i
PAGE FOURTEEN
THE EVENING HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
April 20, 1934
t
v.
- BKUIN HKHB T1IUA1
PAIII.ITO. a InlnM IT-rrnr-Id
uufh. nark nt inr nnlntlnl
r'lurldn hornt of inllllnnnlro JIM
ni'.l.ll
l'ho mom At M tlllrd Kndllnhmnn
ntf H orrrnnl ffirl. I'nhllto kinwi
' atitnloe of hla pnrrnto. tt'hrn f)
yinr old lie rnn nwnr from
AStiKt.A, the hrnrtlroo old prone
In nno rnrf hr wno Irlf. .lnr
thc-n ho llvrd it lib KIII1IIIN
rVOYKM, mrotrrinno Individual
Who lino norn neltrr dnro.
Flrtd'o onlrnnvrd rrlfr nnd their
dntlirhtrr. KKT1-:.I.K. nrrlre mt
the Kiorldn home. Pnhllln orro
Kolello nnd nlmnot mt once fall
In love nllh her.
NOW GO ON WITH TUB ITORI
' ' . CHAPTEH IV
' AT ioor 01 1118 w" rm!
Field paused and knocked. A
maid bo raniemberod admitted btm
and, as she saw him, ber (ace grew
bard and chill. He beard ber mur
mur something about seeing It
Uadamo could tee blm and be
waited In the gray and silver sit
ting room. In a few moments
Norma appeared and settled her
self In a low chair. Field pulled
another close to hers and dropped
Into It 1
1 wonted to tell you. Norma,
that I appreciate your attitude to
Estelle about me.
m . She answered In a level under
tone, ber eyes on the rug at ber
feet "I want to preserve tor ber
as long as possible," sbe said, "all
the Illusions that make life bap-
pier. Then, too, yon were not
' there and I was. I couldn't very
well say anything ill of you."
Be did not fully understand
this. Sbe saw It and smiled a
trifle wanly.
"You dont see mncb logic tn
that, do you?" she questioned.
"I see what you're getting at all
light," he answered honestly, "but
I think lt'a bunk!"
It la only decent1'
Be paid no attention to this but
went on. "Norma are yon going
to tell her nowT"
She stiffened, becoming erect and
tense.- "It would kill all that I
. have done my best to nurture In
her," she answered with the first
show of the old warmth and feel
- lng he had heard In her voice.
"We will have to pretend a great
many things that arent true and
that I know now never were true."
' TH try to make It easy for
you." he promised a trifle thickly.
Be found himself close to unstead
. In ess from the relief her words had
brought him.
"Jim." she began slowly and less
confidently, "will yon promise me
to be careful about the things, the
, people women I mean whom she
aees?"
. "My dear Norma, I am less the
gallant now. I am SO," he an
. swered bluntly.
- "She nodded, her head a bit high,
her eyes suddenly chill. Then she
stood up with the manner of roy
alty at the moment of a dismissal
Presently Field found himself- out
side in the glare of the sunlight
The Vay Norma's head could lift
so proudly, bad always made him
feel himself to be crude and rough.
., This, witb her dislike of scenes
and her withdrawals into silence.
. had made him more crude and
rougher.
i She was stm capable of the same
trick, he realised; the trick of
v making him feel far beneath her.
"Damn it!" he thought blinking
In the sunlight But there was a
reason tor him to endure it now.
"'''The reason was a slender girl who
' r looked much as Norma had when
" he had married her with the intent
to fame her and "bring her down
bit"
.
" stretched long and black in the I
water Field saw Pablito swabbing I
out a fishing boat He saw also
the enchanting bine of the white-
decked water and the sway ef the
tall palms against the depths of
an almost cloudless, silver-blue I
sky. Estelle would no doubt de-1
light in such things, as her mother I
had before her. The camp had
amazed ber. Well, tbere was no
ether like It he decided com
placently.
Be followed the dock which
melled of seaweed and salt and
was always darkened and damp I
from spray and when he was near
, Pablito be spoke to him.
"Nice day. Smith."
Pablito stood erect "Tea, sir.
, Fine," he agreed.
"Lord, you're a good-looking I
specimen," Field thought He said I
aloud, "Ton usually run the 'SI!-
, rer Dart,' don't you? I may go out I
la It later."
' 'Tor. sir."
Field turned then to go back to
the land. Would' Estelle go out
With her father, Pablito wondered.
TVTORMA FIELD stood In the gray
i L1 and silver sitting room where
her husband hod left her. remem
bering the aftermath of one of
their early estrangements. She bad
been stricken by remorse and re
turned to him, expecting to find
him overcast by grief over ber de
. parture and alone. He bad, on the
contrary, been neither overcast
nor alone!
Then she remembered "trying
again"; endless efforts at "trying
again." She remembered , the
bruises which had come, oddly
enough, from promises that were
as weak as water. After that-
some time after that she had be
come old and lost ber bold upon
hope and at last the worst of bis
1ns were but pallid beads in the
long, dork chain that made ber
nights and days.
