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THE OIIKGOX NTATKSMAN: KIXBAV. Al'CU'HT 1. IfKM. REVELATIONS OF A WIFE The Story of a Honeymoon A Wonderful Romance of Married Life Wonderfully Told by ADELE GAiUUSON CHAPTER 637 WHAT HAPPENED IX THE VAIT 1X0 ROOM WHEN ALLEN DRAKE ARRIVED AT LAST. The platform waiting room at the Jamaica station seemed lonelier than everwhen the Inquisitive guard had gone his way. There had been a certain protection in his presence, alarming though his questions' had been. Rut I knew I ought to be glad he was gone. His eyes were entirely too curious to mak it safe for him to witness tie coming meet ing between myself and Allen Drake. That is. if there was t be any meeting. I occupied mse!f in specu lating as to Mr. Drake's possible course after he had seen me off on the train, if. as I suspected, he had meant me to read in his casual re marks an order to wait on . the Ja maica platform until he came. He would, of course, have to rid himself of the company or,, I rare Draper. Upon the speed. with which he accomplished that would depend , the manner of his trip to Jamaica. If it took too Ions he would have to get the next express out, almost a full hour away. Rut if he managed to elude her within a few minutes of my departure I felt sure he would commandeer a taxicab, if. indeed, he didn't have a machine of bis own in readiness, and motor o Jamaica at top speed. f . What I should do If he didn't come upon the next express or soon er I did not know. I would hardly dare to stay in the waiting room af ter the next Marvin train. aHer, my explanation lethe injuisiliv guard. "QuickInto The Booth'" It seemed interminable hours that I put in going over the problem while my fingers were knitting two. purling two, , but, ala. making a hopeless bungle of - the counting. When at last my purgatory ended with the entrance into the waiting room of Mr. Drake. looking a cool and unhurried as if he were out for a moonlight stroll, my trembling fingers were powerless to hold the knitting bag. and the ball, needles and helmet fell to the floor, a hope lessly tangled mass, as I rose. Mr. Drake bent and gathered up the knitting deliberately. Hut to my surprise, as he did so. I heard , his voice in a tense whisper ""Quick. Get into the telephone booth and pretend to be telephoning. Take everything with you. His words were like an tie-trie battery galvanising ine Into action. Snatching the knitting from his out stretched hand 1 1 crammed It into Katherine's knitting bag. an 4 ; with it and my own traveling bag in my hands fairly sprang into the ' tele phone booth., 1 . ' - c ; ".v - Mr. Drake must have closed the door behind me. As I heard it shut I turned to the telephone, -after de positing my bags upon the floor, t.jok down the receiver, 'and with tbe other hand held the transmitter down so that central should see no jShop Whene. Tne;Crovds Buyj name- mmmmmmmmtmmtmmmmmmmmmmmwmammmmmmtmmtmtmmmmmmmms, ! is Mr. t" III X m fill -at ' m 111.' I I 1 N-XSVVi. s i simply what: My . aper&r rs Sales 5 i rJ n rr.nn w I i I all I II! I V I I ATt a-f It - 1 flash of that number on Tier distant switchboard. Whose Is That Voice? Then I ventured to turn i;:y -'yes toward the glass upper half of the telephone booth door. To my sur prise it was blocked by Mr. Drake's stalwart shoulders. No one from the outside could have discovered tuy identity so effectually did he conceal me. Indeed. I imagine that to the casual glance the telephone booth appeared to be empty. I discovered something eUo. also. After Mr. Drake had closed the door he must have pushed it open again ever so slightly. At any rate, though i could neither; see nor be seen. I could hear the sounds from outside. Even his breathing, calm and unhur ried, like himself, was audible to me. Rut I hadn't long to wait for oth er sounds. Footsteps came down the platform ontside the windows, then rounaing Vie corner entered the door near which Mr. Drake was standing. I tried to tell myself that they were no different from the ordinary mas culine footsteps, but there seem el to be a sort of stealthiness about them that struck terror to my soul. They stopped as they came Inside the door. and then I heard a voice, in all its intonations an American voice, and yet to me unaccountably suggestive of alien gutturals. "Could you tell me how soon the Hempstead train will be In? Where had I heard that voice be fore? The words were eomtnonpli.ee enough, but 1 felt that I most cry out at the menaeo my . imagination was reading Into the suave tones. Mr. Drake's answer was warmly courteous.