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1 PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MATT. TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 28, 1939. Meet Mr. By Marie .j.UDAV: Lock tnd Lcura knocked out on the path to his cabin. She doesn't recover until morning. Locke telli her she mini keep secret what happened. Meanwhile, Cecily, worried, oett Donald Heminouav to help her look for Laura. Chapter 31 Odd Behavior COMING toward them was the slight figure of a woman lean ing on the arm of a tall young man, her face turned up 10 nis. Laura and Locke. As the two couples approached . each otner tne air was eiecmc. Cecily could feel Donald Hem ingway stiffen. She was conscious of feeling two things in .lerself at once: relief to see that Laura was safe, a quick stab of jealousy. Laura's face had been turned up to Lockes, the way that sne, Cecily, had so often looked at him. Whatever Locke's reaction, none of them could tell. Laura was nonplussed. She was startled to see Donald there so un expectedly. Cecily's presence had destroyed completely her joint plan with Locke to tell her another story. Waves of flushes rose in her checks, giving her a look of blatant gun'. "Hello," she said. There was so little else to say. "Hello," Cecily said. "Nice day for walking," Locke commented. They might all have met casual ly on Fifth Avenue. Cecily said, "Oh, Locke ... I ... I don't believe you know Mr. Hemingway." They bowed to each other. Oh, if only I could call a taxi and get into it, Cecily thought. Why doesn't somebody say some thing! Why did people have to look guilty? Laura surprisingly, broke the silence. "I was just coming in," she said. "It was such a beautiful morning I couldn't resist the im pulse to take a long walk. I had no idea It was so late. Then . . . then I ... I happened to turn my ankle and . . . and Locke came along and offered m. his arm." "Oh! Is it turned badly?" Cecily inquired quickly, solicitously. Anything to ease this strain. "Mr. Hemingway dropped in to take you to lunch ana I . '. . I thought that we might walk out and pick you up at your place." Cecily was thinking: Never mind that you know Laura hasn't turned her ankle. Pay no atten tion to the thought that Laura's cottage was in another direction. "Oh, thank you, Donald. I'm ... I I'm afraid that I can't lunch with you today." Ronald murmured that he was sorry. Cecily thought that perhaps the four of them would spend the rest of their lives as an inanimate group standing there by the road sirie. And how could she spend an other minute there when she couldn't meet Locke's eyes? She had met them once r,nd for the first time since she had known him, his glance had dropped be fore hers. After that she couldn't look at him. Funny, how quickly a thought can dart through your mind. You can think: Laura is in her early thirties, but she J as pretty as a young girl and men like Locke could like girls like Laura. He might have been attracted to her all the time that he was coming to see me! At last they began to move along. Donald walking as though his legs were sticks and his mind was fixed on mortgages. Mortgages to foreclose, Cecily thought. Then Locke said. "Sister Anne! Sister Anne! What do I see in the distance? As I live and breathe, a chariot! Now, milady, you shall ride." Speechless CECILY was never so glad to sec anything in her life as the ancient horse-drawn lumber wag on that hove into view and drew up heside them. "Hi, Dod!" Apparently Locke knew all the natives. "We've got a lady here who h:s an injured ankle. Do you think you could balance her on that plank that serves as your carriage?" Dod reckoned he could. Very tenderly. Donald giving no help. Locke assisted Laura to a comparatively safe spot on the single plank between the rear wheels. ' "When you get home and you must go home directly put that ankle in water as hot as you can stand it and keep off It for the rest of the day. It'll be all right tomor row, I'm sure." Cecily, anxious to escape, said, "I had better go with Laura." Laura said, "Oh, it isn't neces sary, Cecily." Cecily couldn't believe her ears. "But I . . ." "Locke's right. I really ought to rest and I'll be good as new to morrow. You'd better get back to the shop, Cecily. "Since I'm leaving you in good hands. Ill be getting back to work," Locke said, as Laura drove off. And with no more than a wave of his hand he turned and walked back the way he and Laura had