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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX MEDPORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOTiD, OREGON. MONDAY. MAT 23. 1938. By BLANCHRiSMlTH FERGUSON HieSlo., lri Judith Good loo marriei tell-madt Reuben Oliver for hit money, only to dli cover he it bankrupt. Twint art born. Then red-headed Citty Roy trs, who lovet Reuben and U out to get him, findt a Job or him in a lumber camp managed by Gary Brent the man Judith lovet. Gary asks Judith to get a divorce, telling her that Reuben wantt to marry Citty. When Reuben dls obeyi orders by reusing to cut . rotten timber, Gary dficharoel him. Reuben and Judith have a thow-down and the leaves him. Nothing Is The Same Chapter 42 HOME! She might never have been away it looked so ex actly the samel Meadows, gardens, lawns lying in November (allow ness. 'frees bare. Only the box wood flaunting a defiant coat of green. Inside warmth, beauty, order. "Gran! Gran darling!" Amanda's frail, silk-clad arms about her, welcoming her royally. Amanda pretending not to see her shabbiness while she made gay plans - dinner parties, dances, shopping tours Jim's be bear hue! Jim. a bit more reckless, a bit more lovame, care fully refraining from asking ques tions. Enthusiastically drawing her into his plans for the Thanksgiving Hunt. Jim was M. F. H. now and proud of it. And the tour of the barns Cozy, dim, sweet with the smell of hay. A heart warming, soul warming friendliness here. "Hello all you animal, I've come home!" Judith greeted them above a queer tightness in her throat. Judith passed on to Biddy O'Hare restless, reckless Biddy Darin her box stall impatient ly, apparently unaware of her new son who strove on unsteady legs to keep pace with her. Making friends with Paddy O'Hare, a splendid, proud three year eld, ready for his trial hunt. And Hu go ? Fondling the setter's silky ears, Judith involuntarily wished that Reuben could see his dog. Old friends and neighbors dropped in to welcome her home, bringing absurd, loving gifts to the children; hunting for the family resemblance Soon these old friends would have to know the truth. Know her marriage had failed "I hear Gary is coming next week," someone said Idly. "To put more improvements on his house," Dick enlightened the group, "A stone terrace this time and a sun room." "What next? He has the old place dressed up like a Christmas tree now. Do you suppose he is getting married or what?" "What," Dick said. Everyone laughed everyone except .Judith. In moments like these she realized the silliness of pretending she had taken up life where she laid it down three years ago. Nothing was the same. Noth ing would ever be the same again. There could be no going back ward. No standing still In the present She had a fleeting longing to do Just that. To stand quite still in this purpling twilight and let eternity roll over her. But she had to go forward. Whether she wanted to or not she had to go. "I want to, of course. Want a new life with Gary." But before she could go for ward to happiness she must '.vade free of the mist and mire of the past. She cou dn't dc that yet. She had much to remember first Gary telling her that Reuben wanted to marry Cissy. She had much to forget too Reuben tell ing her Gary knew the timber was rotten. No. ho could not go forward yet. She needed a few weeks In which to recapture the tranquillity of the old life. Thanksgiving came to Goodloe's Choice like a golden leaf torn from a memory book. A still, bright, frosty morning with fes tivity in the very air. Guests ar riving for breakfast horses jog ging over stubblo fields; being put over the hedges, or trotting de corously through open gates. No Peace Here lng a basket with a solitary scarlet geranium atop its coarse cover. She vas seeing, actually smelling the turkey Mrs. Kraus had brought. Hearing her say: "The one sure way to keep your man alvays in the mine is to let your end down" "To let your end down!" She heard it above the minister's pleasant voice. Heard it above the choir "To let your end down" The peace she had dreamed of finding was not here. Gary would answer the one question he must answer before she could forget and go forward would tell her she was silly to doubt, to worry. As they jogged sicwly home ward after the hunt, he was the Gary of her dreams though his old nonchalance had given place to impatience. Gary asked the ques tions now not Judith demand ed answers. "Have you told Gran, Honey?" "I There's been so little time. There's no great hurry." If you feel that way about It, you don't love me." uary, i ao, dm -"Then, let me today " "Today is too soon." "Soon?" "I feel like an animal just free of a a trap and " "Wary of another?" frigidly. "Don't be sillyl I don't intend to let anything worry me until after Christmas. That's only three weeks otr. 