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PAGE TWELVE MEDFORD MATt, TRTBUNE, MEDFORP. PEEPON, FKTDAY, JUNE 7, 1940. B P I n ti d F h h P d U P h 1 Tt I M d u tr f tt di g b. t T b: A A tc vl O is Ir er A: m H. h( hi le Pi m By Jean teSTEHOAT; To htr horror Srsnda lnu thai sns it ntpon rtbl. far Adelaide's warrv. Af rcrult 0 brmda'i Bchemt to (am tho household machinery. Adelaide belieces sh to loiina Iter mind. When Brmda explains, Adelaide ttarlM to recooer, but Brenda to irrsoonciliabls. Chapter 29 Heavy Heart riEENDA (tumbled wearily ''across the hall to the library. guided by Mac'i hand at her el bow. She waa numb with misery and lack of sleep. She hardly knew how ah happened to be In a big armchair with pillowa be hind her tired shoulders, and with Mae holding aomething in a small glass to her lips. . "Drink this," he said quietly, and docilely she swallowed It. "It's aromatic spirits of am monia and will buck you up," he went on. "Now, Brenda. let me do the talkim for a few minutes. You Just ait there and listen until I'm through. I know what Ade laide told you this morning what you told her. And I know you're planning to tell Eric and isoBej aoout it, too. "How7" she whispered. "How did you know?" "A word or two from Stern, aomething that Adelaide let fall when I saw her just before din ner; but most of all the facts themselves. I've been the world's dumbest idiot not to have con' nected cause and effect before." The stimulant was helping her a little, instead ol tne blur mat Mac s face had been, it was clear- cut and friendly, even kindly. "But I must tell everybody- "That's exactly what you must not dol Think, Brrnda. of some of the harm that will cause. Isobel will grow self-conscious for you ran't explain what you did with out telling why you did itl Ade laide's friends and neighbors will see with new eyes her casualness, htr vagueness. Unconsciously they'll build up an atmosphere in which she may learn to distrust herself again. News remains news a long time on The Street Most of us here have ao little to talk of that they we mull things over and over until sometimes they lose their original proportions. , . , Are you listening, Brenda?" "Yes." Then I beg you to keen your own counselor this aubjecL You've told the truth to the only two people concerned: Adelaide, and the doctor. Now forget the whole thing!" In spite of her determination, her chin quivered, two crystal tears rolled down her cheeks. Mac made an involuntary movement toward her, then stopped, one hand gripping the back of his chnir. "My dear," he said In a big brotherly tone, "you're making too much of this. Your motive was good. You couldn't know about Adelaide'a mother, or what effect your little plan would have on her. She was over-tired to be- fin with; perhaps already ill. hat'a what made her put so much tress on a few silly things she couldn't account for." Brenda could not speak. She pressed her handkerchit-f against her mouth, and sat there, her head slightly bowed, all of her force bent upon regaining con trol of herselt Mac went on steadily. "If you were to blame I mean, if you think you took a little too much on yourself he smiled "and it's feminine nature to try a bit of matchmaking at all possible times, I suppose! remember that you've paid for It over and over again. You've nursed Adelaide tirelessly. You've given up your own work, you've devoted your self to ua all. And now you've ac complished what neither her doc tor nor her old friends could do: you've found out what was worry ing her, and set it right Doesn't that sort of square accounts with yourself?" 