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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1941)
THE NEWS AND THE HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS. ORB. SERIAL STORY 'DOLLARS TO DOUGHNUTS BY EDITH ELLINGTON All character, Incident and organization of this trrxal art entirely fictitious. CHAPTER I TJIATRICK HUNTINGTON JJ DAVENPORT wu 20 years old. She had a shining, dark brown mink coat. She had a shining, black limousine. She had a chauf feur to drive it from one night club to another, from New York to Newport and down to the pi when she went off on a cruise. She had a big white house on Indian Creek, in Miami Beach, Florida. She had a 10-room apart ment here in New York, on Park Avenue, where three maids did nothing but wait on Beatrice. She bad four room -sire closets full of evening dresses, sports clothes. lounging pajamas, costume ensem bles. There were racks full of shoes and shelves of hats. Beatrice Huntington Davenport bad stocks and bonds and real estate. And she had an immense, sprawling store that extended in a solid square from Fifth Avenue to Sixth. It was eight stories high,, crammed to the doors with exactly! the same sort of things Beatrice .bad at home. She bad a tight-lipped man whose pictures appeared some times In the columns of morning newspapers (but she had never bothered to meet him herself) whom the trust company had ap pointed as general superintendent of the department store. Only this morning she'd seen his narrowed eyes looking out at her from the paper. "The Man Behind Hunt ington's" read the caption. Beatrice smiled. The man behind Huntington's Jiad always been and was now, in his jealously laid down policies 'and far-sighted provisions her grandfather, Michael Kin g a n Huntington. - ; , r Grandpa had founded Hunting ,ton's. He started by peddling pins and needles and shoelaces from a pack on his back. Then came a lit tle store on Grand Street. Cutting prices and indulging in practices which made his competitors choke. Grandfather had seen the little store on Grand Street grow into an emporium on Fourteenth and at last into this imposing Hunting ton's which was a New York land mark. Lastly, Beatrice Huntington Dav enport had Mr. Curtis Weeming, who was small and bald and 73 years old. Mr. Weeming was given to rubbing his hands and bleating piteously. Mr. Weeming; theoreti cally managed Beatrice. TMGHT now, in his office on the , 45th floor of a skyscraper on Rockefeller Plaza, Mr. Curtis Weeming was wringing not rub binghis dry little hands. Mr. Curtis Weeming was pleading. ram Miss Davenport, this is in- credible! Miss Davenport, I must protest! Miss Davenport, 1 simply cannot allow "Nuts, Mr. Weeming!" said Bea trice Huntington Davenport She sat in a brown leather chair, with her slim silken knees crossed. The mink coat was car-lessly thrown back. A cunningly contrived top knot of mink perched on her golden curls,- and her red hps miled. "You tell those armor-clad 'mights behind those chromium grilles in that trust company to pay mat cneck and pay it nowl Clarence must have those polo ponies, lms aeiay is silly: Clarence, you see, was her nance. The rest of his name was Fernando di GrandezzL Clarence was dark, and tall, and fascinating. 'TWO month ago, Beatrice had I first laid eyes on Clarence. He was so different from the men she'd always known! He had man ners, for one thing. He kissed her nana. He cowed from the waist Nor did Clarence resemble those (other "men she knew the ones iwbo were poor but proud and : worked very hard at blueprints so 'they might eventually build bridges; or grubbed along in some dingy office, so that some day they'd be a third vice president No. Clarence said, with engaging .frivolity, "A million dollars, theese is not saved out of a pittance, eh? What I could earn, it would be pathetic. Me. I Drefer visltin. Mv hostesses have invariably been so llovely! How was it, I did not