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Show f i THE LEIII SUN. LEIII. UTAH n s sweet Phased De don fewest 'i !J 'ash-1 !r Own I nafore- lu" -15- XVH Continued 15- Virgie cried. ..iiri" vireie criea. ium 1t,u. his stock. He 16" T""' .., what ne was Bei's. You tricked mm a Vt IBIOW man-in prison!" "'Cure you. Mrs. Morgan, that "f: ILt was carefully read r Pruitt h wouldn t under- .. .narprf and numb .rare Tom to death with a i twer You tricked bimI He !ilL killed all of you before up bis stock in this mill!" hat Mr. Pruitfs -lean Deueve . ... kmic!rtp must be embar- , .aIor rinnnt trick 5 Mrs. Morgan. We find it HL9r." The oily" voice ran horrid Wers over her. "So if i will read this order, please? You ;Lti. thft you are directed by " Pruitt, as the custodian of his nrnnertv. to deliver to ! I ' shares of Morgan mill stock. w par value" 1 won t deliver n. u "K" every court, in wis coun- A course, you understand that w attitude is quite futile. We can lyou W deliver uie biuwjw, hub. lere with a writ" "Bring a dozen omcers u you an nna one wv ..... "You exaggerate your importance udyour invulnerability, I fear. The iwk will be taken to Mr. Pruitt for signature to transfer" "Transfer to whom? "Mr. Withers has contracted to purchase it, I understand." "I thought so. 'look here. Virgie, you're wast- your breath," Wallace put in. "This is all settled. You can't do a tag about it" 'Til see about that" "I reckon we'll have to fetch a constable." Wallace mustered pious patience with an obdurate woman. "She'! hard-headed. Talk won't be an; use. She keeps it in that safe " "How do you know where I keep it!" Virgie flashed at him. "I sup-pose sup-pose you've got some more spies on my pay-roll? Your Mr. Daniels has done pretty well. I suppose you set those fires yourself?" "You are being very unreasona ble, Mrs. Morgan," soothed the lawyer. law-yer. "We are being very lenient with Mr. Pruitt My client has been permanently per-manently injured without justification justifica-tion or excuse " "You might as well hush," declared de-clared Withers patiently. "Come along and we'll fetch somebody she will listen to." The door banged behind them. Virgie stood still in the middle of the room, still shaking with white rage. "The thieves!" she muttered. They would be back presently, with some country constable, who would turn red when she looked at him, but who would drag from an unsavory pocket a paper with the seal of a magistrate upon it, and compel her to open the safe. A sudden thought came to her. Swiftly she bent and twirled the combination of the safe. The heavy door moved open slowly, and she tag it back and unlocked the inner in-ner compartment. Flat, taped bundles bun-dles of paper slid out into her hand. She sat on the floor, turning them over rapidly. All the papers on the Hazel Fork property she knew ftosewell, she had had them out the aaj before with Wills. Her own stock in the mill tied in an envekrae -she counted the shares. All there. But that was all! Twice she turned over the entire contents of the compartment Then panic flurry she pulled every-g every-g out-old ledgers, old bills, contacts, con-tacts, and leases. Papers that Da-vi Da-vi had filed, papers she herself had Put carefully away; tax receipts, deeds to timber lands, insurance Wees, she unfolded each, shook " opened and shook every book, arched frantically. Tom's stock and Marian's was Hone! Bui-how who No one but Lucy knew the com-inauon. com-inauon. L"cy and Tom. And Tom as locked in jaiL She was still sitting there, shak-2 shak-2 papers, staring at the empty P ces m the safe when the door Pened. She started, then saw that mu arian wh0 st00i there. Mother! What has happened?" M"ian exclaimed. " 8e tied a tape with cold fingers. "6 Ve hpPn Fnkk.J L - i j 4 u ."uucu, sne said. 1 wwver pam ttt i. him " waiiace was witn con, " u , K lasl night They're signing 6 udCK with an officer to make It's up- -'t isn't here! Jour 1 ? your k-the stock J, father left for you-is gone. Mar; bolt "Mothc.. ... 