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Show UTAH EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE, JnA(af I bad to reverse my orei u"""" At frightened. about Danny's being enough, natural was voice ber least, note of now; I fancied, perhaps, a relief in It ten It couldn't have been more than came Martha minutes after that, when and running Into tbe bouse, laughingbracetbe gold dancing, and wearing let wltb the monkey clasp. Gaby, she now. said, bad given It to her. Just out by the rabbit hutch. Wbile we were all stIU exclaiming over the monkey, and praising It op. to please Martha, Danny came downstairs. She said ber beadache was worse again, and she drew the curtains at the windows beside the big of the davenport, to ease tr.e glare on it curled up she before light "Do you know where Gaby was going this afternoon?" I asked her. "For a little walk." and "Why did she wear her wrap, out to go Just beaded hag. carry her for a little walk?" Danny sat up straight, pressing her bands to her aching head. "Her wrap today? Her beaded bag? Surely a man can give his life. That Is what Chad own bands, THE I do not know. A gave DEE(RT MOON After dinner John surprised ns all that be was going to take the sedan and drive down to Rattail for tbe malL 1 suspicloned, right then, tbat be was np to something. He could not that be would fool me Into by saying take a fifty-mli- e trip twenty-flv- e miles each way through the des-'beat for no other reason than to get the malt When Danny seemed hurt rt KAY CLEAVER. ST RAHAN W.N USERVICE COPYRIftHT W OOUBCrOAY DORAN CO INC SYNOPSIS 8am Stanley, wealthy owner ol Desert Moon ranch. Inform bis housekeeper, Mary Magln. who tells the story, that his tfa for-m- s wife's twin daughters, and Uabrlella. arc coming to the ranch to live, their tr.othei being dead and their father Daniel Ctnnests.no, who had been the ".suss of 8arn'a divorcing bis wife. In the penitentiary Sam has adopted a boy, John now grown to manhood, and a physl girl. Martha, twenty-one- . d cally healthy but Mrs. Marthas Kicker. Olllt nurse, lives with them. Hubert Hand, a wanderer, and Chadwlcr Cauneld. Johns wartime budd who Is an expert ventrlloqultl are the other members of the household The girls arrive. Mrs Magln baa an uneasy feellna that there Is a sinister motive In the twins' presence at the ranch, and her suspU-lnrare strengthened by the girls' mysterious prowling around the place. John becomes engaged to Danielle Caufleld ahows a pronounced Ilk for Gabrlelle. Gabrlfllt Ing se!s to win John from her sister, and John, disgusted, tellr Mrs. Magln the girl Is s trouble maker and be would like to choke her. Oabrlelle'a when she receives a letter from France arouse and mystify Mrs Dsn-lell- weak-minde- s Magln. CHAPTER V An Insight tbe second ol Jul he two girls came down. late, together. Danny was paler rhnn usual and her face had a drawn, hurt look which she explained by any I tin thin she had a severe headache. Gaby was gayer than gay. I kepi watching her, trying to catch her fare In repose, to see If any trace remained of that dreadful expression I had seen id the afternoon Her face, nor one bit of her. was In repose for a minute from the time she came downstairs until she went upstairs again, after twelve o'clock I'liut evening, that night She put "1.8 I'al'mio" on the phon ograph, and did a Spanish dunce, clicking her heels and snapping her Angers antll they sounded like lire crackers. She did .an Egyptlon dHnce slinking about, and contort Inning It wasn't decent. Mrs Kicker was doing some tatting. As I watched her, I decided that, ears r bo ears, she was not the woman I tad trcaid talking, that afternoon, up In the ciihln. Hubert Hand had said to thai woman thai she bad attempt ed murder. She could not have been' Mrs Ulrker; not our Mra ttlctter. the thin, silent woman who had lived so decently with u for so long. Those tight, wrinkled lips had never said. "I would kill her. and you too." John had never said - I shivered. Wicked thoughts and wicked words breed wicked actions, and I knew It then as now. Martha came crying to Mrs Kicker "Gaby hurt t'had," she said "I wish she would die. We could make her a nice funeral." Mrs dicker's fingers darted fastei. back and forth. Danny spoke, from the davenport "You