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Show Thursday, November 21, 1933 f4pV Ben THE W&'M TIMES-NEW- It's Will r'errln," Saladlne re marked. "And Jenny. In uiy car." And Bart said In a low, surprised tone: "So 'tis! I dldu't know but Will wuuld've got out of the coun try by now 1" Saladlne, to avoid reply, opened the door and stepped out on the porch. Then Will and Jenny, Will with an old sulteaae to his band. lighted from the car and came to ward them here. S. NEPIII. UTAH we'll need for her. Where him ll.vy, Will?" rt of He looked at her In a Htm me. "In there," he sulil. Hint through the dining room pointed dour to the bedroom beyond. "Hint's hers. I mostly slep' up attic." lie opened a door beside the stove, and she heard him climb the narrow stairs. hft selected what she required; nd then on Impulse, she made Hul dy's bed. Huldy nightgown she put away; and when she was dou. the room was In Immaculate order. It pleased her to leave all things as Huldy would have wUhed to leave them. When she had packed the suit case, she came back to the kitchen, and called up the attic stairs: "I'm ready. Will." He answered her, after a mo ment. "I'm coming, Jenny. When they were In Suladlne's oar. Will said: "The road looked to nie When Huldy, with that black ac cusation on ber lips. died. Jenny was at first left desperate; till quick loyalty brought her strength again, and resolution too. Marm Pierce, seeing without understand ing the girl's deep distress, as soon as tbey were alone asked gently "Jenny, you all right? I'm trou bled about you." Seeing her die upset me," Jenny but over ber white hair. "I get SYNOPSIS strangled for air, when I stay In whispered. "That was all. Granny." Marm Pierce, only half convinced, Jim fialadlae lutein to the history doors the whole day," she declared. f neighboring Hostile Valley, with nd went out As she closed the yet foretjore to question further. gossip of tho mysterious, enticing Well, she's dead," she said. She door, they heard something slith "Huldy," wife of Will Ferrln. Inter-tehe drives to the Valley for a er and fall, and saw ber stoop touched Jenny's arm reassuringly. "Old Marm" Plsrce down. "Child,, she's dead; and Will, he'll day's fishing. grandand her nineteen-year-ol- d be rod coming soon. Nought now to over, "Knocked Bart' your the Valley. daughter Jenny live Ina child him away from you. keep called. she more than Since little Jenny Jenny's pulse failed and the blood has at first admired and then deep"Can't hurt that rod," he assured ly loved young Will Ferrln, neighShe stepped down drained from her lips. "Don't, she, and her cheerfully. boring farmer, older than she protested softly. who regards her still ss merely a off the porch and disappeared to. Granny." With her lying there. Not now." child. Will takes employment In ward the barn. someAnd she urged: "We'd ought to 1 met Will Ferrln, and Ml nearby Augusta. Bart Carey, Is attracted thing of a Zeke Dace, this morn- dress ber In dry clothes. Will, be and Ferrln, him. but the girl repulses by Jenny, ought to see her so." Learning that Will Is coming y home. ing," Saladlne said. "I was on my hadn't Marm Pierce nodded. Jenny's Jenny, exulting, sets his way to your place, till I run Into house "to rights," and has dinner the washont; so I backed up and thoughts were plunging now. There comes He him. for bringing ready was In her a blind desperate nun his wife, Huldy, who becames the left my car In Will's yard." "I see It there a while ago," ger to see Will, to comfort him, to subject of unfavorable gossip In the assure blm of ber loyalty and si Valley. Entering his home, unlooked Bart assented. for. Will finds seemingly damning looked like a sick man lence and deep understanding and Zeke vldence of his wife's unfaithfulness, She wished on forgiveness too. as a man who he knows Is Beth to me," Saladlne suggested. Bart grinned as though abashed. any count to see him, to be with Humphreys breaks from the house. Will overtakes him, and chokes him He's failed a lot," he said. "But him now. Yet it was some time be to death, though Humphrey's shat- he was an able man, two years fore she devised that errand In Marm ters hla leg, with a bullet. At ' Pierce's house the leg Is amputated. ago. He worked me over, proper, volvlng Huldy's clothes. Even when she proposed this Jenny goes to break th news to one day. The Valley will whittle And he added Huldy. She finds Bart Carey with man down." errand, Marm Pierce at first de woman. When he leaves Huldy the murred ; but longing to be with declares she has no use for "half Some, like Marm Pierce and a man," and Is leaving at one. Will Jenny here, they're always the Will, Jenny would not be re In a sort of breathless Is legally exonerated, and with a same, and Will's always the same, strained. home-mad- e artificial leg "carries or would be if It wa'n't for rush, she overbore her grandraotb on," hiring a helper, Zeks Dace. And Ha Stood Looking Down at HI Months later, Huldy comes back. Huldy. She's twisted him, turned era remonstrances, ana so was Wife's Body. him brow cloud His away. Two years go by. Zeke and Bart wrong ways." Carey engage In a fight, the trou ed. "I wouldn't blame him for She too it ny habit the path to- like we could get through down U ble arising over Huldy. Amy Carey he was to do. If I was ward the woods; and her Hps Carey's, Jenny. We'd save a lot of commits suicide. Zeke Dace had been