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MEDPOUT) MATT.. TKTBTTNE, MEDFORT), OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1937
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
Company
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS -By JOHN HIX
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The Characters
Nina, a nlc girl uith )Iarn
hair, lets a young man (hi hot
juit met at a party, drl hr
, home.
David, the young man, hat cop
.. per-colored hair, a beagle, an
uppitv neui car and a rereihlns
nerve. He crashed the party.
Cordelia, Nina' l cloeeet friend,
gavt the party.
Chapter Two
Honey's New Husband'
IT DOESN'T take very long to
drive from 47th street to 74th
'at 4:15 In the morning, when you
drive like David. As he. crossed
over to Park, he said wistfully:
"Sure you won't have some
scrambled eggs, or something?
You see, I want to put oft the evil
moment."
.. "So it's evil . . . your surprise?"
"Rather." .
"Um-m. Well, I really ought to
go in, in a second, because Honey
that's my mother got in from
Chicago tonight, on a late train. I
couldn't meet her on account of
Cordelia's party, and she's just
crazy enough to stay awake for
me,''
But she sat on in the car, after
he had drawn up at her door.
The beagle puppy put two enor
mous paws over onto the back of
their seat, nosed off David's bat
tered felt hat, and then rasped
across Nina's cheek with his long
tongue. ;
"Weill I must say, he has more
nerve than you, David." She
scrubbed at herself with a hand
kerchief. "Tell me about him. And
why do you call him Beagle? He's
awfully large for a beagle, isn't
he? And even if he were, you don't
call a horse, Horse."
' "Don't you? I do. In fact, I call
a spade a spade. . . . But I only
found him this afternoon, no col
lar, or anything, and frightfully
hungry. Suggest a name, then."
Nina regarded the hound
thoughtfully. i
"Well, he has little brown spots
on him, like buttons. Why not
.'Button'? . . . "Button, the beagle.'
That's cunning."
"It's stupendous. Button he Is."
David's Confession
VrlNA looked at David's nice
clean-cut profile. The street
lamp shone on his uncovered hair,
and she saw that it really was cop
pernot red at all and straighter
than you would have expected
Funny David. , . . She let her
self in.
The Stafford house, on 74th
street between Madison and Park,
was an old-fashioned one, with a
high stoop that made you feel sort
of naked and shivery as you stood
up there, waiting for the maid to
let you in.
Inside, it was as it had always
been: a front living-room, and a
back dining-room, with fireplaces
in each, and a library on the sec
ond floor. Even the sliding doors
were there, on little steel tracks;
but there were no rubber plants,
or statuary, or heavy velvet hang
ings on fat brass rods. They were
lovely rooms. Queen Anne-ish.
Polished floors and antique walnut
nieces of rare beauty. In the high-
ceilinged parlor, two chintz-covered
love seats came out at right
angles from the fireplace, giving
a comfortable feeling to the quiet,
dignified old room.
Nina liked it better than the li
brary, where Honey kept adding
things: a china cat on a taffeta
cushion, numerous eccentric
blown-glass figures, cacti, "just
one more teeny little coffee table"
. , . till it looked like a Madison
avenue store window. It was
Honey s room, and Nina loved it
for that reason, but it made her
sort of breathless.
As she came in, tonight, every
light In the house was burning.
Well, that was like Honey, too. She
looked on the hall table for a note
saying: "Come in and see me, or
I'll never speak to you again, as
long as I live." ... or something
like that. But there was none. In
stead there was a feeling in the air
or nusnea expectancy . . . line a
surprise party, with people wait
ing behind port!6res to pop out at
you.
Nina stood still and sniffed.
Something Of A Shock
PRESENTLY, Honey's voice sang
out Irom aDove.
"Is that you, Nina? ... Oh, hur
ry, darling. Come up quickly. I've
the most marvelous thing to show
you. I brought it back from Chi
cago." "Something more for tha li
brary?" "No, sweet ... a new husbandl"
"My God, Honeyl"
Nina took the steps, two at I
time.
Her mother and a good looking
man of middle height were wait
ing in the hall. Little, plump,
golden Honey . . . with her blue
eyes glowing, like bits of brighl
sky.
Nina stretched lut her hands
David gasped: "Nina!" and she ran up the steps.
that color to be . . , Just a sugges
tion of a wave. His eyes were
brown like her own, and clear and
honest-looking.
She sighed.
"I really must go In. Spill It,
David."
"O. K. Well, as I have no Inten
tion of going out of your life, I may
as well be frank. I'm a fake and a
phony ... not to say a heel. I
crashed that party tonight"
Nina raised her eyebrows.
"No!" she breathed. "Why, I
hadn't the faintest etuplcion'1
"I was transacting a little busi
ness with a man at tha R1U saw
the festivities and popped In.
And that brings me to the next
thing: this isn't my car, at all,
Nina. It's a demonstrator. I'm an
automobile salesman."
Nina didn't bat an eye.
"Are you a successful one?"
"Not very."
"Are you trying to sell me this
little number?" She remembered
his pa?an of praise.
"No But it's an Idea."
She said: "Come round for a
cocktail, tomorrow."
And he gasped: "Nina!" and
grinned; and she ran up the step.
and forced herself to laugh.
