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PhHadatpM CMcg Mamphla PaHaa Kanaaa City Seattle . n without real w rtll dlawMadlUsaet isimtiitiiittmtimstitminstm e eouoaaoeoeeeBtMtO iiietaei UAKK Prospect lug by Malt PneOalaU or lUPNann school vil- womanhood, and love. Neighbors of tho Pierces era Bart and Amy Caray, brother and aider. Bart, unmarried and something of a tracted by Jenny. ne'er-do-we- at- ! The girl repnlaea him definitely. Learning that Will Is coming home, Jenny, exulting,' acts hla hours "to rights," and has dinner ready for him. Ha comes bringing hla wife, Huldy. Tha girl's world collapses. Huldy becomes tha subject of unfavorable gossip In tha Valley. Entering hla home unlooked for, Will finds seemingly damning evidence of hla wife's unfaithfulness aa a man ha, knows la Beth Humphreys breaks from tha house. Will overtakes him and chokes him to death, although Humphrey shatters hla lag with a bullet At Marm Plercea house tha leg la amputated. Jenny goes to break tha news to Huldy and flnda bar with Bart Carey. Huldy makes a stock of Jennys sympathy, declaring aha has no use for "half a man," and la leaving. Will Is legally exonerated, artificial leg and with a home-mad- e "harries on," hiring n helper, Zeke Dace. Hontba later Huldy cornea back. Will accepts her presence as har right Two pears go by. Zek and Bart Caray engage In n flat fight tha trouble arising, aa nil know, over Huldy. Amy Carey commits suicide. Zak Dace had bean shewing her attention, but has completely succumbed to tha wllos of Huldy. Bnladlna cornea to tho Vallop. Bad roads causa him to atop at Fer-rln- 's farm where ha meats Huldy. Ha laavaa to flah an adjacent stream. long-emp- ty 12 to Unknown ng In the CHAPTER VI Continued Own or Your Family Well-Bei- i tethering of eronlee nwHcnaa law and sat house, and you've got a head on you came to her to wonder about the why of. it I" She related, almost proudly, her anJim on the cient stubborn quarrel with her brothat right of er. He Mid, amused: Looks to me you cut off your own her with a nose to spite your face! The beauty pleasurable appreciation. "Folks get ao they, hanker for a which she wore was not a simple matdeter of hair and Hits and eyes, of color- fight, around here," Harm Pierce She was. Sala-dfn- clared. "Quarreling with yonr kin ing and conformation. In Hostile Valley. 1 take thought, Illumined and made ra- comes natural out of seeing of Htlafactlon a heap diant by some Inward glory. e house go to rot this of the ran to look told "I didn't her: lie I ray I Into anyone, this far from the road." and ruin. Serves hip right, Saladlne asked. "He around?" It's not far to where I live." she "He sneaks back, oricet In so ofLen. said simply; anil she asked: "Bone to see to't I'm letting things alone, anything?" she said. "Or he says that's why." Her "Not mnrh," he said apologetically. "Someone Ashed down through ahead tone was dry with scan. Then old Harm Pierce asked: "Yon of me. Thnfd scare the trout. I see My you come In by Will's?" And at his tracks. Likely he passed you?" assent, she Mid: "Will's, a., fine J!v down mill steam a "There's working, ! He deserves better I man below, she reflected. "Likely It was Saladlne explained: "I left my car at one of the men from there." She was Will's. Mis' Ferrin Showed me the path to she I've go," got dearly uneasy. down to the brook. decided, and before he could speak to Harm Pierce's tone waa suddenly detain her, she waa gone. She van"Guess likely yon visited ished among the trees, and he had an unfriendly. e spell?" Saladlne ebook with her for Impression of an almost musical harmony, as she moved. The girl set out for home swiftly, disturbed by this encounter, her eyes watchful of the woods around. 8be came back to the house, and Harm Pierce saw her uneasiness and asked: "What happened, Jenny? See somes uu the iiiiinU .imj buck on her heels, and so feet ami turned to face hank behind her here. Her dark eyes widened him; and Jim looked at kiH-e- las of Liberty, Maine. Jim Saladln listen to the history of tho neighboring Mostllo Valley It past tragedies. It uprb fishing dreams, and. above all, th mysterious, enticing ''Huldy," wife of Will Ferrin. Interested, he drives to the Valley for a day's flxhing. though admitting to himself hie chief desire Is to aea the glamorous Ifuldy Farrln. "Old Warm" Pierce and her nineteen-year-ol- d granddaughter Jenny In tha Valley. Bines childhood llv Jenny has deeply Inved young Will Ferrin, older than she, and who regards her aa still a rhild. Will leaves to tako employment In nearby Augusta. His father's death brings Will back to tho Valley, but he returns to Augusta, allll unconscious of Jenny's "Over that ride, aha assented. "If pore still a mind to go!" And she urged, almost cajollngly: "Ton wont take any trout today. Brook'a too hlghl He wonld not argue with her. "Likely not," he agreed. "But I'm a mind to see the brook. He found the steep path at one ride. "What did you come here for, anyway!" she demanded, and her month was sullen, almost angry, challenging, "To flah,".', he said, uncomfortably. "To see Hostile Valley." ' "We slot 'air hostile here," she said. 8ha wu smiling again. "If yon want In such' a. hurry I He took one step down. might come along with yon," (he proposed. "If yon asked me pretty, I c'd show yon the beet boles. 