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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1942. 1 1 By Roberta! ijlCOURTLANDl YESTERDAY: Kalttsa Marlowe it e light ter.dn on tha lowar Mississippi, and th. firtt ehangt at Importance that hat coma tnto tha Itvas of hert.lt and her old grandmother ii when an ax Jtat .ted young hunter stumbles info her path durinfl e ttorm, atid Mel it ta bring him noma. Hit name i Tana ffendrteke. he telle the Marlowe, and there Is eomethina In the way he look at Melissa that wrriee Grandma ' 'arloiva. Chapter Three Frank Requettt T ANDY was younf, not more than twenty live. He wai food-looking, with dark hair and eyes, and an olive akin that had been burned to a warm mahogany color by the southern tun. He was tall and well-built, tn abort, be wai the very young man. Gran was terribly afraid, to cause Me lissa a great deal of pain and un happiness, because he would stay today and maybe tomorrow and then he would go away and they would never see him again. And Melissa would break her child's heart about him. Melissa was sixteen. And though In this almost forgotten, semi-tropical back-country many "Mr. Hendricks. I don't want my little girl hurt," Randy colored a little beneath the look in her shrewd eyes, but he answered instantly, "I'm not foing to hurt her, Mrs. Marlowe he's well, she's lovely and all that but she's just a child." Gran nodded. "If you'll Just treat her like a child and not try to well, to make her remember you, I'll appreciate it." "You mean, of course. If I won't try to make love to her, don't you?" said Randy, and his law was set and grim. "Well, you can set your mind at rest about that, Mrs. Marlowe. For if she were twenty, and I were mad about her, 1 wouldn't make love to her. Women well, they don't play much part in my plans for the future "Then you're more of a fool than you look," said Gran suc cinctly. Randy laughed. "Maybe," he agreed, but despite his laugh and twinkle that lived for a moment in his dark eyes he was quite In earnest "Look, Mrs. Marlowe. I came up the hard way in life, 1 was a doorstep baby left on a friendly doorstep by a mother or father who didn t care to be both ered with me. I grew up sort of mt-or-miss mostly miss. ( went to school when I couldn't escape it; I sold newspapers; I battled for every inch I ever gained: I'm well, I'm doing all right for my. self just at present. But I've got I ; "' mil - mm P 1 iPm " don't want my little girl hurt.' girls of sixteen were married and many of them mothers. Gran wanted Melissa to go on being a little girl Just as long as she could. And as long as personable young men stayed out of her life. Gran felt quite sure she could keep Melissa a child! But there was a look in Melissa's eyes when she met Randy's interested, admiring gaze that shook Gran badly, so that when Melissa started out in the hour before dusk to light the lamp, and Randy said eagerly he'd go with her. Gran protested sharply, "Stay here, Mr. Hendricks I'd like to talk to you. Been a long time since I've had a chance to talk to anybody but a child like Liss." "I'm almost seventeen," said Melissa swiftly. "You're a month past your six teenth birthday." Gran protested flatly. "And you go on and tend the light Me and Mr. Hendricks will be here when you get back." Randy said, unwilling, "But Is It quite safe for her to go alone? That path's pretty lonely" "She's been making it twice a day for eight years or else in her rowboat I reckon she'll be safe one more time," said Gran drily. And Melissa, looking at Gran, knew there was no use ar guing. But as she went swiftly along the path, her oilskin slicker buttoned tight beneath her chin, her young heart was mutinous. What right had Gran to deny her the pleasure of Randy's company on this walk? Of course it was raining and storming, but she and Randy wouldn't have minded that. And by tomorrow Randy would be gone and she'd never see him again. And somehow the thought of that was an acute pain. She'd never been really lonely before, because this was the only world, the only life she had ever known. When she had listened, ab sorbed, fascinated, to her mother's stories of New Orleans and the world away from Black Point she had never thought that some day she might see those places: that she might leave the Point and tne old cabin and see paved streets and city lights and shop windows and hear music. Point Blank RANDY teemed a little like a visitor from some strange world, and she wanted to spend every possible moment with him. 8o -vriy should Gran have denied her Randy's presence on the walk to the Point and back? Meanwhile back at the cabin Gran was