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Show Sally Sez HOScrilE,, Copyright hf Ben Ana SYNOPSIS .. ,Maine, gathering In the village Jim Saladlne llxtcne f Llb-,- f to tho tiaturr of tho neighboring Hoitlle Val-f- ,; the myaterloue, enticing Hul-- ? - wire of Will Perrin. Inlereated, day's drive to the Valley for and to aea the glamorouaHuldy irrlii. oia Marm" Pierce and her granddaughter Jenny .d ineteen-year-o- ld Since childhood umi la tha Valley. Will Jenny hm deeply loved young re-r- di verrln. older than aha, and who her aa atlll a child. Will leavea Hie is uka employment InhimAugusta. back to tho (athei'a death brlnga Valley, but he returna to Auguata, atlll aneonieloua of Jennya womanhood and of a jsva. Bart Carey, eomcthlng The la attracted by Jenny. girl repulaea him definitely. Learning that Will la coming home, Jenny, exhouae "to alting, aeta hla right." and haa dinnerhlaready for him. wife, Huldy. He cornea bringing Huldy Th glrl'a world collapses. goe-al- p unfavorable of tha aubject Knterlng hla home In tha Valley. for. Will And aeemlngly unlooked damning evidence pf hla wife's unfalth-(ulneaa a man ha knowa la Seth from the houae. Humphrey break him and choke him to Will overtake shatter death, although Humphrey hla leg with a bullet. At Mnrm Pierce la tha houae leg amputated. Jenny goe to break the new to Huldy. Huldy declare ah haa no uae for "half a man," and leave. Will la legally exonerated, artificial leg and with a homa-mad- a earrlea on," hiring a helper. Zeka Dace. Month later Huldy cornea back. Will accept her presence aa her right. Two yeara go by. Bnladln cornea to the Valley. Bad road cauae him to atop at Perrin' farm, where he meet Huldy. Saladlne, raught In heavy rain, take rafuge at Harm Pierce. Bart Carey arrive, carrying Huldy, whom ha claim had fallen from a ledge, and aeemlngly la dead. Harm Pierce declare her dead, but while Huldy and Jonny are alone, tha woman, with har last breath, aaaeria Will killed her. Horrified, Jenny daddea to tell no ona of the accusation. She goes to notify Will. With him Jonny returna to Marm Flerca'a. Sha haa told him of Huldy death, and he la bewildered. ne'er-do-we- long-emp- ll, ty ia CHAPTER Our Scotch Neighbor bij Ben Ames Williams m. Willi about: VIII Continued 15 She went Into the room that had been Huldyto, moving warily, aa though half expecting to meet the olher woman there. She selected what ahe required ; and then on Impulse, ahe made Hnldy'a bed. she put nuldyto nightgown away; and when she waa done, the room was In Immacnlate order. It pleased her to leave all things aa Huldy would have wished to leave them. When she had- packed the suitcase, she came back to the kitchen, and called up the attic stnlra: "I'm ready. Will." lie answered her, after a moment. I'm coming, Jenny." When they were In Ralnrilneto car. Will said: "The road looked to me like we could get through dowc to Careys, Jenny. We'd save a lot of time that way." She made no comment, trusting such matters to hla Judgment; and he turned the car down the hill and drove on across the bridge, past hart's, out to tho Valley road, and thus In toward Ma-Pierce's farm. In tho yard they, stopped, find Will took the sultccse from the back of the car. Saladlne and Bart were on- - the porch to meet them; hot If Will hnd known a passing doubt of Saladlne, It waa forgotten now. He said to the other man : Jenny told me you waa over here. I didn't know as you'd mind If we driv' your car over." fllad yon did, Jim agreed; and Bart gripped eTIIla hnnd. Alena you know. Will, how I feel about this," he aald. Oueaa I jo," Will agreed. They all rnme Indoors. Set down here by the stove. Will," aid Jenny softly. "Your hands are bonnd to be cold. Take off. your coat, and dry." - room where Huldy lay; and he atuod looking down at his wifes body, his shoulders bowed. Jenny was close beside him. almost touching him; her head nodded faintly once or twice. It wna as tliniigli she spoke words of comfort and of heartening; yet her Ups did not move. Then lie went hack Into the kitchen; and the three. Hurt and Will ami Saladlne, stayed there, huddling near the store, will had the dull demeanor of a man numbed by shock; he mut- Wherei Zeke?" Bart asked. "I dunno," will confessed. "I ain't eon him aence." Jrany took the suitcase into the dining-room where nuldy was, and closed the door between. Harm I'lerce waa there; ahe aald crisply: "Back, bo yon Fetch