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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI, UTAH By f of a brilliant green drew his threadbare trousers almost up to his arm- MARTHA pits, leaving his bare shins exposed. He had worn hobnailed boots, and had carried a birch stick over his shoulder, at the end of which a gray OSTENSO O MABTHA OSTENSO-W- NU SERVICE THE STORY THIS FAR Lovely, independent Autumn Dean, returning home to British Columbia from abroad without her father's knowledge, stops at the home of Hector Cardigan, an old family friend. He tells her that she should not have come home, that things have changed. Arriving home at the "Castle of the Norns." she is greeted lovingly by her father. Jarvis Dean, who gives her to understand that she is welcome for a short visit. Her mother, former belle named Millicent Odell, has been dead for years. Autumn cannot understand her father's atutude. though gives nim to understand that she is home for good. She has grown tired of life in England, where she lived with an aunt. Her father gives a welcoming dance at the castle. Autumn meets Florian Parr, dashing, young man of the countryside. Late in the evening Autumn leaves the dance, rides horseback to the she Bruce friend meets and ranch where Landor, champion of her neighboring childhood days. He takes her to see his mother, an invalid. His father is dead, As his soon as mother sees Autumn she comthought to have killed himself. mands Bruce to take her away, that death follows in the wake of the Odells. Autumn is both saddened and perplexed. Bruce, apologetic, can offer no reason for his mother's atutude. Autumn calls again on Hector Cardigan this time to find out the reason for Mrs. Landor's outburst. From his conversation she inferred that Geoffrey Landor killed himself because he loved Millicent Dean, her mother. Meanwhile, Bruce Landor rides to the spot where his father's body was found years before. There he meets Autumn, who, leaving Hector, was searching for a lost child. Bruce had found the child, and there Autumn and he talk of their families. They agree that her mother and his father loved each other deeply and that their love is the cause of present antagonism. "None whatever, sir. It's my opin ion that she has had some experience in the business. She ought to be able to look after herself by this." "Rather," Florian drawled. "She managed the affair quite nicely, I should say. Can I help you to a cocktail, sir?" "No," Jarvis replied, "I'm a se rious man and have too much respect for my stomach, thank God, to punish it with such infernal Florian laughed and filled his own glass. "Father sends you his re spects, sir," he said, "and would like to see you when you can take a day off." "And I'd like to see him, too," Jarvis replied, seating himself. "I have asked Autumn down for " Florthe polo game next ian went on. "Perhaps you could find the time, sir " "Not yet, not yet," Jarvis replied. "It's a busy time of the year for me. Besides, you youngsters will have more fun without too many old codgers hanging about." His big white head was thrust forward in its characteristic way as though he were eager to show an interest in the plans and projects of these youngsters while his mind and his obscure spirit remained withdrawn, remote. Autumn had seen the deaf and the blind make that same piteous effort at sociability. "Now, Daddy!" she rebuked him. "You're just fishing. You want us to assure you that you are the best- week-end,- CHAPTER IV Continued Even old Hannah had slowly readjusted her whole psychology with Autumn as the center and controlling force of the new order. That, no doubt, was what irritated him. He could never have admitted to himself that anything or anyone in the world could have usurped his place in this house that had sheltered him for almost a quarter of a century. Nor was the girl conscious of what she had done he would say that for her. She would be the first to protest that he was still master in his own house and his w6rd was law. She was loyal, if loyalty could be said to exist in the hearts of these young irresponsibles, and she was affection itself. He had loved the girl devotedly during the years she had been away from him, but the feeling he had for her now that she was back had grown so deep that the tears started to his eyes now as he thought of her. Just now he was more resolved than ever that they should quit the country. He had seen Autumn in the company of this young Parr. There was a nincompoop, if ever there was one. What was wrong with a man like old Elliot Parr that he could breed nothing better than numbskull like Flord a ian? The race must be going to the dogs! And what could a girl like Autumn see in him? He wasn't even thoroughly a bad one he was a mere nothing! Why in the devil hadn't the girl found herself a de cent husband long ago? He blamed her Aunt Flo for that. Flo never had been one you could count on Well, he would have no daughter of his mate with Florian Parr much as he admired Elliot. ' A cold chill passed over him as his thoughts turned to Bruce Landor. Jarvis had seen Landor and Autumn riding home together last night after that fool affair of the lost