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MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1939.
After A Man's Heart
by JEAN RANDALL
YESTERDAY: Without honor
herself, out tnutino in Buff's
! honor, iris "confide" that ih
' tricked Tim end now intend! to
tnarrv him. Shortly otr, Tim
tells Buff ht it engaged.
Chapter 2
Sacrifice
TIM'S reproof was a tidal wave
which carried away tne nnai
barrier of Buff's self-control.
"Tim! Timl Listen to mel I know
vnn'H hate me. I don't expect-
truly! that you'll ever speak to
me again. That doesn't matter.
What matters is that you must be
protected against against falling
!.. ii-- nh it'a
jnio ine same w v,
dreadful of me, but my loyalty is
due to you, my friend, rather than
to to herl
"Tim, she told me In ao many
words, right here in this room
and just the day before yesterday,
that she knew perfectly well what
Latshaw was doing; that she was
i willing party to the fraud. She
said said that a woman could al
ways make a nice profit if she was
pretty and would lend herself to
a scheme mat was not too scrupu
lously honorable."
He had risen and was gripping
the back of his chair witn rigid
fingers.
"You exoect me to believe this?
That Iris would confess to you
"Oh, don't you see, Tim?" She
bent forward, her tear-filled eyes
on his. "She relied on my not re
vealing what had been said to me
In confidence, bhe -:id she was re.
lying on it! She told me it was a
eood thing f was scrupulously
honorable, or I'd give her away to
you!
"And now you have? Or think
you have?" His voice was icily
courteous.
"And now I have. It's the only
sensible thing to do. don't vou see.
Tim? All this talk of keeping a
confidence when 1 hadn t asked
for it, agreed to make it one? is
illy compared to saving you from
marrying a woman like Iris.
He SDoke in a flat tone.
"I don't believe you, Buff. Not
word oi what you ve said.
In her turn she rose, her small
head thrown back proudly. Anger
threatened to put an abrupt stop
to her efforts on his behalf. But
Buff was accustomed to control
ling her anger. Lance had taught
her from her babyhood that her
will should be stronger than her
emotions. She drew several long,
deep breaths. She consciously re
laxed her small clenched hands.
When she spoke it was in a steady,
even a casual way.
"Use your good sense, Tim," she
urged. "What I'm doing tonight
will erase me from your life.
Whether you marry Iris or not,
you'll always hate me for what
I've told you. Would I make such
a sacrifice for surely even you
know it is a sacrifice, Tim! un
less I believed It was for vour
good?"
Because he still entertained a
tiny, sauirming doubt of Iris, be
cause he realized he had been
wept away last night by the tide
of passion which had curled over
his head from the minute he en
tered her warm, fragrant room
and found her. Infinitely lovely
and desirable, waiting to slip into
his arms, he resisted the patent
frankness of this queer child. Iris
needed defense, needed his help:
she had told him so, weeping and
clinging to him with desperate
arms. Buff was a strong little
thing who could always look after
herself.
Masculine Pride
BESIDES his masculine pride
J was up In arms at the idea of
Buff's protecting him. Well he
knew what George would think of
his marrying Iris after after last
summer. That he could meet, man
to man. But Buff's wading Into the
fray on his behalf was too much.
He wished In the depths of his un
happy heart that he had never
aeen her: never seen Iris either,
he thought, and the.i Instantly re
buked himself for heresy.
"The sooner we bring this pain
ful scene to a close the better," he
announced. "I'm sorry you feel as
you do toward Iris. I'm sorry we
can't all be friends. But in the cir
cumstances "
She let him go with his sentence
unfinished. For once in her life,
the flRht had gone out of her. She
curled herself into an anguished
ball by the Are and tried to plan:
to plan for Tim. It was of no use.
Tim was no longer hers to plan
for! Not that he had ever been, but
she had believed she had a friend's
right, the right of a woman's wis
dom to rescue him from a difficulty
into which his simole masculinity
had led him.
She could Picture the oulet tri
umph of the other girl; her slow
curlinff smile, the tinwnrH awpAn.
lng lashes, the sweet humility of
ner voice as she discussed her en
gagement with Tim's friend Al
most she knew the exact words
Iris would use.
