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Show LEW FREE PRESS, LEW. UTAH 000060000003 ' l. -. i nr. BY THE SUN BY LIDA LARRIM02E oooooooooooo CHAPTER VII Continued 11 "I don't suppose there's anything else I could do," he said hopefully. "I mean slinging white-was- h -" "A man's job," Jim said deis for cisively. "The the fence," he added, "not to decorate the landscape or those new overalls. Don't let it splatter." Tommy departed, wearing the suffering expression of a prisoner exiled to Siberia. He worked industriously for an hour. After that lie dipped and splashed with enthusiasm only when Jim was near ut hand. Jim, amused and sympathetic, raised his voice or called a direction when he approached the iicw recruit. It wasn't to be expected that Tommy should overcome his natural dreamy indolence in a moment. Besides, Jim had Tommy on his conscience. He might have lifted the burden of anxiety from ttie suffering exile's mind. Susan, too, frequently visited the scene of the new operation. She arrived in the truck driven by Wilfred's father. She coaxed Jim to take her back with him in thr small second - hand roadster, supplied by Mr. Vaughn on those days when it was possible for Jim to return to the farm for lunch. "Why do you want to go there?" Miss Parker asked, more than once, trying to keep her at home. "It's fun!" Susan would attach herself like a burdock to the small second-hanroadster. "Sue likes activity," Jim would is- white-was- h d remark. "She likes to tag after you," Miss Parker said once, exhibiting unAnd characteristic penetration. very often, "But I'm afraid she'll get hurt. She told me she was on the stable roof yesterday helping to nail on shingles." "Jim's stronger than anybody," Jim overheard her boast to a languid youth from the villi ge, indifferently swinging a scythe. "He could do that with one finger. You're not very strong, are you? Or maybe you aren't feeling well." Jim smiled and groaned. She was bossy and always under foot and he was afraid she would break her neck. He was unable, however, to resist the appeal in her wide hazel eyes or to hurt her feelings by sending her home. There were times when he regretted his thorough conquest of Susan. No, he had not escaped the Vaughns. Cecily came to the riding academy, too. The moment of ela tion which Jim felt the first time he saw her ride in through the open gate on "Lady" was followed by a He had feeling of depression. thought that the new job would remove him from any contact with Cecily. If he didn't see her a dozen times a day, he would stop thinking of her. She was friendly and interested. She wanted to see the stable and the jumps and the practice oval in the meadow. Jim called a man to hold the horse and went with her on a tour of investigation, closely shadowed by Susan. "You should cut another window in the harness-room,- " Cecily said, making her way through shavings disand old shingles, carded beams, a sea of litter and debris. "Green blankets, Jim. The shade you are going to paint the roof. That nice moss green, I think." "Whose job is this?" Jim asked, pretending to be injured, pigeonholing the suggestions for further consideration. "Yours and you're doing it splendidly." Her amber eyes were admiring. "But I'm interested, too." "Jim!" Susan called shrilly. "Jim look at me walk on the beam! Jim! Wait for me! I want to go with you, too!" Yes, there were moments when Jim deeply regretted his conquest of Susan. Cecily's interest continued. After her visit she came frequently, riding "Lady" or driving her car. Cecily's interest was pleasant but it was disturbing as well. Jim did not stop thinking of her. He found himself watching for her, actually going to the gate and looking up the road. If she didn't come, lie felt depressed and out of sorts If Bhe did appear, he felt depressed and out of sorts after she had gone. One morning a shower came up while she was there. They ran for khelter into the house. The air was musty, suggestive of spiders, cobwebs, mice. Jim raised windows and opened shutters. Subdued light replaced the gloom. They explored the house, exclaiming over the fireplace in the kitchen, the stairway, the chimney nook and the wniwot. ing