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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEW. UTAH Unicameral IpnTdi... 3,'aiurei Four states have . tr.ed l n. n r0 Conrrif ht by tha CHAPTER XIV Bubbe-Merril- cident. Continued You had to eiiect them, on fail. Men Job, SSiellentierger would not In? careful. Put Cynthia knew trotn the worried ...k on Spar rel'g face that It was more than that it Involved the law and a sheriff, and that was a sinister thiiiL' ii:te apart from Jesse and Tandy Morgan and Ulackstoiie. Shellenlierger found busl nefcs calling him dow n the nver; he was gone when Sheriff lla'itr came i jtithla beard the idieriff talking In low tones to Spurrel after dinner, standing on the porch In the cold. tilg 15 While tie was i.reteniliru; ti himself that evt-r- j tiling was all ri;;ht. It w Sparrel himself abruptly 1n the L!a ksmitti simp at the camp when It occurred. The men came dun from the wuhU with the touls to lie t. i n ji They were ruijgu laborer type of men. Whl'e liquor i a and red In heavy on thrir iue of their ejeg. The trouble between Ike Dallnw and Jack Oilier bad begun In roilj;ti humor "You're right, Sparrel. Weil clean when Ike said that Jack, bad it all up right now," lit- - faid. and months timber for three cutting "I think we ought to," Sparrel said. a iitlll didn't know which way tree "Well have Ike Hallow In Pikevllle wag going to fall and would have K" tomorrow. They picked hi in up down Ma fool Keif killed long ago If someYou tell what you know body didn't always imll tilm out of the at Peaver. way. The men, glud of words to break about the liquor, too, Sparrel, and the silence and Isolation, laughed; we'll get this cleaned up." "I'm sorry you had to mine here on their luugtitcr Inspired Ike to keep It up, elaborate It. and go on baiting 'his business, but there wasn't any Jack. Then Jack Caber lost the hu- way of getting out of It." mor of It, feeling himself In ridicule "Ion't worry about It, Sparrel. We'll out of the usual butt, am) just get It cleaned up now. How's ihowed resentment. Ike Ibillow couldn't Uoug Mason getting?" "He's up and around now, llatler, very well Mop without seeming to back down. So they carried on through the anil he's learning to do things again, drink they bad behind a pile of brush lie says he'll do the farm work In the and down to the shop. Spurrel tried spring " to quiet them, but they were too ex "It wuz a durn Minnie, Spurrel. cited now to listen to him. They grew Oidn't your girl have an eye for biniV" more boisterous, drawing others Into "I don't reckon so only Just as a the baiting. neighbor." "That's about enough now, Ike." "Well, she's to. fine a girl for any Jack Cuher said. cripple." Cynthia could not listen any more. "Listen to her little rat eared poodle," She ran to the kitchen and began to Ike nab). "Knough whatV" Then Jack lunged nt Ike and hit him scour the pots she had used to cook under the eye. Jack stumbled us he the dinner. "I couldn't ever have married you, Doug, not even If It hadn't ewiing, and was carried to bis knees happened. Why did you want me to, belpast Ike Iallow and against the and why did you go and do that, and lows by the forge. In the Hash of why don't you take Judy Wooton who blind anger, Ike seized a bns wanted and why does always swung it over his shouder, anJ before llatler talk about you, would it? Things Jack could recover his feet he brought drive n body plumb crazy if you didn't It down with crushing force on his , think about something else. Oh. neck and shoulders. Had the hook wherever you are In the woods, not caught In the bellows, the blow the place is different from when you would have slain Jack Cuher outright liked it so much. It's been so long. and Instantly. He crumpled with a April Is so far awny. Will you forget and his cry groan, bleeding head pushbow you said, 'I will come back'?" ing Into the soft leather of the bellows, On a gray winter mornlne Cynthia causing the smoldering forge to throw opened the gate for Sparrel and a op shower of sparks. watched him ride away on the Fine-tiiurIt was all too quick for anybody to