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Show THE PROVO HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1921. tul as be SINES and profess ional S pU ' WU(Q)!LII cause of a I are elimi- - Hi ' WSVURRIER Chiropractor .' ' Store. Over Farrer Bros. M iopyrigHr. 1921- - by if Syndicote.Irvc As that perturbing evening wore on, cause'and effect seemed to touch: and. word gradually reached the most outfrom his point of view, to be missing should be the lightest of calamities, lying members of the Atwater family SAUpli, B. Y. U. -- conBecttea-ta- at OPHONE It iitruMbakhe-was-concerne- m NoWe-DHI--- tog. Ordinarily, this bit would have caused them iz licssura. Results in 1 :. PROF. ROBERT c0RJSrJAND of news . with- - d the restoration of Noble Dill to the Dill so far as such aiv event rojght affect his own incompara ble misfortunes but. not otherwise. He regarded Noble and Noble's merely as unfair damage to himself, lie continued to look at this norteverei rest of the anxiety. Noble's person and Intellect were so commonplace "Insignificant jtesideVe Phone 537 was the term usually preferred in hi -- 4 wn circle that he was considered to C Y. HANSEN be as nearly negligible as It is chartta- Welto Mit-o- f consider a fellow being. Trae8033 hla. and-flhL Decorative "and House, Sign there was one thing that set Mm thoughts made his strange gaze apPainting. Bpart ; ne was round worthy of a su- - pear to her so hardened that she shook (dmiiiing. perlatlve when he- - feU-- la love-- wlth-- i- ber head and looked away. Hanging. Sne812-W- . 215 W. Center. Julia Atwater. Of aU the large and Toor young Mr. Dill 1" she said. In like condition, he obardent someone could only hare fceeif "If group Utah. Provo, tained consplcuousness as "The Worst" Of course tfel distinction caused him to- - become better known rnu ARD P. MAYHEW and more talked about than tn his ' Piano Tuner and Player Adjuster earlier youth. With Howeverrthe eccentricities of a per ..., :..r.;T:t. , son loiuch an jextreMry of love art m-... - TJoooll Jtr J1 yixon, j,y seldom valued except as comedy; and 619-J- V Store 544. even Res. Phone then, with no warmth of heart for the comedian, but rather with an Incredulous disdain ; so It Is safe to say that under other circumstances Noble might have been missing, Indeed, and few of the Atwater would have : missed him. But smaHera wereiheyJ REMQYES THE worried a great deal about him, fearCAUSE ing that a rash act on his part might reflect notoriety on themselves through DR. D. D. BOYER thefr beautiful relatlve-a- nd through the North End Dally Oriole. And when ninejclock came and Mrs. DID Bonri Phona 287. 'and ' reported to Herbert's father, over the 346 North University Are, ' ' telephone, that nothing had yet been .:' heard from her son, the pressure of those who were blaming the Oriole '. COAL more than Julia became so wearing THE KIND YOU WANT disap-rpearan- -- , MP - " :'- v;. Osteopathy 2-- 10-1- 2 : StendardrCastle Gate, King, Panther, Clear Creek, Black Hawk. Order Today "SMOOT& SPAFFORD fhat Herbert JtoMrt he would rather spend the remaining days of his life running away from Wallle Torbln than put In any more of such a dog's evening as he was putting in thus he ' defined it. He made a confession; that Is to say, it was a proclamation. He his innocence. . He began the" history of It with a description of events distinctly subsequent to the little game with Patty Falrchlld, and explained how he and Henry had felt that their parents would hot always be with them, and as their parents wished them to be polite, they Jiad resolved to be polite1 to Florence Proceeding he related in detail' her. Journalistic ', "... . exploit Of the matter In hand he told the perfect and absolute truth and was immediately refuted, confuted and demonstrated to be a falsg witness by Aunt Fanny, Aunt Carrie, and? Cousin Virginia, who had all heard, him vehemently declare, no