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PA'GE SIX JirEDFORD MATT, TRTBTTNTC, rEDFCRD, OT?F,noy. TUESDAY. MAY 10." 1938, SUBURBAN HEIGHTS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor further proof address the author, inclosing- a stamped envelope for reply. Res. U. .8. Pat Off. By BLANCHE FERGUSON sMJTH Tho So Fat: at love with dashing Gary Brent, Judith Good lot marries Reuben Oliver for hit money only to discover he is bankrupt. Twine are bom and Reuben loiei a menial mining Job. Through red-headed Cissy Rogers, who loves him, Reuben gets work In Gary's lumber camp and joy fully sends for Judith, Through an accident Judith'i tent tj not put up, and when she arrives Gary provide! a cabin for her. Returning from the woods, Reu ben finds that Judith has gone to a dance with Gary. Jealousy and black rage take possession of him. Chapter 31 'Cruel To Do Thai!' BACK at Plot 16 Reuben ripped oil his necktie, rolled up his sleeves and fell to work as though pursued by a million demons. If he had labored all day he worked with frenzy now. He drove staples. Put up the ridge pole. Unaided, spread the canvas. Tied it down. Have to take out that stake The tent solid at last, Reuben let up the cots. Screwed electric bulbs into sockets. Arranged the outside grill, then, still in the throes of senseless anger, went to Winding Hill cabin and over the grotests of Alt took blankets, undies, his sleeping babies to his own rooftrce and put them to bed, "Today?" aghast, "What time is it?" "About twenty of two." "Mercyl I haven't been out after nine-thirty for years." "Careful!" "It's true don't give me any credit for it though. There isn t any place to go in Fordney's Gulch except to movies so old the films are torn. They start at seven, so unless one stopped at Lacy's for ginger pop, one was home and in bed by nine-thirty. I don't like ginger pop." They were walking arm in arm, sometimes losing the Dath in the darkness. Slipping and tripping over loosened stones and tangled undergrowth. Finding the path again. Laughing at their blunder inglaughing at nothing. Pine drenched with dew made the night spicy. Above their heads a star shot. An adventurous cot tontail crossed the road ahead of them In panicky haste. The woodt whispered. Judy, Gary said struck by a sudden thought, "Remember the night we rode to Reistcrstown hunting watermelons?" And got caught in a terriblf storm and you lost your pocket- DOOK! "With $2 in It, tragedy!" "Good old days, Gary!" They did not speak again untL V - 7 r t mm He was driven by rage, pursued by a viillion demons. Then he sat outside the tent and tared unsccingly into the dark ness. Every bleat of the saxo phones, every throb of the drums added to his rage. Judith was iown there dancing d a n c i n g with Gary. His mind went back to the day in Maryland he had asked her to marry him. She loved Gary she had told him so that day. She still loved Gary , pnee he had been sure he was the better man! The dance at the navlllon dif- fercd from any dance Judith had aver attended. It was as cosmo politan as though it were on the edge of the Suez instead of the edge of an American forest. There were the usual number of men In while flannel trousers and dark coats. The usual number of women In new or not too new gowns. There were girls carefully waved. powdered, rouged, with vivid lips and finger nails. Girls whose slinky frocks clung like skin to their figures. There were demure little school maams in comfort able cottons or prim, serviceable silks. There were cow girls and boys from neighboring dude ranches. There were stars and ex tras from Hollywood. There were Swedes, Germans and French. There was a young Jap connected with the Embassy bent on enjoy ing America while seeing it. The orchestra played a tango. Judith moved gracefully through it. She felt herself coming alive, as a wilted flower freshens after a brief summer shower. Just to dance afiain! It mattered not with whom. To feel young, free, un troubled. Yesterday, the day be fore, all the days with their dull cold and searing heat, were for gotten. It was a fragrant Septem ber night. The music was good. She was not quite 23. She wanted this hour just this hour to go on forever Arm In Arm TOT until the last note of the last dance had been played did Judith think of going home. " I actually forgot my children." Judith sighed repentantly, "I needed this night, Gary. 1 feel re bornas though I'm about to start life all over and make a hotter job of it." She fell courageous, ready to meet and conquer any thing. Was it only this morning she had been discouraged, de feated? "We'll ride tomorrow, Judy. To day really." they came out on the summit be fore the cabin. 'My Babies!' IT'S still here," Gary teased, "and the oITspring probably snoring according to the best rules laid down for snorers." "I'll feel happier when I sec them. Don't laugh at me, Garyl Just wait until you have children of your own." She took the steps quickly and tiptoed to the sleeping porch. The bunk beds were only faintly out lined in the blackness. Automati cally Judith commenced to feel for disarranged coverings; to straighten them "I don't feel them! Switch on the light, Gary! I" the blood drained from her heart, "They're not here My babies!" "Don't be silly L" He turned from the empty beds. From her terri ble face. "Alf has them inside." "No I ain't," Alf shuffled to tin porch, "Mist' Oliver done carrie; them babies down Piney Way." Judith reached unsteadily fo: the porch rail. "Mr. Oliver?" Hei lips were stilt. She could