OCR Text |
Show Murray Eagle, Murray, Utah Beggars Can Choose bony body In the shabby suit, at the big square hands resting on his knees, and the richness of her love for hlra welled up In her like a great tide that would and must carry everything before It. MARGARET WEYMOUTH JACKSON CHAPTER VII Copyright by Co. Bobba-Merrl- ll WNU Bervlc WHAT WENT BEFORE come In Lorlng's coupe, standing quiet and Id a little tight knot at the funeral. She had taken her own stand by Will and Mrs. Schluss, and Mr. and Mrs. I'ryor. The day after the funeral when Ernestine, with one of Mrs. Todd's aprons pinned over an old silk dress, was experimenting with a broom, Mr. Pustano came, and with blm a huge old lady with slow black eyes and a face so round and kind that Ernestine's heart went out to her. Mr. Pasta no had brought some potted plants, which seemed fresh and beautiful after the scent of decay that had come with the funeral Renewing a childhood attachment, Ernestine Hrieeland, of a wealthy family, la attracted by Will Todd, newspaper artist. Her BlBter, Lillian, knowing their father would object, urges her to break off the affair, but Ernestine refuses. ' The progresses rapidly. They make a runaway marriage. Briceland Is furious, hut Ernestine la of age, and he can do nothing. The couple begin their married life In humble love-maki- surroundings. John 1'oole, Wills best friend, gives a birthday party for Ernestine at Ruby Pastano's resort The affair results In their Conscious of apquarrel. proaching motherhood. Ernestine opens a savings account. first sets. "These are for Willie's mamma." Madame Pastano said haltingly, -VI Continued CHAPTER "We come to make consolation call to bring you friendship. As the "All rlylit," saiil Will dully, and plants grow, so grow the new soul, turned to the undertaker. 'Tlx ll in Heaven." tluit way will you tend to the noErnestine yielded to Impulse, was enfolded on the soft and luxurious tices?" "Will," Ernestine Implored him, bosom of Madame Pastano and "It's not my fault they don't un kissed her smooth cheek. How der.stand " strange that all of her haughty reHe patted her nrtn and tried to sentment was gone, that she actucontrol his feelings. ally liked Ituby Postano. with his "That's ull right, kitten. know slow thick voice and his mottled you can't help It it's just their dark eyes. "When Willie's mamma Is better, way." His face worked, and stid (lenly he clenched his nig hand. you will come to visit us?" the old "My fattier he was good enough to lady asked, and Ernestine called her work for yours, for half Ills life- husband Willie for days afterward. time good eunuch for that but She promised to come. not good enough for his dead Will was worried about money, bodv " nnd Ernestine tried to soend as 'Will-W- ill don't don't darling little as possible. Mr. Todd's lodge oh, you must uot say such a thins insurance had paid for the funeral sweet Ilea rL" nnd left a small balance, which was til Mrs. Schluss said in "Let cry," soon eaten up by the heavy exwisely, and Will cried upon Ernes-fine'- penses of the mother's Illness. Will his tears wet her shoulder asked for a raise and got five dolthe Mouse, and she held him. 1 s feeling sohs rack him, wondering (iiinly If she would mourn fur ber father that way. This would he her home, she resolved, kissing his tear-we- t face, She holding him to her heart. would stay with Will and his mother. Her people had denied her husband the kindness that was due They had denied tinning kinfolk. her. She felt that she didn't care whether she ever saw them again. If they had done this for Will, everything else would have followed, hut now, In common loyalty to her husband, she hud to recognize this hurt. She was almost fainting with weariness. It seemed to her the night would never end. I'apa came In his big car and tW'k Ernestine and Will and Mrs. Schluss to the burying ground. Will accepted this courtesy with dignity. He was not the person to quibble at a time like this. The services of the Ethical sociIt ety were brief and dignified. was Ernestine's first acquaintance with