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Show THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, innnnmnnnm DAPS. aimers in Heapeti a "It was Continued PART FOUR 20 "I killed hlmt I killed Babooma a man T" Swiftly he closed her lips with his own, with quick perception of the effects which renewed civilization might have had upon the primitive instincts aroused on the island. "I owe my very life to you, wife of my heart," he whispered. But his reflections were misplaced. "Thank God !" she cried unexpectedly. "I would still kill anybody any day who attempted to hurt you." " 'Nora de iDleu I ".. he echoed, the Frenchmen. "Our life will be a checkered career." Then Barbara fully recognized once more the old Alan of flesh and blood, deep moods and light banter, poetic Idealism and prompt action dellclous-l- y human, warm with love and life. She suddenly laughed, the bewildered sense of shock falling from her the first real spontaneous laugh of many weeks, "Alan! Alant Nothing matters but the fact that you are here alive I But I can't understand It all. How was such a mistake made?" "Very easily. Because De Borceau didn't, of course, know friend from foe I Things were going all right with us. But when one of the devils set fire to the hut and the friendly spear knocked me out, De Borceau naturally though all was up. Some of Baboo-ma'- s lot tried to reach you, but Roowa frustrated them. Then De Borceau was staunch to his oath. He fought anybody who came near you, like a medieval knight, and carried you off to safety. Poor Koowa thought he had stolen you from me, and nearly went mad !" He laughed remlnlscently. "But you? What happened to you? The expedition searched the Island. And what became of the De Borceaus when they returned ?" He sank Into the big armchair, still clasping her In his arms. "It's quite a fairy story. You remember the wood tn the east where, that first Christmas day ?" "Every leaf!" she breathed. He smiled Into her eyes. . . . "But not every rock. In that wood was a very cleverly concealed entrance to a subterranean passage leading to a kind of vault. This - narrowed down Into another outlet quite Impassable on the shore, which allowed a little fresh air and glimmers of light. This cave was tabu. In happier days, when the tribe was suffito provide Its ciently own meat, the condemned dinner was well, we need not go Into details! But that cave was supposed to be baunted with the spirits of past feasts. Nobody liked to speak of It, or go near our it When I was considered dead, friends, very naturally, carried off mj " bleeding corpse "Oh, don't !" cried the girl who had Buffered so much from this act. She burled her face on bis shoulder. After a lucid Interval be resumed bis narrative. "When they reallied you had been stolen' and I was still alive, the fear arose that the 'bird of HI omen' would return snd make off with me, tool So, to Insure my safety that was the Irony of it all they raised the tabu and hid me In the cave. Only Roowa was courageous enough to enter with I was knocked out for some food. time. When I recovered Barbara! Can you possibly Imagine my feelings upon discovering that the rescue party had come and gone? I was raving mad! The poor beggars had done It for the best and were bewildered. Nothing would convince them that the white men were my friends. I spent what seemed years of agony, doubtful If any further help would come. My only hope lay In you." "In me?" "I thought you would persuade De llorceau or somebody to try again, not rest content " "I wantfd to come myself," she "I Implored and threat cried ened and Oh! everybody was so But what happened to De Borceau?" "As soon as the plane's arrival was l known the whole tribe raced to the shore and burned It to cinders. I found the brothers hiding for their life In the forest." He gave an Ir reprewilble bubble of laughter. "They literally Ml from the trees upon my neck! We have been kiftning each other's hands or faces ever since. So, again, nothing remained but to wait and hope. I thought at least a mis sionary party would turn up. That second eielitlin was Infernally slow !" He laid his cheek Impulsively down "But De Borceau could upon hers. me news of you. He told me everything about Singapore " Her lips turned, trembling a little, U bis. And." she whimpered. "'It!" "And 'It.'" Ills arms tightened. "And other things. I Insist ed. He acted loyally for us both, Barbara. It made my