^SERIAL?? .(___ STORY J STANTON n WINS n By Eleanor M. logros Author of ‘Th* Gime and the Candle." ‘“Ih. Flying Mercury," etc. /l.'urfm«.., iv Tredcilc Iharabnrgb SYNOPSIS, At the beginning of great automobile rice the mechanl :.in or the Mercury. tanton's machine, drops dead. Stranxe youth. Jesse Floyd, volunteers, and Is ae- •epted In the rest during the twenty- four hour race Stanton meets a stranger. Miss Carlisle, who Introduces herself. The Mercury wins race. Stanton receives flow-era frem Miss Carlisle, which he Ig nores. S’anton meets Miss Carlisle on a train. They allsht to take walk, and train leaves. Stanton and Miss Carlisle follow In auto Accident by which San ton *< ’-nrr Is mysterlo « Flood, at lunch wit. anton. tells of his boyhood. CHAPTER V. (Continued.) Stanton gasped. Where had bls taemory been, not to recall the name of Floyd? A multitude of confused recollections rushed across hfs mind, of that famous manufacturer and racer for sheer love of the sport, of the superb cars he had built, and of bis death In a railroad wreck, the previous year. "He tied me In hfs car." continued Floyd, with a shadowy smile, "when I was too young to be trusted to hold on. 'If you are going to take my me chanician’s seat, Jes,’ he said to me. •you have got to do my mechanician's work.’ And by the time I was fifteen, I could. We used to race with the chief car tester, for combination train ing. on a mile practice track around the factory. I held the wheel myself • t seventy-five miles an hour, before 1 was seventeen. And he took me with him, as a spectator, to every big race here and some abroad, Of course he was training me to take charge of the manufacturing business with him, not for racing myself, But, somehow affairs went wrong. When he died, eighteen months ago, everything col lapsed and 1 found nothing left. The factory itself is tied up In a lawsuit; I may get that out of the ruin; build ings full of silent machinery I have no capital to use, and no heart to sell." There was a pause. “I wonder,” Stanton mused slowly, •why you volunteered to act as my mechanician that night?” Floyd's gray eyes flashed to meet his. all his color and animation rush ing back. “Because I love the racing, I love it," be answered, impulsively frank. "I, I’ve got my father's blood in my veins and the frail physique of a useless girl —can’t you see how they fight? The very smell of exhaust gas makes my heart jump and pulses tingle. Ee- sides, I had watched you often, I couldn’t see you put out of the run ning. Then, I was tired of—” he checked himself sharply. "Ought we not to go back on the course?" Stanton rose, signaling the waiter. ■"You saw me through that difficul ty,” he acknowledged. "But, you said this morning that you had a sister; I wonder you stayed with me for the •eason.” "My sister understands," Floyd ex plained; he had risen also, and stood for a moment beside his chair, his unseeing gaze bent on the ground. “She knows that I was not brought up to live woman-fashion. 1 wish, if ever you bear anything of me that you do not like, that makes you feel different ly toward me, I wish you too would remember that I was reared by a man to live among men and missed all that women teach." Stanton regarded him in an astonish- went at once indulgent and ironic. "I’m not likely to hear anything of you that will shock me very badly,” be dryly returned. “Do you think I •m a gentle girl, myself, Floyd?” "Not so you could notice it,” sprang the prompt opinion; the candid gray •yes laughed out of their short eclipse. They went back to the course to gether. The next two hours were spent In repeatedly circling the ten mile course In ten minutes; a reasonable practice gait, from Stanton's point of vic .. On the last trip he and Floyd disagreed over a question of mixture, and cu te up to the repair pits quarreling vigor ously, exciting the interest of all be holders. "If I don't know whet! a motor needs wore gas. I'll go take a correspond ence course,” was Floyd's last retort, as he slipped out of his 6eat. "It’s running like it never did be fore, and you’ll let It alone,” Stanton ■ent the definite order after him. The witnesses grinned at one an "Then you had better quit racing be fore you're demoralised,” jeered the other, and turned to find Stanton bad come up behiud him. There was nothing said, Stanton went on as if he had not heard. But be carried with him the discovery that It Is the perfection of comradeship to be able to quarrel without bitterness There was a tan-colored automobile drawn up opposite the exit, when he emerged. "Mr. Stanton,” summoned a low- toned, smooth voice, from the car; Valerie Carlisle leaned out, extending a small hand. She was the consummation of cool daintiness and repose. It was impos sible to meet her beautiful, concerned eyes without yielding admiration, at least. "I have been waiting here for an hour,” she informed him. "I am ao distressed that my car should have hurt you. I shall reproach myself so much if anything happens to you to morrow because of your strained arm, that I wanted to ask you about it my self. A weakness there might kill you, might it not?” “It might, if it existed,” he con firmed. "But the strain does not trou ble me. I deserved to pay more se verely for such stupid carelessness.” She did not avoid his keen gaze at all, yet somehow failed to Impress her sincerity. "It was an accident,” she deprecat ed. “I suppose you just forgot Frank ly. though, I wish you were to drive a Duplex or an Atalanta, tomorrow. I do not like the Mercury, It is so often in wrecks." "It is faster than either of the oth ers," Stanton defended, yet moved in spite of himself by her anxiety for his safety. "I am also obliged to admit that it is not responsible for any of our mishaps, so far, at least; I lead it into trouble, myself, sometimes." Her long, fair lashes fell; she tapped her Angers nervously upon the door panel. “If you could not race, who would be likely to win, Mr. Stanton?” "You are taking it for granted that I will succeed—1 easily may not. But —ithout the Mercury, probably the Du plex or the Atalanta on this long road race. On a track, I would choose the Italian car.” She listened attentively, then smiled. "I am such an amateur; I do not half understand. I have come with an invitation from papa. He wishes to consult you about auto tires, those for your next race, and he hopes you will dine with us. this evening.” Thoroughly surprised, he promptly declined. 