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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MED FORD. OREGON. TUESDAY. JULY 2. 1940. Gasual Slaughters By VIRGINIA HANSON O ICSTCRDAY: Sandrn inya- ion, J9'$ strvnge Jtanec. end Mimi. Colonel Pennant's young tcife, come to collect thtir men. .' Julio, (he Colonel's daughter, asks Kay to go swimming. Chapter Seven JuIU'i Story CITTING on the float Ju pro - ceeded to question me. "Are you engsged to Adam?" - "No." "Are you In love with him?" . She waited a decent interval of time, went on evenly. "Were you ever what's the euphemism? disappointed in love?" I sat up, looked at her and laughed again. She watched me moodily, lying there on her back, long and beautifully built and so desperately unhappy. "I'm not lust being fresh." she said. ' "You listen awhile," I told her gently. "I met Adam at Fort Ha vens last summer. I was engaged to a lieutenant there. When I left I was no longer engaged. Adam knew about it and was sorry and helped me to forget him." "Did you love him? The lieu tenant, I mean?" j "Yes." "Had vou known him lone? "All my life. We grew up to gether." "And you're all over it now?" "I think so." ' Her face twisted; she turned on her side and stared away from me out across the lake. "Thats what I wanted to know, she said at last in an un certain voice. "But I don't think I'll get over it." "I thought that too, at first' She was silent for a while. "It's not knowing that hurts," she said finally in a little, defeat ed voice. "I thought he loved me I was so sure of it. It never en tered my mind that we wouldn't be married as soon as he gradu ated. It isn't as if he had just met her there she was right in his own house from the time she was twelve. They didn't even get along well as kids " "Who is Sandra, anyway? I've only heard scraps of the story." She sat up and dangled her . long, straight legs in the lake, thrashing them violently for a moment until the water was white. Then she checked the (mall tempest and began to talk with her usual unsmiling poise. "Sandra's father and Jeff's fa ther and my father were class mates at West Point, and friends of quite a special sort. Jeff's fa ther was from' Memphis. The Tacks had a beautiful old home there, and not a dime to bless themselves wilii. The place was eventually sold, but not before the three boys had spent an un forgettable fortnight there dur ing their Furlo. Two yeora later. In the chapel at West Point, Dan married Melissa Tack Jeff's fa ther's cousin. She was my mother. Jeff's mother was her best friend." 'Then you and Jeff are cous ins?" "Not exactly. Stepcousins once removed, or something like that. It'a a very slim relationship. Colo, nel Tack and mother had the lame grandfather, but the old gentleman was married twice and they had different grandmothers. I knew him the common ances tor. Ha had been a circuit judge a. vuiiiv nine ur uuirr in nis early days he had bought a farm in the Ozarks. tveryone said it waa a fool investment nothing but the rocks and hills, nothing woum grow mere. But he nked it, nd went there to live when he retired. Jeff and I spent a few weeks with him when we were little kids it was the year Colo nel Tack was at Leavenwnrth at tending the staff school. We loved the farm, too, and the old gen tleman was very kind to us. Jeff owns the place now inherited it when his father died a few vears ago. But why am I telling you all this? Where was I?" 'Russian Refugee' "A BOUT Jeff's mother and your mother. But who did Fergu aon marry?" "No one for a long time. The two brides tried their best to cor ral him for one or another of their friends, but he wasn't having anv. They think he was In love with Mrs. Tack. The three men all chose cavalry and were in the same regiment for a time. Then the war came and everything went haywire. Dad went abroad with one of the first outfits: while ha was gone I was born and my mother died. I guess he tried not to come bsck that's how he got to-many medals and things. "My mother was an orphan and Dad's people were old. The Tacks took me and kept me until the war was over. You see. Colonel Tack never went across he was Captain Tack then of course they were all captains he was in I claimed happily. "Perhaps we re An nf the Imnind k anlil mates'1' "But I thought you said Fergu son didn't marry. "He brought a wife and baby back with him from Franca. San dra's mother was a Russian refu gee; she committed suicide when