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Show r PAGE TWO THg 1 1 lOL mute 'JDODD.COPYRIGHT MEAD AND Helen RMartin Continued 1S ll-vin- e it" low-dow- n stand-offishne- ffair" "Meanln' It ain't none of my affairs? Well, but It's the affair of your wife, anyhow, whether you have any such grand hours " "My dear, we won't discuss my possible wife!" "I'd feel awful sorry," said Meely, slowly shaking her head, "for your wife, Mr. Crelghton." He laughed uneasily. "Judging by the way I'm pursued by marriageable girls. Meely, your view of me as a husband can't possibly be the one generally held by many ladles of high degree ! Tou don't know your luck, my g'rl !" "Yes, well, but them 'ladles of high degree' run after you to marry you. You ain't astin' me to marry you." "I'm offering you a love such as I hall probably never feel for the glrf I marry ! Oh, Meely !" He reached for her hand, but she drew It away. "Meely ! You'll lose me, you know. If you keep this up! You can't keep me dangling forever, you know !" The words, "keep me dangling," startled his own ears, so ridiculous was the Idea of a girl such as Meely keeping him "dangling"! "If you do lose me, you'll only have yourself to thank!" "What would I be losln' In losln' you?" she asked as one humbly seek- ing Information. "You'd be losing happiness, wouldn't you. my dear?" "Happiness ! Would I keep happiness and you by doing what you want? It's put out that you're going to marry your cousin a grand lady with such a title or what. After you've got her, where would I come In?" Ah, thought St. Croix, light dawning on Ms troubled mind, so It was that that was holding her back ! she had heard of his betrothal and was jealous ! "I give you my word, Meely, that I am not as yet engaged." "I heard you was." she repeated stubbornly. "What would that cousin think of you If she knowed about me?" "That need not worry you!" "Oh. needn't it !" "Why should It? I have not seen this couxin since we were both childrenand I am not definitely betrothed to her." "But you're plannln' to be." "Well, surely, my dear girl. It will hurt you far less If I marry some one I don't love some one I don't really know a person I've not seen since she was a homely little kid!" " I" exclaim! Meely indignantly. and tiwbetd-"Yes, and pigeon-toeI You'll not be and freckle-face- d hurt by my marriage," he exclaimed fervently, "yon beautiful thing!" "Yes. well, but how about hurtln' her! When yoa even love another oe "She'll be doing the same thing, probably!" he defended himself. "It's family arrangement," he anpurely swered, frowning Impatiently at being farced Into a dixcusslon of his personal affairs; to his peculiar Ideas of fltness It was a desecration to even e much as name his cousin his future wife, no doubt to girl like Meely Schwenckton. "Are yoa so sure shell be wlllln' marry yoa without lovln you and wttfcont your lovln' her?" Meely asked veoderlngly. Kothlng could hare been more dis bow-legge- gaze whin he was about to get Into his car, parked near the schoolhouse, did not decrease his mental confusion, nor serve to soothe his rasped, nerves and outraged vanity. Marvin Crelghton, approaching 1'enn schoolhouse at half-pas- t five that afternoon, on his way to his temporary home at Absalom Puntz' cottage, noticed on the road far ahead of him a slim girlish figure In a long loose coat, hurrying along the highway. Though the daylight was fading, her carriage of herself and the set of her clothing were so conspicuously different from that of any country girl one was apt to meet alone on the road at this hour that even In this dimness that hurrying figure was sharply Impressive. Curiosity made ' him quicken his pace to catch up with her. But before he had overtaken her, she had arrived at William Penn schoolhouse, where, to his surprise, she stopped and went In. Then It was, as he had half suspected, half hoped, a little dreaded, Miss Schwenckton ! A few yards before be reached the school he came upon a roadster, parked along the road, which he recThe idea ognized as his brother's. stabbed him that this attractive young teacher and St Croix might be having a rendezvous in the school ! Was St. Croix in there with her now? He was such a philanderer sometimes so unscrupulous the girl ought to be put on her guard. "But darned If I want to be the one to warn her! And If ever a girl seemed capable of looking out for herself, she's It!" In a minute he was at the school-hous- e door. It was slightly ajar; he pushed It open a bit wider and, not entering, glanced In. The sight that met his eye made him draw back preMiss Schwenckton, her cipitately back toward the door, was standing She had on her platform disrobing! already taken off her coat and frock, her white shoulders bared There was no one else In the schoolroom, yet Marvin stumbled back a pace from the door. But though the thought that pierced him made him call himself "a cad," yet as he stood there