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re Lfte peOple eJpeCL JUStlCe-
pointed a quick thumb toward the
ceiling.
When did they go? Why didn't
I hear about it?"
you were, busy" Joseph's voice
and face were cold. You know
that Corell?"
yes"
Joseph came close to her. IT
don't think he's going to live long"
What do you mean1' Annie
asked.
"Well, people are talking"
Annie sighed with tension. "Ah-
h-h!!"
Joseph at last had opinions. "Peo-
pie are getting together" he said.
They don't like to be conquered.
Things are going to happen. You
keep your eyes peeled, Annie.
Tnere're going to be things for
you to do"
Annie asked, How about His Ex-
cellency? What's he going to do?
How does His Excellency stand?
Nobody knows" said Joseph.
HE doesn't say anything
He wouldn't be against u.s."
Annie said.
He doesn't say said Joseph.
The knob turned on the left
hand door, and Mayor Orden came
in slowly. He looked tired and old.
Behind him Doctor Winter walked.
Orden said, That's good, Joseph.
Thank you, Annie. 1t looks very
we'll"
They went out and Joseph
looked back through the door for a
moment before he closed 1t.
The Mayor Is Puzzled.
Mayor Orden walked to the fire
and turned to warm his back.
Doctor Winter pulled out the chair
at the head of the table and sat
down.
Il wonder how much longer I can
hold this position?" Orden said.
THE people don't quite trust me
and neither does the enemy. I
wonder whether this Is a good
thing"
Il don't know" said Winter.
"You trust yourself, don't you?
There's no doubt in your own
mind?"
Doubt? No. I am the Mayor.
I don't understand many things"
He pointed to the table. Il don't
know why they have to hold this
trial in here. They're going to try
Alex Morden here for murder. You
remember Alex? He has that pretty
little wife, Molly"
Il remember said Winter. "She
used to teach in the grammar
school. Yes, 1 remember. She's so
pretty, she hated to get glasses
when she needed them. Well, I
guess Alex killed an officer, all right.
Nobodys questioned that"
Mayor Orden said bitterly. NO
body questions it. But why do thev
try him? Why don't they shoot him?
This is not a matter of doubt or
certainty, justice or injustice. There's
none of that here. Why must they
try him-and in my house?"
Winter said, Il would guess it is
for the show. There's an idea about
it: If you go through the form of
thing you have it, and sometimes
people are satisfied with the form
Of thing. We had an army-sol-
diers with guns-but 1t wasn't an
army, you see. The invaders will
have trial and hope to convince
the people that there is justice in
Volved. Alex did kill the captain,
you know"
Yes, I see that" Orden said.
And Winter went on, IF it comes
from your house-Where the people
expect Justice"
Molly Appears.
He was interrupted by the open
ing of the door to the right. A
young woman entered. She was
about 80 and quite pretty. She car
ried her glasses in her hand. She
was dressed simply and neatly, and
she was very excited.
She said quickly, Annie told me
to come right in, sir"
why, of course" said the Mayor
you're Molly Morden."
Yes, sir, I am. They say that
Alex is to be tried and shot"
Orden looked down at the floor for
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Joseph moved a chair up to the
table and he set it carefully at the
right distance from the table, and
he adjusted it.
They're going to hold trial"
he said They're going to try Alex
ander Morden"
Molly Morden's husband?"
Molly Mordens husband"
For bashing that fellow with a
pick?"
That's right" said Joseph.
But he's a nice man." Annie said.
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One-third of Ohio's population
live on farms but five sixths of the
physicians, surgeons, and dentists
live in cities. Almost 80 per cent
of trained and student nurses are
in cities.
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Garrett Waterson quarters as Dick
would not have believed All the
great litter of charts and miscel-
laneous duffle had disappeared; even
the bulkheads, which had been a
scaling and ancient green, had been
scraped and painted white.
"We've got to go to Nuku Hiva,'+
Garrett Waterson announced, land
we've got to go now. This fool Jap
doctor and this girl of mine don't
understand.
