HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 29, 1927.
PAGE THREE
Michael J. Phillips
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Copyriiht MUkl V. Phillip
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CHAPTER XXIII.
Saved!
. "Eddie!"
ne siariea quicmy at nis name
called in those sof ttones, and turned.
Patsy Jane stood in the doorway. She
was milling and beckoning. He went
to her, wondering, and closed the
dcor behind him.
"I've been watching for you all the
afternoon," she said, smiling. "You
haven't any money?"
He shook his head bitterly. "Not
enough."
1 know. Mr. Kinnane is attorney
lor the bank. He knew about thi
raised check and warned me your ac
count would be held up. Here."
She thrust a roll of bills into his
hands. Amazed to the point of
speechlessness, he took it automatic
ally. He saw that the dear little face
was pale; that the warn little fingers
were stained purple.
"Whore did you get it, Pat?" he
asked, kissing the lingers.
Huckleberries" she smiled. "I
saw that what I was earning wouldn't
make It. so I arranged to do Mr.
Kinnane's work evenings. I've been
in the marshes for three weeks. It
really wasn't bad. I was a good
picker.
"It wasn't exactly necessary," she
went on, giving him time to recover.
"The Kinnane's would have loaned it
to me. They're the- dearest people,
Eddie! They treated me like a daugh
ter. But I wanted to get it myself.
Go in now; its nearly closing-time."
For an instant he held her close, with
a tender violence that left her breath
less though starry-eyed. Then they
went back together.
"Here's your money," said Eddie,
briefy, counting it out. There were a
few small bills left when he had done
o. Peter Wimple grinned as he re
charged his pipe.
"Sort o thought you'd do it," h
said. "Your place is safe for a year
now. No one can take it away from
you. We'll fix up the papers tomor
row, but I'll give you a receipt now.
I'm acting as his agent," he pointed
with his shoulder toward the dark,
scowling young man, 'just as I was
for Mr. Brower." It was plain that
he did not share his principal's ill
humour over the turn affairs had
taken; markedly plain.
Nance rose from her chair, saun
tered to Patsy Jane, who Btood with
averted eyes by her husband. She
linked her arm through Patsy's.
There was a motion of aversion and
resistance, but the smile on Nance's
wilful, attractive face oi ly deepened.
"Come on outside, Patsy," she com
manded. When they were alone in
the vestibule she placed both her
i.ands on the other girl's shoulders,
as she had on Eddie's that Sunday.
"Don't be a fool," she admonished,
with a gentle shake. "You have a
husband that's a real man, Pat. You'
ve had a let to do with making him.
But you're taking chances on spoiling
him now.
"I suppose you believe with stupid
old Scottdale that I was with your
husband the night that woman was
killed?" She paused for a reply, but
there was none. "You couldn't un
derstand that a chap could be big
enough and generous enough to keep
another's secret, even at considerable
risk to himself. You thought there
must be something disgraceful to
conceal.
"That seemed bo silly to me, know
ing Eddie. You Bee, I knew him bet
ter than you did." Patsy Jane made
a movement to free herself but the
supple, slender hands held her. "He
was "ner a big thing and a brave
thing. I was about the only one that
appreciated it. And I couldn't go to
him and tell him how I admired
him." She tossed her head good hu
moredly. "I didn't care about the gossips, but
I knew if I were talking to him it
would make the case worse. And
well, Pat, I was a little nasty, too.
You'd come in and taken him on the
wing. I felt sometimes' as though I
wanted you both to sulfcr. That's all
the clinic stuff. Do you know who
was really with him that night?"
"You know I don't," returned Patsy.
Nance tilted her head toward the
loom they had just quitted, and the
other girl's eyes widened in surprise.
"Not " she began, and stopped.
"Yes. He told me so just the other
day. He was a pretty weak sister, Pat.
He let Eddie ail but go to prison be
cause he didn't have the morul cour
age to face hiB dad and the rest of
Scottdale. He hasn't much moral
courage yet. But I'm working on him."
The color rose In Patsy's cheeks.
She knew it was so. Many remarks
that Eddie had made, even while
guarding closely his secret, fitted in.
And she had distrusted and disbe
lieved him. She had joined in the un
charity of feeling toward Nance.
"I'm sorry, Nance," she said, aim
ply. Tho hands on her shoulders became
subtly caressing. "In a way you
weren't to be blamed," she smiled.
"Now that that's off my chest, I'll loll
you something else. You know that
Sunday morning?
"I'd been hearing things. I heard
that Eddie was drinking hard and
headed straight for the bowwowt,
that he was going to lose his proper
ty! and that you had left him under
fire when he needed you the most.
