Th irsday. February 13, 1930
Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon
gt LOCALS^
tdffibrroW?’
When she had gone down to pre
pare the evening meal Unwin
looked at Ids wife anxiously. “Mary
is a very beautiful girl,” 'he said.
"I wonder if undesirable men try to
Coyle formerly
Frank Peterson of Natal shop Vernonia. Mr
operated a meat market in this
ped in this city Friday.
city.
Oliver Burris of Natal was a
Ed. Holtham returned Thurs
Vernonia shopper Friday morn
day evening from Longview, af
ing.
ter spending several hours as
E. A. Ritchey received his new the guest of members of the
Chevrolet sedan from the Gilby Longview
Chamber
of
Com
Motor company last week.
merce.
Bert Brewer of Portland has
T. A. White of McMinnville,
been employed as a clerk in the owner of the building which will
local Safeway store.
be occupied by the MacMarr
Eurcle McCollum of Treharne store, spent Thursday here going
returned to his home at St. Ig over plans for the remodeling
natius, Mont., a week ago Mon of his store.
day.
G. W. Ford, superintendent of
• the Oregon Gas & Electric com
pany, returned Friday from a
visit to Tacoma.
Employes
of
the
Vernonia
Safeway store attended a ban
quet and dance sponsored by the
Safeway company for their em
ployes in Portland Wednesday
evening.
W. O. Porterfield, confined
Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Moe
in a Portland hospital with pneu
monia, is reported improving in and small daughter uttended the
meeting of the Oregon Newspa
health.
per Conference at Eugene last
S. E. Bryant, coach of the week end. They also visited rel
Scappoose high school, attended atives at Salem and A.lbany.
the basketball game in this city
Mirick S. Miller, Dave Gibson,
Friday evening.
and M. II. Nichols, officials of
Mrs. G. W. Long of Wilkes
boro visited here with her hus
band, an operator of the S. P.
& S. railway, Sunday morning.
the Graybar Electric company at
Portland, spent Saturday in Ver
nonia consulting with G. W.
Ford, superintendent of the Ore
gon Gas <Si Electric company.
The Vernonia Laundry pur
II. E. McGraw, E. S. Thomp
chased a new Chevrolet truck
fiom the Gilby Motor company son and Frank Hartwick attend
ed a Chevrolet dealers meeting
last week.
and banquet in Portland Friday.
Ray Early returned to Verno The meeting was held at the old
nia Monday to oversee progress Baker theater and the banquet
on the construction of his new at the Multnomah hotel.
building on Bridge street.
Dave Kramer, new manager
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Ritchey of Miller Mercantile company,
motored to Portland Sunday af arrived Thursday to take charge.
ternoon to visit friends, und re Mr. Kramer’s family is moving
turned home that same evening. over from Hillsboro and will oc
Earl Smith left for Portland cupy a suite in the Gillchrest
Monday, going in to the hospital apartments on Rose avenue.
with John Patrick, who wak in
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Washburn
jured that day.
and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Martin
left Friday evening for Seattle,
Wilburn Charlesworth left on
Wash., to attend the wedding of
Monday for Silverton to attend
Mrs. Martin’s and Mr#. Wash
the funeral of his aunt, who
burn’s mother, who was married
died last week.
Saturday.
A 7 H^-pound baby girl was
An 814-pound baby boy was
born to Mr. and •Mrs. Harvey
born to Mr. and Mrs. R. N.
Crume Friday morning. Mother
Hart of Portland Friday. Mr.
and child are reported in the
Hart formerly was employed in
best of health.
the local Safeway store and is
Clarence Coyle of Portland now a manager of a Portland
spent Thursday and Friday in | store of the same concern.
