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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO M"EDFORD MATT TRTBUKE. MEDFORI), OREGON. FRIDAY. APRIL 23. 1937, Bv GLUYAS WILLIAMS' FAIR WEATHER By MARGARET WIDDEMER SYNOPSIS: tve Mannersfield and gay, city.louirtff Denny Carter art on the verge ol mar Tinge when they quarrel and he walks out. Eve is Ie1 tn her 200 year old Connecticut house with kind old "Uncle" Henry and seri out little Judge Featherstone whose parent! have deserted him and gone to Hollywood. Her steady, dependable neighbor. George Cleveland, who toves Eve intensely, offers his help, lor Eve is stranded financially. She de cides to resume her aunt'f bak ing business white Uncle Henry sells vegetables and Judge de livers biscuits. Chapter 33 Milzi't Letter THE next fortnight passed In I drive of exciting work and plan sing. Uncle Henry's vegetable stand, decently hidden from the house by the cedar windbreak to the north, was yet near enough to let Uncle Henry, or Judge. If he was at home, dash at the sound of Its large dinner bell sometimes Eve herself would run down across the lawn and breathlessly measure early peas or lettuce into bag j for the motorists drawn up be tide tne roaa. As for the baking, she worked most of the evenings, and through the morning till about two In the after. noon. At Brst It tired her; but It was a healthy weariness. Having helped ner aunt till sne went to college, course, she knew the old routine well enough. She had been brought up In the middle of It. She was young and very strong, she was. In the country phrase, not atrald of hard work.' The sheets of little crisp yellow cookies, the big pans of warm-smelling brown pocketbook rolls, the Jars of baked beans, she remembered them all from her childhood and young girlhood. It brought Aunt Llna back, that capable quick-stepping ghost, moving pleasantly about the big sunny kitchen. The summer people came lust about this time; It was not too late. Things always straightened out if you loved people and they loved you. and waited. The thing to do was to be sensible and go on ordering supplies, and get tun out of being here in the old house with Its garden, and its people she loved and work she liked and could do well. And one of these days Denny would telephone tomorrow, perhaps In a week if his sulks were worse than -usual and things would lift from contentment to happiness, Suddenly, one morning as she worked at her molding board, cutting out cookies, she realized that a part of her had so dreaded leaving this house and Its life that In a way the postponement or her marriage was a relief. Denny had been so firm about Its ending any chance of her living Here. MarriBge at the end of the sum mer would be better. By then surely ahe wouldn't want to stay here any longer. That was what made her wait for Denny to make the first move, not any maidenly modesty. From day to day she expected hltn to, and so let things slide, always with the feeling that It gave her a little longer time nere. Meanwhile, Judge flourished: he was outdoors moit-of the day riding on nis Dicycie or. deeply thrilled, at tending the vegetable stand. He put on weignL uncle Henry whistled about his work; George was In and out; everybody warned supremely contented at the way things were. incy nan tneir eve all to themselves. Eve Writes To Denny IT WAS Judge who said at the end of a fortnight, "Where's Dennyt Why don't you call up and ask him outr Simple as that why didn't shet He'd be ovor his temper by now. She decided she would write him. But there descended on her an excep tionally busy week during which there were two public suppers plus noraes or summer people demanding rolls and cakes and bread. The rush stopped as suddenly as It had begun, lout not the hot wave which had ac companied It, and Eve was too tired to do anything but manage regular lordcrs and go swimming In George's pool, which he had filled the first hot I day. i It was Just three hard-working, tcrowtiea weeks after Denny had I flounced off that she did write him, sitting at ner uovernor Wlnthrop desk lln the corner of her bedroom late on a scented June night She meant to give Adrlano the letter to take to the post lolllce next noon, but he went off early; 'she had to keep it another day. Uncle 'Henry came back from a trip of his own afler dinner and handed her and Judne each a fat letter, post marked Hollywood and addressed In Mnrylln's wild pretty hand. Judge took his off somewhere to read alone. Eve lying In the porch hammock in her thin white dress, opened her letter lazily Her own long letter to Denny had been almost like having him close to her. The sense of his presence still drenched her happily. She was mentally commenc ing one of those delicious foolish conversations with her lover. . . . "And Marylln actually wrote back from Hollywood, darling, alter only being there a weekl I didn't expect anything at all and a letter to Judge, besides!" She held the letter up and shook it to see if there was a check Inside, nearly certain