Ttt CnrdON STATESI1AIT.' Salm Oregon, Thursday Morniag. FehnarT 27. 1951 . . : ' : ....... - TAUU KiitlJ . ' mmmm M MM M" mm 0 IKS V ' j V 0 BY WINIFRED VAN DUZER W D CHAPTER XIX "Good Lof d. youngster, what do I car about roar fsmJlrr Bat When he saw the wu hurt ha has tened to assure her that everything- was all right and that hia dearest wiah, next to maklos her Mrs. Kenneth Wllmer. was to be come acanainted with the ancles If athew, Mark, Luke and John. He went to make himself pre sentable then and Ere took him home ta tell Mary the news. And Mary kissed them both and be ran to bustlo about preparing what aha called an engagement dinner. They tried to help at tirst, but they would forget what they were doing to look at each other, or perhaps 1b reaching across the table to touch each other's hands a dish would be npset. And fin ally Mary, red and laughing, de clared that folka in lore were no earthly good in a kitchen and sent them oat under the trees, where they wandered in a lumin ous fog till Jimmy came home and pretended to be Immensely sur prised at what they had to telL Ken an Kre planned to leave for Lakeview on Wednesday af ternoon, this being Monday, and to stay the remainder of the week and this- forestalled the parties Elma and Jan and even Ivy wish ed to give la honor of the en gagement. By the time they re turned something else would be newer and more exciting to them and Ere was glad of this. She wished somehow that she needn't sort of chare her engagement quite so much with the tribe. Only one did she not hear from . only Nory kept silence. And TVedpegday morning she put . on hr green dress . and . , wanjdered across the fields to his cottage. But the cottage was shut up and a note on the door said Nory bad gone to New York. Ere stood there reading the .note, feeling disappointed, strangely, depressed. Nory had gone away just when the whole colony was buzzing ov er Ken's engagement and Ere was puzsled. Of coarse everything was .very casual in Te Lane; any one of the tribe might step out some day on a trip around the world without a word to anybody. Still this did not seem quite like Nory, the whimsical, friendly person Eve regarded rather as a big bro ther. He might have at least sent her a wish for happiness. She was hurt and a little bine as she pressed through the ever- Teens and through the hedge. K i own bushy and matted now and started back across the fields. But life was so full of so many things that no shadow could touch It for long. Ken was waiting, pac ing up and down like a caged Hon with Mary half distracted trying to calm him. He seized Ere as It he bad been given up for lost, demanded where she lad- been, whom she had seen, why she was way when he especially wanted to see her. And with the memory of what happened when she told him of Corys tea party sharply etched on her mind, she smiled and. for the first time la her life, delib erately fibbed. "I've not been anywhere, darl ing .. . Just for a walk. And I'm dying to know what yon wanted to see me about so specially spe cial." "I always wanted to see you. And It's always special. Lordy, Eva, aappoalng something aboald happen to one of as? 80 the oth er would bo left alone " He wag twirling- Into emotion al depths and, like a life saver. Eve plunged after to pull - hint back. "Nothing's going to hap pen. Mister Fussy-fuss and you'd better save yonr imagination for your lovely pictures. And now sweet Mary's got lunch all ready and I'll bet yon haven't touched a morsel - for hours and hours. And I can see I'm going to be the sort of wife who has to fol low her male critter around with a spoon and his rubbers." "IX you dare!" But Ken was pleased and flattered by the at tention both girls gave him and It was not altogether an easy matter to get him started on the long drive afterwards. Once they were swinging out of The Lane, however, and on to the smooth State highway he made Ere tell him all about Lakeview, the sleepy little old-fashioned village pot down in a stretch of country which held sejen lakes and about the old farm where she had lived all her life. 80 while they skimmed along Storm King road, dropping down the hill for the ferry to Pough keepsie and striking out eastward from here for the Connecticut line, she chattered .about her lit tle girlhood, feeling that it must seem uneventful and colorless to Ken but knowing he