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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN La ontlaued j about went I tcej.i? l j;,, fcaiore an-, an-, ft boort to ., to tbat sub- jalilied it the " Geoff what 0iarM the son i5a, of her own ooia the resent j neat last eve- I the the had T tocUag and jjf md been tn jjctol with thli Hill thing who -al h neb tone towlf coldly that it; she was Just bati In friends a t her the its tot a reason , knelt the black pick ruffles, .-tot, Cynthia? Or ar for mer j-ning op a bit," arfJTniit about tsdng a bltr he I I ptrtj en at the 1 Cow on, Cyn- Jected. oeit to the JOl could look Is woke." -J Wo the bedroom atiadl last peep l She nt a little 4 A touch of rouge lOrt that I ate wished she Is otic wai good, jsjaftet, there were War two. there to tfee&nf that Geoff I Jut the tame she I Then were too s 'aW Beuages to V 1 lny Glrlo Who Geoff Ovr ,,,Thlr Partners. mm of their a We. tt dance, Cyn- - something," 'T og-ln-the. J fcnnd it out JJ ttf but it tto., glrls td before 7tyou now I-1 I-1 bead ,nd 'UJkotly. jeai. don't lore fCynthlal ft "y from . and see If sV'00 w i? Won' make , me." ?. , " excuse P '"to h,9 f fall-h. fall-h. For J" with w"JJ did not r" the week I! "tltw ntntczl prldt which fought against Geoff, She had resented hit coming to lire with them In the first place; resented re-sented It because. It put her in a humiliating position In regard to his board. It had been necessary at the time to ask Geoff to pay his share oftb-, household expenses. She had put a bold front on It, but her cheeks burned yet as she remembered re-membered that conversation. Then came her Illness and Geoff's discovery of the hazardous manner In which they lived. She hated his knowing about Gary's alimony. She hated his lending the boy that hundred hun-dred dollars. Sha hated his remembering how nearly she had married Ben Sutton for hla money. Flossie paid her a visit the first Sunday of Geoff's self-exile. "How does it happen you're home this afternoon?"-was her greeting. "I thought you went riding with Geoff on Sundays?" Geoff's -busy," 1 was Cynthia's brief reply. Flossie gaxed at her thoughtfully. . Too treat Geoff awfully mean I think. Cynthia!" - "Hell survive it," said the other girl lightly. . Flossie said an unexpected thing. "Hell do more than survive it He'll take himself out of reach of It I'll tell you about men. Cynthia : they'll stand a lot of walking on but not too much. You've been trampling all over Geoff ever since I've known you both, I expect he's getting a little tired of It now. I'd quit, If I were you that Is, If you want to keep him liking you." "And supposing I dont?" Flossie began to draw on her gloves. "Oh, you couldn't not want him to." she said placidly. "Any girl would be glad to get him. I dont mean me, of course. I'm not In hla class. But a fellow that will do for any girl what Geoff did for you while you were In the hospital la one swell prince of a man, and don't you forget that, Cynthia Aylesbury Ayles-bury T "But if I really and truly dont love him, Flossie?'' she said with a sew meekness. Flossie smiled. "You love him all right, only you Just ha vent found It out yet But be careful while you're finding it out that you don't lose him altogether!" Flossie! native shrewdness was equaled, by her determination. .She attacked with hummingbird persistence persist-ence anything that roused her Interest In-terest Gary's amusement and bewilderment be-wilderment at this trait grew Instead In-stead of lessened as he came to recognise Its potency. Somehow he discovered that he followed docilely where Flossie led. She had married off "our first wife" successfully. The Cary Ayles-burya Ayles-burya purse would be the heavier by fifty dollars each month as a result of her-gentle- maneuvering. Now she had time to turn her attention at-tention to the dormant love-affair between her sister-in-law and Geoff. She was fond of them both : Cynthia Cyn-thia for her championship of the bride at a time when Flossie sorely needed support; Geoff because he had been good to her Cary. So having hav-ing called on Cynthia and drawn her own conclusions from certain signs and omens In that young lady's demeanor, she trotted home, took down her telephone receiver and dialed Geoff. "Can you come right over? she asked, t "What's thlar he demanded. "A rendezvous and you