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MED FORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREOOX. MOTAY. XOVErBER 14. 1938.
DON'T MARRY THE MAN
-By Jttnn Bowmen-
Miaruvlcrs
Kathleen Qretoryt youngest
member ot the Gregory family
poee West incognito to vamp a
right-of-way from MacDonald
for the than of The Golden Girl
mine.
Donald MacDonald: young own
er of The Stubborn Boy mine
hates the Gregoryt as much as
they hate him.
Bridget: Kathleen' companion.
Yesterday: Kathleen writes her
father she intends to finish the
fob without his interference. Don
aid's mother arrivee.
Chapter 19
Angus And Beatrice
F)ONALD'S cousin, Norman Mac
Donald, had accompanied his
aunt. He was a year or so older
than Donald; with his looks and
without his arbitrary manner, he
fascinated both girls. But he con
centrated on Bridget.
In fact 'both young men did,
leaving Kathleen with Mrs. Mac
Donald, a slightly bewildered
Kathleen, unaccustomed to being
ignorea in so pointed a fashion.
"I can't blame them," she
thought "She is lovely and as dear
as she is lovely, only" The wist
ful look in her dark eyes won the
woman wno was watching her.
This wasn't the hot headed young
spit-fire her son had forewarned
. her to expect. That is what she
thought then, she changed her
mind soon alter dinner was over.
Donald, going to the rear of the
house for more logs, came in
frowning. "Kit-Smyth's commg up
the drive. Our drive if you please.
Now what is he up to?
Kathleen and Bridget exchanged
glances of alarm which were
promptly misinterpreted by the
MacDonalds.
"You don't have to worry this
time," Young Donald-advised. "I'm
going to handle that baby as he
should be "
"Son," interposed his mother as
he strode towards the door, "this is
Thanksgiving and this is my home.
. I'll meet him."
At her bidding Kit-Smyth en
tered, a perturbed Kit-Smyth who
twisted his hat in his hands. He
wanted to see the young ladies. He
wanted to talk to them alone. Well,
ill right then, he'd talk right here.
"Listen," he began, "you and
your patients have got to get out
of that house right now. I'll fix you
up at the hotel free of charge, but
get out quick. The Gregorys are
in town and they intend moving in.
pronto."
"What Gregorys?" interposed
Donald unbelievingly.
"Young Angus and his . . . well
I guess it s his sister; name's Greg
ory." Kathleen swallowed. Her throat
had become very dry. "Why can't
they stay at the hotel?" she asked.
The sound emitted bv Kit-Smvth
resembled an explosion. "You
should hear himl" he cried. "You
should hear what he says about the
place!
Bridget's laugh rang out. "He
owns it, doesn't nc7 Uheer up, Mr.
Kit-Smyth, we'll move. And we'll
have to send our patients to Car
ited. Lucky they're all recuperat
ing. You're in rather a tight spot
aren't you?"
Kit-Smyth ran a finger around
his collar.' "Sure nice of you. I'll
make up for the inconvenience,
somehow. If you'll come over now
and toss your things out the rear
way, I'll have Joey-wide-eyes pick
them up and carry them to the
hotel."
"But that is foolish," Interposed
Mrs. MacDonald. "Norman, you
and Donald can stay at our hotel
and the girls can come in here with
me. They'll be much more comfort,
able."
Infernal Bole'
IT was thus arranged and Kath
1 teen, Bridget and Mrs. Mac
Donald went over to pack and
move. They would carry things to
the rear veranda and the boys
would move them over to the Mac
Donald side.
For the next hour the Gregory
house hummed with activity. Kit
Smyth would call for the visiting
Gregorys the moment the house
was clear. He had told them he
was having it cleaned, aired and
warmed.
The girls were making their last
trip downstairs when footsteps
sounded on the front veranda. The
door was swung wide and in
stalked Angus Gregory. Beatrice
in his wake.
"Of all the Infernal holes," he
was oratinR. "To think it bears the
name of Gregory. I'll fire that manl
I could run a better hostelry with
one Anger."
Behind him came Beatrice Greg
ory, stopping to stomp out t ciga
rctte. Kathleen looked down at Brid
get. Angus Gregory's former sec
retary was trapped on the lower
stairway Beyond her was Mrs
MacDonald. her face alight with
interest.
"Here," thought Kathleen, "goes
our identity in one fell swoop. How
can I slop it?"
Aloud she caroled.
