iftL Pasre 6 OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1920 LWAUKIE & NORTHERN CLACKAMAS MI t t , .! Oak Grove News OAK GROVE, Nov. 4. Miss Char lotte Merriot utetrained her Sunday School class ot 12 girls at a dinner party Thursday evening, October 2T, t her home at Silver Springs. Miss F. Kilgore was quite ill on Tuesday and her place on election board wasfi!led by Jos Fahey. Mrs. C. A. Lewis passed away Thursday of last w a1" ton" ul ness. The funeral was held Saturday and her many Iriends extend sym pathy to the bereaved family. Harvey !, Starkweather discussed the measures Sunday evening at the church before Epwortu League and friends. The Helpers Club enjoyed a hal lowe'en party last Friday night at the home ot the secretary Miss Kathryu Olson. Twenty six were persent. The guests attired in ghostly or hallowe'en attire wer? ushered into the darkened rooms where black cats' eyes and pumpkin faces glared at them. The hallowe'en fortune teller was there and man stcrit told by the ghosts to make one's blood curdle in the veins. After an hour the lights were turned on and the apple paring contest and animal hunt were enjoyed in which Edith j Fernwick won a prie for downing animals enough to succeed in giving her the largest number of pounds j found by any one perosn. A prize was given for best gowned rhost and was won bv Edith Xorberg and Daisy Hubbard who appeared as twins and Evelyn UUle won the prize for keeping her identity concealed the longest for not until they uamasked was It known. Dancing waa Indulged in and hal lowe'en refreshments were served. And all wero loth to return to their homes. Mrs. R. R. Davenport is quite ill at her home. Uttle Eugene Vernon was quite ill last week bnt reported " --- Several of the members of the Social Service Club of Oak Grove Milwaukie surprised Mrs. V. G. Pen vie at her new home, Saturday takinR good things to eat as a memento and to assist her with her meals as having I She heard hlra In a stare. The worn just moved and her house not in or- an In her could hardly be unaffected der cooking was a difficult problem by the handsome gravity of that ei The ladies acted the part of the Good Inordinary countenance, whose salient Samaritan and with the good thinrs features gained so much through that sent in by those who could not be present mo-e than one gofd """" meal was enjoyed by the hostess with- out much labor for her and this act cf j kindness was much appreciated by ; her. Prof. Stroud entertained the seventh e"d eichth grade at his home Satur day evening. To obse-ve Hallowe'en. Misss Eliza. bth K. Matthews, principle of "The Out-of-door Development School at Courtney station, entertained the pu pils attending her school. Friday morning the children in the Kindergarten and Prima-y made ap propriate articles and light refresh ments were served. In the evening from seven until ten the pupils in the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades we-e en- PROFESSIONAL CARDS j " j Phone Milwaukle 64-W. JOHNSON REALTY CO. Heal Estate, Insurance and Rental Office at Statioa Milwaukle. Ore j 1 Phones: Sellwood 697, Automatic 21363 John P. Miller, Mgr. East Side Mill & Lumber Company . Manufacturers an dDealers In Lumber, Lath, Shingles and Mouldings Mill Foot of Spokane Avenue PORTLAND, OREGON J P. FINLEY & SON Perfect Funeral Service Telephone Main 9 A-1599 BBHE5 Drugs, Prescriptions, Druggist Sundries, Vetinary Remedies Fancy Stationery and Choice Candies. At your home drug store. THE PERRY PHARMACY Milwaukle, Orsgoai W. B. Perry, Prop. First State BankofMiwaukie "YOUR Conducts a General Banking Business t 4 per cent, interest on Savings. Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent YOUR PATRONAGE APPRECIATED tertained, coming In appropriate cos- turues. 