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Show i i l A II LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHL IT ran There's Al ways Another Year MARTHA OSIENSO SYNOPSIS Copyright Uartfca Ostens WNf Service. vr To U. tittle town tit llrroa R cumrs Anna ("Silver"! Grenoble, diugh-t- r tit Jiru," formerly fit the ";m!eiiii The Kodvrir k ar.d Jin r.ljf halt of the farm, the ar.1 HtpMitit, Wi;lard other half being' Anna ICrenuMe'a. Onn rllUef srrivsl tuk Melbanlt. shft-lerofckes hitnrlf cbuosious. paper-weigh- t, cat-lik- new-bor- 1 I Or-limi- M ewtlon-Sliv- ot ':re - 4- "of n." .. the yard ant toward tte corn plot In the valley below where Riddy, v;tb li's fa ther and !eve, was at work. It was not t!ie fir-- t time elte had watt bed . deft creating, by bis of a evolution gu.d.xig of nalure. the s of life. There had been new t;i!k lately anting the men for enougj bt-- r to jatiitr the nature of U't pror-e-- s to S'ltitiise 4l.e Infinite care and patience rHire. In achieving the tie Klreil result Rut since Ihe liU'tit or ot! Dtilie )e!!.ankS visit to the old lioti!-e- , she and Rod.!)" had been r:t pain never to be itlute toaether. R.it seeing Roddy at work in the Ititlma'e task of fertilizing his corn had been like looking into bis very heart, lik-- ? counting the beat of his life's blood. This morning. Roddy was working alone at the npjier end of the plot. Silver came rjuielly up to the old wooden fence that surrounded it, stepping carefully over the ripe strawberries Sie phronla craved, and stood watching him scarcely drawing a breath. Carefully, Intently. Roddy exposed the silk of the vivid green sheath beneath the transparent sack In which been enclosed, and oured upon It which It the pollen from the tas-ehad been painstakingly collected in a similar sack to prevent Its scattering elsewhere on the wind. The corn plot. In the motionless blue and gold atmosphere of early morning, was fixed In the clean dark of earth and the glistening, vertical green stain It of the stalks, viable and proud. was almost as though some great emerald stood between the small field and the sun, shedding a lovely, calm, and vertiginous (lew upon the fresh curvs of the young leaves, upon the purplish gloom of the furrow. Rut It was actually a dew of earth, before hot winds " dell.-:tle- l, MM "I'll Be the Death of You, if I Don't Get On My Own Feet Soon." rose. Silver, standing in the rough meadow outside the field, felt the dew about her ankles and saw It sparkling on the ribboned leaves beneath Rod dy's hands. In the pure, Jeweled light, the frasilks of the slim young gile, white-golenrs received the yellow pollen as Roddy dusted It out of the tassel bag. Suddenly, from the pasture near by. a ineudow-lnrHung up into the silence a fountain of liquid notes. Roddy glanced around and saw Silver lean Ing over the fence watching him. He reddened dully and pushed his wide straw hat back from his brow. Then, with a quizzical, perplexed stniie he came and stood looking down at her. "I've been watching you," she sai l, nodding toward the corn. "I wish I could help." "Why don't yon?" he replied. "You'd get a real kick out of It." She raised the hamper toward him "I brought some fresh buttered rolls.'' She said. "I suppose Corrle Isn't up yet," hf remarked, taking the hamper from her. "I listened at the door," Silver told him, "but I didn't hear any stir, so I came on alone." He set the hamper on the grass at his feet, then spoke In a low, vehement voice that became thrilling agony in her heart. "These weeks have been h 1. Silver. I don't know how I've stood It. I don't know how I'm going to go on standing It "Oh Roddy," she pleaded- - breathlessly. He stepped closer to her and the yearning and despair In his bronrel face drew from her an Involuntary, broken cry. She thrust her hands across the fence toward him. Roddy took them and pressed them to hi lips a ml eyes, "I'm no gootl. Silver.' he muttered "I can't go through with this farce I've got to tell ner " Swiftly Silver ten tied forward an I brushed his blue shirt sleeve w It It dec check. "Roddy Roddy," she whispered In a stilled voice. 