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THURSDAY, DEC. 11, 1941 “Now you’ve hurt my feelings,” Karen said. “Here I practically work up a headache planning a beautiful day for you, and what credit do I get? You tell me it’s rotten. All that effort wasted!” Richard Wayne appeared to brighten. “No, it isn’t. It gives me a much better idea. What’s the use of wasting the whole program on a chiseling little frump? No! I’ll take you sailing, instead.” “Me? Oh, I’m afraid I couldn’t—” “Tomorrow morning,” Richard Wayne prompted her, “at something like nine?” “Something more like ten,” she answered. “Great! You’re registered here?” “Yes.” “I'll pick you up.” He rose, but hesitated beside his chair. “And whom shall I ask for?” “What?” Karen said in a panic. “The name, please?” She crinkled her nose at him. “You wouldn’t be able to pronounce it. It’s a funny Russian name. I’ll be waiting for you in the lounge— you’ll know me, because I’ll be wearing a potted geranium.” “You won’t fail me?” “I’ll be there.” CHAPTER II It was nearly midnight when Rich ard Wayne called upon his brothers. They had been expecting him ear lier in the evening, and only an ob jectionable message he had sent them by phone had kept them wait ing for him at an hour strictly out side of their habits. Richard’s two brothers, Ernest Wayne and Willard Wayne, sat in a large room which, in spite of its prim order, showed the wear of the humid years. The whole thing man aged a transplanted New England look obviously nothing had been changed here for a long time. The two brothers who here await ed Richard Wayne seemed to have been bred and raised by the New England furniture. Both were older than Richard, and when he looked at them he was sometimes happy to remember that they were only his half-brothers, after all. “It does seem to me, Dick,” Er nest Wayne said fretfully, “that you would show a little interest in what is happening here.” Ernest, tall and thin, did not look entirely well he wore gold-rimmed glasses, which did not seem to be strong enough for his purpose, and when kent up late he developed a peaked look. “I don’t suppose,” he complained, “that you realize you’ve kept us waiting here almost four hours. We held dinner for you a full thirty five minutes.” Dick sighed and sat down. “If I weren’t interested I wouldn’t be in Honolulu at all,” he said. “Now, please try not to get all excited, will you?” “You don’t realize the seriousness of the situation, Dick,” Willard said heavily, without heat. “This thing is critical in the extreme—perhaps even desperate. Uncle Jim can’t seem to "understand that he is not invulnerable. He has delayed, and delayed—” “You think he’ll lose his shirt?” His two brothers stared at him. “It's unbelievable,” Willard said at last. “You sit there and ask if we will lose the case much as you might ask if it were going to rain. The island of Alakoa has been a family possession for more than twenty years everything we have in the world is tied up in it. Uncle Jim has given the best of his life to building it into what it is today. And now we stand to lose it, you sit there just as nonchalant as—as—” “As a hog on ice,” Dick suggest ed. ‘As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose—’ He rested his head upon the back of his chair, half closed his eyes, and tried not to think about his brothers. “As I understand it from your let ters,” he said now, “the complaint is that when our mutual father bought the island of Alakoa from Garrett Waterson he practically cheated the old boy out of his eye teeth—is that the story?” “Father was an industrious and intelligent man,” Ernest Wayne said with annoyance. “Do you know anything much about the original swindle?” he asked them. “I object to your tone,” Willard Wayne said and Dick was aston ished by the vigor of his brother’s resentment. “Garrett Waterson was a disreputable old pirate. He was a waster and a speculator of the worst sort—absolutely typical of a certain kind of riffraff which trou bled the Islands in the early days. If father saw values in Alakoa that Waterson did not, that certainly was Waterson’s look-out. But now comes this girl, this grasping, piratical lit tle adventuress, intent on seizing not only the whole of Alakoa, but all the development which has cost Uncle Jim the best years of his life, and—” “Have you checked the identity of this girl?” Dick interrupted. “She’s Garrett Waterson’s grand daughter, all right,” Willard admit ted. “Naturally we hoped to dis prove her identity. It now seems that we cannot. Karen Waterson was born in San Francisco in June, 1912 —that is to say, shortly before the disarrcarance of Garrett Waterson himself. Probably Garrett Waterson never knew he had a granddaughter at all, but here she is. It seems she was orphaned, and brought up in San Francisco by some aunts.” "Well brought up?” “The family has no distinction whatever. The girl has been work ing as a stenographer. Her relation ship to the island of Alakoa proba bly would never have occurred to her as offering any possibilities, if it had not been for this John Colt.” “And who is this John Colt?” “John Colt is thirty-six years old and was bom in’New York. He is one of the predatory speculators who came to light in the boom days of the late twenties. He acquired a considerable fortune through water developments in California. In 1932 his stock-juggling activities were in vestigated, but without success.” “You mean he’s not in jail?” “No charges were brought. Need less to say, he has now lost most of his fortune and it is entirely possi ble that everything he has left is tied up in Karen Waterson’s project to seize