6el UP and sit rlrmrn an closed the door, slid the as a sheet loure whito oure shu; ,. ... - an over." Slf l0Wn" They'll be here Stoo?nontbeiieveme 01 the Snpt u suPPOse some brWaHace V !been WOrking "Oh 11 C0"Wn't be Lucy-' nonot Lucy-" tt stoc?sWS tnUgh 10 kMW tha w But""!653 mmiV C0bmaXrbody els ew - awBiin th Wind BY HELEN TOPPING MILLER 0 AK?KW C0' "You?" "Tom wrote It down for me. Mothersit Moth-ersit here and let me bring you some cold water. The stock Isn't gone, Mother. It's safe. I took it" Virgie sank limply into the old chair that had been David's. "You took it?" "I took it over to the court-house. To be registered. Tom signed it over to me a week ago. It's mine. He couldn't give it to anyone else because he has already signed it over to me. He was going to leave it to me in his will. He told me so. And I saw the will. He left it here with Lucy that day when he went up to Hazel Fork. Tom wanted me to have it. So the last time I went to the jaiL he was worrying about it And I wanted that stock, Mother I'm ashamed to tell you why I wanted it. I wanted to control con-trol the milL I wanted to make you fire Branford Wills and now I'm ashamed! But the stock is safe. They can't touch it" Virgie's hands fell limply. "Pick up that mess," she muttered, sagging sag-ging back in her chair. "I give up." "Here drink this" "I'm all right It's just too much has been happening behind my back. Even you" "I told you I was ashamed. But anyway, we saved Tom's stock. Maybe we can beat them yet" Virgie looked numbly at her child. David's child with her finely cut profile, her dark eyes and resolute mouth. Gallant and splendid and indomitable. Like David. "So you own the mill!" she said. "Are you angry. Mother?" "I don't know. It was a shrewd thing to do. Your father would have thought of it I seem not to think of things soon enough." "You're wonderful, Mother. I don't want to run the mill I couldn't I'm not wise enough or strong enough." "I seem not to be wise, either. Lock the safe, Baby those men will be back." "They're coming now. It looks like an army." No one noticed Lucy, coming in at the back door, because so many people peo-ple were entering by the front way. Lucy's eyes were blazing and a little wild. Her chin had a dogged angle, and scarlet coins burned in her cheeks. She looked younger, lighter, aglow with a sort of fantastic fan-tastic triumph, almost defiant She pulled out her chair, then waited as the odd procession filed in. "Mr. Payne," the lawyer introduced intro-duced the newcomers, "and Mr. Hooper. And this officer, I suppose, you know?" The shambling constable, looking awkward and on fire with curiosity jerked at his hat and said. "Howdy, Mis' Morgan." "Hello, Ed," greeted Virgie. "You travel in poor company." "This here is somethin I got to do," fumbled Ed. "I ain't so set on it but you know how things is" "Go ahead," ordered Virgie, curtly. Ed rummaged out his paper. Wallace Wal-lace Withers pulled out his heavy old watch and ran his thumb over the crystal, thudded it back again. Lucy's eyes were big and anxious. Only Marian stood calm, smiling a one-sided smile. "I got an order here," began Ed, "for some stock belongs to Tom Pruitt-" "Go on and serve the paper," snapped Withers, "I got to get home. It's most time to milk," "Don't bother, Ed," Virgie said, "I know what's in that paper. It won't do you any. good to read it to me. These gentlemen and their attorneyare at-torneyare very astute. They know exactly what they are doing. You investigated the ownership of this stock, I suppose, gentlemen?" "Certainly!" snapped the man Payne. "You're just stalling, Virgie and it won't do you a bit of good." "I'm not trying to do myself any good, Wallace. I'm doing you good. You got that order by fraud and I can prive it. That might not sound so well in court" 'We got it square Pruitt knew what he was doing. He knew he was signing away his stock he had to save himself." "Sounds funny." Virgie's voice drawled. "I've known Tom a long time. He was a shrewd old mountain moun-tain man. He knew what he was doing most of the time except when he lost his head because he was being be-ing robbed. It's hard to believe he'd sign an order to deliver that stock to you yesterday, "that was? when he had already