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Show THE TIMES-NEW- S, NEPHI, UTAH VIOLA G little In that way down In my foul, Seems to me Mrs. Carter had I mean. I am sure of It now. We are baby girl. Maybe not I ain't aiucli not suited to each other. We think dif- of a hand fer notlcln' babies." In her voice. "You are sure absolutely positive Whereupon he protested rigorously ferently about a great many things. about all this?" whispered Lapelle Inthat he had not tasted a drop except We" "Look here," he exclaimed rongtily. tensely. one small dram the captain had given "You bet yer boots I am." no longer able to disguise his anger; him early that morning when be com married man?" "She ran oft with By "You've got to stop this everlasting " a chill.' of plained tachment A most satisfying promise "She did. A feller by the name o "Let go my arm, Barry Lapelle I" she she drunk now," Why, you're right "I CANT MARRY YOU" George Barr McCutcheon for the future, he gloated ; here was said miserably. "Oh, Barry, won't you cried. "Don't you dare lay your hand Gwynne, as I said afore Bob the proof that she loved hlra, that her ever " on me like that I" Gwynne." Copyright by Dodd, Mead Company, Inc. tantalizing outbursts of temper were SYNOPSIS. Kenneth Gwynne "That's all for tonight," snapped He loosened bis grip on her arm and "Drunk? I'm as sober as the day I not his to be that taken was five years old In tha spring seriously, was born," he retorted, squaring his drew back sulkily. "Ah, I didn't mean Barry impatiently. "You get out o of 1112 when hie father ran away over her was irresistible. There power G wynne?" She appeared to be abso"But suppose I have had to hurt you and you know It I town at once. Mart will be waiting for from Kentucky with Rachel Carwere times when he felt uncomforta- shoulders. too much who's the cause of wouldn't hurt you for anything In the you down below Granny Neff's cabin little lutely unconcerned. ter, a widow. They took with bly dubious as to his hold upon her It? You I You drive me to side of the tanyard as arranged." them Hinda Carter, Rachel's baby "No." It you do. world. What I was going to say,"diff-he this"What She was whimsical, per The last about that other business? daughter. In the fall Kenneth's with himself look at you would be suffi- affections. "One been of weeks controlling growled, you've couple mothor died of a broken heart. maddening In her sudden tran throwing up all my faults to me, tor- iculty, "Is this: if you think I'm going Mart'U want to know when ye're cient, " she said. "If you are both so verse, Hs grandparents brought him sitions And she threatmood. of bad He knows. The Paul Revere goes me till I'm nearly crazy with to take this as final, you're very much curious, why not arrange a meeting?" ened more up to hate the name of Rachel than once to have nothing menting mistaken. You'll get over this. Just as south day after tomorrow morning. If "I am In no way concerned," he re- more to Carter, "an evil woman." . . . have First you say uncertainty. you'll do with htm unless he mended Kenneth, now a young lawyer, torted. "On the other hand, I should that you'll do anything I wish, you've gotten over your peevishness the plans are changed before that time I seeks lodging for the night at Now he smiled triumphant me, 11 think you would be vitally Interested, his ways and then. Just as I begin to feel that before. I've spoiled you, that's the get word to him. It may not be the farm of Phlneas Striker, near as be All her. that upon ly gazed of the matter. I always give In necessary to do anything at all. You've Rachel Carter. If he knew my father, truth all and say everything's you up Lafayette, Ind. It appears that right, he about Henceforth pother nothing! Ken's father has recently died he certainly must have known you." care for to you " given me Information that may bring you're not Bure whether and that he Is on his way to take pay no attention to her whims; me or not and you're you to obey "I tell you I am In earnest," she the old woman to her senses." What would you have would "Very likely. going ha lands of extensive as possession me do?" she went on Ironically. "Go let her rail and fume and lecture your mother In every Them two fellers that come up on And, ay, that cried hotly. "This Is for good and all, The Strikers has Inherited. to him and beg him to be merciful? much as she liked, there was nothing reminds me. Unless I am very much and you make me furious when you the boat today. Air you sure you c'n " bought