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Show THE HELPER TIMES. HELPER, UTAH i i y & " ."There was no one I thought looking across at her. Her face showed girlish and flushed between more of," he said, boyishly impulthe long swaths of gold. sive. What's the matter? "Then what has happened to D'you think I'm going to eat you op?" he make you change?" asked abruptly. "I have changed, anyway. . . . t be ridiculous . . she And I'm going, in consequence," he said, with an attempt at lightnesa equivocated. "Don't look afraid of me then," "That doesn't answer me," she John Gresham's Girl SI . .11 CONCORDIA V - k MERREL x C0FYRIGH1 WN.U SERVICE WHAT WENT BEFORE By chance James Lee meete Gresham, daughter ot Sir John Grenham. ship builder. Lee seeks revenue for oelnn unjustly accused of robbini? the Gresh- Lucy am firm and being sent to orison. He blames Oliver Ames. Lucy's couuin, and Gresham's manager Lee has inherited wealth and changed his name trcm Warrington, in compliance with the terms of the will. He secures an Invitation to Lucy's birthday party. Lucy is practically engaged to Ames. Lee makes love to her, his only idea being to hurt Gresham and Amts. With her father's consent Lucy Is married to Lee. He stuns her by telling her he does not love her and hates her whole breed. Lucy hears Lee's story of his wrongs and his determination to be avenged. She believes In his Innocence. CHAPTER IV Continued "You are part of my establishment now," he broke In, "and my establishment Is run on my money. "1 He ..." understand." went Into details as to amounts, and she let bin) have it his way entirely. .Next day they went up to town. Lucy rose suddenly. "Instead of which, daddy and I went on a yachting cruise." she said. "We went out on the open sea . . . while . . . he. . . ." She caught a breath and stopped. "My love," said Sir John, "you . are too The man deserved all he got . . . Gresham's has no use for highwaymen. Neither has the world at large. . . . What do you say, Lee?" "I? Oh, I'm afraid I was scarcely listening, sir," said Lee with a short laugh. "I was thinking. . . .' "Yes. . . .?" "Just wondering whether it had occurred to you to speculate as to what he might do . . . when he comes out" The words fell slowly Sir John laughed easily and rose. "1 think he's out by this time. Three years was his sentence. If I remember right. And he hasn't turned up so far. Well, au revolr, my children. He made his adleux and left. When he was gone, Lee faced Lucy. "Well, I've warned him," he said challenglngly. "Yes," she said, through nnsteady . . "We were out there, Hps. on the sea . . . while Jim you. . . ." The words broke from her and died shakily away. "1 don't want your pity I" he said roughly. She raised her blue eyes to his. "I'm not pitying you, Jim. This has been too . . . big for pity. But I believe I understand." In a way, it was hard to lay the blame on any one person, as far as she could see. Ames had obviously acted in all good faith. Her father could have done very probably nothing and yet they were respon sible for this appalling warping of a living soul. Everything that was tine In him was In deadly peril of destruction from the spirit of revenge that held him In thrall. Per haps upon her lay the onus of delivering him from the power of the enemy. How was she to decide what was the first thing to do? She knew nothing of his plans in any detail. Nothing of how he intended to wreak his vengeance upon her father. . . . Had he any definite scheme . . .? "If 1 asked him, she mused, "I vender if he would tell me. . queerly He Is so honest with me . . . that-almost believe he would. But she didn't ask him Immedi She was afraid of rushing ately. things; afraid that by one false step she might spoil her chances c' success. So instead of saying more. she turned and left him. tender-hearted- ..." ... While they had been in the country, St. Abb had been busy getting the flat readv for its uew mistress, and they Amu) It In apple-pi- e order. Lucy found It a little difficult to seem genuinely hearty in her approval of what he had done. This was the home that she had Imagined was going to be a paradise of love, and her heart ached us she thought of how tragically differently things had turned out. liut she played her part plucklly and well, and St. Abb didn't guess what it cost her. As soon as they came to town. Lee became Immersed in business which kept him either busy in his study with St. Abb, or else took him out, so that Lucy saw very little of him. One of the first things to happen as soon as they were fairly settled was that people begun to enll. To Lady Cordelia was the first. all appearances, Lucy was radiantly hai.pj, , Even Lady Cordelia's eagle eye could detect nothing wrong. It was less easy to pretend to her