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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.
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Due to the curvature of the
earth's surface and the use or navi
gating charts which represent sec
tions or the earth as flat, mariners
find that, In laying out coursca on
their charts, the shortest distance
between two points, 1. e., port of de
parture and destination, usually lies
not In a straight line but In an arch.
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following, the original compass direc
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equator. He must similarly change
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any port not lying directly north or
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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.
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ter little greater than that of an
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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
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