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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Do You 55 Copyright by Richard Hoffmann CHAPTER VIII Ever Wonder By RICHARD HOFFMANN WNU Service ss He couldnt think of Barry except handed in a telegram for Frederick can run out to Hollywood this way if as he had last seen her golden head Ireland, in New York. Hal said: Id you want. And he added, the insinuaHal turned toward Barry then and, a little bowed, staring over her satin like to make it clearer in that part tion of his voice unsure of its own bands deep in jacket pockets, watched knees into the corner. And though he where it says he claims he is your slyness, Whynt you drop us off her in gloomy detachment. It was as kept putting the dark portrait from son account trouble which will explain there on the way? Do that, if his mind were possessed by a local nim, he found himself later regarding after you wire . . . I want to say, said Hal briskly. It anesthetic, numb and useless around it again, intently, without knowing Claims he is your son because asks aWed him a little to think again what credit for five hundred dollars to cov might happen if Crack used that us the small clear conduit that led from how it had come back, or why. his eyes to the springs of superficial Then the light was broader over the er expenses including transportation when they were alone. action. Where had love, or whatever wide street He heard the creaking of to San Francisco stop. After that it Guiding Rasputin to Cracks direcit was, gone? When would the acid Cracks bed next door, light steps, and goes on the same: Wire Martin Crack, tions, Hal made a final attempt to of this shabby lesson in beauty eat then the running of water. Crack Grand Hotel and what youve got fancy how it would be to put Barrys bag down on the sidewalk and leave through, searching out each crevice in wouldnt send the telegram now before there. Hal went back with a certain small, her there with her husband. Some his spread wounds like iodine, to sting he found an open office somewhere. In them deep? Tomorrow, after he had Las Vegas probably, where with luck grim elation to look at Rasputins oil thing might move and give him a releft her at some Los Angeles hotel, they would eat breakfast. With luck? gauge. Poor old Pop; free, honest an- membrance other than the fixed image with Crack? Or tonight, soon, when he What did so slight a thing as luck on ger for a little while wouldnt hurt of last night. It might be the last was out of this room. the road matter? It didnt. But, yes, him much, wouldnt be new to him; time he saw her. Some little thing should happen, must happen, to show She and Crack married bound, it did. There was Sister Anastasia and and his prompt denial of parenthood him where he was. Los more would Hal in time her of beautiful give serene, acceptance across linked, moving together the But it was nothing. Hal, on the sorrow. most She in this day, Angeles. counted country, hiding their connection till reheard the good-by- s as said below to rather if When mind his counted numbed she had roof, Hal should make himself vulnerable as always began an abandoned puppy. Later he might most and Hal had not seen It for the spond to old disciplines, it might try him and saw Barry go a little apart to tell him that the idea of his Hal with Sister Anastasia, write something think of all the details of his opening glare and dazzle of his moonstroke. Hal washed without refreshment and Irelands taking the soft throat of an- on a slip of paper and give it to the himself to her, with Crack somewhere other human being in his hands and nun before she kissed her. Her blue near by, drowsing over shy secreted went down to unlock Rasputin. schemes that amused him. He might He found the inside door to the de- extinguishing the life that breathed eyes came slowly to his, the hostile, think of he smallest things he had serted lunchroom open, so he bagged there that it was fantastic, prepos- unremembering screens fixed against said as well as of the enormous things oranges for Mrs. Pulsipher, leaving a terous. Could reason attack this cer- him. Perhaps she watched an instant he had asked her to bring to him. And quarter in the dish where theyd been. tainty that he would be alone with longer than suited her negligence, but thinking of those, and remembering And he sat on the running board eat- Crack, that he would find him in a that was all He knew she wouldnt her dark, hard, unstirring acquiescence ing one of them when Kerrigan came room composed of the several shabby speak; and he looked away first, bendhere there would be a richness of pain down, brown eyes bright In a combi- rooms In this journey, and close the ing over to take Docs muzzle in his Bye, at which to clench his teeth, in which nation of greeting and alertness for door carefully behind him, and lock hand and shake it gently. it, and be alone with him? Once there, poodle, he said. And then he was to learn how arrogance Is cut down. signs of news. There! Crack exclaimed, darting Dont look as if youd slept well, in the cool possession of his faculties, watching the Ingenuous, unsurprising from the bureau. Tell me what you he said, his voice dubious in disap- could reason find him an alternative grace of her boys stride