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Show The Cache American. Logan. Cache County. Utah lv . n V r By JERRY LINK e . (. J. Fuller Pep v Va1-- vY ' ' " R e Jln v rv r "Yj ry I rn 'Nv.. r O fi' If III UlFll n,I? Ilnf aprvw v4, MeHarry Cuiw, PUOH Patre Seven r. i , , w' 'K,f ft 5v' Sh VN.U.5cmct INSTALLMENT SEVEN The Story So Tar Idee than h. KMchi dauchur, thouih be la enaaevd to ShirCraham. a ley. KaUilrcaa sitter. Tem. Kathleen (ranger, belie Kalhlna 8a a flat and The depression has hit tha Magulra family though Mika Maguire, happy-fo-luckeditor and mayor of Covington, la serene. His daughter Kathleen la irritated, however, over lover a things. Mrs. Neeraum would like ber eon. Jatrd to many Connie Maya, tha banker a a CHAPTER IX a brother, la bard hit by the slump M real estate, and bis oil, Mary Etta, secretary, talks tl Reno. A younger brother. Ales unable to get a . la taking up with a lltthy Monde, murk e a "Lou Knight! gasped Kathleen. Alec nodded. "1 ought to be horsewhipped." he confessed miserably. Myra and tha gang bet me that sbo would turn ma down like nobodys business. "And did she? Alec hung hit head. No. 'Oh, Alecl And now you're phoning her again. For what? To tell her Im sorry but I cant take her to the airdrome after aU because Ive broken my neck or omelhlng. Gee. Kathleen. Id nev-e- r bear the last of It If 1 supped out with that little suggtn." Sure shes a suggin." cried Kathleen passionately. Her dads been the town sot for years and she used to play hooky from school because the hadnt decent shoes to wear. And they live up over a beer flat down by the railroad shops and shes never had anything but cuffs and abuse. And shes thin and homely and all eyes and scared to death of people like any other animal that's been mistreated. But she's also proud at the devil and sensitive and pitiful. And she's probably been thrilled to death for hours because you asked ber out. But whati that to you? Youre going to call her up and break her heart and make mincemeat of her pride. Good Lord, you don't think I What would Laura ought to gol say? Kathleen's nostrils dilated with scorn. "She'll probably think she Alec Maguire needed another drink. He needed it badly. Liquor But ungave him a quick pick-ufortunately liquor bad mean trick of dying on him too toon. And the letdown waa terrific. been tollin' the folia how 'Tan't the music gorgeous? burKKUXXK-I'PEP given you bled Myra. that ordinary meala are eo Alec regarded ber aourly. Ha often aby of vitamin Bi and D. didn't want to, but quite auddenly be Beat part of It la you get 'era In a cereal that taatea ao eonaarn taw every line about ber loose good you wonder how It can be rouged mouth. Her balr wa metalYou win both wayal good for you. lically yellow, but orxt to tho root! It was drab. Her under chin sagged unless she held It well up. But tomorrow would be another day, reA ctTttl rkh fa PiUmimi B, sag D flected Alec bitterly. With absolutely nothing to do. While his nerves crawled with boredom. At least Myra provldtd action. She bad to be doing something Deml-GoPoetry a every minute. That waa why the The basis of poetry is language, liked ber playmates young. Matur w hich is material only on one side. er men occasionally had jobs to go Emerson. It is a demi-goto. Myra herielf had no serious occupation except ber own amusement And she was perfectly will' lng to pay the piper for the privilege of calling the tune. 'Tvs got to have another shot beBY YOUR LAXATIVE -- RELIEVE fore I do a rhumba, muttered Alec CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAY when the music ended. He left Myra to rejoin their party Who you fel uy, baUchy, lofy I du to cJoftd-uas best she could and made his bowlt, do mil tons do-at bcdtim. Next little blindly toward the exit way morning thorough, comfortxbl nM, Marigold Gardena had no license to helping you start tbs day full of your tell Intoxicating beverages. So evnormal energy and pep, feeling liks a Bullion! doesnt disturb erybody brought his own. It waa your nights rest or interfere with work the quite like good old before-repeBert day. TVy the chewing day. Myra always parked a quart gum laxatiee, yourmlC It testes good, its or two with her car. She thought handy and economical... a family supply Alec might have asked ber to