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Show THE Thursday, December 5, 1935 Mild no niore. She stood near the cabinet over the sink, where knives and forks and conking dishes were stowed away. Hurt wu by the door Marin Tierce wai Into the shed. between Jenny and the stove; and Sheriff Sohier sat In front of the oven with his greatcoat loose about him. Will v- 7 ItWKIAn CHAPTER wiinams LL-- Mf n IX 15 11 I - 97 IMl III Jff I Nothing to be afraid of." He too had seen her terror then! It must have bean plain, for them all to see. Hut even as she thought this, she realized suddenly that she was no longer afraid, and wondered why. And then, without Hpeakiug to Bart, she came quickly back Into the kitchen where were Marin fierce and Will. Her hand touched Will's sleeve, and peace filled her; and a deep enlightenment and certainty, like a revelation. Then the truck departed, and Bart and Sohier and Saladine remoment turned Indoors. After the sheriff appealed to Sulndlne. "Jim," he said. "Looks like you could figure something out of this business. I guess you was the last one to see Mis Ferrln alive." Saladine shook his head. "I don't see Into It at all," he confessed. Bart turned to Will. "How about Will?" be urged. you, "Didn't you hear her screech when she fell? I'd have said everybody In a mile could have heard that It sounded mighty loud to me." Will shook his head. "The noise wouldn't carry up to the farm, with the hill between, and the trees." lie looked at Saladine. "I mind," he said, "when you went off with Huidy, Zeke he come out of the shed like he'd go along after you. I stopped him, made him ft ay behind." And he continued after a moment: "Seems like I kep him there a sight longer'n It'd take you to get down to the brook. Supposing you didn't stop any time on the ledge." "I didn't." Saladlne said. There was silence for a moment ; then Will spoke again, gropingly. "By the time I figured you'd be gone," he explained, "I left Zeke and went into the house; but when It come on to rain, I wondered where Iluldy was. I come out on the porch and yelled for Zeke, but he didn't answer, so I went hunting them. I started to go down the path to the brook. But then decided there wa'n't any use In that." He added with a glance at Saladlne: "I see tracks where you'd gone down, where your boots had slipped. . . ." Saladlne spoke quickly. "Boots? I've got shoes on. It was someone else," he Insisted. "It wa'n't me." Will said stubbornly: "It was boot tracks that I see. Somebody with boots on had gone down the Jen I Continued o she wns silent; and Inter, when they came bark throiiKh the wet woods together, she decided that this was a niattor none should ever know. And thug resolving, she found strength for the task before her, and was at peace again. Iluldy was dead. Let It be by accident The world would presently forget that Iluldy had ever lived. When with Will she came back to the little house In the Valley, she had somehow stilled her fears. Till she saw the sheriff there. When they came In, she felt her strength drain away. lint then, and by Will himself, her foreboding wag turned Into fearful certainty; for Will said to this man: "Why, Sheriff, what fetched you here?" The sheriff hesitated. "I kind of hoped you'd bring this Zeke Dace back with you," he said, evasively. Will shook his head. "I dtinno where Zeke's eot to," he admitted In troubled tones. "lie wu'n't to home." And he persisted: "I5ut Sheriff, what fetched you?" Jenny was breathless, waiting for the answer. Then Snlndlne snid gravely: "I sent for him. Will." Will stared at Saladine. "What for?" he protested, bewildered. And then the sheriff said: "Why Will, the thing Is, It looks to every body as If maybe Mis' Ferrln didn't Just fall off of that ledge. They think some one maybe thro wed her Off." . Jenny's throat constricted The bounds were on the trail. As though from far away she heard Will stammer: "Killed her, you mean?" "Something like that" Will stood with his head bowed. "I guess not," he said firmly at last. "Who'd do that?" "I was thinking mayhe this Zeke Dace," Sohier suggested. But Will shook his head. "No Sheriff," he Insisted. "Whatever did happen. It wa'n't Zeke. He wouldn't go to hurt her." And he continued, half to himself: "There might have been some to hurt Iluldy; but not Zeke! Why, I'd