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MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1939. After A Man's Heart bv JEAN RANDALL 1 YESTERDAY. Georgt U con vinced that Irit it still in leagut with Latshaw, and needs Tim or something. Until she can prove iris is phony, Bug decides to be friendly. Chapter 22 A Confidence 'OU know, Buff, you're the first J girl friend I've ever had," Iris said, one afternoon. "Truly! I've never been popular with my own sex, for some curious reason." . "That reason," Buff remarked dryly, "would not be hard to find, d'you think?" : .'' Iris laughed a little. "Men, you mean? 1 suppose so. But I can't . help being attractive- to them. Bun." It was said so simply, without boastfulness, that the young hostess took it at its face value. "I suppose you can't now," she replied. "It's second nature with you. You have to have your daily dose of masculine admiration, or your nerves will blow up. I've known a lot of people like that, men as well as women. What I'd like to know," she went on casu ally, curling one foot under her in a fashion she had when she was interested, "is how you got started? And what you really get out of 117 Take Van now. He s simply ob- sesscd by you. He spends so much time doing soap figurines of you that he'd starve if Webby and I didn't feed him. He's not talented, he has no money, he's not attrac tive personally. In other words, he's absolutely useless to vou. Iris. And yet you fling him the word here, the glance there, that keeps him on a leash. Would you mind telling me why? "I suppose it's a hangover from my cniicinood, iris said at last. "My mother was a famous sinner, really great in her own way. We traveled about, and everybody sat and adored her because of her voice. I was hardly out of baby hood before I started envying her, started hoping I could sing. too. better than she could, even. But I hadn t a sign of a voice. I had some thing else, though looks." She paused to smile reminiscently at tne lire. "Your mother wasn't beautiful?" "No. Homely, in fact. She didn't mind at first. No one cared what she looked like as long as she had that magic voice of hers. But as I grew older and well, prettier, her voice began to go back on her. She resented me then terribly. She tried to keep me a child as long as she could. I was having affairs with men when she was still putting socks on me." "What do you mean by affairs with men?" Buff inquired casually. "Nothing immoral, if that's what you're trying to find out." Iris's lovely voice was quite as light in tone as was Buff's. "Flirting with hotel clerks and traveling sales men; with orchestra men as I grew a little older; finally with my mother's managers. That's what caused the rows. Oh, yes, we rowed bitterly. She threatened to put mp Into a convent; to turn me out without a cent. It wasn't a pretty chapter In my life," she finished. Buff swallowed. It was not in deed pretty, she thought; and un willing sympathy for the lonely child stirred her heartstrings. . "You ran away? Earned your own living?" Iris lifted surprised eves. "I? Work? At what, my dear? No, I did something a lot smarter. I played my game under cover after that. I kept in the background and helped Mother pretend I wasn't there. But I made up for it by getting as many men crazy about me as I could." Repelling THE younger girl gripped the arms of her chair. This cold blooded confession repelled her, dissipated like mist the newly formed pity she had been feeling for Iris. Her scant knowledge of psychology told her that the girl had done nothing more dreadful than build a defense mechanism against her mother's jealousy; that it was, at that time at least, en tirely unconscious on Iris's part. Still, she could not keep a trace of hostility out of her voice when she put her next question. "Are you still doing that? Trying to make men fall in love with you just to satisfy your vanity?" Iris was not offended. She laughed, and turned her head a trifle to see her reflection in the mirror. "You like to put things In plain words, don't you? But you're right, of course. It was sink or swim with me, those last years with Mother. If I hadn't taken refuge in a sense of my power over men, I'd have turned into a shrinking and terrified shadow that kept itself in the background. And where, I ask you, vtmld that shadow have been when Mother died? She left me only a few thousand. I've had to make them go a long way." "How?" Not even this blunt question of fended the guest. "Just any way I could find. If a woman is pretty and is willing to help out some man In a scheme that's not too too scrupulously honorable, she can always make a nice profit. I suppose that horrifies you, but you asked me." She sent McMINNVILLE VOTES ARMISTICE