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TAGE TWELVE MEDFORD MATL TRTBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY. JUNE 6, 1940. By Jean Randall TtSTlRDAY. Tu doctor iaui that Adelaide to not trying to pet teelL Something to worrying her. So m on Tho Street has any Un trhot migM 0 on Adelaide's mind. M Chapter M Adelaide' Confession RS. ARNOLD acoffed at the idea that the easy-going Ade laide could worry, ur. vann aaid nothing but his face wa loquent when he wu told of the diagnosis or nil teuow pnysician. "Young Idiot!" was proclaimed in very twitcn or Ms thica; eye' brows. Brcnda grew mora and mora anxious. There was a protective, maternal streak in her that had been strongly developed by Ade laide'a dependence. She realized with tome surprise that the had grown very fond of the sick wo man, that she would go to almost any length! to restore her to health. One morning Brenda woke and tared out the window. "It can't do any harm If Tm careful." she reasoned. "We've tried everything else, everybody. And certainly if something isn't done toon She left the sen tence uncompleted. She waited until Adelaide had had her breakfast, and had been freshened for the day. The girl had taken anxious note of how meager a meal it had been, how thin was the body the bathed to tenderly. She swallowed several times, al most afraid to risk what aha had determined on. "But somethins must be done!" ahe urged upon her failing spirit. "Adelaide, dear," she began eoaxingly, "you like me, don't ?'ou? You might even be a little ittle fond of me? For Aunt Anne's sake?" The somber eyes did not lighten. "Of course I'm fond of you. dear: for your own sake. too. You've been heavenly good to me" "Then will will you do tome thing for me?" The merest hint of a smile touched the invalid's pale Hps. "i do something for you?" "You're the only one who can," Brenda assured her. She caught her breath and plunged in. "You see, it's like this, Adelaide. Dr. (item sayt the reason you re not getting well faster it because you're worrying about aomething. won't you won't you tell me what it is?" The tick woman turned her face away. "No, I'm not worrying about anything," the murmured. "I stopped that some time ago." Her small nurse pricked up her art. Dr. Stern was right, then! Adelaide had discarded worry for hopeless resignation. Resignation to what?. Brenda intended to find out. She questioned Mrs. Rosttetor gently, tactfully. She suegested ail potsioie reasons for this pa. tient despair. Adelaide mur mured no, or shook her head. She was growing dangerously ex hsusted. and Brenda dared not push her further. At last her own tired nerves and lack of sleep betrsved her. The calm self-control which had made her such a good nurse mapped without warning. She bowed her head on the edge of the bed and burst Into tears. "I I've tried so hard to get you well." the aobbed, to her own shocked astonishment "And you won't help me at sill It Isn't fair!" And then she swallowed her tears, held herself rigidly ouiet: for Adelaide's weak hand had been laid on her own dark curia. Nothing but Blunder "TXL tell you. honey, if you really wish to know. But there's noth ing anyone can do about It nothing at all." she taid There was the deadly calm of utter des pair in her voice. "Fiease don't try to reassure rn . or even to com fort me. I'm telling you (ust so you won't blame yourself after ward." Brenda nodded, gulping back a lnt sob. " "I'm losing my mind." said the toft voice from the pillowt "I've known it for quite a long time now. You see mi mother was a mental case, Brenda. All the doc tors told me that It wasn't the kind of trouble that could be In herited, and for years I believed them. I've always been a forget ful sort of person Inefficient, too. But I never dreamed" She closed her eves a moment, then opened them to look steadily at the girl. "It was lust before t went to SprlneHeld that I rea'ired I hod inherited my mother's trouble." Brenda's evet darkened with a hint of terror. "What what made you realize It?" she whiiDerrd. "I began to behave lust at Mother did before before the last dreadful year when she was was violent. The meat for din nertwice I forgot to order it. and never reatired it until dime, was on the table And Mac's type writer , . . in the broom closet!" ( A shudder ran over her. "Brenda, I haven't the slightest recollection of touching that typewriter. In all the time Mac's been her I've never even dusted it; be asked mi not to. And then ... it was lust the sort of thing my mother did before ..." A sound of anguish from the girl mad her stop ab ruptly. "Adelaide! Adelaide, darlingl Oh. I'm no better than a mur derer! Dear, let