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PAGE FOURTEEN arEDFOKD'rATL TRTBUXE. rEDFORD, OREGON. FftTD'AY. 'AUGUST 21, 1936. THE WORLD-J: WITH A FENCE WET FEET By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TT. S. Fat Off. A New iVW bp Marian Stmt ." XOFSiat Carol Torrance has decided to teach in tht Ashboro high school in order to get away, from her hoina town of Meredith, Ga., end to make a start to tome tort of a career. And although shs is teamed by the spiteful interest of a gossipy old neighbor in the golf name she played Sunday, shs is determined to try to treat her scholars as intelligent boys and girls. 8hs has von one class and observed therein the handsomest boy she ever has lean. Now shs has m French class. Chapter Eight . ; MAGNIFICENT YOUTH CAROL'S next class was second- year French, also made up of 'seniors. Fourteen girls and aeren boys, the beautiful youth among , them. She spent the twenty minutes talklni about France and the things .that had happened during the months aha had spent there live years ago, the summer after ahe had graduated. ; She made them French (a a llring language, not something that had been elected the previous year because the course was a "crip.1 Avignon, and the Palace of the Popes; Cannes and Nice, and the ancient towns of the marlllmo Alps. arls and the architectural legacies of Napoleon; Fere LeChalse, the irestlog-place of the great and the inear great; the vicinity of St. Bui- pice, of which they would read In "Les Trois Mousquelalres." . 'Then she dismissed them, conscious jot one more victory, at least for the Uuiv uaiug. j. Hr third period was vacant, and she began to post names alphabet! cally In her roll book. Son.oone en tered the room, and she glanced up to And the magnificent youth tower ing above her. She smiled at him. "How do you :do?" "Morning." He hesitated. "Can 1 Italic to you a while?" "Of course. Sit down." She mo tioned to the first desk and he crowded Into It, filling It completely. , He was mora than six feet tall, and he must weigh a hundred and eighty, aha thought most of It above the waist. His eyes were a brilliant blue and bis features might have been by Praxiteles. He moved and spoke with a drawl, and she guessed that his brain drawled too. Bhe waa consumed with curios, lty about him. "My name'a Mike Hannlgan," be aald. "I want tell you about mo and get you to help nie."i" Who wouldn't help - hlml ahe thought, and kept her face serious ss she said: "That's quite a compli ment. Of course I'll help you." "I been out of school tour sears," be went on In the same deliberate voice, aa It be tested every word before be said It. "1 got expolled when I waa sixteen a week before acbool closed. I studied this summer and took examinations to get back In." Sha wondered why he was ex pelled, and didn't ask. Instead she said: "What did you do In those four years J" "Travelled around on ships." His voice was entirely casual. After four years of It there waa nothing ro (nantlo about travelling around on ships. "I rsn away and got a Job en a coastwise freight boat. Since then I been about everywhere In the world." He said It simply, with no hint of boasting. Carol felt auddenly email and un important In tbe face of his com plete simplicity. "What made you come baokT" "I wasn't getting anywhere." No where, she thought, except ail over the world! "My father works In a cotton mill, and he'a had a terrible lime till right now. I didn't want to be like him, and I didn't want to bo a tramp seaman all my life. And you have to have education If you want to be somebody, so 1 came back to finish high school and go to college. I can got tt. college on football," he explained. "I've al ready got an oKcr." CHE laughed In relief. "That's the u Brat time I ever thought much of the system. Now where do 1 come InT" "When you boon knocking around for four years It's Itluda bard to sottle down In any high school. I may start off fine, and then get to slipping, and I want you to sort of check up on me. I'll study for you I'd do anything for you." her own quick pleasure startled her "hut I may get rough with some of the other teachers before I think. If I do get rough, you call me In and re mind me about all this. Cuss me out." Without doubt, she