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PGE TWELVE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, M"ETFO"RD, OREGON. FRIDAY. MAY 13. 1938. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX tor further proof i4dmu tbe other, fncloelnt stamped enrelope tor reply. Bee- V. 8. Pt- OC' By GLUYAS WILLIAMS FERGUSON THE WORLD AT ITS WORST ' ' ' "T t. i The Story So Pars Judith Good toe, of an old Maryland family, marrlei cl-mad Reuben Olivar or hit money only to dicou' h i bankrupt. Tuiltu art bom. Then Reuben geu work in a (um ber camp managed by Gary Brent the man Judith louee. Judith'i tent fj not ready when the arriuei, and Gary providee her with a cabin. When Reuben dlicovert thii. the lid bloiDi og. Truing to live by Judith'j cadet hat weak tned Reuben. Now he mill make hie own lawt. Hating Gary bit terly, Reuben iniute on renting the cabin from him. Chapter 84 A Wholly Puzzling Stranger JUDITH made no move to take the key to the cabin. Reuben said: "If I offended you last night, Judith. I'm sorry." If he offended her if She ald in grand imitation of Gran: "We were both dead tired." And so as easily as that they put their quarrel behind them or rather they buried it between them in a shallow grave. Neither ex pected it to stay buried. "I'll strap the baes," Reuben told her. "You put the children in the car. Easier to set breakfast at the new place." "What about these new cots?" "Whoever takes over the plot rill probably be glad to get them." vital spark of jealousy, which had smoked sullenly since the dav he asked Judith to marry him. No. there could be no friendship now or ever, and when work threw them together T Unerringly Reuben knew that even the semblance of peace would vanish then. He was an expert forester Gary a puppet In au thority. Reuben knew that Gary was unfit for his iob. Gary knew that Reuben knew it but he also knew that necessity had its iron heel on Reuben's neck With a frown Reuben dismissed all thought of Garv. Time enough to meet the trouble when he had to. There was no doubt in his mind that he would have to. Before he went back to the woods on Monday. Reuben had found and hired a Chinese boy. Alf. grinning and garrulous. sterjDed out and Lu Wing, sloe- eyed and silent, stepped in. "Now. Reuben thought grimly. "I've mortgaged mvself for every dollar I make but mavbe it's worth it" But he knew it wasn't worth it. Knew he was still moving with the landslide. Where? He would not think where he would eventually crash. Time enough for that. too. New Respect JUDITH'S delight in her new J home would once have been heart-warming to the man who loved her despite himself. Now he IMPi J I A wall of ice reared itself between them. K few dollars more or less didn't matter now. He entered the tent to find his son busily trying to de vour a piece of rope while his daughter did her utmost to swal low an aluminum Irving nan. Ho tossed his slobbering off spring as high as the tent's roof permitted. He found something very soul warming in their moist sticky kisses and little gurgles of delight. "Is Gary lending us the cabin?" Reuben's wife asked tactlessly. He hated her all over again. "Do , fou think I'd accept such a loan?" "But it's not for rent." He scowled: "I'm paying $50 a (nonth for it" A wall of let reared itself be tween them. "Can you afford It?" "I can't" She knew by all the rules of the fame she should say: "Then we'll tay here." But she didn't say it. She couldn't The memory of the nig inviting room, the easy chairs, fireplace, white bath was too allur ing. Whatever courage she once had was lost somewhere between freezing winter and a burning summer in Fordnev's Gulch. Righteousness was lost too the conviction that come what might one's lust debts must be paid Cissy would have to wait. Judith longed for luxury now above all else. "When winter comes we'll econ omize," she promised herself. "Go back to Casper Street." Puppet In Authority BUT she knew she would never go back to Casper Street That part of her life was definitely