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Show kr ... influenza twas found r rf(0Btr.iced five IM1I dishwashing. 'T,?inns" kcJ?'f Journal h. ' lctill asserts -Public - ,. of our mor- - per j5 graduates college "V By Arthur Stringer W. N. Sidney Lander, mining engineer. It engaged to Barbara Trumbull, but apparently lovea Carol Cobunt, Matanuska achool teacher. Salarla Bryson, a big girl, also lovea him. Carol'! father died with an unproven claim out-do- M TO- .- BAUKHAGE IfjjflFarm&HomeHour Salaria didn't come back that night. By the following noon, her father became alarmed. He even at the Administration appeared Building and asked for help. And it seemed the most natural thing in the world that Lander and his d Sandy should be among those who hurriedly made ready and trailed out into the surrounding hills in search of her. Why Lander headed out past the Happy Day I don't know. But I do happen to know that when Barbara Trumbull intercepted him on the outer trail and offered to Join him in what she termed his gesture of gallantry, he promptly and firmly declined her This, apparently, companionship. piqued the lady from the superintendent's lodge, for she later visited Katie's tent office and made inquiries as to the character and appearance of the missing Artemis. And it obviously didn't add to her questioner's happiness when Katie informed her visitor that Salaria Bryson was the most superb specimen of vital and lawless womanhood she'd ever clapped eyes on. It was unfortunate, I suppose, that Lander should have been the searcher who eventually found Salaria. He succeeded in locating her, late the second evening, half way up the slope of Big Indian Mountain, in an windimpromptu camp behind break. For she was woodsman enough to take care of herself in the open. When Sandy nosed her out, in fact, she was quietly broiling bear steaks over a campfire. But she had been unable, apparently, to resume her homeward journey because of a hurt ankle, incurred when she had d encounter with a a wounded black bear. There may have been some question as to the extent of her injury, but the bear carcass was there to substantiate her story of the encounter. They had to rest and make camp on the way, which took up a night and a day. The ankle, I gathered grew worse, and for some of the distance Salaria surrendered her independence of spirit to the extent of permitting her rescuer to carry her. At other times, by clinging to his shoulder, she was able to hobble along at Lander's side. And I could imagine how the forlornly primitive heart of that dusky Artemis went against her ribs when she felt those sustaining arms about her. But the final portion of that safari wasn't as harmonious as it might have been. For it happened to be John Trumbull's car that picked Salaria up, just beyond the Happy Day, and carried her to her father's door. Lander, for quite discernible reasons, declined to ride in that car with his charge. And Trumbull's adopenly expressed view of the venture in no way added to Sam Bryson's peace of mind. "The first thing," I suggested, "is to have Doctor Ruddock look at that ankle of yours." deSalaria, however, promptly Rudof Doctor clined the services dock. She agreed, in the end, to let kit me bring Katie and her first-ai-d to the shack. And it wasn't long before that expeditious nurse had the and ailing member looked over lean-nose- v h mornina. m . through Friday Salt Lake KUTA, at 570 KC KIDO, Boise 1380 KC it ana fjSf L Has to its size, the ant brain of any living portion ross-stitc- Brain Largest largest this color;. dna bow. Network Stations Blue HEARING AIDS h dPPhque. fs, too. a'ns a , trans.', four ad 4 mows; leeded; No Distortion near and far U, Easily low tonea ncuum tube amplification 'in weight only 5 ounce. i for free booklet. Free demon m and analyiis in your bom colon office. 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Katie smiled at my small and meditative, "Oh!" "Isn't it a bad sprain?" I inquired. "There's something there all "But I've right." conceded Katie.a on a night seen girls dance half foot worse than that" think This gave me something to about. You mean," I suggested, "that as she Salaria wasn't as helpless pretended?" Katie's laugh was slightly matic. enig- "Such things." she observed, She "have been known to happen. and coming him saw probably a stone. thumped herself with the post office at When I stopped truck Lander's saw I mail for my Lander him-.el- f later moment A there. came out, with an open letter hand. He looked harried and his W haggard. Just then the Trumbull car to a stop swerved in and shuddered battlesh.p-graof truck dose beside the was Alone in the driver's seat with her face Trumbull, Barbara fire. pale and her eyes flashing seen the heroine of your y. B,,h .n0,55S ''f Ro,"" for 4 C,,ol", """ llk'7 "I've Just 4 M p.r.on.. . . f I II and Lobby Colf8h,p Home of Jap Room "Iwaata EifntWr tan,0pn,Ut..2t.i9 of Corom ,n4 At Club hgI Ben Lomond Of.DEN. UTAH Come m ton ar T. E. Fitit-cnld- . Mir. man-age- you've indulged your penchant for nocturnal romance." I made no response to that oblique thrust. But Lander's movement as he stepped between us seemed almost a sheltering one. "That's about enough," he said in a voice as hard as nails. "I'll say it is," cried the lady to whom life must have brought very few frustrations. And it was all so futile and foolish that I felt vaguely sorry for her. For with a shaking right hand she drew a ring from