transferred it a week ago!" "I don't believe it!" barked Withers. With-ers. "The transfer is recorded. You can see the record at the courthouse. court-house. That will be about all today, gentlemen" Virgie drew herself up superbly. "No not quite aLL" said a quiet voice from the door. Branford Wills stood there, lean and calm and tall, a folded paper in his hand. "Mr. Payne, I assume?" he said. "And Mr. Hooper? I have just come from Hazel Fork, gentlemen" The lawyer interrupted. "This is another matter, sir. We do not know you." "I am employed by Mrs. Morgan. My name is Wills -formerly with the National Park Commission. I ve been investigating the area on Fork upon which I under stand you gentlemen, all of you, intend in-tend beginning some extensive op erations in lumber and pulp wood?" "What's your business?" demand ed Withers. "If you've been Inter ferin' up there, Virgie Morgan" "Mrs. Morgan has not been inter fering." Wills said. "Mrs. Morgan knows nothing about this. I happen to be a government cartographer, formerly, as I have said, with the Park Commission. I made the road maps for that area. There has been, evidently, some confusion and delay in surveys and condemnation suits owing to the confused condition of the title to the land a condition you gentlemen were very quick to take advantage of, but I would not advise you to begin timbering opera tions on that land, gentlemen now or ever!" "You're very smart young fel low," snapped the man Hooper, "but I happen to have a court order that allows me to timber that area to satisfy my claims and those of my associates. Do you think I'd be fool enough to invest money in a proposition propo-sition like that if I didn't know what I was doing?" "Unfortunately," Wills smiled a slow, dry smile, "I do not know what sort of a fool you are, Mr. Hooper, I am merely advising you "You tricked him a helpless old man in prison!" for your own good. I have sent to Washington for plats and surveys for confirmation of what I know to be the truth they should arrive by Monday. But I happen to know that I am right I went over the land today to be sure. I do not think you will cut any timber on the land formerly belonging to Tom Pruitt." "What are you crashing in here for, anyway?" demanded Wallace Withers, angrily. "And what are you getting at anyhow?" "I'm advising you not to cut timber tim-ber on Hazel Fork, Mr. Withers you nor anyone else. Of course, I can't prevent you but I can bring it to the attention of people who can prevent you That land up there, gentlemen, belongs to the people of the United States." "You're a meddling young fool!" stormed Withers. "What do you know about it?" "Perhaps," suggested the lawyer uneasily, "it might be well to look into this matter, gentlemen." "We'll look" into it And we'll look into that stock transaction, too. It has a fishy sound to me." "By all means investigate thoroughly. thor-oughly. You'll find as I found, gentlementhat gen-tlementhat that area of land up there is included in the boundaries of the National Park. Probably the condemnation suits to establish ownership own-ership are lost somewhere in the maze of other lawsuits and claims that have been filed on the property. But I wouldn't advise you to cut any timber there till you have satisfied satis-fied yourself where the boundary lies. It's easy toJtake timber away from old men and to rob women but don't try it on the Government of the United States, gentlemen. That will be all. Good afternoon." Lucy let her breath out slowly as the procession filed out the door. "It's like the movies!" she gasped. Wills was standing still, tall and lean and purposeful, in the middle of the room. "There are some things to be settled," set-tled," he said. "We may as well finish it Withers planned all this sabotage to force you to selL But he had help. Men inside the mill Brains inside the milL He had Mr. Stanley Daniels." "No!" The choky cry came from Lucy. "No it isn't true." "I'm sorry it's true. Fve been doing some investigating, Mrs. Mor-gan. Mor-gan. "They framed him," wailed Lucy. "Old Wallace Withers asked him Stanley. I mean if there was any chemical that