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Show EAST SALT LAKE TIMES, FRIDAY, J ANUARY 11, 1921 Joseph Greer and His Daughter -- YOU CAD! ! SYNOPSIS. Uri--r- . ntty. I'.ralc ha vine diecuvertd a piuoes ui extracting nber from nx straw, ia made director of a lug coriu-ratioFor jears distrusting man of affaire. Gr.tr baa i.a.o wna a Iona hand. Now holding oaroa, ha considers tha winningloa iia sublet lo la ha willingTo protect hia own to waalth. own hia totaled haa Intaraata Joe MacArthur, secretary. Janula Henry l. raupon the company.related to John ven. a bank c.erk backWilliamson. the millionaire er of Greers new company,poai-tio-lan offered by Williamaon the comof treaaurer of tile newuniier-aioo- d pany. with tha generally Greer. purpoea of waleiung Jennie Craven accepia. Joe teiia about hia wife, and hia nlneteen-yaar-cl- d Beatrice, daughter, whom ha baa never eeen. He ia ilauguler planning to force the Joe goea into Chicago aociety. to a week-en- d party at WlUiam-aon- a 3k fle 1 Just-p- C iltf n, . In at l oi houae, where he ineela Violet, John a wife, and la atrongiy her drawn to her. Ha faacinatra and Beatrice arrlvea and father Beaacquainted. daughter getto be d handsome, trice proven and lacking aoclal poliah. Violet Joe and Tha affair between progreaaea. Violet Inlereata her-ae- lf In Trlx'a nodal career. hif' ouT1 aelf-wllle- Ril CHAPTER inn M Ha filled me full of details," John and I can't remember concluded, them. Td like to take you out to meet him some time and bear for jouraelf what he's got to any." Joe said, serloualy, that hed be very flad to go. Thera wai nothing new about old Nicholson's facta, and nothing very alarming about hia theories, but he'd be worth talking to anyhow, and hia stand of Belgian flax worth seeing. If that atulf could be made to grow in this soil and climate It might be worth a lot to them. He didn't mention to John that, for , three months, he had put In odd hours designing a harvester that would pull flax np by the roots He was always aa secretive with hie Immature Ideas as a cat with her blind kittens. "All right. said John, "we'll plan to go out there some time, within the next week or so." He could manage It ; Joe grinned. tomorrow, he said, though It was a pretty full day. And he was going tm esn lrii' A. rout loot IM BOX Sid Ad t niM N,i .1i oir : rale Dru Kiln Vtt that coil orijf - but yptw fra North tomorrow night "Tomorrow's Impossible for me,' said John. "Oh, d n It yea, FU make It today. If Nicholson's there. Td promised Dodo I'd go to a ball gams with her Giants and the Cuba But shell let me off, I guess. Nicholson was at home and would bo glad to see them. Bo the date with Dorothy had to be broken. The two ate lunch together, and Immediately afterward, In Joe's roadster, drove out to Nicholson's. v Joe enjoyed the afternoon thoroughly. He'd never liked John WiTkltmaon so well before; he had never had so little the sense that they belonged to two different spedea They talked, for the first time, at ease, and found, Within rather narrow limits, a common language. ' Aa for old Nicholson, he proved clear treasure-trove- th PUS ltd 1 woo v r Continued. -- jya t V ,ctM . He was wild, possibly little mad, utterly unsound In all his scientific ideas; and his manners, though somewhat more elaborate, were as outrageous as Joe's own. Rut he was perfectly real, unnffected person, happily living a life that was Just bout as he wanted It, and as sublimely Indifferent to collective opinion as ha was to the facts of physics and Chemistry. ' nfort-- ' nrtlct He and Joe, aa they tramped out to flax fields and back to tlie laboratories, " and as they sat In his veranda dlscuaslng a hospitable supply of Scotch and soda, argued and swore st the H stall wr nuns: icasi hp ramp lave l Ob to Ui ou .1 abl Iwti m o? cot i t sinrt ci nbd bn min; Vlt. up rtfrflJ d S! mnj tw lllkbj uini il St. "He Filled Ms Full of Details, John Concluded. each other, uni II, by five o'clock, they were old friends. It was about this time that John was railed to the j,i took advantage of the Interruption for a look at the sky. 1 We're going to have n h I of a big rain heron- - night," lie remarked. ' Old Mrlmlson nodded. "I coul.1 have told you tlml this morning, when yeu telephoned, only you wouldn't vp bcllpvpd nip. Williamson rume bark. It was Violet who had telephoned. had driven her nut to lllrkoryIomtliy Illll-t- lils Graham Ktnnnard's and Rush Wollastons farm and, with tlie storm esming up, aha didn't rare to let the girl drive back. Tlie Nlrholson place three er four miles