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Show J THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH THE CHEERFUL CHERUB irnsAinr It5 nobody! FcaH bvt your own if voure szd. Please bear tnis remark in your mind Tkeres no one wbo By RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL COPYRIGHT D. APPLETON CHAPTER X Continued -1- out again, passing through the group of disapproving faces. The matriarch rapped on the window with her lean knuckles and waved at her elderly daughters, her middle-age- d granddaughters, and gave her shrill, cackling laugh. Now, go on home and dont fret, she admonished them, you poor old things! condi- great-grandmothe- rs evident even to Sarah d Lynns preoccupation, and she ached with pity and protest. The old woman sent for her and went at once to the point. Sairy Lynn, 1 guess I dont need to tell you Im getting older every minute. Sarah Lynn leaned back in a great deep chair which made her seem childishly small, and the aviator stretched himself flat again, his hands folded behind his yellow head. This was the one 1 liked, Jordan said, his fingers halting. high-keye- ' I know, She took a small, lean claw in her' warm grasp. And I wish I "could give you But I shall go down from this airy space, this swift white peace, Great-grann- y. Then Sarah Lynn Dana took her twenty years. ship away from the pleasant landThe last ones? Think now, look- scape into the calm skies, carrying ing so far ahead, that you wont the pioneer want em? Well, you will, let me who had crossed the plains ip a tell you; youU want em the worst covered wagon to found the dynasty way. And youll know you cant of Danavale. have em Well, Im obliged to you Sarah Lynn looked back at her for the wish. often and every time she smiled all Im sorry, Sarah Lynn said over her small parchment face and I wish there waved a claw. Oh, was something I could do! Im having the best time I ever Well, there is, the nonagenarian had m all my born days, Sairy Sarah Lynn felt a little shiver of Thats what Im get- Lynn, she chirped, unaware that briskly appreciation. She had known it. the said at. sent tor you her wavering treble did not carry Thats why ting "the swift white peace, stinging exul tation. Life would never press too I know youre getting married and over the sound of the motor. Beats close on her, on Gunnar; they putting out. quicks ever you can everything Even the first day in ; wouldnt let it! They were not they had dominion. Jordan played on and on. quietly now, with a conviction of serenity and permanence, and the crimson of the hearth died down to a hot, gray ash. It seemed to Sarah Lynn that her heart must literally burst with its weight of surging happi- this stinging exultation; And time will close about me, and .my soul stir to the rhythm of the daily round, Yet, having known, life will not press so close. And always 1 shall feel time ravel thin about me. For once I stood In the white windy presence of eternity. ninety-seven-year-o- Great-grann- ud ld y, WNU Service. diminished descendants of Sarah Ann Kittredge Dana, pioneer, in an DEPARTMENT! some of the elderly Mother! daughters called, and Oh, Grandma! a middle-agegranddaughter cried out shrilly. Then there was a wild clamor of talking and weeping, of questions and reproaches Sarah Lynn stood quietly in the midst of them, trying to keep remembering how the sunset had looked steadied her voice, didnt come down." she Great-grannGreat-grann- y boldly in the sky, as she would wish, that small grandmother. Age closed her in like a trap, you opened the door. Oh, 1 know! But, keep dream ing of her, huddled down m her seat, swinging over the belt That is folly. Think of her looking down with pleasure Yes. Only I did so want her at my wedding. It it isnt going to be a very nice wedding, Gunnar He shrugged. What matter? It is a wedding. That is enough Then we go! They were walking back to her house from an evening with Lynn 1 I love you Sacah Lynn pulled herself out ol embrace to look up at him Gunnar. do you love me? Me? Have not said 1 know. But mean is it only because Ive learned to fly properly? Because Im not afraid? Because I do the kind of things you his 1 1 like? Or is it myself? He laughed aloud. "This is a Enough of folly. We finish! folly. I love you because you are you without fear, and wise, a good Sairy Lynn, and thats right. I the wagon-traiand the day we flier. It is answered.. want you should. But theres a knew we was in Californy. My land, what would your Gregramper think there was a shadow in favor you could do me first. No, but she said gladly of this? She gave a little crow of .the eyes of the queer, dark Dana Anything! Well, poor Hank! When triumph. girl. Dont you think we ought to Anything I can I should admire to have a ride in I think how he come acrost the care for people themselves, not for what they do? Not even for what your continent, most of the way Sairy Lynn. Of course, Great-grannId cause we lost so many critters and they are? 1 think we had to make the loads light, adore it. It needs no thinking, he said. and he was young and stout. Id that Well, theres plenty But Gunnar, suppose suppose wont," When the folks admire to have him here, today, she said grimly. 