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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE, UTAH w. in. i. i. .... i.... m' .i.i -- . IuiihU untl k lifts on the log, and sat house, and you've got a bead back on her heels, and so came to her feet and turned to face Jim on the g At a gathering of cronies In the of Liberty, Maine, Jim Saladine bank behind her here. llttena, to the history of tbe neighborHer dark eyes widened at sight of ing Hostile Valley ita past tragedies, him; and Jim looked at her with a above Its superb fishing streams, and, The beauty Jl, the mysterious, enticing "Huldy," pleasurable appreciation. wife of Will Ferrin. Interested, be which she wore was not a simple matarlvea to tbe Valley for a day's fishing, ter of hair and lips and eyes, of colorthough admitting to himself his chief ing and conformation. She was. Saladesire la to see the glamorous Huldy Ferrin. "Old Marm" Pierce and her dine thought. Illumined and made ranineteen-year-old granddaughter Jenny diant by some Inward glory. Since childhood live In the Valley. He told her: "I didn't look to run Jenny has deeply loved young Will Ferrin, older than she, and. who re- Into anyone, this far from the road." gards her as still a child. Will leaves "It's not far to where I live" she to take employment In nearby Augusta. His father's death brings Will back said simply; and the asked: "Done to the Valley, but he returns to Auanything?" "Not rmieh," he said apologetically. gusta, still unconscious of Jenny's womanhood, and love. Neighbors . of "Someone fished down through ahead the Pierces are Bart and Amy Carey, brother and sister. Bart, unmarried and of me. Thafd scare the trout. I see ll, his tracks. Likely he passed you?" , Is atsomething of a tracted by Jenny. Tbe 'girl repuUes "There's a steam mill working, down him definitely. Learning that Will below," Bhe reflected. "Likely It was sets Is coming home, Jenny, exulting, y his house "to rights," and one of the men from there." She was has dinner ready for him. He pomes clearly uneasy. "I've got to go," she bringing his wife, Huldy. The girl's decided, and before he could speak to world collapses. Huldy becomes the vansubject of unfavorable gossip in the detain her, she was gone. She Valley. Entering his home unlooked ished among tbe trees, and be had an for, Will finds seemingly damning Impression of an almost musical harevidence of his wife's unfaithfulness ' mony as she moved. as a man he knows Is Seth Humphfor out home swiftly, The girl set reys breaks from the hnure. Will overtakes him and chokes him to death, disturbed by this encounter, her eyes his leg although Humphreys shatters with a bullet. At Marm Pierce's house watchful of tbe woods around. She the leg Is amputated. Jenny goes to came back to the house, and Marm break the news to Huldy and finds Pierce saw her uneasiness and asked: her with Bart Carey. Huldy makes a "What happened, Jenny? See somemock of Jenny's sympathy, declaring she has no use for "half a man," and one?" "A man, down brook," Jenny exis leaving. Will Is legally exanerated, and with a home-maartificial leg plained. "Fishing, he was." She hesi"carries on," hiring a helper, Zeke Dace. Months later Huldy comes back. tated. "He didn't bother me," she said. Will accepts her presence as her right. "He was kind of like Will, big, and Two years go by. Zeke and Bart Carey steady." engage In a fist fight, the trouble arisMarm Pierce chuckled. "Kind of ing, as all know, over Huldy. Amy Carey commits suicide. Zeke Dace had like Willi" she repeated derisively. been ahowtng her attention, but has "That's all you can think of. Mill completely succumbed to the wiles of man, was he?" , Huldy. Saladine comes to the Valley. But Jenny shook her head. "No." Bad roads cause him to stop at Fer-rln- 'e farm where he meets Huldy. He She added : "He didn't bother me. But leaves to fish an adjacent stream. he said he'd seen tracks all down tbe brook, along the path. I didn't know who might be around." CHAPTER VI Continued "This man, did he look like he might be from Augusta?" "Over that side," she assented. "If Jenny shook her head. "No, more ro'rtv still a mind to gol" And she like folks around here," she declared. urged, almost cajollngly: "Yon won't "But no one I ever see before." take any trout today. Brook's too They exhausted the subject presenthigh ly, and must by and by have forgotten He would not argue with her. "Likeit But a little before noon, when he ly not," he agreed. "But I'm a mind was done fishing, Saladine, mistaking to see the brook." Be found the steep Will Ferrin'8 directions and seeking