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Show THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, I THE BRANDING IRON CHAPTER IV Continued. 16 "Of course there's a performance tonight. I'll dine with Jasper. I'll bave to see Betty first . . HI thoughts trailed off and he fell Into d that confusion, that uncomfortable scorching fog of mood. The cab turned Into Fifth avenue and became a scale In the creeping serpent of vehicles that glided, paused, and glided again past the thronged pavements. Prosper contrasted everything tvlth the grim courage and d tragedy of France. He could Dot but wonder at the detached frivolthose ity of these spinners in the sun. How soon would the shadow fall upon them, too, and with what change of countenance would they look up ! To him the seemed almost childish and yet he bathed his fagged spirit in it. lIov high the white clouds sailed, how blue was the midwinter sky! How the buildings towered, how quickly the people stepped! Here were the pretty, painted faces, the absurd silk stockings, the tripping, exquisitely booted feet, the swinging walk, the tall, upspringing bodies of the women he remembered. He regarded them with Impersonal delight, untinged by any of his usual cynicism. It was late afternoon when Prosper, obedient to a telephone call from Hetty, presented himself at the door of Morena's house, just east of the Park, off Fifth avenue; a very beautiful house where tha wealthy Jew had Indulged his passion for exquisite things. Prosper entered its rich dimness with a feeling of oppression that unanalyzed mood of hot and cold feeling intensified to an almost degree. In the large carved and curtained drawing-roohe waited for Betty. The were prepared ; there would be no further need of service until Betty should ring. Everything was arranged for an uninProsper stood terrupted near an ebony table, his shoulder brushed by tall, red roses, and felt his nerves tighten and his pulses hasten In their beat. "The tall child . . . the tall child . . ." he had called her by that name so often and never without a swift and stabbing memory of Joan, and of Joan's laughter which he had silenced. He took out the letter he had lately it received from Betty and and, as he read, a deep line cut be tween his eyes. "You say you will not come back unless I can give you more than I have ever given you in the past. You say you intend to cut yourself free, that I have failed you too often, that you are starved on hope, I'm not going to ask much more patience of you. I failed you that first time because I lost courage; the sec ond time, fate failed us. How could I think that Jasper would get well when the doctors told me that I mustn't al low myself even a shadow of hope! Now, I. think that Jasper, himself. Is preparing my release. This all sounds like something in a book. That's because you've hurt me. I feel frozen up. I couldn't bear It If now. Just when the door Is opening, you failed me. Prosper, you are my lover for always, aren't you? I have to believe that to go on living. You are the one thing In my wretched life that hasn't lost Its value. Now, read this care fully; I am gnln to be brutal. Jasper has been unfaithful to me. I know It. I have sufficient evidence to prove It In a law court and I shall not hesitate to get a divorce. Tear this up, please Now, of all times, we must be extraordinarily careful. There has never been a whisper against us and there mustn't be. Jasper must not suspect. A counter-sui- t would ruin my life. auiKt talk it over with you. I II see you once alone Just once before leave Jasper and begin the suit. We must bave patience for Just this last bit. It will seem very long . . . Prosper folded the letter. He was conscious of a faint feeling of sickness, of fcor. Then he heard P.etty'a step across the marble pavement of the hall. She parted the heavy curtains, drew them together behind her. and stood, pale with Joy, opening and shutting her big eyes. Then she came to meet hltn. held him buck, listening for any sound that might predict Interruption, and gave herself to his arms. She was no longer pale when he let her go. She went a few steps away and stood with her hands before her face, then she went to sit by the tea table. They were both flushed. Hetty's eye were shining under their flutter li g lids. Prosper rejoiced In his own motion. The mental fog had lifted and the feeling of raininess was gone. "You've decided not to brenk away altogether then?" she asked, giving him a quick glance. lie shook his head. "Not If what yiMi have written me Is true, I've had audi letters from you before and I've frown very suspicious. Are you sure this time?" He laid trea upon his It was his one