shouldn't talk like that, Martha, dear. It Is wrong." Her voice sounded as It it ached She looked, lying In a huddle over there, as miserable as I felt I was drawn to her. I went and sat beside her. "Could I do anything for your bead ache?" I asked. "Get you some asplr In, maybe." "No, think you, Mary." There was so mucb gratitude In her' big dark eyes for nothing bul common decency on my part, that I felt downright ashamed of myself. "Danny," I said, straight out, nevei caring much about mincing words, "1 know that something is troubling you Why don't you tell John, or Sam. or even me about It? Just tell us the truth. We'd all go far to help you. If we ec u Id." Her eyes tilled with tears. "Bless your heart Mary," she said. "Bless all of your hearts- You are all so good, here " I was enough annoyed with John for coming up right then, to have slappeo him. t answered bis question for Danny. There Is plenty you could do for her." I said. "You could shut off that screeching radio, for one chlng." Danny wouldn't bear to John's stop plug the racket Every one was hav Ing sucb a good time. Bed was the place for her. She couldn't near any noise In her room, with the door shut And off she went t know now that she would not have told me anything that could hare nelped matters. But I did no: know It then, and I was sorely d!snp pointed, for those sudden tears In - her eyes, and ber voice when she bad said, "bleae your heart" bad convinced me that there was sincerity behind them, and honesty, and good In the black days that followed, when all ol as were living in the dark shadows ot doubts, and oonfu slons, and fears and suspicions. I was thankful, time and again, for those certainties, for that one fleeting but sure Insight into Danny's souL The morning of the third was biting hot. with that stinging, piercing heat that we have, when we have heat at all. In this high altitude. The sixty-miltrip across the deserts to Telko, on a day like this, would be exactly the same as a sixty-miltrip through un oven at the right heat for a roast of beef. Nevertheless, before seven o'clock of a that morning, every man-jacpuncher on the place, with til of his trimmings and trappings, including wives, squaws, papooses, children and tirenrms, had set off In flivvers or on horseback, bound for the celebration, as Sam leaving the place said, when he come Into my kitchen with a gallon of cream from the dairy. He pulled the stool out from under the table, perched on It, und remarked, "I'm not going to he surprised If we have another visitor, one of these days. The warden of the penitentiary told me that Daniel Can nexlano was to be released on the morning of the fourth of July " I dropped into a chair, feeling sort of weakened from the news. "You mark my words." I said, "all these queer actions around here have something to do witb that man's release. I know what I'd do about Can nezlano, If he shows up here." But be is Danny's "Yes, I know fnt her, and Danny is going to marry John. After all, money Is not mucb good unless you take It to market If I could come to a decent agreement And If he'd take with the fellow that Gaby with him. I'm dead certain that her hanging around nere Isn't going to contribute any to John's and Danny's married "What do you mean by that. Sam?' Uahy asked the question, walking right Into the kitchen. I was all taken aback; but Sam didn't seem to he. "Eavesdroppers, my girl," he said 'bear no good of themselves I mean th.it I dun't think any girl who want ed to act right would treat her sis ter's betrothed ns yoi treat John." "You," she said, very slowly, to make Insult baste each word, "are a d d old fool. Sam Stanley." e and troubled about blm going, and wheD he went riding right off, anyway, I decided that Sam must have sent blm, expecting some word con cernlng Cannezlano. I was wrong-I- t was too tarnation bot to do anything but try to keep cooL I stacked the dinner dishes, to wasb In the evening, and Joined the others, sitting around In the living room with the electric fans going full blast I was expecting, every minute, to see Gaby break out again. She didn't. She yawned around, and fussed about and then went and sat beside Danny, who was looking at tbe pictures in a magazine, and pnt ber arm around her. and petted her op a little a most