go FEEN-fl-HIHTTof along If be wanted a snort He waa a queer youngster. Brilliant but moody, and his temper waa a erratic aa a trick cigarette lighter. Conscience and Passions Myra had never quite figured him Conscience is the voice of the out Perhaps that waa why he insoul, the passions are the voice of trigued her. the body. Rousseau. Alec had not asked Myra to share ber own liquor because he wanted to be rid of her. He had to do something which he dreaded. Myra would think it waa a scream if the knew. MIDDLE-AG- E She would tell the world so. Alec's face looked a little haunted. It was ridiculous Jam for him to have got Into. It waa all Myras fault anyHEED THIS AD VI C way. If she hadn't dared him and Thousands of women if he hadn't been three (beets in the are helped to go smilwind, it could never have happened. ing thru distress peculiar to women caused He might be pretty thoroughly no by this period In life good, but he wasn't at heart that with Lydia E. rotten. At least he hoped not Vegetable 'famous lor Hell! muttered Alec Maguire to over 60 years. Pinkham's Compound himself and Jerked open the door of made especially for tromen has helped thousands to relieve such the telephone booth. weak, nervous feelings due to this He continued to frown at the blank functional disturbance. Try U! wall before him as he dialed a number. Kathleen cleared her throat At least she and Alec always fought fair. He whirled, recognized her, "Shell probably think she raised Bed of Its Making smothered an oath and hung up the her son to be an idiot. Jealousy spreads the bed with receiver before his connection could stinging nettles and then lies down be raised her son to be an idiot, but completed. to sleep. he I believe she'd prefer that to a "If it Isnt little sister. sneered. "Out slumming with Hot cad. Alec drew a long breath. 'Til Shot Mays and the like of that I he muttered. thought you had more sense. I had never live it down, to look twice when you came in. Just "But here goes. He dialed his numcouldnt believe the old eyesight ber and this time he waited for That was alcohol, not shock, Budhis connection. dy. This is Alec Maguire." he said In the One Alec went very red. Will doggedly into the receiver. WHEN kidneys Function badly and family's enough, he muttered. send somebody upstairs YY you suffer e please you nagging backache, "Why dont you cut it out then? with a message to Lou Knight? Tell with dizziness, burning, scanty or too "Gene Mays never did a girl's rep her I've been frequent urination and gelling up at unavoidably detained any good. and am going to be a little late, but night; when you Feel tired, nervous, alf upset use Doan's Pills. "Maybe you think I like having I'll be there. Doan't are especially (or poorly people refer to my brother as the He turned away from the teleBoone divorcees latest gigolo.' working kidneys. Millions of boxes "I hope youre satisfied, be are used every year. They are recomThe moment she spat out the phone. mended the country over. Ask your word Kathleen was sorry. Alec growled. He did not return to the ballroom. neighborl went so white she was frightened. Kathleen watched him going sulkily All right he said in a thick- out the and didn't know ened voice, you win. Im putrid. whether entrance, to laugh or to cry. He was matno to Im not fit open my trap lucky enough to catch a ride with ter what you do. I admit it And Len Woods and Sylvia Mason who will that's that Now you beat it? had decided to move on elsewhere. Ive got to telephone and I didnt WNU W They set him down on Main Street 2541 invite an audience. Kathleens lips quivered. "I didnt and, still scowling, Alec crossed the tracks and made for that mean With Faults it Alec. But, gee. Buddy, it railroad Dealing unlovely part of town against which Bad men excuse their faults; breaks my heart when youre like Mike was always crusading in the this. good men will leave them. Alec looked away. His handsome Clarions editorial page, where one of ugly shotgun houses, all preboyish face was haggard, his black row "I'm not cisely alike, butted against another eyes a little desperate. and the streets were unpaved and drunk now if thats what you mean, Salt Lakes NEWEST HOTEL dusty, the yards small and cluthe said gruffly. I know. But dont go back In tered and