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Thursday, April 26, 1934 LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE. ORE. Page Nine Judith Lane l,g JBANW BOWMAN SYNOPSIS: Judith Dab hot pone to the 'Hio Diablo dam to eu pervlee the loork begun by her for mer employer. Big Tom Bevina, in aoeordanoe with the term of hie will, Bhe hae left Juetin Gurnard and Judge Morgan in Boueton to fioht Morton. Lampere, who it try Ino to recover tor the Bevine heire the money iW Judith by Big Tom for the completion of the dam. But ehe aleo hai left behind her hue hand. Norman Dale. LamperCe lav partners liorman doee not ap vrove Judtth'e course. The dam workers aiexiM Judith' epeech. 'Chapter 27 STlftAIGHTTALK A 3 Judith.' Dale raised hor band, silence fell on the crowd ot dam workers who had come to greet her. They had tasked for a speech. "Tell me -what you Would like lo knowT she . asked. "Our jo'bs . . . licw about our Jobs?' "W'no gets Mason's placet1 . "How long you goln' to keep opcr- atln'?" Again 3ior uplifted hand "Big Tom woujd baVo had the man next in line Ml Mason's place. We'll fol low the samo plan. Max Larson Is next In Itne." A roar of approval greeted this. "Your' Jobs are safo. The new company has money to carry on the work aod keep your salaries going during ,tbe will contest " She stopped. Somewhere tin the outer fringe an argument was going on. "What's tho trouble?" she de mandod. "Awv" came a voice, "there's a bird back here says we ought to beat tt while beatin's goo-' and get oursolvcs a real Job. He says the Bevins women are go a' t' let this dam go as soon's the will's broke find tliey get the money." "Wliat'll we do with him, MIsb judy?" asked a young voice, "shall we rldo hlra out on u rail?" This emergency was one Big Tom could not have foreseen. Juditb knew ber dam workers. She bad known them all of her Hfo. They could be quickened to mutiny as quickly as they could be quickened to loyalty and upon the turn ot a word this decision might rest "Ride him out on a rail?" echoed Judith lu derision, "why give him transportation, let him walk." The quick answer won. Roars of lausbter, scuffling on the fringe, then silence. Judith spoke again "naturally you are Interested In your Jobs. Whether you keep these Jobs or not Is up to you. It will depend upon one thing, your loyalty to Big Tom Bevins. "As you work, remember' you are working for him, Just as I am work ing tor bim. He earned tbe five million dollars It will take tor the erection and maintenance ot thlB dam and he had a rlght-to say how It should be spent. Ho left It to me with the orders to spend It as he would have spent It had he lived, not for my personal use. I am work ing as his secretary; his stenog rapher, at a salary less than many of you are receiving. "Big Tom know there would be an Attempt to break his will and he pre pared for it. There will be no dan ger from that source . . . but the same influence which will try to break the will, will try to send spies into camp here to cause dissension, distrust, anything to binder, the work on the dam, : "It you listen to these spies, you will ho hurting yourself worse than anyone else. "Big Tom had foresight enough to protect your Interests against our common enemy. Have you loy alty enough to protect his memory and carry out the desire ot his life, the building ot this dam?" TO Judith, It seemed the shout of assent was unanimous and shortly atterwardB the crowd be gan dispersing and she found her self surrounded by a group of fore tneri, engineers and construction men. many ot whom she had worked with before. . "You said the right thing, Mrs. Dale," said Larson, "they were wor ried about working for a millionaire stenographer. You put them straight on that." "And What you said about loyal ty," added another. "Say, Judy," interposed Clark Goodwin, with whom she had at tended college, "did you mean that about working for a salary?" , "1 certainly did," she answered, then with a boyish grin, "where do 1 pitch my tent? And say, could you rustle a second one for my girl friend? This is Delphy, boys, she decided she wasn't going to let me come down here and eat mantillas and holy beans, so I found her on the train, spending her last nickel to take care of