HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, DEC. 29, 1927.
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SteWart Edward "White
Illustrations by Henry Jay Lee
Copyright Stewsu-t Edward Whit
Released thru.
Publisher Au.toctvrtr Service
"Few men know the forest as Stew
art Edward White. All the mystery,
romance and lure of the great woods
are tn this adventure story that keeps
you "On Tiptoe" of excitement from
the first page to the last.
CHAPTER I.'
"We're Stuck!"
Thl la a swashbuckling story of
pirate days. It has aa leading charac
ter! the Buccaneer and his sinister
Second in Command; the Fair Dam
sel In Distress; the Bright-Shining
Hero and those great Intelligences
by whose caprice or by whose or
dered laws our tiny world carries on
among its millions of sister worlds.
Follow and you shall see brave ad
venturing and dastardly plots; and a
fool exalted and cast down as his
little affairs were swept Into the
mighty onward-flowing currents of
Fate. So up-anchor and away!
At the moment our story opens the
Pirate, appropriately named Grim
stead, was leaning back in the stern
sheets of his craft smoking a che
root. He was a large, square man,
with thick bushy eyebrows..
Gardiner, the Second in Command,
was much younger and slenderer,
with clean shaven face and an inscru
table eye.
Neither of these men were paying
the slightest attention to anything
but each other. Indeed, the man at
the wheel alone seemed to be at all
aware of his surroundings. For the
only other human being visible on
the craft was the Damsel in Distress,
and she was completely occupied with
her own thoughts, which seemed to
be resentful and unpleasant.
As beseemed her position in the
story she was young and beauteous
and as daughter to the Pirate Chief,
caparisoned in costly garments.
The Bright-Shining Hero had not
yet appeared. .
Suddenly and most unexpectedly a
loud bang sounded under the port
quarter. The craft staggered,
i "What is it, Simmins?" cried the
Pirate Chief. "Are we damaged?"
"Blowout, sir," replied Simmins.
He walked around to the rear of
the car, and uttered an exclamation
of dismay.
"When she blew she slid into the
rut and let us down pretty hard on
one of these little stumps in the mid
dle of the road," he answered Grim
stead's inquiry. "The gasoline's leak
ing." Gardiner joined the chauffeur.
"It's buckled the tank," he an
nounced briefly. "We're stuck."
"The gasoline is all run out," re
plied Gardiner calmly.
'We're stuck, all right," Grimstead
agreed. "How far is it to help?"
"Nearest garage is about twenty
miles."
It was agreed that Grimstead
should pick out a shadier place to
wait while Simmins, after changing
the tire, walked the 20 miles and got
help.
Now to be considered is the Dam
sel in Distress. Her distress was
heartfelt but not too serious. It con
sisted in the fact that she had ,been
ravished away against her will;
which is the usual and proper reason
for the distress of females aboard
pirate craft.
At this moment she should have
been listening to the dulcet strains
of a jail orchestra, or mayhap boss
ing about infatuated youths in any
old haunt where sport clothes are cor
rect and numerous.
Instead of which she was herel
Atop a stump I On a barren Cali
fornia hillside of high brush and an
(occasional tree! Stranded! Hotl!
Uncomfortable! No wonder the
lines of her figure were unbending;
no marvel that her eyebrows -were
level and thafr the regard below them
was sullen?
Out upon you? This damsel is
young and beauteous. Smouldering
is the word. Of ten thousand people
the younger half would have sympa
thized heartedly with Burton, by
gad I dragged off into the sticks right
in the middle of the Del Monte-Tour-
nament; and the other hall woum
hv muttered things about spoiled
brats and an indulgent father and
would have regretted that she was
too old to be spanked.
And none of this would have af
tetA Mian Burton in the least,
When her father insisted, in face of
her first careless refusal, that sne
Join him on this trip into the back
nmmL. she was vastly surprised,
,h not m-eatlv nut out. But
when at the last minute she found
that this Gardiner person was to be
in the party, she saw and resented
it all.
Burton had met Gardiner before.
She did not like him; and alio did
not care whether he-was the Second
in Command of the piratical cran.
nrt keeDer of the loot, principal de
viser of strategem, or not. There
would seem to be no reason why one
should not like Gardiner. He is tall,
.lntidar. verv dark, with regular mov
ie-aueen dark eyelashes, a sleepy,
well-bred supercilious expression on
hi. thin lone face. All Ms move
mnnta ore languidly gracoful, He is
vnooHinirlv well dressed.
