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."
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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.
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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
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previous opinions as an inter
view guest of Bill Stern on
WJZ-NBC at 5:45 p. m. Sun
day.' By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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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
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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.
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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.
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