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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SDC " MEDFORD MAIL TKTBTJNE, MEDFORIV OREGON, MONDAY,' JULY 8, 1940. Gasual Slauaht By VIRGINIA HANSON :ers ItSTKRDAf: At Ota M Dm trr Adam and Kay ml III chaplain, vke hu fust ban re Uatat frm tha ketpitsL Both ratlis that hit muin flight hat rained hi carter. Chapter 11 On Th Beach SATURDAY morning we eould not rid for some reason de scribed to m limply u "inspec tion." I did not question it toe elcsely. I put in the extra toe at my typewriter, expecting Julia and hall dreading a repetition of Friday' painful encounter. But he did not arrive until eleven o'clock, and then she did not come in, Just sat in the ear out side my window and honked. I dropped what I was doing and went out to her, thankful enough for a respite. "Come for a drive," ah begged, to I got in beside her. The car was a Chrysler con vertible coupe. She drove It wide open and burning the wind. My hair would be in a thousand snarls, but I did not protest, knowing that she was running away from the thought of Jeff. "This Is Mimi's car." she ssid presently. "Dan gav It to her when w first cam here. I can usually have it in the daytime. Mimi's moody. Dan goes out two or three nights a week to some tag affair and she takes her car and drives for hours by herself." ' "Do you think she's happy?" I ventured. "Who is?" She uttered a mirthless laugh. "Which reminds me, we're rev eling tonight beach party. Your invited. Hope it proves better than last night's frsy, which was a bore. Oh, and wait till you see what we've gotl It just happened in to se its friend Sandra, and it's too cut for words. . . ." I ssw whst she meant that night It was a man. A dark, thickset man with a little mus tache and a stagey sort of good look. He bowed over my hand and murmured "Chawmed." Then he threw back his bath rob to display his trunk-clad form and swelled a hairy chest W were all visibly impressed. Julia clasped her hinds and gated at him with starry eyes. Adsm let his jaw aag in unpleasant resem blance to an idiot child. Gerald Beaufort inhaled until his fsce was scarlet and seemed about to pin his shouiders together in the back. 'The word Is oiril." laid Fe licia Bridewell irrepresslbly in my left ear. Only Sandra, Jeff and the chap lain seemed unamused. Jeff, in fact glowered; or at least I thought so at the time. He was so somber normally that it waa dif ficult to tell when he was actually ditpleased. He ceded off his sweat shirt rolled it into a tight Dsn. tossed It on the sand and marched deliberately into the lake. I should not have been sur prised to se him wad out until his head was immersed, but he jackknifed suddenly and reap peared swimming with vicious strokes that seemed to resch for and clutch the far horizon. I thought for a moment that Tulia was going to follow him but with an effort that was obvious to me. at least she turned her bsck to the lake and began rearranging the baskets and bottles which we bad unloaded from the can. ' "Go on and swim," she said to 111 offers of assistance "W won't eat for a long time yet and I'd advise everyone to swim before they start eating. We don't want any casualties. . . ." We had penetrated deep Into the reservation for this party. Like the mossy old Joke, we had turned in at the road marked OFFICIAL VEHICLES ONLY, fussed the sign that read VIS TORS NOT ALLOWED BEYOND THIS POINT and parked next to POSITIVELY NO ADMH TANCE. Adam had replied vague ly to my questions. The sign, he aid. had something to do with ummer maneuvers, which were concluded: but they also pre served the reservation from caa- ual picnickers and resultant brush Ares. A hundred feet from the road was the lake, rimmed by a clean white beach as far as you could e in either direction, interrupt ed only, in the immediate fore ground, by the wreck of an old coal bane that had been cast uo to the water'a eda-e by one of the itormi that periodically convulse the Oreat Lakes. Perceptibly Nervous lit CLIMBED onto it when w had tired of swimming and sat, wet and cool and contented. winging our legs over the shsl low water that lapped at the weatherbeaten hull and ssmpling the contents of one of the big thermos bottles. It was still daylight though the sun had gone down behind us and a big moon had ballooned up out of the lake and was already high in tha sky. A heavenly sense of