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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TEN MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1939. After A Man's Heart by JEAN RANDALL YESTERDAY: Lite goes smoothly for two months. In Jan uary Iris DeMuth returns Tim angrily accuses Buff of being philanthropic by tuning nil worthiest land for what he paid. He won't listen to her denial Chapter 18 Lightning Strike Again "I'M NOT especially anxioua to ite you ever again. Buff tola Tim when he telephoned. "1 don't wonder. But honetly, nun "Hurry up!" she said, crackle In her voice. "I've only another two minutes. "Will you let me come some time today any time? When I can see you alone? "Sorry. I'm full up for today. To morrow, too. in tact, my time u pretty well taken up for weeks. eycr- Nevertheless he was waiting for her wnen she returned at lunch time. "And you have to be polite to me because I'm a guest," he said. "Webby invited me to stay. She's get a place tor me. Her expression of austerity did not sotten. "I suppose," she said, "you've discovered the smug philanthro pist who paid the exact sum for your slice of mountain, and have come around to apologize." "How you do put your finger on the truth!" was his admiring com ment "I have; more than that, you rang the bell a second time. It was Iris. "Iris!" This startled her despite wnat sne naa saia tne day Deiore. "You mean to say Iris DeMuth the girl who tricked you into buy. ing up a lot of useless land Iris Dougnt it DacKY But wny? "She says ..." "Says? Do you mean to tell me you've talked to her?" "For hours, last evening. At the hotel.'T Her knees gave way beneath her ana she sank into a chair. "Has she experienced religion, or am ner partner in crime discover there really is silver in that mine after all?" "Neither. She ... I know it founds screwy, Buff. It did to me. In fact, it was a long time before I could believe it! But it seems Iris was well, it was really Laishaw who thought up the scheme and he naa sort or a nom over ner "Sort of? What sort of? Black mail?" "You'd have to know Iris to un derstand." A softened note crept into his voice. "She's j trusting, innocent sort of a girl; not inde pendent and self-reliant like you. Buff. She . . . well, it's almost made her ill all these months knowing that she'd been the unconscious partner in a fraud, I mean. She . . ." Tim had been called to the tele phone soon after dinner the night before. Buff, of course, he thought, to say she was sorry for their quar rel of the afternoon. Buff, thank heaven, never held to a resentful mood long. Her anger flared white and quick, and died almost before the beholder knew it had been kindled, save that he was apt. for days after and to his intense sur prise, to discover he had received rather painful burns. Tim made his way to the hall where the telephone stood with a lightness of heart which aston ished him. He had not known how much he had sulTered beneath the f;irl's displeasure until he believed t was to be lifted by this call. He was daaed when he heard a voice, which was not Buff's but was still undeniably familiar, speak his name. "Tim!" "Yes? Who is it, please?" "Oh, Tim," sighed the voice sor rowfully. Iris!' TT WAS then he knew. No one else in the world spoke with the the same wistful sweetness, the same little curling upward in flection of his name. "Iris!" "Yes, It's Iris, my dearl Come back to undo so far as I can! the great wrong I did you last summer." He stood dazed and silent, the receiver at his ear. For weeks after Iris had loft Boulder, and before he himself had shown signs f col lapse, he had