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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH The Man Nobody Knew r Po. (Copyright CHAPTER X Med need It And there are so few so Incredibly few people who make you feel like that. One In a thousand. Or, one In ten thousand. People who lift you clear of your trivial little self and make you think In terms of principles, and not of your own selfish idea-a- nd still don't preach. . . . It rtust be a privilege." "It isn't only for me," she said. "He has enough sympathy for anyone who asks for It. He isn't very worldly you've noticed that? He can't believe that anybody, or anything, Is really bad . . . and perhaps that's why people come to him so. Of course, It may be that Just because he's my fa- Continued. 11 Business worries?" way J9--" Xhe doctor achieved a perfect and beamed at It Tm sorry. "Why in clr-jje- t, Something elser A good deal else," said ing me feel very bad, Mr. You owe It to me " Ililliard. ... That's proved, I'm proving too. it now t I'm saying It don't you hear me? I'm saying it now. And you " He put his hand to hia forehead, and brushed back his hair, which was strangely wet "I can't make it any plainer," he said, with helpless finality. "No matter what's happened," she said earnestly, "1 can't believe it isn't o if you'll Just coming out all right. keep on living, and working, and try. and . . ." Here her ing eyes were so "appealing that his own dimmed to behold them. "And you haven't been so very dreadful after all, have you?" Hilllard retreated once again, not trusting those hungry, lawless arms of his. "I'm lust wonderlne." he said, with a terrible smile, which was entirely devoid of mirth, "If a man happens to He had to exert his utmost will to mate the beginning. "All I can explain is that I've made another mistake . . ." After the first great effort ... I" ... .. .. library . . . and would come down directly. Indeed, he followed almost on the heels of the messenger. "Why. hello, Hllllard," he said, rather stiltedly. "Did you want to see me? That's too bad I've got to leave here In Just a couple of seconds to catch my train. I'm going West tonight" "I'll take you over," said Hilllard, shortly. "That'll save you a minute or two and give us tlmo to chat My car's outside." the circumstances "Why under . . ." Armstrong's glance was diverted. "I don't think I can let you do that take me over, I mean. I'm going West on a business trip and I don't think it would be very appropri ate for you "Oh you are!" Hllllard felt atreaks of ice coursing along bis spine. "How far West?" Armstrong consulted his watch nerV' to" ously. "Hllllard," he said, "I like to do things out In the open. There are just two reasons why I don't think you really want to invite me to ride down to the station with you. If I'm wrong, it's up to you to say so. One of 'em Is that Itufus Waring has asked me to ston off at Butte I'm coin a uood deal further than that and look up some mutters for him. I guess you know as well us I do what they are. hing Con-,tam!- y t! ... ... iar-h!- y. s. ... 1 ... ... jj Du-ron- ... ... ... ... 1 ... Hilllard fumbled his hat. "I see. the other reason?" Armstrong suddenly straightened: and his voice had a curious ring to It a ring which electrified Hilllard and awoke the most petrifying alarma within him. "Hut does one ordinarily mention certain kinds of people in a men's club? I don't know how it Is where you come from but here, we don't." Hllllard smiled vapidly; it was the utmost perversity of emotion, for he knew now why Carol had been so ex. why she plicit In her sympathy had been so meticulous to let him realize that she wanted him as a friend; only as a friend . . . and here was Armstrong, concealing with difficulty the triumph he was hinting at. And be-tau- e. watches, pendant Buy them here. Our reasonable prices ease the way. BOYD PARK BOYD PARK BLDG the words came tumbling, passionately, unchecked. "It would have been so Infinitely better for both of u if I'd never met you at all. My life has been a whole series of mistakes; this Is the worst. . . . The worst. . . . Silence. Of course. It would be absurdly simdoctor said the habit," not my "It's unless ple if I were going away from Syrapresently, "to offer any advice cuse. If I were coin to leave vou rm asked for it. Gratuitous advice And nohere, and go but I'm notx I'm going lCTer did anybody any good. to stay here. And I can't think It's somethcosts it unless It takes body decent not to tell you now that If you And Tm ther, nd not often then. ing-" Dor "No." Hllllard shook his head. . . . knew all I know . . . what I've selther your regular physician if I had mate a "I've seen a good many fathers, and been, what I've done . . . you wouldn't ,onr confessor. But mlnutf I'd next to mine. . . . My own was a marry me If I were the last man left this at present diagnosis a need