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Show THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM. UTAH "That's not heavy enough. some Bring whale line from the ship." Peter agreed. "Yes, I'd better. I'll be quite a while, Dick; but I'll make it quick as I can. Take it easy." His head disappeared. Richard stayed where he was. looking up at that small opening so far above him, wishing Peter were still there. He could hear the grass rustling in the wind; but the sound was faint. He was wet, and he was cold. The shal-low pool of water into which he had fallen was directly under the open-ing, in the deepest part of the pit. He sat down at one side of it, pluck-ing at the powdery gray-blac- k ash with his hand, rubbing it between his fingers. It broke into a light dust that rose into his face and made him sneeze; but it stuck to his wet hands in a slimy smear. He shivered with a sudden chill, and wished Peter would hurry. This place had an unpleasant odor, vaguely alarming. Twenty minutes for Peter to reach the shore, ten minutes to the ship, ten minutes back to the shore again; say an hour in all before help would come. Richard did not like his plight There was something terrifying in this pris-on into which he had fallen; in the stale, sick smell of it. He tried to estimate how long Peter had been gone. Five minutes? Ten? He sought to count off sixty seconds, and caught himself hurrying the count; so he began to beat time with his hand, tapping his knee rhythmical-ly. It took a long time to count sixty seconds. There were sixty min-utes in an hour. To count sixty seconds sixty times would need an eternity. rgXvni-cntin-ued' fiSr of the main recess the rack of .S the end of the Z were alive, he did someone watched :oa inn his feet did not HPotcr was the cabin door. W without a fSSence had terror bomb gun under f?tr the d. Hi. eyes t down 'moment an attack He looked now and flight; but the men on c,not to show them-,- r ,nd minutes passed. happened, and he said iaising their situation: It want to fight mud- - ft And maybe he told about Richard." don't find Richi-e i If they have to come back jwrrender. They can't (rem here without the e could slip the anchor ae sail on her and make , and come back with a , lomething. So if they Richard, Peter needn't trill tod him." ;aid Peter killed Richard, ... 1.. in her breast "No, Time somehow dragged itself away. When Richard went ashore the day before, it was at Peter's sug-gestion. "Do you good to stretch your legs," the younger man urged. "You're going ship-craz- Dick, the way you've acted since we passed the Rocks. What got into you? Ma-ry?" He watched Richard shrewd-ly; but Richard without answering looked down at the boats preparing to leave the ship's side. "I'm go-ing to try for some geese," Pe-ter said. "Come along. Better bring a club. The pigs might jump us. They're ugly sometimes." A walk ashore offered some out-let for his bottled energy, so Richard took that Iron-boun- d club made out of a harpoon shaft, and went with Peter. While the men were hauling the floating casks ashore, he and Peter approached the little pond; but the geese were somehow alarmed, and they rose and flew up the slope and settled again far up the ridge. Peter called Gee, and the three men started that way. The tussock grass, at first short and scattering, then taller and thick-er, high above their heads, received them. Richard plunged through it headlong, welcoming its tough re-sistance, forcing himself into it wrestling his way with his shoulders and his head bowed. His broken arm, secured to his side, made him awkward at the business. He dragged the heavy club behind him, bending his head, charging through the tough stuff with its interlacing luxuriance like a bull. That which happened came with no warning. Richard, breaking U tvs she whispered helplessly. CHAPTER XIX :ard it dead, then the ship and everything in her, be rich. Remember he thinking about how :sj the ship and her cargo :, and the ambergris." He w!y; "And-- he may have wasnotCap'n Corr's own jidheknow?" ier might have told him, a a boy. If he knew that, fjess that Cap'n Corr had iing to Richard." worked on me from the left the island to make me ard. I suppose he saw I rally Jealous. He kept w you used to feel :ard; and when he thought rought me to the pitch, he Sat