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Show THE PAYSON CHRONICLE. PAYSON. UTAH - Te.t for Cam new camera, so tells us, can take um a second, a sP,.n,. Judge, would be about ttT quired to take a f,,Hv J, A i f AL Copyright by the Bobbs-Merrl- SYNOPSIS Acting in good faith to aid & ruigh-J- r, Kuth Ingraham, In a business way, Edward Patieruon, rahler of the Chi-M- o agency of a life inHurane comla pany, wrongly aunpected by hla Jvife, Julia, of Infidelity. Her accusation unfit him for Uubineb, and he takea a short vacation. On h's return ha is deeply wounded his daughter, Edith, telling him byhis personal In are belongings the hp&re room. having been removed from the room which had been his and hie wifes bedroom. Patterson accepts the situation as proof of his wife's belief in his guilt. Edith, seventeen years old, is worried over the estrangement of her parents. Her mother only partly succeeds In her efforts to comfort her. The son, Edward, Junior, is at college. A business matter brings an Inventor, James into Patterson's life. Mariner Manner, needs J6.0U0, with which to push his Invention, an automobile choke, and Patterson, after a brief investigation, decides to go In with him, supplying the money and taking a part In the management. Without informing his he resigns from the insurancefamily, company, devoting his whole time to the pushing of the Invention. An old friend, Albeit Willard, is frankof ly skeptical the value of the choke. Patteison tells ins wife of the change he has made. She accepts the situation. Edith (s made aware of the in the family fortunes by hr change mother telling her she has decided to with he cook, she and Edith topart do tha housework. At Christmas Ediths 1, a private one, puts on a play, fcho the has a part. Her brother Edwardgirlconies from for the holidays. With him is college Roger Morgan, whom Edith had known as a child. Her mother asks Edith to leave her present school and finish her at the public high school. It will tnean a saving of several hundred dollars, and Edith agrees. A talk with heartens her. Edward Itoger Morgan tells her he is going to pay hla own way through the university, and she decides to leave school and fit herself her father's stenographer. Jo become Is hurt, but her determination is vident. Edith finishes her course and takes the position in her father's office. At her urging he goes out as a Salesman to sell the choke. etu-61- CHAPTER V Continued lo -- 1 Nothing doing nt all," he said violently. Ive been listening to you fellows all day, and Im through. See? I feel, I suppose, much os you do," Edward told him. Its as tiring work trying to find the doors to Inaccessible minds as It Is to sit listening to strings of plausible nonsense. Yet Its part of your business to be curious and tolerant, and Its part of mine to he Indefatigable. I nmy hove something you wnnt, and you may be a potential customer of mine. It wont take either of us but a few minutes to find out. lie was conscious of having created with this speech, some sort of disturbance In the mental atmosphere of the man behind the counter. In particular, the word Indefatigable seemed to have Startled him. Iled been frightfully and embarrassed over his choice of words during the earlier encounters of the day, trying for the vocabulary, the phrases, even the Insalesmanship, flections, of end aware thut he wasn't doing It successfully. Of lute he'd been forgetting about this supposed necessity but It wasn't until now that he realized how far he bad lnpsed. Indefatigable wasnt the nly one, either. How about "inaccessible and potential" and "plausible nonsense! Surprisingly, though, they eemed not to have done Ids cause any barm. Possibly this hall of polysyllables had dazed his victim. The Implacable hostility of his expression didnt change and he spoke as gruffly es ever, hut what he said was, What you got? Edwurd took the choke out of his pocket and handed It over to him but didn't at oneo launch out on his explanation; gave him time for a curious and rather inyst Hied examination first. This wasnt conscious drama on his part. He was still thinking about the effect of Ills words. Was It possible that an honestly