Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1943)
SERIAL STORY, 1 AM A MURDERER' BY MORRIS MARKEY SETSSSl&'Xi I TUB OTOHTl Tfcla Is ta atorr r f taa "nerfrtr criar" tks mar j( rr off Col. Wralr? Hop Merrl wrthrr In th lilirarr of ala Long , lalnnd Mint and of the errata j; Irndlnar Bp to 11 At la Riorarnt Iho Colonel'a danshttr. Cynthia, 1 lina Jnal flnlafccd telling- the aforr of hrr life fo Vanjchaa Danbnr, . a forHmt eorreapondcnt and a Mew acquaintance -how aha waa taken from a California convent ' tr the Colonel when one wna 10. ' and how little ahe knowa of the . Colonel'e life before then Menn . avhlle two attentive frlrnda, Fred ' Wat and llenrr Trentlaa hnve . vnlnljr annght her company at a daace taat evening. e i ' SECRET MISSION CHAPTER XII yAUGHAN DUNBAR regarded her for a considerable moment before he replied to her. Then, more quietly than ever, he said, "May I, please? You see, Cyn ' thia, t have gone far over the t world, Into many places. I have teen a great many human beings. And all of them, of whatever land ;, or breed or station In society, have one thing- in common: It is easier .' for them to talk to strangers than to friends. The stranger, you see, will be gone tomorrow, and all ' secrets, all confessions, are gone v. with him. The stranger is the v ship that passes In the night, and when the ship drops down behind , the horizon, the ocean is the same old place." She laughed suddenly and very gaily, and said, "You make me want to giggle." But then, in the flight of an instant, she was grave ' again. i; "That's what's the matter with me," she said firmly. "Every i thing seems such a huge joke, and It should not be like that. Since ! you came here, telling us about Bill Stewart and all the important work he is doing, and telling us the things that are really going on in this terrible world, well, I feel so worthless and useless. And everybody here, everybody at Gull Point, seems worthless, too peo ple living in a cozy dream." She stood up and stretched her hands toward the stars. "I want to do something," she cried softly. "I want to be of some good in the world. How can I? Tell me, tell me, please, how can I?" -His voice had a touch of cyn . Icism when he answered. "Your complaint is not unique, you know. Men and women all over the ' world, my dear, are asking, "What can I do? How can I work to make the earth a more decent place to live?' " "What can they doT What can I doT You know. You must know. Please. Tell me." He shook his head, and now his voice sounded sad in the dark ness. "I have told you," he said, "that I am the ship which passes In the night Soon, I shall be gone. land I assure you that I shall be Igone forever to return never X again. If my passing by leaves pnything of value to you, let it be imis" . - He took her hand, and held it Ruietly, and was silent for a while. rNo matter what happens, and (pernaps tnings will happen to change your way of life a great deal but no matter what hap pens, let nothing on earth disturb your loveliness and your rare, fine . honesty. Demand of all the world about you that it meet you with that same honesty and fairness and lack of guile which you are iso ready to give. That is enough, (my dear, for you to do in this world of men." jOHE seemed moved, and when