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PAGE FOUR ,i HIGH COURAGES SYNOPSIS: inne Farnsworth has found that she is not thi heir n Luke and Luanda Farnsworth, because she Is not their real daugh ter, she teams also that her "rela tives" plan to humiliate her, and leaves the home she had considered hers in Portland to try to find out who she really is. She has me John Neuman, an unusual younil Finn ish fisherman, and he has taken her to tecla Sorki. her old nurse, tvho lives near Astoria, Chapter 17 MORE FACTS pLIN'DED by the light, Anne Blum - bled across the raised thresh old. Tecla followed, railing at ber owd stupidity. "I was asleep. I waken, quick. I do not see well for t' moment and I think you are t' ghost That white coat, your balr hanging In braids." "The ghost of whom?" Anne asked quickly. "Oh," Tecla shrugged her shoul ders." that I do not think for sure. Perhaps my sister." "Your sister is dead?" Anne de manded, "when did she die; where?" "Before I come to this country. She die In Uleaborg maybe thirty year ago, no, thirty-three. She was young, like you. Younger, sixteen. she had just taken confirmation." They were In the room now and the momentary Interest Anne had had In Tecla's sister bad waned. She supposed she did look ghostly com ing In out of the dark In that white slicker. Tecla had pulled a wooden rocker close to the cook store, In a room which seemed to be used for living as well as kitchen purposes. Anne sank Into the rocker, then looked up. The room seemed filled with sober, round-eyed children who stood silently watching her. Tecla rapped out an order In Fin nish and they vanished as silently las thoy bad appeared. When the last ibad disappeared through a narrow door, and the sound of bare feet pat Jterlng up a wooden staircase had I ceased, Tecla turned to John. , "I'll bring your keys back, after while," he said, and he too disap peared, leaving them alone. Tecla crossed the room, stlrrod up the fire, then came to atand before Anne, and look down at her. Anne felt she was a child again and that somehow Tecla had come Into ber nursery during the night, to frighten away a bad dream with ber pres ence. "You wish to tell Tecla, or no? Maybe to bed now you go, yes?" "I" Anne, stood up, "I " "You have had trouble," Tecla cried. Impulsively ber arms went out and Anne went Into them. When the sobs had quieted under the steady stroking of the woman's i hand, she spoke. "There Is trouble. 'There is more than grief, Nlkkl?" "Yes." Anne straightened up. and 'smiled at her old nurse through her ' tears." I'm ashamed Tecla, but," sbe shrugged her shoulders, "it's good to be here." Tecla nodded. Sbe looked about the big kitchen, the living room of ber home, and smiled. It was spot lessly clean. Against the starched iwhltencss of her window curtains, was the delicate tracery of hanging ferns and potted plants In painted tins. Dishes gleamed from shelves, accented here and thore by old world pottery In rich blues and buff. "Yes," she conceded with pride, "home Is always good. You are at nome here." AT borne. Anne sank Into the worn wooden rocker. She didn't stop to analyze the difference she felt between Tecla and the other servants. Tecla ahe had known only In the years ben she waa dependent upon ber. The other sen-ants, whom she liked no less, had as she had grown assumed the places of those to be commanded. Tecla had never lost her place of the one to he obeyed, in Anne's mind. She obeyed her now. She talked, told more thnn she realized In her rush of words, and Tecla, a gro tesque Utile figure In her worn grey bnihrobe pulled over an equally worn flannel gown, listened. "I don't understand." the nurse protested when she had stopped. "Always Mr. Farnsworth t'lnk for yon. always! When you are little he say, 'I bullii these fine canneries, then when my little Anne grow big, she have them." " "1 know." Anne, confessed. "Ho said something of that to ma the very afternoon of the accident, then something happened later to make him chanpe his mind. Tecla." she said sharply, "you were with him durlns that time. Tell me. what did you B.iy to him and to mother?" Tecla looked at her, "I not say anything about you. I promise I not U- Mnll Tribune want ads. WRI6LEY'4 ALWAYS 1 ICOKAES THR.OU6H J WITH QUALITY ft, . m Mi EL i "w It I tell what I say, but," she shrugged ber shoulders, "I only tell him the men grow angry at the cannery buy ing first from the fish traps. I bring him the petition written by the fish ermen. He