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About Halsey enterprise. (Halsey, Linn County, Or.) 19??-1924 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1921)
. — m rrnnt or a minx—•’ the supply tent with certain exnlowiv-« i. which were to be used In the digging ,WW " #t ’ " ns'v"«»< I operations later. * ’ T>h <lo<’ ♦ scold Mr. Vane!” I lm Having Inquired of the Honorable L ’T * ? RT* 2 r l‘aradls*f ha* »» * r Cuthbert and found that for an h o u r J’* “ 1, Und “ th e r t ‘ a n ‘ » ‘ h * ™ h e re <»• two the boat would not be ln I * suppO8e 1 am 11 Of course all lady I requisition. I permitted the beautiful ' * 7 T a l r * i ’,uslne* hav‘‘ »«...u . to understand . jouth that I would not ren tialr. Don t blame Mr. Vane for decliaie an Invitation to be rowed abont ' what was naturally all my fault. Not a line of his face changed. In the cove. Mr Shaw had left bla ma rine glasses lying about, and I had deed, before my most vicious stabs been doing gome exploring with them. ’ It never did change. “To be sure It seems unreasonable Intler the great cliffs on the north Order today, stating ho« many you w ill want shore of the bay I had an ob. to blame the lad,” be agreed soberly, 1 h‘t Lutfisk it prepared and will arrive in our .tore Dec, 20th. je<'t that excited my curiosity. It “hut then he happens to be under mv e will only have enough for our orders, so order at once. authority." si^etned to be the hull of a small vea- -el. lying on the narrow atrip of rocka "Meaning. I suppose, that you would and sand under the cliff. Now, wreck much prefer to blame me," I choked. age anywhere tllla me with sad and "There's logic, no doubt. In striking romantic thoughts, but on the shore at the root of the trouble," he admit of a desolate Island even a barrel- ted with an air of calm detachment hoop seems to suffer a sea-change Into Then strike," I said furiously; Mail orders filled something rich and strange. I there "strike, why don't you, and not heat fore commanded the b. y. to row me about the bush so!" Because then he over to the spot where the derelict would be quite hopelessly In ttaj lay. wrong, and 1 could adopt any of sev 1 lay hack Idly In the stern as the eral roles— the coldly haughty, the ^oat skimmed over the smooth water wounded but forgiving, etcM with beneath the strokes of my splendid great enjoyment. oarsman. More than ever he looked But without a change ln his glacial like the Island god. Every day he manner he quite casually remarked: and stepped Back. Fear clutched my { »rew more brown and brawny, more "It would seem 1 had struck— throat. I had left my revolver In my | been left bare, f had’ watched th« home." superb ln his physical vigor. quarters, Oh, the dreadful denseness emergence of their black Jagged sun I walked away. The cliffs o« the north shore of the of these woods, tha certainty that no faces for some time before It occurred Fortunately nobody undertook to ex cove were considerably higher than on the other side. The wreck lay erclse any guardianship over Crusoe, wildest cry of mine could pierce them I to me that they offered a means ol And then Crusoe, who had been access to the cave The cave— place close In, driven high upon the nar and the little white dog bore me faith row shelf of rocks and sand at the ful company In my rambles. Mostly waiting quietly behind me In the path, of fascination and mystery I Hers slipped In between us. Every hair was the opportunity of all others to base of the sheer ascent. Sand had these were confined to the neighbor heaped up around her hull and flung hood of the cove. I never ventured on hla neck was bristling. Th© lifted explore It, unhampered by any on», Itself across her deck like a white beyond Lookout ridge, but there 1 went upper Up snarled unmistakably. He Just Crusoe and I alone. In the fash winding-sheet. Surprisingly, the ves often with Crusoe, and we would si I gave me a swift glance which said. ion that left me freest to Indulge mj