longer ago than ' the preceding Sunday, that lie and his Satisfaction Guaranteed. Phone 17. pro-clalni- iliICH4IUt Hatch - , Undertaking Co The House of Economy , -- and Service E. 0. MOE -- o' paftnerfiad & CO. prevent Florence from ever again setN. First W. Phone 748. ting foot within the newspaper buildIn addition, he was quite showContractors of Sanitary Plumb- -' ing. ered with definitions ; and these', though ing, Steam, Vapor and Hot so variant," all sought to phrase but the n one subject ; his conduct In seeking to Water Heating. Florence through the mire, when First class workmanship and slie was absent and could not defend material at a reasonable price is herself. Poor Florence, would answer In the evening, he was told, se- 'What we offer for, your patrona- later and though her cause was thus verely; ge. A good place to get estichampioned against the. slander it Is mate on Areola Heaters. "trueTthat some of Themielt stJrririgsTf In' curiosity in regard to Florence. fact, there was getting to be something like a eidud upon "her reputation. There were several important things for her to explain ; among "them, Jier taking Noble re- t it upon herself to 53 We. buy sell and And Under : That Light Sat Noble Dill. Old - little they had unanimously set their esjieotntion In so romnnueaHy pessl m'stlc a groove." But If the truth of h!3 whereabouts ': could "have been made known to them, as they sat Jims, t;ether at what was developing vlr-i- y into his wake, with Herbert as a compulsory participant, they would have turned the session into a riot of amazement. Noble was in tlx very last place (they would have said, when calmer) where anybody In the world could have madly dreamed of looking lor: him I They would have been right about It, No one vcould hive expected to find. Noble tonight e Inside the old, brick house L Atwater, Senior, chief of of Air. her sudden departure from home anl the Atwat(,rs and f!lti,er 0f the dis- f absence rather odd protractfon turblng Julia. This was an old man of " therefrom. It was not thought she rigidly limited sympathies ; and his was in good company. .v Uncle. Joseph opinion of Noble Dill bad become" al had telephoned from "a suburb- - tht most notorious ; here was no bosom of they were dining at a farmhouse and refuge for a lorn Noble needing solwould thence descend to the general nor was his house for any moment ace, region of the movies. hospitable with Julia out of Jt MoreThat word of any sort had come over, Mr. HE; Atwater, Senior, was from Uncle Joseph "was in ft measure not at present , In the house; he had ' reassuring! but the air of perturbation closed and locked It yesterday, giving and gloom was not noticeably . re the servants a week's vacation and moved. The general Impression might telling them not to return till he sent be summed nn in the words f his for them; and had then gone out of sister. owB to look, over hominy mlll lie And yet, as the "Nobody knows what that man'U do, .thought tf buying. when he decides to!" Aunt Carrie, wake went on, there was a light in the said nervously. "Letting the poor house, and under that light sat Noble child 'stay up so late I f She ought to Dill. be la bed this minute, even if it Is Returning home,, after Florence had Saturday night "Or else she ought to placed the shattering news within his hand, Noble bad changed his, shoes be here to listen to her own bad little and his tie. He was but a mi cousin trj'ihg to put his terrible re--Ism ; he bad no motive. The shoes he shoulders." . on her sponsiblllty ' put on were, no better than those he One Item of her description of himself the badgered Herbert could not took off; the fresh tie was - no lovelier than the one .he had worn- nor had It bear In silence, although he had just declared that since the truth was so even the lucidity to be a purple one, as evidence of grief. No; his action amont, his persecutors he was, if so viewed, "crazy," as Aunt would open his mouth no more, until over Fanny had called it Agitation flrst 'bad," the next day. He passed Love but furiously stated his height In feet took 'this form ; that was all. and change of dress are closely allied ; Inches and fractions of inches. and In happier times when Noble came Aunt Fanny shook her head in home from work and would see Julia Herbert," be "That may mourning. In the evening , he usually changed his she said gently, "But you must try to clothes. 