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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1942.
Chapter 12
The Dad
WAKING her way in and out
' among the dancers. Lavinia
reached th bridge table. There
ahe caught up the ehort velvet
jacket that went with the. erim
aon chiffon evening gown, and
flipped it about her houlderi.
This done, ahe went out through
French window which opened
upon the wide veranda. She ttood
a moment, undecided, and then
walked down to the far end,
found a high-backed chair, and
dropped down in it itrangely
weary, oaaiy aepressea.
A couple came out and itrolled
ever to the veranda rail They
did not tee her, I bey began talk'
ing.
"Whewl" the man said. "It waa
relief, dancing with you, my
dear, after trying to tteer that
otner girl around the ballroom.
"Funny," aaid the girl, "that
anyone who looka like a million
doflara in a beautiful chiffon
gown could be such a flop on a
dance floor."
"Funny?" laid the man. He
laughed mirtbleaaly. "You
wouldn t think ao if you tried
dancing with ber. If the atumbled
over my feet once, the did it a
dozen timet."
"You thould have been more
agile and kept your feet out of
her way."
"No human being could be that
agile. Her feet teemed to be
everywhere at once The man
tighed. "And do you know what
happened?"
"Not the tlightert Idea!"
"That tour -faced Mr. Masters
came up to me, held out hit hand,
and taid, "You have my iym
pathy. I Juit had her for a bridge
partner.
"Poor girl!"
"I asked Misi Linden about her
and understand ihe't quite im
portant In a big Kew York de
partment store. I gather she's de
voted her time to business and
let social accomplishment! go
hang. Well, how about another
dance?"
"I d love It!"
The couple moved off. Lavinia
sat perfectly still, holding her
breath. She knew now that eaves
droppers didn't hear any good of
themselves, even when they
eavesdropped unintentionally. So
that was what people thought of
her! They even condoled with
each other. They mopped their
brows and breathed great signs
of relief when iha wat out of
the Dicture.
She got up. thinking: Td bet
ter go tomewhere else before I
hear tome more revealing things
aoout myseu.
But before the eould get away.
Mar sot Linden came out.
"Oh, there you are!" the laid.
Having a good time?"
"Ghastly," said Lavinia.
Margot looked at her a mo
ment. "I'd be glad to help you
with your bridge," she laid. "And
Pat will give you lome help with
your dancing.
"Thanks! Is Pat the man who
danced with me the last one?"
"Yes."
"Then I'm afraid there'll be no
lance instruction."
"Why ao?"
"I Just overhead him discussing
me and he would evidently run
a mile to keep from dancing with
me again." Lavinia shrugged, and
drew her velvet Jacket clone
about her. "After all. I hardly
blame him. No man who makes a
living teaching dancing can risk
being crippled for life
"But, Mist Prentiss, there are
plenty of people who who are
bad at dancing at first, but de
velop into splendid dancers after
few lessons."
"I'm not In that category." tald
Lavinia. "No, thanks I think
I'll stick to my own way of liv
ing And, now. if you'll excuse
me, I'll go look at the ocean."
Defeat
M ARGOT LINDEN watched her
go down the ttept and across
the lawn. Then she shook her
head slowly, turned, and went
back Into the ballroom, leaving
Lavinia to the moon, the sky, and
the vast expanse of water that
wept out from the rock-bound
coast.
Reaching a spot where the Inn
lawn ended and the rocky coast
began, Lavinia stopped and took
a deepth breath of clean, salt
flavored air. She closed her eyes,
tried to calm herself, tried to col
lect her thoughts.
But she felt ashamed. She felt
that the waa a complete failure.
After the humiliating experience
of being practically Insulted at
the bridge table, and after suf
fering the torture of the damned
on the dance floor, she felt that
she could never again face any
one at the Inn especially the
man. Pat. and the girl with whom
he had discussed her in such an
uncomplimentary manner.
She walked on and on. thinking,
thinking, thinking telling her
self one moment that she should
Rack up and go straight bark to
ew York or to the place in Con
necticut, there to finish her vaca.
tion; then the next moment tell
ing herself that she should hold
up her chin and ttick it out at
Harbor Head
The air stirred her dark hair:
the moonlight played with the
gardenias which she wore: the
eaund of the surf toothed her
Jangling nerves. She lost all
aense of time and distance
merely kept on walking, follow
ing a winding path that twisted
1
In and out among age-old rockj,
wild roses, and ttunted goose
berry bushes. She threw back her
head, taw seagulls seeking rest
ing placet for the night taw a
steamer outlined against the deep
blue of the ttar-studded sky, the
smoke from its stacks making two
long ribbons of gray.
Presently the path dipped down
to the stretch of beach. It wai
lonely there, deserted. Only the
moonlight doing amazing things
to the waves, turning the water
into molten silver. Shells catching
strange lights, black shadowi
flung across the sands by the
overhanging cliffs.