bare. Myra would be furious, Alec knew there, Alec. Cut that bunch and surprise Mother by turning up at a that But the stimulation of the alcohol which he had consumed earlidecent hour for once. Yeah, and lie awake till day- er in the night had yielded to black light rolling and tossing because depression, and in his present hublue to sleep, mor he did not much care what MyIm too ra elected to do about his cavalier he said bitterly. "What time is it? Nevertheless he was by my watch and desertion. chain though I dont guarantee it aware that he would feel differently said Kathleen with a rueful grin at the next day when the hours the wrist watch which she had won stretched interminably before him with a prize essay on the beauty and he had nothing to do but think. of being altruistic in a grossly maThe sort of thoughts that had been terial world. driving him crazy since he took his Alec groaned. "Blow, he said degree at midyear and found himsharply. self adrift in a world that yawned Kathleen regarded him with narwhen he begged for his chance. Just You as well tell a chance, that was all he asked. A rowed eyes. may me what its all about, she said chance to do things. Big construcfirmly, because I'm sticking till tive things such as he had dreamed you do. of. Alec again colored violently. You God!" said Alec Maguire to wont like it But if you must have TEMPLE SQUARE it you must. We were all pretty well liquored up this afternoon and Opposite Mormon Temple HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Myra wanted to do something differRates $1.50 to $3.00 ent, for a thrill. So she dared me to Its S mark of distinction to stop call up somebody and make a date at this beautiful hostelry for tonight Pul! it." my Aunt Edna Mr to ma. tharo ain't nobody auneleir than tha peraoa who won't put alon( food new. Ooodnea know. It dun t cowl anybody anything. And taking that to heart, I TIU-m- in PEP d DONT BE BOSSED p Ukf Feen-A-Mi- t, WOMEN SS Ell Pink-bar- Com-pou- ... gosh-awf- Nine-fiftee- n Hotel ERNEST C. KOSSITEB, Mer. Who? Lou Knight patterns Q SEW! S'6 CIQCLC 4fl blase ber. Me. too, la a seatt-ape- r man -- end without a Job to an goes to a dance wtlb Gene though aha doe but Ilk bim. Cruel Conqueror Tl.e conqueror I not so much pleased by enlcting into open gutrs as by forcing his way. Ha desires not the fields to be cultivated by the patient husbandman; he would have them laid waste by sword end fire. It would be hu shame to go by a way already opened. Lucan. Ma Kathleea think alt dlallke Rttrhle. e Near Ui railroad shops there wa business street of aorta. It consisted mainly of cheap eating places, squalid second hand furniture stores, pawnshops, small grimy groceries and beer Joints. Upstairs were flats. Dingy dilapidated placet with shaky floors and flimsy walls and no modem conveniences. Fir traps MA waa alwaya calling them and attempting to arouse an inert public to demand their destruction. Mike's son. tramping up the steep rickety staircase which mounted from outside. cursed under his breath. How bad he ever landed himself in such a mesa? Even drunk he should have had more sense, to tay nothing of decency. CHARTER JUST DatM is mniim Inwardly Borne Great joys, like great griefs, are silent. Marmion. X Covington was small enough for everybody to know practically everyone else by sight and gossip Alec had vaguely known old Pete Knight's Utile girl aU her life although he didn't remember ever having spoken to hrr before today They had gone to the same public school because until recently the town bad only the one But they had never been in the same class or even in the same room. Alec thought Lou was about aeventeen, three year younger than himself Pete Knight waa Covinglon'a bad example. He came originally from good slock, or ao it was generally believed. At least when he first TN ONE pattern, sunsuit, frock blew into town some fourteen years ar.d bonnet are all included. he of before, gsve evidence havuig Even if she's oily two, she can Largest and finest hotel in been at one lime a gentleman Even n on the frock all Idaho. Two hundred beautiput yet traces of a former gentility by herself; the plain neckline and fully appointed room. Only showed through his maudlin speech ruffly wing sleeves will be cool fireproof hold in Boise. LoBut somewhere the man had lost end comfy, all summer long. This cated In heart of civic, hold of himself. Mike had a theory trio is sweet in percale, gingham, and bus in rat disthat Pete Knight had taken a knockseersucker. trict. out blow In some fairer existence linen, which left him punch-drunso that Pattern No. 8871 Is designed In all sizes EXCELLENT FOOD 2 to 8 years. S ate 3. 