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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1927)
THURSDAY, JULY U, 1027 THE MAUPIN TIMES rasre 3 Will . CHAPTER VI Continued -11 Nltu wa silent for n moment. It Mi nut easy i readjust herself. "What mirt of n comii liiick?" Her father hesitated 11 moment "I don't think you'd understand." '('mi I help your "No, Nlln j It Inn't work for women." "You mean there's danger In ItT He wit ufriilij (o say too much. He dreaded to ho entrapped by tier seem ingly liirioiMMit question. Ho knew ho wu tiifittalty much quicker than lie. Tim FcMendoii again. "If not my secret," he returned, "und I ought not to say nny more. I run only assure you that Mulct and llrndney ure splendid follow, both fur nuperlor to mi-. Very high type. They believe tlmt what we Intend to do U the only right imd logical thing. You must lot It ko at tlmt." "And hecuuso there' danger In It you think I'd better keep out of It?" "Kxnotly." Iih exclulmed, gratified at till altitude of obedience. "Then It I dangerous," Dim cried. Humes saw In- had made a diimugliig lidmlsston. She had trujipcl hlin. "Daddy, what make you think I'm afraid of anything that's Iau(!rnT" "(h. Nlta," he suld reproachfully, "that' scarcely playing tln game to drag Information from me which In hot mlnti to give. You are dcllhcrute ly trying to mnko me betray my friend." He had risen to hi fort. She could lee he wa not pimped with her. "Indeed, I'm not," she mild earnest ly. "I Middy, I came over here because something told me you needed looking after. It Inn't that I'm trying to make you betray your friend. I want to lie ire that they ure being honest with you." "I have never met squnrcr men," he Answered. "Then I'm on their ldo, too. My futher and hi friend, Hunt or wrong. Itarne did not know what to nny. Hut a daughter of hi route) not he a soclated with anything Irregular. Ho shook hi head. v "I cannot accept your alNtnnce,' he told her. "Very well. I hull tell Mr. alllmnn I am leaving after luncheon tomorrow. I came over here equipped, specially quipped, for o certain ort of por tion, and I'm going to get It." "Skilled secretarial worker nnd rtcnogriiplicrs are drugs In the mar ket," he assured her. "I nm not going to be n stenogra pher," she retorted. "I did that to earn money to come here. I hall take the other potdtlon, no you won't have to live on a stranger' charity." "That I n hard thing to any," he answered, fluahlng; "and It' not alto gether true, Mr. Mllmnn sought me rut herauMe he thought I was able to iclp him. I am not living on charity." "What I It you are trying to do?" the iiHked. "You must not expert me to tell you. My dear, don't be haaty and leave u yet Promise nie thutt" She kissed Mm good night. "I won t go yet, she aula. "I can't lose you aa quickly n that." When ahe was alone her fare took ln a worried aspect. She had suf fered many things In order to be with lilm, nnd ahe determined to find out what the mystery was that enveloped this strange household. Although ahe was not yet twenty-two, ahe had trav eled wldeiy and met Innumerable peo ple. In Mllman nnd hi associates pbe recognized men of charm and cul ture who had made her father thel firm admirer. And they were nil hold ng bacft from her nny mention of their real venture. In order to de ceive her they had clumsily Invented nnd acted n falsehood. It could only be because they were plotting some thing of nn Illegal nature. They had played on her father's emotion and enrned his gnitltudo and co-operation by a. few hundred dol lars. For so small a thing It had been possible to enlist his sympathy and old. They had been clever enough to treate the Illusion that ahe was wel come when In truth they might be em - barf ossed by her presence nnd already planning to get rid of her. She decid ed she would not ho driven out. Her father needed his daughter even If he did not yet know It. The thought that three dangerous men might be plot ting some crime for which Neelnnd Barnes would ultlmntely bear the blame drove her to uetlon. Her room was nt the renr of the house. Four Iron bars protected Its windows. Almost five feet below she could see the Iron grating which ' roofed In the Japanese garden. When pbe leaned down from her open win dow she could hear, faintly, the aound of voices. It was about her they were speak ing. Barnes hud come from her room with the disquieting Information that their tulk on oil had amused her very much. The news had been a blow, RECLUSE "FIFTH AVENUE 1 WYNDHAM MARTYN W.N.U siavicc ".MIm Itarne give me the linpre- alon of heliig a very shrewd young ady," Malet wild, "nnd one not easily deceived. You nil know that, when once we alart. It will be almost I in- loNtdhle V) keep one who I ulready 4 little auspicious In Ignorance." "Ye," aald llrndney, "I am ofrald aho cannot stay here," "Her godmother lives In Phlladcl. ihlu," aald Barnes, "She can't refuxe to tnke her In for n month