Show I Thursday December 1920 9 fhe and lorn THE through got the all It and night Chns'iiras the on with us Safe apd ways rWf! it huh? a our so that him to windows fur of up watchman on bo n alley framed tying get wise lour In INSURE pal the bulls can't We're willingto split swag if y' wantn go Wlmtcha say now I easy us falling h WITH THE DAUL IRE & INSURANCE other the SEVEN borrow- subscribe ST MAR-1NE CO WLocalSTRONG Agent illy off be wouldn't good business it he S A CARTWRIGHT Sheet Metal Worker and for YOU before buying i find to Plumber Hot Air Heating Stove Repairing I £ass erree 1 PAGE We've capture fake log!" 1 1 UTAH Don't sinister appearance of the ruffian repelled Tom and the very thought of the crime they contemplated It struck him with fright meant JmII disgrace if they were caught ‘‘But done anything - never have like that in my life" he stammered weakly teeth chatteringin the biting "It be wind would criminal UN Tom Jef the farm to The whisky doesn't belong to It us efty to go to the make his would be illegal for us even to try to fortune he did it contrary sell it afterwards" the Iic:h1-slutking Io ominous 'Tab!" spat the ugly-vlsnged man und phophecies sneerlngly "You look pretty a bird of all the disaster of like youse talking that way about neighbors Even his what's lawful and all that! Lots that and mother with past these rich guys have cared how you years of toil rapidly begot along since you came to town ginning to tell upon them were the from of you got looks They've of Ids chances of success nor fine warm homes and coin and everything could they resist expressing their form Wotta they care whether poor bi allngs like bums us have to go hungry or The old folks loved their boy too freezeIn the gutter on Christmas eve? well to reproach him for his desertion Why should you care about them when flush of his young now in Hie first they don't give a rap about manhood but their hearts did aehe at You've got to go on living ain't you? cha thought of tlie separation huh?' get tired of all that "You'll soon Tom hunched his shuddering shoulders hurly-burly there in the city Tom"' against the wind trembling as his old father told ‘'And him when much because of bis own moral Irresolution want yon always to remember you do the as from terrible colj that we've slill got place for yon bo it? "Well how about it Are y' back here at the old homestead on or are y' still so almighty particular mayn't be as line and showy ns lots S MOAB split on the coin afterwards we get I've got another guy with a llivver that's ready m meet ns about 2 o'clock this to haul morning away the stuff ns fast as we pass it up to him HCos ' TIMES-INDEPENDENT we'll MOAB L H out UTAH RATH Civil Engineer father what offer we UTAH MOAB pessimistic 1 S UNNEVILLE frriil C O o n a 3 C T A o c ROBERTSON A T O R N Y AT 1 M £ t - o ED LUMBER ' v Cooper-Martin LAW Building MOAB UTAH 1 it's see there In the city but more the sort (hat the good Lord you for are Ma and hoping the best for you son but when you KELLER & HAMMOND a LAWYERS you'll Monticello Intended BUY 1 - do find out that your fortune's not away off there - just pocket your pride and come back here to us who love you" So young Tom left the farm with and high lieart and shining eyes a into the great far-away city in quest of fame and fortuuv How Im fhred there and all Hie sorry that disappointments repeatedly overtook him during that year of absence long and harrowing would lie He story to tell chased his rainbow to its end yet found the fabled pot of there as be gold not had so confidently IKi ilrl and blatantly expected - ill Torn made applications for all oflice positions only to find himself quickly rejected because of his lack 1 of experience In those specific lim "Well anyway I'm young and hnw-ky used to and hard manual labor" "I "Mow'd the Idee Tom consoled himself can at least Y'Like Huh?" get a Job with contracting gang as how y' handle the stuff-belonging painter or plumber's' assistant or aboutto all That will suflice to keep them rich guys?" teamster me "Cod!" the groaned poor Tom in going for while until the sort of abyss of his wretchedness "Yes I'll want turns up" do it will will I" But even in those lines of work the him The other chipped roughly on found himself suddenly7 the green country boy shoulder with a saturnine leer and brought up short against blank attempt at jocular fellowship wall He had no references as to past "Well thought cha he city would" employment and nobody would cha rasped hoarsely "We'll meet at hire him after once finding out that he th:"0 corner by the lumber yard at had no union card fail to be Don't you there now!" Huddled in his shabby overcoat on "I I'll be all there right!" o street corner in the squalid section Tom won't! muttered brokenly Already in of the city Icy whistling his wind - lite cringing oui he felt like