3 yard ma he couldn't pick himself up again. without nap; 5'i yards braid. For terial MODERATE RATES But if so, he never referred to IL And he resented any attempt at this attractive pattern, send your order to: MANAQCMMT Of VW9K 1SCM prying into bis past if he had one. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Art. Certainly he had no present or fu 8an Francisco Calif. hire. He must have been about Enclose 13 cents in coins for thirty when he dropped off a freight train in Covington and be had been ... Size Pattern No Driven by Thought Name steadily drinking himself to death A spur in the head is worth two ever since. Several months after his . Address in the heels. arrival Lou appeared. She was barely toddling. A queer forlorn little tyke even then, who had made the trip in the care of successive railroad conductors. He worked, when he wasn't on spree, at anything he could find to do N from washing dishes In a greasy spoon restaurant to hauling garbage for the city. But most of his earnings went for whiskey with which further to befuddle his already fog And for several years gy brain. he had been a physical as well as a moral wreck. But when he was in his cups he presented a tragically ludicrous figure. The sort small boys loved to follow and torment with rocks or snowballs Just to hear him roar like a baited and bewildered trapped bear. all that is good, all that is useful, Come, said a small husky voice It is the abnegation of self which nearly all that is ornamental in when Alec rapped at one of the battered doors which lined the long has wrought out all that is noble, the world. dingy upstairs corridor. The girl, standing a little beyond the scarred kitchen table, reminded him uncomfortably of a small hunted animal. The fiat had only two rooms and was depressingly scant of furniture. But at least an effort had been made to retrieve the ugliness of dark cracked walls and narrow broken-panewindows. A straggling geranium grew in a tin coffee can and the rusty cook stove had BET been polished. Hello, said Lou Knight. r SMOKE CAMELS. She was very thin and her blue eyes were enormous in her small THEY'RE EASY ON wan face. She had thick pale brown hair, a shy nervous mouth and little MY THROA-Troughened hands that kept twisting ' at her side. Her glance begged Alec not to laugh. At the room, or at her, or at her sleazy blue silk dress which pulled in places, revealing AND THE FLAVOR. raw seams, and which bagged in I? others. But Alec had never felt less IS SWELL like laughing. She was such a pathetic little scrap. So dreadfully shy. So afraid of sneers and blows because life had handed her little else. Ready? he demanded awkwardGOLF CHAMPION ly. She nodded. And he went on, trying desperately to sound natural. BEN HOGAN Sorry I was late. But if we hurwe I can just make the think ry, last show. She said nothing. But he saw the cords working in her thin little neck. camels contains She was scared to death. Alecs OF SLOWER .burning throat hurt at the look in her eyes. THE SMOKE She stumbled on the stair from sheer nervousness and he put out his hand to steady her. But she caught her breath sharply and flinched away. Alec flushed. Had she thought he tha4otherlargestwas going to hit her? He hated aver than the any himself for being so painfully aware test d iess than of her shabby little slippers which cigarettes Belling .QdepeQdeIlt n had scuffed, spike heels. He supposed he was a snob, but the hardest thing be had ever done in his life was to walk through the crowd of hangers-o- n outside the Covington Airdrome and purchase a couple of tickets for himself and Lou Knight. Even after he was safely THE CICAHETTE GF inside where there were no lights COSTLIER TOBACCOS his handsome young face burned. La (TO BE COXn.WED JCk. HOTEL BOISE BOISE, IDAHO front-butto- Self-Deni- Whyte-Melvill- e. THE THH1G! 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