THE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE '
SERfAt- STORY
LOVE POWER
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CHAPTER XXIV
ALE suffered the tortures
k git damn ----P.
iv eld mine road. It
Zm and winding. nd fo
7 minute, at th. best
taf restrainea
to Mr the roan with him
flak Bob had Mac v.
vfflTm completely burled or
L uA In death and ruin.
Lily, he suffered in seeing
f Mr dead a thousand
around xne xaai
then, and instanuy imam-
i.,ivn herself.
fyeUed at her. "CAROLYN!
fcinOLYN!"
, I Wild, Irenziea uijr
Into Infinite gladness when
L- it she was actually
W ...
village seemed intact, and
Ler folk were stirring now,
recognized Carolyn irom
larlly because ne so aesper-
Iwinwd to ana paruy ukuo
lidnt mistake the bright red
Che still wore, the same one
W worn during me nue.
shirt had intrigued him. tor
fcours this afternoon. It had
1 ny challenge to Jeana
ft levere black-and-wmie
1 habit It had been precisely
Cjht complement for Caro-
(flaxen curls. It had topped
bisM-her dark blue, form
Jodhpurs, to emphasize ner
deader, lovely girl she was,
flopped his car when he had
Uped out and started run-
in was no outpouring 01
batmen them.
at once ha was holding her.
Harping her tight, feeling her
pi trembling powerfully with
k sheer Intensity of emotions,
sni the who murmured first.
. Bobl"
-Little girl!" He kissed the top
of her forehead, still squeezing her
close. He shut hla eyes tightly.
There was a strange, sad, and yet
sweet ecstacy between them.
'THERE was no chance to relax
M 1 HI ...
tor auium 2 nours. But late
on that second day, amid the stir
ring and the milling and the ex
citement of peoples arriving and
going through all the inevitable, if
kindly hullabaloo, Bob said that the
tint had coma to take Carolyn
away lest she drop in her tracks.
Her mother had already been sent
to Blair, along with most of the
remaining personnel here in the
mountain village. Officials from
the Arizona county seat, 100 miles
away, had come to take charge.
First thing Bob did was to make
Carolyn eat. She had lived only on
a aanawicn ana a lew cups of cof
fee forced on her since yesterday.
iou must eat also." the re
minded him, there in the tiny Blair
Inn. "Gee, Bob, we do get into the
awlullest things!"
The meal was a life saver. In
both it restored strength, energy,
nope.
"Mind If we don't go back to.
night?" he asked wanly, after the
twllignt meal. "Let's just ride out
alone, where we can think."
They didn't have to go far. Only
mile or so to escape the flood
of newspaper men, photographers,
officers, curious folk who had
poured in. They left Bob's car and
sat on a flat red boulder near the
road.
Stars had begun their timeless
winking. Later there would even
be a moon, but already the world
was beautiful with, the soft, eva
nescent something that is early
night
Presently they found themselves
talking. Quietly, intimately, dis
passionately going over the whole
thing, recounting all the weeks
since she had first come to work
for him, re-living the horror of the
explosion ltseli but in a new feel
ing of deep gratitude for escape.
I waited for you, Bob, at the
guard shack, when the guards told
me you had not come by," she
repeated for perhaps the tenth
time. "I just did! But when it
happened, I was afraid you had
gone in! The granite cliff saved
ua even there, but I couldn't know
about you."
He held her very close. "You
waited. For me! It seems to me
that I have waited for you since
time began, Carolyn! Waited and
hungered for you. I waa so madly
in love with you when you dropped
from the airplane that if it
Carolyn whls-
hadn't been for your Ken Palmer,
I should have Carolyn, I warn
you I don't intend to be a gentle
man ever again! You had told me
me Deginnlng that Ken loved
you. I felt it only fair to I'
"But I didn't say I loved him!"
She laughed again. "And aU thla,
While I thought YOU Indlfferentl"
He shook hl head m ntn. bit
terly. "I tried dutifully to force
myself on Leana. Thinking, and
fearing, she and I might might
Remember, I even appealed to
you!"
I remember.'
pered.
