HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1927.
PAGE THREE
CHAPTER I
A Fatal Smashup.
"Another little drink won't do us
any harm!"
The two young men in the small
car Bang it together, a reedy tenor
and a pleasing baritone. They were
on the river road, coming south from
Burley to their home town, Scottdale.
The hour was 10 o'clock of a mild
spring evening. A moon whose rays
were Altered by thin clouds illumined
the road running through well-timbered
bluff lands. Below and at the
right, the river shone with a subdued
light. It could be heard splashing
about the rocks in the rapids.
The driver of the little car brought
it to a stop in the road. He hud
dark hair and eyes and regular fea
tures. He was considered good look
ing, though there was weakness in
his eyes and about the loose set of
his mouth.
"Come across with that bottle, Ed
die," he commanded. He placed his
hand against the side of the other's
head and pushed violently. He was
boisterous and a little malicious.
"Quit it, you nut!" commanded
Edison Forbes, knocking the other's
hand down sharply He produced a
flask from the lower, outside pocket
of his coat. It was a little over half
full. He passed it to the other, who
took it eugerly, removed the cork,
and tilted the bottle. The liquor gur
gled down his throat.
Forbes jerked it away. "Hey,
what's the matter with you?" he ask
ed, half-laughing, half-vexed. "Trying
to get away wit) ten dollars worth
of booze in one swallow?" He raised
the bottle and looked at it humor
ously, trying to determine the exact
quantity against the moon. "Come
home to your drunken old father!"
was his address to the bottle. He
too tilted it.
The liquor was Canadian whiskey,
but a reproach to the name when
compared to that imported before
The moon had temporarily conquered the clouds and was now shin
ing brightly. They saw that the driver of the car, a woman, was dead
the passage of the Eighteenth Amend
ment. For this hnd been manufactured
for an illicit, eager, not too discrim
inating trade. It had passed through
several hands before importation.
Each middleman had done something
to cheapen and degrade it before
passing it on.
The stuff was strong with the
strength of vitriol and it lapped at
the throat and stomach-lining l'ke
liquid fire. The young men gasped
and coughed, the barbaric stuff
brought water to their eyes, and all
but choked them. There was an in
stant and savage kick to it.
"Little close harmony now, old
kid," suggested the dnrk youth,
thumping Forbes on- the shoulder.
' They swung into a favorite of the
training-camp quartets:
"Farewell, farewell, my own true
love,
Farewell, farewell "
A high-pitched scream of mortal
terror; another; and then a crash
and a tinkling of glass, cut across
the song. They stopped instantly.
"What's that?" queried the tenor,
fright in his weak voice.
"Sounds like a smashup ahend," re
plied Forbes, rapidly. "Let's go."
The other was unnerved by the
portent of trngedy. He was trembl
ing. He mBde three attempts to start
the car before he succeeded. The
road at this point curved rnther
sharply as it followed the edge of the
bluffs, so that little was visible in
front but the tall trees.
They had proceeded but a short dis
tance when a turn brought them to
the scene of the accident. A south
bound truck was well on the wrong
side of the road. It was in collision
with a touring-car which, in an effort
to avoid the truck, had dropped into
n ditch which bisected the roadway.
The ditch was planked only across
the narrow surface of the built-up
highway at this point.
The truck had forced the car down
ward and back, so that its renr wheels
were in the ditch. The truck hnd
partly telescoped it. The mnssivc
wheels and forwnrd end rested on the
crusHcd-in bonnet of the car.
All this Forbes and his companion
saw as they stopped their own car
and made a hasty survey. The moon
had temporarily conquered the clouds
i.nd now shone brightly. They saw
that the driver of tho car, a woman,
was dead. She hnd been crushed be
tween the back of the car and the
Bteering-wheel. She still sat upright
the nose of the truck against her
body.
The driver of the truck wns in his
place. His arms were on the steering-wheel.
