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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH shortsighted'. Those who are proficient, but not good natured, think very little of good nature. tch the By RICHARD HOFFMANN Copyright by Richard Hoffmann WNU Service SYNOPSIS Following his fathers criticism of his Idle life, and the withdrawal of financial assistance, Hal Ireland, 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. He takes passage with a auto party on a share expense" basis Other members of the party include an attractive girl, Barry Trafford; middle-ageGiles Kerrigan; Sister Anastasia, a nun; and an individual whom he instinctively dislikes, Martin Crack. Barrys reticence annoys him. To Kerrigan ho takes at once, but he distrusts Crack, He finds his intimacy with Kerrigan ripening, and makes a little progress with Barry. Through a misunderstanding, at a stopping place, Hal is directed to Barrys room, instead of his own, and they exchange kisses. Next day he tells her he loves her. r.,e answers that she mustnt love him, without giving any reason. Crack brutally Insults Kerrigan. Hal forces him to apologize abjectly, and his feeling of enmity and disgust toward Crack is intensified. Barry promises Hal that next day she will reveal the shadow of despair that hangs over her. cross-count- ry d CHAPTER VI Continued 14 - One day, Barry went on, as If Ing sure it should all be as simple and clear for him as it. was for her, her father brought a man to live in their bouse a pleasant, quiet sort of man, a good deal younger than her father but older than she. The man was away a good deal, but even when he was at home the girl hardly saw him except at breakfast and dinner; in the evening he used to read his paper while she and her father played cards and talked, as they always had. Then one day her father told her that the man had asked him his consent to their marriage the girls and the lodgers. Her father had given it. He treated it so much as an ordinary matter that, even without warning, the girl lad no real feeling about it one way or the other. And her father wanted it. So they were married, quietly, right away, she being just under seventeen and her husband a little past thirty. For more than a year there was hardly any difference in her life: she give up her beaus, counted her husbands laundry and sewed on his buttons as she did for her father. It was like a sort of dream not happy, not unhappy that doesnt seem worth breaking down because you know it Is a dream and that youll wake up soon. Then her father was taken ill-ill so that the doctor told her she must think of his dying. She couldnt not possibly it filled her with such panic. It filled her so dreadfully, so desperately, that she never wondered what would happen between her and her husband. One night her father called her to him ; he asked her to promise that she would 6tlck to her husband no matter what happened, do what he wanted her to do, no matter what it was, never leave him nor disobey him, for ten years. She promised; and then in his weakness and fever her father forgot about It and begged her to promise all over to again. It was so terribly important mixed up terror him really terribly in it. And while she stayed watching him after shed promised,, her father died. A dog barked in the still, hot town and the dark, sleeping silence of the them plains lay out and fiway before of black starless the under forever very - the sky. said Barry quietly, when believe that it had hapto ghe began her husband she would told she pened, try try to love him, if he would wait and to love him for the friendship trust her father must have had for him, to make her promise that. Her husband laughed at her as if she were a fool ; he said, He made you promise that because he wanted to keep his with him, and respectability in b He I like. whenever can have it back of sort a receipt a her paper, showed that was practically a confession of something her father had done before hed come here, in another bank an had acknowledgment that her husband him. for it up covered That was four years ago. Her contract still has six years to run, and what shell be when it ends Her hus bands plans are definite enough to make money for him. and power for him. in the ways he finds. The four years, have been mostly a sort of schooling for that, with a few little-t- ry outs. She paused only an instant. Id like to help her. hut there's no way, you see thsilliistoii , at nineteen doesnt Mem to tit own nineteen years of love n.w h v"ou e and a a superstition Later, 1 1 -- The ManWho Knows about promises, about a sort of honor even in dishonor. The black spread of darkness be- It was somewhere east of Cheyenne alone, but sure, almost hopeful in their Remedy brave quiet He managed a free smile that Hal felt a silent, unseen magic You are of greeting and said, Morning, my taking for putting more momentous difference fore them was oppressive, stealthy in Dietrich. Bags: was told there were under the sky; and accidentally he Headaches, oppression, and Hal tightened his arms bags. glanced up above the haze of the horor Rheumatism to make sure she was still there She held out her hand, her arnr izon and saw the source of it: dim, is SAFE is Your Doctor. He him. had shut the mean- straightened from the good, wide shoul- sloped patches of white incredibly high against ings of the story out of his mind, but der, her smile cheering her eyes with on the far peaks of a mountain range. Ask Him he shouldnt have let even the words gratefulness. She took his hand in They stayed far away there, still and come In the deliberate, simple words both of hers, brought it to her cheek, lofty above the earths haze; and Has Entrust Your that softly. Infected his unacknowl- and turned her lips to it. Then she Putins prodigious charge against them Own or Your Familys edged fears. Now he must say what let It go as if