1 iVtore the o(h?u fire place, corn was popred, marshmallow toasted and chtNnuis toastV HobblnR apples caused much merriment, dancing and games were eigoyed. Doughnuts and elder as a repast were served during the evening. The "Log Bungalow" and veranda were very uniquely decorated. amummimHimmnimiiimimmmn The . Dark Mirror Louis Joseph Vance g Author f "The Pals Facts," -77.7 Lont Wolf," Etc Kustrattd by ESWIN MYERS nllllltilkaktUalillUtllllllllllllUalklllllkUr (Copyright, 1300, by th Author.) (Continued Firm Page S) But this vision was swiftly dlsslpat- d hJ recrudescence of that fear which Red Inspired. In honest conviction that no earthly power could save her from his vengeance. "Tou don't know Red." She shook her head solemnly In a spirit of fatal prophecy. "He'd croak you, too; he'd croak us both." Mario smiled faintly. "I am not afrnld" "Tou're not afraid of dyingr "What Is life without your lovef He bad a thoughtful moment. "Who knows but death may prove infinitely more wonderful than this life of ours? There is but one way of finding out Retnbrnodtesque play of deep shadows and dull light. Coder the spell of his mentality she acknowledged now for the first time that he was essential: all else was nothing. And of a sudden rare fastened crnel claws udod her heart and wrung from It a cry of self bet rfiyal, "Maybe yoo're not afraid. Mario. I dont believe you are. But I am ufrald for you. I wish you'd go away." You love me!" Her hands lifted In protest ; he eanght and Inclosed them both in his own. His shadowed face and eyes grew luminous, his souorona accents vibrated with emotion. "Ton love me. Leonora at last." He was drawing her steadily toward him. all her strength seemed to have ebbed from her limbs. There was madness In the beating of ber heart. madness mounting like mist Into her brain. Now she was in his arms, and glad. His lips closed on hers. For a long breath she was a mere thing of reeling senses. "Tou love me?" "1 don't know," she murmured "maybe ..." "Tomorrow you will marry me, and we will go away " Stung by realization of what had b"Wned' fe "I don t know perhaps yes, I w will. Montgomery and Fifth Portland HOME BANK" But not tomorrow not right away." "Why r "Let me go I'll tell you." He re leased her. She stepped hack, shaken wltb love and fright, looking fearfully up and dwn (lie street, "1 i-HM't nuirry you just yet. I've got to hrvnk with Rod so's he won't know It wasn't tun) l luit broke with me. And I've cm other HOntrs to do things I can I tell you about. Marl things I've t,t lo icihI to before I can marry you. Km you inn trust me: I've promised, iitiil I w ill, as soon as ever I ran , . ." Ilt voice quavered, and she thrust mil her hands, fending off his anus. "I'le:ise don't kiss me again, please let int go now. If anybody saw us and tol.l Red . . He made a sign of submission. As "You Lov Me, Leonora at Last" rerlewlns! the company wtb quizzical gmse. Though both windows were open, closed shu;ters prevented any draught you win, so be It, Leonora. I will see you again when?" "Tomorrow. I'll give yon a ring about noon and fix to meet you up town somewheres, I guess. Now I've got to run. Good-night . . . dear." He uttered In resignation: "Good night" With a flickering smile of fondness she turned and left blm, her slight young figure flitting swiftly through the shadows. Beneath the lamn at the far street corner, she turned, looked back, saw him motion less where she had left him, surmised bis look of longing and, waving a hand, ran on, wild Joy In her heart contending with cold fear. For now she had done It. and there'd be the devil to" pay. But It couldn't be helped. Though hell and heaven were leagued against them. she would go through. She always did, once she got started. And with Mario, she knew. It was as with her; he too would go through, now he knew she loved him, though Red and all the world besides should try to stop him At length, well out of her course, she stopped. Imposed coherence upon her thoughts, got her bearings, and started on anew, in a cooling mood constraining herself to forget Mario and concentrate upon the business that waited for her at her destination. But the Self outside herself, of whose constant company she was wholly Ignorant, never ceased to yearn bark toward that callant. lonely figure they two hud left behind In the quiet by-street. IV. RiSTORIS. She turned sb.