| OCR Text |
Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN 5 it i i : t 2 I V7 -D HOFFMANN WHUUAVICt J j -IS-I Tuesday I fctHrht began to heat Lsotside, Hal .till lay V -tint on hla bed, f m coat off. He had dOX S 1 j, mm. inouiuu i , I0d Us telegram with-It with-It tthlnk of Barry except jW seen her golden ji Kwed, staring over into the corner. And i kept putting the dark si kin, he found himself f-flag It again, Intently, (Jlai bow It had come v BjM was broader over He heard the creak-Qt creak-Qt bed next door, light 4a the running of wa-itwldnl wa-itwldnl send the tele-befcr tele-befcr be found an open Uteri In Las Vegas start-wlth luck they j breakfast. With luck? aTifht a thing as luck I Batter? It didn't. But, Iters was Sister Anas- Mr serene, Deiuuiui ac- t nrrow. She counted is diy, rather as If she a touted most and Hal m K for the glare and 'jg wonstroke. 'id without refreshment 'ton to unlock Raspu tte running board eat- Km Pulstpher'i oranges. 'p came down, brown b) a combination of alertness for signs of u If you'd slept PH ill rolce dubious In pot aid HaL "Wasn't as Ispected." 4(4 him, tasting still m Internal numbness Jectloa for the quick, , tte tough cheeks with m of minute red reins, jiajs with their Impllca- sum and gusto. Then tame out, not wholly tattling In tandem al cana Crack, hla bag golf ball loose In the rueg we Dan nerv- w side pocket as he good moral nir to ftsr blm came Sister -i Barry. The cool Ma's face was softly B ProsDect of thia ''sen her and her Hl knew Barry hadn't fBJthlng, Barry, almply Mwr In her crenseless i Ma acknowledgment "ttlot The defensive ' Journey was her Hgjestlon of a smile tot good morning; w wu held short, as jm from friendliness. Wsehlndhlm the nan--"tHxM miles to Las '""two hours and a ! WPph office waa 'Jw tt ,treet from la? ,topPe1 to Crack's care-? care-? H saw him find It ' Indecisive moment a lWtrd ,l- nal dran" N wolfed a bowl of lY?1: 11 wa nt-? nt-? should pay his bill f U the street when -Wartt, ij booth next door, JJgraph office, and tW W Bat Kimono. I- . e Blrl tcpt u the per8(m wh .d (J York. Ual tO Biol,, .. . ,t,ay- ho claim. l :i to i a-Ipo .'Claims he Is fSLJ to cre,llt for f in C0V(r SMonf POrtatl0n tO VaS Af,Pr that It VZlJ11" Martin fter,'" anJ what 2" J ' t Has CJ Prompt de th. ... sir i'"8 ,h" 'f C """oMshl""1'! 1 isiiloiiod and tidy, Indolent and secret, sex less and Immature, subtly and slyly hateful? If you beat a basking ri per dead In the dust with a stick, it didn't look pitiable at all, surely. California welcomed them officially offi-cially at ita agricultural quarantine quaran-tine atatlon, where the luggage had to come down off the roof and be opened for an inspection. Dropping Drop-ping the bags to Kerrigan and Crack, Hal didn't resist the temptation temp-tation which the last two offered. "That" he said to Crack In a voice casual enough, but plainly audible: "that's Kerrigan's and that" when Crack reached for it "that's your wife's." He knew Barry wouldn't turn ; but Sister Anastasla and Kerrigan both looked up at him as if he had cursed, and be had to drop hla eyes to hide deep self-disgust self-disgust In the middle of Mrs. Pulsipher's statistics on the thyroid Hollywood ladles took to keep their figures, John broke into frustrated sounds. Be snapped his fingers In a moment mo-ment and said, "It-tlt-tlt-tlt said that way. It-tit-tlt -Hal half turned toward John with a feeling near absolute tenderness for him and said : "These darn signs seem to point In any direction for Los Angeles. What place Is this, d'you know?" "Pasadena,' said Crack warily. "You can run out to Hollywood this way if you want." And he added, the insinuation of his voice unsure of Its own shyness, "Whyn't you drop us off there on the way?" "Do that," said Hal briskly. It awed him a little to think again what might happen If Crack used that "US' when they were alone. Guiding Rasputin to Crack's directions, di-rections, Hal made a final attempt to fancy how it would be to put Barry's bag down on the sidewalk and leave her there with her husband. hus-band. Something might move and give him a remembrance other than chance to round out your collection of experience, how would you do jur umn in t Knire, I mean? Or gun? wtiat?" "Would depend." Kerrigan satf inuuousiy. "Why?" inrerest," said HaL "Interest." ,)a(l Poke; try something else, QUICK. "Look here," said Kerrlsan. sit ting forward with a slight Jounce of uecimon, "do you mind If I aak you re making a fool of your self?" "No," snld Hal, pretending- coolness. cool-ness. "Not a bit. But you don't expect me to be an authority, do youi Or do you think I'm such a fool that I make one of myself consciously 7" "I don't like butting into other peoples business," Kerrigan