HALSEY ENTERPRISE. HALSEY. OREGON. MARCH 1. 1928
or three of the hardier native women nnder the water. There a'n't nobody H a rd to Get Around
trudging along at a respectful dis In the cove. Gay."
Ignorance Like This
tance In the rear, they at last began
Gay brushed past him, her hand on
Dr. Van Fardleah o f the American
the hard descent over the rocky cliffs the door.
medical commission, recently assigned
and ledges that bordered the cove.
"Where you goln’ ?”
“ To the cove To see for myself. to work In the Near East, remarked
Helping one another as best they
that medical effectiveness In the Orl-
could, scrambling each man to keep I don’t believe a word of It," she de
pace with the man ahead, all alike clared feverishly, with no thought for ! ent would never be established until
B y Taking Lydia L P in k h am ’a
anxious for the first frightful, horrid the rudeness of her words In the the masses were better educated.
Vegetable Com pound
“ A peasant woman," he said, “ had
view, they stumbled over the rocks, shock of her surprise. “ You haven't
Mveral
children
and
when
one
of
grunting, swearing softly In the nasal been there at a lt You are deceiving
Manchester, So. Dakota,—" I was la
New England drawl, and reached the me. Of course there Is a body In tbe them was taken 111, we Insisted that
a te rrib ly weak and run-down cond™
the
others
be
vaccinated.
Much
cove at last, leaning forward, staring cove!"
tlon when a frland
about them.
With Ineffable patience, despite his against her w ill, she finally consented.
told mo about Lydia
"Two days afterward she stormed
E. Plnkham'g Vego
Then they stood erect, with sheep weariness, the Captain set out to fol
table Compound. I
ish grins, and looked the length and low. After a few hot running steps Into the relief hospital and upbraided
began taking it and
breadth of the cove. There were Gay waited for him to come up to her. us because one o f the recently vac
a lte r a short time
"Yon needn’t go. Captain," she said cinated children was dead.
many footprints In the sand, there
I fo il better. We
" ‘Dead I’ I exclaimed, 'but how
were scattered logs, bits of driftwood, kindly. “ You are tired, and It Is such
are a fam ily o f five
could he be dead? He was all right
the wreck of an old boat, there were a hard way.’’
and live on a 360.
shells and seaweed and fallen trees.
“ Oh, that's all rig h t I'm still good when we vaccinated him.'
acre farm, g<> j
“ He fell down and broke his neck,’
But there was no drenched, sea- on my legs ”
have quite a good
washed body on the sand, no trace of
deal to do both la-
They did not speak again until they scoffed the woman. 'A lot of good
vaccination
does.'
”
doors and out. At
red blood on the clean yellow, no sign entered the wood, when the Captain,
, ? rst 1 was «“ able
rather diffidently, broke the silence.
way." cornea with thought of treasure of human driftwood from the sea.
to do anything and had to have a girl
"Yon oughtn’t to live there by your
borne by the aea.
<
but after taking the Vegetable Corm
THE START
self, Gay. Women ha'n’t no call to
CHAPTER IV
pound I finally gained my strength
“Treasure trove," she whispered
live alone. It a'n’t accordin' to natur"
On th e v e rg e o f nervo us c o l
back and also gained considerable in
“ Pirate's prize. Finders keepers."
lapse. due co o v e rw o rk , G ay D e
w eight I w ill gladly answer letters
Satisfied at last that their eyes did They get queer. They get to thlnkln'
Now It swept far forward on the
lane, successful N ew Y o rk a r tis t,
from women In regard to your medi
wave. Then It receded again, sucked not deceive them, that In very truth things, they get to seeln’ things—
seeks rest a t Id le Island
She
cine. —M bs , O tto J. G eyeb , R. F £> j .
re n ts a c o tta g e , the "Lon e P in e ,”
back by the outgoing water. But there wns no body In the cove, the ghosts an’ sech. You better go to the
Box 20, Manchester, So. Dakota,
fro m an Is la n d c h a ra c te r, the
hotel. Gay, for the rest o f the sum
men
of
the
searching
party
drew
to-
caught
full
at
last
by
the
surging
tide.
