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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 4 ON O.U R OST The Story of a Man Trans formed Riches into a ft east, and of His Wife, Who Remained Simple Madam u, BECAUSE unpleasant things you've got to carry of your round the touch you bribed my man to lei yon wait for m." Young Thresher bad turned at one Col to?" " What are you hinting at? Cot to meet him. Is hi countryman' best clothe he .might hav baen a figure something in your mind, haven't you? in an old fashioned picture, or the maWhat's the great idea, sweetheart? " terialisation of an old memory. Hi I've told you." Her eye were like faoa wa flushed but quiet, act in deep with stone but stone, too, precious line ' of (truggl nd immemorial the hint and lure of unimaginable fires " Do soma thinking patience. in their depths. t" " I didn't bribe him, Seth. I wouldo't yourwlf for a change," " What do you want? Just tell me." hav don such a thing, and I didn't Deed to. It wis Nell let m stay on.' Marriage." " Nell? You can call her Mr. Heud-manAnd I've told you I atn married." if you don't mind." .. Then it'll have to be some on else, The eomen of Young Thresher's my dear. That's all." mouth quivered. " We're old friends, Hi grip, made her give a little inSeth." dignant cry of pain. " You'd better not count on that. No. You're my sort. Youll mak You'v got nerve, lying in wait for the whole thing com real. I want m this tiro of night I don't wssta you. There isn't going to b any one tun on peopl who hav no buaines else." with me." " Well, you know the term." "I hav business with you." He She got up, drawing her furl about spok now with dignity and firmne. her, and be lumbered clumsily to bis It wa a though something be had feet seen in Hendmanh' face bad bewil" Let m drive you home," dered him, but. that now he had re"No." gained hi purpose. Hi voice with fellow. "Oh bell, you're hard on it soft country burr had an undertone I'm all right I won't bother you. Ill do whatever you say." " Very well, then." He followed her. Nobody else exGita He looked Madam isted. thought, like s great big debauched IS i schoolboy. And he had left a staggering tip on the table. She could see the bead waiter staring at it with a sardonic reverence.. life" rrt h, -- and Steadfast. Git' htU in fact, merely to other activities, and sh bad no desir to becom officially conspicuous, he had to keep especially for men a aharp lookout She knew the like thn newcomer. kind. At i certain stage th'Y mashed thing. You had to b ur they could pay for the luxury enough to make the riak worth while. Betides, there wa Leon Elton. Who had Leona got in tow thia time? Madame Cita had a buaineat, but also a human intereet in her patron, and ..especially in Leona. They were of the tame breed. Not of the earn class. Leona could and usually did behave like a lady. Madame Gita didn't eves 9, 1923. LI a bird's claw. Hendmanh could bav crushed her with a blow. And yet b aaw cow with a sullen reluctance how ah had been able to work day in, day out and how ah had stayed strong through th softness of these last year. Her fin blue faded a though the sun and ram had washed th color from them had th steadiness of a single vision. He could kill her. Eh would d.e in her tracks without a sound. shivered a littl. He would Lsv HEVDMARSH all, to hav postponed th struggle- - Put there wa resoluteness about her that would not let him go. He bad to smash her now whilst she challenged him. - Well ? " he amid. " Whst have you done, Seth? " " Done? You aaw for yourself. I kicked him out." "When they're in trouble?" " So he's been whining to you, too? " " He never spoke of it But I guessed." " Sob stuff I " he jeered at her. She made a faint tentative movement By I. S' Des " That you, Leona? Listen woke you up out of your beauty sleep to give you the glad new. It' O. K. Youll get your birthday present Nothing I wouldn't do for you. What about this day next year? Ye III say well make a party. If the sun shine wall take the crowd for a run and finish up at Gita. Ill ahow you where th say something money come from decent a fellow, sweetheart." A a picnic it hadn't been a success. La mi hi to believe that But I know Seth better. H was always haid and shrewd, snd now he's forgotten the things that might bav made him feel more kindly. It wasn't just talk did Td " NsH." He knew that the was listening to it, too. After a while she aaid gently, "I don't understand bow those thing can be. But then there's so much that's beyond me. It's true. I don't belong. I'll do whatever you waqt, Seth." "That's fine then." He burst out 111 mik it a wedding laughing. preent to you, my dear you and your Jim H drew a deeo HE was got A be snitched off sigh of relief, th telephone receiver hi far vi lit by a eoane mischievous- - 4. if Don't anything fret yourwlf. I didn't lose badnt lost long ago." 1 " Can't you tell me? " " P'rap there no barm. In.th end youll know. H wanted to be fre of