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Show Thursday, September 19, 1933 THE which a woman likes to In the bouse she loves. The kttchen was baking hot, so she threw the door wide, and opened windows, and let the freirti cool air of June blow through the place. Then on a new Inspiration she went Into the orchard where the buds on gestures take III UR SYNOPSIS Jim Sal ad I ne llstena to the history fiour-and-wat- at neighboring Hostile Valley, with gossip ,-of tha inyatarloua, enticing "Huldy- wlfa of Will Ferrln. Inter-ate- d, ha drlvee to tha Vallay for a to day'a fishing, though admitting himself bla chief deslra la to eee tha reputedly Mrra" the apple trees were Just bursting, and brought an armful of sprays of bloom snd srranged them In s vase on the table. She was forever finding forgotten details, or doing over sgaln things she had done a doieo times before. She tested the tenderness of the fowl a dozen times; she wished to warm the blueberry pie, and was In an agony of Indecision lest If his arrival be delayed It become too dry. She set the table, and reset It, and thought the 4 BV Hf t butter was softening, and put it In cold water nntll It was hard and that would not be downed. "Yo're firm. She discovered a bit of wall Just talking to make me argue about paper that was loose, and made glue and fastened It It, but I won't" she said; and she cried: "I don't care If be never down. The day seemed st once does a lick of work, long's be doe breathlessly short snd torturlngly come borne. Granny," And sud- long. And the sun crossed the Valley, denly there were deep tears In her eyes and her voice was busky. She and began to slip down the western clung to the old woman. "I want sky, snd still Will had not come. to see blm," she whispered. "I She would not even entertain the want to awful," she cried. "Seem thought that be might not come at all tonight Yet since be was surelike he's been gone so long." Marm Pierce felt quick misgiving ly coming, then he would soon be s In ber. "Dunno why you should be here; and Impatience and a terror began to possess ber. so worked up about It" she pro tested. "Like as not be won't only Then suddenly the sun was gone, stay long enough to do bis farmla- snd the Valley was a pool of dusk which rose like a rising tide to nd get out again." "He will He will stay," Jenny cloak the orchard, to touch the She "You wait and foundations of the bouse. Insisted happily. lighted a lamp, long since cleaned see." And during the Intervening days and trimmed and freshly filled wltb Jenny rode on a flood of antlclpa oil; she tried the lamp on the table, tion. Will was to arrive on Mon- on the shelf above the stove. There day. Jenny took broom and mop were still shadows, and she wished and dust cloth and departed to no shadows here; and In the end make Will's bouse ready for him she lighted other lamps, and set Marm Pierce made some mild re- them in the dining room as well as kitchen. monstrance. "No need of that," she protested. She had not thought how Will "Like as not he's already hired It would come, whether afoot, or In a done." Her tone was mild with team. She left the kitchen door scorn. open, so that be might see bis wel"A man wouldn't think of that," come waiting; she put the stew on, Jenny urged. "He'll come home ex- and took It off again, and she put pecting to roll up In blankets the fresh wood on the fire till the stove first night ; and the blankets, they'll was red hot, with a glowing spot be damp, give him a cold. I'm going upon Us dark d surover and clean up, and air every- face. Then suddenly be was here. thing, and get fires going In the stoves and have everything ready Jenny did not at first realize that for him . . ." Will bad come, because she bad "House is locked up," Marm not Imagined him as coming In this Pierce Insisted. "You can't get In !" fashion. A car drove Into the yard Jenny cried Joyously: "Yes I can: and stopped; and Jenny heard It The lock's broken on the wlndon almost Inattentively, saw Its headIn the side room. I've climbed In lights fade as the engine died, till It sat In darkness there, where the through that before now." "Like as not he'll put you In Jail lamplight shone through the open for housebreaking," the old woman door In a widening rectangle. And then suddenly she heard his voice, predicted, yet she let Jenny go. It was dusk before the girl came his tones. home, tired