went on. "The curse of the world is people trying to run other people. And I'm not asking you this for fun, or because I like to hear myself my-self talk." Hal looked at Kerrigan's complete, com-plete, quiet gravity and felt the disrespect of being stretched on the bed while his senior sat solicitously forward. He raised himself from the pillows and swung his feet to the floor. "I'm sorry, ColoneL I don't see why you should give a curse about my business. I'm thankful thank-ful that you do." He'd tell Kerrigan Kerri-gan all about lt-everythlng. That might be good to do;'perhaps, telling tell-ing him, his blood and his brain would rouse out of their coma. Kerrigan began soberly. "If you don't want to tell me what'a happened, hap-pened, say so. But If you want to break It out, I want to hear It. And I said want to' not 'willing to.'" "Colonel, I want to tell you," said Hal, a gentleness on his mind as! well as on his voice. "I I Just wanted to wait, that was all Here If you'll listen here's the whole thing: start to finish." Hal told blm a story so orderly and simple that he surprised himselffrom him-selffrom the first hour In New Tork, when Lessen had been so sure Barry and Crack were together, from his first sense of something wrong that rode with them in the car through to watching Barry go up the walk to the hotel in Hollywood. Holly-wood. And all the while he spoke, Barry sat in shining green satin, holding herself hard on that bed four hundred and more hot miles away, staring darkly into the shabby shab-by corner. Would she move if he told, too, how he meant to go to Crack later to be alone with him? Could be, having told It, keep Kerrigan Ker-rigan from the disquieting duty of opposing him uselessly? "That's it," said Hal in quiet conclusion. "And I can't tell you cant tell myself wnat it was backed Into the slimy, corner where he wanted me, she never mm a word, never made sound. She went over and sat on the bed ami stared Into the corner, and I don t believe she even listened. r,,, Kerrigan, d'you think I wanted to believe it?" "Believe whatr said Korrl-nn. still gravely waiting. "Mind lelling me what's this 'if you didn't want to believe?" Hal curbed his miserable exasperation. exasper-ation. "I didn't want to believe what I had to believe that she didn't mind her rotten little husband's hus-band's catching me; I didn't want to believe that It meant more to her to keep her promise, her rotten rot-ten bargain with Crack much more than to to " "HaL" said Kerrigan In an unmoved un-moved patience of vole that left Hal's Insurgent anger flanging, "have you thought baek? Have vou thought of what you have a right THE STORY FROM THE OPENING CHAPTER Following- hli father! criticism of his ldU life, and withdrawal of financial assistance., Hal Irsland, son of a wealthy banker, practically without funds but with the promts of a situation In San Francisco, which he must reach from New Tork at once, takes passage with a cross-country auto party on a "share expense" basis. Four of his companions are a young-, attractive girl, Barry Trafford; middle-aged Giles Kerrigan; Sister Anastasla, a nun; and an Individual whom he Instinctively dislikes, Martin Crack. Barry's reticence annoys his. To Kerrigan he takes at once. Through a misunderstanding, Hal Is directed to Barry's bedroom Instead of his own. Her apparent unfriendliness disappears, and they exchange kisses. The following day Hal tells her he loves her. 8he answers that she mustn't love him, without giving any reason. On his Insistence, Barry tells Hal that shortly before his death her father had urged her to marry a man many years older than she. Trusting her father Implicitly, she did so, and on his deathbed her father secured her promise to stick to her husband, "no matter what happened," for ten years. That was four years ago, and though she knows of her husband's unworthlness, she Is determined to keep her promise, while admitting her love for Hal. No argument Hal can make will move her. That night, though she tries to dissuade him, he goes to her In her room and he secures again th admission of her love for him. Crack appears, and at one mskes his position plain. He la Barry's husband, and finding her and Hal together, his object Is black-mall. black-mall. Hal, appalled at what he can only consider Barry's duplicity, laughs at him and his threat to go to Hal's father with th story, to secure "bash money," and takes an anguishing leave of Barry. the fixed Image of last night It might be the last time he saw her. Some little thing should happen, must happen, to show him where he was. But it was nothing. Hal, on the roof, heard the good-bys said below blm and saw Barry go a little apart with Sister Anastasla, write something