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Show THEJORDANJOURNAL,MIDVALE,UTAH m.. ___;.!.;__ _ _ _ _ _ _ ~ By Robert Stead 4t~t!Nr •f"Tiu HOME AGAIN STNOPSIS.-Lured by his !our:vliar-old playmate, Jean Lane, )fank Hall, aged six. ventures on the forbidden wall of a dam, n a small Ontario town. He falls nto the water and Is saved from posalble death by cling-In~ to Jeans outstretched arms. Next day Jean Informs him that becapse of their adventure of the «ay before he Is In duty bound He agrees when ~. marry her. they are "~rrownups. " With Jean's brother, John, also aged six, Frank begins school. Two years later they are joined by Jean and Frank's sister Marjorie. A little later Jean confides to Frank, In verse, her hope ot some day becoming "Mrs. Hall." He accepts the "proposal." Frank Is fourteen when his mother dies. The boys are eltrhteen when John's father Is killed In an accident. Two years later Frank's father and John's mother are married. Dissatisfied with conditions, and ambitious, the two boys make plans to go to Manitoba and "homestead," the girls agreeing to ~ro with them. They set out. At Retrlna they meet "Jake," who a&"rees to find them satisfactory homesteads. He does so, and the two friends file claims on Sections Jo'ourteen and Twenty-two. Jake sagely advises the adventurera In the purchase of supplies, and In a wagon drawn by a yoke of oxen, and with a cow, the four arrive at their future homes. Construction of "shacks" and the making of a ~rarden are their ftrst occupations. A young Englishman of the name of "Spoof" Is a. neighbor. They call on Spoof, who Is living In a. tent. Spoof, on his return visit, discloses himself as a ma.n of varied soc!a.l a.tta.lnments. Fra.nk's jealousy Is a.roused. Marjorie discovers that they have a new nel&"hbor. "He" turns out to be a Mrs. Alton, a widowed Encllshwoman, who, with her threeyear-old son Gerald has taken up a claim. Frank and John leave the homesteads for a time to do harvest work for wa.ges on a longer-established farm. c- Prmc/on,""TM n-u.ukr."' WNUSerTiee Copyriabt b7 Robert Stelld weak lungs an' the broken knees an' the spavined joints, an' If a man pays me enough I put him wise, an' Lt. he j I let him get wise at his own don' . I expense,' says I. 'I'm a specialist, an' I charge llke a specialist,' I says. "'Humph!' says she, jus' like that. 'Between your fine words I flgger that you pick up a dollar now an' again by totln' these tenderfoot sod-b\l!lters out over the bald-headed.' I dunno where she got It, but she had all the 'Let langua~e necessary, an' more. me see your bank took,' she says. "So I dug It up, an' It showed a balance In my favor of forty-three dollars an' twenty cents. Fortunnte there was nothln' In It about the hundred dollars I owed at the livery stable fer the board o' the tlyln' ants, but I let sleepln' dogs lie. as the sayin' is. "'How old are you, Jake, dear?' she says, all of a sudden as smooth as oil. " 'Forty-three,' I says, perhaps because that was the figger in my mind at the moment, an' I was shnvln' It a little, at that. "'Then you've made a dollar a year-so far,' says she, dropping' back to her nat'ral voice that kind o' sounds like two mlllwbeels an' you between 'em. 'You'll die before you're sixty,' she says; 'I can see It In your eyes,' although I wasn't lookin' at her, findln' that rather painful, 'an' leave an e~tate o' less than sixty dollars. Jake, that wouldn't buy me an outfit fer the funeral, fer believe me I'm goln' to do you justice when the time comes. 'Ve're goln' to take a homestead.' "'Not me,' I says. 'The seat o' my democrat is as near as I want to get to a homestead. 'l'h<'y're all right fer sod-busters, but t.er a woman o' culture--' "I thought that would get her, but CHAPTER VIII-Continued she was as Jmperv'ous to compliments as an ox to an oration, so to speak. Say, In Shoals ot. 'em. ''Fish? "'Very well,' says she. 'It you • about four days I begun to get as \Von't take a homestead, I will.' much mall as a new mllllonnire. An' "'You can't,' says I, with sudden photographs I I wish I had some to toldness. 'You ain't a widow.' show you, but she--Bella-burned "With that she gives me another o' • 'em all up. They were what I call those through-the-~lzzard-and-nalled plctureR o' real life. I got so much to-the-wnll looks o' hers. 