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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH QCEtf Q0S03 years have elapsed since the disappearance of Richard McFar-lan- e in World War I and his wife, Jnlia, is beset with fresh worries as the children she has raised with the aid of her father-in-laJohn I. McFarlane, Twenty-fiv- e become involved in World War n. Ric, 27, has washed out in the air corps while Jill, 26, falls In love with Spang Gordon, a young lieutenant Julia confides her troubles to Dave Patterson, an old family friend who has always secretly loved her. Jill and Spang go to a dance and Jill discovers she is in love but is nettled when Spang apparently doesnt return her feeling. She acts gay, however, to conceal her own love from him. get? Something you really wanted. Jill set her teeth. Was he trying ler, trying to get past the rigid control of her chin and her careful eyelids? When I find it Ill get it some way, some time! "Desperate, eh? Spang laughed a little. But the laugh was shaken, and so was the pressure of his hand on her elbow uncertain. Your eyes dont give you away as a desperate female, at all. How do they look? Inane, I suppose? Oh, sort of sweet and melting. I think youll find ways to get what you want without any fight. So CHAPTER V using up days. And there are so many of them, and theyre so long! Julia dropped into a chair. She wore her heavy jeans, and she was warm and weary, too. I know. You havent had to learn yet how long years can be, Jill. I hope you never will. How did you bear it, Dooley, that last war? You arent changed, you arent old. You havent any lines in your face. I had two children to take care of. And I had hope. And I, Jill said sadly, over the rim of the glass, havent anything at all! It turned out that way, did it? I didnt want to ask any questions. "It turned out that I fell in love so deeply I was practically shame-es- s about it. Ana to all appearances, Spang didnt. He liked my eyes, he thought you were a handsome woman, he said he had a good time, and then he talked about the job he had to do and hoped hed see me again. If thats love, Dooley, what kind is it? Perhaps the bravest kind of all, Jill. The kind a man keeps to himself because he knows he has nothing to offer a woman, nothing but uncertainty and dread and grief. her eyes were melting! But they were melting, they were practically dissolving, and if she talked Then abruptly Spang cleared his any more shed be crying like a throat. Ive got something to tell fool, because she was in love and your mother, he said, and Im men were so unbearably stupid! worried whether I should tell her or not. Maybe youll know what I should do. You mean something about me? No, its about Ric. I suppose hes in some sort of trouble? stiffly. Ric she said That happens, and I were pretty good friends at college, Spang went on. We lived in the same house, and though I finished two years before he did, we wrote now and then and kept in touch. Then this war came along, and I got in early and got my commission, and of course Ric was an enlisted man, so that complicated things. But Ive managed to see him occasionally. And you dont like what hes doing? Is he ducking out of things, d breeches? leaf Spang laid the on top of her head. Dont be nasty, gal. Can I help it if this army is all stiffened up with military courtesy and stuff? I still like Ric Thats why I didnt like what I was gold-spangl- ed seeing. Shes older than he is, shes been divorced, her first husband was an officer who got kicked downstairs after Pearl Harbor. Shes living there in the hotel, and a sergeant I know pretty well told me that Ric was seeing a lot of her. But surely Ric couldnt get serious about a woman like that? I dont know Ric Provides a New Worry You do know, Spang, more than I dont have to be protected from the truth, even if it isnt pleasant. No, I really dont know anything Im just worried, definite, Jill. thats all, and since Ive met your mother and seen the sort of home Ric has, it bothers me. The trouble is, Jill said, Mother spoiled Ric terribly. My father didnt come back, and I think she needed somebody to lavish all that love upon, somebody to keep her youre telling me! When wiping windows, use vertical strokes on the inside and horiwindow cuts wi- zontal strokes on the outside. This A south-facin- g a glance nters heating costs to greater de- enables you to see at be must side which wiped again. g one and gree than an In .is easier to shade in summer. 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I want some new knockout clothes and one of those feather hair cuts and to have my eyebrows touched up. Why did I have to get these ferocious eyebrows, Dooley, when yours are so breaking regulations, that sort of I dont know about his service record. But the last time we were in town I saw him with a woman. They were both drinking, and though Ric wasnt tight, exactly, he was talking too loud. He wanted me to meet her. Did he salaam properly before and the beautiful the shoulder-bar- s To prevent a cork from sticking If wax paper sticks together put it in the refrigerator for a few in a glue bottle, dip it in oil. It will then slip out easily with no minutes and it will loosen. delicate? too. Youre During the 17th and 18th centuries, a number of musical instruments belonging to the violin family had sympathetic strings of fine wire stretched directly under and parallel to the gut wire with which they vibrated sympathetically, producing a silvery echo, says Colliers. Most popular was the viola damore for which many composers, including Bach, wrote special music and which was used occasionally by the Metropolitan Opera orchestra in New York as late as a McFarlane,' There were dark McFarlanes and red McFarlanes. I got a little from both strains. Your fathfer was almost a blond. His eyes were blue. Blue eyes would be horrible with my hair. I could see Ric if I went down to the field, Dooley. That is, if he isnt shipped out somewhere. He wont get a furlough, you know, for ages. Do you think you really want to and face Julias