Then far down the stretch of
white sand she saw the cottage
she and Margot had seen that
afternoon; she also saw again the
blackened remains of a pier. But
now washed by the silvery radi
ance of the moon the cottages
and the pier took on a charm, a
charm that v. as eerie and yet fat.
cinating. she found herself look
ing at them with growing in
terest What stories they could
tell those dilapidated small
dwellings, and that battered old
pier.
A tense of tadnest, or hard-to-explain
futility, got hold of her.
It shook her, did things to her
heart She laid her head upon her
arms, and bit her lip in a despe
rate effort to keep back the tears.
"Anything wrong?" someone
asked her.
She brushed her hand across
her eyes, and then caught her
breath sharply. Smiling down at
her was a -oung man in slacks
and a sweater, the young man
Margot Linden had told her about
that afternoon.
Roderick
WHEN Lavinia didn't apeak,
but simply stared at him, the
young man spoke again.
1 m afraid i frightened you.
he said. "I'm sorry."
No. you didn t frighten ma
exactly. Lavinia said at last
You did startle me thought 1
tnougnt i was alone.
You looked rather like a dam
sel in distress." said the young
man in the friendliest sort of
way. "And there's something in
me that always responds to dam
sels in distress."
Lavinia liked the way ha
talked. He sounded, she thought
like an Englishman like the
young Londoner who had worked
in Armworth's for a while in or
der to learn American advertit-
g customs.
It sounds a little hackneyed, I
know," ahe said, "but I was com
muning with nature. That'a as
good an explanation as any for
my being in such an out-of-the-way
spot"
"You do look a bit out of the
picture. In formal attire sitting
on an ancient wreck."
The expression, "out of the pic
ture" made Lavinia smile some
what bitterly to herself. She felt
like saying. My dear young; man,
being out -f the picture is the
best thing I do" But she didn't
say it In fact, she didn't say any
thing at all. She began wonder
ing if she ought to get up and
hurry back to the Inn. After all,
it was a little silly of her to come
to a spot like this and be found
by a man who was reported to
be somewhat mysterious, and who
stayed pretty much to himself.
"Do vou mind if I sit down for
a while?" the young man asked.
why er no, Lavinia re
plied. She eyed her companion
closely, found him a clean-cut
person, beautifully tanned, and
extremely well-built "You're
English, aren't you?"
"No, I was born In this coun
try," came the answer, "but I'vs
been living in England for a num.
her of years." The young man
found his cigarettes. "Smoke?"
"Yes, thank you . I forgot to
bring my cigarettes with me."
The young man lit a cigarette
for Lavinia and one for himself.
Then he sat down.
An absolutely perfect night
ha aaid, as though speaking to
nimselt. "lis hard to believe that
this same moon is looking down
on bombings and shelters and
things like that.
"Yes." said Lavinia. "I don't
like to think about it." Her feel
ing of uneasiness began to lessen.
"I take it you didn't come up to
tne inn tor the ureek Beneitt
"No. I'm sort of out of touch
with things like that"
Lavinia suddenly remembered
the conversation she had heard
on the beach that afternoon the
conversation that had to do with
prisoners escaping from intern
ment camps in Canada. She again
eyed her companion. He was very
blond, and he spoke perfect Eng
lish, and yet he might be one ol
those handsome, well-built Ger
man fellows who were being
forcibly detained by the Canadian
government.
"You approve of aid to the
Greeks, don't you?" she inquired
experimently.
"Naturally." was the reply
Just that and nothing more. "By
the way. shouldn't we introduce
ourselves? I'm Roderick Elliott"
"I'm Lavinia Prentiss." said
Lavinia. And now it didn't seem
at all odd that she should be
sitting there beside a man whom
she had thought of at a human
derelict "I'm staying at the Cliff
side Inn."
"So 1 imagined when I saw you
with the vivid blond person this
afternoon." taid Roderick "I was
no end pleased when I taw you
again this evening."
Te be centlnaea
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FOR EIRE BASES
London, Jan. 13. P) Brit
ain and the United States were
reliably reported today to be re
newing their pressure for war
basei in neutral Eire.
New overtures, combined with
concerted British presa cam
paign for porta and airfields In
lira, both to defend the, Island
and to aid the allied war In the
Atlantic, ao far have been mainly
informal but official, it was said.
Prime Minister Eamon de Va
le of Eire has said he sympa
thized with the United States in
its war, but that it would pro
mote disunity for Eire to become
involved.
SENT TO EUGENE
Eukene. Jan. 13. (.41 Col
C. L. Sampson, formerly sta
tloned at the presidio of San
Francisco, has been assigned as
head of the University of Ore
gon reserve officers training
corps.
On the Radio Chains
ITATIOMi
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they are on the dial:
KALE (MBS 1330. Portland;
KEX (NKC-Hlue) IIDO, Portland:
KG (NHC-Hlue MHt l.lll.
Spokane; SUiO (SHC-Blue) 810.
Dan rranrlaro; KtiW (MIC-Kfd)
(20, Portland: KJH (M(C-Bluc)
looo. aeaitle; KNX, (Bs lam
Los Angeles: KOA (NBC-Red) 1.10.
benier: KOIN (CRM 10. Port
land; HOMO (MM"-Red M
Brattle; KPO (MIC-Red) tHO.
