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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOTtD, OREGON. MONDAY. APRIL 12. 1937.
' ' By MARGARET WIDDEMER
SYNOPSIS tut MannereteW
pou back to her JOO-veor-old
house and orchard in Connertlcut
oter five veare in Ntw York She
plant to re it. nurrv 0V.
lovinu Denny and return la Man
hattan apartment lilt Unett
Henri,, an old family Iritnd,
moves in to help Sue run the
place. Peter the pennilew artiM,.
hie lanouid tcie Maryitn and
their lerioue voting eon Judge
come to board, promising to pay
later. George Cleveland, Eve'e
calm, practical netghbor, uunts
her for hie tsife. but he lores
absent Denny who phonee from
town. . " '
Chapter 23
'Aa For George' '
XHIS anybody 1 Know might It
1 be Mi MannersfleldT'
The gay voice the loving lightness
that win the verv Denny, tne eouin-
'era accent coming mora dearly, as It
alwaya did, over the telephone.
It mlEht be. 1 suppose It Is Mil you,
even after hours on the train last
night''
As much me as It can be with you
In Connecticut Ob. Eve. I've missed
you so. every minute from the time t
left you till now, that It's simply hor
rible. You mustn't be all those hide
ous miles off, 1 can't stand It. Love
irae? Bay so quickl'
I Eve shut the doors and said, "I love
you. Right along. . . . Darling, any
mews?" .
"Yea the office is simply sick with
lout you. They end every sentence
Iwith if Eve were only herel' Tbey
keep ragging me about your resign
ing. I'll be owning up Avhy you did
in a minute now, I hope!"
' "Oh, Dec has anything broken?"
"Sweet, there hasn't been time. But
I'm dining with Mltzl Wednesday
and she's going to work on old Cleve
land in between, and then produce
him. And then do you and I go out
and celebrate high, wide and band
eome?" "Forty cents for five more minutes,''
said the cold voice of Operator be
fore Eve could answir. She told Den
ny laitlly not to spend any mora
money, came back to Ellen in the
kitchen to end Judge arranging a
tray for his parents with a deftness
that suggested practice.
"Yep, 1 alwaya got their break
fast if they were awake before 1 went
to school," he answered Ellen's ques
tion, and walked out soberly with his
heavy tray. Eve and Ellen had heard
'the Featherstones, often enough,
laughing over Judge's domestic be
havior, but till now they hadn't real
ized It was anything but a Joke.
"Well, 1 suppose It doesn't hurt
him," Ellen said uneasily.
"He's so willing," Eve said. "Uncle
Henry has rather taken him over, 1
;thlnk; 1 remember Aunt Una saying
ionce he was born with a talent for
ichild-rearlng."
- -He's Brilliant'
l"pVE, let's go outl" Ellen said sud
1 Hi denly. "1 have to get an early
'afternoon train, and 1 simply will not
waste this grand fresh air. You've
'been In the house moving furni
ture and getting meals ever since you
came, you can't deny It"
"I feel like a million gold dollars,"
aald Eve, "but I'll be with you."
They pulled on coats and dragged
bereta over their ears.
The day was bright and fresh, and
warm for the time of year. The snow
was melting in the orchard, but the
muddy walking didn't matter with
galoshes, and the smell of the fresh
ening earth and the warmth of the
tun. The girls went single Die through
the winding path between the thick
old gnarled trunks. Presently they
came to a ttona wall. Beyond It lay
more trees and there were rough
ateps.
"This la George's, after this, isn't
It?" Ellen liked. "Think he'll mind If
we trespass?"
"Considering that 1 found him tres
passing all over my orchard and cut
ting little samples of It to do po
mology things with, 1 should think
not," Eve said. She felt a little shy of
George. Living even tor a few weeks
next to a man you have Just refused
to marry, and on whose father de
pends your lover's next Job, is a bit
embarrassing. But naturally she
couldn't say that to Ellen.
"He's pretty fine," Ellen satd. "De
' penttable, and kind, and brilliant"
"Brilliant?"
"Didn't you know he stood prac
tically at the top of his profession.
lyoung as ha ls7
"No how would I? How did you?1
i "Asked." said Ellen, with a smile.
"So you think he has all the vir
itues?" Eva teased. BrilllanU To her
, brilliance was Denny's quick, gay
;taik. Denny s handling of any sltua-
-tlon; Penny, like a Noel Coward hero,
only handsomer. She laughed as she
mounted the stones after Ellen.
"Believe me." Eilen said firmly,
alighting between two pear trees and
looking up at ner with a hand on
each, "when you've been on the ttage
elnce 16 you like 'em to have virtues!"
