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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- Sylvia' of ttie IMinute By HELEN R. MARTIN CHAPTER I He did not know whether to be toore amused or Irritated at her temerity, not to say Impudence, In keeping him waiting. lie glanced at his wrist watch. Ten minutes past the time for their rendezvous and he hart been here five minutes ahead of time. Waiting fifteen minutes for a common little Pennsylvania Dutch girl I t Really, she must be taught better, lie would have to give her a lesson. Hitherto It had been he who had kept her waiting here at their tryst-lnplace. Deliberately. To keep her In her place. Lest she get It Into her head that he wanted to marry her! Any girl might expect anything these days all social barriers falling, no lines drawn She was not, as yet, spoiled. She had never presumed to resent his keeping her waiting. Regarded him with awe. Demure little thing she was He considered how he should impress upon her the seriousness of the fact that she had displeased him. Go home and not be here when she did finally get here after walking three miles to meet him? No, he couldn't be quite so ruthless as that. Anyway, she would just think he had failed to keep their rendezvous and would not know he had been here and had gone way again. Leave a note pinned to the tree? Not safe. Even if he did not sign his name. Commit yourself to writing and you're apt to have a lawsuit for damages or "heart balm" on your hands. Above all things he must avoid a scandal Just now especially on the eve of becoming engaged Well, one thing .was certain, she must not know he had been so eager as to have gotten here ages ahead of her and so forbearing as to have waited all this time. He'd hide and not appear until after she arrived. Picking his way to avoid mud, he descended the hill on the slope opposite the one she would ascend. He found himself surprised that he should be taking all this trouble for n little country girl. Unprecedented In his experience. Never, even for one of his own class, had he put himself out and he was nothing If not a stickler for "class" In these days of falling barriers. First time In his life he had ever been so Inred by a girl A. Pennsylvania of low breeding. Dutch farmer's daughter who talked the lingo heavens! How on earth was It that he. usually too pernickety-nice- , he admitted It, found the vulgar little thing so Irresistible? Ah, but the fact was she wasn't vulgar, really; only unsophisticated. It she were inherently vulgar, the gnm chewing type, he would not be here. No, not for all the seduction of that white throat so tantalizlngly exposed when she bent back her head and laughed: and that unutterable sweet ness of her lips; and the dazzling whiteness and evenness of her teeth: and that musical little gurgle when anything amused her. (And such tin expected things did amuse her, like . his correcting her English and her manners.) She puzzled him a little; had from the first; he did not "get" her exactly; something there was about her it could not be subtlety, she was too simple. P.ut he vaguely sensed that she was not quite so simple as she seemed; vaguely distrusted her; she did, sometimes, with an Innocence that was almost suspiciously stupid, say such pointed things; things that did prick beneath the skin a little. Youthfully priding himself upon his extreme modernism, and upon being a disciple of French decadent critics of art and life, be believed that he. In common with all the new generation who did any thinking, had rejected all religion. But the truth was thai In the face of the wrecknge of faiths all over the landscape, he did most tenaciously and devoutly cling to the faith of his fathers their deeply religious faith in the respectability of the Crelghton family and Its divine right to special prerogatives the pre roga tivea naturally Inherent In own g rs of anthracite coal mines. St. Croix Crelghton was glad that he looked much more like a man of letters than a man of business. He cultivated that "literary" look he thought he had; and he did have a good deal to go on clear-cu- t fentures, cold, thoughtful eyes, a rather Byronle head. Had be not been so well placed In life as always to command considers tlon, he would hardly have "got by" so smoothly as he did with his little assumptions of superiority and hi little affectations, p.nt as no one of his world hud ever had the temerity to consider him ridiculous, he did