HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY. DEC. 22, 1927.
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and their stress of mind and heart ', band killed himself.
"It broke Philip's heart; it broke
Isabel Perry recommend a life of crime,
ad venture, romance and excitement a
cure for Archibald Bennett's nerves. Ar
chie goes to Bailey Harbor to inveatigate a
bouse for hi sister and spends the night
in in empty nouse. He la awakened by
footsteps during the night; the intruder
fires at him and misses. Archie fires in re
turn. He doesn't know whether he has
killed or only wounded the man, but fear
ing the publicity, plans to make his es
cape. In his flight he meets 'The Govern
or" a master mind criminal who mistakes
aim for a fellow criminal. Archie, afraid
to tell tne truth, falls In with "The Got-
ernor." A series of events leads him to
believe he has shot Putney Congdon the
owner of the house. They proceed to New
York, where they are visited by Julia, the
Governor's sister. Archie promises her he
will stick with the Governor through the
strange phase she claims he is passing
inrougn. wane strolling in- the park, Ar
chie sees airs. Congdon with her two chil
dren, and is witness to the kidnapping of
the little girl, Edith. He learns from the
Governor that the father-in-law of Mrs.
Congdon a very wealthy man is engaged
in the clrculalton of counterfeit twenty
dollar gold pieces. - They go to Rochester:
where the Governor receives a letter from
Ruth, the girl he loves, in which she tells
him he may be able to serve her.
At a dance at Ruth's home Archie meets
Isabel and they are reconciled. Archie
and the Governor promise to find Edith
Congdon and whisk her away to Isabel's
camp. They secure work on Eliphalet
Congdon's farm, where Edith has been
taken. They learn that Putney Congdon
the man Archie shot is also there. While
Archie is teaching Edith to ride the Gov
ernor kidnaps her.
When Putney Congdon leaves the farm,
Archie follows him. Ihey become friendly
and Archie agrees to go with Putney to
Huddleston, where they meet the Governor.
The Governor tells Archie that Carey, Isa
bel's cousin, has blocked the camp and
they are unable to get supplies.
Isabel and Ruth attempt to run the
blockade. They are run down by Carey's
launch and the canoe overturns. Archie,
Leery and the Governor, on the way to the
camp, rescue them. The next day the Gov
ernor's tug runs through with a cargo of
supplies.
That same evening the Governor leads
his group of men against Carey in the
effort to drive him out. In the assault
which followed, the Governor is shot and
seriousdly wounded.
When Dr. Mosgrove finally return
ed from the Governor's bedside, he
eyed the waiting eru. quizzically,
apparently in.mensely amused about
something.
"What, does all this mean?" he
whispered. "Pirates in these waters
where I've been summering for yearsl
Men shot and police not notified! A
girl doctor attending the easel May
I trouble you for your name, sir?"
Archie replied with all possible
dignity that his name was Ashton
Comly, and demanded a professional
opinion as to the sick man's chances
of recovery. The doctor became in
stantly serious.
"The bullet pierced the, right chest
wall and of course there was imme
diate and copious hemorrhage. You
needn't trouble about the delay in
getting a doctor; nature went to work
at once, forming clots that plugged
automatically the gaping mouth of
the severed vessels. You men were
fortunate to find Dr. Reynolds; she
has handled the case admirably."
"Thank you," cried Archie. "Oh,
tjhank you for that! And one thing
more; would you advise me to sum
mon the patient's sister?" '
"Yes. There being always the un
certainties, I should certainly do so.
I'll run up in my launch this eve
ning." One of the questions that troubled
Archie not a little was how the detec
tive was to be disposed of. Leary
grinned broadly when Archie gave
voice to his thoughts.
"Ole Governor don't do nothin' like
anybody else; that chap ain't no de
tective; he's a gun man we sent to
chum with Carey."
Archie bared his head to the cool
morning air. It was almost too much
to learn that Briggs, who had so gal
lantly played the part of a govern
ment detective was really an ally,
shrewdly introduced into the Gov
ernor's strategy to awaken fear in
Eliphalet Congdon.
Achie went at once to the Huddles
ton Btation, where he satisfied him
self that the lonely agent knew noth
ing of the transactions of the night.