some-thing on a slip of paper and give It to the nun before she kissed her. Her blue eyes came slowly to his. the hostllf unrememberlng screens fixed against him. Perhapa she watched an Instant longer than suited suit-ed her negligence, but that was alL He knew she wouldn't speak; and be looked away first, bending over to take Doc's muzzle In bis hand and shake it gently. " 'Bye. poodle." he said. And then be was watching watch-ing the Ingenuous, unsurprising grace of her boy's stride take her away, beside the terrier's bright trotting. And this might be the Inst he ever saw of her I Good 0 d, why did that still mean nothing? The room was nondescript and comfortable and Kerrigan, In shirtsleeves shirt-sleeves by the window, swept his paper down when Hnl came In, smiling smil-ing a faintly disturbed welcome, and said, "Well, here we are. When d'you shove off for Santa Barbara ?" "In a while," aald Hal. "She's seeing see-ing a priest who knows her brother what's on bis mind, how he Is and all. You knew her brother was dying? ne is. That's why she's In a rush, bless her heart. She's going to call up when she's ready. When do you have to be on the Job, Colonel?" he asked. "The End of the Trull?" he saM. his eyes barely livened for a moment. mo-ment. "No hurry. Any time this month." Hal watched lihn consider nn opening for wtmt ho lirvl to sav ami carelessly thought P head It olT with; "I'oli'iiel, If you got the when I aaw Crack standing In her room and knew why he could be there. Since then It's been like coming out of fever: you know something's happened Inside you but you don't know what I loved her, I guess must've. I don't hate her now don't seem to be able to feel about her at all I only hate him; and I'd hate him even If he'd done nothing to me, even If he didn't bate me, too." "So, what?" said Kerrigan. Hal gave a single, flat laugh. "Nothing," he said: "except I'm going to keep my father out of this dirty mess if I have to If It kills me." Kerrigan sat down casually and said, "Out of what dirty mess?" Hal looked at him sharply for a hint of the Joke, but there was no Joke In Kerrigan's gravely commanding com-manding eyes. "I mean why is It suddenly dirty after Crack conies Into It?" Kerrigan Kerri-gan explained In a patient, scholastic schol-astic manner. "You knew she was married. Who did you expert her husband to be?" "I didn't expect him to be a stealthy, pnle louse of a man, watching watch-ing us, right there making lils dirty plans while his his girl got a prospect pros-pect ready." Kerrigan said, "Oh." lifting his head In slight, Ironic comprehension. comprehen-sion. "She made you come to her rooailast night." "No," said Hal defensively. "As a matter of fact, she asked you not to." "Yes, but" "But when you came, she didn't keep you out. When you were Inside, In-side, she didn't do the perfectly natural thing throw you through the window or wrenm for help. That it?" "When that- thai l-v.y spider came In and l.wL.M the d.rT." said Hal; "wli-n tie s!o..d ilwre as ir he owned her, :ii It' he had niu "When O'You Shove Off for Santa Barbara?" to think? I tell yon you sound as It you were talking Just to hear a ncise, sticking up for what you've done Just because yon did !t" "Stick up 1" said Hal, lesalng for ward to look at Kerrigan from under drawn, Incredulous brows. "What the devil d'you spose I've been doing for a day and half a night except thinking back? What" He Jerked his bead aside, a sound of exasperation breathed in his throat Think back I As if be needed to, supposing be could. Coming back from Santa Barbara he'd think and find bis Tightness twice as strong. Kerrigan said, politely, "Will you listen to me a little longer?" and waited for Hal to answer. "Certainly," said Hal, with an ironic inclination of his head. "She made no aecret of being married?" "No," said HaL "That wasn't so stupid, either." "Did she ever want you to leave her alone, ask you to make up your mind to separating here?" "Yes," Hal agreed readily. "And of course It was to be expected I'd do It right away especially after she'd told me she cared for me." "Mm," said Kerrigan. "Telling you she loved you made It harder for you; but your telling her shouldnt've amounted to " "The point Is," Hal Interrupted In listless quiet "she never did care." Kerrigan started Into something vigorous, but he took palpable hold of himself before his breath was fully drawn. And hla voice was leashed to some fragile stanchion of patience as he said: "All right, she didn't care. But It's not Impossible Impos-sible to think of somebody In her place who would've. Take another girl, then, with a built-in feeling about a promise to her dying father. fa-ther. She's got warm, quick blood In her veins, not New England spring-water. She