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Show V BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1932 mi it ih 1 wmJ , if If in it i lief. -- (WNU Service.) Henry Kitckell Webster Company ' fyihBQbbs-Merri- ! Julia, as the days went on, continued to wonder about him. Sometimes she asked him casual-seemin- g questions as to how things were going at the office; or commented on the late hours he so often kept. Sometimes he was aware merely of a thoughtful and even puzzled look in her face while he talked of such things as he could talk about: young Ed's letters from CHAPTER 1. Acting In perfectly a neighgood faith hi an effort to aid bor. Ruth Ineraham. in a business Edward Patterson, cashier of the jray, Miicago agency of a life Insurance ompauy, is wro.igij suspeciea oy nia dfe. Julia, of infidelity. Her practical wjcusution, In a letter from a summer resort, unfits him for business, ana tie takes a snort vacation. Patterson's weakness is a shirking: of responsibility, intensified by his moderately successful business life in a subordinate position. On his return from his vacation he is deeply wounded by his daughter, Edith, hesitatingly telling him that his personal belongings were in the "spare room," having been removed from the room which had been lila and his wife's bedroom., CHAPTER IL Patterson accepts the ltuation as proof of his wife's belief In his guilt. Edith, 17 yean old, is worried over the estrangement of her dim parents, having little more than amothcomprehension of the affair. Her er only partly succeeds In her efforts to comfort her, though a lengthy talk with her father, in which he hints of a more or less secret longing for "adventure" in most people, somewhat ases her mind. The aon, Edward, Junior, Is at college. CHAPTER lit A business matter brings an "inventor," James Mariner, Into Patterson's life. Mariner needs 96,000, with which to push his invention, an automobile choke, and Patterson is Interested. After a brief in vestlgatlon he decides to go in with Mariner, supplying the money and taking a part in the business manage ment. He develops a liking for the work, a sense of freedom from the duties of his position with the insurance company helping him. Without informing his family, he resigns from his position vith the insurance company, devoting hlo whole time to the pushing of the invention. An old friend, Albert Willard, is skeptical of the valut or the wankly e. Patterson tells his wife of the Snknge he has made. Though surprised, and in a way blaming herself for his act, which she considers rash, she accepts the situation. CHAPTER IV. Edith is made aware of the change in the family fortunet the choke as yet being far from a financial success by her mother tell ing her she has decided to topartdo with the the cook, she and Edith housework. Edith senses in her father's act a longing for "advenfct.re," of which he had spoken At Christmas Edith's school, a private one, puts on a play, in which the girl has a part. The night of the ilay her brother Edward comes from college for the holidays. With him is Rogr Morgan, whom Edith had known as a hild. The lrl!s a "hit," espeacting in the play makes cially with Morgan, wMch pleases her but she feels a 'ack of the old time Christmas spirit. A few days later her mother asks Edith if she would much mind leaving her present school and finishing her studies at the public high school. It will mean a saving of several hundred dollars, and Edith agrees, though regretful'y. A talk with Roger Morgan heartens her. Edward tells her he is going to pay his own way decides through the university, and ashe course in to leave school and take a business college, fitting herself to become her father's stenographer. At flret he is shocked, but her determination is evident. c CHAPTER V. Edith finishes her course and takes the position In her father's office. She cheers Patterson by her presence. At her urging he goes out as a salesman to sell the choke. He Is not altogether unsuccessful, though he admits it was a trying ex- a perlence, Mar'ner shows an. inclination trom the He is ,j.,Keep away orklng on another "in Petition." Final- he declares he is dissatisfied with policy and wants to take 'selling ilness trip through the country to sforntsu Mariner's wife is there, and knows he wants to Join her. Mariner finally admits it. Patterson gives him $600 "for the trip," though both know it means Mariner's connection with the business Is practically ended. rac-tory- ' ! CHAPTER VI. Patterson really has a measure of success tn personally selling the choke, and comes to believe he will make a salesman. He becomes acquainted with a man of means. "Jake" Gorman, whi seems to take an Interest in the choke and talks vaguely of putting money into it In Patterson's absence Gorman comes to the factory. Edith handles him with much business tact, and he is Impressed. She drives with him, in his car, to her father's club and leaves the two rgen note from Roger, talking business. A on her action of congratulating her her immensely. independence, cheers to show Interest in Gorman continues tfcf business but displays no desire to invest money. Mariner writes from California