•
i WA I ri X« U. ,
I my child, and we who know I hv m .
| who are privlieg sl t0 know I h v m
SLABWOOD IS GROUND
J cannot censure ever."
INTO HOGGED FUEL
I "Fergus Fkunc«, why didn't I, the
moment I saw you. love you?" walled
Although there Is no scute fuel
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Moon
I Lucy
shortsgt.
In (lie city, a gruduul light
Suffer Sunday From
"I am not good enough for that, my
ening o f tits available supply has
IL L U S T R A T E D B Y D O N A L D R I L E Y
Escaping G aas
) dear,” he told her.
been felt here There continues to be
I
Too good- A man like you you do
Mr and Mrs. Herbert V Moon an adequate supply of slahwood and
What'» Gone on Bi for
"Jail?” he echoed.
really
love
nte?
You
really
hived
mo
now had gloriously risen. Mhe saw
Tt at -----
suffered from gas fumes at their dell some old and second growth (Ir, but
party
In ---------------
Palm Bea.-h
- —
-- Riven
"Mr. I^eeson h is seen me. lie told
the moment you saw me?""
by Mr. Cooper Clary. Leeson, an at me that the man who wanted to silhouetted, the la-y outlines of the
catessen »ton« Munday morning when the supply of hogged fuel bus been the
“I
adored
you,"
he
said
simply.
palms
and
pines.
She
could
hear
torney, meets Lucy Harkness, known
source of considerable worry the past
I knew It-A new It this morning, they » « re hoth nearly overcome by
as Devil-May-Care because of her ad marry me was a thiuf. '•erhati«. Tim the eternal rustle of the trees, as the
week.
«■is
escaping
from
a
hrok
n
main
venturous lift In a grme in which one reason you professed such great pines kissed the palms, and the palms she said
“And If I were anything
The forced closing of the Booth-
partners are chosen for the evening. devotion was because of w'uat money returned the car. ss. Little Intimate but a »lily HUI« foO|, |',| have lov I in the alley back of the store
Lucy Is won by Tim Stevens, who has 1 possess.”
you
You're everything that I want B«ith were put under the cars of a Kelly mill here due lt> Ihe cold
noises
came
from
the
jungle,
as
a reoutatfon as a heart breaker
She was looking right at him, but though the night whispered se rv!» to love, that I ought to love, that I physician and spent the day In bod, weather has alntosl stopped the manu
Leeson Is a bit jealous. Tim Stevens
Mr. Moon was able io return to the facture of the sawiluil fu«*l here.
his
eyes never flickered. His hand hidden from the day. Afar, the wild n eid ' » love. Why don't I?"
tells Lucy they are going aboard his
store .Monday morning, but Mrs. Early -u tin week Ihe local mill pur
boat, the Minerva, and she accedes moved toward the check book; he surf woo, d the sand And the glory,
He m ade no answ er.
In order not to be a quitter. Asked it swept a piece of paper from It and
cords of slahwood
"I wonder If perhaps I will." »h- Moon kept her bed most of Monday chased shout
the uuutterabiy glory of the Florida
ahe is sorry that he won her com tore it into tiny bits.
According to Mr. Moon, he opened from other concerns and several
cried.
stars. . .
pcrv, Lucy says she is not sod that I
hts store nt 6 20 Munday morning trucks have been busy all week haul
"Perhaps,” he agreed calmly. “But
He shook his head.
evidently fate arranged it.
Tim
"Where sholl I begin,” she asTvcl
thereupon tells her to stop looking inasmuch as I'm not to marry you. suddenly.
“My dear. Love doesn’t do what w.. and Immediately detected a »'rong ing || lo Ihe mill where It is tie lug
regretfully after Leeson.
I'd hardly take the money.”
,
Odor of gas In the room. He In ground Into hogged fuel.
“ Where il suits you; or nowhere." , want him to. But that you should
Aboard Stevens boat. Stevens tells
There was a hard finality in his he replied.
The trouMe at ’he 'Yeedtlag mill
want to love me—that lifts me above vestigated connections and could not
Lucy he loves her. to which she re- ' voice.
.