weapon bitterness. against her and he had been sharpen lng It with a vngue purpose. "Oh." said Hetty, speaking low and furtively, "Jasper Is fairly caught. I bar a reliable witness In the girl's tiiald. There Is no doubt of hi guilt. Prosper, none. Kveryone Is talking of It. He baa been perfectly open In bis attentions." Every minute Hetty looked younger and prettier, more provoking. Her ciilld mouth with Its clever smile was bright as though his kiss had painted hot-col- high-pitche- money-spender- s, tea-thin- tete-a-tet- d Katharine Newlin Burt Copyright by Katharine N. Burt "I'll tell you In a moment. Did you destroy my letter?" He shook his head. , "Oh, Prosper, please!" He took It out, tore It up, and walking over to the open fire, burned the papers. He came back to his tea. "Well, Betty?" "The girl," said Betty, "Is the star n your play, 'The Leopardess,' the girl that Jasper picked up two Septembers ago out west. He has written to you about her. She was a cook, if you please, a hideous creature, but Jasper saw at once what there was u her. She has made the play. You'll bave to acknowledge that yourself when you see her. She Is wonderful. And, partly owing to the trouble I've taken with her, the girl is beautiful. One wouldn't have thought it possible. She Is not charming to me, she's not in the least subtle. It's odd that she should have had such an effect upon Jasper, of all men . . ." Prosper sipped his tea and listened. He looked at her and was bitterly conscious that the excitement which had pleased and surprised him was dying out. That faintness again assailed his He was feeling stifled, spirit. ashamed, bored. Yes, that was it, bored. That life of service and bat In France had changed him more than he had realized till now. He was more simple, more serious, more moral, in a certain sense. He was like a man who, having denied the existence of Apollyon, has come upon him face to face and has been burnt by his breath. Such a man Is inevitably moral. All this long, intricate intrigue with the wife of a man who called him friend, seemed to him horribly unworthy. If Betty had been a great lover, if she had not lost courage at the eleventh hour and left him to face that terrible winter In Wyoming, then their passion might have Justified Itself ; but now there was a stateness In their relationship. He hated the IIPPll Isl And Gava Herself to His Arms thought of the long divorce proceed ings, of the decent Interval, of the wedding, of the married life. He had never really wanted that. He would have to take her, to spend his days and nights with her, to travel with her. She would want to visit that gny, little forsaken house In a Wyoming cunyon. With vividness he saw a girl lying prone on a black rug before a dancing fire, her hair all fallen about her face, her secret eyes lifted Im patiently from the book "You had ought to be writir', Mr. Gael . . "What are you smiling for. Prosper?" Betty asked sharply. He looked up, startled and confused. "Sorry. I've got Into beastly absent-mindehabits. Is that Morena T' Jasper opened the curtains and came In, greeting Prosper In his stately, charming fashion. "Tonight." he said "we'll show yon a leopardess worth looking at, won't we, Betty? But first you must tell us about your own ex perlence. You look wonderfully fit doesn't he, Betty? And changed. They say the life out there stamps a man. and they're right. It's taken some of look out of your that winged-demoface, Prosper, put some soul Into It." He talked and Hetty laughed, show Ing not the slightest evldcnre of effort, thongh the soul Jasper had seen In Prosper' face felt shriveled for her treachery. Prosper wondered If she could be right In her surmise about .Taper. The Jew was Infinitely capable of dissimulation, but there was a clar Ity of look and smile that filled Pros per with doubts. And the eyes be turned upon his wife were quite ns apparently as ever the eyes of a dls appointed man. So absorbed was bp In such obser vation that he found It Intolerably difficult to fix his attention on thp talk. Jasper's fluency eemed to rip pie senselessly about bis brain. "Ymi must consent to one thing. Lock ; yon must allow trie to cboosp my own time for announcing the au It. thorship." This found It way partial 1r1T" asked Prosper. "Who la th ly to hi Intelligence an! he gave care lie waa deeply flushed. Hrtng capable less assent. "Oh, whenever yon like, a soon a of tlmultaneona patnta of view, he tiad been atung by that cool phrase of I'va had my fun, Morena waa thought "Of coarse try eoaweralnf "Jaiper'i guilt." n rtrm-ffi- Dairy Cows Must Be Business Service Fed Liberal Ration Aid for Farmers k To Meet Changed Condi tions New Forms Have ful