Th« Beaverton Review
FRIDAY, JULY 21, IMS
BELOW ZERO
A Romance of the
North\\fc>ods
“Shot r* he muttered. “Shot . . . and
. . and—”
He threw out a hand awkwardly for
“Shot!“ He Muttered. “« h ill“
support ami dragged a chair over with
him as he fell against the desk. . . ,
l*aul Gorbel was at the door, spring
ing the lock. He drew it shut behind
him. He went along the corridor and
down the steps with breath sputter
ing through set lips. . . . Inside, the
man on the floor breathed heavily, try
ing to speak, to call out, fighting
against the pain, struggling to rise:
then slumping backward to lie and
pant. But hts eyes were open and
through the low window he watched
the lighted stores across the way.
•
• • • • > •
John Belknap entered the boarding
house late for supper. He had visited,
after closing hours, with the young
cashier of the Bank of Kampfest, pav
ing the way for following up the story
of double-dealing there that Marie
had told him. Now that the break
bad come, he would push every angle
relentlessly.
As he passed through the office the
manager balled him.
“Long distance’s been tryln' to get
you all afternoon from Shoestring,”
be said. “And Nat Bradshaw was
here, lookin' for you. . . . Oh, not
oTer half-hour ago”--glancing at the
clock.
“Did Nat drive back?' John asked.
“Search me. He seemed sort of . . .
sort of glum, T guess. Didn’t visit
like he usually does.”
John stood a moment, Irresolute.
Men were coming from the dining
room. “I’ll look up and down the
street for Nat,” he said. “Likely the
call was from him.”
He walked to the corner, looked
towards the mill tad could see * team
standing tied before the Belknap A
O n r h o i n ffto o e
It was Nat’s team he saw, as he
came dose, and laid a hand on the
cheek of one horse while he scanned
the building. The windows were
blanks, reflecting only the lights from
stores across the way.
McWethy approached.
“Mac, have you se-_n Nat?” John
asked.
“No . . . that's his team, ain’t It?”
“Yse. He’s in town; was looking for
me.”
They stood, looking at passers, spec
ulating as to the sheriff's where
abouts.
Inside that darkened office Nat
Bradshaw, breathing painfully, heard
volcae drifting into his consciousness
as though a dream. He was cold. Ills
feet were numb. His bands felt life
less. The only warmth about him was
the burning spot In his breast and,
us he tried to move, a fresh spreading
warmth ran down his side.
Ha tried to call out but choked, and
his throat filled with fluid. He stran
gled and reached an uncertain ha ml
upward. The lingers found a leg of
the overturned chair and gripped
there. Ha pulled on the hand, he
shovad upward with the other elbow.
extend the eggs with crackers! To
scramble eggs, crumble 12 flake
crackers, moisten with 2/3 cup milk
and stir in 4 eggs Cook In a little
hot butter ovei modsrate flame;
stir until thick.
To make a six-servings omelet
with 4 eggs, add 3 crumbled flake
crackers and 2 tablespoons milk to
Casserole ot Steak
When A Little Must Make a Lot— >
each
egg in your omelet. Melt but
Serve a simple salad ami a fruit
Use These BuAget-BrightrnerM
ter, pour in the egg mixture and
A nameless humorist once said dessert with this economy meat dish j cook, covered, over a low flame
Panting now. the sheriff, and a that the high-necked giraffe must and your dinner is complete,
until set Creamed eggs ure a tooth-
2 lbs. round steak
bright desperation was climbing be an economical animal because
name
supper dish and if your quan
1 tfcsp. flour
he can make a little food go a long
through the dullness In hls eyes.
tity
is
small, serve them on toasted
Ik cup minced celery
One of hls hands gripped John's way! The stately circus animal does
and split shredded wheat biscuits
14 cup minced green pepper
that “just naturally” and so do
arm tightly.
or rusks for larger servings.
2 tbsps. minced onion
to
“Listen. . . . You're . . . deputy some home-makers who seem
115
flake
butter
crackers,
crum
have
an
inborn
knack
for
making
now. . . . W arrant's in my . . .
Stuffed Onions
bled
pocket. . . . Take my gun. . . . Gor something out of nothing
Only
14
cup of cooked meat is
1 cup chopped apple
But the rest of us must learn
bel sliot me when I . , told him he
needed for this:
1 tbap. butter
was under . . . under , . . Under the secrets—how to make two eggs
ti Bermuda onions
Kalt and pepper
do the work of three; how to
stand, Johnny?"
