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Show Thursday, October 3, 1935 THE i JEb U Ben SYNOPSIS Jim Saladlne listens to the history ( neighboring Hostile Valley, with of the mysterious, enticing gossip -Huldy," wife of Will Ferrln. Inter-tehe drlvea to tha Valley for a to day'a fish I nr. though admitting himself hla chief dealra la to aea tha reputedly glamoroue Huldy. "Old alarm" Pierce and her nineteen year-ol- d granddaughter Jenny live In tha Valley. Sine little mora than a child Jenny haa at flret admired and then deeply loved young Will Ferrln, neighboring farmer, older than aha. and who regards her atlll aa merely a' child. Will takea employment In nearby Augusts. Jenny la disconsolate. Bart Carey, somela attracted thing of a by Jenny, but the girl repulses him. Learning that Will la coming y borne, Jenny, exulting, aeta hla bouse "to rights," and haa dinner ready for him. He comes bringing bis wife, Huldy. The girl's world collapses. Huldy becomes the subject of unfavorable gossip In tbe Valley. d. ne'er-do-we- long-empt- CHAPTER IV WOULD be a long ITJenny knew the full time before tale of that day's events. The latter part of the drama she witnessed, and had In It a part; but the beginning was bidden from her for the time. If during these months since he brought Huldy home, his wife and become a la the Valley and In the wide region roundabout. Will as Is apt to be the case was the last to know this. Tet he was Dot wholly In Ignorance. lie might not admit even to himself doubt or misgiving, for there was in this mun a One loyalty ; nevertheless be was Dot witless, nor wholly blind, nor could any man loving Huldy as Intensely as he did be unconscious of those withdrawals and evasions and scornful mockeries which she offered him behind the screen of her arrogantly yielding smile. He never even shaped doubt of her In his thoughts; yet just as one walking alone through a deep wood may be conscious of a movement behind him, so Will was conscious of many things that happened Just beyond his sight or ken. Be was thus In some degree pre pared for what occurred this day, It was not that he had known any thing before; but rather that with a sixth sense he felt certain things. and was brought into a frame of mind where full comprehension and belief were made easy, where It seeded no more than one tangible peg In order for him to pick up and bang upon It the whole web of his wife's deceptions. Be had been all the long summer very busy about the farm, and dusk so each day fonnd him bone-tirethat he might nod at the supper table, and presently thereafter go qnlcfe and heavily to bed, and sleep till dawn. . Be loved Huldy; but after the first rapture of possession passed, he loved also this farm of his father's, and with an almost equal ardor, serving It with the full meas ure of his strength and energy. At Dlght he was hungry only for sleep, and rose to work again at dawn. But Huldy needed no more sleep than a cat. Sometimes Will, drowsing In his chair after supper, waked to And her watching blm with a disquieting eye; and more than once on summer nights she had roused him, shaking him by the shoulder, a hot fury In her tones, demanding that he prove himself something more than a dormouse of a man. So when the time did come, be was prepared for comprehension, There had been many visitors at the farm that summer. Will at first dls covered In these visits no more than the natural curiosity of his neigh bors to see this bride of whom he was so proud. Bart Carey came, and old Win Haven not infrequent ly; and then Seth Humphreys, whom Will and Huldy had known In Augusta, brought his steam mill to the Valley. Also others who had known Huldy In Augusta came to lodge at Bart's and fish the brook below, although they had never come before. Will, when he wooed Huldy, knew ber popularity; yet he was contln ally being reminded of It now. He Ight return from the fields at dusk to find some stranger sitting with ber In the kitchen. In an easy fa miliarity; and on his arrival, the stranger and Huldy were apt to fall silent, and the man presently to take himself awny. On this day when Jenny saw Will run toward Seth Humphreys' mill, he had plnnned to go to Liberty to get twine lumber for a piece of re pair work on the bnrn; some stud Me ding, nml a bundle of shingles. set o'it In the farm wauun, hehlni his sli'w tctiin. Huldy asked wheth er he would he home In time for will thought not alniifi by-wo- VI I 1 "tio on, then I But time jro re done with Seth, there's a plenty more!" Will, If he heard, made do sl.