8aladlne was a man sober and contained; bat no man could escape the disturbing force she emanated. Hla sensea swam and hla cheek waa brick red. "Ill find 'em," he binned; and plunged down the steep path toward tho brook like one who breaks away from detaining hands. From the foot of the precipice he looked up tnd back, hla eye drawn Irresistibly. She stood poised on the very margin of the ledge, leaning a little over to watch him; and he heard her laugh softly. Then he turned Info the woods, ri Ueved to be away. He aupposed she would go back to tho house; but so far as Saladlne ever knew, she did not return to tho house again before she I died. CHAPTER VII Jenny went down brook that morning to do Harm Pierce' bidding In the matter of tho lily root; end as aha passed quietly through the woods, there waa a stir of new life In the forest about her. The girl made her way to a pool she knew, with a rip of ringing water at the head. Jenny crawled out on n log and lay ar length, reaching deep Into the water with a heavy kitchen knife to loose one of the roots from the Saladlne came upon mucky bottom. her while the waa thus engaged. stream there Along any la aura to be a trail that will lead even n stranger to the mail advan tageous spots from which to try each pool Saladlne was quick to discover such a path here. When he Aral found It, he saw a boot track In the muck, and knew that another angler bad gone down brook this same morning. He thought regretfully that If tha other man had Ashed the pools, the trout would be not so readily responrive now; and a be went on, he began to wonder about this man who had gone downstream before him, and to watch alertly, waiting to overtake the other. But It was not a man whom presently he encountered, but a woman, lying along a log which extended into one of the pools, with her head lower than her heels, her ankles crossed, and her heels toward him. While he checked in his tracks, still nd astonished, she' brought up out of tha water an object which tie recognised; one ot the thick fleshy k of the water Uly. She washed It clean, aod then aha rose to bei well-flahe- root-stoc- UTAH AMITHFIELD. log, p Wln-sfd- . . one?" "A man, down brook, Jenny explained. "Fishing, he waa." She hesitated. "He didn't bother me," she Mid. "He was kjnd of like Will, big, and steady." Harm Pierce chuckled. Kind of like Will I" she repeated derisively. "That's all you can think of. Hill man, waa he?" But Jenny shook her head. JNo." She added : "He didn't bother me. But he Mid he'd seen tracks all down the brook, along the path. I didn't know who might be around." "This man, did he look like he might be from Augusta?"- Jenny' shook her head. "No, maw like folks around here," she declared. "But no one I ever see before. They exhausted the subject presently, and must by and by have forgotten It But a little before noon, when he wee done fishing, Saladlne, mistaking Will Ferrin directions and seeking the road to Carey's, took the way In to Harm Pierce's farm Instead, and ao came to the houM divided. Harm Pierce and Jenny were In the dining room when rain suddenly began to falL Jenny rose to close a window, and as she did so, Saladlne came running around the house to take shelter on tho porch; and Jenny called over her shoulder : "Granny, heres that man I see down brook I" They uw him pass the windows and go toward the kitchen door, snd tt- - girl made haste to open to them t,ueu rtaladlne thus saw Jenny again, ha was surprised afresh at her teauty, and amused at this second en- him counter. The rain had wetted him. "Come In and set," Jenny Invited him. "Till the rains done. Yora soaked through I" She pushed the screen door wide, "I'll drip on your floors," Saladlne out. "And IPs not cold I I'll stay here on the porch till It passes. Then maybe yon can put me on the way to Carey's." "Come In, come In I" Harm Pierce Insisted. "Water won't hurt the floors, and you'll catch your death nut there! So he leaned the loose sections of his disjointed rod against the weather-boarde- d wall and stepped