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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORP, OREGON, THURSDAY. APRIL 22, 1937, EYESZQKCmKD By MARGARET WIDDEMER SYNOPSIS: Eve Mannersfield starts housekeeping in her 200-year-old home (with orchard) in Connecticut after five years in New York. Finally gay city-loving Denny gets a good job and they can be married. Meantime, George Cleveland. Eve's steady, dependable neighbor, falls in love with her. Living with Eve are Uncle Henry, an old family friend, and serious little Judge Featherstone whose carefree parent have left for Hollywood without paying their board bill to Eve. Denny deserts Eve in anger when she won't turn out Judge. Chapter 32 George Stands By r TNCLE HENRY, coming In from v hii "barn-chamber" washup af ter the milking, asked no questions. He had managed somehow to reassure Judge. If he noticed anything differ ent about Eve, walking to and fro be-twe-n kitchen and dining room like Bn automaton, he did not speak of It H- onlv said. "Now. daughter, you're tired after a long day; you set down and let me .ook after that mess. 1 -an't Pm wound up, she said, trying to smile. She went on piling Up dishes on the sinkbord. scraping plates, putting away rooa. rier iace and hands fett stiff and frozen. In spite of the warmth. The work was some thing to put between herself and all she had o hlnjc of. Uncle Henry put a strong gnarled hand on net shoulder. 'Daughter, you stand itllL Go on upstairs now and get a bath and take off that thick dress and put on some thing cooler. Take your time to It This place will keep." His voice was authoritative. She found herself doing as he said. The cool water on her .ense body, th mere routine of . change and freshening, of po vderlng and brush ing her hair and putting on a freshly Ironed pongee frock, of slipping Into socks and canvas sandals, did give her a certain relaxation and sense of elf-control. She wondered ho- Uncle Henry came to be so wise. When she came downstairs again he and Judge had set the card table on the portico facing the green, flower set lawn and Its vista of orchard and aky beyonr There was a cool breeze out here fresh anc smelling of roses It was after seven, still light She could hear the lap-lap of her brook Judce. too. had been sent to change, and was fresh In his crash shorts and leather sandals She lelt the coolness and beauty of the evening dimly through the numb ness, and talked she could hear her self talking pleasant!) enough, praising the lettuce and radishes that Uncle Henry said were "from Oliver's garden" and drinking milk thirstily, though she did not seem to be hun gry j "Oliver's afraid his folks having to go visiting in uch a hurry is going to put work on you," said Uncle Hen ry, "but I tell him with two such handy men as he and ar, and two less . do for. there'll be less work instead of more." He told Judge to clear away. "Should he?" Eve remembered what the doctor said. 'Tonight, yes. It'll make him feel better to be useful," whispered Uncle Henry "Seems as If he' got all the jlf-respect in the family." He sent the 11 ..tie Loy to bed as soon as he had come back from paying his devoted nightly visit to his pig. He settled back In his accustomed chair, lighting his pipe. Uncle Henry lias . Plan "TTfELU now daughter? Oliver says 'V the. dldn leave the money you'd been counting on. 1 think we'd better do some planning." His undiscouraged voice and the fact that she lid not have to go all over It with him were a comfort but his next wordr hurt ber sharply 'That is, unless young Carter is set tling heis with you right away. I sort of thought you'd be Axing that up today" ' So had she oh, so had she and Denny both. She managed to shake her head. "No We cant manage It now." She couldn't talk about it to hi i "So." That was all he said, going on to the next thing. "Well, I don't guess and you don't likely that they'll be able to pay up very soon." "They said they would send the money from Hollywood as soon M Petpr got his lob." "M'hm. Sort of a crazy place, Holly wood, I've heard tell; not the sort that encourages good Intentions. Don't count on It. daughter." "1 don't" Things fett quieter. Uncle Henry's slow itend voice, dealing with the situatlnn as If it could be coped with one way or another, brough every thing into a quieter focus. . After alt. Oenny often had these flfshes of heat-liRhlnlng nger. at oice sullen and furious; it was lust dumb bad luck thnt he'd had one on top of this Feathers me business. . . The storm seemed i.ireal. here in U a quiet "Well. now. daughter." Uncle Henry went on. "1 been thinking things over while t was milking and 1 have in idea." She plnnced up In surprise. "About money? "M'hm. Evelina, would you feel u was