The old man, it now appeared, had
worked himself into state of mind.
Dick knew enough about Garrett
Waterson's scattered and loose-knit
affairs to know why he thought he
had to go to Nuku Hiva. Once the
old man had purchased an option
on a site for wharf, or something
of the sort. Then he had forgotten
about it, only to remember it sud-
denly and inauspiciously just as the
option was about to run out. Dick
did not believe that either Water
son or Nuku Hiva needed a wharf,
but it was no use arguing, he sup
posed.
If we don't take that thing up
by the first of the month";" Waterson
declared, that English outfit will
get in there, and the opportunity of
a lifetime will go up in smoke-iust
like that!" He blew a a blast of
smoke at Dick to illustrate what was
going to happen to the opportunity
of a lifetime, and it made him
cough, SO that he spilled cigar ashes
on the highly scrubbed deck.
"All right, all right" Dick said.
'I'll go to Nuku Hiva."
Have to go myself" Waterson
insisted.
You'll stay here" Dick said,
"or I'll have nothing to do with the
business at all. Then where will
you be?"
The old man finally had to be salts
fed with that. Not until the long
depression about lifetime opportuni-
ties in Nuku Hiva was settled, was
Dick able to raise the question
which had really brought him here.
He put out a tentative feeler. 81
see John Colt has gone back"
$50 I hear"
tits none of my business" Dick
said, "but I'd kind of like to know
why he should be rushing back to
Honolulu while Karen is still here"
II sent him back" Garrett Wa
fnrcpp caiJ 1c,,v1.oar+1x,
"You sent him back?"
HE was over here with some
scoundrelly proposition, whereby I
was supposed to throw in with him,
and we were supposed to get the
island of Alakoa away from the
Waynes. He made me kind of mad.
Seemed that all I had to do was
offer proof that I'm out of my mind
that gets US the islands back. I
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Noao go on Nth the story.

Dicks curiosity was sufficiently
aroused by this to cause him to row
all the way over to the Sarah-a dis
tance of some two hundred yards
for a visit with the convalescent old
man. He tried to conceal from him.
self his reason for wishing to talk to
Waterson, but he could not. He was
aware of weak but persistent hope
that something had happened to
cause John Colt and Karen Water
son to break up; and he wanted to
find out from Garrett Waterson if
this might be the case.
Karen Waterson was taking an
hour ashore, so that her grandfather
was alone. He was propped up on
clean pillows, smoking cigar which
he had probably taken this oppor-
tunity to steal; and though he looked
feeble, and somehow chastened, he
was surprisingly himself.
"Where the hell have you been?"
he demanded gustily, in what was
evidently meant to be roar.
you've got to get me out of this!"
That Garrett Waterson was nota-
bly, tanned in spirit needed no more
proof than his concession that he
needed any help from anybody: but
other evidence was not lacking.
Such a change had taken place in
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"She's something pretty special,
Dick-sweet, and gentle, and loyal
and"
told him to get to hell out. I told
him if he wasn't out of the bay
in twelve hours I was going to have
my crew grab him and keel-haul
him. I guess he must have taken
me literal"
"But Karen is going to stay with
you?"
"I'd like her to; but she says not.
I believe she'll be following Colt to
Honolulu directly"
Following Colt?"
'She's kind of little poker face"
Garrett Waterson complained. "It's
past me to make out what she's 60
ing to do. But if you want my pri-
vate personal opinion. I think she's
going to marry the guy"
Dick managed to say, "How are
you going to like that?"
"He isn't just what / would have
picked. l certainly wouldn't want
to marry him myself"
With an effort Dick rallied. 81
don't see why not" he said. 81
think you'd make a lovely bride"
II suppose he'll do well enough by
her." Waterson said gloomily. "It's
his stamp of crocodile that general
ly gets ahead. Of course, his infer
nal impudence made me kind of
mad; but l was kind of tickled at
him, after thought it over. You
have to kind of admire man with
as much brass as that"
There was a long silence, and
Dick was thinking of lot of things
of which he would not have wished
to speak.
