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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, December 28, 1929 PACE SEVEN f ! - "NASTIER of MONEY" BY ROY VICKERS CHAPTER XVOl.1 ;'''1' "You have no assets."'-' 0 ' Kelton trailed tolerantly! : Pioou hlleve me. Brennaway. that t ran make arrangements. with the details of which I will toot trouble you, that will at least (enable me to put my great Indebt edness to you on some sort ot sys tematic footing." Another rehearsed speech, Jthooght Alan. It was all mon totreus nonsense, of course. If Kel son could get money anywhere hs fcould only ret it from a money lender. There was that other way Jof course, the way his father had Itaken. A.I1U 1114k " a sooner or later unless he were wfr.nr.ori For Shirley s sake he nust be storped before it was too late . . . Alan jerked round to suiother aspect of the subject. "Have you told Shirley that she tcan't have seven and a half per tent?" "Really. Brennaway!" Kelton Slushed. "I have not told her, I d:ave had no time." "Shirley thinks your Joint in come is over $20,000 a year. It Is really five thousand less. Look: at it his place. Look at your house in Is'ew York." Kelton made a deprecatory noise. The deprecation was not muite an. insult, but very nearly. "I'm afraid Brennaway, there are certain aspects of my private life that I could not hope to ex plain to you satisfactorily. Be flleve me. I repret my own miser able inability to make my position V-ear. I can only ask whether fif- t y thousand would be acceptable ' an earnest endeavor of my in dention to make every possible ef t'trt to repay you." Alan pushed aside his untouch ed liquor. "Kelton ' he began. Kelton's lips tightened, his eye trows went up, his hand closed nj unclosed restlessly upon the 'litem of his ptass. His attitude was 'es clear as though shouted aloud, ul" was telling Alan to mind his o n business and no one else's. Allan got up and lit a cigar ette. I'll be running along." he said. ' I have a good walk before me . . K. thanks, don't get a car out; I eliall enjoy the air." "If I may say so, Brennaway, you haven't yet accepted or re acted " "Oh!" Alan rasped out a laugh. "I accept. With many thanks . . . I'll say good-night. Kelton." Roger Kelton was a superlative ly good shot. A day's shooting ,.was to him more than day's en joyment; it was a profound psy chological reassurance ot his su lperiority over other men. Just as ;he would return from his sport confident, exultant in his ability 'to triumph over any obstacle, so In the same way a domestic or bus iness success, wouia sena nun swinging off with gun and dog, arrogant as a faun In its native forest . . . ; On the day after he had enter tained Alan Brennaway to dinner. therefore, Roger rose early, break- 'fasted alone, shook off the mem 'ory of a tiresome wrangle with Shirley who was offended because tBrennaway had left without even jbidding her good-night, and de- jSartea wun sanawicnes taa a iuu pflask into the green depths ot the iy ermont woods. Shirley woke about half an hour Iter he had gone. She had slept badly, harried by dreams of a dis approving yet remote Alan whose face was always turned a little way and whose hands, strangely deft, played ceaselessly with pearls and diamonds brought from Mexico. Neither her mail nor the soothing ministrations of her maid nor the prospect of a restful day alone could restore her mental poise. By the time she had Inter viewed her cook, her butler and ner chauffeur, her temper was so bad that she was thoroughly ashamed of herself. "It must be slackness.' she told herself feverishly. "Everytbine is a matter, of physical health, real ly. I must simply exercise myself back into decent condition. She decided. Anally, on a Ion ride. Before she bad been Terr lone- la the saddle, she felt that the worst of the bout was over. Irar- ed serves were responding to the magic or wine-keen air and intox icating speed . . . The mad ralloo ended, she slowed to a walk and iet ner thoughts have their way. Roger. Marriage. Meeting the right people at the right time. Alan. She slipped from one discon nected reveries Into another . . . Roger looked at her, often, with open appraisement. When he did that she had to check the revul sion she felt. Why? Roger, after all, was only repeating the lesson she herself had taught him. Yet somehow he had made it different. Her father would never have looked at his wife like that. Roger made it feel as if they were en gaged in Borne kind of conspiracy. tnat it was her part to throw dust in the eyes of the men for mon ey. The revelation was broken by memories. With a rush there crowded into her brain all the memories of Ro ger as he had been to her before their marriage memories of In finite tenderness. There swept upon her anew the eraving she had felt for a spiritual compan ionship, a vast mutual under standing where no word of love need be spoken, where dress and prettlness and all the physical garnishments of love were unper ceived. There was the dream, too, not of merely scrambling for money but of helping him to some high diplomatic post where his talent could be used to the utmost. For be was talented; he was disting uished, too, in manner and voice and presence. In memory, she stu died impersonally bis appearance. Add a little age and gravity and his face might be the face of an ambassador. Take away that hint of shrewdness that had lately come into the mouth, and it was once again the face of her dream-lover to whom her girlhood had stretched glad hands. Strongly upon her was the sense of crisis. She realized