So I went there to find out for my
self and to to grab him if you'd been
o foolish sa to cut him adrift,
"But I know Eddie pretty well
I've told you that and I found out
that Dame Humor was about 99 por
cent wrong I saw that he had the
boono whipped. That while you were
away you hadn't left him. And tha1.
he thought the world of you. I re
vised my opinion of you, Patsy. I
hud thought you a little simpleton,
without brains or character, mostly
because that's what I wanted to think.
But that leaving him to fight liquor
his own way was really a master
stroke. It was the only thing that
would have cured him." She paused
to smile whimsically.
CHAPTER XXIV
wnen 1 saw mere weren t any
pieces to pick up That kiss you saw
was goodbye. The 'Come soon' I
threw in was just pure cussedness.
That finishes that. No, you know,
Patsy, the mending idea is like any
other. When you set your heart on
picking up pieces and making over
into a better model So I'm going to
marry " And she1 moved her head
backward again.
"I'm glad, Nance."
"Oh, I've undertaken a job," the
girl went on, with her astonishing
frankness. "But the difficulty makes
it all the more fascinating. Did you
know Eddie thrashed him the other
day?"
"I'd heard something about it."
"That was a forward step. That
young gentleman thought for awhile
he was going to take your land
away from you. He bought the tax
title from the Browers, you know. But
I wouldn't have permitted him. If
you two hadn't found the money. I'd
have paid it myself."
You re good, Nance, said Patsy,
gratefully.
'Get out!" she scorned. "It's better
fun to shoot straight. That's all."
Meanwhile the city stranger had
drawn Eddie into Whimple's private
oltice. "Been waiting to see who'd
get that quarter-section, so I could
deal," he began, briskly. "Mr. Forbes,
I m Malone, of the National Power.
You know us. We furnish light and
power for the Great Lakes states.
manufacturing the juice from water
power wherever we can. We're plan
ning a big dam five miles below your
place on Portage Creek. We neej
our quarter-section." '
Light flooded a landscape long
darkened. "Then Sealman " began
Eddie.
Yes, Sealman!" The other spat
out the name scornfully. "Maybe
you re surprised we re out in the
open, and Scalinan's the answer. We
tried to do it under cover, so we
wouldn't be held up. He was our
aent. Eut we found out he was
taking about half the options in his
own name. He . was to be his own
holdup man.
Some of the land he had to buy
outright. He needs quite a wad of
money, quick, and he ran in a cargo
of liquor to rase the wind. That was
his booze the state police captured
today. So he fell down, and I've been
over to the jail and gotten releases
out of hin,.
"Now, this quarter-section of yours,
Forbes. We've been paying on an
average around sixty dollars an acre,
and that s more than the stuff is
worth. Yours "
"Will cost you a hundred, but I
reserve the mound above the water
line. All right!"
"Ouch! You're certainly careless
with your language, young fellow."
"But you have to have it. That's
rny price. It s a little high, but it 11
compensate for some of the things
that crook agent of yours did to me.
By the way, I reserve that mound on
the southwest corner. It must be
away above your proposed waterline."
The dark youth waited patiently in
the outer office. When Eddie and
Malone came out, he approached the
former sulkily. "About that mound,
Forbes " he began, but Eddie cut
him short.
"I'l deal only with headquarters.
You know why."
. . .
It seemed to Eddie that, as he head,
Judge Randolph Perkins shifted his
'.hick white hand until it threw n
shadow on his face, making its ex
pression impossible of interpretation.
But when he had quite finished, the
jurist's head went up and his big jaw
was thrust out.
"This purports to be a confession
by one Herman Libbey that he was
driving the truck which collided with
a motor car on the River road last
summer, causing the death of Mrs.
Maria Knowles," he said, in measured,
colorless tones.
"It is a certified copy of the con
fession," Eddie corrected him, quiet
ly. The judge towed. "So I sec. Well."
"It completely exonerates me. I
was convicted of manslaughter in
your court because of that accident."
"Yes; tho evidence"
"Was mostly prejudice. I was real
ly convicted of taking a drink."
"Granted that may bo in a measure
true. What Is your purpose in com
ing to me? The press will publish
this, and you will be set right in the
eyes of the community,"
Eddie leaned forward. "Judge," he
taid, "the newspapers published a
iitatcment from you after the govern
or pardoned me. You said his action
was 'a' miscarriage of justico' and a
'travesty.' You did all you could to
ruin me. Now "
"1 did mnke such a statement,"
agreed the jurist. "I was not trying
to ruin you. But you were haHdrunk
v hen the accident happened. You
had liquor illegally in your posses
sion. You had been drunk before.
In the circumstances, I consider the
statement quite justified."
"All right," replied Eddio, etiily.
