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Show THE LEW SUN, LEW, UTAH ii ii M M fj tm jrnri tar isiw ta it is K V a.- ,! Yt 'Z IN THERESE 3MI SERVICE COPY RIGHT THe fO$-M6PHlU COMPANY CHAPTER XIV -16- . i.. twuran as all days KS LoTe'yIea- Every one H u prv chatty to . . nrovinns eve- teiffairoi w -- ' loud In his praise of the j ie food. Kissurance ui delicious meal at . sua"; . Iipv were to Ue'mail arrived, interrupt- jur discussion oi una " -subject ana as it. came to her side, at that the top envelope of ,'ijtad ben forwarded from . ..i .a ariilressed in 5Cri uu " S', unmistakable handwrit- Lcteditnpwith an exclaraa- j( pleasure now sue wntPnL No alien would I i la beloved home. Rlp- SopMaf! drewcui uie cuu- m hpld was short and 5 to lie there disregarded ;4eread: a M Smif: On thinking It i tod nre it is eeneroslty k that has urged you on to buy Mnkr. Anyhow. I don't ap- e el your living there alone, met It as 1 nave, u was a nian snd I was a fool to en- ije it Tve sold Lovelylea for d fat fesre. so It's over and Lriti for both of us. I'll have jkMi to play polo like a genial gen-ial Perhaps some day I'll come fa with i Chileno team to show York the same-" here was i little more but she got read it sitting for a mo lt nit she had turned to bronze. Ira she mechanically accepted the I oi jeuow paper inai uaiy naa led op from the floor and pre- :ed to her. iaj i check for the amount J, it his request, she had ad- 4 to Bill-Lee. to be applied on I debase price of the planta- legally, should she refuse to H it, she might be able to en- Jb her dalm-at the cost of In- anj the world that her brother broken faith. That she would w do. Her decision was made the Instant i'ith i murmur of letters to write the party set out, she rose left the room. a was occupied with Paddy !i Sasan Was watrhlnc hor fiter'i happy expression with f w wrstanding. Her Charlie Mi w net romantic figure, but 1 " mmed him for love not aMy. Most of the others were to f0ll0W Stone's finsrpr ns ced their route of the day on He had spread on the table, f,,' ne saw Smif s face - " as If to accompany p- m Dack in her chair, u, inrrusioa There was 'Mil her mind thnf Cmlf V.n . li uau ,fl 1 WOW Of Rnma . pression was confirmed a af when one of the maids ,w message that Miss I 'wn; auu was ly- ,would not a"empt tBe necessary JH explanations to Mrs. t'taa bothgon I ednl tv. , ?' "Heirvv, Spoke dePrecat- hSw better if one v I had one once, so I Krtheway ... ne uooa- Hroa"hecon- l don't ie SmT. 7 eni 6y" l S !d.oor knocked . km j - ai(I be done d.r.lr0 Passionatelj She ed ft! T,e.,t,e her fte fj. r on,1 hav 3 u w an? 9 . , m la f .ran cheerily "a herself wea la d i fl ion,; .laMy " 4B nir, ""QS mani- Jf.r " nL Mite prevarl- cation. It's something Inside me that's dropped a stitch. I know the Box Hall cook and I feel that discretion Is the better part of valor for the present, so I'm going to stay here," she had been about to say "home" only stopping herself In time, Lovelylea was home no longer. Not when Miss Mercedes was to be Its mistress. Smif had Jumped at once to the conclusion that Bill-Lee had sold to Stone. "Keep the others away, Pam, that's a good scout I do feel peculiarly rotten, but I'll be all right by the time you get back." Pam halted for an Instant on the way to the door, then returned with a soft little rush and slipped to her knees by the side of the couch. "I don't want to bother you, Smif dear, but there's something I want to tell you even before I tell father fa-ther and mother, because I believe you wangled It somehow. Paddy and I have fixed It up. We're going to be married and I'm awfully happy. . . . An Irishman Is different from an Englishman, Isn't he?" "To be sure he is," Smif agreed heartily. "Paddy Miles is a peach, or whatever their favorite fruit is in Ireland. I can't think of anything any-thing but the potato." "Paddy'U love that I mean to tell him you said he was an Irish potato," pota-to," Pam said. "He's awfully funny about himself and us," she added in a softer voice. "He vows he entirely en-tirely lost visibility in the British matrimonial market when news of his cousin's numerous heirs got around. He even says he was afraid I wouldn't be able to see him without with-out the glorifying light cast by a title. But he was coming back after me anyhow this autumn," she ended explanatorily, anxious that Smif would not misunderstand. "Of course he was, darling," Smif reassured her. "Stone says he's one of the best, and