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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH COINCIDENCE 'luncheon" Set to Crochet and Starch William J. Crittenden, ntts, burgh. Pa, former vice consul Mexico, visited his brother, x. x. Crittenden, Jr., at Kansas City. Xhe item was reported in the "Forty Years Ago" column of. a local new, paper. It was Just a coincidence. ne also had visited his brother on the same date in 1895. Cop fright bj Ben Ames IDuuams Ben Amei WMiam, SYNOPSIS At. rntherlng-- of cronies In the Tillage, ot Liberty, Maine, Jim Salad ine Hate to the history of the neighboring Hostile Valley Us past tragedies, tta a'uperb fishing streams, and, above all, tba mysterious, enticing "Huldy." wife, of Will Ferrln. Interested, he drives to the Valley for a day's Ashing, though admitting to himself his chief teste la to see the glamorous Huldy rerrln. "Old Marm" Pierce and her nineteen-year-old granddaughter Jenny lira Id the Valley. Since childhood Jenny baa deeply loved young Will and who reFerrln, older than she, gards her as still a child. Will leaves to take employment in nearby Augusta. His father's death brings Will back to tba Valley, but he returns to Augusta, still unconscious of jenny's womanhood, and love.. Neighbors of th Pierces are Bart and Amy Carey, brother and sister. Bart, unmarried and Is atsomething of a tracted by Jenny. The girt repulses him definitely. Learning that Will Is coming home, Jenny, exulting, sets house "to rights," and Ms long-emphas dinner ready for him. He comes bringing his wife, Huldy. Tha girl's world collapses. Huldy becomes tha subject of unfavorable gossip In the Valley. Entering his home unlooked for, Will finds seemingly dajnnlng vldenc of his wife's unfaithfulness 'as a man he knows Is Seth Humphreys breaks from the house. Will over-takMm and chokes him to death, although Humphreys shatters his leg wltn a bullet At Marm Pierce's house tha leg Is amputated. Jenny goes to break the news to Huldy and finds fcer with Bart Carey. Huldy makes a mock of Jenny's sympathy, declaring aha has no use for "half a man," and Is leaving. Will Is legally exonerated, artificial leg with a home-mad- e carries on," hiring a helper, Zeke Dace. Months later Huldy oomes back. ne'er-do-we- ll, ty es CHAPTER V Continued 9 ' Huldy stood, leaning indolently gainst tbe jamb of the door. Broiling t thetn alL "He don't have to hurry. I might decide to stay," she said softly, T like handsome men," said Huldy, drawling. "And even If he don't like me, he's handsome as they cornel" Zeke's eyes were black with anger. Bhej laughed at his rage, and she said tn soft tones: "You can see he don't like) me, Will. Ill hare to make him like' me before I go." Zeke cried, In choking exasperation : "You've got one man outside I How many . . Huldy looked over her shoulder, then back to Zeke again. "Yon go out and tell him he can go," she said. "Tell him Tm through with him!" And when be hesitated: "He's Just a little man," she urged, derisively cajoling. "You've bo call to be afraid I" Zeke appealed to Will with a glance; and Will spoke wearily. "Go ahead, Zeke," he said, submitting. "This here's Huldy'a home, If she's a mind to stay." Huldy took off her hat and laid It aside; she touched her hair with her hands. Jenny stood up and moved toward the door; but Huldy said softly: "Don't you go J There's room enough for the both of us. 1 don't want your Willi" Will protested heavily: "Huldy. If you stay here, you'll have to mend your ways l" Huldy was suddenly vicious, dangerous: "Dont talk to me!" she retorted. "After fetching her In here the minute I was gone. I aim to stay; and If you try to boss me around, I'll howl her name up and down the Valley till people nola tne,r noses when they 'see her! You better mend your own ways. Will Ferrln!" Zeke touched Will's arm. "Let me throw her out. Will," he protested. "Don't you go and take her In." "I have to, Zeke," Will confessed. Zeke stared at the other man, hot, scornful, furious. "All right," he said then contemptuously. "If yo're that kind, I'm quitting I You'll have to get on without me!" But Huldy moved slowly to Zeke's side. "Dont you quit," she said, and touched his hand. "YouH be glad you stayed." Zeke seemed choking; he said at last, grudgingly: "I'll finish out the week, I reckon." And Huldy smiled contentedly; but Jenny could bear no more. Moving lowly, she went out through the shed and the barn and down the orchard path to the brook; she came through the deep woods home. As she opened the kitchen door, Marm Pierce looked VP Inquiringly. And then, in quick alarm at what he saw, she rose to her feet; but there was no need of a question. Jenny spoke. "Huldy ' back," she said through trembling lips. "She's come home!" Marm Pierce exclaimed, in quick reassurance: "Don't you grieve, Jenny I She'll never stay!" Jenny shook her head, almost smiling, pitifully. "She dldnt aim to. She Just come to fetch her clothes," she