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PAGTC ETfiTTT TlTTCDFOTtT) M ATL TRIBUNE, MEDFOkD, OEEGON. WEDNESDAY, JTOVEMT3ER 24. 1937. BRIDGE PENCILS py UL.UTAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot further proof ad dreaa the author, tackwtnc stamped envelop for reply. Bee. U. B. Pat. OS. Ir-H " f - M y majigaaet cuion herzoc 9 V The Character! Nina impulsively married David and it trying to forget her intense love for her stepfather. Richard, the charming, well tailored stepfather, shamelessly talks of loi-3 to Nina. Honey, Nina's gay, plump, youthful mother, it wild about Richard, her newly acquired huj bflnd. David, a bright young auto talesman, adores Nina and strives to make her happy on his small talary. Chapter 28 'Lean On Me . . JN SPITE of herself, Nina drew a sharp, shuddering breath be tween her teeth: but Hester lust sat, as still as death. Over her pale face had come that look of numb ness, that Nina knew so well . . . and with its return, she suddenly realized that Hester's face had not been pale a moment before . . . that she had looked happy . . . ani mated. After a minute, her lovely new color came back. Her voice, when she spoke, was as calm as ever, and yet it had an undertone of excitement to it "You recognized mv voice any way, didn't you, Hian? And that's 'doing pretty well, after all these years ..." "How could I . . . forget? The last hunt ball you were wearing white. You had something soft and misty, over your shoulders, that floated. "Tulle. It caught in your studs, while we were dancing . . ." "Yes. I wanted to be careful, un fastening it, but vou vanked . . . remember? I went about with a little wisp of it, hanging there." Hester yanking at her dress! Tearing it! Hester, who was so careful and precise . . . Nina looked at her. wondering ly, and then continued to look. That color in her cheeks ... It might have come from the danc ing, of course, and yet . . . And that lilting laugh ... "You led the band. Rian . . . ad-1 for her . . . and she would havt been so sure to come!" Nina found that lhe was holding her breath. The music started up again, and the Irishman stirred in his chair. He seemed to remember Nina'i presence for the first time. "Don't let me keep you ladies from the festivities, please ... I was fust about to push along, my self, anyway." His voice sounded dreadfully flat, all of a sudden. I wonder if one of you would be good enough to send for my man, Masters ... I hired a car at the inn, He'll be outside waiting." Nina said: "I'll go . . . But Hester cut in. "Don't bother, my dear." Her voice was not quite steady. "I'll go with Mr. McHugh to the car. Give me your arm, Rian. Lean on me . . ." For a moment he hesitated, and then reached out for her hand. He must have said goodnight to Nina, and she must have answered him. but she was not aware of it. Her eyelids were tingling with tears. She watched them wend their way, slowly, across the ballroom. Rian so tall and dark, so splendid, but for that rigid side . . . those blind blue eyes . . . And Hester, helping him. "Lean on me. . . ." The band blazed gaily. Couples began to crowd out on to the dance floor, and presently the two were out of sight. David came up while Nina was standing there. "Sweetheart; Youll never for give me ... I fell asleep in the coat-room. I sat down for half a second, and I was gone! Darl ing . . ." But she wasn't listening to his apologies. She put her hand on his arm. "David," she said softly, "the most extraordinary thing . . ." and then she couldn't bring herself to tell him, it was so fantastic. Nina had th feeling that it was the last she, or any one else there, would ever see of those two; that as quietly as she did everything else Hester had gone to spend the rest of her life at Glymrock . . . that great bare castle, with its blind master, and its 86 empty