METDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOTtD, OREfiOy, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1938.
PAGE EIGHT
By GLUT AS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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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
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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
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