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PAGE BTS MEDPO'RD MATE TRIBUNE, tfEPFORP, OREGON, rOTXY, yOVESrBER 8, 1937, SUBURBAN HEIGHTS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address the author, laoloatoa stamped envelope (or reply. Sec. V. B. Pat. p. t, MARCARET CUION HEAZOC If V The Character Nina, a nl girl with flaxtn hair, ho allsn in Ioi with )wr stepathfr. Richard, th charming, Mll- -tailored stepother, pays eoniid rab attention to Nina. Honey. Nina's pay, plump, youthul mother, it crazy about her new husband. Darld, a young auto laletman, has begun to adort Nina. Cordelia it Nina'i closest riend. Chapter 14 David's Proposal ' THE second horse which was the dreaded WorthlnRton crea ture'sfell also, but while its rider was thrown clear, Nina was pinned under the two animals in a tangle of reins, stirrups, and eight wildly kicking black hoofs. Twice, Gray Dawn struggled up little, but could get no foot hold on the hard, frosty surface of the road, and fell back again . . . knocking the breath clean out of her mistress's body. Nina's right leg was twisted behind her into an unbearable position and weight like the rock of Gibraltar was rest ing on her left. The sky overhead was segment ed by what seemed, to her tor tured eyes, a thousand waving legs; and over and above the grunting of the animals, rushing, sound was Ailing her head, like the overflowing of a mighty river. Gradually her legs ceased to ache, and the sky above became overcast by a great dark cloud. ... In a detached sort of way, she wondered if 'he were dying. "Hey I Careful there. . . . You'll get kicked toTieathl" Through the whirr In e noises came Lillth's voice, harshly frantic. Dear, sweet Lilith, she'd turned back. And another voice: "What the hell ... are you Just going to let her lie there? And now Nina was quite sure he was delirious, if not actually at death s door. The voice she heard was David's. "You damn fool They'll quiet in a second. . , . And David's taunting: "Oh, yeah? . . . Coming, Ninal Hold everything, darling. I'll get you out!" Into the blackening sky came David's copper head. ... His brown eyes, with a mad, terrified light in them. . . , His arms reaching down to her. ... She was beyond trying to rea son it all out, why he should be here . . . but she made an effort to gasp "Don't" before the dark closed in. She thought she heard a cry of pain, and hoped, frantical ly, that it was she, not David. But she could not be sure. 'Nina You've GOT To!' NINA opened her eyes and dis covered that she was in the bottom of a station wagon. The back seats had been removed, and they were progressing at a snail's pace. She could see the legs of two horses and two riders, one on either side. Carl was one, and as she turned her head to see who was the other . , . she looked straight into the troubled brown eyes of David Day, lying on a pile of coats, beside her, "Davidl ... So It was youl" "Nina angel are you all right?" "The funny thing is, I think I am . . . practically. But you, you crazy lamb, you brave fool you , . . how do you happen to be here? , What happened?" His nice face was glowing with relief. "Nothing. The very efficient young lady on your right, got them up. I only succeeded In getting myself knocked out, so that there were two of us to rescue Instead of one. . . . Great little helper, Da vid." "Urrnt little helper." "Don't be too nice to me, darling. I'm unstrung. And speak quietly, he was whispering, "I don't want them to hear us till I've proposed marriage. . . . Darling Nina, I'm so crnzily, madly In love with you. . . . Swcethonrt, I only make 50, or at best 60 dollars a week . . . could you? On that? I was deliver ing a car. Remember I said I'd try and catch a glimpse of you? Well, suddenly, you all tore out in front of me, and when I saw you go down, and thought you were be ing smashed to a pulp. . . . Nina, you've pot tot" He was Incoherent and dear. He was pale and breathless, and a tiny trickle of blood oozed from his temple. "Nina. . . ." "David dear. Could we stop talking, just for now? My head is whirling." He looked instantly contrite. "But, David, If you would Just lean over and kiss me. . . ." He winced with pain as he lift ed himself on his elbow and bent over her . . . but when he drew away again, he was the happiest looking person In the world. "1 know," he whispered, against her cold little hand, "you didn't mean it. You're not committing yourself to anything. I'm not to take it seriously; and we'll talk of this again later ... but Oh, my God, Nina . , . if you only knew what