MEDFORD MATL TRTBUNE, MEDFOTID, QREGOy. TUESDAY, APRIL 26. 1938.
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SUBURBAN HEIGHTS
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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'ilie Story So Far: Lou..., . ..
one Ise, aristocralie J u d 1 1 i
Goodloe hat just married ReuOen
Oliver self-made man and out
sider or hit money. Desperate- ,
ly in ioue with Judith and hoping
aoatrut hope, Reuben hasn't told
her that hit fortune it evaporat
ing. The fatal telegram arrive!
during the ceremony, and Citsv
Ropers, who loves Reuben, holdt
it back. Then Reuben readt it.
With ear in hit heart, he tells
Judith.
drama in which thero was no line
acting, no elaborate atage letting,
lighting, propa or trick.
Blood hammered in Judith'i
ears. He was offering to take her
j back to free herl It percolated
throuch her brain slowly, while a
shamed color stained her face. So
that was the type he thoueht
herl A cheap gold digger. "You
probably mean well." icily, "but
you're insulting me."
He thought: "I've done it again!
Another blasted code." If she didn't
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Chapter 19
Real Life Drama
AS Reuben faced his wife he re
alized a man needs all the love
woman can give him all the
confidence. He felt it in this mo
ment He was destined to feel it
with the cruel keenness of a
double-edged sword in many,
many moments.
Studying his stricken face, Ju
dith remembered that she must not
Judge him by her own standard.
She as a Goodloe. Gnodloes were
good sports. He had fulfilled liii,
promise. She owed him the very
roof above her
She said with a fine show of in
difference: "It doesn't matter,
really, one way jr the other."
"Doesn't matter?" Doubting his
ears, even as he was doubting his
integrity, "Doesn't matter?"
"No."
The burden of all the world
dropped from him. H- stooped and
istSff IIS
J 1 1 . if "Pr Ci"y-' Poor -
mL9 J UWfM. ben! Poor me!"
WmmfMiA
kissed her gently. Then aealn not
so gently with all his heart's
hunger. He said on a note of pity
It would be bad enough II vou
loved me. Judy."
Judith said: "We must go back
to our guests."
In a hideous walking nightmare
ne louowea ner. in this, the first
hour of their lives together it was
she who had been strong. The
thought jangled discordantly in his
brain. "I've got to let her go She
will want to go "
Only Cissy noticed that he was
not ouite the same man who had
left the dance. Cissy noticed it with
1 great tearing at her heart.. Her
eagle was being forced down to
earth. Wings clipped. Courage
singed. She looked at Judith, radi
ant and poised, and knew not only
Jealousy, but actual hatred.
Discarded?
FROM the top of the stairway,
1 . the bride turned and tossed her
bouquet to tha expectant rainbow
of the bridesmaids, who stood
looking up with avid outstretched
Jeweled hands. Only Cissv stood
apart, making no effort to catch
the white shower. J idith, seeing,
no longer wondered. Cissy loved
Reuben.
"Poor Cissy! Poor Reuben! Poor
me!" It was all a queer Jumble.
Amid a shower of rice, confetti,
old shoes, she went away. "Goodby
Gran, darling Jim--"
"Wr'te often, Judv "
"Isn't she the lucky girl, going
around the world?"
"Send me a spaniel from Japan,"
omenne shouted.
"I like white jade, Judy It's
lucky, you know."
Dodging rice Reuben rlimbed In
the car beside her. The door
slammed. They went whirling
away through the night.
When the home gates were be
hind them, young Mrs. Oliver,
brushing rice from her smart blue
suit, shaking out her silver fox
scarf, looked at her u.i.iband In
the critical manner of one scan
ning a stace figure through an
opera glass. The play was end d.
The curtain was about to be rung
down. There was a hint of weari
ness in her voice. "That's that!
Now what?"
Reuben said with curious de
tachment, "If you're wife, vou'll
let me take you right back to
Goodloe's Choice--to your grand
mother." And Immediately tho curtain
was rolled up again, on a real life
go back he'd be breaking one af
ter another all his life. He said
wearily: "It will be easier "
"To go back on my wedding
day- -discarded?"
"It wouldn't be that. It Isn't as
though you cared."
"They would know," with un
conscious cruelty, "that you're nol
what vou pretended to be."
"They'll know it anyhow."
Her eyes narrowed. They re
minded him of Amanda's eyes.
"They won't guess you fooled me
(00."
He was too bewildered to resent
all she implied. He said: "It's a big
sacrifice to make for pride."
I ve made a bigger one."
Married For Life
THE car rushed through the
night. Air, sweet with the tang
of ripened apples fanned them. In
the east a star sho'. Judith looked
out of the window. Reuben looked
straight ahead with unseeing eyes.
ne was not winning of her or of
her words that hurt, like a too
heavy hand upon a raw sore. He
was planning how to come back.
Unconsciously he was exhila
rated by the prospect of getting
Into a flcht again taking off his
coat, rolling up his sleeves, ham
mering his way brack. But for thi
girl at his side, he would not have
been the least unhannv. If she
loved him he could take a licking
cnin up laugh it ott
In their drawing room, enroute
to New York, the wall of ice be
tween them melted or rather Ju
dith knocked it down. She was
Goodloe the habit of a lifetime
of generations, doas not vanish at
one Blow. Courtesy was a primary
law. Good sportsmanship a car
dinal virtue.
"It's silly for us to start out thi?
way, Reuben. We're married for
life and I come of hardv stock.'
she laughed almost in the old way
"I might live to be as old as Gran!
She held out thi stead, smal1
brown hand that wore the new
wedding ring.
He forgot that he was broken
humiliated, unloved. He forgot i!
he ever knew, tht polish, culture
breeding can control human be
havior to such an extent that a!
except the most canny are de
ceived. His heaven returned.
closed around him. That he was
literally on his knees to her, in
stead of on the throne beside her.
bothered him not at all.