her husband died of pneumonia- Sandra waa twelve. The Fergu sons were a queer, cold lot Bos toniana. They had alwaya looked down their noses at the Russian girl and they persisted in speak ing of Sandra as her daughter. Maybe, aince she was born abroad, they just couldn't believe she waa a Ferguson. Anyway, they didn't want her, and when the Tacks offered to adopt her there wera no objections raised." "Nice people!" "Weren't they? And wasn't tt swell of the Tacks? They were like that. But I resented it and hated Sandra. It aeemed to me that she had my place, and when I went to them for visits it wasn't the same any more. We're about the aame age, and everyone thought we ought to be friends, but we weren't, ever. I was too jealous." "She was probably Jealous, too. Of course they loved you best they had you when you wera a oaDy. Julia looked surprised. "I never though of that. Maybe thev did Mother Tack at least She used to take my part one times. . . . Well, if Sandra was jealous, she's more than even now. She's got all I had left ex cept Dad; and I expect aha could get him, too, if she tried." "Julia! Don't be a fool!" She looked at ma darkly, then dropped her eyes. "All right I'm a fool. So what? You'll get to know her; you'll like her. Everybody does. She's nicer to know than I am. Which doesn't make ma fonder of her; and wouldn't make me sorry if some thing not too messy happened to her " She rose, stood silhoueted for moment against the red, aunless sky, cast herself passionately into the water and drew herself to ward shore with incredibly long. easy strokes that made me think of oeonle you see climbine the steps of an ascending escalator. I watched until she stood on the sand, a slight lonely figure, overshadowed by the darkening trees, men, more slowly, 1 lol lowed her to shore. Foursome JEFF'S car was standing In front of the colonel a quarters and we could hear voices on tha front porch. "Side door," Julia directed briefly. Miml was coming out as wc reached it. "Oh. there you are! Sandra and Jeff are having sandwiches and iced tea on the front porch. There'a plenty for everybody " "I'm not hungry," Julia said shortly. "Julia!" The roof was half hearted, and for an instant Mimi's lovely face was shadowed. I looked from one to the other of them, two wo men who had so much to be hap py about but who were not happy. I understood Julia I knew very well the rebellion that was emoitienng ner; I had ex perienced it myself. But Muni? "borry, said Julia, recalled to On the Radio Chains STATIONS Where to Una Thru oa the Dial: ktx. 1 1 tlo. Portland; Ktl. 040. tM AatelHi kUS. Hla. Spokane: KOO. twi, San rrasrlar; kdW a. Portland: UK. are. Seattle; USX. I0AO. LM Ansetoei aOA. KMI. Oenteri MM. S4. Portland: HOMO M araitki; KP. aw. aaa Francltro; RL, 1130. flt I eke. 10:00 Reporter. ftPO. KIT, KOW; Ooodmsn's Orch, KNX. 10:30 youngs OrcB.. COO. HEX. KJR; Prtml Orch.. KPO. KPI; Rich art's Orch.. KSU KMX, KOIN. 11.00 Sudye Orch.. KPO; Thle Moving World KEX. KJR; Busies Orch.. KSU KOIN: News, KOO. Nottingham's Orch.. KPO: This Mor tal. World. KEX. KJR: Neva, KOO. KOW, KNX. Have a sandwich. thank her manners. Kav?" "Too soon after dinner, you." Miml was edging away as If there were something pulling her, drawing her irresistibly. "Well, make yourselves at home." she said perfunctorily. "I'm going for a drive?" "Where's Dan?" "In the village boy scouts, ot something." She gestured vaguely and. re leased, hurried off to the double garage behind their quarters. Julia had offered to walk back to the club with me, so I sat on the doorstep in my wet bathing suit and waited for her to change. She was not long about it. She reappeared presently in brown slacks and a yellow silk shirt and slouched along beside me. silent and morose. 1 did not intrude on her thoughts. For the moment I was only a refuse, an excuse for escaping from the sight of Sandra ano jell together, and 1 could best serve her by letting hei alone. Adam and the Englishman were playing ping-pong on the club veranda. I left Julia watching them and went in to change. When I came out again they had a bridge table set up and Adam had produced beer and pretzels and potato chips. Gersld Beaufort was leaning toward Julia and asking her very solicitously if she had any store teeth, a question which success fully arrested her wandering at tention. She aaid. "Yes, one." in a star tled voire. Good! So hsve I!" he at home. But Dad was over there for the duration, and in Germany after the armistice. I wasn't a baby any longer when he came home and took me, and the Tacks had got fond of me. That waa wny. later, they took Sandra She did not smile, hut m faint flicker of appreciation lit for an instant her troubled eves. I watched him put himself out te amuse her and decided that he was all right After a while she grew almost cheerful. The bridge They had JefT. of course, but he ' cockeyed, but I don't think J was inree years oiaer and a Doy. anyone carea. They wanted a daughter." ' Te be eanuaaeg Tuesday 8 OO Denoe Orch, KPO. KPT. KOW; Exposition Band. KOO. 