UINTAII BASIN RE COBH She She will be all right. you. needs rest now, no worry, aod much Also, presently, mutton gruel. broth. I go today to my own place to Bleep and I will come back. Her life Is yours now. See that you keep It by doing as I tell you." To Little Moon herself she said, I go now to rest but I will come again. Drink the gruel as 1 have given It to you, a little at a time, and sleep much sleep all you can. So will you walk In the sun again. Then she was outside the hogan, 5? pulling on her gloves, her saddlebags at her feet, waiting for Two Fingers to bring her horse. He put the bags In place, and over the saddle his eyes were on her gravely. There was a Blue Woman of the South once, he said In Navajo, C whose son, being a son of the Sun W.N.V. SERVICE god, too, delivered the Navajos from under the earth. She was all goodness the Turquoise Woman. would He belt. In the pouch at his She makes her hogan In your feed them with It at noon. heart In the life of was the way It To save her life Sonya, who knew solitudes, the way of death, all the legends of these people, could chance, all waiting. not help the tears that sprang to Sonya In the hogan worked tirewas because she was Regularly she fed the her eyes. It lessly. woman the thin warm gruel. Regu- a little tired, maybe a bit unstrung with the recent ordeal but Two larly, monotonously, she bathed her from head to foot. Regularly she Fingers was telling her that she delivered him and his. Before slipped her thermometer Into the had could reply a sound struck on parched mouth, reading It anxious- she the stillness, the crack of a horses ly, As steadily she gave her medhoof against the stone, and she no saw noon of she At icines. sign looked quickly down the wash. hope, but rather her heart chilled There, almost upon her, was RodIn her at the rising figures In the Blake on Serge's bay mare. ney was coming. tiny tube. The crisis Why, Rod! she cried. How In It would he here by midafternoon. Her mouth set a little harder, her the world did you find me? Serge told me the way. Are you black eyes were narrow between She squatted ready? their dusky lashes. Yes. Just going. Oh, I'm glad patiently by the heap of skins and be a grand ride back blankets, her fingers on Little you came! It'll with the sun coming up. This Is Moon's hot wrist. So the hours passed and the Two Fingers, whose wife Is sick." The Indian looked up, but Rod crisis came, a tense, panting hour, with the stiver thread In the tube Blake did not see him. It was as few running up a ghastly record, and If she had not spoken the last the patient dark hend rolling at last words, or as If they had not penetrated his consciousness. In unendurable suffering. Yes, he said, "It will, though Sonya held the moving hands, It has been cold. bathed the drawn face. All right," said Sonya, reaching "Hold tight hold tight steady OF THE s"t V VINGIE RO COPYRIGHT POOBLEDAY.DCRAN 8. Co. too. SYNOPSIS Seeking death by throwing herself from the summit of Lone Mesa, to escape dishonor, at the hands of a drunken desperado, Sonya Savarln allows herself to be rescued by her suddenly sobered and repentant attacker. The girl la a livphysician to the Navajo Indians, with ing on an Arizona sheep ranch her brother Serge, his wife, Lila, and their small daughter, Babs. For a year she has been engaged to Rodney Blake, wealthy New Yorker, but her heart Is with the friendless Navajos and she evades a wedding. CHAPTER II Continued 2 Two she said, Hello, Fingers. llow la she this morning? TSiid, he sakl briefly and reached for Darkness rein. Sonya swung down and took off her saddlebags. As she entered the hogan her lips set themselves In a sharp, unconscious line. Bad was right, she thought. There was the smell of She would need to death here. gird her loins today in all truth. At first the dusky shadows hid the interior from her sight. Then, as her eyes adjusted themselves, the set down her bags and knelt steady, she kept saying In Navabeside the first heap of skins and jo, hold tight, little mother." And after a timeless space blankets wlilch lay on the sandy ' when she neither moved nor took floor. There were three of these flat her eyes from the others features, beds. In the farther one the two there came a creeplug stillness, a children still slept heavily. In this hush, cessation of movement. The one Little Moon lay panting with weary hend dropped sidewise, the fever, her big black