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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
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TO SHUNT TRAFFIC
E. P. Leavitt, superintendent.
Crater Lake national park, an
nounces that from 8 a. m. July
8, to 8 a. m. July 14. the south
entrance road between the
south boundary of the park and
the Annie Spring checking sta
tion will- be closed to traffic
because of road oiling.
During the period that the
road is closed, north bound traf
fic from The Dalles-California
highway U. S. 87 desiring to
enter the park will be routed
into the park via state highway
232, the junction of state high
way 232 and U. S. 97 being 11
miles north of the Junction of
U. S. 87 and state highway 62.
Traffic entering the park
from the east and traveling
south beyond the park will be
routed out of the park via the
eastern part of the Rim road
and state highway 232.
Auto. Plata and Window Olase ln
stalled reasonably. Medlord Plat
Olaaa a Mirror Co. 38 So. 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,
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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.
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By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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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.
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