It were something she over the driven song of steel and rub would slip the secreted leashes on their were entrusting to him. There are her became a small, peevish crawling Well-Bein- g to Unknown In infinity. golng-otogether, over the near, elu- the bags, she said, pointing. Preparations sive threshold of enchantment Then She stood by the door, her golden Mountains, said Crack quietly bewarns hind said a were bead if the thick as Hals of Thats it bush Barry head, high, the steadily, story, take any BEFORE you Hal. What do you think? touching her smooth, faintly dipped ing, as if there were some necessity you dont know all about, Its improbable, said Hal at once, checks. He stopped before her, met for new and subtle vigilance. for the relief of headaches; or the and banal and wickedly irrelevant to her brief acknowledgment of intimacy At the filling station where they pains of rheumatism, neuritis or neuralgia, ask your doctor what he what my heart and the whole world is with conscious sedateness. in said: Cheyenne, stopped Kerrigan thinks about it in comparison full of. B.arry You see, dont you? she said, as if What I want to arrange some day is with Genuine Bayer Aspirin. she had been to Los him. it wholl a his this: personal archangel Within zoop explaining arms, she turned quickly We say this because, before the and stopped back his words with her Angeles will be the end of everything. down to you every so often when discovery of Bayer Aspirin, most smooth, urgent lips. He could feel Theres a little time of beauty left. youre In a new town, or an old one pain remedies were advised against by physicians as being her breast move with her breathing, We shouldnt waste it in making our- you like, and say to you: Baby, you bad for the stomach; or, often, for close against his almost feel her selves miserable over what we cant need a tonic; here you are In Cheythe heart. And the discovery of have. enne; I cant help that, but if youll pulses join his to use one rhythm for Bayer Aspirin largely changed His gray eyes stayed out of reach pick any day of its past that youd what, in that transported moment, was medical practice. a single surging of life. Then her lips of her appeal. Barry, he said stead- like to see, Ill get you a ringside seat Countless thousands of people who have taken Bayer Aspirin year evaded him, her cheek pressed hard ily, theres nothing we cant have. right in It. in and out without ill effect, have Know any archangels? said Hal against his, and he heard her whisperKerrigan kept them waiting a little proved that the medical findings thi3 morning. Barry took her old place What would you pick here? ing. about its safety were correct. You see, Im not strong enough, in the tonnehu, and Hal played a Room? Ever hear of the Gold Remember this: Genuine Bayer brave enough to tell you you arent stalking game with Crack round the No, what was that? Aspirin is rated among the fastest the person with whom I want to spend car, in the sweetish pungency of the Jim Allens Place, said Kerrigan methods yet discovered for the relief of headaches and all common pains the rest of my life, anyway, anyhow waked exhaust. Crack, he felt, was almost wistfully : the big hidy-hthat you wont always be the only edging up to hint a desire to ride in establishment out here In the days . . . and safe for the average person to take regularly. person, no matter what can happen the front seat; and Crack sitting be- when you had to know your way You can get real Bayer Aspirin at in this whole wide green world, or In side him, drowsily seeming to follow around to support life. Id want to be drug store simply by never any heaven, or in hell. My own darling. his impossible groping for actuality in around there the day the first U. P. asking for it by the name aspirin I love you. Thats all there is. To say the fiction of Barrys marriage the train rolled into town back in 67. alone, but always saying BAYER ASPIRIN when you buy. I love you most or best or dearest Think of the time all the gals and the makes the word cheap, and it can nevguys must have had that day, Mr. er be cheap again. I can never use Ireland; and think of the gals and it again except for you. I love you, guys they must have been that had the time. and I havent been strong or honest Youve got something there, said or brave for you. 0 G d, she said in a final cry, perhaps Im glad I havent Hal, watching the gusto which Kerribeen. gans eyes made authentic and infecClub Useful tious. Gold Room Itselfs torn down With sudden, frantic strength, she It requires a gridiron club everyby now, I spose. tore herself out of his arms and was where to take the hokum out ol A hollow click sounded on the pavegone from him, into the waiting darkment behind and Hal had to keep him- people. ness. self from turning too smartly. Crack stood there holding the little ball CHAPTER VII where he had caught it; his lips were in their slight smile, his eyes showed Sunday Hal their slight, drowsy mischief, It was only quarter to six, but SisEverythings tight and smooth, Ty? ter Anastasia was waiting for Hal at Try Famous he said, as if he knew Hal thought the head of the stairs, the serenity so, but wanted to commit him to It. of her cool, face conLaxative, She Said Headaches were making her Fars I know, said Hal. cerned with sorrow as she watched miserable. She felt tired, to be Twouldnt stuck him. good get listless, too. Then she found out there where were goin, Crack She has told you, Hal said quietsaid. intestinal sluggishness. NR ly when he came to her. Tablets are a combination Sister Anastasia bowed her head a (TO BE CONTINUED) of laxative elements provided by nature in plants and little and whispered, Yes. vegetables. Try them toAnd what do you think? Is of Chocolate Origin night. Note that they give thorough cleansing action that leaves you reThe nun looked up at him as if Hal Credited Mexico Old to freshed and