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Tuesday, January 231923 THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER. OREGON PAGE THREE ThejOY of LIVING I. ji SIDNEY GOWING l IUiutratiooa by Ellsworth Young Copyright 1922 by Sidney Ceing (Continued from last week) SYNOPSIS CHAPTER I. Disliking the prospect of ;a month's visit to her austere aunt, Lady Krythea Laoibe, at Jervaulx abbey, and lier cousin, Alexander Lambe, Aimee, vi vacious daughter of the Very Keverend "Viscount Scroope, Is In a rebellious mood. CHAPTER II. She wanders into the park, there encountering a strange youth in trouble with a motorcycle. He laugh ingly introduces himself as "Billy," Amer ican. The two cement the acquaintance by a ride on the motorcycle, the, "Flying Sphinx," and part. With Georgina Wer ners, her cousin, Aimee sets out for Jer vaulx. On the way she decides that Geor gina shall impersonate her at Jervaulx, while she goes on a holiday. Georyina's horrified protest is unavailing. CHAPTER ITI. Happy in her new free dom, Aimee again meets "Billy." He toils her his name is Spencer, and slie gives hers as Amy Snooks, at present "out of a job." Billy offers to take her into part nership in selling the Sphinx. In a spirit of madcap adventure, she accepts. Tile two proceed to the town of Slanhoe, talc ing separate lodgings in Ivy cottage. On the outskirts of the little mar ket town of Stnnhoe was 11 cyclist's rest-house. Here the two travelers hud tea under a laburnum tree on the lawn. Hilly locked the amazing motorcycle in a shed, by the proprie tor's leave, and the pair walked into the town on foot. Two more utterly Insouciant and care free young people never entered an English village on an April day. Iv'o jot of doubt, of fear, or hesitation assailed them. Billy, Intensely mas culine though he was, appeared to be possessed of a virgin mind. Such a thing, though uncommon, is by no means nonexistent among the sons of Adam. It may be that the air of the Colorado foothills favors its growth. His possession of it culled for no com ment from Aimee. Her mind was of the same color. It did not enter into their heads for a moment that anybody could put a dubious construction on their asso ciation with eacb other. Had such an Idea dawned, they might possibly have turned and parted company on the spot. Aimee left Hilly suddenly and ad dressed an Inquiry to an elderly man who stood beside a farmer's cart. In A moment she rejoined him. "Mrs. Sunning, 2 Ivy cottage, lets lodgings," announced Aimee trium phantly. "You don't mind lodgings, do you? Better than a hotel more freedom." "Freedom for mine!" said Billy. "Let's try It!" Ivy cottage proved to be a pretty little Jacobean building fronting on a green lane just outside Stanhoe. An apple-cheeked woman, who was pick ing weeds out of the path, announced herself as Mrs. Sunning, and Billy at once stated his needs, offering to pay In advance. "Why, yes, sir," she said, smiling, with a civil bob to Aimee. "I've a nice sitting room and a U'll bedroom ; Sirs. Dale, next door, has another. If you can do with that?" Mrs. Dale appeared, and continued the offer. Both of them looked at the pair with You Cannot SEE it, HEAR it or DODGE it There arc no "Stop, Look and Listen" signs to warn you against dangers of fire, theft or accident. You cannot see or hear the loss that may await you to morrow. But you can prevent the loss that follows the un fortunate t venuiclilios that surround all busino.-s. Insure today do not worry for tomorrow. Tiiis a-oncy r'p.fsnis th -!rtt and ptront comfani' S and solicits your full cor.! bit nee. Con.-uit us as you would your lawyer, without obligation. May we help you TODAY? L. E. VAN MARTER Phone Main 332 Dick Practical horsesHoer AT CALMUS SHOP Special attention given to lameandin terfering horses. I Guarantee Satisfaction. Give me a Trial smiling interest and wonder. "t'lreat !" said l'.ii!. "You tn'-e the room here, old chap, and I'll ia';e tl.e other. We'll i-hare the parlor." Aimee uccon;p;!i:ied Mrs. Sunning indoors ; tUe liirie iarlr w:;s clean and cozy, the bedroom, upstairs at lac back, tiny but clean. Aimee made her toilet, descended to the parlor and ordered a nival. Mrs. Sunning ueyuicsccd ia every thing. "He's a wunnerful pleasant gentle man, Mr. Spencer," she remarked, and then, hesitating and reddening, she looked at Aimee. "I I suppose, miss," she said with much embarrassment, "it's all right?" Aimee stared. "All right? How?" she said. "Ev erything's all right. Very much so!" The woman's eyes betokened belief and relief. "Bless your pretty face, who'd think anything else?" she said. "You'll ex cuse my askin', miss. You see, Lady Erythea