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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1916)
TH E TINDER BOX” (Continued from first pag<*( mission for the series of station gar dens. I think you will probably work better after this side o f your nature Is at rest. O f course, n union with Mr. Hall would l>e ideal for you. You must consider It seriously." There are some men who are big enough to tuke a woman with a wound lu her heart and heal both It and her by their love. Richard Is one of that kind. What could any woman want more than her work and a man like that? A fte r Jane had laid her strong mind ed head on the hard pillow that I had had to have concocted out o f bats of cotton for her I laid my face against my own, made o f the soft breast feath ers o f a white Hock o f hovering hen mothers, and wept on their softness. A light was burning down In the lodge at the gate o f Wldegnbles. lie hasn’t gone back to hla room to sleep even when I have Jane’s strong mlnd- edness In the house with me. I re member that I gave my word o f honor to m yself that I wouldn’t try any o f my modem emotional experiments on him the first night I slept In this house alone, with only him over there to keep me from dying with primitive woman fright, I shall keep my word to my self and propose to Ulchnrd If my con tract with Jane nnd the five seems to call for I t In the meantime If I choose to cry myself to sleep It Is no- hody’s business. Jane hns arisen early several morn ings nnd spent an hour before break fast composing n masterly and Machia vellian letter o f invitation from the Equality league to the Inhabitants o f Glendale and the surrounding country side to nnd beyond Bolivar to attend the rally given by them In honor o f the C. and O. railroad commission on Tuesday n ext It Is to come out to day In the weekly papers o f Glendale, Bolivar, Hillsboro and Providence, and 1 ho|H‘ there will not lie so many cases o f heart failure from rage that the gloom o f many funerals will put out the light c f the rally. 1 hope no man will beat any woman In the IIari>eth valley for It. nnd If he does 1 hoj>e he will do It so neither Jane nor 1 will hear o f It. It was Aunt Augusta who thought up the Insulting and Incendiary plan o f having the rally ns an offering of hospitality from the league, and I ho|>e If Uncle Peter Is going to die over It he will not have the final explosion In my presence. Privately I si>ent a dollar nnd a half sending a night letter to Richard all about It and asking him If the commls sloners would be willing to stand for this feminist plank In the barbecue deal. He had sent me the nicest letter o f acceptance from the board when I had written the Invitation to them through him as coming from the ier- fectly ladylike feminine i>opulntlon o f Glendale, and 1 didn't like to get them Into a woman whirlwind without their own consent. I paid the boy at the telegraph ofthe $o not to talk about the matter to a human soul nnd threat ened to have him dismissed If he did, so the tsmibshell was kept In until this afternoon. Richard replied to the telegram with characteristic directness: I'ellahted to he In nt the fight. Seven o f us rabid mifTmutiits. tw o on the fence, and a half roaet pig will convert the other. Found no answer to my question In letter o f last Tuesday. Must! R IC H A R D . It was nice o f Jane to write out and get ready her bombshell nnd then go off with Polk so ns not to res It ex plode. But Pm glad she did. H ow ever. I did advise her to take a copy of It nlong with the reels and the lunch basket to read to hint ns a starter o f their day to la» devoted to the estnb- ment of a perfect friendship between down to the drugstore, wnere they keep ulce little clocks, nnd buy me the on me, only this Is more dramatic, | best one they have. Then please you j Beware!” I said with a laugh as I in sisted ou Just one squeeze o f Jane’s I white linen arm as she was climbing [ back Into the car. ■ ‘‘That’s a remarkably fine child, and she should have good, dependable, businesslike habits put In the place o f faulty and useless ones. Her profani ty will make no difference for the pres ent and can tie easily corrected. Don’t interfere with her attending to my commissions, Evelina. Let’s start, Mr. Hayes.” And Jane settled herself calmly for the spin out Providence road. “ All the hundred dollars all by her self, Jane?” I called after them. "Yes,” floated back positively In the wake o f the auto. For several hours I attended to the business o f my life In a haze o f me«li- tatlon. I f Henrietta ticks off the same number o f minutes on the woman clock from Jane's standpoint that Jane has marked off from her own moth er’s high noon Is going to strike before we are ready for it. But It was only an hour or tw o o f high minded communing with the fu ture that I got the time for before I was Involved In the whirl o f dust that swirled around the storm center to darken and throw a shadow over Glen dale about the time o f the publication o f the Glendale News, which occurs everj- Thursday near the hour o f noon, Jlaicesb. so that all the subscribers can take that enterprising sheet home to con sume while waiting for dinner and can “ N o !” w a s the sh o rt but slig h tly m o lli leave it for the women o f their fam i fied a n sw e r a s H e n rie tta dug h e r toea lies to enjoy in the afternoon. into the duet. I suspect that the digestion o f Jane's wind It up yourself and watch It all equality rally invitation Interfered with day to see If It keeps time with the the digestion o f much fried chicken, clock In your hall, and If It varies corn and sweet potatoes under the more than one minute, take It back roof trees o f the town, and I spent the and get nnother. While you are In the afternoon lu heuring results and keep drug store. If you have time, won’t ing up the spirits o f the insurgents. Caroline came In with her head so you please select me a new toothbrush nnd some nice kind o f paste that you high that she had difficulty In seeing C H A P T E R X IV . think Is good? Make them show you over her very slender and aristocratic Ja n e V e r s u s H e n rie tta . nose with a note from Lee Greenfield OW, why did I write weeks ago all they have. Pay for It out o f one which had Just come to her, asking her of the bills.” that 1 would like to witness to go with him in his ear over to Hills “ W ant any good, smelly soap?” 1 an eueouuter between Jane and Henrietta? 