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Show THE HELPER JOURNAL, HELPER, UTAH 7Ae IM f Cohere f . Antoinette Peyton, senior at the university of Marland, resents. Thayer's attentions to Ivy Welch, seventeen-year-ol- d coed, and there Is a stormy scene, the tension Max Vernon, anbeing Increased by other student, reproaching Ivy (or "breaking a date" with him. Thayer and Vernon threaten each other. Larry Welch, Ivy's brother, professor at the university, Is appealed to by Tony to end his sister's friendship with Thayer. Welch and Tony Peyton are In love. Welch does not see what he can do. Tony then tells him she Is married to Thayer, but Is his wife only In name. Larry determines to see Thayer and end his association with Ivy. Tony him to wait until she has appealed to her husband. She does so, visiting him In his room at a fraternity bouse. Pat-ers- Continued 5 "There's something funny. . . . And I think the more we say nothing the less we'll get mised up in CHAPTER 111 a scandal" There was a sound of feet on the stairway inside the fraternity bouse. The boys looked toward the door in time to see Max Vernon come out. His manner still puzzled them. The moonlike face was sternly set, giving It a somewhat grotesque appearance of futile anger; he was moving with short, quick strides across the veranda. He was wearing a different suit from the one which had adorned his figure a half hour since and he seemed even more engrossed with thoughts of no highly pleasant na- ture. He descended to the walk without so much as a glance at Farnura and Gleason. They noticed that tinder his arm he carried a sizable bundle. They saw him reach his car and pitch the bundle Into the tonneau. Then, with more speed than grace, Vernon jumped behind vtlre wheel, kicked the starter, clashed his gears savagely and Jerked into r the road. "Something's puzzling me," remarked Rube slowly. "What?" "Which is the most remarkable phenomenon: Tony Peyton's visit to Pat Thayer's room, or Max Vernon's wild-eye- d fury. I ask you, Phil which?" Gleason gave a prompt and explicit answer. he said tersely. . CHAPTER " IV emerged from the dormitory and confronted her brother. Larry, gazing at her with affection, found It difficult to reconcile himself to the idea that any affair of the heart in which Ivy was con cerned was to be taken seriously. Hut her first words sounded the alarm. "I know exactly why you've come, Larry. It's to tell me I've got to quit Pat Thayer. The answer Is that I won't do It" The tolerant smile died on his lips, and he frowned slightly. "Why, Ivy?" "Because I love him. And I guess I'm old enough to know my own mind." "Not about a man like Thayer. WELCH IVY Sis." She stamped her tiny foot "Tony Peyton has been talking to you. hasn't she? She's been filling you full of poison. She's Jealous, thnt'a all." he answered soberly, "she's not Jealous." "How do you know?" "I know It" "Humph!" Ivy spoke with the superiority of womanly Intuition. guess she's got the wool pulled over your eyes, too. I guess I could see that she was Jealoi.s when she caught us In the Bower. I mean I could tell by every single word she "No-o,- " ""1 said." "She Isn't Jealous, Ivy. 1 feel confident of that." "Yes; because you're crazy about her that'8 why. You take my advice. Bud, and lay off her. She's playing you off against Pat 1 guess I understand this better than yon d." "No. You've got to quit, Thayer." Her lips pressed tightly together "Since when did you start telling me what I must do?" "It's for your own good." OU, yes bemuse a Jealous worn an wants the man who's crazy about me; Hint's why. And because she's Honest, I never got you fooled. would have thought Tony Peyton could be so small and mean." "She Isn't that. Sis; believe me, I know wjiat I'm talking about. She told me a good deal " . "About this afternoon?" "About other things." five-minu- MYSTERY Octavus Rom SYNOPSIS , MAY DAY "What?" De hesitated. "I'm not to say." at liberty "No. Certainly yoa aren't I'm ashamed of you, Bud. You're not playing fair. I guess if It's so important that I keep away from Pat Thayer it's important enough for you to tell me what you know." "1 promised Tony" "Naturally, she'd make you promise; because most likely whatever she sild Isn't so." "That Isn't very nice, Sis." "And is it nice for you to come knocking Pat Thayer when yon know I'm crazy about him? Is it?" He tried to be fair. "I guess it sounds pretty bad," he confessed. "But you know I'm honest Sis and what I'm telling you Isn't guesswork. It isn't based on rumor. Thayer isn't any man for you. And I don't want you going with him any more. You must