their farm of Ken's fahim to for She be worried about runs to his a ther and mortgage Or, if it comes to the worst, hire some would mistaken, I think I'll soon have a way talk like that. I am doing my best to "That's all for tonight," Interrupted father's widow the Rachel Caralways come round like a lamb to bring your mother to time. She be kind and considerate, so you'd bet one to assassinate him?" and strode off up the street Barry, ter. A beautiful nineteen-year-ol- d when she was his for keeps he won't " and ter be careful, Barry Lapelle, not to leaving Jasper Suggs, sometime Simon . "I am not thinking of your peace of girl, who says she knew his would out nonsense a the take lot of ' He brought himself up with a Jerk, say too much." father well and refuses to give mind. I am thinking of Viola's. We Braley of the loathsome Girty stock, of her I her name, is visiting the Strikers. He looked Into her flaming eyes for a to wend his lonely way out Into a that bis loose tongue was have to her and realizing I, you spare agreed, With few the Ken is much Interested In her. passengers exceptions the knowledge of " running away with his wits. She was monent and then muttered slowly. silence as black as the depths of hla In the morning the girl Is gone. on board the Revere were stranger looking at him with startled, inquiring wonderingly: 'By heaven, Viola, I beown benighted soul. Striker tells Ken she was plan"Quite true," Bhe Interrupted. "Tou fortune-seekers rovers, lieve you do mean it You you are ning to elope with Barry LapeLle eyes. I and have there but upon that, agreed and and from the East and her mother came in the night a. "What do you mean by that Bnrry actually throwing me over?" It ends. We cannot Include the rest Southprospectors For some time Viola had been come to this re and took her home. As Ken goes "I can't help It Barry," she Insisted. and he was quick she asked, Lapelle?" of the world. Chance sends this man, gion of oil his wCy Striker tells him: at the fence, her elbows on to stay, per to standing perhaps promlset manhas In know what her detect the uneasiness "Something I don't "That girl was Viola Qwyn an' whoever he may be, to this country. the rail, to on. or La top gazing pensively at the Three four pass haps handA come over me. Can you Imagine any she's your ner. I must likewise depend upon chance In Kenny's window. She had been light men, home after a trip down fayette some, dashing young fellow rides He affected a grin of derision. "I'm thing more horrible than to be married to escape the harm he may be in a the himself as considerably shaken and distressed by river, crowded their way ashore, 'up and Introduces Isaac Stain, a position to do me. Is It not possible to be greeted by anxious wives. The going .to put my case in the hands of to a woman who who didn't love the unpleasant experience of the Barry Lapelle. bara Ken the message you?" Gwynne, rising young farmer, gives that he may have left before I came were more leisurely in their Kenny from Viola to call. At Lafayette rister. With him on our side, my "Yes," he snapped, "I can. It s worse there to live? That chance remains, Strangers movements. ashore dear, I Ken finds that the will divides They straggled time. to a thousand times over not to be mar her we'll guess bring doesn't it?" an extensive property between with their nondescript possessions and If he thinks It's all to to the girl you love and to see ried for you right Ken and Rachel Qwyn. Viola la "Yes," he admitted. "It is possible, ambled off between two batteries of not mentioned, but has decided marry me, I guess that will end the her married to some one eUe. That can him. tell about you something One of these frank, appraising eyes. 1 not to contest. Ken calls at h L do you under He Is related to Simon Girty, and he individuals was a tall, swart bearded matter. He's the head of the family, would be h ones, rv-- k JWw Viola's home and finds Rachel Instand?" isn't he?" was a renegade who fought with the fellow with black, stead of Viola. Rachel tells him and a eyes shifty him. a She drew This hastily conceived explanation little away from that Viola Is really Minda Carter, Indians up north during the war. Does scowling brow. His baggage consisted But not the h 1 It would be for me of his luckless remark succeeded In though she does not know it, and that Iden throw his upon any a light across his of buckskin sack own slung ner and her daughter's puts her. She stared at him In when I found out too late. Won't tity?" shoulder