- "Sorry, but I havin't the slightest idea. he said. "I'm waiting myself for the Oyster Ray train. That pulls in here in half an hour. The other man didn't reply for a moment. When he spoke there was a note of enthusiasm in his voice. "Wonderful night, isn't It? be asked. "Yes, indjl." Mr. Drake rephed. and then there was another silence. "I blieve 1 wonld he.ter tele phone, the newcomer said ' next in an off-hand manner. . "If I may pass yon. please. "Sorry." returned Mr. Drake In an unmoved tone, "but my wife Is using the booth "now. and I have a most urgent message to send as soon as she has finished. Rut there Is a booth upon that outside platform ove- there." "Thanks. the man said , rnrtly. and as he turned on Lis heel and his footsteps retnativl I clutched the tel ephone tightly to keep from faPing. or I was sum that 1 had rrcog d the voice at last. He was the man whose hand had scarred with carbolic acid when he was trying to effect an entrance into Lillian's li brary the peddler of poor William Trumbull's terrib.'e experience. (To be cotil'.iuci) When looking ' around for some thing to hit in order to make tfp the Increased pay awarded to railway employes the 'Ultimate consumer is swatted right between the eyes. It Is the' same old story. . I Helpful Health I Hints BACKERS WAGER ON SUNDAY GAME Sherwood Team Will Clash With Salem Senators on Local Diamond Don't be too sure that you are suffering from a headache it may be only an aching void. Occasionally we meet a doctor who looks as If he had tried to pre serve his dignity in alcohol. - All suffering is caused by an ob-' stacle In the path of natural order. See that you are not your own ob stacle. Chow me the physician who Is a confirmed skeptic, and I'll show yon a man who has lost all confidence In himself. . Judging from current medical literature one would naturally con clude that the only thing that isn't contagious is common sense. Food taken to excess builds a food poison that Is followed by an apie- tite as hard to control as the tobacco cr alcohol habits and one appetite is just as legitimate as the other. Osteopathy has made greater strides than any other system of the healing art in the rame length o! time; not because the other systems are - valueless, but because Osteo pathy offers more and is better JJ 4 DOOR SEDAN r.I-e Hi-others four-door Sedan, with its rich upholstery, easy arrangement for ruiMiitf and lowering windows, and the four doors that permit passengers to get in and out with pvrftnt freedom, meets every requirement of the most fastidious admirer of high-grade motor ears. v t y -:rr;i- Vtr.fS J -J A- z ' H. F. BONESTEELE F.-rrv n i r -AJarion and Polk County Distributor , i tuy fl ii, Coininereial Streets . SALEM FAST GAME IS EXPECTED Visitors Have Strong Linkup and Are Determined to Annex Victory According to the "frnt porch" threats that have trickled 'into the Senators' camp from the ."herwood stronghold 'n Portland, the rracas scheduled between the) two team for this afternoon at Oxford park has all the earmarks for a banner game. The Sherwood's plans have spread their wings for Mount Olympus, and hope when the descend tb-r will uave a victory chalked up in their tavor. Nothing would please the visiting team more, according to the dope that trickles, than to droo the isbes tos curtain over the Salem Senators for a good win. A victory over the Senators would be as praiseworthy for them, as grabbing th bunting in the Portland city league. The record or the local teams thus far this season places theta Indis putably among the few leading Inde pendent teams of Oregon. No ques tion would arise should th- Senators claim the Independent champion ship. If any controversy could crow out of such claims by the local team, the Senators are willing, tt defend the honors. Fans who generously contributed early in the year are de lighted with the success of tb Sa lem team. Others who came to the weekly games, leave Oxford park with a satisfaction In the playing of the Senators, and a feeling of pity for the visiting team. Walter Kracke is determine! more than ever, as the days go by. to fur nish local fans. for the rest of the season with the best baseball tab-nt obtainable.- The new manager has entered into his work with a vim that promises to make things stir ring -in the baseball world or Ore gon's capitol city. - Expense, accord ing to Kracke, will .not enter Into h!s consideration of bringing the best teams nere. Mr. Kracke has been dickering. durinTthe past week, with managers of teams in the southern state with a view, to bringing to Sa lem the best teams from that part of the country, and eventually the championship of the state. Teams from this part -of the state would entail heavy expense, but the local management has confidence in the fans that they Would support sncn a venture. ' J" If the reports are authentic about the p rowers with the "stick of the vlsltiag team thaT has come to Ka lent from men who have been oborv lng the-Sherwood, team play. Kins Cole will be in his own element. PU't competition Is mAnna ier the Sena tor twirler. Jiving the heavy record of King Cole the once-over, the fact looms that be has sipped from the fountain, of knowledge for twtrlers. When he pitches the opposing bat ters turn and beat a path through the vale of weeps.. Seldom do baftets