PAGE TWELVE
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 1940.
Oh cy jjeLvel
YESTERDAY: Sue's horn it
not the tame alter Allen't wife,
shallow, selfish Patty, comet to
lfv in it. Patty itartt agitatino
for a move to a largt home.
Chapter 10
Skier Venus Wife
T 'HERE'S your money. Your
share of the sale of your fa
ther's house," Patsy said Im
patiently. "I suppose you know
Allen invested that money for
your-
. "Yes, I believe so."
"Well! Sue, for heaven's sake
wake up and try to realize the
situation. Allen's a family man
now. His first duly is to me, not
to you. If you are going on living
with us
A cold hand closed on Sue's
heart, that heart which had
eemed to its owner to have been
bruised into insensibility long be
fore this. It was no longer Sue
nd Allen Davenport; it was Mr.
and Mrs. Allen Davenport, with a
luperfluous unmarried sister on
their handsl She said chokingly:
"But I'm notl I'm moving at
once, Patsy. I'll take an apart
ment somewhere furnish it"
"And bring down Allen's wrath
on my headl I'm married to him,
Sue, whether you like it or not,
whether you like me or not. Do
you want to make trouble be
tween us the very first thing?"
"It needn't make trouble," she
said miserably. "I can explain to
Allen that it's crowded here that
I need more room that Maggie
wants to leave it'll all be quite
simple, Patsy, truly it will!"
The older girl shrugged and
walked away. She disdained to
give further warning, she seemed
to imply. If Sue loved her brother
then of course she wanted him to
be happy; and bringing about a
difference of opinion with his wife
was the surest way of troubling
him.
Sue was mindful of this when
she broached the subject of a
change that evening. For a won
der the three Davenports were
(lone, Marie's party keeping her
sisters at home, Bob out of town
for the weekend.
Allen, finishing his paper, laid
it down with a smile of pleasure.
"Nice being by ourselves like
this, isn't it? My wife and my sis
ter! We're getting to be a real
family, Sue!B
It was not an auspicious begin
ning for what she had to say but
such ns It was, the girl seized it
eagerly.
"PerhaDS one too manv for this
small apartment, though, Buddy!
I've been thinking. You know
when we moved here, we regard
ed it as more or less temporary.
How how would it be if I if 1
took a little place of my own?
With Maggie, I mean," she added
hurriedly, seeing Allen's quick
frown. "Not even you could
worry about me if I had Maggie."
He rose from his chair and
stood before the Are, staring
down at her sharply.
"What's all this, Sue? Do you
mind so much the change of
room? It's really a pleasanter one
than your old one; you've always
aid so. Is it too small for you?
You're not such, a large person
that-"
"The room is well enough."
She spoke with unusual shortness.
"It's well, Allen, it's the whole
arrangement. Think," she went on
reasonably. "We're just this one
place to sit in, to entertain our
friends. If people drop in to see
me, you and Patsy are at a loss.
If you want your friends for
bridge, say, I must"
"My friends and your friends!
Sue, you must be crazy! Since
when have we made a difference
between them? We both know the
same people. We've managed all
right up to now. Why -"
"But, Allen, it isn't the same!
You were a bachelor, you went
out even more than 1 did. Now
. . . you and Patsy will be enter
taining, having her friends as well
as . . . yours and mine. It's her
home, too, you know. We must
both remember that."
In Earnest
THE man glanced perplexedly
from one girl to the other.
Patsy sat relaxed In a blue velvet
chair, a faintly indolent smile on
her lips. Sue, scarlet-cheeked and
breathing little rapidly, was
bolt upright in her favorite corner
of the couch.
"Pats, what do you think about
all this?" he appealed to his wife.
"I think we should take a
house," she replied promptly. "It's
n o n s e n s e t h r e e people all
jammed up in a small place like
this. Sue is talking sense. There's a
f perfectly dandy place on Ash
and "
"The stucco house I know.
But that's out, Pnts dear. I told
you so when you first spoke of it.
It's too far from the office, the
rent's too high, it would cost a
lot to furnish it, I'm sorry, dar
ling, but 1 can't afford it just now.
I explained all that to you when
before we were married."
"I know," she murmured. "I do
understand, truly, Allen. But . . .
after all, if Sue is to make her
home Vith us, it's only fair that
she share expenses, isn't it? She
CONVENTION SHE
Chicago, Jan. 13. (U.R) The
fifth national convention of the
Townsend old age pension or
ganization will be held in St.
Louis June 30 to July 4, Dr.
Francis E. Townsend announced
today after conferring with IS
field workers.
Baxter T. Rankine. director
of organization for the Town
send group, reported to the
meeting that 600,000 new mem
bers had been enrolled since
the last national convention ati
BY LOUISE PLATT
HAUCK
has a car, and we don't. She has
an. income which she practically
never touches. If we divided the
rent and the heat all our living
expenses, lover, we could manage
nicely. Sue's willing, aren't you.
Sue?"
He shook his head. "Divide
three ways, you mean? Even then
I couldn't swing it; couldn't af
ford a car. You know how things
at the office are, Pats: that to meet
competition with the Kansas City
Arms we're working at an actual
loss, in money at least. We're
building up a reputation which
will make us i Arm to be reck
oned with when the tide turns.