her finger and with a little gasp of anger flung it at Lander. She flung it badly. It went past the tight-lippeman and landed in the road dust a dozen paces away. But Lander disregarded it He merely stood there, rather gray of face, studying the woman in the driver's seat who so abruptly threw in her clutch and roared off down the d roadway. I picked up the ring and held it out to Lander. "You'd better keep this," I said. "It'll all straighten out in time." But Lander didn't seem to hear me. His eyes remained on the vanishing car, even when I forced the ring into his hand. Then he looked at me, like a sleepwalker suddenly awakened. "Do you believe that rot?" he challenged. I tried, quite without success, to laugh the tragedy out of his face. "I hand-to-han- strapped 17.95 with Free Meal nt tru t ... i THE STORY SO FAR which Trumbull Is Lander contesting. quits his employ, becomes field r for the government's Matanuska Valley project. Eric, the Red. makes an Inflammatory speech. Carol also speaks up and INSTALLMENT XVI adventure." she said. "She Seems less ashamed of tte .ituaUon in than you do. She was.it all.fact, frank about Lander stiffened. much for "Then there's nothing CIRCLE U Eric stops her. A shot rings out and Schlupp, an old "sourdough" friend of the Coburns, pistol in hand, orders Eric to dance. Sock-Ey- e Is or- Sock-Ey- , j iT-ir- sE new sports fashions they are, tool d One is a play suit, with becomingly flared shorts, easy waistline and convertible neckline finished with a notched collar, like a shirtwaist. The other is a princess pinafore with sunback and buckled shoulder straps. When little Miss s, 16 dons the jumper over her with the collar fastened demurely close to the throat, she's And of dressed for runabout. course she can wear the jumper when sum alone, as a mertime comes. Both halves of this very gener ous pattern are easy for the in experienced mothers to make, and by repeating it in different materi--' als you can equip your sports-lovin- g daughter with a whole sea- -, son of fun clothes. Choose sturdy, sunfast cottons like seersucker, gingham, gabardine or denim. dart-fitte- Salaria veyors and have his plat reading confirmed." "Then what are we to do?" I asked. "I want you there as owner," was his answer, "when that official survey is made." "But how?" I asked, trying to speak calmly. "We'll go by plane," he explained, "as soon as I can get one in here to pick us up." I found something consoling in my thoughts during the tumult of pack ing and maleing ready and saying an to my schoolchil' abrupt good-bdren, who faced their midsummer vacation a few days earlier than they had expected. I hurried on to explain to Katie, But Katie, when I found her in Doctor Ruddock's new surgery surrounded by crates and boxes, didn't seem greatly interested. "Why the sudden grandeur?" I d asked that lady as I watched her hanging curtains in the living room that still smelled of fresh paint. "Then you haven't heard?" queried Katie. "It's that boss of mine, getting the nest ready for the new ladybird." "You don't" I demanded, "mean the nurse from Seattle?" "Of course I mean the nurse from d reSeattle," was Katie's ply. "She's sent up her silver and linen. And the lady herself lands at Seward on Friday." Katie adjusted a curtain pin and stepped down from her chair. "They're to but two distinct be married on Saturday at AnchorONE pattern,that's what you'll age. And Ruddy wants everything shipshape when they swing back to receive when you send for design And what attractive No. 1351-Palmer on Sunday." Katie endured my stare without y Mm d, o- play-suit- sun-froc- k, Is designed for sizes years. Size 10 for play suit, 25i yards of h Pattern No. 1351-- 8. 10. 12, 14. and 18 material without nap; yards. Send order to: for jumper, 2Ta CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. New Montgomery Ave. Calif. San Francisco Enclose IS cents In coins for SEWING 149 tight-lippe- even-tone- ?i well-tailore- e dered arrested but vanishes. also has gone. J Pattern Size No Name Address Opal Once 4Luckyf The opal is the only gem that, has had its "luck" changed by a work of fiction. It was worn as k charm until Sir Wala ter Scott, in his "Anne of Geier- -' ' stein," introduced it as an un- lucky stone, inviting misfortune and unhappiness to the owner.. Since that time the gem has been branded as unlucky, and superstitious people have refused to wear it., good-luc- flinching. I studied the line of Katie's brawny shoulders, dark against the window light She smiled a little, at my gasp of protest but deep in those Celtic eyes of hers I could see the light of tragedy. CHAPTER XX It's odd how destiny can hinge on small and unforeseen things. In this case it was nothing bigger than a safety pin that proved the god from the machine. For our flight in to the Chakitana wasn't as prompt as Lander had expected. "I can't get a plane in today," he explained. "Every ship within fly ing distance seems either chartered I " l j.uuiiiiiaiii!..uiiii or spoken for. And in that I detect BREAKFAST" Trumbull's fine Italian hand." So, having no choice in the matA big bowlful o( Kellogg's Com ter, I waited. The Project was like Flakes with some fruit and lots of iMMfflHElBSS a prospector's pan: what seemed milk and sugar. like foolish agitation was really a FOOD ENERGY1 sorting out of the true metal, with the weaklings and the rubbish slowly VITAMINS! washed out over the rim of the MINERALS! North. PROTEINS! Week by