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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1932)
' Tk* Fineat Writors * Send Their Storie» * F irsf to t h e llluo- * | * Coming Stories by * Edwcrd Lawson * Dorothy West k Edward Worthy > J. A . Rogers The A dvocate (ra te d F ea tu re S ection ia a a a a a a A A A A i 9 9 n g l« V m . I N liM ib etR II . AdeerttolM, Rr^«tralal>>'i A A a a a a a a a a 4 ( HI« TUB I ILLUSTRA TED FEATURE SECTION— January 2S. 1932 ftl.lifc RIBBON F IC T I O N IN VO I ND V V V .I V T i l ItV T IN r M IC T IO N THE KING’ SON Pandemonium Broke Limite. W IK I A S hort S to ry o f L ov e an d T h rills in L ib eria and V a. State C o lle g e . Warrior« Armed with Spear« Surrounded the dwelling place of the royal family, shouting aavagely and hurling their weapons as they came. of : tm, but she seems to be de alone was unknown to the guards of long And maybe, when I do get back termined to make me marry him the king, and so was admitted, after llrr voice trailed off, lost In an at all costs. She Is holding me close questioning, into the group of ecslary of dreams. now. locked In my cabin, and I’m ancient mud-thatched houses of tlie Through the long hours they talked allowed t< see no one but him and court At first opportunity he hid quietly of what the future held In the steward, to whom I'm slipping himself away, unobserved, and await store At last it was time to return this note. They're kidnapping me. ed darkness. to the dormitories and say good Jimmie! Can’t you do something? The hot sun disappeared behind the night. HELEN tjlls; the moon arose and rode swift H r It. R. R K ' H T M t H O I I N Back In Africa we were ruled by • • • The boy crumpled the note In his ly across the sky. then all was dark. a huge black king, and how the peo T w ilig h t -o f • tlttv late In June. hands and sat for a moment looking From his hiding-place,.the boy had In the morning, she was gone. Graduation exerclara at Utk Htatc ple hated titan I Even when I was Jimmie, his diploma tucked secure moodily at the walls of his room. watched the movements of those llierr revolutionists were working for thilverslty had Just been completed, ly Into one corner of his suitcase, Then, with sudden decision, he arose, about him. and had found that Helen and gathering duak found the ram the overthrow of his kingdom The moved Into a cheap boarding house went downstairs, and made a tele slept in one of Uie large houses on country won't mske very much prog- |nw faat becoming a deserted village phone call. the edge of Uie clearing. By close II In until lie h overthrown And he and went out In search of work. ax the rear-guard of students, freed "I'm ready to go back to Liberia." observation, he had even been abla He found It at last In a law office wont be overthrown until the peo f'om the dreary routine of rlaaa-room ple are educated enough to know | n c,r Ulf. Judicial building The salary hr told the person whom lie had to ascertain phtch room was hers. life, packed up Ihrlr belonging* and their own rights It was one of those, wa* nothin* to brag about, but the called. A quick conversation, and With the coming of complete dark* started homeward h n minutes later he had packed and ness, he scrambled out from hla revolutionists, by the way. who lent I **PytWy*.. t*S knew, would started for the union station, where hidmg-plac and. keeping close to Along the walk which rut* the ms here to learn the ways of the |moat valuable. rumpus Into two part*, a couple wrstern world " the ground, stole across the open And yet. In the days that fol he took a train for New York. M m ,lle<l arm In srm In the deep, rich . ___ . ____ ______ .lowed, his spirit, somehow, never SwifUy. he It was another week before he space to that house. shadows caat by gnarled old campus * d on l l h y nt you *° seemed satisfied He von. restless for could obtain passage on a boat sail clambered up to the roof of its porch tree* The girl, you could see. was come back?' and slid along until he reached the .. , one thing, and found It increasingly ing for Africa, but with the help of "Of course they do. young and beautiful »mall and deli hard to concentrate on his work tils friends who had financed his window at which he had observed here— with going I want to stay cately modeled, with eye* large and Routine dulled hl.x brain, and at sehooling. the revolutionists, he at the girl. «lark, mouth small and vivid-red >ou " night his thoughts troubled him, tor last obtained the necessary tickets Softly, he knocked on the window "Have they spoken to you about against the clear olive of her »kin; tured him, kept him awake when lie and credentials Hla heart was [Mine, but there was no response returning?" the boy, tall and dark, with feature* most needed rest. thumping wildly as the great ship Again he knocked, but only a thin "Several times An agent of the which »cciiicd to suggest, however Should he return to Liberia -to his pulled out of New York harbor and muffled snoring greeted his ears. A revolutionists came up to my room faintly, a trace of nobility In Ihrlr only a few nights ago. He wanted people and teach them of the won Into Uie Atlantic, headed for that figure below In the open—a g u a rd - moved. Fearing detection, the boy line* me at once, so that I could begin to ders of the western world which he undent country which he had once swiftly Uied the window. It yielded In »lienee, they traversed the shad U acli the iieoplr of Liberia what lib had come to love? Or should lie re called home. easily, and as It opened, he