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Show THE MURRAY EAGLE I Lawn," said a sign over the entrance steps. The hallway and au upper room were lighted, at twelve o'clock on a quiet Monday eight Larry rang the bell. There was do answer; he tried the door. "It's open; there's someone here. They wouldn't go away and leave the place lighted up," he said to Tony, ringing again. Again there was no response; far "Oak I MAIDEN ! VOYAGE I I KATHLEEN ! NORRIS ; K&Uilesn WNU Sorvit. Copyright, : Norrl. upstairs S LEGALNOTICES State Salt USERS WATER Engineer's Lake Oflice, April City, Utah, 1930. they could hear a child crying. iiiiittmiitiiiiMiiiiniiriiiimim"'' NOTICE TO the Donny murder and mentioned In the Bellamy divorce." "Whit ')t you into it In the first place? Didn't l.arry put you on a bus that night and send you home?" "Yes; you weren't lie re. I remember. Yes, I got here about three o'clock. But you see the fact of the bus picking rne up there at that hour gave them something to work on, and then this Miss Walllster of Oakland gave them my name. She'd been In the car l.arry and I Stopped before we went to the Donny house." "Who's she?" I "An Oakland schoolteacher. did a story about her once." "The Bellamy outfit's all going away?" "China." "When do they go?" "Day after tomorrow." "Going to see her before they go?" "No." "Will you see him?" Tony said "no," again, Immed"Yes, he's to come iately adding: (Continued from Last Week) iiiiiiiimiiiti jiiiiin 28, Notice is hereby Riven that Little Cottonwood Tanner Ditch Company, c J. A. Berrett, Murray, Utah, has made Application in accordance with the laws of Utah to appropriate 2 sec. ft. of water from a tile drain in Salt Lake county, Utah. Said water will be diverted from April 1 to October 15 inclusive of each year at a point which bears N. 643 ft. and W. 388 ft. the EVi cor. Sec. 20, T. It. 1 E., SLB & M. and conveyed by applicant's Little Green River lateral and applied directly on that part of applicant's lands lying below the point from "There's a baby In there somewhere, Larry. They've gone away and left It," here's someone." Foot"Walt steps were coming along the hall; the lock rattled, and a pale young man looked out." "What do you want?" "May I use your telephone, We've got a flat, and please? there doesn't seem to be any garage near here." The young man looked at them, blinking. "It's out of order " he began. Then his manner changed. He clutched his temple, dug the heels of his palms Into his eyes, and burst Into bitter weeping. "Come In," he sobbed, "my wife's Just been murdered I I don't know what to do." of diversion aforedescribed, but by exchange with other water, the benefits of this appropriation will be distributed equaljy to 15U0 acres of land under applicant's system as follows: Parts NE'a Sec. 29, W,i Sec. 21, E'i Sec. 20, W'i Sec. 16, Sec. 17, Sec. 8, NEV4 Sec. 7 and SE'4 Sec. 6, T. 2S., R. 1 E., SLB & M. of This application is designated the State Engineer's OlTice as File No. 11953. All protests against the granting of said application, stating the reasons therefor, shall be submitted in affidavit form and in duplicate, accompanied by a fee of $1.00 and filed in this olTice within 30 days after the completion of the publication of this notice. ' T. II. HUMPH ERYS, State Engineer. Date of first publication, May 7, in 1936, last Date of 1936. June publication, 4, COMMUNITY METHODIST CHIRCH murder case took headlines In all the newspapers the next day, and for many days to come. Harold Donny was In no sense an ordinary rancher; he was the scapegrace son of Everard Donny, a wealthy Pittsburgh steel man. Ills wife had been the beautiful Zelda Mhoon of Santa Barbara, and their ranching experiment originally had been rather In the nature of a high adventure set In a background of riding horses, handsome cars, good servants, smart clothes. But they had money; they had had a baby; there was every reason to suppose that there had been a nervous strain upon both the spoiled youug husband and wife of late years; the newspapers were agog with theories as to the woman's coldness, the man's Jealousy, the quarrels and threats that had gone on In the once luxurious home. n Lawrence Bellamy, the associate editor of the Call, who had been motoring home alone who had been motoring home with an unknown woman compan- Accidents Increase Daily! Protect This YOURiclf Deadly lUtcs Low Quick Against Menace Service Thooe for Representative Today