not know he whs. To be sure, there was his elder brother, Marvin, who some times waxed sarcastic at his expense hut Marvin. In the Judgment of his own class, was not a person to be taken' seriously, for the obvious red son that he did not take himself nor his great position In the world nor yet the Crelghton family Itself seriously All this Is, however, digressing we have left our young gentleman Standing uncomfortably and perilously on the muddy slope of a hill, inking li, the view. Ills liiize sought out In the distance the rerl brick farmhouse down In the ml lt of Hatn SrhwenrMon's pros perous acres the home of the girl fur whom he watted; Its ugliness softened Did she. he wondered by distance. feel Its ugliness? He had tried once to rouse her to some enthnslnsm over this wonderful view from the hilltop si-- t gered him. A little hussy like that, a peasant girl, play fast and loose with him, causing him sleepless nights, hungry yearnings to see her again and hold her. fresh and fragrant young beauty that she was, In his arms again, as he had ecstatically done at Copyright by Dodd, Mead A Co. WNU Service and all he had been able to elicit from her had been, "The Ves, It's nice." A "nice" view I So of course, far from feeling the ugliness of her father's farmhouse, she was probably proud of Its fresh paint and o generally aspect. From where he stood St. Croix could plainly see, five miles to the right of the Schwencktons' farm, his own vee-you- well-to-d- home, rising from a hilltop, overlooking a wide area: t lie Imposing estate. "Beechlands," that for two generations had been the home of the powerful Crelghton family, visible from all points of the compass for many miles. And In the valley at the foot of thelt hill clustered the monotonous rows ol ugly little houses In which the men and children lived who worked In the Crelghton coal mines, creating the wealth which maintained the mansion the barn dance! P.ut the trouble, hud been that he did not know where she lived nor even her name. So sure had he been that he would hear from her In a day or two that he had not taken the trouble to ascertain these unimportant facts about her. It had been only when, quite beaten, he had been about to give in and try to discover her that he had received from her a funny, crude little note. What sport he had at his cltjb showing It around for the enjoyment of his fellow club members! "Since you are the only Gentleman Frond I 'got flint's a purfect Gentleman In whom I feel I know well enough! to ask for such a favur. dear. I en nsi.lng you. now, to keep com kj.imj won nit? mm ut? my o i u.y uaie. PVjhnt was a month ago and' he had been seeing her several times a week, furtively, ever since; his "rldtculous Infatuation." as he scornfully called It to himself, growing more Irresistible with each meeting. As he reached the top of the hill he was greatly relieved (and thrilled) to see her sitting there under the tree which was their appointed meeting . , place. At sight of him she threw away the apple she had been eating with greedy abandon, drew the back of her hand across her mouth and hastily rose. His peculiar sort of egotism derived an almost sensual pleasure from this girl's worshipful hearing toward him, from her timid admiration of everything nbout him, which she so help lessly betrayed of his modish clothes, his finely shaped white hands, his cultivated speech, even his faintly supercilious and autocratic attitude toward herself. She came toward him. Just now, shyly, rubbing her soiled right hand on her hip before offering It to him. But he waved It off, and resisting, with a strong the tenderness as well as the desire to which she powerfully moved him. he looked down upon her severely us she stood before him. "Go and sit down again." She obeyed him like a child, her St. Croix Crelghton Was Glad That He Lqoked Much More a Man of soft brown eyes fixed upon his face with a doglike anxious uncertainty Letters Than a Man of Business. ; that acted on his passion for domion the hilltop, and at the same time, nance like a titillating stimulant. under a wise and beneficent Providence, She wore a cheap, dressy frock of earning their own subsistence, blue voile trimmed with tawdrymtfelte hare and joyless such was Nalace, a bunch of artificial flowers on ture's divinely ordained plan, the one shoulder, streamers of flimsy blue Crelghtons had alwi:ys reverently and ribbon nl the waist. no believed, devoutly aid religious He frowned at