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VGE EIGHT After A Man's Heart by JEAN RANDALL YESTERDAY: Georgt telU Buff Tim's story. Tim took ore peci meru from the land Irii wanted him to buy, but IriM had an op portunity to chance the tpeci menl beore Tim could test them. Tim bought the land, found it worthiest. I'm faded out uiilh her accomplice, Latshaw. Chapter 10 A Girl Propose! J INNER was early that evening ' ' lor two reasons: Bun ana urn ere laint with hunger, e .eorge Weekes had to return to . ;oulder Deiore rugnuaii. "And even though the late la lented Atkins improved your road Dmcwhat, I'd like a little light on nv flying trapeze act," he told .3ufT. He happened to be In the hall vhen the girl came downstairs, md he gave a low whistle when he ;aw her. For reasons best known o herself, she had changed into the me dressy frock she had at the anch. Its material was chilTon, its :olor pale green, and its floating nem almost touched the lioor. Buff was transformed, Weekes told himself. He had seen her hith erto only in her favorite knitted suits, more often than not almost obliterated by one of Mrs. Webb's voluminous kitchen aprons. Also she had changed the style of her hairdress tonighV The severely plain knot was loosened a trine, allowing silky little waves and ten drils to escaDe: and to tOD it all, she had used a knowing bit of lipstick, and clasped a sparkling bracelet about a slender wrist. "Help!" exclaimed the visitor. Buff extended a satin sandal to ward the fire. "Like the getup? It's to cele brate." "Celebrate?" Tim put the ques tion from the doorway where he had halted at the sight of her. "Celebrate. First the rout- horse, foot and dragoons of the Hunts appropriate figure of speech, don't you think? second, a good meal which, oh, rapture! I didn't cook myself. Though per haps in the interests of accuracy, I should say I didn't try to cook. All in all, I thought the occasion warranted a bit of dressing up." She smoothed the folds of chiffon complacently. . "Gosh, I'd hate to sec you when you really celebrated, George told her. "As it is, it's only the knowledge of my penniless condi tion that " He halted abrupt ly, aware of the tightening of Tim's jaw. It was a gala meal. Mrs. Webb apparently labored under the de lusion that the three would have no opportunity to eat again for days, and supplied them with food accordingly. Buff was equally re lieved by the departure of the Hunts and the restoration of the hniispkeener to har nrnner rintipfl. George gayly seconded her efforts at light-hearted badinage. Tim did his best to share their festive mood but Buff's eves rested on him thoughtfully. Just so did her father jook when lire occasionally seemed too dimcuit lor mm. George took his departure with effusive thanks and admonitions to his partner to "stay on as long as mur can put up with you. "Which will be no longer than tomorrow, I im said. I hey had re turned to the fire, Buff curled upon fat pillow on the floor, Tim oc cupying the hardest and strnight est chair the room afforded. "No use telling George so. All he'd do would be to argue to quote the doctors, and so on. "Well, but but you aren't really well. Urn And it vou bo be. fore I find another foreman, that will leave Mrs. Webb and me alone here! He smiled. "May I noint out (a) that you are a singularly fearless young person? And that (b) I'm not much of a protector to anyone in my present state? "Aha!" she said triumnhantlv "You admit then that your present state isn't normal?" "I admit nothing. I merely an nounce that the sooner I act back to work the better for everybody, myself included. You've been heavenly good to me," he con tinued, "and with no reason on earth except that it appears to come natural to you to help lame dogs over stiles. Will you accept my most earnest thanks and and goodby?" Tell Me About If "pOODBY tonight?" She rose VJ lo a kneeling position on her pillow and looked at him with tnrtlcd eyes. "Why tonight?" "I thought it would be easier all round if 1 left before you were up tomorrow," he explained. "Mrs. Webb will give me an early break fast. George," he went on, "thought he was being mighty careful and discreet, but It hap pens that I know what took him back in such a hurry tonight. The poor guy's been doing two men's worn while 1 loated and moaned around here." Buff clasped her small tanned hands about one knee. "Tim, you told me that what Maudie May said was true. George amplified the outline somewhat. But there's a lot yet that hasn't been said on the subject. Don't you think it would do vou good to tell me about it? Every single thing, I mean?" "What is there to tell?" he asked drearily. "1 was a fool, and all of Boulder perhaps most of Denver Knows It. tieorue was the worst uflerer, but I hope to make it un SUB-STRATO PLANES TO START NEXT YEAR Kansas City. Oct. 17. (AP) Transcontinental