Willmar boy. What was getting into people that they couldn't take care of their own brats any longer? Damn it all, parents nowadays had no sense of responsibility. Well, he would look after his own, at any rate. If he was called upon to do so, he would tell Autumn emphati- cally that the Deans and the Landors belonged to different worlds and they would stay where they belonged. If that wasn't enough, he would go further. He would But why get so wrought up over a mere hypothesis? He got up quickly at the sound of a motor coming to a halt before the house. He tossed his and stepped cigar into the fireplace to a small cupboard that stood back ' in one corner. He poured himself a Scotch favorite his of drink sizable blend and held it for a moment toward the sunlit window before he drank it. He closed the cupboard and went to his room on the same floor. He would have to brush up a bit before going down to dinner. hare-braine- "My error," he apologized with a slight bow. "I'll compromise on the Princess they're still in style, aren't they?" "Expatriated," she observed. "Good enough," he said, and drained his glass eagerly. Autumn sipped her cocktail and took a cigarette from the box on the low table that held the shaker an its tray. "You know," Florian went on, setting his glass aside, "I can't help thinking of you as carrying on the legend of your forebears your mother and her mother. They must have been lovely creatures to have given life to such traditions as they have handed down." "Lovely," Autumn said, "and flaming." "Lovely and flaming!" Florian repeated. "My father has told me about your mother, especially. You must be very like her. "I know very little of my moth er, Autumn replied, "except what I have been told." He came and stood beside her, erect and confident in his manner. His eyes were narrowed as he looked down at her. "You will find me very abrupt at times, Autumn," he said. "I have learned it simplifies matters very often to speak one's mind. I have been thinking about us." "Us, Florian?" Autumn smiled. "I'd almost swear you were going to propose to me." "But I am," he said. "I believe you and I were made for each oth- f ip er." bundle had been securely lashed. The Laird out of the kindness of his heart, and probably a whimsical humor, had given him employment as old Absolom's helper. His name, they had discovered, was Clancy Shane, but Jarvis Dean had jocularly nicknamed him "Moony." On a sudden impulse. Autumn had gone back into the house and brought out the Basque bell. She had entrusted it to the keeping of olivep Clancy Shane, who had secured it to the wether of his flock. And now, from the opposite hillside, came the pure sound of the bell, singularly innocent across the hollow distance. The sound turned her thoughts again to Bruce Landor, who had scarcely been out of her mind dur"Isn't her dress loud?" ing the past week. She thought of "Can't you see it's a crash?' their meeting at Hector Cardigan's, when she had gone to fetch home the FRESH MILK bell, and of her telling him about conceit concerning it. Hector's There was something in the sound of the bell now that brought the lovely wraith of her mother before her out of the nebulous glamor of the past. This had been Millicent Odell's world, the world of the pioneers and the subtle architects of empire, and now in turn it was her world. Suddenly she was glad, glad with all her heart that she was back home where life had meaning, where life was a profound harmony. She pulled a bit of bloom off a sage bush and began to pick it to Lady Is that milk perfectly pieces with her fingers. There had come upon her a revelation that dis- fresh? Grocer Fine, just as fresh as mayed, frightened and exalted her. She stood for a moment looking that you got here yesterday. Lady Well, in that case, give me down into the valley where the shadows were beginning to deepen, then, a pint of vinegar, please. impetuously flinging away the shrub NOT THE CELESTIAL PUP which she held, she mounted her horse again and rode westward toward the Landor ranch. She laughed lightly. "Why, Florian what a quaint idea! I don't be- lieve those words have ever been used before!" "They may have been," he admitted, "but never more appropriately. We both come from adventurous stock. There is something It was the note of the untamed in both of us. We are Basque bell. never I've But both gamblers. been more serious in my life. I looking and most fascinating gentlewant to marry you." man in the Upper Country, and that Autumn could not doubt his se- no party would be complete without riousness. The knowledge made her you." "Florian," she said, thoughtful. The tapers of the Laird's infre"you really are a dear." A perverse quent smile lighted for a brief mohumor seized her. "Suppose I tell ment of pleasure in his eyes. you that I'll think it over?" "I could go perhaps," he admit"Excellent!" he replied, placing ted. "I'll see how things are in a an arm abruptly about her shoul- week's time. I'd enjoy a day with ders. "You are permitting me to Elliot Parr." hope, then?" Old Hannah stepped into the doorShe laughed up at him. "Not at way and announced dinner. all Florian," she said. "I am in effect refusing you." An