in whit might have beta the saw-horse- dining-roo- I . hi i. uvI Jim's neart lt-- "It is 't "Things grilled in the kitchen fire- Oysters place, Jim continued. and steaks and chops.' "Waiters in jockey costumes." "Costumes! Hold on This isn't a musical comedy." "I like you, Jim." Cecily! All at once they were silent. The gaiety splintered into crystals, merged with the rain, was lost. Cecily looked out through the window, curtained with sliding beads of moisture. Jim looked at Cecily, her hands lying motionless in her lap, the soft hollow at the base of her throat, the lovely curve of her cheek turned against her shoulder. If he should touch her hand If he should press his lips against the soft hollow in her throat where a pulse The ra;n stirred and fluttered drummed a melody on the roof, drummed in his ears, drummed out reason and caution. Cecily! She turned to him as though he had spoken her name aloud. "Yes?" Her voice was not quite steady. Her eyes met his in a long questioning look, faintly startled. . e;ir!y supper are a part of another exister.ouen The world has changed since your WOriCt, nuirc F"' I d isn't a matter of making a chc. at rs . oiiJ aju'a again. We! Cecily and J.rsi S;tiing in a deep window feat. looking out at the rain, they did over the house. "Rough pine furniture," Cecily and waxed." said. ' Hand-mad- e . S LkU Larrlmore. WNU Service. 'i e !.t.u.J ud i. hou.se." We! TRUE r-- . For a moment something trembled between them, an evanescent emotion, fragile, tenuous, confusing. Cecily stirred, glanced away, out through the window again. Her laughter shook. "Look!" "That child!" Jim's eyes moved reluctantly from her mobile face, followed the direction of her glance. Susan, in and sou'her father's fishing-bootwester, was sloshing through puddles, making her way toward the house. She saw Jim and Cecily in the window, waved, broke into a stumbling run across the lawn. Cecily and Jim exchanged a glance of amused exasperation. The emotion had vanished before it s could be held by a word or a gesture. Perhaps it had never existed. But it had. The moment had passed, was gone. No, he had not escaped the Vaughns; the new job did not terminate Jim's contacts with Cecily. She was at the riding academy the day that Kay and Lenore arrived. It was an afternoon late in August with a suggestion of autumn in the air and the sunlight. Jim sat straddling the low limb of an oak tree at the upper edge of the drive. He had been sawing off dead branches when Cecily rode in on "Lady" and he dropped down on the low branch to talk to her. She sat on the horse only a little below him. Suddenly "Lady" began to make restive movements. A car was turning in at the gate. "Customers," Cecily said, her voice interested and a little excited. "Swank customers!" Jim hitched himself alonj, the limb for a clearer view of the drive. The dark cherry - colored phaeton shining with chromium, and driven uniformed an impressively by chauffeur with a small waxed mustache was creating a stir among the workmen about the place. Jim shared the general excitement. His first instinct was toward escape, for on the back seat of the car, closed in by a folding windshield, like a rare exotic bloom in a florist's display case, between Kay and a gentleman Jim did not know, sat Lenore. "Who is it?" Cecily asked, looking up at him. "Friends and relatives," he said, answering Cecily's question. He s, little idiotic, Jim," Le-rowith a small laugh, quickly stiHtd. "Sure'y you can get a a ay for thiee or four days. I should think you would need a vaa ie si-i- d For Drsss and Utility into e!ad enough to 1 d have uen u Uncle's business now. But all ol tr.