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Show m TflE STORY TnUS FAR , iintn widow, and owner of W t MPer miU In the Carolina m, ,r caper mill In the a. Morgan. pap rf -Aimtain "sr."'' ,.,ii withers. He a mar- "LTrage-Branford Will., a youna d.VrndVhta way loth, wins for. twee uay , allowed to leaves tains wr "V ul i. and allowed to unrean nome. i,iin himself mlernrnent employee, working with ' 8 4 to the district. Wills develops m"T and is torced to remain tn the Marian. Virgie's daughter. ..,aml?nL TIC iuw"t"- SOUS disli Wius. Daniels, the mill's Withers m w- legrns gomeone u t. 'tnir to obtain title to timber land. fcmpi hv Tom Pruitt. life-long friend of fficVased husband and part owner of flm She advises Tom to clear up it hi property. A love affair is 'HZ between i Daniels and Lucy f ,lPVirgie' secretary. Withers at-ESS at-ESS to bargain with Daniels to have f in letting possession of the f . n mill Daniels Refuses. Wills im-Borr, im-Borr, an I discovers he is In love with f,n She is developing similar symp-BothVeep symp-BothVeep it secret. Virgie offers S a job at the mill. Tom learns tlm-Imprests tlm-Imprests have sent men to look over f d He takes a rifle and goes Into 5? Ss His health greatly Improved, Reaves the Morgan household to live B the village. CHAPTER VI Continued The clerk rang the register and counted out some bills. "II your mother wants to see Perry Per-ry Bennett about that piece of spruce i bis, Marian," he said, "you tell ber it ain't any use. Perry's sold it they drew the papers Saturday. He sold it to Wallace Withers." "What would Wallace Withers want with that spruce?" "Don't ask me. Maybe he's goto! go-to! to sell Christmas trees. Whatever What-ever be wants there's money in it. That old guy is so stingy he honed a nickel razor-blade and used it over and over for ten years." Marian followed Bry out to his car. She was quiet and thoughtful as Bry tore through town and around the mountain curves. She knew a great deal about her mother's moth-er's affairs. She was certain that Virgie had counted on buying Perry Bennett's spruce. "What are we supposed to do when we get to- Asheville?" Bry broke in on her silence. "We aren't eloping, by any chance?" "In a rain-coat?" Marian gave him a pitying look. "When I elope it will be by moonlight, and the man will be lean and handsome. He won't look like you." "What does it matter how he looks in the moonlight?" "It doesn't matter. But it matters mat-ters a lot when I look at him next day and discover what I've eloped with. And I wouldn't be thrilled at looking at you across a breakfast table, Bry, for years and years." "I never get up for breakfast." "The man I elope with has to get up. He'll bring me my toast and coffee, with a rosebud on the tray." "You can't marry that fellow. He's married already. No weak-minded, weak-minded, angelic sap like that could possibly have escaped until now." "It isn't weak to be gallant." Mar ian was abstracted because she had been trying to picture Bry across a breakfast table. His dampish hair and eyes full of things he had seen -things you didn't like to think about. "Gallant and goofy," Bry finished for her. "Your forefathers hitched their women to the plow along with the ox. If they didn't pull a straight furrow they got the whip around their legs. I'll bet your great-grandfather sat by the fire in Scotland and smoked while his wife did the ing and brought in the wood." "They didn't burn wood in Scotland. Scot-land. They burned peat." "Well, whatever it was she had to cn7 it in. You're soft all you women!" ' t("You," Marian stated, dryly, aren't so hard yourself. If this tar stalled in the mud right now, lve got more muscle to push it tot than you have." "I don't need muscle." He was wmplacent. "I've got brains. I 7W enouSh to give you good ad- while you were pushing the car out." "You make me sick with your CMeit I don't fcnm,. ,U T , V.U anyway- Tu around-I ant to go back." "Okay." He turned the car into a Z; mout protest' backed it, turned it, not looking at her. CHAPTER Vn Jirgie had spiked her old hat on her I f and given a fli across Enfn 3 feather dust. when tort Wilis walked into the of- - "mi anernoon. 