Luckily for us all, we each have
a small but adequate income. I've
been living on that. Sue's is big
enough to run to the little car."
"But. Allen!" It was Sue her.
self who broke in eagerly. "I'm
just realizing! It's because you
have supported us both that I was
able to buy the car. I honestly
didn't know that before. I simply
took it for granted that there
was enough money for us both,
and let it go at that. It's you who
should have the carl"
"Now listen, Sis," he said firm
ly. "The arrangement has not
been as onesided as you think.
You've paid your share of ex
penses right along. As a matter of
fact, I couldn't have kept up this
apartment just at first if I hadn't
deducted your share from your
quarterly check. The last year or
so I've been able to swing it alone.
i snouidn t have dared ask Patsy
to marry me, if I hadn't; knowing
that a girl as pretty and attrac
tive as you will in the nature of
things marry soon and leave us.
But until that time" his face
grew troubled "can't you stick
ft, Sis? I I don't want you to
leave your brother's roof until
you go to your husband's. Pats,
tell her she's not to think of
leaving us! Why, gosh!" he ex
claimed. "I look forward all day
to coming home to my two girls
at night! I'm going to hate the fel
low who takes my little sister
away!"
He was so genu nelv in earnest.
his voice was so full of distress
that Sue could onlv let the sub
ject drop. She stole a glance at her
sister-in-law and found that in
scrutable person staring into the
nre, ner up caught beneath hf
whlte teeth.
Like a Cat
I'M GOING OUT," Sue Daven-
Dort declared one afternoon in
late February. "Rain or no rain,
I've got to get some fresh air.
I've been cooDed un here lone
enougn. &ne wore a thin red
rubber cape over her tweed suit,
her small-brimmed hat was water-proof.
Patsy looked up lazily. "And I
was just thanking my lucky stars
I didn't have to trudge down to
the office! I hate wet weather.
Driving, Sue?"
"Walking. I noed n good tramp."
She resisted all Impulse to close
the door violently behind her.
The living-room was stuffy since
Patsy objected to the hour's air
ing Maggie had been In the habit
of giving it after breakfast. It
smelled faintly of food, of stale
perfume and cigarette smoke.
Patsy had become a chain-smoker
since she had no working hours,
lighting one from another, and
being none too careful about
where she flung the ashes.
Her sister-in-law's capacity for
Immobility had surprised the ac
tive Sue. At first she had thought
Patsy resting from her long years
of secretarial work. But January
went by, February was ready to
merge Into March, and still Al
len's wife spent most of her time
curled into a deep chair or on the
couch, not reading, not sleeping;
just smoking and relaxing utter
ly, like a pretty Persian cat.
There were times when Sue
forgot she was there; when Bar
bara Webb dropped in, and after a
polite exchange of greeting with
Allen's wife, sl.e and Sue were
off in a gale of lively chatter. Bob
Trenton, at first acutely conscious
of that languid silent figure, him
self learned to ignore, if not to
forget it. Pats woke up only when
Allen came home, or her sisters
dropped in. Then she came to life
with a rush of animation, a spar
kle of talk which never ceased to
astonish her small sister-in-law,
"I can't stand it any longer I
can't," muttered Sue today, as her
face wet with the drizzling rain
and her lungs welcoming the
clean air. she walked briskly
along. "Allen thinks she is like
that all day; that I'm lucky to
have such a charming companion
from morning till night. And if he
knew that she spends the whole
time smoking and brooding in
that chair or whatever she is
doing when she narrows her eyes
like that he'd say that at least
she doesn't interfere with mv own
life. But I have no life, that's the
truth of the matter. I don't like
to ask people in for the evening
because I know It's the only time
Allen has with Pats. And I'm
tired, tired; of movies, and parties
anything to get away!"
"Hey, slow up, you' small tor
nado!" a cheerful voice bade her.
"Where's the fire this dampish
day?"
ConUnued tomorrow
Indianapolis last June.
Townsend, founder and presi
dent of the organization, and
L. W. Joffery, vice-president,
will leave Chicago in a few
days to consult with house und
senate leaders Interested in the
new Townsend pension bill to
be introduced In congress next
week.
STATE HOSPITAL HAS
440 INMATE EXCESS
SalTn, Ore., Jan. 13. (U.R
The state hosnltal here enntnin
ed 440 patients more than ca
paclty today, with the popula
tlon reaching a rrconl of 27ns
Dr. J. C. Evans. simerintonHnnt
asserted the overcrowding
makes It Impossible for the staff
to segregate cases properly.
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William Howard Taft four
the supreme court, because he
twice offered him the coveted
civil governor. However, in June, 1921. President Harding no
Edward D. White as chief justice.
Taft took office in July and served until February, 19
to resign. Strange as it seems, Taft died on March 8 the 89
lice Oliver Wendell Holmes just five hours after death took
court. Associate Justice Edward T. Sanford.
Monday: Duck's Dilemma.
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Decline To Finance Births
Hood River, Jan. 13. (P)
"Blessed events" among relief
clients failed to receive the
blessing of the Hood River pub
lic welfare commission today.
The commission, declining to fi
nance birth from relief funds,
deplored a tendency among
young couples to "ignore their
obligations" and charge blessed
events to the commission.
Die Mall Tribune want ads.
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