Show THE GARLAND Flame Sonya swung addlebags down and took off her As ah entered the hogan her Ups set themselves In a sharp unconscious llneu Bad was right she thought There was the smell of death here She would need to gird ber lolna today tn all truth At first the dusky shadows hid the Interior from her sight Then as her eyes adjusted themselves she set down her bags and knelt beside the flrst heap of skins and blankets which lay on the saDdy floor There were three of these flat beds In the farther one the two children still slept heavily In this one Little Moon lay panting with fever ber big black eyes beautiful In the dim light “Courage Uttle mother" Sonya said Copyright In Navajo “1 am with you" Doobloday Doru It Co loo The Indian woman smiled touched WKU lorrlco ber hand with timid fingers She took the draught which the other gave ber presently and watched SYNOPSIS her as she set about cooking some oatmeal over the coals of the tiny Are horielf Booking death by throwing from the lurnmU of Lono Mesa to This It was which had made Sonya eaoopo dlahonor at tbo hand of a the Idol of these poor and silent peodrunken daaperado Sonya Sovortn ple this service of heart and band haraolf to ba reacued by bar and which bad saved them literally from Bonly aoberad and repentant attacker The girl la a death In many cases phyaloUn She fought for to the Navajo Indiana living on an sanitation the could produce Ariiooa aheap ranob with bar brother what hla wife Llla nd tholr email among them taught them the ImpoBaba For a year oho ha rtance of proper feeding tn fevers the daughter bean engaged to Rodney Blaka wealthy of mustard plasters over Wow Terker but bar heart la with the superiority and labored frlendleaa Navajoa and aha evadaa a singsongs In pneumonia wadding generally like a mother with her children Now she bathed the hot brown body CHAPTER II under the blankets gave Little Moon — 2— the thinned cereal as a drink waked and washed the children fed them the 8onya Cats a New Nam By early dawn Sonya was up and rest of the oatmeal ate two pieces of dressed ber saddlebags replenished fried mutton and some crackers with with such remedies as she might need Two Fingers and stood for a while for her battle with Old Uao Death In outside the hogan in the morning the hogan beyond Chee wash sunlight full fed and watered waited She felt wonderful herself strong She stood In the tiently In the patio nd high within as If ahe set ber dim kitchen with a cup of coffee in body against a wall and could not he one hand a hastily made sandwich backed down This waa the gauge of In the other and talked lowly to Lila battle In her that she knew the deep “It's going to be a hard day old determination to win In what ihe set dear” she said “and I may not get herself to do ths passionate sympaback tonight If I don’t don’t worry thy and pity which were like a steel I'll i be with Two ringers and the babies and poor Little Moon If she seems to be going I’ll not leave her” “No” said Lila “no of course not I know What shall I tell Rod when he gets up?” "lie knows Pm going— told him last not that I might stay over Tell him again bow It Is with Utile Moon — and mention the babies" “They’re Just dirty little Navajoa to of the Border By VINGIE E ROE ®ra him" “7’hey’re tragic same” said Sonya will have to see Tm oft" V babies sharply It Well Just "and so the he long She set down her empty cup pulled on her gloves and went softly out She hugged Darkness’ nose which nudged her breast aher a little rite that waa common between them and went up his tall side and Into her old saddle with the easy grace of a' working cow hand The bljg horse hard as Iron and perfect In training leaned to the almost ' motion of hand and Imperceptible rein on hla neck and trotted out of the patio Once on the sandy atretch of level country he rolled away In a long and tireless lope a harbinger of a brlnger of comfort to the hope lowly Far to the south and west Sonya could see Lone Mesa She loved the Times without numgreat tableland ber she had climbed its steep trail on Darkness to ride its top to alt In the sun beside Its ancient pueblo walla with their rotting ladt ders to stand on Us rim and can the lone yvorld below Until yesterday nothing had ever disturbed her her right of way— nothing disputed until yesterday At the thought her face flushed red with auger at the mnn who had ridden hef down to the mesa's edge and pulled her from her saddle his handsome face aflame with rapine Sha felt the blood burn along her cheeks It was resentment she felt the fierce that of Indignation rage anyone or should Interfere with her anything freedoih and her right to It Her dark eyes weri hot with It her soft mouth set In a prim ltne But the look she gave the mesa aa she rode along beneath It was neither fearful nor reIt waa a look of promise as signed If some atobborn her thing within would take her to Its lonely heights more often than usual now The sun came up as she and Darkness entered the broad mouth of Chee wash with Its red sandstone walls and a Uttle later they