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NEVER MIND THE LADY
THE WORLD AT ITS WORST
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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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."
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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
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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
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coinwl. Tlv-vni M.-Mrrlln, t1 up
whll' th MrlHlfli-AMon wm murte
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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,"
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HE TOOK THE KEYS TO THESE
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