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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX fEDFORD MATL TRTBUNE, MEPFORD, OREflON.' MOXDAY. MAY Ifi. if SELECTION By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, Inclosing, a atamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. .8. Pat Off. m6 By BLANCHE SM-fH FERGUSON The. Story So t'r: Judlrh Good lot marries tell -made Reuben Oliver for hit money, only to dit corer he it bankrupt. After their twine are born, red-heoded Ciuu Robert, who lovet Reuben, oeti htm a job in a lumber camp man ' aged by Gary Brent the man Judith lovet. Alwaui a fighter. Ilulno by Judith's eodei hat weak ened Reuben. Now, after a violent quarrel with Judith, he decide! to make hie oum taws, and it It war to the knife with Gary. Cissy, on a visit, shocks Judith with the newt that Gary may iote hit job. Chapter 36 Cissy Dcclnrca War "fALBREATH na been losing '-'money and men during the two years Gary has managed things," Cissy continued. "Now he's looking for a real timberman. A picturesque Robin Hood looking wise, but acting dumb Is all right up to a point. For an instant Judith was too outraged to speak. Then: "You don't like Gary as much as you used to?" sweetly "Equally as well," coolly, "1 don't love him there's a differ ence." Judith had a desire to slap Cissy. "Does he know he's to be let down?" Cissy shrueeed: "Ho spends so little time on the work, I doubt if he does." Outlining her lips with geranium red she watched Judith's dark face in the mirror. When she had studied it a long moment she said: "It's an ill wind that blows no good. It means a chance for Rube." "Rube?" "To become superintendent. Why-what's the mi tier?' Cissy swung around and faced her hos tess, "You look stricken instead of tickled to death." "Should I look tickled?" ' "Shouldn't you? It's your hus band's big chance." "You think he should elevate himself at a friend's expense?" "1 wouldn't call uary ttuoes friend exactly." "Reuben owes Gary his Job." "I asked for It." Cissy reminded her. It was not a pleasant remem brance. Judith hurried on: "He let us have this cabin" "Think he did that for Rube? He did that for you." "Suppose he did? I've known Gary all my life. Do you think Reuben should repay a kind ness " "Piffle! Is It a kindness to exact an exorbitant rent which Gary probably puts in his own pocket "Cissy! furiously. "I can't swear to It of course," coolly. "I can swear he doesn't. Gary Is a gentleman "How you love to fotl your self with high sounding phrases, Judithl Why not come clean? You love Gary and you don't love Reu ben!" Cissy's statement crashed like cymbals against Judiths ear drums. The scant space between Mem vibrated to it. "Cissy!" "Maybe you can fool Rube, the blind bat. I'm not so sure any more. "I've never tried to fool him," proudly. "You can even fool yourself maybe, but you can't fool me. You'd sacrifice Reuben any day for Bary. "Aren't you assuming a great Seal? haughtily. "I'm assuming nothing." Great waves of life swept over Cissy, She bit her newly painted lips to steady them, "I know because 1 love Rube myself. I've loved him all my life and I'll keep right on loving him until i ale. j in mat kino or tool. Stillness in the pine scented room. Neither woman moved. Neither seemed to breathe Each watched the other, waiting for the next word, the next move. With an eflort Cissy said, defi antly, "Now you know." "I knew before." "I'm not very subtle." Judith seemed not to hear. "II Gary went away?" This whole lovely western forest suddenly lost its enchantment. Became just one more wilderness. A New Deal "AVELU" Cissy prodded, "what ' ' are you going to do about It?" "Do?" Sht felt a vague pity for Cissy. "Do!" emphatically. "The cards have been badly stacked, haven't they?" "Maybe." "I." Cissy strove for lightness, "am calling for a new deal. Judith smiled whimsically: "Good luck!" "I hope you mean it because I'm warning you I mean to play a hard game this time. 1 mean to win Rube if 1 can. You don't care! You're letting him down" "Be careful, Cissy!" "You'd bt?ttei be careful your self!" Cissy lighted a cigarette with finger that were not quite steady. "There's a wreck ahead for somebody and it might be you." l'omorrov Gathering up a jeweled gold trll Judlih. bag and emerald velvet wrap with its chinchilla collar, Cissy