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Show THE Thursday, February 18, 1943 TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, S, I Patfe Seven TAH P4 TTERM Kathleen Norris Says: ' ' THE STORT SO FAR: Arriving limnl-taneonsat the King Cole Ranch. Ann Lee and Cole Cody discovered Old Early BUI Cole bad made two Identical wills, leaving them all his money and the Ranch. Ranee Waldron, established at the Ranch aince Old Bill's death from a mysterious gun-shwound, questioned the sanity of Old BiU and the legality of the wills. Late that evening, Ann's Aunt Jenifer stole out and watched Ranee help a strange lurching man out of the house. She awakened Cole and told him what had happened. Together with Cal, the foreman, he trailed the fleeing horsemen to a deserted cabin. Aunt Jenifer, searching Ranee's possessions, heard footsteps. Now continue with the story. CHAPTER XIII For one stricken instant the ad- venturesome Aunt Jenifer felt as The though she were paralyzed. next second she leapt and ran like a frightened deer; her racing footsteps sounded extraordinarily loud in her own ears as she dashed through Waldron's room toward the corridor. Then an even louder sound struck her ears, a man in the yard making for the outside door of Tom Gough's room. She gained the door she was heading for and heard the other door snapped open, and heard a man's heavy boots come pounding on. She fled faster than ever, carrying her lamp in one hand, her letter in the other. The lamp chimney was shaken off and crashed to the floor, making a noise, it seemed to her, loud enough to wake the dead, but the flame, giving out more smoke than light, still burned on and showed her dimly the way she must go to gain her own room. She glanced back and saw the man speeding after her; it was too dark back there for her to make him out clearly, but she knew it must be Ranee Waldron, and she could imagine his hard hands choking her to W.N.U. RELEASE what's the answer?" de manded Waldron. "I can't give you all night, you know, to make up your minds." Ann Lee put her lips close to Aunt Jenifer's ear. "There are windows!" she whis pered eagerly. "We can slip through while he's battering at our door, and scoot like anything down to where Cal Roundtree is!" Aunt Jenifer whispered back, "Go take a good look at the win dows. Goosey. This is a regular old Spanish house; every one of these windows has iron bars like a jail; you haven't noticed, I have." I'll give you about two minutes more to think it over, said Waldron. "That's because if I go shooting your lock off, I'm apt to wake that nosy Roundtree. I'll go to the kitchen and get a hand-ax- ; there's one by the wood box. I can handle that so he won't hear a sound. You've got until I get back to do your thinking. And I'll manage to keep an eye on your door so that you don't sneak out on me." They listened for his departing footsteps and didn't hear a sound. So they quite naturally decided that he was still standing before their door, trying to trick them into stick ing their noses out when he'd be ready to pounce on them. But he had tricked them in another way. What he had actually done was remove his boots, set them down gently and hurry in his socked feet to the kitchen, get the hand-a- x and "Well, death. By about three yards she won the race. But by the time she could slip into Ann Lee's room and get her key into the lock, he was at her door. By the fraction of a second she shot the bolt before his hand touched the knob. Then she sped through Ann Lee's room and to the door that gave upon the corridor, and as she heard him coming there, too, she got that door locked. There was a heavy silence, then Ann Lee's sleepy voice asking, "Is that you. Auntie? What are you do- ing?" Then Ranee Waldron's voice spoke up, saying curtly yet not over loud. I think you had , "Miss Edwards, better let me come in. Or, if you like, you might step out here and give me a word of explanation." "Not tonight, Mr. Waldron, thank you," said Aunt Jenifer with creditable calmness. Ann Lee sat up in bed. sne wnisperea. wnat is it? "What has happened?" "Want to shoot it oat in the dark? Again Ranee Waldron spoke, more Or get out of here?" sternly this time. "Miss Edwards, I won't stand for return. The next thing they heard this sort of thing. You come out was his voice, at once angry and here and give me a good explanation mocking. "Fooled you that time, my pretty r I'll smash your door down and ladies," he jeered at them. "I pulled come in." and made the trip, and Aunt Jenifer told her pat little lie my boots offback with the ax. You here I am then. your chance to run, but it's gone "I still have Cal Roundtree's gun, bad now. Listen to this." Mr. Waldron," she said quietly. The hand-a- x crashed into the solid and in here "Stick your ugly mug of the door. oak I'll shoot It off." up now, and all I'll do is "Open I door bust tell down, your Til make you give me back something you," said Waldron. "I know you you stole from my room. Get pig' haven't any gun. Cody pitched it headed about it.and I won't let you out Into the patio and I saw Round' off