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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHL UTAH your brother mas sfcot fatally early, Lewis Its m son. this morning by or c"K3wson was kiHfdy police as he was" ityiug 19 rnafce uia rscnpc i our uott Silver Grenoble will arrive Heron River tonight's train. Take care of leather belt with a huge silver buckle ber. Bea'amln Hubbard." In front had made no outcry. She Sophronla Soon after Shad Finney and Nils Coprrlrht Martha Ottenao bad given Albert Symes a curt 'Thank Ulevlk had gained the steps of the Service. J you." Then' she had seated herself or. could be seen the platform. Jess Uelbank chair beside the telephone and had waddling forward front the shadowed looked op at It. there on the wall, for CHAPTER I txtreuie end of It The evening a long time. Jason had stood near by, s oppressive. Jess carried v huge palm fumbling with a piece of harness, or Ordinarily, when the Heron River fan. which she waved dexterously band an eight-ma-n Institution which across the vast and flabby ei idiom? of something she forgot Just what Her snare-druIncluded a twelve-year-ol- d ber. She sank with audible relief down eyes bad moved to him slowly, and itBier and a of sixty-pla- yed, upon a bench against the detot wall, seemed to ber suddenly that this stepof a summer night, "Hall, Hall still some distance from tin group of son of hers was more hunchbacked The Gang's All Here," and proceeded Idlers who surrounded her son Duke, than usual She could see that pitiful with proper solemnity Into "My Coun- Shad and Nils with a certain feeling excrescence of bone and flesh mount from behind the line of his shoul try, Tia of Thee." old Shad Finney of distaste. It must be admitted, edged ing der. She saw his mournful, deep eyes looked at old Kirs Clevik and said. nearer the group. like the eyes of a dog that had beer, The two old men may not have been Wa al, she's finished, mate. We better get along." And Mis, sucking on listening to the utterances of Duke run over and begged to be removed from Its pain. his pipe, would nod his bead In grave Melbank those utterances so punctu his own "Jim Is dead,' she told blm, as she ated and snickers by guffaws accord. that It look an alert ear to gather might tell him that the clock needed But this was no ordinary band-cotheir meaning. They may not have winding. eert-nlgIn July. The telegraph operJason turned the bit of leather about ator, Albert Symes, bad let fall the been listening, exactly because they Information that the express was go- were nice old men, not given to a in his powerful hands hands that ing to stop at the Heron River depot busy Interest In scandal But they could bend a horseshoe Inside out this evening. It was not only going could, nevertheless, not help overhear without trouble. "How?" be asked. His voice wa to slow down as was Its wont to drop ing. Some weeks ago. Duke Melbank. on husky and soft as wind moving over off the incoming mail and to snatch thirty-fourtbirthday, bad discov tall grass. "How did he dler up the outgoing, but It was going to bis "He was shot" come to a definite standstill T let off ered Chicago. And Chicago, Ned Bur "It would be a gambler shot him." a passenger. And who hadn't read In gess, editor of the Heron Hirer Sen never be Jason said, and his glance felL today's Maynard Times about the tinel, had estimated, would same again. Duke had read the "I guess." Phronle said. "His daughshooting, over a gambling table In Chi- the news item at first with a slightly sour ter Is coming on tonight's train. It Gentleman Orennble of Jim cago, Gentleman Jim who still owned half look, because Ned considered himself was Jim's lawyer telgraphed." "Too bad Roddy Isn't here," Jason of the Grenoble farm, fancily called above everybody In the county except Insaid laboriously. "He could meet ber, Tgdrasil by a fancy wife now long the Wlllards. But whatever Ned's dead; and who bad a daughter who tent bad been, It was something to Phronle." The angry red sprang Into Sophro-nla'- s must now be nineteen or twenty? A- have your nameln the paper, and at cheeks. "You're good enough to lbert Symes, being a man of honor In length the clipping nestled In Duke's meet her. Jason." she said sharply. xtls profession, hadn'l said that there vest pocket, along with certain photo be bad got from a traveling "You're good enough to meet anybody, tad been a wire to Sophronla Wlllard, graphs and don't you think. different!" Jim's married sister, about Jim's man who had been In France. Everybody In Heron River knew, by Jason smiled with great gentleness, daughter, stating that she would arrive on the evening train. Hut Till I e Fink, now, what had happened on Duke's as though It were Phronle who was "You know I ain't" be said. of the telephone oftire. had conscien- visit to Chicago, but tonight was an which called for the retelling "You've got to drive In." tiously listened In while Albert had occasion "All conveyed the message to Phronle Wl- of the event. Jase," she replied, to "You was In the Grenobles' suit. have It right, llard at eight o'clock that morning. So done with. "Now I've got to that It bad been unnecessary for A- wasn't you, Duke?" somebody prompted. finish the separator." They don't call It a 'suit." Duke lbert Symes to betray his trust The shining metal of the separator Another Interesting angle