come. "Pinch me," Cecily whispered when she could get her voice. WILL GO TO JAPAN OAKLAND, CUf., 8pt. 28. (AP) Workmen were busy today dismantl ing the 43-passtnger Doug 1m airliner, DC-4, world'! larRMt land plana, for shipment to Japan, The Japaneae Air Transport com pany completed nrrnnjiemrnta aeveraJ month ago for purchase of the four-motored transport. Because of Its lw the wins aprfBd ta 138 feet It wan believed the plana would be carried a crow Lochinvar Bliiard" "I beg your pardon," Donald said. Laura called out, "Thank you for the invitation, Donald. Please isk me another time." Cecily hadn't seen the expres sion on Donald's face but she did see the desolation on Laura's be fore her cart rounded a corner in the road. Donald and Cecily, speechless for the first few yards, retraced their steps. Then Cecily said some thing bright about the Yacht Club dance, getting, she noted, no re sponse. Somehow she managed to keep conversation going until Donald escorted her to her door, without once wondering what his guest at the inn would think of the delay. It was then nearly two o'clock. An odd hour for lunch in Vickersport. But would you tell her, please, if there was anything that wasn't odd that day? You meet your best friend on the road with the man she knows you are in love with. Fate, that wily playwright, takes the moment when you start look ing for her to turn up that old eot tonball of a bank Dresident that she's foolish enough to fall in love with. You know perfectly well that Laura and Locke are not interest ed in each other that way. Or do you? Anyway, you know that Laura is incapable of doing any thing wrong or unfair. But why aid Laura nave to lie about it? And why did Donald have to hear that odious child say that Laura had not been home all night? While you're asking yourself questions, Miss Stuart, why did Laura treat you that way? Why did she say she didn't need to have you go home with her? Anyone with half an eye could see that there was nothing wrong with her ankle. What had Locke told Laura? That man could get away with anything! At this very minute Cecily was prepared to think that he'd murder Laura in her bed to get away her wrist -watch with the ten diamond chips. Also, at that moment, Cecily would like to have strangled some one to get rid of the frustrations that choked her. 'Please Come' IT SEEMED to her that day that every person who came into the shop came in merely to find some one to talk to. She discussed ton- silectomies with one woman, the loss of nuances in translations with another. She picked out love sto ries for a fierce-browed old lady, did up a gift package for an in valid, hunted down a copy of James Elroy Flecker for someone else. She exchanged books in the circulating department. Stamp. Write the date on V a card. Six cents. Fifteen cents. The little strong-box was filled that day. but it gave her no satisfaction. She got out her cost sheets and calculated the cost of taking her new stock back to New York. She tried to wrestle with the problems attendant on opening a shop in New York. But figures flew out of her mind. She couldn't make her self write neat columns. Cecily was fed up with books. With people. With Cecily Stuart. At five o'clock she drew the Venetian blinds in the window, banked the fire in the hearth and put up the fire-screen. She tidied the effects of the day's business, put away her cards and put on her coat. She was angrily tucking her hair under her blue felt when the knocker on the door thudded heavily. "No more customers." she said under her breath. "I'm tired of waiting on people." I he knocking was Insistent. hhe sighed and opened the door. There was a little girl there. "I gotta note," she said, holding it out in her grimy hand. Cecily tore open the envelope. "Please come out, Cecily," Laura had written. "I want to talk to you." There was nothing more but Laura's name. Cecily felt as though a weight had been lifted from tier heart. It was bad enough to lose Locke: it was a tragedy to lose her friend. Cecily said, patiently, "I'm try ing to understand, Laura. If only you'd tell me something.'" Laura's face, under her brave rouge, was white. Her head throbbed with pain and she couldn't tell that to Cecily. The pain kept coming between her and what she was trying to say to the other girl. She wished that she could tnke a sedative and shut out all the imps that possessed her mind. Shut out the memory of Donald's cold face. She