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Show t i I i f Si LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI, UTAH m Mild ha as V" 5 t. 1 eo"M this Utl thai !Tassss ' !Jeeres uulBf feM Ue ?5 M "UH M seat to .-- rr "JtoaolrT eo&cemiBf ABela'i L " catt f is tracereport."PHer -- ks claim ths hody." Tes, ul tt had fceea her each JTk ? "Tj - itI 1 J. afl interest In whatk. that Annie was L lost I A XII CHAPTER t that Alicia had a LmL that she couldn't get Her anything else. I i wanted ea fa- - nu., marry L bad let him think that Grove jfree! How Pleasant L o laugh at the fool Jim had made of himself! nLi. were talking about Lhl been pursuing AUcia U they would know that Lband eared enough about w east ror uio iuiici . I Vail till sitting in tha Uv'J I when Laurence came back v u with Annie. Kis brow 1 wes a UtUe and he looked W if - ' -ww - She bent forward and put her face in ner bands and was still until a son movement behind her startled ner, and she straightened with little jerk to find Annie in the doorway watching her with compassion- aie eyes. "Us didn' want to teU Misf Lau rence. Miss Meggie but us had to, said the gentle old voice. "Of course. Annie." she managed unsteadily. "Ain nobody else gwine know, Miss Meggie" "There was nothing wrong, Annie n was an accident" course, miss Meggie us all knows dat" Annie's voice was com fortable, assured. "Now yo' run up-- ! : 1 a. (. damdest story I iIt admitted as he sat the el and folded hla gratis chest "I don't know tMegan L inika of it but Annie'a not kutive sort has She al-fm- and level souna cutuiiiuu expeci ner w so sensible led) gooa all wouldn't M her that I'd have to go it on to lEthridge and pass forward and looked at about that you know burying ground at ! of the Ridge, just at the pasture, west of the rock 1 always occupy on your family a :he began. II know the of place, Megan answered waiting tile prickles of chill run her spine like down and that Amos was before last a bit meeting," said "It seems that with the 'gallop- - seems it me night I lodge imiling. tome hick few' and he knew that An-w- 't shoot him on sight for pim sc late. Anyway, It around midnight, or was passing the )w ground when suddenly toethlng that froze him here er, Amos cks-- may make him and dominos' in the b that's a lot to hope Sloping P't fu-li- possibly ' saw mean that he the usual wavering almost Megan J "Nothing less," podded. r solemnly. "It was. he least eight feet tall and bbbJ lavs any shape to it, Just and i?t filIt was being poured, he There was something w P It the moon was not ibutthe uSht "fi s good in ! f- He says the ghost I course, that it was If xt" Pted along the meadow Ittien went towards the fence. It had some-"analthough he 'hat it was. But he stood tfl d. f madow of a uee. Hna I'wuse he was too para-t- o try to tun. And ,at tt h didn't interfere n. it might not know rfl-- He says it moved ffence, and bent down - f fI t old And graves and hid then it stood up. and moved back ifd j'aice turned away and "covering k. 8Ccally nothino W, liit s m mm. ... F6 drmkins im mule' his friend "P--snd he was seeing Wt nodded. B "That's the line it ere not for the "U8S1DIT few , tt k" W 0, tW Wnted out never tha,Amn.....Can t 0i I & 'oment ""I then il wereforn anybody . to . u. . SdeMr-Sen- - "So yon are investigating our tragedy, Mr. Reynolds?" stains an' fix yo'self up all purty 'fo' Mist' Larry gets back an' us has suppeh," urged Annie, and vaguely comforted by Annie's Megan heaved herself to her feet and went upstairs. She grimaced a little as she looked at herself in the mirror. She was white to the lips, there were shadows beneath her dark eyes, and her hair was untidy She showered and donned fresh things, a soft green jersey dress the shade of the first new green in spring that has almost a tinge of yellow in it. She brushed her hair until it gleamed and crackled be neath the vigorous onslaught of the matter-of-fact-nes- brush. Laurence came back s, a litle later. but he was not alone. With him was a stocky young man whose face looked like that of a man in his early thirties, but whose hair was thickly .streaked with gray. He had a " pleasant, friendly manner, yet one felt instinctively that he could be tough should occasion require it Laurence performed the introductions, saying casually, "Meggie, this is Bob Reynolds. He's a detective from the county police who's looking into this business." " "Hello, said Bob Reynolds, with a friendly smile and a firm, pleasant "This is quite a yarn handclasp. your handyman's been spilling. Miss I'd like to talk to MacTavish. him if I may." "Of course," said Megan, looking uncertainly at Laurence. "Shall I call him in