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MEDFORD MAIT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1939. aof; six After A Man's Heart by JEAN YESTERDAY: Bug finally tue eeeds in starving out the dii agrecable Hunts. Just as they leave Maudie May bare! Tim's secret. She tayt he is the man Iris DeMuth (ricked into buying a icorthless silver mine. Chapter Nine George' Slory AS THE Hunts drove off, Tim was very white and his big hands were shaking. "It's true," he said presently. "Every word of it's true, Buif! Now you know the kind of person lam! He rose to his feet and went upstairs before she could answer. Buff sat where she was for a long time. She heard Webby stir ring in the kitchen and thought vaguely that a good dinner would " help the entire household; but above every other sensation she . was conscious of pity for Tim Cor liss. The bald little story had held glimpses of tragedy which had been underlined and made acute by the look of suffering on Tim's face. After a time she went into the kitchen. Mrs. Webb was furiously busy. Something gave off savory odors from the Dig range oven, a double boiler simmered on top. The fat housekeeper was creaming butter and sugar in a bowl. "A nice state you left my kitch . en in, Miss Buff!" she said severely. "And if the stuff that was left on - the table is a sample of what you gave those poor Hunts to eat, I ' don't wonder they left. Lumbago! I suppose you and Mr, Tim had your reasons, and after all I'm get tin' paid to do what I'm told; but layin' in bed without good nour ishin' food didn't do me any good, and I sh'd say it hadn't helped you either, by the looks of you!" Buff wandered about for an other hour. When she heard the sound of a car approaching she strolled down to meet it. George ' Wrckes stopped and grinned at her. " 'Here again,' says she. 'Won- dcr how much longer that guy is going to keep on coming?' " "It happens I'm extra glad to see you today." Her tone was sober. ''And I'd like to talk to you before you see Tim. Suppose you drive under those pines and let's confer bit. Okay?'' "And then some," he agreed heartily. He steered his car under ' the clump of trees which marked the boundary of the ranch. "Tim not so well, or is it these Hunts he called me about?" "Both, in a way. The Hunts left - right after lunch a fleeting smile touched her mouth at the recollec tion of that meal "but not before the daughter had had spilled the beans about Tim." He frowned, "How d'you mean spilled the beans?" She told him briefly of Maudie May's accusations. "Tim said it was all true, and more. Then he shut himself up in his room. I think you'd better tell me all about it, George." "I suppose so. Poor old Timl Where shall I begin?" "With with the girl. Iris De Muth, isn't that her name?" "That's her name. She blew Into Boulder one fine day and dropped . Into our office. Had some ore speci mens she want ;d assayed. For sil ver. Silver in 'em all right plenty of it. Tetrahedrite " "Don't waste time being technl aal." she commanded. "Where did i she get the ore?" "From a mine she owned up In the mountains. Oh, she owned it ' all right. I looked it up, of course. She wanted Tim to buy up a lot of land around it; she had a New York company willing to back any development if there was actu ally silver there." "And was there? The specimens mi" it not have come from her mine. " He nodded his appreciation "Good point! Naturally the same Idea occurred to Tim and me. So he went up himself and took some specimens irom the mine to assay. You know silver ore exists in veins, and if a bit were taken from the vein itself even an expert couldn't tell whether it contained silver until he had assayed it Tim brought home a tidy lot " "Wait a minute. Did she go along show him where to get the bits he took?" An Accomplice TIM wasn't born yesterday, my dear. He took his specimens where and how he chose to. The thing Is, he had to go to Idaho bnnngs berore he could test them Was gone ten days, in fact." "Gn on," she bade him. "When he (jot bark, he went to work on the ore. It was darned food. We were all excited about it. ris and Tim and I. She . . . did I tell vou that before all this devel oped she and Tim had fallen head over heels in love with each other?" "No, you neglected that Inter esting item," she said dryly. "How ever, I inferred as much. Pro ceed!" "She said the more land we owned, the mere interested the company would be. So we " "You didn't just take the com pany on trust? "No. it's a bona fide development firm. We sent along specimens for their own man to assay. But after Tim had come back keep that in mind. Buff! from Idaho Springs!" "And the specimens he had taken from the mine?" He sighed gustily. "You've put your finger on the rotten spot in the scheme. Iris, of course, had ac cess to Tim's oflice while he was gone. Not much of an ofTice; jus; the little outer room, and then the Mora Women Police. LEEDS, England. (AP)The police force will he invaded by women shortly when plans for enrolling women as special constables or ns women's police auxiliary corps are completed. Receptive Gat Masks. LONDON.