1 w'. w c erinnea ieeoiy. fcerZV imPrtant asset to oS'bTessforadayrtw- Jether StoP knocking to- Vir 'i"yway- Butherelam." ferEcmned ck. She liked this ta7e of I yed youn8 man witl the W dtT?' setfhis mouth Palf-Days .J still Tom Pruitt had ? mu" she said 8 ten ' 11 l00ks Uke r & bu!inBe!!d0me yg bones in mess. My old ones are about I'll tJn. I?6 along out wi" me Abetter , byS you're her- if a;fund watch Cia't work L get "nderfoot. You fen what v8 PUlp mil1 unIes you LuC;tsa"about-0h' yes" K and Lupy nins me." bBd. "P and said "How swallowing nervously. awlH'Wind BY HELEN TOPPING MILLER "I shall probably have to ask Miss Fields to boss me for a while," he said. "I'll be a sad tenderfoot, I'm afraid." "I'll boss you." Virgie stated firmly, firm-ly, "and this plant can't afford ten-derfeet ten-derfeet You have to cut your eye-teeth eye-teeth quick and cut them hard. Begin Be-gin by stepping high over that steam hose if you don't want Jerry Shel-ton Shel-ton in your hair." There was, to Virgie's eyes, only the customary reticence of the mountain man in the attitude of the old hands in the mill toward Bran-ford Bran-ford Wills. They greeted him with the taciturn "Hody" of the hills, looked him up and down, went on with their work. "You show Wills how the drum-barkers drum-barkers work, Mank," Virgie ordered. or-dered. "Start him in with the logs at this end and he'll come out with the pulp into the stuff chests, at the other." But if she was satisfied with the calm of events at the mill, she was displeased when she went home at night, very weary. The rain had stopped. The ground was freezing again and the wind "When I elope it will be by moonlight, moon-light, and the man will be lean and handsome." was friendless and dreary. Lossie had not lighted the fire and the room that Virgie persisted in calling the "sitting-room" was cold. The upper floor still smelled of camphor and - alcohol ..and Ada Clark's starched, scorched uniforms. uni-forms. But it was very still. Lossie Los-sie had cleaned up the sick-room and put a clean counterpane on the bed, very flat and white. It looked lonely. Marian's room was empty, too, and Virgie felt irritated at that. You spent your best years raising young ones, you gave them the best of everything and all the freedom in the world. You were a good parent and what did you get? A cold house, empty and forlorn, nobody to talk to, nobody to give a darn n you dropped over from weariness or got pleurisy from dressing in a cold room. Even in her own mind Virgie was only half aware of the real cause of her irritation, the pressing apprehension appre-hension half ignored, which was her anxiety about Tom Pruitt She sat and stared gloomily into the fire, wondering what had happened hap-pened to the old man and what he meant by wandering off, anyway, without a word to any one the old mule-head! Sat, all unaware of the drama that had been enacted that day, on the cold slope of the ridge above Hazel Fork, a drama with only one witness. That witness was young Bill Gallup. Bill Gallup had been driving the maintenance truck along a rutty mountain road. The road followed the slash ribbon rib-bon over the slope of a ridge where the steel towers and wires of a main transmission line linked up the ea ger plunge of mountain torrents with the deeper surge of the commerce of the world. Through the Ipw growing brush of the slash he saw a tall figure approachinga ap-proachinga man who carried a gun. He slowed the truck and waited. Mountain men were sensitive for all their harsh exteriors and to pass on without stopping to pass the time of day might give offense that could bring down on a power concern the vindictive and sadistic enmity of a whole family connection. Bill called, "Howdy, neighbor," and trod the brake. The engine instantly in-stantly sighed, gurgled, steamed, and died. The man with the gun came nearer and Bill saw that it was old Tom Pruitt "Hello. Tom," he greeted. "What are you fixing to hunt up here, this time of year? That looks like a bear gun to me." "Yeah," he said, "this here s a bear gun. I been toting it round over the ridge yonder. Thought I mought maybe could see me a varmint. var-mint. I was just shackling down to get me a bite to eat. You gom back to that there lighthouse of mi -ic ntons and see if your ii : i ii ii-- cold Jim Bishop's wiienas pone in the stove." b Service "bure, get in. You must have been out quite a while you're pret ty muddy ana Ured out from the look of you." "Slept out" Tom was laconic. At the Bishop house Tom got out and went around to the back door. Jim Bishop' wife was a girl from trie village and Bill remembered that he had heard she was distantly related to Tom. Any kinship, to the most remote degree, was important in the mountains. Bill drove back to the plant confident that Tom would be taken care of. An hour later, as he went back to work after lunch, he saw Tom Pruitt again. Gun slung over his