HALSEY ENTERPRISE, HALSEY, OREGON. APRIL 26, 1928
IDLE ISLAND
By ETHEL HUESTON
W IIU Service
CHAPTER VIII— Continued
—12—
There were do gun», no casks, no
bottles. The furniture was »cunt, and
of substantial and Inexpensive make.
There was an oil heater In a corner,
and a large tank nearly fu ll of oil
beside It. There was an oil cook
stove, also, with pans, kettles und
rough dishes. There was Ashing
tackle strewn about, old magazines,
and In a corner cupboard a few rough
ends of fond: beans, coffee, salt and
rice. Some canned things, too, and a
piece of salt pork. There were old
pipes lying about, cigar stubs and
scattered tobacco. The room In every
respect was exactly as It would be
left by a group of Aahermen, lumber
men or huuters,
Ortlcers, Inspectors, any one might
step Into the room, examine It from
celling to rough rock tloor, and And
It above suspicion. Yet Hand knew
that within a space of two hours fully
th irty men had left that very spot.
With revolver and Aashllgm In hand
again, he left the basement room and
went to the stairs. Heavy curtains,
thick and wide, covered every door
and window so that no possible ray of
light from within could be seen from
without.
On the upper Aoor were sleeping
rooms, six In all, and two baths, al
though the water was not connected
and the tubs were dusty und dry. One
of these rooms, the one on the north
looking down to the cove, Rand knew
had been occupied, although but
rough blankets were thrown loosely
on the bed. Still It mid the feeling
about It of recent occupancy.
"Gay’s gentlemanly Ingram," he
thought with a boyish grin. "Couldn’t
stand It below with the Chinks. No
wonder his eyes are sad.”
SatlsAcd at Inst, he went down,
careful to lenve everything behind
him us he had found It. and clam
bered up through the narrow base
ment window again, not without great
dlllleulty. Once more he was obliged
to crawl out, head Arst, and return
In order to replnce the window ns be
had found It which he did carefully,
edging It tightly In, and blocking It
loosely with rocks from without. Then
he made his Anal exit.
"I hope nobody hangs me on the
head before I have a chance to argue
about It,” he thought rather anxiously,
as his legs sprawled out from beneath
the piazza luto the open air.
Evidently, however, the Intrusion
had been unobserved, and very hur
riedly lie threw the stones back Into
place to give the same nppenrauce us
before Ills entrance. Then he crossed
the woods toward the Lone I’ lne.
It was after nine o'clock. Hand was
not shaved, Id» face nod hands were
scratched and bleeding, Ids hair was
matted « lib dust and bits of enrth
and moss, Ids clothes were grliny. He
glanced down at Idmself, smiling, liu t
he vent on.
"1 bine no right to client her out of
such a th rill us this,'* he derided. Rut
lie hurried his steps, for he hnd no
desire to explain Ids appearance to
any otliei but Guy.
Her amazement nt his appearance
nt her door equaled Ids expectations.
"Rand — Rand,” she gasped weakly.
“ Let me In, let me In," he urged
laughingly. "Don’t lenve me out here
w ith the burden of crime upou me,
fo r I lie Arst Chink to take a pot shot
at.”
Hurriedly she drew him Into the
room, closed und locked the door be
hind him.
“ Rand — Rand — what have you
done?" she whispered.
She listened silently while he told,
In sketchy fashion, the events of the
night. Her eyes upon him were ter-
rlAed and troubled. When he llnlshed
Ills recital with a Jaunty triumphant
gesture, she turned on him passion
ately.
“ You shouldn’t do such things,"
she cried thickly. "You should not I
You have no right to tuke such
chances. Oh, Rand, what do they cure
fo r murder? Think of that poor
boy—’’
It was not until he had been well
fortllled with strong coffee that she
asked him gently, for her sake, to
give up this ridiculous, dangerous en
terprise and pay no more attention to
the activities In the L ittle club. She
said she was sorry she hnd ever told
him anything about the affair In the
cove, she felt she had led him Into
terrible danger.
“ I keep thinking of that boy, Rand.
They are utterly unprincipled, un
scrupulous. I know they are. They
would stop at nothing. If anything
happens to you. It w ill be my fault.”
Rand tried to reassure her, prom
ised to take every precaution, but he
would not consent to give up the un
dertaking. He was sure he had his
Anger on a thread that would unravel
a vast network of Intrigue and crime
Involving many thousands of dollars,
perhaps hundreds of lives, lie was
going to have the reward the unravel
ing would entail, out more Important
than that, he was going to have the
sport of um-avellng. He would not
yield to her.
