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
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FEEBLE SPEECHES
LONDON, Oct. 16 (API George
Bernard Shaw Saturday criticized the
addresses of Prime Minister Cham
berlain and declared wartime Britain
should have a national orator to
match the "very able speeches" of
Hitler and Stalin.
Shaw also recommended establish
ment of a council of British policy
whose duties would be "to censor
nnd explnln to Mr. Chamberlain any
speech he might deliver In parlia
ment."
The 83-year old playwright's crttt
clsm was contained In a letter read
at the opening of a conference on
war alma by the Fabian society,
socialist group.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
HAS ALMOST 6Crf KNCrfliEl? WHEN
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sion In speeches was that It was
for Oennany to make her choice and
added :
We have had enough of leaving
th Initiative to Herr Hitler. He In
variably takes It."
Tuna Price Drops
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held steady today at 1135 a ton. Re
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Tomorrow: Mayor of Ghost Town.
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Washington, Oct. 16. (AP)
.i,icti William O. Douglas, the
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