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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD Prudence entered the- room on her right Her brown eyes, already black from emotion, dilated as she saw herself reflected In the long; pier glass between the windows. Not too bad. She made a gamin face at the looking-glas- s girl, before she turned to Inspect her surroundings. The room was cozy, homey. Her spirit stirred damp wings. Her ventuie might not prove the flop It had seemed a few moments ago. The dining room was cheery with crackling logs In the Franklin fireplace when she entered a few moments later. A huge platter of savory beef stew, garnished with fluffy white dumplings flanked by piles of plummy brown bread, gave out an appetizing aroma. For the first time since she bad left New York Prue's heart felt warm. Oh, how tempting Oome, Macky, arent you starved? Mrs. Puffer, wont you sit with us and serve? It will seem more homey to have you here." Jane Mack, her Stark, high cheek bones flaunting red flags of excitement, took her seat with an air of being about to commit a stout social blunder. The woman plumped Into her chair with a contented sigh. Dearie, Ill do Just that." After an Interval devoted to serving and eating, she sympathized: Hope yon didnt mind the trip from the railroad station. Seven miles Isnt far, but Its a long way to drive over a strange road In a fog. Only seven I I thought It must at least have been a thousand." The satisfying food was ringing up the - CHAPTER I I. 2, 35 : 1 automobile lurched over 'to 7 3 1 deeply rutted roads. When it 20, 2 didnt lurch, It skidded. A cold, 8 S,, fog transformed II, 12 trees Into ghostly giants, houses incl Into weird dwarfs and filled the Se,,' world. Moisture dripped from twigs incl .and branches. The smell of the sea ii' crept behind the slackly fastened 5 of the car. The lean, Sd 5 . side curtains J angular driver stopped the engine m(j and climbed out d what is the matter, Mr. Puf-fer- ? Prudence Schuyler inquired from the cavernous gloom of the aj.eysnE 3 ! back seat Tires leaky. Guess theyll hold ust out till we get there, though. Lccoa His passenger valiantly swallowed She nd t an exclamation of concern. on the hand (30j patted encouragement She real-tjjj. of the woman beside her. ly needed someone to pull her spirit out of the pit of depression, she PHH told herself, nginer motor purred alongside, That you, Si? Whats the matl, Auj ter? Tire trouble? Flat? The voice was hollow, muffled, a Aug mans voice. Shut within the cur- tained car, Prudence could see noth- but the uncanny mist Taint flat yet the gruffness of his she judged that Mr. Puffer did not care for the person who had him- ,Vood haiIed Has the girl come? , the There was eagerness in the ques-i- e P tion, a hint of anxiety, more than and i a hint of arrogance. If the wheel i pap under her could talk, she would and i have said that its shake was warning her to keep quiet, Prudence de- s , 1 ' Sing r cided. PHIZ! 1 Gorry-myou wouldnt expect city folks to come to the country In this storm, would you? Whatta mean is, guess shell get to the red e, k brick house bout tomorrow." 3' lizzie lares Pw i. Can ft y J f The red brick house! Her house! The voice In the fog was inqulr- ing for her, Prudence Schuyler. Why had Mr. Puffer evaded the question? She watched him as he resumed his seat Phone me the minute she ar-- , rives, Si. A grunt from the man at the wheel was the only response. A red tail light shot into the golden mist of its own powerful headlights and dwindled to a spark. Prudence leaned forward. "Was that voice, which sounded like a demon of the fog, inquiring for me, Mr. Puffer? Yep. Why did you sidetrack him? Why tell him that I was arriving tomorrow? Gorry-me- , you wait an youll see, Miss Schuyler. Whatta mean is, by tomorrow youll have kinder got yer bearlns anll know what to say. Len Callowayll tie you up tight to him, if he can. Tie me up I Youre not alluding to matrimonial tie by any chance, LAit ions g oti f joa j irato enaw iildrt t' A- ! g jut , unit 8 bon Jy a jgjji Ell ha are you? The driver looked back. Glad to hear you laugh. When I met you at the station, I was afraid you as going to break out cryin. It sure is a mean night for you to arrive, ot murl1 further to go. Were Passn Hie Gerard place now. 11 was evI?ent that he considered the voice In the fog a closed inci- dent. Couldnt he feel that she was fairly tingling with curiosity? Fruidence asked herself. She had bet-it- h ter seem indifferent. She said lightly. Im glad to know there Is some-m- e thing tangible to pass. Taint always like this; Just wait till the sun shines. Gerard is your neighbor on the east, that is, if you can call it being a neighbor when the houses are two miles apart His folks come down only for the summer, but I reckon youve come to stay, Judgin by the