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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE UTAH His soul was filled with unholy Joy. but his outward demeanor was deprecatory, "ifi ever so kind of yoo; fit atina iuri nab!( U ibqdy HALL "HOIPDRJIiY art things." Hilliard's eyes flickered at the ingenuous vanity; he tad recently learned that Mr. Cullen had made yeoaciWAiirCa, to more money during the past twelve months than during the previous twelve years. "Well." he said, "if you're so char"DIDN'T HE SEND SOME WORD TO MET itable as to insist" "I do, sir, I do! . . . You're at Bynopsi. In a base hospital at Neullly, France, his face disfigured the Onondaga, of course?" terond recognition, an American soldier serving in the French army attention by bis deep despondency. Asked by the surgeons for a Angela, who had been listening inon tently, started up at the unmistakable f ...r of the Savior, bidding them take that as a model. They do i echo of footfalls on the walk. . remarkable likeness. Invalided home, on the boat he meets Mar s. J: Harmon. New York broker, who Is attracted by his remarkable "Here conies Carol!" she gasped. gives bis name as "Henry Hllllard," and his home The "And and Jack! Oh, Mr. He left there under a cloud, and is embittered u Syracuse, New York. Hilliard! Oh. dad! Who's going to townsmen. Harmon him makes fellow a former his proposition mlnst ? H tell her?" mining stocks In Syracuse, concealing his identity. He accepts it, and make he to has been underestimated. good As Mr. Cullen flinched, Hilliard put prove a chance It in Heine Morgan) Is accepted as a out his hand in a motion of supreme Syracuse "Billiard" (in realitya Richard former employer, relating a story of itrwiger. He visits James Cullen. restraint. "Whatever Dick Morgan the death of Richard Morgan, and is surprised at the regret shown by may have been at home," he said, "I Cullen and his youthful daughter Angela. knew him after he offered his life for -- A a great ideal, and I'm proud that he father's Continued. after people called me his friend. reputation, CHAPTER IH I'll tell Miss stopped noticing him on his own ac- Durant myself, please. It's my right." Just took advantage of the And turned to face the girl he had filth Angela peering hard over his count. decfact that nobody could quite bear to tried to die for, and failed. boulder, Mr. Cullen strained to uneven penmanship. He be harsh to his father's son. But he ipher the was always a wild young chap, noth aloud: read CHAPTER IV. fcgan to ing very bad, except that Just too Dear Mr. Cullen s much of anything including liquor She had always been, when he last I am asking Mr. Henry Hilliard I was just enough for him! Had too saw her, the outstanding beauty of it bring you this letter personally. quick a- - temper to be diplomatic Syracuse, but he was astounded to bewant blm to tell you what I'm not And you can tell other enough to hold a Job, and didn't care hold what the Interval of two years writing, too. much about working hard, and finally had done for her. She had taken upIf you care to. people, 1 want you to know that since I've the tide turned, and he began to get on herself a new maturity; her figure, treated just as if his father hadn't exceptionally graceful, was still slentad time to think, I've changed my I've been a sort of popular idol, and then der; but suggestive of a more womanmind about a good many things. his disposition soured, and he made ly, a more Inclusive charm. ome to the conclusion that you were He was being presented to her! Maybe you some bad mistakes. I gave him the right and I was wrong. last job he ever had In Syracuse, but He, who had kissed her a thousand won't remember the last talk we had I had to let him go . . . and I told times, was undergoing the ritual of together, but I do. You told me then him some plain facts when I did presentation me to and she was smiling at make It I in have Hat didn't That's what he refers to." him with those grave, sweet eyes of- food unless I learned that I wan about "I assumed," said Hilliard, hesitat hers, and calling him by his adopted the most worthless young man in town, ud the one with the hardest row to ly, "that at one time he had been what name! His mask of protection had out you might call . . . disappointed never seemed so slight, so insufficient; toe In order to make something of myself, and