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Show I i I I L.r.m rrtr.r rnr.vi There's Always Another Year MARTHA OSTENSO SYNOPSIS Copyright Martha Ostenso the Uttl town of Heron Hirer Anna eointi ("Silver") Grenoble, fordaughter of "Gentleman Jim, merly of the community, known (ambler. Be we of whose murder in Chicago has reached the town. Soph-roaWlllard. Jim Grenoble's slater, Is at the depot to meet Silver. Her household consists of her husband, and stepsons, Roderick and Jason. The Willards wn only half of the farm, the other half being; Anna Grenoble's. On Silver's arrival Duke Melbank. shiftless youth, makes himself obnoxious. Sophronia laps blm. Roderick Is on the- - eve of maniac to Corlnne Meader, daughter Of a failed banker. Silver declares her eagerness to live with her aunt, on the farm, and will not sell her portion. T la CHAPTER III Continued 3 She saw the unobtrusive, faded tan of the wall paper, with the silver ctrtpe In It That was not In had taste, she thought stoutly. The curtains were of ecru net, with side strips mid of plain blue rep; that had been Itoddy's Idea, She saw the upright vnl-ane- e piano of black walnut, the Keys yellowing, and recalled that until (toddy ttad removed It there had been' a hand-com- e green velvet scarf on its top In pink rows. Sophronia looked at the walla and thought how much cosier they had been with the pictures and mottoes on them, and the burnt leather panel with the head of Pocahontas and the little calendar be low. Now, on the wall opposite her, were three smallish et chin pi, placed r fashion. Hlmk and white no color or life, to them ! One was only land and sky, the second the same with windmill stuck In It, and the third was an old horse plod ling across a frozen pond dragln a band-painte- d Step-ladde- two-wheel- cart "And Is this lawyer this Benjamin Hubbard you speak old Roderick was saying "Is he looking after all the the arrangements?" "Yes," Silver replied softly but very clearly. Ten Is looking after everything. It was dad's wish that his body should be cremated and his ashes gent here to be near mother's grave." "And did he live long enough to tell yon thnt?" I'hronle asked, clearing of" her throat "Oh he spoke of that some months ago," Sliver said, "right after be had his first heart attack. Hut he mentioned It again before he died." "I see." . Phronle winked rapidly several times. , The men shifted their feet In awk ward silence. Sophronln kept her eyes on Silver as the girl continued speaking In the pame subdued tone. Almost as though She had been there, Sophronia exerl enced In Silver's telling, the" events of the summer. She saw the scorching day In June when Jim Grenoble had crumpled forward on the street and the doctor had warned him. She saw Jim's eyes as he had looked then She levelly Into the face of doom. heard the doctor's voice telling Jim that one of these days his heart would snap like a rubber band that had been stretched too far. She heard Jim asking his daughter Silver to see to It If anything happened that his ashes should rest In the country cemetery at Heron River. Sophronia could hear Silver promising and pleading desper ately with htm then to go away with her to some quiet place, away from the tension and fever of the life they . . :A $; ML tlilil "Yes," Silver Replied Softly but Very Clearly. were living. And she could see htm his daughter's hand gently and telling her that they would go soon-J- ust as soon as they had enough money put by. Tresently when Silver fell silent ami eat looking Intently at her casied hands, old Roderick went to her and laid his hand gently on her shoulder, patted It without a word, and then moved Into the kitchen, where he lift ed the stove lid and knocked out the ashes from his pipe. Jason followe! Immediate!) and went out of doors. I'lironlp fnld. "Hid Jim never men tlon wantln' to come back I mean-bef- ore lie knew he was dyln'T" Silver ruined her eyes, and for a Hii'iu'-n- t Soptiri'iila thought r.he aw lo them Moiiiethirrj secret anil Tearful In patting . theil ex'ress!iii. somethina startling imI hor Hps and then The "iri WNU Service. looked fixedly at the wall opMsile her. I'hronle had the feeling that Silver had been about to Impart some diflicult In formation, and then had changed herl mind. "Yes he was coming back." she said slowly. "He and I were all ready to come. We bad planned to take this morning's train the one I took alone." Sophronia started. Her handker chief droped limply Into her lap. Then, without wanting, two large tears rolled from her lids and down her long brown cheeks. I'lease don't" Silver breathed. Tm sorry I shouldn't have " "Never mind