and happy. "It's done. She wished to go to the door to Granny," she said. "Every room greet him, and could not. Paralysis swept, and everything dusted, and suddenly- laid hold on her; she the kitchen floor scrubbed, and the backed warily Into a corner, as far bed made. I found the window curtains put away In the bureau. They're kind of creased, but I'm going to press them out tomorrow." "You've got smut on your face," Marm Pierce retorted. Jenny laughed softly. "I cleaned out the stove," she said. "It was terrible full of soot so's yon couldn't make It draw. And I aired the sheets and blankets In the sun, and bad fires going all day there's plenty wood in the shed and tomorrow I'm going to take over some milk and eggs and biscuits and doughnuts and butter and everything, and have supper ready for glamorous Huldy. "Old Pierce and bar nineteen-year-ol- d granddaughter Jenny live la tha Vallay. Since little mora than child Jenny baa at Drat admired and than deeply loved young Will Kerrln, neighboring farmer, older than ahe, and who re (tarda her still aa merely a child. Will takes employment In nearby Augusta. Jenny la disconsolate. a, CHAPTER II Continued "How do you knowT" be challenged, curiously abashed by her calm serenity. "You can't tell lou mlidit g't to . . She ahoott her head. "Not you, Bart," she said simply. Ilia clasp on her arm relaxed, and she moved quietly away from him. There was In the more nothing In the least dramatic: and yet Bart perceived that there was In it nevertheless He stared after ber, finality. baffled, rebuffed; be did not follow, stood where she had left him. And when she was gone be said ODly : "Weil, I'll be . . ." Be did not say what be wonld be; but later, on his way np the brook to his home, be grinned at bis own discomfiture. Win Haven was at the farm when be got there; and Bart confessed the incident. The older man demanded Impatiently: "Shucks, why'n't you just grab on to ber? Any woman, she has to be rushed. Bart Took oft her feet before she knows what's going on." Bart shook his bead. "Jenny kcowed well enough what I wanted," he said In amused discomfiture. Knowed before I did. les, sir. she was way out In front of me. I couldn't see nothing but her heels." And he urged: "You step In and have a glass of cider. How come you're around here again, anyway? I thought you'd gone." "Got me a Job In Liberty," Win explained. "But I can handle a glass of cider. Sure." He added "Just the same, If I boastfully: was a young one, and a ripe gal like that running wild In the woods round, I'd . . ." And he told, with a senile and fatuous unction, what be would do. Jenny went home, but she said nothing about Bart It was weeks later before Marm Pierce remarked one evening: "Wonder why Bart don't ever stop In, the way be used to?What's got into him, Jenny?" Jenny told ber, then, about that encounter by the brook ; and the old woman chuckled wltb appreciation and contentment sure that Bart need worry her no more. That. was an open winter in the Talley, with little snow, and deep frost; and the mud In the spring was worse than usual. It was before a plow could be put In the ground, June before the clods could be broken. But tn the last week of May Jenny heard that Will Ferrln was coming home. Jenny, though sbe had said nothing to the older woman, bad been expecting word of blm ; be bad told ber, on that day of bis father's funeral, that be would return this year. It did not occur to her that Will might change his mind, that be might do less than be bad planned. Through the long month of May she Slipped away at brief Intervals, and threaded the wood toward the brook her feet had begun to mark and there a permanent trail climbed to the Ferrln farm to see whether be bad come. Day by day the bouse stood shuttered and empty, and she returned to the Yet long weariness of waiting. the ripeness of spring made longing Oil ber heart, and one day she came borne to Marm Pierce with ahlnlng eyes. The old woman bad long since guessed where Jenny went on these jKiirsIons; she saw the girl's face iuv BDJ: chuckled, and asked shrewdly ' mid-Ma- y Will borne, Is her Jenny looked startled; then the deep color flooded ber cheeks. "No, Granny," she said. "But Pat Prentice was plowing the lower field, and he told me Will had wrote and hired blm to do It Said Will lowed to get here Monday." Marm Pierce sniffed scornfully Guess Will's worked for day