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METDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOTtD, OREfiOy, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1938. PAGE EIGHT By GLUT AS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, lncloilaf a stamped BTalopa for reply. Ba(. TJ. 8. Pat Oft. HIDDEN TREASURE FERGUSON. S10VA& S v Tbt 8 lory 8 In box- wood hedge eurrounaing Good- loe'e Choice in the Maryland hunting dlllrttt a symbol and a sacred boundary. jn the ttuide, Judith Goodloe Im lonoina. to hear a proposal from dajhina Gary Brent Ounide. on horieback, ' RexSen Oliver tel-made mil lionaire, peer envioujlu over the hedge until Jim Goodloe Invitee him in. Attempting to jump the boxwood, Reuben It throum at Judith' leet, bad'.y iniured. Chapter Eight Another Outsider IM the house, while she directed as excited and bewildered Han nah to bring towels, gauze, hot water. Judith, despite a vague pity (or his plieht. was hating Reuben with a fierceness that actually shook her. Keening her from Gary as if two years of waiting wasn't long enough I Keeping her whole future hanging in the balance, her happiness "I won't be kept another min ute! I'm going downl Why couldn't he have selected some other spot In which to smash himself!" Hurriedly she turned back lat mine scented sheets of the guest room bed. As they laid him upon the wide four poster bed. Reuben opened his eyes. "He's coming round." Mr. Blout murmured. "Eh. Oliver? How do you feel? What did vou say?" Reuben had merely sighed, his eyes upon Judith standing be tween him and the west window. The sun made reddish lights in her hair. Subconsciously he resched out a straying hand, attracted as a child to a bright baublel "I didn't dream" "Of course you didn't, Oliver," Dick Blout assured him. "You tumbled all right!" Then to Judith cheerfully: "They don't usually talk so soon when there's concus sion. It may not be an operative ease after all," briskly. "Now If you II get me scissors, Juay, m cut mat sieeve. Twilight was closing in before Judith was free to go down stairs. It seemed a lifetime had passed since she had been kissed in the garden, but woman-like she tried to take up her enchanted moment where she laid it down. She stepped out on the wide porch, radiance in her eves. "I'm sorrv. Garv. Hannah wasn't bit of good. I had to stand by." But It was not Gary who paced the porch Impatiently. It was a strange little figure whose head made a red blob in the twilight. "How Is Reuben?" The voice was blurred with throaty notes not unlike the first chirpings of a mudlark. "Don't stand gazing like a wooden Indian! Hurry and tell me how he Is!" Judith, submerged in her own affairs, continued to stare at the Intruder In surprised silence. Here was a person she had never seen before and of a tvpe foreign to the valley. Even in that moment she noticed the stranger's expensive ness. Paris was written all over her. Who was she, where had she come from, and what had brought her? From the shadow rf a vine en closed corner, Gary came for ward. "Miss Rogers Is a friend of Oliver's." he explained. "Miss Goodloe will give us a cheering ac count of the patient I'm sure. Miss Rogers." "He isn't badly hurt," Judith eaught up with the moment. "The doctors sav Mr. Oliver will be as Bood as new in a week or 10 davs." Cissy sighed her relief For an Instant she was beyond speech. Then: "I might have known nothing could do Rube in for long!" She scanned Judith's face the girl who had taken him from her. if she had ever had him low voiced, poised, beautiful. "She has something I haven't" Cissy thought "Something I would give the world for." Aloofness "I'M sorry you've been anxious." 1 Judith saw this uninvited guest as one more obstacle between her self and Garv. If she would only hurry and gol She wanted to be alone with Garv wanted him to take her In his arms wanted him to kiss her. Seated upon the porch railing, a smile uoon his handsome face. Garv showed no sign of impatience for the guest's departure He said: "Miss Rogers was wandering In and out between the box like a lost soul, when I salvaged her." "1 corralled him." contradicted Cissy. She was conscious of Gary's charm. Conscious of his ap proval of herself. "I should be run ning along, but" Curiosity about Judith Goodloe made her linger Curiositv and the fact that Reuben was upstairs. She was nearer to htm here. Judith, still in riding togs, swung up on the porch rail beside Garv: "You're a guest at