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Ç!>,/ Edison Marshall
THURSDAY JULY 6, ) 9 ’ A
THE 3PRINGVUXD NEWS
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—
f .z
haps had a scornful quality, too.
“Of coursu. he can't go until Ihe
rain la dona
I won t »end out my
cars on a night like this.'
The girl whirled io me
Appeal
was all over her *
"You (won't go till lo morrow?" she
pleaded. "Tell me. doctor You won I
go till the storm’s over?"
Roseburg
M rs
Peeple
(C o n tin u e d on Iff-;*-
and
hare Mat week wiyi Mr. and Mrs W
A Taylor. Mr. Powall la a merchant
in Itosi burg
“ 1 c a n ’t v e ry w ell. If your f a l h - r
won't let his car« go out
I tried
lo speak b itte rly ; bat even a fte r her
/llu sb v tio n s bq PAUL FPFHTA
Here—Mr.
K arl P o w e ll o f H oaeliurg visited
I)
Or.E.T, Helms
Chlropraetl« and
Eleolra Therapy
Hpcclallalng In
Painless end
B loodiest
scribe It except to say that upon one I Her face was white as the candle t long enough on the continent to know ,
Removal of
Instant
it appeared to me as be Inc ‘ that burned between them, its lines that, and so has be
And so h»v« , Leave for Newport—Mr and Mr.«
Dr. Long, oat fishing with Alexan­
Tonella
low and rather long, and on the next I were deep, and her dark ayes were 1 you. It lsn t the way It s done
over John Wintrnrtdd left Monday for New
der Pierce, a detective, tells of his
port
where
they
will
slay
during
Ihe
It a m ana struck the other
16th g e a r In Oregon practicing
projected trip to sAmlherly Downs tall and narrow. The change was so smouldering. The little silken week .there
uext slk weeks
Mr Wlnkeiireld b-
Fierce advises him to keep his eye« abrupt that the creature seemed fair j end bag I had seen on the train lay i p a y s"
ITloiio 20»J
son la sufficiently able to , Have. the change In climate will bene­ office 1247 Kerry 8t.
Vide open while there. On the way ly to leap. Yet It easily could have ! before her on the table and her hand I -you r
Eugene
fit
his
health.
«
was
lost
In
the
lace
of
its
mouth.
take care of himself. I hope." I sug
In a train Dr Long is attracted by a been the effect of the moonlight or
There were wild, primal passions gested
girl. who later faints Dr. Long trusts the shadows. It might have been
at play In the room One of them
perspective.
"If he'd taken case of himself, you'd
her, and looking into her bag. is as-
"
once
we
saw
the
advancing
form
that
<
was lust; and one was the firry of he lay Inc under this table now— with
sanded to find a loaded revolver.
Dr. Long m eets Ahmad Das. an before had seemingly had the dimen- murder. There la no use of mincing your blood spoiling a good Oriental
Oriental, who conducts him to South sioas and outline of a huge dog was words. They were bared and unmask ; rug." the older Hayward answered
TjlE
But I had • d , before me.
with startling malice. "I'm not sure
Jey D ow ns where he m eets Mr. South- Just the form of a man
Vilas turned to me with an oath 1 hut that he’d ought to have done It*
ley and his son. Ernest Southlev. Mr been enough In the mountains to
Havward and his son. Vilas, and then know that the moon and the darkness The girl slipped fainting to the floor I believe 11« up to you. Long, to give
Josephine South ley, who la the girl and the Jungles play strange tricks on I answered him without restraint, a satisfactory explanation."
and lifted the gtrl into my arms. I '
Me bad met on the train. Josephine tancy and vision,
“I have nothing to explain." Then I
crossed
with her to the little sofa I
He
was
com-
OF A
tell* him the story of Southley Downs
it was Ahmad IMs.
turned my back upon him. and fared
» * * • “ »*
•nd its ghost, which is not the ghost ing in from one of his .ong walk- 4 •» * * » « • <*
the broken old figure that waa mv
Hayward gasped behind me. and as 1 '
h»d *^dently been sitting; then
ef a human being but of a tiger.
h o st "Sir. If thera is any explanation
our --------.
hands I turned to meet the man He bad fob to be made ft will have to come from
moved back the back — —
Now read on—
touched
»
'° Wed be ,c r '"" tfce ro"ra and not your daughter."