'I d like to have things settled before I go West tomorrow night. Let's go right home now and tell Gran." She knew this was the sensible thing to do. She could take the in itiative or wait lot Reuben force her. Let Cissy triumph again. one rode on silently, diuo eyes focussed unseeingly upon Wi nona's pointed ears. If she acted immediately But first she must ask Gary must be sure about the timber Her mouth went dry. Would she ever be sure about the tim ber? Did she want the truth? II Gary failed her now Her lips refused ta ask the question. Encouraged by her silence, Gary said: "Gran likes me. I, don't be lieve she'll be difficult once she gets used to the idea." Feeling Of Fanle '"TPHERE'S more to it than that, I- STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor further proof address the author, Inclosing a lUmped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Fit Off. GARY arrived spectacularly at the last minute not the an gry boastful man Judith had part ed will) on Winding Hill, but a Gary sJnny as the morning, who despite lliis lateness and the ex citement of the start found time to murmur: "I love you so, Judy! Love mc?" She nodded assent while her mind clamored to know: "What is love? What is it?" And then t ho peace and beauty of old St. John's. Everything hap pening just as it should but Ju dith's unruly mind wandering back to, that first drizzly, sleety, horrible Thanksgiving in Ford ncy's Gulch. Hmv she had longed for home and St. John's that day! Now, kneeling in the little old church she hardly saw it. She saw Instead, Reuben, wet, tired, carry- Gary. The children Reuben may fight for them." "Well they're his children." "Gary!" She halted Winona so abruptly that the mare stumbled. "You love them, don't you? You can't mean ?" , "I mean that Oliver might let me get away with his wife bif can you honestly expect him to hand over his children too, without a strug gle?" "I'll never give them up!" "Tho court will make a part time arrangement for them. Six months with you, six with Oliver. That's fair enough." "Fair fair! You're talking as though my babies were lottery prizes or something." "They're your joint property with Oliver. You might as well be sensible about it, Judith. Cut clean and deep with one stroke and be prepared for emergency. There's nothing to be gained by delay. Strike today." "No." She was adamant. She meant to forget everything until Christmas day was done. He had to be satisfied with that. Ho went away grumbling trtough loving her more ardently. Opposi tion whetted his desire. It stirred a jealous doubt. Was she still think ing of Oliver? "When he came home at Christ mas!" Judith would have to wound Gran who was increasingly kind to her. Would have to ask for money Did she imagine it or was their old enemy, Poverty, again stalking Goodloe's Choice? It couldn't be! Just three years since Reuben gave all that money! And yet Why was Gran so often at her desk figuring in the old wor ried way? Why was Jim so callous ly reckless, getting queer lookin; letters with the old wall of re proach animosity almost rear ing itself between him and Gran'. "I'm imagining things," Judith assured herself, "There must be money enough." There would be controversy, of course. Lawyers to face surely the lawyers could at tend to everything unless Reu ben fought with her over the chil dren Soon, soon When Gary came for Christmas The words became a knell sounding in her ears every hour of the day. She awoke to hear them in the night, high and clear above the sighing wind. Above the patter of hail against the windows: "When Gary comes " She began to count the days not Joyously as befitted the occa sion of Gary's return, but with a feeling of panic. And yet she loved Gary. She clung to that as a captain clings to his burning ship, with .the desperate hold that precedes dis solution. SHE LOVED GARY (C'tytit. .w. . r-tf) Tomorrow: Judith mails a tetter. ON LOVE NEST CIRCLE IN LOS ANGELES AREA LOS ANGELES, May 23 (UP, Two additional CCC youtha were qiw t toned by Juvenile nuthorltlrs im ntgM rriinnllnit Olriuiom's ndoleiwcnt "lovr iifst 'ln-lr," In which CCC youths nnd high schol-Rite daugh ters of prominent (Jlonctorn fjmlMrs allegedly jirtlclpMPd Five CCC boy alrrnriy are hookM at tlw county jntl here on mjilrlrn of Rtatutnry offenses. Cllrndorn Is nn cicliutvr ivrleMl turnl-rp.virlrt,!: t rl:R'rirt In te foot hill. 25 milrs rat of hrf ft & t'.lf lte of t tiuuioaftbia girl' eoil- glnt flnlAhtns school and other pri vate Institutions. The flv youth held hr ave their name as Robert Brady. 