pot married sjx months yet? Fie, Flossie, flel" "That's all right." she answered lmperturably. "Give me fifteen minutes min-utes alone with you, and Cary can come and stay the rest of the afternoon." after-noon." Geoff came. Truth to tell he was glad to get away from his own thoughts. It had been a week since he had seen Cynthia ; It seemed like a year. She wouldn't can him up; not Cynthia! lie might stay away until he grew bald, acquired false teeth and a gold-headed cane; and she would preserve her stubborn aloofness. Was there ever In the history of the world girl so exasperating, ex-asperating, so endearing, so hateful hate-ful so lovsble? m "It's about Cynthia," Flossie said directly when he had arrived at the apartment "What about her? She's not Uir he Inquired anxiously. "No, she's, all right I've Just come from there. When I say all right, I mean she's not sick, or anything. You know as well sa 1 do, Geoff, that she's In love with you and won't admit It" "I know no such thing." He halt rose from hla chair. The last time I saw her she told me It made no difference to her If she didn't see me for year." Tee, of course aha bmim ... that The thing isWe've got to think up a way. in time something happened. Something that would wake her up, that would make her forget all the grudges she's holding against you; that would take her outside 'herself and eudheV running run-ning In your direction," Floaale told him, floundering n her attempt to put Into words her sense of drama. You've done all you can, I guess ; and she wouldn't do anything more If she knew how. It's time for I guess I mean for circumstances-something circumstances-something outside of your two selves to take a hand in bringing you together." "You've been seeing too many movies. Flossie," was his dlsnpprov-log dlsnpprov-log comment "Shucks I The movies Just press together In a couple of hours what It takes people a year or two to make happen," she said. "That's wha we're going to have to do now ; make something happen ourselves, as long as nothing outside Is helping help-ing us. I don't suppose you feel as though you were coming down with pneumonia, or anything?" she asked hopefully. "No, Flossie. Nor do I think my hotel will be razed by Are and Cynthia Cyn-thia think I'm lost In the ruins." "Just the same," she said without' resentment, "that's the kind of thing you dp1 right now. If something doesn't give Cynthia a shove toward you or you toward Cynthia you're never going to get together." "Your artistic soul craves a climax cli-max to this uneventful romance," Geoff sighed. "Well, so does mine, for that matter. But no kindly fate offers to provide one." "Yes, that's why I say youU have to provide your own." "It can be doner he Inquired with Interest- - "Oh, my, yes I 1 made a wedding happen to our Brst wife, easy as anything. And Cary you'd be surprised sur-prised If you knew what made him propose to me," she told him and then added with a little chuckle, "so would hel" "Well. Flossie, suggest something J Go on suggest something 1" She folded her small hands placidly. pla-cidly. "No, you'll have t6 think of It yourself. It wouldn't be the right ! happening unless you made it happen hap-pen yourself," she elucidated, "and you wouldn't be able to put It over right Now, you think; Isn't there anything about you that Cynthia doesn't know? Anything that would surprise her, or shock her, or yes, make her kind of mad 1 mean angry at you? So angry she'll forget for-get all the little things she's holding hold-ing against you." "What is she holding against me?" he asked curiously. Flossie hesitated. Sex pride was strong In her. 8he disliked giving away the secrets of the prison house to a man. Still, If Cynthia's ultimate ulti-mate happiness depended on It 1 "Oh, your knowing about the household bills, and Miss ' Nona's charging things she couldn't afford," she said. "Well, but good heavens, Flossie! Flos-sie! There was nothing in that that reflected on her I" "She's a Cary," she said simply. "They stand together like all get out And then yon were always right In every single argument you two had. No woman could forgive that" she explained earnestly. He rose and took the three steps forward and the three steps bsck the tiny apartment permitted. "I suppose the Idea then la for me to be so wrong In the next argument that It will tip the scales heavily