PAGE EIGHT
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1942.
Chapter SI
Call From Jimmy
AT the noonday meal that was
both hreakfatt and lunch
aboard the River Queen. Randy
waa in high spirit, to much to
that the othera looked at him
curiously. And when Melissa
came in and they law the bright
color burritnK in her cheeka
beneath Randy's caressing glance,
they all grinned and exchanged
meaningful glances.
Randy looked about the room,
grinned and said, lifting hit glass
of orange iuire, "O K, folks, I see
there's no need of our trying to
keep it a secret Melissa baa con
tented to marry me."
Alice said driiy. "It's too early
In the morning for effective act
ing, so do vol- mind if we don't
register surprise? Congratulations
and all that and felicitations,
I've seen It coming from the very
first!"
"Wise guy, aren't you?" laid
Randy, coloring a little.
"Very wise," agreed Alice, grin
ning at him cheerfully.
The others were laughing, talk.
Ing. teasing the blushing Melissa,
and for the moment Randy and
Alice were able to, talk unob
served and unheard.
"You think I'm doing her a
dirty trick, don't you?" demanded
Randy ttraightly.
Alice met his eyes levely.
"Not If you are quite sure that
no little ghosts out of the past
will bob up ti make her miser
able later on," tha answered
quietly.
"I haven't broken any laws, if
that's what you mean. I'm not a
racketeer or a gangster to be
hauled off to Jail unexpectedly or
to be put on the spot and have
the spot rubbed out by some irate
former accomplice," Randy re
minded her drily.
"I didn't mean that and you
know it," answered Alice with
spirit "I know everything on the
Rivor Queen is on the up and up
or Hugh and I wouldn't be work
ing here, badly as we need the
money. I ...eant the only kind of
ghosts that would bother Melissa
later on. If you were hauled off
to jail they'd have to haul her,
too that wouldn't bother Melissa
the way I mean."
"That what sort of ghosts would
bother her?" demanded Randy
curtly.
"Doloret" kind," answered Alice
Brmly.
"Oh," tald Randy, and looked
Startled. "You mean you think
there was well, something be
tween Dolores and me other than
the relation between an employer
and employee?"
"Something of that kind." ad.
mitted Alice frankly.
"Then you're wrong, Alice,"
said Randy so limply that Alice
was convinced in spite of herself.
"I never made love to Dolores, or
any other woman, for that matter,
until now. I've always fought shy
Df women. I've seen the mess that
some of them have made for men
I liked, and well, I lust thought
that for me the marriage stuff
was out. I still feel I've no right
to Melissa ahe'a so young and
iwect and untouched. I wish I
could be oh "
"A knight In illver armor,
without fear and without re
proach and aboard a white
horse?" suggested Alice, affection
ately derisive. "Well, take another
gal't word for It. boss knights in
silver armor can be the most gosh
twful bores sometimes. I'm sure
Melissa would rather have you
as you arel I know I wouldl"
Summona
RANDY tald limply, hit eyet
shining, his voice eager and
vibrant, "Thanks, Alice thanks a
million. You're a pall"
"Think nothing of it boss think
nothing of it," said Alice cheer
fully. "You were pretty much of
a pal yourself to Hugh and me
when we landed here. Any little
thing I can do in return
Randy held out his hand, and
Alice put hers in it, and they
smiled at each other in warm,
friendly understanding.
Trere was Melissa and Rand
agreed, no point in making a
secret of the engagement. The
wedding date was set for a month
hence, to give Randy time to
make certain business arrange
ments so they could have a week
or two for a honeymoon while Al
took over in the game rooms and
Bab. the orchestra leader, and
Hugh took over the entertain
ment. Three or four days after the
engagement had been announced
informally among their friends
and some of the snow boat's most
frequent visitors. Melissa was on
deck in the late afternoon, lying
in her favorite deck chair, a book
unopened on her knee. Her
thoughts and dreams were far
more perfect company than any
firinted page could ever be, but
f she pretended to be reading
people didn't disturb her by try
ing to talk to her.
A car drew up at the pier and
a negro man, middle-aged and
wearing a smart gray whipcord
chauffrur's uniform, came swiftly
to the River Queen.
"I'm lookin' for Miss Melissa
Marlowe," he said, and Melissa
stood up, facing him, puzzled.
I'm Marse Jim Marston's chauf
feur. Miss. I been sent to fetch
you young Marse Jimmy's badly
Japanese Migration
to Merrill District
Arouses Residents
Klamath Falls, April 1. PI
Sheriff Lloyd Low of Klam
ath county today escorted lix
Japanese from the Merrill dis
trict, where they arrived Sun
day evening to work for white
farmer they know at Tacomi
The sheriff laid he asked the
Japanese to move temporarily
from the Immediate vicinity
pending settlement of questions
brought up there after their ar
rival. Rciidenti of the south end
of the county were reported
) I By ROBERTaI! I
COURTLAND j
hurt and he lay he want to tea
you. I 'specti we betteh hurry.
Docto' lay he hurt bad."