J. REX HAMILTON 4762 South State Street Ihonr Ml'KRAY 165 7 For Best Results AT i.rss COST Start Your Chick im Draper Quality Chick Mashes There Are None Better Market The jour rggs with us. best and fairest deal ixjssible, VV. 4001 E. CAIN & SON Sa. 5th l ast Mur. S3S-- Fred R. Morgan Attorney At Law NOTARY PUBLIC "You Poor Kid," Cliff Said Sympathy, In Sud-de- letting this happen?" "Ah, If you'll forgive me I I let It happen. You didn't." "My wife !" Larry whispered. And straightening herself In her seat beside him again, the girl repeated it with her wet eyes shining. "Yes nothing will ever make me anything but that, Larry. The woman that was meant for you." lie touched the starter, turned the car on the short brown grass. They drove back Into the city, and at the door of the newspaper office Tony said only another n for me here at ten tomorrow, Cliff. We're going off somewhere to talk of course. It's good-by- , together. After you're married, I'm going to New York, if they'll send me, and Larry won't be back until late autumn. We'll never see each other again," "You poor kid," Cliff said in sudden sympathy. "It's not your fault it had to be Larry you liked It's rotten for you I" Tony's face wrinkled, and her lip shook; she looked away, swallowing with a dry throat She said nothing. o'clock on half-audibl- e "good-by.- 1 They sat In the parked car and stared out at the sea that was veiled and gray under the fog. It was the quietest hour of the morn-InTony and Larry had the beach to themselves. fortunate.' "Is Ruth hitter about It, Larry?" "On the contrary, she doesn't see, Quiet and rather pale, Tony went or she won't admit, anything to the hideous through the unreal days. She was at the coroner's be bitter about .She's very happy and very affectionate, and grateInquest, answering questions simful to me for going along, and sure ply, with her characteristic little HI love It alll" puzzled frown drawing the penciled "She's taken that position," Tony brows together over ber blue eyes. She and Mrs. Bellamy were friends? said. In a hard voice. "She's Great friends. She bad spent the She's taken that yes. momentous Sunday with Mr. and position.' The girl s voice was gentler, her Mrs. Bellamy In Pebble Beach? blue eyes shadowed, when she Yes. She told Aunt Meg something; spoke again. "But she knows we love each Brenda little more, she told Clllt other?" the trutiu "She never had said so. She "You and be you mean you and talks of what the best thing Is for Clllt stammered. Larry all of us. For me, and for you "Oh, yes," "And how long's this teen going for all of us." "Poor lliith." Tony said; "what onr "There wasn't much to 'go on. Other attitude can she take, unless she wants to let you go?" Mouths, I gueo.C Tony said In re"Caroline and Mrs. Patterson ply. "Well, then, what the Men of help her to keep It up." being so decent about Itr "Keep up T T don't think it's 'The well, the little flc'jon that exactly the whole thing Is Is Just some-- , Tony said, with an effort. "in just KuuYa idea of the best thing to he hushed tip and forgiven ' and forgotten." way out," "You didn't din with them that "Forgiven and forgotten!" Tony day, then?" said, with the proud color In her ".No, and neither did Larry. He face, started before dinner, and I wait"They seem to feel that there Is ed fur him at IHI Monte, in J he m question that 1 like you too picked nie up." much and ymt like me to much." "What time was thUr Larry said. "But since im t.n,t A little after u. we had din- and Tony, they must be protected ner at King City; we talked for and excused. Larry's like that, and three hours." roor little Tony didn't know what "Hal" Cliff ejaculated. "AnJ she he was letting herself In for, what didn't bawl u out!'' gossiping tongue would make of "No. tt.o prefers it this way. She's protecting me. and "I suppose so." Tony mi j him from his own ridiculous (jrj. fHy, "Does Ituth believe It!" and they're all g..g l0 cjilna ,0. "Until always hrlieie what she gethrr. wants to believe. Yes. she believes "H ill he gir "He has to Ko, Otherwise hnt It, As far as she's concerned It's true. Much the best thing f,.r all divorce him." Is for us to hush It up, concerned "Threatens that, huh?" "She Wsti1 have to threaten, and go sway." made no comment. j?nc its Just that-t- -h, she's not well, hadTony taken of? her white hat; her ind her mother wants to g ml her niece Mrs. IVlliemus is .ina, dark uncovered hair lay In (g(i and sprays nealnnf