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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. Bovd Vnted. the
CI O. men set up a loud speak
er and contlnut-d their blasting
until the meeting brjke up
The statue of freedom, sur
mounting the dome of the cap
Itol at Washington, waa model
ed by Thomas Crawford, father
of Francis Marion Crawford.
Ui novelist.
On the Radio Chains
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Murder Ring Queen
Drops Insanity Plea
Sacramento, Cal, June S.
(IP) Mrs. Juanita "the Duchess"
Spinclli today withdrew her
plea of Innocent by reason of
insanity and the ccurt set 10
a. m. Friday as the time for
sentencing her to death for the
gangland (laying of 10-year-old
Robert Sherrard.
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
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day or be interned. They were!
seeking passage today to var-l
ious nation.
Railroader Named
Boivin's Alternate
Klamath Falls, June 3. JP)
Harry D. Boivin. delegate from J
the second congressional district
to the Democratic national con
vention, today announced the
appointment of J. A. Burke,
Klamath Falls railroad man. as
his alternate. Burke and Boivin
will both attend the convention
in Chicago July IS.
START FOR EAST
Portland, June 5. UP) The
first carload of luscious north
west Bing cherries ha left the
Stadelman Fruit company at
The Dalles cn route for Wash
ington, D. C.
The 10-row pneks brought
$2.10 box, lis $2 and 12a
$1.75.
A (mailer crop tnnn a year
I ago but more favorable sizes
were reported in the mido
lumbia country.
On Naai Blacklist
Boston. June 5. IP) Ths
Boston Traveler announced to
day that it had been "black
listed" by the German consulate
'n Boston because of an editor
ial published on May 28 which
was critical of Adolf Hitler and
his methods of warfare.
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Great, rectangular blocks of sandstone resembling wlndowless skyscrapers. I.ave moved
apart in Giant City state park. Illinois, leaving straight, natural avenues between them.
It's suggestion of what New York City might look like 1.000 years from now if civilisa
tion were wiped from the North American continent.
FISH GULPERS
On 'the first Sunday in Lent at Grammont, Belgium, a Strang fish -gulping ceremony
takes place on a hilltop. Wine is poured into a 15th-century cup and small liva fish is
dropped in. The doan tosses this off; then the mayor and his aldermen do likewise. After
the ceremony the crowd gets cakes to eat.
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