'You rnn'l tell her you can't ever tell Iter! It would be too terrible!" "It wouldn't." . he protested. "She doesn't love me 1 don't think she ever did. "You mustn't say that. Silver argued. "You mustn't do anythlng- - yon can't. And It won't be for long. Roddy. As soon as phronle Is well again" He swept bis hat from his head ail tO littie "iff i ,..- n I i t i ,. her - ,u- n. w tcr- .'. i! 1 It V" , 'AVJ' a :l It.! i r.ls. With fhr.2 b! arm ..,.-.Iter il"- nt, then re- s'.ni'.tly away. si rode down as though he ' - r a pera'e' leas- -i i: : I P: me !..:.; icr i t'.e the "'!:' .'! h v i r - y i rs , !'. were 1 i ' swe;-- I that I wis like ll.-- l , ' . MT'i- i '.. ". told :.!:. S': to a it By CHERIE NICHOLAS Mi-- J l- !f. k: Hi -- . e )"'! t Yj a.' i -l cab t u r ! rllde! Iiev er Srf-iie- : a : I I - .. 1 i KiMt.h stand I ha i : 1 -'1' I P. r ,...r - srroii.'-r -- .. ,r. -- and ,f:!if ell-"- i here, li.g no ogoWfl. H.r-ilr- ,.. er linked tl.rou.ii youth, la on the eve ot mrr:re to Voider. Filver dtclares he wnt to l.ve on the farm, and will not lella Hophroni sell hfr portion. fc"i!v-("I'd route," bjr requestl something- tut of no relatton with her all mns by Orrald Lucas, gambler friend of her father Itoddjr marries Corinne. She has a maid, ('aula, who seems to attrarl Jaon. Silver again meets Gerald Lu- Rtnl.ly." cas, vi ho haa a gambllnK resort near "I should bate known that, too," he to tntrodue toB. fiha fa compelled niucJi hlrn to Corinne WHIard. against said unsteadily. Lrd what a fool her will. Silver eonfldes to Roddy the I've beeu!' fart of her Illicit relations with Lucaa. They clung together for a moment in Krendshlp between l.uca and Corinne desperate kind of Joy. It was Slv- develop. Duke Melbank Insult Sliver, noddy's solicitude brinies Silver to the ver who drew away. realisation that the lovea him. Hoddy Til leave." the said tonelesly. "I ta offered a position at the University demust, Roddy. There Is no other nay he Corlnne'a but to dismay, farm, out for us." clines It, To break up the of Lucas and Corinne. Silver tella lie swung about and looked at her. Roddy she hat decided to sell her porbis eyes darkening la a savage. trapied tion of the farm. Not understanding, way. With a desolate feeling she he reproaches her for her "trearhery." Silver witnesses a meeting between watched him run his fingers agitatedly Lucas and Corinne which convlnres her his rough hair. Rut then sudCorinne Is danger. Corinne absents througha bleak and frosty sort of calm herself from Jason and Paula's wedding. denly to descend upon him. lie came seemed She Into the city, shopping. aolng with purchases little suitable for and stood before her, his arms folded, (arm life. Roddy's mild reproaches are and stared down at her with twisted met with contemptuous references to "counting pennies." Bhe threatens, if smile of bitter resignation. "You are right, of course." he said go away, eer she "gets the chance." toLues and In a harsh voice. "You and I we noddy tella Hilver he Is sure Corinne met In the city. While Silver have to do the decent thing hy her. I la alone, Duke Melbank enters the don't know Just why but we have to." house, drunk and abusive. Silver stood up very straight. "And you will keep on working this CHAPTER XII Continued land Roddy," she said swiftly, "until 11 you buy It from me. You know now Silver looked Around and mw Duke that I never really wanted you to Melbank close the door behind him leave It." She stretched out her hand. He held and lenn against It, smiling:. Tve been peeking through the win- It tightly In his own for a moment, dow," lie chuckled. "I wouldn't V had then turned It, palm upwards, to his the nerve to come In If anybody was lips. In the next moment he was gone, e e e e e round." When came borne that Sophroida Silver backed away from him, one hand feeling the way cautiously behind night, she was suffering from a chill, and on the following evening. Doctor her. "How dare you come In here!" she Woodward told old Roderick that she was threatened with pneumonia, aid (juletly. e e e e e . "I told you I waa coming to see you Weeks of Illness had bitten deeply some rilcht. didn't IT Well, this Is Into the physical being of Sophronla the night." Wlllnrd, but had not dimmed the Are "Get out of thla house!" Silver orher spirit. As Silver arranged the of dered him. cushions In the long chair In which He came weaving