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Show THE hursday, Dec mber 21. 1939 MARTHA OSTENSO O MARTHA OSTENSO WNU Lovely, independent Autumn Dean, returning home to British Columbia from broad without her father's knowledge. ttoDS at the home of Hector Cardigan. old family friend. He tells her that she should not have come home, that nines have changed. Arriving home at the ' Castle of the Norns, she Is greeted lovmelv bv her father. Jarvis Dean, who gives her to understand that she Is wel come for a short visit. Her mother, former belle named Millicent Odell. has beon dead for vears. Autumn cannot understand her lather s attitude, though gives mm to understand mat sne is nome ior good. Her tamer gives a welcom ing a a nee at the castle. Autumn meets riorian farr, aasning, young man of the countryside. Late in me evening Autumn leaves me aance, rides horseback to the neighboring ranch where she meets Bruce Lanoor. friend and champion of her childhood days. He takes her to see his mother, aj Invalid. His father is dead, thought to have killed himself. As soon as his mother sees Autumn she commands Bruce to take her away, that death follows in the wake 01 the Udells. Autumn is both saddened and perplexed. Bruce, apologetic, can oner no reason ior nis moiner 8 auuui:. auiuiiiii cans auain on necior waraixaii m time to nna out tne reason ior Mrs. Lanaors ouiDursi. f rom nis conversation she inferred that (J eon rev Lanoor killed nimsell because he loved Millictnl Dean, her mother. Meanwnue, Bruce Lanoor noes to tne spot wnere nis tamer s there he meets Autumn. Autumn and tie talk 01 body wag found years before, and his father loved eacn otner their families. They agree that her mother cause of present antagonism. Florian Farr, at is the love that their and deeply the castle for dinner, proposes to Autumn. sne refuses mm. rne nexi aay Autumn meets Bruce in a herder s cabin. There they declare their love tor eacn other, and determine to stand together against everyone who mignt come between them. Autumn tells her father mat sne is going to marry Bruce. sne is aghast to see his reaction, and is agonized to hear him whisper mat oeonrey Landor did not take his own life. He tells her the story. Millicent, nis wile, and Geoffrey Landor had fallen in love with each other. Autumn heard Jarvis' hands mov ing siowty up ana aown me arms of the chair. I must have gone a little mad he went on after a pause. then." . t'T'L- .. ...... in wtW tWlHO to hold her. I knew mat. sne was gone already, you see. but i couion i let her go. I hoped that I mignt ao someinine to win ner oack, pernaos. The weeks went by, but I soon knew it was hopeless, bhe was kindness itself to me. but she would forget sometimes and go about tne nouse like one in a dream. She would sit with me throughout a whole evening and never speak a word. I became bold one day and went over to see Jane Landor when Geoffrey was in town. I asked her if sne knew wnat was eoina on oeiween iviuucem auu her husband. She denied that it was SO. DUt 1 Knew sne was iiuiv awaie of it. She was too proud to admit I was a little unreasonable, l dead." $: fc !f hand that had lain inert on the arm of the chair brushed across the stricken eyes, "my poor little Autumn there seems no end." She lifted her head proudly. "You are wrong," she said. "There is an end even to this." Her breath caught her. In spite of herself, like a barb in the throat. "I must have been mad tonight but I didn't know." She threw her arms fiercely about him, all the pride and loyalty of her blood in the embrace. He patted her hand, and his lips moved without a sound. Presently they got up together and walked in silence out of the room. Autumn's arm about her father, his hand leaning heavily oa her cent that it had tt be either him or me. It took me a minute or so to understand what he meant. He was actually challenging me to a duel. He looked magnificent as a god as he stood there instructing me with cool arrogance what I must do. Even then I did not believe that he To meant to go through with me it seemed an insane thing, even in those days. Then he called me something it was an epithet that not only involved my own honor but Millicent's as well and I struck him. I struck him with all my might. I wanted to kill him. He lifted his hand quickly the one with the revolver in it probably to guard against the blow perhaps to kill me. I do not know what was in his mind. I saw him fall face downwards and I heard his gun explode at the same instant a sort of muffled sound. I watched him then, and waited for him to get up. But he didn't rise. I kneeled and turned him over. Geoffrey Landor was Continued Good-b- SERVICE THE STORY THUS FAR CHAPTER V "So long, darling!" she sang