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0 PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TK1BUNE. MEDFOKL). OREGON, MONDAY. "AUGUST 16, 193V STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor farther proof address the wither. Inclosing a stamped efiTelope for reply. Bee U.&Prt.Ot DIFFICULT DECISIONS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS is? Mamas a sssnwa SYNOPSIS: Tirt destroys Kay Crandon'i ranch houjf and barn. Keighbor Josh Hastings tries to buy her ranch und court Kay, but she hates him and It eager to rebuild. Ted Gatnor, a puncher ihe impubitiely hired, fightt Scrap Johnson, a cowhand who mo letted Kay. Shooting it out, they wound each other. Haitlngt finii them unconscious and kills Scrap with ""ed's gun. Ted craw! to a cabin where a oirl (Marion) nurses him. Kay sees them to gether, misunderstands and de liriously gives away the hideoul offer a all. Ted ii arretted and taken away, then Marion's men tally upset father returns. Chapter 38 The Dread Truth "IXflSLL, why don't you s. Mm ' thing?" her father fc.ared al her. "I suppose that's v,,iat you're waiting fori Get your father killed off, so you can have the ranch and marry Hal Taylor. That crazy prospector will never have enough money of his own to marry youl see your scheme!" His voice was growing louder and louder, and n gesticulated with nervous jerks toward the cabin. "Get rid of the old manl Get the sheriff after himl Get " "Dad, Dad!" Marion pleaded, finding her voice at last. "Please come in and lie down, and let me get you some coffee! You don't Know what you're saying." "Oh, I don't, don't I?" A cunning look squinted up his eyes. "I can see through that, all right! Get the old man to lie down! Get him asleep, and then hand him over to the sheriff!" "Please, Dad, forget what I said about the sheriff!" Marion soothed. "That had nothing to do with us! We don't have to be afraid of the sheriff." "Oh, don't we, though!" There was no mistaking the insane glare In his eyes as he pushed her Dack and faced her. "Don't have to be afraid of the sheriff, eh?" He scorn fully mimicked her voice. "Well, that shows all you know about it! I bet the sheriff would pay you money for me!" He bent nearer, his eyes screwed into cunning slits. "Never thought of that, did you? Thirty pieces of silver! That's what. You try him! He'll give you 80 pieces of silver for me!" With growing and helpless hor ror, Marion waited for his frenzy to subside. Anything she said only seemed to make it worse. There was nothing to do but watch for the moment when exhaustion claimed him. That was the way it had been before, but this attack was worse than any of the others. Chris Howell straightened up suddenly, and gave a triumphant sweep of his hand. "Let 'em come!" he declared fiandly. "Let all the sheriffs come! t was worth it! They didn't hear it crackle! They didn't see the flames shoot up the trunks, and wrap around the branches! They didn't see the sparks going upl They were like an army, those sparks!" He grabbed Marion's arm as she shrank away with a stifled cry of terror at this confirmation of her worst fears. "An army of fiends!" he went on In a hoarse whisper. "Whole companies jumped from lone tree top to anotherl Whole regiments! It was a crown fire, I tell you!" He swayed unsteadily, and Ma Hon caught him in her arms. He became suddenly relaxed and un resisting, as she guided him to the door and cot him over to the bunk that Ted had so lately occupied. Marion stretched him out, and covered him. He kept murmuring all the time, "A crown Are, I tell you! A crown Are! Sparks! Mil lions of 'em!" Her First Duty LEAVING him quiet at last Ma rion groped her way through blinding tears to her own little room, threw herself on the bunk and gave way to great wrenching sobs that shook her whole body. There was no longer any possi bility of closing her mind to her dread suspicions. Her father was the firebug the whole county was on the lookout for! "If only Hal were here! Or Ted!" Marion moaned. But Hal, off in the mountains, was an inaccessible as Ted was In jail. Ted! What would happen to him? The discovery she had made about Kay flashed into her tor tured mind. In fairness to Ted she ought to see Kay and explain that she was engaged to Hal and that what Kay had thought was all a mistake. But how could she leave her father? A deep snore from the other room pulled her back to the dread reality of the present. Not for one Instant must she leave him! She must nurse him back to sanity and never, never must anyone know the terrible irum. until lie was comnletelv re covered, she must never leave him alone to carry out his wild frenzy of destruction. Marion sat up and pressed her hand to her head, her eves closed. as she fought for her own control. bhe musn t think of the future. SCIENCE ASSISTS OF 8T. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 16. AP Science to showing nature how to ripen fruit In half the iuul time by putting back Into fruit the gas It Rives off In natural ripening. Dr. R. B Harvey, plant physiologist at University of Minnesota farm here, who directed development of the ethylene gas process, sat 4 today that even the new ripening speed may be cut in half. Apples and peara sealed In an I ethytene-fllted room ripen In half the tlm nf those on trees and have a awrerei flavor. Dr. Harvey Mid in ic , scribing the prooMS. Celery to She must just hold on and fight for her father's sanity, anyway until Hal was back and could help. Ted would have to take his chances, both with the law and with Kay. She had done all she could for him in getting him well. Her duty now was all to her father. Unsteadily she rose to her feet and looked through the doorway at the relaxed figure on the bed. Was It possible that little more than an hour ago she had looked it Ted there in the very spot .here her father now lay? She crossed over and put her land on her father's head. It was damp with perspiration. For a long moment Marion stood looking down at him. If this attack fol lowed the lines of his former ones. he would be weak and helpless as a child for quite a while. Witn a quivering sign, sne tucked the blanket more closely around him, and turned away to heat some water on the oil stove, preparatory to his waking. Aunt Kate's News A WEEK had passed since that early September morning of dramatic happenings. Kay Crandon came out on the porch of the Flying Six ranch house, and sat in the hammock near her Aunt Kate, who rocked comfortably in a big chair. ' I m plenty well enough to go, Aunt Kate," she declared. "And what's more, I'm going!" She sprang abruptly to her feet, and ran over toward the door. Suddenly she stopped and grabbed on to a chair, as a fit of giddiness swept over her. "There, what did I tell you?" Aunt Kate gazed triumphantly at the swaying figure of her niece. "If you know when you're well off, you'll stay right where you are." "I'm stronger than you think 1 am, Aunt Kate," Kay persisted. "If I go slow, I'm all right. And I can't stand this inaction another minute. I've got to know what's going on at the ranch, and . . . and everything." She bit her lips to control her voice. "I don't know what you mean by 'everything' but I can guess." Aunt Kate looked severely over her glasses at Kay. "The first thing for you to do, is to put that Gaynor man out of your mind." "I don't know what you mean!" Kay drew herself up proudly. "Ted Gaynor is nothing to me, and never has been! But naturally, I'm interested in what's happened to him, as a matter of curiosity, if nothing more. You haven't told me one thing since I've been sick!" "Of course I haven't." Aunt Kate answered tartly. "After a blow on the head such as you had, the less you think about, the better." . "But don't you see that I could rest much better if I wasn't kept in the dark this way?" Kay re sorted to a pleading tone. "It's precious little I know, any way, with Josh Hastings away." "Well, tell me what you do know, or I'll go and find out for myself," Kay threatened. Aunt Kate gave a resigned sigh. "All I know is that they've caught the Gaynor man, and Josh Has tings left three days ago to go over to the trial In Clear Water Basin. It starts today, but he wanted to be there to look up one or two things beforehand. " "How did they catch him? And where?" Kay tried her best to make her voice sound natural as she asked this question. Had he been in the hilt when they found him? And had the girl been there, too? I don t know any of the da- ' tails," Aunt Kate answered cross ly. "Nobody saw fit to come back and tell me anything That Tom rlunyon that brought you in went off without a word. And even be fore Josh Hastings left for Clear Water Basin he was mum as an oyster, when I did see him. He just said they'd got him in some shack, somewheres, where he'd gone off with a girl" at this point, Aunt Kate shot Kny a sharp look, but Kay met the information with out wincing 'and according to Josh Hastings, he'll be tried and lound guilty in short order. "I I think perhaps I am more tired than I thought." Kay turned abruptly to the door, unable any longer to hide the conflicting emo tions that rushed over nor at this last statement. "I think I'll go te my room and lie down." Thats a sensible girl. Aunt Kate approved. "And don't talk any more silly nonsense about going home until you're all well." Shutting and locking her door behind her, Kay threw herself on the bed. and gave way to the misery that overcame her. No mat ter how often she had assured her self, in these days of enforced inaction, that Ted meant nothing to her since her discovery in the mountains, this news left her weak and trembling. With a sob, she buried her fare in her hands. If only she could do