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Show Murray Eagle, Thursday, January 9, 1930 The Crippled Lady of Peribonka n I Oliver Curwood O, 8TORY FROM 19Z9, WS0 Service Doubltdar Doran THE START Tha Idol of the quaint littla n village ot Peribonka is the Crippled Lady, heroine of an epic destined to live long In the village annuls. How the romance of Molly Brant, sister ot the great Indian chief, Joseph Brant, and Sir William Johnson, in French-Canadia- days, comes down an Invalid, dies. V PV luc.) most with a little triumph In her throat, when he showed her his hands blackened with pine pitch. He went to Peribonka frequently during these autumn days, and once a week he had flowers sent to him from llobervul for Mrs. grave. Carla knew of his visit to the little cemetery, and Paul made no effort to conceal them from her. He never went on Sunday, which was Carlu's day with her mother. When she tried to express to him the depth of her gratitude, be talked as If It were the spirit of tils own mother he was thinking of when he took flowers to Peribonka. Lut be felt lie was not hiding the truth from her, nnd was rather glad of It. It was a satisfaction for him to know that Carla was conscious of his thoughts about tier. It made his light easier, gave It a certain thrill, which comes to a man when he is aware that some one lie cares for Is watching liim. And the knowledge of It could not harm Carta, In whose life another love had fastened itself so securely that no corner of her heart could be filled with an emotion responsive to his own. They made no elTort to avoid each other, except that be did not take her to Peribonka nnd she did not come to his ofiiee any more, and one day when they were together he asked her frankly why she did not marry. No sooner were the words spoken than lie was sorry. He could see the hurt flame up for an instant In her eyes, like a lire from which a curtain hud been suddenly snatched away; nnd then It died out, leaving tier face a little whiter, but smiling at him gently, lis if she were apologizing for letting it her that way. Then she told him. It was almost traditional in their family that a woman should And she had have hut one love. loved a man, still loved him. with nil tier heart and soul, though lie was gone from tier forever. The love had come Into her life a long She emphasized this time ago. fact, gazing nway from him with her long lashes veiling eyes filled with mystic visions. He was glad be had beard the Hal-dan- 's to today with the birth of a eon, Paul, to Molly Klrke, wife of a powerful New York financier, and her death when Paul Is thirteen years old. Molly Klrke was a descendant of Moland has her boy many ly Brant, of the Indian characteristics. Paul marries Claire Durand, daughter of his father's partner. He is In charge of Immense engineering work near Paul's wife la In Perlbonki. Europe, having no inclination to live In the wilds with her husband. Paul becomes Interested In Carla Haldan, village teacher. Carta's mother, lung CHAPTER t Co, Continued He walked with her to the cottage, nnd she gave hiin flowers for his office, and when lie returned with them nnd put them on his desk, he was oppressed still more ly the sense of having missed an Important and necessary thin? which he had expected to find when he came hack to the pit. He was mire that Carla had been glad to Hut she was not the see him. same Carla he had taken over the blueberry plains to Peribonka. He doubted If she would personally come to his ofiiee with flowers again. In this he was mistaken. She came on Saturday moriiins with un Another nfylit armful of asters. or two of frost nnd they would all be none, she said. She asked about Claire, and they talked a few minutes of bis visit to the city. She 'id not speak of tier mother, or Terili'itika, or anything that had to do with herself except her flowAs she arers and her school. ranged the flowers she bent over bis desk so that the silky head which be had stroked with his hand was very near him, and suddenly be felt himself overwhelmed by llame that left no part of him untouched. When Carta's deft lingers finished their task, she found I'aul looking at her with n face that was He wholly Indian once more. thanked her as be mlht have thanked her a year n?o. Ills hand touched hers for Just a moment, and u swift throb came Into Carta's throat. Their eyes met. Curia's