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Show LEW FREE PRESS. LEHI. UTAH SEWHSG CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK History Made on New Year's Day Easily Crocheted Bed Socks Amusing and Practical Dishcloth 1 CLARK MCMEEKIN CHAPTER I claim to Lark drew comfort from his uarmth. The touch of the horse s fiank, under her hand, started the tine, throbbing pulse in her fingertips. She cupped her palm a little, drawing his life into hers. He turned his head and watched her, breathing foftly against the coppery cloud of iitr hair on his neck. "Madoc," she whispered. "Darling . . . how can I stand losing you? Hliw can I let you go?" He whinnied softly, as if he recognized the urgent tenderness of her tone, as if he understood her. She Hang her arm over his neck and pressed her face against his curving throat. They were cloaked together in the gray blarket of the soft wet dawn, but sunlight was beginning to thread the dusty windows of the low stable, its shining shafts making a forward march through the open door from the muddy cobbled courtyard beyond. The horse, a thoroughbred sorrel with a fine sleek coat, gleaming and warm as polished bronze, stood fetlock deep in the hay of the big box stall. Near-bmunching his morning oats, was a sturdy pony, the "parson's pony." The girl, Lark Shannon, had given them both their allotment of food and water, but it was in Madoc's stall that she lingered. She had ridden and loved this horse since she was a child. He was hers, a free, living, vital part of her very self, of her father who was recently dead, of their life together. The sense of loneliness, complete and suffocating, came over her. Bethel North had sold Madoc. Bethel had had the power and right to do this. Madoc was lost to her, and she found it almost as hard to realize this as it had been to accept the fact that her father was lost to her. Next doer, across the muddy barn lot, beyond the dripping hawthorn hedge, she could see Bethel moving about in the North kitchen, preparing the early Sabbath breakfast, heating water for baths, busy, virtuy, W.N. be promised to David. Can't you speak'" And though she remembered, well enough. David s leave-takinwhen he had gone to America . . . "I'll come back to get you. Lark, when you're old enough to be a man's wife. Don't cry, my little dear! I'll give you a fine house on a hill and a carnage with four black horses, because you're still my little sweet" . she knew it was only the pretty sentimental speech of a man to a gangling child of thirteen. She knew that, but she plunged on, because she couldn't help it, becausebecause Bethel seemed to will her to, and and because she really did love David. She was saying it aloud, stupidly, shamelessly ' . Not only does New Year's day mark the beginning of a new year, but of a new hope to many people in many lands. During time of war, it has always meant the period of prayer for the safety of country and mmm "I'm too heavy for a blood horse loved ones. carry," he'd said in late years. Many events of lasting importance "I'll use the pony cart. You rule to tioned them. "Jaggers got himself a knee wound in that trouble," Bethel had said de- er d fensively, "and yet he fills David with his tales. Why didn't he go and stay in that wild land, I want to know?" "He was loyal enough to come back over a lot of ocean water to you, Bethel. And he'd like to see his boy follow his dream. Had you thought about that?1' "I've thought Jaggers gets a proper heathen look to his very eyes, when America is named to him. I've thought how fine it would be for people to mind their own affairs, even parsons!" Lark remembered that, because Jack Shannon had told her, laughing deeply. . . . She remembered the day David had left for America, too. It had been back in 1811, his twenty-firs- t birthday, and she had covered his cheek with d kisses, this old friend, David North, man, hero, world adventurer, this man Lark loved with all the fierce sensitive adoration of thirteen. He had gone, with Jack Shannon's money in his pocket, Bethel's dismal cautionings, and Lark's clear worship, her tears on his cheek. He would come back. She knew that. She didn't tell them, then, because they would have laughed. But she knew it, knew it when he wrote her an occasional letter, was sure of it