Will!" HCa in the kitchen," Jenny aasent-- I wnnt to get her dressed first, make her look aa nice aa we ran e ha area her." Harm Pierce nodded, watching the Kiri; and aha saw that Jennyto countenance waa Illumined, and by much hue than more happiness; murh more lhan tho aelllah happiness which, If ahe hwed Will, ahe might And In the fact Hint now no was freo to Invo her, toot It was aa though nho were committed to a tusk tn which she found peace he-lif- nil pride. While they were busy here, the rain was pitiless outside. The afternoon, though It wna not yet lata, waa ahroniliHl In n sort of dusk when Jenny went at Inst to bid Will come In. Will Minuted her Into tho dining cure. t Yet If she could have read mind, she would have been dismayed; for Saladlne had fatten advantage of that trip to Bart's house to telephone Sheriff Solder In Liberty. It waa Increasingly clear to him that not accident nor any sudden Impulse to had hurled Ilnldy off that high ledge. And If murder bad been done, then the sheriff should be Spla-dlne- 'a - t'Llb-erty.- while ago. "I dunno as Willd like It," Bart argued. And I don't aim to. get Will riled at me." Salndlne said : Yon don't have to do 1L ril telephone the aherlff myself." And despite Burt's resistance, he got Sheriff Sohler on' the wire.' These two were old friends, and Saladlne spoke excitedly, telling what had hapAnd Sheriff," he suggested, pened. there's a steam mill down below here. Yon better find out if any of the men from there were up this way. And see If Win Haven la In Liberty. He tayed with Bart Carey last night, but be set ont to go to Liberty this morn, something decent." Jenny smiled at her In grateful un- Ing." When be hung up the receiver, Bart derstanding, but Will sat silent, and predicted, with a wry amusement Iq' Jenny came beside him. Hnldya ae-- hla eyes: "Win's apt to climb yore frame, old as ho Is, for setting the law on him that way. 8a)adlne made no comment, went out to the car and so came back to the other farm ; but when Will and Jenny departed, Saladlne was glad that Will would not be here when Sohler should arrive, When the two went out, Marm Pierce Mid doubtfully: I dunno aa that's Often! I dunno aa I'd ought to tet her go. Ko one replied, and ahe lifted her head. ' But I dunno aa 1 could have helped, ahe confessed, her tones not displeased. If the glass Is ont of window, the rain will come In, she Hid. If a dam breaks, water flows go over to my place. Will, and teleSnluillne here can drive me phone. over." Saladlne was quick to assent to this suggestion, and for a definite reason, lie himself had been wishing he had access just now to a telephone. So he and Hart set out, and when Jenny heard the car depart, she came Into the kitchen and found Will alone, and asked where they had gone. Will told her, and she stayed with him. Marm Pierce, when her task In the diningroom was done, left them alone. "I'm going up and change my dress," he decided. I'd feel more fltten In and-the- . cusation had begun to lose. In the girl's mind. Its shocking force. She wns prepared to let this secret of Huldy's last word remain forever hidden, to let Huldy's death pass as accident. She herself could forget, and none other need ever know. They atlll ant here. In when Hart snd Saladlne returned. Jenny went to the door to meet them. Did you jet hold Will asked Bart: Coming toof Joe?" Bart nodded. he time'll What Is get here, he? night. you figure?" Might be an hour or two." the dining Jenny heard 'a step heard the blinds drawn down; and then the door ojiened and Marm Pierce emerged. She had changed Yo're I went out to And you. Will," Bart Into black. Jenny said softly: all dressed up. Granny I" explained. But you wa'n't there." The old woman spoke apologetically. I was out hunting them, Will as Well I know, Jenny," she admit ted. rated, and ho looked at Saladlne. Thera wa'n't no real sense in putting She didn't come hack after she went on with you," ho aald. my best, a night like this, and me When It come Slie looked at on to rain, I went to And her. Huldy not going anywheres." was foolish about rain, kind of. She'd Will Hut I got to thinking." she declared, If lluldy'a going to stay here tay out In It, claimed to like It" to keep her He added: But I couldnt And them tonight, I'll be respectable nowherea." "I'm going with you. Will," she told him. Will's head ruse a' utile. Why ylrs, Jenny," he said slowly. With me, if yo're a mind !" And they went out Jenny closed the door with a sense of escape, a deep relief. Alone with her, Will waa se- tered ruefully; They've got Iluldy all dressed nice. It's a comfort to me for women to bundle her. 