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Show UTAH THE SMITHFIF.LD SENTINEL. SM1THFIELD. BRISBANE EY hy Cwyrifllil If Bn Ame WNU MferYice. ' At a lalhirlni la the villas of Maine, Jim Baladln llatcna to tha Valhistory of tha neighboring Hostile Hul-dand tha mysterious, enticing ley, wife of Will Farrln. Interested, ha drives to tbo Valley for a day's Ashing, and to see tha glamorous Huldy Psrrln. Old Maria" Ilerco and her Llb-erl- y, y, alnetaan-yaar-ol- granddaughter Jenny d live la the Valley. Since childhood Jenny baa deeply loved young Will Farrln, older than she, and who regards her aa still a child. Will leaves to take employment In Augusta. His father's death brings him back to tha to still ha returns but Augusta, Valley, unconscious of Jenny's womanhood and love. Bart Carey, something of a The la attracted by Jenny. girl repulses him dcBnllely. learning that Will la coming home, Jenny, exhouse to ulting, seta hla rights," and has dinner reudy fur him. lie comas bringing his wife, Huldy. Tha girl's world collapses. Huldy becomes the subject of unfavorable gossip la the Valley. Entering his home anlooked for. Will Anda seemingly damning evidence of his wifu'a unfaithfulness aa a man ha knows Is Beth breaks from the house. Humphreys Will overtakes him and chokes him to death, although Humphreys shatters hla leg with a bullet At Harm Pierce's house the lag la amputated. Jenny goes o break the news to Ilulily. Huldy declares she has no use for hHlf a man," and leaven. Will la legally exonerated, and with a home-mad- e artificial leg carries on," hiring a helper, Zeke Dae. Months later Iluldy comes back. Win accepts her presence as her right Two years go by. Baladln comes to the Valley. Bad roads cause him to stop at Ferrln'a farm, whara he meeta Huldy. Baladlne, caught In heavy rain, takes refuge at Harm Pierces Bart Carey arrives carrying Huldy, whom he elalma had fallen from a ledge, and seemingly Is dead. Harm Pierce declares her dead, but while Huldy and Jenny are alone, the woman, with her last breath, assarts Will killed her. Horrified, Jenny decides to tall no one of the accusation. She goes to notify WilL With him Jenny returns to Harm Pierce's. She has told him of Huldya Zeke death,' and he la bewildered. Dace cannot be found. Baladlne Informs Sheriff Bohler, by phone, of Hul-dy- e death. The sheriff cornea to Marm Fla roe's farm. ne'er-do-we- ll, long-emp- ty - CHAPTER IX Continued 16 "Seined hard last night Bart re"They was freah today. myself, when I fished minded him. I aee them down. The sheriff asked: "Carey, you got any Idea whod want to-h- urt ills Ferrlnt" Bart hesitated. "I wouldnt go CD say," be said. He added, with a deep reluctance: "Not unless It was Zeke. Zeke Dace, works for WIIL Zeke was kind of crasy about her, and Jealous of her." He might have got mad at Yet he added honestly: "But her. Will don't low that Zeke would touch her." "Where la Zeke!" the sheriff asked. Bart shook hla head. Dunno. Nobody's seen him sence. Harm Pierce came out of the dining room. She told the sheriff she was glad to have him here: He nodded, and asked slowly: "Was ills Perrin dead when she got here, ma'am! "As good as, the old woman assured him. "She was all broke to pieces, and bled white: and she died before 1 got around to It" "Didn't come io7" "No," Harm Pierce told him. "No." You look her over, did your the "1 sheriff urgedL He explained: guess likely Ill want a doctor to see her, but you might have noticed some special hurt on her." The old woman told him: "Why. she was hurt cruel. Sheriff. Looked like she'd fell on her head and side. There was scratches and cuts all over her; and a deep bad cut on her neck. And her face was banged where she'd bit a tree: or a rock or the like." "1 mean to say," he persisted, "nothing to show. . . . The old woman shook her head. "Nothing that she couldnt have got from falling the way she did. The sheriff sighed as though dlscour aged, and Harm Pierce asked: "You didn't know Huldy, did you. Sheriff!" "I've heard tell of her, he answered. "Guess the whole county has, if It comes to that, the old woman assented. "But you can see for yourself a lot of things might have to a woman like her." "It was account of her," Bart reminded them, "that Will killed Seth Humphreys. I dunno as