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Show r MMUfe i AMKItU'AN FORK FIT1ZKX illl i lii'H . lh:s I l.en-- to ll. - I. ii r i . w.i-:- lil tlioi-gii- I"1 M M.tirs. The hull mo It ni'iiM he uii I coii.iril!) If I were siren.; -- m.d It 'i. ::! oiihluT h.irt :iii worse. I'jr.iiig. It now any t we luustiii talk Toid.-in. re. tel )o;l, my ; 1 promise I'll tel! dearest y.'U tonight." m.iii-'- Jr i'ii li.ippcli 1' I fur another of hull led luppim-sx- , slier tier hold relaxed; tlu-i- i she leaned away, mid saying turning touurd tin- quite coolly, Kerrigan, did you like that Maine of Lincoln ou the oilier side?" lie kept i - They talked or vi RICHARD HOFFMANN COPYRIGHT s-- V RICHARD W.N.U. SERVICE HOFFMANN i : CHAPTER if 10 1 Crack's cued not ! eye wi-r- e frijhi his liiiiil gul'Uly several times, saying: T I'll him dngi I'.i;. Ill aMlu gize." You'll kntl on tin floor to do Ht tin It," Kiilil Mill, Crack glniu-ffloor a If to see whether there was suiitclhing especially Ho he h:id to kneel In. Imt hi eyes came quickly back to llal'i for four of iiiisxin;: something. Hal waited. Crack knelt aw It wnrilly, wHtrlilnt! Mill for kiuiii sign of an extra way to please hitn. Thi'n lie turned Ilia reluctant look to Kcr rlgnii. Tin Horry." he mild. I take It hack. I Klinuldn't have said It. I'll i ii rv Vj ir? iiii y T - ,! '1 1 hi it. I hIiouIiIiiT that. It makes me crazy. I do things I 'in sorry for I I hope you'll forget It. It was an awful" thing to say terrible. lie Mtiniil to he Inwardly frightened always lie Horry take lhiior. It ii. M PI ir fltNM m hy ikli.it 1 1 n I might tin t hi in Imt hy tlx rculizuiiun nf wlmi he hinwelf li.iii iliuii. Hi iiii'lilcil X -- Continued V f I Ha wan Just thinking about it. Hal heard Kerrigan say, r. Then s he looked at "Met up," liltn, smiling an attempt at unrcinorseful apology, and stihL "Finish our drinks, shall wcT" lie hoed they could get out of this place, having drunk anil mlil and said good night lei- t surely-all t liefore the complete, trembling backwash of fury took him, before Kerrigan nr the competent young clrnp at the bar should see how badly he would tremble. ? i. F I .! I i - CHAPTER VI Saturday WAS a grander breadth Into the Iowa morning lighted them. Ilal had pictured bow it would he In the rar this diy: restraint, uneasiness, with MTlodle at tempt to force aside a loaded atmosphere. Hut. aa Rasputin's lion est, sturdy ssed rushed them west wBrdt It waa not at all aa Hal had plrtund It. A sentence of Inhis fa New thers that muddy morning York. drew Ids rueful smile: "An other thing you need to get over Is this cheerful Idea that any little world you're In revolves around you." And It was a new sort oi pleasure to Hal to close away his prepared mniMliness and Join him self with the closer companionship IT f . k i In which the morning started. John Pulsipher broke off bis monotonous humming of the tune that might once, long ago. have The Arkansas Traveler." been Kay," he said cautiously, leaning a little between Hal and Kerrigan "where did yon fellers go to last night?" i i . -- i t J . Down the street to one of Joes places." said Kerrigan, aa If the memory of It were genial pleasure to him. Next time," John submitted, ex dtement under his caution, "If there's nothin' private you two got to talk over, would you maybe let me let me" said "Ret your Kerrigan In quick benevolence; and the Implication that he spoke for them both In such a giiture underscored Hal's good sense of their nearer Intimacy, tacitly established last night, tacitly acknowledged and savored this nmrnliig. That was something Track had done for him lodge-emblem- ," .t , t There had bwn no mark on Crack's throat tills morning, over the amall opening of the luiiela; and Hal would forget that he had last night paid the narrow. Inslnu atlng little soul the compliment ol wanting to strangle It out of the liltle body. narrow, It didn't matter. All that really mattered was Hurry her blue eyes washed clean of last night's fear freshly lighted by the loveliness