that did to me!" He sank back onto his pile of coats with a sigh. In a minute he looked out over the side of the car with a sublime ly innocent expression on his face, and told Lilith that it was all right. Nina had come to at last. . . . But in the meanwhile Nina had done some tall thinking about that kiss. She remembered hoping, in New York that night, that when he did kiss her, it would do something tremendous. . . . Well, in a way, it had . ... only something reassuring and peaceful, instead of some thing exhilarating. Although she didn t actually form the words, she had the feeling: "I have David," and life seemed steadier because of it, and she wished he would lean over and kiss her again. They were driven back to Har mony, and after a thorough ex amination had proved that noth ing was broken or otherwise seri ously injured they were en sconced on two leather couches coming out at right angles from the fireplace in Carl's library. Nina s legs went one way, and David's the other, so that they faced each other . .-. a little pak and shaken, but beginning to have fun. A bright log fire burned in the hearth, and some rare old Na poleon brandy began to do thing -to their color. David Fits In Easily 'VE made arrangements to have my man deliver the car to your customer for you, Day," said Carl, genially, "and I sent along a note explaining what had hap pened. T . . I'm expecting somt people along presently, but whik we re still alone, '. want to tnanl. you for your . . ." "Attemnt nt heroism. T.lctpi. Mr. Semple, I'm ashamed of my self. Forget it, will you. I'm thi one who should be grateful." Carl beamed at him, and Nine could see that he approved of hi. young guest. Their slight aches and pains, he treated more lightly. They were all part of the day's work, he fig ured. Having broken a good many bones himself, and hunted with them before they were well-knil together, a few strained ligaments, more or less, meant nothing tc him . . . Nothing, that, is, unless it happened to one of his horses. Then it was another story. Hester, on me other hand, ttaa looked like death when they car ried Nina in. She couldn't dc enough for them, and when she finally went away with her lini ments and bandages, they were both relieved. Lilith enmc In then, with a slap on the shoulder for David, and e kidding word, and presently others drifted In, still in their rid ing habits, for some of Carl's fa mous grog. But It was Hester, Nina noticed, who saw that David met all the guests there were about 14 in all that each of them got food and drink: that the cold were warmed. and the wet dried. She moved among that booted, mud-spattered crowd, like a calm, ministering angei. And suddenly mna ten e rush of sympathy toward her, foi -she noticed that they paid hei scant, or no attention, at all. All eyes were or. Carl, spare and handsome in his hunting Dink standing with his back to fhc crackling logs, and going over the day's run, as though they had none or tnem taken any part in it. Uavid was drinking in his sur roundings, as though he were at the theater. Nina could see that he was fascinated and t little amused. When somebody' asked Carl: "What do you think of old Worthy's wife . . . T" referring to the thrusting woman rider who had caused Nina s accident. And Carl said: "well, shes a good seat, but . . David looked at Nina, and mur mured: "Really!" in a shocked aside. He was having a marvellous time. Nina was surprised at the easy way he fitted in. She felt disloyal to be surprised . . . but after all, his Background was so vague, and he was so poor and all. . . . She only knew that he had been born in Syracuse and attended miblic school there, that he had gone to work immediately, and then come to his selling job in New York a little over a year ago on the rec ommendation of a business friend of his father's. Now, he evidently had a capac ity for hard work, and he most certainly was a dear . . . but that didn't necessarily imply an apti tude for fitting iiito luxurious sur roundings of this sort. fCopirtpM. 