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Show Thursday, November THE 7, 1933 text of activity; and Saladine told thera his name and errand here. The road in here fooled me," he I thought It'd bring me explained. to Carey's. It looks like a traveled road." Khe nodded, with clucking chuckle. TIs!" she agreed. "A lot of peo ple come to here, take It by and Ben large !" "Why?" Her little black him. "If you lived here, you'd have Pierce," she told Ames! William eyes twinkled at anywhere around heard of Marm blm, a crotchety pride in her tone. "Folks come to me for doctoring. Yarbs and sim ples. I've healed a pile of hurts in my day. i SYNOPSIS Jim Baladln listen to the history of neighboring Hostile Valley, with gossip of th mysterious, enticing "Huldy." wife of 'Will Kerrln. Interested, be drives to the Valley for a to day's finning, though admitting himself hie chief desire Is to see the "Old reputedly glamorous Huldy. Marm" Pierce and her nineteen-year-ol- d granddaughter Jenny live in the Valley. 8ince little more than a child Jenny has at first admired and then deeply loved young Will farmer, older Kerrln, neighboring than she, and who regards her still as merely a child. Will takes employment In nearby Augusta. Jenny la disconsolate. Bart Carey, someIs attracted thing of a by Jenny, but the girl repulses him. Learning that Will Is coming y home, Jenny, exulting, sets hi bouse "to rights," and ha 'dinner ready for htm. He come bringing hi wife. Huldy. Th girl' world collapses. Huldy becomes the subject of unfavorable gossip In the Valley. Entering his home, nnlooked for. Will finds seemingly damning evidence of his wife's unfaithfulness, as a man who be knowe la Seth Humphreys breaks from the house. Will overtakes him, and choke him to death, though Humphreys shatters hi leg. with a bullet. At Marm Pierce' house the leg Is amputated. Jenny goes to break the new to She finds Bart Carey with Huldy. the woman. When he leave Huldy makes a mock of Jenny's sympathy, declaring she has no use for "half a man." and Is leaving at once. Will legally exonerated, and with a home-mad- e artificial leg "carries on," hiring a helper, Zeke Dace. back. Months later, Huldy come Will, only warning her she must "mend her ways," accepts her presence aa her right. Two yeara go by. Zeke and Bart Carey engage In a light, the trouble arising over Huldy. Amy Carey commit suicide. Before Huldy's return Zeke Dace had been showing her attention, but Zeke had succumbed completely to Huldy' wiles. Saladlne comes to the Bad roads cause him to Valley. top at the Ferrln farm where be meet Huldy. ne'er-do-we- long-empt- 1 CHAPTER VI Continued 11 to face Saladlne. This Is my place," she told him. Her voice was rich and full. "A chance to get down t'the brook from here?" he asked. "Over that side," she assented "If yo're still a mind to go!" And She turned urged, almost cajollngly "You won't take any trout today. Brook's too high!" He would not argne with her. "Likely not," he agreed. "But I'm a mind to see the brook." He found the sleep path at one side. "What did you come here for. anyway?" she demanded, and her mouth was sullen, almost angry challenging. "To fish." he said, uncomfortably, To see Hostile Valley." "We ain't all hostile here," she said. She wag smiling again. "If you wa'n't In such a hurry!" He took one step down. "I might come along with you," she proposed. "If you asked me pretty, I c'd show you the nest holes." Saladlne was a man sober and contained; but no man could escape the disturbing force she emanated. His senses swam and bis cheek was brick red. "I'll find em," be blurted; and plunged down the steep path to ward the brook like one who breaks away from detaining handa From the foot of the precipice he looked up and back, his eye drawn Irresistibly. She stood poised on the very margin of the ledge. leaning a little over tt watch 'hlni : and he heard her laugh softly. Then he turned into the woods. relieved to be away. Be supposed she would go back to the house: but so far as Saladlne ever knew she did not return to the bouse again before she died. she CHAPTER VII TENNT went down brook that morning to do Marm Pierce's bid ding In the matter of the lily root The girl made her way to a pool she knew, with a rip of singing water at the head, crawled out on a log and lay at length, reaching deep Into the water with a heavy kitchen knife to loose one cf the roots from the mucky bottom. Saladlne came npon her while she was thus en "A real doctor can't make a living here, so they come to me, and pay me with help in bay time, or they my wood In, and do the chores too heavy for Jenny.' him, and to watch alertly, waiting that's 'It must be hard for Just tne two to overtake the other. But It was not a man whom pres of you," be hazarded. Marm Pierce eyed him shrewdly. ently he encountered, but a woman. 