Hayward's felt cold.
Whatever •«» fe* ' ’ « »>*«"•««» ■»
CHAPTER
It was a curious expression that
T h . pow»r of a dollar Is w .ll
had been fancy and wrong perspee- Î “* UHnk. Dr. Long. Vilas cried, came to the old man « face Its tines
shown at ths Eugene Cleaner»
"My father and some of the ser­ live before, this was the troth Hie "th»‘ -',o o r* altogether too officious seemed to grow slack. There was
A Dyers. Our O et Acquainted
vants went out—both Ernest and I blood wasn't In his hands, as -it Youd better keep out of thia"
hopelessness In It. an dthe weakness
I am not Just sure what I answered
Prtcbs" makes your dollar Jo
were away at school. They couldn't should have been. Evidently it had
of long years, and above all things
him.
But
primal
passions
had
waken­
more work.
all
gone
np
to
his
brain,
playing
'
see in the shadows—but my father
else, hopeless, utter impotency
ed in me. too. and the words were
says that beyond all chance of doubt strang e trices with It.
It seemed to me that the girl open­
Ahmad bowed to ua as he passed straight. Ha leaped at me. and I met ed her Ups to speak. But before the
some living creature bounded through
A DOLLAR W ILL CLEAN AND PRESS
-Oood Lord!" Hayward breathed him t’ith a blow.
the thickets in front of them. It
words came, the elder Hayward had
He
.«eled.
ten
caught
at
the
table.
“1
wasn't
looking
for
that
wretch."
I
B ight have been a calf—or even a
answered for him.
Any of th» Following
"He iwaa Just coming in from one ) And hi« band reached for the silken
U rge dog.
"What
has
thia
young
pup
to
do
bag on lha table.
“A few weeks ago the details began of his walks."
with the relatione between Joeephlne
M EN’S SUITS — LADIES' SUITS
"Those walks of his! Why don't I 1 knew t.'at the girl waa screaming and my eon?” he asked, querulously.
to vary. It was after my father's old
The
sound
r
v
-
above
the
noise
of
already
„
~
n
,f
friend. Mr. Hayward, and his son Southley forbid 'em? I will If he
LADIES* COATS (P lain) — LADIES’ WOOL DRESSES
the storm. 1 l ^ - i for him. bat he (ha| ,# tfca
onJy m. ke. ,,
came to v isit ua. But tall me thia don't. I’ll be damned If I'll have him
first- Would you aay the younger Mr. walking through those Jungles and whirled about the tabic before .1 co ild Bore certain what course remains,
reach him. He tore the pistol trom
caal
on
h#re
Hayward would be troubled with creeping np oa ns this way!"
I. In the same bonse. with this between
"Creeping np on us?" I echoed. the bag. tt glittered in his band.
faulty nerves T'
1 had
"What way?"
them. Tell JHm. Boutnley—that he
**I saw him Jump tonight when the
chol<.e . Onp „ ,o B polorir
“Besides, what would a man want he would do with It. The drawn face. ha,
®wl hooted.”
245 E. Broadway
Phon* 75
Eugwna, Oro-
,o
lhe hou. e -
to walk around In those Jungles for?" the .mouldering .yea, told all too The
“Remember, he has spent nearly a
he went on. unheeding me. "Tell me plainly. He waa too tar for me to
la that the truth?" I asked my
mouth in thia house. After a month
that?"
Then bis voice changed — leap at him. So I atruck out tb« host
In it, you'll Jump, too. 1 mean, under
dropped tone by tone until It was al­ candle.
“Tell him It la the troth," Hay­
Ordinary conditions, away from this
The dark fell over us. The sound ward's indomitable words want on.
most a whisper "And tell me this,
Atmosphere.”
.
N O TH IN G BETTER THAN
of the storm obliterated his breathing. The tone waa a threat—ominous, de­
too. Long—and tell me the troth."
« ••w e e e e e e e e e e e *
A COLD DRINK IN HOT
“I would certainly say the Vilas
It was the truce of darkne is—a truce termined The eyes of the two elder
Yes.“
W
EATH
ER
Hayward had no nerves to trouble
Did—did you see anything cnrl- remembered from primal days.
men met.
