The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, December 31, 1929, Image 7

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Newspaper Page Text. - f-. TLs CHrGOir STATEo'IAIf, Ea!ca, : Oregon, ccsdar Hornby, Dccerater 31,1523 w "NAlUtIR BY ROY VICKERS OP i CHAPTER XX ', He turned on her suddenly. -Oh, don't nag don't ar! .Where d'you suppose I 'jer tt from? Too're not a : ehfld or a fool! Use your common sea!" He drained the brandy In two 'gain. He bersn to Muster. "And ;l may as welt make it dear. Shir ller. tlit ril stand no reproacn, It was. from tie first, your Idea to play this . Yon forced It 'on me I wasn't temperamentally suited to it " 'Don't worry. I'm. ot oIn reproach you." . ''' Sua was bark at the- "window, 1 euirering wltn contempt fr hint. 'ihlaTT And she could bar Sad Alaa Brennaway . . . At Alan's (name there flashed up a rresft bafflement. What bad Cynas meant by drawing Alan's name f are into it? If Roger bad borrowed that fifty thousand from Alan, It would be clear enough. But Roger had not borrowed. He had stole A from trust funds. Stolen. Stoe cried out sharply and be glared up at her. "Jfow, look nere, Shirley " r. Her words cut across his: "I want to know OTerythinr. .Roger. Everything. What how iar has Alan Brennaway helped in already?" ! The Klass he still held fell tof the floor and rolled, without jjbreaking, almost to her feet. She ;was able .to take an interest In it. wondering why it ;had not llbroken . . . She had startled him 'considerably- He was stammer 'fng and hedging. HrennawaT? We surely aren't going to discuss Brennaway again. iU name. It's been Brennaway, Brennaway j Again she found herself shout ing at him. I "Tell me what I want to know. Roger. You shall tell me! How does Alan come into It? Tell me!" Roger began to laugh. His laugh was high pitched and. un pleasant. v "All right. I ll tell you." "You're raring at me because I re stolen," snarled Roger at Shirley. "Of course I've stolen. It's not an original Idea, to mon iker with trust funds. Other men hare done it before me. My own father did it for tweety years." "I don't beliere it." "It's not worth beUerlng. It's so easily rerlfled. My father took, roughly, fire hundred thousand dollars' worth ef his clients" Boa-i er. I inherited the debt and X did n't know what was to become of me. I contemplated suicide. "Roger!" "I tried to release rn a auni XJber of times but I hadn't the eirengin 01 wui. i waniea yon-too much. But one of the clients found oat and sent a libelous pest card to some of the others. Bren naway brought his round to show me and I admitted ft was true. ' "I was . in a pretty desperate state then. He asked me for de tails and I gare hint a list of all the people my father had robbed. .Then, to my amazement, he of- fered to lead me a half minion. I wasn't In m peaitipm to refuse. "But- why why should Alan do that! He hardly knew .you. Why?" - . - Again Roger laughed. . : ; , "Exactly. Why did he de ftt Because he saw from that list that I gave him. that the firm ow ed yoa 1300,000. He 4id It for your sake, EhiUey.- . .- " -r . iMy podll. gasped Shirley. wi knew that he had a -certain feeling for meand you, let him" i a knew your name at the time when he lent the money., I. swear I didn't. Yon told. me he .wee, a friend et yours:! was surprised,- It wasn't till Just lately that I realized he was fond at you-", He asked, me to marry him a day Or 'so before - we announced our engagement." . "Exactly, And the day after tt was announced, Brennaway began bnllylag me about Macedonia ... My father had sunk nearly all the stolen money into ; some wild-cat scheme; Macedonian Develop ments. Brennaway took these shares as nominal security, know ing that they wore valueless. But after our engagement was 'an nounced, he launched . a- theory that here was a chance to get the money back. He demanded oh. he Was net feetly courteous about It. at first let me say he suggested that I should go out there at once and mess about with concessions from the Koremment, and so o'n, I pointed out that I was shortly to be married, when he immediately explained that X must ' not take you there as It was not safe for an American woman." , 'I cant beliere If ' "He tried very hard to get me to go before oar marriage. When that failed as 'you know, he has been trying ever since. "But why did he want you te go te Macedonia after we were married ? "My dear girl, you know rery little of the ways of men. Bare yon forgotten the sin of David? That country teems with malaria ! and hosts of other diseases and -semUwitd population, bandits and , an that kind tot thing." -, 1 can't beliere it," . Roger was on his feet. He was helping himself to. more brandy. Be was laughing and chattering, quite gaily. - "Be paid a half million for you. my dear, and got nothing for it. X wish I could hare seen his face when he discovered yon were en gaged to me. And he can whistle for his money back." "Yo won't 'go--to Macedon ia?" ' . "And letfre some other man In charge of my affairs as tiey are now? Before Xd ..he ' gone sin weeks, thexe'd he a warrant out for my, arrest. The only thing for me to do now is to play my fath er's game tin the end of my life." Suppose Alan finds, out what you've done?" - "Prison. He's bound to be tin dlcUre." -- . "Ho couldn't be. It's not in taken him to Mexico and bact hut tonighr fcriru lirtles. - His physical strength, might be returning, but the strength of Hi soul had gone. Shirley had drain- it away in that moment when she had left htm alone with Roger, so that Roger, might with Insolent finesse, thrust him outside their . Alan leaned against the ease ment and etared nv into the tkreatenlnr skies. .Her f elt . i though their heaviness pressed In literal fact upon every nerve and sinew. He drew long breaths. e most gasping . a Shirley end her "policy' had wowi . .