rooms. i!ISM;nnn Rian so splendid, but for that rigid side those blind eyes. And Hester helping him. tnlt, now, you were lust the least bit tight! "I was quite drunk, Hester . . . drunk with . . ." he hesitated, "drunk with youth and life . . . Col ored boys, they were. Just up from Baltimore. They were the rage then, weren't they?" Hester Comes To Life MTNA had the strangest sensa ' ' tion, as though she were sit ting on top of a volcano ... or out in the open, iust before a fierce electric storm, when nothing has happened yet, the leaves are just beginning to stir . . . and yet the air is so charged with something, that you know any minute, the heavens will open . . , The old hunt ball, Hester's torn dress ... the band . . . There was nothing of portent about their ac tual words, nnd yet Nina felt the thunder in the air. Again that bricht smile of Hes ter's. What mis it? . . . Ah, yes, now she kr.ew. It was warm, glow ing, as though after years of walking about in a trance she had suddenly come to life again. She only said: "Tell me, Rian, are you hero tor long, my dear?" But now Nina knew the whole story. Hester was the girl. And now, she was lovely, not a beautiful cold statue, but a lovely woman. Warm . . . human . . . Hian's words came hack: "It would have been so easy to send She never forgot the picture they made . . . walking away to gether ... as the band played. . . . Such A Brave Act "T SIMPLY can't believe It!" Honey's eyes were round. "Hester, of all people! I feel as though I were dreaming," said Cordelia, In an awed voice. "Carl . . . poor Carl . . ." They were all standing In a huddle in the middle of the up stairs hall, at Harmony. It was Ave in the morning. Carl had come out and read them Hester's brief note, in a queer, strange voice, and then ex cused himself. Cordelia had gone to him, nnd taken his hand. He had held on to It tightly. "To do such a ... a brave thing, she must care so very much, that I am not going to try and stop her," he said gravely. He had looked stunned ... but not broken. Honey and Cordelia and David and Tony, all said various things, in subdued voices . . . but Nina an? Richard onlv looked at each other, saying nothing at all. One thought beat, relentlessly, in Nina's brain. "She had the courage to give up everything ... to hurt people! She was brave enough to go away with the man she loved . . ." (Cfipyrinht, XIST. ilariertt Btrsng) Aunt Carrie ralwa Nina'i Iran tt Honty'i health, tomorrow. YOUNG DOCTORS GET SEL LONDON (XTp) A long list of rto'" end "rton'u" to fluid them to ccc and popularity mons ptUlcnt Jim bwn oirtrwl ttudnnU of th WtBtmlnttr Hospital MtvUcnl school by air Seymour lllckt. fumoun actnrmawwr, a miking a a "patient 01 to yearn' blnnctlng" "1 have enjoyed a (treat many very pu-ajmnt illnciNH'S in my time." he aaid 'In I act, tit time. 1 have almost brvn a pnis5imal patient. That 1 my only eru.e for having lhe temer ity to come here and give you a few arraps of advice to remember when you Irave tha hospital and embark on fifneral practice." Here are sir Seymour 'a Do'a ano Icn't mr ymn,; 1o;tor. Don t Jttp jour paUeuU waiUi. i Don't lt your wife talk about medicine and aurgery in private Ufa. Don't give ua amall talk in the conau 1 1 1 ng - room . Dnnt try and Impreiw on ua that you're attending Lord and Lady Up Mirk. Don't allow aoandal to ba talked In your presence. Don't back horae. Don't go to the moneylender. Don't talk medical ahop in mixed company. Do alwaya dreaa for the part. Do cultivate an eaiy, tmlHng man ner. Do employ a trolling parlormaid to open the door. Do be definite, even If you ar wrong. A general practitioner' patient, said Sir Seymour, are divided Into four kind. "Fifty percent of them are natural people be very kind to them." h ad vised. "Thirty percent are thy treat them with tolerance. Ten per cent are anoba give them a ewift kick In the nanta. And ten percent are Idiot. Get down on your kneA and thank heaven for that laat ten percent for they'll never find you out." I. uuttV 1 nr- " featAClSMPft, Honduras, &TH6 0NWNEW WORLD NBliortfM CMm WilHoWA RAILROAD Si mi ttwm..w,A mw m m at i,i v .. t. '-j m m s w .v.