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MED FORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MED FORD. OREGON. THURSDAY. JULY 18. 1940.
Gasual Slaughters
By VIRGINIA HANSON CT
i tSTCROAY' To spare heart,
broken Julia her family's curt
only, Kay takes her to field
' stone Inn for lunch. On (he tray,
Julia says (Hat she k notes Sandra
tciii make Jtg unhappy.
Chapter 21
Room For The Night
TELL me about It," I sail.
"About Sandra's visit during
first-class summer, and about
how Jeff acted whe,i she first
came, and how long it was be
fore you noticed anything."
It was a long time." She
pushed her untouched dessert
away and lit a cigarette. "At first
he seemed to regard her as a
duty, and not a very pleasant one.
He brought men around to drag
her, of course, until she got ac
quainted, which was o-et'y soon.
She was smooth she could have
had several men. Dut she kept
changing, and sticking I ) Jefl and
me, making it a foursome. I
didn't mind J-rT and I weren't
hunting any comers. I thought it
would be dumb to start that
when we had another year to
wait and I thought he felt the
same way about it. though we
hadn't discussed It. And it never
entered my mind to be jealoua
when she'd go up to him and kiss
him good night after all, they
were raised together like brother
and sister. I guess I'm the world's
prize fool."
"Then what happened?"
. "Sandra went to New York an J
got a one-room apartment and
started studying dramatic art. I
went back to boarding school
my last year, and I had to work
pretty hard I'm not very bright
as you may have noticed."
I grinned, but sha went on
without pause.
"I didn't get home ss often, and
when I did I hardly saw Jeff. First
classmen have week end priv
ileges, and his always seemed to
coincide with my week ends st
home. He was always going to
New York. To see a show, or the
sights. He said he needed a change
of acene. And he hardly ever
came to see the family while I
was away Dad commented on it.
and wondered if Jeff was sowing
few oats.
"Sandra asked ma to stay with
her the week end of the Notre
Dame game, and 1 did. I don't
really know whether Jeff took
her or me to the game. It was all
very mixed up and Jeff wasn't
like himself st all. Christmas
week he went to New York and
stayed with a classmate. He sent
me a gold cigarette case with his
class crest on it I had just be
gun to smoke. He sent Mimi one
Just like it They were expensive
and lovely, but I cried. I had
thought it might be a miniature."
She snubbed out her cigarette,
looked again at her ringless hands
and put them out of sight in her
Up.
'"Sandra wrote to me In April
that they were engaged. And that
was that."
"How did your family take it?"
"How would I know? I pretend
ed to be vVry busy and staved at
school as much as I dared. Mimi's
letters sounded delighted Dad
never writes anything but "Dear
Julia: Enclosed find check.'
They'd asked her up for an oc
casional week end during the
winter; and from then on through
the most ghastly June Week I
ever spent, she prr.'tically lived
at West Point"
"Why weren't they married In
the chapel?"
"I never quite icnew, but 1
think it was Jeff. He can't be
rushed. Though it may be that
Sandra wanted another year in
New York. She wouldn't need to
be afraid of losing him when
Jeff once glv?s his word he
doesn't break It. As he nasn't . .
And then Dad had to move
heaven and earth to get JefT In
his regiment which has made it
Jolly all around."
She pushed back her chair and
rose. I followed her out to the
little entrance hall where a
pretty, buxom woman had greet
ed us when we came in. She was
still there, but now she was talk
ing to a tall man and a girl who
had iust arrived.
Td like to talk to the proprie
tor." the man was saying.
"Mv husband Is awav for a few
dnys," said the buxom woman. "Is
there anvthlng I can do?"
The hall was dimlv lighted, t
might not have recognized them
1f Julia had not stonoed and stif
fened. Jeff and Sandra. Their
barks were toward us.
"Yes." said Jeff. "Mv wife and 1
would like a room for the night
Xet Me Be The First
'T'HE proprietor's wife said, "Just
step into the parlor." and as
they turned thev saw us.
Sandra was composed; but Jeff's
color faded as if the light In the
room had turned green. He took a
step toward Julia.