- . .; The latent manhood in Jtezer Kelten. that might have wrored lUeU nnde the pur. of toil, had gone down , before her hUnd ln-sUtence- that-nMomplishmeat ' was a matter ef dtpmmaeyt - , . And be. i Alan c Brennaway who had wrested a fortune out ef the bowtls of : . the earth bad smiled " and ehrsgged tnd gone down, else in eeUledeUenoe. De cidedly Shirley had woe. : ?t Aiaa-greaned under the oppres sion et hie theuthts.. The storm gathered touUlde and the air lay nnmovlnr ! hla rmi. Km won Id to the fighting Instinct that , had have opened his windowi but la- him.' r - - "My dear girt he, has thrown away a fortune" Shirley knew Jhen ' what; the truth was that she had been seek ing for se lour; -- f ; "I khew.r And that at least TO mace gooa. n it's true that he paid a half mlUIoa for me if, he niU thin J'm. worth so ranch " Sht taored towards , the door. Boger lurched toward her. - .T V '-i "Wher nw youigoingt" ?Tm going to pay my debt to Ahfifc- Let- tns pass, KB0ger, please. z:, -: .."- . . Alan Brennaway, from his cot tage window, had; watched the black weather come up oren the woods. USuallyrc storm clouds stirred something In . him, calling sUade held him.. U imprisoned htm. The v weight of It was the weight of his failure to find the Shtrley-whonlght-hare-been. ? ; Into thla. torpor walked the 6hiriey-whQ-wax. :erj; jaie. very . composed; ery; wot, . j $ tr;M 4 1 "My dear Shirley.; Waat on If She stopped In front; of hint, her eyes lifted: steadily to his. She seemed . tongoetled . echo of her strange snood on h moore- lind that morning; but he tensed her mood now as more definite, if even stranger.' She stood before hint with rain sflvertng the goldy surer of her iair. Her dress was of some' heavy. woven sllk--kultteeV he believed boyishly open at the throat and shott. in the sfeTes;nd skirt. It appeared to be dry . . . His gate traveled down to her, feet and dis covered high rubber boots. 'She had- dripping mackintosh- veH her -arm. . . , She laid, at last r Tbe rai has ' smarted, Alan. TO ut, hapg my eoat upv If; I - Her voice was harsher then he had ever heard It. X - ; "There' something ; wrong, ghtrlcy? Ton look you sound" : "I're come to1 dinner with yon. In there anything; for me to eat?" She had not yet remored away from him. although . the water from her mackintosh was trick line, into a pool npon the floor. Her gaze was still steadily npon his. Hia fh-st thought, that she had quarreled with her husband, was submerged-in the belief that he had coma to Mm. Yet she demanded hospitality! - - . -v I . Ve must get yon dry first,' he said, rousing himself. He found matches, and-lit the Jim In .the hearth. Then he . took the mack- Intorh and went into the passage with tt. As he hung it up. he-saw her sink down .hr the first, thin flames as though 'she derpsrately needed taesr -weratthi :- i - r' He ' went' ear- tatox the. kitchen. He wis. shaken, new, gs no often when fresh from her presenee. by unreasoning, crttteal tore for her. What did it matter whether ehe mocked at Jffott. and killed the lory of labor with a lifted brow he - was - pagan r through and through. She Joyed, only in the pulse and thud et living. ; . V1 ho eonMad . - ,. .' . " '. '. " . 1 . -All Statesman carriers are lit tle' merchants. They ere charged for all papers deliTered by them. Gervaia 1 CERVAIS. Dec 30. Mr. and Mrs. August Snyder received word Thursday morning of the death of their son, George, at the St, Yin cent hospital in Portland. - 'Mrs. WmVAUsup receired word Thursday mornlnr of the death nt Bakersfield, Calif., of an adopt ed brother. - a Ben H. U Graflous and sons. Louis ; and : Arthniv. auended inn funeral of Governor Patterson in Salem Monday; ' . . - Mrs. Augusta 8mlth of Portland Is spending a season with her sis ter, Mrs. E. J. Harding. 1 The. communltr SOS dub will meet At Masonic -. halt ' Monday night: December. 5 0. , This takes the place of the last regular meet ing, wnicn wonia nave seen em The two months old haby of the Koenlg family Uvinr we"st ef town died, at the Deaconess hee pital ta Salem. Wednesday atter- eoosL where it had been- taken tor treatment. " - ?1rV" -' 31 Miss .Minnie Nlbler, . who has been-ill for the pest year, was re membered at Christmas time with numerous beautiful cut flowers and potted plants from her mixj friends. . - Christmas decorations"!! Sacred . : Heart church this year are rery .-A ' beautiful, greenery, polnsettlas and white chrysanthemums being Vs-s. - used effectively. The church -was. crowded for the midnight mass javJ which was held from U.to ' J o'clock Wednesday moraiiir.:. v r A seven pound daughter: was born Christmas day ; to Mr. and Mrs. Ward Manning at Willamette sanatorium in Salem. It is their first child and she has been named Mary 'Jane. -:. - - " .- John, : youngT son of. Mr. and Mrs. Qeorge Gent wan riding kiddle kar on the porch at his home Thursday afternoon and-he and the car fell off the porch; breaking the little hoy's arm, .. - .- . ... .' -..'".. . ; XffSXTJBS STROXO " ' - SKATTUcf Dec- fAP) ; Although the 1921 championship TJeirersUy of Washington hesket hall team Is a strong tarortte to repeat In the nonhwera division; Pacific Coast conference .race wale hopens January 10, much; la expected et the Washington State and Oregon State college aggrega-. tlen. " - "TELUNG JOMMY,, Howotr JAMOARY enns daddy? am HAMFI , ... i ITS MAKE COMES FROM A GOO Itt ROMAN MYTHOtOdY.lOMMlCJftHUS HAOTOFACt5,0lj3CKni6 ? 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