and a small bundle which he deceiving future In his hands. Ken says distress. " you understand, Barry? Can't you see He says his name is Suggs?" she carried under his arm. He he does not make war on women. appeared can't how terrible It would be?" "Oh, you you Ken and Viola meet and quarrel. Barry, surely Inquired. to have no acquaintances among the be Rachel tells Viola she will disSay, when did you get this Idea Into thinking of asking Kenneth to In He was rewarded by sharp catch voyagers. inherit her if she marries La" tercede head?' he demanded harshly. your in her of breath and passing flicker Ken realizes he loves "You don't know how happy this pelle. "What put It there? Is Is there some Why not? He doesn't see any rea her eyes. Viola. Stain tells Ken of "FT. f r exclaimed makes me, Jt'7 Viola," Lapelle son we shouldn't be married, my one else?" plan to abduct Viola. Ken "Jasper Suggs." as be clasped the girl's hand In his. dear.whyIn In sets up a home. Viola helps him "You cried know she there so a me told few he Isn't," fnct, She was silent for a moment "I He was devouring her with a bold, and Is charming. Joseph Suggs, dignantly. "Who else could there be? days ago. He " know him," she said calmly. "His consuming gaze. a low character, appears and says "I don't believe It," she cried. Don't be foolish, Barry." name Is Simon Braley. At any rate, be knows Rachel Carter. She reddened. "I told mother I was "You don't?" he exclaimed sharply. "By G d. If some one else has cut there was a connection of Girty's who coming down to meet you," she exme out, I'll I'll " "No, I don't," she repeated. went by that name and who lived plained, visibly embarrassed by the "There Is no one else, I tell you! "Has he been talking to you about CHAPTER XI Continued. down there on the river for a year or stares of those nearby. "I I wanted me?" he demanded, an ugly gleam don't love anybody I swear It." wo. He killed the man he was work to see you the Instant you arrived, into his eyes. ,He eyed her narrowly. "Has Kenny "I could," said the other, "but It ing for and escaped. That was be Shall we walk along slowly flashing He has never said a word against Gwynne anything to do with all this?' wouldn't do any good. She caln't read fore I before I left the place. I chon't Barry. behind the rest?" She started. "Kenny? Why no of you, not one. But I don't believe you er write. Besides, If I was you, I believe he ever dared to go back. So, "What's happened?" he demanded wnen you he tola you that we course not." say wouldn't risk anything like that. It you see, chance favors us again, Ken suspiciously, his brow darkening. ought to get married." She felt her "It would be Just like him to turn might fall Into Hawk's hands, and the neth Gwynne." "Don't be impatient Wait till they cheeks grow hot. fust thing he would do would be to you against me because he thinks I'm "You forget that he will no doubt are a little ahead." I'm a liar, am I?" he snarled. not fit to turn It over to La pell e 'cause Martin reraemlier you as Rachel Carter. He Say, if I find out that he's " 'Gad, It sounds ominous. I thought I I don't believe he ever said it" been sticking his nose Into my affairs, cain't read himself." will also remember that you had a you came down to meet me because she said stubbornly. I'll make It so hot for him brother or "I was only wondering If she could little girl." you love me and were well, glad to Well you're right," he admitted, no brother that he'll wish he'd never find out a little more about this man Let me remind you that I remem see me." after a moment's hesitation. "Not in been born. Walt a minute! I'll tell Suggs, Just when he lived there and ber the murder of John "I am glad to see yon. You didn't so many words. But be did say to you what I think of him while I'm "Stop Where You Are, D n You." ' and all that" Hendricks and that nobody has been expect me to make an exhibition of me that he had told can run saw tell It no and and about lie you you she says. hung for It yet" she said. "My mem"He's purty early afternoon. Somehow she longed myself before all those people, did reason why you shouldn't marry me him as quick as you please. He's Got to be, I reckon. He fell in with ory Is as good as his If It should come you?" to take her troubles to Kenneth, to rid if to. Did wanted ever G you he In tell d that'i the snake you grass, Martin ten er twelve years ago, an' to pass that we are forced to exchange herself of them In the comfort of his face that His "Well, mat?" brightened. Is. He's