" C a p ta in ," and his sister, A lic e
(Take a L ittle Salts If Your Back
It swept close In to shore.
gethei, looked from one to another mer. I'll let you off on the rest of
A n d o v e r, " a d m in is tr a to r ."
G ey
SC H O O L FO R M EN
the house. It a'n’t accordin' to natur’.
Hurts, or Bladder la
finds th e c o tta g e Is te n a n te d by
“ Oh, I do bellev, It Is a sea-chest- with sheepish deprecating grins.
livin’
alone."
an e ld e rly la d y , " A u n ta lm lr y ,''
Troubling
You
wrapped In rugs—or—something." she
“ By gar, she done ns,” roared Lum-
w ho consents to m ove to a n
Gay made no answer, but she smiled
cried aloud Joyously. “ Oh, I believe ley Lane with his great guffaw. “ The
o th e r abode, th e "A p p le T r e e .'
at him, and when they came at last
----------------- '
It Is!"
little New Yorker done us right."
A w a k in g fro m sleep. G ay Im a g
to the precipitous cliffs that girt the
ines she seer th e face o f a C h in a
No man or woman can make a mis
She ran out a few steps, regardless
Led
by
the
Captain,
they
tried
the
m an p e e rin g In th e w in d o w . She
take by flushing the kidneys occasion
of the water that splashed about her doors o f the boathouse, of the Little cove, she led the way, stumbling, gild
s ettle s dow n In h e r new home,
ankles, leaning far forward, ready to club Itself, but all were locked se Ing falling, while the Captain grunt ally, says a well-known authority.
a n tic ip a tin g
m onths
o f w e ll-
Use Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh
earned rest and re c u p e ra tio n .
catch hold when It came nearer. Sud cure and silent. They called a few ed and softly swore beneath bis Eating too much rich food creates
back for Srat bottleIf not Kited.
deaioK.
breath
behind
her.
In
the
cove,
at
acids,
which
excite
the
kidneys.
They
denly It turned, swung toward her. times, loud halloos, but received no
last,
she
turned
with
her
usual
brisk
become overworked from the strain,
Gay cried out, faintly. She saw It, answer.
B e n e fic e n t S n e e ze
assurance, and flung out a hand get sluggish and fa ll to filte r the waste
CHAPTER Ilf— Continued
plainly. It was the body of a man.
“ Was she fllm-flammln’, Gamp?"
A sneeze relieved C. A. Kinney,
toward the spot where the body had and poisons from the blood. Then we
The hands beneath the water showed asked one of the Budlong boys.
lain.
get sick.
Rheumatism, headaches, eighty-three years old, of Seneca, Pa.,
faintly radiant, the face shone palely.
"No," said the Captain, with his
Thp farthest of these houses, built
Then her eyes widened, her lips live r trouble, nervousness, dizziness, from the effects of Injuries he suf
Grating In the sand, surging In the | usual soft decisiveness. "She was
at the last stand, where the forest
water, It slid up on the shore, swung cryln’, her face all streaked and parted and she stared, aghast
sleeplessness and urinary disorders fered In a fa ll downstairs about two
and the shore-line merged, was the
years ago. He had been unable since
The captain was rig h t There was often come from sluggish kidneys.
at her feet, and the receding waves
Lone Pine. Be.vond all others, farther,
to move his head and neck freely.
no body on the sand. Except for
sucked at It Jealously.
