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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH JHE RICH 0OUNTY REAPER Entered as second-clas- s matter Feb 8 1929, at the jvwt office Randolph. Utah, tinder the Act of Mar. 3, 187a Was. E. Marshall, Editor and Prop SUBSCRIPTION fear in Advance Dn tl JO Per Party Prize Frock ,'for a Little Girl PATTER mmv (LAWIEGC MST-T- SM f nee By KATHLEEN NORRIS Copyright by KnthlAn WNU Service CHAPTER X Continued to the accompaniment womens note she had left in her deserted bed In Phoenix for three weeks, but he laughter. room, the note they had aR read with was coming home, according to what She may have a houseful of kids by Youre going to be lucky, Gall mur- such amazement and consternation; he wrote, and just as soon as he did now, . Lily, whose mind rather dwelt mured to the child. The girl that Is and the second had come a few months Mrs. Stebblns would see he wrote Gail. born on the Sabbath day Is wise and after .Ediths death, and had been post- Seemed Uke he had lost sight of his old upon this subject, might suggest Even If she marked Phoenix, Arizona: friends. lucky and good and gay! , Did you like Richard Stebblns, The little, warm, pulpy hand held Gail dear, I am so horribly sorry There was no mention of Ariel or Gail? . tightly, confidingly, to her finger. It about darling Ede, but Gail she was Dicks marriage in either letter. GaR A quick twist at her heart A quick seemed gripped already about her happy. She was too good for this had not dared risk the secret, and memory of a mans ugly, fine face and heart There was a smell of household world and only would have had trouble either Mrs. Stebblns had been equally slow smile. But Galls voice would oils, of clean new flannels, of sweet and disappointment I am well and so cautious, or Dick had not taken his come quietly enough. soon Is we home are and Dick, baby dampness. The baby seemed to coming mother into his confidence. , to tell you all the news, so no more "Oh, very much. sag limply against her arm. Gail suspected, as the months wore Even if I could account for Ariel, You look like you could sit there now except that I adore you." along, that there was but one adeI couldnt account for him, she said forever, holdin that child, Gail! had been signed simply Ariel, It quate explanation of Dicks and Ariels ' once. I feel as. If I never wanted to let and had borne neither date nor ad- silence. They were not happy; the Imdress. Every family has some member In her go, Mrs. Wibser." pulsive marriage that had found her One day Gail had driven Phils car, so young had proved a mistake. it that acts that way, Lily generalized They wont do that with every one," They Mrs. Wibser said shrewdly. lay so quiet and full of smaR boys, out to the Stanis- were quarreling, perhaps already sepact so good ! Ill bet youre goin to laus ranch. It was prosperous now, arated. The secret would remain alIn September Lilys daughter was think a sight of that baby." and the Lawrences money troubles, ways a secret no one would ever born. Gall carried the newcomer down Ill bet I am, Gail said seriously. preposterous r.nd unexpected as the know. And perhaps Ariel would come Well," said the old woman to her situation seemed, were over. Phil was home some day, bitter and disRlu--. through the big open house to the kitchen, where she tremblingly wiped granddaughter, youve started on a doing well, Gail had had a raise, the sioned, and take her old and oiled the mottled, writhing, weep- hard journey, young lady! Some day," oR station paid its hundred a month place In CRppersviRe society.' unhappy she added to Gail, some day shell be faithfully, and that money Phil handed ing little scrap of womanhood. Poor Ariel, poor Dick, poor aR of "God grant that I dont hurt you, tellin folks, Why, yes, I was bom in a over untouched to his sister. us! Gail would think. Its hard to The remains of the once magnificent clasp air and kiss the wind forever! said the Second Gall Lawrence place called Clippersville In California. baby Aint that funny? to the Third, aloud. Lawrence estate were divided; the old 1 can be a writer, I suppose. I cerThe baby did not die under her minMaybe life Is just a succession of house was PhRs, the corner had been tainly mean to make myself one, if surveyed and measured and given to work and trying wRl do it But it istrations, anyway. She whimpered, as births, Gail thought her waving little saffron