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PAGE EIGHT By Jean YESTERDAY: Brnda leorns that Linda left because Hugh ed rttcd Linda's fugitiv brother to pit- himself up for the1. Brenda appeals to Mut Ormond to help get Linda back. Judge Harper comes to Brenda with a strange letter h hat received. Chapter 24 Silly Mm "TJ EAU it." the Judge cerr.rr.sni-l- ed. Brenda took the letter. "So my deer, FU no longer pre tend with you. I've known your secret for month, I my ay for yean. My heart'i beloved, free yourself of the shackles of conven tionality, and come to me. Let the dead past bury its dead (after all, lover, your wife has been absent from your s'de for many years), and turn the page and make a new start. I know, you see: I've l-.nown all along; ever since I was a little girl. Therel Doesn't that clear the path for you, dearest of dears? "Maud." Brenda's hand with the letter In it fell helplessly at her side. The confusion of metaphors, the ab surd taking for granted what she wished to believe was eminently characteristic of Maud VanNess: but never would the younger girl have believed the prim old maid would summon courage enough to write the Judge as she had done. A fearful wave of apprehension began to chill her. Maud had said it had been Brenda's attitude to ward life which had broken down her reserves. Was she henceforth to be held responsible for all that went on in The Street? She tried frantically to remember the sub stance of her conversation with Maud the day she had lunched with her; but it had been such an unpleasant experience that she had quickly forgotten it "Well?" asked the Judge ahak lly. "What am I to do about it, Brenda? How am I to answer it? You see, she sayt you advised her " "I didn't! I'm perfectly sure I didn't!" "At any rate," he continued, not rebukingly but more as summing up impartially the acts for the Jury, I've lived on this Street with Maud for nearly half a cen tury, and never 1 word did I hear out of her on such a subject until you came here!" "Oh, Judge Harper!" she cried forlornly. "I'm not blaming you, child. I know that in New York, and es pecially with your generation, the lolemnity and deep respect with which wa older folk have held till do hold love and marriage have gone by the board." There were tears in her eyes, but she held her head a trifle higher. "I beg your pardon, Judge, but you're mistaken o far as some of us are concerned; so far as I am concerned. I respect love and marriage )ust as much as anyone can do. And and I don't think it's fair to hold me responsible for a letter sent you by by a woman who told me herself that she she" She stopped abruptly, ashamed to bettray poor Maud. The call, she thought afterward, went from bad to worse. The Judge was gentle with her. was considerate, out it wa perfectly evident he was convinced in his own mind that the daughter of his old friend had been acting upon the advice general or specific as the case might be of this young writer from New York who had had a good deal to say about deal ing frankly and realistically with life's problems. Brenda did her best to disclaim ny part in the affair but it was difficult to exonerate herself. "And he's wise, he's known all orta of people, their motives for doing all sorts of things!" she mused in surprise. Absorbed In Cacti SHE put the question to Mac that night despairingly. He had been the last person she wished to know about it: in fact, when the Judge went sorrowfully away just before noon with not a grain of that sophisticated advice on his froblem that he had come for. she sd planned frantically to keep Mac from hearing of the silly mess. But it was one of the rare eve nings when they happened to be alone for a few minutes in the living room. Isobel had gone out with Eric dressed in her smartest gown and wearing make-up deli cately applied bv Brenda's own expert hand. Adelaide was to re turn from Springfield sometime on the following day. Mac sat smoking In his favorite leather chair; and suddenly he looked so dependable, so strong, so thoroughly understsndins. that the girl found herself pouring the wnoie sorry story into nis ears. "I've gone over what she said to me what I said to her that day at luncheon, five hundred t.mes." she finished fevenshlv. "And I simply cannot remember FIGHT NEW DEAL New York, June 1. The communist party of the United State today adopted a 1940 campaign platform con taining planks opposing Presi dent Roosevelt's national de fense