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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. l.EHI. UTAH ' i Hasty Regrets Follow Hasty Conclusions Jimmy, who had been climbing trees, came in for the second time within the week with hi trousers torn. "This time you can go and mend them yourself," upstairs ordered the harassed mother. Some time later she went upstairs to see how he was getting along. She found the trousers there, but no Jimmy. Puzzled, she came downstairs, still looking for Jimmy. She noticed, as she passed, that the cellar door, usually shut, was open. She went to the door and called down loudly and angrily, "Are you running around down there without your trousers on?" The reply came in a stern and heavy masculine voice: "No, madam, I'm reading the gas meter." " . BMB,,l,B,ilB,,iBBBSMSBaSMBjB . i A seemed to quiver in the starlight. But she stood erect before him, her head flung back, her eyes blazing into his. no game," she "I'm playing panted. "Let me go back." He eyed her coldly. "Either you MARTHA OSTENSO O MARTHA OSTINSO are playing a game tonight or you PHOTOGRAPttf were playing one night before last," he told her. Her lips quivered over her clenched teeth. "You can judge for fNU SEKVKX CHAPTER VI Continued He tTniled at Linda in assent, and the ball as it struck the fins. A thin went to the butler's blue cloud of smoke filled the room. wgetner they had she and Bruce come toWhy yourself," she replied. which was used by the fam Autumn, in a diaphanous silver He stepped toward her and seized gether again? And why had some pantry as a bar. Bruce on the paused mischievous alchemy transmuted iy dress, was perched on the edge of her wrist. "Do you mean that?" uiresnoid and looked over the small them from their own independent table, with Florian standing be- he asked. of young people who were in the side selves into two beings, each incom- group her. In a moment she lifted She released her wrist with a viome pantry. her eyes and looked at Bruce. He lent jerk. "Don't touch me don't plete without the other? That was neuo, Landor!" called one of waved to what she felt now, she thought wanbut her response was touch me!" she cried and shrank Florian's friends, and three or four a fleeting her, smile that was bland and from him. lyincompleteness. That was what others set up a chorus of greet she would always feel whenever she Her voice was a shrill whimper, expressionless. Then she withdrew her eyes and turned to watch the not loud, not the voice of one utterly thought of Bruce Landor. But that ings. "Well, if it isn't the big wool and game as Timothy set the ball spin- beyond control. An incomprehensiwould never do! She must put that one brief, unforgettable hour behind mutton man all the way from Cher ning once more. ble pang smote Bruce, a pang of her forever, that hour she had spent ry wreeK! Bruce was suddenly possessed of pity, ot complete bewilderment. alone with Bruce in the cabin. to lay hold of her and neiio, everybody!" Bruce an impulse "Autumn," he said, "what's becarry her bodily out of the room. hind all this? I have a right to Florian had been talking idly and grinned. she made a gallant effort now to "Step up, Landor, and get close to But at that moment Linda placed know." listen to him. She owed him that, uie source or supply," another in- herself directly before him and be"Right?" Her laughter was alat least, since he was to serve a vited, and Linda d rew him KocJrlo gan to tug at his lapels. most a sob. She crossed her arms her and waited while two glasses "Snap out of it, Bruce Landor!" over the shimmering bodice of her peculiar purpose now in her strugwere nuea. she said. "What's wrong with you?" gle to forget her love for. Bruce. gown, and her hands clutched spasA d He looked distractedly down at the "You've made a great hit with youth and a at her smooth, quailing modically blonde girl were perched side subtle smile of Linda's crimson lips. shoulders. the family, Autumn," he told her. Beneath her arms he "Which is all to the merry, what?" by side on the "bar," swaying to "Nothing's wrong, Lin," he re- could see the vehement rise and and fro and singing a hilarious and plied. "What?" she bantered. fall of her breast. Her russet hair "Let's go into the other room and fell back from her forehead, and He frowned at her. "Are vmi not quite proper song that was a legnever going to be serious with me?" acy from the war to all such gath- dance," she invited. her eyes were so dilated as they erings. he asked gruffly. "How about taking a crack at the flared into his face that she had the "Let's get out of here," Linda wneet now that we re here? he look of a person blind. He drew With an earnestness that surprised even herself, she laid her hand on said as soon as they had received said equably. "Dance later." DacK trom her. his arm. "Do you want me to pre- their glasses. With a little moue of disappoint"You are not yourself, Autumn," She drew him away and started ment which he chose to ienore. Lin he said tend that I'm serious?" she asked calmly. for the porch. him. da pressed forward to the side of "I was not myself the other night, "I'd rather have that than noth"Don't you think we'd better join me iaDie ana looked on while Bruce if that's what you mean," she rethe crowd in the billiard rnnm'" ho bought a pile of chips and waited ing," he replied. see "You me tonight as I plied. "You are more easily satisfied ventured. am as I intend to be from really than I am, darling," she said lightly. "And lose you for the rest of the now on. Ask your mother what I He and tossed a stone 10 V enljBKnul&c Form These i.ace u OTO" (.OltTHWtST Lovely accessories red-face- corn-colore- Just and Unjust That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one. Henry George. 