she spoke at last her words icame low and slowly. "You are lalways talking about goine away.' "Rather soon, now, I am afraid." -wnere to?" "I can't say." "How do you know you will never come Back?" "It is so ordained." "But," she laughed a little, "you - talk in such riddles. I know. You're on a secret mission." He turned his head away from ber and looked over the water (toward the rising loon. "Yes," ne said, "l may call It that A secret mission. And tonight, for the very first time, I doubt a little Whether It is worth carrying out." "Oh," she cried, "but you will not waver! I know you will let nothing stop you." s He seemed quite shaken for a moment and walked away from her along the pool's edge. She moved to follow him, and sud denly called, "Hey lookal We're Setting a fine spell of the glooms. Lei's drop it and tool oft to the dance. Come on!" She caught his arm and turned him about and started toward the house. "Sorry,"1 he said, walking beside her, "I can't make it to the dance. Must get back to the city." "Tut, my fine friend. Vm show ing you oil to those cats tonight, or I'm not my favorite snob." "You can't know how sorry I am. If you will get your wrap - I'll drop you at the club. There will be people to see you home again." She was disappointed to an ex treme degree but he did not re lent He let her down from hit open rondrter at the porte cochere of the Broken Hill clubhouse, and bent over her hand in the Euro pe,! n fashion, saying that he would telephone her the following day. Then Fred West was at the top pf the porch stairs, calling to them. ' "Step on it I'm holding that table for you." Others whom they knew were moving about, and calling to them. Three or four approached to smile Dt Cynthia and shake hands with Vaughnn Dunbar and urge them to com- in. Behind Fred West they could hear the voice of the professional master of ceremonies as he prepared to introduce the (entertainer on the cleared dance floor. For a moment, Vaughan Dunbar eemed to hesitate. "Come on," Cynthia said in a Ifhlsper. jj. But be ftralghtened very cwick- ly, as if he had reached a decision. Ho bowed again, said good night and stepped immediately into his automobile. TjiRED WEST and his cousin A Anne, and Mitchell Grace had a table near the dance floor, and there was wine in a silver bucket hard by, and people waved at Cynthia as she stood looking about her for a moment before taking her chair. She nodded, and smiled, and sat down, and, of course, dropped her cigaret case on the floor for Fred West to retrieve. There was the show. It took an hour for the show to be over. Then lights were up again, and people were dancing. The course of Cynthia Merriwether and Mit chell Grace as they, too, danced, carried them Q the farther corner of the huge, barnlike room, and there they came upon Henry Pren tiss. , He leaned against a pillar. He was disgracefully dressed in one of his tweedier jackets and a pair of his roomier trousers, though he did wear a cravat within the col lar of his white shirt Cynthia stopped dancing and looked at him a little wearily. "Slumming again, I see." "Sorry." He grinned mightily and held up his bandaged hand. "Couldn't manage the right but tons to be correct" "Lucky you could make a knot in that thing you have around your neck." He