-(AP) Lady Astor and Mrs. Joseph Kennedy, wife of the American ambassador, have sections in the side of their gas mask boxes for lip RANDALL laboratory. No secret about any thing. She drifted in and out when ever she pleased. What she did was to substitute ore containing genu- ine silver for the stuff Tim had ! taken from her mine. Same size and about the same shape. After i ten days, and of course having no ! suspicions whatever I hadn't ' either, if it comes to that! don't ! lose si.lit of tlrjt! it never oc curred to him they were not the same. It sounds screwy but any mining engineer will tell you how easily it cuuld be done if the whole thing seemed open and above board. Being in a mining country, you see, and assaying ore being all in the day's work, we weren't look ing for any funny business. So " "Where did she get the other specimens the ones with silver in 'em?" "She had an accomplice," was the grim answer. "Guy named Latshaw. Owned a mine that petered out, and had kept some of the ore he'd taken from it. Any how the whole proposition looked so good that Tim and I took all our money and bought up as much land as wo could; not only surface rights, you know, but the whole business." "And then " "It was Latshaw's land, of course; only we'd never heard of Latshaw. It wasn't a swindle on a largo scale; I mean we didn't form a company on our own and sell shares anything like that. Latshaw merely unloaded a lot of land he didn't want at a price that netted him enough to make it worth Iris' while to play Tim for a sucker." "But but I don't see why that should have floored Tim so com pletely! Even if his bank account was wiped out, it was only money his money " "And mine," he reminded her. "Quite a bit of mine, as it hap pened. My own fault, of course, but Tim took it hard because he thought he should have locked up the ore ... or made another series of tests, or something. Also, there was Iris. He thought she was heaven's gift to him, d'you see? And the publicity. The papers got hold of it, and it made quite an interesting story: lovely adven turess, trusting expert, clever sub stitution of ore you'd have to live in these parts to understand what thrilling reading it was." 'Tim Cracked Up' IT'HAT became of of Iris?" "Did a fade-out. of course: as soon as the land was bought and the deeds recorded. Oh, yes, and she left a note for Tim, too. She couldn't resist telling him how she'd worked the deal. Now you nave me whole story. "Not auite. I think." said Buff. "What happened then?" Nothing, lim sloeeed awav as usual. Business dropped oil, of ct ur.se, and that d.dn't add to his hilarity. Lverylhing gone at one fell swoop: his bank account and mine, his faith in women, some thing of his professional prestige. Not all of it, as a matter of fact, though he thinks so. I wanted to move on where we wouldn't en counter knowing grins wherever we went; or at the very least, I wanted old Tim to take a vacation somewhere until the whole thing blew over. He wouldn't. He swore he'd stick it out right there; build up his reputation again " "He wouldn't," the girl said. "He darn' near did. People knew him trusted him. The trick didn't do us as much damage as you might think. But Tim cracked up after a while and the doctors or dered him away. He wouldn't go; not, at least, until he'd measured his length a couple of times in the laboratory, and smashed a lot of test tubes, Even then I had to talk to him like n Dutch uncle; tell him it wasn't fair to me for him to keep on in the condition he was. I over did it, of course; made him afraid he'd make some gosh-awful mis take. "I saw the advertisement of this place in a Denver paper, and per suaded him to take a'monlh oil out hero. I had a nice picture of Tim loafing in the sunshine, going for long healthful tramps, swapping yarns with Atkins and coming back in October lit as a fiddle. If you " "If I hadn't come along. It might have turned out that way. Is that what you're thinkine? As it was, he hurt his ankle, driving over our road after dark, and cot into a worse condition than he d been be fore." "Don't you believe It! You've done him worlds of good. I'll bet these Hunts have helped even more. 1 could wish for Tim's sake that a long succession of tenants would arrive, one after another, to distract his mind. As it is, he's al most well acain. Westland says he's improved a lot. Of course he's still remorseful about my money, and he's still upset over Iris . . . poor old 1 mi! "He's never messed around much with girls, you see. His father died when he was a kid and Tim supported his mother; put him self through rollege besides. That didn't leave time for anything else. His mother was a lovely person and Tim surt of founded his ideas of womanhood on her. And Iris, plague take her, was pretty swell to look at; appealing, too. She had Tim eating out of her hand almost from the first. Personally," con cluded Tim's partner in a level voice, "I could get a lot of enjoy ment seeing her sweet face peering from brhiml some good stout bars. It's not the money: it's what she did to old Tim. Now you know. Poor Tim'" "Poor Tim." Puff echoed. And thoughtfully: "Poor Tim!' I oiiilnunl tomorrow. stick, compact nnd other fem inine incidentals. ,lr MN-lciil tirUes. Ql'EBKC. 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MAKING REAL r 7 progress y yf-' I 1 DON'T KMOW WHY VOU CNJ'T , X POTHERING ME. WELL -T" 1 iv. i the recent price war between north west and California buyers. t- Weather Northern California: Fair to night and Tuesday but cloudy in extreme north portion; local fogs on the coast; little change in temperature; moderate north west wind off the coast. Oregon: Cloudy tonight with rain in northwest portion and on coast; Tuesday cloudy with C - f !- i mm) TV A VMVXA'fr "scvmbol of His GOVERNMENTAL. P0UCV, IS ALSO om Of THE OLDEST HD MOST UWVERShL EMBLEMS OF SOVERmHTV KID: MR.RITISl STOP WANTS A YOU, FROM ) DOWN HAD GUESS IT. HE AiNT TsAV", BEN, THATGUyj LET'S GO Y-- STEPLOCK'S GOT OVER TO 1 HAPPY VALLEY ) SEE MR. SBY THE EARSJBALLlNGER-x - wm if saram! ( wu-xr on eartm XL HERE ? y V It I rr - x rain in west portion; little change in temperature; increas ing southerly wind off the coast becoming fresh. Justice Douglai 41 Washington, Oct. 16. (AP) .i,icti William O. Douglas, the i youngest member of the su jpreme court in 127 years, be came 41 years old today. Doug I las has been on the bench since I April 17. . - .e.vi'dl - 'r ' . n.r i' i sir, f-i , WW 111 By HAL FORREST DON'T TAKE ANYA I CHANCES.' BE SURE TO DOUBLE-CHECK. ANY SHIP YOU .TAKE INTO l THF AIR' sT..-. -o. V V - - - w we Bv EDWIN ALGER Bv SOI. HKSS I BCRRiEO ThE MONEY PAW AND 1 COME "TO WOSX FOR YOU A FloHT WITH HECK HE WRIT OU A.BCUT BLAMES YOU BUT YOU IK UMLY LpJO mfi t - -