Five Chimnevs?" she asked politely. Cissv nodded and helDed her self to a cigarette from a nearby table Garv cave her a light In the flare of the match her hair showed very red Verv short Her eves were two flawless emeralds with black centers. "Reuben has a house party over the week end," aha explained. "And missing It! Talk about hard luck!" Gary felt a sudden sympathy for the man lying up stairs in the four poster bed. "He isn't so crazy about It" Cissv said. "It was my idea en tirely." "His fiancee, of course," Judith decided and asked: "Do vou wish to see Mr. Oliver?" Terribly Cissy wished to see Mr. Oliver. She hated the assistance. Judith had been able to give him. Was jealous of the minutes of the very walls that surrounded him. She said: "Not tonight I'll come tomorrow. If I may." Proud of the way she said it "Please come as early as you wish." Judith invited cordially. "I'm sorry your party Is getting off to such a gloomy start" "The gang won't be gloomy long." Cissv dragged on her ciga rette. She felt the other girl's aloofness. "They'll have a great laugh when th. y heir that any thing so archaic as a horse did Reuben in." Judith gasped: "Archaic? Horses?" "I've made a bad break," Cissy thought She stuck to her guns. "Aren't they?" "Maybe I hadn't thought Ours are part of the family." "But hardly the modern means of locomotion," flicking an ash with slender ringed ringer. "I like the creatures, well enough. I lope around the park sometimes. Usually though. I'm In a hurry to go places and do things." "Then a car, of course" Cissy blew a perfect smoke ring. "I usually fly an RX Super." "How very modern!" Judith murmured without interest but Garv flung away his cigarette and slid from the porch rail "I knew there was somet.HL.j tantalizingly familiar -about vou! You're C C. Rogers the aviatrlx by all the gods! The C. C.I" His glance sweeping her was, openly admir ing and surprised. "You're lust as big as a minute!" Blue Eyes Meet Green "I'M five feet one inch." 1 '"Sure about the inch?" Gary grinned. "I've pictured you a a sort of Juno." "I'm flattered that vou wasted a thought! Devastated because I'm not Juno? impishly. "Heavens nol But your pictures give that impression. I was among the mob the dav vou land ed at Crovden. That was a grand flight vou made remember. Judy?" Yes Judith remembered only because Gary hrd written, not be cause she cared about the flier. "Where have you flown from to day, Miss Rogers?" "Chicago. I came down In Rube's prize cornfield." Cissy laughed and turned to Judith: "Making a country squire of him, aren't you?" "I?" surprised. "You." "The credit belongs elsewhere. I," with ' unconscious hauteur, hardly know Mr. Oliver." "Snob." thought Cissy resent fully. She lad a sudden desire to hurt Judith. "You should get around more," lightly. "Why?" lazily. "Travel Ir broadening. "So I've been told." Blue eyes and green met The girl who knew Utile of the world eyond th val.ey and the girl who knew it from sea to sea, took mea sure of each other The former had the traditions and ethics of a long, proud line U. uphold her The lat ter made her own codes when ne cessity required She said: "Until he came here the only thing Rube sed .iose. for was to pull trucks out of mudholes, now it's funny." "Mr. Oliver's going in for sport? 1 agree with vou," Judith said a bit too smoothly. With the swiftnes of lightning Cissy's not temper burst the care fully acquired shell of her veneer. "Sport my eye!" scornfully, "What's so sportsmanliki in an able bodied man with a gun in his hands or a pack of doe at his heels, chasing a defenseless rab bit fox or what have you. to its death? The pastime of cowards, if you ask me!" Cissy took a savage delight tn the vibrant silence that followed her speech. She rushed on: "Face face with man sizeo opponent your so called sportsman probably turns tail ami runs!" "Oh, comt. nowl" Gary started a protest but Cissy's spurt of an ger died as suddenly as it had flared. 