'stead of a man." And after a moment, fretfully: I can't make out where Zeke has got to. He wa'n't one to go off. s day like to- here. day. Zeke didn't like rain And still later, he said: I'll wsnt CHAPTER IX her tn He at home. He added humYet Salndlne waa- - relieved" to- ire. bly: Dunno as she'd want It so; but I'd want It that vuy. Ill have to Will and Jenny thus depart to tend the cows, for be thought! Will might " get word to Joe Matthews, over well resent bis having summoned the Hart suggested, helpfully: I can sheriff. Even Bart had resented it, a And Ha Stood Looking Down at His Wifa's Body. In room, and company." .Will got to hla feet. I better go up to the farm and milk the cuws and dwre up," lie decided. "Won't take me long." Hart protested: "Sho, Will, Zeke will do tho chores." Will shook his head. I dunno as Zeke'a llicrc," ho reminded them; and he anld. looking at them all, hla ryes moving as though with an effort from one to the next: Zeke will be upset about this. He'd do anything for HulIt almighty dy, He's going to take hard." Ho waa silent for a moment. But the cowa; Mid then again: milked." Even lo they've got to be this hour of death and sorrow the tasks could hold a mnn In small dally bonduge. Yea, Will." Jenny agreed. "koud beat go. I'll fetch a lantern." beShe went Into the ahed, and he In but and coat hat; hla on gan to put the shed ahe donned her hoot and returned nil accoutered to fare the storm. Will looked at her, and sho law something leap In his aysc Then ha opened the outer door. oil-kin- CALIF. SYNTA I MONICA, he was first knew wwaatiriM. downstream. Her eyes met Saladlne's. Waiting Is a .long weary bualneH when yo're aho told him; and then she young, chuckled. I guess. I can throw that Illy root away I she Mid ui an 'obscure' satisfaction,. And then "she sddJ. briskly: Drat that Jenny I' Stae'B gone and left me to get supper, arid me in my best bombasine I" She- found an apron, tied It on. As she began to be busy, she looked at him reflectively. You ain't In, any We. hurry to get home,' can put you up If yo're a mind to stay. Why, pinch Saladlne hesitated. obliged." he Mid. lie thought the time' to apeak had come. Mis' Pierce,", he Mid, I dunno aa youll think I did the right thing; but It looked funfty Would Just-f- ull to me that Mis' Fen-Ioff that ledge i" I ehd think It was," she agreed sharply. And there wa'nt no reason she should Jump." She wa'n't the kind for that I". Sheriff Sohler la In Liberty today," Saladlne explnlned. I telephoned him from Hart's, and told him he'd best come In here." Silence waa long. Then she asked; la he coming?" Yea." thntto She nodded. "Well, relief to nit," she decided. "I'm an old wonmn, but I can see a hole In a She doughnut as far aa the next. spoke to Hart. "Folks around here don't bother the sheriff much with their troubles," she said, aa though apHut pealing to him for confirmation. 1 any It's the Alien thing to do. I don't see aa lr can do a mite of harm. You She looked at Saladlne keenly. figure someone pushed her off of the ledge, do you?" she asked. Hart Mid earnestly : Sure, Granny I fe aa your floor That ledge la here. She couldn't fall off unless she and she wouldn't did It ss-M- Marm 1'lerce nodded briskly. That1 the way It looks to me," she agreed. "So It comes down to a question of someone did It Hart who do you reckon It was?" lie shook his head. "I wouldn't My a word," he declared. "I've took notice that Just keeping your mouth shut save a peck of trouble, .some, ' limes." , I'm to seemed this... weigh,' She thinking Zeke might have; Haft Ain't you?" Hut He might" Hurt admitted. It's not my business, and I'm not mixing In." Ha looked toward 8a la Salndlne there, he dine and grinned. told the sheriff to cheek up on Win, and the steam mill men." There was mirth la Marm Pierre's him, plain John Buchan, writing the best Scotch novels since Robert Lpuis Stevenson. Then, in 1918, he was Colonel John Buchan of the British wartime press bureau, shrewd, kindly, and deft, handling s It wa'n't Will!" she Mid. brig and Mow', 'su'd get big Idrrs, hot It wa'n't him! old tones, lie migtit Hurt said!:. Matter: Df tafU. 1 don't, think It', waa Zeke..:clther, He'd not hurt Iluldy.. ft . It gpwq .right down. to