changed, paled grew taut. What a ridiculous sug- go, Jill? You know therq is such a thing as being too eager. gestion, she said stiffly. Oh, Dooley, they buried all that She said coolly, Ive trained my stuff with Augusta J. Evans! A hur-eyes to lie very politely. Lets nice girl would stick quietly at home ry, shall we? I smell the roast, anc to be wooed and won, but try stickMamie gets peevish if dinner waits ing and see what it gets you, how on Sunday. She belongs to the Holi- beautifully stuck! I have to ness Church and they have serv- see Spang youre before they send again ices in the afternoon. him off to Africa or some other After that the day wore on, her hideous spot, or Ill curl up and die! grandfather telling over again in- And I havent an inhibition in the terminably the story of how Buz- world, but I do have sense. Nobody zards Hill had been a military hos- knows what a fool I am but you, pital in the Civil war, Julia trying Dooley. Youve been through this to efface herself and maneuver John waiting business. You know how it I. away so that Jill and Spang could hurts. Sweet of Dooley, Jill be alone. thought, but all quite useless. Spang Jill Offers wasnt in love with her. How could he be and keep so carefully silent A Suggestion about it? 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But the worlds record sum was empty glass, pushed Jills damp the $2,975,000 received for the colhair back and patted her casually. lection of Samuel Christie-Mille- r By the way, Dave just telephoned. which, in 13,707 lots, was sold in He has bought a new saddle mare, London between 1916 and 1927. and he thought you might like to try her out Sunday. Hes going to bring her over. Did you enlist Dave to divert my Thank heaven, when she put him on the bus at dusk, she hadnt let herself go, hadnt been careless enough to let him see how utterly lost she was! He had held both her hands when and she had promhe said good-bised to come down to the field again as soon as she could, and then he Dooley? Dont you know that heart from breaking. I was just a had given her a gay little salute mind, bore Dave stiff? I good egg, somebody she could talk and climbed aboard and been Please give me credit for a little to, but Ric got her deep affection. rushed away out of her sight. Jill. I havent discussed your sense, And anything he does thats offaffairs with Dave. And I personal color would hurt her frightfully. Id A Talk Between like dont riding. I cant risk behate to tell her. Ill decide whether lame and stiff, with all I have ing and Jill Julia I ought to, after youre gone. to do here. down the walked enThe heat settled, drowsy and lane, sayThey Why dont you fall in love with ing little after that. ervating as it pressed upon the Dave? she asked abruptly. It to He isnt going say anything, world in August, and Jill grew a would simplify everything. maybe he doesnt care at all, Jill little wan. Julias face changed, paled and She tried gallantly to. fit herself was thinking, with the painful knot What & ridiculous sugtaut. grew made of anger and tears growing into the quiet life of Buzzards Hill. gestion! she said stiffly. She pretended an excited interest in hard and tight in her throat. Whats ridiculous about it? Spang talked of the future, pres- the new pigs, though privately she Daves been in love with you for ently, but of a future in which she thought the wriggling, hairless little centuries dont tell me you didnt had ho part or any other woman, things revolting, and thought what know it! You must be blind. Even must 'if that could be called a comfort. an amazing thing mother-lov- e Grandfather suspects it. I observe He said, A month from now Ill be, that it could believe any new his sly look whenever Dave comes creation lovely. be looking back on this week-enHe likes Dave, hed be teraround. warm in a even She put morning thinking of the wonderful time Ive I think. pleased, ribly digging in the garden that was gohad frozen expression did not Julias to weeds since Fosters And trying, Jill asked, her head ing sadly change except that pain crept into tilted a little, to remember how son had gone off to the army. At her face, darkening her eyes, makwent back to the house, noon she jl look? mouth a wan line. her Dave ing ' He bent his head, and his eyes soaked in perspiration, a good man- is she a said, gentleman, evenly. musmowed over her slowly and soberly. icure a sad ruin, and every He would not fall in love with an' I wont have to try. Hair like cle screaming weariness from the other mans wife. h shell and a sassy unaccustomed activity. After that a new Jill puckered her brows. But, strenuous adventure she took a hot nose twenty-fiv- e Just beyears! Dooley ' on herself the and shower bed, Jill flung like T.N.T., Disposition cause Grandfather couldnt find any supplied, keeping, to. the airy mood, too utterly tired to go down to grave when he went over there set. If things dont lunch. my father is the Unknown maybe looked and found her there Julia ' happen when I want them to, I exWhen you took us to WashSoldier. Youre taking at her shrewdly. plode all over the place. I pretended that he was lyington No, Spang said quietly, you this the hard way, Jill. Ive brought ing there. I felt beautiful about it. milk. it cold Drink and some go arent like that. When you go up you could be true, you know. being very gallant, i It We wont against a thing you really want, you to sleep. to Youre talk about it any about reasonable it. be but try wait for it quietly, with considerable said Julia, severely. And more, I have to do something, Dooley. determination. that out of like ideas put please to for or be Life has something Grim. Very grim! head! Have you found anything yet about something. Mine isnt. Its your (TO BE CONTINUED) y that you really wanted and didnt just a purposeless existence, just y, Had Sympathetic Strings 1911-191- 2, No Cooking. So Easy. Saves Dollars. To get the most surprising relief from coughs due to colds, you can easily prepare a medicine, right in your own kitchen. 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