crazy about you." She was glad for the girl's sake, heartily fond of her, yet so tense In her own misery that moments seemed like hours and she thought she would never find herself alone. Pam dropped a kiss on her cheek. "I'm off," she announced, "and I'll see that none of the others bother you." The door was shut behind her at last and Smif lay in semi-darkness waiting for the sounds that would signal the departure of the party for Box Hall. She knew the hour set for the start. She knew that Stone could be trusted to get them going according to schedule, but the minutes still lagged and she looked at her watch half a dozen times before be-fore she heard the welcome clatter of horses' hoofs as they came around from the stable. She got up from the couch and seated herself near the window to wait for the return of the stable boys and, sitting there, she looked down on the same vista her father and she had seen when they had watched Remus, the foxhound, hurrying hur-rying off on his urgent private affairs af-fairs while the long lines of rain, like fine-drawn threads of ice, fell s,teadily, to melt into puddles on contact with the earth. Once again she then had a vision of the past . . . Then she shook herself back to reality, both mental and physical. The group had passed and she was wasting time. Before the others returned she meant to visit all the spots she loved the most; to burn them indelibly Into her memory; to store them up against the barren days to come. She leaped 'to her feet and looked at herself In her mirror before she opened the door of her room. So far as she could see she would pass muster if she met any of the servants. serv-ants. She was a little pale perhaps, per-haps, but that would not matter since they had doubtless heard that she was 11L Thoughtfully she went from room to room, peopling them with her memories. Downstairs she came at length to Stone's study, to find that door shut She hesitated before Jt Of course. The dogs! They had been shut in so that they would not try to follow their master. Poor darlings, they and she would be in much the same case once Mercy was mistress here. Persona non grata. Well next to Stone, they loved her. They should come with her on her rounds. She opened the door and walked Into the room. It was a cool morning morn-ing and a little fire of hickory logs was burning In the fireplace, before which the bulldogs stretched, sleepily sleep-ily luxurious. Although she had come for them, she took no note of them, for at the desk a man was seated. - "Stone r she exclaimed. 1 thought you had gone with the others." He turned at the sound of her rolce, making no reply where none was needed. "I hoped you'd show up soon," he said. "I want a talk with you. I've something to tell you." "Tour secret?" Smif tried to speak brightly, but there was a load on her heart that seemed to weigh down her spirit. "I can guess what it is, and I'm glad if you're happy ever and ever so glad, Stone." She held out her hand which he regarded frowningly without taking. tak-ing. "Sit down over there," he motioned mo-tioned to a chair on the other side of his desk, not rising to place it for her. Then be leaned his elbows on the blotter and bent toward her. "I wonder If you're as good a guess-er guess-er as you think you are?" Smif, too, leaned her arms on the desk, resting her head In her hands. "I guessed last night," she said. "I'd never been certain before. I'd never seen her when she was not grotesquely fat In her own house, she's charming, Stone." "So that was the reason you went off with Susan Phelps and left me in the lurch?" he exclaimed petulantly. petu-lantly. "That was a mean trick, when you knew I wanted to talk to you." "How was I to know that?" Smif asked, annoyed at his unreasonableness. unreasonable-ness. "You never even looked at me all evening." "And a good reason I had for that," Stone declared. "It made me perfectly furious to see you sitting there wishing me on Mercy." "Wishing you on Mercy!" Smif echoed his words helplessly. "Honestly, "Hon-estly, Stone, I don't know what you mean." Before he spoke again he pushed the fittings of the desk irritably here and there. Then, with one sweep he shoved them all aside and leaning across it looked directly into her eyes. "I mean I'm in love with you. Madly, foolishly, insanely in love with you. So much In love that I'm afraid to look at you in public for fear I'll murder, any puppy who happens to be talking to you. Don't you