preacher a Jreat wonderful man, too, but I never ap- to ask you! . . ." He gestured ImKj that you "We're childishly hopeful deal more than you do a doctor preciated him. And seeing the doctor patiently. . hoping look- all of us sometimes aaid me I ItSlard, . . . . made too wish do," . has . It's I oh, for what we know Is impossible . . . "Only - . . Its out childish to talk about !" tog up sharply. Just personal things, of 'the question. "If you were really as old as you try what we know always will be Imposwell talk can I very doctor-notto be," she said gently, "you'd know sible. . . . I've been like that and take about." that It Isn't ever childish to be serious what I hoped was that you could been I've me on what basis of the -Doctor said Durant, about such things as that. On the conYour trouble," for the last few months . . . since Isn't physical as much as it Is spiri- trary! And yet there was a time when . . . because that's the way I take nerves. July It's taut but tual. It's nothing you wanted me to think you were well Just a man a man like over thirty. Why, Mr. Hilllard, you're myself. othini: hut your struggle against the 1 hoped we could Jack How Armstrong. !" a boy restraints you put upon yourself. Nevertheless, she regarded . . . und the eliminate . past, simply You've told me so . . him . . . not as one would regard do I know? I can't get away from It. It's on my in seen It's your I've a mere you. youth, but with appreciably (very time heels every minute. It's what I am, tme'. my boy. It's in your eyes. more uncertainty. now . . . but if I went much further And it looks as though the Ililliard had flushed warmly. doctor . "That was when I wanted you to back than that, you and the confwvnre is about over . . would both think Just what I do about it that Isn't Carol coining up the think a good many things that weren't myself . . . and I'd have to say good-has true." Keps, my ears aren't half as good to you anyway . . . Just as I'm doed ii to be an "About you?" Her inflection was they ing tonight. I hope you can see that she as Hot iion wore on their feet invitation to further confidences, and I'm not telling all this to you from any i, swirling. ta:ue it drew Hilllard Incontinently along other motive except to he quite honest "(i), :" she cried to Ililliard. "I the r;ith he hud planned and feared wiili you. Quite honest for once. I didn't know you were coming up to take. care too much about you to let you "Some of them," he admitted. "And live another Suppose I'd missed you!" day without knowing that He merely smiled, and made no ansome were about you. The fact Is, I I can't I'm not on it's over. go to her unl! swer; nor (lid he spenk . . . I've come on a peculiar errand." That's friend. even to be tit your after the doctor, protesting a sudden He cleared his throat violently; his all." them waved had desire for solitude, eyes suddenly adored her. "I've come Ililliard had She sat motionless. bospiti.hly out of the study into the to straighten all that out. Please don't to back the turned fireplace. Bvin' room. Carol was in the old fa imagine I've suddenly gone crazy or as that?" she "Were you as bad miliar corner of the sofa ; Ililliard was . . . or anything . . . and please don t whispered. the mean Mantling fireplace, peering take anything I say tonight to by "Once," he said bitterly, over his down into the empty grate. He coughed weakness . . . because, honestly, Tve to be a gentleman. and an expression of utter thought about this so much that' It's shoulder, "I used time ago." a was But that long He iopelessness crept Into his eyes. rather disintegrated me . . . but I've head. "Nothing raised her She turned abruptly. I don't some tilings got to tell you she said, me make believe," ever could much "Well," he said, "just how want to." Ills shoulders squared in been Just as haven't always "that you would you have cared If you had?" in of look resolution ; and at the pain I've known you since July. Nothing his eyes, of pain and despair, her can. and nothing will. What you may There was a stately old lamp standihim to out went whole womanliness think about yourself makes no differIts behind the sofa; ng at height and had to be crushed, because she ence to me. I " shadows were gracious and its light, was, after all, a woman. "Don't!" he said, and his tone was is it crept through a shade of painted Her look to him was first of aston" Carol softly, In a ishment at his surrender, and, after agonized. "Don't you see Tellum, touched steadsaid "I don't believe you," she delicacy of radiance which was Infiniof swift, ineffable pity for the unthat, tely caressing. Her hands were lying named forces which were influencing ily.Hilllard's voice was unstable with Hie in her lap ; she bent her head, and him. Womanliness hung In the balhis great bitterness of failure. "You viewed them studiously. ance; and