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Show PAGE TEN THE UTE SENTINEL Ill ruit e :sit~ ll'ie<.J tu Midvale, Utah, Friday, August 2, 1935 lila I>~ sound cu use of l he c..· a rs lw Ill nd me. The we stol'tJetl at the lJel .\lonte Uuks cur-the car this drunl~ l\llller was to see some of the golf. driving-came head on, Hnd hit our "We had some sandwiches at Los guards and smnshelA the hentlllghts. Gatos, at about three, and we cnme They suiu it was badly smashed, on over the Dumbarton bridge, and L>ut .the mnu wasn't hut·t, and at Buddy l~ept feellur; sicl~er, nod sickfirst I don't think they thought er, and Larry was half asleep. Fl· Oop:rrlabt bJ' K:atbleeu Norrta W:'llU Servllllle anyone was hurt. And then they nally Dorothy said to stop the car saw thts little ~lrl on the ~rass." for a minute, and she jumped out CHAPTER VI-Continued "Where Is that uaughty Ariel?" "Why wasn't Buddy driving, and said she was going to take & Edith had asl~ed drow~il.v, utTection-toAriel?" Gall asl~ed, very gently, 1n a bus. She said the \vay Larry wns The childishness of her own mon· ately, and (;au, listening to the silence. driving we'd have an accident. olo.Kue made her begJn suddenly strol~es of the cul'l•oo clo<.:k in the 41 "Be was sleepy, 1 told you. We No bus goes by there, anyway. to laugh, and she found tears In hall, hnd ans\vered more renssur· were all •Jp late lnst night, dancing. But after a few minutes Dorothy ingly thun she felt, "Only nine. ber eyes. We were O\'er at .Monterey. We signaled a car with a man and wom. This wouldn't do. There was noth- that's not late!" when suddenly just went there for dinner, Buddy un in 1t, nnd got 1n-I didn't think Ing to do but &o through with the there wus a stranger 1n the gar· nnd Larry anu Dorothy and I. And she really meant to, and Larry evening's program with what dl;· den. then we stayed und danced. We didn't, and It made us pretty mad." A stranger. At the first glimpse nlty she could muster. It appeared were going to come home 1:/st night. "'Then what happened?" that the four boys were goln~; over of him Gall's heart stood stlll, anrt but It was too late. so we stayed. uThen Larry asked me to take to Del Monte that night, so ns t" her mouth fllled with water. Hor· Buddy felt sort of sicl~. anyway_ He the wheel, and said he'd stt right play the Pebble Beach course early ror. Horror. They were all lost. had some oysters or something.'• beslne me and help me out If I The moonlight touched the star 1n the morning. Gall was careful ·•After Gail went to Los Gatos got 1nto a jam. I've bad the wheel not to let anyone suspect that lt on hts breast. Dlclc was tne first you said you were going to Santa lots of times. So we changed made any difference to her. But to speak, ln a quick, authoritative Cruz to have lunch on somebody's places. We were only seven mlles sh~ felt hurt and sore. At half voice. yacht, and stay with Dot over out, and all I wanted to do-" ''What ts ft, Officer?'' pa!'lt nine o'clock the roadster with night," Edith put In, anxiously ac· Her voice thickened, 5topped. "There's been a bad accident np the shoutln~ hoys tn lt departed on cuslng. ..All I wanted to do was to get Its serenty-mfle run, and Gall found neur the cement works. A Jlttle "Yes. Well, we did; we had lunch home," she said. "'I drove alongherself quietly in bed, reading J:lrl has b~en killed-" the man on the Howards' yacht. In Santa you couldn't go fnst In that hE>~an. agatn. trarCruz. We were coming right bacJ(, fic-just keeping my place In the Hall was beside him, She felt very homesick. She ftngers and then afterward, when we were Jine, when the car ahead of me wanted Sam and ArJeJ and Phil. gripping his arm. starting home. we saw the sign &t jumped forward and got clear, "My sister 1" Above all she wanted Edith, sensiand Soquel-'Del ~lo11te 38 miles'-and this crazy drunk lunged up "'No, ma'am, 1t wasn't yonr sisble, lo,·lng, Joyal, thoughtful. Slle ln front Larry said he darerl us to go down of me. was torn with pangs of anxiety for ter. She was mixed up ln It; I there and have dinner and dance. brought her over here to see