aid. "But she saw Zeke Dace. And now she's going to stay!" From Huldy's return until Jim Sala-din- e came at last to Hostile Valley, two years Intervened ; and during this period though her heart was his Jenny saw Will not at all. In the country as In the city, It Is pos-lol- e to go for years without glimpsing neighbor. Jenny and your next-doo- r her grandmother lived off the traveled road: and even If that had not been the case. Will, when he had occasion to go Into the outside world, took the for-ave- r, road up tbe ridge from bis house, and "Sometimes I'm Amy whispered: In the opposite direction. Jenny her- scared !" She shivered uneasily. "Dun- self might venture into the woods no what I'm scared of, either. But the down the Valley, toward the brook; men that have seen her, sometimes they but Will, since he had now but one come down to our place; and they're good leg, never came to the stream to half crazy, kind of. Bart he hates the fish, and Jenny never crossed the sight of her. . lie can't say anything brook. So their paths did not interhard enough of her. He's always been " a good friend to Will, and to hare her sect Accident might have brought them treat Will so frets Bart awfuL And face to face ; but neither tile girl nor Win Haven, he'll come down and cuss Will would design an encounter. Jen- and rave and rant about her, like he wanted to twist her neck. But Zeke, ny loved him deeply and completely; and the very fact that they did .not see he don't ever come down !" one another served In some fashion to "Nor Will?" Jenny guessed. intensify the girl's devotion. This love "Will, he stays ' up there," Amy asof hers for Will, springing out of the sented. "Him and Zeke." The girl years of her childhood, growing In shuddered. "I dunno what's going to stature and In depth as she became a come of it" she admitted, fearfully. And she said: "Bart talks about woman, seemed to feed on denial. He says somebody'd Lacking the man himself, she kept his licking Zeke. remembered Image In her heart and ought to, long as Will can't do it himwas wistfully contented so. self." , Sometimes Marm Pierce wished JenMarm Pierce asked sharply : "Can't ny might find happiness elsewhere ; Will take a gun to him, or a cart stave? but Jenny was not unhappy, and the If he had any gumption In him. . , ." older woman came by and by to under"Will's got gumption enough," Amy stand. Certain It was the girl wore no assured them. She looked at Jenny. mask of grief; she was nowadays a "Bart told me, here about a week ago, woman, glowing with a deep radiance. he was up there, and Huldy said someLife and maturity became her welL thing about you, Jenny. Will, most And It sometimes seemed to the times, he's gentle to her; but Bart older., woman that Jenny's love for says Will he got up at that and he Will must communicate Itself to him says to her: 'Huldy,' he says. 'You In silent ways; and at first she blamed keep your tongue off Jenny or I'll rip him for that he did not throw Huldy it out of your mouth IV" headlong out of his home and his life, Jenny felt a fierce surge of pride so that he might turn to Jenny; and and happiness; but she hid her eyes, she spoke this thought to Jenny. But the girl shook her head. "Not Will," she said, "ne's not the kind to. Long as she lives, bell stand by her." Marm Pierce Indignantly Insisted: "There's nothing so dumb as a good' man that's got mixed up with a bad woman; and I've a mind to go tell Will so." Jenny smiled wisely. "You'll not," she said. "You never will." And Marm Pierce, perceiving in the girl a wisdom greater than her own, never did. In the weeks after Huldy's return. Amy Carey fell more and more Into the habit of coming through tbe woods to see the old woman and the girl who dwelt here in this house divided. Win Haven's side of the house fell nowadays more and more into disrepair. The roof was broken, the shutters hung by one hinge and banged in the wind,' tbe floor timbers were rotted and crumbling. It would not be long, unless measures of repair were taken, till that half of tbe house sagged weakly downward Into a collapsed ruin. Marm Pierce shut ner eyes to this sure eventuality; yer the matter "I Might Decide to Stay," She Said presented practical problems too. .Softly. Sometimes when rain drove through on roof the other the side, it seeped so that these others might not see. through baseboard or through plaster Marm Pierce exclaimed in a deep exto damage Marm Pierce's own part of asperation : "I sh'd think " as much ! Whaf d she the house, and made a nuisance there. Once Jenny proposed taking tar paper say to that?" "She shut her mouth I" Amy reportand like material to proof the other side of the walls against moisture; ed. "Bart said she kind of laughed, but the old woman would not consent but she did hush up! He said Will "I wouldn't give Win the satisfac- was enough to terrify a body, the way he looked at her." And she reflected: tion," she declared. When Amy came while "Will, If he does get mad, It don't pay with these two, In the warm kitchen, to fool with him." There were other days when Amy she could not fall to remark the increasing disrepair; and she urged came thus to be with them. They were Marm Pierce to take measures of pre- remote from the Ferrln farm ; but Amy was not From Will's place down to vention. "You'll have to," she said. "Because Carey bridge was a scant. quarter mile; Win won't never do anything. He was so Amy had almost dally word of what to our house the other night and passed on tbe hill, and her deep trouble talked about It ; and he 'lows to be increased. 