Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, September 30, 1936, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextMEDEOTtD MATE TRIBUNE, fEPFORD, QT?EGOT. WEDNESDAY. SEPTET rBER 30, 1936. THE WORLD- DIFFICULT DECISIONS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address tho author, Inclosing a stamped envelope tor reply. Seg. TJ. 8, Pat Off. WITH A FENCE A New Nevtl by Miriam Stmt PAGE EIGHT Chapter 42 DECISION "iAROL took hl hands and pulled them down Into her lap. "Listen, Blake, and look at me. It won't make any difference unless we let It I told you I was willing to light It out be side you; that even a trlanglt didn't have to be too disgraceful. I've been expecting this from the begin, nlng." The muscles of bis face relaxed slowly, until he smiled, wonderlngly. "Lord, what a baby you make me feel I You' of a man than I'll ever be, and why on earth you should love me like this Is beyond me. All I can do is marvel and worship youl" "Idiot! You're pretty well worth loving, since you ask me." Be casual. she was commanding herself; make him think it Isn't Important enough even to talk about. ... She stood up and held out her hand to him. "Let's get a drink and see If that won't ehange the color of the world." He extracted Ice cubes with un steady fingers, half drunk with the knowledge that she was willing to stand by him. He saw the situation now as she had tried to paint It; painful and bitter, perhaps, but sweetened by a belief in ultimate success. He put down his glass and smiled at her. "I haven't even asked about your trip home. How was ltt" ' "Almost perfect, considering the circumstances. "How wa PatT" "Fine." She flushed. "I finally broke down and told him about you: I had to talk to somebody!" His face glowed. "Old he approve?" "Heartily. He says I'm to bring you to see them as soon as possible, and that you sound like a grand guy." "Then maybe I'd better not go." "Nuts to youl" Their lightness was false and perilous, with a throbbing undercur rent that might come to the surface in a breath. Because he realised that, Blake glanced at his watch. "Dinner time, precious. Get your hat." Before I devour you, he added Id bii heart. But when dinner was over and they were back again in her living room the lightness failed them. For all his discipline Blake felt the old hunger more Insatiable than ever, and bocause the waiting seemed end leas now he had no hope to restrain him. He kissed her hotly, and knew that she understood bis hunger. His bands were caressing her and aha mode no move to withdraw. She made her choice then, clearly and honestly. This Is no way for us to live, she realised, feeling him tremble against her. A few months of this can destroy us. And I can't go away and leave htm atone. She sat up. "Blake. . . ." LONG norwards, when he had gone, she sat at her dressing table with her chin In her hands, staring at her own reflection. She probed her mind for a feeling of guilt or regret, and failed to find it. lrtna was Incapable now of dealing them a mortal wound. She rose and went to open the win dows, and stood looking at the black Mar-dusted sky. Blake would be at home by now, and perhaps looking at the same sky unless he had gone straight to sleep! 8he tried not to think of tbe time when be would not have to leave her, and to cling In stead to all that she had of him now A quick. Icy wind struck her, like a breath from tbe world of darkness, and she shivered and turned from the window. And then she stopped short. Someone was knocking softly upon her door. She snapped on a light and hur ried to the door, and Blake stumbled Into the room and stood, swaying. She thought Incredulously: he's gone home and gotten drunk. What a queer tblng to do. . . . . He spoke finally, shaping each word with great care, like a mute who has learned to talk. "lrma has killed herself. . . ." The Icy wind swept her again, straight from the world of darkness. She put up her hand as it to shield her (ace, while an unfamiliar voice whispered: "No, Blake, no. . . . "She must have done It this after noon. Long distance has been trylns to And me since Ave o'clock. . . ." He rubbed a hand across his eyes as If to blot out a visual horror, and thud dered once. Five o'clock. Then all the time they were together lrma bad been dead because of her. . . . She laughed, and the sound was queer and mad. "She chose the only possible way to keep us apart, didn't she? Really, it was terribly clever of her, . . The sound faded and she heard her own teeth chattering. She sat down, staring at the floor. He leaned his weight against the table and looked at nothing. 