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Newspaper Page TextPXGE EIGHT- iEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUTE, MEDFORD, OREOO MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1938.- BASEBALL INDOORS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS ?By JOHNHIX For farther proof address the author, lncloslnf a stamped esTelope tor reply. Beg. U. 8. Fat Off. By BtANCHEMJfH FERGUSON 2i The b...., .... -o Too rank outiiden have penetrated the f acred boxwood hedoe at Good- , loe'e Choice Reuben Oliver, ie!f made millionaire, and CiiV ere. red-headed auiatrix. Reuben, who Ij in lone toith Judith, it in . Jured Jumpina hie horee over the hedoe, and the accident brlnoi Ciav who lovet Reuben. Jeoloue of Judith, Clv coptiuatee daih ina Gary Brent, Jneleod of pro poslno to Judltn, Carv fliee wert with Cleiu to a lumber Job. Then, the Goodloee dlecover the are pennileet. Chapter 11 Not A Gentleman CLOSETED with Dick Blout her lawyer, with Judith and Jim, Amanda Goodloe faced the situa tion with her usual indomitable courage. True to precedent n aid: "We'll sell off some land. "You can't give land away now. , Amanda," Blout told her gently. "You mean?" Incredulously. "No one will pay taxes on it," Duxlrle i doe barked. Inside, Judith sat motionless as a statue. Jim drummed on the table. "Can't you stop that noise and ueeest something?" Amanda sskprl irritably. Jim stopped drumming. He met her cold gaze witn a comer one. "We might' ne began. "Nfiver mind." Amanda, untie! pating and fearink his suggestion, cut him short. "Do you think, looking hopefully at Dick, "if we catalogued the King Charles plate. the manogany i "It won't brine enough. "Can you suggest something, Judy?" Judith could suggest nothing. She went through the days in a sort of walking coma. Tossed through the nights in tearless agony. Gary had gone. She was waiting again. Marking time, de spising htrself because she did so, but not ame 10 stop. o juuiui had no suggestions. The conference ended, as it had begun, with nothing settled. "You'll hear from me in a day or two," Amanda escorted Dick to the outer door. "Something must be arranged at the bank." She had no idea what that something would be. Oddly enough It was to Reuben Oliver, her unwanted guest, that old Mrs. Goodloe went for advice. Or rather he appeared before her In her greatest moment of bewil derment. He came Into the booklined li brary where she sat alone. He came awkwardly. The natural rac that was his out-of-doors, esertcd lilrr. in this house. He walked stiffly as though unsure of his tread on the polished floor. He said shyly: 'You've been so good to me. Mrs. Goodloe." Amanda waved his gratitude aside: "We try to make our guests feel at home. Mr. Oliver. His smile was like a ray of sun shine across a still pool: "It has beei the happiest time of my whole life." "Happy? til in a strange house?'' "It has not seemed strange. It's Been like like ' almost he said, "home" Remembered he'd never really had a home. While he hunted for the right word, Amanda studied his face. What she saw there made her say hastily: "Be seated, Mr. Oliver." Reuben did as he was told. Amanda said without preamble. "I'm told you are a very successful business irr '' Swept Clean ORDINARILY this would have pleased him. Sent his shoul ders back an inch further, sent his head up cockily. Now a flush over spread his pallor. He could not feel a. ease with old Mrs. Goodloe. Per haps she did not mean that he should. He t led to relax in his chair, sat up straight again. Put one hand In his pocket, took it out and said: "I've had a couple of lucky breaks. I've hoed a long, hard row, too." "Cabbage?" oolitely. He laughed out boyishly. "Cab bage, at the start." 'Tell me about it." "The day I ran away from the orphanage, I came upon a truck load of it upset In a ditch. The owner Cissy Rogers' father f;ave me half for helping him to re oad. I earned my first $5 peddling it in the striets." She lnokec" at him with new in terest. Whntover the man, he was honest and unashamed. "And then hiSi did you do?" "I went to the Michigan woods." Embarrassment left him. Here was something he could talk about. "I did about everything a kid can turn his hnno to. Hclncd the cook in a lumber camp at first, then got out in the forest. My $3 bill made me mighty independent. Then." he could smll about it now, "someone sto'.e it!" "Tragic!" "Yes. but the best thing that ever