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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Sally Sez urif By RICHARD HOFFMANN Copyright by Richard Hoffmann ' orange blossoms at least have the scent they do In other places. As for the last part of the saying, I know It will not be true when you and Miss Trafford get to California. For an instant Hal was afraid he would have to be ashamed of himself: Sister Anastasia glanced quickly away ; but then he saw she was looking toward the other end of the table where Barry sat, her head turned from them, Intent upon whatever Kerrigan was telling her. The nun turned to him again, a contained, soft smiling in her look. , It is a long time since I ave eurd anything like that, she said in tranquil simplicity. She looked down at her plate, and Hals pleasure leapt of warmth un for the faint running-uder her cool, immaculate cheeks. Then she said, very softly, "Miss Trafford is beautiful inside, too." ' SYNOPSIS Following his fathers bitter criti- cism of his idle life, and the withdrawal of financial assistance, Hal Ireland, only son of a wealthy banker, finds himself practically without funds but with the promise of a situation in San Francisco, which he must reach, from New York, within a definite time limit. He takes passage with a crosscountry auto party on a share expense basis. With five other members of the party, an attractive girl, Barry Trafford; middle-age- d sGiles Kerrigan; Sister Anastasia, a nun; and an individual whom he Instinctively dislikes Martin Crack, he starts his Journey Barrys reticence annoys him. To Kerrigan he takes at once, but he Is unable to shake off a feeling of uneasiness. He distrusts Crack, although finding his intimacy with Kerrigan ripening, and he makes a little progress With Barry. Through 'a misunderstanding, at a stopping xplace, Hal is directed to Barrys room. Instead 'of his own. Propinquity seems to soften Barrys unfriendliness, and they exchange p kisses. CHAPTER V Continued -1- 0Crack gave an uncomfortable laugh as be got out, and a faint blush deepened his youthfulness. 1 me so very like guess that pup dont well," he said... He smiled shyly at for some other Hal, as If explanation from him; but then his eyes drifted lazily away again, half-hopin- g undis-appolnte- The morning lay hot and long over the flat croplands of Indiana and Illinois. As Rasputin sang along the road past farm and field and farm, through and brief ' brick towns, character the land the unbustled, kept of things It knew, the assurance of things It remembered. Hals sense of these quickened sometimes to Kerri gans remark and implication, to untried appreciations of his twn not so much forgotten as never before found. Rasputin' ran like an aristocrat, granting an aristocrat the privilege of metallic song in the gearbox and a disinclination to compete with upstarts at a change of traffic light And before Mrs. Pulsipher could come to the fidgeting preliminaries of they were crossing the Illinois river Into Peoria. Barry saw the sign on a cafeteria In a side street Air Cooled and Conditioned." And there was a chorus of grateful exclamation and a struggling draft Into jackets as the In the Down the stairway. swept up bright bustle of the cafeteria Itself, Sister Anastasia suddenly sneezed, then looked at Barry with . a pretty expression halfway between amusement and apology. Barrys hand went to her arm, her clear face lighted with quick, humorous sympathy. Kerrigan took the dead cigarette from his lips and, with an air of awkward courtliness upon his bulk, said to her, "Well all catch the Russian grippe in here. Sister, allow me to 'take you somewhere else." "Oh no thahnk you," said Sister Anastasia, her eyes grateful and still amused, her, diction trying carefully to elude the accent that touched it ' It was an enchanting voice-s-lIts gentleness of grace and Inner assurance that still, as Barry had said, kept you from using the word humble. Hal smiled In pleasure as In watched her. And since Barry would not meet his eyes not actually avoiding them but seeming to., know of no use in meet lng them he had double welcome for an Impulsive tenderness, brought his tray of lunch to the empty place beside the nun. She spoke only when she was spoken to; but the restrained ease of what she said, the smooth, quiet cadence she gave to each sentence made it delightful to go on prompting her. They talked of nothing much that Hal remembered clearly; how long she had been In 'America, the pleasures and Imperfections of crossing the ocean, the view from the Empire State building, the world eminence of American cities In degree of summer heat. And then Hal had an Innocent, urgent desire to see her blush a little, 'once, to see what she might have been like as a young girl with a first beau. And nofln-drows- y seffne-time- low-pric- lunch-hunge- r, almost-chille- d n s WNTJ Service s e Hal was two places behind Barry In the line at the ' cashiers window A spectacular woman, past her twen ties, leaned beside It, waiting until the cashier should be free again. She wanted a spotlight to tone down the heavy mascara on her eyelashes, the bold make-uof her lips; the revealing tightness of her bright dress. She watched Barry steadily, unwary of be