"Try running It with one finger
nd see what it's like to run it on
nothing at all like that poor fellow
is doing."
Her ruse succeeded loi only a
moment. Angus looked at his
daughter, then Bridget moved and
he looked at her. The massive
Gregory hands met behind the
Gregory back. The Gregory feet
rocked in their shoes: then, prop
erly warmed up, the Gregory voice
bellowed. "What in . . . what are
you doing here?"
Kit-Smyth, who had heard the
Gregorys arrive, rushed in just in
time to hear the question.
"Yes, yes, Mr. Gregory," he
hastened to explain, "these young
ladies are the two 1 had brought
up from the village to prepare the
house for you."
"Just a couple of working girls
trying to get along," affirmed Kath
leen, striving to check the tirade
she felt Angus was about to turn
on Bridget.
Angus Gregory looked at his
daughter, sputtered, then turned
his wrath to a safer subject. "That
infernal hotel," he began. "Only
one bathroom in the whole place
No heat in the rooms. Not a thing
fit for a man to cat in that hole they
call a grill room "
"So you can't take it?" queried
Kathleen, and blocked Angus as
Bridget slipped past her and out of
the door.
Beatrice Gregory, who had been
lighting one of her chain of ciga
rettes, found her voice. "Take it!"
she snapped. "Young lady, some
one should have taken you when
Sou were small and used a hair
rush."
Kathleen smiled at her aunt.
You should know." she observed
lightly. "If good little girls stay
small from pats on the head I know
what made you so tall. She es
caped from the room.
Mrs. MacDonald, who had re
mained in the shadows hurried
after Kathleen, convulsed with
laughter. Reaching her own living
room she said to her son, "Donald,
this child doesn't need anvone to
defend her. She's completely ca
pable of handling her own battles."
Donald looked at Kathleen with
a teasing, admiring glance. "I was
afraid of that," he admitted.
Kathleen s mood of the after
noon changed In the twinkling of
his eves. She was e.iv. audacious.
seeking some outlet for the sudden
joyous excitement which possessed
her.
A Fairy Circle
SHE found a baby-grand piano in
a far corner of the ronm and
made it ring with popular selec
tions She sang her own accom
paniments in a low, throaty, chuck
ling voice and flirted with Norman
so outrageously that Donald de
serted Bridget to join her.
And then they sang together,
sang to each other while the others
beat in rhythm to their melodies
a rhythm Kathleen didn't hear be
cause she felt for the moment thai
the two, she and Donald, were
alone in a fairy circle.
The midnight chimes ol the clock
stopped them. The two young men
left for the hotel and Kathleen, in
the room assigned her, contrarily
threw herself onto the bed and
burst into tears, mulTling the sobs
with her pillow.
She had been ashamed of her
people. And she loved them 89.
Mrs. MacDonald wouldn't know
that Angus wasn't reall; gruff and
unjust; that he was only worried,
terribly worried and thoughtless.
And Mrs. MacDonald couldn't
know that Aunt Beatrice would not
have been rude to a stranger: par
ticularly a maid; that when Aunt
Beatrice rubbed against her niece
there were always sparks flying.
"But why," she moaned, "docs
Bee always have to look like a coal
burner on the upgrade?"
Kathleen quieted in fear. She
hoped her father would keep an
eye on those cigarettes. At home
the servants were trained to follow,
their troll, retrieving lighted stub
and putting out fires in smoulder
ing upholstery.
She sat up, dried her eyes an'
felt better. Some good might com
out of this trio At least Ancr
could see she hadn't exaggerated
ner letters. He would unquestioi
ably build a new hotel. And jut
let Beatrice get one good look a
the inside of the cols and then
would be new ones. After all thc
were Gregorys.
She wondered If the conaucst!
she had made before coming tc
Neutrality had been won by the
glamour of The Golden Girl back
ground, rather than bv her own
individuality.
Tve had to work to make Don
ald notice me. Bridget just sits and
acts her age and he hangs around
her like a love-sick pup. What has
she got that 1 haven't?"
Donald had bid Bridget a linger
ing good night He had merely
given Kathleen a smart salute.
"And I can't fight Bridget," shr
mourned. On next though! iie fell
it might not be necessary igui
might win the informal hi
wanted from Old Balmy and hei
work would be over; at least hei
need of winning Young Donald.
She went to sleep with an ach
in her heart and a heretofore un
known sense ot personal defeat
Awakening, she knew she mus
find some way to see her fathei
alone and without the MacDonald:
or even the Gregorys knowing.