letter. At least he put pocket of Richard's coat t me wear the coat and rould find it there." He i wonder why Peter kept r 10 lone?" It must be at least half an hour since Peter left. Richard warned himself to be conservative; he called it twenty minutes. In an excess of caution, he decided it was only fif-teen. If he began to expect Peter too soon, waiting would be hard. A rain squall drifted across the sky, and a few drops pattered on the still surface of the pool with little tinkling sounds, almost musical. He liked them. They were company. They banished the dreadful silence here. Peter must have reached the boats by this time. Probably the men were just sliding a boat into the wa-ter, shipping their oars. Peter would drive them, make them hurry. Richard sat down again, forcing himself to relax, to stop thinking about Peter. Peter would get here as soon as he could. Richard lay down on his back, his arm under his head, watching that hole above him, and the gray sky from which rain again descended. A man watching that hole, waiting and waiting for the head of a rescuer to appear, could go crazy. Richard dragged his eyes away from it. He studied the inside of his prison, forcing himself to wonder about its lias always wanted me, Gsorge. He made love to :d here. Kissed me. Once Hanline saw him. Once I run and lock myself in. te even came to my cabin laid humbly: "I haven't & protection for you, Mas- ' touched his hand on the s, and his eyes met hers, slowly: "You've given me I should have given you ?s burned with tears. "I'm uie such care of you, make m" He smiled at his own "After we get out of this 'e will." He realized suddenly that he was screaming like a maniac. blindly through the grass, lunging and fighting through the mesh of it like a fish caught in a net, stepped into nothingness. He fell, turning over sickeningly in the air. He feu on his right side, shoulder and hip striking together, in shallow water and muck. The breath was knocked but of him, and he was stunned and shaken and for a little cou d not move. Then he rolled painfully on his back and felt something hard under his head and laid his hand on the shaft of the club he had carried. He got to his knees and for breath; and stood up, gasping his feet sank deeper in water and origin. The fire which dug this hole in the peat must have burned for years, eating its way down and down till it came to hard pan. He asked himself, aloud: "Why didn't rain put it out?" He wondered how long a man would live in this wet cold that bit his bones. The thought made him shiver, and he got up to warm him-self again. Everywhere the soft ash under his feet was honeycombed by the little mice of fire that had eaten tunnels in it; and his feet sank into it halfway to his knees. He hated the feeling, stopped walking, beat his chest with his arm. Richard thought he would be glad to leave Hoakes Bay forever. Now and then, in the back of his mind, like a watching, beckoning appeared. He shut his figure, Mary thoughts against her. He must put mind, keep her out of her out of his his mind. Forever. Peter would come soon. Surely he would come soon. Richard decided they might even now be hunting for him, up there. He began to shout. He realized suddenly that he was and he screaming like a maniac; shame at himself, and Soiled his voice, and thereafter he hallooed almost decorously, at regular intervals. But now he watched the opening above him without respite never from it. taking his eyes away It must be an hour since Peter He refused to admit left him here. himself that more than an hour fad When the sky grew Sarkcr. he argued desperately that fhis of the was merely a thickening ClTtt was not merely a thickening above him. It was of the clouds had coming on. It dusk Night was when he the afternoon fen J S Ui? Pit: so now he must been here five hours or have dreadful crisis, a man must in any Rich-rJha- d himself a formula. illusions about Peter; but Relieve that Peter had returned Venturer and sailed 8b av orH le v!ng him here in this pit wouMmean quick madness J Richard was of that Hpwair Tri m." ich doeS which does not surrender. er , Night was coming on. 