MUTINY
OF THE
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by
WYNDHAM
MARTYN“
COPVaiOHT IN thc u s .
w.H.U. SERVICI
been accounted duIT. And Gibbons
was a multl-mllllonalre. And Floyd
Unwin solicited advertlsemenls for
Mr. Unwin Makes a Call.
a trade journal and was Its associ
EE financier, sitting alone In ate editor! Then he thought of
hla remote and splendid library, Howard Bettington. who had made
looktd up with a scowl at the some success as a painter of sea
apologetic secretary who cam* scapes. Bettington was the best of
softly In.
the three. He was better looking,
"11 at,’’ the secretary was reiter better bred and could have attained
ating, "he says he is a very old eminence In anything he set his
friend. Unwin Is the name. Tubby mind upon. And he had chosen to
Unwin, sir. He said you would re adventure Into far corners of the
member him by that.”
earth and seas and every now and
He could see that his employer then exhibit Ids unusual canvases
remembered.
Something of the to- the appreciative few who ad
hardness fell from the face. Gib mired but did not buy.
bons had gone back In tlmt moment
“Did you close that contract?”
of recollection almost twenty years. he beard his wife ask. The con
Of course, he remembered “Tubby” tract had been talked over a great
Unwin.
And with Tubby there deal. The commission would have
swam back into memory that other removed the steady calling of an
sue of the three, Howard Bettlng- Intolerant Individual who concerned
rou.
They were Inseparables at
Cambridge in the old days. Every himself with payments for furniture
year they swore to have a reunion; on the Installment plan.
Unwin removed a dead leaf from
and tn the eighteen years that had
a pjant. He did not want to meet
gone by he had not seen them once I hls’wlfe's eye.
“Tell him I’m too busy to see any
"The time was not ripe,” he said,
one for three days. Then ask him
a little weakly. "Next month, per
to dinner.” Gibbons thought a mo
haps.
”
ment.
"Find out from him If
His wife said nothing. To her It
Betty—Howard Bettington—is In
New York. If be Is, ask him to was an evidence that God desired
her to be yet more strengthened
dinner and let me know when they
and purified by suffering.
are coming.”
“Do you think Mr. Gibbons will?”
The secretary, assuming an Inti
asked presently.
mate of his employer’s must be of she
"Yes,” Unwin answered.
“Why
the favored classes over whom kind
shouldn't he? It’s a solemn moral
monetary angels hover, gave Unwin obligation and I’m not sure It Isn't
the message and supposed he was a legal one also. Gibbons was al
telephoning from another fine resi ways a man of his word. 1 know
dence.
he has the name for being hard In
Floyd Unwin's home was not of bis dealings, but this Is different.”
the kind to awaken envy even In a
He paused as he heard footsteps.
Gibbons secretary. It was a small “But not a word to the children. I
apartment on the fourth floor of a don't want to raise their hopes and
structure now dwnrfed by light-ab then have to disappoint them.”
sorbing and scornful buildings
It was Mary, eighteen and sweet,
which hemmed It In.
Unwin’s and now hopeful. She held In her
daughter, Mary, used to say It hand a packet of the literature that
looked as though It wanted to run Smith college sends out to those
•way and hide, but dare not If who seek to know her charms and
the place had no beauty It was terms. Mary was more than anxious
home to the Unwins; and there was to enroll. And during the last week
a roof garden which endeared the her father had been letting fall sly
commonplace flat to them.
hints that Northampton might not
It was to this retreat that Floyd seem so far away as she thought
Unwin took his way on the receipt
“Did you close the contract?" she
of Glblmns' message. His wife, who asked, when she had kissed them.
spent most of her Invalid hours on
“Money Is tight” said Unwin,
a conch, looked up with a smile. again plucking leaves. “I shall try
She was one of those really good them in a month's time.”
Women who accept bodily Ills as
He saw Mary droop a little. He
God's Judgments; she felt her long knew the disappointment. It nerved
illness was sent In some mysterious him to give her uncalled-for encour
way to prepare her for eternal life. agement
, ’ . .
