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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS. RANDOLPH, UTAH N ... ' No. I mean bow do tney Happen to be together?" - Why shouldn't they be! Theyre old friends " And, In answer to her They are! look of surprise. I explained that I had begun to speak of Beasley at Mrs. Apperthwaites, and described the abruptness with which Dowden - had changed the subject. I see . my cousin nodded, Thats simple enough. George Dowden didn't want you to talk of Beasley there. 1 suppose It may have been a little embarrassing' for everybody especially If Ann Apperthwaite heard you. Ann? Thats Miss Apperthwaite! Yes; I was speaking directly to her. Why shouldnt she have heard me? She talked of him herself a little later and at some length, too. She did ! My cousin stopped rocking,' and fixed me with her glittering eye Well, of all! - Is It so surprising? The lady gave her boat to the waves Ann Apperthwaite thinks again. about him still she said, with something like vindictiveness. Tve always suspected it She thought you were new to the place and didnt know anything abodt it all, or anybody to mention It to. Thats it! Im still new to the place, I urged, and still dont know anything about compre-hendingl- 1 BEA8LEY SYNOPSIS Newcomer In a email town, a young newspaper man, who tells the story, is amazed by the unaccountable actions of a man who, from the window of ,s fine house, apparently" has converse with Invisible personages, particuSimple-dorllarly mentioning one Next morning he discovers his strange neighbor is the Hon. David Beasley, prominent politician, and universally respected. With Miss Apperthwaite, he is an unseen witness of a purely Imaginary Jumping contest between Beasley and a Bill Hammersley." Miss Apperthwaite appears deeply concerned. a.' III. i - " I do not know why It should have astonished me to find that Miss Apperthwaite was a teacher of mathematics except that (to my Inexperienced eye) she didnt look it. She looked more like Charlotte Corday I had the pleasure of seeing her opposite me at lunch the next day (when Mr. Dowden kept fce occupied with Spencervllle politics, obviously from fear that I would break out again), but no stroll in the yard with her rewarded me afterward, as I dimly boped, for she disappeared before I left the table, and I did not see her again for a fortnight. On week-day- s ehe did not return to the house for lunch, my only meal at Mrs. Apper-thwalt(I dined at a restaurant near the Despatch ofllce), and she was out of town for a little visit, her mother Informed, us, over the following Saturday and Sunday.' She was not altogether out of my thoughts, however Indeed, she almost divided them with the Honorable David Beasley.-- . A better view which I was afforded of this gentleman did not lessen my Interest in him; increased It rather; It also served to make the extraordinary didoes of which he had been the virtuoso and I the audience more than ever profoundly Inexplicable. My glimpse of him in the lighted doorway had given me the vaguest impression of his appearance, but one afternoon a few days after my Interview with Miss Apperthwaite I was starting for as the office and met him he was turning In at his gate. I took as careful Invoice of him as I could without conspicuously glaring. There wan something remarkably taking," .as we say, about this man something easy and genial and quizzical and careless. He was the kind of person you like to meet on the street; whose cheerful passing sends you on feeling indefinably a little gayer than He was tall, thin even you did. gaunt, perhaps and his face was long, rather pale, and shrewd and gentle; something in Its oddity not unremind-fu- l of the late Sol Smith Russell. His hat was tilted back a little, the slightest bit to one side, and the sparse, brownish hair above his high forehead was going to be gray before long. He looked about forty. The truth is, I hod expected to see a cousin german to Don Quixote; I had thought to detect signs and gleams of wildness, however slight-some- thing a little off. One glance of that kindly and humorous eye told me such expectation had been nonsense. Odd he might have been he looked It but queer? Never. The fact that Miss - Apper thwalte could picture such a man as this sitting and sitting and sitting! himself into any form of mania or madness whatever spoke loudly of her own imagination, lndeed.1 The key to "Simpledorla- - was to be sought under some other mat . . . As I began to know some of on the Despatch, and my to pick up acquaintances, here and there, about town, I sometimes made Mr. Beasley the subject of Inquiry. Everybody knew him.' Oh, yes, 1 know Dave Beasley I" would come the reply, nearly always with a chuckling sort of laugh. I gathered that he had g which amounta name for ed to eccentricity. It was said that and what the got out of him In campaign times made the political managers cry. He was the first and readiest prey for every fraud and swindler that came to Wainwright I heard, and yet. In spite of this and of his hatred of " (Hes as silent as Grant !" said one Informant), be had Jarge practice, and. was One of the successful lawyers In the state. One story they told of him (or, as they were apt to put It, on" him) was repeated so often that I saw It had become one of the towns traditions. One bitter evening in February, they related, he was approached upon the 1 full-face-- Gad-zook- easy-goin- ward-heele- speech-making- camp-followe- rs street by a ragged, whining and shivering old reprobate, notorious for the various Ingenuities by which he had worn out the patience of the charity organizations. He asked Beasley for a dime. Beasley had no money In. his pockets, but gave the