is my landlord, and she owns all Stanhoe." Aimee felt a galvanic shock. "Whom did you say?" she asked dazedly. "Lady Erythea Lambe of Jervaulx abbey, the big place half a mile south the cross roads. She fare wunnerful strict, she do. It's as much as my tenancy's worth to have any goiugs-on here. That's all." The woman left the room. Aimee stared round her blankly, then col lapsed into n chair. She flung her arms across the table, buried her head in them, and broke into paroxysms of impish laughter. "Oh, my Christian aunt!" she sobbed. "My Georgie! My Alexan der!" Her shoulders were still shaking wildly when Billy came in. "Say, what's wrong?" lie exclaimed in alarm, as Aimee raised a tear stained face. "Crying eh? No, laughing! That's good! That's the cure for sentiment! But what's the joke?" "Just something I thought of, that's all," said Aimee, wiping her eyes. "That's all right," said Billy imper turbably. "Guess I ain't Inquisitive. But folks mostly tell me their troubles sooner or later." "I suppose they do," said Aimee, re garding him thoughtfully. Mrs. Sunning brought an abundant meal; chiefly eggs and tea. Aimee found It the merriest feast she had ever sat down to. Finally, she ac companied Billy to Mrs. Pale's door, and, returning, retired to her own room. Site was about to let down her hair, but desisted, and instead sat on the bed for some time, thinking. She heard Mrs. Sunning retire, and pres ently silence reigned throughout the house. A curious sense of loneliness crept over Aimee's spirit. She remained sitting for nearly half an hour. Pres ently she blew out the candle, and leaned out of the open window. The window of Billy's room at the other end of the building was in darkness. It had not taken Billy long to retire. Aimee stayed awhile at the window. She returned to the bed, and reflect ed again. In that reverie a vision floated before her as of trees and sun light, and her partner's yellow hair flickering In the breeze. "Billy !" she murmured thought fully. "Old chap!" She laughed gently. "He isn't a frump, anyhow!" The reverie took shape. Then, with a little sigh, she slipped off her shoes, and, carrying them with her, stole very softly down the staircase to the front door. On trying the door cautiously, she found It bolted, and the latch Immovable. Also no key was visible. She realized she was locked in the house. A feeling of intense annoyance seized Aimee. Where was the freedom Heppner Hotel Building Robnctt (: if" ' 1 1 4' i She Dropped. she had sought? She returned to her bedroom, put on her shoes, loaned out of the window, and Inspected the wall critically. It was covered with ivy and trellis-work. She swung herself cautiously out onto the sill, and began very quietly to descend the trellis. Aimee, active and long-limbed, could climb like a cat. And as noiselessly as any mem ber of that groat feline tribe, she dropped upon the soft soil of the gar den plot. CHAPTER IV In Deep. Georgina Hefners paced the floor of her bedroom at Jervaulx abbey, and wondered why the universe had not crushed in ruins about her tiead. "It's like a dream," she aid dazed ly, "I can't believe in it at all." To Georgina it came as an incred ible climax that she had, after live hours at Jervaulx, been dismissed to bed with an august but approving kiss from Lady Erythea, and a protective, cousinly hand-shake from the sedate Alexander Lambe. She bad not been denounced as an impostor, flung out with ignominy, or handed over to the police. All these things had seemed to Georgina not only possible but likely. "What on earth will happen when they (hid out?" she said, shivering. She commenced to disrobe, but had not proceeded very far when a hustle and a click were heard. Georgina turned with a gasp of fright. Some one was trying to force a way in at her window. She caught sight of a flushed face. With a shriek of terror Georgina re treated to the bed, and prepared to dive under it. "Don't make such a row, you fool!" hissed a voice. The casements swung Inwards, and Aimee, rather breathless, dropped onto the floor. "Handy things, these verandas," panted Aimee. "How are you, Geor gina, old thing?" Georgina stared at her In paralyzed amazement. Aimee sat down beside Georgina on the bed, and put an arm around her waist. "Well, what's happened here?" she said cheerfully. "Oh, I am so glad to see you!" ex claimed Georgina with Infinite thank fulness. "Now we can clear every thing up. It's been awful !" "Why? Have you given me away?" said Aimee quickly. "I haven't! You know I wouldn't!" cried Georgina hotly. "Though you ought to be whipped. I never said a word about you, and that's why I'm In this awful mess!" "Dear old