"That girl is wonderful girl,
Waterson said. so long as I ever
have one dime that will do the work
of nickel, that girl is never going
to be in want. She's something pref
ty special, Dick-sweet, and gentle,
and loyal, and"
Dick broke it up. when do I
sail for Nuku Hiva?"
whats the matter with tomor-
row."
1.-The Holokai's full of oil. I guess
tomorrow will be all right"
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RichIand Center

John Luginbuhl, Audrey Hienlen
of Bucyrus, Mrs. Kenneth Luginbuhl
and Mr.. and Mrs. ]. I. Luginbuhl
spent the weekend with Pfc. Ken
meth Luginbuhl of Indiantown Gap,
Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Gratz were
Sunday evening supper guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Core and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Moser and
sons, Mr.. and Mrs. Weldon Lugin-
buhl spent Sunday visiting with
their aunt, who is sick, Mrs. Jess
Fisher of Monroe, Mich.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Locher and
daughter Nan and son Tim and Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Schaublin and
daughter Rachel were last Tuesday
evening supper guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Russell Schaublin and daugh-
J ter Patsy and son Richard, in honor
of Patsy's fourth birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Badertscher
spent Sunday afternoon with Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Huber.
Mrs. Mary Ann Zimmerman and
family and Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
Hochstettler and family were Sun
day guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Willis
Simmons and June Shultz of Stryk-
er, Ohio.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Ger
a girl last Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Young and
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Ewing,
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Schaublin and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Will Hilty, Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Hilty and daughter
and Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Schaublin
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Wilford Gratz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Zimmerman
and daughter and Mrs. Sam Badert-
scher spent Sunday evening with
Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight FrantZ and
daughter.
Mrs. Ella Dillman and Pvt. and
Mrs. Robert Dillman spent Sunday
evening at the Amos Luginbuhl
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Gossman,
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Marquart, ST.,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charley Gossman and
family were Sunday dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Marquart and
sons.
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After the hailstorm last Saturday
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Anna McGinnis, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Delbert McGinnis, made an as
stounding discovery. She saw hail
stone at the edge of the front yard as
big as a grapefruit. Immediately af-
ter the storm subsided she ran out to
pick up the missile which she was sure
would be Bluffton record. Imagine
her disappointment when she found
that it was only a rock.
David Frick, a scout in Troop 90,
had a good chance to use his scout
training in first aid the other night.
While working on model airplane his
knife slipped and cut into vein. He
was able to stop the bleeding and hold
it in control until the doctor arrived.
Daily swimming even in the cold
weather is regular habit of a number
of young stalwarts here. Seen at the
Buckeye swimming lake Sunday en-
joying the water, even during the rain
were: Charles Smith, Don Root, Rog-
er Klay, Ray Grouse.
Altho it was just friendly croquet
match, James Harmon was hit on the
head with a croquet mallet in a game
with Billy Burcky on the Harmon
lawn, Saturday. 1t seems that Billy
took a swing at the ball and hit jim
my on the head instead. We suggest
that Billy take some lessons from his
dad, Coach A. c. Burcky on how to hit
ball.
Jane Risser and Mary Jean Ram
seyer took bus trip to Toledo all b.
themselves on Saturday to attend tn,
birthday party of their former play
mate Lorene Reed. They also visited
the zoo while in the city.
Robert Lee, eighth grade student
is enjoying the Civil War period thai
his history class is now studying
Reason, the famous Confederate Gen
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ElrOse

Mrs. Ida Stratton of Tiffin was a
week end guest at the M. j. STRAIT
ton home.
The Missionary Circle of the
Bethesda church will meet with Mrs.
w. w. Scothorn Wednesday after
noon, May 13.
r Callers at the j. r. Fisher home
this past week were Mr.. and Mrs.
John Warren, Mr.. and Mrs. Mel
Long, Mr.. and Mrs. Wright Klingler,
Mildred Which, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Koontz and son Robert, Mrs. Fame
Fett, and Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth
Gallant and daughter Patricia Ann
of Columbus.
