GOLD HILL NEWS. JACKSON COUNTY. OREGON
IDLE ISLAND
The
Cream
of the
Tobacco
Crop
By ETHEL HUESTON
W N U Senne«
Copyright 1927 by The Bobba Merrill Co.
C H A P T E R X — C on tin u ed
— 14 '■
Rand helped w ith the Christina«
party plans. On little white cards,
pa j
with candles and holly, they
printed the Invitation.
Auntalmlry's Christmas Party
at the Loue Pine
Christmas Eve
Five O'clock.
Just one week before Christmas,
the Budlong bo.vs waded through the
snow all over the Evergreen end of
the Island, and delivered the Invita
tions. one to every house. I t could
not have been more than ten minutes
a fte r she received the announcement
that Alice Andover was to be seen
sailing grandly up the hilt, a sort of
full-rigged majesty In her advance.
Gay met her beneath the pine.
"Now don't blame me. I hadn't a
thing In thè world to do w ith I t
only lent her the cottage as she asked.
She did everything herself. She sold
everything she owns to pay for I t
and It Isn't going to cost you a cent.
She has gone without Jelly, gone with
out b u tte t gone without cake, gone
without sugar— It ’s her party, and
none of our business, if you ask me.
Alice Andover sank weakly Into a
chair. “1 might have known I t T h a t’s
the thanks I g e t T h a t’s how folks
take to good, honest conscientious
administration. And then the au
dacity to Invite me to the party."
“Ob, please come! She'll be so dis-
appointed If yon don't come.
She
wants you to see bow cleverly she
has managed."
“Oh. PII come. And since she's got
the unmitigated audacity to bare a
Christmas party in spite of my orders.
T il send my presents as usual. Oh. I
always give little things— people been
here for years— all In the fam ily, you
know, and I being the administrator.
So you can tell the foolish old woman
I ’ll send my presents as usual. I've
never missed one of A untaim iry’a par
ties yet. not since that first devil
cursed one fifty years ago when—”
"Oh, don't
She— she thinks may
be he' is the Unknown Soldier at
Washington ; she— "
Alice Andover stared. She opened
her mouth, closed It with great firm
ness and blinked hard at times.
“ Unknown Soldier ¡—Good heavens.
W hat n extF’ Then she added humor
ously. with a bright glint In her gray
eyes. "W ell, whatever he Is, thank
God, It Is unknown. T h a t’s all I've
got to say for Buddy Bridges— Un
known Soldier."
The next day Rand climbed the
tall pine and strung It with Christmas
lights from topmost point to lowest
branches, round and round, a hun
dred little colored bulbs, and connect
ed them to a switch beside the win
dow where Auntalm iry could turn It
on before the party. Auntalm iry was
enchanted with the Idea of wiriDg the
tall pine; she had not dreamed of
such royal welcome to her Christmas
guests.
For days before the party
she talked of little else.
It was only three days before
Christmas, the twenty-second of De-
“Oh, you think 1 am chatting. But
When he reached the plaxta of the
"W e'll Just roll him over In the cor
I mean IL
I — Miss Delane, tell me.
Lone Pine, he did not wait to knock, ner out of the way,” ahe aald briskly,
I f I should sell out— all my Inter but opened the door slowly and went and cover him up with the rug, and
In, closing It after him. Gay was but let him sleet H off. W e'll lock the
ests— my business connections—would
you—m arry m et
Would you even
a little way behind, and she ran In door, and keep him here till It ta
think of It? I know It Is too soon for
breathlessly, but stopped short In sur over."
you to know— But would you let me
prise when she did not find him In the
“ W ill he stay drunk all night r Gay
living room nor the kitchen.
come where you are, let me see you.
askked. “Shouldn't
we glra
him
“ Hello," she called. “ Hello I Any something— *
try to make you love me— la there
body up there?“ But received no an
any chance for me at all? I would
“ Whisky I
1 wish we had some
swer.
have some money. I could take care
whisky. I f we had tim e— maybe we
of you.