He drew from his waist coat the
envelope the Governor's sister had
given him the night she dined in the
New York house, and tore it open. In
a flowing hand which expressed some
thing of the grace and charm of the
woman who had given it to him in cir
cumstances so remarkable, he read:
Mrs. Julia Van Doren Graybill, until
October 1, Southhampton, L. I."
It was the Van Doren thut burnt
Itself into Archie's consciousness. ' It
was'an old name of honornble con
notation, one with which he had been
familiar all his life. It waB chiseled
In the wall of the church near the pew
held for a hundred years by his own
family; it was a name of djgnity, as
sociated with the best traditions of
Manhattan Island; and this, presum
ably, was the Governor's name.
Graybill was unfamiliar, and this puz
zled him, for he knew and could place
half a dozen Van Dorens, probably
relatives In some degree of the Gov
ernor, but he recalled no woman of
the family who had married a Gray
bill. "Regret that I must act on my
promise of several weeks ago and use
the address given in confidence. En
couraged to believe that the patient
will recover. Suggest, however, that
you come at once."
He and Congdon wore at the sup
per table when he received the an
swers "Thank you. I am Just leaving. J.
V. D. G."
Archie was not permitted to enter
the sick room, but from time to time
he received assurances that the pa
tient's condtilon was "satisfactory,"
and at intervals Dr. Reynolds recited
with professional brevity data as to
temperature, respiration and the like.
At eleven o'clock Archie saw the
Heart 0' Dreams launch approaching
Huddleston and leaving Congdon to
answer any cnll from the Governor's
bedside, hurried to meet it,
Ruth and Isabel had crossed alone
was manifest before they landed.
"I felt it; I knew that it would
come!" cried Ruth. "If only you
hadn't gone there! It wasn't worth
the sacrifice."
The obligation to cheer them raised
his own spirits as he explained the
nature of the Governor's injury while
they sat on the hotel veranda. He
described the fight at the barricade
with reservations, mentioning not at
all the fact that a man had died as
the result. They understood as fully
as ne that the whole affair must be
suffered to slip into oblivion as quick
ly as possible.
"The complications are so endless!"
exclaimed Isabel with a sigh. "In
that mass of mail you delivered last
night I found a letter from Mrs,
Congdon saying that she would ar
rive today almost at once, in fact!"
"The prospect is wholly pleasing!"
he exclaimed, looking at his watch.
"I've played 'the very devil in the
Congdons' affairs. I suppose I should
lift my hat politely as she steps from
the train and tell her that I'm the
brute who attempted to make her a
widow. She will of course recognize
me instantly as the gentleman who
escaped with her in a taxi after the
kidnaping of her dauhgter."
And there's the train now, and
you must permit me to satisfy Mrs.
Congdon that her husband is in
mood for immediate reconciliation be
fore I break the news that he is1 here."
Mrs. Putney Congdon more than
justified the impression he had form
ed of her in their encounter in Cen
tral Park by the manner in which she
heard his story. He told it with all
brevity on the station platform.
It was so incredible that it was not
until he described his journey to Hud
dleston in Puti.ey s company that she
was able to see. any humor in the
series of events that had led them all
into the north.
"Poor dear Putney! And he does
n't know yet that you nearly killed
him!"
'Oh, there are a lot of things he
doesn't know. Your father-in-law has
given his solemn promise that he will
not again attempt to mehdle in your
affairs. The umbrella that symbolized
his tyranny is at the bottom of the
lake and if he should die you and
your children wouldn't be thrown up
on charity."
This is all too wonderful to be
true,", she exclaimed. "After all the
misery I've endured it can't be possi
ble that happiness is just ahead of
me. Tell me everything."
"In due season you shall know all.
Just now I haven't the. heart to keep
you from your husband, and I'm go
ing to send him to you immediately.
And I shrink from telling a man I like
so much that I tried to kill him not
so long ago, I'm going to turn that
agreeable business over to you!"
Archie was beset with many fears
as he waited the arrival of Mrs. Gray
bill. His utter ignorance of any de
tails touching the life of his friend
seemed now to rise before him like a
fog which he was afraid to penetrate.
