r Tues'day, February 6, 1923
THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
PAGE THREE '
TheJOY
of
LIVING
SIDNEY GOWING
IllmtnuiocM by Ellsworth Young
Copyright 19M ty Sidney Cowing
(Continued from last week)
SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER I.-Dlsliking the prospect of
a month's visit to her austere aunt, Lady
Krythea Lambe, at Jervaulx abbey, and
lier cousin, Alexander Lambe, Almee, vi
vacious daughter of the Very Reverend
Viscount Scroope, Is In a rebellious mood.
CHAPTER Il.-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
ty a ride on the motorcycle, the, "Flying
Sphinx," and part. With Georgina Ber
bers, her cousin, Almee sets out for Jer
vaulx. On the way she decides that Geor
gina shall impersonate her at Jervaulx,
while she goes on a holiday. Georgina's
horrified protest is unavailing.
CHAPTER III. Happy in her new free
dom, Almee again meets "Billy." He tells
l,er his name is Spencer, and she gives
hers as Amy Snooks, at presest "out of a
Job." Billy offers to take her into part
nership in selling the Sphinx. In a spirit
of madcap adventure, she accepts. The
two proceed to the town of Stanhoe, tak
ing separate lodgings in Ivy cottage.
CHAPTER IV. That night Almee visits
Georgina and learns that the deception
has not been discovered. By her dominant
personality she compels Georgina to con
tinue the subterfuge.
CHAPTER V.-On a trial spin next day
on the Sphinx, with Billy, Aimee almost
collides with a carriage in which are her
aunt, Georgina and Alexander. The pair
escape unrecognized.
CHAPTER VI. Georgina learns that
Lord Scroope is coming to visit Lady Ery
thea and, realizing what will happen on
his arrival, is In hopeless bewilderment
CHAPTER VII. While Almee is secretly
visiting Georgina at Jervaulx, the place is
burglarized. Aimee escapes.
CHAPTER VIII.-Georgina learns, with
much relief, that Almee has got away,
CHAPTER IX. Police Inspector Panke
decides that the robbery Is the work of
"Jack the Climber" and "Calamity Kate,"
noted thieves, who travel on a motorcy
cle. CHAPTER X
Action and More.
Billy Spencer, sitting In his austere
ly furnished bedroom, looked unusu
ally thoughtful. The night was still
young, but his candle was not lit The
whole house, Indeed, was in darkness.
He sat on the window sill and stared
out Into the night. At last he wan
dered back to the bedside, his hands
thrust In his pockets.
"The partner," he said pensively,
"'has got something on her mind. A
follow doesn't need any X-rays to see
that."
His Hps curled down at the corners.
"I'd give a lot to know what it Is.
I hate to seem Inquisitive. But I'd
linte a lot worse to have anything hap
pen to the pnrtner. An' I cnn sure
smell trouble coming. She doesn't
fear man or devil. But that isn't al
ways goln' to help a girl. There's
times when It's more useful to call up
a husky with big feet like me.
"She'd sure be mad If she thought
I was interfering. And she can get
mad the partner. Gee I but she's
great! The dinkiest thing that ever
happened. But I don't like the way
things are framing."
He stood for a while, as If listen
lng; then sighed and lay down on the
lied, fully dressed. In twenty seconds
lie was asleep, breathing regularly and
easily.
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It was a doglike sleep, of wrucn
some men hold the faculty, and very
doglike was the manner In which Billy
roused himself some hours later. In
a moment he was broad awake, and
swinging his legs off the bed, sat lis
tening with cocked ears. He moved
swiftly to the window and peered out.
There was nothing to be seen. Billy
remained where he was for some sec
onds, all his senses alert. Then, with
a gesture of decision, he snatched up
his cap, heaved himself out of the
window, and climbed down the trellis.
He came silently under Almee's
bedroom window, glanced up at the
open casement, took a little nickel
torch from his vest pocket, and bent
down. Shading tha glow with his
hand, he examined the soft soil be-
There Were Five Little Shoe Prints
Visible.
neath the window. There were five
unmistakable neat little shoe-prints
visible; the first pair deep and point
ing Inwards to the wall, the others
leading outwards.
Billy at once ran noiselessly round
to the garden gate and peered up and
down the lane. No one visible. He
returned quickly, got a rake from the
shed, and carefully raked over the
footprints ; also those beneath his own
window. Then he made for the gate,
and, after a moment's thought, un
locked the shed where the Flying
Sphinx reposed. He wheeled the
cycle out, freeing the engine, and tip
toed softly down the path with It.
Not till he was clear of the lane
and well out on the high road did Billy
start the Sphinx, and then only at a
very gentle pace. At an easy seven
miles an hour he ambled along the
road, heading for Jervaulx abbey.