stepped owed lane, continuing onward Into erty and democracy really mean. main where he could be free of the One month passed, and then an the Spacious and grassy park which But I couldn't see It that way I despotic might of kings; where he other, before Bango, capital of Li through It into the room. The snoring ceased suddenly. A abuts Ihe campus Half around the couldn't see why I should tie myself could, perhaps, at last gain Helen's beria. was reached. figure in the room rttoved restlessly. beautiful reservoir they walked down to a hopeless task In a backward consent to marriage? It was the The country was warm and beauti Jimmie called sofUy: "Helen." caught In the »pell of the moonlight country when I could remain here age-old conflict between love and ful. with Its fruitful, grassy, flowery A figure on the bed turned over. reflected from Its placid »uriace Be and really enjoy the benefits of my duty that raged In his breast savannahs, Its herds of antelopes, Its Even In the darkness, the boy real It was Helen's letter that decided neath the outstretched arms of one education." clumps of thorny plants and tower ised that It was not the figure of a of the leafy trees they sat down. The girl's wan smile was lost In him. It rame to him by special delivery, ing palms. But for all Its beauty, the girl. He crouched In a corner as the the darkness. Bllence and then the girl s|>oke boy had no eye. Onward he traveled huge form arose, struck a match, and "t think you're right. Jimmie." she early one morning before he had left toward Lamur, where the revolution •■Well: 1 she said, "It's all over We re held it high And with suddenness, Obviously, it had been graduated- after four long years. I suld finally "It would be rathei a for work written In haste, and the stationery ists had their headquarters. With Jimmie realized, both front the de c.in't help wondering what's n est" thankless task " eagerness he reported to their chief. scription Helen had given in her let Hand In hand, they sat for a mo was that of one of the liners which •'I’ve asked you a dozen limes to "I have hoard the call of the blood," ter and from the embroidered mono marry me," the boy said. "Are you ment. silently watching the glint of ply regularly between New York -and he said “ I have heard the cry of my gram on his nightshirt, that this headlights mirrored from across the the west coast of Africa! still going to refuse?" Sitting on his bed. h- read the people for freedom and democracy. huge figure was that of the pimce! "There’s nothing else to do. Jim water. The match flickered and died out. m ie"- her voice was troubled- “at "And you what are you planning letter through once, then went back Come, let us dethrone this despot king! Let us make Liberia a country The prince, rage In his eyes, charged and started it all over again: least until you've Rot a good Job and to do?" asked the boy. in which the people are king." upon the crouching form In the cor "Mother says we're going on a long some money saved We can't live on DARLINO JIMMIE At last I've The chief, aged and bent with his ner. Jimmie arose to meet his at love, you know. They're so well, am trip.” the girl sn^l. "I know I should found out what Mother and Dad tack, ducking from the darkened cor bitious for me. now that Dad's got feel thrilled but somehow I don't. meant when they planned tilts years, nodded wisely. "We are ready.' ner and hurling his fists hard and Mother's set on It, so we're sailing trip The boat we are on Is bound he said. "We only awaited your ar money " straight at the bigger man’s lunging cn the first." Put Helen. , . for South Africa, and from there rival." Turning, he gave a signal to body. The rush was slopped for the "No. Jimmie It would be awfully "Where to?" we are going to push up through one of those who attended him. No war-drums were sounded; no moment, but then the prince came in “It's still a mystery to me. Dad fp ollsh ." the Jungles Into Liberia! There Is again, bellowing at the top of his Bite turned her head away as If Inherited a few hundred thousand an African prince aboard, a huge, savage cries reverberated through voice. lart year and he's been feeling like the matter was aetlled. powerful black man whom I ab the dark stillness of the forests. But Jimmie was no match for him He "I suppose you'll be going bark a king ever aince. It'll be Just the hor. Mother thinks he's wonder swiftly, silently, preparations were home now," she said sadly, ''to Afri regular round. I suppose Iondon. ful. And. jAnmie. she wants me made for the attack upon the strong ducked and feinted as best he could ip Uie darkness, but the prince was ca Liberia— and your people " Paris, Berlin—you know what I mean. to marry him! That was her hold of the king not deceived. With uneerlng atm, The boy waa aroused. But there's something more than Uwt whole scheme, and Dad's, too. The boy did not await their com wobts royalty ta lk » fam ily-; toil ptsbhm Ms lead, he pushed back those big fists of" hi* slashed Uie smaller boy,* cutting- hla face and know how mothers are—and this ioto B ------’ he knew ^ o, ' whery that * lip to blood, blood. . i says, but ------ I totòly wish » knew-.. . " In America four years, ta .............. ta* I’ve learn — man is Ihe son of the kip* of .you» Helen and her parents would be the entire TOUH rosava back’ ‘ ' \ - soya! H ? ' 4 e d -« let.- I've . learned IV w ant be for •a^TageH . C al I Her Parent» Wanted Her to Marry an African King, but the Lad who W ooed Her at the State College Had Other Ideas About their Future. i IB ,