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THE NEWS AND THE HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
BY MARION WHITE ""LS
C!AT OF CHABACTCn
JOYCE Mll-NKK, aerolnei aaa
took an Kn.lcr '"' 1
llll K HAMILTON, hTO k
haniprd Into I he heroine.
INOH13L I'OKTEU, traveler, aaa
owtht a me.
Ye.lera7l The quiet rtwlir
hemeen Jojrce nd laoM-t b',n";
4'Jiat nfajat Joyce U 111 In her
iVbla. oo akcnbli "
kappena.
CHAPTER IV
NEXT morning the sun rose on
a tranquil sea of lapis-lazuli
blue. Joyce stared out of her port,
scarcely believing that the angry
seal could settle down so peace
fully overnight Far off on the
horizon, she could see a narrow,
dark shore line, marking the divi
sion between green-blue sky and
deep-blue sea. That was Bermuda
in the distance, and in another
few hours she would be walking
in the shadow of its royal palms.
That is, provided she decided to
leave the ship. ... She recalled
she had no shore tickets.
She could not know that direct
ly above her the decision was
being made.
"I'll arrange everything with
Miss Milner," Mrs. Porter was
explaining to Isobel. "You shall
spend the day with Richard. And
be careful, Isobel. Be very care
ful. Don't speak about Miss Mil
ner at all; don't disparage her in
nnv wav. The young man has a
protective feeling toward her,
naturally. He feels responsible
... not that I believe she had
any hundred dollars In her bag.
A moment later she knocked on
the door of C-214. Joyce opened
it expectantly.
"Oh, good moming, Mrs. Por
ter." .
"Good morning, my dear. Are
you feeling better?"
"I'm so well that I believe It
was all imagination."
"Not at all. Your first trip, you
know. I suppose we're hardened
to such weather oh, it does
bother Isobel. terribly, but she
managed to get to dinner. . . . But
now, my dear, I've been worrying
about you. You didn't, I hope, lose
your shore excursion tickets. Or
hadn't vou bought them?"
Joyce smiled ruefully. "Yes, I
bought them "
"And they were in your bag,
too? How unfortunate! How very
distressing!" She shook her head
sympathetically. "However, I be
lieve I can manage a way for
you as my assistant. Usually
ask one of the stewardesses, or, as
in your case, one of the younger
passengers. Alt you do is couect
the tickets for me, at the carriage
station in Hamilton. And see that
the guest are assigned to the car
riages and started off promptly.
Then we'll all go together, you
" and Isobel and Mr. Hamilton and
I, in the last carriage."
t
TJICK was standing alone at the
head of the gangplank leading
down to the tender when Joyce
went upstairs. Already a good
number of passengers were as
sembled, all eager to go ashore on
this first boat. He called to her,
ana drew ner out ol range of the
crowd. -
"You're going ashore with me,
aren't you, Joyce?" he asked
hopefully.
"I'd love to, Dick, but "
"But what?"
"Mrs. Porter asked me to be her
assistant on the shore excursion,
ana i promisea mat 1 would.
He frowned. "You don't have
to do anything like that, Joyce."
"But I want to. I'm terribly
grateful for the opportuaity. And
we'll all be together, Dick."
"Who is all?"
"The Porters, you and I. We'll
take the last carriage."
"I prefer carriages for two.
, don't see why you won't go with
me, Joyce. I asked you, yester.
day."
She hesitated. "I know you did,
Dick. But please excuse me. I'd
much rather have it this way."
He shrugged. "Well, then that's
all there is to it, I suppose."
Drawing alongside the wharf,
Mrs. Forter gave last minute in
structions. Joyce took her stand
eagerly, but soon she was beset
with difficulties which Mrs. Por
ter had not explained. Some pas
sengers wanted to change then-
plans at this l-.'t minute.
rorty minutes Inter, Joyce saw
her last charge safely installed in
the last carriage. And not until
then, when she was star.ding alone
at the carriage stand, did she real
ize that the Porters, and the last
carriage, had gone off without
her!
"Morning, Miss Milner."
One of the ship's officers, a
young man from the pursers
office, stood beside her, and she
realized that the second tender
was docking.
'Did you miss your party?" he
asked.
"So it seems "
"That's tough." He remembered
suddenly that Miss Milner was
the young lady who had lost her
pockotbook. So he suggested
pleasantly: "Stick around a min
ute, until I get my people started.
I have an extra ticket, for an as
sistant" He winked.