death, and she felt the power of human dignity, felt as she had never felt before the common Inheritance, the Integrity of Will's father's life. When they came back Ernestine sat In the car and talked to her father a few minutes. She told him that she and Will were to stay nt the little house, that she was going to try her hand nt housework und nursing. She shonld have donp so sooner she didn't realize, she said, that she was needed. She ought not reproach herself, her father answered she hnd done quite well to avoid being a responsibility to Will's father nnd mother. "That wasn't enough," said Ernestine. "I've a new et of vnlues to learn." "You think the ones you learned 1 fit home lniitlominfoV "I didn't mean that." ''You've been very unlet wllh me till day. lo you resent mv atti- treat i tude?" Ernestine was near to tears "It hurt Will," she said, her mice slink- 1 lug, "I i forces me to take a stand I have to be loyal to Will. I'apa, he yen all so, but I love Will I le g If he's my husband. hurt, so am I." Her father's fare hnd grown very white. He Nit studying bis gloved hand upon the fmiiHhcd sleeting I i M i'"-t-. lliw.l 4 "That's right," he said, after n little. "After all, that's part of hut you learned at home I hope. ...... 1.. ...... f iiMi;;iii your uiotiicr wants n.e j it. to ti ll yoti wo'll establish a trust - flltld fur VOll unit nil.. t.,r I llllun 'jwhen she Is married. I've got my n t(l jlm.ney nj(,nc n)Prg. t, but I run settle ome on you nmre i'"W, and later, or I can give lie stopped ji.u an allowance. onl rolled rmotli.ti, nnd went n steadily, "1 still think your mar jflago will prove disastrous, hut ""U're my Ituie gir- l- want yon to jbe happy. Of course, you cnn at way come home, but long as i a., stnr nlih Will r.t what t can for you, Ernestine." i it was a long f..r him. He always qulik. half a phrase. i n f a sentence, surticed him. bands squccrcd bis arm. til in down and kissed pulled J m. and he Mil his bio arm. mwV jw ml In Ids c.crront, about her. Srnd drew her rinse. 1 "IVfore Will and I were mnrrled ln he thought you might think i wanted my money w anted soiiw Ivsntncp. and I promise"! him I'd I bis life, live nn his Income. "J V:o!e a bargain and I must stnnd papa. Hut I'm glad you told If I should need rmwejr, I II lei know. Thnnk you." w ne fcir-- tier again, and the? .4 f 'd ""d by. The conversation had away a little nt her resent J1" 'tit and mails her fool better. She a sirong desire to cling to het family, upponcd by the reso Jpt 1'i'b n she had taken to harden het I" M against them alt. She thought f tnatiii'ia and l.llllun and Lorlng. iiu I pas piir-eci- 3'e v r i!d 11 lars. At length he was forced to borrow from Mr. Poole, although Ernestine told him she could get money from her father. "Money!" he burst out passion ately. "I don't want any Briceland We wanted something money I real from them. Money's all they have." "You'll have to Increase your earnings. Will." "It takes time. And I Intend to do tt on my own Job, not In your father's office. Your folks must un derstnnd that." "Lillian can't says beggars choose." she said. "The beggar chooses," he warned her. Will's mother began to mend a little, the third or fourth week, although she was desperately 111. One day she asked Ernestine how they were managing, and Ernestine confessed that they had had to borrow. "The Troy street house Is In mv name." said Mrs. Todd. "Tell Will the deed and all are In his father's box tell him to have some real estate otllce sell It. I'll sign the deed It will he more than enough for my Illness." "lint, mother, when you are better, you will nerd your money." "I'll not be better. And I'd like to have the nurse all the time now." So the house was sold, and the few thousand dollars they got for It certainly made a remarkable dif ference. The doctor brought them resident nurse. Ernestine and Will agreed that they should spend Mrs. Todd's money only for the expenses of her Illness. On the day that Lillian was married Mrs. Todd was able to sit up. and Will consented to go to the The church was tilled wedding. with