*Tm to go there to dinner next
“I’ve something up my sleeve bet
Wednesday.” Unwin said, "and I’m ter than that old contract. On
to ask Howard Bettington. Gibbons Thursday morning ask me what I
la a very big man. They say. In ten mean. It may mean Smith for you
yean* time be will be the greatest and Tech for Bob.”
capitalist In the country.” Unwin
"It seems too good to be true,
, mused a moment "He was always the girl said. "Daddy, I’m so tired
inclined to be bard and masterful. of being Mr. Radway’* stenogra
I • • - And yet to think that but for
pher I'm In a constant atmosphere
me and my coaching, he would nev- of fear and it's bad for me. Every
i or have got bls A. B."
one In the office trembles when he
Unwin fell into a mood of deprea- comes In. If It weren't that he
Von.
At college he had been nsva more, than I'm worth I’d leave
-ggteemetl brUHanL. and Gibbons, had
CHAPTER I
T
Outside, Floyd Unwin Was Walting
for Howard Bettlngton.
force themselves on tier”
1 l«r
walked about the root garden alm- :
lessly. That was Ids chief defect. !
this uncertainty of alm
Bob. the seventeen year-old son ;
with the mechanical turn of mind,
catue In. Unwin turned to greet
him with a cheerful smile. He an
tlclpated the unasked question
"I didn't get It,” he said; “money
was tight. I went In al a bad time.
Next month. perluips. I'm sorry .
Bob."
The boy was taller than Ids fa- '
ther
In a sense he was a more 1
resolute und reliable man lie put :
Ids arms about the elder with a
protective gesture. "1 know you did |
your best." he said simply.
And all through the dinner poor
Unwin was haunted b.v the certain
ty tlmt he had not done Ids best.
•
*••••*
When the hour for dinner drew
near Gibbons was Inclined to blame
the pale secretary that men like
Bettington and Unwin, with whom
he had now no common ground of
Intercourse, should be Ills guests.
Outside the house Floyd Umvin
was waiting for Howard Betting
ton. He needed moral support. He
had come, so he told himself, upon
a tusk tlmt hardly promised suc
cess. He cursed himself for Ills
It had
perpetual enthusiasms.
looked so simple, so probable, so
assured. He hud been losing cour
age ever since he had donned Ids
evening dress.
The refusal of his well preserved
but ancient clothes to adapt them
selves to new and ampler measure
meats hud brought anxious mo
meats.
Would the cloth hold?
Might not buttons fly off In resent
meat urd leave Idm nuked to an un
kind world? And he bud pun tn
ated these efforts to array himself
by pathetic asides.
lie Imd de
dared tlmt he was a small enter;
tlmt he walked dally many miles
and yet the time of trial Imd found
him over weight I
It was not fat
A man who ate so little and walked
so far could not be fat. It was a
laxity of form, an unwillingness of
the flesh to adapt Itself to long
discarded garb
He Imd not seen Bettington for
almost ten years, but there was no
mistaking the tall form that came
toward him out of the gloom. To
gether they knocked at the bronze
doors. In the few moments that
elapsed before a footman opened to
them, Bettington found hlinself
ashamed that the old friendship
had meant so little. He was con
sclous, vividly, of the good, dream
Ing student dayn. when Unwin had
been so close a friend. He hat’ for
gotten Unwin after the first few
years. Unwin had married while
at Cambridge. Then came the girl
and the boy. Bettington had om-e
sent his old friend a pulntlng. Tlmt
was all. As to Gibbons, that was
different.
The financier was so
constantly spoken of tlmt lie was
fresh In the mind. But all these
years Howard Bettlngton had not
once tried to meet him. He Imd
beard him speak at a public ban
quet and had seen that the man he
used to like wus dead. In Ids place
had come the grasping, unscrupu
lous capitalist who was to carve Ids
way to power.
The footman, when he had ush
ered the guests Into a hall, where
the butler stood commagdlngly,
looked curiously at them, lie knew
they were not habitues of the Gib
bons home, or. Indeed, at any of
those great homes where such as he
were content to serve. At Betting
ton the lackey looked with faint ap
proval. Bettington wore, as was his
custom, a black velvet dinner coat.
