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Show THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, MOAB, UTAH THE GIFT WIFE.. v_v By RUPERT SERVICE Ww y CHAPTER XII-Continued -13- "ebb's whisper reached her. She ‘ted, turned, saw him, checked a "with a swift hand to her mouth. %n she rose-as she alone could ~, like a lark-came to him fleet- thely, oblivious of her unwonted e. Their hands met in a tice clutch and she dropped at his 1 didn't know you at first in Se clothes." -e could have cursed himself for sublime inanity, but her greet- ‘\was small improvement on his: » Didden' you know me? I knewed ~ the feerst meenute I heard you isper."" they stared at each other and she luhed a little deeper as she asked: "But you didden' call me hanim Mindi or madame like that you -j to-what it was the word you im me joost now?" *Miruma!"' "he closed her eyes and breathed Ep as if the sound were perfume. "ft all Fate's practical jokes this ymed to Jebb the meanest, that he nid meet Miruma like this in a awded hotel parlor!-and that an"sr woman should be coming for if at any moment. a CHAPTER warely has XIlIl Five Min- "3 been longer than Jennie LudAl's, rarely has it seemed shorter. saying with a child- sou didden' know me at feerst. q if you know me now?" And she "=the lower part of her face, peer~ over the white, white hand that Dinicked to her." "It belonged "But you Cologne." "Did I?" did sayed "You tions."' a Woman's ruma was m giggle: She was so beautiful, now, alone; so doubly lovable here in the surroundings of civilization. She would honor him and his name anywhe re. But he and his name would not honor her. What protection could he give her when he could not protect himself? He had fought the battle through in Uskub and had chosen the honorabler course, had silence d his love and fled with it. That she had come up with him and that she was here at his mercy did not change his duty. He was wondering how to broach the subject to Jennie Ludlam and her brother and the ring, when he heard his name paged along the corridor. He called the boy and was informed that Miss Ludlam was waiting for him in a lower alcove. Jebb answered: sofort!' "Ich komm' The boy went his way, and Jebb turned to find a troubled curiosity on Miruma's face. "Miss Ludlam is-er-you remember that ring I had?" **Yes." you say it had buyed no it in associa- "It hasn't." "And I find you here; you wait for her: the beautiful Mees Loodlam?" She rose and crushed the jealousy, the shattered the disillusionment, a yashmak. in the he to safer you topics: received my let- all I had i#I sended you twice letters!" looted Ma the Ludlams. She looked sad: -Then I deed not helped you! I a help you. You finded the guzeljik-the pretty a girl vitout me!"' m2 have not found her.'' py you deed not try the Budapest mice, then?'' "What Budapest place?" isl sended you in my letter a post- i ‘id. You did not been to Buda"But 9 ; came through there, but I eee eet to eat.' y to eat! Yazik, aman, aman! Fiat a pity! The child was perhaps Vey near you. Leesten. The day Tr you have goed, Jaffar is breeng € a picture postcard. He say he "3 it tack up on the wall in the of one of the other servants. man say he find it long time ,ore-in the room where Jaffar -ked ; it your clothes camed ber?" to my dry after you home-you re- "Do I remember!" 4 Jaffar Say peerhaps the picture gall out of your pocket out, and gill he burn it. I take it and send to you in a letter." 5t is in Trieste now, then. You h was a picture postcard?" j es-he is a carte postale in y colors-a picture of a little @a-how you say-island. And it 1 j-I Cannot pronounce the majar ‘iguage-butI can spell if you have ; encil-" He gave her a card and r fountain pen and she wrote argit-Sziget, Budapest." Who is Margit Seegit? I won- I compromised five hundred." trust back in her breast. to her side whispering: ‘"Hanim effendim! on Jebb rose - madame!- Miruma!-I beg you!-I can explain if you-"' *"‘Please!