'Tve been rude," repentantly, "when I meam to be so nice. Please forgive mel I wanted," with small girl honesty, "to make a gooH impression. Now " regret fully. "You've made a wonderfu. Im pression," Gary assured her heart ily. He found her amusing. He had n er met a girl lust like her. Cissy's green eyes approved him. covertly She noticed that her hostess approved him openly. Oh-hol That was where Judith s heart lay Cissy's spirits rose with a great surge. She kept right on being rude. fOrm4'. BitU SmiU ftM) Tomorrow; Judltb waits. GRANGE TO STAY I PORTLAND. Ore . April IS. (AP Th at Orange will "nrver" quit until It has won It public power fight. Ray W. GUI. stole manter, Mid t-xiiiy In announcing the Intention of the Oranpe to further the public power policy, despite the general de feat of a proposal of public iitllltv district embracing seven northwest ern count if. Oil) aald a study was being made m a result of th election returns last Friday to determine the, best procedure but that until the Mitvt of the few rmmtclpalitle and unin corporated area which favored the district tu determined, tht dec 11 Ion on seeking new election would be held la abeyance. The state Orange master said that several other counties. Linn, Lane. Hood River and Marlon, might have election as a result of petitions or other movement In them to seek formation of public power district. EAGLE POINT P.-T. A. DINNER BIG SUCCESS Eale Point PVT. A. held its reg ular meeting April 8 at the high chool building. Mrs. Lillian Force, chairman, presided. A report of ttie dinner given in March showed that It was a aucves a the treasury was Increased an ap preciable amount. The awociation wiahea to thank all who helped. The following mmlnatlng commit tee waa appointed: Mr Nellie Car ter, Mrs. Lestr Throckmorton and Mrs. Bertha Young. Announcement was made of the county council to ba fafrld in Talent 1 ' 1 T ""SEES -T'C i " . , .ti "" . . r'r -wtir' near um&.ivia, Yff NO ONfc KH0W4 WHO PUItf ny mite wit o?itsm in mncoi ( loso fee 78o f tef wit?e mo ion- feet Hiert, Monk's Mound Mora numerous than the pyramids of Egypt are strange earth pyra mids found scattered over America from the Canadian border to south ern Peru. Just who were the ancient archi tects that built them Is not known definitely. Attempts have been made to Identify all the mounds as the work of one mysterious race oi peo ple called mound builders, but mod ern archaeologists generally discard thla theory. Ancestors of the North American Indians now reclve credit for most of the work. Common In the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, the earth piles gave fit, Louis her nickname of the "Mound City," as many were original ly scattered over the city's present site. Largest of the prehistoric artificial earthworks Is Monk's or Cahokla Mound In M&dlson county, seven miles from St. Louis. Cahokla Is of ten referred to as Monk's Mound be cause It waa occupied for a consid erable time, from tbe 19th century on, by Trapplst monks, who built a vegetable garden on It summit. Cahokla has the largest base of any artificial pyramid In North America and. as far as can be deter mined, It has a greater volume than any other artificial mound tn the world, Including the Great pvramld of Qlzeh In Egypt and the Pyramid of the Sun tn Mexico, formerly cred lted with being the biggest such structure In the western hemisphere No Tents In Hollywood. World-amous Hollywood . Boulevard thirty-four years ago waa faced with an unusual traffic problem. No stars In shiny oars rolled over the dusty thoroughfare; no premieres were staged there; Santa CI a us Lane waa not yet born. Yet, strange as It seems, Hollywood bad "trailer-trouble" In 1004 and city fathers had to pass a law to cor rect It. On November 7 an ordinance waa enacted reading: "It shall be unlawful for any wagon, buggy or other vehicle, constituting a camping or traveling outfit, to stand on any thoroughfaro In Holly wood with the purpose of making a camp, or for any person to make any camp on any public street." Tomorrow: Famous for his feet. April 30. A largo number of unit members plan to attend thla meet ing. I COLUMBIA BASIN HAS SURPLUS OF WATER PORTLAND. April 13 (AP) Snow surveys completed by department of agriculture engineers Indicated today the Columbia Basin will have more Irrigation water this summer than It can use or store. J. C. Marr of Boise, Idaho, assist ant irrigation engineer, said areas usually suffering from a Bhortage will have amp 'e supplies. R. c. Far row of British Columbia reported heavy snows had occurred in the northern reaches of the stream. The engineers predicted a peak flood stage this spring of 600,000 cubic feet per second compared with 360,000 cubic feet a year ago. WINDOW GLASS W sell window glass and will replace youi oruken window reasonably IYow bridge Cab inet worka. Fikds BitffoH Which has come off mis Vtavzs rf hasnt much-food miUE . 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