to obey the summons. He smiled Intervene; the sudden Hash or the to her above his worry, and again at long smoldering antecedents. the orchard he turned, Ike Dallow stood for a moment with ond handsome, to wave to her. the ennt-hooIn his hand, bereft of "It's a sin and a shame that he takes the anger, bewildered by the unwilled It all so to heart. I'll try to make an act some part of him had leapt forth apple pie for him and have It hot the to perform. way Mother always did when he gets Then be dropped the bloody back tonight from his hard trip." stared In fright at the dying She was busy all day, weaving at man; then he got out of the shop and the loom, cleaning the house, making began to run up Pry Creek toward the lies, cooking dinner for Jasper, the woods. The other men gathtending to the milk, getting supper for ered around Spurrel who wis work- Jasper, Abral and the return of Spar ing over Jack Caher. He was un- rel. Then the Hotter of the hens in conscious, bleeding, but not quite the pear tree, the nervousness In the dead. They carried him into the bunk stalls and the barnyard ami ng the where Sparrel watched over him until mules, the sheep and the cows; and be died In the early morning. Abral the dark slid Into Wolfpen. Spurrel laid him out with the soiled came In from Dry Creek, hungry after blanket covering his face. Tired and his day In the open. worried, Sparrel tramped toward Wolf-peJasper sat quietly by the log fire through the last of the dark, looking into the Haines, wailing. thinking It over and over. "I felt It In The crust of the dried applei pies my bones, somehow, the way you know browned in crisp tlnkes, deep, stained something you don't want to know, with the Juice In the fork holes In the hope you won't have to know. Then, dough patterning ferns. CyntUla kept bang, and It's all done. No warning. them In the oven as long as possible, Sheriff llatler'll have to come now, and then set them on the ivnrming and a grand jury and all Sheriff shelf by the stove-pipe- . The special llatler never rode down this creek be- dinner for Sparrel was ready. fore In his life only as a neighbor "lie ought, to be back now," Abral How be has to come on a murder. said. Right on the Pattern land It was. Only "You can't always tell about getting I reckon It's not Pattern hind btit an early start back from the trials." Shelleuherger land. Never any dis- Jusiier said. grace on It before. I'd like to have "He might have to stay over," Abral Been It stay that way. There was Just said. "Let's eat. I'm hungry." H so reason in It happening. id blood "It's not like Daddy to say when breaking out, t was. Seems, like In he'll be back and then not be," Cynthe last year something's been at the thia said. heart of these hills, like It was sick or "He don't usually go In a law case giving up. Not jtast here on my place. either. You cant tell about them lawIt's the wb1eaiidjr Valley. Syyuiuped yers and a jury,". Jasper, said. with too many floating people I reckon, They waited still longer, end then coming tip the river ami loafing mound Cynthia at last took up the supper. "I the new mine towns and lumber camps, w ish he'd come," she said. sot Interested In the good of the land, Time going on while they ate, while making corn liquor and gambling, and Cynthia got the fresh pie with the things like this. warm wet between crisp hot "Never been so busy In all his life, crusts. "Thefillings best I ever baked." she Sheriff Uatler toldlne at I'Ikf. such a thought; "and as good nearly as Moth eight ot lawbreaklng going on In the er's and him not .here When they're Trouble right Just country here lately. right. 1 wish he'd come now. 1 there In I'lkesvllle, too, about ' the oan feel It making me touchy and jail, and that witness In the Harrison nervous." McClurg feud getting shot. Jesse's only "I reckon he's stayed over with been there a few months and ne seen Jesse," Jasper said, going out. comecases a sight of up. We've been "I'll keep things .warm for a while here about a century now. I feel kind Just to make sure," Cynthia said. of disgraced myself, like I was In it. Abral finished and went outside And I reckon I am, because I'll be Jasper. Cynthia lingered at following aummoned. The loggers and the moon the table, resting, waiting. Then Ahrn' ehlners will want to get It hushed over. came hounding back lntiKtln kKchen Better get lt,oUout in light "She's down at .the gate and, scared miw before It goes any furrnVr.