well being came over me. Even the two strange little men beside me seemed expressly provided for my emusement I don't know why th chsplsln had let himself get so near to me. It must have been an oversight, for he wai still perceptibly ner vous In my company. H ad dressed most of hu remarks to Sandra, on his other side who. I gathered from their conversation. waa responsioi tor his puoiie ap pearance. I heard her ask him encouragingly if he waan't glad she hsd insisted on hi coming. and wasn t it fun? "Most delightful." he agreed. managing what looked too pain ful to be classed as a smile. Mis fac was still pretty awful and his hsnds were encased in loos white cotton gloves because, I had heard him confioe to someone, of th unpleasant ointment he Had to use on them. The rest of his olumn little fliure waa dressed In a khaki shirt and khaki slacks that were too long for him and had been turned uo twice at the cuff. He had, of course, not been swimming. He looked rather like a wistful, strange child who had not been accepted by th gang. I thought under the circumstances, that his response to Sandra'a question was nothing short of heroic I turned my attention to th man on my other side. Sandra called him Ivan, and that was all of his name that I ever knew. Julia, it is true, had dubbed him Petrushki-Skivar. and I had heard her murmuring something to Gerald about th sons of th prophet being hairy and bold. She must have known his reel name, but no one was sufficiently inter ested to inquire. He was gazing now out across the lake, a long amber cigarette holder clamped like a pipe be tween his teeth and an overdone expression of dreamy detachment In his eyes. 'Swear not bu the moon, th' In constant moon," he declsimed suddenly In his quite phenomenal version of an English accent and ve th yellow balloon that lung above th lak what amounted to a dirty look. "I don't think awearing Is very nice anyway, do you?" I asked him earnestly. I. ah. fancy Shakesoear meant it in another aense," he explained kindly. "Sandra tells me that you also write." "You mean the Bard and I? Well, yes and no. The comparison is hardly fair. You see. Shake speare was all right in his WW Warning Glanc IT TAKES two to carry on that kind of a conversation. I saw that I was making a lamentable Impression and changed my tactics. And you ar you a Thes pian?" . I thought the word well chosen and so, apparently, did he. He expanded. He raised nis voice a utile and Sandra and the chaplain stopped talking to listen. "All th world's a stage, and all th men and women in it merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts. I have played, my parts as they cam to me, he added modestly. but with an air of mystery which vaguely intrigued me. "I think I may say, however, that my voca tion is mora vital than treading the boards." Perhaps he wanted to be coaxed: perhaps he merely paused to heighten the elTect: perhapa he caught a warning glance from Sandra. I shall never know. Cer tinly he did not go on, and I had opened my lips to ask him the na ture of this mysterious vocation when Sandra seized th conver sation in both hands and mad off with It Did I tell you. Ivan, that I knew Chaplain Henry in Texas, when Mother and rather were alive? He he was very kind." Her voice broke and she looked volumes at the little chaplain. I inougut ne seemed acutely em barrassed. "Yes," she went on more cheer fully, "when I learned that Chap- in Henry was here and would actually perform the marriage I could hardly believe my luck." "Pleasure, I'm sure," muttered the little man awkwardly. She smiled at him. "I rushed right over to the hos pital to make aure It was my Chaplain Henry, and you can imagine my shock when I saw him!" ahe smiled again, an affec tionate smile. "You really must be careful, you know, not to get into any more poison oak. It's all around here." Chaplain Henry looked over hi shoulder. He seemed nervous. "Not on the barge," I assured him. "Juice of cursed hehenon," in toned Ivan and. flicking the butt from his cigarette holder, fell si lent, gazing at the lake. "And the wedding." Sandra went on calmly, "ia less than three weeks away. I can't have you looking like a like a" She paused tactfully, but my professional enthusiasm forced me to aupply the missing simile. "Like a spoiled tomato." 