Shall I sprtng?" sel was a very small one, a little upon a rock and talk to each other dreams. Quite suddenly the gorilla blandish sloop. Indeed, much like the fragile nbout our first encounter there, ami I waited until the Scotchman’s back ments of Captain Magnus came to an was safely turned, because If he saw pleasure-boats that cluster under the the fright he had given me. Every end. Sausalito shore at home. The single body else had gone, gazed and ad me setting forth on this excursion ha ’Say," he salt! harshly, “hold back «as quite certain to command me to mast had been broken off short, and mired. But the only constant pilgrim that dog, will you? I don't want to the stump of the bowsprit was visi besides myself, was, of all people return, and I had no Intention of sub kill H e cur." ble, like a linger beckoning for rescue I aptaln Magnus. The captain's unex mitting to his dictatorial ways and You had better not," I returned from the crawling sand. pected ardor for scenery carried hln yet was not quite sura how I was suc •'Poor forlorn little boat I” I said. thither whenever he had half an houi coldly. "I should have to explain bow cessfully to defy him. It happened, yon know. As It It I “W'liat In the world do yon suppose spare from the work In the cave Tha retreating tide had left deep brought such a mite of a thing to thia Needless -ccuic'» to io say, Crusoe crusoe and I time timer I shall say nothing. But I shall not pools behind, each a little cosmos of n r visits so as not to Conflict wltl fnrk*t tny revolver agaln?when I go fairy seaweeds and tiny unheard-of spot?” scuttling J to w alk.” "Perhaps she belonged to the copra his. craba and rich and wonderful forma o And Crusoe and I went «¡»Iftly down life which were strange to me. O n One day, ns Crusoe and I came down chap. One man could handle her." the path which the captain no longer soe and I were very much Interested "What would he want with her? A from the ridge, we met Captain Mag I disputed. small boat like this la better for flsh nus ascending. I had In my hand a and lingered a good <leul on the waj mall metal-backed mirror, which 1 big and rowing about the cove.” But at last we reached the great arch CHARTER V III. "Perhaps she brought him here from had found, surprisingly, lying In a way. and passed with a auddenneai Panama, though he couldn’t have mossy cleft between the rocks, Ii which was like a plunge into coo -Lassie, Lassie . . vas a thing such as a man might car counted on taking back a very bulky water from the hot glnre of the tropli cargo." ry In his pocket, though on the Island Two or three days later occurred a sunshine Into the green shadow of tt« I hen why leave her strewn about it seemed unlikely that anyone would painful episode. The small unsuspect cavern. on the rocks? And besides”—here the Io so. I at once attributed the mlr ed germ of It had lain ambushed In At the lower end, between tw< puzzle of Crusoe recurred to me and •or to Captain Magnus, for I knew that a discourse of Mr. Shaw’s, delivered arches, a black, water-worn rock pav shortly after our arrival on the Island, Ing rang under one's feet. Furlhet seemed to link Itself with this— “then no one else had been on the ridge fo lays. I was wondering as I walkei on the multlfarloua uses of tha cocoa how did he get away himself?” In under the point the floor of tha long whether by some sublime law palm. He told how the Juice from the cave was covered with white aaml We rowed in close under the port bow of the sloop, and on the rail I of comiiensatlon the captain reMlIj unexpended flower spathea la drawn All the great shadowy place was mur- off to form a potent toddy, so that muring like a vast sea-shell. made out a string of faded lettera 1 thought himself beautiful, and sough his retired spot to admire not thi where every prospect pleases man may began excitedly to spell them out. I wished I could visit the place In still he vile. Cookie, experimentally darkness. It would