I blame blm. I dunno as he went to kill Seth; but Seth had a gun, and Will, with his leg shot to pieces, he had to hang on to Seth's neck or get another bullet In blm. But Iluldy was back of that "I heard she'd left Will, sence," the hap-'pene- d Sheriff reflected. "8he come back," Bart explained. "She took a shine to Zeke and de- rided to stay. "Will take her back, did her "Dunno as he could help It, Bart confessed; and be said slowly: "WII'. bo flways stood a lot from her. Sheriff! No matter what she did, I dunno as he'd harm her. lie added harshly: "But If he did, I wouldn't blame him I" The old woman's sharp eyes fixed on him. "You trying to let on that Will killed her. Bart!" she asked. In a No lone. "Speuk out house In talking around corners." "I'm not li'tting on a thing about It, Pan ii :oi-- l her. I'm trying to see ti tlic same as you." 't ..ii-;- i 'ir-ni- After the sheriff spoke, there was silence for s moment; then Jenny had a respite for Joe Matthews, the undertaker, came out of the dining room, lie spoke to WUL "There, Will," he said. "I've done all that needs doing tonight; and If He you wnnt, I'U carry her home." hesitated, added : "Hut If yon take my advice, let her lay here tonight I can 'tend to everything a sight better in reality, Hire the subatuiice of a dream. the morning." But Jenny now, more than any other Marm Pierce said: "She's welcome emotion, felt a grievous sympathy for to stay, Will I" Will, for the remorse she knew he Will nodded. "WcIL likely that's must endure; und she strove In small he agreed. sensible," ways to reassure and comfort him, Jenny, while their attention was thus not by words, but by her steady sup- tOrued away from her, oiiened the door his side. porting presence at out on the porch, grateand stepped They tramped In silence through the ful for the taste of cool, moist air. In woods, the lantern swinging In Will's the kitchen she heard the sheriff say hand making the black aliudowa of the trees along the wny awing like somber doubtfully: "I guess, Joe, you'll want to go along home now, I don't know pendulums. They crossed ' the brook, ae I to leave yet, though. I'd and cllmlicd the steep trail, and came like toought see this Zeke Dace, first Bar up through the orchard to the barn; I wlsbt you'd bring Doe Harris In the and while Jenny held the lantern. Will I want him to look her over, morning. let the cows Into the tie-uand When presently the undertaker them there. He pulled down came out to depart, Jenny drew aside hay for them, and went to the kitchen out of bis way. Sohler and Baladlne tor the pull and returned to milk. crossed with blm to where hie truck Jenny stood silently by, while he sat. his head against the warm flanks of the cows, the lantern here beside him on the floor. He spoke only once of that which filled both their minds. "I'd like to know where Zeke'a gone to, he said. "Hell be around by and by," Jenny IPs all right, WIIL promised him, But her own words faintly startled her; since clearly, If Will must UVe with the secret knowledge that he bed killed Huldy, the world could never be ell right for him again; and she wished suddenly to take him In her arms, and tell him that she knew, and held him blameless But she perceived that to do this,- to confess her knowledge of hla guilt, would be to open between them a gulf never to be bridged. 8o she was silent; and later, when they came back through the wet woods together, she decided that this was a matter none should ever know. And thus resolving, aha found strength for the task before her, and waa at peace again. Huldy waa dead. Let It be by accident. The world would preaently forget that Huldy had ever lived. When wltb Will she came back to the little house In the Valley, she had Jenny Stood Silently By. somehow stilled her fears. Till she saw the sheriff there. stood, spoke with him there. Then When they came In, she felt her Bart came out, and said to Jenny strength drain away. But then, and casually: "Hot In there, aint It by Will himself, her foreboding waa And In a turned Into fearful certainty; for Will lower tone: "Don't you worry, Jen I aid to this man: Nothing to be arrald of. "Why, Sheriff, what fetched you He too had seen her terror then I here?" It must have been plain, for them all The sheriff hesitated. "I