hour before sunset the sky His serious mood vanished sudden had been overcast, with a purple ly. He was actually amused at the caravan of thunderheads in the situation. He chortled and stepped west; the thrumming of insects and back from her. It was the first the humid, flower smell of the air time he had ever really proposed presaged rain. On a grassy hillto anv eirl in earnest and she top ten miles eastward from the thought she was turning him down! Castle, Autumn dismounted from her Jarvis Dean's girl at that, with a horse and let the animal graze while background as iniquitous as sin! It she stood and looked into the valley was that background that lent below. On the slopes that streamed into piquancy to his quest, after all, and besides, by the Lord Harry, he was the valley like smooth reddish casFlorian Parr filled the two glasses crazy about the girl! cades in the low sun, more than his amusement subsided seven thousand head of sheep moved a second time and handed one to Presently Autumn. He was well pleased with and his lips drew to a thin, petulant in bands, twelve hundred to a band. himself. He had spent a large part line. At dawn the herders had started of a beautiful Sunday afternoon in "I'll you time to think about them from home on the trek up into give the company of Jarvis Dean's it, Autumn," he said, striving to the mountains to the very margins her as daughter and had watched carry it off with a gay, inconsequen- of the eternal snows, in the relentover trails tial car dizzily she swung her air. "When we are alone again, less, lonely quest for grass. he had never traveled before. He I'll tell you how I love you." Now, from the hillside directly ophad listened to her gay chatter and how do you love me, Flor"And posite her across e the little valley, his had done his best to contribute LonHer tone was gently mocking. a crow's flight away, came ian?" own share of small talk about toward her again the limpidly sweet note or a Deu. Florian stepped don and Paris and the men and and grasped her wrist. Autumn was It seemed to Autumn that the sound women that belonged to the world amazed to see that his face had was almost visible, floating like hari left when his lather naa gone suddenly pale. some silver bubble within that rosy w made it plain that ir he wisnea be a little fool!" he said. dome of silence, lingering and van"Don't would he remain in it any longer "You know when you've met your ishing into the infinity whence it had have to pay his own bills. It had contempt for come. like equal in nerve in to been a delightful outing-alm- ost You are going life. marry me, It was the note of the Basque bell. a visit with an old friend. we see eye to because A fancy had seized her that mornAutumn, He had thought Autumn beautiful eye." while she had watched her faing her during when he had sat beside and walked her released He away men preparing for their dether's seen their ride but he had neveras the as Jarvis Dean's footstep was heard parture. Only a week before, there anyone quite so ravishing now and descending the stairway. Autumn had come to the ranch a youth of who stood before him nineteen or twenty whose appearwas turned to greet her father.. Ufted her refilled glass. She in, Daddy!" she ance had been so bizarre that the "Come along white gowned in a coolly glowing of her called. "Florian has just been pro- Willmar children had gathered satin that clung the length to the posing to me." around him with frank curiosity. He body and flared out almost face a Dean's with Jarvis had come from the soda mines up lighted pumps floor; small tips of green smile as he entered the room. north, and was seeking employment me Deiow peered out from "He'll be safe enough so long as as a herder. He was slight of build, and at her throat on a platinum you don't accept him," he said. not over medium height, and on the Chain hung a large single emerald, think it was the cocktails that back of his head he had worn a "I had explained. she ner father's gift, did it," Autumn laughed. shapeless homespun cap, set so that birthday. on her twenty-firs- t fix will dinner said a mop of hair started "A ner that," good He raised his glass toward from beneath its peak. his Florian hand. out the to abruptly giving Laird, drink "You may and smiled. He had worn a short, said, but I m "How are you, my boy?" please," he of as Florian their coat, a jerkin, Autumn had supposed said, the "Topping!" Upper lasting the queen crossed. "I hope you have it was, also homespun and of a faded hands Country!1' so incommodious in the no objection to my proposing to Auu'1 "Queens are becoming so I really couldn't help it, vou sleeves that the red joints of his tumn. "I countered. she ioffed, Flcrian," wrists stuck painfully out from be Know." am not flattered." half-smoke- d half-mil- ei twine-colore- d tight-fittin- g old-fasn- - pea-gree- NOISI STUFF neath them. Under the jacket he had worn a checked shirt and where the jacket gaped aside, suspenders PHOTOGRAPHY ROLLS DEVELOPED suk pnnu ut4 t or prints, tour cfcir of 16 cniarifeiueiiiti&ccoin. MOtTTMWCST PMOTO &ERV1CC - Fare ft. HmilM Oaut HOTELS M Harry Beckett , M p formerly Mtf.. Be Simple Patches for This Applique