away, and Wile e was that John theuld lele-phnn- u pick them up at Hickory Hill and drive them home. I told them," John that we'd come out in concluded, your cur, but thut I didn't think youd mind taking me over iliere, und. take Violet home In my place. Thut lltile roadster of Iiodo'a would he a tight lit for three. It's taking you a lot qut of your way, of course." The request pleased Joe. It wls of a piece with the more companionable feeling he'd been aware of between them all tlie afternoon. He would be late for dinner and he'd been punctual ua a commuter since Trlx liad been promoted to the head of his household but he'd contrive to telephone from somewhere and let her know what to exiiect. They left Nicholson's at once, but the atop at Hickory Hill used up a good deal more time than they'd counted upon. icr-Imp- It amused Joe to note that there never was the sllghteat question In John's mind as to how their party of four should be divided up. John, and nobody else, whs going to drive his precious Dorothy over those tricky detours. Violet, he believed from a gleam he caught In her eye, was somewhat dryly aware of the same thing. Joe, with Violet, started out ahead; but the position was reversed as soon as It began to rain, for he pulled out to the aide of the road at once and began putting up tlie and the others came on by, passing with a derisive honk from John and a shouted comment, only half audible, from Dorothy. Her Idea seemed to be that the storm wasnt going to amount to anything and that the rain felt good anyway. They'll go on like that till they're soaked," Violet said, discontentedly, and then they'll put up the curtalna to keep tlie wetness In. I'm Ilka a cat T about getting wet," she added. hate It." drive, and Joe's car bad a right-han- d his levers, especially with the handbrake set and the storm curtains up, barred hia entrance to the driving-sea- t. It was raining In good earnest before he'd finished with the curtains, and, In the light of that last remark of liers, he hesitated to ask her to get out so that he could get In. I can climb In over you," he sugIf you don't mind being gested, squeesed a bit I don't mind, she said, and he clambered in, over her knees. Then be reached across her and buttoned the last curtain fast. The state of hia mind and feeling toward her, when they had started out from Hickory Hill, would have satisfied the moat exacting husband In the war'd. John Williamson, had he the clairvoyant power to read It, would probably have smiled over It as not quite credibly austere. No human male of virile years could be expected to set out upon a long drive with as pretty a woman as Violet for his sole companion without s little more disposition to Improve the shining hour oh, In a perfectly harmless, decent way, of course than could be read In Joe's Intentions. Her sensuous appeal to him was completely in alieyance. She was John Williamson's wife, and John was, after She all, a thoroughly good fellow. was also, in a way lied never been lucky enough to experience before, willing to make friends with him. He wanted her for a friend, on Trix's acAnd count as well as on his own. then, last and first and all the time, he was that newly discovered being, Trix's father. Emotions awakened on the night of Ills quarrel with her hadn't had time to subside Into commonplace tepidity. Tlie chance that Trix's father should even glance aside at the amorous possibilities of another woman would have been unthinkable to him when he left Hickory Hill. Rut when he started the car, after that pause to put the curtains up, there had been a change. The subtlety of the when they are trained and relied upon, as Joe's were, Is beyond Ian gunge altogether. It was with perfect Innocence that he suggested it mightn't he necessary for her to get out of tlie car In onler to let him In, If slit didn't mind being squeezed a bit. lint some quality of her voice when alio answered. I don't mind,'' roused hliu. She bail Inflicted it In a thoroughly matter of fact way, too. There was the same nicasage In the feel of her hoily as lie crowded across It, In tlie of her breast from contnct with his arm as hr buttoned the curtains. In her discovery of the wetness of his emit, and In the way site helped him out of It. A series of sets which could have been described In precisely the same words might have told him nothing at alt, might have left him as coolly unconscious of her sex as he'd tiern when he stopiied the ear. There wasn't the faintest doubt In him of the authenticity of the message. Whether she'd