'The course of true love never
did run smooth, you know, and
Tim and I were no excentinn. It
was just because I loved him so
mticft, so terrtblu much, that all
that misunderstandins came ahnnt
last summer. It's all cleared up
now and Timmy and I are too hap
py for words, aren't we. Timmy?"
"She called him Timmv." mut
tered the woebegone little figure
in ine deep armchair. "I Just know
she'll call him Timmy! And not
even that will convince him of the
kind of girl she is!"
Webby looked In on her way to
bed. "It's past eleven, Miss Buff.
Hadn't you ought to be getting
your sleep?"
"Pretty soon," she said absently.
"I'll come pretty soon."
But the clock on the mantel
chimed midnight, and one, and
two before she stirred. She had
work to do tonight, had Buff Car
roll. First of all. she must con
quer her emotions; anger, jealousy,
love, outraged pride. How could
she think when her mind was
tossed about by these forceful pas
sions? It took a long time to overcome
them. Buff had recourse to many
an aid which would have aston
ished her parents. She thought of
the mountains: the snow-capped
peaks which had looked down on
so much human misery and un
certainty. All the wild passion in
the world could dash itself against
their grim sides and move not so
much as a small rose-colored
boulder from its appointed place
The knowledge steadied her
Quite literally she could tell her
self: "I will lift up mine eyes unto
the hills from whence cometh my
help." Help did come from con
templation of the unchangeable
the immutable, she knew. Iris's
puny deceit, Tim's foolish chival
ry, even her own yearning love
for the big mistaken man, seemed
small and unimportant, measured
against the mighty range.
Lesson Of Patience
THEN there was time. She was
young to have learned the les
son of patience, but somehow she
had learned it. "Give it a few
weeks, or days, Buff: or even a few
hours. It's wonderful how time
brings out the true value of
things." Thus Eleanor, restrain
ing her impetuous child. The rest
less cartoonist and his gentle wife
had not done so badly for their
daughter, after all, even though
her formal education had been fre
quently interrupted.
"Iris will try to hurry the mar
riage. Why? There's a reason back
of all this." thought Buff, her alert
brain once more at work on the
problem. "I know she isn't marry
ing because she cares for him or
because she wants to be safe from
anything or anybody. It's all tied
up, this buying back that useless
land, Iris returning, her deter
mination to be engaged to Tim."
Her small face was haeeard with
fatigue. The fire had burned itself
to ashes and the room was cold.
But slowly into Bud's eves the
light of hope dawned. Hope and
resolution.
I m going to find out what all
this is about! Tim, the old foolish,
may go on being noble and waving
his eyebrows at me all he likes.
I'll drop my lecture ccurse darn!
did I ever try to get educated that
something didn't interfere? and
naunt Miss UeMuth until 1 dis
cover what she's up to!" She made
a childish face, moved her foot
and found it asleep, stamped on it
to restore the circulation. "So
there, Tim Corliss! You mav be
just like that young man they used
as an example to teach me Gram
mar years ago. '1 toil! drown and
no one shall help me!' And so he
drowned because he couldn't get
his auxiliary verbs right. But )ou
aren't to drown, my darling idiotic
Tim, though heaven knows you've
got all your verbs, nouns and ad
jectivesespecially your adjec
tives, Tim! about as wrong as
thev can be."
She moved her stiff body cau
tiously.
"I wonder if I'd wake Webby if
I took a hot bath? I'll risk it. any
how. I'll never get thawed out ex
cept In a tub of boiling water.
the announcement of the en
gagement duly appeared in the
next day's paper. Burt had a bad
time when she saw the words In
print. Upheld though she was by
her conviction that there was still
time to save Tun. and accustomed
by years of Lance's work to view
newspaper stones and announce
ments with little of the awe ac
corded them by most people, still
those black letters sot her to trem
bling, gave her a sinking feeling
at the pit of her stomach.
