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PACT? TW'ELVB arEDTOTTO fATC 'VHIHVSK, smTTOKD, GREGG?:. TUESDAY. SEPTEJrBER 59, 1938. THE WORLD- WITH A FENCE A New Novet by Marian Stmt norms ! reartmiy Corel Torrance has gone home from At lanta to apena Christmas Equally fearful Blake Thornton her em ploier hae none to Florida to try to erauade hie neurotic and indlf terent wife to divorce him. For he and Oarol are deeply tn love and realise that acme what map they belonfl to each ether. Blake hae told Irma hla mission and she la br.lng ea difficult at ahe can. Blake holds his temper but not easily. Chapter 41 FUTILI HOPE A KD then Blake Bald aloud: "Ton bayen't any conception of lote, bare yon? Tod ean't ren Imagine loTlnc someone eo much you'd die for thou. And that's tho way I loro CaroL It 1 ean't hnve her I don't want to touch another woman aa loot as I live!" The passionate Intensity ot his rolce shattered the glass about her once and tor all. She really looked at him tor tho first time. Ills faco was white and stark and his eras -barneu hotly. He means It, she thought dazedly; he's really mad about ber. . . . , She played her trump card an ap peal to his chivalry. He could be tender and generous; she remem bered that from long ago. Surely he would be that now. "Blake . . . you think I'm Imagin ing my nerrous condition. You think It's because I don't want to be a wife to you. That's not true; It's just that for a while now I'm going through a rather trying time. . . ." His heart sank heavily. So be had been right In bis guess. , . . But he could not let her plead so thin an xeuse. "A great many women manage to endure their husbands and mako them happy eron then." I know," she said plaintively. "And so could 1, probably. But I've always been so high-strung, and so thought best to stay away." He was morod to pity until ha re membered the years before this, and he realized that ber appeal did not deserve to be heeded. He said lowly: "I'm very sorry rf or your sake. But your excuse rather falls down, doesn't It? We've been living this hlt-or-mtss existence for yenrs. You ean't justify six years with some thing that's just happened." She felt aa If ahe were going mad as If the walls were really closing la on her. She saw herself discarded tor a girl: a middle-aged woman who would become merely an object of humorous pity. She made one more hitter attempt "I understand, of course. You mar ried me, knowing that I was older than you; that I was aura to lose my attraction before you lost yours. And now that it's happened you'ro being a beast, and trying to cast me aside like an old shoe." Fury almost blinded him, so that he darod not answer hor for a mo menu At last he said with a credit able attempt at quietness: "A boy twenty-two doesn't think, Irma; the poor fool Just feels. You must have seen that possibility better than 1 could. And since you've rone your way so completely there's only ona answer: I don't matter to you any more than you do to me." She said shrilly: "But you do mat erl I couldn't llvs without youl" His mouth twisted bitterly. "You're made a pretty good stab at tt so far." "Bat I've had to. ill come home with yon even If It kills me!" THE melodrama revolted him. The supreme sacrifice, she was no i doubt thinking. He got up and I walked to the door and back, j "I'm sorry, but it's too Into now. ! couldn't play up. Do we have to talk about It any more? I'm offering lyou a chnnco to got the divorce your self, on the grounds of cruelty." ' "Suppose 1 refuse?" "Then I'll have to get H myself, on the same grounds." "You ean't do It," she almost