I heard that story before," she
said dubiously. "Mrs. Porter sug
gested it"
"So thats it!" He was plainly
surprised. "Funny she didn't get
the extra ticket from me. . . . Well,
wait for me, will you? I'm all
alone too."
CO she waited. Because he was
nloncnnt vnlinfr man nnrl he
seemed sincere about the extra
ticket, and because his passengers
were fewer and less bothersome
than her own and on their way
in five minutes. But most of all,
she waited because she wanted to
see Bermuda.
They had a carriage all to them
selves, with an amiable driver.
And Mr. Roberts, as he intro
duced himself, proved a delightful
companion because he knew Ber
muda as well as she knew Fall
River. In three hours she felt like
a native.
Do you know," Mr. Roberts
ventured at last. "I think Mrs.
Porter put something over on
you."
"But why? why in the world
would she do a thing like that?"
He smiled wisely. "Can't you
imagine?" -
"Certainly not"
"Well, perhaps I'm speaking out
of turn, but it looks to me as if
she's trying to keep young Hamil
ton for Isobel's exclusive use. And
you're competition."
"Oh, but that s ridiculous," she
retorted hastily.
"Is it? Ten million dollars is
no joke."
Joyce opened her eyes in
amazement "What?" she cried,
incredulous.
"Don't you know?" It was Mr.
Roberts' turn to be surprised.
"Hamilton's father is president of
National Rubber . . . they're one
of the wealthiest families in New
York."
So that was Mrs. Porter's little
game. That was why she'd made
this grand pretense of generosity,
to be sure that she would not go
ashore alone with Dick. -
Well, what of it? If Isobel
needed a rich husband so badly,
what was it to her? Let her marry
the Hamilton money and load her
self with diamonds and live to be
another Mrs. O'Hara. Certainly
she didn't care. ;
But later on, when Mr. Roberts
took her to the Bermudiana for
lunch (it was included on the
ticket, he explained carefully),
her cheeks flushed guiltily when
she saw Isobel and Dick out in
the garden at a private little table,
having the time of their lives. . . .
She tossed her head defiantly,
and laughed engagingly at Mr.
Roberts' utterly unimportant re
mark about the price of Bermuda
onions in London. You couldn't
she told herself sternly, you sim
ply couldn't be jealous of a man
you hadn't known 48 hours!
(To Be Continued)
OUT OUR WAY
BY J. R. WILLIAMS OUR BOARDING HOUSE
With MAJOR HOOPLE K
A lump of sugar, held In a very
powerful torch, will not burn, but
one tiny touch of cigar or cigaret
ash to sugar will lower the igni
tion point so that the heat of a
match will be sufficient to set it
afire.
Two magicians spent $50,000
perfecting the trick of causing a
girl to float in the air.
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LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE
BY HAROLD GRAY
IX) VOU MEAN
TO SAY YOUR
HUSBfcNO WAS
MURDERED
HERE. IN THIS
TOWN f
a
YES- STRUCK
DOWN FROM
BEHIND WITH
NO WARNING.
AND FOR NO
APPARENT
REASON -
WHAT OF
THE MAN
WHO DID
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TUCV
GET HIM?
OH. YES -HE WAS
CAUGHT AND PUNISHED-
SOME SAID HE WAS
CRAZY- BUT FEEUNG
RAN HIGH AND HE
PAID THE PENALTY
FOR MURDER -
BUT WHAT PENALTY -T WHERE A
CAN PUNISH SUCH A I DIO THI8 '
TERRIBLE DEED? NOJ HAPPEN,
ACT OF LAW COULD MRS. ALDEN f
BRING BACK MY m, mtf
IN THE OLD f AYG-THEY
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NOW- I NEVER NEVER HEAL
GO THERE ANY fl( THE LOSS OF '
MORE- ff? THOS6 WE
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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
BY BLOSSER
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CAMPAIGN
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FRECKLES
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JUME
WAYMAN...
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TO SEE HIM AGAIN I Ti
HUMILIATED IN MY LIFE.'
HOW LONG HAS
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( IS TRY1N' (
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NOT LON6. TlP HE 1 f ME HASNT IT IN ll
BUT LONG J EVER EVEN ASKED T THAT
ENOUGH COMES HERE ME TO GO A CASE,
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HARD CLOSE TME I'M MAD AT J WHY
FOR. HER! ) DOOR IN, HIM iJ NOT GO
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ffX HE CANT THROUGH .' ) PROM
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BY CRANE
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MONEY IN
NO TIME
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ON THE NIGHT CLUB RACKET
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