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PAGE ETGHT MET)FORD MAIL TRTBWE, MEPFORD, OREGON", SUNDAY. SEPTETifBER 20, 1936 THE WORLD WITH A FENCE A New Novtt by Marian Sims SYNOPBiB: Carol Torranes taught school at Ashboro a tohtls, and one reason she left to take a job in Blake Thornton' advertise lng agency in Atlanta mas that she wanted to forget that ehe loved ; Penis Ford. Nov ehe te slowly ; drifting Into love with Blake and 4 he lolth her and neither oan do anything about It tor Blake Is mar rled to a selfteh and empty woman muefi older than himself. Carol is to be bridesmaid at Ellen Bands' wedding; the festivities have be gun. Chapter 88 WEDDING ELLEN'S houst was alive and aeetnlng, and the hub o( Its ac tivity was Ellen herself. Ellen was again a dynamo; giving - orders, superintending every detail even to cataloguing the gifts thai poured In. Mack was there, blissful and bewildered, followlog on her heels like a big devoted puppy. His most Important Job. he confided to Carol wltb a grin, was saving excel' slor and string so that the presents 1 could be shipped to Ashboro. "1 never saw so much stuff," he , said In an awestruck voice. "Looks to me like we'll mors than make . expenses." Ben arrived Friday afternoon, fat and smiling and bald. Ha kissed Carol and Ellen resoundingly, and " Carol noticed that he had already be gun his pre-nuptlal drinking. " "Well, well," he laughed, "It took a wedding to bring us all together r again." He was presented to the family, whom Carol had found disappoint ' lng. Mrs. Sands was small and limp ' and rather lost In the confusion; ' Mr. Sandi was tall and quiet, with a druggist's pallor. Margaret, the ' younger sister, was like her mother, ' with a youthful freshness that still masked the resemblance. Ellen, Carol reflected, must have drawn ; upon some remote ancestor for her , vitality and charm. The rehearsal Friday evening was - bedlam. Ellen alone knew how ' things were to be done, and ber training In gymnastlo drill proved . Invaluable. , The rehearsal lasted three hours, . and Carol h-J to be tba bride be cause It would have been bad luck ., for Ellen to rehearse. Walking down the aisle to the throbbing strains of I "Lohengrin" was a disturbing expe- . rlence, ehe discovered, so she looked at the small boy, or at Ben's bald bead, to distract her thoughts. ' ' Mack's arm, linked In hers, was strong and ateady, and 'Mack's young face was illumined. 1 should not have come, she thought, match ing her step to Mack's; this la no place tor a girl who haa to keep ber mind on her work. . . . Even her dis like for pageants could not entirely dispel the glamor or blind her to the Implications of the occasion. .. There waa a party after the re hearsal, at which the rest of tho men ' and throe girls Joined . Ben in his cups. She wanted to step from the audience Into tho ring with them ' but her first intimation of drunken ness drove her, as always, back into berself. The cake' was cut, and remember . lng ber promise to Freddie ahe put . aside her slice to take home wltb her. Somebody yelled: "Hey, you've got to see It there's anything In ltl" And amid abouts of excitement crumbled the cake and discovered a small brass ring. '.' Ben shouted. " 'S an omen. 1 knew fate was brlngln' ua together again. ..Carol, you've got to marry me!" '"pHE thing was over Anally, and Carol slipped gladly Into bed. One more day, she thought, and I can go bock to Atlanta and the office. The ceremony went off without a misstep. Even the ring bearer waa wed Into obedience by the solem- . slty of the occasion. Several of the groomsmen were hilarious, but steady enough to walk straight and keep their places in the tableau. Ellen ssld "I do" In a clear voice and Mack, with bis eyea on her face, said It in a voice that waa not ao ' clear. There was a reception at the Sauds home artorwards, and finally there was the calm that follows a ' storm, Mrs. Sands collapsed Into a cbalr and took off her shoes. "1 hope when . you get married. Margaret." she said . plaintively, "that you'll run away and do It" Mr. Sands looked white ana weary Carol noticed wltb a throb of pity'. For all her complaining. Mrs. Sands had liked It: marrying off a daugh ter was the proper thing, and she felt sorry for the women who bad ' not yet achieved It. But Mr. Bands 'looked desolate: Ellen waa bis fa . vorlte, and ha knew that getting married was not the (eat women .seemed to think It. In Mr. Sands'a opinion, men hadn't a Chinaman's chance to escape. They ate a late breakfaat next morning in the midst of a Sabbath calm, and went In a body to church. Carol took the two o'clock train