unusual performance for her. When Chad, who had been monkey-"nwltb the radio, got a patriotic program from Salt Lake, tbe two girls went upstairs together. A few minutes later I had an errand upstairs a real one, I wouldn't have taken myself up in that heat to satisfy my curiosity so, out of habit, g e hole-empty- , life' I shook In my shoes. I had not dreamed that there was a living hu man being who would Jare soy that in that tone of voice, to Sum. He stood up. He put his minds on her shoulders, geutly, though, and turned her around. "You are a bad, wayward girl," he said. "March out of here, now, and get your manners mended before see you again." He sobered even her, for a minute without an She walked to the other word. There, she whirled around like a crazy thing, und 1 declare to goodness. I don't know whnt she said It was he sort of talking I had never heard in my life; my ears were not enough accustomed to the worrs to take In their meanings But one thing thut she kept scream Ing, screaming so loudly that she could be heard all over the place, was that Sum had threatened her once too often. Sam stood there, paralyzed. I think, as I was, for perhaps a couple of minutes, before he turned and wolked off, Into the backyard. Hubert Hand came rushing In. Gaby threw her arms around his neck, and kept or with the screaming and sob bing. Chad came In through the pan try. Hubert Hand led Gaby Into the dining room, and through tt Into the living room. "What In God's name happened'' Chad said to me. "Chad," I said, "Gabrlelle Cannezi ano has lost her mind. She Is Insane." II U face went white as lard. "1 don't believe it." "Either that." I said, "or else she is the wickedest, the " "Stop It" be shouted at me. "Yon. nor anyone, can talk to mn like that about the girl I love. None of yon understands her. nor tries to. She Is in some sort of trouble terrible troa ble. Anyone can see that I'd give To serve her" my soul to help her "If you are so crazy about serving ner," I said, "you might go Into the dining room and set tbe table, and nelp me serve her, and the rest of you, some breakfast." He went Into the yard. Like a lot r men, I thought who went to give their souls and so on to women, he didn't care to be oothered wltb smaller details, sucb as feeding tbera 1 wronged him. Whether or not a man has tbe giving ot big muL la bis dr. Aft not" 'That's Just what she did. Didn't you see her before she left?" "I was lying down. She came to my door and said that she was going for a walk, and asked me it I cared to go with her. I said that my beadache was too severe. She went into her room, and from there downstairs. 1 felt guilty about refusing to go with thought that 1 her, after our talk. I her. But called so after should; when you said she bad gone, I was afraid sle would be annoyed at being called back. I bad gotten np; so, since John will surely be home before long, now. I came down. I can't understand her wearing a wrap. It Is so silly, on a day like this." It sounded all right, but 1 was not quite satisfied. "Gaby was frightened," I said. "Something was the matter witb her when she walked through I hi room I'll go bond that, wherever It was she was going, she was afraid to go." "Mary, It must be that yon are Imagining this. Unless Oh, It couldn't be 'hat Gaby has not told me the I um about anything truth ab-'sure she was honest with me this And yet-D- ear afternoon. I am sure me, I wonder where she went for her walk?" "Gaby told me," Martha piped up. from where she was sitting on the arm of Sam's chair, "that she was going to the cabin. She was In a big hurry. She ran." "Up toward the cabin?" Danny questioned, though we all knew we could not put a mite of trust in anything Martha said. "Yes. Chad loves me better'n be loves her. Don't you, Chad?" "You are positive," Dunny Insisted, and I couldn't see why. for a minute, "that she went to the cabin, or toward it? Are you sure that she didn't go around the house toward the road?" When she asked about the road, her meaning was clear to me. Dunny was afraid that Gaby had gone to meet John, who should have been back from Rattail before this. "She told me she was going to the cabin." Martha answered. "She ran. Sbe was in a hurry." Danny stood up. "1 think 1 shall walk up to the cabin and see