- -i dam. I m liv.ii the under is water vrld as far fro:a a in a new world, ni!re r. Saturn iS from the earth.Onr worlds have nothing in comcan mon. They can never ouch, hav no m.p.t of contact. Don't you Y,fpn vice-preside- cation." Her enormous dark eyes plead with him from under the shadowy brim of her hat. I had a vacation for four years," Jim said a trifle grimly and then, making an effort to appear politely regre'Jul, "Get thee behind me, Satan! I have a job." Kay turned her pleasantly plain, becomingly tanned face toward the "You accompanying gentleman. said with a gessee, Wally," ture of affectionate exasperation. "He's as stubborn as a mule." The gentleman's name was Beres-forHe was tall and incredibly and thin with indefinite feature pale blue eyes that popped slightly. His hair, thinning above the temples, was of a silver fairness. He looked, Jim thought, like a codcodfish, of fish, an aristocratic course, pallid, limp, impeccably dressed and groomed. Where had Lenore acquired him? It made no difference, really. It was merely a passing thought. Kny returned to the attack. " "Never?" She echoed the word wistfully, forlornly. ' he said. I must go least. at for "Not years, I f.n from the start I've made. have no choice." "You have!" Her voice was low "I have enough for and intense. hnih of us Whv can't you share it with me? If you love me enough' "There can be no love without reperspect. I'm saying this badly, if I let haps. I wouldn't be myself "It's hardly possible,' d. 1P1I1P "It will be a good party," she said persuasively. "You know the Warren place on the Eastern shore." "Perfectly," Jim replied. niY Mollie R., are i! "We've counted on you, Jim." v o u c o i n g out hand touched his arm. "We again? My own mother wouldn't have accepted the invitahas become a gadabout tion if we hadn't thought we could and all because she All right. I'm pick you up on the way." made herself such a pretty new gun to "I'm sorry," Jim said, becoming soft those Ma, going. Really, dress. into t; e after restive under the barrage of perAnd so on graceful lines make you look lots But I like a suasion. "I'd binge. noon! I think the rippling long slimmer. can't leave. I have a job. Have I The Patterns. collar has a good deal to do with mentioned it before?" it. Or maybe it's because the skirt Pattern 1268 is for sizes 36 to 52. Kay pushed back her chair. fits where it should and has plenty Size 38 requires 5V4 yards of 39 "If I stay here I'll probably of room at the bottom." inch material plus llb yards of 1ft throw things," she said. "I haven't inch bias binding for trimming. Daughter." My Darling "Yes, patience enough to cope with a do Pattern 1292 is designed for sizes how you mule. Come on, Wally, let's take "Daughter, dear, run on! Imitate Sis; put your 12 to 20 (30 to 42 bust). Size 14 a walk before I am arrested for 4 yards of 39 inch ma assault and battery. Not a long apron on and have the dusting requires I get back from the terial. when done she an added, walk," exchanging Pattern 1255 is designed in size Civic Improvement League meetamused glance with Jim as the ac6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 years. Size that "Didn't You Ever Consider It ing. And speaking of aprons, companying gentleman languidly yards of 35 inch As a Last Resort?" is the cleverest one Sis ever had. 8 requires 1 unfolded himself, joint by joint, like blouse and 1ft for the material in the crosses I love the way it a carpenter's rule. "I promise not for the apron. you support me. You'd hate me. back." yards to be strenuous, darling." Send for the Barbara Bell Spring Alone at the table under the I'm so fond of you. You've been "So do I, Mom, and see how it swell to me. But I won't let you Summer Pattern Book coand Good-bover. all dress clipped catalpa Lenore looked at be covers up my now or ever." my ntaining designs of attractive, pracJim. time." Mom, have a good Her eyebrows lifted. Her lips tical and becoming clothes. Ex"Hello!" she said. "Hello!" Jim Sisterly Chit Chat. crookedly. clusive fashions for children, replied. He hadn't wanted to be curved "Didn't you ever consider it as "Sis, run upstairs for my apron, young women and matrons. Price, alone with Lenore. Kay had deresort?" she asked with studwon't you? I wouldn't have a spot 15 cents per copy. liberately forced the situation. She aiedlast on this, my beloved model, for penetration. Send your order to The Sewing had put him on the spot. Oh, well! "Yes," he said. "Last winter. all the world. It's my idea of Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New "Who is the codfish?" he asked. This spring. Early in June the smooth: all these buttons; no belt; Montgomery Ave., San FrancisLenore stiffened. these here