father, when he came to see her the first time. His adoring eyes were so very searching. Lucy felt that the miserable truth must be as obvious to him as if it were written in letters of flame around her head. But it wasn't. He was predisposed to think her happy, and put her nervousness down to natural shyness. "Oliver's back," he toid her. "He came to see me and then went CHAPTER V I don't straight to Gresham's. he'll call . awhile. . . fancy yet The Truth About Llnforths. He's pretty bard hit. darling. . . ." and wondering UNCEIH "I'm afraid so, dad. He her restless, and two doesn't take things easily . . weeks went rather wretchedly by. 1 couldn't she answered. "Rut One day she had been to see her fahelp it . . ." ther, and as they were having tea He smiled. he was called to the tele"No." he agreed; and then: "My together, phone. When he came back, It was girl happy?" clear that he was a good deal worLucy felt the pressure of tears ried. In her throat, but she answered "It was Oliver," he told her as with a gallant little smile: he sat down again, "getting through "What do you think?" And the to me on a trunk call. . . . Most old man was content She even disturbing news, most disturbing! managed to steer the conversation It's that Norwegian deal. It hasn't to Gresham's, and from gone through, after all. . , ." round there on to the story of the man "Oh, daddy, 1 am sorry. But Is who bad been Imprisoned for rob it terribly Important?" ber with violence, and talked of "It means losing some of the best it without a tremor. She wanted timber we've ever had the chance to bear Just exactly what her fa of. Oliver imagined that a definite ther had to say of his part in It. arrangement had been reached beand when he had told ail that he fore he left, although the contract knew of the affair, she sat silent hadn't actually been signed." for a long time. Then: "What a pity he left before It "We went on that cruise," she was signed," put In Lucy., said slowly. "We went on that "He was wanted over here, and cruise while he . . . that man . . . had to come back. And now Llnwent to prison. . . . Daddy, why forths . . ." With the name, Sir didn't you see him when he asked John thumped a fist on the little tea table with a force to make the you to?" "My lord, what could I have tea things rattle. . . . "Llnforths done? Oliver had the matter well have gone over our heads and colIn band. . . . Oliver is a just man. lared the deal." Lucy. . . "Well, they are our traditional "A just man," she repeated. "But enemies, dad. Alwuys have been. the most Just of men can be . . . I suppose Llnforths made up their mistaken." mind to beat us at this at any cost, "My dear, he was not mis- and went all out over It." taken. . . . The evidence proved "They must have got hold of new Oliver's a good deal that the wretched man was obvi- capital. ously guilty. . . ." He broke off, troubled. He says It won't end because Lucy had risen abruptly, here." and was looking across the room "I suppose he Is," said Lucy. toward the door, a curious startled "Oliver takes his responsihlliiles so look on tier face. doesn't seriously, tremendously Sir John turned and saw that his he?" Sir John agreed with a nod. was standing in the and they continued to talk the matter over for the remainder of Lucy's doorway. "I'm Interrupting you," Lee said, visit "You were talking of . , .?" ne At dinner that evening, a good deal to her surprise. Lee asked her paused questioningly. "An unfortunate alTalr that hap- where she had been during the pened some years ago," began Sir afternoon. He did not usually nsk John, but Lucy suddenly looked up questions as to her movements She told him that she had been with square Into her husband's face. "About that man I toid you of. her father, and not 1cm) that he Jim . . . who . . gave her a quick little look, hut he "Went to prison for robbing a didn't say anything further. But pay clerk I" he put lu quickly, an- later, when she was In her room, swering her look. , , , "yes, I re- preparing to go to bed she was startled to hear him knock on the member." that divided her room from "Lucy seems to think .that I door ouclif to have seen him when be hi.-.-. "('"Miie in." linked me to see him," went on Sir He opened the door, Klowlv. and. John. "instead of which you . . ,?" Nluwly, mint n pace or two itito the 'J hen room. asked Lire smoothly. Mapped and tlood , point-blank.