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TTG? TEN fEPFOTc'D MATL TRTBWE, MEDFORD. OREGON', SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 1937 STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor further proof address, the latior, mcloilng a stamped enrelop for reply. Beg. XL 8. Pat. OS. FAIR AND EVEN By GLITYAS WILLIAMS 8-03 y . . WIUJDfTS , X S SYNOPSIS: Kay Crondon of (As Lazv Nine impulsively Mree . Ted Catnor, a jobless puncher. Be helps her fight Josh Hastings, ' a "friendly" neighbor to ho wants Kay and her ranch, Ted and Scrap Johnson, a cowhand who molests Kay, shoot it out, wound ing each other, Hastings sneaks up and kill Scrap with Ted's gun, Ted is arrested and tried for mur der, but Kay stops the trial by technical protest Ted escapes and rescues Kay from a cellar where Hastings had locked her. Back at her ranch, she stays hidden, wait ing to turn up at Ted's second trial when he hopes to prove Hastings' villainy. Chapter 47 Kay And Marlon Meet THEY took Tom Runyon away I from the trial to go down and Investigate the fire, said Shorty. "They did!" Kay suddenly re membered Tom Runyon's excited conference with the two men she - had seen come ud to him. when she had been running away from him and Josh Hastings. "Sure," Shorty leaned forward confidentially. "Say it looks like that Kunyon bird s almost as good as he savs he is!" He caused, and fixed Kay with a speculative eye. "You ve sure got me guessing, Kay! Here I thought you were kind of taken with this Gaynor guy. Then when it came out at the trial that you'd given away his hiding place to Tom Runyon, I thought Kunyon was the lucky fellowl Now. hang it all. if you don't seem a heap more stirred up about what's happened to Gaynor than . to Runyon. Women sure are the beatingest! Shorty finished his tirade with. out noticing that Kay's eyes were nxea on mm in a son or trance. "What was that you said, Shorty?" she demanded. "Why, I was saying that I thought you liked " "No." Kay interrunted. "I mean about the trial about me giving away Ted Gaynor s hiding place to Tom Runyon?" "Say, that's no news to you, Is It?" Shorty asked. "How else could Runyon have reported it to Zeke Farley?'' A great roaring in Kay's ears almost drowned out Shorty's voice. Suddenly the answer to Ted's Suzzling behavior flashed before er. How else could he have acted, if he thought she had been the one to betray his hiding place? "But if Tom Runyon testified that," she protested wildly, "sure ly he told them that I was delirious and didn't know what I was say ing! To my knowledge I certainly never told anyone that I had seen Ted in the shack up there!" Shorty let out a low whistle. "So that accounts for it!" He wrinkled his forehead. "Nope. Nothing was said about your being out or your head. I got the whole thing from a fellow who was there." With a moan, Kay buried her race in ner nancts. tor the mo ment, she hated Tom Runyon even more than she did Josh Hastings. She could kill him for having given that raise impression to real "Shorty!" Kay bit her lips in an effort to keep her voice steady, and her eyes failed to meet Shorty's sympathetic ones. "I I kind of think I'd like to be alone. Thanks for the supper." "That's O. K." Shorty shifted un easily from one foot to the other. He made one or two false starts in an effort to say something, then abruptly took his leave. Hunting For Ted THE gray light of dawn was stealing over the mesa when Kay let herself out the cabin door and ran down to the corral. Whistling softly for Flicker, she held his head close for a moment, to suppress his joyous whinny. Then she saddled him and headed for the mesa, giving a wide circle to the bunk house. After a sleepless night, Kay had arrived at one inescapable conclu sion. Whatever the consequences, she couldn't let Ted get away, car rying with him the idea that she had betrayed him. The only clue she had as to where she might find him was his statement that he was going to see if Marion Howell needed him. In spite of her misery, Kay's heart lightened as it never hod before at the thought of Marion Howell. In this new light on Ted's behavior, she saw the whole situa tion liko a clear pattern, and her intuitive certainty that Ted really did love her reasserted itself. During the interminable night the had fitted all the puzzling ?ieces of the pattern together eds' gi ulTness and bitterness, af ter the first moment of abandon when he had kissed her; his re marks, so meaningless before, that he couldn't trust her to know he had gone to Marion; the certainty that Ted's feeling for Marion was that of a grateful friend. "How like him," Kav thought, "to risk his own safety for friend ship as well as for lovel" A tender smile lighted her