li fr ee -lit -?' a. li si SERIAL STORY TAMBAY GOLD BY SAMUEL HOPKINS , CHAPTER I rpiIK man at the crossroads gaa aery cama out to the pump. .' "Why, lt' Mom Baumer, be aid. "Hiya,Mom?" "Hlya. pal," I mid.', ,"T1U her ,-P." ' "Must be five year alnce I acen you," he said. . "All of that," I aald. JYou've tot a good memory." "Oh, nobody ever forgets you, fSom," he said. I guess that's right, too. I'm a sort of Institution on the roads. He took a gander at my trailer. "How's the feed trade?! he ' asked, being polite. While he was polishing" the windshield I said, "What's this I hear about Tarabay Plantation?" . "It's right," he said. "Life sunong the ruins. Poor relation." "What sort?" "Yankee. Keeps herself to her self." "Would she take In a tourist,'' do you reckon?" "Would the White House?"' he aid. "Tambay's still Tambay." "Okay, pal," I said. "But that's where I bunk tonight. I've got a particular reason for. wanting to sleep there tonight" Coming Into Tambay Plantation I rolled along quietly. Opposite the mansion I dropped the trailer. ' Before turning in at the big en trance, I switched off my lights. What with the rain and the wind, there wasn't much danger of my being heard before I was ready. I got but of the car and hung a gadget of mine that had been a good old standby many a time when I wanted a lodging, on the gatepost. ' Through the un tended shrub bery between the live oaks I could make out Tambay Mansion. It was like tired old lady, tired of ev erything, even of pride, but with the everlasting guts to keep her chin up against all comers, no matter how shabby and sad and poor she might be. Well, I was feeling a little like that myself, after 10 years on the road. I could use some rest e I KNOCKED on the door; a good.' bard, honest knock. The light moved and the door opened. "Who Is It?" ! I was all set for a scrawny old-1 maid type with slit-eyes and a New England-yellow skin. This wasn't it at all. The voice didn't have a poor relation whine, either. "Could I get a room?" I said. " "No," she said. "You're in the wrong place." "Tourists Accommodated," I ' said. "Going to make a liar out of your sign?" She got an umbrella and we sloshed through the long grass. I; switched my pocket flash onto the) place where I d done my picture hanging. "What about It?" I said. Instead of answering, she put! trp a hand and felt the woodwork! back of my sign. Naturally, it; hadn't had time to get wet. No-; body's fool, that gal "Do you get away with lti often?" she asked. "More often than you might ; think," I told her. I guessed that maybe she didn't have entire confidence in me. So I put the spotlight on myself. "Mom Baumer," I said. Tat ' and SO; wet and tired." She kind of hesitated. "There's only the north room furnished," he said. "It leaks." "So does this sky," I said. "I don't know," she said to her self. "Why do you pick on Tarn . bay?" she asked. "It's a long story," I said. "I'd do a lot better by it In the morn ing." "I'm Jane Ann Judson," she aid. That north room would sure have been a risk for anyone in weak health. Pots and pans did their best to take care of the drib bles. The bed was pretty clammy, land I spent some active moments playing tag with one of those Elip pery silk spreads that oueht to be fin jail for abandonment But a good conscience Is better than a shot of dope, and I was still dead to the world when some high class breakfast smells woke me up with a twitching nose. I THOUGHT back to my first Sight of Tambav Plantation 25 (years ago. I wasn't on my own at that time. I was with a carny Ishow. Acrobatics, an animal turn, land a touch of parlor magic on tthe side. We pitched by the Istreamslde at Tambay Bend, and jwhen I sneaked out after the show land saw the old mansion, with all the lights going and the saddle horses hitched to the big trees, and beard the music and the soft young southern voices, I got a yen for it that never died out You wouldn't expect the proprietress of a traveling nosebag to be ro mantic O. K. I'm as God and the roads have made me. Years later, I hear that all the Mauries of Tambay are dead, and their friends and kin that kept the place warm and happy with love, are scattered or broke. But it would always be the old Tambay for me. Jane Ann Judson was already at the table when I got down. In the morning light she looked younger than I'd figured her. Two long, thin, darky girls that I spot ted for Gullahs from the islands as soon as I heard their talk were busy about the breakfast "Good morning," Jane Ann Judson said. "How did you make lout?" i "Swell," I told her.V'1 had the bight of my life," "Was it as bad as that?"' "No; I mean it," I said. "You wondered why I picked on Tam bay. Remember about the little Iglrl in the story that wanted to "sleep In the queen's chamber just ...once, even if she got her head cut oft for it? Well, that's me and .-.Tambay, After I first saw it, and hs.lwaa Jf ore you were born. I ADAMS COPYHIOHT. 1141, NCA CtRVICK. INC. I used to have a dream. I'd got rich, and I'd bought Tambay, and I could see myself sitting in the drawing room in a dark red satin gown witli a brooch, and lifting a linger to an old, silver-whiskered darky, and saying in a cultured voice, "You may now fetch the Juleps, Erastus.' Do you wonder I got a kick out of last night?" "You couldn't sit m uie arawinc room now, she said wiui a sort of sigh in her throat "No?" I said. "Nomina to sit on. It's all been sold to the antique hunters. Be fore I got here." "The place wouldn't oe lor sale. maybe?" "Not if I can help it. tier lace went quiet and secret There were things back of the look that she didn't want to think about. 'Mind if I snoop around a lit-. tie?" "Go anywhere you like." -After breakfast she took her fly-rod and went down to Tam bay Bend to get a mess of fish for dinner, leaving me with the two Gullahs. I ve always modeled my life on the fella that made a big success minding his own business. What I mean to say, I never ask questions except of course, when I want to find out something. Be cause what other way is there? I went to work on OUie and Nol lie. "How long have you girls been here?" "Us? We been livin' heah sence Mist' Clement Maurie's time." "With Miss Judson?" "Oh, no'm! Miss Jane Ann, she on'y been heah a little piece. She THIS CURIOUS WORLD ONE ONE DOESNT ALWAVS MAKB 7-yvo.' Onb globule of MBdCVRY, PLUS ONE OLOBULE Op MERCURY EQUALS CW4S1 4 (TWey. AttRELV COW BIN'S ) M4-, S'EXT: The significant Hawaiian flag. 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