HOLIDAY McMiunville, Oct. 31. (A1P By a 50 to 22 margin Mi'Minn villc merchants voted to close their stores on Armistice Da.', Mary Frances Gerber, chamber of commerce secretary, report ed today. The secret vote was taken after several merchants opposed the chamber of commerce's sug gestion that stores close. They charged business would go to Portland. The 25.200,000 autos In Amer lea are quite sufficient to take every mnn, woman nnd child in the country riding at the some time. Buff her sweetest smile. "And I'rr. safe with you because you are just that scrupulously honorable, I mean. You wouldn't take advan tage of a confidence you'd wormed out of a guest!" Buff swallowed again, with more difficulty this time. Iris had trapped her neatly. She had all the curious ability of a helpless and lovely thing to protect herself, it seemed. Where truth and honesty be6t served her, she used them; and relied upon the same qualities in those to whom she had confided to protect herself. Buff attempted feeble protest. , . "I didn't worm anything out ol you! Whatever you've told me to day was of your own accord." "No, dear' The sweet, drawling voice was like a bit of cottor soaked in ether, Buff thought. "Yob set out to find out about that busi ness with Tim last summer. Oh I've known all along you knew about it! Lots of people here in town have told me that he was ill at your father's ranch. I knew it was a sort of breakdown, poor Tim! I hated to let him down, bui Latsviaw " Buff interrupted her coldly "You're confessing to me that you fooled Tim Tim and George de liberately? That you knew what you were doing when you obeyed Latshaw's instructions':" "Confessing? Darling, no! Confi ding is the word I used, I believe And you're not the sort of persor to betray a confidence." "Nor, Buff told her pointedly "the sort of person to stand by and see a friend tricked twice!" Iris yawned, stretching her arm.' above her lovely head. "Calm yourself, sweet! I come, to paraphrase something I once learned atschonl, I can't remembei just where, not to trick dear Tim but to marry him! There, does that make everything right?" "M-marry him! Iris, why?" "You do ask a lot of questions, don't you, infant? Perhaps because I'm fond of him. Women often do marry for that reason, I've been led to believe. Perhaps because I think he has a future a business future, I mean. And perhaps." she said in a changed voice, a white line appearing suddenly about hei mouth, "because I'd be safe with him. Tim's wife would be safe from everything and everybody, don't you think, Buff?" 'My Chosen Wife' AFTER that, things happened with terrifying raoiditv. To be- gin with, the next evening but one after Iris's visit to Bull, Tim ap peared pale and grim. "You asked me to wait a while. Buff, a few days, a week, before 1 . . . . asked Iris to marry me. Well I've waited!" He scowled at herde. fiantly and something in his ex pression made the girl's heart turn over. Unconsciously one hand stole up to her heart as though to steady its pounding. Ana now you are going " "No." He shook his head. "I've done It. Last night. We're engaged. ii u De in the paper tomorrow. 1 wanted you to know first. That's why I'm here." The room was swinging In slow circles about her. She could not have spoken at that moment if her life had depended on it. With the superb self-confidence of youth she had counted on Tim's seeing Iris with new eyes; as George saw her. as Buff herself saw her, as every body but Tim, in fact, saw her: a girl with beauty and charm but ut terly without integrity; lacking in the fine honor which was the foun dation stone of Tim's life. Buff, sitting there dumb and sick with misery, knew now tint her imagination had played her a fa miliar trick. It had run gayly on ahead of her mind, picturing events which would never come to pass. She thought grimly of certain bits of advice advocated by the "new" psychology: to "think suc cess and not failure"; and thus achieve success. Well, she had thought success if by success was meant convincing Tim that Iris DeMuth no longer counted in his life. It's not." Buff told herself with anguish, "as if I'd been selfish about him. I love him, yes; I do did want to many him; but I'd cheerfully have given him up if it seemed best for him. But this . . but Iris ..." Tim was eyeing her narrowlv. My dear child, what's the matter? I thought you and Iris had grown to be good friends. Surely you're not going all pale and shocked be cause of what I've just told you!" ane spoKe mrougn stilt lips. "1 am, Tim! And not for the reason you might think cither. I mean" crimson suddenly replaced her pal lor, cicar io me edge ol her low-cut frock "it isn't because I . . . well, you know I'm fond of you, Tim. I've made no secret of