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rETDFOTlIi WATC TRIBUNE, HEDFORD, OREGON. -WEDNESDAY. SEPTEEBER 23. 1938.
THE WORLD
DIFFICULT DECISIONS
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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WITH A FENCE
A New Navel by Mart Stmt
BYNOPS1B; Carol rorranoa uu
rttunittj7 aujoi from one fovs affair
toften sia took her job in Blake
Thornton' advertising office in At'
lanta. But ehe did not eeoane love.
and this time ehe realtxea that what
ehe teele for Blake te tar deeper
and more beautiful than what ehe
felt tor Denie Ford. But there ie a
complication Blake'e elder and
eelfieh wife, Irma, will certainly re
- fuee to give her husband a divorce.
- Neither ie quite eure what he will
do; right now they are at dinner.
which eeeme unimportant but nee-eeeary.
, Chapter SS
FROM BLAKE .
" A ND you ordered a. piffling dinner
of sliced chicken and iced cof
fee." Blake would never have believed,
until tonight, that to small and un
important a detail had lain all these
months In his memory. Had he, be
wondered, been falling in love with
Carol even then?
V "But I didn't get by with it . . ."
Utter nonsense, all of it Nonsense
so uncharacteristic of tbem both
that they clung to It desperately,
fearing the days ahead when they
would be too beset for lightness.
And after dinner: "What nowf An
other movie?"
Sbe knew his thoughts. I can't see
you and bold you there, they said;
let me take you home where I can
be alone with you.
. "I'd fall asleep, I'm afraid."
,' 1 hoped you'd say that. I wont
etay long; you must go to bed ear
ly. ..."
Broken sentences that said only
halt their thoughts. Sbe sat close to
him In the car and remembered the
night when she had shrunk from the
touch of bis shoulder. Have I lost all
shame, she wondered, and knew that
ahame had no meaning and no place
In a feeling as big as this.
' Inside the apartment they came
together as soon as the door bad
closed behind them. She slipped her
arms beneath his topcoat in order to
-,be closer to him, and thought with
passionate tenderness: he's so terri
bly tbln! If only I could take care .of
him now.
' She drew away finally and snapped
on a light. "I must call Marge and
see how little Harry is."
"Yes. Let me have your hat and
coat."
He put them away while she
called Margery's number, knowing
as if by instinct where they be
longed. Poor tool that Irma we;, she
'thought, to have trampled tinder
foot such a capacity tor tenderness
and care.
"Harry?" she said eagerly. It was
back upon her now: all the anguish
and drosd and waiting.
"Yos. That Carol?" Harry's voice
sounded as If he bed run all day.
"Yos. Ir there any news?"
"No. Just about the same. . , ."
"But he's no worse?"
"No, thank Cod. I've Just come
bsck from there and they say we
ought to know something by
morning."
"Will you call me then either
here or at the office? I don't want to
bother you."
"Hlght," Harry was trying bard.
"And thanks, Carol, for everything."
"For nothing," she protested.
"Goodnight, Harry,"
Blake said anxiously as she
turnod against his shoulder: "You
don't have to come tomorrow If you
don't feel Ilk' it"
"Of course I feel like It. There's
nothing I can do unless he gets
worse."
"Ho won't." Nothing so tragic
could happen, Blake felt, In a world
es golden as this one. "Now come
on and sit down a minute, then I'll
go and leave you In peace."
She said with deadly seriousness:
"I don't bolleve I'd ever he entirely
at poaco while you were away."
His face glowed. "My darling!
That's the loveliest thing you could
possibly say."
They went back, during the next
hour, to the early months of their ac
quaintance, recalling foolish, dis
jointed things that had suddenly
taken on a tremendous significance.
At ten o'clock he stood up re
luctantly. "I said sn hour sgo that
I'd go home. You'll go straight to
bed?"
, "Yes." His concern was like a
fleecy blanket around her.
Ho said eagerly: "Csn I stop for
you In the morning?"
One of them, she thought, must
flint, to common sense. "Dsrllng.
you'd better not It will he bard
enough to hide It In the office with
out Inviting suspicion."
"I guess you're right." He grinned
the endearing, small-boy grin. "I'll
snarl at you before the whole fores
If you as It!"
She Isughed. "You needn't go thsl
far. For a lamb like you that would
be equally suspicious."
Ho kissed her hungrily and Unal
ly let her go. "Goodnight Oh, dear
God, I love you so. . , ."
ON LA JOLLA BEACH
SAM DIBOO. Oil.. Sept J3- (AP)
Police Chief George Sears said to
day Donald J. Haiell, 319-pound "gor-
Ilia man." confessed he killed Ruth
Mulr, 48-year old Riverside Y. W. C.
A, secretary at La Jolla the night
of August SI.
Hazell, arrested September 4 dur
ing the inquest Into tlw death of
Mlas Mulr, was sent to the Califor
nia state Institution for the Insane
after his rapture.
Sears said he was Informed by po
lice officer Id Stotler and deputy
He turned and left quickly, for
tear he should be unable to leave at
alL ,
HER first waking thought was
. Blake; her second Marge and
Harry. But little Hal was better; he
had to be. She lay tor a moment
with her face bidden, tasting tb
sweetness of last night; remember
ing how Blake had looked and felt
The phone rang and she ran to an
swer It Harry's voice said: "Carol!"
and plunged into bis message. "He's
better; his pulse and his tempera
ture are down. The doctor says he
ought to pull through. ..."
She swallowed hard. "Oh, Harry,
I'm so glad. ' knew be would. . . ."