thousht wild ly, this was the most astonishing conversation she had ever had She aald Judicially: "Til be glad to ao It If It's neces sary. But I don't see why It abould be. Now that you've decided on It, haven't you got" he would have said "guts," and so would she, If he hadn't been looking at ber like tbat and If he hadn't been a pupil "will power enough to stay with It?" "I would It they were all like you, but you're the only teacher 1 ever saw that 1 respected. Tbey ii.no me sick as hell'' He caught him self and flushed crimson. "Kicuse me, Mies Torrance; that's frota be ing a bum." She laughed. "Oh, I've heard of It before." And used it, shs thought, with monotonous regularity. Mike Hannlgan might take a lot of living up to. . Ha got up, and she realised In astonishment that he waa holding out bis band. She gave blm her own, and his grip waa paralyzing. ' You're aces. Miss Torrance. I sure do thank you." He strode out of the room. Carol stared at his splendid back and rubbed her flngera and tried to think wbat ahe would say to the class In European History. Thank heaven Mike Hannlgan wouldn't be In that! THH week wore on.. Classes stopped being entitles and be came groups of Individuals; some Intelligent, some average, a few hopelessly dull dwellers In Mo ron la. For the most part her work ran smoothly. Lator, she knew, the nov elty of ber presence and her method would wear off and rebellion would probably lift Its bead. Out there was no use in anticipating tbe struggle. Even her qualms about the toot- ball squad bad not thus far mate rialized. To her astonishment the gorilla proved to have exquisite manners, that sat upon blm as oddly as a curled and scented wig. She wondered at the detorence of these Incongruous beings who were nei ther men nor children, and stumbled quite by accident on one explana tion. Mike, she heard by grapevine route, had announced In vivid and salty language what he would do to the first so-and-so who started nytblng In her classes or out. Mike himself dropped In almost dally, and greeted her with a warm Irish grin that disconcerted her more than she cared to admit. How'm I doln'J" "Beautifully, and you know It." Tbe astonishing part was that It was true. He stalked loarniug slow ly.and Inexorably; sank bis teetb Into It and held on grimly. Probably bla Interest would wane, but now he waa travelling a route he had never travelled before, and Ondlng the voyage good. Only one thing worried her: that the girla bad discovered him. They nutterca over him, aud borrowed .his pencils, and wanted to be shown where tbe lesson ended; anything would do as an excuse. Mike an swered thorn patls r, without oven looking at them, entirely un aware tbat the Intorruptlona wore pretexts. . There were lotters during the week from Mllly and Jill and Pat: and one stilted, yearning note from uon, who was Incapable of outline himself on paper. Reading a letter from Don made hlra more unreal and dlstsnt than ever. Mllly s letter was a sort of dally paper. So-and-so was In Atlanta; ahe had ployed brldgo with so-and-so, and held terrible hands. Carol's room was rented to a Miss Andrews, who taught fifth grade. . . . Jill waa entirely matter-of-fact. The Andrews gal wasn't bad, and nine times twenty was a hundred and eighty, which would go iuto the summer hell-rslslu' fund. Don Rich ards had drifted In Sunday night, and the four of thorn had sat on the terrace and counted fourteen shooting stars. . . . Pat's letter was eauallv charac teristic. Don Klchards bad returned on Sunday like a ghost to the scone of Its demise. Business was looking up. He was trying to keen his word about the writing. "I'm doing a series of sketches about local char acter and folklore: not good yet, of course, but good practice. If 1 get auy Bmount of stuff done 1 may send It down for you ti pass on." She wrote Jill and Mllly a Joint loiter, but Pat doserved a separate one, she felt, for the effort he was making. "Send the sketches to me anyhow," she ordered, "and If any of them have posslbllltle. I'll act aa agent until 1 can talk a real one Into taking you on." She knew from other days that Pat asn't equal to tne soul-scaring experience of see. Ing his manuscripts come hack. And suddenly It was Frldav. and one of the thirty-six