here" "I think Amos would be more at ease if we talked to him in his own cabin, Bob. I know where it is. Meggie suppose I show Bob the and Mr. wayt" suggested Laurence, would be Reynolds agreed that that best. .They went out and a little later Annie came to the door and asked uneasily, "Yo 'speck dat policeman gwine stay fo supper, Miss Meg' gie? Hit's mos" ready." "He's a friend of Mister Laurence's. Annie I Imagine he would you stay if we asked him. Suppose Meset a place for him?" answered gan mechanically. Annie hesitated, something else a obviously on her mind. But after minute she said her expressionless broad "yessum" and her feet padded silently away. and Megan felt that Laurence a long long, been had gone Reynolds see time and looked at the clock to that barely ten minutes had elapsed since they had left the room. But it was closer to thirty minutes before came they returned, and as they their heard along the hall, Megan cautious voices and her nerves crisped a little. "Did you find with what she the proper amo felt-sole- Uon. crocheted leaves of green thread made separately and then sewn on top. It measures 1 by 5 inches, and you'll need to make two similar "sides" and sew them tocf lining. gether over a thin layer e "just as I had To obtain complete crochet ir.p Instruc- "All my life," answered Megaa ckly. "Ann,, eame WQrk fof rny mother when she was fifteen. She and Amoi were married a year or so later, and moved into that little caom, and were there when I was born. This l as much their home, almost, as mine." Bob nodded. "Then what would you say about Amos' truthfulness? I mean is he reasonably truthful in his statements or Is he given to telling tall tales?" he asked. Megan managed a little laugh she hoped did not sound too artificial or forced. "Well. I'd say that all depended. Mr. Reynolds," ghe confessed gaily. "If you mean when he Is explaining to Annie how it happened he's lost all his money in a crap game, I think he shows amazing imagination and inventiveness. But ordinarily. I'd say Amos is quite truthful." "In other words, if he says he saw a ghost eight feet high hovering around in an old burying ground, then he saw something looking at ghost?" "I've been trying to think." Megan said thoughtfully. "There are some old fruit trees around that place. Pear trees in full bloom look ghostly in the dark only if a too early for them to be blooming. I can't remember whether the trunks of any of the trees have been whitewashed lately. They are not on my land, you see, and. I haven't noticed them recently." A Bob nodded, his eyes intenu tree trunk whitewashed half way up is a rather spooky looking thing in the dark. And I suppose there would be Spanish moss on the trees? In the moonlight, with a slight wind stirring that" He was obviously thinking aloud, and his browa drew together in a puzzled frown. "Still, Amos is so sure that the 'spook' went Inside the gate and bent above one of the old mounds" He broke off, grinned and said briskly, "Oh, well, we'll have to wait for daylight to make an Intensive search of the place, I suppose. From the description Amos and Larry both have given me, I don't imagine we could toaccomplish much by searching in the first over be thing I'll night. morning, and we'll give the place a going over." He was obviously on the verge of leaving, and Megan said quickly, "Won't you stay for supper, Mr. Reynolds? We'd like having you!" "Better take her up on that. Bob. Annie's the best cook in seven states at a conservative estimate!" said Laurence lightly. Bob beamed happily. "Well, now, if you're sure it won't be an Impobetsition, there's nothing I'd like assured gratefully. Megan he ter!" "And I'll give you a lift back to Meadersville later, Larry." "Swell!" Laurence agreed hap- tor tne Gken Pineapple Potholder (Palters No. iVSat stitch illustrated, send cents in cow. your name, address an1 ti the patters number. tion MacTavish" ot Ihtly. jpose Uuren. Fruit Preparation Required Processing SEWING CIRCLE KEEDLEWORS IM MiukM SL, Saa FramciM. Calif. Encloae SO cents tor pattern. - itih4m Im No -- . PP . Wash, pare, core, cot in pieces. Drop la slightly salted water. Pack. Add syrnp. Or boil 3 to S minutes in syrup. Pack, Add syrup. Wash, halve and pit. Pack. Add syrup. . Apricots Berries Z7c4 Chorria WitTi. stem, pack. Add syrop or water. Wash, stem, pit Pack. Add syrup. Cr onbtrrltt Currontt Wash, remove sterna. Boa 3 minutes in Nfc s tyru Wash, stem, pack. Add syrnp or water. Put in sods bath S minutes, rinse. Pre-ficook S minutes ia syrup. Pack, add syrop. Wash, stem, pack. Add syrup or water. Name Address. 