toward her and l'hronle reclined beneath the great oak, Silver realized tnnt he hud been drinkshe glanced at the girl's face and said ing. the looks of you, my "There's no use In you pretending to sharply. "Ry need this babying more than yon girl, me, Silver, he anid. "I seen you come 1 do. I'll be tho death of you. if I out o' Lucas' place In the morning, don't get on my own feet soon. It him man I'm than a better didn't It does beat all what a wreck the lung and I've been thinking about yon ever rever can mnke- - or a big hulk or a since that night I saw you In Chicago," woman like me. Rut I'll be up again Sitver was aware of only two things in a week no matter what old Doc Duke Molbsnk'a Inflamed, greedy e.vP9 Woodward says." were the eyes of all the men who "Don't had tried to stroke her hair or touch rebuked get Impatient, now," Silver her gently. "There's no hurry. her bare arms during those years when You've done enough work In your life she had been In desperate fenr of them to deserve a little rest." She patted all, during those years of undercurrents a pillow Into place behind Sophronla's died ; of violence before her father had bend. "There, now lie back. You and somewhere, behind her, on So- can read the paper for about fifteen a there lay phronla's sewing table, then you must take a nap. No a half- - minutes, heavy 'crystal cheating, now Just fifteen minutes! a It within held that magnified sphere Doctor Woodward's orders." scene of Niagara falls. Sophronla looked up at Silver with "You don't have to be afraid of me, narrowed eyes. "I dont like the way to "I want Duke Sliver, persisted. you're lookin lately," she declared marry you." Willi "You're peaked white, "You're drunk 1" Silver temporl.ed, And emphasis. are eyes your entirely too big and and moved back cautiously toward the dark around. What's worrying you?" sewing machine. ' you and I haven't "Nothing, except "Sure I am drunk with thinking about been worrying much about you since you," Duke laughed. He lunged toward you started getting better." Silver asher. "You've got awful pretty ghoul sured her, but the faint flush that lay ders. Silver." suddenly upon her smooth checks was He was perhaps ten feet away from not lost on Sophronla. her when she stretched her hand out "That fool of a Duke Melbank hasn't behind her and took a tlrm hold of the been botherln' you aaln, has lie?" heavy crystal sphere that stood on Sliver's brow puckered into a little Sophronla's sewing table. frown of laughing denial, "Certainly It was then that the kitchen screen not! And you stop looking for trouble. door opened with a sharp twang from You're ever so much belter this mornIts creaking hinges. A footfall amine ing. This sun Is doing wonders for ed at the rear of the house. you." Duke drew bark Immediately, looked "Yes," l'hronle sighed, "wonders for once toward the kitchen, ttien vanished me but what Is It doin' to the crops? It hasn't really rained since I got sick, through the front door. Sliver sank down upon the chnlr be has It?" side the sewing machine and burled her "Now, there yon go." Silver rebead In her arms. buked her. "If It Isn't one thing. It's another. Roddy says there's no real A moment later, Roddy stood In th doorway to the kitchen. He looked at danger yet, so get your mind" "I've seen It go like this before, my Joer for moment, perplexed, the.t came and leaned over her. glrk I know what I'm talkin' about. How does Roddy'' corn look?" "What's wrong, Stiver!" he asked. Silter hesitated. "Well he's been Site strove to speak. "Duke Me! watering that plot he pollenated by bank he was here Just now." band. He's been tending It as though "Duke Melbank! Where Is het" babe." Silver made a gesture toward the It were a Sophronla shifted herself to a more open doorway. "He went when h comfortable position In her chair. "1 heard yon coming." one of you would take a run up Roddy hurried to the door and wish see how Paula Is," she said unstepped out Into the darkness. Pres and ently he came back and stmid silently easily. "We haven't had a word from them In a week." beside her. Silver looked at her ami put hee "Something will linte to be done on her hips. "Will you stop talkhands he said about that fellow," tersely "I'll have to talk to him when