trailed from the room on tall gold heels leaving a whiff of gray smoke ir her wake. Judith stood for a moment gaz ing after her. "Why do I let her disturb me? Why?" But as on the evening of her first visit to Goodloe's Choice, Cissy had rocked Judith's world to its very foundation. Immediately Reuben ceased to be a dim shadow in the background of his wife's life. He became very real loomed very large. In a flash she realized that Reuben was the foundation of he, present world not the make believe world ol laughter and whispered tender ness, but the real world that held the babies, spinach, carrots, clean laundrywithout Reuben She dressed for the dance with utmost care in her one really fine remaining dress, a burnt orange chiffon alluring as sin. Fragile a; a butterfly's wings. 1 billy to wear it tnrougn tnese woods, Judith told herself, sen sibly, but she did not take it off. Instead she smiled at her retiec tion in the mirror with satisfac tion. She was pretty again. I won t be frightened she went out on the porch to ioin Cissv "Reuben will be late," she said easily, as though there had been no scene between them, "He al ways is." "It wou dn t surprise me it ne doesn't iret here at all." Cissv re plied with the too cheerful air of a woman who is trying to prepare herself for disappointment, And then, almost as though her longing had brought him, Reuben's tall figure rounded the corner ol the cabin. "Hail fair maids!" He took the porch steps at a bound. Smiling ai his wife and her guest with mock seriousness he said: "Your love liness dazzles me." "He didn't kisi: her," Cissy noted with satisfaction. "A new deal is Imminent I hope I'll hold a trump or two." The Queen Is Dead THAT night brought startled realization to Judith that the breach between herself and Reu ben had deepened and widened gradually, insidiously until each stood on opposite sides of a span less chasm across which only the faintest echoes of their real selves were audible. If Reuben had be come a shadow to her, she was only 'ha most vaporish ghost to Reul.'.i a ghost to be tolerated and treated politely. Being a ghost had Its good points. One could stund on the side lines and view life impartial ly and unobserved. She saw Reu ben more clearly from this dis tance than she ever had in the hectic, crowded days at Fordney's Gulch. The shadow was gaining substance. It gained vastly as she watched her husband dancing with Cissy. Judith's partner, a German pro fessor, followed her gaze: "They dance well together." 1 was noticing that. He laughed. "They have plenty of practice." So! People were talking Judith tried not to watch Reu ben, conscious In every part of hei of the new indefinable quality about him. He looked like a man who has awakened after a long sleep to more abundant strength, power, happiness. He mingled with the dancers but was plainly not of them. He wore a detached look, a soaring look-- "The eagle," Cissy had called him that night at Goodloe'f Choice. Had accused Judith ol chaining him. "Well, he has cast away his chains tonight." Cissy was besieged with part ners. Here was a new experience for Judith. She was not the un disputed belle, the queen of Camp number 2 tonight, bhe had beep dethroned ruthlessly and quite ai matter or act. A brighter stai had appeared on the horizon Cissy Rogers was old Clem's solr heiress. If that were not enough t' make any girl a sensation olr Clem's daughter had beauty. Sh had charm. She had old CIcmV ready friendliness. Judith acknowledged the end of her reign. The Queen is dead- long live the Queen!" Her lip? quirked whimsically and then sin saw Gary blond, splendid, mak ing his way towards her. Who said the queen was dead? Without the loss of a single step Gary took her from the professor. He said: "I thought I'd never gel here." She said: "1 thought you d never come. 