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Show f THE BEAVER PRESS. BEAVER. UTAH (Yina m W ?refl jc i B a STOBT THUS FAH: While voyag to America, Lark tef from England down. She It cast gnuinon'i ship foes a tn island, and Gait Withe, a bound Inn where errant, rescue! her. At the 1 taken she Is made prisoner, but scapes and Is found by her sweetheart, Bavin" North, who la disguised ai a gipsy on one Dr. Matson and w ,et a line Lark and Gait tall ils shady dealings. of Dr. Matson, but make Into the hands on two horses. After their escape at night By Gay Jumper That's mr There were stockings and e and drove on. "Big weddin' sandals on the bed, and ruffled charge, up to Greatways, tonight. Good toll drawers The sandals Larks feet, but looked pinched to Minnie Buxtree an' the State of fetching Virginny. A weddin' or a fuenough when she had them laced neral is business, 'cept always good The drawers were too big, but the goes free, an' I ask you, scarcely Minnie's size. There were ain'tparson that a unnecessary generosia shift and a petticoat on the chair ty?" and then Lark stared, stared at her The harvest moon laid a warm own dress, her best dress, her good amber light over the pike and the blue bombazine that she had missed fields. The Wheels passed whirring-ly- . gumy harrowing experiences they arrive Lark expects to meet from her portmanteau on the Tem-porl Norfolk, where Laughter and the sound of hoofs, David North, but they are told by Mara the tinkle of silver, the clang of the It was In town. Both Is not certainly the same dress. gate bar . . . Peace and warm food Bastings that be house and are made to Here was the place she had itay at Mara's and welcome . . . Lark in her own the buttons to take care of blue feel uncomfortable. dress . . Minnie, the fattest one she'd lost, and here was the woman on earth . . . Gait, smiling thread pulled on the lace collar, at Lark, joking with Minnie, Gait, CHAPTER XVI where she herself had caught it on a tall and straight in his chair. pin once, getting ready for churWi, "I seen you trying to sneak by my in It was clear that Minnie had taken England. I'll learn you to cheat an a fancy to him. He was quite the "Minnie!" Lark called. "Minnie, honest widow woman! You come come here. . . . Where did this little gentleman, she said, reaching over to smack him playfully on the back!" dress come from?" Dosta's tail, Minnie grabbed shoulder. He was a great buck, she Minnie came and peered around said The mare swearing, threatening. knowingly, and had left a trail the screen. "That little dress?" she of broken hearts behind him wherplunged and reared. Minnie caught asked thoughtfully. "Let me see, ever he'd been, she'd Lark's skirt then, pulling her down now. Just a wager. What little dress I had tucked was Lark thinking about? That Daoff the saddle. off in a trunk." Then she looked vid North, a man who ran insurance Lark said, "I'm sorry. We didn't at Lark and burst out laughing, know" company ink in his veins for blood? the screen, and making the David North who'd Minnie was staring at her. She shaking get what was soapy water in the tub slosh and rubbed her eyes with the back of her coming to him when he married the cold-pie- ? band and stared again. Gait slipped Mara Hastings "You did steal that dress, didn't Hastings a bed was for praying by, down off the red horse, but Minnie thought Minnie?" you, icarcely glanced at him. " 'Be sure your sin will find you and sleeping in, and for nothing else "God blime me!" Her big voice " Minnie said cheerfully. "Fun- - in the wide world! Minnie chuckled. with astonishment. out,' was hoarse She listened with interest to the "Pinch me an' wake me up. . . . story of Lark's and Gait's advenGod blime me an' bust my lights an' tures, but clucked with scorn over virtue if It ain't the Duchess of the idea of returning Red Raskall Horse!" to Jarrod Terraine's stable. "In the name of the good God," "He's got horses thicker'n fleas on Minnie said reverently, "how come a hound-dog- , now," she argued. "Is you wasn't drownded, honey?" it reasonable for him to get that said. Lark "I was "Luck," horse God give you right out of washed up on an Island." the ocean? Reward nothin'! You two "Where you been ? Where you keep that horse an' run him at the What you doin' here? An who's Fair an' save the money for your the handsome trouser-fu- l you got brats." here with you?" Gait reddened, and Lark said, Lark said, "This Is Gait Withe. "We have to return him, Minnie. He rescued me from the island. We We hate to, but well we'd just found Squire Terraine's horse on the have to do that." Great-waysIsland. We're taking him te "Conscience." Minnie nodded. "I got one, too. Lot of trouble, con"We'd better get along toward science. They all works different. . . . What if you take your horse Greatways, Lark." Gait looked at the sun reddening In the west to old Jarrod, and he won't give you "And what's your hurry?" Minany reward money?" nie wanted to know. "I'm glad to "He offered the reward," Lark Me an' her went tee this girL said. "He's a rich man." through hell together on the old "That was better'n six weeks ago, You'll Temp. We be old friends. he offered the reward," Minnie