Eve leaped down In turn: her bright
curls Buttered, her clear voice rang.
"Well, as for George"
"As for George?" said George him
self, advancing toward them with the
usual armful of twigs and sheepskin
gloves. His brUht blue eyes were at
steady, bit wind-burned face as im
passive as alwaya
"It waa compliments," Eve said,
laughing in spite of herselL "What on
earth are you doing?"
"Grafting." said George. He dusted
bis gloves and added, "Come on over
and see the house. Mother's dona won
ders with it really.
Eve remembered It aa the bean
breaking wreck of what bad been in
the r'jhteenth century a more beau
tiful house than her own; fine old fur
niture and portraits, all scattered or
broken. The two girla went with bun
down through the Seymour orchard,
and back through what had been a
long, green pleasance, and was now
going to be again. The place even this
early showed that a clever hand had
been landscaping It after Its original
eighteenth-century fashion. The only
change was that George had used the
brook which bad watered orchard and
lawn to make a swimming pool.
among a clump of trees.
"Ob, you must let us use tnis, tuen
said, "when it gets warm enough."
"Surest thing you know," George
said, standing with one ieather-leg-glned
foot on the cement parapet Ha
went on explaining to Ellen, hanging
on his words, about gravity How, and
how much of the old land they'd man
aged to get back from the township
for its back taxes. He seemed less like
a man who had said last night he was
deeply in love than anything she
could Imagine. Eve decided be had
been swept by some crazy Impulse.
He went on ahowlng them the im
provements he had made. The old
fountain, dug out of an outhouse and
put together from its marble wreck;
the oak avenue, having Its gaps tilled
up where the Seymours had let trees
die or cut them for firewood. The
traces of an old maze, even, on the
far side of the pleasance, which he
had nearly recreated.
-Struggle For A Painting
YOU'VE done wonders!" Eve said
Impulsively.
He flushed a little, as It her praise
meant a good deal to him. "1 supposu
1 was born out of due time," he said.
Mother Is always saying so. It seems
to me the most exciting thing on
earth to recreate things that were
meant to be fine and have nearly been
lost or broken. These old trees, for
instance. Thore are almost unique
varieties of shrubs and fruit-bearing
treea here. Somebody in the place s
history must have been an amateur
of orchards and gardens. It was a
crime to let the place be wrecked as.
It has len."
Oh. Uncle Henry De Remer can
tell you about that," Eve said as they
neared the house, stately among its
lawns, sound with Its freshly shored
foundations of reddened bricks. "The
first owner was a friend of John Eve
lyn's, and Evelyn kept sending him
out rare specimens after he came
here. Gardens and varieties or iruus
and flowers were a fad of that day,
weren't they7"
George nodded. "They got a lot ot
stuff from France and Italy. It says so
In the Dlaru. Odd that some of these
things should have lasted here In Con
necticut when they d died out In Eng
land what's that?"
They were at the front door by now.
It was olosed, of course, but one of
the long French windows that Eve
remembered as smashed and boarded
over, glazed now and painted white.
was alar, and a mans rough voice
was shouting from within. George
sprang inside, followed by the girls.
In the middle of the parquet lloor
Mrs. Cleveland, with a strength no
body would have expected from her
limp frame, was struggling with a
tall thin man in ragged clothing.
George larked him aside. "Here.
what does this mean?"
Mrs. Cleveland bent over and
dragged an oil painting up from tne
floor. Apparently they had been
struggling over It She had It Cast as
she dropped Into a chair. She panted:
"This man's a thler, George. Ten mm.
Mrs. Power."
Mltzl, who had been crouched
against the wall, straightened up
now on her high heels and said, "It
was perfectly terrible." She cnughl
her breath. "I nearly fainted away."
George look a firmer grip of the
limp frightened lad and said impa
tiently. "All right, what's this about?"
His mother got her breath, cast a
scornful glance at the terrttted Musi
and said: "We Just got back from a
long drive. I'd been told about this
painting that was supposed to be the
portrait of the man who built this
house. So I got up r-rly and we drove
to the antique shop that had It; away
of! In Torrlngton It was! And I bought
it Naturally, on the way back I
stopped at the post office. And this
tramp must have seen It In the car
and followed us. He came In end be
gan to shout that It was his and he
had to have It."
tCopiright, ftJT, Uargartt Widdtmttf
George's father comes to Eve's foi
a game of chess, tomorrow.
TO TEACH PUBLIC
By MM JA( kson
(A. P. Feature Wrltr.)
