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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1931 Ci marron - EDNA By FERBER i j Copyright by Edna Ferkar.f WNU ; Bervlc. Rangers, storekeepers, settlers. Lean iriHi thair twin it nnd ar children, rickety (Jbeir netted as little solves, f Sabra superintended the toilette? of her men folk from Yancey to Isaiah. Yancey chided her, laughing, "My good woman, do you realize that this is no way to titivate for the work of ftfllinfrnrc uric-a- a bare-lesse- d, delivering the Word of God? Sackcloth and ashes is, I believe, the preHe poured and scribed costume." drank down three fingers of whisky, the third since breakfast. Cim cavorted excitedly in his best suit, with the bright plaid silk tie and the buttoned shoes, tasseled at the top. The boy, Sabra thought as she dressed hlra, grew more and more like Yancey, except that he seemed to lack his father's driving force, bis ebullience. Yancey's sure dramatic instinct bade him delay until he could make an effective entrance. A dozen times Sabra called to him, as he sat in the front office busy with paper and pencil. This was, she decided, his sole preparation for the sermon he would be bound to deliver within the next hour. Later she found in the pocket of his sweeping Prince Albert the piec of paper on which he had made notes. struttlngs and swaggerings, there had been oz.ly that sincerest of flattery, imitation of that which was adored. The eyes were those of a dog, faithful, hurt, bewildered. Yancey released Sabra's wrist. He turned bis brilliant winning smile on Isaiah, tie put out bis hand, removed the mangy sombrero from the child's bead, and let his fine white hand rest a moment on the woolly poll. Isaiah began to blubber, bis fright giving way to Injury. "Ah didn't go fo' to fret nobody. You-awas dress up fine fo' ch'ch meetin' so I crave to dress myself up Sunday style " "That's right, Isaiah. You look finer than any of us. Now listen to me. Do you want a real suit of Sunday clothes?" The white teeth now vied with the rolling eyes. "Sunday suit fo me to wear! Fo' true!" "Listen close, Isaiah. I want you to ll do something for me. Something big. I dou't want you to go to the church meeting." Then, as the black boy's expressive face, all smiles the Instant became suddenly doleful: before, "Isaiah, listen hard. This is something Important. Everybody in town's at the church meeting. Jesse Rickey's drunk. The house and the newspaper office are left alone. There are people in town who'd sooner set fire to the newspaper plant and the house than see the paper come out on ThursI want you to go back to the day. house and into the kitchen, where you can see the back yard and the side entrance, too. Patrol duty, that's what I'm putting you on." "Yes, suh, Mr. Yancey!" agreed Isaiah. "Patrol." His dejected frame now underwent a transformation as it stiffened to fit the new martial role. "Now listen close. If anybody comes up to the house they won't come the front way, but at the back, probably, or the side you take this and shoot" He took from beneath the Prince Albert a gun which, well on the left, under the coat, was not visible as were the two that he always carried at his belt. It was a of the kind known -1 1. t VUB WUIU liC UOU W11LLCU UL1 it, UUU as the single action. The trigger was "fhea disguised it with meaningless dead. It wag the deadliest of Southmarks but not quite. Sabra, studywestern weapons, a whose ing the paper after the events of the hammer, when back by the pulled morning, made out the word "Younti.' thumb, would fall again as soon as At last he was ready. Sabra had released. No need for Isaiah's small black gros-graiput on, not her second-bes- t to wrestle with the trigger. but her best, and the hat with forefinger "Oh, Yancey I" breathed Sabra, in the plumes. She and Yancey stepped horror. He's a child !" "Yancey I sedately down the street, with Cam's Now it was she who was protecting warm wriggling little fingers in her the black boy from Yancey. Yancey own clasp. Sabra was a sllmly eleIgnored her. gant little figure In her modish black ; "You remember what I told you last Yancey, as always, a dashing one. week," he went on, equably. "When They went on their way. It oc- we were shooting at the tin can on curred neither to Sabra nor to Yanthe fence post In the yard. Do it Just cey that there was anything bizarre or as you did It then draw, aim, and even unusual In their thus proceedshoot with the one motion." and reasonably, ing, three "Yes, suh, Mr. Yancey 11 kill 'era. conventional figures, toward a gam" dald." bling tent and saloon which, packed "YouH hare a brand-neof suit to suffocation with the worst and the Sunday clothes next week, remember, best that a frontier town has to offer, and boots to go with It Now, scoot I" was for one short hour to become a Isaiah flashed a brilliant, a gloriHouse of God. fied smile at Sabra over his shoulder "Are you nervous, Yancey dear?" and was off, a ludicrous black Don "No, sugar. Though I will s&y I'd Quixote. with a Jury fifty times rather plead All Sabra's pleasurable anticipation of Texas Panhandle cattlemen for tht in the church meeting had fled. "How life of a professional horse thief than could you give a gun to a child like stand up to preach before this gang I You'll be giving one to Cim, that He broke off abruptly. "What's Alone in the house, with next here, everybody laughing at and pointing