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Show THE SALINA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH JO H N GRESHAMS GIRL By CONCORDIA MERREL (Copyright.) THE STORY By chance Jamca Lee meets Lucy Gresham, daughter of Sir John Gresham, wealthy ship builder. 1.09, unjustly accused of robbing the Gresham firm, was sent to prison. He blames Oliver Ames, Lucy's cousin, and Gresham's manager, and seks revenge. Lee Inherits wealth, and, in compliance with the will, changes He hla name from Warrington. secures an invitation to the girl's birthday party. Lucy Is practically engaged to Ames, She meets Lee, who makes love to her, planning thereby to hurt Gresham and Ames. With Gresham's approval, Lucy and Lee are married. Lee stuns the girl by telling her he does 'not love her, and hates her "whole breed." CHAPTER IV Continued G If y.our love for me has all been a lie . . . how am I to believe anything you say to me?" she cried. Jim, you dont know what you are saying! You cant know. . . . Jim, do you mean that When you have tnken me in your arms, It has been a lie? When It lias been you have kissed me .a lie, too? Jim, you can't nipan It was a cry right ur that. , , from the. depths of her hurt heart. A cry It 'would have been easy to answer. He had only to take her Into his arms and tell the He ngaln. . , . But still he couldnt. The personal equation was a stronger thing than he had ever known. He. shook himself free of her hands and moved away from her. I do mean It," he said.. She went so terribly pale that he thought she Was going to faint; hut she didnt. She stood stone still, for. a moment, then bowed her head and covered her face with her hands. The utter stillness of hpr was almost uncanny. It scented to him that no living thing could ever have nppeared so Then slowly she utterly lifeless. raised her face, nil white and drawn, and looked up at him again. Then I suppose," she said toneless-ly- . I suppose It Is true I suppose I must believe. . , The change In her was startling. Some life had gone out of her eyes; some lilt from her voice. It was as If In thnt moment of stillness her youth had died. With a word he had killed the lovely youngness of her. It gave him a feeling of having driven his fist Into the face of a child. But, Jim," she went on In the same toneless voice. Why? Why, Jim? What has made you do this to me? What' have I done that you 'should want to hurt me so? You are your father's daughter," he answered slowly. Then what Is It thnt he has done? Jim, you must tell me. You cant do a thing like this and leave me nil In the dark. You can't sny these nightmare things and leave them unexplained. . . . You must tell tne. What has father done? Do you remember telling me of the man who had robbed a pay clerk and been Imprisoned . . , 7" She drew a breath as If she knew what was coming, and nodded. Do you remember saying that he was horrid? And that he had to he ... ... And so you she said. your father and Ames- (iirt me? No; them through you. You set yourself to make me love you, so that you could make Oliver suffer . . , and father. . . He'll scarcely like to have a for a he broke in bitterly. It was a neat Oh, yes, I see. plan, and marvelously successfully curried through." If she would only cry or break down in some way, he thought. This dead-leve- l calm was ghastly to listen Pr. And I see why you were afraid of losing me. Always so queerly afraid of that, weren't you. Jim? I understand It now. You were afraid of losAfraid ing this revenge of yours. something might happen to upset your And I thought you were scheme. afraid of losing me because you loved me; In the way that a lover Is alraid. because he loves so much ami can hardly believe that such happiness can last. I thought that was what made I I thought you afraid, Jim. understood It, because sometimes .1 was almost afraid, myself. The dead voice went on, .dinning Into his ears, heating on his nerves, till he almost gave way to a sheerly womanish desire to scream. I.ut he could only say: Yes, Its all true. Everything you say. He wanted to move his eyes from, hers, but somehow could not. Those big, blue eyes of hers, void of feeling as that changed, terrible voice, just looked straight up Into his, am held them. . . . And jour pride of conquest; your triumph; your glory in that great, big Strength of yours, that could pick me Jail-bir- ... ... . ..." ... hurt? Yes. Well, Im thnt man." There was a silence. Her eyes never left Ills face, but they were quite unreadable. Whether she was shocked at this news or not. he couldnt tell. Perhaps after what had Just gone she was pnst the point of being shocked further. She was so unmoved that he said again: I am that man. she said in that steady, Well. measured voice that sounded so terWell, you ribly wrong, from her. are thnt man, then; I believe you. After tonight, I don't think I shall ever find It difficult to believe anything. You are that man. I still dont understand. . . . I'm slow, I suppose. But why did you marry me. Jim?" To pay them hack. The words fell very cold and clear. Father? she questioned. And Arnes." Oh, yes. . , . Im beginning to She passed a tired hand