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MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. THURSDAY. JULY 11. 1940.
Gasual Slaughters
By VIRGINIA HANSON Cr
i4yrr0tf: Colonel ra
nant, aiimi cud r.lieu leave the
6acH party but th chaplain
raprcttiiUy remains. Joan con
tinues ta tuow tht offers. Final
ly Adam can 'land him no lona
' or, tract Kay auwy, and kiun
krr.
Chapter IS
Strang Embrace)
THIS U not our story Adam
and mine. But things happen
aa they happen, and the imalleat
thing can sometimes determine
the course of vital event. Be
cause Adam left (or New York
on Monday, I was to find myself
tangled in tragedy, holding clues
I did not recognize. Information J
could not bring: myself to divulze;
was to escape losing my life by
the narrowest of margins. And,
though I did not know it until
later, Adam went to New York
because he lost nil head that night
and kissed me.
For somewhere In the middle
that first kiss lost all pretense of
flayrulnesa. I was not surprised,
had been ready for it. wonder
ing a little, but willing to let
Adam do things in ma own way.
1 sighed as his arms tightened
and i felt his heart begin to drum
under my cheek.
Then suddenly he was taking
my arms from around his neck,
putting me away from him gently
but firmly. He clamped his lips.
looking very white in the wash of
moonugni, ana siariea 10 turn
way.
"But. Adam, what's tha mat
ter?"
"Nothing." he said roughly and
began walking on down the beach.
i kept at his heels for a few
paces, fighting down the quick
temper that, along with my red
hair, came to ma from an Irish
grandmother.
"It's very flattering that kiss
ing me should make such a dif
ference in your life," I said coldly.
"But it's a little confusing, too,
remaps you u explain.
"Not now," ha said ever his
houlder. "Run along.
"Now."
He stopped and faced me.
"Not now," ha repeated. "And
rm not going to apologize. You're
not a fool."
He turned me, gave me a little
anove. nis nana deliberately lnv
personal.
"Run along back to the party.
I've got to think, and you dis
tract me. tie flashed me the
host of a smile. "You're not real
ly angry, you know. You're much
loo proud of yourself.
Words jammed in mr throat.
watched him go, a swift, white
figure against the sky line. Then
I walked slowly back to tha log
and sank down on it.
Adam waa partly right What I
felt was not anger. Neither was it
self-congratulation that I had at
last Pierced his shelL I was scared.
t had always known there was
something about Adam that was
not iiko other people, but in the
past year wnen he had come of
tener and oftener to see me in
Chicago, and I had found In him
a rarely aatisfying companion, I
had deliberately thrust that
knowledge into the back of my
mind.
They aaid In the army that he
was untouchable. He was tremen
dously popular men liked and
respected him, women laid siege
to him, with what measure of
success only they and Adam could
relate. It seemed to me significant
that tha army, that huge, affec
tionate, quarreling, inquisitive
family, were unanimous in believ
ing that no one. man or woman,
had ever won past his smiling
guard to the real Adam Drew.
I sat on the log and admitted
to myself that I had not. Until,
perhaps, tonight
I got up from tha log and con
sciously said goodby to an arro
gance that had been part of my
armor since I cut off my pigtails.
It waa too late for armor against
Adam; and I was afraid to be ar
rogant with fate.
But humility waa a drab gar
ment Heavy-hearted, I started
back the way we had come.
Something Frightening
It THERE Is comfort In shared
misery I waa denied even that:
for Julia had ca' hers off like a
worn-out dress, one and Gerald
were turning cartwheels in the
moonlight with the effortless pre
cision of a vaudeville team.
"I believe you've got some
thing there," I aaid, pauaing in
admiration.
"We're soul mates," said Ger
ald, halting right side up.
Julia stood cn her hands and
waggled one foot at us. Gerald
caught her heels, lowered them
to the sand. "Let's wrestle, I'll
show you some Jujitsu."