meant to convey It. or even was aware she bad, he couldn't feel sure. lie called up a sullen resistance to meet It. He drove lmiskly and hard through the pounding rain. His left hand was kept busy sweeping the windshield clear with the squllgee. and every time hia arm came hark to the driving position It had to crowd its wuy In beside her body. There was nothing tender about tlie way he did It. He talked, doggedly, dully, about old Nicholson and bis flsx and hia mad Ideas. Anything that would prsaa his consciousness and back his awareness of hora that thsy ware storm-curtain- s, By HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER Copyright by The Robbs-Merrl- ll aim,:-other- Tp3na ,.?W , i L j fri-i.- shut in together the storm, alone xn-i.- ;ii:,l and close against secure; of tlu-i- r - j of tlesli bodily warmth, toe to flesh. She did nothing to belli him. She said little, made no cutiversutlon of Iter own. Anil what she did say was no longer friendly bin curt, preoeoiitiled. Well, he knew-- - lie knew to., d d well what her preoccupation 1 - j Tlie Economical Quality Car .,. WilS. y He guve over trying to talk at last, and drove all the harder, lie could feel his heart pounding like a sulky motor. The ruin liad Increased to a cloudburst. It looked like a solid wall of water be was driving Into. There was only a lurid dusk of daylight left, und the two misty pencils from Ids headlights Illuminated nothing. "I suppose It's dangerous to go on through this, site remarked. Indifferently. It'd be a d -- n sight more dangerous ts stop," he growled, and didn't know whether she had heard or not. She gave no sign, anyhow, that she could hear or feel, and lie didn't turn to look. Rut within a minute or two the question of going on was settled for lilm. He had been balancing the car on the crown of a newly worked dirt road. 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Let any one of our seven thousand dealers show you our seven t pes of cars and explain how easy it is to get one and enjoy its use. -- tm-rage- a pur-ch.i- dc-ros- op-ratin- i i -- poa-stos- ing femur. I, bundle, so, instead of the lie went mi bucking the ar , culvert and up the ,1m c. lie nm !e her no other answer t: i: t i I she i1cii.lu.IIt's i: ed furiously, Why d. n': jou do us 1 not with me unyhnw .. fault this happened. Jut h.nl ay? 'Wlmt are you g dug to do1.'" 1 don't men kn-s j And there's no harm, done, jol-- a ji.ur husband s 1 suppose l.e is. u In tluu house. Rut string we can't ploy out. I'm not going l lene ;u till 1 cun don't want to make a fool of j Iiusband. anil neither do 1. And ...i turn you over to him- gvod a 1 t: want to be friends with you tingot you." -- r Again he saw she was l .milling vioway. I wunt you for a frlei, 1. You --cad !" siit '.. insperetl. ,.;i lently. I.ciitrb e. And this would sp. "I'm not goiujc to tell h.m anything,'' that. We can't have It both und '.ip. he s.ild. T in going to let '.dm have a And we can't go hulf-wiiIt's to be all or nothing with is good look at me, t'.iut's h!1. Ills i I'm i. t saying It's easy. I.y jow he I. ml slopped ids car be- fore the d.Hir. She sprung down and and Ids grip on the wheel iIcM ened. It's n h 1 of a thing the way tied up tlie path lo the doorstep, but s. It he followed, mdy a phee l.ebind. At .h.imis on you, out of the Rut it's nut the only thing in the I lie door she turned and spoke to lilm In the high, clear, cultivated, leisurely world." She turned upon him, now, and l lie tone wliieb ei modes security and place iiiovcnicnt brought his eye round to und unlimited assurance. Tin terribly her for the first time since he'd begun sorry you don't think you ran atop, She was still trembling, but I know how frightfully lata I've speaking. and her eyes were bright, but with a made you. already. Good by." Rut her face made of ilmt manner a furious anger. "Oh, you're unspeakable she cried. pitiable travesty. She was on tlia For telling the truth?" verge of the complete demoralization of PHnlc. She couldn't endure seeing "The truth 1" Rage made her I wouldn't have her husband and her daughter In tha voiceless. same room with him. Not today, at listened aa long aa I did If I'd understood what you meant. The beastly any rate. There waa clear hatred of him In her eyes, but there waa appeal thing you meant." We meant the same thing, for a aa well, and thia be couldn't realat. He turned sharply away and waa minute or two, he told her, bluntly. It shueked you to realize It Well, getting Into his car when John Wilit ahockvd me, too though you may liamson opened