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The OREGON STAfESMAN, Salem, Oregon; Wednesday Morning; January 1, 1330 - 1 . ssnssssss . PAGE NINE r mi n . . r - . . . r: MA Tnm u uurv or r u BY ROY VICK n K ACK I fifes? r, r ' CHAPTER XXI She was Shirley and he loved iJher, lOYedi the carriage of her Aiead and band;, loved her quick ;laoce and ready laughter, lored the scent and eonnd and eight ot ler. Could It not fiave been 'nough for him, -prig and fool that ie had been? Could he not have teen content to take so much i He was forgetting. She had al ready given her heart to Roger. Kelton. Kelt on! i Alan's face was grim with thoughts of Kelton when' he te fturued to the living-room with tha supper-tray. Shirley was, still by the fire but fche had taken off the big boots )and was holding- a sllk-cfirered jfoot to the .fire. .1 "This wood Is burning beauti fully, Alan. It's been well dried 'much better than the staff we )pet. Can you lend me a pair ot fclipper8?" "Of a kind. yes." .He went to his bedroom and found them.-They were grotesque ly large for her and the sight of Sier feet in them amused them path. Presently she left the fire jpnd began to flap about in the tingalnly things, helping him to tidy the room and , lay the table. "We will hare fruit for decor ation, instead of flowers," she a:d. and brought .a heaped, dish of apples to the feast. "How glossy they are While' he waited for her to be seated, she lingered over the ap- f les, picked one up, caressing its irm flesh. There-was a smile, on Ler lips that distressed him. "Shirley, my dear, what is it?" "Just thinking about apples, iA-lan; that's all. Such a beautiful thing to. lose Eden for. Perhaps It was worth it I wonder?" He was silent. He could not gauge her mood. He conld only watch Iter, his own lassitude aside and forgotten. They, sat down. . He waited deftly upon her, urging her to eat and drink. He had added a bottle of wine to the meal and would. have kept her glass fillgd but she would only sip a little now and then. "Are you plying me with wine so that my, tongne may .be loos ened?" she. demanded after hi third attempt. She. .flashed him a smile. He returned it. "Conld you blame me?" The meal progressed leisurely. "How did you get fed in your mining camp, Alan?" In! the event it was his tongue that was loosened. With- a. skill Phe only marked lated, in memory she drew him to speak of Mexi co. Mexico as he had known it. wrestled with it, loved and hated and conquered It. He pictured it all for her, while the wind and rain shrieked against the cottage. He lived it again ... It was the beating of the wind and rain that recalled him. "Look here!" he protested. "I've been monopolizing every thing Including the conversation. You're eaten and drunk next to nothing, you've not given me a chance to speak a word and you will presently have to be driven back to Roger through a record gale and blizzard." He looked at the dock. "Shirley! ; I've been holding forth between large mouthfulls for nearly an hour. Why under heaven didn't, you kick me?" JSh rose with obvious reluct ance and went back to the tire. There was a quality about that reluctance that Impressed him. "We ought to be pushing off," he. said, uncertainly. "Roger knows you're here, of course?" "Yes, Roger knows." Her tone Impressed him stiil further. Certainly Roger and she had quarreled. . "He'll be getting- anxious, though, on a night like this. I wish I had a ear here. You'll hire te let me make as good a Jo as can or yours." -. "Yet. Let ae make -you tome coffee, Alan." ' He repressed further protest. Ton could not drive Shirley; pre sently, perhaps, she would be led. . . He got her the coffee, and then sat down and watched her make the good-smelling stuff. You eeuld not drive Shirley. , ' She was crouched down upon the rag, measuring, stirring and pouring. He looked down upon the slender column of her neck, the elope of her shoulders. For a moment his hands, following his gaze, hovered, closing and unclos lnr. And fit -that moment aha looked up at Mm. , "Yon paid ,s. half million tor me, Alan, not go long ago. Unless my value has decreased, . there, seems no reason why you. should continue to lose money on the deaf ; . i Alan's first sensation was that someone Shirley? had struck him violently on the chest. Jostl ing him to his feet and then backwards, through the little room to where such wind as could en ter stirred the curtains. He found himself, stammering, staring leaning against the window-poet as he had leaned before she came.. Bat now there were no leaden cloud to see; only scudd ing darknesi ... And what abom inable thing wt she saying? Her hands were still compos edly busy with the coffee things. Only his dverturaed chair showed that he had not dreamed her ac cusation. "Roger has told m every thing," she was saying. "About hi father and the desperate state he was in when you helped him. When you saw my name on his list of clients and lent gaTe him that money so that less than halt ot that sum might be restored to me." She poured out his coffee and, rising with it In her hand he could note, . even now, her abso lute steadiness of nerve-s-she put it on the table; sh righted his chair, struck a match and lit the only lamp, poured her own cot fee. While she moved about she talked. , "Roger, of course,' never really Intended to- repay you. Roger in Macedonia! It's almost tnnny. And it's almost funny, too, that I could have loved him so and still love him, yon know. In a way. He's had a paaie today over e deal in Corto Bellas, and I frightened him into a confession ot what you had done." She sat down and stirTed her coffee. Alan made a dry sound in hi throat. She went evenly on. "When yoo did it you didn't of course, know that I was engag ed to Roger. You Intended to tell m what you had done tor me; I should then, ot coarse, have mar ried yon. When yon found, we were engaged, you began to nag at Roger about Macedonia. He was to get the money, back that way; it he failed, if he was de stroyed, it became simple again- I should be free. (To be continued tomorrow) Holdup Attempt Proves Undoing Of Eugene Man EUGENE. Ore., Dec SI (AP) Don Holland was under arrest here last night and C. J. Howe, manager of a local clothing store, nursed a severely bruised head as the result of the attempt ed holdup of Howe's store by Hol land. Holland, police charged, en tered Howe's store and attacked the manager with a monkey wrench. Howe, an ex-amateur boxer, fought back, however, un til a passerby came to his assist ance. Together, Howe and the passerby overpowered the would-be-bandit. Fiend Identified By Tacoma Girls. SEATTLE. Dec. s-(AP) Two Tacoma girls-today identified Lloyd Fathers, 25. held by author ities as the "perfumed tug," who attacked more than SO girls in their homes at night ia Seattle, Tacoma and Everett, as the man who attacked them in their homes several months ago. 1 Five Seattle girls Identified Fathers in the last three days, bringing the total of witnesses against him to seven. Today's Cross-Word Puzzle By EUGENE SHEFFER- ' Z I 3 H I6 I7 P 0 15 wft '"W WW5 - I-- '..'lEiJI 32 33 3V , WL ,170 rf pW : 55 I.. 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Dec, 31 (AP) George , "Bugs" Moran in person attended the opening ceremonies at the downtown offices of his gang today bnt when the police had succeeded in opening the of fice safe Moran was gone. The gang leader, whose ranks were decimated last February by the massacre of seven henchmen, stood in the lobby of the building where police raided his luxuri ous headquarters, ostensibly the offices of a construction company, last Saturday. " "Why didn't you go in?" a re porter inquired. "Because there are tour quarts of Scotch in the vault and I don't want to get the rap tor it." Moras replied, and stepped, out to his automobile and departed. . i -' - ; ' " -; HOLDUP MEN SLAIN NEW YORK, Dee. 31. (AP) (Tuesday) One holdup man was beaten to death and another was severely Injured early today by patrons of an alleged speakeasy on West SSrd street in an attempt ed holdup of the place by four men. POLICE STATION ROBBED DECATUR, Ala.. 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