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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD aiden. Yoijaqe rv - KATHLEEN -N ;- W.N U. SERVICE NORRIS SYNOPSIS Antoinette Taft, j at- twenty-tlnei- -, tractive and ambitious but unable to bold a job, lives in a drab San Fran-- i clseo flat with her sister Brenda and brother Cliff, who are older, her sev-- . d brother Bruce, and their Aunt Meg. In her Job hunting rounda she interviews Lawrence Bel-- ! lamy, editor of the Journal of Com-- f merce, but finds he has no place for s woman writer. She likes him very much, as she tells Brenda later. Dlf-- ! enteen-year-ol- j - Kerr drops In. Barney on Tony, but she de-- i jpises him. Tony gets a telephone t call from Mr. Greenwood, city editor of the Call, offering her a job as Cliff, returning society reporter. Just then, accompanies Tony to the office. Tony finds the newspaper men in the office friendly and helpful. The first night she goes with Cliff and Joe Burke of the sports department to a restaurant and sees Bellamy. She thrills when he nods to her. She is thoroughly happy in the hustle and bustle of the news-- i paper office. She manages to solve the problem of getting photographs. The only other woman on the staff is Bess Cutter, who does a column and is very friendly with Fitch, general manager. Bess comes to depend on Tony. Bess invites Tony to dine with her at her apartment with Fitch and then go to the theater. Barney proposes to Tony and is reafjected. Tony attends the Cutter asfair and is displeased. She is signed to cover the at Piedmont. She meets elderly Mrs. Patterson and her daughter ltuth, wife of Larry Bellamy. Buth is in poor health. ! esist in essy le of with cut The k, is ateil rent only e 12 and lete, otns this Inly lLU ring ght- - fldent Barney has his eye mid-wint- er CHAPTER Vll Immediately I there car-riv- Continued stepped in his height and figure and handsome face set off by the dashing costume and the ribboned peruke of the Revolutionary period. He wore a magnificent skirted coat of black brocade heavily embroidered in silver and steel, a waistcoat gay In plum-colore- knee-breeche- s and silk stockings, buckled shoes. At his throat and wrists were frills of fine lace; in his hand he carried a plumed cocked hat She knew him: it was Lawrence Bellamy. Larry, you are marvelous! said his wife. Oh, bravo," said Mrs. Peterson. Come over here and meet Miss Taft dear. Oh, Lord, I didnt know anyone was with you! Benedict Arnold he stamejaculated. Oh, say mered, Tonys hand in his, well, hello I didnt place you! You and I where have you and I talked to each other before? In your office. Months ago. His face was Oh, sure, sure! You were coming brightening. back; you didnt come back? No. I got a Job on the Call that very day, I think. Society ed ltor. Good work! he said heartily. Of course, I see It all, now. Youve come over to do the High Jinks at the club." And Ive Just placed you," Tony 6ald smiling. Ive been talking to your wife and Mrs. Patterson here without ever thinking that the name was the same. "Well this Is pleasant. No, no tea. Im going upstairs and get out of this stuff; I Just tried it on to see if It would fit and you all Wouldnt think I looked like a perfect fool," said Lawrence Bellamy, as he stooped to kiss his wifes pale face, and then Ill get myself something In the pantry, and then Ill Join you ladies. What dyou think of It, Ruth?" It Is simply stunning This is one of the costumes from Arllsss Alexander Hamilton," the editor explained to Tony, I was down thpre In Hollywood a few weeks ago and I borrowed this for me and a dandy for Ruth." And what do you go as, Mrs. Patterson? Tony smiled at the el derly woman. For many years now," Mrs. Patterson said firmly, "Eve worn a lace dress and put a mantilla on my head and a rose in my hair. N trouble, and thnnk God I can wear my own shoes and stays And youre going tonight. Ruth?" Lawrence asked, from th door. For a while, Larry for the dinner, anyway." Ah, youre a sport I" he said. When he came hack they talked for fifteen animated minutes before Tony rushed upstairs to get at her belated work, and she felt ttien. In the firelight, with their eyes upon her, that site was at her best; what site said Sounded original anil amusing, ever, to her, and when she got upstairs to the guest rnoin and looked at herself in the mirror, she thought tlie looked her prettiest, too. The guest room was as beautl- high-heele- ray the slve ray. of Int- - Nis- ces- - an r. old a al from the hallway the most stunning figure of a man Tony had ever seen: a tall man, splendidly made, flowers, i nm: KATHLEEN O R.R.I S . COPYRIGHT, stTV V - V-- VV I 3- r-f d Rnth and Mrs. Patterson liked Brenda, too; they both made It a point to go Into Youngers and buy books from Tonys charming sister. And at Christmas time Tony had beautiful presents. The Bellamys, remembering happier Christmases that a noisy little boy had made complete, went to Havana. But they left their gifts behind them; there were flowers for Aunt Meggy, there was a lovely scarf for Brenda, and for Tony herself there were frail delicate under-thing- s