flowers the bridesmaids made a rainbow Ernestine hnd pleaded a The Baby for Passenger. LILLIAN was In Europe. Mamma and grandmother had gone to Langley lake for the month of August. Ernestine entered Into a period of waiting, of passing through days of unreality and nights of patient endurance. Sometimes, waking after she had slept, she looked about the walls of the little room with a feeling of enormous surprise. Was this really she. Ernestine Briceland, In this dim room, with the curtains pinned hack to admit any vagrant breeze, listening with her heart suddenly quick In the still night for her husband's footsteps? Mr. Poole came often to visit them. Ernestine began to look for him for late Sunday breakfast. And the Pastanos were kindness Itself. Their shining car, with the swart, grinning chauffeur, was oflen at the door. One day as Ernestine snt reading aloud. Will's mother laid a swollen, creased hand out over the book, and Ernestine looked up at her, smiled quickly and kissed her. "What Is It, mother?" They talked a little about the coming baby, and the plans Ernes tine and Will had made. "It Is hard for your mother," said Mrs. Todd, with a smile. "I think perhaps It Is as great a mistake to be stlffnecked nbout favors us It Is to he greedy." astonishment or sympathy, now disappeared, and Luring talked and the two girls listened. He assumed Ernestine knew all about their European Journey. Over there, he said, lie had got a new slant on things. It was a good thing for a man to get away from his desk for a while. Now he had decided to forego the Idea of the bench and go In for crime. They laughed and he twinkled at them, "but nil the same, he Insisted, he meant ll. "The Judiciary qualities are excellent, but not remunerative unless .one becomes a corrupt Judge, deliver from which fate Heaven me I The criminal lawer Is the Important lawyer of today. He Is the man with power In the courts. It will be a new kind of litigation for our office, but If I cun get the business I can handle It. I went to see this that Greek chap Pustano . It was harder to maintain the high level of contentment after Lillian returned from Euroe and established herself In her new home Will on the rad. out near went across wllh Ernestine one noon shortly after their return. Lillian was Mamma was there. charming to Will, kissing him when she greeied Ernestine and the baby and flattering him skillfully. After Will had left for the Sun the three women followed one another about the house, passed the baby back and forth between them, and talked, talked, talked, all at the snme time, all listening and talking, all Intent on catching up the old Intimacy. It was charm ing. Ernestine could not remember when she had spent such a happy afternoon. There was no one like niammii no one! "I've got to go. because papa Is bringing a new stone merger tiiaii I am home with him for dinner. going to put rock powder In the Matnmn kissed them nil coffee'." good by. with tears In her ecs. Ernestine looked at Lillian and realized with a shock how changed xhe was In the sli months since She was satisfied her marriage. Ha Patted Her Arm and Tritd to with her lot nnd herself. There st danger a challenge to waa at Control His Feeling. She was fate In her complaccny. the excuse of mourning for taking gent'e and kind to Ernestine, but no pnrt In the ceremony. The pews subtly patronising. It was espewere filled wllh old familiar cially noticeable since mamma had the ushers were young men Ernes gone, for mammn kept Lillian In tine and Lillian had known always chetk. Hut If l.llllun was changed. Lor Everything was very beautiful and formal, and Ernestine renlir.ed that Ing wn atartllngly so. lie seemed mamma would have liked such a to Ernestine bigger, handsomer. Ilia blond strength was tmw act In wedding for her. was very She waa glad afterward, that she a robust vliallly which hnd gone, fur the weeks and months different from Will's volatile et He ktcd Emetine af Just passed had been an hard for cltnhlllty. looked her that the beauty of her own ro- fectlotiately, t dl her she mance hsd become