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Show THE Thursday, December 21. 1933 TANGLED WIVES Peggy Shane Copyright Pasty by Shane. WW avrrlee CHAPTER XI Continued 1 watched him go. Then she walked briskly back along the road aud got luto Beatrice's cur oii 'e more. She drove steadily, at a slower pace than the one she had come. Kveu If she) were Diune Merrell, Mortimer would not have given her away to an olticer of the law, not If he loved her as he seemed to do. What a fool she wus! Why, If she was not Diane Merrell, had he been afraid to stop on the road? Why had he whispered In her ear, "For G d's sake come away from this old fool." But If she were Diane Merrell, what had George Mortimer to do with her? Why would she be riding In a cab with another man on her wedding day? Could It b that It was only eleven o'clock? She looked at the watch on her wrist. It was five minutes of the hour. So many things had hapIt seemed as pened that morning. She If day must have passed. wondered what had happened to Molly. And how had Rocky found NEl'HI. TIMES-NEW- ever," whispered llorky. The words were very sweet. The green myatery of the jew arbor held them calmly. They were oblivious to the gay voices beyond netting ready for the wedding rehearsal. "You've seen my rurally?" He nodded. "Your father ami your uncle." mother your ulster and "What were they like?" "They were nice. They love you, PAGE SEVEN UTAH j Ills lips were very close). not They klssiHl. After a w hile Kooky said, "I've made all my plitna. Well vtuit here until the rehearsal Is over. Then I'll to Beatrice and get your clothes. We'll leave by back roads and move toward fun- ada. There Is a boat sailing from You know I go Quebec tonight buck and forth from I'arls fre Doris." uentiy ou business, aud I can Jiiht She wrinkled her brows. This un- - as well live In I'arls as In New known family was hard to visualize. York. You'll not be recognized In "You mean they mill love Diane I'arls. Nobody will suspect uiy yi-u- r IN LUCK She did answer. i , j qJI TFevo g "1 think that fellow Smlthsnn's he luckiest fellow alive," said Hayes o hlx fellow worker. "Lucky?" repeated the other. "1 lou'i call It lucky to be Injured like M Little he was." "But he doesn't have to work now," said Hayes. know be doesn't, you heartless vmii es i brut," w ii j wife" Merrell?" "Yes. And they dou't believe you did It." "But the papers sny " "Yes. The evidence Is all against The Valery family will do you. everything In their power to to convict you." "Why does my family think I am Innocent ?" Rocky looked down at her ringlets hand. 'They have no reason. They believe only because they love you "Your wife! Oh but 1 can't be your wlfe what about Doris?" She drew hark. In the excitement of crowded events she had forgotten about Molly. "Itocky. a girl came from iHirls and we that Is, Beatrice really did It we Kicked her In the closet. Aud I wonder If she's there still?" "Oh that was Molly," mid Rocky easily. "That's all right Aa soon as I got there which was a couple of minutes after you left, Beatrice said I saw Molly. We got her out of the closet, poor kid. She delayed me or I'd have followed you nooner." "But what did she say about Doris?" "Good G d. I haven't told you, have I? Aud It's the only ray of light In an otherwise gloomy night Doris Is In Reno." Her mind flew back to the scene In the Blltmore dressing room. "I nilht have known. She talked about getting a divorce In Reno the whole time I saw her. She went out on SOMEWHERE The film director was making a Jobs." real thriller and working very hard to jet action Into It Finally, he turned from the brink of the cliff, mopped bis brow, anil glanced at a dummy made of straw and old clothes lying ou the ground beside hi in. "Good heavensl" he shouted "Who was It we threw over the cliff?" The stead; buzz of approaching motor could be heard over the murmur of the brouk. A car was coming up the road In a cloud of duMt. Rocky's car. We heartily thank the For G d's sake, come on. We've got to get going." lntermountain Folks for She screamed : "Rocky Rocky 1" their patronage during lie flung Rocky's car stopped, all 1933 and wish them The man's hold on himself out. A Plaint the same reason that I believe." her? Doris relaxed. 