kind of to see. But even as she thought this, hoped yoa'd bring this Zeke Dace back she realised suddenly that she waa no with you," hs said, evasively. longer afraid, and wondered why. And Will shook head. "1 dunno where then, without speaking to Bart, she Zekea got to," be admitted In troubled came quickly back Into the kitchen tones. "He ws'n't to home:" And he where were Marm Pierce and WilL Her persisted: "But Sheriff, what fetched hand touched Will's sleeve, and peace you!" filled her; and a deep enlightenment Jenny waa breathless, waiting for the end certainty, like s revelation. answer. Then Saladlne said gravely: Then the truck departed, and Bart "I sent for him, WIIL and Sohler and Saladlne returned InWill stared at Baladlne. "What for!" doors. After s moment the sheriff he protested, bewildered. to Saladlne. appealed "Jim," he said And then the sheriff said: "Why " Looks Ilka you could figure someWUL the thing la, It looks to every thing out of this business. I guess you body as If maybe MIS' Perrin didn't was the last one to see Mis' Perrin Just fall off of that ledge. They think alive:" someone maybe throwed her off. Saladlne shook his head. "I don't Jenny's throat constricted strang-llnglInto It at all," he confessed. see were on The hounde the traiL Bart turned to WIIL "How shout As though from far away ahe heard "Killed her, you you. Will!" be urged. "Didn't you Will stammer: hear tier screech when she fell! I'd mean!" have said everybody In a mile could "Something like that." Will stood wltb his head bowed. "1 have heard thaL It sounded mighty loud ro me." guess not," he said firmly at last Will shook his head. "The noise "Who'd do that!" "I was thinking maybe this Zeke wouldn't carry up to the farm, wltb the hill between, and the trees." He Dace." 8oh!er suggested. I mind," be said, "No looked at Saladlne. But Will shook his head. 8herlff," he Insisted. "Whatever did "when you went off with Huldy, Zeke haitpen. It ws'n't Zeke. He wouldnt he come out of the shed like he'd go go to hurt her." And he continued along arter you. I stopjied him, made And he continued half to himself: "There might hare him stay behind. been some to hurt Iluldy; but not arter a moment: "Seerna like I kep Zeke! Why. I'd as stum think I did It him there a sight longern It'd take you to get down to the brook. Supmyself," he said. Jenny felt the shock of a great blow. posing you didn't stop any time on the Then Bart chuckled : and Will turned ledge. "I didn't," Saladlne said. to look at him. "What's the matter. What's funny!" There was silence for a moment; Bart!" he asked. "What you said, Bart told him. then Will s;mke again, gropingly. "That's a Joke. Will. I mean, to think "By the time I figured you'd be you'd hurt Iluldy," he explained, and gone," he explained, "I left Zeke ami he added hotly: "Not that anyhody'd went Into the house; but when It come blame you I 8he needed It!" He on to rain, I wondered when iluldy spoke to the sheriff. "Anyone around was. I come out on the porch am! here will say the same!" yelled for Zeke, but he didn't answer, Will moved a little toward him. "I so 1 went hunting them. I started to don't take that kindly, Bart," he said go down the iath to the brook. But "I don't want that kind of talk from then I decided there wa'n't any use In Not about Iluldy. you or anybody. that" He added with s glance at Not now." Saladlne: "I see tracks where There was, briefly, silence ; hut after goue down, where your boots youd had a moment the sheriff said, ka.f to him- slipped. self, la almost queruloua tones: Saladlne spoke quickly. "Hoots! "It's a pity she didn't come to long I've got shoes on. It was someone enough to tell what happened to her!" else," he Insisted. "It ws'n't me." And It seemed to Jenny suddenly Will said "It waa boot that this familiar kitchen was very tracks that stubbornly: I see: Somebody with smalL and crowded, and stifling hor. boots on had gone down the trail." She felt strangled, and her hand flew And Bart spoke. "Guess Zeke had to her lips, end stark terror clinked boots on, didnt be!" her. Then she saw Mnrm Pierce Will considered, and he nodded. "Likewatching her with eyes suddenly keen ly." he agreed. "Yes, he did. I mind, and shrewd: and she felt smothered, now. He did. and shrank back Into tbs