SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Friday, September 19, 1941
Not That
“Whut do you mean by telling
people that I win deaf and
dumb?”
”1 didn't nay deaf.”
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INSTALLMENT EIGHT—The Story So Far
Kathleen Msculre goes to a dance
with Gena Maya, wealthy scamp, whom
aha does not like, because aha la Irri
tated for many reasons. Mrs Newsum
wants Jaird. her son. to marry Connie
Maya, though he is In love and en
gaged to Shtrley. Kathleen's sister. Tom.
her brother, and hit wife. Mary Etta,
are talking of Reno, since the drprr«
elon has made him dependent on her
earnings as secretary.
Her brother.
Alec, who can't find a job. la taking up
with a flashy divorcee, years older than
he. And Rttchle Graham, a stranger tn
•
e e
town, kissed her after flxlng a flat for
her
He la a newspaper man too. At
the dance she sees Alec, who tells h.r
that tor a joke he made a phony date
with poor Lou Knight, the town drunk's
daughter.
Kathleen makes him keep
the date. He takes her to a show.
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The W ill and the Way
“John,” said the young mother,
“I've decided on u name for baby.
We will cal! her Imogen.”
John win lout in thought for n
few minutea. He did not like the
name, but if he opposed it hia
wife would have her own way.
"Thnt's nice,” he aaid present
ly.
"My first sweetheart was
named Imogen, and she'll take it
■s a compliment."
“We will i .ill her Mary, after
nly mother," was the stem reply.
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llravy duly
Mulura. «Bela
parti,
botili*. Urea. I io I m I n mid iiurd truck«
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lutti 4 X 1C Hawthorn«
Portland, Or«.
CHAPTER X—Continued
pranks But Shirley knew that Con heaviness lay between them like a
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
blight. It had not been present
<>se
Alec had a healthy fear of ridicule nie was neither a child nor innocent
first radiant months of their eng.ige- (Consolidated Features WNU Service.)
because he was awfully good at it But did Jaird know or care?
It was enough to turn any man's ment. Shirley had been able to talk
himself. He made plenty of sport
EW YORK,—From somewhere
of other people and he imagined they head, the way Connie had been pur to Jaird then—about anything. More
deep in Sybil’s Cave in Wash
IH HJ l.'llt Y AND KAIIIHTH WANTED.
were always looking for a chance to suing Jaird for months. It did not intimately than she had ever talked ington comes the whisper that the
Good whit, try.r rabbit akin. Il 10
seem
possible
that
she
could
have
to
another
person.
Against
his
i»cr 111 Writs im.ti'urd fur |»rl<-** and
return the compliment If be caught
government has secretly called
Informai Ion
Kuby * Co.. S3Ö M W.
a pal in a comic position, he rode the gone on and on without a fraction breast, her lips on his. her reticence M ’ V JI
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• ta
Hcr'
Front Fortland. Or..
life out of him. He knew that by of encouragement on his part And had vanished. But somewhere in the Maj.t ardleyAgain bertO. Yard-
morning everybody in town would yet Shirley suspected that where past year they had receded from Assaying Foreign ley. Its cryp-
have heard about his new girl friend Connie Mays was concerned, any each other. A curtain dropped be Broadcaot, H.re? “c cryp‘o‘
and he had a good idea of the kind thing was possible. It was certain, tween. Even their kisses were no
Worthy Life
g r a mmer.
of hurrah he was in for. But he however, that others by no means longer sweet, but bitter, Terribly forgiven his indiscretion in publish
Boll D*v*lop*d and Two Frinii fro
bitter with denial.
had no comeback. That was what gave Jaird the benefit of the doubt.
■ *ch Ouud M.gatlv.
ing “The Black Chamber” n dec
The law of worthy life Is funda
The wide front porch of the Ma- ade ago and set him to work again mentally tlie law of strife. It is
hurt. He would just have to take it For weeks Shirley's friends had
and like it The girl beside him been going out of their way to be guire house was dark behind its tan plucking diplomatic and espionage only through labor, painful effort,
WB8TIBN PHOTO OOMPANT
said nothing at alL She sat as far sweet to her. And she knew what gle of wistaria and climbing roses. secrets from the air.
