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JkS. oxwoixl " By GLUYA5 WILLIAMS; LUCK STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof sddreu the author, lncloshur stamped, envelope tor reply. Re. V. S. Pat Oft. By BLANCHEITH FERGUSON i,.e Story So Far: Judith Goou lot hat tht code of an old Mary land family to ttippor fur Reubtn Oliver hat only tht tthici o) hit own making. Lov ing anothtr man, Judith tnarrfw Reuben for hit money to dUeouer. after tht wedding, that hit for tune hat betn iott. Reuben iouet Judith desperately, but offer to release her. Judith dtterminet to tticfc to her bargain. Chapter 20 ui-ntleman'a Agreement D EUBEN'S failure wai ai com plete as the darkness which follows the blowing out of a fuse in a high powered electric light. If he went whining to Clem if he went like a whipped dog with his tail between his legs but he woman t go. Me a stay nere pick up a chance! At lunch time with a humility that sat strangely upon him he told Judith the worst. "The trip is off, I've got to stay and fight for my life." He took the envelope con taining two long strips of tickets from his pocket, I'm turning these In," purposely he avoided looking at her. "then I'm going down to the liner, there mav be telegrams of Importance." "I'll go with you." "Won't it make you feel ter ribly?" "No." "Ill take you everywhere some day." She had never been on a big boat before. She was childishly delighted with everything she saw The great wall of the ship's ides. Rushing stewards. Laugh ing, chatting groups of people. The cabin that was to have been theirs was literally lined with flowers, candy, books. Belated wedding presents, that had been sent directly to the liner. Hurriedly Judith read cards. At last she came to the one she searched for "Oodles of love and good luck from Gary." the card read It was attached to an Indian bracelet of beaten silver and set with amethysts an inexpensive, artistic trifle "Oodles of love" Judith slipped the bracelet over her wrist and held it out for her husband s inspection; From uary a bit breathlessly. Reuben glanced at It critically: A cheap thlngl" "But pretty." "Quite. A duplicate of the one Cissy wore at our wedding. "I thought It had a familiar look. Judith achieved a lightness. "Ready?" Reuben stuffed a let ter in his pocket. "Gosh, did vou ever see so much plunderl" "How will we get It all away?" "We'll let It stnvl" "Let it stnv? Wcddintf nresents bon voyage gifts I want them. evry one." The stuff filled four taxis beside the one thev rode in. The next day thev moved from the elaborate suite to a roon. with bath The gay baskets with their pert bows, the flowers, the boxes, left little space for Judith and Reuben. He had to remove long stemmed American Beauties from the bath tub before he could bathe. He tied his tie before a mirror al most obliterated with blooms. Forty-eight hours In New York convinced Reuben that he could not come back without readv cash. A man with more background could undoubtedly have staved off dire poverty, but Reuben had flashed meteor like from nowhere. He was doomed to be swallowed up by obscurity lust as quickly, unless 'I Refuse To Stoop' UE had one hope one candle I1 still unburnt. He told Judv about it that night. "I can start again make you comfortable. Judv. if" His spurt of courage deserted him. He sounded unconvincing vrn to himself. "Well?" He rushed on striving for casu alness: "If you will lend me $100. OOO of the money I gave vou." She was too surprised for speech. The silence was so pro longed It curdled as cream does under sudden summer lightning. "I won't need it long " He was suppliant. He should have been dominant but It was Impossible to feel anything but a worm under the scorn of her eves. She said: "All that was left from the debts I signed over to my grandmother." "You can gel It back." "You're asking me to recall a gift?" Another rode rearing Its seroent-like head between them. "What would Gran think?" "What could she think except that I'm in a hole? Does what Gran thinks mean more to vou than mv 'utiire niv verv existence?" "What Gran thinks of vou moans exactly nothing. What she thinks of me means a lot." With eiTort ho controlled his lemner. If he could make her see with his eyes. "Judith" She hastened to defend herself. The money means little to me ter mvself. You know that" "1 wish it meant more." "Perhaps it's just as well since Ihings nave turned out so badly." 