The Courier News from Blytheville, Arkansas • Page 11

JTJNT5 IT, 1949 BLYTHEVTLLE (ARK.) COURIER NEWS PAGE ELEVEN OUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams Our Boarding House with Maj. Hoople I KNEW I SO WHEM THEY PUT we aw HE Bern ASKW TO BE TAKEM RIGHT OFF OF OL 1 TANSte MADE "EM COUWTALLTM" HOLES BERORE MET? 6O OW THAT OLD IF HE HA15WT SA1DATHM6 NO6OWD HXiE THOUGHT OF TO SOBS TO feu. DOBS HS WEED MAfi TO U.S.

Gets Ruhr Metal Five thousand Ions of scrap metal from the Ruhr left Antwerp recently for Baltimore, The metal conies mainly from Ger- Iman locomotives which have been up. According to AntweT) officials more cargoes of follow at regular Intervals. The first locomotive built in Am- I erica for actual common-carrier I service "The Best Pi-lend of Charleston," which made Its first Hugh Low fence Nelson FM and AM 17 Tubes Pius Rectifier I Listen to the Ball Game In Noise-Free Comfort $5 DOWN $5 A MONTH i i ITMO i. KTi.r.itu in THK STORYi Pint Couch Harding but Klgbf ait wtthaat aBcller nd Vf-rj llttlr food wlih drrer Ihclr Thra ftnilj IW Mate on Simpailva, a TChlrh krouchc HCH Cuhcravt aBd ulAMd. HMrdJBB- tbr flrr b'rcnntr af KrNdjte.

f.rnrKe plrka HP body 1 red Mllwrll. XXX TTENRY HARDING snapped, "We haven't time for this non- There is much to do." The rifle covered him and he stopped abruptly af eyes beld his. George tapped the rifle with his left hand. "You're not headman any snort, Harding. We've just had a plebiscite, and I've been elected king.

This rifle's my vote and assurance oi the best will oj the people. You're all the people and you'U all decide to works for me, do what I say. As long as I'm duly elected and hold the rod oi Henry big body tensed. "What do you want? Wha' do you expect to gain?" Bea waited for his leap, for the rifle blast. MoLlie Stark spoke suddenly "Mollie wants be queen! Mol lie's tired of that old nasty man She's tired of talk and an old man Can Mollie be queen? George Bascombe laughed bu the did waver.

"Wh. not? Why not?" He darted glance at Nona McGuire. He said "You can be queen, Mollie." Bea watched the strength leav legs, saw purpose drai from his set face. He looked oj. at he sat down in the 'red'll hunt around until he finds ome lood to bring to us." "I'll see you in hell first," Sill- well said, but the yards lacked ny conviction.

'Have it jour way. But you're he one with the thirst and I'm lie one with the whiskey." Fred licked his cracked lips. "Ill uy it. I'll pay you for it." "With food." Bascombe insisted. And from the looks of things ou'd better start hunting.

Who- ver blew things up did a first- US job." stone steps and a small por- ion of western foundation wall the house remained. It marked now the edge of a cliff which dropped abruptly to the water. On the southern side where the funicular had been, the blast and ensuing slides had laid bare blank: rock. Sliding atone, mixed with debris from the house had piled up in the treacherous currents oi the cove. There was no sign of either dock or lower storeroom ust formless, smothering mass of rubber.

All outbuildings had been knocked flat by the explosions and partially burned before (he deluge. Bea Cosgrove said, "What can you gain by this? Some ship must have seen the ftrcs. Or a Ashing boat will come. You won't be kini very long, George." Maybe noL I doubt if anyom could have seen the fires any dis tance at all through that storm At any rale, I'll be king for a day." He looked at Nona again "Come on, Mollie. let's get a fi going where it's dry." You matches?" Mabel Jones asked.

"Yes. Dry matches. Strange isn't it? Last night too much fire hungry," Mollie whined "Cold and wet and hungry. "Come OB then," George said Today, BO fire but the one I'm going to yghc So the rest c. you want fire, you'd better help Fred collect luxuries for me." "You're horrid," Agnes Firth said.

"I always thought peop stuck together in times like this, George laughed again. Tn. emergency over. This Is recon. ersion.

Come on, Mollie." GNKS. Mabel, Bea, Nona and 1 Fred Sillwell walched them go. Nona McGuire said. "I'm cold id wet. Shall we move around least? And I guess I'm the one ho ought to do most of the (nod unting for George.

He's acting us way because he's mad at me." he added softly, "I hope." She ointed suddenly and laughed, rtollie and George had slopped eside the collapsed and splintered ut. The girl obeyed his obvious rder, gathered up a full armload the splintered wood, then fol- owed him down the trail a few behind. Squaw work," Nona said. 1 ould almost feel sorry for Mollie. Almost, but not quite." "We've wasted too much rime," Mabel said briskly.

"Too much me on his foolishness. need shelter, a flre and food. We won't et them standing around feeling for ourselves." Henry Harding looked up then. They've gone. They've gone." le got slowly to his feet.

"We lust work." The words gave nim strength. "We must work live. Miss Firth, you and Mr. illwell will go to the lower storeroom. There may be some food eft uncovered.

Mrs. Jones, you will help me make a shelter of ome sort. There will be plenty of ools left at least. Miss McGuire and Miss Cosgrove can hunt for anything of value. And perhaps some of the sheep are still alive.

There may be others we can use Iso." "Is there a chance the fires were seen?" Agnes asked. A small chance. And it wouldn't lelp now if they had been. Not for days at least- Nothing can get close lo the island and live, until the surf goes down." 'Nona McGuire's teeth were chattering again. -What about t-the d-tieyd man?" Henry Harding picked up the body.

He walked slowly the distance to the stone steps, to the edge above the sheer drop. stood on the top step for a long moment. His arms straightened and their burden slid from sight. (To Re OnUnpcJ) "I'll it fixed up next week family can move in' for the summer, but I'm staying in the noisy out here with all those frogi and crickets!" 'HECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS BY MERRILL BLOSSER In IT IS? wny DlONT SAY so WHO'S THE SINGER? WHOT POP The Wilding Horn! BY Al, VKRMEER trip in 1831. On the first run.

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