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PACE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON', FRIDAY, AUGUST lfi. 1940. TtlEmORy OF THE TtlOOTl A RSZU She Fought The Man She Loved To Gain The Right To Love Him ornia Chapter On The Throwback CONSTANCE CABRIL LO KNEW something unusual was underway the very moment Lam son opened the street door. The butler's carefully acquired mask of British Indifference had slipped, revealing a frankly Irish twinkle in his eyes. "Lammy." the girl accused, "you look as though you'd been paid your back wages. "You've paid them back to "31, Miss Constance." he reproached, "and if you'll pardon my saying So. you look happy yourself. "I ami Bruce MacDonald put his John Henry on the dotted line at four o'clock." "Congratulations. That was the business property deal?" "Lammy. you'ra man of vi sion. MacDonald said I was selling him a cow pasture. Now, it's your turn. Come on, what's up?" The British mask jerked into place, and at Miss Cabnllo's "out with it ," he began scattering his itches about in agitation. "H'L really couldn't say. H'lt's about money. Thousands. Master Don says we will soon 'ave noth ing to worry h'abouL" Constance signed wearily. "The last time he backed a horse, I hocked my car. What else?" "Mrs. Cabrlllo wishes you to come to the library at once. Mr. Raskthorne is calling. And . . . there is a person waiting for you in the solarium." "A person?" "A man h'about a bill." That sounds more natural," ap proved Constance, and walked to a hall mirror. A man-about-a-bill called for a hat pulled to a di-flant angle, blue black hair pushed severely under the brim. It called for a fresh fame of scarlet over mutinous lips, and the narrowing of blue eyes which had softened momen tarily during the tiie-o-tcte with Lamson; Lamson who had been everything from nurse-maid to exchequer for the Cabrillos dur ing his twenty years of service. Constance walked briskly to the arch of the solarium and stopped short; "Just what are you doing here?" she demanded. A plump young salesman arose from a chair. "You said you couldn't talk to me at your of fice." he defended. "Nor any other place," added Constance. "But Miss Cabrlllo. You hava tha reputation of being a keen business woman. Now your brother has invested four hun dred dollars in his ear. He's been unable to keep up his payments. Instead of tht Cabrillos losing that investment, we are willing to accept your business coup at present list price, reducing the total amount of tht indebtedness which we will arrange for you to meet in small monthly payments." "What am I supposed to do. buy a pair of roller skates?" ' "But Miss Cabrlllo, you would then be tha owner of an imported special" "Listen." flashed Constance. "1 sell real estate. If I took my clients out in that four-wheeled night club, they'd expect me to go into a bubble-dance, Tha answer is NO!" Defeated, tht man arose. "Okay, If you Cabrillos can afford to lose the investment." Constance watched him leave, her lips pressed tightly against further words. His scene at her office that afternoon had nearly cost her a three hundred dollar commission. The Ca brillos couldn't afford to lose that. She waited a moment to fortify her spirit against tht coming fam ily conference. John Raskthorne, alone, signified a ootential fiance. For a moment she toyed with the thought or leaning against nis sturdy shoulder, of letting the family lean affainst his eouallv sturdy financial backing. Then she straightened, one couldn L iney had already gained credit on the rumors that sht would marry him. She didn't know to what lengths they would go If she be came Mrs. Raskthorne. Stormy Rebellion STILL feeling the need to lean upon something he 1 o o k t d about the sunroom. Not a square inch of the jade and scarlet leather furniture was paid for. A pet shop was threatening to carry the macaws and marmosets back to their store cages. They'd miss the freedom of the luxuriant trop ical foliage, also threatened with return. Why couldn't the Cabrillos real ize that lineage would not pay bills? Well, aha might as well get It over. The library, John and her mother signified a financial dis cussion. Along with his millions, Raskthorne had inherited the role of administrator of the Cabrillo estate. The heavy rugs caught and smothered Constance s footsteps. She stepped Into the long room unseen, and for a little whilt watched the group gathered about the hearth fire. As always, her stormy rebel lion calmed at the sight of her mother's fragile, golden beauty. Sht might scoff at her untiring ef fort to cling to youth, but under neath her scoffing lay a deep com passion. It made her forgive her father for dissipating the estate during his brief life with Nadine. Rebellion surged back as Con stance looked at her younger brother Don, sprawled on a rug, his hair yellow against tht white fur. his black Cabrillo eyes moody. Donna, his twin, and pure Ca brillo, was a chic vision in black and scarlet, though a rather tense vision as jhe aat on an ottoman, hands clasped tightly about her knees. "You're crary if you think Con nie will sell," Don was saying. "That girl's shrewd. She'll hang on until the rest of us starve to death, so she can havt it for her self." "Don, dear," protested Mrs. Cabrillo, gently. "Conchita is not shrewd, she is modern." "Modern, my eye," snapped Donna. "My beloved sister is what's commonly called a throw back. Don't look so shocked, mother. Rask has ancestors he doesn't brag about As long as he's so intent upon marrying Con nie, he might as well know we have a Shanty Irishman in our ancestral wood-pile." Constance slipped Into a chair. She might as well eavesdrop. If there were a sale involved, she'd need to know the truth and they'd never tell it to her face. "I don't feel you are Justified In saying your great grandfather Michael was shanty." "Oh, mother-er, groaned Don, "you can't squeeze any blue blood out of a moniker like Mickey Mahoney. "This is the set-up, Rask. One day. in a careless