know you are a dream come true? Even as a child, I told my mother I meant to marry the girl in the miniature." His eyes held hers. He was bending nearer and nearer. The effect was hypnotic With an effort Smif wrenched her gaze away. "The very first day I "After that I'll manage your affairs for you. King three on this line, please?" "Stone! Do you mean to say you have a pnrty line? No wonder Miss Mercedes knew all your plans" "Hello! Is that you, Septimus? Tell Miss Mercedes I'd like to speak to her. Yes, It's Mr. Nesbit." "Don't say tomorrow, Stone. I'll have to bring my sisters here and Cousin Mab must be told" "She knows already," Stone Interjected. Inter-jected. "Lo, Mercy. Just wanted to make an announcement to you. You won't be surprised. You're such a clever girl" he grinned Impishly at Smif and went on; "I'm engaged to Miss Lovely. . . . Yes, we're going go-ing to be married very soon. , . , Thanks awflly. I'll tell Smif that . . . Yes, thanks again." . . .. You're going go-ing to take Gregory's tip? Ills aunt is positively authentic and able to introduce you anywhere. Will send him over to give you all the details." He hung up again, grinning compan-ionably compan-ionably at Smif. "Just as easy as that She knew it all the time, she says." , "Seemingly everybody knew it except ex-cept me," Smif smiled back, thinking think-ing how young and handsome and gay he was. Happiness was already making a new man of him. "I don't understand why nobody took me into the secret I suppose Pam knew it and Susan and Eve " "Not Pam," he answered quite seriously, se-riously, "she is too busy with her own affairs; but Susan of course and I don't see anyone keeping anything any-thing from Eve" What did it matter? Smif asked herself. She had always said It was easier to hide a conflagration than a love affair, only she had not meant that to apply to her own romance. "I'm still not altogether happy about your neighbor." She podded her head in the general direction of Rockmoss. "You may be," Stone assured her. "You see, Madame Saltou, there's something I scarcely dare confess to you. You really are getting a leftover. left-over. I'm a Jilted man. Mercy fell so in love with her own loveliness that she felt it should not. be wasted on a mere country squire in 'ole Vlrginny She's out for a title, and Greg, who's a good chap with a sense of humor and a lot of family feeling, has steered her up against one of his own relatives who will present her to the queen and the other assembled aristocrats and who Is in need of the ready. That's what we were conspiring about at dinner last night" Pf ' dt'J pf lla Ell- "I Mean I'm In Love With You. Madly, Foolishly, Insanely In Love With You." saw you it was all I could do to leave without telling you" Mercy. She must think of Mercy. She had promised to help her and maybe Mercy was a prey to the feelings that were tearing at her now. To save herself, since she dared not meet his eyes, she fixed her attention on his mouth. That had been the feature she had held in doubt when first she saw him. Tender, sweet why had she ever questioned it? And then it smiled and Mercy was forgotten. "Oh, Stone," she cried softly, "I never knew I liked your mouth beforebut be-forebut I love it" Tm glad. Tm glad you do," he murmured, as it sought hers. And as their lips met passion leaped like an electric spark from the one to the other. If it had been unrecognized un-recognized before, even Smif was aware of It now. For a space time, as far as these two were concerned, stood stilL Then Smif resolutely drew away from his emorace. Stone, exulting In his hour of triumph, sought to take her In his arms again, but this time she resisted. "Darling," Smif said, "I can't we mustn't Don't yon see? It wouldn't be honorable. Mercy paid me to help her to marry you. How can I go to her and tell her I'm going to marry you myself instead?" "We'll refund her money," Stone said, lazily content to wait for what he now knew was his. "Even you couldn't force me to marry that piece of perfection. And you don't have to tell her anything. I'd love to do It Hasn't she made me go in fear of captivity for years? I ll call her on the telephone and tell her we're going to be married. When are we going to be married, dearest? dear-est? Tomorrow V "Oh, I don't know," Smif cried distractedly. dis-tractedly. "I've always been such a success Jn managing other people's peo-ple's affairs while I seem to be an awful fool about my own." "Let's make It