acquired command of the English language was an asset and not a liability? Certainly he'd got on better since hed quit pretending to be less educated than he really was. The man was asking questions, he kept on asking them. He must like the thing or he wouldnt hang on to It like that. He sneered nt Edwards lighted match test but he repented the thing two or three times for himself. Why? Suddenly Edward got a surmise as to the answer to that question and It excited him as the sight of the fleeing cat excites the dog. The man was afraid! He was afraid he'd buy. A stupid mini, no doubt, not very quick wilted, anyhow. Inclined to be credulous. If be didn't bud; out people took him In, persuaded him of Inthings; especially people whose ns he superior recognized telligence to his own. His defense was to frighten them, with Ills sneers, Ida bullying voice. When lie succeeded in frightening them lie avenged on them bis own fears. Tills time, though, his defense had failed. The shoe was on the other foot. This customer, before Edward to was got through with him, dotted going line of on the name his elgn A an order form. A dozen? No. tune the was dozen full carton of two be was going to dance to. was All the same, when the order In nnd the sigiture writfilled Anally took ten down, a feeling akin to panic man The salesman. the of possession hack from him might snatch the thing fwl wfe H and tear It up. outside. had got ntll he hard-boile- U$, i - Co. ll Novel by Henry Eillehell Webster I.ord, what uu experience; Well, Le do t lit; Job very thoroughly In that knew, now, how the thing was dune. length of time," he commented mildly. He looked at his watch and found It "nh, of course, Mariner admitted, was sly oclock. Hed tune to call It a I wouldn't expect to stay In every day. He could face Edith, now, at all toxxn and wait till the results came In. events. He telephoned the office are Id give them a chance to take it If Mariner, who happened to he there, they xvnl, ted it, though." told him she had gone home. Edxxard glanced around. Edith had Mariner seemed to want him to slipped out Into the shop. come back that evening. There was Mar.ner," he said, "for Just five quite a bit of mall, he said; and then minutes, lets talk plainly. If you're there was a matter he wanted to talk adxoeut.ng this trip to the const as a about. Ilut Edward told him It would selling program, you're talking nonhave to wait. He didnt want to talk sense. There's more buying power up to Mariner tonight. He didn't want Sheridan road from here to Milwauto talk to anybody. He telephoned the kee than there Is along your whole house and told Julia he wouldn't he route between Kansas arid California. home to dinner; perhaps not till late, We huxen't to cover Cook counhe didn't know. He didn't mean to ty. I'.v the time ive have covered It, do nnytfdng but have a quiet dinner xxo'll krmxv definitely whether we've by himself somewhere-- at the club, got anything or not. We've both been perhaps and think, get himself toshirking. Youve done nothing for weeks ; nor I either, so far as the vital gether, explore his dlsemery. He had an Idea that he might, perhaps, hue need of this business Is concerned, lifted the of a new world. until yesterday. Edward thought he knew what It "Yesterday I was out In the street was that Mariner wanted to talk about. myself. I didnt sell much, but It was The Inventor was Inxenting something the most Instructive day Ive ever else. He'd begun throwing off mystelived through. I knew noxv that our rious hints about It weeks ago. At thing can he sold, and I know I can first It was something hp wasn't yet roll It. What's more, I can make the salesmen sell it. M.v proposal Is that ready to divulge, even In the broadest we give up our grand Ideas for the way, the nature of, except that If It turned out right It would he prodigipresent and go to work. I mean to. ous the most revolutionary advance Im putting It up to you. In automobile engineering that had Mariner Well, I wont have It! come along us yet. growled. "I can't stand this place, nor Edward's emotional response to this this peanut business! I've had about all I can stand of you, Patterson, If sort of thing had been