when he sent her the gift, the red silk handkerchief, which he said was called a Red Raskall. Red, the color of love, the symbol of a warm heart. . She had worn the Red Raskall tied about her curls. She had been six. teen then, almost grown up. She could see it now, hanging on a She nail in the stable, there. had heard less often from David, lately. . . . She was grown up. . She knew, now, that he hadn'l . really meant to send for her, thai his parting words had been fanci- 1923 1926 1929 1933 1934 1935 1936 1938 1939 et day-drea- T . . - . . . . Canadian National Defense act went into effect. Mexican railroads returned to private ownership. Ecuador's eight-hou-r and child labor laws went into effect. Soviet Union's first plan ended. U. S. bank deposit insurance law went into effect. Ration card system abolished in Soviet Union. U. S. unemployment insurance law went into effect. Thomas E. Dewey sworn in as district attorney of New York city. Insurgents shell Madrid. five-ye- m 1940 Ching-We- i ex- pelled. Russian planes bombed Jyvas-kylFinland. England called to colors men from 19 to 28 a, years old. 1941 1942 1943 1944 English and German planes made reconnaissance trips. Japanese submarines shell Hawaii. U. S. planes bomb Japanese positions in Aleutians. Lieut. Gen. A. A. Vandegrift becomes head of U. S. marines. Russia observes Christmas. Pacific agreement reported by President Roosevelt. Facts and Fancies About New Year's The little British colony on Hanson island, in the Chathams, 414 miles southeast of Wellington, New Zealand, will be the first to greet 1945. It is just east of the international date line, from which all time is reckoned. . ful. Jaggers came in quickly, through stable door. He nodthe ded to Lark and sat down on a bale of hay, a slight, rugged lit'le mar nearing sixty, a tired, mild little man with shaggy brows and a high forehead and kind unhopeful eyes. He pulled a straw from a bale and ran it between his teeth, looking once at Lark, and then away, out the door, at the pigeons waddling and slipping on the muddy cobbles. "Sure been rainin'," he said. "Devil beatin' his wife, was the old sayin' when it sunned and rained to- Gay Dishcloth I SE red and white crochet thread for this practical and lovely dishcloth that looks like a small dancer's frock. 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Enclose 16 cents for Pattern No Ma mo Address. Two-Colo- ASK ME ANOTHER ar Ex-Prem- Wang thirteen-year-ol- " "I love David. He said he would Gratitude was a virtue extolled by Bethel. She was insistently grateful come to me." for her own life, her moral strength, her thrift, her acceptance of fate. can't call me that. I love David. I'll go to him. I'll ship my horse, Rebelling against Bethel was like Madoc, to America to be a dowry rebelling against the rain that to David. My father would have sunin dripped, spite of the thin been happy to see me set my feet light, from the stable eaves; like rein the new land with David for a belling against old age, or gravity. start a staLark knew that, knew that her husband, and Madoc to blood. He's Madoc has ble. good own foolish outburst last night had worth a lot of money. David will cost her Madoc. Leaning against the comfort and warmth of Madoc's be proud to have Madoc. He will be very glad to have me come to neck, where the little muscles ran him." under her quivering, . inquiring "The livery-stabl- e keeper made a touch, Lark relived that time last offer for Madoc." Bethel was good night, heard again every foolish to word she'd said at the supper table. ignoring Lark, speaking directly to"I shall sell the horse Jaggers. "The back taxes will leave very morrow. You call to mind, Huslittle from the sale of Rector's band, the note I hold of Rector Shanhouse." That had been Bethel, ad- non's? The sale of the horse will dressing Lark through old Jaggers, clear that note." Bethel's kindly, ineffectual husband. Lark had appealed wildly to Jag"But a little some'iing, Bethel," gers, whose deep-seyes seemed to Jaggeij had remonstrated, glancing hide behind his shaggy gray brows. at Lark, and away. "Yet taxes is "Look at me, Jaggers! Bethel can't dear, you're right, Bethel. The way sell Madoc to a stableman! My fathey eat into a bit of money is a ther has thorough-bloo- d papers on caution." Madoc