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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. THURSDAY. JUNE 5. 1941. 6 Rltx, Afifcr NvrWrv VESTERDXV: Wlieii the tmlrt servant let Anne, drugged and weary, at a tiny desert oani fhe had had two companion! Blaze Sherwood and Pete Aiackey, to the first of whom she had been married at a meant ot escaping the Emtr. The Emir wot tricky, and betrayed them. Almost as frightening it the fact that Pete hat disappeared, and apparently Anne and Sherwood must starve together. Chapter 16 The Dead Man DLAZE gazed at her a moment longer, shaking his head. "I've a hunch that a lover, like an artist, should not be too sym pathetic." Anne continued to tare at him, blinking helplessly. He drew the bed pallet that had been left them to the fropt of the tent and threw himself down on one tide of It where he could look up and lee the iky. Presently Anne sat down on the edge near him. "Hungry?" he asked, scrutiniz ing ner lace. "Not especially. A slight head ache. You?" "Not so bad. Think of our blessings! Free at last from all compulsions! Nothing to do but exist! She answered, a trace of derl Ion in her voice. "Now is your chance to prove what absolute surrender to Destiny will bring you. " "If I'm man enough," he said. Anne began to laugh a bit un steadily. "Grandmother must be turning over in her grave. Her young man said, 'Darling, I'm not worthy to kiss your little hand'." He grinned and persisted. "I'm trying to say that you and I be long to each other, Anne. Always have. Always will. Not in the sense of possession love is not bound. But in the sense of having the same destiny, traveling the same road, responding to the same rhythm and," he smiled, "enjoying the same fun." She eyed him skeptically. "So what?" "You know what," he retorted. "Don't pretend." "You're speaking outrageous ly." "Granted. Anne. I'd like to shock you out of this smugness of yours. You won't admit you're a human being. You're more than a clothes horse." She sprang angrily to her feet "Blaze Sherwood I " "Don't high hat me, Queen Vic toria." He caught her ankle and brought her down on top of him. She screamed In unexpected sur prise and terror. He released her at once, rolled her over on her back on the pallet and moved away an arm's length on the rug and sat up. "Anne, you're acting like a little fool. Your body shouldn't be afraid of mine." She laid an arm across her eyes, and when she was breath ing quietly again, tried to explain. "All her life a girl is trained and admonished to keep herself to herself. Then someone like you comes along and calls her a little fool." He gazed at her contritely. "1 understand. I've been clumsy. Sorry, precious " He clasped her hand that lay between them. "Any objection to our hands, at least, becoming acquainted?" She smiled and shook her head. "Besides. I'm here on a mission that excludes you. I will not for get that." "You can't keep from falling In love with me, Anne." "I can keep from doing any thing about it." "Agreed," he admitted. "But fieople who live only for the fu ure cheat themselves of both the present and the future." Anne looked at him helplessly. "You think of the strangest things." He smiled. "Maybe hunger has something to do with it." She felt that he gave all kinds of meanings to the word. "I should think you'd hate me." she remarked. "If I didn't exist ynu wouldn't be in this horrible predicament." "You swear we're going to live." he reminded her, suddenly changing tactics. "If so. It's not such a horrible predicament. A week or two of fasting is no more than food for the soul." He sprang to his feet. "I m getting out. bee vou later." Eagle's Nest SHE sat up and watched him walk down to the little lake, follow the margin around to the farther side and strike off In the direction where they had seen the eagle. "Why didn't he tell me he was going up there?" she akrd her self. "He's a difficult person to understand." One moment he had tabbed hrr heart with the words: 'onlv a few more davs in which to really feel alive' and the next he had bewildered her with the statement: 'a week or two of fasting is no more than food for the soul!' What was a girl to be lieve? The sun was low. Sherwood disappeared, a tiny speck In the distance, and she remained there alone in that strange crater of desolation so barren of life beside her own that not even a flv shared It with her. Presently she pulled a blanket about her shoulders and clur-d her eyes. When she opened them at dawn. : she saw Sherwood lying ne?r by, wrapped in a rug. They enl much of that dsy talking about food, though she noticed that he seemed preoccu pied at the same time as if his secret thoughts were quite differ ent from his surface speech. When she asked him what he had found among the clay ridges he answered, "An eagle's nest from which the life has flown." "I'd like to see it." "Nothing to see," he