'No doubt there Is some faint Mr. young realize It. can't bring poor tracery here, to Indistinct to repay Dill back to his family," contemplation. at her. looked " Agnln Herbert Just When he left the house he walked He bad no Indifference niore'profound and toward the r!pliHiVd'wn-ton- , than that upon which her strjiiued nnf-ml'fviinipv Jje rn5: end of ilI con pent ion of the relation between . , THE BOOK 113 N. four-squar- EXCHANGE t University Ave. -- ... Old and Reliable K J!SELL0 toilet" AD urnrvum I ' N. For ; A University Ave. Appointments Phone 134--W. - I "1 S kke steame" to rjUcn a 100 Pitts-or- e tons of iron ' ffrst exiNerlmenfn f" .w lu ?u 'uuji a ujdue almost i 111a - C A T IF? FTra ? L For over 30 years time-table- ticket-windo- Millions of Pounds bought by the Government '""-- "" ' "" m " " "" " ' "" -'- " I n lain mini .. pST'ti -- 1M i tjPll . mmmm, 1 " M .pop.-h- ""!""."""T"r i'r'."", r said he K- e m!7Z- ". f - O H' ' ' ; e -- tlie-prl- to cel gor Noble went back to his bench and sat there for a long "time, though there was no time long or short for him. ne was not yet consciously suffering greatly; nor was he thinking at nil. True, he had a dim, persistent Impulse to action or else why should he be at the station? but for the clearest expression of his condition It Is necessary to borrow a culinary symbol; he was jelling. The state of shock was slowly dispersing while a perception of anguish as slowly increased. He was .beginning to swallow nothing at Intervals, and the Intervals were grow. ing shorter. Dusk was misting down, outdoors, when with dragging steps he came out Heookedhazny- and down the streeVwhere the - . " w'l -- , "' - " ThOrTHEREtt)Qrfr-7Tj- ' I n mii - - ' 11 - ., " J - BUT HE' H "" - ' " ' up corner-lamp- s little after six o'clock a ctitngin-andin the out., side, attending the arrival of "through express," stirred him frcn: now." . But Aunt Fnnny uttered a little cry of protest. "I'm afraid we may heur," she ssi Id, "any moment!" Aud Uie'njo&t tragic: news of Noble Dill these sympathetic wdinen could have heard would have surprised them guaranteed or your money refunded fewr-grlfts-- but Tm sure he never did," Herbert's mother agreed, gently. "Not even a kitten. I do wonder where he Is -- - - i than of higher priced brands. Satisfaction j now were nd lighted, and, after dreary hesitation, he went in search oJ a pawn-shoand found one The old man who operated It must have been a" philanthropist for Noble wtft so fVrunate" as to secure a loan of nine dollars upon his watch. Surprised at this, he returned to the station, and went back to the seme old bench. tt Rooks and Magazines. Will pay .cash for any of the, earlyMormon,- church works. YQU7::USE; LESS OF I e, with him, and kept talking to him until be got used to the Idea a little 1" Cousin Virginia nodded comprehend- ingly. "Yes, it might have tided him over," she said. "He Fsn't handsome, nor impressive, of course, nor anything like that but be always spoke so nicely to people on the street Tw sure be never harmed even a kitten, poor soul I" V - . see-tha- exchange- -- when lie entered the station he went to a beach anil sat looking upward for more titan ten minutes; then rose and w eiiT fo I end asked for a timetable. , ;"VThat rtmdr the clerk inquired. "AU points south," said Noble, He placed the time-tablstill folded. In Ids pocket, rested an elbow on the brass apron of