25 slower than the average of the 15 other of the largest-sellin- g brands tested slower than any of them -C- AMELS give a smoking plus equal to By burning into stooped the middle of the pool. The water rippled outward like a sunburst. "Is there someone else?" he asked after a long silence. She looked directly at him. "Let's not be so solemn, Florian," she pleaded. "Didn't I hear you say something once about contempt for life?" "You did." he said laennirallv. "and I meant just that!" He seized her suddenly and kissed her, then held her close while he smiled down into her eyes. She looked at him with cool reflectiveness for a moment, then drew away from him and turned toward the house. "I think we had better go back," she said quietly. He followed her, and in a moment she began humming a little tune. "Some day," he said, taking her arm as he came beside her, "you'll not treat a kiss from me so light, you cold little devil." "Perhaps," she said with a short laugh. "But in the meantime, darling, let's play together, if you have nothing else to do. It's so much more fun." CHAPTER VII evening?" she retorted. "Not d mi,hi less. Are you going to put up with us for the night?" "Impossible, I'm afraid," he replied. "Mother is much hpttpr anH I have a good nurse for hor any way, but I've got to be on the' job." SMOKE 1 aiwrtfsxnokeCamels! for an extra measure of cigarette goodness. In recent impartial tests of 16 of the largest-sellin- g brands, a leading research laboratory found these results: CAMELS were found to contain MORE TOBACCO BY WEIGHT than the average for the 15 other of the largest-sellin- g brands. 1 CAMELS BURNED SLOWER 2 THAN ANY OTHER BRAND SLOWER THAN THB TESTED-- 25 AVERAGE TIME OF THE 15 OTHER ' OB THE LARGE slower, on BRANDS) By burning 25 the average, Camels give smokers the equivalent of 5 EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK! In the same tests, CAMELS HELD THEIR ASH PAR LONGER than the average time for all the other brands. 3 You, too, will agree that Camels are America's No. rette for pleasure, economy! long-burnin- g I A Cf 1 ciga- V at jag." LONG-BURNIN- G COSTLIER TOBACCOS PENNY FOR PENNY YOUR BEST CIGARETTE BUY! A servant took Bruce's hat and topcoat and Linda slipped her hand again into the crook of his elbow and drew it close to her. "It was sweet of you to come," she said. "How've you been?" "Fine, thanks," he replied, and realized at once that his voice sounded a bit hurried. He straightened his tie with an anticipatory excitement he had not felt since he was a boy. Somehow, quite unreasonably, he knew, he had expected Autumn tq be the first to greet him on his arrival. "Let's have a drink together," Linda suggested. "I've been waiting for you to share my first one of the evening." stepped slowly aside. "As vou will." he said ouietlv. He stood in the darkness and watched her as she walked toward the house. When she had gone in, he made his way around to the front of the house and entered by way of the portico. In the hall he met Linda. "Let's dance, Lin," he said, before she could speak 'to him. "Or do we hunt up that other drink?" She looked up at him and smiled slowly. "I believe you're coming out of your trance," she said, and drew him with her toward the butler's unaa snrugged impatiently as they stepped out upon the shadowy porch. "The gods are a stinev crew," she said. They sat together on the porch swing and sipped their drinks. Bruce did his utmost to contain his impatience and contribute a civil share of conversation, but in spite of himself he found his eyes roving anxiously toward the lighted hallway. He paid no heed to the two or three couples who were near them on the porch, or to their confused talk and laughter. unaa moved close to him and pressed her shoulder under his arm. Her naive boldness was familiar to him now, and he was scarcely aware of her nearness in his own preoccu- pantry. CHAPTER "Anyhow, it was sweet of you to come all the way down so that I could have an hour with you," she murmured. "I'm sorry I didn't get down for the game," Bruce returned in a f-fact tone. "I hear Florian gave a good account of himself." "He played the game of his life," Linda said. "I think it was because Autumn laid a bet on him against Timothy. Poor Florian has taken an awful tumble for Autumn." Bruce smiled to himself. "Serious?" he asked. "The most serious thing in his young life. He's potty!" "Florian has been potty before," Bruce observed. "I believe it's the real thing this time, though. When the Parrs fall, they fall hard, darling." She paused, but Bruce did not offer a reply. "I think she likes him, too. They hit it off together beautifully." "I'll never believe Florian is in love until I see it with my own eyes," he said. He harbored a warm feeling almost of pity for Florian as he thought of him. "You'll see it tonight, then," Linda assured him, "though you won't oeiieve it, even then. You're blind, my dear, quite blind." "I think I know the signs," he declared. Soft dance music began drifting out to them now from the radio in the drawing