lay off him." "1 don't have to do what you say. I guess if you weren't at this college I'd do what I want And I'm not going to fool you, Bud. I'll be with Pat as much as he wants me to, and I guess that'll be a good little bit" "Even If I ask you not to?" "Even then. Now listen " She stepped close and put her hand on his sleeve. "I know you mean well, Bud, but you're all wet on this. Pat is a swell fellow. And he's crazy about me " "Not that bird I" "Stop 1" Unconsciously, she became quite melodramatic. "I'm not going to let even you talk about Pat that way." "No-o- ? rotten. "Oh. Isn't I guess If I know ..." That Isn't fair, Larry. fraternity house and turned In at Phi Tau Theta, "Pat Thayer in?" he asked. "Yeh . . . upstairs." Then, when he had entered the house, they looked at one another The affair was too bewllderedly. puzzling for mere conversation. Occasionally one would shake his head, but speech was not necessary. Each knew that the other was thinking In circles. "I'll say this much," commented Gleason after a silence: "Pat Thayer has sure gotten popular with a mixed crowd." "Yeh . . agreed Rube. "Or unpopular 1" For five minutes more nothing happened. Then, at ten minutes past two o'clock, Larry Welch appeared In the doorway. He crossed the veranda with quick steps and descended to the walk in a single Jump. The two boys stared after him, then directed their gazes toward each other. "Happy lad," commented Gleason. "He looked almost scared." "Ain't It the truth? You reckon" "I don't reckon anything. All I know Is I'd bate to" have Larry Welch get as sore at me as he seems to be at somebody right now. I never knew that bird could get real angry." At fifteen minutes after two o'clock . . . almost before the mellow chimes of the quarter hour had died out from the tower of Old Main . . . something happened: something eeriely terrible, something which Jarred the two students to their feet and caused cold sweat to break out on their foreheads. From upstairs In the fraternity house there came a wild shriek; an Inhuman howl. There was an instant's pause and then the bowl was repeated and there was a sound of feet running heavily down the stairway, and on the summer air certain words came to the startled ears of the two boys. "Oh I G d . . . oh, my G d 1" he's It A human figure catapulted onto the veranda; a disheveled, wild eyed figure which was making passionate gestures and struggling futilely to say something. They recognized him Instantly: Mike Carmicino, Janitor of the fra ternity house. He grabbed Farnum's arm. He tried to talk, but no words came; only the gibberish of terror. Farnum grabbed Carmicino by the shoulder and glared at him. "What's the matter?" he asked s all the yellhoarsely. ing about?" Carmicino gestured wildly toward the Interior of the house. "Meester Thayer 1" he croaked "Meester Thnyer!" "What about him?" "Wh-what'- You're being nasty about Pat and you don't know anything. Well, I guess he's told me all the bad things about himself that anyone else knows, and I love him. I'm going to keep on going with him, and I won't have you Interfering. I Carmicino covered his eyes with shall positively stick with Pat. Now his hands. are you going to leave us alone?" "He Is dead !" he groaned. "Some- "No," he said honestly, "I'm not." "I warn you. Bud you'd better." His eyes narrowed. "What do you mean: I'd better?" "I mean this," she said slowly. "If you try to keep Pat Thayer and me apart I'll marry himl" "You'll what?" "I'll marry him." "But but you can't" "Because you say so?" He cursed himself. He wished he hadn't told Tony that he'd keep her secret "You you Just can't that's all," he said lamely. "Well see." She was aflame with indignation : "I'm going to ask him myself if he'll marry me I And don't think I don't mean that Bud because I dol" He stared at her for a minute. She was his sister and he knew that she was serious. He sensed the futility of further argument and turned away abruptly. She jumped in front of him, her eyes blazing. "Where are you going, Larry?" His face was more grim and forbidding than she had ever seen It "1 can't hammer any sense into your head. Ivy so Via going to see Pat Thayer." "Oh . , . you wouldn't dare! You'll be starting something I" She was trembling violently and her face was pale with anger. "I warn you, Larry you'll be starting something." He moved away. "You're darn right I will," he said sharply. She stood like a little statue as he strode off down the path which led through the glen and so up the bill opposite. He tried to think clearly; tried to rid himself of the prejudice which must necessarily arise