gorge Bat by heaven rise to know what you were facing And there I was. the Inferences, the powerless as a stranded Infant to kail you." h 1 !" she murmured brief ly. "Have you heard ?" She "Madge told me everything. got the news of our rescue almost directly after you left London ! I enme home like the very devil by sea, air, and land to find you had disappeared gone to break your little heart alone. where I couldn't find you " "I had to come away, Alan. I was In a turmoil " "My Barbara, don't I understand !" Suddenly his eyes blazed In their old way; and he dashed an arm upon the table, causing the flame of the lamp to Jump.. "Those blighted Pharisees! Those d d, gossiping " "Oh, my dear!" She laughed again at this familiar vehemence. "I went to Darbury," he explained briefly. Her laughter fled. "Tou went to Darbury, Alan?" She glanced apprehensively Into his grim face. "What what happened?" He remained silent for a moment. then met ber eyes with a smile. No deaths occurred." "Well "Did did mother say "There was a very free, candid In terchange of opinion ! I honestly tried to reconcile jrour mother, but" he gave one of his old careless shrugs "she considers herself disgraced, and talks darkly of being obliged to leave I saw Rochdale, Darbury. ... too" r ... Barbara raised her head again. "Ah ! Dear old Hugh ! He has been splendid, Alan. His friendship his struggle to to believe " Her vclce quavered. "I know. And he, of everybody concerned, might with Justness have condemned " They fell silent awhile, each knowing, by their own Joy, what It all meant to the friend who had lost. . . . A realization of what this return would mean to Mrs. Field combined with her own overwhelming Joy to draw from the very depths of her heart a voiceless prayer met thanksgiving. In the luminous, darkened "I couldn't feel more married," she added, with the quick shy look he loved. His gray eyes darkened ; with a little catch of the breath his arms tightened. "There's one thing, therefore, which bold bad barons must have in their pockets when they chase their victims to Darbury, to prove their good In tent." "What Is that?" "A special license. I know a parson near here. We haven't met for eight years ; but I wired this morning to tell him we should arrive at bis church to be'marrled" tomorrow " "My dear whirlwind !" she gasped. He bent, with bis old violent sudden- - j ness, and caught her up so close she could scarcely breathe. All the old passionate, dominating love, which had so often swept her away, poured forth and surrounded her; so that, panting and glorying, her Individuality, after all Its lonely travail, once more transfused, transformed Into bis own. "So," he whispered, "we must hove another wedding, my Beloved! But It cannot be more beautiful more real than the other In the dawn ' " "With a little sobbing, tremulous "If we sigh, she clung close. had one every year. In every land and every tongue," she murmured whimsically, "they would all seem beautiful to me." The landlady discreetly entered at last to lay the supper. She cast one comprehensive glance at the armchair, and her smiling face grew more radi ant. "We are to be married In the morning," Alan remarked. Cornish neonle take life calmlv. They do not lose their heads or forget their duties In any crisis. "Yes, sir!" Mrs. Tregutheran agreed brightly. "I'm sure I du hope you will both be happy. And will you have eggs tu breakfast, sir or bacon?" "Both heaps !" They smiled at each other when she left the room. "Somebody must feed us." he observed, passing his fingers through her curly hair. "Every little note has Its niche." ... ... pell-mel- fe 1 t Hugh sat long over a lonely breakfast, a few days later. The "old people" were away. The London paper, with Its list of marriages, lay upon the table before him ; but he stared away absently, through the window, without turning the page. . . . Presently, with gun and dogs, he stepped out Into the raw February air, turning aimlessly down a lane. . . . An hour later, followed closely by six puzzled brown eyes, he walked slowly up the pathway In the little wood where aeons ago he and Barbara had discussed their honeymoon. The gun still jested unused within his am, the cartridges untouched within their ... bag. Underfoot, the Or needles lay soft and damp with here and there fronds of sodden dead bracken drooping upon them. The tall pines swayed a 11! tie, whispering their everlasting, murmurous