The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morninjr, January 21, 1930
PAGE SEVEN
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BY ROY VICKERS
cnArnm xxxvm.
"But can yea do anything wlth
tout KOverBBwnt protection?" she
eked. "I thought that was the es-ee-ice
of the hole thing." "
"So it is to a point But I've
J-.-.irned a thing or two in that
.ffice of mine about comitadji
e:;.ingst other things. There are
3 tie bands of cut-throats, of
jli.r e or four men. all oyer this
v retched country as well as all
ovtT this city. They don't exist as
a problem.
"There are about- three bands
tr.jt jnatter. and the chief one,
-which is about a hundred fighting
n.-n strong, is under a fellow
called Stephanos. He doesn't seem
to have a surname.
' The' other two are about half
,t I t- size of his band. Now, none
oi these fellows want a pitched
j,Li"le their idea is to swoop
d-. vn upo-u an unarmed gang of
workmen and- collar their wages.
V.' '11, I'm going to provide 'em
van a pitched battle if they turn
"But you can't fight a hun
dred men!" Shirley exclaimed.
' Not jbr myself. But there are
a Jg'jodmany Serbians in this
c. y. They hate all these fellows,
ti:nl they're born fighters. I've
t it the idea of enrolling them as
i i'rers and supplying them with
t Then I shall buy off a few
the members of the gang I
i i get in touch with them quite
-i i y and if there's any trouble
t'; y'll fight to the death as they
v n'u want to be taken by the
1 lers they deserted. Altogether
v may make a job of it.
You see, once we've got the
r.t i vvay going we're all right. The
o.iuitadji don t worry about rail
v.mvs. They want money. They
n't hold up our trains because
t --y'll contain only the products
! the mines and the quarries and
l "er on, grain.
1 ve thought out a wages sys
tem for the mines and the other
depots up-country which will
1 .ive nothing in It for our friends
the comitadji. In the end, you
e -e if I don't employ most of the
mgs themselves on peaceful la
l' ir, which will yield a better re-
t irn than the cut-throat business.
His eyes sparkled as he spoke.
Sae was beginning to understand
a gviod deal about Alan knew
that he was at once the man of
affairs and visionary, knew that
the real driving force behind him
was to banish chaos from the
plans of Macedonia and turn the
comitadji into farmers. Some
thing in her bowed down to the,
builder, the creator in him the
universal father who wanted to
feed and clothe and protect the
v hole of humanity. She glimpsed
tiie glory of working by his side
then faced the reality that she
l ad failed.
"Do you remember giving me
those shares? ... Of course you've
actually got them in your posses
sion. But I want you to count me
out of that, Alan. I've got nearly
five thousand dollars left I shall
g.) on trying until I've got my
?. sage back then I'll go."
"Oh, we can't talk about all
that later," said Alan. "We don't
know yet that the shares will ever
le worth anything. But while we
re on the subject I only hold
tlMse shares as mortgage. Roger
intended to make them over to me
somehow he didn't do it."
"I intend to write him offering
to take them as complete settle
ment of his debt to me. He will,
of course, be bound to accept.
Then, if anything comes of this
venture, you and I will settle our
affairs."
So that was to be the end of It,
thought Shirley. In bitterness of
sul ehe reminded herself of that
morning on the moors when she
had spoken grandiloquently of
sharing with him the toil and the
despair. There had been a ridicul
ous little domestic life, irksome
yet at times strangely pleasant, In
place of danger and disease she
had nerved herself to face.
It seemed very far away that
stinging determination to pay the
debt that Roger would not at
tempt to pay. She had, at least at
tempted had he not told her that
she had done her best? And her
best had consisted of exchanging
optimistic platitudes with Stav-
ros and being flattered and more
or les3 entertained by Maurois.
If you really intend to stay on
here, we must come to some ar
rangement," Alan was saying. "It
is merely quixotic for you to
spend your last penny. In fact,
sometime go I was going to sug
gest-1"
He broke off as the housekeep
er entered the" room. v
.Monsieur .uaurois, she an
nounced.
Alan muttered under his breath
and Shirley gave him a warning
glance as the Frenchman came in
"This is a dreadful hour to call
even in Macedonia," said Maurois
as he shook hands with both of
them. 'My excuse must be that
I have come to indulge in the sel
fish pleasure of bringing good
news." He turned to Shirley.
"Dear lady, your inflexible will
has at last broken the heart of
my good friend Monsieur Stav
ros. He has surrendered, and you
must permit me to be the first to
Offer my congratulations."
Shirley caught her breath. She
looked from Maurois to Alan who
was staring at the Frenchman
oddly.
"Really, Monsieur Maurois, I
don't understand. What do you
mean by saying that he has 'sur
rendered'?" "There arrived for him this ev
ening authority from Athens to
detail a regiment of soldiers for
the protection of workers employ
ed by your company. He was him
self painfully pleased, but, as In
the manner with these fellows,
was seiged with nervousness. I
took the liberty of volunteering
to bring you the news and the of
ficial authorisation, which places
the local General In effect under
the orders of your company."
As he spoke, Maurois took a
document from his pocket and
handed it to Shirley.
Shirley, speechless, took it from
his hand.