me." E turned and moved away from her, so that ah could not se him. But she saw him, never theless. Sh saw hi clenched hand. And suddenly she wa afraid. The peace was gone. It wa a though H" the door had blown open, and the rain and battling wind outside had broken in on them. And it was she who bad opened the door, had drawn the bolts that for fifteen years had held. And she herself was so weak and so tempted. " Jim " the pleded-I He came back to her in a stride. go back, Nell. Stay with us here, always." She put out her band, holding 'him from her with a desperate strength. "No, I'm not free." " Not now. But in a little while." " Not never never." " But you just told me." " Seth's free. He' different. Tb'ng that used to bold him don't hold no more. But, Jim, they hold me stilL" She saw the blood drain from his face. " Nell, I don't know what you're saying." " It you're you're the man I know you are. You see, I'm very tired, Jim. It'd b good to sit here quietly. P'raps if you go on fighting IU give way. But you're wise and good. You've understood things. You'v been a friend always. It's like this, Jim. Just for your sort and me p'rap for every one there are some things we can't do, places where we break. P'rap even Seth, somewhere, has got a place like that If I did what you wanted, I'd be doing something that'd be going against the deepest thing in me. And in the end there 'd be no one left for you. I'd be a dead woman, Jim." He wavered, swaying on hi feet like a strong tree in the teeth of a tempest And then suddenly he broke. He flung himself down before ber, burying his face in her Lap, and clinging to her. But she knew that she had She had thrown herself on the won. everlasting elemental thing in both of them their fidelity. She sighed a little. And because she knew that she had won, she dared lay her hand on his head, granting herself that last tenderness. " Don't R. IVylie ' YouTJ com back in th and.' Bui it Lea." isn't true. Lie Eh wasn't listening. Frank) Dal (at oppoait to bar making lov to that kid. On purpo just to annoy her. Sh took a lump of bread from bend bar plat and flicked it aero at him. It wa a good shot: it truck him smartly oa th chaek. Ha looked up grinning, "Didn't know you could m o straight Wtch out I " H fired back and h dodgd. " War declared. Th great aez war. Lin up, girl." Hendmarsh cat huddled and unaware. How queer Ellen had Looked at him how straight and steady " 111 wait," ahe'd aaid. For what? ha wondered. For a miracle? It'd need a miracle. But there had been a sort of beauty about her omething that had hurt even now with the drink clogging hi vein and pounding at hi heart H couldn't get free from th hurt of it The rain. She would b listening to it, too. It bad meant so much to them. How many night had they sat together acroa the fire, whilst outaid the wrk of month had gone down bcfo rh storm? He could see her fac v, the mouth set in a dogged i he eyes with their clear unline daunted purpose. " Have a good time, children I " What were they up to now? H blinked his eyes. Same new stunt Good. Keep things lively. He beat time to the music with a drunken earnestness. The men and women were lined up with the dance floor between them. Some sort of dance. No, they were throwing something at each other, laughing and shrieking defiance. Littl) white pellet flew through the fog of moke; the ground wa sprinkled with them. Bread. The harvest. Young Thresher and his mother sitting by their dead fire, staring at ruin. Leona clutched at his sleeve. " Come on. You gotter be on the other side." Bread They were throwing it at each other like dirt. They were trampling it into the spilled wine. It scattered under their insolent feet virginal despoiled a broken, desecrated sacrament r try. Madame Cita summoned the bead waiter, who knew everything. He wai HE'D make it come real that's a busy man, and he ran an agile penwhat she'd do. cil down a column of figure a be never Ellen never would answered. could. She hated it all. He felt C'ett Seth Htndmanh," be said. "Hendmanh per wa what you call ber hatred like an insistent pressure. farmer. Owned land. Coal land, a it Every time be set eye on her be mistrusted himself the reality of hi appeared. Cut un komm nek." "Hell need to be," Madame Cita power hi money bi freedom. It remarked, looking at Leona Dton with was s though in a moment everyadmiration. thing might fade about him and he'd Hendmanh eat at the bead of the find himself knee deep in the wet grass long table. The party had reached a and a cold winter's rain beating against The hi face. point of stupid dishevelment men' faces were flushed and swollen. Nearly home. Please heaven, Ellen The women's apathy wai broken by would be asleep. She bad a maddening fit of high pitched giggling. The very trick of sitting up for him a habit table, wine stained and crowded with left over from the day when a lamp half empty glasses, had a look of disin their living room window had been ruption and