Into the kitchen. "I fished down brook, after I saw yon, he Mid to the girl irs all a bog, below there. I got enough of that, and cut back np to the road. Will Ferrin told me to take the flrat road right . . When he spoke that name, the girl's pulse caught, then pounded in a quicker beat To think suddenly of Will could always shake her long composure. She stopped back, Into the shadowed end of the kitchen by the rink; but Harm Pierce she had put aside her knitting came out from the dining room and said briskly: "Chunk up the fire, Jenny, and to Jim: "You get tip close and dry. Jenny obeyed, glad or this pretext for activity; and Saladlne told them hla name and errand here. "The road In here fooled me." he explained. "I thought It'd bring me to Carey's, It looks like a traveled road." She nodded, with clucking chuckle. Tla P she agreed. A lot or people come In here, take It by and larger "Why!" Her little black eyes twinkled at him. "If you lived anywhere aronnd here, you'd have heard of Harm Pierce," she told him, a crotchety pride In her tones. "Folks come to me for doctoring. Yarbi and simple Ive healed a pile of hurts In my day. "A real doctor can't make a living here, so they come to me, end pay me with help In hay time, or they get my wood In, and do the chorea that's too heavy for Jenny." "It mint be hard for Just the two or you," be hazarded. Harm Pierce eyed him ahrcvdly. "Now yo're wishing you dast ask questions." aha guessed. "You've got eyes la your brad to see the looks of this pointed shoulder of his shirt waa torn. Hla garments all were soaked, save that across the front of him, where he had carried Huldy In hla arms, the faded blue of hla overalls was of a lighter hue than elsewhere. Her body, pressed against hla; bad kept the denim there, Mve for two thin trickles, completely II SOLD It always dry. And Jenny remembered that ledge where she had- seen Huldy, lying in the sun, on day long ago; and she remembered, ahiidderingly, the steep declivity below. was shaking, still pantThen little. ing I was fishing, he aaliL "Down below Will's place. Heard her let ont n acreech. and then a kind of thump; and I scrabbled up there to the foot of the ledge and there she was. He stood back while Harm Pierce bent above the still form. 1 low she's dead and done for, he confessed. But I never took time to Jta ft do what hospitals do, and tha doctors insist on. Use a good liquid laxative and aid Nature to restore docklike regularity without strain or ill effect. constipation. Ask a doctor about this Ask ' druggist how very popular Dr. 1 I Syrup Pepsin has become. U amount ofhelp. Taking a little L each time gives the bowels a chance to act of their own accord, until they are moving regularly and thoroughly without any help at all. Dr. Caldwell s Syrup Pepsin contains senna and eascara both natural laxatives that form no habit Tha a tion is gentle, but sure. It will relieve any sluggishness or bilious dun to constipation without upset think of that! Harm Pierce nodded. "Aye, done for, finally," she Mid In low, almost triumphant tones. "1 could've lugged her home, np the hill, Bart admitted. "Bnt lta steep, and I thought you might do something. It's some further over here than np to Will's ; but It's easier going. Looked to me I could get her here aa quick aa With Different Feelings A compliment Is something remember to your dying days wIm a snub. there!" He was rubbing hla right hand with hla left, and Jenny mw that the right was bruised and swollen, a split across one knuckle. "You hurt your band, she suggested, huskily. "Fell on It; fell and landed on a rock," Bart agreed. The girl turned toward the conch; she stood beside It. her back against the well, her hands spread at her sides and her pnlms pressing against the plaster. She looked down at the hurt woman over her shoulder, sidewise, with wide eyes; her lips were white and still. Bart stood In the middle of the room, and while he spoke he crabbed with hla palm at some dark stain on hla sleeve, ills palm was stained when he was done; and he stared at It, and rubbed It against hla overalls. "I thought flrat off she. was alive, he repeated. Harm Pierce Mid softly to herself, like an old crone mumbling some mystic charm: "The blood still,-- ' runs! She darted out to. the kitchen, lightly, swiftly, moving Ilka a shadow; aha returned with some white stuff In her hand, and clapped this against a wound on Huldy Ferrln'a neck, from which a thin stream flowed. She held her hand pressed there. "Dead, ain't she?" Bart asked hosk-U. "I C'd Show You the Best Hols hla bead; and the other Hid tartly: "It's a wonder she let you get away!" There seemed no reply to this; but Saladlne, standing