SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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Fr iday, October 3, 1941
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
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CHAPTER XIV
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(•sed to Jaird Newsum. aloe out of
work atnee his father closed up hta fac
tory to ston. losses. and whoao mar
riage la thua delayed. Kathleen, tn whom
a stranger. Ritchie Graham, also a
newspaper man. ia Interested. Ma New-
sum wants Jatrd to marry Connie Mays,
the banker's daughter. Tom wants Mary
Ftta to move to the small town where
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to ear. She may be poor, and I
grant you she's no scream for looks.
But she's a lady, which is some
thing you would know nothing
about"
"Dear, dear," jeered Henry Bax
ter. "the gal must carry a wallop
like a mule. She don't look torrid.
But then I never took her home aft
er midnight. If she's that potent
maybe I'll cultivate her myself.”
Alec got to his feet deliberately.
“All right," he said, "you asked for
it”
His right fist flailed out. He put
into it a great deal of concentrated
venom. Henny ducked with the blow,
sliding half under the fountain for
protection. From his barrage he
yelped for mercy in a shrill falsetto
that wasn’t so funny as he meant it
to be.
“I'll eat them words. Cheest can't
you take a joke, feller? If you say
so, the gal's a calls lily. Far be it
from me to insinuate anything else.”
"See that you don't." "growled
Alec.
Suddenly be felt better. As if he
bad released a lot of accumulated
bile. He felt almost blithe, in fact
Maybe he had made a fool of him-
self. He realized he would have
been wiser to take the razzing with
a grin. When the gang found a
sore spot they romped on it If he
Kathleen was aware that Ritchie
Graham had resented her little
speech.
Long after Mike disap
peared Into his private office Kath
leen felt Ritchie's gray eyes study
ing her. His desk was next to her
ewn.
’"You needn’t sit there and say
I'm a nasty little beast,** she flared
at last, although he had said noth
ing. “Of course you think Dad de
serves a medal for spitting in the
bull dog's face.*!
“Don't you?"
"It would be different if it cost
him anything to put the whole town's
interests before his own.
But it
doesn't You see, he wouldn't really
mind if this landed him higher than
a cocked hat. It's the old fight he
loves, and the more he stands to
lose, the better he likes it”
Ritchie Graham surveyed her
steadily.
And Kathleen's clear
cheeks burned under his level and
unflattering scrutiny.
"You'd rather he'd kowtow to all
the powers that be, and bring home
more bacon. I suppose?”
■'Maybe you don’t know how
scarce we are of bacon at our
j
house,” Kathleen told Ritchie Gra
ham stubbornly. "And going to be
I
scarcer if Mike prints any more of
I
those
guaranteed-to-scorch
arti
cles.”
"Queer,” he mused, “you don't
look mercenary. Or even grasping.
What do you want out of life?” he
demanded suddenly.
“The nicest
house in town, a car as big as a show
window, charge accounts, a person
al maid and that sort of thing?”
“All I want is not to be cheated,”
cried Kathleen in a trembling voice
—as her mother had been, she was
thinking. “I don't want to pay all
I have and am for something that
proves to be fizz water. And I
don't mean to.” Her pretty dimpled
chin set "I intend to keep my head
and think straight whatever hap
pens. and be dead sure the pur
chase is worth the selling price.”
Ritchie shrugged his shoulders.
"You blessed little idiot,” he said
in a caressing drawl that spurred
her heart, “don't you know you
were born to be worn like a flower
tn some man's lapel and it won't
matter when he arrives whether he's
a good bet or a rotten one?”
“No!” cried Kathleen violently.
At that moment the telephone on
Roger Whyte's desk trilled impa
tiently. Kathleen caught her breath.
Roger handled all the high powered
“I’ll eat them words. Cheest,
advertisements. She saw him go
can’t yon take a joke, feller?”
quite pale and his palsy was very
noticeable when he replaced the re
ceiver. He answered her unspoken constituted himself Lou Knight's
champion he would very likely have
query with a shake of the head.
his hands full. But then Alec never
"Frisby’s have just canceled their
daily spread,” he said in a voice had minded that. It was emptiness
that quavered a little. “They’ve de he dreaded. Nothing so frazzled his
nerves as a vacuum. He had a queer
cided against local newspaper ads.
Are going to use handbills printed feeling be would enjoy thrashing a
lot of people in defense of a girl
in the city.”
who was a little like a starved and
•'First blood to Eugene Mays.” yo- bedraggled alley kitten.
deled Mike from the doorway of the
"So there you are!" exclaimed
private office.
Buddy Pryor, bounding in at the
Frisby's was Covington's largest
mercantile store. Kathleen knew street door with the exuberance of
what it meant to lose that revenue. a gazelle who had had a dose of hot
So did Mike. But be seemed more drops. “I’ve been combing the town
elated than staggered. And Ritchie for you. Where on earth did you
regarded him with unconcealed ad disappear to last night? Myra was
fit to be tied when you never came
miration.
Quite suddenly Kathleen felt she back.”