loved the story of it because he loved her. dW e&a in the "yard. You never see such trees like those excepting in Con necticut it seems to me. And it's full of honest-to-goodness old things for they belonged to my grandma and great-grandma and the grandma before her. "But we're really cults poor. Farms up that' way are not ter ribly valuable and la grandpa's time every cent was put Into the land. That's why the uncles hare gone away; they'd have sold out long ago, only they want Uncle Mat to hare the farm as as long as he needs it" Her voice caught and her eyes brimmed and so Ken must stop the car, kiss her gent ly, beg her not to cry. "He'll love you. Ken." She smiled through tears, urged him to go on. "And that's all of my story. Excepting that Mary and I went to school over near Stam ford after we finished High and I saw your pictures when all the girls started to rave about them. And now I've met you!" !V That called for another stop, a longer one this time. And be cause there were many snch stone it was nearly evening when final ly they: rolled np a ateep bill and went crackling along a gravel drire to the fr.rmhouse which looked like the very spirit of New England put Into wood and stone. Ere raced acroes the lawn and flung herself Into the arms of a man who was coming to meet them; Ken, following more slow ly, met the keen appraising gaze of bine eyes over the girl's bright Cross -Word Puzzle By EUGENE SHEFFER 1 I2 I3 VM Is I6 I7 I8 ili'1 r " 4WZZZMZZZ 26 p2T 30 3I 32 WLZZZWLZZ 56 37 ! 33 ffi75 hi " THHW HH H6 fflVr'6 50 51 w-1 EH I I rW 1 1 HORIZONTAL ; l possesses ' 4 ran. in comne- titiO . 9 plan 12 Persia 14 allowance for the weight of a container 15 beverage 16 pig pen IS one of the bones of the body 19 beverage - 20 den 22 not so difficult 24 not so long 27 color 23 belong ing te her 29 happened 81 Nova Scotia - (abbr.) 33 those la power 84 man's name 85 Spanish- -- for river ; 86 postscript (abbr.) 87 female of 4 the horse S 8 relate 87 sailor , 40 streaked 42 separated 45 exchanre of goods for money 41 girl's name 47 short sleep 4S English - coins 82 turf 53 woody plant 55 celestial body 5t unit 57 causes to a chair 58 watering place VERTICAL. I belonging to him f . skill In perform- ance 8 mariners 6 by 6 vehicle . 7 one ef the Great Lakes 8 one who argues morning prayer if on the ' shelter side II fruit Herewith la the solution to yc terday's Puxxle. - IeJne Rfoy V AOT SJE HAS ,Kt CTVuToc t head and flushed holty, though ho held his own look level. This high-bred, scholarly gentleman with the young face and white hair was Uncle Mat; Ken knew it even before Eve Introduced them joyously with an air et say lag "Ton wonderful, wonderful persons." Uncle Mat had thin transpar ent hands and there was a faint ly bluish shadow about his lips; he was courtly and , formal and rather like a character out of Dickens. But, watching anxiously despite her proud happiness Eve saw the blue eyse soften as they rested on Ken, so gallant and win some and a little humble with his head bared, his look always turn ing to her. "You like hfm. Uncle Mat! Oh, I knew you would! You'll be friends now . show Ken your books" ' The white head bowed as. Ken tuned eagerly. "Et has told about my first editions, 1 see. But perhaps you're hot Interested?" "I am indeed, sir. If yon wouldn't mind my seeing themt.I know how one feels they're soft of sacred " It was the beginning of an odd friendship, this meeting between the gentle, faded, elderly aristo crat so near the end of life's jour ney and the young fellow who looked with hot Impatience upon the long, long way ahead. In spite of the difference In age. educa tion, rearing and most other es sential points, they soon round that their tastes, opinions, likings and aversions clicked and from that time forward Eve complain ed that she never so much as laid eyes on Kenneth since he always was stuck away in the library with Uncle Mat. But Eve had matters of her own to look after and did not mind really. There vras the old cedar chest to be dragged from the corner of the attic where It had stood for nearly a quarter of a century; the rusty old lock to be pried op en; dried and powdery lavender leaves to be brushed away: a rare length of rose-print to be brought to light. Old Mrs. Wiggins, who had kept house at the farm since Ere could remember, helped to spread the lace on a sheet in