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COLD HILL NEWS. JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON IDLE ISLAND B y E T H E L H U ESTO N W N U Service. •T O R Y FRO M T H I S TA R T On lbs verge of aervoue eel* lap««, due to overw ork, Oay De- Ione, a rtle t. eeeka rest a t Idle leland. Hhe rente a eottege, the "Lone P ine," from an (aland char« aoter, the “C ap tain ,’* and hie ele« ter, A lice Andover, "adm lnleira« lo r.” G a r flnde the cottage le tenanted by an elderly lady. "A untalm lry,** who coneente to move to another abode, the “A p ple Tree." On an exploration of the leland Gey le bQffFMM b f the appearance of the d riftin g body o f a drowned man. A bullet wound In the tem ple ehowe the man to have been murdered. Oay retu rn a w ith the “C aptain,“ but they nnd no body there. Gay, being unable to convince her nelghbora of the tru th , draw a a picture o f the face of the dead men. Inten ding to aend It to the au tho rltlea. She meeta a atranger to whom ahe tells the atory and ahowa the picture, lie aaka for It, but Gay refueea. Nest day the picture la mlaelng. ' Hand** W a l lace, wanderer, and considered R o m r G iln ir of a •M a c k sheep” by the Islandera. surprises Gay at her household tasks. Gay’s ac quaintance w ith Hand ripens In to affection, (la y determ ines to stay fo r the w in ter. The stranger whom Gay had mot the day of her discovery o f the body In troduces him self as Ronald In g ram . “A u n ta lm lry ” tella Gay of her son, “Ruddy,” who has been m ta a ln u f o r y e a r a. Hand Is suapl- cloua of llo nald In gram , and ap prehensive of some evlldolng In a house known aa the “L ittle C lub.” ap paren tly unoccupied Copyright 1927 by The Bobbs Merrill C o Rand studied her closely. “ I knew you were charming— I've known It all along. Rut hla devotion—” “It wasn't devotion, stupid. Guess what he wanted! Oh, Rand, lie w ant ed to buy my dear little Lone Tina.” Rand gave a startled exclamation, sharply bitten off, and lighted hie pipe with alow consideration. He said nothing. “ Yes He hae bought the L ittle Chib house and the woods and be wanted my hilltop to round off the circle. 1 laughed at him. Oh, Rand, he offered to give me exactly twice what 1 paid for IL »pot cash. I laughed at him. Wouldn't the admin istrator die If ahe know she could get today twice what ahe got last month?" Rand regarded her reflectively. “Th a t set (lea It," he anld slowly. “ Whatever that chap la up to, It la not over yet. It la not past, It la present." Guy stared at him. "That chap la up to,“ she repeated Indignantly. "You don't think Ronald Ingram —” “ Don’t lie silly, Gay. O f course It to Ronald Ingram." Rand had her go back over the story ahe had told, from the day of her arrival, and pieced It all together, bit by bit. In chronological order. “ All right, now." he said, when ahe had finished, "look at th is Home one, watching, no doubt In a panic of ter ror, saw you discover that body In the gove. saw you run for help.— Home one C H A P T E R V I I — Continued — 10— And »o one night, toward the end o f October, when Ronald Ingram came agnln. Gay, because ahe wae lonely, received him with a warmth eo genuine, a pleasure so undlagulaed. that springing hope sent an eager light to Ills eyea, and he made no e f fo rt to conceal hla feeling for her. “ You Utile enow bird,” he cried, “are you altll here? You'll wake up tom e morning to find your feathers flecked with anow I" “ And I am going to atny longer, much longer, week«, and month«. Maybe all winter. Maybe forever, If 1 am very happy." “Oh, my dear," he expostulated anxloualy, “you can't do t h a t 1‘oal- lively, It la not safe. Why, the leland w ill he snowbound Inalde of another month. You cannot expose yourself to such danger. It Is not right." “ W hat danger? I f I am snowed In. certnlnly everybody else w ill be anowed out I" He sighed heavily, hesitated a mo ment, then, w ith the a ir of squaring one's self for a sudden plunge, be said earnestly, “Then you w ill hate me for my errand. 1 am seeking the owner o f your hilltop Iceberg. I want to buy I t " “Too late, loo In te l It 1» mine, I have Hlready bought I t and It Is not fo r sale." "Anything la for sale, at the right price,” he argued. “I must have It. I hove bought the old clubhouse down In the woods, and I want to corner this whole end of the peninsula for a neat of cottages. You see. 1 must have your hilltop to complete the circle.” "Never, never. You cannot have I t N ot for sale." "Oh, come, have a h eart! I am w illing that you should make a fair profit on me. Rut I must hare I t You see It Is really esaentlRl to me.” Rut It was essential to Gay alao. “T h in k what It means to my bank account." be pleaded. Rut Gay thought only of what It meant to her h e a rt “No, no,” she said firmly. " I should be followed by bad lurk the rest of my life, I tell you, I f I sold my lleart'e Desire. It would be sacrilege. It would be blood money." “ You are In love,” he anld shrewd ly, and a shadow fell across bla eyea. Gay laughed. Hhe would offer no denial. T he very admission was tweet to her. H e told Gay something of hla plans fo r the exploitation o f that part of the Island. He cautioned her not to dlacuas hla venture too rreely among her frien d s “ For I ahall have to buy eome land yet, and