"Oh, Gerald! Before all these
people7"
He pursued her laughing down
the bca-h. Feeling lonely and dis
consolate, I looked about me. All
these pt-ople had dwindled to one
Jeff, lying apparently asleep,
on an army blanket. The chaplain
waa a small figure plowing
through the loose sand and dis
appearing behind a sparse thicket
of scrub. Not poison oak, I hoped;
but the thought was not enougli
to cheer me.
There seemed nothing to do but
follow Jeffs example. I straight
ened another blanket choosing
the one farthest from Jeff, and
stretched out on it glaring re
sentfully at the round, beaming
face of tha moon.
Julia came back alone present
ly and suggested that wa find Sao-
"Before Jeff wakes up" she
added, with an unfathomable look
at his recumbent form.
She led the way to the wrecked
barge and went up the crude lad
der like a sailor. I kept close be
hind her, for there was some
thing frightening to me in tha
old hulk, slumbering there in the
moonlight with the ghost of an
old man pacing her narrow deck.
What the old man was doing there
I did not know the barge cap
tain, perhaps, swept sway In tha
same storm that lashed the angry
lake and tossed the barge like a
chip onto the sand. I only knew
that I felt his presence; that it
was part of the dread that made
me walk very atraiiht between
the steep side of the hull and tha
equally steep descent Into the
dark hold where the mirrored
moon, with a scum across her face,
shone wickedly bsck at me.
Julia dropped suddenly, barring
my way; and over hei shoulder,
in the full glsre of the moonlight
I saw Sandra and Ivan clinging to
one another as if they would
never let go.
A slight sound made us both
turn. Someone waa coming up the
ladder. I could see the head and
shoulders of a man silhouetted
against the white teach.
juua said loudly, "No one here
4he must have lone uo the
beach. Oil, Is that you, Jeff?"
Jen identined himself with his
usual brevity and. since Julia
barred bis way, remained on the
ladder.
"No one here," she repeated
firmly. "Kay and I are going to
collect Sandra and take a walk.
Gerald and Adam went that way.
We're going this way. Would you
mind scramming?"
Mortal Enemies
FOR a moment Jeff looked mul
ish, but he was outmaneuvered
and knew it In silence he swung
down the ladder, turned and
made off down the beach.
We waited at the foot of tha
ladder.
Whv did vou do that?" I asked
her.
"Not on her account." she aaid
savagely. "Think I want to see
him humiliated? And for that
that screwball?"
There a no accountlne for
tastes," I admitted. Jeff might not
be the most charming mar. in the
world, but he was certainly to
be preferred to that posturing
little slug of an Ivan. "I m afraid
all the aame that he saw them."
I hope not. Hea so sensitive."
Sandra anneared nresentlv.
alone.
"Were vou lookine for ma?" aha
asked innocently. She came down
ins ladder, chattering about the
moon on the water. She was per
fectly composed: but as we set of!
up the beach I found myself be
tween them, and the targe, of all
conversation. There was rage in
the air. The two girls had been
unfriendly; they were now mortal
enemies.
We did not go far: and when
we returned to the shsdow of the
bsrge we began, by unspoken
consent, to gather ud our dossm-
sions. The party had soured. Wa
an wanted to go home.
There was still no sign of tha
men when we had finished pack
ing the two cars, so Julia sound
ed a long blast on the horn and
we heard a couple of answering
aliens. Julia climbed into the
rumble seat of Adam's roadster
and, after a moment of indecision,
got in rront
Presently the ehanlaln an.
peered, plowing wearily through
the sand, loudly aDolosetic fm
having failed to assist In the ex
odus. Sandra led him off to Jeff's
car, parked a stone's throw up
the road.
Another conauest Julia re
marked acidly when they were
out of hearing. And then. "Poor
Jeff. If ahe keeps that up after
they're married he'll kill her on.
of these days."
