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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., MAR. 31, 1933 Special interest to Women Readers Canada's Favourite Tea SALAM TEA POWDER . . By REX BEACH Synopsis Ben Furlong, a young but practical oil man and driller from the Pennsylvania field, drifted into the Texas oil country, broke and looking for work. Finally he fetched up at the Durham home where live an elderly aunt, recently widowed by the explosion of a powder wagon, and her niece, pretty Betty Durham. . . . Perhaps because of his smile, Betty cooks some food for Ben and while he eats he learns the aunt, in town on business, has an oil man, Tiller Maddox, sinking an oil well for her. ... A short 6 Inch bolt worked loose from the rigging and is In the bottom of the well. Work has been suspended for days as the crew "fish" for the bolt and operating funds dwindle away. . . . Furlong offers to give a hand but Maddox objects. . . . Betty insists and overrules Maddox so Furlong fashions a tool which brings up the bolt. ... On the order of Betty's aunt, Furlong is given a Job. . . . Maddox shows his dislike for the new hand, especially because Ben and Betty are so friendly. While the two are in town shopping one evening, Maddox calls upon the aunt, demanding she help his case with Betty or there will be no well, . . . Now go on with the story. "So! That's why you're so generous. Now you listen to me. I wouldn't marry Tiller Maddox, not for all the oil in Texas, not if it was to save your life." "Wait! Don't make up your mind in a hurry. I--I'm going over to Cousin Anna's--" "When? What for?" "Right after dinner. You think it over while I'm gone, dearie. I feel like you was my own kin. I want to do right by you and--" "Rats!" said the girl. CHAPTER VI The town lay hot and gasping under the sun. There was no shade out-of-doors, for nothing grew in the streets, not even grass; its cinder yards, its board walls and iron roofs radiated waves of heat like those from a stove. Late in the afternoon Ben Furlong entered the skating rink, paid his admission at the turnstile, and went through. Here, at least, was a place to sit down out of the sun. Out of the whirling throng upon the floor shot a figure; it was" Ben's friend, the engineer of the Maddox rig. He rolled up to the bench where Furlong sat and collapsed upon it. "Whew! It's hard work havin' a good time in this town," he panted. "Landed a job yet?" ^ "I've got some prospects lined up. What's the matter? You fired, too?" "Naw! Maddox laid us off for the day. Miz' Durham brought us in." "Did Betty come with her?" Ben eagerly inquired. The engineer shook his head; a grin spread over his face. "Say! You know how scared Tiller is of nitroglycerine? When we left he was hidin' out /yourPots,Pans& rvddiry Equipment GI "Powder wagon? What's a powder wagon doing" there?" Beu inquired. Ready to Shoot It "Why, he aims to shoot the well. He got a permit an' the stuff's on the ground, ready for the men." "He's crazy if he shoots that well," Furlong declared. "What's he thinking about?" "So I told him. 'Leave her alone an' she'll blow herself in,' I says to him. She's coughin' now, an' I bet as many wells has been ruined by that stuff as they is wells that's been made. "I'm going to see Mrs. Durham." Ben rose, but the other explained: "She's gone away over Sunday to visit her kinfolks." "Who's looking out for Betty?" "I dunno. Tiller, I reckon." Furlong frowned. For a while he listened inattentively to his companion, then he rose and left the rink. Conditions all over the oil fields, as he well knew, were unsettled, and he did not relish the thought of Betty out there alone in that farmhouse; but even more disturbing was the fact that Maddox proposed to shoot the Durham well. What ailed the man? After some indecisic* Ben decided to warn Betty. It was none of his business, to be sure, but a word from her might induce the aunt to go slowly and perhaps save the cost of the well. It would be criminal to leave her in ignorance of the risks she ran. He tried to hire a car to run back to the farm, but what few were for hire were out, and it was some time before he could discover a truck that was later going in that direction. Darkened Windows It was considerably after dark wheu Furlong left Opportunity; he had to walk the last three miles, so it was late bedtime when he finally arrived at the Durham homestead. Evidently Betty was asleep; at any rate, the farmhouse windows were dark and Ben wondered how he could best awaken her without causing alarm. Visitors in the country at this time of night were not common. He decided to call softly from outside her window, so he closed the gate quietly behind him and made his way around the house. He paused in surprise when he had turned the corner of the building, for the kitchen door was open. A momentary panie swept over him; then he drew a breath of relief, for at that moment he heard the girl's muffled "Who's there?" she. cried. He opened his lips to speak reassuringly, but the sound died in his throat, for inside Betty's room he heard a This was followed by a crash, as if a chair had been overturned, then a Furlong uttered a shout; he leaped forward. Some marauder had entered the house just ahead of him. Incredible as it seemed, he had arrived barely in time. of Terror he He made for the door beyond. That throaty clamor from the girl's room, meanwhile, continued. There were hasty movements, the sounds of a struggle. Furlong had never been inside the front part of the house, but its plan was simple and he was guided by those shrieks of terror. The door to Betty's room was closed, but it opened when he wound the knob. He glimpsed the dim square of a window opposite the silhouetted against it he saw the girl herself, then blackness engulfed him. The next he knew Betty Durham was holding his head in her lap and splashing water into his face. It struck him as queer that the lamp should be burning when only the fraction of an instant before all had been (To be continued) To promote the British Industries Fair in London this year eight and three-quarters tons of catalogues in nine languages have been sent to 65 countries. Railwaywoman Toronto Housewife, 88, Tells Of Active Service With C. P. R. The only woman engineer to work for the Canadian Pacific Railway, Mrs. Mary Ellen Wilkinson, of Toronto, celebrated her 8Gth birthday last month. She became a railway engineer when she and her husband, Thomas Wilkinson, a C.P.R. employee, were pioneering a Cartier and North Bay. The railway had just pushed its line through there. 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Snow-Whirl Chocolate Roll 6 tablespoons sifted cake flour 6 tablespoons breakfast cocoa % teaspoon baking powder Vt teaspoon salt % cup sifted sugar 4 egg whites, stiffly beaten 4 egg yolks, beaten until thick and lemon colored 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour once, measure, add cocoa, baking powder and salt, and sift toge- Dog Is Foster-parent of Baby Guinea-hens Psychologist Full of Praises For The Two-Career Woman Is In Agreement with the Modern Ideal--Says Many Men Might Better Be Doing the Housework "Women's economic contribution to the family is no new thing," says Dr. Grace Loucks Elliott, author and psychologist, in a pamphlet on "Five Vocational Issues," recently published by the National Federation of Business add Women's Clubs. "To carry over the ideal that 'woman's place is in the home,' when she cannot now function in the home as she once did may make for her a parasitic, non-productive existence formerly open to a small privileged minority," adds Dr. Elliott. 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