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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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