me!" Sophronia ex claimed In a tremendous voice. Tra an old fool. I thought we wouldn't talk about It tonight. But well. It's lime we were all turnln' In." She got to her feet "looka as If Roddy won't be comln' home tonight Jase!" Her younger stepson had entered the room again. "Light the upstairs lamps!" More than darkness, more than star light and an Indolent wind flowed Into Sliver's room through the dormer winat them dows. Silver had been ga- -' for over an hour, and i.ie company that entered there was palpable as her heart beat, undeniable as a truth Individualized In loneliness. The company was composed of Jim Grenoble's love for her mother, Anna; of his tragic loss; his subsequent folly. But It had other members as well : t lie murmur of trees Jim had planted In his boyhood, the ripe fragrance of fields he had tilled, the faint, gliding chuckle of the creek under the willows. In the ravine below. She reached for the flashlight she had left on the small table beside the bed. She sat for a moment holding It and listening .fo the dense silence of the house, separating that silence from the winged presences of her own room. The others would be asleep now. mules In Rarefooted, her her hand, and a quilted robe about her, Silver stole downstairs, using the flashlight to guide her through the dark. Once outside the hnpse, it was a simple matter to follow the gentle slope down' to the old sfone building. Presently she knew she had come to the dooryard of the old house, for the air about her had subtly changed, as though time Itself had gathered there. Ygdrasll her father had not permitted her memory of It to die. Anna Grenoble had named It so. Silver had told Sister Anastasla, In one of the numerous convents of her girlhood, about Ygdrasll, and the nun had said, "Your mother must have been a poet. Sliver." Silver felt her way In her Insecure slippers across the ground to the left, the direction from which came the sound of the creek. She seated herself , and presently, overcome with weariness, sank down with her head on her arms. It was only twenty-fou- r hours now since Jim Grenoble had died. Just twenty-fou- r hours since this spell of unreality had come upon her. She had not been able to cry, because crying was something real. Dad Jim had gambled from the first even In Cheyenne, where he had gone Into business with a horse-tradeImmediately after they had begun their roaming. She had been a little too young then to fear for Dad Jim. It was Inevitable that he should die as he had died. There was a relentless Tightness In his going the way he had gone. At a hacienda nenr Mexico City, a peon In the employ of Carlos Salamanca had darted out from behind a pomegranate tree one moonlight night after Jim had taken four thousand dollars from his master, but Jim had broken the wrist of the hand that held the knife and had kept the knife as a souvenir of a close call. She sat up and clasped her arms about her knees and gazed with burning, dry eyes down at the dark flow of the creek. What would that strange au:it of hers, Dad Jim's sister, have thought If she had told her that there had been another reason, besides his failing heart for Jim Grenoble's sudden decision to return? Perhaps some day she would tell Sophronia about Gerald Lucas. Some day, when his cool power over her and her capitulation to him was only an evil dream, she might tell Sophronia that It was really from Gerald Lucas that she had fled; that Jim, knowing Gerald for what he was, had been "overcome by the knowledge that Sliver was In love with him, and had blamed himself fo. exposing her to the corruption of his own life. . Silver Grenoble, as she lay under the willow tree, was conscious of a great weariness, she knew deeply that a change was coming, pervasive and calm. Into her being. ever since bla famous visit to Chicago earlier In the summer. "You beeu away," Duke a!J as he slumped down upon a stool. "Ihike checks up on us. Ina." Roddy smiled. "We've got to watch our step." "No," Duke objected. "I was Just thlnkln' yoo ain't heard, maybe, about Id Jim Grenoble." "Gentleman Jimr Sure. Him I seen when I was to Oil last month. I could 'a' told then be wouldn't come to no good end." "Anything happenedr Roddy asked. There was a certain leering knowing ness about Duke that filled him. as always, with distaste. "Plenty! He got himself shot last night." "My 0 d !" Boddy exclaimed. "Who shot him?" "Fella named Rawson, It was. The police got him. Killed him when he was tryln' to make his getaway. Some o them guys can shoot, no foolin'!" "Poor old Jim!" Roddy said to himself. "Sophronia will take that pretty hard, I'm i.r.m. a CHAPTER IV TottarJ noon of the next day, and Silver stood together on a cret of the gentle rid'e which sup ported ihe tew farmstead. The girl had er hand in the pockets f her white liren dre.