tomorrow, then, j Stone said, taking op the telephone. "When I was so unhappy," Smif said. "I guessed that was what was the matter this morning," Stone cried triumphantly, "when Eve warned me that something was wrong and that I'd hotter stay at home and comfort you" Just then two thoughts struck Smif so simultaneously that she could scarcely say which was first Stone must never know of her disappointment dis-appointment or her hurt at her brother's broken faith. And was there any chance that she was wrong In her supposition that he was the buyer of Lovelylea? The mere thought set her trembling. She must know and at once. She was in a panic at the possibility of this upsetting, at such a moment, of her long-cherished plans. "There's only one thing needed now to make me quite content " she began. "And that?" Stone asked. 'TThat Bill Lee should sell us Lovelylea." Love-lylea." "By Jove, haven't I told you? When that was my secret!" Stone exclaimed. "I wrote Bill-Lee that I wanted to give It to you for a wedding present" "Wasn't that rather taking things for granted?" Smif Inquired mildly. "No," Stone wagged his head solemnly. sol-emnly. "1 didn't tell him you were going to marry me- It might have been some other fellow. It was plain they'd be after yon in swarms before be-fore long. Just cast your eye back to that fool Blanton. Anyhow, I asked your brother to keep it a dead secret because I wanted to surprise yon." Smlfs cup of happiness was now running over. Bin Lee wasn't a cad and a cheat and ungrateful She looked back at her lover with shining shin-ing eyes, ne would never know what a wedding present he was gir-in gir-in her. The dogs rose and stretched. Then seeing the tablean, stood on their hind legs and pawed Jealously at their master and mistress. THE ENDJ This Week h Arthur Brisbane Average Intelligence It It Constitutional Two Biff Diamonds Terrific Earthquake During the war conscripted millions mil-lions were subjected to "Intelligence tests," and you learned with anxiety that the adult American has an average Intelligence of a twelve-year-old child. Now, to cheer you, the Bureau of Education says that is a mistake. mis-take. Only about three million adult Americans have twelve-year-old in telllgence, not many more than enough to cover all those who think they understand mouey and know what the government ought to do about it Forty million adult Americans have seventeen-year-old intelligence, intelli-gence, ten millions average about twenty-three-year-old intelligence. The question 1b: What IS a twelve-year-old intelligence? At the age of twelve, Newton probably knew more about mathematics, intuitively, in-tuitively, than many modern teachers teach-ers of mathematics know. As for music, Mozart at the age of four played well, at seven he composed and gave concerts at royal courts. There Is no real intelligence standard, and a. we are all only 12,000 years from the late stone age, what we call "highest intelll gence" will seem amusingly ignorant ignor-ant a few million years hence. President Roosevelt is glad to learn from Mr. Cummlngs, United States Attorney General, that his monetary plan for a less expensive dollar and more expensive gold is constitutional. It is constitutional, also, for the government to take any gold that citizens may have and pay them at the old twenty dollar-an-ounce price. It is per haps advisable for Congress to pass a law Indorsing the money plan and the Attorney-General's dec! slon. The Constitution says something some-thing about confiscation "without due process of law." Legislation by Congress will fix that. When anything good is found, a gold strike, or anything of that kind, it is wise to hunt' around for more. Twenty-six years ago, at Elands fontein, twenty miles from Pretoria in South Africa, there was dlscov ered the huge Culllnan diamond, biggest ever known. The Trans vaal Government gave it to Edward the Seventh, twenty six years ago Several stones were cut from that Culllnan diamond. The biggest, the "Star of Africa," Is now in the British royal scepter. The next largest is in the British crown They add to King George's royal majesty. . Recently somebody, convinced that where you find one big dla mond you might find another, has found In a loose stone, not far from the spot where the Culllnan was found, two very large diamonds one weighing BOO, the other 726 carats, the bigger Btone perfect and flawless. The finder has refused $375,000 "contemptuously" for these two