set out from there. in love? Something was weighing on the fragrance of her, and the illusion caused by this, threatened his balI had to. Of him he practically admitted . . Well, I've learned It but that was one point that he didn't ance and set his nerves on edge; forfflurse, I couldn't agree with you at the time. That wouldn't have been appear to want to confess, even to tunately, the routine of the conventions intervened to save hlra from his But over here I've had one me." expected. "He was engaged to Carol Durant." inarticulateness. For one thing, there lesson after another. Some of them were pretty bitter, but they've all Angela had taken the cross again, and was the rite of Introduction to ArmAnd since May, when I was held it like a precious relic. "She strong, and after that there was a telped. conversation,, tart, I've "had lots of time to think broke It off, just before he went dash of promiscuous with not a little weather philosophy In them over. away." "The day before," added Mr. Cul it. Then came the Inexorable hush "I never deserved your kindness and len. "That was one of the two rea- caused by the presence of a stranger low I can't ever repay it It But may sons why he went" whose fads and fancies are still a matplease you to know that this war ter of conjecture, and out of that hush, Hilliard nodded. las taught me what you tried to, and On account of his a question, and Hilliard was suddenly "I see. touldn't that I was as close to zero visited by a species of talue at home as a man could be. It's habits?" "That was the gossip," said Mr. CulIf he had been moved at all by the only through this war that I've got was "Doctor Durant len of Angela, whom he had loved supny pride in heavily. sight of sort I'm myself, and " uke Kipling's as a younger sister, he was, by comgentleman ranker I'm posed to have "Didn't he write to her?" asked An- parison, shaken as by a whirlwind by proud of myself because I've done the sight of Carol Durant, whom he way with all the other kinds of pride gela, raising her eyes. I used to have. "Not that I . . ." He stopped had loved as a woman. Not on the And I believe I've made good quickly. "I trust you'll forgive me, train, not at the hotel, not even when not as a great general, tat as a but I'd imagined from various remarks he witnessed Angela's severe grief, was soldier. That private the trouble at home I was only fit he made at different times, that he had he remotely conceived that this to be a instant would be so difficult to surprivate, and I thought I could was really . . . that he was greatadlie was to This mount. What In New York had seemlast attached you." i general off hand. You said I'd ly !o well ed a regeneration, and earlier on this if I inarned that, and I have. dressed to Angela, who was both dignified and shaken by the suggestion. same evening had appeared a very They gave me the Croix de Guerre, 'id In a way, that Her father, however, nodded in the dubious deception, was rapidly taking doesn't proves it, Notice that they didn't even make negative. upon itself the color of Irremediable more than fif- wrong. His imagination was aroused much wasn't a "Angela ! nil That's corporal, though right I haven't had sir. They were great friends ; he beyond belief; and as he stared in enough training teen, Ttt to be a fond of her. No, It was dumb suspense at Carol, recalling a was very I curious It's corporal he was engaged to. thousand episodes and a thousand tot Til admit Durant Carol that, Isn't it? privileges of the long ago, he was ? want you to know that I've Didn't he ask you to see her?" grim-nes- s g "No." upon by a preyed nought of you a deal. I don't great sick him which won't I left of blame "But you will, you?" hope, despair you for letting me go. I did If here with Carol see can "You tonight, misery. w. but I don't now. Please 'think said Angela, uncertainly. She was waiting for an answer me, though, as a man who came you care to," hers a friend of . . . and and the others were waiting, too, and and "She "rough at the finish, even if he'd been over to talk about another watching him. He felt that guilt was are coming PWty hopeless before. Carol's on the com- stamped on his every feature . . . "Billiard, the best man in the world, Red Cross drive. to be here any mittee. ought They Promised J ' to bring you this letter. now." minute lope you'll be glad to see