rirenmed, sleeping and waking, of just this thing: of Iris returning to say it was all a mistake; that she loved bim, that there was a reason for her seem ing treachery. Now it was coming true, and in atead of the wild ecstasy he had thought to feel he was merelv numb with bewilderment. "Are you there. Tim? Why don't you speak?" Surely, he thought impersonally. Iris had the sweetest voice in the world; not low like Bull's, with little grufl and boyish notes in it. but musical, throbbing; the kind of voice which awakens emotion in the most practical of listeners "I'm here,' he replied. "Will you come at once? I'm at the hotel. And of course there are millions of things I must say to you." He cleared his throat "Iria, I don't think ..." "No, dearest, I'd rather you didn't not until after I've seen you, at any rate. All sorts of things have taken place since I , , , since wa last met for example oi. you know your land yours an George's had been bought back? "Iris!" Light suddenly floodec the subject "It was youl You wert the only one who knew how much we paid for it!" "Of course it was I, you sill boy!" Laughter and tenderness combined in the lovely voice. "It took me some time to get enough money together, but when 1 did. of course Thought it Now will you come ana see me7 1 11 come, he promised, and hung up. In ten minutes he was being shown to the private sitting room Miss DeMuth had engaged She came toward him with out stretched arms. They were white arms, oarea by name-colored dra fieries which fell away as she ifted them. He recognized the gown she wore. It had been one of nis lavontes. Perhaps too elabo rate for a January evening in a quiet hotel, nevertheless it served the purpose for which its wearer had chosen it. It bridged the months of unhappiness since he naa last seen Iris aa perhaps nothing else could have done; made him feel that he stood again in the presence of the only girl who had the power to make his heart beat quickly, his big frame tremble with happiness. Still, he retained enough recollection of the past to lane only one or tnose outnung hands, and to give it a perfunctory clasp before dropping it 'To Kill Vour Lov "TTIM" the word was almost a 1 sob "you aren't angry with me still? But I forgot you don't know the whole story. Come sit down beside me, dearest and let me tell you." She slid a soft hand into his and led him to the big couch. For nearly fifteen minutes she talked, her extraordinary voice pleading her cause as much if not more than her words did. In brief her story was that Latshaw, a man whom she had known from child hood, had pretended to sympathize wun ner love ror l ira uornss ana to want to help him financially. He had proposed the neat plan to fool the Eastern promoters, "for Cor liss's benefit. She had not known until the deal had gone through that Latshaw owned the land he unloaded on the young partners. Then, horrified at his duplicity, she had left Botilder. Tim clutched at his vanishing common sense. "But that note vou left for me Irisl" She let her long lashes drooD until they almost touched the pearly whiteness of her cheek: then swept them swiftly upward to show him a mist of tears in her dark eyes. mat was to to make you hate me, Tim, she whispered. "1 told myself that after you'd found out about Latshaw and all, you'd never want to see me again, so it would -de Kinaesi 10 complete tne job to stab deeDlv enoueh to to kill your love for me. You'll never Know what courage it took to write vou that note, Tim!" He rellected that he knew little about girls, and that little gave him small ability to analyze their motives. Dimly he felt that