and Western Air Inc., today announced plnns for sub-stratospheric travel next year and ordered five Booing "stratoliners," the first four mo tored airliners for a domestic air line. The new planes, which will cost about $350,000 each, will to him. I shall make It up to him," he said with quiet firmness. "Tim." The word came In the merest whisper. "We're both of us in in a fix, do you realize that? How would it be if if we joined forces?" He turned a perplexed and frowning look upon her. "How do you mean Join forces?" "I need someone to take care of. You need to be taken care of," she said simply. "Both your premises are false, my dear, but even if tiiey were not, what could we do about it?" "They're not false!" Stars of anger shone in her eyes. "I took a course in psychology it lasted only four months because Lance had to go to England or thought he had to but I had my textbooks and I kept on studying. I discov ered that I'm definitely the ma ternal type." A flush rose in her cheeks, cither from the heat of the fire or from embarrassment. Tim could not decide which. "I'll al ways need someone to take care of. And it's simply rot for you to say that you don't need to be looked after. You do you will, for months. You have," she fin ished proudly, "a scar on your psyche." "Great guns!" was his startled comment. "If that's the sort of thing you learned in your course, I'd say you were definitely better without it. 'Scar on my psyche,' indeed! It sounds as if I'd bad my appendix out, or had stopped a bullet!" She said coldly and sweetly: "You're simply betraying how lit tle you know of psychology! I shall pay no attention to you any more than you would to me if 1 came in all excited over finding a bit of fool's gold in the mountains and declaring to you it was the real thing!" Then seeing his ex pression change, she hurried on: "What matters the thing that really counts is that we should, as I remarked before, join forces." "Meaning ?" ' "Meaning marriage," she said, though this time the fire could not be held responsible for the bright color in her face. A Woman's Privilege, Too "pUFF, you're crazy! I think it's J you who have what was it?" a sear on vour Dsvche. Good gosh! Marry you because I let a woman fool me! Dump my trou bles on a child? Ask you to " "Child! I'm twenty years old, Tim Corliss!" "And I, my dear, will be twenty-seven in November!" "So what?" Buff demanded. striving to maintain her usual composure. She was remembering several conversatirris with her friends in which it had been decid ed that it was as much the woman's privilege to propose marriage as it was the man's. She had subscribed heartily to the theory, but no one had told her how difficult it would become in actual practice. "So you will advertise for an other foreman or didn't you say that Dr. Westland rould got you somebody? and will run along to Canada or Chicago or wherever your parents are anxiously await ing you; and I will hustle to Boul der and relieve old George. In a couple of months you will say if someone should happen to men tion the unlucky wight who put you to so much trouble hero 'Let mo see! What on earth was his name? Tim Something, I believe. A perfect nuisance; hut I did my Boy Scout good deed for months to come because of him.' " "You seem to have forgotten the letter 1 had from Eleanor from my mother. They they want to he alone for a few months; per haps for always. They'd bo glad if I were were married, or some thing!" "Make It 'something' then." was his advice. "Sec here, Bull! I've never studied psychology but I seem to know more about its prac tical application than you do. It's plain tlitit your father and mother want you to build up a life of your own for your sake, not for theirs. You're an odd sort of girl, did you know it? Modern to your finger tips in most things, but a regular old-fashioned daughter just the same. The kind that would forego matrimony and devote herself to the care of an invalid parent that sort of tiling. "But your father and mother are both perfectly healthy people, so far as I can make out; amply able to take care of themselves. So for get oil this dutv business, turn over a new leaf, and go in for something on your own." "As for instance?" "Well dancing and er well, dancing. Parties. New clothes. Isn't that what interests most girls?" "None that I know. One of my friends lives in New York and has a good position in an advertising firm. Another is an interior deco rator " He interrupted her wildly. "Whatever you decide on. promise me you won't interior decornte! Great Scott, the crimes that are committed under that head espe cially by your sex! Seems to ma their sole object is to make a room as hideous and uncomfortable as possible. Take this living room now " "What's the matter with It?" she asked belligerently. "Nothing. That's what I'm get ting at. Simple and restful. Noth ing to he knocked over or off. Hoom for a man to stretch himself. Comfortable couch and chairs and a fireplace. My idea of what a room should he." Buff smiled knowingly. rnntlnurd hmnrrnw carry H,l passengers on day flights and -!" at night, twice the passenger load of the largest sleeper planes now flying do mestic airlines in this country. They will be able to cruise at an altitude of 211.1100 feet at speeds of more than 200 miles mi hour. t'unl nf iliitnkv We wish to expr,'5 our ilnci-re thanks and npprrctntlon to our frlrnds Slut lie !,;lilors for th,-lr kuirinos and m inpathy dunun our rrofllt foopnvemen: Also l"i th-fo.