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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1940. Que c feloveX BY LOUISE PLATT HAUCK YESTERDAY: Sue wonts to fall in love with Bab. but can't Meanwhile Patsy's extravagancei are creating a strained situation in the Davenport home. Chapter 18 Jealousy "I'M not going to have you charge inff thines." Allen told Patsy. I increased your allowance last month tnougn you d said you naa laid in your whole season's outfit; and yet here is a perfect sheaf of Dins, it wouia nurt tne nrm u got behind with my payments, Even if I could square it with my conscience with my sense of the fitness or things to let you squander money like this, I couldn't let people think business was so bad for Monroe, Davenport and Long that one of the Arm couldn't pay cash for his wife's clothes. Unless you give me your word and keep it! that you'll not charge another thing, I shall be compelled to go around to the various shops and explain that I will not be responsible for what you buy. "Allen Davenport, you wouldn'' think o: ltl" He save her glance for glance, and her eyes drooped beneath his steady gaze. "I would I will. If you make It necessary for me, Fats! She shrugged, and the subject dropped. There were no more bills charged at tne store, ana lor a time life flowed along smoothly for Allen. Then a new order of things set in. "Sue, honey, you won't mind sleeping on the couch for a night or two, will you?" Patsy said coaxingly one evening at the din ner table. "There's a friend of mine coming from Chicago and there isn't a place in the house for her. "Take her In with you, Pats," Allen said quickly. "I'll sleep on the couch. I don't mind a bit, and It's asking a lot of Sue to leave her own room. His sister told him affectionately that she was glad enough to do it. and the matter seemed to end there. Grace Griffith, a plumb woman somewhat older than Pats, arrived that night and took calm possession of Sue's room. Two eights passed, a third, a fourth, and Grace made no suggestion of terminating her visit, hue was obliged to sit up until all hours, since Patsy had people In to meet her friend, one dressed in the bath room, sighed at the litter of spilled powder, smeared lipstick and rolls of blond hair on her dressingtable. She was taking advantage of the guest's absence late one afternoon to tidy her possessions when her brother came in. "Where's Pats?" Sue looked up from the fresh cover she was putting on her table. taking urace lor a drive.' "Your car?" She nodded. "I was glad to let ner nave it. Alien, truly i was." "Even after crumpling both lenders the other dav? Sue sighed a little. The car was a constant source of friction in the little family. Patsy drove very badly, but was bitterly resentful of the slightest criticism. Sue was proud of her little car and hated to have its beauty marred. But she had learned that anything was better than to be the cause of a quarrel between her brother and his wife. "Pats say anything about Grace leaving soon?" "Not a word. I think she'll stay another week anyhow. I know they plan to go to Barbara's lunch and that's not until next Thurs day." A Mistake HE BEGAN to pace the small room, his head bent, his hands In his pockets. "Sue, this is terribly hard on you. Not just having Grace keep you out of your room, I mean: everything the whole arrange ment. Would it help if we took a larger apnrtment a house?" She folded her hands on the edge of the table, looked down at them to hide gathering tears. Allen, her adored brother, was unhappy. In less than six months after his mar riage ho was tacitly admitting It was a mistake. "I think" she said when she was sure of her voice "that the only hing that will help at all. Buddy, is for me to live by my self. All all the things that upset you are done done to make you see I'm In the way. Even the bills last March; Pats didn't really want those clothes not enough to make you angry about them, at any rate. She wanted you to see that there Isn't enough enough of anything, Allen dear, for her and me both: enough money, enough room, enough . . . love." Two months, even two weeks ago, he would have denied this; sharply and with resentment. It mode her young heart sick for him that he nodded quietly now. "She's jealous of vou, Sis. Has been from the first, I think. Be cause you're . . . because you have qualities and advantages she hasn't; she'll never have. Sue, what is to be done?" he finished hopelessly. On an evening in late June, Bob Trenton, about to descend from his car across the street from where the young Davenports lived, was astonished to see Sue come out, suitcase in hand, and move toward a taxicab which stood in front of the entrance. Bob was just in time to halt the driver as his car began to move. "Hi!" the young man yelled breathlessly. And to Sue: "What on earth? Have you forgotten you have a date for me this evening?" Sue, he noticed, was white and troubled. "I did forget, Bob. I'm terribly sorry." "Going out of town?'' She shook her head, sending a warning glance at the patiently listening driver. "Then hop out and Til take you where you want to go." He paid the interested man, tipping him liberally: helped Sue out and swung her suitcase after her. Not until there were moving smoothly down the street in his own car, did he speak. "Where were you going, sweet? To a hotel?" She opened her lips to answer him. but her chin auivered and she took out her handkerchief and put it quickly to her eyes. "Don't, my darling," he said huskily. "And don't think you have to explain. The situation got too much for you at home, didn't it? Patsy went a little too far this time and you thought it best to get out." "How how do you Know, Bob? "How do I know anyhing about you, Sue? I do