then, In a. flash of perfect flatter me," he said harshly. "And bea I cared should have great comprehension of his plight, she knew "Why, wrong." "I'm always disapdeal," she said. that she could speak to him without sidesyou're was up, and beside him, smiling She of a friend I miss when pointed seeing reserve. He had passed beyond the and he was floghis mine. What makes you so pessimistic, she put bravely into to eyes, his bounds of conventionality; will hungry arras his keep ging ill of a sudden?" herself, mentally, at his side. from sweeping her her, from snatching Ililliard reddened, and his eyes grew "If it hurts you to say it," she said, close to him, and . . . brighter. "TVf. known you've been . . . fond "What do you think women are?" he said tardily. of me. How could I help It? And why "Friendship!" with sweet imperlous-nes"What an accordionlike sort of thing shouldn't you have the right to think she demanded, but marble statues "Nothing that is I" of it? Why shouldn't you have the or Just made to stand ones? putty "Why, Mr. Hllllard 1" Her tone was right to be yourself? Why shouldn't around the world go past let and at the same time Interrogatory and reyou have the right to talk to roe, and without having anything to say about proachful. to expect me to hear you, and try to It?" "Oh, I'm not speaking of you," he understand? You haven't thought that He retreated to the wall In do said. "Only of the thing Itself. . . . my father Is the only one of us to "Don't I Don't! I'm the one It's big or little, close or distant . . . have you?" The reproof was ex- who's driven myself Into this corner that, and it hasn't anything to say about it quisite. cot you!" . . . You'll have to excuse me I the time "Ever since that day "But you don't have to stay in it was thinking out loud . . ." "I've he said, you played to me," always, do you?" "Please do!" she said. "You were He stared at her in mystification.don't n the way to be interesting. Think "Don't be silly,'' she said, "and ot loud some more." be unreasonable; I'm not!" She Ililliard glanced sharply at her. touched his sleeve; his expression was "Don't laugh at me I" he said, almost unchanged. "Don't make me think you "For heaven's sake, don't roughly. are unreasonable!" she said compasyou know that the one time you sionately, "if you're hot satisfied, why shouldn't laugh at a man Is when he can't you make yourself what you I ieserves It?" want to be? Instead of brooding over Curol's attitude was vaguely less the past, that you can't help, why don't can help? laegostlve of ease. you think about things you "I wasn't laughing at you," she said, Is about all there is to live for, Living Inly. But what you said was so isn't it?" so aueer." He drew in his breath perilously. lk, Hilllard's accent was yes." I'm letting you go." he said, "But ver., fiat. "I suppose it "was. It must dazed. bave been. I always seem to be She stamped her foot in tremulous ore or less up In the air when I come alseverity. "No, you're not; I won't to sea you, don't I? The last time we see why? Do I Oan't you Itl low " tallied about friendship have to tell you that? Well . . . "I'.ot that was at least a month ago," because I want you for a friend even he said hastily, "and In the meantif you don't want me." ime, you've been Just as nice and "Want you!" he cried, and rememtheerful aa anybody. I thought you himself, and froze to Immobility. bered were nil over your troubles." "Oh as a friend !" "Cheerfulness wasn't what you "Surely, as a friend what else did sked for." Hllllard swallowed hard. think I meant?" you "! . . . I came t, up here, Miss The young man shook his bead. to have a really serious talk with here came I up know. Only "I don't you . , . really serious. It's been to tell you I haven't any right to your delayed too long already. It took me friendship. I can't tell you why . . . two solid days to get my courage up I haven't as much callousness as all o It. And . . . and now I'm here, that . . . but If I did tell you, your I don't even know how to "Thfnk Out Loud Some More." begin." atom of faith In me would be last He scowled heavily into the vacant me the gone. And you can't afford to have and held out his pitlms with fought against "it fought like said I've now that a" friend even for mechanic gesture as though to warm very devil, and can you?" and too that, you've known that, "I've "You at an imaginary blaze. n "Yes," she said steadfastly, "I kr ,w," he said absently, "your father come to see me so seldom. I'd hoped It." afford the Is h at least that you'd give yourself very extraordinary man very." "When . . . when I've told you The compliment to the doctor had chance vou said you wanted." ," His lips were parted gin "You forget He stiffened heroically ,fs Invariable effect upon her; she his eyes roved dully. "I amazedness. an Impercondition a was there t: 'ed under it. I'm telling