Poor Julia! If ah rnuld hva
known how bitterly she would re
gret those words I think sha
would have bitten out her tongue
rather than utter them. For when
she looked up Adam was standing
oy ire car and oenind mm was
Gerald.
Work all done?" asked r.er.M
brightly. "We staved awav as lone
as we could. I hope you washed
me nisnes.
We saved them for vou." Julia
told him.
Fond of washing dishes? Good.
either am L I knew we were
soul mates."
"n hen we're married well una
aper plates." she promised him.
A bonfire after every meaL"
"Fond of bonfires?
Adam groaned. "Get another
station. The program stinks."
mere was an edge to his voice.
He slid behind the wheel, did
not look in my direction. Uo
head the car doora slammed. th
red Uillilht bloomed and Jeff's
little car lunged up the road.
"How about some hot miuie?"
Julia suggested.
swell, said Adam, and started
the car.
They sang, to the guitar's sc.
companiment, and our silence In
the front seat was not obvious.
Adam spoke once, under cover nf
the music, as we neared the club.
"When." he asked, "are you go
ing home?"
T'I11 let you know."
Such further communcatlon as
w found unavoidable we made
insultingly polite.
1
Allotments by states Included:
California. !)8.821: Idaho.
$48,742; Oregon, $49,519; Wash
ington. JS8.52J.
Washington. July 1 1 .
Secretary Irkes today spoor-1
tioned $2,300,000 to various j
states for Improvement of game I
conditions.
Participating states. Ickes
said, were required to con-1
tribute 25 per oent of the cost ,
ol projects, i
In the five Columbia basin
wheat counties in Oregon there
are now 139,702 acres of crest
ed wheat grass, planted mostly
on marginal or steep wheat
land. Last year in these same
counties 391.800 acres were
handled by the trashy fallow
method. Perennial grass and
trasy fallow arc major (actors
in controlling wind and water
erosion.
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Plans for the annual sponsoring-
membership drive of the
Oregon Shakespearean Festival
association are near completion
and committee heads in various
southern Oregon communities
are preparing to launch their
activities.
The drive this year will bs
extended to communities out
side the usual area of Medford
and Ashland, officinls said.
Grants Pass, Klamath Falls and
even Yreka in northern Cali
fornia will be included. It was
felt by the board of directors
that as the festival is commun
ity property, all sections of this
territory should benefit.
Handling the drive in Ash
land is Mrs. H. M. Schilling.
In Medford, Mrs. Alice Egan
and Mrs. Margaret Henry will
supervise. Committee heads in
Grants Pass and Klamath Falls
will be announced soon.
Accused of stealing a pocket
book, containing $38, from a
motorist who had given him a
ride and had furnished, him a
meal and sleeping quarters
Lawrence Levi Lewis, 21. of
Canyonville was under arrest
here today. Sergeant Poul Mor
gan of the slate police reported.
Lewis, Morman " said, Is on
parole from Lane county where
he was sentenced early this
year to three years in the state
penitentiary on a burglary
charge.
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SHUNNED CAMPAIGNS
Oklahoma City, July 11. (IP)
Oklahoma's nine congress
men, who stuck to their jobs
in Washington and let campaign
ing back home take care of
itself, apparently were reward
ed today with renomination by
the state's Democrats.
Balloting was much lighter
than In the 1938 elections, when
600,000 votes were cast.
Fastest runner of all was Will
Rogers, congressman-at-large. Ha
trampled the hopes of former
Gov. William H. "Alfalfa Bill"
Murray and 15 other opponents.
Murray, in the twilight of a long
and turbulent career in Okla
homa politics, sought to get
back the position he held when
the state still was in its In
fancy. Joining him on tha sideline
was another former governor,
E. W. Marland, who found Rep.
Phil Ferguson, Woodward bank
er-rancher, far too fast for him.
Closing time tot Too Lata to Clae
Illy Ada Is 1:80 p. ra.
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