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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON'. TUESDAY, AUGUST 25. 1936. THE WORLD WITH A FENCE A Ntw Novel by Martin Stmt oi nurtuo: varot Torranoe hat taken a job teaching In the Aehboro high echool, largely became ehe can't bear her home town any longer, She plane to go on from Aehboro to Atlanta or eome other city hut then ehe mtete Denle Ford, tihe le determined that Denle ehall not etop her. Bhe knoxce he le a newspaper man out of work and a rebel and probably unstable. But nou, uhen Denle te etttlng beeide her on the front porch, ehe find that ehe hat fold Aim her etory. And gladly. Chapter 11 THE CATE8 BOY A CAR stopped before the houee and Denis stood up, pulling ber with him. "The trafflc'll be thick here from now on. Lets go." In the etreet Carol looked Inquir ingly at his roadster and he chuckled "My kid brother's. He's a poten tial captain of Industry. Five years from now he'll be able to buy out the family Dad Included." "Whore 1b there to go?" "I wish I knew. Besides, I don't want to go anywhere; I want to sit stlU and talk tn you. Under the elr cumstances we might be forgiven for parking. ..." "I probably wouldn't be forgiven for parking under any circumstan ces." "Oh, hell." There was genuine anguish in the whisper. "Well, we'll go got a soda. Anybody can park In front of a drug store." She ordered a cherry phosphate, not because she liked It, but because it cost five cents. Then she said: "It's your turn, Denis, to begin at the beginning." He told his Odyssey tersely, stark ly. One year of college and then Atlanta Dallas Kansas City. Al ways newspapers. "On the last job," he explained, "one of my chores was the movie reviews. They got me kicked out," Hor throat ached intolerably for him, and Pat, who was rather like him, and for herself. All rebels, and all groping In the dark. She said quietly: "And now what?" He shrugged. "I'm waiting to hear from a Job with a Washington paper. A friend who's got the Job now Is going abroad soon, and I'm supposed to Inherit It And In the meantime " he grinned down at her "yon guess." "You're writing The Great Amer ican Novel." "Nope. I'm revolutionising the ahortstory form," Denis and Pat again. She asked curiously: "Are they any good?" "The editors don't think so." J "Brlng'om around some time and i let me see what I think." ' He started the oar. "Of course. I Tomorrow night?" Denis was going to be hard to manage. "Not tomorrow; one night i next weea." Ho said emphatically: "Tomor row. One night next week I may be Ion my way to Washington." He put Ih.ls hand On hers. "Yes?" j She i te In, and despised herself i for an invertebrate. "I suppose so. I We can sit In the parlor under Notre iDame and you can read aloud to me." It that didn't discourage him nothing would. "Oh, I'll think of some other place iby that time." 1 He found an unpaved country road and began driving more and more slowly. Suddenly be stopped the car and took her In his arms. "Carol there's not much time. . . ." She hadn't felt this way since Bill Faraday, and It frightened her. He said huskily: "This is worse than I expected. Carol newspaper men do have wives. . ." SCHOOL was becoming gradually a matter of routine. Gradually, too, she was getting acquainted with the rest of the faculty. Miss Haw kins, the head of the English depart ment, was delightful: mellow and wise, with a quiet wit and a bound less tolorance. And Miss Thomas, who taught Latin, rns a dynamo of enthusiasm an enthuslssm that grew rather than diminished with the years. If the occasion demanded, Carol felt sure Miss Thomas would lend the cheers on the football field. Mr. Hall, the principal. Improved on acquaintance. He admired Carol extravagantly, and gave her his whole hearted support In Justice to him she had warned him of what she was doing. "I wanted to tell you," she explained, "in enso I came a cropper. Some pa rcnls may object to having me put my foot through the doluslons they've grown up with and passed on to their children." He polished his nose thoughtfully. "They may, but I hope not. I'll keep sn ear to the ground and warn you If I hear rumblings. How are yon getting along?" She laughed. "Too smoothly. Something's going to bust soon." And the next day something did. In the midst of a lively discussion ot Charlemagne the peace was shat tered by noise like hailstones, falling about Carol's desk. Someone, she decided, had thrown a handful ot birdshot. She stopped the discussion, and silence dropped like wool over the room. She sat for several seconds studying the still faces before her, and drew her own conclusions about the culprit. The blandest and most Innocent expression sat suspiciously on the face ot a boy In the last row: Sam Cates. He was one of the dwellers In Moronla, and worse still he was an embryo criminal. He had not an swered a question in three weeks ot school, and his written work con sisted ot verbatim copies of what he could see on the papers ot his neighbors. She was convinced that Sam had thrown the shot, but she had to have corroboration. "We can't go on, I'm afraid, until we And out where that came from." Nothing but stillness. She said quietly: - "Probably the person who threw It Is too much ot a coward to say anything, so somebody will have to speak tor him." Stillness. She tried again, conversationally. "Another one of the delusions we've all grown up with Is the one about being a tattle-tale. If you saw a man robbing a store and had a chance to Identify him later on you d do It gladly, because the man's dangerous to society. "The same thing holds true about disturbers of the peace anywhere, even In school. If the person who threw that stuff hasn't got backbone enough to admit It, we'll have to sit here and hope somebody else has nerve enough to do It