ing caught: her resentful eyes moved from detail to detail, rapidly calculating the composition of each effect ; her petulant mouth, loosely at rest, indl cated neither approval nor envy. Hal was watching the womans whole, unconscious Interest when Barry paid her check. Barry looked down at Doctor flicked his leash to start him up, then raised her deliberate glance to Hal the womans face and smiled. could see Barrys profile, clear and candid, as she spoke her low, friendly Hullo. The womans, sullen eyes cheered quickly and artless dimples came at once beside her efficient smile. As if she recognized Barry, she said, Hello, cuteness. "Hot out, said Barry. Hot is right, said the . woman. Keep outa the sun. Will, said Barry, a quiet sort of thanks in and her easy, walk took her toward the door, the womans look following her in contented approval. Now why did she do that? Hal asked himself in uninvited, consciously unreasonable irritation. He caught up with her outside tbe door to the street that seemed baked, not only by the sun but by a fanatic furnace just under the pavement, too, Going to walk the Doctor, or sit in the car? he said. Walk," said Barry, hardly looking p Cali-gar- i, ; long-legge- d' at him. With a single, mirthless laugh at the beginning, he said, Dyou rather I sat In the car dll youre finished? She looked at him as If she hadnt Come if quite caught his meaning. you like, she said. They walked toward the principal street and turned into it without speaking. Then the restive need to clear something up, to purge something out of his gathered dissatisfaction, took sudden charge of his tongue and he said, Barry, I want to talk to And the pointlessness of that you. was apparent to him even before hed finished. All right, she said inconsequently. What about? Not on the main street of Peoria at two oclock in the afternoon," he said. Why not?" "You know d n well why not" Barry looked at him unsympathetically hut without anger, and her low, steady voice said, In the first place, I wouldntve asked If I knew why not and in the second place, throwing d ns around doesnt help me . understand you. Oh h 1, said Hal, more in vague disgust with himself than anything else. . Thats not necessary, either," she -- said. ' matter? the whats Barry, Not a darn thing with me," she said. Oh," he said; and they walked for he said: . ' "Have you heard. Sister, that Cali another ten paces or so of silence. fornla Is a place where the fruit has Then, as an accusation, he said to her. no flavor, the flowers no scent, and You didnt know that woman that woman you spoke to down there. the ladles no charm?" in him at looking she said, Why did you' speak to her? "No, not eurd "I interest. Barry waited an instant before she aye guileless said, still not turning to him. Because that. Is It true?" I liked her looks; because some day Ive because know surely, "I don't never been there. said Hal, without I may have to put up with what she and I hope people concealing his pleasure In her. Ive lias to put up with, me without were to which thinking theyre there from speak tasted oranges sweet ; and I've becn( told that their smart, or wanting something. - ... v Barry!" said Hal, in the quick au- tell you. 1 promise, my dearest 1 thority he would have used for the1 shall know. But I mustnt love you. You mustnt love me. She looked at dog. You asked me, said Barry. Her him as if she had known him very eyes and brows disclaimed responsi- well and he were now suddenly going I supposed to leave her. bility for his reaction., Then quickly her eyes left his and you wanted me to tell you. Barry, said Hal with forced re- she turned around, drawing at Docs straint, tell me something else. Is leash. We must go back, Hal, she last night gone clean out- - of your said hurriedly. Please, weve got to." head? Did It mean nothing to you They were on the after Id left and he added with not road again by three, a hundred miles like an from the Mississippi crossing. There wholly convincing bitterness was a current of gaiety which carried idiot. She looked round at him, the clean, off even the standard long arches of her eyebrows raised. torpor, as if the atmosphere of the car Then, not as a question but ironically, were Infected by the profligate, exultto be sure thats wbat hed said, she ing buoyancy under Hals own heart For Ha) could dismiss the convicrepeated, Like an Idiot. He watched her without speaking tion of grief In Barrys eyes for his almost wishing her eyes would at least joy In the small marvels of their passdo him the small hoD.,. of anger or age In the street; the quick touching defiance, not stay In their cool, remote of her shoulder to his arm; the prescomposure that had nothing, one way sure of her living side against the or the other, to do with him. Then, back of his caught hand; the enchantment in her calling him just as some change began somewhere in blue she turned her her look, deep darling. What could she have behind head and seemed to walk a little faster, her blue eyes to stand against his Inas if she saw where she bad to go. vincibility? Some fragile shadow of Hal looked ahead too and said, with an obstacle the fact that he was dissatisfied assurance, I didnt mean Frederick Irelands son, or the becklike an idiot