new puffed sleeves; co, Calif. Price of patterns, 15 "He is a very charming person," day I came here." softened. Her expression and this flare that's a flare." with cents (in coins) each. the superior, humorshe said, Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. "Why didn't you?" she asked less expression which Jim remem"Just wait, Miss, till I grow you "What happened, up! Your clothes won t nave a bered with distaste. "I met him in breathlessly. London last winter. He will be a Jim?" look in because I've already be-He gave a short laugh, sheepish, duke when his father dies. The most marvelous country estate. He's vis"I missed the train," he aniting at Aunt Laura's." I ate sand"I'm sorry," Jim said. Might swered. "I was hungry. " in a wiches He should have as well apologize. is "Jim!" remembered that Lenore was init? Trifles "It is amazing, isn't capable of humor directed at a title which A General Quiz seem of no importance deor a celebrity. the of want our 'For cide destiny. Be!l Syndicate. WNU Service. Lenore relaxed. They made conversation for an interval, talking of a nail a kingdom was lost.' If I mutual friends, recalling shared ex- hadn't missed the train, something would probably have happened. l. wnen vas the conscience periences, a wall between them, else I have gone through with couldn't fund" in the United States treas recognized, unmentioned. Finally Lenore drilled through the barrier. it." He bent toward her across the ury started? understand?" he table. "Do 2. How far away from the earth "Jim," she asked not quite stead- asked gravely,you gently. "It had nothis the nearest star? ily, "why did you run away?" 3. From where was the inscrip ing to do with you or my feeling Jim considered. tion on the Liberty bell in Philayou. I was the only one con"I didn't," he said, after a mo- for Do you see?" delphia reading: "Proclaim liberment. "Running away is premedi- cerned. He had not convinced her of anyty throughout all the land unto all tated, isn't it? I didn't plan the thing. The anger in her eyes told the inhabitants thereof" taken? thing. It happened. Impulse. Ex- him that, the crooked curve of her 4. From where did the word at circumstances. Lunch tenuating full red lips. She drew her hands geyser" come? A " a his, sat erect in her chair. 5. What is the size of Yellow"You must have been desperate," from she said with a brittle "Words!" stone National park? she said slowly. "You must have talk well and per6. How many different been awfully fed up with every- laugh. "You types of Mr. Fielding. Your franksuasively, are there? holly thing." is disarming. But I'm not an 7. What is the net area of na- "I was," he said, serious now, ness and abject fool. I know." utter tional forests in the United wanting to be honest. or Her change of attitude surprised States? (One way fare from OgJc She raisei her head, looked at him. in 8 Lake What Salt is good, known as City, the city him across the table. The glow of "Know what?" he said hesitantly. City of Hills? coaches or chair curs.) "the fading sunset illuminated her in love with the Vaughn "You're 9. What is the face. We have the FASTEST TRAINS I that when I saw you at which birds fly?greatest height "Fed up with me?" she asked. girl, knew to San Francisco, all 10. What is the estimated world He knew what the question cost together this afternoon. You might meals on the have the outburst total of unmined coal? spared yourself her. A feeling of pity for her, of of Pacific Limited. 11. What is a dewworm? eloquence. Not a bad idea. She's regret for a lost emotion, held him pretty 12. What is the difference beyoung. The estate in$31 ROUNDTRIP to San Fransilent for a moment. She looked dicates and a certain degree of comtween a surf board and an older than he had remembered.. cisco; $32 ROUNDTRIP to Loj She lifted her both "Tell me, Jim." Her voice was in- fortablewithaffluence." Angeles via San Francisco a laugh that was like a sistent. There was pain in her glass fares good in sob. "Here's to a successful cameyes, fear, humiliation. "Tell me, standard Pullmans (berth ex ifa). Answers paign." darling were you running away 1. In 1811, by a contribution from me?" Jim's evening