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Show UTAH I.EHI FREE PRESS. LEHI. WITH CU AFTER X TVContinued --21 Jerry Field was breathless from the effort of shaking ofl congratulatory hands which had tried to detain him. "Changing her undala at Lookout House. I've got to speak to you. Trent! Quick!" Relief stopped the thumping of Mark Trent's heart. Had Brooke married Field, would he be here? He would not. He turned to Kowa still standing beside him and asked In a voice he had difficulty in keeping steady: "Is anyone in the print room?" The Jap disappeared and returned with incredible speed. "No person there, sir." Mark spoke in a low tone to Jerry Field: "Slip into the room back of the tairs. Sam, tell the musicians to play something loud and gay; then Join us. Now that we know Brooke Is safe, Mrs. Gregory" "Mrs. Gregory is coming with us," Jed Stewart interrupted. Even with the door of the room closed, the beat and rhythm of the music outside set the air within vibrating. A cheery fire crackled on the hearth. Incredibly Templar roses in a tall vase made a 6plash of gorgeous crimson against the neutral tinted walls hung with Japanese prints, scented the air with their spicy fragrance. Mrs. Gregory resisted the seductive depth of a large chair and sat erect on the edge. "What's happened? What's happened?" she demanded testily. "Wait a minute. Thought I heard something." Field pulled aside the hangings at the window and peered out; Jed Stewart on his toes looked over his shoulder. "Yep, there they go. Police are no respecters of supper parties." Jerry Field drew the hangings close and returned to the mantel. The lighter he held to his cigarette was not quite steady. "Now, folks, listen to my bedtime story." For an instant there was no sound In the still room save the purr of the fire and the tap of a snowy vine against a window. Then it seemed to Mark Trent that the woman in the deep chair, Sam with his elbow resting on one corner of the low bookshelves, Jed Stewart backed against the door as if to barricade it, stopped breathing as Field told how Brooke had commandeered his roadster and himself to take her across the causeway, of the reason she had given for her going, of her suspicion that the man she called the Bath Crystal Bandit might be serving as waiter at the party because of interest in the jewels of one of the guests. Mrs. Gregory instinctively put one hand to her tiara and one of the blazing plastron at her breast. "I suppose you mean mine. to take did they them?" she quavered. Mark Trent crossed the room. He sat on the arm of her chair and put his hand on her shoulder. "Steady, Empress, they can't get them now. Go on, Field. Then you and Brooke are not married?" "Married! No such luck. Didn't I make that clear? Brooke told that yarn to avert suspicion from our Do you think I'd be here if we were married?" There was a glint of steel in his eyes as they met Mark Trent's. "Where was I oh yes. We made in record time. headquarters Brooke told her story. Your kitchen, Trent, was the scene of the in the neatest, quickest clean-uhistory of crime in this state, I'll bet. No, don't go. Inspector Harrison sent special instructions to you to keep things moving here so that the news of the arrests wouldn't .get out until he had the men safely in jail. Sorry to report that you've lost your chauffeur, Mrs. Gregory." "Dominique! Not Dominique? He's been with me for years. Why have I lost him?" "He's been taken along for questioning. The inspector didn't have time to go into it here. The Jacques at Lookout House also are being personally conducted to headquarters. Quite a party, if you ask me. I didn't hear much, but your man Dominique, Mrs. Gregory, was to have engine trouble on the way home. While he tinkered, you were to be relieved of your jewels." Anne Gregory's face was gray; it dropped into sagging lines, her mouth quivered childishly. Suddenly she was an old defeated woman. "Isn't there anyone in the world I can trust?" she whimpered. Mark Trent moved closer to her. "Of course there's someone you can trust, you have Brooke and Bam, Jed and me, and" "Don't forget me," Jerry Field interrupted. "Now, who's come?" h queried. The low quick knocking at the door was repeated. Jed Stewart opened it cautiously and let in a drift of dance music and Lucette. Her lips were startlingly red in contrast to the whiteness of her face. The rhinestone straps which held up what there was of the back of the bodice of her pale blue frock sent out a million or two iridescent sparks. She caught the lapel of Mark Trent's coat as he took a quick step toward her. "They're whispering outside that Farm By Emilie Loring Emilia LorlA. WSC Service. Mark Trent turned her by the shoulders that she might see Jerry Field standing by the mantel. He saw the look in the girl's eyes, saw something in the man's spring up to meet it. He felt the quiver that ran through her body, felt the effort she made to overcome it as she said flippantly: "News flash! doping bridegroom returns without lovely bride. Where's Brooke, Jerry?" "Changing her wet sandals at Lookout House." "Wet sandals! Where has she been?" "She'll be here in a minute and tell you herself, Lucette. Better go back to the party," Mark Trent suggested. "The New York producer and the Boston manager are still here, aren't they? We're depending on you to see that they have the time of their lives." "Boy, when Brooke didn't appear, I forgot those bozos, forgot that we'd had a play." With his hand on the knob