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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 5. 1940. By Jean Randall . ttUAY. Brenda coma to really knots and lor The Street a every ona raiJKi around ' to help Adelaide Ivtn the re cluses, Mrs. Wick and her daugh ter, com out o their acccntf r year seclusion. Chapter 27 Crlsla "irHO." demanded Eric, coming ' in a raw minute after they had taken their leave, "were those women? I can't believe yet that I really (aw them. They look like- like Brenda, were they people, or figmenta of my imagination? They were Mrs. Wick and her daughter France. M.e enjoyed the look of atuoef action In ht face. "They cam to pr.y a neighborly call, and to ask If they could help u in any way. I told them they could. I asked them to go down town and pay the bill for us. "You whit?" He ank Into chair a if hi legs would no longer lupport him. "Honestly, Brenda, I can t decide whether your reck lessness amount to a sort of cour age, or if you're so simple you just don't realize the terrifying things you do! or course the wick re fused?" "Of course they did no such thing, was her composed answer. "They took the bills with them and said they would pay them in easn. The front door closed softly and Eric gave a feeblo hail. "Macl Mac! Come In her and listen to whit Brenda done now There came a day when Dr. Stern pronounced Adelaide ill nes critical. It took them all by surprise. The household n a a aettled into a fairly comfortable routine ot nursing, or receiving callers, of planning meals. Ade laide' fever had been banished and she seemed to Brenda inex perienced eye neither better nor worse. The Wick were proving a aource of unflagging interest to The Street Staunchly had Mrs. Wick gone forth that first day in her outmoded clothes: but upon her return boxes of significant fize ana shapes began to he ae livered at her door. A genuine mriu went up and down the block when mother and daughter ao- peared for the first time in the smartest and most up-to-date of omnia. "And I don't know what we'd do without Mr. Wick." Brenda con fided to Mac. "She run the busi ness end of the house as if she'd been doing it all her life." Mac's eyes searched her face. It deemed to him thinner, It was cer tainly paler, than when she had come. "You must get out more, Bren da." he said abruptly. "With Isobel preparing for her quarterly re citals, and Eric and me both hav ing extra work, too much is fall ing on you. Making No Eflort SHE shook her head. "I have a lot of help! As I said, Mr. Wick it a regular Rock of Gibraltar. She nd Frances come in every day and I simply dump the bills and budgeting into her lap and she straightens everything out How a woman of such force could have (hut herself up for all those year I do not see." "I think" Mae looked thought ful "since I've seen her I've come to the conclusion that she did it to cur Frances. Giving her a huge dose of her own medicine, d'you see?" "Too big a dose, I should call itl" "But I suppose she didn't know how long it would last when she began. You know how people drift i ' -ng from day to day until some th.ng wakes them up and they realize that years have passed." "Well, she's a comfort and a Joy, at all events I don't know what I'd do without her until Ade laide get well." There seemed no question thst Adelaide would get well. True, she seemed not to sleep much but as he did not complain, Dr. Stern' attention was not called to it In deed, it was difficult to know whether she was asleep, or lying quietly with her eves closed most of the time. She tried docilely to eat the dainty meals Brenda brought her, she swallowed her tonic unquestioningly. And then the day came when a fine line appeared between the young doctor's thick eyebrows, and he drew Brenda into her own room and closed the door. "Mrs. Rosttetor is not trying to let well," he announced bluntly. "Unless h makes an effort I'm afraid she's not going to pull through this." "Wh-what!" Brenda whitened, and caught at the back of a chair for support "Not pull through? Why, there nothing really wrong the matter with her now, u uieier Since the fever left?" "Nothing organic. But (he's weak, and sne's making no fight Instead it look to me a if she' trying unconsciously, you know to slip away from something that' troubling her. Havt you any idea what It is?" Wot the slightest And. Dr. Stern, I do think you're mistaken." A fleeting smile took the edge from this contradiction. "She's not a worrying person anything butl She has no near relatives to be concerned about, no financial cares. . . , What on earth should make her worry?" "I don't know. What I do know 1 that if something isn't done to rouse her, to make her want to get well, she' not going to." He eyed her speculatively. "Who i her closest friend? I mean, in whom would she be most likely to confide?" "I don't know. You see I haven't been here very long my self. But I'll ask the others. She' lived on The Street a long time; surely somebody will know what's worrying her if she is worrying." "She's worrying all right; or perhaps I'd better say she's given up worrying and resigned