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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
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KM. 1060. Lna Anrleai kO as.
Oenaer; KOI.N, ". Portland:
KOMO Z Kmitla; KPO. t il): a
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Monday
6:00 Oraes Hornet, KOO, KEX.
KJR: Radio Theater. KSL. KNX,
KOIN: Or. Quia. KPO, KQW. KPL
SO Martin s Music. KOO, KJR.
00 News, KEX; Contented Hour,
KPO. KOW. KPI; Rlcardo. KOO;
Lombardo's Orch.. KNX, KOIN, KSL.
e SO Bursa and Allen. KPO. KPI.
KOW; Blondle. KNX. KSL. KOIN.
7:00 Fred Waring. KPO. KOW,
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ROSE CITY NOTES
Portland, July 1. (41 A
building revival just short of a
boom marked the business
year's turning point here today.
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
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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
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PASS, ENH.OUTE TO
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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
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