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4 PAGE ETflm MEDFCVRD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9. 1937. 7 x -wo i cmpantf 6, MAkCAxfT CUION HERZOG Q The Characters Nina, a nlc girl with tar en hair, ha fallen in Iot with her ttepather. Richard, the charming, well tailored ttepfather, It openly at tentive to Nina. Honey, Nina's gay, plump, youthful mother, ti crazy about ' her new husband. David, a voting auto talesman, . adores Nina and hat urged her to marry him. Cordelia i Nina'e cloieit friend. Chapter IS Horaeface'a Advice DAVID lelt that night before dinner, refusing Hester'a offer of further hospitality with an easy race. But before he went, he managed a word alone with Nina. "Tve not finished with you yet, young lady," he warned her. 'When you kiss 'em, they stay kissed, my darling. More anon. "More kisses?" "You bet And wooings, and a betrothal . . . and maybe a dia tnond-chip engagement ring, that you'll actually be able to see ... if you iook nara enougn ana use a magnuying glass. "David, you agreed that I hadn't committed myseir. "I said 'maybe,' didn't I?" "But certainly more kiises.1 "I said 'vou bet.' didn't I?" "Thank you, for doing what you did, David." But he only said: "Oh . . . Nina . . ." and turned away, abruptly. She watched him walk down the hall, a little stiffly. There was a lit ili pros of white court-Dlaster. where the blood had trickled out from his temple. For some reason, Ninas eyes tilled with tears. One Of Those Scenes? JN February, Aunt Carrie (Horse face) Van Alystyne had a little talk with Nina. She had sent for her, and they were having tea in hr nYtremelv moderne anart- ment. There were chairs made of chromium plated tubes and sil vered leather. There were black satin hangings and black glass tables, and everything that wasn't black or silver was green. Lien nitely green. . . . You had to be careful what you gave Aunt Car rie. Aunt Carrie thought it was all a huge joke, particularly the arty young man Who had done It for her. "Don't I look absurd In this place?" she had asked at her house warming . . . and she did. But then. Aunt Carrie looked a little absurd, anyway, anywhere ... so It didn't make much difference. She was a tall, thin woman, a little older than Honey. Sh never f;ave a thought to clothes usual v aeeeotine the garments sales ladies hung on her, and walking out with them. Her greatest talents were a su perficial sophistication that cov- erea an extremely warm ana sim- &le heart . . . and a flair for getting le most possible fun out of life. Today, however, she was un duly serious. "Nina, my dear, this is going to have to be one of those little talks that are called (loathsome expres sion) 'woman to woman.' " Nina began to feel uneasy, but she took a deep breath and said she was ready. "It's about our mutual concern: Honey." Now Nina began to grow hot, all over. "Get this clear in your head first, child. I think her marriage is a grand thing; but Just at this point I think .t needs a little supervising." Was this going to be like one of those Bcenes you see on the stage, with each character knowing ex actly what the other means, and yet talking in parables? "I've noticed a very slight change in Richard lately, Carrie went on, "and I think I know what's the trouble. You can help me nip it In the bud, Nina, if you will." Oh, It was going to ba one of those scenes. So Horseface knew it all, did she? Nina thought it was a miracle that everyone hadn't no ticed ... or maybe they had. Things had reached a stage where It was impossible for Nina not to realize that Richard was tremen dously attracted to her ... he made no effort to disguise It, and she supposed that If anything had pulled the wool over people's Honey's eyes, it was his very openness. Some nights when she lay sleep less from thinking about It, she thought that her stepfather him self, must be unaware of his feeling for her and some nights, particu larly when she was worn out with conflicting emotions, she thought that he was being diabolically clever. You couldn't pin anything on him; if he took his coffee up to her room in the morning, he an nounced It beforehand; when he kissed her, he kissed her In front of Honey; if he was holding her hand when his wife came in, he continued to hold It All this could be interpreted In two ways, and Nina, loving him, preferred to think that h was not deliberate. It made him nicer person. It made her feel like nicer person . . . if anything could, these days. But Carrie was saying something that startled her. "Your mother Is so completely out of her head about him, that she has reverted to her schooldays. I haven't seen such fawning over s man since I made a fool of myself falling In love with my biology Srofessor ... I fell out of love with im. incidentally, when he practi cally drooled at the mouth with de- ngnt over a juicy ox eye . . . but that is neither here nor there, is it?" But it certainly was. Good old juicy ox eye . . . Horseface was evidently on the wrong track. "It's entirely to his credit, of course," Carrie continued, "that Richard is the finished product he is. You and I both know that he must have had a great many women in love with him, Nina, and frankly, I think he's getting a touch fed up with Honey's adu lation. It began to be funny. "My thought was, that if you would help me persuade your mother to accompany me on a little tnp soutn, it would give rtlchard a bit of a breathing spell." It ceased to be funny Immedi ately. She said quickly: "I think. Horse er, Aunt Carrie . . "Go on, say it Say 'Horse face' , . ." "I think, darling, that you are on the wrong track. I mean, I think you're mistaken. I mean I think everything's just fine." But Horseface had the bit be tween her teeth. "UTall .,'- M-c.-.. It A n ,, Gil, JUU 1G G104.JT U JUU UU, she said, in no uncertain terms; and she said: "A little lemon?" as though it were: "A little arsenic?" "Aunt Carrie, dear, here's the thing: you only see them at inter vals. 7'm with them all the time. Don't you really think I'm more in a position to see what's going on, than you?" Uarne frowned. Not neces sarily. Don't you know the way it is when a person's getting bald? He sees it and tends ft every day, and thinks he's getting along fine. It takes an outsider to come along and tell him how much he's really lost" I'd Be Lost!' MRS. Van Alstyne's mild, hu morous face was no longer a friendly, amusing thine, to Nina. It had assumed dragon proportions. Nina said: "Please don't think me rude, Aunt Carrie, or maybe I am . . . but I do ask you to leave this to me . . . Not to meddle." Dragon-face was not in the least put out. , "I've always meddled In Honey's life for the best, Nina; and I al ways shall. You simply don't want your mother to go away . . . You're less mature than I thought dear child, borne crumpets? "No!" Nina was getting excited. "How ridiculous for you to say I don't want Honey to go awayl Let them both go away, that's a thought ... A change for them both. That would fix it." Carrie sighed. "This isn't getting us anywhere, baby. I'm not going to abduct your mother, but if i can persuade her to go away with me for a few weeks, I shall certainly do so. I'm sorry we can't see eye to eye about this. Now let's talk about some thing else." Presently Nina left and in l.alf an hour she was talking to Honey. All the way home she had thought: "I'd be lost!" "I'd be sunk!" "Id lose my head, surely, surely." "She can't leave us alone together!" . . . Honey, dear, please don't say I said anything about it but Aunt Carrie mentioned something about wanting you to go south with her the other day . . . iust vou. You wouldn't do it, would you, darling? it would be an awfully dirty trick to Richard. Why, you're still a bridel" She waited in an agony of sus pense for her mother's reply. But Honey was noncommittal. "Why, I don't know, baby . . . maybe she changed her mind; she hasn't said anything to me vet We'll see." The next day, Honey brought up the subject again, herself. "You know, I'm rather consider ing that trip idea, Nina. Richard told me last night that he thought I looked a bit peaked." She paused, and then went on, anxiously: "Do you think I look peaked, baby? Do you? Nina suddenly Imagined that her mother did . . . although it was probably Just that Honey was ner vous at the thought . . . she was al ways so passionately anxious to look blooming for Richard. "Why, I hadn't noticed it Honey, dear. But I certainly wouldn't leave him, even If I did go away for a while. Take him with youl I think he'd have every right to fepl hurt " She simply had to let it go at that (Copyrtght, 19ST, itargartt Brmoff) STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot farther prJi addreaa the anther, tnrtoalrn - stamped envelope tor reply. Beg. TJ. 8. Pat. Off. Tomorrow, Richard and Nina dine alone, and tiien. , NEWSPAPER MAN SHOE BY 15-YEAR-OLD BOY WHITEHALL. Mich.. Not. Q. (API Floyd Peterson, 43. Grand Rapids. Mloh., newspaper man vu shot and fatally wounded mrly trxtny in the residence of Mm. Ruby L. On where he was a week-end guest. Sheriff Louts Ekltind of Muskegon county Ald Peterson was shot by 16-year-old Poster fiteven Oee. the wo man's son. He !a a high school stu dent The sheriff Hid the boy void htm he warned Peterson "to Ret out of the house and leave my mother alone or X will shoot you.M Mrs. Oee Is a widow. Peterson was divorced two years ago, CASH SHORT, POLICE E GRAND RAPIDS. 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