truck load of stuff I carted up to the red brick house the other day." For no reason she could explain to herself, Prudence Schuyler evad-n- p ed an answer. With the Intention of turning the drivers attention from her affairs, she suggested: "Tell me about the Gerard faro- ily. I s ' i'01 fr wf Her ruse succeeded. "I'll toll you about the Gerards: perhaps twill take your mind off the rough go-ing. The estate, which includes plane landing field, golf links, mountain 8 1 reams, an bout two miles of pond shore besides the sea front, belongs to Rod Gerard. Ills names Rodney, but the townspeo-l0r- , pie call him Rod. He's one of those rich fellers you read about who fly airplanes, own a string of polo ponies, an have a vally to bring up their breakfast, creuso their punts, an lay out their pink silk pajamas but he aint a bit stuck-1 up. Sounds like a first family of Hollywood." Whatta mean Is, folks here think a lot of Rod, but he has an older brother Walter an that brother has a wife. Walt was the Bon by old man Gerards first' marriage; that wife didnt have any money, neither did he. After she died, Gerard, who was a handsome, gifted man, married an heiress and Rods their child. They built a house of stone and oak on a high ledge; thats the name of the place High Ledges. It has a sort of approach-lf-you-dar- e sound." As I was sayin', Rod's mother loved every inch of the land, turned abandoned quarry holes into gardens. She and her husband are buried In one of them. Old man Gerard died, then she went several years ago, and Rod well, Rod was just out of law school and crazy about flying when he came Into a big fortune; perhaps youve met fellers like that." Just like, that!" Prudence concurred bitterly, and hoped In the next second that the man had not noticed the sting in her voice. He didnt show up here for two years after he lost his mother. Then last June he' opened the place, and whod he bring with him but Walt Gerard and his wife and little girl. Walt lit out pretty .quick, but the Mrs. seized the reins pf management and how she did drive. Shes one of them women whos so busy helpirt God run his world that she lets her own folks getalong as best they can. She's all winks one of her cold blue eyes when she thinks shes bein' smart; before youve been talkin to her five minutes, she'll fug in a remark about my cousin, the ambassador. She kept the house full of company all summer, young folks, but the girls were so homely theyd have stopped even one of them electric clocks which is supposed to run forever. She's a wise one. I hadnt supposed there were any 'homely girls now, they know so well how to look like a million. Why Is Mrs. Walter Gerard wise? Not because she doesn't care for beauty? Whatta mean Is, Walt, her husband, Is handsome as a movie actor. She Is tall, with horses teeth and face. Guess a kind of horse-shape- d she was handsome once the women here say shes a nifty dresser must have been or Walt never would have married her. He well, he knows where the corn crib Is. Their kid Is thirteen years old. Shes cute, but that curious that folks lock up everything when they see her coming. Rods awful good to her and she worships him. The Walt Gerards haven't much money. Rod gives them an Income. Thats another reason his sister-in-ladoesn't want pretty girls around. 'Twould upset her apple cart terrible If he should marry. Has Mr. Rodney Gerard no mind of his own? "Yes yes, he has, but since his mother passed away, Rod's kinder lazy; besides, hes got the idea some girl will marry him for his money." Puffers voice deepened with affectionate anxiety. You see, he has all he can spend. This Is, Im guessing so. Perhaps he thinks, why should I work now an take a Job from someone else? Here we are. Miss Schuyler, this is your uncle's place. I forgot; It's yours now. Sorry you had such a tough night to arrive. He stopped the car In the road before brick gateposts and sounded a lugubrious born. In response, the house door opened and let out a stream of yellow light; a soft, cushiony voice called: That you, Si? Thats Mother my wife," Puf- fer explained, as he unfastened the curtains on Prudences side of the car. He helped her out, then extended a bony hand to the gaunt woman who seemed to unfold like an extension ladder as she stepped cautiously to the ground. Prudence Schuylers throat tightened as site blinked at the red brick house she had Inherited. A woman, designed on the feather-bed plan, with an eitra chin or two In the best Rembrandt manner, greeted her In the hall. Come right In and wash and tuke off your hat Supper's all ready, dearie. When you get something to eat thingsll look different can seem awful dark and dreary on an empty stomach." Prudence achieved a smile, Thank you, Mrs. Puffer. This is Jane Mack, who has come to help me keep house. She has been a standby tn our family since