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Page 3 The JACKSONVILLE MINER Friday, June 29, 1934 Tim Topples Three in Daring Display ♦ —---------------------------------- LOVE, ROMANCE WEAVE IN QUEST FOR J’VILLE GOLD I relishing drown the sound of laughter outside, and especially obliterate those moments of low- i pitched conversation in which he knew were intimacies not Intended I for his ears. Mornings, before the sun was visible over the Cascade peaks to ’ the cast. Tim and Axel would bolt l their coarse break fusts and, shoul- 1 dering heavy tools, trudge up the mountain to the portal. There they would stop to blow up a smoulder ing forge, point a few drills on the Iron block that served as an anvil, duck the drills in a tempering bar rel, light their carbide lamps and tramp back into the dark tunnel with a new burden of drills that had been sharpened on the prev ious morning. No matter how new Axel’s den im breeches might be, they never whistled when he walked into the mine tunnel. His long strides, with knees bent and bowed outward, kept the hard cloth well apart and at the same time lowered his fore head away from hanging rocks Thus Axe) always appeared to be sneaking up on something, and perhaps he was. Silent as a desert ed stamp mill regarding his own thoughts, he often betrayed his burning interest in what last night's "shot” might have re- vealed. No matter how Tim hur ried, laughing often to himself at the idea of having a race back to see the ■battered tunnel breast, Axel’s 60 hard years never weighed so heavily on his high, gaunt shoulders that he failed to somehow reach the tunnel breast first. He would be picking around in the face and debris at its foot like a mother hen when Tim strode up. For two weeks after the carni val left town. Axel had a problem on his mind that might as well have been an Euclidian nightmare "Tim, yu look for all the world 1 skin where a purple breech cloth i I joined the tan of the girl's legs, , like *Rodin’a Thinker,” said Nar- , clutched the rope with both hands i ciaaua, after a moment of gilence, until his cl i garet burned hls lipa i “only more so. Did you get hurt?" und was ■put to the ground with 1 "No, I guess not. Guess I Just a curse. don't feel very well, honey.” Tim As the dance went on the men, hadn't had time to assort his emo at first wide-eyed and inarticulate, tions, if he was capable of doing gradually passed the almost hyp so. He wasn't used to the mixed By JAMES L. NTRAIGHT notic effect of the dancer's over feelings that suddenly had come One assumes that for lack of ture and were able to exchange between him and Narcissus’ al enough Gunga Dins and Nupoieons ■nickering comments. One shouted lures. The dryness in his tone and and Marco Polos ..... Dad Time "faster, gal, faster!” Another the glint in his eyes were not must find most of hin amuaement wheezed, "Mummy!” A teamater affected consciously, They rose In contemplation of Just plain heaved a stentorian sigh and ex from wells of instinct beyond his folks. claimed, "Jesus! I'd shore want a knowledge. He only knew that I can see him now, holding a ■urislngle on that one!” somehow he was hurt worse than bubbling test tube instead of an Bo keenly aware of the wisp of thorn.- fellows at the carnival. hour glass. A bad case of palsey femininity clinging to his side, Tim His silence, attributed by Nar- keeps the concoction stirred up himself was grinning sheepishly cissus to "plain dumbness,” hur- plenty, but when in a whimsical until the teumster made his com ried the evening’s separation with mood the patriarch gives the glass ment just In front of the couple. a stiff "I'll be seeing you." an egg-beater movement, even he Narcissus must have heard, As Tim’s roadster sputtered over can't tell what's going to huppen thought Tim. Hhe was looking up the five miles of pavement leading until it's all over. at him expectantly. His breuth He purses his lips in an anxious quickened, and he laid a trap-like west from Medford to the old min frown and lowers his shaggy white grip on the teamster's right shoul ing camp of Jacksonville, and brows over the brew He sUidlcs der, almost pulling the burly fel thence two miles farther west to hls mining property and cabin, his omens and occult signs of mystic low over backward. thoughts turned somberly in the portent. Then, with a last dexter "Keep your dirty mouth shut ous flirt of the wrist and a shrill when a lady’s around," he mut direction in which he was travel "By Cracky!" he unwinds the tered through clenched teeth into ing Three years had passed since he story of Tim O'Farrel) and Nar the teamster's startled face. had taken up the driving of the cissus Deane and Molly Gould Just Jerking l<K>se, the teamster the way it all happened in the turned half around, out of Tim's narrow exploration tunnel upon quaint old mining camp of Jack grip, and shoved heavily toward old man Thorpe's death, Just after the two had crosscut a huge vein sonville. Oregon. the young prospector. A tent «take | of lowgrade gold-bearing quartz tripped him and he fell to one I Prosaically he first conjures out of his test tube a scene close to knee, suddenly burning with an deep in the mountain. Tim had fol lowed the vein for many hundred the railroad tracks in