sometimes, song; dropping, splashes from their wet leaves, like tears, upon the dreariness below. All the world appeared gloomy, dead, sorIt seemed Impossible that, rowful. soon, the sap would run In the tall trees, the young green shoot forth upon the hedges, spring with Its fresh myriad life awake with the "singing of birds." . . . "Oh, Don't!" Crlsd the Girl. The unloaded gun dropped unheeded eyes that met her own, she saw the to the ground. . . . The six brown same look of almost reverent awe. eyes questioned one another wonder-lnglthen looked back at the tweed-cla- d Never bad he seemed so gloriously alive, so radiant In spirit. Again she figure lying face downward, with raised her hands to feel the features bead burled In his arms. . . . she had never thought to see again; At last Shag, Hugh's favorite terthen drew the dear head, with pas- rier, ever the most tender-hearte- d sionate tenderness, down to her breast. of friends, approached cautiously ; and clasped It there. . . . sniffed; then gently licked what was To both of them, beneath the super visible of a much-lovecheek. flclal lightness of talk, this hour (THE END.) equaled In sacredness that of their marriage morning In the dawn. But Famoua Old Church l this held In It, also, the sees the three hundred and This The past dark sixty-fourt- year Joy of a resurrection. of the demoness, with the struggle toward the lition of the anniversary Church of St. magnificent light, had left Ineffaceable marks upon John at Perth, the restoration of each soul. . . . which Is now contemplated. "Can't we go back to the Island?" This Is without doubt one of the she wlrlspered at Inst. most Interesting churches In Scotland, "Some dny." He raised his head Edinburgh Scotsman. and smiled. "We'll retire there, now says the Weekly ascribes Its foundation to Tradition But It live all end then, and again! It I've the Plcts. but, whoever founded It, our first Jaunt Is to Australia. storie churches one of the earliest Is been commissioned to rebuild the old In the country; and. In the bus. There's been an awful lot of built Twelfth and Thirteenth centuries, as I since and got Interviewing publicity evinced both by ancient documents back ten days ago " and by, the surviving remnants of the "Only ten days! And you've been ertlflce'of that time. It was magnificent to Darbury " and extensive. The monk of Dunferm"That's not all." was granted, allowed He looked at her with eyes which line, to whom It a state of afInto fail It to disrepair Inscruold held something of their fairs which Robert the Bruce set about tability. was "Your relations showed unflntterlng remedying, but the restoration his death. by stayed 'conwhat at termed my they surprise stancy now we are rescued. Oh, Odd Quail in Borneo lord The long, hairy, reddish crest gives "They would!" she cried, with Inthe moderately sized, rich green plum-agedignation. "The fear that we meant brar.enly to greenwood quail a distinguished defy the KngiUh law possessed them. sppearance. says Nature Magazine. In Its native haunts, from Slam to BorThey besought me to marry yon 'propneo and Java, It Is a lover of the erly. In a church.' Your aunt particularly Insisted upon a Protestant church tropical forest op t at) altitude of 4.000 feet, and seldom Visits the open not a registry office, or chapel." "Just like Aunt Mary!" She laughed conntry. y; d half-fearfu- h r d j ment through the use of pure bred aires, according to a report Just issued by the bureau of animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture. Persons participating In this work at the close of the year 1924 numbered 15,137 exclusive users of pure bred sires, widely distributed among 46 states. The department. In conjunction with state and county extension workers, la aiding these stock owners to Improve their methods of breeding and feeding. This organized plan known -- as the campaign has resulted In noticeable rivalry among counties and states, where agricultural leaders have used It as a means of bettering farm live stock. Ohio, Kentucky and Virginia each have mora than 2,000 farmers enrolled In the campaign. Largely through the activities of county extension agents, 40 counties In nine states each have the distinction of possessing 100 or mora live stock owners who are using pure bred aires exclusively in all their live stock Pulaski county, breeding operations. Virginia,' leads the . list with 592 .such breeders, and Union