Alec shrugged. He hated to have
hated them both.
• • •
Myra and Natalie get onto the Lou
So he suffered in silence
Alec never got up for breakfast angle.
It just made the day seem more while Gene Mays explained exactly
endless. But on the morning after where Alec had vanished to the
he took Lou Knight to the Airdrome, night before.
he woke early.
"But, gee.” protested Buddy, “you
When he entered Henderson’s Drug told us she turned you down. And
Store down town his moody dark you paid your bets too as if you had
face was sullen. The younger crowd lost.”
in Covington used Henderson's as an
“What bets?” queried Gene who
informal club. Some of the gang had a nose like an eagle for scents
were always riding the stools at the other people would prefer to keep
counter. This morning was no ex to themselves.
ception.
“Myra bet Alec he couldn't make
“If it isn’t old Whoop-Em-Up-
a date with Lou Knight,” Buddy ex
Alec!” snickered Bandy Taylor.
plained. "You see, it was all a
“They tell me you were slumming
stunt Myra didn't think Alec would
last night?”
have the nerve. But I guess be
“Boy, I didn’t know you’d got down
was drunker than he looked.”
to dragging gutters for skirts,”
Gene Mays laughed. “So that's
opined Jim Atwood.
Alec's thin dark face went a little why the new girl friend,” he ac
"Your blonde lady
white. "You can tie that kind of cused Alec.
talk vulaide,” Lc Miullcieu, uia picked the worst little suggio In
town and dared you to phone her.
hands clenched.
“Alec’s face was that red I al And you were full enough of giggle
most called out the fire engine,” water to call her bluff.”
"Yes," said Alec in a strangled
yapped Butch Henderson.
“Why, Alec," murmured Hot Shot voice. "That's exactly how it was."
He heard a little gasp and whirled
Mays with infuriating sweetness,
“surely you weren’t ashamed of the sharply. Lou Knight stood in the
rear of the store waiting for a pack
girl friend?”
"Yes,” said Alec, his eyes very age which the druggist was wrap
black in his drawn white face. "I ping up for her. Her face was
was. Only I've got over it. See? averted. Alec could see only her
I’m not ashamed now of taking Lou profile and a quivering little chin.
Knight out. I'm just ashamed of But of course she had heard. And
myself because I’m not good enough once she had thought him wonder-
to shin« her shoes. And that goes fuL Lou clutched her purchase and
for the rest of you drug store In
sects."
"I do believe the boy’s serious,”
eooed Gene.
"You can believe what you like,”
Alec snapped.
"Only remember
this. Keep your dirty tongues off Lou
Knight when I’m around or I'll
smear somebody’s mouth from «ar
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INSTALLMENT TEN—The Story So Far
Laura Maguire. wife of Mike Maguire,
happy-go-lucky editor and mayor of the
town, is mother to four children: Tom.
whose real estate job is profitless during
the depression and who is married to
Mary Etta, secretary to Harvey Cobb
Leigh, a big shot; Aiec. unable to get a
Job and who takes up with a flashy di
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CHAPTER XV
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Laura was sitting fiat on the floor
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She assumed that he had had to Bos W3873, Portlund. Oregon.
make a business trip to Covington
FORSALE “
for his firm as he sometimes did.
Only as she scrambled to her feet 110- AC KE FARM, so CLRARKD.
Modern house
Trank Oliphant.
she saw first the ghastly shadows
307 B. Sth Ave. Olympia. Waah.
| under hie hazel eyes and next the
suitcase which he gripped in his left
SHEEP
! hand.
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head of crosahreed llatnp-Suffolk
"Tom!” she whispered, her voice
ranis. 120 per head. Clay Nichole,
trailing off into a tremble in spite of
818 rifth Bt.. Lebanon. Or
herself. "You don't mean—" she
I began, but she couldn't go on.
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IN CONTACT*
Tom nodded curtly. "Mary Etta WE WILL PUT
with purchMN«*r*. locute Mawmllle.
and I are all washed up."
crular your timber, report on fire
hasardu or dninngr, mum I Mt you in
"Tomi”
preserving your fntervata In unde
"She loves her job and her effi
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Aeeociatee.
Telephone 355, Canyon
ciency apartment and the new car
ville, Douglas County, Oregon.
far more, I guess, than she ever
loved me. Anyway she wouldn't
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any other man. She was willing
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to pay my way since I don't seem
shon. Washington.
to be very good at that myself. But
For Rale. 10 ac. < rrn. 4 dr 17 tnl
I couldn't see it I offered her an
Portland.
Lovely home
11760 00.
Mora land
Bt. 1. Bos «8. New
alternative. A pretty shabby one,
berg,
Oregon.
I admit. But she wasn't interested.
And so,” he spread his hands, "bloo “RANCHES FOR SALE ~
ey to love's young dream—or was it
TO CLOSE K.STATK—5600 acres,
a nightmare?”
alfalfa hay timbered range, riser,
modern home on highway, electric
Laura could have wept. She was
ity, dally mall.