your them all "'There was th~most-awful We stnrtert for Del Monte b'.Jt then ..A Cllppersvllle glrl1" she eald brother. She ain't hurt," he satd, crashing of glass and wood,'' she we thought that was too smar.tto herself in the night ~Ullness. answerJng the wlld question In whispered, putting her head back. we weren't exactly dressed for tt "Wen, that's what I am. I don't Gall's eyes. "She's just run upclosing her eyes. ..Every one be· -so we went to a place In Monknow why that should make me stairs inside; I'm wafting for her. gao to shout and scream. They saw terey, a nice place, too, and we all I seen you out here, so I came mad." the little girl, and a man asked me wandered up and down the street, Shamed, courageous thoughts pos- over." Jf my car had hit her, and I sald-1 and bought things and bad fun." "What happened, Officer?" Dick's aessed her; she plunged into them said I dldn't know. I saw a man She fell sllent on the word. The others were as fnto a river. Despite regponsl- voice asked. pick her up, and her hat sort oe 04 stricken dumb. Go on !" Phil said. blltty and precocious cares, she had drop back. . • .'' "She was driving a car, sir, and "Well, then we cleaned up for done little pb1losophical th!nkfn~ ..Oh, my G-d !" Edith whispered another automobile hit her. dinner, She and dressed-our suitcases ln in her twenty-three years; she dethe pause. didn't have a license, and !he's were in the car-and we went over liberately faced the situation now. ".My ear was jammed against booked for that, and also on a to the hotel and had dinner, and fac~ her own soul. theirs," Ariel said. "But there charge of manslaughter. In the fooled around. But then the boys The next morning she slipped didn't seem to be much harm done. mixup, a little girl in a third car got sort of-silly." Ariel explained, away from ~'ar Niente before any w-as thrown out on her head and scowling, "and we didn't know what member ot the famlly was astir. killed." to do with them. Then Buddy said And with ever) ml1e ot the home "She's here now~ My sister, I that if we'd go over to Del MontE> trip ber heart grew lighter and her mean?" Phil asked, In a dead, awand dance he'd rush us home right mind steadier and her quiet deterful silence. after, so we agreed. But at the mination greater. 4 " l"es-she just now run ln the hotel be disappeared, and I didn't At two o'clock, cool and trim and house to find you." know where he was. Dorothy was sympathetic, she was back at her .. After her. Phil r She may k111 dancing with Larry-1 think they're post ln the library. She felt wear- herself!" Gall said sharply, ln a engaged, Gail.'' led, subdued, yet oddly content. This whisper. Edith put her hands over The forlorn attempt at diversion was duller than death but It was her face for a moment, praying befell flat. Gail's face was stern. peace. No one would burt her, hu· fore they an ran together toward .. 1 don't know what I would have mlllate her here ; she belonged. She the kitchen door. done," Ariel went on, "if Van was not only In her proper place, Ariel opened the door of the InM·:.Irchlson hadn't come up. Of but she was doing a fellow crea- ner passage as the others rushed In course he said that I oughtn't to be ture a service. No animal creep- from the porch, 1lnd stood at bay, there so late, and that you and ing back Into the safety of Its lair facing them. She spoke Impatient· Ede would be w.ild, and we went ever felt a deeper sense of gratl· Jy, a note of reproach and comout and sat on the porch waiting tude. plaint in her voice. for Buddy to show up. Van took me And then-as always on Library "Where were you, Gall? I've home about half-past one, to the Sundays-Edith was there, slipping been huntfng-l've been all over ~lonterey hotel," Ariel said, ..and about the alcoves, coming up to everywhere !.. Dorothy _was there:• the desk to beam, to whisper to "You're hurt 1" Gall whispered, "And wllat had happened to her big sister. beside her. Buddy?" ".Ariel home1" "No. I'm not hurt at all, and for "No," Edith explained too cheer· heaven's sake don't mak, such 8 "Well, he'd eaten these oysters, fully, too naturally; "Dot Camp fuss !'