arms were InIf they take The Bells of Saint Gail, the Stanislaus property was would have been wonderful wondertroduced Into the microscopic shirt, Giles, she mused, IU go to New York wholly for Sam and Ariel. Rent went ful, to be a wife! but when Phil and Lilys mother came for a visit monthly into the bank In Ariels maidA little laugh broke over the new en name. Sam paid his board to Lily. down, hot and anxious, half an hour CHAPTER XI Gall looked at the old ranch wistlater, the little Gall was sound asleep babys head. Gail's novel was barely in her namesakes arms. begun ; she did not know that It would fully. She had dreamed once a brief One rainy October afternoon Shes real pretty, Phil! said the ever be a novel. But still she thought: dream of coming there with Dick, of and the three older children were Lily deIf they really do take The Bells of being mistress of these acres of orch- layed at her mothers house grandmother proudly. down on Saint Giles, IU go to New York. ard and pasture and wheat fields. Is she? Thomas Street hfll, the shabby cabin She loved to hold the baby at this Well, shes Jest as cutes she can They could have been happy there, Gall and Edith and Ariel be. I dont know old farmhouse, Lawrence had once so Lilys ever had a time of the day, and when Lily was Rving in the despised, and n baby. Shes got the Law- downstairs again and autumn was under the great towering oaks and Gail found herself writing alone in the all liked my new frock! rence look, all right "They deepening, darkening into winter, five eucalyptus trees, surrounded by a tan- big house with the tiny GalL this little girl will be certain to say Look at the Lawrence eyebrows. oclock often found Gail, with her lit- - gle of sheds and fences, corrals and Sam traveled up and down the coast when she returns from the party Phil. tie namesake In her arms, rocking, gos- pastures, barns and fowl runs. They now, doing press-agework for a would S triumphant little miss. For this have had children, would have string of vaudevlRe "Cje, shes sleeping hard," Phil ob- siping In the old kitchen, while Lily theaters, and was dress Is different It boasts a double served, In a driven town In Into bustled about the an old car, stopped as often in Portland or In Los and Angeles yoke. The second yoke' Is cut all In tone. the little boys stuffed themselves on for mail, for feed, for needles and egg as at home in CRppersviRe. one with the pleats. And puffed fresh-cubeaters t and ink at the bread and peanut butter at Lily all right? Tonight GaR half expected him, and Sleeves are a deliciously youthful Dick would have had cases In the big I suppose so! he muttered discon- the table. that when Phil discovfashion. Moreover, young mothers tentedly. My G d! he said, under courthouse In the shady square, where ered his PR thicken that stew, Lily. absence he would familys will find this pattern no trouble at his breath. I dont mind anything, LUy would scared Httle Ariel had been summoned drive at once to the Wibser house and all to follow theyll probably make He went to sit on the doorsill, his say, as long as youU keep that young years ago, and GaR would have gone bring them aR back. Meanwhile, in a It up In several cotton prints. The chin In his hands, elbows resting on one quiet. What used to drive me near- into the library to ask the girl at the rainy twilight that made the Rghts and cost will be nominal. We suggest a knees. There was the silence of a ly. crazy was when theyd aU begin to desk for the new novels. shadows of the old kitchen more than And on Sundays they would have sprig print or possibly a small polka dreaming autumn Sunday afternoon in squawk Just as Id get my hands Into usually pleasant, she fussed condot pattern In gay colors ! Bloomers the house that had been ringing with the dinner ! telephoned Phil and Lily to ask what tentedly with preparations foraway own her are included In the pattern. the agony for the last endless hour. Old chances were of a picnic up at the supper tray, for Keep her quiet! GaU would laugh. the although clock Pattern 9259 may be ordered only Mrs. Crowley went through the room GaU the Third was a very model of old dam. It was going to be hot today, said only half-pafive, this was a In sizes 2, 4, 6 and 8. Size 4 requires with an unsightly bundle of linen. She babyhood. Nobody ever had any trou- and the children would love to get near special night at the Kbrary, and she 24 yards