“ And Ar«t of all. I’m going to show
f o u r sadeyed filv tid Ile a a crook.
C opyright 1927 by The Bobbs M e rrill Co.
The
Cream
of the
Tobacco
Crop
and I’ll prove It to you. Him, and his ' Ing down from Canada. He had I thought. Just to pacify her,” she
sad eyes!”
looked up the records of every one of said Aercely. " I ’d let her Ax little bags
"Randle, dear,” Gay said, her hands these boats, and tabulated the in of candy and nuts for the children,
In his hair, drawing his face toward formation, bnr the name of Ronald though they don’t deserve IL Throw
her, "did any one ever tell you that Ingram was not connected with any ing snowballs, cbaslDg cat.“, breaking
your eyes ure sad, too? They are. of them. So be was obliged to await windows— But Just to please her.
Very sad. Your lips are merry and their return, and dally scanned the So I ordered fifty pounds of Christ
your voice Is light, but your eyes are sailing reports for news of them.
mas candy sent to her.”
always wistful. The voice Is what one
"Oh. that's Just dear of you—”
October faded goldenly away, and
Alice Andover frowned at her.
makes It—but the eyes— Yes, open November settled down grayly over
“ John pays h a lt I ’m only the admin
windows to the soul. Sad. very sad." the Islands of Casco bay.
About noon on the third daj of No istrator. John pays half. She’s got
vember, a cold rain set In, driven by fruit, she’s got vegetables, her cup
CHAPTER IX
a hard wind from the northeast. Ry board’s fu ll of canned goods, and her
It was amazing to Gay that the midafternoon the Arst nor-easter of cellar fu ll of coal and wood. She
Noted Star o f the
Island, enmeshed as It was In a net the season was raging along the coast can't want for anything. Can she?"
It did not seem Indeed that sh«
work of lawless enterprise so Aagrant The rain had turned to cutting bits of
Pittsburgh
Pirates, writes:
could.
Her
larder
had
been
bounte-
1
Ice,
like
burning
chips
from
steel.
All
as to Include open murder, should con
tinue Its placid aimless course of afternoon Gay sat in her window-seat ously and glorious stocked—a hundred j
everv-day, unruffled calm. The Cap listened to the wind lashing the bare pounds of sugar, brown and white, j
“When I arrived a t the Pitts
tain fluttered from the hotel drains to trees of the dear little forest, watched cereals, raslns, dried fruits, beans,
burgh tr a in in g c a m p I
the Nixon porch and talked regret the white sleet which tore past the canned goods. No. certainly she could I
fully of the work he did not accom window on great gales of wind, and not be In need of anything. Besides, |
noticed
my brother Paul
looked down to the sea, snow white there was her charge account at the
plish on his boat.
grocery,
and
her
modest
account
at
J
with
foam.
Finally
she
fell
asleep.
smoked Lucky Strikes exclu
Auntalmlry who after Mrs. And
It was evening when a step on the the bank.
over's stern denial of a Christmas
sively,
and he explained ichy >
"You don't suppose she would go on
party, had remained wistful, quiet porch and an accompanying whistle
wakened her. She sprang to her feet a starvation diet to spite me,” said
You will agree that we were
and went forward, dizzily, to meet Alice Andover anxiously. “ I don't |
in a close and exciting Pen
Rand.
think she knows enough to do thaL”
Gay took his hands, let him gently
When Alice Andover had gone, Gay
nant race and it certainly
to the window-seat, sat beside him.
weDt down again alone. Mrs. And
called for splendid physical
“ Rand," she said evenly, “ If you over's anxiety had communicated It
want me to marry you, I w ill.”
self to her, and Gay was persistent
condition to withstand the
“ Now, say It again, slowly. I don’t S lit meant to And out If Auntalmlry
think I understand.”
tax and strain upon one’s
stood In need.
” Yes, you Go. If you want me to
She anticipated a long wait on the
nerves
and wind. Like Paul,
marry you, 1 w ill.” .
door-step, and she Intended to wait.
my favoriteCigarette is Lucky
“ I f 1 want you to marry me—you So she was a little surprised when
w ill.” Rand repeated slowly. He Auntalmlry, who had evidently been
Strike.”
kissed her. “ Thanks, Gay, but I watching and knew she came alone,
don’t ”
opened the door to her Arst light tap.
