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MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1939.
After A Man's Heart
, by JEAN RANDALL "
YESTERDAY, Irit chamu Tim
Into thinking the wot the uncon
$ciout partner to a fraud. Tim
triej to win Buff's approval of
Iris. Neither Buff nor George it
looted.
Chapter 20
Rattlesnake
"T ISTEN, Tim," George said
presently, sitting on the bed
ana holding one snoe in mi nana,
"If 1 hear t rattlesnake rattling,
I don I inquire into his motive,
don't even Dause to find out
he's annoyed with me or with a
chipmunk tnats crossed its trail.
I just tell myself it's a rattler, and
I light out for other parts. Unless,"
he finished deliberately, "I happen
to have a stout stick close at hand,
in which case I
"That's enough!" Tim's voice
and eyes were angry. "Iris didn
behave well toward me toward
us both last summer; but she's not
the menace you're trying to make
me oeneve. lam to her your
self "
"Not me!" George tied a shoe
string smartly, put on the other
shoe, and stood up. "There's an
old proverb my grandfather used
to remind me of: if a mule kicks
you once, it's his fault; twice, it's
your own. It makes no difference
to me if the mule in this case has
all the beauty and charm in the
world. I'm staying outside the
range of its heels."
Tim controlled his rising wrath.
"Look here, George, you and I are
good friends. You stuck to me
through a lot. I owe you more than
I can say. But not even you can
call the girl I love a rattlesnake
and a mule " Anger retreated
before the absurdity of it. Both
men burst into a shout of laugh
ter, and for the time being the
subject was dropped.
Tim took Iris to call upon Buff;
a sweet and wistful ins, cnarm
tngly courteous to the younger
girl, quick to admire the big liv
ing room which as the weeks went
by haa taken on more and more of
a look of home. Butt for ner part.
though polite, was detached. Tim
was uneasily aware that she had
retreated, in some fem'une and
cryptic way. Ho could not find the
Buff he knew so well. For the first
time he saw her, not as a head
strong child but as a sophisticated
young person who kept a com
posed hold upon the tea table talk.
Tim tried to tell Iris something
of his stay at the ranch. Buff
smiled and returned the conversa
tion to Boulder, its delightful
views, its educational advantages.
Tim seized upon Lance Car-oil
and attempted to describe him to
Iris who evinced a pretty enthu
siasm on the subject. Burt suavely
countered by a question concern
ing Iris's own plans for the future.
At last baffled and bewildered
by undercurrents he could not in
the least perceive, let alone avoid,
Tim sat back in his big chair and
let the two girls chat as they
would.
"You're staying at the hotel in
definitely?" Buff inquired.
"That," said Iris sweetly, "de
pends on Tim. I suppose you know
our story, Buff you will let me
call you Buff, won't you? I can't
be formal with anyone who has
been so kind to my Tim! it's ro
mantic and a bit incredible, but I
assure you It's all true."
Irresistible Iris
BUFF cocked her head, spaniel
fashion. Tim knew it for a
danger signal and stirred uneasily.
"Your Tim? Is the engagement
announced then? hadn't seen it
in the papers. And I have cause to
know," she said with a soft laugh,
"that very little escapes the papers
in this town!"
Iris threw Tim an Imploring
look. "It's it's for Tim to say,
don't you think? Under the cir
cumstances?" Tim squared his shoulders. "I
was under the impression we had
already said all that was neces
sary just now! We agreed, I think,
Iris, to let matters rest as they are
for a time, at least."
Buff cheered him silently. She
had measured the strength of her
adversary with canny eyes and
knew it to be great. Iris was the
sort of woman whose appeal is
well-nigh irresistible. Hearing the
cadences of her lovely voice, see
ing the whiteness of her skin, Un
natural crimson of her mouth, the
absolute grains in the way she
wore her clothes, the younger girl
wondered that Tim had not suc
cumbed a second time to her.
