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The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-01-26
CHAPTER u
Escape.


In the deepest depression, Aimee
wandered down the park avenue
towards the high road. She passed
through the lodge gates and turned
the corner Of the road.
There Aimee halted, and considered
the perversity of Fate. And close be-
side her barked a sharp explosion
with a flash Of yellow fame and a
Whit Of pungent smoke. And a clear
voice exclaimed:
HI"
Just what I was thinking!" said
Aimee.
A young man, who was tinkering a
motorcycle, whence came the explo-
sion, looked up startled. and removed
his cap.
"Ohl I'm sorryl" he said. Il didn't
know there was anyone around"
They looked at each other. and both
laughed. It was impossible to look
at the stranger and fail to laugh. Not
In derision, but joyously. spontaneous
ly, as one laughs wlc n the breeze heels
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Laughed.
I'm here in England" he added, lay
ing loving hand on the tank Of tn,
mOtorcycle-"to sell this"
"Weird-looking thingI' said Aimee
with interest, for the cycles engine
was Of remarkable shape. yours ?
'Mine" said the stranger joyously
"Alone I did it. hold the patent. IT.
q Sanakatowzer-the Flying Sphinx =
Ripping name. Can 1t flyT'
Can it fly? It devours space like
the sunbeams lick up the mists Of the
mornin'! And no more noise than q
baby's whisper. he
Around the world In thirty winks
When once astride the Flying Sphinx!
Its got Sinbad's Carpet an the
Seven-league Boots guessing" He
threw leg over the saddle. Like q
spin up the roadP Jump up behind !"
Aimee Immediately perched herself
on the carrier. There was whiri-
wind charm about the stranger that
carried her away. The next moment
the Flying Sphinx did the same. The
wind whistled past Aimees ears. To
keep her seat she was obliged to grab
Billy suddenly round the waist
Don't mind If hold your she
gasped.
"Shucks!" said Billy impatiently. Il
don't care how you hold me, s'long's
you don't hit the grill"
They breasted the crest of the rise.
Hang tight now!" he cried. 'Wen
let her out |"
The Sphinx went forward with the
whirr of shell. She peeled the road
way behind her like a running tape.
Aimee felt the roar Of the wind rise
to scream. Billy leaned lightly for
ward towards the handle-bars, cool,
effortless, efficient
Aimee was only conscious of being
whirled gloriously through space, when
the Sphinx, after two-mile loop, slid
back to the spot whence she had
started. Aimee sprang from the car
rier
"Oh, thank you'll" she gasped. THAT
was too good to be trueI"
The cyclist, without dismounting,
looked at her glowing face and frank |
eyes.
II wish there were more like you,"
he said, laughing. "Tell 'em--who-
ever they are-to can the sentiment.
Slong, an good luck to you'll"
He raised his cap, and next moment
the Sphinx whirred him away in a
cloud Of golden dust. Aimee followed
him with her eyes till he was round
the bend, then she turned back into
the park. 1t seemed to her that the
sunlight had become less vivid and the
sky paler.
Very slowly, Aimee made her way
pack to the portals of Scroope Towers,
where the heavy family car, laden
With luggage, stood waiting. Georgina
vas on the steps, abundantly wrapped
lp, and Lord Scroope stood beside
Ter.
"Grundle," he said to the chauffeur.
you will drop Miss Berners at the
tation and take Miss Aimee on to
returning here direct"
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CHAPTER III
Re.Enter Billy,

Aimee tramped along the broad
highway, whistling. At Scroope, much
more at Jervaulx, one was not al
lowed to whistle. Ever and anon she
stopped whistling to laugh.
Aimee had dropped the square box
into a quarry pit an hour before and
continued on her way unburdened.
The idea Of finding lodgings at Sea-
bridge appealed to her. She had
funds enough. A months pocket
money was in her purse, and Lady
Scroope had been liberal on her de-
parture.
what a row there'l be-" chuckled
Aimee, IF George doesn't play up
I don't care. 1 gave them my ulti-
matum. They can't hang me. I've
been very patient with them all. One
must make a stand sometime or other.
Who does my life belong to-" demand
ed Aimee, never a purist in gram
mar, "if not to meT
A faint sound was borne upon the
breeze, a noise that attuned itself Gu
riously to Aimee's thoughts. It was
like the buzz of homing bee She
looked up. and saw motorcycle
speeding along the road with smear
of following dust behind 1t like the
tail of comet. Aimee recognized the
Flying Sphinx, and became aware of
a laughing face looking UP at hers,
and a set of very white teeth.
