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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1940. (casual Slauaht By VIRGINIA HANSON Cf- ers TtSTtRDAY. Adam Mils Ko that Dm police thought there might be e connection between the tncidmts on the pott end e certain kidnaping cut. But the Handles' Wiuprr'i gngvrprtnts ere not lAoxc of Immmrman, the - miarmy- waiter, and th money . foun. in th ear to not the rn ' sow money. Chapter 14 Ivan The Terrific KM ESS calll" Adam exclaimed a and. undoubling hie lone legs, atood in front of me draw ing in the belt of hie trunk until the girl who uaed to bout of a waist that a man could encircle with two hands would have bro ken her coraet strings in envy. "See that?" he asked reproach fully. "And you coming to break fast every morning begging the very food out of my mouthl "You re lust a squab with misplaced neck. I scoffed. I always feel that I have ac complished something when I make Adam laugh out loud, aa he did at this obvious slander. Ac tually, he has the longest, fin est bones of anyone I ever saw: dressed, he looks thin. In trunks, it is impossible to detect either an awkward angle or a gram of surplus flesh. He is like Mercury In oeauurui. extended mgnt Ha must hive seen something of what I waa thinking in my eyes, for he suddenly flushed boy ishly ud to the roots of his corn silk hair and reached me a hand which ha did not withdraw. "Come and get it," he said. Hand in hand, scuffing the sand with our bare feet, we walked back along the beach. It waa getting cooler as the gray veil of evening floated in from the lake. I put on my terry lined beach robe and bullied Adam into pulling a sweat shirt over his streamlined torso before we joined the rest of the crowd around a little portable stove on which hamburgers were sizzling fragrantly. Gerald Beaufort left Julia's aide, where ho had been hover ing in unrewarded patience since we reached the beach, and came to greet us. "You like raw onions mit ham' burgers?" "Definitely "Good I So do L Perhaps we're soul mites! . "Oh. Ger-old" Adam looked after him bitterly. Tm going to buy me some eye lashes, too. Then maybe aomeday acme girl will give ma a dying' calf look and say. "Oh. A-a-adamf Colonel Pennant and Mimi had arrived during our Jaunt up the beach. I went over to say good evening to Mimi. Mimi was wearing one of those pajama outfit with the ahirttail out and clogs with soles at least two inches thick. Sitting on the sand between Jeff and Ivan the terrible, turning her soft - violet eyes from one to the other. ana looked aDout sixteen, sne an swered ma vaguely, but Sandra. seated near them with a set smile on her faoa. kept me for a mo ment to ask, with flattering inter- eat, now my work waa progress ing; and when I moved away to Join Julia at the portable stove aha got to her feet and followed ' me. Fnnen Smile THE chaplain was hovering about, perilously fumbling pa per cups and plates. Sandra took him in tow, and Julia looked after her with grudging gratitude. "First good-samaritan act she aver performed for me." she com mented out of the corner of her mouth. "Pure accident. He'a a man. la she sore at Mimil Can't imagine how she's keeping that pair of strange doga from biting each other." Tve been wondering myself," I confessed. "Marvelous hand with the lads. Mimi," commented her step daughter a little bitterly. "Here, Kay. turn these hamburgers." 'Td like to take my or, if you don't mind, Julia." Mimi said, gathering up an armful of food containers while Adam, with the chaplain atepping n his heels In frenzy of helpfulness, strode off with two empty thermos lugs to stow in tne colonel s car. "Why ask me?" said Julia un graciously. "Well, your father has prom lsed to speak at that lodge meet ing and I thought I'd like to take a drive." Arms laden, she straightened with an air of de fiance, her cheeks a little pink. "But I Jon't want to inconve nience you. "No inconvenience," said Julia. 1 can always sit un Gerald s lap. Can't L Gerald?" Mimi smiled, but she looked puzzled. "Don't let us break up the party," aha said. "There should be hours of this beautiful moonlight "Addlea the brains," observed Felicia crisply, joining us. She nad been talking to Colonel fen nant, who looked very sleek and good natured and aa voung usual. 'Too much for this old gray head. If you don't mind, Mrs. Pennant I'd like to be dropped at the club. I still have linen to count and tomorrow's menus. And then to bed." Mimi said. "No trouble at all." but her smile froze a little. They said goodby. the three of them, and the two cars started in single file down the narrow road. The chaplain looked after them little wistfully, I thought and I wondered why he had not gone, too. Probably some moldy sense of propriety, I decided: one should not shirk one's social duties, Julia had brought a Hawaiian guitar which she had managed to conceal until the mood waa on her. She brought it out now and, leaning against Gerald Beauforfa shoulder, sang "Chloe" in a love ly. nusKT voice mat sent siuvvre ud and down mv some. Adam stretched out shaped the sand to his body with a little wriggle, ana put his head in my lap. - I angered his nsir i naa al ways wanted to. It waa soft like a baby's, and bis scalp was faintly pink, like a baby's, too. Except for an inch-long scar on the crown of his head. A white lint which the upstanding, close cropped hair would normally hide. I wanted to ask mm aooui it but his eyes, in the bright moonlight were closed; his fact was closed, too expressionless. He might have been asleep, or dead. Ain't no chains can bind you If you live, I'll find you . . . Jeff turned his back on the lit tle chaplain, who had intruded on his solitude, lay down on his side and appeared to slumber. Tht