Ihe rest of the world. Lucy Hark— discover anyth. ug wrong, so he called which was experlenceil on Monday d"
“I'm in trouble." she said.
plies with contempt. He becomes an
“Not even to keep out of Jail?” she I
uj I. to lug« no for one
Lucy Stevens, It's time you went to the office of the gas company at Lu 1 "
gry, and ahe becomes afraid of him.
“Of course." he replied.
bed."
gene and told them that th< re was ; day, however the fuel dealers there
Stevens tells Lucy that he will not demanded. "You're a shade better
“Why
‘of
course'?”
she
demanded.
let her go until she has promised to than I thought.”
Wrapped in the blankets, she could leak somewhere, but that he w is li report that they have an aitequata
"'All people are in trouble, always.
marry him. To escape him she leaps
He bowed.
auiply an
t. t rumors that lha
hear
him moving outside Somewhere able to locate It.
They may not know it. but the fact
Into the water from her cabin window. ! "Many thanks.”
in l*niiu Beach. Tim Mt.vens wn
Officials of the gas compntty In schools would have to d ose were un-
remains."
swimming a short distance under the i
She bit her lip.
water.
Six formed him that a service and repair founded.
"Well, l know it. and— Suppose I crazy with anger, with worry
man was making an Investigation of
Nothing definite 1» known here as
Lucy reaches land and meets Dr. 1 "But Mr. Leeson said you'd be ar- ju«t wanted to stay here—oh. for as smiled as she thouKht of Tim.
Perugus Faunce on an island
He rested this afternoon.
TO BE CONTINUEO
the Springfield line at that time, and to when the local mill will lie able to
i long as 1 chose. Fergus Faunce."
takes care of her and takes her home
He bowed again.
that he would probably appear al Ihe resume »pcrallons
The workman
"Then here you shall remain, he
Everyone is worried about her. and
""Great little man-—Leeson."
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ e « ♦
eating house shortly.
estim ate that there is a foot of lee on
st. ted flatly.
when she meets 8 ,evens he is frant’c . )
"I can't let you go to Jail," she cried
♦
UPPER W IL IA M E T T E
regretful and stil ardent in h's love.
" And your reputation—”
Mr and Mrs Moon continued their the pond and everything (here Is now
Leeson informs Lucy that Stevens helplessly,
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
work, both having splitting head- covered With a slick Sheeting of Ics.
'
Would
be
unimportant
But
your
must raise a quarter of a million
“And I couldn't take your money,”
Basketball in high school B leaglie »«'hew, but not realizing that they
own reputation? that would be a thing
dollars or go to Jail at five o'clock, he said
Lucy goes to her hank and raises the , .-Then ... gh„ Mtd g|ow, „ag
not lightly to be smirched by a n / Ila» suffered a great deal front the were breathing enough of the gas Io
lane sheriff retains
sum
set, even though merely acquiescent, the wiutry weather. Scheduled games cause them this trouble It wan not
let you go to jail—
Now go on with the story.
hv
not
been
played
and
with
the
tuor
until
10:30
when
Mrs
Moon
was
STATE GROUP OFFICE
of mine."
"Why not." he demanded. “la it
nament
booked
for
next
week
player»
overcome
that
a
doctor
was
called,
' because aft^r ail. you love me?"
"In other words, you'd leave me,
H. L. Bown was reelected v ice
Half an hour later her chair
are becoming anxious, as the neces- He ordered them both to tied and he
""I hate you." she biased. '"That's lert scandal—”
president of (he Stale Sheriffs' as
paused before the gate of Stevens'
slty for practice has been lost owing kept them there.
He
shook
hts
head.
why you mustn't go to Jail. You
place, out beyond Vita Serena, in
Th. crack was caused by the cold sociation al Ihe annual meeting
“No, 1 don't think so. You didn't to the cold weather. T h .r . h a. been
must take my money.”
Portland Last
•outhern Palm Beach. He was in his
no school at the I’le .s .n t Hill high weather. according to Mr
Olson which was held w
come
here
lightly,
my
child.
