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Show ' LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI, UTAH I Hi i a? W 7 ilRGINIA STIVERS BARTLETT Ur? tT distress t Mont erey - XXII-ontin- ued 19 w and struggled, claw- The re- - lathed Snuffling fingers. tZLA sround her neck, her gted wildly over her shout fiSt Pedro Fages clutched her I id at last threw her over .fjjder. and lifted her to toss the horse. touched the saddle Wan to scream, and started to As her feet touched the I . al- - ,J h0 nf " the horse. Faees. UiC her to the side of his one arm and looked at her fLon as she m, "-- Im - oT am-jiri- th - me alone!" she stridently. "I will not f,fDlet er 0TiJsr HON ex-le- d stay minute here!" lifted his hand and rapped Sidy a.LJo& fctiuoiia a put her hands to mouth fell open AW, SKETCH, t Test Tfilfrr. get on her face, and in pain ana that horse, sternly. dnwTI i . i hesitated just a second for kl hand that was usually ioui.'?rf i.tnp DIUlil. said the her owiaiuwitu UlCil itiT into the saddle, ICK at the cuveieu nei ucau The sentries looked bent low. them with lively curiosity. the door of the mansion An-they in Fir. sidlO .r ! 'WENT . passed the sentries gates, sne n j t T. I led." said the Governor shortly. gasp of understanding Anj JTitb ascuttled away f'jalia cast herself on the bed, IC GOODS.: .sibling and leartui, dui me uovone tc. - I'T.F ior did not even look at ner. S.il lX bed her stinging cheek tenderly then undressea, ana moment, :bzers Still the ned beneath the covers. Ivernor did not speak, nor make jnatorB, lv move, only stood with folded m: jr.s, looking at the floor. '"nrjctim, Mt last, with a sigh, he stirred itself, and sank, a dejected dusty '.L"5 iiiu? Astrolabe, nearer than it had seemea ttey could be, out of the bay into the open putting sea. They cheered, moved by the sight of the shadowy ships. From one of them, the came a burst of smoke, followed by a salute. The soldiers of the presidio guard fired a volley in reply. Then as the fog moved down again they were lost to sight, and the fog did not lift again. It was years later that the Viceroy of Mexico learned, by dispatches sent from Europe, that the Boussole and the Astrolabe had made the Sandwich Islands, and there deposited with the captain of a homeward-bound English ship all of the findings of the Count Jean Francois Galaup de La Perouse, concerning his expedition, and his visit to California, the fortitude of the Governor Don Pedro Fages, the kindness and piety of Pere Fermin Lasuen, and the hospitality of them both. From the Sandwich Isles, the Frenchmen had sailed away, had been seen once again by men in New Zealand, then disappeared. The Astrolabe, the Boussole, the Count de La Perouse, Monsieur de Langle, Le Pante Dagelet, the scholars, scientists, sailors and lovers; the delicate instruments, the botanical and zoological specimens which had been picked up in the French- flag-shi- mist-muffle- d Sf s ""-- fire, before the Madonna. reached for his rosary and be- - Uwm hit, "r attkm Bdy.. Silt SHe prayers. But his thoughts from his devotions. Poor little Endered little thing. not dreamed she hated r;ifornia so. Hated me. Ave MaAi, la Purisima . . . hates me! ai! Who loves her so. Poor nt- n Ufa NAC LMANAC It It Lain Ave Maria bowed his head a wife's frightened, thing. . CS It He groaned. little thing "Poor . . . n on ESS s, s, at him mockingly, taught." like a little tightened animal caught in a snare, loaded into gnawing off a foot, rath-f- r than to be held in a trap. Ave aaria!" He beat his breast softly, fruit-fulnes- earth-mysterie- "That old man should think of other things than marriages. It is not decent for his thoughts to dwell So I have been on such things. . le 1AT1 purple-s- tained, gravely. still lower. frantic face. rrounded her roughened by esses, her wide wet eyes, and lit- sharp teeth bared by trembling ps came into his mind again. Firettt, 14 SALT . stand. If only Fray Junipero were here to be with us." "Ah, well, I doubt not he knows well what is going forward. It seems most fitting to be beginning these preparations during the season of the vintage. For I am planning to plant for my beloved, my Master, another vineyard, and I pray the hill will be very fruitful, as yours is." He smiled, and Fages watched him walk away, his old face lit with exalted smiles. Then he turned and watched Indizuela sauntering toward him, her basket empty. Her hands were and her lips, for she had filched the most luscious grapes here and there as she picked. "Her eyes are black, black as a starry night," thought Fages. As she came toward him, she smiled suddenly, and the flash of white teeth in her dark face was startling. She was dark, dark as the earth, and from her rose an aura of of ancient hidden, savage, impenetrable. Pedro Fages' blood pounded. His throat felt choked. A temple vein rose and pulsed suddenly. His eyes swam, and his knees felt weak. "Indizuela!" he called, but his voice broke suddenly. He cleared his throat as the girl looked at him, still smiling with a subtle understanding look in her eyes. I want to . . . speak with "I Sit down." you She sank on to the earth, and with a little gesture seemed to become a part of it. From swimming eyes she looked up at him. "Si, Senor?" she asked softly. Fages clenched his hands. "Fray Fermin has said," he blurted hastily, "that he wishes to arrange a marriage for you with Pio. What do you say?" She looked He C in tlbumta Zbe coin. Mm i, Used Mount ir ltnn nm Ptm Hi Fnrnitin his Barbara." "Yes, Father. I am happy also about that, as you can well under- ... ... UipitlMI-ti- -- "Ah-h-h!