in the sit- disclosed loftily. "They cull It an made whirling disks before her eyes. uation was that Koridy Wlllard, step-Bo- 'apartment.' You bet your punklns I Jim Gentleman Jim! Her only brothI wouldn't 'a' got In, nei of Sophronla, had mysteriously dis- was In It er, younger than herself handsome I met ol Jim hlsself In a except ther, In a car his "Just and wild as their grandfather had yesterday. appeared little trip," Roddy had said. In view speak easy, and I come right home been. Not made for this land their bis beln' home town with from him, of the fact, that Elsbetb Fink, the had homesteaded on. and he didn't' grandfather He was worried off the deep end when postmistress and sister of Tillle, knew seem to know I like, Going though. was along. There was his that four letters had been placed Id wife, Anna Egstrom, that lovely to his place, all right, all right! a gang box the mall had died without asking your Boddy's rural Swede, during boyl Maybe I didn't smile like a leave Jim bad gone away then, past ten days, all In the same feml Say, fox after seven or eight o' wooden nine handwriting, the circumstances her, leaving Sophronia, In possession them drinks they give me! And then were Intriguing Indeed. of half this farm that had belonged Duke drew himself up and hooked to All Id all, conditions certainly war their father and their grandfather e his thumbs Into his green her with the responsibility ranted a change of procedure on the leaving suspenders "In she comes! of the entire farm, his own half as part of those two old cronies, Shad striped was Silver pajamas, by hickory They well as hers! Going off after his wife's Finney and Nils Ulevlk. They stamped all playln' roulette you know, like heartily enough upon the advent of they play over to Gale's Point." He death, with his daugh but after as though the earth had swallowed that they "Ilnll, Hall," flicked his cigarette Into ter, and paused' glanced at their watches. And Imme- the onter air. lie knew roulette. These them op. ' What had there been for diately those others who possessed hicks who hadn't even been at Gale's Sophronia to do but to marry Roderick widower on a farm In the watches drew them out from snug Point probably thought It was doml Willard, the She had deeded her next county? pockets, looked at them, gave noes. "Up gets this guy from the table thoughtful wind to the stems and re and she goes with him Into another share of the land to him because he had had the money to work It and lie placed them. room and shuts the door! She never had built this new house on the ridge, There was a general movement even seen me. Wouldn't 'a' known me, not more than a stone's throw above toward the depot, a block away, across Somebody says It's her, so old place in which the from the lumber yard. Eighteen or anyhow. I know. I get up pretty soon and goes the little twenty grown persons and a scatter and opens the door, easy like. And Grenobles had live for three genera lions, in which Silver Grenoble ha I ing of children. there she is with ber back to me and been - "D'you s'pose Phronle'U be here!" borq and Anna Egstrom had died. bendin over her like he's this guy Shad whispered to Nils. "Taint like Wlllard Roderick bad been kind, gonna kiss herl" Duke croaked ly she'll send Jason to meet her. The ously, bis bead thrown back with 'Joy Sophronia had loved blm, she supposed, the looks o him's enough to scare the old relish of reminiscence. so far as she knew anything of love. Nick hlsselfl" him. "Here comes And bis two sons, In their early 'teens Somebody prodded Nils shrugged. "She could do vorse," Phronle Wlllard, Duke! Shut then, had responded to her mothering up!" he remarked. "Tase yust so good so Nils Ulevlk and Shad Finney had affectionately accepted her. But his brndder Roderick." glanced anxiously at Sophronla as Roderick, who bad sold his own farm Shad spied Duke Melbank standing she passed them. They hoped she bad before his marriage to Sophronia, had amid four or five men on the depot not overheard any of Duke's talk, for wanted to secure complete possession of platform. Duke whose real name was they were citizens, and the Grenoble farm. Jim Grenoble, for some romantic reason, had refused to Earl was bareheaded as usual, and had a distaste for public violence. h flaming red hair, shaven close But Sophronla Wlllard, straight and sell his section, and although Roderick about the ears and neck, could have strong as a pine, and as and his sons had worked It through all as one, ignored Dfike Melhnrik's little the years. It had never become Willard been seen a quarter mile away. Duke was tall, group Just as such a majestic tree land, and Roderick, aging now, had tubular. His body suggested a length might Ignore the whisperings of scrub passed his resentment on to his son of sponge. His hands, even In young Roddy. growth In a forest. were always pale, were covered Two years after her marriage to Sophronla had had since eight o'clock with red freckles and were clammy this morning to prepare for her meet Roderick Willard, when her stepsons to the touch. He had a loud, almost ing with her brother's daughter, Anna were In high school at Heron River, Incessant laugh which was peculiarly "Sliver," her mother had frivolously Sophronla had had her first news of devoid of mirth and meaning. He was called her, because of the pallor ot