'round'when his side of the house falls, "It's like a sore place, up there," she and to watch and see the trouble It said one day. "Like a sore that's makes for you. Brags that If you try bound to spread if you don't scrub it to mend anything he'll take a shotgun out, --and burn it out" And she cried: to you." "There's times I'd like to Even Bart "He around again, Is he?" Marm he ain't tbe same, with that woman, "I didn't on his mind all the time." She shook Pierce demanded tartly. know but he'd died in a gutter some-wber- her head. "Seems like they all hate before now." Huldy," she confessed. "Bart and "He comes to our place right along." Will, like that time when she talked Amy assured them. "There's a new about you, and Win Haven when she steam mill putting in down brook be- goads him; and Bart says even Zeke, low here, opposite where Seth's mill when she's meaner than usual, he gets used to be. They come In from Lib- mad at her. But they can't seem to erty village. Win, he's working there. stay away from her. I'm scared, Mis' He comes up and him and Bart set Pierce. It wouldn't surprise me a mite and drink and brag." She added huski- If a crowd of them went up there some ly: "Win, he's shining up to Huldy, day and rode her right out of the too." Valley i" "Good enough for her 1" the old worn "That old fool!" Marm Pierce exan declared. "I wish't they would!" claimed. But this did not happen, and after "You can't go to blame him," Amy time Bart was forced to cease his said ruefully. "Seems like she takes a kind of satisfaction in fretting a visits to Will's farm. One day Amy man, and getting blm haired up, and came running breathlessly through the laughing at blm after." And she said woods to fetch Marm Pierce. "Bart's hurt awful 1" she cried. "Zeke slowly: "But I don't know as she's him pretty near to death. You've Zeke. beat with anyone; only bothering now." got to come and take care of him." "Hurt how?" the old woman quesJenny caught some accent In the girl's tone. Her perceptions were per tioned, already preparing to obey this haps quickened by her own love for summons. "They had a fight" Amy panted. "I Will; but Marm Pierce, In this matter was In tbe house, and I heard them, not so wise, said sharply : "Zeke's as big a fool as any of and run out and they was at It down them. I lowed he had more sense than by the bridge, fighting and rolling around in tbe ditch, and getting op and that" "Zeke's all right" Amy said. In bum scrabbling at each other and goiig down again." ble defense. "Ouly he. . . ." Her eye And she gasped: "I tried to do filled with slow tears. "He used to come down and set with me," she consomething, but they rolled Into me and fessed. "Always Joking and laughing. knocked me down." Her garments he was. Zeke's a hand to make a Joke were soiled with the mud of the road. out of things. But I ain't seen blm "They kep' at it spite of all I could do, till Zeke, be had the best of It. lately." So Marm Pierce understood,' and her Backed off finally aud left Bart laying lips set In anger. "I'd li!e' to give that there In the road. " she cried Marm Pierce had collect"! at ranhussy a piece of my '. certain salves and ointments dom impotently. totopa 1 ..." which she thought might be of use. Jenny said: "I'll carry them. Granny!" ""You stay where you be," the old woman retorted decisively. "Keep out of this. If I need you. Til let yo-- i know. Amy, where' J Bart now?" "I got him as far as the house," Amy explained. "But he can't hardly move, ma'am. He's all cut and bloody an J sick. Jenny, compelled by the older woman's Insistence, stayed behind, with her thoughts for company. Her thoughts as always centered first on Will. This matter, on the surface, concerned Huldy and blm whom she loved. So 6he waited In a sort of desperation for her grandmother's return. The day was In late September, with lowering clouds and a long threat of rain which became toward dusk an actuality; a thin unpleasant drizzle that would be worse. . Marm Pierce returned at first dark, and she flirted tbe moisture off her shawl, the flying drops hlsoing on the hot stove. Her feet were wet She changed into dry stockings and shoes, and Jenny tended her without questions for a while. Not till the old woman was warm and dry again, and the kettle boiling, and supper under way, did Jenny ask: Human Sacrifice To propitiate their god after sue) cessive failure of ,arop, flve aw, flung Bhlma, a youth, into a fire as a human sacrifice at Nagpur, India. Two of the men, Adku and Tims, were sentenced to death, the three c others to life Imprisonment. Week'a Supply of Postum Free Bead the offer made by the Postum Company In another part of this pa. per. They will send a full week's sup. ply of health giving Postum free to anyone who writes for It Adv. ..." "Bart hurt bad, Is her, "Nought to mention," Marm Pierce assured her. "Took a licking, that's all. 