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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPEB matter FeU Entered as second-clas- s office Randolph. 8. 1929. at the Utah, under the Act of Mar. 3, 1879. Wm. E. Marshall, Editor and Prop SUBSCRIPTION tUO Per Year in Advance I pst t By KATHLEEN NORRIS Copyright by Kathleen Norris SYNOPSIS The luck that brought the Boston Lawrences to California at the beginning of the gold rush has deserted the e present generation. From a ranch, their holdings have shrunk to a small farm, and the old family home In 4,000-acr- BREAKING THE NEWS GENTLY Young Bobby came home late from school looking very sheepish. Dad," he said to bis father, and there was a tone of despondency in his voice, do you remember telling me how you were expelled from school? Father laughed., Why, yes, my son," he said, that was a good story. But Its ancient history now. Bobby brightened. Its funny how history repeats itself, isnt It, dad?r he replied. CLEVER, HUH? has Clippersville. Phil, now twenty-fivgone into the Iron works. Gail to the public library and Edith to the book department of Cllppersvilles largest store.' Sam is In school, and seventeen-year-old Ariel Is becoming a problem. Phil is fascinated by that terrible Lily Cass, whose husband has deserted her. Toung Van Murchison, scion of a wealthy family, returns from Tale, and Gail has visions, through marriage .with him, of the turning of the Lawrence luck,. Dick Stebbins, Phils best friend, has the run of the house. Ariel Is sneaking out of the house at night for joy rides. Phil suggests, to his sisters consternation, that they invite Lily Cass to the house. Gail with goes with Van for a week-en- d the Chipps, hip uncle and aunt. She is received coldly by Mrs. Chipps and her guests. At a roadhouse Gail sees a raccoon-coated man helping Ariel into a roadster. Ariel admits she was at the place, at night, and displays no remorse. Gall is gloomy as she considers the family's outlook. e, , CHAPTER V Continued -1- 1- Your wife is very Ingenious." I should say so. It seems to me she finds a new place to hide my dress shirt studs every time. Restored to Good Health She was visiting a zoo'and eventually came to the bears. Are these animals carnivorous?" she asked the keeper. Be scratched his head, and then smiled brightly. They was, maam," he answered; but they're all right since we washed em In carbolic." Vocabularitis "Your daughters have had every advantage. Ill say so. answered Mr. Dustin Stax. They can understand every word on a menu." Why dont you learn? No use. The effort would only add headache to Indigestion. IF AND WHEN Best of all had been the morning after a dance, when, wakiag in the big hotel on the hilltop, Gall had breakfasted in pajamas the silk pajamas Edith had won when she won the Hope Chest at the Catholic fair last year. After breakfast the party had split and scattered, Gail going off with Van in the roadster. They had gone to the Cliff house and apostrophized the seals that were barking harshly on the rocks behind the drifts of fog; they had had tintypes taken on the board walk, and had tried all the swings and chutes. They had come downtown again and lunched on a roof above old Chinatown; hearing the cars honking in the streets below and the Ashmen crying their wares. They had bought ginger and nuts, had lingered long at the theater doorway, studying the cheap little photographs, bursting into fresh laughter as they pretended to translate the hieroglyphics to one another. An idiot yes, but Van was a most lovable idiot, the ideal idiot with whom to spend a silly day like this, when ones senses were still dreamy and dulled with the excitement of a gala night, and when one had him to oneself not, showing off, not given any chance to be drawn away, innocently to hurt onqs feelings. This day in Chinatown was one to be marked with a white for Gall. At four they bad known they must start for home. It would take almost two hours to drive to Clippersville; Gail had not dared prolong ' the fun too far. Van had landed her safely at her own gate at six oclock, and she had gone into the dim old brooding house, that was close and dark tonight, with a sudden realization of thd limitations of the place the stupid-aes- s of home. ' Ive had the best time 1 ever had In my life! she could tell them over and over again, exhausted by sheer felicity. She told them the Jokes, the situations, the events, in an inconsequential jumble. Edith had listened 'eagerly, sympathetically; Phil was not at home. Ariel had listened, too, but with a difference. Ariel bad a experience last night She went out for a casual drive with the Camps aftw the movie, Edith had said, and they broke a spring, and it was nearly midnight when she got in! Phil and I were terribly frightened." Gails eyes and Ariels had flashed tether. But even when they were alone Ariel had not been communicative. You run your affairs and let me run mine! she had said, not rudely, very simply. But it wasnt a broken spring, Ariel? I say it was. Gair had been too anxious to get back to her own dreams and memories to worry, even about ArieL The day had had its marvelous moment Mt had come at four oclock, when she and Van, laughing over the purchase of dragons, bowls, tandle-sticks-, and charms in the interior of a dark little Chinatown shop, had been reluctantly forced to a consideration ot the flying time. Yep, thats so, we cant stay in town we aint married yeti Van had said, with his wild laugh. It wasn't much. But it was enough lor her to remember happily now; it e Mrs. Bragg 1 could have married four of the wealthiest men in town. Her Hubby Why didnt you? The whole four might