me." "Good for Delphy, you bet we can find a tent for hor." , They had been walking uphill and Judy saw they were fast coming to the queer ship-rock where the sur veying crew had token shelter dur ing the storm. There In Us lee was a small house, lights gleaming through bare windows, hammers beating a rapid tattoo. They stopped before the opened door and a man In coveralls, pound ing a final nail In tbe door step, stood up. "Welcome home, Small-Jude," he said. "Slim Santord," gasped Judith, "If 1 didn't know you had wlugs I'd believe you were your own ghost. However did you got here?" "With my wings. Cunard sent me down as soon as you made up your mind to come. He wired Laredo tor lumber to be sent In and the boys worked In their off hours to put this up." "I repeat, you're a great gang." Juditb, who knew tho dearness ot lumber so far from Bhlpplng cen ters, appreciated the little wooden shack for Its true value. It was Just one long barren room with a board ed lean-to for a kitchen and a cur tained alcove for Delphy, but It spelled luxury. Dolpny took In tho situation and called Slim Sanford aside. Slim had been around Hillendale enough 'for Delphy to have assumed- a proprie tory air over him and his services. "Ma's Slim, reckon I'd best make colfee and sangwichens?" He decided It would be a fine Idea and he presided over tbe oil stove which Delphy eyed with consider able apprehension while she made sandwiches, devoured by rho men who s'ut in the big room talking to Judith. JUDITH was silent for the most J part, listening to them talk and gleaning the real news of Big Tom Town. When Slim came in with the coffee pot she looked up and sur prised his eyes in an unguarded mo ment. Sympathy and tenderness were there, and a fierce protective- ss. 'Delphy says Just chocolate for you, Judith," he explained when she held up ber cup for coffee. After the men had left, Judith wont to her comfortable bed, brought In on the work train for ber, and tried to sleep, but her mind sped back to Houston. What would Norman think when he realized 'the had loft? What would be do? Would he write? Where was he now,- still In Galveston, perhaps? His case promised to last for a week at least. She wondered If Mathllo was with him? Restlessly she turned and tossed. Mathllo would be with him If It were within her power. Perhaps she would talk him into taking her to their farmhouse for dinner . . . per haps there would he clove pinks and hollyhocks along the path. She was being silly, neither one were in blossom this time of the year and Norman wduld not be out with Mnthlle. She should be thinking of the work which lay before her. She thought ot Slim Sanford Instead, thought ot him wonderlngly. Of , course Slim had been acting as a winged courier for Cunard, and yet there seemed to be something deeper in his concern for her wel fare. -, Judith did not want Slim'fe regard to go deeper than friendship and yet she felt a twinge ot pleasure when she thought ot the aviator. She started to turn and heard Delphy's springs creak.' She held hor breath. If Delphy learned she was awake she'd have to drink Bomo more chocolate and she couldn't. She lay thero wondering what the old woman would do whon she saw tho native children; irf to fatten them? What a time she'd have. That was It, she'd write Norman In a light vein "Normy' dear, bo bold your wife, Delphy accompanied' by six cans ot cbocolate and the old red brick " A She curled Into a comfortable po sition, punched her plljow Into a pult ball and burrowed ber head Into it resolutely. She'd count sheep. She began, one, two three . . . and. then one hundred, two hundred ; . . four hundred and fifty . . . was It six or seven . . . there were voices ' outsIJe. She opened her eyes, the sun was streaming In through tho uncurtained windowB and Delphy waB tiptoeing to the door, a warn ing "Shhh" preceding her. "he right sorry sir. but she didn't get no sleep till come two-thirty this mo'nln an' 1 won't waken her" Judith sat np and peeked out tho window. Heads, men's and women's. Scoggins was in the lead ... a dele gation of the native families were waiting at the door. "Delphy," she called, "tell them I'll bo out an soon as I dress." 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