MEDFORB MAIL TRTBUNEMEDFOtlD. GREGGS: SUNDAY. AUGUST T(5. "1936
PA(TE EIGHT
THE WORLD 1
WITH A FENCE
A Ntro Navel by Marian
HYSOPS1S: Carol Torranat fiat
hat told her very delight"' lamtlti
that aha ia leaving tham next
month to teaoh echool in Aahboro,
Go, Uilly, her mother, duller! and
objeote; her eieter Jill aoeepte the
neioe matter of factly: Pat, the
gifted member of the family, un
deretandt perteotlg. But Pat con
ease the lonelineaa inproapeot tor
him while ahooling golf with Carol,
and Carol exaota a promiee ram
Pat that he will keep on with hia
writ!"
Chapter Three
DON KICKS UP
rON ' RICHARDS appeared that
evening unexpectedly, bis ha
bitual grin burled under an air of
perturbation. It waa Don whom
Carol had considered marrying
because be was solid and amiable,
and because bis magnificent body
and exquisite cleanliness tricked
people Into thinking him handsome.
He walked In without ringing,
and confronted Carol In the living
room. "What's this about yon going to
Ashboro?"
Carol stared at him. The almost
Indecent Intimacy of small towns,
had she said? None of the family
bad been out of earshot since she
"This whole thing sounds
first brought the matter up tor dis
cussion.
"Will you please tell me where you
beard that? And sit down, instead
of glaring at me like a trafflo cop."
He sat down with an air of lm-
permanence. "I saw Jim Henley In
the drug store, and be said be'd
recommended you and that he Imag
ined you'd take tbe Job."
"Ob. he did? He knows an awful
lot" She was unreasonlngly Irri
tated with Jim Henley for speculat
ing on ber decision In a drug store.
"You're not going, are you, Carol?"
His eyes begged ber. They were
blue and Ingonuous, and she looked
away from them. He got up and
walked the length of the room, a
bablt he had when be was worried.
"Let's go to ride. I want to argue
with you and I don't want you run
nln' out on me."
"All rlgbt Let me get a bat"
It bad to be faced, she knew. Don
was part of ber life In Meredith, and
like Meredith bis Image was dis
torted, enlarged, by the Imminence
of separation. He talked aimlessly
until they reached an unfrequented
road. Then he turned on her.
"Listen. Carol: Ihle whole thing
sounds screwy. What's the Idea?"
CHE meant of course, to tell him
what she had told Mllly. She
tried to tell him that and be brushed
ber words sslde like gnats.
"You wouldn't go to another town
and teach school for that Your sal
ary won't go any farther there than
your Income does here. You're Just
checking out aren't you?" His voice
sounded furry blurred.
She watched the flow of pave
ment beneath the lights. The car
seemed stationary, while a soft
August night moved past them. She
was rather like the car, she thought:
standing still while her lite went by
on the wind. What was it the Red
Qneen bad said: that you bad to
run very fast to stay In the same
place? And much faster than that
to get anywhere? Don looked at the
road and waited, and she bad to tell
him the truth. If a man loved you,
that was the least you could do.
LOS ANOELES, Aug. la (API-
Superior Judge Goodwin J. Knight
Mid today that "Mr. George Kaufman
had better have a very good excuse
for leaving California."
lnlormed that the peripatetic play
wrignt had given out an Interview In
New York after disappearing for a
week. Judge Knight reaffirmed hts
intention of enforcing a bench war
rant Issued during the Mary Astor
Dr. rrankljn Thorpe child custody
eaae.
Stmt
"I guess I am, Don. There's so
little point to the way I live."
"He said surprisingly: "There's
not much point to the way anybody
lives. Ashboro's no different from
Meredith; don't kid yourself about
that."
"I'm not But ! don't Intend to
stay there."
"You mean . . . you're not coming
back?"
Her throat ached Intolerably, and
Don's arm was across her shoulders.
His arm had been there before, and
the sensation had nover gone be
yond a pleasant warmth a sort of
tempered pleasure: It had never ap
proached the s word-like ecstasy of
BUI Faraday's embrace. But BUI
Faraday was In New York, and tbe
dust of five years lay thick on tbe
memory of blm.
He sensed her uncertainty, and
with one band he wrenched tbe car
Into a deserted side road and
stopped.
"Carol ..."
He bad both arms around her,
and bis mouth was hunting hers.
She gave up and kissed blm re
luctantly. But It wasn't the sort of kiss she
had bad from him before.
She wrenched herself away final
ly and sat, shivering, In the far cor
ner. She was intensely angry, with ,
herself as well as with blm.
sorewy," deolsred Don.
'"WOV overplayed it Don. Let's go
1 home."
