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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Saturday Morning. February 8, 1930 PAGE SEVEN I "MASTER of MONEY11 I BY ROY ViCKERS ' CHAPTKR L.IV "I'm sorry," she continued. I can glTe jto no Information at all. I thing you had really go back and wait until you can-see 'Alan." ' A footstep sounded in the clear ing and Abra morel put his head la the shack. "Can yeu eame down to the camp, Mr. Brennaway There's a argument between the Serbi ans and the laborers about their piece work." "All' right." ald Shirley. "I'll come at oftce." To Roger she dded: "If you like, you can hare a meal before you go, Roger, but I think it would be better for you not to stay over night. I shall probably be back In half an hour or so If you'd like to rest here." He 'made no answer and she mounted the mare and rode off to 'Abramorel. She "had tried to be polite to Roger, but had found it n effort. By his presence he had Irritated her, but for the rest hia coming had been little more than an Interruption. The Sfe In which Roger had played o large a part had shrunk- into iothingnes. By the time she had settled the dispute among the workmen, she 3ia,l almopt forgotten him. Rid ing back to the shack, she detr aniued to force herselr to be as considerate as. possible towards tini. When he entered the shack it was empty and she thought with a sigh of relief that he must have fcone while she was dealing with !ie workmen. Then she noticed Jtrsat all the papers had disap peared from her deBk. So that was how Roger had made use of her absence! She had J-alf formed a plan for pursuing him when Petros appeared, his erms laden with papers. "What have you there, Pe tros?" she asked quickly. "They are Madame's papers," answered Petros. "I chanced to come in here after Madame had g"ne and found a thief who was t itting all the papers in his has." There was something in the Greek's manner that frightened What did you do, Petros?" "Madame, he took his pistol and fired at me, so I killed him vith my knife. Madame will see the mark of the bullet on the wall here. I?ut Madame need not be distressed. There are now no pa-P-T5 in his bap."' Petros was placing the papers ,cn the desk, utterly nnperurbed. To Petros it was an everyday hap pen in gsom cone tried to kill you and you killed him first. Strug gle as she would with all her night, Shirley could not help Bl aring something of the Greek's view." Roger had hen killed, and who-, in the end. was Rosier? She l :id forgotten even the unhappi Cv'ss he had caused her. That nifiht she wrote to Aran tiling him what had happened, bu next Jay received a letter crossing hers. "Hear Shirley. My little trouble 1, over and at last they will allow , ! to write. Three fellows I ;it for from England have arriv e !.' One of them, Walters, will be up tomorrow. You can hand ev erything over to him. I shall not try to tell you how grateful I feel for all you hare been doing. Alan." vTuee The next day Walters, arrived and brought a French lawyer with him. Shirley left him to deal with the complications of Roger's death and with aa odd feeling of regret, got Into the car that was to take her to Salonika. ' On the next day she went to the hospital, feeling neither ex citiment aor reluctance. If he were to speak of themselves she would Just tell him plainly that fthe loved him. When she saw him sitting on a shady veranda in an invalid chair, she was not so sure of her self. He looked weak and part of his bronze bad gone, but other wise he seemed jione the worse. "Hello Shirley!" he greeted her, and they shook hands. A nurse brought her 'a chair and left them alone. "I've been trying to think up sometning to say to you Shirley, but I decided that to say any thing would be an impertinence." "In any case it would be un necessary," she said, laughing un easily. "You had arranged every thing pretty thoroughly, you know. It was only a question of being amiable to Abramovel and the men." He asked questions about the camp and for a time they dis cussed the details of what she had been doing. "You're getting tired," ehe suggested. "I'd better buzz off." There came a long pause. "Not a hit" he answered vig orously. "I shall he un and about in a day or two. No, I was Just minKtng . . . e must arrange monev matters as soon as noasi- ble. Your husband's death may niake complications over the shares. In any case, I don't want the shares to come into the open market. They're vonrs. vou know and I'll take them from you at a valuation. Legally, of course, they're still his, but we shall be able to work that out somehow." "Need we talk about it now?" she asked. "I don't think so. Just leave it at this. However we work it, there will he a good income for you that will leave you absolute ly independent." "Thank you," she said tone lessly. She was tongue-tied, un able to say any of the things she had planned to say. ' "Let me know your plans as soon as you know them your-.