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MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1940.
One fjelovel
YESTERDAY: Bob rifuiu to
be snubbed, and Sui pets ud to
having him around. Allen is still
hinting about bringing horns a
wile, but Sua doesn't take him
seriously.
Chapter Eight
Week Before Christmas
SUE laid down her book, smiled
up at him.
"But I know all your friend
now, Allen; know the girla you
like, and don't like. I used to hope
that if it had to be anyone at all,
it would be Barbara. But you
don't care for her at all, do you,
Buddy?"
He lighted cigarette deliber
ately, squinted his eyes against
the rising smoke in a way dear
to her through long familiarity.
"Not Barbara. No, I don't care
at all for Barbara Webb. Known
her too long, I expect; as you
hava Forest.
"And there was that young
widow who visited here last win
ter," Sue went on, unheeding.
"For a while I got a little scared
about her, if you'll believe me!
You did hover around her a bit,
you know, Allen I"
"Scared, Sis? Why should you
have been scared- if I'd hovered
to some purpose? Fellows do get
married, you know; even fellows
with sisters."
"I know; and some day you
will, too, of course. But not Just
yet. Buddy dearl Not when we're
ao nappy together, and life's such
a lot of fun for both of us, and
Maggie takes care of us, and
you're forging ahead so fast in
your work."
"Had you set a definite date for
me to marry, Sue?"
Usually her ear was quick to
detect every shade of feeling in
the beloved voice; but tonight she
lay back in her big chair, dream
ing eyes on the fire, her happy
thoughts only partly on what she
and Allen were saying.
"Thirty-five's a nice age, don't
you think. Buddy? That'd make
me twenty-nine. I want ' to be
married before I'm thirty; but
only before I'm thirty. I don't
want to settle down too soon, and
miss all the fun."
"It might be fun having your
own home, Sis; having kids, you
know being young with em
yourself."
But it was of no use. She only
nodded and smiled, presently
spoke of something' else. And so
Bob Trenton's news the week be
fore Christmas almost shattered
her very soul.
She and Barbara had been
hopping all day, lunching down
town, coming home through the
early dusk with packages they
could not wait to have delivered.
"Coming in, Babs? I'll give you
cup of tea!"
"No, thanks! Early dinner to
night, as it happens. Going with
the parents to a concert like the
dutiful daughter I am."
So Sue, her arms piled high
with gaily wrapped bundles and
unable to get at her latchkey,
rang the bell for Maggie to open
the door.
"Mr. Bob's here," the old ser
vant said briefly. "Want I should
bring in some tea?"
"Hello, Bob! Been here long?
Maggie wants to know if youd
like tea."
"No tea, thank you. Only a few
minutes to stay, sweet."
Firelight
TOTTRE not to call me 'sweet'."
The protest was purely auto
matic, unheeded, almost unheard
by them both. "Oh, me, I'm tired!
The shops are simply jammed. It's
fun, though, Christmas shopping.
Everybody's so friendly, you
overhear so many odds and ends
of interesting bits about what
people want for themselves and
what they are buying for others
... I adore Christmas! Everything
about it, from the first wreath
that goes up to the last holiday
party! Want a light on, Bob, or
shall we just ruminate in the fire
light for a while?"
"Firelight, by all means. I want
. to talk to you, Sue."
"Bob, you solemnly promised-"
"It's not about us, sweet; at
least it's not about me. It's about
Allen."
"Allen?" She started up In
alarm. "He's not 111, Bob? There's
not been an accident?
"He was in the best of health
when I saw him last some two
hours ago. Sit down, Sue. It's
nothing to do with accidents ill
ness of any kind. But the old boy's
in sort of a jam, and I promised
to try my hand at well, at mak
ing you get his point of view."
"Jam? Allen? ' Vague thoughts
of defunct banks carrying away
their funds, of a loss of her broth
er's position, of all the things of
which she had hoard which were
commonly referred to as "iams'
for men, floated through her
mind. "Tell me at once, Bob!" she
commanded sharply.
He shook his head. "The Idea
was that I work tactfully up to
it," he explained. "In fact, I prom
ised Allen I'd do just that. He says
lies tried It himself, time and
again, but you're so darned un
conscious, you change the subject
o innocently but with such fin
ality, that he never gets any
where with it." He cleared his
throat with the first trace of em
barrassment she had ever seen in
LICANS SLATE
FEB. IB MEETING TO
E CONVEI
Washington, Jan. 11. (VP)
Continuing to Jockey with Dem
ocratic officials over 1940 cam
paign arrangements, the Repub
lican national committee was
called today to meet February
16, when it will set a date and
place for the party's national
convention.
BY LOUISE PLATT
HAUCK
him. "I know I'm a pretty new
friend to be doing this anything
so intimate as this for the old
boy. Webb ought to, or Bill Seaton
half a dozen others. But it just
happened that I "
"Bob, will you stop babbling
and tell me what is wrong with
my brother Allen?"
