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PXETC TCT MEDFORD AfAIL TRIBUNE, MT5PF0RP. QKEGOy. SUNDAY. NOVEFBER 28. 1937 MIDDAY REST Br GLUYA WHiMMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the nuthor, Inclosing; stamped envelope for. reply. Re. V. 8. Pat Oft y AAARGARET CUION HEftZOG If V. mm . Lbaracteri , .Hit impulf ioI( marrltd David, but finds she can't forget her intense love for her step father. Richard, the charming, well tailored stepfather, shamelestly talks of love to Nina. ffonejr, Nina's aay, youthful mother, is wild about Richard, her ntuily acquired husband. David, a brioht young auto talesman, adores Nina and strives to make her happy on his small salary. Chapter 30 'Business Conference' "tlONEY Is much more apt to " obey you. Doctor," Nina went on. Ana Besides, you can see my . position ... j ust newly married and lk still honeymooning, really it might look as though I wanted to be . . , well, ,'clt alone, lor a while." Old Dr. Fellows laughed. "Well, I'd be glad to speak to her about it, Nina, but you know your mother's a bit obstreperous when it comes to acknowledging ill health ... or fatigue, as It is in this case." "Speak to her husband to Rich ard, then." , 'That might be better." "Call him up, see him, and . . . and let me know what he says, will Fou? If that doesn't work, though m sure it will, I'll get on the job." "All right, child. Til do that. Now you won't alarm yourself about your mother's condition, will you? Rest is all she needs." "Dr. Fellows, that was an attack of grippe she had, wasn't it?" "Yes. It was grippe." They said goodby . . . and. as al ways in her thoughts concerning Richard, Nina found herself torn between two conflicting things: what was right . . . and what she wanted. The door-bell rang, and Nina look a deep breath . . . opened it "Nina. . . . She backed away, hastily. "I asked you to come here. Richard, dear," she found herself using an absurd, Sunday-school voice, "because there s nothing- well, clandestine, about It. This is business conference. "May I put my feet up on a chair, and light a cigar? May I keep my derby on then?" Nina said, reproachfully: "You're making fun of me bad Richard." And he said: "Of course I am . . . bad." She moved to an isolated walnut hair. "Sit down, won't you?" Thanks." He was evidently humoring her. "Honey tells me that you're planning to leave on a cruise, in about 10 days." she began ... in nocently. Richard pulled out his cigarette case, but stared at it, without pressing the spring. "Ye-a-s." He frowned a little. "Nina, my dear, I couldn't do anything but agree to go , , , urge Honey to, in fact, since it Involved a matter of her health." Something more than the terri ble feeling of attraction she felt for him, welled up in her ... a feeling of admiration, as well. He was fine. It was especially moving, be cause it was the first time she had felt it about him. Her love for him had been a wrong thing, and there fore, his love for her was, too. She had had to acknowledge that. But now he was being splendid: and she had a hard time to keep from going over into his arms. at Was A Miracle QUITE suddenly, she found her-, self asking a question that had been in her heart for weeks. "Richard . . . tell me. how do you feel about Honey?" She had to know. He lit his cigarette now. blew a fluff of smoke up to the ceiling. It ooked like a cloud against the blue of the walls. "I wonder if I can explain to you," he answered slowly, weigh ing his words. "I'm tremendously . . . fond of her, Nina. I ... I love her. I think, too: only . . ." "Why did you marry her. Rich rd, so suddenly? You have to have some greater urge than fond ness . . . than thinkino you love someone ... to do a thing like that." He laughed a little . . . bitterly. "You had one, didn't vou . . . dearest?" "Yes . . ." softly. She was look ing down. "To answer your question: I inousm, at mat time, mv feeling for Honey was the bigceit ihini T had ever known ... it was--then. Nina . . . Nina, dear, am 1 to be blamed if I do a perfectly Honor able thing, and then a miracle happens . . . like our meeting?" She said, more softly still: "How can you be?" "It was a miracle, vou know. I think I knew it from the llrst . . . but I wouldn't admit it to mvself." "Oh! Who manages these things? . . . What a dreadful, cvn Ical sense of humor! Oh, Richard, why . . . u'hy couldn't we have met before?" Ihey were looking at each other from their two little stiff chairs. Nina thought that they both looked taut and strained . . . ready to go to each other . . . like runners waiting for the crack of the start er's pistol. She