'Now yo're wishing you dast ask lying along a log which extended "You've Into one of the pools, with ber bead questions," ahe guessed. lower thad her heels, her ankles got eyes In your bead to see the looks of this house, and you've got crossed, aud her heels toward blm. a bead on you to wonder about the In While be checked his tracks. still and astonished, she brought why of It 1" She related, almost proudly, ber up out of the water an object which he recognized ; one of the thick ancient stubborn quarrel with ber fleshy root stocks of the water Illy brother. He said, amused : 'Looks to me you cut off your She washed It clean, and then she rose to her bands and knees on the own nose to spite your face I" 'Folks get so they hanker for a log, and sat back on her heels, and so came to her feet and turned to fight around here." Marm Pierce face Jim on the bank behind her declared, "Quarreling with your kin comes natural in Hostile Valley. I here. Her dark eyes widened at sight take a heap of satisfaction out of of him ; and Jim looked at her with seeing the Win side of this house The go to rot and ruin. Serves blm pleasurable appreciation. right, I sayl" beauty which she wore was not "He around?" Saladlne asked. simple matter of hair and lips and "He sneaks back, oncet In so eyes, of coloring and conformation. She was, Saladlne thought. Ilium often, to see to't I'm letting things Ined and made radiant by some In alone." she said. "Or he says that's why." Her tone was dry with scorn, ward glory. Then old Marm Pierce asked: He told her : "I didn't look to run You say you come In by Will's?" Into anyone, this far from the road." "It's not far to where I live," she And at his assent, she said : "Will's said simply; and she asked: "Done a One man I tie deserves better I saladine explained: I left my anything?" "Not much." he said apologetics! car at Will's. Mis' Ferrln showed ly. "Some one fished down through me the path down to the brook." Marm Pierce's tone was suddenly ahead of me. That'd scare the trout I see his tracks. Likely he unfriendly. "Guess likely you vis ited with her for a spell?" Saladlne passed you?" "There's a steam mill working. shook his head; and the other said down below," she reflected. "Likely tartly: "It's a wonder she let you It was one of the men from there." get away 1" There seemed no reply to this She was clearly uneasy. "I've got to go," she decided, and before he but Saladlne, standing by the stove, could speak to detain her, she was was deeply uncomfortable. He had She vanished among the caught one foot between two bowl gone. trees, and he had an Impression of an almost musical harmony as she moved. The girl set out for home swift pt ly, disturbed by this encounter, her eyes watchful of the woods around. She came back to the house, and Marm Pierce saw her uneasiness and asked: See "What happened, Jenny? some one?" "A man, down brook," Jenny ex plained. "Fishing, he was." She hesitated. "He didn't bother me,' she said. "He was kind of like Will, But he said he'd big, and steady. seen tracks all down the brook, along the path. I didn't know who might be around." This man. did be look like be might be from Augusta?" "No, Jenny shook her head. more like folks around here," she declared. "But no one I ever see before." They exhausted the subject presently, and must by and by have for gotten It But a little before noon, when he was done fishing, Saladine, mistaking Will Ferrin's directions and seeking the road to Carey's, took the way In to Marm Pierce's farm instead, and so came to the house divided. Marm Pierce and Jenny were Id the dining room when rain suddenly began to fall. Jenny rose to close a window,' and as she did so, Saladlne came running around the house to take shelter on the porch ; and Jenny called over her shoulder: "Granny, here s that man 1 see down brook 1" They saw him pass the windows and go toward the kitchen door, and the girl made haste to open to htm there. When Saladlne thus