week, the real workers were taking root and making their plus the famous flavor of homes a little more liv Kellogg's Corn Flakes that iasfea able, or building fences and sheds, so good it sharpens your appetite, or clearing and draining and seed' makes you want to eat. ing more land and discovering it to Copr. 141 by Ktllota Csnpcay be incredibly rich land, land that could grow thirty-poun- d cabbage-head- s and Climax oats that would Premature Genius True Instinct bushels to the acre. run sixty-fiv- e seldom It obscurest happens that a pre A man. good through r The twenty-housummer day of genius ever arJ shoot of mature an instinct still has breathed warmth into that black aspirations rives at maturity. Quintilian. bowl, touching the dead silt into life, the one true way. Goethe. steaming, abundant explosive life. It brought growth that one could al 11-OUN- CE most see with the naked eye, hay that could hide a team of horses. tropical prodigality of growth, rank and arrogant, gargantuan vegeta bles, grain as high as a man's head, too rank with straw, peas and vetch that smothered themselves in their sweet-pea- s own luxuriance, that a cabtn and smother could over-ru- n it in bloom before frost cut the mad that HONEY & ALMOND CREAM growth short, became a forest, muskeg-surface- s size Regular that turned into a choked tangle of grass and alder and cranberry, limited time only tilled gardens where potatoes grew 7- -T as big as footballs, where carrots were like where one strawberry could fill a teacup. Loud Voices than sensible people possess is a The tillers of that soil may have fools are endowed by Na- mystery. It is a fact emphasized Why wondered where their ultimate mar- ture with voices so much louder throughout history. Hertzler. kets were to be. But they tapped its richness and were stunned by its rewards. And much of the glory, I also knew, went to the women who worked at their side. They had waited so long to get In Truck Loads or Carloads into homes of their own that there was some excuse for the noisy and foolish way they kept celebrating Writ or Wira every escape from tent life. Each y one of those COMPANY COLORADO ANIMAL had meant an UTAH LAKE CITY, SALT 3RD WEST 43 SOUTH party, with mouth organs and acmuch to located and eat and drink. cordions tt or their nearest branches HE8ER CITY and then a more gracious LOGAN SPANISH FORK j Yet now OGDEN note had struck through the rougher and Wool Furs of Also Hides, Pelts, buyers noise. When the Saari family, seALWAYS PAID MARKET PRICES HIGHEST date Finns from Wisconsin, commemorated their accession to their bungalow of spruce logs, they first sprinkled salt on the doorstep and then conducted a service of ts You can depend on the special sales prayer in the living room where the oi our town announce In columns carpenters' shavings still littered oi this paper. They mean money saving to our readers. It always pays to patronize the floor. merchants who advertise. They are not airald of their merchandise or their prices. (TO UE C'.miXL ED. eps me go'(n9 strong pit-a-p- at 3 n r WNS SEWING n ze wjiii Service BJ mm MJsm ' His eyes remained on the vanishing car. went through much the same thing, without any apparent peril," I reminded him. "I've always rather banked on your honesty. "Then you trust me?" he asked in a disturbingly lowered voice. I tried to keep my heartbeats steady under the questioning gaze that rested on my face. The barriers. I felt, were finally down between us. It was only my woman's pride, I suppose, that made me fight back the impulse to comfort him in his unhappiness. "Of course," I answered. "Then you'll have to keep on at it" he grimly asserted. "Why?" I asked with a creeping sense of disappointment That sense of disappointment letsharpened as he reached for the ter which he had thrust into his coat pocket "Because I've just bad word Trumbull's putting through his cancellation of your Chakitana claim. He's to head through to the mines there as soon as a plane can pick him up." It failed to stir me as it should have. There was a cloud on my heart, I remembered, more important than mine claims. But men. I also remembered, too often preferred facing a hard fight to uttering soft words. "It's not easy to understand," he fapatiently explained. "But your rether's patent was granted and corded. There's no dispute about that But the Territory has a large area of unsurveyed land, land remote from any center of population. The Chakitana falls under that heading. So the field notes of a survey for any claim there, where the survey is not tied to a corner of the a public survey, has to be tied to location or what they call a mineral monument, something showing definite edjacence to some recognizable landmark, such as a creek or Is that a river or a mountain. clear?" "I think so," ed. I dubiously respond- "In the case of the Chakitana claim," he proceeded, "the anchoring landmark is the Big Squaw Creek. But the Trumbull plat shows Big Squaw to be where he wants mTtel brought a vibrata of passion the and not where your father first Trum-bull'- s it and hurt pride into Barbara found it And Trumbull's intention voice when she spoke. is to fly in with the Registrar of Es"I suppose not," she cned. of official SUB the first time Mines and a couple pecially as it isn't Km d epBClA BIG BOTTLE OF LTU LI Liu berry-brambl- '1 llLfli war-club- WANTED DRY BONES HIGHEST PRICES PAID rough-and-read- house-warmin- - - five-roo- w OTHE SPECIALS mar-chan- i |