the door. He waved not believe it. And I thought the only one hand while he slid his transmla-slon-levinto first sieed with the othway for ua to get bark on the other er. A moment more and he was drivbusts as friends " Frantically, she matched the word ing aa fast as he could back to town With and Beatrice. He didn't care a d n Friends? away from him. you? After tha beastly things you've what John or any of the rest of that done and said?" gang thought of him. "It's the auying that's the crime," he CHAPTER VI commented, grimly. "What we did wouldn't have mattered, to you, 1 Tha Samaritans. guess, If we'd pretended It was nothTlie first than realer thing Henry Craven did Aren't any ing you after Margaret's departure left him that? If you speak to me again, site de- free to enjoy life In hia own wuy, was Rea tries clared, wildly, I'll get out of the rar. to begin worrying about I'll wade In the mud till I find some- Greer. He caught glimpses of her In She places where he felt she ought not to body who'll come back and shrank away from him, leaving the be, though It struck him ?iiul with her threat to be guessed at, buried her father away, home wsd no safer a face In her hands, and begun crying place than anywhere else. lie suggested to Violet that ahe extend n prolike a child. ao doHe clenched the wheel again, fight- tecting hand to the gl4l, and In made the troubling discovery that ing down her to take the Impulae ing she had cast Joe Into outer darkness up in lila arms again. He knew what name of Greer. would happen If he did. Shed strug- and barred the very So, heavily handicapped reluctantly, a and then soft for go minute, gle hia sense of tha rlillculoua, ha esagain and they'd be back where they by bewere before. The old Adam in him sayed the role of uncle to the girl, was grinning at him for a fool to have gan going to see her and taking her Rut within a fortnight sha taken her so seriously. Even a pru- ubout. dential consideration whispered that quarreled with him over hia supposed some of her other she'd be leas dangerous leas trouble- attitude toward foremost among them Lansing friends, some, anyhow ; site couldn't he dangerous so dealt with, than as now. But Ware. Finally he did what he should done In the first place made an he sat still, and the wave passed, have of Jennie MacArthur. ally leaving him cool, unmoved, aa If the He and Jennie dined together over storm had never been. Reatrlce and her problems, and though Outside, the storm was, he finally didn't adopt a program, the talk decided, thinning. He looked cautious- they afforded Jennie a warning when, on Violet. round about at Shed ly the following Sunday afternoon, sha stopped crying, too, though her face a telegram from Joe Greer. It had got was still burlg d In her hands. If you'll let me out, he said, I'll see what can be done about getting started again." She stepped down Into the road without a word or a glance at him. When he came back, twenty minutes later, with some boards he'd found, site was at first nowhere to he seen, but presently be made her out by the fHlnt daylight that was returning as the sky cleared, np on the bank a little distance away, looking down tlie road. He gave no sign of having seen her, hut when he went to work Jacking up the wheels and sliding the hoards under them she esme down and asked him, composedly enough. If he needed her help. She remained nearby. Just the is me. when he told her lie did not. and oven volunteered u remark about She suggested taking the weather. the curtains off before they started on sgsln, and n something peremptory In her voice when she said It was all that slanted In nny war toward wliut had Site took happened between them. her place beside him with no appear-aneof hesitation. Henry and Jennie Dined Together. They hud a wild mile or two slitherIneiitiod of over those clay plane ing been delivered nt her flat before noon, wlileh made wlmt was supposed to lie but a she bad been out for lunch she a road. Itepetiledly tl.ey began sliding didn't And It until her return about townril one of the ditches or the other, four o'clock. He was arriving Hint somehis and skill all snd it winded ho mild, over the Northwestern, at time most or his strength to avoid day, for a few hours only, ns disaster. She s.ihl very little, but she he wns out ngnln that night. He going normal for eminent showed a perfectly n talk with her and a visit with wanted Ills u cress, and by :hc time they were Trlx. She wns to telephone direct to safely Usn gravel ugaln lie felt that Rurns to meet him nt the