"The instructions are that the
troops are to be ready to march
in fourteen days, the localities
where protection Is required be
ing specified by yourselves all
details of a purely military nature
being left, of course, to the offi
cer in command," supplemented
Maurois.
''Monsieur Maurois, I I hard
ly know how to thank you," falt
ered Shirley.
"For acting as messenger from
Stavros' house? Dear lady. It Is
not an excessive service."
"You have done more than
that," said Shirley quickly. "He
always put me off with platitudes
and promises. I feel sure youjiave
helped to make him take action.
Maurois shrugged his should
ers.
"Oh, I will not deny that I
have told him he Is a lasy fellow
and threatened bim that you
would assuredly give the Ameri
can people a bad impression of
him, but what would you?"
'I feel sure you have helped
more than that!" protested Shir
ley. "I"
Shirley, the self-possessed.
stammered Into silence. She
fought for self-control and nar
rowly held it. She wanted to
scream, to laugh, fo cry. Through
a mist she saw Alan, his face
stern. Then, dimly, she heard
his Tolce.
"I agree' with you, Maurois. My
wife has worked very hard, but I
hare no doubt that she is much
indebted to you. You must allow
me to put a little proposition be
fore you later in fact, as my
wife Is, to an extent, my business
partner, I will put it to you now.
Will you accept a parcel of shares
as as a little token of our grati
tude?" "My dear Brennaway, it is de
lightful of you to make the offer,
but I could not think of accepting
It. Believe me, you grossly .exag
gerate my part in the affair. A
trifjing courtesy which I have
been most happy to perform
that Is alt And now I am sure
Mrs. Brennaway wishes to discuss
it with you and I will say good
night, my friends."
Shirley bad been conscious of
a jarring note. She thanked Maur
ois again, her exultation now dim
med with the fear that something
had gone wrung.
When Alan came back she
watched him and noted that he
avoided her eye.
"TELLING TOMMY"
.-HUiMIHIIitl.j'Hi
"Well, Shirley, you wero Just
saying that you had tailed and
now it appears you're succeeded.
You have obtained military pro
tection or the laborers. You have
in fact, done what you set out to
do. You have done what your hus
band refused to try and you
hare succeeded where he would
certainly have failed."
His voice was cold utterly cold
yet she knew that, he was nerv
ous. She sank into a chair, hurt
and bewildered. This was the
moment of triumph of which she
had dreamed. She had thought of
herself fighting her way to this
moment through toil and danger
and disease. There had been none
of these it had all been too easy
and that was why Alan was
talking about it as if she herself
had no existence.
'Yes, here Is the concession,"
she said, gulping back tears of
-disappointment. "But I believe
all the same that it was Monsieur
Maurois "
"Quite!" cut in Alan. "But I
recognize that that is not my af
fair. You remember In our orig
inal conversation way back in
Vermont "
"Don't please," cried Shirley.
''I was only going to say that
i
if you remember you chose to
regard your husband's debt to me
as being your wn la the sense,
that you wished to repay it. It
wag agreed that yon would dis
charge your part of the debt if
you were to do what he ought to
hare done. You hare .done it.
How you have done It, I repeat,
is not my affair."
The moment of triumph had
failed. Why, oh wSy, was he not
offering his hand' and taking back
the insult he had once flung at
her? All these words he was giv
ing her formal stilted words
that sounded like an accusation.
His last phrase echoed back into
her brain and her attention seiz
ed on it.
"How did you think I did it?"
she asked.
"In the easy way,"
She stared at him. dazed. She
had the impression that he had
not meant to say that that some
thing outside his own nature had
forced the words la a hoarse
whisper to his lips.
"Alan," she gasped. "Do you
know what you are saying to
me?" '
"It isn't my affair." he re
peated. "But I don't want you
to misunderstand my words. I
tell you I am complaining of noth
ing. To fulfill the bargain you
forced upon yourself with me,
you used the weapon which you
use with consummate skill."
(To be continued)
City Manager Is
Scandal Center
As Ouster Made
CLEVELAND. Jan. 20. (AP)
The beginning of a vigorous
movement here to correct the ills
in municipal government has
come from the suspension of Wil
liam R. Hopkins, after his serv
ice of six years a manager of
Cleveland, the largest city in the
country pioneering in city jnan
ager government.
For six years Cleveland's new
form of government has weath
ered attack after attack. The sus
pension of Hopkins Monday night
was the climax.
Whether city manager govern
'ment in Cleveland Is an improve
ment over the mayorality system
remains an open question.
CUBE-BIN
RDM1FLM
ES
TOKYO, Jan. 20. (AP)
Rengo News Agency's Harbin
correspondents yesterday foresaw
possible indefinuepostponement
of the Sino-Russian conference at
Moscow, January 25, due to the
Nanking government's inclination
to repudiate vital portions of the
protocol signed at Khabarovsk, Si
beria, following six months of
quasL-warfare between the two
countries.
A readjustment of Chinese
Russian relations was- to have
been sought at the Moscow meet
ing. As a consequence of the Nan
king attitude, Manchurian author
ities are facing the unpleasant al
ternatives of either defying the
Nationalist government heads at
Nanking and negotiating a separ
ate agreement or continue the
costly and dangerous bickering
with Russia. The Soviet has been
encouraging the former action.
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