The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 27, 1933, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Ni THE STATES or no warning in the garage, on the i NEWSP. highway, in the home and elsewhere. (Established 1873) “Tragic cases reported in the news- Published by The Bismarck Trib-/papers are apparently the only effec- Daily by carrier, per year ......97.20 Daily by mail per year (in Bis~ Daily by mail per year (in state Daily by mail outside of North Dak devasoceees seesese 6.00 ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year 1.00 Weekly by mail in state, three YORTB ..cccesescseees veces 2.50 ‘Weekly by mail outside of North PEF Year ........00000. 150 in Canada, per 2.00 Member of Audit Bureas of + Circulation Memper of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. The National View To all classes of citizens every- where the program adopted by the National Grange at the close of a 10- dey convention carries strength and veassurance. It proves that large bodies of farm- ers can and do take sensible views of their own condition and are capable of devising sane and workable means of improving it. It demonstrates the willingness of the farmor to work for his own sal- vation, a thing which we who live close to the soil have never forgot-) ten but which city folks can hardly be blamed for overlooking, in view of the barrage of talk to which they recently have been subjected. But over and above all of these things it proves anew that the finest patriots in the land are those who make their homes on the soil; that the farmer, fully as much as his city brother, thinks in terms of national welfare, Recent happenings have had a tendency to cast doubt upon this fact. To hear some of our so-called or would-be leaders talk, it has been easy to get the idea that some farm- ers preferred to designate themselves as members of a class rather than as citizens of the nation. These are the ones who would pit the farmer against all other workers in a class struggle, ignorant of the fact that such a course would mean only dis- aster for all concerned. To be sure, there have been occa- sional gestures toward the folks in the towns—usually to specified and limited classes of skilled workers— but no broad-gauge recognition of the fact that, before any of us are any- thing else, we are citizens of a com- mon country, working toward a com- mon end. Conditions are not good on the farms but neither are they good in the cities and it is about time that someone in the farm country took note of the fact. The great mass of city persons who are cooperating with the government in its effort to restore farm prosperity should be congratu- lated by those still on the soil. It should be made plain to them that their cooperation is appreciated. The measure of this cooperation is found in the way they have borne without complaint the increased costs caused by processing and compensa- tory taxes on many of the things they eat. The average housewife and modest wage earner has accepted them as a part of the national scheme and has given whole-hearted support. Their forbearance should be noted with gratitude by we who are the beneficiaries of it. But to get back to the Grange. It is a long time since any large group looked ahead from our troubles of the present to those which may occur in the future and suggested a means of reducing their evil effects. The Grange did just that when it called anew for passage of a better national defense act, one which would conscript wealth as well as manpower in time of war and which would put the national defense on a non-profit basis. the Council declared. “This myster- fous death-dealer strikes with little tive warnings. Motorists apparently forget all about this peril from one winter to the next. As winter wears on, they seem to be more careful to open when running their motors. It is unfortunate that scores of lives ‘must be sacrificed each year before the lesson is sufficiently impressed on other motorists.” Safety Council figures, corrobor- ated by U. 8. Census Bureau data, indicate that carbon monoxide deaths are increasing out of all proportion to other forms of accidental death. From a total of 123 deaths from this cause in 1924 the figures went to 487 in 1931. In 1932 the toll jumped nearly 25 per cent in a single year to 608; and represented an eight-year increase of nearly 400 per cent. This increase is especially striking when it is remembered that accidental deaths