- Watched Indizuela Sauntering Toward Him. lespairingly. Then he slipped his men's expedition, were all lost in Jbid beneath his leather jerkin and the Pacific. And the manner of their disaster remained for ever a myS' Jdrew out the scapular made from tery. it Jumpero Serra's habit. Holding iin his hands was some comfort. CHAPTER XXIII fTimidly he lifted it to his lips and pissed it. I "Poor little thing!" That was all Itis thoughts could form. "I under stand. I, too, if I did not love this "Now I will sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. our strange California, would wish to My well beloved hath a vineyard in sail a very fruitful hill away. Even with my love, I have lerfuf loneliness, the wish for compFray Fermin Lasuen, sitting be Ave Maria! What shall anionship. do now? the governor on tne not earth side Mas God me, holy and a great oak on top of a if ter Jesus, help help me, Santa Maria, beneath hill, repeated the words of Isaiah as lp me, holv Father Serra. inter cede for me." they watched the Indians picking the less rire cranes that burdened the He had crouched so in lost long, and twisted vines. gnarled he Prayer and bitterness, that when raised his It was the last day of the head, he saw it was alThe fruit had been allowed ready dawn. From the parade-poun- d to hang beneath the burning sun unof a there sound ram thp 'ess til the last possible minute when bugle's notes, and of horses' hoofs. rich juices would strain the purple Sharply he rempmhered he had or dered a euard to accorrmanv him skins to the utmost, without beginto the ning to dry. Only a few stragglersfbeach to witness the depar ture of the remained in the vineyard. The French ships. was already He pulled himself stifflv to his iesta de la vendimia and stir in the bustle a as starting feet, and looked across at the bed. of the barbecue pits, tulalia was asleep, one hand still direction and songs from the workers urved over her outraged cheek. shouts attested. lathi Tenderly he bent over her a mo Fray Fermin, who had come over ment then i' tiptoed out of the room. from Carmelo to bless the vintage, On the beach blazed a huze fire watched the Indian girl, Indizuela, of driftwood. The sand was marked as she passed them, a great basket with the prints of many feet. There of grapes on her head. Were bits nf rofiico and sprnns left "I want to speak to you of that the departing French sailors. little one," he said. "She is no longFges looked about him. Here the er a savage child, but a d tent which was the laboratory had little Christian woman, fit to be a stood, with its strange fascinating good wife to some man. It is time instruments. Here were the blackfor her to wed. And because she is ened cinders of the fire where the I your protege, you should know a balloon had risen. to arrange heart have it in my ages sighed and lifted his marriage for her with young Pio." 8'asses. It was a thick morning. "An Indian!" exclaimed the Govog moved in so densely he could ernor. He wonscarcely see the water. "Why not? He is a good Chrisdered if La Perouse could see the tian, and since his beloved master's beams of the fire he had built in death he has been so bereft I feel "is honor. he needs something happy in his He Le Pante Dagelet life. Several times, you know, he thought of savage . and dismissed him, once and has run away to join his we will I am afraid 'or all, from his and brethren, thoughts. He remembered what La Perouse him entirely." iose bad said, that on California Fages mused, looking after the leaving be must catch the Chinese monsoon graceful figure of the girl. Padre. Wo Asiatic waters. "I suppose you are right, to "My imaginatme. a child seems ion must still she vesBut always precede my would she sel by thought I rather had And two or three thousand came, one of marry, when the time Do eagues," he had laughed. Fages you want him with all his heart. the King's soldiers. will. I her? with to speak Suddenly a breeze moved, and me "Then feet. to his rose Wted the fog for a few moments The father down from the face of the waters. do it now, my son. I will go Don Pedro and the watchers on to see how the fiesta is progress-in" shore saw the spread sails and stretched in the bright sun He masts of the Boussole and the 1 ven-dimi- a. "Do you want to marry Pio?" the Governor asked hurriedly. "Do you love him?" "I have also been taught to tell the truth." She bent over and patted a handful of earth into a little pile, and smoothed it as she