'd tightened on his, smil-':m- . They had never been a' in this hour. After a tasked: "any men are there 30 you know?" Mer and Rannels and Gee l;e Leeper. And Mat. of 'he's not dead." them?" He chuckled. "7 one of them could pick tel throw me overboard. wMe. But I've a gun they haven't" ili wonderingly: "I think Wying this!" She smiled. I like a strong man to run Un't that in the Bible?" 5t running a race, Mary." "Maybe I would if I Jl there's nowhere to run Wc could know if they do ' laced the companionway. ot tired, not weak. The ;y had stiffened him; he " et it if he could. But 's thoughts, George felt arys eyes up()n hjm Hig tr, , Bnd Qfter a mo" 3 not smiling.' she hl". She came to him t,hln- - Then, while they 2 without words- - tney Xler P0St' Time vigil at the ou ZS Could see her lean- - Lbunk' restin8 her ! to tK VeSSCl'S SideS- - her :'odd,maU square Pane-- t fM "ndersta"ding. ac- - :'iod Which he could KichsM She and Richard. W"e alive- to - would lnd one another of their W? W0uld take 4 never guess. He knew vowed that solong as U tl m.ust not know he Jr. 1 them do their I Uni think him blind. soft mire. He looked up and saw the sky hole five or six through a round with gras the feet across, edged long stuff broken by his fall hang-n- g down into the hole. The hole feet above his head was a full thirty He called Peter's name, shouting could with what it as loudly as he atch breath his jolted lungs could he shouted again and again, till he of saw something move at the edge the hole above him. saw Peter s against the sky, head projected heard Peter cry: "Dick! Are you down there. "Yes " Peter asked: After a moment "How deep is it?" . "Thirty feet, anyway. Mayoe more." "Can you climb out. Richard looked around peering. n of the p t. he the half-darkne-steps 0 0-- Iked two or three investigating. He irieu side, .W managed to chmb hand-hold- be tie; but he saw then, as hisses came a little adjusted his head the ness here that above sides sloped inward toward the open- - ing at the top. n. He slid to the bottom .again to haul me out. B'clreful where you step make Richard warned h "And careful when they co-- es the men be "Probably there are .. lot 0 and pits around u. th fr Peter repeated, bure. "Hurt, are you. in sudden question ?in Vou can't see you now. climb out. that's certain. --No. Go ahead " Til bring a une. i" the line we towed easy HI I the casks ashore with. NEW IDEM I JQk By Ruth Vyetii Spears around and about Vi Delicious. ..for fisherS. ..wefcomecf o home , . . quick to prepare . . . save coolc' time . . . economical . . . ric straight inch over edges; then cover top and bottom; then the inner sides with the plain fabric V4 inch be-low the edges and Vt inch over the top and bottom; then cover the top and bottom inside. 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WHEN you see "Men of Town" (Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney), watch three very young men who have important roles; it's more than likely that, when they grow up, they'll be tops among leading men. Metro thinks so. They are Darryl Hickman, aged eight; Bobs Watson, who's nine, and Larry Nunn, Just thirteen. Vou prob-ably saw Darryl as "Winfleld Joad" in "Grapes of Wrath." Norman Tau-ro- g thinks he's one of the finest child actors he ever directed. Bobs has seven brothers and sisters who have film careers. Says Taurog, "Whenever I have needed a regu-lar kid, I have found that I could depend on the Watsons." Bobs got his break because none of the other Watsons fitted the role. As for Larry, he'd made a name for himself in radio before he tack-led Hollywood, two yean ago; "Strike Up tht Band" wai hii first picture. . For more than a year there's been discussion at Warner Bros, about filming the lire or George M. Cohan, and at last a deal has been arranged with the famous song and dance man. James Cag-ne- y will play the lead, probably get-ting to work on it some time this sum-mer, after he re-turns from vaca-tioning at. his place James Cagney at Martha's Vine- - yard, Mass. Mr. Cohan will super-vise the production. Scenario trouble has delayed work on "Babes on Broadway," In which Shirley Temple waa to start her come-bac- k, so her first picture will be "Laiybones." It's a story of the San Pedro fishing fleet, and Shirley will be seen as Wallace Beery's motherless daughter. American people have more than a generous sense of humor; they have generous hearts as welL It's proved every Sunday on the "Dou-bl- e or Nothing" radio