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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
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KEX, Portland, 1180; KFI, 640.
Lot Anceles; KOA. 1470. Spokane:
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KEX; Sunset Shadowe. KOO; Wir
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8:30 Whispering Rhythm, KPO;
We, Present, KOO, KJB; Sketch.
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KJR- Star Theater,.. KSL, KOIN.
KNX; Musical Soiree, KPI, KOW;
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6:30 Horse and Buggy Days, KOO;
Hollywood Playhouse, KPO, KPI,
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KOW, KPT; Lum and Abner, KSL,
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Shadows, KOO; Oeorge Jewel's Va
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6:30 Strings' at Sundown, KOO,
KEX, KJR; Army Band, KPO, KOW.
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Klamath Attorney '
Seeks Judgeship
Salem, Jan. 17 (JP) A. C.
Yaden, Klamath Falls attorney,
filed a declaration of candidacy
today for circuit Judge in Kla
math county, the post now held
by Judge Edward B. Ashurst.
His ballot slogan will be "23
years in law practice six years
referee in bankruptcy."
GERMAN FREIGHTER IN
BLOCKADE RUN ATTEMPT
Rio De Janeiro, Jan. 17. (Pi
Authorities disclosed today that
SUBURBAN HEIGHTS
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
I 11 - ZS
While lAfWtJ'e. hup.
WA.fEP IMPAflEr,TLV,W0HDERlH6 VMhf
rmi ottunt Or oPtAKtR. FRED PERLEV,
w,,K iJ m3 f0 'fHE ,51W0N "to meet -The speaker and
oJ 5?I PoiAM REST WH,LI WA16 HD? TRAIN, WAS HAVIK6
A PEACEFUL NAP, AND TrjE SPEAKER, INDIGNANT Af NOT BEING
"i-j mnuinw rui int. Cit-M IrsHIN DHLIS "0 TOWN
IUt"e l7 Th Bull SynitliaU. 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.
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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