-irply. hulf-wny down a block In the shadow of the Elevated, and with the culm assurance of her ap parent kind entered what had once been a dwelling of some pretentious ness, but now was dedicated to the decadent uses of according to Its painted signboard "Ulstori's Table d'Hote tMnner with Wine 75c Luncheon 50c. " In the i-orrldor at the head of the first flit-hi she turned to the back of the house ami laid a confident hand j upon the knob of the furthest door. It ! turned, bill the door was stubborn, i With a movement of Impatience she j knuckled the panels with a triple i knock of peculiar tlminu. A bum of i voices in the closed room died away, j a heavy tread became audible, a key grated, ibe door awung open. She went In. nodding lightly to the man who had admitted her and. finding herself under the concentrated regard of eleven pairs of eyes, paused In the middle of the floor and struck a spir ited pose. "Good evening, folks! Pipe my new rags r The silence that answered her was broken after a little by fled Carnehan. who said heavily: "Hello, kid. Sit down." Ignoring his Invitation to an empty chair on bis right, she dropped her pose but remained where she had stopped, lifting ber brows a little 8ud from vitiating the stuffiness of the "private dining room" a bed-chamber In the Intention of the architect. In an atmosphere stifling with smells of food, alcohol and a truculent perfume, the smoke of imitation Turkish tobac co hung In lazy, lilac reefs. Discol ored paper of a morbid pattern was parting In reluctant spirals from the walls. Dust of decades weighed down an elderly carpet and obscured Its florid design. Scorbutic paint disfig ured the fine old woodwork. The man who had let Leonora in having resumed his chair, twelve were seated at a table littered with debris of a meal, unclean earthenware plates, H'1 f x ; tip and those high-shouldered bottles of dark glass, guiltless of labels, which seem to be the sole habitat of the vln du pays so generally known as "red Ink" that to name It by this alias ne longer excites a smile. Because of the heat all the men but one Mr. Harry the Nut had put off their coats and collars, while the wom en had loosened tltclr blouses at the throat. Sweat beaded faces of various complexions, ranging from the san guine countenance of Ked to the pasti ness of Charlie the Coke, Leonora, looking from one to another, found each, with the exception of Red's, sal len of cast If not openly hostile. She sketched a lofty smile. "What's the funeral r Red Csrnehnn red of head and hand an ltnlo-CVlttc product, as slen der, supple and sinewy as a annke, and as deadly replied sutlUMently,. "Nt body's yet," and again waved a hand toward the vacant chair. "Whyn't you sit down?" He added: "You're pretty late." "What about It?" Tko girl flounced to the table and t.,rew herself side ways tnto the chair. English Addle, Monde, blottsy and full-bodied, sprawled half across' the table and, without removing the clEa rette from her mouth, spoke In accents of cloying affection flatly denied by her semi-sober Stan- of Jealousy: "Maybe you won't mind tellln' us w'at mlde you lite, dearie . . Leonora experienced qualm of mis givings. Had somebody spied on her and Mario and hurried ahead to tat tle? . . . Kven so, that was a matter between Red and herself, nothing to excite Ul-feellng in the other. But Red was apparently unruffled, although unusually subdued for Mm, and per haps a shade suspiciously Impartial ! his attitude. She lied readily, without a qulvet, naming two plain-clothes men she had noticed In the Street of Strange Faces. "Knnls and Corbln lamped me on the way here If It's anything In your young life. Addle dear and ! had to chase all over to lose 'em." "Tou did shake 'em, kid suref Red demanded with keen Interest. "Sure. If I hadn't I wouldn't le here now." "Maybe so," Charlie the Cok drawled In s voice as colorless as the flesh of his face "maybe not." "Where do you get that stuff? What's all this, anyway? I want to know." Her eyes ranged again the array ot faces, challenging each In turn, and getting no satisfaction; for each In turn averted his gaze with an expres sion more or less sheepish and discon certed, all but Red. Harry the Nut, and Inez, the third and only other woman present. "Well? What's It all about? Start something, somebody why don't you? If anything' gone wrong, let me In the know. I guess I've got as much