•a y sighed a little, sighed In relief
“ That was not nice,” Gay said
perhaps. Certainly she smiled, but It severely. “ Alice Andover Is very un
was a drawn smile that did not touch easy about you. It Isn’t right to worry
her darkened eyes.
her.”
Auntalmlry burst Into soft but Joy
The Island shut Itself up, more and
more, behind the protective screens ous laughter, unashamed.
"Oh, the administrator. When I
and storm windows that presaged the
coming of winter. The women baked, think of Alice Andover—" Auntalmlry
and sewed, and chatted. The men got was quite speechless with secret satis
In the last of the wood, sorted the faction.
“ But why did you keep us out?"
winter apples, wont over the furnaces
and the plumbing.
“ Now, Gay, don't be cross. It’s
©1928, The American Tobacco Co., Inc.
Sirs. Alice Andover came to the cot Just a litle secret of mine. You’ll
know
before
long.
I
was
doing
some
A G entlem an of Q u ality
tage, but not often, for she was fond
New Type of Goggles
of creature comforts, and her enthusi thing I didn't want Alice Andover to
Maid—Go away I
Ideal for Motorists
asm for the winter climate of her na know about Now let's have a nice
Tramp—1 want you to know I’m a
tive state was limited to an oil burner cup of tea. I t ’s good to see you
A new type of dark glasses for out gentleman I
Hurriedly He Threw the Stonee Back in her furnace, n birch log In her again.”
door wear at tennis, golf and other
Maid—All right, go to the front
But for all her pleasantness Gay re sports, and said to be especially use door and I'll tell you the sume thing.
Into Place.
fireplace, and a pretty Parisian knit
ted scarf about her aristocratic shoul turned at last no wiser than she ful for auto drivers at night when
and meek, climbed the hill one day ders.
came.
meeting cars with glaring headlights,
with the old bright happy Aush on her
November did not live np to the has been produced In the optical
“ What’s the old fool doing now?’’
cheeks, and old bright light In her
she demanded, with the brusk nod to threat of Its coming. The weeks works of the Zeiss Arm at Jena. The
weak blue eyes. She was laughing.
passed. But two days before Thanks- !
“ Oh, It Is a lovely morning, Gay, a ward the orchard that meant Auntal- giving, Gay wakened In the morning to basis for the new type protection
miry.
consists of two wedge-shaped pieces
lovely morning. Coming on to Christ
“ 1 don't know,” Gay said evasively. And the Islnnd thickly blanketed with j of glass fused together. The upper
inns now, Isn't It, coming on to Christ
snow, the trees pendant with It, the member of the pair Is made of a dark,
“ 1 don’t see much of her.”
inas?”
valley submerged. And great cloudy gray-browD glass, while the lower part
“
I've
been
there
a
dozen
times,
and
Woman Took Lydia E. Pink-
“ Y-es, It Is. Did—Alice Andover
Aakes whitened the air.
is clear and uncolored. Goggles made
ham’s Vegetable Compound
say you could have the party, after never nobody home,” Mrs. Andover
“ This Is beautiful. It Is worth living from tills material are thus very dark
complained. “ There's no fool like an
all?”
Denver, Colo.—“ I have taken sir
for,”
Gay
thought.
"How
childish
to
at the top, shading off gradually into
Auntalmlry burst Into Joyous gentle old one. She’s a perfect gadabout
bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege
live always In a city where snow clear glass at the lower edge. This
laughter. "Oh, my dear, when I think Let’s go down and see what she's up
table Compound
means only slush, and grime, and arrangement cuts off the glare of the
and w ill take
of Alice Andover—dear Alice 1 She to.
sky, while permitting an unclouded
more. I am tak
So they went down the hUlslope murky skies.”
Is a One woman, for all her faults,
She sat In the window-seat and view of the ground. Motorists, en
ing it as a tonic
one In a thousand. Rut when I think nnd knocked at the door of the Apple
t o h e lp me
of all her administrating, and her Tree. There wns no answer, although watched It for hours, tracing the countering glaring headlights, simply
t h r o u g h th e
bossing, upd her scheming—and all distinctly they could hear slight course of the great white Aukes, and duck their heads a little and look
Change of Life
she gels for It—oh, no,” she Inter sounds within, quick shuffling, muffled listening for (he soft little kiss with through the tops of their goggles un
and I am telling
rupted herself, trying to sadden her footsteps, the sly creaking of a door, which each dropped among his broth til the offending car has passed, when
many of my
[friends to take it
exuberance, “ oh, no, no Christmas then silence. A ll« Andover turned ers. By afternoon all the low brush they ngain make use of their normal
and
shrubs
were
thickly
covered,
the
vision
through
the
lower
parts
of
the
the
knob,
':ut
the
door
was
locked.
