Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1928, Page 25

INSTALLMENT VL HE road to Foxville ran for sev- eral miles along the shallow edge of the swamp, where at this time of the year the trees were still standing with their feet in black water. Then the road emerged on to firm ground, with the wwamp lying below on its right and an occasional red roof projecting over the plowed flelds on their left. Roads swerved in from these farms, all bend- ing toward Foxville, which they saw first when the spire of its church ap- peared suddegyy above a cluster of trees and they n to pass little frame houses that almost touched the road. Sidewalks and lawns. At the outskirts of the little town they came upon two men and a young girl sitting by the edge of the road. The girl was slim and had her hair done like Jenny's The two men were sinisterly swarthy. She recognised the trio Chauncy had been talking about. “Gypsies,” she said to the still silent ‘Torsten. “Yeah. Saw them this morning. Coming down the grade.” He waved to them as he passed. The gitl stared at Jenny curiously. The two men grinned and answered Torsten's wave. “The got a camp.” Torsten. “Out back of us.” explained THE EVENING A First-Run Novel By Negley Farson L ““He's been calling you,’ grinned the man, ‘for the last hour; says to tell you to step on it and o < “Sure y'aint seen She nodded. After her initial re- buff. when Torsten declared that he | T had not been thinking about her at all. | #he had said nothing more She was | sure, from his tone. that he was not telling the truth: and she knew quite | well that if she only left him to him- | self, his feelings would soon make him | speak. She had been rather amused | in fact, by the savage earnestness with | which Torsten had been driving. It | ‘was $0 childish and obvious. The gvp- sies gave him his chance to begin again satd Torsten. ““They wanted to know if T eouldn’t give them some work. 1 told @ Torsten laughed. *“No gypsies in mine She asked him why not. and he ex- plained ‘that gypsies had the unfortu- | nate failing of not being able to recog- nize other people’s property from their | own. < | “I told 'em no—and then that girl| there wanted to tell my fortune. She said she saw a lot of trouble ahead.” | “80 you let her?" | “I did not! I told her to go chase herself. I don't want anybody reading my palm to°tell me there's a girl with big brown eyes going to cross my path.” He looked sideways at Jenny as he said this. “They usually tell you,” said Torsten, *the things that you already know.” She smiled uneasily and was glad to see that they were entering the center of the town. Poxville had a rusfic simplicity and eontentment that moved even Torsten's | eomment. | ~T like these old burgs—with the trees | over the streets.” But the main square was sufficiently | Inclusive and up-to-date to satisfy any taste. It had a park in its center where Lincoln looked down humor- ously uwu“y im, flowered grass plot in fenced a ‘cable strung on cannon of the civi piece of camouflaged ing to 1 war period, and where a artillery seemed to be threaten- put a shot into the drug store. The park was surrounded by a rectangle of yellow-brick streets, the back view of nearly every type of automobile made | in the United States and four flanks of windows of Foxville's com- establishments. Abrsham Lincoln. his hand in his tapel. looked down on all this, smiling | st the frantic gestures of Foxvilles t trafic cop. %W that before gomng | the railway.station they go ‘have an piate tee | the detour round the bog, had mired your friend At the station the man handed them # small box and said there had been a | telephone call from Mr. Cain at the ! eonstruction camp “He's been callin;; | l-;u.; grinned the man, “for the last | . Bays to tell you to step on it and bustle - “What's the matter?” “Don’t know. Something broke down. the dickens, to hear the on.* Torsten smiled sourly at Jenny, and box. As he did 50 & out of the freight yard on the shoulder. Tor- start and nearly dropped that camp, ain’t you?” “What “What do you wa ten glared at him. | at's my business. You ain't sce | two men and a gal? Egyptians?” Torsten told him to go to the devil. “No use talkin' like that,” said the officer, unperturbed. I'm an officer of the law. Them three’s been hanging round the town here last couple of weeks. Ain't up to no good. Mrs. Lowell left her washing out last night —and it's gone!"” “You don't say!"” laughed Torsten. Jenny had to laugh, the policeman looked so fierce and impotent brandish- ing his baton at the huge Torsten who was_looking down at him the way a St. Bernard would stare at a fox terrier But when they were driving away she asked Torsten why he had lied about the two men and the girl “Why should T tell him?" burst out Torsten unexpectedly “What's the use of helping cops to hunt people down? Good God—leave people alone.” His voice surged wildly And she knew that it was himself that he was thinking of in this case. He was still suffering from the shock of that tap on the shoulder in the railway station. She had seen him go white at the time. They drove past Abraham Lincoln, still smiling at the life of Foxville under its elms, and took the country road. “Why should I?” growled Torsten. “Squeal on a couple of poor devils that have never done me any harm. I'm no Judas Iscariot!" “But they're thieves!” | “Huh!"