faultlessly clear and pure and tilled with a shining light Paul's with a somber, settled grimness far back In them. At bis door they paused nnother moment. Then Carla left him. It was her last visit to his ofliee. Within an hour after she hud gone Paul was driving to Peribonka alone. The roads bad hardened, and he made It quickly In bis car. The asters and a bunch of roses which had come to hlra from ItobervHl he placed on Mrs. Huldan's grave. Curia bad been there, for the grave was well cared for and covered with (lowers from her garden, most of them faded and shriveled by the frosts. These be gathered In a cluster nnd placed In a pot by themselves, near Ids roses. He remembered that Carla loved flowers even when their color and life were gone. f He made no effort to blind to the fact which had leaped upon hlui so Irresistibly when be bad looked at Carta's bead bent over his desk. The futility of such evasion struck him with almost equal force. Ik' wanted Carla. and Hint want was as much a part of Mm as his vision or his sense of the obligations of life. It was she who bad brought htm back to the Mlstas-sliwith n feeling that he was on Ids way home. His regard for her vns not a sudden Irruption brought nliotit by a physical or emotional ntlessness, hich mitlit hne been stirred by her nearness and her lbs could look back an I beauty, ee Where It bad been growing In la in slowly over n period of three years, so slowly Hint It hud not biH-dlltlcult for him to escape Ps P.ut Imw thero true slghlticnnce, was uo longer the possibility of tltber avoidance or self deception. He knew that Carta meant more to him than friendship, nnd that fitly a miracle: bad held his arms from inking her Into them. He also believed that a flash of understanding bad come Into her when ho looked lit him and saw In hli face Hie grim shudow log or the flsdit which from lhat liiomeiii be was bound to make. After Ibis P.iul was more than fver Idled with the desire to go iimotig I hp men nnd work with bis b.tiids, nnd be was Kcldom In bis tPWe. livery muscle In his body Jeimied for the strenuous activity of work which bo saw piled upon others, nnd be let down the bars which bis position bad compelled him lo accept, until, lit times, one coming upon him In the pit, would have taken htm for a lit borer. He was skillful with the ax, nnd one lay late In October bo bad linNhed hewing a saddle Into a heavy timber when he turned about to find Carta stninling a few fett away, baking at him. She bad come to the fur rdg f the pit to lind Hie father of me of her and for a moment It seemed to Paul that be caught In her face a look whb li bridged In a few neconds the abysmal gulf whhh he had felt growing between them lnre her mothers death. Ho went to her, breath-loquickly because of bis tier-Uonand Carta laughed ufl!, al him-Pel- d b. g t, She Is growing paler, nnd It frightens me to see the loveliness fading slowly out of her face. You must do something, Paul, make her drop her night classes, send her nway for a vacation If you can. I think I am the only one she confides In nt all, nnd I should not betray her confidence not even what I have guessed about her. P.ut something is eating nt h?r life which lsu't entirely the loss of her mother. She insists that her night work Is a pleasure, says she Is feeling well and doesn't want to go away. Put I know of a dream she has always bad of visiting her mother's country. If the company could arrange something like that" Paul saw Carta the next day, a cold Sunday with snow on the ground. For the first time in many weeks they had a long walk together, and nt the beginning of It she settled nny suggestions he It was might tme had in mind. ns If she saw written In Ids face what Lucy-Bellhad said to him. She mentioned Mrs. Herwent's visit nnd told him what she had said nbout her work, smiling the other's fears nway as absurd and without reason, nnd adding with a very decisive little note In her voice that to give up this work or go away, us Lucy-Bell- e had suggested, was the last thing she would think of doing. She had heard again from bis wife. It was her third letter, and came from Ciiprl, where she was spending the winter, painting. Claire had sent her a little sketch of the vineyards und the pic- - train to e r nf-fo- wkm? d words from her own lips. It built up a new comradeship between them and made him more positive of Ids A