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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1929 ' THHE 1m, want tear, Tm well. But 1 700 to fo tonight. Something ma you sbouldnX Please dual Bake. Vm go, dear. Please, far afraid, Tm afraid. Wont some oar tell aj else dor Ton mustn't be to foolish. . It's only for a few hours.' She clung to me tightly, so that I wondered what bad got into the girl. Then gently I kissed her, disengaged t her hands, and bade ber As I was rattling off through tht darkness, a boy banded me a note put it In my pocket, thinking i would read it when I reached Ogllvie Then I whipped up the bridge. horse. As I sped along, with a jingle ot bells, my spirits rose. Things were The mine was looking splendid. turning out far better than we had expected. Surely we could sell out soon, and 1 would have all the money I wanted. My was nearNonsense, girL 9Q (DEF Northland A good-nigh- Romance by ROBERT W. SERVICE Illustration by Irwin Myera WNU Service -- l remind you of him no, girL He's as much above me as I am above say a siwash. lie has all the vir tues ; I, all the faults. He is the self I should have been if the worst had been the best." "Hush! you are my sweetheart," she assured me with a caress, "and the dearest in the world." "By the way, Berna," I said, "you remember something we talked about before he came? Don't you think that now ?" "Now?" "Yes." "All right." She flashed a glad, tender look at me and left the room. That night she was strangely elated. I was head over ears in work. In a mail just arrived I had a letter from the Prodigal, and a certain paragraph in it set me pondering. Here it was: "You must look out for Locasto. He was in New York a week ago. !He's down and out set in in his foot after he got Out side, and eventually he had to have lit taken off. He's got a false mit for ,the one Mac sawed off. But you should see him. He's all shot to pieces with the 'hooch.' It's a fright the pace he's gone. Seemed to have a terrible pick at you. Seems you 'have copped out his best girl, the only one he ever cared a red cent ifor. Said he would get even with 'you If he swung for it. I think he's dangerous, even a madman. He is leaving for the North now, so be on your guard." Locasto coming! I had almost for- gotten his existence. Well, I no long- er cared for him. I could afford to despise him. Surely he would never dare to molest us. If he did he was a broken, discredited blackguard. I could crush him. Coming here! He must even now be on the way. He was coming back to the scene of his ruined fortunes, and God knows with what wild ; Blood-poisonin- - life-strugg-le g ; over. Then again, I had reconciled Garr to Berna. When I told him of a certain secret I was hugging to m breast he would capitulate entirely. How happy we would all be 1 I would buy a small estate near home, and we would settle down. But first we would spend a few years in travel. We would see the whole world. What good times we would have, Berna and 1 Bless her 1 It had ail worked out beautifully. Why was she so frightened, so loath to let me go? I wondered vaguely and flicked up the horse so that li plunged sharply forward. Bother 1 In my elation I had for gotten to get oft at the inn and read my note. Never mind, I would keep It till I reached the Forks. As I drew up at the hotel, the clerk came out to meet me. "Gent wants to speak to you at the phone, sir." It was Murray of Dawson, an old timer, and rather a friend of mine. "Hello 1" "Hello! Say, Meldrum, this is Mur ray speaking. Say. lust wanted to let you know there's a stage due some time before morning. Locasto's on board, and they say he's heeled for you. Thought I'd better tell you so's you can get fixed up for him." "Thank "All right," I answered. you. Ill turn and come right back. So I switched round the horse, and once more I drove over the glistening road. A grim fear was gripping me. Of a sudden the shadow of Locasto loomed up sinister and menac ing. Even now he was speeding with a great hatred of me In his heart. Well, I would get back and prepare for him. There came to my mind a comic perception of the awkwardness of returning to one's own home unexpectedly, in the dead of night. At first I decided I would go to a hotel, then on second thoughts I determined to try the house, for I had a desire to be near Berna. I knocked gently, then a little loud er, then at last quite loudly. Within all was still, dark as a sepuleher. Curious! she was such a light sleeper, too. Why did she not hear me? Once more I decided to go to the hotel ; once more that vague, indefinite fear assailed me and again I knocked. And now my fear was be coming a panic. I had my latch-kein my pocket, so very quietly I opened the door. "Berna," I whispered. No reply. That dim, nameless dread was clutching at my heart, and I groped overhead in the darkness for the 1 Daw-sonwa- schemes of vengeance his heart was full. Decidedly I must beware. As T snt there dreaminz. a rine came to the phone. It was the foreman at Gold hill. "The hoisting machine has broken down," he told me. "Can you come out and see what is required?" 