was so afraid that one of them would break away and ruin all chance of further thoughtful discussion, that she said: "Wait although neither of them had moved. I called this a business confer ence, Richard . . . well, in a way, it is. Here's what I wanted to say: it seems to me that the necessity of a rest for Honey, immediately, has taken this . . . this whole mat ter out of our hands ... Do you hate the word 'Providence' as much as I do? . . . well, that's what it is. all the same. Divine Providence " His un- der-lio shot out for a moment, and one of his eyebrows arched itself. cynically. "I know . . . you re go ing to tell me that this separation will cure us!" "It will," she told him, soberly, "if we try." "Do you want to try, little Nina?" "Don't . . . you?" He said, after an instant's pause: "Hester never forgot her love . . ." And it was so true that there was no answering him. After a minute, she said: "But we can't go on . . . this way . . ." "No." "It's . . . it's nothing, Is It. Rich ard?" And when he echoed: "Noth ing!" it was a passionate outburst of all the things their love might mean ... all in that one word, "Nothing." And now he did cross over to her. Took her two hands in his. and looked down at them, solemnly. Nina." he said, "if I nut everv effort that's in me to forget you while I'm away ... to realize what a wonderful wife I have got ... to . . ." he smiled, "to be good; and then if all my endeavors fail, if nothing can change my longing ior you . . . Nina, will you . . .7 "Wait, darling, till we have failed." But the barest hint of a possible future happiness with Richard sent the blood thundering through her veins. Her cheeks burned, and the little pulse at her wrist hammered so that he felt it. He bent his lips to it, and mur mured: "Why, you're not the doe tor, beloved . . . you're the patient!" With his head still lowered, he glanced up at her ... a wicked, hu man, amused glance, that gave the lie to all his previous grave be havior. "Be serious, Richard, and go farther away from me. You've pot to be serious. We're two disgrace ful people." And he said: "We're two people in love, Nina . . . and all the dic tates of your heavenly little con science can't alter it. Oh, I'll try all right . . ." he .silenced her inter ruption, "and you'll try, but . . . it will make no difference. Mark my words." A pause. Then: "I don't have to ask you to be dear, to Honey?" "No. You don't." "Goodby . . . Richard. I'll see you again, but this goodby is ours." He wanted to kiss her, and she wanted to have him, but some feel ing of loyalty to David made her turn away. Sillv. Drobablv this one denial in view of the tre mendous disloyalty of her desires . . . but she said: "No . . . Richard," and she held out a smell hand. Icy cold. "Goodby, then ... my dear." His smile was mocking and loving, all in one. Richard's Flower JINA opened her handbag and 1 ' reached in for her latchkey. From under the crack at het front door, loud sniffing sounds could be heard; and a few particles of dust were actually sucked un der, by Button's vacuum-cleaner nose. Followed a loud sneeze, as a re sult of the inhalation; and when Nina opened the door his usual welcoming onslaught. She just let him go ahead and maul her, and she patted his head in a detached sort of way . . . while all the time her thoughts were winging their way down the har bor, to Richard. She had lust come hack from the pier. She could see him standing there at the rail ... so brown and handsome, with his Dolo coat over his arm . . . Honey had keDt walking un for ward, as the ship backed out of it! slip, to prolong their adieux . . , and Nina could still see her reach ing up and taking the flower from her husband's lapel . . . throwing It, wildly. For once her aim had heen good, a!id it had landed on the hat of the mi n in front of Nina. She retrieved it quicklv . , . It was or, her breast, now. Poor little Honey, throwing Richard's flower to Nina ... all un susnecting. She could still see her step father's smile. (Cwe'. J7, Uorparet RrrtKg) David turns the budcel making lata a gay affair, Monday, F HELD AS SLAYER NEW YORK. Not. 38 (AP Ofn Ofrardo Marhado. on-tlm dictator ol Cuba. waa under guard In a vpitml today aftwr a aurpriM mova hv fvlral authm-ttlra led to his airwt on an - tradition warrant based tixn an old Cuban murder and rmberletnent charge. President Laredo Bru In Havana waa allent aa to Cuba'a eonrae when bit M-yar-old prMerennnr a given hearing Mondy. p.ib'.v 'n the hoepiiaj badjoom bei wliaia ha ha been under treatment (or a kidney attment. Frimcui A O'Netll. attorney for Maobado. had Mid his