room, and presently the couples seated about the portico disappeared within doors. Linda and Bruce were left alone. She turned her face irrmnlsivf.lv up to him, and he was shaken out of his abstraction by the imploring look in her eyes. "You don't know the signs," she whispered, "or you couldn't be so cruel to me." "Cruel?" he asked. "Cruel because you are so kind," she said, and her voice seemed to him to be almost a stifled sob. Bruce flushed. "Good Lord, Lin!" he protested. "You can't blame me for being kind to you. I'm awfully fond of you, girl." "Fond" she said wistfully. "That's it damned fond!" He laughed awkwardly and stood up, lifting her to her feet. "Yes, I am damned fond of you, Lin. Come on let's go in and pick up Florian." "I'd rather have another drink," she told him. "Nothing more for me," Bruce answered as he took her arm and started into the house. In the doorway to the billiard room, Bruce stood for a moment and looked eagerly over the crowd. In the middle of the room a roulette wheel had been set out upon the billiard table, and Timothy Parr was acting as croupier for the evening. The crowd about the table was closely knit, their eyes intent upon the little ivory ball. Above the hum of voices could be heard the snapping of chips and the staccato clink of VIII May had passed, and June and now it was July, the month of the wild-rosWithin its fortress of mountains the valley lay besieged by a torrid heat. Just a fortnight aeo. after a dav such as this, Jane Landor had died quietly and unexpectedly in her sleep. Bruce's sorrow had been eased somewhat by his melancholy realization that she was spared further pain and misery from an illness from which there could be no recovery, but his grief at her passing had been none the less deep and e. "I'm topping! Bored to death though until this minute." for the next flip of the ivory ball. When Timothy reached for the spindles again, Bruce placed three chips on squares and offered a handful to Linda. "I'm not lucky," she demurred. He turned again to the table and waited for the ball to drop into the slot. While he waited he noticed a short, plump man who had had too much to drink pushing his way to the edge of the table beside Autumn. He could not help seeing that Autumn's hands were clenched on the table edge. Florian stepped between her and the boisterous guest and the game went on. 2210 are memorized as these, there's u excuse for not having a variety lovely accessories. And it's al accomplished by crocheting and joining these simple medallions a mercerized string or finer cotton Pattern 2210 contains direction! for making medallions; illustrations of them and of stitches; m terials required; photography' ' medallions. Send 15 cents in coins for this pattern to The Sewing Circle, Dept., 82 Eighth Ave New York, N. Y. Please write your name, ad.' dress and pattern number plainly. of ' Uuotes Sentinel pation. matter-o- Bruce Landor drew his car up beside a score of others that were parked on the graveled roadway at the rear of the Parr house and stood for a moment listening to the sounds of revelry that issued from that great lighted mansion on the bluff. He smiled to himself, wondering how Autumn would be getting along with Florian's delightful pack of hoodlums. Florian would undoubtedly be in fine fettle himself, Bruce thought, after his team's victory in Kelowna that afternoon. Bruce was sorry he had missed the game, but he had heard about it on his way through town. It was of Autumn herself, however, as someone entirely apart from the others, that he was thinking with as he mounta quickened heart-beed the steps of the Parr portico, hat in hand, the cool night wind blowing gently across his hair. A half dozen dim figures were hidden among the shadows on the porch as he stepped to the door where he stood for a moment and listened to the babble of voices from within. "Oh Bruce!" a voice called from a corner of the porch. Linda came gliding swiftly toward him out of the shadows and slipped a hand within his arm. "Hello, Lin!" he greeted her. "Are you passing me up on purpose?" she reproached him. He looked down at her and smiled enigmatically. "Not likely. I didn't How's the little girl see you. friend?" he asked, patting the hand that lay on his arm. "You're looking lovely as ever." She shrugged her shoulders. "I'm topping! Bored to death, though until this minute. I've been watching for you all evening. Come on in. The crowd is down in the billiard room playing roulette." "Who is here?" he asked as they entered the house. "The same old disgusting crowd," she told him. "Everybody trying to work up the usual Saturday night am she knows what's in the blood." She made to pass him and he I'm going to hang on till I'm helpl Pattern When medallions M .fcfc- -' Fearuret FAITH present world situation k diowing us that men cannot love Cod out of account and retain their faith in the dignily of human personnl-itand the sacredness of human liberty and human life." Bishop William I ,'J,HE Manning. According to Kind Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communioa with God. Chapin. lasting. He had seen very little of Autumn Dean since that night in May when he had gone to the Parrs' and had encountered in her a mood which from common colds had left him bewildered and harassed every time he recalled that On miserable occasion. Only once since Creomulsion relieves promptlyl that night had he