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Show THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM. UTAH WBi EMILIE LOIUNG W SERVICE jMMi her hands ringless, he noted in sur-priselightly on the table, as she answered his question with another. "Ever met Ned Paxton?" "No." "Then you wouldn't understand. He has attracted me unbelievably, while something deep within me pro-tested, 'You know that you don't trust him.' Moth and candle stuff, I suppose. He has hurt my heart and my pride, yet when he smiled and explained, I would dope my Intell-igenceInstinct, rather forgive him and remember his good qualities. He has them. Old people adore him, CHAPTER I Fifth Avenue. In that quiet hour before dawn. In the middle of its polished surface, like a dark isle in a glistening ribbon of river, rested a Upper. Black, satin, buckled with brilliants. Bruce Harcourt stopped short He turned the bit of satin over and over in his band. It was warm. The feel of it sent a curious glow through his veins. It must quite recently have covered a slender foot Dropped from the now distant automobile? He thrust the disturbing bit of foot-ge- ar into his top-co- pocket gravely regarded the glittering ave-nue before he entered the Club door. Twenty-fou- r hours more of this and he would be on his way to the wil-derness. Soon he would be seeing only forests, glaciers, fields of snow, rails, steam-shovel- s and the para-phernalia of engineering. He was not sorry to go back. His college classmates who had given the dinner for him tonight wouldn't believe it though. What was she like? Dark? Fair? Hard? Tender? Morning and his last day in New York. He stretched his long, lean body. His last day in New York and a full one. Before he left on the waved softly close to her boyish head. The ardent curves of her lips showed vividly red against her pal-lor. "If this is yours." The long, gold-tippe- d lashes flew up. Her eyes were the color of bronze pansles, slightly beaten by the rain of recent tears, he sur-mised. Incredulity, amazement, cer-tainty followed one another in her voice. "Why Why, you are Bruce Har-court!" t Impulsively she extended her hands. The satin slipper dropped to the floor as he caught them. "Then you haven't forgotten me?" "Forgotten you! How could I? Re-member how I tagged you and Billy and how furious you boys were when you drove off to the Country Club? I was ready to scratch out the eyes of any girl you looked at However, no matter how obdurate my brother remained, you always relented, and said, 'What's the difference? Let her come along, Billy!' " She was eager, radiant Her fin-gers seemed to cling to his. His hold tightened. "Where did you find the slipper?" "Winking and blinking in the mid-dle of Fifth Avenue before dawn this children like him but he doesn't get on with dogs. Why am I telling you all this, I wonder?" He answered the troubled sweet-ness of her eyes, her mouth, so proud, so unhappy, more than her words. "Because you've reached the point where you've got to talk. You used to tell me everything when we went fishing together. Remember?" "I remember what a pest I was. But let's not talk any more about Jan Trent, I'm fed up with her and her problems. How did you happen to go to Alaska? Tell me about it. It sounds so bracing and crisp and clean." Harcourt lighted another ciga-rette. "I wish that it always con-veyed that impression. I've fought and died trying to get a secretary for our outfit I'll bet I've inter-viewed fifty of them, short and tall, lean and fat. The mere name of the country sets an applicant's teeth to chattering." "I should think there'd be dozens of girls crazy to go." "Girls! What would we do with a girl in our outfit? We go hundreds of miles into the interior. Ours is no coast cinch. I'm after a man." "Are there no women there?" "Of course, wonderful women in the cities, cultured, chic, keenly con-versant with world conditions; oth-ers on remote farms, nuggets of gold, if rough ones; but not in our business. That is not quite true. There are three: Millicent Hale, wife of the chief engineer of the de-partment to which I'm attached, and the Samp sisters." "Samp! What a curious name. What do they do?" "Two years ago Mary and Martha Samp appeared at our headquarters on the coast at the mouth of an in-let and established a Waffle Shop." "Can they cook?" "Cook! I'll say they can. The men crowd the shop every night They would do anything for those two women, who look as though they might have stepped out of the com-ics of a colored supplement Mar-tha, the elder, is lean and gaunt, with a tight little top-kn- of rusty hair, speaks her mind no