MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 1940.
TTlEmORlJ OF THE mOOIl
by Jeanne Bowman .
ytSTRIMV. Cabntloa
mht psutuion ot the roncho.
ena rnakt plant for entertaining.
Constance fears the will rv
Into debt aaa-.n.
Chapter 25
Dinner Party
pONSTANCE knew ahe bad to
'-'be alont lor a lew moments.
Too many unhappy aituationa had
piled, ona on the other, (or her
to remain poised much longer.
She flipped from under John'a
hand, it was a warm burden, a
restraint, and smiled at Judge
Franck.
"My lister is mora accustomed
te stellar roles than I." she said
graciously. "Please accept moth
er's decision. And will you excuse
me, I must sea if my reports nave
been taken to the barns."
None of those present knew of
her office. She could find privacy
there. She hurried to it and
dropped the strel latch, and then
she sought to face her problems.
They whirled around in her
mind like a squirrel in a cage:
Pedro, John, the family. If only
she had told Pedro everything. If
only she had written John about
Pedro. She hadn't each was total
ly unprepared for the other.
And the family. Time and dis
tance had softened her memory
of tfieir unified selfishness.
"It isn't th.-t I wanted to be
leading lady at the fiesta. It's . . .
mother and everyone thinking I'm
unfitted: and why?"
Moments of bitterness passed
to turn bittersweet with memory
of that last hour with Pedro, the
touch of his hands ane" lips.
What must he have thought to
see her, suddenly, in the arma of
a stranger who spoke to her as
though this embrace were nat
ural thing? What would she have
felt were the situation reversed?
She knew, and she thought
Pedro felt the aame.
"I'll see him soon, maybe this
evening after dinner . . . slip out
and tell him everything. And I'll
tell John I love Pedro, that of
course I won't marry him, but"
"Seen - or - eet - a Con-cheefa,"
ang Dolores from under the
window. "I have rap on your door
hot you do open it not. Now I
tell you. The Senora say we have
the guests to dinner. Weech dress
do you wear, scftorita?"
Guests? Already?
"Do you know who Is coming.
Dolores?"
"The Sefiors Taylor. . . weech
dress?"
"Oh." murmured Constance
vaguely. "I . . . don't know . . .
I'll be right In. Dolores."
The Sefiors Taylor, and before
she had time to talk to either
Pedro or John. She must look
her best. She must be as desir
able as possible to Pedro, appeal
ing to John.
"Who says women dresa to
please women?" she thought as
she reached her room. "Dolores,
have the boys bring water for
my bath."
"But Serlorita. there Is none.
Already the Senora, the SrrSorita
Donita. the Senor in and the
Sefior John, they have been in
the bath. There lsi bot one tik
kittle left."
"Then for goodness sakes bring
the tik-klttle before Juliano de
tides he wants it."
Constance stood before the
wardrobe wondering tuliu she had
brought so few clothes with her:
trhu she had thought so little of
clothes in the east: uthu she had
bought nothing, not even a shoe
lace with the fateful fifty-thou-anrl?
"Dolores, Juliano will have
fires, will he not?" she asked, and
Dolores came in with the tea
kettle. "And can you run out and
pick me a nice fat bunch of white
violets?"
Pleading Glances
"TMIE dress was of purple chiffon.
1 simple and Grecian in line, a
pleated scarf serving for sleeves.
With white violets at the high
belt, and a few caught with clips
that held her long bob back from
a center part, she felt she was
dressed for the role she must
plav.
"The men do not bnt dress ecn
fnrmal." Dolores contributed, "bot
the Senorita Donita. I have take
for her the ranculas of red. orange
and white and she weave of them
the hand for her hair, and the
dress she wear. Sefiorila Conrhita.
it hive no back and is like the
sun "
Constance scarcely listened.
Thrv were waiting fur her. She
slipped her tors into silver san
dal?, dalibed violet scent on ear
lobes and brows, and hurried to
the rrcat room of the house.
Purple frock merging with the
shadows. Constance stood a mo
ment at tiie threshold watching
the scene, wondering at the chill
rf apprehension which trickled
through her heart like tears.
Candelahras clustered about the
far end where the great wood
fire augmented their feeble light,
and there was Donna, as Dolores
had said. In a dres like the sun:
golden vellow. billowy sleeves
caught in great puds Hist below
her shoulder, billowing skirts lift
ing with each vivacious move:
wreath of ranaculaa like gems
against the blue black of her hair
And then Constance saw her
s;ster's face, the highly arched,
slender brows, the heavy lids, the
dclirate patrician n.e, and the
wide, hungry red of her lips, lips
lifted aiidannujly to the man who
laughed down at her: Pedro.