-uuMftil floisl ollrni-.;s Mis. Ida Morris Mid Charles Monis, MEDFORD MAIL On the Radio Chains STATIONS Where to Find Them on the Dial: KKX, Portland. 1180; KFL, 610 LotrAligelei; K(JA, 1470, Spokane. KliO. Jul), San Francisco; KUW Z0. Portland; KJK. 870. Seattle K.NX, 11)50. Loe Allltln; KOA, 30 Uenter; KOI.N. 010. Portland KOMO. 920. Seattle; KI'O. 630. San Franrlsro; KHL, 1180, Salt l-akf Tuesday :00Wdrlch Fnmlly, KPO, KPI, KOW; Organlit, KOO. KEX, KJR. 5:30 sherlork Holmea. KOO. KEX. KJR: Tuesday NUfht Party, KSL: Heldte Orch., KPO. KFI, KGW. 6 :00 Kelsey'e Orch., KOO, KEX: Melody and Madness, KPO, KOW, KPI. o:30 Fibber McOee, KPO, KFT. KOW: Crosby'e Orch., KNX, KSL, KOIN; Literature, KOO, KJR, KEX. 7:00 News, KOO, KEX; Bob Hope, KPO. KOW; Calling All Can, KNX. 7:30 Sports, KNX, KOIN; If I Had the Chance. KOO. KEX; Dog House. KPO, KPI, KOW: News. KSL. 8:00 Amos and Andy, KNX, KOIN, KSL: Fred Waring. KPO, KFI. KOW; Information Please. KOO, KEX, KJR. 8:16 Jimmy Fldler. KSL, KNX. 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Killed Going To Church Hubbard, Ore., Oct. 16 (AP) John Burke, 20. Hubbard log ger who was riding to church on the running-board of Forrest Hnrtzler'g automobile, was killed yesterday when another car brushed him off. State Po lice Officer L. R. Mariels said the other car was driven by Charles Gilmer, Canby. Gordon V. Skelton Corvallis, Oct. 16 (API Gordon V. Skelton, 72, Oregon State college faculty member for 44 years, died last night. He had been ill for several months following a heart attack. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS MREE- STFAIWED BY FATHER'S HAVING TO CLIMB OUT' OF CAR 1b LET HIM IN TO H0J5E SCES OOf To CAR, EVERY BODY VERY SILENT Ar!D CROSS, f SWEATER WRLl NOT BE PUT ON ALL jay; twujfe L TOLD MA I WAS ,nMikin Trt wrtci: cod B OU AND TME MOKE MOMcV NOU PAV ME, OUCk.EC 1 CAM TOY PAW rAOC THEi10 1 BORlED FROMl V E STATE POWERS BE Salem, Oct. 16. (AP) The 1935 agricultural marketing act, STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped earelope for reply. Reg. TJ. S. PaL Off. Ife FIRST WRcnJGHTlRoS 1 ofts Pipe line t A , WAS Mfct Of OtD MUSKET BARRELS London, 85' i 1 1 .'1 'I ' 1W-.7- Copr. l ! Vnttti FmIh, Srollrito. THE LONE MAYOR Alcona, Mich., was a booming lumber town in the 1880's when Newton Edwards took oath as mayor. Then came the big fire Alcona's main mill burned down and everybody moved away except Edwards. Today he lives there all alone and is still Mr. Mayor, according to R. E. Prescott, publisher of the Alcona County Herald. FIRST PIPE LINE William Murdock gave London Us first coal gas for lighting purposes In 1815 in a unique manner. As no suitable piping existed, he threaded old musket barrels and screwed them together in a continuous line. TOMORROW: Ten-year-old Culinary Cutie. -x Nou uoulDkj'T 4 WAVE COME DOWM HOW DO SOU MOVJ THE GOT A JOB NiwTUlMfc) Ot-NJ NOW Hz I which the state department of agriculture never has enforced and can't enforce now because the legislature did not appropri ate any funds, permits the de partment to regulate the sale and marketing of fruit imported into Oregon, the attorney gener al ruled today. The. act, which has not been tested in the courts, gives the department such wide powers cjuarter-inch copper Wire ChH SE PRAWN to over 3 Mils? t IN 3 MINUTES mm- W 'land'-stnc to London. iy we ST MM 1. "77 AT" Til Ik v inn I ivtNti nB. ir; f SOU SAID VOURSE.LC i L DiDSJ'T 6ELOMS IM MO PLACE LIKE SQUAW V1LLE -THAT I A FLOWER im A f I DESERT. IF IM A PLOW EK. CANT VOL - Ol kS.lT N0P IN. vjwis place 1. M ML V that it has been hesitant to use them. Under it, the department may fix prices, establish grades and standards, set up market ing agreements, license growers, regulate trade practices, and make investigations to deter mine whether farmers are get ting fair prices. Because there is no money for these purposes, none of th act's provisions will be enforced, the department said. ' jien aO3. Ahip;' IM 1H0UR$ dik s n I l' SHIJ smjTi-Wkl vnuj , iiu.cn NO ONE ELSE: riAS1 U VHP "THERE FoR over 30 YEARS Bv HAL FORRES! ONE-. 'HUNDRED FEET WHY... .THATS 4 .SUICIDE! Bv SOL HESS it l nnv; ip vri 1 N PLAMTED VOURSELP. J. nui-t riwHJ iKKlVt IM THIS CLIMATE . , . Bv i r ' -, I