She compared herself, most un
favorably, with Iris; her trim
sport clothes with the expensive
frock the older girl wore; her small
hands, still bearing the summer's
tan, with Ins s delicate white ones:
her unruly waves with Iris's sleek
black hair, her somewhat abrupt
movements with Iris's grace.
"P,-or old Tim," she mused. "No
winder he fell, and fell hard, for
this charmer! But she shan't have
h:m she most certainly shall not!
Se' fake, throug'., and through.
She means no food to Tim, no mat
ter whet brought her back here!"
Her trnaH Jew tightened and the
look of purpose Tim had learned
to reoognize darkened her blue
eyes.
He fully expected the girls to
part with ooldnesi on both sides.
He was astonished to hear Buff
cordially inviting Iris to lunch
with her soon, to hear Miss De
Muth's equally cordial acceptance.
Tim, as Buff fully realized, knew
little of girls!
Buff was not surprised to re
ceive a visit from George Weekes
almost on the heels of this call.
George has passed from annoy
ance to anxiety. He yearned to
pour out his troubles. He was
glad to hear that the girls had
met, that Buff recognized the gen
uine menace Iris was to a man of
Tim's type.
"Why she's here I don't know,"
he said, his clasped hands swing
ing between his knees. "But what
ever it is, it's not going to do old
Tim any good-shaving her here in
Boulder, I mean. I think this is
just my impression, but I do hon
estly think. Buff, that he won't e
quite the easy mark for her he
was last time. At any rate, he's
said nothing about being engaged
to her, and that's a good sign. But
I wish she'd go climb Long's Peak
and fall off," he said unchivalrous
ly. "'Way it is now, she'll keep
him dangling at the end of her
string until she's accomplished
her purpose whatever that pur
pose is.
Buff was thoughtful. "What do
you think it is, George? I don't
know just how much she paid for
that land "
'Buying Tim's Favor'
"TPWENTY thousand," was the
1 answer. "Tim and I each put
in five of our own money, ten of
the firm's firm of Corliss and
Weekes; that made twenty alto
gether, i should say that it's worth
about fifteen hundred if that
much. And lookit, Buff! Iri- didn't
have to pay Nesbit twenty thou
sand. We'd told him to sell it for
what he could get out of it. In
our wildest dreams we didn't ex
pect to get more'n a couple of
thousand. But Iris walks into the
office, tells Nesbit she's prepared
to pay twenty thousand if he'll
let ner buy it for a friend of hers
name of Smith! And Nesbit, of
course, grabbed it. Now whv. I
ask you, did she pay the exact sum
old Tim and I planked down for
Latshaw's benefit last summer?
It's got me guessing."
You don't think It mav be
really valuable, after all?"
He shook his head. "That idea
occurred to me, too; but it's out.
Definitely out. Tim has personally
and thoroughly examined practi
cally every square inch of that
da that infernal land of ours.
You couldn t get enough silver
out of it to make a thin dime."
"Tungsten? Copper?
"Nothing. I tell vou: nothlne
but some beautiful rose-colored
quartz that tourists adore to take
home to make doorstops and book-ends."
'What's become of the gentle
man named Latshaw?"
According to Ins via Tim. he's
now in California. Becoming con
scious of the unworthy part she
had played, Miss DeMuth dis
missed her er her motivating
influence as soon as possible, and
got herself a job private secre
tary to some generous soul who
paid her right good wages. I
should think, all things considered.
Then someone had the considera
tion to die and leave her some
money, so out she took for Den
ver, bought up our land, and came
here, simply pining for forgive
ness and nothing else, says Tim!
Nuts, says 1 and I bet vou do, too,
Buff."
Buff nodded. "I think." she told
him, "she's really in love with
Tim; that she got that money back
irom L,aisnaw some way or other
it may have been a case of polite
blackmail and she is trying to
buy her way with it back into
Tim's Tim's favor."
Think she 11 succeed?" Weekes
inquired with a grin.
