F R ID A Y . OCTOBER 28.
The Beaverton Review
1932
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The Everlasting Whisper, By Jackson Gregory Cop,ri*Mi. NAj’'' S.rvW
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FRO M T H F B E G IN N IN G
Mark K in *. p ro«p *clor. U on kts
m ) to th « home o f Ben tfwynor.
K m # and G a > nor ahara w i t h a
«p e r x d o , 8 » i n
Brodt*» knv>wl*
« 4 r « o f a v a e t » t o r # o f hidden
avid. K i n a maata Xlra. G a y nor and
i*
tmpraaaed
by
har
dauahter
Glor ia. Ha dla lt kas a houae v U U a f
named G r a t t o n . W i t h G lo r ia , K i n a
rid«»
to
Co lo m a .
Intendin*
to
•'sound'* H o n e y c u t t . Ha finds ITro-
die there, and a n tm oa it y
flaraa.
K i n g is d r a w n c lo s e r to G lo r ia
She and her m o t h e r r e t u r n t o San
F r a n c taco. In a s p i r i t o f a d v e n t u r e
G lo r ia a c c o m p a n i e s G r a t t o n on a
" bu sin es s” t r i p
A t C o l o m a she
finds her f a t h e r b a d ly hurt.
He
g i v e s he r a m e s s a g e f o r K i n g , u r g ­
ing her to g e t It t o him at once.
G lo r ia -e a l i t a s she has c o m p r o ­
m i s ' d h e r s e l f by her Jou rney w i th
Gratton
H e p rop ose s m a r r i a g e ,
and
Gloria
apparently
accept*
him.
G r a t t a n a r r a n g e s f o r th «
m a r r i a g e K i n g , unseen by Gl or ia ,
w at ch e s t h e c e r e m o n y f r o m a w i n ­
do w. A t th e last m o m e n t th e g i r l
r ef use s
to
utter
th e
r e q u is i te
" y e s .” K i n g e n te rs and G l o r i a a p ­
pe als to him f o r pr o t e c ti o n . G r a t ­
ton. dis missed, r e v e a l s k n o w l e d g e
'f
the hidden g o l d and m a k e s
threats. K i n g , h e ar te ne d by G l o r ­
ia's a p p e a l to him. u r g e s h e r to
m a r r y him. R e a l l y In l o v e w i th
him. and s e e i n g a w a y o u t o f her
dile mma , t h e g i r l consents, G a y -
nor' s m e s s a g e r e v e a l s the lo c at io n
o f the t rea sur e, and u rg e s K i n g
to g o at on c e and se cu re It. A f t -
*r the w e d d i n g c e r e m o n y . G lo r ia
a s s e r ti n g the ne ce s si ty f o r rest
a f t e r her t r y i n g ex p e r i e n c e . K i n g
leave s he r and p r e p a r e s f o r his
trip. N e x t m o r n in g G l o r i a ins ists
on g o i n g w i t h him. On th e jo u r -
nev h»-r o v e r w r o u g h t n e r v e s g i v e
way
In h y s t e r i a , she a d m i t s to
K i n g that she m a r r ie d hi m on ly
to “ s a v e h e r na m e f r o m g o s s i p .”
K i n g , h u m ili at ed , ren o un c es her
but ref use s to take her home , d e ­
c l a r i n g he is un der p r o m i s e to her
f a t h e r to lo se no ti m e s e e k i n g the
gold. She u na bl e to And he r w a y
hom e alone, has p e r f o r c e to f o l ­
lo w him. G l o r i a 's hor se g o e s la m e
and they h a v e to a b a n d o n it. but
K i n g k e e p s on.
CHAPTER V II—Continued
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He dumped at her feet the roll from
the horse's back, senius his rifle down
against it. Then he led Buck away,
zigzagging tediously, at last passing
from sight beyond an outjutting
monster crag.
When he rejoined
Gloria she was staring off at nothing­
ness her back to him.
He lashed the two canvas rolls To­
gether. swung them up to his sboul
ders, took frying pan, coffee-pot. and
rifle In his free hand, and nodded
toward the small pack o f provisions
which had been left over from lunch.
“ Better bring those." he advised briefly.
"There's no telling what may be In the
cards.” He went on along the knife-
edge o f the ridge, down into a little
depression, up beyond. She snatched
up the parcel.
When she came up with him he had
thrown down his pack at the very edge
o f the gorge. She came to his side,
leaned forward, and looked down. Far
below plunged the wildest torrent she
had ever seen ; It looked as black as
ebony In sections o f smoother channel
and as cold as death; it spun in whirl­
pools. it filled the air with its din. And
King meant to go down to It; to cross
It; to climb the dizzy c liff upon the
further side! She knew from his look,
without asking. For Just across the
rhasm from them In the highest o f the
cliffs was the yawning black-mouthed
place o f horrors.
