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
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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
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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.
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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. Attend
ants said he was walking in bis
sleep.
there were some sforw domestic scenes wheh
The mem arrived on -the & 20 after their wives hap
met the 5:)5 anp hap waited for eery-train sltfce -amp
all because frep per lev hap forgotten to spread the
word bv telephone, as he had promised to do that the men were
60ins to a ball game amd would be late
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