from Ruth, a book from Larry, and a handsome coat from her attached old friend Harriet Patterson. She went up to thank them as soon as they came back, and found Ruth alone. It was a dark, foggy January afternoon, and Tony was glad to get warm and to give all her Christmas news over her teacup, and get all of Ruths In return. Ruth looked better than Tony had ever seen her; she had a good color, and seemed in fine spirits, and she quite simply laid some of the improvements to Tony herself. Youve been extremely good for me, my dear. Both Mother and Larry see IL A daughter couldnt have been sweeter." Ive done nothing; you make me ashamed! Tony protested. Pm fond of you. I dont get fond of many persons," Ruth said with her pathetic smile. Lawrence Bellamy was not always at the hotel for the tea parties that his wife so much enjoyed, but he came In once or twice, and was always glad to find Tony there. Sometimes they discussed the personnel of the Call office; he knew all the Important men there, and was inexhaustibly Interested in what went on. Boo, that horrible Fitch 1 He came to dinner one night I hate Do you know him! Ruth said. him, Tony? Oh, yes." She smiled dreamily. And Bessie Cutter, too, she said. I suppose every one In the office Is on to that, Ruth observed. She did a column called Bessie Saw It for a while. Now they say shes going to do some work for the Sunday Issue. Can she do anything? Not really. Shes been tried out almost everywhere." Tony had a moment of pity for Bessie. Not fully appointed as was the rest of the house. There was a small flat typewriter awaiting her on the gray-anblue desk, and Tony settled down at once to work. When that was done she could study at carher leisure the curtains pet, and the with a touch of pale apple blossom pink for relief here and there; the apple blossom bed, with a satin comforter of powder-blu- e faced with gray. She took a luxurious bath, creamed her skin and brushed her hair, finally put on her wrapper and lay down, pulling the satin quilt up over her. Tony was half asleep when there was a tap at her door. Come in! she said, rousing. It was Ruth Bellamy who came In, hesitantly, with a somewhat doubtful smile on her face. seven, and Its after half-payou asked to be reminded?" Oh, yes. Oh, come in, Mrs. Bellamy I believe I was dozing." Ruth came In and sat on the bed. I had the most delicious bath, and then all these books, and I think I was nearly asleep. Oh, how wonderful your hair is!" My wig? Mrs. Bellamys face had been artfully rouged and painted; with the silver curls above It, and the earrings of brilliants quivering when she moved her head, she looked ten years younger fifteen years younger than the woman Tony had met downstairs a few hours Ridiculous what they can ago. do! she smiled deprecatingly. Its very becoming!" "Its too becoming. I dont look this way any more, the other womBut an said, shaking her head. this Is what I came in about, she went on: Mother and I were saying that that since youre young, and this Is a dance, would you like us to hunt you up a costume? Tony pointed, and Ruth turned her head to see the gay full skirt of the Portuguese costume, the embroidered blouse and bright head dress dangling on hangers at the dressing table. Its the real thing; my brother had a friend who had to go to Rio," Tony explained, as the oilier woman admired It. And he brought it home for Brenda. But it was always miles too big for Brenda, so I wear it. Tony put her feet on the floor, went to the dressing table, and picked up a brush. She looked at her hostess in the mirror, Youre not going to have much fun, are you? she asked soberly, in sudden understanding. Mrs. Bellamy, lingering, seated herself beside the almost dead fire. No, she answered, smiling nervHer Hair. ously, and yet, Tony saw, glad to talk too. much fun ahead of her. Every one Youre a good sport I" Tony said that Frank Fitch was cooling. smilingly repeated the husbands She could sell her diamonds, maybe." phrase. The Fitches came to our house I try to be." for dinner one night," Ruth said. "Was the little boy was Teter And shes a sveet little thing. sick very long? Tony was stand When I.arry went to dress for ing opposite her hostess now, some business dinner, Ruth said brushing her thick dark hair. thoughtfully: He was killed. One wonders that Larry doesnt Ah-hi see some attractive woman ; they all He was at a friends house, playlike him I And after all, Pm twelve ing with little Dick Sykes. They yea re older than he Is. were at the garage Tony had not known them very Terrible for you I long before she had heard and diIt was terrible for my husband, vined much of the story of Ruths too. We never talk of Peter. life. Ruth had been an heiress; her Perhaps," Tony said timidly, It Patterson grandfather had been a would be better If you did. banker, e financial genius, one of Peter was the only one. You the big figures In New York Immeand Larry diately after the close of the Civil see, 1 was thirty-threwhen we married," war, and he had left her, or rather only twenty-on- e Mrs. Bellamy said suddenly. had left his son, Ruths father, a You look