THE NEWS AND THE HERALD, KLAMATH PALLS, OREGON
; PAGE EIGHT
With MAJOR HOOPL6 i
OUT OUR WAY
BY J. R. WILLIAMS OUR BOARDING HOUSE
By ELINORE COWAN STONE
CAST OF CHARACTER!
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CHAPTER XV
TEGGIE GRIMES' column flour-
ished on innuendo.
"People are beginning to ask
questions," Linda read now,
"about the mysterious and splrit
uelle little singer who has sudden
ly begun to pack 'em in at a well
known night club ot our fair city.
. . . Who, since the issue has been
raised, is Silvia? Where did she
come from into the here? . . . Your
commentator Is old enough to re
member the nights when Linda
Audubon was standing the stage
door Johnnies on their ears before
the scandal of her tragic end. The
resemblance in voice, appear
ance, and a uniquely effortless gift
for "putting it across' is so re
markable as to suggest something
more than mere coincidence.
Ob, well, we merely mention It
tor what It is worth.'
The one thing," Tony said,
that spoils Reggie Grimes' meals,
Im a mystery. But you dont have
to tell him or any of 'em anything
you dont want to not me either,"
he added.
"She was my mother," Linda
aald steadily. "I have often, been
told that I am very much like
her."
"Then this is O-kay by me."
Tony tapped the paper. "But how
about you?"
"Why should I mind?" Linda de
manded proudly. "I never un
derstood what happened to her
until I was grown up. Then I
was never ashamed, only sorry.
, . . This Just doesn't matter."
But she knew now that she
would never write to old Miranda
for that key.
Almost over night the legend of
Silvia Star had taken possession
of the city. Everywhere people
were humming or whistling the
quaint, wistful air Tony used for
her entrance cue. Orchestras
named it; radio entertainers
crooned it
FDUT Linda went obediently
about the routine Tony and his
sister planned for her. She prac
ticed her simple little songs with
Ithe orchestra; she tried on the
simple frocks that Tony had de
signed for her; she showed her
Iself occasionally at the most dis
lereet of the fashionable amuse
ment places, always aloof under
(Mrs. Campagno'a proud chaper
bnage for being seen seemed to
be part of her Job.
j And if, when she was tired, she
jeometimes felt waves of homesick
Bess for that great shadowy house
where she seemed to have left so
vital part of herself even tor
that Indomitable, proud old worn-
(an who was alone there with her
town unhappiness, Linda deter'
jmlnedly beat the feeling down.
I Why return, even in lmaglna
ftion, to the fire that once had
burned her so unenduraDiy? aet
ter to remain frozen and anaesthe
tized, except for those few minutes
jeach night when she came to life
Im song.
' One evening, however, her un
easiness did so far get the better
lot her that she went to a pay sta
tion, got long distance, and called
Jjie Trent house. JeSerson an
swered the telephone.
"Yes," he said in answer to
ILlnda's guarded questions, "Miss
Miranda was doing nicely. .
(Would she like to speak to Miss
'Miranda?"
"No," Linda said. "Oh, nol
dust called to inquire."
She was about to hang up when
Jefferson demanded suddenly,
"Ain't this Miss Linda speakinT
Linda hesitated in panic. She
had thought she was disguising
her voice so well.
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TX3NY was deeply immersed In
his plans for his New Year's
celebration, which was to be what
he called "super-super-colossal."
But something had come up that
made it hard for Linda to take
much interest in the event
There were rumors in some of
the papers that an amateur radio
operator somewhere in Texas
claimed to be picking up faint
signals from the radio of the lost
.Aurelius expedition. The later
editions had it that he had suc
ceeded in translating whole words,
names and phrases, and that one
of the names was that of Captain
arrymore Trent.
Late one afternoon, when Linda
could endure the suspense no
longer, she called up the flying
field from which Barry had taken
off. When a girl answered, she
asked, clenching her hands to keep
her voice steady, "I wonder if you
can give me some information
about Captain Trent?"
"Captain who? Oh, hlml Well,
what do you want to know?"
The girl's voice was indifferent,
as if she had dropped more enter
taining matters to answer the
telephone.
"Is it true" Linda began
breathlessly "I mean, have you
any new information about Cap
tain Trent?"
"Oh, they gave him up several
days ago . . . Who is this speak
ing, please?" The girl became
bruskly efficient.
Something in her pert indiffer
ence stung Linda to incaution.
"This," she said, "is Captain
Trent's wife," and could have bit
ten off her tongue when she heard
the girl titter under her breath,
and say to someone beside her:
"A dame is asking about Cap
tain Trent." Again that sup
pressed titter, and then, "She says
she's his wife. Wouldn't that
bum Magda Shirley up?"
Linda hung up in a panic.
That evening the papers all dis
counted the rumors of the morn
ing. Experts were quoted as say
ing that the frequency on which
the Texas amateur claimed to have
picked up the signals did not co-
indde with that on which the
Aurelius expedition or Captain
Trent, either had been transmit
ting. Moreover, why should an
amateur in Texas pick up mes
sages that the powerful govern
ment stations in the Panama had
failed to get? ,
So Linda put on her gray frock
and went out to sing her simple
songs, to a crowd even bigger than
the night before.
(To Be Continued)
Perhaps some of New York
state's non-paying guests wish
the Japanese would mistake Sing
Sing for a Chinese city aad break
down its walls.
The U. 8. chamber of commerce
estimates that 1938 taxes may
total 113,500,000,000. What,
doesn't the government want the
other four-fifths of our national
income?
Wonder it there is any signifi
cance In the fact that the Holy
Land, birthplace of the Prince of
Peace, was torn by violence on
Christmas. t
A New Jersey man used a gun,
a olub and an automobile to kill
his girl friend. Nothing like
making assurance dm:: "lire.
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We cannot place puiuti.e taxes
on Industry without stifling new
enterprise. Herbert Hoover.
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