that he has come to the the choke is "no good," and Patterson, though almost having the same conviction becomes discouraged. Gorman has not finally made up his mind about Investing, but has not re-- i n fused. He is abo'!t to be marrUd, tells his wlfj, an 4 Edith that WiHw4 IM refused to lend him money he needs, advising him to give the business up. He can raise money by putting a mortgage on their home. His wife's ungrudging and immediate consent seems to Infuriate him. Edith leaves them together. eon-elusi- pat-'Mfio- . ' ' CHAPTER VII. Patterson's Indlgna-- tlon at his wife's unfair attitude for ao long a time, flames, and after a trywhich he loses his ing scene, duringthere Is a partial rectemper, though onciliation, he leaves the house. Gor. man seemingly Is his last hope. He him (It Is his goes to him, finding wedding day) In a highly nervoui state. In the course of conversation Patterson learns that Gorman carrier no life insurance and at once Interests him In a policy for a considerable sum. office and the They visit the Insurance out. Patterson's compolicy Is enmade the transaction Is mors mission than he could haveInmade out of Maryears. Arriving iner's "Invention" home, he finds his wife almost hysterical with fear over what might have been the result of their quarrel, and her attitude, with his reaction, convince them both that there has always been mutual love, though misunderstanding. Their reconciliation Is comsells the "choke conplete. Patterson for him, Is ended, but cern," and that, he feels he has "found himself" and his real business, he knows, Is the selling of life Insurance. Edith returns to her schooling, her "business career"a over, but It Is an older Edith and happier home, through Patterson's "beginning of adventure," same day Albert Willard He'd hapdropped Into his office. pened to be passing by, he said with transparent insincerity, and had run up on the spur of the moment to suggest that they lunch together. It was a devil of a while since they'd seen anything of each other, really. Ed- That . cAJovelby Cbpyrighf THE STORY business of his own whleft would require aU hit time. He left the company with regret and without criticism, let alone complaint, of their treatment cf him. He spent, there was no denying It, a nightmarish three or four days waiting for the answer to his letter. But when it came, he felt a profound re- college; Edith's activities In school; the affairs of their neighbors ; municipal politics. Probably it did strike her as a little queer that he could talk again. The long evenings of frozen silence were a thing of the past. The home atmosphere was getting better. Julia's questions, however patently they groped beneath the surface, didn't rouse the old defensive resentment in him. They didn't, even at random, come anywhere near his secret She was on another line altogether. he didn't Except in his seriously contemplate keeping Julia In the dark about his great adventure until its final and complete success. Already, though he hugged his secret and exulted in it, he felt boyish impulses to let the cat out of the bag, partly out of the bag anyhow ; to give Julia a mystifying glimpse that should be gone again before she realized what it was. Ten days or so after the signing of the agreement he did give her such a Mariner had beet urging glimpse. him to put one of the chokes on his own car, to the end that he might really know for himself the wonders it performed. Edward wanted it, too, but he didn't know how to get it done, lie never drove the car Into town himself, and If he were to say sometime that he wanted it for the day, Julia would think strange things. He thought of an audacious plan for effecting his purpose, and one night sprung It, with his best appearday-dream- s, I j ance of indifference, on Julia. "I've been hearing about a new thing for automobiles lately," he told her, "and I think I'd like to try It on our car. The factory is out on the north side in Ravenswood, If you are free for an hour tomorrow morning, you might drive Id with me as far as that and get it put on. Then I can go on Into town and you can drive the car back." He wondered uneasily if he hadn't been a little too explanatory ; but if Julia saw anything unnatural about his manner, she forbore to comment on it. They put the plan Into effect the next morning. Charlie Franklin, the foreman, came out when they drove up to the shipping door. "We've got' it all ready for you, Mr. Patterson," he said. "We'll have it on in five minutes." There was nothing about that to attract Julia's attention, but if he were to introduce Charlie to her, as he wanted to do, it would give everything away. He told her, when the Installation was finished, that she needn't take him any farther. He'd go on into town on the elevated. After she'd driven away, he stole half an hour from the insurance business for a chat with Charlie (Mariner not having come down yet) about how things were going. He was finding it almost Impossible to let a day go by without squeezing In a visit. Tieally, Julia was right. He had fallen in love, romantically, with the little factory as a youth falls in love with a girl. It was a completely revolutionary