fare for a moment. She gave Flicker free rein, and as they raced over the mesa, her mind flew from one memory of Ted to another, always coming back to the dread question: would she find him? Or would she be too late, and have to resign herself forever to be branded in his mind as a traitor? Goaded by this thought, Kay urged Flicker to his topmost speed. Bv the time the sun was over the horizon, she was once more ascend ing the tataiiy laminar trail. Up and up she went, then plunged down between the two divides, only to ascend still higher. As she gained the upper reaches, she was aware of a faint acrid smell. Kay's eyes scanned the sky to the south, and as a bend in the trail gave her momentarily an unob structed view, she detected a haze lying low over the far distant wooded ridge. Certain now that she had smelled smoke, Kay soothed Flick er's restiveness, and pushed reso lutely tn. As Shorty had said, the fire was too far awav to worrv about, and with all the forces of the fire fighters aeainst it it was surely under control by now. As Kay rjassed the stone monu ment, marking the old boundary between the states, she felt a Blow of satisfaction at the- memory of her success in using that fact. At last the tass was behind her and, with beating heart she reached the headwaters of the Bitter Root and Clear Water rivers, and made for the shack on the south ridge. Leaving Flicker, Kay pushed her way through the un derbrush, and came out finally on the clearing. Tears And Comfort 'T'HE shack loomed at the end 1 of the open space, as deserted leoking as ever. Kay ran to the front door, calling first Ted. then Marion Howell. As she Dushed ODen the outer door, the inner one was pulled back, and Marion confronted her. What do you want? For a moment. Kay was speech less at the change that had taken Claco in Marion. Her delicate eauty had given way under tht strain, and instead of the attrac tive girl Kay had glimpsed before she faced a totally different per son. Her whole aspect was hag gard, and her forehead lined with desperate anxiety. Kay nut an imDuls ve. Dleadinc hand on her arm. "Please let me come In! I'm Kay Crandon, and 1 must see you! Is Ted Gaynoi here?" .A hard look of dislike flashed over Marion's face. "Why?" she demanded. "So you can give him up again? "I didn't." Kav's agonized denial had a ring of truth that made Marion pause a moment, as she tried to free herself from Kav's detaining hand. Jfou must believe me!" Ka went on, holding Marion's arm all ine more nrnny. "l dta see Ted here. But wild horses wouldn't have dragged it from me. I wai racing home and was thrown. Tom Runyon found me and carried me back. I was delirious then, and for several days afterward. Whatever I may have said, it is not fair to lay it up against me." For a long moment Marion gazed at her. Kav's eves met hers with out faltering, a desperate appeal in their yellow brown depths, thai gradually gnve wav to a mixture of pride and grief. "lou love him, too!" Without knowing what she was saying, Kay Durst torm with this exclamation, a confession of her Inner fear. "You poor dear!" Marion's hard look faded, and she drew Kay in side. "Of course 1 don't! I'm en gaged myself, so vou need have no concern over my feeling foi Ted. Nor of his feeling for you That time you saw us, he was tell ing me how much he loved you!' In her sudden revulsion of feel ing Kay found herself weeping hei heart out on Morion's shoulder, while Morion gently led her to the bunk and sat down beside her. murmuring soothing words, until her paroxysm should have passed "Where is he?" Kav sobbed at last, when her emotion allowed het thoughts to become more coherent and articulate. "I can't let him so away, believing that of me!" Marion nmde a despairing, help less gesture. "God knows where he Is! Ho turned un last nicht when I was on the point of going mad! I don't know what would have hap pened it ne hadn t come. She shuddered, and her vm darkened with the tragic anxiety that her sympathy for Kay had for the moment blotted out "He's gone after my father." Your father! Koy echoed In surprise. "Why, where is your father?" "1 m going to tell vou the whole. story." Marion declared impul sively. "I know I can trust vou. and I iust have to tell someone. I'm nearly crazy!" Tell me!" It was Kav's turn to assume the role of comforter. (Copirnoht, list, limit dt ,rrimlj Tomorrow, Trd wHnrsMts the end oi Marlon's demrntrd fnlhrr. M'COLLOCH READY BY OCTOBER EIRST PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 38. (AP) Claude MrColloch, recently sppoLntct federal district Judge to succeed the Jat Judge Jnhn MfNary. arrived hero today from Wanhliwlnn. where he conferred with President Rone velt. MrColloch snM It would require iibout