program and calling for support of "the peace policy of the Soviet Union." Two thousand delegates to the party's nominating conven tion adopted the anti-defense plank after brief discussion. They are expected to again nominate Earl Browder, na ttonal secretary, for the presi dency, and Jamea W. Ford. Negro, for the vice-presidency tomorrow. They were the 1936 nominees. Randall' on word that would encourage her to write a letter like thatr "No, of course you didn't en courage her," he answered her. "Back up, Brenda, and I'll prove that you didn't. Remember tht evening after you'd talked to Maud? When you and I took a drive together and rowed a little more fiercely than usual? I've no dmihl the fleht out all previous conversation out of your mind, but it happens that I remember it ciearly. I asked you if Maud had tola you arjoui tne juoge, ana you said she had, and you called her a poor foolish woman; and I said you were a swell sport to let ber rave about her delusions to you ' or words to that effect. Remem ber?" "Oh. Mae, I'm beginning to! You said you did think I might be a writer because I was inter ested in people " "And then you had to spoil it all by declaring you were going to further the match between Alaine and Ned Barrow, and we sort of" She was sufficiently cheered to give her own endearing chuckle. "We did, indeed! I believe wa drove in icy silence for something like six miles afterward. But, Mac, you'll admit I was right about Ned? They're having a sim ply heavenly time out at tne farm with that greenhouse. Ned calls for them every morning and they take a lunch and stay all day. You will admit you were wrong?" He took hi pipe from hi mouth and grinned. "Poor little Brenda! You've got an awful shock coming." "I?" She spread one small hand above her heart "What is it?" "Ned's so absorbed in cacti and whatnot that he's lost all interest in Alaine; at least in marrying her, I mean. He' bought about a million books on grafting and pol lenization and Lord knows what else, and when he isn't reading 'em, he' out to the farm experi menting. Sometimes he get up in the middle of the night and drive out just to be sure the tempera ture is right. " Not Really In Love "TJOW how do you know?" li "Ab was telling me yester day. Ab's tickled pink, of course. He keeps his twin and he gains a greenhouse besides to say noth ing of those hairy, spiky things he and Ned go into raptures about "You see, my dear, Ned wasn't really in love with Alaine. I (aid so ail along. He was lonely, and he had this genuine interest in botany without knowing it. and he wanted like everything to in sert himself in the twins' part nership. Now he has, and he' happy. So' Ab." , "B-but Alaine?" she stammered, the full import of her wrecked plans dawning upon her. Had she moved heaven and earth to bring Alaine and Ned together, merely to break poor Alaine' heart in the end? "Alaine' happy, too," he com forted her. "The'twins, what with no one els living with them and practically no separate interests, were getting on each other's nerve. Now they have Ned to whet their irritation on. Ned to support financially and other wisetheir wildest floral ambi tions. All, consequently, is well." She glanced at him with new respect "But how how did you know that Ned wasn't really in lova with Alaine?" He kept his eyes on hi pipe which he was refilling, tamping the tobacco down with alternate forefingers. "I've been In lova myself," he Informed her briefly. "I know the symptoms. Ned didn't have 'em!" "Oh!" she said in a small voice. Silence fell on the room; a si lence presently broken by the sound of rain on the panes. "Any windows up?" ha in quired. "I'd better go ee. And 1 11 not be down, Brenda. I've got a lot of work to do before I go to bed" "But. Mac! You haven't told me what to do about that letter? About the Judge? About about Maud!" He stood in the doorway, frown ing with concentration. "Do nothing." he said finally. "Especially about Maud. I'll drop a hint to the Judge. Now" he put up a hand to stop her protest "it's not a betrayal of Maud' confidence to you. Gosh. girl, do you think you're the only con temporary" Maud has confided in? She's told me that yarn about the Judge having adored her since her childhood more times than I can count You leava the whole thing to me." he reassured her. "Mac, I am grateful! I wish I knew how to to return th favor!" He ald suprislngly: 'Trot out those dimples for a minute, to cheer m through my lonely