falls for a fella as she never expected to a fella In Just your position. She wants to find some way out for both of them, and .she wants to keep him out of harm. But she Isn't any more super-human than she should be; she's made of flesh and feeling, feel-ing, weakness and desire not bll-llard-ball composition and missionary mission-ary tracts. How would you have that girl behave? "I a'pose she should've told you It was Crack she was tied to, rlht at the beginning. That would have made everything simple, wouldn't It? You could've wrung his neck In Iowa somewhere and gone to Jail with the happy knowledge that you'd made everything perfect for both of you." "I couldn't've bought him, could I?" suld Hal, his hot tone Just off trembling. "Wringing his neck would've been the only thing In the world to do." ".Sure you could have bought him," said Kerrigan. "And he'd have stayed bought, too never bothered either of you ngaln. You could have bought him, and n dead i man's dread nf shame nnd a Inst i promise nnd fifteen or twenty years of love and care and tearhln. And with all that hoii'rlit and paid for, she wouldn't feel that ...:, '.nI.vM sniveled dirt all over her in a thlna !e w anted in Veep , t ' " (TO J. CUMTM LIO jgj jTfc & ,'fr tt m Ll Our Motto It GOOD HEALTH BY DR. LLOYD ARNOLD ProfeMor of Bacteriology end Pre-vtative Pre-vtative Medicine, University of Illinois. College of Medicine. W W W ft Vf w tt ASTHMA, HAY FEVER, HIVES AND SICK HEADACHE - Y' Spontaneous hypersensltlveness In man are big words that without proper explanation, explana-tion, mean very little, but, as a matter of fact spontaneous hypersensltlveness hy-persensltlveness includes asthma, hay fever, eczema, ec-zema, and such common diseases which, while they rarely carry ns to the grave, certainly make ns exceedingly uncomfortable. Asthma attacks the muscular tubes of the air passages pas-sages and cause these muscles to contract, thereby diminishing the volume of air that Is breathed In. Hay fever attacks the membrane of the nose. Eczema may break out in the skin almost anywhere. It baa been found that when both parents have suffered from hay fever or asthma, 68 per cent of the children have these ailments. When only one parent suffers from hay fever and asthma, usually Just half of the children have the same ailment ail-ment But hay fever and asthma develop In some children where there Is no family history of this disease. When both parents are asthmatics or hay fever sufferera. children develop the same disease earlier In life than when one parent par-ent is involved or when there Is no history of these particular ailments ail-ments In the mother or father. Hay fever parents usually beget hay fever children, and asthmatic parents beget asthmatic children. Hay fever la usually associated with August the month In which ragweed pollens are most numerous numer-ous In the air. But the hypersensitive hypersensi-tive condition of the nose can be brought about by other substances than pollen, animal hair, dandruff, or such substances can cause It as can face powder, perfumes snd certain cer-tain foods, such as strawberries, almonds, fish, etc. Or It can be brought about by bacterial Infections. Infec-tions. The cause of asthma can be the same as that of hay fever. Inhaling certain substances. Ingesting certain substances as food or remote foci for bacterial growths, can cause an Increased sensitiveness of the mus culature of the tubes leading air to the lungs. This Increased sensitiveness sen-sitiveness causes spasms of these muscles. It Is during the period of spagm or cramps that the asthmatic is most uncomfortable. In studies which have been carried car-ried on at the Illinois Research hospital hos-pital In connection with the University Univer-sity of Illinois, It seems that an Individual In-dividual belonging to the asthma, hay fever, eczema or hives group Is put together In a different way from the rest of us. These hypersensitive people are so constituted and constructed con-structed that they react In abnormal abnor-mal manner to what would be normal nor-mal to most of us. The Individuals who suffer from mlgraln headache, the sick bead-ache bead-ache that comes on with regular periodicity, pe-riodicity, really belong to the same general group as the hypersensitive persons do. This does not mean that the migraine Is brought on like an attack of asthma or bay fever. But studies of the headache groups that we have made in our research laboratory leave us Impressed with the fact that preceding an attack of alck headache definite Internal changes take place. These Include cbangea In constituents of the blood, and there seems to be a difference In the Internal metabolism of these migraine sufferers. The