But It was well cut and the man
moved as though these magnificent
halls were his usual haunts.
It was at Unwin, poor Floyd Un
win, scholar and failure, that the
men-servants looked with scorn.
Such garments were not now worn.
Bettington saw that Unwin was los
ing what small confidence he pos
sessed. He patted the shorter man
almost affectionately on the shoul
der and simulated approval. "You
look splendid," he murmured. “I
suppose I ought to have worn full
dress, too."
Unwlr. trotted by bls side vastly
gratified.
Gibbons was standing
with that faint sneer on his face
which had become habitual. The
financier was prepared to be thor
oughly bored. He Judged man by
his ability to make money; and
with these standards he had only
contempt for the small, nervous
man who peered through thick
lenses at him.
He looked with
deeper Interest at the pointer.
"It doesn't seem possible we are
all of an age," he said, when they
were seated. “Tubby looks fifty, I
look forty, and I’m d—d If Betty
doesn’t look ten years less.”
Bettington resented the sneering
manner In which the successful
man of affairs regarded Unwin.
"To me you looked the ch'or," he
said suavely. "Tubby may have put
on weight, but there's age In your
face. Three Brass Balls, and
wrinkles a half-inch deep.”
Gibbons flushed. He had not for
gotten the old nickname given him
In jest, for his ability to make small
galas tn loan and barter. He looked
across the silver-laden tahle at Bet
tington. The painter bad a clear
eye and a clean skin. There was
a youthful poise of body and a
litheness which had long since left
Gibbons. He glanced sourly at the
other man.
Even there he felt
h»p»cyt. Ui-z.la’s
serene
and "untroubled. TTiere was a cer
tain simplicity and directness about I
him which seemed childish.
“I’ve worked." Gibbons snapped; |
“that gives one lines amt wrinkles."
“You've hated." Bettington an
swered ; “your face Is a chart of
uncharitable emotions. Your sort
of success stamps Its victim. Tubby
and I have worked, too. remember."
“Indeed. I have." Tubby sighed
and thought of his uon-success as u
solicitor of advertising.
Gibbons looked about him. Ills
guests, following his glances, saw
what he meant. There was superb
luxury everywhere. Did not those
two men realize that they were be
ing sumptuously entertained In mag-
nlficent rooms by one who had no
greater opportunity In youth than
they? Less opportunity.
Unwin
was always a student to whom aca
demic tasks were easy. Bottln-ton
had a small property when Gibbens
had but an allowance from a dis
tant relative. From the pale secre
tary Gibbons had learned that Bet-
tlngtou hid passed Ids life mainly
in traveling and painting the sc tn
her sterner moods. HIs pictures
were not such as to attract the
dealer, although his fellows revered
him for his art Economically hr
was a failure. And yet Gibbon-
could not rid himself of the feel In •
that they were not linpr<*ssed by III
position.
There was so*
'nv
stinging and Irritating In It
And he was annoyed to find 'Im'
these two quiet guests were re
establishing that sense of num•-• rl
ed superiority which they hud ex
ercised In college. There Imd tr-e-i
a time when these two meant mor.-
to him than any other men. Am!
when success came to him he force
them.
Gibbons grew a
lltil-
ashamed; hut the feeling taste
only a few moments
Ills ar c
gunce banished It
lie had am-
ceeded; they had failed
lie wa
even a little gratified when the pel
secretary bowed Ills way In with
two cables which demanded Irnim-
diute attention.
“Made a million or so?’ Bet Hur
ton asked quizzically, when the se
retary had taken down tic* answer
and gone out. "Or tost one?"
"Itadway Is the loser." Gibbons
smiled. “I Imve Just taken a rail
roud from him and he's too ifl-unk
to know about It till tomorrow "
Tubby Unwin made an unexpect
ed remark.
“That will be the Memphis an!
Toledo road.” he said. "It Is !!a<1
wny’s pet lamb.”