a Utile dimmed well and admired the baby. Mamma bad trained a maid for Put when she henrd the marriage In silent ceremony again, when she stood by Lillian, ami she served an excellent dinner, Will and watched her sister mary competence but the bright vlvm liy of the after l.rlng Hamilton, she remembered The Interwoven noon was gotip. eu'ry word and every kiss of her own marriage day Its storms and volubility of the three women, their one anothturmoil, and she looked at Will, at constant Interruption of bis clear strung face, at his lean, er, their exclamations and cries of lift! if, mi fm-e- s to Syncopated Music Japanese Jaw, Is sweeping through the Land of the Itlslng Sun and the twanging sumisen Is on the decline. Americans Just returned to Seattle report that "western" musical concerts, vocal or Instrumental, are attracting large audiences In the various cities of Japan, particularly when the music Is of a Jazzy nature. Shelklsh-looklnJapanese youths do tap dancing and patter syncopated songs the words of which are nil Japanese. Japanese Jazz songs such ns "The Potonbori March," "The Asnkusa March," "The P.Iack Pupil" and "The (ilrl of Henlyn" are published In great quantities. Students of Japanese schools nnd colleges everywhere are organizing bands and orchestras, nnd almost every Japanese citizen goes about humming or whistling some popular air, "Yes Sir, She's My Hahy" Js momentarily the favorite, furiously now-bein- enough, "Home, Sweet Home" known to almost all Japanese version. the is in UST empty a half can of Lewis Le In your garbage can and till with water let 1 SAFElXNTol ...... To Study Humanity It stand 10 minutes rinse Tale has lately established an insti . and It will he clean, odortute of human relations. The money less and sanitary. for it was given by the Kockfeller 8fnl for Frrp Book, fund foundation, the Commonwealth 'Tim Truth abuut I.)f." and the Laura Spelman Koekefeller James D. Swan, Manager of Specialties foundation. The first project under- The Salt Mfg. Co. Pennsylvania famitaken will be the study of the l. lit. M.-- til N. in k. r Drive. ( hit nKu will deal with every The ly. study phase of the family life that Is sub ject to scientific study: The rela tionship between parents and children, community Influences, education, Industry, fond, habits, climate nnd many other signal aspects of a M mi - 151 . HlLAOILPtOA JA t VA MeBRHDE'S "Perhaps," admitted Ernestine. "It Is hard to he exactly balanced. One must choose a direction In which to lean." They fell Into a friendly silence. After a little. Will's mother pressed Ernestine's hand. "About Will" she said and hesitated, and Ernestine's heart beat a 111 tie faster. "He patient with him. He hasn't Hut he will. found himself yet. You are more mature than Will. Childien will Increase the distance between your wisdom nnd his Just love him. He'll childishness. come home." Ernestine knew no answer, but the words fell Into her heart as though there were more significance to them than their stereotyped Eor an hour or more Importance. Ernestine they gut In silence, dreaming of, Mrs. Todd remembering, Willi Mrs. Todd lived Just long enough to see her grandson and to kiss his Will laid him poppy silk cheek. in the hollow of her arms, but after a moment, with a word of en treaty, she asked him to take the bahy away. He did so and. call Ing the nurse to Ills mother, who seemed to be swooning, he took the little one hack to Ernestine. And so the parlor of the little house was a bower for death. The gray coffin, the room filled with shell of the flowers, the worn-ou- t woman Ernestine had understood so little. Will accepted his mother's death with more philosophy than Ernestine had expected of him. The long waiting, the clinging, had been harder for him than the final separation. Hesldes, the new Utile life cuddled against Ernestine's heart was so much more than any loss It was such an appropriate compensation. The baby had finally established Ernestine among her new neighbors. Slowly but surely they bad come to respect tier, and now, witli Peter In hei arms, with