and you know it oning of Hollywood; trifles which he He thought it was because her ankle could shatter when he had his time to had started to turn that her shoulder speak, out of the strength which she came lightly against him. But then herself had unleashed to surge up unher hand caught his, brought it half- der the single necessity left in the way up, and pressed the back of it world. briefly against her jacket over her The time was coming today, as heart before she gave it back to him. swiftly as the hard road nnder RasAnd still she looked straight before putins wheels. Excitement filled him, her a grave look, at nothing that pushed newly in each moment to was in the street ahead. escape his chest; and there was room In the calm knowledge that flashed for no more than a flash of shame into abrupt reckless command of his at the niggardliness of his spirit that spirit that then Indeed became his had quibbled with his being most valiantly in love, for the first good G d. yes, the first real time In his life. The little bridge-sigannouncing Klckapoo creek, made him chuckle with pleasure ; and when he glanced at Kerrigan,- - he put no 'restraint on his affectionate comfort in being here beside him. said Kerrigan, Hey, my frand, bending gravely toward him, where did you go in Peoria? "Why, Colonel? said Hal, grinning. You look as though youd slipped on a million dollars worth of eternal verities and found, your initials stamped on all of em. Little place around the corner I found on my way home from the Klondike, said HaL Run by an to the czar whose life I saved at Port Arthur. Napoleon brandy from original casks at a nickel a goblet Ive no secrets from you, Munchausen. d post-luncheo- n near-husk- y n - It fan to draw pictures but one doesnt have to "illustrate the fact that it pay to PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY. We know it through experience. Indian Reservations Indian reservations were originally set up when the Indian problem was a large one. To some extent, the reservation system was a tective measure. It was felt that the white settlers would be safer from molestation if the Indians were concentrated and kept on the places set aside for them. Odd Churches Among the strange churches in the world are the cowshed church of Bordon, Hants, England; the wine cask church of Asti, Calif.; the solid rock church of Haute Isle, France, and the church constructed of sea shells, broken plates and glass at Guernsey. 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Then, as in many countries at the present time, bread was sold by weight But many their cusbakers would r!3L tomers and a heavy penalty was inBut I Mustnt Love You. You flicted for this practice. The city of Mustnt Love Me." London made a special provision for such cases. After the baker had he spirit, his whole living conviction, weighed out the order the law said at hand his with her walking stopped her elbow. She let her body half turn that he should add another piece of to his hold of her, but not her head, bread so that there would'be no chance That didnt matter: she would turn of dispute as to the quantity purchased her face to him in another sure, plain and thus the risk of incurring the fine moment Barry," he said, I love you, would be avoided. Thus 12 pieces of bread and the one extra which was You know that too. for suretys sake came to be added Doctor down at She glanced The as if 6he were trying to think known as the bakers dozen. was known as the thirteenth vantage of something that would show how bakers sorry she was for him. And when slow' loaf, and the expression is still used in both England ly she faced Hal at last, her eyes dozen and America to mean good measure. were soft with grieving helplessness. I didnt make you say that, she Some Plant Juice Poisonous said quietly. ' I didnt want you to. Juice of the common poinsettia Is Dear God! why did you have to say ' deadly. All juices from plants of that? , Because I meant it he told her, this family are poisonous, and many of strength from extravagant stores run them are used in medicines, all powerning up to help him pierce most deep- ful in action and dangerous to the layman. Seeds of the castor oil plant ly with the bright rapier of his knowl edge. Because Im too full of it to and of the Jimson Weed," Datura wait one more second of loneliness to Stramonium, have proved fatal to hu tell yon In every, sharp, desperate way mans and the juices of these and a there Is that I love you,' Barry love dozen other common garden plants iryon, love you. Barry oh, blast Peo- ritate the skin, as do even common ria and all Its sunlight! things like pineapples, elephants ears or taro, papaya and tbe hairs on ' When he broke off, she looked down his back into then his at eyes, Chinese primroses. mouth, her look wondering, incredulous, youug Blind Enioy Smoking in its bafflement before something not to be understood at once, mature in The old belief that seeing the smoke Its certainty that all. the pain was yet is essential to the enjoyment of to' to be counted. bacco has been disproved by a census to she at blind institutions in England. Just said taken softly. Darling, say it under his "watching.. 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