"Why, It's Billy" she cried spon-
taneously.
Hello, old chap!" cried the cyclist.
Billy was bare-headed, his fair hair
sticking up at the crown In a little
tuft that blew about in the wind.
"Where were you making forT' he |
said.
"The unemployment bureaui" re-
torted Aimee tiippantly
Billy's face expressed concern.
81 suppose you're guying me. You
don't mean you've lost your job?"
"Job?" Aimee hubbled with amuse.
nent. well. bad job all ready
FOR nae this morning. But it's washed
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Sentenced.

06nt0nCe0.
Il can't go, dad" said Aimee des
perately, "and I won't!"
my answer, my dear Aimee" sale
Lord Scroope firmly yet benignantly
"is that you must go, and you shall =
"A month Of Aunt Erythea," sale
Aimee in stified tones, would kill me
Why are these things always piled or
to me? I'm fed upp'
The Very Rev. Viscount Scroope
archdeacon and incumbent Of the liv.
ing Of Scroope Magma, gazed dreamily
over his daughters head without ap.
pearing to hear her. A sunbeam fl
tered through the diamond panes
illumining his silver hair and finely
cut features. 1t was as though the sun
beam said: Behold a saint; here is
one who hears and speaks no evil "
A saint Lord Scroope undoubtedly
was; calm, benign and immovable as
granite.
my dear child" he said gently, "let
us admit the cold light Of reason. You
can have no genuine objection to your
Aunt Erythea, for you have never set
eyes on her since you were three years
old. Jervaulx abbey Is we'll
appointed and strictly ordered house.
1t Is an atmosphere which will cor
rect, hope. the influence Of that de-
plorable school from which we have
removed you. You must go. Aunt
Erythea desires that you shall go.
And that, as you will realize when you
make her acquaintance, is final"
The Hon. Aimee Scroope's wildly
lovely face became still more mutt
nous and desperate.
And dc not suppose that you will
lack youthful society,"" added Lord
Scroope, smiling. "Your cousin, AL
exander Lambe, is at Jervaulx. A
little older than yourself, doubtless.
but an excellent companion for you.
A young man wholly devoted to good
work. and with unexceptionable con-
nections, he will doubtless attain that
eminence which his aunt would wish
for him.
Aimee looked at her father with in
tense suspicion. Then she turned to
the photograph of young man In
clerical collar; the face was pleasant
but somewhat serious, with large,
frank, round eyes. The face that
Aimee made at 1t was hideous.
go and tell your maid to pack,
dear child" said Lord Scroope gently,
oatting her head. Aimee was twenty !
years Of age, and stood five feet six. !
)ut her father contrived to have the |
,ir of patting somebody about three |
Get high.
Aimee said something inarticulate,
ind made q Decline for a rose pink |
,oudoir where Lady Scroope, blonde,
,etite and wholly charming, was but
oning her gloves. Amid pink sur
Lady Scroope looked little
lder than her daughter.
Mummy" said Aimee forcibly,
you'll have to throw me a rope. 1
ave simply got to be rescued from
his awful visit!" She e1pounded
18th extreme rapidly and terror her
Jews on Jervaulx, Lady Erythea
ambe, and Alexander.
Lady Scroope twinkled, and was so
as to laugh. She put
Or hands affectionately on her daugh
RS shoulders.
"S0rry, Aimee" she said; there is.
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the boat or when puppy dog falls
head over tail
When the motorcyclist grinned, his
teeth were so white that they gave
the effect of a flash. His fair and
rather tousled hair caught the sun
His head looked as if 1t might be
rammed through a door, without dam
aging anything except the door-panel
He was big built, and about twenty
five, but his bright blue eyes might
have belonged to boy of sixteen. He
wore dusty blue overalls.
'That's betterl" he said approving
ly, as Aimee laughed again. "You
were looking as If you felt pretty
low"
II was. Everybody has been ap-
pallingl Talking sentiment till 1 feel
sticky all over"
The strangers face fell.
"Geel That's too badi Sentiment,
ehY' He made gesture as If ward
ing of invisible assailants. "Senti-
ment is poison ivy! 1t gives me that
tired feeling. Madam, accept my SYM
pathy."
In the space Of q moment they felt
as though they had known each other
for years.