_There was a world of bitter- ness in Torsten’s grunt. “Who isn't that's whot I'd like to know? D'you think that copper is a saint? 1 don't | think, T bet you he’s making money for things that are going on in this town right now. These little dumps are often as bad as the big ones if you only know the truth. Wait till you see some of these sheriffs trying to beat up a hobo. I suppose you think your old man is a saint of some sort.” Jenny smiled wryly. She knew enough of her father's business meth- ods to have no {llusions left about him. “Well, then,” said Torsten. “Why should 1 turn those poor gypsies in? That cop probably stole that woman's washing himself.” They both laughed at the thought * % ox ¥ At the camp they found H! Cal raging over a mishap to the trucks Two of them had been utterly put out | of commission. Their drivers, trying to | take a short cut instead of following them in the slimy black ooze. Then they had tried to jazz them out of it, with the result that the newer job— a 2-year-old truck—had broken its line shaft, and the other, a relic of old overhead cab days, had shot its entire gear case fo bits. Both of the trucks were still fast in the mud. “There you are!" stormed Hickey to know for?” | s hustle back."™ with her father. atd, were finished. The two trucks, he “Why don’t you get some good ones?" he suggested “You leave that part of the business to me,” Hickey Cain told him brutally ou mind your own business, see? I'll ‘tend to mine. I'm going up to Chicago by the afternoon train. I'll scout around to see what I can pick up. Maybe I'll bring back a new truck boss—some one who knows his job.” Torsten shrugged his shoulders and fished in his pockets to find his ciga- All right. Let me know when ready to go, and I'll drive you Jenny could see he was having a hard time to keep a hold on himself. Torsten and her father left immedi- ately after lunch, her father the luncheon table that he w. to give Mr. Aberg “treatment” on the way over to Foxville. If he had any more back chat from him he was go'ng to turn him over to the local police— tell them he had a man working for him who was anted” in San Fran- cisco. Jenny knew better than to argue with her father over the useless treach- ery of such an act. It would only be urging him to commit it. But it gave her a clearer realization of Torsten's feelings when he had refused to turn the g es over to the police. He, too, was being hunted. She wanted to warn him of her father's threat, especially of the fact that he was quite capable of doing such a thing. She wanted to make Torsten see that, to make him realize the danger of antagonizing such an unscrupulous man as Hickey Cain. It was a ridicul- ous position he had put himself in And she wanted even more to warn him the two truck drivers. She had them, squatting under the trees. deep in a heated argument of some sort. She went out into the kitchen and asked Alexander about the drivers, and he gave her some frightening informa- tion. “They're bad,” he sald. “I heard ‘em saying they was going to fix To'sten—fix _him good!” Alexande: chuckled. “But dat don't worry me nohow. From what Ah carf judge, dey is just askin’ foah bad luck to get ‘em. Mistah Aberg told me jus' befo' he left dat he was going to take consid'able satisfaction in beat'n de stuffin’ out ob dem two gentlemen.” Torsten, added Alexander, had been n a bad humor all through lunch. t sumthin’ on his mind,” the negro. Yes, thought Jenny, Torsten Aberg sald o0 had a great deal on his mind. More than Alexander had any idea of. She stood at the back door, looking out into the yard. The two men were standing there. scowling at the house. (Copyright. 1028.) (To be continued tomorrow.) A eni Scholars entering most of the schools in England are being compelled to take Cain, as if Torsten were personally re- sponsible for all this. “Applesauce!” retorted Torsten, ex- asperated blame. “I'm no mind reade am 17" " Well, look here, Mr | n. turning red. “Youd better keep a civil tongue in your face You know Jenny saw Torten's eyes, the that moment he turned to the two truck drivers. He looked them up and down, examining them contemptuously, as he answered Hickey Cain. “How was I to know that these bums swamp from hard ground? You don't expect to find peo- ple as dumb as all that.” The two vacant-faced drivers glared and n to mutter to each other. “Shut up!” snapped Torsten. “The next thing you two are going to drive | s a wheelbarrow. 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