screamed. "I enn refute anything you try to say!" She mnde a supremo effort at control, and went on In an altered voice. "Blake, wait a ear and see. You got tired of me; bow do you know you won't tiro of hor?" Tho room whirled dlully with him. There was no use, of course. In trying to make her understand. "I'm aurry, but I'm through I wnetner you believe me or not. I'll never live with you nsoln; I'm put ting the house on the market as soon aa 1 get bock, and startlnn divorce prneeedlnrs Immed.ftMy. If vou want to fight It you're at liberty to do so." Her body sagged. He was speaking the truth and sba knew It At the sight of ber ravaged face pity stirred in him. and he said more gently: "Wouldn't It bo wiser to follow my suggestion, Irma, and get the divorce yourself? People will think you're tired of me, and God knows that's plausible enough. ..." "And if 1 do, will you promise to wait a decent Interval before you marry this woman? A year?" So that people might possibly be deceived, be knew she meant "Of course I won't I'm not a child and neither Is she. Our time Is too precious." "Then you'll have to moke a cad of yourself and a Joke of me. Because I won't do It" She was bluffing him, of course; thinking be would not dare. And he knew she was bluffing. He stood up. "I'm sorry you see It that way, I've already talked to a lawyer and the papers will be Died Wednesday." Irma sprang to her feet "Youl! never get It! They'll throw yon out of court!" He shrugged. "All I can do Is try." He turned away, sick of the sor dldnees and of her presence. He wanted never to see her again. "There's no use In prolonging this cheap wrangle. I'm taking the next train home, and the papers will be filed Wednesday. If you want to re consider you can phone me In tbr next few hours." Ho laid his hand on the door knob and looked steadily at her. "And I hope you have a very merry Christ mas. ..." He opened the door and went quickly out When he had gone Irma flung hep self face down upon the bed. She would be from now on one of those homeless, undeslrcd women who drift from place to place: wid ows and divorcees who migrate with the seasons. Wherever sbe wenl whispers would echo in her ears. And If she left tho South she would hardly cscapo it: the migratory birds covered the faco of the earth, aud spread their gossip like pollen on th winds. She bad no way of knowing that she was exaggerating her own Importance; that what she did oi where sho went was of vital con cern to no ona but herself. Sbe thought wildly: I'll get back at blm somehow for tho way he'i treating me. I've got to get back; I've got to make him suffer. . . . 'plIK apartment accrued Indlfferenl apd empty aftor the warmth and life of the house In Meredith. Carol closed the door softly and wont straight to the tolephone without taking off hor hat tttake answered tho telephone him self with an eager "Yes?" "Blake. . . ." The sound of his voice shook ber so that she could not go on. Ha said quickly: "Carol, darling. Whore are you?" "At home. I've Just gotten In." "May I come right out?" "Of course. You're not busy?" "Thoro's no one here but me. I've been sitting here cursing tho hnnds Dl my watch." Sho did not dare to aak it his ncwB was good or bad; she knew too well that he would have told her if It had been what they hoped for. A porter rang and handed her a florist's box; lea roses and delphinium with a enrd that said only: "With my heart . . ." Blske rang Just as she finished ar ranging the flowers and sbe almost ran to meet him. He came In quickly and took both her hands and they stood for a space looking hungrily at each other. Then he muttered. "Oh, Carol . . ." and took her In his arms. She braced herself. "Was It very bad, lilske?" He winced. "You knew bettor Ihsn I did. Cnrol how do women get like that?" "I don't know." Sho laid her hand against his face and he caught It and kissed It. "They're blind from birth. 