'DO you live anywhere about hereY'
said Aimee. II seem to have seem"
"Here7 About seven thousand miles
west-by-south Of here!" said the
stranger, laughing. cobalt, Arapa-
hoe county. Citizen Of the world
answer to the name of Billy And
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as you would say, nothing doing. Yor
will have to go. 1 can't have YOU
dear father worried any more. dom
think" she added pensively. there's
any cause for real alarm about Alex
ander Lambe."
| TITS all very well for you" incurred
Aimee, but"
I'm really sorry, dear. am going
to the Milne-Temples and elsewhere
for q few weeks, but when come
back I will make it up to you. These
are the little crosses you have to
bear"
She kissed her daughter, and hur-
r1ed down to the car.
The car whirled her away, and
Lord Scroope followed It with dream
lily adoring eyes. Aimee, who had
watched the pair with a sort Of ex-
asperated affection, turned into the
morning room.
what on EARTH" she murmured, "is
one to do with people like that7'
She encountered her guest and
cousin, Georgina Berners, twenty
three, plump and placid, dressed In
style that suggested enforced econ
omy. Miss Berners was looking visit
full.
"Why, George" said Aimee, encir-
cling her ample waist, "have you the
hump, too? Let's be miserable to-
gether."
ut has been lovely here at Scroope,"
sighed Georgina, "and you are such
dear. I've nothing to go back to
but Uncle Joseph, who doesn't think
about anything but biology, and
scarcely remembers exist-though he
is quite kind, Of course. 1t will DO
awful after this"
I've never met your Uncle Joseph"
said Aimee, but Pm certain he's
nothing to my Aunt Erythea and Jer-
vaulx"
She broke into a frenzied and vivid
word-picture Of all that awaited her
"A place something between a ca
thedral and a barrack, and fearful
sort of Roman matron with a nose
like the duke Of Wellington's-Tve
never seen aunt's nose, but it's GER
tainly like that-and to be drilled into
flirting decorously with an owl-faced |
curate who, some day, they say, will |
probably be bishop"
GeOrgina was intensely shocked.
Aimee, you really are extraordi-
nary! Many people would be too glad
to be In your shoes. A long visit to
q charming old place-Jervaulx, they
say, is even more old-world than
Scroope orderly, romantic,
peaceful"
"Moldy!" interrupted Aimee.
"And luxurious. Lady Erythea,
everyone says, is a splendid manager.
And your cOusin-a nice, sensible
Young man. I've seen his photograph.
His face"
TITS the face" said Aimee f1ercely,
of cold boiled Goldfish! I've seen
tive seen it 1t made me feel as
+ my shoes were full of water!"
Aimee" said Georgina plaintively.
You appal mel"
Good thing! Then you know how
feel! 7" retorted Aimee pertly. 1.-THE
Whole thing appals me. These curates
m fed up with them Alexander Is
he limit %
Aimee paused for breath.
Hes frumpP she said, with ex-
vehemence.
"He is good" insisted Georgina.
That is a good mans face, If ever I
aw one. And" added Georgina, with
rapt expression on her plump fea- ,
ures, "he will fall in love with you,
limee. I'm sure Of it! And wher
hat happens"
"Oh, you make me sick I" said the
renzied Aimee. Its a disease with
GU! Sentiment revolts me. This
laundering about love"
Aimee" said Georgina almost tear
lily, "your very name means Be
we'd 7" v
"Oh, rats!" said Aimee furiously, {
nd fled from the room. %
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out. I've lost It. And now I'm adrtft u
Billy was perplexed. He had been
wholly unable to place Aimee. He
wondered if she were governess. A
question was on his lips, but he
checked himself for fear of giving Of
tense.
Lost itY' he exclaimed. II guess
it's just as we'll! You look a heap
happier! What job d'you think Of
chasin'Y'
IL don't know"
Billy looked at her eagerly. A sud
den flash came into his eyes. as one
who conceives a superb idea.
"Say! Let me find you onel I've
a brain-wave!"
What do you meanT
$50 shares with me-"
"SharesT echoed Aimee. She was
conscious of a curious little thrill.
"Share what?"
"See here!" said Billy, cycling her
keenly. when we were doing fifty
five on the Sphinx, you never wilted-
never turned hair!"
"Of course not. 1t was gorgeous"
He came nearer, intensely earnest.
"Know anything about motor en-
ginesY' he said quickly.