- ... he countered. "I'm not afraid. Only you startled me. What do you want, Jim?" "How was your father when you saw him today?" he asked. She was surprised at the question; utterly unable to see its drift. "He was very well." she answered. s "But a lot worried. have beaten us over a big deal." She looked at him to see how he'd take it, but his face was expressionless. "It gives you pleasure to hear that, I suppose?" she added sharply. But he didn't answer. Instead, lie looked round the room, as if he were noting everything in it. "Your room." he said, only half aloud. . . . "And I've scarcely seen it . . . since It has been yours." His eyes came round to her face then, but hers were lowered. She didn't know how to meet this mood in him; didn't know what he meant His manner was so changed. His suggestion that she was frightened by him, was absurd. But her heart was beating hotly, all the same. "I've never seen you with your hair down before," he said. In an odd voice. She flashed a quick lookl up at him, and saw that his hand was half outstretched toward the long ripple of gold that lay over her shoulder. She was amazed. And, quite suddenly, angry, all on edge, she stepped back, shrinking away from the big. shapely hand. "Don't touch me, Jim!" she cried sharply, In a low voice. Just as she hud cried the same words the mornHis ing after her wedding day. hand closed to a fist .upon which knuckles stood out white. She saw his eyes go sullen and his lips shut to a line. Then he drew a breath ; dropped his hand to his side, turned and strode Into his room without a further word and shut the door sharply behind him. Lucy sank down rather shakily Into her chair. If only his nearness didn't stir her so I If he knew ... ... "It's something you have discovered about him, isn't It?" she said, the words coming more as an assertion than a question. He nodded. "Something that seems utterly . , , discreditable," she went on. He nodded again. "Well, perhaps you'll be surprised to hear that not only do 1 know about It but that very prob ably I know more than you do . . ." she said slowly. "And yet 1 haven t . . . gone." "You . . . you really know and can take it so quietly!" he half stammered. "It isn't always safe to judge a man by what you hear he . . . has been or has done . . she answered slowly. "But this Is what he Is . . . what he Is doing!" cried the young man. She looked at him sharply, opened her mouth to speak; closed it again with nothing said, and stood quite still and silent After a moment she asked. In a changed voice: "Then you aren't going because of something you have heard of him; something that happened . some years ago?" "No. I haven't heard anything . . . It's nothing to do with any thing that is past. . . . And you know I wouldn't judge him on hearsay of any sort . . ." He broke off, and for a moment she left the silence unbroken. Then : "Very well. Thanks for letting me speak to you about this. You must, of course, do exactly as you think. I'll not ask you anything more. Perhaps I'll take your advice and ask him." She spoke steadily, her voice In perfect control, but a new note in it made St Abb realize then, a thing he hadn't realized before: that quite apart from the sudden knowledge that had come to him of Lee, something was seriously wrong with this marriage about which he had been ... earnestness: "1 my, I'm deadly sorry . . ." and left her hurriedly. She heard him go along the corridor to his room. Then she went straight to the study. She found Lee standing by the window, his back toward her, head bent and hands thrust deep Into his coal pockets. The sound of the closing of the door made him turn quickly, and as his eyes met hers, it seemed as If he braced his big shoulders, slightly. She came a few paces into the room and stopped. "Jim. why is Perry leaving you?" "Perhaps it is because he has a better job In view?" he suggested. "You know it Isn't." ' " .. 1 "Most Disturbing News, Most Dis- "So, evidently, do you." She paused a moment, ier eves turbing!" still steadily meeting his. how much more afraid she was "You have done something to utsometimes of herself, than ever of terly lose his respect. What is it, him. Jim?" she asked again. Things went quickly aftel this, "Why should you think IT) tell for the very next morning, as she yon?" was crossing the hall, she heard "1 don't know. But, somehow, 1 voices from the study; St. Abb's think you will, if. . . ." She broke and Jim's mingled for a moment, off. then St Abb's alone. "If you nag at me long enough?" "After this, you can hardly ex- he asked, with a disagreeable laugh. She laughed, too, rather cheerpect me to stay . , . I'm going, sir, lessly. going at once. . . . "Well, yes, if you like," she said. A pause, then her husband's deep "1 wasn't really thinking that, voice. "That's exactly as you like, of though." She was silent a moment, so was he. Then she said: course. Go when you will. Perry." "Perry has found out something Aware, suddenly, that she was about you. . . . Something of the He said eavesdropping, Lucy went quickly present; not the past to her sitting room. St. Abb was so. . . ." "Then he did tell you something?" going. Leaving