Constance felt pride In Pedro.
He was not the caquero here, he
was the equal of Don or John.
She glanced at John to see him
studying Pedro, aloof, the social
smile on bis lips not reaching bis
eyes.
"Here comes my girl," boomed
great voice and Peter Taylor,
senior, lifted himself, adjusted
his crutch and came hobbling
across the room to meet her.
"Well. Michael, you're a sight
for a tired man's eyes."
Constance fitted her hand to the
hard muscle of his forearm and
matched her step to his. She
talked with him. laughed with
him, yet all of the time ahe was
conscious of the little drama on
the stage ahead. Of Pedro watch
ing John, of Donna looking quick
ly from Pedro to her: of John
coming towards her. possess ive
ness in every line of his face;
in every movement he made.
He was on the other side now,
and Constance, longing to pull
her arm from his. and hating her
self for her revolt against this
friend of friends, looking ahead
to Pedro, pleaded with him in
that glance for understanding.
For one unguarded moment
she thought she saw what she
wanted to see. She wondered il
Donna had seen it, too. but then
it was gone and the sardonic ex
pression she remembered from
that first night had replaced it
"Stage entrance?" asked Donna
flippantly. "We are starved; aren't
we, Mr. layiory
The Jailer
C5NSTANCE would remember
that dinner as a ghasty se
quence of courses, of Cabrillo
servants out-doing themselves to
show the Cabrillos that Juliana
had trained them as he and his
forefathers had been trained.
She knew if Peter Taylor hadn t
drawn her into the conversation,
drawn out her knowledge of the
ranch, she would have remained
mute.
John, never talkative, was un
usually silent, but at the othet
end of the table. Donna and Mrs.
Cabrillo focused their attention
on Pedro, and Constance, remem
bering his virulent "damn civili
zation" of that afternoon, won
dered where he had acquired such
civilized social charm.
No electric lights, no radio: no
dance," cried Donna, as they re
turned to the great room. "What
a place! Mother, we must have
lights installed immediately."
If it please the Senor ta"
purred Juliano, "music, of its
kind, can be provided."
"Any kind, urged Donna.
And Constance sat in wonder.
Juliano, purring.
But she dreaded the music. In
the hour it took Juliano to round
up the musicians, get them into
their velvet bolero suits, she won
dered if she could plead weari
ness, a headache, anything.
Both pleas would have been
true. She sat bv the fire with
John, pleasantly quiet beside her.
John, the faithful, and yet now he
seemed to be Jailer who was
keeping her apart from the others.
They didn't seem to miss her,
even Peter Taylor had succumbed
to the beauty of Nadine.
And then came the music. Don
na was in Pedro's arms almost
before the first guitar was
strummed, and John was standing
oeiore ner, waiting.
hy did vou run out on me
this afternoon?" he murmured in
her ear.
I didn t run out on you. she
corrected. "I've never been fond
of family bickering."
They circled the room "Sur
prised to find me here?" he asked.
Constance wished he wouldn t
hold her so tightly. Had he
changed, grown more possessive.
or was she merely aware of it for
the first time because of a change
in herself?
Amazed, ahe confessed.
"Pleased that I came west lust
to see you?"
Constance looked un "Yes.
John." She was. It gave her the
opportunity of telling him what
she had found too difficult to
write.
'Orange blossoms are sweetest
In June, sis," offered Donna,
whirling past In Pedro's arms.
Startled she looked at Donna.
to find her position reversed and
seeing Pedro's face: white, set
contemptuous. She wondered
whil else Donna had said in her
gay, free voice which didn't re
veal the studied pertinence of her
remarks.
"Donna seems to have fallen for
young Taylor." John remarked in
an amused voice. "It won't last
long He's too eay for Donna,
she tires of men who crash at the
first lift of her evebrow "
Constance knew iralousy: a
blaring searing emotion which
burned the words on her lips.
Donna intended to take Pedro as
she had taken the Cabrillo role
that afternoon, lightly, as her just
due.
It occurred to her that John
Raskthorne was the onlv person
or possession Donna hadn't been
able to claim.
"I apologised for my mistake,
this afternoon." John went on.
"Told him that whrn a fellow
crosses the continent to see the
one girl in Ins life, he doesn't pay
murh attention to anyone else"
Constance knew defeat. How
explain thnt to Pedro?