'Far Happier CHE said huskily: "No. No, Mac, it doesn't Nothing will ever free mo from the knowledge that I very nearly killed poor Adelaide with my my trying to arrange other people's lives for them!" "Trying to help other people." he amended kindly. "And you have helped a lot of us. The Street is far happier for your hsving come." "Not everyone on The Street!" "No. not everyone." he agreed. "I'm not for one. But the prr eentage is pretty high for all that Brenda, let's have a party. Don't you think there have been enough tears shed in this house lately, ennugn anxiety, enough trouble? What d'you say we drive down town now and get some supplies. Come on now. come on," he con tinued maxinglv. "Be a sport and come with me!1' On the Radio Chains a r a nos Where to rind Thin on th. Dial: hl. MtiO, Purll.nil: Ml. 6111. u,M Incelc: h. 1410 epuh.nr Klo. I'M. Sin InniNe; kllW CO. Portland: KJH. Slu. Sr.nle: KNX. I I'M. In Ansel..: hot sin Denier: kltlV pin Portland. .OMO n f-al I Ir : HPO, w. n rrmU,-: ! . M ll I ffrln.r A 00 Betaeen Afternoon and tren Inn Kno. KJH KEX; W.Ms Time. KPO Kn. KOW SO wn.f. Mr Kim'?. KPO. KM KOW: Grand Central Station. KNX. KM. KOIN. OO-AI Porce. KNX. KU KOIN. Oram. KrO: Storr Behind th. H1 Hre.. KPI; Conor! Orch . KOO. KFX. K.m 7 OO-Frad Warm. KPO KOW. KPI: Amna and Andy. KNX. K!L. KOIN; 0n and Olenn. KOO. KJR 1:18 D.ne. Orrh.. KPO, KOW; I.nnT Rou. KNX. KOIN K.L: New.. En 1 JO This Amatli Amercla, KOO, Randall She cava one last hard swallow, wiped her eyes openly, and smiled at him. "Give ma Ave minutes to pow der my nosa and get my hat and coat on!" It was after ten when they got back, laden with queer, knobby bundles. Isobel had returned from a special broadcast Eric had spen t the evening drowsing tiredly on the couch in the living room. Both greeted the shoppers with enthusi asm. 'This Is something like!" Erie said in a whisper. "It's high tuna we had a celebration." The reaction from anxiety and sadness had set in. Even Brenda, though she knew the days to come, even the months to come, might be filled with remorse at what she still termed her med dling, waa almost light-headed with relief tonight The others were frankly hilarious. Somehow it added to their fun to know they must keep their voices down; must be careful not to drop any thing. When Eric caught an over turned chair just before It reached the floor, it seemed ex quisitely comic to them all, for some reason. At midnight they trooped to tha kitchen and foraged. Brenda made sandwiches of the remains of the roast Isobel brewed a pot of cof fee black enough to have fright ened sleep away from Morpheus himself. Mac brought out pickles, strawberry jam, and the big black olives intended for tomorrow'i dinner. Eric sat on the kitcben table, swinging his long lege and cheering on his fellow boarders. Reunited IT WAS nearly one o'clock and they had almost finished their impromptu meal when a knock at the back door startled them. "Who on earth?" Isobel ex claimed. Mac shot the bolt and opened the door, peering into the dim light. He peered, he stared, nil eyes almost popped from his head, as Eric told him afterward. "Saltus!" "And Linda," announced tha artist proudly. "Let ua in, Mae. We saw the light on in the living room and went to the front dooi but were afraid to ring for fear of waking Adelaide. Then I caught sight ot the light streaming out ol this window and we came around to see what's going on out here." He gazed radiantly from one to another, the bitterness gone from his eyes, joy fairly leaping from them. At his side stood a slender woman whose face reflected some thing of his own emotion. Will you tell me. Mae de manded, "what in the name of all that's sensible you're doing strolling around at this time ol night?" Here Linda. Hugh said again, as If that explained every thing. "You all know her all but Brenda. Brenda, you blessed child, this is my wild "Why 1 Brenda a blessed child?'' Eric wished