-if you would not have me - shame myself here - please speak nothing-let me-go-"' She hurried away as fast as she dared, slipping through the crowd with a lithe panther-like grace that impressed him even then. He stood fast and saw her vanish. And then he heard a voice back of him-a sweet and womanly voice: "Is this Dr. Jebb?"' He was brought sharply to book, a gasp of surprise. "Why, it's Mr. Pierpont. The card said it was Dr. Jebb.'' His worst fears seemed realized by the swift change from the formal greeting for Dr. Jebb to the gush of cordiality for Mr. Pierpont. And his by the increased was uneasiness afsight of what Mr. Pierpont had For he saw before fianced him to. flata even whom lady him a short by terer 7 think he is the name of the isi. The picture is of a beautiful kK. And on eet is writed in a writ- Do not try. 1am having a nice time here neese beautiful place weet MeesPierpont.' Do you know a man ne Pierpont?"' bb nodded impatiently. ‘ prise me?" ‘‘Is-isn't your brother here?" "Why, no, he's in Servia-some- ‘"‘Was big where in the mountains hunting all?" "sh 9, then comes, ‘Your loving gal' and then in beeg letters like ld is print them, C-Y-N-T-H-I-A fame ne of the leetla girl-yes? remembering such a € shook his head blankly. ps ob. Must go to Budapest by the first Surely I'll find the poor little ae as are an angel to | . now we've "4h about my: affairs. ct ae 4s" What brought talked so Tell me you to Was a brusque question and she ered it with a blush of meek et Nobody's hanim now. pest ij a me. Brae I am free now." ; y , my tellgame. Don't you remember suppose ing you in Munich? Do you I could that if he had been where accepted have reach him I should you?"' from all that money i "N-no, I suppose not." "lm awfully glad to see you, and down,' she pattered on. ‘Do sit she dropped the divan. rassing to I into Miruma's place on ‘"‘It was awfully embarme that you should dis- leave no appear so completely, and else to do, trace.'' Knowing nothing and he just shrugged his shoulders Twit sion that told him more than "ad dared to believe. She had wed him like another Ruth. "Ut tell me, are you-did Fehmi " Brant you the-the talaq?"' would call plump. he So this was sister Jennie! As stared at her in a daze, she smiled his tenderly and said as she pressed hand and kept it: "Was this one of your jokes-sendasking ing up a strange name and to surfor my brother? Was it just like the little writing you send- to me, ‘Dear Mother: hold up. time somebody bottom fell out had word one brokers in Mucover the drop That very sister Jennie sat and an amiable purred over him, like mouse -* tabby with a disabled As his eyes ro ‘ tween her paws. gy e distressfully he saw brother the push to steam into the hotel and up to a desk like a liner crowding pier. by its president, and evehad closed its doors. I found where the cashier of my Munich bank lived and telephoned his house. He said that my letter of credit was good for nothing unless the bank opened again. I was simply in despair. "‘At that moment who should come along but Mr. Pierpont here. I didn't know him and he didn't know me, but he heard me crying, and said, ‘Pardon me, madame, is there anything I can do for you?' It sounded so good to hear an American voice and he spoke so gently and I was so weak that I just up and told him the story. "Well, what do you suppose this angel of a Mr. Pierpont did? I can hear him now-‘There, there, my poor child'-'' she laughed moistly; ‘the called me his poor child when I'm old enough to be his mother!" But Charlie was impatient: "Go on. What did he say?" "He said, ‘There, there, my poor child; if you'll stop crying, I'll give you the money.' I said, ‘You'll lend me-twenty thousand marks-me!- a total stranger!' ‘Certainly,' he said, ‘you are an American,' and I said, ‘But I have no security,' and he said, ‘You're an American'-as if that proved anything! ‘"‘He wouldn't listen to any argument or scruples, he just asked me to excuse him while he went to his room and got at his money-belt; and when he came back he handed me A Industry Bait Fish little thousands bait of catchers, wholesalers, retailers and extensive hatching properties. busiprosaic more other Like the bait industry is modnesses, servsuper with satisfy to ernized varied stocks, and ice, extensive, high-speed, streamlined delivery. Minnows, shiners (silver or gold), bugs, bass bugs, perch worms, by crawfish and frogs are packed and cartons attractive into the dozen angler's to the almost delivered hook or sold over the counter. The precincts are unbounded. Bait