PortluLd Ore.
by griin energy and resolute cour- koi w «aea
away as possible, buddled in her that meant. They believed Jaird in It was not late. But nothing stirred.
nge, that we move on to better I PRINTS ANI> TWO KN I.A ICG£-
This
is
highly
interesting
in
view
seat, her eyes fastened on the tended to jilt her for Connie Mays. Jaird caught Shirley into his arms. of Major Yardley’s frequent predic things.—Theodore Roosevelt.
MKNTH 26o—Made by Portland'» lurg-
After all. thought Shirley with a Lately his caresses were always a
•at retail kodak flnlaher
HrtllefiM'-
screen.
But the small hands
tions
that
the
state
department
tlon guaranteed
Quality Picture Co.
clenched in her lap were white at bitterness that dismayed her. Jaird little savage. As if he resented them would have to set up new listening
Boi W3S73. Portland, Oregon.
the knuckles and Alec had an idea could not be blamed if he yielded because they never came to any posts, and carry on where he left
she didn't see any more of the pic to the inevitable. Eugene Mays' son- thing. Even his lips had lost the off, in the event of war or even
in-law would not long remain in the shy tenderness with which they had
ture than he did.
the threat of war.
Butch Henderson and Henny Bax ranks of the unemployed. Once mar once kissed her. They were fever
ried
to
Connie.
Jaird's
economic
Major Yardley was ao expert
ish.
almost
cruel.
More
desperate
ter, a couple of pool-room cowboys
837 B. ■- BBOADVAY
as a decoder that, knowing no
A
whom Alec wouldn’t have introduced problems would dissolve like mist than anything. Shirley's lovely slen
POBTLAMD, OB1OON
in
the
blaze
of
his
wife's
powerful
Japanese, he eould catch Japa
der body quivered. Her heart beat
to his sisters, but with whom he
Tli« Northwest'■ (ildml *n(l hiramt
nese double-talk on the air. and
trad» achool
Writ«» I’«-pl 7 f<r free
sometimes shot a few craps when family connections. Of course if a devil's tattoo in her ears.
literature |>|eHr|, IHrstel electric, auto
de-code it. When Henry L. Stim
“Shirley!” he cried in a thick un
he had nothing else to do, came in Jaird chose Connie as a way out, he
body and fender. shipyard welding
son was secretary of state he
and sat down directly behind him. lost Shirley. But did that any long natural voice. “It's hell to have you
and general ahret
nietnl
Ad<’o* a
HENRY MILL
er mean a loss to him?"
biller
tl.lining gel* I
I Job«.
didn't
like
cither
espionage
or
like
this
and
then
let
you
go."
Occasionally one of them sniggered
I<arn living ri|hii»r” while» learning
a erra* way
"What's become of Janet’s friend
counter-espionage and thought
"I know,” she whispered.
and the back of Alec's neck felt
Special defined tuition plan.
Writ*
for sniffy writinô .
who had such a crush on you earlier
no decent nation should have
“We never do anything any more
!»ept. 7 today
scalded. They hung around outside
HE INVENTED THE
in the evening, Shirley?” asked Bob but drive each other mad. Wanting
anything to do with it.
the theater when the show was over
FIRST TynWR/TFR.
what we can't have,” he groaned.
to hand Alec a discreet raspberry. when the music ended.
Hence, Major Yardley’s secret
IN 1714
“What always happens when a
She shivered. It was true. To be
They weren’t even very discreet
Good biialn«»*
All new equipment.
new man looks at Shirley!" ex together only aroused everything In j “Black Chamber” in New York.
about it Had Lou noticed? Alec
In faat growing Hou« h western town.
claimed Nell Cotter with indigna them which they dared not release. which must have been something
Helling account of lllnma
C m ah nr
glanced at her sidewise. Her little
like the lair of Caglistro, was sum
tion. “Somebody told him she was
term« to dependable party
MIhlred
“Shirley, we can’t go on like this.” marily closed and the major was
pointed face was very white, but
Bovey,
Bsnplre,
Oregon.
engaged.
And
that
was
that.
”
He was putting into words the fired. Then he wrote his book and
ahe stared straight ahead.
tlHix d KY
Drive In market, arrisa
Jaird had come up behind them. thing she had shrunk from saying.
It is an unwritten law in small
station. Living urta, larga business
its repercussions were such that
He flushed darkly.
"I
want
you.
Shirley.