so easy. Ira willing to be rea tree pick It up and holster it and sonable about the whole thing, but carry it off with him. Going to nobody is going to burglarize my open up?" room and get away with it." "No. Not on your life. And if you The ax crashed into the wood the try it, I'll yell my bead off, and second time. I've got a voice that'll call the bogs "What's the answer?" he demand' home a mile; and the Cole Cody you ed. mention will be here like a shot A voice, cool and impersonal. and will work on you the way he did out of the darkness, for it spoke this morning, only I'll bet my bustle was dark where Ranee Waldron he'll do a better and more lasting stood; he had left his lamp in his Mob this time." room, making his way by striking w "That's something to think an occasional match. The voice, about," said Waldron, and sounded cool and deliberate as it was, soundreasonable and thoughtful. Then he ed like that of a man whom it would fell silent. A moment later she could be just as well not to antagonize. hear his footsteps, moving away. the voice of Cole Cody, just now arrived in silence. The words were. By now Ann Lee was thoroughly frightened. She was sitting up, the merely, bed covers clutched up to her throat "What's going on here?" as though for protection. The answer came quickly enough "He won't come back, I'm sure of "Oh. Cole! God sent you to us! it," said Aunt Jenifer. Yet she That horrid Ranct Waldron is try wasn't sure, and he did come back. ing to break our door down I" "I am going to shoot the lock "I can't see you, Waldron," said off your door or I'll go get an ax, Cody, his tone as steady and deYou had better open up. As for liberate as before. "From your ax calling mat cony com ore, us no work I can guess pretty close where , use. I've been to his room and he's you are, though. Want to shoot it not there. The chances are he's no out in the dark? Or stick your tail between your legs and get out nearer than Bald Eagle." Ann Lee whispered to her aunt. of here?" Ranee Waldron took his time in "That isn't true!" But Aunt Jeni fer nodded and drew down the cor deciding bow to answer. ners of her mouth. "Shooting it out in the dark, Co "Only it is true. I knew he had ay, tie said aner oue uiougnt, i gone out and I knew he hadn't come sheer luck. I haven't been over luck) back. It's likely he's down at the of late: if it's the same with you I'o men's quarters by now, chinning with rather take you on by daylight" Cal Roundtree. But if we yelled oui "Suits me fine," said Cody. heads off they wouldn't hear; that': Ranee Waldron dropped his ax . v. : . . . . ' .. .v. His gun was in his hand as he said icib ;uu m uu una- mum whj "All right; I'm taking your word foi ling, to signal him with. Darn it. I wish we had that gun nowl Well it," and started back down the corri 'anyhow, I've got all the keys I know dor to his room. Then Bill Cole Cody stepped alon( about in this place, and it'll take a 'lot of ax work to batter one of these through the darkness toward thr rooms where Ann Lee and her aun doors down." - 1 SEWING CIRCLE Don't Be Afraid to Ask Favors of God JACKSON GREGORY GREGORY Bell Syndicate WNU Features. were imprisoned. He, like Waldron before him, struck a match or two. Arrived at his destination, he said. Will you ladies open up to me? It's in the cards, I think, that I have a word with you." It was Ann Lee's swift hand that unlocked the door; Cody, his gun till in his hand, since he trusted Ranee Waldron in nothing, made no move to cross the threshold. His eyes, smoldering under his dark brows, took in all the loveliness of the trim little figure before him, gave no hint of his admiration, passed on to Aunt Jenifer. 'Do you care to tell me what the ruckus was all about?" he asked. 'It might be a good idea." Speak ing pointedly to Jenifer, he added: You were right in what you told me while ago. Cal Roundtree and I have found out a thing or two." Will you step in, Mr. Cody?" asked Aunt Jenifer. "You're right welcome." I'd be glad to do so, ma'am," said Cody politely, and stepped briskly into Ann Lee's room. Aunt Jenifer closed and locked the door and wasted no further time giving Cole Cody, with Ann Lee all ears to take it in, her adventure of the night She even handed the Jenkins letter to Cody who read it and then stood there frowning at it. "I don't know what to do about it all," he said at last "This letter found in his room, and the fact of his having hid a wounded man in his room all day, comes pretty close to pinning Mr. Ranee Waldron's He " "A man hid in the house all day!" gasped Ann Lee. "A wounded man? Tell me about it!" "It's my notion," said Aunt Jeni fer tartly, "and I reckon it's Cole Cody's notion, too, that Ranee Wal dron and the man he's been hiding, are the two that held the stage up yesterday. Right, Cole?" Cody nodded. "Right Aunt Jenifer. And more than that Cal Roundtree feels certain that Tom Gough that's the man Waldron has been hiding out is the man who shot old Early BUI. 