Her voice was shaking, so she added
quickly: "I'll stop by the hospital
this afternoon, tell Marge."
, She hung up the receiver and went
to get breakfast
Five minutes later the phone rang
again and her heart plunged. Surely
little Harry couldn't have not In
live minutes ...
. Sbe said "Yes?" In a small fright,
ened voice, and then grew limp
with relief. Blake's voice, asking:
"Did you sleep well, my darling?"
"Oh." She sat down weakly. "Good
morning. Yes, I did better than
ever in my lite, I think. And you?"
"I hated to sleep, because then I
couldn't remember not conscious
ly." "But my dear, you must. After all,
there are a lot of days."
."I suppose there are. Well I
won't keep you now. I'll see you in
an hour."
"Yes. Ooodby. . . .
She wondered uneasily, entering
the office, how well they could hide
the miracle that had happened to
them. I know it's written all over
me, she thought; I hope he doesn't
have to see me about anything.
To bar great relief he did not
speak to her during the day. But
as she walked towards the carline
an automobile drew up at the curb
and a voice said laughingly:
"Could I give you a lift, lady?"
Happiness surged over her in a
warm flood. She frowned. "I don't
usually encourage pickups, but Just
this once . . . and slipped in beside
him.
He laughed low in his throat
How"d I do today?"
"Beautifully. I felt as If I'd never .
even been Introduced to you."
At the Sherwood she said firmly:
"It's my turn to cook dinner, so you
needn't argue it"
He grinned. "I wouldn't dare. But
can't I bring over that steak you
were bragging about?"
"Yes, you can do that"
He said: "You darling!" and then
shook himself, "Get out, before I for
get where we are!"
Sbe got out hugging to her heart
the thought of one more evening
snatched from the clutching hands
of Olympus.'
DUT they knew, very certainly,
tbat they could not he too- much
together. The Sherwood was as In
different and Impersonal as any city
apartment house, but their friends
might find tbem out
When Porter Murray or any other
acquaintance suggested sn engage
ment she accepted promptly, and
Blake, tor all the hunger in bis eyes,
admitted that she was right On
those evenings he made it a point to
drop in on his friends or to Instigate
a bridge game at his club.
He abhorred concealment and
subterfuge furtlreness had no
place in his heart or In his love
but he wanted with all the intensity
of his nature to protect Carol from
the loose tongues of a curious world.
On the first Sunday they drove tar
Into the country and left the car In
a lane, to merge themselves with
the actual solitude of the woods.
The day was soft and dim, and pines
stood In their own darkness, breath
ing the Incense of their own needles.
"Sit down, Blake, and let's finish
tailing this out"
Ha thrust his hands into the
nockets of his leather Jacket to bide
their trembling.
"Must we drag problems Into
Paradise?"
"What better place could there be
to lace a problem than in Paradise?"
She found a great oak whose spread
ing roots formed a resting place and
he dropped down beside her and
leaned his head against the trunk."
"Have you written Irma?" she
asked unevenly.
"No." She might come home, he
knew, to "put a stop to this per
formsnce." "I'm going down there
and have It out with her. Next
weekend)"
fCopvrloal, J.l, bv'Uenan Slim)
Carol and Blake ereis a danger
ous bridge, tomorrow.
sheriff Walter Blue at Pettnn that
nateu naa signed the confession.
The etAtemnnt juM 11u Mulr
standing "behind a when
Harell struck her, according to the
officers. Then, he said, he dragged
ner into a nearby ravine.
HaieU was arreaMtj while loiter
ing uear a church about a half mils
from the scene of the Inquest after
paasersby said he muttered "crasy
questions about the Inquest."
Fnllltrit-r Tn U'.trl,
PORTLAND. Ore. Sept. as.
Approximately 174 union empioyes
returned to work In nine Portland
foundries today following settlement
of strike differences. Workers In three
foundries r still out.
ALBAKT. N. Y, Sept. 33. (API
Oo-ernor Lehman dismissed a pe
tition today asking the removal from
office of Mayor Plorello H. LaOuardlo
of New York City. The governor said
he found "no reason whatsoever for
executive action."
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Elected mayor of Detroit In 1880
on a reform ticket, Hazen S. Plngree
won national prominence on the
strength of his "Potato Patch" move
ment. This was a system of aiding
the Jobless during the panlo of 1893
whereby ell Detroit's vacant lots were
turned over to the unemployed for
the purpose of raising potatoes. Pln
gree aiao won widespread popularity
by advocating a three cent street car
fare a vote-winning move that was
later followed by Jimmy Walker In
his five cent drive tn New York City.
In apite of opposition to his radi
cal ideas, Plngree gained control of
the Michigan Republican organization
and In 1800 waa elected governor of
the state while still mayor of De
troit. He served aa both mayor and
governor until 1807 when the etate
supreme court ruled that the city of
fice b&d been vscated.
Plngree served two terms aa eov-
ernor, retiring In 1000.
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during wartime in Italy, giving a
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the wounded soldiers, dying on the
battlefield for want of medical at.
tentlon. Aa a remedy he suggested
some sort of International organize
tton be founded, dedicated to "the
aid of the wounded in the different
European countries."
Answering his aupeal. delegates
from several European governments
met in convention at Geneva, Swltz.
erland, In 1863, and drafted the be
ginnings of the modern Red Cross.
As a complimentary gesture to the
country in which the nrst convention
wsa held, the society adopted aa its
emblem the reversed pattern and
color of the Swiss flag.
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he'li. -Take personally unless You
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WiLUAfTS .
By 0.. M. PAYNES
By HAL FORREST,
Bj EDWIN ALGEB
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