in the back of his Bible!" "A rector of the church," Bethel Lark had cleared the table and had gone on, "who didn't keep his crept up to bed, but nothing furown hour in mind is hard to underther had been said. Lying in her stand, a rector who leaves his child bed in the silent house, she had to be a care on tried to feel the nearness of her own neighbors." And Lark, fighting back the tears old home next door, but this accusof helpless anger, had said as stupid tomed comfort was gone. It was as and perhaps as wicked a thing as if her father's familiar ghost had she could have concocted after an faded now with the felling of his hour's thought, she realized now. property, his comfortable old chair, She had put in words a bodiless his little house, his fine blooded an impossible vision of horse. Frantically, Lark had tried escape that she had drawn on, more, to call him back. Jack Shannon had loved this simPerhaps, than she'd known. "I plan to leave England for ple place. Never an ambitious man, America, Bethel. I I will marry he had been happy here where the David North. I will go to him with farms were poor and isolated, where the money my father left me. My the little stone church often held no lather left it for that purpose." more than a dozen people in the Even as she said it, Lark knew congregation. He had delighted in they didn't believe her, knew that far-ofparish calls, had loved to she would the country to carry across ride as lie as this long regret old granny, or to some to comfort knew it with the awful certainty of destruction, the crimson baptize a sickly baby. guilt of a person who distorts the The country people joked among trutn. knew it and was ashamed themselves, saying it was a caution and frightened of the thick silence. that the horse Madoc wasn't invited 'You are promised to our son, Da- into the church to kneel down and Rector vid North?" Bethel had Bsked. "Why pray in a fror.t pewon where he was s he never him, an eye could keep written a word of this to us?" him. of fond that Beyond speech, now, Lark had Always he had been known as the in Lark's stared at them. "Riding Parson." Even You're a great girl of eighteen," former and more spacious life, when bethel had reminded her. "You her mother was alive, Lark remem mly bered his love of horses, his love of life and people, his generosity, his kindling smile. The loss of her mother, the leaving of a big and beautiful house, vague now in her memory, had been softened by her father's hand on hers, his energy Jnd understanding, his special beliefs. . Lark's suspicion of her own had begun on the very evening, weeks past, when her father, Jack Shannon, had come jogging home in the pony cart, dead, his thick kindly body slumped against the dashboard, the lines trailing on the road. A wonderful way to go. Everybody said so. "Quick-like,- " the village stone-cutttold Lark with doleful cheer. "Not a bed-riday for Rector." Shutting her eyes now, Lark saw again those square sure fingers cutting the final legend in the sandstone: "John Paul Shannon, March 3, 1766 June 30, 1816. 'Death Where 4 service have occurred in history on this day, Madoc, Lark." Bethel North, nearest neighbor to including: 38 B. C. The era of the Caesars the Shannons, had remonstrated with point and vigor. "Your Lark is began. a pretty sight, I must say! Wild 1349 A. D. Edward III, king of Enghair flying and legs astride that red land, defeated the French bebeast! What kind of talk does she fore Cainis with great slaughmake among the rough men and ter. boys? David can tell you. He has a 1735 Paul Revere was born. telling them. softness for her. He'd never be one 1757 Calcutta, India, captured by "I love David. He said he would to stand a tongue against her. He's the British. come for me, or send for me. I been in more over one than fights 1776 First Union flag of 13 stripes will write to David that I am going her like good name! How do you out to hint, Bethel." unfurled by George Washingthat?" ton. "Jack Shannon give David the a Shannon out Jack had let 1792 money to go to America," Jaggers Kentucky entered the Union, oath. Queer man for a parhad spoken up cautiously. "Maybe son, people said, human as any, yet 1801 Union of Ireland with Britain. he knew Lark was promised" with the love of God so sure in him 1814 American