twenty-ontonight, considerable fortune. In the PiedTony commented readily. mont house, which Tony gathered The older woman got to her feet, belonged to Mrs. Patterson, were laid a hand on Tonys shoulder. paintings of Ruth as a little girl of Come and see me again," she ten, and one of her with her horse; said wistfully, shyly. When you photographs of Ruth In a school are over on thi3 side of the bay, or graduation dress, in a ball gown, on any time, Id be so glad of It Ive shipboard, at the Deauville races. been living very quietly too Tony gathered that the tiling lackquietly ing to Ruth in those years had been I will I" Tony promised, touched. normal companionship with her own But as she got herself Into the be- kind; any Interested young man coming stripes and colors, she won- had been naturally considered a fordered If she would. Life was brim- tune hunter. She had not married. ful without the Bellamys! Then, when Ruth had been thirty, a New York financial paper had CHAPTER IX wanted to see Grandfather Pattersons letters and diaries, to use In later the Bellamys a series of articles about the New TWO weeks over to the city for a few York of his time, und the promisweeks to stay at the Fulrmont hotel, ing young Journalist, little more and Tony tuts almost Immediately than a year out of Harvard, who asked by her new friend to come up had been sent out to Patterson and have ten with her. She had a manor farm on Long Hand had thoroughly pleasant hour with the been Lawrence Bellamy. Lawrence mother Hnd daughter, enjoying the hnd been young and gay; Ruth tin luxury of the hig corner suite, nnd prewive In her wealth nnd position she at thirty one lie hail Imagined that I he hot tea, nnd t he sense that was liked and admired. After that many suitors were Interested; presshe vent In two or three times a ently he load found himself Installed as the only one, her, squire when w eel;. Once Brenda wetft with her, and she vent into town to the opera, d blue-and-gra- y gray-and-bl- st 1 h e e Quilt of Blocks That Picture Nursery Rhyir.es and Incidentally to the Patterson box; her authority on the problems presented by managing the manor farm; there were splendid dairies, calves, bulls, stallions, hunters, and racers. Lawrence grew Interested. They were married, and Ruth had a few years of flawless happiness, had a small square son to stamp about Merrivaie Hills," could drive about to other estates like theirs, and show other women how fortunate she was. Lawrence had continued in newspaper work, refusing to give up the career that Interested him to become a rich womans husband, and as his star had begun to rise, somehow Tony sensed Ruth's had begun to fall. First there had been money loss, a great deal of It, and the sale of Merrivaie Hills; and then falling health. Through them Ruth had clung all the more tenaciously to her wonderful husband and son. Then had come the San Francisco venture, and the beuutl-fu- l house In Piedmont, with Lawrence growing handsomer and clev-ere- d and more successful every day, and the Journal promising to be a success. Ruth had been forty-twthen, to his eager, vital thirty. But nothing had been really disturbing, nothing had forced upon her the realization of their changing positions until little Peter's death. That had brought her house of cards down about her ears with a shattering crash ; there could be no more illusions, no more hopes. She had sunk, within a few short weeks, Into the shrinking, nervous condition In which Tony first had seen her. She had felt herself the elderly, childless wife of a rising and brilliant man, and not all his kindaffection, and not ly matter-of-fac- t all her mothers anxious spoiling and loving could seem to save her. Happiness is absolutely relative. Bendy, the more thoughtful Tony I see It once said to her sister, more and more every day. Theres no use trying to estimate whether persons are happy or not; you cant tell until you know what theyre comparing It to. Ruth has so much less than she used to have that shes almost In melancholia. We have so much more than we ever thought wed have that we can hardly keep our feet on the ground. h And yet even now we havent I mean In actual Income and position and possessions of what the Bellamys have. Poor thing Its the little boys death, I suppose. She cant forget By GRANDMOTHER Death in a Dottle By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. the simplest things that make the most adventures. You, yourself, although you probably don t know it, have something around your house that youve been looking at and handling for years, which will one day form the fodder for your lifes most thrilling experience. Watch that elecMom. One of these days its liable to give you a tric scare. And Pop, dont monkey with that garden hose, either. Therell come a time when it rears up on its haunches and g situation. bounces you right into a You dont believe me? Well, ask Caroline Rebhan what she thinks of those simple little household items. Caroline never got scared of the bottles in her medicine cabinet, either. There wasnt any poison In any of them and she thought they were