be cause Tony Peyton was the other woman in the case. One thing was clear to him In thnt moment of worry ; he must see Thayer Imme diately. There must be a show down. He couldn't handle Ivy. but his teeth clenched as he reflected upon the fact thnt he could mighty well handle Pat Thnyer. an Actually, Larry experienced exultation at the prospect that Thayer might not be easy to handle. Ivy had roused him more than he knew. He wn? boiling Internally, and he wanted a vent for his over "1 cannot breathe, I cannot move. I an) scared." "You you mean somebody really How I Broke Into FIRST U. S. COLN SHILLING OF 1632 The Movies Copyright by Melted Candlesticks Used to HalC. Herman Make Silver Piece. gesture. grabbed you?" "No!" Mike's eyes rolled with terror at the very thought "I mean I feel as bad like somebody does that I am scared. I am frightened. And I run downstairs." Gleason looked up. "We'd better 'phone the police. Rube. If we don't call the cops we'll get ourselves mixed up In this. And I guess we'd better 'phone the dean, too." Gleason walked unsteadily into the fraternity house and called the Marland police station. Then he telephoned to the dean and returned to the porch. It was a ghastly thing made even more grisly by the perfect day ; the sensuous, breezes of first summer; the carefree, 6trollIng groups of students; laughter and Jollity and careless youth. And upstairs the body of a young man lying dead. Murdered. It wasn't believable. The two young men were appalled by their own knowledge of surrounding circumstances. There was so much they knew which might prove damnflower-scente- d By BEN LYON BROKE Into the movies twice, so there shall be two answers to this apparently popular question, First of all, I became a veritable "movie nut" from the very first time I saw a picture. I was Just a little more than an infant but I kept my mother and dad in a frenzy always wanting to go to the "pitchers." Even when they refused I cajoled my brother or two sisters I into taking me. This seeming mania for "seeing" the pictures slowly but surely developed into a desire to take part in them and by the time most boys of my acquaintance were deter- On May 2G, 1GT2, John Hull minted the first piece of silver for use in the American colonies. Feeling the need of a satisfying medium of exchange, the Boston colonists induced the legislature to enact a statute permitting the coinage of money in the colony. John Hull, a Boston householder, offered to erect a building at his expense on his own land to be used as a mint. His proposition was accepted and he was made master of the mint As compensation he was to receive one shilling for every twenty that he minted for the colony. So, out near the barn on his propshack. 10 erty, he built a feet wide and 16 feet long. And here in this unpalnted building was minted the first shilling in the Colonies. The event was marked by an He absolute absence of ceremony. went about the task In the same that he would have approached the task of mouldone-roo- mined to become policemen, firemen, or railroad engineers, my ambition, secretly nutured when the family was around, was to become ing. A small car Jerked to a halt in a movie actor. When I became fifteen years old, front of the fraternity house and two men alighted. One of them was It was decided to send me from our ing candles. Using an English shilling as a tall and broad and wore the uni- home In Baltimore to New York form of the Marland police force. where my education was to be com- model, this first minting of a few silver pieces was a day's job, Hull The other, wearing civilian clothes, pleted. This decision on the part of the and a friend melted up some silver was short and squat oven built of field Students strolling on the Row or family met with my hearty approv- candlesticks in an stones. It required a long time to litI were a folks al and the guess fraterlounging on the verandas of get the oven hot enough with the nity houses, stared with sudden in tle surprised at my apparent thirst Howterest at Psi Tau Theta. There was for knowledge. However, it cheered wood they were using as fuel. in the afternoon the two a general movement In the direction them to know that I was going to ever, late men were ready to pour the molten of the bouse. A young man from be a studious youth, but they little silver Into fiat moulds. Lambda Beta PI addressed the uni- suspected that deep down in my At this point Mrs. Hull appeared formed policeman who stood on the heart was a nefarious plan. on the scene to persuade them to a movie was bit of center the Quite lawn of Psi Tau Theta. still In New York