-s- . and her eyes, whlca I'hronle bad ascertained were a very dark blue, were fixed upon the old house down below. Phronle followed her glance, and saw that old Roderick had placed a ladder against the nortii wall and with an armful of shingles and tools had begun the ascent of the roof. -Tell me, Pbronie." Silver asked suddenly, "are you moving into the old hi'iise because Roddy Is getting married, or because I am here?" you are here?" Phronle was indignant "1 never heard tlM like! Roderick and I always said that as soon as either of the boys gets e "You mean they sent the body V Duke'g hands played together. "Not exactly. The one that came in tonight wnsn't what you'd call a dead one. eh. Lena? I'll tell the world! It was "Is Her I seen that night REPLY TO MR. HOOVER By SENATOR ROBINSON Majority Leader of th Senate, VERY solemnly cautions HEthe people not to be led astray by slogans. Perhaps he is speaking from a sorry memory of certain slogans which were loudly sounded during bis previous campaigns, such " as the slogan of 192S and the famous one In his unsucabout cessful campaign for streets which were the grass-growbound to appear la the event of his "chicken-ln-every-pot- I seem to LOOKING back, the late Calvin Cool-idg- did a pretty good job of m Immfh she here?" NATIONAL CHARACTERS HAILING A LOCHINVAR By MELVIN C. EATON Chairman of the New York Republican State Committee. In Chi with a big shot by the name o' "She's out to the farm, If that's what you mean. But that oughtn't to worry jou none. She won't be stay In' long In these parts. If I know anything. Her kind don't belong round here." He chuckled. "I've got her number, all right all right!" ' ' But Roddy did not hear the In"Two Months Ago-- M Thought I nuendo. Duke's disclosure had flashed Wanted to Marry Him." like lightning across his mind. He tossed a coin on the counter, seized his married, back we go to the old place. Young people have a right to start oat hat a.id made for the door. by themselves, I always hold." he he that realized Driving home, Silver was silent for a moment as was as near to panic as he had ever been In his life. What would this she thought over what her aunt had she murmured at said. "I'm girl's coming mean? She would un- last. "I wasglad," afraid perhaps " doubtedly sell her land for cash. It "Afraid of what?" was not likely that a couple of bun. "1 thought maybe Roddy's wife dred a year rental would Interest her. might not approve of me because of lie had been sending that amount to dad." Jim Grenoble, after the deduction of The angry red sprang Into Sophro-nia'- s taxes, and Jim had promptly sent It "She won't approve of cheeks, back each time to his sister Sophronia. I'm Jim's sister. then me, neither, Five years ago, the land might have Corinne"Meader ought to he glad she's come Into the possession of the Wila home to come to, If I know lards, had It not been for Jim Greno got And I don't think she'll be anything. ble's obstinacy. Instead, the money 4hat might have bought It had gone fool enough to listen to every Harry's yarns. And If sht Into bad Investments. How, If they lost the Grenoble section, were all the does letnewherl Jason'li stayhewith them fixed up house, 'cause Willards going to live on the meaner In the own room in the attic there just Income from their own land, which his the way he likes It with a skylight was, by some trick of nature, not naif an' all for his funny oil paintin'. Jaso rich? And In a week he, Roddy son's a queer one but he won't bother would have a wife to support as well Corinne, unless she can't stand him Rapidly he took stock of himself and his mouth organ." It was three years now since he had "You said something about 'yarns,' been graduated from college, and al Phronie," Silver said. "Do you mean though he still clung jenlously to what things that fellow at the station last he had learned there, the soil had night has said about me?" taken him back to Itself again. He Sophronia hesitated for a moment. had worked the Grenoble land since he "Well, there's no use tryin' to hide was fifteen, and had vowed that some from you what you'll find out for yourIt would In own be his fact And self anyhow, sooner or later. You day now know what people are, Just as well as Roddy brought his car to a stop I do. When they've got nothiri to In the little garage beside the barn do, they'll talk. Did you see that Duke and climbed out of It He walked Melbank when he was In Chicago this slowly through the starlit darkness