1 "I have to go down there," he said to the floor. "There's a train In three hours." "How what did she dof "Does it matter?" He wanted to spare her whatever horror he could. He didn't want her to see lrma as he would always sea her, slashing her wrists with a razor blade, and perhaps smiling a small, secret, triumphant smile. Their thoughts were stumbling along the same black path. Because the suit was flled this morning, they knew. Because she must have wired or phoned his lawyer to know It he had been In earnest, and found that he was. Because she had to defeat them, even with her life; she had to have the center of the stage the last word. . . . Blake moved restlessly, like a man struggling to escape the toils of nightmare, and looked at her. "She left a note," he muttered, "but thank Ood she put all the blame on me. 1 made them read it to me. . . ." lrma bad been content, then, to take halt her revenge in secret. Her vanity had lived as long as she; had forbidden her to tell an avid world that another woman had beaten her. Blake made a heroic effort to pull himself together, "I'll have to go now. Have you any sort of sedative here?" She lifted her head as It It carried a great weight "No. It doesn't mat ter " "Will you phone a drug store and have them send you something?" "Yes. . . ." She stood up and held out his coat as If she passed It across a chasm, and be took It without a word. He made no move to touch her, bet his eyes were sick with pity and love. He said brokenly: 'Carol you won't go away? You'll be here when 1 get back?" She realized that flight would sure ly damn her If aha was not already damned. Only the guilty fled before they were accused. "Yes, I'll be here. But you can't come and see me." "I'll arrange It somehow." His eyes compelled her, and she met them Anally, and road In them all the things he could not tell her. The measure of his own suffering pierced her so that she went to him and gave him her hands. I'll be there, Blake, every min ute. If that helpa any." Ha lifted the hands and kissed them slowly. "It's the one thing that will help. It's what I've been praying to hear and couldn't ask you to say." He went out closing the door soft ly behind him. SHE! made herself read the morn lne naner. and realized that It had been kind. The story was rele gated to the Inside pagos. Mrs. Thornton, the account said generous, ly, had been in bad health ; she was In Florida tor that reason. . . . She dropped the paper and went to make coffee. Her mind waa merci fully numb, so tbat she felt nothing not even misery. The only sensa tions of which she was conscious were a dull headache and a strained tooling about her eyes that cams from sleeplessness. The telephone clamored and she looked elowly towarda it wondering If she could bear to answer It And then she knew she had to. The voice over tho wire was Cor Delia's; crisp and matter-of-fact "Carol?" "Yes." "I wondered if you'd have dinner with me tonight? Hither at home or uptown?" She knew then that Cornelia bad read tbe paper, and that Cornelia's swift mind bad grasped a great deal that had been unsaid. And she knew that Cornelia's Interest was far more than morbid curiosity: Cornelia's contempt tor gossip and personali ties amounted almost to loathing. She said: "I'd love It but please com here Instead." Whore I won't have to see people, and wonder If I they know. ... j tCopvrioht, tist, ej Kertan Sim 1 Cornelia dollvert some suund I ne to Carol, tomorrow. eACKrW in m fcttisMpr 7 To BMP Visfef? fists rtisrifiR IN ft NftRROW A, VJlPfcOHB. M5ID ItiHiajfct