Georgina! You're a brick!" said Aimee, hugging her. "I was only pulling your leg I knew you wouldn't sneak. But why Is It awful? Have they found out?" "When I got here," said Georgina feebly, "I thought I could explain somehow. But Lady Erythea met me on tile steps find took mo for you, and everything went right out of my head" "Good! I see. You hesitated and were saved." "Saved?" ejaculated Grorgiwi an- ,ki.i( To Ai) iiiiri'M.n I STAGE I TO HEPPNER . a. rn. p. in. Arlington Lv 9:00 2:00 Cecil Lv 10:20 3:20 Morgan Lv 10:35 3:35 lone Lv 11:05 4:05 Lexington Lv 11:20 4:30 Heppner Ar 11:55 4:55 TO ARLINGTON Heppner Lv 9:00 4:00 Lexington Lv 9:25 4:25 lone Lv 9:50 4:50 Morgan Lv 10:05 5:05 Cecil Lv 10:35 5:35 Arlington Ar 1 1 :55 6:55 WE SOLIC IT YOl'K I'ATKO.VAGK O. H. Mtl'lirrrfn It. ft. liurke "Well, I was saved. That's more !! rn.m. You haven't done ;riv-!l-:;;g wr. !:-, my snow-white I. nab. What ti cti?" "And then Mr. Lambe came out, and s! o imtv4uiv) 'dm as my cousin Al exander. And and I've been fright ened to death till t'u afternoon, for I haven't had a chance to put things right." Aimee sat back and looked at her in awestruck admiration. "You mean to say they've no sus picion at all?" she exclaimed. "Dear old Georgie, how deep you must have been. I never thought you had it in you !" "I didn't I wasn't!" said Georgina in almost tearful indignation. "I've hardly said a word all day, except 'yes' and 'no.' And not even that If I could help it." Aimee gurgled. "And a jolly safe line, too! I can see we've ulways underrated you, Georgie. And you mean to say they never even got an inkling, all through, that there was anything unusual? That does rather beat me." "There were one or two little things that puzzled them for a mo ment, I think," said Georgina reflec tively, "but It nil seemed to smooth Itself out. And oh!" she concluded, with a great gasp of relief, "I am so glad It's over and we can stop It. Now, how are we going to clear tilings up and make It all right for you?" "Stop It? I wouldn't stop it for a kingdom. It's perfectly splendid !" Georgina stood up. "Yoi are out of your senses," she said dazedly; "I won't listen to an other word! Think how fearful It would be if Alex if Mr. Lambe knew. He" "Alia Alexander! Yes. Is he as owlish as his photograph? What did you say to him, Georgina?" "I I hardly anything. He told me all about his missionary work in Man churia. Ho " "Where was that?" "In the rose garden" Georgina broke off suddenly. "Did he squeeze your hand?" Georgina was speechless with Indig nation. "You were thinking about him when you stood at the window !" said Ai mee, with the air of a prosecuting counsel. "You were being sentimen tal. I saw your face. It had that gooey look." "Aimee," said Georgina, fairly roused at last, "how dare you ! I am going straight to Lady Erythea, and you can talk to her! I have done " "No, no! I'm sorry, Georgie," said Aimee soothingly. "I couldn't help pulling your serene leg, I won't say a word against your cousin Alexan der." "He is a gentleman, at any rate," said Georgina, rather spitefully "he Is a person one can respect." "I am sure he Is." "Well, what are wo going to do?" "The thing for you to do," said Ai mee, "is to go on respecting Alexan der. And for him to go on respecting you. Think how awful it would be If It came out now. Alexander," said Aimee, with a pathetic little break In her voice, "is good. He doesn't get Into scrapes. He Isn't In horrible trouble like me and nobody to help me. I didn't think," she added with u gulp, "that you'd go back on me, Georgie!" "I won't and I can't," said Ueorglnn mournfully, "and you know It." But she softened visibly. "You haven't told me where you've come from, and what you've been doing! I've been frightfully worried ubout you." Aimee regarded her thoughtfully. It was clear that Georgina already had ull she could bear. This was no time to toll her about Billy. "You needn't worry about me. I'm staying at a little place nearby. I'm quite ull right, and I've got some money. We simply must keep It up for a few days father Is leaving Scroope Towers soon, and then I'll show you how we can smooth it all over." "But don't you see how Impossible it Is! Your father will come hen! to see you before he goes. And he he'll expect you to write to him !" "How bright you are tonight. Georgie. Von think of everything," said Aimee briskly. She sat down at the writing table by the wall, selected H sheet of the Jervaulx note-paper with tlie Lamb" arms three ib-rc argent on a tieid vert and with an Immensely serious face began to write rapidly, pausing ecca-i ac 'iv for thought. Georgina watched in fa-ci-nated horror. "Listeni" said