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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.
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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.
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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.)
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BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER The First Oaptivel
By EDWIN-ALGEB
SOU ACTIVITY
PARIS, Aug. 33. (AP) A report
thst the Oerman ambassador to Mos
cow had made "threatening" pro
tst to Russian Forflgn Commissar
Maxim Lltvtnoff against alleged
soviet Interference In th Spanish
civil war was clrfulntfd tonight In
Paris diplomatic circles.
(Prom Berlin. It waa announced
lha German government had pro
tatd to Moscow against allesedly
unfair radio broadcasts, but the na
tur of tha protest waa not stated. A
second protest waa sent from Berlin
to Madrid, following yesterday's stem
warning concerning tha reported
search of a Oerman ateamsblp by a
loyal Ut war vI.)
A foreign office spokesman said
they were "unable to confirm or
deny" the diplomatic report concern
ing tha "threatening" nature ol the
protest.
TALENT SEWER JOB
TALENT, Aug. 33. (8pl A I
clal seMlon of ttw city council w
held Tuesday nlRhl si which time
the final report of Engineer Walker
was submitted. The sewer has been
completed, Inspected and found, to
be In eatlsfaetory working condition
Final payment) will be made M
soon as routine details are com
pleted. It was found the Una! coat
of the eewer was several hundred dol
lara lew than the contract price due
to the careful planului of th city
engineer.
A COIL OP ROPS AUD A GAG oOOU
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