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Show : THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH r? fu (w (v. fw (V. (t. (u (v. (u O" N 0 - O- O- - fw (v.fu(v. v. quiz with answers offering information on various subjects A ? ? ? ? Jill McFarlane, whose father, Richard, disappeared In World War I, fan. In love with Spang Gordon, a young lieutenant. He tells her that her brother, Rlc, is seeing a divorcee and she goes to camp to investigate. Ric avoids her but she later sees him with Sandra Calvert, an older, hardened woman. Captain Mackey, known as Old Cyanide, tells .her he knew her mother many years ago. She feels she has met him before. Spang calls to say goodbye. Later, while riding with Dave Patterson, a family friend who has always secretly loved her mother, Julia, Jill startles him by asking, Why dont you marry my mother? Dave speaks of her father. ? She began to cry in a childish way, strain and excitement of the day, spectators wanted a gladiator his sagging mouth and killed 1. Turned their thumbs down. they did what? alinked and said, What say? Who 2. What planets period of rota2. Mars (24 hours and 37 V2 minis it? & Julia drew back as the officer ad- tion on its axis is about the same utes). as the 3. first census was 3,929,-21The earths? vanced into the room. 3. The population of the United Its Richard! Her voice was States at the first census in 1790 4. The government buys about a hoarse, strangled breath. Its was what? 72 yards to the spool, 60.000 spools, Richard come home! 4. How much red tape does yearly for use on official docuThe old man jumped to his feet ments. Washington use in a year? and glared. 5. In what section of the country 5. In the mountain states. NevMcFarRichard Hello, Father, did most of the accidental deaths ada lead with 158.9 deaths per lane said coolly. 100.000 population. Rhode Island So its you, is it? John I.s occur last year? times did King had the fewest, 51.2. stare was hostile. Its you after 6. HowVIIImany of England marry? 6. Six times. twenty-fiv- e years! What do you Henry tears running down her temples closed and making wet spots on the earth. Wheels were coming up the lane, an engine labored on the slope, and there were voices. Jill lifted her head painfully and looked into her grandfathers frightened face. John I. had no collar on and partly wiped-olather was drying on his whiskers. You look funny, Jill said hoarsely. The dim blur of her mothers face was close then, very white, her eyes big and terrified. want? Where does it hurt, darling? CHAPTER IX Dont, John I.! Julia protestMy arm, Jill gasped and lay ed. She said, a trifle flatly, Come back again. Its gone! Dave gathered up the reins. It isnt gone. Its broken, I in, Richard. But she did not hold I out her hand. know, Jill. But there's nothing I can think. do. Nothing I can say. Nice to see you again, Dooley! Dont lift her. Lie still, Jill. so the cut Surprised? fogButits stupid! With a world Daves voice through full of unhappy heartbroken people, Julias astonished confusion chilled to a controlled calm. She people who cant help themselves, stood still, poised, stony, not feelwho cant change things, why should people make themselves uning anything at all. Naturally, Richard. Having happy uselessly? When it doesnt mourned you for years as one nobly make sense? Then Dave said, I do love your dead, naturally Im surprised. Will you sit down? mother, Jill. Youve seen that so He took the chair she indicated theres no use evading. But I and eased the creases of his smart cant talk to, her about it, not with the barriers standing that she sets gabardine slacks, with the old casual gesture that she remembered. up and defends as she does. John I. did not sit down. His white I know. She retires behind that mustache was quivering like the aloof wall and smiles at you across antennae of an angry insect. His it, but you cant touch her. And if eyes snapped fire. you present any argument she levAnd to what extraordinary cirels you with that gentle kind of concumstances are we indebted for the demnation. She does that to me. honor of this sudden visit? he deIt affronts her that other people manded. dont share her mistaken loyalty. Please Julia stayed the old My father has always been somewith a pleading hand. mans in fury thing splendid my life, but I cant Richard has come home. Sit down, put him, like a pillar of cloud, beJohn I. Youre shaking all over. tween me and the things I live with, Would you like a drink, Richard? the way Dooley does. I know that Not now, thank you, Dooley. he wouldnt want that sort of loyalWhy dont you sit down yourself? ty. He was a human person, defShe would not collapse into the initely, from the few things that chair. She let herself down careGrandfather has let slip when hes fully, a bit stiffly, feeling suddenly angry at Ric. He liked living, and as though her body had turned to he wouldnt be happy to know that wood, as though her voice was anybody took the veil on his account. something mechanical, grinding out words. Yes, he liked living, Dave said, So you didnt want to come and he did a lot of it in the few Richard? All these years He a was he had. back, that very years twenty-fiv- e handsome boy. He had that classic years youve let us go but silence, nothblue with like but he had on, nothing The startled animal face, floundered, Rics, lost her footing, jumped and scram- ing but emptiness because you eyes, with a cool direct look. wanted it that way? I know. Ive got the picture of bled to regain it. He didnt dare come back! him. And a sort of laughing I suppose youve was barked John I. of morass that mouth. pressgy pain Keep the sun off just found out, sir, that Id cleared Amused, Dave helped her out, ing Jill down. though' the word that had first her face, Dooley. Well get some up all that mess in Washington? It would have been outlawed anyway, flashed into his mind was mock- kind of stretcher. He was a lot like Ric. Hed Theres an army