said. both stay and have a good hot sup"Remember that. Lots of things can per with me or I'll know the reason happen in less time than that. I why!" was never one to take much stock in "Even if we tried to skip your gossip, but there's a tale" She toll?" Gait asked, grinning. broke off suddenly and leaned forMinnie laughed. "All right, all ward, listening. right. Just the same I'm glad I Lark said, "Minnie, a while ago a seeiI missed wouldn't caught you. started to say something about you ng you for dough-nutWhere's Squire Terraine and the reward your pretty Mr. David North at, money, didn't you?" these days?" "I don't remember. Did I?" Min"He's in Baltimore, on business." nie yawned. "He's cuttin' a figure Minnie's deep laugh shook the tonight, I bet, up there at Great-way- s great loose folds of her chin. "First likkerin' up half the county. business in England an' then busiThen she looked at Lark and burst . . . Taffy's finished clearin'. No ness up to Baltimore. An while use our settin' here all night. Want out laughing. he's all that busy, you finds another to set in the parlor?" little gent, an' a damn handsome ny thing the way a old sayin' will For an hour Minnie entertained one, ask me. . . . You two ben't work out. That's your dress, for a them with stories of the Fair. She married to one another by any fact, honey, an' ain't It God's bless-Ishowed them her collection of motChance?" I took it from you on the old toes and birds' eggs. "No," Lark said. "No, of course Temp?" Finally Lark said, "If we're going not" "You probably took my brooch, to take Red Raskall to Greatways, "You ever get to see the super-fin- e too." we'd better go, hadn't we? The wedMiss of that In the Hastings you was always air-i- s' worry "Prob'ly. ding must be over." over, back on the old Temp?" wreck it's a caution what I might've "Where you goin' to sleep at?" Minnie asked slyly. old gone an' stuck away in my little Minnie wanted to know. "I took for "Yes. We spent several days with come folks Ain't many carpet bag. her." out of a sinkln ship with a dress to granted you was stayin' with me. Where you puttin' up?" Lark said, "Minnie, we've got to they back, let alone a bag of things f. I'm glad we saw you. I'm glad like I did. I'll have a look for that "Here." Gait said firmly. "Right Jou didn't drown." She turned to there brooch, but I can't promise." here. You were good enough to take mount the mare, but Minnje put a "You didn't happen to tuck that us in, and Lark's worn out. There's massive arm about her, pulling her money I lost in your bag, too, did time enough in the morning to take kack to the ground. to Greatways." you?" Lark asked sternly. "The the horse "My God, you're skin and bone!" "That's the first good sense I money In my monsy belt, rememMinnie's brg hand ran down Lark's beard In a hour." Again Minnie's ber?" leg to her knee, "I remember your takin on about yawn disturbed her chins. "I got to experimented then i her arm and shoulder. "I was some money. Mighty high an' eat me a half pie to keep up my Just funnin' with you about North mighty you acted on the old Temp." weight. Then I'm for bed. Anynd that Hastings cat. You been Minnie's teasing grin irritated Lark. body want to join me, they better 'or a bad time, If It wasn't Just "I hadn't known any thieves be- speak up." only that shipwreck. fore," Lark said coldly. "You and Laughing hugely, Minnie shooed You're goin' to my place an' rest Dan" Gait off to his end room. Then she n' eat. " 'Nothing but good about the brought sheets and a blanket and Don't bother your head bout sayin' no. because you're got- dead.' " Minnie came to her, pulled arranged the guest-roobed for o'I thought about you lot of her down on the day bed beside Lark, fussing over her hair, buttontimes since that wreck, thought how her. "I reckon I been a thief. Lark, ing a starchy night-dres- s snugly on you was drowned like my Dan. Re- lot o' times. I never thought much her, tucking her In, and kissing her come. member Dan? I thought how proud about it till that fearful wreck moistly, noisily, before ambling to' all you acted, though you was But I tell you, I thought about it away to her own bed. Joung an' green as they come. I since. Many's the night I've woke Lark slept late next morning. The wid of liked you, Lark, from the wide up, seein' you, right In the closed shutters kept the room quiet tost. An' seein' you now, after a room by me, holdin' out your hands and dark. It was comfort past belief ttpericnce we had together that was for your things. You was sent my to burrow deep in the feather tick, to 'nough to straighten the hair on a way for me to make it up to you. slick soft surface of linen Ptate'i chest, I'm goin to feed you I can see that clear. Like I said, feel the sheets, to smell the lavender scent of od ten " you before you go another Be sure your sin' the fluffy blanket. toch of the linway, wherever It Is!" Gait, bathed, dressed in clean It was the warm rich smell of fryat the Lark and Minnie Suddenly, Lark was crying, the en Joined bacon that wakened her. While ing loaded table. Taffy olg tears d brimming, slipping down cheery window she was dressing, Minnie soaked r cheeks. sweet potatoes Minnie, clucking like a It with ham, in, roared a hearty ponderously a to candy, jMurbed and sympathetic old hen, in whisky and glazed when she saw Lark "used nor along the path to the corn pones, pork tips in eggs and "good morning" a big awake, and pushed the shutters open was d and There sauce. the vinegar fried to a to a flood of violent sunshine. 