W®
I on, about—about Ahmad s posture as
* don't know hod long It had con
She u__
has nothing to explain,'
Aad drink, served at our fountain
“J u t a
few nights after his w i h« came up the hill? Of course it was Unued ’ hen Hayward and Southlev gow hley toM
me Vaherlngly.
are
of the very highest quality—
rival. Vilas Hayward came in to din- pl.obabiy ju«t the moonlight—yet ealBe
forms suddenly appear
, Ioohe(, at the g ir t ano no man
Delicious and refrenhlng!
• e r with a curious look of question there wal something puxxllng about
ln th* °P*n d°or; and each of them can measure or describe the anguish
Every known .oda fountain drlna--
on his face. He said he had seen
' carried candles.
that was ln her eves But she didn't
Iwnonaue,
orangeade.
phosphate«,
pomethlng."
Vilas still held the pistol; and It look straight at me. First she glanced
"I’ll confess I didn't recognise him
plain soda«, ice cream sodas, root
Josephine's eyee were full and in­ at once.”
gleamed in the candlelight
at the strong, bull-dog figure of the
beer, ginger mint Julep, coco-cola,
tent upon mine, and the sentence died
"Vilas!" hit father called,
"That isn't IL That isn't quite It.
f>ut elder Hayward. Then she searched
glager ale— all »erved fresh and cold-
•w ay. The silence of the vast room Long. Oh. the devil! It's nonsense, down that thing!”
„
„
for her father's time-dimmed eyes.
and delectable.
was the kind to be listened to ln r e - ' anyway"
He hastened about the table and 8nd here she found her answer.
Sundae, and confection«, too.
j p t e deserts, or ln the mountain
h<” ' leatMM ,B front of m'’
"He's right. Dr Long. she told me
We walked up to the veranda and ” r
Visit our fountain and keep cool!
Bights.
halted for an instant on the steps 1 tried to push him away; and h i. -You muR, make your own explnns-
"Yes?" 1 urged her.
for a last look over the marsh. There answer was a laugh—one grim syl- tlons."
“It Isn't very pleasant," she warned. '-'as a ring around the moon that table of laughter. Ironical.
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odds are against
me.’ i
"A doctor has the right to know promlRed rain
*He won't kill me." he said "I'm j told them simply
We listened to the
"Mr. Southlay.
all the symptoms."
"Where the Service ie Different"
u
. n,fiht blrd» and the nol8e
»he Insect ‘h* ffoose—that lays the golden eggs, j bave only donTw hat any American
He said when he came through woHd, llke tbe otrum of , ban)o ln. He won t kill me."
man
hay<.
do
Vilas screamed at us. The murder- and won't apologize to anyone.
that leads from the finitely remote, above the drear, gray
I
drawing-room something walked be­ wastes. Then Hayward touched my madness was on him yet.
have carried out the obligation of a
fore him. It was in the shadows, and my arm.
“He struck me,” he cried. "The gpest to his host In ths way my In
he could not see It plain. He asked ns
“If you'd go in Long, and look at devil struck me. He’s got to apolog'»>. stincts told me Nothing will make
If -we kept a great yellow and black Ahmad's hanot," he told me, "you'd He found me with Josephine, and he
me believe that I did wrong. It is
dog. a hound aa large or larger than find 'em with mud on 'em."
atruck me aa If I were a dog."
evident
that you uphold what these.
• Great Dane."
"Why, Mr Hayward r
His father took the pistol from his other men say—and your daughter up-
• • •
"Because he was crawling up that hands, and put it In bis pocket. South- holds them, too. And if you will have
• The elder Hayward and I were hill—on hands and feet!"
ley sighed a little, and placed bis my bag brought to me, I will go at
•trolling on the course, and a few
Then his face grew Into a scowl, candle on the table. The girl rose up once."
m inutes before our nost had been and be entered the house.
behind us. and I was amazed at her
The girl cldsped her father's hands
with us. He nad gone into the house
I had a pipe by myself after be self-control. It had all come back.
