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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1929. the walling of en Indian woman over her dead, only Infinitely subdued and anguished. I was shocked, awed, Immeasurably giived. Thank you," I said; Tm sorry. I don't want to Intrude on t her In her hour of afilictlon. I'll come again." "All right," she laughed tauntingly; "come again. 1 I had failed. I slept at a bunkhouse that night, and next morning I again made a call A at the tent within which lay Berna. Romance Again Madam, in a gaudy wrapper, answered my call, but this time, to my surprise, she was quite pleasant. "So," she said firmly, "you can't see the girl. She's all prostrated. We've by ROBERT W. SERVICE given her a sleeping powder and she's asleep now. But she's mighty sick. We've sent for a doctor." There was Indeed nothing to be Illustrations by Irwin Myers done. With a heavy heart I thanked her, expressed my regrets and went V:U Eervlcs away. What had got into me, I won"You do, do you? Well, jou dihned dered, that I was so distressed about well won't. Besides, there v.la't no the girl. I thought of her continually, with tenderness and longing. To me body here." "You're a liar!" I observed. "P.ut there was in her, beauty, charm, every It's no use wasting words on you. I'm ideal quality. Yet must my eyes have been anointed, for others passed her going on anyhow." by without a secord glance. Oh, 1 With that I gripped him sudden's? was and young foolish, maybe; but I and threw liim sideways with .some force. One of the tent ropes tool-awa- had never before known a girl that appealed to me, and It was very, very liis feet violently, and thnre on sweet. he snow the sprawled, giowerh: at So I went back to the restaurant me with evil eyes. and gave the fat cockney a note which a and "I've I, said "Xow," got gun, if you try any monkey business, I'll he promised to deliver into her own hands. I wrote: fix you so quick you won't knowwliat's "Hear Berna: I cannot tell you how happened." himdeeply grieved I am over your grandHe worked. bluff The gathered self up and followed me into the tent fathers death, and how I sympathize with you in your sorrow. I came over looking the picture of malevolent Impotence. On the ground lay a longish from the other trail to see you, but object covered with a blanket. Wtj you were too ill. Now I must go back a strange feeling of reluctant horror I at once. If I could only have said a lifted the covering. Heneath It lay the word to comfort you ! "Oh, Berna, dear, go back, go back. body of the old man. lie was lying on his back, and had This is no country for you. If I can not been squeezed out of all human help you, Berna, let me know. If you semblance like so many of the others. come on to Bennett, then I will see Nevertheless, he was ghastly enough, you. "Believe me again, dear, my heart with his bluish face and wide bulging aches for you. ! I his waist. around Ila felt eyes. "Be brave. the money belt was gone! "Always affectionately yours, "Winklesteln," I said, turning sud"ATHOL MELDRUM." denly on the little Jew. "I was this once more I struck out for Then still his I'm friend. man's granddead daughter's friend. I'm going to see Bennett. v justice done. This man had two thouOur last load was safely landed and sand dollars in a gold belt round his waist. It belongs to the girl now the trail of the land was over. We had packed an outfit of four thousand You've got to give It up, Winklesteln, over a trail pounds or and it had taken us nearly a month. "Prove it, prove It!" he spluttered. "You're a liar; she's a liar; you're For an average of fifteen hours a day all a pack of liars, trying to black- we had worked for all that was in us ; mail a decent man. lie had no money. yet, looking back, it seems to have been more a matter of dogged persistI say !" I !" cried. I've ence and patience than desperate en"Oh, you vile wretch a mind to choke your dirty throat. deavor and endurance. Our party was well qualified to pass But I'll hound you till I make you test of the trail. The Prodigal the Where's that money. up cough full of irrepressible enthusiasm, was Bern a?" loaded to the muzzle with and always become had quietly Suddenly he, Salvation Jim was a mine of ideas. malicious. 'Find her," he jibed; "find her for foresight and resource, while the proved himself an insatiable And take yourself out of yourself. work. Altogether we fared for glutton as as please." you quickly my sight the average party. than better I saw he had me over a barrel, so, were We camped on the narrow A I him. left a with parting threat, between Llndeman and water of neck tent nearby was being run as a restauas and 1 had hay was two hundred Bennett, coffee. a of and there cup rant, a ton, the first thing dollars and fifty Of the man who kept it, a fat, humorthe ox. The to was butcher we did 1 made regardous cockney, inquiries a boat. see about to was next building ing the girl. Yes, he knew her. She We our own of whipsawing thought Madam with tent in was living yonder boards, but the timber near us was Winklesteln. so that in the down my poor or thinned out, I thanked him, gulped we lumber, end paying for it bought coffee, and made for the tent. The a foot. We were all very cents on I twenty the but was rapped down, flap however, by canvas, and presently the dark face of unexpert carpenters; to make we managed others, watching saw she When me, Madam appeared. boat. a decent looking it grew darker. The ice was going fast. Strangers "What d'you want?" she demanded. were still coming in over the trail "I want to see Berna," I said. awful tales of its horrors. Benwith hear Can't cant. vou "Theu you was all excitement and seething nett her? Isn't that enough?" of ungainly boats, Thousands life. I could hear a very low, piti Surely to be ful sound coming from the tent, some- rafts and scows were waiting were craft beginlaunched. Already like a a and moan, sob thing between ning to come through from Llndeman. rushing down the fierce torrent between the two lakes. The ice was loose and broken. We were all ready to start in a few days. Masseur and Chriopractor The mighty camp was in a ferment Bank Building of excitement. Every one