her Jim. He and Silver were In Alaska. an only son, and lived with his moth balr and skin. Sophronla was washlna Jim did not say what' he was doing. er on a shambles of a farm fringing the separator in the milk house when but Silver was being looked after In Heron River. Since farming had be Jason had shouted to her that she was a convent school come .unprofitable, Jess Melbank and wanted on the telephone. Next year Jim was In Nevada. And Albert Symes, the telegraph opera later In, Mexico. Mining, he said. His her son ' supplied homebrew to the neighborhood and to the campers on tor, had read the telegram to her. He daughter was alio In Mexico, In the had said first, clearing his throat: "1 care of nuns, and was learning Span the lakes to the north at twenty-fiv- e cents a quart Jess, In coloring, ap have bad news for you, Mrs. Wlllard. Ish and German and French. Sophronla, peared to have been the Inspiration of Phronle had said, "Go on, go on. man! remembering the fair child of seven, Duke. She was as broad, however, as Read It" Then Albert had proceeded who was so much like that dreamy, she was long, and no one had ever with the message: "As attorney to foreign mother of hers, wondered. aeen her lu anything but a black sateen your brother James Grenoble I assume Sophronla wrote Jim then that her wrapper held together by a man's the painful duty of informing you that husband, Roderick Wlllard, wanted to There's Always; Another Year MARTHA OSTENSO W-V- - U-in- g m bass-drumm- n h . n ,i I: :. i 1 and-orang- seven-year-ol- d g g narrow-shouldere- sum-,nie- f Did you ever meet a gangsters . , mo? You never met one like Silver. Daughter of a gambler, 6he gave her heart and moreto tte big shot of a Chicago "mob." Yet, " something new, more exciting and more important, she discov- ered in the wind-swe- pt beauty of the Dakota prairies. But "To think," she cried, to think that when the real thing came, it had to be wrong, too!" 4 THE RE'S ALWAYS ANOTHER YEA! by Martha Ostenso This is the First 4 installment BEGIN NOW! out But Jim ha4 some sent! mental attachment for tu place, be cause of bis wife Anna, wfc bad called It? Tgdrasil That word. In Norse mythology. Anna had said, meant the Tree of Life. There, was a huge oak in front of the old Grenoble house. reThey couldn't budge Jim. He fused to elL. Why did he want to hang on to a farm that be never meant to visit again? He was gambling for a living. Sophronia would have guessed that, even though Newt Fisher, who had run "Into him In Nevada, hadn't brought the news back. But bis wife Anna had curiously loved her Ygdrasil silly name, silly woman ! Sophronla always grew uncomfortable when she thought of Anna, Well, who hadn't loved her? Sbe was gentle as spring rain. And what would this daughter A hers be like? Sophronia wondered Product of convents with misgiving. (of all things and Jim raised a Presbyterian!) and boarding schools from Nome to Nicaragua daughter of a fairy mother who had died at twenty-eigh- t, and a father madder than his own grandfather, who would lay bets with the moon as to the color of its back-hai- r what would the daughter be like? She had been born on this farm. It was true, but would she remember anything of It that was sane and sound? Phronle bad gone on washing the She struggled to thrust separator. back her memories of Jim, to recall only his unfairness, his selfishness. But It was no good. D n him! D n him! Why couldn't he have come back, Just once? She had wheeled him through the potato patch In bis when he was a year old, and had been spanked for It afterwards. She, five years his senior, had taught him and to skin to play mumblety-peslippery elm. And he hadn't come buy him NEW COTTON i'SE C DUST " go-ca- rt g back. Now this young Anna Grenoble Silver, Phronle emended with a sniff would probably sell her share of tho land Immediately to one of those concerns In the city that was buying un eimS it J.IXUYIC " By VIRGINIA VALE Doris Westerns PRETTY one of themost encouraging things that has happened in; a long time, so far as a lot of our amateur performers are concerned. Doris is the girl who appeared on a radio amateur hour, and as a result was signed to appear at the Rainbow room In Radio City. Audiences liked her so well that her contract was extended, and she Is now well launched on her career as a singer. Of course, she has beauty and an original way of putting her songs across. But girls all over the country are working hard now with a view to breaking into the big time, as she has, by apienring on an amateur hour. a lady Is a star In the cinema doesn't mean that she does not Just because retain a' great spirit of mother love, in the case of Joan Blondell Her great affection for her young son Is causing 1 her to lose $500 a week and here's how 1 it all came about Plus her regular contract salary, she re-IT I ceived an additional , ' " bonus, the equivalent Joan Blondell. of the above mentioned amount, but she was forced to forfeit the bonus In order to be able to leave the studio at 5 o'clock every day so she might go home and be with her youngster at least half an hour before he went to iy sections around here for a pittance, against the time when the land would be worth something again. Silver bed. s Grenoble would have no use for a dreary existence on a northern farm, Henry Wilcoxon, whom you'll see In where