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PAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD. OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1935. HIGH COURAGE -jjt -f.-,,,. by Jeann Bowman, t fAui'A Jo .i . it tumwuui i'ia jost fcer name, the fortune hi fhould have inherited from Luki nnd Lucinda Farnatcorth, and even her lotted, Hob Crocker, who dc ecrtcd her the moment ho found mIk van not to inherit the Farnaworth Flahcrire, But her life at "Nikki Ktclaen" in the Finnish colony of Union Town ia happy, nnd $he knows now that she loves John S'euman, leader in the community. And the hopea to learn more of her print and to improve her future with hie help. Chapter 29 FISHER GIRL. ILL you marry me, Ntkkl, when I come back front Alaska? You mow I love you." "John, I'm afraid." "Afraid?" "Afraid to trust my feelings. Two months ago I was going to marry nob Crocker. Now I don't love blm. Tbls feeling I bave for you Is so dif ferent, I'd Ilka to believe It would last forever, but how can I? How do I know? I'm cot like you. I haven't been true to a dream, as you bave. Oh, 1 liked you tbat night at tbe dance, 1 hoped I'd see you again. I ' even asked Duke Lansing to and you and bring you up, but you didn't come and Rob did." "Forget It, Nikkl, let's sit here and talk. We've a lifetime ahoad of u I'll sail tomorrow and during tbe tlmo I'm away I believe you'll learn to trust your own toolings. Somehow I believe wo're destined for each other. Anne sat on a gray boulder, and John at her foot, bands clasped about his knees, looked up at her. Wordless communion, until a family of bluejaya clattered down Into the dell and began scolding. ' Wed bettor get awoy before Papa Jay has apoplexy," Anne von. turcd. "Wont to walk to the top of tbe bill? There i an old logging road near here." Slowly they walked, trcon meeting over bead, wild currant waving plumes of fragrant red blossoms in their path, (lowering dogwood wllh blossoms llko carved Ivory dipping and swaying above them. They crossed streams on plank bridges Bwung on cables and then came out on the beads, tlio river bo low thorn, and beyond the Pacific, sil vered with afternoon mist, "1 know a short cut back," John sold, looking at his watch. "Porlmps we'd better take It." npHlSV talkod as they walked; that Is, John talked and Anns lis tened. "It won't be eaBy being the the wife of a fisherman, Nlkkl, I want you to understand that. Not that 1 Intend to remain one always." "What do you Intend to do, and what did you major In, at college?" "Political economy," he answered, "It's always appealed to me. My Irish sldo, 1 guess, llut 1 believe thore Is going to be a need of states manship In this country. I believe there will be the need of men who can seo both sides of the class strug gle which Is making Itself felt these days. i ni as anu-ranicni as men are made, but I roallie that unless lead ers come out of tbe ranks, agitators will speak for them and the chance of welding the two factions Into a harmonious whole will be lost. "I want to be financially free to carry on this work. I've been asked to run for the legislature but I'm not ready to accopt. I'm too young for one thing, nnd I'm not financially ablo for another. But with you to bolp me. Nlkkl" Ue looked down, and when ho saw the tcntlorness In her eyes as she looked up, be waited for nothing more. "Nlkkl," he whispered, "I know now what you'ro going to say when I como back from Alaska. I do, don't I?" "1-1 think so, John," she agreed. She wondered If a ship coming In from storm ridden seas, knew the peace she found In tho hnvun of his arms. And then breaking Into the charm of the moment came John's voice, low. curt "Nlkkl, hlilo there, behind that thlckot. quick." Llko a shadow. Anno obeyed. Sho saw John walk towards the beach and stretch out In the sand, back to a log, A moment later she hoard voices. For a while she could not Identity them, and then she looked out across the water. There was a llsh trap thore. The pilings to which the dif ferent sots of nets were hunj were old, weatltorheaten. some of them broken off at the watorllne. Tbe lit tle shed which sat on Its long legs at the mouth of the trap looked as It it were teaiij lu bu.taiu at luc Ills, wind storm. For fully Ave minutes John waited, then noncbalantly stood up. brushed tbe sand from bis clothes, and saun tered back towards tbe road. Once there, be motioned Anne to Join blm and hurried ber back over the trail without pausing to explain. When they were In view of the others he slackened his pace. "That s an old Ash trap the govern ment ordered abandoned some time ago. Evidently some tramps biding out there." "I thought traps were always set where the current carries tbe fresh water." "There's a current there, some freak sends It Into that cove. The trap there used to be one of the best on the river." "But why were you afraid for me?" Anne persisted, John smiled down at ber. "Must I remind you that you are. very pre cious to me?" w They Joined the others and a few moments later embarked upoc smooth sea, tinted with tbe last of sunset. Anne, going up the steep flight ot stairs to the grey shingled house she called home, smiled at John, "See that window?" she asked, pointing to the one looking west. "I'll wait up there until I see your ship come home." They stood for a moment In the darkness of the room. "And as soon as we sight land, I'll start looking up here, Nlkkl, and It's the last thing I II look at when I put out to sea." The next morning Anne stood at the window, watching a puffy little tug escort The Star ot Lapland to the bar, then stand by as tbe sails unfurled to catch the brisk morning wind. Long sbe stood there, until the last fluttering pennant bad merged with the horizon mist, and tben she turned to pick up the threads ot liv ing, frayed by John's departure. KNOW I'm a girl, but even a girl 1 has some brains." Anne sat on a wharf piling, curls