"We matched for mv tin." John
chuckled, "and he won P.vd (
funnv thing. He said 'Never
gamble with
wiv win ' "
T t ronllnvrtf
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I 10 00 Reporter, KPO, KOW; Croa
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8:30 Shaw's Orrh., KOIK, KNX:
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KEX. KJR; Young's Orch.. KOO.
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8:30 Truth or Consequences, KPO,
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KNX.
CAROL REACHES SPAIN
WITH MAGDA LUPESCUi
Barcelona, Sept. 13. (Pi
Europe's newest royal exile,
former King Carol of Rumania,
reached Spain today with Mme.
Magda Lupescu and other mem
bers of his suite and arranged
to spend the night in the same
Barcelona hotel rooms occupied
by the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor in their flight from
France last summer.
Carol is expected to depart
quickly for Portugal.
Actress' Father Dies
Tacoma. Sept. 13. tP) Oluf
Lund, father of Lucille Lund
Hollywood actress and 1934
"Wampus Baby Star," died here
last night following a long ill
ness. Miss Lund flew here last
weekend. The Lunds live at
nearby Buckley.
Japanese children enter kin
dergarten at the age of threo.
BARKERIZE in
Rough Rider Cords
(they all have sippersl
9
ROSE FESTIVAL DATE
SET FOR JUNE 11-14
Portland, Sept. 13 i V Pi
rectors set June 11 14 as dates
for the IP40 Pose Festival Wed
nosday and rleoted Chester A
Moores. president A float entry
SHOESTRING
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
REALIZES SHOE-SffelrJiJ
HfftCOME UHTlEO
BEHMOUER TOtElf
BUt CAN'T 6ET OVER
friftf far because of
WAISTLINE
WALKS ON, BECOMING
VERY" SELF-CONSCIOUS
OF FLAPPING SHOESTRING
PUTSFOOf UP Or) STORE
WINDOW LED6E Bllf
SEES PROPRIETOR EYE
ING HIM WITH DISFAVOR
AND WALKS ON
FinDS COrJVEHlEHT
REST1K6 PlfiCE FOR
FOOT ON A rMWrif
UNFORTUNATELY MAN 1RlES 10 TiE SHOE - CflSTS DI6NHY rVMuE ,
BEHIND HIM DIDN'T" SEE STRIN6 WHILE STAND- SITS DOWN ON CURB-
HlM STOP AND BUMPS Mb ON ONE FOOT, F3UT IN6 AND DOES A
INTO HIM CANT KEEP HIS BM-flNCE THOROUGH JOB OF
TViNO SHOESTRING
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15TH DEATH COUNTED
IN POLIO EPIDEMIC
Tacoma, Sept. 13. P) Toll
of four-month-long Infantile
paralysii outbreak In Pierce
county mounted to 15 today
with the death of Arthur C.
Pedersen, Jr., 11. of Tacoma.
The youngster died less than
18 hours after being taken to
Pierce county hospital yester
day. The child's death was the
13th within the city.
Bolt Strikes Two
Tacoma, Sept. 13. '.P) One
man was near death and another
was seriously Injured today
when they were atruck by a
bolt of lightning while working
in front of hangars at McChord
field.
TRAILBLAZERS DRAW
INCREASING CROWDS
The Trailblazers, Evangelist
Dorothy Runyan Mcintosh and
Wayne Mcintosh, are now in
their second week of revival
meetings at the Medford Four
square church. Central and
Jackson.
Steadily increasing attend
ance and many testimonies of
praise indicate another success
ful campaign to be added to w.
their many successful cam- '
paigns over a period of several
years evangelistic worn.
They can be heard nightly at
the church except Monday, at
7:45. The public ia Invited.
Douglas
La Grande,
(J7William
ciate Justice
preme court,
children, will
train Sunday
D. C, ending
ern vacation.
To Depart
Ore., Sept. 13.
O. Douglas, asso
of the U. S. fu
nis wife and two
leave here by
for Washington,
a one-month west-
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KEMAL ATATURK
Strange as it seems.
role by his people.
In 1933 he built Turkey into a power, raised the standard of living and reduced political
opposition. Bored with his reign, he created the "Independent Republican Party" and named
favorites to lead it. Strange as It seems, the people revolted against it. Ataturk had to renew
the role of dictator, smash the opposition ho had created and give up the experiment!
Sunday: Job Inventor.
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'is modeled on that ot France