P.VGE SIX
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1939
Meet CTr. Lochinv
By Marie Blixard
YVSTtKUAY: Philip uki C
cily U ht has ever considered
him at a luftor, ord attempts to
embrace her. Cecily m very much
dupteued. Wou) i it had been
Lock' . .
Chapter 19
The Future?
CECILY turned down the lamps
In her bedroom and went to
the window, dropping to her knees
and staring out into the night. The
same night that enclosed him in
his little shack a few miles away.
There was a very small bird on
a branch that swept by her win
dow. "You ought to be home In your
little straw bed," sba scolded. "But
I'm glad you're not. I feel like
talking to someone."
The bird sa'.d, "Cheerp!"
Cecily laiighed. "I don't know
whether you're saying, 'Cheer up'
or 'cheep but we could discuss it.
In the iirst place, I don't need
jheering up because I'm so happy
that my heart is singing and isn t
that being happy?
Was she happy? She tried to
sound her emotions. Could a girl
be happy when the man who had
become the center of her universe
was cloaked in mystery? Why
wouldn't he tell her his name?
Why did he grow suddenly remote
In those moments when she felt
that they were closest?
As she had done so many times
before, she brought out all the
memories of the times that they
had been together. Two weeks be
fore there had been the Unforget
table day of their picnic. Then
there had been the night of the
church fair when she had come out
with Laura and heard his whistle
and he had walked back to Laura's
cottage with them. He had said he
was faking her home and they had
taken the long way.
There was the day of the circus
twelve miles away when he had
hired a rattletrap car from the
garage and over-ridden her ob
jections about leaving the shop.
What fun they had nad, eating
hot-dogs and drinking poisonous
Eop like two kids. He had bought
er a pin-wheel which even now
was tenderly put away in a drawer
in her trunk. They had held hands
while the trapeze artistes dangled
overhead and Cecily had felt that
Paradise must be like a circus tent.
The day that he brought her
Mary Poppins and said that Mary
had nothing on him; he could slide
up banisters and promised to show
her one day.
"He talks about the future. He's
going to take me to the Battery to
see the veils of fog at dusk. We're
floing to sit in the Stadium with
he stars and hear Tschaikowsky.
He's going to take me to Little
Italy, to see the F6te of St. Gen
naro. He's going to slide up a ban
inter but . . ."
But . . .
But, In the meantime, he talked
bout the past, about the future,
yet he was as elusive as a moon
beam. There was an incomplete
ness about their relationship.
bout his very self that haggled at
her happiness. There was an air
oi unreality aoout tne wnoie tning,
is though Locke were a character
he had read about who had
stepped out of the panes of a book
ana returned to them and she had
forgotten the title of it.
Or rather, as though she had
sever known the title.
He's Maddening
HE had a way of turning off her
questions as though she had
never asked them, a way that was
done so gracefully that she was
not aware of it until the question
came to her again. She hadn't
meant to ask him questions, yet
he could not control her impulses.
He had an Irish way of answer
ing her questions by using ques
tions of his own. He knew all
bout her. He knew about her
childhood, her schooling, the
things she liked and the things
he didn't like, her code and her
acceptances. She had told him
things she had never told anyone.
"He's maddening," she confided
to the small bird who lingered on
for some reason of his own.
"Cheep" the bird retorted un
mistakably. "Oh, ves. cheapl But I'm not,
my fine feathered friend. I protestl
You mustn't get the idea I'm
throwing myself at him. Indeed,
I am cool as can be when I see him.
He doesn't dream that every time
that little bell tinkles over the
door, my heart does cartwheels all
over my lnsidos. He doesn't know
that I walk along the street with
eyes in the back of my head. No,
Indeed!
"He doesn't even know that I
don't live except when I'm at the
hop. This" she spread her arms
to include the house "is merely
n interlude that mvM be endured
every night. But h i doesa't know.
And I shall neve' tell him and if
he doesn't speak . . . but he will!
He will!"
Later, lying open-eyed In her
bed, Cecilv wondered if she had
dreamed all the things she wanted
SPEEO UP RECRUITING
10 ADD 115,000 MEN
BY END OF NEXT JUNE
WASHINGTON. Bent. IS. AV-The
rmy ordered recrultlim speeded to
day for the air corps and other
crunchen. In response to PreMdent
Rooevrtf limited emergency In
cludes tor the army, navy and marine
corp.
