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PAOE FOURTEEN MEDFORD MAIL TRTBUNF,, AfRDFORI). OREGON. FRIDAY. JANUARY 31. 193(5. net Uot mvn'mtm na usv I tM IAOV NSVU MIND IMI IAOK NEVER MIND THE LADY THE WORLD AT ITS WORST By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor further proof address the author, Inclosing stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. S. Pat, Oft. NIVII MWO fM IAOT David Garth NIVfR mino MIVU MINO NIVII MMD IMI UDff NIVII MINO IMI LAOT MVU MINO IMI IAOV I . t I 1 mfl Tm. Tn. U.ll BvnritraU Inn II 111 I 5 m . Chapter 42 6RI0HT VISION 'T CAN'T do It." Corrlgan repeated "Terry would never forgive me." "All right." eald Allaire, "I'll pay somebody to take me op there and It you think I'm tooling, you're go ing to be one surprised Irishman." She was determined. Corrlgan re garded her Intently. "I guess you would at that," be said Anally. "Well, all right, Allaire, let's go. Rosa will be pleased the Chalkis are Beared to death ot that camp of ours." "Don't worry about Rosa," said Allaire, "we're buddies." She held up two white Angers together, "We're lust like that." Above the desk In Terry's quar ters there hung a calendar that hadn't been used for a long time. It bad been there when he and bis fa ther had been up there before, and even then the date hadn't been changed tor many days before tbe job blew up. Terry bad never noticed It par ticularly, but as he camt In tbla wet night, lit the oil lamp, and sank wearily down, bis eyes fell on the calendar. ."The Acme Copper. Pipe Company present! its compliments " He noticed bow old It was, and It uddenly stood to him as tbe last remainder of a hope that bad died long ago to his father, that bad be gun to die long before that date was reached. "The Acme Copper Pipe Company presents Its compll ments " Advt.1 Advt.l A garish addition to an army of mockeries. Lawrence Wlllett had probably stared at It many times before and laughed at tbe abrupt application to his situation of the queer "Thought for Today!" that commer cial people throw in aloug with their "compliments" to finish a smug pic ture. A thought tor the day that had topped the calendar long ago a sardonic coincidence that made blm laugh when he recognised the appli cation. .Cervantes had stopped tbe ealendarl For weeks now Cervantes bad In- listed from the walls ot the but Tbe oil lamp cast queer flickering shadows In tbe corners of tbe room. Illumined the rough two-by-fours lining tbe walls, and on the cor rugated tin roof came tbe sound ot dripping rain. Wlllett watched her, rubbing his rough unshaven cbln, and thought of that atone mansion of gleaming chandeliers back In Washington, and the elegant town house In New York where this girl bad lived. And here she waa In tbe hut of a rough neck engineer up a tropical river. He said so slowly, as If be couldn't understand it. You're not a roughneck," she said passionately. "And It you eer make another crack like that again I'll bit you with this pitcher." "Don't," he begged. "That's our drinking water. It's been boiled, al tered, sterilized In fact everything but blessed." They laughed. Wlllett sat down and took her hand. Tbe lamp light danced on his clear-cut tanned face; It was deadly serious. - "Allaire, you've done something wonderful In coming up here. I'd send you back it I could, but It would be spoiling one of the finest things I've ever seen. And I'm going to take this Job and tie It In knots until It screams for mercy." Silly Inane gestures how they'd be Junked If only one knew bow great a need can be serviced by the spontaneous courage that conies of love. "He who loses wealth, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses ' more; tint he who loses his courage, loses all" . wlllett suddenly smashed hla list down on the desk. Ho yanked the calendar off tbe wall and shied It across the room. "I don't need you to tell me, Cer vantes," he muttered. "Especially when 1 can Imagine you writing that iter a hot dinner and a glass of old wine" He lifted his head. There were flares down at the wharf. Corrlgan waa coming back with the payroll ind news of Allaire. Soveral minutes later Bucky stuck his head In at the floor. "Don't blame me," he said. "She Would come." He disappeared and Wlllett looked after blm, puzzled. But he wasn't puttied long, because before his as tonished eyes he could have sworn that Allaire was standing In the door. I TE wondered It he were delirious. 