invigorated. This trial means somuch reminded her of some one only a little to you and is so simple to make. N Rs contain no beDo know the difference you phenol or minforgotten after a long time, I cannot tween chocolate, cocoa and cacao? The eral derivatives. I said. she what think, tell myself form- tropical tree which is the source of intr Onlv 2Se But I feel feel very sawri. chocolate is called the cacao, states a Hal glanced down the stairs into writer in the Detroit Free Press. the deserted lobby before he said : In its leathery, cucumberiike fruit She Is Beautiful in Her Spirit: She Its There Sister, she must tell me where I can Must Not Be Driven Closer to are cacao which contain cacao pods will find the grin In The I must see find this husband, and beans. But when the beans are roast- grind. optimist him. I can buy him, or or I can of It made Hal flinch and ed and prospect ground and much of the fat is but I neednt tell you that. I can buy shudder. Then, without chagrin. Crack out the remaining brown subpressed him. He is for sale. surrendered to Hals casual keeping to a dry powder, is stance, ground She will not tell you, said Sister the car between them, bounced his cocoa. If the is not pressed out, fat once on the pavement, and the Anastasia, saddened by her helpless substance is chocolate. darker ness- - She would not tell me. All she climbed into the tonneau. Hal couldn t for Credit of chothe manufacture STOPPED UP will say Is that he is not waiting for remember having seen him recover his from an of colate seed hidden the her in California. that silly plaything in the speak-easI shall find him, said Hal. other night: perhaps he carried a sup obscure fruit belongs to the original due tooolAi, inhabitants of Mexico. In 1519, when s She asked me to ask a favor of ply. Hal wondered if new counHernando Cortez that invaded as hadD't she if you, said the nun, gleaming in a box would now always heard him, and Hal drew an uncom- remind him of Crack and his., . . try he discovered that the cacao tree Use Mentholafum. was widely cultivated. I think you will do Then Kerrigan came. fortable breath. to Kelp open the a made called The drink natives And how are you, colonel? it for her. She did not sleep last Hal nostrils and permit or cacahuatl, from which chocolatl asked as they started. uight. freer breathing have come the names chocolate and I will do anything in the world for Like the mouth of a factory chimcocoa. of choco Frothing pitchers her, said Hal, except one thing. ney, said Kerrigan, scrubbing the red It is not the one thing, said Sister filigree of his tough cheeks and blink late were served by Montezuma when HCrtfCOM fO It is only that you will ing cheerful appraisal of the morning. he entertained Cortez. Anastasia. If you prefer nose drops, or hours not for today for twenty-fou- r Hows that, Mr. Kerrigan? the throat spray, call for the Japans Armament Industries speak of your love, not ask her to young man asked, eager for a fresh HEW MEHTHQLATUM Nineteenth there the must LIQUID rest inside hers. of She century During of old his kindly token speak friends wit. In handv bottle with drmmer she must rest, to find where she Is Why, bless you,' said dear Mr. Kerri were in Japan no private industries ol She is gan, radiating goodwill toward all, war. Government . arsenals manufac nov. that you are together. nearer to to despair than than she is the answer: what else? tured all of the arms.'' After the Rus should be. She is beautiful in her And with that gay quip and a gleam of sian war, however, the government WNU W 336 spirit: she must not be driven closer benign mischief in his nice old eyes, he permitted the founding of the Japan to went off lippity loppity in the dl Steel Works, which was the first and Hal gave her a quick, acute glance reetion of Mr. MacGregors carrot only privately owned arms factor In the country. ''It was capitalized at and saw that she believed what she patch. looked to He down had started say. There was dust up already on the 15,000,000 yen, and a considerable the stairs again, the sleeping quiet of long road, and the high haze gathered block of shares was acquired by Vick the shabby hotel grown subtly peril as the morning light lost its slant and ers. ous; then he returned his look to the its freshness. cattle Occasionally Grand and Petit Juries nuns and said, 1 promise. trucks, and the mule teams that still Perhaps the surest way to prevent a cc A grand jury consists of more that She had known he would, and known held tractors berths on the less frehold and getting worse from"catching 24 11 than less would below and solve no the summoned persons it that nothing Impression of quent farms, gave surface of today. Our bags are ready, being out uuduiy early; and the thresh by the court to investigate and heai Rf FREE if if you like to take them down, ing equipment In one of the road evidence in complaints against person.-i- n cup way. Flush ihe systi SAMPLE order to determine if such evidentshe said. That is the room there. side fields looked as if it had been put with a hot cup of Garfie GARFIELD TEA And she moved to the stairs not be ling chaff all through the hoi night. is sufficient" to justify indictment anr CO., Dept. 62 Tea the mild, cause of connivance in anything she Nebraska was under slow change for criminal prosecution. A petit jurv n Brooklyn, N.Y. liquid laxative. At drug-stshouldnt watch, but because she whol- the farther West, the stark, dry rail- the trial jury and consists of 12 pet road and its vertical fringe of pole sons or less who sit during a trial att ly trusted him to care for Barry. Hal knocked, and Barry opened the line still leading the way to the eter- pass on the evidence presented i far I the court. door to him her blue eyes deep a'nd nal horizon. i Whether the Neuralgia Pains Dont n half-curl- ed o Bayer Aspirin . 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