you under can't fair it's and ' only I've always known that . . . I'm ative condition to blow me the not worth powder I'm to you to tell you that It's a condition you realize It too." "That's dly. He hades." laughed to ever. That's why meet I can't ever "1 He stood erect and faced her over and over again. proved already, ''t It came to me, wheal was I'm here. I had to tell you." . . . . . Don't you understand? . stillness. a was There profound ' king to him, what a great privilege broke. voice "Why, His . . Carol at said "Can't you explain?" she "imst be for you to have his advice I'm not at to talk to you. You're mak Carol his sympathy . . . when you last "I wish you would. Hllllard, "But that's no reason for with It. I didn't know Be to bother you so apparent" It was You must give suggests, at once, sparkling jewelry, shining silver, acelets, pins, dependable pretty JEWELERS t&. By HOLWORTHY HALL " That Gift ! if 1 .. m "Don'tl ... Don'tl" a sort of transition be In a half-wabetween know you period, . . . I wonder what's coming to him. I wonder what Is coining to him. . . . I wonder If the whirlwind doesn't get him both ways." y After the street door had closed be- hind him, Carol went slowly along the corridor to the doctor's study and knocked, out of sheer habit. His pleasant baritone came to her reassuringly. "Yes?" "Are you busy, dear?" Few men, on hearlnz her voice, with that suggestive catch in it. would have confessed to a previous engagement. "Not when you're around," said the doctor, appearing on the threshold. v hat s His tone altered suddenly. wrong?" he said. "Daddv." said Carol, "he's gone . . . You saw him, too . . . what is It? What is it?" She was trembling violently ; the big doctor gathered her up in his arms without ceremony and carried her over to his favorite leather chair. "Fires burning," said Doctor quietly. "Burning and burning and burning . . . like the ones you've seen down in the blast furnaces white hot, and crucible steel . . . comes out of them . . . strong enough to make permanent things out of . . ." He smoothed her hair, and she sighed qulverlngly, and lay still. "And the steel lasts ten thousand times as long as the fires that made it. I do't know what's blowing the flames, dear, but he'll do he'll do." Du-ran- t, CHAPTER XI. Half-wa- y down James street, Hilllard, driving his runabout In utter disregard of the traffic rules, was reliving, moment by moment, and word by word, the conversations of the earlier evening. He had gone to Carol with the sturdy intention of betraying himself manfully and In detail ; but in the doctor's study he had perceived another, and what seemed to him a more unselfish method of achieving the same end. He had fancied that If he could preserve Intact the memory of Dicky Morgan, If he could prevent the world and especially that part of It personal to the Cullens and Durants from knowing what a despicable thing it was that Dick Morgan had done, he could save a modicum of pain for those who would otherwise be mosti affected. This conception had Interfered to make his talk with Carol he had somewhat aimless been under the dual necessity of damnMoring Hilllard, without implicating gan. And how bungllngly he had accomplished It! How inefficiently how unsuccessfully ! o On Impulse, he checked the speed of the car, and swerved to the left; he was actuated by a sudden desire to run over to the University club and see Armstrong. He had no definite plan as to what he should say or do; he merely craved to meet his rival face to face, and hnv It out with him. Man to man and tlits time there should be no bungling. Mr. Armstrong, it scuied, was in the ... "No," he said harshly. "One doesn't, but there Isn't anything to keep us from mentioning anybody we like outside the club, Is there?" "Why not that "Then I'll take you down anyway," said Hilllard. "And let's see If we can't try to understand each other." It took a brave man to accept the offer, for Hilllard's eyes held little to recommend their owner as a prudent driver, or as a very pleasant companion. Armstrong, however, wa3 already putting on his hat I" . They had driven over to the station In silence. Ililliard. parking the run about carefully, turned to his passenger. "We've got ten good minutes," he suld. "Your train Isn't even In yet go ahead and talk." Armstrong, after n momentary de lay, put out a conciliating hand. "Old man," he said, "let's play the rest of 166 MAIN STRIXT Mll Ml WANTEDPLASTERERS AND ELECTRICIANS Union wages. Eight-hou- 302 r Open shop condition. day. Apply or write to Kearns Building, Salt Lake City NEEDED A THOROUGH SOUSING Evil Spirit of Haekman Could Not Be Exorcised Except by Most Strln. gent Methods. Doctor Brown, a negro evangelist, was a firm believer In the ancient custom of river bnptlsm, and converts whom h baptized In this manner seldom forgot It. A few years ago