Ilia head rested on his
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arms. The truck windshield had been
broken. This was the only damage
to the heavier vehicle. It loomed, a
shapeless bulk, under its closely fas
tened tarpaulin. The body of the
truck was tilted from the road at a
dangerous angle.
Forbes' companion ad been sober
ed by the spectacle. He stood by and
wrung his hands ineffectively. Forbes
climbed into the seat of the truck
and raised the driver's 'head. The
man opened his eyes. It was appar
ent that he was partially duzed by
the shock. But there was raw liquor
on his breath. "What's the matter?"
he mumbled, stupidly.
"1 thought so!" snarled Forbes. He
turned to his companion. "It's Scoot
Libbey. I bought our booze from him
at Burley." Retaining his grip on
the man's collar he backed off the
seat, drugging the bulky, feebly re
sistant Libbey with him.
"You fool!" he suid fiercely, when
they had stumbled to the ground.
"Running a booze-truck, and without
tense enough to keep sober. See what
you've done?"
He jerked the man roughly about
so that he could see the havoc his
leckless driving had created: The
little cur, partly under the truck, and
looking as though it were being de
voured by the ruthless monster as
tride it: and the body in the telescop
ed seat. "You've killed that woman."
Forbes shook the driver savagely.
I.ibbey's eyes opened wide. His juws
sagged apart. His nose, broken and
twisted in some past bruVl, threw a
grotesque shadow across his face. He
backed away from the sight that
Forbes' hands forced him to look up
on. "Lenime go, Eddie," he urged
huskily. "Lemme get away from
here!"
Forbes' was sinewy and strong. He
was very little taller th:m the driver
and much lighten, but he held the
bulbous Libbey easily. "Get away!"
he echoed contemptuously. "Y'ou'll
get away with ubout ten years for
manslaughter. They'd ought io hang
you!"
CHAPTER II
The other's shoulders slumped sul
lenly. His brief struggle hud revealed,
j.pparem ly. that escape wns impos
sible. He was an employee of a
booze-ring which was smunpling con
traband liquor into the United States
by the shipload, and so was admit
tedly within the shadow of the law.
Forbes himself had, only an hour be
fore, persuaded the driver to break
open one of the eases stacked beneath
the shrouding canvus, and sell him a
bottle from ils contents.
"What'll we do, Eddie?" implored
the dark-haired youth, shivering from
the upset to his nerves; "try to get
her out?"
"Wc can't until help comes," re
turned Forbes. The river road was
little used, except by the few farmers
living along it. That is the reason
the booze truck, making the long run
to Detroit, had chosen the byway.
These cruisers avoided chance en
counters whenever possible. "The
coroner must see this jam before we
move anything."
A light flushed through the tops
of the trees above them and was
gone. "Someone's coming," announc
ed Forbes. "That's a car climbing
Waterman's hill. Move the flivver to
cne side, kid, so they can drive up."
He retained his grip on the driver of
the booze-truck.
The dark-eyed youth climbed into
his car. There was no passing on the
left, or east, side, since th ditch was
there, and the vehicles in collision.
But on the right side one might with
care negotiate the crest of the blulw
This the young man did, driving
urgently but carefully until he was
in the highway on the Scottdale side.
There was a level space a few rods
below where ho might have paiked,
But he did not stop there, instead,
the engine whirring urgently, he
wheeled to the left in'o ft byroad.
This connected with the main high
way, a mile to the east. Ho turned
off the lights as he tied. The moon
furnished sufficient illumination, and
the way was reasonably clear.
Forbes iip curled at his compan
ion's cowardice. Ho made n quick
inhalation, as if to shout, but thought
better of it. After all, the fellow
might as well go. There wov.ld be
explanations to make. The fewer vho
had to tell how they came to be on
the river road that night, tho better.
Scottdale was a small and l'uritanicul
city that hated and lonthed the booze
trafhc and illegal drniking. It vif?
ited its displeasure on those who
drank.