stores are found in city shopping districts and along the nations highways populated hard by fishing nearly spots. Great Lakes minnows I might hadn't have gone it if the kept skyrocketing up again. It never rains but it pours, you know, and in two days that awful bank was reorganized and reopened, and my letter of credit was all right. But when I came to look for Mr. Pierpont he had paid his bill and disappeared, taking his little niece along with him." the ring-the "But ring," said brother Charles, voicing a curiosity that was aching in Jebb's breast, ‘thow did you come to give him the ring I gave you?" "Such a silly question, Charlie. Can't you see I felt so ashamed of taking his money with no security, that I forced it on him. He didn't want to take it, but I made him. he learned it was worth only When about half sented." what Charlie rounded lent me he on he con- Jebb: "Well, why in thunder didn't you tell me all this on the train when I accused you of stealing the ring?" "That was his delicacy. Can't you see, Charlie? He didn't want to involve me." could 4y- Ruth Wyet h Spears oS understand that This doesn't mean that Louis is ready to be taken and that the time is at hand for some strong young fellow to rush in, belt him out from under his crown and rush off to gather in a million dollars or so. He still can hold these young fellows off-he should be able to, since he still is a young fellow himself. But it means that he has entered on a new phase of his career. He is just the heavyweight champion now-and not a bogey man. The lightning still crackles in his fists and he still ranks as one of the greatest fighters the ring ever has known. But he no longer frightens his opponents out of their wits. There are no more Paulinos dying in the training camp or Levinskys dying in the dressing room. lows in this sketch are in Book 4. Books are 10 cents each; if you enclose 40 cents with your order for four books (Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4) you will receive a FREE set of quilt block patterns of Mrs. Spears' Favorite Early American quilt designs. Send your order-to: MRS. Bedford WE KNOW what becomes of old automobiles for their graveyards are all too obvious. But how about that backseat cushlon with springs almost as good as new? The sketch shows what became of one such seat. It was padded out at the ends to make the back the same length as the front. Extra padding was also used on the top to make it smooth. A simple base with a back and wings was made of oneinch boards, to fit the seat. Next, came the cretonne slip-cover for the spring seat, with a box pleated ruffle around the front and along the sides up to the wings. A bright peacock blue tone in the cretonne was used for seam cordings and was matched in paint for the wings and back of the seat. NOTE: Sewing Book 1 contains 32 pages of directions for making slip-covers and curtains; books 2 and 3 give directions for the embroidered pictures over the mantel. The knitted rag rug and pil- Once nobody-save of Max getting off @ he check payable all wellthe On are frequent- anly sold boat-side from barges chored off shore. been have No accurate estimates size. made of the bait industry's Some dealers place total annual Hatchmore business at $500,000 or to David was her last? Had she registered as hanim effendi? or madame hanim? or Mme. Fehmi (TO Pasha-or what? BE CONTINUED) Business' ‘Big ing properties and leased swampland is estimated at several hundred thousand dollars additional. Eben (Hi) Hidorn, of Rensselaer, N. Y., is representative of the nation's fresh water bait sellers. Located in the upper Hudson valley, his clients are mainly Albany, Troy and Schenectady fishermen bound for Adirondacks and Catskill lakes and streams. Hidorn selects minnows from large showcase tanks, but only lively ones. Logy minnows are thrown out. Crawfish are chosen from big hatching ual requirements are pinched vats for individand at the perch tails. bugs If they squirm they are used. The bugs are stored in refrigerators. His plant consists, besides cellar minnow and crawfish tanks, boxes for earthworms. ponds. two for water and Two are for perch bugs. is used four breeding minnows Running in the tanks and well in pref- erence to city