happened to me. I got down to real work. Heplacing that five spot was not easy." '1 have .ost my last Ave." Aman da confessed slowly. "You are a practical man. Advise me." She plunged Into a detailed ac count of her losses. Reuben lis tened carefully. When she had fin ished he said: "Sounds like you're swept clean, all right." "Swept expresses it." "I'm sorry, Mrs. Goodloe." . "What I have to peddle seems of less value than your cabbage. My lawyer tells me that land is lust something to pay taxes on." Reuben with effort blurted out "I have money, Mrs. Goodlo plenty of it." . , "So I've been told." The same hint of amusement was in her eyes that he had seen in Judith's the day his horse threw him. "She thinks I'm bragging she's laughing " He straightened his shoulders and said recklessly: "I'll honor i vour notes. . i Relief, joy, hope, lighted Aman Hn' face. She understood how a drowning jerson feels when a rope is suddenly flung to him. She half arose from her chair trying to speak, then, very slowly, and with colorless lips sank back into it. The rope, almost within her grasp, was being carried away by a rising tide an overpowering tide, rushing over her, sweeping her down stream to inevitable disaster. She struggled against it If she could iust touch the rope "Your generosity is is unbe lievable. Mr. Oliver. I appreciate it. I will nver forget but " the tide overpowered her despite one last struggle terrible to be so weak "I I cannot accept, of course." "Not accept?" incredulously. "Why not?" "I cannot accept payment from a guest or favors from from strangers." "Bosh!" She tried to echo it. Tried to be lieve it "I wish It were." . "But it Is absolute rot!" "No." Her moment of weakness had passed. She said with the bru tal directness of one who is sure of her standards, true to them in the face of death or worse. "Such a thing is not done by ladies and gentlemen.'' Hatred TT WAS his turn to flush. "I didn't know. In my world it's all right to save yourself by whatever means you can." He smiled crook edly. "Not being a gentleman has its advantages. There seemed nothing more to say. Reuben stood up. "Sorry. I'd like to help you, Mrs. Goodloe." "I believe that and thank you!" Through an open window he could see a great stretch of emer ald lawn. Stone steps Great clumps of box. He said: "In your worry you've overlooked some thing of great value that's easy to sell. You've boxwood here worth a quarter of a mi'lion at least." Amanda got to her feet and faced him. She seemed to have great difficulty in keeping her hands folded. Her shoulders were up now. He felt her anger sluicing, cold, like running water. -He thought: "I've broken another of her blasted codes!" Poor Reuben! Unknowingly he had laid his finger upon the canker at Amanda's heart. How could he dream that she owed her wifehood to that boxwood? Only one person, her young stepson in a fit of temper, had dared .o fling it at her: "My father only married you to save the box!" It was ritifully, searingly true. In the years that followed, when this lad's extravagances compelled sacrifices, the land was sold and the hedge transplanted to suit the smaller acreage this explained three rows Instead of the original one. Later, Amanda, left with the rearing of her stepson s two chil dren, often reflected with a grim sort of satisfaction, chat she had fulfilled her destiny. She had been made a Goodloe to save the hedge and by the erace of God she had saved it! Now now Her faded, narrowed eyes were cold, grey slits of ice. "I'm haopy to know your stay at Goodloe Choice has proved beneficial, Mr. Oliver. Did I understand you to say you are leaving before lunch?" "I didn't say." He knew that he was being politely ordered out "I'm leaving immediately, though. My car is on the way." Amanda bowed stiffly. Reuben gave a good imitation of it. His col lar was suddenly too tight. "I'm still grateful to vou, Mrs. Good loe," he struggled for self control. "If vou change your mind " 1 won t change it He went hurried out of doors. He couldn't breathe inside. He strode across the lawn, turned into the garden. His eyei1 were hot. So was his heart. She need not have sent him away with a barb that made it hnrd to remember past kindness. He hated her. He was sorry she was a woman and old utssv was rlcht! He held a couple of Jim Goodloe's I. O. U.'s he'd call them exact his oound of flesh make him crawl break that old wnmnn. too. Bllndlv he turned Into the