'I will be, '\nan the postman says to me, 'What- in about twenty seconds,' she says, 'it. ya doln', Jake; startln' a lottery?' an' there's any more discussion,' she says. I says 'Yep.' Guess I wasn't tar out, So here we are." at that. "Have you located?" I asked Jake, "Well, just as I was thlnkln' o' when he was silent tor a minute, and oln' to a business college an' hlrln' a seemed to have dropped off Into medi:few dozen stenographers, along comes tation. this telegram.'' He produced a yellow "Yep. It was easy fer me, knowln' sheet. as I do ev'ry willow between the Sou"Meet me at Regina station Thurs- ris an' the Saskatch'wan." We expressed the hope that Be'lla day five p. m. you'll know me I am the only one In the world. Bella. Donna.." Donna would prove a sticker. "She will," Jake prophesied. "Of "Well, I reckons right otf that Bella that ain't her real name: I course. Donna Is an alibi, or whatever you call a false name, an' that some 0 , jus' gave you that fer-fer Instance. the boys Is pulling a gag on me, but an' her first name's Bella, so It's halt. like a fool down 1 goes to the station, true, which Is a pretty good average an' there I saw her comln' right up In this country. Walt 't'll you see us, 'the platform llkf' a sandhlll crane out a-chariotln' behind the fiyln' ants over to J!'ourteen an' Twenty-two. I'm figof a marsh. I knew her, jus' like she gerln' on organlzln' a school dlstrlc' calls I up comes she when so said, right away." d bl J k W her hand. ess1ng an e gave a e our ''Madam,' says I, 'are you the lady watched him ride off in his wobbly o' the porous plaster?' " 'I'll plaster you,' says she, 'If you demoerat with Its spring seat Ullgive me any o' yer lip. But do you tilted t:o larboard and his fat figure happen to know a Mr. Jake?' says settling down like a sack with a 111fe, get tin' out a paper; 'here's his hat on it. Sitting on the grassy knoll, digestaddress.' "'Kno\v him!' Bays I. 'I should say ing our lunch by the aid of the straw!l so. An' In case you're thlnkin' o' which each of us was unconsciously marryin' him let me tell you some- chewing, we watched Jake until he Jake was a speck In the distance. thin', jus' between friends. "What do you make of It'?" said I buries a wife once a year, reg'lar.' "'He does, eh ?' says she. '\Veil, I'm at last. "I'm not saying," was Jack's cnupromlsln' I'll be a relic' before he's a widower,' says she. 'Relic' Is what tlous rejoinder. "Either he's married, she said, but It didn't sound right to or he Isn't.'' But we had occasion to be thankful me. "'That's bettln' on a cinch,' says L we had fallen In with Jotko, for he 'meanin' that she would get the red had been able to direct us to a farmer ribbon tor relics at Regina fair al- within a day's drive who hired both ready, t.ut my wit goes over her head, us nnrl our oxen t.or the harvest, or a ~It o!'en does, an' she comes back unt11 the beginning ot. threshing. a\ me with 'Wha'd' you know 'bout It was the middle of October, and therl! was a crisp tang in t11e air anybody marryln' Mr. Jake?' "'Everythln', says 1, humpln' my nlgt,( and morning, before we again wlahbone with Importance. 'Jake tells hit the trail for Fourteen and Twentyme ev~rythln'. I'm his splritooal ad- two. During all this time we had v· r, so to speak, which Includes no word from our homes, as there was matrimony. The women that wants no one to carry mall In or out, and It to marry Jake--lots of 'em rlcti, too, was wltb anxious and eager hearts madam,' I says. 'I'm steerln' him that we hurried Huck and Bright along clear o' them every day,• I says, 'part- the homeward winding trail. On the second day, as we were ly out o' sympathy tor them, on ac<'OUnt o' his-his severe habits,' 1 bowllng along at the tWo-and-a-haltmile-an-hour clip which Buck and says. " 'Who are you, anyway?' ~;ays she, Bright' considered the limit of furious an' with that I flashes my telegram drlvlni, Jack drew my attention to a oh her. 'I'm the party of the flrst speck on the horizon ahead ot us. It part,' says I, as they say In the law grew rapidly, and although there was no mirage this time to bring our visitor o!Dces. down from heaven, we soon were able pullln' S'l;~s. she Jake,' "'So you're heraelf up tlll all her anglc:s :-tood out to discern the scarlet uniform of the llke the haunches of a narved mu;}- mounted pollee. It came along at the tang. 