shoulder, Tom was slogging down the muddy road. His shoulders were slumped and his legs moved heavily as though he were very weary. Tom turned off the road presently and struck directly across the ridge, following a dim trail through the crowding laurel. The path was steep and tangled, having been made by fame. It crept beneath tall, knotty thickets of rhododendron, and skirted skirt-ed open places, keeping to the shelter shel-ter of the undergrowth. It had been trodden out by creatures wishing to hide, and it suited Tom, for he had no desire to be seen. Twice he rested, crouched on rocks, stretching his legs, his ears buzzing as his heart strained in the thin air. On the upward climb he did not bother to look about him, but toiled on, stooping, the gun heavy under his arm, his head down. But once on the crest his manner changed, turned feral, cautious, his eyes glinting. He stalked silently, his old hat Jerked down, the pocket of his overall jacket sagging from a double weight of cartridges. The opposite slope of the ridge I was very different from the brushy way he had just climbed. Ahead, as far as his eye could carry, was a great untouched, majestic expanse ex-panse of hardwood forest. Trees, ', vast and quiet, leafless and magnificent, magnifi-cent, in their aloof columnar austerity, auster-ity, covered the slow descent and a j rolling expanse below. Tom breathed heavily, air whistling whis-tling through his teeth as he looked at them. His eyes, for a moment, ! were worshipful Taking a downward roundabout way, he advanced from tree to tree, carefully finding the moss under-! foot making no sound. A bunch of wild gooseberry bushes offered ambush am-bush and he dropped into them, parting the twigs soundlessly, lying still for a long interval, his gaze fixed on the slope below. There was an indentation in the half-frozen ground and into this his elbow fitted easily, because in that place for two days-it had rested. The ground was cold and Tom's body ached after a half-hour in the cramped plaf-e, but he shifted his limbs,.-. !&Ai? bands, and sbruggswNife'ftSNrp1' -lout bis neck, alwsys keeping his eyes on a spot lar below between the tall poplars. pop-lars. The light grew cold and thin, the trees stirred and worried as trees do when night begins to climb the mountains. A dry twig fell, a crossbill cross-bill swung across a lighter space, I stopped for an instant on the bark of a cedar, turned head down, and began its angry cry. All the frost-powdered frost-powdered drift of leaves stirred briefly, in a raw breath of wind, then was as swiftly still. Old Tom tensed a little. For forty years he had been a woodsman. He knew all the signs. Something was abroad in this quiet winter forest. He had waited two days and a night and now his waiting was at an end. He pulled himself up slightly, dropped his hat and rested his left arm upon it. The gun came up and was steady. The cool palm-worn stock and breech were smooth under un-der the old man's hand. Its weight gave him the feeling of power and dominance that belongs only to kings. For a long interval he made no move. Then in a flash the crossbill hurled itself to the top of the tree, screaming. scream-ing. Bark sifted down. And far down the slope Tom Pruitt saw what he had been watching for for forty long hours. A car had stopped on tne wooas road. Two men got out and walked up the rutty track and presently a third man followed. Tom was troubled trou-bled at that. He had not counted on a third man. But he lay motionless, motion-less, watching. The three began climbing the slope, stopping at intervals to Study the trees. One was obviously the conductor of the expedition, making mak-ing gestures, calling the attention of the others to the lifting majesty of the trunks, the spread of branches. Tom Pruitt followed this man with a narrowed eye, precise and remorseless, re-morseless, over the sight of the rest- tag rifle- . j They came closer. The leader moved ahead, turning back at intervals in-tervals to direct the gaze of the others oth-ers upon the lay of the land, the absence of underbrush, the ease with which this virgin stand could be timbered. As though he heard every word Tom Pruitt knew what this man was saying, though their voices reached him only as low mur-murs mur-murs through the forest stillness. High in the tree the crossbill was .;f3tPrJ Men born to the woods. Tom thought with scorn, would have known enough to look around, known that something watched below the .,hiiri tree. But these men did not belong in places of watchful silences. si-lences. They