man his overcoat, went home without any himself, and spent six weeks In bed with a bad case of pneumonia as the direct result. His beneficiary sold the overcoat, and invested the proceeds in a five-daspree, in the closing scenes of which a couple of brickbats were featured to high, spectacular effect. One he sent through a jewelers In an attempt to intimidate some wholly Imaginary pursuers, the other he projected at a perfectly actual policeman who was endeavoring to soothe him. The victim of Beasleys charity and the officer were then borne to the hospital In company. It was due in part to recollections of this legend and others of a similar character that people laughed when they said, Oh, yes, I know Dave Beasley. Altogether, I should say, Beasley was about the most popular man in Wainwright. I could discover nowhere anything, however, to shed the faintest light upon the mystery of Bill Hammersley and Simpledorla. It was not until the Sunday of Miss absence that the revelation show-windo- w It all. They used to be engaged, was her succinct and emphatic answer. I found It but too Illuminating. "Oh, oh! I cried. I was an Innocent, wasnt I? Pm glad she does think of him, said my cousin. It serves her right I only hope be wont find It out, because hes a poor, faithful creature; hed jump at the chance to take her back and she doesnt deserve him. How long has It been, I asked, since they used to be engaged? "Oh, a good while five or six years ago, I think maybe more; time skips ajong. Ann Apperthwaites no chicken, you know. (Such was the ladys expression.) They got engaged just after she came home from college, and of all the Idiotically romantic girls "But shes a teacher, I Interrupted, of mathematics. Christmas Violets By Plary Qrcham Bonner TJ (. 1822. Weaver. AROI.D Newspaper Lftlen.l had been told by hi moilie,- that big cities were full of designing nvomen. "Harold did not know whether his mother wins fight or not. But he did know that in his city boarding house there was one of the dearest little girls who had ever lived. Harold was not selfish. He was far from, being a raiser. His idea of a miser was a chap he had known in his home town. He had never spent any money which he could possibly avoid He always ate with his spending. friends and rarely paid for a meal. He was always out of cigarettes' and so smoked his friends cigarettes. He 'had made a good living and never failed to talk of his poverty. He had been accused of worshiping money and he had replied : Not a bit of It. I hav - great respect for money. That is the difference. Harold despised that kind of a person. And yet, perhaps, wouldnt the dearest little girl think he was mean? He had never given her anything and ho had lived at the boarding house for six months now. Did she think he was mean? That was what bothered him. She had told him of a person she had known whom she considered a miser, and she had told him of a joke upon this miser. For he had bargained with a little shop dealer and had obtained an article marked a dollar for fifty cents, and then had walked down the street a little farther on and bad seen the same article In another window for cents. And finally he had twenty-fiv- e seen It in a ten-cestore for a dime well, he had almost considered life useless, while everyone else had rejoiced that It had been a good one on the miser. One of the reasons that made him feel that she thought, perhaps, he was mean was because she knew others who were generous. Or, at least, one other. Every Saturday she had received flowers. She had taken a card out of the box as they had sat at the boarding house table at breakfast The other . boarders teased her about her admirer and she seemed to enjoy It Only he felt uncomfortable and could say nothing. And Helen, whom he called to himself the dearest little girl, had been receiving these flowers for quite a few weeks now. Finally he could stand it no longer. His mother neednt tell him anything more about the citys designing women. He was not going to lose the dearest little girl. If there was yet a chance, because of his mothers warnings to keep to himself. 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Theyve got to blow-ofI Street-Cit- y steam and be foolish to make up the widow of a second-cousi- n of mine ; she lived in a cottage not far from for putting In so much of their time I -- State. Blue Package Mrs. Apperthwaites, upon the same at hard sense. But dont you think street I found her sitting on a pleas-- that I dislike Ann Apperthwaite. Shes always been one of my beet friends; thats why I feel at liberty to abuse her and I always will abuse her when I think how she treated poor David Beasley. Putnam Fadeless Dyes dyes or tints as you wish . How did she treat him?" All She Could Think Of. Threw him over out of a clear sky One evening, at an entertainment, one night, thats all. Just sent him the mother of a boy in an algebra Level, fertile, front acre home and broke his heart; that is, It class I taught turned to me and said, would have been broken If hed had Well, how Is the boy getting along? any kind of disposition except the one Near depots good roads. It waa my home community and it all him Lord the with just blessed 12 minutes from Hayward, California. happened that I was proud of a baby optimism and cheerfulness and nephew then three weeks old, and I EDENSNEDE, Vo 578 Castro St, Hayward, Ca!i Hes never cared thought, of course, that she referred for anybody else, and I guess he never W. N. U, Salt Lake City, No. to him. wilL I answered, Just fine; he gained What did she do It for?" a pound last week. Nothing in His Mind. "Nothing!" My cousin shot the InIt didnt take me long to see that What instrument would you rather dignant word