-- ; be went plunging through the burn ii d down through the orchard. Hul dy stayed In the kitchen door, and the sun struck her pleasantly, and she smiled, standing there alone. If he bad any regret. It was only that she would not be at hand to see Will and Setb when tbey came together. But Seth Humphreys, when he slipped away from the house, was more disturbed by the situation. He had a lively respect for Will's phy sical powers; and be leaped Into tbe truck and let It coast silently down ths bill Also bt stopped at Bart Carey's farm, beyond tbe bridge, and there tried to make hla tone and his demeanor usual, and stayed a while, talking of the fish ing, or of the weather. But while he talked, be looked back along the road, expecting to see Will approaching; be stayed here In order to bave Bart at bis back If Will n l 1 BU. If I GVS? "Don't have me on your mind. I'll pick up a bite when I get back," he said. He took the steep road up the hill; and a little above the bouse he met Seth Humphreys' big truck. Seth at the wheel, descending. Will lifted a band to the other man as they passed by. Seth was hauling his suwed lumber to North Fraternity; but the easier road back to the mill would have brought him to the Valley at Its foot, three or four miles lower down. Will was mild ly surprised that Setb should have come this way. Tet the matter stayed not long In his mind. He thought casually that Seth might mean to stop at Bart Carey's. He was fifteen or twenty minutes from tbe bouse when the right rear wheel of bis wagon dropped off; and Will, alighting to Investigate, found that he bad lost tbe nut which held the wheel In place. He walked back along the road, searching In the ditch and by the road side for the lost nut; but the weeds were tall In the ditch, and the nut escaped his search. In the end, as the quicker way. Will decided to cut down through the woods to his farm, where be could find a spare nut among the miscellaneous litter of hardware which accumulates In every farmer's shed ; so he returned to the wagon and let the horses off the road to let casual traffic pass by, and tied them there. Then be set out to walk home. It was not far. In a straight line through the woods. Five minutes fast walking brought blm Into his upper field, with the house In plain sight below. Be paid It do partic ular heed at first, coming on rap- Idly to do thlserrand; but as be drew nearer, be saw, stopped In the road In front of the house, Setb Humphreys' truck. Seth passing by. must have alighted for a word with Huldy. There was In this nothing unusual, yet Will vaguely resented It The Inconvenience of the lost nut had faintly frayed bis temper; tbe sight of Seth's truck stopped here Seth must have been with Huldy for a long half hour made Will's cheek hot, bis pulse fretfuL He went on toward the house more swiftly; and across the barnyard to tbe kitchen door. The door was closed; and this was In some degree surprising, for the day was warm. Will opened the door and stepped In. Neither Huldy nor Seth was In the kitchen ; and when Will saw the kitchen empty, he stood rooted In his tracks for an Instant that may have been longer. Then he called. harshly, his wife's name. There was no reply. Beyond the kitchen lay the din ing room. Will crossed to the din ing room door. The bedroom opened off the dining room. In front of the house, toward the road. Tbe bed room door was closed; but Will heard movement there, and strode that way. His cheek was white as stone. Before he could come to the door, however, It opened, and Huldy confronted blm. She stood, smiling In solently, as though she were Just awakened from deep sleep. He said hoarsely: "What you do Ing?" I laid down a spell," she told should come. But Will had spent no energy In Tain direct pursuit He had cut straight for the steam mill down the Valley, to wait for Seth there; Humphreys after a while guessed this. He said to Bart, him self reluctantly preparing to depart : Bart, you got a gun In the bouse? There's a wild bull In tbe woods down where we're working, been bothering the men. I'm a mind to shoot him." Bart said: "I've got an old re volver that throws a heavy slug. If yon can bold It straight Ton get near enough and you could kill an elephant with It" "Let me have that," Seth pro posed. "This bull, he comes right up around the mill. I can get near enough to him without do trouble at all." So Bart produced the revolver, an ancient model. In a heavy bolster stained by years of use. "Got quite history, that gun has," be said proudly. "Fellow out In Denver found a dead man In a gulch In the mountains one day, with this gun on him and a bullet through his head. He sent the gun to me. Trigger's mighty light Single ac tion. Tou bave to cock It." Seth hefted the weapon, sighted It, made aure It was loaded. "Much and his ears were clear of the saw's close proximity. He beard the shot, and came lumbering up the bank, shouting the alarm to the others. lie men came to the shed door. and saw Will and Seth down In a locked grip, and Will's leg was hideous. But the muzzle of a heavy pistol pointed toward them from the ground, wavering In the tight grip of two opK8lng bands, and this was enough to deter the