"I wanted to get your ideas on the
ubjcct. But I came for something
else, really. You own "
The door of tho judge's study
opened. A daik, weak-faced ycung
man entered. "Hello, dad," ho began,
and stopped. "Didn't know you were
busy." He scowled as he recognized
iodic "What's he been telling you?"
"He has been trying, because of
cetain circumstances," said the judge
formidably, "to force me to reverse
myself on that accident of last spring.
He has told me "
"You sneak!" interrupted the dark
young man, passionately, turning on
Eddie. "So you had to come and
spill it that I was with you that
night. I was coming to tell him my
self. We agreed, Nance and I, it was
the thing to do. And you spoil "
"Randolph!" His father's hard
voice stopped him. "Do you mean
that you you were Forbes' compan
ion that you were on a drinking
bout "
He paused to stare fixedly at his
son, whose attitude confessed guilt.
Confused by this blunder, Randolph
stood with head bowed and hangdog
look.
"He told me nothing, Bir," resumed
the jurist. "He has protected you, as
le protected you at the trial. He ac
cepted a prison sentence at my hands
while he spared my son." He turned
to Eddie:
'Mr. Forbes, I have recnosidered. I
shall publish a statement making
amends to you. And I shall say in it
that my son was with you that night."
Dad! implored Randolph.
"Bu silent!" commanded his father.
"Hold on, Judge," interpolated Ed-
aie. "I asked Ran to go with me. I
bought the liquor. He wasn't as much
to blame, by a long way, as I was.
That's why I kapt still."
"He shall learn to .bear the respon
sibility of hi own acts," replied the
judge, implacably. "If he hadn't been
a cottard and run away, he wouldn't
have put me in this this humiliating
position.
'As a favor to me, Judge, please
don't mention him "
The judge raised his hand. "You
"aid there was another matter you
came to see me about, Mr. Forbes."
"Yes. I've had the aour earth from
that mound on my place analyzed too.
Judge. It's precisely the same com
position as your supply in Texas
which is about exhausted."
"Do you mean to tell me that the
mound which Randolph discovered
near Long Portage is on your proper
ty?" The judge's surprise -was ob
viously genuine.
"It certainly is. Ran left a sack
when he came to get samples a few
weeks ago. The name 'Mineral Medi
cine Corporation, Austin, Texas' was
printed on it. I found out that your
mound not far from Austin is about
exhausted. That the 'ore'
in your
mound, known as sour earth by the
Indians and settlers, is a Bandy ma
tenal containing salts of calcium,
magnesium, sodium and iron and free
acid. That it was overlaid by a solid
vein of rock salt a sort of cap.
"I discovered that it has a tremend
ous sale when reduced to solution by
boiling to free the medicinal salts
and that it is bottled and sold under
the trade name 'Mineral Magic' I
know that hundreds of thousands of
people regard it as a panacea for
rheumatism and indigestion and
things like that.
"You've beeen combing the country
for another supply, especially where
geologic conditions were somewhat
Dimilar. You became, a couple of
years ago, principal stockholder in
the Mineral Medicine Corporation by
the death of your uncle. When the
analysis of my stuff proved up well,
I thought you mght want to see me."
The judge permitted himself a grim
and appreciative Bmile. "That was
considerate. Because, when Ran
dolph made his eprot, I should cer
tainly have had to look you up. Ap
parently we are to be rather closely
associated, Mr. Forbes. Had you
hought of any basis of doing busi
ness; say a sale of this mound out
right to us?"
UD
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.
The Forbes family occupied the
one large and comfortable chair in
the cabin on Portage creek. It was
night; and outjide the northern
lights were putting on a show with
half the sky as their stage. Bars and
pennons and lances of white radiance:
the greatest of them in dimension
like Lake Huron set on end, blazed
lrom horizon to mid-heaven. The air
was crisp with oming frost, and
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Eddie sat in the chair and Patsy
sat in his lap, her knees well up to
ler chin. His arms were about her;
her head on his shoulder. They were
engaged in that most delightful of oc
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"I want to stay here until after the
first deep snow," said Patsy, dream
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"The deer season's early Novem
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get our deer and stick around until
the snow comes up to the windowsill.
That suit you, Pat?"
1 11 love it," breathed Patsy. "Any
way, till the novelty wears off. Then
we'll follow the sun Bouthwest for
the rest of the winter."
"Next spring we'll come back here."
Eddie pursued the thread, "and I'll
study up on cattle-feeding with Dave-
nant. He's a good old scout, after all
Pat. He apologized like a man for
threatening to lick me over the bottle
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"But the dam:
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"They won't start construction un
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His arms tighteded about her. "Not
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SATURDAY, OCT. 8
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