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BY ROY VICKERS
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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. ; .
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Statesman carriers are lit
tle' merchants. They ere charged
for all papers deliTered by them.
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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,
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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-.
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