her house clean and by tier own efforts, she found Mrs. Schluss and Mrs. I'ryor and others showing her real affec-tlt.n- , which she appreciated and respected In full. Ernestine felt that all sacrifice was Justified, and they entered Into a new phase of life. In their own small home. Will at the oars. Ernestine nt Hie helm, and the baby for passenger. Jap Youth Succumbing Satisfied With and Herself. She Was Her Lot afternoon, and recalled to him our acquaintanceship and our mutual lie remembered me perfriends, He fectly and usked about you. seems much Interested In you nnd Will, lies the man to see, Tom Kelly told me, at the City ball. He hag the any about all that Clnrk street colony. There's no end of money there nnd I'm going to dig some of It out for us." Ernestine's face was flushed. She could not deny her anger. "Hut It seems Inconsistent to me," she said quickly, "for you to take advantage of his friendship for Will when you disapprove so of our knowing him. I don't un- derstand." "What got to do with buslnessY' Luring asked, and his own face flushed wllh resentment "I tell you I've got to mtike new contacts If we're to bring a different kind of clientele Into the otllce. Hesldes. I didn't disapprove of Will knowing him. ll waa only Oo his taking you to that dive. you think I would mix Lillian up with that crowd?" "I can't see any grand differ"Lillian ence," retorted Ernestine. Isn't a baby. She's your wife, anyhow. P.esldes. the I'astnno ore I know all right all of them. them well, and the two girls are as tine as any I have met. There's not a month passes that we don't visit them, or they don't cult. Mr. He once Pastano admire Will. hurt my feelings, and he's been We've making It tip ever since. liven friends without asking nbout his political activities or bow he makes his money." "It's all very well fur you to lake an altitude with me." declared l.orlhg, "but I've come home with the determination to make money and a lot of ll. Chicago Is rich. I may as well take some or It as And If an acquaintance others. with a powerful man like Pustano falls to mv Imk, I'll pursue It. Will would want me to" "Will would," admitted Ernes tine, but her looks were cold "You've changed. Luring. You used nndiitlous." not lie a "I've acquired a new S'mse of values." be admitted. "Of course I in not saving at nil that a man should stick at nothing In make money. That'a a mistake, and no Hut I've nnxhow. good around I saw one thing every the It Is the past Ion where. possession of money a much aa a man cun lav hand on." "lmn'l be silly. I.orlng." snld his "Look hw happy wife mildly. Ernestine Is, and she's as broke aa broke." "I am happy." declared Ertica-lllie. "Yes." admitted Lorli g "but that Is because )our capacity for happl lies Is gient. Your p!e.iurp In your marriage and ymr child wouldn't be spoiled nt all by mure complex living whole. HIGH GRADE AUTOMOBILES Relict of Bronze Age Workmen engaged upon nn ex cavating Job In a Herlin suburban park dug up several old bronze urns, but because they did not realize their value they were not careful In han dling the fragile vessels and most of them were ruined. The curator of a Herlin museum examined the pieces and estimated the age of the urns at more than H.nott year. Some of the urns were filled with ashes, and In view of this It Is believed that the park marks the site of nn ancient burlut ground. Further excavation under the supervision of scientists Is now being undertaken. Buys for Cash all Grades of Cars. Sells fully guaranteed cars 60 days service McBRIDE Specializes in Latest Models all makes new or reconditioned. McBRIDE always has a large stock of Late Model Automobiles on hand comfort. "I don't want nothing changed." "Not now ti'd nt ti,i moment Hot If mi II be boiiei wlih your self, you'll find that one reiiw.n for lour contentment Is your great ex Ynil for the future. feel that your condition l only lempotarv. ("onto now, Ernestine Intt't Hint so? You are confident that there will be tuorn y for you and Will, whin Peter grows older. nnd Will's work develops into more imiMirtani e. ISoing pior ran enme If It's only an Interlude. be Hut if you had to look forward to noth ing clp The truth of his logic hurt Ernes line unbearably, "I don't care whether Will ever mskes money or not." she declared pastonatrly, almost In (ears. "You think you don't," said luri- ltieral ly. 