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About The Willamina times. (Willamina, Yamhill County, Oregon) 1909-1972 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1942)
TIMES. WILLAMINA. OREGON _ _ GRANVILLE _ _ BURST ONCE CHURCH • W.N.U. SERVICE V Curt thought he detected a sar Inspecting the job in hand, ques donic overtone and waited for Gie tioning the capacity of that size other to go on. culvert, passing a few more words, “Then arrived my aviators. They took twenty minutes. Montaya took showed me that the wind is bad for little or no part in tiie talk. Once that location. And the wind here Curt noticed the senor looking at never varies much. So,” Montaya tentively from him to Bill Hender spread his hands, there was no son, but gave it no thought. steering, “I built new hangars at On their way again Curt said, the upper end of the field, the site "Darn good worker, Bill Henderson. they selected.” Only fault is he never could leave “And the old buildings?” liquor alone. He can usually handle “I will tear them down when I it, but it does him out of a future.” need the materials. Meanwhile, they Montaya shrugged noncommittal serve as a bodega. 1 have some ly- choice stocks of rosewood and hard They reached Tempujo by mid mahogany curing there. And cirue- afternoon. From here they’d take a lillo. Also much pipe and pump power launch up the river to the machinery which I was able to pick main levee camp. First, however, up very cheaply in bankrupt sales. Montaya led the way down the CHAPTER V One must save where one can. For ridged asphalt footpath to the Tem the overhead irrigation system we On his way home to lunch Jeff’s install later. I shall send you the pujo engineering office. Half of this building, all one side step was springy as a boy’s. As he inventory for your perusal.” of it, was a single large room with let the gate slam behind him. Buddy Twice on the run Curt stopped and Chuck jumped from ambush be Montaya to inspect the work of bal almost continuous windows in three hind the hedge. This brought about lasting in progress. On the second walls. Here was drafting equipment, a free-for-all on the lawn until the stop, where a crew was cribbing a engineering instruments. An intelligent-looking native, at resultant bedlam made Lee, watch section of the roadbed and installing ing from the screened livingroom- a culvert, he found the engineer in present tracing maps, was in charge veranda, put fingers to her ears. charge was a man he'd known pre of the office. Lauriano Duro bowed stiffly when introduced, then went “Hey, Man-mountain!" she called viously in Tierra Libre. on with his work. to Curt. "You’re worse than the Bill Henderson was a lanky, hap boys. You know better, they don’t. py-go-lucky individual, with a mop While Montaya selected a couple We have neighbors, remember.” of maps to take along on their trip of sandy hair burnt by tropic sun. Curt snatched up the youngsters he explained, “We maintain His skin was like leather, his eyes a upriver, to march inside. duplicate set of our important so straight and pale that they made drawings here, “Lunch ready? I’m starved.” Mr. Curtis. This him seem to stare. But for all his “ Yes, but you!" she eyed him sor serves two purposes, convenience rowfully. “Look at you. Your only rough exterior, he had a sheepish and insurance against fire.” fresh whites! You look like a street air in greeting Curt. Curt nodded approvingly. “Hiya, fella.” Henderson grinned cleaner on a rainy day." The other half of the building was Curt chuckled and pulled her to amiably, it might have been only further divided. A screened porch him. in front was combination livingroom “Well, you didn’t marry a glam and outer office. In back of this our boy. Anyway, I won’t need these was a small bedroom. Through an again for a while. I’m making the open door on the other side of the first round this afternoon, so get bedroom Curt could see a shower out my boots and field clothes. And cubicle. pack my old musette bag for over "This you will find most con night. Won't be back till sometime venient when your work holds you tomorrow." at this end of the planting,” Mon During lunch Curt was full of the taya remarked. “ You use the mess- job ahead of him, but the meal was hall for meals.” nearly over before he realized Lee Curt grinned. “Good enough!” hadn’t been listening with the prop They had thought of everything er enthusiasm. That pucker had here. returned to her forehead and it The old Tempujo radio shack at brought back a string of questions to the river dock now housed the dis his own mind. He paused to give patcher and his small switchboard her a chance. that served Tsmpujo. Here ended ► “About Zora Mitchell, Jeff,” she the two telephone lines from San began. Alejo, one used by the dispatcher, “Yes.” Curt set down his glass of one for general utility. They still iced tea, carefully. “I saw photo- i maintained the radio, too, against graphic evidence this morning. They , emergency. Montaya entered this took pictures when they found her. office to talk with San Alejo before I reckon it’s pretty conclusive.” He leaving for the levee camp. Curt tried to speak lightly. strode about outside. She was silent a moment. The dock hoist was lifting a huge “But her child, so little and all case from the deck of a river steam alone. I kept thinking all morning er. It was one of the crated air what if it were Bud—” Lee bit her i plane wings Curt had seen in the lip. “Don’t you think, Jeff, we could j wharf shed at Cabeza. take her until arrangements are 1 Rising up over the edge of the made to send her north?” wharf, it loomed even bigger than “A swell idea, Lee! I should’ve Curt had thought, bigger than neces thought of it myself. They’re look sary for the plane he’d seen on the ing after her at the hospital nursery. ground at the airfield