Melissa caught her breath on
a little gasp and found Randy
betide her, puzzled, questioning.
The chauffeur explained hit pret
ence and Randy, frowning, said,
"Now what the devil could Jimmy
Marston want with you?"
"I don't know, tuh. but de
docto' tay the have to hurry ef
the. wanna see him." said the
chauffeur simply, his fact ashen
with tragedy.
".'II go, of course," said Me
lissa, and looked down at the
honey yellow sharkskin slacks
and jade green jacket that was
her favorite lounging costume for
leisure hours aboard. "I don't sup
pose I'd have time to change?"
" Traid not. Miss," answered
the chauffeur, and turned away.
"I'i: go with you, of course,"
laid Randy, and together they
followed tha chauffeur to the
waiting car.
Melissa was frightened. Some
thing ugly lay Just ahead. The
implications of the doctor'! in
structions for haste could not be
avoided; Jimmy was badly hurt;
if she wanted to see him. she must
hurry. That meant Jimmy might
be dying. She caught her breath
on a little sob and found Randy's
arm about her, holding her close,
wordlessly comforting her.
The big car turned in at the
private drive and she could not
help remembering the last time
she had come there, with Jimmy
gay and quick with life and youth
and animal spirits, beside her.
And now Jimmy was badly hurt
The car halted at the steps and
Randy got out, turning to help
her, a gay little figure in honey
yellow and jade green, with silly
little embroidered wooden-soicd
clogs on her stockingless feet
As they went up the steps the
door opened and Mrs. Marston
stood there, her face gray, her
eyes bleak, a wild look about her
before which Melissa shrank
backward, despite Randy's arm
about her.
Bitter Word!
"VfOU needn't come In," said
Mrt. Marston in a harsh, ugly
voice that had an almost eery
quality in It "It's too late. He
he doesn't want to see you evei
again."
Melissa said shakily, "I'm ter
ribly sorry he's hurt"
"He won't ever he hurt again
not even bv cruel, heartless little
wretches like you!" Mrs. Marston
cut in savagely. "You can be very
proud of your work. You flirted
with him, led him on, got him
crazy about you, thinking that you
were going to marry him and
then when he stopped being
amusing, you threw him over
made a fool of him"
"But Mrs. Marston. I told him
all along that 1 didn't love him
that I couldn't marry him. I told
you that first day I came here "
stammered Mel'ssa swiftly.
Mrs. Marstor.'s lip curled In
ineer.
"And of course, Jimmy and I
both recognized that as an excel
lent bit of technique. You were
smart enough girls of your type
usually are! to convince him
that vou were hard to get -that
he bad to fight hard for you. And
Jimmy always loved a fight. Any
thing he had to fight for seemed
to him gloriously worth having "
she said harshly. "But now hei
finished with fighting he's fin
ished with loving a girl com
pletely unworthy of him he's fin
ished with living! And to have
I-"
"Jimmy Is dead?" asked Randy,
and knew by the look on his
mother's face that Jimmy was.
Melissa gave a little shocked,
firotesting, "Oh, no!" and hid hei
are against Randy's shoulder.
"I don't wonder you cry out,"
said Mrs. Marston grimly. "I hope
you will suffer as you made him
suffer. You couldn't suffer as X am
suffering for you're only a cheap,
spoiled, shallow little thing not
worth the paring of Jimmy t lit
tle fingernail."
"You mustn't lay things like
that, Mrs. Marston, said Randy
swiftly. "Melissa is In no way to
blame for whatever has hap
pened." "No?" Mrs. Marston's Hp curled.
"She made a fool of Jimmy she
let him think she loved him. And
he fought for her, forcing them
to accept her forcing his father
and me to consent to his marriage
to her. He used the Christmas
check his father and I gave him
to buy an engagement ring for
her. and even then she was coy,
pretending that she didn't intend
to marry him. And then yesterday
when he heard that she was go
ing to marry you well, of course
the whole world will think that
it was an automobile accident
that he lost control of his car and
that it turned over on him.
"But his father and I know
that it was no accident and I
want Melissa Marlowe to know it
too, and to know hnw it feels to
have a man's blood on her hands."
"I'm terribly sorry for your
grief and suffering. Mrs. Marston,
but I can't let you talk like that
to Melissa," said Randy harshly.
"She is completely innocent and
I won't have her bullied or tor
tured." He turned and guided Melissa
back down the drive.
Te be eenUnned .,
aroused over the presence of the
Japanese.
The sheriff was expected to
confer by telephone with Ta
coma authorities and the army
He said the six Japanese, three
men, a woman, a young girl and
a baby, moved from Taroma on
a permit from an employment
office there. The Merrill ranch
is outside militnry area No. I
The farmer for whom the
Japanese started to work Is Don
Hubble, who told the sheriff he
knew the Japanese at Tacoma
and did not anticipate any com
munity resentment when he ar
ranged for them to work for
him at Merrill.
Closing t'me frr CliMiriM Ada
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Kansas City, April Ir-i&h-The
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