Show THE GARLAND Flowers in Basket Attractive Chair Set AL STORY to TIIUS MARTHA ove OSTENSO— FAR Lovely Independent Autumn Dean returning home to British Columbia from abroad without her father' knowledge atopa at the home of Hector Cardigan an old family friend He tella her that the ahould not have come home that home at the "Castle of the Norns" she ts greeted things have changed Arriving father Jarvla Dean who gives her to understand that ahe la wellovingly by come— for a short visit Odell has Her mother former belle named Millicent been dead cannot understand her father'! attitude though for yeara Autumn She has grown tired of life In gives him to understand that she la home for good where she lived with an aunt Her father Ives a welcoming dance at the England of the castle man Autumn meets Florlan young dashing Date In the evening Autumn leaves the dance rides horseback to the countryside ranch where she meets Bruce Landor friend and champion of her neighboring childhood days He take her to see hia mother an Invalid Hla father la dead to have killed himself As soon as hla mother aeea Autumn she comthought mands Bruce to take her away that death follows In the wake of the Odells Autumn la both saddened and perplexed Bruce apologetic can offer no reason for hia Autumn mother's calls again on Hector Cardigan— thlf time to find out attitude the reason tor Mrs Landor's outburst From hla conversation elm Inferred that lief mother MeanGeoffrey Landor killed himself because he loved Millicent Dean while Bruce Landor rides to the spot where his father’s body was found years fore There he meets Autumn who leaving Hector was searching for a lost child Bruce had found the child and there Autumn and he talk of their families They agree that her mother and his father loved each other deeply — and that their love la the cause of present antagonism Florlan Parr at the Castle for dinner proposes to Autumn She refuses him The next day Autumn rides toward the Landor ranch She meets Bruce In a herder’s cabin Pgrr Pattern 6129 A basket crocheted in one piece — flower medallions repeated and joined with a few leaves added Sew them together to make this attractive chair set The medallions alone make a matching scarf Pattern 6429 contains instructions for set illustration of it and stitches materials needed To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in coins to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept 259 W 14th St New York N Y Please write your name address and pattern number plainly PftWtWf MlMfflftf MMt Jlsk Me knottier A General Quiz Q The Questions Has Brazil a state as large as Texas? 2 What makes wood decay? 3 Does the moon influence pendulum clocks? 4 How do waves on the Great Lakes compare with waves on the oceans? 5 Which is the longer coastline the Atlantic or Pacific? 6 How do our rivers compare with those of Europe? 7 How large is Death Valley? 8 Did Cortez Gomez or Pizarro conquer Peru? 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He ignored the proffered glass at first and Autumn seated herself on a chair in front of him and waited for him to speak while the silence seemed a grostesque din of the throbbing of her own heart When she could wait no longer she placed the glass at her father’s “Da — take lips and spoke softly this darling” Mechanically he took the glass into his own hand and without removing his eyes from their gaze upon vacancy he drained the liquor to the last drop Autumn took the glass from him and saw that his clenched hand relaxed upon the arm of the chair “Thank you my dear thank you" he said “Let us talk quietly— and slowly MARTHA OSTENSO WNU SERVICE her ) GARLAND By e THE TIMES She went and stood before it ruffling her hair with her hands “You’d better get out of those clothes” her father advised her "They’re wet” “Not really” she protested “I’ll I don’t dry out here in a minute want to hurry away to bed just yet It’s so cozy here” Jarvis seated himself before the fire “Where have you been?" he asked “I’ve covered half the countryside” she said smiling at him "I started out early and rode up the valley for a look at the sheep It’s the first time I’ve seen them like that in nearly ten years Daddy and it was lovely— in the sunset and—” “You had a lot to do” Jarvis said disgruntled "Now darling you’re not going to be cross with me for that” she coaxed “I’m in no mood for a scolding” “A lot of good it would do you anyhow” the Laird replied “Not a bit dear” She laughed at him then went and kissed him lightly on the cheek "But I don’t want I you to worry about me one bit don’t want to do anything to make you unhappy— and you know it" in his Jarvis stirred uneasily chair “You’re going to drive down to Kelowna tomorrow— to the Parrs’ aren’t you?” he said by way of changing the subject too?” she “Aren’t you coming asked him “There’s too much to do here” “Besides he told her what would I do spending two nights away from home when there’s no call for it? I like my own bed best” “I may not stay over Sunday “I’m not then” Autumn replied sure that I won’t be bored with it all —if the rest of them are like Florian” Jarvis smiled “You don’t care much for the boy?” “He’s all right darling — for what he is I’ve seen so much of his kind during the past few years that I’m not particularly thrilled any more by the species” “I can’t say I’m sorry for that” the Laird observed don’t “They amount to much” Autumn turned and gazed into the fire for a moment She kicked a stick