came In sight of the hogan of Two Fingers A round of a single room laid low habitation up of flat stonea one above another like flakea of prehistoric dough It aa all bogans must faced the eaat From Its central rise a thin thread of smoke ascended Something caught at Sonya's heart— It was so stark and poor a home Its people so helpless Two Fingers met her beslds the water Ue was a man of around thirty hole like dark leather weathered hla patient face aa native to the land as Lone Mesa Itself and there waa about him a simple dignity ss there waa about the poorest of these Indians He wore a blue flannel shirt corduroy pants held by a belt and hla hair was long and bound In two neat doubled flares ou the back of hla bead he fair English and had spoke Though a sizable band of sheep this Banner of wearing his hafr stamped him aa a “wild buck” one of those who bad not yet become entirely civilised For one thing Two Fingers did not drink end for another he atlll worshiped hla undent gods Sonya liked him Now she said “Hello Two Fingers I low is she this morning?" “Ihni" he and briefly and rein lor Two Would Be Praying Hla Anclsnt Gods Fingers to blade In her If It were possible to save the patient brown woman In there with what weapons ahe had at her command with unrelenting vigilance with Instant combat of every adverse change then she would do It or know the reason for her fatlure She looked up at the high blue sky with Ita sailing full white clouds her mind an attitude of prayer and turning lifted the blanket which was the door and went la' Two Fingers gathered the babies and made ready to depart according to her request made a moment bark She wanted the day alone clear visioned for the crisis nothing within sight to distract her The man looked down at the woman on tha low bed holding one child leading the other and the woman looked up They aald nothing It might be their last look on earth tbelr eternal parting for all they knew yet there was no outcry no sign of sorrow nothing but that deep look more needed was Perhaps nothing Then Two Fingers went away and the women were alone tn the hogan “We meet the enemy" said Sonya still In Navajo— there waa a comfort la It a strength It seemed— “hut we I hold your band meet him together Hold tight to mine Wa must both The medicine will fight very hard Is It light too good fighter But not for a moment must we fall or sink or atop fighting Tou understand?” The other nodded “It la good” said Sonyau And the day of battle began out tn the sand and Somewhere rocks of Chee wash Two Fingers would be praying to hla ancient gods watching the sitting quietly perhaps babies playing with sticks building corrals for their pebble horses Be had some mutton Jerky In tha pouch Ue would feed them with at hla belt it at noon It was the way of life tn tho solitudes the way of death all chance all waiting Sonya in tho hogan worked tirelessly The cold of the night had glvetf place to the heat of day and sweat Regularly dripped from her temples she fed the woman the thin warm she monotonously Itegularly grueL bathed her from head to foot Regularly ahe slipped her thermometer Into the parched mouth reading It anxAs steadily she gave her mediiously cines At noon she saw no sign of hope bat rather her heart chilled tn TIMES GARLAND UTAH her at tube tho rising figures In the tiny The crisis waa coming It would be here by mldafternoon Her mouth ipt a little harder her black eyes were narrow between their dusky lashes She squatted patiently by the heap of skins and blankets her fingers on Little Moon's hot wrist So the hours passed— und the crisis came a tense panting hour with the BEVERLY HILLS— Well all I know silver thread In the little tube running Is just what I read In the papers and I op a ghastly record and the patient dark bead rolling at last In unendur- tell you you got to be an awful careful and close reader to able suffering see much that Is Sohys held the moving hands bathed mnch nowadays the drawn face Yon got to wade “Hold tight — hold — tight — she kept saying In Navajo through many a “hold tight little mother" gruelling murder a few ransoms a And after a timeless space when she of kidnapbevyneither moved nor took her eyes from auto and the other's features there came a pings deaths till it reads creeping stillness a hush a cessation like a telephone dof movement The weary bead dropped But sidewise the thin hands became quiet every irectory little bit you run Sonya loosed them and reached for onto some little ber stethoscope her bypodermie filled Item thats sorter and ready with Its needle In a cup of sterile water This was the crux and put lu to keep the reader from becomshe must not fail — for Two Fingers ing blood soaked We lost our can Jimmy Rolph out and the babies out In Chee wash somehere a couple of weeks ago He waa a where She did not fsIL got mighty fine loyal old character With the sun on the western rim pretty well acquainted with him on of the austere desert the Indian came that trip when he had all those visiting up the wash with one child asleep on