More than 13.000 recruits will be
ought by the end of October for
the air corps alone, more than
doubling the orlpinul enlistment
echeduleR for the air force.
The accelerstlnR was ordered be
fore rteutlt were complete for en
listing the 17.000 net Increase In
rmy itrength which Mr. Roonevelt
decreed last Monday.
Already engaged in Its moat In
tensive drive for rernuta in pence,
time olitory, Ui war department bad
to believe. Was It only because
Locke had filled the dull world
with glamour that she had imag
ined he was drawn to her? Had
those happy silences between them
been merely silences? Not some
thing dear and precious that you
accepted because you both felt
them?
It was already September. There
were only a few weeks longer for
her to be in Vickersport Only
few weeks longer to make some
thing real and lasting of her en
chantment. What then?
She had made vague plans to
open a shop in New York on her
return. At mother time, she would
have been thrilled, filled with het
plans. Now, she couldn't bear to
think of them. She couldn't see
herself anywhere but where she
was. New York was as remote as
Tibet and as foreign, because
there would be no Locke there.
He had talked about New York
but she had never been able to
make him say that he would be
there, or that he would see her
there. Oh, he was a very unsatis
factory person. Why Cuuldn'i she
have fallen In love with a solid
sort of person?
Why couldn't she have fallen
In love with someone say, like
Philip Calien? There wasn't
really anything wrong with Philip.
Everybody liked him except her
self. Maybe I'm fated to be one ot
those women who always make
mistakes, she thought cheerfully.
I guess I'm not cut out to be the
femme fatale type; and all the rest
of us, according to current litera
ture, have to make mistakes.
She was almost asleep when she
thought of that. Then a new
thought woke her up. Why hadn't
she thought of it before!
Locke hadn't kissed her. Three
times he had acted as though he
wanted to, and then, deliberately,
he had turned away.
Evidently, he hadn't because he
would have thought his kiss was
serious, and if it was . . .
Cecily meant to find out.
Donald
CILAS POWERS kicked open this
lJ back door of the book-shop with
a capable foot and came in with
his arms filled with stout logs.
"You'll be needin' plenty of 'em.
Miss Stuart Gits right cool all of
a sudden in Se'tomber up here."
'That's right, Silas. But I don't
mind. Hearth fires in a book-shop
are good for the book business.
There's something about a fire that
inspires reading, you know."
Dunno," he said, brushing up
the chips Into Cecily's neat hearth
before ne left,
"Business has been awfully good,
hasn't it?" Laura said from the
depths of a chair where she was
bent over a column of figures.
Cecily waited until Silas had
gone. Then she said, "It's been
wonderful, Laura. The whole sum
mer has been wonderful. I never
dreamed when I came up here that
it was going to mean so much to
me. I've gained friends; I have you
and . . . and this form of achieve
ment. Plans for the winter have
worked out of it and I ought to be
happy."
Laura dropped her pencil.
"Aren't you? she inquired anxi
ously. Cecily laughed quickly. "Of
course, 1 am. I don't know what I
was thinking of to say that"
Laura's quiet waiting embar
rassed her. She picked up her pen
and took a stack of cards out of the
file. The cards were left unnoticed
while she gazed pensively out of
the window. Her gaze carried over
the field at the back and settled on
a clump of trees. Beyond there lay
the North road and at the end of
the North road, a cottage she had
never visited.
"It would be cold and dismal
here in the winter," she said ab
sently. "Oh, nol" the older girl protested
at once.
Cecily half turned In her chali
and saw that now it was Laura
who was embarrassed. There was
a flush on Laura's bent face.
"It will be lovely here," Laura
went on, "when the ground is
covered with clean, white snow
and you're enclosed in sturdy
walls. Cecily, think of the crunch
of crisp snow underfoot the ex
hilarating tang of salt on the cold
air, the crackle of logs in a big
hearth, light spilling a yellow wel
conle out of windows. 1 here would
be long, quiet evenings . . ."
"You're getting positively poet
ic, Laura," Cecily answered from
a jireat distance. She was thinking;
Life enclosed by sturdy walls can
be beautiful. But I can't ever think
of them because I have nothing.
Mv walls belong to someone else.
The thought brought her back
to Laura.
She turned full around.
"What does It all mean, Laura?
Aren't you going back to Boston?"
Laura took a long breath. "I
don't know, yet," she said in i
small voice. "It's that . . . well . . .
I oughtn't to speak yet but . . ."
