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PAGE TEN MTDFOKT) MATTi TRTBTTNTE, MEDFOUD, OT?EGOy. THURSDAY. XOVEfBER 3. 193R. DON'T MARRY THE MAN The Characteri -By Jeenne Bowmtn- - ' Kathleen Greg oryi peppery red-haired member of the Greg ory elan, poet Wett incognita to eecure a rioht-oZ-tcay for The Golden Girl mine. ' ' Donald MacDonald: young owner of The Stubborn Boy mine, hoe refused . the rtoht-oway, hotel the Gregoryt. Brldfet: Kathleen's companion. Yeiterdey: Kit-Smyth, euper tntendent, take! .Kathleen into the Gregory mine where the meet Old Balmy. ' ' Chapter 10 Old Balmy If IT-SMYTH'S hand .was o Balmy1! arm. Other muckers hid rushed to the old man's side. but only Kathleen smiled. ! In the yellow circle of light she eould see the man's face, his ex pression of patient hope, the glow of Joy gradually fading, a look of bewilderment taking its place. ,- "Queer," he muttered. '1 could I sworn it was Old Angus standin1 there. It's the way he always stood, the stubborn mon, heels flat to the ground so no one could move him.' "I'm sorry to disappoint you,' Kathleen told him. . Suddenly the face was illu mined. "Disappoint," he echoed "Ah, nol It seems dreams come true in their ain fashion." Kit-Smyth, who had listened Im patiently, took Kathleens arm, "Now I'll show you" ,- "But I'd rather stay here and talk to this gentleman," she ob jected. "My dear young lady," began the superintendent then whimsl- eally, "oh, very well. Miss Riley, this is Balmy, shift boss, and Miss uonanue. inese young ladies are from Chicago. They're stopping here awhile. I judge they'll be your neignDors. i ve wired Mr. Greg ory for permission to rent the Gregory house. "Aye." murmured the old man but he shook his head as though to clear his ears of Kit-Smyth's voice. "Go on with your lunch," Kath leen insisted, perched on a timber beside him. "I've reached the pound cake. win you join mer Kathleen didn't know which sur- irised her the more, herself in his undignified position, lunching with a mucker, or the cake. "I made it," Balmy told her. "Perhaps you would have tea with me some Sunday? This Sunday? ('11 have some more. I've no wife lo make it for me, these twenty fears," he added. Kathleen accepted for herself ind for Bridget. They talked of Jther things, his garden, the dog, the mine, then when the others reappeared he took Kathleen's hand again. "I don't talk overmuch, lass," ne said, softly, and returning to the cage, Kathleen wondered what he meant Kit-Smyth discussed Balmy, all af the way to his quarters, an im posing bungalow on a low hill be yond the mine. "I wish I could gnt rid of that man," he fumed. "He gets worse very day. Take the way he acted towards you, Miss Riley" "He acted the part of a gentle man," snapped Kathleen. ,rAs far as his calling me, whatever it was, I once dashed through a store and kissed a strange woman thinking he was my mother." "Oh, I know, but . . . well, it's his religion. Not that he preaches it, but he insists upon living it. If anybody hands him a dirty deal, he blesses them. Now what can you do with a man like that? You can't keep on fighting him." Bridget's laugh trilled out. "He has you there, she admitted. "Is that why you don't fire him?" Moving In "KJO, AND he's getting too old to 1 work. Old Angus brought him over from Scotland and when the boss died we found his will had taken care of Balmy from that time on. He could work as long as he wanted to. He could own his own property and if he wanted more he could have it And when he wanted to, mind you, wanted to stop work, we were to keep on paying him full salary and pay for any hospital or doctor's care he'd need." Kathleen's eyes were wide with hope. Balmy had not only been her grandfather's miner, he'd been his friend. Now she could learn all she wanted to learn. "Funny his taking you for Old Angus," mused Kit-Smyth as they drove up before his bungalow. Both girls admired Kit-Smyth's home. It was roomv, a bit over furnished, but comfortable In a mannish way. The Scotch woman who presided ever the domicile was dour and disapproving at his entertaining young ladies, until Kathleen re moved her hat. then she beamed. "You'll have plenty of attention from the Gregorys," Kit-Smyth' told Katnieen, as tne woman re tired from the room. "They have a softness for red-haired people. Old Angus had hair like a carrot top when he was young." "A carrot top," came icily from Kathleen, "is green. But I'm glad someone likes it. I met that Mac Donald person and he positively insulted me because of my hair." The girls thought Kit-Smyth