We could go any place—
Frightened by the unnatural alienee, could keep hlui drunk for a week. I
West, or to Europe, anywhere."
and mindful of Rand's words o f w arn don't know Juat how long It does last,
ing. she w r i t to the desk, slipped her hut I know the party lasta all nlghL
There was no doubting the sincer
pistol deftly Into the pocket of her He may sleep It off.”
ity o f his words, the eagerness o f hts
desire.
heavy coaL and then she climbed the
“I have a little cognac. Brought
stairs, watchful and alerL
“Don't," Gay said gently. “Tou w ill
It In myself—from I ’arla— lu the toe
And there Indeed she found him, of my dancing slipper.
spoil our pleasant friendship, and 1
Real stuff,”
lying face downward on the soft rug Gay said proudly. ” 1 was keeping It
have liked IL It Is because you have
been away, you have been lonely, per of her bedroom floor.
for a wedding, but he can have thaL”
“ Wh-what are you d o in g r she de
haps worried. It isn't really I you
“Good 1 W e'll give him a big—
manded foolishly.
“ What do you
want. Why, you don't even know me.
swig—of It.”
She brought out the
want?"
It is Just— woman, companionship,
nautical term with a nautical swag-
He
neither
mo
ed
nor
answered.
sympathy, soft tilings. Thnt is ail."
So Gay went to him tim idly and bent
But he shook his head, clung to her
over him that she might see his face.
hands. “Gay, It Is you. Nothing else.
His eyes were closed, his lipa hard
Nobody else. Yon. From the moment
seL She tried to raise him, but his
I saw you down In the cove— Oh, I
head fell limply from her hands.
know you don't love me now— but
She shrank away from him, shudder
couldn't yon? I f I get things all
ing with fear.
straightened out, and— do something
else— Vlay. Isn't there a chance?"
C H A P T E R XI
From somewhere down the lane
sounded the low siren of a car.
The crisp voice of Alice Andover
Ronald listened a momenL but still
had never sounded so sweet to Gay's
clung to her hand. “Gay. don't say no.
ears as at that momenL
Don’t say anything. Just walL think
“Gay Delane' Where are you? I
of me a little, and as soon ns 1 can—
saw you take that foolish creature
I will come again. But try to think
home, so I came to see I f I could—
o f me— I f not with love— at least with
W hat Is the matter?"
a little tenderness."
Gay beckoned to her sternly from
Quickly he lifted her hands, palms
the top o f the stairs. “Come up,"
upward, kissed them passionately, one
she said, and her voice was hollow.
a fter the other, crashed them to his
“Come up.”
face and went away.
Alice Andover was never one to
Gay sank Into the big chair and
hesitate In a crisis.
She came at
burled her face In her arms. A crim
once, breathing hard.
Gay pointed
inal 1 T h a t artless, boyish, ingenuous
dram atically to the bedroom.
man, with the pleading voice and the
eager eyes? But even a crim inal de
Alice Andover gave one wide-eyed
glance and saw the prostrate form.
serves some kindness o f thought from
the woman to whom he gives his love.
“Good heavens, oh, good heavens!
Gay was very kind.
Where did he come from —where did
The next day, very early, Rand ap you get him— I mean— "
peared at her door, dressed roughly
“H e came up the bill Juat ahead of
She 8hook Har Flat a. the Door.
for outdoor w inter weather, I l heavy
me. Walked right In. Came upstairs,
oilskin coat and breeches.
He was
and evidently fell down there. O r lay ger, both doubtless Inherited from the
down. There he la."
hurried In manner, preoccupied.
He
long line of senfarlng ancestor«.
told Gay he was obliged to run down
Alice Andover crossed the room snd "W e'll keep him as— tight as a lord—
to Boston f r a few days on business.
stood above him, touching the Inert
until the party's over."
N o w you sit tight while t'm gone,"
body tentatively with the toe of her
Carefully but sternly they rolled
he cautioned her. “T’m on the trail
shoe.
him over half out o f sight beneath
and I ’m going through w ith it. Fve
“D run k,”
she said
disgustedly.
the window-seat, and covered him.
told the folks Tm looking for a Job,
“Dead drunk."