1 stopped flying? of it therell be the devil to looking down like I am. Well, forSuppose you stopped living? hear and no pitch hot, but I dont evermore! If thats all Mt. HamilHe pay Enough of folly! We finish! care Ive got a hankering to see ton amounts to, .and the way Ive kissed her again. what its like. 1 want to ride up in been looking up at it for eighty-od- d My, but the airs nice up Lynn Dana wrote to his traveling the sky and look down at birds years! Lynn! Awful light and here, Sairy always flapping their wings that cousin: . . . Makes a body drowsy . . . thin I want to look down and envied, I wish you were here to see them The flier looked back and saw hei at Danavale and all the foolish now, Sally Ann. By and by, I supIt was too bad to let her nodding. and road the folks built houses the pose, an inexorable calendar will of this thrill She an lose instant I and come over catch them and clip their wings, your side slip and the a mild executed and in the covered wagons, dirty but now they are soaring! old woman sat up with a jerk and with and the along snailing Their visit at Jordans Tahoe d critters hauling us. I want grinned at her. lodge seemed to set them free. They to do Hey, Sairy Lynn! What you up once before I die. that are armored against everything to? Trying to spill me out? She And you shall. now, even poor Cousin Adelaide down with renewed animalooked 1 promise-cr- oss told her. she They say little of plans but 1 gather dear. but tion very soon she was sleepy Gunnar would my heart! they are to marry in a fortnight and loan her again. for Hermod this ritual. the go at once to Norway where he has Sarah Lynn waited until she had excellent prospects. full attention and then" she in her XL CHAPTER I think at least, I suspect that Jjotlx, by words which she quired, vthey will fly the Atlantic in the not be heard and by could knew It was a pretty day. Gunnar apHermod, in complete secrecy. 1 unmistakable gestures whether she he and the weather, warmly was proved doubt if they will even tell me. to descend. ready Of course 1 shall miss them approved the project. It was exShe shook her head violently he wished he might have what actly it need doesnt blankly, bleakly; No! No! I dont want to go down! Grandmother Gudrun. your nimble and trained imagina- done for 1 dont .want to have it over. tion to understand how much of flaLynn Dana was deeply pleased. want to on going up and up keep to She gave you your wings; right vor and fragrance will go out of and up! . things, but I shall manage to re- share them with her, he nodded. All right," her great-gran- d The colony came, the protestants, joice for our dark duckling hatched said, and set the Hermod andaughter at least, anxious, indignant, into an eagles mate. to climbing. After a while they en WaEmma and the harried somenoyed, Theres something lyric, sea of pink clouds about ters kept sayir.g, Now, Mis Dana, countered a soft thing mythical and symbolic and rose over it- - It was an exquis 1 Mis handkerchief? wheres your romance: their suppose, partly, to see, but the pasbecause of its evanescent quality, Dana, you went and took your knit- iteley lovely thing chin was resting on sharp sengers off! ted constantjacket because they are looking she appeared to be Wrapped like a little old royal her breast and ly into the bright face of danger Sarah Lynn soundly. sleeping was lifted into she middle-agefinally mummy, Its hard to imagine them it a pity; there would be and portly; I cant see beyond the caijin of the Hermod in Gun-nar- thought time enough and to spare for nap long arms. youth for them. ping down in the little old Dana felto Im all this because young obliged is you, Im Doubtless And "Im house when she and Gunnar were a little low in my mind on another ler, she thanked him. so she did anand real about hill down is you my far across the sea, pleased count. Granny going to rouse other her. but the sharp slip Sairy Lynn very perceptibly, and it gets me child Ive set store by thick in the small figure I wrappings on first laid from the minute eyes Everything dimming eyes, ears; a 1 believe ;did not stir. in her the cradle. She senses all around down youre slowing Sarah Lynn looked at her for a going to make her a good husband. it of course, and she loathes it. time. Then she pulled off a husI will a her make , long good So, then! Sorry youre missing the skylarks but glad you are being band, he told her gravely, fasten- glove and tossed it back. It struck ing the seat belt about her, getting the shawled shoulder, smartly, but spared the matriarchs defeat. n, flying-machin- e, y! , 1 , Gre-gramp- er dog-tire- d half-dea- y, 1 s PHOTOGRAPHY ROLLS DEVELOPED prints 2 double weight enlargements, or your choice of 16 prints without enlargements 25c coin. Kepnnts 8c ea. NORTHWEST PHOTO SERVICE North Dakota Fargo - Dept. 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Man, he persisted, must learn from Nature. To let survive how do you say it? The survival of the fittest, but who can say, who can judge and decide who is the fittest? Dont you see what a frightful danger it would be? How wicked people could bribe and corrupt And some of the finest minds and spirits are in frail Do you want a world full bodies of Think she said think of my Uncle Lynn!" hotly He shrugged. You speak now of the exception. That would be bad. But in the end, after five hundred years, would not the race be greatly Fruit From Use In the use, not in the bare possession, lies the merit. West. prize-fighter- s? 1 M- -E Worlds No.l FIT-HIT- S Dental Plates for men and women from impressions taken in your home. Thousand) of pleased natrons. MONCY-BAC- K GUARANTEE YOU'LL BE SATISFIED. Monthly payments possible. FREE month - lorms.eaaY WRITE ME TODAVl C. T. JoA.oVPreT?f improved? Sarah Lynn wasnt interested in united states dental company the state of the race five hundred Dapt.7W ISSBMHwaakaaAvn. years ahead. She was disturbed Gunnar had aired those ideas be- WNU W 3138 fore, but never so vehemently. She had to put herself to sleep SALT LAKES NEWEST HOSTELRY .that night resolutely, remembering the thrilling beauty of the plane Onr lobby la delightfully air against the moon. cooled daring the Bummer months But she kept her promise to stop Radio tor Every Room mourning over the death of the anAll her loyal cohorts cestress 200 Rooms 200 Batha helped, and a long; understanding cable from Sally Ann, and most of all, the man in the wheeled-chaiLets put a period to it, Sarah You were priviLynn, he said leged to pay back m an hour what you had owed her all your life. She gave you your freedom; you gave her hers. r. So peace came back to Sarah Lynn for her last days m Dana vale. 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