wages so long he thinks money's easy come by. Hiring work done that be might full a well do his own aelf. Guess he could've come this week If he bad a mind." ' Jenny laughed at her. There was a bubbling happiness In the girl dell-clou- fresh-polishe- - him." The older woman was tenderly amused. "How do you know be won't get here for noonday din nerT" "I'll have dlnne ready, too. In case," Jenny decided. "I'll take a fowl and make a stew and some dumplings. He'll like coming borne to a bouse that's all ready for blm, Granny "Want I should come over and help you?" the old woman offered; and Jenny hesitated, uncomfortable. Ill at ease. "It's a long walk for you, Granny." Marm Pierce chuckled. "Go along with you, then. Like as not you'll stay and clean up after supper, too!" And Jenny nodded wisely, happily; there was an audacious triumph In her. Suddenly she bugged the old woman close. "I might" she said. "I might not ever come home at all You wait and see She was, all next day, very busy and completely happy In the borne of this man whom she loved. The question whether Will would arrive In the morning or afternoon perplexed her; but she prepared for either contingency, by putting on the fowl to boll till It was done, leaving It then In the rich stew of its own fat so that It might be warmed readily and served quickly. She bad brought a pie made of blueberries which she herself had preserved the year before, and she cooked doughnuts all morning, and had biscuits ready to pop Into the oven ; and she kept the stove hot all day so that the oven should be ready to receive them, the minute Will appeared. She Ironed the lace curtains and hung them again at the windows. They needed washing, she decided; but that must wait another day. And In the afternoon, when everything was ready and still Will had not appeared, she wandered happily through the empty rooms, to her now; and she moved a picture on the mantel, a lamp on the upon the table, a fire hearth with those lilt proprietary ..." ..." "She Looks Mighty Friendly to You, Will" as possible from the door, and stood there, ber hands outspread, ber wide eyes shining, her cheeks pale. She stared at the door with an Incredible fixity, waiting,' not breathing; ber breast ached from the pounding of her heart vibrated like tbe taut bead of a beaten drum. He came In and looked around; and at first, since she was so still, he did not see her. But then bis puzzled eyes found ber, and tbe quick welcoming light In them gave her courage. "It's me, Will" sbe said. "Come In. All's ready for you here. Welcome borne." "Jenny?" he cried. "Why, Jen, I take this neighborly of you folks. Where's Granny?" "Home," she told him. "You dd aU this?" be asked, delightedly. "I didn't want yon coming to a cold empty house," she said. "Supper's all ready; or It can be In ten minutes. Chicken stew, and doughnuts, and blueberry pie; and there are biscuits ready to bake, and the oven's hot" She moved toward him, finding ber limbs at last answering her will. "Come In, Will. Take off your hat," she bade him. "Set down and I'll The word died In her throat. For behind Will, In the open door, a woman had appeared. Jenny saw her, and she stared; and the woman smiled. Then Will, perceiving by Jenny's countenance what had happened, turned, and took this woman gently by the arm and drew ..." TIMES-NEW- NEPIII. UTAH S. her Into the kitchen to stand there bealde him. "Jenny," he said proudly, "this here's my wife. This Is Huldy." Dreadful selling agony of einptl-liens- ; strength dralulug slckenlngly away. "Huldy." suld Will, "Jenny's come snd made all ready for us. I told you that folks was friendly here." Huldy smiled; something la her faint mirth at once Insolent and provocative, at ones srrogant and acquiescent "She looks mighty friendly to you. Will" she said, a barb In the words. "Why, she Is," Will declared, blindly content "Always was. She wa'n't but a young one when I see her the last time, the time Pa died." He turned to Jenny. "Yo're real grown up now, Jenny," he said. The word somehow lent Jenny strength. Her spine stiffened and ber pulse slowed and ber tone was calm. "You come In and set Mis' Ferrln," she said equably. "I guess yo're tired. You make yourself to borne, and I'll get cupper on." But when this task was done, she would not stay to eat wltb them. Valor would not sustain her so far. "It's late. Will," she explained. "If you'd come