-"- . Mea rabbit," he shouted. as tier ten"jE5.herlff Hatlw? and tHe ran to the kitchen with the Cynthia grand jury all about It and cluan It aii lamp. Is we This where to have live. away. "Who? Who, Abral!" We must keep this country .clean and "The Fliieiuare." he said, grabbing decent and a tit place where a 'man s his coaLfrom the peg h.vihariWr.1 can grandchildren grow., up gooj wen l. hurried In after Jasper with a pride like all their fo.it, before Is It, Jasper?" Cynthia cried "What them back to Saul and tne tinie'hw saw "Jasper! Tell me!- What Is It?" this land as a pi' nee for '"niun '1o was getting- the la,ntern,j.on Jasper live In." t niodlclne-tya.ni- , ar. ! hrt-utl- i "How do 1 kin.w ?" They were a! ready going through the door. Cyn a hi-e- good-nature- mrilc of fear ran a'ter t!em tl.ln in a iimI "Wait, .lasoer! too." "No, "YoU seized a Walt! the sfiiui limited yo.i're tint stay ri'.'lif here nnd look after r ha CHAPTER XV ' " Sparrel passed It over as lightly as possible with Cynthia, and Abral added Mining to It. It was just aajther ac ";1 very calm. :, t "f don't Voow he said." "'The Fine; mare's down there In a hot shiver. She's been running hard. The bridle's gone and the saddle's slipped." "Rut how would she get through the mill gate, Jasperl" te.th SLe Levied tu '"' ::i " u r Ail l'r"'j; !1 - Wa i v t t. !h..- Service Uei.Uu. thinking he a". at t:ie other end of was woi'die-- s before ..ne brief instant r joy. d..wii ret'ectheiy at her make sure he was moments of the !t ,.r ! - fare: Delaware. unt:l 177. I sylvania. until 1790; Gevrg 'a 1739, and Vermont, until 1236 braska's unicameral legis'atu' convened for the first time in J uary, this year. . g weeping, Rut she was cool and unhurried, and the 'an dress sandThey laid Sparrel among ltei.lieii saw at "lhe was clean and lresb. S.'ieit. stones on Cra!ietiel and under i.ti.-the that crowd of people was mi great that it she had grown months of tlie orrow tilled the house, the yard ami the and loveliness. She was ,n ibar.u-iebarn lot. All down Wolfpen as far as a woman and m t a child, but it was the mill those who felt themselves the woman the girl of the summer strangers stood in little groups paying had portended. respect to Sparrel Pattern. comThey looked at each other in Doug Ala sou tame as far as the without movement. and silence there aud sat plete oetid below the orchard, her on his mule, the hundless arm inrust Then Cynthia stepped through down to the porch, and transfiguration the eye and his sightless coat, into with his eyes turned aside, watching them hear Cyn- Reuben came to her toward thia's fattier up the path. The people suirdng. she felt herself swept from and grief. away him, the cried from wept. I.ucy and Jenny "Reuben !" house to the grave. Cynthia had wept was voice "Cynthia !" in the tight. Sparrels Then siie gave him her hand, bringstopped and his feet were f till, the medicine room was empty, the desk ing the moment back from this exalted to tne more familiar plane by the mantel was closed und the reach human beings meet In speech. iedger was ended. There could be no where "You know?" she said. more grief now, only the lonely aud I am sorry." "Yes, Cynthia. Mleht and fruitless ache of the days "How did you learn?" and the nights after the people wen-gon"It wis in the paper at home d.o away. 1 started as soon Cynthia felt through the first days before yesterday. I heard.'' as eased. not could sorrow te that this "I am glad you came, Reuben." She dreamed It at night, seeing her "1 wish 1 could have come sooner." lather not Sparrel and yet her lather were both the which Lucy had come in hastt to the among he stones stones at the upper lord and those on kitchen and then to the door. "Cyu-thi1 smell supper. . . . Oh!" Cranesnest Shelf. It