I go to ing and worrying about things! I have to go and tlx up the house. I'll look town toiniTrow." on you In fifteen minutes and. If out hands. Sliver locked at her They were trembling as she clenched them you're not asleep, I'll call Doctor Woodward." In her lap. "I'm so glad yoit came. I "(Mi. dear!" Sophronla sighed, setmight have killed him. Roddy." tling herself finally. "I ciime down to See If the folk s .' Ill were back," Roddy told her. voice whs uneven with the effort he Silver stiou with a hamper ront'iln-lua coffee pot and a dish of buttered was making to speak at all. Mue ami Paula are nlremU existing an rolls, and listened at the Screen door Site was hoping oi Roddy's house. addition to the family." : I Silver ral'd her e.tes and saw liN (Vrinuc m glt go along with her fate r'or second hey s!nred ut eiieh down to the Held where the men were other eme md ttiol lor.Vxi Then. In itt work, as she had done before. R it Vo!iii.f.ttll, Siliet (I lei her treiiMliej there was no sound from within. u was probably not ye awake. It bai 'l- .rd li ft '" !' ,. '.) ' 'll Still' I ' vwis only a little after seven, and site li.ul heeii at a thime last night at th? :iiltier coittme on the Inks, Iloili-rif- Cirii! rnfiied eartward breathed cud beld her fiercely c!ue to hi ni. Silver sobbed lnt hi thrust. t I can't help it. "Ob, R.xUly I love )otl. I've knows It from the very ijfgibalrig. lie strained her blender body to him, then taking Iter tear stained fat e Into his liiimK he kissed her mouth with bard and solemn vehemence. "We're both known," he muttered at deep down, from the beginlast, ning." Iter hands moved helplessly along bis shoulders. "That's why I wanted to go a ay, umraunitr, stilus as a fcmk!r, new of hiM murder in Cbirsio ha resrhed the towa. Fh la to ltvt with fcuphronis WilUrd. Jim Urentible's sUr. jsophro-bla'- s bousrhold rnnt'.m of her husband. oa Siowiy. and wl'b f hi in Blouses Gain New Fashion Hei ha!' h k f vX - ' ' ; VA : If . 1 1 - "t ' s " " A - I i , I ' ' ' ivl. :. ed ha kr.c ' rass picking lure, berries t'T ; .fhro iiia. gathering leaves ant! tlo wets i:di criminate!' with hands that shook. Siitir iJ.iWtl k into the n CHAPTER XIII Pay followed day, and the sky ovei d and livid land became like a dome of colorless metal, all the blue beaten out of It by tl. ; Intense heat. Fears that had smoldered separately throughout the district, stole out, linked, and became flaming panic. Rut the drouth was only a fore runner of a graver holocaust. In Kjelstad's feed and Implement store, Roddy Wiliard talked with Sven He Erickson and John Michener. strnagled to conceal the alarm be felt as he spoke. "The co mty agent can t be expected to do It all by himself." he said sharply. "It takes Just one day for a good army of grasshoppers to eat the chimney off your house !" Sven shook his head solemnly. "I hear dey are so t'lck in Manitoba dcy stop de trains on de tracks," he observed with a click of his tongue. "I was talking with the agent yesterday," Roddy continued. 'Tolsoii bran has been distributed to all the farmers west of here, right to the state line. Rut some of them don't give a d n, the p.nvh. C I J air 'frJ ; i ' 1 Hi S V " LiL n VH ar - w.TMi V.; li t I'll .J&A I -- v a .ill. rh, I j wmh&M They one-tim- e g it are worn without hats or lft absurd little evening hats that trt mere twists or dabs of silk tulle, silk lame or silk velvet. For luncheon In a swank restaurant, for afternoon tea, there is aothin; more flattering than a blouse of de lectable silk satin, softly draped nr shirred at the shoulders, with a new version of the high cow l neckline after the manner of the Schiaparelll model illustrated to the left below. This stunning silk satin blouse is ir Kelly are stepping out of their obscurity under a suit jacket and are appearing at gay social functions as costumes in their own right complete with slim skirts of silk satin, wool or silk velvet. Paradoxical as it sounds, tailored blouses have soft touches, while formal hloiisvs have a rather tailored look, the fabric supplying tlie proper glamor for the occa- B'LOUSES The Charter Oak The Charter Oak was a white oak tree In Hartford, Conn., computed to be about a thousand years old when It was blown down In a heavy windstorm