from all causes decreased nearly ten Per cent last year from the 1931 figure, Carbon monoxide gas takes heaviest toll in residence garages. The fact that it is odorless, tasteless and linvisible makes it especially insidious. The motorist goes into his garage on @ cold morning and, finding the motor cold, he proceeds to run the engine in the closed building until it warms up, unmindful of the fact that the purring motor may be humming his requiem. When no fresh air is Present @ running motor will gener- ate a sufficient amount of the gas to kill within a few minutes, The driver usually succumbs before he is even aware of his peril. Records show that many of the carbon monoxide fatalities occur on the highways when the exhaust pipe becomes choked and the gas seeps up into the tightly closed car or cab in cold weather. This hazard, of ‘course, has become much more prev- alent in recent years since the vast majority of automobiles are now of the closed type. Several cars were reported last winter in which two, three and even four members of a family succumbed to the gas while the car was traveling along the high- way. Other deaths occur from operating household gas appliances, stoves, fur- maces and other heating devices which have become defective and are being used in poorly ventilated homes. The arch-enemy of carbon mon- oxide gas is fresh air. Plenty of it in the garage, in the closed car and its| By William Signed letters pertaining to personi diagnosis, or treatment, will be self-addressed envelope is enclosed. keep the garage windows and doors! ron 1g FUEL, THOUGH FUEL IS NOT NECESSARILY FOOD much about it. manifest a fondness for ashes, and the like when they are old enough to creep or totter about and gratify their odd taste. Young wom- en with simple anemia often crave freak things such as sour pickles, vinegar, green fruit. Expectant moth- ers are quite likely to dote on raw starch, chalk or what have you. Here let me assure all of these that their odd craving has no particular sign- ificance and there is no serious harm in any of the things mentioned. In some cases the craving is satisfied by the healthful habit of eating some raw potato, carrot, turnip or other Toot vegetable every day; or chewing some raw wheat, oats, rice; or eating the skins of outer husks and seeds of various vegetables and fruits instead of paring them off or excluding them; or eating the tops of onions, celery, Parsley and the like when these re- lishes are available. But even if the baby prefers clean fire sterilized ashes, or mamma, likes her chalk or coal, these things are quite harmless. So is good clean sand or soil, provid- ed it is not polluted, that is, by ex- cretions of animal or man. Such pollution, involving the hazard of in- festation with various parasites, is the only serious objection to “pica.” Here is a good place to warn par- ents about the danger of serious or even fatal lead poisoning from paint on crib, bed, high chair or toys or playthings, when the baby has the habit of gnawing at such things. The infant so slowly poisoned becomes anemic, puny, fretful, sickly, and eventually suffers from paralysis, convulsions or other grave manifes- tation of damage to the central nerv- ous system. Better unpainted fur- nishings and playthings—it will do no harm if the baby puts these in his mouth or gnaws at them. Wood is not a food, nor yet a poison. ‘That ubiquitous agent Ben Told has it that pica is due to lack of something in the system, There is no scientific ground for the notion. Many persons who crave these extra- ordinary things may have a shortage of calclum (lime) or some deficiency in the metabolism or utilization of, Infants commonly in the home will eliminate a hazard. | Attributes of an Editor ‘The editor in Mansfield, O., whose plant was bombed after he had car-| ried on a spirited crusade against his | city’s underworld, has joined the! honorable list of editors who have braved danger and violence to serve their subscribers. The list is a long one, and in the/| telling of it there are some bright stories of human integrity and cour- age. The Mansfield incident empha- sizes anew the fact that those two qualities— integrity and courage— are, in the last analysis, the most im- Portant ones an editor can possess. To be sure, he has to be a good craftsman. He has to be enough of a business man to keep his paper from going bankrupt. He has to be a diplomat; sometimes he has to be a sort of detective; he