letter triumph over himself. Hi.s from Claire helped him. wife l.iiighed nt him pleasantly for bis whimsical suggestion of a Jour- Ghs Raised Her Lips and Kisied Him, With the Light Touch of ney around the world, nnd then Her Mouth, Which Was a Part of painted in her picturesque nnd Claire. vivid way the torture which she knew such a trip would be for him. on cliffs. "Without your forests, your open turesque housesCnrl.i (heir rock would alThese said, letters, would skies, your big outdoors, you half around, ways remain brightly In her memcile before we were so friendly and Paul," she wrote him. "It would be ories. TheyShe bad answered them, merciless of me to make you pay cheering. tried to tell Claire a little In that way for my presence up at ami had I w ork, an of the I am coining, nnd nbout tier own the Mistasslnl. glory and beauty of the great forJust because I want to come. I am ests and mighty rivers near them. anticipating seeing something very P.ut she lacked the creative soul wonderful something which his wife up there, possessed, nnd which will mean greatly more to describe not could adequately a or you nnd me than six months them. year rambling around the earth. As Paul knew that something of for such a trip, with you In It" Carta's real sou! was gone even nnd then she went on to (ell him as she talked to ldm. more about himself than he (bought His own dragged heavily through The letter she had ever known. came, nnd bis winter. thrilled him. It gave him a new the nt the Spring pit were utmost over. days vision of Claire, who had never anAugust would see bis work finished. alyzed him In this gentle nnd unHe did not know what be would do for derstanding way. portraying he told Carla. Things were then, ns loved Mm (he life which he He In South America. happening (hough It were n part of herself. was Curia's future there. go might Put In the end, after assuring hi in settled for nnother The govngaln that she wns coming to ldm ernment bad offeredjear. her a contract to the forward was nnd looking to remain with lh children on lhe I line w hen they would he together, Mistasslnl. nnd she bad accepted. she said tier return to America She or hoped that within a might be postponed until the fol- two she might be able tojear lind a be Could wait or June. lowing May place In Peribotika, Hear her (hat long? mother. Carla also received a letter from Lnie In May Paul's wife sailed womClaire. It was filled with from Cherbourg nnd. to bis suranly tenderness nnd fetopathy for prise, was coming straight to Queone who had suffered n creril lo-bec lo join ldm. niul was Idled Willi the Intimate of her." said "Thnt Is woiid-rf- ul nnd sentiment which Curia, her eyes shining wph the knowledge could only have been given nnd In- light which wa In them ntwn spired by Paul. Carta let ldm read when she was thinking or speaking it. Iter eyes were siransely nlight, of rial re. "She Is coming directly though she told prepared herself to to you '." show it to ldm. The d.iy be left for Quebec hi "You told me once that million saw her for a few moments to COUld buy SelillMietlt." idie h;ii I. by. "I w.sli t were a man nnd you," "And millions rould not bring whm has come In her letter. It Is her she Mid. A radiance was In her f.iT when heart speaking to me." Carla became so deeply absorbed be left her. That i'eiilng nt dinner. I.ncy-I'.ell- e In work outside Of her school th.tt said to her "Curia's her for with ng:dn be did imt talk hMl Whs closed (hi afternoon. n week. She formed evening classes. I told lue she dismissed the In which she (aught Hnglish lo the Her !ie had a headndiioS who wanted lo come lo children beraili toust We oer nnd see ache. of few hours the nnd spare pi them, her afternoon were spent nniong her." "I have been there," replied per- (lie mothers of her school children. With the coming of winter Pai.t went. "I was a bli worried when buried himself more paionutely one of ti e boy o!d me whal bad If happened, so ) went nfT In In the nctua! sires of outdoor found Mie bcr nnd me, ofiiee rmiilne bis leaving lnrg. hatO' bene crvln::." y to others, nnd l!e "t Hi I" exclaimed l.uv p., je, ",iw on the oiher liied Mm, Carta, band, seemed to have numed (oo I lliiiik I under'.and !" She said liojliitig inoro In her gtent n burden. The alruiti. If It nbout Curia ll.tldan. were that, began to show lis rffe t ttoted It on her, until I.ncy CHAPTER