He ordered suDoer served In
their compartment. Judith un
pinned her orchids, put them ir
water. She smiled at him across
the 'lttle table. He listened, torn
between enchantment and de
spair, while she chattered about
the places they would see Burma
with its temples He had planned
to buy sapphires there.
The suite reserved for them at
the Waldorf Astoria was the best
in the house. He kept it. Thei'
boat was sailing tomorrow. He'd
have to do some tall scouting.
His tall scouting amounted t
nothing A morning spent wit
his brokers and talking over lone
distance to Warder, not only veri
fled Clem's telegram there wa
nothing to be salvaged but re
minded him that the new high
priced machinery Installed at thi
Lutie Just is must be paid for
Debts, debts, debtsl
(Cctruli. Kit. timi Smk rr'
Tomorrow: A dish of eodn.
YOUTH BADLY SHAKEN
BY FATAL ACCIDENT
DENVER, April 38 (l W11'
11am Burnham. 18-ycar o ff cogt
tudfnt, hit faro drawn and tfar
ttattiPd, rrstcd at , h! horn hero
today, nwklnn to recover from the
ahocJc of an aecictrntnl hxtln(i
during which he killed hla beat
friend.
Burnham, a freshman student t
the Colorado School of Mines, apent
the day with his widowed mother.
Mrs. June Burnham, at their home
here. The youth obvious'.y wi bad
ly ahaken over the tragedy at hi
rooming hotiM in Oct den, Colo .
lat nlcht when he accidentally hot
and fcIed Robert A. fitflnmrj.-r, Jr..
Bl-year eld daa&mat lrora New
Orleans.
HI VETOES PROPOSAL
PORTLAND. Ore, April 3 (AP
The hoard of directors of the Indus
trial Employe Union. Inc., holdlnn
I Its first annual meeting here, voted
down a proposal that wagea of com
mon labor tn email lumbering opera
ttona be reduced to 43 oenta an hour
to compete with wagea reported to be
paid APL and CIO unionist.
The preaent scale Is SO cent an
hour.
Angus D. Ohtaholm, ITU president,
aid tha directors unautmously con
sidered' differential of 10 cent and
12 '4 cent an hour between small and
large operations sufficient.
Closing time for Too Lata to CI
mtj Ada u 1 30 p, m.
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chief of Ihe Omaha Indians
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Soldier of 8 Battles
A cherished possession of Chris
tian Hiltnor. Philadelphia News em
ploye, la a remarkable Victory meda!
with eight bars attached.
Hlltner waa J list 22 years old when
be engaged In the eight World war
battles In 1918 and won the multiple
badge of honor, a record few men
onn boast of.
Enlisting In 1016, Hlltner served
with the H-Troop. 6th oavalry, sta
tioned In the Big Bend district, at
Sierra Blanco. Texas. Finally goln
oversea, ho became a corporal tn
the 408th motor supply train, Com
pany 368, of the famous Mallet re
serve. In 1918, Hlltner saw action In four
consecutive defensive engagements:
The Somme, March 21 to April 2;
the A lane, May 27 to June 0; the
Montdldler-Noyon, June 9-13; and
the Champagne-Marne, July 15-18.
He next served In four offensive
In the same year: The Aisne-Marne,
July 18 to August S; the Somme
August 6 to September 17; the Olse
Alsne, September 6 to October 11:
a nd the Somme of October 12 to
November 11.
Burial of Blackbird
A victim of smallpox. Chief Black
bird of the Omaha Indians died In
1800 with the request that he be
burled sitting on his favorite horse
Accordingly, his body was seated
on the animal end led to the summit
of a hill near the Missouri river In
what Is now Nebraska. Sod and dirt
were piled about the animal until a
great mound burled both.
Atop the hill, now known
Blackbird Hill, was placed a tall
pole supporting the chief's scalps he
had taken In war. aa a final tribute.
Bee Wins Ball Game
Lady Luck and a bee saved the day
for the Massachusetts Reformatory
All-Stars during a recent baseball
game with the West Cardinals.
Just as Pltcber George Johnson of
the West Cardinals wound up to le
one go over the plate, the bee stung
him. Johnson balked so the umpire
ruled and the All-Stars' runner on
third scored a run. tying the game.
Tomorrow; The Wave of Deathl
Milk Quenches Fire
When Water Gone
WARSAW, Ind.. April 25. AP
After exhausting the supply of water
in a cistern, the Warsaw fire depart
ment stopped a passing milk truck
and pumped 500 gallons of milk on
the burning farm home of Mrs Ed
Hongland. saving It from destruction.
Jacksonville Loses
In Track, Field Meet
GRANTS PASS. April 26. (AP)
Grants Pass high defeated Jackson
ville 84 to 36 In a track and field
meet here Saturday. Caton of Ash
land, lone representative of the third
school, placed first In the 100 and
200 yard dashes for ten points.
Turkey in the Snow
HARLEM, Mont. Hearing a strange
noise in a snowdrift, John Harmon,
rancher, started digging. He uncov
ered one of his turkey gobblers, alive,
but weak. He said It had been miss
ing eight days.
Phone 26b Ode tie Osborne West or
Rosalie Leslie for a spring permanent
Hadley's Salon of Beauty.
IF SOtfE OF THE WOMEN MEMBERS 0FriE
COMMUNnY CLU5 HAVE" "THEIR WAV, FRED PETUEV
WILL NOf BE RE-ElEcfED To THE HOUSE COMMITTEE
AFfEF HE HAT) friE FRONT HALL VARN15HED ONE PA
FORSETT1N6 -THEV WERE HAIKG A MEEHN6 INSIDE
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