16; Jk Morker, 10; Edward Mlrtle. 18; Dona'd Southern. 'JO. and Edward Calkins. 18 AH are members of the Dnlton ' at yon CCC camp in the fcHithtlla above Cilendora. Si glrla, rimRinir tn aiie from 13 to 18. and all datichtera of prominent fnmllles. were held for quest lonhvt and medical examination In JuvenUs hall. Meanwhile, a 34-yerold marr'ed woman, mother of an Infnnt aon, wit soupht for questioning, Lieut. E4 ward W. Omen aald he belMved had aetrd m IioMcm nt anme Jt tr.f "thrill parties," The police officer said her tuiMiand was a traveMns salesman, Lieut. Urneb aald the "love nest parties," held mostly In th homes of the ylrls while th'-tr p.ir.Mltjr Vld snant were ahseut. had heen Mk i Uig placa over a five-month period Hfys Hundreds crWEItl WHICH I IT P0G NoT IKE f IfaoofAKlNP vew-Hetfiiv "fates iteewe wetx France) frtfc iMePiRbTioNfoRTHfc 4uccefnu Air-brake iGV OH TRftlM-rot&y OH totf$$.l&lV AlR.6ftVg KM -frit iPEftfiTRiwe RfcllfW UNlT IN l&foB,,, j Westlngliouse Air Hrake It took a two-dollar mngnjslne sub scription In the hands of an Invent ive young man to r-'eate one of the greatest benefits to safety In rail roading ever achieved the pneu matic air brake. George Westlnghouse was the young man In question. With a natural bent for mechanical Inventiveness to help him, Westlnghouse built a fortune on an Idea inspired in an almost ftctlon-llke manner. Westlnghouse was working In his father's shop one day. his mind as usual preoccupied with an Idea. Tills time It was an idea for stopping trains quickly. He had recently Jour neyed by train from Schnectndy to Troy, and had been involved in a locomotive collision. Tho engineers had not been able to stop thi'lr ir:i!ns quickly enough, Westlnghouse considered and re jected almost every type of mechani cal braking systems that entered his mind. Thus occupied at noon hour. Westlnghouse was approached by a young woman selling magazine sub scriptions He was not Interested and the girl turned away, disappointed. Westlnghouse relented, pulled two dollars from his pocket, and took a three months subscription from her out of kindness. Some day, he felt this good turn might be repaid. He scanned the sample magazine she had given him. Suddenly his eyes focused on an Illustrated article. It described the building of the Mont Cenls Tunnel, then being drilled in Switzerland. The article snld that compressed air was used to operate a rock-drill. 3000 feet dls- tant from the compressor! West lnghouse was elated. Here was the very power he needed for his air brake! In the autumn of 1868, not yet 22, Westlnghouse and an assistant built A working model of his airbrake sys tem. He persuaded the Panhandle railroad to allow him to make a demonstration on one of their trains. If he assumed all responsibility, rhe trial was a success. Soon all of the country's Import ant railroad lines Installed the West lnghouse brake, and the young In ventor gained financial success. By the fall of 1881, six thousand five hundred and fifty-nine locomotives were using his brakes and 30,080 cars were equipped with them. Tomorrow: Slrunp'sl Wedding Dress. INVASION OF CRICKETS PROVES BOON FOR BIRDS PASCO, May 23. (AP) It's free lunch, cafeteria style, for the feather ed population of the north Pacific siaies nere. The Mormon cricket invasion to day met new defenders when rinuds of seagull winged in from tho const 10 stun tnemsoives on the succulent black Insects. The influx of robins, buntings, meadowlarks and raVens has attained the proportions of a bird migration. BONES OF GIANT CAMEL STUDIED AT WHITMAN WALLA. WALLA, Wash.. May 23. (?) Bones Identified by Dr H. S. Brodc, Whitman museum cuiator, as those of the Kamclus Ma xi mi is. larg est of the North American prehistoric camels, and estimated at lease 25,000 years old, today were being scruti nized carefully at the museum. Road workers near here unearthed the bones In an alluvial deposit 12 feet beneath the surface. The col lection. Dr. Brodc says, represents tho most complete deposit of camel bones yet found In the Pacific northwest. CARPENTER'S ASSISTANT By CLUYAS WILLIAMS J J uiuw nFM-f7MiimEDSf- BPlllRlJS 5)WlK6 HE 1RV CiiPBORRD WHERE HE HE WANTS It FOR AND WILL PlV FROM CUP0OBRD COULDN'T TlND IT, Bin IS AFTOING A SHELF.5EHK. HE CftTCH WlTH HIM ASD HASTENS POWhl JUKI0R TJDWN CFUAR FOR LATER. ? 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