take her to to Would Crack, dead, still look away, beside the terriers bright trotthlnka that Tell me if that starts pointment and indolent and ting. changin your mind. Plenty," said Hal. Wasnt as tired secret, sexless and tidy, And this might be the last he ever immature, subtly Hal took the telegram and read idly. as I expected. and slyly hateful? If you beat a bask- saw of her! Good G Hi, why did that Under his fathers name and office adf Hal watched him, tasting still ing viper dead In the dust with a still mean nothing? dress the message ran: Young man through that internal numbness look it didnt pitiable at all, between twenty-fiv- e and thirty six feet his rich affection for the quick, kind stick, surely. The room was nondescript and comhundred sixty-fivpounds gray eyes eye, the tough cheeks with their labydid fortable and Kerrigan, in Cracks silent behind s presence brown hair gray flannel suit made by rinth of minute red veins, the straight not oppress him ; premonition was by the window, swept his paper down Selkirk in Oxford name Henry Ireland lips with their implication of readiness gone, gathered into the compactness when Hal came in, smiled a faintly nickname Hal traveling from New of an item of memory. Now , it was disturbed welcome, and said, Well, York to Los Angeles in share expense Crack who could be uneasy; it was here we are. When dyou shove off acauto stop claims he is your son Hal who had the secrets. He felt It for Santa Barbara? count trouble which will explain after secret to himself his certainty that In a while, said HaL Shes seeing you wire Martin Crack at Grand hotel they would finally be alone; and it a priest who knows her brother on Santa Monica boulevard Hollywood must stay secret, Immune from a per- whats on his mind, how he is and all California if he is your son very imsonal fury that could give Crack formYou knew her brother was dying? He portant please reply quick Martin less warning of danger. For if Crack is. Thats why shes in a rush, bless Crack. vanished, slipped indolently away with her good heart. Shes going to call Hal pushed out his underlip carethe sly, drowsing triumph returned to up when shes ready. When do you lessly, looked up at Crack, and handed his eye, Hal was obsessed for the rest have to be on the job, Colonel? he the form back. Why not say what the of his life by the thought of that un asked. trouble is? Save you another wire. beaten evil, alive somewhere, gloating, "The End of the Trail? he said, his Listen, Ireland, said Crack, his dry eyes barely livened for a moment. No hating him. cheeks colored, his eyes shining and Would he see Barry after that? hurry. Any time this month. white all around the irises, youre a Would he look at her and remember Hal watched him consider an opengood sorta guy. Im only human. things? Perhaps, but it couldnt get ing for what he had to say and careThats it, Hal told himself with quick into his mind now. lessly thought to head it off with: - satisfaction : hes not human, any more Colonel, if you got the chance to They stopped at a lonely station to than a little be sure of gas, oil, and water. Later, round out your collection of experiviper in the dust is human. Id like to save you an unassuming fingerpost pointed the ence, how would you do your man In? the trouble this is gonna make for way to Death valley, off to the right, Knife, I mean? Or gun? What? Would depend, Kerrigan said cauHal heard the flat echo of the name you if in him and wished drearily for relief tiously. Why? Oh, shut up, said Hal, wonderfully from these long, long stretches of the Interest, said Hal. Interest A keeping his voice in superficial con baking road. There must be an end to bad poke; try something else, quick. tempt. If youve got to talk about it any more, talk to her. It hurt much (TO BE CONTINUED) it; there must be an end, too, of this dull inability of his to see Barry exmore sharply than hed expected to Resolutions in Congress cept as she had sat on the bed the last say that so negligently; and his voice was dull as he added, Im going. A Joint resolution, says the Wash night, staring? everything between them sullenly dismissed. He walked past Crack to the door, ington Star, differs from a bill only in California welcomed them officially a technical way, and has, when passed, from it he passed opened it, and as at its agricultural quarantine station, the force of law, and is, therefore, subone hand to the other behind his back, where the luggage had to come down ject to veto. It should be noted, howhe looked at Barry again. Still hug When DYou Shove Off for Santa off the roof and be opened for an in- ever, still that proposed constitutional head her partly ging her legs, Barbara? Kerrito the and do not require the Presihard spector. went amendments bags Dropping on, her staring bowed, dark and sullen, Into the corner of the and gusto. Then the Pulsiphers came gan and Crack, Hal didnt resist the dents signature. These are often room. A jet of anguish sprang molten out, not wholly awake but bustling temptation which the last two offered, made in the form of joint resolutions, he said to Crack in a voice and in that case need not be presented from his dead sense of her inviola' in tandem already. Then came Crack, That casual enough, but plainly audible : for signature. A concurrent resoluhis bag in one hand, golf ball loose in bility. thats a in said slow, he Kerrigans, and that when tion deals with matters pertaining to nervous is ball "And this all, the other; he pushed the moderate voice. Everything led here ly into his side pocket as he made his Crack reached for it thats your both houses of congress, but is mereHe knew Barry wouldnt turn ly an expression of congressional opinto this. insecure good morning to Hal. And wifes. Anastasia and Kerrigan ion, and as such has no legal effect Sister but raisnot head her slowly, and Anastasia turned came Sister She after him both looked up at him as if he had and need not be presented to the Presscorn her at looked him, of nuns face the and cool The It, peace ing Barry. dull and general, only Incidentally for was softly animated in the prospect cursed, and he had to drop his eyes ident. him. Then her eyes went back to their of this last day between her and her to hide deep A cool mist drifted up the Cajon The Hymn Rock of Age staring before she said, her voice brother, and Hal knew Barry hadnt Pass to meet down lower and is all. them; The This hymn Rock of Ages,t one of Barry, simply told her anything. frankly husky, the smooth concrete turnings they the most popular, was written by AuCrack followed him out the door, groomed as ever in her creaseless streets gustus Montague Toplady, who was had a vista of the square-laiwas following him down the hall out gave him acknowledgment of nothlow California San of the turn Bernardino, the the born in 1740 and died in 1778. It is heard key mistrust defensive Hal The side as ing nothing. lock behind him. So she was ready to of the journeys start was in her brief bungalows, and the ranks of feathery said that he wrote it while sheltering move as soon as they left. To do look; no suggestion of a smile framed eucalyptus. Hal didnt care why it from a storm under a great cleft rock the end near Cheddar, Somerset. The phrase what? he wondered. Read, go to sleep, her curt good morning; even Docs seemed exciting to be so near once he itself, a which of end the it As Rock of Ages, if journey is, however, lead was held short, as if to keep him take up her staring again? be would and tedium all had and is traced to a note on much thought older, from friendliness. mattered should be careless holi Isaiah 26:4, where the words Ever Rasputin put behind him the hun- then resolved listen," said Crack, a perverted inover he might begin lasting strength arp stated to be, in was After it tell voice. d Ill Las to his day. miles dred and thirty-odtimacy struggling in had what know to a two happened to him, the Hebrew, Rock of Ages. hours and than do. Wesley Ill in less Vegas you what Ill Youll shut up, said Hal, and half. The telegraph office was across but there was nothing exciting about used it in one of his hymns, and it also appears in Southeys poetry. Answers turned Into his room, locking the door and down the street from the place that. middle of Mrs. Pulsiphers Magazine. In the Hal everyto breakfast he lest anticipate where him stopped they behind little life saw Cracks careless looking for it, statistics on the thyroid Hollywood thing by throttling Cracks hall. Columbus Cook Stove dark the in saw him find it and stand for an In- ladies took to keep their figures, John out of him there In Columbus ship, the Santa Maria, decisive moment before starting toward broke into frustrated sounds. He a moment ana the arrangement for cooking consisted it Hal drank orange juice and wolfed snapped his fingerssaidin that CHAPTER IX way that of a large square piece of metal, prob a bowl of cereal at the counter; it said, he should pay his way. natural was enough ably iron, with a raised portion at the Tuesday a John turned toward half with Hal when street out to the saunter back on which were placed two tri and bill When daylight began to heat the absolute for near tenderness feeling returned. Crack pods. On the tripods were large Iron and awake sky outside. Hal still lay These darn signs pots in which the food was cooked In the telephone booth next door, him and said : bis coat with on only his bed, sweating seem to point In any direction for Underneath the tripods were fagot. ze, so that tie called the telegraph office, and putoff. He had m 'suit not to In his Los Angeles. What place Is this, d'you which were burned. For heating pur flat slowness of shade a t ' have houldn ' ting in track know?" him the had , he i' accept girl ithnut voice, poses stoves burning charcoal am, ,, , ,, ( You said Crack wood u ere employe i whod Pasadena, as warily. the person just promptly Continued Whether thePain Remedy You Use is SAFE? Ask Your Doctor 19 e shirt-sleeve- puff-heade- d and Find Out Dont Entrust Your Own or Your Familys to Unknown Well - Being Preparations person to ask whethe" the preparation you or your family are taking for the relief of headaches is SAFE to use regularly is yiur family doctor. Ask him particularly about Genuine BAYER ASPIRIN. He wall tell you that before the discovery of Bayer Aspirin most pain remedies were advised against by physicians as bad for the stomach and, often, for the heart. Which is food for thought if you seek quick, safe relief. 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