someone bllljp her. . . ," lie hesi- hunch of rampaging American correspondents gently as though they were so. many new-lai- d eggs and he. had laid personally, ' last one of cyery them. ' When he became Sir John Bulot of us Mid : chan, Well, he earned his honors but no title can swell that Scot's head." Now, at Ottawa, the flags fly and the cannons roar for Baron Tweeds-mnlgovernor general of our noble Irvin 8. Cobb neighbor nation to the north, but. If his lordship (loean't mind, fif like,' personally, to go on thinking of him as my friend, John Bnchfin, a very great gentleman. ' Theyll like .him np there, we're going to like him down here- - And, If any of you Canndlnns has any doubt as ;to his diversified talents, Walt till across you- see him casting a trout-fl- y a likely pooL . Well tated,. then .muttered Jiusklly: if I was the alieriff, fd. look tor one that. had regimn'to,. Marui- Tl'erce watered Hart' with ome displeasure .fn. her sharp old eyes Presently, she askfril him: You going 'home to supper, Bart?" "Lowed You might want me here," he suggested.' 8he' nodded, In a surface" hospitality. "Certain. Stay where' you.- be. Right now, the more folki around, the .better 1 like-It-" hustled hrlskly: to .apd fro '.upon the .business-- ,f . upperf grunihllng about tber dtipser, to her - t - - black: bombasine,.;. Then suddenly she.stopd stliC 'arid her head lifted ''."Cjtf'toflriilijg." he snld softly SaUdipe grig Bart 'topped o'ut on the . porch.' and ' taw Urn'IHrker :ef heitd-ligha roward-th- e through road." The :old - woman came-to Join them'; arid while, together a light truck-wita: long body, pulled Into the yard. .Two men. alighted, apd, Saladlne saw Hie .hit tPTV) of the carried . it sheriff, and .AiwthGft black bag Jn.lita hand. ,'V Saladlne and the sheriff rioddedto one another. Joe Matthews spoke to Marm. Pierce, ftriptfliig off' "tils' rout "Tim road's1 reathad, 'ma'am, " he Mid: Sheriff Sohter uhbdttoned : his overcoat,. bpt did not- remove It. Itost to keep MV Fenrtn' here tonight, If possible," fke undertaker advised, "lean tnke her hrato In the morning" Marm Pierce "Site can toy" she Mid. She opened (the door, lnto.'-thdining, roonp.s. They went In together, and she closed the door. "The sheriff looked, at' Saladlne, arid at Hart' He tald tit Salinllrie: ."Ere-rilrigJlmT This: Is Bart Carey,' Ulm explained. hriWhund- hex,- - Sheriff." Sohler looked lnqulrlngly: at tw, I other ipan-; and Burt. explained;-waa fishing down brook. Down-- hack a of lyill's barn there's a ledge, steep drop below IL;, I heard1 a screech, and a sortl.of thump Hke-'patrldg when you nail hlrtriv Climbed up there and founeWret.- - - Mantf-Ptors- e at ' doctorBfg - I: Ipaedk-imayb.she colild do something.'.-.. . . . Wa'n't dead?" As good as, It turned out, Bart replied. "She never come IriatklL Sohler nodded ;.. and. 8nladlne Mid I seehfir,. .this morning, slowly: 8herlff. I left my car at WlU'a, and he showed me' the path down to the brook J come as far as the ledge with me. There's nothing slippery there, no way she could rrip; and ahe wa'n't the kind to kill herself." He added: 'T w&q here when Bart brought her. ' Thfe ' sheriff nodded. "I telephoned in lo;the steam mill, Jim, be reported, 'The rew had been there all. 4ay. lie added : And old Win Haven, waa In-- . Liberty, at the store. HeCtold me that when he left Bart's he went dp thq roard past Will's, and along the high jariA till he hit the Mac's Corner road.". :.''Y(fld you i see his tracks by the Or brifttk," Saladlne protested.someone's tracks," he added fairly. "I took It they was hla." .. I bore down on him" Sohler In- -, slated. "I'd My he was telling the truth." Will Saihdlne nodded, lie Hid: and 'Jenny Pierce she llvea here, the : ti thr-wood- - Utwiir u nlisa hr Jss, r SI", r Tsik". Bor lor qsUhhsrto hsoart rrrtstt, as4 lu rise hart qdshhar wsrkr n MKS. VXHNON HOWELL, to lie almost the ftew York gang Ethiopian war, hut the New York dispatches make spider reading. They print the names and addresses of the deceased. Borah's hat Is In the ring. It may lis ' distinguished from some of the bther hats In the ring by the fact that hit to not a slxe six and So thereto to be another new em- -' ' plre" hatched In the Orient, wTtli China furnishing the eggs and Japan tlie Incubator. This 'certainly to great yesr for weaker hfitlonfi to wake up of strange flag. .morning under .At Panama, a deadly serpent bit an gyiny