1--WE often taken down the old bus
at home on wet day, and reas-
sembled It"
where was that?
"At the place where 1 had a job"
said Aimee.
Great! p he cried. You're the thingI
I've been looking for all these months
Now, listen to the brain-wave. I'm
over here to sell the Sphinx. There's
a big deal On in London. But what
l wants quiet spot where / can
develop some Of the gadgets with no
crooks around to steal 'em. Get meT
"Yes, go on" said Aimee, catching
his enthusiasm.
called Stanhoe, thirty miles south Of
here. Stanhoe's quiet as the tomb.
I've struck 1t before. There's an old
mill I b'lieve can get hold of, and
1T up as a garage and workshop"
"Yes, I seel" said Aimee eagerly.
Come on into 1t with income to
Stanhoe" said Billy explosively.
You'll catch on to the Flying Sphinx
n minute, an then popularize her
Is lady's mount The finest mount
or girl ever put on the market.
There isn't one yet. You can do it'll
no NJ h.
III teach you to tend an drive her.
Viii you comeY'
"Will duck swimr' cried Aimee.
OF course I'll comet"
Fine partner cried Billy, fling
ng out big brown hand.
Aimee took It, and received q shake
hat bruised her fingers.
Take your perch, old chap!" said
lilly, straddling the Sphinx. ION for
tanhoep
They whirred down the long slope
nth the wester1ng sun broad on their
lght above the flr-trees. It was
oughish ride on the carrier. There
'as no pillion-seat; Billy was evi.
emily not accustomed to carry pas
engers.
Say" said Billy, over his shoulder.
didn't catch your name, did Ir'
"Aimee-SnookS" replied the pas-
snger on the spur Of the moment, as
ell as she could for the wind Wits
Ing In her teeth.
"SnoOks!"
Aimee laughed. 1t was very Like
,roope, and quiet as musical.
Near enoughl p she gasped. Bot
10 chap' VIII do Is that AmericanPI
American? Gee, mol It's the oniyI
lgilsh L know. Let 1t go at that
ny Is too feminine for a partnership.
ID now Wen let her out. This" said
lily Joyously, as he opened the
rotue wide, lis. what the doctor
1ered"
The Flying Sphinx, freighted with
= partners, roared down the hill
d devoured the miles to Stanhoe
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The Misses Eva Wier ant Caroline
Overstreet spent Saturday in Poca-
tello.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-22
THE SIGNS ARE GOOD

Unless the proverbial handwriting on the wall fails, Alaska will enjoy a summer season of unrestricted tourist travel, which means a big item in the prosperity of certain lines of business.
 The days dispatches contain the news that Alaska will have the largest travel in it's history, a1 this prediction is borne out by Col. Fredericks Mears, chairman of the Alas kan Engineering Commission, who at the present time is in Washington In the opinion of Col Mears it is doubtful if the present transportation facilities will be ample to ac. commodate the large crowds intending to tour tIc No"snland
 This news, while in measure meagre. is cheering to those business men who have been optimistic through the lean winter months. It IS cheering to all true Aaskans. for it means the placing of the Territory's attrac- uons before the class of people who will 1n- doubtedly give the north the advertising needed to rlace it before the world
 1t would be well at this time for all resi- dents of the, tourist belt to prepare for the coming of the traveller. Each community should plan for presenting itself in its best garb that approval of the visitors may be had, for by appearances will all places be judged and npon that judgment will be based the oplnlon of the investment class, to which Alaska must look for future develoDment 7
 Just as soon as the spring time comes and weather conditions permit it should be the duty of all residents, no matter where living to do "pollce' duty on their premises so that by the time the first tourist arrives the creating of a good impression will be made. Tourists returning to the Outside invariably relate their experiences while in the North. and chief of all attractiveness is cleanliness Seward Gateway
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'phenomenon" on the ground that it is in defcnse of the purity of womanhood, etc. But
 we have courts for the punishment of what
 the sovereign people of this Republic have defined as crimes. They exist in Mississippi
 and in Illinois. If the people of this country
 believed that once man takes job it belongs
 to him whether he works at it or not, and
 that he has right to kill any one who takes it when he quits, they would have incorporated that view of the matter in the statutes, Mean while, killing people without, legal sanctions is. murder, and no amount of sociological soph-. istryaof the sort that is supposed to make hit with open or secret believers in mob jaw. can make it otherwise <, The Herrin. massacre, wasn t a phenomenon, '' it,wasnt a4.' progres-, sVe' demonstration it was plain, brutal and utterly inexcusable. bloody anarchy of the kind all Americans should denounee:.r-,... B !