the nearby ger. feet, pounding with hls drilling city of Medford. A traveling car "Get outside, Honey,” he flung nival had brought Its smells and at Narcissus as he rushed back sledge and scanty supplies of pow color and noise to the spot for a at the teamster, who was now der to bore like a gopher along one week's stand It was eurly spring ready for him with powerful fists side of the big, promising ledge. Tim was In search of highgrade. of 1933 doubled Just in front of his belt. • • • "I didn't know they was a lady Some of the fabulously rich stuff "Oooh!" the crowd was murmur in here. Partner,” he said to Tim, for which the Jacksonville district ing, as the young prospector, Tim "but people don't shove me around is famous. He wasn't much inter ested in the big zones of $5 and O'Farrell, with one calloused hand like that ” and crowbar arm flailed with a There wasn't anything a man 36 rock he was opening up. Rec heavy, sledge like a charwoman could do about that. Tim felt, but ognized their ultimate value, yes; beating carpets, and rang the bell start swinging. His first right but nowadays a man had to have I at the top of the tall standard un hander, planned before his bound highgrade to get capital interest til some might have thought a lo out of the sawdust, missed his op ed. Especially in a district where comotive was approaching the ponent's face and in a whistling no big lowgrade producers had yet crossroads. arc bruised two bystanders who been made. Weary months that would have Tim had his left arm noncha hadn't yet turned around. Tim had lantly around the slim waist of rushed with such force that hls tried the patience of an Indian Narcissus Deane. elbow alone struck the teamster hermit had created the thousands Not until the crowd “Oooh'd" in the Jaw. but It dropped the big of drill holes which, when filled with dynamite, had helped blast a fifth time did Narcissus decide fellow like a slaughtered lamb. they had seen enough Tim turned Accounting for the teamster away fragments of the tunnel face. with a grin at the tug on his merely opened the problem. The Tim used to say his fingernails shoulder, his gray eyes meeting two whose necks had received a would grow faster than that blank her admiring gaze. heavy share of Tim's opening at wall of quartz and parphyry wore Ao auto radio—a radio for "Had enough of this?" he asked. tack were bristling with anger. away But he kept on. "Just a few your home—both In one " Oh, he had "Yea. dear Let's go see the hula Both leaped at once. One was feet farther and his dreams, alright. splendid 5-tube Superhet dancer." caught midair on Tim's hard left Down in the musty depths of "They don't allow women in fist which had logically gotten into erodyne Model, and for there, honey." action as he pivoted his weight to the mine, after a turn of the vein the price of one! In a "I know, but you can get me his right foot, and the other, a had one day bereft him of the moment you can transfer in. can't you?" She pouted beau second later, received the full im glimpse of daylight at the tunnel this easily portable radio tifully, and put her painted finger pact of the lithe giant's next right entrance. Tim had worked on with a vision of a slender, fair haired from room to room, house tips together expressively. "I’ve hand blow. always wanted to see what those Three men beaten into Insensi girl floating in the clouds of rock to car, for continuous, girls do that's worth 25 cents for bility and suffering severe con dust and damp air before his eyes. pleasinglistening-in. Plays Old Axel Hanson, long shanks a look." Narcissus laughed lightly. tusions about the head, their as from either an auto bat Narcissus never giggled, like most sailant escaping, the paper said perpetually bowed to keep his tery or any AC socket, and skull cap from scraping the tunnel girls of her 21 years She was the next day. plays well— giving the kind only daughter of Sam Deane, the Narcissus, gushing with curios roof, held the steel for Tims Medford lutpber and fruit million ity, was waiting for Tim at an eat crunching blows. Maybe 10,000 of reception you expect aire. The only real heiress between ing stand a short distance from such blows had fallen on the steel from a modern set. Sacramento and Portland Her lis the sideshow She saw him when drill while Axel steadied it and some height brought her taffy he parted the tent flaps and turned it in a strong grasp just yellow hair to Tim’s shoulder; her walked out. rubbing hls knuckles, behind his right ear, until that gowns and cars were always in and she waved to him. He walked flapping organ retained little util- the latest mode. Such a girl could rapidly over to the stand and ity. The lanky Nordic drew no regular pay. He and Tim were a n’t giggle. But she could give way said. "Let's get out of here." to a melodious, girlish laugh, as it "Oh no, Tim!” she protested, rare combination of friend and sounded to Tim. He was. as usual, "Let's wait and see some more acknowledged boss. Axel, though he scarcely went captivated to her whim. fun.” "Well, you stand at one side of Tim ■hot her a puzzled glance, to town once a month, knew about Narcissus. One noon her roadster the ticket box and then come in and was silent. Just behind me," he instructed, The