were outlanders. They had come to rob. And because they had no craft they were helpless. help-less. Very slowly Tom's long forearm flexed, very slowly the muscles of his lean hand his right hand tightened! tight-ened! The drama came home to Virgie Morgan at ten o'clock, when her ears had begun to ache from listen-ing listen-ing for Marian's return, and wild angers at the stark thoughtlessness of young people to possess her. She heard a car stop, and sprang to her feet grim-faced and reproachful re-proachful "Well did they close ud all th other places?" She began sharply. But she stopped at the sight of Marian's white face. Marian's eyes were big and frightened. "Mother" she began "Brv and I went to Sally Gallup's this afternoon after-noon when it stopped raining. On the way back we picked up Tom Pruitt. He's been up there in the woods for days. He's out in the car now he's all muddy. Mother- Tom killed a man over on Hazel Fork." The sound Virgie Morgan made at Marian's announcement was half a groan and half a convulsive, ab surd squeak. There was horror in it but under that a terrible tragic resignation. Somehow, for days, for weeks ev- en, she had feK the pressure of this coming thing. The unrest and un happy nerve twitchings of impend- "They was in my timber, Mis' Morgan. I was walehiu' for sem. I got one." ing change. She had decided in the morning, in spite of the apparent calm at the mill that now her fore bodings had come true that some thing was beginning in the ruthless, inexplicable fashion with which life suddenly shifts to the sinister. But even her stout spirit was not braced against such a fierce acceleration accel-eration of tempo. She stumbled up, gray-faced. "Where is he?" she demanded. "How do you know he killed a man? Killed who?" Marian was steady, though her eyes were big and terrified. "He doesn't know who it was, Mnther. He shot somebody. They were trying to steal his timber over on Hazel Creek. Now he wants us tn take him over to jaiL Bry and I don't know what to do. Bry thinks Tom is crazy." Lossie was standing, staring blankly at the door. "Get my coat," Virgie ordered. "I'll talk to Tom. We're not in a big enough mess he would have to do a thing like this!" Marian protested. "It's no use to talk to him. Mother. He's so excited ex-cited when he tries to talk it doesn't make sense and his teeth chatter. Bry doesn't want to drive way over to the county-seat tonight Couldn't we telephone the sheriff?" "We won't .telephone anybody. I'll handle this. Bring Tom in here. He didn't kill anybody. Tell Bry to bring him in." "I don't believe he'll come in. He didn't want us to stop at all He said if we wouldn't take him to jail that he'd get out and walk." "Give me that coat Lossie. I'll fetch the old fool in here myself." Virgie fumbled into the sleeves. She was a strong woman but now she felt numb all over and her knees were fluid" and cold. She walked out into the winter dark, holding her jaw grimly to keep her teeth from clacking. "What's all this. Tom Pruitt?" Pru-itt?" she demanded, as she came up to the silent car, standing there in the dark with headlights burning dimly. "What's all this foolishness?" Tom seemed to heave himself up with an effort His long, gaunt body straightened, in the shadows. His breath hissed over his teeth. "They was in my timber. Mis Morgan. I was watchin" for "em. I got one. I'd ought to got them all I would 'a got all of 'em but my old gun jammed. It hadn't ought to jammed, neither I had it cleaned out good. Them cartridges Bryson old me wasn't no good." (TO BE COST1MED) Wff? In r'V5',r;i ' w HISTORY OF THE STATE ROAD COMMISSION OF UTAH 1S09 - 1939 By H, V.RICHARDS, Statistical Engineer (Continued from Iat Wek) In taking or accepting land for The notable dianse produced by highway the public acquires an the gasoline tax of 192S has been easement only. A transfer of land described and Its influence marks bounded by a highway passes the a transition to a new era in 1925 title of the person whose estate U when the State relieved the coun-transferred coun-transferred to the middle of the ties of the greater part of malnte-hlghway. malnte-hlghway. All deeds for State Wish- nance costs and extended the ays-way ays-way right of way now name the tern of patrol maintenance. Also state road commission as grantee, the nse of the revenue furnished The expressed intent of the deed by the tax was quickly extended is t grant an ensement for hlph- to the purpose of cooperating In .way purposes. "Highway purposes" the costs of Federal aid projects include