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Newspaper Page TextPAGE ETGHT MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. SUNDAY. AUGUST 11. 1940 Casual Slauaht 'By VIRGINIA HANSON -Cf- MAY: Kay flndt tht .j tgain and deciphert Sandra' message "Kay, Read Lover' m Return." Asurng her self that the apartment it empty the tart t to read the: manu . tcript. Then, through a mirror, the teet that the doorknob if turning. Chapter 41 Time Stands Still had lorgotttn to latch that bedroom screen! My senses came back to me. I reached a wildly trembling hand to the light bulb of the lamp op. the table and turned it until darkness fell like a heavy curtain. Then I slid out of my chair and down on all fours under the table. The chair teetered for an instant a I released my weight from it, then it crashed heavily to the floor. I heard the door flung open against it, the clatter of metal on the polished floor and the muffled thud of a falling body a thud made sickening and horrifying by the lack of any vocal accompani ment of grunts or curses. Only that silent, moving presence quietly disentangling itself from the fallen chair and preparing to stalk me. If I could reach the corridor ' door 1 I began to crawl toward It, hoping my seme of direction would not fail me. praying that my shaking arms and legs would support me, fighting a stupefying terror at the knowledge that I was shut in with bandras mur derer. Silence now. I might have been lone in the room. I held my Dream for fear it would betray me and my heartbeats ahook my whole body. Then, almost simul taneously, there were two sounds the faint creak of a board in the corridor, and the scratching of maicn wnnin tne room. Not two yards from me a imall flame licked the darkness, show ing me a white hand and a face that was black and blank except for two malevolent eyes. It was then that I lost all control and creamed. The flame described an arc In the air and went out. In the same Instant steel hands were at my throat in a lunging attack that threw me violently backward, and my head was being beaten with dogged, diabolic intent against the hard, bare floor. I heard the doorknob rattle and the drive of a body against the locked door. Then a bomb ex ploded in my head and I heard nothing more. Back To Stay I WENT places for a while. The screaming wind between the worlds caught me up and whirled me past Mars, past the flaming outer planets, and there aban doned me to the long plunge back to earth. Time stood still while I dove through space until I brought up quivering, with day light striking me like a flying an vil between the eyes. An involuntary groan ahattered tny skull into a thousand pieces, then I felt hands on my shoulders forcing me back and down, and I found that I still had a little fight left in me. "Hold it!" said a startled, fa miliar voice. My shoulders were pinned down, my arms pinioned. The shooting pains began to sub side. Gradually it came to me that there was a pillow under my tor tured head, and that the voice was telling me that I was all right. I opened my eves a wary slit end iiw Adam's face, ludicrously concerned, close to mine. I saw other things, too blank, unfa miliar walls, a screen in front of a window. The air smelled anti septic. I began to draw conclusions, and to remember. It was coming back to me that turning door knob, the awful stalking in the dark. "Kay, don't you know me?" he was asking anxiously. There must be something I ought to tell him while this mo ment of sanity lasted. "Lover's Return." I whispered "Yes, dear. I'm back. Back to atay." There was a catch in his voice. He put his cheek, rough and unshaven, against mine. He was being very dense. And my head hurt. "Not you," I mumured crossly. He sat ud and said "What?" in uch a funny voice that I had to pry my eyes open and submit to the torture of foc-UMnff them sn I could see him. Jiis thick while I smuen. men me surgeon aeuv lashes were rayed as if with blond i r'd his opinion that I was in my mascara. The puflv blue circles right mind and had nothing to under his eves were the nnlv color orry about. X-rays taken Hur on his face anywhere. His expres-1 mg the night showed no frac aion of miserv was obscurely sat- ttire: my coma had probably been isfVing. I waited a moment before due ninety per cent to shock. I I dispelled it. should remain In bed for a few "Manuscript." I said at last. I days to give any mild concussion "Oh, that!'' he dismissed it with time to subside, a wave of hia hand and continued I They went away, and I partook to look at me with such brooding 'sparingly of a modest lunch. Aft nxiety that I grew restive. lerward I slept In my dared men- "You look as if vou'd been trv- ' tal state I had no curiosity about trg to drink New York drv."' I the night's events. It w as easier observed, and closed mv "eves , to lie there, safe and thankful, again on the fireworks that long thinking of nothing but my aches ipeech had set off. j and pains and the blessing of be- "You're no msearine cover i '"l alive, yourself," he said absently. ' Te bs continued .1 , DRAFT OPPOSITION Boston, Aug. 10. T h e Massachusetts Federation of La bor by a 259 to 8 vote, crushed today a resolution opposing con scriptlon of American men for national defense. The action was taken