see. . . across her eyes. . . . They let me go to prison,'' he said harshly. "For three years. . . For robbing a pay clerlj?" Yes . . . with violence. . . . Three years penal was my senThere was another sitence. lence. then : Had you done It, Jim?" Her dead voice came up to him, hitting on Ills nerves. If only shed change the tone, show some life, . . . "You said that that man must have done It, he retorted bluntly. "You said that Ames wouldn't have let him go to prison If it hadnt been absolutely proved thnt he had done It. . . . I remem"Yes; I did say that ber. . . ." she admitted. You said," he went on, that he must be hurt. . . . Well, he has been hurt. . . . Believe me, he has been hurt. . . . Can you imagine what a Can you pic purgatory prison is ture what It meant to me, with my strength and ambitions, to be caught nnd held for three whole years? With life going by outside? Three years! Thirty-siA hunwhole months. dred and fifty-sidragging weeks. , . . Over a thousand Interminable days. ! . . Hurt? he laughed dully. Don't worry about that, Lucy. , , . Ive been hurt . . . good and plenty. . . ..." ... x x WNU Service. ... - victed of robbery with violence, per ' haps you'd rather leave It till toThe bitterness of that was morrow? Indescribable. Oh. Im not' In the least afraid, I she answered. wasnt afraid of your, love and I'm not afraid of your hate." Then youd better go to. bed. There s nothing profitable In this. He turned violently and flung himself toward the. door of his dressing room. Is that y.our room, Jim?" her voice came after him. He turned In the doorway. Yes. Hut Ill go and sleep In one of the spare rooms If you object to tny being so near you, he answered bluntly. It doesn't Oil, no," she said tiredly. matter. Good nlgat, Jim. The little formality, coming with such lifeless niechnnicalhess clutched at his heart A In the most extraordinary way. chaos of Impulses arose within him. and died before he could get them sorted out. But that last sight he had of her. standing there looking after him, suddenly brought something she had said to his memory; Rather a little girl. . . And he found that he was saying the words to himself as tie closed the door and shut out the sjght of her. Lucy sat 'on the edge of the big bed staring out helplessly before her. trying vainly to get a hold on life again. Reality seemed to have slipped from her grasp, and she felt that she was struggling in the throes of a nightmare. And .yet she knew that the nightmare was only the truth. It had happened, that ghastly scene Just now, with Jim. lie had told her all those terrible things. She knew 'that they were true, and she knew that they had changed everything for her. Yesterday seemed centuries past. Her love, her engagement, her wedding all seemed ns If they had happened to some one else. Jim was that man who had gone for robbery with violence; a workman at Greshams. She had heard her father speak of that man; Ames, too; but she had never heard of the affair In much detail. What was- she tt do? Go- b;ek to her father, ns Jim had suggested? She coulij be sure of sympathy and comfort there. . . . Yes, she supposed that was the only thing to do. Go. hack and tell the truth. Tell that it was for this mart who could deal so treacherously with her. that she had given up her girlhood; for a man who could .wound her in this terrible way; that she had refused Olivers devoted love. . . . For a man who Imd suddenly become this terrible, this monster- - tiling that Jim had shown himself to lie. From being everything she had loved, he had become this. What did she feel for him now? An answering hatred? An answering vengefulness? She searched her heart for the truth. It was none of these. She did not know quite what it was. Just a son of numbed horror was as near ns she. could get to it Fear? No. There was no fear of him in her heart. She had told him that, nnd It had not been in any way a bluff. Just horror, that was all. Horror of finding thnt something she had loved 'and reverenced, was really a tiling to he hated, despised, abhorred. Thoughts began then to go round In circles; repeating over nnd over again ; dlnningly; unbearably. It was nearly dawn when she wearily undressed nnd got into bed; and full day before, exhausted with a sort of utter exhaustion sin had never before known, she' snnk into sleep. She did not see i.ee again until noon next. day. She lad not been up long, but evidently he had. for he came into the house in riding kit. As lie crossed the hull, he turned, and through the open doorway of the -room he saw her standing by a table, arranging pink roses In a big silver howl, lie stopped, startled by ... . son To-pri- - rose-strew- n iip and carry mo off as easily ns you had taken my love. . . . oh, a big triumph, Jim! A big triumph. . . ." Well, It was the triumph I bail been working for. . . . Three years hell takes some paying back," he said sullenly. And I was so simple, wasn't I? So unbelievably easy. You Just looked and conquered, didnt you? Did you laugh sometimes to yourself, Jim, when you held me In your arms and. , . ." I've never No," he said roughly. laughed. Think what you like. . . . But that, at least, Isnt true. . . Not that it nutters much. And if you had, It would be understandable, for surely there was humor In It, She broke off, somewhere, . . . turned away, looking round the room us If she had been walking In her sleep and had just awakened to wonder, dazedly, where she was. Then her eyes came hack to his. And now, Jim, we are married."