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PTG E TE17 rEDFOTlD MA1X TRTBTJNTE. TtfEDFORD. OREGON. SUNDAY. AFGURT 23. 1936 THE WORLD -WITH A FENCE; A New Novel by Matin Simt SYNOPSIS: Carol Torranoo to doing quit well at teaching high school in Aehboro. even though ene only took the job to get away from her own homo town. She has found a fexo congenial people, and curi ously enough, ehe hat found alto a blonde Iriah giant in her olaeeee, whoee determination to get an edu cation at any ooet intereete her very much. Mike Bannigan ie his name, and Hike already ha told the world what he'll do 'to anybody vho etarte anything in one of Carol' claeeee. Cba-pter Nine DENIS FORD DBN TYLER said: "I don't know how good this danee'll be. It's what the society editor will call 'In the nature ot a farewell to the col lege contingent.' The contingent may overrun the place completely, and considering that I used to ran sronnd with some ot their mothers It don't make me eel any younger." Carol shrugged. "I'm used to It Don't worry about me." They were to stop by Alice and Tom Harrison's, he said. Most ot the crowd would be there. ... The Harrison house was brilliant wtth lights and crowded with guests. Alice put down her glass and rushed at Carol with outstretched arms. "Carol, darling! I'm so glad to see your I've been meaning to call you all week, but little Alice hasn't been well, and I've been swamped with ..." She kissed Carol, deftly avoiding enumeration of tho things she had been swamped' wltb, and Carol kissed her in return. Tom came up and said: "Well, well, well. Welcome to our fair city I " He radiated hospitality. He'd grown tatter too. When she bad been greeted by her acquaintances and Introduced to the strangers be steered her to wards the portable bar that stood In the dining-room. "Good Lord; you overwhelm mel HI take a small quick one, I think: rye and ice water." An unattached man drifted In, and was greeted wltb shouts of wel come, Carol looked at him in sup rlse. He didn't look like Asbboro; he looked more like Hollywood. Most ot the men wore white linen suits, but the new man wore a linen mess jacket, and he was almost garishly handsome. The sort, she thought, who would have his picture taken with his shirt open at the throat Tom wanted, be said, to present Denis Ford. She acknowledged the Introduction with a casual nod and went on talking to Ben. Denis Ford's type never cared for her for some reason she attracted sollder meu who admired her mind and were afraid of It so she saw no reason to bother. Ben looked grati fied, and went on telling her about this trade he'd made, THEY had one more round and then went They assaulted the club house wllh noisy gaiety. Tbey were a so cial unit-In themselves, and It the college crowd thought them antique, and the older people thought them fast why, to bell with 'em all. They were self-sufficient Ben was waiting when Carol came out of the dresstng-room, tap ping a foot to the music His danc ing was even more unchanged than Ben himself; It went back to the days of the onestep and the hesita tion. She followed him effortlessly, lost In the Joy of dancing even of dancing with Ben. Someone touched his shoulder. Denis Ford's voice said: "May I break?" and Denis Ford's arms bad carried ber oft. He danced beautifully, of course. He probably knew all the steps of the tango. She smiled at him vague ly, and let herself drift He drew bis bead away and stared at her curiously. "What are you doing here?" In Ashboro, he meant. Intending It for a compliment She said: "Teaching history and French In the high school. What are you doing here?" He grimaced. "Living on the fam ily until I can get a Job." And then, In an awed whisper: "History and French. My God!" That made her mad. "So I won't have to live on the family," the ex plained sweetly. He should have winced, but he only grinned. "Oh, mine can afford It for a while." "What sort of Job would you pre fer?" "None. I'm uh fitted for news paper work. At least that's what 1 thought. The last managing ed. didn't agree wltb me." "So you're walling now to select something from all offers thst are mailed In to you?" He held her oft and scowled. "Lis ten: do you excoriate everybody. or Is It Just me? After all, I've only been here a week, and it's my first real trip home in six years. She was surprised, herself, at the way she had lashed out at htm. I must be attracted In spite of myself, she realized, or I wouldn't be so nas ty. .. . She smiled suddenly. - "I'm Just naturally vicious. His own smile was disconcerting because bis eyes were so black and his teeth so white. "Oh, yeah?" He drew her back to him. "No, eweet; you're Just scared. So'm I. I'm In no position to be fall ing in love." Tom cut In then, snapping her fury off at its root She turned her back on Denis and smiled brilliant ly at Tom. Just Ilka old times, Tom.' sue said it defying herself, because nothing could be less like old times than this. Tom nodded vigorously. " You said if DENIS turned quickly away from Carol and Tom. He'd look up Alice, and check that oft temporarily. He felt sore all over, as If he had played an unaccustomed game of squash. Damn the girl anyway, for not seeing how be felt If she was as intelligent as she looked she ought to have guessed that his attl. tude about the Job was bragga docio: he bad to get the news across before somebody else did. The muslo expired with a death- rattle. He walked Into a couple, backed away and apologized, and the girl smiled a brilliant invitation. He looked after the girt She was a kid who lived next door to him; she couldn't be more than sixteen or seventeen. An accident, Denis thought indifferently, looking for a place to happen. Well, let it Alice s smile was an older, wiser version of the kid's. She said: "I was wondering where you were. darling. Let's have a drink." Ha agreed, and thought