mood, a King of Spain had an undersecretary scratch some words on parch ment, granting a wad of land in what is now known as California to the first of tht Cabrillos; that is, of our branch of them; I un derstand there ara others. "This land and our branch pe tered out until, when Mickey Ma honey came over from Ireland during the California gold rush, there were only forty-five thou sand acres left "Mickey wheedled the current Don into selling him all of this, excepting the ranch proper, for some thirty-five hundred dollars in gold. "Mickey acquired a Scotch wife and they acquired a daughter who NEW SPECIAL PRIMER TO HaP ENROLLEES OF CCC WITH ABC'S Washington. UK A new textbook has been added to CCC camp libraries which officials believe will enable illiterate en rollees to learn to read and write within three month. Education Commissioner John W. Studebaker said that exist ing textbooks "have proved quite unsatisfactory" and that the new issue would meet the "peculiar educational needs of the CCC enrolees." "Tha subject matter In ele mentary readers has not been addressed to the mature minds of CCC young men," he ad. 'Texts written to teach English to foreign-born adults likewire have proved unsuitable in mary Instances for the average CCC boy." Director Howard w. Oxley of the CCC education office said that three out of every 100 en rollees are unable to read or write. Approximately 80,000. however, have been instructed in these studies since the corps was organized, he added. The new book was prepared by Oxley's office in conjunc tion with the office of education. SOVIET ORGAN DENIES DESIGNS UPON ALASKA Moscow. Aug. 18. (IP) A Soviet campaign to regain Alaska is "non-existant," Pravda. communist party organ, said to day with regard to reports in America that the northernmost possession of the United States was menaced by attack from Siberia. The only way to find out the truth was to eavesdrop, Constance decided. fell in love and married the last of tht old Don's grandsons. Mickey went on to his just re ward without a son to inherit, so the daughter inherited and the land was back in the hands of the Cabrillos. Rattling Of Skeletons '"THE daughter, Bridget, had In- heritcd her father's shrewd ness, but she didn't pass it on, and by the time father's older brothers, her sons, got through selling land to keep themselves like human beings, there were only two thousand acres left for Dad. "I was six when he died, so I didn't really know him, but from what I understand, he was crack ed on tht subject of land. He had the place homesteaded so mother couldn't mortgage it. and left that fool proviso in his will that -it couldn't be sold until Constance was twenty-one. and never with out her full permission. "Consequently, we three have to depend upon Connie's decision, and meanwhile we live like church mice." Donna leaned forward. "You see how important it is, Rask, don't you?" Rajkthorne'r voice, smooth, slightly whimsical, was heard for the first time. "It looks to me as though your father bad gauged Connie's business ability at a very early age." , "Rot. snorted Don. "It wasn't i that, it was her gift of gab. He i . ii j k... woa V i ri.j nuuuk nri iicg nave given her the moon if she'd put up a sales talk. 'That girl is a throwback. She's Mickey Mahoney done over in skirts. Why else would she be working? Going out on the job every morning as though she be longed to a laboring man. It's a disgrace." "It isn't lust the desire to work," Donna put in, acidly, "it's money. She has a bank vault in stead of a heart" Constance gripped the arms of tha chair. So that is what they thought of her. She'd known, but she'd never heard them , speak openly; she'd never dreamed they would tell anyone outside of the family. Would she ever dare marry John now, without him thinking she was marrying him for his money? I "You're wrong. Donna," Rask I thorns said seriously. "If it were j money alone, Constance would ' marry for it. She won't. I know. its something deeper than money " Constance felt she could not bear to listen to his defense, to know that he knew why she re fused so persistently. "An eavesdropper," she quoted lightly, crossing the room, "never hears good of herself. Would you mind being as frank with a mem ber of your family as you have with a friend, and tell me what causes this rattling of skeletons?" There was a moment of startled silence, then Raskthorne jumped to hold a chair for her. In that moment Constance hated him; hated him for the pity in his eyes: for the smooth assur ance of his gestures; for his very Isturdiness, the squared features, i the silver line on his temples which blocked his brown hair in to a cap, his grey eyes with their ' short, thick shade of lashes. "They are not like you, Con chita," he chided. 'They concede that I am a member of the fam ily." Constance flashed him a white lipped smile. "They are inclined to accept everything good as their own," she said. "Now please, there was talk of a sale and my consent being necessary. May I hear about it?" Don and Donna sought to speak at once. At twenty-one they were confident of their right to riches by grace of being a Cabrillo; as Constance at twenty-four was confident all rights and riches must be earned by individual effort i Tt b eontlnned BUYS CALIFORNIA Sacramento, Cal. tU.R) The Rustless Mining corporation of Grants Pass, Ore., hns purchased the largest deposit of chrome ere now known to exist In Sis kiyou county, California. The company estimates that it can produce 300. 0(10 tons of commercial chromlte if the ore Is milled, enough to supply the normal requirements of the na tion for one year. The same company has taken leases and options on other de posits fn California. Prospectors are active In locating deposits in the counties of Shastt, Siskiyou. Trinity, Tehama, Plumas, Del Norte and some farther south. Metal experts believe thnt Oregon and California should be able to supply a substantial part of the U. 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