Show THE GARLAND TIMES GARLAND UTAH business yours?” Mrs Carscadden denijiu “You’d dc ed unsympathetically much better to kape out of pol ce stations as things are” “Well if I don't think I’m in a bad dream 1” said Sheila “The Me Canns reported it to the police” her sis'er said “The Me Canns did!” "Yes they were so worried about Peter He had Halt a dozen appointments for Saturday and he didn’t And there was a keep one of them big party Saturday night — ” ”1 know The Cahills” “Well wherever it was And when he didn’t get home to dress for that they all got perfectly crazy and they telephoned around everywhere And at about ten o’clock Mr Frank M? Cann came out here” "Frank Me Cann did!” "Yes Because it seems that Peter had told his mother and that he had known you up at Tiller’s Beach last summer and he had even talked to them about you after he got home—” “And we didn’t know anything of course except that you weren’t Ma didn’t take her clothes home off that night — did you Ma?” "I did not” said Ma "Mrs Me Cann talked to Ma afternoon about our maySaturday be living over in Astoria or somewhere where Ma could have vegetables and everything!” Angela mented “And now— now they’ll never want to see us again! She seemed so different yesterday so sad and quiet and she’d been crying and he looked as if he had been too and everything was terrible—Joe got so mad and he stood up for you—” “What by Kathleen Norris C KATMlfEN CHAPTER VIII— Continued "I you think could” WNU SEKVtCI you would be lucky if “Oh I could all right!’’ Ken 'T was up at Tiller’a Beach with some people this year” Sheila volHe went to get boasted gloomily unteered ‘‘and I met Peter there her a drink of water' and she stood We liked each other all right Then drinking it and laughing and pantI didn’t meet him again until last— ing against the background of snowy until— I guess it was Friday night hills and bared trees and blue high winter sky It seems years ago” "And you and him made a date The truck came duly chugging down the new road a few minutes hay?” asked Ken To later the men hanging on like mon"Well he wanted to see me explain—” keys watching the track as the "Explain why he threw you great toboggan tires flattened the down?” A silence "He didn’t snow To them the gently rolling snowy throw me down” Sheila hills all about the occasional dissaid mildly ending it "He wanted tant cluster of roofs and farmhouse me to know that he hadn’t run out on columns of smoke the road deep in me He’d lost the number of my dry white shining powder were exhouse” actly what they had been seeing for "You know he’s yeller don't the past two hours But Ken was you?” Ken said in dissatisfaction now bidding them good-bSheila made no answer and he "Walk to the top of that hill there mumbled once or twice “Sure he’s and there ought to be a village yeller” before settling down into about a mile below On your way!” silence again he said After another interval the man beHe He did not look at Sheila gan again with his air of superiwalked about the truck the snow ority: and climbed up on the ‘front seat “You know there isn’t anyone who and she saw one of the other men has anything on mei” get down upon the rough floor of the "Has?” Sheila echoed alertly vehicle and roll himself up in a blan‘‘Haan’l1 — — — ket there “You mean the police?” walk The rest was a "There isn’t one of them could pin in the snow more floundering like three miles anything on me” than two and a longdreary empty Sheila pondered this The sign wait at an empty station "Yoti mean because there isn’t over the station said "Capitol Juncanything to pin or just because tion” there was no house near by you’re lucky?” she asked simply But toward the middle of the after"I mean that they haven’t got noon a rickety train did rattle by on me I never pulled a and Sheila and Peter boarded it The anything ‘gun on aftyone” he said "I chrry conductor sleepily informed them one that’s all right But I don’t that they were in northern ConI just think 'get into the rackets necticut and obliged them with tickand then ets to New York There was no din(things out for the boys Renn and I talk ’em over” er on the train but when they trans"You’re the brains of the organizaferred to a roaring leviathan fartion” Sheila observed mildly re- ther on they thankfully went into a of another favorite calling phrase afil had brightly lighted buffet-ca- r young Sig the vice president’s son club sandwiches and coffee "I don’t know what you call it” he said offended IX CHAPTER "I should think” Sheila mused aloud “of course I don’t know But I should think that the person who did the planning would be the very one the police would want to get I” “And what could they do to him when they did get him?” Ken asked "Oh leave it to them they’d manage that!” Sheila assured him with a laugh when the men Shortly afterward returned coming nearer every sec- beloved old dirty doorway with children straggling about it in the dark the welcoming rush of thick air from the house air scented with cooking and living and the ominous note of Carbolic met her like familiar voices Sheila was up the four flights like a flying swallow she flung open the kitchen door and her cry of “Ma! I’m back!” rang through the place Then everything took on the feeling and appearance of a nightmare Her mother was sitting at the kitchen table with Angela at one side of her "Joe’s dead'” Sheila thought and her heart failed her back” Mrs "Well you came Carscadden presently observed out of the most terrible silence that in all the days of Sheila’s life had ever existed between herself and her The mother Sheila stood still growing pale swallowed with a dry throat "What— what’s the matter?” she She whispered Neither mother nor sister spoke they regarded her steadily with sorSheila after rowful quiet eyes stammered question which another ' was choked with sobs sat down at the table and burst into wild crying her hands over her face "Oh don’t Sis” Angela now said whimpering "But— but what’s the matter!” Sheila demanded again looking up eyelashes through “What’s happened?” “Where's your husband?” Mrs Carscadden demanded steadily “Where—? Where’s my what?” "Where’s Mr Me Cann Sheila?” Angela asked weeping "Peter!” "The-rt- he fellow you ran away with Sheila” Angela began to hiccup but anger dried