saw Jenny again, he was surprised afresh at her beauty, and amused at this sec ond encounter. The rain bad wet 'ted him. "Come in and set" Jenny Invited Yo're him. "Till the rain's done. snaked through I" She pushed the screen door wide. "I'll drip on your floors," Saladine "And It's not cold! pointed out I'll stay here on the porch till It Then maybe you can put passes. me on the way to Carey's." "Come in, come In !" Marm Pierce insisted. "Water won't hurt the floors, and you'll catcb your death out there!" So he leaned the loose sections of his disjointed rod against the weather-hoardewall and stepped Into the kitchen. "1 fished down brook, after I saw you." he said to the girl. "It's all bog. below there. I got enough of that, and cut hack up to the road. Will Fer rln told me to take the first road ." right When h. opoke thai name, the girl's pulse caught, then pounded In quicker beat. To think suddenly of Will could always shake her long She stepped hack. Into composure. the shadowed end of the kitchen by the sink : hut Marm Pierce she had put aside her knitting came nut from the dining room and said briskly : Raged stream any Along he a trail that will there is sure-tlead even a stranger to the most advantageous spots from which to try each pool. Saladlne was quick to discover such a path here When he first found It, he saw a hont track In the muck, and knew that another angler had gone down He this same mnrnlng brook thought regretfully that If the nth er limn had fished the pools, the trout would he not n rendllr re '('hunk up the fire. Jenny,' and gpotioive now; and as he went on. tie hegun to wonder about this ninn to Jim: "You get up close and dry." who had gone downstream before Jenny obeyed, glad of this pre well-fishe- o . . u into the dlniiiu room. There hldi'ous ringing in her ears, and sli stared at Huldy with lilimk, g hi zed eyes. Kveu Murm Pierce wan slur tied Into silence. Then Bart told them In explosive ejaculation: "She fell off the ledgi back of Will's. I fetched lier here-ca- se you could do anything." So Marm Pierce recovered her wli and took quick command. "Curry hei In here," she bade; and led the way Into the dining room. Jenny moved aside, and Bart deposited Huldy upon the couch against the further wall. Jenny saw that he was curl a ously disheveled. Something dead stub which he had brushed in bis passage through the wood bad gouged three deep scratches on his cheek; and the shoulder of his shirt was torn. His garments all were soaked, save that across the front of him, where be bad carried Hulda In his arms, the faded blue of his overalls was of a lighter hue than elsewhere. Her body, pressed against his, had kept the denlin there, save for two thin trickles, completely dry. And Jenny remembered that ledge where she had seen Huldy, lying In the sun, on a day long ajjo; and she remembered, shudderlngly, the steep declivity below. Then Bart was speaking, still panting a little. "I was fishing," be said. "Down below Will's place. Heard her let out a screech, and then a kind of thump; and I scrabbled up to the foot of the ledge and there she was. I low she's dead and done for," he confessed. "But I never took time to think of that!" Marm Pierce nodded. "Aye, done for, finally," she said In low, almost rw.v. NEI'III. UTAH TIMES-NKW- triumphant tones. "I could've lugged her home, np the hill," Bart admitted. "But It's steep, and I thought you might do something. It's some further over here than up to Will's; but It's easier going. Looked to me I could get ber here as quick as there!" He was rubbing his right hand with his left, and Jenny saw that the right was bruised and swollen, a split across one knuckle. "You hurt your hand," she suggested huskily. "Fell on it; fell and landed on a rock," Bart agreed. The girl turned toward the conch ; she stood beside It her back against the wall, her hands spread at her sides and her palms pressing against the plaster. She looked down at the hurt woman over her shoulder. sldewlse, with wide eyes; her tips were white and still Bart stood in the middle of the room. "I thought first off she was alive," he repeated. Marm Pierce said softly to herself, like an old crone mumbling some mysterious charm : "The blood still runs!" She darted out to the kitchen, lightly, swiftly, moving like a shadow; she returned with some white stuff In her band, and clapped this against the wound on Huldy Ferrin's