path at one side. the road to Carey's, took the way In "What did you come here for, any- to Marm Pierce's farm Instead, and way?" she demanded, and her mouth so came to the house divided. Marm was sullen, almost angry, challenging. Pierce and Jenny were In the dining "To fish," he said, uncomfortably. room when rain suddenly began to fall. "To see Hostile Valley." Jenny rose to close a window, and as "We ain't all hostile here," she said. she did so, Saladine came running She was smiling again. "If you wa'n't around the house to take shelter on In such a hurry 1" He took one step the porch; and Jenny called over ber down. "I might come along with you," shoulder: "Granny, here's that man I see down the proposed. "If you asked me pretty, brook I" They saw him pass the winI c'd show you the best holes." Saladine was a man sober and con- dows and go toward the kitchen door, nnd th rirl made baste to open to tained; but no man could escape the him there. force he emanated. His disturbing w iieu Saladine thus saw Jenny senses swam and his cheek was brick again, be was surprised afresh at ber red. TU find 'em," he blurted; and beauty, and amused at this second encounter. The rain had wetted him. plunged down the steep path toward "Come In and set," Jenny Invited one the brook like who breaks away him. "Till the rain's done. Yo're soaked from detaining hands. From the foot of the precipice he through P She pushed the screen door looked up and back, his eye drawn wide. "Fll drip on your floors," Saladine Irresistibly. She stood poised on the out. "And It's not'coldl IH pointed very margin of the ledge, leaning a on the porch till it passes. here stay little over to watch him ; and he heard Then maybe you can put me on the her laugh softly. to Carey's." Then he turned Into the woods, re- way "Come in, come In 1" Marm Pierce lieved to be away. He "supposed she won't hurt the floors, Insisted. "Water would go back to the house; but so far death out there 1" as Saladine ever knew, she did not re- and you'll catch your So he leaned the loose sections of turn to the bouse again before she his disjointed rod against the weather-boarde- d died. , wall and stepped Into the kitchen. "I fished down brook, after I CHAPTER VII saw yon," he said to the girl. "It's all a hog, below there. I got enough of Jenny went down brook that morn- that, and cut back up to the road. ing to do Marm Pierce's bidding in the Will Ferrin told me to take the first matter of the lily root ; and as she road right When he spoke that name, the girl's passed quietly through the woodd, there was a stir of new life In the pulse caught, then pounded In a quicker beat. To think suddenly of Will forest about her. The girl made her way to a pool she could always shake her long composknew, with a rip of singing water at ure. She stepped back. Into the shadthe head. Jenny crawled out on a log owed end of the kitchen by the sink; and lay at length, reaching deep Into but Marm Pierce she had put aside the water with a heavy kitchen knife her knitting came out from the dinto loose one of the roots from the ing room and said briskly: "Chunk up the fire, Jenny," and to mucky bottom. Saladine came upon her while she was thus engaged. Jim: "You get up close and dry," stream there Jenny obeyed, glad of this pretext Along any Is sure to be a trail that will lead for activity; and "Saladine told them his name and errand here. 'The road even a stranger to the most advantageous spots from which to try each in here fooled me," he explained. "I pooL Saladine was quick to discover thought lt'd bring me to Carey's. It such a path here. When he first found looks like a traveled road." She nodded, with clucking chuckle. It, be saw a boot track in the muck, and knew that another angler had gone "'TIs!' she agreed. "A lot of people down brook this same morning. He come In here, take It by and large I" "Why?" thought regretfully that if the other Her little black eyes twinkled at man had fished the pools, the trout would be not so readily responsive him. "If you lived anywhere around now; and a he went on, he began to here, you'd have heard of Marm wonder about this man who bad gone Pierce," she told him, a crotchety downstream before him, and to watch pride In ber tones. "Folks come to me alertly, waiting to overtake the other. for doctoring. Yarbs and simples. I've But It was not a man whom pres- healed a pile of hurts In my day. "A real doctor can't make a living ently he encountered, bat a woman, lyso they come to me, and pay me a Into extended which here, log ing along one of the pools, with her head lower with help In