have been able to pay your dress bills. Shoot 1 f Are all the Yes, your honor." "Lights 0. K.? Yes, your honor." Sound O. K.? Yes, your honor. Good ! Then let Justice news-cameram- here? . take its course." Deceptioa Do you permit yourself to deceive the public? The No, said Senator Sorghum. public has learned all kinds of tricks. Im doing pretty well to keep it from deceiving me." sandal-scente- opium-scente- d The Silver Lining Mr. Smith 1 figure the drouth cost us over three thousand bushels of corn. Mrs. Smith Dreadful, dear. But, remember, there wasnt a day all that summer that we couldnt get salt out of the shakers. . WNU Service v' showed that he did think of it, that it was in his mind. It would ,YVe aint married yet! have been . a little better if he had not put it in the. vernacular. Still . . . it was sweet She went to sleep dreaming of the newspapers of a few years hence. Her heart was very tender toward Vdn tonight He had been a charming comman panion today, this big tweed-clad wallet and the shinwith the ing open car. Gall liked the memory of his smiling, lean face grinning at her. She liked his clothes, his speech ; she liked his references to places and things that belonged to a world of leisure and luxury that she did not know. was spent at Almost every week-enthe ranch in Los Gatos now, and between the Mondays and Fridays Gail lived in but a dreamy of what went on at home. The women of Vans set had taken her up, and when the Chipps were back at home, as they frequently were in midweek, Mary Spence or Lucia would come to Clippersville to stay with Lenore, and they would all straggle into the library during the dull forenoons to report their shopping expeditions, or to try to coax Gail to come off with them to. a country club lunchd well-fille- d eon. Life, at this accelerated pace, fairly burned her up. The new pleasures enchanted her, but never satisfied, leaving her always straining for more; which indeed was the position of them all Lenore, Mary, Van, Fred, to say nothing of their elders. They went everywhere, anywhere, they did anything and everything that might promise fun. Breakfast on the Maccleishes yacht, for example; life on the Maccleishes yacht had nothing to do with sailing or the water. The yacht might as well have been moored ten feet underground in a coal mine, for all its gay party ever saw of the sea. Yet there was something distinguished about being asked to spend a weekend on a real yacht The glory spread far ahead of it, and far behind it Gail saw her name in the Clippersville Challenge more than once during this amazing summer, listed among the guests at affairs whose distinction a few months back was beyond her wildest dreams. She had a feverish , feeling sometimes of having lost Edith, lost Phil and Sam and Ariel, lost touch with her work at the library and or duties at home one could not live two lives, after all, and Vans very exactions were a delight, an answer to her wild young ardent prayers of last spring. Nothing mattered but that she should please him, should keep close to him. She grei? wittier, quicker, gayer as the weeSs went by1; their talk together of reparwas merely a quick cross-fir- e 1 tee. . Cue night in late August she and VAn walked home from a movie In Clippersville. The night was insufferably hot, and the audience was glad enough to straggle out Into the black darkness of the Calle, where the air was some degrees cooler. Whew! That was frightful, Gall breathed, turning her bared head up to the stars, shaking back her tawny mane. Sunday, Van said. I wish we were there now! Take yon in a minute! he offered ea&erly. The girl laughed. A hundred miles, she said drily. And wed get so hot going over, and be so tired coming back, that we wouldnt gain much. Ice cream at Dobbins? he suggested. But she turned Kind of mussy. toward the drng store none the less; the opportunity to be seen by all the town, having soda at Dobbins with Van Murchison, must not be overlooked. All Clippersville came in and out of Dobbins on a - hot summer evening, and she kept wheeling about on her high stool to greet library acquaint- ances and neighbors and friends. Gail 1 , , 1 1 d ready-made!- - coves. Oh, Gall I know. 1 Edith wailed. Its awful Hes crazy," the younger sister said darkly. They brooded upon it in silence. Gail felt tired and blue; discouraged about Phil, about Ariel, about her own hopes and plans concerning Van. A sense of futility, of helplessness, was heavy upon her as she went slowly downstairs and slowly moved about the kitchen, pressing her white linen, freshening her printed chiffon. TO BE CONTINUED. Pantomime Originated With Old-Tim- , Miss How-d- o, Miss Lawrence! Lawrence. Hello, GaiL Good evening, They all saw that Tit-Bi- Romans e ts w Murchison. I 1 ' - , - ! ar 1 . 1 , Bhe was with Van ' Pantomime owes its origin to the plays of the ancient Romans in which the male characters were always played by women and the female characters by men. Hence the tradition that the principal boy must always be a,girl and the dame must be a man. Attempts to depart from this rule have seldom proved successful, states a writer in Magazine. He Might Easily Have Put His Arm Pantomime was brought to England About Her, In the reign of James I when some You brother marries dont have to Italian players introduced a dumb-shohis her funeral." Its burlesque in which the principal marry , ColumI suppose so," Gail conceded after characters were Arlechinno, bine, and El Pantaleone. That was a moment, wearily. Want to jump into the car and the origin of the harlequinade. The first English Harlequin was named rush off somewhere and get cool? too take It woul4 long, and Im too