It would have surprised Almee
Scroope considerably had she guessed
for one moment how far Billy was
abreast of affairs. The carefree, in
souciant Billy, who seemed to live for
nothing but the Sphinx, was Infinitely
more wideawake than people gave
him credit for. The cool blue eyes
missed very little; the brain behind
them was able to connect facts to
gether shrewdly.
Almee had not the faintest suspi
cion that anybody at Ivy cottage knew
she had made an unconventional exll
by the window the night before. Billy,
however, was perfectly well aware of
the fact. Early that same morning,
before setting off for Syderford, he
had observed the footprints beneath
her window, which, to a keen eye,
told plainly that Almee had dropped
from the trellis, and later on had re
gained her room by the same path.
Clearly the partner had made a mid
night excursion for a very definite oh-
Heppner Hotel Building
Ject; people do not roam the country
side In the small hours tor nothing.
The Incident of the carriage on the
Stanhoe road puzzled Billy; he had
mentioned the carriage casually to
Mrs. Sunning saying nothing about
the collision and learned that It could
belong to none other than Lady Ery
thea of Jervaulx abbey. He was told
a good deal about that establishment.
It was easier to start Mrs. Sunning
talking than to stop her.
Obviously, Amy had something to
fear from Jervaulx ; something that
bound her to secrecy, and led her to
run risks. It annoyed Billy that she
should have anything to fear what
ever. "Sometimes," said Billy to himself,
as the lodge gates of Jervaulx came
In sight, "a broncho Ally with the
spring blood in her will get doin'
stunts an' galloping among the gopher
holes. When they do that they're
liable to fall an' break a caunon-bone.
It's the same with her. If she doesn't
want me, why she doesn't. But if she
does, I'm going to be right there."
lie dismounted some little distance
short of the park entrance. The dark
pile of the abbey was visible, a quar
ter of a mile across the grasslands.
Billy paused and reflected. The
Journey could be nothing more than a
scouting expedition. He wished very
much that he had been closer on Al
moe's tracks.
Just then he observed a light flash
out In one of the abbey windows.
Faint, tlntlnnabulutory sounds were
borne to him upon the night breeze
the clanging of a bell.
lie watched the house with alert
and thoughtful eyes. In a few mo
ments two dim figures became visible,
moving swiftly. An imaginative on
looker might have thought them to be
goblins, gamboling across the sward.
But they kept an uncommonly straight
line, crossing the park and bending
for a point a few hundred yards to
Billy's right. Two people running
swiftly.
Billy followed them with his eyes.
The foremost was long-Ilmhed, scud
ding along with giant strides. The
other, close behind, moved no less
swiftly, but it was a figure of vague
outlines, apparently wearing a cloak
or dust-coat. They vanished from
sight against the park fence where
the lane turned.
"If that ain't a hold-up," said Billy,
starting away from the fence, "there
never was one yet!"
He heard the cough and splutter of
a starting motorcycle under tall trees
far up the lane. For one moment he
listened, than made a dash for the
Sphinx.
"A get-away I" said Billy. "My Job !"
He threw his leg over the Sphinx
and whirred off round the corner. He
lifted his chin and gave a Joyous
laugh, like the bay of a hound. The
lust of the hunter was In his blood.
Tha rider ahead, already aware thnt
he was being chased, let out Uis ma
chine at breakneck speed. Tta ray
from Billy's lamp showed him a man
crouching low between the handle
bars, his arms spread like the wings
of a bat. On tha pillion behind
crouched a small, muffled figure.
"Give up I" shouted Billy, as he
overtook them. "You can't make It.
I've got you I"
A hand stretched out from the fig
ure on the pillion, and emitted a hark
ing flash of Are. It dazzled Billy for
tha moment. Something zipped
through his hair; automatically his
left hand tightened on the valve-lifter
and the Sphinx slowed, allowing the
other cycle to shoot ahead.
Billy made a lurid remark, and at
once Increased speed again to closa
with the fugitives. Right ahead the
lane forked on to the main road, and
thither the driver of the other cycle
was obviously heading. But tha lights
of a car were In sight, approaching
rapidly on the road. The rider of the
cycle had evidently no ambition to
meet It ; at the last moment ho
swerved left and continued along tha
narrow lane.
Billy laughed aloud.
"The guy's cornered himself I" he
thought. "He's taken the blind alley.
Me for him !"
The lane was very rutty and nnaven.
The cycle ahead had vanished round
a bend; Billy, shutting off his engine,
swung round It Immediately after
ward. As he did so he heard a crash.
The driver of the othar cycle, realiz
ing too late that he was In a cul-de-sac,
had swerved, braked violently,
and came thoroughly to grief.
Billy sprang from the Sphinx, let
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ting her fall on her side wltn the
headlight still glowing. Tha other
cycle lay prostrate; a small heap was
huddled beside it on the grass.
The taller man, the driver, was Just
staggering to his feet when Billy ran
at him. The cyclist whipped out a
repenting pistol.