anything He changed shaped unspoken words of tender- time that ahowlng her attention, but Zeke had Will. I'd have. way." succumbed completely to Huldys this. "If she was mine, I'd have ness and comforting. But when She made no comment trusting wiles. Saladlne comes to th Valley. known how to handle her I" to she came the dark border of such matters to his judgment; and While Ashing ha Is caught In a Rain, rain, rain; the lash of the wood, the girl paused, shrink he turned the car down the hill and heavy rain and takes refuge at whips against this little house. ing, reluctant to plunge Into the drove on across the bridge, past Marm Pierce's. Bart Carey arrives shadows. This path would take Bart's, out to the Valley road, and carrying Huldy whom he claims has the pelt of bullets. fallen from a ledge, and seeming Bart looked thoughtfully at the her by the foot of the ledge, by thus In toward Marm Pierce's farm. worn while Is but the alone, dead, ly In the yard they stopped, and Will an, with her last breath, asserts door into the dining room; and the very spot where Huldy a while I nod a said with toward Will killed her. Horrified, Jenny de huskily, ago bad fallen to her death ; and took the suitcase from the back of cldes to tell no on of tha accusa the other room: "You see her this Jenny could not endure the pros- - the car. Saladlne and Bart were on tion. morning, you said. What did you pect so sne retraced her way and the porch to meet them ; but If Will think of her?" turned asiae toward Carey's. And bad known a doubt of Sala "She was a queer one," Saladlne nauway up me nui sne saw ahead dine. It waa passing CHAPTER VIII Continued forgotten now. He confessed. 13 of her a ngure, tremendous In the said to the other man Bart leaned forward with a deep dim rain, familiar, beloved. Will, Bat Marm Pierce pointed to the 'Jenny told me you was over "Saladlne," he said, coming toward her. floor. Here were wet, muddy traces Intentness. She stood here. I didn't know as you'd mind weak and shaken by the sight of If we where booted feet had stood, where How would she come to fall?" driv your car over. "Got dizzy, maybe? Or tripped him ; yet when he came near, lest soaked garments had dripped upon "Glad you did," Jim agreed; over something?" he might think she shrank from the boards. "She wa'n't the sort to get dizzy,' him, she took one step forward and Bart gripped Will's band. "It's that Win," Marm Pierce de "Guess you know. Will, bow I cided scornfully. "He's forever pry Bart protested. "And the ledge Is to meet him - steadily. feel about this," be said. . . , t T.H., aown at ner ror a lne around I" She shut the door all smooth, and it's good footing win loosea Guess I do," Will agreed. They there." . long moment In silence. He said at all came indoors. with a slam. "You mean to she say jumped?' last heavily: "I should think you'd be nervous, Set down here by the stove, Bart grinned almost In derision. "Jenny, where you going In this Will," said Jenny softly. you and Jenny, living here alone,' "Your She look to you like one that rainr he suggested. hands are bound to be cold. Take "To find you, Will," she told him. off The Valley gets some folks," she would kill herself, did she?" he de your coat and dry." "I'm on my way to Bart's," he ex how manded. agreed. "Folks that don't know I went out to find you. Will," ' she admitted. Saladlne "No," see "To if "No, to be alone without being lonely. plained. maybe Huldy's Bart explained. "But you wa'n't there r" You've got to know how to be com- didn't" a on name "Then put it" Bart Jenny felt her spine chill. "She" there." pany for yourself, to get along I was out them," Will around here!" And she added with whispered. "If she didn't fall, and not there. Will." she said. "She's at assented, and hehunting looked at Saladlne a wry chuckle: "Just the same, I'm didn't Jump. our house." She didn't come back after she But Saladlne was always Inclined full as well pleased to have you He frowned In a deep bewilder went with you, he said. "When to he think before and twice round. spoke, ment "Your bouse?" it come on to rain, I went to find "You mean on account of your there was matter enough for thought "Will," she told him gravely, her. Huldy was foolish about rain, here today. He shook his head, si "Huldy's dead!" brother?" kind of. She'd stay out 1 It The man stood huge above ber; claimed to like it" "Land, no!" she said scornfully lently. Bart though they were quite wind whipped his hat brim, rain "No, I don't pay no heed to him. He added: "But I couldn't find He comeg and goes. But I'd as soon alone whispered : "There ain't lashed his cheek and struck bis face them nowheres." would blame and filled hla eyes. He wiped his have k man in the house right now. soul around here "Where's Zeke?" Bart asked. Will !" for all that!" eyes with his band, shook the water "I dunno," Will confessed. "I ain't But Saladlne stared silently at off his hand, wiped It on the side of seen He watched her curiously, but be him sence." fore she could answer his unspoken the stove, and Bart did not repeat bis coat A storm, visibly, swept took the suitcase Into the Jenny on was a the step across bis countenance and left a question, there room where Huldy was, and dining shadow there.. porch outside the door; and they closed the door between. Marm turned to see Bart appear. He Yet she thought he was not sur Pierce was there; she said crisply? leaned