Rich, though he performed under the tired, and 1 promised Edith to be home stage name of Lun. In the unpatented theaters the spokearly. She gets nervous." en word was forbidden, so he, too, perwas a The car hundred feet parked from the Lawrence gate. Gail went to formed in 'dumb show. About that the fence that had once been their time a French clown named Delpini meadow fence, and leaned on the bars was sent to prison for exclaiming Roast Beef I on the stage of the Royand stared into the night that was now moon. alty theater. lighted by the It was David Garrick who first made Phils marrying would simply wreck our home, she said, reverting to the Harlequin speak, and Joe Grimaldi who was first responsible for the Introtopic deliberately, desperately. Oh, forget It He wont marry her," duction of the clown as we know him . ' Van assnred her easily. . today. 1 think, she began, a little thickly Fairy stories were first introduced as brief openings to the harlequinade, 1 think what worries me is Ariel. but after a while they became so pop-alShes proud, shes so sensitive" that they ousted the harlequinade Shucks She isn't any prouder or more sensitive .than you are Van said altogether. unsympathetically. He hated to be serious, Gail knew. He was hating it Lonely Tangier Island now. Tangier Island, Va., Is a hilly little The thing about Ariel Is," Gail pur- Island with a population of about 1,500 sued resolutely, that she is running in the Chesapeake bay 12 miles (2 around with that Buddy Raisch crowd hours) by boat from Crisfield, Md. The of course they may be a perfectly islanders have always made their livdecent crowd underneath " ing entirely from the water from fish, Why, shes nothing but a school oysters, crabs and plants. One peculchild!" Van said, in distaste and dis iarity about the Island Is that there are absolutely no means of artificial pleasure. neither automobiles, Well, shes not such a school chlla transportation, but what she lets Buddy Raisch take buggies, nor street cars, and in addition her out in his roadster neither telephone nor wireles? stations. 1 This is a snorter! Van commented. Los Gatos tomorrow, hey? And into the pooL The moon had not yet risen, but there was an odd light in the world, at nine oclock; whitewashed surfaces and the adobe walls of the oldest bnildings wore an odd pale glimmer of white. The upper branches of the great trees over the Calle rustled wearily in a hot wind. Maybe well go over to the beach How-do- Oh, 1 love it! 1 think its priceVan exclaimed, laughing, as less! Gails troubled voice fell still. I dont know what to do about it, ear. Gall Gail our lake began again. I was wondering, said, getplaces, she added timidly, what you would ting down. Were done She walked along beside Van silent- think 1 ought to do, Van? He was interested now, but in an anly in the street. The man kept up his regular stream of chatter for a. min- noyed, reluctant sort of way. He said ute; somehow It jarred tonight Gall quickly : broke across It suddenly. I? For heavens sake, what should The reason I wanted to come away 1 know about it? It seems to me if was my brother Phil was in Dobbins, shes such a fool she likes to run round there. with a bounder like that,. why, let her Yotir brother Phil was! doit! Yes. Way over In the corner, in one But you dont understand, Van, of the twosomes." Gail said patiently. Shes only sevenWhy didnt we yell at him? Van teen she wont be eighteen until next asked simply. Christmas. She had to have sympathy; she had That wasnt no hindrance to the to test him. With a sudden letting late Miss Juliet Capulet! Van reminddown of the bars she said, Because ed her joyously. his girl was with him." Gail laughed faintly, and was silent And dont you like her? Van deIll come for you early tomorrow," Van presently said. manded, with his delighted air of disHows, nine oclock?. That gets us to the ranch at covering something amusing. ' 1 despise her! Gail answered som- noon, easy. The girl felt cold, unresponsive, berly. Not really! he exclaimed ecstat- heavy. ically. What? Phils girl? They were standing close together at Shes not a girl, really, and its the old fence rail; he might easily very serious, Gail said, determined to have put his arm about her. But he sober him. Shes a divorced woman, never attempted that sort of thing; and sb has three !ttle boys about Gail wondered sometimes if it were three and two and one " some queer lack in her that prevented Oh, I love it! Van said with rel- him, or some missing quality in him. I I adore ish. Phil! Old sober-side- s Going into the house she determined It Im crazy .bout it that she would not go down to Los Van, how, can you say so! Gail Gatos at all tomorrow, and felt a great reproached him, hurt Shes a terrible relief In the thought If they wanted girl; she comes from Thomas Street her they could make a special over- -' Hill; she was one of the Wibsers." ture next week. Oh, 1 think Its perfectly grand!-VaShe wandered away to her own said, with his raw, Joyous laugh. room, returned in pajamas, brushing Think of the trouble and expense her thick mop of tawny-golhair. " saved his family all Phil was at Dobbins tonight, she' But suddenly perceiving that she said suddenly, with Lily." was not amused,- and that a genuine Edith opened her lips to speak, made mood of anger and disappointment no sound. They stared at each other. was keeping tier silent, he changed his He wasnt! Edith whispered after tone and said rallyingly, lightly: awhile. He was. Why, what do you care who your At Dobbins! In one of the twosomes the al- Ariel came in and put Per slim arms about Gail from behind and kissed the bright wave of tawny hair over Gails |