answered quickly. "You'd only tire your self." She made a secret resolve to take the walk. Once, when he would have put an arm around her she drew away. He looked at her steadily for a moment. "Do you still think we're coming out of this alive, Anne?" "I refuse to believe anything else." He started to reply and then restrained himself. That afternoon he went off In the direction from which the carriage had brought them. "To see what I can see," he explained, but did not ask her to accompany him. When he was out of sight she headed across the basin in the direction of the eagles nest Strangely enough, as she ap proached the region she was thinking of Mackey, wondering what had become of him, for there was no evidence of a fight Skirting a clay ridge she came to the spot where it met an en croaching dune. suddenly she stopped and stared stark unbelief changing to dreadful certainty. She found she was whispering to herself. An eagle s nest from which the life has flown. They killed him. He fought and the soldiers killed him. She went to the crave in the sand and knelt down. Mac- keys uniform coat decorated the mound as a blanket of flowers would have done at home. She lifted a sleeve of the coat to her cheek, and crouched there crying softly until the sorrow that wrung her heart was chilled by physical exhaustion. Suddenly the flapping of wings startled her. A great eagle set tled down on the comb of the dune above and watched her with his fierce golden eyes. Wonder was added to her fear of him When she backed away the bird sidled after her for a few rather terrifying moments and then de sisted and began preening hit wings. Despair SHFRWOOD had not returned when she arrived at the tent. She looked up anxiously at the rim of the bowl in the direction he had taken and then down at her body, faint with the effects of fatigue and hunger and sorrow. Suddenly she crumpled to the pallet, and when she Anally roused, the sun had set and she was still alone. "Perhaps something has hap pened and he will never return." she thought in wild despair, as she stood in front of the tent watching the sunlight fade and the pale stars appear. If he were not here when the moon rose she would take his path and follow him. Anything better than this dreadful waiting. Her knees were trembling. She clung to the tent cloth for sup port trying vainly to thiijk of what wisdom she had been taught for such an occasion. Then she looked up and saw Sherwood coming down the path. For a moment her breathing stopped: she could not move, but stood and stared, glad the moon light would not reveal the tear stained face. "Anne." he called. Instantly her strength returned and she ran to him. His head hung in weariness: his clothes were caked with mud. "Had a little difficulty," he said, patting her hand that clung to his arm. "Didn't know for a while if I'd come back or not. Got caught in quicksand." He threw himself down on the ground in front of the tent and when she protested replied. "I'm too dirtv to go inside. Let me get mv wind. Later I'll change and swim " She wanted to do something for him bring him a drink bathe his face. And she wanted to do something for herself kiss him-take him in her arms feel his nearness. But she saw his greatest need for the moment was rest and stillness. If onlv she had food for hlml She had lost her own hunger, but famished he must be. She picked un his hat and went down to the falls to carry him water, taking time to wash her tear-stained fare. He was sitting up when she returned and drank greedily. "Why didn't you ask me to go with you?" she queried as she knelt there before him. He looked at her. "I don't know." he said. "Wanted to sava vour strength. I guess." "For what." He stared again. "I don't know." After a moment's pau.se he asked, "Want to swim with me. Anne?" She went inside the tent to change. He was floating lazilv when she loined him. "The water is like cream.' he called. They came out together and dropped down on the sand where the dune had stuck lis thirstv tongue into the lake. "I'm a new man." he said. "I wish I had something to feed you." "Love Ij nourishment enough, Anne." When she saw he would sa no more she asked. "What did you find out todav?" "Onlv this there Is nothing we can do to get awav " Te ae eenttnard JUST . . . 8 Shopping Days until Father's Day STOF " "EN I I Big Ben Silent New York. June 3. T"i Big Ben. London's world -known clock, was silent for 12 hours because a workman left his hammer on the hour hand brack et last night. The trouble was discovered Just In time for the quarter hour to strike at 10:19 a. m. Bandon, Ore, June 5 V Dredging of the harbor entrance 'n-re will start this wcik to pr ide uuiXorui 12 lout depth. On the Radio Chains TariONSi Where to find them on the dial KtX. 1 1 BO. Portland: KM. IO tM Aiiseles; KIM. ISIS. Spokane KUO. 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