for an Instant. "How wou'4 it da for me to leave it with Melton, tha business manager? Eh? Suppose 1 phone him and talk It over a little. He'll want to wait till toward the end of the run. He's keen; has Just tha commercial sense of the born advertiser. Let him choose the moment Then we can feel sure of getting tha right one. Will you. Luck?" "If you advise It. You ought to know." "You see, I'm so confoundedly busy, so many Irons In the fire, I might Just miss the psychic moment. I think Melton's the man I'll call him up tonight before we leave. Then I won't forget it and I'll be sure to catch him, Asphaltic Concrete Base Type of Road Pavement On the Pacific coast there has been widely developed over a period of twenty-fiv- e years a type of pavement and foundation which is the acme of resiliency and flexibility and the ability to resist the encroachments of water. This pavement is known as the asphaltic concrete base type. Its more common name is that of "black base." This type Is not patented or controlled by any company or Individual and Is laid at a moderate cost. It Is simply a foundation of three or four inches of mixed stone and asphalt on which is placed a wearing course of the recognized sheet asphalt or asphaltic concrete that Is laid in the East. This gives a total thickness of five or six inches of pavement and foundation, which has been found ample to meet the heaviest and most varied traffic known to California highways. In Vlsalia, Cnl., Is a "black too." Again Prosper vaguely agreed and promptly forgot that he had given his permission. Later, there came an agonizing moment when he would have given the world to recall his absent, careless words. With an effort Prosper kept his poise, with an effort, always increasing, he talked to Jasper while Betty dressed, and kept up his end at din ner. The muscles round his mouth felt tight and drawn, his throat was lie was glad when they got dry. nto the limousine and started theater- ward. It had been a long time since he had been put through this particular ordeal and he was out of prac tice. They reached the house just as the ights went out. Prosper was amused at his own intense excitement. "I didn't know I was still such a kid," he said, flashing a smile, the first spontaneous one he had given her, upon Betty who sat beside him In the pro scenium box. The success of his novel had had no such effect upon him as this. It was entrancing to think that In a few moments the words he had written would come to him clothed in varioua voices, the people his brain had pic tured would move before him In flesh and blood, doing what he had ordained that they should do. When the cur tain rose, he had forgotten his per sonal problem, had forgotten Betty. He leaned forward, his elbows on his knees, his chin In his hand. The scene was of a tropfcal island. palms, a strip of turquoise sea. A girl pushed aside the great fronds of ferns and stepped down to the beach. At her appearance the audience broke Into applause. She was a tall girl, her stained legs and arms bare below her ragged dress, her black hair hung wild and free about her face and neck. As the daughter of a native mother and an English father, her beauty had been made to seem both Saxon and savage. Stained and painted, darkened below the great gray eyes, Joan with her brows and her classic chin and throat, Joan with her secret, dan gerous eyes and lithe, long body, made an arresting picture enough against the setting of vivid green and blue. She moved slowly, deliberately, nat urally, and stood, hands on hips, to watcb a ship sail Into the turquoise harbor. It was not like acting, she seemed reallv to look. She threw back her head and gave a call. It was th name of her stage brother, but It came from her deep chest ana through her long column of a throat like music. Prosper brought down his hands on the railing before him, half pushed himself up, turned a blind look upon Betty, who laid a restraining hand upon his arm. He whispered a name, which Betty could not mnke out. then he sat down, moistened Ms Hps with his tongue, and sat through the entire first act and neither moved nor spoke. As the curtain went down he stood up. "I must go out," he said, and hesitated In the hack of the box till Jasper came over to him with an anxious question. Then he "began to stammer nervously. "Don't tell her, Jasper, don't tell her." "Tell her what, man? Tell whom?" Jasper gave him a shake. "Don't you like Jane? Isn't she wonderful?" "Yes, yes. extraordinary!" "Made for the part?" "No." Prosper's face twisted Into a smile. "No. The part came second, she was there first, Morena, promise me you won't tell her who wrote the play." "iook here. Prosper, suppose