seemed Office Hours: 9 to 12 elated beyond words. On, once more, and 1 to 3 A to Eldorado! great exultation welled up in me, the voice of youth and ambition, the lust to conquer. I would succeed, I would wrest from the vast, lonely, mysterious North When You Think some of its treasure. I would be a HARDWARE conqueror. Silent and abstracted, I looked into the brooding disk of sheeny sky, my "Everything to Build Anything" eyes dream-troublePhone 11. Then I felt a ghostly hand touch my arm, and with a great start of surprise, I turned. TOE f 9 Northland ' by" thirty-seven-mi- Jam-wago- n little white wbtep you are! You look as If a breeze would blow you away. You shouldn't be out this night, glrL Put my coat around you, come now." I wrapped her iu it and saw with glidness her shivering cease. In the opal light of the luminous sky her great gray eyes were lustrous. "Berna," I said again, "why did you come In here, why? Ycu should have gone back." "Gone back," she repeated; "indeed I would have, oh, so gladly. But you don't understand they wouldn't let me. After they had got all his nionev and they did get It, though they swear he had nothing they made nie come on with them. They said I owed them for his burial, and for the care and attention they gave me when I was sick. They said I must come on with them and work for them. I But what' protested, I struggled. the use? I can't do anything against them any more." I'm weak, and I'm terribly afraid of her." She shuddered, then a look of fear came into her eyes. I pat my hand on her arm and drew her close to me. "This is terrible, Berna. What have you been doing all the time?" "Oh, I've been working, working for them. They've been running a little restaurant and I've waited on table But we're going down the lake tomorrow, so I thought I would just slip away and say good-by.- " "Not good-by,- " I faltered; "not good-by.- " Her tone her eyes , closed almost. "Yes, I'm afraid I must say 't, When we get down there, it's good-bgood-by- . The less you have to do with me, the better." "What do you meau?" "Well, I mean this. These people are not decent. They're vile. I must go with them; I cannot get away. Go your way and leave me to whatever fate is in store for me." "Never!" I said harshly. "What do you take me for, Berna?" friend know, you "My after his death, when I was so sick, I wanted to die. Then I got your letter, and I felt I must see you again for I thought a lot of you. No man's ever been so kind to me as you have. They've all been the other sort. I used to think of you a good deal, and I wanted to do some little thing to show you I was really grateful. "Oh, come, Berna, never mind that." "Yes, I mean it. I just wanted to tell you the things a poor girl thought of you. But now It's all nearly over We've neither of us got to think of each other any more . . . and 1 just wanted to give you this to remind you sometimes of Berna." It was a poor little locket and it contained a lock of her silken hair. "It's worth nothing, I know, but just keep it for me." "Indeed I will, Berna, keep It always, and wear it for you. But 1 can't let you go like this. See here, girl, is there nothing I can do? Berna, Berna, look tit me, listen to me! Is there? What can I do? Tell me, tell me, my girl." She seemed to sway to me gently. Indeed I did not Intend it, but somehow she was in my arms. She felt so slight and frail a thing, I feared to hurt her. Then I felt her bosom heaving, nnd I knew she was crying. For a little I let her cry, but presently I lifted up the white face that lay on my shoulder. It was wet with tears. Again and again I kissed her. She lay passively in my arms. Never did she try to escape nor hide her face, but seemed to give herself up to me. y, ... Could I of Carry and of mother. j ner 10 menu "Berna." I Bald sternly, "look at uiKe Unlimited Money, LOAN 62 Reliable Watches at SPECIAL PRICES Come In and See Them Tremonton - Utah MjTtle Holmgren a-- 2; ; ma COMBINED HARVESTERS iff nW jMsfwkA Iholt The Old Reliable 'Holt' LANDES & COMPANY t; h (To Be Continued) And They All Blushed A talkative damsel on one of our ocean liners asked the attentive steward during a rough passage if he was accustomed to sea legs. When he advised her that he never looked at 'em the crowd roared. The Baldwin Well Worth a Scent Television is all right. We are perfectly willing to see our radio programs. 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You would not conIt's sider, test nnd prove yourself. the most serious matter in life to me, something to be looked at from every side, to be weighed and bal an ed." As I said this, my conscience wa whispering fiercely: "Oh. fool! Coward! Paltering, despicable coward! This girl throws herself on you, on your honor, chivalry, manhood, and you screen yourself behind a barrier of convention." However, I went ou. "You might come to love me in time, but we must wait a while, little girl. Surely that is reasonable? I care for you a great, great deal, but I don't know if I love you in the great way people should love. Can't I'll look we wait a little, Berna? after you, dear; won't that do?" She disengaged herself from me. sighing woefully. "Yes, I suppose that'll do. Oh, I'll ORIGINATORS AND LEADERS FOR THE never forgive myself for saying that to you. I shouldn't, but I was so desPAST FORTY YEARS! perate. You don't know what Ir The "Holt" Combined Harvester was the first combine meant to me. 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There are so many thou and walk the world barefoot for your sands of people here. Time and sake. Oh, my dear, my dear, pity again I Inquired, but no one seemed me !" It seemed ns If a sudden light had to know. No, Berna, I didn't forget. Many's and many's a night Tre lain flashed upon my brain, stunning me, awake thinking of you, wondering, bewildering me. I thought of the I thought longing to see yoo again. What a princess of my dreams. Utah Federal Farm Loans 1 I Y Not Swim Interest Rate e o D AT THE BEST PLACE IN THE WEST. Also all kinds of Fire and Automobile Insurance THE MORE YOU SWIM HERE, THE irf Apply MORE YOU'LL WANT TO. JAMES BROUGH Secretary and Treasurer Garland National Farm Loan Association GARLAND UTAH UDY HOT SPRINGS |