' (CrtmtH. till. tmi)
Tomorrow: Disclosure.
EOF
8AI.FM, Nov. 14 ( AP, Arrest of
three Imrirpenrience youth Saturday
ted to nolution of a aerlea of burglar
lr. holdup and car theft committed
in Markm, Polk mid Br n ton counties
in the jmflt 60 day, sergeant Fnrlcy
Motrin, of the Oregon tto police.
id lodny.
The arrrstrd trto, who Mogan tat Id
All i mi dp full confenMoim, were Jumps
UiriH'ti, 21. Clarrnre Lumen, 18. Mid
June McKiiiwy, 10.
Mvim Mid they admit ted commit
ting nine bMrglarlea, three arrvlce ata
tlon rntrlet. f.-mr hld-ups and four
car t'lfftr.
Aii Uiric Mil t vutufcid at Dalian
with burglar)' of the Oorge Cooper
hardware store at Monmouth, from
whtrh 9100 worth of una and sev
eral thousand round of amunltlon
were atolen October 19. Hngan aatd
the (tuna and amunltlon and gro
ceries to km from atoron In SUverton
and Silver Creek Falls were recovered.
MmnN tnr HrM Time
LORAIN. O. (UP) Ten-year-old
Elltt Vau. crippled alnce birth, re
cently Mood on hi feet for the ftrat
time in his life. Fills underwent two
otteratloua thla year and apenl three
monthi tn a com from his chest to
his toes.
. ...
I'liine ri;int I lit. mi
PA8ADKNA. Cal itUM- Los Ann.'lr
county yom;et industry, that of
airplane mrmuf iwturlnii, la Kettlng
out of the infant c'.a. Hirer major
concern In one month i -c.l.ed new
contract for m.ooo.,xh) worth of
plain.
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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Czechoslovakia, strung as It seems,
was not created by tne Treaty of
Versailles, but became a republic
by virtue of a declaration of Inde
pendence signed elht months earlier
In Independence Hall, Philadelphia,
on October 26, 10 IB.
While tho treaty of Versailles.
signed June 38, 1010. changed the
nationality of 30.000,000 people,
Czechoslovaks had by then already
enjoyed eight months of national
freedom.
First step toward Czechoslovakia's
liberation was the official declaration
I n December, 1017, of Caches. o . til;
army units composed of Bohemian
and Moravian soldiers. While these
fought with Prance. Patriot Thomas
Masaryk traveled to the United
States and secured the backing of
American statesmen In drafting a
suitable Declaration of Independence
for his country-to-be.
The Declaration was first pro
claimed to the world from Washing
ton. D. C, on October 14, 1018, and
was appuoved by the Czechoslovak
national council In Prague. Masaryk
then took the document to Phila
delphia. In Independence Hall, sent-
t. i.i . . -same
desk that John Hancock useU to sign
the Declaration of Independence of
the United States, Masaryk signed
the Czechoslovak decree on October
26, 1018, and a new republic was
born.
Two days later, On October 28,
1018, the declaration was Issued of
ficially in Prague through Edouard
Benes. Secretary of the Czechoslovak
national council. This date Is cele
brated throughout Czechoslovakia as
their national independence day.
Tomorrow: The doctor who nearly
was lynched.
DENY PWA PLEAS
WESTERN STATES
SALT LAKY.' CITY, Nov. 14. (API
Eleven western states comprising tho
worKs Progress Administration's re
gion 5 are seeking tncreasod quotas,
an official said today, but WPA, cut
ting its rolls over the nation, will be
forced to refuse the requests.
Wm. Brummett, assistant field rep
resentative for the region, said "there
has been a partial curtailment of the
number of men on the rolls all over
the country. The curtailment Is
based principally, on persons going
Into private Industry who have not
been replaced on the rolls."
"All states In this region have ask
ed far and could use Increased
quotas, but we have only so much
money to spend which makes It Im
possible to grant the requests."
"Blue Chips" of Ivory
SAN FRANCISCO, (UP) The Cal
ifornia Historical society has placed
on exhibition solid Ivory poker chips
that represented $1,000 each, used at
the time when bonanza kings of; Cal
ifornia played for such amounts.
Mod Ira 1 Marvel Dead
LONDON. (UP) A man who amaz
ed the medical world by marrying
for the second time at the age of 70
nnd then having five children has
died at Fnreham, Hampshire, at the
age of 90.
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