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Show 17, 1131 AV, APRIL n. xwv ai ,6 THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, UTAH r He iisl.ed bre.itli. TRUN HENR.Y i r - KITCHELL sWs& dcaV 'S- WEBSTER - ,! A yq 'fi- w.n pt - COPYRIGHT 6y The Ctt a "'Aliy did you think she was? What did she say she wanted? Have you got her letter here with you?" Siie answered them, still trying to be cool about it. In reverse order. No. naturally not I put it away. Why, she said that a couple of yeari before my futher died she'd given him a paper to take care of for her, and that now she needed It terribly, and she thought I might be able to help her find it. I dont know exactly why I thought she might be the woman you told me about." "Well, she Is, all right Anybody could see that. SEALED f three questions, all in u. SERVICE .BOBBS-MERRIL- Feature Items for Friday and Saturday, April Malt Syrup ni a A ! n p , ' i ,1 - f I Villi tiik 1,, w (I - h 11 if III II on-r-I- wliiih 11M he fl m trom the leiusis to nut. not'd She Tat II -- i Khoda lit 'llie .1'iuiioimu.l. M.n Wes ih. him I, O S' i Juil u mr is , II t u.i h" in. orni1- - the " ml" 'ii; mil "i ' '.1 ." in- Klioila u hi ihou ts ot ll n ,ii. e. it it the (TU-'li.i- ul 'i.aiil. he ,w (1,1.1- i I .1 lt ' rl I - hi linr In hn'ii !,p v, woman i a uln- 1,) II." Im O i! k ! S i HI ie in i l - i v ' 1 l. u1.- - n'il is. ' b ' ,i, 1, ar M if i K ,, 'i u Z 'ftht ) li'inl'ood m .1 t'ulifoi nia s ,,, ,, town ill!' If'hir mail, she is happy small w.th h' i t.H.n pioltsMir in until inf foi tune tomes.. unmn'ii 'u ith le, the blow is her her W .lh ml Untie, who bcnomes h, I, ..1 I i tin I, UHL (1 l , As-i.o- father niiiul un "nitre." ller when- - he is en-i- ii to i 'ii i JK t stei ions work i" g.Mf1 leal ns hhnil.i. bv i ham ' hen she and a.I, it. aid. sit iom a ph y. .! In r do s suddei Ij , - - x'.i'tm in r a n!y Inn K to kmc her a a trank She has in p gbout pi's" fn r In - ilfi'h. an i,,,i, i, ni r tie h b total ink slit- will he ill she ilium's her name to "Unite and om nphor in t'.ie newsbi conus a st paper old. e wloic lorhes is woiking She is hi ink with a ti llow woiket, Hat's" Ji i nines it.ihe who had been at the 1..nre the mcht beroie, tells her law is n.id askul her if lthodas real n line was not McF.ulanil, thilu bi .lu - h If i , i , von a great fagot nothing to do with I hate got money enough, money. thank heaiens; to put tills through eien if It costs a whole lot. Hut I am f imply disnerate fir something I am sure you can help me had. It was I am going to ask It vor. lifts pn;cr that a nsVl your father to I was worktake care of or me when ing for him in his laboratory u g a story to tell It makes too this w.'ii find I want jou should iune my whole cm ii 'erne in this matter. Will yo'i come to lunch with me tomorrow in the inn? I will be there 17, m lv,,le oYlm h on. at the table to tiie right of the door in the I Hitt Ii room. I will he wearing a black hat ami a dark blue dn.ss. Years most sincerely, 1 Ti;-Tn- ; t'l.LVFLAm n.-Hit- want to say this in addition. I think it will he ns much for your adianla'.e as mine if you come. The man who treated me so shamefully is tiie same man who played a mean and treacherous trick on your father and practically ruined his life in order to make himself rich ; and I think if you and I work together we can force him to male things right foi you as well us for ni at least as far as money can male any tiling rigid. Le! me warn you of one more thing', and I hope it is net too late. L not answer any communication of any sort from any stranger until you and I have had our talk. I hae reason to belief e lie now lias designs on you, too. ou may not lune found out yet what some men can he like, but believe me (not slang) I know Yours, CLAIRE. Rhoda read the tiling straight through without making any patisos for reflection and analysis, and It wasnt until she got to tiie postscript P. S. I ! that the false note began to sound loud enough to arouse her suspicion. Down to tiie first signature siie never thought of doubting that the woman had worked for her father and laid given him a paper to take care of for her. Slip wondered how tiie woman had found her find noted the fact that tins wasnt explained, but she put it among the details that had been too numerous and complicated to write in idler and assumed that It would ie explain), , ns soon as thov met at ( force to n:a!:e tilings right "as far ns money could inaka anything right? (Tiie