Quilt Bruce Landor sat before the rough plank table in the herder's cabin in the ravine. The place was deserted now, the men having gone to the hills the previous day. The lamp stood lighted on the table before him. He had put the place in order and was ready at last to leave for home. He drew together the papers on which he had been idly speculating, making estimates of his returns from the season's shearing, and noting the increase over last year's gains. The season had begun auspiciously. He swung quick"Have you seen the dog star this ly about in his chair as a slight sound came to him from the door. week?" "Where in the sky?" Autumn Dean stood there in her "No on the screen." black riding habit, a russet scarf at her throat, the dim light casting little facets on her brown leather ITS PLEASANTNESS EXPLAINED boots. Her hat was in her hand, and her hair had blown free. Her face was a glowing cameo against the outer darkness. "Am I intruding?" she asked, entering almost hesitatingly. "One of your men told me I should find you Pattern that's there is to Mayflower Start your blocks now applique. the patches are easy to apply! You can use the same material Bruce got up hurriedly and drew out the other chair. A flush had mounted to his brows, and as he stood for a moment uncertainly before her. he drew his hand diffi dently back across his hair. "You certainly aren't intruding," he said. "I was just wasting time with figures. But wherever did you come from?" She seated herself and tossed her hat upon the table. "Out In the hills," she said. "We had an early dinner, and I took a fV-Hride out for a look at the sheep. The men left tor the range this morn ing. The evening was so soft and cool I just couldn't go indoors. Hubby Your visit to the dentist came deliberately to see you after was now a very pleasant one.' I got back. You see I'm a bold could that be? woman, Bruce!" Wifie The dentist was not in. I m glad you are; i ve been as lonely as hell tonight. With the men A BIG ADVANTAGE all gone " "Loneliness is in the air, I guess The sound of that darn bell did for -l me." know. Strange Facts 1 I I I Beggars' Paradise Ton Tjfizv tn Breathe Judas Left Out I I I I Among the Arabs of Africa and Near Eastern countries, the gratuity or tip, called "baksheesh," goes to the poorer man whether he renders a service to you or you render a service to him. Even if you save a man from drowning, he will demand his "baksheesh" if you appear to be in better cir- cumstances. One of the most lethargic animals in existence is the tuatara, t, Sphenodon punctatum, a lizardlike reptile of New Zealand. Not only does it rarely move, but it breathes so slowly that, usually, the creature appears to be lifeless. Those in captivity have been known to stop breathing for more than an hour at a time. Oysters catch more rats than do cats on the islands in Donegal bay, Ireland. The rodents go down to the beaches in search of food when the tide is out and poke their noses into the partly opened shells of the bivalves, which instantly close and capture them; then they are held in the oyster s viselike grip until the tide returns ana drowns them. A number of Christian altars m various parts of the world do not include the figure of Judas m the statuary of Christ and His disci ples. Collier's. two-foo- Salt Lake's NEWEST HOTEL "Dad is thinking of buying a fly ing machine for the family." "So the old motor car is too slow, eh?" "No! He says the noise of the motor will drown out all the back seat driving." A DANGEROUS VISITOR "The one you fought for?" she asked as she accepted a light. "The same," he replied. "You'll have to get over that i m very Bruce, she tola him. much grown up. "Perhaps I'm afraid of getting over it," 'he said bluntly. "Why? "Because as a woman you ve been in my mind constantly ever since I saw you again th?t first night." Bruce leaned forward slight lv and looked directly into her eyes Her glance fell slowly, and a line of Quick pain appeared between her brows. Worm Hey, Mr. Woodpecker, "And that frightens ou Bruce? ring the bell. You're punching my front door full of holes. no in: tavnutfv all throughout for the flower patches or do each one in a different scrap. Use this easy and effective block for pillow or scarf as well. Pattern 6416 contains the Block Chart; carefully drawn pat tern pieces; color schemes; direc tions for making the quilt; yardage chart; illustration of quilt. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in coins to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. 14th St., New York. here." "Bell?" "That bell I got from Hector, you know. I gave it to a young Irish lad that father hired last week. "You mean you sent that Basque bell of Hector's into the hills? You'd better not tell Hector that." "Oh, I don't know. I think Hec tor would understand. That bell wasn't meant to hang in a drawing room." "But it's such a precious thin- gout on the range all summer" "It will come back. It's charmed Anyhow I like the idea." Bruce lit a cigarette and Autumn watching him, thought how well shaped and brown his hands were "May I have one? she asked. "Sorry," he apologized. 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