The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 16, 1931, Page 6

| POLLY AND HER PALS “HEARD THE )3 NEWS'? = A HAS WHAT SYNOPSIS: “Sam is in love with me,” Freddy Munson tells Pcak Abbott, Sam Sherrill's fi- nance. This is news to Peak, who has hoped that Sam would learn to love him. Sam became cngaged to Peak because of her family difficulties, and to nul- lify * the effect of her half- brother's marriage to their maid. She has been working on press, which Abbott since her stepfather lost the family money. But it has been increasingly hard to con- trol the family budget, and she has lenged for the eas> of her carly life. She intended to mar- ry Freddy Munson, but was pre- vented by her stepbrother, Nel- son’s action. Freddy explains this situation to Abbott, and agks him to release Sam. Ab- bott replies that Sam might be happier with money than with love. “I'm asking you now,” Freddy says, “whcther you are going to let her stick to a decision that will wreck her life.” Chapter 15 GAMBLING ON HOPE “I don’t know, Munson, I hon- esLly don't,” Peak said. “I might, of course, follow your suggestion. I might rush out to Sam and tell her that all is discovered, cast her from my life ,and take the next boat for:the far cast. “That, would be the dramatic thing to do, but I'm not going to do it It wouldn't help Sam a bit." He shook his head. “No, I'll admit that yol've given me something to think about, and I'll promise to think about it. Beyond that I can't go.” “No?" Freddy inquired heatedly. “Then I can go further! I can beage- Bant' with ‘e’ to Kansas City!” Peak looked at him. n you?” Freddy shrugged. “No,” he an- swered bitterly, “I can't. As a mat- ter of fact I telephoned Sam just before I came here and she would not talk to me. Said that she and 1 were through for good.” Peak said: “I'm sorry, I honestly am.” There was more talk but it come to nothing, and in the end Freddy went away. So Sam was in love with Freddy Munson. That was the explanation Peak had been hunting for. She was in love with one man and en- gaged to another. No wonder she was pale and so obviously unhap- Munson. Dy. Peak, smiled grimly and tossed a pencil on the desk. “Well, Abbott,” he remarked, half aloud, “there's TO A PLAIN-CLOTHES DETECTUFF/ S A M BY FREEMAN_ L OFFICER ASHUR BEEN PROMOTED LINCOLN answer. And a pretty ilm.le answer it turned out to be!” | Peak Abbott decided to say noth- ing to anybody about Freddy's brief | but important visit to the city. Sam'’s behavior in the days that followed was something of a reve- lation. It was obvious that she must have called upon much of her reserve courage in order to re- buff Freddy when he telephoned, |and it was equally obvious that, having rebuffed him, she must be suffering keenly. To Peak, who watched her with |a keen understanding of what she | must be feeling, it seemed that her |acting was almost perfect. She treated him and everybody else, as though nothing whatsoever had hap- | pened and at the end of two weeks he was forced to admit that he |had seen but one tiny ripple [ which might possibly be a mark of Freddy's swift passage across the surface of things. Sam had once more brought up the subject of their wedding date. “Well, young man,” she demand- “nd severely, | you will get around to doing your | duty?” Peak smiled. “I suppose, in your opaque way, you are asking me when we are going to be married.” “I am.” She nodded firmly. “How | about next month?” “Next month?” Peak hesitating, frowned. “I don't see how I could possibly get away for a honey- moon.” “Nonsense!” just stalling.” “Am I? T wonder.” “Certainly you are. You're try- ing to give me plenty of time to {change my mind in spite of the |fact that I keep telling you it ]wont be changy He looked at her “Why are you in such a hurry, Sam?” Sam said slowly, not lookxng at him, “Did it ever occur to you that my money troubles will be over as soon as I marry you?” | “Nonsense!" he contradicted al- most angrily. “It's you who are| stalling now. You know perfectly well that if you need any money you can have it. You don't have to marry me to get it.” “I suppose I don't, but the fun- ny thing about me is that T'm a i mixture of practicality and pride. I can't quite go taking something for nothing.” “I wish you loved me, Sam. I really wish you did.” “I wish I did, too.” She spoke in a low voice. “It—it would make things so much easier for you.” “Love hasn’t hurt me, Sam. Quite, to the contrary.” what | your said Sam. “You're FEE or TEA will be 100V aluable General Grocery Co MANUFACTURER’S FOOD DEMONSTRATION AT FRIDAY. AND SATURDAY THIS WEEK Hot Biscuits, Cake and SCHILLING’S COF lutely FREE OF CHARGE. FREE The manufacturers co-operating with the California Grocery in the Food Demonstration ARE LISTED BELOW— A. Schilling & Co., Fisher Flouring Mills, Corporation, H. J. Heinz Co., Nalley’s Inc., Reid Murdoch & Co., Carnation Milk Co. San Francisco Bakery, Libby, McNeill & Libby, National Grocery Co. served: both days abso- Food Articles ., California Packing s “when do you think |, | that 1 tal. | the best circuit breaker that the| “Yes “it has!” swift and almost tearful. Don't you think I know what you are going through, Peak? I can't make up my mind whether I'll hurt you most by keeping you to your bar- gain or by letting you go. T wish you'd help me.