as I found noth
party this year. Oh, no I” She shook
ing before this to
her little silvery head, but could not She marched grimly around the forest was a solid glistening wall, and ’ glasses.
help me. I had
the
line
of
boats
upturned
on
the
-------------------------
house, Gay following, and tried the
shake away that a ir of Joy.
so many bad
Ntu) E in e n tn c r
She sold she had only come to bor kitchen door, only to And It locked shore was Ifke a row of grave mounds.
feelings at night that I could not
The
afternoon
waned,
and
Anally,
a
also.
row a bag, a good-sized hand-bag. She
It Is said that Charlie Chaplin be
sleep and for two years I could not
Shamelessly she peered In every little depressed with the silence and gan his career as a circus performer.
wanted to take—some things—over to
go down town because I was afraid
the
aloneness
of
It
all,
she
wns
aim
window,
one
after
another,
but
there
of falling. My mother took the Vege
town. She said she would like to keep
Before "going on” each night. Il Is
table Compound years ago with good
It several days. If Gay did not mind, wns nothing to see but the tidy lessly tidying up her rooms «’ hen she [ declared, Charlie would put a sack of
heard
a
gay
voice
calling:
house,
empty.
results and now I am taking it dur
nnd promised to he very careful of It.
I peanuts In his hip pocket for an ele-
’’Hello,
the
house.
Come
out,
and
ing the Change of Life and recom
“ The old fool Is In the closet," Alice
She chose the larger of two hand-bags
] phant friend. The pachyderm would
mend
it.”— M rs . T. A. M iiler . 1611
see
the
sun.”
Gay gladly offered, explaining that Andover said grimly. She rapped
shuffle up behind Charlie, thrust his
Adams Street, Denver, Colorado^
She
ran
down
to
And
Rand,
In
snow
smartly
on
the
window.
“
Auntalinlry,
she wanted It to hold—well—plenty.
trunk Into the hip pocket and snuf
A few days later she came again Auntalmlry, come out I We see you— half to his waist, at her window that , fle gratefully.
led
to
the
valley,
which
he
was
strug
come
on
out.
you
big
ostrich
I”
A SK FOR
to explain that she was not yet
On one occasion Charlie thought he
gling to raise from w ithout
Rut there was no answer.
through with the bag, and to ssggest
Gay caught up a warm cape, and would give the elephant a real treat.
"She’s up to something.” Alice And
to Gay, If she did not mind, that per
So he placed some nice, fresh, sticky
haps It would be better not to say s over snld anxiously, "she's mad about ran to help him.
“ You darling I” she cried. In warm popcorn In his pocket The elephant
word about It to Alice Andover.
that Christmas party. All for her own
could not get the candy o u t Nor
"She’s a Ane woman,” she said toy- good, and that's all the thanks I get. welcome.
could he extricate his trunk
(TO BE CONTINUED.»
ally, "one In a million, a credit to
Tor PAINFUL FEET
At this point In the story Charlie
the island, a typical Maine character,
•: i ':'T< x : x -: x -: x -: x :'X: x : x -: x . x : x -> x -:- x :- x -: x -: x : x :- i : i : x : i .:. x .:. x .:.X'5 always pauses for effect
A capable administrator, too, and all
’’You've heard an elephant trum
that. Rut once In a while she gets—
Rem oving th e Cause
First Rude T elescop e E volved by A ccid en t
pet.” he will say, "but did yon ever
well, as you might say—Just a wee bit
Stranger—I repiesent a society for
hear
one
trumpet
In
your
hip
pocket?'
nosey."
the prevention of profanity. 1 want
—Kansas City Star.
