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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
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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
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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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