F riday , S eptember 25,1931.
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
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Scappoose-Vernonia route until also proceed with the Widening
the engineering department can of the Pacific highway from Sal­
C. K. Spaulding Assails
assemble additional facts and fig­ em to New Era, and construction
of the new highway between Mil­
“Van Duzer now proposes rush­ waukie and Oregon City. We also
Engineers9Report on Route ures.
ing crews into the field to re- should give consideration to the
CANDLE $
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have been lost since mJilnlglit when
I strayed from the path. It has
not worried me. I slept until
awakened not long ago by a great
noise.”
He now observed the trouble In
the face of his friend.
“Have you bad news?” he asked.
Sir Harry reviewed the damning
testimony produced In court.
William turned pale. Ills friend
put his arm around him fearing
that he would fall. William stood
apart, straightened and looked
down In deep thought.
"Old friend, what Is the truth of
this matter?" Sir Harry asked.
The younger one answered with
trembling lips. “The truth Is. Fin
done for.”
He stood a moment picking at
the small mustache on his lip and
saying: “I'm sorry for myself—
but—mostly for others. I will go
and face the court and take what
is coming."
“Yon ride the horse." said Sir
Harry. “I will walk bv the bridle.
Near the path I will mount behind
you. We will slip around that
pack of ruffians."
The shouting and horn blowing
served to guide them toward the
path. Some twenty rods away
they veered around the mob and
came out below It and hastened to
the courthouse. Elizabeth Brade
and her mother met them at the
door. The girl seized the hand of
her lover, saying: "Dear one! I
know It Is not true. What has
happened to you?"
CHAPTER IV
William was like one In a daze.
He leaned upon his friend. His
In Peril of the Hempen Rope.
lips trembled. He tooked at the
HE little town was in a fer­ girl and spoke—a riddle that passed
ment, the like of which It would from lip to lip, and save for one
be hard to find In all Its history. possible solution, ft would have
The best people agreed that if Rob­ burned her brain to ashes.
ert bad been tlie guilty one they
“Bess, this is the hardest part of
would have been the less amazed. It. Remember that whatever else
There were women, even those may be said of me, I am no cow­
without grace and charm of youth, ard. God help you to stand and.
who were saying: “The sleek, hand chiefly, to understand what Is com­
some, secret, villainous contriver! ing."
News of the arrival of the guilty
I would never have trusted myself
with him a bow shot from home In man reached the magistrates. A
constable came out. He escorted
the night."
Sir Harry Vane went to the the prisoner to the bar. The court
Brades’ house soou after the hue discontinued the affairs It had been
and cry started. He found them discussing. In a low solemn tone,
crushed with sore astonishment that showed at times a sign of emo­
and humiliation. Bess fell upon tion, the kindly Governor Winthrop
addressed the young man. He read
Sir Harry with a passionate plea.
"This Is a He—a cruel HeI” she aloud the evidence of the house­
declared. “I know It Is a lie. You keeper, of Peggy Weld and her
and my father must mount your brother Henry who had talked
horses and go and keep those fiends with Robert nt the Governor’s
house, of Hnchallah Grout, the con­
from harming him.”
“I think that she Is right." said stable, of Mabel Hartley, sometime
the young nohlemnn. “We must a servant in William’s house. He
go and do what we can for the announced to the prisoner that the
court wns ready to hear any evi­
boy."
As soon as the horses could be dence he could present in his own
ght they mounted and rode behalf. His friends on the bench
'. each with sword and pistol, nnd among the spectators were
hue and cry had crossed the shocked and amazed by his answer.
"Your honor, I have no evidence
and split, at a fork In the
path to the fresh-water river, to offer. I submit to the mercy of
the
court."
half a mile to the west. A
“Where Is your friend—Robert
rt of the bowling mob held this
th. Mr. Brnde made his way Heathers?"
“I do not know."
■ough them while Sir Harry
“He Is not to be found within
tded the caravan that went up
rard the clearing of Heydon and the Jurisdiction of this court.”
The governor conferred a mo­
athers. Soon the dogs stopped.
