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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1941 Chapter 23 Wed Bui No! Wed JOHNNY waj goinf overseas and leaving her. Was that the way of a man in love, or was he a man in love? He was a soldier. The thought terrified Sue Ellen. Johnny was a soldier. He might never come back from overseas he might be killed- She fell asleep and dreamed of Johnny on shipboard and in dan ger. She had never told him that she loved him. She wore his ring, but she wasn't bis wife Someone knocked and she said: "Come in," and sat up, with her hair spread out in a shining web about her neck and her eyes as green as the green of the dressing gown which covered her shoul ders. "Hello," said Johnny. ' "Hello." She would never hear that little word without thinking of him. Never hear it again without see ing him standing there with the door half open and his brown head bent and his eyes so serious and grey, admiring her. ' "Papere all fixed," he slapped his pocket "No more business to night" , sTonlght?" He smiled. "It's six-thirty. Hun gry?" She was ravenously hungry and all her doubts were gone. What ever Johnny planned would be the course to follow. There would be time enough later for lovemak-inc. . He went away with her promise to meet him In twenty minutes. She could hear him whistling a : H-,,id biu'lnto pre8chers marehlngsongashelefther.Thenlin(L He w matter-of-fact the edge of the couch and stared at ner slippers. Wonderful to be In love, even though the man you loved didn't know it Someday he would know, and then she turned and lay with her face buried in the pillow, lhaken by the thought of what that day would mean to ner. No Regrets' llfHILE they ate their dinner, Johnny explained that they would arrive In a small Ohio River town about ten o'clock in the eve ning. She could remain there and cross over into Kentucky the fol lowing moming. They would re turn after the wedding and take a train for Cincinnati, from which point they could catch a limited for Memphis, about noon. "Your aunts will be surprised." He smiled at her across the table. Sue Ellen said: "Aunt Car will be delighted. You have quite won her heart and even Aunt Pleas cannot understand how you can be a Yankee. That is the greatest compliment a southerner can pay you. The train was late and It was eleven when they descended in the face of a blizzard. An icy sleet which cut their faces and made them cling together as they stood impatiently waiting for a small town taxi. It was half past eleven when they entered the over-heated or nate lobby of the town's only hotel. "I'm going on," Johnny ex- flained. "You register here, and 11 stay across the river. I'll make ?11 the arrangements and be back or you about ten in the morning. Get a gnod rest don't worry. No regrets?," The eyes she turned to him were ahlnlng. "No regrets." "Good. Sea you tomorrow." He took her hand and her fingers clung to his and again that gleam tn his steady eyes hinted that someday someday soon they would not be parting. She would belong to Johnny then. Right now her love was hidden. It was a se cret she would carry until thst day. A day when all the upset and uncertainty of her love atlair with Riv would be behind them. When Johnny would know that what she felt was no passing infatuation be cause he had been kind, but some thing deep and real. "Good night" she said softly. She stood and watched Johhny leave. His military overcoat turned up to his ears his head bent against the storm as he opened the door and wind and snow and sleet rushed in to meet him. She stent that nlsht. A deep and dreamless sleep, from which she awoke with the sun shining brightly through the long hotel window. She bathed and dressed tn her warmest dress, a leaf-green wool with wooden buttons. With her fur coat over her arm, she went down to mett Johnny. He was waiting in the lobby. -Kello-"Hello." "Susan Eleanor Falrhop Har ris. Not bad." he decidi-d. "Not at all bad. What do you think? She could onlv smile. Some. thing arose in ner throat and choked her this November morn ing. All her surroundings were strange, but Johnny was not ' strange. It seemed the most natu ral thing in the world to be sit ting across from him at breakfast "Eat" he ordered. "Gelting mar ried is serious business and we may have a late lunch." He con sulted his watch as he drank his third cup of coffee. "We'll have lust two hours, but I've gone through the preliminaries, which If EW HONOR FOR BETTE Hollywood, Nov. 8. (P) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which has KUPPENHEIMER FINE CLOTHES $50.00 found only at Store for Men are pretty sketchy. Kentucky is a popular place since the draftees started rushing down south to take advantage of a state where there is no three-day limit." "The marriage will be legal?" she gasped. He threw back his hesd and laughed. "You'll be legally mar ried," he assured her. "You'll be Mrs. Johnny Harris, U.S.A.. until you decide to take a trip oat to Reno to dissolve it" Before she thought she said: "But I don't plan to do that." Then the color spread across her cheeks and up to the brim of her smart green felt hat "You're a thoroughbred," said