1957. Margaret Htring) Tomorrow, Aunt Carrie upsets Nina with lame Arm advlre. I " vywa4-2t" SET FOR PAYING 8ALVM. Not. B ( AP, tlrorgknl B&tlon of the st-nt unemployment compensation InMirnnce cotnmlwlon. for th payment of benefits which begin Jn. 1, 1(W8, now tn prog ifM. D. A. Bulmort. udmlntntrMor, announced her totlity. The OreRon fund now eontlni approximately 9,000.000 and will be lncreaned by 1500,000 by the firnt of next year. Official aatd thU would be one of the Urgent itat department when the payment of benefits gets under way. The commtnitton will move within the next f?w weeks from the fifth floor of the state office building to the old Salem high school building Prospective employes of the de partment are now undergoing IntH Htrence ex mi nation under the direr Won of Carl Com person nJ officer MOTHER WEEPS AT AT. HELENS, Nov. fl(AP Tears couracd down t!:e checks of Mrs. Anno lriford Saturday as she listen ed to reading of Indictments cherg lug her with the deaths by poison or her stepdaughters, Ruth. 13. and Dorothy. IS, In September. She wm given until November 15 to enter plena but she has prev.jiuly denied ony plot aCTlnat the girls lives. They died, prmtunsnlv after eating her Mr upon which wind had blomn poisonous spray from an orchard. olilcn date truth. SAN FHANCI8CO. Nov. 8. (AP) The ocean fieighters Mnkaio and Absaroka collided In the Golden flats early today, leaving a taping hois Just above tin v-ntcrim- in the 3,253 ton Makawa" Use Mall Inbox waal sua, MkC?(?v7W-t IHC rKRIUw""" Finn, inn rnviu"wi"n f otwas NMURhL BRioae. itviifc rbCK6TFUL.0fRYE, eftKet?tMftPi." Live muy WERE PUTIH PIES ATONE Tim . ptNOl-PBOoKOpREaPK, . 4 1 -j -5 SS,jl .aVMHaEL Jll S .Jfr.C. .aateeaty ata. aW ftcTUPiltf Cm INStRUfJfoKS foR MkKuJft PifcS 4oTrW1H BIRDS ms k buvg iNitterA and aie our uMPNiTfeeiiriAP1' y ' ! - . kkMnck Sndkataf lac. A5-37 Presidents' Wives Strange as It seems, only one of the first four president of the United States. John Adams, failed to marry a widow. Martha Washing ton's first husband was Daniel Parke Curtis who died In 1767. Two years later she married Oeorge Washington. Martha Jefferson lost her first husband, Bathurst Skelton, beforo she was 30. Married to Thomas Jef ferson four years later, she died In 1782, 19 years before her- husband becamo president. Dolly Madison was married at 10 to John Todd, a Pennsylvania law yer. Two years later her husband died In a yellow fever epidemic and three years after that she married James Madison. Three of the presldenta who mar ried for the second time chose widows aa wives. The second Mrs. Fillmore was the widow of Ezeklel Mcintosh, of Morrlstown, N. J. The second Mrs. Benjamin Harrison was the widow of Walter Dimmlck, a lawyer, and the second Mrs. Wilson was the widow of a Washington Jeweler, Nor man Oalt. Two of the prwsldentB' wives wore divorcees. The first was Mrs. Andrew Jsckaon. divorced from Captain Lewis Rnhaw4c Thn nt liar n-set Af r-a 117a An O. Harding, divorced from Honry de Wolfe. Butterfly Uvea Though the number of metamor phoses through which 'butterflies pass varies with different species, it is usually about six. Starting as an egg, the butterfly-to-be hatches out aa a caterpillar. Then, In a per iod of about five weeks, the cater pillar crawls from Its skin five times, each time changing greatly In shape, color, and halryness. In Its final "rebirth." of course, it spins a cocoon and ultimately emerges In its last form, a butterfly. New Game Refuse SALEM. Nov. 8. Stay ton Island source of Salem's new mountain water supply, will be made a game refuge under a proposal advanced by the city water commission today New snlem Post of rice SALEM. Nov. 8. Removal of the Salem postofftce to the new fed eral building started this morning) The old postofflce structure was to be closed to the public at noon. I . Export Pear Ships. PORTLAND, Nov. 8. ( AP) Ninety- four refrlgcrated ships will load fresh apples and peara for European deliv ery in November, December, January and February. , Flood Control Hearing. PORTLAND, Nov. 8. (AP) District U. 8. engineers said today a hearing on a flood control project for the Al.sc a river and tributaries would be held nt Wnldport December 8. English Actor Passes LONDON. Nov. 8. (A) Sir John ston Fqrbes-Robertson, for a genera tion one of the great figures of the English stage, died today at his home at St. Margaret's Bay, near Dover. Train Clots Decision. CASCADE LOCKS, Nov. 8. J, L. Hover had mashed potatoes with out gravy, a cut face and a smashed potato truck today, the result of a collision with the Union Pacific streamliner, four miles east of here. 11-2 WHEM PERLEV, AFTET? W0RKIH& FOR THREE DAVS OH A JIG-SAW PU22LE ERNIE PJ-lMER HAD LENT HIM, "FOUND THAT ERNIE HAD ACClDEHfALLY 60T TARtS OF "1WO PM77I FC MlVtn -rntc.ico (Oopyrlgtt, 193T, by Tb, B.D ByndleiU, lae.) UXtUAHSl S 'MATTER POI Bv C. M. W NIONy LET Me A 1 fa m4 AT T4A "I W 6 "J- ij TAILSPIN TOMMY What Has Happened to Tommy? By HAL FORREST .KSr: 1 FAST 6rrT-AWAY, )taHjj lDra.sHl HJ iRlTAl 'THEV laHCy r OOH! 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