summer?" up the path to the house. "Dad said he came Into our place He let himself In through the back one night, but I don't remember seedoor and struck a match, found the ing him. So many people used to come lamp and lit It. Odd, he thought but and go." he could have sworn he had heard a "Well, he ain't worth rememberln'. footstep In the front hall, lie 'moved But he has been talkin' since he came through the house and saw a white back." faced girl standing in the hall with Silver laughed ruefully. "Was he one foot on the first step of the stair talking about dad?" way. She had a flowered, thick robe "Well mostly about you." Color rushed into Silver's cheeks. wrapped tightly about her, and sh" carried a flashlight and a pair of slip "About me? What does that creature pers. Her hair hung to her shoulders know about me?" . and was soft and pale and wavy, ami Sophronia smiled reassuringly. "Some her eyes were. In that startling mrr people talk most when they know-leas- t nient, enormous. As far as I can make out the Silver was the first fo speak. boys have been tellin' me Duke don't "I suppose you are Roddy. Willard," say so much, but he hints plenty. There she said, almost breathlessly. was a friend of Jim's, wasn't there? "Yes," he said, and came forward A fellow by the name of Lucas, I with his hand outstretched. "And you think." are Anna Grenoble, of course." He "Gerald Lucas," Silver said, with tried to relax his mouth Into a smile. ber eyes fixed upon the downward to check his agitation. slope of the hill. "I met him six Her hand lay for an Instant In his, months ago two months ago I while they surveyed each oiher with thought I wanted to marry him." cool appraisal. "What manner of fellow was he?" "Yes," she said, smiling faintly. Phronie asked, conversationally. "I only Just heard 1n Heron River "Gerald used to practice law out about what happened to your father, Into some sort of West, but he-g-ot he said haltingly. "I'm terribly sorry. trouble and was disbarred. Now he's Silver stood with one hand on the against the world and the world Is hnltistrnde and gave him a shadowy against him." look. "Thank you. Her voice Sophronia nodded sagely. "I guess trailed away. "I couldn't sleep so 1 1 understand. Thorn outcasts appeal e went for a walk down to the old to women. I'm glad you got away Roddy Wlllard brought his car to house. I I didn't expect to be caught from him without anything worse the curb In front of Torson's place, She gave him an odd look prowling. turned off the lights and steped down. half apology, half defiance. "Good Silver's eyes darted to her aunt's Someone hailed him from across the she said. Her heart sank. Sophronia was night," face. street, but he hesitated only a moment "Good night." of another world, a good woman, and waved his hand. Sleep was out of the question. Rod placidly taking it for granted that her At the end of the lunch counter, dy went back to the kitchen, turned niece was still virtuous. Over the Duke Melbank lounged, rolling a cigathe lamp low and stepped out the hack bleak loneliness that welled up within rette in his pale, freckled hands. His door. The delicate bitterness of com ber. Silver resolved that It was better red hair flamed. Ing harvest filled his nostrils when he not to lisi"usi n I'hronle. After all, "A cup of coffee, Lena." Roddy said drew n deep breath. In a few days ht she need never know. to the elder Torson girl as she greeted would he a married man and Corlnne (TO BE CoyTlM EFh him with a smile. Mender established In the house of a Then he turned to speak to Duke. fanner who looked Into the future Constituent) of Wo.d "Time yon were In bed, Duke." he re- with blind eyes. Wood ii'itsNts of cellulose (42 to C7 marked pleasantly. This tall, soft lie found It difficult to believe tti: per rent I. renin CM to 3(1 per cent) hulk of a fellow was bereuth con Jim Grenoble's ilenlh had coliiihled and emus I'.i.er rayon, cellophane i mho a till, lit leathers tempt, beneath anger, even for Sn- - so nearly with hi.. asking re mule out of . elhi ..sc. No iinp.n,iiit use for litnln phronla's Hike, although he had heen marry him. It whs imn t like ni-- t n (li mvereil lui- - I spreading gossip about 1'hronle'g uiece j coming on the eve of reaping l;r J high-heele- d r, . Cm-inn- M ( i e gov- RED CROSS IN ETHIOPIA By ADMIRAL CARY T. GRAYSON American National Chairman. INtheACCORD memory with the spirit of of Geneva it becomes the duty of the neutral Red Cross societies to ascertain what they can do to assist In the care of the sick and wounded of war, without regard to nationality or political difference. 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