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But at the beginning of the second hour, the rear of the Atalanta car came in view through the fog of dust ahead; the Atalanta, which had start ed four minutes In advance of them Stanton sighed with grim satisfaction, and speeded in pursuit. "Turn ahead,” warned Floyd, at his ear. (TO BK CONTINUED.) CHAPTER VI. Apprehension. ’T thought you were so devoted I t a home of your own, and here you are i talking aoout taking a suite at a hotel.” "You don't understand. My wife la taking cooking lessons.” BARGAINS We have listed perhaps the biggest list of bargains in real estate of any firm in the city. Our list includes many excellent buys in Lents property. We also have houses for lent and for sale on easy payment plan. Bright Realty Co. MRS. T. BRIGHT Fox ter Road Eaxt of P. O. Herald $1 Yr. Phone .'»3a CEDAR POSTS SHINGLES MOULDINGS TURNED WORK E. F. DONAHUE, Prop. Boring, • • Oregon Valerie Carlisle Leaned Out Extending a Small Hand. 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At a Quarter after to*. all right” L Remember the Name—BOHNA All Kinds of will put you down at your hotel, at least.” “Miss Carlisle, I nm just from the cou rre ; 1 am not presentable.” "That is for me.to say," she remind ed. "Pray do not refuse all my re quests.” Almost under compulsion, Stanton entered the car. He could have fancied her breathing was quicker; she gazed at him with so singular and disproportionate a triumph as almost to startle him. Without waiting the chauffeur’s move ment, she herself slammed the door of the car and snapped the handle, keep other. “Say, Floyd, that’s a fine big brute ing her eyes upon Stanton. "I thought y ou would come,” she of a machine you’ve got there,” com pllmented the broadly amused George, murmured, half under her breath, "and as ths young mechanician went by you will dine with us.” him. CHURCH DIRECTORY fifteen minutes before the first ear was to start, the Mercury stood ready, with, tn his place, the trim, khaki clad mechanician, concerning whose pos sible desertion Mr. Green had spent much worry. But the driver, Stanton the unfailing, was missing. In the midst of the gay hubbub of the scene, the Mercury camp was on the verge of frenxy. "You've telephoned to his hotel?" inquired Floyd, no less troubled be- cause quiet, as Mr. Green came u¡> wiping his brows. “Telephoned! I've telephoned to every hotel In the town, to the police, to—to every one. He went to his ho tel and dressed for the evening, after he left here yesterday, and went off In an Atalanta automobile with some confounded woman; that's all 1 can learn. He never came back to the ho tel. at all.” Floyd's slender brown hand shut hard on the edge of the seat, his Up curled slightly. "A woman?" he repeated, his mer ciless young voice stinging. "They say so—and I'd as soon have thought of Ralph Stanton getting drunk." "You'd better phone to the Insane asylum," advised the mechanician, and turned his back to the whole af I fair. watching the brilliant spectacle before him with scornful gray eyes. Five minutes passed, ten. The first car was called to Its station. The Mer cury had drawn fifth In the lottery for place. Just four minutes before the starting hour, a taxicab bowled furi ously across the crowds, camo to a jerky stop at the edgo of the course, and opened to emit its passenger. "Stanton!” haik d his manager, chok- Ing with exasperation and relief, "Stanton, for Heaven's sake—where— what—” "Sick.” the driver flung at him, springing across to his car. from which Floyd slid out to give him en trance. "Mask, gloves, you others.” "Sick?” echoed the unbelieving Mr. Green, amid the flurry of preparation. "You. you sick?” Stanton, in his sent, turned a color less face toward him before clasping on the mask. "Sick." he reiterated explicitly. "Are you ready. Floyd?’ ' The Mercury drew up to her line on exact time. And In the moments while the cars in front were being sent away, Floyd found an opportunity to put a question. "You have been ill?" he coldly asked. "Acute indigestion; I’ve been in a do/tor's office since nine o’clock last night,” snapped Stanton. "Did you think I was lying to you?” "No. Are you fit to drive?” "If you're afraid I'm not, get out find leave me.” The signal was given. When the Mercury flashed across the line. Floyd was almost as pale from anger u* Stanton from recent Illness. BOUTIIKRN PACIFIC WILLAMKTTK LIMITED Leaves 6:1ft p. tn., arrives 11 :lû a. m. ASHLAND Leaves 8:10 a. in., arrives V:80p. m ROHF.BURG Leaves 8:50 p m , arrives 4:00 p m CALIFORNIA TRAINS Leave al 1:80 a. m., 5 60 p. m., 8:15 p. m. e Arrive at 7:uo a. in . 8:15 a. m., 3:so p. m. WKHT HIDE Corvallis, leave 7:30 a. m., arrive 6:30 p m. Hillsboro, leaves 7:90 a. in.,8:46a m ,8 30 p. tn.. 6;40p. m. 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