THE NEWS AND THE HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
SERIAL STORY
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CHAPTER V
MRS. MAUDE HOG AN, aged 56,
hid always held that while
ntimobllei and bicycles and air-
planet and luch contraptions were
all right "for them as wants 'em,"
she herself would cling to the
conveyances which she understood
and loved. She had a genuine
affection tor horses. She could
handle mules, too. But for day-ta-an-day-out
sen-ice when she
was ore hunting to the wild Ari
zona hills she would take burros
every time. Burros are humble,
dependable creatures of amazing
endurance but negligible speed.
Five to a row, carrying tent can
vas and groceries and water can
teen and pick and shovel and
sundry utensils, look like a sort of
huge gray caterpillar inching
cross the mountains. Mrs. Maude
Hogan walked beside such a cat
erpillar this morning. If she felt
like It she could ride one of the
burros, but Mrs. Hogan was a
pedestrian who rarely felt tired.
She guided her charges through
Joshua trees, making a short cut
from the Dale ranch, and after
topping a low hill she could see
the deserted town of Goldcrest
yonder in its historic canyon. It
didn't Impress her. Mrs. Hogan
was not given to esthetic consid
erations. She saw in the colorful
hills not the artistry of nature, but
the chemistry of it Green cliffs
Mnnntfwl nnt "tarnished bronze
waiting a sculntor's hand," but a
possible deposit of copper ore.
White granite-like formations to
her were not "wilderness castles
MMatAjl hv 4h Mnctpr architect."
but were Just rocks which might
be crushed to show some valuable
haU Mr Knnn'i husband had
. ,UIUi
been a poor prospector, and when
his children grew up she herself
took to the hills. Whenever she
. got lonesome at it she came in and
worked for Mrs. Dale. She had
been there, canning apricots for
Mrs. Dale, when the young and
bubbly Roselee hired her.
She trudged dutifully up. the
deserted main street of Goldcrest
at 10 o'clock this morning, paused
' In front of the Ace High Hotel and
hollered. -
"YOO-HOO-O-o-o!"
Nobody answered and she hol
lered again. : She looked in two or
three buildings, and then because
her eyes were keen -to detect out
door phenomena, however small
he iaw tracks . leading up the
street toward the old Goldcrest
nine shaft
"Git! Git alongl" she ordered
her burros, and moved with them
to follow the tracks.
TJUST was stiU eddying,' settling
when she came to the gaping
hole in the mountain side that
marked the old mine shaft It
alarmed her at once.
"YOO-HOO! Miss Roselee?"
She cupped her hands behind
her ears, and heard enough to
make her move swiftly. In scarce
ly no time she had jerked her
lantern and a pick oft a burro, and
was hastening into the yawning
mine shaft herself. She went
down its slope at a trot, fear in
her old heart She had been
around mining people all her life.
She knew some of the dangers
that beset them.
For once, though, Providence
had been kind.
Mrs. Hogan labored for no more
than quarter-hour when she
caught Christine Palmer's hands
and pulled that pale and fright
ened girl through a rocky hole.
Together they extricated Rose
lee, then Franklin Larraway, and
fuially big Dick Bancroft Despite
the danger they had faced Dick
managed now to look at all ol
them with a reassuring smile.
There was a great deal of talking
and shaking and thanksgiving and
trembling, and worrying without
reason, and when they came to
daylight again the young people
realized they had been imprisoned
for almost two hours. Mrs. Hogan
Inspected the girls.
"Ye're both pale to yer gills,"
she declared. "Why you woulda
got out presently, with Mr. Rich
ard here a diggin' that way,
honey) But I shoulda got here
sooner. Your ma'll chide me for
neglecting you like this!"
She comforted Roselee, dusting
her and talking affably.
"Only thing, Mrs. Hogan,"
Franklin put in, "we were afraid
our digging would cause another
cave-in. And we didn't have any
tools, or any sort of light. I lost
the flash, like a babyl We knew
we were digging right because we
could get a whiff of fresh air, but
we were surely scared. We owe
you plenty for happening along."
: "That ain't so, son!" the good
lady said, but she beamed under
his kindness, even so. "You'd a
got out. I'm curious. I'm a goln'
back down In there for a spell just
to look It over, right now."
She disappeared down the shaft
and the young folk trudged back
toward their Ace High Hotel.
Their own good spirits had al
ready revived remarkably.
"Weill" Roselee breathed, pres
ently. "We're oft to a fine start
We planned to thrill a lot of tour'
Ists, and we begin by thrilling
ourselves! Anybody too scared to
go on?" -,
"Nuti," said Dick, matter-of-factly.