by the stove, .was deeply uncomfortablek He had caught one foot between two bowlders, and had felt a sharp burning pain In hla ankle. Uovlng a step away from the stove Just now, that hurt reminded him of Its existence with a pain ao sharp that he winced, and limped. The old woman looked at him shrewdly. "Yonr foot bnrtr she asked. "I twisted It," be confessed, and she came to her feet with a spry alac- works yet Uk Manufactured by hairing powder Specialists who make nothing but bak- ing powder under supervision of expert chemist. ALWAYS Same price today as 45 years ago 25 earnest lev 250 FULL PACK NO SLACK FILLING ink J. "You'd beat go fetch Will, Bart, aha directed. "Whatll I tell him?" "Tell him anything yore a mlndT rity. she Hid Impatiently. "High time yon wu (telling me," Jenny's head turned. Her body did she said. "I can tend that for yon. not move, but her head turned so that Set down and take off your shoe." aha looked at Bart, and there wu n She began to heat something in a message In her eyes, aa though she Mucepan on the stove. wished to bid him soften, for Will, "Wormwood boiled in vinegar and this deadly blow. robbed on hot Thatll take out the "Pd better stay here," the young pain In no time!" Arid fumes arose man urged. "There might be somefrom the mixture she vms stirring. thing I could dol "Howd you do It?" she asked. "I can do anything needs doing," He Hid with a smile at his own Saladlne volunteered. He mw Bsrt'a clumsiness: "A fool thing. All down glance touch bis bare foot. "I sprained brook today, I kept feeling as If somemy ankle, down In the woods," he exone wu watching me. So 1 kept look-loplained. "Harm Pierce was boiling tack, and naturally I stepped Into up tome liniment for me." a hole. And he said, watching her: fTO BE CONTINUED) "This Valley's a gloomy place for e stranger, matin I No More Merry Dancing She nodded. "It Is that, she agreed. on Old Avignon Bridge "And for folks that live here, too. I Old Avignon In France la famed as could till you tales." And then suddenly she became motionless, her head the City of the Popes, notes a writer In the Boston Gobe. On a hill domcocked, listening. "Heavy foot she Mid softly, and looked inating the dty stands the Papal toward the outer door. palace, where for over 70 years popes held court and all Europe came In Saladlne, seated, did not Immediately rise; and Harm Pierce was busy, so It pilgrimages, filling the dty with dancwaa Jenny who crossed to the door. ing, festivals and processions. Built She was thus the flrat to see Bart, aa a great fortress, the palace waa striding toward the house through the nevertheless elaborately furnished. rain. He bore a burden In hla arms, a After the popes returned to Rome, woman. Her head hung down over however, it suffered many vicissitudes, hla elbow, and her upturned face even serving one time as barracks. streamed with rain. Huldy Ferrin, The famous bridge of Avignon, on limp and still and broken ! That dark which the old folk long says the peored garment she wore was drenched ple used to dance; haa fared even and shapeless now worse. It has been In ruins for 230 Jenny Instlnrilrely recoiled; but years, and Its crumbling arches now Harm Pierce came to fling the door reach only about half way across the wide. IJurt stepped up on the porch, Rhone; Side by side with Its palaces and panting. lie crossed the threshold and hla dripping burden stained the Its hilns, Avjgnon carries on Its dally clean scrubbed floor. life and iport most famous of which For an Instant none spoke. Jenny, are the plucking of the corarde, a like one pulsed for (light, backed Into bloodies variation of the bull light. the dining room. There was a hideous Instead of killing the bull, the mataringing in her ears, and she stared at dor must manage to Jab the animal Huldy with blank, glazed eyes Even with a stick, on the end of which la Menu Pierce was startled Into silence. the cocarde, a rosette decorated with Then Burt told them In explosive ribbons Then the of the gam object ejaculation: "She fell off the ledge becomes the snatching of the rosette back of Will's I fetched her here from the bull'e shoulder without being cbm you could do anything." hurt Bo Harm 1'lerce recovered her srlts and took quick commnnd. "Carry her The Black Carpal Beetle In here, she bade; and led the The black carpet beetle Is small, way Into the dining room. Jenny moved oval, black, ae Its name Indicates and aside, and Bart deposited Huldy upon about of an Inch In the couch against the further walL length. Tills Insert thrives best In seJenny mw that he' waa curiously cluded environments where they are disheveled. 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