eyes beautiful thin loose hands became quiet. In the dim light. Sonya loosed them and reached Sonya for her stethoscope, her hypodermic Courage, little mother, filled and ready with Its needle In said In Navajo, "I am with you. The Indian woman smiled, touched a cup of sterile wnter. This was the crux, and she must not fall her hand with timid fingers. She took the draught which the for Two Fingers and the babies out other gave her presently, and In Chee wash somewhere. She did not fail. watched her as she set about cookWith the sun on the western rlrn ing oatmeal over the Coals of the of the austere desert the Indian tiny fire. This It was which had made came up the wash with one child Sonya the Idol of these poor an asleep on his shoulder, the other on silent people, this service of heart his back. and hand which had saved them, Far off he saw Sonya standing at literally, from death In many cases. the hogans door and stopped a long She fought for what sanitation she moment to study with his eagle could produce among them, taught eyes her pose, her manner. them the Importance of proper feedShe stood tall and straight, and ing In fevers, the superiority of one hand was laid high up on the mustard plasters over singsongs in blenched pole of the doorway, the pueumonla, and labored generally other rested on her hip. Her head like a mother with her children. was up, too, and at the sight Two Now she bathed the hot brown Fingers swung out In a swift dogbody under the blankets, gave Lit- trot tle Moon the thinned cereal as a It la well, Blue South Woman," drink, waked and washed the he said with conviction as he came children, fed them the rest of the to her; "you have saved her. oatmeal, ate two pieces of fried "It Is well, said Sonya proudly mutton and some crackers with and smiled Into his dark face. Two Fingers, and stood for a while Without another word he went outside the hogan In the morning Into the hogan and looked down at sunlight. Little Moon, sleeping heavily with She felt wonderful herself, Btrong a sweat upon her skin. and high within, as If she set So the night came down, blue her body against a wall and could with Its dark sky, stiver with Its not be backed down. This w ns stars, and Sonya lay down on the the gauge of battle In her, that she knew, the deep determination to win In what she set herself to do, the passionate sympathy and pity which were like a steel blade In her. She looked up at the high blue sky with Its sailing, full white clouds, her mind an attitude of prayer, and turning, lifted the blanket which was the door, and went In. Two Fingers gathered the babies and made ready to depart, according to her request made a moment bnek. She wanted the day alone, clear visioned for the crisis, nothing within sight to distract her. The man looked down at the woman on the low bed, holding one child, leading the other, and the Now 1 woman looked up. They said nothing. It might be their last look on earth, their eternal parting, for all they knew, yet there was no outcry, no sign of sorrow, nothing but that deep look. Berlin ps nothing more was needed. Then Two Fingers went away, and the womeu were alone In the hogan. We must meet the enemy, anld Sonya, still In Navajo there was a com'ort In It, a strength, It seemed "hut we meet him together. I hold your hand tight to mine. We must both fight, very hard. The medicine will light, too. It Is a good f.gl iter. But not for a moment must we full or sink or stop fightYou understand? ing. The other nodded. It la good, said Sonya. And tho day of bnttle began. Somewhere out In the sand and rocks of Chee wash Two Fingers w ould bo praying to his ancient gods, sitting quietly, perhaps, w ateh-Jnthe babies playing with sticks, building corrals for their pebble Aoifl., He hsd soma mutton Jerky g Jhs? Two Fingers Would Bs Praying to His Ancient Gods. second pile of skins and went to sleep with her hand on Little Moon's. Two Fingers sat all night In the hognns door, and none might know what was In his mind of gratitude and hope and silent Joy. Sonya was up by dawn, and Little Moon was awake, weak unto death, but peaceful. Sonya fed her made a pot of the precious gruel and Instructed the man In Its giving, Its protection from contamination. rou'd better go to the trading post, Two Fingers," she told him, and get some more oatmeal a big package. Take the children with to It was not in human nature fee take a blow like