11 He'd had a touch of the fever and also, w'hen you think about omebody long enough your mind Is liable to play queer tricks. Allaire! muffled In a heavy slicker with the rain dripping off the brim of her mall felt hat. Tbe vision was rent he held It In his arms. "And don't tell me I shouldn't have come," ahe ordered, "because you might have known I'd be In on a battle. 1 love 'em." He grinned tensely. "Lord, I've missed youl Didn't Vnow how much until now that I e you." "Terry, you aay the nicest things. All the long way up that river I've wondered what you were going to say. But It wouldn't have made any difference, because 1 waa going to stay, come hell or hlgb water." "Well, they're both on tbe way." He held her away from blm and looked Into her eyes searchlngly. "Hut, Allaire. It wasn't wise" "Lota of time, darling. Don't worry about me." She pulled off her hat and looked about her. The hut wasn't very large and was one of those hastily-con-constructed things that served more a shelter than a habitation. There was a bed on each side of Hie room heavily draped with Insect netting, and a couple of trunks In a corner that were piled high with clothing of all kinds. TILLETT and Corrlgan put up cots In tbe office hut next door. and Rosa and Allaire moved Into their, quarters. Allaire beard them often nearb) at day bour of the night walalng up and down, their voices indistinguishable against the muffling sound of the rain. The grey days lent a touch of drabness to surroundings that would have been drab enougb already had not one realized the wonderful work already done by Man. Creation. Power, Ideas! They were all there In tbe slow steady progress toward a goal. Swampland had ueen drained and filled In. underbrush and tangled creepera burned out, the partly fin Isned system ot locks on the river as conceived by Wlllett had been constructed in that wilderness over tbe resistance of unhealthy working conditions, strength-sapping sun, a shifty muddy river, and a soft oozy muck at the bottom that had long defied firm foundations. Then there waa tbe little colony of huts where the construction gang lived. There was a tinge of madness In the air, the strain of the light against time, and the long arduoue battle. A man bad been knifed short ly before she came bere. and at nlubt she often heard loud labberlne voices raised In vitriolic altercation Corrlgan broke up a fight one day that might have ended with knives. He grabbed two Chalkis by the scruffs of tbe nock, hauled them apart, held them while they gesticu lated and clawed, and then dis missed them both with a good hearty boot in tbe pants for each. And Allaire waa great help too. "Ever see auch a girl. Uucky?" Wlllett said as they stood above the worka and watched the progress on the Job. There was a pipe stuck In the corner of his Jaw and the rain dripped off his snap-brim hat. lean, eald Corrlgan. "But If you'll excuse me, eon. I don't like the Idea of her being up here right now." 1 know. In a couple of weeks I'm going to bring a medico up and he'll etay here In case we're delayed get ting back." He knocked out his pipe. A nueer feeling was colling mound his heart aa the lime drew near. f anything should happen to her. Bucky" He drew a long breath and went back to Allaire's dwelling. Allaire was there with her faith ful Rosa, but ss Wlllett cnnie In Rosa unobtrusively disappeared. Terry sat down beside the girl. Happy, honey!" 