"It you think 1 did that purpose
ly . . ." His voice was savage, and
It sounded as If he had been run
ning tor miles. He knew be had lost
ss surely as Carol knew It. Tender
ness might have broken ber, but
she despised blm now for touching
a string she badn't known was
there; that Jarred discordantly in
her ears.
"I don't," she admitted shortly.
"It wasn't your fault at all. I suppose
It was perfectly natural."
Natural. Damn nature anyway,
with its Insensate urge for pep
petuatlon. It used sneaking, under
band methods to achieve Its end; It
hit below the belt You saw samples
everywhere: grossly mlsniated men
and women who endured each other
for the sake of tbe children." But
unless you had a mind like Evan
Torrance's you didn't see them like
that; you saw them as good, sub.
stantial people.
And It you could see them that
way, Carol reflected woarlly, yov
were pretty lucky. ...
Neither of thorn spoke until tbe
car bad stopped before her owr
door. Don's eyes were wretched,
and she smiled listlessly at blm.
Sbe felt limp and spent aa If the
hot wind had burnt out her emo
tions. Doubt gnawed at her again:
perhaps sbe too suffered from Pat's
fault of eyeing the other pasture. . . .
Marrying Don would simplify lite.
and heaven knew she bad neither
desire nor capacity tor a spectacular
career. But life with Don would be
a monotone, and she wanted an oc
casional highlight even If she paid
for every such moment with a com
plementary one of black despair.
She raised a hand and touched his
face, and he snatched at the band
and kissed it
"Listen, Carol: let me come over
and see you some time."
"It I think It's any use." She
could tell better when she was
away; right now she was too close
to see blm clearly. "I'll write you." .
She opened the car door but be
drew ber back and kissed her again,
very carefully. She reallied that he
was trembling all over.
(Copyright. IMS. hg Harlan Stme)
Carol meets
In Ashhoro.
a friend, tomorrow,
"The law Is no rejpector of persons
bs they prominent, rich, Intelligent,
dumb, or stupid," said J"Hee Knight.
Several d&ya ago Judge Knight re
marked. "I'll put this man In Jail If
1 ever get my hands on him."
Kauiman said In New York he left
California by train and reached there
Wednesday morning.
The playwrlRht said frankly there
were many questions he did not care
to answer at this time. One of them
waa whether he would return to Cali
fornia where he faces a contempt ol
coujt citation toi having refused to
answer a subpoena to appear aa a
witness at the Astor trial.
He remarked that he would Just as
well lorget the whole thing.
"1 feel mat 1 have been In the pub
llo eye Ion enough, and I think the
public might be glad or ought to be
glad, to get me out ot lt eye."
Closing time foi I'oo Late to ClM
ufy Ada is 1:30 p m
V ''il
Ose Mall Tribune want sd.
HELD VITAL COG
LOS ANOELES. Aug. IS. (AP)
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Few men who led expeditions ot
discovery and conqueett Into the
new world lived to return to the
land from whence they had come
to bear talea of the rlohea and won-
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of the handful who did return, In
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obscurity.
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explorers waa Christopher Columbus
himself, who upon returning to Spain
from hla third voyBge. In 1SO0, was
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paign success, says John Hamilton,
dynamic Kansas Republican, Is really
no secret at all,, but -perserverance
In the precincts.
The task, as. he sees.lt,. la to walk
and talk, evangelizing everybody from
apartment bouse to corner - druggist.
Aa bead evangel of tbe Landon
Knox Republican national' ticket
Hamilton enlarged on this philosophy
today lit conferences with southern
charges, Finally freed by royal com
mand, be made another voyage, re
turned, and two yeara later, 1S06,
died In humiliation and despond
ency. Vaaoo Nunea Balboa, discoverer of
the Pacific ocean, was rewarded with
an empty title as governor of Pan
ama and the lands of the Pacific,
then falsely accused ot rebellion and
beheaded In 1517
Hernando Cortez. founder by con
quest of the vaat Spanish empire in
Mexico, waa dishonored by hie king,
refused admission to the royal court,
and died a broken man in 1S47,
Francisco Plzarro, discoverer and
conqueror of Peru, was assassinated
by one of hla own men In 1541.
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California campaign leadera and
workers. He outlined his ideas to
some 700 of them last night at a
"pep" dinner rally,' saying:
"Tbe only way Z became chairman
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politics for SO years."
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gator, waa set adrift in a small boat
upon the vast waters of the bay that
now bears hla name. Hla seven year
old son, a few loyal sailor compan
ions, and Hudson himself, were never
heard of again.
Lucky Indeed was the explorer who
reaped even the slightest reward for
his feats of valor and daring In the
new world for, in frail ships they
braved the dangers of their voyages
unaer an ill star. Where fate allowed
them to return to their homes un
harmed, they suffered heartbreaking
neglect, death or Imprisonment at
the handa of the men for whom they
had risked all.
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