this and not He looked straight Its Impact with ahead for a little while, riding his pommel on crossed hands his and Sonya watched him anxlously-I- t other isnt a whim. Rod. Noanother I havent looked at man. man since I gave you my promise. It's a bigger thing than that Something Inside my soul, an obligation to the Creator Himself," she added I mean. hesitantly, If you see what I have the knowledge, the health here Is the opportunity, the crying need. Let me stay with them a while me teach longer. Rod, please. Let By Sally Sez OIERIE NICHOLAS them more hygiene, more child care, more mother care. They know so little, have so little. Blake drew a long breath, looked back at her, his eyes dilated and deep with feeling. You should be a Portia," he said, And for you plead so eloquently. a bunch of dirty redskins whod cut your throat for a dollar any day." little Sonyas lips fell open. How this man knew, this man of the citthe ies, of the rushing world beyond The pendulum of prosperity r May awing adveraely today 0 ' B wt can siring 1I Back the other way. BY PATRONIZING HOME km THIS WEEKS PRIZE ST JHE The N. R. A. and the C. W. j prominent position in the hopes of the people of the Baited'1 IP today. An equally important stem Sfifl of tho Intermountain region who k ... therefore, boost our producw ti j, That slogan will grow and sth;, ijR nificance over the country. Interim Products Excel! clothes-plannin- JMIP been penned up too She did not finish, for another sound came out of the profound For the Love of Heaven!" He Said, stillness of the sunrise the shuffle Whate That? Wonderingly, and slide of a mans booted feet this time and around the bulge of the desert I How appallingly Inadequate hogan a tall figure In a blue shirt, his Judgments worn chaps, and boots What he was missing of the mysappeared. tery of life. Its priceless gifts of A strange, half painful shock of spirit, Its lighted deeps t A tender recognition went over Sonya. yearning for this blindness In him It was the man of Lone Mesa. welled up In her, and she touched Taking In the unexpected group his arm. with lightning swiftness, his gaze Forgive me, she said, I see came back to her, rested upon her how It seems to you, but believe as If against his own volition, and me. Rod, it Is not so. I cannot a slow red tide flowed up along his make you see It Only try to belean face. As Rod a moment be- lieve what I say about It Wont fore had not been conscious of Two you, dear? Stand steady for another Fingers, so now this man was not stretch, until I can do a little more, conscious of anyone but the slim leave my mark a little plainer In girl In riding clothes with her foot this soil which I love, among these arrested In the stirrup. people whom I love too. He stood so long looking at her Blake shrugged his shoulders unthat Rodney Blake's face changed. der his thin leather coat Sonya," he said sharply, shall I suppose I must, or go down In we go? As If a spell had broken, the your black books as a tyrant. Very Ill give you six well, Sonya. stranger looked up sharply. The eyes of the two men met and months longer, but at the end of that time I shall demand the fulheld. It was as If two blades struck fillment of your'promlse to me, and and crossed, as If armed forces I shall expect you ns an honorable clashed. There was Instant hatred woman to keep It But know tills, In It, Instant opposition. my girl: that I shall never give you Neither Indians nor Arizona Then Sonya swung Into her sad- up. dle and was away at a lope, Bod nor any living man Is going to get you from me. Just remember following close behind. "Who was that man?" he asked that 'Why, of course, Rod. And thank thinly when he had caught up with her. Do you know him? you for being so kind. I don't know, and I do not," said "Im not kind. Im helpless. I have the girl crisply, and I don't like no choice In the matter. Either I Oh, Rod dear, I do give you your way, or I lose your your tone. wish you would understand me bet- esteem by forcing you to mine. And 1 h!gh-heei- thats that Forgive me, Sonya," said Rlake, They rode In silence that was a "but I hate all men who look at bit constrained for a long distance. you too long." And presently In the stillness there The ride back to the ranch was was Injected a sound, so thin and beautiful beyond words with the fine at first as to be no sound, but newly risen sun bathing the weath- becoming more clear and certain