spoke, "I do not love Pio. I do not love any of the Indian boys, nor any of the soldiers." She looked at the Governor, with head suddenly thrown back. She laughed. "You know. You have always known, as I have, that I am for you. No one shall have me but my lord, my beloved master. I am his, to gather as he does the grapes from his vineyard, and to crush, as he crushes them. Fages listened to the low voice that seemed to blend with the buzzing of the bees. What she said seemed natural, as though some where, some time, he had heard it before. As though in a spell ne spoke. "Yes," he said, in a voice not his own. The girl took a deep breath. "When?" she asked simply. "Now? This is the vendimia." The man trembled. He was under a spell. He must break it . . . He looked about him in quickly The catherers had fin n nanio. ished their tasks, and now were clustered around the baroecue. Their voices seemed to come from a great distance. There was no one ... Mil Dear. Heat sbinaroered from the earth, but the Governor of California shivered. Yes, it was the vendimia. Why not? She was his. So utterly his. And he needed her so. Not only his body, but his mind and spirit called for the fulfilment a blending with her would bring. But he fought the it. girl's witchcraft, and she sensed La woman. is know. It your "I Pah!" she spat. Gobernadora. "That white one. That cold cruel Spaniard! Listen!" She leaned forward eagerly. "I know what happened when the Frenchmen were here! I know who brought La Gobernadora through the gates of the presidio the night before the Frenchmen sailed! We can do away with her!" She laughed triumphantly. "Look!" She slipped her hand in her bosom and brought out a little sack of skin. It was dry and something rattled in it. "Look! This is magic. I got it from a witch woman. It is strong medicine. If I will I can make her wither away and die . . . and then . . The Governor unconsciously put his hand beneath his leather jerkin. "Junipero Serra . . ."he muttered, feeling the scrap of sanctified cloth. He closed his lids to shut out the warm wonder of the Indian girl's eyes. "Go away," he said gutturally. "Please, Indizuela, if you love me, go away." The girl did not move. It was the Governor who rose on unsteady feet and staggered like a drunken man toward the fiesta. In spite of the priests moving about in their somber habits, the vendimia seemed a pagan festival. Beneath the ancient a crowd of merrymakers celebrated the vintage in manner traditional. Among them Don Pedro noticed his guests from the Presidio at San Francisco and Santa Barbara, and a group of officers and sailors from the San Carlos which lay in MonteTheir heads were rey Bay. wreathed with vines, and they were drinking wine from the last vintage, singing, laughing, dancing; uttering robust jokes, circling around the barbecue pits where slaving cooks were lifting the savory roasted bull and hacking it into pieces. Near by was the great vat where the grapes were poured to be crushed. A little stream ran near it, and there, all who wished to tread the wine washed their feet, then plunged into the purple pool with jocund shouts. On a rough dais, beneath a sat La Gobernadora surrounded by young laughing officers, who vied with one another in composing flattering toasts to her beauty, her wit, her distinguished position as Queen of the Californias. She was dressed in the Maja costume, in her lap a great basket of grapes, and on her head a wreath of grape leaves. At her feet a soldier sat, his head tied in a scarlet handkerchief, and across his knees a guitar. He was singing a song to her, and she smiled, as Don Pedro watched, and lifted her glass to the troubador. Don Pedro stared at Eulalia curiously, as though he had never seen her before. She seemed happy. This was what she loved, craved, after all; flattery, admiration, adulation. He stopped uncertainly. For a moment he thought he would turn and go back to the brown ardent Indian girl who still waited for him beneath the quiet sheltering tree. But young Pedro, watching the carving of the bull meat, saw him. "There he is!" he shouted. "Now we can have the feast!" So the Governor was drawn unwillingly into the festivities. live-oak- s, a, (TO BE CONTINUED) Finland Calm in World of Confusion; 7 well-traine- . en-v'e- d g tow-rin- g Co-Operati- Societies Solve Problem ve ii a a HARNESS THIS Of h I NEWS Virginia Stiver Bartlett WNUBcrrlM light, blinking as he faced the sun. " he breathed. "How good is this sun, and warm air! I am happy, your Excellency. Very happy. I shall go now in a few days to Santa Barbara to begin prepara tions lor founding the Mission Santa n u liuv s.w i - Tl IipTEK . i III i V LAWRENCE QUALITY ZZZZt u4 tuma uliv-4iii- n pnem. TIE KSMU WEEK SADDLES & A mart gi tor nhl n hf1 1 to UtmiCI CSXM 1 1 flrct Hrtmi.lnm Blouse Jiffy-Kn- it Made in 2 Pieces By LEMUEL F. PARTON YORK. Georges Bonnet, new foreign minister, has been a vigorous advocate of a alliance. NEW regarded as more in accord He is French May Join Four with the lain PoUf" Chamber-Pow- Pact his W 14 British-French-Americ- an er predecessors. With the downfall of the Left n the conclusion of an the and appointagreement ment of M. Bonnet, interpreters of European politics see an advance toward a pact, possibly with Poland in, and the further isolation and immobilization of Russia. of the The abandonment French-Sovitreaty is expected to be an immediate issue in what is regarded as a sharply claria W.'tX"3 tf fying outline of dominant conservative policy in France and England. M. 