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Tfrg OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Satnrtay Moraiiig. January 1930 castor of BY ROY VICK HONEY" ERS CHAPTER XXIV. "Oh, I can't believe you mean at." protested the woman. "You 11 need me. I tell you as sure as ' .stand here you'll need me. You jSven't had any experience, nor Mr. Brennaway I should say, : ug;h he's one of the nicest gen jen tha er walked. You f't know how it is when you go hotels, they always know un ; -;b " ;Alice!" iuterrupted Shirley. ;!,r b like tke lash of a whip. ! I appreciate your desire to help , e but I'm sorry that I have ao irther need for your serrices af ;.?r you have done what I have msfc told yon." "Oh. Tery well!" said Alice, shrugging Ler shoulders. "I can 'only say I'm sorry, and you'll be sorry too. when you two leave ,toere together." Shirley sat still and heard the .woman go 'outside and speak to jCaiter. The sense of outrage was ,eo great that she dared not move. (AVhen she heard the car start to wards the barn, she relaxed. "Oh, my God!" 8he pressed .2i-?r hands over her face while dry 'obs shook her. For the moment ; she was almost frightened. Every one? that she had believed solid and permanent seemed to have been destroyed. She had envisaged Ipoverty in a vague-wy imper sonal poverty where one was ;bored and had to do without things. But caste was a fundamen tal reality to her. In a few minutes Alice with nothing but friendly, even kindly jiiuentions, had shown her that the ! edifice of society in which she had i whole-heartedly believed was fouuded on shifting sand. ( Alice who believed that she was conducting a furtive intrigue with '.Alan and had been accidentally jfound out by her husband Alice toad revealed the existence of a shideous comradeship that shocked tier beyond her own belief. Would the world take Alice's jiew of her! Would the world Ahink that she and Alaa had beea Jnrtive lovers? At the thought the Kighting instinct welled up in her. jtAlan should not be made the ob ject of Alice's sympathy if any faction of hers could prevent it. (-hd knew a moment ef wild an jer against Roger she felt an .overpowering desire to strike at iiiui, to beat him down She picked up his letter and read .it yet again. This time the style Impressed her. It was stilted and artificial and insufferably pom pous. She had a fleeting vision f him crying in her sitting-room blubbering like a frightened child. t Til frighten him again!" she exclaimed suddenly. "I'll let him See that if he is going to drag Alaa nto the mire he shall go to prison, pie will not dare to go on with the divorce then." She began to feel her strength of will returning, felt that she waj jbeginning to steer her own course Instead of drifting with the tide. She would have to tell Alan, of course, the moment she saw him J put him on his guard. She wished he would come back. As she formed the wish she heard footsteps. She ran to the window. It was Mrs. Downey, the farmer's wife, who looked after the cottage for Alan. - Paradoxically, if Alan had been with her she would never have given a second thought to Mrs. Downey. As it was. alone in the cottage, she was conscious of a certain embarrassment. "Good morning." You're firs. Downey, aren't you." she said. "I'm Mrs. Kelton. My car broke down last night and Mr. Brenna way very kindly put me up." She felt the woman's shrewd scrutiny, and knew that she re garded all city people with a cer tain suspiciousness. "Oh," said Mrs. Downey, and hobbled unconcernedly into the kitchen. Shirley went out into the road to wait for Alan. Shirley had waited no more than a minute when she saw Alan rounding the (bend in the road some hundred 'yards away. Of a sudden, fear seized her, that odd, unreasoning fear of his anger that she bad felt before. And because she was afraid of those unknown, elemental forces in him she ran to meet him. Alan had caught sight of her and wondered why she was wait ing in the road. When she began to run it meant one thing only to him Shirley in trouble. All other thought of her was scattered as he sprinted forward to meet her. "Hnllo, what's the matter?" he shouted, and before she could an swer they were abreast. Shirley thrust Roger's letter at him. She was breathless, more with excitement than with the short run. "Roger sent me this by a ser vant," she gasped out. "All the servants know about it." She kept her eyes on his face while he read the letter. Thero was a faint flicker of the eye brows, but beyond that no sign of what he felt. He folded the letter, returned It to its envelope and gave it back to her. His deliberateness alarmed her afresh. "Alan, before you say anything, let me speak. I'm dreadfully sorry, but I " He waved her apology aside. He smiled and she could not fathom the smile. "I don't want to say anything offensive, Shirley, but wouldn't it be rather a good riddance?" The question was so utterly un expected that for the moment she eeuld not answer. "I that hardly seems te the point of course I've finished with him In any sense that mat ters especially after thia." He had begun to walk in the direction of the cottage and she was walking by his side. "Why be indignant with him for writing that letter, Shirley?" asked Alan. ""It's very natural be havior on his part." "But he has no cause for " "Quite bo. But he