PAGE TWELVE
MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1939.
After A Man's Heart
. by JEAN RANDALL
.jiKDAV: fluff ttltu!l
accurate her new apartment, and
Mrs. Webb cooks delicious din
ner! for Tim and George. Tim it
beginning to eel that Buff it car
ryinp the joke about being en
gaged to him, a little too lar.
Chapter IS
Parental Pressure
BUTT'S parents arrived in Bould
er the next day, Lance raRing
tt having to come for his recreant
daughter, Eleanor uneasy over a
situation which she did not in the
least understand. Buff made it all
clear to them both in half an hour's
talk.
"TL-n needs me," she said. "And I
I need him. That's really all
there is to it, dears."
Lance, hitherto restrained by his
wife's hand on his, burst into ex
clamatory speech.
"All? All? It's neither the begin
ning nor the ending. Buff, are you
sure you're well? You may be com
ing down with one of those linger
ing illnesses; walking typhoid,
perhaps. At any rate, I want to see
this fellow; ask him some ques
tions. Who does he think he is, any
way, that he expects to marry my
daughter on such short acquaint
ance, and without my consent?
Why, I've never so much as laid
eyes on himl Your mother and
I "
Eleanor again silenced him.
"There's really only one question
to be asked. Buff darling. Do you
love him?"
Buff raised clear eyes to hers.
"I don't know. Eleanor, truly I
don't. All I know Is that I want to
take care of him. He s been so ter
ribly hurt" her own sensitive face
reflected Tim's misery "and he
has nobody but George weekes to
atand by him. And and I do need
an occupation!"
"Marriage should be something
p-ore than an occupation, dear. It
is an occupation, of course; a full
time ioj for any woman. But un
less there's romance glamor to
tart one off with, I doubt if it
would be bearable."
They were talking together,
mother and daughter, as if Lance
were not present, a fact he re
lented. "What's the man's name?" he
demanded. "Corliss oh, yes, I re
member you wrote us about him.
Tell me why he's been hurt Why
should he be hurt? He's a grown
man, isn't he? Men don't allow
themselves to be hurt. Men are first
of all that is, if the amount to
anything! self-reliant. Look at
me, for example. Do I need help?
Does anyone look after me? On the
contrary I spend my life protecting
my wifo and daughter."
His wife and daughter ex
changed smiles. Buff launched into
a detailed account of what had
happened to Tim. She knew and
counted upon her father's easily
aroused sympathy for the unfairly
treated. Nor was she disappointed
in this cace. By the time she had
finished. Lance was boiling with
rase at Iris UeMuth. her nartner in
deception, the entire citizenry of
Boulder, Its government, its local
ordinances and state laws. He was
with difficulty restrained from
hunting up a lawyer and filing
charges agninst several people.
George Weekes included.
, "He mould have realized what
was happening," he said illogically.
"He was here while poor Corliss
was in Idaho Springs, you admit
that yourself!"
Eleanor remained unmoved by
the storv of Tim's various misfor
tunes. Usually the softest-hearted
of women, she was definitely an
tagonistic toward this man who
had usurped her parents' place in
Buff's heart
Incredibly Stubborn'
TT IT is her heart and not her
maternal complex," she mused.
"Heaven knows I want a happy
marriage for my child, but how do
I know this would be happy? It
doesn't sound so. The only thing
in the man's favor is that so far he
has held out against Buff." She
paused to reflect on this amazing
fortitude. She and Lance knew
what it meant to oppose the girl
W hen she set her mind as well ns
her conscience on any action. "He
really must be a strong person,"
she admitted reluctantly. ''Or else
ineredihlv stubborn."
Mrs. Webb greeted the Carrolls
with joy, declaring it was a real
pleasure to have the artist to cook
for. She served them a lunch which
banished the last of Lance's ill
humor, and he set, forth to call on
Tim in his pleasantest mood.
"I wish he wouldn't go," Buff
said unhappily. "Thus is my own
problem. I don't want any parental
pressure applied. If Lance chooses
to play the heavy father "
' Darling, don't vou know him
better than that? He'll probably
fall into conversation with Mr.
Corliss "
"Tim1"
"Well. Tim, then," she sighed.
"He'll probablv ret Tim tn talkinc
of mining and miners and before
CIA READY 10
TAKE OFFENSIVE
Shanghai. Oct. 20. (AP
China, engaged for two years In
stubborn but retreating war with
the Japanese Invaders, soon will
lnuneh n big scale counter-offon-siv
under Generalissimo Chi
ang Kai-Shek's personal direc
tion in Hitpeh, Hunan and Kl
angsi provinces. Chinese press
dispatches said today.
The dispatches said Chiang
would fly to the front to direct
operations against Hankow, once
his wartime capital, and Nan
ihang. capital of Kiangsi.
These reports followed recent
declarations at Chungking, the
provisional Chinese capital, that
"the Chinese army and nlr force
are both rapidly approaching of
fensive strength."