ask me who own these traps. I tell him what I think. He asks me to prove, but that I cannot do." Anne was satisfied she was telling the whole truth. Luke's attitude later, proved this. However It did not explain the reason for a change In his will. And now sbe thought of the other reason for her Journey there, the principal reason. "Tecla." she began, cautiously, "why do you call me Nlkkl?" "Annlkkl, Is the Finnish for Anne. Sometime I call you Annlkkl, some time just Nlkkl." "Nlkkl, Just Nlkkl." She brooded over the name, "Tecla, that's who 1 am, Nlkkl ... a nobody!" "No!" Tecla'a voice was sharp, "never you are to say that again, never, hear me?" Anne looked up In surprise. "Then you know I'm not Luke Farnsworth's daughter," she challenged. Over Tecla Sorki's face there spread the queer Immobility of ex pression which Anne was to learn was the protection of the Finn against his enemy. "Tecla," she Insisted, "you have to tell me. Did you know?" "Yes." The snswer came defiantly. "Then you have bilked to mother about this? Tecla, help me please. Tom Farley Is Intimating that my own mother was sort of a waif who drifted Into the hospital, literally out of the night." AND now Anne saw the anger ol the Finn, a slow. Inarticulate, burning anger. She swung away from Anne to attack the fire, to slam stove lids and strike at Interfering pieces of wood. "Tecla" The woman turned. "Tom Farley la a fool. He la also a liar. He doei not take from you Just your home and your money, he take your name." "Then I have a name? Tecla, do you know It? Did Luclnda ever say anything to you about my parents?" "Yes." Again the peculiar defi ance. "This much I tell. Mrs. Fams worth, she say tc me 'Tecla, now am happy. My baby sbe come from s father who Is strong and brave, from a mother who Is the fine lady.' Thai she say to me." "I hadn't thought of my father," Anne declared, softly, and repeated, " 'a father who Is strong and brave.' Tecla, I'm going to find blm, will you help me?" Tecla stooped and patted Anne's hand. "No, Nlkkl, I tell you some t'lng else Mrs. Farnsworth say: 'now they are both dead so Luke and I will be like her own.' That much I tell." "Had he died before my mother came to the hospital, do you know?" "I don't know," Tecla confessed and her brow furrowed. "Only I know Mrs. Farnsworth say he die that same night No more I know." she concluded with set atubborness. Anne was satisfied she knew more, but she waa also satisfied with what she had learned. She would stay near and gradually she would learn more. Now she relaxed Into the chair, conscious of the warmth that penetrated to her chilled marrow, ol -the simmering tea kettlo, the cozy crackling of the fire and the patter ing rain on the window panes. "Nlkkl, dinner you had?" Tecla asked suspiciously, as she looked at the pale face of the girl. "No, but I'm not hungry." "Bettor you eat before you go to bed." She hurried to the stove to pull a coffee pot forward, then from the rear porch she brought a bowl. "It la fishermen's stew, It makes them big and strong like It make you. little Nlkkl." She chatted on as she busied herself about the kitchen, tying a stnrch-stlff apron ovor her robe. "You stay awhile with Tecla?" she asked, pouring the contents of the bowl into a pan. "If I could, Tecla. Would you have room for me? I'd so love to hide away for a while until 1 know what I want to do," "So," agreed Tecla. A rap on the door Interrupted further plans. John N'enmsn stepper! In. "Your keys, Miss Farnsworth,." he said. "Come In, John," Tecla. ordered "we have the stew, and I cook coffee. Later we talk. She hesitated a mo ment, then turned to Anne. "You do not care If I tell him some of whal you have told me?" (Copyright, 19S$, by Jeanne Roirmant John Ntimin uggettt a plsn to Anne, tomorrow. . T. Importer IMm SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8 (API Churl? Davl Wltlltf, importer. rtiM Yesterday at the age of 09 and fun- i era4 services will b held tomorrow , Ha rafhllhed th Importing and ex portln firm of Wllltta At Fttron in 1001 with thu late. I. h- rueriion who later was gofernor of Oregon .Mlka Replace Croft BERLIN. Nor. 8 AP The Nxl , awftAtlka replfioed the monarchy" Iron ; crow a Germany's war emblem today. The new flaps were ratted for the firat time when contingent of Adolf Hitler' conscript army took military oath at all miltary ftnrrlnont. