OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Meriting. January 5,
AGE NINE
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1 BY ROY VICKERS
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"Wen, what about your person
al plans?" he asked abruptly. !
Alan's words chilled her. In! a
single sentence he had detached
himself from her. He was willing
to help her to throw her a rope
from the safety of the bank. Bat
those few words had made It clear
to her that she was aloae in the
waters.
"I haren't had time to think.
Dote It matter rery much? I shall
go back to New York and pat p
at a hotel."
"Why not go to Mrs. Sibley?"
"No." She was ; firm on that
point. "Ire dropped out, Alan.
Too don't seem to understand
that."
He, made no answer and she
wondered whether he understood.
It had been the most rigid of all
the rales her. father had taught
her. "Remember, Shirley, if yea
Roger would not go to Macedonia. I wilL'
CHAITER XXV.
The cottage was filled with the
smell Cf bacon -frying and team
the kitchen came the sound of sii
tlins. 'Shirley laughed, a shrill,
high-pitched laugh that spoke of
fugled nerve.
"Steady!" warned Alan, glanc
ing at her with quick anxiety.
"It's all right." she assured him.
I la.shed because I really am
hungry. It seems mad to want
Just "breakfast."
"If the soundest proof of san
ity, "he smiled back. 'The body
is awfully useful for dragging one
out of the cleuds . . . I've ar
ranged for a reasonably compe
tent electrician to mend your mag
neto. Ah, here's Mrs. Downey."
They sat down.
Yoii'd better let me tackle the
coffee-pot. Mrs. Downey's coffee
requires very careful pouring . . .
Funny finding an electrician in
the country, isn't it? He's got ra
ther a queer story."
She sensed that his attitude to
wards her hand changed. He was
still friendly and amiable and so
licitous, but this was a mere in
terlude. After breakfast they must
settle something.
"Suppose we have a stroll while
Mrs. Downey is clearing up?" he
suggested.
She murmured assent.
"I must just change this dress"
she told him, and he carried the
suitcase upstairs for her.
She came down in knickers,
feeling more confident of herself.
He was smoking on the porch. In
five minutes they had reached the
open without a word. In those
few minutes she was resting, sure
that, presently, Alan would tell
her what they were going to do.
drop oat drop oat. Not like 8o-and-So,
for Instance."
"You see, hotel will cost
monej " Alan wu wylnf. 'Tour
husband told me his income was
about five thousand a year that
means he can make you an allow
ance of possibly two thousand "
"Alan!" she cried. "How can
yoa think I woald ever take a
penny from him "
"But you will hare to take
money from someone," he Inter
rupted. "There's the hotel bill, if
nothing else."
"Need we talk like this. Alan!'
she protested. "It isn't, after all,
merely a question of money-grubbing."
He caught on the phrase.
"But it is Just exactly that,"
he exclaimed. "Let me tell you
that by the mere act of wanting
to breathe and live from day to
day we are all money-grubbers.
Once yoa understand what money
means you will find that money
grubbing' is the solemn business of
life. I tell you," he added warm-
Ping to his theme, "money-grub
bing is the finest sport on earth
or the meanest whichever you
care to make it."
"It's easy enough for you to
moralize about money," said Shir
ley ill-temperedly. "You're rleh.
"It goes deeper than that." he
countered. " There are money
problems that riches will not
solve. Too cannot bay off money
with money. I tried that with
yonr husband and learned toy les
son. Look, here, I have money
enough without hurting myself
ft
"Alan!"
"Quite so. When I put it like
that you realise at once that it
cannot be done. You realize tbat
you cannot receive without giving.
It's a copy-box maxim but it hap
pens to be much more than good
morality it's good science.
"You come from the class that
Inherits mcner, but believe me
that class gives service of some
kind in return even If it is only
the service of pretending to give
nothing. I believe the service de
manded of you was that you
should marry a millionaire or
some man who could provide you
with the means of doing your
work the work of being an or
nament to the high world, as you
call it.
"I don't understand the high
world but I do understand-that
society seems to 'require it. You
were not willing to give that serv
ice you chose romance."
"You eannot blame me for that.
I loved him honestly and whole
heartedly at the time,"
"I don't doubt it. But you ac
cepted money the money you In
herited from your father you ac
cepted all the surroundings of the
class In which you move on terms
which might require you to sacri
fice love. That's the contract the
high world offers, you know.
"Throughout the decades that
class has accepted the obligations
of public service and of marri
age in the Interests of their class.
They may be wrong fundamental
ly that doesn't matter. Too
tried to accept their privileges
and shirk the particular responsi
bilities those privileges involved.
Yoa tried to receive without giv
ing." Shirley sank down onto a boul
der. Alan stood by her side, look
ing over her into the horizon pur
suing his own train of thought.
"But what can I give?" The
words broke from her without
conscious volition.
"By Jove, you've learned to ask
that!" he exclaimed. "It's the first
'Question in' the catechism of mon
ey . It's pretty tragic Shirley,
but'though you're only 27, you've
asked that question too late In
life ... I, at any rate, don't know
the answer. We shall have to give
It up and content ourselves with
finding some practical way tor
you to live."
She sprang up from the boulder
and faced him.
"You say you don't know the
answer to the question, but I do.
You do, too only you think I
haven't enough in me to under
stand it. You've made me see this
-I must never take money again
from anybody. I must earn. But
before I have any money for my
self I mast pay back your half
million.
"Don't harp on that. Shirley.
For one thing you're got hold of
the wrong end of the stick. It's
all forgotten." . '
She ignored him. She felt sud
denly as strong as he and utterly
unafraid of his anger.
"Don't you, remember what you
said?" she pressed him. "You
said we didn't owe you just fig
ures in a pass-book. You said we
owed you toil, all the nerve-wrack
and the thrill and and the des
pair that went to the making of
that money. I can give you all of
that."
"How?"
"Roger would not go to Mace
don la. I will."
For a moment she saw hope la
his eyes, then saw the hope fad
into cynicism. "
"Come out of the clouds. Shir- :
ley. You've simply keyed your .
self up again. It's absurd."
"Why Is it absurd?" she chal-
lenged hotly. "Yon said that Rog
er would have to see the govern
ment officials and get a eonces--
sion out of them. When I've '
learned what to ask for, I can
ask for that as well as Roger."
"It's not easy talking to Balkan
statesmen
(To be continued.)
S wegle
X
SWEGLE, Jan. 4. Mr. and
Mrs. Beeman are home again af
ter several months absence in
eastern Oregon and Washington.
Mrs. J. M. Baldwin returned
New Year's day from a short vis
it to Roseburg.
Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Board and
children spent one vacation day
in Portland.
School opened Jan. 2 with few
absences, In spite of our many
colds.
"TELLING TOMMY
By PIM
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Getting to the Bottom of Things"
By CLIFF STERRETT
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