1 guess. You'd better tell me about It." Ho told her, dully aud accurately, because every word and gesturo wns burned upon his mind with ncld. "I must have gone crar.y nt the eud," ho confessed bitterly. "I threat ened her and browbeat hor aa If I'd been a snvnge, I understood how clvlllr.ed men commit murder: I could have strangled hr and laughed!" fine snld quietly: "No, you couldn't Not really ." "Yes 1 could have. I wanted to." 'Copyrttiht If.tf. by Marian Simsi TO SAI.EM, 8"H. 30 V) An nl tDipt to ctrllbmiUly net flrp to (lie twit Rpproftcli o tho Marion -Polk county bridge horn vm frustratwl lftt night by Irl MrShrrry, of H.ilein. 'ITi H'Ml nppronrh la of wood oon strm'Liou with mi rvphnltlc rwverlug. MoWhorry. driving wrM- about 6.:u o'clock, noUiwl MtiokA and a flame nbout n foot high coming from t'ent In the brldg Ho turned around obtained a bucket of wtr. and put out tho ftrt reporting tho oocurntmx' !o rtw police. Invest Jgntlpn revenled that a ""B had been nonked (n oil and packed around H wns wiwduM and shaving. State polli called th occur-anon in cendiary "without a doubt." Tbcra waa a report that aeverul COPCO WILL PAY BAN K11ANC1MCO, tvpt 'JO.- At1) California Oregon Power Co. will puy ri'gu!&r-rnt dividend., but ap plying on accruala of previously un paid dividend, on preferred a locks October 15. rnymrnts of H Mi n nhnrr on the 0 pr pf nt prcferre.! nmi M 7fN ou the 7 will go ta oUvkholrters of fford te,lMUbrr SO. Arreamtren after theaa payment will be fl "JA a almre on both (I per cent if.mei, and i.e'J'-j on the 7 per tvnl iMie, Thld I the fwniuf full dividend rate payment, after a perul In which th company pnld nt only half rnte. RETURNING STUDENTS CROWD OREGON STATE CORVALLIS, Ore., Sept. 39. (AP) Crowded classrooms and employment of extra faculty vera In prospect at Oregon Btato college today after first day enrol lm on t by returning students Saturday brought registration to close to 8,300 students. This represents a 31 per cent In crease over enrollment at this time last year. It late registration contin ues at lta usual pace, Re glair ar E, B Lemon said the total would reach 3,600, an all-time high. Be correctly corseted In an Artist Model by Ethel wyn 8. Hoffmann. 4 WINDOW OLAB& We sell window glass and will replace your broken windows reasonably Trowbridge Cab mat Works TWO BABIES BORN AS BANOON FIRE RAGES BANDON, Ore., Sept. 23. (AP) Apparently well authenticated stories of the birth of two babies during the holocaust which reduced Bandon to ashes, came to light today. One baby was born to a Mrs. Adams on the beach and another wu reported to have arrived on board the light-house tender Rose. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, fncloslmj a, stamped envelope for reply. Res. 0. S. Pat- OIL Cooum iT,t, MUM Mfc. ffaeeRTPlJRHS, Of frit &OSTOH mO MAINE ilS . im tfitjctfttfrc lllUIML. i b?ZNoTfflSm MoT htP?A&) Mm. One Inch from Champion When Andrew Klrkaldy died In May, 1034, there passed Into the laud of the smoothest greens njid auto matically replaced divots, one of the greatest and most colorful golfers who ever wielded a club but a niuu who never achieved his life's ambi tion winning the British Open. Strange as It seems, he catno within one Inch of It . . . end lostl Tied with Willlo Park In the 1889 tourna ment, on