would destroy pulp and Stanley told him. And then the pulp was ruined and Wallace Withers With-ers threatened to tell Mrs. Morgan that Stanley did it unless he gave up his job." "Why doesn't he come here to speak for himself, if that's true?" Wills asked. "Because," said Lucy faintly. "I've got him locked up He was going to leave. He didn't do it He was a fool but he isn't crooked. I locked him up. Shall I let him out Mrs. Morgan?" Virgie's smile crinkled her face and she burst into a sudden laugh. "No don't let him out,. Lucy. Keep him there till he realizes what a grand girl you are. Keep him there till he melts." Lucy smiled and it was as though a candle had been lighted behind her eyes. "I think he's melting, Mrs. Morgan!" Mor-gan!" "It's raining," Marian said suddenly sud-denly aloud. "Rain and sleet. I'd better take you home, Mother it's going to be a dreadful night." And then the telephone rang. Marian Mar-ian answered it said, "Mother!" faintly, handed the instrument to Virgie, the color draining out of her face. Virgie barked, "What did you say. how? Who came there? You say he took your gun?" She hung up slowly, sitting rigid and aghast "Tom has escaped!" "When? How? How could he?" "Lon says he got away thirty min utes ago. They don't know how. He took Lon's gun." "But he'll freeze on a night like this! We'll have to find him. Mother-" "Yes we'll have to find him." Vir gie looked at Wills. "Lon says that Wallace Withers was over there today. to-day. Tom has found out who it is that has been plotting to ruin us. He's a mountain man " "We'll go." Wills said. "They'll look for him, of course?" "Lon said he was sending some of the boys out They won't know where to go. I know where Tom will go." Virgie's face was heavy with trouble as she twisted into her heavy coat "I'm going, too," Marian said abruptly. "It's going to be an ugly night," Virgie objected. "You'd better go home before it freezes." "Mother I'm going. Tell Frank to put the chains on." "Wrap yourself up then. Lucy, you stay here by the 'phone. If Lon calls tell him we're out on a hunt if we find Tom we'll bring him in." Wills drove and Marian huddled in the middle of the single seat of Virgie's old car. Freezing rain spatted spat-ted on the roof, coated the windshield. wind-shield. The light failed with the swift completeness of . mountain night. Wills got out to scrub the wind-shield clean. The wheels slewed on the curves in spite of the chains and Virgie's profile, against the dim light was granite and grim. "Drive on," she said. 'Til tell you when to turn." "He wouldn't take the road, Mother," Moth-er," Marian worried. "And even if we met him we couldn't see him." "Drive on," said Virgie, flatly. They passed a looming mill and a curve where a waterfall came down, roaring and splashing under a high bridge. "Left at the next road," said Virgie. "Mother" an edge of panic was in Marian's voice. "You don't think" "I know!" said Virgie, soberly. "They were over there Wallace and the others. Tom didn't know before who was working against us but now he knows. Take it slow, Wills this road is dirt and it'll be slippery." "It's freezing a little. The chains hold. I can go faster if it won't make you nervous " Marian huddled, small and frightened, fright-ened, under Branford Wills' elbow, her head in a snug beret scarcely reaching his shoulder. Once he looked around and gave her a scrap of smile, in the dim light from the dash, but she was looking solemnly and searchingly ahead. "How awful to be wandering around in the hills on a night like this!" she said. "Poor old Tom!" "I know how awful it can be." Wills agreed. "I had two nights of it. There's so much sky and black air and empty wind and savage dark around you and you feel a sort of hatred in it as though it would kill you if it could. And the branches reach out and snatch and almost snarl and boulders and roots trip you up and the wind gathers up handfuls of ice and flings them in your face." "And you were lost!" said Marian in a small, frail voice. He looked down at her. "I'm still lost" he said, levelly. Virgie cleared her throat "I'm here," she reminded them, "but I'm old and my hearing isn't what it used to be." 