THE NEWS AND THE HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
SERIAL STORY
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CHAPTER XIV
JPRANKLIN LARRAWAY, under
protest, was itanding on a rock
bv the highway turnolT, singing in
a genuinely good baritone:
"Hoo-o-o-o, or the day on the
rang!
Rollicking day'.
Frolicking days.
Out on h open rane?
Hear you the swish of the larfafs
loop.
The throw! The oatcW The jubi
lant whoop
Of the cowboy uhoc daring and
oenerous tharing
Of work and of pleasure bring joy
to the range.
Ho-o-o-o-o, for the iMwtern
range!
He finished with a dramatic
flourish on a high note and the ap
plause was enthusiastic. A dozen
or so travelers waited with Rose
' lee, Christine, Sick and the three
old-time cow hands whom the;
had hired as part of the "atmos
phere" for Ooldcrest. As were the
others, Franklin was attired this
morning in cowboy costume. He
had borrowed a guitar from one
of the cowboys to accompany him
self singing and Christine Palmer
had gazed happily at him while
he sang. It was her idea that ht
help entertain the waiting crowd,
and it had proved to be an excel
lent idea.
A coupe slowed down ! and
stopped, Roselee greeted the twe
women who were in it,
"Good morning. Were you In
terested In seeing GoldcrestJ"
"Yes. Can we go right on over?"
"No ma'am. But if you will
please wait for a few minutes
we are having a lot of fun we
will all go in together. You see,
we have all our guides here this
morning to greet a special bus
party at 10 o'clock. They're due
any time, were having songs.'
Roselee smiled at them, and her
elusive left dimple flashed, and
the two women in the car smiled
bade and said they'd wait
"Mare than a hundred college
students and some faculty mem-
bera from a Mew York university
are coming," Roselee went on.
"Buses of them, on a coast-to-coast
tour."
"How lovely! Ill bet they read
about you in the papers. We saw
your write-up several places, my
dear. I think it's marvelous. W
. can hardly wait to see your ghost
town." ...... r.
"TTlBltV rmi " Vn 1 IT 1
, again at them. ' "Mr. Larraway
here is our advertising man. He'i
the one who was singing when
you drove up. He worked on col
lege publications, and sent a lot
Of material in to the newspapers
and all." T
"Did you have to pay'to get it
published? I should think"
"Oh no. We did buy some ad
vertising, and it helped a lot But
then the news writers and the
picture magazines seemed to dis
cover us. and they gave us far
more attention than we ever ex
pected, really."
"I'm sure you deserved it."
Christine called out then. "Here
some the buses, Roselee!"
TTHE five large buses took 20
minutes in arriving Because
they had been separated on the
Highway. Two or three more pri
vate cars pulled up during that
Interval, too. Dick Bancroft
greeted them. Franklin and the
two girls were busy with the col
lege crowd, but when the last bus
came Dick and Roselee, riding in
their light service truck, led the
caravan over the rough two miles
to the ghost town. Franklin and
Christine rode with the visitors,
trying to show as much hospital
ity as they could. For one thing
they enjoyed being . hospitable,
especially since this was a group
or collegians approximately their
own age, but aside from that was
the salient fact that this morn
ing's callers represented a money
"take" which would approach
tzvu an told.
When they had all alighted
again at the edge of Goldcrest, to
walk slowly through the now rou
tine routing worked out by Dick
and Franklin and Roselee and
Christine, the crowd was more
like a picnic assembly or a crowd
before a football game. Youth
uuuiuiaieu uie guests wis morn
ing. Boys and girls were making
the inevitable wisecracks and
asking upward of a million ques
tions. More sedate adults could
only follow and look on, but the
good spirits there were contagious.
They saw the old abandoned
residences. The corrals and black
smith shops. The feed stores one
with a bell which they rang and
heard echo powerfully in the great
rocky canyon there the interest
ing old graveyard, the bank and
barbershops and other business
places were all visited.
When the four owner-managers
had escorted the guests at last to
Mrs. Hogan's place in the Ace
Hotel for lunch, ordered in ad
vance, one elderly member of the
New York college faculty ap
proached Roselee and shook her
hand.
"I must say, Miss Dale," he
smiled, "that we may find some
places to disappoint us on this
western tour, but your ghost town
surely lives up to the publicity."
PHR1STINE and Franklin, alert,
took that as a cue to show
some courttious attention to the
other faculty members and older
folk present. Quite by chance
they were near a bearded gentle
man with an umbrella.
"Are you In the faculty, too,
llrT" Christine asked him.
"Why uh yes, I am. Profes
sor York-t-that's my nsrne." .He
stuck out his hand and Christina
took it in mild surprise. His voice
and manner were hardly in keep
ing with his looks. For one thing,
professor almost never calls
himself "Professor," Christine
knew, having been in college only
recently herself. He had surprised
her, and she caught Franklin Lar
raway's eye appraising the man
curiously too. But then, college
(acuity men sometimes are ec
centric. Christine made a point of
being especially cordial to him,
then passed on.
She forgot the Incident until
most of the group were sitting
down to eat Then, in her hurried
survey of the crowd just to be
sure no guest was be:ng neglected,
Christine saw Professor York
quietly walking away from the
hotel.
Also she noted that Franklin
looking strangely serious of face
had edged over toward the door
of the hotel lobby and was peer
ing out at Professor York too.
Doubtless Franklin would call
him, she told herself.
But Franklin didn't call, and in
spite of the bustle and the laugh
ter and the constant happy hum
of voices around her, something
made Christine glance out again
to check up on eccentric Profes
sor York. Maybe she ought to go
bring him in, the old dear, she
thought, kindly. Roselee and Dick
were very nusy with the younger
folk in the big dining hall, she
noted.
She saw Professor York unob
trusively head down the street
lust gazing here and there, then
suddenly cross over. Moreover,
he was going directly toward the
Goldcrest bank!
That itself needn't have been
alarming. And yet something
froze Christine Palmer to atten
tion there. Some nameless inner
fear.
The fear was heightened when
the saw Professor York look hur
riedly around, then disappear in
side the bank door. She glanced
St Franklin Larraway, caught the
wed look of recognition now on
that young man's countenance.
She started to walk through the
crowd to join Franklin, but in that
moment he left the hotel and him
self ran hurriedly across and
down the street to enter the Gold
crest bank.
(To Be Continued)
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HORIZONTAL
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mammal.
8 It has a pro
longed snout
or , (pi),
13 Default
14 To rent.
16 Weathercock.
17 To befriend.
18 Chocolate
beverage.
19 Wine cup.
20 Wayside hotel
21 It sometimes
lives more
than a .
23 Silk sac.
25 Public auto'. .
26 To bark.
25 Less young.
31 High
mountain.
S3 Made dejected
36 Back.
37 To supplicate.
39 Sanskrit
dialect.
40 Japanese
silkworm,
41 Thin leaf.
42 And.
43 Weighty.
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50 Measure of
area.
51 Ocean.
53 The soul
54 Flightless bird
56 Pertaining to
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59 It is consid
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3 Ireland.
4 Tablet.
5 Genus ot
moose.
6 Gaseous
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7 Capable of
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8 Tearful.
9 Pulpy fruit
10 Cognomen.
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12 Compass point
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21 Mongrel
22 Sweet potato.
24 It is found in
Ceylon and
25 Scolds.
27 Pontiff.
29 Unplowed. -
30 Women.
31 Assumed
name.
32 Paralysis.
34 Chum.
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length.
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45 Branches
46 Metal.
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52 Entirely
53 Flour box.
55 Preposition.
57 Sloth.
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