I by a keen-nosed Spanish hound ment with his assistance. He spoke
■y made oft In the woods, Sir again to the prisoner.
“William Heydon. since a time
rry following, for It was high
>und. They were not long in far hack In the ages, even before
God gave his commandments to
ling William.
‘You are a good friend to come the children of men. the marriage
: to find me," said he. “Sir tie has been the mnlnatay of civil­
rry. you never looked better. I ization.. Fnlrca lt he iijyheld men
There were many who enjoyed
the excitement of a man chase. It
was one "f the frightful customs of
medieval men. giving free rein to
primitive passion, still used In
England Imt
not before In the
colony. The vulgar crowd gave
themselves to
Its plan with the
eager avidity of hounds In the chase
—and especially If a man of rank
were the fugitive. In the rage of
It the captive was likely to lose
his life. Soon men and boys and
fishwives and dogs were In full cry.
seeking William Ileydon. The run­
ning. shouting, screaming, harking
and blowing of horns filled the pur
suers with excitement.
Many Joined them, streaming
westward In the main path, spread­
ing Into the bush on either side and
beating the thickets with clubs In
hand. Some had guns or pistols.
They were more like furies than
like those who have the brain and
heart of man In them.
The tumult awoke strange echoes
In the silent wilderness. It reached
the ears of young Heydon who lay
asleep In a mossy glade a mile or
so west of the path from which he
had wandered In the darkness trv
Ing to walk to his plantation. It
pained the ears of the Brades, of
Margaret Hooper, of John Cotton
and of all the good people of the
parish. Wliat a striving of thoughts,
what a beating of hearts, what a
shuddering of souls was under all
this hellish uproar!
survgy these routes, and that in proposal for a low line from
the meantime the highway com­ Troutdale to Multnomah falls to
SALEM, Or., Sept. 21.—(Spe­ Wolf creek-Hamlet road from mission, in order to relieve the relieve the congestion on the Co­
cial)—Charles K. Spaulding, Sal­ Portland to the sea. In a state- unemployment situation shall con­ lumbia river highway and
em member of the state highway I1 ment issued tonight, Spaulding re­ struct a small stretch of road serve the scenic value of
commission, will not support that' ferred to the report of the engi­ from Elsie to Hamlet, build the road.
part of the highway department I neers as a horse-back survey.
Wilson river road, widen the
Action Urgent Need
engineering report filed Saturday,
“I have been attacked person- highway to Forest Grove and the
“Let us also go ahead with a
recommending construction of the , ally and my motives have been highway from Linnton to Scap­ number
of other projects in the
' impugned,” Spaulding said. “I poose.
interest of the unemployed. Cold
and women lose their fèipéct for ¡feel that the time has now arrived
“I am not at all surprised that weather will descend upon us
_____ as the
...» when the public should receive a Mr. Van Duzer is hesitant about soon, and there will be many
God and man and become
beasts of the field. They lose thejf
__ _ ew plain facts concerning this proceeding with this big construc- i men and women suffering from
«way lunuuYviay.
hichwav
controversy.
love of all good things nnd soon*highway
controversy,
tion program on the data now av-1 the want of necessities,
even their own children are like, “ The
T
report of the highway «liable
ailable from the state highway en-1
en- , «i In n my opinion the
the S Scappoose-
unto the weanlings of the flock. In- engineering
___ department advocates gineering department. In fact, I,
„„
i Vernonia road is not only the
different to father and i mother, the construction of the Wilson soon discovered that if I were most feasible short route to the
hieh_ ­ to arrive at an intelligent de
de- ­ ......