'Til leave "All right," I replied. at once." "Berna," I said, "I'll have to go out to the Forks tonight. I'll be back earlv tomorrow. Get me a bite to eat, dear, while I go round and order the horse." On my way I met Garry and told !hlm I would be gone over night "Won't you come?" I asked. "No, thanks, old man, I don't feel like a night drive." drop-ligh- t "All right. Good-by.- " Instantly the cabin was flooded So I hurried off, and soon after, with light. In the dining room I with a jingle of bells, I drove up to could see the remains of our supper 'my door. Berna had made supper. lying untidily. That was not like She seemed excited. Her eyes were her. She had a horror of dirty starry bright, her cheeks burned. "Aren't you well, sweetheart?" I asked. "You look feverish." y Garland Milling Manufacturers of the Famous "PRIDE OF UTAH" FLOUR Highest Cash Price Paid for WHEAT Utah Federal Farm Loans Interest Rate 5 Apply JAMES BROUGH Secretary and Treasurer Garland National Farm Loan Association GARLAND Wrote Cupe the Vila Wretch That Such Words! pnssed into the bedroom Ah ! the bed had never been slept on. What a fool I was! It flashed on me she had gone over to a neighbor's to sleep. She was afraid of being Ioor little girl! now suralone. see me In the prised she would be to dishes. Also all kinds of Fire and Automobile Insurance UTAH UbS tt p to Unlimited LOAN - 1 morning! I was Well, I would go to bed. As I found the note coat, off my pulling that had been given to me. Blaming I pulled myself for my carelessness, and opened It. It out of my pocket noticed It I sheet, the unfolded I As like n looked what was written in 1 thought Strancel hand. disguised 1 The writing was small and fulnt .A 2; 1 1 w -7 VDOT 1 a" ON Gam-Dippi- Gam-Dipp- Utah Auto & Imp. Co. PHONE UTAH Special Agent For The door-fram- Penm Mutual ILif e Ins. Co. e. . PHONE Reliable TREMONTON Watches H. G. Scott Drug Go. at SPECIAL PRICES Drugs and Druggist Sundries In and Them Prescription Specialists genially. "You must be cold. Let me give you some whisky." I held the glass with a shaking hand: "What's the matter, Phone 47 man? old You're ill." I clutched him by the arm. "Garry, there's some one In that room." "Nonsense! there's no one there." "There is, I tell you. Listen Don't you hear them breathing?" He was quiet Distinctly I could hear the panting of human breath. I was going mad. I could stand it no longer. "Garry." I rasped. "I'm going to see, I'm going to see." "Hold "Leave go, man! I'm going, I say. You won't hold me. Let go, I tell you, let go Now come out, come out, whoever you are Ahl" It was a woman. "Ha I" I cried, "I told you so, broth er: a woman. I think I know her, too. Here, let me see I thought on" Also all Kinds of Mill Stuff. The Best Mill in the Bear River Valley. Near the Depot Garland taj tyea Tremonton - Utah so." I had clutched her, pulled her to the light It was Berna. Her face was white as chalk, her eyes dilated with terror. She trem bled. She seemed near fainting. "I thought so." Now that It seemed the worst was betrayed to me, I was strangely calm. I made ber sit down. She said no word, but looked at me with a wild pleading In her eyes. No one spoke. There we were, the three of us; Berna faint with fear, ghastly, pltl ful; 1 calm, yet calm with a strange, unnatural calmness, and Garry he surprised me. He bad seated himself, he and with the greatest was lighting a cigarette. At last A long tense silence. broke It "What have you got to Bay for yourg.'lf, Garry?" I asked. It was wonderful how calm he was "Looks pretty bad, doesn't It broth er?" he said gravely. "Yes, It couldn't look worse." "That's so." He rose and turned up the light of a large reading-lamp- , sang-froi- d We Give Tremonton, Utah Green Trading Stamps SAVE YOUR COUPONS you get with every 10c Purchase and win a Shot Gun 1 Company GOOD Ml V then cooing to me he looked sac SUPERIOR LATER his la the face. square Abruptly Ufbt chicken laid an egg!" boasted "My He grew Money Merdftd God! What was thlsl Oh casual manner dropped. Willie, who had a bantam ber for a voice hla clear. forceful ; were rang Dot harp, It coeld be! bo. My eyes pet "Listen to me. I came out here to deceiving me. It was some illusion. "Huh! that's nothing," the Mayor Feverishly I read again. Tea, they save you, and I'm going to save you. son retorted; "my father laid a corner were the same words. What could Yon wanted me to believe that this stone yesterday." Cincinnati Enquirthey mean) Surely, surely Oh, hor- girl waa good. Yon believed it Yon er ror of horrors J They could not mean were bewitched, befooled, blinded. 