All
of
you!
tn
the
heart
of thia gr< wing alum
towns that a fellow asks a girl to
“That's what Mother means when Or nothing. Shirley, darling!" whis congress passed a law against his
inum ranter
Inventors IIM9 F o.
have a drink after he’s taken her to
writing any more of the same kind.
Bus 737, Longview, Wash.
a movie. But Alec just did not she says long engagements are un- pered Jaird.
In this book, he included de
iis - ackk kaum . * o ci . kahkd .
It was not the first time they had
believe he could walk into Hender
Modern huiinr
Frank
Oliphant.
coded messages showing how
stood on the edge of an abyss, he
son's Drug Store and sit at a table
307 f. Bth Art« Olympia. Wash.
THE SETTER WAS 1b 1REAT
Japan had been giving thia coun
couldn’t lose Jaird. She couldn't go
with Lou Knight while the village
cotsnsmoM out to lay of
try the grand run-around during
FA KM Foil HALE About 100 Acre*,
on without him. thought Shirley with
comedians lined up on stools at the
luirs* house and barn and out
pmeta "Mie in the orr 6 to
the Washington arms confer
a sob. Unconsciously her defenses
soda fountain and exercised their
buildings.
City water and aewer
CORRECT THE CAU5Ì OF THE
ence.
It
almost
caused
a
cabi
system,
and oiled elreele on three
crumbled.
She
felt
herself
being
wit at his expense. So he marched
THOUStE WITH A (KUCIOUS
«Idea of farm
Two block* fr.tn
net crisis in Japan and made
washed out on the turgid sea from
her home straight as he could go.
waterfront
For price and term*
CEREAL, KEU0C4S /
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our state department reach for
which there is no returning. Only
trying desperately to make conver
write
to
F.
W.
Krueger.
Coupeville.
AU.-MAU... EAT /
*
Its smelling salts.
Weahlagton
suddenly Shirley thought of Laura.
sation to which she answered only
Laura, who would never condemn,
In choked, frightened monosyllables.
Herbert O. Yardley, a native of
11 :« a grafted Er a nq urit•• Halnuta.
thia
but whose heart would break.
L V* W
full bcurlntf. big crop
. again
_
It was just midnight of a warm
Washington, in his youth a tele
thia for
year, will subdivide
May night On Main Street a good
"You'll have to go, Jaird," said graph operator for the war depart
—J to /.I
Invmtmont and 14« fill no return«
deal was still stirring. But down
Shirley and pushed his arms away. ment, became a code expert and
Tarma.
Frad A. Burner. Carlton.
Oragoa.
near the shops the streets were illy
He went without a word. Almost was transferred to the cryptograph
lighted and almost deserted. It was
as if furies were at his heels. Poor ic bureau just before our entrance
Nuggralloa
No Duplicate
the longest ten blocks Alec ever tra
Jaird. who had never dreamed he Into the first World war.
Private—I say. sergeant, this
"Couldn’t you care for a chap liks
versed. He could have shouted when
might live to see the day when his
meat's
as
tough
as
leather
and
the
Whether it's nice or not. the exi
me?"
the ordeal ended at the foot of the
love was a threat and a disaster, '
knife's blunt.
“Yes; if he wasn't too much Ilka
both to his own and Shirley's souls, ! gencies of the time are such that
steep staircase that went up to Lou's
Sergeant—Then why don't you
the newly organized foreign broad
you.”
sorry home. Only all at once his
strop
the
knife
on
the
meat,
m
’
lad?
cast monitoring service Is now work
elation collapsed. What on earth
CHAPTER Xn
ing a 24-hour shift, assaying abou'
was he going to say to the poor kid?
900,000 words of daily foreign broad
"It Was nice of you to go out
Tom Maguire glanced at his watch
casts.
with me,” he stammered. She was
and
groaned.
It
was
ten
minutes
to
f i > 1
staring at him with big miserable
r ’ > 1
two. His head ached. The Coal
eyes and her under-lip quivered. He
Scuttle, the city's newest tavern,
OWN in the valley he heard
didn't want to lie but it seemed kind
was crowded to its rococo doors, the
train blow. So the farm
er than to let her down flat. “Maybe
air heavy with stale cigar smoke, in the North Carolina mount
The demand it for competent, wcll*train«d young women
we'll do it again some day."
the tables littered with cigarette hung up his hoe and followed th<
with health, ambition and agreeable peraonahttes.