'Well, you got " h-1 of a smart ~rot to which the pollee horse is educated, and In halt. an hour nerve', she says. "I begun to think maybe she was Harold Brook drew up beside us. "Bello. Lane and Hall!" the polleeabour right, but she iave me ~:o time man greeted us. "Getting back from tor reflections. "'Where's a preacher'!" she says. your ban·est excursloA~" So It was evident be knew we had 't'ou wanted speed, an' yer gotn' to cet lt.' With that she hustled me heen away, and why. But Jack, whethover town an' had me married before er he thought of this or not, answerec.l I knew It, so I'd b~ve to settle fer him cordially. "We're on the home stretch," he adthe svpper, as I flggered It out afterThen after supper we go to rnltted, "and old Fourteen and Twenward n/y shack an' she climbs Into my bus!- ty-two will look pretty good to us, ness papers like a bound after rar- :>Jter cook cars and cabooses.'' ~he llght:est kind of a smile filckered ba~e. • '\Vha'd' you do fer a Uvln', may I ! a !:.out Brook's lips. "And so It should,'' J he agreed, "with two tine girls such aslt ?' she says. "'Do!' says I, mustf'rln' all my dig- II.B ndorn vour respective homesteads. lllty. 'I'm a !<p<!elollst-a specialist In l was In the dlstrtct last night." -were the ldrls ""<P.UT"' r forced myllmd. ~ kn(JW tl>e sections wtta t.b• ' self to say, partly because I felt my silence was beginning to shout, and partly because ot a real anxiety about them. "I believe so. I didn't see them, myself; came In by the south and landed first with your neighbor, Spoof. CapItal chap: I stayed overnight with him, and smoked up nearly all of his English tobacco. At breakfast I finished his last jar of marmalade, so if Spoof Is !lying a fiag of distress when you reach home you will know the cause ot it. Imagine an Englishman without marmalade--breakfast without marmalade I My dear fellow, I'm English myself, and I-I assure you It Isn't done." "But the girls?-" I persisted. "Oh, yes. Spoof bas been keeping a neighborly eye on them. I meant to call on you, of course, but when Spoof t'old me you were away I stayed with him. He assured me that everyone Is fit at Fourteen and Twenty-two." This was good new~ and a weight otr our minds. Besides, it was evidence that In the twinges of my jealousy toward Brook I fell somewhat short of doing him justice. Brook wns a decent fellow, and was playing the game. "Just a suggestion," said the polleeman, after a moment. "This Is your first autumn on the prairies. and you can't be too caretul about fire. These warm days and frosty n1ghts are the most danrerous time of tbe year. I found Spoof bad no fire guards, so I showed him how to make them, and I took the liberty of hinting that he go over to Fourteen and Twenty-two and see that the buildings are properly protected.'' We t11anked Brook, and he saluted Rnd rode away, his red tunic slowly I Held Her and :<issed Her and Would Not L\lt Her Go. .f ading out of view In the cloud of dust which his horse kicked up from the bone-dry trail. "Very decent chap, Brook," said Jack, after a while, a nd I said , "Yes" . It was w lth a s t range poun dl ng ot. the heart that we at last discerned the outlines of the shacks of our little settlement. Mrs. Alton's came first Into view, then Spoof's, then, together, the buildings on Fourteen and Twl!nty-two. A gust of homesickness swellt up and toolt sudden IJ08sesslon ot. me, and I realized for the first: time how much I had become attached to the little square on the thousand-mile fabric ot the prairies which I had already learned to think of as home•. c Gaunt and bare they may be, but the prairies have a way of winding themselves about the heart with bands that are stronger than steel. It we had been anxious, we were eager, too: eager with the news of of our successful season's work; with Anticipation ot. the bright faces which wo~:ld greet the roll of crisp new bank bllls that Jack curried In an Inside vest' pocket: eager to display t11e !oat} ot provisions and supplies which hatl been bought with part