And there was Ruth, with her happi
ness hanging in the balance; she was
in love with a man of whom she knew
nothing; indeed the mystery that en
folded him was a part of his fascina
tion for her, no doubt; and if in the
Governor's past life there was any
thing that made marriage with a
young woman of Ruth's fineness and
sweetness hazardous, the sooner it
was known the better. But when he
caught sight of Mrs. Graybill in the
vestibule of the train his apprehen
sions vanished. The poise, the seren
ity of temper, the unquestioning ac
ceptance of the fate that played upon
her life, which he had felt at their
first meeting struck him anew.
"Our patient is doing well. The
news is all good," he said at once.
"Cfelt that it would be; I couldn't
believe that this was the end!"
Putney and his wife had moved to
Heart 0' Dreams for a few days. It
would be a second honeymoon, Put
ney said. Mrs. Graybill was intro
duced into the hotel without embar
rassment. She won Dr. Reynolds'
heart by the brevity of her questions,
and expressed her satisfaction with
everything that had been done. When
she came down to the dining-room
for luncheon she avoided all reference
to the sick man. In her way she was
as remarkable as the Governor him
self. "I've never been in these parts be
fore," Julia remarked to Archie; "I
should be glad if you'd show me the
beach. We might take a walk a little
later."
The hor in which he waited for
her tried his soul. The Governor was
the one man who had ever roused in
him a deep affection and the dread
of finding that under his flippancy,
his half-earnest, Ralf-boyish make
believe devotion to the folk of the
undorworld, he was really an irre
deemable rogue, tortured him,
"I'm going to ask you to bear with
me," said Mrs. Graybill when they
reached the shoro, "if I seem to be
making this as easy for myself as
possible. I know that my brother
cares a great deal for you, He sent
mo little notes now and then he al
ways did that, though the intervals
were sometimes long; I know that he
would want you to know. Things
have reached a point where if he lives
he will tell you himself,
"My brother is Philip Van Doren,
and there were just the two of us.
An unusual sympathy bound us to
gether from childhood, and there was
never a closer tie between brother
and sister. I married his most in
timate friend. My husband betrayed
him; it was the breach of a trust in
which they were jointly liable. It
was not merely a theft, it was a
gross, dastardly thing, without a sin
gle mitigating circumstance. My hus-
his spirit! It destroyed his generous
faith in all men. He was a brilliant
student in college and promised to go
far in the law; but he felt keenly the
dishonor. The financial part of it he
of course took care of; that was the
least of it. There was always
strain of mysticism in him; and he
had gone deeply into astrloogy and
things like that; and when the dark
hour came he pretended to find con
solation in them. He was born under
an evil star, he said, and would not
be free from its spell until he had
passed through a spirit of servitude.
It sounds like insanity, but it was
only a grim ironic distortion of his
reason. He said that if honor was so
poor a thing he would seek a world
that knew no honor. I dread to think
how he has spent these years!
"In one of his brief messages he
spoke of a young woman who had in
terested him, but I never can tell
when he's serious "
Archie met the question promptly.
"A charming young girl, Ruth Has
tings, whose antecedents and connec
tions are the best. You need have no
fears on that score. You shall see
her, very soon."
She permitted him to describe the
meeting with Ruth and Isabel at
Rochester, and her face betrayed re
lief and pleasure as he made it clear
that the Governor's romance was in
no way discreditable.
It is curious, and in his own way
of looking at things may be signifi
cant, that your telegram reached me
on the day following the seventh an
niversary of the beginning of his
exile.
He looked forward to the seventh
anniversary as marking the end of
the dark influences; he believed
there would be a vast change in his
affairs.
"If he only lives!" he exclaimed.
"Is it possible that her can ever step
back into the world he left?"
"You may be sure he has planned
a return, with marriage at the very
threshold."
Then God grant that he may
live!' he said fervently.
The following evening, after Dr.
Mosgrave's visit had left their hopes
high, Archie carried her to Heart 0'
Dreams. Happiness shone in the
stars over the northern waters, Put-
ney Congdon and his wife were en
joying to the full peace that followed
upon the storms of their married life.
Isabel gave Archie no opportunity
to speak to her alone, and he found
her aloofness dismaying. She made a
candid confession to Mrs. Congdon,
with Putney and Archie standing by.