25 10 20 10 20 8 20 10 Effective Inimunizat'c MOT a bit difficult to crochet though it looks like it might be. The "scales on this attractive yellow pineapple potholder are A io 20 10 3Q io 20 8 20 10 25 10 30 15 20 10 35 15 10 S One of the most effective immunization programs on record was the compulsory inoculation of the U. S. army with tetanus toxoid in World War II, there having been only three cases of this disease among the entire personnel gs Gropet Peart Peel Pck, add syrup, or precook 3 minutes to syrup, pack, add syrnp. Select not overripe peart, part, halve, precook 3 to S minutes to syrup. Pack. Add syrup. Peit, remove eyes, cut or slice. cook In No. 2 syrup 3 to 10 minutes. Pack with syrup. Plums Wash, prick p4BfKtl skins. Pack. Add syrup. In pieces. Precook 3 cut Wash, pare, minutes in syrnp. Pack, add syrup. Outnraa Rhuborb Wash, cut into pieces. Pack. Add syrnp. Wash, stem, precook gently for 3 min-Dtin syrup. Remove from syrup and cooL Boil syrup 3 minutes. Add berries and let stand for several hours. Pack. 20 8 Scald minute, cold dip core ptcL 35 10 MAIL US YOUR FILMS THE PRICE IS RIGHT! Strawberries Developed and 8 Guaranteed Prints Roll 2E!( IF YOU PAY MORE, YOU PAY TOO MUCH THE PHOTOSHOP OGDEN, UTAH Rt-he- at Tomatoes 1 1 minute. Kgf Reprint$3etoch es . Can Fruits and Berries This Easy Way See Recipes Below) ter-rito- ry he's nominally in M the case here, though of In brleht boys from the kt rill want a share in it. lay, this is what Annie tcld feed just simple shell stitches raised out a Lit. The "spines" at top are him to do." Bob Reynolds eyed Megan and asked. "How long has Rightly Amos been working f0, you. Miss Megan set her teeth hard for a moment and there was pure panic in her eyes, but before she could say anything, Bob went on quickly, 'T. mean, of course, that you are quite familiar with the surrounding it is all strange to me. Do you know of anything that could have alarmed Amos so that he would have mistaken it for an eight-fo- would youT a eartn are you uumps she asked. i just been telling me a ghosts, WI4 ska 5789 "Oh. yes. he was waiting for us." Tt least remotely like that?" suggest-e- d Bob pleasantly. "I feel quite sure that he did or thought he did," answered Megan promptly and honestly. Bob nodded. "That's the impression I got from the old fellow." he admitted. He stood in thought for a moment before he looked straight at her and asked quietly, "What would be your explanation for his story. Miss MacTavish? How could you account for it?" - (A Vineappte Votholder to Crochet wr? imp w.-- Wwu RELEA5E And without waiting for her to recover from the shock of hit word and their Implication, he quiet went quietly out and the door closed behind him. She tat there for a long time after he had gone. So Amos had eea her with Tom! And Amoi had una Laurence. 5 i BECAUSE YEAST GOT WEAK Fruits LYNN CHAMBERS' Among the most envied women the past few years were those with large stocks of their own canned fruit Yes, commercially canned fruit has been a mighty rare commodity during the war, and it's still scarce. If you plan now to do MENUS Chicken With Dumplings Lima Beans and Corn Stuffed Tomato Salad White Rye Bread Spread Fresh Diced Pineapple Cookies Beverage Freshly picked fruit and berries, your canning, young, tender and fully ripe, are tha youH be among best ingredients the lucky home- - makers when shortages really become acute during the fall and winter. There are few pleasures greater for the cook than those jewel-likquarts and pints of luscious fruit on the pantry shelf. And besides, it's very easy to can fruit because they are acid and easy to prepare. e for canning recipes. Under - ripe fruit does not have mellow flavor, and overripe fruit will be mushy. J; If j That's why the "prime condition" of fruit Is so important Look out for bruised spots, signs of decay and other injuries. AO You have a choice of two preferred methods, and you are not these things have a great bearing limited to a pressure cooker in case on the quality of your final canned that is causing you some worry. A fruit hot water or boiling-wate- r Making the Syrnp. bath, as it's sometimes referred to (because Fruit may be canned in just plain the water must be kept bubbling water, but if you have any sugar merrily above the Jars all during at all (those extra canning stamps processing) is very adequate for for sugar!) make a syrup, even if a very thin one for canning fruit. canning fruits and tomatoes. As you may know by trips to the The syrup mellows them and brings store, you can buy one of those out true flavor. Here are some proportions for the large kettles fitted with a rack and a cover to hold anywhere from lighter syrups which are popular four to six or even eight jars. If this year: Light: 1 cup sugar, ZVi cups wayou don't want to buy a water-batyou can rig one up yourself with a ter. washboiler and a rack. Some womModerately light: 1 cup sugar, 2 en have even found lard pails satis- cups water. Medium: 1 cup sugar, lVt cups factory because they are deep water. come to let the water the enough To make the syrup, combine the required two inches above the jars, and still broad enough to take four sugar and water and allow to boil pints or quarts easily, depending for five minutes, without stirring. Remove scum and use to fill Jars. upon their height to 1 cup syrup You'll need from Selection Important. I can't stress too highly the im- for each pint of fruit after It's packed in the jar. portance of having the freshest pospily. sible produce for canning purposes. If desired, juice may be extractit is best pointed out in ed from fruits and berries by crush Perhaps to to the door came Annie as Just this way. You know the rapidity ing, heating and announce that supper was ready, the with which fruit spoils as soon as it straining. No sufront door opened and Jim came in. Is You also know how impicked. him be of gar Is needed. a Meean caught glimpse it is to have unspoiled Use it as you fore Laurence or Bob saw him; he portant fruit placed in a can because it would syrup. and tired forlorn, looked desperately easily spoils when preserved if In making syrhis shoulders drooping. But the there are bacteria there that begin corn up, one-hanext moment he became aware of Blemish-fre- e will fruit working. be room. His may syrup the in living the stranger tike less time to put In cans, one- used with shoilders went back and his head and the chances of spoiling are cut hM half sugar. Honey aMit ud. and he came in, bracing down. Besides the appearance that 'iPii may also bt himself, friendly, polite, hospitable, of the fruit is better. used, but it does as Laurence performed the darken the fruit and emphasize the flavor. Annie made her delayed an LYNN SAYS: Methods of Packing. nouncement of supper, and they went for Fruits may be in and were seated, before Jim are investi"So Bob. This you to to are some Here pointprocessing. canning canning prior apoke ers: To guide you In the approxtragedy. Mr. Rey- means that raw fruit Is packed cold gating our imate number of jars you should Into the jars, then processed in the nolds?" bath or pressure cookbolllng-wate- r have, you'll want this guide. To Bob, eyeing hun- "Yes ' " answered . m . . at J make one quart of canned fruit This is suitable for many fruits er. Druwnea ivuucu the crisply grily and berries, and is usually used by you will need these amounts of chicken that Annie had placed befresh fruit: women who have a lot of canning to fore Jim, who was about to wield do. Ana i IVi pounds of apricots; 1 n expert carving anne. k method Is sometimes The pounds of cherries; ZVt pounds of don't mind telling you that I concase. used for fruits. This means peaches; 2 to 2V pounds of pears; Ider It an 2 medium-size- d Vt the fruits In the yrup a For the barest moment Megan pineapples; to 2 pounds of plums; IVi pounds short time before packing in the thought the carving knife shook in-in of rhubarb; and 3 to 3V4 quarts her father's hand; but the next jars and processing. of strawberries. stant he went on carving delicately The open kettle method gives thin slices of chicken and laying beautiful fruit, but is not often used Always use the manufacturers' before directions in fastening the cap as them carefully on the plate today because there Is too much use. in their caps vary greatly danger of contaminating the fruit h'"An You case? Here after it Is cooked and transferred fruits are be which may an Ides as to mean you have er to the Jars. In this method the fruit or hot apripacked: Jim asked, with is cooked thoroughly In an open ketih, .,inr ppjson." cots; berries; cherries; grapes, lanced interest and tle In the syrup and then placed is figs; peaches; pears; pineapple; oict. the Jars and sealed. plums and rhubarb. VnNUID) Released b Western Newspaper Union. New Fleischmann's Fast Rising Dry Yeast keeps for weeks on your pantry shelf If you bake at home you can always depend on New Fleischmann's Fast Rising Dry Yeast to give you perfect risings . . . delicious bread . . . every time you bake J Ready for instant action New Fleiach-mann- 's Fast Rising keeps fresh and potent for weeks lets you bake at a moment's noticel Don't riuk baking failures with weak yeast get New Fleischmann's Fast Rising today. At your grocer's. 'fta,. h, lf fc J "80.6 CLINICAL after with mm tuuw mwfws only IMPROVEMENT 10-da- y treatment Hi Foster D. 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