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Thursday, April 16, 1931 LA GRANDE .EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE. ORE. ' Baptist Rally Staged at Cove; Big Attendance By Mrs. A. (. Conklhi (Observer Correspondent) v COVE, Ore. (Special) Seventy-six people attended the district mission ary rally at the Baptist church here. The program began at 11 o'clock, and. as this was the annual meeting, of ficers were elected. A potluck dinner was served at noon and after dinner another program of music and ad dresses was presented. There were people here from Baker, Haines and La- Grande. Thirty-eight of those present were from Cove. T. H. Hagen, the Baptist mission ary, who has been here for the last week, conducted the service both morning and evening Sunday. . Miss Louise Hunderup, who has been one of the Instructors in the teacher training classes at the Bap tist church, was called home Friday. E BifPercioal Ckrldopker Wren- Autlior of MYSTERIOUS WAYE HH SYNOPSIS: Mr. James dirs from a drink of the poison he had prepared to kilt Marforie I.auderdell, and, in the ensuing confusion at Dr. Charters' iiins ing home, John Waye, icii Sister Weldon's help, nets the tirl out of the place. Confronted with the tragic development. Charters ad mits James is his son. as ominous--IV Wave tells htm that Sclilitz. Dorson and James hare pone and that he. Charters, is beina saved for the last. Wane drnides to ar companjt Marjorie to India, where she is to wed her fiance. Contain Lautlerdell. lint irieu. at his re quest. Hitter Wdilon hunts his passport in the cont he had worn on the dan he first came to the home, it is misstno. lie oh'aivs ' another and sets out for India with Marjorie. Chapter 27 TWO CONCLUSIONS OU absolutely Insist on going back at once?" said Mnrlorle. studying Ilia face ot her dear friend, sympathetically, a little sadly. "Yes, Marjorie. I'm going bacli," be said. Around them was the shrill lur. moil ot the Urent Indian Peninsula Railway terminus at Bombay. noise unheard by John Waye as be held Marlorie's hand and said "Good-by." . He had refused to Li lie his tare- well of her elsewhere than 111 this most public of places, after having "What's your game?" demanded given ber away, before the altar ot Bombay Cathedral. i "You do like Reggie, don't you?" asked Marjorie, glancing to where her husband of an hour was super Intending his orderly bestowal of hand-luggage, bedding, hampers and other Impedimenta In the big re served compartment ot the train that was to bear them across the plains ot India. "I approve ot Reggie. I pass him. I leave you in bis bands without a doubt or n fear. He strikes me as a splendid specimen of a fine type of man your Indian Army Officer." "I'm so glad, dear John . . ." said Marjorie, flushing warmly. . . "How can I thank you?'. . . How can I ever begin to thank you?" "By belug happy." John Waye patted the band be held. "Happy as the day Is long." "I shall be that," replied the girl. "But you, John? Wiil you write me a nice long, long letter all about yourself? All that you care to tell me, that is." "I was going to do that, anyway, Marjorie. I'd like you to know how and why I became a ... a criminal and a convict, and came to Eng land with the firm intention ot com mitting at least four murders. 1 want ..." "Come on, Marjorie," called Cap tain Lauderdell, Jumping down from the carriage-door and seizing her arm. "All aboard." "1 say. Sir," be continued, "what on eartb can I say. to give you some idea' of what I feel? I'm not good al 1L . . . But, I never heard ot such kindness. . . . Straight out and back again, just to band her over. . . . And you saved her life too. . . . Well. 1 mean to say. . . ." The young man wrung John Waye's hand. ''Good-by. dearest John," said Marjorie, and, putting her arms round his neck, she kissed him lov ingly. "Good-by, darling Rosemary . . . Marjorie." said John Waye huskily, kissing her. Turning upon his heel lie fled from the place. Dr. Theodore Charters, clean shaven, and remarkably changed In appearance, strolled slowly, mood G. M. Rogers, game warden from Wallowa county, paid a visit to Cove