no' throw off the terror that grippei her like a deadly malady. Gary said: "Are you sure Alf?" "Ya-assah! Yaas, ma am, Mis; Judyl I tol' him I'se here to mine, them children but he say that's all right and carried 'em away." A few feet from where Judith stood was a chair. She could no! reach it. The floor rose and fell about her like an angry sea. Gary pushed the chair close. "Sit down, Judith." In his heart he was cursing Judith's husband. "Oliver shouldn't frighten you so." "No. Cruel to do that." Her breath was coming more evenly now. The world was steadying. "Ho didn't mean to frighten me." She was trying to be fair "I thought they were kidnapped" "Shall I get the car and drive you to your plot or shall I bring nu..A- Krt--' "I'll go, Gary." Her submission angered him further. "Mist' Oliver done took all the bags but one." Alf informed them As fear subsided, ancer primi tive, suvagr possessed Judith Reuben had done this thing! Had dared to take her children her children! Tomorrow: The storm clouds bunt. Judge Barnard Of Lane County Dies EUGENE. May 10. (,V) Judgr Char-to P Barnnrd. 78. former county JudKA of Kano conntv nnd rccofintrrd for his work for pood rondi In thin tiectlon, died Sunrinv nt hi home, following nn rxtended IIIupm. Death eatnr rxnctly one ymr from the rirnth of Mrs. Bnrnnrd. Judit Barnard hud bwn a resident In Eucne since 1003, heln for sev eral years awoclattd with early stnue lines In this section. He operated stupes between Eugene and Florence and Eufrenc and the tipper McKenrli region, and often snid It was this ex perience hat "sold"' him on the lie cessl t y for good roa d s. At OrRfse. the perfume city of the Mediterranean, the scent InduMrv ivri 4 0O0 000 pounds of orange Mo aoiu& snd 3.000 ooo pounds of roue j leaves every year. Will Seek Opening Of McKenzie Pass BKND, May 10. (.-D Eugene and BMid representative.1. Informed of fav orable snow conditions between Sis ters and the summit of the Cascade mountains, derided today to ask the state highway department for two ro tary plows to remove drift from thft MeKenrie paw. Robert Jenkins of JMsters td there were only H feet of snow In the main portion of the bfi cut east of the lava beds. Jenkins skied to the summit In a heavy week-end rain storm. To nmmmr Hutrs. WASHINGTON. May 10 - i API J D. Ross, Bonneville dam adminis trator. ntd today tiir male rates for electrical power from the Columbia river project pmbahn uulit be an-a;- m- -fl thi 'Ai'.v Vok MtU rrtuuuo Waul AU. 5SftsB,! -ijF.J TMOZCOVBRYOFfMERtCfi To THB KlN6 INHtfS--Hh$ 5SBN UNCLAlMBP . CA0K riftHeveR&egN fOUNP,,, . HP PX."i'J7 - ) . 'I ..r,?. r WA frit 6ftCK1"f,CK4PeClAL rwtA cfti i w. to iHcomn, msq j . 71) I v. 'i 1 Ay-it! i Unpnld Rewnrd. There stands today, strange an tt seems, an offer of $2,260 for anybody who will convey the Important In formation to the King and Queen of Spain that America actually exists I Christopher Columbus signed and scaled the offer 445 years ao but nobod, It seems, has been able to find the document of discovery and deliver It. While returning to Spain on Feb ruray 13 or 14, 1403, after his memor able first voyage to the New World, he concocted the odd plan to Insure delivery of news of his work to the Spanish royal household. Beset by violent winds. Columbus realized there was a danger that his caravel might founder and carry to ffhit KUNNeOJ we Re NoT required oblivion all the Important data he had collected. Ho also was apprehen sive that the "Plnta" had already gone down. Columbus set to work, drafting two accounts of his discoveries, which he sealed hermetically In wax. To them he added an offer of 1,000 ducats tc be paid anyone finding and deliver ing the message Intact to Spain's rulers. He placed the documents In two barrels, one of which he set on tho deck. The other he threw overboard, trusting that, some day, some un known tierson might find the mes sage on some lonely coast and carry out his instructions. Strange as It seems, history has no record of the cask ever having been ItcNufht Srndkitf, Uk, $'!0'3& found. Of course, Columbus did reach his destination and was able personally to convey his amazing story to Ferdinand and Isabella. Vet somewhere, today, lies Colum bus offer possibly still Intact and sealed In wax In a barrel. Its fate In all probability will forever remain a mystery. Backup Trnlns. Passengers riding the Puget Sound Shore railroad from Seattle to Tacoma In 1884 got to ride ahead of the en gineer for, strange as tt seems, the trains had to back up all the wiyt There was no turntable In Seattle. First train to make the trip covered the distance In three hours. Tomorrow: First Depart ment Store In l ulled States. Oregon Forests To Close Sunday 8ALEM. May 10. The closed season In Oregon's forests will begin next Sunday, when permits must be obtained by persons who Intend to burn on property in or near forest lands, J. W. Ferguson, stato forester, said today. The closed season will end Decem ber 31. unless the governor opens the forest before that time. All logging, milling and other woods operations in western Oregon must obtain permits before starting or con tinuing activities. 4 Gdynia, port on the Baltic. Is not only a busy harbor, but the seashore playground of Poland. i Sleep Walker Falls PORTLAND. May 10. (AP) Charles Belt. 15. tumbled down 13 steps at his home Saturday and was taken to the Multnomah county hospital. Sunday he fell 20 feet from a win dow on the first floor of the hospital and Injured his back again. 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