two ordered sandwiches and had droned up the steep pitch to thinking, if she doesn’t see this .sat down at the counter, half the cabin and he had seen Tim show there won't be any show. turning to watch the sideshow en light up like a flash of black pow The ticket taker saw a bit of trance. Soon men were seen help der when the girl sounded her horn skirt Just a second before Tim’s ing the teamster and the others outside. If Axel approved of her. ham-like paw closed over hls face. out of the tent, all three still pale his watery blue eyes set deeply in a leathery, enigmatic countenance It was a hushing gesture certain and bleeding. to produce the desired effect. The "Tim! You hurt three of them." gave no sign. He merely bent 234 EAST MAIN finger and thumb marks showed Narcissus blanched. The sight of lower over his plate of brown beans and seemed determined to white against the carnival man's blood sickened her. tan. "Yeah I’m sorry it happened, make the noise of his spooning and Inside, twenty or thirty men now. Rut I couldn't let that fellow were Jostling about a roped rec get away with what he said.” tangle that resembled a prize "Tim, what is a surisingle?” fighting ring and, at the crash of Tim laughed drily. "It's a kind a cymbal, the dancer scampered of harness for a horse, Narcissus." in. She was young and, if not beau Tim was more silent as he drove tiful, displayed a well-rounded tor Narcissus home that night than so and tanned, smoothly muscled he ever had been on a similar op legs to the circle of observant eyes portunity for lusty flirtation. Nar Her grass skirt parted at coveted cissus, sensing that she had made intervals as she began her seduc a tactical error if she expected to tive dance, revealing more of the keep her hold on Tim O'Farrell, warm brown skin above her knees. figuratively shrugged her shoul Soon, as the notes of her accom ders and reflected that he’d be panist's melodion gained tempo, calling for the dance next Satur her art had brought the pounding day night, all right. "As if she of pulses of most of the spectators could keep him out of fights!” There were no Jocular remarks into time with her undulations. Each smooth, suggestive move that night about the wheeze and ment further whetted the nerves metallic champing with which of the mine laborers, prospectors, Tim's little roadster came to a lumbermen and nondescript trans stop at the entrance to the walk ients grouped about her. Some be that led up to the Deane mansion. trayed their rising temperatures If it were ever possible for Tim's PER YEAR with stifled exclamations and laughing, mobile features to simu heightened color. One fellow late deep meditation they were leaned a hand casually on the rope doing it now Leaving his engine line and puffed his cirgaret coolly, running in contrast to his habit of but another, completely entranced waiting for several goodnight as his starved senses drank in the kisses. Tim stolidly rested hls chin “THE SHEET THAT’S IN THE PINK” rare sight before him, hls eyes in his left hand, the elbow on the 2 RADIOS /// 1 /<,/• ONE PRICE! RCA Victor Portette Performs i for all the chance he had to solve ■ it. After two years of weekly or semi-weekly "dates," Tim had ap parently quit Narcissus cold or j else the reverse was true. Yet that didn't end the riddle. Tim had always been working for the sake of Narcissus! In the midst of the most gruelling toil. when he and Axel were wrestling a timber into place or trying des- perately for hours to stay a rock slide in the tunnel, Tim had evi dently been buoyed on by thoughts of the "Deane girl," mentioning her name in some light-hearted reminiscence Just after a sliding rock had taken most of the skin off one angle, or right while they were clipping fuses and concen tration on the task in hand might save an eye or a life from the hor rors of later driving a pick into an unexploded charge of dynamite. No Axel calculated methodical ly. there was something peculiar here. For wtth a lover’s quarrel in full blast and a spell of abject despondency or reckless rebellion clearly in order, Tim only worked the harder! Hls heavy sledge would ring on the steel over Axel's I shoulder until their rocky cubicle | roared and sparks flashed and rico-; cheted off the hewn walls in a steady stream. It was as if the young giant were trying to prove to the mocking rock his power and might; or to gut the mountain of all its mighty riches by sheer force. For three Saturday nights Tim missed the dance and then worked on Sunday. Once before, when Narcissus had failed to invite him to her birthday party, which was being attended by eastern friends, Tim had retaliated by going to the miners' dance at Jacksonville as a stag He had had two fights that night and nearly landed in jail for drunkenness. That was bad, thought Axel, but it was a worthy sign that something dif ferent was wrong now. (To be continued) A man is advertising in the Kansas City Star for an honest lawyer; but does he imagine that any lawyer would want such a fool for a client?—Weston Leader. Dr. H. P. Coleman Chiropractic - Physiotheraphy Oregon License 264 Cal.fornia License 3029 14 Years in Medford, Oregon A FREE TICKET WORLD’S FAIR TRIP! 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