as soon think I did It myself," he said. great Jenny felt the shock of strnn-glingly- blow. Then Bart chuckled. "That's a I mean, to think you'd hurt Iluldy," he explained, and he added hotly: "Not that blame you! She needed It." lie spoke to the sheriff. "Anyone around here will say the samel" Will moved a little toward him. "I don't take that kindly, Bart," he said. "I don't want that kind of talk from you or anybody. Not about Iluldy. Not now." There was, briefly, silence; but after a moment the sheriff snid, half to himself, In almost querulous Joke, Will. any-body'- tones: "It's a pity she didn't come to long enough to tell what happened to herl" And It seemed to Jenny suddenly that this familiar kitchen wa and very small, and crowded, stifling hot She felt strangled, ami her hand flew to her lips, and stark terror choked her. Then she saw Warm Herce watching her with eyes suddenly keen and shrewd; and she felt smothered, and shrank back Into the corner by the door. After the sheriff spoke, there was silence for a moment; then Jenny had a respite, for Joe Matthews, the undertaker, came out of the dining room. lie spoke to Will. "There, Will," he said. "I've done all that needs doing tonight; and If you want, I'll carry her home." He hesitated, added : "But If you take my advice, let her lay here tonight. I can 'tend to everything a sight better In the morning." Alarm Pierce said: "She's welcome to stay. Will !" Will nodded. "Well, likely that's sensible," he agreed. Jenny, while their attention wa thus turned away from her, opened the door and stepped out on the porch, grateful for the taste of cool, moist air. In the kitchen she heard the sheriff say doubtfully: "I guess, Joe, you'll want to go along home now. I don't know as I ought to leave yet, though. I'd like to see this Zeke Dace, first. But I wlsh't you'd bring Dor Har ris In the morning. I want him to look her over." When presently the undertaker came out to depart, Jenny drew nslcle out of his way. Sohier and Snlndlne crossed with him to where his truck stood, spoke with him there. Then Hart caiue out, and said to Jenny casually: Mint in there, ain't It?" And In fewer tones "Don't yon worry, trail." it And Jenny answered: "She said I could have him now! "I guess I kind of moved back, at that, away from her! It was like she'd slapped me!" Her cheek was pale, and she spoke almost humbly. "I didn't know what to do," she confessed. "So I Just tried to tell her It was all right, and 1 told her Will was coming." Her tones shook, then steadied. "And then she said It," she concluded. "She said, kind of slow and weak : 'Will knocked me off ' And she had to wait a minute, and then she said: 'He hit met'" The girl was silent for an Instant before she could go on. "Her mouth was still kind of laughing," she finished. "And she sort of coughed. I guess that was when A deep tremor shook she died." her. but her voice was firm. "She laid there, looking at me, and her mouth grinning at me; but I guess she was dead by then. Anyway, she didn't 6ny any more." She finished and was still, waitAnd suddenly she was very ing. tired, dreading what was to come. Yet for a while no one spoke at all CHAPTER X JENNY'S disclosure for a moment thorn all M.rm PIdpmi was the first to speak. "Whew!" she exclaimed. "I deZeke clare, "It's hot as love In hay time, And Bart spoke. "Guess had boots on, didn't he?" Will considered, and he nodded. "Likely," he agreed. "Yes, he did. I mind, now. He did." The sheriff stirred. "The way It looks to me," he decided, "Zeke's the one to find; and we ain't likely to find him, long as we're setting here 1" "Nor you can't find him outside," Mann 1'lerce cried sharply. "Show some sense, Sheriff! You couldn't see Zeke ten feet away, a night like this, if he was a mind to hide. Set down. Use your head, 'stead of your feet I Use your eyes !" "What good's my eyes going to do me here?" he urged. "There's been enough to see. If you wa'n't blind," she told him; and she looked briefly at Jenny. "Jenny," she called sharply. "You were almighty scared a while ago. I think you know something more'n you've told. You was down brook this morning. Did you see anything, hear anything at all?" Iler tones were Insistent Jenny, though her heart was pounding, spoke after a moment steadily enough. The way was clear before her