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PAGE TWO MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGOy. FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1937. EEESH3EEEHKD By MARGARET WIDDEMER STMCWi - nnerifleld manage$ to forgm gay Penny when the learns he is to wed wealthy Mittf. Returning her aunfe baking business, the find contentment in her beloved old house and orchard. "Uncle" Henry and eeriotu Utile Judge, whole parent have left him with Cue. help her run the plare. They adore En. So does Ceorrje Cleve land, her eteady. dependable neiohbor. But he tiret of waiting and the tame weekend that he be comet engaged to Ellen Walton, Eve't actrett friend, Eve knows the lovee George and hat lot! him. Chapter 39 Fire At George1 "IT7HATS Uioh words mean, Eve?" VV Judge etked as Eve hummed . the old French tune that uncle Henri Invariably whittled at work. She turned to answer him. the brown se rious little boy who was so sure now people were kind. "It's French: "The joy of love It butt only an hour. The pain of love forever and a day!" "I'm goin' to learn French," Judge Informed ber. "I'm goln' 'to be a highly educated supreme court Judge like my grandtatner i was named tor, George says 1 can If 1 want to hard enough. George says . . . She wished he wouldn't talk about George. George, so near, engaged to Ellen, loving her: going to be happy with her. Good kind little Ellen, rplendld stable George. ... At least tha could be decent She could love . George enough to be glad It was Ellen, not somebody who wouldn't mske bim happy. Glad that Ellen would be sure of kindness, ease, comfort. children . . . No, She couldn't be glad of that. The knife that went through her at that was too sharp. Uncle Henry came In, whistling It till under his breath: Plaiiir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment . . Chaorln d'amour dure toute la vie Well, perhaps it didn't Perhaps It wouldn't Aunt Lina'd had her love affair that didn't end happily: but she d gone on. she d liked living, been content with her life. These are for Mrs. Hlckson to take to the Congregational church supper tomorrow night," the told Uncle Henry cheerfully. "Grand for me she wat too lazy to bake. Nine dozen, and nice little batch left over for us." "You're a good girl, Eve," Uncle Henry said Irrelevantly, washing his hands at the sink. . . . But all the evening, doing accounts at the old secretary, chasing Judge up to bed, planning with Uncle Henry, the vague, silly terror of what Lance Seymour might do to George persisted. She lay awake watching the moonlight out her window. Her bed was so placed that she could glimpse one upper pane of glase just above the next rise, down the road, and knew It was the window of George's bedroom. Suppose Lance Should climb through. Or shoot or attack. You read dreadful things In the papers. . . . She rose and stood close to her own window, watching the moonlight on the pane far off. She thought vaguely how Mltzl or Marylln, those phan toms from a past time, would laugh over a girl who watched a man's win dow, in moonlight because she loved him. And did not care. Eva Beea Flamea AS she watched she saw some thing that was not moonlight She thought It was Imagination, and then knew It waa real. The faint plnkness as of reflected flame. A leftover bonfire, maybe. George wat careful, ha would wake and see it or Adriano or John, for the matter of that . . . Suddenly she realised that the window the watched was not George's window, now, at all. On his mother's last brief descent she had made him move to the other side of the house to be nearer her. He had not troubled to move back. That side of the house was empty. No use telephoning. Mattie did conscientiously what her mistress had always done, pressed a disconnection button when the family went to bed. It might be a bonfire halfway be tween, or Lance Seymour setting the house on Are. It wat silly. But she couldn't take a chance. And she saw the color deepen. She thrust her dress and thoet on; hurried down and called the village Ore department amateur, and tlow at amateur fire companies alwayt are Then the ran across the lawn, and through the orchards In the moon light The quarter-mile seemed eternal. She remembered all torts of terrible things. Lance had been suspected of setting the Clark's barn afire because old Clark struck him. There was a Are in Weston linked up