pieces of almost pure carbon The northern part of India, close to the foot of the Himalaya Moun tains and glgan ic ML Everest, re ports the worst earthquake that the world has seen for years. Most disastrous, perhaps, in destruction of lives since the Lisbon earth quake that caused many to lose their faith in Providence because of crowds killed in the churches where they bad taken refuge. Two thousand are reported killed In India, the streets of one city filled with ruins and dead bodies. A thing new In earthquakes water Is reported spouting from the earth through great fissures adding flood to the earthquakes terror. The Himalaya Mountains are far away, and lists of dead Ira nr-DBd lift little. But that water spurting from the ground high Into the air. is impressive. It re minds us of the marvelous safety in which we travel, usually, on this earth, whirling a thousand miles an hour on Its axis, traveling through the ether at absolute sero, with the blood In our bodies, on which life depends, maintaining the same even emperature at the Equator or at the North Pole. You read of Jimmy Wedell. fly Ing from Texas to Baltimore taking a little baby, Sue Trammel, with her father, mother and grand mother, for an emergency operation on the child's brain. Thanks to the skill of Dr. Walter B. Dandy, of Johns Hopkins, the obstruction that threatened her life was removed from the baby's brain, and she Is back in Texas with her family, well and happy. A great combination, a flyer like Wedell. an airplane able to go 10C miles an hour, and a surgeon Ilk" Dr. Dandy, with courage and scl ence, to operate. Mr. Wedell will want to kno about the report from Langlej Field that n airplane has beet designed by responsible engineers to travel 644 miles an hour, 120 miles faster than the present speed record. Planes for overcoming air resistance are expected to give the extra speed. ($.113. f Ki f- Srwluw. Ik-I Uncover Site of Ancient City of Biblical Interest Important additions to present-day knowledge of early Palestine and Its Inhabitants have been made by the Ilaverford college archeologlcal expeditions. ex-peditions. During five of the last six years extensive field work has produced pro-duced brilliant results under the direction di-rection of Prof. Ellhu Grant, who heads the department of Biblical literature lit-erature at Ilaverford. The findings of the fifth expedition, expedi-tion, which went into the field last spring, are now being classified. Plans are being made for a sixth expedition In 1934. The Ilaverford excavations are located lo-cated at Aln Shems, which Is In the lower hill country about twenty miles west of Jerusalem, overlooking the Mediterranean. This mound-ruin Is the Bite of ancient Beth Shemesh, a city which flourished between 1S00 and 600 B. a The city lay on Important Impor-tant trade routes between Egypt, Palestine and Syria. Professor Grant's first expedition discovered three Bronze age cemeteries, which yielded one of the largest known treasures of Canaanlte burial deposits. depos-its. Digging to depths of 20 feet below be-low the surmounting wheat fields, Doctor Grant's parties have unearthed un-earthed four successive levels representing repre-senting distinct epochs in the city's history. Conquest by Invaders, pillaging and destruction by fire are written In the archeologlc record. After the ruin of the first city at Aln Shems, walls and roof beams of buildings were pushed In on the lower floors. The demolished structures were leveled off by the new builders, and another city was erected on the ruins of the old. Thts process occurred over again, and again, until four, or perhaps five, successive cities had been built, destroyed de-stroyed and rebuilt. Remains of temples, tem-ples, palaces, dwellings, shops and Industrial properties all testify to the existence of Beth Shemesh as a prosperous city of early Palestine. The wealth of personal belongings found. Including rases, flasks, bowls, tools, weapons and Jewelry, revealed an Industrious population which thrived some 8.000 years ago. The relation of Beth Shemesh to the Biblical record of ancient Palestine Pales-tine Is a fascinating study. Nearby was the birthplace of Samson, who may have trod Its streets. Shlshnk of Egypt Is believed to have been one of the destroyers of the city. The principal temple of Beth Shemesh Shem-esh perhaps was laid In ruins at the time of the exile. The tangible result of these expeditions expe-ditions has been the formation