Alakoa. Undoubtedly, if the girl succeeds, a large portion of the loot will go to Colt himself. It is pretty plain that Colt is the brains of the whole fraud—probably the origi nator, certainly the developer.” “You seen? to have snootled around to very good effect,” Tonga Dick complimented them. “And now,” Willard concluded, “Karen Waterson, through her at torneys, and undoubtedly acting on the advice and direction of John Colt is bringing suit, on the complaint that her grandfather’s sale of Ala koa was illegal—that Garrett 'Water son, at the time of the sale, was mentally incompetent. That shows you the girl’s unscrupulous type— she is willing to discredit her own grandfather—prove him to have been virtually insane—to gain ad vantage for herself.” “Same old story,” Tonga Dick murmured. “But not so easy, in the case of Garrett Waterson, I should think.” Willard Wayne exploded. “I tell you it is easy! Unless we find a way out, it is most certainly going to be done! This is what comes of dealing with irresponsibles of Gar rett Waterson’s type. Evidence can be brought in to show that Garrett Waterson was not only totally irre sponsible, but eccentric in the ex treme. I myself am convinced he was more or less deranged. Let me remind you that xve’ve had hun dreds of such cases in the Islands— mostly successful!” “I always heard,” Tonga Dick said, “that Garrext Waterson was a great old boy—quite a character.” “Character be damned,” Willard fumed. “He had no character at all. He was an outrageous old brawl er, always at the center of every disturbance of any kind. He was always doing incredible, outlandish things.” “And he sold Alakoa for fifteen thousand dollars,” Tonga Dick com mented. “What’s it worth today? Three million?” “Ridiculous,” Ernest snapped. “The assets, as we carry them on the book—” “Maybe,” Dick said, “after all, Garrett Waterson was a little fuzzy at the edges, when he did that!” “Right there,” Willard said mo rosely, "is the whole point. If they can show that Garrett Waterson was incompetent, it follows that his granddaughter was left destitute by this single incompetent act.” "AU of his acts were incompe tent,” Ernest wailed. “To prove that only makes things worse. I tell you, if something isn’t done, we’re utterly ruined. The suit demands not only restitution of the entire island to Karen Waterson, but interest, or rental, for the last twen ty years, amounting to more than a miUion dollars. Dick, I teU you, I think she can make it stick!” “What do your attorneys say? Are they hysterical too?” “Gravely worried,” said Willard. “They repeatedly urge that Uncle Jim make an effort to settle out of court. This Uncle Jim absolutely refuses to consider he won’t hear of any form of compromise at all. So long as he takes that attitude it is impossible for us, or for our attorneys to talk to either Karen Waterson or John Colt at all. Colt evidently has great faith in her case he meets every sort of over ture with what amounts to silence. And, by God, I’m afraid he knows what he’s doing!” Tonga Dick considered and pres ently aUowed himself a slow grin. "You know,. it’s just possible that the girl really has you!” Ernest flared up. “You have just as much interest in Alakoa as we have—or ought to have!” "I guess,” Dick said speculative ly, "I’d better have a talk with this Waterson girl.” "Ridiculous!” "Can’t see how it can hurt any thing.” "She won’t talk to you,” Willard said shortly. “She won’t do any thing at all without consulting John Colt." “Oh, yes, she will. Tomorrow, I’m going to take her on a cruise up the coast—sight-seeing, you know.” "She won’t even see you,” Willard said again. “She already has. I talked with her nearly an hour tonight.” "You what?” “I said, I’ve been talking to her all night. Can’t you understand plain—” "Did she know who you were?” "Naturally. Do you think she’s a dummy?” His two brothers stared at him for a little while in inarticulate outrage. “I absolutely forbid this sailing trip,” Willard got out at last. "And so do I,” Ernest echoed. “Any parley that is made with that adventuress will be in full consulta tion with us and our attorneys. I absolutely forbid you to see this girl again without the full concordance of—” "Go ahead and forbid,” Tonga Dick encouraged him. "After all there isn’t a thing in the world you can do.” IF HA IDAKTTS TO GET AHEAD, TH* NAVW TEACHES HA TO AMOUNT ■th* mavh I As he left them he was more than ever thinking of them as pa thetic and useless men. He had reasons of his own for caring less about the fate of Alakoa than they, and this made their helpless panic exasperating. The breach between Dick and his brothers was widening it soon would be complete. What ever he was going to do toward saving Alakoa for the Waynes—and he believed he could save it, if he wanted to enough—he was resigned to attempting alone. (To be continued) Rockport Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Begg and sons Jimmie and Dean spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Kerst in Wapakoneta. Noah Moser was taken to the Bluffton hospital Thursday, in a serious condition with pneumonia. Latest reports stated that he was not much improved. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Stewart of Mahoningtown, Pa., arrived here Friday to spend several days with the Marshall relatives in this vicin ity. The final service at the Presby terian church in charge of Rev. Charles Armentrout will be held Sunday morning with a communion service following the sermon. Rev. and Mrs. Armentrout and daughter Jeanne will leave Tuesday for Indianapolis, Ind., where they will make their future home. