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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
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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
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"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 )
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