weeks bad slid, unwept. Into oblivion. fCcpvrtjal, tut, by lfartan Sims) A "tall, riarkr Carol's Itft. Monday. an" comot into Swimmer Drmm I In Eugene Pool EUOENK, Aug. 31 r.'yrtis Cole, about SO years of ng. lost his life while swimming In the Willam ette river Wednesday evening Tn body was found at 6 a. m. Thura ay lying In a very deep pool of water at a gravel pit Just east ol Eugene. Cole was swimming with his brothers, Oeorge and William Cole, end waa Aomr tlistnnce from them when he went down. To xhlp Hay rant ' SAI.KM, Aug 31. v Ths state (ifpnrlment of agriculture estimated tt.al no less than AO.000 'tona uf v.ttrn Oregon hay would be shipped to drought a:aa, aa a result of the I emergency rail freight ratea. Under the new rat hay . can he shipped from western Oregon to the drought stricken dUtrlcta for approximately 8M aa against S13.60 under the eld rata Flood Control To Be Discussed Here U It ANTS PAPS. Aug. 31 (J'l Hep. resenlatlve James W. Mott has ad vised parties here that a federal hear Ing on ltoguc river flood control has been tentatively scheduled for Sep tember 10 at Medford. Mott recently Introduced n act authnrl.lng a survey of the Itogue to determine the need of flood control. VIERfi PEEU0PEO " . ?0 IKt NUVS r moo mxn ct-ihb RhlLRoftOlRPiCK WrYS CriBNGEP fROM &R0M Or THE KINP OF5URFf)CB ONWtflCrtlT TRMEl3 ... Jtmi imp a4ttf.fc.lvi COINCIDENCE MAGELLAN EXPEDITION'S TO Site-)... . a. I A. - a, I- - T 1 1 w .11 v' tfMJTO "SUPPRKS MliTlWieS INTHE ' A V eAnAG OnnT t?-r Sill iMI aS ,lU ti.n,!n 1 v unrtb rvni, viuuHnn, scum Qiricviuam i u M4o Eftcri EeruTeo TAP cAiep consPiRMor oM ilujBt SjmJ.rtU, 1m, Mutiny purt wading tne expdition that wa destined to make tlva flrftt complete trip around the world, Ferolnandi Magellan, on March 31, 1320, ordered I his five-Bhlp fleet to put In at Port I St. Julian, In the region he named I Patagonln, In South America, Here he settled down for the winter. Aa la often the case when men find too much lclfltire time on their hnnda, hla fillips crew grew discontented I and finally, under t.-o Kuleinhlp of CapUln Que tin of the "Concepclon," band or men flared up In open mutiny. With the men that remained loyal, Magellan manned to crush thm in surrection, sentencing Qucsada and rorty of his follower to death. Lur he cotmtermanisFd the order for the death of the forty muUneors, dislik ing the Idea of leaving any of his ships shorthanded, but Qucsnda, their leader, waa beheaded. Strange aa It seems, more than M year later, Francis Drake, lender of the second expedition to circumnav igate- the globe, put In at the same place, Port St. Julian, June, 1578, mid encountered tho same difficulties. discontent and mutiny. Thoma. ' l f ( CHEW wrjiGi.e.Y'sl WW SA''?v"V mi in wiMr II I ill I I I I slsirT'r Doughty, the ringleader, waa sulzed and beheaded In the same spot as the rebellions Que&ada, wnose bones and gibbet, a spruce mast, served to mark the execution grounds. Hull Change v Causing but slight Interruption to traflc on the road, a crew of 8,763 men on the Loulsvillo and Nashville line, succeeded In tearing up 1800 miles of broad gnuc track, Including main lines and sidings, and replacing It with standard gauge in a single day June 1, 1886. A standard gauge flat car contain ing food and supplies f nli-wed the workmen while a broad gauge car waa punned on ahead. WRIG LEY'S. rWiziar'WrjsZiti'mr TH PERFECT GUM r L JIM ami III I I-M I II ,wiayiViii;fiviH ARRIVES IN C0UN1W RE-fiJRHS AlMOSf AfOKff IS 6tVEH CHAK6E OF ' DASHES OOf.WOMIS- WrfH FAMILV AND IM SOAKED fO 1HE KrJEE5, SHOES AND $tiCKH(6, IKS iO KEEP AWAV MEDlATElV PASHES OU-f EXPtfliHiH6 THAT HE WrtVl WARKIKS fMOSE ARE FROM -THE LAKE OF FRoHt DOOR FOR Yt)E REACHEP OUf00 FAR fHE OMW DRS OWES HE HAS IME FOR A UW PAD UNlL HE iRVNK COMES SIDLES IN f RESEtfUY WET TO THE KNEES AND VERY UNCERTAIN OF ' HIS RECEPTION explains volubly he was just crossing The brook and a stone SLlPPEp UNDER HM TAKE5 OFF WETTrilNfcS, USTCNIN6 ANKI0U5X.Y TOR VERDICf WHETHER HE HAS TO STAY IN OR CAN 0 OUT BAREFOOT , is Tom To fiO RARE FOOT AND AEf AS WETl AS HE PLEASES. MEP5l! MIRACULOUSLY DRY FOR REST OF PAY (Copyright. 1838, by The Btll Syndicate, Inc.) S MATTER POP- Ey C. M. 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