now, all doubts resolved. But she only said : "I told you I heard someone talking, in was beyond the stove, near the other door. Impassive, waiting. Faladlne, watching Jenny, thought she seemed In this moment to wear s mantle of grace. She looked nt Will and her eyes held his, and her tone was gently mirthful. "She told me you did It. Will," said Jenny, with a smile on her lips. nd her glance serene. Bart ottered a low ejaculation; but Marm Tierce spoke In brisk Insistence. "How come yon didn't call me?" "I dldnt want you." Jenny told her gently. "The more fool you !" said Marm Pierce briskly, her patience near the breaking point. "What happened?" she demanded. The sheriff spoke heavily. "Mis Pierce, you let her tell It her own way," he urged. So Marm Tierce was silenced; and Jenny's eyes turned again to Will. The big man shook and swayed where he stood, as though this that Jenny had to say had struck him nerveless. Then Jenny faced the sheriff steadily and she said: "Mis' Ferrln looked at me. and her mouth twisted Into a kind of laugh, and she said something. First off. I couldn't, hear her. She was awful weak, and I leaned down and 1 said to her. It's all right. Mis' Ferrln T And she laughed at me. I mean her mouth twlsled as If she was trying tot And this time I heard what she said." Marm Tierce exploded In a fierce Jen"Oet on with Impatience: ny! What did she say?" the woods." Marra Tierce came closer to the girl. "Jenny, I can see more than most; but I can't see everything. What was It scared you, a while ago, when the sheriff said that about wishing Huldy had come to. before she died? What was It Jenny?" shp demanded. Jenny looked at Will's bowed head, and her smile suddenly was radiant as the sun. "It don't mean a thing to me now," she protested "Because I can see It softly. wa'n't true." "What was It, Jenny?" the old woman Insisted. "Iluldy did come to, for a minute, before she died," said Jenny here I" Bart opened the door Into the shed, to admit some air. The sheriff crossed his feet and sat in a deep embarrassment His shoes scraped on the floor; and Marm Tierce said: "I smell a lamp smoking." The lamps here were all In order; but when she opened the door Into the dining-roowhere Huidy lay, a reek of soot and smoke The old woman bustled emerged. In there, complaining, scolding the absent Joe Matthews. "Takes a man to make a mess of things," she protested. She brought out the lamp. Its chimney black. "He left It turned up too high." she declared ; and replaced It with another lamp, and they heard raise the windows a little from bottom. "I'll air out a mite," explained, talking to herself in her the she the other room. Then she returned, shut the dining room door again. "Well!" she ejaculated. "I de- clare, I've had about enough of the goings on this day. Jenny, why didn't you tell me this here before?" Jenny looked at Will, and she said: "Because first off I was afraid She smiled steadily. It was true." "Only I knowed that even If It was, I didn't care!" "How do you mean, you didn't care?" the sheriff asked. In a dull perplexity. But before Jenny replied. Marm Tierce spoke. In a sort of defiance. "I'll tell you that. Sheriff." she snid. "The thing Is, Will and Jenny had got to like each other mighty well, before Huldy come bnck after that time she went away. Will he's tine: and so's Jenny. No' harm In It. I hoped Huldy'd not come bnck ever. It looked to me that WllI'd be bet ter off If he was rid of her for good and all. But when she did come Jenny, she didn't see him after TIMES-NEW- S. NEPHI. UTAH Will's defense. "She needed It bad! But he never meant to knocK her off the ledge!" Jenny cried, swift. Indignant "Will never touched her. Hart!" "I know he didn't," Burt loyally agreed. "But I'm just saying, it he did!" "He didn't!" Jenny repeated crisply. The sheriff looked up at ber "How come you to be so sure, Jen n y 7" be asked In sober tones. "If I wa'n't sure," Jenny chal lenged, "d'you think I'd ever have told yon, or anybody, what she In- Petal Pillow or Bag for Pajamas Br GRANDMOTHER CLARK saldr wouldn't want to marry a man that'd kill his wife, wouln you?" Sohier urged; and Jenny's eyes met his fairly, and hers wert misty with deep tenderness. "II didn't," she Insisted stead fastly. "But I'd want to marry Will any way It come, and no matter what he