him, and 10 near "Yes," said Hilliard. "If I'm going his side of the story. This is see her, I think I should rather 1 to apology and my blessing, if that's see rth her here." anything to you. I send a kiss 10 Mr. Cullen sighed stertorously. Angela. "Well, perhaps It's better . . . "It. M." I shall want to telephone this to and Mr. Cullen OTirlorl . J.aillll& In. "vtv n.lK mill tX foiling the Herald If you don't object. It's ton. and let the hand which held the least we can do, all things considme letter drop to his knee. He reflected a moered." (h"The lettPr. as you guess from ment. "How long are you staying In might looks of it" said Hilliard, "was town, Mr. Hilliard?" "ten at several different times "I've made no plans whatsoever," to his strength. I want you he said, after a slight pause. "I sold "realize, too, Mr. that it was my Interests to a British syndicate of " "jjall effort forCullen, him to write it bankers two months ago. My home is a I was in Switzerland when where my baggage Is. I'm thinking of ' an(1 his Possessions had all taking a day or two to see certain of ton ne of those tape-boun-d Dick's friends the ones he talked 80 that 1 had a fearful time to about most and after that, the future r myself and get what he had is on the knees of the gods." oeant me to have, nnrt after Hint T Mr. Cullen regarded him with sinto make a sudden trip to Russia, cere respect. t0 England again. There ww "It votild give me great pleasure," delnys-dela- ys. I wag- ill for he a trifle pompously, "If you months myself; I had typhoid would be my guest for the time you're 1 shou,d ' It would please have mai,ed here, Mr. Hilliard. thespl t0 you ,onS So, but he me Hilliard's indeed." much I very hi rae to come In person, and heart pounded. j i,.Hegge(1 pSprised-in - And eTery dfly 1 ex- - "And me too," said Angela,to gently, suffoanther week or two nilliard'a heart threatened IhA I feel that cate him; not entirely because the And Turned to Face the Girl He Had I Zld start for home. t,lis exPlanation and a game was going so Infinitely better Tried to Die For. jreat f0r forEIveness for what than he had dared to hope, but also rust seem ho felt that every thought of his must to you like gross Indiffer- - because It was Angela who entreated be as crystal to the four who waited m' o Part But 1 landed hard-t- him. tw? hlra to speak. for eeks ng0' and 1 came up to "It's wonderfully good of you, he f Tie was himself and he was not him the earliest you disturb couldn't possible moment". protested, "but I self; he was ostensibly Henry Hilliard, Thank you, iS,rk,5,on!e ways, he was a most re-- n to that extent. inman In whom It couldn't be suspecta an him by a Mr. Cullen stopped it! , youns man" saId Mr. ed that the heart and soul of Dicky k 0V"nt,y' clusive gesture. "Nobody ever were embodied; he was tran Why he turned out 8ucn a "You won't disturb us in the slight- Morgan Th a spectator at his own scendentalism Mr. ame rrora a flne old est! I wish you'd come with us, f: 'niiiv of the Croix de Guerre i funeral. Sight better much feel should I'i'uw "is iamer was one Hilliard. I Dutout, who in be noor Pierre nf downtown." , ; mast l0ve(j men jn 0nondaga than having you stay bit of that impressive u'-ilived for years on his "Well" said Hilliard, dubiously. queathing at-Jjc- ts ,,, fea-hire- er ... , 1 ... s. slow-stealin- m ... ac-2K- bu-uJ.- !' .d, 1 but" Cul-ton- un-lar- tectorate of the shadows, and gather Ing fresh assurance with every sentence, went through that tragic narrative a second time. And as he told the tale of Dicky Morgan, he was greatly engulfed by the surge of Dicky Morgan's grlevantes; his voice trembled with righteousness ; he gradually lost his loathing for the part he flayed, and played It with every atom of his energy; he was a defendant, and a witness and a Judge for Dicky Morgan all In one and his verdict was for acquittal. Miss Durant's eyes never left his face, "And that," she said presently, "is all there is to tell?" "That's the end," said Hllllard st$v loophole? And who would recognize Dick Morgan in his cloak and mask of ply. And In the long hiatus which bronze to him. hadn't dreamed that he was leaving a heritage of chicanery along with It, engendered Id Hllllard still" a thrill which nearly found its outlet "As a favor to me." urged Sir. Cul- in a paroxysm of wild laughter. And len. the newspaper, with Dutout's