beneath you to have me set up a roadside vegetable stand? From now on well be raising more green stuff than we can eat We can put it by the road on the lot beyond the front lawn. This road's a by-pass, there's lot of traffic already. And U you wan tea to take orders for rolls and bread like your Aunt Llna did, that would help too. 1 don't think you can count on renting this late." Eve thought fast li Den hadn't had this fit of temper Just when she needed to discuss plans with him! . . . Well, the main thing now was, they did have to have money. And these plans were as good as any. . . . She could pick somebody up. surely, to carry on here with the house and all the rest of it, U Den insisted on her set tling in the city this summer; though when they'd talked ' it over he wouldn't surely. His passion for good times would be sated by i few more o. Mill's gilded weekends. He couldn't go on insisting she give Judge up. - "Very she said resolutely. "And will yo.. ask George U his mother still wants to buy my lacquer cabinet? That shoull cover the taxes." "You're a fine plucky girl. Eve," said Uncle Henry; and then: "You better as.: him yourselt You could have had your pick of those twr young men. And 1 hoped you'd pick right" She didn't answer; she only patted the hard old hand he had laid on her knee. George's Gesture of Help XTEXT day was a whirl; telephon ic lng half the morning to Aunt Una's old list of customers, dashing down with Adriano to put up a notice In the post office when he went foi George's mall, ordering supplies, lis tening to Judge's excited solemn plans for saving money, arranging with George about the cabinet He vould write his mother imme diately, he said. As to the Feather stones, he said .o thing at all except "' have such a bad temper that J have practically no use of It; if 1 started to talk about your friends, I'd say too much." He flushed as he spoke, and his lips took the set that Eve knew by now meant ss he said, high temper con trolled. He added: "Eve, if there's anything else on earth 1 can do. you will let me. won't you? Don't forget . got you Into this, in a way sendlnr you off with the kid. And I'm glad I know you. Eve. You're pretty fine a well as as all tr-e other things we aren't going to talk about" He was leaning In at her open kitchen window, where she was stand ing at the long table making out lists at supplies His blue eyes looked straight Into hers. In spite of the hair that had been red when h was little It gleamea now where the sun beat down on his uncovered head and on the strong sunburned neck above the unbuttoned collar of its iportshirt there was steadiness an dependabil ity In everything about George Cleve land. It wr a comfort to know he was her friend. "1 won't forget" she salu, smiling at nlm. He reached through th window, nearly broke her hand with the pres sure of his quick tight grcsp -was gone Eve sensed, not for the fir Ft time, the intensity that was almost frightening undei the kind cool man ner. But there was enough to do with out thinking about Georgel She fell to her lists again. She .?ould show Denny when he came back that she could earn money, that she could carry on gaily. So far as summer people went the Mannersfield house had stood for an unbroken dynasty of baked stuff for 20 years now Evb had only to stop refusing to tak orders, ihe had some already, lust from going down to the post office and telling Emily. So when Jn ol man and the little joy and Eve sat on the portico that evening uating their bread and mitk and scrambled eggs In the sunset, she was honestly heerful George's first gesture if help. It appeared had been to buy the shiniest of the new bi cycles that the local hardware store afforded, snd present it to Judge. And Judge, understanding that by making deliveries he would be pay ing his ay with Eve, beamed with content. "You've dow h fine thing for that child." Oncle Henry told her after Judge had run of. to try his bicycle again, excited and proud. 1 guess he's had to take charity pretty nigh always. And it's ground him, young as he Is. I havent handled stock all my life not to know humans too. ' He's j throwback to old Judge Allaire, is fine a man as ever lived. Out he's sensitive; he'd been a ruined boy If this summer hadn't happened. And, child, don't you get downhearted because his people were lightweight and fooled you There are those that are responsible and grateful, I'm one. You'v done a fine thing tot me too, giving me a chance to earn my way till 1 coutd do something etse and I don't forget It" "Oh, UncJe Henry, whatever would l have done without you? We're all living on ;our greenstuff now, like locusts!" He smiled and patted her hand. rhey began to discuss biscuits and vegetables, but they