slimy hypocrisy of that afterthought turned Rhoda a bit sick.) Wasn't he most likely the Mr. Forster whose advertisement she was not on Wasnt he any account to answer? the C. J." whom Martin had heard them talking about? Well, one thing was settled, anyhow. She'd see Martin and get the details all straight before she went to lunch at tiie Tip-Toinn. If he happened to be waiting again at the foot of tiie elevated stairs that would make every tiling easy. Martin was waiting at tiie foot of the elevated stairs, but beyond that point, everything in Rliodas program went as badly as possible. To begin with, she and Babe didnt come down tiie stairs but descended at tiie curb from a lordly limousine, instead. It wu.s Balie wlio'd accepted the offered lift, but Rhoda had on this occasion followed tier companion gladly enough, since theyd been hurrying and had seen their elevated train pull out of the station just about a minute before they got within running distance. Stopping his car for them must have been an act of pure benevolence on the part of the owner, a respectable old gentleman with a beard. As he sat, he took up most of the back seat, and instead of moving over he had laid thorn turn down tiie two folding chairs to ride in. A pair or rubber shod caries in the corner gave Rhoda tiie idea lie couldnt move about very ea'-illie asked them where they wanted to go, instructed his chauffeur to drive them there, and then apparently forgot all about them, submerging himself In his morning paper. He acknowledged their thanks at the end of t he ride with a gruff, nod, and that was all there was to it. But when Rhoda turned from smiling goodby after him to find herself standing face to face with Martin, she perceived at once from his flush and his frown of annoyance that he hadnt liked it. lie had even the air, she thought, of waiting for a Justly to be demanded explanation. There was one ready to hand as far as that went. Shed never have got into that car if Bah- - hadnt already committed her to But she wouldnt have told Marit tin that for anything. 1'. lie's contribution didn't help mat-tir- I' iicr. She said to Rhoda, after ' a a negligent hello to Martin, p V.'i'i t do you suppose tiie old biny-gi,.,1 us i a up for. anyway, making us sit on those folding seats all the way? Mostly they want you to cuddle up a little, no matter how old they are. She didn't wait for any answer from Rtioda, and left them. Im glad you happened to be here," Rhoda said to him in the coldest tone I wanted to ask she could produce. you about the woman you heard talking night before last at the Alhambra. if hed answered her properly shed hme forgiven him for looking annoyed over tiie limousine. She would have told him, when siie got around to it, But tie didnt how it had happened. answer her nt all flashed back at her, instead, with two questions of his own. Wlml's siie been doing since last night? Was there a letter from her in that bunch I brought upstairs?" It was annoying to have her thunder stolen like that. I dont know, Thats she said. what Im trying to find out. There .i iuinh. Lnt with 4hc beginning of tiie post-adishe began to feel herself hris-t.inwith suspicion Nevertheless she wuit on and read it through to the suddenly nfTeitionatp Yours, Clairp pfore she let herself begin picking it to pieces. TI treacherous man llrui Piayod trick that some her father. In order to make himself rich had such a thing ever happened? In Itself, It Sounded fishy. Her father had o' tier anything specific aboutneier hitS hut she knew he mutt havp "'n trying to disci or or to invent soniething. i'1p ntnn might have "len her fatlier's discovery if her had eter succeeded In matin? Put lie hadnt succeeded. He'd f'he on hoping to make it right up the u Highway, strike anywhere. This, she reflected, was as much as to say that she was a fool not to have seen it for herself at the first glance. He really was infuriating. He was staring at her now In a blank abstraction. as if he didn't know she was there. When he waked up It was to ask further questions. "What does she ask you to do? Let her come and see you and go over your fatliers papers and pick out wiiat she likes?" Boneless picnic, fine for Virginia baked. All she asked me to do," Rhoda told him, resolved to stifle her wrath until she burst, "was to come and lunch with her at the Tip-Toinn today as soon after twelve as I could, so that she could tell me all about it. And before I went I thought Id ask you to tell me . . Rhoda, youre not going?" He had had the grace to put an upward quirk on that last word to make Franco-America- n, always handy It sound like a question, but hed Del Monte cream style. for lunches and picnics. No. 1 - tali. I n started, siie thought, to tell her she shouldnt. "Of course Im going," she said. . . "Siie may be all right even if she Is the woman you heard talking to Mr. Lewis. Anyhow, I'm going to find out." "Y'ou wont find out a thing from her. That womans clever, Rhoda, and shes dangerous. Youd better let her alone. Why, shes got you half fooled already. At that, since it wasnt feasible to stiake him till his teeth rattled, she turned and left him with a rush. Unreasonably she was a little disappointed that Martin was nowhere about, not even In the ofling, when she set out at noon to her rendezvous. She mustnt waste time thinking about him uow, though except as a warning not to lose her temper again. Her Mr. and Mrs. Herman Almendinger only reason for going to lunch with and children) of Midvale spent the the woman was, as she had told Marweek end here with their parents Mr. tin, to discover what it Was ail about; and Mrs. James Francom. of never heard these shed why people before wouldn't let her alone. She'd Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dart and get nowhere by acting suspicious or Mrs. A, R. Wilson, Correspondent The by asking skeptical questions. children of Spanish Fork were guests more confidently this Claire Cleveland Mrs. Lloyd Wilson entertained at a at the home of Mrs. Darts parents Mr. and Mrs. Bert Sanford and the more she'd took her for a Ught-wi- t Mr. and Mrs. James H. Francom on be likely to give away. Mrs. Mary Ballard .returned to their delightful bridge party last Friday home at Bakersfield, California this night at her home. A very attractive Tuesday. CHAPTER IV week after spending a fortnight here lunch was served before the game with with their mother, Mrs. A. T. Gouph, cards placed for Mrs. Howard Hud- j Mr. and Mrs. Dave Shuler entertainWas Martin who has been seriously ill. Right son, Mrs. Ehvood Dunn, Mrs. Merrill ed at a family dinner on Sunday for The first thought that flashed Into Smith, Miss Leona McClellan, Miss Air. and Mrs. P. C. Wightman, Mrs. her mind when she saw the woman Fairbanks, Mrs El Roy Barn- Florence Griffith and son, Mr. and Jennie Mrs. Thayne Bingham was hostess who was sitting at the specified table Mrs. Weston Bean and Mrs. Wa- Mrs. Howard Shuler, Mr. and Mrs. ett, was that there must be some mistake at a delightful social afternoon last Milo Christensen and Mrs. James ShuLoveless. about It. Noting the black hat and Thursday. Her guests were the ladies yne ler. for the recieved Mrs. Bean prize the dark blue dress didnt altogether of the Utopia Club with Miss Margscore and Mrs. Loveless the seShe'd exhigh do away with It, either. uerite Peay as a special guest. The Mrs. Lon Calloway has been visitcond award. person. pected a very different-lookin- g time passed pleasantly with sewing in Salt Lake for a fortnight with This woman looked rather nice. She ing was serhad delicate features and blue eyes, and social chat and luncheon Golden Calloway and family. her son, M. ClayBishop and Mrs. Raymond and youd guess her age In the early ved. Midvale ton of East spent Saturday or not twenties well, twenty-fivMrs. Clyta Margetts of Salt Lake in Payson with Mrs. Claytons father, much over. has spent the week here with her The instant she saw Rhoda she got Mrs. Frank Wignall was pleasantly John J. Schearrer and other relatives Mrs. M. Burdick. mother up and came around the table to meet surprized at her home Saturday night and friends. Miss know her. "Id you anywhere, by a number of friends the occasion I was sure she said. McFarland! Mr. and Mrs. P. C. .Wightman were her birthday. She recieved many Mrs. Deon Livinngston of Moroni is I wasn't mistaken. Youre your fa- being nice gifts in honor of the event. Ent- visiting here wit hher parents, Mr. visiting in Salt Lake last Thursday thers daughter, all right and Friday. There flashed into Rhodes memory ertaining games were played and and Mrs. William Keele. Mr. were something Martin had said about the lunch was served. Present woman at the Alhambra; that she and Mrs. William Buckley, Mr. and Miss Norma Erlandson spent last County Commissioner Charles II. looked younger, somehow, than her Mrs. Jack Perry, Miss Arleta Buckley, week end in Salt Lake. White and Mrs. White attended the voice sounded. It