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PAGE ETC HT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. MONDAY, JULY 1, 1940. Gasual Slauokt By VIRGINIA HANSON . YtSTtRUAY. Kay u at pr ml (h only paying gut it at th ' Oflctrf Club at fori Mtrhvaa. " nar rooms ara tn th u-ess tenia next to retina Bndewll s suite. . She has no opportunity to tell Adam about Immsrman. i Chapter Six Julia I WATCHED Adam and Gerald Beaufort play tennis against Colonel Pennant and Jefferson Tacit. Jeff had one of those lean. Oony faces, nigh-browed, square' (awed you see them often ii the army, not so often amoni civilians, though what possible connection lies Between a man a physiognomy and hia profession I don't pretend to know. I only know that every graduating class seems to have a large percentage of these old-young men whose faces change very little as the years pass. They have dignity and reserve, they seem mature beyond their years, but they are not an as austere as Jen TacK. Jeil was good looking: and knew if the Pennants liked him he must be sterling; but in my private opinion ne was cold as fish. I waa wondering what Sandra would be like, whether he would thaw in her presence, when thi colonel's new Buick sedan drew up to the curb in front of the club. From the front seat, beside the soldier driver, emerged, with a certain reluctance, Julia Pen nant: ahe turned, slung her dark straw hat into the tonneau of the car, ran a casual hand over the moist thatch of tow hair against which her face was as brown as an East Indian a and strolled. with long-legged grace, across me lawn to tne courts. "Tired?" I asked as she paused Gestae my Dencn. "Hot." said Julia slmnlv. "Lord what a day! Why ia it necessary to stay away from people to keep Clean; She stared moodilv at the four utterly engrossed men, took off tne jacket or her rumnled brown linen suit and fanned herself witn n . "Sit down," ! said, makin room for her. "It'a quite coo here." "Mlml and Sandra are In the ear. I'm supposed to fetch the coys, sne o&served dispisnon ately. and sat .. ."Muni? Oh, of course, that's your stepmother, isn't it?" "Don't let her hear you call her that," Julia murmured, her airangeiy unhappy light blu eyes, half concealed By their white lashes, watching Jeff. ' "I suppose she wouldnt like it. nnea quite young, tsn t she?" "Thlrtv-four. but doesn't idnli it- Her eyes opened wider, she seemea to brace herself. "Minus an right," she said. "We get along. wn i oiame ner lor my u-ach ing.", The smack and whine of rack ets, short-breathed voices, merged with the evening quiet to create a dreamy peace. There were children In the playground on the far side of the club. Their DaDei, rnutea oy distance, waa pieasant to near. ' Sandra TT WAS a pleasant place; and to me. breathing the clean air, hearing the faint sigh of the lake moving against the sand, feeling tka IpiMjl U t , j . :. T un ana an occasional cool breath of lake hr ...in n . A. submissive, but not subservient. o man, 11 seemea mat lives ooked at Julia a tormented eyes no irn, ior ine moment, only an impatient envy. And then her face softened, almost a smile crossed It. "Dan's having a swell time." ahe aaiH itTvhn.i. ... . father. "Who's the young Adonis? i leu me mat s your under draped chaplain?" I reassured her and brought her up to date on the day's de velopments, but her attention was largely for the game. Even when Mimi Pennant and Sandra Fer guson, the girl Jeff Tack was going to marry, left the car and atrolled over to join us, Julia calmly waved them to silence. "Shush," she said lazily. "They don't know we're here." "Really, Julia!" There was good-natured Im patience In Mimi'e voice, but she wasn't the type of person you would describe as good nalured. And I don't mean that she was revuh. Wistful approachea what would like to say, but that is an overworked word. Mimi's soft mouth was usually curved in a amile, her violet eyes would 1'iht with Interest at a word; but in their depths was something un satisfied, some fretting, forever Ufigratifled need. Sh introduced me to Sandra and I had time for only a quick survey of the girl I had been wondering about when Jeff, in midstroke. saw her and dropped hia racket Not impetuously. Accidentally. A fact at once ap parent to any observer. F t he did his best to repair the d image by letting it lie where 't fell. With a self-conscious air, un mlling, he strode off the court bent and kissed her awkwardly on the cheek. When he straight ened again there