She was not looking at him
"Let me be the first to congratu
late you. Sandra." she said in a
brittle voice. I suppose it was as
near to an insult as she could
manage on short notice.
"Thank you," said Sandra, her
eyes suddenly hard. "I knew
you'd be glad to have the ordeal
over with.
"Is that whv vou played such
a dirty trick on Jeff?''
BY IAN. 1,
Washington, July 18. 'U.R'
Gen. George C. Marshall, chief
of staff, predicted today that
the army's full 18 divisions will
be equipped completely with
modern weapons by January 1.
Tremendous strides are being
made In the rearmament pro
gram, Marshall said at a press
conference.
The IS division whiUi lie,
Ranrlra lauffh.d. "1 think I'd
let Jefl be the Judge of that if I
were you." She put a confident
hand on hii arm. "Was marrying
you a dirty trick. Jeff?"
He did not aeem to aee the
hand, nor hear to bantering
question.
"What do you mean, Julia?"
he asked, his eyes on her, intent
and watchful.
No one but me seemed awart
of the bright inquiring eyes of
the landlady.
"Isn't there somewhere we can
talk that isn't so public?" I put
in hurriedly, and she led us to the
parlor. Then a car drove up and
she excused herself, reluctantly.
I thought
Perhaps I should have gone too,
but it didn't occur to me at the
lime. I closed the door and stood
against it watching and listening,
remembering all that Julia had
just told me, and trying to make
up my mind about Jen.
He turned to face Julia, stand-'
im closer to her nov and looking
at her as if there were only the
two of them n the room.
"What do you mean, Julia?" he
repeated gravely.
"I mean that Ivan was mur
dered last night." she said fierce
ly. If it was news to them they
did not betray the fact "And
they're already saying there must
be some reason for your rushing
off and Retting married in such a
hurry. That that maybe Sandra
did it to protect you!"
Jeff looked as If he still did not
understand until Sandra broke
into cool, deliberate speech.
"And what if I did? Wasn't that
better than being forced to tell
about the time you knocked Ivan
down in my apartment? And
about your seeing us together on
the barge last night? Oh, it was
very noble of Julia to pretend she
had caught us in a compromising
position and was covering it up
especially when she knew you'd
already seen -what there was to
see."
"And what was that? asked
Jeff toneleasly.
"Just Ivan trying to persuade
me to run away with him. and
taking it rather badlv when I re
fused. But you would belirve the
worst just as vou did the time
you knocked him down."
Never Mind
TOU may recall that I thought
he was annoying you. And it
may interest you to know that
I did not see you last night on the
baree."
"Oh, what's the use of talking
about it? I did what I thought
was best And I don t really aee
what business it is of Julia's when
we choose to get married."
He continued to look at her for
a minute, with no expression
whatever in his eyes, while Julia
turned and walked proudly to
ward the door. But before she
had quite reached it he spoks her
name, and she stopped and wait
ed. He came over to her then and.
putting a hand cn each ihoulder,
turned her around until she
looked up and met his eyes.
"Do vou think I killed Ivan?"
he demanded.
'I know you didn t she an
swered quietly.
"Thanks.
tn the instant's yause before
he dropped his hands from her
shoulders something very much
like grief showed in his eyes.
The landlady met us at the
door.
Now about the room" she
began brightly. But Sandra's voice
behind us out her short.
Never mind about the room.
I've changed mv mind. We won't
be needing it after all."
Julia was quiet on the drive
back to the post, but not with the
heaw ailiet nf Hest.air 7nr ilmiul
the first time since ! had known
her there was a light in her eyes.
I asked to be drooped at the
club. She must have sensed my
unspoken question about what
she planned to do, for she said.
"It's all right now, 1 can go home.
There are announcements to send
out and letter to write Miml and
I will put a good face on this if
it ran be put Kav. what is she
trying to do to him? But it's all
right You saw him look at me.
She can't hurt him. It's all right
I wasn't sure what she meant,
but I was glad something had
comforted her. I watched her
drive sway. Then I went to my
rooms and slept.