bold est for a moment They dodged aside, peering cautiously ; and by the time tbey found courage to raw near, Seth was dead. But Will, despite bis wound, was alive; and Luke knotted a bit of rope arouud Will's leg, and twlxted It with a stick. There was a babble of commands and advice and argument For Seth, clearly, there was nothing to be done. "But we got to get help for Will. here, mighty quick," Luke pointed laid the pistol on the seat beside blm, and went on his way. The man was afraid I He was as big as Will Ferrln ; not quite so tall, but heavier. Nevertheless, Just as a dog fights best In Its own yard, so does a man In the wrong fight poorly. Seth wanted no fight with Will Ferrln; and bis very fears gave him a false courage, a pseudo-fero-c ity. Be gritted his teeth and shook his head and vowed that Will had better not try to lay a band on him Be drove down the Valley road and turned Into the rough wood track that led to the clearing where him. "Where's Seth gone to?" be de the steam mill was set beside manded. spring brook that furnished water "Seth?" Her tone was amused, for The mill was work derisive. Ing, the mill crew gathered In the "His truck's In the road outside.' shed. There was a window In the bed But Seth did not see Will any room on the side toward the road where about, and knew a deep reshe turned to look out of this win lief. There was at one side a shed dow, but without moving. "I don't of rough boards, roofed with tar pa see It," she retorted, maddeningly. per, with a dirt floor. In which the Will brushed past her, himself truck was customarily stored against looked out The truck In fact was the weather. Its doors were swung gone; but the screen which be wide, and Seth turned the truck Into longed In the window lay on the this shed. ground outside, and It was broken But as he did so, Will Ferrln as though a heavy foot had stepped came suddenly out from behind one upon the light mesh. wldeflung door, and leaped on the Will, turned back Into the room, truck's running board, by Setb He passed Huldy silently; but she very elbow. His . countenance was caught his arm. affrighting. Seth's foot missed the "Where you going?" pressed the throttle Instead In thick brake, "After him," said Will, he found the brake and then tones strange to his own ears., lammed It down. The truck leaped "Why?" she challenged. ahead, tried to stop, skidded side-wisBe shook loose, freed himself the right rear wheel broke from her, moved toward the kltch partly through one wall, the front en. She said, behind him. In a ris mudguard burst Into the opposite ing, defensive fury: walL "You work all day and sleep all And Will, In silent, deadly pur night What do you look for me to pose, caught Seth's throat with both do?" hands to drag him to the ground. He swung to face her, and there Seth's hand found the ready pis was death In his eyes. "I'll be back tol; he thumbed the hammer back. to 'tend to you," he said; and with As the weapon came Into his sigh no further word burst through the Will released Seth's throat with his kitchen and away. left hand and grabbed at Seth She came, with one of her rare wrist that held the gun. The two men were falling together as the quick movements, after him as fa as the kitchen daor; she calle pistol exploded. Will felt the heavy ball plow Into his leg below the mockingly: out One of the other men remembered Marra Pierce. Two boards secured together by crosspieces served as a rude litter. They set out to carry Will through the woods to tbe old womanVhouse. It was thus that Jenny saw Will again, bis face drained white, his eyes closed, his leg below the knot ted rope a shattered thing. She saw the men approaching with their burden, and she and Alarm Tierce came out on the kitchen porch, and the old woman cried urgently: hurt bad I Jenny, Somebody's get tbe cloth off tbe dining room table. Put a couple leaves In, and a blanket on It, so'a they can lay him f ACE NEPIII. UTAH S. ue, crashing through, tu but. with a shocking Impart But be did Dot loose the grip he had. The mill was sixty or seventy yards away, and the saw, at the moment of the shot, was whlulng through a log; but Luke Hills was beyond the mill, by the brook, and But He Did Not Loose the Grip He Had. obliged," he said. "Ill fetch It back to you." And be got Into tbe truck, and TIMES-NEW- there.' Jenny would have run desperate ly to meet them, but the old woman held her from that futility. So when Luke and the others arrived, the table was prepared, and Harm Pierce met them at the door. Fetch blm In," she commanded. "Who Is It? Will Ferrln?" "His leg's shot off," said Luke Hills hoarsely. "Seth shot him; would have killed him, like as not But Will held on till be choked th life out of Setb," Don't stand there talking!" thu old woman scolded. "Lay him on the table here, easy. One of you go over to Bart Carey's house and telephone for a doctor." "We lowed you could . . . "Get a doctor, I told you! Jal bering like a pack of crows! Lay him down. Now get out of here, the lot of you. Jenny and me, we'll tend to him. One of you go tele phone, and the rest of you stay bandy, case I need you." A man departed at a clumsy top, and Marm Pierce, standing by Will slitting away his overalls, tugging at his heavy shoe, asked over ber shoulder: "Where's Seth?" "He's dead. No help for him, Luke Hills told her. Well, go stay with him, one of sne directed. 