that gave Its life to her lovely body She was there In the ear, secure and warm and whole for him to eome to. Whatever It waa that had held her hack, mnde her throw In his way auch an Irrelevant obstacle as last night's calling of Sister Anns tasla. It couldn't even If It were to return stand against a ncces alty of enveloping, as foreordained aa the coming nf summer to a win try year. There was ripened power even, In Hal's discovery that he wa no longer curious about the source of her restraints, her fears, her withdrawals And for another time he had learned not to let himself lie baffled by the shadowy children of bin tervjrse fancy. Refnre the sun had finished Its pitiless climbing, the road dropped past a gathering of bluffs with look of Indian lighting and more recent frontier and rame to Coun cil Bluffs. to the broad bed of the Missouri river with It flats black Ish and dry like emery, and to the end of Iowa. Across the river, there lie Miiuitly, clamor, and liusi in . nf (nnuliu the Iirt mctroisill in sn many swift miles that Hal or once felt like a country m.in. oine lo gap,- at the sights. Km route miiiihers un or Nehrnska's covered wagon marked escape from such frailty; lint they started for Lincoln, which Kcrrlg.iii assured Mill was not on longer way nml contained some long worth hiokliig at. It did. Straight up Into the hot. rood Nebraska afternoon, a silt haft of gray rose, dry and clean sided, from the terrace of a square-prouArid where the building. igh shaft ended In Its gold, blunt up u Sower crooked Ills bronze arm a fat seedbag sitin' to the faintly arrogant rhythm nf Ids shoulders, Ills walk snre and nmiliar upon the that relived the strewn handfiis am would give them hack to his labor. After lunch, Kurry came to the front seat beside Hal, Doc leaping iLerly to her lap. "Kerrigan says I'tn to sit here," lie said. Bless Kerrigan," anid I Ini. "He's an old peach," said Harry softly. "And he likes you a little, think. I wonder why." Then, more freshly, "Hal, could we drive down to the capitol for one closer look at It? said IIuI. "Wont take a minute. You know the real way to make up your mind about It would la to sleep on your first look and see It again In the morning." Tve made up my inlnd," said Marry. "1 think It's grand. I could do without aoine of those names around the outside, and the gold that relief of the covered wagon over ttie door, and I don't think the buffaloes beside the steps are strong enough, but " Rut outside of that you like It, snld Ilal, grinning. When you get to be as old as I, you'll know one nok 'Get to be as old as " she said, affecting difficulty with her smile. Why, darn you. I'm old enough to lie your " .i ! - d Isn't" "Daughter, Il.il blandly. In some ways," said l as the uio meiit was infant; toil either way Hal knew that Barry and he were more profoundly together then in a closeness that grew mature and strong, ready for more thrilling ns pirullon. Now she had said she loved Idin; and with that blight t.nality. he belted tiriu his prowess against any Mysteries, any ohsta ties. the At Grand Islam! they water among the liutte river-b- lue ilsi'uit colored llals where you might si ill find the fording tracks of the covered wagons; ami Rasputin droned awny on Houle ;tu again, with the river hidden low to southward. Ttie vigilant welcome of Barry's ryes was quickest fur the live things: the fat bellied little creatures that scurried u cross tin mad with tremendous haste hut no speed, like small mechanlml toys, stirred her soft chuckling, and once swift bird swooped III S lovely arc to deliver Ilia small, mortal Impact against Rasputin's hood; Barry's muiricd cry of compassion hud Hal's foot hard on the brakes. lie's dead, surely?" she said, glancing backward. 