A world of s ’*peal was In her darn
on some errand. Josephine was with had gone. At first I thought about
"He struck me," Vilas said agal' eyes
Vilas on the veranda, and his chair what he had said. But It didn't make and again. "What are you going to do
"He can t go. in this storm," she
was drawn close to hers. At first 1 particularly good sense. It was true about it, Southley? You’ve got Just
told him. ‘ The road along the le u
:ng abont Hayward or ‘ that Hayward didn't like the Indian, ten minutes to turn him out of this isn’t safe. Tell him he can't go till
1 was fetnembering j yet this would have scarcely led to ' house— or else I'll go Instead."
the storm la over.”
wt
w at astounding fortune Vilas an accusation so bizarre. The -;lare
"Let's forget It—” the old man an-
Tfie elder Hayward chortled from
an osephlne al*ays seemed to be
with which Hayward's eye followed swered with utter weariness.
beyond the table.
•«one together.
jhitn when the servant worked about
"Forget nothing, Southley!” he ex­
"A good wetting might teach him
it was a baffling thing. I couldn’t the rooms was little short of do i i!y , ''learned. "We've go>. to get to the manners." he suggested. "What about
th in k of any conscious effort in that —{ had observed it too many times bottom of this, if my son was struck, It, Southley?”
direction. Yet seem ingly powers in to be mistaken. Orders he gave w ire he's got to have satisfaction. I lived
The tone was insistent, and per-
We meet and beat mall order
the sky were always throwing them always in the most insulting tone. it
together, in one Instant, all the oc- seemed to me Just an unjustified,
competition.
cupants of Southley Downs would be aversion, and the taste of the .hing
M rro ft« « .
/nt
on the veranda together; in the next was open to question.
a gToup of us would have wandered ! There was a tenseness, a hjxvi
Goodrich tires at low prices
off, and Vilas and Josephine would be ness. in the air. It was obviously
to you.
• l ° ne’
> the calm before one of those blinding.
IM THB W B B T
I
I wondered how much of this cur- i crashing Floridian thunderstorms.
605-609 Willamette St.
Eugene. Oregon
lous development was engineered by
I thought I had better warn the oc­
Josephine herself. It wasn't a parti­ cupants of the house. There might 1
Note These Prices—
cularly pleasant thing to think about. be windows to close, or other pr?-
Of course, glrb In this age have a parations. The library was empty; j
32x4 Oversize Cords . $12.25
right to play all their cards to win hut I heard voices in th» den that
the love of a desirable man. It was opened from It. And maybe It was a
30x3’/ a Oversize Cords, $ 6.95
All legitim ate—all fair. But
sign that already the atmosphere of
tim es it seemed to me that she would 8outhley Downs has instilled Its
29x4.40 Balloons,
$ 7.95
have preferred to stay with the r e s t 1 poison Into my nerves that I did not
Every worthy representation of the printed mode you’ll
of us, but that some inscrutable remember to stop and knock. With
power, mysterious and immutable. | the memory of that mysterious calm
find assembled for you in this remarkable low one-price
31x5.25 Balloons
$13.50
t
’
denied it. That power was either behind me, I hurried across the soft
group of y/ashable New Printed Radium Silk Frocks.
Josephine’s aged father, the elder rug. The door opened softly beneath
33x6.00 Balloons
$17.30
Hayward or both.
my hand.
Hayward and I were having a good
Th% scene in the candle light was
night cigar together. My wrist watch Hke a tableau. The light was so
Indicated a few minutes after ten yellow and soft, the shadows so start- I
The name Goodrich stands out for quality and honest
And (hen Hayward saw a shadow |ln< black, the actors stood so motlon-
French beige glove-like kid. Covered wood heel. Very
waver In the moonlight of the golf lees. With arms leaning upon the
soft, light and pliable. Pearl colored, trimmed with lustre
value in these tires. You can see them before buying. You
®rePn'
little mahogany table In the center of
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It was hard to see at first. Some the den stood Vilas Hayward. There
can buy confident you are getting th» most for your money
living craa.ure was advancing along **» a drunken look aoout him; yat
'i ■* it« ’? ’
the slope toward us—som ething that I knew it was not from wine. His
aeemed dark and not very talL We face was flushed. Intent With the
stood still and waited
There was ' table between them, aa If lor a shield,
Buy now and save % regular retail price. Heavy
nothing else to do.
Josephine faced him.
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Then all at once the creature's
"Don’t come a step nearer," she
form seemed to change. I can’t de said as the door opened.
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