ha held a christening In a New Jersey town on the banks of the Delaware river, where a dozen or more converts were assembled, awaiting their turns t be Immersed. Among them was a haekman, who evinced a lively Interest In the ceremony. "Why does the good doctor," he asked of a fellow convert, "duck some of them folks two tlinoa an' others more?" "lie ducks 'em once," explained hli friend, "for every new name they'ra goln to have." "Is that possible?" the haekman replied. "I was goln' to call myself Thomas Jefferson Lincoln Andurson, but I guess Tom' will be 'bout long 'miff." This conversation was overheard by the sharp ears of Doctor Brown, who finally beckoned tha haekman to coma forward. "Yo name, plense?" he inquired la a deep bass voice. "Jess baptize me 'Tom,' that's 'nuff," the candidate replied, as the evangelist, taking him none too gently by the neck, piloted him far out Into the stream, where he ducked him not onea but half a dozen times with such rapidity and vigor that a few mlnutea later the haekman found himself on the shore, coughing, sputtering and was fighting for breath. The ceremony recovered had he when soon over, and his strength he made hla way to tha tide of Doctor Brown. "What fo' you duck me that way?" he demanded in aggrieved tones. "I come here to be baptixed, not to ba drowned." "My good roan," replied Doctor Brown, "you was o filled with tha devil I had to use a powerful lot of water to wash him out of yo' system." this out like two sensible people. We won't get anywhere by bickering, and I suppose It won't do any harm for us to nut all the cards on the table, and One Good Time. Of know exactly where we stand. I think my most embarrassing mocourse, you haven't known me very ment took place one lovely night last long, and I haven't known you . . . summer. I was engaged to be marbut suppose, Just to help along the un- ried and decided to have one good time derstanding, we take each other at with an old friend of mine. I canface value." celed my Intended husband's date, Hilllard winced. complaining of a sick headache, and "Well suppose we do. Then what?" went out Joy riding. I explained the "Th.en you can't hold It up against circumstances to r0.(r!?.nii.5i-5'S..fc'-clded me for stopping off at Butte on my go to a bathing beach some tq way out. I haveg'Jt any jpoUvg inlta distance awnV to take a "plunge In the I promised todo it as a favor to Rufe lake. We were having a grang and It Isn't a personal Issue at Wjring. glorious time swimming and diving all. I know exactly how It must apwhen lol who should stand on the You pear to you, but . . . I'm not that sort pier but my future husband. of man, Hllllard. I wouldn't have can my agony when my friend Imagine dreamed of it myself. That's straight !" called to me, "Say, May, dive with me him The masquerader regarded once more; then we'll have lunch." earnestly and yielded to his evident Exchange. sincerity. When Man Weighs Nothing. "Way down deep," he said, at length, "I know you're not, but . . . what's Prof. Edward V. Huntington of Hnr-vnrHe referred to Armthat for?" university showed by an elabostrong's outstretched hand. "Oh! . . . rate mass of figures printed In Science an right." They shook hands solemnthat a man on a train moving alontf mlle-- i ly. "At the same time It would have the equator westward at 18.700 been so perfectly natural for you to an hour, or eastward at 16,700 mile feel like getting whatever leverage on hour would weigh nothing, as measured by an observer on the train. you could " of need that no now," "There's Taking Chinese Census. said Armstrong. Ills smile was proud The Inhabitants of China are countand brilliant, and Hilllard withered ed every year In a curious manner. under It. eldest master of every to$ houses The "Well, I wasn't sure." count the families and make a to has BE CONTINUED.) (TO tax-ilist, which Is sent to the Imperial Traveled. use. Had Evidence Stork Julia had been over to see the neighAvoid Collisions. bor's new baby and upon her return collide with anything. The Don't was asked how she liked it, to which man at the helm must know how tu she replied: "Well, mother, it is all steer away from obstructions and avoid right, only the stork must have been a shoals If he would successfully make long time on the way with It for it the ports and havens adown the certainly is awfully tanned." streamway of life. Humphrey 3. Desmond. Kept Busy on Social Calls. Actions That Count The wife of a member of congress If we must have great acin the Let social us, duty can discharge her Is tions, make our own so. All actionadcabinet in nine calls, but a cabinet woman must pay more than 600 If of Infinite elasticity, and the least mits of being Inflated with celestial she makes only one call during the air until It eclipses the sun and th season on each senatorlai and conmoon. Emerson. gressional household. o |