Jim. Why? Be"Only that" cause he had just discovered that "What right have you to ask awful business of three years ago? From what she had heard, that further?" "Haven't I the right, Jim?" she seemed likely. In the middle of these thoughts she heard a step asked quietly. "I certainly think across the hall, and a moment later that you owe me something." saw St Abb pass the door of her "Am I to pay for that one thing room on the way. apparently, to his all my life !" he cried. own. On an Impulse she called "1 shall probably pay for It all to him and he stopped. mine," she replied. "Come here a moment, will you?" lie turned away; stood for a she said. while, staring moodily out through He came In reJuctantlv, and try the windo", then turned back and ing, rather boyishy, to hide the fact flung himself Into the revolving that he was reluctant chair before his desk. "Too wanted to see me?" he said, "What Is It you want to know?" with rather elaborate ease. he asked bluntly. She looked at him a moment His "Jns't what ) have asked young, attractive face was white you," she said. "Mayalready I sit down, and he looked upset; badly shaken. too?" He rose quickly, coloring, and "Perry." she said quickly, as If she had something to say that she pushed up a chair for her. She wanted to get over, "I was passing thanked hlra and sat down. the study just now. . . . The door "Just why," she went on, was open, I heard you and Jim talk as If theexactly little interruption hadn't I And heard what yon Ing. "A man who has alsaid. . . . You fold him you were happened. a tremendous lot of ways thought going to leave him." should suddenly chnnee his yon "Yes." The short word, so shortopinion to the extent of feeling Imly said, sounded odd from Perry pelled to leave you. . . ." St. Abb. "All right; yon shall know. You "You really mean it I suppose?" know Llnforths?" "Absolutely." Then straightened Stie nodded. "When are you going?" she went suddenly In her chair as If she on. "Now. I was on my way to my knew what was coming before he room to pack when you called me." said It "1 am Llnforths." The words he answered. "Will you tell me why you are seemed to ring through the silence that followed. Then she diew g going?" There was n touch of ah breath, steadied tier voice deterrtiptnes. In that. His answer was minedly and asked: mere nhrunl still "You mean you'vp bnnnht them But after n second he "No." added. "1 beg your pardon, Lucy out? Taken Llnforths over?" lie nodded. I'm . . . Just a bit. "And therefore become the tra"1 can see you are." she said ditional enemy of GrcshiiniV IU u t'eniiy. "on have thought great challenged. deal of Jim. haven't you?" no UK coxitM'So.1 ... ... ... ... ..." r . I 1 I rp ; s: i ' , ' -'-- 1 I I 1 I I I 1 I I I 1 I i I I I 1 F-i--r ' -M " " New York. Bending over a yourhful patient and exam- ining a tooth preparatory to extracting It, Dr. M. V. Sach- aroff found himself looking down the muzzle of a revol- ver. Meanwhile the youth's assistant "extracted" $21 In cash and $130 in Jewrelry and dental gold from Doctor Sach aroff s office. "Painless extraction, eh, Doc?" the boys said as they " i I "Painless Extraction" :: Applied to Dentist J '. '. '. '. '. ; ; '. " fl-- 111 I'M Mil I I II I 1 I I ' : left ... so glad. He turned away; turned back . . . stammered out with boyish ..." ... Insisted. "1 can't answer you any more clearly. Please don't ask me to." He turned back towards the door, as if he were going to leave her. But she stopped him. " "Don't go. This is . . . most treuiendously Important to me. . . . Perhaps you scarcely guess Just how tremendously important it is." "You can't know anything of tills," he said. "It isn't possible. If you want to know, please, Lucy, ask him; not me." He Knows Where to Find the Food 1 I for relatively small areas. In the days of Ptolemy the geographer, in the Second century A. D., longitude was reckoned from Rhodes.loglcally enough, for that island of the east;' ., LVjMijLjSMj.a..l ern Mediterranean had been the commercial and maritime center of The bears that roam the trails of Yellowstone National park are the world for centuries. Paris and friendly and all that sort of thing, but they have a habit of invading other capital cities marked the zero the private precincts of the cars parked along the trails with a keen meridian for their own countries for sense of knowing Just, where to search for food. This bear reached up a long time, but slowly the use ot and started a hunt for hidden sweets in the car shown in the picture, Greenwich spread, and has now beand looked around to make certain it was not being watched. come practically world wide. "American longitude was expressed in terms of degrees east or west of Washington until after the laying of the transatlantic cables. Until electrical