The
moment
you
feel
a
dull
ache
In
higher, alone It stood, aloof, remote.
themselves, the cove was void of life, the kidneys, or your back hurts, or If Then came the sneeze, something
Stifling
her
Innate
repulsion,
Gay
Beyond the Lone Pine, on the pen
as It was void o f death. Flashes of the urine Is cloudy, offensive, fu ll of snapped, and Ills head and neck func
insula of forest land that ended In thrust out a stiff, resentful, unwilling
light swam before her eyes, and she sediment, Irregular o f passage or at tioned normally.
sheer rocky cliffs, was but one other hand, closed her Angers firmly on the
swayed dizzily.
tended by a sensation of scalding, be
building This was known as the flapping lapel of the coat, and with
Revenge is not so sweet as a change
“ I'll Just sit down a minute to get gin drinking a quart o f water each
I the help of the next Incoming wave,
Little Club house.
my wind back,” the Captain panted, day, also get about four ounces of Jad of scene that utterly shuts out the
t i . o t m i.
».. a k . . . a
Rhe drew 11 h,* h UP
‘ he sand be-
The Little Club had been a daring yond the B.atPr ||np
and dropped down heavily on a low Salts from any pharmacy; take a object o f vengeance.
social venture for a group of Port
rock, mopping away great beads of tablespoonful In a glass of water be
No
hope
of
resuscitation
for
that
land business men In the years when
perspiration with his red handker fore breakfast and In a few days your
B roadcasts G ood N ew s
unfortunate.
Already
It
was
set
In
sailing was the foremost summer
chief.
kidneys may act fine.
W hittier, Calif.—"Dr. Piarce'a Fa-
sport along the coast. In those days, the rigidity o ' death. And over the
Gay pulled herself together.
This famous salts is made from the
vorlto Prescription and the 'Golden
every man of means In the city had temple gaped a great dark bullet-
"Somebody took him away while acid o f grapes and lemon Juice, com
Medics! Disco vary' have been used In
Ids own boat, and the Little Club wound, where the stiff hair, dripping
I was gone," she said in a low voice. bined w ith llthla, and has been used
our fam ily off and
house was their summer rendezvous. salt water, clung thickly In the blood
" I was not fooling you. I left him fo r yea-s to flush and stimulate the
on for a long time
that had drenched it, the edges
As the men of Portland took up
right here. See, the sand Is wet from kidneys; .Iso to help neutralize the
and they have al
washed flabby-white.
motoring, the vogue for sailboats
where he lay.”
ways given us en
acids
In
the
system,
so
they
no
longer
Gay
turned
away
from
It,
Instinc
passed. Tear by year the Little club
tire satisfaction. I
" It splashed from the surf," he cause Irritation, thus often relieving
tively
recoiling,
her
natural
thought
have taken tbe ‘Fa
In the cove saw less and less of social
said.
bladder weakness,
vorite Prescription'
life, and Anally, for a period of seven to run quickly far from the terrible
“
I
put
his
hand
on
his
breast,
and
Jad Salts is Inexpensive; makes a
and to has my
years. It had been opened but once sight. But as she turned her eyes
my handkerchief I spread over his delightful effervescent llthia-water
mother. It was a
each summer, when the remnant of fell on the hand that lay flung out
face.
Captain,
do
you
think
I'm
wonderful benefit
drink which everyone should take
the old group came by motor boat for on the sand, a long fine hand, a hand
crazy?’
she
demanded
Indignantly,
to
us. I think It
now and then to help keep the kid
a great week-end orgy of lobster, flsh, that even In death suggested the emo
hat no equal.
No, Gay, no, I don't think you’re neys clean and nctive and the blood
tions
of
life,
desire,
tenderness,
pas
and, It was rumored, forbidden brew.
. U
,7i ,
My ,aLber always
crazy," he said stoutly. “ But you pure, thereby often avoiding serious
took the Golden Medical Discovery’
For the last three years even this sion, that had tingled In Its finger
hadn't ought to live alone. It a'n't kidney complications.
tips.
when he fe lt rundowil, and It never
mild hurst of diversion had been
good for women, makes 'em queer;
Gay's eyes hung to It, spellbound,
failed to build up his general health
abandoned, and the famous old Little
a'n’t accordin' to natur’.”