“How the h—I do yon know
that?” Gibbons »pupped
with
Unwin came to himself
...................
.. a
start. He realized that he Imd re
pealed something Mary had told
iiltn In confidence lie made a gee
ture as though to say. fimindiil se
crets were not hidden from him en
tlrely.
“Well, as you know so much
about Itadway. you'll he astonished
to learn I’ve got him on the run
There Isn't room In New York for
Radwav and me.”
He told them somethin» of his
detestation for Itadway: of how
these five years tie hud been set
ting snares for Idin "I never for
give or forget.” Gibbons boasted
“1 see that all marked on the
chart which Is your face," Betting
ton answered
“Anything else you see?" Gib
bons sneered.
Bettington gnzed nt him steadily
The painter’s good looks and splen
did fen tures forced themselves on
the capitalist
"1 see what all charts mark
Rocks, quicksands reefs. You're
headed for them Gibbons.”
There was something domlnntlng
about Bettington
Gibbons felt It
even In his magnificent home In a
moment of flnnnclal triumph.
“The unsuccessful." he said add
ly, “always feel they Lave the right
to criticize.
It’s about the only
thing they can do; and they do that
badly."
“So you call me unsuccessful?"
Bettington demanded.
Then he
smiled a little. “You are wrong
I’ve accomplished what I set out to
do. And I have what yon will nev
er know—contentment The differ
ence between ns Is we measure suc
cess by different standards."
“I’m the unsuccessful one." Un
win declared. “I have not done whnt
I set out to do."
“You don’t have to advertise the
fact," Gibbons said, still a little Ir
ritated. “I can see It."
Bettlngton felt the protective In
stinct calling him to defend the
small, shy friend of other days.
•It amazes me to think you
troubled to give so elaborate a feast
for two unsuccessful men. Why?"
“Ask Unwin." the host returned.
"He told my aecretnry he hud Im
portant business with me. and as 1
was busy all day and every evening
but this I suggested a dinner. Think
Ing of Tubby brought you to my
mind, and I asked you, too. Bm
waiting to know Inst how Important
this business Is."
Unwin drew from hla pocket a
half sheet of paper and passed It
across the table to Gibbons. The
dinner was now at the coffee and
liqueur stage, and menservants had
withdrawn from earshot. Gibbons
took It with a frown and read It
through.
“We. the undersigned." he fcad.
“being about to separate, do hereby
swear that If one of us attains for
tu .e and the others do not. the
lucky one shall aid the unsuccessful
cheerfully and unasked In any way
he la called upon to do.
“HOWARD BETTINGTON
('Betty').
"FLOYD UNWIN (Tubby').
“ALFRED GIBBONS C3
Brass Balls')."
Gibbons handed It back to Unwin.
“It'» Interesting,” be admitted,
“but not legal. It would have no
value In a court of law. I tore my
copy up years ago.”
Bettington reached for It and
scanned the document
“I’d forgotten all about It," he
said.
“Had your Gibbons said with a
sneer.
“It may not be legal," he beard
Unwin saying nervously, “but In a
matter of old friendship the spirit
counts, not the letter."
"Which shows you to be ss fool
ish st forty as you were at twenty,"
said the financier.
Bettington was conscious more
fully then ever of Unwin's dejec
tion. The hope which had sustained
him seemed now to have left him
dull, broken and speechless, Bet
tlngfon put hla arm about the
bowed ahoulders.
“Oh. Tubby." he crleil, “are you
so poor s Judge of human nature as
to come to Gibbons for help? If I
bad known you were In need you
might not have had this humilia
tion. Within thia very week Bve
bought a camp and paid for It I
could have deferred payment easily
enough. What do you need It fort'
"It’s my children," said Unwin
quietly. “They are crying, not for
food. huLfor ednr- 'Ion. . B a «noth.
er form of starvation. I thought If
Gibbons would advance enough
money to get them where they want
to be. I'd pay It off little by llitle.
I sec I was wrong. He Is not the
mill we knew."