In her favor I" She sighed. "Oh, no, no! .You must be so terribly much more right than usual that she'll fly to pieces with rage, and forgive you. You Just try it" "Flossie, you're the world's wonder won-der I But you've handed me as pretty pret-ty a problem as I'll be likely to be called upon to solve in the whole of my professional career," was his despairing conclusion. "However, I'll see what I can do abont It There's one thing sure," he consoled con-soled himself, "things can't be any worse between us than they are now." "Oh, yes, they could 1 Cynthia might start liking another man." "Is there does she T he began In alarm, than caught the significance signifi-cance of Flossie's grin and shook his flst at her. "So that's the way you work It, la It? Pld you try that on Cynthia prattling of my devotion to other pretty ladles. I mean?" "No," she said scornfully. "Cynthia's "Cyn-thia's the real thing, and I'm Just an Imitation." He stooped and kissed her cheek gratefully. "You're a mighty kind little Imitation, anyway I I'm not so sure you aren't a diamond of the first water!" CHAPTER XIV A Miracle Happens. ANOTHER week had come and gone and Geoff had neither telephoned nor called In person. Moreover and this second moreover more-over worried Cynthia Flossie had called up late Saturday evening and asked If Tcnny might come to them for. Stindny dinner. Tenny and not Cynthia with herl Cary arrived soon after breakfast to get the child. He looked einbar-. raased at this slight to his sister, hut It wnn ilflln he was Onder bonds to Flossie to extend her no Invitation. Invita-tion. Not that she would go now under any circumstances, Cynthia told herself proudly. If everybody wanted to disapprove of her, Ignore her, Just because she didn't dash around to GeofTt hotel and throw herself into his arm and say: "Please, kind gentleman, -won't you marry the nttle clerk from th gift shop?" why, they could, tt was perfectly per-fectly an right with Her. However, her' 'tMif began to pound ridiculously when she heard Geoff's voice at the .'door of the apartment soon after Tenny 's departure, depar-ture, now tall end clean and kind and fine be looked, standing there In the frame of the door I And oh, doggone It I how glad she was to see him I She disguised her pleasure decorously. decor-ously. "How are you, Geoff? It's been several days since rt seen you, hasn't ltr He eyed her sternly. "It's been eleven endless, unspeakably terrible days, and you know ltl" The weight upon her heart took wings and soared away. The smile he loved the smile he so seldom saw quirked her ftps and shone in her eyes. Surely those were the bluest clearest most lomlnom ej-es mortal girl ever possessed for the undoing of mankind! "You're coming out irlth i r the day," tie said abruptly. "A pit nlc dinner. Put your riding thln on, Cynthia, ac-J take your hea sweater. We'll steal a day from spring." " " She had meant to be rery dignified with him when he finally appeared ap-peared ; very absorbed In her shop, vague about future engagements with him, Just barely aware that there bad been a Geoff Ensloe who once had had some trivial connection connec-tion with her. But the bait he held out was too alluring ! She was homesick for "a day Q the mountains. moun-tains. There was nothing to keep her. Besides, one could be Just as casual and dignified -riding beside Geoff on the winding mountain road as one could In one'a own sitting room. Or so she thought. But with the donning of her riding clothes" and sweater came a change of mood. She felt like having a grand good time today. Winter had granted a day's armistice; why shouldn't she? "Dinner?" she asked as she rejoined re-joined Geoff In the sitting room. "In a hamper in the car. Also extra ex-tra robes In case It should be too cold up there. Come along, Cynthia ! I'll let you drive and everything I" The spell the mountains had wrought upon Cynthia that memorable memo-rable day last summer. was again at. work. When Cynthia was pleasant, Geoff thought she was the pleasant-est pleasant-est person he'd ever met She was pleasant all through dinner; din-ner; pleasant while he packed the basket with the remainder of the food, declining her Offered assistance; assist-ance; very pleasant when be brought the seats from the car and made a sort of couch on the flat rock and Insisted on her stretching out upon It