neck, from which a thin stream flowed. She held her hand pressed there. "Dead, ain't she?" Bart asked huskily. "You'd best fetch WllL Bart," she directed. "What'll I tell hlrar Tell him anything yo're a mind!" she said Impatiently. "I'd better stay here," the young man urged. "There might be something I could do!" "I can do anything needs doing," Saladine volunteered. He saw C'd Show You the Best Holes." Bart's glance touch his bare foot "I sprained my ankle down In the ders, and had felt a sharp burning woods," he explained. "Marm Pierce pain in bis ankle. Moving a step was boiling up some liniment for away from the stove Just now, that me." hurt reminded him of its existence "Land 1" cried the little old womwith a pain so sharp that he winced, an. " "I declare, my wits are and limped. The old woman looked She flitted to the kitchen. at him shrewdly. "I'd be letting this boll dry in an"Your foot hurt?" she asked. other minute. Nothing stinks like "I twisted it" he confessed, and burned vinegar! What's the matter she came to her feet with a spry with me?" alacrity. Saladine followed her Into the "High time you was a'telllng me," kitchen. Bart stayed with Jenny in she said. "I can tend that for you. room. Set down and take off your shoe." the dining "I'll set It back to cool, or It'd She began to heat something In a the hide off you," Marm Pierce take saucepan on the stove. "How'd you decided, and suddenly she was busy do It?" she asked. He said with a smile at bis own with another saucepan, water, some from the cabinet clumsiness: "A fool thing. All down twists of herbs brook today, I kept feeling as if above the sink. "I might try a hot some one was watching me. So I steep on her chest" she whispered, "No good Just half to herself. kept looking back, and naturally I stepped Into a hole." And be said, standing by." And she called: "Jenny! Jenny!" watching' her: "This Valley's a The girl came softly to the door. for a gloomy place stranger, "Jenny, you loose her clothes," ma'am I Marm Pierce directed. "I'll want to ' She nodded. "It is she rub this on her chest, soon's It's folk "And for live ...it agreed. Get her wet things off. easy ready. I too. could tell you tales." here, And then suddenly she became mo- as you can, not moving her. Get a " tionless, her head cocked, listeni- blanket 'round her. Jenny tried to speak; and after ng. "Heavy foot she said softly, and looked toward the a minute she managed an assenting word. "Yes, Granny," she said, and outer door. Saladlne, seated, did not Immedl closed the door. Her knees were wavering; she ately rise ; and Marm Pierce was busy, so it was Jenny who crossed turned and set her back against the door, and stood there weakly, look to the door. She was thus the first to see lng toward the couch where Huldy's Bart striding toward the house broken body lay. So, slowly, at last ahe moved through the rain. He bore a burden In his arms, a woman. Her across the room. head hung down over his elbow, and (TO BE CONTINUED) her upturned face streamed with rain Huldy Ferrln. limp and still Weather Affects Human Efficient-- ; and broken I That dark red garStudies of the effect of at ment she ' wore was drenched and mospherlc conditions on human efshapeless now. ficiency show that the majority of Jenny Instinctively recoiled, but us work faster In the spring and Marm Pierce came to fling the door autumn than In winter and that we wide. Kart stepped up on the porch' accomplish more work than usual He crossed the threshold Immediately after a change In punting and bis dripping burden stained weather, not only on a clear day the clean scrubbed floor following a stormy period but ulse For an Instant none spoke. Jen during a storm following govern nv, like one poised for flight, backed days of sunshine. w holesome language and versation uml in kindly mental Bad Example to Use Baby Talk ple In THE CHECK The fenst Is gcioj until the reckon lug conies. con- A wise man said, "I am the sum total of all 1 have ever met." Our characters are made up of our reactions to the InlliKMiccs with which we have nuido contact. So It la very Important and vital that the best examples and the best Influences le given our children, In order that these may far outweigh those less desirable ones which they will Inevitably meet. A business man speaks of losses as renjesented by figures "in the red." 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