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PAfiTC SIX MTCDFOTCn MATL THTBUNE, MEPFOTCD, OREfiQy. TUESDAY. MAY 24. 193?. SUBURBAN HEIGHTS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN MX Tot farther proof address the author, lncloitof a stamped envelope for reply. Bf . TJ. 8. Pat Off. By BLANCHEMJTH FERGUSON 0 0 Chapter 43 Olivers, Not Goodloes LYING wide-eyed in the night, the Judith who had clung stubbornly to the belief that all that was fine and desirable lay here; who had lived only to get back to it and to the man who em bodied this enchanted life fought many scarring battles with a strange new Judith, who had the habit of rising defiantly and gird ing her sword like a gladiator in defense of a life of struggle and uncertainty. In defense of a big, whimsical man in khaki who came and went quietly. This dual self ragged at Judith, frightening her, w e a r i ng her down. "I'm going crazy, I think! I belong here. I've always loved Gary" The battle went on. Gradually the old Judith went down to de feat at the hands of the Judith who had bought lard and beans in Ford ney's Gulch. Who had toiled, re belled, toiled again through the heat, cold, hunger, dinginess of Casper Street. That Judith had watched a circle of light growing dim and dimmer on bare hospital walls. Had heard the faint cry of her first born her son and Reu ben's A defiant cry. A fighter's challenge to life. What was that Judith doing here riding, dancing, playing at living while somewhere, out under the trees, a man worked vision of herself living along at Goodloe's Choice, a lonely woman, growing older. Struggling even at Gran struggled. Raising her chil dren to revere old traditions "My children are Olivers nol Goodloes. They're not going to sti fle and stagnate behind a boxwood hedge!" Judith was often remind ed of the truth of Reuben's words. Already the young Olivers heard the call of adventure. Already they were peeping through the hedge curious to see what lay behind. Again she heard Clem Rogers saying: "You're getting a man with spunk, ma'am, and honesty. Can you match those traits?" Could she? Yesl She never had, but she could now. 'I Have Changed" QUICKLY she arose from the rug before the fire and going straight to her desk, switched on a light arid commenced to write: Reuben dear; It Is after mfrJnfflit but I can't steer, until I tell vou many things. Gran and Jim wire jo glad to see mi. Everything is just the same, Reu ben all the precious thinps house. boxwood, stables, servants, even the good earth. More than ever It is all part of me warp and woof woven deep Into the fabric of my being mi old home that you kept safe and un changed for me but, let me lahtspei It, Reuben, I have changed. I no (onc er want safety. 1 want struggle J leant to achieve. I want our children to achieve ( $PCM RhNKSOFDISiW V IN HNtlEMT CQYrl p W "liMflK WERE 31W.T S IN THEIR HONOR fOrXKlUNSACAT,,, fle foRMEf? U.4.5. ILLINOIS, WHICH SfcW bcTiON W1H WW) WftR, SCRfcPPEt? UNDER me NftW HMltrfflOHIteMY of a. i . i nr.n rt v i rv pip I H ft. X mmf 0y L-auhnOkti, "I am your wife love you; "He hates youl" The old Judith made a final struggle, "He wants to be free to marry Cissy. Have you no pride?" But a dozen times a day, the toss of Judykin's leaf brown head, or a crooned smile cnasing across Jimmy's whimsical little face would squeeze Judith's heart to pulp. How could iho ever hope to forget Reuben so long as Jimmy ; id Judykin lived? She must have Been mad to toy; ever believed she could. And then, cringing from her own scorn, Judith con fessed to Judith that she didn't want to forget Reuben ever. If she could see him once more- She knew she would never be happy again unless she could share her life with Reuben Oliver the man from nowhere. Too late she knew. She had muddled her life. Reuben would marry Cissy. She, Judith, would be Mrs. Gary Brent. The Idol Crashes AND then, by one of those Illogi cal, human contradictions, which make or mar human lives, the very name, so long enchanted, became suddenly loathsome to Ju dith. She'd never be Mrs. Gary BrentI Why try to fool herself any lot:er? She had draped her Idol in a . glamorous garment. Now the gar ment was suddenly, mysteriously rended. She saw Gary just a hand some, blond man who skipped