for rest. "I'll sit here and smoke for a while. You snatch a nap. If you can. I've ot something to think out so I won't bother you, talking." She did not sleep but she lay there, resting, resting. The light clear air made her a little dizzy after the stuffy heat of the shop and the apartment The sense of space, of power, eased her own burden of responsibility. What did It matter, she thought dreamily, whether Geoff still loved her, or not? It would be all the same In another hundred years, a trifling century added to those already heaped upon that barrier bar-rier of rock. But It presently appeared that it mattered a lot to Geoff. When she sat.np with a long sigh and raised a hand to put back the straying curls of her hair, he began to speak ; at first in so low and gentle a voice that she did not comprehend the outrageou8ness of what he was saying. say-ing. "I'm leaving for New York Wednesday, Cynthia. The chlaT told me a couple of weeks ago that I'd accomplished all that Is necessary here. I'm needed back East Tve got all the arrangement made. We'll be married Wednesday morning morn-ing and take the noon train" "Well be Geoff Ensloe, have you lost your mind?" "No. dear." be answered gently. "Just my heart But as long a you have It It's all right. I can always put my hand on It when I want it Tenny comes with us, of course," he continued. "We'll leave her with Mother and Miss Nona and well go to Bermuda for our honeymoon." It takes a very pretty girl to look pretty when her Jaw has dropped; which made It a good thing that Cynthia was very pretty, for her mouth was even a little open. "Her Hps were parted lth surprise," 1 the conventional wsy of putting It "About the shop," he went on in a businesslike fashion. "I've made all the necessary armaments, but I thought you might like to talk them over before they g Into effect" "You're too kind." she gushed. "1 wouldn't dream of spoiling or even criticizing any plans you may have made." "That's good Htvnuse you see, Cynthia, I've agreed to let Elsie buy the Odds and Knds. I'm lending her the money to do It with because she didn't have any of her own. She'll pay me -back In quarterly Installments Install-ments and I won't charge you any coiniiilsslou on the dcnl at alt And you needn't bother abont the weeding wee-ding breakfast, oi whatever you would like to have. Flossie will see to all that" ITO Bl OONTINUKIU ROADSIDE MARKETING sBjr T. J. Ddohefy r BOYS ARB GOOD SALESMEN t rvOJTr send a boy to do a man'a L Job" may be good sdvlca at times, but numbers of farmers have found that boys can do as good, if not a better Job of selling produce direct to the consumer. Especially Is this true of town deliveries, where the youngsters are known in the community and , nelghborUnese and friendship breaks the Ice. With the right kind of training lu salesmanship boys become very good merchants. Some of them, when tney learn their vegetables," are on a par even with the best farmer merchants, being more willing will-ing to do everything to please and accommodate customers. In some counties roadside market':; mar-ket':; U part of the Boys and (Sir 4H vlub work, and vocational gTi- teachers who use vege-tabt. vege-tabt. . rult growing as a class "oorn m ct are carrying their teaching further by having their students stu-dents open up roadside and other inarkets for the produce grown. Many of these teachers. In preparation prepara-tion for the marketing work, have studied roadside markets and hare obtained college bulletins and other literature, the gist of which they pass on to their pupils. Selling, as a rule, la left to the boys showing their adeptness for this work, the others spread the word of their market Among elastomers, elastom-ers, thus making customer which older people might fall to Interest Up In Milwaukee county, Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, .William Hawthorne, who won the state gardening championship In 4H club work and who learned about selling to city consumers while carrying car-rying on the project is now on his own with two rented acres for outdoor out-door vegetable production. During Dur-ing the winter season he keeps his trade supplied with what he grows In the greenhouse he leases. William Wil-liam makes deliveries on his bicycle. Mrs. Frank A. Burford of Warren county, Illinois, sells home-made country butter to 60 families