of our earnings. We must have been fully a mile from the houses when we discerned the first evidences of life. A little figure darted out of the shack on Twenty-two to the edge of the gully: then for a few minutes sank t1·oru sight; then reappeared on our slue of the sh·earu and rushed Into the shack on Fourteen. Atmost Instantly two figures appPared at the door; paused for a moment, then swooped like wtld things down t:h<.' trail toward us. And we stood up on the top of the wagon and waved our hats and yelled like mad, until even Spoof down on section 'l'wo must have heard us. And old Buck and Bright, their phlegmatic souls at last awakened by that strange power that lle!J at the root of all creation and which Is friendship and love and all the shadings of al'l'ectlon which lie betweenor perhaps it was by the smell of the haystack at their own stables-jolnP.d In the spirit of the occasion and broke forth in n most surprising gallop, their hoofs cllck-clacldng and their tracechains lashing the whl1'fletrees as they ren. Soon we came up. and there wert> tile 1:Irlll, won<lt>rfnl, lithe. SU'JhnrnPd. ranlant. hatles~. gol!l<'n hnlr MJ·eamI l".g In the gold<>n li;!ht Ill tilt> j.'fi.J or I cl'lY. nrnw {'Xfl'Dil d. whitt' ll'dh i:lt•>llll- I measureless, Ineffable, In the beauty and wonder ot their young womanhood 1 We sprang from the wacon and-1 don't know how it happened-Jean ran straight Into my arms. Not Marjorle--1 didn't: see what became of her- I didn't stop to look:Jean ran straight Into my arms! I held her there, held her with the strength of ten weeks' harvesting In my muscles and of all my young hot boyhood In my veins; held her and kissed her and would not let her go. , . . For the first Ume sihce we had been little children togethel'; playin,i" by the dam where the waterwheel across the river tossed Its dancIng diamonds In the air, I held her and kissed ber and would not let her go. Aci·oss the fields of crisp and brittle grass we trudged together, disregardIng the trail and the measureless swoon ot that sunset world as we swept homeward on the fiood-tlde of our happiness. Iler firm little arm pressed tlgLt against mine and our limbs S\'-'Ung together In the rhythm of our stride. Anc.l when I lookeu down In her face I suw a light that was not altogether the glint of the setting sun. But In that most poetic moment of her llfe Jean forgot to be poetic. Once more she slipped her arm about me. "Gee, It's good to have you home • again," she said. And In what should have been my supreme hour I found myself wonder· lng whether Jean's pllsslon was love or just plain lonellness. CHAPTER IX That was a busy night on Fourteen. The girls confessed that they bad been on the lookout for us since the first of the month. They had even borrowed Spoof's field glnss so that they could sweep the horizon to the eastward far beyond Mrs. Alton's. "He's the strangest sort of chap, 1s Spoof,'' said Jean. "\Vlll you believe me, be hasn't been Inside this house since you lett? Used to welk over from time to time, and see that tne pigs and the cows were llvlng In harmony, and that the fuel had not given out, but was always In a rusJl home again. Never saw such a man for work: o.ulte different from what he used to be.'' Jack looked his sister over with an eye that did not reserve all its approval tor Marjorie. "We thought you would have been an accomplished banjoist by now,'' be said. "Not a lesson-not a single lesson ln all this time," Jean grumbled. "And now I suppose he'll be over tomorrow to Indulge us with the pent-up leisure ot two months!" Jean's nalvette wu ltttle greater than mine. We had been brought up with a sound training in the rudiments of behavior, but with little knowledge ot Its social complexlttes. My feeling in the matter was a mixed sense ot surprise that our neighbor, usually so friendly, had held aloof at a time when he was particularly needed, and of annoyance that Jean should be so obviously put out about it. The girls bad a strange treat In reserve for us. It was Jean who told us ot It, although, qs it seemed to me, her manner suggested a certain lack ot frankness very unlike Jean. It seemed that a t.ew dayi!J before our return a jack rabbit had loped up within easy distance of