Tery ,h o rt time."—Mrs. J. g.
P ig e o n L iq u id a te d D e b t
club was as dead as the oldest gray and then, slowly, swept to the face
Hllyard, 118 a. W hittier Ave.
Gay smiled rather wanly. “ I am
again. It wns a tired face, worn, all
pine In the woodlnnd.
Pigeons
were
welcome
visitors
at
I
f
your
druggist la out of the “Medl-
sorry for all the trouble I have caused
The l.lllle Club house was built set Into grim hard lines; had prob
cal.
or "Prescription."
you, I am sure you know that I had the window of the Cincinnati (Ohio)
ably
been
a
handsome
face
In
life,
with the natural rock of the shore as
send 66 cents to Dr. Pierce, Buffalo,
no desire to deceive ~ou, deliberately apartment of Mrs. Amoretta Fitch, al
the
head
finely
shaped,
the
forehead
She
Struggled
On
Until
She
Reached
N. Y., for a package of the tablets.
a g neral base, ns Indeed were most
the L ittle Stretch of Sheltered I am very sorry. W ill you go on home ways receiving a few morsels of food
of the Island houses along the const. high, the rhln slender and clear-cut.
until
their
hostess
discovered
they
Beach.
now,
and
leave
me?
I
have
my
sketch
A wide plazzn circled three sides of The lips had been delicate and tine
pad In my pocket I am going to had begun to eat her cherished win
the house, and on the north gave it a before that last grim anxiety had white, tremblin' all over. She didn't
draw the face from memory, and per dow plants. Then she put up a screen
locked
them
Into
this
hard
cast.
fur view of sen and sky. Gay was not
Gay shuddered, hurled her face In aim to flim-flam nobody. She thought haps you w ill recognize I t I want to to shut out her feathered callers. A
long In discovering this deserted plaz-
do It while It is all fresh In my few mornings later a single pigeon
her
hnnds. Then she stood up, sud she saw something, that's alL"
11.,,1;,. , wvoi
ll
tn. and sometimes went with her
. V/U
lia d lo S ta tio n s “J
a .”
t 6:80
d in e v a r N v a tio n -w id e
came to the window and hovered about
They returned the way they had thought"
»ry murala v
sketching pad, which she carried on denly determined, and called for help come, and although the men hung
on
the
sill
ns
If
to
attract
her
atten
and
UTTÍÑT'íJ"“
“
f"r
“"«öi^VkCNHBT
The Captain demurred, but Gay
all occasions, and sat there. Idly again and ngaln, her clear high voice about the Captain's door, hoping for
ringing and reverberating among the
stood firm against him, and his objec tion. She shooed It away, but It came
E X Stailo?.
draw ing In the pleasant shade.
rocki that bound the cove. It was a glimpse of the erratic New Yorker tions dwindled. He went off at last, a right back and dropped a shiny, new
Gay often leaned far out over the
who had sent them on their hard sturdy little figure, for all his frailty dime on the sill and flew away, not
piazza railing, trying to see beneath, seldom that strollers came through
to return.
the woods so far, and the cottages chase for the wild goose, the Captain and bis bent shoulders.
wishing the distance were less, that
were far removed. There was no an considerately, left them without and
Gay picked out a seat for herself
she could drop down And then one
swer. although she continued to call closed the door behind him.
O h , T ra n s p a re n t M a n
among the rocks and fell at once to
day, when her strength had come
when she had ceased to expect
The Captain looked compassionate work. She could see It all so vivldlv
Doctor—You had better be X-rayed.
again, and her most venturesome mood even
N orth A m erican D ye ( o r p o r a tlM
response.
ly at Gay. “There wa'u’t nobody that her flesh crawled as she repro
M t.V era o n , N. y .
was upon her, she slipped under the
I atient There's no need. Get my
drownded,”
he
said
gently.