has to be a sales- man and a counsellor and a historian. But, first of all, he must be straight and he must have nerve—so that he can perform his duty to his town, like this Mansfield man, even in the face of viclence and personal danger. Killing Young Man Are Victims of Mob rest of Thurmond, was knocked sense- less. Other officers were manhandled and brushed aside. The deadly mob demanded Antone Serpa, recently convicted of man- slaughter. Deputy sheriffs persuaded the group to let Serpa alone and the invaders pressed on. ‘The mob laid hands upon the| whimpering Thurmond, dragging him to the street and raining blows upon The idea was first advanced by the|him. American Legion and made a part of its national legislative program a number of years ago, but something happened to the bill after it had been introduced in congress and it still slumbers in the archives. It may be the veterans had other and more immediately pressing cor- siderations, but the fact remains that enactment of such ® measure would Holmes struggled as he was dragged from the cell. Cheers, jeers and catcalls from thousands of watchers became the @eath march of Thurmond and Holmes. Down the alley the street and into the palm fringed park they were dragged. Officers, were closed out of the picture as the approving thousands lined the bor- dering streets. The mob selected a limb of a tall tree, looped a rope about the un- scious Thurmond’s hoisted him aloft while the crowd Cc ONTINUE D.: from page ane: | Two Who Admitted | back and! the PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE al health and hygiene, not to disease answered in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. Young woman complains that since @ fall she had a year ago she has had ® strange craving for coal and has eaten a lot of it... we doctors call such perversion of appetite “pica,” which at once suggests we don’t know Brady, M. D. by Dr. Brady if a stamped, Letters should be brief and written ° this element in the body. But we know that many persons with such calcium deficiency have no odd crav- ings at all. Tony the Wirlsh Terror craves and eats grass from time to time. I know |@ fellow who can eat mashed potato | without batting an eye. Sheep some- times take to eating wool. There are Persons who appear sane to the casual soil}observer yet who actually like the taste of whisky neat or even a glass of sour or acrid wine. Children in a neurotic household, where make be- Weve and pretend rule conduct, some- times bite off bits of hair, and even- tually the hair accumulates in a large ‘ball or mass which causes intestinal obstruction. Here and there-far out in the bush, scouts assure me, one ‘may still find a man who chews to- bacco. Infants or children With pica gen- erally give it up when they get old enough to help themselves to a va- riety of foods they like. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Painful Shoulder Aching pain under or about right shoulder, arm tired, shoulder tired and painful. Would you advise see- ing a doctor? (Miss B. J. D.) Answer—Seeing a doctor is some- times good for sore eyes, but for sore shoulders an orthopedic surgeon is often more beneficial. Removal of Tonsils Daughter aged 6 years just over an illness caused by “infected glands” re- sulting from sore throat. Our doctor advises removal of her tonsils soon, and says he has removed as many as any one. But shouldn't we take her to @ specialist for this? Mrs. F. L. M) Answer—No, The chances are your family physician can remove the ton- sils as well as any specialist can, per | haps better. Mother Behave ‘When a woman is pregnant does she have to taste everything she smells? There are two women in our neighborhood expecting to have ba- bles, and mother thinks she must take each of them a little of every- thing we happen to be cooking, which she fears they will smell. She says I am heartless because I say it is a mistake ... (E. E. deF.) Answer—If it is a superstition it is ridiculous. But if mother is just be- ing kind to the neighbors, more pow- er to her, and would there were more of her heart. (Copyright, 1933, John F. Dille Co.) New York’s Erudite Battered Down By ‘Mnemonics’ and Other Twisters New York, Nov. 27.