hay time, or they get my than her heels, her ankles crossed, and wood In, and do the chores that's too ber heels toward him. heavy for Jenny." "It must be hard for Just the two of WhUe he checked in his tracks, still she and astonished, brought up out of you," he hazarded. Marm Pierce eyed him shrewdly. the water an object which fie recogroot-stoc"Now one of the thick yo're wishing you dast ask quesfleshy nized; of the water lily. She washed tions," she guessed. "You've got eyes tt clean, and then she rose to hex in you head to see the looks of this vil-la- ne'er-do-we- long-empt- on you to wonder about the why of it!" She related, almost proudly, ber ancient stubborn quarrel with her brother. He said, amused: "taoks to me you cut off your own nose to spite your face !" "Folks get so they banker for a fight, around here," Marm Pierce declared. "Quarreling with your kin comes natural In Hostile Valley. I take a heap of satisfaction out of seeing or this house go to rot the Win-sid- e and ruin. Serves him right, I say!" "He around?" Saladine asked. "He sneaks back, oncet In so often, to see to't I'm letting things alone," she said. "Or he says that's why." Her tone was dry with scorn. Then old Marm Pierce asked : "You say you come in by Will's?" And at his assent, she said: 'Will's a fine man! He deserves better!" Saladine explained: "I left my car at Will's. Mis' Ferrin showed me the path down to the brook." Marm Pierce's tone was suddenly unfriendly. "Guess likely you visited with her for a spell?" Saladine shook there!"' de 12' r , ..." d shoulder of bis shirt was torn. His garments all were soaked, save that across the front of him, where be bad carried Huldy In his arms, the faded blue of his overalls was or a lighter hue than elsewhere. Her body, pressed against his, had kept the denim there, save for two thin trickles, completely dry. And Jenny remembered that ledge where she had seen Huldy, lying In the sun, on a day long ago; and she remembered, shudderlngly, the step declivity below. Then Bart was speaking, still panting a little. "I was fishing," he said. "Down below Will's place. Ueard her let out a screech, and then a kind of thump; and I scrabbled up there to the foot of the ledge and there she was." He stood back while Marm Pierce bent above tbe still form. "I 'low she's dead and done for," hr confessed. "But I never took time to think of that!" Marm Pierce nodded. "Aye, done for, finally," she said in low, almost triumphant tones. "I could've lugged her home, up the hill," Bart admitted. "But it's steep, and I thought you might do something. It's some further over here than up to Will's; but it's easier going. Looked to me I could get her here as quick as "I C'd Show You the Best Holes." his head; and the other said tartly: "It's a wonder she let you get away!" There seemed no reply to this; but Saladine, standing by the stove, was deeply uncomfortable. He had caught one foot between two bowlders, and bad felt a sharp burning pain In his ankle. Moving a step away from the stove Just now, that hurt reminded him of Its existence with a pain so sharp that he winced, and limped. The old woman looked at him shrewdly. "Your foot hurt?" she asked. "I twisted It," he confessed, and she came to her feet with a spry alac- rity. "High time you was a'telling me," she said. "I can tend that for you. Set down and take off your shoe." She began to heat something in a saucepan on the stove. "Wormwood boiled In vinegar and rubbed on hot. That'll take out the pain in no time!" Acid fumes arose from the mixture she was stirring. "How'd you do it?" she asked. He said with a smile at his own clumsiness: "A fool thing. All down brook today, I kept feeling as If some-one was watching me. So I kept looking back, and naturally I stepped into a hole." And he said, watching her: "This Valley's a gloomy place for a stranger, ma'am!" She nodded. "It Is that," she agreed. "And for folks that live here, too. I could tell you tales." And then suddenly she became motionless, her head cocked, listening. "Heavy foot she said softly, and looked toward the outer door. . Saladine, seated, did not Immediately rise; and Marm Pierce was busy, so it was Jenny who crossed to the door. She was thus the first to see Bart, striding toward the house through the rain. He bore a burden in his arms, a woman. Her head hung down over his elbow, and her upturned face streamed with rain. Huldy Ferrin, limp and still and broken! That dark red garment she wore was drenched and shapeless now recoiled; but Jenny Instinctively Marm Pierce came to fling the door wide. Bart stepped up on the