'Barnes." Minnie bellowed, "you platter of river croppie "Guess who turned up?" Minnie rr,es! Ketch these here horses to brown crisp. There were chunks of at her. grinned rice cakes, grits stable and show the young gent muscavado sugar, heart began to quicken, and Lark's cofTee. black Uan't old bread, pickles, strong room, will you?" her head. shook Minnie ate. Lark Minnie talked steadily as they slept for a while, waking to "Naw. not David North." drowned Lark a,m ' dnrk she'd thought "I didn't say David." room, with Minnie How soon be and no mistake. How she'd Wtini; an oil little a lamp, pulling "Well the as you looked David! That circuit Fair the around the day bed, where going to Join on she brown Cupsie from your sweet little a duty earth, Clue t.n tub of water had been fattest woman of the year and Mara Hastings'. Rid here with the fall every ce'i f.n a square of matting. A performed money on it. How she mail man. Used to work here, onct. easure of made good f:oapi two big towels Right good help. Seems she took a who'd been like a Ercmcd to be a pile of missed Dan Miss Hastings and better in many mad on, at the way her. to rhthrj, were near at hand on to stay here." wants an' of done you, 1 chair. properneat a piece ways. What Cupsie stuck her head in the door, and how the gennow!" MinnIe' pumpkin-- e ty she owned here, see-ln- g broadly at Lark. nicely, smiling her to spoke face appeared over the top of try always the best and most hon"You got a bill o' goods," Minnie crern. "You was a said. "Cupsie, she likes you. She'a great one est she e kept in several counties. and fanc on the old "PTern waved her bound she'll work for you. Maybe Minnie I call to "Good money!" mind. Supper's on on the she can tell you something about the t. my knife as a carriage drew up girl!" pa d North buckaroo." window, their bathed and rubbed her body pike Just beyond (TO BE CONTINUED) In now Negro w'th the clean voluptuous tow toll to the midget lit-ti- ... a. . llv-ln- '? ." Inre rifmnri mnA current war conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders fur a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: W.N.U. SCR.VICE els. WISP s. n' God-woef- tip-toe- toll-gat- hus-ban- d toll-gat- d Snug-Waisle- in nn iimictmllv Dii CLARK NTMEEKIN tor i m SF.ITIST, CIRCLE PATTERNS SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery St. A L WESSON'S story on '"Charley Paddock, the Fastest Human," San Francisco, Calif. Enclose 25 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Size Pattern No Name Address in the "Best Sports Stories of 1944," recalls a Paddock yarn I have never seen in print. The marine captain, killed in a plane crash while on war duty, told me some years ago about the most interesting split - second of his long career as a sprinter. You may recall that Paddock on sev- i eral occasions had run the hundred in 9 seconds. Also that he was the first of the exGrantland Rice tended flock to cov er this same distance in 9.5. I asked him one day why it was that being able to tie the record time and again, he had been unable at some high peak spot to beat it. So Charley told his story, which makes one wonder whether or not nature hasn't set a certain limit on what the human frame can stand. "I was running that afternoon," he said, "against a strong field and I know I was never in better condition. I had the feeling before the race that this was to be my big day the day where I would set a new world mark, possibly around 9 seconds, or even a shade faster. I had that record mark in my mind before the race was run. I was thinking of it while waiting for the starter's pistol. "At the bark of the gun 1 was away faster than usual. At the SO yard mark I knew I had made the fastest time of my career for that distance. I increased my speed on the way home and at the 75 or 80 yard mark I could see that 9 or perhaps 9 all ready for track history. Then a queer thing happened, at this point I suddenly felt my leg ligaments and leg muscles begin to quiver, as if they were being torn loose from the bone. In that split second I caught the flash that if I continued this same pace I would probably finish as a cripple. "So I called off any continuance of full pressure and eased down. Even then I again ran the distance in s of a where I threw away second in those last 20 or 25 yards. I found later, however, that my judgment had been correct, for I was sore and lame in the calves of both legs for a week. The speed and the stamina were there, but the physical structure wasn't for that pace." 9, two-fifth- Gehrig's Hard Luck MAKE r Kwmrax XsaUsV ICE CIS Smooth Any flavor Dellciou No cooking No re crystal worthed flavor No Easy whipping Inexpensive 20 recipe In each 154 pkg, Pleate tend thi od for free full six tarn pte Her, or buy from your grocer. 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