be hind her Alf was already In possession of the cabin when they arrived. Ce real and coffee were in the making. A great bunch of bluebells Para dise flowers to Judith were in the yellow bowl on the living room table. Judith had come home! Reuben on the other hand had tome to a sort of mild inferno. He resented the grinning black boy's presence. Was Brent in his high handed way. still bent on showing Judith lust what a poor stick he. Reuben was, or heaping coals of fire? Reuben wanted none of cither. There never could be anvthine of friendship of tolerance even, be tween him and Gary. Tliev had not a thought or reaction in common. There was Judith between them too and. on Reuben's part a very watched her remotely Impersonal as one watches a moving picture critical of its flaws and high spots though affected by neither. The change in him conveyed it self to Judith. She had felt it since the moment he handed her the cab in's key. His lips had apologized then for the quarrel of the night before but the old humility thai had been his since the day he had moved her from the Waldorf to cheaper hotel was missing. The doglike, unspoken plea for her be lief and patience was missing too. Something had gone from Reu ben mysteriously gone forever. But something new had come to take its place. Judith sensed II without being able to define It She had no way of knowing that out of the dark confusion of the night, a clarifving light had burst upon her husband, wiping the blur from his vision. Giving him an al most uncanny Insight Into affairs as they were. Giving him back a belief in his own sense of value? unclouded by the ethics of hi wife. Cur buslv Judith watched hi as one watches a suspicious, whol ly puzzling stranger and though ' she did not know it there was a new respect in hor glance. Iron was visible In Reuben's face now Iron and what else? Though she searched Judith couldn't find the answer. He wenl back to his work and Garv came to take her riding and almost im mediately Reuben receded from her thoughts until he was only a shadow in the background of hci life. Joyously sho reached out foi each new day. Just to feel a good horse between her knees. To hear the music of clattering hoofs, the rush of early morning air In her face to meet Gary s twinkling blue eyes "This Is the life. Judy!" "Old days come again. Gary." "Old davs." he echoed and knew he lied. These were not the olt davs of light banter and meaning less, little caresses. These wer' new davs of inarticulate tendc ness. Veiled glances. Long silencr loo magically sweet to be broker .strange! In the old davs Judit had ached to hear words. Hate the waiting. Now she fended : keep words from being uttcrc Loved the waiting. It was herself she feared now not Gnrv. li'tfuH. Wt. UntU Smut fff, Tomorrow: Clasy romra to vUli. FLOOD GONTROL WASHINGTON. May 19. (AP) The bouM flood control committee entl mutrd today the tte and local con tribution! in the Willamette valley flood control project would oe be tueen $5,000,000 and ffl. 000.000. The committee authorized more than 911.000.000 yeMerday to ben In t he project. The contribution vaa determined on a regulation providing that the aute and communities paid (or re location of highways and railroads and easements, Tho army engineers eettmated tbe total coat at about 182.000.000 and reeommendfcl .111 1fi,000 0oo contri bution. Regulations aince 1938. how arer, reduced the latter amount. TO WASHINGTON. liny 1J.(AP Prwldrnt rtoctevrlt has carried for ward hi apparent policy of giving "pat on the buck"' to arimtm.lration amatoi-a who are up fur rrrlrvllon by urging tho wtrnn ffntor William CI. McAdoo (D.