12 raltinas
“I’ve got you. Nat”—gently. Then, stretch a little dab of this and a
jl'he round steak si would be about
14 cup ground cooked meat
over hls shoulder; “OaU a doctor! smaller one of that into enough to Vi inch thick. Dredge one side of
2
tbsps. butter
Quick!"
go 'round; how to dress up yester steak in flour and brown quickly
Salt and pepper
A man snatched up the telephone on day's leftovers into something now in hot fat. Cut steak in hail and
2 cups white sauce
the desk and gave a number.
and exciting; and how to com place one pie. e in a greased cas
“Nat! You have a warrant for Cor bine economical
foods with the serole with the brown side down. j 14 cup grated cheese
Peel and panboil onions in boil
bel. You came In here to serve It and costly ones to balance the house Mix celery, green pepper, onion,
he shot you down. I've got that. Do hold budget. Not that it’s so diffi crumbled crackers and apple. Add ing salted water Drain and remove
you remember how long ago It was? cult, making two servings “grow” butter
(melted) and season to centers. Chop centers and combine
And what did he do?”
where only one grew before, l,earn taste. Spread
this mixture on with crumbled saltina biscuits (**
The brows on the suffering face your combinations—what goes with steak, in oasserole. Cover with the bout 1 cup), meat, butter (malted)
were high arched now, as the man what—keep your pantry well sup other half of steak pnd lake cov and seesorings. Fill onions with
fought for breath and strength.
plied with extenders, and soon the ered in moderate oven (37S“ F.) this mixture; place in a buttered
baking dish. Cover with medium
"Whistle tim e. . . minute or two stretching technique will be yours. 40 to 4b minutes. 6 portions.
. . . after. . . . Don’t know where
white sauce and sprinkle with
Most favored by cooks who are
he . . . went. Up to you . . . clever in these matters is the use
: cheese Bake, covered, in hot oven
Doularde Marie Antoinette
Johnny. . . . Ncv' mlhtl . . . me!"
! (450° F.) for fifteen minutes Un
When Monday's ice box reveuls cover and brown. 6 portions
“We will mind you 1 T hat’s the first of crackers aa extenders, for they
find that crackers not only reduce just a little chicken and a mere
thing we will mind, N at!"
~IW
“Doctor's coming!" McWethy whis the amount of costly food required half-beat of gravy left over from I
LOCAL
NEW
S
but
that
their
flavor
adds
to
the
Sunday
dinner,
don’t
despuir!
le
f
t
pered hoarsely. “On hls way. He was
-w
good taste of the food, Crumbled overs will vanish with this:
at the drug store."
Mr. and Mrs John Kirby ard
2 cups cooked chicken, diced
“Hear that, Nat? Doctor’a almost ] crackers make an excellent filler
children are at the beach for a
a dish; soaked in hot
2 cups chicken gravy
here! The minute he gets In I'm ' for many
[ two weeks’ vacation.
1 tsp minced onion
after Gorbel." He drew a pistol from milk they take the place of white
croquettes, pat
13 soda crackers, crumbled fine i Mr. ami Mrs. W H. Boswell, ami
llradshav.-'s pocket and deliberated a sauce in making
combined with
6 eggs
moment, kueellng there, the sheriff's ties and souffles;
| family, and Mrs. Vena Boswell of
2 tbsps. butter
head on hls knee. ”Ma~l Call the left-over vegetable« or meats they
Ontario, Ore., were dinner guests
make
flavorful
casserole
dishes,
Combine chicken and gravy and ut the home o f Mr. and Mm. At
Jail at Shoestring and teli them. Send
word up and down the line that Cor meat loaves, jellied meats. Whole onion. Turn in buttered baking plat chie Buchanan at Aloha on Tues
crackers are ideal foundations for ter and
cover with 2/3
of the day evening.
bel's wanted!"
crackers. I»ot with butter. Bake in
He saw the stares on the growing ; the creamed dishes.
Earl Evans, Mrs. Inez Whitworth,
until
group of faces about him—lncred- \ Since even in hot weather we a modera*e oven (376’ F.)
and Mrs. H. K Nelson drove to
must have some hot foo*' these re eggs «re firm 6 portions.
ulous. shocked looks.
Government camp Sunday to meet
“Nat hail a warrant for Corbel's a r cipes for main-course dishes will i
Miss Eva Whitworth, who climbed
When Eggs Are Scarce
rest on a charge of arson, for planning be of real help in putting a smile
to burn out the Richards camps." he on the face of the budget—a grin '• Serve six people witi. only four Mt. Hood Saturday night with a
explained bitterly. “And now there'll j on the faces of the diners!
eggs in the house? Certainly—just party a i the Trails' Club.
pened?"