was a deep blush under hia tan, but 1 was at lots to nam th emotion that caused it Colonel Ptnnar.t said. "Sandra, my dear!" put an arm around her ahoulders and gave her a warmer kiss than Jen' s. Then Adam and Gerald Beaufort were being in Italian Warship Sunk Cairo, Egypt. July 1 ip) The sinking of ot.e of three Italian destroyers In an engage ment Friday night was an nounced today by the British navy. Dock Fusa Enda Portland. July 1. r,P Long shoremen completed loading the steamer Portland yesterday, end Ing Portland i latest waterfront controversy. :ers troduced and Sandra and Muni were the center of attention. I stepped back to watch, busy reaffirming my first surprising impression that Sandra Ferguson was not pretty. She wasn't even distinctively homely tike Julia, whose strange, salty ugliness kept you looking until you grew con fused and assessed it as beauty. Sandra's dark eyes were a little small, her atraight brown hair that she wore parted in the mid dle and pinned up with almost Puritan severity, grew a little too low on her forehead. I could see all this, evn though she was wearing a hat, for the hat waa one of those affaire milliners as sure you you are "amusing" when they perch them on top of your defenseless head. For the rest Sandra'a skin was clear, her face nicely shaped; and she was slender and small boned. She might so easily have been beautiful that It was a little puz zling to decide why she wasn't And then I looked at those sur rounding men and realized that I was trying to use arithmetic to solve a problem that contained an unknown. For if she had no beauty she had something in finitely more to be desired. Some thing that people have been liv ing lor years to label. . . . The Lake "I'M GOING In the lake." Julia said abruptly. "Want to come?" I glanced around at her, saw an appeal in her eyes, and nodded. Come In with me while I change. Have you had dinner?" 1 11 pick uo something later. she said indifferently. no on seemed to notice our departure. She prowled restlessly about my two rooms while I out on a swimming suit Mimi supervised the decora tion of these guest rooms last spring, she confided, and 1 had tne impression that she waa try ing to divert herself rather than me with the impersonal subject not bad, are tr.eyi "Better than that They're aen- sible as well as attractive and that'e nothing short of eeniui in the field of decoration. Evej the beds are comfortable. "Well, she didn't actually choose the furniture the Q.M. furnishes that I guess the bache lors have about the same. But they don't rate curtaina and draperies and rugs they're sup- nnM4 tn hntr tViMi nwr Mimi had done well. There were scatter rugs or. the floor of the sitting room and a dust-col-ored broadloom in the bedroom. The tailored curtains were 'hick enough to insure privacy from the near-by atreet, and side draperies of a small-patterned green chintz saved it from the institution look that bare painted walla and heavy furniture give to rooms. The bedspreads were of the same green chintz, and so were the slip covers for the studio couch and the one easy chair in the sitting room. There were even reading lamps and cushions. The only chance I had made was to move a table to the front window of the sitting room and install on It my typewriter and a litter of manuscripts. "Wish I could move over here." said Julia with sudden passion, her attempted diversion having led her. as is so often the care. back to the sore subject she had tried to avoid. "Cart you imagine what it will be like in that bouse for the next month? Park here anv time vou :ikc." I told her. "I work from break fast until lunch, but if you dcn't talk you won't bother me." "Thanks. She had paused by my typewriter, was staring moodily at the stack ot yellow paper beside it "You're lucky that you can work anywhere. You're lucky that you can uork. I can't do anything. . . . How long are you going to be here?" I hat depends. 