So Gay brought the precious smug
and they won't expect me home until
Gay breathed more freely. In some gled bottle o f cognac, never yet on-
they see me. You Just wait here. Say relief. “Ob, Is that It? I — was afraid
sealed. and they gave him a generous
nothing to anyone.
Do nothing. of—oh, terrible things I"
swallow, forcing the bottle between
Don't set your foot In those woods
A t that momenL spasmodically he Ilia teeth not without much difficulty.
under any circumstances.
And at
moved, and his face rolled back Into
He choked over It and coughed pain
night. Gay, please, to please me, go the IlgbL
fully, while the conspirators held their
down and stay with Auntalm iry. And
“Oh, oh I” Alice Andover's explana
breath tn a panic above him.
Rut
don't worry, for I shan't be In any
tlon was a startled gasp. “Oh, my God,
presently he relapsed Into troubled
danger.”
I believe— Oh, poor Almlry. I be
breathing agnln.
“You are not going to Boston," she
lleve It Is Buddy Bridges. Come home
“T h a t'll hold him fo r a while," said
said bitterly
“You are going Into
to his poor trusting mother— dead
Alice Andover grimly.
those woods, to lie under the piazza
drunk. Oh, It Is all my fanIL Oh,
They locked the door upon him and
and watch the clubhouse, and try to
what In the world have I done? Bud went downstairs. Rut when Alice An
catcb those murderers. They'll catch
dy Bridges— poor Alm lry. All my dover moved as If to go to her own
you, firsL Rand, don’t, please don’L fau lL"
home, Gay refused to be left alone In
What business Is It of ours if they
Buddy Bridges? Oh, really? Oh, the house with the drunken creature
break the law? What are their affairs
Auntalm iry—how
happy— '•
Then
upstairs, and Alice Andover was
to us? W hy should you risk your
came sickening realization of the pain
obliged to remain, fixing herself up
Ufe—”
It would be to the little old woman
for the party as well as she could
'•Oh, there's no danger, Gay, not a
to have him come home to her like
with G ay’s face powder and electric
bit of IL
I ’ll be careful, I promise
this, dead drunk. Better a thousand curlers. They had tea to strengthen
jmu. Just a little w eather eye out
times for her to live on In her trust their shattered nerves, and at five
for squalls. No, I am going to Bos
ing Ignorance, fondly believing him an o'clock tiptoed up to the bedroom to
ton. I have gone to Boston. Get that
unknown hero, pure and fine. “Oh, give him another potent draught of
in your mind, and stick to IL I shan’t
poor A n n talm lryl See here, Mrs. An the cognac. He swallowed thia time
be able to w rite you, and I may not
dover, this drunken creature shall not
with less difficulty, and as he drank,
be home for several days. Just wait
spoil the poor dear’s Christmas party.
to their horror, his eyes opened, eyes
for me. and don't worry.”
T he way she has slaved, and saved,
large and dark, Gay noticed even In
Bnt Gay did worry, worried heart-
end starved herself— He shan't! Let
thnt horrible moment, eyes now vlslon-
breaklngly. But she would Dot go to
her have one happy night—It may he lesa, not seeing.
When the muffled
Auntalm iry.
Rand might come, and
her last, since Buddy came home like
heavy breathing recommenced, they
she wished to be there, waiting for
thts. H e shan't spoil IL Not If I
tiptoed from the room.
him where he left her.
He might
have to poison him.”
Alice Andover, because the opening
need her— a shot I d the night, a
Alice Andover, trained to efficiency of his eyes had frightened her, was
scream of terro r—Gay set her small
She shook her fist
sleek head determinedly.
Nothing, by years of hard administrating, sud freshly furious.
at the door when It was safely lockej
nothing In the world should keep her denly became practical and decided.
behind her.
from going to him Io answer if he Being In charge of things always
aroused her latent cleverness.
(T O B E C O N T IN U E D .)
called for help.
She was glad for the excitement of
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the Chrlstma3 preparations to cccupy
her hands, If not her thoughts, through
the dreary days that intervened.