The syes were clearing now, aa con
aclousnesa emerged from Its low ebb.
“Shot me!” Bradshaw whispered.
“Shot me . . . lung shot. . . . War
rant's In my . . . pocket, Johnny.
The stomach didn't have . , alky
In . . . I t He shot . . . ” A par
oxysm of strangling broke the words
and John wiped a crimson stain from
I ha lips.
He raised his torso slowly, breath
bubbling at the effort, until hts eyes
i were above the level of the window
sill.
They were standing there. John
Belknap and one he could not distin
guish ; standiug talking, looking up
and down the street. He tried to call
out again, but hts voice was drowned
In that stuff which made his breath
rattle.
He struggled against bis weakness
more determinedly. One liantl was
propping his body up. He let go the
chair and grasped the desk top with the
other. Fingers tipped over a heavy
Ink-well and the liquid ran down his
sleeve. He fumbled for It again, so
clumsily, so painfully.
They were going now; those two
outside were moving away . . . off
somewhere . . . leaving him, when
he needed men . . . when an officer
needed help. . . . A sort of rage
swam upward. . . . I t wasn’t like
young Johnny Belknap to walk away
from a man In a fix. . . .
The Angers had the Ink-well. He
drew the forearm up and put all the
strength he had Into the throw.
The heavy chunk of glass struck the
broud window pane; with an explosive
crash It shattered and with a rasp and
a tinkle big sections of It came slid
ing down, some of the fragments
Jingling about the sheriff as, gasping,
he sank slowly back to the rug his
he another warrant, so help me
blood had stained. . . .
On the crash, John and McWethy Heaven!"
He addressed McWethy again:
turned sharply.
“Get a team out on every road from
* ’Y gosh! Somebody busted that
w indow!” the mill foreman exclaimed. town. 'Phone every Belknap A Gor-
Instinctively, both looked across the hel camp and tell ’em to report Gorbel
street to locate the source of this If they see him. or they stand a chance
minor destruction. No one was there of taking a trip with him ! I’ll go to
who wonld have flung an object to his rooming house the minute the doc
smash the glass. A small boy ran tor comes and—”
“Here he Is!"
across the road, wallowing through
The physician was shouldering hls
the drift.
way through the group, a young man,
"Busted;" he shrilled. “Hey! Look
cool and collected In emergency.
It" ’
“Don't stop at anything, doctor!”
He had stooped, picked something
from the snow, and held I; up Just as John said. “Spend any amount that
will help In any way If this case has
John reach«! his side.
“Inkwell!" he said, and with the got you stopped. You men stand h.v
object in his hand, looked up at the to help the doctor. Then report to
McWethy. . . . I'll get bock here!“
window, brows drawn.
He was gone then, running through
A group was gathering, questioning,
the falling s d o w , around a corner and
exclaiming.
"That came from inside. Mac.” John thundering up well-swept steps.
No, Mr. Gorbel was net at bis room
said quietly. “It was thrown through
the window . . . and there was no lng house. he had not been there since
noon. Hls supper was waiting. . . .
light In there. Come along!”
Look for the woman! The phrase
McWethy at his heels, John ran up
the steps. The outer door was unlocked, was flashing through hls mind as he
but as he tried the knob to Corbel's ran along the street.
He rounded the post office corner
private office the latch resisted him.
“Corbel 7” he cried sharply. "Gorbel, and flung himself up Into the storm
house where he had stood with Marie
you In there?“
lie held hls head close to the panel Varnell and listened to her story of
as McWethy gestured for silence to Gorbel’s duplicities.
those who had followed.
He entered to confront the girl who
“Corbel!” sharply now. The silence stood on the stairs, a hand at her
In that room was ominous. "I'm com
cheek, lips parted In something like
tn rrn r
lng In unless von sneak!”
He strained against the door and
“Where’s Gorbel?” be asked sharply.
thought he henrd something like a
"My O—d, how should I know?
light, light moan.
What's happened? He came in here
"Oet back!” he said abruptly “Give like a , . . like he was craxy! He
me room!”
said everything was all off and for me
He shoved them aside, poised and to get to h—1 out of town and In
flung his shoulder hard against the stead . . . and he gave me a dirty
door. The lock gave and let him fifty dollars and said it was—”
headlong Into the darkened office.