A gun, at night, and In the hands
of a shaken man, Is much less certain
than a flst with six feet of activity
behind it. Billy's left dashed the pis
tol band aside, the bullet spat lm-
poteutly Into the air, and his right
came with a terrific upper-cut beneath
the man's chin, lifting him off his feet
to fall inert.
As he came down, something
skipped and rolled awny from him
along the grass. In the ray of the
Sphinx's headlight. With the swift
Instinct for loot Billy pounced upon
it a sumptuous looking little casa of
leather, with a clasp. Billy thrust It
In his pocket and turned to the fallen
man, who lay with closed eyes and
his head moving faintly from side to
side.
"Mighty slow with a gun," said
Billy, stooping over him. "I'm going
over you for the rest of tha goods,
Bud."
A moan from the other malefactor,
lying by the fallen cycle, Interrupted
him. So pathetic and treble a monn
was It that Billy started and Jerked
himself upright, stnring.
"Lordy!" he gaspad, with remorse
and concern. "It's a woman I"
The discovery was disconcerting
enough. But a thought shot through
his brain that nearly paralyzed Billy.
What woman was It?
He hurried to her side. She had
already raised herself on one hand
and seamed trying feebly to get up.
Billy stooped over her.
"Much hurt?" he stammered.
"Here"
At that moment the fallen driver
recovered and stirred. Billy turned
his head toward him, with a quick
Instinct tha danger lay closer at
hand.
The woman's hand was grasping a
stone, and, as Billy turned, she
brought her arm round with a swot'p,
swift as a striking snake. The chunk
He Fell aa an Ox Falls.
of rock crashed full on the side of
Billy's head. lie fell as an ox falls,
and lay still.
The woman staggered to her f set
and ran to her prostrate companion.
"He's got his!" she panted. "You
hurt, Jake?"
She helped the man to rise. He
stood dazedly for a moment ; the spi
nal Jar from a knock-out undar the
point of the chin is terrlllc, but evan
escent. "Look lively an' beat It!" gasped
the woman, hauling the motorcycle
upright with surprising ease. "See If
the bulglne'll run we'll have the cops
here next I"
"Got to settle with blm !" said the
man thickly, glancing at the prostrate
Billy.
"He's all In, I tell you. Oct her
going!"
The man wrenched tha motorcycle
round, and fumbled at the feed and
controls with nervous fingers. While
he did so the woman snatched up an
other stone, and, running to the
Sphinx,, hnmnierert. on. the ngjne and
the levets. She had dealt threeor
four lusty strokes when the other
motorcycle came spitting and wob
bling past her. The woman rnn to
it and swung hersalf up deftly behind.
"Let her out. We'll clear yet !"
The motorcycle, coughing and miss
ing fire badly, trundled back down the
lane the way It had come. Jack the
Climber leaned to the handla-bars,
Calamity Kate, her arms tight round
him, settled herself on the pillion.
Together they whirred away Into the
darkness.
CHAPTER XI
Confession.
It was very dark and vary quiet at
the lane's end when Billy at last
stirred, and, after an Interval of
slowly returning consciousness, man
aged to raise himself dizzily to a sit
ting position.
He pressed his hands to the side
of his head and ranialned for awhile
motionless, conscious of n damp
warmth under his left palm. His eyes
dwelt on a white, chalky stone, as
big as a doubled flst, that lay on the
grass beside him. Events began to
reconnect themselvas In a bruin that
still buzzed faintly.
"A granite skull," murmured Billy,
not without a touch of pride, "isn't
altogether a disadvantage In an argu
ment." lie looked about him thoughtfully.
Not far away something gleamed In a
rut a small repeating pistol. Ills
late opponents had evidently left in
too much of a hurry to take an in
ventory of their effects,
"She must lur-e dropped that when
the machine crashed," thought Billy.
"She loos?d It at nie when I was rid
ing up. Lucky for nie she hadn't lt
Just now. Some girl !"
He heaved himself to his foot un
steadily, made for a ditch where
there was a glitter of water, and
bathed tha tender side of his head.
The water revived him ; save for u
cut under bis hair, no serious damage
was done, though the blow might
easily have cracked a weaker skull.
"I don't see that I shine much, ovar
this Job," said Billy despondently;
"they sure handed it to me. Got right
under my guard. Never thought of a
woman sharing in a hold-up; an' jet 1
guess It's been done before."
Ha picked up the pistol, wns about
to pocket It, but altered his mind and
flung lt In the ditch. The other auto
matic was nowhere to be seen. Billy
walked towards the Sphinx, the head
lamp of which was now In darkness.
Ills hand swung against a largo lump
projecting from the slda of his coat,
lie halted and dragged out the lenther
case, Billy had forgotten lis exist
ence. "Why, here's something saved from
the wreck!" ha exclaimed. "They
couldn't have seen me get lt !"
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