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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1942)
SERIAL STORY LUCKY PENNY BY GLORIA KAYE COPYRIOHT. !. NKA ERVICC. INC. CHAPTER I I7LAMTNG skies were no novelty to Penny Kirk. She had seen London's inferno of bursting bombs, She had raced ngnlnst death in blazing France. Now Penny drove leisurely nlong a road canopied by heavens of red but this was different. The glare In the skies was friendly, comforting, reflecting the glowing furnaces of the Kirk mills her mills. This, Penny knew, was where she belonged. In all the years she had spent abroad she had never . before thought of Kirktown as anything more than the setting for Grandfather John's stories of a career that had brought him ex citingly from poverty to riches. Now the Kirk mills belonged to Penny. For the first time in the 23 years of her leisurely, lazy life, she felt a sense of responsibility, a 'sense that here she would find a constructive outlet for her ener gies, a meaning to living. She had been sheltered, too carefully, by indulgent parents who had sought to protect her from harsh reality. They had never taken an interest in the mills. Their life, and hers, had been luxuriously idle. Now, alone, she would have to rebuild her life from foundations shattered by the thunder of war over Europe. Penny felt as if she were rid ing in a fabulously rosy toy bal loon. How different, she reflected, from her last long ride through France. There, too, th skies were red. Death and destruction rode in the clouds that awful day. Penny shuddered, remembering thaj wild ride from her villa to the safe haven of a port from which she could embark for the United States. She had been crowded into an army car maneu vered by a sullen poilu in uniform. Her companions were a diplomat's heavy-set wife and a trench coated correspondent. The diplomat's wife fainted reg ularly every five minutes. The newspaperman betrayed his shaki ness by smoking a maddeningly endless chain of cigarets. All about them were havoc, destruc tion, misery. Penny had never realized how much the simple initials "TJ. S. A." could mean. Not until she had crossed the dangerous Atlantic in a blackened refugee ship. Not un titl she stood on deck and wept unashamedly, with all the rest of ;'the passengers, at sight of the Statue of Liberty. - That trip had done something to Penny's point of view. Having Pierre crqate a new coiffure for her every week didn't seem so important. He would have called the way her naturally beautiful tresses now lay loosely on her shoulders "ter-r-r-ible!" Her blue eyes had once ex pressed a carefully affected bore dom, a coolness and hauteur. Aboard ship she had discovered they could inspire confidence and warmth in frightened fellow pas sengers. - So Penny learned to smile and to laugh. Her quiet "thumbs up" inspired new courage in others, ieven when she shared their dread of what the next few minutes might bring. In New York, Penny had gone to only one cocktail party. It was no good. She couldn't help con trasting the false, forced gaiety of tier placid friends with the natural laughter of the ship-board chil dren who were so sincere in their appreciation of her half-remembered stories. Without fanfare, without so much as a single newspaper inter view, without posing for a single rotogravure picture, Penny had left New York. "I'm somebody new," she had told herself. "I left the old Penelope Kirk in France. Now I had better go home really home and find myself again." TTHE Kirk estate, overlooking a valley that was green along its upper slopes ana urown along ine river that served the steel mills, was more beautiful than she had dreamed it would be. Kirktown .nestled like a doll village down below. Late in the afternoon of her un heralded arrival, after cautioning the caretaker and his wife to tell no one she had come, Penny se lected a gray roadster and started out for Kirktown. The winding road down to the river was pleas ant, cool in lengthening shadows. As dusk deepened, the furnaces lit the somber skies with an ever brightening glow. The summer night was calm and peaceful. The roadster neared a fork in the road. Ono tangent stretched invitingly upward, toward a white bu-Jing that dominated the street, and ; past little houses whose lights were just now beginning to blink. Another way reached downward to the mills and the river. Penny chose the upward road. At the top of the hill, the white building she had noticed was framed in brilliant light that flooded from hidden recesses in the shrubbery. Now Penny could see the name above the entrance. "John Kirk Memorial Auditorium" she read. Penny stopped. She read the name again. "John Kirk Memorial Auditorium." How like Grandfather John to present so fine a gift to his town. . Nothing she had ever experi enced could equal Penny's thrill as she stood now, a tiny figure, Blaring up at the gracefully col onnaded edifice, so like a Grecian temple. How appropriate, she thought. At the foot of the hill stretched the giant, busy mills, making fiery sacrifice every night nnd all through the day to this shrine of their founder. For a long time Penny remained thus, in worshipful silence, obliv ious to the murmur of conversa tion of strollers who passed by. Her awakening was rude. She heard a bitter, vicious voice, whose words she know could not have been directed to her. But tiiey scared her like a hot iron pressed against her flesh. "John Kirk Memorial Anrtitn- riiimt They should have shaped it into a heart of stone. That's what aghn Kirk was really like. The poor devils who sweated and sick ened and died to build this thing! ihey lived in rnthotcs mid dressed in rags so he could have the glory of a pretty marble palace to show them how puny they really arc." OLOWLY Penny turned to face the speaker. Her checks were flushed with anger. Her tongue was ready to lash out in biting rebuttal. Then she stopped, and stared In wide-eyed amazement. Jim Vickcrs? It couldn't be! There was no mistaking him. Tlie last time Penny had seen Jim Vickers had been several years earlier in Paris. He hadn't changed at all. What strange coincidence had brought this tall, broad shouldered, tweed-suited man to Kirktown? Sh tht rcur.d, bcy::h face. She knew his searching, troubled blue eyes. Jim Vickers, apple-cheeked, good-humored, ace correspondent for a New York newspaper, had been a familiar figure in her circle abroad. He passed within a few inches of her, but showed no sign of recognition. Of course he wouldn't know her, Penny realized. She had been much younger then. She had changed. Strangely, as if she were listen ing to a hazy voice in an impos sible nightmare, she heard Jim Vickers say: "The Kirks were a pretty selfish breed. I met John Kirk's grand daughter abroad. A little snip of a spoiled brat without an ounce of common sense in her head. She owns the Kirk mills now." Penny felt lonely and sick at heart. Should she risk further dis illusionment by visiting the mills and the town named for her fam ily? Would she find the Kirk name a disgrace rather than a proud heritage? Wouldn't it be better to rediscover herself In some gentler way? "I'll sleep on it," she decided, driving slowly, thoughtfully home. (To Be Continued) The only sign of an early fall j right now is serious love making. ; A lot of women have been i tired arid found wanting every thing money can buy. Scientist claims crops can be seen on the moon. Maybe grain i for moonshine. Experts are unable to deter mine the origin of grapefruit. Perhaps it just appeared one morning for breakfast, v ALL IK, HAH? THEY A SHOP. I CiUElSS.' MOW'a IT FEEL. TO HAVE HALF A DOZEM BOSSES KEEPIMG YOU HUMPIUG, OWE AT HOME ? PlETTFI?--MUCH RETTPK!.' 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