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MEDFORD AfAIL TRIBUNE, MT5PF0RP. QKEGOy. SUNDAY. NOVEFBER 28. 1937
MIDDAY REST
Br GLUYA WHiMMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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y AAARGARET CUION HEftZOG If V.
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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,
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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.
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murdera charged aainat Marhado be
fore hi fllsht In WM were deafh
due to the exerclae of police power."
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der eharuea and aortiMtlona that Ma
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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.
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(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.
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First-class travel Is to be abolished
on London's subway system.
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