Covenors out here We all come to know him mighty veil If you want to his shoulder the other on his back Far off hs saw Sonya standing at know a man travel on some extended the bogan's door and stopped a tong trip with him Thats how I got acmoment to study with bis eagle eyes quainted with Mr Dwight Morrow- and ber pose her manner (the then President! Calles of Mexico She stood tall and straight and one We was out on a train togeather travhand was laid high up on the bleached for ten days eling over the eountry pole of the doorway the other rested You cant “Act" that long Your real on her hip Her head was up too self crops up and the follows with you and at ths sight Two Fingers swung can see under the hide t out tn s swift Twenty years Mayor of San Fran'It Is well Blue South Woman" he cisco the most liberal broadminded aald with conviction as he came to and cosmopolitan city In the US I her “you have saved hor" dont know how good a Govenor he Is well” said Sonya proudly and “It made I dont know haw good a Govenor smiled Into hla dark face anybody makes The ones that you Without another word he went Into the hogan and looked down at Llttls give a Job to say you made a good one the ones you dident say you are terMoon sleeping heavily with a sweat rible So as there Is more that you dont upon her skin So the night came down blue with hire than there Is that you can why Its dark sky sliver with Its stars and you are generally classed as “Just anSonya lay down on the second pile of other Govenor" skins and went to sleep with her hand If a man dont need the money and on Little Moon's he dont Just want the glory I dont Two Fingers sat all night In the know why he should go Into It “Good door none know and might hogan's what was In hla mind of gratitude and Intentions a business administration and throw the rascals out’’ Thats been hope and silent Joy tried by better men than you There is Sonya was up by dawn and IJttls Moon was awake weak unto death grave yards In 48 state capitols where headstones say “Here lies Govonor but peaceful Sonya fed her and made a pot of the preclou? gruel and InstructMeantwell Here lies Govenor Honed the man la Its giving Its protection esty Here lies Govenor Reform” from contamination Yet the barnacles of connivance poYou'd better go to the trading post litical and party graft lobbyists Two Fingers" she told him "and get leeches are still hanging onto the some more oatmeal — a big package whole 4S Take the children with you She will Now that might sound kinder be all right She needs rest now no anil It Is but Its facts Also presworry and much gruel These men find a system In there that ently mutton broth I go today to my they just dont seem to get rid of Some own place — to sleep — and I will come do make a dent In it and some states back Her life Is yours now See that are better than others but being Govyou keep It by doing as I tell you" enor Is a sort of a thanklej-Job after To Little Moon herself she said “I the applause Is over sometimes think go now— to rest — but I will come again Drink the gruel as I have given It ought to be Sono by Just a hired manIt to you a little at a time and sleep ager with no political affiliations whatever You got a business much— sleep all you can So will you you go hire the best man you can You dont know walk In the sun again” If he is an Elk or an Then she was outside the hogan Eagle lie Is put In there to run It He hires and fires all on her her saddlebags pulling gloves that dont make good Course thats at her feet waiting for Two Flngera much but the city manager to bring her horse nothing He put the bags In place and over plan only on a bigger scale and I dont the saddle his eyes were on her know that It has been so universally satisfactory It should be though for gravely ttirthe proper way “There was a Blue Woman of the South once" lie said In Navajo "whose i te?l you this finding out how to govson being a son of the Sun goo too ern a Country or even a state or coundelivered the Navajos from under the ty or even a town has got the whole She waa all goodness — ths world licked There Is not a type of earth Woman Sne maxes her Turquoise government that can point with comhogan tt your heart" plete pride and say there Is the best To save her life Sonya wno anew that can be had the legends of these people coutd not This man Roosevelt Is racking his help the tears that sprang to her brain and all the other best ones to eyes It was because she was a little help us out and he is doing a mighty tired maybe a kit unstrung with the fine Job but part of It has been due to recent ordeal— but Two Fingers was the old political traditions that he has telling her that she had delivered him been able to smash and there Is lots of and his Before she couia rooty a others that he haseat been able to or the sound struck on tha stillness he would have done better Making crack of a horse's hoof against stone good In office Is kinder like gambling and she looked quickly down the wash You can go In with plenty of money There almost upon her was Rodand the