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MEPFOTtD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOTtD, OREGON; WEDNESDAY. MAY 11, 1938. PAGE EIGHT T-.fTy WTLUAM3 STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author. Inclosing a (tamped enrelope'for reply. Reg. U. S. Pat Off. LIMELIGHT ' By BLANCHE MJTH FERGUSON The Story So lui. ' tasking Gary Brent. Judith Uooa lot marrlet Reuben OUvtr tor nil money only to learn he 1 bank rupt. Birth o1 twtnt. unemploy ment and poverty follow. Then . Reuben set work In a lumber camp Gary manages and joyfully lend for Judith. On Judith' ar rival Gary provide a cabin tor ' her and taken her dancing. Re turning from the woodn Reuben discover what ha happened. Blindly angry he remove the babie to hi tent. Terror, then rage grip Judith when the comet back to the empty house. Chapter 32 The End Or The Beginning? H OVING hastily about the dim, 1V1 fragrant bedroom, picking up imall garments, comb, brush, her faded blue linen ninging tnem all into the open bag. Judith tried vainlv to down her growing re sentment. Why couldn't he have left her here to this wnite Datn, to these firm smooth beds, to com fort tor just one night? Judith shut her ears to common ense. Reuben was sulking. Jeal ous of her comfort. A dog in the manger. Because he nad failed to provide all this himself. Her nerves were still quivering, her pulses not quite steady. The tent at plot 16 was dark as Egypt under its pine-tree. Neith er Judith nor Gary saw the khaki clad Amirs sittine in the ooening. Bringing the old car to a wobbly halt Gary said: "1 don't notice any light in the window to guide the wanderer nome. "Everything is right as a trivet, Judith assured him. "Drive my Rolls back to your place, Uary You can return it tomorrow." "I'm thanking you for the most wonderful evening!" Terribly he wanted to kiss her but he didn't even touch her hand. "Goodnight, Judy." "Goodnight, Gary!" He got into the car and rattled away. Judith stood for a moment watching the red tail light dis appear, then she turned and went slowly up the slight incline to the tent. A tall figure arose wraithlike and filled the opening. "Reubenl" At the sight of him her anger burst into a flame that defied sup pression. He had been listening, eavesdropping. "Why didn't you pop up sooner, Jack-in-the-box?" Weariness and black rage tied his tongue. He stepped aside to allow her to enter' the tent ahead of him. Judith held back. "You. go first and make a light." Stooping his tall length Reuben went inside. Judith followed, slowly, uncertainly, blinking at the sudden harsh light which Reu ben switched on. For a fleeting second they stood staring, silent a few yards be tween them the width of the world between them. Each knew it was there. Neither tried to span it. Judith was startlingly aware of a new virility, a new poise about the man who. was her husband. His hair, so lately released from the barber's administrations, had been worried by restless lingers until every hair stood tumbled, vital and dully bronze. His shirt, turned in at the neck, displayed a length of sunburnt throat. It modellei his superb shoulders. Shining puttees drew attention to his straight legs With effort Judith turned her attention from him to the tent with its taut white sides, its slop ing top deep enough to divide Into three rooms. Useless to pretenj- Interest in the tent. Reuben's masculinity dominated it; filled it to overflow ing. This new thing between them sizzled and seethed like water too hot and too long confined in steam jnges. An explosion was Inevi- Dully, but with a mixture of surprise and relief, Judith thought: "This is the end the end of my marriage." With caveman exultance Reu ben thought: "This is where I should have started that day be fore the bishop. This is the be ginning." Their eyes locked in hostile combat. One would go down to defeat. Each watched for the other to make the first move. Now Or Never THE beginning or the end7 They had come to grips with Life, with each other, Judith and Reu ben, who until now had so very carefully avoided combat. Judith, hardly knowing what she did, picked a piece of wrap ping paper from the floor and started to fashion a shade for the electric bulb. "No use to awaken the children." Reuben made no attempt to steady the swaying light. "I don't believe dynamite could disturb them." -If they had essayed no more conversation all might have been well. Fate was giving them a chance but they would nave none Davies Nominated As Russian Envoy WA8HINOTON, May 11 (M) Joseph E. Davte. pre cut amtinrtor to RllMla, wa nominated by Prwl dent Roowvelt today to be ambaa aador to Belgium. The president several months .arc had announced Davies would be transferred to Bruesela aa soon as he cleared up soma pending mat ter at Moscow. Davlea will aucoeed at Brussels Ambassador Hugh fllbson, who la re tiring from the diplomatic service No successor to Davies at Moscow had yet been chosen. Womln( Wool Sold RAWLINS. Wyo., May 11. 