signals could be Center for Figuring Longi- It is no longer used as a hospital, sent from Greenwich to the New but serves now as the Royal Naval world it was Impossible to tie the tude Since 1884. college where Britain's naval officers longitude of European points and are trained. American points together with a Washington. Greenwich observa"Greenwich was once even more solute accuracy. WTTile Washin' tory, England, most widely known famous than Westminster and Wln-so- r ton swved as the American zero of the world's stations for observare today as the home of Brit- meridian, many of the western state ing the stars and marking out time, ish royalty. On parts of the sites boundaries were established. It is is to have a large new telescope of the Naval college and school was for this reason that the boundary that will put It more nearly on a situated 'Placentia,' the favorite pal- lines between Colorado and Utah, par with its less famous but more ace of British kings during the lat- and between Wyoming, Idaho and efficient competitors, according to ter part of the Fifteenth century, Oregon will be seen on a map of news dispatches from London. the Sixteenth, and half of the Sev- the United States to fail by a small "Greenwich is an unpretentious enteenth. , distance to coincide with the merid"The Greenwich observatory was ian lines west of Greenwich." borough patch of London," says a bulletin from the National Geo- established in 1675 under Charles graphic society, "but it has world II and placed in the old palace Ohio Lake Resort importance in spite of itself. On grounds, now Greenwich park. Monster Boasts "Greenwich observatory now compractically every map and globe that is published the longitude bines some of the functions of the Canton, Ohio. Congress lake, a American Naval observatory, bureau resort near here, claims a water lines conspire to bring Into prominence this community on the south of standards and weather bureau. monster called "Amphibio," which bank of the Thames, two and a It Is responsible foithe correction has eluded capture efforts for many ' half miles below London bridge. of British time. Each day at one years. m. o'clock time ball falls from the p. Residents near the lake say "AmNearly every country in the world, and practically every ship that sails a staff on the observatory, and elec- phibio" is an ancient and monster the seas describes Its position as so tric signals are sent out by tele- turtle which at times browses among graph and wireless. the lily pads near the shore- and many degrees east or west of GreenZero Post Since 1884. wich; for though the center of the again is seen swimming vigorously dome of Greenwich "Greenwich has been the world's to the center of the lake. observatory runs the world's generally accepted official marking point for the zero Several times he has been caught zero meridian. meridian of longitude only since by fishermen, but each time he has 18S4 as a result of the Washington freed himself. Some have ventured, Her Nautical Flavor. meridian conference. Since longi- that "Amphibio" weighs as muelfftfA of the tude was invented numerous zero 100 "Fronting the deep waters pounds. He Is said to have been lower Thames, Greenwich has al- meridians have been in use, usually In the little lake almost 130 years. ways had a nautical flavor. As early as 1011 an invading Danish fleet made its base at Grenevlc, as the place was then called. Through the centuries It has become more and more associated with British naval The town's outstanding New U. S. Artillery for of the battleship California 23 miles affairs away. building is the great Naval hospital Panama Canal Defense. A development of the 1920 army lesigned by Sir Christopher Wren, railgun and the old navy and considered one of the finest A battery of Washington. way gun that was used In France creations of that famous architect railway guns capable of scor- during the World war, the new piece ing hits on moving vessels 2o miles of artillery weighs 730,000 pounds away and said to be the most pow- with carriage, has a maximum range Americans Murder for erful artillery yet developed for of 47,000 yards with an initial veGain, Says Criminologist American armed forces is now an ef- locity of 3,000 feet a second, and a Native-bor- n Amerifective part of the defense of the maximum elevation of 50 degrees, Pittsburgh. can whites murder for money; ne- Panama canal, supplementing the as compared with about 27 degrees groes for Jealousy; Latin country fixed in the old gun. guns there. The guns are so mounted they immigrants for revenge or because The new gun traverses without of alcoholism, says Dr. Giovanni may be hauled from one side of the moving its carriage, whereas the old Giardini, lecturer at the University isthmus to the other, set up