as ered peaks and pinnacles of desert they rode ahead. Sonya searched stone, but somehow Us glory missed the levels and the debouching canthe girls heart It was down one of yon mouths. Whether It was seeing agnln the these that she determined presentface of the man of Lone Mesa, or ly the sound was coming; a long, Rod's unreasoning Jealousy, she high wall almost like that which the could not say. At any rate, she Indian women gave at a death. was silent and preoccupied, and At that moment Rod heard it too. more than once Rlake looked at her "For the love of heaven he said shnrply, whats that? wonderingly, I Come along, said Sonya briefSonya," he said presently, know j on are tired, that youve had ly and lifted Darkness with her a hard night, but I want to talk knees and rein. The horse leaped with you, and this seems the best away to the right where the canchance I'm likely to have, since you yons flattened to the plain. And are so busy all the time. My long- coming out of one of these long deing and loe for you are nn old files that cut the Jumbled Bad story. Im not going Into it again. Lands country was as strange a cavBm Just telling you that Im leav- alcade as one might meet In many ing for the East day after tomor- a days Journey. row, and It has been my hope to A team and backboard with the take you back this time. Sonya huge figure of a white man hunched darling, will you come? on the seat and three children hudlie reached over and took her dled In behind, little brown Navajos hand, and at the caressing pressure hushed down like quail, their scared of his fingers tears actually came round faces turned backward to Into the girl's eyes. Then she shook where a woman hung onto the rig's herself mentally, squared her shoul- tall and cried to heaven, running She smiled Into when the horses ders, as It were. trotted, her mouth Rod's eyes, squeezed his hand. open, her braided hair In I didn't know you were going where she had torn at It, disarray stumbling, back so soon, dear, she said stead She was a swaying with fatigue. I to I want "and think lly, go along, wild squaw, namely one who but there Is the woman back there spoke only her native tongue, and who will surely die, after all my all tragedy, all loss, all fear and hard pull to save her, If I leave her terror were In her swollen opaque now. She needs care and stringent eyes. A man ran behind her, a tall treatment, and there Is no one on Navajo with bound hair and turthe Reservation who can who will quoise necklaces swinging on his I can't leave her, breast. give It to her. He touched her now and Bod. then, and tried to still her clamor The man straightened up. loosed with his low words, her baud (TO US CONTINUED. 1 w Steel, Salt I she (I Beautiful hich brings time to hand for mothers who would dress time, Janet Miss M MERTIME SDmeans vacation for Darkness rein. Lets go. Im ready, and so Is Darkness. Hes ter. Set Fashions for Juvenile Smart New Modern , BEAVER DAM HIT g on the Arizona Sdp. 3 Half Way to Loa AngtkM J Highway No. M their Miles 33 children fashionably and appropriately. life Since cantp plays so Important a part In the modern childs life, It might be well to consider the clothes question from that point of view. Designers of juvenile sportswear declare there is an Increasing tendency to feature bright color in camp and playtime apparel. Because materials are strong and sturdy Is no reason why they cannot be gayly colorful and attractive. So, the cotton broadcloths, the poplins, the gabardines and the argentine cloth which serve so admirably for childrens recreation and everyday utilitarian clothes are coming out in unusually cheerful hues this season. For youngsters who romp through woods and climb and wade and attend classes the Idea of gym shorts with Inner bloomers that are brought up high so as not to be The newest visible, Is advocated. shorts are pleated at front and bnck so as to give the appearance of a skirt. After play hours, what then to wear? Why not a cunning tailored ensemble, on the order of the clever three-piec- e which the pretty little girl, to the left In the picture, Is posing? The ensemble theme Is being played up enthusiastically for children this season. Being so Interchangeable with blouses and such, it is a guarantee of a appearance for most any child at most any hour of the day. In fact, an outfit like this may be d PLEATING IS USED QUITE EXTENSIVELY Beyond St. Qeor CABINS