Gibbons moved a little uneasily.
The years he had almost forgotten
awoke In his mind with a peculiar
distinctness. He did not like to re
member that he was the author of
the document and executed It with
the feeling that he was a bene
ticlary under Its terms.
He had
thought nothing could stay Howard
Bettington In bls fight for fortune.
Even Tubby Unwin, distinguished
scholar, seemed far more likely to
make a name than the undlstln
gulshed Gibbon's. Changes. Changes
“How old Is the girl?" he de
manded.
“Eighteen," said Unwin,
“She
wants to go to Smith."
“What about the boy?"
“He’s a year younger. They tell
me he's a genius mechanically, He
yearns to enter the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
“Nothing to It.” said Gibbons
scornfully “If he had s yearning
for business I might help, Lei hl m
think It over. What's
' the
‘
girl do
Ing?"
“She 1« r»e ot Itadwny’s steno;
Page Fkft
rapTiers. Siu* has greuTTippoFr uuT
ties there, but her heart Isn’t In the
work."
“Kadwny I"
Gibbons
■napped
“That's a good way to recorn mend
her to me. lladwriy
“
is my open and
avowed enemy, ’ He frowned as he
thought of It. Then he smiled al
most amiably, "Private stenogra
pher?" he asked.
__ ol
"< >r __
just oue
the bunch In the office?"
“Private," Unwin answered “You
see, she knows French and Spanish
perfectly
Even Radway approves
of her."
"She knows a lot about his pri
vate affairs, I suppose. I wondered
how you learnt of the Memphis and
Toledo road. You got It from her
Look here. Tubby
Tell her the
Chances of bright women In hnsl
ness arc enormous; they far exceed
any Jobs colleges offer, I may make
a place for her In my organization
If she Is as bright us yon say.
her to see me tomorrow
If
bright she’ll make more money than
her father."
“This Is one of the times I wish
___
I had taken to commerce Instead of
art," Bettington commented.
lie
had every sympathy with a girl who
wanted more education; apparently
Glhbpp^ hrjt none,
"You’d have railed at It.” Gib
bons retorted. “Men of your kind
always seem to think any fool can
make a success of business and get
where I am. I'm the sort who wins.
Where would you be In a situation
where supreme courage and resolu
tion were required? I’ll answer.
You'd be found wanting. You've
lived a remote life. If you haven’t
liked a place or a climate you've
gone somewhere else, looked for
something easier,”
Rettington smiled a little,
“1
don t know," he said. “I’ve been In
some tight places In far corners of
the earth and, I have not always
lost. After all. Gibbons, what do
you know of me or Unwin?”
“I know,” said the capitalist hot
ly. “that one seeks the security of a
trumpery Job and the comfort of a
pitiful pay envelope, and the other
gets out of the fight by daubing
canvases.” His m inner became less
bellicose. "Don't forget to send the
girl around |’|| see that she Is sent
right Into my private otliee and
that’s a privilege* some would pay
high for ”
Ills gleets understood that the
audience was over. Alfred Gibb >na
had no n ore Interest In them. In
a sense, they were d' .ulssed
I
CHAPTER II
Ths Planning of ths Cruise.
• T HE place stifled me." said Un-
1 win when he was alone in the
street with Bettington.
"Walk as far as my studio,” Bet
tington suggested. "Isn't It strange
that we should have lost sight of
one another. I feel guilty. . . . It’s
true I'm not often In New York.
. . . Tubby, I'll not lose sight of
you now “
Bettington’s studio was more a
collection of marine objects, a mu-1
•cum of the sea. than a place to!
work tn. There were two rooms at*
the top of an old brownstone house
on the north side of East Thirty
fourth street. He had a yearly lease
of the place and used It but rarely.
There were quaint figureheads of
old sailing ships now long broken
up or. sunk.
(Continued next week)
Attention To Appearance
The wiae woman of advancing
years given quite as much atten
tion to her appearance as her
daughter does.