after declining Ben's offer to drive her to Atlanta. She bad bad enough of Ben for a while. Even the Terminal station wore a dress of Sunday calm. She raked It quickly with her eyes and knew that Blake bad not met her. Her re lief waa overwhelming, and she breathed a prayer of thankfulness that she bad not protested against something be had no Intention of doing. A hurrying figure said: "Carol!" and she stopped. Porter Murray waa coming towards her. "1 nearly missed you," be panted. "Forgot to ask when you'd be back, ao 1 called Blake on the chance that he knew. Gosh, I'm glad to see you, sweetheart!" She laughed unsteadily. Porter would no doubt fill ber evening with bis gay and facile presence, and to morrow there would be work again. "Not half ao glad as I am to see you!" She would never learn, now, whe ther or not Blake had meant to meet her. NOVEMBER. The days were short and bright, with the bard, clear brightness of glass. Irma. abetted by Dr. Freeman, made her plans to leave for Florida immediately after Thanksgiving. Sbe was keyed to tbe point of hysteria, by the Implications of her condition rather than by the condition itself, but she was stll) in capable of confiding In Blake. The armor of his own Indifference was pierced at times by bewilder ment. She acts, be thought, as If she was afraid I would assault ber. He speculated 'several times on the nature of her trouble correct ly, had be but known It But be put aside the answer as Improbable. Irma bad alwaya revelled In her nervousness; It made her tremen dously Important to herself, and (ed her ravenous ego. He made no further attempts to detain ber, partly because he sensed that be waa beyond any help Irma might give blm. She resented It ir rationally; sbe bad no Intention of staying wltb him but her vanity de manded that he plead for it. Their parting at the station was a travesty on marital affection; words and ges tures as meaningless as the lines of a fourth-rate actor. He said: "Be sure to wire me when you get there. I'll be anxious until I hear." "1 will." She was preoccupied wltb the dis posal of her luggage. Blake said mechanically: "1 hops this change la going to make you feel better. . , ." "Oh, I think It will." The luggage waa arranged now and she could give blm her atten tion. He kissed her automatically and her flesh waa not even alive be neath bis lips. Don't think of tba last time you were at the etatlon, be told himself augrily. Don't think of anything. When he bad gone Irma put her bat carefully In Ua paper bag (tbe porter never did It properly) then lay back and olosed her eyes. She felt raw and quivering, aa If small pieces of her skin had been chipped away, leaving the nerve ends ex posed. The noise of tbe racing train with lta monotonous clackeiy-clack echoed and re-echoed In her brain. Relaxation came with tbe miles, paid out by the racing train like a fiahorman'a Una. The monotonous clacking became a lullaby, and Jier tboughta faced forward rather than back towards the warmth and col or and ease of Florida. Rose would be In Marston this winter, although not until after Christmas, and several people whom ebe had known In other winters. She would be inviolate for four months and beyond these four months she would not think. a Somewhere, a long way off, a tele phone was clamoring. Carol turned uneasily and rose almost to the tur face of consciousness. That can't be the alarm clock, ber mind protested; why doesn t someone answer ltl The clamor persisted, dragging her anally from the depths of sleep. If my phone, she realised dazedly, and stumbled across the room to an swer It A hoarse voice said "Carol . , ." and stopped. Tbe voice was unrecognlxable. "Yes." "This Is Harry. 1 hate like the devil to disturb you at this hour, but . . ." Harry's voice snapped in two, and then with the jagged rem nants he went on. (Coeyrlght, list, by Harlan Blmsl Tomorrow, Carol puts in one ot the most difnouit days or har life. OVER PREVIOUS YEAR WASHINGTON, Sept. IB. (AP) An 'jirrne In exports of lumber, timber tnl logs from the United But in :he first Mve,n months of J030 as rompsred with the same period a rwr ego waa re-ported today by the ;ommerce department. The seven-month totals were 1. 1111021,000 board feet In I93S and St'SaOS.000 feet In 19.1a. The de partment said, however, lumber ex ports In 1035 were affected adversely by sawmill strikes on the west coast. - Douglas fir, the most Important Item In the softwood sawed timber group, registered a gain cf 30 per rent, total shipment reaching 135. 