Also, 4200 acres
not deceived by Tom's laconic man
225,000. 1*04' acres price cut from
120.000 to 115.000. 1300 acrea IL-
ner. He was terribly thin-skinned
SOO
Terms, no trades
B. *.
emotionally. She knew she had to
Truesdell. Canyon City, Oregon.
tread delicately. And she prayed
for tact.
Early Education
"Darling," she said very gently,
A
man
was in court for stealing
"pride is a cruel master, and the
rewards seldom equal the punish a sum of money and heard tho judge
say, "And in addition to the turn at
ment."
money, you also took some Jewelry."
"I know,” he said bleakly, but
"Yes,” replied the prisoner, "1
bls mouth did not lose its difficult
was
educated to believe that maoar
line.
alone would not bring happlneaa."
“You love Mary Etta. She is your
wife. And marriage, happy mar
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riages, are always a matter of com Ç*- C* •
promise. One gives and takes.”
"I know,” he said again and add
ed bitterly, “it's also what that
Frenchman said, a mirror. In which
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one loves and the other merely re £ A General Quiz
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flects his love.”
"Tom, I'm sure Mary Etta cares
The Queetiona
for you.”
“You say that because you think
1. What country originated chile
I want to hear it But you are con came?
wrong. Mother. And I’ve been a
2. What American university
fool not to know it long ago. Mary
was once called King's college?
Etta must have had some affection
3. In the United State« what ia
for me once or she would never have
thrown in her lot with mine. But you a burgee?
see, she is true most of all to her
4. In what year did lhe first
self. And I've let her down badly. ocean steamer pass threxgh the
She admires successful men who Panama canal?
kick their way up in the world by the
5. Can you name a presidential
sheer drive of their ruthless per power
under the Constitution
sonalities. She couldn’t respect any which has never been exercised
man if she paid his bills. Knowing by a President?
she merely tolerated me while at the
fl. What are the two most north- (
same time her money kept us going, erly countries of South America? |
I've got out. I had to. For her
7. What American naval vessel I
sake and mine. I'm going in with
Colonel Shoup. He's offered me fifty was called "a cheese box on a 1
a month and commissions If there raft?”
8. The Cape of Good Hope is
are any. Mary Etta and I could
live on that in Covington. I gave the southernmost point of which
her the choice. She refused. And continent?
so here I am. Only—” his hazel
eyes were feverish — “for God's
The Anawera
sake, keep the others off me. I
don't believe I could bear a lot of
1. Mexico.
damn fool questions right now. Tell
2. Columbia.
them the truth if you like, that we've
8. A flag with swallow tails.
made a hash of whatever happiness
4. In 1914.
we might have had and are through
6. Power to adjourn congress,
for good. But don't expect me to
fl. Colombia and Venezuela.
talk about it even to you.”
7. The Monitor.
Laura's hand rested on his shoul
8. Africa.
der which quivered under her touch.
Handbag Alda Cauaa
A handbag inndo by hereditary
court craftsmen for tho empress of
Ethiopia and taken to London when
her country was taken by the
Italians has aided the Red Cross.
The empress gave it to the organi
sation, which sold it to a dealer. In
materials alone it is vulucd at 1532.
for it contains 18 ounces of the finest
gold.
Craftsmanship doubled its
value, both sides consisting of ex
quisite gold filigree with mountings
of wrought gold symbols.
Lobsllcks
According to Ernest Thompson Se
ton tlio Indians and half-breeds in
the employ of tho Hudson's Hay
company have an unusual method of
honoring an outstanding achieve
ment. If. in their opinion, a white
man has performed some unusual
feat, a tall tree Is selected Then •
man Is sent aloft to lop oft certain
limbs. The mutilated tree stands
ns a living monument nnd Is always
referred to as “So and So's lob
stick.**
“Heads up is the rule when you’re handling
money,” m . vs Hani Teller STANLEY RAMLER
“and the
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“All right,” she said quietly, "if
that’s the way you want It.”
He squeezed her hand gratefully
and then, picking up the suitcase,
rapidly mounted the staircase to the
back room with sloping eaves which
he bad shared for years with Alec.
• • •
Kathleen came home from the of
fice at four that afternoon In any
thing but a happy mood. It had
been one of those days when every
thing tangled itself up unpleasant
ly. Mike’s fracas with Banker Mavs
had left his daughter both nettled
and uneasy. Then there was Ritchie
Graham. Kathleen admitted that
from the first he had been a source
of an unreasonable amount of exas
peration to her.
Ruth Yates was throwing a swim
ming party that evening at the new
Porterville pool. And Hot Shot Mays
had called Kathleen at the office to
say he'd pick her up at home at a
quarter to five. Kathleen who felt
as if she had been used to strike
matches on all day found the idea of
a plunge very edifying. And that
had little to do with the fact that it
was one of those sultry May after
noons which borrow their languor
from June. It had even given her a
disproportionate thrill to tell Gene
Mays she was just living to see him
again—this in a voice loud enough
for Ritchie’s ears, although be mer«-
ly grinned.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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