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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.
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off the Central American coast, wait
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the safety of neutral ports at Corlnto,
Nicaragua and Puntarenaa, Costa
Rica, the San Diego Union says to
day. Nine of the vessels were re
ported tied up at Corlnto and fout
at Puntarenaa.
Lost Man Rare
ASTORIA, Ore.. Sept. 28. (AP)
Joe Anderson of Warrenton. a deer
hunter, missing for two days found
hla way out of the timber to the
Wolf creek highway yesterday.
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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
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the tumbleweecls to a population of 3 0.000 only to disappear Renin nil In n slnslc day,
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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.
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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!