with a Weston boy who had teased Lance. . . . She came out on the Cleveland lawn, and saw she was right She could smell gasoline. She could see the thin ragged figure working earn eitly, piling kindling! againtt the most vulnerable part of the old house, where the old shingles were. Already there was a big charred place, and the flamea licked high. She forgot to be afraid of Lane; she ran at him. "Lance, stop HI Kow dare you!" she called at If he were one of the small boys she used to chase and scold for cruelties and dep redations. He straightened with scream, and ran. There was no time to do anything more than try to beat out the Are, flrst and waken th household next She snatched up a piece of canvas flung over some bulbs; It beat out th actual flames. Then the raced to th front porch, dashing open the French windows with a porch chair when they proved to be locked, running up stairs, calling as she went She ham mered at the door she knew was George's. She heard his bare feet strike the floor. He flung open the door scarcely awake. "Eve," h said sleepily, smiling at her, bis hair tousled like a small boy's. Then, more alertly, "What'a wrong?" She told him quickly. He was practical and steady at always in emergencies. "Go on up and waken John and Mattie." he said. "I'll call Adriano." Saving Th Old Fertralt THEY were all out and down In a awlft excited nightmare. Adriano shoveled earth on the foundation where the Are had taken most bold while George played the garden hose on the higher placet, and the others beat desperately to keep the flames from spreading beyond. Presently It seemed forever they stepped back from the conquered blase, "Go home now, Eve " George was beginning, when the cried out and pointed. The flamet were bursting from around the corner of the house. And the Are company had not com. Without stopping to see If she had obeyed him, George and the other two men ran to beat that down also. It had gained what looked like fatal headway. Eve thought suddenly of the valu ables within. It wat still taf to enter the house. The silver. Mrs. Cleve land's exquisite lli.eni. the Stuart portrait of old Lancelot Seymour, George's records. "I m going alter the valuable! In Case the house does burn down," Eve said to Mattie. Mattie trotted reso lutely after her; she had lost her head, but not her sente of duty. Together they unhooked the old portrait with its alert scholarly eyes under the turban, so Ilka Lance's in shape and lis. They put It outside the front door and carried out th drawers of silver and linen and dragged out the prlceleit Sheraton sofa. I guess that's all we can manage." Mattie tald. But Eve remembered something more precloua still.. George't records, his trays of seeds and seedlings. The smoke was pour ing through his workroom window now. She shut her eyes against the smoke and tipped the lacquer cabinet on its back dragging It acrott the floor, Anally to the front door. She, eased it down the front steps, panting,' and laid It triumphantly on the grata. The Aremen were clanging In. thank heaven, at the wrought-lron gate be low her. She could go horn ... Then looking up. the saw that the actual portrait lay on its back Just inside the hall door. Mattie, In her excitement had carried off the empty frame, from which th picture bad jarred In dropping it Eve stood upright in th freth air minute. The smoke was twirling out of the back room. It wat danger ous to stay on the porch longer. She started down the steps with the pic ture In her arms, only to be cannoned Into by Lance Seymour, shaking and blazlng-eyed. "What you got?" he snarled, grip ping her arm. "The painting of your ancestor. You don't want It burnt up" She was Irlghtened. He wat more nearly In sane than she had ever seen him. He shook her arm with a strength she had not known him to possess. If I can t have It nobody shan't he shouted at her and began dragging her, the picture in her arms, back to the door. As she struggled with him corner of the picture struck her head. Her last recollection was of a yell from Lance, of being dragged into the smoke within and of screaming "Georgel" . . . (Copyright. fSJT, Jfaroaref Wtddemerl In the excitement ef the Are, Bve admits her ova for George. Monday. L J L SALEM. April 80. (AP) The name of Paul T. Jackson, superintendent of the Salem Indian school, was eddod today to the Hit of prospective candidates tor the