that is, the stu-dl"What's wrong, officer?" and I was leaving home with The cop answered tersely. no desire whatever, except to "get 1" "Murder "Good G d. , . . You don't in pictures." Luck was with me for I had not . mean. in New York two days when been felmean "I don't nothln', young ler. Somebody's been murdered In I saw my first opportunity In a yonder and nobody's to go in or git out. That's all." The startled young man told his companion. The news sped from lip to lip. Who was It? No, not Rube ' -- ' "t Farnum : he had been seen on the Then somebody mentioned porch. ' Pat Thayer. Many persons men4 No one knew tioned Pat Thayer. where the nimor started, but Thay" er's name was on every lip. The VA, , policeman on the lawn allowed nobody to approach within hearing distance of the group on the veranda; the militant positive figure of John Reagan, chief of the Marland plainclothes force; Mike Carmicino, the janitor, petrified with fear and trembling violently; Rube Farnum. tall Hnd limp and frightened; Phil Gleason, reduced from his customary alertness to the shriveled miniature of his usual positive self. Reagan was questioning Farnum. Rube was struggling to be fair and honest; to remember things and E years old, and still FIFTY-FIVyet to avoid Injustice to anyone. strong! Ben Lyon. He was absolutely and abysmally Do you want the secret of such miserable. sign outside the old Famous PlayIt isn't what you eat, or vitality? Then there emerged from the ers studio "Extras Wanted." I any tonic you take. It's something Main building a tall and dignified walked In and went right to work. anyone can do something you can start today and see results in a man before whom a path opened in A tough problem loomed on my week! AH you do is give your vital the throng of students. Whitman financial horizon before long as a organs the right stimulant. in were of turned Marland. dean lot of being Boyd, opportunities A famous doctor discovered the no house tuxedo before the tragic fraternity missed because I had way to stimulate a sluggish system and was promptly stopped by the and to write home for the necesto new energy. It brings fresh vigor sary funds wherewith to purchase policeman on duty. fo ever organ. Being a physician's in a would have one resulted lot of for the "No further you," snapped prescription, it's quite harmless. officer. Tell your druggist you want a bottle conjecture as to how, when and of Dr. Caldwell's syrup pepsin. Get dress Dean Boyd spoke quietly. why formal or the benefit of its fresh laxative was required at school, "Are you in charge. Officer?" herbs, active senna, and that pure I finally hired one for three dol"No. That'll be John Reagan yonpepsin. Get that lazy liver to work, der." And he gestured toward the lars a day, but since my dally check those stagnant bowels into action. was only five dollars and carfare veranda. Get rid of waste matter that is slow considto be lunch I had and "Will you ask him if money may speak to him? I'm dean of the col- ered It wasn't long before this prolege and I'd like to find out what cedure became a financial fizzle. The customary hunt of the extra hns happened." The policeman called out to Rea- for work went on for two years "This guj Is the big boss. with little or no progress, so in 'Newest Hotel gan. something akin to disgust I went on Chief. Can he come up?" I toured the United States Rengan'g keen eyes surveyed the the stage. In repertoire and stock, an experidean. He Jerked his head affirmaence which has furnished Immeastively. urable aid In learning poise, expres'' . TT 11 I i "Let him through." rt! 3 The dean mounted the veranda sion and best of all a background. Then came the goal of all stock steps, his arrival sending a glow of Broadway and a good part thanksgiving through the breasts of playersi Rube Farming and Phil Gleason. He with Jeanne Eagles In "Three Live Ghosts" to be followed by "Mary spoke directly to Reagan. the Third" In which fate took a Is Whitman name he "My Boyd," hand. "1 said quietly. understand thnt Samuel Goldwyn, after attending someone has been killed." a performance, sought an Interview "Murdered. Young feller named and in my dressing room said, "My Thnyer." I think you would make a great boy, G "Good dl Then it's true I success In the movies." heard the students gossiping." I told him I had thought so my"You've heard nothing else?" self but hadn't had much lack. I "No. That's why came. To find He hustled me off to Hollywood 200 Tile Baths 200 Rooms out." where his company was making Radio connection in every room. "Well he's dead all right enough. "Potash and Perlmutter" and