'Frald so," said Kerrigan. "I'll atop If you like," said Hal. No,' said Burry sadly, "blit It seems such a poor death for him." The sun was lower, but It was atfll blazing hot when they rushed hy the little group that wulked a shadeless, long stretch of the road. The farmer's overalls were new, hla shirt white; the child asleep In his crooked brown arms wore a fresh dress, and the printed pajamas of the two elder girls following Ilul'a were bright and clean. thought was of ttie meunness of having raised that corridor of dust for them to walk In; and aa he turned to speak It to Barry, Crack's Indolent volee came quickly to his ear: "Notice the kid In his anna?" Ye," said Hal, with a short, nn welcoming nod ; he hadn't thought of Crm-- for an hour. There was a flat quality In Crack's next sieech, as If he had exhausted the matters Interest "It waa dead," be said. Hal suddenly felt that Crack, If lie wanted to, could frighten him, uml he turned aside In quick anger to mutter, "I n it, you don't knuw that" n--- a hot. hut M i! , !e ' :i list'd, iinu.liirufd room roes holier, lie witl,,l 'I' and hurl it'd down lit the e.ir lil h:il!-- w Nothing .l.:!i as 1 I r cross-countr- s I a V r soim-umc- yo-.i- , r upn-M'.i-s- In - l lu-r- d stewed fruit. Whatever today's Nihy is given, should, or course, he absolutely under the doi'tor'a direction. There la a iliiTerciicu In hahh-aBut the great truth that many mnlhi-rdo not know Is that children with touchy npjieillca at six . "'lM f "r r,"1,tli"r In of fixed preferene the . j , babyhood. Be Exercised that should le re-n- s milk must be the alpha and omega of his inoul therefore the amounts of other food given must nut le go great ihat the wlllingncMs to take miik la decreased. Hie doctor will gle you lists and schedules for feeding. My suggestions here are only for ono purioso. That Is to show why" and how aversions to needed foods are started. Food habits, which mean flavor habits, have to be cultivated early, i Cat Likes to Travel Tommy, a cut which mukes his headquarter In the restaurant of tha station In Carlisle, F.nglund, liken to travel on trains. s alFresli Rasputin Droned Away un Route 30. liefore I tell you what I have to tell you. You listen to the story and tell me wlmt you think and then Ill know. said Ilal. "Barry, It would Tell me some oilier time after we're together, alone, for good." She pressed his hands hardei against her lirmness, her head turning so that her gtnooth cheek ran uiuler bis lips. No," she said, and lie could tell from ber voice that her eyes must he closed. Please Hal now." "All right, he said. As a favor. which I shall want returned." deal." Barry, great A parrot said Barry, quickly This girl," Barry began at once, but quietly: "this girl lived on the brightened. "Gosh, how I've wanted a parrot I All my life: Was he same street I did, st home; I knew fun? her welL It doesn't matter what An absolute genius," said Hal. she looked like, except that ahe was "When we get to Los Angeles. I'll pretty perhaps before she should have been. Her father waa In the telegraph for him and you shall With the others all have him. bank, on town hoards a vestryman In the church. She thought ahe unleaning to the windows, Ilal turned to her and held her sobered eyes derstood him, she loved him very with ail the eagerness which her much, and she tried to be everything to him as he was everything to her. near, actual presence commanded. She knew lie had started humbly In "Barry," he said quickly, and very hla life and ahe knew bow proud he low; "I love you. I haven't told was of the trust and reect he you today, and It's hr.rder because had In the town, how carefully he Its more than yesterday so much more that" had built It all up around him and In lilnwclf. And (lie was proud of That you'd give me your par that for both of them. But she rot," snld Marry, and a brittle still knew hardly anything else shout ness held her eyes, a wooden qnal him. except what (lie saw, because Ity the lovely lips that said It. once when she asked shout her Hal's look hardened In the shark mother, be made It plain In hlx of that treachery to his tenderness. a clouded he said after gentle way that she wasn't to ask "At least. questions, that some day he would second, "you dont look as though tell her everything she