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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1929)
The OaggQN STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Wednesday Morning. December 2S, PAGE SEVEN -1 "MASTER of MONEY11 BY ROY VICKERS in delicacy to Brennaway. He would conrey that the mere hand ins over of part of the money in no way diminished his sense of gratitude for Brennaway's signal service. His mind went off at a tangent. For a moment his emotional be ing eanght the echo of that ecs tasy of gratitude he had felt the day Erennaway had come to his rescue. Looked at over a stretch of twelve crowded weeks, the Inci dent took on a queer hue of un reality. He could not quite remem ber the sequence of events. He could remember. only a mad mo ment when Alan Brennaway was giving him, as he thought, a half million dollars. He himself had been in a highly emotional state. There had been something drama tic about Brennaway's action which had seemed convincing Mlle told me to put $25,000 in Corio Bellas and sell when they went to fifty-eight." CHAPTER XV "I know what's wrong with these curtains now," she said. "When this lipht is thrown up wanls " "It's .a funn thing, dearest, that you didn't seem to realize I wanted Cynaz to my?elf for a min ure or two," he interrupted. ' I know you did and I was afraid you'd succeed," said Shir ley, still nianoeuvering with lights. "He told me to put $25, 000 in Corio Bellas and sell when they went to fifty-eight." "Did he. by jove!" exclaimed Roger. "Half a second!" He went to the paper-rack and picked up an evening paper. He found iif financial page and then: '"liood heavens, they're at forty eight!" he exploded. I'm afraid thatjs lost on me," svd Shirley. "I can only repeat what he sajd. Corto Bellas fifty-eight. I've teen repeating it to myself." Kelton ft-It his pulses beating. It was well-known that Cynaz did not give dud tip. Forty-eight flfty-eiRht. He dropped the pa per and turned to Shirley. "You clever little darling! I h?d no idea that that lovely head could hold stock market jargon. !ut of course I watched you once or twice and could see that "you ihad absolutely knocked him. . . . ."What were you saying about those curtains?" "It doesn't matter." , Shirley drifted about the room dbl'l occupied, apparently, with the lights. Some of them shone tip into her face as she bent over them, others sprang up at her touch behind screens of silk or porcelain and poured their shaft of radiance dawn upon her. Never had her beauty cried out to him as it did now, tonight . . . . - "it she a cross little girl to night?" "Don't be silly, Roger. When I am tired it doesn't necessarily mean that I'm bad tempered. I haven't had enough exercise late ly. I shall start riding again to morrow." So matter-of-fact was her tone that his face tingled, as though she had slapped it. He felt his temper rising He checked it. Absurd to quarrel after such a markedly successful venture. A queer bird, Cynaz. Five thousand bought at forty-eight His pursuit of Shirley forgot ten, Roger became engrossed with a pencil and pad. When she left the room he did not follow her. His calculations were of the simplest nature. They did not re ally require a pencil. Twenty five thousand dollars In Corto Bellas if he bought at forty-eight and sold at fifty-eight would yield a profit of five thousand two hun dred odd dollars. That would be very useful for current expenses but it would be no kind of use for the purpose of reducing Alan Brennaway's impudence. It followed that $2 50,000 in Corto Bellas similarly bought would yield a profit of fifty-two thousand dollars. That would be a very reasonable Instalment off Brennaway's loan. He pictured himself handing Brennaway a check on account for say, fifty thousand dollars. There would be no brusquerie: he would, in fact, impart just a little touch of the grand seigneur. 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ORiC A RE T KDAMAGEAfl .jRABATr; jSWART PStSHOARlig FlEi'ifcloURDiNPl 22 small two winged flies having antennae 23 equine quadruped 24 civet-like animal 26 keel-billed cuckoo 28 seized with the teeth 31 called fo.th 32 semi nocturnal rodent of Central America 24 edible tuber 35 Imitated 87 exist 88 refuse ex ecutive approval 40 supreme head of the Roman Catholic Church 45 epoch 46 lyric poem 4T mistake . 