after Harry A. Russell, chairman ff the resolutions committee, in op posing the measure. averted that the attitude on conscription of tht Moscow government In Russia and that of communists ers He got up from the edge of the bed, and when I stole a glance it him presently he wu pacing tht floor. "Don't go so far away," I laid, in I voice that instated on fading to a whisper. He came back then and took my hand between both of his. "I'm still icared." he said husk ily. "You've been unconsciout for eight hours. Your eyes were open and staring and you didn't , seem to breathe. They said you'd I be all right, but I've been . here all night. I swore I'd never leave you again if- Tears welled into his eyes. "Don't please don't," I begged It wasn't your fault. And I feel quite well, really." But he went on as if I had not spoken. "I knew what a fool I'd been when I read about Sandra in the afternoon papers. I was in Penn Station waiting for a train that would have brought me here thil afternoon. I went to Mitchel Field instead and found an army pilot to fly me out here. And then I was too late. They were carrying you out to the ambulance when my taxi pulled up. They thought at first your skull was fractured that mop of hair was all that saved you" "You can tell your redheaded grandchildren that," I murmured. He tried to laugh, but it wasn't a very successful effort. A nurse came in then and took my pulse and my temperature and engaged in a brief argument with Adam in which he lost, of course. He stood by the bed for a mo ment, looking down at me intent ly as if to assure himself that I was really there. "Go to sleep," he said huskily, then vanished through the door the nurse was pointedly holding open. No Curiosity IATER In the morning Captain Jones came in with a atrange gray-haired officer whom I had never seen. He proved to be the senior surgeon, just returned from leave. He was friendly and reassuring as he felt gently of my aching head, examined my eyes and asked me what seemed ridic ulous questions until I remem bered that they do that to foot ball players who have been knocked out. Mv neck was stiff, too. and for a moment I couldn't think why until I remembered those steel hands. The lenior surgeon nodded when I told him about it, but when he spoke it was across me, to Captain Jonca. "Take a look at these bruises," he said dryly. "Nothing phony about them." Captain Jones, 1 saw with surprise, was very red "And you might read that chap ter on Malingering' in rordi Military Medirnl Atministration. Not that you'll find much applica tion for it In peacetime," he add ed more tolerantly, "but it's in teresting reading. Surprising tc what lengths peonlo will so to fake a disability. He says, if I re member correctly, that a coppet penny, bound on with a cloth soaked In vinegar, leaves a very fair imitation of a bruise " It was about then that I began to get the drift of the conversa tion. You re talking about Sandra aren't you?" I demanded, and then remembered something. "Sc that was why she got the vinegai from the mess hall and the tow el Felicia said looked as if Jerl had been polishing brass with it The surgeon looked at me sharply. "Any Idea why she should want to fake a black eye?" he asked. "Yes. Oh yes. To take out I grudge on Jeff. I'm glad I found that out. I don't feel so sorrv fot her now. She had potentialities didn't she?" "She had Indeed." He paused, looked from Captain Jones to me in aome embarrassment. "Of course I was only teasing tht captain here for not having dis covered the fake when he first examined the body. Anyone might have overlooked it. Matter of fact, he's had a good bit on hit mind this past fortnight. Three violent deaths, and his wife very ill in Chicago. She's all right now, I'm glad to sav, and the mother of a fine boy. The scamp arrived ahead of schedule, otherwise 1 wouldn't have been on leave " I congratulated the captain and saw that he looked nicer when he in the United States were at wide variance. He told the delegates that It was "the distinct policy of the Moscow government to favor conscription." while "the policy of the communist party In America ii against conscrip tion." "Think that over." he said. "Let's not kid ourselves. 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ONE-DAY VICE-PRESIDENT Forced by 111 health to go to Cuba immediately after his lection. Vice-President William Rufus King was permitted to take oath cf office there by special act of congress. He died the day after returning to the United States. April 18, 1853. MONDAY: Gamblers' Church. "t i-mtt ettmj 1 v - I I is DIVERT XUIPICiOm ' TUNV 1M momm.v I Ithe wooden seat In the little ! white execution chamber of the j Arizona penitentiary. Burgund ' er. son of a former county prose I cutor in Seattle, chewing gum I all the while, said: I "I admit the killings. I never tried to defend myself." Then the steel door was slam bned and the cyanide pellets dropped into a container of acid at the feet of the 23-year-old for mer college orator. As the wisps of blue fumes lifted upward. Burgunder" breathed deeply without the convulsions of most executed men he died at 5:10 ii. n s v LI s to iL o J torn Ju$f 'sft - !il itcrt- -fT. ii 0M6-INCH SAL HfTTlNa EftCH. 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