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Show Pape Seven The Cache American. Ixxran, Cache County, Utah SEW ISO CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK R.idio Programs Sent Via Wire Many Cross-Countr- Millions y of Americans Crocheted Bathroom Accessory Dainty Frock for the Little Girl do not realize that many radio programs they hear travel greater distances over telephone lines than through the air. For example, a network program that originates in New York and is heard in San Francisco through a local station is transmitted some 3.000 miles by wire but less than 30 miles by radio waves. CLARK MCMEEKIN claim to be promised to David. Cant you speak? Lark drew comfort from his And though she remembered, well warmth. The touch of the horse a enough. Davids leave-takinwhen Conk, under her hand, started the he had gone to America , . . "I'll come back to get you. Lark, when fine, throbbing pulse in her fingertips. She cupped her palm a little, you're old enough to be a man's drawing his We into hers. He turned wife. Dont cry, my little dear! I'll his head and watched her, breathing give you a fine house on a hill and softly against the coppery cloud of a carriage with four black horses, because youre still my little her hair on his neck. sweet . . she knew it was only "Madoc," whispered. "Darling . . . how can I stand losing you? the pretty sentimental speech of a man to a gangling child of thirteen. How can I let you go?" She knew that, but she plunged on, He whinnied softly, as if he recognized the urgent tenderness of her because she couldnt help it. betone, as if he understood her. She cause because Bethel seemed to flung her arm over his neck and will her to, and and because she pressed her face against his curving really did love David. She was saythroat They were cloaked together ing it aloud, stupidly, shamelessly in the gray blanket of the soft wet telling them. . . . "I love David. He said he would dawn, but sunlight was beginning to thread the dusty windows of the come for me, or send for me. I will write to David that I am going low stable, its shining shafts making a forward march through the out to him, BetheL Jack Shannon give David the open door from the muddy cobbled money to go to America, Jaggera courtyard beyond. The horse, a thoroughbred sorrel had spoken up cautiously. "Maybe with a fine sleek coat, gleaming be knew Lark was promised had Bethel At thirteen?" and warm as polished bronze, stood fetlock deep in the hay of the big snapped. "Ill tell you what I think. box stall. Near-by- , munching his Husband. She wasn't promised then. morning oats, was a sturdy pony, Shes not promised now. Shes no the "parson pony. regard for truth. Lark be a liar. The girl. Lark Shannon, had given "Ill take the money from the them both their allotment of food sale, Lark had said wildly. You and water, but it was in Madoc's stall that she lingered. She had ridden and loved this horse since she was a child. He was hers, a free, living, vital part of her very self, of her father who was recently dead, of their life together. . . . The sense of loneliness, complete and suffocating, came over her. Bethel North had sold Madoc. Bethel had had the power and right to do this. Madoc was lost to her, and he found it almost as hard to realize this as it had been to accept the fact that her father was lost to her. Next door, across the muddy barn lot, beyond the dripping hawthorn hedge, she could see Bethel moving about in the North kitchen, preparing the early Sabbath breakfast, heating water for baths, busy, virtuous BetheL Lark's suspicion of her own unworthiness had begun on the very evening, weeks past, when her father, Jack Shannon, had come jogging home in the pony cart, dead, his thick kindly body slumped against the dashboard, the lines trailing on the road. A wonderful way to go. Everybody said so. "Quick-like- , the village stone-cutttold Lark with doleful cheer. "Not a bed-ri- d day for Rector. Shutting her eyes now, Lark saw again those square sure fingers cutting the final legend in the sandstone: John Paul Shannon, March 3, 1766 June 30, 1816. Death Where Is Thy Sting?' 1 love David. He said be would Gratitude was a virtue extolled by Bethel. She was insistently grateful come to me. for her own life, her moral strength, her thrift, her acceptance of fate. cant call me that. I love David. Til go to him. Ill ship my horse, Rebelling against Bethel was like Madoc, to America to be a dowry rebelling against the rain that to David. My father would have sunof the thin in dripped, spite been happy to see me set my feet light, from the stable eaves; like re- in the new land with David for a belling against old age, or gravity. husband, and Madoc to start a staLark knew that, knew that her ble. Madoc has good blood. Hes own foolish outburst last night had worth a lot of money. David will cost her Madoc. Leaning against be proud to have Madoc. He will the comfort and warmth of Madocs be very glad to have me come to neck, where the little muscles ran him. quivering, inquiring under her The livery-stabl- e keeper made a touch, Lark relived that time last good offer for Madoc. Bethel was night, heard again every foolish ignoring Lark, speaking directly to word shed said at the supper table. Jaggers. "I shall sell the horse to"The back taxes will leave very morrow. You call to mind, Huslittle from the sale of Rectors band, the note I hold of Rector Shanhouse. That had been Bethel, ad- nons? The sale of the horse will dressing Lark through old Jaggers, clear that note. Lark had appealed wildly to JagBethels kindly, ineffectual husband. gers, whose deep-se- t eyes seemed to "But a little something, Bethel, behind his shaggy gray brows. Jaggers had remonstrated, glancing hide Yet taxes is "Look at me, Jaggers! Bethel cant at Lark, and away. The way sell Madoc to a stableman! My faBetheL dear, youre right, has thorough-bloo- d papers on they eat into a bit of money is a ther Madoc in the back of his Bible! caution. Lark had cleared the table and "A rector of the church, Bethel bad gone on, "who didnt keep his crept up to bed, but nothing further had been said. Lying in her own hour in mind is hard to understand, a rector who leaves his child bed in the silent house, she had tried to