laughed unnecessarily loud and long. "The MacDonalds can't take it. They can do what they want to doll up their town but they haven't a mine like ours and that's what counts in the long run." According to Kit-Smyth, an swering a call from The Golden Girl, the Gregorys had consented to renting their house. "You can move in. immediately." he assured them. He sent for a house-boy. a young Ute Indian and this "Joey-wide-eyes," looked at Kathleen and swore silent allegiance to her. Joey-wide-eyes, whose name was promptly abbreviated to Joey by the girls, took them first to the hotel to pick up their car and bag gage while he drove on to open the house. Approaching her grandfather's home, Kathleen felt a strange in terest When there had been a dis cussion of family background, it had always, heretofore, revolved around her mother's family. With out analyzing the clan's motive. she had accepted a heritage of knights and ladies, baronial castles and estates. From what she had heard, Old Angus Gregory was far from genteel. She felt sudden kin ship. There were times when she longed to be definitely barbarous. Spartan Simplicity THE front door of heavy oak swung open and the eirls sieppea immediately into tne liv ing room. Kathleen looked around, then looked at Bridget. this, remarked her friend, is what is known as Soartan sim plicity." "I like It," declared Kathleen, belligerently. , "Urn." agreed Bridget. "Person. ally, I could do with some cushions." They followed Joev to the sec ond floor where three bedrooms boasted of furniture as Gargan tuan in size as they were unyield ing in surface. Bridget chose the smallest of the three because the north windows gave view to a cone-shaped peak, and because "the fireplace is with in heating distance of the bed." Kathleen hurried to the master room. It opened south and west with a view that would be awe inspiring once the windows were cleared of their layers of dirt 1 11 take this, she stated. "No. Miss." Drotested Joev. "Old Angus depart from this bed. His woman depart from here, too." I still like it, she said. "But Miss Cleo." wailed Joev. "some time spirit he come back to piace trom wnere depart, and who know, maybe spirit of Old Angus and Old Angus' woman don't like you." A little chill began coursing up and down Kathleen's sniniv She looked at the wide bed. Her grand parents had died on that She'd never encountered deatn in any form. The thought of it gave her most unpleasant sensation. Then her heels set. "I'll ba blessed if I'm going to let the ghosts of anyone's ancestors run me out of a room I've chosen." Joey departed for town with a list Bridget had made out for him. She had surveyed the kitchen, which was the half-cabin of the feud. ODcned a few doors and closed them quickly. and a cat, Joey, shop for a cat with a dozen kittens. There are mice in here as big as donkeys." "Pack rats." Joev had Informed her. Kathleen wandered about the house on an inspection tour. She found framed lithographs of The Golden Girl in all its stages of de velopment There were two gaudi ly painted photographic enlarge ments In convex frames. One wai her grandfather, no one but Old Angus could have grown a beard like that. She expected to hear a voice boom through at any moment She studied the second with swift interest Was this young wo man her grandmother? But she was beautiful with the rich. Ian- guid beauty of the Latin race. And she reminded her of someone, es pecially the eyes with their Das- sionate defiance. . . . Just as the livinc room had shown The Golden Girl in its va rious stages of development, the pictures in the master bedroom revealed photographs of her fa ther, and of herself, from baby hood to the day of the old man'i death. Kathleen removed these lmme- iatelv. Kurlrinlv the rllT4 that thlt ouse was hers: her very own. The mine might be shared by othet members of the clan, but this prop erty belonged to the immediate descendants of the Angus Greg orys and she was the last of the lin (Ctttnttl. I'll. . 