"With malice aforethought I prac
ticed my vampirish arts upon these
two men! And, Alice, the cruelest
thing you could do would be to for
give me! I couldn't bear it. I flirted
with Mr. Congdon; not only that but
I took advantage of his distress over
his father's efforts to estrange you
two to counsel him to lead a reck
less, devil-may-care existence. And
I tried the same thing on Mr. Ben
nett, only he was much more sus
ceptible than your husband and took
me more seriously. I want you, one
and all, to be sure that I hate myself
most cordially!"
"The end justified the means, I
thjnk," said Mrs. Congdon.
"I found a friend I'm not going to
lose as one result," said Putney. "And
if the sick man across the bay re
covers I hope I have another lifelong
friend there."
"Oh, it'a all so strange!" cried Mrs.
Congdon. "One might think that
we must suffer tribulation before
we know what perfect happiness is!
Is it possible that you'll ever settle
down again?"
"That depends " Archie remarked
glancing meaningfully at Isabel, a
glance which Mrs. Congdon detected
and appraised with that prescience
which makes every woman a match
maker.
On the eighth day Dr. Mosgrove an
nounced that his visits were no long
er necessary; he ran up to Huddles
ton, he told Archie, for the pleasure
of meeting the agreeable people he
found there. The Governor was mak
ing an extraordinary recovery, and
the bracing northern air would soon
set him up.
Dr. Mosgrove had made a careful
examination of Carey, and recom
mended that he be sent to a sanator
ium for treatment. Perky undertook
to carry him to a private institution
near Chicago suggested by the doctor,
and this became another of the series
of strange errands that fell to the
lot of the Arthur B. Grover. Elipha
let Congdon had been importuning
Archie to release him, but it had
seemed wise to give the erratic mil
lionaire more time in which to medi
tate upon his sins.
When the tug returned Archie
found that the old gentleman had
taken advantage of a day's parole in
Chicago to do considerable shopping.
In, a new suit of clothes he really
looked, as Perky said, like a white
man; but the change in him was not
merely as to his outward person. He
opened a bag on deck and displayed
with pride a pearl necklace he had
purchased for his daughter-in-law, a
handsome watch for young Edith and
another for his grandson, whom Mrs.
Congdon had left with a friend h
the East.
Though so many vistas were bright
ening, Archie was still trouDlea oy
Isabel a persistent refusal to see him
alone, or to give him any opportunity
to break down the barriers she had
raised against him.
"You are running away from me!"
he said sternly. "And that's not fair."
"Oh, this is my busiest day! You
mustn't think a place like this runs
automatically."
"I think nothing of the kind. But
your studied efforts to escape from
me are embarrassing. Ruth, the
Congdons, Mrs. Graybill everybody
is noticing it!" '
"Certain matters Bre one's personal
affairs," she answered. Really, I
must ask you to excuse me."
"I refuse to be snubbed again! You
are trampling me under foot, and I
refuse to be stepped on any more. I
wish to assure you, Miss Perry, that
my love for you is not to be spurned
with impunity! "
"Please be careful! Those girls
over there are watching us"
"A wonderful opportunity for them
to see a desperate man making love;
an invaluable part of their education!
Ihey will never forget how I fell up
on my knees and declared myself!"
Oh, you wouldn't! You really
wouldn't! You forget that these chil
dren are highly impressionable!"
"So am I, and extremely sensitive.
It would be fine if you'd join me in
a little walk. If you refuse I shall
follow you the rest of the day sing
ing. The Governor and I did a good
deal of singing in our travels and "
As he filled his lungs as though
about to burst into song she hastily
turned toward the wood.
"You seem to forget that I'm mis
tress here while you're merely a
guest! I hate to say it, but you're in
serious danger of becoming a nui
sance." "You're not resentful and hateful
enough yet to frighten me away.
'He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
That dares not put it to th touch
to gain or lose it all.'
"I Insist that I love you. That's
the only thing that matters!"
"Except," she corrected, "your
cheerful assumption that I recipro
cate the feelig, when"
"You call it an affair! Calamity
would be a better term for it,"
This silenced him for some time.
As she walked before him, carrying
her head high, his heart ached with
love for her. It would be beat per
haps not to urge her further; to wait
until the camp closed and then see
her in a different environment. It
might be Vhat his sister would ar
range this for him, and he took cour
age from the thought.
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