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Show LEin FREE PRESS. LEHL UTAH .hner , to f IS Autumn selected a half opened pink rose from a vase on her dressing table and drew it through the lapel of her jacket. The effect was chasteWell, one ly sweet, she decided. had to contemplate the trivial details if one kept going at all especially when the important things of life seemed bent on one's undoing. Bruce Landor might just possibly call while she was away no, no, there must be an end to such thoughts as that! She tighted her lips as she heard Hannah's voice calling her from the foot of the Stairs. That had beeh Flonan's car, then, that she had heard entering -- MARTHA OSTENSO i-o-va O MAITHA OSTENSO-V- NU CHAPTEK XIV Continued By 7 SEIVKE As he spoke, a car drove up before the door and came abruptly to a stop. Bruce got up and walked toward the window. "That must be Florian now," Au- urged. tracks." She looked at him. "I can't go with you, Florian," she told him. "What!" "I'm sorry," she replied, "but tumn said. "It is," Bruce told her. "I'll be on my way." He came toward her and held out his hand. She slipped her hand into his and thought in swift panic that she was losing him now, forever. "Did you mean what you said that the past is past?" she asked him hurriedly, as Florian's footfall sounded at the door. Before he could reply, Florian had hailed them from the doorway. Bruce drew back a step and Autumn the driveway. turned to meet Florian, who was "I'll be down in a moment, Han- coming toward them, his usual easy nah," she called bad-- , and hastily self, his hand extended. dabbed a powder puff to the shad"Hello, folks!" he greeted them. "Great to see you again, Autumn! ows under her eyes. She had almost convinced herself And you, too, Bruce! How's the big that she was gay when she descend- sheep man? Gosh, I haven't seen ed the stairway and approached the you for an age!" "The last time we met" Bruce drawing room door. On the threshold, she paused abruptly and began, but Florian interrupted him. checked the greeting that was ready "Say, the last time you spoke to on her lips. The young man who me you had murder in your heart." rose, to meet her was not Florian, "I admit it," Bruce said with a but Bruce Landor. smile. "Hello, Autumn," he said quietly "You're great on tljat as he came toward her. "I was stuff, Bruce. afraid I might not find you at You'll get a if you're not reputation home." careful. You looked ready to kill She felt the wild, hot flush that me that night kill Vne with your covered her cheeks. "Why Bruce! two hands, as they say in the I had no idea it was you. I was thrillers." expecting Florian." "I know I was," Bruce admitted. In her confusion she knew, of "I owe you both an apology for course, that she had stumbled what I thought that night." wretchedly there. "Don't it, now," Florian ad"I'll not stay more than a minute, monished spoil him. "You know, you Autumn," he said, with a diffidence that brought her a quick marveling of incredulity. "Oh, please!" she breathed. "Sit 'down until Florian comes, at any defending-a-woman's-fair-nam- something has come up s:nce you telephoned. I've got to stay here tonight." Florian was puzzled. He knew from her manner that there was no use in urging her to come with him. She had made up her mind. "That's rough on me," he said, "but you've become a woman of affairs, and there isn't much I can do about it, I suppose." "There's nothing anyone can do about me," she said, "except my- self." Florian was silent for a moment. Then he helped himself to another drink and lifted it in his hand, regarding it thoughtfully. At last he looked at her over the rim of the glass. "You know. Autumn," he said slowly, "I have a hunch you will not go to England at all." "I don't know, Florian," she admitted. "You don't want to go," he told her. "You know I don't." "I thought as much," he said, lifting his glass. "Well here's luck!" Autumn lifted her glass and drank with him. When she set it aside once more, she got to her feet. "You are going to stay for dinner," she announced abruptly, and in spite of his protests she went to the kitchen to confer with Hannah. e The sound of Florian's car on the highway was still audible to Autumn as she hurried to her room and began removing her white linen suit. She changed quickly to her black riding clothes and fastened a bright green scarf about her throat, her hands trembling with an un- rate." What on earth was she saying? She felt as if her wits had left her completely. What she had just said, in effect, was that he might leave the moment Florian arrived. But perhaps Bruce would not care to b3p accountable excitement. Her flight down the stairs and out of the house brought from old Hannah a mere despairing click of the tongue. She had long since given up the struggle of trying to cope with the vagaries of her young mistress. The sun had gone and the had cut a barely perceptible silver curve in the pale sky as Autumn mounted her horse and turned She was glad, him westward. shamelessly, that her gaze fell ful upon it, and neither over her right shoulder nor over her left. Beneath the serene dome of evening the mountains had drawn into their blue secrecy. The drowsy murmur of the range drifted toward her and overwhelmed her senses with its prophecy of fulfillment. Bruce had told Florian that he J meet Florian after their last encounter. She seated herself and Bruce took a chair near her. Somehow she could not bring herself to glance directly at him in her sharp awareness of the distraught look on his face. Every instinct of her being, alive to his nearness once more, informed her that Bruce Landor had been suffering even as she herself had suffered. "I had hoped you might come," she found herself saying, the words stumbling out recklessly. He darted a quick look at her. 