OCR Text |
Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH, UTAH THE RICH REAPER COUNTY Entered ae second clar I matter Feb. 8, 1929. at the Post Office, Ra' dolph, Utah, under th Act of March 3, 1879. Layton Marshall, E Itor and Proprietor Wm. E. Marshall, Business Manatrer SUBSCRIPTION $1.' 9 Ter Year in Advancs By RUTE COMFORT COPYRIGHT D. APPLETON-CENTU- RY MUTCIHIEILIL WNU SERVICE CO., INC. It is He sat down beside her. Hell be here just as quick as scarlet flecks from the still bleedthere have the I Also, own. country. my 10 he can set the ship down," her un- ing scratches on her chance. handat her good Sarah Now Lynn tugged well just he said her name cles friend said. Sarah Lynn Sarah Lynn said My mother pulled it out of her jueerly in a choked voice, and get aboard and let them run us kerchief and was voice. in stricken she a and She old smiling, pocket. dssed her, a fierce kiss, deep and back to Lynn and the lady of her mother briskblood He CHAPTER IX Continued TO THE RESCUE A member of a club bad the habit of consuming his soup in a noisy and boisterous fashion. The noise upset other members, but they were too courteous to protest. One day, however, when the offensive sounds were at their loudest, a young and nerveless member strode towards the culprit and said: May I help, sir? retorted the diner. "I Help! dont need help. I Sorry," said the youngster. thought perhaps you might wish to be dragged ashore. Mag' azine. Tit-Bi- ts NO CHANCE Mr. Bug Why so gloomy, Skeets? Mr. Mosquito All the girls are really swimming now instead of lying around the beaches. A Test of Courage After the Armistice all A. E. F. dreams were inspired by the same ambitions the first boat back to the U. S. A. colonel told If that horse-face- d me I could start for home tomorrow, muttered one doughboy wistfully, Id be tempted to kiss him. If 1 could get up enough nerve to kiss that mug, retorted a caustic comrade, I wouldnt be afraid to swim the Atlantic Foreign Service. 1 Storing It Up that man over there? Hes a bombastic butt, a windjammer, a nonentity, a false alarm, a hot air, a shrimp He See Woman J Would you mind writing desperate. Then she was leaping out into swift and stinging air and was amazed to find that she did not immediately fall. The speed of the Hermod was carrying her along beneath it, face downward, with her arms and legs spread out like a starfish. There was the strange sensation of traveling across the air rather than through it. He kissed me! she exulted. Gunnar kissed me! She began to fall, her body twisting and turning. Now she was looking up at the plane, now down at the earth which was coming swiftly, perilously closer. Theres something I must do, now!" she thought anxiously. Oh, yes! The cordl But where is that ring? Her fingers fumbled for it. It seemed to be lost in the webbing Why hadnt she kept her hand on it all the time? She turned over again and saw the Hermod still above her but further away, somersaulted and saw the earth rushing up to meet her. Why hadnt Gunnar taken her higher than three thousand feet? Sarah Lynn thought suddenly of her mother. She had a poignant picture of Adelaide Danas upstairs sitting-roopretty and peaceful, with potted plants whose every leaf glistened, and a canary warbling tenderly in an expensive cage, and quantities of framed photographs of her big brothers and herself and young Bill in all stages of infancy and childhood. She found the ring and gave a desperate jerk. Now! She knew exactly what would would happen. The release the pack and the spring rips oi the little pilot chute would open instantly, catching the air and dragging the main chute out into a long line and the wind would rush in at the bottom and expand it. It simply couldnt fail: Gunnar and Conrad and Vance Le Roy had And even if checked it thoroughly. she told herself it doesnt work, sensibly, there is the emergency she rechute! Im not rattled, My mind is running like a joiced. rip-co- rd clock. And Gunnar kissed me! He was white as a sheet and scared to He Why? Woman Hes my husband, and I death about me, and he kissed me! And it was the kind of kiss want to use it on him sometime. There was a weird noise which Pearsons Weekly. was something between a whistle and a shriek: something was flutterA Problem Everywhere There was a ring at the door. ing overhead, and then snapping, Irate Visitor If you do not shut loudly, urgently. Its opening! off your radio I shall complain to Then a gun went off somewhere, the police. Householder If you do not like a shocking, thunderous boom, and my radio you can move into anoth- her downward progress was halted so abruptly that she thought her er street. Irate Visitor Let me tell you this. arms and shoulders were being tom loose from her body. There were 1 already live in another street. uncounted instants of confusion and terror, and then peace enveloped Ceremonial Does your wife insist on being her. Her chute opened and was funcpresented at court? tioning perfectly. She was floating afraid does. she Im But great statesmen no longer gently, and everything was quiet about her, a sweet, celestial quietpermit it. No. But we know a local Indian ness which was soothing and comchief who for a consideration will forting. She could see the ambulance movarrange a satisfactory ceremoslowly to keep in line with her. ing nial. She had lost the Hermod for the moment, but surely Gunnar would BANG! BANG! land as quickly as possible