tjiree or four week for him to (ifxtfie of Ms law pmctlcs at Klnm nth Knlls but that he expected to "for In hariicM" by the first of Oc tober. MrColloch had hoped to confer with FY-deral Judge James Alfter FV but learned ha was at Fort Lewis for his vacation. MrColloch will leave for Klomath rails tonight. Bvrj fiolvla, luoakcr of U oum of the OrcRon legislature, law part ner of MfOolUvh, said hero today he expected to continue the oltice alone. Trailer-Wed Pair Finish Honeymoon ELGIN, III., Aug. 38 (UP Oiid- mond John 11 sen and the bride he wed in an automobile trailer moved Into new home today after a 9.000-mlte honeymtKin. Johansen and the former Erna sennits were mar ried in Chicago last December. The minister stood In the trailer bath tub to officiate and the bride and groom took their vows bet wren the stove and the refrigerator. SUPREME COURT OPENS FALL TERM ON SEPT. 7 8M.KM, Aug. 3S. (At-Th st! uprcme court 1ll npn It (nil (urm Soplxmber hi-nrlng the appml cf the Wrlghpr. WArhottmrn thd rvrnl Work union. n IwrnnMontil liniwfhnrmrn'a iifliliMr. (torn a UuUnoawo circuit court order boM- m M "T&PCfcSl cv IN .. t V.lAi.lA d lilt IK. 1Re Hundred Y&tiM? Between fltoNce (sw tmihWr, sTtirfK'Sif I " ST St lit I ft t :a- '-vi 1 1 1 1 ii ii j ' r j ST1 1e m i Afiue TfflPieHiTf&COWf HoWfc RUNS triples-- n j. Wilson, flii- ConNclonco Fund Striking la the contrast In citizen' ship ethics displayed by the Amer icana recently exposed for their tax dodging methods as compared to the spirit shown by "Conscience Fund" contributors. Following is a letter re ceived a while ago by officials of the U. S. Treasury: 'Sirs: "Kindly credit this amount of $440.00 to my account. This will close up the amount of money that I re celved from the Government In 1910 1931 for compensation which I was very glad to get at the time I was applying for saine. This money was not stolen but a matter of principle, and I am very thankful. This prom ise I made If I gain my health I will return same. "This Is a sacrifice which I fulfilled, and I am the father of five children. This matter learned me a great les son In the line of character and good Amerlcamhlp. Hoping I did not annoy you people In this transaction. I wish to thank you." Up to May 31, 1937, a total of $530. 503.29 had been received by the U. S. Treasury Department for the "Con scious Fund." All money so received is added to the treasury's general fund. A lump sum of (30,000 received a while back is the largest el ng le amount contributed. One of the small est contributions was sent with the following letter: "Dear President' 1 "I am In a dreadful state of mind and I thought I would write and tell you all. About two years ago I ueed two postage stamps that bad been used before on letters, perhaps more than two stamps, but I can only re member doing It twice. I did not realize what I had done until lately. My mind Is completely turned on the subject and I think of It night and day. Now dear President, wll you please forgive me and I promise never to do It again. Enclosed find cost of three stamps. From One of Your Subjects." Monday: What World ..War ..Navy Sank More of Its Own Battleships Than Were flunk by the Enemy?" " Ing that the Portland Central Labor council was within Mte righto In expelling the union. On September 8 the court will hear the appeal of Orey Q. Coffey, former Salem police officer, convicted of accepting a bribe of HO a month to permit a Salem resident to operate a slot machine. Loans To Farmers Total $23,526,198 PORTLAND, Aug. 38. (AP) The District Land bank at Spokane has supplied Oregon farmers with 23, 026,198 In loans during the last four ears. a survey showed today. The money went to the producers through banks, life Insurance com panies, merchants, tax bodies and other creditors in all sections of the state. The funds refinanced old In debtedness. Voluntary scale-downs In connection with cash settlements re duced, obligations by $3,100,000. Closing time for Too Late to Clas slfy Ads is 1:30 p. m. RECEIVE -WEIR DESSEW OF BCRRlK fob aim SISTER DOES SOME RAPID FlfcORlNS ArJNOUrlCES TO MOIrlER YHW' JUNIOR HIVo WO MORE BERR1E5 "IVtAN SHE HhS JUNlOR.WHOHA'bMERNWHIlE BEEN CHECKING UP, SAYS SHE CAM'f COUNT, SHE HAS 0il MORE HMJ HE HAS K k h kf25?Sili This necessitates a recount, which proves junior, howemer, points out Ttw she Has BOTii , BY A MIRACLE, 1b HAVE SAME DUMBER A BI6 ONE IHAf SHOULD READY COUNf AS TWO SKItR PEToRTS BV POINTiHG OUT TWO MEDIUM- MOTHER'S PATIENCE 6MN6 SIGNS OF WEAR1K6 SIZED ONES IrJ HIS SAUCER THAT MAKE UP OUT, THEV CHIL OFF HOSTILITIES AND CONSUME FOR HER 816 ONE 1HEIR BERRIES IN PEACE AND AMlTv' ' (Copyright, 193T, by The BeD Syndicate, Inc.) 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