“Steady, Mario!” John said, steady
"Somebody here!” he cried sharp himself. “I'm looking for Gorbel; I've
ly as be saw the overturned chair, the got to And him—”
figure on the floor. ’’Where’» the
“And he wouldn't listen!” she
light. . . . Somebody hurt. . . . screamed. “He gave me a louay fifty
Here!"
dollars and aald to get to b—1 out of
The room flooded as McWethy town as fast aa I could or they’d be
turned the switch.
after roe, too!” She laughed shrilly.
"*T gosh. It's Nat . . . He's hurt!" “He said I was In it, that they were—”
The mill foreman spoke shrilly.
John grasped her other nand sav
John knelt quickly beside the sheriff ; agely.
he felt a wrist, put the other hand on
(Continued Next Week)
the cold, wet forehead.
The head turn«] slightly beneath
Mr. and Mrs. James Kamrat
his band; the eyes opened stupidly,
(Doris Woodruff) and little daugh
dully.
“Nat! Nat, what happened?" John ter Nancy were visiting with Bea
cried. He leaned low as the lips verton friend* on Sunday.
worked.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Carey of
“Johnny! . . . Johnny, you came Portland, and Mr. and Mrs. T. B
. . . back?" the faintest aort of whla- j Denney attended the Oddfellows'
per
picnic at Crystal Lake Park on
“Yes, I’m here, Nat! What bap- 1 Sunday.
Christmas and New Year's at Home With the Family;
Then Round the World Is the New Deal in Cruises
C m
u s t
/M r r s x c c v s s r
Nowadays, w hen It Is a b o u t as cheap
to ( o a ro u n d th e world as I t Is to re
m ain a t bom s, th o u sa n d s o t trav sl-
RUndad people em bark upon th is
g re a te st of ssa a d v e n tu re s 8o m any
frien d s b a rs looped tb s world loop th a t
jam fasts a b it o u t of tb s p ic tu re If
SOS n s* * o t circu m n av ig ated tb s globe
a a a floating palace like th e “im p re ss
ft H .tte ln .- S3.500 io n s gross registsr.
• b le b will :sevs New T.wk Jan . 4. 1934.
an s SO.000-mlle world cruise, visiting
At so rts um I M co u n tries, o n e h u n -
desd an d th irty joyous days on tn s
larg est so d .uost b eau tifu l sh ip th a t
•seam s serosa rho flsvsn Seas! Her 'Jim
S illin g sch ed u le p erm its one to spend
C h ristm as am i Vaw Y ear’s s t hom e
R e tu rn in g aba wtU steam th ro u g h th e
(to.dan O aU . flan Francisco. April IS.
a C peas th e S ta tu s of lib e rty . New
York H arbor, slay 14.
•tell, called th e b ast Paradise.- an
motto island of I be D utch East 1 lulls».
f/vt>/o
1 aa wall as Pcunng In tb s S tra lte S e ttle
m en ts an d S am arung In Jav a, are uew
on th e itin erary . S team in g east the
g reat w hite sh ip t lilts M adeira, th e
Rock of Q lb raltar. Algiers. Monaco.
Naples w ith IU sm oking Vesuvius and
near-by Pom peii, A thens an d its Acro
polis: all th e fam ous places in th e Holy
L and: E gypt's m sny a ttra c tio n s in
clu d in g Cairo, th e S phinx and the
Pyram ids, a n d peases th ro u g h m e a n e r
C anal e n ro u te to Bombay. Delhi. Agra
an d th e T aj Mahal, m oat b eau tifu l
b u ild in g In th e world In th e forego
ing an d In w het follow» only som e oi
th e high spots of th e Itin erary arc
m en tio n ed owing to lack of »pace
S till tarin g eastw ard th e sh ip visits
Ceylon. Penang. Singapore. Bankok.
B atavia. 8am arartg and Bell The Solo
Archipelago an d M anila are n e s t: th en
Hong Kong. S h an g h ai and Peiping
C h in a: th e n Ueppu. Kobe an d Yoko
h am a. Jap an , covering th e ch ief a t
tra c tio n s of b oth co u n tries
Aloha!
Is H onolulu's welcome an d K llausa.
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i lin o s slum bering volcano, m ay sta g s i
! sp ectacu lar show for th e visitors. Thi
b eau ty sputa of San Francisco an d L a
| Angelos will ch arm everyone, th e n th<
great lin er passes th ro u g h th e Pan mm
Canal to visit Havana an d tu r n n o rth -
card to New York, d e m o n stra tin g In I
m ost sp ectacu lar an d In terestin g man
ner th a t th e earth Is rou n d , as C olum
bus declared It was.
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