and come to her. That kiss, she felt, was not final: it must be a prelude. Even if it had been given in high excitement, it stood for an emotion which wasnt to be disposed of with this adventure. Fliers did not marry. Oh, didnt they? Then what? There is felt very gentle. on your face, she said tenderly. ambulance. Im not hurt. Im not going to "Your blood! he said sternly. ride in that thing! she told him It is your blood upon me. Where will he come e and spiritedly. Sarah Lynn stood on down? the little red smears away as wiped Quickest way to get there, he handily as a mother would have said, taking her arm in a firm grip. done. Well all pile in. Half a mile now he stated unhappily, So, He lifted her and set her I must away! love you! d inside and a orderly I knew you did, she told him. grinned and congratulated her. "You could not know. I did not I want Gunnar, Sarah Lynn until the moment when you know, said. would the jump. make in be a here Hell jiffy. Lynn and your Granny need to see you , Thats what I meant. When you before theyre convinced youre kissed me. It was different from safe, though we signaled them. any other kiss I ever You He said quickly, sharply Well, did it all come off according to schedule? Did it follow the pat- have, then, the so great knowledge of kissing? Who has instructed? tern? Oh, perfectly! It was heavenly Who Conrad Jordan was calling them, after the chute opened, she answered, stooping to look out of the walking toward them. I dont' see ambulance window. "Gunnar, he said casually, Le the Hermod. Roy will hop the Hermod back to But you can hear him? Right the field for you. Were all lunching over us, Vance Le Roy said. with the old lady, and she is eager The matriarch and the cripple to get started. Mind driving my and the old governess greeted her car? Lynn asked me to ride with in character. The ancient .woman him. saw in her the reincarnation of her the youth said imperaWait! own dim, daring youth, choosing, tively. A thing has happened as she had done, the brightest adWell, I should say so! Jordan venture of her period, and the para- agreed genially. Miss Sarah Lynn lytic sublimated his own helpless- Dana, daring young aviatrix, comness in her courage and skill. pleted a sensational parachute jump 1 told em it was all plumb fool- with all the nerve and skill of a ishness, tagging you round with that professional. her hospital wagon, Sairy Lynn, But the Norseman was not to be I said deflected. said. Always I have said fliyoud come down like a leaf off a ers shaU not marry. He looked at tree. Us Danas we most generally Sarah Lynn again with grave redo what we set our minds to! Least-way- sentment, sighed, lifted his hands, us dark ones. I let them drop. upward, palms Lynn Dana smiled into her eyes. make now the discovery that I love Im glad for you, he told her, this girl. I think, Sarah Lynn murmured with a sudden accession of shyness, ! I ought to ride back with She ran away swiftly to the car. He was steering her toward .the tip-to- . white-suite- great-grandmoth- er s, Great-granny- CHAPTER X Gunnar stood stiff in a clump of madronos when he and Sarah Lynn were out walking after lunch. he announced Now we talk, stiffly. Sarah Lynn halted before him, standing with folded hands. ' Love I did not want. Love, 1 said always, was a weakness. I know, ' Now! glad and proud. Youve given me my best moment, Sarah Lynn. Miss Penningtons high color was faded but her diction was as crisp as always.- Let me tidy your hair I a bit, she bustled up to her. should have thought to have you wear a close net. The girl slipped out from under her hands. The Hermod was down and Gunnar Thorwald was out and running toward her. She went to - meet him. Ill know as soon as I see his she told herself. Ill know the first second Gunnar was still white, but she saw at first glance that he was angry, and her heart turned over in terror. There was in his pale face a look of fright and of fury. There was a confused clamor of She did not know what it meant. voices, cheerful, exultant. Then he reached her, and she In a quarrel with her fellow last Good girl! Conrad Jordan said, knew Miss was immediately and entirely what Manybeaux night Perfect perterribly lifting her to her feet. it meant, for he caught her into an burnt when the powder she had formance! of urgency and iron and about her exploded I Atta girl! Vance Le Roy was embrace his bare bent Awful What caused it? yellow head, and kissed unfastening her harness, warmed her again, and the kiss on the earth So much friction, of course. for once into enthusiasm. differed only from the one at an Where is Gunnar? Sarah Lynn altitude of three thousand feet in She Should Know , demanded. facility and duration. Delores Why do they call Eng-lis- h Old Pete from the airport was Sarah Lynn was held in a vise; the mother tongue, daddy dear? and happily, paying she could not move her body or her softly swearing Ask Daddy your mother. Shes the only one who gets a chance to her high praise with picturesque lips, but her mind ran and leapt embellishments. and soared. use it. Hold still Conrad Jordan had He does care! He cares and taken out his handkerchief and was hes furious but he cant help it! Its Purpose Two Irishmen were gazing in ad- wiping her face, and there was Suddenly his arms loosened about miration at Westminster cathedral. bright blood on the white linen. her and he held her off, putting her Whats that from?" she asked