a conceited, sancti what he there was a price on bis head then. compliments. Thnnk you for the in- sounds better." His mouth went up to be reassured by his approbation, She white-livere" d " remembered only too well the monious, Martin hid Iilm for awhile an' helped formation. Tha sheriff of this county at the corner In its lfhbitual curl. "I'd counsel. Indeed, she - had brotherly aggravating encounter in the thicket she cried, springing to come out of the house animated by a that!" him to git safe away. Like as not is a friend of mt.te. He will be pleased "Stop I was It If all dark now, give possess her feet, white with fury, her eyes sudden Impulse to pay him a brief, surSuggs ain't his real name anyhow. to know that Sltnon Braley, murderer so that I could grub you and squeeze path. "Yes, he did," she replied, lifting her blazing. "You are forgetting yourself, Kenneth was a long time in deciding and renegade, Is In his bailiwick. From reptitious visit ; then to run back home head defiantly. "And," she added, "I Lapelle. Not another word before she was missed by her mother. to speak to Rachel Owyn about the what I know of Sltuon Girty's nephew, the" 'Sh! They will hear you," she hated him for It I hate him more and Barry How dare you speak like that about This man Suggs. He found an opportunity he Is not the kind of man who will be impulse was attended by a singuwhispered, drawing away from him In more every time I think of it He he my brother?" to accost her on the day that the Paul taken alive." delightful sensation of guilt. She larly confusion. was perfectly abominable." He sat staring up a her In a sort of had never been over to see him at Revere came puffing up to the little logHe started. "Yoo mean that you held back until the throng They d d Well, you're you're compli stupefaction. built landing near the ferry. Viola had will send the sheriff out to arrest had moved on a short distance. Then night. In fact It had never occurred mentary," he grated, his face express"How dare you?" she repeated furi to her to do such a thing before. But left the house upon "learning that the him?" ing the utmost bewilderment. ously. boat had turned the bend in the river even as she started forth from the She shook her head. "Not exactly," She walked on for eight or ten paces He found his voice. "You weren two or three miles below town, and had' she replied. "Did you not hear me a strange timidity assailed her. before speaking again. Her head was sticking up for htm this rime last house made no secret of her intention to greet say that Simon Braley would never be It halted her Impetuous footsteps, lowered. she to him. turned Suddenly week," he sneered. "You were hating turned them Irresolutely aside, and led Lapelle when he came ashore. This taken alive?" Barry, let's sit down on that log him like poison. Has the old woman her not to the gate but to the barrier was Gwynne's first intimation that she With that," she turned and walked over there for a few minutes. There had a change of .heart, too? Is she fence. She could not was aware of her lover's plan to re- away, leaving hlra to stare after her explain, eve to Is something I've got to say to you turn by the Paul Revere. He was dis until she entered the kitchen door. He letting him sit in her lap so's she can herself, the queer, and I'm sorry. You must not be angry feed him with a spoon when he's hun tinctly annoyed by the discovery. thnmping of her heart, nor the unitiwas conscious of a sense of horror with me. Von't you come over there gry and " Rachel was In her back yard, feed that began to send a chill through his ng shyness, nor the. ridiculous feellflg with me, and listen to what I have to I wouldn't marry you If you were that It would be Improper for her te lng the chickens, when he came up to veins. tell you?" the only man In the world, Barry La be alone with him at night. the fence and waited for her to look In He hung back for a moment, his In pelle," said she, her voice low with his direction. All week In fact, ever CHAPTER XII Suddenly she decided ; and, wlthont tuition grasping at something vague passion. since he had come up there to live lie thought of her garments, scrambled and yet strangely definite. She whirled and walked rapidly hastily over the fence. Just as ber had been uncomfortably conscious at Landing of the Paul Revere. "You you are going to tell me it's away from him, her head In the air, feet touched the The Paul Revere tied up at the peering eyes behind the curtains In the ground the front doof