that after I’ll speak to Montaya this after noon. noon.” The Negro rolled swift, even at Curt reached the San Alejo sta this season, obliging the launch to tion before Montaya, equipped for fight its way upstream. When they the field on this first tour of the reached the ever-moving camp of C. A. T. tract. the levee gang it was too late to go “ Uh, no, Curt, I cut up a bit one He kept his promise to Lee, rais out on the job that night. After a ing the subject of the Mitchell child night.” wash-up, Montaya and Curt busied before they set out. yesterday they last met. “ Heard themselves with maps and progress Montaya studied the ash forming you were coming.” reports in the office tent, until the on the end of his cigarette. Why so “So, Bill, you finally broke away fast-obliterating darkness drove the much deliberation, Curt wondered, from Associated. You threatened to construction gang into camp. over so simple a matter? He often enough.” Again Curt found an Ud friend frowned. At length Montaya spoke. “Well, uh, guess it was the other among these workers. “I have been unable yet to locate way around. Curt. They broke loose “Slats!” he called to the bulky the relatives. According to our rec from me.” man pushing his feet wearily down ords there are only two—sisters of the camp road. “ I’ll be damned!” “ How come?” Mrs. Mitchell, and they—ah, travel “Hello, Curt! Glad you’re on the “Oh, reckon I went on one too in theatrical work. It will take time many benders.” job. It’ll seem like old times again.” to make arrangements. If Mrs. Cur “Has all the old guard left Asso “What! Have they gone Sunday tis will be so kind, then. The child School on us over there?” ciated, Slats?” is not happy at the nursery.” “No. We’ve got a number over “Uh, no, Curt. I cut up a bit one As they rolled down the moun night.” here, but I reckon you won’t know tainside Curt had a better view of many of ’em. Myself and Bill Hen “Oh.” the airfield than from the unexpect Curt surveyed the other. Under derson—” ed glimpse of it the day before Henderson’s open shirt were spots “ Yeh, met him.” Again today Curt noted the length and blotches of dull red forming a “—and Steve Harvey, and Law- of the field, but at once realized a solid blemish of the skin, ending son . . . well, only us, I guess, long runway was necessary for jaggedly at the collarbone. Curt re from the old days.” heavily loaded planes. His eyes membered that Henderson had al Slats, naked to the waist, his dirty traveling down the wide strip caught ways been too lazy to treat this skin shirt slung across his shoulder, a a glimpse, but hardly more than fungus. filthy hat pushed back until sweat- that, of what seemed to be a dupli But there was something decided soaked hair escaped in a tangle, cate set of buildings at the far end. ly peculiar in Henderson’s manner, showed strong teeth as he smiled, They were shaded by the big copse in his careful words. The man didn’t teeth yellow with tobacco stains. But of trees left standing there, but at have to be on good behavior with for all the friendliness of the grin, that end of the field the grass was Curt. He’d never been so restrained he seemed uneasy. grown, there was no runway. Evi in the old days. Perhaps Montaya’s Montaya stood nearby. Again dently these buildings were not in silent presence threw a damper on Curt caught a thoughtful look in the use—at least as hangars. the meeting. Curt commenced to Spaniard’s eyes. Or was it specu However, along the barely visible stuff his pipe absently. lative? At any rate, the look van front of the buildings ran a plat “ So you crossed the river! ished as Montaya said, “Mr. Har form breast high, and serving this Should’ve gone home. How you do vey and Mr. Lawson are on the platform was a spur track leading ing now?” drainage laterals.” from the airfield branch. Curt would To Monahan Curt said, “Slats, “Oh, I’ve been off the stuff for have missed the platform if the some time.” how come so many of you left As track hadn’t suggested it. “Shake on that, Bill.” Nothing sociated?” “A bodega?” he asked, and be- I wrong with his grip, thought Curt, “Oh,” Monahan replied hesitating fore realizing the impertinence he wincing. “Tell you what, when you ly, “they started pinching pennies was offering, “ Funny place for it." feel the urge again, look me up be for one thing, and Senor Montaya But Montaya was not offended. fore you start in. I’ll see you pays good wages.” Then, as though He gave a short, deprecative laugh. don’t go too far. Anyway, we’ll he hadn’t said enough, “Besides, “ My reason for locating them have to have a get-together soon for this’s a new planting, and you know where I did was to take advantage old time’s sake. Come up to San how most of us feel about a new of those trees for the comfort of Alejo. Lie will be glad to see you job. It’s more fun building than the men. It is so very hot on the again.” maintaining.” field. A good idea, no?" “Sure, Curt, thanks.” (TO HE CONTINUED) T H E STORY SO F A R : J ilt Car«!» and his wife, Lee. are on their way Io Tierra Libre when Jell rereives a note from Zora Mitchell warning thrm not to rontr. Jeff Is to be rhlet engineer tor a newly organised, fruit company. They arrive In Tierra Libre to find both Zora M llrh- ell and her husband dead, and Jeff sus pects they were murdered. He learns from Jerry McInnis, a form er associate who works for a rival fruit company, that there Is something strange going on and that Mitchell and Zora were killed because they knew too much. A con versation with his employer, Senor Mon- taya, confirms Jeff's suspicions. Mon- tava shows him pictures of Zora's body. Her fingers, bolding a German gun. are not tightly clasped, as they would be If she had pulled the trigger herself. NOW C O N TIN U E W IT H T H E STORY THURSDAY. 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