despair. a guide through the rough darkness of Headman!) paid no attention to hi a winter' night She wouldn't change. guest. He had cleared a space for She weighed like a stone about hi his elbows, and he bent toward Leon neck. Well, he wa stronger than ah E stood up, swaying, stammering. LI ton a though there wa no' one else was strong enough to throw her off. beating the table with hi in the world. He took her hand and clenched fist. beid it openly, comparing it with hi HE was studying him fearleaaly. Stop it stop it dVou hear? " own under the subdued light Hers Young Thresher they d always did not listen. Leona swung was small and beautiful. Rather frightThey call him that, even when he was away from him. She wasn't cautious an old man. There wa that 'in ening in an odd way. Hi wa big and now. She was beyond caution. soft and red and, though manicured curable look of youth about him, some" Come on.- - Move ammunition." to rawness, bad an un cared for look. thing touchingly and and open strong " It's as though that damn soil had Waiters with obscure, closed face defenseless. What be wa at heart were dragged into the mimic battle. got ground into 'em," he grumbleJ. steadily through the gaunt weariness. "Can't even get 'em clean." They stood ready behind the combat-tant- d " How's thing been, Jim? " with basket of heaped up whiteYou've had time," she remarked "Not good. I don't know what's Gtt out or stnd for th frolic. It's blackmail, an J, if you don't know what that means, they'll tTI you ness. There was fury gathering a indifferently. sine Ever happened. you left, Nell, "Have a good time, everybody. "That's true. Ten year. I wa though the thing they did maddened it's seemed as though the seasons had them. Dale danced out from the ranks, when Dad (truck that of metal twenty-thre- e Leona Elton glanced up at him Don't care what it costs. The more, Leastways, it's not busi- - a though she would have held out all got mixed up such lummera we've the merrier. Have a goodrtime," vein, At least, it wa me struck it ' never known rain and sleet day in, cess. her hand and drawn him to her. She whirling a long French loaf like a slyly. In this unequivocal daylight " You? " " Charity, eh?" Hi glass spilled down his shirt front sword. It broke and he plucked out looked she saw he raffish, old, that And spoke gently. and mouth disease out. foot day He slid back in hi chair. He wanted the white heart of it with soiled fingers. He chuckled thickly. "Think me a " It's not only them I'm thinking of. "No, justice." all the cattle cleaned up for fifty curiously disrupted. Like most climb" Stop it to talk to somebody. He felt lonely thick headed chump, don't you? Out miles round." "Justice?" stop it, you swine." ers, he couldn't stand the height. Seth. This thing has stood beIt's us, " W'hy, you know how it was, Sth. He flung over the table. And with it was me got Dad to change his field unhappy. Unhappy. The word slipped Probably he was spending recklessly. know." tween us half our married life. It's "I for old Thresher's good for nothing I don't need to tell you. If it hadn't been like a sore place that's rubbed " You've heard about it here? " She'd have to look out for herself. A into his mirld like the sharp point ofr"th'e crash they stopped short and for a knife hurting. He tried to wrench the first time realized him. He looked acres on Crows Hill. Old Thresher been he I for what happened might She gave a little smile a queer big settlement, for instance. and rubbed. " Give us a drink, Leona." it out It was ridiculous. It wasn't them over. The stupid laughter had chuckled all over the place. Soft, he in your shoes." "Want me to believe that? Not smile, he thought it. Not like her. true. If anybody had told him fifteen been nailed to their gaping face. Town "So that' it, " I read a bit. I've not much eLe thought us. But he didn't chuckle long. She tipped her silver drinking cup of Jim Thresher by any thinking " Yes. I knew what I wa up to. I'd had a he'd have such friends rats. Gutter rats. He took Dale by that On I'm not complaining. his years ago to forlips. to do. When it's fine outside I think, were Haven't chance, quite you? a these and he sitting in a place like wink from a man who'd gone prospect" Cheerio, Seth'. What's the trouble, the collar and swung him off his feet the face of things it looked fair enough. Now they'll begin cutting.' And when he was your old sweetheart, gotten " Get out of here out all of But I kept mum. this, giving them a good time, he ing in his time. you I " it rains I get all worried. But I try My old dad was glad at the time. He have you? Not even married. And boy? What's bitten you?" Even Dad didn't know." Leona slid up to him. " Nothing. But if those field down wouldn't have believed in such luck. didn't know." ' P'raps it isn't raincomfort like faithful to the sort" myself, steady you " What's bitten Smart lad. aren't you? " He'd have laughed. " "Are you hinting that we knew?" " You