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The JACKSONVILLE MINER
Friday, June 29, 1934
Tim Topples Three
in Daring Display
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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)
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Kansas City Star for an honest
lawyer; but does he imagine that
any lawyer would want such a fool
for a client?—Weston Leader.
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