tn town. Deliveries require a little too much time considering she does her Boy Salesmen. own housework, so she has hired Margaret Swanson, her granddaughter, granddaugh-ter, to help her. Margaretwho Is quite a candy maker, increases her earnings by selling her sweets to the same people. She packs the candy in half-pint paper containers. The children were always running to Harry Kleck for permission to ell magaslnes, perfume and other things to neighboring fanners. Permission Per-mission was refused, of course, but when the wholesale price of eggs got down to where Kleck's flock wasn't paying, and he began to 'think out loud" to bis wife about new markets, the youngsters chorused cho-rused "let us sell them to people In town." Eggs were different from perfume or magazines. People needed good eggs such as Kleck produced, so he let the kids try their band. And what a success they made of the Job! Now Kleck sells all of his eggs to consumers, and, Instead of delivering them, the people drive out to his farm outside of Emporia, Kan. He gets a margin over wholesale, whole-sale, too. He paid' the youngsters 10 per cent for selling. Robert James" had to lease a larger farm because he needed more vegetables to keep up with the demand de-mand created by two boys who sold his produce from house to bouse. Now he has a crew of ten youngsters young-sters ranging from twelve to sixteen years of age, who have pushcart routes of their own making. The routes average 12 blocks, both sides of the street. When J. R. Bobbins' house-to-house milk route got too big for him to handle and supervise his farm work, and yet too small to hire another an-other truck and driver, he turned to boys to deliver his product The youngsters not only supplied his customers, cus-tomers, but operating In localities where they lived, soon had ISO people peo-ple In several Porter county (Indiana) (In-diana) towns buying not only milk but fruit sausages, vegetables and eggs. "I use paper milk bottles, sajd Mr. Bobbins. "Hence, there are no returns. "My boys are a bright lot and I think they appreciate not only the opportunity of making money but learning something which will help them when they are old. enough to shift for themselves. A milk route offers a good chance to study human nature and there Is every indication that the natural smartness of the boys Is helping educate them along business lines." t Hit. Wwtra Htmwvtm Cnloa. V ' t t Art, 'V I' . '" " "V'' 1 "''mi in.. w,u timtt . i NO EASY TASK TO "PLACE" MAN Many Theories as to Cradle of Race Advanced Anthropologists seem bent on demolishing de-molishing the Biblical story that the Garden of Eden, supposed to hare been situated In Asia, was the cradle of the human race. In recent years they have placed the cradle tn tin Gobi desert, also In Siberia and in northern Africa. And now comes A. V. W. Jackson of Columbia university to say tbat fifty year of research : In various parts f the world have led him to the conclusion that human life began simultaneously simultaneous-ly or nearly so at different places on the planet - Doctor Jackson, who was recently In Los Angeles, says he believes that the Indie people came out of Central Asia, but that between them and the Mongol races of Asia there la abso lutely nothing In common, which fact goes to show their different derivation. deriva-tion. So also, according to this distinguished distin-guished authority, the varloua negroid ne-groid races of Africa have no com mon tie, and when one looks at an American Indian or a Polynesian, one does not see a descendant of the first Biblical family, but one whose first ancestors were of a wholly separate sep-arate and original race Ethnologists who have pictured the red Indian as having descended from some mute, Inglorious Columbus Colum-bus who sailed from Asia across the Bering strait may reject the theory of Doctor Jackson that our dawn man came Into existence on this hemisphere, entirely apart from the beginning of jhe race In any 'other part of the world, but there it stands, and fifty years of research are behind be-hind It Those who accept the Columbia professor's conclusions should never again speak of "the cradle of humanity," human-ity," but of a world nursery full of such cradles all rocking in time and tune with the Infinite. Los Angeles Times. 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