the thief him and around biting through his he had Oh pledged himself to become threadbare garments -toot Tom stood heaven if only on the - until evening before Christ mas wondering the To kill time appointed where be might find shelter hour he dug his numb bauds deeper in which to sleep thar night without down into his pockets and fret-zing wandered He had aimlessly on no particular dust how Imig he had stood there objective in save only the need mind in the chill on the shivering wind to keep lest lie moving freeze or go the street corner- bitterness against lie mad with the strain of waiting great unfeeling city rankling in his from lolling shrank himself think of did not heart - Tom know He was the deed to which he was about to lie from his start led moody reverie by party hearing a hoarse wheedling voice nt Involuntarily his dragging fontsteps bls very elbow saying what was look him back into the more brilliantly as confidential tone: lighted retail shopping district nice hot feed and "flow'd y'like the crowds already had where thinned some coin to jingle in ver pants bo? to their hurrying home families and Ain't hungry are ya?" happy expectant kiddies with the holiday Whirling about Tom saw that his celebrationin mind under-sized burly fellow was an accoster It The hours dragged slowly by tougli with truculent visage ami came near the hour for the stores to bands shoved deep into the side pockets close But still there was time if of his coat lie battered poor wore had Tom only bad to cap money with the visor pulled low down have rushed in bought Hopresents over his eyes and spat malevolently he wanted for the old folks and children upon the sidewalk each time before lie and the train caught midnight spoke back to the He easily y'iike idea country could "How'd the hub?" he there by morning atd reach in his appear as raucous grating voice joyous surprise to them- sidling closer as he spoke rmd casting But tth! Why drive himself to down the nearly wary eye up and by thinking of that when deserted gloomy wind swept street there was no chance that - Tom regarded him with distasteand Ami right then suddenly he espied undisguised mistrust He looked like it lying (here at his very almost But - typical thug misery cannot be big fat wallet with not person too fastidious about the company it than hundred yards of him keeps Einally Tom scowled blackly nearer Plainly someone had lost it In their ami answered: mad haste to get home "What's that to yon anyway?" Torn stopped and scooped it up like ain't cha "Well you're outta luck flash Around corner he surreptitiously pal? Yer on yer stony broke uppers It Bills examined and maybe with an empty belly too - both and of large denominations green yellow huh bo? Well guessed that much they fairly stuffed It! ain't There blind yet ain't! Well - little job were seven hundred ijoiiars or more! need a pal for tonight and small fortune to the miserable boy we - both can make a lotto jack our of httd for who not fourteen It even eaten see?" hours Money! Money! Money! "You - you mean - burglary?" Tom Ear than he possibly could need muttered hesitantly with an Involuntary even more in his most extravagant tlrrani' contractionof his heart gurgling cry Tom stuffed rhe Not 'Humph! anything like safecracking With of bills into his trousers pocket wad or breaking into bouse threw away the tine leather purse and don't Too many people staying'up for the made mad dash nearest with the kids over Christmas trees incut store ain't keen takfn' foot on No need now to keep his sinister chances like that I'm fellin' ya Naw criminal appointment - no more necessity this wantcha for is something soft for- safe log and easy as falling off You know the big prices people are willing But rhe most gladsome feature of to pay for real booze since the country next young Toni's homecoming that Well right went lry don't cha? day his blushing was announcementto know near berg certain warehouse the old folks that he had had enough that'sgot 20 cases of whisky stored in of the big that city be bad the come basement Heal bonded stuff! home to stay as they bad prayed be The watchman is an old pel o' mine would and Is willing to let us swipe it if © 153? n'Httn Mrwrpa ter CtUoa $ WHEN TUBERCULOSIS Utah MOAB IN STOP At MLRRX XHWSIMA'i Grand the MOAB Hotel MARCH Hg Under BARBER HARRIS & New Management Prompt and EVERY ROOM EAN Cl AND Couiteous Service Connection in Baths SHOP Props CHAIRS TWO adventured WARM a W3 sortsf O NEW HY YEAR Knbx Patterson Constantine & PATTERSON CONSTANTINE LAWYERS General Practice ederal G THE CHRISTMAS SEALS - OVER GEORGE MRS - HOTEL GRAND STORE CO-OP POWELL J in mid Proprietor S B Supreme State and County Courts and Water Applications and Contests Independent Bldg Moab Utah all Land 1 -L a a a Merchant's Hotel position I ! 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