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Get St Joseph Aspirin. School Outfit "In wartime jump into them." we stop our cars and smilingly invite the uniformed By KATHLEEN NORRIS longer I live the firmly do I believe THEthe nearness of God and the power of prayer. The rule that was given us by an obscure carpenter, who never wrote a line or had an influential friend, and who died the death of a common criminal, is still the only true rule we'd better watch our steps. But by which we humans may if we round these two up and hand live in security and peace. can over to the sheriff, what them we actually prove against them? We've got scraps of evidence, but it's mostly guesswork at that Try man for murder and let the jury find him innocent, and you can't ever haul him into court again. That's the law." If by some off chance he thought that under the circumstances a contrite Ann Lee would break down and plead to be forgiven, be didn't as yet quite know his Ann Lee. She kept her eyes down and her hands clasped before her, and said meekly, 'Perhaps, Mr. Cody, that the shot you received this morning was sent by Providence to remind one that the spirit of man should never be proud, whereas if you stood out there in the lamp light and Mr. Waldron popped a bullet into you, it would probably only show that you are a bigger fool than he is." Aunt Jenifer said crisply, "Sit down, Mr. Cody. Seems as though you're always to save our bacon from falling into the fire. Let's have a bit of a war talk, shall we?" 'Auntie!" Ann Lee glared at Miss Edwards, using one of the highest-grad- e glares she kept in stock. "For this war talk of yours hadn't we better step into your room?" "This suits me fine," said Cody. and sat down. "There is merit in my niece's suggestion, Mr. Cody," she said. "You'll note if you look about you that her room is in some disarray; you see the dear child bad already retired and was fast asleep when the fireworks started. My room you'll find as spick and span as I always am. This way, please." So the three went to the adjoining room and sat down, Ann Lee having returned to her own for the extra chair needed. "Now for the war talk," said Cody. He reached for tobacco and papers. "Cal and I figured the whole thing out about as you do. Cal thought it might be a good idea to hang the two of 'em right away, and save bother and fooling around. Maybe he was right Yet come right down to it we don't really know a thing about either Ranee Waldron or Tom Gough. But I can't see much to be done on It tonight. It's kind of late and me, for one, I'm clean tuckered this young lady with the shooting-u- p handed me and the ride tonight Suppose we talk this over, getting Cal in on it in the morning and maybe sending tor the Judge and Doe Joe to help give us a steer?" Ann Lee looked her relief; Aunt Jenifer nodded and said vehemently, "Mr. Cody, I want you to stay near to tonight I'll sleep with Ann Lee, and you take my room. Won't you?" Cody rose and bowed; it was a ather graceful bow, thought Ann .ee as she and Aunt Jenifer rose Size When anyone says to me that he would like to have seen a miracle, I think of THIS miracle, that we hold no name in all our history worthy to be mentioned in the same breath with that of Christ. Poor and unknown, yet his words still ring about the world, and his law, so utterly opposed to all natural human law, is the one thing that can save us yet. When this war is over, and the monstrous evil that darkens the world is suppressed, let us hope that those in power will remember that unless the law of Christ influences their councils, there will be no peace, and that before today's babies are out of high school the whole horror will begin all over again. No matter how they dress their treaties in magnificent phrases, no matter how many willing and unwilling signatories they obtain for them, unless forgiveness and brotherhood become the universal law, there will be no peace. The secret lies there, in the Sermon on the Mount and it lies nowhere else. When peace comes let's try to feed our workers as well as they are being fed in war. Let's not forget and slip back into the selfish old ways. Let's not ever tolerate poverty and idleness, slums and squalor again. Let's hold fast in peace to the generosity, the intelligence, the that we exand hibit so eagerly in war. Constant International Visits. We shall have to keep up an immense army for a long, long time. woman like myEven a peace-lovin- g self, who has suffered a great deal for her championship of the nonintervention cause, can see that We men shall have to have ready to take to the air; why not have them visit foreign countries to bring friendship and help, steadily, as a regular thing, so that the flag that these countries have come to know through war shall become to them a symbol of everything that is forgiving and helpful. In war there Is a demand for limitless labor, to rush the work of deWe pay for fense and destruction. It gladly, readily, and what we buy is blown to bits and sunk into the oceans by the hundreds of millions. Why can't we keep up this mag nificent plentitude of employment in peace times, paying for roads, schools, bridges, libraries, until there Is no hamlet In all