-Calltl to arrk another term. McAdoo, rlertrd In Uja 1931 Room. vrlt landslide, mado public In Lna Angrlea today a letter from the pres ident Ntylng that hl retirement from tho aenoto "would he a dtntlnct loaa to tho puhllc." "I do not need to tell jroti that I have always appreciated the fine uppcrt you have irrn to my ad ministration," Mr. Roooaerelt added I BAZKACLTPA cm MwtoFeer TO CATCH ft mm m CAHN0N ARE TtiUHPtP BF 1 Tr1Tr8JrA UKIMUk, .. . Ill hi , m a mnrn a I IKK IVi-At l or ; I .1 ...... ...a j.. It WRIffeN N1Hti Trt ceKIDRY W MURArftl, dJapzneee Woman, comtftv o? W Books wrfrt ir The First Novel Earliest known atory In novel form, a we know it today, was written about 030 years ago by a Japanese authoress Murasakl, or "Lady Vio let" and has never been duplicated lor length. Her work was known as "Oenjl MonogfUari" (Gossip Concerning Mr. Gen 11) and dealt with the numerous and amorous affairs of the Japanese Don Juan of that time. Lady Violet devoted a number of years to writing the novel, it eventually covered 4,- 334 pages and filled M books, or chapters. Murasakl her fcure name la not known finished the novel about 1004 A. D. The exact date Is disputed. Murasakl, a lady Of the Imperial court, returned to private life after the death of her husband, according to historians. She was said to have been a member of the famous Fuji wara family which produced a num ber of great mlkados, statesmen and poets. This amazing work la valued as a mirror of the time It was written. Its length has never since been equalled neither "Anthony Adverse" nor "Gone With the Wind," longest nov els of this decade, comparing with It Cannon vs. Thunder Loudest of the common noises one hears la thunder. Yet, strange as It seems, no thunder chip has ever been beard unmistakably more than 20 miles away. Continual cannon fire, on tbe oth er hand, has neen beard definitely 100 miles distant, and on less reliable authority from distances as great aa 300 miles. Nature's greatest noise a volcanic explosion can outdo any sound man Is capable of making. Sorae have been Identified from 3,000 miles away. Greatest man-made noise on record was a blast set off on the Arc tic island of Nova Zembla In De cember, 1033. It was detected more than 2,000 miles distant at Berlin. Strange as It seems, the sounds of thunder, of cannon-fire and of a pin dropping travel at exactly the same speed, as the source of volume of the sound has no bearing on Its speed. The letter, asking McAdoo to re consider a desire to leave public of fice, was dated March 16. Three weeks later, the 74-year-old senator announced he would seek renonil na tion. ' Re will be oo nosed in the TVmn. cratlc primary next August by Pier son M. Hall, former United AIaIm attorney at Los Angeles. Two Fined $150 For Slashing Car Tires THE DALLES. May 13. f AP) Nor man Berry, a WPA worker, and Wll lard pnitles, a cook, pleaded guilty yesterday to slashing the tires on 20, automobile a month ago and were fined $150 by Circuit Judge Fred W. Wilson. They were charged with malicious Injury to personal property. District Attorney T. Leland Brown quoted them as saying they were Intoxicated. At Seunen. on Land's End, England, there Is a aign on one side of the lo cal Inn: "The Last Hotel In England," and on the opposite side, "The First Hotel In England." ; VoUR MOTHER. EHimwHlHS AT BRIDGE, RETUSES to -frKE 5ERI0USLV THE CRISIS THAT - HAS ARISEN WHEW, WlYH A SAME DUE lb BESlH IN EN MINUTES, YOl) CAN'T FlhJD VOUR OTHER S1QCK1K6 Sl3 (Coprrlgtrt, 1838, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) i 3 MATTER POI ' ' By C. M. PAYNE l Anour Vov IS, J ) X' TAT5 VEl?Y d-EVeT?') TAILSPIN TOMMY More Danger I . By HAL FORREST TbMMY AMD SKEET3; TOAILINC THE WEASEL'S SHIP, SEE IT NOSE DOWN, A3 THOUGH TO LAND THEN OVERS MOOT THE PIELD AND CLIMB AC AIM . SKEETS, NOT AUKIVBE THAT AU OI THE C0OOK3 IN THE CABIN PLANE ABB UNCONSCIOUS AND THAT JEB(T HIMSELF IS AT THE contkxs' OF THE SH:?, MAKE! A OSPAtJ AGING REMARK . ' JJL THAT SAP COULDA I 60T ER DOWN I THERE IP HE'O MADE A FORWARD SLIP. am- row HtS v RUN OUTTA U HELD NUTHIN 1 BUT HILL I AHEAD. -SJ HIS MOTOR SOUNDED OKAV WHEM I CUT OPP OUR ENGINE MAVBE HE'S KUNNIN6 OUT 1 OF 6A3 I jl r HOLY COW! now LOOK v- Ns ,) WOT HE'5 BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER The Tightt By EDWIN ALGER WHAT A BATTLE! 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