cot. Go with but I paid it all off every penny. ing. Was there something that had to never been disciplined, he had a Dave, John I. you know where it be paid off? Richard asked coolly, restlessness that kept him on the is. And telephone the doctor. move, he. . . . Dave stopped, emOh, Dooley, I dont want to be not stirred, not troubled apparentbarrassed, feeling that he had said sick! I dont want to be hurt and ly by the electric currents that spartoo much. I kled around them in that room. Jill wailed. all crippled up! This is the first Ive heard of it. For Jills face had changed, odd- can get up. You help me. Ahh-h-had Old John I. snarled, was as if It something ly. No, dont move, Jill. Lie perwith a to come her, something only fectly still till we can have some but Julia quieted him again before, something she had till we know whether gentle gesture. felt and feared a little, and put theres any other injury or not. Sit down, please, John I. We decorations and can this over quietly, dont you flags away, hanging If you mean, is my back broken, think?talk We to hide the sore place where it had can listen to whatever it isnt. I can move my legs and Richard has to say. eaten.' this i arm, everything see? Its just ff half-shav- en . h! half-guess- - r,,Mv ed . 4. Fascinating Booklet s dam it! A Realization Leads to Accident said, abruptly, "Lets go back. Im chilly. Dave said, Cold in this sun? Mamie would say a goose was eating grass on my grave just one of those shuddery things! Jill tried to laugh. But inside she was cold and quak- Inside somehow, now, she ing. knew. About her father. All the things that had never been said, all the things that her mother had guarded, even in her thoughts when her children were present. Her father had been like Ric. Not a comsome fort, not some one to lean on, heart-straia but to of, be one proud an unsolved riddle, a bewilin the dering and uncertain elementlife. chemistry of her mothers She whacked the mare suddenly with the reins, jerked her head up, pulled her about sharply.lost The her startled animal floundered, footing, jumped and scrambled to regain it, and Dave yelled warn-ingl- y and hurled his horse ahead, but too late. Jill went twisting from the saddle and landed on her shoulder in the rocky rubble of the lane, her bright hair flying, her arm crumpled under her. Dave jumped down, cried, Jill! n eyes sharply, but Jiffs were senseless and glazed. He did not lift her. He shouted at the mare till she trotted bewildered aside, and then he eased Jills legs straight and picked a wild grape bough and bent it over her to keep the sup from her eyes. Then, tying the mare to the fence, he jumped back to his horse and went pounding down the rocky hill to the red roofs of Buzzards Hill. Jill opened her eyes and sneezed and tried to push the tickling branch off her face, but oddly, her left arm would, not work. n, 4 half-ope- . -- -- roared back When Loyalty The station-wago- n men two and the got down, Tumbled Down up, Dave in one leap and John I. backWhat can he say now? Twenty-fiv- e ing out stiffly. They unfolded the late? demanded the old army cot, and awkwardly lifted Jill man.years would not sit down. He He onto it. stood facing them, bristling all Tugging and panting they pushed over, like a small, gray furious dog, the cot into the rear of the station-wago- n Julia with a small corner finally, and Jill relaxed and of herthought mind. giggled a little, wagging her boots Theres really nothing to say, in their faces. Richard began blandly, lighting a zero on an ambuYoud get looking around for an ash cigarette, lance crew, you two, she said. And and finding none, twisting tray then she turned her face away and the burnt match in his fingers. I closed her eyes. discovered that I missed you all. I was passing this way on a military Richard Returns mission so I came home. From the Dead little glow sustained Jill through the rest of that awful day. Through the jolting ride to town and the anguish of being lifted onto that stony table, through the torture of splints and the sick confusion of hypodermics. She lay in a high hospital bed and decided in a druggy, dazed lassitude that though this was purgatory, at least she had made things right for Dave and Dooley. She did not know, because they never told her, about the car that at rolled under the Buzzards Hill that night. She did not see her mothers startled face when she opened the screen door and saw a tall officer standing there with silver bars on his shoulder and the blue and silver of the air corps on his sleeve, a man with cool, mocking blue eyes and silvered temples. She did not see Julia McFarlanes stunned and stricken look as this stranger smiled at her and said, A porte-coche- re Hello, Dooley! They stared at each other for long minute, and then Julia gave choked little cry. a a Richard! John I., who had been in his chair, worn out by the asleep Old No wandering No amnesia? around Europe for years, not knowing who you were? You just came home! John I. was bitter. Julias face was as pale as death. This was a death something dying in her, an ember dying, a spark sinking into nothingness, the spark she had tended so long, so stubbornly, knowing all the while that it was doomed to the dry aridness of ashes, but refusing to give up. That was what hurt. Remembering that foolish loyalty, that tower she had built of air and dreams and deceptive memory that tower built of nothing upon nothing! No, I havent even a dramatic I wasnt Richard said. story, wounded. I wasnt even scratched. I got a little sick of the war after lying around a muddy trench for seventy days, so I went to Paris. I stayed too long, and explanations would have been awkward, and then suddenly the war ended, so I didnt go back. We traced you that far, Julia Your father went to Paris said. and spent two months in twenty-on- e in France' And two thousand dollars! the old man put in. 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