client, who had conn from Canada to Nw York lor an operation, would .uirrnnder Monday. He refused to dtarltw Ma rhado'a whereaboma but puh:thed reportB that the man who was twtra president of Cuba waa in a mid-town h.vpital were followed by the appear ance of a I'nlted State depmv mar ffhal there late yesterday. A con timimia gusrd waa plsoed tn the mm. aithmmh Mncado'a lawyer and nurse aalri he waa ao tl it dia tlnrtly poMible" be might lie aoon. The attorney mid the alleged mwa murdera charged aainat Marhado be fore hi fllsht In WM were deafh due to the exerclae of police power." O'Neill aatd ha expected the mur der eharuea and aortiMtlona that Ma chado had embewled flO 000 (V tn atovernment fund would N consid ered politics! offense by United rttatt aovernmet and thertfun fail ing to juaiiiy tittadmoa. Jn in" UmemmJfm. mm uin&U'rVtr) h.rn&, 0(T1J tJYTrte REVOLUTION C0UNTSR Op e3f5 4Fblt QUlCKERIHftN W JIU'M!..!...- m ".i.irJt-AV'- V X'(V- '.is f ft.wtf'w inr' - I i i ' v m ar P6VR6 MANNING UfiAitii mere eieTzo hlisc TiTTV m& ll.Vi.'lill.rl I- M0IHBR, MHTW GRMDMMBR Of 6 PlffeReHT 60V6RN0RS OP Tue sr)7L?"SouTrt emm M &tetST-6RMD&N 6 b ChHDWm FORGOVBRNOR OF 4oulH CfcRcUNft Vbau? w&R CeseRVftTlON &AH00NS UeNusU Smticat tic Ellzuhnlh Manning Governing South Carolina has been a family custom of the Mannings and Rtcherdsons tor the past 100 years or so., Since 1803 when Mrs. Ellznbeth Peyre Richardson Man ning's uncle. James B. Richardson, bocame governor of the suite elx members of the family have held tho gubernatorial position. Elizabeth Manning s husband. Rich ard Manning, served es governor from 1834 to 1838; her brother. John P. Richardson, served from 1840 to 1843; her eon. John L. Manning, from 1853 to 1854: her nephew. John P. Rich ardson. Jr., from 1888 to 1800; and her grandson. Richard I. Manning, from 1015 to 1018. Today. Wyndham Manning, her great grandson. Is bid ding for the seat as South Carolina's next governor. Washed Eggs Spoil Washing eggs removes a natural and protective mucllaglnoua coating which serves to prevent the entrance of harmful bacteria, according to the U. S. department of agriculture. Clean, unwashed eggs bring the high est market prices. Balloon "Scare-Crows" tt was the custom during the World war for destroyers to tow cap tive looKout Dauoons during anti submarine warfare. An observer, sta tioned In the balloon, telenhoned the ship immedltely on sighting the wake oi a sud. . Because of expense and oter han hlcaps, substitute balloons were often used by convoy ships. They were small in Size and carried miniature dummies of observers so that subma rine commanders, on stghtlng them through their periscopes, wuld be misled to believe they were true large observation balloons flying at a high altitude. J 1 HPro -fO HE DOWH Mi RRf FoR'HftlFAH HOUR, ATfCR UMCH. UKJI66UN6 AWT WR166J.W6 J 1 FtM o coopie ar marbik w his pocket" fojes JU661E Them i !3nss: 1 6ffS CONSIDERABLE EHterrt'WHME'"fRSW6-fo RECOVER MARBLES FROM UNDER COUtH J AMUSE WMSELf WtTH VArJlOOi AiROBMit FEATS TRIES fO SEE HOW HI6H H TAH BO0K-T 6u1va MOTHER CftlLS IME IS OP. LEAPS CfTCoUCH, WorfDR)N6 WHY HE ALOWS FEE1S A LITTLE TARTD AJTCR RESTIK6 (Copyright, 1937, by Ths BeB BrmUcata, lag.) S 'MATTER POI By 0. M. PAYNE First Cash Reclster Jacob Rltty was Inspired to Invent the first cash register of the modern type after studying the mechanism of steamship's propeller revolution counter. The first practical register punched holes In a strip of paper, the number of which Indicated the amount of money In tho machine. Leopard Rides Trnld ALLAHABAD, India. (UPI A pas senger on an Indian night train opened the door at a wayside station and found he had admitted a leopard. This la the amazing story which has Just reached here from Barellly. The Falkland Islands are a British colony In the south Atlantic. Lands Like 'Chute BREMEN. Germany (UP A new autogyro which stands still in the air. starts and lands vertically, and Is described aa crash-proof, has Deen tried out by the Focke-Wulf Alrcmrt company here. It Is said. The finance department of the United states army disburses aU funds appropriated for national defense. Mall Mnrriage Falls ELYRIA, O ( UP) Annulment of the "matrimonial bureau" marriage of the Peter Vanderwerffs was asked by Mrs. Vanderwerff. who said her husband had failed to live up to pre-nuptlal promises made in the correspondence. -I First-class travel Is to be abolished on London's subway system. TAILSPIN TOMMY Dirkman Acts Strangely I Y-at -tAVB-wT ) V. N'CE i.cnii vSwS life' I ' t "-l ItOeprright, 1M7, by Th. 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