the slovenly way she believers had ever liv. d up to a creed sat and she quickly straightened up. more faithfully and consistently. pulled her skirt over her knees and Our young heir to the great Crelghtried to look prim. ton estate, as he started on his way Spreading his handkerchief on a back to the appointed meeting place, flat rock a few feet in front of her decided that If Meely (that was her he sat down, clasped his shapely silly name "Meely") were nof there hands about his knees and silently, this time he would certainly go home. She "And.' he told himself as be lit a disapprovingly. Inspecteda her. tentabecame making timid, uneasy, cigarette and began his second ascent tive movement to come closer to him. of the hill, "If 1 do go home without as eager as he was (though seeing her, she'll surely pay the piper! evidently less controlled) to begin their "pet if I don't decide to drop her altoting party," as she most vulgarly gether!" called it P.ut again he waved her on. He had an uneasy suspicion that "Not yet," he said curtly. He althis latter course would not hurt her ways held her off In suspense like nearly so much as It would fret him this for a little while, partly to Im though It had been she that had made press her with a proper sense of hei the first advances In their Intimacy; at a barn dance In the neighborhood inferiority, partly to prolong the stimulating contemplation of her charms of his home: outraging the rural conand of her subservience, so that when ventions In her determination to athe did presently permit her to come tract his attention by boldly executto him, the nearness of her beauty a solo down dunce the length of would be nil the more ing thrilling the barn, stopping before him with a She relaxed against the tree, her deep curtsey and holding out her pretty bend drooping, an adorably lovely arms in Invitation after which childish pout on her red lips. "I'm he had danced with no one else during sure I don't know what I done I" she the remainder of the evening. said In an Injured tone, on the verge She had tried that evening to pin of tears. him down to a date for their next "Did. Say did." meeting, but though he hud fully In "What I've did," she meekly retended to meet her again, he had kept peated. her In suspense ; not only for that eve "Ob!" he sighed, "you hopeless nlng, but for two weeks following child ! Didn't they teach you any EngUncertainty that was the weapon for lish grammar at the district school winning and holding a girl. down there?" with an Inclination of He had confidently expected her to bis bead toward the valley. I1I1.1 out. P.ut when a whole to seek try "Well, you see. till I was twelf week had passed without H sign from old u'ready. Pop he wouldn't do years her. he had begun to grow restless. It to leave me go to school no more. Each succeeding day and night thai So I ain't Just so good educated that he waited grew longer. Intolerably like you. Mr. Crelghton. You're way, he and had longer, finally realized, got an awful nice education ain't you with an Ironical amusement at his hnve? And." she added, drawing a own expense, that all the "uncer breath, "you become your clo'es talnty" he had meant to intllct upon deep her. he himself was enduring with a so! Acb!" She was given to lumping unrelated facts In this way. that astonished und an poignancy (TO US CONTINUED Mmim t, bow-eve- r ) "Star-Spangle- d Banner" Finished in Rowboat The Inst lines of "1 he Banner" were written in a by Francis Scott Key and were not penned In the hold of a prison ship as the old school books taught. Lcvemlary history was that Key was a prisoner of war while watching the British bombardment of Baltimore and Fort Mcllenry during the- war of 1M2. The correct story has been brought to light by the Wonirms Home Companion, which shows that Key was permitted to go to the Brltlh flagship under a truce slk'iial to obtain the release of a friend who had been tuketi prisoner, and arrived Just bs the enemy was ready to fiin-lire. The young poet developed his verses during the anxiety of the night, but It was while returning to shore iu a row-boa- t - small boat the following morning that lie wrote exultantly " "ris the Banner. Oh long may it wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave." S;ar-Spangl- Cot Through, All Right Recently there vislled In this clt) a genlune old Georgia "cracker" from the outlying plticy woods section of that state. .While here be attended for the first