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Jenny protested, puzzled by Children's Fear this. , Sometimes a child will develop a "I hate a strutting man, or a sneakADS phobia or fear indirectly. A case in ing one," Marm Pierce said obscurely who was a feared of child that point "Or a liar!" "Bart's kind of big and bold," Jenny rabbits, with which it had played for IS A. EXCELLENT LAND I In S yr. Valencia oranges, all for tl.500 assented. "But he's always been right years, after, being startled during cash. G. P. 1 IKK. MESA. ARIZONA. friendly, and I never knowed him to such play by the beating of a gong. Another case was that of a boy who lie I" 32-New Tire Prices: 11 with V4. 59 "Oh, Bart's all right" the older grew to manhood with an intense 35.75; Vi, t'oSK6 Cbani,Uenver,Colo. woman said indifferently. "If a body fear of confined spaces because, when likes him." She added irascibly: "The very young, he had been frightened LBAKN Prospecting by Mall. Free Citalo. thing is, that woman at Will's, she gets by a dog in a narrow passage. ColSTEPHENS SCHOOL OP PROSPECT1NO, Inc. all the men with their combs up and lier's Weekly. Oapt. 8 222 Fainriew Nerth Seattle, Waafc. looking for a fight; and Bart he's as bad as the rest of them." "He don't go up there only to see Will," Jenny urged, defensively. And I Till Tn nil iiiHiltci she asked,: "How come him and Zeke to fight?" Marm Pierce started to speak, hesitated for a moment then said almost casually : "Well, Bart said he was going down, brook fishing, and be come by the foot of the path that leads up to Will's place, and decided to stop by and see Will. So he climbed up, and there was Huldy on a ledge at the head of the path; and he said Zeke come along and ordered him off the place, and he didn't want no trouble, so he sets out for home. "But when he got to the bridge, Zeke had come down the road and cut him Your Mailer Without Resistance off ; and they had words, and then they Farming Is very hard, but you When a man gets used to falling went at It" he is ruined. T. C. Cuyler. your tasks yourself. She concluded: "And Zeke kind of d him. That's alL" Jenny had a sudden vivid memory of a day when Ehe too had surprised Huldy on that bigb ledge, lying naked as a pagan in the sun's embrace, and she wondered; but she only said slowI ly: "Will's going to feel bad. He wouldn't want anything that'd make talk about Huldy." Marm Pierce smiled. "Child, child, too ! That tired, IT isTl aflallfiTMTiso simple, AvVtaticffwl tin n miifp yo're bound to think about Will" often is due to lack of a sufficiency of "Bart hadn't ought to have fit with those precious Just build Zeke," Jenny urged. cells and the up these oxygen-carryin"Guess he's realized that his own whole body takes on new life . . . food is self by now," Marm- Pierce assented. really turned into energy and strength "Looked to me he'd bit off too big a v ... you can't help but fed and look bet- chunk when be tackled Zeke at alL" ten S.S.S. Tonic restores deficient red- blood-cel"Bad off, Is he?'" Insist on S.S.S. Tonic in ... It also improves the appe V the blood-re- d cellophane-wrappe- d Marm Pierce hesitated, shook her tite and digestion. It has been the naThe package. big tion's standby for over 100 years . . . and head. "No, not to speak of," she said. size is sufficient for unless your case is exceptional it should two weeks treatment... "Only in a mighty bad humor. He it's more economical. help you, too. o Ce. was snarling and barking at Amy when I come away." And she said slowly, half to herself: "I was a mind to fetch Amy home here, to stay the night with us." "Why?" Jenny asked, puzzled. The older woman shook ber head. "I dunno. I didn't like the way Bart acted. Looked to me he might talw his spleen out on her." And she said: "A man that's been licked good and proper, he ain't satis-fle- d till he's got even for It on somebody. It don't matter who." And a moment later she added, obscurely: "And a man that cant get good beef, he'll eat salt pork If he's hungry enough!" But she would not tell Jenny what was In her mind. (TO BE CONTiyVED) CLASSIFIED 31-- 4. 33-- 4 aaiaaaaa mma 34-- 475-1- 34-- 4 mm 0G out-argue- feel.... 'How do Swell-!- why do you ask?' -- g - ls a. Th First Sewing Machine The first sewing machine was probably made by an Englishman named Thomas Saint who received a patent on July 17, 1T1K). 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