'You fool "It's all the fault of the opposition held. Out of the Mack Their be shed This must the ahead. eyes up Itocky nea red them. The man be party," said Senator Sorghum, who The path Rocky had described terrible depths Doris felt waves of gan to run toward his own car. had been reproached by a friend for was not hard to find. It led through light and Joy bearing her upward. "Rocky! Don't let him go. It's a wood of beeches and his luck of achievements. "As Is the face loved Ills her. touched Itocky towering the man In the cab." rase with everything that goes On either side ferns grew hers with a dreamlike closeness. pines. Rocky looked at her over his to wrong, It's all their fault." Rocky Everything else was shut away. He height of three feet. shoulder. Ills Jaw was set grimly. had 8 said "But you were elected," was the loved her. "Doris, darling Doris. I to to wanted he talk her. He ran after the other mm, George response. I've always loved you. face had not looked very happy. love you. His Mortimer. "Of course. But they keep me so Don't be unhappy. Let nie take care The car was some distance down What had he found out? busy worrying for fear I won't get of Music came tentatively from the you always." the road. Doris watched with other back for another term that I have end of the long delphinium alItocky was speaking like that. He clenched hands. The man In the cab hardly any time left for saving my A harp, a cello, violins were loved her. He had always loved her. Prince Edward Island ley. was running desperately. Rocky country." Prince Edward Island was long stumbled getting In readiness. Doris remem- She had never been so happy. after him. was "But Rocky" but bered. The wedding rehearsal. She called St. John's island, George Mortimer reached his car. II is Hps brushed the rest tenderly my money." Hopeful heard the soft laugh of a girl near given its present name in 1799 in could see his long legs disap from her lips. "Do you love me?" lie laughed ruefully. "I'm afraid Conductor Are you hurt? compliment to Prince Edward, She by. who visit. a pearing. Duke of Kent, paid it Hilarious Victim You bet 1 am They kissed. Rocky knew now. so. The story of the buby was a There was a bench In the yew Rocky came up to the car. lie The Drince was the fourth son of I to No fake loosen She did him. love knew matter what soften and my my rabbit's foot would bring could She heart, and sit there Rocky King George HI and the father of tugged at the door, could not open and be unseen by the she would say, no matter what she up the purse strings. Anyway she's me luck. I'll bet you five to one party wedding was Mortimer It. Queen Victoria. slipping the car had done. He would know that. been out there for six weeks now, I'm badly damaged. Into gear. Rocky put his hand as they talked and her case comes up today." He would always know She the crossed and greensward THIS WEEK'S PRIZE STORY through the open window and seized sat down on the hard bench to wait But he was asking her. "Doris, "Today !" the man at the wheel by the collar. for dearest Doris, do you love me?" "Today. That's why Molly came Rocky. car tottered The slowly forward He wanted an answer. He must out. Doris read the story In the pasomeone over She heard near and eur with A Christmas tint draw coming Rocky on the running board. I outers. Did she love him pers yesterday about our being thouehta turn in conpideratioa the rustic bridge. A minute later she have an answer. . . ... remember that nathinr iooka so toad t ,., t George Mortimer was helplessly saw ,kn .ww..i . I uiiu stopped by the police. She saw a Rocky. How tall he was. and in a'nao 11 vhij iiiai one those away from hem aa something suds clutching at the wheel He could swell chance to get a marriage setso no. was There doubt. he To liked is the with tha Joy she moved, at Mac. rreatesl badly? bnnr way it. reach was not pullRocky quite th harta of loved ones both far and near. she whispered, "I tlement. Well she got it" But his face strides. swift "Rocky darling," long, select to at Intermounfaia him, trying Made, Buy yoar flfts ing drag him looked worried. "You mean you're going to give Everything was do love you. You're " your foods from th Intermoantain stora through the window. her Into flushed a and let's all have a happr ynletide. with