right as anybody" The Nut shrugged and with super cilious nonchalance selected another cigarette .from the flat gold case he was fond of displaying ; circumstance which, according to one's bias, might or might not be tnken as Indicating that the case had been honestly come by. Inez seemed eager to speak, but Red forestalled her. "It's like this, kid: Eddie's been pinched." The fact that the person In question, being under Indictment for burglary. had for some time succeeded In re maining at large solely by grace of his loyal associates, might have been thought enough to rob this announce ment of some of Its staggering quality. But to Leonora It came as a genuine shock, and she showed it unmistak ably. "No!" she exclaimed, and added a most unladylike phrase of mixed in credulity and regret "Somebody's squealed." "That's Just It." Inez affirmed sig nificantly. "I wonder who I" Leonora needed a little time before she was able to couple the thinly veiled animosity of the gathering, to which she had been sensible ever since entering, with the lone employed by iuez. Hotnt-tlilug which this Inst would ordinarily have lacked audacity to at tempt. Then immediately her leaiper grew incandescent. "Meaning me?" "Why, lion!" Inez drawled, rounding her eyes "whatever made you think that?" But she committed the grievous error of trying to exchange with Ked a look of malicious understanding which Leonora Intercepted Instantly. "Never you mind what made me think that," she said In cold ruge; "I get you; I ain't blind and dumb. But take it from me. Inez: yon chuck It and chuck II quick. If I gei one more word out of you. trying to make me out o stool-pigeon If I ever see yoa look that way lit Ited again your pe--ple'll have no kick rotnlnu." "Oh, Is that so?" Inez uuuiu:4l "Ws Want to Know Whers You Got Those Clothes." with mist-Leu pertncha. "What rtc you think you'll do?" "Irish you," Leonora Informed bei savagely "Irish ymi till ail you'll need will be a wood kimono lined With satin and trimmed with tin. And you know I'll do It, too," Her small emphatic list struck the table; Rod's band closed on It, "Kasy, kid; don't run away with the wrong Idea" "1 won't. Don't worry." She wrenched ber hand fro. "I'm no simp, I've got more brains than Ibe rest u this push lumped together that goes for you. too, Ked. And I won't aland for Insinuations from nobody not from that rotten JIttle cat tbut's Hy ing to make up to you aim's always Jealous of me or anybody else. You . . .1" Kor s moment words proved Inadequate. She sat In a tense pos ture, white with fury, breathing quick ly ; and even lied avoided her eyes. "Ah, you all make me sick I Kddle gets pinched -God knows howl and yu all fix on me as the squealer be cause I happen to he a few minutes late tonight I Why, you poor Mi 1" She checked abruptly, noting another questionable gap In the company. "Why pick on me? Where's I.eo HUv Husky? Why Isn't he here? If being late's proof of squealing he's later than me !" "That ain't all, Nora." KnglUh Ad dle tnterimsed. "We want to know where you got those clothes." "What's thnt to you? Can't I spend my money, drvss myself decent. If I want to?" "Yes; but where'd you get the front you was wearing when Harry seen you up on Fifth avenue yestorday?" "He never" "Oh. yes. I did, Nora." the Nut In terrupted with b's exasperating gen tllity, mlnctny bis words In the fashion he found useful In uptown barn, "But ting on dog, ton. and ceding away with It great traveling with a dame that looked like she wouldn't take nothing from the qncon of Knglnnd. 1 tell you. I saw vou." "That's another He!" But the steadi ness of Hurry's eyes wan disconcert ing. I'nqiiestlonably be believed bis assertions. Leonora's tongue tripped over the denial : "I wasn't . . ." "Well, then, tell tii where yon were at four o'clock yesterday afternoon," Addle suggested blandly. Al that hour Leonora had been In a Second avenue motion picture theater with Mario: an Indiscretion lo which she could not possibly confess. Per ceptibly she lost sxs'irnnre. "None of your rl n business." "Better tell 'em. kid." Bed counseled! uneasily. "Yon got to come clean" "I.Ike b I I have!" Once more the flames of rage