-eia' he went on. "And if you're going back to New York, don't forget to send me your address." "Of course!" she answered, controlling her voire. "I'm goinK hack at once." She got up. "But it will he uite a rush and in case we don't meet again good bye, A Tan." "Good-bye. Shirley." They shook haryls lightly, formally. ' T!ie best luck!" A month later, in a cottage on Caie Cod, she received a letter from Roger's firm in New York. ''Madame we have receiv ed from Salonika proof of the late Roer Kolton's death and have' to inform you that by a will executed on your wedding day you Inherit all property of We should perhaps add the deceased. that the bulk of the deceased's property consists of shares of doubtful value in a foreign la dustrial enterprise, known as Macedonian Developments. Wa should be glad to receive In structions in due course. We are, yours faithfully. Keltton & Rood." So Roger had been prevented by death and his own negligence) from perpetrating his last act of meanness on Alan, thought Shir ley. Roger had left her his prop erty if indeed it could be called property. Out of that, she would, ot course, make good the deficit to the trust fund and then she could forever forget Roger. Forget Alan, too. Ct - . ti. . 1 . dreams out of nothing more sub stantial than the delirious rav ings of a sick man. Ia his delir ium ha had talked noiuenge and part ot the nonsense had been the nonsense that he loved her. sj The sun was sinking when she went out and climbed to a high, grassy ledge that looked out over the sea. She dropped into a deep reverie of her life In Macedonia, of Alan, so that It seemed but part of her dream when she saw him coming slowly up the wind ing path towards her. "Are ton real?" she asked as ha stood over her. "I think so," ha answered. "At this moment, for the first time in my life . . . Now I know that I have dona well to came." She did not look trp at him. He still seemed part of her dream ot him. She stood on the border land of reality and was unwilling to cross. "Why?" "Because you were thinking of me and wanting me to come." "Yes." she answered simply. "Why were yon so long in com ing? ... I know . . , "It Isn't love it's Just honor." "Funny! We read each other's thoughts . . . Why do we talk? I'm going to kiss you." "I wanted to stay until yon aid that stay here forever. Now I want to' run away," she aid quickly. "But you do not move," he said, then stooped and picked her up. In his kiss Shirley yet again discovered man and this time it was man the lover a strange wonder utterly unlike anything she had dreamed of. Gone from her now was the instinct ot de fensiveness, as the desire to run away. Darkness came and they wan dered down the path to the vil lage, then aimlessly into a lane, now tlking, now keeping long si lences. Now and again they, would chatter ot Macedonia. "A funny things is." said Al an presently, "I can't remember anything about that battle with Stephanos. My recollection ends Just as I was going to round np the Serbians. You were in the dugout, of course. I suppose you heard everything that happen ed?" "Oh, yes," she answered. "It was all wonderful but not as wonderful aa this, Alan. Let's walk about all night and watch the dawn." The End. Wheel of Saw Flies 2 Blocks Killing Woman RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 7 (AP) Death, assuming the form of a fly wheel to a saw. flew through space for two blocks to day, plunged through the roof of a house, slashed a woman's head from her shoulders and buried it self deep in the ground nnder the floor. James Brke. a negro, was saw ing wood In a vacant lot. The balance wheel, an iron disc half an inch thick, snapped as the saw was turning at high speed. One part tell to the ground and the other sailed 'high in the air, clear ing a two story church and two small houses, and plunging through the roof of a third. Winnie Jones, negro woman, was struck by the iron with ter rific force. Her face and half her head were severed. KIDNAP PLOT PROBED NEW HAVEN, Conn.. Feb. 7 (AP) Nine persons were in the custody of New York and New Haven police tonight In connec tion with the kidnaping of Max Price, 2 year old real estate op erator, while the victim of 'the ransom plot was recuperating in a private sanitarium from the ef fects of eight days in the hands of kidnapers. Survey Effected For Fire Boxes A survey of the city of Salem preliminary to the mapping out of the proposed fire alarm box system on which bids have been asked by the city council. Is being made by F. D. Webber, chief electrical engineer for the Oregon insurance rating bureau, who ar rived here Thursday from Port land. Installation ot 60 alarm boxes this year is planned, with more to be added later. HOOVERS GIVE DIXXER WASHINGTON. Feb. 7 (AP) One of the most colorful of the series ot state dinners at the White House was given tonight by the president and Mrs. Hoover in honor of the speaker and Mrs. Longworth. Dancer Finishes Heart Balm Case LOS ANGELES. Feb. 7 (AP) The prosecution completed its case today against Ferdinand Pinney (affinity) Earle, artisC defendant in a suit for $J0,t00 brought by Dolores Salazar, Span sh dancer, for Breach of pre-nup-tial contract. The last witness called was the plaintiff's mother. Mrs. Anrella Salazar who, in broken English and with many gestures, related that Earle had won the good graces of the Salazar family. BILLIARD TITLE WON SEATTLE. Feb. 7 (AP) Wallace LindsTey ot Monnt Verh-' on. Wash., won the Pacific north west amateur three cushion bil liard championship here tonight from Jerry White ot Seattle SO to 48 in a playoff match. 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