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Show LEW FREE PRESS. LEHL UTAH Sally Sez ALADDIN J C Ml Copy rig ht by Chrlatlaa Waiting- 1 1 - Christine Whiting Parmenter By rimuur WNC Serrk J - I doled with him one afternoon, he deSYNOPSIS clared he enjoyed It "But Just the same, Nance," he Rained financially, James Nelson, Boston merchant, breaks tbe Dtwi to added, lowering his voice that Aurora his household. Nance, his daughter, Tubbs, peeling potatoes at an open tneteen, le on tha verge? of bar window, shouldn hear, "I'm worried. A abort tima te society. I've got to earn some money; and how eouain of ae Nelron'a, before, elderly Columbine, had auggeated that Nance can I do It unless somebody 'round here coma to bar at Pine Bidca, Colo, aa a needs a ranch hand? Mark's been Inpaid companion. Jack, Nance's broth-- r. quiring everywhere and hasn't got so seventeen yaari eld, urges bar to accept, thus relieving tbalr father of a much as a bite. Say V (tearing off his financial burden, and offering to go sweater and tossing It upon the with her ao that aba will not feel too "can you believe it's Decemlonely. They agree to write to Couiia ground), first?" ber Colanswer. ber await and Columbine, Nance couldn't There was a tang umbine wires welcome, and It Is arranged that the two shall go. Welto the air, but the day seemed more comed by Cousin Columbina, they are like late fat! than winter; and the sky somewhat dismayed by ber unconvenwas as blue as it is posslb'e for a tional attlro and mannerisms, but realise she bas character. Uark Adam, son sky to be. of a close friend of tha old lady, is In"1 think," Nancy confided as she troduced. Tha desolation (to Nance's precariously on the chopping of Pine perched tba city Ideas) Ridge appalls srirl. The newcomers meet Aurora block, "that this bright sunshine keeps Tubbs, Cousin Columbine's cook and us from being homesick. Since thnt housekeeper, and Matthew Adam, first afternoon I've had only a few Mark's older brother. Cousin Columbine explains her reasons for desiring twinge ; though I rather dread the Nance to coma to her, and tells soms time when we're settled down and you years away somewhere. Cousin Columbine experiences of tner seventy-thre- a of life on the plains. sa?s we ought to be seeing some of the points of Interest around here. CHAPTER IV Continued I'm going to climb that hill off to the north. Do you want to cme?" Jack glanced at the wood pile. The old lady hesitated, and then said : "Can't Just now. Vou run along "Here's my second confession: When here !" (as she startI cent that telegram I had a Job for alone. Sis. "haven't ed got anything but you Dioff), McKenzle on the over ranch you vide way; but the next day Mrs. Mc- those silk stockings?" "That's exactly what I asked her Kenzle telephoned that her nephew from Boulder wanted the place after this morning." Aurora's voice came elL Don't look distressed, Jack.. through the open window. "Like as Tou'll have a Job before the week Is not that handsome pair of hose will lip. I hoped the Adams would have be full of runs when you get back, Why not borrow a something for you to do, but there are Nancy Nelson. no many boys In the family they, selpair of Miss Columbine's black dom hire outside help." Jack was obliged to hide a grin at Jack was frowning a little. Oe aid: "I must get something as soon a vision of his fastidious sister In coties possible, Cousin Columbine. I don't ton stockings; and Nance replied, almost Impatiently! "Oh, see here, Auwant to sponge on you for board." "Fiddlesticks 1" she retorted. "This rora, didn't Juanlta have on silk stockIs the first time I've had company In ings at the post ofllee this morning?" "If she did. I'll paddle that girl fifty years. But I've asked Mark (Adam to be on the lookout, and he'll when I get home," asserted the good "Juanlta Tubbs wearln' silk (find something if anybody can. He's woman, icmart as a whip ; and a good boy into stockln's in the mornin'I What's the the bargain. All the Adam boys are world comin' to?" I've always said that if Eve .good. "Mercy !" gasped Nance. "Have I Adam Isn't much of a cook, she's a got Juanlta into trouble? I hope not grand success as a mother. Four sons, Next time we go down to the Springs, nd every one a credit to the name." Aurora, I'll buy some woolen sport "Eve!" laughed Nancy. "How did hose. I thought 1 packed a pair, but he ever dare to marry a man named can't find them. Now don't worry any Adamr more on that subject. How do I reach "Because," replied the old lady with the hill the one with the pine trees on it?" twinkle, "she'd set her heart on do"Walk straight up the road till you ing Just that thing always said that when she found an Adam she was go- pass my house and see a path ieadln' ing to rope him. What she wanted into the woods. It's terrible steep and was to find one with Adam for his I ain't attempted it for years, though 'first name; but when John Adam came Tubbs and I got engaged to be marlong she snapped him up at least, ried up there under the old pine. that's the way she puts it Eve was Tou'll find our 'nltlals cut in the bark Denver girl Her father made conwith a heart around 'em. Victor siderable of a fortune In gold in 