leapt high. "I don't owe this gang anything, much less an account of everything I do. Tbe'slioe's on the other foot. You all know me. you all know I'm on the level. Most of you'd, lie up the river today If It wasn't for me and ynu know that too. How far do yotj think you'd get If niv brains didn't work for you. top yon what to do and bow to get awa with It without the bulls tumbllmr' Who planned the raid on KlnstelnV bock shop? DM any of you g,o pinched for that? Who flgunil otu how 'o get those bo, id away from tin Chemical Trust's messenger? Wa biivI ikIv lagged for that? . . . And hecnue take the I rouble not to leai' a coupiii guns right up to you tonlgb' and because the Nut saw sotnehmlv that looked like me all dolled up u Fifth avenue yesterday or thinks b. did-" . "It wns yon. all right." Harry af finned coolly. Their glances met ami cln-bed. tie girl's hot with cbnl'eiige and reseti' ment. the man's cold with malice. Fo: the first time she recognized In thU creature an enemy. Then ber super excited Intelligence, grappling with tin problem of how to confute bis Implicit accusation, experienced a Hash of memory followed by a llgbfnlngllke stroke of Intuition. "If you want to know who squealed," she suggested deliberately, "why don't you give Harry the office? Ask him what be 'iocs with nil tils tl'ne, where he gets the coin for all bis swell clothes, who be talks to when he's bulging up to the bars of the big ho tels. Ask him why the cops always look the other way when they see blm coming, why he ain't never pinched" With an oath Hurry thrust back bis chair which overturned with a crash, and Jumped up. pillf stamped upon bis countenance of sudden pr.llor, glinting fearfully In his furtive little eyes. Hut In the smiiic ntnnt the door left negligently unlocked nrter the entrance of Leonora was hastily Shingles For your garage, chicken house, ham and outbuildings, here is a cheap but serviceable shingle: STANDARD "A" $1.50 per M For Homes use the famous UNIVERSilY EXTRA A Shingle. ' EXTRA A $3.50 per M Prices are for cash at our Milwaukie mill. L. B. MENEFEE LUMBER COMPANY S Main 7537 opened and slammed. The Ural Identify the man who bad slipped In and now stood fumbling with lb" key, English Ail. He cried out In shrill dis may: "Leo!" The company turned simultaneously and with confuod cries and questions got lo Its feet, Slight and under normal height, punting, sweating, haggard, bis face livid, eyes terrified, bullosa, and with clothing disheveled, Loo lllcllnsky, alias I.eo the Blood, sank back against the door, one hand pressed to his side Just below bis laboring heart. The other, holding an aniomatli' plftot. de scribed a goKiure of supplication. Bed snapped over shoulder a profane de mand for silence. -Leo's broken phrases brenme audible. ". , . Croaked a bull down the street , . . coming out of Bonnie's place, Corbln and Funis tried to Jump im . , . Corbln got t." He gos ttculated meaningly with the pistol. "Funis took after me . . . Looks i like a frame-up . . . cop every where I turned . . . lied demanded furiously: "What III bl'tl you come bore for?" "No place else to go , . . for nered, I tell you . . , Listen '."The Russian held up a band and. bending an ear lo the door, beard sounds below Inaudible to the others. "There they come now I For God's sake, got me out of Ibis !" "Fire escape," Red Indicated with s lerk of bis bead, Somebody thrust open the shutters of one window, The murderer pulled himself together, reeled aotvxs the room, and lurched out upon nn Iron platform grating. Immediately he disappeared, Now the rumor was loud In the hall below, the shrill protestations of the waiters rising shove yet dominated by the deeper voices of the police. After brief but violent altercation, heavy feet came pounding up the stairs. Then panic fastened upon the wits of nil those In the private dining room and stampeded them toward Ibe fire scape. 