His heart sank as he realized that
ashes, dreggy glasses and dead bot
white plumi
she was crying. Very softly. As
tles. There had been many speeches. Old Squirrel Gun of smoke t<
You can afford the beat training available.
shyly as she did everything else.
The same old hooey, thought Tom. Taught Tycoon to fame ant
“Somebody told him she was
“You don’t have to pretend so as
Bombastic flowery eloquence, prais Draw Sharp Bead fortune
Time NOW it your most preclout Investment.
engaged.”
not to hurt my feelings," she said
ing the new Highway Commissioner,
Yount
in a little smothered voice. "I know
to which he had replied with the Thomas A. Morgan’s muzzle-loading
Inquire about the opportunities awaiting you In Reauty
you won't ask me again. Because fair,” he said when he and Shirley usual inanities. And running the squirrel gun was an instrument ol
Culture.
were
dancing
a
little
later.
I’ve just bored you. Ever since you
whole show although he kept in the precision compared to the best art!
Doubts stabbed her. Was Jaird background, was Harvey Cobb
called this afternoon I’ve tried to
flee of economics and business al
think of things to say. Interesting hinting that he agreed with his Leigh.
a time like this. It taught the fu
mother?
things so you'd want to come back.
With tired embittered eyes Tom ture president of the Sperry corpo
"I guess you'll be a withered old studied his wife’s employer. Leigh
But I couldn’t. Say anything, I
ration to draw a sharp bead on what
maid before I can afford to marry was in his early fifties, a short
mean."
ever he was shooting at and in Lin-
you,
Shirley.
”
he
went
on
and
his
Alec stared at her dumbly.
paunchy man with a smooth un coin's phrase, never to “shoot at a
209 Union Street
Seattle, Wash.
voice rasped. “God knows. I'd think lined face and small bullet eyes un
"You see," whispered Lou Knight,
louse on his own eyebrow.”
you
’
d
hate
me
for
the
fiasco
I
’
ve
“nothing as lovely as this has ever
der sleepy eyelids. But he was not
So, today, hi* target Is post
happened to me before and I guess made. After I promised you every sleepy. He was a human dynamo
thing. If I were half a man I'd as Mary Etta often boasted. He
war solvency. With all the rush
it never will again."
of defense orders and plant ex
Alec Maguire swallowed hard but set you free for some other man never tired or took his hand off the
pansion there Is each day some
he could not speak. And after a who can afford a wife."
throttle. Tom sighed. Mary Etta
She wished that she could read his sat at her employer’s left, the wife
thing in the kilty for what may
minute she went on, so low he could
mind. He might mean exactly what of the guest of honor at his right, a
come hereafter. For the first
barely distinguish the words.
half of this year, >433.316 ha*
"I’ve always thought you were he said. Or he might be offering pudgy lady who looked as if she
gone into this “cushioning”
wonderful. At school I used to watch her a graceful exit. Hoping she'd wished she were at home in bed.
break their engagement and set
fund. The margin for error in
you although you never noticed me.
But apparently Mary Etta was as
them both free to find happiness fresh as she had been three hours
*uch computation* probably
You were always taking prizes. And
elsewhere since together they had earlier. Tom knew that she had not
is greater than that of a Sperry
every time you did, I felt as proud
bomb
- sight, but whatever n
as if it had happened to me. And reached an impasse.
missed a trick in the evening’s prog
“You’re so beautiful, Shirley," ress. That was what made her in
skilled preciaionist may do Is
you’re the only person who ever did
1taring Down Goat Posts
being done.
anything about Pop when kids treat groaned Jaird. “And so sweet. And valuable. She had a stenographic
by anthusiastic sptc tutors tt
ed him mean. I could have kissed you're wasting the best years of memory which on such occasions as
At 16, Thomas A. Morgan fetched
football ¡amts btgan about
your
life
waiting
for
a
guy
who
can
’
t
the ground you walked on for that.
these did not require a notebook, i up in the navy, was quickly en-
1876 whan ttarns wtrt rtduttd
But I never thought you’d ask me even buy you a sack of peanuts un The next day when she filed her ! grossed with the magic whirligig of
from 25 to tt mtn and tht
for a date. Not really. I used to less his father doles out the nickel." memoranda, nothing would be miss a Sperry gyroscope and was there
¡amt
btgan to btcomt a popu
She
wanted
dreadfully
to
tell
him
dream sometimes that you would.
ing that might later be required. No by steered into his manifest destiny.
lar sptetator sport.