-shsaid, and you have told me that Now, wlmt are you dont love me. we to do?" I didnt mean to tell yoq !" he cried. Then, why did you? she asked After setting your plans wearily. so carefully, why should you do any thing you did not mean to do? That was not typical of you, was it?" It was not bitterly said; neither was there the least hint of irony In It. It wus as if site had suddenly seen him In a new and terrible light, and quite simply accepted that he was this new and terrible thing. It No," he answered abruptly, Isn't typical ; but I did 1L You'll not believe me capable of a . . . decent Impulse toward you, after this . . . but . . . well, marriage Is a big I couldnt take all that it thing means . . . letting you think that I Oh, hang It all, some Idiotic weakness caught me . . . and I told That came roughly, nnd he you!" Hung away from her and strode over to the window, pulled hack the curtains and stood breathing in the soft night air, as if the room had suddenly She turned slowbecome sulTocating. ly and looked after him. "Well, Jim, what are we to do?" I suppose youll leave me, won't' he suggested. She paused, you? then : Tonight?" If you are not afraid to be In the house with a man who has beeu con ... ... living- The most accurate precision timepieces now available are the Shortt clocks made in England. The United States tiaval observatory has three of them. So sensitive are they that the mere temperature of the body is enough to render them inaccurate ns standard timepieces, nnd so it was decided to install them in a vault in the ground below the frost line. There are really two vaults, one within the other. An air space of IS inches between the vaults serves as an insulator and also makes it possible to Inspect and clean the inner vault. It Is almost a holy rite to enter the sacred Inner vault. Since the timepieces must not he exposed to atmospheric changes the privileged enter the Inner vault only through an airlock. Electric lamps are so mounted Early Surgical Operations Garrisons History of Medicine says that certain pictures engraved on the doorposts of a tomb near Memphis, Egypt, are regarded by their discoverer, W. Max Muller, as the earliest known pictures of surgical operations (2, 00 II. C.), and antedating ttiese are the well splinted fractures of the fifth B. C.). dynasty (.750-202- Moist Weather Conditions Make for Rapid Growth. her strange air of composure. She had been pale and dazed hist night. She was pale, still, but there was a look of determination In her eyes;- a queer firmness about her lips; the little hands among the roses were steady and purposeful. He knew, too, th..t nothing was finished last night, and that there was almost everything' still to have out with her. He said chnllengingly : Well?" , She lowered her eyes to t he roses, selected two and put them Into the bowl before saying: Yes, I suppose there are things to talk over. . . . Ve havent quite said tt all, have we?" Her voice was strangely steady nnd controlled. Site was not the girl he had married yesbride terday t lie happy, radiant-eye- d who had put her fond little hand Into his hut at least she was not the stunned, hurt tiling she had been last night. Evidently, even though there had been no magic wand to work its wonders for her, sleep had brought some sort of peace and determination with it. He was silent, and he couldn't quite look at her. Then she said, looking him up and down : I have been thinking, ..Jim," she said slowly. Yes. I suppose so. She hesitated a moment, then; First of all, I want to apologize 'Hie- fall season Is a much better tune for the sowing of grass seed atid tne building of a town than is the spring, according to G. M. McClure, specialist in soils at the- - Ohio State riiversily who says that lawr. grasses grow best under cool, moist cotidi tions, such as are likely to. occur during. September and October. . . 'The growtli of young grass seeded In September, he nsserts. is less hampered by weeds than is grass sown in the spring. Most weeds have sprout-eearlier in the season nnd have been cultivated out during-thpreparation of the seed bed. Another reason for fall seeding Is that the grass stools or. tillers out during this season, nnd consequently establishes itself before the advent of freezing weather With such a start the grass begins growth early in the spring and Is able to compete' with .weeds which begin, growth upon the arrival of .warm weather. Grading Is the first operation in starting a new lawn, he says. If the final grade must he lower than the present one. from four to six inches of surface soil Is 'removed., the grade established hy removing the subsoil, and the surface soil replaced to make the final grade. If the final grade is to. he higher than Jhe original, grad Ing is done by applying top soil