* “That’s easy. Let me stick to my bargain. I'm a gambler, Sam, and T'm gambling everything on the hope that some day you may come to care about me. It may be a poor bet, but at least it's a bet.” Sam did not again refer to the subject of the wedding date, and Peak was content to let the mat- ter rest. He knew that it would never have been mentioned at all except for Freddy's telephone call. Sam’s determination had been shaken by that telephone call, and she wanted to do something irre- vocable; something that would forever deprive her of the right to change her mind. By the middle of the last week in March Fourth Aldersea made good his promise to Eugenie Frye. He named a definite afternoon for her to come to tea at the stable, and he performed the distasteful task of explaining the situation to Sam. “I hate having to drag you into it,” he confessed nervously, “but I don’t see what else I can do. She buys a lot of books from me, and she has helped me in other ways.” “Of course,” Sam said soothing- ly. “I'll probably enjoy myself thoroughly. Fourth was grateful for Sam’s sympathetic attitude in advance, but he was more than grateful for the way she treated Eugenie Frye when that lady finally put in her appearance at the stable. In the beginning it seemed that things were certain to go badly. Eu- genie, in an expensive, but badly chosen afternoon dress, was nerv- ous and ill at ease, Sam, Fourth discovered was more than equal to the occasion. Be- fore Fourth had time to realize exactly what was happening the two ladies were chattering across the tea table as naturally and as amiably as though they were Iriends of long standing. Fourth marveled, gazing at Sam with a new respect. He was tre- mendously relieved and was his cheerful vocative self again. “You didn't know that I was an inventor, did you?” he demanded suddenly of Eugenie. “Why no!” cried the widow. “‘Are you really an inventor? I'd love to hear about it.” Fourth needed no more encour- agement, and he proceeded to set forth, in detail, the story of his electrical circuit breaker. He told of the tragic conclusion, in a minor key. Fourth had taken his inven- tion to the leading manufacturers, and one after another they had de- nied him recognition, They all ad- mitted the undeniable excellence of the device, but they all, with il- logical st ubbornness, maintained it would be impractical for the commercial field. Its complica- | tions of design would make its | manufacture prohibitively expen- sive. “All of which,” Fourth informed he widow Frye solemnly, “was ab- solute nonsense! but what could I {do? I did not have the capital to form a manufacturing company of my own. I could not get the capi- The result, Mrs. Frye, was world will ever see lies rotting on a shelf—all because of the lack of @ few miserable dollars!” ‘Eugenie’s thoughts were obvious. | She listened intently to everything that Fourth said, and when he had finished, she asked a few per- tinent questions. How much would it cost to manufacture these cir- cuit breakers? For how much could they be sold? Would he mind | showing her a model of the device? Fourth was more than glad to oblige. He went to a cupboard in a corner of the room and brought to light the child of his brain. Then he set. out upon a compli- cated explanation of its. various paints of superiority. In the midst of it all there was an unfortunate interruption. Sam, who had wandered over to the W P. Johiison ! DELCO LIGHT PRODUCTS MAYTAG WASHING H MACHINES | GENERAL MOTORS RADIOS Phone 17 Front Street Juneaw IF 1 ASKS YOu A STRAIGHT QUESTION, wiLL! Y'GIMME A Her denial wa:lrrcm window, saw an automobile turn in at the start up the drive. The car stopped at the front door ! and Sam heard footsteps on the| gravel. The knob was turned and th stone gates and docr swung slowly open. gasped. (Copyright, Freeman Lincoln Trcuble comes through the door in the next installment. Sam collects herself for a cris- is Prof. Kane Indicted in Wife’s Slaying HAPTON, Va, Oct. 16.—Elisha Kent Kane, University of Tennes- see professor, has been indicted by a grand jury on the charge cf mur- dering hls young wife by drown- ing. —————.——— JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 16— Inability of & snake to tell the| difference between pigeon eggs and steel balls cost him his life. James Dietz discovered a.gnake was!steal- ing eggs from his pigeon loft, and substituted ball bearings for\ eggs. Entering the loft one ‘day he found the snake so heavily AILY ALADKA LEMFIKE, FKIDAY, UL1 SUTTINLY, UNK, FIRE AWAY/ the | 10, CLOTHES ? = ~ FOR KETGHIKAN‘ ‘Agenl of Bureau of Fisher-| | eries Leaves Here for Winter in Seattle . | Enroute to Seattle for the winter, Dennis Winn, Alaska Commissioner for the Department of Commerce and Alaska Agent for the United States Bureau cf Fisheries, left carly this morning on the patrol| boat Widgeon, Capt. Greg’ Mangan. | He will call at Wrangell and Ketch- | | ikan, remaining in the latter city for a short time, and sailing from |there on the Brant, Capt. E. L. | Hunter, early next week. | Mr. Winn, as usual, will go ! Washington about midwinter, | spending several weeks there go-| ing over next season’s regulations and discussing the conservation | program with Commissioner Henry | to | | O'Malley. | The Commissioner will come west | laden with the balls that it fell lnext month, visiting San Fran-| an easy victim, \ Jzisco, Seattle and other pamts p,‘up«-bu------"---?fi' = HARTMANN LUGGAGE Wardrobe Trunks—Fitted Bags—Suitca Hand Bags ALL GOING AT WHOLESALE PRICES Leader Department Store GEORGE BROTHERS | | [ es | zzizzeassssassaas 1931 By CLIFF STERRETT WAL, WOULD YOu MIND TELLIN' ME WHY Y'CALL ‘| ™HEM DIPPY DUDS PLAIN- ; .1=r— er—rmfir 914 WINN SAILS' ON SALESMENHIRE 'WIDGEON TODAY | PLANE TO VISIT | akee are assured of milk from con- tented cows and groceries of fine ! | quality for storekeepers in the two | towns placed generous orders yes-| terday tive of the Carnation and N. A. McEachran, for Schwabacher Company. | the business calls by airplane, leav- |ing Juneau returning in the evening. Gene Meyring and serviced by Me- chanic Brian Harland. | to Yakutat carrying as a passenger IM. D. Williams, of the United States Bureau of Public Roads. His mission is to inspact new road work at Yakutat. | The plane is scheduled to return |with him this evening. | conferring with Mr. Winn and can- nery men relative to next year's regulations. These will be promul- gated prior to January 1, next. rac lations, since the are apparently in satisfactory shape generally. south, y attle for | Tt probably will take several weeks to complete this work and the ves- sel is not expected to return here until after the first of the year. $4.85 NEARBY TOWNS Residents of Hoonah and Tan- with Bob Lee, representa- Company, salesman Both Lee and McEachran made in the forenoon and The Petersburg was piloted by This morning the seaplane went District Engineer Winn dots noc expect any 1 changes from existing regu- runs of salmon The Widgeon, on which he went will continue through to inspection and repairs. DOUGLAS NEWS DOUGLAS FIRE BOYS WORKING ON NEW PLAN Business Afal_r—s Will Here- after Be Conducted by Trustees All business matters ' connected with the Douglas Volunteer Fire Department in the future will be handled by a Board of Trustees, it was decided upon at the regular meeting of the hose companies last | night. Robert Bonner, A. J. Balog, |and Hans Loken, were appointed to constitute the first Board. A fire protection measure for the | benefit of Nob hill, also passed by the firemen, is to ask the Council to replace the monitor there with a two-way hydrant. A donation of $10 from the de- partment funds was voted to the Public Lbrary, for the purchase of new books. The Department also voted to buy three dozen ~ach cups, saucers and plates for their mutual use with Douglas Aerie, F. O. E. ( Lawrence Carlson was made a member concluding the business of the meeting. D. I. W. C. MEETING The Douglas Island Women's Club met at the home of Mrs. Ed- ward Bach, Wednesday evening. ‘While awaiting the arrival of lit- erature to begin its study of “so- cial hygiene,” the Club began a study of the Alaska probate code. Mrs. Dewey Frankfurter was wel- |comed as a new member of the club. Delicious Hallowe'en refresh- ments were served by the hostess after which the Club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Rose Davis in No- ‘vember. SEWING PARTY TONIGHT The Ladies League will hold a sewing party this evening in the League rooms to which all those interested in the work of the League are invited. Refreshments will be served. B QUALITY BULR2 Best quality bulbs of leading varieties at very moderate prices. —adv. JUNEAU FLORISTS. - eees Old papers for saie at the Em- i pire office. Forced to Quit! We Are Compelled to Liquidate Our entire stock of SHOES, HOSIERY, BUCKLES and FINDINGS must be turned into CASH AT ONCE. this value been offered at such prices. EVERYTHING must be sold quickly, regardless of VALUE or COST, Prices Below C $2.85 Never before ‘have shoes of Broken lines of light colors in:shoes that sold: for $8.50 and $10.00. NOW $2.85 No Exchanges No Charges No Refunds I. MILLER’S colored slip- pers from I. MILLER that sold regularly from $12.50 to $15.00. 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