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When he was appointed ambassador to the United States in January, 1937, he brought with him a year's supply of truffles and pate de foies gras. He had to take most of it back, however, as, in July, he was recalled to save the That's Her Business franc in the Chautemps cabinet. He was supposed to have The woman pays and pays and saved it, but, as usual, it didn't pays, of course. That's because she buys and buys and buys. stay saved, and, in the turn of In climbing the ladder of sucthe Ferris wheel, which is cess there often seems to be a French politics, he was down-undand np again. missing rung. Here's where one He is an economist, but also a has to make a struggle. Has anyone ever analyzed sucphilosopher and author, in the chamber of deputies from southwest cess so that you can understand and it? We think not, or more people France at the age of thirty-si- x a former minister of budget, pen- would have achieved it. sions and finance. He budgets a There's the Rub few wisps of hair carefully across Life is a good show but some his bald pate and surveys the world don't like the rest of the people specwarily through gov-ernme- nt, Anglo-Italia- four-pow- five-powe- er r, et four-stran- 33-4- 16-1- fs rubber-- UncLMil er gold-rimm- tacles. cast. Encourage the right kind of pride in a young man; and it begins in his pride in his college authoritarian JAPAN'S strongly with its feudal ver, has never fitted exactly into diploma. carry-o- n any of the molds of absolutism. Spotlight intensifying ultra-moder- The issue fascism which may force out the governpresent g ment spotlights several "strong men" as possible successors to Premier Konoye. The only one with apparently clearly formulated ideas, and a fluent line of totalitarian talk is War Minister General Hajimi Sugiyama. After several years of Eurostudies in dipean rect action, he returned to talk of "national renovation," "decadent parliamentarlanism," "unity and discipline," and the Now on Jap Strong Man . of likely-lookin- post-gradua- MEN LOVE GIRLS WITH PEP It yoa an peppy and full at tun, mn will it you to duM and parties. BUT, it you are cross, lifeless and tired, men won't be interested. Men don't like "quiet" girl. For three generations one woman Tuts told another how to go "smiling through" with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessening the discomforts from the functional disorders which women must endure. Make a note NOW to get a bottle of Pinkham's Compound WITHOUT FAIL from your druggist today mora than a miUion women have written in letters reporting benefit. not fry LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S .Why VEGETABLE COMPOUND! la-T- world-famo- us Critical With Ease like. More than any other leadIt is much easier to be critical er, he employs the standard than correct. Disraeli. terminology of fascism if that means anything. On May 27, 1937, he gave the diet quite a lacing and said that it would have to behave, or "we will dissolve Sugiyama it." Since he was Tells Diet tnen a member of to Behave the ruling military triumvirate, this was no casual edi- torial "we." While he is years old, e he hits politics with a strong momentum, not a contender for high place until 1936, and hence not track-sorlike some of his rivals. He did not become a general until 1938, after the army revolt early in that year. He had been of war and head of the military air force. His heavily underslung face, resting, neckless, on a heavy torso, is asymmetrical, with one eyebrow always cocked, one side watchful and the set of a Benda mask of a dictator. He is of the army caste, gradu ated from the national mihtary col lege. He represented Japan at the 1926 disarmament conference at Geneva, remaining in Europe for several years thereafter. fifty-eig- KILLS INSECTS ht R big-tim- The sanity and good sense prevailing in Finland's people and their government may be traced to variPerous sources and conditions. charis the head fountain the haps acter of the Finns strong, sturdy, stubborn developed in overcoming the forces of nature in their forbidding country, with its soil long and cold winters and a none too fertile, for the bald granite thrusts its way up through the thin top soil all the way from the Baltic sea to the Arctic ocean, writes Mason Warner in the Chicago Tribune. The Finn is an individualist. He thinks for himself, is slow in coming to a conclusion, and is steadfast in holding an opinion once formed. 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