settled any pos- Mrs. Orvil Conk and Mr. Tom SwinGovernors banquet given in Spanish sible doubt about her identity. This dell all of Mr. and Mrs. A. Payson; Fork last Thursday night as a feature H. Francom Mrs. James Mr. metallic, and and hard was womans voice C. Wignall of Springville; Mr. and with the silver plating worn off in were in Provo Sunday night for a of the Utah County Stock Show. Mr. Mrs. Lyman Losee, Mr. and Mrs. Bert and Mrs. George A. Cheever also attspots. Siie mustn't be thinking tilings birthday dinner at the home of their like this! She mut talk! She had Losee, Miss Grace Losee and Mrs. ended.. Mr. Cheever was the represenaunt, Mrs. Fanny Evans. Its Mose Dolley of Spanish Fork. a rehearsed line that would do. tative from Payson city council. perfectly marvelous to meet some one The regular clinic for the Payson who knew my father," she said. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Persson annd Mr. and Mrs. Louis Borg, Mrs. May Lets not try to talk," the woman district will be held on Friday April Children of Garland were guests over settled and Mrs. Lctisha Simmons Walker weve until suggested cozlly, 24, in the Stake House, beginning at the week end at the home of Mr. Peer-sson- s 1 P. M. The Utah from Salt I,ake Sunday to came down the important question of lun h." County doctcr and Her manners, Rhoda reflected, beparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Per- nurse will be present as well as the atteend the funeral of Samuel Worthlonged with her voice rather than with sson. ington and to visit with relatives. local workers. She Insisted on ordering her looks. an extravagant lunch, and the way Mr. and Mrs. Spence Amos came Mr. and Mrs. Dean Wightman are she overrode Rhodas protest was Mrs. Emma Wilson entertained at a from Bingham Saturday and vidown of fine a the rather too birth over of in her baby honor rejoicing family dinner Sunday "I guess the first tiling youll want with their sister, Mrs. Minerva Nebeker and her boy on Tuesday April 14. The happy sited until Monday night to know." she began as soon as they T. Amos and W. Mrs. and Mrs. C. A. Christensen and child event occurcd on their wedding anniv- parents Mr. were rid of the waiter, "is how I niece, Elmer. Earl Mrs. and Mr. ersary. found you. It was pure luck if there ren of Daggett County. I saw as a such is luck, really. thing you tiie other night at the Alhambra that is, I thought It was you, only it seemed too good to be true. You were dancing with a gentleman I know, Mr. Max Lewis, and as soon as I got a chance I asked him about you. But it turned out he didnt know very much about you, himself. So I told him hed got to find out for me, and yesterday he sent me your address. I dont know yet how he found It out. Rhoda heard an edge In tiie bard voice that suggested she wanted to know. Oh. Babe must have told He brought her him," she said. home that night. We live together, you see. Then, with a rush, she went on Into It another speech she'd rehearsed. See Our Hand Bills For Friday and was better to get it over with. "You Saturday Grocery Specials must be wondering why I changed my name. You see, I wasn't of age when ONE WE DELIVER my father died. And I didn't want OR interferand lot of people bothering OOD ing telling me what I could do and 10:30 A. M. what I couldnt. And I thought It would be easier to be let alone if I No. 2 4:30 P. M. changed to Rhoda White. I could change back now, of course, only there isnt any reason why I should. TV V.a r'nntlniiAl 35c atf-'i'- day he died, lieu sd,e reread tiie injunction not any communication of any p Pflvily undorscored words u'd like a real dinger signal. The ch'iminicnUon of any sort was the 'Seiner, t for Rhoda McFarland, 'new who tlie woman was now; woman Martm had tried to tell f, wlio'd been afraid "Uni answer the .advertisement haper before they had time to M,i'S tiny meant to ti,( "i a she remcfherpd Marl in Imd to!, her 'jr 0 ''n' Poe man Claire wanted to .ib-w- er n-- ht i "'t , Carton . . . 15c I Hams p Pound Corn 3 cans Spaghette 43 C Each .... 1 Oc Toasted Marshmellows pound Store No 26 Payson, (Jtali Phone 95 e Meat Specials ForSa turday, April 18 upon Was Annoying to Have Her Thunder Stolen Like That. one was a letter for me from signed herself ifluire Cleveland, and I thought she might be the person you told me about." s,,-n- who I Matches Balco, excellent for cooking, baking and other culinary purposes. Each jk it SYNOPSIS J 17-1- 8 F IXON Sanitary Market |