VI nnd remonstrated with Paul. d iy she Is growing less "i:ery Ciir'il w e knew befuie I er point of like tlie 1"llli crowning In Paul's pit r.f Hurmother died." she told ldm. "She Is breaking ur.d"r nn effort lo keep ried life WHS bl J.oitiny t ftieet I" her mind away from here!f. Yes- Clulre. I rum the Into her cuitaae Boliei v.'il (o Meiebe, bewan, tm I terday I dropiH-for a iiioiiiii.t when I knew ah from Pure down lo Cbb ou'itid, wilderness was there, and I found her crying. where be look the gt 11 . say-goo- nt S'-- Ins-ban- l',-- llt )nr MiM-i''n- l riot "Creepiaa Darrata Quebec, he built steadily to the visions which the Increasing Interest and comradeship In his wife's letters had helped him to create during the long winter. That she wns not following her usual precedent of going to New York, but whs coming to him. gave him un emotional thrill which It had not previously been his happiness to experience In bis relationship with her. He believed that for Claire to divert herself In this way from home, her own people, nnd a host of friends nfter nn absence of nearly a year, that she might come to him In a wilderness which she frankly detested, wns almost dramatically significant of a change In It was her nttitude toward him. the mystery of this change which withheld from his feeling the one thing which might have made It a real passion of expectancy nnd Joy. In none of her letters, which had drawn her nearer to him than she had ever been, had she spoken of F.ven in response to the love. warmest of his communications to hc-she had given him no definite satisfaction except to write him In a way which, without openly avow Ing herself, drew herself loser to him, nnd gave to bis Ideals of her a glowing, fleshly reality which excited nnd possessed him as he went to meet her. He could not keep Carta out of bis mind. She cnnie to him vividly when he stood In the shadow of the ancient chapel of the I'rsnlines, nt Quebec, where lie had seen through the chancel grating the lovely nun whose face nnd eyes looked so much like Curia's. In Lower Town he went Into the little old church of Notre Dame des Ylctolres, nnd he felt ns If she were standing at bis side. She seemed to be a part of the composure nnd beauty nnd age-olof tiic-- quaint nnd hallowed spots which he loved, as If in some past day her soul had heljied to mold and fit their destinies. Here, (Ike himself, Carla could dream and see ghosts and mystic fabrics of forgotten things whore others saw only dissolution nnd ruin of brick mi l mortar nnd In her eyes were the deep wood. nnd slumbering lights which linked the memories of the past with the mysteries of the future in Claire's the vibrant life of a glorious present. Together, be thought, these two women held I ho world In their breasts, from Its beginning to its end. He was nt the dock nn hour ntiead of the ship. When It be drew himself back of the waiting people, for be knew that Claire would not be In the rush of disembarking passengers, nor would she be nloug the rail tn the crush that always gathered to wave their greetings to friends nnd relatives. It surprised Mm when be found her to be one of the first As she came ui the landing walk. down he could see that she was She was the looking for him. same rial re, lull, slim, exquisitely j dressed, a woman to be picked out of n lhoiiMind. Tie could always ' expect Chilro like that, a wife nny man would be enormously proud to lie waved bis bat, ntid possess, she saw film. A swift, beautiful smile passed over her face, nnd In hi eagerness to reach her he made bis way n little roughly through (he crowd. His heart was Jumping. He was meeting l.cr nhmc no one but himself ( greet her, while nlways before there had been many. Oue dream hud come true! When they met he held out Ids j I arms. But that was not Claire's ' She was nhvnys right, never way. forgetful of lhe fitness of things tmd gave him her band. Her lingers Stie j closed warmly nbout his. ' raised her lips nnd kissed him, with the light touch of bcr mouth which was a part of Claire. "Hear old Paul:" she said. 