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Show THE PAYSON CHKOMCTM:, PAYON, UTAH ISAVE50AWX w?, && Ki , -- r?; Copyright the by rrlll Bohhs-- SYNOPSIS Acting a I1 In ftoml neii-h'ior- . f.i'lh Iri nri ei itn di'u't." ,rt to bu.lness uuy, IM n tril ' it!, rv n of thi i h ,mo y t,t u jer Iniuru nee comp. my, unfit is wrrr!v tcrl by till W.1II, Jul'n of Ir r, Fp' was from a supply do dor In I to d di, la. pl.icod u tr ml onlor for two do n of (he Marini r iiutomnho choke a i ouple of monl hs ago. 'Ihej'd made t.vcnly four on tluisbistlo frit nds, Including himself Now he was order, ng two gross You're bringing luck with you, Mr Hatteisori," Mariner said Its a good l omen, I'm not (di, I don t . K, iv, inn, 1,; . noruHat ion, In n from h trier resort, unflt-- h itn for Hu tifMH, d ) he taken a nhort vacation mi his return he Is wound'd hy h y daughter, Kdith, b llln him his belongings Mere In the rom, having hern removed front'sp.ue the room which had been his nnd hs wifes bedroom Tatterson s'tnn-tlon the as of hisai'rijits wifes belief in hla guilt proof fcdlth, flsvrnteen years old, Is worried over the pm ra?Kernrit of her parent. mother onlv succeeds frfi her efforts to comfortpartly her. The eon, Kdwarrt, Junlnr, la at college. A bualneaa matter hrlnp an "Inventor." James Mariner Into Pattersons life Mariner needs 16,000, with whl.h to push his Invention, an automobile choke, and Patterson Is Interested, m per-on- Hr CHAPTER III Continued vv al pit-lem- The tides turning, I can see the little ripples Fdvvard stiffened at that, coming In. and then amlled at his narrow minded-ness- . An Insurance man couldn't talk of luck hrlngers and omens, to lie sure. I.ut wtiy shouldn't an Inventor he superstitious? I want more than your money In here. Mariner said, after tliev'd talked a while. I know my "I want you. limitations, I'm no good at a desk I cant I ran keep things straight. pull, hut I cant slay behind and push. The business hs going to need that more, every day it grows. We'd make a team I think. I have a hunch that I went to the best man In the whole city of Cldengo for exuetly the thing we need out here Come out In the plant and .see what we've got IMvvard moved gravely about the two Hours with him. He didn't say much. The workers probably regard ed him ns a cool, somewhat skeptical observer. Ilut behnd the mask of sophisrleated middle age, the banker's manner and eyeglasses, was, If the truth were known (and it was only dimly suspected by IMvvard himself) an ecstatic small hoy to whom the mere champing sound of the m.n hm-erwas delectable, lie moved on reluctantly from one cation in the process of manuf.K t lire to the next. Over any one of them lie could have lingered Indefinitely. This was real; something you could hold in your hands and feel the weight of. With his hand on the oil', re door. Mariner paused. His grip on the knob suddenly tightened you might have thought he was holding himself superstitious. tell you I Kdwnrd wasnt so very late getting home that night. liven IMith hadn't yet Rone to bed, though Julia bnilbeen trylriR, apparently, to send bcr. He said hello to both of them and realized after hed spoken that they found something novel In bis greeting. In deed, to bis own ear Ills voice bud ountled a little different. As a mutter of fact he'd eotne walking In without bavin slopped to brace himself for the ordeal, to prepare an nttltude. He was pleasurably aware that Julia avna wondering about him even after she'd pretended to go hadt to her book. It would tie u ueer turn of events If. after nil, Julia should find berself the wife of a rleh man. She might be willing to forget her grlev-anron those t( rms. If Mariner proved to tie right In Ills conservative eulciihitliuis, success win B sober probability. I.ut Mippost. the other thing? What If, after IMvvard bad put In bis six thousand dollars, tile calculations turned out to he wrong? What If the device didn't work? That six thousand was the fruit of uncounted small sacrifices, legitimate pleasures foregone. Imagine It swept away for nothing hut nn Idiotic gamble on the word of a fanatic. Well, there