best intentions bnt the old sysney Blake on Serge's bay mare tem is against you That law of Rod 1” she cried “How In “Why against a man becoming great the world did you find me?” In politics Is working night and day are you “Serge told me the way Its surprising In a state bow many ready T' r people will vote lor a rascal If “Yes Oh Tm glad you Just going Is as good a aa camel It'll be a grand ride back with he Is a lawbreaker campaign speaker the aun coming up This la Two Finyou would be surgers whose wife Is sick” prised at the places The Indian looked up but Rod he could pole quite Blake did not see him It was ss If a few votes enough she had not spoken the last few words to knock some good or as If they had not penetrated hla man out Let him consciousness think up enough "Yes” he said "It will though It things In hla plathas been cold” form to promise "All right” aald Sonya reaching for and he would make Darkness rein "Let’s go I'm ready em believe it Our He's been penned and so la Darkness systems of nomup too — " where we inating Sha did not finish for another sound run let anybody came out of the profound stillness of that can write his name down la wrong the sunrise — the shuffle and slide of There should be some way maby a man's booted feet this time — and high class committee of men that around the bulge of the hogan a tall would pass on the qualifications and figure In a blue shirt worn chaps and decide which men would even be eliboots appeared gible to run You will no more get In a A strange half painful shock of plane unless you know the pilot la a went over Sonya-Irecognition recognised pilot but you will move to was the man of Lone Mesa a state' and live nnder It when the Taking In the unexpected group with Govenor maby has never had one hours swiftness his gaze came Instructions at the wheel of the Ship lightning back to her rested - npon her si If of State Or worse yeVbe-d- s liable to against his own volition and a slow have a record of cracking up on somo red tide flowed up along his lean face previous trips But these are all minor As Rod a moment before had not been We are so big and move along things conscious of Two Fingers so now this with such momentlum that we are man was not conscious of anyone but able to live through everything As the slim girl In riding clothes with her cockeyed as we are we are better than ail the rest put foot arrested in the stirrup togeather Ue stood to long looking at her that © 1 934 lieHmlt SyndtcmU Rodney Blake’s face changed TO Ba CONTINUED On the Funny WE KNOW THEM TOO SIMPLE FROCK THAT ACCENTS SMARTNESS PATTERN WAS A simple frock Is Just a simple frock unless It Is cleverly cut — and then It becomes one of the smartest things a woman can wear In summer But choose your design with the greatest care — remembpr It will have To no help from frills or furbelows be dead certain ef getting something chic you cannot do hetter than thla model with Its smart and becoming It neck and Its well fitting panels Smart was looking rather puzzled "Tell me old fellow" he said to a friend “have you ever heard of gucb a thing as cold embers?" 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The Guest — Nothin’ Only he but ted In e our party an’ Introduced himself as the “Human Battleship" and I thought It was time he was tested— Brooklyn Eagle Mercilo Campaigning “Several of your friends In congress are physicians" “Yes" answered Senator Sorghum “but they are cautious doctors who Whac prescribe enly simple remedies we need ts a bunch ef dentists who can pull teeth and administer gas" Somo Like That “My wife Is a good driver” boasted Jones “and she believes In giving the man In the other car his place along the road” “Mine does too" sighed "only she seems to think his In the ditch”— Philadelphia Smith place Is Bulletin Influence “Women have assumed a position of power In politics" “Yes" answered Miss Cayenne “Sometimes It looks to me as If even a beauty contest had been decided by influence rather than by merit” A Suggestion It’s so hard Kathryn — Oh dear! for me to find a fit In any kind of shoes — — snowshoes? 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Jinks — She had fallen In love with a crooner and he said he’d a darn sight rather go to the poorhouse than have such a thing for a — Cincinnati Enquirer Curioiity Warsaw — A young mnn was arrested because he was lying across railway lines near Warsaw "Suicide?" he Bald when questioned by the police “Certainly not I was Just trying to find out how quickly a train could draw up" Tip “Can the stock market be regulated?’’ “Yes” answered Mr Dustin Stax "but you'll never stop speculation You can’t keep lambs from taking tips any more than you can hotel waiters” Sound Advic “You have a beautiful bride" "Yes but we’ll have fo live on bread and cheese and kisses” “It’s a nice diet my boy bnt don’t Invite too many people to dinner" Philadelphia Bulletin Worthlon Lot "I have a devoted wife and eight charming children elr" “They must be a poor bunch Iff they can’t support you”— Brooklyn Eagle i ir I : L |