thinks he has. And as far as I can see he has a perfectly good case legally." ' Somehow they were missing the point. They walked on a dozen or more paces, while Shirley struggled for words to express what she was feeling. "I'm not thinking about my side of it," she foundered. "But don't you see I he I'm making you a co-respondent." He laughed and every nerve in her body winced. "That won't trouble me in the least," he assured her. "If you're really worried about that, please forget it." Her bewilderment grew. His attitude was utterly incompre hensible. She could not belieVe that he was genuinely indifferent. "We are getting at cross-purposes," she faltered. "I've beea thinking ever since I got the let- PAGE SEVEN ter. You've got the wkip-hind. You can stop him from brio slag this action," Alan frowned. "By suing hftn for the money he owes me?" he challenged. "No, Shirley. I lent him the money for a definite purpose, as you know, and I'm not going back on it." "Xo, you needn't sue him. I wasn't thinking of that. But If you were to see him and tell him that he has no cause for divorce tell him he must "not bring the action he's afraid of you, Alan." "Not because he owes me money. "No, perhaps not because of that, but " Shirley hesitated. la the vast muddlement in her brain there lingered some idea that it was not fair to betray the whole of Roger's confession te Alan. "Because he knows that I could put him in prison if I cared to make a few inquiries?"' demanded Alan. She caught her breath. "You know, then?" "You told me so, Shirley." "I?" "When you were telling me how well you were doing you men- "TELLING TOMMY" tioned that i had made a few thousands over some Stock Ex change Up or other. I knew en ough of his affairs to know that he had no capital to invest in a tip on the Stock Exchange. More over, the other night when he be lieved Corto Bellas to stand at fifty-eight, he offered to pay me back fifty thousand dollars. "By a little simple arithmetic and study of the market columns I was able to calculate that he must have put over a quarter mil lion into Corto Bellas to be able to make me that offer. He is at his father's game and. he must have begun by losing a quarter million." "I gave him the right to do what he liked with my money," she put in irrelevantly. "That means that you've lost everything," he pointed out. "Oh damn the money!" she ex claimed. "We're not talking about that. Are you going to put Roger in prison?" "No. And I'm not going to threaten him with it blackmail him into declining to exercise what he believes to be his rights." "Then surely you will defend the ease!" she tried desperately. "A lot of trouble and publicity for nothing!" he answered. "Yea have admitted that your marriage is a failnre and yon were willing, for whatever reason, to break your marriage tows. I'm sorry if I hurt you, but you must see the plain horse-sense of it. Why not Jeave it at that?" "But " she protested, and bit off the word with a horrible sus pieion'that she was about to burst into tears. "Have you had any breakfast?" he asked. "I don't want any breakfast. "You had better have some all the same, and we'll see what is to be done. Come along. Shirley." He led the way into the cottage. "I shall choke if I try to eat," she faltered as they came inside. "You won't really." he said. "You have a hard day la front of you you will want all your strength." (To be continued tomorrow.) OUSTER MOVE STARTS BOISE, Ida., Jan. 3. (AP) Ouster proceedings were ordered drawn up today by Attorney Gen eral W. D. Gills tor removal of Sheriff R. E. Weinger of Sho shone county after his conviction in the Mullan '-'rum conspiracy." BE INSlEff If? In keeprag wfth the policy of the Commonwealth Fund to leave as modern equipment as practical in all branches of its health work in Marion county, new dental equipment and fixtures have been purchased and will be Installed the first of the week In a room at the Salem health center. AH dental work, except school and pre-school examinations, will be conducted from this perman ent clinic, of which Dr. Est 1 11 Brunk Is in charge. The old nurses' room in the health center is being remodeled to meet the needs of the dentist, and the nurs ing staff has been moved to the second room on the mall floor of the health center. This is the first time the den tal clinic has been set up in about a year, a room in the old por table school building which stood on the Washington school grounds having been used previously for the clinic. However, the equip ment which was used in that building has all been replaced by new, modern chair and supplies, representing an outlay of in the neighborhood of a thousand dollars. Local Canneries Represented at Northwest Meet Salem canneries will be well represented at the annual meeting of the Northwest Canners asso ciation which will be held inSeat tle January , 7 and 3. Reld Murdoch and company will be represented by W. J. Allen, C. B. Spencer aad Henry Small. C. H. Kane and C. V. Huber will represent the Northwest Packing Co. while Frank Eidson and William Richman will go from the Producers Cooperative cannery. The Star Fruit Products company will be represented bv Glen Le&gren and D. C. Roberts. Four representatives of the Oregon Packinr companv are also expected to attend. 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