the shanty door, where he perked himself on his hind legs, taking observations. Marjorie took the gun down t.rom the wall, aimed It with great deliberation, and fired. Jean declared that the rabbit was not hit, but that he died qf fright. Be. that as it may, he furnished the filllng for a very deep and tempting ratblt pie. "And only to think," said Jean, her brlght eyes dancing, "It would scarcely have kept any longer. We were managing to freeze It a little at nights, but It would thaw out during the day.'' "I don't know but lt Is a little overkept as It is," Marjorie admitted, ''but we're going to eat it tonight." And so we sat about our little tnhle, with the great rabbit pie In the middle, ancl great helpings of white potatoes and onions on our plates, and flaky white bread and yellow homema(.le butter. within reach, and the light beating do"·n from an oil lamp on the wall, and would not have changed places with anyone on earth. The next day revealed c~anges In the neighborhood which we had not had time to notice or discuss In the evening. A number of settlers bod come ln. The girls bad not seen any ot them, hut could give almost as accurate d<>scrlptlons as though they had. It seems Spoo< had come over to l<'ourteen every Sunday afternoon during our absence, and, for all the shyness against which Jean had protested, he had managed to regale the girls with the gossip of the community, for our two little shacks were really becoming the center of a neighborhood. From Spoof they learned that the Browns had landed from England with three children and hardly anything else, and had built a shack on the southwest quarter of Four. Mr. Brown had been a gamekeeper In England. Ills wife was a wistful little body who seemed likely to have plenty to wist over Lefore her children were raised on the living that a ~mekeeper would wring- from the snll. On the northwest ot Eighteen, just four miles west oi ns, a S~'ottlsh shipbuilder named Smith hnd located. He appeared to be unmarried. Three miles north of us, on Thirty-four, a !-:\\•ede named Hansen had built a bank of the guH;r. Be, too, batl a wife and numerous offspring, but tbe exact number had not yet been ascel' talned. "Ay tank thar bane plenty," Ole Ham;en l:rad said, when discussing the subject with Spoof. And as Ole r~ garded his own six hopefuls as "yust a nlce commence," the Imagination was rather stirred by the possibilities of what the cave on Thirty-siX might disclose to the census taker. "How do you say his name?" Spoof had inquired. "Yah don' say It. Yah sneeze lt," Ole explained. "l:ineezlt-tbat'll do," said Spoof.. And so, quite without his knowledge or consent, our Russian neighbor was supplied wltb an Engllsh name; a name which may some day-who knows?-be borne with pride by one of our best families. Then there was Burke, an American !rom Iowa, a man with a lust for labor and for doing things on a big scale. He and his wife had landed on section Twenty about the middle of August, and, Ignoring the tradition that It Is useless to break prairie sod In the tall, had. already turned over a t.road S<rip from end to end of their quarter section. Burke it wa!l who Introduced mules Into tbe settlement. From what the girls were able to gather from Spoof mules called tor an even more extended vocabulary than did oxen. "And you want us to believe that Spoof told you all these things without ever coming Into the bouse?" I challenged. "Never a toot over the doorstep," said .Tenn. "That Is, hardly ever. It's a big country : why be so partlcular t.or a toot or two?" ''Oh, I'm not; not at all. I'm merely checking up what yon said la!lt night." "In my Intoxication over your return! How could you, Frank?" And with that I bad to be satisfied. "But the best Is yet I" Marjorie exclaimed. "Guess who's married?" "Jake I" we answered together. "Oh, somebody told. Yes, Jake. Be and his wife are settled on Sixteen. They've a little shack up, and Jake Is farming the Cf>mmunlty, as he calls 'Acquaintances,' he says, 'are lt. about all I'll be able to cultivate this year.' He spends most of his time at Spoof's, but I don't notice that Spoof's work goes along any quicker on that account. They called on us a couple ot. tlmerr-Jake and hls wife, I mean; they