1878, Tubbs Is a real good carver. If you and lost it as many others did Just run into anybody from the Adam then. After years of hardships, so ranch, Nancy, tell 'em we'll want .much money went to their heads. extry milk tomorrow. And would you Eve's father bought stock in fraudulent mind peekln' In my bedroom window and see if Tubbs is sleepln'? He's got companies, and when the boom collapsed! well, he collapsed with it, you a delicate stomach, and his supper didn't set good last night" anight say." s "Were they left with nothing at Suppressing a smile at this unique 11 request, Nance promised, and started "Practically; but Eve's uncle In the on her way. The afternoon was all East had money, and gave the girl an her own, and It was impossible not education. She was in Boston for three years; and on her way home she UUi' met John Adam on the train. He was going to California for his health; but when he saw Eve he decided that his health wouldn't be much use to him in '4... a California, if she was in Colorado. Tou needn't grin. Jack. It was Just like that love at first sight And when she found his name was Adam, that settled it" "Did he get welir asked Nancy. "Mercy yes As for the boys you've een two of 'em. They don't look like Invalids." "And there are two more?" Cousin Columbine nodded. "Luke's eighteen, and John will cot-ton- r 1 be" it "Ton don't mean," gasped Nancy, "that they're really named like that Matthew, Mark, Luke and John!" Jack vcked with mirth, and Cousin Columbine's eyes lighted. 'Indeed they are. Folks at Pine Bidge are used to 'em and never think boat It; but I dare say it sounds queer to outsiders. That wad Eve's doings. She's sort of fantastical and dreamy. But she's a wonderful Worn--n and her husband worships the (round she walks, on. I wish I could have got you a Job there. Jack. They're fine people, the Adams. Good-mes- s it's almost gracious, children eleven o'clock! .1 haven't sat up so late since 1902 when the schoolhouse burned down and Aurora pounded on ' the door to wake me op on her way 'to the fire. Breakfast's at seven. We'd better be getting settled for the night" It had, Nance admitted, as she snug-fledown under the heavy patchwork quilt been an interesting evening. After all, she wouldn't write that letter to her father not yet anyway. ri ii it rm i.w or" . 1 CHAPTER V v More than two weeks slipped by with no sign of a Job for Jack. This troubled the boy, though Cousin Columbine Insisted that be more than earned his .board by chopping firewood new work to Jack, though when his sister con most hidden in a grove of stunted pines. Nance went softly up the path and peered in at a window. By press log her face against the glass she made out an ornate iron bedstead on which the recumbent Tubbs was snoring peacefully ; while one of his wife's rich layer cakes arid an open Jack knife stood on a darby chair. Thinking of Victor's "delicate stomach,"- the girl chuckled as she turned away. No wonder his suppers failed to digest! Should she tell on him? Nance decided against this: but vowed that Cousin Columbine should hear the story. It was too good to keep. She still smiled as she resumed her walk; but that path into the woods seemed to elude her. Concluding that she had ailtssed It, Nancy stepped aside to escape the dust from an approaching truck, and recognizing the hailess figure of Matthew Adam, hailed htm as te was about to pass. Although on one pretext or another, Mark had dropped in almost every day of the past two weeks, Nance had not seen Matthew since h's blushing exit after colliding with Aurora Tubbs. He was blushing now, the girl observed, and wondered If it were the same blush, or a new one for her especial She stild, as a shy srrnl benefit! hovered across his face on recognizing her: "Sorry to make you stop if you're in a hurry, but Aurora wants more milk tomorrow. And will you show me how I can reach that hill? I've lost my way." As Matt slid lightly from the truck to stand beside her, Nance was again Impressed with the young man's appearance. His blush had subsided ; bnt something told her that be was struggling with embarrassment and furious with himself because of It "Tou should have turned off Just after you passed Aurora's," he told her, "but It's no wonder you missed the trail, so few go up that way. It's an easier climb from the other side. If If you don't mind riding on the truck I'll take you 'round." He was blushing again. Nance caught the Idea that he had forced himself to make the offer out of polite "Aren't ness, and thus responded: you too busy?" ''Not busy at all; but this truck Is second cousin to Methuselah, and" Nancy laughed. "Tou needn't apologize for the truck ! I'm tickled to go for a ride In anything at all My feet have had plenty of use since I struck Pine Ridge; but that hill tempted me, and the day, too. Isn't It glorious?" With Matt's assistance she had reached the seat and said, as the; backed around: "Is it far to the other side of the hill?" "A couple o' miles, maybe." "Miles 1 Why I thought It was only a stepl" "To the top of that hill? Well, it's not much more, from here; but it's pretty steep, and we can ride half way up from the other side. My mother used to lake us there