see juu m xiawaii: The Frothinehami hrf turned from Hawaii, where Clar ence had been their house guest Beatrice knew that Clarence was supposed to be the property of mum trouiingnam. So she said, "I wasn't there, but I'm here now." 1 And hlS black eves lnokrf rintim jlnto hers while they danced. Mimi tFrothlngham frowned, from the siae lines. And two hours later, Mimi Frothingham was searching for Clarence in a fury. But Bea itriee and Clarence were in a silver airliner. Flying to Havana. To see a horse race. To play roulette. To become engaged to be married. TEARNTNG of her engagement, Mr. Curtis Weeming had done everything but weep. He went all the way to Florida when she re iturned from Havana, to falter, 'This isn't wise. Miss Davenport" IHe was a man who always grimly did his duty. "Your grandfather lalways made it nerfertlv -I what sort of man he expected you I to marry. He warned me to be firm l on that point! He wanted you to marry a business man. A man who could conserve, even increase, the Huntington estate." "But, it's the Davenoort estate now. Beftirips Ytm Tuwilrl ..,. that in his will." "Your grandfather always said positively you had enough of his blood to be practical!" wailed Mr. Weeming. "Oh, Miss Davenport, I when I remember how he used to ay, 'She's got my chin! She's no weakling, that girt No pretty boy's going to flim-flam her she wont go marrying any counts or 'dukesTand figure in divorces'" His voice broke. Michael Hunt ington had not only been his best friend, but his IdoL as welt "You must realize, Beatrice, that you need a husband who will be able to take over the reins of manage ment after er He looked at her beseechingly. After he gone But Beatrice said. "Pooh! Youll be here, lecturing on thrift to my grandchildren, you old fake!" Mr. Weeming thought of Clar ence, whose grandchildren these would be, too, and shuddered. Now, in the office high above Rockefeller Plaza, he was shud dering again. Beatrice was blazing away about that check. He said, "This is a tremendous expenditure. Totally unnecessary. Unjustified." "Nuts!" said Beatrice again. "Now, look here. Clarence called me from Westbury, upset because those ponies were not in their stalls. Will you pleafe see that my check Is honored at once?" CHE went out through the prl vate, unmarked door to the corridor. For a moment adjusting her coat "he stood in the hall thinking, "Weeming certainly must be put in his place every once in a while or he positively tramples one!" Behind her, the door had not clicked, but stood a little ajar. Sud denly she heard a voice coming from Mr. Weeming's office. The voice of someone who must have been in the little room beyond, waiting for her to go. 'Why do you take that from her?" the voice asked in exa 'dera tion. It was a deep, masculine voice. Pleasant rich, young. "That girl's the world's most useless ob ject "You know what I think?" Tha pleasant timber of the mire hard ened, and even as Beatrice stood there, stunned and rigid, his next words exploded sgainst her ear drums. "I think a girl like that should be quietly and competently chloroformed. More in sadness than in anger. But chloroformed." (To Be ConUaaed) Newsman Arrested OUT OUR WAY By J. R. WILLIAMS OUR BOARDING HOUSE With MAJOR HOOPLE fiii'iliii vMV DON'T SOU V ' .ii VVMEN VOU IMVENT SOME V Cf AH, MR. MACKLBWGN.' VON yOOH. WAV, VOO V CO660rJS EFTUAT !; ;H LiT MB SHOW ! TMINd "TO PEOPLE .wTHi&K MlLDMARCK A IMPUDENT TRAMP.') 6TKWG6 PUiiOH CON' ''''- VOU MOVVGOCO W FROM REAXIN3 N THE ( EVEMiNGS ARE A, ( p VOL COME. A A LOOK LAK MKjToM MAJOf J H ; IT VWKKS KFOK6 I BATM ROOM I'll 60 I J VERITA8L6 TONC.AHE) I TEP CLOSER I'LL U WHO HB Afttfe. : moTSmL VuvfpfKm 7 (-rMByMcrrf wm harpoon vcuwh )Wr ee nochori man i'iliv RKAltlB K K'CM y 1 TUUP BULBS MET T ) UTWB, V6RY &-l PANTe.'-BCK4 iJVBATM tub 1 "n""C''""' ' LyjmX'C6 Wr- pl II JPr, .a ESI It r SB : ' " . 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