much material, and I f people think there le money being made, prices take wings.” Gay laughingly promised discretion. Aa he said good night, he took both her handa In hla again, and said pleasantly, “ A fter all, I feel a sort of happlneaa because you would not Bell. Since we are to be neighbors, we must be friend s I ahall never feel that you are outside my circle, but a part of IL Rut If you see me or my work men pottering abouL measuring off yards or acres in the woods behind you, don’t put a shot Into ua with that Raby of yours, w ill you?” Gay aald ahe would lim it her target practice to the lobster buoys and he went away at la»L «railing back at her. Hhe did not see Rand until the next morning, when he appeared for cof fee at eleven. "Oh, why didn't you come last night r she cried petulantly. "Ron aid Ingram was here. I want yon to meet hint. He Is ao nice." Me Made No Effort to Conceal Hla Feeling for Her. took that body away while you were gone, end hid IL — Home one watched for your return, saw your curious work with a pencil and paper, had to know what you were up to. And found ouL— Some one tried to get the sketch from you, tried to beg It, tried to buy It.— Some one came In here at night, and stole IL Some one wants to get you away from here, tried -to frighten you away, and Anally tried to buy you ouL—And that la no one but your gentlemanly Ingram, Gay, mark that I" Gay was sorely shaken. T he evi dence was strong. T hat something crooked, something queer, had taken place on (he good little Island ahe granted w illingly, eagerly. Indeed, be cause the mere suspicion added a piquant spice of mystery to the natu ral charm o f her surrounding. T he reappearance of Itonald In gram, and hla desire to buy the cot tage, lent a audden sinister nspect to the whole matter. Assuming that some lawless enterprise was afoot In the bordering woods, Rand quickly realized that the residence of Aunt alm lry In the Lone Pine had consti tuted no menace to their security. Auntalm lry went to bed promptly with the duak. H er strolling was limited exclusively to the pier, the grocery atore, the church, and the hornet of her frlepda. She never ventured along the shore, nor put foot In the forest, hence there wes nothing to fenr from her presence In the Lone Pine. T he presence of this active, venturesome, keen-eyed young woman In the vantage-point on the fringe of the wood, constituted a constant men ace, and her discovery of the body In the cove was evidence of the seri ousness of this menace, ao that she was subjected to constant unrelaxlng vigilant guard. Nor had Rand any difficulty In con structing an explanation of the body that wnshed ashore In the cove. The rope at the ankle allowed that the body had been weighted to sink, but the washing of the waves, or the cut ting o f rocks, hnd severed the rope and released the welghL Gay had always felt that the body washed la- shore. from sea. Rand, on the other hand, was strongly assured that It had been thrown Into the deep water of the cove from the rocks at the farthest point of the peninsula, that It had eome. not from sea, but from Innd, from Ihe Islnnd Itself; that mur der had been done, not In the vnat- ness of the wide ocean, but right there on the shore, within atones throw f r o » where they saL Rand knew this place of hla birth and hla venturesome youth Ilka a book, knew the shore, knew the cove, and understood the movement o f tlie tides and currents. He believed the man had been shot— In the club, or boathouse, perhaps—carried out and thrown Into the deep water. Perhaps this was before the break of day, and then, w ith the dawn, the murderers were horrified to see the corp*« wash ing on the sand, to hear Gay's te rri fied cries at Its discovery. Ho far, Gay lent w illing credence, thrillin g to every word. “T he Chink saw you were here, re ported to your friend Ingram, who came and tried to frighten, and then to buy you ouL To get rid of you because things are going on they don't want you to discover.— Why, see how plain It tot When Ingram was here the other nlghL the Chink watched to assure no tntetrruptlon, saw me coming, deliberately showed himself and led me Into a chase to keep me from discovering Ingram ." Gay's loyalty wavered, but the steadied It by memory o f the sympa thetic voice, the friendly touch o f the strong hands, the shadow In the gentle eyes. “H a looks so honest, Rand,” she protested. “H e baa such son, sad eyes." “Oh. bo ' s a cow," said Rued rudely, fo r he was greatly disturbed. But upon serious consideration, he wna Inclined to agree that she was In no particular danger aa long as ahe maintained an a ir of utter Innocence, seeming not only to see nothing, but to suspect nothing. Above all, be urged her to betray no curiosity, no Interest In regard to things that went on about her, and with Itonald In gram, If be came again, to continue her warm and friendly but unlnqutol- tlve IntcresL Rand did not believe that the affair was a simple m atter of bootlegging, aa he bad at first suspected. The favored method In bootlegging to a constant shifting of bate, the effect ing of surprise landings, A rat one place and then another. T he acquire- ment o f a permanent base fo r their Illicit operations Implied a deeper and more deadly enterprise, and with his usual Impulsive