perfectly safe. But there came a time when those same medicine bottles furnished a terrifying five minutes YOU flat-iro- o Ob-dor- Then-follow- ' stops DANDRUFF a rr.tduint to really end Dandruff and the itching it causes. So stop experimenting, Use GloversMange Medicine and shampoo with Glover's Medi- Out It Came and Then BANG cated Soap teg- liladv. Surtrodayi At til thug notes. It Burstl j, r ' line says, my face went while. No, I told him, but your razor strop Is In that oven. Then, In as few words as possible, I told him what I had done. He laughed at first, but Deadly Explosives in a Lighted Stove! Yes, Bill laughed nt first, but not after Caroline had told him the whole story. For among those medicine bottles was one containing alcohol and another a large one thnt was full of benzine. Either one of those an explosion that would have blown the old stove bottles to pieces. And the wonder of It all was why they had not already exploded. RHEUMATISM Free Trial Relief could-produc- Biila face was as white as Carolines when he got the whole story. Any minute one of those bottles might go up, wreck the kitchen and set fire to the house. There was no time to call the fire department not a second to spare at all. He ran outside, got 6hovel and opened the oven door. a Caroline stood In the kitchen doorway while he did It her hands over her face, expecting any moment to see flame streak out of that oen and engulf poor Bilk long-handle- Removing Potential Death by the Shovelful. Bill pushed the shovel Into the oven and picked up a bottle. Out It came, and then BANG It hurst, scattering glass all over the kitchen. Bill thrust the siiovel In again and picked up another bottle. That, too, exploded as soon as it hit the cold air outside the oven. Glass showered over Bill even went down his collar and got under his clothes but he held his ground. The worst was still to come. Way back In the rear of the oven were those deadly bottles of benzine and alcohoL If they buret coming out, as the others had done well neither Bill nor Carollue wanted to think of that One by one the bottles came out and one by one they burst as soon as they left the oven. Then they came to the alcohol and the benzine. Says Caroline: We stood looking at each other for a second, and then Bill said, Stand over by the window and pray. I did. lie readied Into the oven and out came the bottle of benzine. Nothing happened, and I gave a sob of relief. ITe set the benzine bottle in a pall and reached In after the alcohol, and this time the sweat was pouring down his face. It bad to he clone slowly carefully, and his hand shook so that I was sure that he would drop IL But the second bottle came out like the first, and Bill put It in the pall with the bottle of benzine. "And what I cant understand," says Caroline, Is how those two bottles stayed whole when ail the others exploded." Well, maybe. It was the prayer, Caroline. C WNU Servlc. delicious fire Pm freezexclaimed Joyfully Tony ing!" "Hello, Larry. Cold? I had some work to do, No and I thought I Alight as well do It here." "Ruth?" At a bridge lunch somewhere. Shell be In. She said to be sure to keep you If you came lu." Tony shuddered luxuriously. Im on a story, but the nomao Is right up the street here at the Fairmont, and she wont be home until six." "Then you're here until six? Larry said, with a glance at the o-- clock. Hackney, Horse of Style it comes to knee action the Hackney Is king of ail horse flesh, says a writer in Hoards Dairyman. Noted as a harness horse of great style, he lifts ids knees and folds his hocks. Originated In England where he was developed from good driving mares bred to thoroughbred stallions for park, Name col), and carriage service. conies from hack, meaning a horse suitable for hauling light carriages. Modern Hackney lias been standardized Into carriage type nnd pony type. Preferred colors: hays, , with white browns, nnd stockings and a star for show Discovered Sooth Africa The early Portuguese navigators were the first to reach the vicinity of South Africa. In 14M1 Bartholomew Diaz rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and 11 years later Vasco de Gains made the same The first vessels to anchor In Table bay were those of the expedition headed by Cornelius limit-lima Dutchman, in 14'jj, In Kill a Dutch ship vvu.5 wrecked in 'Jable Bay and all on hoard safely reached land. They remained there five months until the next vessel arrived. Tills was the beginning of the Idcn of rohml.ing the country. '1 lie pioneer settlers in Gape arrived In three Dutch shlpj Ivoraeg. on April 7, 1CT2. When The truth Is," Tony said, her cheeks bright from the windy climb up the hill, "the truth Is, Pm glad to see you alone for a minute, for Im in a right corner" COTISVED ) Troublesome Spuds Cooks of a Hawaiian Academy of Science expedition to the summit of Manna Ken. An erica's highest Island mountain, hnd their troubles. It took them an hour nnd twenty minutes to Imil potatoes nt the O.lHsi-foo- t level of the mountain, which rises to a height of l.'I.S'J feet on the Big Island of Hawaii. ed You need it (TO BE for the whole Rebhan