the Musselburgh court?. Scotland, Klrkaldy dropped hla ap proach shot on tho green within one inch of the chip. Park, holed out, leaving his opponent two up with the one-Inch putt to sink for the championship. Klrkaldy strode up ftNKEW KIKKftHy- ScotfrsJr&olfp, l&XM SRiTrSHopEN ONi-lHCH Pu7T -88f- to tho ball, beamed, took a cureless one-handed awing with his club . . . and missed I Holing his second putt, be Itf the match at a tie. In the playoff two days later, an Inspired Willie Park won the title beating Klrkaldy by llvo strokes. Bollln-r Water. Water boiled In a stoppered fla&k over a flame will atop boiling short ly after being removed from the flame. By squeezing cold water from a sponge on tho outside of the flask, the water will start boiling again The reason for this seemingly start, Hug phenomenon la tho fact that the cold water condenses tho steam In the fla?tk. thus reducing the pressure wmcn caucus the water to boll at low temperature. Insect Misnomers. The name glow-worm Is applied to either the larvae or the wineglass fe males of certain species of fireflies and, strange aa It seems, a firefly ts not a fly It Is a beetle 1 Feline Employes. Employed aa rat exterminators In the Boston 6c Maine grain elevators at Charleston, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burns aro each officially alloted tho price of half a can of cat food per day or 118.35 per year by the rail road for which they work. THE FAMILY ALBUM-CHOOSING A MOVIE By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Asvsm-m.VHou'A-BttlX ALL going o -The M0V1K -fOMIfeHf? All A6SCf IN6-, Ct& PAPER lbsrWHAf'5SH0WlN&. SRYS"MUra)ER ftf NINE." SWNW WHI Of 600T? 1b6 6RUK0ME, ANP S(j66ESte"BXCOMINa 10VE' WHK1H HEFEE15 WOULD BE SUPPY LOOKS TVprfriER . FINDS PANClJfo PIRME 19 Af frtE AHD IS SKID 1b BE SDOP WLTRET? CRUA FROM UPSTAIRS HE'S SEEK AND WIFE REPEATS SHE'D UKETb60fo''Bi00MlMS LOVE" "1-2it il66ESlS,,NO1HDR0lJ6fl- READS OFF 1HF- RESf FARE WHICH MILDRED OF 1HE Ll&f, ALL OF WHICH VETOES BECAUSE" SHE SOME MEMBER OF THE CAWf ABIDE THE STflR FAMILV HAS HEARD ARE MHO IS PinVlliS IW if NOT MUCH 600D (Copyright, 1936. The Ben Byntnc&t. Inc.) 5I6HS m SETS OUf F0R'&L00MIK6L6VJI W0NDEF1N& WMV HE EUEREiErt BOTHERS 10 TRVTOSELECTAMOME S MATTER POP- By 0.. M. PAYNS Tnmnrrow: Mavhlne Oiing for IVacel WL Tewnis WmiW U J7r Alfl Wifo Tocmi-e- m ' (?) IWoiJR j ' TAILSPIN TOMMY Anticipating . . . Another Ghostly Visit! By HAL FORRESX olhrr oll-)irtkf(J ran wore tounfl twru lim and Ni-vp;ri. cither on brklgrs In upiirbj- brush. OVERTOME AT THREE POinT LAUGHED AT RUSTY VHEtl HE TOLD THEM OF HIS EXPERIENCE WITH THE PHANTOM FOKKER ...WHICH "SAT DOWN" AT THE DIG AIRPROMf THE MIGHT BEFORE... BUT WHEN SKEETER LEARNED OF IT ..HE CORNERED RUSTY IN A H ANOAR. .... 2JUqLJLjCG"COSM.Am; .-Cft WDID YOU , ml,BlWTMEn THCRE-sV h WHrr's ALLUS THREE AM' THAT'S ALL..pDI0 YOU ho.'... Ah1 I mSAY TH' iTHATS WHAT AA. GONNA BE 'fj (fiowTTW AWARNIN'S . . LIKE. . RE ADY TERRY AM- JOE mJvTELL TH AIN'T GONNA. . JE SKELETOH L llT SAID... ANlL ANOTHER i JD O . . . .. AIM ..FIRE . . . SO I V THIMK SOU E BODY'SQ CHICF 7 j I BEEM LAUGHED" SAID " THIS fl'LL TAKE JAKtf'...H YOU tel FIGURE VE'LL HAVE C PLAY I fl' A JOKErasSa W ENOUGH.' ) AlS TH FIRST y MY OATH M A FIGURE7AN0THER VISIT-TOMICHT' v.om me... .ii-rWT imriLif 1v.warnin'?" Um it. jetji 1 i vthat? v a. T" yjj JxV- r 4wwi vkwiP fe wWwt BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER The Orphanage Bj EDWIN ALOES flWOlUG 6ERALD WMLEV A JOLiy W6 ORDER, C.0U- DID VOU RWUO VOUR 0O6 AL0VJ6 1 TO TRXCK WW OOVJW ? 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