herself. A hopeless sort of resignation, you know; a sort of death-in-life it self." He turned toward the door. "Its up to her friends, Miss Burn ham. I can't do any mora than t am doing." After hi departure, Brenda (lipped back to the sickroom and stood looking down at Adelaide. Now that her attention had been called to it, (he realized that since the brightness of fever had been quenched in Adelaide's eyes, a sort of dull misery had replaced it The mouth drooped piteously. One hand, strangely white and soft now, lay lax against the neatly folded sheet Trying Day BRENDA wanted to stoop above her and cry urgently: "What is it Adelaide? Tell me what' the matter and I'll do my best to make It right!" But delicacy restrained . her. In spite of the intimate ser vices she had oerformed for her landlady in the last weeks, she was after all almost a stranger to Ade laide. It was for her older friends to win her confidence if it could be won. That evening she told her fellow boarders what the doctor had said. None of them had the faintest idea what the trouble could be. Not money, both Eric and Mac were sure. The house was clear and what the four young people paid her more than cared for expenses. "It must be something that hap pened while she waa in Spring field," Isobel said confidently. You remember she came back a changed woman from what sh used to be." She was 111 then." Eric oro- tesiea. But Dr. Stern thinks she mightn't have been or onlv slightly, at any rate if she hadn't had something on her mind " Brenda rose decisively. "The thing to do is to s.'k the older neo- ple who live on The Street: Miss Ormond, and Judge Harper, and the rest. They're far more likely to know than we are." They began that verv evenine with the Judge. Eric crossed the street to.explain the situation to him. Any luck?" asked the others hopefully as the front door opened to admit the young man. "None. Judge Harper says that we who are in the house with her probably know more of her than anyone else. He says he'll be glad to come and see her tomorrow, if we think best, and try to get her to tell him. It might be that being a lawyer" Brenda was Arm In her refusal. "Not till we've tried some of the others some of the women. We can't have Adelaide given a sort of friendly third degree by every body on The Street Let s talk to Miss Ormond about It." "I've got to be on my way," Eric said. "So do you. Isobel. Mac?" "I'm afraid I must go. too," was Mac's reluctant answer. "Can't we let it go till tomorrow aometime, Brenda? And by the wav, who's (itting with Adelaide now?" "Maud VanNess. Do you think she ?" "Good Lord, no! Don't mention the idea to her. She'd be scaring up an imaginary romance for Ade laide . . . that sort of thing " The next few dsys were trying ones for the amateur nurses. Bren da tactfully approached everyone who lived on The Street save the Wicks, who had retired Into their self-imposed seclusion soon after Adelaide bought the Burnham house, and Maud VanNess. Even Grenadine was asked if she knew what might be worrying her mis tress. In every case they drew a blank, Centinaed Menday 0. S. C. GRADUATES;AFL LUMBERMEN WARNED OF IIS: PANICKED BY CIO Corvallis. June 5 il Chancellor F. M. Hunter of the state system of higher educa tion, warned "90 Oregon State col lego graduatea Monday! against the dictator's lure of "sell me your soul and I will 1 give your generation a world empire upheld by might of mil itary power." I He asserted America wuuld ! fight if necessary to protect the country from "hordes of mar auding barbarism." Hunter announced that the six state Institution of higher education were graduating 18.10 seniors this year, Oregon Stale leading with record clasa. Cloeln t-ooe far Too Late to Clas sify Ada is , SO d m Cm Mall TrlDiUiS aaat ad. Klamath Falls, June S. (Pl Joe Boyd, A F.L. ortinlzer. said today the Tionesta camp of the Shaw Lumber company was "In a panic" as employes prepared to vote In an NLRB election. Boyd said about 30 CIO. representative "raided'' an A. F. L. pep meeting Ian night at the camp, causing interruotions and heckling speakers until the invaders were elected. Even then. 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The 53-year-old mother of three children, unless he ob tain( executive clemency or wins on an appeal, will be the first woman to be put to death by gas in California. Americans, Jews Quitting Egypt Alexandria, Egypt, June S. iP) Americans are leaving Egypt in (teadily increasing numbers, the government facili tating exit visas for foreigners and refusing permits for reentry. Five hundred German refu gees, mostly Jews, who have enjoyed full liberty in Egypt since the outbreak of European war, have been ordered to leave the country within eight MOUTHFULS By GLUT AS WILLIAMS rri STARtS TJI56IN6 IUtO RICE OMARD PUDDING, MOTrlEVt. plURMUPlh'6 NOT SUCH BIG MOUTHFULS, PLEASE PfilNS-fAVlN&V RtMCVESYWO 6RAIN5 Of RICE FROM SPCONFlL DiSPLAVS "THE RtSUrf ANP A5KS IS1UM" 1b0 BI6j6Elrt6 An EMPHMiC VR" IN REPLV rO Pirrs spoohirui sack in sau cer, AND TAKES ANOTHER.. IPErtTiCA.1. 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