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This h did. and w ;i v. untied by !', thought of what be wa bound h give In return for it, vhlid btr efTort it for bim to , (tie wa ho? dTe-nltoe home," rmrwnriiawiaiM Mi tim mii iimiiwi hiiito a mil-rra-i- rVifcl If only summer were lccn dune. CON'OCO Winter GASOLINE has been June-likmotor starting in made to p've January! e AnJ, you'll arcc that quick starting in coM weather takes off much cf the Curse of co!i weather for the motorist. g wn aiiiliwwwui It's impossible to Jo anything about the weatherbut one very imporunt thing has r. Just notice the difference up with lay bitwcui theiu lo I in. ri.ilre riTorf. lb r n tii'O b id 'ion l.ltti f Itiiltnncy lack Tin the way. between theni (it lino ttl.ldn ldm ficloser .i ber tlmil olne of (In Oifny friends b bad It was a (hi' e wi.bh cod ted (ear down ewn In moments when om Impulse or sii'lilion Seemed to irax Ibetrt very 1o together. (In anew Cat tl iire Ml ( n well M f.tselL f arina It, Htnilii.? r.! earh other, :,,,'? f r mhp fotrr ( Wfct greater than Cemi I lt,e way for (hem, tvy tvit,i!j ti.oli w;i and about it. Struggling. Cat fids thing betwei una agiin! etld betel b life, P lh.lt It Would lie did toil fell Pt In With to her lid, lhe (bought; if rtpbiln-iliI er ( lb it be wn ;(!... it lo In T liiiike n Uo.'btv I nd iiotii!ig about fur own I. bit i miti iinii ! her 'irog;:b tigiltist and liop'sNe a tc0y Inborn n hi o" U I'idlail blood n 'l i e desire (. bim elf. .i n ldm, P sunry hecr nnd v,is an Inspiration n l.lni nnd t' tw!t strengthened u W a BR-R-WINTER- truth lhe gulf i when you fill ! Uj Winter lM !T on In Mkrtha for cal n Mil Haid liniriri'U. Itm-han- "This thee I nm goln? o stay n I ome tired of too and nn'il 6072 SU.T I.AKE:ITY, UTAH Three days after her nrrlvul Claire ws mistress of the bungalow which her bad prepared for her visit. Thereafter I'aul coul I look from the window of his oil ice to il.e physical rr.iUza-Hoof lhe second If hi dremns. Claire wa nt bet tio of the w ives Who lived III the row uf Cottages While Hd dream, like mi Il.e bill. the friendly but greeting of t.l wife In lidded something of lis futfiilrju-ritIt had opened de-through which he wa looking to still greater thing for himself, nnd the woman who wn making Ihl I'gl.t ngnliit prejudice nnl environment for ftoj-iii- one-eight- Children don't ordl nnrlly take to medicines but here's one thnt all of them love. Perhaps It shouldn't be called a medicine at all. It's more like a rich, concentrated food. It's pure, wholesome, sweet to the taste and sweet In your child's ltttl stomach. It builds up nnd strengthens weak, puny, underweight children, makes them eat heartily, brings the roses back to their cheeks, makes them playful, energetic, full of life. And no bilious, headachy, constipated, feverish, fretful buby or child ever failed to respond to the gentle Influence of California Fig Syrup on their little bowels. It starts lazy bowels quick, cleans tbem out thoroughly, tones and strengthens them so they continue to art normally, of their own accord. Millions of mother8 know nbout California Fig Syrup from experience. A Western mother, Mrs. J. O. Moore, 119 ClifT Ave., San Antonio, Texas, says: "California Fig Syrup Is certainly all Hint's claimed for it. I have proved that with my little Dorothy. She wns a bottle buby and very delicate. Her bowels were wenk. I started her on Fig Syrup when she wns a few months old nnd it regulated her, quick. I have used it with her ever since for colds und every litnnd her wonderful Contle dition tells better thnn words how it helps." Don't lie imposed on. See that the Fig Syrup you buy berrrs the nnme, "California" so you'll get the genuine, famous for M years. Air for Applet Assist stored npples to breathe correctly by furnishing plenty of air. Proper ventllutlon will aid In keeping the fruit longer in storage. If the humidity Is not right the Hours should be sprinkled. j The fialfon law of fWat rfr-- . ehm states that (he lend' toy of the o children of tini!tial parents I r.ppriAiniHte: more tieirly to the common type of ibe family or stock. arc deHereditary rh,iractirltl ne half from Hie rived os follows: from the (beiil might bo trlumpf-enrr. K V. Alexander. V. C, at the ac- parents, from the parents, World tba it tersitei In j.it .f Chu, durlna Hera tion at etc. (TO 6 UMTIlKPt war. o September 15, 131J- - Hen. Lord llcnry Home of Ftlr koke, Lngland. Is the famous arl tillery commander whose name with the first use of lhe "creeping barrnce." General Hornr, however. Is nld to have then the credit of Its Invention to Brig. C.ea Dorothy s Mother Proves Claim GAS OLINE tXTRA QUICK ITART1NG VITHOLT IXTHA COJT X a. |