most "As a favor to me." echoed Angela, genuine citation tn Itl And the old and Hilliard looked attentively at her. passport photograph which be had and was obviously swayed. She not- hidden for fear that his real name, ed It; he bad Intended her to notice indorsed on be cabled home, might it it He gave her a smile which had together with proof to the world that the power, even In her somber mood, he hadn't been a hero that he had to draw a faint response In kind. failed in this, as in every other un"If you're sure it won't be a hard- dertaking of his life. And all the ship to you " dates In accuracy t And if anyone "Nonsense! It's settled, then. Is it? cared to trace back the story, where Ill send one of my cars down for your was the flawT Where was there a utter miracle? Who had? Lightninglike, his brain Included all the salient Items of the picture in a There was Dicky Morsingle flash. gan, sailing away to France which could be proved. There was a number, and a name attached to it and followed, he was wondering . . , wondering . . . vague aimless thoughts, with no beginning and no conclusive outcome, but the central figure, flitting, elusive, was always Carol nurant He told himself fiercely that he hated her, that for two vengeful years he had hated her, that he had come back to Syracuse primarily t see her again, with his whole soul for the wounds In his heart, the wounds of his body, still . . . O God ! why couldn't the surgeons have tnt away his memory, and left him peace! He was prodigiously relieved when Mr. Cullen, g but awkward, blurted out a paradox of eulogy. Armstrong, eager to relieve the congested ways of thought, ventured Into the realm of platitude aad something since Hilliard's sturdy defense of Dicky Morgau had had a grain of truth in It and one of the steps of his progress carefully omitted a name had really been assumed, and had endured from the date of enlistment to the date of discharge. It was the Individual's recorded name In the army and at Neullly and it wasn't Morgan and it wasn't Hllllard and It wasn't Dutout. No one here knew it, or ever would know It; even Harmon didn't know it; It was the In his manner caught Hilliard's attention. The man was actually possessive individfirst sobriquet of a and Hilliard, having no envy of his ual who had been taken to Neullly, and had been made whole again. No possession, cursed him on general And then one at Neullly had ever set eyes on principles nevertheless. Dicky Morgan's real facel But a certain man named Dutout had been decorated and died, and that could be proved was proved! Hllllard had borrowed Dutout's name In perfect safety; and the trail was cold. And here was a fourth man, Hllllard to take his word for it and the world is larger than the curiosity of sincere many-side- d shell-tor- n people to encompass. No if a Neullly surgeon ever told as one of the mysterious chapters of the war what had happened to a certain gloomy individual that summer, the name would suggest nothing. And as far as checking up the visits of a mythical Hllllard to a very real Dutout was concerned, who would profess to remember? The testimony of any single witness would be. immate- UTAH BUDGET Frost did soma Aanmge to early vegetables nea WtUard, according to reports brought la by farmers. A campaign t eliminate "mashers" has been Inaugurated at Salt I.uk a number of arrests having been made. More than 1).OnO additional acre will be placed under cultivation on the L'lniuh Iudiao reservation thli year.. voirr of Mil ford unaniTuxpayiu mously approved the promised $125,. 000 county roud bond Issue at the recent election. Nellie Ruby, a negress, attempted at Salt Lake, drinking lemon extract, succeeding ouly in making herself very sick. T tue re Is a large acreage of beti for Sunpete county factories, and with a god yield the factories should nave a profitable run. In order to raise money for apparatus for the Logan City play grounds entertainments are being given In the auk-Idle- - Ouche valley metropolis. The commissioners have decided to call an election to vote upon the question of bonding Cache county for the mm of $"X),000 for roads. Cooperation was the theme of the twentieth annual meeting of the Utah riiHrumceuticnl association, which was held In Salt Lake lust week. in Sanpete and Crop prospects Sevier counties are bright, according to n report by M. M. Justin, field