was a ceitaln up hv It. angry satisfaction In that, too. It Well," ho asked, ''how about It? would serve Jtil'u right. Shed driven Have you come to any decision?'' him to It. Anyhow, he slept soundly I suppose, IMvvard said out of a that night, mdrouh'ed hv di earns. thdit throat, I suppose I really had lie walked Into the oIice he next decided from the beginning. Yes, I'll fnornlng with an agreeable sense of come with you." detachment which tool; the sting from the thought of their nickname for him Julia, ns the days went on, continAt eleven o'clock he told Miss Whit ued to wonder about him. Sometimes lug at the counter that he was go ng she nked him casual seeming quespat. He wouldn't he hack, he thought, tions ns to how things were going at till after lunch. It pleased him to note the oliicp; or commented on the lute that he puzzled her just ns last night hours he so often kept. Sometimes he be had pulled Julia It had been was aware merely of a thoughtful and Ids meek habit to oxpltrn Ids goms tven pu.led had; in her faee while hut. Tlds time ho offered no exphinu he talked of such things as he could tlon whatever. talk about; young Kd s letters from A sense of adventure went wit li him college; I all ill's activities In school; He felt like a pioneer. The address the affairs of their neighbors; municiMariner had given had been meaning pal politics. Probably It del strike lie had had no Idea in her as a little oncer !h it he could talk less to him what part of town the streets were on again. The long evetrngs of frozen whose corner the little factory s'ood. silence were a thing of the past. The It was a si range city he found himhome atmosphere was getting better. What a deeply Julia's questions, however patently self riding through. rutted life he'd Ived, to he sure' ltut they groped beneath the surface, didn't be was out of the ruts now, heating a rouse the old defensive resentment In llis fellow passengers In him. They didn't, even nt random, pew pa'h. the street car seemed ihlTerenl to him ci. me anywhere near his secret. She was on another line altogether. from the sort of people he'd moved he didnt among; more Interesting, more huHxcept in his man, somehow, lie wondered where seriously contemplate keeping Julia In they were going, what sort of eriands the dark about Ids great adventure until Its final nnd complete success. they were hound upon. The street where Mariner had told Ahc.tdv, though lie hugged his secret and exulted In It, he felt huvNh in him to get off was one predominantly of litle houses, ra'her daigv. most of pUs. a to let the cat out (if the hag, even from their them fallen parilv out of the hag anyhow; to give The f ictory Jul. a a mystifying glimpse that should former modest estate. he gone lignin before she realized was at the we-- t t nd of the street what It was where It was cut off hv a railroad . Ten days or so after the signing of It was a modest Itttetwo. l bud the au agreement he did give her such a If briik red ling; old, story, ha remembered nghtlv, most of tie glmq.se. Mar tier had been urg.i g H ,v to put one of the t liokos on h.s Hvidcnll.v It had been time vacant. built out here aheii of Its t one lie own ( cr, to 'he end that he night n.d'.v know for li.uis. If the wonders found himself c "'g It ns 't would Hdvv ml wan'd It. too, U p, if.i t mod look when It should he fro Mv pi nt e dnlti I k' ovv how to get it done. ed ; the win lows wasted; nr i ar into tow n li.in-of glass In the occasional to say sometime s de the' the Mown at panes. the day, Julia fir h I a loadng platform, o h 'igs. through the big door that ic Ho thou lit o'' an auditions plan Jt, he could sec the vv i II of the fre ght fc r e'.c i.g his purpose, and one elevator. Knvv ".iterul went In that n ght piling it, with hs best appeardoor, and a finished product came ance of n 'Toro'it e. o'i .1 ul. a. out. The whole p"oi e- - of the mite I've been li.mng iduud a new rmliiilion of Mur m rs dream tick e for a u ' ' mo Vs li'tly, he told ll tho.