of a Palestine museom at Ilaverford college col-lege containing an abundance of valuable val-uable material. Feveroi reports elaborating elab-orating In detail on the field discoveries discov-eries have been published by Doctor Grant Woman's Viewpoint, as One of Sex Sees It It Is woman's common failing now to take love too seriously and marriage mar-riage too casually. She would be far better off If she reversed the procedure. pro-cedure. The American girl Is the victim of her pretty and well-nursed delusions. She believes that when romance fades out of marriage the marriage Itself should be dissolved, beencee she fools herself Into thinking that romance and love are one. Nothing could be more fatal for her personal security, for her happiness, for a contented old age or for society. It was necessury, perhaps, that we go through a period of matrimonial experimentation. The rather abrupt departure from the Idea of marriage bs an eternally fixed Institution causes us to fling ourselves to the other extreme. Hence we have stir-vlved stir-vlved an ngly time when fidelity, common sense and even ordinary decency de-cency have sunk to a low ebb. We are emerging from it more unhappy than before. The home Is the root from which all our other Institutions spring, and permanent marriage, regarded re-garded seriously by both men and women, Is the soil that nurtures that root Mrs. Walter Ferguson, Woman's Wom-an's Editor, In the New York World-Telegram. A Wit Wife Jack But my wife just banded me a big surprise, Harry What was It? Jack I told her I was going to stay up with a sick friend and she said she hoped that I would hold as good hands as he did In the game. Dally Eagle (Brooklyn). "Cotton I King" "Cotton Is king" Is an expression used by James II. Hammond In the senate In March, 1853. The figure of speech meant that so Important was the state of the cotton industry indus-try that Its condition ruled the destiny des-tiny of men connected with It The "Bulletin Tree" An old tree guarding the White nouse gate has often been referred to as the "Bulletin Tree" because of the claim that bulletins were posted on It hourly from the doctors doc-tors at the bedside of the wounded President Garfield The Negro's Immunities The negro's immunities differ with locality. In America he has shown more Immunity than the whites to malaria, yellow fever, measles, scarlet fever and diphtheria. diph-theria. He Is largely free from hemorrhoids and varicose veins i but be Is more susceptible to tuberculosis, tu-berculosis, diseases of the heart, lungs and kidneys, and to Influenza. Roman Amphitheater Traced Traces of the Roman amphlthe-ter amphlthe-ter In which it Is supposed Christians Chris-tians were put to death In the persecution per-secution of Marcus Aurellus, 177 A. D., were found on the Fourvleve hill. The theater bad a capacity of 20,000. Caller, Receiver Pay Toll Every time the telephone bell rings In Vienna, both the caller and the receiver have to pay part of the toll, and the rule applies even when the operator calls the wrong number. Ag-noiticitm and Atheism Agnosticism differs from atheism In that the first Is simply a declaration decla-ration of not tiavlng found a basis for belief, while the other is an avowed disbelief. Early Public Bathe General hydrotherapy was Introduced Intro-duced by Asleplades and no less than 1,800 public baths bad been Start of Shaving The Egyptians commonly shaved their beards, except in time of mourning. Alexander the Great ordered or-dered bis Greek soldiers to shave (3C5-323 B. a), and about the same time the custom , was introduced intro-duced Into Rome. PUny says that Sclplo Afrieaans was the first Roman Ro-man who shaved every day. Japan's Wortt Earthquake The worst disaster in the history of Japan occurred September 1, 1923. More than 100,000 people were killed and about 150.000 Injured. In-jured. In 191)0 Toklo celebrated the completion of her reconstruction reconstruc-tion following the earthquake and fire. Origin of Mourning Band The custom of wearing a black band on the coat sleeve In token of mourning came from England. It was Introduced there for liveries' servants, whom It was not thought necessary to fit eut in black uniforms. Glaciers a Thermometers Glaciers In certain mountain regions re-gions of the Far West serve scientist sci-entist of the geological" survey II J is more than shin deep Ask roar doctor A ik the besot? expert. 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