HU ability iB enormous." He knows
all abount electricity, and water
power, and oil wells, and Diesel en
gines, and railroads, both theoretic
ally and practically, for these things
are somo of tne loot me nmw uium
has "captured. Burton said she did
n't like him because he played no
bridge nor golf; but that was not it
She had other reasons no, not rea
sons, instinct.
At the present moment the second
in command did not attempt to ap
proach the aloof young goddess. In
stead he gave needed assistance to
the chauffeur, and when the job was
finished he was just as hot and dirty.
There were qualities to the man, be
sides those necessary to boarding and
scuttling!
By the time the job wsb finished
Grimstead reappeared.
"Found a great place!" he an
nounced, and partly on the little
"gas" in the vacuum tank and part
ly by gravity the big car glided
around the corner of the mountain.
CHAPTER II.
Enter the Hero.
As often happens at skylines in
Calfiornia, the nature of the coun
try there changed. Burton had seen
redwood trees before, but never had
she seen one of the redwood forests
of the north. The sullenness in her
eyes was replaced by a startled and
somewhat awed look.
The ear coasted slowly for a half
mile and came to a little stream
where a tiny patch of green had won
for itself a tiny patch of unobscured
sky.
"Stop here, Simmins," Grimstead
commanded, and all debarked.
Simmins hustled out the lunch bas
ket and the thermos cases and pro
ceeded to lay things out in seemly
and proper style.
Simmins was an engaging person.
The natural self within him would
have carried him through life skip
iously, like the giddy goat but it
wasn't done, you know. He loved
playing up to his part which was sol
emn, eminently correct, terrifically
imposing, and he could do it in such
a manner as to make self conscious
all men but the most conventional.
When at home Simmins became a
house man. In this capacity the one
fatal misfortune of his professional
career overtook him.
Burton, unseen herself, had wit
nessed his answering of the door bell.
He came down the hall cakewalking, a
wonderful double shuffle, snapping
his fingers, his head thrown back, his
eyes closed; but all quite noiseless.
Then he turned the door knob and
instantaneously a wonderful transi
tion took place. His elbows snapped
out at an angle, and his inflexible
sing-song voice declaimed imperson
ally that he ould not say, madame,
but that he would ascertain.
0 fatal day! Next time he tried
to come it over Burton, as usual, he
ran against a snag.
"Look here, Simmins," she said de
cidedly. "I wish you'd come off the
perch and be human. I like friendly
looking people about me."
"Sorry, Miss," said he non-com-
mittally in his best manner. "I was
not aware of giving offence. It is
pawsibly the results of my train
ing, mi as."
Simmins was enjoying . himself
thoroughly. He knew just when to
put the accents and yet avoid imper
tinence. It was his last shot.
The next instant he exploded. Miss
Burton had seen!
For a long time his world was in
chaos. He never did quite recover
the integrity of his attitude toward
Miss Burton. It wasn't done, you
know; but he rather liked it.
After supper, Simmins most reluc
tantly began the long journey to the
nearest garage.
Burton brought to the camp fire
a small covered basket and removed
the contents, a Pomeranian dog, half
size even for that breed, named Pun-key-Sniwels.
The men surveyed the
creature in silent disgust. Burton
adoringly fed him slices of chicken
and then he curled up in a small
fluffy ball and went to sleep.
Burton reclined on cushions, look
ing straight up, still within her in
scrutuble silence. Gardiner was
clever enough to realize that this
was the time for effacement. Grim
stead dozed.
But now the peace of the night
was broken by the approach of some
thing metallic and loose.
Three of the watchers sat up.
"Can't hear any engine," puzzled
Gardiner; "must be horse-drawn a
wagon of milk cans."
But the doubt was almost imme
diately resolved by the dancing glare
of headlights through the trees, and
an instant later a small light car
swerved off the road and came to a
stop. Enter the Bright-Shining Hero!
The thing he rode was one of those
nondescript home-made things of
galvanized iron by which the youth
ful attempt in vain to disguise and
render sportful a certain otherwise
jokeful brand of inexpensive car.
The occupants of this craft were
three. The young man at the wheel,
a pleasant-faced youth, with short,
light hair, and what had been a fair
complexion dark-reddened by much
exposure. Behind him, seated atop
canvas-covered pack, was an Irish
terrier dog. The third occupant was
Simmins.
'This gentleman picked me up, sir,"
said he glibly, "and I conceived as
how it would be more expeditious,
sir, to come back with him."
'More expeditious! He's going in
the other direction!" said Grimstead.