fabric. Complete lingered on her way to the laundry ble keeping her quiet to the water. Gail had cold chickens had to go back for tirectors meetsew to tubs smile at the youngest Lawchart Included. diagrammed The days grew shorter; It was dark and tomatoes. If Lily would stop for ing. SEND FIFTEEN CENTS in coins rence. now when Gall came home from the cake somewhere. . . Wholewheat toast or stamps (coins preferred) for this buttered, "She looks kinder mad at the way library at five oclock. As she sat I might have had a boy and a girl thin hot tea, a piece nhtoly g of lilys applepattern. Be sure to write plainly she was treated yes, she does! She the baby she could see the oak by this time. But certainly I wouldnt sauce cake, and the remata of the your NAME, ADDRESS, the STYLE says, Why did ye yank me round that branches tossing In the dusk of the have had time for any hash reheated and downed writing. Theres corned-bee- f NUMBER and SIZE. way, and spank me good, when I aint yard and the leaves scurrying down. that to think about! . . . Dick, Id give in a pan, and GaR felt hers& ready Send your order to the 'Sewing done nothing! crooned the toothless The snap of the wood in the old up the chance of writing another Iliad for a feast Circle Pattern Department, 232 West old washwoman. How do, Mis Wib-se- French range and the smell of toast to have had you love me, to have been Suddenly she heard a motor I on Eighteenth street, New York, N. Y. Hows all your folks? and tea were very grateful now; there Mrs. Dick Stebblns these three years. the old side drive, and heard the n- All real well, thanks, Mis Crowley. was a sense of Gail was twenty-sevecoziness, of homeness now, and the gine stop and a car door slam. Then Hows Hazel? about it birthdays were coming faster and fast- there were Hazel had a bad spell last Sunday At this hour she would often fafl to er. Men had wanted her, some of them the handle footsteps on the porch, and of the kitchen twas a week ago. dreaming. It was an hour in which fine men, men who could have given A second later, as Gail door turned. turned an InYoud oughter be glad you dont to remember Edith, talking her at eagerly of would least the position Dicks wife quiring glance that way and said aloud, have to have em! Mrs. Wibser said poetry, of dramar of have had. But Gail was utopias and phibarely Phil? the door swung open, and the " to Phils still bowed and horrified back lanthropy, as she buttered HU Reason conscious of their existence. She was pudding lighted aperture framed a womdishes and peeled apples an hour that only vaguely regretful when she had dimly Little George was listening to his In the doorway. She chuckled. ans slender figure. "Look to at her hurt or disappoint them. elders discussing the election.. Sudbrought back Ariel, spoRed, petulant, sleep the darling TO BB CONTINUED. At twenty she might gladly have acbeautiful, always to be excused and denly one of them turned to him with Gail murmured. I always say that if the men had to adored by her sisters. Ariel, wRlful cepted any one of them, and the remark: made a Plebiscite Long in Use "Well, old man, how would you have em every other time, thered only and discontented, scolding, raging, success of It, too. At twenty-seve- n in European Arguments like to be President of the United be two babies, his and then hers, and threatening, and presently to be they found her coldly kind. She was In no then 1802, more! old Mrs. Crowley said 'whisked, limp and pitiful, when the sen 8tates?" upstairs to very happy, Rving in the old house ate refused Bonaparte, with relish. to make him consul for be comforted and sponged and soothed with that preposterous wife of Oh, no, Uncle Jim, the four-yePhils life, determined to Aint that true? approved Mrs. to sleep. old replied earnestly, "Im much too and the children, and her consult the peoand brothers, Wibser. nervous. Above aR, in the winter the characters in her books. Her blue ple on the subject of his status. It twRights was unprecedented that a come here and see your with the soft simple conlump of babyhood that eyes would be almost sister I sular decree should order a plebiscite. was another GaR Lawrence in her under the faintly knitted, heavy Law- The fact Its about time you got married, arms. Gall dreamed of Dick and of the rence brows as she that It did was rather a coup explained that she detat The Gall, and had a few of your own! brief moment of