yon tell me what's wrong. Have you seen a ghost?" Prosper laughed ; then, seeing Betty, her fnce a rigid question, be struggled to lay hands upon his "Something very astonishing lis one of those Morena happened, 'things not dreamt of In a man's philI can't tell yon. Have you osophy. arranged for me to meet Jane West?" "After the show, yes. at supper." "But not a the author?" "No. I was waiting f you to tell her that." "She mnsn't know. And and I can't meet her that way. at supper." Again he made visible effort at "Ion't tell Betty what a fool 711 go out a minute. I'll ba I am. all right." Hetty wit coming toward them Ha gave a painful smile and fled. (TO BB CONTtWED.) l. Christ on a Stamp. new stamp that Italy I Issuing; shows Christ with HI disciples, said to be the first time the Divinity ha figured In philately. The four stamp are from which will complete the Professor Contra designs, and are to mark the tercentenary of the founding of the "Pe Propaganda Fide." Thli I a Roman Catholic Missionary organ. tzatl ja founded about tha time of tt A lu Reff XMoa, Been Devised. t'nlted state (Prepared by the of Agriculture.) Department Hay, Silage and Grain Mixture Needed in Winter. UnlliM Slates Department (Prepared by the Axru-ului e. ) of If dairy cons are to be led for profitable production they lcust receive u liberal ration ut all seasons. In sum-mes, To assist American fanners In or pasture generally Is depended ganizing their business to meet the upon, but often it must be supplementof preseneconomic conditions changed ed by soiling crops or silage, and somet-day agriculture, new tonus of ag- times by concentrates us well. For ricultural Information have been devel- winter fuelling, the ration usually is oped, and fundamental studies in farm composed of buy, silage, and a mixture esand crop organization, marketing of grains. In properly halanclug the timates have been expended by the ration the grain mixture is compounddurbureau of agricultural economics ed to tit tlie roughage with due coning the past year, according to the an- sideration for cost, bulk, pulatability, nual report of the bureau. effect upon the tow and "In the period of agricultural re- For physiological best results, cows must be fed Inthe adjustment experienced during dividually, salted regularly, and furpast year, It was important for farm- nished with all the clean water they ers to secure the facts bearing upon wili drink. current problems that would give them A few simple guides for feeding have the greatest aid in making accurate been summarized by the dairymen of decisions In planning farm operations tbe United States of Ap and in marketing their products," says iculture as follows:Department Under most (1) the report. "The first attention of the ircumst uncos the cow- should be fed bureau" stuff has been directed con- all the roughage that she will eat ur stantly toward these problems In reration should be lean, and the base" pavement that was laid In 1890 sponse to the greatly increased de adjusted to the grain milk production. (2) informaIs In condi lor which excellent mands upon the bureau and today A grain mixture should be fed in the offtion ou the general conditions of supply tion, The Vlsalia pavement is proportion of one pound to eacli three' icially reported by the city engineer to and demund, price trends, the effect of pints or pounds of milk produced daily have cost nothing for maintenance. various domestic and foreign factors y tbe ilow, except in the case of u cow Where the subgrade is unstable It Is upon the farmer's returns, and for Inproducing a flow of forty pounds, or good practice to lay a thin Insulating formation bearing upon problems of more, when the ration may he one course of four inches of broken stone. crop readjustment." pound to each three and u half or Live Stock Surveys Help. Engineers familiar with this type of four iMiunds of milk. An even better construction claim that It is the only Special effort was made to strength rule Is one pound of grain each day type which will successfully resist the en present crop and live stock report- for a pound of hutterfut that the cow bombardment of heavy traffic and is, ing methods, and to supplement these produces during the week. (3) Feed therefore, destined to become standard methods by surveys designed to give all the cow will respond to In milk in eastern paving practice within a a more accurate knowledge of future production. When she begins to put comparatively few years. In the bor- supplies. The pig surveys on flesh, cut down the grain. ough of Manhattan, New York city, which give an Indication of intentions the practice has been adopted of re- of farmers regarding the production