that there wouldn't be. but hopeful enough to Investigate Something fell out, but it was oot a check. It was a smaller size of note paper, in handwriting instead ol Marylln'a typing. It looked familiar yes Mltzl's mannered small hand Marylln, Eve thought Idly, reall shouldn't pass other people's letters around as she did; nevertheless, she began to read 1L "Marylln darling," It began conven tionally; then: "This la to tell you thai I've given In at last as you alwayi said I would, you old flattererl If I was loved with enough passion." Eve stopped to laugh heartlessly; and then sobered, as she realized that evidently Dlllard Betz's taunt that men didn't really care for her had stuni Mltzi Power into getting engaged to some body . . . "Who on earth" she said half- aloud, looking around tor Uncle Henry or George to tell It to. Bui George, she remembered now, had gone, with a reluctant look backward at his seedlings, to some New York convention. Uncle Henry was potter ing In the garden. She went on with the letter. "You know," Mitzl wrote with blacker and blacker excitement, "how long he's wanted me and longed fot me under everything ... in spite of everything. Denny and I are going to be married" 'All Set, Old Dearr EVE looked curiously at the word, with a queer icy feeling all over her. Unmistakable. Up-and-down, black half-printing, with its long straight thick talis and crossbars Denny. Denny and Mitzl were going to be married. Eve did not feel any thing at all. Every nerve center was deadened from shock. She sat very still In the middle ot a world of queer cold Isolation, queer silence. Nothing had anything to do with her but those seven black words, unchanging In the little dull-blue piece of expensive paper she was staring at She shivered thera In the warm evening, and noticed dully how wet her palms were and how stiff the muscles of her throat. She was quite motionless In the hammock for she never knew how long; until the light began to fade. Her brain began to work again, very quickly, terrified. She mustn't be here when anybody came back, before she had read the letter all through. . . She caught It up and ran to her own room. As she ran she began to hope crazlly that It wasn't true, It was Jusl another of Mitzi'a delusions about being adored. . . . She finished It sitting on her own bed. It was not one of Mrizi's usual boastings or Insinuations, self-Battering, self-comforting. It was plain, as sertive exultation, sentimental, un mistakable. They were engaged. They were announcing It to a tew clost friends. They were to be married In a month. They would live on at South ampton till October, after a trip tc Canada for the honeymoon. They would then settle down In New York In a penthouse they were already looking at As definite as Mltzl's let ters to her lawyers. And a scrawled line at the bottom, Denny's own handwriting: "All set old dearl Good luck In Hollywood!" Eve sat on the bed a long, long time. As long as she lived afterward she remembered how many knots of flow ers there were on the wallpaDer Mrs. Jennings had left She counted them 4 over and over, aimlessly. Seventeen one way, five another. Red roses and orange nasturtiums and blue violets, and yellow tulips and pink forget- me-nots In one row. The same flowers In the row below, with the colon changed so that the roses were pink and the nasturtiums yellow and the violets red and the tulips orange and the forget-me-nota blue. It must be she supposed, an "analyzed" old fashioned garden. Red roses and orange nasturtiums. ... He must have gone straight to Mitzl. He must have cared more for hav ing money and good times than for the kind of person he loved ... He must Her mind went painfully down every byway, fingered every reason why it had happened. . . . uelweentimes she counted red vie- lets and orange nasturtiums and won dered why they had wanted to make a violet red. "If they had been ever other one yellow." she heard herselt say, "It would have been much bet ter " She thought, "It would be better II they had been In only two colors." She thought, "They will live together in nntzis pentnouse and Mitzl will augh and put her finecr In that clefl in his chin the way I used to. . . ." She shivered a little She sat on. starlne at the wallpaper till the dark came. Judge hammered at her door. "A lady's ti'leubonlna She wants sir dozen rolls and two layer cakes for over Sunday." fell her she can have them to morrow morning," Eve said In a clear voice. CotJirlpat. IJ7, Uargaret WMi,mtr) Eve collapses Ir the srehard. Mon day, distracted at Denny's action. AIR TOUR ASSURED SCHOO PORTLAND. April 33. p Finan cial support baa been guaranteed to aasure the ten-ctty air tour and show planned for July, members of tho executive board of the Oregon Avia tion Development said after a meet ing here. Allan D. Greenwood, atate aero nautlca Inspector, will leave today for Los Angelea to line up fliers to take part In the exhibition, whtch will open a ten-day tour at Medfoid. July 1. The Itinerary Include