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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD, DUCHESNE, UTAH SEWING SIP00TS00IPIE o ymcrts, JOE MAHONEY Oh, Andy dear! Kate walled. kneeling in the ditch and Dont get trampled, Andy said calmly. Well just have to wait for the crowd to let us out Lets use the window there, Granny said. You can jump out and help us down, Andy. Stop shovin, fore I start kickin!" Mr. Flipp roared from the other aisle. Hopes heart was pounding so hard that it was almost choking her. The screams of the women and the yells of the men, and the frantic fighting for the outside were a background of sound and action to heighten her fear. A dry sob caught CHAPTER XXVII in her throat. Someone took her arm. She looked He rode to town with Mr. Eliot around and saw Big Halleck. His on Wednesday morning and went to face was white and drawn. He nodsee Mr. Bird. ded reassuringly and said: Hold Sure, theres a trick in it, the onto me, Hope. When the wind hits, merchant agreed. The notes were hold onto me. sent within a few hours after Mr. She caught his hand, felt it close Burke announced his candidacy. with gentle strength upon her. She See? Sheriff Martin wants the votes out in your section. Thats the trick! He laughed. This is that outfits first opposition, and theyre getting the jitters. You people out there talk up that organization, Ives. Keep right in behind it. "Weve got it started, Andy told him. The homesteaders met at the church on Saturday morning of that week and organized. Big and Andy and Jerry Burke talked to the people. It was Big who nominated Andy to head the homesteaders. There was much Birdie conversation. whispered nominated Harley Webster and sat down quickly, looking startled by her own courage. Harley begged in his raspy voice that the nomination be withdrawn. Ives is a better man for the job, he said. Birdie tossed her head angrily. Mr. Wallace moved that the nominations be closed and that Andrew d vote. Ives be elected by After being chosen to head the homesteaders, Andy made a little talk and thanked them. Ill do what I can, he said simply. 'Xets all work together for the homes we want to have and the solid place we deserve in this county." It was a nice talk. They all applauded, and Kate felt like crying. A sultry spell came on that afternoon, and a warm wind blew out of the south. It was still blowing on Sunday morning, and a hazy cloud had come up. The wind had It seemed that she belonged with become gusty by now, and warmer. him in that moment, that it was a The Ives rode to church in the time she had awaited, not knowwagon. Except for the threat of ing it. rain, they might have walked, but Ive never been in a cyMuds mud in this said: Andy said: country. You wont ruin your shoes clone. What can we do? Hope for the best is about all, If we go in the wagon. Hope saw Big in the choir, heard he told her. Kate Ives! a woman screamed his rich bass ring beneath Brother Cowanns voice. Birdie and Oreen shrilly. Miz Ives! Kate turned and looked over her were in the choir too. Birdie sang in a high, flutey quaver and swayed shoulder. She saw Birdie Webster fighting toward her. The woman from the waist as she sang. a ghost. She was crying, Mr. Flipp and Mr. Eliot were looked like out her arms and screamholding there. Knowing that the Iveses would ing. A flash of lightning cut through attend, they had walked a short the semidarkness and filled the Durcut. 'Jessie Bell had followed. church with a weird brilliance. ing a part of the song, she howled Birdie Websters eyes were wild with lingering sadness, outquaver with fear. ing Birdie Webster. she screamed. Kate I The wind dropped away as Broth- an repent! Hope Ives, I repent! I lied about Cowann his took er text There an this is my public confeswas almost a constant rumble of you, sion. I thunder from the low bank of black Birdie! Harley yelled. He was cloud. to make his way to her. trying It was a fearful sermon against Reen! sin. Brother Cowann was in fine Birdie cried, igHope Ives! voice, and he bellowed his warn- noring Harley. I lied about you, ings to all. His eyes were often on may the Lord forgive me! I tol Granny, who sat straight and fol- people lies bout you an Hank, an When he L made up lies out of hate an lowed him intently. turned on Mr. Eliot, that gentle- spite. I backbit you an your ma, man and scholar was watching him an now I repent. Forgive me an with a keen gaze and with undent- - pray fer me! able amusement "Ye are sinners! he bellowed. Big Continues Repent and be saved. If you have His Coldness wronged your neighbor, make it Ma! Oreen cried. She was pulltoo If before late. its you right have lied, confess it and pray for- ing at Birdie, trying to swing her around toward Harley. Come on! Oh, my beloved, giveness. Wait!" Birdie screamed, snatchIf you have slandered, ing loose. The Good Book says to to them ye have wronged, to go Lightning played over the cloud. go times if you got to or sevseventy was A deep, ominous roar back enty times seventy if it takes that of the thunder. fer fergiveness. This evil thing is People