clothes, freshly from some anonymous person If he could make her understand pressed, lay on the bed in his room whose conscience hurt him. The For information write D. R. Out. Grn.Att' without hurting her too badly. He in the cottage. fund has grown until toit Dept. A. 41 So. Main Sl Salt Lake Off today wanted to be honest with her. He He was going to Cecily's party, a tals over $650,000. knew that was impossible. Pity for the Patton girl who was 2. About 25,500,000,000,000 miles. for her, the familiar necessity for party to be married in September. He 3. him feel made and flattery weary had been amazed when Cecily asked 25:10.From the Bible Leviticus depressed. him, as a special favor, to help her 4. Geyser is an "It was everything," he said out. One of Icelandic .word the prospective ushers Via AND brusquely. "Sponging on Kay and had somehow or somewhere become ",c ougmui pronunciation being Vic. Having nothing of my own-G- ood involved with a bed of later "jeeser," to "gay-ser- " changed poison ivy. and finally Americanized to God, Lenore! Can't you unShe would be a man short, that pederstand?" gyser. rennial tragedy to a hostess. Jim Her lips trembled. Jim felt like could avert the tragedy. Wouldn't 5. It covers 3,438 square miles an insensitive brute. of territory, of which 257 are in Couldn't he? "Don't you see," he said gently, m Idaho and the reJim could and would when Mr. Montana, "thfit I couldn't let you support Vaughn had approved the invitation. mainder in Wyoming. me?" His hands held hers in a 6. There are 175 Mingled, tonight, with apprehendifferent type steadying clasp, small plump hands sion and the diffidence induced by or species of holly found throughthat into bit his wearing jewels E recalling his former posiiion in the out the world. ITS flesh. "We wouldn't have been hap- household was a growing sense of 7. More than 162,000,000 acres. py. You would have despised me." elation. He was going to dance HOTEL BEN LOMOND 8. Lynchburg, Va., is" so called. "I couldn't despise you, Jim." with Cecily. Tomorrow he might Utah's Best 9. Aviators Ogden's Finest . . One of She looked up at him fleetingly, regret it. Tomorrow? There was crossing the Andes 350 Baths 350 Rooms report condors seen at 22,000 feet. looked down at his hands holding no tomorrow. There was only to10. Estimated at 7.8 to $4.00 Condemned hers. "Do you remember the must $100 prisoners night. trillion metCorridor! at Princeton? The letters you feel like this, he thought, when they ric tons. Air Cooled Delightful Rooms wrote me after I was married? My enjoyed a last hearty meal of chickCoffee Slfp 11. This is the British Grill Room name for before they were he earthworm. Spacious Lounge end LoUtf ring, that babyish thing with the en and to led electric the chair. that you Courteous Service turquoise 12. An aquaplane is attached to carriec in your breast pocket above Every Comfort and Corwerveno! Suspenders, collar, a narrow A surf board not will b found at black tie. Jim whistled as he fash l!,01?,031your heart?" anything. '"fhat was a long time ago." into tie an ioned the expert bow, hind a motor boat, the If used beBEN LOMOND THE HOTEL rider holds "Too long? I haven't forgotten." as he brushed his hair to shining UTAH his hnnd OGDEN, and wn cast "Listen to me, Lenore," Jim said smoothness, as he slipped on the LrcPVn "COME AS YOU ARE time. any M week-enin Prince- jacket. urgently. "That Chauncey w. wesrr. ,N k (TO BE COXTIMED) ton, your summer visit with Kay, 4S 's WW, S3 y, meal-tick- g. drug-store.- Ask Me Another 0 MY fSIiSfiBiiSiscI drug-stor- e. horse-shoe.- Southern Pacific ... "The IN UTAH he? Whitewash Is for the Fence." heard her soft exclamation as he swung down from the limb of the tree. "I'm in for a dressing down. What about a little moral support?" "Always obliging!" Cecily slipped down from the saddle, and leading the horse by the loosened reins walked with Jim down the drive. CHAPTER VIII house-part- - y ice-crea- m forget-me-not- s "You're an idiot, Jimmy!" Kay said with emphasis and a noticeably cross expression. "Thank you," Jim said serenely. The statement had bectme a tiresome reiteration. 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