and pieces had to be mounted on a made ready for firing within six curved track and swung around to of Pittsburgh. Doctor Giardini, a noted criminol- hours. Heretofore the guns change direction. at the canal have not been movogist, has just completed a psychoEach Shot Costs $700. logical study of killers in Western able. Using a projectile weighing 1,200 Precision of Rifle. penitentiary here. He has been impounds, it costs $700 every time one of these giants Is fired. Ruilt pressed by the trlval motives for Outranging the longest many murders. battleship guns in the world by six in the carriage is a power plant, Mental states, superinduced by mile3, the new railway gun fires with consisting of a e power endisease, especially by epilepsy, can the precision of a rifle. In recent gine directly coupled to a frequently be blamed for murders practice out of 11 shots fired the generator, which furnishes where the apparent motive Is sur- battery scored a hit on the forward power for motors that raise and turret of a moving target the size lower the mount, operate power and prisingly petty, he says. shot cranes, elevate and depress the gun, turn the mount around on its base, and furnish air for closing the breech and for blowing out bases" after firing. Million Dollar Note to Bear side and below the portrait will be Recause of its heavy weight In the words "one mil- traveling the gun and locomotive Crawford's Portrait. must be separated by three to eight lion dollars." That's the trick in the small and gondola cars to prevent the two Washington. The portrait and name of William II. Crawford will exclusive distribution of the engrav- heaviest weights crossing a bridge soon appear on the most valuable ings. There will be only 500 of them at the same time. steel engravings the world has ever engraved and issued, but their total 500,000,000 would be a staggerseen or probably ever will see. Short Note Arrives The engravings will be limited ing amount for Crawford or Madison Monroe to or Late Romance contemplate. distribution. They are being prepared by the bureau of engraving Princeton, Ind. A romance which and printing of the United States Grasshopper Mummies had its beginning during the World treasury. brought Its first result recently, Found in Yellowstone war Tor those who may not recognize but faded almost as rapidly as it the name of William II. Crawford Mummies older than came to light. Washington. it may be stated that he was sec- those of the Pharaohs are to be When Miss Anna May Miller was retary of the treasury in the last found In great numbers near Yel- employed in the Jefferson ville (Ind.) year James Madison was President lowstone park, It was revealed by government quartermaster depot, and remained over for service un- acting director Cammerer of the na- she wrote her name and address on Monroe. tional der James park service. Instead of be- a slip of paper and pinned It to a Monroe, In fact, barely defeated ing the remains of kings, however, shirt which she had made. him in the congressional caucus to they are the bodies of swarms of Recently a letter came from a solnominate a Presidential candidate. grasshoppers that were buried In dier stationed In Hawaii, who had Horn In Virginia but reared In Geor- the snow before the glaciers were received the shirt, answering heiv formed In that region. The Insects, letter. Rut Its writer Is now Mrs. gia, Crawford was a leading figure in national affairs when they were are perfectly preserved. Harvey Deerlng aud mother of three children. things of great spirit. Resides being a senator, secretary of war and Veteran Smithy Adds the treasury and envoy to several Garage to His Shop Deaf Mute Invents foreign countries he found time to Devices to Aid Others In East and Kingston, N. II. With the political engage personal Mass. William disputes which led to at least two rise of motor vehicle popularity In K. Cambridge, dculs, In one of which he killed recent years, many a village smithy Shaw, himself a deaf mute, has Inhis opponent and In the othrr of has gone out of business. Rut .Toe vented 51 devices Intended to make Lawrence seems to have solved this life easier for those who cannot see which he was wounded. Above the portrait and signature problem very nicely. For many or hear. of Crawford on t ho certificate there years a blacksmith, ho now opAmong his Inventions Is a "talkwill ap'pear these words: "This cer- erates a combination garage and ies' telephone, a noiseless doorbell, tifies that there has been deposited blacksmith shop, catering to both a silent alarm clock and a type-1- " in (he treasury of the United motorists and horsemen as they writer which spells words In eWtric Si.itcx of America," and off to the come aloiiy. lights. 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