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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.
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t.walie Le;r r:i a prmk pera-anent
Hadley a salon ot Beauty.
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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-
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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.
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