all over between us, Viola?" he ven her hands clenched. Leaping to his of Kenneth's bouse flew open and parlor window. Time and again he landing shortly after two o'clock The tured, going white to the lips. He was feet, he started after her, calling: bad observed a slight flutter when he usual crowd of onlookers thronged the figure, briefly revealed by the light as sober now as though he had never chanced to glance that way, as of a bnnk, attention being temporarily dl "Walt a minute, Viola I Can't you from within, rushed out Into the yard touched liquor In his life. udden release of the curtains held verted from an Important game of see I'm almost out of my head over and was swallowed up by tLe dark"Come and sit down," she said gen what She heard the rush f feet Oh, well, go It ! I'm ness. lightly apart by one who furtively "horseshoes" that was taking place In you've tly, even compassionately. watched from within. On the other the sugar grove below Trentmun's not going to crawl after you ! But let through the weeds and shrubbery. He sat down beside her and waited me tell you one thing, my girl. You'll They halted abruptly, and thenf hand, she never so much as looked to-- , shanty. for her to speak, and as she remained be talking out of the other side of your ward his house when she was out In was horseshoes the "Stop where you are, d n you I I've dally Pitching speechless, evidently in distress, his mouth before you're much older. You'll got you covered and, so help me Sod, her own yard or while passing by on pastime of the male pop lips curled In a smile of reviving conbe down on your knees " the road. I'll put a bullet through " ulation of the town. At one time or fidence. He watched the quick rise and "Don't you follow me another step I" She turned at last and saw him another during the course of the day, "Kenny! Kenny!" she cried out fall of her bosom, exulting In her diffi- she cried over her shoulder. "It's I Viola I" standing there. practically every man In the place culty. There was a moment's silence. He was not more than two yards be "May I have a word with you?" he came down to the grove to shy horse At Inst she spoke, not tremulously as hind her when she uttered this wither"My God! You? Viola?" came In aid. shoes at the stationary but amazingly he had expected, but with a firmness ing command. He stopped short horrified tones from the suppressed, She did not move nor did she speak elusive pegs. It was not an uncomthat boded 111 for his composure. of a way to darkness. "Drop down drop to the for many seconds, but stood staring mon thing for a merchant to close his 'Well, this Is a h Barry," she began, still staring treat a gentleman!" be shouted, hoarse ground They may begin Bring at me. hard at him from the shade of her deep pi hi of business for an hour or so In You" order to keep an engagement to pitch straight ahead, "I don't know Just how with fury. black bonnet. "I Don't Believe He Ever 8aid It" to begin. It is awfully hard to to say d "Firing at you?" she cried, shakily. "What Is It you want, Kenneth horseshoes with some "What on earth are you talking about? CHAPTER XIII she turned upon hlra with adungerous what I feel I must say. Perhaps 1 adveraary. Gwynne?" should have waited till well, till yon There's there's no one here. I am all There were a score of passengers on light In her eyes. "No favor, you may be sure, Rachel were home for a little while, before alone." Revelations. "And Paul In the she more." board thein what's said Revere, among Carter, "Do as 1 tell you !" he called out Shortly after dark that evening the She seemed to wlnoe a little. After Barry Lapelle. He kept well In the low voice, "I don't like to hear you doing what I have made up my mind ruay such things. They sound so cheap to do: But I thought It right to have tall, swarthy man who had come Bp sharply. "There is a pack of moment's hesitation, she walked rear of the motley throng of voyagers, It over with as noon as possible." on the Paul Revere sauntered slowly ffians" I low an fuced and and and to figure, over the fence elegant, lordly Barry. approached vulgar, lowly She paused for a moment and then up and down that part f Main street "Pack your granny!" she cried, with only In sartorial distinction by the "Oh, you're always Jumping on me him. a shrill laugh. "I tell yo I am alone." resolutely faced him. He saw the pain faring the courthouse. gambler, Sylvester Hornaday, for" snylng the things I really feel,1 "Well?" she said curtly As he came quickly toward her sh Barry