tucked under a seaman's cap. slim figure boyish In blue slacks and high dark blue swoater. But, Nlkkl," George was protest ing, "girls don't flab . . . It's . . well It Isn't nice, you know, what I mean, no girl wants to go around smelling like a flsb market." I wouldn't be a very big market smell, George," she Insisted. "I only weigh a hundred and twenty." And the men swear something awful, sometimes." But they swear In Finnish, so I wouldn't know but what they were reciting pootry." "Yeh. but you're learning the lan guage fnst." "Wouldn't that be fun," said Anne hopefully, "1 could learn to swear In Finnish and folks wouldn't know; oh. George, you've cinched It now; there are two or three persons I'd Just love to practice on." But, Nikkl, there's storms and fogs. It's dangerous being fisher man." He paused and looked at the girl, who sat looking west, chin thrust forward and out, "And we'd like to take care of you, Orvl and me." Anne smiled at blm. "I know you would. And I'd love to have you take care of me, but 1 have roasons for wanting to do this. George, won't you trust me?" "Sure," began George dubiously, "but, gee, I wish John was here." "So do I," agreed Anne lightly, and Jumping up thrust out bet hand. "Is It a bargain? Am I hired?" "You know you would be," grinned the big follow sheepishly. But having agreed to take Anna aboard the Nlkkl. as part of her orew, both George and Orvl set about making a fisherman of her. At firs!, determined to cure her of her peculiar Intentions, they gave her work that taxed her strength, duties which had sickened girls who hsd made holiday trips wltb them. Anne said nothing. She stood duty at tho winch until she thought her back would break and her arms pop out of their sockets She learned to use a gaff without closing her eyes. She became acquainted with all th Intricacies of the engine, and horri fied Lllsa by returning from the drift one night ns oil smeared as any ga r.iRe mechanic. The flsb wore running; they poured Into the Columbia. And the Sorkl boys were jappy. They would go a long way this summer toward paying off their doht But there were others who wure not contented, men who fished for the Fsrnsworth can neries. tCopyrioht. UJJ. by Jeann Bfltfftnttnt MA FE DIESEL" FLIER HAS BLAZE GALLUP, K. M., Nov. 21. (&ftU ahlny new motor scorched by a per plexing fire, the Snnta Fe railroad's experimental Diesel locomotive Idled on the track here today aa officials opened an Inquiry Into the bfaze which abruptly stopped It attempted record breaking dash last night. Why the flames suddenly licked out to damage the new type engine unit as the train sped two hours and a half ahead of Its schedule on the trial run from Chicago to Los Ang les was the predominant question confronting the executives. Hardly had the fire cooled and the train of Industry's notables been hoked to a regular steam locomotive for the continued Journey to Los An geles when 8. T. Bledsoe, Santa Fe president, declared the "mishap will In no way cause the company to change Its plans for a faster schedule and the use of the new equipment." DIFFICULT DECISIONS Engineer Quits, accord perfect NORFOLK, Neb. (UP) H. J. But-j ler, Norfolk, No. 1 engineer on the Chicago and North Western lines west. ! has joined the ranks of retired train-! men after 63 years of service with no accidents, no wrecks, no persons In jured or killed on his trains. He had reached the automatic retirement age of 70. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Pat OS. """"'Off OOfliPA f rWRlCrVS "fiOCH Of PUT WrY5 NB MR SQUlPPEP. MAHNSQ, Of? . , IJG0 AS A FOFfT.H 1bVM IT & WITHOUT A f HVb, A 6UN wMMM www' (4 m J so jJvLt Atfrtoufirt we IP WIN CTWPuuua ' pice,., , ine wee GAME. WIU.PI6 If 6ITTEM 0V ft SUfWPS ANP Wry U(XRM... s.,-7.Y?rs,rt Fort Jefferson, nicknamed "i-'orl Polly," Is today a forgotten and Ill considered venture of fortifying the entrance to tho Oulf of Mexico Costly, futile, nnd abandoned, the old fort now stands like a ghost town of gold rush days on Dry Tor- tugas Island, 120 miles off the coast of Florida. It wu started In 18-111 as the Rock of Olbraltar of the Oulf, to give the United Stntes control over those waters. Five hundred guns were planned In three tiers, and the fort was to cover 16 acres ox ground. T is A wry OF GREAT REJ01ON6 IN DEL SEGUNDOJ CAPITAL CITY OF NAZ1L, FOR TODAY THE HEROES OP THE LATE VOAR ASANST THE INSURRECTION ARE TO 8E DECORATED BY THE PRESIDENT -Z2-35 Fourteen years and 14,000.ouu went Into the fort before construc tion was halted. The Idea was almost abandoned and the plan was dropped. During the Civil war, the old fort was used as a prison. In the Spanish-American war about 8000.000 wns sent by the navy In repairs, but Fort Jefferson wns not used. It lay forgotten until the World war when at last It became useful lend was stripped from win dow casements and anlvaged for munitions manufacture. Every year In St. Ivea, Hunting donshire, England, 13 boys and girls gather at the council schoolhouse to shoot a game of dice and Bibles, strange as It seems, are given to the winners. Instructions for thla strange ceremony, together with a legacy to buy the Bibles given to winners, were In the will of the Rev. Dr. Robert Wllde who died In 1078. Dr. Wilde's will has not bean followed to the letter he Instruct ed that the dice be rolled on the communion table, but in I860 church officials vetoed the idea and sinco then tho game has been held In the schoolhouse. Tomorrow: Olenn Curttss Most Enduring Speed Record. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS I I II "V I S I I J ill f IK I v zvij rriiM ' i,. Hi- i n.. i A n u-iq THE FIRE DEPARTMENT GOES BY, OM BUSINESS BENf, J0ST AS VOL) SPILL V0UR W0RLTlV WEALTH OF "TWO MICKa5, A DIME AND SIX PEMN1ES OUT OF V0UR POCKET, 1DRNIN6 HANDSPRINGS (Copyright. 1935, by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.) 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