She said: "So I trust you alone
for three little weeks, and look
what you do!"
She knew her mother would
want her to take it that way. They
never broke down over each
other, as it were. Sometimes Nina
broke down alone, and worried
herself sick over darling, gullible,
impulsive Honey, whom her fa
ther, dying, had left In her care
. . . but never openly.
"Yes. Look at it, lamb,'' Honey
echoed. "It's Richard."
And Nina snid: "Hello," because
she really didn't feel up on cor
rect greetings for unexpected
stepfathers. But her smile took
away any suspicion of brusque
ness. , "This must be something of a
shock to you. er Nina. At this
hour and all , . . but Honey
couldn't wait, naturally."
"Oh, the hour's all right," she
laughed. "Just the shank of the
evening for me . . . but thank
heaven I'm quite sober. Or am I?"
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Nina trlea to alia up her new step
father, tomorrow.
NEXT YEAR ROSY
NEW YORK, Oct. 35. (AP, Motor
car manufacturers today looked lor
ward to another "(tood" year In 1P38
aa they prepared to present their new
modrU at tho 38th national automo
bile ahow here Wednesday.
Aa the first of the tarpaullivoov
ored beauties were wheeled Into the
exposition hall, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.,
chairman of tha board of General
Motors corporation, and K, T. Keller,
president of Chrysler corporation. Is
sued statements predicting the motT
Industry would continue Its contri
butions to national prosperity.
Previous showings of the new cars
Indicated that while there were nu
merous mechanical Improvements, all
msfcinft for added safety, eiwe and
economy of operation, the iratest
stress hs bn upon "eye npgienl "
Um MtU Itibuoa want ad.
PLANE DISASTER
INQUIRY CALLED
SALT LAKE CITY. Oct. 3ft. (API
The federal Rovermnenl's Investiga
tion of America's worst nlrplane dts
aster In which 19 persons leva their
Uvea last Sunday, will orx-n hero
Tuesday, Miller C. PWtter, department
of commerce official, announced today.
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The Man Who Pays and Pays
Strange aa It seems, Melvln J.
Dunn, owner of a, farm on the United
Statea-Canadlan border, pays taxes to
no less than elghv different govern
ments. Treasuries benefiting from
Dunn's tax payments are those of
the Canadian and American national
governments: Tha province of Que
bec; the state of Vermont; Orleans
county, Vermont; Brome county,
Quebec; and the towns of North
Troy, Vermont, and Mansonvllle, Que
bec.
Oddly enough, though two-thirds
of the 160 acres comprising his farm
are situated on the Canadian side
New (TO ( limp
PORTLAND. Oct. S3. ( AP) The
federal bureau of biological survey
receivrd word from Washington to
day announcing the establlsnment
of a CCC camp at Plush, 1a Ke
county, tor develophient o, the Hart
mountain Rn9 refuge.
Truffle Deal lis Mount i
PORTLAND. Ore, Oct, 28. (API-
The dth of J D. Ssnfnrd. ft-),
struck down bv s motorcycle yea- ,
terrtay, sent Portlrtnd's traffic fatal.- j
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of the border. Dunn pays approxi
mately two-thirds of the taxes on
the American side. In America he
pays $245 In yearly taxes while in
Canada he pays only $120.
Writes Mr. Dunn: "Our barn Is
located right on the boundary line.
On the American side of the barn
we keep 30 cowa and sell milk from
these at Newport, Vt. On the Cana
dian side we keep 10 Durham cows,
cream from these being sold at Man
sonvllle, Quebec.
Triple Child Marriage
On August 20. 1580. Anne, the 14-yeor-old
daughter of the king of
Denmark, was married to Klnt? James
I of England at Cronenburg. Den
mark. The royal bridegroom was
not present at the ceremony, how
ever, the marriage being carried out
by proxy. Several months later the
marriage was again performed. This
time the bride's parents were not
able to attend. A third marriage
was held In December of the same
year, this time with all the princi
Jals present. Thus the Anne known
to history as Anne of Denmark went
through thrtee marriage ceremonials
in the same year and was wedded to
the same man each time I
Tomorrow: Which Is America's
Must Popular Athletic Contest?
Convict Extradited
SALEM, Ore., Oct. 35. ( AP) Gov
ernor Charles H. Martin todav au
thorized the extradition of Art Llnd-
sey, who Is wanted at Sacramento,
Calif., on a charge of second degree
burglary. He Is now serving a term
In the Oregon state penitentiary here.
Accused Return
EUREKA. Cal., Oct. 25. (API-
Sheriff Arthur A. Ross said today
James Percival, 23. and his brother.
Alfred, 20, of Tacoma had waived ex
tradition to South Bend, Wash., and
will be returned there for trial on
charges of car theft.
Ask Uniforms Signs
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 25. ( AP)
A uniform system of traffic signs ad
vanced here will make "safe think
ing Identical for motorists in any
section of the state.
Use Mall Tribune want ads.
Historical Society Elects
PORTLAND, Oct. 25. ( AP) Lewis
A. McArthur, distinguished Oregon
historian and author and member
of a pioneer family, became presi
dent of the Oregon Historical society
today.
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