the first day she came to make little girl frocks for me. Will you tell her where to find things, plense? As the two women disappeared, 1 .. thln-lippe- d rosy-face- d about our neighbors. I'm willing to INCREASE IN MARRIAGES Bijj Increase Predicted in wager my first crop of chickens that An incrcu-in the number of marDemand for Air ConditionI shall detest the Gerard heir. Rich riages during 103,1 has been reported playboy. I bae no Illusions about ing in Homes and Offices by the statistical bureau of a leading bis type. If I meet him. Ill be colder life Insurance company. Revest Hotel than an electric running on larger earnings, and better Economists predict that the air high. Also something tells me that conditioning business will be Amer- prospects have given young men and Mrs. Walt and I will be antagonistic icas next great industry, the field be- women confidence in their ability to from the start. Maybe, though, I N unlimited. Modern hotels and establish homes. won't meet her; maybe she wont ing The statistical bureau based its office buildings of the future will all see her farming neighbor even as a be air conditioned. The owner of conclusions on preliminary figures j dot on her social horizon." even the most modest priced home from officials of 21 states. There Miss Prne, Tm ready to go up will find it just as economical to In- was a 4.3 per cent Increase In the now," lean, lank Jane Mack an- - stall a combination air conditioner number of marriages In 1033 over the Mrs. nounced from the threshold. ' vf V. v V) Vjt f and heater, as It now is to buy an preceding year. The figure is low In Puffer showed me where to find the is believed comparison with normal years, but unit It heating ordinary a be good supplies. I guess she'll that air conditioners will be as com- presents a strong contrast to what neighbor. Wish 1 hadnt seen that mon In the American home as an happened between 1929 and 1932, procession In my tea cup, though. automobile or a radio. when the marriage rate dropped a don't look for Now, Macky, new air conditioning total of 22.4 per cent. Literary of the One trouble In tea grounds; havent we units developed recently by Chrysler had enough fairly sitting la our laps for use in homes, offices, these last weeks without hunting engineers, and buildings, not only out more? Come on up, lets see apartments acts as cooling and dehumldlfylng the rest of the house." 200 Rooms 200 Tile Baths unit during the summer, but as heatInterest In Prues eyes glowed Into winIn the unit and Radio in every room. connection humidifying excited anticipation as they went ing ter. RATES FROM from room to room. flJO Standardization of air conditioning Jmt oppontt Mormom Tabernacle Macky, think of having a whole Mineral Pure Natural Water mass production methods, house In which to spread out after equipment, ERNEST C. ROSSITER, Mgr. offering good products at prices that May Help years Id an apartment! Well make the great majority of Americans can It a dream. We will warm It with Is the problem that engineers color till It makes hearts glow Just afford, MILLIONS FIND IT are solving. rapidly to come Into It" A faint pink crept under the womVERY BENEFICIAL Romance in Persia eyes an's skin. Her washed-ou- t unPersia is almost completely shone with a lovely light machine age, says For over 2,000 years the great minYoull make hearts glow all right, spoiled by the Richard Halliburton In Cosmopolieral waters o the World, given to us Miss Prue. Your brother said to me When Cutic ura Soap and six hundred tan. There are by Mother Nature, have proven themJust before we left the apartment miles of railroad barely Cuticura Ointment ore used!. borders. within its in beneficial selves treatment the very Im not afraid for Prue. She'll Camel caravans, as In the All mothers should know that when of rheumatic aches and pains, ardays of ones are sleepless, fretful and make a home wherever she is. Shes little stomach certain thritis, sluggishness, the Magi who came from here, stl'l cross because of pimples, rashes, irritalike her mother. " disorders and other chronic ailments. s of the commerce, tions and dialings of infancy and child-hooPrue slipped her hand within the hear It has been estimated that Amerithe stars are and still by guided arm (ulleurn will quickly soothe and womans thin cans alone have spent $100,000,000 a crook of the carand heal. Bathe the affected purtswith These across wilderness. the for an Instant pressed her cheek year in going to the mineral wells Cuticura Soap and hot water, dry, avans must traverse a country and health resorts of Europe. Over against her hard shoulder. and gently apply Cuticura Ointment. and $1,000,000 of these foreign mineral convulsed sometimes by gorges a in I suppose there Isnt person Soap 2Sc. Ointment 5c and SOa. mountains. Where therg are waters are imported annually into tins this village who doesnt know that high Proprietor,: Potter Drug & Chemical no to Rut is desert. mountains there country help suffering humanity. Corporation, Malden, Mass. my brothers wife ran away with my In But it isnt necessary to go to Eufinds so one oases the gardens mufIn sisters husband, she said a rope to find fine natural mineral water. lush and fruitful that they have Infled voice. We have many marvelous mineral down the poets the ages. waters in our own country many ex"There, there, Miss Prne, suppose spired Is modern Persia that will It Rut cellent health resorts to which you can they do? 