or two, She aald something about earning her llv- ng, but I should prefer her to go to rhlludelplila." "I nm afraid alio would he n aotirre of danger If ahe remained," I'eter Mllmnn agreed. "Alxo, It would never do to roimiromUe her In an affair which might end dlsntrouly." "We've been too busy with theorlea, said Fleming llrndney when the prob- em of Nlta had i n settled. What we ure after smiuld be original (lis iissoclutloiiH of Ideas." "I can't get that very clearly," anld Neelnnd Humes. "A 1 see It, nil we want from Itaxon Is a cold million. Half of that goes to Mllman and we spilt the rent." "Kxnctly," llrndney returned. "That's the very point. How are we to make hlin give up a million? I don't know. "What Sort of a Comeback?" You don't either. None of us knowa. Obviously the thing la to get close to hlin. Into the house for choice." "He doesn't know me," Mllman de clared. "Hut I cannot be seen, be cause I.oddon, who has told me bo much under the Influence of my port and the belief that I never attr abroad and know nothing of outside affairs, la a frequent guest. The ques tion Is, would he recognize Hurnes?" "Certain to," Humes siild gloomily. "I hnven't nltered much since that day I threw hlin from the pier. What about Malet?" "Probably not," aald the sculptor. "In those days I was twenty pounds heavier, wore a mustache, und hud a general nlr of blen-etre." "I am tho man," Bradney declnred. "I doubt If he has ever seen me. Wo know be talked to Mulct for some time. It Is I who must contrive to get Into his house." "In what capnclty?" Mllmnn asked. "There you have me," the scientist admitted. "We are safe to start by assuming," Mllman cut In, "that Paul Uuxon Is always cautious. From the outside his bouse Is Impregnable." "You mean," Bradney remarked, "tlmt to get In one would have to be vouched for?" "Undoubtedly," aald Peter Mllman. "If someone socially prominent took you there, It might be all right. There was 0119 curiously disquieting thing Loddon told me about Uuxon, One Chance All That How often you hoar dad, or some other grownup speak, with a sort of hulf-slgh In his voice, of whut he would do If he were young again. Time goes quickly when you ure young, and you are only too likely to put off things you really should do. Grownups look bnck to the golden days of their youth as the happiest time of their lives, but there Is also something of regret In their backward glnnce. There are so ninny things they would like to have done, but didn't Unfortunately, time gives us Just one clnuico. Let's plan things now, then, so ns to have as few regrets as possible when we look buck from a grownup j When ne hu Injured a man he e- pect.i some retaliation, and takes tnn precaution of Imvlng the Injured one watched. We know he dogged Bnrne for years. Kven now there may be those who know for whut purpose we four are gnthered here. I nm not cer tain but that Achllle apeak English as well as he does French." The listeners were startled at the sudden change they auw on their host's face. Where be had been mere ly thoughtful and slightly worried be wa now actively alarmed. He whs caning forward examining something 011 the tnle before him. iney re membered It was the electric dial, that Ingenious device for the protec tion of his linine against Invaders. The face of the dial wa divided Into six parts. These numbered sec tions would tell Mllmnn on what part f the roof the Intruder wa. The three, pressing about him, saw that red light suddenly Illuminated the square marked 1. A bund moved very slowly to the square numbered 0. "That," Mllman whispered, looking relieved, "represent the weight Six pound means a lurge and prowling cut." They heard a sudden exclumntloD. The weight went up a hundred and twenty pounds. The square numbered 1 wus now In darkness and another was llluinlnuted. They could truce the path of the trespasser. He was creeping near them. "Achllle," Mllman whispered. "That would be his weight. The six pounds was when he rested a foot on It be fore putting his whole weight on the grutlng." Peter Mllmnn betrayed no nervous vess now. Noiselessly he drew the snweUoff shotgun from Its place. Then with a touch of a button all lights In the garden were extinguished. In the darkness the shades rolled hack. Against the sky, bright with stars, the watchers could see a figure lying above their head. Another light wus switched on which left the grouu below still In darkness, but showed pitilessly on the trespasser. The gun was ulready at Mllman'a shoulder when Neeland Barnes made a Jump for It and pulled the barrel down. "My God. Mllman !" he cried, white- faced. "It's my girl. It's Nlta." "Ah," said Mllman with a curious smile, "so I perceive. A strunge posi tion In which to find a guest la It not?" "Inexplicable," aald Bradney. He cast a suspicious look at Barnes. "I think," Peter Mllman went on, "we should like a tulk with Miss Barnes." "Ill fetch her," Barnes said