whether l can find her. You'll come wltb me. Mary?" I said not In tbe heat She asked Mrs. Ricker to go wltb ber. Mrs. RIcker refused. I wondered why. when neither of us would go, Dunny did not go by herself. She did not. Had she, perhaps, guessed at the cause of Gaby's fear? Did she share It? Was she afraid to go to the cabin alone? it ' Shs Whirled Around Thing. tiks a Crazy I stopped at Gaby's door to llstea I heard the girls giggling in there; und. knowing no great harm Is afoot when girls giggle. I went on, got my scrap of pongee silk to mend Sam's shirt, and came downstairs again. Sam and Hubert Hund were deep In a chess game. Mrs. RIcker was tatting. Chad and Martha were playing dots and crosses. The radio program bad Just that minute stopped. Martha, who when she didn't forget it usually fed her rabbits tbottt that time of duy, hod gone out to do It Gaby came down stairs, humming a tune She had on the tomato soup colored wrap that she had worn on the train, and the hat to mr.tch the wrap She was carrying a btaded bag. She never dressed up like that, to go walk Ing around the place; a wrap, even sucb a light one. In the heat of that day. was downright ridiculous. Chad said, "AH dressed up and no place to go?' She tossed her head at blm, and hurried straight down the room and out through the glass doors. Chad fol lowed her. They stopped together on the porch She stood with her hack to me. Chad faced me. In a minute, I saw his mouth bend up Into a grin of bliss. Nothing would have surprised me more. For this reason. As that girl had walked through the room, I had seen tbat she wulked In mortal fear. In spile ot her humming. In spite of her attempted swngger, fear was In her widened eyes, In ber drawn-ichin. In the contraction of ber shoulders. Wherever it was that she was going, she was afraid to go. But where could she go? John hud the sedan Except for the trucks which she couldn't drive, and her pony she surely would not be dressed like thct to ride horseback there was no way for her to gel off the place. It must be. then, that someone was coming to the place, and that she was going nut alone to meet them Who? Cannezlano? Not unless Sam had been mistaken about the time when be was to be released from prison. Usually, when people think at all, they think quickly. All this had gone through my mind while she had walked the forty feet to the door. Gaby and Chad stood on the porch talking for two or three minutes a very short time, at any rate. Then she went down the steps, and Chad, still smiling, came back into the room As be came In. Dunny called down from the top of tbe stairway. "Gaby CHAPTER VI Murder and Suicide At five o'clock the men put up the chessboard. Chad stopped playing the piano, and the three of them went to the borne together. I went into the kitchen to get sup tier. Danny, In spite ol her headache. Insisted upon helping me. At six o'clock, though ueither John nor Gaby had returned, we sat down voice. "Gaby bas gone out" i called. In answer. And then, since I could still see Gaby walking down the path, "Do you want ber, Danny? We could fetcb her back." "Don't "No, Danny answered. bother. I'll come down," eat" (TO BE CONTINUED) Railroaders Strong in Use of Colorful Term A brakeman Is telling a story of the rails: "Before we leave I take a run np to the calliope to mutch watches with tbe boghead and find a student tal low pot In the cab. taking orders from the bukehead and spadln dla monds with his feet together." Substitute locomotive for "calliope," engineer for "boghead." apprentice fireman for "student tallow pot," Are man for "bakehead," coal for "dia monds" and It all becomes quite In telllgible, says the Bookman. The railroad man has not one hut several colorful terms for the men and things that enter Into his day's work The locomotive Is still "the hog.' from the wood burning days when Its gluttonous appetite kept a fre man constantly on his" toes, but tt is -- oh. Gabyr She knows where Gaby is going, and whom sbe Is gotng to meet and she, too. Is afraid, I decided, because of the queer, strained quality of her ..,n,.or Danny was loo ner v una 10 touch a blf of food- - She kept looking out of the windows, and at ber watch, snd out of tbe windows again. "Don't worry. Danny." Sum said. on ac-John has bad tire