1 ve loaned my apartment until the first of Sep tember. I could go back and stay with a friend, but well, there's nothing to take me back, and you know Chicago in the sum mertime." Why do you live there?" No reason, anv more. Mv kid sister was studying music there. dui ane won a scholarship and hes in New York now with her sponsors getting ' ready to go broad. "Is she your whole family?" "All but Dad. He's a orofessor at a small college. I'll probably go back there eventually, but it'a pretty dull." I walked with her to th com. manding officer's quartera at th east end of the Quadrangle and aited on the veranda while h changed. Then w went down to n lake. I he others ra nil at the club, and I thought of them with the virtuous scorn of those who take even the mildest eier. cise for those who do not 1 he officers beach waa drtwi at this hour. We swam out to th float and pulled ourselves up on it and lay still, watchtna the hadows ot treea reach nut nvr the water toward us. away from the fiery sun at their backs. Here the sounds of the post were a memory, overlaid by the gentle lipping of the lake aiainit th. float. Julia said. "I'll ask n,.n. and you answer th ones vou ant to. O K.?" "OK.," I said, and lauehed ithout reason exceni that th lipping water was a mirthful sound. Highway Death Toledo. Ore.. July 1. An automobile left the Corvallts highway near here Saturday, killing the driver. Crlstine Bver Icy, 20, of Toledo. Henem Welfare Chief Portland, Julv I. t,-P John Hululhn of Portland was unani mously re-elected chairman of the state public welfare com mission Friday. Us Mali Tribune ao adj. On the Radio Chains STATION fTher to Find Thm on th Plait KEX. 1160, Portland: ill. 640. una Anselae; HOt. l;o. poaaor: KUO. ;t0. tan Fraorlacoi fcow 130. Portland: KJK. CO. Healtle; KM. 1060. Lna Anrleai kO as. Oenaer; KOI.N, ". 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Building permits Issued in June were valued at $840,300. increasing the year evalua tions to $4,032,013 compared with $3,976,565 for the corres ponding I9D9 period. The city issued 743 residential permits in the six months against only 489 last year. Bank clearings for the month reached $155,077,600 compared with $128,866,357 for the cor responding month last year. To date, clearings are $873,051,293 against $756,356,534. 7-2 Poles In Palestin. tfJJ-. "V Sifii'' London. July l.OT0Six V CLa?iJ ii VWf thousand Polish troops have Vafr J af Jiat, . 'rS i1' y crossed the Syrian frontier into V.a jV. "L A 7li,WJ&Pt- Palestine and Joined the British -flierr flRCNt5 Vj slW.Y? ec-iV forces there, the Polish govern- I(5H IJT lfi ) f"fJ Jti'Mv' 'rj' ment announced today through lK P VfV k " t 4,Jttkl jZ'l ) m" British official sources. IP fl V nS6 A t&y FBUT. TOMMY.' YOU 5AIO..IF I you Tror to IV STOP THEM PI ENDS PROMf I BLASTIN- OUR. AND IF I DON'T a iui- en.... THEY'LL KILL TWO PILOTS TONIGHT..I.T.. I'LL UAVC Tn TAkc tuAt 5KEETS ll BonBER.... It ITHIY'lL KILL J Meanwhilk, tommy and SKae.T.s T Vino a t T r: p. th 3- point SENT TO PRISON Roseburg. July 1. JP Three gypsies were sentenced to one year terms in state prison today for taking $460 from an elderly paralytic woman at Reston. A fourth was fined $500. All pleaded guilty to larceny from a person. Mrs. C. C. Sellers was rob STRANGE AS IT SEEMS FAKE BEE On of th strangest families of craiura in the world is thai of th elar-wlngd moth (Agrilda, th majority of whos spcis mimic bs, wasps and fit. Thy har few or no scales on lheir wings and fly by day. Th wstcrn clar-wingd moth carries its deception to unblivabl lengths, as a mean of slf-protctlon. It haa bn obsrvd to go through all th motions of stinging, although ntirely lacking a stinger. Tomorrow: "Old 571" ( 60I-1BI Of TUii UNAWARE GUIDt .Tun SHIP TOWARD FL DIABLO PASS, ENH.OUTE TO IEW bed a week ago by some gypsy women who placed their hands on her, claiming healing powers. The $460 represented her life's savings. Reject Wag Increase Portland, July 1. JP More than 300 cooperage worker rejected a S-cent hourly wage increase in a secret vote. Chair man Harry Peterson of the union negotiating committee said today. Tuna Hoi North Bend, Ore.. July 1. UP) The pulse along the water front 'quickened yesterday as the fishing boats Killdeer and MARK yZ.- .-..-Wm tWe CONSECUTIVE ' POUBLE-pjtffll (Penten i?u) THE TWO PILOTS. rwiL YOftlC.' Clarion came in with nine ton of tuna in their holds, first im portant 1940 catches. Fisher men immediately speeded up preparations for tuna fishing. Runaway Fatal. ' Bend. Ore., July 1. UV-A Runaway team threw A. D. Oster, 68, Lake county farmer, from a hay-rack and fatally in jured him Saturday. 36th Traffic Death. Portland. July 1. iP) Port, lands 1940 traffic death toll reached 36 25 per cent above) the first half 1939 total yes terday ith the death of Johp Burr, 86. Negro. by JOHN HIX ARlt Ttt -hi-r-L f im. By HAL FORREST IN THE ADOBE. BCTrY I I .. A TELEPUONEX I rr I ,p CAM ONLY 1 I ff S SEND OUT A CALL -iVvFOR. HELP BEFORE I a,ww xm ak fT OF HOPE AS SHE SEES.... Bt EDWIN ALGER By SOL HESS