that's all. And it doesn't take much of a detective to know that Pats has been deter mined to get you out of the place since the actual day Allen brought her home. I suppose she put the poor old lad on the spot today? Tried to force him to choose be tween his wife and his sister that sort of thing?" She nodded, still mopping at wet eyes. And you took matters In your hands and left without forcing a decision upon your brother? You would, of course. What puzzles me is that Allen actually let you gol" Kind Friend HE DIDN'T know," she said In a strangled voice. "I slipped out while he and Patsy were still arguing about it. I couldn't endure another word. I couMn't, Bob!" "Of course you couldn't. The marvel is you ve endured It so long. No other girl wou d. vou may be sure of that But what now. sweet?" She struggled for a return to composure. "The hotel at present; after that, a little apartment some where, I suppose. Maggie will come with me, of course luckily she was in her room tonight and didn't hear the row." Bob had headed his car nwiv from town and now they were bowling along the boulevard which led to the Lovers' Lone of Eugene Field fame. As thov turned into the "leafy aisles where Cupid smiles," he said: "Sue, I don't want to take advantage of the situation. but aren't you ever going to marry me? You do care for me. you know a little, anyway!" She smiled at him, laid a small cold hand over his on the wheel. More than a little, Bob deor! great deal. In fact. But not enough enough to " "To marry me? But If I think It Is enough, Sue If I'm willing to take any risk you may think there, is. . . . Sue, I've waited a long time now. Long enough, at anv rate, for you to discount your Idea that it was a sentimental impulse with me, that it wouldn't last Long enough, too, to get ahead of any other men you might might hove cored for. Won't you marry me, sweet, and come to the home that's all ready for you?" "It's a temntntlon. Rnh " hp admitted. "I feel so terribly forlorn tonight, so homeless. The tears started again and she wiped them away patiently. "But that's really why I mustn't decide tonight, at least. It would be the circum stances which influenced me, not not my feeling ;oword you." tie was silent so long that she presently stole a glance at him. He looked almost grim, for Bob, stem and a little angry, she thought, with something like fright in her bewildered thoughts. Wm aha going to lose Bob, too? Was he going to force a choice on her to night as Patsy hr.d done? She gripped her hands tightly In her But at last he turned and smlliwt at her, the gay understanding smile he kept just for her. 'Its an right, dear. Of course you mustn't decide tonight. We'll drive a bit and then I'll take you to the hotel, and tomorrow or the next day whenever you feel up to it we'll talk about the future.'' The exmiisite relief nf u inM h how great had been the crisis. That momentary glimpse of a life with out this kindest and closest of menus unconsciously pleaded Bob's cause far more than any words of his could have done. Continued tomorrow ARMY'S GIANT PLANE PROMISES LONG RANGE Washington, Jan. 17. IIP) The army is building the world's largest plane, believed capable of flying to Europe and bnck without stopping. Authoritative sources dls closed today this was the ship which J. Edgar Hoover was talking ebout when he told con gressmen recently how the plans had been stolen and then recov ered by G-men. The 70-ton craft, understood to havt a wing spread of more than 200 feet, Is nenrlng com pletion now in the Santa Mon ica, Cal., plant of the Douglas Aircraft company. At least one foreign govern ment was said to be interested in obtaining the stolen plans of the Diane, which would dwarf any army plane now In service. Army and commercial engineers who hnve been working on the plane for 18 months, were un derstood to plan first tests next summer. The plnne's new model high powered motors promise a range of 6,000 or possibly 7,000 miles. Aihlanders Wed. Reno, Nov., Jan. 17. lU.RI Marriage licenses Issued here today Included' Melvln Gor don, 22, and Vera Duncan, 18. both AshlnnH. Ore. Use Mall Tribune Knot ads. On the RADIO CHAINS STATIONS Where to Find Them oi: the Dial: KEX, Portland, 1180; KFI, 640. Lot Anceles; KOA. 1470. Spokane: KOO, 790, San Francisco; KGIV 620, Portland: KJB, 870, Seattle. KNX, 1030, Los An(Cies; KOA, 830. Denver; KOIN, D40, Portland: KOMO, 026, Seattle; KPO, 630, San Francisco; KSL, 1180. Salt Lake. Wednesday 6:00 Prank and Archie. KJB, KEX; Sunset Shadowe. KOO; Wir ing's Orch.. KPO. KOW. KFI. 8:30 Whispering Rhythm, KPO; We, Present, KOO, KJB; Sketch. KSL. 8:00 Radio Guild, KOO, KEX. KJR- Star Theater,.. KSL, KOIN. 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Inr.l the 5.943-ton German freighter Santos here since Oct. 30 had sailed at dawn Sunday for an undisclosed destination. She was loaded with minerals, iron and 10,000 bags of coffee. AMERICAS SEEK MEANS TO FORCE NEUTRALITY Rio De Janeiro, Jan. 17. (IP) Faced with Great Britain's re jection of the 300-mile Ameri can safe;' :rne, an inter-Amer- j lean neuiram cuiiuuiucc wua; sought concrete means of en forcing the "keep out" sign for all belligerents. Forest Supervisor Portland, Jan. 17. UP) Re gional Forester Lyle F. Watts confirmed today the appoint ment of Charles D. Simpson as supervisor of the Whitman Na tional forest. He succeeds Les ter Moncrief, new personnel manager of the intermountaiu region at Ogden, Utah. Paris, Jan. 17. VP) French officials announced today that Britain and France have mada loans to Turkey totaling 42,000, 000 pounds and 264,750,000 francs (altogether about $174,. 000,000) part of which if to be) used to finance the purchase of armaments. 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