for him." Sam Cates looked sldewlse, defy ing his neighbors to say anything. The bell tor noon recess rang. Tbe class stirred restlessly, but Carol shook her head. "Sorry," she said pleasantly, loathing herself, and wondering If this wss right or wrong. Three minutes crawled by like years. Suddenly someone spoke. A tiny, frightened girl In the aisle next to Sam. Miss Torrance, It was Sam Cates." "You're a damn liar!" The words splintered the stillness of the room. They echoed and re echoed In an Immense, frozen si lence. . Carol stood up and spoke to Sam Cates, and there was nothing In her voice but an Icy contempt. "Get out of thl- room. I don't care where you go, so long as you get out and don't come back. It you still hope to stay In school, go to Mr. Hall's office and wait till I get there. If you prefer to go home and stay, that suits us even better." Sam Catea left with a swagger that convinced no one, not even him self. When he had gone Carol smiled at the frightened little girl. SHE was triynbllng with fury as she walked to the principal's of fice. To her surprise Ssm Cates was there, bis close-set eyes stony with hate. She nodded and glanced at Cates. "Get out ot here, and wait In the hall." , Mr. Hall's eyes widened In sur prise. He hadn't thought her cap able ot such offhand, masculine con tempt She drew a deep breath. "It's a new one on me," she said, managing to smile, and told him the story. Mr. Hall sat polishing his nose In wordless astonishment. "I never heard of such a thing," he admitted finally. "What do you want me to do?" "Expel him. Not entirely because of that; the episode Is a godsend as far as I'm concerned." She disposed of Sam's scholarship tn a few terse sentences. "Nothing Is more expensive," she pointed out, "than this miserable policy ot giving everybody a chance. One boy or girl like that can de moralise a whole class of decent students. Why should he?" He shouldn't, of course. But this Is a public school. As long as a child behaves we have to give him valu able desk room and hope he'll out grow hi' Indifference. But of course this offense Is grave enough for expulsion, If you think best." I do. Ask the other teachers It he's ever answered a question. I feel sure they'll say no, and cheer his departure. He's not a child; he's nineteen or twenty years old. And I think he's an embryo criminal." He summoned Sam. "You're expelled, Sam. Get youi books and get out." fCopyrtght, It SI, by Morton Slmi) But tomorrow Carol has s ltd ealltr. BOSTON. Mass., Aug. 33. (API Attornry Frauds B. Burns today an nounced his appointment by Federal Judge John Knox In New York city to take evidence in a $1,000,000 action Instituted, he said, by J. Raymond Cornell ot Do ton Klnt Mary Pli-k-ford. the mo! Ion picture tclras. Bums satd tne action was for slander and libel. NEW YORK. Aug. 36.-(AP)-Ar-thur F. DrlM-oll, member 01 the law firm ot o Brim, Dnacoll Rafferty. Mid todaj; that hs si.ooo.OOfj libel and slander action against Mary Plekford centered In fears of a kidnap plot against the diminutive star of screen and radio In January. 1034. Drtscoll Is counsel for Miss Plc-k-iord. WASHINGTON, Aug. 38. (API Da vid Liswr, president of the Warkera' Alliance of America, said today that If the Roosevelt administration re fused to increase wages and expand ths work relief program, he would start a nation-wide campaign to force acceptance of hla demands. "Quadruplet" Tulip nrown LYNDEN, Ont. (UP) A "quad ruplet" tulip, with four blooms on one stem, was grown by Mrs. Henry Whyte here. Several years ago she grew one with eight blooms on a atem. Mrs. Diana A. Papworth. 101 years old on August 19, 1P36. made uni forms for "the boys In blue" during the Civil war, BERLIN, Aug. 35 (AP) The Ger man government tonight extended the term of compulsory military ser vice from one to two years. The decree followed frequent re ports the' government was considering such a step because of "Russian militarism." BALTIMORE, Aug. 38. (AP) De livery of eight bombing planes now being constructed for the Spanish leftist government probably will not be made on the original date set for October or November, Olenn L. Mar tin, slrplane manufacturer, said to day. TJite Mall Trlbuns want ads. Home Folk Beat Blanton ABILENE, Tex.. Aug. 35. (API Supporters of Rep. Tom Blanton, the Abilene Reporter-News ssid today, at tribute his defeat for reelection to lo cal matters, rather than any contro versy In which Blanton figured at Washington, such as the "red rider' dispute. .Latest returns from Satur day's, Democratic run-off primary gave Judge Clyde L. Garrett of East land 33,386 votes to 18,337 for Blan ton. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, Inclosing 8 stamped envelope (or reply. Reg. U. S. 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Strange aa It seems, If a distance port of destination is due east or west by a marlner'a compass at the port he Is leaving, he will never ar rive at his Intended destination by following, the original compass direc tion unless the two points lie on the equator. He must similarly change his course periodically In sailing for any port not lying directly north or south of the port from which he tskes his departure. Toothpick Forests Known to science as the Sallx her bacea, Linn, the tiny willow which grows In a dense grove looking like a green mat. seldom attains a height of more than two Inches. The trunk's width Is In proportion to the tree's height, having a diame ter little greater than that of an ordinary toothpick. These miniature trees sre found In many regions of the Rocky Moun tains of Idaho and Montana, and In severs! high mountains of British Columbia and Eurasia. There are also aeversl groves of them In limited areas of the White fountains, Vermont. 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