of the door, Sam stopped. "Come along, Lucette." Lucette caught Field's arm. "Come with us, Jerry, and stop the rumor that you and Brooke hae eloped; also we'll let people tell us what hits we were in 'Islands Arise.' " "Suppose we o back to the party," Mark Trent suggested, and offered his arm to Mrs. Gregory. As Mark Trent stepped back that Mrs. Gregory might precede him long-stemme- d p Brook eloped. and ield have It isn't so, is it? Brooke wouldn't" Jerry tune, the better. Mark Trent linked his arm in Sam's. "Don't the let's-gsignal at the girls, maestro. Jed and I can't let you off yet. Come into the library. Half the fun cf a party is talking it over. I told Kowa to bring in some eats. I don't believe you Reyburns ate a mouthful of supper; you were too busy receiving congratulations. I'm starving mywig-wa- g o self." Sam grinned. "Now that you call the matter to my attention, I could toy with a little food. Come on, Brooke." Lucette was curled up against the pillows in a corner of the library couch hugging her knees, when they entered. Stewart was backed up to the mantel. The girl's eyes were brilliant, her cheeks were pink, the voice in which she greeted them was bumpy from excitement: "Come in, folks, and hear Jed tell me how good I was. He predicts that I would be an overnight sensation on Broadway." "Snap out of that idea and snap out of it quick." "Don't growl, Master Reyburn; he has been handing bouquets to the play too. I done you wrong, Sammy, when I crabbed about the last minute changes you made in the script; they were the high lights. Where's Jerry?" Mark Trent answered Lucette's question. "He and Daphne have gone home. You put it all over the other women in the cast of 'Islands Arise,' Lu- cette." Rey-bur- n get-awa- She drew an unsteady breath of relief when the front door had shut out the brother and sister. They were outlanders in the present situation. She couldn't have told her story before them, and she must tell it quickly; that will must be found. She wanted Lucette and Sam to hear what she had to tell Mark Trent and Jed Stewart; the sooner they knew of the change in her for- j "f kin "Sorry to Report That You've Lost Your Chauffeur, Mrs. Gregory." into the hall, Jed Stewart caught his arm. "Just a minute, fella!" He lowered his voice. "The inspector wants us to wait up until he gets here, no matter if he doesn't come till daylight." Mark nodded assent. The throb of a harp, the singing of the violins, the quaver of the horns, the brooding of the obie were muted to a caressing minor, sweet, as he piloted Mrs. Gregory to a throno-likchair in the hall. He left her and went in search of the New York producer. It required considerable finesse to evade clamorous friends. Even as he acknowledged praise of his acting, congratulations on the party, he was thinking what a queer, aching, vivid thing love was. with its ecstasy, its inevitable misunderstandings, its quarrels, and he wondered why he bruised his heart against Brooke's dislike, wondered if she would ever forgive him for that kiss. At least henrt-breakingl- y c he "Mark! Mark!" Before he had a chance to evade her. Daphne Field flung a bare arm about his neck. "Dance with me, please! Mark! Mark! You must love me!" The girl's voice caught in a sob as she pressed against him. Too annoyed to answer, he put his arm about her to guide her out of the room. As he turned he saw Brooke Reyburn standing directly behind her. There was a curious light in her eyes, a mocking smile on her lips. "She was a knockout and so was the leading woman," Sam agreed, "but, if you want to know who had the New York producer eating out of her hand, it was our little sister Brooke. After she arrived trust a Reyburn to realize the dramatic value of a late entrance I couldn't pry him away from her; lucky I got my option before she appeared. What were you saying to him, Brooke?" "We talked theater fast and furiously. It was a wonder that I could think of anything but the near escape the party had from a holdup." Kowa entered with his quick catlike tread. His eyes sparkled like black diamonds as he set a Chinese teapoy of red and gold lacquer beside each chair. "Boy, I'm tired! I feel all in," Sam confessed. "It's reaction, and I'll bet you haven't eaten for hours and hours." Mark Trent spoke to Kowa as he returned with a laden tray. "Serve Mr. Sam first. Here you are, maestro." Sam's grin was swift and a trifle sheepish. "I'm all right, m'lad; slumped for a minute, that's all." "Don't apologize," Lucette lbpicsj Ruth Wyeth Spears 4 o3 USE FIELD STONES IN FA KM MASONIC Rocks Have Value in Making Walls, Yards, Roads. T F dv E R. Gr.$. 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Barrie. ssary? Answers 1. Quebec, 2. Because the checka particles of dust in the upper atmosphere reflect only the blue waves of light. and 3. The British Gold Coast colony is nearest. 4. To form a new LIOUID. TABLETS empire in the " Southwest out of Mexican or Lou- salve, nose drops HeadactiB, 30 minutes. isiana territory. Best Unlme Try 5. The harbor of Southampton, England. 6. The longest pipe line was re-- . ccntly built under American di-- ! rectum across Asia Minor, and ex- tends for a distance of 1,150 miles, 7. Joseph Conrad wrote for 20 Help Them Cleanse the Wood years before he sold a book. In of Harmful Body W aste the first nine years of George Ber-- : Your kidney are constantly filterjnf nard Shaw's literary endeavor he waste matter from the blood strpam. Bu o kidneys sometimes lag In their work rerealized about $30. A. A. Milne not act as Nature intended fail to nay earned about $100 the first year move impurities that, if retained, poison the system and upset the wbo he spent as a e author. body machinery. 