The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 9, 1931, Page 10

AS FOX S ————— BY JESSIE DOUGL e tmow . . . and I want you |at the picture, looking back at her. doned by their father. She is happy in her engagement to of cier water. and i g never painted 108 BY A DEAD HAND den of the Villa Rosa and Nicholas | a; 1aot they were In the sivery Sirange searching way as though|on the tracks, filling Nora with its dull vibration. must she torture herself with ;oo - cape? How teverish her eyes looked,: how desperately white she was. tell me when he painted all those| She flung off her hat with a wild Pictures. gesture and saw then that someone “How could I tell you?” else was in the room. Damon was/ Her voice was hoarse. She won- sitting in the window, and she rose dered what had made it hoarse. and came slowly toward No.a Her 1 see that you know.” tea gown with its delicate ace fell| “Know—what?” away at the throat, showing her Damon's evas souznt the picture milky skin.” Her fair hair was of the old peasant woman. In an- bound around her head like a other moment Dafnon was going to shining coif. She held out a cool say something that would change hand to Nora as they sat down. the face of the whole world for Nora began to talk breathlessly them both. She must stave it off. about nothing. Was Damon going “I don't know what you mean!” to stay home now? Had she had a “You know who painted those pleasant summer? Damcn an- pictures.” swered quietly, her eyes naver once The words were like hammer on Nora’s face. strokes, each one crashing against Z “Where have you besn today?" her skull. Her head sank lower Ui Damon asked tonelessly and lower. “Oh, T was in New York—I met “The man who pained those pic- y o Jon—Jon's been so kind—’ tures is dead,” Damon said. At Why did she talk in this sense- (Copyright 1930, Jesse Douglas Fox) V less, crazy fashion? Why was she / half mad with excitement? Not at home. . . . That’s what 4/" She kept turning her eyes toward ~ Nora’s told tomorrow when she “ the window. There was something calls. Anyway, Damon’s rea- that she could not look at, some- son seems good enough. thing that changed the whole room. e “You see, I brought it down from Indiana plans to place some 12 my room,” Damon sald at last. or 15 steel fire towers to protect Nora was forced to look at Nich- some 35000 acres of dense timber olas’ painting of the old peasant land. “TOMORROW’S STYLES TODAY” {UNTIL SATURDAY NIGHT! | Again we offer Values of Genuine Merit DRESSES COATS ; FEATURING THREE GROUPS ‘ An offering of coats in two price groups Group No. 1.—$2.50 each or 2 for $3.95 | $14'50 and $18'50 : [ Former prices up to $35.00 Group No. 2.—$5.95 each or 2 for $9.50 Group No. 3.—$8.95 each or 2 for $14.95 BATHING SUITS { . 5 Regular $5.50—Now $2.75 Sui | Chiffon Dinner Dresses W S sl 2 ‘} Values up to $27.50 SURPR[SE TABLE > . 7 Nofuj $1 6' 9 5 ‘; gz:?i?;lfxee 801;1 Sdg)s ;El;]go ?nds and broken lines and i | Clean-Up Price 50 cents HATS Straw Models — Were $8.95 NOW $3.00 — Final on Felt Shapes — both women’s and misses’ 35 Cents Each M' No Exchanges Juneaw’s Own Store ted awake at last. Here was|woman. The brilliant light that ain, and she must brace suffused the scene; and the old to meet him. woman with her patient folded . h i white vou are, darling. |hands. M rired out with excitement. We’'ll| All at once there was nothing NT € out home. I want Da- more to say. Damon was looking < Here was Jon with the cocktail SYNOPSIS: When her cousin thing besides her father's pictures; Nothing will ever keep you from |shaker. Nora grasped a thin Francis has to go to a distant think that she and Jor going | me now?” she asked him. stemmed glass and drank it thirst- sanitorium, Nora Lake rejects to be married, going to go far “Nothing, ever could!" |ily. She felt as though everything Dr. More’s appeal that she re- |away the st, begin-| “Don't let's go home.” |in the room were spinning about| FAIRBANKS.—rhe mining area main with her Aunt Emily to |ning anew; climbing Alps “Why?" her in a mad fantastic dance, and |of help care for the houschold she stopped, I tween her “Damon will love you when she [in the center Nicholas’ picture|its source to mouth is 300 miles and Fran's two children, aban- teeth “when she ered that |knows you.” blazed in a circle of light. long and which flows into Kotze- wery '“”"ldfl“‘*. She closed her eyes again. Grind- Damon and Jon were talking,|bue Sount, is destined to produce | ing over the tracks, tun-|and she sat there Tooking at them,[the next great gold camp in Alaska, The train went on grinding over |was crouching down beside her, " v she were a small insect, secure on |present are under option to a com- gray room of Jon's home, the snn- o | staring at his helpless hand. Why .4 coming in through tall win- & pin, an insect struggling for es-|pany planning hydraulic mining. If she could only think of some-idreams of Nicholas now? She “I should prefer you would| The