into place and watched the sparks go trooping up “Autumn” he said “My darling the flue “The fact is Da” she said at Autumn!” Autumn slipped forward and was last “I came back to you to get all that It doesn’t mean in his arms and Bruce was kissing aaway from to anyone except those who her in a glowing dimness which arething seemed to have caught them both on cut out for it And I wasn’t cut I never that darling up from the surrounding shadows realized itpattern so much as I did tonight The rain drifted in gently over the when I stood and watched the sheep still depth of their kiss It was a moving me the made It valley up rain that left'a light glistening web as the devil” over their hair their eyes a young lonely so you stayed out all hours rain that spun them into one indis- in “And the rain just to cure yourself of tinguishable passion “I love you Bruce” Her voice a fit of the blues” he retorted “No” Autumi) replied softly “I was a stumbling whisper “Terri- didn’t do that exactly I knew you bly — so terribly” Her lips moved softly over his wouldn’t be home so I rode on over the Landor place and talked with eyes over the line of his brown toBruce a for while” cheek where a hollow came when She glanced at her father’s face he smiled and over his lips and throat Presently Bruce placed his to see what effect her words would hands strongly upon her shoulders have upon him He gave no outward sign of having heard her exand studied her face “Enough to stand by me against cept that his frame seemed to have them all?" he demanded gravely become rigid and one corner of his twitched nervously “It will not be easy darling — at mouth He spoke to her at last his eyes first” “I’m strong enough for anything — gazing steadily into the fire "I hope are not going to make a habit of Bruce” she replied you with you that” he said “Of what Daddy?” CHAPTER V “You know what I mean my girl f I don’t want you going around with The Laird was still up though it Bruce Landor” his an hour usual past was already “Have you anything against He had come back from bedtime Bruce?” she asked abruptly town and had gone to his study to "Damn it all” Jarvis burst forth wait for Autumn’s return When he “must I be by my finally heard the door open dowown daughter? Or isn’t it enough The dead nstairs he was startled I should give my opinion and stillness of the house and the sleepy that it to look He have patter of light rain had drugged his leaned forward in respected?" his chair and senses so that any sudden sound Placed hs hands heavily upon the would have disquieted him But as Tt s time Preparing to rise he got up and went to the door of arms’ ed' et s have no we were ln the study his heart throbbed so that more ° llls tonight he pressed his hand to his side and not move Autumn did She stared his breath ceught moment Autumn was at the at her father' aware that she was In a becoming angry She clenched her head of the stairs to strove and her control fingers Da!’’ exclaimed she “I “Why thought you would have gone to bed voice “Da” she said “I am not trying long ago You haven’t been worried to you— and I respect bout me have you?” “I had be- - your opinion more than the opinion ‘It's late” he said - But when any other man alive gun TO wonder what had happened”' I ask what I'm you you have against “Oh darling” she said I naturally want to know” coming into the study and throwing Bruce When he lifted his face after what eff her jacket “But I’m glad you're The fire feels good" eemed to her an intolerable mterup val it was the face of a man grown incredibly old and worn He passed his hand across his brows and she could see that he was making an heroic attempt to speak Jarvis subsided into his chair “I have nothing against the boy" he said at last “But you know as well as I do that there are reasons why I do not want you to go around with him” “I know what you have in mind Da” Autumn replied "I have it too— and I’ve thought about talked to Bruce libout it Bruce cannot be held responsible for the fact that his father took his own life— and I think it a little unfair that any stigma should — ” “Will you stop this talk!” her fa- ther commanded suddenly All Autumn’s resoluteness surged up within her “If you insist Da” she said levelly “I should prefer to talk everything over with you but if I must order my life without com” — ing to you “Do you know that your mother and Geoffrey Landor were in love with each other?” His face was blanched as marble and even his eyes seemed to have gohe white with fury “I do Daddy" she said in an even tone “And I know that Geoffrey Landor probably shot himself be- - “Must I be by my own daughter?" cause of the hopelessness of that love Bruce and I talked about it tonight” "You talked with him— about that?” “We had to Da” she told him "Bruce and I are in love simply I’m going to marry him” The Laird had risen slowly from his chair like some tremendous iceberg lifting its appalling shoulders above the frozen waters of the sea “God in heaven!” he muttered and then completely and without warning he crumpled back into his chair his chin fallen forward on his breast his gaunt frame heaving cqnvulsive- ly- Autumn flew to him Kneeling on the floor she threw her arms about him “Da — for pity's sake what is it?” shp pleaded clinging to him He lifted one hand and placed it His tremblingly upon her hair lips shook as he tried to speak but the words would not come me Autumn “Tell darling” "What is it?” urged He swallowed as though he