water. From the ‘‘store'' Hidorn estimated last year's sales at 72,800 minnows, 250,000 worms, 65,000 craw- fish, and 30,000 75,000 helgramite or dobson perch bugs. He be- lieved the worm estimate low, however, for he said one man alone bought 100.000. JOE your lifetime! GoneE WITH A General Quiz THe WIND SPECIAL MOVIE EDITION LOUIS Men took matches with him for the money alone-and then almost immediately began to regret their greed. There was something mysterious and inscrutable and terrible about his very appearance. He was, it seemed, greater than any of the fighters who had gone before him. He was invincible and the ut- that he showed made him terrifying. Most of his fights were won before he laid a glove on his opponent. The psychological advantage was. tremendous. Schmeling, in their first fight, demonstrated that Louis had no defense against a cunningly launched right hand and knocked him out. Louis came back from that knockout a better fighter because it fired him with a new determination and taught him a valuable lesson. He was a magnificent fighter the night he knocked out Jim Braddock to win the title and again the night he took his revenge on Schmeling. But the scene in which he moves has been changed. None of those pressing closer about him now is capable of beating him-but they know that he can be beaten. They know that in his last two fights he was hit often enough to have been knocked out but actually didn't come even close to a knockout because neither Bob Pastor nor Godoy can punch. Naturally, this is stimulating to the young heavyweights around the country. Two years or so ago there was no real inducement to any young heavyweight, beginning to throw his punches in some remote corner, to hit the trail for a title because there concave on to join the about was circle that 3. The siege of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar, which lasted 13 years, being raised in 572 B. C. 4, Evidence of cribbing by Chinese students as early as 1562 have been found. 5. Geography. 6. No. States grant the right to vote. , 7. Battle of Bunker Hill. 8. France. bring and full of health and some not yet bored > Name Address City. State. 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How long will a date palm bear fruit? 2. Is water in a bucket perfectly level on top? 3. What was the longest siege in history? 4. Is the practice of cribbing for examinations a modern practice? 5. What is the name of the science of the earth and its life, geology, geography or geodesy? 6. Does United States citizenship confer the right to vote? 7. At what battle did the commander order: ‘‘Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes.''? 8. What country controls the island of Tahiti? Jebb?"' "David Jebb?" *That's the name you gave me on the train,'' her brother put in. "That's real my name," said Jebb. Now Charlie was off again: ‘‘But why did you call yourself Pierpont to my sister?'' ‘Hush, Charlie, don't make another exhibition of yourself. He was traveling incog. Very rich people often do that." Brother Charles and Jebb were such mutually discomforting companions that when they were left together Ludlam grew restive: ‘Come on into the cafe and have something." ‘"‘No, thanks."' ‘‘Well, will you excuse me if I do? I've just got in from Munich and I'm horribly thirsty." *‘Don't let me keep you."' Left alone, Jebb was overcome by this new turn of the wheel. The money meant so much to him just now; it meant power, salvation from infinite humiliations; it meant funds for the pursuit of Cynthia. Then the luxury of being a minor Croesus faded before a keen anxiety for Miruma. He must find her. She must be told the news, the news that solved everything. He would go to the desk and send her his card, imploring her to grant him a hearing. He paused-what was her name? Miruma was her first name-what York We all know the man who talks about hailstones ‘‘as big as your fist," but at Potter, Texas, there fell a hailstone that measured 17 inches in circumference. Even this is by no means a record, for the biggest measured hailstone was 9% by 5% by 4% inches. Some yarns about hailstones take a lot of swallowing, but in Africa and India there are exceptionally heavy falls. In 1936 the Transvaal was hit by a hailstorm