Kaye Nonnamaker visited at the
Ami Nonnamaker home Monday
evening.
Glenn and Faery Nonnamaker
spent Sunday afternoon at the
Chauncey Klingler home near Ada.
Union prayer meeting at Bethesda
church Thursday evening.
A number from here attended SER
vices at Rawson U. B. church Sun
day evening.
jeanette Basinger spent Sunday
with Kaye Nonnamaker.
Mrs. Lucinda Koontz spent Satur-
day evening with Mrs. Ami Nom
namaker.
Mr.. and Mrs. ROLAND Koontz,
daughter Martha and son John, Mr..
and Mrs. N. B. Steinman, Mrs.
John Warren, Mrs. Henry Koontz,
Rev. Paul Zimmerman Of Rawson,
Mrs. Nora Stratton and Floe STRAIT
ton were callers at the Anna Koontz
home during the past week.
Roderick Nonnamaker spent the
week end with Jack Koontz at his
home near Findlay.
Sunday callers at the M. J. STRAIT
ton home were: Miss Dorothy
Long, Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Klingler
and family, Mr.. Dull Battles of Mt.
Cory.
Mrs. Ida Stratton of Tiffin was a
week end guest at the nj. J. Stratton
home.
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could help: but il seemed only de-
cent to ask what the situation was,
before he left Alakoa on a voyage
that would keep him away for a
matter of weeks. James Wayne's
estate, embracing all of Alakoa, was
hanging fire, and he supposed he
owed it to them to tell them where
he was going.
He sat at James Wayne's old desk,
up above in the house that Garrett
Waterson himself had built, and fid-
died with the phone for the better
part of half an hour before he got
connection which would do. 1t was
Charles Wong whom he reached at
last.
Charles Wong, it turned out, was
differing in state of mental con-
fusion and disorder.
1--we been trying to reach you
for two days." Wong chartered. Il
was about to come to Alakoa. Ev-
erything is terribly upset-it's abso-
lutely necessary that you come
here"
what's the matter now?"
Your brothers are absolutely un-
able to reconcile themselves to the
will. If they cannot reach an agree
ment with you, | am almost cer-
tain that they will try to break it.
You had better come here and talk
to them as soon as possible. The
disturbance is unimaginable, but Al
akoa is going to suffer if
What was the matter with the
will?"
"Oh nothing, sir, nothing! But nat
urally your brothers are very much
surprised. Certainly you must have
anticipated that they would"
II don't even know what was in
the will" Tonga Dick told him.
"Why-why-you haven't heard?"
81 haven't talked to Honolulu since
my brothers left here"
A considerable hesitation, decorat-
ed with unrecognizable spluttering
noises, represented Charles Wong's
dumbfoundment. 1.-THE will gives
you the controlling interest in Ala
koa," Wong finally managed to get
out.
"Who-me?" Dick said stupidity.
Eyes, sir. There are certain spe-
cial provisions that seem intended to
give your brothers a practically
equal income; but you are given
fifty-one per cent interest, and abso-
Lutte management of everything"
I'm supposed to run the whole
cockeyed thing?"
"You control it, yes, sir. The cat
tie production, and the plantations,
and the ything."
There was much more to it, and
a good deal of it Dick was unable
to understand from Charles Wong's
disorganized explanations. Dick sup
posed that he could not expect to un-
derstand James Wayne's dispensa-
tions in detail until he had had a
thorough consultation with whole
board of attorneys. But the main in
tent was clear. James Wayne had
put Tonga Dick in control of Alakoa.
"But think your brothers are 60
ing to try to break the WILL" Charles
Wong finished.
They aren't going to break any
thing" Dick answered.
mo, sir-my personal belief is
that it really cannot be DONE"
After that it was still necessary
for Tonga Dick to explain to Charles
Wong that he could not come to
Honolulu yet-that he was going TO
Nuku Hiva. A good deal of expostu-
lation attended that, but Wong could
not persuade Tonga Dick to change
his mind.