Sheila’s tears and made her voice hard "You don’t think I ran away with When they were finally approachiPeter Me Cann?” ng the city and the theater ad"We had your ware Sheila” Anvertisements and the multiplying gela said apartment houses warned them that "Sdamma you don’t think I ran off their long trip was almost over with Peter Me Cannl” Sheila was conscious of a sudden “An’ his mother as lassitude a weariness that seemed as me!” Mrs Carscadden observed to have as much to do with the irrelevantly soul as the body as it Wonderful “I’m no more married to him — would be to get home to Ma and listen to me Mother! I say I’m no Angela "and Joe and have the first more married to him than you are! ” A light suddenly narrewed thrilling conversation with them she the mother’s eyes "Indade I’ll grant you that!” she "Indade you’re not said bitterly married to him — you an' your attorney or justice of the p’ace or whativer! An’ let but Peter Me Cann put his head in my door an I’ll disthrict attorney him! Taking a fine ger’rl that never done a mane thing in her life although she might scald the hear’rt out of me wit’ her and the kitchen became 'suddenly filled with the odor of their their undrying boots their pipes washed1 bodies and unwashed clothing Sheila felt suddenly unbearably tired and stiff and sleepy It was Ken who briefly suggested that she (take possession of a very small room off the kitchen perhaps once a servant’s room or an old grandfather’s room but furnished with iron bed like only a those in the larger room She closed her door but she could hear the voices in the kitchen hear the shuffling of the men’s feet the creaking of the old rocker Gradually all these sounds blended and faded loomed loud again and were She slept until winter sungone shine striking through the dirty uncurtained farmhouse window sent a brilliant glitter from the snow about the discolored walls of the little kitchen chamber Yesterday’s experience of thawing and limping yesterday’s brief a toilet preceded unrefreshing kitchen breakfast but even then the bright promise of the day made Sheila’s heart lighter and when Ken said lazily over his coffee "Well to- be home about ‘you eight o’clock tonight” she felt that she could have danced for joy "We got to dig out of here first” he observed And after the meal She dreadwhen Sheila would have fallen upon wished that it was over her obvious task of clearing the ed the explanations — It seemed odd to see the night kitchen he said "Let all that go Sister and get out here for a while streets bustling as usual down under the train curb carts surrounded It’ll do you good!” children racing and The truck that had brought them by shoppers to the lonely old farmhouse in the screaming in the dirty snow “I get out at One Hundred and hills was bedded deep in snow the Peter- h men were digging busily about it He roused himself from a sort of Sheila and Ken began to clear some sort of track for it about the comer dream at the window of the barn that had hidden it down "Nixl’’ he protested "We’ve got past the house and so to the road to go home first We’ve got to turn her shovel flinging the in a report at a police station” Handling now about breathless and laugh“I don’t" she said "I’m going ing the girl worked enthusiastically straight home to my mother” if with small results She and Pe‘Til get out with you it’s just as ter and Ken shouted at each other near for me But we’ve got to go to in the invigorating sunshine as they a station right off the bat!” dug “What for?” "You own this place?” Peter The police won’t “To catch them asked want to lose a minute” "I never seen it before yester"You don’t think for one minute day” Ken answered you can catch them!” "Then who does own it?” “I know darned well we can catch "I don’t know” the man said them We know where they started "One of the boys found it a while from don’t we? We can send ’em back They use it off and on Monk right to that fake studio where we went into the real estate office — in found ’em can’t we? It’ll only take Worcester I think it was — and asked a minute and then I’ll run you about it once They said the owner home in a tai” Peter argued was an old lady and lived in FlorIn the end ‘She actually did find ida and sometimes her nieces used herself in the 'Monday evening or quiet of a police station ft summers They’re artists answering teachers or something from Bo- the questions of a kindly sergeant ston” another with only old officer for "But— but audience except for a sympathetic anyone going Sheila claimed young man who observed excitedly "wouldn't they see smoke and mo- that he would bet it was Olla’s gang with a sort of tinseled tor tracks?” and who "There ain’t many neighbors” light globe held aloft took a When of the latest victims of a gang Ken observed unalarmed Peter had worked his way to some mystery And then the familiar streets were distance Ken said suddenly to Sheila "So you think I ought to get out rushing by Sheila’s taxi and her of this racket while the getting's heart was thumping harder and ’ do you faster and Ma and home and safe gvi ty were ond nonsense—” "Ma don't talk like — well like an idiotl I tell you that Peter Me Cann and I were kidnaped — kidnaped by bootleggers and taken ’way up into the country—’’ “You didn’t send the tiligram ' I suppose?” "Certainly I sent you a telegram I didn’t want you to die of fright did I?” "And he— the man — he sint his folks one too?” "Peter? Well of course he did! Saturday night After we got caught in the library That is they sent them for us” "The booteggerssM ye was that it?” "Well Mother We they did couldn’t” “You cudden’t?” "No ma’am because” — Sheila “We were being kidhesitated naped” she explained "I see” said her mother "And this morning they drove us to some place called Capitol Junction and we came down on the tram” "I see” There was a silence Sheila did not move She sat looking at her mother and sister fixedly the red deepening in her cheeks her lip bitten "Sheila they’re such lovely peoMe Canns” Angela burst ple the out "Mrs Me Cann came to see Ma on Saturday and she was so sweet and she said such lovely things of you and she told us all about her ward's— that’s Gertrude — getting married to Peter— they were so hfappy about it! 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