It never occurred to her that he
would not be back by the twenty-
The 4,500-year-old-stock-ln-trade of discoveries of treasures hidden thou
fourth of December for the party on
Stone age peddler tn flint axes has sands o f yenrs ago, runic stones, grave
Christmas eve.
But the morning
mounds, and wall drawings, are re
been found by some workmen In a
passed, and he did not come. Gay had gravel pit In the Swedish province of ported from different parts of Swe
no heart for the langhter, the young Soedermnnland. The peddler’s hoard den, the soil of which has turned out
excitement of the Island lovers, the consisted of a number of light-gray
to be a vast treasure house for arche
flushed Joyousness of Auntalm iry.
flint axes of exquisite shape and work ologists.— Kansas City Star.
Rand did not come.
It would be manship, evidently hidden In the
Christmas eve, her Christmas eve, and ground by the trader, who seems to
E aiy to P lea te
Rand did not come.
have wandered a long way from the
At three o'clock Gay took Aunt
M r. M erryw eather had bought a
south of Sweden to barter his axes for
almiry by the hand and led her down
new p air of shoes through the posL
the precious furs of the hunters of the
to tlie Apple Tree, where she put her
When they arrived he was entertain
Socndermanland forests.
The poor
bodily to bed, tucking the blankets
ing a bachelor friend.
peddler seems to have met his death,
about her and begging her to take a
“ You won’t mind If I try these on
for he never returned for his axes,
aadly needed resL
now?" he asked his visitor, and pro
that now are sold to be the best find
ceeded to undo the pnrcel.
So It could have been but very little
of Its kind ever made In that part of
He slipped his foot Into one of the
a fter three when she softly closed the
Sweden.
shoes, only to wlthdrnw It with a
door of the Apple Tree behind her and
Almost every week new Important
howl of pain. Therfe was a large nail
set her feet In the path through the
snow to the top of the hill.
And
sticking up In the heel.
glancing up, ahead of her In the path,
“You'll send them back at once, o i
Sentence That “Stum pf*
saw a man walking toward the cot
course?" said the visitor.
T he spelling of this »«ntence Is said
tage. Gay almost called out to him.
"No,”
replied
Merryweather,
"I
to trip up many of the best ste don’t think so. The nail was prob
expecting Hand, because she wanted
Rand. But before sound left her lips
nographers; " It Is agreeable to view ably put there to keep one’s foot from
she silenced the coll, for she sow that
the unparalleled embarrassment o f an sliding forwards."— London Answers.
It was a stranger, one who seemed to
harassed saddler or peddler serenely
woke his way unsteadily I I the face sitting upon a cemetery wall gauging
The Ohio river Is derived from the
» f the brisk wind from the sea, slag
the symmetry of a perfectly peeled
Seneca
Indian "hee-ynh," uieunlpg
irwLag a l l t i >-
p o lito ."— From the Outlook
‘beautiful river.”
Flint Axes of Stone A ge Found in Sweden
Oelivered
the Invitations,
Evary House.
Ona
to
cember. In the thick darkness of the
early evening, that Ronald Ingram
came again.
He entered hurriedly, his manner
fo r the first time showing something
troubled.
something
furtive.
He
glanced over his shoulder nervously,
nnd closed the door behind him
ew lftly.
“ I shouldn't have come," he began
hurriedly. “But I had to. I came to
Portland to close up some contracts,
and I simply stole the time and made
the trip over on the afternoon boat
to see you.
I must catch the first
boat back. Short— but I had to see
you. Gay, I have thought of you con
stantly.
Tour face has swum before
iny eyes, your voice rung In my ears,
the ligh t-little touch o f your fingers— "
H e shook his head im patiently.
“Mr. Ingram ." she said with pretty
dignity, "please don't do that. I as
ru re you I do not like IL ”
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WILLIE H O PPE
Champion Billiard Player
writes:
"The slightest cough or throat irritation mixht he fatal
during a dose match. On this account I prefer Luckies
as a steady diet. They have never irritated my throat
or caused the slightest cough. I am going to stick
with Luckies.”
“It’s toasted”
No Throat Irritation- No Cough.
©1928, The American Tobacco Co., Inc.
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