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MEDFORD MAIL TK1BUNE. MEDFOKL). OREGON, MONDAY. "AUGUST 16, 193V
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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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
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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.
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Strange as It seems, all three of the
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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
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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
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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.
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