PSGE SIX
MEDFORD MAIL TRTBTJSTE, MEPFOKP QftEflOy. TUESDAY, XPBIL 19, 1938
THE WORLD AT ITS WORST
By GLUYAS-WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
Tor further proof address the author, indoslnc stamped enrelope for reply. Ref . V. 8. PftL OS.
By BLANCHE
PERGU&ON
The glory So Fri The sat
world of the Maryland Goodioei
has crashed. Their lecurittei art
worthiest, and Judith Goodloe is
heartbroken became Gary Brent,
the man sh loves, hoi gone out
west Reuben Oliver, Injured
when thrown from hie hone, is
an unwanted 0Uet. A sell-made
millionaire, Reuben offers Ju
dith's grandmother a loan, and
ie cruelly mubbed. With hatred
' in hit heart Reuben ttumblei into
the garden.
Chapter 13
A Bargain
REUBEN did not see Judith un
til it was too late to retreat.
In scarlet swim suit, she was
seated upon the edge of the pool,
slim brown feet in the wat.r. She
saw him first. Noticed his stormy
face, and asked on a breathless
note: "What has happened, Mr.
Oliver?"
When he did not answer she
rushed on to a fear that had
ragged at her heart since his com
ing: "Has my brother been Irving
to borrow money from you?
"On the contrary, your grand
mother has refused a loan.
In sheer relief Judith laughed:
"One can always bet on Granl A
refusal to accept money shouldn't
make you look so murderous."
"I I've never been insulted he
me?" angrily, "Suppose Gran is
only human suppose she had let
you?"
"I wish she had. You see, I,"
with a blending of pride and hu
mility, "love you." He wondered
how he vVer dared to say it.
"Oh!" The heat of a thousand
furnaces burned in her face.
He said proudly: "I suppose
that is the crowning Insult?
"Gran would think so, but"
She was seized with a strange
trembling. She sank down on the
grass "But I I" She covered
her face with her hands.
Never had he felt so utturl: in
adequate. He had conquered life,
risen to undreamed of heights by
the sheer force of his will but he
stood by helpless a bit scared
He wondered what a man of her
own world would have done un
der the circumstances.
And suddenly he knew that a
man of her world would not have
forced a situation of this sort. He
would have acted more circum
spectly and with finesse through
a lawyer maybe avoided any
thing that savored of bestowing a
favor or paying a debt.
He said with a humility that
sat strangely upon him: "I'm sor
ry, Miss Goodloe. Everything I
say and do seems to be wrong. I
don't belong here. I'm going."
"Wait please." Gary hadn't
loved her. This man did. It was a
sop to her pride.
He was trying to hate this girl as he hated the haughty
old woman.
forn for offering to help over a
loiiKh spot." '
"What," sharply, "did you do?"
"Committed tho unnarrlnnnhl
sin.
"How?"
"Suggested to your grand-
momer tnat sne sell the box.
"You," coldly, "should have
known better.
"Why should I?" darkly angry.
"We love the box. It's part of
our lives."
"It's part of your pride."
"Well?" defiantly.
"I left your grandmother try
ing to figure out how to hold on
to both, without breaking the out
dated, silly rules you all live by."
, Judith's blue gaze swept him
contemptuously. "You don't even
begin to understand."
"I wish I didn't." Ho was trying
to hate this girl as he was hating
the haughty old woman in the
library. "Your grandmother asked
my advice. Before I gave it I of
fered to take up her notes."
She got slowly to her feet.
"Don't you know that was onlv a
crudo way of offering money?1'
"I didn't know any method of
averting bankruptcy could be
crude. Most people aren't so par
ticular." "It wouldn't be honest on our
side"
"It would on mine."
Judith dismissed his side with
a wave of her hand. "Don't you
know we're mortgaged to the eye
brows? The security Gran could
give you wouldn't be worth the
paper it was written on. Don't you
know that?"
"Yes," doggedly, "I know."
I.ove Acknowledged
CUM, straight, supple as a dryad,
l3 she came quite close to him.
"Why," impatiently, "did you
make surh t fool offer?"
He did not know how to dissem
blf. "1 wanted to keep you safe."
"Mo?"
D,vip:te his efforts to nurse his
n;K,- hit month softened to ten
derneM. 'You."
Jusi to it was like breaking
dow n dm and letting the water
rush in. hut instead ui a turbulent
sir sin, L-ovf acknowledged,
proved Hi-kciiv, !t, ciean
washing over him. healing all
can. rr.aKing him forget every
thing except her.
"You did this wild thing for
Fool's Dream
CLEAR-EYED, she searched his
face without seeing it. Instead
she was seeing Gary, debonair.
merry, as he snared away leav
ing her again to waiting to end
less years of waiting
The smooth purr of a high pow
ered engine recalled her. A shin
ing automobile with faultlessly
liveried chauffeur rolled up the
drive. In another minute this man
would go away in it believing hei
indifferent, insulted
She was hardly conscious of hei
words: "You you love me enough
to f
I ve dreamed a fool's dream
I never expected to tell you."
She placed a brown hand upor.
his coat sleeve. "I'm glad you did.'
His heart beat so fiercely il
sounded in his ears like the roai
or a cannon. "It can't mean a thin;
to you."
It can. a mere whisDer. "i:
does." It meant that she could cm
her losses. Go on with this man o;
spend her life waiting
The ecstnsv within him hea-
down everything else. Beat dowi
common sense, the nhiliiv in thin!
clearly to speak.
one said: "it means keepin
that," indicating the box, "1.
means keeping the only world 1
know."
You may keen It a free uif
without sacrifice." Reuben said
"It wouldn't be sacrifice please
believe that."
