Show THE GARLAND TIMES GARLAND UTAH rmaflen0 IPno©§suQno© By George Agnew Chamberlain CHAPTER VIII— Continued Joyce heard him but her attention was riveted on something else The apparition she had mistaken for Blackadder had undergone Duffle a strange transformation bag and furs discarded the slender figure of a young man in riding'togs had emerged and was making a dash for the bridge Joyce gasped shaken by an insane desire to laugh but the puffs of dust thrown up by bullets to the right and left of his flying feet quickly sobered her She scrambled down the spiral stairway rushed to the outer zaguan and ordered its heavy bar lifted None too soon for as it slammed shut behind the fugitive several spent bullets buried themselves in its solid timbers He was a young man at the moment too breathless to speak but his gray eyes were dancing and even hig mussed dark hair gave an illusion of merriment "So it’s you" said Joyce slowly trying to measure the meaning and consequences of his presence “Yes” gasped Dirk “and it’s you too Are — are you all right?" “Yes thank you” said Joyce "Yes and you’ll find it’s about a quarter of a mile” said Joyce sharply She was angry — no longer at him but at herself Why had she done this thing— admitted an enemy when she could have let him She saw Maxie go approaching Hadn’t he warned her? “Since we ourselves are our only friends whoever comes from without must be a foe” “Who’s the poor devil of a blind man?" asked Dirk cutting in on her thoughts “It’s Senor Maximiliano the superintendent" Joyce explained “Maxie let me Introduce Mr Dirk Van Suttart second secretary of the American embassy" Don jftrge threw up his head as he held out his hand gropingly “Ah my apologies" “What for?” asked Dirk “It was by my order you happened to be greeted with bullets” Dirk was led around two sides of the balcony and then through a maze of corridors to a room whose “You’re sure?" he persisted “I mean quite quite all right?" - He at her frown “Nothing’s happened?” “Several things have happened” “I hardly know said Joyce dryly what to do with you Mr Van flushed “Is “Why?V he asked flippantly the house crowded?” her “Fairly” she answered cheeks coloring “Unfortunately" she added gravely "we already have more than a full complement of children" He was confused conscious he was being shamed yet wondering He had felt genuine ardor at why setting out to make what Arnaldo termed a sentimental gesture He had come to rescue her from the clutches of Dorado she had rescued him “It appears I’m not welcome Are you suggesting I get out?” “That’s the trouble” she said “I can’t ask you to go frowning because you couldn’t leave if you tried” h “Oh yes I can" said Dirk ’Til show you” He turned quickly dropped one end of the bar on the great gate dragged it open only a foot and slipped through His cheeks burned He knew she was right with anger knew it better than she There was more than the combination of Dorado and the wrecked roadster to keep him from leaving His job— the job so carelessly tossed him and so blithely taken onl He hadn’t even nicked it all he had done was to stand around while it swelled from a toy balloon into a blimp But he was here and so was the job consequently here was where he would have to stay Joyce dashed 4 I after him "Don’t be a fool” she protested “This isn’t the time or angrily the place to show off” Dirk stopped and turned on her "Go back” he ordered “I’m not trying to show off and I’m not a child I admit you’re right on the rest of it You can’t throw me out and since my car is junk thanks to I can’t possibly your get away” “Then what are you doing?" asked Joyce bewildered “Why are we out here?” “I’m going to fetch my things" said Dirk sullenly “but your being out here is just a piece of nonsense” Abruptly Joyce became aware of She looked up and around Far to the east she caught sight of the pillar of dust this time moving away She led the way toward the bridge “I’ve been in lots of countries" Dirk grumbled as they walked “but this is the first where along everybody shoots before they ask who you are By the way did you know mine isn’t the only car parked the other side of the glorified ditch?"’ To her amazement she heard herself say: “No Where?” Why? Why had that lie sprung e to her lips? Her brain had had nothing to do with it it hadn’t had time Now she paused almost brought to a in her stride halt by memory of Pancho’s flivver So She had forgotten about it there had been a way after all to send Van Suttart packing They retrieved Dirk’s baggage and presently returned laden with duffle bag rifle coonskin coat cap watched Van and gloves Joyce Suttart with a curious expression as he replaced the bar on the great gate and then that of the zaguan Reluctantly she led the way across He the court and into the patio paused on its threshold and drew a long whistline breath Luz came hurrying toward them her dark eyes hard and questioning Joyce gave her a rapid order "You’ll have to talk faster than that for me to miss it” said Dirk “You told her to give me a room as far away from yours as possible” Bilence !’ r I — V’ Above Their Heads Arched the Low Heavens single window looked down upon the walled enclosure of an abandoned threshing floor It was comfortable rather than luxurious He shaved and washed but did not change then he found his way back to the balcony It was no place for a loafer Hugging the rail he slipped down the stairs intending to embark on a tour of discovery As he passed the door of what had once been Joyce’s playroom he heard a low whinny He entered and a moment later was passing knowing finacross the gers over the heads withers and down the legs of as fine a pair of hunters as he had Where there were ever handled such horses there must be gear He went out and walked along slowly trusting his nose more than his eyes No sooner did he emerge from the inner patio than the smell of leather led him to the tack room and what bridles a tack room! Harness spare bits and stirrups saddles of hand - made every description Two home made and imported English ones promptly caught his eye He lifted their flaps flexed the stirrup leathers and groaned A methodical search unearthed a half gallon of neat’ oil andan unWith a opened tin of saddle soap sigh of satisfaction he threw off his his sleeves and jacket rolled up went to work Oblivious of the passing hours he remained unaware of Joyce's approach She stood watching him with unbelieving eyes Here was no coxcomb but an expert who knew exactly what he was about "I’m sorry I called you names" “Eh? Oh it’s you When?” "You know that first day at the chancellery” "That was a long time ago" he said with a shake of his head as if to wake himself up “You’ve certainly been stepping since then" “It does seem long” admitted Joyce "but it’s only a week I’m curious How did you get here and why did you come?" "Official business” said Dirk "Instructions” “What instructions?” He dragged a flimsy from his hip pocket unfolded it and studied the penciled interlinings with a frown “I can’t read it all because it’s marked confidential but it says I’m instructed to locate you with all possible dispatch show every attention including provision of funds and guard without annoying you” While he spoke Joyce had drawn near With a sure movement a pull rather than a snatch she possessed herself of the paper and stepped back into the sunlight where she could read it at her ease "So" she exclaimed "I thought so! Prospective stepfathert What business is it of his? Why should he be giving you instructions?” The "Oh not Mr Blackadder Department of Stated 4'" Ruth Wyeth Spears Geoee Amv Cktabwbla WNU linrtM "That’s worse” said Joyce her you don’t ride how do you happen eyes flaring “On what grounds?” to have the jodhpurs?” Dirk thought desperately but fast "I bought them as soon as I knew What was the club Arnaldo had used I was coming to Mexico” said He remembered on Margarida? “You notice they haven’t Joyce "On the grounds you’re a minor” been worn” “We’ll soon fix that” said Dirk Joyce’s eyes traveled over him “I came to tell you and proceeded to hand out the ABCs thoughtfully lunch is ready” she said at last of equitation His patience matched her impa"While we’re eating I’ll decide whether to give you the run of the tience and finally conquered it place on parole or have you locked through sheer endurance He made mount and dismount a dozen her up” Neither of them smiled Her sin- times— reins stirrup pommel then she was all but excerity was so evident that what she spring When rode at a walk and said fell naturally on his ears and hausted they finally at a trot She looked longwas accepted at face value the toward ingly zaguan Lunch was not served in the formif it would “I wonder be safe” al dining room but in a much small“just for a little er apartment Dirk sat on Joyce’s she murmured rapidly to Tobalito right Don Jorge Maximiliano on her way?" She spoke “Go ask Leonardo if in Spanish left and they were served by a bareWe footed procession of servants equal there's any trouble in sight want to ride only as far as the in number to the variety of dishes One forgot Don Jorge was blind- so bridge” Tobalito departed at a run presneatly did he handle himself He talked in uncertain but precise Eng- ently emerged from the northeast bastion waved his hand and prolish with an Oxford accent inquirceeded to drop the bar on the zaging what posts Dirk had occupied and apparently trying to project uan A moment later she and Dirk himself backward into happy and passed through the outer gate and she put her pony into immediately distant scenes a canter True to her word they Silence fell Dirk reminded of rode only as far as the bridge and the hunters asked about them turned The- next instant she won"The last of a noble strain” said dered what had The happened Don “Dorado kept them Jorge between her knees pony close at hand but as things turned scrawny had made for the open gate as out not quite close enough He alone She though shot from a catapult rode them a daily profanation” did not go with him She landed Dirk turned to Joyce "Do you all sitting with a jar that shook mind if I tend to them? They need in head tooth her While she every grooming” was still stars Dirk was on “I’d love to have them looked his knees seeing her side at said after” Joyce “but what about “Hurt?” he asked your parole?” “Don’t be silly” she exclaimed “You have it I give you my word “Of course I’m hurt” I won’t try to escape until you say angrily “Where?” I can go— and perhaps not then” “None of your business” she an"Will you teach me to ride?” she swered scrambling to her feet bargained! She stalked before him In silence confiwith He spoke "Certainly” reached the gate they passed dence "ITI be ready to give you through the courts and the patio She disappeared and he was not to your first lesson in an hour” “I’m see her again until dinner time She rose from the table not sure I can make it but I’ll try Having bathed and dressed in his We dine in this room at half past one lounge suit he entered the dinseven” but ing room with some trepidation On his