PAGE TWO sleeve button and he sent II (lying him with horror and dismay "tilt Papa vou'va broken Nancy's "Good Lord''' he said below hl« heart I ” breath. lie swung around on her, hla Then lie rallied himself. "I'll wire Ruddy. I’ll make him confess and flushed (ace and standing hair ter­ bring that money back It Isn't his rifying her. “Heart? Broken her heart— I'd lo pay In. “ Il I'll he sputtered I'd like lo Ihrnslt her!” he bellowed. breathlessly. "You'll have a stroke. William; "You can't," said Nancy, "he’s put It back; lie's not going io con­ you'll have a stroke— If you don't stop!" fess and go lo prison now !” "Stroke he hangedt” he said, and "He shall I any he shall'" Mr. Gordon - lammed an old Shalt- rushed to the telephone. He hail back with such violence that he J uki thought of II. He called up Richard. “ Yes, I broke a leg off; Il toppled o v e r helplessly and fell Into the corner wuttt to «we vou now right away! All right. I'll wall!" He hung up with a crash “I’d a darned sight ralhsr that the receiver and begun lo stride up Roddy staved In Jail for life than mid down again 10 have him take that rnoivey! Mrs. Gordon I,.tew the «Irl must I sn't you see that your daughter's he wretched unit Iter heart went out I sold heraelf?" he appealed lo Ills to her. But there was a thrill of wife There wan a terrible vehe secret relief Roddy was saved III» nience lu Ills tone. father couldn't make hint return "Where's that man?" lie swung ilte money now Should she go up- around to Nancy, "where's Mor ' «lairs and try to make It up tn gan t” Nancy? She half rose and Mr Gor­ “He came home with me lie's In don smashed u little glass paper­ his office now We— we haven't told weight that Jtad fallen In his way any one— he wanted to come here “He's going craty,” «he thought with m*. and I - — '* x "I should think he'd better come feebly; then she remembered Rich- here like a man. I want to ask him ard Morgan. He was routing soon If hr thinks he's living In Ills grand and there would be an etploalon father's time I reckon old Morgan worse than the one that had greet­ bought his slaves about the same ed Nancy. What would happen? THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS Published Every Thursday at 8prlngfleld. L-ane County. Oregon by T H E W ILLA M E TTE PRESS H. E MAXEY, Editor _________________ Entered as second class matter. February 24. tSOS. at tha poetofficw. Springfield. Oregon M A IL S U B S C R IP T IO N R A T E O n e Y e a r In A d v an c e Two Year* in advance »1.50 »2.50 S i r Months Three Month* »1 00 50c THURSDAY, JULY 12. 1M4 WHO IS PASSING T H E BUCK? Nobody know s w h eth er it is the county, s ta te highw ay d ep a rtm en t o r th e SERA officials th a t a re holding up the gravel sidew alk project in W est Springfield. Anyway this sidew alk betw een Eugene and Springfield city limits, which th e highw ay com m ission ch airm an agreed should be built, and th e county offered to furnish the necessary crushed rock and o th e r m aterials, is not g ettin g started . It has been recom m ended as a w orthy SERA project th a t will em ploy com m on labor of w hich th ere is plenty unem ployed. Five lives have been lost along this s tre tc h ot road th e last few years and it behooves those in ch a rg e to do so m ething ab o u t it. If we a re to have several g o v ern ­ m en tal bodies doing th e sam e o r sim ilar public work then th ey should not tie “b u ck -p assers.” W ith the oil road aud green du stless foliage th e Mc­ Kenzie valley is now one of th e leading vacation and picnic spots in th e west. Fifty m iles of Iasi ru n n in g cold w ater from th e snow fields, springs and lakes in the h ead w aters m ake it unlike m ost rivers in this co u n try . H undreds of to u rists visit th e McKenzie valley each y ea r and th e fam e of th e river is spreading w ider and wider. Im provem ents in th e re so rts and cam p g ro u n d s along th e strea m have kept pace w ith to u rists and excellent accom m odations can be had. We can all boost and none need apologize for the McKenzie riv er country. A strik e in a factory or m ine usually affects only those people involved hut a strik e in tra n sp o rta tio n ties up the goods of o th e r people, w ho are in th e end th e m ost dam aged. O th er m eans th a n strik in g should be em ployed to settle differences in th e tran sp o rta tio n industry. T hings are done d ifferently in this country. G eneral Jo h n so n recru ited five m en to tak e his place while lie went on a vacation. Adolph H itler killed 60 m en in G erm any to keep th em from tak in g his place aud th en went on a v ac a­ tion. Half of th e g o v ern m e n t's 13 billion dollar relief w ar chest is reported spent. Old m an recovery mus* com e back w ithin th e next y ear before the bottom of t ’ncle S am 's sack is reached. A third of th e federal forest«road m oney allotted to O regon will be spent in I.ane county. T h e W illainet'e and Siuslaw highw ays should be considerably im proved this next v ear T he D em ocrat newspai»ers