laughed, and with his good hand yanked the necktie away from his collar. It was one of those made-up affairs held in es teem by motormen on nights out "Invalid's delight," he said. "Made in two tones,- also right and left-handed, by a world re- HOLD EVERYTHING! no'm,' missus moople. :fy AIN'T VAOIAE'--orlB fiOMB TO TH1 UOUSEP1TAL TO NU9S SICK FOLKSES TMA.es A RANKIN' FINE BEBBS SOU GOT, MRS. LKlCHBEKKV,' .iSS m Oh ,"DE AR ! MARTUN 6MD SHE'D TAVScs CftRo Or- LI I I let ANW TINE t NEEDED HELP vNeLL.T)& BEEN CALLED AvsJASTDMM SICK SISTER'S, SO I'LL HAVE TO LEfsME HIIW NlTH SOU UNTIL MRS, HOOPLEr "Nothing but glass Jara thli food shortage is terriblel" THIS CURIOUS WORLD 'MfflffllOTP ' sues? I shoulDa went Y7 ""this b mot a cane, y"- I ill Mil! W AN' HELPED M3L) HOME. SMART Vllb AN UM- i . i iu n it r;u;i m it t AECjyin qjcti v dog i a t nAMcn rr- :; v'..i " I I fi U ifeiil PUT ME TO WORK, TOO J SISTER, AND I'LL ADMIT I . ' ' I I i 1 A WAl"T. rLLHELF" VOU UP I HELP HER A LITTLE, L jS - J . V- MHHM'TOW.?w V rfFS f ' fegP&JdkVn Wsr, all about His feeding.' Ws'T- WHV MOTHERS GET GF?AV By J. R. William. With Moor Hooplo II J t JF ". Htra.il J "EPmV l'r BUNDEoNl jOT33222 THEM l'LU TRY HELP "T fAE-rAE DlDM'T N 1 yJE Lost-' rAE ytM go . N from bee strWs 1 iViaTcoid- MburwecArAP telltdu packhoRse) M HUMGW-SICK.' ml dsr AJTOVlle .4oO 1 I flliEW X AMD VJ&'LL EAT CJ RUNAWAY WHEN 1 FEEL-UfA PLENTY )MW- ttlLES fROtA Jf k NOVjV GET-UN GET THE RXCKHORSE", M DU SCfT-UfA j-f' pjj ' " l!r! mmim n , V II I T Under no circumstances should a 'tire be continued in service until the wear extends through more than one carcass ply. The nation's traffic toll for 1942 was placed by the National Safety council at less than 28,000 I drop of about 12,000 from 1941. It Is estimated that America's motor vehicles are riding them selves off the road at the rate of 3 H per cent a month. nowned haberdasher and on sale in exclusive shops everywnere. "Sort of a nuft for wooiwortn. Isn't it?" MUrholl HmrA said. "PeoDle are dancing. I just thought you might not have noticed." Cynthia smiled at him, and tucked her arm closer into his. (To Be Continued) By William Ferguson Only birds that SWM LOSE THEIR ABILITY TO FLY DURING THE MOLTING PERIOD.' LAND BIRDS LOSE ONLY A FEW WING FEATHERS 3 AT A TIME, SINCE FLI&HT IS" SO H NECESSARY TO THEIR SAFETY. samp- CQMt 1H9 Wt NCA SCRVKX. IMC MOST PEOPLE CARRY A M0RT5ASE BECAUSE THEY CANT LIFT IT," Sbfa THURLOW D. LUNto, (223$ J MEN WITH CERTAIN TYPES OF f:AC-7Y' WOV ACTUALLY HAVE AN ADSAAJTAG& IN DETECTING SOME JOBS OP t. h. m. a a. pat. on. NEXT: Japs that go down with their ships. HELPED AFRICAN INVASION HORIZONTAL 1,5 Pictured U, S. generaL 10 Step. 14 Plant 15 Weird. 16 Streamlet 17 Flying devices. 19 Seine. 20 Peeled. 21 Half an em. 22 Misplaced. 24 Facile. 25 Measure 26 Color. 28 Born. 29 By. 30 Sun god. 32 Any. 33Morindin dye. 34 Manner, 35 NoveL 37 North Dako ta (abbr.). 38 British (abbr.). 40 Symbol for tantalum. 42 Tip. 44 Exclamation. 15 Distinguished Service Order (abbr.). (7 Registered Answer to Previous Pnzzle TJ.OIRIPIE DIOISIQMQIDIRIO N O R jflA dPne tB l ool SI E NifrS E S BSO B TMSIE s c-. o t iMS 1 Ijrr D 1 1 w i. r A P I I PL EjTp t mf'M n .i mm V era r MsMnT c kyl PS g3FlA D EL EISS Baa c WWk-MEmmF, TORPEDO S ElNlTll fMlElNITlAlLl '""c" nurse (abbr.). 