"There
And
so
at
Inst,
bravely,
she
took
re
duced
the
picture
from
memory-the
railing on the eastern side of the
wife—she Is always able to see right
wa'n’t
nobody
shot
There
w
a
n
t
sponsibility
to
herself,
set
her
lips
small
hit
of
sand
below
the
rocks,
the
through me.
dub house, and holding with both
nothing but aticka and stones In the limp body In Its drenched clothes, the
W' N- U ■ PORTLAND, NO. 9-1 »28.
bands, now to the wild branches that hard and bent down to draw the body cove.”
higher
on
the
sand,
beyond
reach
of
•lark hair, the fine head, the gaping
grew In the crevices, now to the
A V e ry W o m an
Gay leaped to her feet giddily, and wound, and outflung on the sand the
B o b b y ’s E x p la n a tio n
rough and ragged rocks themselves, the tide at Its highest point. She
“ Is your wife fond of listening In?"
slowly, stumbling, falling, splashing lifted the outthrown hand and laid the women fell back, respectfully, to P“ le ha" d- lonS. «Urn and powerful,
'
ltle
Sister—I wonder w h , Feb-
“ N o ; Margaret much prefers speak
the hand of a gentleman, hand of a
herself with water In the lower It gently back upon the breathless give her room.
L !ttle “ B20tSay<’ eVery fourth yearf
ing
out."
breast,
and
spread
her
wispy
hnndker-
•choiar
hand
that
betrayed
Intensify
"There—wasn't?"
she
gasped.
“
But
places, cutting and bruising her hands,
sllh ?
r° th.er~ Don't y" n know,
Wa’ ,he hand ,hat " nd
she struggled on until she reached clilef. pitifully, over the pale set face. there was! He had dark hair, and s tlriT r
20th
of
February‘c
a T h '6 b° rn ° "
Then,
In
a
fresh
accession
of
horror
Ithe
product
of
a
tight
shoe
or
an
long One hands—oh, nonsense !—I can stirred Gay roost deeply, and when
the little stretch of sheltered bench.
once in . wh“ e
“ h8Ve ' blrth<,a*
she ran wildly upon the rocks of thè see him this moment as plainly as— It lay before her |0 her penciled oak tree Is a-corn.
“ 1 knew I could do It," she said
cliff, clambering over them, strug
My
handkerchief,
I
spread
It
over
bis
sketch,
delicate
and
strong,
she
burled
cocklly. waving sway the reproachful
her face
hpr two hflnda
stinging of her torn hands. " I said I gllng feverishly In her haste, and her poor face. Did you bring my hand
terror was magnified by her flight, so kerchief?"
Into nervous weeping. But In a mo-
would, and I did."
You're all tired out. Gay," he said . T * s * ControI,ed »erself, shook
She ran at once to the club house, that she sobbed aloud, fell often In
under the piazza. She found a full' her foolish frenzy, and cut herself gently. "You work too hard. You away her tears crossly, and dabbed at
but did not feel the pain.
seen a hallucination, that's all
|t . „ „ V ™ J ' ” 1 ,h* bacli of her hnnd.
lower story of the • <«e showing
Out of the rocks, disheveled, soiled, was driftwood rldln' In. Seaweed, lacking the wispy handkerchief that
there, with a wide door, and two win
dows, hul they were heavily framed her pale face streaked with tears, she maybe. Things alius looks like men was gone.
(TO BE CONTINUED.»
In wooden shutters, further protect- stopped to recompose herself, adjust
•d by stout Iron gratings, and secured ed her blouse and belt, and tried to
wipe the telltale marks of fear from
X X X X X <• x-> X •>
with heavy patented locks.
Gay shook the rusted lock Impa her face. In a semblance o f order at
last,
she
ran
through
the
woods,
and
tiently.