8. A line stretched Symptoms may he nagging hackart) over the slop-- ! persistent headache, attacks of d,I,,in, mg sides and over trip getting up nighta, swelling. ruffin earth to earth, would measure under the eyes a feeling of nervoM anxiety and loss of pep and strengta. 1,186.4 feet, with 36 feet Other signs of kidney or blad.ier disresting on the flat top. order may be burning, acaniy or w Studies with White Leghorn test birds at Iowa State college, through a ten year period, indicate that close inbreeding may be practiced in the domestic fowl, providing careful and rigid selection for certain characters is maintained at all times, particularly for high hatcha-bility- . For most characteristics, the birds retained to a remarkable degree the excellent qualities posby the foundation individ"I'm not apologizing. I'm e- sessed ualsfour males and seven xplain" Sam broke off with a grim- states a writer in Wallaces' females, Farmer. ace at his sister. "Humorous, aren't The workers college kiddo? hope that the Fuss oer Brooke, you, Mark, she needs it more than I. favorable results obtained from What with bracing me every time their tests will encourage other inI got cold feet about 'Islands Arise' vestigators to unueitake the develand getting dragged into the crime opment of good inbrcds. If the probwave, she's had a hectio time since lem of the utilization of inbreds for poultry improvement is to be she came to Lookout House to live I'll take another shot at those rolls, tested adequately, it is likely that Kowa I don't wonder she has de- a good many different inbred lines cided to trek back to the town apart- must be developed and ment. What will we do with the before superior combinations are found. parrot when we go, Brooke?" Brooke felt her color rise in response to the flash in Mark Trent's Seed Corn eyes as they met hers reflected in Much seed corn is not fancy in the great mirror. This was as good an opening as any she could bring appearance, but it may be entirely bbout to tell the story of the paper satisfactory for seed, nevertheless. Henri had produced. She rose and In the dry areas, stalks that were able to mature even small ears stood behind her chair. may be regarded as having belter than "We won't have to consider the average resistance to drouth. parrot, Sam. Mr. Micawber has advisable, however, to avoid It is saving gone." moldy ears or those which come Read to Consider "Gone!" Sam and Lucette chor- from stalks infested with smut, rot "e used. ofTtthe Iareest oil companies or any other kind of disease "Did he make another ;in the United States says that or has Henri kidnaped him?" through advertising it is able to market its product at less than "Neither, Sam. He's in his cage, Storing Canvases mill per gallon. In putting away canvases for bindjust a heap of green feathers." "Poor old dulTer. He hasn't had ers and it is combines, verv imporany pep since the night he took off tant that they be protected from milin a hop for freedom. I liked that dew and from mice, according to a bird. Something's always taking the farm When through correspondent. joy out of life." for the season, they should be "Cheerio, Master Reyburn, you spread out in the sun on a fence or still have your option," Lucette re- hayrack until thoroughly dry, then minded. "Why can't we move to rolled up and hung with wire' from town tomorrow? No more commut- rafters or joists so that mice can I a What break! not ing! get to them. If put away in suppose you'll close Lookout House, Brooke?" this manner, they will be found nPuwioa I! Brooke tried to force a gay note first class condition for next seasonin into her voice: f COLDS FEVER full-tim- frequent urination. There should be no doubt that prompi treatment ia wiser than neglect, li" Voant Pills. Doan'l have been winmni new friends for more than forty ye They have a nation-wid- e rePut",?; Are recommended by grateful people country over. Ask your neighbor! . get-awa- Even as Brooke smiled and accepted congratulations on the success of her brother's play, did her best to entertain the New York producer who attached himself to her from the moment Sam presented him, she was asking herself impatiently "Will the party never end? Who stole that paper from my desk? Can I make Mark Trent understand why I held it hack'' If it is lost, will he "I'll close Lookout House. Luever forgive me?" cette, because I have accepted an But all parties end. The last of offer " the guests, with Mrs. Gregory careThe sentence trailed off as Inspecfully tucked into their limousine, tor Bill Harrison strode into ths drove ofl in a flood of moonlight room. which transformed the world into "Well, Mark, I got it!" an enchanted land of dazzling pur"Got 'if! You're too modest. Inity. The producer and manager left spector, you got the whole gang, I in a powerful car after hearty handunderstand." shakes with Sam and a backward "Cripes, I'm not talking abo-i- t look at Brooke as she stood betw een those dirty thugs, Mark. That her brother and Mark Trent in the what I came for. I got the will isn't you hall. Except for the Reyburns, the was telling me about." Fields were the last to go. (TO BE COSTIM ED) : SEW H0W-T-9. anc-hal- MEM f fire Women Better Shoppers than Men mhK T? 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