and jumped quickly into the car. "Take care of yourself," he said huskily, "and don't drive too last. By PtoL it CHAPTER VI Throughout the interminable night Autumn knelt at her window In the darkness, watching the stars wheel across the sensuous velvet of a sky lately cleared of rain, until at last the blood red sail of a waning moon stood in the west, and she knew it was only a brief hour or so before dawn. Cramped with chill, she crept back into bed. In the fitful sleep that came to her, she dreamt that Bruce Landor was dead, and that somehow she had caused his death. She awoke to a thin, gray daylight, to find that her face was wet with it Autumn's burning eyes were burguess, i tola ner wnat i mougm 01 n unmnn wnn n kphd ner ied against his knees, but no tears husband to herself. She told me to came. The image behind her lids go home and look after my wife. seemed to have seared away all That was the last time I spoke to emotion. Jane Landor, except for politeness "What I did immediately after when we met in public." that I do not know," Jarvis continHis voice had become very low ued. "My memory there is a blank. I think I dragged his body to the now, but strangely controlled. water to revive him if possible. MilliI knew and came, "Spring I saw he was past all help, I cent and Geoffrey were having ren- When left him in the shallow water, face not was a breath there but dezvous, downstream at the sound of the of scandal. I said nothing at first. shot. I looked around me and wonI could it stand I said nothing until dered what I should do. And in I no longer. Then I gave orders. the stillness came only the chirpI made Millicent a prisoner in her of the partridge chicks. I turned I forbade her going ing own house. and ran out of the gully. When I anywhere beyond the grounds unless reached the open, on the top of the I went with her. Perhaps I was hill there where the trail turns eastfoolish in that. At any rate, I kept to the sheep camp, I sat down them apart. Millicent didn't pro- ward and thought of what I must do. I one been of If had her this test. became very calm. I soon knew silly flirtations, you see, she would there was but one thing I could do. have died rather than give in to me. If I had gone to the authorities and But it wasn't. This was real to her told just as it all had and she didn't utter a word of come my storyI would about probably not protest. She obeyed me to the let- have been believed. I wouldn't have ter. Presently I heard that Geof- minded that although life meant frey was drinking heavily and neg- much more to me then than it does The his of that work. gossip lecting now. What I did not want was that was on every tongue. When he was the whole story involving Millicent found shot to death by his own gun to light So far should be brought it was easy enough to suppose that as anyone knew, Millicent and I it was either suicide or accident." were as happy together as we had Autumn gathered her hands to always been. For her sake as much as for my own, I think, I resolved gether tightly about her knees. "I had gone up north to look at to say nothing about it to anyone. I some wolf traps I had set the day came back home. Late that night Yefore. I had told no one I was go- I saddled my horse and left word ing there, for I wished to be alone that I was riding down to Absolom's ri the woods and think over my camp. Something drew me back to Iroblem. It was early summer and the spot where I had last seen Geof went on loot, i carriea a rownng- - frey alive. I think I expected to iece with me in the hope that I find him alive still. I don't know. I tnight raise a partridge along the rode at far as the entrance to the ay. Millicent was very fond of the gully and halted to listen for some reast of partridge. It was still ear sound that might reassure me. As ly afternoon when I went out along I stood and listened, I heard nothing but the mad chirping of the parle way we go to Absolom's camp at down the gully you wanted to tridge chicks. I have never gone How that morning after you came back there since. The next day, one ime. At the farther end of the of his own men found Geoffrey's rches I flushed a couple of body where I had left it I went to and brought them down. I Millicent that night and told her on and inspected the traps I that I was sorry. She had been V set. I found I told her exactly what them empty and weeping. irned the same way I had come. had happened. She did not look at I entered the birches, I , came me. She said, 'Your secret Is safe n a brood of partridge chicks with me, Jarvis.' Before the end kept running before me and of the summer she died of a fever." His voice was emotionless now as aing under leaves and keeping the odi alive with their