over rhe area and leveling it to the desired grade . to you. He flashed a sharp look at her. To me? he exclaimed. In heaven's name, what for?" I asked you last night whether you had done that horrible thing for which you suffered so badly. I dont believe' that you did do It . . . Arid I apdlo-giz- e for asking." That shook him badly; .It was so unexpected ; and so brave. Relieve wlmt you like about It," he said roughly to hide that he was 'Spy heans make a good replacement crop for spring wheat' in those sections where corr l.s a profitable crop', states H. W. Halbert, head of the department of agronomy of the University, of Idaho College of Agriculture. The success of .the crop depends on the selection 'of varieties 'and the use of inoculation. Experiments conducted at l.enore tn with II. L Stafford, a of that district, and .1 VV farmer, Thometz. Nez Ieree county agrii.-ul-t pr-a- l agent, have furnished much information regarding varieties adapted to this area. Minso.v and Wtsnmsjn Dlacb are two varieties best suited to the higher elevations along the. Clear-wate'river.' Ito San will mature at the middle elevations, while Munctiu nnd Habero are best fo-- the lowest nnd warmest sections. 'If a hay crop is desired. Chestnut .or Mancliu 'varieties should he selected.- - The choice of va riety. is complicated hy the fact that more than 1,200 different varieties are grown In the United States. Since most of. the adapted varieties . 'are low '.in oil, soy beans' should ne grown as a crop for hogging feed for other live stock. They add materially to the value of the ration when hogged off", in combination with corn and supplemented with bundle grain, The meal nnd ground ,beans make an excellent grain ration feed for all kinds of live stock. The hay Is nearly equal to alfalfa for milk production. father and Oliver, but your revenge cruelest of all, upon No matter what they might suffer because of it, it could never come so near to them it has to me. Because you See, Jim,, t'did not marry you for revenge or for any other reason In the .world other than that I loved you. It's best to put tilings quite squarely between tls. She spoke very gravely and steadily. . He scarcely knew what to say. He had regarded her as little more than a child, but he saw now that that' was a mistake. It was a woman who stood there, confronting hi in-- ; witji a womans seriousness on her lips and a womans suffering in her eyes. "Yes." he said, after a moment. !As-fa- r as its possible we . may as well . . . have tilings square. . . He paused again, then added, So you may o,s well know that nothing you say-o- r do will turn me from my purpose. . . . Those who punished me have got to bpnr their . punishment in return.'. Nothing that has happened between you and me is going to alter that; . . You are your fathers blood, iind as Ipng as life lasts, his blood and mine will he at war. Ill heat him, humble him-- , drag him down ns be allowed me to be dragged down. I'll make' hihi . suffer, through you, as he could never suffer for any pafn of his own Ill do this. still, and you cannot stop fallen, me a-- me. He broke off, drawing a brer.th. I've admitted risking my firrt move for some weakness that I cant ex-- , plain, hut it cannot hurt m'y mai.n schemes. And it shall not. Y'ou .can do what you like; 1 shall not consider you again. She answered the challenge of his tone and eyes with an unflinrhtng'loob. I quite understand, Jim; .and I don't think that I shall interfere very much. About that-- I haven't quite . But I bemade tip tny mind. lieve I shall leave you to' go your own way without attempting to interfere." "Im glad to hear if, lie put In gruffly. - " (TO EE CONTINUED.) that they can he changed- and cleaned without the necessity of entering the ' ' - inner chamber. . Visitors to Washington.- - who. want' to see how the nation keeps. Its time must gratify their curiosity through a periscope. r off.--o- r Best Results Produced by Coarse Fertilizer . . ' Is a finely ground fertilizer better, from the standpoint of availability to the plant, than a fertilizer compound of coarse granules or particles? The answer, commonly, affirmative, may have to be revised if indications from preliminary tpsls by Rrof. S. D. Conner, .of Purdue university, are confirmed, Professor Conner fertilized corn in the hill with a complete fertilizer in granular or pellet form, and also' with the same fertilizer finely ground, applied in the same way and at the same rate. The coarse grannies have .to date produced bigger corn plants than the finely ground fertilizer Rrofessor Conners explanation is Hurt the 'finely ground fertilizer, h.v reason of its contact with the soil. Is fixed in the Soil, .whereas with the coarse particles a comparatively sniy II amount of the plant, food is fixed in the sidl Immediately surrounding the .granules, leaving a larger prop-ortiqn of the plant food free for use b? "the plant. Rrofessor Conner point.' out that thl. condition may not hold for all fertilizers in ail soils, hut nev; ertheless may he an Important consio oration In the use of certain typeS ot fertilizers. 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