1 didn’t mean came out o f my trance o f absolute ad boro to spend the day with Tom Pol miration to hear Henrietta ask In the lard’s wife, a visit he knows she has It, but 1 got It! capable voice o f a secretary to a mil been dying to make for two months, Without ruffling a hair or changing lionaire. Her thin little face was Hush for she was one o f P et’s bridesmaids. color, Jane stepped out o f the auto ed with excitement and Importance, H e made casual and dastardly mention and faced the foe. Henrietta Is a tiny scrap o f a woman. Intense In a wild, and she edged tw o feet nearer the that there would be a moon to come home by, but Ignored completely the beautiful, almost hunted kind o f way. charmer. fact that Tuesday was the day on " I t would be n good thing to get nnd she Is so thin that It makes my heart ache. She Is being fairly crushed nliout a half dozen cakes, wouldn’t It?” which he had been Invited by the with the beautiful depending weight of answered Jane, with slight uncertain league, o f which lie knew she was a her mother and the resiamsiblllty o f ty In her voice, ns If leaving the de memlier, to meet nnd rally around the the twins, and somehow she Is most cision o f the matter partly to Hen C. nnd G. commission. I helped her compose the answer, pathetic. I made a motion to step be rietta. 1 and I must say we lilt I.ee only in tween her nnd Jane, but one look in “ Y'es, I believe I would,” II?nri«4ta high spots. I could see she was scared Jane’s fnoe stopped me. decided Judicially. "T h e ’New Mown to death, and so was I. but her dander “ Dear,” she said. In her rich, throaty, strong voice as she looked pleadingly Hay’ Is what Jasper got for Petunia was up, nnd I backed mine up nlong at the militant midget facing her. Sud because he hit her too hard last week side It for tbe purp°se o f stipport. Be denly I was that lonesome, homesick and swelled her eye. They Is a per sides I feel In my heart that that note freshmnn by the waters of Lake YVn- fumery that goes with it at one quar will dynamite the rocky old situation That makes it all between them Into something more bnn, with Jane's awkward young arm ter a bottle. easily handled. around me. and 1 stood aside to let cheaper.” "E xactly the thing, and we mustn’t Henrietta come Into her heritage of She had Just gone to dispatch the Jane. "D on't you want to come with spend mouey unnecessarily," Jane missive by their negro gardener when us?’’ was the soft question that follow agreed. “ But I don't want to trespass Mamie and Snllle came clucking in. ed the commanding word o f endear on your time, Henrietta, dear," she Mamie’s face wus pink and high spir added with the deference she would ited. but Snllle wns In one complete ment. “ No!” wns the Bhort hut slightly have used In speaking to the president slump o f mlud nnd body. mollified answer ns Henrietta dug her of the Nation league or the founder of (To be continued) toe* into the dust nnd began to look Hull House. fascinated. “ No, ma'am. I'm glad to do It. nnd " I ’m glad you don’t want to come be I’ll go quick ’ fore It gets any later In cause I ’ ve got some very Inqiortnnt the day for me to wntch the clock.” business to ask you to attend for me,” answered Henrietta In stately tones answered Jane In the brisk tone of that were very ’ <ke Jane's nnd which Tillamook, Ore. voice she uses In doing business with I had never heard her employ before. women, nnd whk'h Interests them In- i And before any o f the three o f us tensely by Us very novelty nnd fiat our breath her bare little feet were ters them by seeming to endow them Hashing up my front walk. with a kind o f brain they didn’ t know "H elp !” exclaim« d Polk ns he leaneil they ilosses««si. • i want you to go up back from his wheel nnd fanned him FRE E AUTO stairs amt get my pockethook. Be self with his hat ” l>o yon use the careful, for there Is over a hun«lre«l dol- 1 same methods with grown leasts that Clean rooms. Comfortable be«ls. lars In the roll «>f bills—Evelina will you do with cubs?" he added weakly. Make this vour resting place. give you the k«>y to the desk—nnd go “ It ’s the same she has always used Mrs. Romero, Manager. them. Polk didn’ t look at me even once as I helped pack them and their traps Into his auto, but Solomon In all his glory was not arrayed like Polk in his white flannels, and he and Jane made a pic ture o f perfectly blended tailored smnrtness ns they got ready for the breakaway. There are some men that acquire feminine obligations as rough cheviot does lint, and Henrietta Is one of Polk's when It comes to the fishing days. He takes her so often that she thinks Rhe owns him and all the trout In Little Hnrpetb, and she landed In the midst of the picnic with her fighting clothes on. "W h ere are you uud her going at— fishing?" she asked In a calmly con trolled voice that both o f them had heard liefore and which made us quail lu our boots and metaphorically duck our bends. “ Y'es, we—er—thought we would,” he answered with an uncertainty of voice and manner that bespoke abject fear. " I'll lie <1---- If you sballl” came the explosion, hot and loud. " I want to go fishing with you, Polk, my ownself, and she ain’t no good for nothing any way. You can’t take her!” “ Henrietta!” I both lieseeched and commanded In one breath. ” No, she ain't no good at all,” was re iterated In the stormy young voice us Henrietta caught hold of the nose of the panting auto and stood directly In the path of destruction if Polk had turned the driving wheel a hair's breadth. "Uncle Peter says that she Is er going to turn the devil loose In Glendale, so they won’t be no more whisky nnd no more babies horned and men will get they noses rublxsl lu their plates if they don’t eat the awful truek she Is er going to teach the women to cook for their husliands. Au’ the men won’t marry no more then at all, and I'll have to be a old maid like her." N The Todd Hotel Rooms 50 and 75 Cents, Special Rates by the W eek. BUS