1'rliultlvely In their fright men fought with women for first place at the window. Stilled screams of pain and anger mingled with muttered blasphemies, but the noise of milling feel alone would have been enough lo betray them. Not more than two had managed to light out to the Iron plat form before the police were clamoring ami hammering at the door. Leonora, thrust brutally to one side, saw the futility of trying to escape before the maddened men. and, resigned, stood clear of the crush, watching the panels of the diwir tremble under a storm of kicks and blows. Fear was absent from ber temper, but she was shaken by Impotent ex asperation and sad with regrets. This meant nn end to everything, not alone to these associations which barely an hour since slip herself had planned to forsake, but In all her hope of happiness wlib Mario. For she bad not the remotest doubt but that she. with at least a majority of the others, would be arrested, Julled and. on the evidence of complicity In past exploits which the police spy, Harry the Nut. would be able to lay before Ibe district attorney, sentenced to s tertn of years In one or another of the stale penitentiaries. And long before she had served out her term Mario would forget ber; or. even If be did not, would never, never by any chance, make a woman with a criminal record his wife. And this was what came of Indulg ing her keen delight In excitement and attveutu'. If only she had listened lo Mario In time . . . Seconds dragged like minutes, and the door still held. She began to catch at straws of hope: only three now re mained In the roio, Charlie the Coke already with one foot across the sill, whimpering and inoutbliig curses because of Inability to crowd Into the 8 "THEY SAID I HAD T. B. VCULD Mr. Harold W. Rchmidt, Box 08, Breese, Clinton Co., JR., believes he has reason to praise lr. llart tnan's Remedy for Catarrhal con ditions. l nwt p-rn-ns ulKttt month fr t'lirnnio tlrnni-hUI CtlArrh. I da imt C-l tlrtl. fl llkit lllnl,tM III ounluvrr normal wrlKhl Bud alii If, wurk i-vnr? (lay. In Mn-li, IWli. 1 Core trfti:u-d irvrrnroifi with iimnir suit took to mf lw-d. 'ltM-r I T II. and would not llfH law moullii. Afirr Uknil ft rounln )- 1 It 1 1 V' I ii A A , TABLETS OR LIQUID Shingles MILWAUKIE, OREGON. Phones ..,, Htr Ears Wr Dtarontd With fttd's Profans Instructions, press upon the fire escape Red, and herself. The hammering on the door stopped. She wondered why. Charlie contrived to Jam bis terror-racked body out through the window. Ked caught j Uonorn by a shoulder, roughly enough If In s rare Impulse of chivalry, snd tried to thrust ber out after Charlie. But the crush on the platform was still too ditise. She hrnrd a dull rrsafe and. swinging round, saw the door. Its lock shattered by the Impact of s brawny shoulder, slnm bark against the wall, The policeman who brnt broken It In stumbled and spiawlnt full length upon Ibe Hour, The plain clothes man. Funis, leaped In ner Ids prostrate body, Her ears were deaf ened with Red's profane Instructions to gel hcrm-lf out through the window without more delay. She made a vain attempt to obey, ami had half suc ceeded when a rattle of shots oimb-(1 and looking back, she saw the man Funis pitch forward on his knees, then full prone. The policeman, scrambling up pltol In band, received Ibe balance of the el'p In Red's auto matic, mid sank slowly down upon his side, Screaming with horror, the girl fell back from the window. Red shoul dered past lii-r, Vllmbed out, tunirtl snd caught her by the arm and dragged ber after him. still scrcHndng like a, mnd-w.oman. . She tripped, ber head struck heavily against the bot tom of Ibe window sash, and Ibe lights dimmed weirdly ami burned out. lesv log only darkness Impenetrable, and a strange bush pierced by thin echoes of eldritch shrieks . , , (Concluded Next Week-) RMS IFGACY OF I'K.VI l I'TO.N, Or.. Nov. 4. MIs Ji'shIo DeWltt, aged -, a wnveT at the I'enilli-ton Woolen nillln, who ha been an orphan for several yeain. un- eXM'ilcdly received word IttKt $17. mill h:d been wl!loi her u-m'i , deiith of her unci,' In CUiiiluinit City. ?!hi" will leave for tb- K.i 'O setl the e-itat on lit" fir t nl I'io your. AND . ! HOT LIVE THREE MONTHS" J S17JO0O FROM UNCLE "FEEL S LIKE 8 GIANT ! SINCE I) USING j PERU NA" j MSSSSSSMftsJ it U"t of I'r-m-nft ftnl ft hoi of HUu ft-Un 'lahlnU, could walk around ftnd In vf n month! went hftrk to wnrk. 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