seem to be w orrying m ost ab out th e fu tu re of the Republican party. __________ ----------------- S trik es som e people say are evidence of prosperity. Suppose then we all strike. T h e vine m aples are beginning to tu rn red. th a t this m eans an early w inter. Som e say Would there he an awful scene? She did not know what to make of (hie, but she had se«o Nancy's face She suntinoued all her courage "I don't think If right to treat tlte child so!" Mrs Gordon wiped Ihe tenre from her eyes. "Mhe'-> done It all lo save Roddy." "You think of nothing hut Itoddt' his voice broke siiddenlt "I'm thinking or my g ir l! ” "I'm thinking of Nancy, loo. What use la II to make u scandal of her marriage? She murrled Mut tan I can't think she'd do It If he didn't care for him Il's Its sgnliist nature!” I'm " Nancy Gordon trades heraelf In hand on the door. “Ok, yew, I hare marriage tor fifteen thousand dol —hut I didn't think of you I was "Fiddlesticks! Wltul's nature got tars—the price of her family taon- • sure that Nancy Gordon was en to do with It? Hite married that or—and the freedom of her brother. Roddy, who stole, for a woman, gaged to Page Roemer. She Is, Isn't that fellow to get the moray that amount from the bank In which t k » r quick for Roddy." He brought his he work». Nancy, desperately tn Richard held the door open for (1st down again on Ihe table "I'd love with young Page Roemer, her gravely. "I suggest that you like to (brash (he minister who nevertheless agree» to a secret a k her." was all he said. elopement with Dr. Richard Mor­ married them! What business haa Helena, laughed hut she said no gan. and with the money ho loans any man got to marry people lu her preveuts Roddy'» arrest. Dr. more She atood a moment, look­ that way? He ought tu have had Morgan is loved by Helena Had them both locked up In the police don. a sophisticated young married ing back at him An unhappy wo­ woman, bnt he adore» Nancy and man. unhappily In love with him. station I" hopes to win her after marriage. and he knew- It. • • • I In Washington they are married. "William Gordon, I've heard you Nancy is Richard's bride—and say yourself (hat you wished Mrs. Gordon was sitting In the afraid of hint Nancy'd stop flirting with »•age N o w Qo On W ith tbs S to ry--------------- old wicker rocking chair, by the Roemer and marry a decent matt library window, her hands lying IN S T A L L M E N T E IG H T like Richard Morgan!" Idle in her lap. She could not read, Then he »aw. lying on the she could not even knit; she had TO BE C O N T IN U E D table, one of Nancy's gloves. It lay cried over Roddy until her eyelids il » a . « s v ! t . . _ j w v h — — awaww there, holding the perfect form of were puffed and her eyea ached. way—only cheaper!" "Papa*" his wife almost shrieked Nancy's hand like a thing alive. He was safe, she knew It, hut—now He blushed up Io his hair, his eyes that she knew he was safe—she now, ”l>apa. you ought to be fixed on it. began to feel the disgrace that his ashamed of yourself!" “I am. I'm ashamed to have such "Sit down," he said formally, mere rescue from Jail could not drawing forward a chair that was wipe mil. Her boy had stolen children! I've got a pair of th em -- Sarvag not Nancy's. “You spoke of King- money ! The escape from punish­ the boy steals and Ihe girl sella heraelf to the first rich man who'll don. What's wrong with him?" ment did not sponge out the sin. Helena laughed bitterly, refusing Sl.e had hom e him and she had —who'll pay for h er!” "Hush!" Mrs. Gordon cried, the chair, her green eyes on him reared him and he was a thief His "King's reading Voltaire t s i w - l father called him that and she "hush. Papa!" Nancy, who had never stirred wish he had some real work to do i ringed from It as If she had been b-slde sitting In the back room at «truck a blow. She wanted to cry. from her table, did not lift her eyea the bank on great occasions. It's to throw herself Into some one's now. hut her while lips moved. For The Oregon Trail “Let hint alone Mama: It's true! awful to be rich and idle and hang arms and cry like a girl, but Mr. around all dav reading French. My Gordon was not receptive. He was Only a minister married us In father anil my brothers all worked: there He had come In from the church It—It wasn't an auction. I'm not used to idle men Richard. bank mid was sitting grimly up­ Papa ” Her father snorted with fury. I'll quarrel with him dreadfully If right In his chair, reading the "True! 1 reckon It Is! There's one he doesn't «<> off for golf I want rarer. . "Where ihe Servies la Dtffarenl” ^ ^ von to send him.” They had been sitting thus half thing I'd like to say to you, Richard moved over to the man­ an hour when she heard the famil­ though." he added with sudden and tel and rested his elbow on it. shad­ iar sound of the gate and started terrible courtesy. "If you’ll permit ing his face. ”1 can't urge any more «P. . me. Nancy?" «♦he choked back a sob of It. Helena. King's not strong "Papa. It's Nancy!" enough this pring Besides, he Just He )a