be thrice as mys s— I—oh. Island Queen I You flew but his own physiognomy. SYNOPSIS. I VI ' — lld plff" abound on When the captain saw me he stoppeil disposed, set to work. Mr. Vane, also terious. ailed with Its hollow whis I "J, .iand Cookie- ' the colored see she did belong here. Probably she m em ber of the party, insists he has seen brought the original porcine Adam full In the path. There was a growth experimentally, sampled the reaulta of pering echoes, as In tbe day. From ahiifA»?TKR L—Jane H arding respect- f ,„ rhant> ?, t.be form of a w h ite pig ¡ . ¿ L , d ™ n8er v a tiv e old a p ln a te r-b u t I i ¿ s i a ,WT,lk V irg in ia meets the " h a n t" am) Eve to the Island.” f fern on either side, I approached Cookie’s efforts. The liquor had mere the ledge far above my head led off er to° ° d J ° th in k o f m a rria g e —with a w h ite bull te irle r, and proudly brings slowly, and, as he did not move ly been allowed to ferment, whereas those narrow, teasing crevices In which “Luckily forgot the snake, though! him into camp. r» tro n ’i°m T ya t aa n ,b ra ln "' la Inveigled by a complicated process Is necessary foi imused, and held out the mirror. the three explorers did their unre T ?dc?. "P tn a trr. Miss H igg lesb y- remarked the Honorable Bertie wltl h iin t tlo an cln g an expedition to | C H A P T E R V I I —On the l-la n d Is the “I think you must have dropped this (he manufacture of the true arrack warded burrowing. I could see the unlooked-for vivacity. For to far Aunt •Vina f i i bur,led tre a s u re on Leew ard hut o t a copra gatherer, and the presence » , „ » 7 n*ecev V |r a ln la H a rd in g , un- lane’s trembling anticipations ha< Captain Magnus. I found It on the hut enough hiul tierti achieved to bring strands of a rope ladder lying colled o f the dog, named "Crusoe“ by V irginia .1 < h e r' *ie la on the vessel I is thus accounted for. R am bling about.’ rocka." about dire consequences for Cuthbert at the edge of the shelf, where tt was been unfulfilled by the sight of a sin skm *^.di for..iihe ,b u n t- and ln the confu- and feeling herself not to be a regular Vane, who had found the liquid cool secured by spikes. The men dragged ■>on is u n w illin g ly c a rrie d along. Foh an Instant his face chnnged gle snake, a fact laid by me to the m em ber of the expedition, V irg in ia comes upon a sand-imbedded sloop, the Island credit of St. Patrick and by. Cookie to His evasive eyes were turned to mi and refreshing, and was akeptlcal down the ladder with a boat hook when h ( i, d i « T ^ R JL—B y no m eans concealing Queen R etu rn ing to the camp, she Is that of the pigs. searchlngly and sharply. He took abont Its potency. they wanted to ascend. I looked about ™ I , d!; fo r th » exp e d itio n and her intercepted by C aptain Magnus, who ac Aunt Jane took the matter very with a hope that perhaps they had left tT r P,' ,f 0.r 1,a “ » « m b e l t v i r g la la makes costs her unpleasantly. She escapes him “Snakes'd Jes’ be oysters on de half the glass from my hand and slipped It w ith the aid of "Crusoe." h e r,af.dua' n ta 1 ce Of the H o n o ra b le C uth- into his pocket. 1 made a movement hard, and rebuked the ribald mirth o( the boat-hook somewhere. shell to dem pigs," declared Cookie. °ert vane, and la s o m ew h a t Impressed. to pass on, then stopped, with a faint Mr. Tubbs. He had to shed tears otbi I found no boat-hook, but Instead a As we rowed away from the melan CHAPTER V II. K. H l . —T a lk in g w ith Dugs laid “Tkt spade, which had been driven deep Into choly little derelict I saw that near lawning of discomfort. For the heavy a devastating poem called Shaw, the leader o f th e expedition. V ir - JP" a * * P r fr a n k ,X expresses h e r views, by a narrow gully gave access to the figure of the captain still blocked the Drunkard's Home.” before she would tha sand and left, too firmly Imbedded An Excursion and an Alarm. forgive him. Cookie made hla pears for the tide to hear away. At once a m, ‘ f u s i n g S haw and th e other I top of the cliff, and I resolved that path. members o f the p a rty , in cluding a some As the only person who hud discov A dark flush had come Into the man’s by engaging to vote the prohibition burning hope that I, alone and unas- what uncertain personage, C ap tain M ag- I would avail myself of this path to ered anything on the island, 1 was now His yellow teeth showed he ticket at ihe next election. H Tnsi? a . 