—(#)—The erudite of the town stumbled and fumbled among “mnemonics,” “opiophagism” “perspicacity” and other assorted tongue-twisters at the annual town hall club spell- ing bee Sunday night. But when the last contestant rode an exhausted vowel over the finish line, a private secretary and a school teacher-writer stood victorious amid the shambles of “polyphony” “plagiarism” and 5 agus” which had earlier downed « university professor, an editor, ®. foreign correspondent, and a dozen other hardy diction- ary warriors. Miss Lou Helmuth, the teacher, won the first of the two spelling sections with a devastating flank attack on “polyphony” and “plag- jarism.” Miss Etna Kelley, the private secretary, administered the coup de grace to “necrophagus.” Philip Kerby, a former far eastern newspaper correspondent, had some difficulty with “pres- tidigitator.” “It seems to me I heard some ‘Z's’ in your version,” said John Holmes, his father and mother Mon- Bakeless, in charge of the am- munition. “No, there were no “Z's, John,” replied Kerby, but in a tone which implied that “Z" was probably the only letter omitted. Dr. Henry Pratt Fairchild, pro- fessor of sociology at New York university, took “nemesis,” “mill- enium” and ‘“desiccate” in his stride, but fell before the on- slaught of “hosanna.” “Hosanna in the highest,” mur- mured the professor, then spell- ed.” “H-O-S8-A-N-N-A-H.” “Colicky” and “cinnamon,” two of last year's twisters, proved easy, but the rout came on “pseudonym,” “myrrh,” “perspica- city,” “charades,” “doggered,” “gizzard” and “accede.” NOTICE—School and coun- ty warrants will be taken at par in trade for any merchan- dise in our store. Alex Rosen & SERIES OF TOWNLEY CONFERENCES OPENS Designed to Promote Industrial Program, Walker and Vogel Announce A series of seven district confer- ences to promote the industrial pro- gram advanced by A. C. Townley was opened in Williston Sunday and will be followed by a state-wide confer- League men, according toR.H. Walker and Frank A. Vogel, state officials who were chairman and secretary, re- spectively, of the conference. week-end the executive committee of that tical group announced through its chairman, John Nystul of Fargo, that the league has not en- dorsed Townley’s program for state- operated tanneries, woolen mills and machinery factories. ‘Walker and Vogel ¢laim Townley’s plan has “the backing of Governor William Langer and U. 8. Senator Lynn J. Frazier and the support of all ha Dakota people who under- stand it.” L. Burdick, Townley and many other speakers have been invited to address these conferences, the Walker-Vogel announcement says. The conferences are being held “so that all those who are interested may consider this industrial program and decide upon a plan of action.” Conferences were scheduled at Mi- not Monday, Devils Lake Tuesday, Grand Forks Wednesday, Fargo Fri- day, Jamestown Saturday and Dick- inson Sunday. ROB WISCONSIN BANK Pulaski, Wis. Nov. 27.—(?)—Three men Monday robbed the Pulaski State bank, 20 miles from Green Bay, of $4,500 in cash and escaped taking an expressman who was entering the bank at the time of the robbery with them. He was freed a half mile from the city. CONSTIPATED 30 YEARS AIDED BY OLD REMEDY “For thirty years I had constipa- tion. Souring food from stomach choked me. Since taking Adlerika I am a new person. Constipation is a thing of the past.”—Alice Burns. Hall's Drug Store.—Advertisement. NOTICE—School and coun- ty warrants will be taken at par in trade for any merchan- dise in our store. Alex Rosen & Bro. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN_THE MATTER OF THE ESTAT! OF DER K. 8. E OSJORD, ALSO AS G. K, OSJORD, DE- Notice is hereby given by the un- dersigned Fay Hunter, administrator day clung to faith in his es HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzzle uppers, “Maurice Holmes, the father, for 30] 1 First name of bk aie years a respected tailor in the com- American OMUITIU A 5] 15.Lion. munity, said: “My son was inno- actress in the IDIAIMIE (QO) Pau J. IX 18 To eject. cent.” picture, IORIAMIIE | GOEBBELS 1D} 20 Weapons. Haggard and near collapse, the 5 Male courtesy [O/1 [LIE] IOIRIAIL] 23 Wrath. |father disclosed that he visited title. ADMIRE NCHISTTIAIGI 24 Perched. Holmes in the county jail Sunday a SLast name of IGMBAINIAISMEY EE | OIL IE] 26 To come in. few hours before the latter was the same AILITIE IREESIDIAMBVIEIRISIO| 25 Flower leat. | dragged out to his death by the howl- actress. INIEIE RS WAIHI LIL IRIE I 30 Organ of jing mob. 13Name of . [OOMFTIHIC MEE MEAISIOMNAH] .. hearing. “Dad,” the elder Holmes quoted his anything. AR INIAMMOIATT Ey] 32 Ozone. son as saying during the visit, “I} 14Pertaining to ““r7] mc ILITIN[S 25 She went to swear to you I had no part in this sound. MINS a — as a war thing.” 