taxes were a nightmare that DeMille's new spectacle, "The Crucontinued through the day, through sades," decided to be an actor for the every hour of merciless toll. No doubt sake of the money there was In It; Jim had left her well provided for. he'd had a Job in tondon that paid and It would mean only the turn of a him so little that after one day's work wrist, pen In hand, for her to dispose as an extra, he received nearly as of a negligible property. much money as he had been getting To young Roddy, twenty-sevenow, for a whole week's work. So he gave with agricultural college behind him, up his job and took to the stage and it would be a staggering blow. He had the screen, and there he's been ever never given up hope of one day owning since. He's a likable young man, with the entire farm. enough sense of humor to think It's It was like Roddy that yesterday he rather funny that he once hoped to should have gone off to Ballnntyne In come to America as a chauffeur. his car, saying only that be had to go. .. Helen Hayes staggered everybody when she .turned down $S5,000 along with the offer to play 'The Old Maid" In pictures. Some people claim that she was ashamed to go back into the movies after , the things she'd said about not belonging In them, when she left Hollywood. Others declare that she's perfectly sincere In feeling that her stage and radio work will take so much of her time that she can't give any to pictures, too, and have enough for ber child and husband. n - . font Consumer packing, of fc, produc- t- potatoes, cltnuf Is providing onion Bl . new outlet for cotton. fijH ment of Agriculture mora than lO.OOO.onri J were used for consumer nj.? notatoes alon hst If you're, wise you will see "Alice Adams" the first moment it's shown In your neighborhood, because you will probably want to see it again and again. It's a remarkably good picture, and so true to life that In spots It's painful. . Its presentation at the Music hall In New York, was doubly significant, for on the second day, early In the afternoon, crowds outside the theater were flocking around a news stand, to buy the newspapers which gave the first reports of the death of Will Rogers. It seemed strange to go Into the theater, and see Fred Stone on the screen, for Stone was one of the men who, at that very moment, must have been almost breaking under the shock of that dreadful news from. Alaska. Then She Had Seated Herself on He had been In a plane crash himthe Chair Beside the Telephone. self not so many years back, and Rogers, a lifelong friend, had stepped in Sophronla had ber own Ideas as to and played Stone's role in a stage show why he had gone, but she did not for him. press his confidence. She thought uneasily of the letters that had come to him from Baliantyne in the past week Amazing, the cinema: In the new or so, and of his niggardly disclosure Kay Francis picture. "I Found Stella of their contents. It was no secret Parrlsh," which deals lo anyone that the Baliantyne bank with the life of a famous English actress. had failed that summer, but that Meader, the president's daughter, Miss F. is shown in should be writing so persistently to excerpts from a Grecian play. Perc Roddy Wlllard was a curious thing. W e 8 1 m o r e, A few summers ago, when the Hollygirl was a house guest at a cottage on wood's number 1 wig Twin Deer lake, to the north, she had creationist was sent driven over and spent the afternoon for to design a Grecian at the farm, and Sophronia had learned wig for her, so he did then who It was that had become a very snappy one Roddy's Ideal at college. She was a made out of blue- vivacious creature. Phronle recalled, white hair. When Orry Kay Francis. very smartly dressed, with curly brown Kelly, Warner's style hair and brown eyes that had a way creator, saw the wig he designed. a e dress to go with It but of widening Innocently up at Roddy a way that had made Phronle grimly when Mervyn Le Roy, the director, saw sick while she stalked through the the wig- and the dress haw mum hnri ti,... UICUI set to further en barnyard showing the young thing design a blue-whinance Miss F. The effect no doubt is from the city how old "Stumpy," the hen with one foot, was quite startling If we could nniv rearing a brood out what "blue-white- of turkey chicks. Corinne had pouted really looks prettily over her own ignorance con- like. cerning all farm lore, and Roddy, tickled, had ODDS AND ENDS indulgent laughed. ...Fred Astaire's Sophronla would never forcet her own success on the radio is certainly a tribute effort to serve the girl Iced tea In the to his personality as we've come to knou sitting room. She would never forget it in the movies . . . Ding Crotby wunis how Corlnne's eyes bad roamed over to tuke his wile and three the place, scanning the floors, the next year . . . Now that Lew Ayres is set walls, the furniture. And Roddy had as a aireclor, riichiird Uarthelmess. Robert sat there holding a glass and strug- Armslrone and Uert Lvlell are Lltrl-- in follow in his footsteps . . . 7om Mix is gling to mnke his hands look small The neighbors did not know whero going to make Jour tnclures for RKO, Roddy had gone. It was Just as well he uys . . . Rosalind SusieU'i vacation uig by taking e freighter hum Sun trua They talked too much nvhw. Cisco to Rio de Janeiro. 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