In addition to ordinary throughout the designated system, transportation the use of the btsh- The State's program in 1924 eatl-way. eatl-way. under appropriate license, by mnted 10 years to complete the public utilities and municipalities. Federal aid system with standard for pipe lines, wire lines and gravel surface and aoma additional similar facilities. In obtah.lnj such mileage of concrete. This assump-doed assump-doed the commission settles all tion did not allow for the subse-claims subse-claims of the holder of the fee and quent increase in weicht, volume of lien holders. With respect to aud speed of traffic which factors taxation of lands held under private have advanced and continue to ad-ownership ad-ownership the distinction as be- vance in proportions unbelievable tween private and publlo rights is in 1924. The Federal aid system clarified through the recording of is still not "completed" and prob-these prob-these right of way deeds as con- ably will notibe until the satura-struction satura-struction and improvement pro-' tion point is reached in the use of ceed on the State highway system, the highways. Roads that were sat-and sat-and the abutting owner relieved isfactory in years gone by become from paying taxes on the portion inadequate mainly because (1) they of the fee occupied by the hteh- are not wide enough to expedite way. Granted right of way returns the traffics volume carried, (2) the to the holder of the fee and to the alignment is too tortuous and the tax rolls where the highway is re- sight distance too limited for speed located or abandoned. School land ranges that have doubled, (3) or other land held by the State of bridges designed for heavier loads Utah under grant from the United and wider roadway become neces-States neces-States is considered as having the sary. same status as private lands with respect to procurement of high- way right of way thereon, and the road commlssbn pays to the State "'.u"' """" , " ' land board the value thereof, pp,f rel solvable within the Through Federal cooperation the miU nnft,,B7M 'T1" r PTU State is nsually granted a right of U"U1 ,,n th9 WeBtern, way 400 feet wide through lands SU,te8 4ewW ,typ9 .f in the public domain as construe- Mlrtcei 8phalt,e ? eU tion proceeds. In Federal reserva- m.,3te,d In plaC9 fa the road, or In tions the maximum grant Is nor- P,an,- c(.onc.ret?- BUrf,ie9 of the mally 132 feet Where right of perlod: ".'l" e?,8t " way through the pubilo domain has f9 of m p" m"9 tor. ,ab not been otherwise established the alne' Te new dustier and dur- commission, through its resolution abla Bi,rftfaclns:,f,r & carry,"f of April 14, 1927, claims a width ?'000 lcl! pef co",d or 100 feet, which width Is the built with adequate base tor commission's minimum standard .00 pf m l?JT U "i T,h9 lbl6 for all rights of way. I 8h?w hw th'? ,urfas " bRS , . . . I solved the problem in Utah, at In cases where it is considered ieast for the t)me b(slnRt The year that construction wlU be unduly 1927 is also the date of eommence-delayed eommence-delayed pending final settlements ment oI th8 pre8ent iIgnlnf 8y8tera for rights of war, the statutes re- U8ed oa stat and n, g. highways, lative to eminent domain (Chapter 61 of Title 104, It S. 1933) permit! The year 1933 marks the begln-occupancy, begln-occupancy, through appropriate ' n'ns of the most recent stage la court action, of the premises sought the evolution of construction, with to be condemned and thereby, un-J the greatly augmented Federal der court erder, construction may ! funds then made available, making proceed. Where matters of rights It possible to advance the construc-of construc-of way present complications such tion program materially. It Is alo action is often taken, as a matter about the time when standards in of routine procedure, the complaint design were materially raised in naming as parties defendant all order to serve more adequately the persons from whom right of way augmented weight and speed of Is to be obtained within the limits traffic; to instance highway widths of a designated project. Usually only, multiple lanes are being more thereafter settlement of all claims extensively used, but where only is affected without further court two lanes are constructed, the old action, but whore a settlement con- lS-foot standard has been increased sldered equitable cannot be ob- to 22-foot width surface on main talned through negotiation, trial highways, with four to eight foot 13 had on the issue. Improvement of the State Highway System Reference must be had