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SELECTION
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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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!
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, .famous
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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.
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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.
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