"This thing will be in probate a
couple of years yet," Dick conclud-
ed. 1.-TWO or three weeks isn't GO
ing to make any difference"
Ito be continued)
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Ma~A
DeAoAoI

Went back to school. :. to sign for
our sugar ration. s. bet it's the first
time a lot of folks have been in the
old Grade building since they learned
the 3R's there. too bad it takes
war to get us to visit the school. -.
it's a big job this issuing of ration
cards. hats off to the teachers and
others who handled it. and Bluffton
folks are square shooters when it
comes to reporting stocks of sugar on
hand, registrars said. :. looks as if
rhubarb pie will get it on the chin
cause it take so much sugar. why
didn't rationing wait until after the
open season for pie. and here's
strawberry shortcake time coming on
=. maybe honey will do-might try
-. anyway we can still have fish. :.
altho fishing at the National may run
afoul of the Defense program, rumors
say.
Funny world, said Carey Niswand-
err, South Main street home appliance
dealer, when he received three phone
inquiries from prospective purchasers
of electric ranges, Monday morning
just after sales had been frozen by
government order. When they can
get 'em they don't want 'em-and
when they want 'em they can't get
'em.
We're asked to explain lot of un-
usual things, but the payoff came the
other day when Denver Augsburger
| and Swank of the North Main street
barbershop started after mushrooms.
Augsburger had fishing license on
his hat and Swank was armed with a
| rife-must be they were looking for
| wild mushrooms.
And speaking of mushrooms-Fred
| Herr in the Biederman apartments on
South Main returned home the other
day from a cross country mushroom
| hunt without as much as sighting a
single one, only to ear that his apart
ment neighbor, Gerald Berry had
found a fine lot of them in the front
| yard.
ROLAND Matters luck is still with
him. Last week he was run over by
a tractor and escaped with minor
bruises. A year ago he fell out of the
top of a cherry tree and got by with
nothing more than few scratches.
Picked up on the Main stem: DIR.
Soash driving another Packard-why
wasn't | doctor and rate new car
-. .Bigler's meat market being pa
| pered this week-will improve it a
| lot new concrete steps at the Pres
byterian church. . traffic lights are
knocked out over Sunday by Saturday
nights storm.
Marshal Lee Coon combined detec-
tive ability and tact the other day
when he discovered trail of corn
cobs at intervals on the street. Lee
trailed the offender by means of the
telltale cobs and succeeded in convinc-
ing him that it would be saving of
trouble and expense if he would gath
er them up instead of having a ses-
sion at the mayors office.
ftor tho haiIstnrm last Saturday.
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CHAPTER XVI

With his crew rounded up and
fresh water aboard the Holokai, Dick
Wayne went ashore to phone Homo
lulu by wireless. He did not sup
pose that his brothers would want
him to mix IN any more than they
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Increased marketing of fed lambs
during March caused jump in
slaughter rates as compared with
March, 1941, but the feed lots still
contained considerably more lambs
at the end of this March than were
on hand year ago. Total supplies
of old crop lambs will continue large
for at least a few weeks.
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eral, Robert E. Lee, is his namesake.
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Commercial fertilizer applied
broadcast on vegetable gardens
should be worked thoroughly into
the top two or three inches of soil
before seeds are planted or plants
are set.
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ArmOrsville

Mrs. Laura Hamilton and Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Oehrli called Saturday
on Mrs. Laurence Hosafros.
John Hartman spent a couple days
last week with his grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. o. P. Hartman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Firestone,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert C. Matter
called at the Chas. Montgomery
home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Moore and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Hall and
family spent the week end at the
w. l. Moore home.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. o. Hilty and
daughter Rosann, Mr.. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Ewing, Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
Young and son, Mr.. and Mrs. w. L..
Hilty, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Schaub-
lin, Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Schaublin
and family were Sunday visitors of
, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilford Gratz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Laurence Hosafros
called on Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Clauss
and family Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. p. Hartman called
at the Archie Hartman home Sunday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. +. Klingler called
! Sunday evening on Mr.. and Mrs. w.
|. Moore.