county, Kentucky, The la second with 457 participants. chief advances in the progress of the work during the last three months of 1624 occurred In Kentucky, Vermont and Ohio. A conspicuous new center of Interest in this field of live stock betterment was in Lee county, Iowa. Altogether 235 additional stock owners affiliated themselves with the cause period. during the three-mont- h In commenting on the keen Interest which live stock owners are taking In systematic Improvement by the better- sires route, specialists of the bureau of animal industry call attention to the most Important result of the work-nam- ely, the superior types of animals which these breeders are raising and the substantial market benefits they are deriving. As a typical, example, an Oklahoma stock owner reported to the department that "the difference In price on the market more than pays to keep pure breds even though we sell no breeding stock." Scores of similar reports show that the benefits are practically the same In all parts of the country. The department's records, showing the gradual growth of the better-sire- s movement, appear to be an index to the growing prevalence of good live stock on farms and In market centers. But before good live stock can be produced In large numbers, the spe cialists add, there must be a wide appreciation of the utility value of good breeding coupled with the actual use of high-clas- s pure bred sires at the head of the herds and flocks. Th campaign undertakes to supply this need in an educational way. Any live stock owner who replaces bis Inferior male breeding animals with good pure breds Is eligible to take an active part In this work. The department grants each participant a barn sign, "Pur Bred Sires Exclusively Used on This Farm," besides furnishing helpful information on the breeding, feeding snd care of farm animals. The new report on the progress of the work contains summaries of state and county activities, statistics on number, kind and breeding of animals, announcements and terse facts on the practical value of Improved stock. It contains nine pages and la In mimeographed form. Copies may be obtained, as long as the supply lasts, from the bureau of animal Industry, United 8tates Department of Agriculture, Washington. i i Mini rr s n w i i United States Department Trsporad pr th of Agrlculturs.) More than 1,600,000 head of breeding stock on farms in the United States are undergoing systematic Improve- rather bitterly. moss-cover- well-meani- rffl-- t IMPROVEMENT SEEN IN BREEDING STOCK Co. Bobbs-Merrl- ll I I (SR0S5 j s CL1UE ARDEN Copyright by Ths T--1 i yi is T " a IA IS IS 1 as te a U Sb- - JEm 21 - 7y H X r 17""" 42 I I I i 2.1 "SP 23 35" 31 IXT IaIm rfeeW . 24 I r f i JsP r"O l 3T" H .1X1 TZ I I CT3 ZTTTi.r "JFIs I ZT I 'O' (Copyright, 1(11.) 11 A aata of tho Halt Horizontal. 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URSERY RHYME PUZZL-E- Breed Dairy Cows for Late Fall Freshening Dairymen who can successfully practice a system whereby their cows will freshen during the early winter months almost invariably make a greater net return and find that the cow's production holds up longer, as when spring grass comes the milk flow la stimulated after three or four months of winter production. In addition the price of butterfat la Increased during these months, which Is an added Inducement for early winter freshening. The fact that most farmers have more time at their disposal during the winter than during the growing season constitutes the third Important reason for having the cows freshen during the late fall and early winter months. IL R. Isscelles, Colorado State Dairy Commissioner. Calf Needs Colostrum All calves should have sn opportunity to suck their dams at least two or three tiroes because, as dairymen well know, the first milk, or colostrum, calf In Is necessary for the new-bororder to clean out Its bowels. This milk seems to be Isxstlve; nsture hss made It so for a specific purpose snd that Is why a calf should suck Its dim for at least a day or two. After that It Is best to resort to hsnd feeding. As a general rule, start by feeding the calf one pound of milk for each taa pounds of Its weight. n s IDE, baby, ride, On Dapple s back astride, Galloping over the nursery floor. Making a terrible rumble and roaf, Waving your whip with' a proper pride, Ride, baby, ridel Pinal two other rleere. lag. sen, along Right side down, along horsa) upper rlgM a |