needed to so was thnr funny. you thought know." It? Why the devil did you say Barry's pressure against him reWhere had that wretched, stealthy little. laxed from? come shadow One day," Barry went on, as If She lei out the last of her breath making sure It should til be aa alin-pi.ind turned her head helplessly, s: a r and clear for him is It waa for while windshield the off through lug "her father brought a man to lowher wet rimmed her, a little shining live In their house a plea Rant, quid er lids. Then she leaned partly ort of man, a good deal younger acniss him. as if for a last lonk at her father Imt older than she than to his the capitol. her hand coming The man was away a good deal, but and taking tight hold. even when he was at home the girl "Darling, It's no use." she hurried hardly saw him except at breakfast on, so that he could barely hear and dinner; In the evening he used not good I'm enough. be big to read hla pnier while (he and her father played card and talked, as THE STORY FROM THE OPENING CHAPTER they always had. f TO BE C0XT1WED) Ilf hie Idle the of and notlflratlon father's rrltljlxin bis Followlns llnenclel Hal Immediate not eny assistance, need expect Ireland, he hat on of wealthy banker, finds himself prsctlrally without funds but with Aa Early Electric Lamp the promise of a situation In Ban Frinclsro.a whirhy ha must reach, from of the earliest electric lamp One auto party on New York at once He takes passage with of hla companions ara a young, attractive In general use was the Nernsi share expense" basts. Four Giles Kerrigan; Slater Anastasia, a nun Glower, which had a glowing tube girl. Marry TrafTord; middle-age- d and' an individual whom ha instinctively dislikes, Martin Crack, fiarry'a tli '4 and to be warmed "lit" to reticence annoya him. To Kerrigan ha takes at once, and ha maket a little start the current and that ronld la she Hal aon learn tha reminiscences, with Exchanging Barry. progress by blowing nnMI nf tha wealthy Frederick Ireland. Through a misunderstanding, that night, be blown out Hal Is directed to Barry's room, instead of hie own. Propinquity seems to It cooled the point whre It lout It soften Barry's apparent unfriendliness, and they exchange kieses The conductivity. Arvle W. Gordon loves her. She answer that she must o' following day Hal telle her he CullWs Weekly In YYIs., reason. Crack Madison, Insulta Kerrigan. brutally love him, without string any Would you rnther I changed places again? she said. "I'm darned if I'll he put In my place by you a mere a mere " "A 'mere' will do," said Ilal. "I've never been called that before, but I like It" What d'you know about life, anyway?" she said, rueful mockery of anger In her eyes. Ilal stopped to watch the slowly passing features of the building and said: "Well, I had a parrot dur Ing the psittacosis scare: fear of hla getting the fever aged me a V 111 babyhood. 'Hie nitiilit-- who lieohs licit there fin e e'loiigli ahead for corrective iict Is labor ng under a traditional lelit'Uoi that up unl.l two years ol longer, milk Is ve and t.o sum total of everything. M.lk D :ho warp nml the woof of what It lutes to get through Hie. Hid esjHvial'.y at Its beginning. But t needs supplementing, because Its hvin'.Mry Is low In a few needed nml Hu cldl I, set in his all- di.-tresists other foods. ni, Doctors Prescribe Varied Foods. IVciius lung ug riviignize.1 the viliie if inhlll.g hi her finuU ti the let of nik, early Iii hahyliiiin. In. iT.li-M ntYavt fuiiire ImiiUy Thus tin infant if six weeks Mil liver oil anil orange gits Jiili'c or tuiiialu Juice; a lit lie lute or two of prepareil vegea gpnni-futable Ju!eo or even the Mi'ilued vegetable Itself. At a per'.ml that in the past would have been rmisiil Ills bit of i re. I murderous bo gi:s eerc.il. pint of the yolk of an egg, a stun k of baked pntuto ami mashed It s ?. quite so Important to The wellbeing of on it, and hi fu i chill depends tire stamina will re:hit nu'.r.iiic S.