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Show THE BI LLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, IT AH B andbe r h-- miJ, ore Peggy Lens W.N.U. RELEASE THE STOKV THUS FAK: Amm, husband, rcvenlrd that when he b.h coming In. mi- - late at nlcht h law a fhost bury onirthlng In a grairyard. Also, Amos revealed that he had seen Ses with Tom Fallon that night. Lau-rence enllsti'ri tha aid of Hob Reynolds, a deter live, and tly let to work to solve the mystery ol Allcla'i murder. After earrful chccklns, they were Inclined to believe Amos' story. Jim MacTavlsh came In as tarry, Reynolds and Megan were ready to eat. He was tired, his houlderi drooping. Reynolds announced abruptly that It was an open and shut ease, and Jim almost dropped the carv-ing knife. I.aler Meg tells l.arrv that he and Tom had met accidentally. CHAPTER XIII "Not as to the Identity, no, ' ad-mitted Bob. "But I'm convinced that it was some prowler a would-b- e burglar who was frightened off before he had a chance to steal any-thing. Though, of course, it's not usual for a burglar to be supplied with a knife as a weapon I don't living room for a little In silence after they had gone. It was Jim who finally broke the silence. "Did you know that she was mar-ried?" he asked heavily. "Yes," Megan nudded. "Laurence told me." Jim'a face twisted. "What a laugh she must have got out of me-wan- ting to marry her. And she told me she would- - she never for a moment even hinted that she was not a wid-ow!" Megan waited, knowing a little of the release that would come to him If he could rid hla mind of these revelations. "It began, at first, as a sort of well, Joke," he admitted. "It seemed to amuse her to give the Pleasant Grove folks something to talk about. I was lonely, and I suppose she got a kick out of making a fool of me " He broke olf and passed a hand across hla eyes and looked straight at Megan. "But I didn't kill her," he finished quietly, with a simple "Don't kid yourself, my dear we haven't seen the last of this! Nor heard It, either," he corrected her swiftly. "Had you realized that If Amos was on the Ridge that night, as he must have been to tell Larry the story he did, the chances are ex-cellent that he saw you as well as the eight-foot-ta- ll ghost?" Megan nodded, her face white but her outward composure commend-able. "I know that he did. Dad," ahe said quietly. "He told Larry." Her father's body Jerked like a marionette on a string manipulat-ed by an Inexpert puppeteer. "Told Larry that you were on the Ridge with Fallon?" he repeated aharply. Megan nodded. For a moment Jim was very still, like a man suddenly paralyzed. And then very carefully he asked, "Did he tell that fellow Reynolds?" Megan shook her head, her hands cold in her lap. "He didn't seem to think it was believe he brought the weapon with him. I believe that he used one of the victim's own knives a large kitchen knife" He broke off, scar-let and embarrassed aa he saw Me-gan's white, twisted face. He apolo-gized hastily. "Good grief, Miss Mac- Tavlsh I ought to be kicked! Please forgive me I'm thoroughly shamed Larry, you ought to have better sense than to allow me out with your friends. I'm sorry. Miss MacTavlsh I do apologize" Megan managed a faint smile and Bald huskily, "Please don't I I am bit aqueamish, I suppose. You see I knew her well" Bob nodded soberly. "I know everybody aaya you are the only real friend she had. Everybody else eemed to dislike her and distrust her. I guesa that's the reason I waa speaking ao frankly. Let's for-get It. After all, a meal like thia more cheerful and apprecia-tive table conversation!" When the meal waa over, and the men were settled In the living room, Megan stayed to help Annie clear the table. And while she waa thua engaged, Laurence came back into the dining room, and stood at her houlder and said very low, "I Just wanted you to know, Meggie, that everything is quite all right. There'a nothing at all for you to worry about." Megan looked ud at him. tears p necessary," she managed the words with difficulty. "He seemed to think that the fact that I was there gave me an alibi. If I was there at that time, I couldn't possibly have been across the road even if 1 had had a motive." Her father nodded. "Which, of course, means that Larry doesn't know I Intended to try to marry her and bring her here," he finished the thought for her. Then he smiled, a mirthless smile that made him look suddenly very old and very tired. "Now If only somebody had seen me going for my walk" "Perhaps somebody did," said Megan eagerly. He shook his head. "I saw no one after I left Alicia," he said quiet-ly and distinctly. She stiffened a little and her eyea were wide. "You saw her that night?" she