done!" "Well, that ain't telling me how you know he didn't do It?" the sheriff related doggedly. "What made you sure, all of a sudden, now?" "Just coming to my senses," Jenny decided. "I was kind of numb for a while; but then after I'd been with Will for a spell, I was sure!" The sheriff, surprisingly, chuckled. "I'd admire to hear you testify like that In court," he declared. "I'd like to see what the Judge would say." lie became grave again, and looked at last at Will. "How nbout It, Will?" he suggested soberly "Anything you've got to say?" Will, with all their eyes upon him, stood fumbling for words. "If it was anyone but Jenny told me, I wouldn't believe Iluldy said It " be declared. "Taln't true, I guess you'll say." "No. No. It ain't true." The sheriff frowned. "How come Mis' Ferrln to say a thing like that, then?" he protested. 'Don't seem as If a woman would tell a straight-ou- t lie, the minute before she died!" "She was out of her head, I reckon," Will offered. But Jenny said: "No, Will, she was same as always. She knowed me. knowed every word she snid." The man Insisted almost pleadingly: "Jenny, she wouldn't tell a thing like that only If she wa crazy, or out of ber head, or something." Marm Pierce had been silent long; but now she spoke, In sharp angry tones. "Will Ferrln, you're a fool!" she exclaimed. "I guess most men are, where a woman's concerned; but yo're a bigger fool than most. You know as well as anyone that Uuldy was no good !" Ills head lifted as though he would speak, but her voice rose. "Now don't try to shut me up. Will Ferrln!" she cried. "For I'm going to have my say! Land knows why Huldy married you; but everybody knows she was a bad wife to you. She was bad from her toes up. Dead as she Is, I'll say so. If it's the last word I do say. She'd have drove any man that wa'n't a saint or a fool to kill her long ago; but yon didn't kill her. You always would speak soft to Huldy, and stand anything from her, and come down hard on anyone that tried to tell you the truth about her!" She turned as though. on a sud den thought to the sheriff. "Will didn't hit her," she Insisted. "He wouldn't have the spunk to! He always did treat Huldy like a lady. no matter how she behaved. May he If he'd took a hoop pole to ber long ago . . ." But she checked the word, swung to Will again. "Will, you listen to me," she commanded him. "Huldy knowed what she was saying, all right; and she knowed she was dying, too. But If she could make Jenny believe you killed her, there couldn't ever be any happiness between the two of you; and that's what Huldy wanted. That's why she said what she did. So's to make it hard for you. and bitter hard for my Jenny!" And she said with a sudden pas slon In her tones: "Just for that. I'd put her out of my house this minute, dead thoi'gh she be. If It wa'n't for you. Will. A It Is, she can stay ; but you better get some sense Into your head ! She was a "Yoo man-chasin- lying, trouble-makin- g woman, and that's the truth of It, and I'm glad she's dead, if you ask me !" She finished and stood panting with her own pent rage, and looked at Will as though In chal lenge; as though she dared him to deny her words. And Jenny crossed to Will's side, not touching him hut ready there, and loyal. Then Will spoke slowly. "Ma'am." he told old Marm Tierce. "1 goes If It come to that. I knowed Huldy better than most. But 1 don't warn folks to talk about her so!" Then; was pleading In his tones. "Then don't yon play the dnmli fool to me." said Old Marm Tierce angrily. "Denying what's as plnin as day I She always would when she could. She set Zeke on Bart two years ago; ami Oie'd set Jenny against you now. If she con''' (TO HE COMIX I'M)) mnki-troubl- e that, till todny." She concluded: "But Jenny and Mutilation of Coins have married heTnre Will would credulity : 'I nere Is no pen.ilfy attiiehed to been married hadn't If never !" did this. Huldy she "Jenny, of coins or rurrencj "She to Will. Jenny loves him and he he destroying And Bart exclaimed; Smtes. There Is s United of the If of It. I'm If and glad couldn't, Jenny! Why, she was as loves her. niutllntlni coins nnt Jenny's fine, and penalty for good as dead before I ever got her ?omes to that. sort restoring them to rlr Will's a man !" here!" dilation. 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