had watched It soften dur ing those weeks that she'd known him. watched the light in his eyes grow warm, and in that warmth she had blossomed. "Surely there is a simple ex planation," Cecily persisted. "I'm trying to give you one. I've said all there is to say." Laura made a turn about her living-room and stared out the window mo rosely. "I did go to Locke's place, or I started to . . . that is, as I told vnll rtn thA tnlnntinn.. T JiJ tnll A him. and I feel the same way I did when I talked to you in the after noon. But what was said well, I can't toll you." They were right back whera they started from. Continued Monday. the Pacific on the deck rather than in the hold of whatever liner It la sent on. Frnir American line alrllnea con (cms co-opprntcd" to aid the Douglas company bmirt the plane, developed aa an experimental hlp at a re ported cost of aa soo.ooo. H made a coast-to-coaat test flight several months ao. but has had lew than 600 hours in the air. LITTLE LAD DROWNS IN FALL IN FISH POOL PORTLAND. SeDt. 2R ( APiT.,,i Estep, 14 months, drowned In a fish pond today while his 4-year-old brother nlnved nmrbv. Thw riiiMnh.' mother hna been In a hospital for vveral weck. Use Mall Tribune want adj. On the Radio Chains STATIONS Where to rind Them on the Dial: BEX, Portland, 1180; KFL, Mu. Lot Angeles; KOA, 1470, Spokane. KOO. 780. San Francisco; KG 6J0. Portland; KJK, 070. Seattle: KNX. 1050, Lot Anieles; KOA. B30 Denver; BOIN, 840. Portland. KOMO. 020. Seattle; KPO. 630. San Francisco; KSI, 1180, Salt Lake. Thursday. 8:00 Songs. KOO. KEX. 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Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads Is 1:30 p m. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS REfuriNS AND ?RESErHiY TROtS DOWN fO SKflSft' HIMSELF THftf PftrffRV WlKDOW IS CLOSEP HALF AN HOUR LATER 6DE5 DOWN To MAKE SURE HE PUT CELLAR U6HY OtIT, AND SO, AT LAST, lb BEP eiovnf, vxuioJW MRS. ROOSEVELT FOR REPEAL OF EMBARGO WASHINGTON. Sept. 38. (API- Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt said today she would like to see the arms em bargo In the Deutralltjr act repealed. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor further proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. V. 8. Pat Off. Co-tviToR ttte Mi fieR&GWSR $ SPORTS FPlToR ot 1R6 U. OF NEBRASKA . rtPNlY NSBRASKANV "1W? A TRAIN WR6CK Wfvs shared &y ifle m&om, kana$ aw rexte railway mtm, s A comtTt city (crush, Texas) of 1o,ooo CMt INfo BElNfl AT 1H $G?N&"AND DISAPPSAREDTHS GAME PAY ONE-DAY CITY The qnlrkest growth nnd demist- of a city on record was that of Crush, Texas, which mushroomed from the tumbleweecls to a population of 3 0.000 only to disappear Renin nil In n slnslc day, C. w. Crush of the Missouri-Knit sas-Tcxns rnllwny concelvrd the Idea and the town was named after him. It was literally a nmnlclpnl t hentrr, playing to one tif the grentest crowds of thrill-seekers ever as sembled. Presented that day was the only railway-sponsored head-on collision between two locomotives. Amid the shouting of the -crowd, two steel behemoths roared toward eoch oth er as their crews Jumped to safety. The Impact demolished both engines and their six-car trails. Flying steel cut through the crowd, kill ing two persons. TOMOUKOW: He Eats Flames! but, she added, that was for con. gress and her opinion was not very Important. "Looking back over our experience In the last war." she said, "I feel that we are In greater danger with the embargo than without It." Asked at a press conference whether she wss less of a pacifist than formerly. Mrs. Roosevelt said she never had been a pacifist In the tense that she did not believe In defending her own country, but that she was Just as anxious as ever to see this country remain at peace. 2 Z 5 ifl it 1. ! 3 ,5- Zl 1M-1 & g 1 17 I? 1 15 lb 17 '" - - r 1' H - Mr A mun n r i locottotms AR GoiN'To BUMP When a reporter asked Mrs. Roose velt If she did not think the foreign situation would "almost Insure a third term for the president." the first lady replied the questioner would have to ask her husband. 8he said she personally could not see why the present situation should hav any bearing on the question. Mrs, Roosevelt laughed delightedly when asked whether the president ever called her down or picked on her about her newspaper column. She said the president never had said a word about a thing she wrote. An$wrfo yesterday's puzdei rs tiMeseAch) By HAL FORRES!