would strangle and shook his head "You —you can’t marry him” he said thickly and then his voice sank almost to a whisper “Geoffrey Landor — did not take his own life” Autumn fell away from him but her eyes were fixed upon him still as though in some terrible enchantment Realization came upon her in agony “Da — tell me — did you— do you mean that you killed Geoffrey Landor?” Her voice had been the merest whisper coming remotely from her stiff lips The old man’s eyes became terribly revealed as though solne power had gone beyond his body and murdered his very soul They were suddenly stark and desolate beyond any need of words The brief interval that passed before Autumn heard her father's voice again seemed to encompass an aeon of torture She sat facing him her hands tightly clenched sat hoping waiting against eternity against hope for words from him that would dispel the horror that had descended upon her She saw his lips drawn back in a livid grimace against his teeth as though the thing he must tell were too cruej for utterance too erne! te be transmitted from his own mind into the awful silence of that room Summoning her last reserve of courage she leaned toward him and took his hands gently into her own "Tell me about it Da” she said scarcely above a whisper Her touch seemed to restore the life that had all but ebbed from his Da" Autumn said “I shall " - She heard herself speaking as the words were coming though her from someone else through someone who had fortitude beyond fortitude a stoicism she had never known His eyes rested upon her in a He seemed to brooding gentleness be contemplating her she thought with a qualm from beyond death took a cushion She rose quickly which she placed on the floor at his feet and seated herself with her head against his knees So they sat looking into the flames that licked at the great logs of the fireplace unfolded while Jarvis the tragic past sometimes stroking Autumn’s hair sometimes letting his hand idleness fall in absent upon her shoulder as though he were communing with himself and had quite forgotten her presence She did not interrupt him while he talked but sat gazing fixedly into the fire It seemed to her as if each detail of his story were fantastically visible there "Your mother was a siren and aa angel Autumn” he said “ — as her mother had been in her time Your grandmother’s hunt breakfasts were the talk of the Okanagan — she had sent to England in the early days for hounds and hunters and brought them all the way ’round the Horn Her daughter Millicent was even You than she Was more lovely must know this if you are to understand what I am to tell you about — your mother and if you are to judge her kindly” He paused and into the monotony of his voice came a break “Every man who met your moth er Autumn fell in love with her” he went on “It was so before our marriage — and it was so after our marriage I never found that hard to understand — I had fallen in love with her myself Nor was it hard for me to understand how she came to fall back somewhat into her ways of coquetry after we had been married for a few years Men would not leave her alone They could not it seemed She loved me— I have never doubted that But I was many years older than she and she loved life and youth and gayety I was too set in my ways perhaps” He Autumn patted his knee affectionately without speak ing “There was nothing serious in any of these — these ‘affairs’ as she called them — and she always tired of her admirers as soon as the novelty wore off and as soon as they began to girow serious It was an innocent sort of vanity with her which she indulged quite openly She loved the admiration of men but she loved even more to let the world about her see that she was She would admired have being found no pleasure in any sneaking love affair that was carried on where others might not see” He paused while the clock on the mantel struck the hour It was midnight “Not lon after you were born" he continued Landor “Geoffrey came here from the Old Country and the ranch that lay next to bought We had been boys together mine in England He was younger than who had I — a sort of married a woman of his own age who thought she might make someof him I She think had writthing ten to me and it was on my advice that they left England and came here to settle I was as anxious to bring him around as if I'd been his brother” One of the great logs broke softly two the sparks cascading into the glowing embers “Geoffrey was restless and reckless and full of charm Millicent fell in love with him— and he with her It was a new kind of love for her but I mistook it for another of her brief infatuations I knew it was different when it dawned on me that she never made anything of him when they were in public Discretion — that was new in And then one day she Millicent in luid had wco that Geoffrey her heart” '10 BE COV77U£D For Further Use McTavish called at the head ofof his bank and asked to see fice the general “Have you manager a card asked sir?’’ he “Aye I have that” Tavish “but first let yer hands are clean” was replied Mcme see if "Do women ever listen to any' Watch thing?” asks "Husband talks them — when money Easy Task " Father seas very pleased lehen told him fou were a poet" "On I' m glad to hear that "Yes thm last oj my boys ha tried to throw out teas an amateur boxer” mtaous pop mu rj iTTvnr T77iffiHTur7''ggd:- A Day Lost The most completely lost of all! 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