time in his life an EpisLater he recopal church service. marked to n friend : "It was all as Intercstln' ns a 'possum hunt. I never did know much o' what all the folks about tne w as a but I Jest kept my wits about m an' fell on' rlz with 'em every time." Boston Globe. do-iu- ', Friday, TWm'er NEPHI. UTAH S. BETWEEN THIEVES W, j; E.Cl n PERKS'fllrJ bUALBERT o News Notes It't a Privilege MaATINS mmc to Livm in Utah ABEZ GOItM was a bard nut to crack and proud of it Nobody realized It more than the group of hard men who sat around a table wIUSTMAS AnTF4 Jafcbed his knife Into- tho block, folded the aproa gjpgerly, and Jammed It f jgto a hamper in the back room. He sighed. "By Goy! The first time I've had even to hink ! Dread 'em every year. Tomorrow's Christmas." He Something about the of his mouth was (jroci'ing half-snepa hetic. A brindle and white mongrel paused for a moment In his excited search-fo- r scraps, eyed his companion quizzically, and returned resolutely to his m Sk SALT LAKE Mild weather and precipitation was general 'lough comparatively light, in southern and eastern portions of the state, according to the weekly weather, crop and range report from the offices of J. Cecil Alter, government weather observer, for the week ending November 30. BRIGHAM CITY The Brigham City sugar factory of the Utah-IdahSugar company has finished its campaign for this year, the big mill having been in operation for more than forty-fivdays. The campaign was a most successful one this year, according to Superintendent A. C. Pearson, and dnrincr thA fortv-fivdav run more than 46,500 tons of beets were sliced The men are now busily engaged itj cleaning up the factory and finishing up the adds and ends of the campaign. Approximately 200 men have been employed at the factory during the period, with an additional 100 men working at the beet dumps. OGDEN Indications are that more than 400 students of college grade will enroll at Weber college for the winter quarter when registration for this d'ork begins, it was stated by President Aaron W. Tracy. Final examina tions for the fall quarters will be held soon. Instruction for the. winter quarter will begin the morning of December 6. PROVO Decision to refrain from further consideration to launch a new hospital in Provo for the present was reached at a meeting of representative citizens. The consensus of opinion was that the financial burden was too much for Provo City to undertake at this time, without help from the county authorities. BRIGHAM CITY The local sugat factory si Just completing a forty-fivday campaign, during which time more than 46,500 tons of beets were sliced. The campaign was a success and from the 3680 acres planted to beets In the Brigham sugar factory district an average of more than thirteen tons per acre was harvested. MURRAY For the second timo within two weeks Salt Lake City and its immediate environs received tha with him, comfortable In their armchairs, warm with the heat of steam radiators and plenty of coal, and little Interested in those who could not pay for protection against the bitter late December cold. "I guess he could pull through if we nursed hi in a. bit," one of the group was remarking, "lie's young, and enHis organization's good. thusiastic. Never let himself get cornered like this before. Sure will be a lesson to o e him." "Nurse him long enough, he'll get Into the wholesale line and Increase competition. Aren't there enough of us already?" It was Jahez Gorm who e spoke. "If you don't encourage the good ones a bit, you're apt to get all the more bad ones." A bard voice from a hard face was speaking on the other side of the table. "Ever seen a good onejtbeui he's selling against you?" Jahez countered "Klnda hard to hammer a fellow the first time he's up against it," a rather kindlier voice broke In. "Harder he's hammered the tougher he'll get That's how I got toughened," said another. On nnd on the debate went. Figures were tabled, now much the debtor owed ; how much he was likely to produce In bankruptcy ; how much the dividend would be; whether it would pay better to take 50 per cent and get rid of a potential rival, or get 75 and let him start again with a clean sheet, or give him lots of time to pay in full. On and on they argued. The snow cluttered up the window and deafened the outside sounds of happiness and good cheer, of hasten- - beet-cuttin- e fit 'mm EIK greatest amount of precipitation ol any locality in a storm area generally