thoughts into words. ' said Pat, it Sure, Moike, 1 Im not hurt. bates the divil. have - not wanted this. He impatiently. Of frowned" in grave anger. ' "It is not course a was and intenthat the youre not, just Faith, tion, replied Michael. Chicago scratch or two when you were my wish, my plan. Freedom I like. News. But he looked young, bewildered, dragged. Wheres Gunnar? aghast, and on his pale face were 1 and startling words. Gunnar, have you noticed that funny old thing on Uncle Lynns k in burnt wood, wall the with the verse? pipe-rac- He nodded. Did you read it? - that down for me? . disposed ly. That was the way it happened to mothers: daughters grew large and made marriages and went away with their husbands. Husbands! Marriages! Norway! The world was filled with strange face, she nodded meekly. "Freedom I wanted; freedom like birds in the air. He seemed to be accusing her of having ruined his plans. Im sorry, Sarah Lynn said 1 mean, Im sorry youre so furious about it and so miserable, but after all she tried to sound reasonable and detached birds do come down dont sometimes, they, and build nests and He shrugged his lean shoulders. His mouth looked beaten, baffled. Everything blocking the way, I have conquered. Now this conquers me. I know it. Never can I lose you. If I fly across the ocean, still you are there. My life breaks in pieces. What now can I do? Sarah Lynn thought wistfully of one thing at least, and apparently the same idea occurred to him, for his long arms shot out and caught her to him in a straining hug. So, then! It is finished! he la- mented. It was beginning, she exulted to herself. He released her and took her thin shoulders in a tense grip. There remains a thing for you to tell, he said imperatively. How have you the deep knowledge of kissing? Oh, but I havent, really!" Yet, you said you could tell Well, of course boys it always happens. But it doesnt count at Duncan all, she said earnestly. was always trying, but From this day the ultimatum sounded you jump no more; you kiss no more. Very well, Sarah Lynn agreed in a small voice. He frowned and sighed. Tonight I speak to your father. Oh, Gunnar, not tonight, please! Lets wait a little He shook his head. We quickly We go to Norway. They go to Norway. 'She sat down limply with her back against a pungent laurel. Gunnar! It takes my marry. breath! It matters not how strait the gcltG-- '1 Yes.. I have thought, But of course! It must be straight. How shall a gate be crooked? " Its a different kind of straight, Gunnar! This means narrow. You know, in the Bible? the strait way. A girl made that for Uncle Lynn, just after he knew he would sit still in a chair all his life, and hes kept it there all these years although hes not a sentimental person at all, and it looks so pathetic among his etchings and his beautiful books. He must have loved her, I think. That sort of poetry is terribly out of style, now: It matters not how strait the gate. How charged with punishments I the scroll, am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. or bustles and Like bangs. People dont read That I like, Gunnar interrupted. Captain of my soul. It is hoop-skir- ts good. Yes. But the thing Im thinking of is the strait gate, Gunnar. That comes first, you see. And before 1 vcan think of Norway, and us, I must tell my mother and that will be the straitest gate in my life. He laughed. You jump over it! And I wait for you on the other side. But Sarah Lynn shook her head. No; you dont jump over strait gates. You crawl through. Danavale was difficult for Sarah Lynn in those days. It was a joyful escape to have Conrad Jordan at his invite them to a house-part- y Lake Tahoe lodge. He was staging an air tour to demonstrate the practicability of an airport at an elevation .of over 6,000 feet in the High Sierras, and Gunnar Thorwald, Norwegian ace, making the fifteenth plane in the meet, gave international importance to the event. Sarah Lynn rode with him in the Hermod, flying over the" Santa Clara valley and the Sacramento. It was perfect flying weather, clear, bright, calm, with boundless visibility. This is the way our life is going to be, the girl told herself. In just a little space of time the trials and the tears would be over beneath r them, behind them. Gunnar Thorwald was thrilled and stimulated; she had never seen him so alert and eager. ! This also I like! He brought the Hermod, swift messenger of the gods, smoothly and silkily to and Conrad Jordan came hurrying to meet them, elated with the triumph of his project 15 shining ships of the air on the line at Rabes. field. the-ear- th Conrad Jordan gof to moved restlessly about ful big room with its and mellow leather and It was evening. his feet and the beautidark wood hearty Nav-ajo- s. Play, please," Gunnar said from the hearth. Conrad Jordan sat down at the piano and hunted through a pile of music. The youth lifted himself on an elbow.No! The music you have yourself made. His host nodded. He had found the shabby notebook he was looking for and took out some clippings. Heres a thing I found in a paper The Feeling of Stars. Random lines; fellow jotted down bits of his favorites here and there. Ive been meaning to work out something he smoothed out the printed slip and read aloud: T am in love with places and this high, Space, and the twelve clean winds of heaven He,, began-- , to play, feeling his way among the notes, the chords. far-seei- ng (TO BE CONTINUED) . |