earlier, I might stay and wash dishes; but Granny will be wondering about me now." And when supper was on the table Jenny bade them both good night. In strong steady tones, and took herself away. Out through the barn, down the orchard slope, down the steep trail to the cream. She went blundering through the dark woods, her eyes hot and dry with tears that would not flow. CHAPTER III struggling through WHEN Jenny, woods, her eyes burn- ing for the anodyne of tears, emerged at last Into the open meadow land and saw the dim bulk of the barn ahead, she ran In baste to come home to Marm Pierce and the old woman's understanding arms. Site rounded the barn and saw a light In the kitchen; but she saw too a team here In the yard, and so was warned that her grandmother was not alone, and bad time to steady herself before she came to the kitchen door. Bart was here. He had been In Liberty village when Will drove through, had hailed Will and heard an answering call ; but Will did not halt, so Bart had not seen Huldy. Yet he had seen, dimly, the form of a woman In the Heat beside Will ; and before Jenny arrived now, ho had told this much to old Marm Pierce, sitting by the stove before the open oven door. "Brought some one to keep house for him, like as not," was the opinion he hazarded; but Marm Pierce knew misgivings, even before Jenny appeared. Jenny came in composedly enough, but her countenance was a haggard mask, eloquent of torment and of pain; and Marm Pierce rose quickly and came between the girl and Bart, to shield Jenny from bis eyes. "He come finally, did he, Jen?" she asked. "Yo're late enough." "He only Just got there," Jenny explained. "I stayed to put the supper on." Marm Pierce nodded, and she told Jenny: "Bart see Will go through the village. He says as how there was a woman with him In the car." Jenny said In husky tones, "Yes Granny. It's his wife. Will's got married." Her voice was terribly steady, as rigid as steel. Marm Pierce was shocked motionless; and even Bart could In this moment read Jenny's secret In her eyes. Before the old woman could move, he stood up and came toward the girl. "Why, Jen," he said warmly, "I guessed you liked Will pretty well yore own self, didn't you?" He chuckled, yet not In a fashion to cause her any pain. "I always had a notion you did," he confessed. "I knew with him around there wa'n't a chance for me, but when be went away, I kind of tnought . . ." And he urged: "Don't you grieve for Will, Jen I There's men enough, not as fine as him maybe, but . . ." Marm Pierce said harshly: "Bart, you shut your mouth. Let the child alone 1" Bart protested : "Ma'am, I'm sorry for her. I want to kind of comfort ber. I'd marry Jen in a minute If she'd have me. Guess she knows It, too." n "Well, she won't," the old told him. "Don't you see she wants to cry now? You go along and get out of here." And she bundled him unceremoniously through the door. Bart, outside, climbed into bis buggy, wondered at the sudden flooding ardor which bad made him speak so openly. He had no least mind to marry, had not contemplated doing so; yet there had been In Jenny's eyes Just now something so broken with longing and deep hunger that he had been swept Into a folly of words. Into an unaccustomed forget fulness, eager to assuage her grief. Will, he thought, was bjlnd and dumb and blamable; he had a quixotic Impulse to go thrash the other man for falling to see that Jenny loved him. for falling to understand. Jenny, alone with her grandmother, wept long weary tears, till she slept at last from very pain and deep fatigue; and old Marm Pierce sat by her l.mg, thnt night, brooding over the hurt child, tender and fond. Already she hated Huldy Fer rln for hnrtlng Jennv so. stum-bllngl- PAGE SEVEN Two hundred years ago the In Kentucky set aside game refuses for bears and created what may have been the flrut game law In America, says Vernon Italley, retired naturalist of the Biological surrey. Bear fat bear meat and benr skins were the most prized returns of the hunt iMtue areas were set aside as "beloved bear ground" where only a limited number of anl mala could be killed each year, u that a permanent Biipply of these animals would be maintained. Mr. lialley believes It might he well today to follow the example of the d Kentucky Indians, and establish bear grounds." or Shopping has two aspects. 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