Cecily crossed the room and sat
on the arm of Laura's chair. "Is it
Dmald?"
Laura folded her hands in het
lap. "Yes," she said.
Continued tomorrow.
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SEEDLESS FRUITS
BOSTON, Sept. 13. yp Seediew
tomatoes, which could be eaten by
persons now allergic to tomatoes, and
seedless watermelons, whose utility Is
obvious to anyone who has flicked
the seeds from a slice, may well be
on the fruit stands of the future, a
University of Michigan scientist said
today.
To a session of the American Chem
ical society's 98th meeting. Dr. Felix
O. Gustafaon disclosed recent re
search In developing seedless fruits
nought to sign up nearly 119.000 men
as additions and replacements by
next June 30, to reach a goal of
210.000 men, Including the Philippine
scout a.
One effect of the chief executive's
order for a new objective of 337,000
army mvn will be to move the drive
forward by several months, It was
Mid. Including those for the air
corps, ptviihly ao.000 ri'crults may be
suiiRht by the end of the yu
LATIN-AMERICAN TRADE
SEEN HEADING FOR U. S.
PORTLAND, Sept. 13. (V) Latin
American orders to Germany pmb
ably will be diverted to the United
States an renvtlt of the European war,
H. E. Wnterbury, district manager of
the biiremi of foreign and domestic
commerce, dee In red In at night.
He Inferred hope and potatoes
might find reutly enlarged Latin
American markets. Seven Latin
American countries nounht $3,000,000
worth of hops from Germany last
year. He said W :i'7ikI nlr-rriv had
made Inquiries conceit. ug Ort'n
nopa
WALKING LESSON
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
bJIUIAttd
IS LEFT IN CHARGE OF UNO.E,
WHO DECIDES It IS fiME HE
LEARNED fO WALK
15 UFfED To HIS FEET, AS
UNCLE "TOIES To 6Et HIM To
BftUflWCE ON THEM
A6 UNCLE LE15 60, SINKS
6RACrTtJLLY T6TL00R AtfD
BEAMS UP AT UNCLE
HAStu SLIGHTEST IDEA WHAT
IT'S AU. ABOUT, BUT THINKS IT'S
FiM TO HAVE UNCLE KEEP
LIFTING. HIM UP
BEGINS lb ENTER INTO SfiME
WITH ABANDOM. UNAS,
WHOSE ARMS ARE SETTlfte
Tired, is WilliH6 to c all
THE L-ESSOtJ OFF
IRelfMM by Ttift Bt'A Syndicate, loci
BVTHBEATENIN6T0 CRY,
Forces him to keep on urfiffe
HIM. UNCLE CONSIDERS WHOLE
IDEA OF TEACHING HIM ANV--CrilKG,.
A BiS MISTAKE
9-g.
through use of manufactured plant
growth hormones.
Seedless peppers, summer squash,
eggplant fruits, cucumbers and to
bacco already have been produced
experimentally by treating plants
with chemicals resembling nature's
growth hormone. But so far the
method has been too expensive for
commercial application.
Tomatoes of the seedless variety
would be desirable, Gusrafson said,
because seeds now affect certain peo
ple physiologically.
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LONDON, Sept. IS. (JF United
States broadcasting companies have
curtailed their transatlantic broad
casts from London of European war
developments during the past week.
Apparently this is partly due to tLs
small amount of news officially re
leased for publication.
Fewer commentators are heard oa
the International broadcasts.
The script for news or comment
must be submitted to a censor st
the British Broadcasting company
usually a member of the BBC staff
aligned as censor. He heards and re
turns It to the speaker with any
suggested changes, then listens to
the broadcast.
The radio censors look mainly for
military Information which might b
useful to the enemy.
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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FRANKLIN THE INVENTOR
Financial gain ' was no object lo Benjamin Franklin, one of early America's most fertile Inventors,
nho never nskeel a patent for any of hln Inventions.
Anion? Franklin's luntrllmtinm to science are: a method for retnlnlng heat from a fireplace In a room:
Identification of lightning and Invention or the lightning rod; lrl-focal glnsses; n musical Instrument; a
smokc-consuinlng stove and an electric stove; Improvements In a street lamp, In meteorology, In hygiene, In
ocennography; and a method of cooling hy evaporation. L
In his autobiography Franklin wrote: "I concluded to let my papers shift for themselves, believing
it nas better to spend what time I could spare from public business In making new experiments than In
disputing about those already made."
Tomorrow: The Light That Failed!
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