trouble, come riding They'll beat tbe of count now." minute road any the np "They?" she questioned, went down the "Gaby togged up and road to meet John, didn't sher a "No," Danny's voice curled Into walL "No, Dnde Sam, she didn't Martha saw her going to the cabin. Didn't you, Martha?" "Martha." Mrs. RIcker astonished us all by saying, "doesnt know where where Gaby went She knows only was going." she Gaby told ber "But why should Gaby teil ber a fib about It?" Danny asked. "And why." I questioned, "should to Gaby go around the house to get the road. Instead of going right out the front way?" us by Again Mrs. Rocker shocked the out not would go "She speaking. her to wanted keep If she front way. trip to the road a secret" "Mrs RIcker," Danny's voice trem Is bled, "What are you hinting? What It tbat you know7" "I know." said Mrs. RIcker, "that there Is not a man living who Is not as false as sin." Sara growled, "Come down to facts, Mrs. RIcker, If you have any." "I have no facts," she said, "except that right after dinner today John and Gaby bad a private conversation, and he decided, very suddenly, to go for the mail." At that minute we heard a sound for sore ears the car coming up tbe ran driveway. Danny Jumped up and winto look out of the living room dow. "He has gone all the way around to the kitchen," she said, when she came back. She ran Into the kitchen. She and John came to the door of the butler's pantry. John was gray with dust His brows were knitted, as they are when ever he is troubled about anything. "He hasn't seen Gaby," Danny anwith an exultation that nounced, showed plainly what she had been most anxious about "He brought up the rock salt That's why he drove to the kitchen. Come and see, Mary?" "I'd rather see you two come and eat your suppers," I said. "Good night 1" John answered. "I've got to go and get rid of a few tons of dirt before I can come to tbe table." "No," Danny Insisted. "Never mind the dirt, dear. Supper is all cold now. Please come and John patted her on the shoulder, and smiled at her, and, manlike, did as he pleased. He went through the kitchen and upstairs tbe back way. Danny called after blm, asking him to hurry. He didn't When he finally did come, all slicked up, and bathed and shaved, be said It was too hot to eat and would have nothing but some Ice cream. Sam asked him what had kept him so long, on tbe trip. John said tire trouble; and that be had met Leo Saule, two miles this side of Rattail, wltb his flivver broken down. John had stopped to help him, and, at last, had been forced to tow blm the six miles north to his place. John has a way, when be Is worried, of shutting and opening his eyes, and of tossing his head back and to the side witb a quick little Jerk, as 11 he were trying to get shed of something that was In It All the while he was eating and talking, he kept doing this. I asked him whether bis head ached. "No," he said. "But I think I'm sort of loco from being out In the sun." "Gaby kept you waiting quite a while?" Hubert Hand stated and asked. "What do you mean?" John questioned. "Waited foi her down the road, didn't you, and took her to Rattail in time to catcb the train for Reno, or 'Frisco?" I thought John would fly Into a temper. He has a handy temper. But lie only looked around at all of us, witb a bewildered expression, and, "Say, are you fellows trying to put something over on me, or what?" he asked. Duty business man who Is cranky about bis food distressed his wife by setting his cup of coffee In the platter of butter. "What do you mean by doing u trick like thntr Inquired the wife. "1 am only carryiug out an Injunction of humanity. It's tbe duty of the strong to support the weak." replied the aggrieved husband. Indianapolis An Indiana SUE. also tbe "calliope" and the "boilet," A switch engine, which butts cats about the yards. Is the "goat." The engineer Is "boghead," "liogger" and "swell head." The fireman Is "bakehead." A "snake" Is a yard switchman and a "stinger" Is a brakeman, while the yardmaster answers to "dinger." A "drng" is a slow freight and the ca boose, reasonably enough, is the "crummy." Knocking the Magazines Huxley, novelist and short ouiu on oi8 Inst visit to mud, New York: "A magazine must nnmQ to the popular tnsfo v. v.ac ii II1UST go up. That's why most magazines accept the worst and reject the best A talented author recently wrote a short story. " 'There,' he said to his wife, after he finished reading it out loud to her There, that's the best thing I've ever equal t0 Poe r Amb Aldous ZJ'B "'Yes, darling, ig,. h,8 f agreed. 