"Let's get to work. Anyhow
we ot the money buried in there,
It's under some of that fallen rock,
safe as possible. Let's scatter as
planned. And stay out of danger
ous place, you guys!"
TJOSELEE looked happily at him.
She liked the way Dick Ban
croft took .charge of things. With
out a further word he and Frank
lin left them they had already
agreed on the order of the first
day's work and she watched the
two handsome youths striding to
ward Franklin's car. She was
looking more directly, however, at
Dick himself.
"Isn't Dick the best-looking
thing that ever walked?" Chris
tine breathed then, surprisingly.
Roselee turned to look at her
friend.
'Why Christy!"
"Hmmm?"
"Are roil Why. yes! Dick
moves gracefully. He is a fine
athlete, rememDer. i 1 uimis
we're lucky to have hired him." ,
Roselee turned the talk into
business. But in her heart had
been planted a sudden new worry.
A vague, undefined little worry,
tt is true; quite inconsequential as
yet but recognizable. Roselee
looked up to study anew Chris
tine's erect posture, her long slen
der legs and shapely body, the
hair wave ana me proua sei m
her head which made her friend
distinctly statuesque.
"You are beautiful, Christine!"
Roselee declared, suddenly, and
meant it "And sweet!"
Christy looked at her a trifle
curiously. "Sure. Just discover
ing it kid?" She thought it mere
ly a mattter for kidding and fun.
"Prettiest thing in Arizona next
to you. Shall we go call Mrs.
Hogan and get her settled first?"
They wouldn't venture again
far into the shaft, and they heard
her coming back out anyway. The
good woman's eyes were lighted
with something more than the
presence of daylight when she
came from the hole. She held
five or six egg-sized rocks in her
hands, clutched them close to her.
"Children." she spoke excitedly.
"I alw"ys say trouble is right fre
quent a blessing in disguise."
"Whv, Mrs. Hogan? Why do
vou sav that?" Roselee looked
curiously at her.
"Nev" mindl You wait honey,
till I'm shore what I'm a talking
about!" . . .
Roselee . changed the suoject
Perhaps poor Mrs. Hogan was
just an old lady getting a little
queer, she guessed.
(To Be Continued)
OUT OUR WAY . BY J. R. WILLIAMS
OUR BOARDING HOUSE With MAJOR HOOPLE
Hitler Renting
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Map shows location of Trieste,
Italian industrial seaport on
which Mussolini is reported to
have given Hitler 10-year lease.
It report is true, Nazi Germany -gains
port on Adriatic, becomes
Mediterranean power.
RED RYDER
BY FRED HARMAN
FLAPPER FANNY
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By Sylvia
"We better s-p-e-l-l."
"What for? She can't even t-a-l-k yet."
CORVINE BIRD
HORIZONTAL
1 Pictured
corvine bird.
6 It is a glossy
bird.
11 Short-billed
rail.
12 Supped.
13 Upland plover
15 To suffice,
IS Fishing bag.
17 Electrified
particle.
18 Derby,
19 Credit.
20 Hops kiln.
21 Market
22 Prison
dwellers.
24 Frosty.
27 Horse' neck
hairs.
29 Sandbank
passage.
30 Ever.
31 Behold.
32 Males.
33 Rebel.
34 Commissioner
of array.
36 Either.
37 To resurrect
39 To require.
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42 Card game.
43 Man's reading
room,
44 Malt drink.
45 Chum.
46 Sloths,
48 Room recess,
49 Contour.
51 Branch.
53 To sprinkle.
54 It is or
like a crow.
VERTICAL
2 Turkish
money.
3 Electromotive
force unit.
4 Age.
5 Dwarfishness,
6 Participle of
"be."
7 Gibbon;
'8 Preposition.
9 Tree.
10 More intricate
13 This bird is
now in
eastern
U. S. A.
14 Senillties.
18 Possesses.
20 Unit.
2IJoined.
22 Wayside hotel
23 To reduce
to tables.
25 Hoisting
machines.
26 It can be
taught a few
when
tamed.
28 Radio wires.
30 Before.
31 Sheltered
' place.
33 Thing.
34 Since.
35 Japanese
money.
37 To regret,
38 Biscuit.
41 To strike, tt
43 Day.
45 Dwarf
bulldog.
46 Type of
cuckoo.
47 English coin.
48 Lava,
49 Connecting
word.
50 Common verb
51 Morlndin dye.
52 Mister.
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LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE
BY HAROLD GRAY
BUT DONA- ALL
YOUR ENEMIES HAVE
BEEN CLEANED OUT-
THIS IS YOUR HOME
ITS A PALACE AND
THIS LAND AS FAR
AS ONE CAN SEE
BELONGS TO VOU
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