of Clutch-Holding Device placing foundation cuts In Fifth ave- hogs, and the reports of farmers' in nue with this type of asphaltic base tentions to plant various crops are outVery Handy on Tractor wherever an opening In the pavement lined as Indicating the bureau's activiScientific American in illustrat The becomes necessary. ties along this line. Numerous meund describing a clutch holder, the The feature of prime Importance In chanical and other methods have also ing Invention of F. F. Wander, Valley this question of design of new pave- been developed to obtain maximum acKan., says : Fulls, ments is that the field la a very wide curacy In acreage and production estiThe Invention relates to devices one, that there are very many types mates. which are adapted for attachment to of pavement, that the engineer and" A world-wid- e crop and market report a tractor to engage a clutch control the taxpayer can conserve the Inter- ing service was developed by the bu ests of good engineering and wise tax reau, to obtain the essential facts conoutlay by taking fully into account the cerning probable foreign competition I possibilities of these various types of and demand for American farm prod paving and avoiding any policy that ucts. Acrlcultural commissioners in involves placing all the eggs In one England and Europe, and the Interna basket. tional Institute of Agriculture at Home keep the bureau constantly in formed, regarding the current foreign Big Loads on Highways acrlcultural situation. This news is Is Scored by Auto Club broadcast by the bureau to farmers by Should of one per cent of radio and the press. A study of the factors that influence the motor vehicles of a city he allowed to carry loads heavy enough to the market demand In domestic mar ruin the highways for the remaining kets, as expressed In the prices and movement of crops and in consumers' !)9 per cent? Device for Tractor. This question was answered in the requirements was made. Results of farm of several management to releusably hola of tractor the years lever negative by the voters of Los Angeles the latter In position to occasion the through a referendum initiated by the surveys were reviewed to secure facts Automobile Club of Southern Califor- of value In the present agricultural re releasing of the driving connection benia. The city council passed an ordi- adjustment, the objective being shift tween the engine of the trncto and nance Increasing the load limits for ed somewhat from studies with the his the transmission thereof, without distrucks to 20,000 pounds, which Is 4,000 torical point of view to the current re- engaging the gears of the transmission. A further object Is to provide a clutch pounds more than allowed under the adjustment point of view. A steady growth In the bureau's holder which comprises but a slngl . state law. The exhaustive engineering Investigation recently conducted work In warehousing. Improved farm piece of resilient material. by the automobile club demonstrated finance and in the study of agricultural Is required. The corre clearly that excessive loading contrib Start Egg-Pla- nt Early uted largely, to the breaking down of lation of various research projects coninstituferleral and state in Spring Under Glass ducted roads. by of t Is a warm weather The Arguments presented against the tions such as In the establishment 20,000-pounload dedured that In Los the New England resoareti council on plant as yet not acclimatized In the reunNorth. It should be started Angeles only 3d vehicles out of every marketing and food supply IsA also similar der glass. Plants should beeirly, garded as a forward step. 10,000 could benefit by excessive load"pricked There are 2.10,0X motor ve- council has been planned for the Mid- off" when the second leaves appear, ing. hicle owners In the city of Los An dle West. four Inches apart, in boxes. "Pricking Market New Service. off means removing the plants from geles alone paying a tax of two cents The market activities of the bureau their crowded position In tie hotbed per gallon to Insure the highways behave been extended along the lines of and placing at some distance apart In ing maintained. market boxes or In flower pots. The boxes standardization, Inquiries from all parts of the research, country Indicate that the action of the news, and food products Inspection at should be kept In a cold frame and Automobile Club of Southern Califorshipping points and terminal markets. plenty of light and ulr should be adnia to protect the roods Is being Grades were prepared for hay, wool, mitted on warm, sunny days In orrtet watched with keen Interest throughout tobacco, rice, rye, peanuts, dressed to harden the plants. After