matter how welcome or unwelcome her con-clusions may be. Mary is round and plump, with big, innocent blue eyes which seem to be eternally in-terrogating life and being eternally surprised at the answer. They brought an enormous black cat Blot he does look like spilled ink when lying on the rug. The Eskimos and Indians who work for us regarded him with the amazement they might have bestowed upon an elephant don't quite like him." "And the chief's wife Millicent midnight train he had to keep in-numerable business appointments, confirm orders tor materials, and hire a secretary. Why couldn't Tub-by Grant have found one for himself off the coast? Returned from his shower he re-- Carded the slipper on the dresser. Would the owner advertise? He'd take a look at the evening paper. The following eight hours proved more crowded and the search for a secretary more futile than be had imagined. The mere mention of the word Alaska set the prospects he Interviewed into shivering refusal Tubby'U have to get one for him-self on the coast," he concluded as , he opened the door of his room at the Club. He shook out the evening paper, located the Lost and Found column and ran his finger down the list. "Here it is!" He read the adver-tisement through twice. LOST. Monday evening on Fifth " Avenue, black satin slipper with rhinestone buckle. Reward, if . returned at once to J. Trent, 0001 Madison Avenue. J. Trent J. Trent. He had heard that combination before. He turned the name over and over in his mind. Click! It slipped into place. Janice Trent! Billy Trent's sister "Jan." He remembered her as a leggy child of twelve when he had spent his last college vacation before the war at the Trents' country place. She bad exasperated her brother and himself by tagging after them on fishing expeditions. Darn shame that be and Billy, who had meant so much to one another, had drifted apart He had gone to Trent's office at once upon bis arrival in New York, only to learn that he was out of town. He stared unseeingly at the ad-vertisement Last night at the din-ner when he had regretted Billy's absence, Silsbee, the class gossip, had confided: "Trent's a little gob of gloom these days. Can't blame him. His father played the market lost prac-tically everything he had and passed out. His sister Janice is to be mar-ried in a week. Marrying a multi who's got a way with the ladies. The two are at a prenuptial blow-o- ut in this very hotel now. Confidentially, Billy heard that Paxton that's the prospective bridegroom's name-h- ad been making whoopee in an ad-jacent city and he has gone to in-vestigate. Gosh, how do these sheiks get away with it!" An hour later, in answer to his ring, a trim maid admitted him to the Madison Avenue bouse, a slice of old-tim- e aristocracy sandwiched between new-tim- e shops. He gave bis errand, not his name. As he waited in the cheerless reception room, where pictures leaned deject-edly against the walls, where chairs were shrouded in ghostly covers, and furniture was crated, he heard the murmur of voices in a room be-yond, the imperative ring of a tele-phone. Someone answered. Harcourt looked at his watch impatiently. Would J. Trent keep him waiting while Bhe gossiped? He couldn't help hearing the frost-tinge- d voice. "No ... It was unpardonable. ... I shall not see you . . . Don't come ... I have said my last word . . . You would have thought of that before. Good-by.- " The receiver clicked on the hook. ' Could that have been a prospective bride speaking, Harcourt wondered. Her voice had given him the creeps. Of course there could be two J. Trents in the City of New York, but "You have my slipper?" He curiously regarded the girl on the threshold. Little Janice Trent grown up. The same boyish croak in her voice that he remembered. Who would have thought that the angular child would develop into beauty? Her glinting brown hair you called her?" "She has a double Interest in headquarters. Her brother, Jimmy Chester, is third engineer. He is de-voted to her. She is a pretty but pathetic little woman. She has" "You needn't describe her. Call-ing her 'little woman' was as en-lightening as sticking up a danger sign on thin ice. I recognize the type. Your description sounds de-lightfully homey. Not at all like what I thought life in Alaska would be." "Life human life in Alaska is no different from life in other places. People are born, die, mar-ry and divorce, love and hate; the last two a little harder perhaps than when nearer civilization. There are as many people there to the hun-dred with ideas and ideals as any-where else." "Tell me more. Tell me about the country, your