to the record of progress in this and pre- ceding biennial reports to obtain in detail the history of the engineering en-gineering accomplishments of the commission in highway construction. construc-tion. As indicated in this history under Administrative Function and In- come there are four principal In 1915, 1925, 1927, 1930, and 1934. periods in which the record of con- The records of the survey of 191G structlon may be divided, both with are lost except for a brief descrlp-respect descrlp-respect to fund volume and avail- tion in the commission's third bien-ability bien-ability for general purpose. Over nial report with samples of forms the three decades these periods used and the data thereon. Bum-divide Bum-divide at the years 1917, 1925 and marized data for the subsequent 1933. surveys are published in the blen-The blen-The first seven years of con- nial reports except the record for etruction, are characterized by the the 1934 survey, which was not concept that the local property published. Full detail of the 1930 owner should bear the major share survey, with analysis and fore-of fore-of costs and hence the very meager casts Is published in a report of State appropriations, and a bond the Bureau of Public Roads, en-Issue en-Issue of minor consequence. Under titled "Report of a Survey of Traf-this Traf-this financial set-up durable con- fie on the Federal-aid Highway etruction, except as to bridges, was Systems of Eleven Western States." very limited, the roads were narrow A set of traffic flow accompanying and completed, in the main, to the report as a supplement Is pub-graded pub-graded earth type. Maintenance llshed separately. The traffic sur-under sur-under the plan of county financing veys have been UBeful in determia-could determia-could not be standardized. In gen- j Ing priority In construction pr eral the roads could not be classed grams and the type of construction, as better than "passable" during! Hlghwa acciaent records baT ".MlttS been kept during the past six yean tSL?LZJj?Lv ,na J have aIJe materially the pr other horse-drawn traffic. The road . h.ehwa- H!1fptT commission did not include auto-jKram 01 'e v 71V 7'. . , . mobiles in its equipment until 1916. 1 Research by the materials During the summer months the Ptrtment has Included both orl dust on the more heavily travelled investigations and the chec. roads was extreme and in the north th work of othsr agenc y central counties an expensive plan The work has Included Instlga- of water supply and sprinkling was J atlir9 aspJ?a1' Inaugurated. 1 asphaltlc oils, and oil-gravel mlxee, . , 'construction method In laying 'SlliJ cement concrete pave- gram of . pavement construction mmU mi freezing and thawing financed from the bond Issues and t Jn connectlon wltn the89 paTa. lt also marks the beginning of the t t determine if possible the Federal aid program. The funds caug9 Md cure of gcal,nf . test8 of continued to be concentrated on t0!li.maiTmg palnt; and now under the heavily travelled roads, to the w u program of goH investlga- general neglect of the outlying u AU of th work rega)tl , regions, a situation resulting from , intended to produce improve- the financial limitations of local ment ,a materIali and ,B cod- coopera ors as well as from the 8tmtlon or maintenance methods luiporauve ueeu mr geiuug lac central counties "out of the mud." Also there was no well-developed design for surfacing between gravel and the expensive high-type pavements. Table F discloses this limitation of surface types and the yearly progress made. Even as late as 1924 only a little had been accomplished in improving the interstate in-terstate highways across the sparsely populated border counties. The tourist guide books of those days show that negotiation of six major routes entering the State was difficult and slow, by such warnings as "impassable Then wet", and more definite ws the uniform Instruction to "carry tsod aud water." In 192S the excellent standard !!"Ll,c'..Bann,0 shoulders and 20-foot surface width on lesser roads except that 18 feet is the width of surface on roads1 bearing the lightest travel. Thus thtt mBIimi,m utanilflrd nf a few yearB ftR(J ha, bRCOme tn9 minimum in the design established for modernization. Research Studies Prior to the planning survey studies begun in 1938, traffic sur- veys were made by the commission Z5ZSH5252SE525ZSZSHSE52SZSZ5ES We Are Ready To turn out that job of printing when ever you need it. Oar Prices Are Right 25ZSZSZSHS2ScSZlS25ZSES3tSHS? 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