I Stabbed In the throat Taln't pleasRATES FROM $1.50 found myself once more before the ant up In thnt room." camera but not for five dollars a Just oppotttt Mormon Tabtmacie The dean shook his head. day. From the Juvenile lead In that ERNEST C. ROSSITER. Mgr. "What do you wish done, Mr. Rea- picture, I went to an Important role gan?" In "Flaming Youth" and then a five-ye"Just exactly nothing," said the contract with the First Na- HIGHEST CASH for several cardetective crisply. "Right now I'm tional company. I worked In "Hell's loads Draft Horses PRICES and Mules. How man? caa ship Chariton, la. Fr4 quick? yoa Chandler, a gonna 'phone headquarters for Angels." A big air picture which couple more harness bulls to po- has made me a real nut about flylice the grounds. Nobody's to come ing. In here and no one's to lenve. These So my early childhood hunch three fellers ain't to move from wasn't so far from being right at where they are." that It hns made me somewhat of "You mean," Gleason, a fatalist, this experience; proving gnsped "that we're nnder arrest?' to me that even after you think the TV John Rengan grinned broadly "breaks" have gone against you, it your bladder is irritated, ci tber "Not yet yon ain't, young feller (1 or too because aei I, t your urine is may only be that you have expectE8 because of inflammation, just try But don't get Impatient." ed them too soon. BB 1 MEDAL COLD CONTINUED.) (TO And with the "breaks" one all IT HAARLEM OIL CAPSULES finds hard work waiting right ElTbis fine, old preparation has been tt ways Name Greenland's around the corner to take you on fn ed for this purpose for 237 years. Greenlniif' was discovered by rond to success. Norsemen about (UK) A. P. It Is a the th best proof that it works. But l name Greenland irnditlon thnt the be sure you get gold medal. Ac-Not a TomperT Why S ccpt no substitute 35L wns given to It by Eric the Red In g The topepo Is a new vegetable, a j iSfl. for the purpose of nttractlnc a tomato and a pepbetween cross at Iceland from the by Imtnlgrn.its per. But wby didn't they call it i name. of matter-of-fact-wa- murdered Meester Thayer 1" Over the bowed head of the babbling, crouching, shaken, sobbing janitor, the two fraternity brothers faced each other. Their eyes were distended with horror as they struggled to comprehend the message which Mike Carmicino brought to them. They led the janitor to a chair, where he bent forward, his squat, muscular body racked with dry sobs. The boys were badly shaken, but at least they tried to think clearly, and Farnum's voice, when he questioned the Janitor, was body almobt steady. "You say Mr. Thayer ip dead?" Carmicino shuddered. "Sl-si- , He is quite comsignore. pletely murdered. He Is on the floor of hees room. There Is much blood. He does not breathe. Hees heart It does not bent. I am quite sure he is dead." "Good Lord. , . . How did you find him?" "1 see the door of Meester Thayer's room Is not entirely shut 1 look in and I see one foot and one I theenk that Is leg on the floor. very funny that Meester Thayer should lie on the floor and not move. wrought feelings. Perhaps he Is drunk. So I think I Rube Farnum and Phil Gleason will put him on the bed and shut wtre still lounging on the veranda i he door so nobody will know he Is of the Psl Tau Theta house. It was drunk. I go In the room and then I see the blood and and and " P.ube who saw Iarry :irst. "And what?" "And now another" he drawled. "1 stand there for a minute. Two "Here comes Larry Welch looking I do not understand that like someone had socked him be minutes. low the belt. If precedent means Meester Thnyer what is so kind t anything he's coming straight here." me have come to a snd endlnp But even Farnum did not take his Then' I see he is (lend and some He own words seriously, and so his Jaw thing grab me right here" dropped as Larry pnssod his own touched his throat with a dramatic trnctlveness Into being. When Seasons Begin The dates of the equinoxes that Is, the dates of the sun's crossing of the equator are approximately March 21 and September 22. The dates of the solstices when the sun Is farthest, north or south, from the equator are approximately June 21 and December 21. These positions of the sun are considered to mark the boundaries between the seasons. The time varies a little from year to year, and the season may begin a day earlier or later than the dates given. This year spring begins March 20 at 8:43 a. m., eastern standard time. Summer will begin at 4:12 p. m., June 21; autumn at 7:01 p. m., September 23; and winter at 1 :5S p. m. 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