it. But 1 don't want to marry any man un lesswell, unless he's fond of me, too. nut this thin is terrible, mv dear," she went on more naturally. "Iris is ... I can't put it into words If you don't know by now, I sup pose it's no use for inv of us. George or all your friends, to trv u persuade you that Ins is she isn't " "That's enough." he said shnrrtlv. "If you can't congratulate me. Buff. or wish me happiness, at least you can refrain from criticism of my chosen wife." Continued tomorrow. GLASS JOBBERS CITED IN ANTI-TRUST PROBE San Francisco, Oct. 31. (API The Glass Jobbers' nssociaiior of San Francisco nnd O: kland was cited for contempt today to the United States district court here by n federal grand jury conducting an investign tion of the building industry In northern California. The association was ordered by Federal Judge Harold Loud erbnek to show cause W'ednos day it should not be held in contempt. Closln (or To Uto to Clru- Ify Ads U 1 30 p m Use Mull I'rlbun wnnt !. 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COUNTERS WlfH 1HREAT5 OF HIS OWN AS 1fa WHAT he'll jo if brother carries out Threats AND 50, HAVING CONCLUDED USUAL PRELIMINARIES "TO DDN6 AN ERRAND TOR BROTHER, 60ES HOME AND 6ET5 THE TOoTDAU. ;,(an' i'm ... gulp. . 'OU GONNA HELP I K&Vl'M.MlSS, ERR.., R'S) s.REVPRI Y. TO BRI TO 7 THAN VY0U...I .' ...A MAN'S PRIVATE LIFE IS SUPPOSED TO BE SACRED, BUT APPARENTLY NOTHING IS SACRED TO THOSE ATTEMPTING TO DEFEAT MF-I - sa eucc uiOl'ili'ucoc n A FELLER BY Dt )IUtCi 1 ELD TO CALL J1 OF MEB6 GOT HERTH' JOB- HES AJMU iuu TO KEEP IW 'TUOUT MA.P-R.VINJ' A Pendergast Cited In Bribery Charge Kansas City, Oct. 31. (API Tom Pendergast, boss of the Democratic machine, and R. Emmet O'Malley, former state insurance superintendent, were indicted today by Jackson coun ty's grand jury. Pendergast was charged with bribery in connection with set tlement of the $9,000,000 Mis STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address the athor,'tncloin a jumped enrelope for reply. Reg. V. S. Pat OS. Broke 79 ' success it NcrtTRoffcfclFisH, j., 4KEET1PR6ZT$ . 4ol9f0R'rlthC h JlOfWATtR eft A1RUCK Aflfc--) fj j fit frusecJtesiJnf'jiJs II V&WJmPM f1-r.iA. WPcT IMOIMJ ?AlF iMme EMPU?y of a M.m minister. py T6WJN6 vbopoo tales zfazfeo -TttP FMWnUe IfJlTeHCRPiFTGChRE 1HM"C05f 20 Ug Ctep,. IMI ht Vnltei mion Srndlel, tne. - J-i :. t Tin. Bet. u. 8. rat OIL-tAU rlgbU rctm4ft& - ' - WITCH OF SALEM The witch frenzy of Salem, Mass., broke out in the family of Samuel Parrls, a minister, who employed an old West Indian slave named Tiiuba. Tiiuba liked io tell strange tales of voodoo magic to the pastors' daughters at bedtime. Screaming with frightful nightmares, the girls soon accused Tituba and two others of be witching them. As a result, the three accused were sentenced to death. A special court was formed, and within two years hundreds of suspected witches were jailed, 55 suffered torture and 20 were executed, before the delusion ended its strange reign of terror. TOMORROW: Frontier Marshal. 'OGAO..UH..DID,JA' ( COME ONd t "'fK II PAUL, I'M AFRAID I'M SEE TM' SWEET J 1 R.OMEO 1 h WASHED UP' r CAPITAL VME. TAILSPIN? WORK. TO J V OMt v rnviDi n-rrT iTora vy'ndH v- NIGHT AFTER NIGHT, VOU GOOD PEOPLE HAVE HEARD BALLINGER, EVEN AS THE BULL OF BASHAN, SELLER, WHERE WAS STEPLOCKON OCTOBER 6TH. Q3S"?'i WELL, HE SHALL HAVE ANSWER.1 IMEBB VWOULDSJT 'Do That, he NAME ME ELOPE AMD GIT MARRIED TRY I SI1 ME FWOMy WE GOT ME HER JOB HERE - A F1ME FELLER. 7 souri fire insurance rate case and O'Malley was accused of accepting a bribe. Both men now are in Leaven worth penitentiary serving sen tences for federal income tax evasion. 20 Killod in Wreck Home, Oct. 3MAP)-Twenty persons were reported killed and many injured today when a pas senger train entering the Milan suburban station collided head- IN 2VEftR6. BSZ! A HE SHALL HAVE AN ANSWER THAT will SHRIVEL HIS SOUL... IP HE HAS A SOUL! MAV 1 READ THIS AN LETTER JUST RECEIVED FROM My BELOVED MOTHER f ( . , F1ME FELLER?'. WES helped i 11 SNAKE IM TWE GRASS HE A.MO NOBODY ELSE IS GRASS TO ME -DON'T AM' GOIN' TO KEEP ME FROM EVEM TWIMKlT IN MY THIS 5EEIM" HER, 1 GOT HE'S WORDS L BE&M PRA.CT IS70IUC. AN VWAIT Tl LL ING SAVIMG i WANTA y OUR TELL HER r r "J on with a departing train. Police closed the station immediately and details of the accident were not known. Pretender Passes Stuttgart, Germany, Oct. 31 (JP) Field Marshal Duke Albrecht von Wuerttenberg, 73-year-old pretender to the non-existent throne of Wuerttemberg and commander of Germany's fourth army during the World war, died yesterday. By HAL FORREST By EDWIN ALGER f ' '111 4 By SOL HESC A W DOKfT CALL MEBB Yj NO SNAKE IM THE A! -SOME (PRESENCE AN' GO 0UT-I - K ORNAMEMT SEOTFIC6 fe?6? R. VES! v''!-l yz it