hours of toil!" ConUnued tomorrow Opposition to the president's program was expressed as fol lows: "Not a cent, not a gun. not a man for war preparations and the imperialist war! Re sist the militarization and arm istartion and congress! Stop the application of the M-Day plans' Protect the freedom and Independence of the trade unions! Make the rich carry the burden of the economic crisis alid war preparation' Fight against war profiteering When a delegate protested that the statement: "Make the rich carry the burden, etc." was In conflict with the open ing declaration that not a cent should be spent for war prep arations. Chairman John Wil liamson of Cleveland said "change will be made in the final editing." Auto Piste end Window O'.SfS tn tilkd rvisonablv. Hertford piste Olsaa Mirror Co. M bo. BwUsiL MEDFORD MAIL On the Radio Chains STATIONS) IThere to lion Thm oa the Dial: kEX. llo, Portland; stl'l, MO. iM Ansel: KUA, 1410, Spokane: (OO, tau. taa t'reelros stow 120. Portland: KJR. SJO. swattl; It NX. 1050. Los Angel) KOA. KM. Oenter: SOIN. MM. Portland: HOMO. K Sratlle; KPO. JO. Hi rTinrlM-o: KM.. "lit lak. Monday 1 00 Summer Hour. KMX. KBL. KOIN: aunhattan Mrry-Oo-Round. KPO. KOW, KFI: S. S. Fleta. KOO, KJR. KEX. :0O Krlp Wanted. KSU KOIK Ooodwtll Hour. KOO. KEX. KJR: Hour of Charm. KPO. KFI. KOW. e sn Cml1. 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KNX. 1100 udrs Orcb, KPO: This Moving World, KEX: Noblt Oreh., KOIN, KSL; News, KOO, KFI, KOW, a nx. Radio Highlights By Associated Press. (Time is Pacific Standard.) - New York, June 1. Radio networks will carry a dozen or more war broadcast this week end, most of them including oversea pickups. Thoe announced, but subject to addition, are' Sunday NBC 4 a. m.: CBS S a. m., 3. 4:55, 7 p. m.; WEAF NBC 11:30 a. m.; WJZ-NBC 3; MBS 3:30; NBC 8 p. m. In addition, the MBS chain 1 maintaining it schedule of four relays a day from record ings of newscasts from London, Berlin. Rome and Pari. These are spaced at irregular time intervals, with one In the morn ing, two in the afternoon and one at night. Tony Galento. whose next heavyweight fight is with Max Bacr, will give some of his previous opinions as an inter view guest of Bill Stern on WJZ-NBC at 5:45 p. m. Sun day.' By GLUYAS WILLIAMS pots books down amp Ties sweater around HIS WWSf DEilPES HE'U KEEP COOLER IF HE Pitt's SWEATER ON AoAINl uW-UArtS IS SELF SLAYER Portland, June 1. (IP) A 58-year-old disappointed lover kill ed himself today after gravely wounding a 4S-year-old widow who shunned his attentions. Detective Chief J. J. Keegan reported. Mrs. Gertrude Snow told De tective Al Eichenberger that STRANGE AS IT SEEMS A-fiMflUBoX- sTairs Trie ties vntsi ins MTE -new YfffK FROM Hi OWN REVOLVSS, 'Feb., mo 'An Bno&ttc.... -(5fe Harbor, Wash. -CHAMPION 14 "DoT ROOSTER RACE C. E. Shaw of Gig Harbor, Wash., has what ha believes Is the world' only fowl racing stable. Shaw's trained roosters sprint from the starting gate of an 80-yard traek and shew such good form that one, "Dot." was clocked is 1938 at 15 seconds for the distance. EMILE ZOLA Suffering from a strange compulsion which forced him to count every gas Jet along the Parisian streets. Emila Zola. French writer, was especially irritated by numbers on doors or carriages. Threes, or multiples thereof, however, he considered lucky. MONDAY: Town Name. William A. Hodge shot her without warning after she re fused to allow him to accom pany her and her niece on a week-end trip. Hodge shot himself in the head and Mrs. Snow above the heart. Attendants at Portland sanitarium said the woman' condition was serious, with the possibility the bullet may have pierced the left lung. The shooting occurred in the hallway of an apartment. They lived, in nearby apartments. The area of Alaska is about one filth that of the United 6tates. Oh Mall Tribune want ads. great French writer, COUNTED EVERY Wrr? He WALKED I Ml 1 -sf wv,, B j. u 1 l I Hi r 1 7 mk Cm5 Church VUalltr Forest Grove, June Congregational churches have "amazing vitality" as compared to secular organirations. Dr. Oscar Z. Maurer of New Haven, Conn., told the 82nd annual meetina of the Congregational conference of Oregon yesterday. 3.477 Naw Jobs. Salem. June 1. VP) Employ ment placements totaled S.477 in Oregon last week, the pea level of the year, the state un employment service reported to day. Berry picking and can ning operations were credited with the rise. byJOHNHIX & L PI By HAL FORREST tr: "'if si