Not for long, however. Georce.
rushing up while she was still at
dinner, did much to restore her
composure. Oorge ..as in a fine
roaring rage. Tim Corliss was a
fool and he, George Weekes. didn't
care who heard him say so. For a
Canadian dime, he'd bust up the
partnership and let Tim go to
well, wherevr his soft heart and
soft head led him! And thus and
so, and double it and treble it, and
then some!
'Sit down and have a turnover
and a cuo of coffee." Buff soothed
him. "You'll feel heaps better
afterwards. George, do as I sav!"
she added sharply. "You and 1
must talk, and I want you to be
calm, not upset, during our con
ference." He brightened at that. 'Then you
think there's still some hope "
"You bet vour sweet life there's
hope," the girl answered, inele
gantly but (irmly. "You wait till
vou hear, George!"
Greatly cheered, he ate two
turnovers and drank three cups
of coffee: then followed her into
the living room where she poured
out the story of her last talk with
Iris.
Coulinued tomorrow.
WAR PROSPERITY
FELT ON COM
San Francisco, Nov. 1. Uf)
Force of war Impact on Pa
ciflc const industrial activity so
far has been stimulntiiik. Ex ten
sive studies by the federal re
serve bank of San Francisco,
reported today, showed the Sep
tember Impetus carried over
into October.
The bank's report described
the "net effect" of the war jolt
as "toward a rise In production,
employment and payrolls."
That rise came atop a creep
ing advance during the sum
miT.
A notable coast example of
an industry galvanized into ac
tion by hindrance to foreign
supplies, the bank pointed out
was the pulp and paper indus
try. This industry was reported
near-capacity operations, with
many Pugct Sound plants run
ning full blast.
Otlu-r industries prodded Into
rresh activity wore lumber,
steel, canned foods ond sugar.
Newspnport Merq.
Moscow, Idaho, Nov. 1 t.Vi
The consolidation, effective to
morrow, of Moscow's two daily
newspaper, the Star-Mirror and
the News - R p v I c w, was an
nounccd today.
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OF U. S.
Berlin, Nov. 1 VP) The
foreign office mouthpiece,
Deutsche Diplomatisch-Poli-tische
Korrespondenz, today cri
ticized the United States for a
policy of a "two-fold yardstick"
in relation to the European con
flict. It cited as "symptoms" the
City of Flint case and "differen
tiating treatment" of armed
commercial ships and submar
ines by President Roosevelt
with its "dangerous obliteration
of the character of war and
trade ships."
SUBURBAN HEIGHTS
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
FRED PERiEV.-mYiN6lb1)0lVlr: lRDik A finnT)
"Turn bv helping -to qeam up -The grounds
AVID "TEn PARTS', WAS SO COMPLETELY' "TAKEN ABACK WHEN)
THE UZvJ MEMBER, MiSTAKlWS HIM FOR -the croremaw, threatened
1b REP6RT HIM IF HETilDVl'T lrK-fft.lJ.-fl V ex HiC Y,rr txx-uz rmuicrhvy
THAf FOR TriE FIRST time in his life frep was speechless
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RETER PEAR GIFT
Washington, D. C, Nov. 1.
(Spl.) Most pleasing Interlude
in the debate on the neutrality
bill was when practically every
member of the senate ate Cornice
pears from Rogue River valley.
Raymond Reter sent a shipment
of pears to Senator Charles L.
McNary and the Oregon senator
placed the boxes in the demo
cratic and republican cloak
rooms. When the senators learn
ed of the delicious treat, they
sneaked out of the senate cham
ber, more interested in pearl
than in munitions of war.
Senator Harrv Bvrd. one of
the most extensive apple growers
of the east, declared he had f;
never eaten anything so luscious,
a sentiment echoed by other law.
makers.
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killed a sheriff and defied arrest. His men offered $1,000 to anyone who would "kill a mar
shal." In desperation one day. Mayor Miller offered the job of marshal to young Wyatt Earp, 25.
Earp accepted and strapped on two six-shooters. Immediately he strode into the street and
faced Thompson, who was backed by an unruly mob of some 4 00 riders. Earp ordered him to
throw down the shotgun he carried. Strangely, Thompson did and Earp led him to the town
jail and fined him $25 for disturbing the peace.
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TOMORROW: Wrong-Way House.
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