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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1927)
Alabaster ; lamps I I By 1 K Margaret Turnbull CoprrUjht, till, r Huimt Tuaaall. WNUSsrvto CHAPTER VIII Continued 14 "We'll stop on our way to tho sta tlon and get Mrs. Pulslfer to come and look after the house. Good night, dear, and If you dream of drowning, Just call Mother." Mary loolred at her mother, land ing In the doorway and ready to anap the light out "Lot! old thing," ahe called, "go and get your own beauty sleep. I'll bare pleasant dreamt," When the darkness enfolded her, however, ahe made dlitlnctly wry face. Sow much, ahe wondered, waa the buttneaa necetslty In thla con templated trip to New York, and how much wai It her mother'a plan not to let the next chapter begin with the grocer'a clerk I In her own room, Mra. Johnson disrobed, ber heart beating to the tune of one monotonous chant, which ran thus: "Not yet, Claude Dabbs, not yet shall you know about Mary." Then ahe planned her next more, which waa to eliminate Dabba and hla too engaging nephew from Mary's life and from her own. Claude Dabba watted until he knew there waa no answer and no return of the money. Then It WAS Polly. He turned out the light, but teeing ' that the library waa still occupied, looked In. Ned waa sitting at the window, smoking.. He looked np aa Claude came Into the room, and aald, "Welir It lookf aa If It waa Polly. I feel that It la, crazy aa It may teem to you. I hope ahe got all I meant, aa well aa the money." Ked turned on him, more excited than Dabba had yet keen him. "The girl I Cncle Claude, you'll hare to explain things to ber, won't your "Tea, but who la the? That'a what I want to get at," Claude aald. Ills tone was that of a man hard-driven, holding on to hla patience by sheer will power. "It she an adopted dangbterT Who waa her father, and how old la ahe? Why do you think I told you what I did the other night. If It wasn't that I wanted to know who the girl lsT Ned crossed to him, and put hla band on hla shoulder. "I give you my word, Claude Dabba, ! dldo't realize It Fm not more In nocent nor more ttupld than the av erage, but I alept through the last part of your story and my mind has been on other things. I didn't get you t all. Do yon mean to aay you" "Tea," and thla time Claude's con trol snapped. "I want to know whether she's mine or not" He wrenched himself away from Neds hand. 1 don't know that It will make a blamed bit of difference to anyone but me, but I'd like to know." The morning came and went with out newt from the White house. 41y thlt time Ned wat anxious. He had promised Claude to wait for him until ha returned from a trip to the expreaa office. Immediately on hit return Ned fol lowed Cauda Into the private office. "Met Ettie Pulslfer on the wood road this morning going to the White house. Hhe't got orders to pack the trunks, set the house In order, and lock up. The key and the trunks are to be sent to New York. Sayt It was Mrs. Johnston who telephoned. Saya the girl aald they were only going up for the day, but the mother never opened her mouth. What do you think of Itr "Looks to me, C. M., at though Mrs. Johnston wanted to keep Miss John ston from you," and added mentally, but did not aay It "or me." "That's whnt I doped out" "Did you And out from Mrs. Pul slfer where the trunks were to got" "Sure." He took out a small leather notebook and opened It: "Hotel Plaza, New York." "I!y O d. I believe you're right and It la folly, up to her old tricks. Never fares anything, but always runs away. Well, this time two can play thai game. This time I'm going after her." Ned, who already had made up his mind to follow Mary, cost what It might snd prepared to break from Peace Valley and Claude Dubbs If need be, took him up at once with "That's the way to talk." "Yeh, I know," Claude admitted, shrewdly. "It'l the way you think I ught to have talked and done, twenty Tears ago. Hut I didn't have the tioney." "I've got the money," Ned begun, out Claude atopied him peremptorily with: "So have L Enough for both. Don't oother about money." "In that case," began Ned, but never finished the sentence, for young John came In to say that Ned was wanted on the long-distance telephone. "Switch It In here, then, cnn't you?" Dabba demanded. Nod reached for the receiver. Aa he did so, Claude, with hla usual doll cacy, left the room. Mary Johnston waa on the wire. Ned, thrilled, heard her -voice toll ing htm thut Mrs. rulstfor lmd the key of the house and waa to close It but would he tee that little Phoebe Bayer received the borrowed gur menta bark safely? Would he also tell Phoebe that ahe waa sending her some books aa little remembrance ? As for Mr. Carter himself, she would never, never forget all he had done for her, and the waa so sorry she could not aee him again. They were sailing In few days. "Sailing? Where?" "I'm not quite sure, but think Eng land first Mother decided suddenly." "But you can't go yet I beg par don, Mlsa Johnston, but I wanted to see you. I'd something to aay. I" "Yea, yea, Mr. Carter. I'll be so such obliged If you'll tell PlaiH'be, and here It Mother, she'll be to grateful, too." "Rut Mlsa Johnston Mary " "Goodby, Mr. Carter." At the other end of the line tht re ceiver waa bung up. Claude came In and found Ned with his hand still on the telephone re ceiver, his fare a study In perplexity. What's up?" "They're going abroad, and soon. We've got to start things, right now. How soon can you get ready V "Ned!" Claude gasped. "Abroad! I hadn't really planned anything like that! Why, by Jlmlny, Ned, I've never traveled farther than New York." "Time you did. Look here, Claude Dabba, are you going to alt here In Peace Valley and let everything slide aa you did before, or are you going to flod out the truth about Mary?" . "If that girl's mine, I mean to know It" Thlt waa to exactly Ned's state of mind that he found himself glaring at C M.. aa at a rival, and with diffi culty refrained from retorting, "So do L" Fortunately hla brain told him that thla waa no time to tell Mary's possible father. If Indeed that wat Claude's proud position, hit