smuggle over the score sheet solid safe pokes the safe base knocks are of the scratchy variety. Cole has Duncn or incorrigible twisters of league standards. If the Sherwoods can hit IF then the game this af ternoon will be an open question as to wno win win. In addition-to King Cole. Kracke announced that he has uncovered another young pitching phenom, and it is probable that bis new find would perform en the mound so that the local fans would give him the up and. down. His name Is Hiddy Bishop, the manager who resiznod following last Sunday's game. HidJy twirled for the local team at Mc Mlnnvllle last Sunday, and easod them down with two measly hits. When Biddy gets his growth, n promises to be unite a twirler. It Is said by some of Biddy Bishop's mends that he pitched his first game in the Shenandoah valley when the only run made off his delivery was the battle of Bull Run. That the game this afternoon Is for blood is ascertained as Walter Kracke announced last nicht that the game Is for a side bet. Th j batter ies for today's game Is: Sherwood Myers and PeYrltt; Salem-Cole. Bishop and Kracke. PEOPLLSEIZED BY MOTORLUST America Spending Summer Vacation Seeking Recrea tion on Roads America 1 spending her 1520 sum- mrr vacation seeking recreation. Otlt door air and nrnrY llr V . 000. OHO motor rra r furnUhln the transportation; over 2.000. murs ot roans spanned by vast stretches of scenic wealth supply the routes. From the burlness man. mechanic or farmer who steals a day or two at a time for local Jaunts, to the mo torist who rambles for weeks or months on carefully prearranged schedule, every woner ot a motor car Is in the midst, of a spell or mo torlust. , Never before In the history of gas oline, motors tires and good roeds have the responses to the call of the open road ben so pronmi need. 1) J1 Is the banner year of all time ror mo tor travel. The favorite trails and haunts of the motor vacationist are clo-geJ and overflowing and will remain s- nntll well into the month of Septem ber. Reports sent In to the trarH and transport bureau of the It. F. Ctcodrich Rubber -company, from re torts, national parks, and tourist as sociations. Wlan that all previous touring rrords have ran by the boards. This in spite of the tact that the pak of the touring- season will not roTTre-unTirtKemtddte or August An accurate cheek on the extent of naional tourlnc la had from jh. OUR OWN DOUG. AND MARY . ,fv ejt'?A'&?i-' Under direction of The Flim-Flam-Film Co. from America's leading tour objec tives. For Instance, people from the Atlantic seaboard territory the sontb and the mid-west as well as New Englanders by the thonsands. flocK to the smooth trails and wonderful scenery of the White "Mountains dis trict of New Hampshire. Exhllerat Ing air. fishing, and Just plain " re sorting" attracts thousands to Mich igan and Wisconsin. The magnetic forces ot Cumberland mountain trails near Ashville. N. C. anJ the historic Interest near Chattanooga, entices eastern 'and -southern motor ists; the national parks or the RocTct mountains' are -teeming with motor campers and sighseers; and long car avans ot. tourtsts are experiencing the sceTUc lures and smooth high ways of California and the Pacific northwest. . Statements from a few .of the au tomobile tourist hotbeds made torfhe Goodrich bureau Indicate that he ex odus of Americans o European bat tlefields has had, not tk,e slightest effect on "Seeing 'America First". Some of the statements follow: Parlfie Northwest Touring arvi.i- tion: "Records of hotel reservations and from all other sources of 'nfor mation the automobile tourist travel to the Pacific northwest promised a few weeks ago prior to be 100 per cent greater than last year which was far away .the greatest year In our history. Asheville. N. C,' Touring Barest: "Tourist travel In automobiles almost double that of last year and easily twice as much as two years .ao. Roads In western North Carolina la prime eonditjon."- - Yeilowstone-Nirmgat Till Wfvke: "We expectrih greatest ai-ason this year. Park roaJs opened earlier than ever- before t ajtd 'In. splendid condition despite snows." . . Michigan Tourist and Report asso ciation: "Based on more tban double number ot inquiries and larsa actual reservations believe tremendous in crease New England: " ,V find greater per cent of people traveling w!th au tomobiles throughout this section than ever before as highways are all in good condition throughout New Enrland section. 1 ' Garment Workers Aim to Stop Profiteahi NEW YORK, July 2 Profiteer ing In the women's garment U4ttrv will be fought with u!oa-ort4 shops, factories and stores by ihs Is ternational Ladies' Garment Work ers' union. - ' This became. known here todr when officials of the nsloa sa n6snced that ft has a committee at work laying the foundation for i'f first group of union-owned factories which are expected' to be ta er tion next spring. 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