don't know what you're saythere were mine now." you, old dear? " ing .st home.' " " Maybe you did, maybe you didu't sweetheart. He " her fair, Queer Pretty " flung aside, Well " It is," he said, with his first bitHe wasn't It's not panting. now. not And scorn. your laughing they're ing," she said with a sober " Let me alone I don't want to sea thing, though. Dad went to piece over That's between you and your confuneraL" I won't listen to you." terness. "If it hain't raining anyWretchedness rose and fell in him it. Couldn't do without his fields. Sort science. But when you took our fields He swung around and before them where else in the world, it's raining our He flung away from her. Suddenly like waves of nausea. He'd been bitter your face." of killed him. I wasn't that kind. The noise sank like subduing dust. for jours you made yourselves rich Leona Elton bad risen before hi inner all he kissed her. " That's right It's hard on way." If young young Thresher. the morning I've stood and stared at him a ha Many' fought a wedding even if I do have to wait They men, and what we got was land tint's He broke off. A motor had rounded vision and he hated this sober, resolute Thresher had been a common beggar through rain and mink, cursing it ail." eaten the heart out of us" close at hand, and the deeping purr It seemed incredible that so fo.rik" Hendmarsh would have emptied his lay there huge, sprawled out in the figure. " It must have beeu a hard midst of the broken bread and spilled Iif," of an engine. She hsd risen quickly. The girl lifted her puckered nose. frail a thing should dare stand between was wide awake pocket. He liked to make the large, wine wrecked she commented. wasn't But the " Rain," she said, " already." " That's Seth. If you you two have himself, but quiet now, him and desire. his But Thresher He wouldn't sleep tonight splurging gesture. young listening. " Well things can't go on." It was coming now. With a treachhad smelt of the fields. It was as not without grandeur. got to talk business, I'll go. It frets was furred and thick " Hald? tongue Leona Elton crept out of the stricken erous swiftness the low, black clouds yhyWhy, Leona, I'd like Seth to find me waiting for him." "What do you want?" with a feverish tiste. He knew though me and Ellen and the fields ' to tell you about those days. They circle. had closed in on them. Far off a faint were in league against him. And on hand his had She who her of arm. hated he that this maflt, smelt sort ui woVy me. Sometime they is it? What's happened to "What It was as though he hsd struck her blue line retreated eastward. It wa with that gesture something of her wet earth and rotting gram-M- sf the This was his real life Leona and all him?" don't seem real and then fcuuietimea world stretch of whole as the between He her the though 6aw stagger eyes. fellows. these jolly stern, quiet seemed to forsake her. He had to veiy sweat oi despair. 1 he smeii tilled tins doesUjt seem led i this yu Madame Gita, from where she knelt cowered sullenly under the renewed hold fast to good and then right herself with that dogged " Listen, Jim, it's this way. I've not Hendmarsb's nostrils. He had to be ami nie nd this plave. k'f'Uia ae beside him, looked up scornfully. feared. half be onslaught courage of freed " Don't it He called to her as she slid past changed, but Seth's different- - P'reps drcaui I though something were . " You can't. IVe done you know even thai? " she "I'm lucky," he said thickly. "I'm nothing. IVe Get out! " he said. be always ha been. Or p'raps he's Come here, st with me. Who' pay don't kuiw hat." said. another remember well of out I wife been faithful " a to you." " It No, Seth, you'vegot to listen first " for the drinks, the the M.'l just gone on. I don't know. If if he "Oh, don't be a fool I It's youll summer like this. We'd been married ing !e tossed herself anyhow? I'm not Seth tp you." seems strange, irritable and queer-likdown unwillingly eooliy. Thresher waited beside tie back broken two I'd the divorce. That's your right" my " You make it fairly years. " tnightyi hard, Mr. get" him. She was panting and laugh you've gut to remember he's got things Maybe that's it. I've not got much train. He wanted it the land dean. YOUNG I've God I've Plea no getting stil right Hendnurxh. And God knows it hasn't iu hia niuid we don't know of, we don t '1 lie Doc said of a head I'd have to ing' at some secret joke of her own. And yet when it was gone after And then rain the came, day. day no cause." been easy for me to Come. If, it waj lay off. But iarr I want a there would be nothing left birp. And hail, too. I remember one night He took her hand and patted it TU give it you," he said brutally. me, I'd rather have turned traiap. "Got the blues. Might be decent They talked of trivial things after th good time, sweetheart- - I've gul the "III remember." But he had his only home across the fields, and He had never seen her like that coming But I'm come