Chinese newspaper! m e a n-1
either realizes what is happening
Lance will have whipped out his
notebook and started some little
sketches. Then one of two things
will happen as you should know
by this time: either Lance will
walk away absent-mindedly, with
out remembering even to thank
Tim, or he'll hook a friendly arm
through his and bring him along
back here to dinner. The one thing
you can depend upon his not doing
is to ask Tim his intentions."
Buff shook her head mournfully.
"I know them all too well. He's
made them perfectly clear to me.
That Iris person has turned him
definitely against marriage. Added
to that, he's in debt and he thinks
I'm an heiress. Also he believes me
to have left kindergarten year be
fore last and consequently I'm too
young to be taken seriously."
"He knows about your plays
your short stories?"
The girl shrugged. "The achieve
ments of a precocious child if he
thinks of them at all.'' She left her
chair and came to curl up on the
floor at her mother's feet. "Eleanor,
tell me! How did you know
whether you were in love with
Lance or not?"
The older woman put a tender
hand on the golden head.
"Darling, if you're in any doubt
about the matter you simply aren't,
that's all. Being fond of a man,
wanting to look after him that's
not enough. The old rule of not
considering whether you can live
with him but whether you can live
without him still seems to me the
best touchstone. Buff, can you
can you live without Tim?"
There was a moment's silence,
then Buff raised a flushed face.
'Head Over Heels'
"XJOT happily," she said, her eyes
' meeting Eleanor's squarely.
"If that's really the touchstone
then I'm sunk head over heels
about Tim. When I wake in the
morning I try to imagine where he
is, what he's doing. When I plan
the meals I think what he'd like or
not like, even though I know he'll
not be hero to eat them. When ho
and George come to dinner I seem
to hear only what Tim says, though
it's George who does most of the
talking. A a sort of light comes
into the room with him. the sound
of his voice makes me shiver a lit
tle. His face and I know with my
mind that he's really not at all
handsome! seems to me the most
attractive I've ever seen. Does
does all this make sense to you,
Eleanor?"
'There's no sense in an attack of
first love, Buff dear. I wish I could
feel this is only that: an attack of
sentimental measles from which
you 11 recover.
But you don t think so?
Mrs. Carroll's face was sad. "I'm
afraid not, my Buff. You always
were a loyal little tiling. You've
held on to your friendships
through travel, change of any kind.
Oh, how I wish I'd never let you go
out to close up the ranch!"
"Wait till you sen Tim," was the
confident reply. "Then you'll be
dancing perfect jigs of rapture that
fate sent him my way."
Not even a mental picture of her
self indulging in this form of ac
tivity could banish the look of
worry from Mrs. Carroll's face.
"Buff, darling, before this goes
any farther before you settle
down to what really amounts to a
siege use your ;ommon sense. If
this man doesn't love you and it
would seem that he doesn't in the
face of what he's done and said
the wise thing, the only thing to
do is to leave here as soon as pos
sible. A change of scene, new
friends, your play writing you
need them all to cure you of what
may bo merely infatuation for the
only man who's needed you besides
Lance; or for what may be genuine
love, unrequited." She smiled
faintly at the old-fashioned word
"He's just recovering from an un
happy affair with a woman. Usu
ally a man's heart is rather easily
captured on the rebound in such
cases. If it isn't, then he's pretty apt
to go through life without marry
ing. Better come back with us to
Chicago for a while, dearie!"
"Mother" Eleanoi started a lit
tie at the unusual form of address
"don't you believe It's really the
woman who selects the man rather
than the other way about? Think
back to your own girlhood. Hadn't
you decided on Lance as a husband
ages before he proposed to you?"
An unwonted pink crept into the
older woman's face.
"Y-yes; but then he'd been pav
ing me marked attention, Buff;
courting me, as we called it then.
"Nevertheless you had settled it
in your own mind before he spoke.
You made it easy for him to see
you. You employed all sorts of
feminine arts to win him even
though you weren't honest enough
with yourself in those days to ad
mit what vou were doing. True?"
"True, I'm afraid. But Lance
wanted me, and this Tim Corliss-:
"
"Is going to want me, too. You
wait," predicted Buff confidently.
Continued tomorrow.
while reported that Japanese
communications between Nim
chang and Kengsin, SO miles
westward, had been cut by a
Chinese force that reached the
outskirts of Fengsin,
Diet On Trip
rtosebiirg. Ore., Oct. 20.
(AD Stricken with a heart at
tack here Sunday, while on an
automobile trip bark to his Long
Ileach, Cal.. home from Wash
ington state. Hubert Samuel
lloussels. 74. a retired attorney,
died this morning at a local
hospital. His sister, Mrs. E. II.
Archer, of I.nng Uracil, started
with the body for Vernon. Tex.
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Salem, Ort. 2(1 (AP Ap
proval ot a 10-year bond ex
tension plan designed to meet
the January 1, 1040 matuntv
of $9,674,001) of Portland Gas
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