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Newspaper Page TextPAO" TWO MEDFOTCD MATT. TKTBUNE, MEDFORO, QEEGpy, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1937. in. W7 fi) MAKCARET CUION HERZOG wo s l ,omya,nu The Characters Nina, a nict girl with flaxtn hair, has fallen in love with her stepfather. Richard, tr charming, well tailored tlepjather, pays conild erable attention to Nina. Honey, Nina's pay, plump, youthjul mother, Is crazy about her new husband. David, a uouna auto faletman, hat begun to adore Nina. Cordelia it Nina't closest I r lend. Chapter 12 Hunting-Eve At Harmony TpHAT night In the Capitol, they were munching popcorn out of a nutley paper bag much to the disgust of some haughty neigh bors. "If I can wangle a car," he whis pered, "would you drive down into the wilds of Long Island with me Sunday? Long Beach li fun In the winter, windy and deserted. We might find some ioowelry In the sand." "Oh. dear." she whispered back "I wish 1 could, but I'm already dated to spend the weekend there ... not at Long Beach, but Long Island I'm sorry, i m hunting, av urday. with the Jonestown Hunt' He managed to look properly crestfallen, even with his cheeks bulging with popcorn. "I'm deliv ering a car down that way, on bat' urdav. Mavbe I'll run across vou In all your glory . fact I'll cruise about looking for you. Will you wave to a poor landlubber, Nina At her door, he said: "One of these days I'm going to kiss you, Nina. Pretty soon . . . one of these days." She hoped that when he did, It would do something tremendous to her . , . but she was dreadfully afraid It wouldn't "Is that a promise, David?" "I'm glad you didn't call It a threat. Yes, my dear, you can count on me." "Goodnight, then, and thank you for the loge seats." He was looking at her with a look that was both hungry, de vouring . . . and awed and adoring. "What? . . , Er, oh, yes. Good night. Nina." Nice David. Richard and Honey, with their arms entwined, were Just going up , the stairs. "Tlint red-headed chap again, eh, Nina? Now what kind of a wain Is that, who doesn't even make a move to kiss his girl good- DlBhl?" Hnney looked up at him, wor- mummy. "There waa certainly nothing backward about your tactics, dar ling, thank heavenl" "Come here, Nina. Til finish that young man's iob for him . . ." and ,- Honey stood back, laughing, as . Richard kissed her daughter, ilow ', ly on the lips. Carl And Hester INA was to spend the weekend ' with the Semples. They had been friends of the family since long before Mr. Stafford's death. She went down Friday afternoon fo as to be able tn hunt with Carl on Saturday. Carl lived and breathed horses. He thought like a horse taking up one thing at a time: and he attributed a good many lucky escapes in his life to his horse-sense. He was a big. bluff, hearty man of 40. or thereabout. All the rou tine things were said about his be ing a centaur . . . part of his horse, and all that. The fact was. he liked , horses. It was pretty clear after you'd known him five minutes. Hester Semple . . . beautiful, dark Hester . . , well, she was very different. When Nina got off the train, a mart voung groom in a whip-cord Uverv raised two fingers to his cap. "The cart from Harmony, miss," he said, and led her to a high dog cart with huge yellow wheels. Carl had cars, three of them, but It was nart of the tradition at Har mony that they were only used at rlpht or In the rain. They set off down the main rosd t a smart clip, and presentlv swerved off Into a dirt lane. After a mile or so, thev made a right turn and drove between high en trance gates Into an avenue of oaks and dogwood and natural under srrowth. Thev were hare, and a lit tle gloomy looking now. but from fiast years. Nina knew their glory n the springtime. Then, suddenly, thev were In full view of the great, familiar , Georgian house: the two-storv en trance porch, with Its slender, fluted columns, and carved Corin thian capitals: the lovelv entrance door, with lis fine Dalladian win dows above: lis two long, low wings with a glimpse of boxwood off to the left above the brick wall that enclosed the garden . . . the magnificent copper beeches and the two old holly trees on either I side of the entrance ... Nina drank it all in. A slender figure in rose appeared I in the doorway. "Welcome back to Harmony, Nina." said Hester Semple, quietly, I as her guest alighted. "It's been a good many weeks since we've had the pleasure of a visit from vou." Nina said, "It's simply grand to be here. Hester," but she thought: "What a formal, prepared, little speech!" And then she thought: "What a oeautyl" Hester's hair was as black as a raven's wing. She wore it parted in the middle and drawn back over the tops of her ears to a heavy coil at the nape of her neck. Her eyes were gray, and quite tragic look ing when you caught her off her guard. The rest of the time, the most you could say for them was that they were expressionless. They entered the square hall, which fulfilled the exterior prom ise of spaciousness. Twin stairways curved upward toward the two wings. On a long, walnut table, a pot of early poinsettias bloomed brightly against the white panelled walls. Nina could remember back to before Carl's marriage, when she had visited here with daddy, as a little girl. The long walnut table had been a tangle of crops, hats, gloves and muddied overcoats in those pre-Hester days. And there had been dogs about all shapes and sizes: and pipes, and a pleasant smell of saddle soap and leather. All that was different now. Carl let Hester do anything she liked