came over bet In The beautiful moment of their meetthe daytime when, forgetting it for a ing was ended. time, she would feel a wondering for un Instant before there The coining of Keubeu seemed to burst upon her the full weight of the break into the fixed mood of solemnity sorrow. that bad settled over the house since And yet the grief did mysteriously Sparrel's death. Sometimes tit the suplose its sharpness under the compul- per, without forgetting the dead, they sion of daily living aud working, the almost recaptured the excitement of finality of the past event, and the the spring before. And after they had gradual reussertiou of young life. talked over in hushed words all the Jesse stayed on restlessly at the house story of the past weeks, it did not for a few days and then went back seem inappropriate to think of themto his law. Jenny stayed on for two selves and to mention other places. nights, crying, and then went back to The sun continued through the folIlorsepen Rranch. Abral went again lowing day, the warmth flowing down to Dry Creek where the first March the hollows. rains were Hooding the dam for driv"It begins to have a touch of spring," ing the logs. Jasper rode over to Reuben said. town with Jesse, and when he returned "You said you would come back in he mentioned that he was marrying the spring." Jane in a few weeks now. Lucy stayed "Yes. Let's walk a little way." on through the week, but Cynthia "L'p to the rock by the sycamore," could not determine whether It was sbo suggested. better or worse to have her in the They went by the desolate garden house talking. which had been full of Julia's flowers She would hide herself away from last July, and came to the stone where I.ucy and go over It all In her mind: they had first sat together. The sun the joy of the spring before Shellen-bergelay warm on the stone. The brown pods came, the foreboding when on the in the sycamore tree Sparrel sold the land, the wonder of wind at the end of jangled limbs yellowing Reuben Warren on that afternoon with barren of leaves. a compass on his arm, the slow and seems like she ought to be there sinister way the outside world had on"It the garden," Reuben said. pushed Into Dry Creek and then "You thought that, too?" Cynthia leached out for Doug Mason, for her 'hings till wp jet It was so Kiidileii and Imperative li lt lr baited her on the porch. "That mare's run three or fmir mile," he was s'ill shouting fn.ni the yard. "We'll get hack as soon as we can." Jasper fed f hf Flnemare n1 quieted her In the stall while Abral got the saddle mules, and then they rode fast down Wolfpen. Cynthia, alone watched the Jostling lantern disappear In the cold night. Then she turned and went bark through the yard to the square "Women nf light In the open door. always must sit and watt and suffer while the menfolk pet relief In doing something1." she sobbed nt the door. The house was deathly silnt. She lropped Into the ch.ilr by the smolder ing logs and began the long waiting. Time was no longer going on. It was waiting with her. Cynthia, yearning for It to move on. felt the hysteria of ..ne -! r.iu. hot, imrn.-d- win . corn-meal- spai-:,.u-- - -- I HIV - k Ab-n- i!i I laud.'' straight-shouldere- jsl tie,;, ai; l.Uh ! - e th.ear the ct.uir U'' '' sf!,'r ';!1:i;' l sayii.g. '!'not Hearing V. deli Jiav::.g i.in ii' cnwi bem ,,,m. kliixk.'l.g ili has head ir-- I'm ronilng Keu-ben- n h j.e cant-boo- ennt-hoo- VXl' It was too alone, waiting. ta'i-e- d cried. '" j J HARLAN HATCHER By Co. l Then Jack Lunged at Ike and Hit Him Under the Eye. being Imprisoned In an arrested moment which would not end. S!ie paced the floor, pushing against It. She put a log on the fire, watching It burn without exploding the stopped instant "How does a body live In of time. eternity?" She stood In the open door looking nt the mass of Cranesnest, a little blacker than the dark. She Im- r agined each possible accident that could happen, enacting it sharply In her mind, shuddering at it, dismissing It, creating another in its place. She filled the sputtering teakettle which had boiled dry In the motionless time of