a gun." y were to?" Certainly passers-bacting "It isn't loaded. Come on, honey. strangely. Instinctively Sabra and We're late." to thorn. behind look 0fancey turned For the first time In their married Down the street, perhaps fifty paces life she doubted his word absolutely. was came Isaiah. behind them, lie He strode along towards the tent She an and unmisin absurd yet strutting takably recognizable imitation of Yan- hurried at his side. Cim trotted to cey's stride and swing. Around his keep up with her, his hand In hers. "What did you mean when you said waist was wound a red calico sash, and over that hung a holstered leather there were people who would set fire belt so large for his small waist that it to the house? I never heard of such hung to bis knees and bumped against . . . Did you really mean that some or was it an excuse to them at every step. Protruding from one the holsters one saw the ugly heads send Isaiah back because of the way of what seemed at first glance to be he looked?" "That was it" but which turned two For the second time she doubted out, on investigation by the infuriated him. "I don't believe you. There's Mrs. Cravat, to be the household something going on something you monkey wrench and a bar of Iron which went to make up haven't told me. Yancey, tell me." "I haven't time now. Don't be foolone of the printing shef) metal forme. ish. I Just don't like the complexion On his head was a battered an unspeakable sombrero which he must of I Just thought that maybe this have salvaged from the back yard meeting was the Idea of somebody He managed, by the vary who Isn't altogether inspired by a dedebris. power of his dramatic gift, to five sire for a closer communion with God. Just occurred to me. I don't know to the appreciative onlooker a complete picture of Yancey Cravat la why. Good Joke on me, if it's true." "I'm not going to the meeting. I'm ludicrous In grotesque miniature. He advanced toward them with an ap- going back to the house." She was palling Imitation of Yancey's stride. desperate. Her house was burning Sabra's face went curiously sallow, ce up, Isaiah was being murdered. "You're coming with me," He rarethat she was, suddenly, Felloe Vea--a We, enraged. Yancey gate a great ly used this tone toward her. roar of laughter, and at that Babra'i Yancey. I'm afraid to "Yancey eyes turned from the ludicrous hare you, stand up there, before all C'ure of the black boy to her hus- - those people. Tm afraid. Let's go t'band. She was literally pasting with back. Tell them you're sick. Tell fury. Her idol, her god, was being them-- " mocked. They had reached the tent The "You laugh ! . . . Stop. . . . flap was open. A roar of talk came She went In a kind of swoop of rage to them from within. The entrance toward the now halting figure of was packed with lean figures smoking Isaiah. The black face, all eyes now and spitting. "HI, Yancey I How's (and those all whites), looked up at the preacberl Where's your Bible, her, startled, terrorized. She raised Yancey?" her hand in its neat black kid glove "Right here, boys." And Yancey to cuff him smartly. But Yancey was reached into the capacious skirt of his too quick for her. Swiftly as she had Prince Albert to produce In triumph swooped upon Isaiah, Yancey's leap the Word of God. "Come in or stay had been quicker. lie caught her baud out boys. No loafing in the doorway." half way in its descent His fingers With Sabra on his arm be marched closed round hex wrist in an iron grip, through the d tent "They've "Let me go 1" For that instant she saved two seats for you and Cim bated him. down front or should have. Yes, "If yon touch him 1 swear before there they are." God I'll not set foot Inside the tent. Sabra felt faint She had seen the Look at him!" face of Lon Yountis In the foxlike The black face gazed up m( lilin. In doorway. "That man," she whispered Yandevutlmi. utter It was worship, to Yancey. "He was there. He looked cey, himself a born actor, knew that at you ss you passed by he looked In his costume. In Isaiah's grotesque at yon "That's fine, honey. Better than I Corinne Over 700 acres of beets for. Nothing I like better than hoped this vicinity. planted in Price Plans progressing for Car-bo-o to bare members of my flock right under say ye." County fair. 4 rs er - n, well-dress- of" ... Ink-soak- . 1 itilng close-packe- so" " ' CHAPTER V the thoroughbred Rr.?pd along the rear of the tent wert the Indians. Osages, I'oncas, They viewed the proceedings impassively, their faces bronze masks in which only the eyes moved. Iter, on their reservations, with no white man to see and hear, they would gossip like fishwives; they would shake with laughter; they would retail this or that absurdity which, with their own eyes, they bad seen the white man perform. They would slap their knees and rock with mirth. "Great Jokers, the Indians," Yancey bad once said, offhand, to Sabra. She had felt sure that be was mistaken. They were sullen, taciturn, grave. They did not speak; they grunted. They never laughed. Holding Clm's hand tightly in her own, Sabra, escorted by Yancey, found that two chairs had been placed for them. Sabra glanced shyly about her. Men hundreds of men. They were strangely alike, all those faces ; young-old- , weather-beaten- , deeply seamed, Cberokees Crt-eks- . azi, for the most part, beardless. perhaps twenty or twenty-on- fair, e, blue eyed, almost childlike In her girlish slimness and