understood each ther. CopylpM isjt. J or par it TVM.ImrJ Eve learn tomorrow thai Denny U to marry MllsL Eugene Grocer In Fight On New Law Geo. C. Stanley, Eugene grocer, was In Medford Wednesday in the interest of the referendum he la fcwterin against the anti-price discrimination bill, parsed by the last legislature. Burnley declared he is worMng practically single -handed to secure sufficient signatures to bring the measure to a vote by the people The Eugene man said many phaes of the law are not Known to eluher merchant or public and he believes that U they were, there would be general disapproval of the enactment DAUGHTER OF CANTOR WILL MARRY IN MAY HOLLYWOOD. Calif, April 33. (AP Eddie Cantor, popeyed fatner of five daughters, is due to acquire a son-in-law nest month. Natalie, second of the comedian brood has announced ner engage ment to J'"ph Metfcgrr, young an tlque dealer here Their wedding set for some time la May. Myrtle Creek Has Free-For-All Fight ROSEByRO. Ore April 33. up. Four Myrtl Creek residents were under arrest today following a free for-all fUtlc battle In which nearly a score of persons participated, Dep. uty Sheriff Q. M. Dyer reported. An argument which started In a Myrtle creek beer tavern last ntght, movea into the street, the deputy ld, as the owner of the establishment re fused more beverage to Roy and Rex Shepherd and Willard and Wayne Woolaey. Aj the officer attempted to separate combatants, he too was set upon, he aald. and bystanders com ing to his aid Joined In the battle. Patient Milrlites. SALEM. April 33. (A) The body of a. Damumlon, 60, who escaped from the Oregon state hwpltal here April 10. waa found In a simigh a few mitre wes of Salem in Poik count v today Damlomton was re cetve- it the n 'Spital Mr? in. IMS (mm Portland. Officers ssld Damla- mlon committed suicide. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address th uthor, tncioalo a (tunped enrelop for reply. Ref. V. 8. Pt Oft KM fiWaterf. Iika auttidh HE W5 WALKED IfTlMes IN frit ' Tin fw score? eftcrtfiMe., M4ij IZ,r?35' 1& Kerne m&xi pans HweeteNiBepFoi? THE FASTS TOWS All HE EMPIRE, i Joan MteefieiD- foer uuigEMstf&taMi) 0Nceetomet?riiuviN6 Wi ft WKlcHPtK IN A New VOffKSAVOON it v A' ifX im CfRRYIH6 OFF THSR Wf? WivV 1 1 WH0H1HSWA(?PAh IMfllhlrt WH0 IN ttfVeRrWVWN.R HbNNftrt PlSfiN(MCWeROF C) CRUWEN, HtR NURSE i ftfTOMBrtBWKIHe 10 Of i A Mother on the War Path Vengeance I Hannah Dustln's tor tured mind screamed for It. Her weary body received new life at the thought of it. Vengeance for the horrible sight she had witnessed two weeks before that of her week -old baby lying on the ground, his bead barbed In by one of the brutal In dians who had raided her home forced her husband to flee with her other seven children and taken her- wlf and her nurse. Mary Neff, prison- el's. Now she lay on a wigwam floor, quartered there with her nurse, 13 Indians and an English boy who had been held captive for more than a yoer. The three whites were watting for a restless warrior to Join the oth er Indiana in aleep. Nowl She reached over to where she had a tomahawk hidden, arose, brought It down on the head of the Indian lying nearest her. He died without awaken ing. From Indian to Indian she went striking a lethal blow to each In the manner which ahe had learned from observing her victims' method of handling the tomahawk. A brave awakened. It was too late. Hannah with her comrades got to him before he could defend himself. A little Indian boy was spared and a squaw managed to escape. The other ten savages were dead. Then came the moat ghastly moment of the whole affair. Painstakingly, Hannah Dustln went to each corpse, scalped them with a knife and make off down the river In a canoe with her two comrades and ten dripping trophies. The trio, after going through tre nicndoua hardships, arrived at Haver hill a few days later. They were awarded 9350.00 apiece for their hero ism by the general court of Massa chusetts. Bartending Poet. Shipping before the mast as a youth, John Mae field made several voyages, then "Jumped ship" in an American port In the early 00's. For a white he made his living In the United States as a farm laborer, winding up In New York as a saloon bartender. Shortly after his return to Eng land, he won recognition m a poet and was awarded the Edmond de Poltgnac prizes in 1913. In 1930. Maaefleld was made poet-laureate of England. Tomorrow: The Tomb of a Man's Clothes. Princess Elizabeth Celebrates Birthday WINDSOR, England, April 33. (AP) Princess Elizabeth, heir pre sumptive to the British throne, cele brated her 11th birthday Wednesday with play at a make-blteve "corona tion" which may some day be turned into reality for ber. 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