'The buyers arrived today like a swarm of locusts." "So Cissy said." "Cissy here?" indifferently. "Visiting me over the week enr! Come up tomorrow and help to en terlain her." "Oliver is cxnTt at that. I'll er. terlain you." Cissj and Reuben again! No that it mattered. Nothing mallere save that Gary was here and thr no one could lure him from her! Mf. Vesuvius, , .famous n volcano, hRt WORN &V ttHolK-JH-ONEfA ; Onrjr hits something In BIGGER BREAD LOAF WILL 1 WEDS TOPEKA. Kan. (AP To increase bread consumption. Kauana bnkerft have decided the btg. fat loaf muat be made more popular. When people cut a slice they will pat It even If It la twlco aa tarpc a one from the present long, ienn loaf, they rxplatnrd ThU will help wheat farmers, the bkera aaid "because it tflke mora wheat to make the big, fat loaves." Relief Kund Killing SALEM. May 16. ( API Appropri ations made for public assistance are continuing and appropriations re available until expended unlesa otherwise provided by the trnlln fur. Attorney General Van Winkle Jftcld Uem tvdajr. IS BY NEW FI TRUCK BUTTK. Mont, ( AP) When Butte's shiny, new 9.MXl fire department pumper truck arrived all t be ottv wa proud. Then iron bit- reared Its head. Ftre men attempted to back H Into the lire at a lion girar and discovered clearance through the dooi)s was only a nit tier or inchea. too scanty for speedy exit. City officials aem out an 80S for a g.xxt enrpentrr. Wind W.i lea Slow BOSTON. May 10. i AP-U3DAI -Demands for wool on the Boston market during ihe past week was low and QUife nrltvtive as occas ional huvrr nind Final! purchase to cover piecing out require mem a. W TH NfiliOH &QRH of ornizf IfOfflClBJ-U fiCfsTED . ftsANftRMf JO MONTHS (DerW-octm) in ft i?i A x r. n xli Iff 1 1 T3i I l I 'trjr J V jp McNioghi SyadiMU. !f. 5-?-3S Birth of Czecltoftloviikla National Independence for the Czechs and SloVoka of central Eur ope, sought after foi generations past, became e reality during the World war In one of the strangest turns of events In history. Strange as tt seems, Czechoslovakia came Into existence as an army almost a year before It was recog nized as a nation! Years of fighting for Independence by these Balkan races had been stifled by political control of Austria- Hungary, of which ancient Bohemia and Moravia, for ages the -home of the Czechs and Slavs, were a part. Entirely against their will these two races were conscripted Into the Austrian army to fight for the cen tral powers against their Slavic brothers, the Russians and Serbians Early in 1915 the Russians captured them in large numbers then from Russian prison camps (hey wero re leased to fight for the Allies against their former oppressors. Great numbers of the Czechs pass ed over to the allies of their own volition and. Joined by Czechoslo vaks from abroad, they formed spe cial military units within the frame work of the Allied armies. The necessity of tigitation for pol itical freedom abroad was soon real ized by Professor MaBaryk, leader of the small Realist party. In Switzer land , England , America and Russia Mnsaryk traveled, spreading assur ances among the Allies that the sympathies of the Czechoslovaks were with them. Ini Russia, Czechoslovak lan troops made an amazing 5,000-mile advance through hostile, Bolshevik territory and gained control of the Trans Siberian railway, cutting off supplies and men en route to German and Austrian camps. By December 16, 1917, so many Czechs were fighting with the Allies that Prance officially decreed the formation of Czechoslovak army units. Other Allied governments fol lowed suit the Czechs were given their own flag and finished the war with glory. Strange as tt seems, not until Oct ober 28, 101810 months later was the independence of the Czechoslo vak stnto decreed and her political Independence grunted. Tomorrow; The first woman Jury. Flejitii Meadiirhn Belated SAN FRANCISCO (UP) It is not unusual for a person t$ have a passing headache the day after a fiesta. San Francisco's headache, re sulting from the fiesta staged for the opening of the San Francisco- Oakland bay bridge, Is now more than a year old and is climaxing In suits for 970.000 from creditors who furnished Jubilation. incentives for the Acid "Freezes" Engine NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (UP) While Carl Hauff, Jr., was driving his new automobile, the engine sud denly "froze." Amazed at discover ing the engine had disintegrated, he notified police. They decided a van dal had poured sulphuric acid Into tho gasoline tank and radiator, com pletely ruining the engine. GLASGOW, May 16. ( AP) Sir Har ry Lauder, 67, famous Scotch come dian, was taken to ft nursing home today with facial Injuries and a pos sible fractured thigh after he "slip ped and fell in his home. CP PASSES CAWV AND 15 . 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