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iEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUTE, MEDFORD, OREOO MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1938.-
BASEBALL INDOORS
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS ?By JOHNHIX
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By BtANCHEMJfH FERGUSON
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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.
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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
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