-' J av. in j v Misfit, wi i? J - e" 'U tDVV Jf ft ' I X t ( t Kf , jy ; X h&oiBt&s'neP&Mse GEORGIA 16CH IN IW'S-- 1H&N twefsnspiteM -Q -Trie MwrVEftry PLhNT BLOOM MP UNDER vtfffeR Jls V 17 J T my ,f .,,1 Li4 'll-7lr-37 Jarnea Vlhltcomb Blley. 'When the frost la on tha pumpkin and the fodder'a In the shock. And you hear the kyouck and gob ble of the atruttln turkey-cock." The world has thrilled to tht poem In quaint Hoooler dialect of a typical mid-western autumn, which first ap peared In the Indiana poll Journal under the name of "Benjamin P. Johnson of Boone." a famous pseud onym and character developed by James Whltcomb RUey, American poet. Strange as It seems, Riley not only won hla literary laurels by writing under a nom de plume, but received P Ke JfcAr-6 VMCOM& RILEY VtoH Hft FIRST RSaJSNiTloN P5 ft ?OET ALLAN P0 IWkSLt fOfiTre PbWV5 PU6LI6H6a rifi WR0T6. h POEM W "m P0 $M AND HMDURlTlNG, pReTeNPiMfi (TWPiS ft lost Work of poe trteN wp difficiauvV coKviNcisa ' criTics hb wrote iTrtiwseLF. his first recognition as a poet by forging the name of Edgar Allan Foe to one of his own writings! Big news reached the literary world one day In 1877 In the form of a news story and poem published In the Ko komo (Indiana) Dlspatcb. The poem, characteristically entitled "Leonanle," appeared over the Initials "E. A. P." An accompanying story by the editor declared the poem to be a lost work of the Immortal Edgar Allan Poe. It allegedly had been discovered on the fly-leaf of a copy of Alnsworth's "Dictionary" by a traveler In an old Inn near Richmond, Va. A storm of comment was provoked, one literary faction claiming the poem to be a genuine work of Poe. another labeling It a fake. Finally the publisher of the Dispatch. J. Oscar Henderson, broke down and ad mitted the whole thing was a boas, perpetrated by himself and a young sign painter named James Whltcomb Rltey. Even then many critics re fused to believe that they had been duped and clung to the Illusion that the poem actually was written by Poe. Riley, author of the hoax, had written the poem to prove that his heretofore unsuccessful efforts to win recognition with his poetry were elm ply due to the fact that he was an unknown. EXHIBIT COMMISSION SACRAMENTO, Nov. 24. (PI The Shasta-Cascade exposition commission filed Incorporation papers today with the secretary of state. It has as Its objective the publicizing of the at tractions and advantages of the Shasta-Cascade Wonderland and the furnishing of an exhibit at the 1939 Ootden Gate International exposition. Counties In the Incorporation are Tehama, Lassen, Modoc, Siskiyou. Trinity and Shasta In California, and Lake. Klamath and Jackson In Oregon. Directors named In tha papera in cluded Marshall Cornett of Klamath Falls. The Weather. Northern California: Pair south and Increasing cloudiness north portion tonight and Thursday prob ably with rain extreme north coast; cooler south portion tonight; mod erate northwest wind off coast, ex cept aoutherly off extreme north coast. Oregon: Occasional rain tonight and Thursday, moderate temperature; fresh to strong southerly wind off coast. M Jim SftWS -fa WWWN SCORE . ASKS DID AHVONE "fAK "frlH UXH& tl rUOR WHtti RESf SS5 WWER MIND.rf JOfStff MrTfltR, HE'S rf ANOTHER StfSDDWH SCORE , MRS. WIM5TE MfAtfWHIlE DISCOVER!! ARSf PENCIL WHICH SHE HAD BORROWS? FOR HER INDIVIDUAL SCCRI A TEW HANDS LAir btrH PEMOIS HAVEINSAPPERREP AfcfttH 6K5 UP AMD 6EfS AMCffrilTC PENCIL FI?OM DESK, WHICH VAN ISHES AFTER NEf HAND L 1 'II I 1 MR. 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