experience. He'd been conscious of an emptiness somewhere, long before he recognized what it was he was hum gry for. In the uneventful course of things he might never have found out. But when sheer desperation forced an adventure upon hfm, it in toxicated him. The technique of habit made it possible for him, just possible, to carry on his duties at the office, Just as It makes it possible for many a young man to go on in a daze holding down his job. But his whole being centered itself in that humble little red brick factory out in Ravenswood. He wasn't long In coming to feel strongly, passionately that It needed his help. Mariner had spoken the truth in saying that he was not a desk man. He didn't like his desk, and he made excuses to stay away from it. Letters went unanswered ; details, but Important details, went long unattended to. The suggestion, planted by Mariner on the day of Edward's first visit, that he ought to put himself as well as his money into the business, from being a remote and almost fantastic possibility came nearer with the Irresistible rush of an ex- ward was quite aware that this was true, and that it was his own doing. He'd been avoiding Bert lately though Bert was his oldest friend. "Yes, we'll go to lunch together," he said. "But sit down a minute first There's something I want to tell you about" Now that he was Irrevocably committed to the great adventure, he didn't want to wait even while they were walking around the corner to the club. Except for a profane exclamation of astonishment now and then and a question or two, Bert listened in silence to the whole story. "You've been keeping it almighty dark, it seems to me," he commented thoughtfully when Edward had finished. "Didn't want to be argued out of it, I suppose. Like a kid who wants to marry some girl his family don't approve of. I know." Edward laughed a little uneasily at the comparison. "All right go ahead. It's your turn. You're entitled to a chance to tell me Tve been a d d fool." "There's not much point," Bert observed mildly, "in telling a man he's been a d d fool. And anyhow I'm not a bit sure It is true. A thing like that may be just as good as it looks, sometimes the girl the kid picks out is really just the wife for him. But this is the question they always ask the kid, 'What are you going to live on?' while you're waiting for the profits to come in?" "They're coming in now," Edward told him, "though they haven't begun to show very much in the bank balance. We don't pay ourselves any real salaries, of course, until the business has found its feet I've got a little left over, anyhow. I nay have to ask the boy to use his own money to finish out this year at college, and pay it back to him next fall." Bert's only comment on that was a nod. It might have meaia agreement or it might have meant, inward realized, no more than recognition of familiar points about a story. His next question struck Edward as al rather irrelevant. "Do you know anything about Mariner, except what he's told you about himself? Ever 'ooked him up at all?" "Not very thoroughly," Edward admitted. He felt for the first time a touch of exasperation. "Bradstreet, and Dun, I suppose you mean. They wouldn't know anything about him. You'd pass him up as a shabby visionary. Well, he is shabby and he seet visions. He'd never succeed by himself. But with "me to help hira do the spade work, he'll succeed, because his vision happens to be true." "Tell me more about It," Bert commanded. "Just what It's supposed to do and how It does It" "I'll tell you what I'd rather do. I'd rather equip your cars with it One of them, anyhow. I'd like to have you see for yourself." Bert said, but a little reluctantly Edward thought that he'd be glad to do that. "Well, I certainly hope you're right about it, and it's perfectly possible that you are. Those things do work sometimes and make fortunes for the man who goes into them. But " His fingers drummed for a while on Edward's desk. "But I want you to remember what I'm going to say. "You haven't completely cleaned yourself out. Before you do, before you borrow on your life insurance or mortgage your house, come to me and Let me go over give me a look-in- . your books, see how you really stand. And then listen that's all I have to ask to what I've got to say. It won't necessarily mean that the thing's a failure because it wants more money, I This Week's Tidbits By BETTY BARCLAY SALADS IN WINTER get out the "Salad a day" habit this winter. In summer, when so many salad ingredients are to be had, there is little danger of our forgetting the of salad. In cold weather, we may slip if we are not careful. But there are still plenty of salad ingredients at hand. Lettuce, celery, dates, nuts, oranges, bananas, apples, cabbage, onions and canned fruits and berries are always available. Try this delicious salad for example: Six orange sections, three or four stoned dates stuffed with nut meats-ser- ved on crisp lettuce. Or cut two slices of seedless orange thick, and place a thin slice of Bermuda onion between. Garnish with sliced stuffed olives and serve on the proverbial lettuce. For a third winter salad, dip four or five orange slices in slightly