face smile. all not heart Rocky's Her became money?" right Doris was paralyzed. The car y.als off ta sur 1NTERMPVNTA1N "Ten thousand. I sent her a wire. as she looked at his drawn "I'm happy," he finished for her heavy in first was slowly speed running It's cheap at the price. And Father features. There was more trouble. softly. MRS. JOHN M. BROWN, wavering straight for a deep ditch. will fork It over when he hears She caught shoulder. Rocky's Cedar City, Utah. would If Rocky only get away. The Y'ou the whole story." Ills check touched "You haven't told me yet! XII CHAPTER car would fall over. haven't told me what's troubling hers softly. "I may be a free man AT 400 The car plunged, came to an awSAT down beside her and you. You're terribly upset abmit right now If the court has met I stood ful but standstill upright. HEtook her hands in his. His Utah 07 Refining couldn't say much before." eyes something." Rocky braced himself ngainst the were full of an Service Stations He looked, stricken with misery, "Where is the man In the cab?" that swept anguish side. "In the hospital. He's got a broken he began, at the "Doris," her grass. in Utah nd Idaho Instantly. Doris ran toward them. '"Rocky," she said, trying to rally "I've talked with your family. They shoulder bone. Otherwise he's all She saw Rocky straighten himRecording Wind Velocity right. I'd like to talk to him. He Honey Production self. He was all right, then. Morti- against the waves of depression that sent you this." from The weather bureau says that recholda He won't could back us but drew came still lot, him. tell her, there "Didn't you hear from It was a Philadelphian vho began mer's head bad struck against the ords showing the highest velocity be a chance of seeing him." He of winds the modern age in honev produc window frame. He was limp now that occur In severe storms tion. This pioneer was Langstroth, In fingered her cheek lovingly. "Just are recorded, since the Ingrasp. Rocky's rarely born in 1810. About 180 he de. think, dear, we'll be on the high struments for let him of and go Rocky opened recording wind volvised the movable fram for in seas this time tomorrow." umes are usually not capable of the car door. Mortimer lay with V Later i pyV'&'Z sertion in beehives. rushfloods felt of Again she light velocities "smoker" was invented to make closed eyes, a streak of blood runShe withstanding the highest to ing up from her Inner being. are sometimes known exist cross bees gentle. that ning down his forehead. it lay with closed eyes resting against However, a "Rocky is he dead?" dependable velocity of his She heard ASK TOUR DRUGGIST FOB hardly Rocky. "I don't know." 138 miles per hour was recorded at words : "Rocky. I'm out of one murder. Cape Lookout, N. C, In August, comes Doris "If the wire from And now I've got you In another." 1879. we can get married If you will." Rocky looked at her blankly. It was was possible. Anything "What do you mean?" ASPIRIN Train Lost in Quicksands possible now that Rocky loved her. "I'm not Diane Merrell." AN INTERMOUNTAIN PRODUCT Historical records show that ships was the That security, only safety have been Rocky hardly seemed to hear. He engulfed In quicksands. Brilliance of perhaps that she would ever know. In 1703 thirteen was looking at the man with whom warships were lost But It was enough. They would be The unusual brilliance of mosaics he had been struggling. "I've got In a night and the wrecks entirely ' side like this forever. side dome a the by ef building covering to get him to the doctor." He Someone's cheek was against hers. swallowed. The effects of Inquickerected in Mexico City in 1586 has leaned over and bent his head over 1875 sands were well illustrated German sci been attributed by Who was holding her so closely? Mortimer's heart "He's still locomotive a and the of by sinking entist to the fact that rubber was George All around her was Joy, fcweet pro train at Pueblo, Cola The train used in the coloring matter em alive. I think he's only stunned. a was tection. familiar And melody I'll move my car up here and put sank beyond though discovery ployed. sounding faintly In her enrs. him In it" for to a depth of 50 feet probed to She her feet and sprang He ran back to his car. Doris exUtah High School of Beauty