ceaseless the stark tale came to an end. He rping. I realized then that they leaned forward slightly and clasped re the brood that belonged to the his hands. ace of birds I had bagged only an "Now you know why I did not ur before. I was sorry for them. want you to come back here," be remember, even then." said simply. "I did not want you a He paused for long time, and to come back to this." weariness gh of unutterable "You have nothing to fear, Da," emed to pass all through his body. Autumn murmured. utumn turned slightly and clung "Nothing to fearT God In heavenl his knees. Geoffrey Landor destroyed my life. It was there that Geoffrey Lan It was not enough for him that he ' rode down upon me." Jarvis robbed me of my wife' love. He id at last "He had evidently been laid upon me the responsibility of inking. I don't know what it was his own death. I have never recovat brought him down there Just ered from that Autumn. I have en. He couldn't have known that borne It all these year In secret was there. No one knew. He And now you tell me you want to "mcd surprised at first and looked marry the son of the man. It will me as If he did not know me. kill me." n he got down Ircm his horse As though she were suddenly InI came to where I was standing confronted me with an insolance vested with atostrength not her own. her feet and smiled I shall Autumn got . put me beside myself. as she extended her r that taunting laugh of his to down at Jarvis hands. dying day and Into eternity. I "Come. Da," she said softly, "it J to quiet him. Knowing that he must be as though It has never l been drinking, but it only We shall never speak of it him the more. When I turned go away from him, he stepped aj:ain." He looked up at her and smiled irldenly in front of me and whipped it his revolver. He told me he in whimsical sadness. "My poor little Autumn," he said, and the ould not go on living without Milli1 par-idg- an-e- d hnp-prnc- NEPHI. UTAH TIMES-NEW- y good-byl- His voice was emotionless now as the stark tale came to an end. tears. In the reality of her dream, she turned over on her pillow and gave herself up to despondent weeping. Later at their early breakfast table, which Hannah had made lovely with a centerpiece of daisies and cowslips on a yellow linen cloth. Autumn met her father with a mood as fresh and bright as Hannah's flowers. She had dressed in a skirt and Jacket of bright blue wool, with a gay ruffled blouse of sheer batiste, a costume which had once before drawn from Jarvis one of his rare expressions of pleasure. "I'm all ready to leave for Da," she said. "I do wish you were going along. It would do you heaps of good," He looked at ber with surprise. "I didn't think you were going till this afternoon," he said. "I've changed my mind," she re plied. ' Hannah brought In the steaming cereaL As the old woman busied herself about the table. Autumn stole a glance at ber father. It was apparent that he had had a sleep less night Haggard lines under scored his eyes, and his stern mouth was set in a straight line of pain But his manner betrayed nothing of what be had suffered during the night He glanced up with a heavy frown at Hannah. "Did you remember to salt the oatmeal this morning?" be asked with elaborate severity. Hannah glanced at him disdainfully. "Salt causes hardening of the she retorted. arteries," "There's plenty in yon porridge for you, sir." Autumn laughed, and Jarvis pre tended to heave a deep, patient sigh The meal progressed with small talk of things about the ranch, of the children of Tom Willmar, the foreman, of the likelihood of a good fruit and hay crop. If Autumn had never before been grateful for the presence of old Hannah, she gave silent thanks now to that homely, faithful body who sat at table with them, unconsciously helping to tide them over a painfully difficult hour. The meal finished. Autumn prepared at once to leave for Kelowna. She did not again urge Jarvis to accompany her, but before she got Into her car she threw her arms about his neck and clung to him for a long moment without a word. "No doldrums now. Daddy," she whispered. He smiled at her, a grim, twisled smile, and she slapped him mannlsh-lon the shoulder and then was obliged to turn away as she saw the tears start to his bleak eyes. r. HOW-T- 9. SEW r-- Ruth Wyeth Spears c? AROUND $THE HOUSE " Unheedful of the Laird's warning. she drove with reckless speed over the winding road, shutting out from her senses the painful beauty of the morning, with its assailing colors and perfumes of wildflowers that carpeted hill and glen. Where this sun slanted across a smooth hillock, violets, buttercups, larkspur and blue-eye- d grass would be shining under dew as though beneath a great glass dome, and if she