venturesomeneaa, Rand had promptly decided to get to the bottom of IL to ferret out, alone and ulnglehanded, thia business of crime that bad attached Itself to the Island. Gay was eager to asalsL “I feel now more than ever," ahe said, "that 1 was called to be the avenger of that poor boy In the cove. He came to my very feeL pleading to be avenged, and I stupidly bungled the whole thing from beginning to end. Rut I shall not bungle It again, not w ith you to help me." T hat day Rand put extra patented locks on all Gay's windows and doors, and connected an attachment to her electric wiring which he carried up Into the highest branches of tbe tall pine at her door, where he placed a small, rose-colored light bulb, arrang ing It among the branches where It would throw Its light to the upper windows of hla grandfather's house. Thia he connected with two switch buttons Inside the cottage, one by her bed upstairs, and one In the window- seat In Uie living room where ahe usu ally aat at her eaaeL This light ahe was to turn on at the slightest sus picion of any unusual stirring about the house, and he, on the hlllslope be yond, would keep watch for IL Gay professed herself frankly thrilled with these precautions for her protection. Hhe said ahe had never loved Lone Pine ao much, ahe said she could never bear to go away fro» the Island for a minute now, for fear the commission of a crime would oc cur In her absence. “fib, to think o f IL " ahe cried ec statically, “a t my age! To think of living on ao sordidly, ao sanely, eo un- excltlngly, for so many years I And then, when I am almost an old women, and very sensible, to come to a good little lazy Island like this, and ztumble head-first Into mystery, ad venture and love. Oh, wbat lack I" A ll day Rand worked about the house perfecting bis arrangements to Insure her safety as well as he could, and when be left at la s t In the early evening, he called back to her gayly. In a loud voice: “Good-by, Oay. Bee you In the morning I Eleven o’clock 1“ Gay had expected him to come again In the evening, and would have called Inquiry, Invitation, a fte r him, but be was gone. When darkneaa had fallen ahe wished for him greatly. T he very pre cautions they had taken tended to make her nervous. III at ease, so that ahe started painfully at every real or fancied aoupd. and every low com plaint o f the rheumatic trees In tbe woodland set her shivering. When at last came a quick knock at the door, without Hand's assuring whistle, for the first time, her thoughts leaped naturally to the pis tol In her desk, and she ran for It quickly, grasping It In nervous fingers. “ Who— le— there?" she asked nerv ously, as ahe crept to the door. “It to L Ronald Ingram. Nothing ImportanL I w ill come another time If you are busy." “No." M indful of Rand*« Instructions to be frler-dly, and her feara Instantly as suaged by the pleasant voice, ahe bravely cpened the door. “How nice of you, M r. Ingram. I was lonely to night." Ills eyea went quickly to tbe pistol In her hand. “ Something frightened you,” he said keerfly. “Has anything happened?” "No." She laughed lightly aa ahe ■lid the pistol back Into the drawer “Nothing has happened, but you have all warned me so much about the deadly danger I am In that first thing you know you w ill have me fright ened." Hhe langhed disarmingly. In face o f hla disarming friend li ness, his regardful InteresL Gay felt her suspicions o f him slip away from her. A gang In the «>ve, yea; a band of mnrdercua criminals, yes; the watchful Chinaman, yes. But never Ronald Ingram w ith the affection ately friendly eyes and the frank voice. “You are the pluckiest girl I ever saw. But do, please, be c a re fu l You are too young, and far, oh, fa r to pretty, to live here alone when the Island la deserted." “T he united state of Maine agrees w ith you," she said. “I am afraid you men are losing your nerve.— We women now I" she cried cocklly. . “You women are getting downright foolhardy. Some o f you have paid for your folly, and more w ill pay. But I don’t want you to pay." T he honest voice was cordial. Intim ate. He asked If she had by any chance reconsidered about selling the cottage and she denied It quickly. “I f you only came for that— ” “I didn't come for thaL Let me he honest I came only to see you. As a matter of f«cL I came over this afternoon hoping you would give me tea and be nice to me, but I saw the Cavalier chap hanging around, and knew you would hold me dearer In my absence.” He talked pleasantly, smoking, told her of hla plans for the forest penln sula, complaining of the high prices o f labor and material. “I feel like the' Landing of the PH grlma, bare rock on every hand. I t ’s really a hard undertaking, too big for me, I am afraid, for I haven’t much money. W hat does your Cavalier chap do In tbe winter? There seems to hr nothing going on. shops closed, hotels closed, theaters locked up— " “Yes, everything to dead, and the Cavalier, being addicted to medlta tlon. la glad of IL He rests. He hl bernates." Has Your Back Given Out? Backache Often Warns of Sluggish Kidneys. > V E R Y day find you lame, stiff and achy? Suffer nagging backache, annoy ing headaches and dizzy spells? Are kidney secretions too frequent, scanty or burning? . 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