along the plcasantcst path of life, regardless of those whom he knocked into the ditches in pass ing He loved her next to him self. He would be casually kind to her children Gary was casually kind to everyone so long as they did not threaten his supremacy. It was the easiest way and made for popularity but he would nev er really love her children enough to sacrifice for them. She was sure now that Reuben, not Gary, had told the truth about the timber. Even while they were quarreling in the cabin she had been sure, but anger and jealousy had goaded her on. This admission was followed by another. The thing she had delud ed herself into calling love for Gary during all these past months, had really been jealousy of Cissy the desire to retaliate, to hurt, to Ihnw Reuben she did not care Well, she had shown him and wrecked her life! She had a swift For the first time In all the years i get your viewpoint. IVe haue some thing fine and beautiul here, left tc us by men and women who fought o good fight. The trouble Is Jim and J have shirked ours. Lived on the glory of others. Didn't reach out to build for the future as did those who have gone on. 1 don't Include Gran In this. Shi has fulfilled her mission as she sate it. Her fight to keep our false gods In tact has been long and hard. Shi would probably call the change in me deterioration. I know It Is growth It happened to me somewhere be twecn a cold, heartbreaking winter and a torrid, scaring summer in Cas per Street. There Is no going back for me. J want to go forward, Reuben, with you shoulder to shoulder, J don't care where you go or how rough the going. All that there is for me tc explain and apologize for my weak ncss, my selfishness I'm doing now I am your wife and I love you If you care, just a little bit, wll you send for me to come to you? A tent under the stars, a hunt in the fai North anywherel But let it be be fore Christmas please Your Jimmj. and Judykins need, you, but most o: all I need you. your Judith. She was not sure of Reuben't whereabouts. She addressed the letter to Pike's store. Underscored "please forward," and added spe cial delivery postage, trusting tc FiKe s curiosity to speed delivery Dressing hastily she erect dowr stairs and out to the barn. Never was Judith to forget thai nocturnal ride. The mare sensed her rider's mood. Matched it with one of her own. Tried to outrun it. Judith leaned low along thf stretched black neck and let hei mount have her head. Going on Clatter of hoofs. Clouds beinp driven before a light wind. Ahead the winking guard light at the rail road track! Judith dropped the letter inti the train mail box. Eight days tin til Christmas! Involutarily Judith's hand ticht ened upon Biddy O'Hare's satin neck. "If he doesn't answer. Bid' dy-?" All thought was suddenly sus ponded. Tomorrow: Gary hu to be reekonee with. Spanish Prisoners Fail In Escape Try HENDAYE, France (Kt the Spanish rronilrr, May 34 (AP( To thou sand raptured guvernmrnt militiamen killed aeveral of thfir Kunrds In the Insurgent prison at Pamplona Is it night and. seising arnw. rmtlU'd troons In a futile effort to escape The Insurgent commmid at liun said the uprising wax quellrd only after an undetermined number ct prisoners were killed and vsnnclrd Bare details reaching the frontier In dicated the .attempted break was sternly suppressed. Mart Trolling NEWPORT, May 34. 1 AP) Com mercial fishermen at Newport, Tilla mook, rvpoe tjav and Umpqua began smiling today attfr accepting a prlre offer ot I2. .enu prr pound for Chinook ovft 14 pounds n:ul 0'.. mil a pound for smsll chlnook snd silver aid ee. Pickets and Police Fight In Rockford noCKrotlD, 111.. May 34. (API A tight between police and pickets surrounding the J. I. Case plant here Monday, resulted In a partial defeat for the pickets arid several carloads of workers were rushed Into the plant. Several hundred pickets, members ot the United Automobile Workers of America, were maased on narrow bridge In the street leading to the plant's main entrance with an auto mobile parked crosswise of the struc ture. The pickets had deried a circuit court Injunction restraining them tor a week. Kins. Imiml CORNISH. Me. (I'Pl-Mm. Isaac Parker lost her weddlns ring shortly after her marriage 3f vrsr atro. Now it r.Hv b.