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Sprague asserting Mc- Nary's nomination as Republi can candidate for vice-president would help the ticket 'sweep the United States next Novem ber." The notification ceremonies at MeNary's home, expected to be In August, will make Salem "the political capital for i day, the governor said. Colls Distinctive. Reserve. Kas. U.Pj Miss Enda Walker, an Infantile nar. lysis victim, who i9s never walked, has developed a dis tinctive doll which has been sold around the world. She makes by hand the cloth dolls. and dresses them in outfits of her own design. Orders for them have been received from many foreign nations. SCREEN TEST By GLUYAS WILLIAMS SffttuS TJoWH TO BEACrl 1b 6tf H6 BRfmS6 SUlf AMD STARS fJACK fcWAKD piCKIf 6PCUP HEARS ei66LES AND LOOKS UP lb see -That om or 6iE3fS is 1AK)X& A MOVIE OF HIM stems -lb be na ham amd ftf. TRIES to APPEAR Af EASE BV 6AJLV WWW6 BftfrtlriS SUrf IMMEDlAfEW BECOMES MUTELY SElF CONSCIOUS . TRIES 10 FCRC E A SMILE . 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July 2. 1& Final payment of $11,740 on Oregon's five-story state office building completed in 1930 at cost of $511,000. waa made yesterday. The money was borrowed from the state Industrial acoident commission fund. Rat Fires House. Alimeda. Cal. U X pH rat, Skeezix. belonging to H. J. ' Holloman, carried sulphup match to its nest, gnawed the end until it blazed, burned its own nest and" started a fire in the house. Assistant Fire Chief Fred Wagner, who put out thai fire, assisted Mrs. Holloman in applying an ointment to Skee zix'a foot which was burned. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS gesfenja's quesh'on: 1fc V06 WAISH-- shod shift) WA4 50 NAMED IN AULVSI0N Of h voc imm a worn byJOHNHIX ,. . . flNLAND HA1fle WORLD HI3HWM tcAPINcJ TcTHt ARCTIC OCW CflVAlIbUCtNSE PLATE m 57 ) M lIMl 31AT6 Ante? License plate mvt f Tlf;;i I au&Mm?ERSHlPcAOTNaf7 ft it - AND Ifftfiffi 1 M VJg r ' V JliUlPifc FERN Pit-- , 'AuM-MltW BY PIONEER . 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By HAL FORREST Derby Derby, July 2. lSpl As Elma Elifson was coming home from work at Tottrns mill June 24 a bee got into the car with him. He ran the car off the road, smashing a wheel. A CCC truck vaa badly dama.-td June 84 by leaping from tha road below Scott Boyrr'i aervlre station The driver, who m alona. waa un Injured. Mrs Prans Chapltn left for Colo rado Wednesday to vuit ralatlvra Prank Hill la very busy with hli hay these dayi. Murl Dten and aon BlOea are bciplnj, having just ar rived homa from satiating Vtrn Mathews with hi. hay. Mra. Scott Borer's mother and tit ter arruad laat week tor a vuit may ara Mrs. J. W. Dana, and Mrs i O. ( Hanna of lurrka, Cal I Quit a few tamiliee of Derby hava decided to celebrate tn fourth at Rd spnrnia with a picnic lunch, fames, ate. j Mr. C. H Hayes entertained the Ucllea' club at her homa ThurKlav. I Mra J. M Dumna and two children I ftcm Klamath Palli arrived Sunttav tor weeks vi.it with home foim Sht la the daufhter of Mr and Mrs Murl Haynes. Australia's 1D39 40 whe.it crop Is estimated at 213,000,000 bushels. Hi &k JsVS T$&ouT- op.toTsy km, i-v n1W wJiaS jj styt m lT- " "- JSvi rV7-t"o I W , -ikt. JT ryk.tfrI&., xj j s.nd helpin tihs ?j?C8 " "W1 BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Still No Rusryl ' Bt EDWIN ALGER f -rl TMe WINP, STILL HIGH, SEEMED TO I'O BETTER GET WARY f) DID VOuYT OT VET, A5ASVr"' fltf'.T-V'l WAIL IN REPLY AS BEN CALLEO M AND HAPPY OUT OF THE aT I PINO V BUT HERE. GIVE 1 --' iv V RU"Jy VAIN FOR his FRIENO. I BASEMENT AND TO SOME )l RUSTY, f ME THE BABY- r-ss?' TS V:r GEE, THERE GOES ANA V.?C'r .rr' JTlA Oo'HAH l irV : ?-' v . . .. . t-irm-v, CIJ si j,-. 1 T 1 1 Ar t sol he? LryvtUO. SOPU1E . TM ATS ' TS W TS BOOY ELSES. 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