work, everything." She was like an eager child beg-ging for another story. "It will keep my mind off my problems." Her problems! Paxton, of course. Impulsively he spoke to the little girl he had known. "Be a sport Acknowledge that you've made a mistake. Don't go on with this marriage, Jan." Her eyes were intent on a slim finger tracing the pattern in the" damask cloth. "Are you suggesting that I back out at the eleventh hour? Think of the stacks of presentsl Think of the publicity! Forget me. Tell me about Alaska." With the sensation as of knuckles smartly rapped, conscious of deep-ening color, Harcourt acknowledged, "My mistake! Alaska is a big su-bject" "Begin anywhere. Can you get into the northern country at this time of year? Will you go by boat or " "By plane. You people in the States don't realize that the devel-opment of airways in Alaska is one of the romances of aviation." "Then you are an aviator as well as an engineer?" "Rather more engineer than avi-ator at present I combined the two professions overseas. Tonight I go to confer with the Crowned Heads of our department. I'm due back at camp before the spring break-up.- " "What is that?" You see, my curi-osity is insatiable. It isn't all curi-osity," she admitted, in a voice hlf eager, half mysterious. (TO BE CONTINUED) Her fingers seemed to cling to his. His bold tightened. morning. I have been consumed with curiosity to know how it came there." A flame of color tinged her face. She freed her hands. "I started to get out of a roadster. I had opened the door, put one foot out to Jump when" "Reckless child! Go on, when?" "When I I changed my mind." He had the sense as of a door clos-ing between them. "It's wonderful to see you. I had been told that you were in Alaska." "Have been for years. I'm start-ing back tonight." "Tonight! What a shame that Billy is away. You will stay and dine with me, won't you? This house is a mess. We've sold it and are clearing it, but we still have a cook." "I have a better suggestion. Dine with me unless I was told last night that you were about to be mar-ried. Perhaps you are not free." "I am free to do as I like." The color which the surprise at his iden-tity had brought to her face faded. "I'd love to go, only let it be some quiet place where we can talk." "Anywhere you say. You know your New York better than I." She had selected an hotel up town. They talked of her family, the loss of her mother and father, of Billy, of the enormous growth of the city, of the changes in it in the fash-Io- n of plays, of books, of clothes since he was last in New York. As the gray-haire- d waiter set the coffee on the table and withdrew to a discreet distance, Harcourt sug-gested: "We still have time for part of a show. I don't leave until midnight" "I would rather sit here and talk." "Suits me. Will you smoke?" She shook her head. 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WHERE THEY NEST Some species of termites nest in the earth and in dead and decaying wood. These are the more common and injurious species which attack timbers and trees only through the ground. The nests of some less common Arms are excavated in wood and trees. The principal food of termites is cellulose which they obtain from either dead or living vegetation. PREVENTING AND REMEDYING DAMAGE TO WOODWORK If buildings are to be erected on woodland that has been recently cleared, all decaying stumps and logs should be removed and burned. If there is reason to believe, be-cause of the presence of decaying wood, that the termites are numer-ous in the earth, the soil should be deeply plowed or disked, and treat-ed with chemicals to kill the insects. Effective poisons for this purpose are (1) a 10 per cent solution of sodium arsenate; (2) 1 part coal-ta- r creosote and 3 parts kerosene oil 200 gallons per 1,000 square feet; (this mixture, if it is to be sprayed on, must be strained through burlap before being used) ; (3) 50 per cent dlsulphlde emulsion (1 quart to 50 gallons of water, applied at the rate of 3 pints per square foot). This emulsion is already on the market; (4) orthodichlorobenzene, 100 gallons per 1,000 square feet PROPER CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS It must be kept In mind that it is not the age of a building which renders it liable to attack it is the manner of its construction. A re-cent government bulletin states un-equivocally that: "Complete insulation from the ground of all untreated woodwork of buildings is the only effective per-manent remedy against attack by subterranean termites, and the only relief from their presence. 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