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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
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In 1882 he went to Munich where
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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
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