Aimee, Motrn; t'ic sbect and read.ng it aloud with much satisfaction. (''ait inaed on P.iee l"ve For a City Beautiful. The proposal to make Indianapolis a city beautiful with flowers, as the Garden Flower society plans, is not an impossible, thing, and is an undertak ing whose gradual fulfillment should arouse enthusiasm among owners of property. For it Is a movement in which any and every one may join, each with no further responsibility than to beautify his own premises. LEGAL NOTICES A OTU1E OF CON l l iSX Serial No. 016780 017329 Department of the Interior United States Land Office Contest No. 1412 La Grande, Oregon, December 22, 1822 To Harry McKacy of Hitter, Oregon, Contestee: You are hereby notified that Har old J. Cox, who gives Heppner, Ore gon, as his post-off ico address, did on Dec. IS, 1922, file in this office his duly corroborated application to contest and secure the cancellation of your Homestead Entry No , Serial No. 0167S0 made Doc. 2, 11) .16, for Lots 6, 7, 8, 9, Sec. 7, Tp. 7 S., It. 29 0. and S. 1-2 NE Vi, E. 1-2 NW U Sec. 12, Tp. 7 S., II. 28 E. W. M. and Add'n. II. E., No. 017329, made Mar. 20, 1920, for Lots 3 and 4, W 1-2 SW Vt SE Vi SW Vi Sec. 1, Tp. 7 S., II. 28 E, and Lots 20 and 21, Sec. 6, Township 7 S Kange 29 E., Willamette, Meridian, and as grounds for his contest ho alleges that said Harry McKaey has failed to make the improvements thereon required by laws of the United States; that ho has abandoned said land and has not been on the same for three years; that his true name is not Harry McKaey but is Harry H. Henderson; that his absence from the land was not due to any military ser vice. You are, therefore, further not' fied that tho said allegations will bt taken as confessed, and your said en try will be canceled without further right to be heard, either before this office or on appeal, if you fail to file in this office within twenty days after tho FOURTH ptiblicalion of Bus & VVm. M. KIRK, Proprietor We Thank you for past patronage and solicit a continuance of the same. Our best service is for you. Leave orders at Case Furniture Co, or Phone Main 664 Leave Orders at Hotel Patrick, BAGGAGE. EXPRESS. FRETGHT. COUNTRY TRIPS & GENERAL HAULING The Well Dressed Man Is Admired and Respected Let us put your clothes in good condition loyci nutcmnson Tailoring s&l 1 Wlipro thfv WE BUY POULTRY Highest Prices paid for Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks and Geese delivered at our poultry yards in Heppner. Cornett & Merritt, Heppner, Oregon Phone Main 615 Heppner Herald $2.00 per Year this notice, as shown below, your an swer, under oath, specifically re sponding t' these allegations of con test, together with due proof that you have served a copy of your an swer on the said contestant either ia person or by registered mail. You should state in your answer (he name of tho post office to which you desire future notices to bo sent to you. CAUL G. HELM, Register. J. H. 1'EARE, Receiver. Date of first publication, January 2, 1 923. Date of second publication, Janua ry 9, 1923. Date of third publication, January 16, 1923. Date of fourth publication, Janua ry 23, 1923. NOTICE OK KMKKIPK'K SALE OP Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of an execution duly issued out of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Morrow coun ty by tho Clerk of said Court on the 8th day of January, 1923, pursuant to a judgment duly rendered and en tered in said Court on tho 3rd day of March, 1922, in a certain action in said Court wherein Julian Ranch, Wits plain! iff and Frank Ayers, and J. B. Coxon, were defendants, and in which action tho plaintiff recovered judgment against tho said defendants for the sum of $500.00, with inter est thereon from tho 11th day of January, 1920, at the rate of eight per cent per annum, less tho sum of $1-16. 19 paid thereon February 20(h, 1 922, for tho further sum of $50.00, attorney's fees and $21.00 cost and disbursements of said action, I will on Thursday, tho 8th day of Feb ruary, 1 923, at tho hour of 10:00 o'clock in tho forenoon of said day at tho front door of the Court Hon- in tho city of Heppner, Morrow coun ty, Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, tho fol lowing described real property, sit uated In Morrow county, Oregon, to- wit: Tho South half of tho North east quarter of Section 17 in Township 2 Soulh of Range 26 Hast of Willamette Meridian. Tho said real property is taken and levied upon as the property of tho de fendant, J. B. Coxen, and tho said sale is made subject to confirmation by the said Court. Dated this 9th day of January, 1 923. G F.O. MoDDFFEB. 3 7-11 Sheriff. Transfer Co. El lothei lean lit