wondering whether he should knock, he felt cold all over; and even while he hesitated, In what seemed to him an incredibly short time, she suddenly appeared before him In the doorway clad in a Jacket suit and a Jaunty sports hat! He was so taken aback, so utterly confused, that he could not move or speak, but stood as stock-stias the wooden posts of the school Wil-Ha- 16, 1928. MONARCH COOKING DEMONSTRATION At Nephi Store Verna Lindquist to Conduct Cooking Demonstration at 2:00 P. M. at Nephi Store Friday and Saturday March 16 and 17 Be there cooking. Women folks it is an opportunity to learrr some new methods in ! The new cooking: receipts you receive will well be worth your while. Miss Verna Lindquist, expert cook from the factory will surprise you. charge. Everybody welcome. Dixon-Taylor-Russ- MILLIONS Salt op tourist TO MIGRATE DURING 1928 Lake City, March 15. Forty-fo- ur million people, spending three and a half billion dollars, will take vacation motor tours during 1928, according to estimates received by the Utah State Automobile Association, from the A. A. A., which porch. that on unpre-cente- d body prophecies At sight of a man standing motionshare of this motor migraless at her door In the gathering tion will enter the Inter mountain gloom, she cried out in alarm which territory. The estimate is based brought him to himself. upon detailed study of. figures for "Don't be frightened! It's only the past year and allowing" for a your superintendent!" She gave a little gasp of relief. "Only! And of whom, pray, should I be more frightened? though the schoolroom being empty Just now, of eourse you can't bully me Into teaching geography for your entertainment my good luck !" "Going home now?" ll No Co. ell "THE HOUSE" ONE-PRIC- E normal growth ot 10 per cent in 1923. Reports for 1927 show that cars people In 7,250,000 patronized hotels and torist homes. On this basis the total of this class of motorists should soar to 32,000, 000 this year. Figuring 4 persons to a car, and allowing each occupant an expenditure of $7 50 a day, tor an average period of 10 days, the army of motorist patronizing hotels and resorts would spend nearly $2,500,-000,00- 0 in 1928. 00 More than 11,000,000 campers used about 2,750,000 cars, including house cars fitted up for housekeeping and as trailers. This would Justify the estimate that more than 12,000,000 campers will use over 3,000,000 cars to visit the great outdoors this year. The camper spends three times as long away from home as the hotel tourist and on a basis of $3.30 per day, per person, nearly 11,250,000,000 will be left along the gasoline trail by this class of motorist. Jbr Economical Transportation "Yes." "Then" Before He Could Lay a Finger on Her to Stop Her, She Had Turned and Fled. "It's time I got home Pop will be nilssin' me." He sprang up too his face almost purple with the strain of his but the look In her eyes halted him. One step toward her, her eyes said to him, and she would shriek to arouse the countryside. "Meely," he exclaimed huskily, "what do you mean? Why, If you don't love me, have you led me on all these weeks? Why have you come here to meet me? Why? Tel! me that why?" "To find out," she answered In an even lone, "what sort of a man you are. And." she added with a smile that pitied him, "I have found out!" Before he could lay a finger on her to stop her, she had turned and fled. By the time he had recovered from the bewildering shock of her words, her tone, she was far down the hill too far for him to overtake her even If he had not realized, to his stunned amazement, the absolute uselessness of overtaking her. That he bad been repudiated by this girl who for nearly three months had let him treat her contemptuously, had submitted to his bullying, his rudeness, his Irritability, had accepted and returned his lavish caresses! All the way down the hilt and along the highway toward the spot near the school-houswhere today he had parked his car, be stared Incredulously at the amazing fact But a scene that met bis bewildered he took from her hand the and the books she had In her arms "may I walk with you?' When he had locked the school door, he glanced up the road to the waiting car. Its lights had been turned on. Illuminating the road over a wide area, and he saw that his brother, standing In front of his car, was witnessing bis coming out of the school-hous- e with Miss Schwenckton. She, he observed, was viewing with a frank surprise the lighted car and Its owner few rods away. That look of surprise seemed so genuine. It was hard to believe that his own unexpected arrival at the school had foiled a meeting between these two. And yet It would be so like St Croix to seek a furtive love affair with a charming girl like Miss Schwenckton when he'd die before he would openly associate with anyone of a class outside his own! like a parvenu uncertain of his position, rather than Ilka a man born to a secure place In the