frost danthe United States. meats, nnd a number of fruits and ger is past and the soil Is well warmed1 the plants may tie transplanted. Care vegetables. Farm management studies were ex- must be taken to avoid tbe use of exGood Roads Soon Pay for panded during the year to Include tremely rich soil or the plants are Income on various likely to keep up their growth until Themselves, Says Expert studiesof of farmfarm farms, production In lo- too late In the season to escape the early types 15. Tests reivntly conducted by A. to cities, the organifall frosts. The seed should be sown ("utter, city engineer of Everett, calities ofadjacent farms, a special about April 10. A temperature of GT Wash., to determine the effect of zation of cane sugar cotton farms in boll weevil to 70 degrees should be maintained ic purvey different road types upon gnsollne conof tbe earlier farm the hotbed. studies districts, conshowed modern on that sumption Plants should be set about, three feel crete nud bltullthlc asphalt roads management records, surveys of regions on which studies have been apart each way. A dozen plants ni there Is no difference In gasoline conIn previous year to discover Im- sufficient for the needs of a family sumption. On gravel or waterhound made macadam roads In good condition gas- portant changes In man igemcnt. Cost fine ounce of seed will furnish 7.X f production work was expanded to plants. oline consumption Is from 10 to 35 per Include wheat, cotton, tobacco, fruits, cent greater. Inefficient Production "Under modern volume of traffic." augnr beets, sugar cane, and cattle. This exteniVd service to farmer says Mr. Cutter, "good roads rapidly was No Cure for Low Prices conmade the possible largely by pay for themselves In economy of of three former bureau Into solidation In various aspects of furti discussing same and the gasoline consumption holds true In economy of tire and what is now the bureau of agricultural product values. Professor J. I, economics. In the new bureau the coner, agricultural economist. Ohl other automobile wear and tear." The tests were made on roads In Identity and the organization of the State university says: lines of work formerly handled "Inefficiency In production Is no run Washington, Oregon and California. various In the three bureaus "tns been low prices. for Experience tnd r a In eaeh test distance They provide In the associated division unsearch have shown that farmer.! wltf of 100 miles of continuous operation der the three groups of production, high yields make greater profi's tUnt In order accurately to record the . and problems dealing with their neighbors with n"r yielda. Or consumption nnd produce a fulr economic phases of both produc- high priced land high yields are mot the average. It waa required that the economical to produce than low yleWN tests be made on road surfaces In good tion and marketing. If a reduction in output of a pani-- i Condition after three years' practical lar crop seems desirable. It would In use and that a uniform of not Rotted Manure Excellent to reduce the acreage or, tin less than 20 nor more than 30 miles Fertilizer for Cucumber better individual farmers, to abandon the croi per hour be maintained. Rotted ansnure Is an excellent fer- entirely than to reduce the yleh tilizer for cucumber plants. Tbe mixOni Car, Ten Person. How directly the highway louche ing of acid phosphate with manure Is Are in Favor the live of all the people I shown to be advised. If added before the Dairymen Calves a I ha of It to chance now more nitrogen escape will During Fa7 by the fact that there than one motor vehicle for each ten hold the n;trogcn In the manure. Arid Dairymen have practically settle people. Hy Just a little crowding the phosphate contain gypsum nnd gyp-an- the question of having calves com ume power to hold the spring or full. In favor of the full ? ha thl whole population could be taken for a ride at one time. nitrogen, but acid phnphnte Is more son. because cow that freshen In tin effectlvt than Is gypsum alone and, of fall always produce more milk nni To Distribute Sodatoi. course, contributes valuable phospho- butterfat than those that freshen It The United State bureau of public rus. Acid phnphntp retard tbe fer- the spring, and because there Is mor mentation of the manure. roads I to distribute 1 .,n m,nno pound time to attend the cov during tin Acid phopbnte may be added either winter. of sodatol (a surplus war explosive) Hence from January 1 W before or after composting, and In March 1 Is tbe most favorable for road building and land cletrln either case i a valuable addition. to breed. purpose. semi-annu- one-thir- d 2-- 3 Clutch-Holdin- g egg-plan- d giis-olin- e |