last week. While here he visited his friend, G. M. Baker. :r:" Welclon Simmons came' home from Hot Lake. Wednesday where he had been lor an appendix operation, r Mrs. A. B. Daniel is still critically ill at Hot Lake. Arthur Peldman and his daughter. Miss Valda, and small son, Alfred, came from Portland Sunday to be near Mrs. Daniel, their !mbther and grandmother. : ' Mrs. Viola McCoy, who has been visiting relatives in Portland and other Western Oregon cities. Is now a guest at the A. B. Daniel home. She is a niece of Mr. Daniel and her home Is in Iowa. -- . Mrs. Bert rand Wardell was taken to Hot Lake sanatorium Saturday. Mrs. C. E. Laws on, of the Cove Union highway, was hostess to the Carnation club of Union, - of which she is a member, at her .home Thurs day, April 9 at a one o'clock lunch eon. The guests were seated at a large table with a centerpiece of daf fodils. The three-course luncheon was in a yellow, green and- white color lly and far from jauntily, along Michigan Boulevard. . . .' ' Depressed, heavy and despond ent, lie went his way; but, from time to time, hummed a popular air as he felt the warmth ot the sun, and sniffed the invigorating breeze from the lake. Indeed, he was doiDg so audibly as three stalwart men overtook blm, and, ranging up. two on his right side and one on his left, fell Into step with him. "Mr. Waye?" Inquired one of them pleasantly. . - "Sure. John Waye of this little bright burg." The men eyed him narrowly. "Clean-shaven . . . gray eyes . Would you mind removing your bat a moment?" continued the man who had accosted Dr. Charters. "Gray hair," he continued. "Nick, prob ably made by a bullet, in cartilage of right ear." -J "Quite right," agreed tor. Char ters, coining to a bait and smilingly touching his right ear. where Indeed was the mark in question self-ln-Dieted some months earlier. "Scar across back of right' hand?" inquired the big man. v ... : .... Promptly Dr. Charters withdrew his glove. "There you are," he said,, Unci dis played the necessary, scar, also self Infllclcd some months earlier. Charters, producing Waye's letter!. Got 'ny letters addressed to your self?" "Plenty," replied Charters, diving Into the pocket ot bis overcoat and producing several addressed to Mr. John Waye, at a Chicago hotel. "That's all rlghL . . . Passport?" inquired the man, adding: "You landed from England on September 30th." "Certainly. But 1 don't carry my passport about with me, naturally." "Where is It?" "At my hotel." "I'd like to have a peek at It." "Why, cort'nly. We'll go along, right now." "We will," said the mam "And now, what in hell's your game?" Inquired Charters, as the tour turned about, and matched in the direction whence they had come. "Just wanted to be sure tha't you're John Waye," was the non committal reply. "Ot course I am," replied Char tors impatiently. "Who else d'you think 1 am?" "I don't think you're anybody else," was the answer. From his dispatch-case, Dr. Char ters produced John Waye's pass port. . "Photo's a bad one," he said, -"and taken a good many years ago at that." "Good enough," replied the detec tive. "Quite O. K. Fine. You're John Waye. all right . . . And now, John, it you'll come along with us, we'll soon put you right where you can finish that life-sentence you walked away from. Coming quiet ly?" Dr. Theodore Charters went quiet ly and indeed from hln no sound has since been heard out ot the shadows of the prison-house, across the gulf that separates the bond from the free. For the mantle of John Waye. that be bad drawn so skillfully about his shoulders, ineluctably con ceals his identity for life ... un less the real John Waye were dis covered, or declared himself. For life. ... In San Paolo Jail. fCipr'iftl. 1? t.lr fudlritk A. Slok4i Ct.) Rosemary! Tomorrow Waye goes back ot the story you have luit read to tell of her whose tragtc Dsi made him the very toul ot vengeance. . - MICflOreiGHT' Cl'RE - SEEN "IS" DECORATIONS NEW YORK "Mlcro Jrlght" no. longer ' may be a common Idiosyncrasy. Heretofore some timid radio speakers have paused before the awesome microphones. Of ten they suffered attacks of "nerves." .-i.-.