romance that had was not going to marry results of , the plebiscite anyone. "Children have to have an old maid somehow seemed to were a success for Bonaparte, singular It just did not seem to mean anygive her her true aunt observes a writer in (he New York values in Rfe. She had been thing, marrying anyone else than Dick Times. playing, What say? , playing Idly and with and until it did, Gall would not conI said that all children have to have Van Murchison, and superficially, The to sider name successor she his right had It awakened an old maid aunt was openly demanded by Napoleon id to the full realization of what But sometimes she did consider her the the at Galls heart needed, what her heart .Baby? asked could strangeness of the situation should 'Only one step knee, with a solemn upward glance. more was needed to make the right Dick and Ariel come back to give, Just a moment too late. Your baby sister." ClippersIt had been Ariel, aR the time, for would never know that this hereditary and to enable him to give Mrs. Lawrence, Betty Crooks, sailhimself a monarchial or Imperial title. big, sober, quiet Dick. He had never brother-in-iawas shrined ing into the room in all her formal seen Gail; she had never GaR s heart They need neverdeep in This final step was taken in 1804 tried to heln nurses regalia, said authoritatively, him find her. know. when the But it would be hard- -it first consul of the republic , Mrs. Lawrence wants some one to go would be became ' But 8116 knew In her heart, that she hard to see him, to have of France. The propemperor him kiss her osition over to the Williamses for the other could have given him a thousand times in fraternal fashion, to was submitted to a plebiscite hear Ariel children, and she said to tell you, Mr. what Ariel could Ariel must be complaining of his treatment of his which was taken by universal suffrage Lawrence, that she feels fine and wants changed Indeed ifgive. in the pame form as Its she had become a new clothes and of the care of predecessors, some tea ! his in May, 1804 There were 8,572,329 tender mate for a struggling children! helpful, , Tea! Phil echoed, outraged. affirmative and 2,569 negative votes. lawyer. Her restlessness, her haughty Once, after Ediths death, Gail Certainly. She feels fine, only shes discontent, would not be had written a cured by anysimple, friendly letter to of Probably the best known example sleepy. And she can have some tea be- thing that Dick could the use of Dicks for her. provide mother, trusting the post office history was inthe plebiscite in French fore she goes off to sleep. Say, said Ariels ideal was not one of home mak- to forward it to her in 1852, when the coup Betty, who had been In school with ing, of quiet and Oregon, detat 1851 was confirmed and the of she lived now beside domesticity dlugh-tea with a widowed Phil and Gail, you arent too tired to fire. Hollywood-t-supposititle of emperor was bestowed upon Did Mrs. Stebblns know them still go up there and see her a minute? just IH. it was his use of the to be in that neighborhood would only Napoleon Too tired, no! Phil said dazedly. inflame Ariel with a S?rreroukKWa D0W? Gail had asked, plebiscite that made the term famiUar desire for a book luxury, But but she doesnt want you heard that he had and connected It with the Idea of money. fame, wanted and so on and so on. her she feels as if 1 was to blame" despotism posing as liberalism. It was almost three years now since He And Mrs. Stebblns had Oh, for goodness sake, that was that memorable Christmas a painful hand, on ruled answered, in has even been described as a plebisbefore day Just at the finish! Betty said whole- Ariels eighteenth cite adventurer." paperthat birthday, when she Dick was Just about the worst 'letter somely. You go up and see her, and and Dick had run away from them all. writer that ever was; he had been tell her Pm bringing up some tea ! GaR had had two communications from some in L. Europes ' Highest Mountsle A., and after that Phil, with one wild glance about, fled her since; the first was the scribbled Las up to ML Elbruz In the Caucasus is the Vegas, and last she heard he was highest mountain in Europe. 21 had! . 1 d light-hearte- 9259 moon-face- d better-looki- nt half-amuse- d, half-resentf- ul dinner-gettin- g, five-and-te-n. half-expecte- d -- st 36-Inc- h cud-dlin- a r. n ar Wiff-waf- f, absent-minde- d ' Riff-raf- f, Senatus-Consult- e. w -- r. ng -- Hrr |