1 API Approximately CA5.000 pounds of the 1938 wool clip his been aold here at prices ranging from 17 to IB cents a pound. Cm Mali tribune Waul Ad. of it. Reuben sala. 'You drive up?" His tone, conveyed resent ment "I bought Jeff Snow's old ear." Her tone conveyed defiance. "A waste o money." It waj not what he meant to say at all. "It's been so long since I had any y. a can hardly blame me for not handling it wisely." This was the kind of thing he could not fight. He felt himself Lweakenlng. Felt his anger oozing. tie man t want it to ooze. Me re-1 minded himself that sooner or later one must take life by the horns or be tossed up in the wreckage. That now or never ho must assert himself. She had be littled him publicly "You were lucky to get here." "How do you mean lucky?" " "In that pile of iunk." She had let Gary Brent drive it. Let him see their poor makeshifts. Let him see the pass to which her marriage had brought her "The drive up was pleasant compared to my arrival here." "Not trying to tell me you didn't enjoy meeting Brent7" "I was referring to having no place to go. To feeling like a home less animal." She knew she was being unfair but she kept right on, "You provided no place for me. If it hadn't bean for Gary" If it hadn't been for Gary I The banked storm of his anger burst in its fury. He could fight now. "And so you accepted the loan of a house. . Judith shrugged: "What's a roof between friends?" "If you take that attitude" "What other one can I take? Where else could 1 go?" asked Judith reasonably a shade too reasonably. "You could have waited an hour or two until Pike got your tent up. You preferred to humiliate me." "I didn't give you a thought." "Your frankness is refreshing. What sort of fool do you think I am?" Landslide ER shrug was more deadly In sulting than words. "You're going to give me a thought from now on," hotly. "Yes?" lazily. , "How long do you think you can go on cheapening me?" "I? Cheapen YOU? Impossi ble." He looked at her a dark wom an in white, with blue beads around her neck the woman be had put on a pedestal; the woman who could make a mushroom of him o o 1 d 1 y and critically he looked at her and hated herl All the suppressed resentment that had been seething against her since his wedding day took Are Every superior smile and uplifted eyebrow; every veiled sneer; every real or imagined condescen sion clamored for outlet, for re taliation. It was like the begin ning of a landslide rocks, trees, houses, grass, earth all being loosened, seeping and tumbling down a vast mountain, colliding violently one with the other, swept by the hurricane of his rage. "Cheapening me to Brent " Her laughter scorched like hoi lava snit from a volcano: "You over rate your Importance." "You over rate yours. You're a woodsman's wife, ' he gloated, "Just a woodsman s wire. ' Need you remind me7 "Yes. When you accept favors I can't return "No one expecta you to return them." "So?" If her' eyes had not been so contemptuous "As Brent'i wife you'd have perfect right to one of those cabins. It's too bad you didn't marry him before 1 came along." "He didn't want me then." "You're trying to tell me?" "It may not be too late." Mac beyond all power of reasoning. "Aha!" The white sides of thi tent seemed inadequate to hold his rage. Any second now it would rend those walls,- go bellowing through the forest. Unconscious ly he came a step nearer. The ma nila paper shaded light threw I brownish shadow upon his face From the coppery gleam in hit eyes, the sardonic twist to his lips, it might have belonged to the Prince of Darkness himself; "1 might have known" "What?" "That for all your high falutlnj, prating you have a yellow streak a yard wide." "Be careful, Reuben, you'll be sorry." "Oh no I won'tl I'm through trying to live by your blasted codes. You need to hear the truth You still have what you bartered for house, boxwood, all youi motheaten grandeur but you're squirming out of your bargain crying for the moon! You've nol a thought beyond yourself, youi pride! Well I have a certain brand of pride