'Hiil Will wouldn't say that Every Minn wants money every woman wants her man to have It. It s a n.miM "f 'wrr. II he'll that If Will bp's failed Jour confidence In him." (TO BE CO.STlMt i't ng deiit f f'l Willys-Knigh- McBRIDE says see him first if you want to BUY, SELL or TRADE. McBRIDE'S-C- or. 7th South Main SALT LAKE CITY. Plan Hell's Hole Road Lindbergh peak, named In honor of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, rises fro.n the center of Hell's hole, a tre mendous glacial basin of wild grandeur north of the Arapahoe glacier Mind Yer Tongue district. Colorado. Plans are on find Dangerous Grata Widows Mrs. Mirks There are three grass for the building of an automobile "It's a genuine autlipie, Kir. road na far as possible from Arnpa-ho"Itut you are asking n fearful prlre widows In our sew ing circle now, Mr. Mocks Hay, get out of that glacier toward the hnln and for It." then construction of an easy (rail to "Well, sir, look bow wages and circlet Why, the hay fever In I he the bottom of Hell's bole. the cost of materials haxe g"tie up!" nlr must be sickening. New Iledford Standard. I'll hniige. Better Than That If a man's wife will let his r.conomy Is mostly practiced, not "That girl has a beautiful autoino-Mle.- " ulone, she can boss blm every "oh. but you ought to ee from principle, but because one other way. hasn't the money. her rarrlnge." e bnsl-nes- ANOTHERiCTORY FOR THIS REGULAR STOCK MOTOR OIL! c bi-e- fr t, Including Packard. Chrysler, Cadillac, Graham-Paie- , Dodge, Essex, Plymouth, Hudson, Erskine, Pontiac, Studcbaker, Ford, Chevrolet. ON THE HEELS OF ITS ACCOMPLISHMENT AT INDIANAPOLIS MAY 30, CONOCO WINS 3RD, 4TH, AND 5TH PLACES AT ALTOONA AT BETTER THAN ONE HUNDRED MILES PER HOUR rrtnk Farmer, in t hUtttr Sf' ffal, "plartd" third uitb ex tract tpttd ef 102.2 mici fee hour."Skort y"Ctntlo, In a httlterSfhofitlJ Sptctat, uai fourth uith 101 A miltt ffr hour, "Sfci" Gtrdntr vat fifth In MioVr fro Drtte Special. All thee uied CON-OC- Oil In thit trtion O Motor Cerm-Ptocen- demon' fon-ini- the qualiliet 0 I hit motor pit. At "itok" regular AUoona, 01 at Indiana folii, thit Ml the frit time that a ttoek ml had flared 10 high In the rate. the ftnith 0 T1 tory of thr Altnona rinrtot be told without rrfrrrnce tf the cf CONOCO r Oil tl J It Ind'inipolrt, i in tint lOO-nnl- r-- the racing fraternity. itixk Grrm-rrotewr- m i'iih mt mto,i IK i tt ir I n Vii i (..!. Vrmrn 11. 1, tttmrnrtmr t. .i.. by c aitor r ,M l,.. l. have re wocr Mixk i ! HI victory Gcrm-ProccMc- d u, dominated ii ,, , a won wuh the lame oil that you can buy at any RcJ w PpkcmcJ Mumr Oil had dVptaycJ Triangle nation. the qualities rtrcwary to wilve the 1 Ick CONOCO victor ici have lubrication problem of racing I id finite meaning to eveiy one motor. CONOCO had earned who Jrivctacar.Thcy lutntantiat the rrtpcit of tint nvt kcpttat every claim that wit made fyt it when the cut wu introduced lat group and earmJ it fairly. In view tf tl InJiinapnll November. it wai only natural for a You can tpcr!enct the lafety tnetnttty of ir driven at Attna ind economy of tlm ml by nop d to chooif CONOCO pmg at the next Red Triangle Motor Oil for AmcfKa'i Station anJ itking fort fatet competitive rate. And 11 trine (an whirred" iround the hoardi at pn June 14, CON OCO Igairi proved in c After v wrven hid rc n lh oil it the iW ff lh InJiimpolii worth in a held previoudy Mnpif I nf it that the itimmtef tht rtf wcil a imptc.J Germ ProccAvd Motor Oil, clow on the liccti of CONOCO laon-fTivhtn- (Jrtm-rrocfMc- InJiinjpolii rice ! after itiry nu oowrvcj tti lull lxJy in J grrJ Color II ll cirne from Divt Lvins motor, the word went out that CONOCO Germ. -- i ptitfJIy tried to enter W ithout lucccit! So chalk up inotrier VKtwty for CONOCO GEkM PROCESSED AH Af (IN ft A I I MOTOk OIL |