on picnics when we were kids,'" Seeing that the young man's embarrassment had dropped away when he spoke of his mother, Nance grasped the cue. "Cousin Columbine tells us that Mrs. Adam Is well, what she said was: 'Eve Adam is a grand success as a mother !' " "I'll say she is!" Matt faced her, smiling, and Nancy saw that he had completely forgotten himself at last Then the color dyed his face again and he stammered awkwardly: "I I don't mean that we boys have turned out anything above the average; but but that" "I know what you mean," smiled Nance, coming to his rescue, "though I think Cousin Columbine meant Just what you're denying. It must be nice to have such enviable reputations! How did your mother manage It with all four of you?" She couldn't resist teasing him a little, but it was kindly tact which made her bring the conversation back to his mother ; and Matthew answered : "By being herself, I guess. She was always on hand, you know, so perhaps we didn't get Into as many scrapes as some kids. Mother's a wonder; and Dad is too. I'm rather crazy about my people, but but I've said enough. Don't know what got me going "I got you going!" admitted Nance, a twinkle lighting her blue eyes. And then: "Oh, look! Is that a snowcapped mountain range on the horizon?" Matthew nodded. "Here's where we turn. Do you mind a little riding In this old wreck? Tou're likely to get some Jolts, but Ixok out there !" This warning was too late, and only a quick snatch of Matthew's arm which brought her tight against his khaki coat for Just a minute, kept Nance from losing her balance as they dipped into a rain-worgully. When be released her and the girl looked up, she saw that all his previous confusions were as nothing compared to the embarrassment that engulfed him now. This amused sophisticated Nancy, and she said demurely: "Thanks for saving my life t Is that another of these pleasant little thank-yoWarns looming up ahead? If "Mercyl" Gasped Nanca, "Have Got Juanlta Into Trouble?" I to feel a thrill at this unbelievable December day. The sun was warm; yet the paper reported a blizzard raging In New England! It seemed Incredible; and next week, Nance mused regretfully, the Country club would be gay with winter sports, "I wouldn't be there anyway," she consoled herself, as the homesickness she had supposed vanquished, raised its head again. '"I'd be at Edgemere wiping dishes for Mother, or mopping up puddles of snow brought In by Phil Here's the Tubbs abode already. I must see if Victor is asleep." This brought a smile, and homesickness retired to that place where such things go when we forget ourselves. Aurora's house which set back a space from the road, was a tffalr covered with tree-barand al one-stor- y cross-countr- y n u one's approaching you'll tell me ahen 111 hang on tlgnt ana aae j"time. second a me of rescuing trouble -i- t-It wasn't a bit of trouble." "I mean I stammered Matthew. mind didn't In the least "I'm glad to know that the experibroke In ence wasn't unpleasant" "Do I get Nancy, her eyes dancing. out here?" (as Matt his face the color of a peony, stopped the engine.) "And do I keep straight on until 1 reach the I" top?" ' I'd better show you the way, hadn t 1? That is unless unless you'd rather go alone. I 1 don't want to butt In if " "Oh, come on," laughed wasn't keen on solitude. If Nancy. that's . fcisssiBBel this way expeditions may have passed hunarea yea two more than I I often wender how many of those on." sights this pine looked down no Nancy was silent partly because her to this way talked ever had boy Matbefore, and partly because what thew said had stirred her Imagination. She was silent so long that the young man moved uneasily. "I I suppose, all this sounds sort of foolish to- -to a girl like you, Nance looked at "Why should him so disconcertingly that Matthew but" ltr JuJ. it far sway. JraPATHOKlZE We send HOMEIKDrjgTEy "I what to you mean. And If you've got time play around for an hour, nothing Jack was would please me more. Colvanquishing a wood pile; Cousin umbine was napping; and Aurora was too much Inclined to give advice, so 1 II J Waafs the ass ef planning thing, am, wwimwb uie vcs say I If every time we set a dime At Utah ran away." laughed softly. It was a and his voice was laugh, pleasant pleasant, too, thought Nancy, when he forgot himself and spoke naturally. "Aurora Tubbs strikes me completely dumb," he told her; "and advice Is one of her strong points. She's never recovered from my going to college-thi- nks It was the last word in foolishness. What's she found to pick at about you?" "Stockings!" said Nancy, and wondered If Matt following close behind In the narrow patch, was blushing again. "My sport hose got left at home, and she Implored me to borrow a pair of Cousin Columbine's 'black cottons.' Honestly, I didn't know till I saw Cousin Columbine the day we came, that cotton stockings were manufactured any more." "They're growing scarcer all the time," said Matthew gravely. "Even In Pine Ridge there's not much call for 'em; and the high lace boot Is doomed." Nancy whirled about This was the strangest young man she had ever come across. One moment he stammered with confusion, and the next was saying something as