whispered, her lips pallid. "At eleven-thirty,- " said Jim and heaved a sigh as he ran his Angers through his magnificent crop of silv-ery- gray hair. "The way I figure It, she couldn't have been alone, aft-er I left her, more than ten or fif-teen minutes." His fingers trembled a little as ha filled his handsome pipe and tamped the tobacco carefully into the mel-low bowl, but his eyes did not leave Megan's white, frightened face. "We quarreled." said Jim quietly, distinctly "when h nHmitterl that she had not the slightest Idea of marrying me. She called me a pompous old fool, and a atuffed shirt and a lot of equally uncomplimentary things. But I did not kill her. Megan, I swear It." Suddenly Megan was on her knees beside him, her arms close about him, her cheek hard against his, all the ugliness and the animosity that had colored their relations for years wiped out between them in this mo-ment when she ached with pity for him, and when for the first time in her adult life she had begun to have some glimmering of understanding him. "Of course you didn't, dear no one could believe for a moment that you did," she told him, her voice shaken with emotion. Jim put his arm about her and seemed to welcome her nearness, the sheer creature comfort of her warm presence and her sympathy. "Thank you, my dear but I'm afraid a great many people could be persuaded to believe that I did," he pointed out to her at last. "The circumstanflal evidence against me Is pretty strong. We did quarrel. Undoubtedly I am the last person save one! to see her alive. And when I left her, in a fury of injured pride and bruised self-estee- I went for a long walk alone, and saw no one. I returned home here well after one o'clock by which time she had been dead, according to the doctor, for at least an hour. So you see " thick In her eyes, her mouth trem-ulous. "I met him by accident, Lar-ry. I didn't plan it truly." He looked down at her, frowning. "But good heavens, Meggie, don't you suppose I know that?" he protested, almost aa though he her feeling that she should offer such an explanation. She caught her breath and a wave of relief swept over her. She amlled through her teara and said huskily, "Thanks, Larry." "For what?" The frown still drew his eyebrows together. "For know-ing that you couldn't possibly do anything wrong? For knowing that you couldn't make, or keep a tryst with a man tied up as Fallon la? For Heaven's sake, Meggie I've known you since you were a baby don't you suppose I know you well enough to know that If you met Tom Fallon on the Ridge at midnight, it was an accidental meeting?" Laurence hesitated a moment and then he said quietly, "I'd like to ask you something, Meggie mind?" "No, of course not." "Then are you In love with Fallon?" The words were quietly spoken, but they took her breath so that she could only look up at him, unable to speak. But the way the color flowed into her face, the look in her eyes gave him all the answer he needed. "So that's why you couldn't get excited about marrying me," he said after a moment, very quietly. aunmn-- s i "Then are you In love wltb Fallon?" dignity that was aomehow oddly touching. "I know you didn't, dear," Megan assured htm swiftly. He studied her for a moment and then he asked In a puzzled tone, "Meggie, how did you and I start disliking each other? I've been do-ing a good deal of thinking lately. I admire you very much. You're a fine girl and a brave girl, and well, I can't quite understand why It is that we seem to rub each other the wrong way all the time. I'll prob-ably be just as hard to get along with tomorrow, as I was yesterday only tonight, I'm well, I'm lone-ly, Meggie, and tired, and maybe Just a little afraid. Could we sort of be friends, do you suppose?" "Of course. Dad!" She bent swift-ly and kissed his cheek. Jim looked at her for a moment and then nodded aa though he had reached some sort of decision. Both Jim and Megan were silent for a bit, each with his own thoughts of their new-foun- d relationship. He cocked an eye at her humor-ously. "Of course, you understand that I'm just as lazy and shiftless and generally no 'count as ever, for all that I'm suffering a change of heart tonight. But, you know, Meg-gie, the whole thing boils down to the fact that I've been jealous of you since the day you were born." "Jealous. Dad?" the astonished "But you didn't you couldn't have done it, Dadl Nobody could ever make me believe you did!" she comforted him, as though he had been the child, she the parent It was long before she slept that night, but in spite of the unpleasant turmoil and excitement of the last forty-eig- hours, she waa more at peace than she had been In a long time. She could begin to understand her father a