'Of course. Married to a famous and brilliant engineer, and a right nice-looking fellow In the bargain." If we get through this. Allaire, we're going back to the States so fast you won't see us tor dust. I'll get a Job with Tyndall. lle'r a big shot. We'll go places." . He put a hand Yin hers and It felt strangely hot. "1 nevor thought mu-h of those things, but I do now." "I'm proud of you now, and always have been. Hut you nave so manv wonderful things to do yet." She seemed to shiver a little, suddenly, strangely. "What's the matter?" he asked anxiously. "All right. Allaire?" "Certainly I'm all right. Stop babying me, you big tra.np." tCopyrlfM. 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Ill 10,000,000 0NNRUlH When Ismail Pasha became khedlve of Ejj7t In 1863. he announce in his first official speech that his op eration of the government finances would be a sound lesson In govern mental economy. -Within a year had spent all the money in the treas way. and had borrowed $30,000,000 more. And for the next 16 years he spent huge sums so recklessly that hts country waa MIS.OOO.OOO In debt before he wos finally deposed by the Sultan of Turkey, after the Suez Ca nal waa opened. Pasha may have known that his overlord, the Sultan, would overthrow him when the canal was completed anyway he spent million while he could. His greatest splurge was for the opening of the canal the event that marked hla downftMl. He traveled through Europe, Inviting people by the hundreds to bo his guests, expenses paid, for the opening. He built great buildings, among them the Cairo Opera House, for tho en tertainment of his guests. Verdi was commissioned to write Alda for the visitors' enjoyment. Three thousand people came to spend from a week to two months1 at the government's ex pense. Ten thousand servants look ed efter thPtn. AO .000 wns spont. pub- TS FOLLOW OF THE &LyA AF7E& kSME D7S4PPAQE'D THROUGH 7yT SC?r 'PASSAGE BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER No Keys LONOON. ,Kn. SI. i API King Ed ward, in a formal audience grunted Norman K. Dsvts. United (Mates am-bstsrsdorat-tarKe. wss understood to have emphsAired ht high regsrd for the Vnlted States and American peo ple today. The new monarch snd the Ameri can envor talked half an hour The king fxprenfd his deep ap preciation for American sympathy at the death of hit father, the late King George, and at the friendliness witn which his own secession to the throne had been regarded. Individually oesLgnixl Spencet dree and surgical garments Mrs H. M Weuhaar, pnna I3i3-R. CANN IDENTIFIED AS SLAYER OF LIGGETT MINNEAPOLIS .Inn ,11 (API The prtwcilt Ion's wltiMwe, Wenlev An- derncli. piilnterl an .vuliw filler st j Iwlore I Kid Cim) BHlnirnfeld In dlitrlrt (vmrt ttxluy m the m.vhlne ' sun ilr of Wltrr 1.1,- -ett. militant nn-klr ne-ii)r tmlihMirr Blunienfld. x the rtelicut of his coinwl. Tlv-vni M.-Mrrlln, t1 up whll' th MrlHlfli-AMon wm murte timberDnioFseeks I INCREASE IN WAGES PORTLAND. Orr . Jiin. SI (API New demendii for we Inrrrnnm In the lumber Inriuntry nrrr tsld be- ( fore Portlend mill oixvntors today by tlw Portland unit -f the 8mlll and Tlmtier Workers' tiulon. 0teraUir said the union stipu lations "are beyond enythlng the union tins yl anked end utr. ner than anrtliliif grnutrd at lonjview," I AA0 PETc'i BUT HEIU BE BACK,) J LEFT THE M ANO, THAT9 VJHEKJ ST f ii ratMiNtu, puuil HAVE 0 Urz- III (tUKfE- LOOK OUT yzz M DCrCiVMAJ. a ' 1-.- By EDWIN ALGEE HE TOOK THE KEYS TO THESE CONTRAPTIONS WITH HIM, BUT THERE9 A CHAUCE THERE WAV BE AM EXTRA SET UP IN HI9 ROOM -IF THERE Yb, CAM GET CUT OF , . V, HEU-E - is-. i mi i in THE NEBB3 Who' Wlio? 4 IP MADKTT BE. FJO SICW IM etu WhEM ALL TMIS was . GOIKJO ONJ , VO UB.VE MAD TMOCE OOTIONJS - VD LIKE ID OOOUJ who was 4e1.. MATE THlc, MUST BE IT-GOSH.1F IT Ii K" J9MOKES, HERE COME CRP I I ti- i xr flcfp a i, .r nc s-M. . y II ! " B Akin ttnun Mtti.x -.... 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