Roger, sud denly, as she had never realized him before. She realized that Iti was only quite lately that he had got over the feat of marrying her. Shirley could be concerted but she was .not vain. It was without vanity that she realized Roger as carrying-off one of the loveliest women In New York, chaperoned by a wealthy and ambitions aunt, and being more than a little overawed by his own achievement. It was without vanity that she proposed to say to him "The rules of life that my father and I held are not for you. Roger. They are mastering you. when, yon should be mastering them. Let us give it all up. Let ns drop right out and live in a suburb and give no man the right to think that anything could ever be his that is yours your absolutely yours, Roger." But supposing Roger refused to drop out? She faced it with some thing like alarm. If she could neither help him to a career nor delight him only In herself, there remained absolutely nothing that she could give him and some where in her there still lingered the fir m belief that marriage was giving. . "I suppose we shall rub along somehow and make something of It," was the conclusion to which she came. "It only I didn't feel so certain that Roger is Incompe tent! I don't believe he can hold his own with men like Alan I be lieve if anything went seriously wrong be would be In a panic he might even bolt. He can only keep things going, really, when someone else has done all the rough work for bint . . . Strange, strange, strange that I should love him still!" Back swung the pendulum of her thoughts. She loved Roger , . She was breeding on her love tor him when, walking almost at her stirrup, she found Alan. "Day-dreaming? I thought yon were too sane, Shirley! She had pulled up, still half in ber dream. She looked down at Alan, standing bareheaded at her knee; she noted afresh the in tense blue ot his eyes, the hair that lay like a steel cap against the finely moulded head; the firm, kindly lips and the weathered sktn. . . . She knew her silence was "unusual but the spell ot it was strongly upon her and she could not break it. "I'm afraid you're annoyed with me, ehlrley, for talking as I did last night." Alan was tumbling a little over nis words. "I see now how abominably rude It was. At the time I was merely thought less I" "Ob. I'd" forgotten It!" Shirley sheok herself into speech. MI just assumed yon and Roger had been arguing about something- Mace donia, probably and you got the worst of It!" She forced herself Into teasing laughter. "Yes. Alan did not respond to the laughter. "Oh, yes. I got the worst of It Shirley frowned. - Last night Alan had seemed to acquiesce in an atmosphere of genial big-brotb-erliness. This morning he was again the censor, curt and aloof , . . He was saying something about stocks. Tm extremely sorry about Corto Bellas." "Do yon mean that you are sorry that yon were rude about them?" "No. Haven't you seen the pa per?" "What about Corto Bellas?" "They crashed rather badly yes terday. They are down to fifteen and still falling." It was annoying thought Shir ley, that Corto Bellas should choose that particular day to drop. "They go np and down, don't they? she drawled. "I think Mr. Cynaz said they might go down a bit but they would eventually go to fifty-eight, "They might, I suppose. But ' Again Shirley frowned. It was really very wearing to be criti cized like this at every turn. No wonder poor old Roger found that Alan got on bis nerves a bit. Ro ger was sensitive. Alan was sim ply forceful. "Well, au revolr, Alan. I must be back to lunch and time Is run ning short. So glad to have seen yon!" (To be continued tomorrow.) HEARING I in IMBUE PORTLAND, Ore.. Dec. 27. (AP) James W. Carey, rate ex pert employed by this city, occu pied the stand much of today at the public service commission's joint bearing of the eitys petition that domestic electric rates be lowered and the Portland Electric Power company's petition that street car tariffs be increased from eight to ten eents. Carey's discussion centered about methods used in determining valuations. He declared that If the Portland Electric Power company's valua tion was predicted on a reproduc tion eost theory It is $13,000,000 too high. "But If the rate base was worked out on an original cost basis, the valuation should be reduced $8,500,080," he said. Various valuations of the pow er company's properties have been submitted at the hearing. Public service commission engineers placed the valuation at slightly less than $69,000,000. Others fix ed the valuation at from $60,000,- 000 to 170,000,000. The hearing opened six weeks ago, was adjourned for three weeks, resumed for a day, then was adjourned again. It was an ticipated that the present session, which is expected to last a week or ten days, will complete the hearing. suit mm m iin HARTFORD, Conn., Dec, 27. (AP) Mrs. Katherine King Fog arty, divorcee, of Fort Worth, Texas, and New York City, signed today through her counsel a stip ulation that her 1500,000 breach ot promise suit against James J. (Gene) Tunney, former heavy weight champion ot the world, should be decided in court tomor row in favor of Tunney. Cloaked In legal phrasology. the stipulation set tortb tbat a motion for a Judgment on her suit and Tanney's cross-complaint would be uncontested in superior court in Bridgeport tomorrow, and that an injunction restrain ing her from ever prosecuting a similar claim should be Issued against her. Colonel Lewis Field signed the stipulation for Mrs. Fogarty here today. 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