When the son of a Sixteenth cen being. Shortly after the new» of thia
Alice Andover, too, climbed the hill
to take profanity entirely out of your
tury spectacle maker In Holland dlscoiery had leaked out, a friend
to (he Lone Pine.
life ana—
Trapping
Tom
ato
Moth
"See anything of that foolish old picked up some spectacle lenses in his wrote to Galileo In Italy describing
Jones IcalllDg to his w ife )—1 say,
The use of electricity In exterminat
woman down there?" she Inquired, father’s shop one day and happened the contrivance of the Dutch optician
M
ary; here's a man who wants to
Jerking her head Impatiently toward to hold up two of them, one In each and It was from this description that ing tomato worms Is being demon- buy our c a rl—Stray Stories.
i ra,ed ° nn the j a rm .of l - w
hand, he was surprised on looking the R a n ;; "¿ «»7«;;
the orchard below.
through both lenses to see the weath scope that made him fam ous-New * „ 8ona’ ^ " « U e . »a Having tried
"Once In a while. Not often.”
" r* « ’ ran’ en'1« i measures for the con
“ She’s up to something. I don’t ercock on a neighboring church castle Weekly Chronicle.
trol of the tomato worm without suc-
trust that woman. You watch her, steeple greatly enlarged. Excited by
cess. Mr. Purduro conceived the Idea
and If you see anything out of the this discovery, he ran to his father
of trapping the tomato moth before
way. you tell me. I’m the administra nnd told him what he had seen. The
The __
Button in H istory
The b ttte a 'to a p'rodnot*Ofmodern " 2 ? “
A sln,I>l<> trnp wl,h
tor. nnd I’ ve got to keep an eye on father Immediately took the two
•
* ^ ’ nn lareP
«"»«ructed. A
lenses and repeated the experiment. civilization , . Dce the ancient X u
her."
did
not
have
anv
such
form
“
o m X
co " , a , nln « ker " spne
The
result
conArmed
his
boy’s
report
12 Days’ Free Trial
It was disappointing both to Gay
‘ * refleCtOr ab,,U'
and Rand that with all the little nnd the father set to work at once. tng their clothes together. The, w er. L’
To
get
relief when pain tortured
« "ehe. below the lamp. Tbe lights
threads oP*iy>tery within their grasp, Axing two movable lenses on a board Arst used for ornamental pure
and muscles keep you In con
nothing happened. They kept shrewd —nn Idea suggested to him by the The next step was the use of the but- a,tl'ac, ,he ,ns«-’t* «nd In A,Ing Joints
stant misery rub on Joint-Ease.
watch of forest, clubhouse and shore, varying view he had obtained by mov ton and loop, the buttonhole being iag, “ Ka' n” ,t h t .gl,,be V’* ’ dr° P lDt° tb*
It Is quickly absorbed and you can
ing
the
lenses
In
his
hands—and
thus
but all remained silent and deserted,
In the development. Buttons were Arst kero8ene und* rn««f1’ .
rub It In often nnd expect results
the
Arst
rude
telescope
came
tfito
so that after a few weeks her Interest
more speedily. Get It at any drug
employed In southern Europe in ih«
„
~
waned. Hand, however, continued
gist In America.
Thirteenth and Fourteenth centurlea
B ronze and Brass
fa ith fu lly to go to the clubhouse
Vse Joint-Ease fo r sciatica, lura-
Their manufacture In England did not i Tl>® composition of the bronze used
M oonlight and Plants
every night, for he knew that event
commence until the reign of Elizabeth. [ b7 primitive peoples during the so- oagq, sore, lame muscles, lame back,
There Is an Impression that moon
colds, sore nostrils and burn
ually the gang would come again, and
The earliest mention of the button- called Bronze age was an alio, of chest
ing, aching fe e t Only 00 cents. It
light Injures plants. This Is a fallacy. hole in literature occurs In the year copper and tin. Bronze has contln
he wns ready for them.
He hnd Inquired about boats leav The uit>«n shining brilliantly lynplles 1.->1. While <nen's outer garments a rt ucd In very extensive and general use penetrates.
F R F F s' nJ ra m s and A ddress fo r l>
ing Portland harbor at tbs time »he a clear night, and this In turn meaas still made vfltb buttons and bution down to the present day. It resem
tria l tub e to P o p e I^ b o r s-
Chinese Immigrants left ths club- j a markedly lower temperature, even holes, the trend of the present is nwa, bles closely brass, which Is an alloy .ories. D esk j. H a llo w ell, Stain».
bouse, and (ouud there had been sev
to the extent of ground frost—and tt from such fastenings. Almost all w o » consisting mainly. If not exclusively,
eral freighters outward bound, two ; is this ulght cold, not the bright rays en's clothes and many men a under [ ° f copper and zinc,
for the south, three for Knrnne and of the moon, which damages the
garments are now made without oat
ous which hart celled at the port c m d
plants.
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