lieutenant. lie took serum and went to pHTty, and the snake died In 20. minutes. Whereas, heretofore lieutenants have been regarded ns comparatively harmless. . pA?UALTIES seem BRAND . V eyepwar asandbetween the . - . . Fashion for Men to recent promise, wq-- . now TIIUE our winter, fashion bints for American men: Lounge effects will he Incidence on park benches. : The morning suit will be . used thrflugliout the day. Also every, morp- - : prosperity 'returns t - .. bright sheen or patina. ... - Trousers may or may not be turned up at. the bottoms. It depends on whether .wenrers are sensitive, about fringes or Just naturally don't give a dern. There will be very little change In many cases, no change whatsoever In the pockets of business suits. However, the careful dresser will ask the tailor to Install "special receptacle for carrying tax notices In. A favored perfume will he attar of moth ball : ' - .' Chances in Child Lif H. II. Moore's Public Health In the United States," states that It Is difficult to say whether chunee favors the child destined to live In the crowded city or the. child who spends his life in the fresh air of the country. It Is known that, for 1910, the average length of. Ilfe ln the country was 50 years, while In the cities It wns slightly more than iUi However,: the length of life In dtlre In the registration area appears to be Increasing somewhat more rapidly than In the rural districts. Death retell for such diseases as tuberculosis, rancer, heart disease, etc., are higher In the cities, On the. other hand, surveys of school children have, shown Ibfit those In rural districts have more teeth, tonsil and adenoid defects, mal. Tha Family Inflaeaca of the Virginia-hor- n SIX members Astorto family are now In the British parliament, If you Include Lady Astor herself and you'd better. So hereafter her ladyship ran rest the voice occasionally and there'd still be an Astor to carry on. She's not like some equnlly determined conversationalists, though. When he speaks, she has something to My . And Mys It On the other band, only three menr household here of the won seats at the recent English election. Maybe It's a good thing to elect a whole family group, by the crate-loaas It were. It anves huving to remember a lot of different names. Now you. tnke our congress, wherein always there are so many names that don't mean a thing on earth except for Often, roll call and salary purposes. toward the end of a congress, the Con gresslonnl Record Is merely a symposium of the 'last words of the unburied dead. . Lloyd-Gcorg- e Being an Actor MAN siiends half a lifetime trying to ieurn to write, and. If he succeeds, hes lucky : and If he doesn't, hp'a like n fellow whose wife to being talked about probably the last man nutrition and breathing defects; It 1s la town tn hear the bad news. also true that' the city schools have the But, overnight, you can get to be an best health service. actor at least you ran get the actor's For Instance, I've Just finviewpoint. ished a very bitter argument at the Light Colors in Dkcorstiag itudlo over the next picture we're go"Light colors sometimes nte. consul ertd more In 'keeping with the ing to shoot. There's a director who Inalata on fluttering up the show with In homes than the conventional white or crenm. Tiie preference a lot of other people, lie's also very for tinted paint Is sometimes due to tiresome about dragging In a plot X .still feel I have the right Idea Its assistance In giving softer lighting, effects. I'ur white, especially wlfli , about a prtqier vehicle for the display strong lighting, Is often too glaring for of 'one's' theatrical talents. r It's monologue. Inter' eye comfort, Some exporis In color decoration consider that any ridor tha: rnptcd only by tumultuous applause. IRVIN S. COBB. reflects 05 per cent of the light il Nsrth Amarirsn Nrwnpixr Alllsn foils on U to suitable fur ceilings , A derora-tlvrschonie- s two-hou- loc-W- Survive. . , Refining: . Service Stations In Utah and Idaho Start of Sing Sing Prison Bing Sing prison was authorised by act of legislature In 1823 and waa started In 1828,. when CapL Elam Lynda transferred 100 convict! from the atate prison at Auburn and put thent to work to wall themselves In; ' AKTiriCIAL LIMB CO. Ti Artificial Uuh Arch Sipp-i- tl Klartic Haaiur Sha EaUbliahcd ia Salt Lake Is ISIS Ph. Waa. S2S4 Batlafartlas GsarmntccJ 111 W. 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