little; and to under-stan- d Is to forgive. She was conscious only of the fact that she and her father might hope to live together now with less fric-tion, less animosity than before. And the thought had healing and com-fort In it She was able to fall asleep at last, emotionally and phys-ically exhausted, and when she awoke in the morning, she felt stronger and more refreshed than in many months, in spite of the horror of the last twenty-fou- r hours, and in spite of knowing that the next few days were going to be far from pleasant. She had finished ner morning chores, and was busy with a seed catalog and an order blank when Laurence arrived. Annie, big-eye- d with excitement, showed him into the small den where Megan worked, and hovered anxiously. "Ifa all right Annie we found something that proves that Amos was telling us the truth that is, that he did see something at the old burying ground that night" said Laurence quickly. (TO BE CONTINUED! sne set ner teem nara in ner low-er lip, not daring to trust her voice to answer him, and after a little he said in a tone of the greatest gentleness, "Poor little Meggie! Al-ways doing things the hard wayl" By now she had steadied her voice, and she faced him straightly. "If you'll give me a little time, Larry" she managed. His brows were drawn deep now In a frown and his look was puz-ile- "A little time, Meggie?" he repeated. "For what?" 'To pull myself together and get over this this craziness about Tom," she said. "Because I will, you know. I'll I'll get over it and maybe if you haven't got disgust-ed with me before that " "Oh, I'll be around, Meggie. Is that what you mean?" asked Larry, and now there was a grimness in his voice, a coldness in his eyes that chilled her a little. "You are the only girl for me. You've always been. I'm a slow and plodding cuss, but once I get my mind and my heart made up, I hold on. Like the good old snapping turtle that gets a grip and swings on until you have to kill him to make him let go. But what makes you so sure that you can get over what you feel for Fal-lon?" "Because I'm going to!" she told him with determination. He turned away from her then as Bob called to him from the hall, and little later they were gone. Megan and her father sat in the Megan repeated. He nodded. "I adored your moth-er, Meggie. I know now that it was a Jealous, possessive love, the sort of thing that makes a spoiled little boy say. 'If we can't play my way, then I won't play at all.' We were happy at first. I was first with her; her every thought was for me, for my comfort, my happiness, my well-bein- And then you came along, and took up a lot of your mother's tenderness and thought, and I had to take second place. And like the no-go- that I was, I resented it." "Oh but. Dad that's why, that's wicked! Poor Mother!" she said just above her breath. "It wasn't that she loved me more than she loved you; it was that I needed her more." "And I resented that, too!" said her father. Megan could say nothing. She could only wait, her hands linked tightly together, her eyes clinging to his face. "Odd, what a chastening effect It has on a man, when he realizes that he has made a complete and un-mitigated fool of himself!" he said at last. "I feel as though I'd been kicked almost as much as I de-serve to be! And that Is quite some. Incidentally 1" "But It's all over and done with. Dad we can have a lot of fun to-gether" Megan began eagerly. "Over and don with, Meggie? Woman's World Attractive Coats May Be Made At Home with Simple Patterns Bif rlta J-laL-ij j Chinese Influence aB 1 HHaflDijH. 4K: v "aaLI BHrfi fBiMhTTr This black wool suit with an almond - colored Jacket from Joseph Halpert's collection shows the Chinese Influence in the col-lar. The suit has new fail sleeves gatherci" slightly at the shoulders. 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Worn-nu- t pillow cases are very good for covering clothes that are put away for storage. I; prevents dust from accumulat-ing on the shoulders of gar ments Where they're most sus-ceptible. Fashion Forecast i Colors that continue to be seen as definite possibilities for the season are grays and These are often accented with muted white or rich, bright jewel tones. Everything about the fall costume has the slim look except sleeves, which are definitely full. Sleeves will drap and balloon. The melon and leg of mutton sleeves are very popular. SUm waistlines and dropped hemlines are high fashion news as is skirt draping. With short sleeves and sleeveless dresses, the gloves worn are short length ones. You'll remember World War when you look at some of the new skirts. There are sLm tubular ones and others with the draped panier so popular then, and incidentally now. I a |