were watching the cloud. an it must be With such competition. Brother upon my heart, lifted! Cowann redoubled his efforts. The Granny wheeled upon her. Stop church was dark with a frightening she ordered. Youre your midday twilight People were afraidranting!" of dying now. Thats what A man in restless. the growing a rear got up and slipped out on ails you. Youre stormy weather Christian! tiptoe. Andy helped Kate and Granny from the window. Behind them, Birdie Makes a Birdie Webster was still pleading forgiveness, and Harley was tryPublic Confession to pull her toward the door. Brother Cowann whirled to ex- ing Oreen had left them and was lunghort those In the choir. Birdie Weband elbowing her way through ster jerked in shock as he screamed ing the congested doorway. at close range. She was wringing Big leaped from the window, her handkerchief, taking quick caught Hope as she followed. They glances out of the window now ran after the crowd. The little ditch and then, when she thought the was the only refuge in the flat preacher wasnt looking at her. land. The man who had gone outside Hope stumbled. Big swept her up Brother Cow- without losing speed and ran with yelled something. ann faltered. The man came pil- her in his arms. ing in, crying out: Its a cyclonel It was a wild, eerie scene of peoIts awful ple in terror before threat of naIts cornin lookin. Lord, save us! tures fury. Young and old, and those Brother Cowann turned around in between, were reacting accordtwice and grabbed up his coat He ing to their bravery or their weakstarted for the door. People were ness. An old man with a flowing yelling and pushing to fight their white beard ran toward the ditch way out. The more agile and rewaving his cane and babbling like a sourceful ran over the benches, lunatic. Mrs. Buckley was running leaping from seat to seat. It would circles in the area before the church, be an awful thing if the cyclone i her stiff, reddish hair flying, and caught up the churchful of peoplel calling for her husband, who was out-lou- RE-PEN- this-a-wa- Simple Smartly Styled Frock T wosome for d Hours Sun-Fille- W.T. PERSON The Ives family, Andy, Kate, Hope, Dave and Granny, work against odds to make a home on homesteading grounds donated by the state. When hogs from Sig Flanagans property get into Andys potatoes, the latter is infuriated and goes into town to complain. Flanagan becomes obstreperous and Andy strikes him. He is immediately arrested for having attacked a man with a lethal weapon, although the ax in his free hand did not enter into the fight. He is released on bail, but later when the homesteaders organize to run their own man against the town officers in a com ing election, the shwilf and mayor send Andy his ax back with apologies, hoping to pacify the homesteaders. CIRCLE PATTERNS yelling: Ida! Ida! Brother Cowann was lying flat in the ditch and bellowing: Be brave! Have courage, my beloved, an pray! And Mr. Eliot was standing on the church steps, his eyes on the black funnel, studying it critically. Hope knew that Big Halleck was protecting her with his arms, shielding her with his body, and in spite of her fear she felt comfort in his nearness. She knew that Kate and Granny and Dave and Andy were close by them. And then the darkness thickened, cut by knife-shar- p lightning, and the blasting thunder was dim behind the poar of the wind. It came with a wild ripping and tearing of the trees, and the mad screaming of branches anl whole trees whipped up by the torturing live thing that spiraled from earth to sky. It was a deafening, blotting-ou- t moment, and human screams and wails were oddly dim and far away. Hope huddled against Big Halleck and shared his strength. It seemed that she belonged with him in that moment, that it was a time she had awaited, not knowing it. Then the rain. It came in whip' ping sheets. Cold and pounding and drenching. It beat into the faces of the people as they scrambled for the church building, making them gasp and cough. It came from all directions, for the wind was leaping from every way at once. Big was still with Hope, when they entered the church. She thanked him, saying: Td have been scared to death! Im glad you wanted to watch out for me, Big. He looked down at her, and the hardness that she had so often found in his blue eyes came into them again. It wasnt anything, he told her. "Youre welcome. Hope caught his hand. Why do you look like that? It was a quick question from the heart, not from the mind. "If youve heard gossip about me, you know it was now. Why? I dont take stock in gossip, he said shortly. Then he went on into the gabbling crowd. The rain was soon over, but the gusty wind held. The sky was rinsed free of clouds. The sun was hazed by dust and fine trash swept high into the air by the cyclone. It was cooler. On the way home Andy and Dave had tp clear the road of debris in several places. Twice they had to drive around, through the woods, to dodge upflung trees. Their mis givings were mounting fast, and they almost dreaded to come in sight of the house. Surely it had not withstood the