'Get along. you, And to Jenny: "Shut the door!" So Jenny and Marm Pierce were left to tend .the hurt man, and Marm Pierce as she bared the wound made little rueful whistling sounds between ber teeth, and Jen ny was cold as stone, all emotionc in abeyance, standing like Ice. "Get water boiling, Jenny," Marrc Pierce directed. "The doctor!! want that, certain. And fetch some wa ter here till I clean his leg all 1 can." Jenny turned to the kitchen, chunked the fire, pumped water, put the kettle on the stove;- ther she came back to the dining room, She bad not spoken. Will's eyelids wavered, opened. then closed again. He said weakly My team's tied, up on ridge road. Somebody fetch em home." "You hush up. Will." Marm Pierce told him. "You'll need all the strength you've got" She loosed the tourniquet a little, till blood flowed again, then tight ened It once more. She saw Jenny's fearful doubts of this procedure, and said: 1 dunno, Jenny. Seems like I've heard tell you've got to let some blood get through, or the leg'll die. I guess It's going to have to be cut off, though. No bone left . only Inches down splinters, for four-fivthe shin." Jenny nodded dumbly. "All we can do Is keep blm. quiet till tbe doctor comes," Marm Pierce confessed. "I can cure some hurts, this here Is too much for me." And later she said: "You put pillow under his head, and a blanket over him. to keep him warm." But when these things were done they could only keep vigil, till after a long hour the doctor did arrive. When that which bad now to be done was done, Jenny was left drained and empty, her muscles limp, her heart sick. Throughout she and Marm Pierce had helped the doctor; the old woman admin Isterlng chloroform drop by drop under strict direction, Jenny holding this and that as she was hidden. GUARD AGAINST FLEAS Find Shortage in World Wheat eaa4 are children In tapeworms SEVEN by dog liens accidentally get'lng Into the mouths of the children. To guard against flea Infestation of dwellings nl ins I pets should be frequently diluted with any Insert powder made from dried pyrethrura (lowers. This Is harmless to animals and human beings. If a nous becomes Infested the rugs, cracks In floor and other likely breeding places should be sprayed thorougnly with any of the lltjuld spray Insecticide Fleis will breed In carpets, cracks the door or any other dutiable place where the eggs may drop. If takes only 17 days from the time an 240,-000,0Production Less by egg Is laid to produce a flea In good The Insects are Bushels Than biting condition. renowned in scientific circle as the in 1934-3- 5 Period. carrier of many diseases. The do flea sometimes carries esp of a tapeworm, which when swallowed World wheat supplies outside Rus- causes worms In dogs. Occasionally sia and China this season are likely to be about 240,000,000 bushels less than In 10:14-3says the bureau of agricultural economics, In Ita cur one LEVEL teas poo niul rent report on world wheat pros to a for of flour most cup recipes. pects. World production, excluding Rus Scientifically made by baking sia and China, Is estimated at about SPECIALISTS to produce best results. powder or about 60, l.BL'OKKl.OOO bushels, 000,000 bushels more than last year; at the begin but world carry-ove- r nlng of this crop year was about 800.000,000 bushels, or 800,000.000 bushels less than a year ago. Russia Is reported to be harvest 2So ing a good wheat crop with fairly 25 ounces good yields In regions which comYou also can buy monly supply wheat for export 1 1 ! ounce can for tee Russia may export as much aa 80,- Sf ounce can for Sfe 000,000 bushels, but this may be off set to some extent by Increased Im -Double Tested Double -- Action ports Into China where the wheat crop Is reported smaller than In In 00 Economical u Dependable KG BAKING POWDER Same Price Today as 45 Years Ago for A? 1034. The bureau says the short sup plies of wheat In the United States may result In prices being main tatned close to an Import basis for all classes of wheat at markets east of the Rockies. The United States carry-ove- r Into the current season Is estimated at 152,000,000 bushels. and production on the basis of Au gust 1 conditions at COS.000.000 bushels. The total. 700,000,000 buRh-els, la only 133,000,000 bushels more than normal utilization of 025,000.- 000 bushels. 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