the man's and If won't come to his rings senses and go happily )(int wl(n shoulder. lie could look down and see the smooth clear tnn of her them well, sheVjust done." where the fine down of a "Gosh, what niri? Maybe he'll cheek, showed peach against the hlte throw her down?" light or the strange muffled day, "Ha can he. Cliff? f,r n and the lowered thick dark eye. thing, fche really d.c love him; she's always Iwn kind to me. And lashes, and the curve of her tine n In even If he did. thafd finish me. wide oioulh. Tony again while today; hut her n.e That'd give evrrjene chance to Coat was brown, and the mi-ilsay that I was the girl mixed Into tquans pumps braced against the r ' itr Mi-lo- ' Office 4620 So. State Plume Mur. 499AV d Tony. He put his arms about her, and for a long minute she lay against him, and felt his kisses on her lips. "You'll forgive me, Tony, for ever that evening who had been motor-In- g home with Miss Antoinette Services at 11:45 a. m. Taft, social editor of the Call had Ladies Aid Society from 2 to been the person to discover the 4 p. m., on Wednesdays. tragedy and had quite properly notified the San Jose police. Miss Taft, It appeared from an amicable statement from Mrs. Bellamy, was close friend of the Bella my family and had spent the day with thetii at Pebble Reach. No hint of scandal or surprise or blame came from Ruth, Everything had been quite as It should be; she was devoted to Miss Taft; the whole thing was only so "un- NptaryPiblic we?" "You'll always be what you are now, Tony the only person In all the world for me." "And you for me," she said, In a voice she tried to hold steady. "I'll always be glad we had this much, Larry. This Is something this Is more than I ever thought y, well-know- twelve-seventee- fair." "It's like a terrible dream that we're together now that you're safe In my arms here, Tony and that tomorrow that ache for you that ache for you, will beglu and there won't be any cure!" "No matter where we are, no matter what happens, we'll always belong to each other, Larry, won't high-bridge- d lst at all hoped too much for me, done too much for me. It wouldn't be brown-skinne- a. m., fol 11 "It won't be forever, Tony." somewhere Somehow the roads will come together again.' "And meanwhile we'll think of each other and of today." "Ah, that's what they always In say," the girl said with a break forget!" then "And they voice. her "I'll not forget Ah, you're so sweet!" he said, with his lips against her forehead. And then, Tony, we couldn't Just run away from It all?" "iN'ot from Bendy and Bruce and Cliff and Aunt Meg, no. They've "'o. " front-pag- e ion Sunday School at lowed by Preaching XXII Donny TpilE ders- - I'd have." "It doesn't seem possible to say good-by,Larry presently said very simply, Tony stirred herself against his arm, drew away. "Let me look at you, Larry." They looked gravely at each other: the tall, lean nose man, with the and the deepset eyes, and the girl In her white frock and brown coat, with her dark hair disheveled and her blue eyes set In delicate circles of umber, and fringed with dark lashes that were frankly wet "It's good-bmy dear," said 2 S., CHAPTER foot rest were brown, too. Larry shoul-tightened his arm about her ttt i " She went up to her desk, stopping to hang up her hat and coat Her face straighten her hair. looked odd to her; it was white. The newspaper office was very quiet at twelve o'clock. Larry was meeting Caroline and Ruth for lunch and to do some last shopA truck would call for the ping. trunks at five o'clock; they would put their nlgbtwear and their books and hairbrushes Into their handbags tomorrow morning, and the apartment they were abandoning wouia be run of cheerful conversation. And so down to the big white ship, and through the pleasant flurry of passports and finding their staterooms with the clutter and confusion of the waterfront all about them; with the bay steamers pouring soft whistles into the noon air, and the salt water slapping Idly against the piers-S- he seemed to be hearing his voice again, feeling the tightening of that big arm about her shoulders; she seemed again to see the brown face and the nose, and the movement of his brown lean hand when he took off his glasses to look at her Tony crossed her arms on her desk and put her head down upon them. Waves of bitterness and longing broke over her. and reced ed, and strengthened to break over her again. Pawning, a call boy came In to arcb