first hyaraulic plant in the 2 THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1931. her eyes. In a moment she Was and the long purple road that led this dreadful silence? Why was |successfully worked ground by hand | At Chapter 27 dozing. Again she was in the gar- to the Thayer house. ,Damon looking at her in this|methods is Michael Toohey, also|prospecting the tributaries of the Dall Creek; his holdings at|Redstone, and H. O. Brown and Jerry Crosshave are prospecting the Amber, where they rocked good Hydraulic Plants At Work money out of the bars last season. No prospecting has been done as Kobuk was installed seven or eight years ago by Ferguson & Son on | 800d possibilities exist for the dis- California Creek, a tributary of the Kobuluktuk. This plant oper-| ates two giants, water being sup- plied by a ditch three miles in length. Another dydraulic plant has been installed by John & Co., on Dall | pz=ssesssssssesssecsssestessssssasasrtascosatunesanseassossisapsase: Creek. This outfit uses three giants and water is supplied by a pipe line 3,600 feet in length. the Kobuk River, which from| On Kleary Creek, a tributary of Squirrel Creek and the scene of some of the earliest mining, a large hydraulic plant is being installed by a Mr. Emanuel. Jonathon Thayer, brother of | Julian C wough .the darkness, then [as though they were strangers. in the opinion of mining men, de- Two Ambitious Projects her late husband, the artist, |that. But those were her father's|into the brilliant sunshine again.| “You've heard about the show?”|clarcs the Farthest-North Colle-| On the Shungnak River, Kobuk N F d C 4 Nicholas, and yearns for the |pi s, That was his exhibition; | Would she go on like this forever, |Jon asked. “Nora hasn't told you?|gian, a publication issued by the !Mines, Inc, are going ahead with ew or Oupe $ 90 Thayer mansion, also the home ) people crowding around him |never reaching anywhere, but al- [Her father's a wild success.” Alacka Agrieultural College and |an ambitious program. Two plants of Jon's step-sister, Damon. |wanted to share the splendor of his ys living through this tortucus| Jon left them alone at last. Scheol of Mines. are planned, one to go into opera- : i s 3 Nora’s father, Julian, arrives |[recen! achievement and terrible dr«-an‘i? “I, too, saw the exhibition,” Da-| Although the first prospecting|tion in the immediate future, the F. 0.B. De}rolt. Fre‘gh% and dgllvery, bumpers, . from Italy and borrows money | But who had painted those pic- | “What's the matter, Xora? Noth- |mon said. was done in 1898, but comparative- | second to be operating by the latter tire, and special equipment extra from Jon to exhibit his paint- |tures sat up straight, clench- | ing's happened?” The words dropped into the si-|ly little of the country has been |part of the summer. The lower ings. Because she knows her |ing her hands fogether. Wherehad — “Oh, nothing, nothing. But I lent room as though they had fal-|touched. In some instances ground |plant will operate with two giants. Ford beauty endures. Exposed metal parts are Rust- father's worthlessness as an |[her f gotten those pictures want to get there” len into a pool. Nora was battling |has bee nworked successfully by} A ditch 1% miles long has been less Steel — the same bright metal, all the way artist, she is dismayed upon |that we gned so glibly with his The train slid into the station at through this silence, likke a spent|hand, shoveling into the boxes.|completed to supply the lower through. Fenders are bonderized—rust-proofed— visiting the art gallery to see, |name? last. At last they were driving swimmer who fights for life. , On lower Dall Creek, Louis K. Lloyd | plant with an adequate supply of hatdre t‘he enamel is baked on. The body and hood displayed as his, paintings far | Terrible to think like this. Ter- across the city. She was grateful “Tell me about your father's|has been working ground by this|water. Necessary water to supply d with Soats fend i int. Th beyond his abi Jon does |rible if it were not true. But where for the low buildings, the small paintings,’ Damon was saying. method for the last 30 years (and |the needs of the upper plant will are covered with seven coats 0! uring paint. e not understand why she asks |had her father gotten those pic- old-fashioned house with their| “I have nothing to tell you” |during that time has not been out |be furnished by a ditch two miles same quality and care go into every mechanical part. him to take her away. tures? She sank back and closed quaint old-world air, trees awain| Why did her words spin off into|of the country). Another who has|long. Call or phone for a demonstration today. the pmént, Paul Primer 1s yet for lode and it would seem that (source of the placer pay. At present most of the travel in- covery of lode mines. Both on |to the Kobuk from the Interior is Dall Creek and the Shungak River |by air. 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