purity of contour. She was very well dressed in a wine-colhenrletta, bustled, very tightly basqued, and elaborate with fluting on 6leeves and collar. Dress and bonnet were city made and very modish. From Denver, Sabra thought, or Kansas City, or even Chicago. Sabra further decided that the man beside her, who looked old enough to be her father, must be, after all, her husband. It was In the way he spoke to her, gazed at her, touched her. Yancey had pointed him out one day. She remembered his name because it had amused her at tbe time: Waltz, Evergreen Waltz. He was a notorious Southwest gambler, earned his living The girl looked unby the cards. happy ; and beneath that rebellious. Still, the sight of this lovely face, and of the other feminine faces looking out from at least fairly modish and decent straw bonnets and toques, gave Sabra a glow of reassurance. Immediately this was quenched at the late, showy, and dramatic entrance, Just before Yancey took bis place, of a group of women of whom Sabra had actually been unaware. As a matter of fact, the leader of this spectacular group had arrived in Osage only the day before, accompanied by a bevy of six young ladies. Osage, since that first mad day of its beginning, had had Its quota of shady ladies, but these had been raddled creatures, driftwood from this or that deserted mining camp or abandoned town site, middle aged, unsavory, and doubtless slightly subnormal mentally. These were different The leader, a handsome black-hairewoman of not more than twenty-tw- o or three, or silk-wra- p stared. So this was the church meeting toward which she had looked with such hope, such happy assurance. Harlots, Indians, beat glare, ber bouse probably blazing at this moment Isaiah weltering in his own gore, Lon Yountis" sinister face sneering in the tent entrance. And now this woman, unscrupulous, evil, who had stolen Yancey's quarter section from him by close-packe- d hard-workin- sion. "God Almighty!" he said. His tone was as Irreverent as the words were sacred. A dull flush suffused his face, a thing so rare in him as to startle Sabra more than the words he had uttered or the tone In which he had said them. What's "What is itt Yancey! wrong?" "That's the girt," What girl?" "That one Dixie Lee she's the girl kt the black tights and the skullon la the Ran cap ... ... - llFfflllllHW Yancey made his way through the crowd, leaped to the top of the roulette table which was to be bis platform and. lifting the great lolling head, swept tbe expectant eon gregation with bis mysterious, hi mnnptic eyes. close-parke- d (To Be Continued) HOW ONE WOMAN LOST 47 LBS. In 3 Months and Feels Years Younger Mrs. S. A. Solomon of New Bern, N. C. lost 47 lbs. in 3 months with Kruschen Salts. She reduced from 217 to 170 lbs. 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Teacher: Majestic 'I saw the girl liif n -- , Little daughter: "Why is father Little Boy ((calling fattier at of singing so much tonight?" fice): "Hello, who is this?" Mrs. Benson: "He is trying to sing Father (recognizing son's voice): the baby asleep." . 'The smartest man in the world." Little daughter: "Well, if I was Little Boy: "Pardon me. I got the wrong number." baby I'd pretend I was asleep." Fooling Papa a trick. d had taken for herself and her companions such rooms as they could get In the town. Within an hour It was known that the woman claimed the name of Dixie Lee. That she was a descendant of decayed southern aristocracy. That her blooming companions boasted such fancy nomenclature as Cherry de St Maurice, Carmen Brown, Belle Mansero, and the like. That the woman, shrewd as a man and sharp as a knife, had driven a bargain whereby she was to come into possession, at a stiff price, of the building known as the Elite Rooming House and Cafe, situated at the far end of Pawhuska avenue, near the gambling tent; and that she contemplated building a bouse of her own, planned for her own peculiar needs, if business warranted. Tans buUotry, heretofore sordid enough In a wrnppr and curling pins, came to Osase in silks and plumes, with a brain behind it and a promise of prosperity in Its gaudy train. Dixie Lee, shrewd saleswoman, had been quick to learn of Sunday's meeting, and quicker still to see the advantage of this opportunity for a public advertisement of her business. So now, at Osage's first church meeting, in marched the six, with Dixie Lee at their head making a seventh. They rustled in silks. The sir of the tent became as suffocating with scent as a Persian garden at g sunset The worthy wives of Osage, in their cheviots and their faded bonnets and cotton gloves, suddenly seemed sallow, scrawny, and almost spectacularly unallurlng. All this Sabra beheld in a single glance, as did the entire congregation. Yancey, having lifted Cim Into the chair next his mother, looked up at the entrance of this splendid proces- was whlsjierlng. "Oh. no! cried Sabra. aloud. It was wrung from ber. Those near by T!ie Plains had taken them early, bad scorched them with her sun, parched them with her drought buffeted them with her wind, stung them with her dust. Sabra had grown accustomed to these faces during the past two weeks. But the women she was not prepared for the women. Calico and sunbonnets there were In plenty; but the wives of Osage's citizenry had taken this first opportunity to show what they had in the way of finery. 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