Kismet), rails. Bend, Baker, Ontario. Pendle ton. Salem, Marshfleld, Astoria and Portland. Membera of the board are Mas Pelrc of Medford, president; Guy N Hlckok, Astoria, tn-arurer, and Web ater A. Jonea, Portland, secretary. In Iowa, from ia to was. (tax fare higher acre returns than wnate. barley or OS '-s. )L AT TOLO WILL BE CLOSED B-cau tit th small number of pupils, Tolo school hi bn notified by th county tvchool board that no more itnte and county fund win o available for malntonanc of the ttcliool after thta year. Whcnr-ver ttcndnv at chool for the previous year averages le than a pupils dally, funds are with dn.wn because of exceasive oost to the county per pupil for a teacher'a salary. County Superintendent c R. Bowman explained. However, the funds are made available if the dis trict totee to send pupil to another school, the money being used to corer transportation coats. Tolo district has adopted the Ut ter course, Bowman aald. and will be paid the regular amount of state and county money to pronde for transportation expenditure. A special meeting of voters has been called for 7:30 p m. April 30 at the school house. I If an increase lu population war-1 STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor farther proof address the author, lncloslnf a stamped envelope tor reply. Eet. TJ. B. Fit OS. ism; " f fCW WiTe h TM'SHEO 66CrlAS Of Pi LPiCK Op COIN, WIWM4 C. tfMtffoN KfuPEPTHe NSVSR RSPRMMPED FOR 1h MT . ' ' ' ' 'fj ?afi fi? - iSf B I fail JfSoll SffiU M UIUks ; JJIM1 ; m, ffl Mitt 6rSliJM PiTcHEP sth HsOs9. tUTte VenoW TbMfr of ftKlMfi, Chins, Kef 05c Mc wpk vr me IrVSrtl L-fcrAh Of -fern 70IA3 FOR rVS CL0IHIN6 WriEM Hl4 600 wfts sNTToTieeT fbR &uraftv. -178o - HllftUNa fbRTrle 5, WM, &RPWN4, MitffirVsrcwnwep INNING, rRUN WrSS SCORED OM eciCrtffTcrt Robbery of the U. S. Treasury How William C. Ralaton gained ad mittance to the U. S. Sub-Treasury In San Pranolsco and acttiAtly carted off eii.OOO.OOO In coin without a "hand be ing lifted to stop him remain a mystery. If he had confederates work ing In the treasury building, their part In the amazing exploit never came to light. Prealdent and owner of the con trolling Interest In San Francisco's Bank of California, Ralaton waa faced with threatened run on the Insti tution aa the result of U. s. legisla tion which forbade the exchange of gold coin In 1869. Hla depositors, panicky over tho fact that the bank aldn't have enough cash to pay them off, planned to withdraw all they could get. Such a move would ruin the bank. The whole proposition looked ri diculous to Ralaton. In the vaults of hla bank lay millions of dollars worth of jold bullion, yet ruin atar ed him In the face simply because he couldn't convert the gold Into cash. He reaolved on a bold move. Telling four of hla employees to meet him outside the U. S. Treasury Building at one o'clock In the morning, he laid hla plana. The four men met at the appointed place and hour Rale ton took leave of them and gained entrance to the building In a man ner never explained. A few minutes later he appeared on the street weighted down with bage of U. S. coins. A conversation followed The three employes disappeared Into the MHfffct Sf Mttau. Im building. Dragging out more bags to the street where Ralaton stood guard, they ro-entered the Treasury to bring out other. A few hours of this and five tons of coin were stacked tn the street, then carried to the Bank of California. Later $34,000,000 worth of gold was carried over to the Treas ury from the bank and left inside the building. When the bank opened' Its doors the next morning, thousands of anx ious depositor fought their way to the tellers' windows. Amazed to find that hard cash was paid out to them In answer to their demands, the) sheepishly red? posited It The run wsp averted. The bank was saved. Rals ton never even received a reprimand from the authorities for his startling raid on the Treasory. rant it, the dlatrlct may petition for re -opening of the school, Bowman pointed out. - WASHINGTON, April 23. () The veterans administration award ed a 39,09S contract todny for con struction of a new occupational the rapy building at Its Rose burg, Ore., hospital to George Isackson Co., Port land, Ore. PRESBYTERIANS PLAN FOR ALBANY COLLEGE PORTLAND, April 23. )F) A spe cial committee of the Presbyterian synod of Oregon recommended to day that Albany college at Portland be established on a permanent ba sis with a full four-year course. While the committee suggested that the main unit of the college.- now established at Albany, be continued, It Indicated that In the years to come the Portland unit should become the major branch, with the Albany school eventually reduced to a two-year course. McrfriERfrtANKfUl FOR FAIR WEfrfHER AfcAlrl, SFMP5 JUNIOR OIK 1b WAV. 100X5 T'ORlv'ARD 16 PEACE flrJP QlJIEi' INDOORS JUNIOR REURNS IN A N!0"frlER BANDA6E5 FEu;MlNirfES,REP0WlN6 KNEE, AND JUNIOR- HE FEU DOWN AND HURT 60ES Off A6AIN HIS KNEE come61?rke:niWi& ask cm he have some" frilNG 0 EAf ? 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