warmed honey which has been placed in a saucer. Then dip both sides of slices in cocoanut, arrange on lettuce o and dot with bits of canned or cherry. j ' mara-chin- DEPRESSION DAINTIES By Betty Barclay Because Old Man Depression is still hanging around to annoy us does not mean that we are forced to go without a tasty dish or two a day. Here are three that may be prepared economically, and that will prove delicious: Pot of Gold Dessert Serves 4 cup sugar cup cornstarch teaspoon salt 1 1 2 I cup milk cup orange juice with milk or cream. Orange Canape Individual Service Peel oranees and slice in inch slices. Allow 1 large or two small slices to a serving. Arrange on lettuce. Sprinkle with li tablespoon minced celery. Serve with French dressing. I a r n t s h. if desired, with slices of stuffed olive or with small strips of pimiento. Orange Tulips Serves 4 6 Oranges 8 Marshmallows, quartered Yi cup banana slices cup shredded dates 4 whole marshmallows Cut top off 4 oranges. Make 5 or 6 cuts down sides so that pulp may be removed and shape shells to si mi ulate tulip petals. Pare 2 remaining oranges. Cut all orange pulp in pieces saving juice. Mix orange with other ingredients. Fill orange shells. Place these in sherbet glasses and top with a whole marshmallow which has been toasted until soft and slightly brown one-thir- d ( ed. UPSIDE DOWN CAKE In a cold frying pan place 3 tablespoons butter and 1 cup light brown sugar. Melt these and add 6 ripe peaches, peeled and sliced. Pour over this a batter made of 1 egg beaten, yi cup light brown sugar, teaspoon salt, cup hot milk, 1 cup flour and 1 teaspoons baking powder. Mix egg, sugar and salt. Add milk. Stir in flour to which baking powder is You've seen that yourself. A safe, in- added. Bake 30 to 45 minutes. When dustrious failure. Well, we aren't safe baked turn upside dows on large platany mora. I believe the thing will ter. Serve hot with whipped cream or succeed, but I don't think Bert does. sauce. Even Mariner doesn't pretend It's a sure thing." He got up from his chair and came toward her. "We haven't thrown away our safety for nothing, though," he said. "That's what I want you to see. We've got some sort of a hope in exchange for it" "Well, we needed it," she told him. She rose too and came to meet him. Awkwardly and with a visible effort she put her arms around his neck. W. A. "Here's hoping," she said, and kissed ... Farm Bureau News .j e "But if the Thing Isn't Right If There's a Joker In It Somewhere "He Didn't Finish the Sentence. TO BE CONTINUED I may tell you to go ahead and put your shirt on It. But if the thing isn't right, If there's a joker in it some- Farmington Red and White Store, where . . ." owned by group of local business He didn't finish the sentence. Edmen opened for business in building ward got up and thumped him on the occupied by W. W. Barlow formerly back. "All right, I'll remember," h! & Sons. aid. L 856.40. that We hope the coming season greatert hings will develop from this start. One of, our big problems-a- t grading and storage at Garland and the present time is that of proper Tremonton for the coming season. Join the Farm Bureau. Let us put over more activities like this. , We All Want to Know Where We Can Find Service Fire Insurance All Kinds, Automobile Insurance, Fire, Theft, Collision, Public Liability, Property Damage, Plate Glass Insurance. BONDS Surety Bonds, Contract Bonds, Public Official Bonds. LOANS Farm Loans, Property Loans, BUILDING & LOAN Save As You Please, Income Accounts, - -- Savings' Certificates. NOTARY PUBLIC CONVEYANCING All of the above together with the best of service can be obtained from JAMES BROUGH Office "Tremonton Res. BVR. Tel.- - Utah Bell Tel -- -- 101 3U.2 WESTMORELAND him. His heart leaped up, and sank again, In the very Instant that their lips met What he had momentarily hoped from that kiss was not there. They hadn't said what he had wildly believed they were going to say. Almost imperceptibly she had withdrawn. Her arms were still around his of possineck. Upon that knife-edgbility he might have pulled her close again and kissed her once more, and In that wordless appeal he might have packed everything he wanted. It was at the bidding of something quicker than thought that he let her go Instead, and turned away. He wouldn't ask for anything that wasn't offered. When he had succeeded, justified his adventure, perhaps she'd come to him. I (By Owen L. Brough, Pres. N. B. E.) Last Spring the executive Board of the North Box Elder Farm Bureau' thought it necessary to get other rotation crops into our" valley, and so working on this suggestion we were able to get the United Acceptance Corporation to come in and contract potatoes. It was April 1st before we started contracting and we were just a little fearful at that late date, we would not get the required acres to put the project over. For this reason some of the land contracted was not properly prepared and some land was not adapt ed for the growing of Russet potatoes. For these reasons a few of the growers were not successful. We also had about 15 acres freeze in the ground on accourtt of not being able to take care of them fast enough. From the acres planted we sold $14,200.68 and still have about 10 cars yet to be sold. Out of 157 acres of the successful growers, after paying for seed, sacks freight, grading and inspection they received an average of $67.48 per acre. I would estimate the cost of production per acre about $27.48 leaving a profit of $10.00 per acre. Some growers would average a profit of $50.00 per acre. As a rotation crop there in not anything that we know of that is better than potatoes. It 'has been proven that to plant sugar beets the following year it is possible to get 5 tons more per acre. Potatoes are a fine crop to clean land from weeds. 