un almost uncontrollable Impatience with the man. Its plain speaking you wnnt. Ive got There had been a time when Mariner on to a big thing. Ive put my heart's had talked that wav about the auto blood Into it. Ive been working over It twenty hours a day, and when I try choke. He was, Edward reflected, exto tell you about It, you won't even actly like a cat with her kittens, turnlisten. ing fiercely on the last lot as soon as the new litter made Its appearance. "And then you tell me Ive been shirking; propose to make a peddler So, finding Mariner In the olllce out of me Thnts the way people are, visibly waiting for him, when he arrived with Edith on the morning after here In this part of the country. Out where my wife Is visiting they are his selling adventure, he was prepared different. Shes met some people out to do battle against an open proposal there with money who dont think In that they undertake the manufacture terms of nickels. By the time Ive of Mariners new device. He was godriven my car with my new vaporizer exto smash It flat. Yesterdays ing on It out there, across the plains and perience had made a new man of him. the mountains nnd the desert In winAll right," Edward said, sitting Ill be able to show them that I've ter, down and motioning Mariner to draw a big thing. got a It out. chair. What's have "I.et's up To say to the innn, "It was you who on your mind? persuaded me to put my savings into Mariner surprised him. Eve been this peanut business, nnd if you turn thinking about this choke business, mil now nnd run like a yellow dog, as he suid. "I don't think weve got the you propose, you're a right policy. Whatever the thing fraud to say tlmt and a lot more amounts to. Its a question of selling was im Edward's tongue while Mariner we and what nren't It, thats doing. talked. But when he censed talking, the Impulse to retort died away. As he sat there with hanging head, his face working and his hand3 clenched, he was merely pitiable. I beg your Suddenly he looked up. pardon, Batterson. I don't mean what Ive been saying. Between this nexv Invention of mine and my and my wife, I'm beside myself. Batterson, I don't know wlmt she's doltig out there. I dont know what she may do. I'm not a proper husband for her; Im not what she deserves. But Ive got to hang on. Ive got to go out there. G d I ought to be there now! Edwards gaze fixed Itself out the window. You couldnt look nt a man while he was saying things like tlmt. There was another silence. I dont mean that, either, Mariner I I cant seem to wont on again. talk nt all this morning without running wild. Of course there's nothing serious. I dont want you to think that for a minute. But about this choke. I think theres a real chance to open up some nexv territory. I'll do Suddenly Edward Got a Surmise at the very best by It that I can. At the to the Answer to That Question, very least, I can make it pay my way." and It Excited Him as the Sight Edward nsked him How much, of the Fleeing Cat Excites the Dog. how much money would thoughtfully, The Man Was Afraid. you need? "To start with? Oh, not very much." Except for a few agencies In the I dont mean that." Edward told business. a local It's South. practically I mean for the whole trip. Our real markets In the West, nml him. Mariner smiled wryly. To he rid of that rnrt of the country hasnt been touched. St. Louis and Kansas City me," he commented, "for good nnd all." I've got to know." Edward said. and from there on, all the way to of course, Mariner acquiesced. "Yes, . . . California You're right from your point of viexv. Edward pricked up his ears. He Five hundred dollars? I'll earn that began to see what was coming, lie In commissions between here and Kanswitched his mind off what Mariner bo enough, I was saying and began to think, l.v sas City. But that'll the time the Inventor wound up gues." "Well, If you earn more than that. "That's how it looks to me. he had he glad to pay It after the orders I'll line. his well decided upon pretty in nnd the hills are paid. I wont come That's not a had idea, he said. "!f honor any drafts, though," he added It. see can to accomplish any way you bluntly, "on prospects or premises." Of course our