'It la traelc. even mi. tn Vnnw
her guilty of this. I had no idea
she lelt so deeply in a personal
way! But Carolyn, may we not
promise never to mention that as
pect of It again? Anything that
would cause unhappiness to linger
In you 1"
"Of course. Bob. Oh Bob. nlean
hold me very close, and kiss me
again!"
THEY talked for more than an
i.uiu, uieiyr, wnaeriy. it was
the best solace they could have
arranged. He grew, if possible.
more dear to her than ever, more
grand.
It was he who sueeested eivlne
Ken Palmer a far better job in the
Schoenfeld Laboratory back home.
It was he who swore then to tell
the secret of deriving X-999 to a
dozen other picked American sci
entists, who could form a corpora
tion for developing it in the aafe-
est, sanest way.
It was he who. finally, said. "I
think I have earned a rest, Caro
lyn, and I'd like it to be a year,
with you. Summer is near, and the
Pacific Northwest la beautiful.
Then a lazy sea trip down the
coast and across to Mexico City
They say it's romance land, aweet
heart! Romance land!"
He had slipped into a boyish
sort of enthusiasm. Hera waa a
Bob Hale she had never known
before! She could not answer, in
words; there was a tautnesa in her
throat. But she could press her
head a little closer into the crook
of his shoulder, where her lips
could just touch his chin.
Last thing they saw when they
arose to go home was a faint, gray
spot high on the hills to the north
east. That was the granite half of
Tonto Mountain, its peak holding
one last hint of day's sun.
"It's still beautiful," Carolyn
murmured.
"And strong," said he. "Strong
and triumphant Like" he
dropped to a whisper, "like our
love-, my dear."
THE END
DRAIN NEWS
EN, May 12 (Special)
nual civic club luncheon
Mrved Wednesday, May 1
Itlub rooms. Election of of
fcill be held with annual re
bd a program.
legion auxiliary gave
ri Day tea, Friday after-
It the home of Mrs. Claire
pder, honoring mothers of
U of which there were five
Including two Gold Star
mothers. Each of the mothers was
presented with a corsage of red,
blue and white flowers. A pro
gram waa given. The mothers
honored were Mesdames Annie
Kruse, Lizzie Levins, Gold Star
mothers, Ida Patchen, Mary Con
nolly, Cora Bartholomy.
LONE PINE NOTES
LONE PINE, May 12 (Special)
Herbert Hostlck, son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. L. Hostlck, has left for
SIDE GLANCES
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1 1 i 1 1
ill 1 m
Burbank, Calif., where he will re.
port for work at the Boeing air.
craft factory Monday morning. He
recently finished an aircraft course
at the Eugene vocational school.
A group ol friends and relatives
spent Thursday at the Louis Jen
sen home to help Mrs. Jensen ob
serve her birthday. A potluck din
ner was enjoyed at noon. Those
present besides the hostess and
honor guest and her two small
sons were, Mrs. S. P. Jensen,
mother-in-law of Mrs. Jensen, Mrs.
Nels Jensen, Mrs. Alfred Jensen,
all of Oak Hill; Mrs. Lennle Hal
derson, Central; Mrs. Cris Jen
sen, Eugene; Mrs. Roy Overgard,
Mrs. Alvin Overgard, Santa Clara,
Mrs. V. J. Schooling, River Road,
and Mrs. Jeanne Peterson of Dane
bo. FROM FERGUSON
FERGUSON, May 12 (Special)
P. U. L. L. club met last week
at the hall with Mrs. Baird Green
as hostess. Seats have been built
around the hall and the finishing
of them was discussed.
The Dramatics club is planning
a free program on May 16. The
cast of a short play, -Money.
moon" are Correne Kinkald, Vera
Moffett and Fay Moffett
fin mr were steaks during the
Klondike gold rush that they sold
lor between $zuo ana $auu eacn.
"7 & boss, but that's wwWby because you
Wren't as efficient as I am.
8 for Dear Old Cardman'
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tinning Wednesday, May 14
in Register-Guard
HIKES TO BOYS TOWN
Larry Potts (above), 14, an
orphan, was enrolled at Father
Flanagan s uoys " "'r
u- v-h.. after hitch-hiking
1.200 miles from his home at
Corpus Christi, Tex because
he said he didn't want to be
a burden on the kindly wo
who took care of him
alter his mother, died.
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