You
did
"You're a bit incomprehensible,
since last Thursday, when only half m w ^ ' r Jf'Vh.“ N^rthwoo " c i U os ' g o
•‘ n <1
°°nN n «lon with the
garden, at a table on which lay som e
'Lucy. You hate me; yet you'd save some thinking I simply said I would
thing like a checkbook. He was
not lightly smirch you. Lot's hW !* J * * ’
,he“
8,udan' a eompany. The pip, expanded snd
X n « ! ” “ ’ Ur” “" D'“ r,C‘
I me. Well, I'd take money only from
writing In IL but looked up as Lucy
living nearby h .v . trudged to the suddenly conirsctml
This was
your
reasons."
approached, and waved away the the woman I was married to. and I’d
find thos^Hv/nr''/un'har8* h
tO <mlX ,roUb1’' wh,ch ,h * *"* <’°n>P»ny
District attorneys went on record
hate to take it from her.”
"Suppose I choose to give nous?"
colored servant who had admitted
untbli,
to
m
t
s'
ttWBy
wer8
bag
had
with
Its
mains
either
here
of
,h® meeting favoring lightening
"But you would?” she asked.
"I sha n't ask for them. Sufficient turned on, Us L ‘l
her. He rose and stared at her.
, s.
*“ Eu‘ ' n- dnr*“< ,ha
cr,nU“a*
” >.ch th’ y
He shrugged.
unto the day Is the Lucy thereof."
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•■••Ilk
He had shaved, had donned fresh
t IU
,o IU«
,b ® Dos In
<-l*tm
s i ’ • the
time
“To avoid Jail, yea."
“Then I am evil?“. She caught at basketball games (hat ‘ ay hed n ,h
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-------- entire
. . . . . . — city was
~
e shut
u 'H
V ofl
II
---- —
— — | present
>«vevuk
14
Ill's
I offers too
been sche-
flannels, a colored shirt, and a gay
“Then.” she said, “I'll have to his paraphrase.
.b illed h . U S
S
----------- un,l) la,e ln ,h e Btternoon while Ihe , m«nr loopholes for escape
tie. He could wear clothes, she in- marry you. Today. Now»”
U
I h
7
Pl®— » , workmen were busy repair'«« th e'
"That was unfortunately put. Let H
consequently thought, better than any
Had Diana, sojourning at Jupiter’s me say that the Lord said,
------— Let there ‘ able to come. There was however. when , hey
LOWELL HUNTERS CLAIM
, rom rhurrh
man she had ever seen
palace on Olympia, slipped down the be Lucy and there was Lucy
“This is a surprise." he said.
STATE RECORD FOR GAME
"That is better, much better.” she
Ith
mountainside and in some wayside
1HU high school snd Walker Athletic which to cook th .lr Sunday d in n er.
She made no reply, but ooened the parsonage in Thessaly taken unto her said Judicially.
Th« two Klniteley brothers. "Bud"
ratchel and dumped the money upon self a husband, the scandal would
quantity of gas was Inst
lost aHd
She lighted another cigarette, re
„
, A * large
“r<B Quantity
,
and
"Dot." o, Isiwell, claim lo Im the
the table.
No
lights,
no
phono,
no
water,
was
by
the
gas
company
as
a
result
of
th«'
«..
have been comparable to the marriage moved her hand from Its abiding place
- the
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— .........................................
...V I ..S - were
e r e „ unable
n a m e to
hU0,#ra ln
“What's It all about?" he asked.
the cry of some of
farmers
of the break. U
Officials
to es-
es- !X “
upon his knee.
of Devil-May-Care.
“To save you from Jail,” ahe re *
.
t "Were you ever a damn fool Fergus Pleasant Hill d l.tr.ct last week. With tlmate accurately the loss, but one of | " Tha,"', «l»,n« -'»X these two
Apparently hurried weddings, among FaunceT’ she asked
plied.
Phone wires down and broken, with (he repairmen volunteered thut ten / * 5 " ' *' ** ,h* a,d of ,h*,r <ln»"-
phone
people nationally known, are bound
pumps frosca and with electric wires dollars' worth of gas was escaping | . “' ’' . I ? ’,? . *"'i kni'“1 ,h ,r,‘” “ *«>«-
“Yes." he replied.