main preoccupation Jtmt "That's un Mariner noddl'd. now Is to keep afloat. We couldn't about that "But said. he conto send missionaries out afford to If I have it now? check. Can vert the West, oxen if we had ttie man can. I'll start tomorrow." to go." "I can let you haxe It" Edward "Of course It would be essential," Just about." He wrote it on said, Mariner said, "to send the right man. and Mariner put it In his the exon spot xou about that. I'd agree with 1, IPs pocket. Ills manner had change thought tt xvould be xxetl If 1 wont out tiilel have to seemed actually face oxxn all take car drive and my myself; b a little. to St. l.ouis first nnd the wav. "You're a good sport. Patterson," he get the well; started there. Then, across to Kansas r.ty. ThutV an said, "and I beliexe you're go r.g to e enormous field. make a go of this. I don't hen I got thru or-it. iuo gone on haxing I'd go to regret coast. xvost, the ganized youll off noxv. This Is going to he a u'.x Thats the biggest tioid of all." "How long. lidxx.ird asked thoughtday." ! For a while after the door 1, fully, do you figure the trip xvill "x sat then:': Edxxard behind him, take?" "Oh. not so very long - Mariner told at his desk. That check lmd p.c let. h fee : xx ell cleaned him out. Six weeks, porhips. him. tor good Edward repressed an Impulse to xx as that Mariner's ;.r,.-man nt the Hail Sep .use the boon how Idea had smile. any cheap You couldu't he'd foresees this enJ.t.g on that nigut transparent he wns? sky-lin- xxl.' i i dei-irtui- choke. "Really excited?" she asked. Well, he seemed to be, her father said. "I dont knoxv anything about him. I gathered from some things that he threw out that he's some sort of real estate promoter. He had on a fur coat thnt must have cost several hundred dollars, and his car looked understand, I beliexe 1 xvould le a good salesman, for a fact. It's been a perfectly astonishing discovery to me. I'm abounded every time I do it. I suppose that's why I enjoy It so much. It's making a new man of me. I'm getting unscrupulous. A jear ago I'd have been horrified at this nexv scheme of mine, of paying t comdoormen In garages a mission on all the chokes their boss sells. Noxv I'm proud of it. It really Is a good scheme. It works! The repeat orders show It." It was almost the most thrilling thing In the world xvhen dad talked to her like that, tolling her things as If he didn't know he xvas doing it, things she couldn't im.ig'r.e Ir'm tolling anybody else except mother of course. In a way, she xxas ci o r to him even than mother, clo'-oto h.m than oise in the xxorll. lie didnt haxe to explain things to her or had up to them, because sh ' xxas there on the spot xx lien they begin, -. Site xvas there xxh.ti (l,r:ran began. fifty-een- r lad anx--on- e ere came in a:'-- , xv.lki'd . '.! ix I ' X.xXXS. or un civim! !i I eex to till a x -- ; t ole O. 3 1, dm hod. i ho fu'I on i .1 rr; a ami !' ! , i i ier : ' L,1', 1: , o r ,,,,. o : ,1 e But the ro; x. w. s r- -, Pvt. .1 , xxivi out a Lit of gjtsi.tou Uad ; ; notes, and a rattle, made loaded with sand or .,!! ftf ftf In the Apple, C! If gettingup from the tallie h really makes people heal,)!? opener and the dinette lnvt afiPle in Its Job of e -way. Cincinnati , Bookcate Hint you have built-ifiooko. either side of your irel!a(.e show them off ,0 good ailvtintal? If 011 placing a little, W,! low. bowls!, on the top shelf of each side. 1 J Handle Publicity ever makes u 1?1 Tranquillity small town is here peep, around to look instead of dl.,.k:. . when a tire burMs.-Hh.i- r,,,,, Banner. xx Primitive Areas for Parks For the benefit of large number, of people who craxe the "hack ton,, ture type of forest recreation, th, forest service is establishing "priml. tixe areas" In earfi of the national forest areas. The id.