and in half an hour the countryside was three feet deep in hail! Cows and men surprised in the open had their skulls shattered, and thousands of acres of crops were destroyed. The Questions put it in his own terms. "I guess the drinks are on me, old man. I've made a jackass of myself, and I admit it. What'll it be?" But Jebb declined to liquidate the account. And then sister Jennie said she must run up to her room and write him a check for twenty-two thousand marks. ‘Would you mind making the New Giant Hailstones Another Schmel- Louis SPEARS TOPOS A Terrifying Appearance ing-thought RUTH WYETH Drawer 10 Hills Enclose 10 cents for one book, or 40 cents for four books and set of quilt block patterns. Name SHEESH HHET HEHEHE EEE EEE ES owed Jebb a handsome apology, and Becomes boy who got nickels and an idea digging worms for his fais ther's fishing holiday probably founder of today's new "‘big business''-the bait industry. Thousands of fishermen with no time and others with no inclination to catch their own bait, have created a demand for a business involv- ing "‘Well, stock HICAGO.-The circle narrows about Joe Louis and the contenders come into clearer view. Young fighters who wouldn't have been even remotely considered as _ opponents for him are ranging themselves against him. Johnny Paycheck already has been matched with him. Lee Savold is being readied for a shot at him. Only a week or so ago Louis faltered through 15 rounds Grantland with the rough and Rice clownish Arturo Godoy, the South American threat. he ning the cablegrams announced that my bank in New York had been e explained the Trieste contre"ipts briefly, but neglected to men- to put and he actually wanted to give me a thousand dollars more. But I compromised on five hundred. The next morning I had the money at the brokers' bright and early and I made a solemn resolve that I'd never speculate on margins again." "Did you keep the vow?" grinned Charlie. She pouted meekly: Charles by morning I'd be wiped out.' s?°° much ** "You must have something to get along on till you hear from your brother or till your bank reopens,' "Is that so! Somebody was hammering her, I suppose." ‘Well, whoever hammered it, it hit the toboggan and I stood to lose Pino." dso and points." "Yes, but at that attacked it and the for a few days. I afternoon from my nich that if I didn't ut how did you ever get here? tal when?" "Didden' the sum in English bank notes. Then he said: "It's an old story to you, Mr. Pierpont,"' she said, ‘‘but you won't mind hearing it again. Well, to begin at the beginning, you see, Charlie, you wrote me that you were going into the mountains for a month or so of hunting. Just after you disappeared, Charlie, I had a call for five thousand dollars more margin on my stock in the-oh, that awful investment you let me in for.'' twenty-nine HUGHES Jebb So it is!" *"‘Well, I see by the paper that it's world." flew brother now," Impossible! she left him and made an almost un-old-maidenly haste, Catching her brother just as he was asking for her at the desk. His eye fell on Jebb. He stopped short, snorted like a bull, and charged, "So here you are, eh? I never expected to see you again." "Again?" cried Jennie, "you've seen him?" *‘Have I seen him! Didn't he give me the slip in Munich?" ""You've met Mr. Pierpont before! Isn't that funny?" *‘Pierpont?-That's Dr. Jebb." "Dr. Jebb!-why''-she turned to Jebb. "That's the name," said Jebb. "And I got your ring away from him, Jennie. See, here it is.' And he fished it out. ‘He wouldn't tell me how he came by it, though." "‘Wasn't that delicate of him?" And she beamed on Jebb till she frightened him. "‘Delicate!"' gasped Charlie. ‘‘Delicate! Then you really did give it to him? Then it is true that you-" "Sit down, you old dear, and I'll tell you." She toppled the mountain on to the wailing divan. up Mazallah! A compliment!" You're no longer in Turkey. _1't be afraid." then "No! "Rock Island, you mean." "That's it. You told me to for a rise." »Oh, I knew you as soon as I ~7 those eyes." Jebb Effendi remembers these ~s, then?' (They are the most wonderful 78 "‘There's your exclaimed. ny ¥ Vy? a LE. LOB aai a © RUPERT HUGHES-WNU - ILDNESS, EXTRA FOR EXTRA TRA FLAVOR= COOLNESS, Der SLOW-BURNING _ TOBACCOS |