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hoe dropped in on her dtsij.-..
father at hie enormous eetale i.
Virginia. But ehe decide alet
talking uith him that ehe eannoi
etick it out and etarte back u
Washington to visit her giddii
mother . Kay W tit disconoetted in
turn, order private oar to bi
attached to tht. New York train
Ueantohile. Terrv WlUett iuet hat
returned hie tathet to Oarteret Va.
tor hie taet tono rett and white .
talking to the rector ie wondering
whether to go back to the tropic
and hi engineering contract.
Chapter 19.
INTRUSION
THE venerable rector, who bail
botli christened and burled
Lawrence Wlllett, was disturbed
this powerful bronzed son was get
ting ready to ride again. He tried
to arouse in him some softening
sense of Family by pointing out tbe
various inscriptions In the little
churchyard.
He showed WlUett where lay the
ancestor who bad been killed In the
fighting around fort Duguesne In
the Year or Our Lord seventeen bun
dred and forty-five. Tbe marker was
of red stone, weathered, cracked,
and nearl; undecipherable.
There was the Wlllet who had
some home to die from tbe rigors
of tbe Lewis and Clark empire
building expedition, and the three
sons of Judge Nathaniel Wlllett who
had galloped hell-for-leather with
"Beauty" Htuart's cavalry Into lines
of belching guns.
Quite an Illustrious cavalcade to
ride behind alone, but Terry Wll
lett bad been knocking around the
world too long to have assimilated
any sense of Famll) He listened
courteously and then looked at his
wrist watch.
"Good-bye, sir," he said. "I'll be
pushing along."
"Terence," said the minister,
"haven't you thought you might have
a duty to all of them here?"
Wlllett gave him a long straight
glance.
"Duty" be said. "Don't talk to me
' of duty, sir. I'm a bust as an en
gineer and a worse bust as a son.
Let It go at that."
The minister didn't want to let It
go at that by any means, but there
was nctbing he could do about It.
"At (east you might be Interested
In seeing your old borne," he urged,
putting bis stiff aged fingers Into
Willett's Arm and youthful clasp.
"A graceful courtesy ' to your
father, Terence."
"Where is the governor's place?"
The minister furnished explicit
directions. Wlllett nodded.
"Might take a look at 1L Thanks
tor everything; you were damn
decent."
HE strode oft. "You were damn
decent." The minister shook bis
bead slowly, put bis plnce-nes back
astride bis nose, snd reflected sad
ly that divinity schools bars their
limits.
The historic town njuare waa
protected by an Iron fence there
was some sort of a status Wlllett
walked through the town of his fore
fathers with the attitude of a man
waiting for bis train to get through
a tunnel. .
But be stopped to look at the
house where his father bad been
born a big white bouse with six
columns rising to Uia roof cornice.
There was a drive through an ave
nue ot locust trees and at one side
of the bouse war- the overgrown
remains of a terraced garden.
Nobody had lived here for some
time the bouse waa boarded up.
the grass needed mowing, and a
weatherbeaten sign stuck In the
lawn announced thi property was
for sale or rent and referred to
some bank.
His face waa a study as he looked
searching!? at the place, as If to
drink In a picture that would last,
because this was a day or last
farewells botore the world moved
on. Some day he might want to re
member It. some day, somewhere
A train whtstie sounded down the
valley. Wlllett suapped to. Good
bye. Dad. here's howl
The taat-fiylni "Old Dominion"
disdained to stop in Carteret for the
sake of passengers, but the little
matter of a water tank was accepted
as a necessary evil.
Clouds of stoam Issued from the
hot boxes, a condurto- waited watch
In hand on the platform tor the
Sash, and two little barefooted
negro boys stood near tbe observa
tion platform of a long silver-gray
private car named "Debutanle II,"
their eyes popping out of their
beads.
TKKFtY WILLETT arrived at the
station on the lump.
"That was the New York train T
be asked the station agent.
"Yeah, but It aln'i the local," said
the agent "This train don't stop
tor passengers."
"Whatever It's doing now," said
Vlllett, "!s all right with me."
He walked over to "Debutante
1 1" and swung up on the observa
ion platrorm.
"Hey!" yelled a brakeman. "That's
i private car."
"Do tell me," said Wlllett.
What's private about It?"
"I'm tellln' you you can't ride
there."
"If you don't like It," said Wll
lett, "there are any number of
things you can do with It."
A negro In white servitor's coat
came out on tbe platform.
"Tbla Is a private car. sub," he
warned. "You can't ride heah. Ah'm
telling you."
"Listen, you," said Wlllett "You
can't tell me anything."
STATE COLLEGE
ROLL HOLDS UP
CORVALUS, Ore., Jan. 4 AP)
Winter term enrollment at Oregon
St t college vu nenrly Urge u
for the full term, end continued the
30 percent Increase over year ko.
lint day renutiatlon total of 2874
showed today.
It the iiB-jal lte registration oc
cur, the total for the term will be
above SWO. compared with the final
total of 2VS'I for the aecnnd term tatt
year, and 8 ,35 for the 1935 fall term.
Unttl the Unt two yetra the winter
term umaJiy ahowed a marked falling
off compaiM with the fall.