spoken to her. He had called on Hector Cardigan one cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to loosen germ laden phlegm, afternoon and as he mounted the Increase secretion and aid nature to to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamsteps the door, Autumn had come ed bronchial mucous membrane hurriedly out, passing him with a No matter how many medicines you Autumn stood on a gilt chair be- face strangely white and with only a have tried, tell your druggist to sell swift word of He you a bottle of Creomulsion with the knew side the crowded table and tossed greeting. she had seen him from within and understanding that you are to like chips on thirteen and black. She had rushed the way it quickly allays the cough away to avoid talking knew that she swayed occasionally; or you are to have your money back. with him. Florian, standing below her, supThat u visit with Hpptnr tiri ported her with an arm about slender hips. Now and then she ran doleful affair. The old soldier had forCoughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis her ringers through his hair and wen naving words with Jarvis Dean's daughter-- of that there could Florian turned his face ud to hPr no doubt in Bruce's mind Hecbe an with intense and meaningful look. Under the Surface tor's grumpy mood had refused to The eloss nf nscnr intinn wears bhe lost again on thirteen and to Bruce's efforts at facetious-nes- off, yield black, and as her laughter leaving things as they really In a mompnt iho out she looked up to see Brucepealed are. Lanhad burst in forth a voice full of dor standing beside the table, his arms folded, his eyes toward the distress. "It's that girl! There's no broad French windows that stood talking to her!" FEEL WEAK, TIRED? "Why get so worked up over it'" open on the other side of the room. Bruce had asked. Within her a dull voice Lincoln, Nebr. M repeated er? Even as he snnVo t?,. Rose Rossi, 2240 R St, over and over again, "I must not says : "My mother weak and misrralilt see him I must not see him!" He known that his comment had been used ur; a fore she One. ueieusive turned his head slowly toward her Medical Pierce's Cold And then Hector harl and it stima; Discovery now, his mouth drawn up in a quizWi,j ....... it am i. i to strengthen zical smile so that the deep furrow nim for a full minute with, n helped his wrath ing cooling gradually his woniiertuuv. appeared in his cheek. That furrow droll smile coming. "There's little in his lean brown cheek, which must en Medical Discovery m w uac uciween a have been a dimple when he was a fool and liquid or tablets young your druggist today. See how vigorous you an old one-s- ave for a child she had kissed his cheek teel after usinjr this tonic. dis just in years," he had said" uieie, ui aa iimnue tenderness only parity had poured a couple of drinks and WNU two nights ago. She felt a terrible from W 4339 the decanter of wine on the table vertigo all through her being, a sudBruce was thinking of den collapse of all her defenses. The An Admission noon with Hector now as he climbed feeling lasted for only a moment back is a confession of pain. Revenge into his car and' started off however. When he looked at her Seneca, she was able to smile with Thpng V nCreaSuing,y diffic"!t trail again oW had reason a hard, vivid carelessness. to be distressed, or at And then the short least man concerned, if Autumn's reputatfon lurched toward her, lost plump his balance and fell heavily against the chair on in the countryside meant anyS to him. And Bruce which she was standing, supposed it dTd clutching Hector Cardigan had Florian in a desperate attempt looked after to the girl from her Help Them Cleanse the hlooi earliest years s right himself. It seemed that beof Harmful Body Waste fore she had reached the floor anxiously as if h Your lrfrinov nm Mnrfanllv filtfirfnf And AutumJ godfather. Bruce was there, had caught her ste matter from th blood stream. B ud getting herself talked and was carrying her out of the conabout "Whf 'uney sometimes lag in their worn I amomx th not act as Nature intended fail to fusion through the open French freely corn- niove impurities that, if retained, tw munity. Peor,iP rnrZZ.? the doors and into the sunken garden Poison the system and upset the woH we're bodv .v,; Kamloops She beat against his breast busHy TecounL and Symptoms may be nagging bcktd her sobbed frantically for release. When escapades with the Parrs Florg pernistent headache, attacks of diaj"" an in particular. anH u"" he put her down at last behind vjiU up nignts, swelling, p""'"" ' iut-under the evn a oth- v. .v" folini of nervot crs as nl hedge of honeysuckle,, he was dezvo,, TSa nxiety and loss of pep and strcnirt,nome a reninner of kidney or bladder breathing heavily. She backed awav l their Order ira signs i..M;nf, can from him as though to turn and hunting 'lodge in he Zn urination. jrequent . There should be no doubt that prrP run, but he snatched her hand and Kamloops for treatment is wiser than neglect, U" ., pulled her back roughly to him Plentv of f,lfi fills. Doani have been winm 8nd Autumn new friends for mors than forty y" IntlfZ placing her against the hedge so " nave deliberate" e a a ting matS repui""" that she was forced to face him joey Sf "What sort of game are you play- old Hector had said the iri country over. Atk your neighbor! ing. 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