Culture She saw looked, over the hedge. amined the wound on Mortimer's 121 So. Mai St.. Salt Lake City Marlborough House two an aisle through girls walking Knows came m Depressioi head. It Till Booty drib": Profusion from a small cut. House belongs to Marlborough The wed' of delphiniums. stately Ton can jm learn a profession that will Oh, surely he would be all right. He British It was the government. had march begun. make A independent for tha rest ef your would come to his senses and tell ding In 1710 by Sir Christopher built daya. IIS per month only for the complete She swayed, clutched at the lacy them everything. The blood was coarse of six months. rnone or write British archiWren, a leaf of a cedar tree. for our catalogue. Mail in coupon. Rocky was tect, for the duke of Marlborough, already drying up. If only he He beside her her. arm, so NAME weren't caught pale. If. only he would and purchased as a London resiShe looked op at blm with glassy ADDRESS- open his eyes. dence for the prince of Wales In eyes then her gaze returned to the 18G3. It Is the London Rocky's car came up. In a minute house of the Sticking Toeether wedding party. Rocky had hoisted him Into the of Wales. It Is not open to prince "You will find," said Hi Ho, the rumble. I" lilacs were to voice "There turned Doris' Doris. His Rocky the public. sage of Chinatown, "that however face was stern. was low. "Lilacs and dogwood. you separate quicksilver, it runs I I remember I remember. Spring "Now, Doris. You are to do extogether again at the first op The Mayflower Compact She watched with a far-of- f exulta portunity. The same thing is more actly as I say. You disobeyed me The whereabouts of the Mayflowon tion. true Beatrice her of advancing this morning by running off, and I gold." 'significantly father's arm, the happy setting of er compact Is not known. The olddon't want that to happen again." leaves and blossoms it meant est copy of the text of the compact Doris' heart throbbed happily. Earn while you learn Barbering. They Kissed. Rocky Knew Now. She Did Love Him. A strange look had known Is that printed In "Mourt's nice was something. a with It A Permanent Business with Rocky again, being come her cello Relation" In 1622. The oldest known Into Ins I eyes. He in not Violin, and Diane and felt what now. said about lng her, pocket. nothing much mattered being Big Income. list of the 41 signers of the comand had familiar the drew out a long wallet begun harp George Mortimer was going to live, Merrell?" pact Is found In "New England's bride's Moler's Barber College Doris took It wonderlngly. march. and she was not Diane Merrell. "I'll "There's not a doubt that you're Inside strains of the Memorlall," printed In 1069. A copy 118 Recent St., Salt Lake City. Utah were many bills one or two docuDiane Merrell." do, anything you say, Rocky." Rocky shook her by the arm. of the compact appears In BradWt meet your state requirements The reaction to all her hopes was ments. "Money?" said Doris. "All right. Where is Beatrice's "What's wrong, Doris?" ford's "History of Plymouth Planta"Yes. too man father Your had much. in wants cab to the The She turned peculiar eyes up at car?" you tion," written between 1630 and "It's parked up a lane very said she wasn't But she could not go away. It's a passport there him. They looked glazed, unfamiliar. Opossum Hibernates 1640. I had some trouble get- "The wedding march. .That's the that She out words the stared near." paper. bring The opossum hibernates if the "Go and get In it, and drive back despairingly back at Rocky. His ting it but your father knew a man wedding march. I remember. Only winter is cold enough. It is enabled Wires Sare Ocean Voyages Jaw was set, his eyes grim. Then at Washington. That's why I wasn't there were lilacs I marched to survive very cold winters by toward the St. Gardens place." With the development of trans back " unconto 1 come her shake with you. "But I'd rather body began yesterday." she sprang atlantic through a lilac alley storing up under its skin a plenti' telephoning and cabling, "You mean my family wants me to her feet "Look I" ful supply of fat, which is drawn want to find out if this man Is all trollably. business executives no longer find "Doris. Don't to run away?" during right And I want