dragoons attacked "At thirteen?" Bethel had you could see it shining out of his the British who had seized Bufsnapped. "I'll tell you what I think, eyes. He's apologized to Bethel but falo, N. Y. Husband. She wasn't promised then. had let her and the rest of the vilShe's not promised now. She's no lage know that Lark's life was her 1815 General Jackson repelled British when they attacked New regard for truth. Lark be a liar." own, and he was there to back her Orleans. "I'll take the money from the up in the living of it. Insale," Lark had said wildly. "You It would be well, Jack Shannon 1825 Great Britainof acknowledged American South dependence had further suggested to Bethel, if republics. she allowed her own son, David, a bit of freedom. The boy was set to 1863 Emancipation of Negro slaves went into effect by proclamago to America, wasn't he, and carve tion of President Abraham Lina new life for himself? Why didn't coln. Bethel help him? She could. 1907 Pure food law put into-effe- ct. Naturally, Rector Shannon had known very well that Bethel owned 1913 Parcel post system inaugurated. the North house, controlled the money, and even collected Jagger's 1919 New Year's day declared a lesmall pension from the Crown, gal holiday throughout the counearned by serving with the British try except in Massachusetts and Washington, D. C. army in its war against American independence. He mentioned these 1920 U. S. census gave population facts with delicacy, but he men of 105,710,620. . ous Bethel. Is Thy Sting? u. 580 9 A AAA 1t General Quiz The Questions 1. The crew of Columbus' fleet was composed of what type of mrmry Saturday 9:00 people? Where is the greatest molybdenum mine in the world situated? 3. What mythological couple grew old together so gracefully that they turned into two tall trees growing side by side? 4. What common insect lives but a day? 5. The Wandering Jew is alleged to have been compelled to live until the second coming of Christ. What is his name? 6. How many New York governors have become Presidents of the United States? 7. What is a lute? 8. What man did God promise that his descendants would be as numerous "as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore"? KIDO KGIR KSEI KDYL KTH KOB KOA 2. Adventurers and convicts. In Colorado. 3. Baucis and Philemon. 4. The mayfly. 5. Ahasucrus. 6. Four Martin Van Buren, Theodore Grover Cleveland, Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt. 7. A stringed instrument having 1. 2. KPO KHQ KFI mm Give good-tasti- tonic ng Valuable Scott's Emulsion helps children promote proper growth, strong bones, sound teeth Contains natural A & D Vitamins elements all children need. So 1 Mother M give Scott's daily the year 'round. Buy at all druggists I b a 1 budy. Abraham (Gen. 22:17). pear-shape- 8. 8:00 A. M., P. W. T. many doctors recommend The Answers a C rtatto morning A. M., M. W. T. On yoar tarotitm tf. B. d wide-flun- g gether." "Wasn't that the stage stopping a minute'ago?" Lark asked. "I wonder how it happened to stop here?" "It do stop now and then." He took a thick slice of bread from his pocket and held it out to Lark. "You missed your breakfast. Here's a bil of bread. Eat it, do." Lark thanked him and acceptec it. She said, "Are you going t( totake Madoc to the day?" "I don't know." "Jaggers' keen, kind little terrier eyes were fixed or Lark. "Would you Lark, would yot want it the way you said it last night at supper? I mean if it was to comt about that David send for you ir the new land, would you be to go, honest, now?" livery-stabl- (TO BE CONTINUED e When Julius Caesar created January instead of March the first month, he set the present New Year's day. The English New Year celebration was changed from December 25 by William the Conquvror because he was crowned on January 1. The person who first visits a family on New Year's day, tarrying a box filled with cake, the Scotch tradition holds, will he lucky during the COLDS ARE PREVALENT Ml year. The Hindu year bepins with the moon immediately preceding the vernal equinox in March. new People in Siam celebrate Year's on April 1. New THIS AREA! If you're n victim, don't expose others! And in your own interest, get relief from nasal congestion fast, the famous Mentholatum way. 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