office ot state superintendent of public Instruction, to be vacated by Charles A. Howard Jackson, a Democrat, was formerly etat director of the national youth administration. Other potential aspirants include Rex Putnam, superintendent at Al bany; J. W. Leonhardt, La Orande elementary school principal and Dem ocratic nominee tor the state super Intrndency In 1934, and R. R.Turner, former atate superintendent and now aupertntendent at Dallas. Republicans mentioned for the post Include Roben J. Maaske, former deputy superintendent, and A. 0. Hampton, superintendent at Astoria. Ailing Arm Keeps Paul Dean Home ST. LOUIS, April 30. (TV-OtMclals of the St. Louis cardlnala announced today Paul Dean, pitcher with an ail ing right arm, would remain on the active list but would not mnke a road trip wltb the club starting Saturday. Thar have been persistent reports, never officially confirmed, the club ha asked waiver on Dean, LOCATE SUICIDE STOCKTON. Cel., April 80. (UP) A weird glow ot light from a sub merged car today led a warehouse watchman to the discovery of tne death of Prank B. Sparks, SO. who plunged hla car over an embank ment Into a ship turning basin port. Police aald Sparks waa despondent and took his own life. They recovered the body from the submerged car. Sparks' clothes were found on th embankment. Police revealed that Sparks ap peared at the police atatlon on hour before la plunge Into the port and requested that hla watch be mailed to a friend In Sacramento. The desk sergeant refused the re quest and the man fled with the of ficer In pursuit. The sergeant lost sight of Sparks. Th deepened man was a watchmaker here. Guy Kibbee Fishing On McKenzie River O RANTS PASS. April SO (fn-duy Kibbee. Hollywood movie actor, ohecked out of a local hotel this morning to go to the McKenzie river to fish. He will return her for l mon fishing in a few davs. He was accompanied br airs. Elbbe. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address th author, Inclosing stamped envelop (or reply. Be. V. B. Ftst Off. Lav 0!Mt6 W&W Composed I N CnUKtn. TCflrV COUNTRY -Tlii uul lntM mmzim of wrsem-u SHUTOUT A$1W DELAY r- By CLUYA3 WILLIAMS uu( UCm Tat TUtfO frPFDJPGl NMV AMD -xz.t,. Till hii irr w wi i ! - i'fff -' . . -- MSRCMAHTMMNB INTHS WORLD 1&W- Vff faR 0VR 200 Yg MS, Ib38 TriC CPMSTRtlcIioM ItptnoM Shipping Meteoric hai ben the rise of Jap anese shipping and trod within the put few decades. Today the Land of the Rising Sun stands among tr.c foremost nation In world trade. Her navy and merchant marine both rate third In tonnage, next to that of Great Britain and the United States. Yet, strange as It seems, only 84 yeart ago Japan did not have a single ocean-going ship to her name and her port were closed against importing and exporting alike I until the early nth century, Japan engaged tn a fair amount of shipping and trade but a growing association with the western world frightened her. By royal decree In 1633. her porta were elosed to all foreign shtpa other than those flying the Dutch or Chinese flag. The same law forbade the construction of any vessel of mora than ISO tons or capable of ocean navigation. It was not re pealed until 1852. Immediately after the repeat of the antl-ehlpplng trade law, the Yedo government constructed a sailing ship on the order of European 'ves sels of the time. In same year Holland made a gift of a man o war to Japan. Twenty yeara later lo and Japan op erating her first steamer line to for eign countries, her Imports and ex ports growing by leaps and bounds, and her navy fast becoming one of the most powerful In the world. In today's armament race Japan fever Ishly bulMa ships to hold her place as the world's third greatest mari time and naval nation. "Land of the Bky-BIne Water" Regarded aa one of the greatest. If not the greatest, musical composi tion with an American Indian theme, "From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water" took Just 15 minutes to com pose and Its composer had never seen an Indian reservation. Basing the piece on genuine Indian tunes collected by Alice C. Fletcher, noted ethnologist, Charles Wakefield Cadman sat down n. the Sunday school room of an east end Pitts burgh church of which he waa organ ist and In one-quarter of an hour had completed the music which was to make him famous. P BERLIN, Friday, April 30. 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