Ran Franrlsrol KSL (Clio) 1160.
ftalt Lake City.
lime Shown Is PSI "
Tuesday
8:00 p. m. Adventure Stories. KOO.
KJR; Are You a Milling Heir. KSL;
Jane Arden. KOMO: Sura of Today,
COW; Don Wlnalow of the Kfcvy.
KPO.
1:80 p. m Kewi of the World,
KOO. KJR, KEX; Bob Burns Show,
K8L; Horace Heldt't Treasure Cheat.
KPO. KOMO. KOW; B1U Henry, KNX,
KOIN.
6:00 p. m Bums and Allen, KPO.
KOW, KOMO; We. the People. KSL;
Secret City, KOO, KEX; Victory
Chorus, KJR: Second Husband, KNX:
Leon P. Drews, KOIN.
0 :30 p. m. Symphony Concert.
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ar I Molly, KPO. KOMO, KOW.
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I KOW; Olena Mlller-a Orch, KSL,
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KOO. KJR. KEX; Big Town, KSL;
Sweat and Mellow, KOMO; Ken Stev
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Don Wlnalow of the Navy, KPO.
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FATHER IN CHARGE
'By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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OF PiKfiNfS ON THE DRESS THAT BUTTONS UP
THE BftCK
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At" CRITICAL MOMEMf to OVERCOME WTTfl LOVE
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BACK ID TWriER
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TUGS SAFE
Seattle, Jan. 13. W) The
13th naval district headquarters
announced today that two of
the three Seattle tugs which
were in the Pacific war zone
when the Japanese opened hos
tilities December 7 are safe in
an unannounced port.
WORKERS PERISH
Shipfhaw, Ouebec, jnn. 13.
() At least IS workmen were
known dead today and that
many more were unaccounted
for In the worst fire in the his
tory of northern Quebec, a pre
dawn inferno of flames which
trapped a sleeping construction
crew in their one-story wooden
barracks.
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STRANGE AS IT SEEMS
by JOHN HIX
10-YEAE-OLP KENNETH WOuF
?TAKTEP SCHOOL
IN COULEiCsE
tDO APVAViCEP MEWTALUV
TO FIT IN OZ UiGH
pCWOOL- He NOW ATTEND
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TAILSPIN TOMMY Dangerous Descentl
SEEING SOUND
According to the Better Vision Institute of America, mysterious curred bands of light
and shadow sometimes sweep across the sky after a large gun has been fired, and bear a
resemblance to She ripples caused by dropping a stone in a pond. These bands of light era
actually "visible sound waves."
YOUNG UNDERGRADUATE
His parents despaired of fitting Kenneth Wolf in with other children of his age In the
lower grades. He finally waa enrolled at Western Reserve, where he is a special atudent is
chemistry.
TOMORROW: Delayed Canall
AL CAP
Advised of a
PLOT TO BOMB
THE INTERNATIONAL
AUDITORIUM,
TOMMY'S COMMAN
DANT ORDERED
HIM TO TAKE A
PATROL UP AND
SHOOT DOWN THE
ARMY PLfcNE.WUICH
THEY BELIEVED
HAD BEEN STOLEN
BY A SPY TO
AID HIM IN
DESTROYING THE
BI& BUILDING
TOMMY. UNAWARE
THE PILOT WAS
SKEETS, DID SO
lUDDtN AI TACK - .W Ui .
POWER OF DR. VERMIN'S BSZLJk
FLUENCE OVER SKEETS HIS MIND
J3UT THE SUDDEN ATTACK
BROKE THE
HYPNOTIC IN
RESTORED. HE HEADED HIS FUMING SHIP OVER THE SPY
RENDEZVOUS AND DROPPED THE DEADLY 60MB UPON THEM.'
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A MOMENT LATER. .THE FLAMES
FROM SKEETER'S SHIP REACHED
THE FUEL TANKS AND THE CRAFT
was ripped APART BY A
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION ? 1-13-42
Nhfptfd rah en hut iki time out
WHY DOESNT HE PULL THE RIP-CORD?
THE GROUND IS LOOMING UP....
DANGEROUSLY CLOSE.'
tl'L ABNER They're Comin' Round th' Mountain!)
By HAL FORREST
SHE. DOESNT SEEM TO
EVEN KNOW I'M WITH HER
-OR CARE. '-HER THOUGHTS
SEEM A THOUSAND MILXS
AWAY. SIGH : IT'S A HARD
FIGHT EsUT A WOLF NEVER
GIVES UP.' AT LEAST I
HAVE. NO COMPETITION .V
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DAISY MAE. I'LL AH S'POSEl if NIGHTS I'VE TAKEN J I V
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TOMORROW NIGHT JL WOLF- J HER EVERY LINE. IN II
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IT THAT MOMENT COMING
ROUND THE MOUNTAIN.
WE OUGHTA REACH
AVAILABLE JONESS
ot MORN IN'
THE NEBBS The Transformation
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