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MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGOy. FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1937.
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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.
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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
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"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
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BERLIN, Friday, April 30. (DP)
More than 1000 Catholic priests
are now in German prisons await
ing trial on Immorality charges, the
newspaper Essen National Zeltung,
Air Minister Hermann W. Ooerlng's
mouthpiece, revealed today.
The cases will be dealt with In
hundreds of trlala, the newspaper
said.
"It may prove necessary to broad
cast verbatim reports of some of
those trlala dealing with especially
characteristic cases of violation of
all the laws of moral nations, It
stated.
"This would make It clear to the
German nation that many cloisters
have become hotbeds of homosex
uality and that Catholic educational
Institutions, which the pope's ency
clical defended, In. reality have be
come breeding places of the most
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