himself like a snake over a telephone. No. tlm mtiiii.ii.. -- it tor wasn't there yet-- the city edi tor wasn't there Ring back, jet please. He dawdled away, and Tony flattened the curiously assorted notes on her desk; brought her heavy eyes to them. She picked up a pen, high-bridge- d "'Mrs. P.alnbrldge Foster's of the engagement of her daughter. Mary Barbara, was one of the surprises of q unusual-l- y gay season. Miss Foster, a dobu-tant- e of winter'" lt CHAPTER XXIII . . . . .t. the Orphanage, but or course uC was coming later. It The Bly house was enormous; AvePacific a on stood majestically the nue corner that commanded and winter bay, cold the sweep of Golden the Presidio slopes, and the stfr that If Ruth hadn't fr when that horrible Donny tt happened " "Don't speak of it," pie;,,,. , Meggy faintly, her u , ia. grinned In her hnni lously looking from one'?"1 tit other, Ana I think" Brenda after a sympathetic nod nf. glorious!" said all the to find the guests as they arrived !n her aunt's riironti, ..r" room deliclously back drawing big ,nik that Tonv Instt,,, roar-In- g fire wood a great up. warm, and Hi Pa en, she . think trrow enormous in tl,f6. and snapping in the weeks after the ': fireplace. Like all the bouses along away It was as if a mm . Pacific Avenue on the north, the the hot old Impatient windows their lelflsh --"',; with living rooms, She was never BelHsh- panowide the for commanding, BH enAunt Meg, ready to weep. rama, were at the back; the "No, she never was. Bu't trance hall was a Jumble of wraps but -- -j ottonHvo maids today, and stubbornly BI1U Ul Bin.i.1 - 'U )es' there was plenty of holly and mis she was, Aunt Meg." "As a mule!" said Cliff, tletoe there too. Christmas irees and WA on women laughed. stood In all the corners and up and "She changed," said BrPnfl4 the great angle of the stairs, was as if she thought: 'I'll scented the air with pine. There were relatives asked in for Tony Taft. I'll live for all th. . faded gentle elderly Christmas: men and women basking in the family glory; there were nice boy cousins, all penniless, evidently, rather variously dressed, but bashand fully amusing and talkative, Unby encouraged much being very There cle Rick and Aunt Tina. was one spectacled nice girl cousin with her young man, and there were meaningless young men for Geraldine and Pauline, and of course Martin Gosslng and Helo-isFor Ilelolse was going to be married too, only two year3 after Mary Rose, and Mamma positively said this time that she didn't want to hear another word of engagements for years! Over this heterogeneous party Dr. and Mrs. Bly ftlgnedjn happy excitement The doctor told Aunt Meg at every opportunity that that was what the house was for: to give the young people a good time. He reiterated in great satisfaction the statement that it was his idea to have Clifford's people have everyone. Cliff's aunt and his sisters and brothers why not? It was Christmas. Evidently the big table forty-on- e would sit down at it had been in the process of getting set and decorated for the better part of the They Cook and They Tramp Around. day; as for the tree, concealed downstairs In the billiard room, its of them, Brenda and the UaJiy, ar fl completion had occupied the family and Mary Hose, and Amu Cliff of the The for weeks. atmosphere and Aunt Sally I'll he big house was one of Innocent I'll read and I'll study I'll ma'.i laughter and cheer; the Blys, the myself the wisest woman, the all have cousins the might Tafts, the most cultured -- I'll n.it est, at been children again, gathering wild, gay, reckless Tony Taft ay the piano to sing the carols Pau" line played so nicely, bending over more' was "It something like that," CI 1 the great puzzle that was as Brenda said, paused, with ter spread on the library table, runIn her eyes. down stairs. and ning up "I think it was." Brenda sail Brenda and Alvin, with the pre"But then what's the child r cious woolly armful that was Anto get out of It herself;" Aj: thony, had arrived at the Taft Ing asked. "She's nearly twrst;. Meg before that morning apartment she doesn't wasit : Tony was out of bed, and Brenda eight and Aunt Meg had spent a happy marry" T wish she'd marry J.e Vr day managing the good, sweet con1st!, Brenda derwnlll" tented baby. Tony had rushed off to work, Bruce had come home, pause. Cliff a "He doesn't clh-k,and In the old way had kept the head, "lie's a priv his shaking while In an manhe uproar place to him. She