King went about his task method
Ically. Slowly and with difficulty h
made bis way down the steep wall ol
rocks, dragging and pulling the roll of
bedding and provisions after him. He
went up-stream ; there lay an old cedar
log so that It spanned the ”urrent. its
sturdy old trunk ten feet above the
water.
For a moment K in g disap­
peared under an out thrust le d g e ; then
she saw him again, the pack on his
shoulders. H e had climbed up to the
top o f the lo g ; he was crossing.
Where he went now she must fo llo w !
Unerringly he trod the rude bridge
underfoot, gained the other side w ith­
out mishap, tossed down his bundle,
and lowered hlmaelf from the log after
it
On he went, down-stream again,
clinging to the steep pitch o f the gorge,
until he was almost under the mouth
o f the cavern. It was a hundred feet
above him and the cllffa, from where
Gloria sat numb with the cold and
dread, looked unsurmountable.
Y et
he was going up them !
“ And where he goes you w ill follow ."
It was as though the wild waters be­
low were chanting it Into her ears.
Slowly, tediously, but with never a
Sign o f hesitation. K ing made his way
up the cliff. N or was the task the im­
possible one It looked from a distance.
There were cracks and crevices; there
were seams o f a harder material which,
better withstanding the attacks o f
time, were thrust out beyond the gen­
eral le v e l; on them a man might stand.
K ing had drawn up after him, stage
a fter stage, the roll o f bedding, using
BlAckle's tie-rope to haul It up and to
| moor It briefly.
A t leuglh he came
safely to the cave's mouth. Then hs
drew up to his feet the dangling roll;
with It In his arms he was gone Into
that yawning hole. She watted breath
lessly for his return. She saw hint
come again Into the lig h t; he had the
ro|H> In his hand, was colling It. He
began to conic down. He was return
i Ing for her.
She did not stir while he msde the
«low descent.
I am going to spend the day up
, there,'* he told her In his studied aloof
i manner. " I 'll know soon enough now
what truth there ts In the story ot
Hus Ingle's gold. There's room In th*
cave to sleep, and there's shelter o f a
sort.
Tom orrow morning, I f I Dm'
nothing. I'll start hack with you. It
you care to come up now I I I hel,
you.”
"W hat else Is there to do?“ cried
Gloria, with the first flash o f passion
"W hat else do you leave me?"
He slipped a loop o f the cope about
her waist, taking slow pains not to
touch her with his hands, and turned
downward again. She followed, tilled
with sudden fear when they had
climbed down ten feet, obeying him
hastily when he commanded her to
stand still or lo move on. feeling her
fear grow mightily as they progressed.
I.ike one moving through the fearsome
steps o f a nightmare she went on.
clinging to King's hand, his hand tight
upon hers, cold bands which tnet be­
cause they must. At last the torrent
was behind her.
It was another nightmare climbing
up the cliffs to the cave.
King o r­
dered and she obeyed. Stage by stage,
weary stages fraught with terror, she
toiled up and up and up. And so at
last, she came to King's side at the
gloomy entrance o f Uus Ingle's cave.
She crept by King with never a back­
ward glance, and threw herself face
down on the uneven floor.
been gone a long time. 8he rote to
her feet, tetnpled to follow him. But
pride restrained her and she sat down
again to watt in an attitude o f In
difference.
Hut the tnluutee dragged on. She
went a little way (n the direction he
had ta k en ; stood peering Into the
dark, llsteulng breathless and rigid.
Never a sound. She went back to the
front o f the cave, looking down, staring
out Into the gray sky, across the
ridge. . . .
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•
•
•
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•
Gloria, trembling with a new excite­
ment, was down on her Vuees before
he pack when King returned.
She
prang up to face hi in. Gloria was ex
ted; King's excitement was no less.
Vbers she had at leust the clew to hla
'cred expression, he had none to
ei Si
'It's h e re !" he hurst out. “ And I've
mud it. Tons and tons o f It. such
knob« and nuggets o f pare gold as
CHAPTER VIII
King looked at his w atch ; not yet
eleven o'clock.
Need for haste; the
day would be short. Here was one o f
, Gus Ingle's caves; another, he knew,
was directly below and at the base o f
the c'llff; the third should he near. He
j recalled the words in the old B ible:
"M 'e come to the First Calve and then
we conte to Calve number tore and
tw o "! There lay significance In the
order o f Ingle's numerals; first, three,
and two. T w o o f the caves were for
anyone to see; before now King had
been In both o f them. Hence It must
he that Gus Ingle's treasure lay In the
third. That one King must locate.
la k ln g Ills rope with him King made
what haste he could going down the
1 cliffs. He gathered as heavy a load o f
dry branches as he could handle,
j hound them about with his rope, and
l clambered again to the upper cave,
i Gloria had not stirred.