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His companion was safely away
hen the light of the car which had
shone a few moments before Bur
mounted the hill. He turned his head
to watch its approach, and the next
instant was on his back in the deep
ditch. Libbey had no rolish for fac
ing trial for taking human l!fe. He
had struck with surprising quickness
and force, considering his rolypoly
body and his semi-drunkenness. Fear
had sobered him; that was evident
from the speed he showed getting
away.
He ran across the road. As Forbes
scrambled up he plunged recklessly
over the side of the steep bank to
ward the river. It was a long and
steep descent, but one not particular
ly perilous. The surface was grassy
i.nd soft with the melting snows and
the spring rains. There were bushes
but few projecting rocks.
The river at this point was not
tormiduble. The broken white water
the rapids was swift but shallow.
Even as he stood on the brink and
peered ufter the hurtling figure,
Forbes visualized the man's destina
tion across the river to the railroad
only two miles beyond where from
one of the small towns nearby he
could catch a train that would land
him in Detroit or Chicago.
He decided that it was not worth
while to chase the' fugitive. The
telephone would be faster and surer
than his own legs. - A message to
Lancaster and Loomis would result
inevitably in Libbey's being picked
up.
He turned back to the wreck. He
tried to wipe the blood from his
face. But his nose was bleeding cop-'
iously from the chauffeur's blow a:d
he succeeded only in smearing it
i bout considerably. - He felt a sense
f responsibility for the accident. It
was evident that the driver had de
cided to become his own customer.
But this was only after Forbes had
persuaded him to break into the case
of whiskey at Burley.
A restraint had been removed when
the guard that habitually traveled
with the truck, Barney Oik, had been
taken ill and compelled to go to bed
at Burley. This left Scoots Libbey
in sole charge of the cargo. And
moral laws have little force with the
drivers of booze trucks. By the very
nature of their calling they are not
of high calibre. Fear of fists and
bullets is all that keeps them tit all
faithful.
Savage self-contempt possessed
Forbes. This tragedy had ended the
temporury exhileration of the alcohol
he had consumed. His knees trem
bled; his stomach rose. Pandering
to his cursed appetite had lighted the
powder-train thut ended in this the
snuffing out of a useful and blameless
life.
'lhe car from the south had drawn
up and stopped, unheeded by him. He
was deep in his own vhiriwiivi. He
drew the bottle from his pocket and
hurled it into the adjoining Held. A
shining arc was rente I that glitter
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ed in the moonbeams and in the light
of the automobi'o.
A grave, bearded man, dressed in
the gurb of a farmer, left the vehicle
and approached him. The newcomer
was followed by a younger man, from
his general resemblance to the other,
his son. "What's this?" demanded
the man with the beard. He looked
with disapproval ut the blood-stained
face of Forbes.
"A booze-runner ran into that car
and killed the woman," was the dull
reply. He was still hearing the clam
or only of his own mental battlefield.
The two men surveyed the wreck,
erified his assertion, -end came back
to confront him.
"Where's the driver?" asked the
spokesman.
Forbes waved his hand toward the
west. "He ran away just before you
cume. We better telephone and head
him off before he jumps a train."
The two men considered. The old
er turned to his companion and said:
"Stephen, you go over there and find
what he threw away." The youth
climbed the rail fence. His Bearch
was brief; the bottle was easily seen
against the brown earth of the field.
He handed it accusingly to his father.
"You'll have to come with me," said
the elder, coldly. "I'm Constable
Wooten of Highlands township.
"Why should I go with you?" aske'd
Forbes, in surprise.
"You just thew away a half bottle
o' liquor. You've been drinkin'. And
your face is all blood. I'm goin' to
turn you over to the sheriff as the
driver of the truck."
"But I told you " began Forbes,
impatiently.
"Yes. And if we find the man you
said has run away, then you're all
right. But I huven't seen any driver
but you."
(Continued next week)
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