His eyes puckered, and a tiny to cause gossip. But neither he or
I*_ ' .
|e n racoon and
"I'm glac o , that." she said. "Were down, life became quite complex. every hour.
creasi appeared between them.
Lucy would have cared a whit for
one bear.
you ever in a scandal, Fergus Faunce, Many of the (armors have disposed
that. Had their marriage been one of she asked.
Gray's fa sh and Cn‘
of their gasoline lamps since Install
They have confined their hunting
equal love and trust, they would have
»
Swnrts m««at rnnrk« t and HevHr-
1
Ing
electricity,
so
there
w
e.
a
h
u
s
i..
""No." he replied.
expedition» to the Fall Creek and (he
been uninterested in the nasty specu
I
other
business
houses
were
flooded
"Would you mind, terribly, being to find candles, old coal ell lain;-»
Wlndherry dl.lrlcts
lations of nasty people.
and flash lights when the lights sud by the gas fumes, which seemed to
In one?”
But Lucy had left him She had
follow
Ihe
sewer
lines
and
come
up
out. — As — the .......
lines
"Not particularly,"
, denly
- went
----------
.. arc new
strolled out of his patio as uncon
“Would It affect your practice?" , and *nany
*he trees through which from under the floors. No damage
F“ h"r M J °* *-*mmon.
cernedly as though she had been hav she --------
-
I they passed were not trimmed to wns done ,o Ihe contents of any of the or ortland. arrival in (ho city Wed
persisted.
storm. crews of the buildings.
nesdny evening m ,p „n(,
Om(J
. ing . tea and
. was now on
. her way home
‘ N ot ln th® slightest. Patients meet such a storm,
o dress for dinner. Home! She had 'com e to me for my skill with a knife Mountain States Power company
•Ith her parent..Mr snd Mrs John
gone home!
, not for m y m„raiR
Ulnxenreld Her father ha, been III
j nave worked aay and night to keep
From w sitervilis—Charles Tola, cf
Etevti-May-Gare she was called.
"I was married today." she said the farmers with lights. One fn ..ier
■ Ito’-viHe. 'in«based su pp lies In th«« with the flu for several weeks.
Well, the insouciance that defied i lazily.
had 1500 eggs set in an electric In city Wednesday.
death Itself could not defy Tim Ste-
She could feel h i. sudden rigidity cubator. The power company helped j
____ ____________
vena. He knew his rights and he ' But his voice, when he spoke was him to transfer them to other Incu-
Visit in City— Mr and M-s lrn
January Sale
would have them
He'd force—But j even and calm.
hators. At one time many of the Gray ,of Thurston, visited sev. ral of
Lower Prices
he slumped hack in the wicker chair , “Then, when I called you Lucy phones kept up a steady ringing, their friend. In this city Wednesday
that protested against his twisted 1 Harkness I called you out of your showing that the light lines were
-
_________ ..
bulk. H e’d tried to force Lucy last name."
crossing the phone lines. When the
M o v e .- Mr. and Mrs Clark Ady
Dlght and she had chosen almost
"My name is Lucy Stevens."
Ice dropped from the wires Sunday lott have moved to |.,.B Ang.-les where
certain death in preference to him
Do I know the happy bridegroom," morning the ringing stopped.
they will make their future home
self. He might as well face the he Inquired.
Coasting has been very good In ”
facts; he was no nearer Lucy now
It was from his boat, last night, some places around Pleasant Hill, but
than he was before the minister had that I dived Into the tide that swept
many of the joy seekers received cuts
read the marriage ceremony to them. me on your beach." she said,
of the hands and knees from the
To marry a man who positively
“And, the usual obvious reason sharp Ice. In places the sleds skim
ravened for her, and then cooly deny being obviously not accountable In
herself. That, he thought, was the your case, for today’s marriage, what med over the complete fall of snow
and Ice and In other places broke
explanation. She had no intention of did Impel you to the act?"
through.
coming back to him, ever. But to
'I hated him so," she mutmured.
