MEPFOTtD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOTtD, OREGON; WEDNESDAY. MAY 11, 1938.
PAGE EIGHT
T-.fTy WTLUAM3
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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