia sees you burning up Allan Beckley she'll bite your ear off. E Wslter W. Abbey. Medford auto dealer who was recently appointed emissary eitrnnrfltnury for lit an nual reunion of the 6Mn c.-xuit Artil lery corps, today announced that many men from this district are planning on attending. The get together Is alsted for May 9 in the Congress Hotel In Portland. The OSth was stsllrvned at Camp Stevens at the mouth of the Colum bia river and left for overset In 1917 Tbe reRlment was composed of co.l mei'i, and included moet of the Ore gon national guard. While the meettne 1-. pnnnred and promoted by the old flMh, all coast artillerymen stationed at Camp darling. Georgia threw his cousin Jimmy last year when Jimmy's dad got Into tbe tabloids as a malefactor of great wealth, and then finished himself and some of the wealth. "But she seems to have a taste for the family and who wouldn't, 1 ask you? Social stuff to burn, money to burn, nice manners, well-known polo player and art collector. Girl collector, too. Georgia thought she had him hung over the side of tb4 boat. "Lots of girl thought they had Allan hung over tbe side of the boat, but he's a collector. 'Member, I warned you, Beautiful, he's a col lector! An' here I've spilled Georgia's beans, Inlroducln' another new girl. Will Mother give mo hell?" Iris stopped his cheerful mono logue by a quick, "Do you mean to say Georgia didn't want me at the party?" "Now, now, baby-child! Don't mind poor old dopy Dicky, best, heart In the world! 'Course sho wants you, I want you, everybody wants you, that's your trouble. Do you know the Double Trouble? Step I Invented." She removed herself resolutely from him In a convenient corner. She stepped backward In the half- gloom, found she had almost put a satln-siippercd foot on somebody s hand. She dropped down beside this somebody In order to apologize and also to conccnl ucrai-II from Dicky, who stared around vaguely, then finding on a noarby tnble an un touched drink drained the glass and wandered off. , As her eyes became accustomed to the dark corner the largo dark ob ject proved Itself to be, of all people. Camilla Wendell, sitting as con coaled as possible In the background of the party. -I BEGIN to think I'm In Wonder 1 land!" Iris quoted. "Is every body I've met In Now York In two days at this parly? How nice to see you again. MIbs Wendell'" "I'm sorry," snld Camilla which was, Iris learned later, Camilla's nearly Invariable beginning to her sentences. "But people do go In groups, you knew, and Georgia Blair Is my cousin, she told me at luncheon she was having a party, and who was coming, and I said, If I paid the catoror couldn't 1 como? And she said yes; she's hard up, you know, and I'm not. it was vory nice of her nnd I'm so awfully glad to see you. She peered across Iris through the gloom, her eyeglasses held tight Iris did not know whether to be sorry for her or a little shocked. Then she realized that poor Camilla had been made to feel so unattractive that the transaction she had Just mentioned wns a commonplace for hor. It had of course onnhlcd her to spend two hours In the same place with Owon. Iris remembered with dread a quotation of Uncle Will's from Thackoray. to the effoct that any woman without an absolute hump could marry any man whatsoever. Which recalled a letter from Uncle Will she had rocelvcd Just as she left and thrust down Inside her dress to read at the first opportunity. Camilla wouldn't care. "l'vo Just remembered a letter from my uncle," sho said, reaching for a candle high above her and holding It near the letter. "Do you mlrd It 1 read It?" "Oh plonse don't mind me." said Camilla cngerly. "It's so nice to have company In this rornor." tC.'l, llll le. It 4 i, -ii Widitmrr) T.-.;c brief tncounttr. ytrvens dirtn); Itie wr are Invited, nrd urct. to Attend. Abhey jttttied. He asked tiiat thfwe imcrestcd In the conclave either contact htm or write to llnrold Hunt, woo Ouardlnn butldltiR. in PtlUnd ttrMiiliA Sir t '.i tilt u g.M.KM. April '.'11 - t AIM Ahout i( orra'l.ilR of tlie statr ommMl DeMolay risltrd hr untr o;,'ob end insti tution nrrp aturdAy to conduot a study of the workinp of 9tt gov ernment. la I i;mm- rp VATICAN CITV, Apl 11 30. lAPl A brief dlnpatch reported today thut Mon!:nor Tito Cwpl. auditor of the Papal Ntinnldtutr nt Madrid, dlrd aboard a bout carrying him Irom Banvlona, Spain, to Oeno. Italy. Vrtrrilll Ti'iirher I tend POHMANl). Ore , Apr i. 30. (APt Pnnernl ri i lifs :t I'fld tortsy for Mrs Mirv Y. I mi-.om. 7H. a trachM m Uifbon s. iAK-'l. Iw u jrais. fh 3 p A MEM&ei? of Trtfc wirte fftHaVIWH. . narrow eopyw chops . oKTrte a B1 Vto m Arctic KLi 7 W.r"- '7-3(9 Sr-k.u. Iua. Although piracy 1a almost aa old aa, sea-faring Itself, the period now gen erally associated with pirate days waa that during the seventeenth cen tury when sea-robbers began to In fest the West Indies. In the early days of this period of piracy, many of the hostile acta against shipping were committed by privateers that Is, sea captains who were authorized by one nation to carry on a private war against the shipping of another nation. Although thor,e la a fine legal distinction between privateering and piracy, the results proved to be about the same In either case. If a ship was a privateer. It sailed the flag of Its country and commit ted acts tantamount to piracy. Others who were out and out pirates also flew flags of whatever nations pleas ed them. Sometimes a prlvateer-ptrat eot authorization from more than one government and thus waa able to claim protection of the same gov ernments whoae shipping he attacked. It wna not until after the balmiest days of piracy on the Spanish Main were over that pirates generally dls clslmed all nationality, adopted the black flag with skull and crossbones. and declared war on all shipping. But by then the tide of public feel- TAILSPI NTOMMY Skeets AWAKENED FPOM HIS DRUOOED SLEtP TO FIMD TOMMY AMD The TERROR Of THt irt.Y in CONVERSATION. Ht IS AMA2tCJ TO HEAR TOMMY APPARENTLY AGREf IhG TO A jcneMt op- AIDIMG TMt HOODED FLYER in AERIAL PIRACY BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Ben Is Next Bj EDWIN ALGEB f BUI NEW TIME WJE MUC.T RE t T SHOULD FEELCX1R. WORrCVJELUV f-VMOZZ EXI&TENCETnEVERFEAR.OR OUR rJEjoVM A FEW OASi MORE CAREFUL WE MUT J DOWElMA'6V-WO BETWE RRST U o WOT E'EW KNOWM J WLOV1TCH .THERE I TRIAL MA6M-LET SLall I MOT L&T OUR "SUBJECT jJ- JO MEAR FkiOM OME OF OUR. 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