a steel rod beside the door prised; and she spoke quickly, to "Back, be you? Fetch Will?" before be came In. He had changed "He's in the kitchen," Jenny as spare him need of speech. "She coat and overalls. Into dry clothes, fell off the ledge down back of your sented. "I want to get her dressed "Where's Wllir Marm Pierce de house," she said. "Bart found her. first make her look as nice as w manded. and fetched her over to our place, can before he sees her.' "He wa'n't around," Bart' ex case Granny could do her any good. Marm Pierce nodded, watching the I "Nor Zeke either. figured , plained. Rut she died." ; and she saw that Jenny's con girl come about and heard Huldy they'd He assed, alter long moment tenance was Illuminated, and bj He looked around. over here. dumbly: "Bart know bow she come much more than mere happlnera; "Where's Jenny?" he asked. to fall?" much more than the selfish happi"Gone to fetch Huldy 's clothes,' Jenny steadied her tones, made ness which, If she loved Will, she Marm Pierce told him. "It'a a won them all reassurance. "No one will might find In the fact that now he der you didn't meet her." ever know that Will," she said ; was free to love her, too. It waa Bart shook his head. Saladlne and she added "We did all could as though she were committed to a saw a broad leather belt about be done!" task In which she found peace and bis waist, with a bait attached, "1 guess you would," he agreed. pride. and to which a holster bung. While they were busy here, the His shoulders bowed as though an "Hullo," he said. "You pack rain was pitiless outside. The aft der a crushing load; and after gun?" moment he said heavily: "Well, HI ernoon, though It was not yet late, "Sure," Bart assented, and prowas already shrouded In a sort of go on over. duced It. Saladlne took the But Jenny checked him. "I have dusk when Jenny went at last to In his hands. It waa an old to get some clothes to dress her," bid Will come la model, the front sight gone, of Will followed her Into the dining she said gently. "You'd best come heavy caliber; and when Jim, hold back to the house wltb me. show me room where Huldy lay; and be stood log back the hammer, gingerly WW looking down at his wife's body, his ber things." tried the trigger, he found that the shoulders bowed. Jenny was close He this without accepted was feather speech; light. pull "Huldy's Dead!" beside him, almost touching him; and he climbed and the Jenny "I always carry it when I go Bart explained. "Yon bis sinister suggestion; and a little steep grade side by side In Will's her head nodded faintly once or fishing," after, Marm Pierce came briskly In barnyard Jenny saw a car standing. twice. It was as though she spoke never know when yon run Into "Well, you've let the fire go out. and so remembered Saladlne. "That words of comfort and ,of heartenmoose down here In the woods, or between you !" she said sharply man. he's over t'the house.", she ing; yet ber lips did not move. a wildcat" (TO BE CONTINUED) Marm Pierce was In the dining This was almost true. She whisked told WI1L "I guess be wouldn't room, and Bart lowered his tones. off a lid of the stove and thrust a mind If we drove his car over. He'll Us for Sugar Can "That's the gun Seth shot Will billet In, scolding them Impartially. want It and that way we can keep Hawaltans make boards out ot She hung np irr coat and bat Huldy's things dry. Ferrln with," he said. "Over there. Is he?" Will echoed, the "begasse" that Is left over when Marm Pierce returned, and Jim "Wet to the knees, I am. Got to go haunted eyes. "Last time I the Juice Is squeezed out of the wltb banded the weapon back to Bart change." She left them, departing through see Huldy," he said, "she was tak sugar rane. But boards In the tropThe old woman waa putting on the dining room; and Bart's glance lne him off down to the ledge. Said ics are of questionable value as a an oilskin coat "Bart you flickered after ber through the open she'd show him the brook trail." building material because the white thl down brook fishing anybody brow ants eat them up. So, In Hawaii, And furrowed. "I want his his as 'were door, eyes "I she though heard Inquired. morning?" bit of poison Is mixed with the he him." to to talk said, that Then ominously drawn way. Irresistibly there was tracks along the bank.' "He left her on the ledge." Jenny begasse which makes It Immune "Win likely went that way," Bart the two men sat alone a while, till product l reminded her. "I noticed tracks Saladlne beard a familiar sound, nrged. "He oever see her. after. from Insect attack. Is The sent In great He rose They went Indoors. "Now you get called canec and mv own welf. when I wine down remotely, coming near. and moved to the door, Bart at his some dry clothes onto you," she quantities to tha Philippines 'of along. Fleured It was him." hade hm. "I'll pack the things use. shoulder. o oIUMn Martn Pierce pulled PAGE SEVEN nr a total of about 4,ri."i0,0o0.0oo IRON DOG GROWLS bushels. The Miort crops this year will reduce world carryover by III.' The use to which the phototube, end of tills season to between Ml, and .' kMMKI.uk bushels, or popularly known as the electric eye, (HMI.ihkI not much more than normal world Is put are literally numberless. One of the most peculiar Is used by a carryover prior to W- practical joker to give vol.e to an Iron dog on his lawn. 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