8i'a.dy tlnaacler, H a m ilto n slated. might bring to light the treas visit the Island Queen again. My mind face. ris.ia i i ” ' o f be,hg In a conspiracy to de- Invested with a certain Importance. Mr. Hhaw was disturbed over Cuth ure of the Bonny Lass seethed In my n a tu l.? ? *" Jane H a r d |hg T h e ir relations, continued to dwell upon the unknown tween hla parted lips. Hla eyes had a Also, I had a playfellow and compan naturally, a re s om ew hat strained. bert. who was not at all had. only veins. I Jerked the spade loose and figure of the copra gatherer. Perhaps swimming brightness. ion for future walks, In lieu of Cuth queer and sleepy, and had to be let' fell te. “What’s your hurry?" he remarked the loss of bis sloop had condemned C H A P T E R IV. - T e n d in g on the Island bert Vane, held down tight to the away to slumber In retirement. Also I* a m a tte r o f souie d iffic u lty . V irg in ia I now discovered tbe great truth that him to weary months or years of goll- with a certain Insinuating emphasis. P*‘hg varrled ashore in the a rm s o f C u th - thankless toll of treasure-1: tinting by It was exceptgonaJly low tide and ,H«<lng for treasure la the moat thrill- I. began to tremble. inde upon the island, before the rare o e it Vane, to h e r disquietude. T h e la n d his stern taskmaster. But at the same ing. however, la s a fe ly effected. ’’I am on my way hack to camp. Mr. Shaw had counted on taking ad in« and absorbing occupation known glimmer of a «all or the trull of time I was provided with an annoying, to men Tima ceased to be, and the steamer's smoke upon the horizon Captain Magnus. I’lease let me pass ' vantage of It to work In the cave n i i A P T E I* V .—Led by M iss H lgg lesb y- because unanswerable question which Now Cuthbert was laid up— "It won't do you no harm If you're weight of the damp and dose-packed gladdened his longing eyes. m»nTneU th ? I* l r ' y d ra w s up an agree had lodged at the hack of my mind ’’Yon and I will have to manage h» ■and seemed that of feather» Thia ment whereby V irg in ia H a rd in g Is barred Suddenly I turned to Cuthbert Vane. a little late There ain't no one there .T iT a p a rtlrlpAbon In the profits o f the like a crumb In the throat: ourselvee, Magnua.” keepln' tab. Ain't you always a- temporary state of exaltation paaeed. expedition. B ll— ' ■ th in g to "How do you know, really, that lie B e elieving the whole By what strange chance had the "Nothing doing—boat got to be to he sure, and the sand got very n* a fraud. V strayln' off with the Honorable? I V I irg in ia Is not g re a tly w or- ever did leave the Island?” I demand C u th b ert V ane alon e votes against copra gatherer gone away and left patched up—go out there without 11 h»avy, and my back ached, but ■till I ain’t so pretty, but—” the exclusion o f V irg in ia . ed. Crusoe on the Island? “You are lmi>ertlnent I«et me pasa.” and gat caught I" growled the captain dug. Crusoe began to fuss about nnd “Who—the copra chap? Well, why One morning. Instead of starting dl Well, lend a hand. then. We can bark ’Oh, I ’m impertinent, am I? That He came and tugged at tny rectlv after breakfast for the cave else was the cabin cleared out so care mean« fresh, maybe. I'm a plain man he ready with the boat Inside an hour skirt, uttering an uneasy whine. fully—no clothes left about or any The captain hesitated qnecrly. Hla and don't use frills on my langwldge Be quiet, Crusoe I” I commanded, thing?" « 'Veil, when I meets a little skirt