glanced aside in a sweet leafy dell, there and iris would be But these were and lady's-slippenot for her now, she thought bitterly, as she stared at the road that ran crazily before her, uncurling like a toy serpent of painted paper. Where the trail branched south ward to Kelowna, she swung her car to the left and followed the road to Kamloops. The morning was young and there would be plenty of time to run in upon Hector Cardigan before going on to the Parrs'. Old Hector was at work among his flowers in front of the house as she drove up. She blew her horn and he lifted his head and looked at her. "Well, well!" he greeted her as she came through the gate. "You're abroad early." "I'm running away, Hector," she replied with a laugh. He cast an anxious glance at her. There was no way of telling what notions these youngsters might take. Besides, the girl was an Odell. "From whom this time?" he enquired, half banteringly. "From myself, of course," she stated. "Who else?" Old Hector shook his head. "You'll not find that easy, my dear," he observed. "But come along into the house." She ran before him up the steps, through the open doorway, and into the drawing room where all the shades were drawn to exclude the morning sun. "Let's have light. Hector!" she cried and hurried from one window to another to lift the shades. "One would swear you were trying to hide something In this old house of yours. It's positively spooky!" He watched her, a helpless ex pression In his eyes, then smiled faintly as she tossed her gloves and hat upon a chair and helped herself to a cigarette from a box on the PAGE SEVEN Nuts. When finely Chopping chopped nuts are needed for cakes, salads or sandwiches run the nuts through a machine. food-choppi- Making Muffins. Muffins should be mixed just enough to moisten all ingredients, but should not be stirred. Stirring develops gluten in the flour and makes the muffins elastic and tough. Read the labels on canned foods. Many tell the number of slices contained in the can. Others give additional useful information about the contents. j THEN STITCH IT About Grapefruit. A soft, dis colored area at the stem end of grapefruit indicates decay and lecay, even in one small spot, will affect the flavor of the whole fruit. a "There's little a man of my age has to hide from the world," he said slowly. But you keep that little very well hidden, don't you?" she countered, lighting her cigarette and tossing the match into the fireplace. There was something in the girl's mood that made him apprehensive. He moved uneasily to his accus tomed position with his back to the open fireplace and clasped his hands behind him as he looked down at her. One never knows how well a thing is hidden, my dear, until someone attempts to seek it out" he replied evasively. Autumn looked about at the tapestry-hung walls, then flicked the ash from her cigarette. "Nor how poorly it is hidden until someone blunders upon it" she added. He smiled and rocked back and forward on the balls of his feet. He wondered what the girl was getting at "Quite so," he agreed, "quite so." Autumn got suddenly to her feet and tossed her cigarette away. "What a romantic old fraud you are!" she said abruptly. "Me? I have never thought of myself " "Hector," she Interrupted him, "why didn't you tell me everything you knew when I came here to talk with you last week?" He regarded her suspiciously, "Did I withhold something?" be asked her. I am 5he eyed him narrowly. asking you why," she replied. Hector's look was a challenge. "1 prefer to be my own judge, my dear, as to what I shall tell con cerning other people or concerning myself, for that matter," he said. Autumn stepped close to him and laughed a little shrilly, he thought. a little bitterly. "Don't you get hoi with little Autumn, now, she chidcd mockingly. "You can keep your old secrets. I know all that's worth knowing about them. anyhow." Damn the girl's taunting mood. Hector thought to himself. She was her mother all over again. How often he had seen Millicent turn rud denly flippant when she wanted to conceal her true feelings, whether of disappointment over a trivial thing or of grief so deep that it broke her Impetuous, wild heart "The gesture seems oddly fa mil lar." he observed. Autumn's anger flared suddenly. "It will become even more fa mil lar, then," she retorted. "I have discovered who I am. From now on, I'm through with trying to be what I was never meant to bet It can't be done. I'm going to be my. The old self. Hector Cardigan!" man's face had gone strangely pale. "Don't look startled. Hector. Your secrets ere perfectly safe with me just as Jarvis Dean's secrets. It men choose to fall In love nnd kill each other over a woman, It s no affair t'f mine. Let the tradition go on. It's the Casque bell. Hector, and nothing that you ur I can ever do will ever tnn it rirtinff!" Picking Lemons. Lemons that skin and are lave a leavy for their size are usually f a better quality and have more luice than those that are coarse' .extured and light in weight. K Jf . PATTER m fine-textur- Protect House Plants. 