sun! But that girl of Miss Schwenckton's spirit should accept such cowardly attentions seemed incredible. And this mystery of her changing her clothing In the schoolroom ! As they turned their backs on the car and went on their way, neither of them referred to it though Meely was so absorbed In wondering whether St Croix had recognized her that her sense of Marvin's Interesting companionship was less keen than It would otherwise have been. "Does your work always detain yoa so late as this at your school T" be asked, with subtle guile. She didn't know he had seen her coming along the highway! big door-ke- y Elkswatawa, younger brother of Tecumseh, was largely responsible for the part that great Indian warrior and statesman played In organizing a federation of the red men to op pose the encroachments of the whites. In 1805 Klkswatawa proclaimed himself religious leader and began to arouse the tribes of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois, to the great disturbance ot the settlers. Ills doctrines were not primarily revolutionary, but temperance and total abstinence were tenets, together with reverence for old age and sympathy for the Infirm. He also urged his people to resist Intermarriage and to preserve their own customs and costumes. This being In line with what all Indians bad held a Ideal previous to Caucasian invasion, his preaching caused much excitement among the tribes and fear among the whites. It was the response of the Indians to his brother's pleading that started Tecumseh on his mission In the cause of federation which took him to the Cherokees and the other more civilized tribes of the South, in the course of which ha covered many thousand miles. Work for Evil Misunderstanding and Inattention create more uneasiness In the world than deception and artifice, or, nt least, their consequences are Biore universal. QocUm, ' -- I : has been carefully checked and reco- nditioned where necessary "mmb OB V Motor v Radiator vRear Axle v Transmission v Starting V Lighting v Ignition VBattery vTires v Upholstery v Fenders v Finish CTO BB CONTINUED.) Brother of Tecumseh Neglected by History li This Car Bow-legge- r Friday, March . tasteful to him than answering such a question ; dwelling at such length on this unseemly topic. But If to win "It's worth a moment of the keenher over he must pay that price, then I est happiness mortals can know It he would. happiness! Isn't that enough?" pay "Look here, Meely, perhaps I owe It I thought that there "'Divine'? word meant somepln else I thought to you to explain the situation to you. Lady Sylvia St. Croix will marry me It belonged to Jesus " because her family needs money "A divine moment, Meely, such as their estate, since the war. Is gone to few ever know In the stereotyped and my father will restore It punk believe my relation, girl, marriage and supply the Income to keep It up. me !" because I shall enjoy "It ain't that I expec" you to marry I will marry her the prestige In England which the me, Mr. Crelghton I know I can't rise me and my chilto that. Hut If I can't rise to that, marriage will give to dren. So you see how entirely outI can't fall to notlilu" else between side of my marriage will be my reyou and me, neither !" lation with you how little It can afThe earnestness of her resistance was beginning to alarm him. Surely fect "Well !" Meely severely pronounced she did not mean all she was saying! Judgment. "I may not be such a high She only wanted to be coaxed, pera suaded. Surely It only needed a little aristocrat, but I'd be above such ! wicked marriage like that patience on his part to bring her to There's better things to marry for and the yielding point? But patience was live for than savin' an old estate !" a thing he was so unused to exercis"Oh, come, my dear, you've no least ing that It taxed his nerves and his I " temper almost more than he could cause for jealousy of my cousin, movehis to elude Meely sprang up bear. The little hussy must be very experienced, she knew so well how to ment to seize her again In his arms. enhance her own value find stimulate ! his desire by her "Think, Aleely, how stupid It Is not to seize every chance that comes our way (few enough they are!) for happiness! Look at all the colorless years ahead of you, and don't miss this one Ineffable hour! such as will never be offered you once you're married !" "Will your marriage hold you from any more such hours?" "That's neither here nor there my marriage, Meely, Is quite another a- CHAPTER VI TiMES,NJEPHIUT ii n asanas Look For the Red "O.K." Tag After we have thoroughly reconditioned a used car, we attach a red "O. K." tag to the radiator cap. This tag certifies that the vital units of the car have been gone over completely by expert mechanics and put in condition to give thousands of miles of additional service. It takes all the "guesswork" out of used car buying. 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