"Nothing's wrong," he replied
doggedly. "You certainy can't call
it wrong when a guy marries the
girl he loves!"
An electrified silence fell upon
them both. Sue sat gripping the
arms of her chair as if they only
could support her in the face of
this devastating news. Bob, with
a worried glance at her pale face
and big dark eyes, bent to lay a
fresh log on the fire.
"M-married?" The word came
out in the merest essence of Sue's
charming voice. "Allen married
and without telling me?"
"It's your own fault. Sue," he
said bracingly. "You wouldn't let
him tell you. Why, I've heard him
trying to myself," he went on.
"I've heard him rag you about his
getting on in years and needing a
wife -
"Bagging yes! He's done that
for years. But meaning it , . . oh!
yours ragging yourself, Bob! It's
your funny idea of a joke to come
in here and give me a scare!" Her
piteous glance begged him to ad
mit it was intended for a joke.
When he merely eyed her sym
pathetically, the back of her hand
crept up to her mouth. Broken
sounds came from behind it.
"Now, Sue, now, Suel Pull
yourself together, sweet! It had
to come, you know. Allen was
bound to marry one of these days,
you must know that! And it
seemed to hi.i I don't agree
with him, but he claims he knows
you better than anyone else does
it seemed to him easier to get
the whole thing over with before
he told you."
'Happy As A Kid'
THE tears ran unheeded down
her small face. "But he didn't
tell me! He he sent you to do it!
Oh, Buddy, Buddy! To think
you'd do this to me!"
He knelt beside her, wiping her
eyes with his own big white
handkerchief.
"He didn't send me at all, Sue.
It just happened that I that I
was in his office this afternoon
when they when he came back
He was happy as a kid, and at the
same time all shot to pieces about
how you'd take the news if you
know what I mean. And, con
found it! it seemed sort of a
shame to spoil things for him
right of! the bat. So I offered
I said I was on my way here any
way and I'd take the edge off the
news for him ..."
She held her head very hieh but
he could see her swallowinK raDid
sobs.
"Sue, get hold of yourself!" he
urged. "They'll be here any min
ute now. You don't want Allen
you don't want her to find you
like this!"
J lust a minute. Bob!"i For
one breathless moment she leaned
against him, the dear little dark
head he loved pressed close to his
heart. He tightened an arm
about her comfortingly. "Give me
just a minute!"
presently she freed herself,
mopped valiantly at her wet eyes.
"Who who is it, Bob? Babs?
No, .it can't be Babs. She's been
with me all afternoon. Ellen
Massey? Who, Bob?"
"It's a girl In his office, Sue: a
pretty girl, an awfully nice girl, I
expect, or Allen wouldn't be so
keen on her. It's . . Patsy Mur
ray, dear!"
Patsy Murray!
The name brought to Sue's
mind a blurred recollection of a
tall, somewhat striking lookine
girl, one of the several secretaries
employed by Allen's firm. Sue
seemed to remember a good deal
of lipstick and of manner, and
little else.
"Married her?" she asked In
bewilderment. "But why any
Patsy Murray, Bob? Why not Bar
bara, or bllen someone of our
own set?"
He shook his head. He had in
truth been perplexed by a sight
of the new Mrs. Allen Davenport.
And yet in a way he could under
stand that to staid and conven
tional Allen, a girl like Patsy
Murray might be provocative in
her very difference from the
groomed and polished sisters and
young daughters of his set.
"No one ever knows why one
person marries another " he of
fered. "The point is, Sue, that
they went to Kansas City and
were married this morning; that
he's bringing her for dinner
and mighty soon, too," he con
cluded warningly.
"Oh no!" The protest came on
a long sigh. "Not so soon, Bob!
Not for a while not until I can
get a little used to the idea."
"In " he glanced at his watch
"about fifteen or twenty min
utes, I should say. Brace up,
sweet! Go bathe your eyes in cold
water you don't want her to
know you've been crying about
it, do you? Or Allen either? and
get into something a trifle more
festive than that fuit, and be all
ready to welcome them. Want me
to stay?" he offered a trifle re
luctantly. "No oh Bob, yes. I do yes, I
do, too! If you will! Bob, I cannot
1 cannot " Her chin was qui
vering like a grieved baby's.
Continued tomorrow
The Democratic committee
will make similar decisions Feb
ruary 3 under a recent notifica
tion by National Chairman
James A. Farley.
Thus the Republicans, if they
wish, can hold their convention
after the prmocrats have as
sembled. Although this would
depart from custom, a number
of party leaders have advocated
the change on the theory it
would give the Republicans the
strategic advantage of knowing
the DcmocpU'c candidates and
platform.
From the present outlook. It
appears both conventions will
take place later in the summer
than usual probably In mid-July
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