1 on Irrigated Land. 6V& per that Again I read them. lea, there could see It but I bad to make you Do cent. No commissions. They Try the Temper see It I bad to make you realize they were: at Eight near Lake persons how love bow Lunita, ber she worthless was, believe to "If you are fool, enough JOHN J.SHUMWAY Charles, were bitten by a dog, bethat Berna is faithful to you visit for you was a sham, a pretense to lieved to have been suffering- from Phones: B. R. V. 69.a-Bell, 129 prey on you. How could I prove It? your brother's room tonight babies. Alexandria I You reason: would not listen to peper. "A Wellwlsber." Berna! Garry! the two 1 loved. had to take other means. Now, hear me." Oh, It could not be! It was mon"I hear." I would strous. It was too horrible! "I laid my plans. For three not believe it; I would not Curse months I've tried to conquer her, to the vile wretch that wrote such win her love, to take her from you. words. I would kill him. Berna! m Berna! she was as good as gold, a? She was truer to you than I had barwould lay gained for; I roust give her credit true as steel. Garry! sat for that She made a good fight but my life on his honor. Dazedly I think I have triumphed. Tonight down. The paper lay on the hearthell x m Listen Im came to my room at my invitashe It rug, aud I 6tared at It hatefully. Monday Night tion." was unspeakably loathsome, yet I was Take the "Well?" fascinated by it I longed to take It I record world You "Well. note. a did to Somehow of Now, It read got judgment up, again. wrote that note. makers on the choice of tires! I planned this not dare. I was becoming a coward I planned It Well, it was a He, a black devil's scene, this discovery. so that your eyes would be opened, lie. She was with one of the neighbors. I trusted her. I would trust so that you would see what she was, her with my life. 1 would go to bed. so that you would cast ber from you In the morning she would return, and unfaithful, a wanton, "Hold on there," I broke In ; "broththen I would unearth the wretch who bad dared to write such things. I be- er of mine or no, I won't bear you EVERY famous race trackin call ber those names; no, not if she gan to undress. outstanding endurance run J You clothes. off were I ten as took unfaithful. times my Wearily the process has patented won't I say. I'll choke the words In lay in bed with the darkness enfoldtie part in victory. Fires ton played utmake kill If to I'll you your throat you, ing me, and I closed my eyes Tires hold all world records a double darkness. Ha! right tn the ter a word against ber. Oh, what for speed, safety, and endurance. fatal have of done?" center you my eyes, burned the "What have I done! Try to be paper with Its atrocious suggestion. I sprang up. It was of no use. 1 calm, man. What have I done? Well, must settle this thing once and for this is what I've done, and it's the aU. I turned on the light and deliblucky day for you I've done it I've saved you from shame ; I've freed you erately dressed again. from sin; I've shown you the baseI was going to the hotel where Gar28 TREMONTON, ry had his room. 1 would tell bim ness of this girl." He rose to bis feet I had come back unexpectedly and ask to share his room. I was not "Oh, my brother, I've stolen from sus not on I did note! the your mistress; that's what I've you acting pect her. Heaven forbid! But the done." thing had unnerved me. I could not "Oh, no, you haven't," I groaned. "God forgive you, Garry; God forstay in this place. The hotel was quiet A sleepy give you! She's not my not what night clerk stared at me, and I pushed you think. She's my wife!" nast him. Garry's rooms were on I thought that he would faint His the third floor. Through the tran face went white as paper and he som I could see his light was burnshrank back. He gazed at me with ing. wild, straining eyes. I knocked faintly. "God forgive me! Oh, why didn't There was a sudden stir. you tell me, boy? You should have Again I knocked. trusted me. You should have told me. Did my ears deceive me or did 1 When were you married?" hear a woman's startled cry? There "Just a month ago. I was keeping was something familiar about It Oh, It as a surprise for you. I was wait my God! ing till you said you liked and thought 1 reeled. I almost fell. I clutched well of her. 01), I thought you would I leaned sickly be pleased and glad, and I was treas at the against the door for support Heaven uring it up to tell you." "This is terrible, terrible!" help me! "I'm coming," I heard him say. The door was unlocked, and there (To Be Continued) he stood. He was fully dressed. He looked at me with an expression on his face I could not define, but he 23 was very calm. 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