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MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1940.
(Due jjelovel
BY LOUISE PLATT
HAUCK
. I.XTERDAY; Sut wondari
hi her brother ii so worried
jbout her future. Does it mean
that he uunU to set married?
The afternoon following their
talk the parks her car on the
river bluff, and it enraged when
another car crathtt into her.
Chapter Three
Gift Of Rosea
"rONTI" the young man pro
s'' tested feebly, turning his
eyes from the drop below. "You
can't say anything stronger than
I'm saying to myself. The only
excuse for me if it is an excuse!
is that I had a rather upsetting
piece of news just as I took over
the car and it made me forget
everything else. Also I've always
kept everything in such order in
this car it never occurred to me
any man would return it in such
a condition."
He opened the door and climbed
out, at once proving himself a
true prophet. His knees bent slow
ly beneath him, and if it hadn't
been for Sue's Arm little hand at
his elbow he would have col
lapsed ignominiously at her feet.
"Never scratched a fender in all
the years I've driven," he mut
tered. "Never killed even a yel
low pup. And nowl"
"Sit on one of these rocks,"
he directed. "No, facing away
from the river, IdiotL Now get
little, partly from the chill In the
air, partly from reaction after her
fright. To divert her mind she
speculated idly as to the sort of
young man this was who had been
too greatly occupied with his own
thoughts to inspect his car, so ter
rified by the nearness of a fatal
accident that he had wellnigh
collapsed, but withal brisk, deci
sive, even authoritative when con
fronted by the need for action.
He was tall, broad-shouldered
and blue-eyed; that much she re
membered. For the rest she had
received an impression of super
lative good clothes worn just to
the right degree of shabbiness,
thick blond hair uncovered, a
pleasant voice.
It lacked only a few minutes of
the dinner hour when she let her
self quietly into the apartment
She had her own reasons for
wishing to escape Allen's notice.
She was relieved to have Maggie
inform her that her brother had
telephoned; he would not be home
for dinner and Miss Sue was not
to wait for him if he had not re
turned in time for Barbara
Webb's party.
"And I must say," Maggie
added reproachfully, "you don't
look like you ought to be going
out till all hours yourself. Miss
Suel You passed me your word
you'd get home in time to lie
down for an hour or so before
dinner."
"I'm all right," Sue told her
-L til .
I ir
1
A note of horror crept into his voice. "You're hurt!"
mme of this air Into your lungs.
You'll soon be all right."
"I'm all right now," he Insisted.
"But you' suddenly a note of
horror crept into nis voice
"there's blood on your face!
You're hurtl My God, I've killed
you after all!"
"Bit my lip," she retorted, and
dabbed at It with a scrap of hand
kerchief. "Get hold of yourself,
can't you? I loathe hysterics."
The word Jerked him upright
ts perhaps it had been intended
to do. After a moment he said in
controlled tone: "Sorryl Never
acted like this before In my life,
give you my word! It was only
the idea that I couldn't control
the car and you so little, look
ing like a child with that red scarf
on . . . we'll skip it!" he assured
her with a wan smile. "Unless you
want to have me arrested? I'm
in entire agreement with you if
you do."
She shook her head absently,
her eyes on the jammed.cars.
"This is the dickens of a mess,"
the announced finally. "1 can't
get out until your car ts moved,
and I don't seem to care for the
idea of your starting it."
"It'll hold In reverse."
"Maybe and again maybe not.
According to your own tale, you
don't know much about what it
will or will not do. I think we'd
better walk down to the nearest
telephone and call for a man from
a garage. It's beginning to get
dark, you see."
"I'll walk, you mean." He stood
up again, this time purposefully
and strongly. "You sit down here
unless you want to get into your
car and wait "
"No. I think I won't do that!"
"Don't blame youl I won't be
ten minutes. I think I remember a
little storo at the foot of the hill.
I'll call from there, if you'll give
me the name of a good garage.
Stranger in your town, you see!"
Tall, Blue-Kyed
SHE snapped out the informa
tion he asked for, and seated
herself on one of the great rocks.