amusing as Their eyes met it was unexpected. as she turned, and they both laughed, and laughing, felt better acquainted. "I wonder," remarked the girl as she started forward, "where Cousin Refining Matthew Columbine gets hers?" "Tou mean the boots?" Nance nodded because the trail was steeper here, and she found herself a little short of breath. "Maybe she gets 'era where she gets the middles," suggested Matthew. ." "Slow down, Miss er . "Don't be Victorian," said Nancy, without turning. "Was I going too fast?" Too fast for your own good, at this It takes time to get acaltitude. climated when you're transplanted from sea level. Has your brother found a Job?" "Not yet; and he's pretty worried. Oh, Just look at the Peak ! And and why I never imagined such a view. I didn't know there was anything like it in the world!" Matt beamed, as pleased with her enthusiasm as if he were responsible for the view himself. "Keep on," he told her, "till you reach that old pine that's been struck by lightning. That tree Is practically on the summit ; and there isn't a finer view for miles." "How could there be?" Nance stood, breathless, at the foot of the ancient tree. Plains, and mesas, and mountains lay stretched before her behind htr on every side; valleys that would be green as emeralds In summer; deep d gorges; peaks. "It's almost too beautiful to be true," she said at last "Why has no one ever built a home, here on this spot?" Matt tapped the scarred old tree trunk, shaved clear of bark where lightning had done Its work. "A house would be too good a target! This Is the highest pulnt In several miles. Are you afraid of thunder If so, you'd better pack showers? your trunk before the middle of May !" "Are the showers so bad?" "Sometimes they're fierce. Mother Insists It's because we're so near the sky! Those storms are the only thing In the world, I believe, that she's afraid of. Her father was killed by lightning before I was born." Nance shivered. "No wonder she's frightened! It's a miracle this tree has escaped being demolished. Does anybody know how old It Is?" Matt shook his head. "It's a great deal older than any-on- e In these parts surely. Miss Columbine remembers It Just like this when she was only a little girl It must have been struck by lightning many times. I often think that Is Matt was, all of a sudden, again; but Nance was mercisnow-cappe- I" less. "Go on," she begged. "I only mean," he hesitated, "that that this tree must have seen a lot of Interesting things: Pioneers, you know, In their covered wagons; the first settlers struggling to build homes; Indian massacres or war dances; and later, prospectors trudging along with burroa Why. even the old Spanish 0U Service Stations in Utah and Idaho " NEXT YEAR GO TO WESTMINSTER COLLEGE Salt Lake City, Utah. Beautiful Modern Building, campus. 40-ac- re and Equipment. High Scholarship. Strong Character and Social D. Physical Education. velopment. Low Cost Tuition, Board and Boon in regulated home-lik- e dormitories. Government aid furnishes limited part time jobs for needy and worthy students. FREE new "An Educational Opporttm ity" mailed on request. H. W. REHERD, D.D., Pres. pain-phl- et "I I All This Sounds Sort of Foolish." Suppose, his eyes for Just a moment guess you thought I was being lowered "I dumb; but really, I was trying to see things the things you say this old tree must have seen. And by the way !" (Nance glanced up, smiling, at which Matt became pleasantly aware of a dimple In her left cheek). "There Is something else It saw that you didn't mention. It witnessed the betrothal of Victor and Aurora Tubbs! She said I'd find their initials cut in the bark." Matthew laughed. "Mother remembers those Initials; but lightning ripped that bark off years ago. Aurora hasn't been up here since she put on flesh, and that's almost as far back as I remember. I hate to hurry you, Miss er well," (desperately, as the girl grinned at him), "Nancy, but it's getting along toward sundown and'll soon be cold. Shall we move on?" Nance said, "It's regretfully: they Moth. Dane. iancc" MtS.ft.enIn Scotland. UTAH HIGH SCHOOL 121 So. 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A half hour later they drew up at Miss Columbine's side door to find Mark Adam scanning the road Impatiently, and Jack seated on a suitcase. "Have you got a Job?" gasped Nance, spying the luggage as she took Mark's upstretched hand and Jumped down lightly. Jack nodded, while the other boy exclaimed: "Where the dickens have you been, Matt? We've telephoned everywhere to find you." "Blame me," said Nance, while Matthew, flushing again, retorted: "Hasn't a feller got a right to take an hour off? What's up?" "Good and plenty. Luke's broken a leg." Matthew started, his face grave. "Tou're not kidding, Mark?" "Sure I'm not That new bronc kicked him. Dad and Mother have carried him to the hospital in the car " "Is It a bad break?" "How'm I to know? But" to Nance with his customary (turning smile), "it's a case where an ill wind blew somebody good. Jack's got a Job with us till Luke's around again. Pile in, feller. We must get going. We'll take good care of your llttla brother, Nancy !" "HI! 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