agent for the bureau of crop estimates. Alfred Duke Scoffield, 16 years of to age, of Kaysvllle, was crushed death under the wheels of an electric car In the Utah Steel plant at Mid-vale. A cuinping house Is being erected in Raymond Park at Provo for traveling tourists and playgrounds are being made to provide for children of the city. Good crops are being produced on the reclamation projects in the Bear river valley, according to R. A. Hart, engineer In charge of the United States drainage office at Salt Lake. A jury at Salt Luke returned a verdict of first degree murder against Steve Maslich for the slaying of Mnrko Luus. Maslich was arrested In Butte. Laus was slain on August 3, 101S. rial. Although the .state road bridge at Moab over the Grand river was raised four feet In anticipation of an extraordinary high flood tills year, It has been found that it wns not raised high enough. The high price of sugar has had the effect of causing the farmers in the Delta section to become more Interested in grow ing sugar beets and it Is crop is said that a record-breakin"Miss Durantl" t being planned. Escalante, known to fame heretofore Hllllard was again in demand; there but wealthy cattle an as was a flood of Incoherent questioning, In Garfield county, and on the town and he was giving details, answering of the Colorado river information western slope queries, volunteering now in the throes of an oil is which might never have been asked, basin, excitement describing Neullly, the hospital, the Frank Rose, 74 years of age, a carsurgeons, the nurses, the wholly indescribable atmosphere of France in penter, engaged In tearing awuy , a wartime. He was strengthening his porch at the home of a Salt Lake resisusposition, phrase by phrase; his insou- dent, stumbled and fell backward, ciance redoubled; he had laid a rock taining a fracture at the base of. the foundation never to be successfully skull, which resulted In his death an assailed. There came an abrupt hour later. pause; Miss Durant rose and came to Despondent because her him, and he was op his feet to meet son, Henry, recently attempted to her. escape from the state Industrial "Thank yon, she said, giving him school at Ogden, Mrs. Birdie Vaughn her hands. His heart missed a beat; attempted suicide by drowning herself his blood ran gelid. "Thank you. If In the Ogden river, but was rescued I wish you'd talk to me you can by a passerby. again before you go . . . alone . . . The Utah department of public In1 wish It very much. You've made me is planning this year to give struction . . . at least I cap be glad you were extensive service than has been more to help him, but I want to there in regard to so infinitely prevalent in the past know so much more scnool .teachers desiring posibringing much more . . ." in need of boards school and A fleeting Impulse clawed at Hil- tions contact. into teachers liard's Judgment; he yielded to it Earl Seely, William II. Seely, John It meant the alteration of blindly. J. Seely, P. H. Cambron and Oliver his plan of action, it meant a trifle irTore of danger; and a gratuitous risk Seely are In Mount Pleasant undergosufat that but it was genjus genius ! ing medical treatment for burns "Miss Durant !" He made sure that fered at the Seelys' sheep dipping the others were beyond the range of camp near Indianola when a small his voice. "Miss Durantl I said he gasoline tank used in the process ex. sent no word to you ; that was true as ploded. far as I knew the truth, but there's A special train leaving Salt Lake one letter he started to write just at Saturday night will carry the officers, It wasn't addressed to the last officers! and selectanyone ; I didn't know who it was for. ed men of the first squadron of cavalI brought it with me on the chance ry, national guard of Utah, to the that I'd find out I didn't want to camp of instruction to be held nt Fort speak of it before every one, because D. A. Russell, Wyo., June 1 to 4, inif it's yours, I thought you'd . . . clusive. you understand, don't you? I'm almost Shipments of currant and goose-berr- y positive it was meant for you. It's bushes into Utah In violation of he wasn't ever only a few lines and federal qunnnntine state both strong enough to finish it . . . I've been discovered by have regulations got it at the hotel now. May I bring C. E. crop and pest county Pettigrew, it to you