9 Tomorrow: MacDonald vlilla. RECORD FALL DROUGHT HAVING SEVERE EFFECT I WASHINGTON. Nov. 3 (API The wrathpr bureau Mid todny "on of the mot wvr and wlrtenprejid full droughts of record" ha developed In a wide midwefttern ara. extending from the Appalachian to the Rocky mountain. The bureau'! weekly bulletin Mid drought conditions were havln a Mere effect on the winter whfttt crop. Except In eaulern Nebranka and In the Trxaa rnnhandle, early seeded wheat waa Mtd to be at unditil). while tat planted grain wit reported to be deteriorate.. There la a Reneral need of rain which haa become urgent In many places. It ddet. The bulletin mid said In the widwentern area m a whole. October waa one of the driest. If not the drleat month recorded. The only midweatern sections not affected were eastern Nebranks, southern Minnesota, northern Iowa, much of Wisconsin, eastern New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle. In Kansas, the nations major wheat producing state, the grain crop waa said to be in fair condition. rn.nlMi.te )u1U OH ANTS TASS. Not. 3 API Dr. B. Brooks of Cave Junction, stormy petrel of the Joaephine county cam paigns, today announced that he la withdraw lift m a candidate for short term eommiwuoner. He declared that three candidates from (he Illinois valley, southwestern Josephine county, are "too manv" t-i lnure election of a valley in tin. I'm Mall Tribune want Ada, STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, Inclosing a a tamped envelop for reply. Reg. U. 8. Pat Off. 3 .. lr . nam FOR HEROISM ARE C&MMONPIACB OH HKTORPft KSLftNP, N, C, I UF SAVING 0 IHt ONLf Pftor&VoW towreuftrosfAM rVwuartTHouse keepers IHCRfi tioLOMORS MEPAIS TrtftN My OTHER CoMMUNtTY IH 1H6 U.S. fa lfofcW5rtlN6T0N4fofc WENT UHPSFBATtP, UNVEO, And unscorbd upon YE I intm,7l.lYC 'i-7tvrfck' ONLY 44 POINTS kO. McGRE' Pioneer hetepapermsn, PUSHEO A WHEELBARROW WW v(i i wlK 'rS- tfe LiTTi,iJitB& .W X r lohvtt WiTH TYPE, PAPER, AND KANSAS ClTVTo COLORADO f ToGthRTh NEWSPAPER i '1860'$ 3-33 Hem's Island Easternmost point of the United States from Delaware south Is Cape Hatteras, a sandy insular spit sepa rated from the mainland of North Carolina by broad Pamlico Sound. Natural hazards combine along the narrow outer banks to make rhls Island one of great danger to ship ping along the Atlantic cop.?.. The Gulf Stream often approaches with in 20 miles of the cape, crowding shoreward southbound coaatlng ves sels. Differences of temperature between the hot air of the Gulf and the shore breezes- also cause frequent atmospheric commotion, and at no other point on the Atlantic coast are found such sudden and dangerous storms. For generations, coast guarding and lighthouse tending have been the only means of livelihood on Hatteras Island and the men living there fight a constant battle against Atlantic storms. So prevalent are congressional medals for saving ship wrecked sailors that the hardy Island ers consider them commonplace 1 Newspaper In a 'Harrow A. O. McOrew, western corres pondent for a Pittsburgh newspaper, one day found himself In Kansas City, bitten by "gold fever" after hearing tales of rich deposits in Colorado. He quit his Job. and with what little money he had bought a supply of paper, type, food, and a wheelbarrow. He made a deal with friends to bring along a press later, and started out on foot for Colorado. Strange as it seems, McGrew push ed the wheelbarrow all the way to Cherry Creek. Colo., where he found ed the Cherry Creek Pioneer. Tomorrow: Grid Town. Will Open Bids On Highway Projects SALEM. Nov. S. (AP) Bids on 10 road Jobs, Including the ! 20.000 Klamath Palla railroad u ntlcrcros.il ng project, will be opened In Portbnd November 17 and IB by the Mate highway commluton. Projocta Include: Klamath county Main street un drrcroMlng In Klamath Falla. Jackson county Grading 3.29 miles of north unit of Bear canyon-state line section of Pacific highway. Klamath county Surfacing and oiling 23 miles of Odell lake-Walker mountain section of Willamette highway. SCION OF DEMOCRATS WINS G.O.P. CONTEST WASHINGTON, John Janson, 16, Nov. 3. (AP) of Phoenix, Ariz, pocketed al.OOO today for winning a national oratorical contest for young Republicans, but he may have to do some explaining when he gets home. Both his parent are registered Democrat. A (500 second prize went to Donald H. Sharp. 20, of Manhattan. Kana. Third plaoe and 250 went to Dale M. Nordqulst, 24. of Grnnd Forks, N. D. Use Mall Tribune Want Ada. FOOTBALL REPORTS By CLUYAS WILLIAMS RETURNS fKOlorrlE CTiDmON. REP0?flrl6 It) VWllW f KM" tf 6rV6 -TrifV PUSHED friF OfMER AND HE aU&Hf A fORWARD IfcflM MWUND UHTUfrtES1 PASS AM) W6U1D HWE HAD A WERE DI22V AND HE WAS H OH tofcRt VIM 1DUCHD0WN OW-V SOME 6UV MADE A WiNV lACKil MO HE CAUevW ANOTHER OM frtE 60AL LINE OWW SOME OWE -TACKlTP HIM AhfD HE DROPPED IT AMD HE BBTOVEKED 1V0 WMBUfc AHD MADF A WHOLE lof OF TACKLES AND It WAS A SWELL SAME. ' -The score ? well,- other -Team won ,42 -o, but that was just a tluke (Oepyrlgtt, 1938, by The Bell 8ymUcat, Iae.J e'UVftS 2 IWUIArrS TAILSPIN TOMMY The Eansom Note! 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