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
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Education Commissioner John
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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. S. requirements
for a war of nny reasonable
duration, althouRh time would
be needed to install equipment
to work the deposits.
During the war years of
1914-11, California, largest pro
ducing state in the Union, turn
ed out 160,519 tons of ore. For
the 10-year period before the
war and the entire period since
then, the state's production nas
averaged less than 1.000 tons a
year, but the possibility of an
interruption of foreign supplies
has Increased chrome produc
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STATE FAIR AGAIN
Salem (U.R) The Oregon
State Grange will again sponsor
a singing contest at this year's
slate fair, fair officials said here.
The Grange held its first state
contest last year.
This year's contest will be In
charge of Mrs. G. W. Thlessen of
Milwaukie, state Grange lec
turer.
Only songs written prior to
1900 may be used. .Only mem
bers of the subordinate and Ju
venile Granges will be eligible
for competition, with winners to
be chosen in nine classes: Men
soloists, women soloists, duets.
trios, quartets, chorus. Juvenile
soloists, duets and quartets.
The atate fair will award first
and second cash prires to the
winners totaling $130 for all
classes.
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A farmer captured the pilot turning from a raid on Wales
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