-- Is to leave unimpaired unique natural values and give to the public- s inclined an ipportunity to experience condition, which existed iti pioneer phases of he Patterson, I Dont Know What Shes Doing Out There. I Dont Know What She May Do. Im Not Proper Husband for Her. Im Not What She Deserves." as If It represented thousands of dollars. He had stopped at the garage for something gas I suppose and he came into the office while he waited. I happened to be In there selling a carton of chokes. He looked nnd listened a minute and began asking me questions. I think he spoiled my sale. He xvas so interested and got so enthusiastic that I Imagine the boss suspected It was a plant; took us for a pair of conspirators. However, the loss of that sale won't matter much if . . He broke that sentence off short, as if he lmd tried to stop himself; as If the last half of that sentence was something he didnt xvant to say. "Bid you sell him one for his car? Edith asked. "I gave him one, or rather he took it. He seemed to want it to play with, like a child who has found some Irresistible toy. He says he's coming around the first thing tomorrow morning to talk about It. She xvas as excited now as he. "Bad! she cried, "do you think he means to go in?" I don't knoxv xvhat I think," he told Im afraid to think. Certainly her. it xvas from that point of view that hj talked about It. He couldnt understand why It hadnt been advertised. He talked about putting thirty thousand dollars Into a local newspaper campaign as a preliminary. He made my head sxvim. I haven't really got my feet on the ground yet. Well, there's no use thinking any more about him until tomorroxv. Well see what he says then provided he comes. He set about opening his letters, and she went back made, anyhow a pretense of going back to her own affairs. Bid he mean to tell mother tonight, she wondered? Or would he want to wait until they knew whether Jake turned up again or not. She mustnt of course say anything unless he did. He didnt leave her In suspense. Oddly enough, mother, with her first look at them, as they came In, thought they looked blue. Bad day?" she asked. Dont you care. We've got a good dinner. No," dad said, it Isn't that. Were a little hit frightened perhaps, but not depressed. Let's hear what you think about 11." And he went ahead and told the xvlmle thing. Whats your " he asked, when he finished. "W ill Jake turn up tomorrow morning?" g'.m-'s?- (TO BE CONTINUED.) Scribes 'f i rylnin news which was xltal luto'est to the v He real kVk of the interview H e bottom. B"a t to1! air. one ,.w you gm this; I t x to ot a h u kuche picking up letters from the floor." was the J . Tourist HEAT Of ADVISES RED PEPPERS FOR RHEUMATISM Brings Aknost Instant Relief pains of rW tnatism or achtji or neuritis or lumbago drive you near? mad . . don t forget the marvelous eat Nature put into red beat peppers. For it s this penetrating that relieves al pain as it soothes and to gets down under the skin, seeming clear up inflammation instantly. It ii this genuine re peppers heat that ia now contained :n an ointment called jR owJes Red Pepper Rub- Asyourub it in you can fel relief come. There! nothing betterfoibreakingupadanger ou3 chest cold, cither. All druggist! sell Rowles Rtd Pepper Rub in convenient jats. When the intolerable Liver Stores Heat lVirhnur of Yule unDr. Henry the Niversity recently reported to of function the ational academy tlmt the liver is tlmt of s.ivins heat wfcen the body is chilled or nt the on?etof fever. Dr. Fierces Pleasant Pellets are the original little liver pills put up 60 yean fcgft They regulate liver and bowels. New York Led e New York state lmd the In the World war. uiTroxisiatelJ 490.00S. This soothing f ointment draws out vour cold like a magnet xxhen rubbed chest and throat. Eases breathing xxhen inserted in stuffy nostrils. Jars and K rntOh Experiment go.D? i ever tried Doctor Have without glaes? ,t i Patient Yes wily I"''t took them off xvhen I ",lu t'' Easy to darken GRAY HSK way 11 so naturally nobody C Ini ad !i J oxin morn !: !.', development. this quick s.nxod thorn under the door. Then he sat dm' n ami xvalrel. Li due (O".rso, the list of questions fd out ami to the reporter's .o iim.iement, all the questions xx. wo carefully answered and Mr. Mor-n nations parks filled with little cabins, facilities for eonking, running water, showers, etc., are a boon for tie traveling, public, bat there are thousands who will enjoy, appreciate and help conserve these "primitive areas" xvhicli will form a part of all our national parks of sufficient area. sight-seein- 1 a ; r. tv, s 1. s on i! l.t'd ; . til,-,- ' I tr.p to F r o,.j;n of,,: xw.o y so I T i ,( of h .In.,,;-,- x. r "re ir !,; Tt e n M g oxi t n-- Itapo- Mot ii' n 1, t.,)t Of Tar0'il , xxlth A Tribute to Fcruruciiy of Newspaper J. I'. Mo"g ,r, e, job-rj- js ; ithe,, xvM-tl- geles Times. , SvN a She merely dues the niiirl' work for the completed The Sacrifice It, dad. You know," he said reflectively, if I werent so densely mid fundamentally Ignorant about the sort of tiling I'm oh, of course I know trying to sell our oxvn Immediate line of patter. It's when I stray nxvny from it that Im lost hut tf it wore something I really wi-f- notes; man. CHAPTER VI That one thing, the length of the road, was what Edith darpd not let herself third; about. She didn't mind any of the Incidents of the Job, taken by themselves ns they came along. It wasn't hard, not so hard, after the first week, as school. The eighteen dollars her father handed her In a regular pay envelope every Saturday afternoon Infallibly gave her a thrill, though sometimes a twinge, too, when she happened to krmxv that the hank balance was especially low. There was a satisfactory feeling about handing to her mother every Saturday night seven dollars for her hoard, nnd In having all through the week, In the little black wrist-bashe always carried with her, money that was Indisputably her oxvn. If ever she wanted to go on a spree within its modest limits she could. The Job didnt take on a really nightmare aspect unless she looked ahead, at a vanishing perspective of weeks anil months and proliahl., years made up of days so exactly alike; the same train every morning, the same dirty walk to the office, the same mail, the same routine of telephone calls. Conditions nt the office had never, even nt the worst, been as had since Mr. Mariner left. Nowadays, when there was a bad mail, or when somebody they owed money to called up and acted disagreeable over the telephone, dad would put a choke in his pocket and go out and make n sale. Its funny, she told him once, the way you used to say you never could sell things. Youre a perfect whiz at Indian Muic The American Imk,,,, , i drums; a flute, a s.. No woman somewhere." 1 i over to lu-- r desk without stopping to take off his overcoat, took a card out of his pocket and handed It to her. It xvas a personal card, not a business one, with Mr. Jacob Gorman" engraved on It. "Who's that?" she asked. I dont know," her father told her. Seems to be a stray millionaire. Hes just been getting excited about our xx 1 I (WNU Service) for the first time at the club, and Ic'd 1. stoned to those golden roseate pro; ones and dreumed those I.ord! dreams. Bn' the queer thing was that he was glad he hadn't foreseen it; glad he hadn't consulted Bert about tt as he had ha'f meant to do that night. The very blindness of his Infatuation jgrtu k him as a piece of luck. His daughter's voice startled him. "Cosh, I hope lie stays In California! she said "Bad, xxhat do you suppose Baby's boon up to out there, that he's But she didnt so excite.) about?" seem to expect him to answer that. What gets me, she went on almost at once, Is why he should care xxhat she does as long ns she doesn't Slip treats him like a come hail;. hen she's here. lie cant posworm sibly like her. Nobody could like a person like that. What does tie want of her?" She came over to him, pulled him around in his swivel chair, sat down In Ids lap and hugged him. I think youre perfectly great, dad, I bet she said. Then she laughed. xoti're glad mother isn't like that. Come on, lets get to work. We're Just at the beginning, he told her. Making our real start today. That's the way I feel about it. Its a long road, my dear, but It leads e I , and Marnier had dined tie ii Our P etuIanceT Not that profesi,,,,,; Z criminals haxe anxt.ir M hut Its a curious fl,,t most of our pet names classes. San IVrnar.il, S,fese l0 Noxv without u'.nx, ( ' ;; you can darken V,",.' quickly e the world s ht'x. s re.-tnj- noxT keeping e looking. Bercitt-'- i ens it to the R simple asbrushu l.hX a !er.-- e gist 75c forSlLl'iit--I SAGE & easy direct W. N. U., Salt Lake C kB0 v, , r3;i::3. tu3;e bs 'xxh:d ''j.. 15 jt cp's' 5 ; p.vdrrC; ypicln3 |