MEDFORD MAIL. TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD, OREGOX, MONDAY, " DECEMBER 30, 1935.
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NEVERMIND THE LADY
STOCKING TIME
By GLUYASWILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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Ntvii mind mi last
Ay David Garth
NfVM MIND IMS IAOT
wivii mind mi lAor
NIVH (UNO TM 1ADV
MVU MIND rW IADT
NiYII SUMO THI IAOT
.1 .VO'SM.- Terry IT Well ami
.'..mire ll'cut ftavs met lor a eio
lour ej-olli.'ia adventure. The out
come ot the adventure is that a
man is sho:, and Terry taket the
tap. Uut Allaire doee not know;
the talis lor the mates thinkinn
Terry ha pone lack upriver to hi
lot, and Terry takes a lashing Irom
the notice oolite under the Impres
sion Allaire has sailed away with
out carma- .Voir Terry is hurry
inp hark in his conetrur"m camp,
trherrvs lather is trjl.rT? to stave
oil I'ulh lever and rapacious na
tives. Chapter 15
DEFEAT
QTICK around and rest up a
couple of day." That was useless
and Ducky Corrigan knew It. He
went on casually "There'i been
hooting In tha streets In Proplon
olre." Willett said nothing.
"If the port la mined" ,
"Then I'll get off at Doa Rioa and
tut around Proplonolre." Willett
poke with a snap and bite to hie
words. "Get a gang from one of those
villages on the lower Palva and get
portered up the river."
Corrigan hesitated.
"I'm not trying to maka It hard,
on, but those Tillages are tied up
with the fever."
"1 don't give a damn how hard It
la." aald Willett grimly. "I'll get
through. Don't worry about that."
And Corrigan abruptly knew that
Terry Willett would get through.
Ho'd have bet bis last dollar on the
tall redhead.
They roiled up near the small, drab
banana steamer. The dock waa lit
tered with signs ot the recent load
ing, straw, broad green leaves, bur
lap, blackened stems, and squashed
nnrlpe fruit.
Willett stuck out hla band.
"So long, Ducky."
"So long, fella. Maybe we'll be to
gether on a Job some place be swell,
wouldn't It?"
"Sure," said Willett. "So long."
Corrigan watched him walk quick
ly through the fine grey mesh of rain.
Then he leaned back In hla Beat,
atuck bla feet against the partition
and eyed his enquiring driver with
an antl-Spig glare.
"Itedmonte Bar, you punk."
FUTILITY! It was expressed Is
every detail of the camp on the
banks of that tropic river futility,
despair, and a malevolent frustra
tion. There waa no llfo no sound
except the humming of Insects In
that fover-rldden apot.
All was beaten and groveling
. hedged In by a fringe of tangled
Tegctullon and matted creepy treea
that looked hollow and unreal with
a curacd muddy river licking the
slimy bases ot the pontoons that sup
ported a would-be conqueror.
The clearing waa acarcely larger
Hum a child a playground It waa
bin a spot plucked from the Jungle
mid slowly returning to Its own
decaying, torpid, and heated in Its
pathetic civilization like the head of
a vulture close to the sun.
The main hut that apoka Authority
was square and flat-celllnged with
two-by-foura lining the walls; the
window waa Jaggcdly screened In
sects mocked It as the river mocked
tho dredger.
A work table was littered with
.crumpled blueprluta and sheavea
;ot foolscap filled with sprawling cal
culatlona two unmade cota with the
jmoBqulto netting In Jumbled con
tusion over tho disordered sheets
ianl sickness and madncsa every
iwhore. There was one thing that deflce)
the aqunlor and defeat ot the place
I that waa the tall bearded man who
slouches! wearily over a table. His
eyes were vory bright, too bright,
and the line straight nosa broathed
Jerkily, thin nostrils dilating like a
racing thoroughbred's.
Hut, withal, a hint of Mayfatr
clung to blm; aquare appearance
of the ahouldcra, tho breeding In his
face, the shape of the hand that
tr'.moleil with a pen--perhaps.
lie was writing, not -larlng to lose
the chance of what might be a last
lucid moment.
This le left ror you should ? not
bo utile to last. 1 know you'll net
h-re and whatever you find head
up.
'I'll tiMiiit last reguest non
sense liiku me buck to the States;
Carteret. Virginia, la where 1 lie-'
R.in I'd like to return there. This
linilreained-of sentiment will prob
ably surprise you. but I know
you'll i,.j.rrt this last wish "
For a moment a brief attempt at
a smile appenred on hla face. As If he
cared where he was burled. Dut It
was good enough as an excuse to get
Terry out of the country should te
by any chance have had other Ideas.
Ills eyes returned to his message,
tho last ve.itlge of humor gone, and
be had to rest bis head on his free
hand as tho pen resumed Its shaky
progress.
"and take It easy for awhile.
non I no rushMiK off to some
ill,. nlnyariiuriit rilit away or
I II Jtnt ev. rytlilnK you try to build
there are other thlncs In life
.in iheni a rlwir.es and they'll find
you
Cheerio.
Dsn"
An..'
ANTI:aiE. Dec. 30 (Spl.l Mr
and Mrs. Bill BiKham and aii(tliteni
and .t-. and Mrs. Albert aVtiham snd
chllSsfa asnt Christmas At ttK home
Mat. Via i;hm of Saai, Vsil-
C "!: . X.nsai .t, fclvrn St
fj,)ta ,-a.iol. IHivsiber 10
yta A ass o! fe'lnta Clans
ifss ! fxisr an t!- pisent
iSse a.asa. aaa nuai. to the ohildren
kf. IKS.' w anjoyed by all.