42 river la Poland 10 neuter pronoun 52 symbol for neoa then. Bat now "1 wonder why he did It?" "Put of friendship for him self t But friendship could not ex plain all the hectoring about Macedonia and his personal ex penditure. I believe he was carried away by the drama of the moment. He felt that he must rise to the occa sion. He has had his little hour of glory and now he wants his money back. He intends to make himself a thorough nuisance if he doesn't get it." His mind still dwelt on that 12 weeks old interview with Alan Brennaway. Odd how memory became blurred by intense emo tion! What exactly had been said by Brennaway and what by him self about that impossible Mace donian project. He could remem ber only isolated fragments of the scene. At one point he had shown Brennaway the list of clients whose securities the firm had held. "By Jove! When he saw that list, Brennaway must have spot ted Shirley's name. Must have! So that in helping me, Brennaway may really only have been con cerned to help Shirley . . . NO, wait a bit!" .Roger had the sensation of be ing oil the verge of to important diicovery. "Let's work It out . . . Brenna way Is keen on Shirley. He finds that she is going to lose $200,000. To prevent her doing that he paid up a half million. Rather an ex pensive and roundabout way of setting to work! But he is enor mously rich. It's as if I had drop ped a hundred or two to save her from a crnshing disappointment." He whistled softly. "Brennaway then found that we were engaged. That must have been a bitter pill to swallow. No wonder be is sore and wants to make himself as objectionable as possible. No wonder he wants me to go out there and mop up one of those tropieal diseases. That puts Machiavelli amongst the am ateurs." Suddenly he was angry, with a primitive emotional anger that made his breath come in gasps. Brennaway had his eye on Shirley when he was going through that sickening pantomine of friend ship. And as for the Macedonian business, Brennaway had merely mentioned it in the first instance to cover hi real motive. He pre tended that he was making more or less of an investment when really he was making Shirley a present of the money. "He made a half-hearted at tempt to get me to go out there before we were married. Mace donian Developments was a bit of luck for him. It turned out to be useful to him after all. Lord, how he must have laughed when I told him that I was grateful ... . He's had all the laugh he's going to get out of this particular trick." (To be continued tomorrow.) Rickreal Grange Is Very Active RICKREALL, Dec. 24. The card. party given by the Grange last Saturday night was well at tended. There were fine tables of 500. The highest score tor women was Mrs. Robert Pence and highest for the men went to Robert Pence, and the lowest Grace Pence. Refreshments were served at midnight. The grangers are going to have a New Year's dinner at the Grange hall, and that night they will have another card party. Read the Classified Ads. TURNER TO K L Iff TURNER. Dec. 24. Dr. Russell and Miss Margaret McAlphine of the County Health demonstration will hold a p re-school clininc Thursday afternoon, January 2, at the rest room at the school house. All mothers interested, can make hour dates with Mrs. E. C. Bear, local representative for the organ ization. Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Talbot left Saturday evening for Seattle. Mrs. Talbot will visit her two children and return for her bank duties, before the last of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Bond of Portland spent Christmas at the parental Bond home, Mr. Bond is. a member of the Oregonian staff. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Bones enter tained a party of friends Sunday evening. The rooms were decor ated in keeping with the holiday season. W. H. Purdy who has been con fined to his home for some time with sickness, was not so well the last of the week. A. S. Funston, of Portland up Tuesday, being called as s wit-t j ness on a court case in saiem. Gervais Activities Are Numerous GERVAIS. Dec. 24. J. S. Har. per started the construction of a new house on one of his lots fac ing the highway leading into town' Saturday. It will be of double con st ruction throughout and will eon-' tain four rooms, bath, nook and' garage. Otte Engdahl of Salem is the contractor. Mr. Harper al ready has five prospective tenants for the house. Following their regular custom of sending a sample ;of the city water to the state department twice a year or oftener to be test-' ed for purity and healthfulness. Mayor Moisan .received a report Saturday on the last test and it said the water tested "A" pure and wholesome. J. N. Atkinson and family left Sunday for Klamath Falls where they will reside, Mr. Atkinson hav ing recently accepted employment with a logging company. "TELLING TOMMY" ByPIM WELL .WHAT DO YOUTHIMK OF CHRISTMAS tt0W, BETTY? OH. CHRISTMAS IS GREAT ! ITS FATIMG AIL THAI STUFF THAT U MAKES ME SICK! ff I ti. II iT m H - - i nwniiBHUMjgr Hctauuv ncAnirTTTAxrn-riir Ml f A iTT fl lITVX nTlrifX fl A A A fv II IWFM WHAT fl II ILJ U U . rLUrLL HLL UVLn inL II I V V I I II 11 x. V N. W "VS I I ASrzZes&i Ts-' I I V I I f JL t 'X. mill i-uu, M u-i n I m - r w . . r a - - m a - -v f a m m t i n. ft H0RLD. ARE VflSHlMG EACH OTHER sli w :U U V S UxYUiM'Oi JWa-merrychristmasTtooay.. I t2VX . 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