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''It has been in my mind for a day
or two that May must be wondering
what's become of me. I always write
to her you know; and she imagines
me in the Rockies. There must be
a stack of mail waiting for me at
Banff; I must wire to have it for
warded." "You needn't necessarily give up
the trip "
She turned her head to dodge an
overhanging bough and he caught a
glimpse of her face; she was crying;
and new and world-shaking emotions
were stirred in him by the sight of
her tear-wet cheek.
"Do you know," he said, "when we
talk about clearing up things I'd for
gotten about that buried treasure. I
think it would be a mistake for me
to leave without exhausting all the
possibilities of finding your grand
father's buried gold. I wonder if
poor Carey knew any more about it
than you do!"
"I'm sure he didn't. There are
holes here and there in these woods
that he dug in his search. "Why!"
she exclaimed, stopping short and
glancing about thoughtfully, "that's
strange."
"We're lost, I hope!"
"Not lost; but there was a fork
in the trail and I must have made the
wrong turn. I don't remember that
I ever saw that fallen tree before."
"That old fellow must have made
a mighty crash when he went down.
I'm sure that I never came this way
before."
"Here's an old scar," said Archie,
"where some one must have blazed
the tree years and years ago. It's
the mark of an ax or hatchet. And
look! Three other big trees bear
the same mark. They define a square
and must have been made for some
purpose!"
Discussion of the markings brought
them immediately into accord. Isabel
was perplexed to find herself in a
spot she had never visited before
though she had spent the previous
summer on the land, planning the
camp, and thought she knew every
foot of it. She peered into the pit
torn by the roots of the huge tree.
The sunlight glinted brightly upon
something that lay half hidden in
the earth.
"Oh, how wonderful!" she cried
and placed a gold piece in his hands.
They knelt together, tearing up the
weeds and loosening the earth. It
was Archie whp quickly found a sec
ond coin, a ten-dollar gold piece
stamped 1859. With a stick he dug
into the hole and soon they had made
a litt'n heap of bright coins, laugh
ing like children with each discovery.
A deeper probe resulted in the 'un
earthing of a splintered cedar plank
evidently torn from a chest that had
contained the money.
"Of all the astonishing things that
ever happened this is the most ut
terly paralyzing!" exclaimed Archie
jubilantly.
Using the board as a spade he
scooped out a capful of coins gold,
American, English and French,
which the Southerner had buried in
the northern wilderness.
"It won't do to leave" this place
unprotected, and we must stop or
we'll have more than we can carry.
We must bring Putney back to help.
It's my guess that there's a chest of
money at the foot of each of these
blazed trees."
"And pretty good hiding places,
too, where the gold might have re
mained forever, if "
They stood with the. heap of gold
between them, the Dewilderment of
discovery in their eyes.
"This is the end of the rainbow
and the gold lies at our feet!" he
said, and he took her hands, and the
one still wearing the bandage he held
very, very gently. "Love we know to
be better than much fine gold; and
wouldn't it be a pity for the finding
oi these coins to mark the very end,
with nothing beyond! And life is so
big and wonderful I want your help
to make mine of some use "
She looked at him long and search
ingly, and her eyes were so grave,
their questioning seemed so inter
minable, that he did not know until
she spoke that her lips had trembled
into a smile.
"If you can forgive me," she said;
and she laid her hands upon his
shoulders, lightly as though by their
touch she were investing him with
her hope in life renewed and streng
thened, and giving pledge that they
would walk together thereafter to
the end of their days.
In the lovliest of Colorado's val
leys you may, if you exercise your
eyes intelligently, note, three houses
in the Spanish style, with roads that
link them together as though pub
lishing the fact that the owners of
the surrounding ranches are bound
by the closest and dearest ties. As
an adjunct of his residence Putney
Congdon maintains a machine shop
where he finds ample time for ex
periment. The Archibald Bennetts
are learning all there is to know
about fruit culture; and they are so
happy that they are in danger of
forgetting the existence of cities.
Farthest of the three homes from
the railroad, and where the hills b
gin, Philip and Ruth Van Doren chose
their abode. And you may see them
any day that you care to penetrate
to their broad pastures, riding to
gether, viewing with contemplative
eyes the distant peaks or the cattle
that are the Governor's delight, a
link, he says, between the present
and the olden times when the world
was young. And often at night,
when they are not with the Cong
dons or the Bennetts, they ride for
hours in silence, so great is their
happiness, so perfect their under
standing, so deep their confidence in
the stars.
Wfoein. you see ntt you wl
say, . . . "Omilly (SemicffaE Mottoirs
cotuM pro(foce suucSi a cair at
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