to know. "Because bless her little inter fering heart and soul! it was she who brought Linda home to me." "How?" asked a chorus of voices. Saltus threw his wife a humor ous glance. "May I tell 'em dar ling?" For the first time Linda herself spoke: in a sweet drawling voice which held a thread of laughter. "No. I'll do it myself, Hugh. You're sure to make it out worse thun it is. It was Brenda," she ex plained, "only not in the way she had planned. I mean having Jim talk to ma didn't do any good. He'd done it before lots. But that girl in New York that Brenda wrote to! She kept telling me that Brenda said Hugh was wonder ful and well," she admitted with charming honesty, "I got jealous, that's all. You see, I'd planned to come back when Jim when Jim did. I suppose that I'd thought I had Hugh In a sort of cold storage, waiting to be called for. The idea that he might get interested in another woman didn't appeal." She smiled at Brenda. "So she thought the matter over and came to claim her property," was her husband's triumphant ad dition. Brenda had paled and flushed and paled again. It frightened her to realise how greatly she could influence the lives of others. A gentle pull on the rein here, a Mirk of the whip there, and peo ple seemed to respond like high spirited horses. It wss lueky that tilings had turned out well for the Saltuses. "But they quite easily might not," she brooded. "My letters might have made Linda fun away where Hugh could never have found her. She was very quiet during tha subdued chatter that followed. She made mora sandwiches for the callers, she smiled and said an appropriate sentence or two; but for the most part she sat eyes heavy with weariness, heart heavy with a new grief. Continued tem.riew K.IR KEX. J.-hnnj Present. KNX KOIN. K.HL; Showboat, KPO. KM KOW. .00 TrenMira Ul.ltd V.rletle.. KPO: New. Confrrell,". KCIO. K.te Smith. KNX. KOIV a .10 -tv.lh V.llev nv.. KPO. KOW KM. on Phenrr't Orrh . KFI KOW. P.ul Sullivan. KNX. KXL. KOIN 30 MiMr be Woodbury. KrO. KM KOW; Itf Ptrh. KfL. KNX. 10 OO-Reiwt.r. KPO. KPI. KOW. Kvurr . Orch . KNX. 10 JO-Notttnuh.m. Or- h . KOO. KrX: Field' orrh , KPO. KFI KOW; Pjtot' Orrh . 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Belgian, Danes and Swiss had been "cruelly murdered" behind the allied line in connection with the German offensive in western Europe, Closing tune tor Too Late to Claa elf 7 Ada is 1:S0 p. m. By GLUYA3 WILLIAMS TO LOOKS FlRTivTIV ARCUriP TiUDlnfc To SEE IF THERE'S AhV HftVI A PLACE HE CAN DISPOSE Of REST Of HIS PIECE fVTsiTlMNOUTrl AM SWAU0W4 HARP, DIMLY AWARE THAT HOSTESS IS ABOUT 1D TRESS HIM TO TAKE ANOTHER PlECE 6-8 J I MATffO "V. Tf I W H.T KNV rr" f Bc-A.es I I w TU LtT.' mju Ktr" I 1350 v ViS 1 IC "V " f -lM ) U TOOHSSSSvf )( rs aL iH ) ONLY A L1VIL -lAOON J :Vi to -rV'ST vcTS l t , e STRANGE AS IT SEEMS NeVIMieh., NO.Kf mi- BtniL MOM MKNT Blllerne-s of Ihe n1l war gone, the t'nited Stutei Koterninent honor, the memory of 2.13B Coofederata ulfllrni mlth an K.-riot nhelKk at I'lnn. Point nallon.l cemetery. In the northern .tiite of New Jersey. Hera alM are burled 135 1'nlon Mildler.. The 2.1341 C'oufederates, raiilured at the Battle of tlettitburr, later died of cholera at fort Delaware. KEYEKE'ft ARREST Paul Revere, of ftt. Paul, Minn.. mut hare said: "The bluecoat. are coming! when Red Wing cops chased! hlin for npeedln:. that the cops thought of hit name I. not on record. ftlNUAY: Armies on skU. PAUL REVERB For speedim! -Red WfnS, Minn., mi- Gt. loufe Browne, ONLY UNDER-HMD PlTctiER Wfy& Xb'$fo PiTcHlN5 aFM Accident -tc? HIS SrioDlPER f-i- ,-,-, li.iinijlrl 7 tKt&D IN h "UNIOM"rATE NEHJerSEY r MefAoRirMefo W54 confederate foLDiERS "Ffiwik Point National Cemetery - by JOHN MX ' p li-'t ijta" rf,J? Sal By HAL FORREST Bt BUTTON