Lights were beginning to prick
through the dusk. She shivered a
shortly. "I'll rest after I've eaten.
Loads of time. Don't fuss, old
dearl"
Dozens and Dozens
IT was a good party, lasting un
til four, and she slept until
nearly noon the next day, oblivi
ous to Allen's tiptoed visit to her,
door before he left for his ofllce,
to Maggie's anxious peeps into the
darkened room. She was sitting
up in bed, yawning and relaxed,
when the servant rapped deci
sively. "Well, you have had a good rest
and no mistake, Miss Sue! Here's
a box just come for you."
"A boxl A packing case, don't
you moan?" The girl gasped at its
proportions. James Kettle was the
current donor of floral offerings;
and James' flowers invariably ap
peared in a neat square box. as
tidy and conservative as he was
himself. Maggie was having some
difllculty maneuvering this huge
affair through the door in spite
of its lack of weight.
In another moment they were
both gasping, young mistress and
the old woman.
"He must have bought up an
entire rose house! Dozens and
dozens of 'em, Maggie! Who on
earth!"
Her gay evening, the long hours
of sound sleep had erased the
recollection of yesterday's adven
ture. Now it returned to her
sharply. Something in the ex
travagant profusion of the gift re
called the man who had so nearly
killed her the day before. He was
a person to go from one extreme
to another, she thought, smiling.
She examined his card with
Interest. "Mr. Robert Trenton,"
it read; and below in very black
and firm script: "Thank God
they're not for your funeral!"
She began to laugh, softly at
first and then so whole-heartedly
that she laid her cheek down on
her bunched knees. What a
what a black and white sort of
person this was! No subtleties to
him, no shades of meaning! Some
thing rather fine about his abso
lute acceptance of the seriousness
of the attair. Sue liked that.
Continued tomorrow
IN IEN DAY PERIOD
By the Associated Press
Reports from the Seven Seas
Indicated today that Germany's
naval warfare has slumped
somewhat.
During the past 10 days only
four ships are known to have
been sunk by u-boats, none by
German warships.
Since the scuttling of the
Graf Spce the whereabouts of
her sister ships. Deutschland and
Admiral Scheer, have remained
a mystery.
Since Saturday night reports
of 12 sinkings have been made,
but five were confirmations of
vessels destroyed much earlier
In the war. Two, the British
trawler Barbara Robertson and
the Swedish freighter Svarton,
were, torpedoed and a third, the
Swedish freighter Kiruna, was
attacked and reported sinking.
Three casualties were laid to
mines, one to the German
freighter Glurksburg being
chased ashore by a British war
ship and the other to a German
plnne nttack in the North Sea.
The 5-day period produced
only one known death but 56
seamen were reported missing
and probably were dead.
The known toll of sea war
fare after slightly over four
months of conflict was 286
ships with a gross tonnage of
1.017.86!). More than 2.728 have
been killed or drowned.
POLISH FORCES WILL
FIGHT WITH FRENCH
I'aris. Jnn. 5. iAt It was
announced oficlally tonight that
Premier Daladler of France and
Wladyslnw Sikorskl. premier of
the Polish government in
France, had signed an accord
reconstituting the Polish army
and air force in France to fight
with the French-British Allies
against Germany.
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and a wooden clapper. Smith's
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Washington, Jan. 5. (Pi
President Roosevelt nomina.-d
Paul R. Leake Thursday to b,.
customs collector at San Fran
cisco and Sen. Downey (D., Cal.)
immediately announced that ne
would oppose his confirmation.
"I shall tell the finance com
mittee," said Downey, "that the
nominee is personally obnoxious
to me."
The senator said Leake, as
editor of a Woodland, Cal., pa
per, had written "particularly
vicious" editorials about him
during the last election cam
paign. He described the nominee as
a "bitter enemy not only of
myself but of Governor Culbert
L. Olson" and attributed his se
lection by the president to the
fact Leake bore the endorse
ment of former Senator William
Gibbs McAdoo.
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glars, attempting to rob the
Deep River National bank, wera
forced to flee when dens
smoke caused by a acetylene
torch with which they were,
burning a hole in the vault door
drove them from the building.
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