-It was walls. four ieg within place e to try it on 11 thank I'd "and her, tangible and persona, m e. nt idled t.u J he torv is out on the tar niir here. right lie didnt wonder that Mu, nor north s de In K tvi nswood. If yell are tree for an hour t ei'triw mornloved H. He was fnll tig ,n love w th th me as far him new a Idea to was ing, you iioglit daive In It himself. It lie wondered as tl it a: d get it put on 'll.cn I can Imost a new emotion go on into town and v.'i (an dr.ve If Bert Wllhird felt that way about tlecarh.uk" lie won ho-,- I unoas ly his plant. Irohahtv not; It was too ; t si cxphitia-t- i if he hadn't h 'on a scoff at would ths He probably big. ; h it if J'.. i s nv ry th.ng unnatplace, l'dwurd was sorry hed thought ural a'.eut h s iim"i r, she forbore Of l'.ert. to conunei t on it. He roilsod h.niself, crossed the 'Ihcy pet the pi n p Street again ami wont In through the moi n ng. next "Olih-eon t'ted It, had pu door that ' o e Hiankl t Chari he telling himself us he d d 'O, that d vv u en out they vvus dismissing nun nu o and cornu g ping door. "W o o down into the world of old f.o is and for you. Mr. Hr fleurc.s. e e nn es have It ("i "Well ir In spiffs. Manner was H n to is noth ' . I,,., e Id go this let'cr jos'erlny moriu"g .1 id i s are re u.ul ,i ward I'd for over it lie said, handing e t r, as he to Intro bice Cl xo rood. ''Instead of I 'day, I'd probvv g e ev cry wanted to do, it to go on ably have boon fool eno"gh sway. g thlt a litt trying to hold out hy niysill I . t 1 e i : i i I 1 vv . I r a- I i v hh 1 vv . at-h- vv i I v - -- s , i he ; -- vv , ; I , w , next question struck IMvvard as rather irrelevant. "Hoyou know anything ahold Mariner, ext ept what lie's told you about himself? liver looked him up at all?" ward ad"Not very thoroughly," He felt for the first time a mitted. tom li of exasperation. "Hrudstreet, and Inm, I suppose you mean. 'I hey wouldn't know any thing about him. Youd pass him up as a shabby visionary. Well, he Is shabby and he sees He'd never siici eed 1)V himvisions. self. Hut with me to help him do the spade work, he'll succeed, because Ins " v s,nn happens to he true "'1 el! me more about it," l.ert commanded. "Just wliat it's supposed ta do and lmvv it does it." "Ill tdl you what I'd rather do. I'd rather equip vour cars with it. One of them, anyhow. I'd like t) have you see for yourself" Him t s.i d. hut a little reluctantly IM ward thought, that lie'll he glad to do that "Well, I (crtaoily hope you're right about it, and its peife.'ily possible that you are 'those th.ngs do work so met im s and make fortunes for ttie man who goes into them. Hut" II.s lipgi's drummed for a while on desk. "If nt I want you to re men her what Im going to siy, You Naveti't compicioh (leaned yourself out. l.efore you do, before you borrow on your life iii'iiiance or moiiguge your house, come to me and give me a look in. l.et me go over your hooks, see how you rt'ullv stand. And then tint's till have to ask to vvliit I've got to s.iy. It won't necessarily mean that the tiling's a failure bn iiise it wains more mom y. I may tell you to go ahead and put your shirt mi it. Hut if the tiling Isn't her in it someright, if there s a j- But if ths Thing Isnt Right if Joker in it Somewhere "He Didnt Finish the Sentence. where a ward's hy Mur, nor on the day of first visit, that he ought to put himself as well ns his money Into the bus, ness, from being a remote and fantastic puss hdily came nearer with the irresistible rush of nn express train. lkiiiv in November, well within a month of the time he'd made h.s tlrst Investment In the comp try, tie sent his resign. ll ion ns cashier of the Chicago agency to the home oll'iee. The stab of terror that accompanied his wr.ting the letter was in itself half the second pleasure ihle. He Infic-mevice president that he had gone into a business of his own which would require all his time. He left the with regret and viihout criticism, let alone (oriplant, of their treaiment of him it. lie spent, then wis mi a n'giit tnar'sh three or four d ivs u t ing for tie answer to h,s let'cr. Hut when It came, he fid; a it, .found relief Vi.crt Willard 'Ihat same d h.s ctkc" !!.',! li n dropped penol to he passi-- g hv, he viM with m,. truispnient Ins'pecr v. aid h up on the spur of the meiii'uq t.i s It vv is that thev turn li tugi'h.