BERKELEY, Cnl. Hiving pont 30
jesra training "modern police of
ficer. August Vollmer, once wKbrtxt-
erf a Berkeley's scientific police chler.
soon will turn to training th public.
lit will rrtlnc a ttroiyor of police
administration at t.e end of the
current t?rm nt the University nf
California to dvrf Himself to writ.
Ing Perplexed una slightly ducour
fisct! at th public "contemptuous"'
Attitude toward policemen, he wants
to do what be can to correct the
situation with his pen.
Along with this crusading, he tw
m tipped out a prodigious amount of
svxearch to determine why crime U
rife in the United states.' "Most of
the theories now advanced on ths
subject are unadulterated fallacies, '
he says.
Vollmer originated college tramm j
for policemen in li st the Uni-1
verslty of Chtcsgo. At least four
universities lxuU.es California now
offsr such courses and 30 others give
some minor instruction, and Vollmer
Is the guiding spirit of them all.
This spring, five of hi graduate
will go out to start st the bottom
of the police ladder at patrolmen.
A score more are In trnlnlne, and a
consider able body of student. In
cluding number of co-eds. are tak
ing court as a sideline.
Vollmer believe every policeman
should have four years of college
(raining.
He aert his present students are
gullded solely by a "social conscious
ness." "They're certainly not going
Into police work for the money."' he
says, "and I can't promlj them any
detective-story excitement "
But Vollmer htmse.f, in his ser
vice at Berkeley, and later In hi re
organl7Atlon of police departments
fulfilled the story-book Idea of the
'scientific drt-ihe."
Veering toward a broad philosoph
ical view of crime with hla advancing
years. Vollmer no longer accent auch
tchntcal developments as the He de
tector and mleroetpic examination
of clues.
'No marked decree of improvement
can be expect! from the present po
lfce set-up," he says, "ft ts defective
Internally because Its functions are
f.!charfti fry ft.iwtr.ir.n.'
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When authors Nordhoff and Hall
seized upon the history of the mu
tiny on the British ship "Bounty" a
theme for a aeries of semi-fictional
novels, they nwept a small inland in
the Polynesian group :rom obscurity
into the International limelight The
Island Is Pitcalrn, now famous ns the
place where nine of the "Bounty's"
mutineers settled and aa the home of
their descendants.
With the mutineers went 18 natives
from Tahiti, six of them men, 13 of
them women. They landed on their
Island parndlso in 1700 and speedily
changed it to a hell. The Tahltlans
and the white men were at constant
odds. Liquor, prepared from fruit,
flared the embers of Animosity into
outright violence. White with nn-
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tlve wives were the chief cause of dis
pute. A murder was committed
then another. Several white men
drank themselves to death. Within
ten years there was only one living
white man on the island John
Adams.
Adams had saved a Bible from the
ship and when he found himself the
sole surviving mutineer at the turn
of the century, he waa shocked into
reform. Instituting worship and a
school, he became ruler of the' com
munity. The half-caste children and
remaining natives accepted his re
forms willingly and within a short
tlntc the Island was peaceable, moral
and Industrious.
In 1B08 an American sailing ship
visited the Island and the strange
story of It settlement wa unfolded
for the first time. The H. M. 8.
"Britain" was the next ship to call.
For a time its officers deliberated over
the arrest of Adams- ae a mutineer,
mutiny being a crime punishable by
hanging. Adams' hardships and re
pentance were taken Into account,
however, and he was left unmolested,
He died In 1829.
The island's population carried on
his teachings. In 1839, Pitcalrn was
annexed as a British possession. Sev
enteen years later. Its 194 Inhabi
tant were moved to Norfolk, Island,
Pit cairn being considered too small.
About 40 of them returned to their
old home some time later and re
established the community. Today
the population numbers about 200.
They are Seventh Day Adventists.
Tomorrow: Double Dlscoveryl
New Fish Issue
WASHINGTON, April 12. (AP)
The senate ordered the commissioner
of fisheries today to report to It to
the effect. If nny. of the Bonneville
dam on the propagation of salmon
and other commercial fish In the
Columbia river.
Nut Men raid.
NEWBERQ. Ore., April 12. (p) Ten
thousand dollars was distributed this
week to members of tho Oregon Nut
Growers' Cooperative as final pay
ment on the 1036 walnut and filbert
crops. John E. Trunk, manager, wild
today. It wan one of the earliest
pool closings in several years.
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REDMOND, April 12. (AP) Fish
ermen who try their luck at the sea
son's opening April 15 In lakes of the
Cascades may do well to bring along
a pair of skates. Many lakes are stlP.
frozen and unless the weather re
lents, the prospects for open fishing
on the 15th are slender.
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