withdrawal of his morose pres ence was a relief. He had been looking from Sandra and Ivan to Julia and Gerald, with what ap peared to be Ill-suppressed fury in his rather bleak eves. The song ended. Sandra and Ivan clapped courteously. "Charming." said tht chaplain earnestly. ''You must come out for choir." Gerald said "More," (imply, like an enthralled child. She sang "Wagon Wheels," "Boot and Saddles" and, with a mocking side glance at Jell's im passive pack. The Donkey Sere nade." Gerald knew that one. and came in at the right moment with a very fair imitation of a flute. She ran through it once, said, "Take it" and fell silent, thrum ming lightly, while his clear tenor voice soared sweetly into the melody, the song borrowing an odd enchantment from his scrupulous shaping of each word. Mi-Ml-Ml" THERE was a slight Intermis sion. Sandra remarked defi antly that Ivan had a nice bari tone, a fact which Ivan disclaimed with undue modesty. "Don't you believe him." she insisted warmly. "He has even sung on the radio." "No!" exclaimed Julia with Just too much incredulous amazement in her voice. Ivan uttered a deprecating laugh that began at his teeth. He swelled his chest cleared his throat "Mi-ml-ml ml - mi - mi - mi mi mi." arpeggioed Ivan. "Frightful ly rusty, don't you know. Mi-mi-ml-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi." "Theme song," murmured Adam, sipping his drink. There waa a devilish light in his eyes. "Descriptive. In a word. Me, "Mi-mi-ml-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-ml." "Ivan, have you tried out at the Metropolitan vet?" Sandra asked. "Afraid not, old dear. I know I iromlsed you but well, you he thittuh is my first love. Has been since I came down from Oxford." "Oxford?" asked Gerald brisht. ly. "I say. did you know old Bertie Wooster? But of course you did. Evtryont knows Bertie." "Quaite," said Ivan. "Fright, fully decent old chao. What ever became of Bertie?" "British Museum." said Gerald promptly. "Copyrighta. Molder ing away among the volumes. Frightful bookworm. Bertie." Adam choked violently and I had to pound him on the back. He and Gerald regarded one an other with complete, devilish un derstanding. Sandra, with a sua- &iclous look at them, called loud r for a song. " 'Mandelay,'" she suggested brightly. "Ivan sings that awfully well." "She thinks rm a one-man band," said Julia d r v 1 v. and struck a few experimental chords. it did sound decidedly odd without its traditional boom in accompaniment with Ivan sing ing gustily in his surprisingly clear but desperately untrained oaritone. Hi Cockney alone was remarkable. It belonced on the Orpheum circuit Adam a coughs became giggles. He leaned his back against mine, facina deliberately awav from the group, and I could feel the little paroxysms that shook him. Pres ently I caught the contagion and we rocked together. Only Ivan could have missed the hysteria in our applause. Adam got up and pulled me to my feet "Walk, he said darkly. "Give me your arm. I'm weak from laughing; maybt wa can prop each other up." The song pursued us down the beech, a duet between Julia nad Gerald, with an occasional cres cendo phrase V Ivan. We reached our log and I re fused to go on. "Now. Just what it tht joke? Aside from Ivan." "Aside from Ivan there is no Joke." "I mean about the British Mu seum." "And I thought I liked you." he said reproachfully. "It's si) off between us if you don't read P. G. Wodehouse." "Oh. Ohl That Bertie. Jcevee' Bertie." "Ah!" he breathed dramatically. "1 knew I waa not mistaken in you." His arm was around my want With his tree hand he tilted my chin up. His eyes, in the bright moonlight were more brilliant than I had ever seen them. "My soul mate!" he said mock-. Ingly and kissed me. Te ee ceatleae Speedy Brockton, Mass. (UP) Clar ice W. Lowell, gasoline sta lion attendant, has built a ? foot long model of a racing automobile that travels SO to 60 miles an hour. It is powered by a onecylinder gasoline motor. 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The army also has placed or ders for PS2 light tanks to be purchased with 1940 funds. In addition, there are some me dium and heavy tank purchases contemplated. The new armored corps auth orized last week will have a total of 1,400 armored vehicles at 'the beginning, and some sources anticipate that the num ber of vehicles may be increas ed later. In nddition, mech anized equipment will be used in other types of army units. GOING OUT TO DINNER By CLUYA5 WILLIAMS 7-1. UlWrS CmuiArQ NEVE HAS FECf LIVELIER "WW WHEN FAMILV UbtS ti tlf HIM 16 "feW A MAP 56 HE'll BE RESftj? FOR 60IH6 H 6RAHDMA1 JtoR S0W- DftV DIMMER. . WZtS OFF K LAST AROUf 1W0 MINUTES BEFORE WW HAVt -fo WAKE HIM W ORDER lb &tf . HIM DRESSED fcSDrfS BEIH6 WAVED. irlEV lW"fb1&l. HIM frUTf AS SOON rftfrtEV Z1f0 6RAND MA'S HE CAN HAVE A 60oD, L0H6 SLEEP SETS "fc aUAHDWA'S AhD IS PUT DOWN FOR HIS NW. ISlE 1b SHOW HE DOESN'T WArJf lb SLEEP NOW, HE WANTS 1b PlfW WvniE FAMILY IS DOWNSTAIRS FOR DiKNER, LEftfHEW KUOW HE ISNf SLEEPIrfe AND HAS NO INTENfiOnJ Of D0IN6 SO (Haa gTXMI EvWruAUV 60ES To SLEEP . JUST BEfoRE THtY r1oWr WMup-fcStWrrTOR HOME ayaswaaa, lap San Francisco, July 10. UP) Proposed amendments to the federal marketing agreement for Beurre Hardy pears will be voted upon by growers within 10 days, the surplus marketing administration of the U. S. de partment of agriculture an nounced today. The amendments would clari fy program provisions concern ing determination of the quan tity of fruit available for ship ment; modify the present meth od of determining allotments for export shipments, and per mit corporate growers to be represented on the control com mittee by their officers or em ployes. 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