. She bad been like Estelle once,
She realised, physically and men
tally. Gentle to pain, bard in de
fending others from It Kind to I
others but stern with herself. The I
woman sbe bad become let ber see
the child she bad been.. A lovely
child the child Estelle echoed.
Norma Field stirred and moved
. toward ber dressing room. Sbe
KATHARINE HAVILAND-1 ATLUK
It was a blindly aimed prayer, the
only sort she could say now, fair
ing to believe In much of anything.
She had cared a great deal for
Jim Field In her pitiably young
years, she realised. She hoped
Estolle would never care for any
man qulto so much as she cared
tor herself.
THAT afternoon Pablito took
Estelle and Jim Field for the
first of their many rides together
In the "Silver Dart" Estelle was
stirred to silence by the riotous
color, the salt languor ot the air,
the biasing yellow and the utter
greenness ot the shore
"I think," she said slowly, "that
I have never seen any place so
beautiful!" As she spoke ber eyes
rested upon Pablito and. seeing
him, she knew suddenly that sbe
bad never seen a young man who
was so fine In form and face. She
did not mention this. She could
only wlsb, with a new hunger,
that thoy might be friends. Sbe
was sure this youth with the blue
eyes and straw colored nalr would
be a friend worth saving.
The men tn the boat saw her;
nothing and no one else. Field
watched her steadily with a slight
smile lifting and softening his
some times cruel lips. Pabllto's
eyes followed her with a breathless
awe. He saw ber as a rare mixture
ot child and woman. She bad a
dignity, unusual In American girls,
which made her at times seem far
beyond her years. At other times,
with the faint showing of a soft
trustfulness, she was sweetly
young. Appallingly young, Pablito
thought knowing Field.
"She knows everything ot good."
he decided tenderly, "and nothing
ot evil." And tor a moment bis
heart turned cold as he wondered
what lay before her.
Estelle's soft brown hair blew
and color came Into her cheeks
which were a little thin because
sbe had been growing so fast Be
could not help watching her al
most steadily. And again and
again he found her face turned
his way.
The hum of the motor and the
swish of water as it broke to a
white-churned froth kept Pablito
from hearing much that was said,
but one question ot Field's shook
his world tor him because It
brought ber close.
Field said, "I think IH have a
fancy dress party for you here.
Would yon like that?"
"Oh, yes!" Estelle answered and
because she had been so suddenly
warmly and vibrantly happy Pab
lito smiled without knowing It un
til she answered his smile. No
woman or girl had ever smiled on
him before nnless tendering him,
with her lift of lips, the wrong
sort ot invitation.
A barefoot boy who guards a
drunkard does not hold the key
that opens doorways into kindnesa
Now he knew kindness and the
difference in smiles and the knowl
edge was so beautiful that it
brought an ache to bis breast He
thought "I love you and it's not
puppy stuff. Ton're beautiful and
kind. I love you!"
And so came the lore ot a life
time in a land wbere there I;
warmth and early ripening.
(To Be Coatixmed) -
And so came the love of a lit .Vjf t t - f ' ' " WfX-Z I ''JrAi??ZT (
time in a land wbere there u L,,!. U - 1 1 - 1 '- jS t J'Hyj- CYj I JSj, mTSZZ'
I (To Be Coatiaaed) - I
COLLEGE ATHLETE i.iii .met ';fi?nFcoHTtTl ( ( HEKWtrNCMOl WfSw-l (SyiSIi0, ) IfSORROUMD'EM,
tral Association of Colleges and 0)3 fti nU 7 1 t fTfl 1 R W ' ' r & V "
Higb Schools discussed his re- JUTW X. M fiJ X K WWW . . L ' , ?.
made in 64 middlewestern col- ...j WZJ&W I tMJil Akl. 0 w . r .
leges and found the results no I - I I VL T tfmr3Tnt.i vCMANGEfi Hr3 MiwO ABOUT CHAP6IM6. AWO NABS TrB BAMOITs' HOAXES aTtjftoAJL f . J
less than "startling." V : . ltmH Vnl sraafty '
Eleven colleges not named 1 jj emaBmjioooBoonnn
report that It was necessary to r-nrsiisi r-. r a am uic rniPMrc ' 1 D m -
an even 25 ner cent of the ath- fflVEN ME TUB CRIME IN SMAPY- f WEU.,1 r, k HEBE WJ N I BV TRAIN AND MAKE 9URE E I THERES 6AMB THINO!! THERE THE PIER AT PORT STbCkTbN
letic heroes were "below stand- SUP..-. I SIDE, AND YOU THINK a Dicrtr 'ric I If ARB, MY J B Y3U WERE SEEN, THEN gj , WHAT I MUST BESOMETHINO L POR OLD MAN SCUTTLE
ard" in the scholastic end of L.Ut WANTED TO GET ro Jr. I BOY ! REAP ) nActf-TDArw Th locc vhira I WROTE. IN THAT HUNCH! EITHER B HElS CONNA TRY 70 HOP
tbings. I .. ) AWAY....WUAT ' I L. y PAPER. AND 1 I T - II H ,ri (! eucoice WE'D MAKE AWPULLV H A ROfr....kICVeB Miutt 1
t tapper tanny Says M rfl tin JivW T,-T? "ffl f.VJ fiftA Vft-J y , Ly
frAf vr; II tuc wrivcANiri re mom'M pop r. r..,..