eagerly, He wus confused, ashamed, humili ated. "You will be kind enough to remain here." said Mllman. Barnes saw that he wus menaced by that most dread ful of weapons at short runge, the sawed-off shotgun. lie remembered Its loud of buckshot "I fear I must remind you that we must Insist on an explanation from you, too. To allow you the opportunity of escape would be most unwise." He raised bis voice a little, but he did not take his steudy gaze from Barnes fare. "Miss Barnes," he said, "will you be so kind as to come here at once?" The girl's voice trembled as she an swered. It seemed to them all there was a trace of defiance In her tone. I won't be a minute. It'a not very comfortable up here." The shades were drawn again and the lights switched on more fully. Neelnnd Barnes looked from one to the other of the men whose faces had been In the shadow. It seemed In credible thut they could suspect him of complicity In this eavesdropping. It wus plain enough what her errand was. "Let me explain," he began. Peter Mllman stopped him with a costure. "Walt." he communded. "We shall heur you when your daughter comes." Barnes sank heavily Into a seat lie felt thut Bradney and Malet looked upon him as a traitor. Nlta was wearing a blue silk dress ing wrap when she came Into the Japanese garden. Her bearing was confident und unnfruld. She came quickly to her futher's side and put an arm about his bowed shoulders. "Oh, Nltu, Nlta," he groaned. "How could you do such a dreadful thing us this?" : Malet, watching her closely, saw that she bent upon the sitting man a look which hud something of mnternul tenderness In It It seemed strange to the observers that she stood there as though to defend her father from enemies. Of shame or emburrusgment there wus no sign. "So you caught me," she said. "Well, perhaps It Is best you did." "Why?'1 Peter Mllman demanded. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Time Accords to Man viewpoint Let's get lots of exercise, so thut the grownup persog we're go ing to be not so muny years from now muy be tit and strong. Let's not get Into little habits of shtftlessness thut will handicap the future. Instead, let us all work hard and play hard, so that when the person we're going to be looks backward, he'll find his youth an encouragement, and not a matter for regret Exchange. Popular Malayan Name The name "TImiir" Is snid to be almost as common In Malaya ns Mary .or Jane Is here. Transluted, it means "tin." Success makes most men amiable. CThe Kitchen Cabinet It lill. Wvirn Nwapapr Union ) Who shall have vision to plerc th mlt ErfHhroudtns; ths common thin, Or sea In tlx dark hour sorrow Kissed, Ths glrnm of an angxl's wing? The world U wide, and tha world Is old; It mystftrl pnaa our kn; And only to God art tba itcrets told Which llva In the h-rt of men. 1 C'hrtatlne iJavla. GOOD THINGS WE LIKE nere Is a dainty which Is considered very choice by others than the Scotch: Scotch 8 h 0 r t Brsad. Beat oni cupful of butter to a cream, add one-half cupful of light-brown sugar, then work In four cupful of pastry flour. If the flour has been warmed slightly It will work more easily. Form the mix ture Into two fiat cakes, seven Inches In dlutneter. Decorate the edge by crimping and prick all over with a fork. Sprinkle the top with caraway candles, candied cherries and pre served citron. Bake In a slow oven. Marshmallow Cream. Soften one teaspoonful of gelatin In two table spoonfuls of cold milk, then dissolve over boiling water. Add one-half cup ful of sugar end one cupful of double cream and beat until firm. Beat the white of a small egg, then fold In the cream with one-half teaspoonful of va nilla, half of a quarter-pound box of murshniallows cut Into quarters, one- half cupful of skinned grapes seeded and one banana cut Into cubes and mixed with a tablespoonful of lemon Juice. Dispose In glass cups, adding a cherry here and there. Garnish the top with finely chopped nuts and chill before serving. Curried Shrimps. Put Into a sauce pan two tablespoonfuls of butter, add one tablespoonful of minced onion, cook until yellow. Mix one table spoonful of flour and one-half tea spoonful of curry powder and stir Into the hot butter; when well cooked add one cupful of milk and two cupfuts of freshly cooked shrimps. Serve hot with toast or wafers, or with hot rice. Lemon Honey. Boll six cupfuls of sugar and one and one-half cupfuls of water six minutes, then add the Juice from six lemons, stir and cool. A tablespoonful of this honey Is added to the glass of tea as It Is served, or It may be passed In a small pitcher and as much used as the taste dic tates. This honey will keep for sev eral days In the Ice chest or for weeks If poured into bottles and sealed. Head Lettuca With Roquefort Dressing. Mash eight tablesponfuls of roquefort cheese with one tea spoonful of mustard; add to a good French dressing to which one-fourth of a cupful of chill sauce has been