He moved
about her. went a dozen paces deeper
into the great cavern, and th re' down
his wood.
Breaking branches Into
short length he quickly got a fire go­
ing. He brought the heddlng-roll closer
and opened It into a rough and ready
bed. Then he called to Gloria.
“ Tou'd better lie here by the fire,"
lie told her. “ You're apt to catch cold
there.”
She rose listlessly and came fo r­
ward. dropping down Into a sitting posi­
tion u [ h > ii the blankets, her chilled
hands ont toward the blaze.
" I don't like the look o f this storm.”
be told her. “ It Is up to us to hurry.
I am going to look around now.”
“ You are going to leave me here?"
“ I won't be far.” W ith that he set
fire to a dry pine fagot, the best torch
available, and left her, going deeper
Into the cave. She sat, tense and still,
listening, trying to probe with tired
eyes through the dark.
Then it seemed to her that he had
She Came to King's Side at the
Qlcomy Entrance of Gus Ingls's
Cavs.
never man laid eyes on ! W e have old
Ben made whole and full o f power
again.”
She saw that In each hand he car
ried wltut looked like u big rough
stone; she saw from the wuy he car
rled them thnt they were heavy. The
fires leaped higher, brighter In her
eyes. Now she saw the way to make
Mark King pay fur all o f tils brutality
to her; to pay to the uttermost I
"1 have nothing to say to you." she
said as stiffly as she knew the way.
“ I enre to hear nothing you have to
sny. I have tolerated all that I menu
to tolerate from you.”
Her liearlng, no less than her words
astonished him.
He stared at het
wunderlngly.
" I don't understand— “
Gloria treated him to cool langhter.
“ You will In a minute. I ant going.'*
“ Going?
You?
In God's name,
w here?"
Deep silence answered him.
He
frowned at her In puzzled fashion a
moment; then, suspecting the troth, he
dropped to the fireside the tilings In
his hands and went sw iftly to the
cave's mouth.
Then he saw. For a long time he
stood, studying It. seeking to make
sure.
It was a column o f smoke.
Some one hud encamped no great dis­
tance a w a y ; on the same stream.
Some one.
Why, then. Gratton and
Iirodie anil their crowd. He glowered
angrily toward the faint smudge o f
smoke.
Then he swung about and
came back to G loria’s side.
“ You saw that smoke?“ he de­
manded. "Y ou plan on going to them?
You know who they are?”
“ N o ; hut that doesn't mutter.”
“ Do you know," be asked, “ that
Biblical Passage That Has Puzzled Scholars
Gog and Magog (pronounced “ may-
go g") are used rather obscurely in the
Scriptures. In I Chronicles 5:4 Gog
Is mentioned as the son o f Shenialah
in the line o f Reuben, and In Genesis
10:2 Magog la referred to as the son
o f Japheth and a brother o f Meahech
and T u b a l; hut In Kzeklet 38 and 30
Gog appears as the cnlef prince o f
Mpshech and Tubal, which Is also
called the land o f Magog. The prophet
foretold that Gog o f the land o f M a­
gog would be defeated and five-sixths
o f his army destroyed when he came
"up from the north parts” and Invaded
“ the mountains o f Israel.” Here It la
clear that Gog and Magog are the
names respectively o f a king uml hi*
»opposed kingdom, hut the passages
contain only vague and uncertain In­
dications us to the Identity o f the rul­
er and the location o f his realm. In
Revelation 20:8-10 Gog and Mngog are
linked together ns I f they were both
pe rsons and they seein to symbolize all
future enemies o f the kingdom of God,
par'lculurly the hostile powers which
are to manifest themselves In the
world Immediately before the end o f
things.— Pathfinder Magazine.
I f you would he friendless be frank.
they are probably Gratton nud flwsu
Hrodls and their »otflt?
You know
that Gratton has sal out to ruin your
father?
That h e « a douhladsaltng
scoundrel?
That Hrodle Is worse?
Thnt neither Is hardly the sort for a
girl to trust herself to In s place like
this?”
“ I stn not given much choice.”
'T h a t's a fact," he conceded wllti s
grunt.
Klug made his decision. Shs wan
after all, Ben Gsynor's daughter snd.
furthermore, the apple o f Hen's eyw
She was In King's keeidng; he uad
been eminently to blame for hrlngiug
her here, his was the responsibility.
“ You are not going.” Its said sud­
denly. turning upon her. “ I won't al­
low you to put yourself In Oration's
or Brodle's dirty hands.”
A qulek light was In her eyes, *
qulek *purt of satisfaction In her hear*
In King's deelslon she rend (he sssur
slice that he was still madly In lo\
with her. that now hla Jealousy stlrre
him.