A light, almost timid rapping
at my door woke me. I had been
dreaming that I was trapped in a
burning car. The f.re was all out
side, kept away from me by the
glass windows which I dared not
open, and I was getting hotter
and hotter. Suddrnlv Gerald was
beating at a window, trying to
break it in, and I was crving to
him tn stop, that he would only
make things worse.
I woke trembling, to find that
the aun had dipped to the level
of the western window and waa
rising Its best to make hav of me.
The rapping continued. I swung
mv feet tn the floor and called,
"Come In."
Adam entered, looking none too
sure of his welcome.
"I'm sorry I woke you tip," he
said. "I came to apologize for my
behavior last night."
He waa carrying a manfla fold
er, manuscript size. He laid it on
mv table but he did not take his
eyes from mv face.
Te be eentlnaad
said would have the latest wea
pons by the end of this year
include the nine regular army
streamlined Infantry divisions,
the four national guard divis
ions President Roosevelt Intends
to call out for Intensive training
soon, the two new mechanized
divisions and one cavalry di
vision.
Vice Raid N7ts
Portland, July 17 (4'v Vice
operatives arrested 38 prisons.
more than half of them women
in a series of west side raids
last night. Eight women were
accused of vagrancy and the
other persons detained were
involved in gambling counts,
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year-old Raymond DiCiare for
got when he planned his own
"kidnaping" that boys of his
age' get hungry, so now he won't
get his pony after all.
Found staring hungrily into
an ice cream store soon after
daybreak, the boy who sent
police on a frantic search for
his captor last night admitted
he had written his own ransom
note in the hope of getting
enough money to buy a pony.
Enlistment Okeh
If No Oath Taken
Washington, July 18. (JP)
The justice department said to
day that United States citizens
in Great Britain need not fear
loss of citizenship by enlisting
in the Royal Air Force, so long
as they do not take an oath of
citizenship to foreign power.
This statement was made in
commenting on information from
London that "great numbers" of
Americans seeking to enlist in
the RAF. had been "gratefully
accepted."
By GLUYA3 WILLIAMS
7-19,,
1
AffER TALKING PREW
8i6 To a Truck driver.
Gov. Olson Gets
Told Where to Go
Sacramento. Cal., July 17.
'U R Lieutenant Governor Ellis
Patterson yesterday said he told
Gov. Culbert Olson "to go to
hell" when Olson telephoned
him from Chicago and suggest
ed Patterson resign to further
the governor's chances of being
nominated for vice president.
Pioneer Called
Eugene, July 13. () A
member of a pioneer Portland
family, Mrs. Moriah Emily Sha
ver, 83, died here today at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
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21-YEAR BOOK
Thomas Howell had only three months' schooling, but ha held a great desire to describe
all the flora of the Pacific Northwest in one great book. Ha did it in 21 years and today
his work is recognized as the only complete authority for Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
Howell did all the work alone, even learning to set the type. Tha result was a volume
of 816 pages, describing 2.370 flowering plants and 780 trees, shrubs, sedges, and rushes,
89 previously unidentified. It appeared in print in 1897 and today is a rare collector's item.
Tomorrow: Aerial Warfare in South Americal
James H. Gilbert. She was born
January 30, 1857. in Portland
and was the last survivor of
the pioneer family of Rev. Clin
ton Kelly, who came to Oregon
in 1848.
Warships Due In Rio
Rio De Janiero, Brazil, July
J8. ifi Four V. S. warship
are expected Friday. The cruis
ers Wichita and Quincy ar
now at Santos, Brazil, after
visits to Montevideo. Uruguay
and Rio Grande, Brazil, and
the destroyers VS'alke and Wain
wright are en roite from Belen,
Uruguay.
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Spanish Surrealist
In Bad With Franco
Bahia. Brazil. July 18. -P
Passengers arriving from F.u
.rope on the Brazilian liner Pu
cone said today that Salvador
Dali, Spanish surrealist pa'n'er.
had been arrested in Spain 011
charies of ODL-osing the regime
I of General Franco.
Dali presented in New York
in March, 193U, an exhibition
of paintings bearing such titles
as "Debris of an automobile
giving birth to a blind horse
biting a telephone."
Das Hall Tribune want ada.
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