added. Why Not Serve Shrimps? One reason for not having shrimps often Is the cost When canned they are not Inexpensive. If one is fortunate enough to be able to procure them fresh, it Is wise to serve them often. Many who might use fresh shrimps, pass them by because they do not know how to use them. They should be washed well, then re move the shells with a sharp knife and take out the small vein which runs down to the end of the tail. Boll them for twenty minutes, when thev are ready to serve In various ways. Shrimp Chowder. Noting could be more appetizing on a chilly night to serve for supper than this dish of hot chowder: Put a third of a cupful of chopped fat salt pork Into a kettle, add a chopped onion or two. When this has browned slightly add one cupful of celery nnd a quart of boil ing water. Cook until the celery Is well done, adding a pint of diced po tatoes, two tenspoonfuls of salt and a few dashes of pepper. Now add two cupfuls of uncooked shrimps and fin ish cooking. Just before serving add milk, milk crackers and butter to sea son If needed. Baked Shrimps. Cook a cupful of canned tomatoes until thick, adding salt and pepper to season, with a little onion Juice. Put through a sieve, Take two cupfuls of cooked shrimps, place in a buttered baking dish, cover with buttered crumbs nnd the tomato, adding a few cooked mushrooms. Top with buttered crumbs and bake until thoroughly hot Shrimp Canapes. Hollow out squares of bread to make smnll boxes two Inches square. Dip In melted but ter and brown, or toast under the gas flame. Fill with cooked shrimps cut Into pieces and dressed with mayon naise dressing. Garnish with olives. Fried Shrimps. Shell and clean raw shrimps, sprinkle with salt and pepper and a little lemon Juice. After stand ing ten minutes dip them Into beaten egg and crumbs and fry in deep fat for three minutes. They may be var ied by dipping in batter and frying them. Bananas will be found to be more flavorous If peeled and split, covered with orange or lemon Juice for nn hour before adding them to the dish of fruit salad or the cocktail. VEGETABLE COMBINATIONS ALWAYS GOOD" 7 A Corn Fritters, Cola 6law, Carrots and Plate. (Prepared hr the CnltMl Stat Depart- 'vegetable niitnt or Agriculture.) In order to serve a " plate" at home yoo don't need the pedal kind of. plates used by restau rants for the purpose. , If your combi nation is pleasing the family will be satisfied to have the vegetables served as at any ordinary meuL From three to five vegetables are usual'; selected for a vegetable dinner. Innumerable good combinations may be planned as the vegetable come on the market Here Is a good In-between-seasons menu: Corn fritters, cole slaw, but tered carrots and baked apple. This PROTECT AGAINST DAM AGE BY MOTHS Woolen and Fur-Trimmed Clothing Must Be Stored. (Prepared by the Cnltf Statea Depart ment or Agriculture, i Woolen and fur-trimmed clothing. fur coats and separate pieces, and all the extra woolen blankets that are not In use during warm weather, must, as every' housekeeper knows, be very carefully protected against dam age by moths. The miller, or adult moth, does not eat fabrics ; It selects them for laying Its eggs, however, so that the larvae, or worms, will have an abundant supply of suitable food as soon as they are batched. If there are spots due to food on the garments reached by the moth, the larva Is even more attracted to that part of the ma terial It pays, therefore, according to the bureau of entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture, to put everything away scrupulously clean. Coats and suits that are prop erly stored Immediately after a trip to the dry cleaner have a very good chance to escape moth damage. This Is not only because the spots have been removed, but beeause, In all probability, the garments have been thoroughly brushed, so that any con cealed moth eggs are dislodged, and after that they have been aired and sunned to get rid of the gasoline odor. The same general treatment thor ough cleaning and brushing, with a good sunning applied to all clothing at home before storing it for the summer, will go a long way toward assuring protection from moths. Everything must be kept In tight containers. A brown paper parcel will do as well as an expensive treated bag, provided It Is carefully done up In such a way that no moths could possibly get In to lay their eggs. Any tight chest or trunk Is good, If the clothes have first been properly pre pared, but cedar chests have the spe cial virtue of killing any young larvae that might chance to develop In spite of the most careful efforts to brush and beat the garments. The use of naptholene or pnradlchlorobenzene flakes Inside a tight package or box or trunk Is also good and Is recom mended, since the fumes, when close ly confined will kill the moth. It Is sometimes possible to seal closet where clothing Is being stored In sucb a way that moths cannot en- i it Guard Against Moths by Fumigating Ciothlng In Closets. ter. On the whole, the safest course for the housewife to follow Is to put the clothing for each Individual In a suit box by Itself, with nhpthalene or pnradlchlorobenzine, and wrap each one up in several thicknesses of heavy paper, turned under at the ends so that no Insects can get In to lay eggs. It Is needless to add that each box should have Its contents noted on the outside so that It need not be un wrapped In order to locate some article, WsBsHSsV'4iBWNKHk. v'-'.'VvavX':-:.