7n VtVl 'rDOIMTOX II Amssfty 1 Drafts t " J7 jr.i. fix v. HEM SEAM Patchwork border for lunch cloth. air or night temperatures that approach freezing handicap 'TPHE new uses for crazypatch and print sections apart and use louse plants. It is best to remove Book 3 have them for patterns in cutting the in stitches Sewing them from windows for the night. inch seam aroused so much interest that it fabric pieces adding set us to thinking of smart new at all edges. Df cold -- Attractive Centerpiece. A wood sn salad bowl of the hopping variety makes an attrac tive centerpiece for the holiday party if it is filled with appetizers assorted. Surround the bowl with aolly, pine and mistletoe sprigs QUICK Sentinel QX Fcaturet SUCCESSFUL DEMOCRACY chief problem of democracy, if it is to be euccesstul and continu ing, is the moral education and guidance f the individual, and not the suppression of the individual in the supposed interest of some mass or group." Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University. ''TpHE ASK ME ANOTHER ways to use pieced quilt block This border pieced of designs. small patterned cotton prints of all kinds and colors put together with red and blue strips is the result. It is very striking and decorative for lunch cloth shown here which, by the way, is made of unbleached muslin bags. The seams where the bags are joined to make the cloth the desired size are covered with straight bands of the red and blue material as shown at the right. The diagram at the lower left shows you how to make a pattern for the blue, red and print pieces. Cut a triangle of stiff paper 4 inches high and 7 inches wide at the base. Mark the blue strip 1 inch wide along the left edge as shown and then the red strip joining it on the right edge. Now cut away the top and lower right corners as shown. Cut the red, blue O The Questions What does being sent to Cov entry mean? 2. What is the national language of Brazil? 3. Is there any difference be tween savor and flavor? 4. What is meant by a country's favorable balance of trade? 5. A procurator, a peregrinator and a promulgator. One is a lawyer, one a publisher, and the other a traveler. Which is which? 6. Is a silverfish a member of the finny tribe? 7. Why are macadam roads so called? 8. Can any person in the United States obtain a patent? 9. What is the difference be tween insulation and isolation? 10. From where is the word car rousel derived? 1. NOTE: Readers who are now using Sewing Books No. 1, 2 and 3 will be happy to learn that No. 4 is ready for mailing; as well as editions of No. 1, 2 the and 3. Mrs. Spears has just made quilt block patterns for three de signs selected from her favorite Early American quilts. You may have these patterns FREE with your order for four books. Price of books 10 cents each postpaid. Set of three quilt block patterns without books 10 cents. Send orders to Mrs. Spears, Drawer 10, Bedford Hills, New York. nt 'FOX XMAS STOCKINGS . . Mi A Quiz With Answers Offering Information on Various Subjects i It's a household insect. John Macadam, who in vented the process. 8. The only persons in the Unit ed States who cannot obtain a pat ent, or hold a right or interest in a patent, except by inheritance or bequest, are the officers and em ployees of the Patent office. 9. Insulation is separating by nonconducting materials. Isola tion means being apart, secluded. However, that which is insulated, is also isolated. 10. Carrousel, meaning a merry- is a word from the French, and means a tournament, a tilting match. It was applied to the maneuver of cavalry troops in an exhibition of various evolutions. The name was given to the merry- because of the resem blance to a tournament of cavalry men. Salt Lake's NEWEST HOTEL i 6. No. 7. For rf? - - j I " i d, Hotel TEMPLE SQUARE Oppotha Mormon Tcaipta HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Rate $150 to $3.00 It'l mark of distinction to (top r this beautiful hostelry ERNEST C. BOSiUTKB, Mrr. go-rou- The Answert I. To be excluded from the so Costly Murder Trial The costliest murder trial of ciety of the people to which one modern times was that of Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, which belongs. 2. Portuguese. started in May, 1921, and ended 3. Flavor refers more specifical with their execution in August, ly to odor and savor to taste. 1927. 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