that wandering eyes seemed Io he search threatening him with my spade The 'That's true,” I acknowledged. The takes my eyes there ain’t no harm In ing In every quarter for something madness of the treasure-lust possessed Inst occupant of the hut had qyldent- lettln' her know It, Is there? Maybe they did not dn«L At last he mum ly made a very deliberate and order the Honorable could say It nicer— " bled that he thought he felt a touch ly business of packing up to go. m a a t) m is With a forward stride he laid a of the sun, and had decided to lay We drifted about the covo for • hand upon my arm. I shook him off off for the afternoon and make hla way across the Island. He said he wanted vhllr, then steered Into the dim mur to shoot water-fowl and that they had muring shadow of the treasure-raven all been frightened away from the Electrical gifts make the Christmas time last all through the year Mr. Vane Indicated the point at whlcl cove, but that with the glass he had " e liave on display in our store the best in things electrical, and we they had arrived in their exploratloi f i t cordially in rite you to see them seen them from Lookout thickly about among the fissures opening from th the other bay. ledge. “Very well,” eald <be Scotchman The place held me with Its fasclna coldly. “I suppose you must suit your tlon, but we dared not linger long, for self J can get the boat la shape with as the tide turned one man would h a * out help. I dare say.” I saw him pres much ado to manage the boat. So ently looking In an annoyed and pux- «lid through the archway Into th< * zled fashion after tbe vanishing figure blight sunshine of the cove, an<* of the sailor. heailed for the camp. . ... $3!)50 .*45 an d 55.00 W Mr Tnbba and the umbrellas soon As we neared the beach we saw s disappeared Info the woods I bellave figure pacing It. It was Dugald Shaw the search for Bill Halllwelt's tomb And quite unexpectedly my heart be stone was no longer very actively pur gun to beat with staccato quickness sued. and that he and Aunt Jane and * Dugsld Shaw, who didn't like me an< Violet «pent their time enamored In a who never looked at roe—except Jar snug little nook with hammocks and .00 to sometimes, when he was perfectly sure cushions I more than suspected Mr. I didn't know It—there he was, wait Tubbs of feeling that such a bird In ing for us, and splashing Into the the hand as Aunt Jane was worth many foam to help Cuthbert beach the boat doubloons ln tbe buab. But In spite —he for whom a thousand years ago of uoea«lneaa about the future, for the the aka Ida would have made a saga— present 1 reeled secure in the certainty The b. y. hailed him cheerfully that they could not elope from the as we sprang out upon the sand. But Island, and that there was no one on the Scotchman was unsmiling. It with authority to metamorphnae "Make baste after your tools, lad,” Aunt Jane Into Mrs. Hamilton H. A «brisk Eebe©d Threu«b the Cave. he ordered. “W ell have fine work now Tubbs. to get Inside the cave before the turn." The waters of the cove had receded n>» I was panting now. and my Those were his words; hla tone and until a fringe of recks under the high hands began te feel Ilka baseball mitt», hla grim look meant. **Ro In spite of land of the point, usually covered, bad hut still I dug Crusoe bad cased to all mi care you are being beguiled by importune me; vaguely ] was aware that be had got tired and rqj» qff, < ? » » * we reps* For a Keal Christmas Present S. S. Gilbert & Son L u t-F is k for your X M A S . 15c per pound Albany, Ore., f “™??8* 5™?°" Peas.......... ............... 15c a pound Suredish ited Sago............................. 50c a d Hallgren s Anchovies.......................... 50c a can iC h s/es, C h in a a n c / S ta ssiu a re C u t & /a ss a n e t ST E N B E R G BROS. jJ W n e r T h ir d and Lyon ats., Albany, Oregon Si/ueriuare C/^incts C \ntchen C /tensits 330 W. First st. 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