-.-- ajKSSSfet ' -x till II ' lf J I ml 11 kt25;i fi Vr, , if - hi ': Baked Apple Make a Good Vegetable combination fulfill the requirement that there shonld be something hearty the com fritters, made with egg and milk, and rich because they are fried ; something mild-flavored the carrots; something acid the apple. The pungency of the cabbage gives the necessary pronounced flavor that lends character to the whole plate. The Illustration was made by the United States Department of Agricul ture, which further euggests that eome thought be given to the color and appearance of a vegetable plate,' since appetite Is so often stimulated through the eye. Substantial Dish Made From Any Kind of Bean Pea beans are probably the best kind for baking, but a very good, sub stantial dish may be made from any sort of beans white, navy, lima, soy ana qtners. Tomato sauce or toma toes served with any kind of baked beans will greatly enhance their flavor. Beans supply protein as well as a large proportion of starch, but the protein Is not so efficient a kind as that of meat uiHk, and eggs. It Is well, therefore, to serve a milk or egg dish at the same meal with beans. For example, a cream soup, or a cus tard dessert of some sort Most of the dried beans are good sources of. vltaralne B, but as vltamlnes A and C are also needed these must be fur nished by other foods, especially by vegetames, salads, and milk dishes. A pint of dried beans will make at large potful, and the seasonings we are giving are In proportion to thla amount Soak the beans overnight and then cook gently until they can be pierced but are not mushy. The skins will break easily. Put the beans In the pot with a quarter-pound piece or wen-streaked salt pork In the mid dle, rind side up. The rind shonld be scored. If you are not using meat, mix about six tablespoonfuls of butter with the beans as yoo put them In the pot Add tlie seasonings, blend with a little hot water. Use a teaspoonful of salt a teaspoonful of mustard, two) tablespoonfuls of molasses or sugar, and a tablespoonful of minced onion. If you like It or a small onion cut la slices. Bake the beans In a very mod erate oven from six to ten hours. Add a little boiling water from time to time but never enough to bring the water beyond the top of the beans. Keep the lid on the bean pot until the last hour, then uncover and allow the top beans to become nicely browned. Sliced Oranges Are One of the Nicest Desserts Sliced or cut-up oranges are one of the easiest and nicest desserts, either Just as they are or In a soft custard. Shredded coconut sprinkled over sliced oranges makes a favorite southern dessert known as "am brosia.' Sliced oranges may b served In tart or patty shells with a spoonful of whipped cream. Orange and water cress salad with French or whipped cream dressing Is appetiz ing, and, of course, oranges may form at least half of any mixed fruit salad, fruit cup, or fruit gelatin. Use pure orange juice for making the Jelly part of a mixed fruit gelatin, with such combinations as chopped apple, banana, orange and fig; or grapefruit, orange, pineapple, nuts and dates; or canned peaches, pears, oranges and a small amount of preserved water melon rind, citron or other spicy pre serves. Plain orange jelly made with pure fruit Juice Is a delicious dessert In Itself. When half congealed It may have the white of an egg beaten, through It but this Is not necessary. A dainty way to serve orange Jelly to an Invalid or a child is to scoop out the contents of one orange, leav ing the rind a basket shape. Fill this with the Jelly when ready to mold It Baked Omelet Will Ease ' Pressing Kitchen Tasks A baked omelet Is practically a cus tard without sugar. The advantage la baking an omelet Is that It dues not require sucb careful watching as the other type and so may be managed when the housewife has other press ing tasks on hand. The proportion of) milk to eggs Is different from that In an ordinary omelet, which requires very little milk. The recipe is sup plied by the bureau of home econom ics. Baked Omelet. 1 quart milk 14 teaspoonful 6 eggs alt 1 teaspoonful melted butter Warm the milk and pour It Into the lightly beuten eggs. Season with salt and butter and pour this mixture Into a greased baking dish. Bake In a moderate oven surrounded by a pan of water, until set In the center. Serve from the dish, adding more seasoning as desired.