80 car loads were shipped to the Acceptance Co., about half from Garland and half from Tremonton. The Rail Road Co, received for freight $19 tablespoons butter Mix dry ingredients, add milk and orange juice and cook in double boiler until thickened. Add butter. Pour into individual molds. Cool. Serve i I told Bert today, but that wasn't till after I'd got the letter from the company accepting my resignation. It was a thing I thought I had to decide for I don't, altogether, undermyseif. stand it myself why I felt that way, I mean so I doubt if I can make you understand at all." "But I can understand it," she told him. "I've driven you to it, Ned That's why you did It" He answered automatically, "Not at all," and then broke off short in his denial "Oh, it's true in a way," he conceded after a reflective pause. "If we'd been happy as we used to be. If there'd been anything much to lose, I suppose I'd have held back. But what really drove me to It was my Job with the insurance company. That's been poisoning me for years. I've been a failure, Julia. Do not allow yourselves to ! Pay Your Subscription love-strick- press train. Early in November, well within a month of the time he'd made his first investment In the company, he sent his resignation as cashier of the Chi. cago agency to the home office. The stab of terror that accompanied his writing the letter was In itself half C. Brigham City James Green and He Informed the second pleasureable. to Coast Coast W. Shannon opened vice president that he had gone into I Auto and Battery Repair Shop, He hadn't the faintest Idea of borrowing on his life insurance he'd seen enough of that from the other side, heaven knew nor even of mortgaging his house. The business wasn't going to need it. anyhow. He got his overcoat and hat from the cupboard and put them on. Bert was still sitting solidly in the chair beside his dsk. "You've been here a long while, Ned," he said. Peliherniely Edward let his gaxe run over the familiar room and dwell upon the vista of the outer office he could see through the half-ope- n door. "I've come to loathe this place," he said. "It's had twenty years of my life, and I haven't lived in it at all I I never even knew till lately what It was to be alive. I do know now, I'm happy In this thing, Bert I don't care a d n whether it makes me a fortune or not. I've never done anyNever had a run for my thing! money. But this thing why. It's giving me real air to breathe!" He drew in a great deep breath and then shut down the window. "Come along to lunch," he said. They went on by tacit understandto talk ing and a little of other things. It was not until they had finished luncheon that Bert turned back to the topic of his friend's great adventure. "What does Julia think about it?" , he asked. "I haven't told her yet," Edward ad-- ' mitted. "I shall tonight of course, now it's settled." "You mean you haven't told her any-- i thing, not even about the Investment?" Edward shook his head. "1 don't j suppose you can understand why I j didn't You see, things have been . . ," Bert didn't let him flounder Into j that "Oh, I guess I can understand," i he interrupted "But I've got a hunch that she'll surprise you as much as j you surprise her. Julia's a darned If it strikes her as a good sport. sporting proposition I mean, if you put It up to her that way. . . . See what I mean?" Edward said he did, but this was not at the time quite true. He thought about it after they'd parted. It had seemed strange to hear Julia described by that phrase, but he guessed she de- served it. Bert hadn't spoken idly, anyhow. He wanted Julia given a chance to see the adventure as her husband himself saw it. He had to wait, pretending to read, until Edith went to bed, and when the time finally came and he forced himself to say aloud the words, "I've got a surprise for you, Julia," he had already said them to himself so often that they sounded queer. He told her the whole story, and, his hopes warming Into a blaze as the smoldering fire did, he gave her a chance to see something, he thought, of his vision, a thing that might come true. He didn't turn back to her until he'd finished. She hadn't put in a word, but, though he'd felt nothing hostile In th silence, he wasn't surprised to see that her eyes were full i of tears. "Of course," he said, "you were en titled to be told about It before everything wat decided, but somehow I couldn't bring myself to tell anyone. PAGE THRES Will Call on You as Field Representative of THE LEADER PLEASE PAY HIM YOUR RENEWAL Thank You Bear River Valley Leader |