Baby lambs and baby pigs are suf
have loaned, given him an Incredible
Think of him, Fergus Faunce, a icring
fering a a great deal from the Icy cold
sum of money, to have married him bridegroom minus a bride, wondering weather.
H awo on earth <
!
I norder to assure his acrentanpp
acceptance nf
of w
where
I __
am ,,
| E. B. Tinker and son Lyman re
the money, to have Imt'lled in his
"But you didn't do It Just to play turned from northern California on
heart the hope that, m ■ ied she a trick on him, Lucy," said the doctor.
Sunday. They say they did not
would relent, would come to him—
"Fergus Faunce, I don't know why strike any Icy roads until they got
What exquisite torture this was.
1 did It! Can you tell me?"
to Roseburg. They report Dunsmuir,
CHAPTER III.
“I’d rather not, Just y e t,” he an
California,
had 64 Inches of fresh
South, along the Ocean Boulevard, swered.
snow and Costello six feet. The
Lucy bowled along In the little Ford.,
___
,
'Now, what do you mean by that?”
garages In Dunsmuir were doing a
Somehow, the ocean that had seemed she asked
wonderful business In selling chains.
so grim and dour a few hours ago,
He waved the question aside.
The public schools have held school
now. In the gathering dusk, seomed
"And what are you going to do
regularly during the storm.
gentle and Inviting.
¡next?” he asked.
Mrs. Rose Beaver Is spending a few
I The path through the trees to the I
Next? It's a very sleepy Lucy
i center of me Island, where Faunee's that sits at your feet„ Dr. Fergus weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Burch
cabin was located, was easily follow Faunce. Probably I shall go to bed. In Eugene.
NOW PLAYING
All of the mills are closed, awalV
ed. In five minutes she was upon the I wonder, you who are willing to give
edge of the clearing, and her torch life and reputation to me, what you Ing milder weather.
, turned off, was standing gazing at will say if I demand your cabin?"
[ the porch of the cabin.
Marriage Licenses Issued.
"It Is yours already," he smiled.
Before the cabin blazed a fire. It "Frequently I sleep in a blanket by
During the past week marriage
had extended beyond the confines of my fire; I love the stars, the moon,
licenses have been Issued to the fol
, the fireplace, and was, evidently, not the waving branches—”
lowing; C. M. Golden and Marie Hahn
for purposes of cooking, but for the
Don't be poetical,"
she ordered both of Junction City; Orvll Oreer,
—.
—
purpose of cheerful companionship ’Tlet the scolding over with, Fergus I Oakridge, and Mildred Robinette,
and perhaps warmth. The resinous Faunce,
Eugene; Orvll Hazen, Cottage Grove,
pine logs roared and crackled, and
She had turned and was looking up and lyone Scott, Marcola; Charles
threw a fierce light upon the face of at him, and the rays of the inoon 11-
Fergus Faunce, who sat upon his umlned her features. Faunce thought Nichols, Walton, and Phyllis Weiss,
Grannis, Arkansas; Elton Melson and
porch.
that he had never seen anything so Jennie Christensen, both of Eugene;
Who’s that,” he called.
eiflnly beautiful as the face of this Alec Brandt and Lillian Clarke, both
'It’s Lucy Harkness," she said.
girl. Yet his sm ile was not even faint of Klamath Falls.
I wonder.” he said, still seated In ly tremulous.
his chair, “If our thoughts evoke our
"There will be no scolding, my
Thurston Man Here— William Ren
friends, or If the approach of our child,” he told her gently. “Of the
friends evoke our thoughts. Or has Lucys man asks nothing save that nie, of Thurston, visited in Spring
the tropic moon, which has Just peer they be. Do we scold the sun because field yesterday afternoon.
ed over the palms, brought delightful It sulks and hides behind a cloud?
Leahurg Man In—Arthur Frazee,
madness to me?’’
Aren’t we .rather, grateful for the l>eaburg, was a bustnees visitor
She stared at the tropic moon which hoars when It shines upon us? The
this slty yaseterday.
G a s M a in B re a k
Causes o f A la r m
¿ y A R TH U R SOMERS ROCHE
FOX - REX