wind! Couldnt have missed it far, Andy said. It came fromthisway.1 What will we do if the house is Kate asked. gone? "Build another, said Granny. "But our things will be gone too, Kate worried, "scattered through the woods! Dont look for trouble until you come on it," Granny advised. She smiled at Hope, who had a far off look in her eyes. Well, it took a cyclone to blow Big Halleck to she said pleasantly. you! , Cleaning Up the Storm Debris Hope winced. She was still think' ing of .how it had been after the storm. He was nice, she said briefly. Granny shook her head in despair. They came around the last bend in the woods road, in sight of the house. It was stiff standing, but a treetop had smashed onto the new room, crushing the roof in. "What next! Andy groaned, clambering from the Wagon. It looks like theres no end to trou-ble- . Well, Granny told him, it didnt blow away." There was a measure of comfort in this fact. Andy said slowly, Well, the wind couldnt hurt it without throwing something at it! He and Dave set to work that afternoon, sawing away the treetop, so that they could get at the job of removing broken rafters and cracked joists. Kate and Hope hung the drenched bedding and clothes outside to dry. They mopped the floor nearly dry and hoped they had removed the water before it bad soaked in enough to warp and buckle the flooring. Andy and Dave were busy with the roof the next morning when a car arrived. Andy went down the ladder to meet the slender, caller. He thought there was something vaguely familiar about the man. Perhaps another candidate. "Ah, Mr. Ives! Dont you re member me? David Weffons. He spoke in the same way as of last fall, when Andy had not been sure whether he was overaffable or sarcastic. You recall me, surely. How are you, sir? This is indeed pleasantl Andy said, I remember you, and shook hands with the lawyer. I ought to. You and some fellows got me out of bed mightly early one morning. Want a job? We had a little wind yesterday. So I heard, and Ive been much concerned about you and your farm lly." He smiled. But 1 hava a Job, Mr. Ives. 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We began talking about the without Yankees without DiMaggio. swinging This reminds me, he said, of his old power. that happened when I something Yankee prospects were about as dark was playing ball. We had finished as the mouth of a the season before In fourth place. But at the start of the next season railroad tunneL Grantland Rice So far as nm. we lost our only star. He had a broken leg and was out. So all the ning the team is us down in last nothing papers plastered concerned, Casey said, can happen. I cant be any big bust place. So we got together. We talked with my three coaches Biff Dickey, Frank Crosetti and Jim Turner. things over. We finally decided that Here are three great fellows who even though this lost player was know their stuff. I know they are all good, he wasnt the entire club. for me. Ive never seen three men We decided to go out and prove work harder. They are the first on it. We fought and hustled harder the field and they are the last to than we ever did before. We moved into first place. The papers all leave." t said we wouldnt be there long Then Casey smiled. It means a not with our star That lot to any manager to have the made us hustle all missing. the harder, of he such said. men, They can tell help this if wed had our dont make mistakes. I might but star, we youwouldnt have finished they wont. third. As it was, we won the pen The fact Is that Casey has nant. made fewer mistakes than any The old ballplayer continued manager I know this season. to ramble on. Theres a good He has had his team hustling chance the Yankee ball club, and working overtime. He has subconsciously anyway, bad picked the right rookies. He gotten tired of hearing that Joe has lost the tang his tongue DiMaggio was the entire ball once knew. He has been symclub. After all, there were pathetic in place of sarcastic. Raschl, Porterfield, Byrne, He hasnt tried to be funny at Reynolds and other s there any mans expense. He has been were KryhoskI and Phillips at a member of his own squad, first there were Coleman, not an outsider. Stirnweiss, Rizutto, Brown and Johnson. Stengel has done a fine job. And as he says, he has had the serThere was and is a fellow vices of one of the best coaching named Tommy Henrich close to staffs baseball has ever known. DiMaggio in everything there were Bill Dickey would be a helpful, Lindell, and Berra, Woodling and soothing influence on any squad. Bauer not even a Cobb or a Ruth Bill knows what its all about and could have been the entire ball his advice is a big help. Frank club with all these fellows on hand Crosetti is one of the gamest in- Most of them are first-clas- s ball fielders the Yankees ever had. He players. They must have felt the was always a hustling ball player. inside urge to show they could also He has been a big help. So has Jim play some baseball. winner with the Turner, a Heres another thing. As good as old Boston Braves. 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