me tell you" Half an hour later. Brenda stole out of the room. Adelaide was peacefully asleep, her mind and body eased of the long strain. But there was no peace for the girl who had unwittingly brought about this situation. In her own room, she restrained an Impulse to fling herself on her bed and cry herself sick. She had need of a clear brain now. Not for Adelaide. Some instinct told her that with the removal of the fear which had haunted her, the invalid would make rapid prog ress toward health. "I'll pack my trunk and leave It to be sent on later." ahe thought rapidly. "I'll leave money for an other maid so Grenadine can give more time to Adelaide. If I hurry, I can catch the one-ten train. I hope oh, hois I hope! ril never see The Shortest Street againl I've don nothing but blunder here upset people's lives almost kill poor Adelaide. Sending her away didn't bring Mac and Isobel together a bit more. Instead they've seen leu then ever of each other because of thit Illness. I stirred up poor Hugh about hit wife, and nothing's com of it Either the didn't go to see her brother, or he couldn't persuade her that Hugh had don right "My book isn't even started. Every word I've written will have to be done over again. Perhaps oerhaos I've broken un a romance for Ned Barrow and Alain. They'd certainly have eloped by thit time If I hadn't interfered. I've been a thorn In Mist Ormond't side, I suspect Judge Harper doesn't approve of me. Eric hard lv knows I'm on earth: and Mac " Her hands stopped their raoid work ai she thought of Mac. "I'll have to tell him tell them all. even the doctor what's been worrying Adelaide. It wouldn't be fair to leave without doing It Adelaide might get to worrvlns? about it again, and they could al ways remind her of thit time; and that I was to blame." What A Meddler I Am" SHE bowed her head on th edge of her open suitcase. "I could . . . leave a letter. I needn't aee his their faces when they know what a meddler Tv been the harm I've done" Th little clock on her writing table ticked away a full five min utes while she tat entirely mo tionless, and thought Grenadine tintoed uo. heard no sound beyond either of the closed doors, and went downstairs again. A long sigh shook the girl's slender figure at last. She lifted her head with something finely purnnseful in the poise of It "Adelaide needs me fll not run away like a coward! At dinner that night she was very quiet: almost silent. In tplt of the news which had made the others lubllant says she i turned the cor ner and will be M In no t'me." she heard Eric say. "Good of Stern to call Mac and tell him to. wasn't It? H taya It's lust that some thing teems to hive determined her to get well, and she's setting about It " He cocked an eve at the drooning little flgur at the foot of the table. "He eavs Adelaide told him you're responsible fcr It Brenda!" A small tired voice assent,. "Yes. Tm responsible. Eric. Tor evervthlng" "You don't act very haoo ahout It." was Isobel'a comment "I should think you'd b doing handsprings." Mac came swiftly to her rescue "She's worn out can't you see? She s been under a heavy strain, and now that Adelaide's going to get well, she's all let down " Brenda's long lashes swent her cheeks She was determined not to let him tee the tears his sym pathetic tone had brought to her eves "When you've finished dinner, may I speak to you all for a few mi"iites?" she requested. They stared at her: but again Mae laid hold of the reins of con vention "Not till after TV had a few words with you, Brenda. please There's something I must say to vou before vou do what you're o!""ine to" "Whst's all th mystery?" Erie demanded Mac said lightly, "Cant Brenda an I hsve a little secret" Brenda had never liked him to well. She reatired that hit honeet toy in Adelaide's Improvement took thia frm. She wondered dully whv Mae wanted to sneak 'o her alone. 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OP) Three power dusters shot poi soned bait along th southern Malheur county countryside to day to stop the havoc of Mormon crickets. The insects caused con siderable damage in the McDer mitt district last season. The dusters have, already covered about 2100 acres. THE WORLD AT ITS WORST By GLUYAS WILLIAMS I I I I , LIMITATION SET Washington. June 8. T b federal communications commission today prohibited amateur radio communications by stations in thit country with toreign stations. A formal announcement of the action did not say why it wat taken but a spokesman de clared that "undoubtedly" it wat due to th European war. There are approximately 53, 000 amateurs licensed by the commission. 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