Lincoln Chiley and Donna Monica
of Brownboro w-re Married ecemler
27.
Kveryone Ma aho.'ked and saddened
to learn of the sudden death of Mra
Mary Kent. The sympathy of the
district goes to the bereaved family.
Thoa who attended the funeral A
Mrs. Mary Kent from Ar.trlr.pc were
Mr. and Mra. Tom llstlett. Mr. snd
Mrs. Elbert Blwhsm an.1 children. Mr
and Mrs B. K. Mr. and Mia.
Hla pen dropped from hla fingers
and rolled acrosa the table. He reeled
hla head In both hla bands acd tried
to focus on the framed picture of a
beautiful woman with a wcolth of
auburn hair and a smiling mouth.
He'd snatched the rattle from her
baby's band and given him a whip. '
"He's going back, Vic," be mur
mured. "Back to whatever you'd
have wanted, I hope. Almighty God,
how I hope ao "
Then Lawrence Willett permitted
bis bead to sink upon one arm, and
sighed like a tired child who la
quite willing to be put to bed.
Two weeka later a young man
boarded the "Atlanllca," New-York
bound, at Doa Rlos, the last open cof
fee port elnce the guns of the revolu
tion bad begun to roar.
He paused by the rail and leaned
on an elbow. For a while he watched
the scurrying coffee porters down on
the dock, then hla gaze shifted to
the long low range of hill In the
background.
Behind them Proplonolre, the
Palva, Pluto'a playground. Hla
eyea were misty for a moment, but
only for a moment.
Something about him, the line of
hla mouth, the set of his shoulders,
the Jut of bis chin, perhaps could
be named by one word.
Iron!
THE bar of the Arundel Club was
ot glass, Inlaid with silver. It was
filled wltb fish, some of tbem very
queer. There was one called a Trig
ger Fish because of the alignment
of a fin. and this fish could go seventy
miles an hour when It wanted to.
It never wanted to.
The place had a thick carpet of
Pompclan red, a sunken black dance
floor, and walls panelled with full
length min ora.
Upstalra men and women In eve
ning clothes played roulette and
baccarat from midnight until dawn.
The midnight crowd at the Arundel
waa famous.
There was quite a cluster about
Allaire West. She Invested all the
Qualities of a duel In her play, chas
ing the bank up a tree or loslng'hcr
shirt and doing either in a graceful.
composed way that Inspired three
eheera. Everybody waB surprised
when she suddenly got up and asked
to be cashed In.
"You're stopping early tonight.
Miss West," said Louis.
"Tired of It."
"Is everything all right?" he
asked anxiously.
"Of course, Iiouls. It Isn't your
fault. It'a mine. I don't seem to enjoy
it any more. Seems a wasle of time."
She smiled. "Something I ate, no
doubt."
She went downstairs and Joined a
small group at the bar. A nice-looking
blond man who might have
passed as a Viking made room for
her.
"Are you going to drown your
aorrows, or celebrate your luck?" he
Inquired.
"Neither, Charley. What'a the mat
ter with that' fish? Doesn't It ever
move?"
"All It does Is eat," complained
Charloy.
Allnlre tapped on the glass with
a slim forefinger In a futile effort to
stir the lethargic Trigger -Fish.
Charloy tapped too. So did all the
others. They lapped, and the Trig
ger Fish didn't even budge.
"Heavens!" exclaimed Allaire sud
denly, "What foola we are. Getting
all excited over a flsh."
"1 know It," said Charley. "But
Just think, Allaire, that fish can go
seventy miles an hour. They've even
reinforced the glass at the ends of
the bar In case It should smack Into
them at full speed. If It ever got go
ing places 1 Imagine It would be
hard to atop."
"I Imagine It would," agreed Al
laire thoughtfully.
"And," continued Charley plain
tively, "with all that preparation,
what does It do? It lolls around, eat
ing, and preening Itself. Wouldn't It
be a thrill if It should suddenly go
phht ? Justify Its existence?"
"There." said Allaire, "you have
raised a very pertinent point,
Charley. Just ideation of existence is
confined not alone to denizens ot
the briny deep. Or. as In this In
stance, a denizen of an aquarium bar
In a plus-ultra gambling Jernu"
"True," admitted Charluy. He
shook hla head sadly and looked
dejectedly at the fragile, long
stemmed cocktail glass In his Angers.
"What Is a Trigger Fish without
ambition? A very woeful thing in
deed. Nobody's any good without
ambition."
"What'a yours, Charley?" the glr!
Inquired.
"Orange Blossom," said Charley
"Try one."
(Copyright. Its), by OaviA Qarth)
Tomorrow. Allslrj floss 70 miles
n hour, fer a while.
Luther Day Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Owens. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Yorton.
Fred Button, mil Wallenberg, Mrs
Sarah Riley and Mr. and Mrs Carl
Von der llellen.
Mr. and Mrs Tom llstlett. Mr. and
Mrs. B K. Riftta and children and
Mr and Mrs. B. E Bale and chil
dren wire dinner uest of Mr. and
Vrs S W. Bali-e of Medford recently
Mr. anu Mra. Earl Yorton silent
ChrlstmiiA in MeiVord with Mr. Yor
ton's moltier.
Mr. and Mrs. Csrl Von der Hellen
and children spent Christmas day
with their daughter and aon-ln-Iaw.
Mr. and Mra. Harold Zumi. lt of Lake
Crerlt.
Bill WattenOerK spent Christmas
with his parents
Mrs. Wilbur Erlrkaon Is spendlnj
the L'hrlstmaa vacation In Portland
with her husband.
Mra. Henry Owens haa been quite
111. but la much Imp-mrd at tnn
time.
Use Mall Tribune want ads.
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