'And now I'll R0 and out a list of tbe 12 likeliest ,Xa sines for yon to submit It to flm To stumble twice against atone is a proverbial ttagracccero" J. R JOHN Dimeter ri i nr. of Public u-- u. vpportunUti TP?t such as colds lend themselves most commercial onnnrtnr.1,,.. la only business for shrewdil capitalize the ilia on othars. , Iw.i .hna uiui uni'oens U that demies from these cause, ,7 ' they unfortunately sometime is treated to an aat.mi.M-- of printed and pictorial oiattert ouj nil iu pnrciifise varlou . preventives or Naturally, the elittort,,. . glowingly advertised to iucu prevailing disease. Is partJn appwllng. And It Is peroap, vaiue to hare i rentlve" or "sure cure" .. It gives one a sense ot nrn liar to seeing the life presem, one's steamship cabin Howe, sure-cures- pr. is?i-iioiugii-- ei. for It is not always quite as one is led to believe. hJ) m In cfloo nf onMamtM w. . Is to use ordinary care and mis can noiu oe J 1 accomplished avoiding as mucb as possible til wno are victims of the Hmm, ouiiamg ooaiiy resistance ltd icuij .cot, uj. ixesu air, eiera wholesome food and bj the dail- - a I nation or wastes. It must be conceded that IneplJ periods one may contract th no matter how carefully and tJ tiy one attempts to live. Bat tainly one's chances of oullliit th unscathed are better with a M noay witnout a purchased prevad than with a sickly body wltls store protection Turn Into an onnortunlst hi iJ ing today to obey the laws of M existence. Or as the old saying "In times of peace prepare for h Bent the opportunists by belnt u yourself I The Germ Fiend not at all surprising tbat 1 germ fiend has at last arrived a the scene. He Is tbe natural m of the thousands of words wblci recent years have been printed T IS cernlng the devastating bacteria.. actlvitte Such a person, first place, concludes that everyta he touches Is likely to be cod lnated, and that hosts of germiitti his face and hands waiting to doM worst at tne psycnoiogiau mm Also, be Is always miserable a; soap and water have been rigom vsti applied after every normal In short, the germ consdoosnes him Is a painfully predominatfuj j This unfortunate type of forgets that we are living la I world and that there are good tti as bad organisms. Neither (m that germs are W appreciate .i . In n d.i.atlnn i..An i. nPM so to speak; end as a general r are very successful at it. Of course, there are timet n such vicious little fellows m typhoid baccilus. the pneoM perm, the scarlet fever organism others get the better of people,! bv and larce. the term world M resultant i evenly ruafched. with a of crent damaee to human WW follows that there Is no sensible son for anyone to become habiwj I nt'oroTorctaort nhout them. ann fTco nnrt ivnlpr I 83 Cfa Employ a gei nsieiit reiriilarlv for stines. bites and cuts when And always resiwi victimized. alcrn for ccnMlUoWWf nimrnntinp eases. But In the nwln. forget pj fllreadv too man Tiwn fiends for comfort either selves or to others . 1929. Western Queer Fishes Found Waters of mere ih h n am"" Hi the M Hn called - mini fnnn.l 1.1 the WIltlTS which cronks almost li.:e a on the surface of the a j '1 m ''. tl1 "will o Is (anmoW give seaweed, . and It can omnller W o mimi-iwhich j ugni angler fish Is the the sea. Its body .. .- wincn ine nu - augiei it-- oif wishes to feed on, roods. IW ti. the I"4 turns Its 1 o o nrtf 1 inside out, ana enwrap this useful organ. Alaska W can oe.wj which, when dried, j move about tneir ooui w in enny uays, uic; an eye on each side, but. w gin to swim nai, one both over the body, until , the same side. In some Is believed to have through the body. UtsWj"-their rood witn. iue in p have also sets of eetb . complete achs, where they Hah lo n .j ..,. cnewtng. ine niw ffW( are called "millions tlsh. "JWJ grown these tlsh are Inch long, but they are on enemy of the mosquito, A waters tf The feed. they J with Kong have a fish man looking neaa, a cry almost like hat V,,,) to species of shark grows brBUe Is and qui in length p, - j ,.jg |