48 Breezy. 49 Fish. 52 Hour (abbr.). 53 Articles. -55 SpoiL 57 Command. 59 Cover with wax. 60 Warm. 62 Hybrid animal 63 Group of Irish isle 64 Obstruct . (law). 65 Shout. VERTICAL 1 Producers. to 2 Put in line. 3 Decay. , 4 Ship part 5 Cerium (symbol).. 6 Pertaining Lent. 7 Exist. 8 Ceremony. 9 Knight of the Elephant , (abbr.). : . 10 Entreat 11 Atmosphere. 12 Call. 13 Seniors. 18 Male offspring 20 Postscript (abbr.). 23 Ocean. 27 Kind of bee. 29 Beg. , 31 Total up. 33 Insect 36 He engineered advance prep arations for V. S. invasion of . 38 Heavy rod. 39 Compositions in verse. 41 Sour plant ?3 Come in. 44 Twice. . 46 Hard outer ' covering. 48 So be iti 49 Group of three. 50 Negative. ' 51 He is a lieutenant-general in the U. S 54 Age. 56 Likely. 58 Inevitable. 60 Tellurium (symbol). 61 Doctor ot Philosophy (abbr.). . " is 7s L ggg "I I ll rl I l l I NIL f EH? OH-ES YDO 6rtf I HOl HO! HO? CAN PLAY rM 1 THffTlS VERY ATA1RY PRINCESS" I GOOD "VERY IN A CASTU.E- G0OO.INOEE0 HAl HA AND YOU b-. CAN BE BLUEBEARUjf92Sr CAITT Y0U?Jr;3 Littla Orohan Anniu BUT STILL HWEKT SEEN THE DUNGEONS AND TORTURE CHAMBERS "ALL CASTLES HAVE EM. 'CORDIN' TO VH STTOKItS- S,r AHEM- WEIL-HO! HO? WE MUSTKT BEUEVE ALt WE READ. MUST WET OR HAVE TOO MUCH IMAGINATION -BUT YOU MUST SEE THE VIEW FROM THE WATCHTOWER- OLD WHISKERS WIU 1 KEEP THE BRAT OCCUPIED-1 I HAVE PLENTY OF TIME- I (M CERTAIN OLD ZANES 1 FORMULA FOR THAT NEW I EXPLOSIVE 16 HERE. AMONG I WARQUCKS' PAPERS" A BUT HOW TO RECOGNI7H tT? CODE. NO DOUBT- MIGHT BB IN ANY OF THESE INNOCENT LOOKING LETTERS-OLD CONTRACTS -HM-M TAKE OUT A FEW PAPERS AT A TIME "STUDY THEM NO NEED TO LET THE BRAT SUSPECT ti ,.- hit Ui A m NM'OtO By Harold Groy fJuTTV SAYS IF VOUU PAY US stCSO.VOliCAM UAVf? A CI INTEREST IN OUR COMPANY, Pop TTT.. PILE allthe! (how deep is mpWWM 1 MAI'f? IklniAl t ua.id a Nl I il..V, cnnio- I TUB MATER HERE? ( g t P tYM'MfilX 765? A , CONTROLLING IH rSENT N' VOUR K rH K f P i 1 j iif f MfPT rr SHADYSIDE- HOUSE-. SHOW YOU THE w C' W if pi I :i Iji'pSfe-"-: fjgmfflm CLEANING COMPANY NEXT ItAPORTAMT , . VIV fc j' Freckles end His Friends By Blower NHIXT DAY, r EACH OF Y3U WILL RECEIVE A 5ET O? If THAT '6 ALL MEM.i " f HOT DO& ( BOY, WOULDN'T MY SIRL ) PHEW 1 THESE HEIN1E CLEUERLy CREDENTIALS AND A A ERO HOUR IS 19 I WISH 3. v-- 1 PE SURPRISEDfV C CI6ABETS ARE AWFULV 7 7GESTAPO UNIFORM. WE'LL USS N0THIN6 BUT O'CLOCK. YOU MAY COULP HAVE jO?s- VTC TZTW f I 62RMAN E?UIP(vEMT ON THE RAID, EVEN 7 SPENP THE TIME MY PICTURB ffiMffl AiO ( 1LL ) I V TO ISSSMAN CISABETS. ANYTHING 10EHTI- WRITIM6 TAKEN j k$!&$ mV? VSW FIN6 YOU AS AN AMERICAN MUST S H0MEf IF YOU LllfE. In THIS VJbl jrSif AV-X VVosh Tubbs By Crono JtSSSSBBSSStMmSKmr'J IfwHASSA MATTER, OU' 1 ( THAT'S RIGHT, (. X GOTTA. HUMCH " ' ' If BOVOBOYT GENERAL. WAR. HORSEql 1 HE'S MISSIMG,,. M HE LIT OUT IM SrBCH ;fflM tlJ5HE WAR IS OVER. W PEACE ANi FEEL1M' BLUE , HM-m-mLAST OF HI6 VJIFE.ZEL,,. Afflifi AMD THE GOVERM: I QUIET AGAIN...) 'CAUSE YOU'REfT IjV TINAE I SAW HIM v SHE VSIAS.WT A Mffllll MENT OF FEHIS- T AH'H-H J OUTCg A MO 3L 'SM'v'S1" W 1 TOR1C MOO OMCE LAJ ?J HAPPENED UPEEFOGEESTV PROB AH.YW EMT J ; W m MORE RESTS IM ''?'AftffiSW' P0lk TO OL' RAL. I L i BACKTO HER I eapabl?) "p igp mT WpTm n ' XI y Alley Oop By V. T. Hamlin I