“ Stand aside, please." she coumnni
ed. “ I am going. I tell you.”
When she entne to his side and h
did not stir, she sought to brush h\
him. There was no hesitation lu the
way In which hr put out Ills hand ai d
held her hack.
“ There can be only one enptaln to
an expedition In adventure.” he told
her seriously. “ 1 hnvr been elected
to the h>h. Yon are not going to de­
sert ship.”
-By what right do you Issue orders
to me?” she cried.
"L e t us suy.” he returned In th«
coin o f her own harshness, “ by ihe old
right o f a husband. I f that Isn't aulh
dent you ran add lo I t ; by the time
honored right o f ihe lord and master!
W all a minute." he added sternly, sv
he saw her lips opening lo a rush ot
words. “ I would he glad to have you
go were conditions less cxm-llng .Non
1 have thought matters over and It sp
pears essential that certain o f our
marriage vows fa- remembered.
»'or
my tMirt. I fully Intend to keep my oh
ligation o f protecting you against your
own foolishness, Ihe slorni, Gratton.
Hrodle. and Ihe devil himself.
And.
finally. .I mc«n to keep my promise lo
your father."
Gloria tried to stare lilm down, to
wither him with the fire o f her scorn
to brine by lilm.
But the man, all
emotion having receded from Ills eyes,
was once more like so inurh rock, hu*
rock endow ed with dormant power of
aggression.
Du the Instant II be­
came clear lo her that physically King
was Ihe master. So. for Ihe first nine,
she began a certain logical line ot
thought, seeking In *hn|>e her oven
pinna.
“ Please listen to me seriously.” King
said quietly lo her. “ 1 won't talk long
lu you. Here's Ihe |M>ln|; this Is tress
n rc tro v e ; we go| here first. II Is up
lo us in hold It. Gull I roitni on you
sticking on Ihe Job, your father's and
your own Job ns much ns mine, until
we make a go o f it?”
Gloria's spile was lively and biller.
In her distorted vision, blurred by pa*
stnnale anger, she cried out quickly:
"So, now Dial Ihe odds are ugnlnst
you. you come cringing lo me, do you?"
Again she was misled Into fancying
that she held a whip hand over him.
"Answering your question, I would
trusi Mr. Gralton any duy rather than
you.
lie. at least. Is not quite the
brute and bully Hint you are.”
Klng was hardly disappointed.
“ At least you have given a straight
answer," he muttered. 'T h a t I* some
thing."
Now he shaped Id* plans sw iftly and
carefully, knowing where she stood
Henceforth he would merely consider
her his chief handicap, with him but
ngulnst him.
King stood at the cave's mouth,
frowning
Into
Ihe ever llih kenlng
smother o f the storm. It struck him
clearly and forcefully that he had hut
one thing lo do; to trust that Ills ene­
mies did not have such full Informa­
tion as had fallen Into Ills hand* and
to see to II (lint he gave them no help.
First he would bring with him all ihnf
he could manage to carry with the resf
o f his necessary load. Enough lo help
Ben Gaynor over a cris is ; enough raw
gold to slam down before some San
Francisco capitalist, together Willi a
tale which would make any man eager
to slake the owner lo wliut loan he
asked, lie would get provisions, snow-
shoes, a dog team, If necessary, a
couple o f trusted men to come with
him ; he would be buck here within
the week. Hut first, before he weld,
he would strive to make as sure ns a
man could that P. " '* crowd d'd not
find the golden I
(TO UK
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LOCAL NEWS
turea on food ami health.
Mrs.
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Amly
Tkmmer
is on
the
sick Hat.
Mrs. W C. Me Kell emU-rUlned |
Ililtahoro Grange was host to the
the Tuesday Bruì»*
Huh ut her
Washington Pomona Grange
W ed­
home Tuesday, Mrs. Ruby W. Roy.t
nesday. October 2fl, at
th* ir new
was a special truest and also won
hall. Election o f the Pomona offi­
th«- high honor».
cers was one o f the features of the
N. A.
IVters
Is enjoying
the day. Mr.
Jamea Mott
was ihe
convenience o f a new Kalamazoo j principal speaker.
water system
Installed last week
Mias Helen Dennis ami Mr. Phil­
hy the Richey Hardware ami tur-
ip Petrvquln both of Portland, ware
mturo Company.
united In imarrisge at the homo of
Mr. and Mrs. T .
B. Denney the bride's mother in Portland, F ri­
attended the lecture« given by l»r. day evening. October 21. Mr, ami
o f Beaverton
Rragg. editor-h»-ohlef of the Physi­ Mrs. L. W. Turker
cal Culture Magazine, m Portland
last week at the Masonic Temple,
Dr. I l r ^ g gave a aeries o f lee-
were among the guests.
Mr. and
Mrs. Petrequln will make
tneit
home in Portland.
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