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-22
MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1923
SECRETARY FALL BADLY TREATED

Secretary Fall of the Interior Department will retire in March. He has excellent reasons of an entire y private character, since the past two or three years have dealt harshly with his private fortunes. At one time a presUmptive millionaire he is now-due to decline of interests with which he Is associ- ated-strugghng to save a remnant of his former wealth. But serious as things are with MT. Fall, his reasons for retiring from the Cabinet are quite aside from his private fortunes The truth is that he has not been treated we'll He has tried to remedy con- dltlons that conspire to make confusion and waste In the conduct of affairs within the scope of his official responsibility and he has failed One of his main efforts has been to bring the several agencies having to do with the administration of public lands under uni fled jurisdiction. The project is one approved by all practical authories, but it runs counter to the natlons-and the interest-of the pro- fessonal conservators, led by Clifford Pinchot, and they have beaten it. They are not willing to give up the rich graft afforded by the exist ing overcostly machinery of forest admins tlatlon and have thus far been able to have their way. Fall ought to have been supported by the President but he (the President has been so cngTossed Tn other matters, and so besct by the Plnchoites, as practically to have neglected Fall and his work This has been 10 Mr. Fall a grievous humiliation Hardly less serious las been his position with respect to oil lands owned by the Government in Wy cmin@. Hit hard by the conservaionaists in general land matters, he has had to submit his c51cr check to the oil profiteers. For play ing straight course and for enforcing busi- aess methods in oil land administration he has been arlai gned bitterly; and no comfort has come to him from any source And so di@l!Hsi0ned and to degree disgusted, Mr.. Fall is going to quit. He will retire without nlurmurng he will make no exhibition of his dsapn0lntnn rts or his grievances. But he has beer badly treated. And. sad to relate, this IS tnc common fate of Interior Department heads, though Frank Lane cOntl'ived to escape Ii. The business of the department is largely flat of determining controversies in which large interests are involved. It has to protect the Government against continuous process sion Of Grafters and, as weI against mportu- nate groups of "idealists" In very case it must, in the nature of things, thwart or dis appoint somebody. After every determination of the Secretary, no matter how wisely made there rises a howl of rage Truly the Secre- talN ship of the Interior is a thankless job of all the great executive posts least desir- abIc-San Francisco Argonaut
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-22
ALASKA NOTES
 CULLED FROM
 0UREXCHANCES

A recording office has been created at Wasilla for the Willow creek sec tion, the lower Susitna and the upper Cook inlet district Frank B.. Cannon, old-timer and. former. member of the ,T Territorial Legislature. has been ap- pointed commissioner, with headquar- ters at "assiia' r.au :& a. .,s s,2
 The freighter skagway was in port Friday and Saturday for the purpose of taking on cargo Of lumber from the Wilson & Sylvester Comapny. The consignment consisted of 1sO,ooo feet of exceptionally high grade lumber which will be trans-shipped from Seat tie to. Chicago for factory use. The di- mansions of lumber included in the shipment were 1 and 1A clear and Finch shop.-Ketchikan Times.
 According to advices received from the States, the Fairbanks broadcast ing station of the Signal Corps is the most powerful in the world, having made a record for broadcasting on land and water.
 Another bill is before the house of representatives designed to prevent the killing of brown bears, by trap or dogs. It would be truly refreshing to make it crime for the brown bear to kill an Alaskan at any season of the year. Why not give up the same show you would the bear?-Seward Gateway.
 Dr. M D. White, formerly of La touche and up to two years ago, phy- Nscian at Valdez, was married Decem-
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-22
APOLOGiZING FOR LAWLESSNESS

It is a regrettable incident to witness in the utterances of brilliant and forcible man such statements and apologies as were in corporated in William Allen Whites recent interpretation of the Herrin massacre as a phase of the labor movement rather than as
 murder The brilliant but impulsive Kansas editor says that maybe. this mob killing was only an assertion of the feeling of the worker that his job belongs to him, even after ha has quit it, and some other man, quite as much a human being and with the same right to employment as he has taken it. Those who participate in the burning of black mon at the stake, sometimes on suspicion, explain the
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-22

The Fascist wear black shirts. Evidently the laundry vote is not Of much consequence in Italy