casually what a brainless fool Alice was. Tom's wholesale business had made money, and she couldn't take It All Alice knew was wbat she saw In the movies. They went downstairs to the grill and began making a lot of noise. Tom and Carol Torrance came in, and Denis looked quickly away frqm them. He d. meant It when he told bor he was scared. She was the sort he could go crazy about: con) as spring water, with a sense of humor and a nasty gift for irony. One eyebrow wasn t higher than the other tor nothing, and her mouth wa., a little crookod probably from smiling on the other side ot It They could have a swell time laughing at the show together. He looked back at her, and their eyes caught He made a wry face at her, but the room and the noise were outside the moment and they were alone in it Alice said finally, against his shoulder: "Do I hear music?" "If you want to cat It. that" "Finish your drink in a hurry, then. I got rhythm." He waited half an noui before be broke on Carol again, but be spent the halt-hour leaning against a door frame watching her. He liked the way she danced, without giving her body away, as if she were keeping herself physically as well as spiritu ally inviolate. Her glance brushed him now and then, but after the first casual smile their eyes were sober and speculative, and he knew bis owu fear had found Its counterpart In her. She guessed, of course, why he wasn't dancing with her. When a man stands against the wall tor half an hour and then cuts In on you, she realized, It's because he's fighting something he can't resist or be cause the moment's too big to snatch at He's playing with it like a cat with a mouse, before he eats It... He went deliberately across the floor and touched her partner's shoulder. With the width of the room between them, and without a spoken word, thoy had fonght it out In the last half-hour. They could even succeed, now. In being casual. "Sort of belle of the ball, aren't you ?" She shrugged. "Novelty. Some of them are even pupils, and they can brag about it Monday. I hope to heaven my authority won't suffer." "I'd put my money It I had sny on you." He held her a little closer, and managed to touch her hair with his mouth. "Listen. Do we have to stay In here? I want to talk to you."' And Incidentally kiss yon, he thought The eyebrow lifted. "Talk? You' wouldn't kid me, mister?" (Copyright, Jfjj, by Marian Slim) But tomorrow Ctrot make, ante with pent. MORE FARM HELP NEEDED IN STATE PORTLAND, Aug. 22. (AP) John Cooter, director of the farm labor division of the state employment service, said that several thousand more farm laborers will be needed in the near future . when Oregon harvesting reaches Its peak, Cooter reported that Grants Pass hop growers will need five or six hundred more pickers the first of next week, and that after that Doug las county prune raisers and Klam ath county potato growers would want help. At least 6,000 pickers will be need ed for Willamette valley hop picking early In September, he said. - 4 Ose Mall Tribune want ads. Cops. Plan Talkies Of Drunk Drivers SAN DIEGO. Calif,, Aug. 22. (AP) Talking pictures of drunken drivers, taken at the time of their arrest,' will be shown at trials of the drivers If police and sheriff's officers follow a policy announced by Chief of police George Sears today at a meeting of the county parole board. Use Mall Tribune want ads. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For.toOrer, proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope tor reply. Beg. U.S. Pat Off. VIorlp's ftMMew? TriREE-OSSrllOrl glLM&RD CHfcMPlON, WOH MH6i& c RBPUUlcM Nomiwee., I'fffK NEVER VoTED THE REPil&LICM ff If-PfUW TICKET NORCbsTh REPU&LICM i ff mrlt I tft) BtiUoT unTil ft VfibRS ftFTef? h I nvJfff REPU&LICM PRESIDEKCj ' jff Pj L Ulllliiril swimmer Edward Lee first won fame In the world of b ports as a long distance swimmer. Until 1035 he was unrival led In the United States amateur swimming ranks for distances of five miles or more, winning the national championship five times. Winner of the 1036 world's amateur three-cushion billiard tournament, the first ever held In the United States, Lee had previously won tho national title In 1038. Hydra Ulssertlon . Though many forms of lower life, such us the starfish and the crab. are capable of growing new limbs when they are severed from tho crea tures' bodies, the hydra goes them one better. If the tentacle of a hydra Is broken off, or any other part of It for that matter, not only Is a new piece re placed on the old body, but a whole new body forms Itself on the broke n off piece I It would seem from this that the hydra woulud be Just about exempt from natural death. How ever, probably saving every other Uv-J tng thing from being crowded off the face of the earth by hydras, the tiny creature has a rather short life spen. Efforts to keep an Individual hydra living for more than two cr three years have proved unsuccessful. Minding Rivers Once the curve in a river's course Is started, the water is flung by the current against the opposite mnk which tends to develop another curve at this point. The bends, through' water erosion, become more and more pronounced till finally the upper and lower sides meet. Then the deposits of the ma terial carried by the stream gradually cut off the bend until at last the liver's course a this point, is once more strnliihtened. THE WORLD AT ITS WORST By GLUYAS WILLIAMS GEfTlN6 IMPATIENT' BECAUSE THE FAMILY D0E5 NT SHOW UP M'fHE CAR WfcR lUFTICKIt, YOU SCOUR THE COUNlW-SlDE, 6EfnMft MADDER EACH MINUTE, UNTO- AFTER HALF AM HOUR OR SO. VoO COME UPON -ftfEM SrfYlKe COMfORTABiV m TVlE CAR , DEMAND1N6 WHY YOU ALWAY5 KEEP "tHEM WAITING g-g (Copyright, 1936. by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) S 'MATTER POP' f r So -fUit3 I'll ,vl f-SV O O -rt By 0.. M. 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