porch, panting. He crossed the threshold and bis dripping burden stained the clean scrubbed floor. For an instant none spoke. Jenny, like one poised for flight, backed into the dining room. There was a hideous ringing In her ears, and she stared at Huldy with blank, glazed eyes. Even Marm Pierce was startled Into silence. Then Bart told them in explosive ejaculation: "She fell off the ledge back of Will's. I fetched her here case you qeuld do anything." So Marm Pierce recovered her wits and took quick command. "Carry her In here," she bade; and led the way Into the dining room. Jenny moved as!de, and Bart deposited Huldy upon the couch against the further wall. Jenny saw that he was curiously disheveled. Something a dead stub which he had brushed In his passage through the wood had gouged thrpe deep scratches on his cheek; and the He was rubbing bis right hand with his left, and Jenny saw that the right was bruised and swollen, a split across one knuckle. "You hurt your hand," she suggested, huskily. "Fell on it; fell and landed on a rock," Bart agreed. . The girl turned toward the couch ; she stood beside it, her back against tbe wall, her bands spread at her sides and her palms pressing against the plaster. She looked down at the hurt woman over her shoulder, sldewlse, with wide eyes; her lips were white and still. Bart stood In the middle of the room, and while he spoke he scrubbed with his palm at some dark stain on his sleeve. His palm was stained when he was done; and he stared at It, and rubbed it against his overalls. "I thought first olt she was alive," he repeated. Marm Pierce said softly to herself, like an old crone mumbling some mystic charm: "The blood still runs!" She darted out to the kitchen, lightly,' swiftly, moving like a shadow; she returned with some white stuff In her hand, and clapped this against a wound on Huldy Ferrin's neck, from which a thin stream flowed. She held her hand pressed there. "Dead, ain't she?" Bart asked huskily. "You'd best go fetch Will, Bart," she directed. "WhatH I tell him?" "Tell him anything yo're a mind!" she said impatiently. Jenny's head turned. Her body did not move, but her head turned so that she looked at Bart, and there was a message in her eyes, as though she wished to bid him soften, for Will, this deadly blow. "I'd better stay here," the young man urged. "There might be something I could do!" "I can do anything needs doing," Saladine volunteered. He saw Bart's glance touch his bare foot. "I sprained my ankle, down In the woods," he explained. "Marm Pierce was boiling up some liniment for me." (TO BE CONTINUED) No More Merry Dancing on Old Avignon Bridge Old Avignon In France Is famed as the City of the Popes, notes a writer in the Boston Gobe. On a hill dominating the city stands the Papal palace, where for over 70 years popes held court and all Europe came in pilgrimages, filling the city with dancing, festivals and' processions. Built as a great fortress, the palace was nevertheless furnished. elaborately After the popes returned to Piome, however. It suffered many vicissitudes, even serving one time as barracks. The famous bridge of Avignon, on which the old folk song says the people used to dance, has fared even worse. It has been in ruins for 210 years, and Its crumbling arches now reach only about half way across the Rhone. Side by side with Its palaces and its ruins, Avignon carries on Its dally life and sports, most famous of which are the plucking of the cocarde, a bloodless variation of the bull fight. Instead of killing the bull, the matador must manage to Jab the animal witb a stick, on the end of which Is the cocarde, a rosette decorated with ribbons. Then the object of the gam becomes the snatching of the rosette from the bull's shoulder without being hurt The Black Carpet Beetle The black carpet beetle Is small, oval, black, as its name Indicates, and s of an Inch In about Insect thrives best In seThis length. cluded environments where they ar seldom disturbed, and are commonly fout'd In floor cracks, under carpets, behind baseboards, In neglected trunks, cupboards, etc. three-sixteenth- THAT'S COLD BR-R-- Who Are You? ,The lowest "temperature talned chemically Is so fJ'. forty-fou- r thousandths of a degree on the which starts at abJlf xero, or approximaetly fleJ" Tin scale, S3 .6 The Romance of Your Name ' By BEN AMES WILLIAMS Williams. WNU Servic. Copyri(rt by Cm Am well-fishe- - m MET HOSTILE SYNOPSIS i RUBY HASKINS ELLIS below xero on the Fahrenheit according to the American society. ChS DOCTORSKN0W Mothers read this An Allen? 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