'That's the point. You can turn the tide. Saving your husband," with a rush of rage, "should mean more than saving your pride." "You mean saving you should mean more than saving my peo ple." "You can't grasp it Listen" "I grasp it too well.' "I've struggled I'm still float ing. Are you going to let me be swept under when a little cash or," with sudden inspiration, "a mortgage on the boxwood" It was match to tinder. "Do you know what a gentleman's agree ment is?" "How should I know?" coldly. They glared, two savages for the moment. "You refuse to help me?" Reu ben could not quite believe it He looked at her without seeing her His mind went back to the dayj when all life was shared willing ly or by stealth. "You refuse?" "I refuse to stoop to something I'd be ashamed to remember all my life." "So that's It?" "I married yot that's my pari of the bond. I'll live up to it as bes I can. The monev was vour Dart- now you want it back I Well." she raised defiant eyes to his, "you won't get itl I'm going to keep them safe." Then go home and be safe with them," angrily. A breathless moment ticked away. "I'll make all allowances for vou. Reuben. You're worried." Her quiet scorn was more searing than any outburst "What i poverty to fear?" The Dark Side HE surveyed her slowly. From the dicolletaoe of her black velvet gown, her neck and shoul ders arose ivory tinted, satin smooth. He felt a sudden pity foi her. felt his anger oozing. "Sll down, Judith. I want to talk to vou. She sat on one of the twin beds He sat on the other. He was wear ing dinner jacket a gardenia. Save for the bafflement in his bronze eyes he looked like a man who has the world in a sling He said with a slight hesitance: "You know 1 have neither background nor in fluence, such as has surrounded you all your life?" "I know." "1 have a few friends darn good ones. I can borrow a little from each." When she said nothing his re sentment flared anew. "That doesn't shock you?" They re vour friends, she re minded him. He felt a savage desire to hit her. to hurt her. She was goading him too far. "I have my own notions of what's white and what's yellow." He smiled crookedly, "1 learned to discriminate in a hard school where you lave to do your think ing quickly and straight." Not auite meaning to he found himself telling her something of his early life. Forests beautiful. Cruel too. Cold. Hunger stalking with the wild beasts. The valiant effort of the 11 vear old boy to act a man's part. To share with a buddy take your medicine standing, fight for your rights, not to lie or cheat that's about all I had to go on." Until now It had always been enough. She was stirred by pity of the sort one feels for an II) used ani mal. Pitv without the svmpath' of kinship. Coarse men. dirty. Ig norant, rough, were alien to her. He felt something of this, bu' the floodgates were opened "Evei in those davs with men cursinr lighting, killing. I think I knev there would some day be vou. Ju dith. I had my dream of wife anr1 home. It was for you I wanted power, leisure, all that was fines' and best. I never want vou tc touch the dark side of life!" He tried again to make her un derstand what poverty can be i gradual letting down. Squalor Dinginess. Defeat. "I'm not afraid of those thing? Reuben. I'm sticking." They moved to a smaller hotel Judith gave the chambermaid the ornamented baskets. She stored the wedding presents In the closet, under the beds. She spent the days out of doors. Each evening when Reuben came home tired and dis couraged, he found her waiting defiantly cheerful, bubbling ovet with news of the day. He found her chatter soothing It helped him to forget for a while: to gather courage to face, another day. Thev never mentioned the hedge or borrowing monev from Grai again. Thev seldom mentioned anything of vital importance. In stead they went nonchalantly tc theaters, to night clubs where the spent monev thev could no. afforr to spend. Throb of drums. Beat o' saxophones. Haze of smoke High pitched laughter. Tinkle of glasses Forgetfulness for an hour. ICetrrv!. lilt. tUii Smut rt.,m Tomorrow: A Gooriloe goes te Ford ney's Gulch. LOS ANCIEttS. April J7. (JPi Sandra Mnrtln. former secretary to Slmone Simon, was hrtcl under aio, 000 bond today awaiting pri-llmlnary hrarlne Frldny on a charge he de frauded the actrv-s ot nrnily 2U oou Mlna Simon, after signing a crimi nal complaint agalnttt her former secretary, aid: "I am very sorry to do this. 1 did not mind lotting the money ao much as to learn that my trust In one whom I trusted implicitly ha br-en shattered." "They wilt be paid for til!.' Mr Martin declared, referring to Miv Simon and dlitrict attorney t InveaU- gatora who arrested her. "1 didn't steal anything from Miss 81mon and she knows It. I will have tha last word In court about tl.at." EUGENE GOONSTER IN NEW TRIAL ARGUMENT EUOENE. April 37. (,V1 RiutfilR tlifir motion for n new trial o.ly on the grounds there 1a