16 Ice crear: mee os entertainer. distance tom Bin dous'the parents| SME stale. —. 26 To dine. of Thurmond sat with their amet. 11 To hasten. 38 Cutting. 61 Variety of At this place ‘Thurmond, whose sister sings ig a| 28 Organ of 41 To regret. corundum. Let it stand. \chureh choir and whose brother is a ‘hearing. 42 Sesame - 62To put on. Pronoun, | minister at Chicago, was a regular] 29Tiny vegetable. (plant) 63 Steep. 40Taiking bind, attendant at church services. 21X. 43 Form of a." “ MA Fapere. Mrs. Alexander Hart, mother of} 22Alleged force. 45 She was a VERTICAL 46 Night bird. Brooke L. Hart, was reported in a| 93 She gained child — 1To plant deep. 47 Lifeless. serious condition Monday. fame as an (nl... "2 Nolgy. 43 Broad smile. Mrs. Hart has been’ ill, and rela- — (ol). 50 Pair 3 Sol. 49 Electrified tives said they feared mental trouble] 25 Paid publicity. 51 To bow. 4 Within. particle. as a result of the developments. GOVERNOR WILL PARDON ANYONE WHO I8 ACCUSED Sacramento, Nov. 37. nor James Rolph, Jr., in Holmes, confessed in fewer kidnay country, and that he would Prevent it, OFFICIAL AT CHICAGS APPLAUDS MOB ACTION | —()—Gover- said Monday Sen Jose Sunday night of Thomas Thurmond and John kidnapers and slayers of Brooke Hart, should result pings throughout the 21.—()—Frank 26 Silkworm, 27 Chart. 29 Dogma. 31To rol 33 ition, 34 Seventh note. 35 Opposite of 53 Female sheep. 54 To decay. 55 Sailor. 56 The shank, 58 Language. 60 She was born in Columbus, 5 To select. 6 Into. 7 Tense. 9 Like. 10 Form of “no.” 11 Thought. 12 Shoe without 50 Ache. 52 Inevitable, 35 Definite article. 57 Senior. 59 Toward. 60 Either of the estate of Gunder K. Osjord also known as G. K. Oxjord, late of the City of Bismarck, in the County of Burleigh, and State of North Dakose, deceased, to the creditors of, and al Persons having claims against the estate of said deceased, to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers, lication of this notice, to said Fay Hunter, the administrator, at his resi- dence at 610 4th Street, in the City of Bismarck, County of Burleigh, State Dakota, or to the Judge of the County Court of Burleigh County, Dakota 1 North ota. You are farther notified that Hon- orable I. C. Davies, Judge of the County Court within and for Burleigh County, North Dakota, has fixed the 20th day of June, A. D. 1934 at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, at the Court rooms of said Court, in the Court House in the_Cl of Bismarck, in Burleigh County, North Dakota, as the time and place for hearing and adjusting all claims against the estate of the said Gunder . Osjord, also _ ki @. K. Os- ford, deceased, which been duly and regularly presented as herein be- fore provided. Dated November 26th, A. D. 19387 | 4 ‘ay Hunter, Administrator of the estate of Gunder rd, also : jor known as G. K. Osjord, De- ceased, 11-27 12-4-11, Citation’ Hearing Petition For Allew- ceoun' D. 1933. By the Court: | (SHAL) STATE, or 0 TH DAKOTA, County | eae rf I. C. Davies, of Burleigh, ss. Judge of th : IN COUNTY COURT, Before Hon 1.|11-20-27, 7UdS* of the County Court C. Davies, Judge. In th vs. Gharles J. Trvae, Tryge, otherwine kn within six months after the first pub- | Tr: car Hilda As! the Count; Burleigh, i of the County Judge of said County, at the Court House in the City of Bis- marck, in sald County and State, on the 12th day of December, A. D. 1933 at the hour of ten o'clock in the fore- noon of that day, any you ike and account fil day by Charles J. Trygg, the ad ator with ‘will annexe t the ‘Matter of ndrew Tryse, Petitioner, HE. Andrew own as E. A. David Tryge, Oscar A. , otherwise known as 0 rygg, Frank H. Trygg and ebom, Respondents. The State of North Dakota to the mdents, and to Above Named Resi the Above Named Petitioner: You and each of you are hereby cited and required to appear before ‘ourt of the County of in sald State, at the office | Di tl erms of thi last will and testament of said Au- gusta Trygg, deceased, heretofore ad- mitted to probate by this cour e from his trust. Let service be made of this citation as required by law, Dated this 18th day of November, A. said administrator the Estate of ap usta Trygs, Deceased. to show cause, if why the final report led ‘in this court this iminis- d of the late of the and | Foster, discharged NOTICE TO CREDITORS. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATR OF Mattle Foster, Deceased. Notice is hereby given by the tn- dersigned, W. F. Jones, the adminis- trator of the estate of Mattie Foster, late of tho city of’ Bismarck, in the County ‘of Burleigh and State of North Dakota, deceased, to the cred- itors of, and ail persons having claims against’ the estate of sald deceased, to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers, within six months after the first publication of this notice, to said administrator at his residence at 511-5th Street North, in the city of Bismarck, in Burleigh County, North akota, of to the Judge of the Coun- ty Court of Burleigh County, North Dakota, at his office in the Burleigh County, North Dakota Court House in the ‘city of Bismarck, in Burleigh - County, North Dakota. You ‘are hereby further notified that Hon. I. C. Davies, Judge of the County Court’ within’ ‘and for the County of Burleigh, and State of North Dakota, has fixed the 13th day of Sune, A, D. 1934, at the hour of 10 o'clock ‘in the forenoon of sald day, at the Court Rooms of said Court in the said Court House in the city of Bismarck, in Burleigh County, North Dakota, as the time and place for hearing and adjusting all againet the estate of the said Mattie Deceased, which have been duly and regularly presented as here- inbefore provided. Dated this 18th day of November, A. D. 1933, W. F. Jones, the administrator of the es- tate of Mattie Foster, de- ceased. ‘ Georges. Register, Attorney of said administrator, Bismarck, North Dakota. 11-27 12-4-11, Chapter 2 ROSALIE AGAIN HE hotel man: agerglancedup, stared for a mo- ment at the weathor- bronzed man beside the reg- istry desk, then suddenly recog- nized him. “Why, how @’you do, Mr. Tennyson! I didn’t know you at first, you've changed so. Glad to have you with us again, sir.” His tone implied that a man who had been down in the far North hunt- ing wolves by plane over the snow wastes of the Great Barrens, was lucky to be back in Edmonton alive. “Mr. Desplaines is ‘with you, I suppose. Wou!d you like something nice, a three-room suite?” “Make it one room,” Curt bade, for he had less than fifty dollars and his partner had nothing. He signed for himself and Smash Desplaines. “By the way, Lacelle, will you ask the desk clerk to phone around to the other hotels and find out where A. K. Marlin is staying? Superin- tendent Marlin of the Mounted ,ORBID face almost as dark as an Indian's, ‘There was a quiet power about him which set him off from other adven- turers of the North who occasionally appeared in the capital for a day or two, They were usually breezy, ro- bust, Ukable; he was poker-faced and silent, with an air of cold aloof. ness that repelled people. [PSTAIRS in his room, Curt’ glanced out the window into the hotel court where the golden June sun lay like @ benediction over the flower beds and promenade; and he marveled at the contrast between ‘his world of today and bis world of yesterday. ‘Today an elite hotel, snowy linen, ® gleaming bath, servitors at the Push~ct @ button; while yesterday at that same hour he and Smash and Paul St. Clair had been frying a whitefish for breakfast on the lone- ly muddy shore of Great Sla¥e Lake! After his year of absence he had looked forward eagerly to visiting the city again, but now that he actually was back he felt disap- pointed. The city jarred on him. ‘That savage beautiful land, with its mountains and blue lakes and. foot-loose freedom, had become his home, and it drew him back like the arms of a loved one, After his harsh years abroad and his seven un- VALLEY Ym—I'm almost afraid of you. You're like a breath right out of the North!” “And you"—he held her off at arm’s length and surveyed her— “you're looking sweeter than ever, Rosalle. And still hitting off the old fast pace, I see.” He gestured at the disordered room which epoke:of her return from some party late last night—her cape id dancing pumps flung one way, &@ corsage of red rosebuds on the floor, her silk frock lying where she had stepped out of it. “Where's A-K still asleep?” “No. He got up early and went over to visit the detachment here in town. He'll be back any time. Let's sit down.” She put ash-try and matches between them on the divan. “I'm dying for a big long talk. Your letters were as stingy as cablegrams from Borneo. Tell me all about everything—your wolf-hunting, pros- Decting, this Job the Consolidated offered you, how long you're going to be in Edmonton, and—just every- thing.” Cc grinned