to know " upon for nourishment Darling Doris. Advancing slowly through the so necessary to make fast trips hibernation. feel so." Rocky hesitated. "Your uncle Is lovely vista of delphiniums came it "It's not safe." across the Atlantic. It Is found, and a a doctorIn well "But I told you I'm not a fugiIn, "But" specialist Beatrice St Gardens, a beautiful some British ship companies believe week will be paid Rocky took her left hand. He things Just like what you've got " bride on her father's arm. Their tive from justice or anything. He's An it will be more profitable to build s "S I II I for the best "You mean brain diseases?" the man In the cab. He says I'm slipped the wedding ring from her feet paced slowly In time with the cabin ships rather than the "Well yes. But your brain Is all slow strains. not Diane Merrell. And he knows." finger. He looked at the Inscripshould use lntermountain made su peril ners featured In recent years. Goods'" M. Similar to aboTe. Bend L. V. D. I on to to H. tion talked the Inside. We him. don't with Anyway right "Doris, please argue "Rocky." whispered Doris, "hold roar atory in proa or verso to InHoward L. Valery to Diane Mer- had a consultation about It, and me me. I've got something to tell you, termoantain Products Column, P. O. closely. I I rememDer.". Potash in Ashe was said Box 155fi, Salt Laka City. If yoar It sure he that as soon as I get this man In rell! suicide for His heart was beating wildly, but and . . There Is a general belief that to mi story appears In this said about she "I !!.. 1 11 Li'me you that," n give yourself up." j forgot huu nwuy he said The jiusuilui, slow rigui column 70a will re-dignified ashes from hard woods, as a She looked at him haggardly. "But notes of nothing. Join you. Now pay attention. Turn faintly. ceivo check for the wedding march swelled are richer In potash than class, those "There's the luggage, too. It was they'd kill me anyway for what I and to your right on a dirt road near a Her eyes had, from soft woods, but the results rather unusual luggage, you know." did, wouldn't they? I suppose I de- closed. deepened. W.N. U- - Salt Laka City yellow barn. Have you got It?" Week No. J351 of experiments by the division of serve It I took that that young "Yes. Diane Merrell's luggage. Doris looked at him pitifully. She "I was married in a garden," she chemistry do not Bhow that, weight . Doris said, "I man's was He life." silent. not Diane was Merrell, only Rocky said at last. Drouth in South Africa ' for weight, the ashes of soft wood see You was Mrs. be : Howard to "No, able listen. Valery. probably continued wouldn't they'd Rocky are "It was like this. They played are much, If any, poorer than those Drouths in South Africa In off It I I've about the getread you mile. a about and road this "Go young papers." It you're than in effects up more severe their that There was an aisle like that from hardwoods. formerly because o f changes skirts the St. Gardens place. You'll The sweet drowsy air was stifling don't atthink a Jury would convict I walked with father. The lilacs of once now. least character the what the find a shed. Leave the car there, and they'd seen you were very sweet The girl .you "Rocky that's brought about in dogwood was Slaves Brought From Africa there would be a good chance of the land by soil erosion, the effects go Into a little path. It crosses a In Tange'a called me Mrs. Valery I was home. at I Oh darlovely. for While there are no definite mistaken of which are often off. I But Val she heard and the brain your a and to lends thought little getting your yew bridge, ling Rocky I remember everything on the those of a deteriorating climate. arbor. number of slaves said Du Val because oh I wanted couldn't stand it" I'll meet you there." and I didn't shoot Howard!" to the western The vegetative cover has been desfrom Africa " "And brought be so live to to the I'm dreadful rest of had his Into my He car, and stepped He held her closely, too moved troyed, particularly by sheep, and hemisphere, this Importation went His arms enclosed her. "Did you? life wanted by the police?" on was his to Ignition already turning soil on The bare the speak. the rain falling triumph song grew on for about Sf years, from about is no longer retained, but flows as