there were discrepancies in Iris's storv: yet her presence here, the , un doubted fact that she had bought up the land she had tricked him into well. perhaDS tricked was not the word for what she had done she had persuaded him to buy, bore out the truth of what she was saying. get the money to buy all the land?" She said evasively that she had saved some of It, and some had been left her by a great-aunt. "What does it matter, anyway? I bought it only to show you that I . . . I realized what a horrible per son I must have seemed to vou. Tim, and perhaps this this tan- gioie ming migiu neip to convince you I I wasn't so bad as vou thought." "it was good of you, but un necessary, he told her. "If the land was Latshaw's ..." if.' She Dressed her hands tn her neart in a gesture of anguish. "Tim, does that mean you still doubt me? After I've come back to you? After I've done all I could to make reparation? Tim, don't you love me at all?" It surprised him that he could not answer this question. Certainly the old allure was there. Iris's voice, the satin black hair which grew from a widow's peak on her loreneaa, me grace with which she moved, the way she used her hands, even the faint perfume with which he associated so many hap py hours, all combined to work their spell upon him. But dimly he realized that his reaction was purely emotional; that some part oi nis mina sat coldly and clearly in judgment, and found Iris's storv lacking in truth; not all the truth, perhaps. He tried to believe that she was holding back only some girlish deception, some pretty fem inine guile which she knew instinc tively he would disapDrove. "Honestly. Iris, I don't know," he said after a silence. "It was won derful of you to buy back that land; but I hate the feeling that Latshaw still benefits. And it's been nearly five months that I've lived through hades, trying to put you out of my mind. I . . . you must give me time to get used to having you here again." Continued Monday. F Cleveland, Oct. 26. (AP) Cleveland relief clients must give up their motor cars. Recipients of relief, except In certain ruses, will get no more aid until their automobile li cense pliites have been impound ed at relief headquarters. Relief officinls said the move would be an incentive for clients to leave public rolls. Super visors estimated between 8.000 1 and 10,000 automobiles were owned privately by persons In relief families. "Almost every person getting the moderate relief allowance we are forced to Rive must be cheating somewhere along the lino if he Is running a car,'' said Frnnk G. Jones, city relief com missioner. "From our experi ence, the presumption Is he is skimping on food fur his family, or has hidden, undeclared as ets." Plan Big Sheep Ranch. Astoria, Ore., Oct. 20. (API The Lloyd G. Pnrnian ti Sons acquisition of 4040 acres of Clnt sop con nl. vowned land for a sheep ranch was regarded here today as a major development in coastal and lower Columbia river agriculture. On the Radio Chains STATIONS where to Find Them on the Dial: KtX. Portland. 1180; KFL, 640. Lotrangelei; KGA, 1470, Spokane. KGO, 790, San FrancUco; HUH 620, Portland; It J It, mo, Seattle. S.VX, 1030, Lot Allf.eln; KOA. 830 Denver; BOIN, 840, Portland KOMO. 926. Seattle; KPO. 830. Ban Francisco; KSL, 1180, Salt Lake. Thursday. 