Lapelle came out of a tavern "Do you remember a man at home who likewise held himself sardonically he broke In.' "You're my girl, aren' In her dark, troubled eyes, and the aloof from the common horde, occupy- youT Why shouldn't I tell you how shadow of an appealing smile on her at the stroke of eight and walked east- shrank back, seized by a strange. Innamed Jasper Suggs?" few paces. The swarthy man explicable panic. For a few seconds ward "Art you speaking of my old home In ing a position well forward, where. It I feel? What's vulgar about my tell Hps. His face hardened. "I cannot marry you, Barry. I I approached slowly, unconcernedly. He he stood looking down at her, breathmight aptly be said, he ?ould count his fug you I want to hold ybu In my Salem or of of another place? don't love you .as I should. I thought accosted Lapelle, Inquiring: arms and kiss you? Why, I don ing sharply. She heard something "The nlace where I was born," he sheep as they straggled ashore. "Is that the tavern, mister?" From afar Barry had recognized think of anything else, day or night. I did, but but well, that' all. I drop at his feet, and then both his Id, succinctly. "Yes," replied Barry, needlessly bands gripped ber shoulders, drawing know wht has happened to "I have never heard the name be Viola standing among the people at And what do I get? You put me off-- yes, don't me see things so differently, but pointing down the street. "Well?" her roughly up to him. the top of the hunk, and his eager, you do bringing up some silly make fore," she said. "Why do you skr "It's her," snld the stranger. "I had not It la I know now that I was had left whatever Is It her. what about about pronotion She, In gaze hungry man this "There Is neighbor oh, bo terribly mistaken. I a good look at her 'long about Ave hood rascal, I am told who says too, had caught sight of him long be priety! Good Lord. Viola, that' go mistaken "Who are youf You are not fore the boat was near the landing. ing back to the days of the Puritan know I am hurting you, Barry, and o'clock from the woods across from he lived there twenty years ago, heap sight older, my brother." whoever they were. It's not right-- It's you have a right to despise me. 1 I her house. She's She eyed him narrowly. "Well, go She waved her kerchief, He lifted his hat and blew not natural. Viola, Teople who somehow hope you will because I de but I knowed her ill right" kiss to on I What has he to say about me?' "You are sure?" serve it" A ran In Jove with each other Jus of exultation thrill her. re I I have know. through as really so far "Nothing, ' (TO B8 CONTINUED. "Course I'm sure. She wa Owen He smiled Indulgently. "I hope you not talked with htm. It came to me In him. He had not expected her to simply can't help kissing and "I guess you were right when yon don't think I am taking this' seriously. Carter's widder. He was kIMt by roundabout way. He Is staying with meet him at the landing, tier mere Vicarious Piety, This Isn't the first time I've heard tree fallin' on him. Oh, 1 got a good presence there was evidence of a de- said you were not expecting me dow man named Hawk, down near th I can't afford to have a bad Husband (donning golf rig) "Aren't memory. "Wea, 1 have been told that he would termination to defy not only her moth to meet the boat, Barry," she Inter yon take on like" one. I remember her as plain as If It yon going to church this morning?" 'Bnt I mean It this time, Barry like to see daguerreotype of my fa er out also to brave the storm of gos rupted, looking tralght before her, "I 1 she do to and cried. was bound wui yestldny. She's the woman that Wife "No; I'm not feeling well." Hu attend how this tell honestly," didn't that "Well, truly sure you pub sip happy ther some time. Just to make run off with Bob Owynne, There ain'l band "Then call a mmiaenger boy and hot and know cold with I've of on her demonstration It lie made p4syed mr loyalty whether he the Owynne he used cod him. The family most be be how "If yon had thought there was any yea and that' Just the point It no doubt about It. Everybody knowed Dart, for none knew so well to know." Xtaaacrinb -srTs that 1 never really cared for it. lie left hla wife an' a little boy Ha he erat aeen you. Kenneth I the tosMsspeople looked opou their at-- chance of me cetnlat down te aaae yon, you wouldn't have taken so much to drink," she went on, a little catch you In to" laud-buyer- s, d half-sister- ." .' iia vuuw rv papas! d close-mouthe- d . 111 fair-weath- 1 1 time-honore- far-fame- |