own responsibility he his fears were groundless since no moved the hunters into two box woman can change everything she One room tack the on has gtalls adjoining without changing her mood after the other he curried and He stared at her as if once more he groomed them until their hides were discovering the unknown so shone They nudged him violently different did she look in a fresh more than once expressing gratisummer frock like a splash of flowtude and hope Dirk examined their ers The meal finished the three of feet they had been freshly shod As them sat for an our of lazy talk a finishing touch he oiled their hoofs since on any hacienda time ceases and then had to make up his mind with the setting of the sun When which he would saddle first Among at last she rose Don Jorge lifted the campesinos about the stalls his face toward her was Tobalito a retainer Dirk ad“Shall I make the rounds chica dressed him or will you?” “What are their names?” he “I’ll do it” said Joyce asked “Perhaps you might show Mr “The bay is Tronido and the sor- Van Suttart” said the blind man rel they call Rayo” “Since he is now our friend he "Thunder and Thunderbolt” could relieve us of the duty” translated Dirk Joyce hesitated her eyes downtack bridle in the Mr room was cast “Very well Van SutEvery murderously equipped and it took tart will you come?” some time to discover a couple of Dirk followed her through tortudiscarded snaffle bits polish and ous passages up a spiral stairway substitute them Dirk undertook to and out on the esplanade of the recride the bay first He was prepared tangular roof At the four corners for trouble but somewhat to his dis- towered the bastions Beneath their appointment certainly to that of the feet were flat tiles so thick and so crowd there were no pyrotechnics deeply embedded they could have The animal recognized a master withstood a cannonade As far as and his only show of insubordination the eye could reach shimmered the was a quivering sidling toward the pale gold of the prairie broken only outer gate and freedom Dirk by the distant snowy pyre of the walked trotted and finally cantered Nevado de Toluca Above their him on a reach where the cobbles heads arched the low heavens bedded were in chaff He put his dangling the lantern of the moon mate through the same meager exand pierced by the myriad dots of ercise and found him equally silvery stars Beauty stopped them amenable and spirited nevertheless —stopped their breath when Joyce appeared upon the They faced each other with a scene there were no hunters in gasp A moment hung between sight In their place ready saddled them— a moment they must not with the same gear stood two lose It was something visible that had shape round translucent like a country ponies "What’s the idea?" she asked bubble— and like a bubble it broke and was gone Mind had triumphed flushing angrily “Now don’t be cross please" over dreaming “Come along we’ve got to visit begged Dirk “You wouldn’t expect to play a concerto at your first muthe four towers and it’s quite a sic lesson would you?" He looked walk” her up and down admiringly “If (TO BE CONTINUED) Chmchilla HCHPJ SEW Curtaining Your Front Door V’OUR front" door' greets your so that they do not blow about Is it and catch in the door when it is friends before you do Both bottom dressed to look its best? Here are opened and closed some 'simple rules that will be and top rods may be fastened over useful in selecting the material hooks es shown here at A should have homemaker curtainand style for front door Every a copy of Mrs Spears’ rew book ing Forty-eigChoose a fabric that looks well SEWING pages of directions for making on both sides and that harmonizes and dressing tables with the outside color of your door slipcovers for as well as with the' color scheme curtains every type of room of the hall or room into which it lampshades rugs ottomans and opens A simple net curtain mate- other useful articles for the home rial or plain silk are good to use Readers wishing a copy should but if your door is white on the send name and address enclosoutside think twice before you ing 25 cents (coins preferred) to choose the usual ecru or pongee Mrs Spears 210 South Desplaines color White net or silk of a St Chicago 111 color to match the shutters or the trim of the house will look infiniteRELIEF ly more attractive and will not be too conspicuous The curtains FOR THE MISERY OF may be made double with a different color on the inside if need be Pale yellow is another color that is always safe to use as it gives the effect of light shining through the door These curtains should be firmly anchored both top and bottom C0LDS Uncle fthil & I As Discipline Besides performing at least one deed every day each of us should perform one unusual disagreeable duty each day Some people won’t go into any kind of movement unless they are allowed to run things and generally they are permitted to Silence under oppression fosters s lot of rancorous malice A cheerful giver should cheerfully masquerade the giving Facts are of no account if you don’t reason from them Once the dictionary settled a dispute but now there are six dictionaries Give Us Action Rather a man who calls a spade a spade give us one who calls a pitchfork a pitchfork and uses it in a good cause If children were taught the national anthem in the public schools they could sing more than one verse of it when they grow np How did it happen that the dodo was so called when all the other fossils have names? 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