tomorrow?" of Weber, and H. P. MathInspector She held her breath for an Instant; iiolds a similar office In her mouth quivered. She looked at ews, who Cache county. him searchingly. During the coming summer and fall across I live I "Surely. just is expected Zion National park will It on the corner, Mr. Hllllard. The brick be visited by thousands of tourist house. Can you come early?" from many parts of the United States. him"How soon?" He was telling loself that his former passions were Zion park, the nation's newest, is tha of In southwestern the part cated atrophied; she was no longer able to condisquiet him. His inspiration waa state and was created by act of 1919. November 19, commercial strictly commercial. gress "In the morning? At . . . eleven?" Weighing and measuring test of Til come gladly." forty children who will enter schools for the first time in September will be held June 1 by the Home and "But this Hilliard person School league of Provo. The testa are a part of the plan of the league worklive a wire, boy, a live Is. ing on preschool nutritional met ho wire. to hear!" Prof. George P.. Hendricks, director "Tell her from the beginning," said of the school of commerce and busiCullen, mopping his forehead- .- Get ness administration,''" Utah Afrioul-tur(TO BE CONTINUED.) , a. glass of water . . . anything college, has received an of fkjal else, Carol?" Conveyer Does Double Duty. agent in marappointment She shook her" head. "Tell me !" she One conveying Installation in an the for representing Utah, said. "I want to knowl" eastern paper' mill brings the coal to keting Sfates department of So that Hllllard, inspirited by the the furnaces and carries off the ashes Unltejl realization that be was under the pro at the same ime. The voice of Carol Durant was echoing in Hilliard's ears, and Hilliard, yielding to a tidal wave of recklessness, and of swelling anger at imaginary wrongs, looked squarely into Carol's eyes, and spoke with winning urgency. "Yes," he said. "I have news of Morgan. In fact, I'm here in Syracuse I've Just solely because I have it been telling Mr. Cullen and Miss Cullen that I was with him when he died." She didn't speak, at first ; she merely looked at Hilliard and grew very white, and her lips quivered. Presently she swayed a little, and reached out with her hand toward the back of a convenient chair. Armstrong stepped toward her, and Angela Cullen slipped an arm around her waist. "He's . . . dead?" she repeated, and her tone was not yet free from a certain Incredulity, as though the fact were of Itself impossible, and the statement of it subject to discussion. "Yes, Miss Duranl." She moistened her lips; her eyes were very bright, unnaturally bright so that Hilliard was fascinated, and appalled. "You . . . You know that?" she asked, again with that queer inflexion of amazed doubt. "Yes, I know it." The others were standing as statues ; Mr. Cullen, snatching at the first idea of consolation to present Itself, fumbled for his daughter's other hand, which still retained the trophy a better man had won. "Here's what they gave him, Carol ! Look! The Croix de Guerre! Don't let's think of anything but what he . . . let's b proud of him! I " "Oh, yes," she said inertly, and took the cross in her palm. She dropped her eyes for a moment, then raised them to the level of Hilliard's. "Didn't he send some word to me?" "No." Hilliard's nod was very ministerial. "No, I'm sorry, but " Her eyebrows lifted, and her nostrils dilated the merest trifle. Her breath was coming more rapidly now ; she was nearing the breaking point of her resistance, and all of them knew It The moment was agonlzedly prolonged. Hilliard, gazing without a quaver at the girl he had thought he loved beyond all else in this world or the next, was singularly relaxed as he observed her symptoms. She had so much really cared, then the greater pity that she hadn't kept him caring as she might. "Can that be possible?" she said, hardly above a whisper. "I'm sorry but " "I wouldn't have believed it could be true." She gave a long, tremulous d breath, and looked about her, and half perceptive. Her eyes strayed back to Hllllard. "Tell me about it," she said, almost inaudibly. "Carol, dear!" Angela was stimulated to active sympathy. "Sit down please! Oh, Mr. Hllllard!" "No yes, I . . . I'll sit down !" 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