"I'd love to get In," she thought down the lane to the Captain's bouse
The Captain, shocked by her white
Japanese soldiers do not give much
wistfully. “ Perhaps It Is a haunted
and frightened face even more than trouble to the quartermaster’s depart. drawn Into the weed on the shore,
chateau. Whoever heard of an Island
n ’ o brushy saplings being ar
by the Incoherent tale she told, extri menL In the field they are capable
without a haunted chateau?"
ranged In long, parallel rows where
cated himself from the fold of dog
The little cove wns a pretty one, and cats with nervous Impatience, and of great endurance on a diet of d^led tne tide ebbs over them twice dally.
rice, dried flsh, dried seaweed .-»d
marveloudy well protected. On thè
Gradually, the green fernlike weed
brushed against two granddaughters pickled plums. The seaweed is Wracne.t
left side the rocky ledge ran far out. In his haste to get Gay Into a chair round the rice and used as a " rffllL - collects on the branches, and flour-
Jtirvlng like a bow. It was among before she fainted.
to It. Given a tin , Are, « stewpsn, and shes there until the farmers harvest
die rocks on the left thst the old
It Is then carefully picked over
"Do tell," he chattered gently, the rations mentioned, the, are ¡,»r-
boathouse stood, but although Gay “ dear, dear, now, what are things
fe c tl, content, whatever the weather and dried for future use.
pulled at the lock, even banged at It coming to?—I.lda, give Mlsa Gay here
and however long the marches
with a stone. It would not yield Kv
some good hot tea. I'll go right down
Seaweed Is grown specially for food
O n e T hing to L ive For
ery crack was sealed, and the win
there and—"
purposes, being cultivated with ns
Mrs. Nagger had married a wealthy
down were hoarded and barred.
“ I'll go back with yon and show much care as an, other crop, After husband and as a consequence had
"Stingy things," the said crossly. you," Gay proffered quickly.
the typhoon season, the women may spent much of her married life la
•'The way they keep themselves
"No, no, mlsa, tea's what you need, be seen hearing great loads of vouni travel. At home she had had her ev
locked op you'd think they were a quiet's what you need. I.lda, give
tree, which have been stripped of ery wish gratified almost Instantly, fa
hand of bootleggers."
her some more te a - I'Il take the boys their leaves, though «11 ,hp , ma„
fact nothing Interested her any more.
As she stood In the sandy beach, with me. W eil have to work it up
branches are left intact These are She was bored with life
looking out. her ryes shone with over those rocks some way."
"Sometimes,” she said one after
pleasure She forgot the hard strug
P " ’ W - « tld k n o A „ v *
1
He hurried away, an eager, brave
noon to Mrs. Holland, who had
gle with the rocks, she did not think fra il little figure.
D
isguised
C
om
plim
en
t
dropped
In
for
tea,
"sometimes
I
feel
o f her torn and bleeding hands It
Naturally, the Captain did not go
was very lovely.
A bond man In New York added to I have nothing In tbe world for which
direct to the cove. He went first to
to live."
“
The tide was coming In, nearly full, the Pier grocery store to recount the his a c th llle . the pw,, of
Mrs. Holland shook her head sadly,
and she was obliged to move back a grewsome tale. Then he stopped by farmer' on Long Island Before
etep or two to avoid a wetting But the way to pick np the Rudlong boy*, ing h l. place for a trip to Europe h. then suddenly brlghteoed.
“ Well, there's spite, my dear, there’s
Id to h it head man :
she could not tear herself from the two drivers from the taxi stand. Hr
"Flaherty, 1 have t0 be a w » fo, . spite."
place. And then, as she Mood, she Allenby, the weather man. and Lum
saw the Incoming waves bore freight ley l-ane With these enforcement*, month or two. I hope everything will
run smoothly on (he firm ."
S ta n d s in H igh P la ce
—■ barrel—no, a aack —n o -
and followed by a troop of a doxen
“db. said Flaherty, heartily.
Let us never forget that the cuM
Gay watched It curiously and fell
more small boys sbou'lng direr
.ton t do a hit o' harm. sir. when you ro ration o f the earth la the most In
the little th rll' of excitement that at
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