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD, OREGON, FRIDAY, YIELD OF PEACHES WASHINGTON. Nor. 8. (JP A atable peach crop the next five yea re waa predicted today by the agricul ture department. A forecast of future peach condi tions said there might he e. slight de cline In the number of bearing tree but offsetting factors were better care STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, Inclosing i stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Pat Off.' fte fiPEATea WORKS To . ft WOMAN nc uncN 'brVN BUT MUER MT... frtey cftRRiep on a SftKt? A UtKP To EACH The chances are you have never drunk any pure water. If you have. you were probably Impressed by the flat tastelessness of It. Most water has a little mineral and ealt content and, more Important to the taste, a little air dissolved In It. Pure and devoid of Air, water la tasteless and odorleas. Yet, strange as It scsms, pure water has color. In largo quan tities a bluish tint Is dUcernlble. Pure water Is very Inert It will neither rust iron nor conduct elec tricity. Impurities, or at least alien substances, glva water most of the TAILSPIN TOMMY An Interview for Publication! re?L LIBERATOR, US MELD AS A PRISONER IN AN OLD ADOBE BY TOMMY, SKEETER ocTTY ASTO OUR OTHER FWENDS. LOHO ARE BESIEGED V REBELS TRIED TO BLUFF HIS CAPTORS INTO RELEASING HIM, BUT TO NO AVAIL ! MEANWHILE HAROLD PLUSHOACT HEMMIM6. THE AMATEUR CORRESPONDENT- BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER THE NEBBS Open Secret THAT .STOCK :i LONESTAR, I'M GOIN' , v M NOT BAD, HOR3IE J I (YOU KNOW SOMETHIN, BRIAR?ji -JOH, I KNOW YOU DO, BUT I'LLTELL I i TO MAKE VOU S ,XAf.J M HOW ABOLTT IT, BRIAR.?! VOU RE THE LUCKIEST DOG IN Ir3 : YOU ANVHOW-WE'RE ALLTHREEI 5 SHINIER THAN PATENT I kjsJ THINK HE LOOKS 1 , THE WORLO, LONESTAR'S THE f mmmm OF US WORK1N' TOR BEN WEBSTER t :LEATHERr V, PRETTY SLICK ? , uii,- LUCKIEST HORSE AND IM THE f; fT- aK' HE'S" THe SWELLEST GUY IN j i f I MACE l7CO IM j -33 i THAT GOLD MIKJIMS ""3 L ' ' 3TOCK DSAL.L D'DM'T ) L 1 1 GE.T RiCM P-UT WITM rPfl C-iCS I VCX,', SLIDER. AS)D ( Cf, I -..'i.n V FLIKJT TE.LLISJG ME V CtJy ,:f, TO SELL, I STILL VS I te' MVJ' , i i ' U v ' (CopttM 'l TV, t TiT of commercial orchards and Improved growing condition. The report said a moderate lncreaae In supply would not cause market surpluses. The report said the trend of Cali fornia production from the peak of a few years ago probably will continue slightly downward; but for the next few years the production of cling stone peaches In California In season of good growing conditions is likely to continue above the needa of the canning Industry- 4 HILLS BORO, Ore., Nor. 8. P)A $12,798, steel and concrete bridge Is being built over Galea creek at the NEITHER ur tr l-NCH1rR&T AT 2 Times out . Of 0WfWr$UN6$Rjr NftpeJPA V0M MACtf- dTR properties we' generally think of It as having. Tchaikovsky never met his great friend and benefactress never knew her except through letters they wrote to each other. Vet he dedicated some of his greatest compositions to her. among them his immortal Fourth Symphony. She was Nadejda von Mnck, a wom an of position and wealth who cared nothing for society but was extremely fond of music. Admiring the Russian composer's works, she learned details Crip's Opinion GOLD N'MKJISJS DEAL . I O'DKJ'T IM P-UT WITM .IDES. Arv.lO TBLLisj Mi SELL , I STILL S7 ' ll!il) SHAU" TAVe 1 NR. EL LVBERWOR, Pf?oJ AkyANA! 7CWO.' J Wl INDEEOi-- V PEES I DOb! SOON f ADVANTASE OF THIS LULL. V (W I HPNE C ePTLE I VISCOSo! Ji P AND MAV ? MIS SOLDADOS Prf'-k'N f kl 'SIIV &-REAC""CMS i? 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Tcalkovsky misunderstood the situ ation and believed that she wl3lied to break off their association. Later he repented and began writing to her anew, but she never wrote to him a&ain. Tumor row: Orvllle Wright Is Not An Airplane Pilot. MOW 1 VVfiJsjT OOT KJD M'VJK COAT FOL5 DONJT 1 SOLD MV D'D O NOVEMBER 8, 1935. DIFFICULT DECISIONS VCti TO frU- A is.'ELL LOO PRC'SE.CX'? MvE TO K.KJOW JTTCK - C SJU f I 7 . . Ul V 1L nkWm . JUS AS VOU'RE $(f AROUND "THE CORNER YOU HEAR A HALLOO FROM , HOME WHICH WAV MEAN TORSOffEN y CH0RE6, ORlHA-T UNCLE 6E0R6E WILL TAKE- YOU TO tHAT N70VIE YOU WANTfcD 0 SEE Su VW( 11-5 (Copyright, 1938, hy The BU Syndicate, Ibe.) WUilftflS DTTER POP ' By 0. M. PAYNB P"mI6T VsflMPUS, tMBP Cor )MUSTA TOLT Veu) (Copyright. 1936, by Th T OMLV TOLD SIRS. SLiDECR 5ug was ikJ TuE MOMINJG 1. READ THE LETTER. o V TME LETTER S By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Btll Syndicate, inc.) 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