'Tom wouldn't be lost" Marian essayed the commonplace again. "He knows his way anywhere in these mountains no matter how dark it might be." The river was alongside now, dark and noisy and hidden by the whirling whirl-ing dash of sleety rain Trees hung low, and the darkness grew thicker; it brooded and was hostile and fearsome. fear-some. Marian clutched a sleeve and laid her face against it Wind shook the old car fiercely, but the wheels dug and spun and plowed on. Once a frightened rabbit leaped through the darting stee! rods of the rain, its eyes green and terrified Ice was glassy on the hood, tht wind-shield wiper gouged a feeblf arc and then failed. (TO HFCOMIM h.Di EOADIO STGE-CSCRE By VIRGINIA VALE (Beleased by Witern Ntwipaper Union.) WHEN talk began of 50.000 airplanes a year, the American public was surprised sur-prised to learn that it takes at least five men on the ground to keep one man in the air, but the picture makers mak-ers of Hollywood considered the number rather small; you see, they use anywhere from thirty to forty persons behind the camera to keep one actor in front of it. In a scene made for "That Uncertain Un-certain Feeling." In which Merle Oberon appeared alone before the ' camera, there were 35 persons on the . set to help her make a shot which will last 15 seconds on the screen. If you're interested, the list included two assistant directors, a cameraman, a camera operator, two camera assistants, ten electricians, electri-cians, three carpenters, two property prop-erty men, four sound men, a painter, paint-er, a wardrobe woman, a makeup man, a body makeup woman, a hairdresser, a still photographer, a playback operator, a pianist for offstage off-stage sound and a stand-in. The thirty -fifth was Director Ernst Lubitsch. Betty Brewer'a ship has really come In at last Betty's the attrac tive but not beautiful beauti-ful youngster who made such a hit in "Hangers of Fortune," For-tune," remember? I i , J I ily of five for a year I - -Uo. 11 nntif Hoi- family migrated from Joplin, Mo., to Sacramento, Calif., in a fliwer, but her father couldn't find work there and Bet ty began singing at conventions and banquets. She went to Hollywood, sang on the radio, lost her job and had to go on relief. She was singing on the streets for pennies when Sam Wood, the director, discovered her. Her second picture was "The Roundup"; she's working now in "Las Vegas Nights," and next will do "Two Bad Angels," and she's just signed a brand new contract with Paramount Katharine Hepburn has had her revenge on the people who not so awfully long ago considered her "poison at the box office"; her new Metro picture, "The Philadelphia Story," topped all records for New York's huge Radio City Music Hall for the last five years. Cary Grant, James Stewart, Roland Young and Ruth Hussey give her perfect support. sup-port. Miss Hepburn evidently knew that she had a good thing when she found "The Philadelphia Story"; she is still starring in the stage version ver-sion she is part owner of the play and she is full owner of the picture, as well as its star. Betty Brewer Marian Jordan The success of "Teeny," Fibber McGee and Molly's little "I betchal" girl, is no flash in the pan. Marian Jordan, who plays Teeny" as well as "Molly," was one of radio's pioneers In adding a child's voice to her repertoire reper-toire of characters. She did her little-girl little-girl routine fully 12 years ago in Chicago Chica-go as part of Kal-tenmeyer's Kal-tenmeyer's Kindergarten, Kinder-garten, one of ra dio's first network children shows Fibber McGee and Molly weren't even names on a radio script until six yeara later, when Don Quinn, the Jordans' script writer, thought them up. X If the "Quiz Kids" are among your radio favorites prepare to see them on the screen before long. They're making a series of shorts at raramount's Long Island studios. The star performer is sure to be that very young man, Gerard Dar-row, Dar-row, who ranks with John Kieran of "Information Please" when it comes to natural history. . 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