the sun. . But only Eve's hands lifted folds of ivory satin from the old chest, laid an exquisite garment reverently on the bed. Her moth er's wedding gown . . . She decided that she mast wear this tor her own wedding. The style was as good today as it had been twenty years ago close cut bodice with the skirt gathered full, even rather bouffant and a rounded train. And the dress would tit; the little mother Eve never bad kown had been just her size at twenty, with her own red hah and amber eyes. She would, "Eve decided, wear her mother's wedding dress and the rose-point veil. And the and Ken would return to Lakeview in the Fall. ; She wished to be an October bride, going to the white church at the head of three highways under the gold and scarlet bronze of frost-touched leaves . . . Thus she planned with happi ness like the echo of half solemn, half exultant music sweeping the depths of her heart. But her plans came to nothing in the end. (To be continued) FATAL II 0 Of I f 1 6 OF Fsnii PROBED ATALON. Santa Cataltna Isl and, CaU Feb. IS. CAP) Depu ty sheriffs, heavily armed, tonight were availing the arrival of a revenue cutter td embark for San Nocolas Island. 40 miles west of here, to Investigate the fatal shooting of a fisherman and the wounding of another there Sun day. The officers will be accompan ied by a contingent of Ventura eounty officers and local police. They believed the attack on the 36-foot power boat Taiyo, as she lay in a cove on the island, was made by rum runners or dope smugglers who feared detection. Captain Tom Lobospoff, com mander of the fishing craft, re vealed the shooting when he brought the Taiyo into port here last night. The craft bore the body of Steve Semeranks. and John Helse, wounded owner of the boat, who now is in a critical condition at a local hospital with a bullet In his chest Captain Lobospoff to detained at the Araloa Jail pending the outcome of the investigation. Officers found a small rifle aboard the Taiyo, but the Skipper and Helse deny there was a quar rel aboard. Race Rioters Are . Given Stiff Jolts SAUNAS. CaL. Feb. 21 (AP) Eight Watsonvflle youths charged with rioting Is connec tion with racial disturbances be tween whites and Filipinos sever al weeks ago, were sentenced in superior court here today to 6ervo two years in San Quentin prison and in addition four of them were sentenced to SO days in the coun ty jail. The penitentiary sentenc es of all were then suspended. The four receiving the county jail sentences, Fred Majors, The odore Spangler, Charles Morrison and George Sias. are - more than 21 years old. The others, George Barnes, Raymond Davis, Edward Fry and Raymond Smith are un der 21. OHM FIBEES BECOMING BETTDt CHICAGO, Feb. 16. (AP) The municipal cash register had sung the tune of almost $17,000. 000 tonight at the close of the second day's sale of tax anticipa tion warrants in a "save the city" drive. Proceeds from , the sale will be nsed to finance the gov ernments ef the city until tax re celptSr delayed by reassessment proceedings, begin to come to next July. The 25 committees assigned to Industrial groups into which the city was divided have swung into active work and the daily, sub scriptions were expected to mount considerably, beginning tomor row, Phillip R. Clarke, banker and campaign chairman said to night. The civic quota of $74,000,000 needed to operate the municipal and county governments until ' July, was apportioned among the 25 groups, chief of which was-the bank group with $25,000,000 to raise. MICKEY MOUSE By IWERKS IS ap- yroschea IT pose for portrait 21 allude 23 downcast 14 tea-going; Tassel 25 fowls 26 prices Se-eeases from action 81 rrver ia Africa 22 bartered 84 authors of ono's being 85 feels regret for past action 87 pad 88 thin Seees of feed day for orna mental work . 8f commerce 41 smart blew 42 the Ar- Seatine ollar 48 river In England 44 have courage '48 well known seed ef - Ylne ; 50 cover , 51 ago ?aa ltin cam jp "POLLY AND HER PALS" The Mouse and the Lion" By CLIFF STERRE TT4 Kn. Km' SAM wim HOSS&S COIJLEnT TXWb vt- ik1TJW)F COLLAR M&: t' i. a itmat A 1 . . -' h- m. -rr ,i uifc"CT"'MM F. ....... I . A.. 3 - - ... .'r-i- ll TljC-'C TVKakI ftrLLAR. i I: 3 I T ! ... . I I t ' t I 'f I . " II I ... M.lACU'kl' I 1 IL&LMR' I" INS "THE: CELLAR TILL fcVfcKT- I l & 5UPP&F? 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