• Ariel said quickly. Phil, and he felt sick." ..Oh, it's you, FargoC'' Dick said telephoned to the Greeley's to say "And then, Ariel?" 1 that they might not be back until to the pollceman. ••J didn't recog"Dorothy and I were so scared 'Well, Thla Man-He Was Drunk." after dinner.'' nize you out there. Been an acciwe cried, and she was going to 'l'he police came up and they asked "But why didn't Dot or Ariel tel- dent. eh?" telephone her mother. But we to see my license, and Buddy said ephone us?" "Hello, Mr. Stebbins,'' the polleethought that wouldn't do. So we- that It was at home. But after••Lou said she sald she thought man said with a sort ot deliberate locked our door and went to bell. ward at the station I told them our line was out ot order-it never solemnity. "Yes, slr. There's been Dorothy and I went to sleep; I don't I didn't have any. That was right, an!fWered." • a bad smash. There was a little know when the boys got ln ; they wasn't it, D1clt?'' Ariel asked wltb The sisters exchanged a level, ex- girl ktJJed, Mr. Lawrence. They were on another floor, anyway. We an appenllng look. pressionless look. took her to the hospital, but Inter got up early this morning, an~ "Well, of course I" Dick answered ..That'a a ne\v one," GaU pr8s we heard sh~" The ott1cer wall~ed around Uonterey. And we irupatlen tly. ently murmured drily. coughed respectfully. "'She passed met the boys-they were all shave-! "'They held us on a manslaught~r "Well, that'• what I thought,'' out on the way," he finished simply and dressed and sober, of course, charge." the Innocent, hoarse young Edt th agreed rel u eta n tly. "Miss Lawrence and the feller that and they felt so sorry we sort of voice went on. "They wanted me At alx Dora Foster came tn, an(l was driving the other car are forgave them, and we went to to telephone home, but I wouldn't.'' Edith and Gull could walk homP booked on a charge of manslaugh· breakfast, und then we were com'l'he recital was over. There wtta tbrou&h the broiling late afternoon. ter, Mr. Stebbins. The jud~e 1!11 goIng straight home. We packed anJ silence tn the kitchen; no Lawrence .. Let's not ba ve supper untfl Ing to see them in the morning. I we got started at about eleven, bnt could speak. •even. And let's get everything ready presumE--" He cleared hts throat. "I'll go right around;• Dick sat~ and then take baths and be beau· ''I presume for an ln\'estlgatlon," glancing at },lis wrist. "Now, don't tl!ul !'' Gall suggested. THE STORY FROM THE BEGINNING he added, mtldly. ••u was a ques· take this too bard . It happens all They set the table out under tbe tlon of ball." • the time. If they can bang tt on The luck that had brought the Boston Lawrences to California just big oak in the side yard. close to "1 see," Dick said. "I'll be rtght at the beginning of the gold rush seems to have deserted the present gesl· him thnt be was drunk and that the house so that the smaller fur- down. I'll take care of everything. eratlon, From a 4,000-acre ranch, their holdings have shrunk to a small nishings eoul(l be passed through I'll be right over." tarm and th old family home In Clip-persvllle. Phil, twenty-five, Is In the Ariel had the right of way they'll the wide-onen kitchen window. "Why, take your time, take your iron works. Sam and seventeen-year-old Ariel are In school, Gail In the cot bold her." Gall's heart went to hlm, the big, Dick ann Phll arrived. They all sar time," the omcer, departing, satd In vubllc library and Edith In the book department ot Clippersvllle's largest store. Young Van Murchison, scion of a wealthy familY, returns from Yal.a. homely, gentle, adequate friend and abol't the table, while the last cf a faintly protesting note. ')ick ~tebbins. Phil'. best friend . has the run of the Lawrence house. Arlo!l champion of the fnmlly, with so the hot twtJtght died into a h•.>t "Manslau~hter:• Phil said slowly. Ia sneaking out of the house at night for joy rides. Gail, who would marry duErk. talking, murmuring, passln~ in the dead silence that followed Van feels t;he Is making no progre!