changes seem to be periodic, occurring sometimes some-times at weekly Intervals and again at fortnightly, monthly and even longer Intervals. Consequently these sick headaches, although not brought on by Inhaling plant or animal substances sub-stances or by eating certain foods, seem to depend on a changing or unstable Internal regulating system that makes the migraine patient closely akin to asthmatic and hay fever sufferers. Our conclusion then is that persons per-sons suffering from asthma, hay fever, eczema, hives and migraine, have a very unstable involuntary nervous system. The Involuntary controlling nm chlnery of our body functions Is so regulated that It can he upset or thrown out of tune as a result of contact with Irritating substances that to the rest of us produce no deviation from the normal. We know even less about the migraine group of sufferers than the hay fever fe-ver group. The cause of the attacks of sick headache seems to be de veloped within the Individual, because be-cause we can demonstrate "certain Internal body changes preceding the onset of migraine. It will be neces-snry neces-snry to do a great deal more laboratory labora-tory work before these spontaneous hypersensitive people nnd the ml gralne sufferers con be clearly understood. un-derstood. We must know more ali.nit the cause and bow the lio.k rlian.tr'; during the Mlt.P'Us of these di-ea-es before we can attempt ( prevent 'lein. Wiv.trrn Ntf w.apr Union. PEASANT COTTAGE POT HOLDER SET Br GRANDMOTHER CLARK 'ffimi ,,iirniinwrawjvirWL With a very little handwork 70a can have this charming little peasant cottage with a fence around It, right In your kitchen. When 70a art not using It the house fits Inside the pocket formed by the fence, Colors In the house and field beyond art stamped and stenciled and require merely outlining. Size finished about 9 by 12 Inches. Package A-ll contains the stamped and tinted material of linens for the'1 potholder and the container, also- the binding for fence and Instructions how to make It up. Sent postpaid for 13 cents. Address ITOME CRAFT OOu DEPT. A. NINETEENTH AND ST. LOUIS AVEL, ST. LOUIS, 110. Inclose stamped addressed enve lope for reply when writing for any Information. Use Shotguns to Frighten Noisy Birds From Roost A shotgun loaded with black pow der sheila which make a loud noise Is recommended by the bureau of biological survey for driving birds away from roosts, when their noise and filth become a nuisance. Blackbirds starlings, . cowbirds, and English sparrows congregate and establish roosts, usually late in the summer. Thousands of birds may gather In a single tree. Guns are most effective If used early in the evening when the birds first appear. Then they are more easily frightened. After darkness they move only a few yards when the guns are used. Shells carrying No. 8 or No. 8 shot and loaded with black powder are recommended for noise. Shooting Into the roosts fire or six evenings may be necessary In cases where large roosts have been established. In smaller cities and communities the use of shot- , guns usually Is not forbidden by ' local regulations. Roman candles or streams of wa- , ter from a hose may be effective In localities where the use of firearms Is prohibited. Electric lights or bells In trees where the birds roost often drive them away. Protected species such as robins and purple martins sometimes es tablish roosts but do not become a great nuisance. SALT LAKE'S KEWEST EOSTELRT Oar lobby to elUktfsHy air ceeieai snsnauj m Jtarfle fs a vary R 100 200 4 ass JI I" ? HOTEL Temple Square gates 1S0 to S3.0Q Tfc Hotal Ttaph Ifun fca MchJr daalraU. trteaaiy Mw pha.Yn will alway fla4 it lw lata, nprnalr eoatfortakU, mmd thoranahlj astnwila,Y aaa iW fata aiidf taaa why tUa katal hi HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Yaa aaa alaa apataaUta why I ffs mmtsi 7atlMctJMi as ssss) at m k tautitwi fcastatry ERNEST C ROSSITER, Mgr. Beauty that "Stays On" fr. Vi-'frTiitrrt Li Try Rimonli and Rmonis Keener on your car. Tbeyll makt it sparkle like new again . . . and stay beautiful I la fact, yoa cant expect your car to keep ha beauty unless you Simonls it, Only fiimonis protects the finish, makes it last longer, and keeps the colors from fading. 80, the sooner you Simonls your car the better. MOTORISTS WISE I YELL ITS SWELL CRISP AND CRUNCHY SWEET AND MUNCHY VSj L gfl J HULLABALOO V. I ,TS GOOD FOR YOU OnCE you taste Grape-Nuts Flakes, youll cheer too! Enjoy its famous flavor today, and don't forget it's nourishing. One dishful, with milk or cream, contains more varied nourishment nour-ishment than many a hearty meal. Try it your grocer has itl Product of General Foods. Li t - "A :'- I i 1 ' i . . if ; f ; ; i: J 1 i - 1 1 i f , , ' , , i i |