myself, but you've never suspected or respected it You've never even suspected I might be humanl" (CefyritU, mi. lUtit Sm.uA rKram Tomorrow: Reuben teee Gary. Milk Price Slash No Aid To Market PORTLAND, May 11. AP) Uat month's reduction In milk price ha failed to Increase the consumption here, Paul C. Adam. Mt.it milk con trol board Administrator. Mid tody. A alight rise occurred In cream anlrs. Adama Mid he had not determined whether the condition resulted from an economic slump or from public Ignorance of tho price change. HAM DINNER THURSDAY PHOENIX GRANGE HALL PHOENIX, May 11. tSpl.) A ham dinner will be arrved to the public In the Orange hall Thursday from 6 to 8 p. m. Dancing to the music ot Dickey's orchestra will follow the dinner. A nominal charge will cover dinner and dance. mililHiljffllB HannHJjrnHTf uuiJ n llllllllllliliiiiiiinmiii AMgRICtfi. FIRST NOT TH BEAST MBRCPiNTlUS INSTITUTION, fouNoeo in $m err- ,7 .' r aim. I JVr rAAAMbkiniklA " " W CONNING Tt)MRtehftWr.. '' , ne jtetfof 1RB ctfevi were - Blown To Safety Few men live today who can tell as harrowing en experience as Com manding Officer Tebbenjohanns, formerly of the German submarine UC44. He alone of his entire crew Mcaped in overwhelming disaster that struck his boat In 1017. tt wu late on the black night of August 14 that Tebbenjohanns guided hla U-boat through the cold water off Waterford. Orkneys, on a mine laying assignment. UC44 held in her belly 18 highly explosive mines. Tebbenjohanns was worried. Other mine had been laid previously by an other U-boat In the Immediate vicin ity. His position was extremely dan gerous. Suddenly Tebbenjohann'a worst NOTHING CAN BE DONE ABOUT JERSEY HITLER WASHINGTON, May ll.-(AP)-Ask-ed about charges that free speech and free assembly were being denied in Jersey City, President Roosevelt said today there was nothing the fed eral overnment could do 'about it. He aald it was a local police matter. TAILSPIN TOMMY Overshooting I -J, -5 ( G GC?iDLYt!J 3!jj G-GOLLV! , I DID IT! I After slugging his captors witm a fire extinguisher, JERRY PLOPPED INTO THE CONTROL SEAT, AND, AIDED ONLY BY HIS " BOOK TRAINING, MANAGED TO BRING THE PLANE OUT OF A SPIN BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER THE NEBBS It Can't Be So s THIMK IT OVER,"1 . MUTBR BEN WEBSTER- A weV-L NOLTRa PACK VOIJ LOOVi PHYSICALLY REFRESHED ... I'LL. FEE.L. LIKE TEAWN1G i TW& PLACE APART MttaVlMfcA. !r- . fears materialized. The UC44 acci dentally ' struck one of the other mines. Standing In the conning tower, Tebbenjohanns tensed, waiting for the explosion. It came, a sickening roar, detonat ing the 18 mines UC44 was carrying. A blinding flash ripped through her hull, deadening the screams of the men trapped Inside ber. Then, as far as Tebbenjohanns was concerned, a miracle happened. The rush of air from the Internal blasts Jammed Into the conning tower, lifting tho commanding officer and blasting him safely through the top, out Into the open seal Tebben johanns suffered only minor injuries. As he looked back at his command, the hull dove to the bottom with a He made the statement at a press conference when asked If there was anything he could do as chief ex ecutive in this connection aa a re sult of charges by Representative O'Connell (D.-Mont.) that he was denied a permit to speak In Jersey City. Closing time for Too Late to Clas Jlfy Ada Is 1:30 p. m. Fight? i m ill if ? ( i' 1 ie" , II OUT Ox THE WAY, COR I DON LIKE I TCEL ALLRIGUT BT YOU UiVP MllfU BFsr I if I II 1111 II lKl mfcr- Yl it I 1 1 All ' -uui swirl. A British patrol boat, attracted by the explosion, picked up Tebben johanns sole survivor of one- of the World war's most freakish accidents. First Department Store No eastern metropolis, but Salt Lake City, a small western town of 20.000 souls, in 1868 developed the first department store In the United States. Organized by Brlgham Young In that year, the Zion's Co-Operative Mercantile Institution opened for business on March 1, 1869, as a col lection of separate store selling dry goods, groceries, drags, etc. The In stitution Is still operating today after 89 years. Tomorrow: The fate of Darwin's 1 nose. Mrs. Catherine Klngaford-mltb who has died at 81 left Instructions, her ashes were to be scattered from Lan airplane where her distinguished aviator son, sir Charles Kingsiora Smlth, lost his life In 1935. 4 Walking about for a month un knowingly with a fractured skull, L Vaughan Watklns at length consult ed a doctor. 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