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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
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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.
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