station und and much In halmii tone, she was. drive hltu st might out to her flat. the same person with whom he'd left Hickory lllll. Ri:t of her intention townril lilm, the sort of modus vltetidi. It was blazingly clear that If liny, she iimuni lo offer him, he bail Trix waa drunk. no Inkling whatever. He was conscious of a growing intangibility about her us she became (TO Ut I'llX'riXl'KIV) more ut ease. Indeed. It struck him. she said, that Two Sad Cases. amusedly, at something she'd have nld Just that tiling, snd In Recently a frump taken np In a New Juit that tone, to Jeffrey, her chauf- Y ork police court fur drunkenness feur. Itnt I. is last Impression of her gave his birthplace as RimIdii. Yours," that (lay was to be of ii different sort. nhl Hie nmglslrnie, Is a and case. e a Yet you don't seem to thoroughly realThey hnd slowed down turn In the road when simul- ize how low you have sunk.'' The taneously they saw tlie oilier car. prisoner struck his brow with a pnlueil standing In a drive ilmt led up to a gesture. Hen veils!" he exclaimed decomfortable looking farmhouse. voutly, I have stood ninny liidlgiiltlea. Idg, Joe stopped at onee, and began buck- hut to be seiuqnced by a magistrate Hint split hie Infinitive I This Is the ing to turn In. "You needn't do thut," she said, Inst blow !" 1 can get out right here." sharply. She added, when lie went on without What Woman Believes A woman glwaye believes a rain obeying her, I've already lieen in the mud, so It's too late for tliut." when he ssya he lovee her, even If aha Sha waa fumbling with tha door- - doean't believe anything alia ha aaia. That's the wuy we feel ull right ; there's u i away from ilmt. Have I guess- - Rut It Isn't the only Co. fir Economical Trantportation He Drove Bruakly and Hard Through tha Pounding Rain. a tight rope, and when a loose stone threw him a little to one side the car He Instantly became nnsteerable. killed the motor and braked as hard aa he dared, which wasn't much, to check their momentum, but there was no way to atop their side-allThe only question was whetlier they would bring up In a ditch, In which case the car would no doubt roll over, or against n bunk. It depended on a which was there. Violet laughed as she felt theta going, but not, lie noted, the sort of laugh one might expect. There was nothing of panic in It. It was only a matter of seconds before they brought up against the bank und stopped with a Jolt which threw her violently upon cut-dow- him. For a moment her body wits like every muscle stretchrd taut; but even so she made no movement away from him. He eased the position of his shoulder by slipping It under her, and at that, with a gasp, she went soft. His arm closed round her and held her where she was. "You're a good sport," he told her. 'There's no telling where hoarsely. you're going to bring up when you like that. start a side-sliHpr answer waa hardly arllciilnte. been slipping a lung while" was wlint he thought he heurd. He felt an Imperious need to see her face, and, reaching out with hia free hand, he switched on the dash-lamShe flinched nl (lie faint glow, but made no spoken protest. Tlie little light imiile the outer dsrkness deeper. Tlie rsln shut them In like a many-foldecurtain. Oh, God!" he helplessly. Then, with h laugh, "I guess there's nothing we can do steel, p p. d wlila-pere- ilhnnt It." Not n tiling," she murmured, lie pulled her up higher so Hint her bead fell Imck Usm his shoulder, nnd kissed her upturned mouth, hotly, unThen he drew buck and equivocally. stared down Into her fnce. Her eyes, wide open, luminous, returned hia gaze with something In them flint confounded him an Impossible tiling. Innocenee! The incredulous. half-te-r rilled awakening of a new surmise! She waa a mother of a grown girl. She hnd been married the better part of twenty years. Hut she imule him think of Reatrlce. lie shifted her over to her own side of the seHt, gently enough, hut with of sudden resolution; h movement then lie clenched his hands on the Ve can't go on with this, wheel. lie said, holding Ills voice as steady us he eould. it Isn't easy to pull up, blit It can lie done." He didn't look nt her; gaxeil out fixedly through the windshield as If he'll Rut he was been driving the car. aware of her, slumped down a little In her seat nnd shuddering. She gate no Indication of listening to lilm, hut he plunged heavily on. In spurta. The mess had got to ha cleared up somehow, now, bafort It grew any worse. e five-thirt- right-angl- , ... ... 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