Hrfidittu, Im. Backfire. With the horrors of war Indelibly Impressed In his memory by the sight of wounded soldiers returning from early battles of the Civil war. Rich ard Jordan Qatllng became an ardent pacifist. In search of a plan whereby he might help to end all wars. Catling waa struck with the Idea of making war so horrible that nation would it. Tho result was his In ventlon of the world's first machine gun. the Qatllng gun. In 1865 the weapon was adopted by the United States army, and since then. In revised form, It haa develop ed Into the death-dealing machine gun modern warfare knows today. Strange as It seems, the world'i moat destructive explosives were In vented by another pacifist, Alfred B. Nobel, Laboring under the same sup position (is Oatling, Nobel, a Swedish chemist, devoted much of his life to the creatlor of complex explosives that would assure peace among na tlons by their destructive powers. The "Nobel Peace Prize, ' a sum of money awarded annually to the per son or society doing the moat toward creating international peace, waa left by Nobel from the huge fortune he UNPEff , pmcN of death IHDIAN4 ARE fof?&IDPNT0 IrtftWe 1H6IR HMiVe IfcNO.,, PJttamz CALLED TO COLORS By ARMY INCREASE EDICT (Copyright, 18M. by the Awinrieted Preae) BERLIN. Sept, 90 A widespread increase waa ordered in the Oerman mi'.itary establlahment today .1 Nad offielala began conscription to raise tiuir lighting forces to 800,000 men under the new two-year compulsory service rule. nelchafuehrer AdrCf Hitler decreed an tncreaae to 800.000 youths for the apade corps the government labor ei-vlce which Is the preliminary training unit of the etandlng rtrmy. Soma 80,000 A the first draft will be Inducted Into the labor service October 1. almultaneouly wltn be tween aoo.ooo and 300.000 of their elihtly older comrades called to the revitalised relchawehr - national army reorganised on the pre-ioti two- year compulsory model. Hitler, taking a leaf from the KaL-wr wilhetm .yatem. decreed the two-year aervloa Aiitfiiat 34 to become effective October 1. The training per' lod prevloiuly waa one year, in addi tion to half a year In the .pade corps which tmist be put In prior to belrm called Into the (tenting force. The recrulta are 31 and 33 yeare of a(ro Oermany'a war babtea part of the claaaea of 10H and 1919. WASHINGTON. Sept. SO. (.n The iruano Navigation company waa authorised today by the interstate commerce rommlaalon to operate by water on the Willamette and Colum bla rlvera betwepn Portland and Tho Unllra. Orr. Dae Mall Tr limit, waul ads. Autumn days ARE HARD TO BEAT. So is varigley's r-Yj IT S A TREAT .' J T II IS amaased from the Invention of ex plosives. Death Penalty. San Bias Indians, although In con tact with Europeans since the 16th century, remain one of the purest races In the world. Through the centuries they have gone to great ends to maintain their racial purity and even today doom to death any woman who leaves ner Homeland In the northeast of Panama, for fear of racial contamination. Water Levels. Capillary action, the strange phy sical phenomenon that seemingly causes water to violate its law of seeking Its own level, Is responsible for the heights of water Inside tubes of different diameters. WRIG LEY'S, Trt PERFECT GUM r Urmaf WONDERING HOW L0N6 10 HOLD DINNER. FOR 6l)ESfS WHO PON'f SHOW UP AND WHO IW HAVE 60f HElR DME6 MIXED, THE HEAD OF "THE MOOSE HAVING HAD A W EARLY" LUNCHEON (Copyright, 1936, hy The Bell Syndicate, lne.) W'mAT73 S MATTEB POP- m By 0.. M. PAYNB ' T is Vouiz. -Ia-t.W A V J? L j -AmT) Coat ah-d7 ip?fe 'J S . lrri (Copyright, 1938. by The Bell Syndicate, Inc ) TAILSPIN TOMMY Ths Second Warning; Bj HAL FORREST EXACTLY AT MIDNIGHT... JUST AS SKEETER FICURCO IT... THE PHAMTOM FOKKER GLIDED DOVn OUT OF THE DARK SKY... TO LAND AT THREE P0iriT...IN THE CONTROL TOWER, VILSON AND DILLON WATCH IT lli SURPRISE .... BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Mr. Tuttle Acta I By EDWIN ALGEB pis- WWW 1 C AGAIN y NUT...H& fJ&ZJ' WSC- W L E ECOMO Z 'j 1 'r'" j! 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