5:00 Frank and Archie, KEX.KJR; Senset Shadows, KGO. 8:30 Organist, KOO, KEX, KJR; KeUey'a Orel)., KPO, KGW, KFI. 8:00 Major Bowes, KNX, KOIN, KSL; Good News of 1940, KPO, KOW, KFI; B7ond Reasonable Doubt, KOO, KEX, KJR. 7:00 Columbia Workshop, KOIN; MUB10 Hall, KPO, KFI, KOW. 7:80 Oalllcchlo'a Orch.. KOO, KJR; Sports op oils. KNX, KOIN; News, KSL. 8:00 Fred W-rlng, KPO, KG V, KFI; Dance Orch., KEX, KJR; Alolia Land, KOO; Amos and Andy, KNX, KSL, KOIN. 8:15 Ballot Box. KNX; Dance Orch., KGO; I Love a Mystery, KPO, KGW, KFI. 8:30 Symphony Hour, KPO, KOW, KFI; Aak-It-Basket, KNX, KSL. KOIN; Dance Orch., KOO, KEX. 9:00 Strango as It Seema, KNX, KSL. KOIN; Adventures is Rhythm, KGO, KEX. 8:30 Those We Love, KPO, KFI. KOW; Naughty Marietta, KNX. KOIN; James' Orch., KOW; Powell's Orch., KSL; News, KJR. 10:00 News Reporter, KPO. KGW. KFI; News, KPL, KEX; Foster's Orch.. KOO, KJR, KEX; News, KOIN. 10 '30 Rsvazza's Orch., KPO, KOW, KFI; Nottingham's Orch., KQO, KJR. KEX. 11:00 Martin's Orch.. KPO. KFI; This Moving World, KEX; Organist. KSL, KOIN; News, KGO, KNX, KOW Friday. 5:00 Frank and Archie. KEX, KJR: Sunset Shadows, KOO; Melo dy Times, KPO; Organist, KOW, KFI. 5:30 Etchings In Brass. KGO, KJR, KEX; Now and Then, KGW; Quiz Prgm., KPO. 8:00 Plantation Party, KGO, KEX, KJR; Waits Tims, KPO, KFI, KOW; Prof. Quiz, KNX, KSL. KOIN. 8:30 Jewels Variety Progm., KPO, KOW; First Nlghter, KEX, KSL, KOIN: Who's In Town Tonight, KGO; News, KJR. 7:00 Drama, KNX, KOIN. Kb. ; Lombardo's Orch., KPO, KFI, KOW; A Thousand and One Wives, KOO, KJR. 7:30 Drama, KOW: Order of Ad ventures, KGO, KJR; Young Man With a Band, KNX, KSL; Big Town. KPO. 8:00 Fred Waring. KPO, KOW, KFI; Amos and Andy, KNX, KOIN", KSL: Buckaroos, KOO, KEX, KJR 8:151 Love a Mystery, KPO. KFI, KOW; Lum and Abner. KEX KOIN. KSL. 8:30 Dorsey's Orch., KEX; Death Valley Days, KPO, KOW, KFI; John ny Presents, KNX, KOIN, KSL; Aloha Land, KOO. 8:00 Sudy'a Orch., KGO. KEX. KJR: Kate Smith's Hour; KEX. KOIN, KSL: Noblea Orch., KPO. 9:30 Remember When?. Kex. KOO: University Explorer, KPO. KFI; Newa, KJR. 10 :00 Martin's Orch., KOO, KJR, KEX; News Reporter. KPO, KFI, KGW: News, KNX, KSL. KOIN. 10 :30 Madrlg-uera's Orch., KGW, KFI: Robert's Orch., KGO, KJR. KEX: Concert Kali, KPO; Pasadena Dance, KSL. 11:00 Nottingham's Orch.. KPO. KFI; Organist, KSL, KOIN; This Moving Wohld, KEX; News, KOO, KNX, KOW. British Cleric Sees War Guilt near Home London, Oct. 26. (AP) Dr. A. W. F. Blunt, bishop of Brad ford, in a letter to his clergy men today termed the war "an appalling sin against God" and declared "we can not disclaim all share in the guilt which has brought it about." The bishop said that "the his tory of the last 20 years is not LOYAL ROOTER By GLUYAS WILLIAMS 6IVES AN EMC0URAGING CtfEER AS BROKER'S term kicks off OPPONEHTS RON KICK OFF BACK FOR A "TOUCHDOWN STARTS 10 CHEER AS E&trfHER PXCE1VE6 Erl- SUIN6 kick-off, cheer, M1K6 AS HE FUMBLES, OP TorJENfS SC0RIH6 A6fllrl SCREAMS," NOW Wt'PE SfARfiK6 fo ROLL'! AS BROTHER HAK6 ON ib NErtf KICK-OFF AND RE ftlRHS iT1W0YWP5 6DE5 WllP WITH JOV AS brother's Team makk A FlR5T DOWN brother -throws a Forward pass which OPPONENTS I'rtfERCEPf for another -Couch- Down' fit iVftt milUft5 lO-Xl IBHravil by The Bell aymllcate. Inc.) Subsides as opponents, bv recovering fum81e5, intercept! n passes and blocking kicks score six Touchdowns iu a bow RUSHES OUT, AS GAME En D5 73-0, ASSURING TEAM -THEY PLAYED A GREAT 6AME , Trtry' JUST DIDN'T 6ET HE BREAKS one which gives us ffrnnnrl far ! self-righteousness." Airliner Forced Down By Flames New York, Oct. 26. (AP) Eastern Airlines said today one of their 14-passenger planes, bound from Tallahessee, Fla., for Memphis, Tenn., had landed in a field 25 miles southeast of Memphis when a small fire was discovered In the baggage com partment. No one was hurt, the line said. It carried seven pas sengers. The line said the origin of the fire was not determined. Swedes Order Planet. Stockholm, Oct. 26. AP) The Swedish parliament today approved an appropriation of 36,000,000 crowns (about $9. 