Ho could onlv stand mute ant)
staring. For so long a time he had
thought of her as a star, unattain
able. As a lily growing in a shel
tered pool
"Judith." Just to say her name
gave life a new meaning. Just to
touch her hand was a cure for all
the hard, starved years of his life.
He knelt in the soft grass be
side her and smiled into her eyes
It was a tender smile. Young with
all the youth that had eluded him.
"Judith!"
Suddenly she felt a great surgi
of pity for this man who was tc
save her from years of waiting
Almost without her own voli
tion she bent over and touched
the wisp of hair that dipped down
upon his forehead.
"Judith! Oh, God" It was hif
first real prayer.
(C-tiH. I'M. Sm.it rt.,.,
Tomorrow: Amanda surrenders.
'OF MICE AND MEN'
NAMED BEST DRAMA
LINDBERGH PURCHASES
LONELY ILLIEC ISLAND
8T. BIUEUC. Prnnce. April 10.
t (AP) Amprtpft Col. Chnrles A. Und
ixrsh may pursue hU scientific r
warch on a lonely Isle n quarter ftf
a ml'e oft the northwest tip of
Prance.
It reported here yesterrtnv the
NFW YORK. April IP (APt The
New York drama ciltlra elrelr elected
John Ste:nback'B play, "Of Mice and colonel had purchawl IlMre Inland
Men." the bent drum of the current ' nd ould nmkr 11 n,s residence ft
t , l part of each vear.
New ork teuton at tt. annual wa,d T o - u that flf
meetn.K 'oday. . ! otlda. where Uvea Or. Alexia CMrrrl.
with whom CMonel Lindbergh in
1935 developed the Artificial heart
and limps which opened a new cycle
of ntudy upon removed human
organ.
UNION PACrHC HAS
PROFIT IN FEBRUARY
API Union
reported net
The criika rhnan Steinbeck work,
di ituK'Jrt'd L-y hlmaclf from hie beat
seller hn nf the same title, by a
vol' of 13 to 4 on the fourth ballot
Thv iimnt r-up In the critic' opinion
was !"h:. ntn Wilder'! "Our Town."
The .tad in "Of Mice and Mn"
are pi: ceo iy Wallace Pord, Claire
Tti'-, v.nl Prvter!rk Crnwtord. vn
of f'-1 rnm .Skime. Ilolen RrodcrlCK.
Steinbeck live in California.'
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Bame Pattern for M Yrars
The checkered dresa Mra. Anna
Mellerup of Walnut Creek, Calif ,
wears today at 83 la patterned ex
actly after the one she made back
In 1884, when she was still In her
twenties.
In spite of the general admission
that it la a woman's privilege to
change her mind. Mrs. Mellerup has
stuck faithfully to the same check
ered dress pattern.
Styles have changed many times
since 1884. but the becoming full
aklrt. tight waist and full sleeves
of that first checkered dress have
never been changed through thr
yenrs, even to the slightest altera
tion. ,
Whenever she goes to church on
Sundays, a special dress Is worn by
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Mrs. Mellerup but It looks exactly
like all the other of her wardrobe.
In the Illustration above, she la
shown as she posed In one of her
checkered dresses In her youth.
All sewn on the same machine, her
dresses each have been made of from
five to seven yards of material, the
skirts four yards around.
Succession of Secessions
From the earliest times, Virginia's
eastern and western sections were
politically, economically and socially
at odds. Western Virginia was dem
crflttc. eastern Virginia aristocratic.
Older than the Union Itself was
the Idea of sepnrntlon of the two
sections, but -not tintll the Civil war
did opportunity arise for West Vir
ginia to become a separate state.
MtNiBffct Sjm&uu, Joe.
Up until 1861, a section of the U,
8. constitution precluded such a split
by prohibiting any new states from
being formed "within the Jurisdic
tion of any other state" without the
consent of the legislatures of the
states concerned as well as of the
congress.
However, with the secession move
ment of 1861, Virginia gave the 48
counties west of the Alleghenles a
chance to secede from West Vir
ginia Itself and form a separate state
called KanawhA.
On June 20, 1863, President Lin
coln had cleared the way for the
region to be admitted Jto the Union
aa a new state West Virginia as
all parties concerned were then fa
vorable toward the action.
Tomorrow: Burled Treasure!
profit for February while moat other
roada were operating "in the red."
February net Income for the ays
tern waa $142,517 after Taxea and
charges, compared with net loss of
$146,580 In the like 1037 month.
Phone 365. Odelle Osborne West or
Rosalie Leal I e for a spring permanent
Hadley's Salon of Beauty.
Flectrlcnl Worker Killed
LEWISTON, Idaho, April 10. (AP)
Fred L. Hamlin. 48. Coeur D'Alene
electrical worker, was killed when
pinned beneath an overturned road
ster on a country road five miles east
of here Sunday. Don Tracy, 30, who
arrived here recently from Eugene,
Ore., escaped with bruises and shock.
pioneer Hurled
LA GRANDE. April 19. (AP)
Funeral services were held Sunday at
Elgin for Mrs. Permelia Ann Beem,
76. pioneer Union county resident
who died Friday. A native of Mis
souri, she came to Oregon with her
parents In 1877.
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TAILSPIN TOMMY A Vital Question!
SO YOU SEE HOW IMPORTANT
II IS, JERRY, THAT WE MUST
HAVE SUPERIOR PLANES FOR
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FORRES
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WAR DEPARTMENT, BUT
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AMU ANXIOUS TO LEARN
IF ANYONE OTHER THAN
YOURSELF OBSE.RVED THIS
be, MODEL CLOSELY.
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