covering the northern states. Precipitation for the past twenty-fou- r hours up to 9 o'clock Tuesday morning of last week totalled .85 of an inch, as computed by J. Cecil Alter, United States meteorologist. IIEBKI CITY Seven inches of new snow ft.Il on the city watershed at Biighton on Sunday and Sunday night inches "Look, Daddy, What Santa Claus Left making a total of twenty-eigh- t of snow on the ground, according to for Me!" information received at the water Ing feet, of shivering limbs, of arms works department Monday. flapping to keep hungry and BRIGHAM CITY While at Clifton bodies warm. Idaho. Robert II. Stewart, county agAnd the argument went on. ricultural agent, of this city, and Ralph Cheerful greetings, happy salutaRichards of Riverside purchased tions, heartfelt good wishes were ex- twelve head of cows and heifers and changed right and lft In the street one young bull from the purebred below; but in an upper room of the dairy farm of James Skelley There big hotel the hard-facegroup argued is perhaps no herd in the entire west on and heard nothing. which shows breeding back to the ex"Well, look, fellows, we can't stay traordinary foundation of the United all night-- I gotta take the train to- States more than this herd, according night. All packed up an' everything. to Mr. Stewart. OGDEN Going to play golf In Florida over the Highest price ever paid al holidays. Gotta get this thing over the Ogden Union stockyards for bulla was recorded recently, coming after a quick or I miss that train." "Lucky dog. I can't afford to play succession of records for high prices B. Child, oi golf In Florida." This from Jabez in the steer market. Gorm. "Neither can I afford to play Clinton, sold an individual good Samaritan to bankrupt young bull for 7, while several animals fools. Let hlin assign and be done weighing from 1250 to 1500 pounds with It." sold for from $6 to 6.25 a hundred The final declslm was so registered, weight. Previous bu'l prices have hov and the creditors' meeting broke up, ered about the price of $5.75. one to fly for a train heading south: MYTON The aftermath of the re some to Join hilarious parties In the cent flood when the Farnsworth dam banquet halls of the hotel; Jahez i broke recently reveals the fact thai Gorm to return to a big. there will be a heavy loss to the house In which many servants had farmers who constructed It. The lost to the Uintah Power and Light comprepnred with professional elliclency the seasonal decoration, the gifts and pany Is placed at $1900; a storehouse the festal touches that fashion and rilled with tools and supplies was taksocial custom required to be provided en. T. C. Gwyn of Myton, local enfor the children of this very elegant gineer of the Indian irrigation pro house. ect, estimates the loss to the governSeven o'clock next morning. The ment at from $3000 to $5000. To the bells were ringing their annual mes- county the loss will be heavy because sage of pence and good will. A choir of bridges damaged. Ranches along In a little nearby church was singing. ' the course of the flood on the Lake 7iHrlle Gnrm. "Noel, Noel." five Fork river were damaged and several years old and full of faith In the farmers ""III have a heavy loss. SALT LAKE Estimates by forest things that really matter, was dancing round the paternal bed of the officials show there are 500.000.00C Gorm household. board feet and 3,000.000 cords of as"Look, Daddy, what Santa Claus pen wood on the national forests ol left for me! 'Jf a letter with It an' Utah. This wood is used In the manufacture of excelsior, wood puln. matLook." evvythln'. ches and boxer for butter, cheese and Jabez roused himself and read: "I was denning up your house when chocolate. 1 MYTON Several of th sheepmen snw the kid's stocking hung np and remembered shout Christmas. who range their flocks of sheep In the district and Green Rivet Hate to do anybody a bud turn on Nine-milChristmas Eve. Here's s buck for the conn'y south of Myton have begun to baby's Christmas. l,ook out for your move their sheep in th it localitly fot silver and other some other the winter. Among those already gone are Coleman brothers, Murdock broth nleht." Not so Ions a,ro Jnbex had taken ers. Ray Dillmno and Mr. Lewis Other will utilize this section in the prizes at Sunday school Funny that the only lesson he could near future. think of now was about nnotber fhlef SPANISH FORK Sugar beet ship who repented In time and won the first guaranteed pass through