'Twasnt your brother the the average traveler TO go for the mineral water treatment Davids fault nor your sister Julie's attract roses nightingales more than for rheumatic aches and pains. If folks here know about it at all, the and the College Most surprising of all, however, is tombs; the beautiful, artistic peothey know that. If you make too ple, more than the tumbled ruins. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH the fact that today you can make a think theres much of it, they may natural mineral water in your own Beautiful 40 acre campus. Modem something back of It all youre home at a tremendous saving in exPuddings and Equipment. High Hat Charm ashamed of. I know folks." Scholarship, Strong Character and pense. For Crazy Water Crystals most A old is with Social young girl development. Physical edu- wnjs Trudence smiled and patted the bring you, in crystal form, healthful cation. Low Cost Tuition, Hoard minerals taken from one of the womans bony hand before she en- always fascinating. and Room in regulated homo-lik- e world's fine mineral waters. Just the tered the room she had selected for dormitories. Government join for natural is minerals. added. Nothing needy and worthy students, E KKK herself. All you do is add Crazy Water new pamphlet An Educational had she after extinguished Long di inking water, and to Opportunity" mailed on request. Crystals your n wide-opethe light, she lay with have a great mineral water tint you H. tv. iu:iu:itn. . d fVe. eyes staring at the fog which hung has helped millions to better health before a of curtain like gray gauze and greater happiness. window. She watched A standard size box of Crazy Water the vide-ope- n the steamy fringe of water dripping Crystals costs only $1.50 and is suffPAKiiLKS icient for several weeks thorough from the window as she lived over HAIR HALSAM for treatment rheumatic pains. Crazy (LteroovpwDwMJrut? MtopflilRirkalilny the last weeks. As If his heart had 4 Imparts Color And Water Co., Mineral Wells, Texas. not been sufficiently uprooted by the Beauty to (ryind Faded Hair UK ami $1 00 at lirujiK'Hte. desertion and tragic death of his k . Fa? thugua,N Y sox hem Ideal fr ua fn FLOKLbiON SHAMPOO wife, David, whose health had been Connertionwith lHrk'T niJuirBaliifini Make the undermined by service overseas, had Quick, Safe Relief hair loft and Unify. 60 rents by mail or at drug been ordered to give up work and gists Jdiacox Chemical Works, latcboguQ,N.Y. For Eyes live in the country. The inexorable The country I By Exposure To HOMEWORKERS weekly for eight honrswork command had staggered her at first. AJtlrohslinf envelopes hivorylJillttf itmitnhevl ('nuWind and Dust are for sale by dealers displaying Sun, ll ll or ci imrienen utiirNN.ry. t omploin net rue no with money How could they go tloniibo. JiUAluui ltuliUerm JuineAburg'N!. the red and green Crazy Water At All Drug Stores for living? When the crash had Get a box todey. Crystals sign. come In their fortunes sii' months Write Marine Co.. Dpt. W. Chiceto.far Free Book WMJ W 3434 before, she had opened a studio and had worked professionally at what had been a delightful avocation the craft of designer and maker of Each nd silver boxes. jewelry month had seen an Increase In the number and Importance of her orders; then had come the command to go to the country, which had meant that she must give up her shop. While she was struggling with her problems and doggedly assuring herself that she would find a way to relieve the situation, a way opened, but not from her effort. Her fathers brother, Austin Schuyler, had Invested part of his small fortune In an annuity, then had made the dream of years come true by buying and stocking a Maine farm with the remainder. For the first time In his life, he had said, be had what he wanted and then one morning he didnt waken. He had willed the Maine property and five thousand dollars in cash to his niece Prudence. The legacy had providentially anprobswered the Conoco Germ Processed Motor you drive with New lem. Now that the strain was eased, Conoco Germ she had but a confused remembrance Oil carried its car 4,729 miles Improved of the days during which she had Processed Motor Oil, you not only 3,015.8 miles farther