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Haas and daughter Jeannine while enroute here one day last week to visit in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Haas, met with an auto collision near Indianapolis which wrecked their car, but the occupants for tunately escaped with minor injuries. Herbert Marshall, Jr., and Ralph Marshall and a student friend at O. S. U. spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Marshall and family. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Begg and sons John and William were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Van Meter and family in Delphos. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Stewart of Mahoningtown, Pa., spent Friday night in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Marshall of Orange township and were Saturday night and Sun day guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Mayberry in Columbus Grove. The Presbyterian missionary so ciety met in the home of Mrs. Glen Huber Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Begg spent several days the past week at the International Stock show in Chi cago, returning home Wednesday. Mrs. Ben Kidd will be hostess to the Profit and Pleasure club for the December program and gift ex change Wednesday afternoon of next week. The program includes: Roll Call, What Christmas Tradition we Keep at Our House Christmas Comes Again, Mrs. Neva McDowell Why the Chimes Rang, Mrs. Law rence Begg Carols, club. A. H. Marshall, a life long resi dent of this community passed away early Sunday, at the home of his son Francis, following an extended illness with paralysis. He was near ing his eighty-ninth birthday and had been able to do active work about the farm until about a year ago. He is survived by three sons, Orlo, Walter and Francis and their three children Jean, Mary and Robert all residents of this com munity. Funeral services were held from his late home Tuesday after noon with Rev. Charles Armentrout, pastor of the Presbyterian church officiating and interment in the Rockport cemetery. At Your Grocer’s PurAsnow—the only flour with double your money back guarantee. 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Marion School Head Talks At Lions Club Much difficulty on the part of students in the subject of mathe matics is due to poor reading ability rather than inability to work the problems, it was stated by DeWitt T. Mills, superintendent of Marion county schools, who addressed the meeting of the Lions club at the Walnut Grill Tuesday night. Mr. Mills has made a systematic survey of the schools of Marion county with an enrollment of more than 3,000 pupils in order to deter mine the needs of the students and where changes of emphasis are need ed. He has been assisted in this work by Cleon Althaus, former Bluff ton resident, who is a specialist in testing programs and statistical re search. Graphs were used to illustrate the findings of the research into school problems made by Supt. Mills. Mo tion pictures showing the method of administering the testing program were also presented by the speaker. Richland Center Mr. and Mrs. Charles Courtnay and family of Lima and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Grant and son were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Luginbuhl. Carol Jean Frantz spent Saturday and Sunday with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Badertscher. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gratz, Mrs. Richard Core and family and Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Gratz were Sunday din ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Schaublin and daughter Rachel. Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Luginbuhl and Mrs. Warren Moser and son Kenneth spent the week end in Indianapolis, Ind., with Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Ba singer and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Weeks and family. Mr. and Mrs. John Marquart and family, Mr. and Mrs.) Archie Hart man and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Phil lip Marquart and daughters and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Marquart spent Sunday afternoon writh Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Marquart, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Zimmerman and daughter and H. P. Zimmerman spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zimmerman and daughter. 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Ghaster and daugh ter Ruth. Mrs. Mary Bolick was a week end guest in the home of her grand daughter Mrs. Joe Radabaugh and family in Findlay. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ludwig spent Thursday w’ith Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Ludwig in Dola. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Radabaugh of Findlay and Mrs. Bolick were Sun day dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ripley and family. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Dunson were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Dunson in Kenton. Chester Green who has been quite sick passed away Monday morning. His death is a great loss to this community. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Stotts visited recently with Mr. and Mrs. Oren Martz at Deshler. Mrs. Mary Clymer of Columbus and Mrs. Clara Beauman of Find lay were Friday evening supper guests of Mr. and .Mrs. W. B. Kram er. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Jones and family of Orrville and Mr. and Mrs. Beam of Lima were Sunday after noon callers on Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. 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