August CI. l a rough shell of stump was left standing about 10 feet from the ground. On the follow-lrtday people crowded tv see it. and a guard was placed to preserve It from "relic htin'ers." Colt's Armory hand played dirges and patriotic music over the fallen monarch for two hours at noontime. At sundo.,n all the hells In the city were tolled. A few years later Charter Oak avenue was' laid over the site. The remaining rote were dug up and n simple" stai, ., placed In the reinftdtig wuiis ' j w c' avenue. l iV VfeWlrUMaaLAif , f " I USA ! , w 4 Jf s : the shiftless bohunks! Their farms are going to be seized for taxes anyhow, so they can't be bothered about saving their crops." "Joe Fisher came through from Rrookings yesterday," Michener observed, "and he had to put chains on his tires. That sounds like a tall one, but Joe swears it's the God's 'truth! He stopped nt a place where a fellow said the hoppers nte the harness off a horse's hack for the salt In the leather You can take that or leave it." Roddy thoughtfully rolled a cigarette. "Well, I wouldn't believe Joe even If I knew lie was telling the truth. But it's bad enough, anyhow. I disked and f harrowed last fall, and made a thorough Inspection of my lnnd this spring for locust eggs. My land is clean. Rut even poison bait won't keep them from doing a lot of damage they die if they begin coming In clouds." "Course," Swen observed, "you can't blame the bohunks. It cost me ten to twenty cents an acre to spread de bait and dat don't pay for de vork, eder." John Michener and Roddy fell to talking then of the comparative danger of the differential and the lesser migratory grasshoppers, and Sven, to whom a locust was merely a locust and a pest, listened eagerly. "Darn it, anyhow," Michener said at last, his expletive rather humorous in bis deep voice, "if It would only rain It gathered up fine yesterday, and then sailed off again to the north. A couple more days like this and there won't be enough left for a grasshopper's lunch." "Veil I s'pose dey starve to death, den," Sven observed. The searing heat continued and in a few clays the earth, from the top of the Wiliard hill, looked like one great mottled leaf curled up at the edges, the dry atmosphere giving the horizon a scalloped elTcct. Silver, who had gone in the afternoon to the brush- wood above the farmstead In quest of a breath of air, gazed down into the shallow valley below with a sinking heart. The floor of the stone house opened and Sophronla came out, walking slowly, unsteadily still, up the slope toward the barns. Yesterday she had ventured as far as the chicken house for the first time. Silver had mnde an effort to tell her, only last night, that she had written to Renjamin Hubbard In Chicago and that he had secured a position for her. Rut just at the moment when she might have spoken, Sophronla's head had dropped forward over her crocheting and the gray of her face had filled Silver with an alarm that prevented her ut tering a word of her plans flO BE COXTIM ED) - A sion. The blouse of silk lame Is a favorite for dressy afternoon wear, and those "little evenings" when your hostess green. The sheer silk blouse, new this set says: "Don't dress." There are long r son, is attracting favorable attention. sleeved or models in or patterned silk lames which glitter It can be worn with a dark woolen to your heart's content, or if you so tweed suit or as a separate costume choose you may have soft silks with with a contrasting skirt. Silk chifToa; and silk georgettes are the featured Just a suggestion of metal in interfabrics. Fine pleating or tucking, woven or embroidered motifs. around yokes or under necklines: The shirtwaist or jacket type of give such blouses softness and femblouse of scintillating lame Is promiininity. nent, fastening with long rows of The tailored blouse for sports wear buttons, rhinestone studs set on a front tuck, or with elaborate or with a tailored suit is done in varied moods. There are youthful blouses o! A typical model frog of soft silk crepes in pastel colors, with of each is here illustrated. Huge frogs of trim the Jacket blouse as simple club collars, and perky hows for trimming correct for wear with pictured at the top In the group. White tweed and silver silk