corner by The sheriff stirred. "The way it the door. looks to me." he decided. Zeks'i the can fee a plenty," she said crisply. The sheriff eald, floundering: "Id like to Li Ik to this Zeke. Might be he'd know eumethlng. Maybe Will, he'll fetch him. Looks like I'd have to talk to that man." Hut when Will and Jenny presently did return, they were alone. This hour she spent with Will was for Jenny deeply comforting, lluldy's accusation had faded Into a cloudy unI SYNOPSIS nils WEEK My Empire" Want Peace ME, Too," Says Selassie Popguns for Unde Sam $900,000,000 More BEN AMES WILLIAMS Willuiu ... secret thought "Go on, Jenny, said old Marm Pierce: "Tell the truth and shame the devil! Jenny look at Will's bowed head and her smile suddenly was radiant aa the sun. "It don't mean a thing to me now, ahe protested softly. "Because I can see It wa'n't true. "What was It Jenny!" the old woman Insisted. "Huldy did come to: for a minute, before she died," said Jenny then. Marm Pierce cried la a deep Incredulity: s "Jenny, she never did! And Bart exclaimed: "She couldn't Jenny I Why, she was as good as dead before ever I got her here! Jenny repeated slowly : "She did. And for a moment she eald anyway no more: She stood near the cabinet over the sink, where knlvee and fork and cooking dishes were stowed sway. Bart was b. the door Into the shed. Marm Pierce was between Jenny and the stove; and Sheriff Sohler sat In front of the oven with hla greatcoai loose about him. WID was beyond the stove, near the other door, Impassive, waiting. 8aladlne, watching Jenny, thought he seemed In this moment to wear a mantle of grace. 8he looked at WUL sod her eyes held bis, and her tone was gently mlrihfuL "She told me yon did It, WUL Mid smile on her Ups, and Jenny, with her glance serene. Bart uttered low ejaculation; but Marm Pierce spoke In brisk Insistence. "How come you didn't call me!" "I didnt want you," Jenny told her r gently. "The more fool you I" said Marm Pierce briskly, her patience near the breaking point "Wbat happened!" she demanded. -The sheriff spoke heavily. Mis' Pierce: you let her tell It her own way, he urged. So Marm Pierce was silenced; and Jenny's eyes turned again to WUL The big man shook and swayed where he stood, as 'though this that Jenny had to say had struck him England's lord high chancellor, nallshsm. read the king's speech, the written by kings cabinet The kings inferences to steps "urgently necessary to Mfopiird my empire ire recommended to this We government haven't any "empire" exactly, but we have a republic worth defending, gome of our loose billions might well spent In direction. KM DOCTOR Vie-cou- one to find ; sad we ain't likely to find him, long aa were setting here!" "Nor you eaot find blm outside, "Show Marm Pierce cried sharply. some sense. Sheriff I You couldn't eeo Zeke ten feet away, s night like this, If he was s mind to hide. Set down. Use your head, 'stead or your feet I Use your eye I" "What good's my eyes going to do me here!" he urged. There' been enough to aee. If you wa'nt blind," she told blm; and she looked briefly at Jenny. "Jenny. she "You were almighty snld Sharply. scared s while ago: I think you know something more'n you've told. You was down brook this morning. Did you see Her anything, hear anything at all! tones were Insistent. Jenny, though her heart was pounding, spoke after s moment steadily The way was dear before enough. her now, all doubts resolved. But ahe only said: "I told you I heard someone talking. In the woods." Marm Pierce protested Irascibly: "Nothing Id that to scare you I" She came closer ro the glrL "Jenny, I can see more than most; bnt I can't aee Wbat was It scared you. a everything. while ago! When the sheriff eald that about wishing Huldy had come to, before she died! What was It, Jenny!" she demanded. The girl smiled slowly, as at some nerveless. (TO BE The lowest temperature so far tallied chemically la forty rilr thousandths of a degree on the J.i vln ecale, which starts nt ah,Iq xera, or approxlmuetly 4Xi.c degr. below tero on the Fahrenheit xmi,' according to the American society. Mothers read this: TIKI (TIN A chanting dote today; a mailer quantity tomemo; kit each time, until boaclt need no help at alL Why do people corns home from hospital with bowels working like g watch? The answer is simple, and it's the answer to all your bowel worries if you will only realize it: many doctors and hospitals use liquid laxatives. If you knew what a doctor knows, yon would use only the liquid form. A liquid can always be taken in gradually reduced doses. Deduced dotage it the secret cf any real rtlief from constipation. Ask a doctor about this. Ask your druggist how very popular liquid laxatives have become. They give tha right kind of help, and right amount of help. The liquid laxative generally tied is Dr. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin. It contains senna and caseara both natural laxatives that can form no habit, even in children. So, try Syrup Pepsin. You just taka regulated till Nature restores regularity. .be that well-regulat-ed Arthur Briehaue ignoring some Italian friction, the king went on to say, "My relatione wltb foreign powers continue friendly. the Italian misunderMentioning standing. lie Mid: "My government will continue to exert their Influence In favor of peace:" If It does, peace will come. Halle Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia, sensibly asked the Patriarch Johannes, supreme authority of the Ethiopian Coptic church, to arrange peace. If he can, with Musaollnl, and Abuna Cyril, high bishop of his church. Is asked by Selassie to do his best And now comes from Universal Service the Important authoritative report that Halle Selassie has agreed to give part of his territory to Italy In return for peace: Differeul View Youth In the hammock dreams the future; old age of the put Washington Mys this country plana a series of Pacific ocean "Glbraltara, armed with guns with a lighting range of 25 to 90 miles: Qnlte amusing, considering that the original Gibraltar has become a useless rock, thanks to airplanes and submarines: Invading airplanes might not be kind enough to come within 29 or 80 miles of those Interesting fixed Glbraltara: What this country needs for coast protection Is airplanes, for lighting, and dirigibles for observation, located close enough together end high enough up In the air to make them really useful In the next war. o! 16-In- CHAPPED SKIN TeqiilcUjr rthwe f Sam borrows Uncle $900, 000,000 more, bringing the national debt above apply eoothind, ' cooling Mentholatum. MENTHOL'ATUM C O M F O RTi Ds lly' but 640.(KXMXNI.000 below the amount that certain "great bankers" told President Roosevelt this country could easily carry. Congressman Hamilton Fish Jr. wants President Roosevelt to tell who the great bankers were, but it Is understood that they talked In confidence. S30I900.0(X)I000I Have yen fried flw MW MENTHA LATUM LIQUID for heed eelde? ,A- H Kriuje seefbtofi uenrfsrt Prince Suml of Japan, brother of the Mikado, fourth eon of the late Emperor Toshlhltu. takes the title "Prince Mikasa," meaning, literally. "Irince of the Three Umbrellaa. The name "Three Umbrellaa" la taken from Japanese mountain and Is also the much revered name or the flagship on which Admiral Togo fought the battle of the Japan sea. seems appropri"Three Umbrellas ate one for Japan, one for China, one for the Philippines; all Japanese. The village of Verde Cocha. near CuayHquIl, In Ecuador, exists no longer. A landslide wiped nut everything. 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The lege ahould be wide apart and squarely aet The coat la abort but not too flue over and close-lyinthe shoulders, neck and back. it g lateraatieual Childiikues In February, 1020, at the first plenary meeting of the Interallied commission and the Germans, a pretty fsree was played out when the German chief Insisted on opening the faceting. In spite of the fact that the allies were Imposing terms and the Germans accepting tliem, a compromise on pro cedure hud to be made wherein th German and the allied rirlegii linns lered the council rnmn sIiiiiiKhiuuiiisIv t--r Poor China abandons hope fur her northern territory and Its II.INNMMKI Inhabitant. thnt J.iiuin wantu Chine snierts that Jutmn "plana a series ol blows to force the entire Chinese na tlon Into vassalage to Tokyo." "Asia for Jnpnn" Is the Japanese motto, and how to go elioiit It. No Japan members of the signs of "fifty-twLeague of Nations" telling Japan, You must not." 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