something to save him! Even if he didn't rare for hfr, It wasn't his fault that she had been n romantic fool, she thought bitterly, t Copvrtffht, I9sl, ittvie tie b'ervauti K.y llnkf Joh ItMtlniti to the scene of the trnitrtty, tomorrow. blanched without reducing the lugtr content. Bananas turn an even golden brown or yellow with each bunch wtghlng one to two pounds more than natur-al-rlprncd fruit because less moisture Is lost. Tomatoot become uniformly red In six days as ngntnst the 13 to 14 days required for natural ripening. lElliSJELON LOVES JAIL LIFE BOSTON, Aug. Ifl. (APt The man who wouldn't quit state prison when eligible for parole last No vember left today with the parting rem ark : "HopcM. Harden, I'm sorry to be going." Joseph Traboeki. 46, who bad johh a y-r--i - . " Buttle of the Three Kings When Mahomet IX, of Morocco, died In 1557, he was succeeded by his nephew, Abd-AIlah IV. On com- lng to the throne Abd-Allah had ten of his twelve brothers put to death to secure himself against pos sible rivalry. Abd-Allah's flair for fratricide did not go far enough, however. When he died and was succeeded by his son, Mahomot XI, one of the late king's brothers who had escaped exe cution, deposed the new monarch and was crowned Abd-el-Molek I. Mahomet XI enlisted the aid of Sebastian, king of Portugal, In en served three years and four months on a burglary charge, declared, "I'd rather be here than outside. I'm making good money selling wood carvings, my health la getting bet ter and I haven't any worries." But Worcester welfaro officials had another view. Ever since Traboskl became eligible for parole they sought his release claiming he should support his five motherless children. Use Mall Tribune want ads. TAILSPIN TOMMY Aerial BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER v 'MM M Z.- WW em II rtix4 mYZ2!Z ZwfcB.ES TWt PLACE? f f COUM'S ORDERS AU m6HT7 . fM6 ? AV, AlVi'T MOKieT . , ''mORWUJ'. SOW -AFRAID l'AT-TAU.fc tt ANWAV? SHERIFF -AM' HERt'S LJL 1 a. ( MR. CRUMCHtM, BUT OOU'T ) I . I TyAt ? CLOfeE 1W Ofcl'EM, kiLj. DOIW' A 6T O' DlRTf WORC SHERIFF, IT TOPAy"8UT VAt4, VOWVol THE NEBBS Sond For the Doctor ( GET NOURSELP IKJ SHAPE! P1M HUevEMT -U iSfra MIuADsT1 FEEL GOOD- WR(MD,COMES ggg H "-T OHM CONTINENT- rV&lr , owed btfred Mohlei, I't i irrv -' HSU PiNP KUCUVKKCU fl5H Wr?? CHUOrAI 5 MlL&S kWfcY Mm, attAmpt to regain his throne. On August 4, 1578. the rival forces met In the battle of Al Knsr el Kablr. Strange as It seems, all three of the kings were kilted. Land of the Lakes Highest lake in the world was dis covered several years ego by an aerial expedition which flew across Mt. Ev erest. They discovered a lake five miles up the side of Everest, one mile from the summit. The deepest lake In the world Is Balbal, Siberia. It ras a depth of 4900 feet. The Dead Sea and the Caspian Sea are not seas but lakes respectively the lowest and the largest In the Rangoon Youth a Samson RANGOON. (UP) Rangoon claims to have the strongest youth in the British empire. He Is Ken neth Pinto, 18, a weight lifter. It Is said that he Broke a world record by lifting a weight of 160 pounds with his teeth, and he weighs only 135 pounds. (inisshoppcrs l'p COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo. (UP) A few ambitious members of the grasshopper horde that invaded Colo Suicide Moving In TOmTTH W YEP '."she WEn'tI ACertR FoVER'IT.To'Sf fta VSRePORTlOG EVIDEnT' Si 1 ' VI M M l f 93b - 6MB PAY world. They are lakes because, un like seas, they have not direct nat ural Inlets or outlets to the ocean. Land of Lakes 'Fishing in Leach lake, Alfred Moh ler, the mayor of Walker, Minn., stuck his knife Into a live tullbee to balance It as a decoy. A 10-pound muskee happened by and he-swallowed the decoy, knife and all. Eight days later Edward Skelton, fishing five miles away, caught the fish and returned the knife he found In It to Its owner. Tomorrow: When Is Poison a 'Pop ular Drink? rado this summer found their way to the Alpine laboratory, a depart ment of the Carnegie Institution, 12, 000 feet up In the Rocky mountains neor here. . .Montana Hunting Good HELENA, Mont. (UP) A total Of 567 predatory animals, including 565 coyotes, one bobcat end one stock-killing bear, were killed in Montana during one month, R. E. Bateman, agent of the biological survey, reports. -V'- - - - Vol in ArcS S 'MATTER POI S-'PainTE.-d) tZ -W WHAT 20 J ! MOUSTACHE ( EJ JLlJ V , . 6giLLuM MOT JC,lU-5Ea ,0, V ' ' rSt by Tin Bll gynaict, !n) Wlfri YOUR FAMILY'S "TEMPERS DEMAhlDlWa SOME SOR-f OF IMMEDIATE ACfiON IN THE 6AS SHORTAGE IMAY HAS DEVELOPED OH A LONELY COUNTRY R0fD, V0U RE606NJ2E iM The only car -thai' comes aloN6 Yue driver WKH WHOM YOU EXCHANSEP UNPLEA5ANfRJE$ OVER R16HT5 Of WAY AT THE" INTERSECTION TEN N))LES BACK (Copyright, 1937, by "tut Bril Syndicate Tag.) Bv C M PAYNE By sax roa&ESi: By EDWIN ALGEB By 80L HESI