than the first the apartcleared and ment At the last moment Jane oil to fail and 1,410.2 miles fargive your motor greater protecMack had begged to go with her. tion against wear you also use ther than the best of the five oils: Her eyes were giving out for sewalbut she knew less oil. ing, she had said, Convincing prooj of lower oil conmost everything there was to know That was definitely proved in sumption and greater motor proabout a house she had been trained Pruthe famous Destruction Test at tection! by a New England mother. dence had hugged her In her rethis Protect your motor! Lower your In Indianapolis Speedway. lief. Jane Mack might be grim and a confirmed pessimist but she could test against five other nationally oil expense! Drive into one of the cook, while she herself farmed and, five famous oils, in identical cars, 18,000 Conoco stations for a fill if opportunity and time allowed, worked at her craft. today. quarts of New and Improved Could she afford to keep SI Tuffer as helper on the place? her thoughts ran on. She couldn't afford not to at present. Already he had stood like a guardian angel between her and the voice in the fog; how be had growled the name, Len Carro-way- ! What had the man wanted? Something in his demand had anwas tagonized her. "Tomorrow almost here. Soon she would know. The muslin hangings swung Into her room like two frail, transparent wings. Had the wind changed? She ran to the window. The fog had cleared as If by magic. With a surge of Indefinable longing, the girl IN I AND i QUART looked up at the star punctured REFINERY. SEALED heavens. With a shaky laugh at CAN'S, AND IN BULK ONI OF THE PRODUCTS OF CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY her own absurdity, she flung out man In the her hands toward the CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY rRrsrNTS Every XTeJnesdn Sight, moon. over N. B. C., Including KDYI. at 7:30 M. S. T. llarry Rithnisn, "Your excellency, I thank you for Jack Denny and llis Music and John B. Kennedy SI" this royal welcome! True of Prosperity farm salutes you!" ! e Salt Lake Citys ice-bo- x v k HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE EHEOMATIG? Sfccp for Baby forMother nine-tenth- d, Next Year Go Westminster Prudence Schuyler's Throat Tightened as She Blinked at the Red Brick House She Had Inherited. curtain of depression. That Is ungrateful when Mr. Puffer diverted our thoughts by most interesting description of our neighbors. Jane Mack made her one contribution to the conversation. Do you have movies here, Mrs. Puffer? , Three times a week in the vil lage. The manager tries to show the films people want to see." Does he? Jane Macks eyes snapped. I love mystery and gangster pictures. Prudence gazed at the thin face in speechless amazement. She had known the woman almost all her life, but had she been taking her to a picture, she would have selected one with de luxe settings and smart frocks. How little one could tell what was going on in a persons mind, even the .mind of someone near and dear. She said aloud : "Now well help clear away and do the dishes. Not you, dearie. .You go into what your uncle called the living room, and set. If Miss Mack wants to lend a hand, perhaps shell be more contented to be busy. Curled In the depths of a wing chair before the purring fire, Prudence looked about the room Indubitably a man's room which almost over night had become hers. Her Interested eyes wandered on. Above the mantel hung the one picture the room presented : a delicately colored engraving of Franklin at the court of France. Benjamin, stage center, bent his head to receive a wreath from the gorgeously appareled Countess Polinac; while from a divan, Louis the Sixteenth and Marie Antoinette looked on with royal Indifference. They all had been real once, the girl mused ; they had held their heads high while their hearts broke, they had smiled through tragedy, while she, with youth, health, opportunity, and her brother, had fairly these last few wallowed in self-pity weeks. Ill make She sprang to her feet a vow, now, that from this moment . I will regard 1 foreswear self-pity- tills experience at at what shall I name the place which has a lift to It? I know!. Prosperity farm I Grand I at Prosperity farm as an adventure which will lead to health for David and great good fortune. I thought I was coming to a treadmill of endless monotonies, and within the first hour a hollow voice which set little merry pranks pricking through my veins rumbles through the fog: " lla3 tlie (jirl come? Meaning me. Why does the man want to know the moment I arrive? Why will he try to 'tie me up tight to him' That was an interesting bit of biography Mr. Puffer volunteered Irritated (XI j I THE INDIANAPOLIS DESTRUCTION TEST Proved WHEN sub-lease- d GERM PROCESSED (paraffin base) MOTOR OIL (TO BK CONTINUED) |