saying quietly, levelly. my eyes on something a whole lot better than I've ever had before and after I get that, I'll un doubtedly set my mind on some thing better than that you see? A woman, any woman, no matter how lovely or desirable she might be, would slow me down!" Gran nodded. "I see," she said drily. "I see, too. that you'll prob ably be a sucker for the first really smart woman that comes your way. Men that's so almighty wise and sure of what they want out o' life usually wind up that way. But that's vour business! The only thing was I didn't want Meussa s neaa nned witn a lot of crazy stuff about you bein' in love with her or anything like that She's apt to take anything you say to her pretty serious." "You needn't worry," said Randy, and meant it sincerely. "I'll be very careful. She's rather an extraordinary youngster, at mat About Melissa GRAN nodded. "Her mother was show-folks," she said. Her manner was relaxed, friend ly, and it was evident that aha liked him and was willing to be lieve what he had said. "My son went up to New Orleans once on a little trip. Went to a show and saw what he thought was the rettiest girl In the world. Some ow he aot somebodv to intro duce him to her, and the upshot of the whole thing was they was married before the end of the week and come back here to live. "Sadie that was Melissa's mother didn't like It much here; but she did like Jim. her husband, a heap, so I reckon she was as happy as a woman expects to be. When Liss was born. Sadie said, 'I want her to have a name that'll look good In theatre lights maybe she'll be a great star some day.' So she named her Melissa Malvinia Marlowe. Said she reck oned that was as prettv a name as Minnie Mnridern r'iske and things like that. She started trachin' the baby to dance almost before she could walk, and to sing by the time she was Ave. and to play that old guitar there be fore her little Angers was strong enough to pick the strings " Randy looked startled. His eyes narrowed a little and he said swiftly, "Melissa sings and dances? It seems too bad for her to he hidden here " "The world s full o" pretty girls that cm sing and dance, said I Gran sharply. "Girls that ain't got no homes, nor good lobs like Me lissa's got" ' Is at cenUeeta INVASION EXPECTED . . , , Washington, Mhrch 11 ('C"nac1a ,rmy ln Cm,t Britain. Llcuter..t Gennal. A. G a,d Uk1bv th"e wa' " 11000 McN a u ji h t o n, commander of 1 fro,P" " Germany would - , lain-iiiyi an invasion oi r.ngiann SHOP AT NIGHT Barker's are open until I o'clock EVERY night. Store for Men r I this spring. PRACTICE BLACKOUTS CONTINUE UNDER BAN I San Francisco, March 11. iiD Army rules against prac tice blackouts are still In effect in the eight states of the west ern theater of operations. Lieutenant General J. L. De Witt, commanding general of the western defense command and f ninth army, originally ban ned test blackouts Iu:t Decern- On the Radio Chains STATIONS! Chain affiliation aad when they ore on the dial: It ALE MH) 1330. rortlan KCX (NHC-Hlucl like. Purtlan. HO MM-Hlu MHSt MIS Spokane; KliO (MtC-Hluel ale San rranrlH-Oi K1W IMM'-Hrdl ata. Portland; UJH (NHC-Hlur) 1000. nrnltle; KNX H 1070 los Antrlrs: KOA (NBC-Red) 0SO Denier: KOIN (CB) S70. Port land: HOMO (NHC-Red) M arallle: KPO (MIC-Krrf) ftxo tan t rsnrl.ro I KSL (CU) 1180. wit Lake City. Time Shown Is PST Wednesday 1:00 p. m Adventure Btorlsa. KOO, ICJR; Burs of Today, KOW; Don Wlnilow of the Navy, KPO: Ken Stevens. KOIN; Brewster Boy, KSL. a. so p. m Dr. Christian, KSL: BUI Henry,, KNX: Cocktail Hour. 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KOMO, Alien Custodianship Up to Reserve Bank San Francisco, March 11. iff) The Federal Reserve bank will get up a custodianship ta protect the property right persona forced to evacuate mili tary zones on the Pacific coast. Thousands of Japanese, alien and American born, and Ger man and Italian aliens' are af fected. Those who have to liquidate their property on short notice will be given protection from fraud, forced sales and unscrup ulous creditors. Use Mall Tribune want ads. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS by JOHN HIX -P Tu& stick iVj;ecT "lvvV 1 INTO A TRANCE-' 2 dTX-V ll i SJJ T "STATE LAST'S LONG IT L Mr J y AFTER PAK13E MAS PASSED... JV'I YrT 1"- 1 J "- CAB. OF TMg EVENlMCi TO A IN xs ' i-irvW to tatrr poop fiSdm the chef, ' F$iZa eveev pay for. ' rXJV "UN ' I M tl M M- I ii i tTa ? i m M. M m at 18 c0mposeel5 opse-as 2 symphonies 2 masses and "During this tiaae- we- once- FINISU&DJ.5 'SONGS in 1 PAYS 1815... CUUTRFS5 Miss chloe t& lon& AkiGON SCULPTS NEW PESI6NS FOR. 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