path that led to the swimming pool. He did not see Judith until It was too late to retreat. (CrfiritH. J-'. Until SmiH Fr-ft") ifif I : ' - Mice Headquarter, " fN-- ' ffiSSp OF AN UNSOLVED-1 A)K 1 WSSSSlSSSSSwS. US SCORE "1$ To IS IMS-r - mL . Hollywood, eat., Murder at Scotland Yard. Nearly evoron haa heard of Scot land Yard, London's 'aoraus Metro polttan Police Headquarters, but few people know how the institution got Its name. Scotland Yard more correctly New flinHnrirt Vorrt la nnr In Arnt lanii . ... ; and Is not a yard. It Is a collection ( of buildings, In the botttsn baronial style, designed In 1B91 by Norman Shaw, R. A., famous 3rltlah architect. Scotland Yard derived Its name I from the fact that the police head quarters originally were built In 1839, , on the site of an old palace In Lon , don, where the kings of Scotland u&ed , j to stay' when they came to London ' to ao nomage to tne King or England. As London grew In size and the po lice force with It, officials decided to Tomorrow: A marr'are U arranged. ALIEN AGITATOR ABETtDEKN. April 18 (AP) Can ada was called a "faaMat nation" to day by Harry Bridges, Pacific coast CIO llrector, during the course of a debate which finally led to the Paci fic Coa&t Longshoremen's convention approving formal plans for organis ing east coast and gulf state long shoremen Into the CIO. Bridges' assertion was made when northwest and British Columbia delegates asked that British Colum bia organising not be aacrlflred for an organisational program on the east coajit, "We've got liberal government here. They've got a fascist govern ment in Canada ... a government that padlocks union halls," Bridges declared. His remarks were In reference to difficulties encountered In organis ing BritlAh Columbia longshoremen and warehousemen. NEAR FATAL TO POCATFLLA. Idaho. April ID. (API A four-year old boy w?w drank half a pint of whiskey h found In the seat of his father's automobile was sa ed from death Saturday by a fire department put in ot or. The child, Qali Varney. was found move to the, new -Thames Embank ment tract opened in 1862. On the site of a proposed national opera house. Including 70.000 acres of land, the New Scotland Yard found Its home. Strange as It seeems, shortly after the police obtained the site, the muti lated remains of a woman's body were uncovered these. The entire re sources of the criminal Investigation department were marshal lied to solve the mystery and dlcover the murder er. Scotland Yard's best detectives were assigned to the case. In the best manner of Sherlock Holmes super sleuth of fiction, the yard's finest de tectives tearched for clues to the mystery, without success. Thus, strange as It seeems, did the New' Scotland Yard come Into being on the site of a mystery murder. In the past half century the yard has achieved world-wide fame for its ef ficiency and ability to enforce Lon don's laws and solve her crlmes ynt, under Its very threshold, lies locked the secret of an unsolved crime. Tie Bowling Tournament. . One hundred men, 'bowling In 20 teams of five men each, in a threa game series counting one point per series, bowled 6 hours and ended up with a tie score of 15 to IS 1 The Match took place at the Hollywood (Calif.) Recreation Center on Febru ary 13, 1938. between Paramount and Columbia Studios. Tomorrow: What state seceded from the state that seceded from the U. S.t violently 111 by his father, jack Varney. City Physician J. W. Lynn reported. Two tanks of oxygen were used In reviving the youngster. 'The boy probably would have died in 30 minutes more," Doctor Lynn said. "His breathing had stop ped and be was In very bad shape when the pulmoter arrived." The child, confined to a hospital, seemed out of danger today, Doc tor Lynn safd. Eggs Safe OBLAND, Cal. (UP) The driver of an egg truck here Is convinced that the day of the unbreakable egg has at last arrived. He cracked up against an abutment of a bridge. Only one egg out of 76,000 was -broken, and that merely because a workman let It slip through his fingers, while the cases were being transferred to an other truck. Phone 265. Odelle Osborne West or Rosalie Leslie for a spring permanent Hadley'a Salon of Beauty. Cse Mall Tribune Want Ads. SrTS OH tSbt OF BEP TM'rW caroi with &A&F8AIX Each miss utCS Witn AR50lNPlN61rll)MP FlOOR.CRiKOFPRrr -ST C0M1K6 FROM . MOfHER DOWNSTAIRS QMS WHAT DID SHE SWr". 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