newly-di8-covrrcd fvtrirnw, .Mtornry for Hiitfh W. RnynolcK convicted taut month on lnbor terrorism churls here, argtiKl tnc motion In 'runt of Jurttte O f Skljnvorth in circuit court this morn ing JudKc Sklpworth mmounmt he would take the motion under ftUvisw mrnt and would announce his de cision when he returns from Ltncolt county where he will be holding court the nxt few davs. . . Phone '.t;S Oriel if OOwifflf rtpH ot t.walie Le;r r:i a prmk pera-anent Hadley a salon ot Beauty. v i m jar i, s. 1a If 90ftf KlflHrSHD of mmbb, UCM0 MR JfWft, IN 1633,.. Wimto mom) The Wave of Denth A tidal wave of unbelievable pro portions was the tragic aftermath of the greatest explosion of the past oentury eruption of the volcano, KraJtatoa, In 1883. Powerful enough to carry ships miles Inland, completely submerge small Islands and drown over 30.000 people, the groat wave, sometimes 80 feet high, raced at speeds up to 800 M. P. H. to the four corners of the world. Five years after this tragic event, the Royal Society of Great Britain's Krakatoa committee published at great expense an amazing and de tailed 600-pago report that broimht to light for the first time the In credible Import of disaster. Among the facts brought out were these: On May 30, 1883, first Indications of the Impending disaster were booming sounds heard In Jnva 100 miles distant from the volcanic Island In the Strait or Sundra. These climaxed August 27 In the tremend ous explosion which blew away the entire northern and lower portion of the Island of Krakatoa. The noise was heard 3000 miles away. Submarine cavities 1000 feet deep yawned where before the Island had risen to 1400 feet' above sea level The tidal wave, thrown up by the violent outburst, was 50 feet deep when it swept the coasts of Sumatra and Java, Inundating complete vil lages. The wave, according to. the com- SMARTS TOR SCHOOL, WHisnms cheerilV cms, tor bud bemis, who SHOUTS TR0M WINDOW HE ISHf 6DIM6 1b SCH0DI BECAUSE HE FEU. MFHIS BICttLE AND HOW HIS AHKtf rfhtx (W fn .tot M WHO -friit uiM Ue. lYrP lft RF1K6 MARRIED AMD SO HtsJ EJVDSED FROM SCHOOL Wtisnrs FOR EDPIE SE12FR. TiMDS ATrPE BURS W friE SEL7.ER5' LAST NI6HTAND EDDIE rSSTiWlrl6 HOME 1b MOVE FURNITURE GUIS FOR EARL MERRILL WHO' REPORT'S HE'S BEW6 KEPT HOME UNTIL fHE POCTbR COMES BECAUSE MAYBE HE HAS CHICKEN.' POX (Copyright 1038, by Tha Btll Hymlicata, lac.) CONTINUES DEiECTEMY TO SCHOOL, W0NDERIN6 WHY 50ME KIP5 HAVE AU. THE LUCK r-17 3 'MATTER POl By C M PAYNB mlttee, reached Karachi. India, 3033 miles distant, In a little over nine hours a speed of 340 miles an hour At Port Alfred, Africa, the wave at tained a speed of 388 miles per hour Observers checked Its speed from the Cape of Good Hope to the English Channel, found It averaged 483 M. P. Greatest recorded speed of the tidal wave was from Kratatoa to Honolulu where, because of the great 50O-fath-om depths, an average speed of 800 M. P. H. was attained over the 8, 3 26 -mllo distance. Greatest height of the wave was ob served at 80 feet, yet a San Francis co It measured only six Inches It had dissipated itself except in speed. Tomorrow: Huh slavery been abol ished In the V. 8.? GERMANY WITHDRAWS FROM NEW YORK FAIR WASHINGTON, April 37. (ff -German Ambassador Hans Dleskhoff Informed Under Secretary Welles this morning that Germany would not take part In the world fair In Nw York next year. The ambassodor also asked what the United States Intended to do about the salo of helium to Germany. Dleckhoff told Welles Germany was unable to be represented at the fair because of the largrt amount of for eign currency Involved In erecting a pavlllan and In mnklng the necessary financial guarantees. Rnllrond Pioneer Pies. LA GRANDE. April 37. (p) Al Bldeler, one of the oldest pioneer railroad men in eastern Oregon, died at his home In Union today. He was employed by the Union Pacific and the old Central railway for many years. The funeral will be held Thursday. (1 Ave, "Y, Wou I NfceT J y ECCUMD I rSeEMliETTEXSl OSfcD VS- l JS V J vjk4AIT3r va t-Hat 11 rz- v. t'M . . v IttOogtrt, 1938, trat! TAILSPIN TOMMY The Snatch! By HAL FORREST At the crack of dawn, jerry is up. he does not wait fo breakfast, but HURRIES TOWARC THE AIRPORT TO KEEP HIS FLYING APPOINT MENT WITH TOMMY AND SKEETER. HE ENTERS THE ALMOST DESERTED FIEU n 3. .' JI09 ' MAYBE I -5- 1 , 1 , f f GOT UP 1 ! , B , NO, I CHDNTl V TOO EARLY, I I THAT MUST " - AFTER I BE THEIR .gg' fC LIMITED TIME ONLY! SEND SELF -ADDRESSED (3 I YwV-Xff v -- STAMPED ENVELOPE TO HAL FORREST, THIS PAPER FOR Jill VVjiw a. aAq SET OF MQPEL PLANS OF THE D0U6LAS P.S.T. PLANE. MISTEC TOMKINftl MISTED. MILLIGAN I'M here! 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