program. Wal-ter Compton, master of ceremonies, asks each guest the name of his favorite charity; if the contestant can't answer his questions, the prize money is given to some charitable Institution. Leading figures of grand opera, the theater, the sports world and big business have tried their luck on the program, and many have given their winnings to less fortunate per- - sons. Martha Raye and Frank Dor-res- t, the program's popular tenor, gave theirs to the Red Cross. Lyle Talbot had a question from a woman who wanted to buy her blind son a Seeing Eye dog; he gave her his winnings, and the listening audience subscribed the remainder. Freder-ick Jagel of the Metropolitan Opera sent his to the Hundred Neediest Cases. Penny Singleton was selected America's Number One Blonde by .l(U ,i,"WH i Vftf fw ; Iff f Jx& beauty shop owners and operators at the International Beauty Show held in New York re-cently. The pretty screen and radio star won out over Madeline Carroll and Alice Faye, who were runners-up- ; it was said that dur-ing the past year she'd done more than anyone else . mob-- Amprican Penny Singleton men blonde-consciou- s. As "Blondie on the screen and the air she's in-spired many another young wife and mother, who've appreciated her quite as much as the men did. Rita Hayworth returns to her home lot, Columbia, to ply opposite Fred Astalre, and dance with Mm in a musical. "He's My Uncle"-B- he' just finishing a dancing role in "Blood and Sand," with Tyrone Power. The talented Rita may be Just the dancing partner needed for Astaire since he and Ginger Rogers narted company on the screen. For almost four years Bess John-son has been managing the mythical orphanage around which the story of "Hilltop House" gravitated. Now the serial has come to and end, and she's to be starred in a new one, ti-tled "The Story of Bess Johnson." Same time, same stations. ODDS ASD ENDS-fh- Uf nuking "Dr lekyll and Mr. Hyde Spencer Tracv'i been looking ahead to vaca-tioning in N rk with hi, ton, Johnny . . - After waiting about a year. Paramount will film Susie Slagle," the popular novel . . . Orela Garbo it tlated to go back to work May i. " modern American comedy About 3,000 enthusiastic fans greet-VdGle- n Miller, CBS band leader, when he arrived in Lot Angeles; Wm tically mobbed him . . . Conrad master of ceremonies for tha CBi 6ii-w- r Theater," twore off on cigarette smoking from Ap Veors to St. Pat-rick- 't day but didn't quite make it. Dangerous Lure Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got tnrough the gnat sticks fast. La Fontaine. n TIPS to jardeners - REGARDING HERBS MANY home gardeners may be in growing herbs this year because of the war, and because they make everyday dishes more appetizing and flavor-ful. Herbs may be grown in a plot about four by six 'feet to supply the average needs of a family. They should have full sunlight and be planted in good loamy soil. Almost all popular herbs balm, basil, borage, fennel, marjoram, rosemary, thyme, sage, anise, dill, and caraway may either be used when young, and fresh, or pre-pared for use dried. Anise, basil, borage, dill and sa-vory are annuals; caraway, and fennel are biennials, and balm, marjoram, sage, rosemary, thyme and chives are perennials, al-though balm and marjoram are best treated as annuals. All the herbs mentioned here will probably produce enough growth for use the first year, however, il seeds are planted early, and cli-mate is normally temperate. Man as a Fraction Every man can be seen as a fraction, whose numerator is his actual qualities and its denomina tor his opinion of himself. The greater the denominator the less is the absolute quantity of the fraction. Tolstoy. Pledge of Duty Every mission constitutes 1 pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every fac ulty to its fulfillment. He will de rive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty Mazzini. Fame Not a Property Fame, we may understand, is ' no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an acci-dent, not a property of a man. Carlyle. Showing Character A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another's. Jean Paul Richter. Speaker's Eloquence There is as much eloquence in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the air of a speaker as in hit; choice of words. La Rochefou-cauld. |