feel the nearness of her own to be a care on neighbors." And Lark, fighting back the tears old home next door, but this accusof helpless anger, had said as stupid tomed comfort was gone. It was as and perhaps as wicked a thing as if her father's familiar ghost had she could have concocted after an faded now with the selling of his hours thought, she realized now. property, his comfortable old chair, She had put in words a bodiless his little house, bis fine Mooded an impossible vision of horse. Frantically, Lark had tried escape that she had drawn on, more, to call him back. Jack Shannon had loved this simperhaps, than shed known. "1 plan to leave England for ple place. Never an ambitious man, America, Bethel. I I will marry he had been happy here where the David North. I will go to him with farms were poor and isolated, where the money my father left me. My the little stone church often held no more than a dozen people in the father left it for that purpose." Even as she said it. Lark knew congregation. He had delighted in parish calls, had loved to they didnt believe her, knew that far-of- f she would regret this lie as long as ride across the country to carry comfort to some old granny, or to she lived, knew it with the awful certainty of destruction, the crimson baptize a sickly baby. The country people joked among guilt of a person who distorts the truth, knew it and was ashamed themselves, saying it was a caution that the horse Madoc wasnt invited and frightened of the thick silence. You are promised to our son, Dainto the church to kneel down and vid North? Bethel had asked. "Why pray in a front pew where Rector has he never written a word of this could keep an eye on him, he was to us? thl fond of him. Always he had been known as the Beyond speech, now. Lark had Even in Lark's "Riding Parson. merely stared at them. You're a great girl of eighteen, former and more spacious hfe, when Bethel had reminded her. "You her mother was alive. Lark remem- CHAPTER I r POSTS Rsj BRAN GOLDEN FLAKES OF fVNEAF AND BNAN COMBNED tVFN SCGAR-SWEE- FENDER delicious F RASNS HEW breakfast idea A magic flavor combination Post's 40 Bran Flakes plus lots of tender, seedless raisins . . . right in the same package. Folks are raving about it. So ask your grocer for Post's Raisin Bran in the big delicious! package today. 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It, too, gives flavor. bakings a grand TODAY northwestern YEAST COMPANY Chicago 11, III. 1750 N. Ashland Avt. COFTMtHT Ml nORTHWISTIM HAST CO. J . W.N.U.UHVICt bered his love of horses, his love of life and people, his generosity, his kindling smile. The loss of her mother, the leaving of a big end beautiful house, vague now in her mem- ory. had been softened by her father's hand on hers, his energy and understanding, his special beliefs. "I'm too heavy tor a blood horse to carry, hed aaid In late years. "Ill use the pony cart You ride Madoc, Lark. Bethel North, nearest neighbor to the Shannons, had remonstrated with point and vigor. "Your Lark is a pretty sight, I must say! Wild hair flying and legs sstride that red beast! What kind of talk does she make among the rough men and boys? David can tell you. He has a softness for her. Hed never be one to stand a tongue against her. Hes been in more fights than one over her good name! How do you like that? Jack Shannon had let out a riproaring oath. Queer man for a parson, people said, human aa any, yet with the love of God so sure in him you could see it shining out of his eyes. He's apologized to Bethel but had let her and the rest of the village know that Larka life was her own, and be was there to back her up in the living of it It would be weU, Jack Shannon had further suggested to BetheL if she allowed her own son, David, a bit of freedom. The boy was set to go to America, wasn't he, and carve a new life for himself? Why didn't Bethel help him? She could. Naturally, Rector Shannon had known very well that Bethel owned the North house, controlled the mon-eand even collected Jaggers small pension from the Crown, earned by serving with the British army In its war against American independence. He mentioned these facts with delicacy, but he mentioned them. "Jaggers got himself a knee wound in that trouble," Bethel bad said defensively, "and yet he fills David with his tales. Why didnt he go and stay In that wild land, I want to know? "He was loyal enough to come back over a lot of ocean water to you, BetheL And he'd like to see his boy follow his dream. Had you thought about that? Tve thought Jaggers gets a proper heathen look to his very eyes, when America is named to him. Ive thought how fine it would be for people to mind their own affairs, even parsons! Lark remembered that, because Jack Shannon had told her, laughing deeply. . . . She remembered the day David had left for America, too. It bad been back in 1811, his twenty-firbirthday, and she had covered his cheek with thirteen-year-ol- d kisses, this old friend, David North, man, hero, world adventurer, thia man Lark loved with all the fierce sensitive adoration of thirteen. He had gone, with Jack Shannons money in his pocket, Bethel's dismal cautionings, and Larka clear worship, her tears on his cheek. He would come back. She knew that She didnt tell them, then, because they would have laughed. But she knew it, knew it when he wrote her an occasional letter, was sure of it when he sent her the gift, the red silk handkerchief, which he said was called a Red Raskall. Red, the color of love, the symbol of a warm heart. . . . She had worn the Red Raskall tied about her curls. She had been sixteen then, almost grown up. . . . She could see it now, hanging on a nail in the stable, there. . . . She had heard less often from David, lately. . . . She was grown up. . . . She knew, now, that he hadn't really meant to send for her, that his parting words had been fancist (TO BE CONTINUED) ITTI-- four-inc- Colorful Seat Cover AOU can add to the attractive- - r.ecs ol your bathroom by crocheting a scat cover in colorful cotton yarns. Its quickly and easily made use two harmonizing shades to fit in with ycur bathroom decorations. A crocheted drawstring permits the cover to be tied at the back of the fixture. 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