-- Bellevlng that the barren surroundings ot the ordinary studio had much to do with tlus.-NBC designers bave trans formed a colorful reception room into art English beamed celling library-study -for the exclusive use of prominent speakers. " scheme and the room was decorated with daffodils, fridge. was played at four tables. The dub prizes went to Mrs. G. A. Scfbtrd, high',, and Mrs. Merton Davis, low, and guest prizes went to Mrs. Vera Fox, high, and Mrs. Hall, -tow.- Other, .guesta ' were Mrs. George Hoffman. Mrs. Clark Martens. Mrs. Ed Miller, Mrs. Lou Bideler, Mrs. Louisa Burwell, Mrs". Frank Conner, Mrs. T. ,T. Cock. Mrs. Walter Cock, Mrs. ;Mary- Hutchinson, Mrs. Edith Phy, Mrs. : W. W. Stevens. Mrs. Tex Knight, .all of Union, and Mrs. T. C. Hefty, of Cove. Mrs. Ethel Hansen was hostess -to the Fun- and Joy; Bridge club at luncheon at the Sacajawea Inn In La Grande at one' o'clock Saturday. The decorations were daffodils and other spring flowers, frizes were won by Mrs. Ruth Kelley for the club and Mrs. Rutmon. for the guests. Other guesta were Mrs.-T. C. Hefty, Mrs. G. E. Barker, Mrs. T. R. Conklln, Mrs. John MUler, Mrs. Grant Conley. Mrs. L. J. Chadwlck, Miss Vina Conley, Miss Bess Kelley, Mrs. A. n. prion 1MI, B. J. Ittfaeldi Tablcca l . AlTlTl - Mrs. Bernice Miller, of Cove, Miss Sar Williamson, Mi's. 8- Pearl, Mrs. Rutman, of La' Grande, and Mrs. A1J bert Wardell, of Island City. . A surprise was given Saturday eve ning honoring Miss Clarice Conklln, of Walla Walla, who Is a guest at the home of Mr. and Mi's. J. E. Mills. Cartla and other games .furnished the entertainment. Miss Conklln was for merly a Covo girl and her friends always enjoy her visits here. In Washington By Herbert Plummer -, WASHINGTON Random notes In A Washington Day Book: Ambassador Dawes' recent remark In London that he longed for the day when after-dinner speeches would be a thing of the past ex pressed only half of his actual feel Inge about- this mutter of public dining, in the opinion of those hi Washington who know "Hell an' Maria." They say that unless he has changed greatly since his vice preslr dentlal days he would like to see both dinner and speeches abolished. He once admitted that the waiters gavo him his biggest "kick" at Wash ington dinner parties. Washington hostesses . hire additional - waiters when they give a big dinner party. Night after night Dawes would en countor the same waiters at differ ent places, each time in .different livery. A silent friendship grew up be tween them and the vice president. Dawes would frequently look for a familiar face among the waiters at a dinner party and reward him with a sly wink. HOW CAME "OAilltKIKI," .Recently there appeared in this column an account of h-ow that great leatherneck" MnJ. qen: John ' wm-y v, DO NOT be misled by a mere shiny wrapper. The Camel Humidor Pack should never he confused with either the glassine or the ordinary Cellophane wrapping sometimes found on other cigarettes. Our Humidor Pack is made of moisture-proof Cellophane, which costs nearly twice as much as ordinary Cellophane and is air-sealed at every point. It is not put there merely to catch the eye hut to perforin a real service to the Camel smoker. Because it is both air-sealed and moisture-proof, it keeps Camels always in mild, factory prime condition. It also guards the cigarettes within from contamination by dust or dangerous germs. Cmpur J. Lejeune got his nickname of "Gabe." . It -was .furnished by a life-long friend of the general, a classmate of his at Annapolis and one of his greatest admirers. His explanation tor the origin of "Gabe" was that the general as a midshipman was so fong of sleep that his . classmates were wont to remark that unless ouo of them ejected him bodily from bed In the morning he would sleep until Gabriel sounded his trumpet. The other night General Lejeune. now retired, came up to Washing ton front Lexington, Va., where he is superintendent of the Virginia Mili tary academy. THE TRUE STORY Over coffee and cigars the writer reminded him of this story of his nickname and asked if tt were true. 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