The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1942 Page: 5 of 7
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THE ARCHER COUNTV NEWS
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The most ferocious female war-
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SYNOPSIS
THE STORY SO FAR: Janice Treat
runt away from wedding Ned Paxton,
rich, but a gay blade. Unbeknown to
Brnce Harcourt, a family friend, ahe be-
comes secretary of an Alaska camp of
which he Is chief engineer. MUlicent
Hale, wife of the man whom be suc-
ceeded, la also attracted to him. Bruco
at Brst wants to send Janice back. On a
trip to the city, she encounters Paxton
and teUs him the is married to Har-
court. The Utter hears it and instsU on
a wedding that day. At the camp to
which they return by evening, the Samp
aiatert, uSM by Tabby Grant, Har-
court's assistant, arranged a wedding
party.
Now continue with the story.
CHAPTER X
Harcourt picked up the belt and
holster which he had dropped to the
desk when he came in. The shoulder
holster which held its twin was
empty.
“Pascal”
No answer to his call. The boy
was doubtless helping the Samp
girls in their preparations.
Plump Miss Mary in a dove-gray
taffeta, its balloon sleeves proclaim-
ing it of the vintage of ’94, its rose-
point bertha suggesting a grand-
mother of parts, greeted him as he
entered the Samp living-room.
“Well, now! Well, now! Janice is
dressing, Mr. Bruce. Mary and I
begged her to wear one of her love-
ly evening dresses for our party. She
let us choose it from a trunk in
the storehouse.” She patted his
sleeve. “Don’t you look nice.”
“That goes for you too. Miss
Mary. You almost knocked my eyes
out with your pretty dress.” He
bent his head and kissed her rosy,
wrinkled cheek. “Thank you for
arranging Jan’s room. When did
you hear the news?”
“You’re the most heart-warming
person, Mr. Bruce. I feel as though
I’d been sitting in the sun after I’ve
been with you." She smiled through
tears, 'dabbed at her eyes. “Mr.
Tubby radioed the news before he
left the city. Such a surprise.”
Janice was lovelier even than he
had thought her. Her pale blue
gown, silvery as the edges of a
cloud, suggested a fairy loom. Slip-
pers which matched her gown had
bows of sparkling stones which
were repeated in the clasp of a
bag of antique brocada. She laid a
mandarin coat, heavily embroidered
with mauve and purple iris, care-
fully over the back of a chair.
He picked up the mandarin coat.
"Taking this?”
"Yes. I’ll use it as a wrap. Isn’t
it gorgeous? I found it in my loom
here. Tubby must have bought it
for a wedding present when he went
back to the city. He knew that I
was mad about it. I suspect that it
was frightfully expensive. It is
taking goods under false pretenses
for me to accept it. I ought to give
it back, but I love it. Can he af-
ford to buy a thing like this?”
“Probably not every day, but wed-
dings do not occur every day at
headquarters. Why hurt the donor
by returning his gift? Let’s go."
An orchestra, consisting of fiddle,
flute and saxophone, agonized into
the Wedding March from Lohen-
grin, as they appeared in the door-
way of the Waffle Shop.
Janice laughed and parried ques-
tions, played her part brilliantly.
No one could suspect from her man-
ner that she was not the most gor-
geously happy bride in the world,
Harcourt told himself with a tinge
of bitterness. Her radiance van-
ished like sunshine blotted by a
cloud as Millicent Hale approached.
“Dear Mrs. Harcourt, how sweet
of you to provide an occasion for
civilized clothes. I am consumed
with curiosity to know how you ac-
complished it. Fve heard Bruce de-
clare repeatedly that never, while
he was in Alaska, would he marry.
What brand of coercion did you
use?”
The malice of the attack rendered
Harcourt speechless. Was the little
woman whom he had considered pa-
thetically helpless like that? Was
Janice as amazed as he? He glanced
at her in concern. She was looking
straight into the eyes watching
her with cat-like intentness.
“It was a method quite my own,
Mrs. Hale. You couldn’t possibly
use it.” Harcourt came out of his
trance of surprise, laid his hand on
her bare arm. She shook it off,
turned to extend her hand to Ches-
ter. Challenged gaily:
“Why the gloomy brow? Cheerio!
This is a party, not a memorial
service.”