120.000 feet agalnat 113.418,000 leal year. CAIRO. ER.pt. Sept. 1 (ATM-Forty-five Egyptian workmen, their wlvea and children, were drowned to day in the collision of their outing steamer with a tailing boat, in the flooded river Nile, The tragedy occurred )it at the outaxirt of Cairo. Only four of the holiday party wet saved. Reamers were hampered by the awlttneaa of the current, since the Nile now la at full flood stage. Both ahlr sank within five mln ute. fast Hooded river swept the excursion pasaengera raptclly down atream and beyond help. HITLER LIBERATES BERLIN, Sept. 19 (AP) More than , half million Germans have been freed from entanglements in nazl law by Relchfuerer Adolf Hitler's birthday amnesty, an official com munique announced today. Most of the cases, the announce ment said, were prisoners convicted and sentenced to "minor" punish ments, those whose penalties Involv ed only fines or Jail sentences of a month or lees. ' There were 495.014 such violators of the l&w released from their penal ties by Hitler's amnesty decree April 24, as a belated birthday gift In cele bration of his 47th anniversary, April 20. Other Germans who had run afoul the third retch's laws for committing misdemeanors "In excessive zeal for the national socialist cause," were lib erated from Jail or pending Indict ments against them were quashed. There were 3032 offenders In this category. Another 2,777, whose offenses were grouped under the headings, "per fidious acts against the state," "In sulting party leaders," and "abuse of the pulpit," were discharged from custody. In four games of a recent series, against the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Brooklyn Dodgers stole six base) twice the Dodgers pilfered the third pillow. THE WORLD AT ITS WORST By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX for further proof address the author. Inclosing. stamped envelope for reply. Beg. TJ. .8. Pat. Off. 0XY6H- IW I-' " '- ' VhKKcr? " ' treat hmeriean compose f, u KrieW NOTHING WOlXl 11 ,. -fin, HeWrVS rtecoMpweoJo Pieces t - Kf, CI. - i ft I at HJ i ki ran jffSLfw x. iii a. mm. V il alias i a aW 111 T Wc.JXa.Mra v. . - A -Jw - aasv V aM VJbbb. -wjaaaw a M vrkassa-' ' K.Mn OiAfifits-prA.. flNJWW f luni i. tin . II. t'l rtJlJ-tSiH I 77P wria cfrea,llv"i . . K sSW0 . J sf- lh. tsf-k" CX0 IKOfl ft VECK UT t-WV3 tur to F0Wu Wiln Nftiwc Ncrw oil SINUS RMS Av -scoeeu-iieo f ot? first .fl,ftC&... UX WWW IN ire- ft? 1H. I J5jrnw -lews. l66o- Closliw time for Too Late to cias- aify Ads is 1:30 p. m. Awakened Oenliift Bgn.rded today aa one of the great est of American composers, Horatio William Parker was first instructed In muslo by his mother at Auburn dale, Mass. Strange as It seem. Parker once utterely detested music and refused to study It. Then, In 1807, at 14 years of age, he suddenly became Intensely Interested in it, and shortly after ward. In the same year, set 60 of Kate areenaways poems to music In the astounding time of two days. In 1882 he went to Munich where he won high honors at the conserva tory and thre yeara later, returning to the U. S-, became director of music at Yale university. Here his prolific production of compositions won him high acclaim. Parker was awarded a 10.000 prize for his opera, "Fairy land." In 1913. Oxygen Oxygen, the most widely dlstribut element In nature, was recognized by Itr. properties as far back aa the 8th century by the Chinese, Leonardo da Vlncl. In the early 16th century, was the first European to affirm that the air was composed of two gasses, and Joseph Priestly produced the first pure sample of oxygen In 1774. In this year, hearing of Prlestly's findings, Lavoisier, a French scientist conducted experiments on the pro perties of the gas. Led to believe through his research that the gas was an essential part of all acids, he named it oxygen from the two Greek words meaning "acid forming." Ac tually, oxygen Is not a necessary con stituents of many acids. Thus, thru a mistaken supposition, the chief element of the earth was named. (Copyright, 1936, by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.) j . - ; . I H5. IN -frtE MIDST OF FINAL AND HURRIED DINNER PREPARtvflONS FOR IMMINENT 6UESrf$ JUNIOR REPORTS -THAf H -fRlED Yo HELP HIMSELF 0 A DRIKK OT WATEft, AND "friE 6LRSS BROKE, AND "frlE WMER WENT OVER HIM, AND HE CAWif URH HE FAUCET OFF AND HE thinks -The bowl is overflowing S MATTER POP- By 0.. M. PAYNB rj J VJIS1 I -HiVD -Ar JJrlE. MAW) ( MILLIOW "3)OLUATeS IM ) w00-ej.jl. 3D OWSf j MW'PAw-rs'PocK-e.T.AM' I imm Ja- V '64 IM J ( Two M012.E-IW MVCOAT CoOPLE. 1 ' VPoch-et.am' aIalj mill,o k e 3,OLLAies ) v wi'" MV k ? V 2t !l - 1.11 jfOoprrigtit, 1938, ty Tha BU gyndlcate, Inc.) 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