—
--j
*
With us. the home Is the founds-
founda­ river road as a commercial high
sea from an engineering and traf r ­
tion of the state. Its respect for way pnd, as between the so-called cision as to the most feasible fic standpoint, but is the route
law. Its steadfast virtue. Is our Wolf creek route and the Scap­ route to the sea that I would be that will best serve the public
main dependence. In a new land poose-Vernonia route, the former compelled to obtain data outside and the state. Let us cease build­
where to the Ill-schooled law Is route is favored. Although the of the engineering department of ing political highways to serve
merely a menace, ami the thought­ state proposes to expend millions the highway commission.
some partcular interest.
less exceed the wise In number, we of dollars in the construction of
Jobless Await Work
“The metropolitan area of Port­
must be severe with all disorders this short route to the sea, I have
“It was this data which I gath­ land demands a short road to the
tending to corrupt the life of the been informed that neither Roy ered from persons conversant with sea. Let us give them the road
family, otherwise our little com­ E. Klein, state highway engineer, both the Wolf creek and Scap­ that is the fastest, safest and
monwealth would soon crumble In­ nor W. D. Clark, division engi­ poose-Vernonia routes and emi- cheapest to travel on. The fact
to the dust, You slinll be taken neer, have been over either route. nent engineers that influenced me that the people living along the Your clothes will receive
hence to the prison nnd be there
“From information that I have at
_ ________
______
the last _____
meeting
of the state Scappoose-Vernonia highway are
confined until tomorrow morning at been able to gather the engineer- highway commission to favor the willing to donate much of the the same careful handl­
ten o’clock. when you will he ing report favoring the Wolf.Scappoose-Vernonia route. Con- right of way without any legal or ing that you would give
brought to this court to make a creek route was prepared by H.1 sequently it is easy for me to moral restrictions will make that them yourself. The
formal plea of guilty and to re­ N. Hgckett, a subordinate engi- sympathize with Mr. Van Duzer in route the cheapest road to con. weekly wash day will be
ceive Its sentence.”
neer. Think of it! The state of i his present predicament.
struct.
a thing of the past if
There was notch loss of sleep in Oregon proposes to construct one' “But if he and his fellow mem-
“On the Wolf-creek route the
Boston that night. Early In the of its most expensive highways on ber of the commission, William right of way would necessarily you but once send your
evening Sir Harry Vane was at the the report of a mere subordinate. Hanley, who is sojourning in Cali­ have to be acquired from the tim­ clothes to us.
Brades’. It was a shocked and de­ I was informed that the only as­ fornia, are unable to reach a de­ ber interests, who have construct­
jected family giw>. Elizabeth had sistance Mr. Hackett received in cision on either of these routes, ed a $4,000,000 mill and require
solved the ridde In Williams making the survey of the Wolf it appears to me that the time this timber to operate.”
words to her own satisfaction. She creek route came from a Mr. has arrived when the commission
—The Oregonian.
Whitten, who formerly was em­ should function on the unemploy­
quoted the first sentence:
ployed
as
a
cruiser
by
the
Inman-
ment situation.
“ ’Remember tlmt whatever else
H. C. Decker, local Shell Oil
Poulson Lumber company, of
“Let us go ahead and begin company dealer, fractured a rib
may be said of me I am no cow­ which H. B. Van Duzer, chair­ construction
of
the
Wilson
river
Saturday when he was bumped
ard.’ Now the man who was with man of the highway commission,
road as a commercial highway, | with a 50 gallon drum of oil
the woman was a coward. He ran is general manager.
There
is
no
division
of
opinion
,
which
he was moving. He was
away. He was Robert Heathers.
“The survey made by Mr. Hac­ regarding this highway. Let us laid off for several days.
He Is still running.
kett, on which Mr. Clark report­
“Now take the other words : ‘God ed favorably, is what engineers
help you to stand and to under­ call a reconnaissance survey, but
stand what is coming.’
what is known in lay parlance as!
“The woman is in love with Rob­ a horseback survey.
ert. They have met many times.
“I further was informed that
She adores him. That is why she while the state highway depart­
puts the crime on Will, for whom ment engineering staff has been
she has a spite. She resented his giving attention to this proposed
cleaning the house of her. Per­ route for several years the re­
chance he had begun to suspect the cent survey is so incomplete that
relations between her and Ills Mr. Van Duzer advocates that
Oh, how good! That’s what you’ll say when you
friend.
we postpone the selection of
(Continued Next Week)
either the Wolf creek or the
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