Before he could answer Tubby
Grant seized him.
“Want you, Jimmy. Going to
stage an old-timer. The Samp girls
are stepping out in a quadrille.”
"Salute Partners!” Miss Martha
spread her plum-color taffeta skirts
with work-worn hands and curtsied
to the floor, recovered, made a deep
obeisance in response to a shouted,
“Salute Comers.”
Her beautiful dignity set the key-
note for the dance. The others kept
watchful eyes on the sisters, who
sailed through the figures with the
grace of an angular and a chubby
swan.
“Change Partners!”
Millicent Hale was first to give out.
She turned to Bruce:
"I haven't danced so much nor so
hard since the winter I came out.
Do take me home. Bruce. Jimmy
has disappeared. Joe will be furi-
'us if ' longer.”
"You can’t lose what you never had, Millicent.”
For the fraction of a second Har-
court hesitated. Why pick on him?
Better to humor her. She might
make a scene. Anything was credi-
ble after her hateful attack on Jan-
ice.
“Of course I didn’t need an escort
this short distance, Bruce, but I
had to consult you about Jimmy.”
“Jimmy! What’s the matter with
Jimmy?”
“That’s what I want to know. To-
day when I entered our cabin, he
was threatening Joe with a pistol.”
An empty shoulder holster hang-
ing against a log wall flashed on the
screen of Harcourt’s mind and was
gone.
“As I entered,” said Millicent,”
Jimmy was saying:
“ ’Send for her again and I’ll
shoot you. You’ve messed up my
sister’s life, that’s enough. Get me?’
“I couldn’t believe it was Joe hud-
dled in his chair, livid, afraid. Joe
afraid! As I looked at him I thought
what a poor fool I had been all
these years, not to stand up to him,
not to threaten him. He is a bully
and a coward, Bruce, and I’ve never
before found it out.”
“If you have lost your fear of him,
it is a lot gained, Millicent. For
whom did Joe send, do you know?”
“No. Unless—unless Jimmy found
out about Tatima. Joe has made a
fool of her with flattery. Nothing
worse, I’m sure, but she follows
him about like a dog.”
“I’ll speak to Jimmy. He will
have to turn over his gun to me, if
that is the use he is making of it.”
“Talk with him, Bruce. Poor boy,
he has never forgotten his experi-
ences overseas. You will have more
influence than anyone else.” She laid
her hand on his arm. “We all dump
our worries on your shoulders, don’t
we? I shan’t dare do it now that you
are married. I feel as though I had
lost you.”
Under pretense of producing his
cigarette case Harcourt stepped
back.
“You can’t lose what you never
had, Millicent. Good-night!”
He heard her little gasp as he
turned on his heel.
As he entered the Waffle Shop
Miss Martha and Miss. Mary, crim-
son faced from the exertions of the
dance, with mammoth white aprons
over their creaking taffetas, were
serving the ice-cream which Grant
had brought hundreds of miles in a
plane. As he approached Janice he
heard Jimmy Chester say harshly:
“He’ll never send for you again.”
Had Joe Hale sent for Janice?
The suspicion tightened Harcourt’s
lips. The girl looked up at him.
There was a hint of resentment in
her voice.
“Oh, you have come back. Jim-
my and I had decided that you didn't
like the party, hadn’t we, Jimmy?”
It was evident that she had seen
him gb out with Millicent. He an-
swered evenly.
“I’m crazy about the party. Did
you think I would leave before I
had danced with my bride? The mu-
sicians have finished their gorge and
are tuning up. By the way, Chester,
be ready with a track-laying gang
to go up the inlet at reveille. You
have all the specifications. Short
notice, but you can make it. Want
to push the work while this weather
holds.” He held out his hand. "My
dance—Mrs. Harcourt."
He was conscious of Jimmy Ches-
ter’s pale, frowning regard as they
moved away in rhythmic step to the
music. He watched him until he
left the room. Janice looked up.
“Sorry I was catty, Bruce.”
He held her the fraction of a de-
gree closer. “Were you catty? Mil-
licent was raw to you, Jan, but
don’t lay it up against her. This last
year has set her nerves on edge.”
“1 wonder if a year here will do
that to mine.”
“You won’t have a chance to find
out.”
"Won't I? Perhaps you will like
having me here so much you'll beg
me to stay.”