1 fin ished, and laughed immoderately. "Ha. ha." said Chaplain Henry. "That's very good. Very good In deed." "No, very bad. In fact rotten," I said, and applauded myself with another gale of mirth. "So bad." said Adam behind me, "that I'm going to duck you for it Te be centtnat On the Radio Chains STATION snier la tin Thai am the Dial! a IX. I is, Portland: all. , ua latitat; KUA. 1470. Ipataiw; UO, KM. Franrtarel KotV St, Portland: SUB, . arailla: ksx. lose, u anseies: Koa. as. Utumi KOIN. Wo. rtirtland: IOMO t Seattle! ero. 3. Ma , 10:10 Muale by Woodbury, KPO. iDucbln's Orch.. KOO, KEX. KPI; I Camera Club. KSU KNX. 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Bartlett IN ALIEN FIRMS ARE PROTECTED 32nd annual report of th state insurance commissioner shows. Of the total, 42 are fire com panies, seven casualty and three life insurance firms. ies from Switzerland do busi ness in the state. The interests of Oregon policy holders of these alien Insurance companies are secured by trua- The bulk of the companies, j teed asset on deposit in tha 29 fire and four casualty, are British firms; five fire and one casualty company and the three life companies are Canadian en terprises: Hong Kong, France. Holland, China, Italy and Japan have a fire company each do ing business in Oregon: two fire United States, the report said. All deposits ln thi country are under the supervision of th state insurance department of the individual states. , Nine U. S. president wer) EDiscoDalians! six were Presby- companies originate in New Zea- terians. the leading denomlna- Salem U.P.) There are 52 for elffn natinn Inaiirance mmnan ies operating in the state, the 'land and two casualty compan-1 tiona of that office, STRANGE AS IT SEEMS by JOHN MX ...i 1. LA C(T... wmmi iooo miss 10 1RIPOLI" , 0NI.V 1& f Nt 1HKT A mctTRtW. finP AiKchDY Been GI6NED (tiZ torMihTripoIi, JBoS) HALF-YEAR INCOME UP FOR MOTOR DIVISION Salem (U P' Receipts of the motor division of the public utilities commission for the first half of this year were $802,781 compared with the 1939 Income for the period of $532,199. Ormond R. Bean, public util ities commissioner, said th In crease was a good Indication of Increased business in the trans portation and allied Industries of the state. FARM PRICES DOWN IN PAST 2 MONTHS Portland (U.P Prices received by farmers during May and June were the lowest since th outbreak of the European war, the U. S. department of agri culture reported here. Prices paid by farmers for commodities bought remained at about the same level as pre vailed for the past year, the aervlce said. SUBURBAN HEIGHTS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS fred perlev was burnep up in more ways than one when, ok a blistering hot day, HE FINALLY CAUGHT UP WITH 1HE CAR 1HAT HAD AP PARENTLY STOPPED TO GIVE HIM A LIFT TO THE STATON, AND FOUND UTTER STRANGERS WAV1N6 TO A FRIEND ON HIS LAWN' A BLOCK BACK . 7-9 ffUrrsjtM try TM Ml gynrHrtt. Tup luittlAffS of 4K0KH0WA, Wiles. fflM3mp irx yJ &OW3000MILKMY ffT&t &4FJm 1-3 f fi. lM)7r4realsjrIlr-fc.iii k TakVaVaf.lX.Vrm4. Off-VI risk. IfMTCri a.6 PfSTRltTT COURT AT tU6N, WfVS HetP IN h lOG6R4BtlNKH0Q&... (852) EATON'S MARCH Unique in American military history was the march of Captain William Eaton and hit motley army of 500 Arabs, Greeks, Italians and Americans . across the burning Libyan des ert oi North Africa in 1805. Eaton, U. S. consul at Tunis, sought to end the war with Tripoli, and subdued Dern. Whan h neared Tripoli he waa mortified to learn that Tobias Lear. U. S. consul-general at Algiers, had already negotiated with th Illegal Trlp olitan ruler. ORIGIN OF "30" Used by newsmen to mark th end of their copy, "30," Is believed to have started as a shortening of the signal, "2:30A." indicating closing of early Associated Press wire. Tomorrow! Railway Coach Church. TAILSPIN TOMMY "Greater Lot Hat No Man . . By HAL FORREST Ninety .four per cent of an armadillo's diet rontlMs of cut UAnh, OiKViSH. 1- POUT iN&NHgL. EMPLOvjO II TOMMY .TOMMY .'..THIS THfc .OlflTV f OKAY?... VOU'VK FOR.CED) a (" lit " "BY BlRpJfNrjo -TO OPSHATi tMl ftTicio-R060T J IS HANK .'TMCY,li T(l AitoR..') I Mb TO DO THE. Oral A A LNfcS fOM A"MOTMlB. SHIP" HICM IN TMi AIR. HOLOIMO. &ST T)" SOt 7 SHOOT, . I i7r r C JV tLi fcjr. I kj J fl 11) mZ A IS TStOU.LbO BY Ml CONitllHc AND RtfjeLS.... Lw Aht Aooat.-''XTT... OER.OTAO.' I PlCINT THINO IN Mr ( SV. , J MI.NWwa... .TOMMY AND SkfcaiTtR. 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