the tnents from Sa't Lake and Utah coun ties have almost d .ubled, thus far th s pearly irate of heaven. Jabez Gorm would have glen a season, hist year's production, accordband to cull that meeting back. ing to word from J. A. Anderson, g"n But they were g..ne their several cal trafho man. iter for the S.iH Lake A total of 1700 can Not months could they all & Utah railro-.idways. of beets has been moved to date, while be got together sua In The church bells pealed onre more. last year's crop v ai easily accommoTo Jcbez Gorm they swmcd to stng. dated in load cars. It Is expected thai r.oo cars will be delivered "Too late, too bite, too late, too an nddll:nal Idaho Utah to the plants at West Jor Into a0 dan. Spanish Fork, Map'etoa 1927. WMtwi Unlom.) Nwitpr SprlngvilU my 9 1927 1 1010-poun- stern-lookin- J ; c shrugged-deprcrfatln'- snifling. "Turkeys and ducks and chickens, s all they think of. Now and theft bacon or ham. I used to think Christmas was different" The young man rolled down his sleeves and reached for his coat "Even she " his bitterness deepened, "with everything. Fifteen-pounturkey I Lord I I wonder what she'd think if she knew how 1 feel. More than likely doesn't know I'm alive, andl-m- e falling all over myself to save best cuts for her I Oh well, come on. d Spud !" Spud crunched a meat scrap reluctantly. "All right Finish that. No hurry." Martin strolled to the window and gazed out at the other festive shop displays. "Christmas 's Just a day people take off to eat and give presents In. and if yon don't know anybody and room out there's nothing to it" "One thing. Spud!" Martin's vole brightened. Spud wagged a responsive tail without looking up. "In two months we'll have the mortgage paid off this Joint Gad, it's been a pull getting started into business. Ten long, long months to save two hundred dollars. Outside a light snow was falling. Late shoppers, hurrying along, laden with bundles, scarcely glanced at the 1 ml mbm tall young philosopher who, followed by a heterogeneous dog, strolled homeward. The excluding gayety of Christmas Eve laughter arid brightly lighted houses intensified Martin's loneliness. He passed the house where she lived and strained his eyes for a glimpse of her. In fancy, he told her about Spud, the market, and even hinted of his love for her. From down the street a group of chil- dren carolled "Silent Night." Martin crililcl Kfftot-lt- , lla tut hrwl H. . that story of the birth of a Christ child, once. A "prof at college had refuted it. Too bad. Pretty story. She had come to the window now to listen. How lovely she D n! The carol bad broken off Into terrified screams. A car sped away. Martin found frightened children shivering over the writhing form of a boy. Martin carried h'm to the light, ft was the fellow w!k bought bits of liver and now and then a scrawny soup bone. . The girl niu-have seen the accident for she had come out and was saying that she had called an ambulance. They both rode through the crunching snow to the hospital and waited silently. "Not as bad as we had feared," the doctor finally announced. "Sad case, though. Little fellow Is moaning now about who'll take care of his mother. Rent not paid, he says. Seems he's been earning all they've bad. When I told hlra he might be here three months well, I never saw a kid so i down-hearted.- " Martin hesitated. "I've got two hundred dollars," he heard himself saying. "If that would do the kid and his mother." He had a fleeting deserate picture of another ten months of saving and stalling off the second mortgage. He walked home with the girl. Her name was Mary. A regular Christmas name, he said. She smiled. "That was a beautiful thing to do, Mr. Bowman." she told him. "Did you notice the peace and happiness In that little fellow's face after the doctor bad told him? Mr. Bowmnn. I " e valu-ilne- fr ..." (. she hesitated, "I Oon't suppose you'd care to, but I we'd like to huve you eat Chrlstmns dinner with us. I went up this aftern sn to asl, you, but yon were entirely too busy to notico me and " "Too busy to notice yon !" Martin gasped. "I thought you'd never noticed me!" Spin) bad been waiting. Ills sleepy as he a:ise from th. doorstep wn scarcely noticed. The song of the Utile Injured caroler wns running through Martli 's mind nod h cynical philosophy. "It was a silent night like this," he :ild. Thoughtfully, be looked up. In the east, one star seemed larger than the others. 1(3. 197. WmIvs Nwpapar Union.) t |