metallic in a scroll pat plaid woolen skirts or with tern fashion it. The sleeves are full to suits Then there are shirtwaist blouses! .with the elbow. A tiny collar of of delicate silk crepe de chine, witfi self fabric finishes the neckline. jabots and frills trimmed The other metallic blouse shown is lace, perfect to wear with a perfectly tailored suit. of gohl silk lame. It is a glittering litthis season, too. tle affair which can be worn for formal fiold for favor la met vie and silver afternoons or "little" evenings. Its brief sleeves are puffed. The closely nls. Strong blues and reds and greensj blouses placed buttons are of self fahrle, while are favorites in less formal pas--j pert hows accent the neckline and of satins and chiffons. The dusty waistline. It is a Lanvin model. Very tels or strong vivid tones, both regis new looking, too, are sleevelets silk ter for tailored blouses. Of course. ever. lame blouses with draped armholes classic white is as iuinorlaiit as shirred or draped bodices after the It is the rule for the blouse to provide the color accent for the ensemMe, Molyneux tradition. the basic note of the costume,! sounding Rlouses worn without suits under ., wnicn maKes it more man jum fox or mink capes for theater, night costume accessory. clubs or the cinema are smartly new. Western Newspaper Union. short-sleeve- d d self-fabri- self-fabri- c turn-dow- BLACK AND WHITE Full and Slim Silhouette IS SMART AS EVER Now Appear for Evening very That the 1'arisian black and white is just as smart as it ever was is proven by the winter collection of Chanel, who trims with white touches almost us lavishly as in the summer collection. Outstanding is the sheer black wool, which lodis like a silk crepe. The dress is In two pieces, with a shorter, straight skirt whose fullness cornea from box pleats at the side seams. The top Is high at the neck with a white band and crisp bow tie similar to that worn by a man. The long sleeves are full nbove the elbow, and have white wrist cuffs. The bow tie at the neck is repeated at the front of the belt. Hats for Country Outfit There is lots of choice for the hat which completes one's country outfit The suede or chamois fnn be 'matched In a beret trimmed with a bright quill or the sweater and Jacket lining ran be matched with a soft, perky woolen hat. while still a third choice is a sports, felt the same shade as the skirt and trimmed with a quill of the s!t,ne color as the sweater mid jacket lining Vanity News may make the man h , make-umakes the woman. Make the eyes as dramatic as possihle. Keen eyebrows faint nnd unobtrusive Use rouge lightly to leave the on emphasis the eyes. Clothes "Raf-Rg- " Tweed. New wools culled "rag-rugtweeds are being shown In Paris. Thev with bits of mul.l colored tlZ c among the threads, to resemble r rag Roth the slim silhouette and the full one appear in the evening m the clever young ma!J' Mainbocher, from Chicago, who has become one the leading designers in Paris. fi'nrt: with all the fullness (tatslli tered in the back. For instance, a taffet frock of black matelnssc silk has a vast bustle that puffs out J" below the low graceful V o: tne m decollctage. In contrast Is a dress .... n am nlnrk rrono rionp on vert t lines. The frock Is worn with a bla satin cape on which there are slim-frock- s oliTT strips of monkey fur. frock of no unit silver brocaat has fullness only in the back. The ness Is held out with stiffened uet. M : f Bracelets and necklaces apparent have taken a tip from the barbiirlj splendor of Byjtantlne jewelry pear In massive designs sometimes's"' with stones as large as bird's fgs8large and blazing is the Jewelry, 'l'cj ro a numher of designers dist'y J wear with the frocks of Persian " . . one O'i r inspiration, enni ooi time. a two pieces can be worn at - ..- -,. Blxrlc Sunntantl Pink P.Iack satin with a silvery lror design, reputed to be scrntclipr". the latest material for foumbt'h'n ? I nients. On display In many W'i '1' i shops was a radical departure. -T'f nnJ ...i,14 "mi unoei i" newest are sleek, streamlined ww shimmering black satin and elastic flu.t Gold and Jewels Hay dresses this fall will b flrcr" ed hv onihritrtort... rh hrnhllrife Vet i trlmmtnif an.l jvnviv- emUF1. HUH iujuiiii Inn-stor- |