aged a bath; Cliff had come at she's devoted and they w 3 his to down place, o'clock to about three gather op iht i and around; they tramp presents for the Bly tree. It somehow But him. mires "Gosh, the Bly library looks like the Emporium packing room now I" click." "Where are the Bellamy! Cliff had exulted, as they had filled his arms with the very creditable Bendy?" "In Nice. Larry caa;e lack ' Taft collection. Everyone had been now I iwlleveb dressing then, for It was to be an New York once; over gone again. The o!il moil early dinner; Aunt Megzy, crimped had a stroke, you know, and thej' and rustling; Brenda, quite y en. waiti:. changed In figure again, Just been hanging there, i a taken place They've in matronly spreading silk; the b""k." a baby In his cap and Larry's writing "Thay went away-wh- eBf caped coat It "A year and a ha'.f Just as they started Bruce had P.osc atil 1 before Just Mary come In to escort them, and a moment later Tony, who had to married." "What do you suppose Urrj J change, and to rush off to cover one more Christmas tree before with himself all day;" A "Oh, writes. And mvIus. Joining them at the Blys'. It was . ll this circumstance that gave them a plays bridge. The " Mrs. Polhemiis chance, Cliff and Brenda and Aunt them, "Does Tony hear from tlsT Meg, to discuss her, when they ' "Only through .1 '. found themselves for a moment 1 unst W An write. divesn't quiet out of the noisy current, In the big leather chairs of the Bly think," Brenda said !.!!?, behaved niflgnificeM library. .ct," C "She's been a g "Tony ought to he here." said. "She'll be here any minute now." T ? 1 "Ah, here fhe W; "Doesn't she look well. Bendy?" : Y I room next the nt., "Beautiful. She lonkf.1 badly for "No t ad Meg, and Bru-l while; Just at first," Brenda said, be a party!" lowering her voice. "But lately I Here was Tony H ' on, wen, mere s no one like Tony," fresh and rosy fr "Mary Rose is crnity about her " She had left her mr- r ir;l Diff sail "You know how ' U.f Tony ! r .! can get people when she goes after stairs; her freshly f.irilwi I In waves over Iot them." 'r was dm;, , , her "I believe she's over It Aunt with gown , v.! I f t deep Vandyke Meg said decidedly. She looked w hopefully at Brenda and then at lar of lace; she '?.:;t': t nhe peemed lovely ; Cliff. "She'll never be over It," Brenda l)Cr tO the SOfiiettli,.! Mid, shaking her head. She brushed a breath of new l!", m'.1. her lips across the soft flutr "White violet :" of i !f rld her to Ing up hair. Anthony's f them io i . .It "Think not, hey?" Cliff asked, "They gave nren't .!;:.: with a shrewd look. Brenda !'! shook phanagej her head ai:;iln. Here, they're for j "Ha!" Aunt Meg ejaculated, kissing you today. I' ,.r, I' :!..i.'t fl:ed. It's Christmas? i how wonderful It "Nrt, but I think this of Tony" warm and find II. "A Brenda h;an ,, yu K sWy, re Vol! was horribly ashamed of Atillinnf i,4 herself." aon t see exartlr nhv Hello, Mary n undertone "Hw ,,e itr ahould have been ashamed of " -- The horrid rerlifi ln '' fft Cliff protested. "Bocmi. Larry n Ing has mopped." Mir.v married." 'She couldn't help that." 'r tided to her i the a relief what a "Ah. Rif docg fori snnie, yml shamed when she fan . said. da jove Uh a married man. Alvin "If It should b a c rV, f thinks she wn, rtrenda mid, clinch, my fathrr'd dron It" ins the niaiter with the unanswer- murmured. able argument. "I want a dri." 'i -It seem, to me It's tnore bad Tonv burst li.M lurk than anything to be ashamed scriptln of th. of." Cliff persisted. arm' "A girl doesn't feel so. '!! And Tony sponge cakes, the was bitterly ashamed. 8bt knew out for dolls. "Oh, 5 quick-tempere- d ICS e. Pi m Jig-sa- eset-tlaie- g- J: undls-gulsedl- a. I - s'- -- i ' f 1 : TT WAS a nice thing for them to ask us, and I don't see how we could have gotten out of It." said Aunt Meg in ao undertone. "But, gosh, It's more fun at home, Christmas Eve," Bruce observed. "Shhhl" Brenda muttered In horror. "Your voice Is absolutely penetrating'" They were all m the Bly library, guests it the great Christmas party that CUtTa parIn law had been ents planning for weeks. For the moment only the Tarts were In the room; Aunt Meg rustling In silk; Bruce handsome and sulky; Brenda In rapt attendance upon little Anthony; ciitl nervously proud of them all Ah . vln hfld "Just nrrlvi-,1- . v" T nan had to do the Christmas tree at dU-coi- Y- -'i I 1 llc" her-"If.- I- -; t, t''f iiri-ha--- - (Continued Not "crk , |