Johnny. "Shall we go?" Kentucky, with the Ohio River a sheet of ice behind them and the hills blurring into blue in the distance against the bright winter sky. Narrow village streets and a shabby little office where Johnny picked up the license. Then a soft-spoken Methodist minister who eyed them gravely. "You, John Harris, take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife" Johnny's "I do" was deep and reverent "You, Susan Eleanor Fairhope, take this man" She looked up and for an instant the expression in Johnny's eyes blinded her. Some of the emotion she felt crept Into her voice as she mad her responses. They were married. Johnny's ring on her slender finger and then his arms were about her holding her tight His lips were hard and firm against her soft mouth for a moment "The preacher expects this," he whis pered in explanation. ' She wondered what her lips had told him. He gave no sign. now as though he were back ex plaining the rotation of crops at Belle Acres. He was doing nothing to alarm her and she loved him for it even though she wished that he might guess what her marriage meant to her. She had grown up wish ing for security and foolishly thinking security was a material thing. Now she hsd a security which was like an armor, some thing vital and real, which would last as lone as life lasted if Johnny really cared and if what he had done had not been done solely to offer assistance to Aunt Car. . . ... Almost she was lealous of Aunt Car. She would be jealous of anyone who came befora her in Johnny's affections. More About Deedora DID he love her? The thought obsessed her. One moment she read love into every glance from his clear grey eyes. She next studied his face anxiously until every feature became so familiar to her she could close ner eyes and see him clearly. She watched him, and then when he surprised her eyes fastened upon him, she forced herself to be light and casual as she discussed their mar riage. What a fool he must think her. when he knew that only a few days before she had rushed to Washington to make Riv marry her. Now she was married to him. and how could she convince him that in that short time her heart had changed? Or had it changed? Rather, hadn't sh been blind and too stubborn to see what she had felt for Joinnny even back in Tyler Springs? They left Kentucky and drove back across the river to collect her bags. They were just in time to catch the train lor Cincinnati. Another quick change and they boarded the Memphis limited. tor the nrst time Johnny re vealed his plans for their future as they sat together over a late lunch. "I have to report to camp Im mediately," he told her, "and get things simplified for you. I shall be at CamD Shelhv a month, pos sibly two, and then 1 expect to get an Important commission which mav take me abroad. No one can be sure, but my father believes that's the way it will be. That will make it easier for you. You will have time to think over what you want to do in the fu ture. If you meet aomeone you want to marry, you only have to tell me. If you should want to revive your affair with Moore I'll try to understand." "Riv is married to another girl." Afterwards she realized that this remark did not express what Johnny wanted to know. It might even indicate that she was sore at heart for he withdrew his hand from hers. He said thoughtfully: "Frank ly, I believe that Deedora cares for Riv Moore in spite of all her assertions that she hates him. Probably her present condition makes her bitter " She started at him in blank astonishment "Deedora is going to have a child, he told her bluntly. She felt terribly shaken. Rl had' been a coward not to tell her of his marriage, but the fart that he would plan to break oil with Deedora. urge her to marry him as soon as he could get a re lease from Deedora "It can't ba true." she stammered. "She told me the evening you came out to see her." He changed the subject quick ly. Te be fMUneed g'ven Bette Davis two Oscars for best performances by an actress, found a new way to honor her last night. It elected her presi dent, the first woman president the 14 year-old academy ever has had. DESTROYER TOLL 100 Washington. Nov, 8. Fv The death toll In the torpedo sinking of the U. S. destroyer Reuben James stood at 100 to day. Naval clerks, rechecklng their lists of personnel, added the nam of Edward Peter Salt Is. boatswains mate, first class, Staunton, 111. 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JPj The British government announced today it would buy any Egyptian surplus wheat above its internal consumption in 1941-42 at ruling market prices to encourage food production. Miracle fan! Hermiston Depot Under Maj. Scott San Francisco, Nov. 8. 0P Ma. Ralph Cook Scott will take command of the S13,000,000 Umatilla army ordnance depot t at Hermiston next Wednesday., The zone constructing quar termaster's sfffice in a progress report said the depot was 80 per cent complete only 14 week after the first of 1000 concrete) storage igloos was poured. by JOHNHIX Manffjed Von Rchthofen, german air ace op world war i, rode 5 mile's with a broken collar sons to win a h0re RACE 191?... By AL CAPP Cat iaau Itisuue ads.