'Had you, reallyf I I wasn't sure you would care one way or the oth- new-moo- er.". "Oh!" She was not sure whether or not she had spoken. Her fingers twined tightly . together in her lap. "I dropped over to say'good-by- , Autumn," Bruce went on. "Tom Willmar says you are planning to leave for England within a few days." "I haven't set the time yet," Autumn replied. "It won't be for another ten days, anyway." "I am going into the hills for a couple of weeks," he continued. "I'm leaving early in the morning. You'll probably be gone before I get back." Her voice, when she spoke again, seemed to limp like some injured thing. "Oh," she said, "it was nice of you to come." He opened his cigarette case and offered it to her. She was obliged to make her fingers rigid in order to control their trembling as she held the cigarette while Bruce lit it for her. "I came. Autumn," he said at last, his voice strangely tense, "because I did not want you to leave with the feeling that that we are not friends." A desire to give way to tears almost overwhelmed her as she looked at him now and recognized what it meant for him to speak so frankly. She could have gone to him in that moment and wept in his arms. "I have had no such feeling, Bruce," she said with some difficulty. "I couldn't blame you if you had," he said. "I think I told you one night that we could not be friends." She smiled at him but did not speak, smiled frozenly, in a silence that was unbearable. "I wanted you to know, before you left, that we shall always be friends because we must be. I had dinner with Hector the other night." "He told me so," Autumn said. "1 heard the whole story our whole story," Bruce went on. with evident emotion. "I wish you had told it to me before." Autumn lifted her hands toward him slightly in a gesture of appeal. "I wanted to tell you. Bruie, but you must know why I could not." "I understand that perfectly. Autumn.' I should have felt the same about It myself and would probably have acted as you did." She forced herself to look squarely into his eyes. "It has all been terrible fpr both of us." "Forget rt,' then," Bruce said firmly. "What's pat is past!" .... "We'll have to be making would not be at home. He would be in his cabin. She turned from the trail and rode over the hills straight in the direction of the raAs she came to the white vine. birches and looked ahead, she saw the cabin among the trees, almost hidden in the dusk. There was no light in the window, and her heart fell at the thought that he might not be here, after all. If he had She turned from the trail and rode over the hills straight in the direction of the ravine. really should have lived in the days when knights were bold and all that rot when running a man through was just part of the day's work." He laughed at Bruce and then turned to Autumn. 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Bruce replied and was gone. Florian turned to Autumn as the door closed. "Come along, darling one drink and we'll hit the trail." Autumn broufcht the ingred'ents and permitted Florian to mix them He kept up an incessant chatter concerning his trip to Vancouver and the scores of small interests that had occupied him since their last Autumn did her best to meeting. listen but found it impossible to keep her mind on what he was saying, When at last Florian filled the glasses and haitd one to Autumn, she sipped it once and then set it . aside. ' ' i."Come on. nan i p ''.r. ' r'ij. he BtfTERNQ History's Biggest Ban" call." "You're not leaving tonight?" '"No, but I'll be staying up at the cabin in the ravine tonight," Bruce replied. "I have some work to do up there on some new corrals I'm putting in." "Well, business is business." Flor ian observed, "and I've had enough of it to last me for a month. How about that little drink, Autumn"" "I'll say good by, then," Bruce '.. gone-S- rode up the narrow trail and dismounted among the birches, leaving her horse to graze as she approached the dcor. She did not knock, but pushed the screen door quietly open and stepped within. Bruce was on his knees in the middle of the floor, packing a neavy box with supplies. He looked up quickly, then got to his feet and faced her in the a of the place. Sre retread sjP aga.r.St bark her leaned and frame of the doorway. Then For a moment r.e::her speke. rer toward he stepped vo.ee Autumn!" he sa.d. r..s exenement. quick with "You did not answer my question said. -t- his afternoon." sre "What question'" he replied but her Autumn strove to peak carr.e Bruce her failed voice r stood lookir.g down at er. retea'.ea "What question !.en yui said "D:d you mean it the past is past'" " e told her. "I meant just 'ha: and scientists estimate that air waves went seven times round the world. 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