-l- er I'- p , Ai.a- h:.!f certain that him Lai:y would appear to tell watoo tired It go out so il ready e'.eit-But Barry came al'",e. to a reticent smile pretendii-of to.iie lime the seriousiu-j-eyes "I haven't hern h'l'K- h..ie IV sin said, uUtvziiig his w'"! a sit a me to him. 'Tot long." he said. "Anything's it hi long. It's all too long. I ve n.el , ami twenty six years without I moment.'' d d every grudge She bowed tier head, her lips m Bui voluntarily parted to reply' she didn't. Instead she said. Ymfve round where the garage Is?" And Mie added quickly : 1 don't gin- - h duni where It Is. Oh, Ilal. !e gcniio with me; help me." The garage was Just ainiin.l tin corner, and beyond It the town I'lut by ed nakedly, the street sw'iilo-..- ' the dark plains like a road nuc-inInto the edge of a llKl- The Ium lioiiM wax dark : they hadn't to go far to he alone. And when they stopHd. Barry parted Id hand, with hers, leaned hack hr: ween . them, and Jollied them helure "Uni," she snld on a wary sigi, ,i; onifort. "I'll tell you a story." "I know a story," he whUp-reiigiiiiiM her hair. Is It about yonV "It's about a girl much younger than I." she said; younger In every thing." "Then why should I he..r It? rt of a tet," "Because It Is a Burry said. We don't know eaeli oilier so so very well, do we? There's something 1 need to know "I saw the kid," said Crock In llstleas obstinacy ; it was (lead." Contempt, low and briefly savage, smoldered under Barry's quick It was not dead." Her eyes were blazing even after they had left Crack as If what he hud said were personal to her; her pursed Ups lay unwillingly together, as If she tast ed something tifrn bitter In ber mouth. Crack said nothing. Uai tried again to capture the certainty that hla tainted hatred of Crack waa defined within the forgettable episode of last night. It couldn't be a slowly crescent thing, begun at the Journey'a start. Crack waa too Insignificant It must all be Hal's own reaction to a long day of driving, with the of the speedometer near a fifth fresh tart The temptation to look around at Crack, to see If his nndla tlngulahed face were still basking In the shy pleasure of thlnga he that persistent privately knew temptation was part of fatigue, part of hia taut impatience for the nlght'a stop and for Barry. So too were these other dim. bogles; an unconnected wonder whether Crack might he biding his time for some little weapon nf revenge for humiliation; and that old tnuida sense nf a thickening I in mlnenee stealthily preparing to come upon them, Just as on the long horizon there behind, the dark was preparing. They dined In North llatte. If It wasnt raining afterward, they would try to muke a place called Ognlalla, for the night. Just before they drew up at the hotel, Barry murmured, "I'd like to wash a little, and leave Doc. Shall I meet you down here?" Might,'' snld Ilal, with the hrit He apprehension that unless they hurried something would happen to stop them. Barry stood there so straight sno cool, talking to Kerrigan, while Hal's hasty fingers slipped on the knts of the luggage lushing. And only when the bags were well down DIETARY IIARITS NEED FOSTERING EARLY IN CHILD kei-p,- I always thought this talk aboutcoffca being harmful applied only to children!" &, MISS SLM, YOUR FATHER SURE HAS CHAN6EDJ RATHER l'0 QWH FOR HIM THAN ANY yes... Since Oh, no, Daddy, he SWIItHEO Tb P9SUM HE HAS FELT MO Mxeo lire a Different man f w many adults, too, find that tha caffain in cof-fee can upset nerves, causa indigestion, or prevent sound sleep!" coffee disagrees with you. ..try Poet urn for 3 0 days. Postum contains no caffein. It" simply whole wheat sad bran, roasted and (lightly sweetened. easy to make, and costs less than and may half a cent a cup. It's delicious, too prove a real help. A product of General Foods. FREEI Let us send you your first week's supply of Poetum roe Simply mail the coupon. If you vucpcct that Its ... m n. u. Battle '"nek, Mich. tend me. without obClia.e week's mppty afPcstun. Oivbbrl Food, Kr gwa. City. 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