the window, .and would have given himself up to move away. Several people wishing to buy tickets had formed a line behind him and they perceived that Noble had'nothlng "more to saj ia the clerk. The latter encouraged tlielr protests, and even wentw so fai aa to ;exclalm, "For heaven's" sake! Can't you let 'these folks buy their tlcketsT" And sluce Noble atllldUl not movle "My gosh, -- fa vft-f!t o feetT"--"Feetf Oh, yes," aald Noble gently. Tm unlng" away." -- And went" baek 4 his seat After a while he sought to study his time-tablOrdinarily, his mind was one of those able to decipher and s ; lie comprehend railway had ::thlawas one jf them. It failed him, now; and he wandered hack to the and, after urgent coachlng,-eventujfl- ty took bis place at the' end instead of at the head of the line that waited there. 'In his turn he came again to the win dpw," and" departed from 11 after a conversation with the clerk which left the latter In unconscious accord with Aunt Fanny Atwater's commiserating adjective," though the clerk's wo; pity was expressed In argots. "Tho-po- or nut P he explained to his next client. "Wants to buy a ticket on a train that don't pull out tilt ten thirty-fivtonight; and, me fillln it all out, stampln It and everything, what for! Turned out nil htspockets and couldn't come nearer'n eight dollars short o Vhereyan wnnt . rb0Des:Office126.Res.247. Bandmaster, ' tltSet-wTndo- - ARE YO,U SICK? he Br removing effects the? was then 8 j preaching tie; railw ay station, no one thought him He was, however; for eccentric.- shop-windo- A commotion train-she- d ; r j ; his torpor. He walked heavily acroj: the retom to the same tlcket-wlndblocked before, but there wit no "qneue attached to It. now. lit rested hislbbw flu theTiJilon undTiTs' chin upon his hand, and for some mo ments the clerk waited until he uliouhl sthte his wishes. This was a now clerk, who linrl Just relieved the other "Woll J Well!" he nt ii.'eii. "I'll take it now,'1 N ujIo re-' ' : gently. "Whnt'll yu lake now?o 'he-ha- 1 IS p. "That, Koble-tilghe'- d.-' mi ticket :" "Wluit ticket?" "The 1 ' ' sstme one I wanted brf-r;"- , 'mm '--- - The clerk gave him a piercing lock ,glanred out of the window anil miw that there were clients, tl ;i went to a (icnk at tiio furiher eml . er f his compartment, ani look clerical ywk j,e j,a,) n hand. Xtlle loaned uihui the wiiMhtw, WHiiir.jif tih-l-l- t- anything,' he thought him. lie n e u) lU-- -- the nnt;r g rooirr Miciiin' , The high, resonant clanrr)rous'wtTh Tfcpsn'twtth mingling echoes of footsteps' on tlie tiled flooring ;' passengers from 'i'e e press hurried to the street, or mo gaily struggled through, utioiiiiiti; u,' friends who came. to '""greet. them; oinf among these movilig groups ihiie walked a youthYuI fine lady no.'Jieniily enlivening to the dullest eye. She n preceded by a brisk" porter wlio car- ed two traveliirgTbays of a rich-sas well 'aa a sack of implements for the game of golf; and she was warm In dark, furs, against which the vasty clump of violets she wore showed dewy gleamlngs. of blue. btf Noble Dill, more thau' she best pensive at the ped and observed him. Here was a coincidence, in a mild way, for, aS it happened, she was her self the most observed person In all that place. She was veiled In two veils, but she had been seen In the train; without these, and some of her though strangers to her, were walking near heTTnaTijpo-critica- l way, hoping still not to of her, etn veiled And although sight the shroudings permitted the riioil meager jniormauon or ner reaiures. what-they- , did reveal was harmfully piquant; moreover there was a sweet ness to the figure, a disturbing grace; and nothing'' disguises such an air or wearing that many violets, as a ..dnll; perquisite and matter of course. s n. At-Big- ticket-windo- fellow-traveler- 3 ' I 2 - -- mMfrnXS-rrs.-'- s, ...:V. (Continued ia i-- L-.u- ;) fv i, mi 0 hvtl'i)"b if ft |