the waiting. It continued forthree hours. Cynthia felt that more hours had passed her by In this one lone evening than had gone through Wolfpen since April of a year ago. Then, when she thought she could abide It no longer without screamingnnd running after Jasper and Abral, Abral came out of the dark end of the moment wearily preceded by his voice muttering, "The yellow, stunip-squattldevils." "What Is It, Abral? Tell me what happened," she cried. Rut Abral was almost Incoherent. and she had to put It together piece by piece, disengaging the words of Abral from the thoughts worn deep Into her own mind by three hours of repetition: finding the bridle caught on the latch In the gate by the mili w here the Flnemare had got through ; the search up (iannon Creek road; , stopping at Castle's place and John "Sure, boys, I heard that hoss go by running fast and light footed, but I Just didn't think nny more about it;" searching up Gannon to Ferguson's aud tleorge suyiag, "I heard a horse go by earlier In the evening but I didn't pay no attention to t hardly. Was that Spairel's mare? It wouldn l hardly have throwed Sparrel": the growing body of men' searching on up the creek toward Stepstone. Among the great stones by the cliff at the upper ford where the bridle-trai- l branches off for I'ikev!:le, they found Sparrel pattern crumpled up In the sand. His boots still glistened with the wet front the ford. He lay on his rlpht shle bis loft leg bent. liN right band clutching at the small pebbles. Ills head was crushed and fallen on the sand, l.'mler the pale light of the lautgriw hoiie sand crystals cling: lug to the blood on his foreh";,u abovei the deni! eyes and In his hair. They carried him verlo Ferguson'.-place,.,rthe night. Jasp.r would Tlde.flver for Jesse and the girts tir daybreak. Sh tiBeuied tiot- to be IwnrlnifAbral'j words now, only looking at the tire tin seeing, feeling herself being cruslieo to death among the stones while lantern beam fell on the sand glii say-ing- jr stuy'-tjierefi- mother Julia, for the father Sparrel, for the old way of life Wolfpen had known so long. She thought of the brutal Irrevocability of the blunt stone on her father's skull in the hands of wicked men. And nothing to do about It except wait for Sheriff Hatler to find the murderer and kill him under Uie law while her father met the disNow they solution on Cranesnest. w'ere both gone aud Jasper would bring Jane Rurden to this place in Julia's stead. In Cynthia's stead. Surely it was all done now. She wondered whether Reuben were still out in the bills and where, and if he knew. And while she was yet wondering he came. It was bite afternoon on a warm day in March a week after the Erurial of Sparrel. There was a moist wind In the hollow with the breath of spring in it, and the sun almost ready to move the colorless days out of the hills, foreseeing April on its slow way up from the south. Cynthia was bending over a skillet with an Iron spoon In her hand when she heard the gate click. She laid the spoon on the back of the stove before she went to the door to see who It could be. She stood transformed In the doorway looking at him, not daring cried. "Yes. I have thought of this place often," he said. "I have not been here since," she said, "but 1 have thought myself here. Do you believe some places like this get to be a part of of what two people are to each other?" "Yes, Cynthia. This place will al ways be you and me." She looked full at him seriously for an instant, knowing by his voice and bis eyes that they were speaking the same language in the same world. She bad never before, even in her dreams of Lady Arabella and the pear tree, been more radiant, as thotign this" moment were the appointed one for the unfolding of the essential woman out of sorrow Into happiness. They were leaning against the stone, silent. He slipped his arm around her waist! She did not withhold herself, and she was half startled at the thought of her forwardness. He held her left hand in his, and with her right hand she brushed nt the moss on the stone. 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