AND CA Reasonable Rate? Prohibition Repealed in Artel HOTEL considered almost entire ward- - At 43 robe In Itself. With the jacket on, this liliputlan tallleur of marine blue flannel looks as modish as mother herself wears on cool days and on shopping tours. Looks nice, too, with the coat removed, for that wee button-up-thfront blouse of matching blue flat crepe Is most wonderfully chic. The older girl In the picture, who Is helping little sister don her smart Jacket, has on a sleeveless dress which also admits of Interchange able blouses. The one she Is wearing while she poses for her photowash silk. graph Is a Mexican-strlp- e Of course it would have to be stripes, for they are smart for everybody. old and young, this season. Interest In little girls Style dresses Is said to center around the necklines and sleeves lu the newer models. Which accounts for the wide pleated collar which finishes the neck of the wee frock of pale pinkish soft taffeta which the tot to the right In the group is wearing. You will note also that the sleeves are fancifully smocked. The vogue for taffeta has extended Into the Juvenile realm. If yon prefer pastel crepes they are equally as good style for tiny folks party frocks. That sweet child In the foreground looks adorable In her airy-fair- y frock of embroidered or- m Utal I Refini Service Stations in Utah aw INN e ' i SPECIAL F3A THE MONTH $75.00 lor I Camplste Six Month; 01 1 , Yon can now learn a profe-demake you independent forthr days. $15 per month only for tbr course of six months. Pho for our catalog 121 So. Main Gfkj ? S. St., Salt 0! Specialization Specialization is nothj industry; Roman writ workmen who made or statues, or certain ga the clothing trade. ASK YOUR fit DRUGGISf II, AN fKOt INTERMOUNTAIN Public Building The White House in public building erectci First wid . f ington. gandie. by Western Newspaper Union. Berry Cups and Berry SALT WATCH NECKLINES & LAKE BOX 613 So. 5 West, Salt U Gif V B.HSKT Oil?, ft By OIF.IME NICHOLAS There Is much pleating In use now, und it Isnt all used for neck- FRAH33 wear, although It does seem ns though nothing Outlier than neckwear would be found. Ruffles and frills galore are lovely on some and so absurd on others. Narrow side pleatings can, however, be worn by almost any figure, which is not true of the draped polonaise. The time has come to speak a word In favor of brown. The season Is so clearly a blue one that women have been Inclined to undef estimate the high style Interest In brown. During the first showlng3 of the Imports for midsummer brown was Impressive and something of a surprise for, by that time, women were so happy that It was a blue year. With the interesting brown and white, hrmvn and grege and brown and beige prints came lovely costumes In which yellow and brown were plea-antassociated. From Ogdii LOS ANGELES - Jfi Stasis For Further While It is true that navy and black are leaders In spring fashions for daytime, It becomes In crenvlngly apparent that brown is to he reckoned with. It l3 an Important color by Itself and especially In prints, particularly printed See , j Infoflej your local D. R. or writ 1 JJJJ Salttojl Dcnoio The Mennomte Mennonite The W from name took its o who was the leader The brown prints are featured In Jacket rostumes Holland. A change lu necklines ls In progress, High cut fronts are giving way to low cut fronts after the order of the charming neckline which graces the gown pictured. This stunning cnTo dress Is fashioned of n hand mine chiffon tiemherg. Slim, long sleeves accentuated by three tiers of lino pleated net ruffles and a soft satin how are Intriguing details. ih Owen, Ccne: 41 So. Main St., erupt'S. i - pood inC -j chair cars Pu fares good W are very low, too. Brown Still in Picture as Nifty Summer Color and also In long cont ensembles and redingotes, and It's Interesting to obsene the definite favor shown combinations of plain and printed crepes, featuring brown shades. A favorite version of the Jacket costume with monotone skirt, worn with primed Jm ket and bodice mi(i costumes of ,lN wirt ls attractive done in polka dots, dots In dime or quarter size. Brown with hite u hc the favorite cmuhUm. Jaj (via Sao FnoosfW ol examples are These to fares' cnTVay' ly separate fro.ks, a Jjjy,oy . week will $3.00 5? to above. Send yourloin j,, verso to tnlennmii 1555 t1 umn, I. O. Uox C , n"w,n? ,o.,r siory f lhi column yo .L reive check fof " s I