-re since Cov'd a devil of a vv am th ' g of rui h o!!m r m Civ. M w is qu''e av no th 't t'es u (s vv ird true and that it v is h s mv n d, ; 'i, He'd been a o d g Hei t i'. Hert was h's id h st frit He hadn't the f lit fe- -t Idea of hor rowing on his life iiMir.uii e he'd seen enough of that from the o'iier side, heiven knew ii"f evui of mortjig-it.his house. The business wasn't going to need it, anyhow. lie got Ins ovr. oat and hat from the clipboard and ptit them on. I'.ert was still sitting sohdlv in the chair g "You've been here beside his desk. li long while. Ned," he sue! Peldierately Iciwnrd let his gue run over the fnm.I.ur room and dwell upon the vista of the outer ollii e lie could see through the halt open door. "I've come to loathe th s pai e." he said. "It's had twenty years of my hfe, nnd I haven t livid in it at all I never even knew t.ll lately what it was to he alive. I do know tnnv, I'm happy In tins thing, tort. I d t ire a d n vvhe'h.r it m.iki s me a f' rttine or not. I've nevir d, ne Never hid a ran fir mv money. Hut tins tlieg why, ,t s g,V-i- t n ,u.w. g me real nir to hu id e I ( ,mv-th.n- I i ! v v Yes. we'll go to lunch toguCi r" he ud. "Hut s't d."v a li m uu'e There's something I want to t.il vou Now that he was inevoo-ahliil'cut commtted to the greit udventme. he didn't want to wait even vv li 'e thev w ere walking around Cue miiier to tl e club. Cxcept for a profane ex ''.gnu: on of astonishment now and then and a non cocin ttal question or two. Her; listened In s lence to the whole story y 1 ' to'tel .home fo, " me Ive been d rn New - ! -e i m k, sends Y soi.vs about v tv. to bed, nnd went IMith when "of course," he said, you were en- titled to he told about It before everything was divided, hut somehow I couldn't bring myself to tell anyone. I told Here today, hut that wasn't till after I'd got the letter from the company aioeptirig my resignation. It was a tling I thought I had to decide for I don't, altogether, undermy self. stand it myself why I felt that way, I mean so I doubt if I can make you undtrstand at all." "Hut I can understand it, she told him. "Ive driven you to It, Ned! Thai's why you dal It." He aiisweted automatically, Not at all, and then broke olf short in his denial. "Oh, its true in a way, he miKeded after a reflective pause. "If we'd bien happy as we used to be. If there'll been anything I suppose I'd have held mud) to bud;. Hut wliat really drove me to it was my job with the insurance company. 'I hat's been poisoning me for Hve to en a failure, Juba. yiars. You've seen that yourself. A safe, industrious failure. Well, we aren't safe any more. I believe the thing will sm reed, hut I don't think Hert does, liven Manner deosn't pretend it's a sure thing." He got up from his chair and came We havent thrown tovvaid her. a wav our safety for nothing, though, he said. "That's what I want you to si e. Weve got seine sort of a hope in exihiinge for it." "Well, we needed It," she told him. ... lo-- e, She rose too and came to meet him. Awkwardly nnd with a visible effort she imt her arms around his neck. "Here's hopHig," she said, and kissed him. H.s bent leaped up, ami sank again, in the very instant that their lips met. tie hat had moment iriiy hoped from that hi'S vv is not there. They hadn't snd whit he had v,.!dly believed they we'e go i g to egy Almost imperceptibly she had withdrawn. Her arms were stdl around his I'ei k. 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He told her Hie whole story, and, his hopes warming into a blaze as the smoldering fire did, he gave her a chance to see .something, he thought, of Ins vision, a thing that mght come true. He didn't turn back to her until he'd finished. She hadn't put in a word, but, though he'd felt nothing hostile in the silence, he wasnt sur- prised to see that her eyes were full I Mose ! Y ! A ; vv 'le-- I . 