f-r K V CONSTABLE A THI9 WAY- A p A NA3 AyVAYiA A WHEEL-OA ndi&iZ.,ZZZZ VSS,! wtoiCym3!Qt ki GRAB YOUR. ,
KsTiwX r-v ? y V y V-y ..Vyagitit? J rTr..T" D,5u"r ".r ""aisatrr ir?.sr jOC2 !aiu Akir.
1 Lr. . ,-ji"yvaft hi lAsyiii ifflrJsa yr -1 wMtmirwi 1 .-,'2, iiiii. ji- tint. . , sr-ssiir. , 11
OUT OUR WAY
WELL OF ALU TH' ALLS!
VIE'VB GOT TO GO BACK 1 y
, I FORGOT TO GET I
' THREAD. THERE ISN'T J
,A BIT AT HOME
' '
IftM BY MCA STWYKt. tsC 5s " Born thirty vears too soon, tv pay orr. I
SALESMAN SAM
Wat'sa r-rreii fou II its a wowoen. o,OM'XShA aw, rats! amc tToReJ ) cycepr THAT OUSl UseOTh f WTrllM&. Ta maksx ya petu AT Hone. 7T
AUO KITW HAVB. A . ft' HEftWCHtl SAOGBOSsl SAfL VvtAVB. tORS. AR-O-Ut-NeklTsJ V SAf-Nt-W OOV t i-,
scRftP? --p evn.vTMiMG-1 yotw, how MAoMou'otfeTj Wtfi ,-1 ' ""rT'&f
. rZ towrmrrTZ "?Vi: .rTT uJMZ jB&l''t.
lis , 'i,
T ii i ill am i ie ""'TWIMr
BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES By Martin
( n ; vt - v ii ii ir vf i :
KLL A&OUT ? wwtE voor MWOEr. f f.IJ 2nw OrTrSSi 1 4 TJOWrT VJT , WOT CAN HAOMT
r1 TASTBtwro MAWS WLR. TOLO VOW WT VfcO r aJAWNA WE. K
1, ' KBOOt f HARRV HvM MS.rV AQOOKO tt S MARRY MM- " rJ- e-
f!. L rJ I crvHWi vouw, ' ; frv SA0 y 1 ' V" '.-4
ggfe. , V 1 V . V'AVVJAVf, t. vj TJ.. Tu Y
. J' TR ToorrM Tlrv! SW
rtf SiFIVM UkZk ffl ?ferili iI FPt?
i m? i ti t fe i n n.'-Tv' wiA.sr .-v . ;if j o Starrs V" v a n,. .
Xyl ETWAS JjyHW5Wj fT Toulousj i
&mprWMnLs womjt'- waktg m i jmm: toj
By J. R. William,
OUR BOARDING
EGAD .DENNIS
CAN HELP ME J
OWLS CLUB COT A TICKET "FOR
SPEEDm--ANO.TOR SOME TREASON,;
THE CLUB ALWAYS HAS "RELIED OH
ME AS THE OFFICIAL TIXET BUT.
VN THIS CASE, I
THE rVEWBER I. TO APPEAR
BEFORE JUDGE RENCHY , WHO IS
A STRA.NGER
REFUSED NY
,54.
HOUSE
""-MaYBE YOU
-A CHAP AT THE
AM E NVErNRTAAS SED )
TO ME -Atvi" TO HAVE.
HELP, OR TO FAIL IN THE
MISSION, WOULD
5REATLY "REDUCE
MY CLUB
PRESTIGE
PJrjJ
easier?
By Ahem
IM JUST A LEATHER
"BURNER, HOOPLE, AN
1 COULDNT EVEN "PUT
IN A PLUS FOR YOU ON
TH" PHONE PANEL.'
3UD6E "RENCHY' WAa
APpoiNTED--SO DONT
CA.P,RY TH' "BANNER THAT
YOU ELECTIONEERED
"FOR HIM BEST
THING IS TO TELL
. YOUR TALTO TAKE
UtS NO,E IN
TOR AlO Jto
i:3
f-oPT-rt-T ton
J, I KT INO
AND
WORRYING-
t.to
By Small
I TWIST
llTn
i
thought "I don't ask much any
more hut oh, be must be careful !'
I ivniapie roi)fc i - ""iisji'iiririiirTi t"ts - m r- y , ' i '