family. It happened on a Sunday morning In July, 1912. Carolina was Just a young bride then. She had only been married a couple months. She and her husband had moved Into a new house. Thera were ruga to be laid and furniture to be moved and a million other things that had to bo done all at once. Caroline was so confused that a lot of things slipped her mind. And Knitting Fad in Prehibtoric among them were those bottles she had taken from the medicine Arctic Circle Settlement cabinet in their last home. Thnt particular home they had moved Into was a small flat, and one h Prehistoric knitting needle's, of the troubles with it was that there was no medicine cabinet. What combs nnd spoons of mammoth to do with the medicine bottles? Well there was an old stove In the kitchen, and, since It was never used In the summertime, hone have been found In an ancient Caroline stowed those bottles away In the oven until such time as she settlement near Ohdorsk, northern she Liberia, by an expedition sent out by could arrange a better place for them. Then, In the general mlx-uthe Institute of Anthropology anl forgot all about them. of the Academy of Ethnography It Was All the Fault of Apprentices Housekeeping. Science of the U. S. S. It. It has exAll that happened In June. It was a month Inter, in the middle of cavated 12,000 articles of pottery and July, when the adventure really took place. Then', one Sunday morning, bone, some of which are unique. Caroline's husbnnd, with nothing else to do, decided thut ho ought to try Besides knitting needles, combs and that stove out and see If It was any good. spoons, they Include miniature hoes Bill thats Caroline's husband lit the fire. For an hour the for tilling fields, pieces of melting old stove heated up, and then they heard a bang that seemed to pots for metal, and bones of animals come from somewhere inside IL Both Bill and Caroline laughed and birds which no longer Inhabit at that, and Bill said, Gee, there must be dynamite In that coal. the Yamal peninsula on which And still, another bang and another. saya stands. The numerous remains found shows that the peninsula, Caroline, it didnt dawn on me that It might have been the medicine. It wasnt until later, when Bill decided to shave, that wdiieh Is within the Arctic circle, I remembered those bottles. was one densely populated. When Bill started to shave he remembered an old razor strop that Immortal Seed he hadnt seen since they moved from the old home, and asked Carullne When Bill asked me that, Caro- If she knew what hnd happened to It Tender words nnd loving deeds are immortal seed that will spring up In everlasting beauty in our own lives and In the lives of those that come after. five-teet- It" b.eslde Oh, n, Quilts made of blocks that picture the nursery tales that every child knows will Interest both old and young. Always n good subject for a mother to work on, at bed time, with her child. Outfit No. 49-- consWts of four blocks stamped on a good quality bleached quilting material and will he mailed to you for 10 cents. The embroidery work Is In the outline stitch. Use any color thread. Address Home Craft Co., Dept. A Nineteenth and Kt. Louis Ave., SL Louis, Mo. Inclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply when writing for any information. coal-burnin- 1 o its know, hair-raisin- one-tent- And feeling so much older than Instead he. If she were thirty-twI suppose there might of forty-tw- o be another child; as It is I don't think there's any hope of It" He's how old?" or two, I About thirty-on- e think. Ten years. You three run In neat decades," said Brenda. That's true. Good gracious, is she twenty years older than I ami Tony murmured, under her breath. You really like her, dont you? Brenda questioned, In the tone of one thinking aloud. I like her liking me, Tony answered, after a moment's thought, in honesty that surprised even herself. "I dont mean that!" she said laughing. "I do like her you have to like Ruth, shes so generous and kind and all that. But of course shes not the personality that Larry Is." Oh, Tony, youre so beautiful, so firm and young and glowing and happy have mercy on her ! Brenda thought But aloud she dared say nothing. She could only console herself with the prayer that it was ' purely her Imagination that of late Tony was quoting Larry Bellamy with a new significance: that Larry was managing to be at home when Tony was there. The Bellamys rented an apartment in the smartest of the California street places; a roof apartment with a wonderful view of the city, and determined to remain in San Francisco. On a certain rainy March afternoon. with the freedom of a favored friend, she went up there unannounced, gave Chevalier her wet mackintosh and dripping umbrella, and entered the living room to find a fire blazing and Lawrence rending galley proofs In a deep chair CLARK j chc-tnuts- I voy-ng- e. Highly Magnified Arid Crystals nuf- matter how Ion you hava 1 madlcnl f rd, try th tannery S 200 Kutoxol, n1orp1 by physician urn! many thoimnnda of former victim who now work playand Kaln enjoy life. 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