1 It alm'gh'v "You've been hieping dark. It set ms to me," he comtivt .d ward had thoughttulv when "1 n ln't "nut to he argue ,.et i he a K' I ,,f ij j s ippose. vvu't' to ri ii ry see e g rl f ,s f i " y I know di n t m prove of "1 :l l.He ir c is , ,,t " 1'dvvu' the i'on'1'.i' i'on. "'ll r ght. g. a ou re eut ed to It's vour U.' n a". down tie' vv r low. "Cm v a'. mg to him li," he s lid. 'I ht v w i nt on hv tup i,i II g and a little si if eel s , ..p ,i. ' o her th t gs ' i. H w s i lit t! ev I id I' ti s' e H Into . en t t tm m ok to the tep.e of h.s f ,en ndv cut tiro. " W hat does Jul a th k a', eg py he ashed t'.'-s- s cleat deep hreu'h it) a i ; . said. v enm-pan- . He didn't finish the 'eneme. got up and thumped h m on the ha k. "All right, I 11 remember," he The suggestion, planted tended to. Y I fitionglj, passionately, that It needed his help. Mariner had spoken the truth In saving that he was not a desk man. He didnt like his desk, and he made excuses to stay away from It. I otters went unanswered; details, but Important details, went long unat- - Theres 'I haven't t"ld her yet." IMvvard ad I shill tonight of course, meted. iioa it S settled.'' "Y ou n e.in you haven't told her any- thing, not even about the investment?" I don t lMvv ml shook his head. suppose you can understand why I didn't. ou see, things have been I'.ert didn't let him flounder Into that. Mill, I guess I can understand. he interrupted. "Hut I've got a hunch that shell surprise you ns much as you surprise her. Julia's a darned If It strikes her as a good sport. sporting proposition I menn, If you put it up to her that way. . . . See what I meun?" IMvvard said he did, hut this was not at tlie time quite true. He thought about it after theyd parted. It had seemed strange to hear Julia described by that phrase, hut he guessed she deserved it. I.ert hadn't spoken Idly, He wanted Julia given a anyhow. chant e to see the adventure as her husband himself saw it. He had to wait, pretending to read, .i t Ju-- a. (WNU Scrvlee) ti.e k.u pc ks oat for h m. Hut the ,v s r wavs U'k thev c, s is the p.stl g .ag to live "A are k, Ii.tt I, you lie WI, !e yn 10 wal.ng for the "i. in?" s C Pi vie i oia ng In now," Hdvv aril told h m, C.oi g!i tin y havent begun to show very nun li in the hank ha We ihm t ay oursilveS any amireal salar.es, of coui's.-- until the busiI've got a ness has found its feet I may have over, lift little anyhow to ask the hov to use his own money to hnish out this year at college, and pin it buck to him next fall. Hert's onlv comment on that was a nod It might have meant agreement, or It n. ght tiave meant, IMvvard realof ized, no more than recognition His i n'.s about a siory. f.iiiuhar . He loci lii r vv la n the itistadalion is pn id, tl at s',,- pee ln't take him II'go on Into town any foliar on tie cleva't Ai'er shed drivin uvvav, he stole halt an hoar front the h s ij j ., in e tills ness for a chat with Charlie (Mir, tier not hav.ng come down yi t) about how things vvete go He vv is (Hiding it almost mg. hie to let a day go hy without squeezing m a v.sit. lb ally, Jul.a was right. lie had fallen in love, romantically, with the little f.o lory as a youth falls In love with a girl. It was a completely revolutionary experience. Hed been conscious of an he emptiness .somewhere, long recognized what It was he was hungry for. In the uneventful course of Hongs he might never have found out. I.ut when sheer desperation foried an adventure upon him, it Intoxicated him. The lei hnique of habit made it possible for him, Just possible, to carry on his duties at the otliee, Just as it mal.es It possible for many a love stricken young man to go on In a daze holding down his job. Hut Ids whole being centered itself in that little red brick factory out In Kuv etisvvood. lie wasn't long In coming to feel I It In ,i I doubt Us Just us will No ,, - jMv Co. longer, li It j h SEcnry I&afcSicll Webster Novel 5f A ' y,w4 y ' " - e , vv .. crea , of Ia some It t br'v f M Is. s cere.,.' : f -- th ho-ti- s. f " 0 g'e.uest of ' r I.e M s transla- on , f Mo,i i " f b I l.j'rcss. Mv siorad ., were badly Lgcst an v fvod. Me Ikerces Golden md ,'ho u cd tl e ar.d t')c.-- medicine bn-at- j r:t T. , r ,:-v- t , v oaf e rU For ricrc fre limit, KutTilc. A ,0 |