>s in his affections. Phil suggests In. passionate a rush that sha te1t an viti~& Lily Cass, his sweetheart, to supper. Gall and Edith feel she Is not emotion like a physical p~llJ in her back and forth the old Brazilian his going... \Vhat happened?'• he de· "respectable," and are In a quandary. GnU with Van to a house parry breast. silver !Utlnd bowl that Grandfather mnnded, sitting down heavlly In the at Lo8 Gitos with the Chipps, his uncle andgoes aunt. She Is received coldly. ~t Ariel came, white and weary and Lawrence had brouJ;ht to Yerba old kitchen rocker, his eyes never a. roadhouse Gall sees a drunken man helping Ariel Into a roadster. Next day Ariel admits she was there, young, and displays and stood before Dlck and no remorse. Gall Is gloomy Buena on that long-ago wedding leaving Ariel's. ae aha considers the family's outlook. She again accompanies Van to Los put her hands on his Sh•>Ulders. journey. ..Why. just this.,. Ariel began, In Gatoa tor a week-end visit. She meets his {Tlother. who is very distant. easy nniJ natural. .. A dr·nul•en !dint drove his car out into the middle of the trnf1ic nnd forced our cnr o\·cr against the other side of the road, and we bit tlte car this little girJ wns in. That's all. •'I had no more to clo \vlth H than -well, Sam, here! This man-hewas drunl\-cut fn from ttehlnd a bus, nnd r.ame straight at us. B~ headed rl,.1,ht at us nnd we swervetJ to the rl~ht. do you see?-and this child was 1n the- car we hit. It sort of swung 'round, nnd nlJ the cars jammed, and evE>ry one shouted.'' Dick, who had followert the pollceman out ot the ro"om for a few r:rlvate words, had returned to t~e kitchen. "V hose chtld wa:,; tt, Dick?'' "Moss. A little girl named Janet Moss. Five years old." . "Ft ve years old. l\ly G-d !'' ..1 don't know why you all look at me. I agree with you that it's slm{.lly terrible!" Ariel said q·Jfekly und hotly. ''But you don't think I'm-I'm enjoyinJ! It?" "Oh, shut up," Phil commanded her. brushing the llttle spurt of temper astde, his dark look not brightening. "It's what they <'~11 a technical charge. Now, let's l~eep cool, every. body," Dick said, "and find ou_t just where we stand. In the f!rst place, what time was this, Ariel?'' "Ten minutes to six.'' "And you and 8-Jddy Raisch and the Barchl boy were 1n the car? Was Dorothy Camp there?., "No. Not then. She'd left us.'' "Left you !'' "It you'll gl'Ve me a chance,'' Ariel Interrupted the Interrogation wltb bitter patience, "I'll try to tell you. But I can't get anywhere if you keep looking as If I'd done all this as a joke!'' There was no answer to this. But Phll said drily, as If thinking aloud, "God knows it's no joke!" ''You weren't driving, Ariel?'' Gail asked in a sick tone. "Yes. I was." 44 You don't know bow to drive!" "Ob, yes. I do." ·•Good G-d !" Phil whispered under his breath. ..Ariel-not when lt happenedyou weren't driving then,, ..1 say I was, Gail." Ariel's weary, colorless face cracked w1th an '.Jnnatural smile; sl1e looked about the circle scornfully, almost sneeringly. uy ou all look so funny !, she gasped, shaking, trying to laugh. ..You all take-things-so d-n seriously !" Gall tightened an arm about her shoulders. .. Pull yourself together, Ariel I'' she said sharply...You've gotten us all Into horrible trouble, and been purtly responsible for a little girl's death, and 1f YO'.J can't take 1t seriously, why, we can, that's all. What were you doing driving Buddy Raisch's car? Are you crnzy"l" "I've told you what I was doing We were coming back from Monterey, and Buddy was sleepy, and so was Larry, and 1 was driving. We were in the middle lane, where you have a perfect right to be on that bill, and the bus was coming up-and I saw it. perfectly well, and 1 knew the line en the right was where It was. nod I was drlv· lng along, about twenty-five, I guess, when this drunk came lunging out from behind the bus, straight Into my face, and of course t had to jerk rlght-1 couldn't jerk left Into the bus, anH I couldn't stop be- The Lucky Lawrenc es ••• By Kathleen Norris ... (TO BE CONTINUED.) 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