Tht tint day enrollment included
60 new tiudentt, neaxly 60 perct&t
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"Don't talk to ma of duty, sir," said
Terry,
"Tough guy, hub?" commepted
the brakeman from the station plat
form, "Coma on up here, flunky," In
vited Wlllett, "and And out for
yourself."
The brakeman decided It dtdu't
really make any difference anyway,
but tbe negro began an olBcloui
protest. WlUett Inquired it he'd like
to be tossed right the hell off the
train entirely.
The Inquiry waa attended with
an unmistakable eagerness and put
an end to further argument. Tht
train began to move, and Wlllett
brushed him aside and -went Into
the car.
It was a private car all right
big club chairs, a small mahogany
bar, thick grey carpet and soft-
toned curtains a blend of luxuri
ous' comfort and' modernistic
betVity.
A pretty girl anu two men were
shooting dice on the floor. Tall
glasses reposed perilously close to
their heels, and a nearby buffet
table was ladon wtth a parade ol
bottles snd bowls of cracked Ice.
"Listen." the girl was saying
spiritedly, "1 loft a six bore and you
can't put me behind the eight ball
with Snake Eyes. A woman hat
some rights, you pirates."
Her Indignant pronouncement
met with an exception trom one ol
the men. a young army officer.
She leaned weakly back on net
heels and noticed Wlllett.
"Well, well." she observed, "look
what wandering boy saw the light
In the window."
(Copyright liij by David Oarth)
Tomorrow Purl tskti a swlps it
Tsrry Willttt.
more than a year ago.
More than 300 graduate students
and the usual lste comers remained
to be registered.
ATLANTIC CITY HOTEL
DESTROYED BY FI
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J , Jan 4 (API
Ten men were injured when fire de.
t roved the lM-room Bill more hvM
early today, drlvla, more than 40
gueata into the utrwt In their night
clothes. The hotel waa valued t
$Aim nrm. the oer ss!d.
The fir aUrted In the rear of the
flve-tory frame building and hour
later firemen were atlll pouring font
o' water Into the amoulderinx ruin.
All furntalMiiH were destroyed .w
damaged by wafer and moat of the
Hiieat lout their Jewelry, clothing and
otUr valuable.
PROMISE OLD MEN
PROSTATE RELIEF
ST. LOUIS. Jan. 4. (AP) A new
treatment for prostate trouble a
common affliction of old men
which glvea complete relief waa re
ported today to the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Science.
It oonalata merely of feeding to
prostata sufferer an extract of bo
vine Tissues which in aome unde-termtn-id
way, possibly through a
hormone action, caues tbe abnor
mal enlargement of the gland to
subside, according to Dr. D. Roy
McCulahg, of the Cleveland clinic.
Cleveland. O.. who reported the
method.
u. -niminsrf tY.-t ..Tin abnormal
enlargement of the gland, which la
situated at. the neck of the blad
der, interferes with normal body
fiinrtlnni. and ha a aecondarv ef
fect In causing kidney disorders
which are sometime fatal. , .
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Two Lives Toll In
- Oregon Industry
SALEM. Jan. 4 (AP) The state In
dustrial accident commission during
the week ending yesterday, received
report of the deaths of two workers,
injured In industrial accident in Ore
gon. Accident reported numbered
460.
The fatally Injured were M. Tano.
Portland fruit picker, Injured at Dee,
Oct. 17- and 8. E. DUley, Grande
Rorfde laborer, injured December IS
at Valley Junction.
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STRANGE AS IT SEEMS-By JOHN HIX.
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While European mlnda were still
blundering from one system of calen
dar to another, wondering why the
seasons aeemed to ahlft from one
year to the next In aplte of their best
calculations, the ancient Mayan had
already perfected a calendar so un
cannily aocurat that It la today one
of the marvels of mathematics and
aAtronomy.
Based on observation of the aun,
moon and planets. It provided for a
865-day year divided Into 18 montha
of 30 days e.ch. Each month con-,
slated of four 0-day weeks, and at
the end of the yo&r was an extra per
iod of five unnamed days to com
plete the year. The extra occasional
day provided for our leap years was
taken care of so accurately that the
Mayan calendar of 25 centuries ago
varied but one day In 300 years
and even this variance was allowed
for so well that after more than 3100
years the Mayan calendar waa still
accurate.
The Mayan year began In mid-July
when the aun crossed Its zenith.
Through the centuries that the
Mayan calendar was marking off the
pa&sing time, Europe's best calendar
was running ahead of itself one day
every 100 years. This, the Julian cal
endar, was discarded In 1852 by most
countries in favor of the more ac
curate Georgian calendar of today.
When the new calendar was put Into
effect 10 diva had to be lopped of f j
the old calendar to bring the sea- j
sons back to their normal place.
Tomorrow: "Man's Span of Life."
RESENTS
ByGLUYAS WILLIAMS
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StAMP ALBL'M, BUI" HE
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PIRATES AND AIRPiANES
AND TH1N6S ,601" HE'S
BEEN TOO 805V 10 READ
THEM Vtf
WANT5 To KNOW NOT BEING ABLE To
WHAT BUDDY1 WAN5 COME To MUCH OF ANY
TOPLflVWlTH PECISI0N, SPEND THE
AFltRNOON WRESTL1N6
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