hon orable Intentions. "Then you'd better come out Into the world with me, and pursue Mrs. Polly Johnston." "I'm coming," Claude told him. "You go to New York tomorrow, Ned. and If we can't get the same steamer. In Her Room Mra, Johnson Disrobed. well take the next 111 fix things here while you And out Polly's plana. I'll join you In New York." "Ill go tonight" "All right snd Dl Join you tomor row, and and the beat on the ship, Ned. You're my guest." "I have money." "Yeh, but you're coming with me, and we're going to need plenty, es pecially If you're" Claude stopped abruptly and finished rather lamely, "traveling with me." Ned wondered what was on his mind. He wat amazed at thlt Claude Dabba. , . Claude gave him clue almost Im mediately. "Are yon Carter or 'Rangely' thlt trip?" Ned slid to hit feet and fared him, but Claude stopped him before he could apeak. "You aee, Ned, Mist Selden tele phoned the station day or ao ago and tent a telegram to your father. It tald that hla ton wat living here under the name of 'Carter.' Quest the girl didn't realize she waa on party wire and what thut means In the country." Ned stopped him. "You mean to say you knew?" "Sure, I've known ever since you met the girl. She volunteered the In formation." "And you never asked me a tingle question V "Why should I? Ain't we friends? I know you'd tell me when you were good and ready." Ned drew nearer and put out hit hand. "Thanks. Do you want to know why?" Claude smiled and shook hit head as he took Ned't hand. "I guess not You see, I d know Loren Kangeley, and of all the old well, never mind and excuse me, Ned, for he's your father, and of course that's one thing to his credit. All I mean to suy It If there't two eldet to any question tnd Loren Ktingeley'e on one, let me get on the other." "You know my father!" "Only Just In a business way Thlt heled N-d very little. What could the great Loren Rnngeley have to do with a country grocer? Sus picions begun to cross hla mind. P fore he could stop himself, he said' "I say, I'nclo Claude, what are you holding nut on me?" To hla surprise, Claude Dabbs looked positively confused. "You're dead right, Ned, I haven't been entire ly open with you either, but that can wait. All you have to tell me Is whether you'll be 'Carter' or 'Kange ley' on thla trip." Ned hesitated. "I'd rather be 'Car ter,' but we're apt to meet people who know me at Itangeley, ao Carter's off." "Heat both of ua aall under our true colore from now on and Just be our natural, brutal selves. Well, get un der way, Ned, and I'll start things here. Jlmlny! Polly won't leave me gasping this time, though It never would have occurred to me to follow but for you." Mary Johnston had departed from Clover Hollow with the expectation of returning on the afternoon train, or the next morning at the latest. They went directly to the Plaia. where her mother left Mary and took her own way to the lawyer's ofllce. At least that was the version Mary was allowed to believe. As a matter of fact, Mrs, Johnston went directly to Loren Rangcley'a bank, waa ushered at once Into the president's private office and held a long consultation. At the end she had negotiated loan on the land; so that much of her version waa true. She had also told Mr. Kangeley that she wished to get away on the first steamer to Europe, where she could live better and cheaper than ahe could here. It would be better to atay there until her financial position became se cure, or at least Improved, and It would serve to take Mary away from an undesirable suitor. Loren Kangeley listened, gravely sympathetic. Hla quick, cold eyes noted that Mrs. Johnston hsd lost none of her charm for blm; that she wore very well Indeed. The loan he was making waa amply secured. In deed, there waa every chance of the land experiencing t boom. He was In possession of facta that made this almost a surety, but he did not tell her so. It stilted his purpose that while he waited and made up hla owa mind, she should not be In a position to know that financially she was quite secure. He agreed with her that It would be better to go abroad with the girl. It Is to be noted that even with thla lead, and the fact that Mrs. Johnston had been ataylng In the town Dorothy Selden had wired from, he asked no questions concerning his son. He could and did, by the mere summon ing of a private secretary, secure tor Mrs. Johnston accommodation on t steamer. When do you wish to sail?" Range ley asked. "Saturday," aald Mrs. Johnston coolly. Somehow she did not like his smiling scrutiny any better this time than she had the last. It would be better to escspe before he brought the battery of hla elderly charms to bear upon her. I n her present financial condition It might be difficult to hold him off successfully. Flight now, might be ss useful In her esse as In Mary's. . Mr. Itangeley was mldlly surprised at this sudden action, but on the whole pleased. He meant to go abroad thla summer himself. Nothing like promptnesa In action. Mary's suitor must be Indeed objectionable to cause Mra. Johnston to take such drastic measures. Mra. Johnston left, with the money and the steamer reservations. At the last moment Mr. Itangeley told her that business might compel him to cross over, possibly within a few daya, but Polly Johnston refused to bor row trouble. She took a cab back to the Plaza to break the newt to Mary. Mary listened without speaking, and with wide, homesick eyes. It waa Incredible! What waa there to bold Mary In this country? Mrs. Johnston had Invented the atory about the aultor to ault her own purposes, without really visualizing Ned In the background to give her fib color. Had she unconsciously told the truth? It could not be possible that her wonderful Mary had any real feeling about the grocer's clerk. If she had, then thank the Lord they were g 'lng! Hut she would let Mary Infer that It was to escape Loren Itangeley. Ills name once mentioned, Mary made no protest It was only when they were dressed for dinner, and their guests had been announced, that Polly ventured to tell the girl the tailing date wat Satur ray. 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