he finished. George Mortimer lay Oh, Doris, did you? You're so sweet, . Reto held her closely. "You're go- louder, clearer. Exhausted, she lf17 to about 1SS0 when the Inst Doris." ing spend the rest of your life off rapidly into gullies and calm and still. dropped down on the grass once slaves were Imported Into Cuba and him me. to You're wanted do She to by him let desperately. don't clung "But Rocky please streams. going more. Kooky sat beside One estimate places the Brazil. Then a momentary peace swept her. what your mother wants you to do, get away." "Don't tell tn now," mnl Rocky number at 12,000,000. I" friend. was and uncle Uncle Ab says the really good what her advises. You're gently. "It's your "Rocky 'Don't worry. Meet me In the Rocky me fhat enough for mixer mixes brains with work. In his arms she seemed safe. going to let me take care of you. you didn't do It" ye aroor." "Let me take care of yon for - Aren't you?" Ha via off without a smile. Doris (TO Bl CONTINU!).) He listened. an 1 A fary ifl?rnj QHjrislmaa nr-bo- I 1 u.t-tiiri- 1 . . ?ef. ics well-know- n . . (f $3.00 r 1 . fig-or- h. companion NOT THE SAME "Then you can recommend Dobbs as a man of good character?" "No, merely as a man of good rep titution." Diplomacy The Smythes were very rond of their baby. "Which side of our house do yon think he most resembles?" Smytbe demanded of their bachelor neighbor. The other was anxious to say the right tiling. "I don't know, old chap," he an- swered haltingly. "I can't see that he looks very much like the side of a house." MORE SATISFACT.O CANT BE BOUGHT. I his don't understand ane," explained Hayes, "lie's getting om-pensiitlon now, whereas most of his former fellow workers have lost their r ERROR replied rin ly. "But yon k Use for Licorice Theophrastus, who Is called the "Father of Botany," and who was) the pupil and friend of Aristotle, wrote three centuries before Christ! "Scythian root (licorice) Is also sweet; some. In fact call It simply 'sweet root' It is useful against asthma or dry cough and In general troubles of the chest, and Is also administered in honey for wounds," Chinese and China not possible to state precisely whence or at what date the Chinese entered China. There seems little reason to doubt that they came from the west of Asia and early settled In the northwest of China, where they had already attained to a respectable degree of civilization before 2200 B. C and were even then a considerable nation. It Is j Life of Bacilli Infectious diseases are known to have long periods of latency during which the bacilli do not manifest any signs of existence or even Incubate In the Infected person. One of the most remarkable cases on record Is that of a man who became leprous 40 years after bis one and only exposure to the disease. Habits of Squirrels Differing from the red squirrel In the way he stores his winter's food Animals aa Court Witnesses Animals were used as court witnesses In Sardlna up to a few years ago. When a solitary householder killed an alleged burglar, he was brought to trial and made to swear that the homicide was Justifiable before one of his dogs, cats or birds that witnessed it. If the animal did not manifest some contradictory sign, the presoner was set free. An Early Edison Experiment To test a chemical theory, young Thomas Edison induced his father's chore boy to swallow a quantity of seldlltz powders, believing that the gases thus generated would enable the lad to fly, but the only results were stomach pains for the chore boy and a vigorous application for young Edison of a strong switch. Tha Tree of Jesse The tree of Jesse is a tree representing the genealogy of Christ from the root of Jesse, used in churches In the Middle ages as a decoration of windows or walls or in the form of large branched candlesticks. Sometimes the tree Is represented as rising from the body of Jesse, who Is shown recumbent. Oriental Delicacies Such Oriental delicacies as "fish air bladders," sharks' fins, birds' nests and snow fungus can be bought In a little shop In Soho, London ; but they are expensive, the last Item, which Is dug out of the eternal snows of northern China, costing about a guinea an ounce. Animal That Do Not See characteristic of all mals living at great depths It Is a ani- Uiat |