Dreams help when you haven't any that she would wait forever if he wonder Harvey Cobb Leigh depend
His skill with the gyroscope
KINO EDWARD CIGARS
thing else. Only I always knew any wanted her to. Only she wasn’t sure ed on her and paid her a commen
brought
him in touch with its in-
he
wanted
anything
of
the
kind.
So
arouse similar enthusiasm in smokers
body as marvelous as you could nev
surate amount.
I I ventor, Elmer A. Sperry, and his
she couldn’t say it Not when possi
er bother about me."
who appreciate the mild, mellow
Tom stared at the cigarette which
Alec felt as if someone was pour bly he hoped she would say some he had lit from the butt of an career as a maker of precision in
qualities of the nation's moat popular
struments—the need for which is al
thing quite different.
ing salt on a fresh wound in his side.
cigar. Try King Edward today
other. He hated all the loud talk.
“Maybe things will change,” mur It made him want to chew his finger ways in inverse ratio to the stability
“I’m not marvelous, Lou,” he said
mured Shirley, which might mean nails. It was just so much eyewash, and precision in the affairs of men.
humbly.
It wasn't all smooth sailing.
"You are to me,” she whispered anything or nothing.
as he very well knew. And at the
"Maybe so," agreed Jaird and back of his brain a hammer
During the World war, the czar’s
and fled up the stairs.
navy was ducking and dodging
went off to dance with Connie Mays. pounded.
and hiding in the mists. Mr.
And the old dreary treadmill set
CHAPTER XI
The rent was due- tomorrow and
up its merciless hammering in Shir he could not pay it
Morgan chased it here and there
and everywhere, to sell it gyro
Shirley Maguire, dancing with Bob ley’s heart. Was Jaird tired of go
Until now—thanks to the nest egg
scopes, caught up with it and
Baird, did not look at Jaird. Never ing around in circles never getting which he had accumulated in more
rang up a sale. It was an epic
once did her eyes turn in his direc anywhere? The way he and Shir prosperous times toward buying his
of American salesmanship.
tion. But she was really conscious ley had been doing for years.
own business—Tom had been able at
Both of them were silent on their least to pay for sheer necessities
•f nothing except Jaird with Connie
Mr. Morgan became president of
Mays in his arms. Connie’s face way home in Jaird's coupe which like rent and food. But the past the Sperry corporation in 1928.
lifted devouringly to his while her his mother had given him on his year, when his earnings had dropped Shortly thereafter he became an em
The merchant who advertises must treat
green eyes said shameless things last birthday. It was not new for to an appalling low, had wiped out inent patron of aviation and soon
you
better than the merchant who does
them
to
have
nothing
to
say
to
each
and her pouting scarlet mouth prom
his savings at a rate that left him was caught up in a swirl of insti
other. Nowadays they were never hanging on the ropes, dizzy for tutes, chambers, boards, funds,
ised even more.
not. He must treat you as though you
gay when they were together. A breath.
The girl was perfectly brazen.
councils and societies—the inescap
were the most influential person in town.
Why not? She was the daughter of
"Thank God!” he muttered when able fate of eminence and intelli
Eugene Mays and all her life she
As a matter of cold fact you are. You
at last people began to push back gence in America. If the chariot
had done exactly as she pleased.
of progress needs anything new on
from soiled and disorderly tables.
hold the destiny of his business in your
Like her brother, Connie was about
Mary Ette gave him a stiletto its dashboard, he and his company
hands.
He knows it. He shows it. And you
as subtle as a battering ram. She
glance. "You needn't make it quite can be relied upon to figure it out
did outrageous things and the town
so obvious that you’ve been bored and install It overnight. Mr. Mor
benefit by good service, by courteous treat-
smiled indulgently. People like Bella
to death," she said out the corner gan had but 10 months of schooling
ment.by good value—and by lower prices.
Newsum said Connie was just a
behind him when he broke home
of her mouth.
high-spirited child, full at innocent
ties to join the navy.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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