with the house, so long as he had his horses. Nina and daddy had al ways thought .that if Hester had had her way, the horses would have been dispensed with, along with the mess on the hall table. Her aversion to horses and all things pertaining to them amount ed to a mania, almost Nina won dered how she could stand the at mosphere . , . how she could have chosen to live In it in the first place. Sweet Music For The Maryland 11THEN Nina came into the greal ' living-room, after she had bathed and changed into a sim ple black dinner dress. Hester rose punctiliously, and greeted her with a smile ... a beautiful smile, re vealing even, white teeth but about as warming as a winter twilight. Not so, Carl's hearty welcome. "Well, bv heaven, vounastpr. You're a sight for sore eyesl Sorry I wasn't here this afternoon hut Close Harmony strained a liga ment and I was down seeing to her." A b!sr. snare, handsome man Ca;i, with a great shock of coarse. tawny hair, that was turning nr. maturely gray, and a healthy, rud dy complexion. When he talked, he fairly boomed. People invariably stopped and listened, when he be gan. "I've a fine mare for you tomor row, youngster . . . Gray Dawn, out of Dawn Cloud. She'll carry vou better than anything you found down at Warrenton this autumn. Remember how your fa ther and old Dawn Cloud used to get along?" "Of course I do." Nina was a good horsewoman. In more affluent days the Staffords had kept saddle horses at the riding club In town: and Nina had hunted with her fa ther in Yorkshire, England and In the south, Warrenton and the Harford country and. of course, here, with Carl Semple. "I hear vou re considering Sweet Music for the Maryland . . . that domi neering anlmall'' Carl laughed. "Oh. he has his bad days, but who hasn't?" "Well, you know how to handle him. If anyone does." Nina admit ted, "but Lordl Twentv-two fences with that chance-y lumperl" She shook her head. She had had occa sion to watch Sweet Music when he was decidedly off pitch. 'There's only one iump on the whole course that might bother him the second. Remember it, Nina? A stiff post and rail nnrlpr trees. . . . Trees bother him." Hester turned awav. It was Im. possible to say that she had paled, for there was never the slightest vestige of color in her checks, but a sort of numb look spread over her leaturcs. as It always did. at the hint of any accident Nina changed the subject . She didn't want to mention Richard, or even think of him, but she hadn't seen the Semples alone since her mother's marriage, and she knew It would seem unnatural if she didn't speak of it So . . "Now then, you two, what do you think of my little Honey stepping out and getting herself married?" Carl boomed out his opinions for both of them, as usual. He thought a lot apparently,ut chieflv that It was a grand thing: and Richard, having shown a keen appreciation of horse flesh, was aces with him. Copyright. 1W. Jnrjaret Bereogt Klna'i horse slips and tors down. Monday, ON FAMILY DESERTION BAMM. Ore., Not, 8. (AP)-Any man who abandons his family and goea to another stnte may bfUrouitlit back to Oreeon and Imprisoned for one year, Attorney CVnoral I H Van Winkle ruled today tor L. L. liny, Lane count; district attorney. Bny unlet a man left hla f.imlly In California and movet to another ute, and that the mot!.er and chil dren came to Lane county. vn Winkle ruled that the lather may he Indicted but could not r pru-t-cutttt Unless he returned to Oregon volun tarily, since the abandonment oc curred In California, Woman Avlnlor llmiorrd MT. DESKRT ISLAND, Me. (OKI Mlas Oale Pond, social worker aviator and Journalist, claims the distinction of bring the only Amer ican woman ever to hold a Brltiah ptiot llocata. E FEAST FOR STATE SALEM. Or., Not. ft. (AP Tha 36no pntlnt at thi Orrgnn tat hPtpitAl will eat aooo ptMincU of chicken and t ton of potato for Thftnk.-jrIvtnK dinner. Other Itrmi on the menu Include H40 bunches of celery, ton of cab hap, 78 bushels of apple, 80K) bin cults, 700 pumpkin pie nl 75 cof fee Cftke. It will be wnMied down with 900 Kalians of cider and 300 Rallont of coffee. The patient rained all of the din ner, even the bturult. etcept the col fee. New Coal-Loading .Mark TOLRDO (UP) - The ChcMpcaxt and Ohio coal dock here nave entabliahrd a new world record lot l-adliifc cos l Into wtsfli rheir nil; dumping machine tunica vtbua ton of coal Into the nnld of U boat within t 34-hour period. Baker Enrolls Ilore BALDWIN, Ka. (UP) Baker unl Terslty here' reported a 10 percent Increase to the freshman clan ana an approximate alx percent Increase in the entire school at the end ol the flrat week In It 80th year o: existence. Cheeae From Grass LONDON (UP) A plan to "short circuit" the cow and make cneese directly from grass to provide food for Great Britain's population in event of war waa outlined to the Brltiah association's meeting at Nottingham. Wheel Tai Proposed STERLING. HI. (UP) Proposal for a wheel tax here to obtain d dltloaal revenue for enlarging tha police force la under consideration. The tax, it, was Mid, would be flat rate of 93 for pleasure car and 5 for truck. FOOTBALL BROADCAST . By GLUYAS WILLIAMS 8 'MATTER POP By C. H. PAYNE " A eJ'erOl tf8HTtMAKl J ) . WAMTA Tie A I Ik VVS)iSftrariMN-T . JTi? LITTLE. ) sr p . (Copyright, i3T, by The Bell ByndleaU, Ine.) r&ynt-jfl comes w is iistfM 1b BSOMKASf 6F BIS footer -L 6BME 'fiDl&MfrVrPltiFIMP MWrlERwrpftPIOISffrf-' IK61G W06RAM0P ClAftMfAl MUSIC mi in FlDttfi AROUND UrWL HfR PR06PAM ENDS AND SHf 60E5 INTO KlrtHEN. 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