at her tumbling questions. It was good to be chatting with Rosalie again. She was like Smash Desplaines, carefree, Pleasant, a good companion for light- hearted hours. He had long since ‘Superintendent Marlin came into the réom. Police. He was to get in from Van-: couver yesterday.” “He and Miss Rosalie are right here with us, Mr. Tennyson. That reminds me”—Lacelle turned and reached a letter from the mail rack —“the superintendent asked me to hand you this when you registered; If you're having conferences with him, I'll give you a room near his suite.” Curt ripped the envelope and read Marlin’s letter. It was brief, Duzzling. most yOU—A-! - Curt frowned uneasily as he read. the note again. Just what was this “proposition”? Hardly # bid for him to rejoin the Mounted Police; A-K aurély knew he would never go back into the Force. “Utmost importance” —when A-K sald thatMit meant . something extraordinary. “ With a slight limp, his relic of a wartime crack-up, he crossed the, lobby to the elevator where a bell- hop was waiting with his key and duffle bag. Anumber of people, loitering over their morning papers, looked ‘Op, saw him, wed him with in- terested curlous glances, His rough flying clothes and the goggled hel- et in his hand told them he was ‘an aviator. Thirty-two or -three, he ‘was only medium tall but as hard- ened as a range wolf, with lean jaw, thin ascetic Mps and hawk-sharp ‘ gray eyes. Exposure to summer sun and win- ter ogi mbipnts had weathered Bis a te ——-$ Pleasant years in the Mounted, he had come into sunlit happiness down north. Though he had been in Edmonton only an hour, he already wished he were in his plane again and heading down the Athabasca, Slave and broad Mackensie to the musk-ox prairies and white-wolf, mountains of\the eub-Arctic, Curious to know what A-K wanted of him so urgently, bathed and shaved, changed to “civilized” clothes, and stepped down the cor ridor to the Marlin suite. At his knock he heard a guick tripping footstep; the door opened an inch or two; he had a glimpse of Rosalie Marlin, her eyes still heavy with sleep, the candelabra behind her shimmering in her lovely au- burn hair. He had caught her in amusing negligee —one cheek rouged, & powder puff in her hand, 8 dressing robe flung hastily about her shoulder ra, The pretty frown on her face vanished instantly when she saw who had knocked. “Curt!” she cried, opening the door wide. “You? Five minutes ago I was dreaming about and here you are!” She flung coming?» Why didn’t you give me a ring just now, 80, you wouldn't catch me like this?” “Was mean of me,” Curt admit- ted, patting her disheveled hair. “Smash and J just got in, Our plane is out at Cooking Lake. We left Athabasca at two this morning—” Rosalie whistled. “Six hundred miles, before other people are up! In the old days that same trip used to take Dad from Christmas till February!” She drew bim in, sbut the door with a deft touch of her tos Curt, rea'te locking eo keen! realized that he did not love her very wildly, but he had gone thirty- two years without meeting a girl he liked better than Rosalie Marlin, and he was a bit cynical about find- ingany “ideal” person. Rosalie was undeniably pretty, she had the charm of youth and slowing health, she was intensely alive; and the bond between ber father and himeelt was already as strong as & blood relationship. Be- sides all that, she fitted exquisitely into the new and pleasant way of life which had been his during the past year. “The wolf hunting,” he answered her questions categorically, “was great; we bagged more than three hundred, and got nine thousand dol- lars bounty on ’em, but with gas at five to fifteen dollars a gallon down in that country, we just about broke even. The prospecting last summer and this spring was like most pros- pecting—a lot of hopes but not much luck. “This Consolidated offer, it’s pretty nice. The Coneolidated 1s Prospecting that country by air, and their feld manager just got killed in & crack-up, so they offered me the Place. I'd have ten machines and about sixty men in my charge.” “But does it pay anything?” Curt thought her question rather pointed. “Well, yes — seventy-five hundred a year.” : Bofore he could ask her what this “proposition” of her father’s ‘was, the door opened and Superintendent Marlin, a ruddy-faced man of sixty with fron-gray hair and tired, stooped shoulders, came into the room. (Copyright, 1983, William B. Mowery) Curt te »_ tor A Job ACK has tor hime