have the advantage over tha other settlers of having a Ught wagon and a team ot pon1es, which make it easy for them to get abont. Mrs. Jake Impresses one as being angular and competent, w!th perhaps more heart In her than her appearance would suggest They say It was ' an a,ency match.'' At that point we took up the story with Jake's account of his courtship and wedding, censored, of course, to suit the audience. ''That's mostly lies," said Marjorie, in her matter-of-tact way. "He advertised tor her all right, but be went to Minneapolis to meet her, and It was only when he promised to go on a homestead that she consented to come. She told me that much; said she'd had enough ot the town, and wanted to get away from everything and everybody. She has a touch ot humor, too; said, 'I guess that's what I did, all right, when I came out on the bald-headed with Jake.'" "But the telegrAm? He had her telegram." He "He must have faked that. knew he would meet you boys before he went back, and he had a story made up to show himself In the test light possible.'' "How about lllrs. Alton?" I asked. "8~1e doesn't come out. \Ye've gone over a couple of times, and she receives us with great friendliness, but wh'en we a8k her to return our visit she always makes out that she can't leave the boy. or course she could bring him with her, so that Is only l~or some reason she 'an excuse. wants to »tick close to her homestead.'' &da11 $77J, f. Puca11 f. He lost his temper. She liked him. ~hnnt.v twelve feet square, In which He knocked her down. She adored he was housPd with his wife and six ('!Jildn·n. nnd on Thirty-six a Russian him, and they lived happily evv . . had c.lug himself a son ot cave 1n w. 1 w.-.lt. s.. in LooClOA Mall $42, ·~2, ·~25 ·~95 $67, $69, $775 DURANT MOTORS, Inc. 250 West 57th Street, NewYork General Sale.. Dept.-1819 Broadway, New York Dtaltrs 1111J Stroitt StatzDns thrDughrult tlu Unitt4 St11tu Can11Ja 1111J Mtxur PLums Elizabeth, N. J, Laminc, Mich. Oakland, Cal. Toronto, Oat. that means love. When I write to Reggie, I use blue--that means "fait}). ful unto death.'' When I write to Clive, I use cream-that means "m:r first and only love." When-?' "But here," said Mr. Walter, "' changed the subject. As I was 887lng, movie queens have bli heart&" At Least They Have Room lor Many Loves "Our movie queens have blg hearts," aaid Playwright Eugene Walter at a movie queen's dinner in New York. "I called on a movie queen the other afternoon," he went on, "and found her writing letters. Her beautifully monogrammed stationery was In variApple Export• ous colors, and I said : Apples to the value of $24,'1r7,048 "'You don't stick to one eolor of were exported from the United State. paper, do you?' " 'Oh, no,' l!laid she. 'When I write In 1924, as compared with 49~688 to George, l; always use pink paper- worth In 1922. TIJ.r fDOfTUIIl'l exptri#ftt~ U ~pitllf of tJ:OUJIInJso 4sk "n:J physiti•n. "And to think I was poisoning my own Baby!,, 1tiea approve because it ia .o •fe. gentle and natural in it. aetioa.. Constipation is dangerous f~ anybody. Nujol ia 111.fe for evertIt doea not alfect the body. stomach and ia not abeorbed bJ the body, "I couldn't see why he didn't gain. I never dreamed that my constipation was responsible until the doctor told me. "He explained that faulty or slow elimination of waste matter allowed poisons to form and be absorbed by the blood-and this meant tainted milk for baby. Nujol simply makes up for a d• ficiency-temporary or chronic-in the supply of natural lubricant in the in teetines. It softens the waste matter and thua permita thorough and regular elimin&tion, without overtaxing the intestinal mll8Cles. "He prescribed the Nujol treatment and it made a world of difference to both of us. Now that I know how dangerous constipation is and how easily it can be prevented, I am never going to allow myself to get into that bad condition again." 1' eated Patron•' H oapitality He met and wooed her. She was coldly !ndll'l'erent. He showered costty gifts on her. She encouraged him. He married her. She was bored. He laid himself at her tee~ Slle trampled on him. He was faithful and loyal. Sb e tllrted. •· b. utuinz, .IWt~. 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