000,000) for the purchase of 102 military planes of various types. (Norway yesterday doubled her order for American high-speed fighting planes, raising it to 24.) Lumberman Dies. Portland, Oct. 26. (AP) Robert Moore, 49, assistant man ager of the Shevlin-Hixon Lum ber company at Bend, died at a hospital here today. He became ill Saturday after returning from ah eastern business trip. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof iddreu the author, lndoalng a stamped envelope for reply. R. TJ. S. Pat Oft. New ship's carpenter, MfRR!P A RicH WIDOW, RECOVERED 300,000 POUNDS IN SUNKEN TREfcUReffiH WfrS KNIGHTED W tMES AND MAoe firt royal governor A(?MT(?oN Co., 5. I3k., "ZVHfroo ACRES IN ffl&X, 1M If HA No ELECTION BOARD Copr. 19)9 by United Future Syiullrate, Inr, Tn, Bet. V. 8- fU. O0- Ail rtjnU tocrred KNOCKED 1H "STATUE VV Of VfclASGUEI, Zpanish paitrten jtjfJ V WiTrioilT tfARMlN(3 f K I fitt Horse I 'MaJxlJ- ' jJjf ) BooTLACE Worms England, FSETLoHG" YET ARE ONLY Kg-INCH WIPE TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy Insurgesl MAN WHO COULDN'T LOSE William Phips, New England ship's carpenter, went fortune-hunling to Boston and learn ed to read and write. There he married a rich widow, built a ship and engaged in commerce. In 1667, Phips led an expedition to the successful recovering of 300,000 pounds of Span ish treasure, sunk off the Bahamas. Gaining favor in England, he was knighted by James II and made sheriff of New England. In 1690, with eight vessels he captured Port Royal. Returning to England, he gained further titles, including first Royal Governor oi Massa chusetts and Captain-General of Connecticut and Rhode Island, before he died. TOMORROW: The Spy Newspaper. By HAL FORREST TOM KINS, EET EES MY WISH.... TO J EXAMINE THE CARTRIDGE BELT OF YOUR. MACHINE ( OKAY, MR. MTIS.' ) I IthE CLIP.A AR.E. YOU I If I'M JUST AS ANXIOUS AS ANY- I If WHY... YOU ( TAKE IT EASY VHERE IT IS EES EMPTV, INSINUATING ONE TO CLEAR. UP THE MYSTERY J ICONCEITEO.N ItOMKINS1' tC BUT EE F THAT. ... I (OF NEVADA'S DEAJH- $JNSUI.TIN..J ) WATCH WHOM J WAN MOR.E KILLED NEVADA? Jr I YOU ARE SHEU HAD WHY, HE WAS K J VwT V T wr r-AT pmi m fi u BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Everything Going Nicely I By EDWIN ALGER ,, THERE, BOVS! THERE'S V f GOODNESS ME, AlN'T IT - . I I ( RUSTY TURNED AW, I JUST I SO LONS AS OUR WILLIS "V f.ly SOME MORE MONEY" A A A CAUTION HOW THINGS y ' THE TRICK. J PULLED KEEPS FIRlN' THAT W FER THE CAMPAIGN ( WOW J J KIN CHANGE (M A GRANDMA rf THAT DATE QUESTION AT HIM, AN1 HE WW" - OF OUR WILLIS I hj 4. CAMPAIGN?. THE HULL , WALTERS! M ON STEPLOCK- DON'T ANSWER IT, WE'RE ,,v CONTRIBUTIONS IS W00l V TOWN'S COMlN' 'ROUNDA. V Z-iZ- V 'WAY O W ( SONT I W 7 I " JXA COMIN' IN VI 3 TO WILLIS AGAINiC g9?rt iVAS THE i lAO F I F """ THE NEBBS Oh, Heck By SOL HES yWECTOR.!.' WHATVl WALKED IM . M' ARE VOU DOING TOT W POSTAL) HERE? HOW DID S OQM'T HAVE NOU GET ikj y9.99 rTT 4ERE?1 jJ VUESSJl Miter t0H - -iy VOU SEPARATED SARAH PROM ME.VOU GOT HER TO COME DOWM HERE TO GIVE HER A c30BVOU MADE MV LIFE BITTERER THAM ALUM YOURE A WOLF HlOlM' IN A LAMB'S SKIN : I'DIDMT SEPARATE SARAH FROM VOU 1 DIDM'T ASK HER. TO COME HERE AMD SHE ISN'T WORKING FOR. ME EITHER. 14. V I 11 TTl I HER OWM PAPPY TOLD Y7 1M MOT TRV1M& TO MiKF ME SHE'S WCRKIW' HERE.W LIARS OUT OP AMVPOHV HER. LETTER TO HIM SAID ( AMD I'M NOT LVINC- SO. I SAW IT-NOW OM , EITHER '.'. SHE'S WOT WORKING , cVtKy IHIN NOUKE TRYIM' TO MAXELL pUTTAlNIM POLKS HEKt AND 1 WI5H YOU J UTZ) WOULDMT INSERT. YOURSELF S