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Help The * Reef Cross TEA SERIAL STORY LUCKY PENNY BY GLORIA KAYE THE bfORY: We.llhy Penny Kirk ha* returned from ParU to Kirktown to learn something bout the great steel mills the wni and the people who won in them. She gett a job at wait- r-i, under the name of Penny Krllogf. A fight break* out in the restaurant between a work- nan and the Caitrot, a Rang of gamblers who prey on vhe mill- workers. Later she meets Jim Vickers, local newspaper editor whom she had met in Paris but who doesn't recognize her. She learni from Bud Walsh, a steel worker, that the men are dis- satisfied with the mills' present management. A NEW JOB CHAPTKU VI SumnuT nights crowded with pleasant memories warmed Pen- ny's friendship for Jim. She could hardly wait for the end of the day, when Jim would drive up in his nondescript car. They found rutted roads that lead nowhere except to hilltops crowned with the glories of the setting sun. One night in particular, Penny would always remember. They had been driving along in silence, Jim absorbed in his own brow- wrinklinjr thoughts. Penny drink- ing in thi- beauties of the moon- lit panorama spread about her. "Penny," Jim *aid, thought- fully. "How'il you like to be cap- tain of my team?" Penny smiled. "Captain?"' "Yes," Jim answered, "I need someone like you Penny looked up ijuickly, her face l>oamin<;. "I mean,' 1 Jim was struggling for tin- words. "I need someone like you on the Courier. We'd make a winning combination, you and I." Hi' h:i'l v, nnlcl to say sonic- thing quite different- ^oincthiiiK bout the way he really felt. How he missed her. How he loturod to have her near him. He hesitated only when he thought of the strug- gles ahead for anyone who would share his threadbare existence. He liopi'il Penny would under- stand. 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"Working with you, Jim," she told him, "is like an answer to a dream." * * They spent exciting hours, plan- ning, exchanging ideas, excitedly awaiting the day when Penny would leave Pietro's and join Jim's small staff. Penny's future promised exciting, thrilling adven- tures. She was at the Courier office early on her first day of work, eager to begin her new career. The Courier occupied crowded quarters in the basement beneath the branch office of the City Bank. Two big desks faced each other, littered with an astounding accumulation of publicity re- leases, unopened letters, old news- papers and clippings. A counter stretched across the length of the room. Penny knew from the moment she walked in that she was des- tined to love the smell of printers ink and the informality with which the Courier staff tackled each crowded day. She knew each morning would be brighter be- cause of Jim's warm smile of wel- come. Penny learned to listen for Jim's step as he bounded down- stairs, whistling a carefree little tune. He had cleared a space for her on the desk opposite his own, by sweeping everything off. * * * Penny swung easily into the routine of work. Before long, the office lost its dusty, disorderly appearance. Jim wondered how he had managed so long without her. Perhaps because she herself was Inn-sting with news and with a vitality that reflected her good will toward everyone, she found it easy to extract do/ens of inter- esting news items. "You're okay," Jim compli- mented, as he watched the way she sailed into her work. "You'll be a good newspaperman one of these days." Late one afternoon, when Jim had finished decipherim; the day's notes which always cramme:! his pockets, thtf quiet of the office was shattered by a sudden rusli of footsteps on the steep stairway. Penny looked up, into the fright- ened eyes of a breathless boy. "Mr. Vickers! Mr. Viekers!" he shouted. "A terrible accident. The bridge. Come <|Uick.'' Jim shot upstairs. Penny fol- lowed swiftly, helping the tired youngster to negotiate the last steps. Jim's ear wns already rat- tling impatiently. "It's the centre bridge, Mr. Vickers," the boy directed. Jim allowed a siren-blowing ambu- lance to pass, and swung into busy Central avenue, \e\vs has a curi- ous way of spreading swiftly in a small town. Already people were racing toward the scene of the tragedy. Piecing together the story of what hud happened WHS not hard. Never -lisped ing that death was so near, the driver of a huge truck and trailer, loaded with steel, had started across the span. Weakened by age, too tired to support the heavy load, the struc- ture had given way. Its twisted steel WHS a tangled mess. Pinned beneath the wreckage were the driver and his helper. Penny felt weak and sick at heart. She hoard someone say It was lucky the accident hail hap- pened between turns. If the men had been leaving the mills, the death toll would have been ter- rible. Once again Penny had an op- portunity to admire Jim Vickers in an emergency. He lost no time in muking the dangerous descent to the river. His was the guiding hand that sped rescue work. The men must have known thoy would be too lute. Penny helped Jim into his coat when finally he returned. His face was white and his lips wer? dry. He didn't sny anything until they were bark in the car. "I have the toughest assign- ment in my life ahead," said Jim. "You remcmlier Hill, don't you? The fellow who started the fight at I'ietro's?" "Yps," yiiid Penny, "I remem- ber." "Bill'* brother HUH helper on that truck. I'll have to tell his wife." The tragedy struck pain- fully home. "It's all so unnecessary," Jim protested bitterly. "A new bridge should have been put up two years ago. The money was appropriated, Blueprints were drawn up. Cas- tro's crooked politicians pocketed the funds." * * * Now it was Penny's turn to be furious. "For weeks I've heard about corrupt politicians and gangsters and raw deals. For years Kirk- town has been run by a bunch of rotten crooks. Isn't there anyone in this place with backbone enough to run them out and see that the town gets a decent break? Are you going to put up with this sort of thing forever?" "No, Penny," Jim replied grim- ly. ''This time we will do some- thing. We've been cowards. We've already waited too long." "There's something else that's troubling me, Jim." Penny chose her words carefully now. "That bridge ran over company prop- erty. Doesn't the Kirk manage- ment care at all? Don't they know what's happening in Kirk- town?" "The Kirk management! That's good!" barked Jim. "They sit back in their beautiful offices in the prettiest building at the coun- ty seat, and don't know or don't raro about anything except black figures on the profit reports." "Then it's high time they learned a few things," flashed Penny. * * * Silence shrouded their thoughts on the rest of the drive to the Courier office. Penny's flushed cheeks and brightened eyes ex- pressed her determination to act now in the interests of Kirktown. "I'd like to have the day off tomorrow," Penny told Jim, hop- ing he wouldn't ask her to reveal her plan. "Sure, Penny," said Jim. "I have another request, Jim. I want to do a series of stories that e\cryo ||l> ' n town will read. I need your help." "Just name it, Penny," offered Jim, "ami I'll do all I can." "I'd like to spend a few dnys in the Kirk mills. I'll take my lunch box with me ajid chat with the boys. I'd like to get some human interest stories about the men who make steel," she ex- plained. "Sounds good," Jim admitted. The more Penny thought of the injustice's she had witnessed, the antrier she became. She was fighting niii.l l>y the time she left t'int night for her return to the Kirk estate. She intended to stay mad until she !;!< 1 finished her visit to the Kirk offices (Continued Next Week) Large Pulpwood Shipment For U. S. Canada has agreed '- exert "every possible- effort" to export 1,500,000 cords of pulpwood to the United tales this year from terri- tory east of tin; Cascade Mountains In Ilritish Columbia, it was an- nounced jointly by tlu> Canadian timber controller and the. pulp and paper division of the War Production Board. Tho agreement also provides that Canadian mills will ship to the United States 1,170,000 tons of pulp In 194II. The statement said (Jiere was no possibility at tills timo that fir logs could be exported from Brit- ish Columbia. Bad weather con- ditions In British Columbia and the 1'udget Sound areas have vir- tually exhausted log inventories. Boners A corps is n dead gentleman; a corpse is a dead lady. Filet mignon is an opera by Piircini. Inertia is the ability to rest. The Royal Mint is what the King grows in his garden. 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