America where learning and usefulness cannot be found by the humblest comer? In wartime we women knit thou sands millions of warm garments; we gather little coats and boots; we ship them to the far corners of the earth to comfort cold little crea hires who. In wartime only, seem so akin to our own. Why can't we keep that up in days of peace? There Is no tiny, shivering Chinese child, buttoncoat about generous ing her, who cannot be told that America has sent her that because America believes in a shining God who said that all men are brothers. In wartime we take to food restrictions Joyfully, and the markets are filled with philosophic women who are quite ready to face any prl vation if It is demanded by "the In wartime we stop our boys." cars and smilingly Invite the uni wool-line- d lads to 'PEACE I LEAVE ' If you haven't done so lately, take out your family Bible and turn to St. John 14:27. Read those stirring words, "Peace I leave with you." Read on a little . . . "For the Prince of this world cometh." 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For every American and Briton who can read and write Japaformed lads to Jump into them. Clubs nese, how m any Japanese can are formed for them, so that their read and write English? 7. The poinsettia was named aftevenings shall be safe, sandwiches are piled up by the thousand, cards er whom? 8. How many states touch the and games are collected. They must FIRST rub throat, chest.and back be protected from dangerous amuse border of Oklahoma? with Vicks VapoRub at bedtime. CHEST COLD ir? MISERY ments, they must be filled with good THEN spread a thick layer of beef and coffee, warmly clad; there VapoRub on the chest ana cover must be music, and girls with whom The Answers: with a warmed cloth. to dance. But in peace times, more RIGHT AWAY. VapoRub goes to shame to us, hungry and idle and 1. The year 1818. work loosens phlegm eases soreness or tightness muscular shabby lads roam the streets at 2. Chlorophyll. helps dear upper air passages night and fall into all the mischief 3. Eleven. relieves coughing. Brings wonder- that idleness and poverty and cold 4. Virginia. lul comtort and hunger and shabbiness encour5. Vermont. and invites age. And we punish them for it 6. At least 10,000 Japanese. restful sleep. V VapoRub 7. Joel Poinsett, American minLove Is Power Behind Good. to Mexico who in 1825, It is hard to see the light of God's ister law through our stupidity and the brought the first plants back to Get Your War Bonds darkness of our vision. But it lives the United States. "k To Help Ax the Axis 8. Six. on; it inspires us in every bandage we we cookie that that roll, every bake, every sweater we knit Love is the power behind them all, and it is to that love that we must trust When a sense of helplessness and hopelessness overwhelms you, then remember that stronger than all the leaders put together is the miraculous force of prayer. Remember "SNOW BUNNYWfor beginner that no woman, her heart sick with anxiety over the absent sons, her "EGG BEATER" for head over-heebrain bewildered and tired by the tpul problems that loom vaster and vaster above us no woman ever interruptGHOST SU IT" for white camouflage uniform ed her dishwashing or her ironing CAMEL for the Army man's favorite rigarettt to kneel down and say the old prayer that begins, "Our Father," without arising from her knees stronger in WwyiJ'yiMMrtltty JMMLJ1MII llll courage and refreshed in spirit mIj1iMi Every prayer that goes to God is a spark of light in the dark. It finds some bitter need somewhere, on the cold mountains of China, in the crowded huts of India; it eases some suffering, it softens some blow. Send your gift of prayer, if you like, to today's most heartbroken mother; send it, if you like, to the in boy who is lying some base hospital, and have his nurses wonder why he Is suddenly better, why he has fallen at last into HAVE WHAT IT a healing sleep? Fantastic to think that we can TAKES! THEY'RE send prayer abroad, to spread peace and blessing among those whom we f ' EASY ON MY never will know, and whose thanks never will reach us? Well, there THROAT-A- ND are many fantastic delusions In this " I as that money brings A TREAT TO MY world, such happiness, or that a beautiful girl I i Is always a happy girL We fool With men in the Army, the li ourselves about half the things we TsJT If Navy, the Marine Corps, and know, or think we know. I . the Coast Guard, the favorite But not about prayer. Peace and Infinite good are as plentiful a the I cigarette it Camel (Based on jT jW k air we breathe, as close as the air we rum nm ij actual sales records in Post I breathe. Exchange sod Canteens.) In every spare moment enter into the empire of God's peace, spread this union of prayer all over the world and perhaps, when the war is won, and the days of readjustment come, we will find it stronger than we have ever dreamed, we will find ourselves worthy to formulate the plan that shall bring us a little near- er to the Kingdom. WICKS IN THE SKI TROOPS they say: ls Uii :f t "J rL.A I (Jr sawcZl m ntsrnme J taste! Sw5 fEr7 C T?1fcsH "'"! r |