His arm tightened. "Dance well
together, don’t we?”
There was a hint of strain in her
laugh. “The fighting line again.
Tubby wants me here if you don’t.
Yes, we are good. We might make
a dancing team, if engineering
fails.”
“That’s a thought. Sorry, but it
is time the festivities broke up. Ail
of us must be sons 6f toil again
tomorrow. We, being the guests of
honor, should make a move. That
correct? I suspect Tubby of a the-
atrical climax. We will dance round
to the door, vanish and escape."
As they stole surreptitiously from
the Waffle Shop, the heavens still
held a trace of the glory of the sun-
set. Above the broken cratfer spread
a coppery glow.
Janice drew a long uneven breath.
“It is more gorgeous than I had
imagined.” As they turned toward
the H house, she said lightly: “Ever
since I arrived as Jimmy Delevan,
I have been consumed by curiosity
to—to see the inside of your cabin.”
He answered by throwing open the
door. As they crossed the threshold
a shower of confetti pelted them. It
powdered their hair, lay like colored
snow on their shoulders, one adven-
turous particle clung to Janice’s
eyelashes. She laughed unsteadily
as she brushed it away.
“The trail of the resourceful Mr.
Grant. Doubtless he expected you
to carry your bride over the thresh-
old, as big strong men do in the
movies and points south.”
Harcourt laid his hands lightly on
her shoulders. “We will postpone
that ceremony. Take off your wrap.
The room is hot. Pasca keeps these
fires roaring.”
She slipped off the heavily em-
broidered mandarin coat. He laid
it on the couch, crossed to the fire-
place and lighted a cigarette. Arm
on the mantel, he watched her eyes
travel from the Indian blankets on
the log walls to the Russian samo-
var, saw them glow with admiration
as they rested on the Chinese pewter
tea-service, linger on the rich pelts
on the floor. They met his.
“Like it?”
“Love it. How did these rare
things get into this wilderness?”
“Small trading vessels stop for
any one of a dozen reasons. The
captain or mate usually has some-
thing choice he will dispose of for
a consideration.”
“I’m mad about that Chinese pew-
ter. We’ll have tea every after-
noon.”
“Everything I have is yours,
Jan.” The huskiness of his voice
sent the color to her face. That
wouldn’t do. He opened a door,
snapped on a light, said grandilo-
qfcntly, “Behold the kitchenette!”
She stepped to the threshold
“Pale green, and a gray-and-whitc
linoleum on the floor. My word, bul
you are modem!”
“I told you that I lost my head
over the H house. After we had fin-
ished the chimneys, they just nat-
urally required bedrooms to utilize
their other sides; bedrooms re-
quired baths; a house this size need-
ed a kitchen. I have never regret-
ted it. Planning and ordering kepi
Archie Harper busy and happy. He
worked up to almost the last mo-
ment of his life, and now I have it
for you.” He nodded toward a light-
ed room. “Your things are in there.
If you are not too tired I should like
to talk a while, Jan.”
“Except for the fact that my feet
are shredded to ribbons—that wasn't
a dance, it was a riot—I am not in
the least tired. I will change my
slippers and come back.”
“I’ll get your sandals.” He pulled
the fan-back cnair a bit nearer the
fire. “Sit here—” As she hesitated
he added, “Please.”
He dropped to one knee in front of
her. “Stick out your foot." He gen-
tly removed the high-heeled blue
slipper with its sparkling bow, put
on the sandal. “That better?” She
nodded. “The other.” He held tk«
slender foot in his hand after it wus
shod. “Jan, you understand, don’t
you— Who the dickecj is pounding
like that? Is Tubby trying to be fun-
ny?”
“Someone is beating with both
fists. Go! Quick!”
Harcourt pulled open the door.
Millicent Hale stumbled into the
room. “Bruce!” Her terrified eyes
widened as Janice took a step to-
ward her. She shut them. Sobbed.
With arms outflung she braced her-
self against the log wall. Brilliants
swinging from her ears, on her
green frock, quivered with light. She
shuddered. Gasped for control. Har-
court caught her shoulder.
(TO BE CONTINUUM
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Martin, Charles. The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1942, newspaper, March 6, 1942; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth709202/m1/5/?q=+date%3A1941-1945: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Archer Public Library.