-cn found In the kit.-heu of her former home which was rared. Snme Holt of Cloth Thirty years ago a blushing young brlde-to-bo walked Into Harry Long's dry good atore In Leon. Iowo, and asked to see some mnterlal from which to make a wedding dress. Mr. Long smiled and took down from the shelf a big bolt uL cloth which he had stocked for Just oueii a request. "It" It's beautiful I" The girl now Mrs. O. L. Prazlcr of Davis City, Iowa bought enough for her dress and happily went home to work on it. Just the other day another blush ing bride-to-be walked Into Harry Long's store. She aatd, "I'd like to know tf you can match the material In this dress. 1 tried to get some tike It In Dos BollflrtTMKfeWRL gaff OF CLOTH IN "THE $AME 9foRS f Oft flgft MoTrt6R!$ Vit (7t71iM3 PR6 30yefR5 3EFoR IffatW long Pry Goode, Moines and Chicago, but there doesn't seem to be any." "Why, I believe that's the sum cloth I sold to Mrs. Frazter when rhe got married back In about 19081 I've still got the same bolt up on the shelf somewhere. Let me take a loot--" Strange as It seems, the f.econd bride-to-be. daughter of Mrs. Prazler, bought material for alterations from the same bolt of cloth her mother obtained her original wedding dress from I Now Mrs. C. K. Reger, she lives In Iowa City and Is happily married in one of the strangest wedding dress es on record. Navy lloiiscbont An active unit of the United atatoa Navy during the World War. the U. SJS. Illinois today lies anchored at the foot of West Ninety-seventh street. New York City minus her guns 'nd engines. No longer a fighting machine, she now serves as a floating armory, or drill ship, used as training quarters for the First Battalion, Naval Militia, of New York. Victim of the Limitation and Dis armament Treaty of 1924, the Illinois today has an enclosed rifle range, 1,000 lockers, and facilities for danc ing, swimming, basketball, handball and bowling. Instruction In naviga tion, gunnery, engineering, etc.. Is given there. Tomorrow: Stanley In America. Towed to Port MARSH FIELD. May 34 (AP) The coast guard ship Pulaski towed the disabled Royal C, 60-foot fishing boat from Eureka, Into Coos bay early totlay. The boat, Its crankshaft brok en, was picked up lato yesterdny 17 miles off Brookings by the M fit sou freighter Mauna Ala. Old Dobbin In Slump HARRISBURQ. Pa. (UP) Old Dob bin started to lose ground in Pennsyl- j vnnla again last year. The agricul ture department announced that af ter remaining stationary three years the horse population on farms In the state dropped from 294.000 In 1928 to 291,000 In 1937. Drinkers Warned COLUMBIA, 8. C. ( UP) Heavy drinking at widely separated Inter vals Is not as Injurious to the sys tem as the "continual" drinking of smaller amounts of alcoholic bever ages, according to Dr. E. L. Horger, clinical director for the State Hos pital here. Postman Figures Mileage BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (UP) EI let H. Sanders, 65, dean of postal carriers here, estimates he has walk ed a distance equal to three times around tho world In his 34 years of servl?e. Sanders, who retired on his 65th birthday, was the oldest carrier In point of service. 'If VA$ RA-fHER "fNSE All AROUND WHErl FRED PERLEV. AFfER PER5UAP1K6 HIS FRIENDS 10 LEf ALL THE YMIS 60 BECAUSE HE COULD 6lVEfrtEM A LIFT , DISCOVERED YHA"f HIS CAR WAS FULL OF MEMBER OF THE BRIDGE CLUB HIS WIFE HAD PRO MISED 10 "DRIVE HOME AFTER PICKW6 HJM UP (Copyright, 1938; by The Bell Syndicate, Inc ) 3 MATTER POr ' " ,a& r missus -p0T? A $ rsM (w ( 0,7-CAj V ( "H0 CoMe-1M -S v:-l!-Oopyri8:ht, iaftlr The Bell 8ySmtaV Inc.W ftp- jUj TAILSPIN TOMMY You Bet She's Worried! THE DEPARTMENT OF Al ft COMMERCE it' i 7 MY MODEL OP THAT V, SAYS THAT IP A TEST l-OP PROVES THE I r-- S? I SHIP MADE A RECORD . ADVAiSTAGES WHICH WE CLAIM OUR I - xL&l rOR TOP CEJLIM' Afi' VJL - 1 SHIP HAS. THEN THREE POIMT ri(! 7 DlSTAtSCE . . ISN IP 'S-fl GETS AM APPROVED CERTIFCATE J f V ,(t, THAT ENOUGH CZJ . . f 7 7 KlP OUR REGULAR SHIP DOES AS WELL AS "TOUR BUT WE'D BETTER BE GETTING YOU BACK TO YOUR MOTHER. . SHELL BE WORRIED! BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER The Meeting Aw,r4(HQS ABOUT) T rfFtgJZ& A LIFT T JSURE-I fip F THERE? 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