Buff s small hands were folded
tightly on her iap.
Depends on manv things: dco-
ple, too: you, me, Tim and Iris."
"Tim and Iris, ves: but how do
you and I figure in it?"
We-ell you might lust keeo
track of what happens to that land
Iris bought. I have a hunch you'll
hear sooner or later that it has
eft her possession. I don t know
why she wants it, but I'm sure it's
the meat in this cocoanut. There's
another thing you can do, too; be.
rather. Tim relies a lot on your
judgment. He values your good
opinion. I know it worries him
right now that you are what he
calls cynical regarding Iris. Keep
it up. He's promised me," she told
him, the color rising a little in her
face, "that he won t do anything
anything drastic for a while.
That means, of course, he won't
renew his engagement with Iris.
Playing for time's our best bet.
People like Iris and Latshaw have
to work fast. She'll overplay her
hand if we let her alone long
enough; at least that's about the
wav it seems to me."
He looked at he, curiously.
"You're even smarter than I've
given you credit for being, my
dear, and that's a lot. But you
where do you figure in this?"
"I've a rdle of my own to play,"
she sighed. "A darned difficult one.
too, if you ask me. Comradely,
sympathizing friend to Tim, girl
ish pal to lovely Iris. H'm. 1
thought I was writing plays, not
starring in 'em."
Continued tomorrow.
MORSE REFUSES
ARBITRATE ROW
Seattle, Oct. 2fl. (!T) Wayne
Ij. Morse, federal arbitrator for
the Pacific coast, refused today
to arbitrate th labor contro-
er over lueding steamship
Point Anche at Belllngham.
He tuled the controversy was
a ioni one, to be arbitrated by
Yen C. Griffin, Seattle, arbi-trl-.r
for the Puget Sound dis
tr rr.ti not of coastwise juris
(lletlon, ruling, upholding the
longshoremen who refused to
put lumber aboard the steam
ship, however, said the dispute
was highly serious and might
develop into a coastwise con
troversy unless settled soon.
FINNS TO HAVE FINAL
WORD IN SOVIET PACT
Helsinki, Oct. 28. UP) The
Finnish people have been as
sured that theirs will be the
final decision on any bargain
with Soviet Russia.
Foreign Minister Kljas Erkko
addressing a patriotic meeting
last night in the state theater,
appealed for confidence and
courage, saying. "The people of
Finland must decide their own
future and choose their own
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New York, Oct. 28 Edgar
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co-worker, Charlie McCarthy,
will reach a climax a week from
Sunday, when another character
will come to the WEAF-NBC
program in the dummy of Mor
timer Sneed. That means Ber
gen, as ventriloquist, will have
to double up in giving voice to
two knee sitters.
The row, as it has developed
evolves around McCarthy's de
cision to sign up a new ventrilo
quist in what he insists is a move
to replace Bergen. But Bergen
is countering with Mortimer,
even if Mort isn't the Beau
THE NEIGHBORHOOD LEAGUE
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Postoffice Bid
Washington, Oct. 28. CU.R)
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Co., Klamath Falls, was an
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on a public buildings adminis
tration project to repair the
Klamath Falls postoffice.
firm bid $4,200.
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EXPELLED AS REBEL
La Paz, Bolivia, Oct. 28. UP)
General Bernardino Bilbao
Rioja, presidential candidate in
the forthcoming general elec
tion, was expelled from Bolivia
today on charges he attempted
to foment a revolution.
A state of siege (modified
form of martial law) was de
creed this morning.
A communique Issued by Col
onel Antenor Ichazo, chief of
the army general staff, said in
view of "plotting" it had been
necessary to clean up the army,
and General Bilbao Rioja "had
been removed from the territory
of the republic."
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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sisting of an underground concrete block containing an inscribed metal tablet, surmounted
by a surface mark of concrete. The marker's location, near the actual territorial center of
the U. S., is established by latitude and longitude to the inch.
MONDAY: Monroe Doctrine.
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