from her lips. Nothing she .referred to the progress of jier play, if you belonged to an orchestra? in the wide world I son In algebra. The piccolo. But there must have been " But that isnt considered ranch of -Listen to me, she Interrupted, an Instrument The Cuticura Toilet Trio. , and tell me if you ever heard anyThats It clear life. skin why it appeals to me. When cleared in your Theyd keep your queerer thing Having a piccolo player gets through his work Cuticura your every-da- y been engaged Heaven knows how making by happy i The Soap to cleanse he drops his piccolo into his pocket and long over two years ; probably nearer And he sent her violets, beautiful toilet preparations. to soothe and right away he looks to me like a man Ointment three and always she kept putting It the and purify, deep purple violets, with a pink rose to to Talcum wouldnt ready, the get begin powder and per- who hasn't a care in the world. Biroff; heal, In the center. No toilet table is complete mingham fume. wouldnt set a day for the wedding. Never had he seen her so happy as without them. Advertisement Then Mr. Apperthwaite died, and left differNo Dispute. her and her mother stranded high and she was over his violets. How his about she acted about than ently What is this, dearie? David on. Cars in Use. to live Refrigerator dry with nothing If I intended it for a marble cake." More than 150,000 refrigerator cars had everything in the world to give the others- - And then he asked her So I believe it Is. are in use on the railways of the her and still she wouldnt And then, she would take a walk with him.In the United States and Canada. one day, she came up here and told far, they had had all their talks Potato salad that has fallen from me shed broken It off. Said she boarding house. I wonder, he said, if youd think A girl without cheek has her kisses grace can be as excruciating ns so couldn't stand it to be engaged to It was awfully Budden If I made a lit- handed to her. oyster that has. David Beasley another minute tle suggestion? I "But why? "Because my cousin's tone was was thinking how As I Bogan to Know Some of My nice a ring would with her shrill despair of expressing on the Despatch, and to look on that left Pick Up Acquaintances Here And the satire she would have put Into It because, she said he was a man of hnnd of yours , There About Town, I Sometimes ns a Christmas Made Mr. Beasley the 6ubject of no Imagination present and an "She still says 'so," I remarked, , Apper-thwalt- 1 id Me Gives Mew Life to Old Stockings EDENSNEDE HOME LOTS 50-19- 22. Age-Heral- 1 1 to 2i? ftftimesr Eteasiufls 1 Inquiry. ant veranda, with boxes of flowering plants along the railing, though Indian summer was now close upon departure. She was rocking meditatively, and held a finger in a morocco volume, apparently of verse, though I suspected she had been better entertained in the observation of the people and vehicles decorously passing along the sunlit thoroughfare within her view. We exchanged Inevitable questions and news of mutual relatives; I had told her how I liked my work and what I thought of Wainwright, and she was congratulating me upon having found so pleasant a place to live as Mrs. Apperthwaites, when she interrupted herself to smile and nod a cordial greeting to two gentlemen driving by. They waved their bats to ber gayly, then leaned back comfortably against the cushions and If ever two men were obviously and Incontestably on the best of terms with each other, these two were. They were David Beasley and Mr. Dowden. I do wish, said my cousin, resuming her rocking I do wish dear David Beasley would get a new car of some kind; that old model of his is a disgrace 1 I suppose you havent met him? .Of course, living at Mrs. Apperthwaites, you wouldnt be apt to." But what Is he doing with Mr. DowderfV I asked. She lifted her eyebrows. Why taking him for a drive, I suppose," thoughtfully. Then Its time she got a little imagination herself ! snapped my companDavid Beasleys the quietest ion. man God has made, but everybody knows what be is! There are some rare people In this world that aren't all talk; there are some still rarer ones that scarcely ever talk at all and David Beasleys one of them. I don't know whether Its because he cant talk, or If he can and hates to: I only thank the Lord hes put a few like that Into this talky world I David Beasley's smile Is better than acres of other peoples talk. My Providence I Wouldnt anybody, jnst to look at him. know that he does better than talk? He thinks I The trouble with Ann Apperthwaite was that she was too young to see it She was so full of navels and poetry and dreaminess and highfalutin nonsense she couldnt see anything as It really was. She'd study her mirror, and see such a heroine of romance there that she just couldnt bear to have a fiance who hadnt any chance of turning out to be the crown-princ- e of Kenosha In disguise! At the very least, to suit her hed have had d to wear a Vandyke and coo sonnets In the gloaming, or read On a Balcony to her by a red lamp. engagement present, If I may be ho bold, and If youve not already promised yourself to the other fellow? Or, maybe you could learn to like me better. What other Should Not Tempt You Use fellow? Helen asked. The one who has been sending you flowers all along. Oh," Helen said, HI have to tell you the truth. I sent them to myself. You were so shy, you seemed to like me and yet couldnt go about telling me or asking me out, and I thought maybe Fd make you curious or jealous or something. And youve cared for me all along as I have for you? be queried. She nodded. And then he told her the warnings he had been given by his mother. 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