not There the one. 6nly tut" to do with it." to a fellow who's just lost his home." hand on hers, pressing it against his money. I know manner of people saying good-b- y to wishing the lightning would strike me " when a man if he's got a heart She had always been so quiet and " You do, don't Go on. Y'ou haven't'" you? nu as though he wanted to point" the time each other for the last time. sell and get out I dead. to wanted blazed Thia sudden wrath in him. has got to swallow his man" Yes I " have. "You bet I do. Buy 'things. Buy Lurk of it on" his flesh forever. Years No But not ago. Jim youU give But Ellen wouldn't You couldn't beat mother my Mr. Hendmirah, there's a mort-giK- e through her like a white flame. I hoodnow iou listen to me, too, NelL that Must have been this morning. love when she wakes, your anything you want, sweetheart." won't you? " . He drew himself up. He looked her. Shi had courage for a regiment. on the farm. ' They're closing tr.ed to withdraw hr kind. It m Walked out " Of course I wilL Shell be sad IU never come back,' didu t u.'n io see you. I didn't want She just set her teeth." not down on us next week. The crops has down upon her. Her obstinacy kindled an instinctive movement. His crudity I said. Queer, wasn't it? to. e only come because thcre.wus have said good-byto a in him made of frustration that Leona rage Dton laughed. tailed again. They were our last chance. " I don't see what's queer." no-But do. to me leit for annoyed her. The next moment she "Don't let her worry. Everything nothing him dangerous. If she didn't take care " Well leaving things your wife "The perfect helpmate! " had recovered her' wits and her hn I I've spe.ii you, I've got to be sure of They'll turn us out in the roads. And be'd strike her down out of bis will be all right" path. " ill. mother's ill. " Youll my Deathly " eem and and all that What'd you think And then, when there didn't the one thing that's kept me going. lay passive. Anything you wut," " You will. I'll make you. If you It can't be that, dear." he repealed witb drunken a hope left, the wind stopped a she she said? " You're happy, aren't you? IVe gjt. remember her. She was kind to you don't do as I tell Her voice shook with a forced cheerhell make I'll you kids when we And she's were " How should I know? " together. id it would, and th sun came." to ute that comfort with me." fulness. " Jim, I think the wind's shiftthe best mother a man ever had. I for you." " Not regretting anything, are you? ' " 'I'll wait for you.' It made me HE regarded him cntiea'ly So he She siarel back St him. She me." ing again. ThereH be fine weather don't "Seth frighten you doa't ask for charity. I'm a&king for was ouiy thirty-thre- e At that He turned on her. And for a moaa death now, and her hps moved ps laugh. I said ' 1:11 be a long wait, old ' yet." His raised hand dropped. It was true. us fair hand a to these over " he help play, rate wouldn't t loi.g Her twice without a found. ment she wa daunted, overtaken by girl a damn long wait' He "broke The whistle sounded. The words died She hadn't even flinched. Oh, she had Seth Mr. Hcndinarsh, nejet months. own fare, tinelv out. tieauufni. a sudden doubt in her capaoity to conWhat's Lhst matter? " off, lifting his head uneasily. " What' her lips. They looked straight at on the all pluck Gradually rage right " wh3f the land ld you haven't forgotten un'med, and rofoupdly old, trol this splurging, lawless force of that?" Lverytiiini." with the naked avowal of receded out of his face leaving a look . each other " ' " mfans to us and endiiSig as stone. I'm happy. Of course I'm happy."' Thunder. There's a storm going farewelL She bent down to him. passion. of crude desperate cunning. " " " HendmanJi the door. flung open You m He know I'm not I let her go. Be said sorrowfully, " Jim it was on. Anyth.ng thanking you I thought Td mar" Get "All right I know that. Well-- well my, stars, aren't I? IVe cut loose. I'm out," he said. I've Ki.d :! Mtke it fc.jh prve'i. "So at leift they've taught you to ried." " You then. a make in and bargain give maybe you'd reft ea&ier I. ri'in't rare free of all this." He ground his gears tell lies." E sat silent, g.TfTB-o-u He smiled back at her. The rain " I'm a;1 k of me what I want and I'll give you war.: your mind." The great car slid forward rafi'ir.s" round the viciously. in his temples beat down on his bare head and on his drumming " " what you want" for , HI send the out Get , I want or ferv poLee. he and EXDMAR5H and the pandemonium of voice slimmed the door laugh. r:.arr.ige gave a triumphant face. He did not know whether i " Well make It's blackmail, and. if-- you don't know in the butler's face. P'rap you can't do that no more." He was and blaring instrument he heard was rain or tears that he brushed roughla.y up for this tonight, swee " But. listen, tell what I " that means, they'll a ji you." furious and rather fnchtened. P'rsps I can. What about Jim beart You'll see. We'll take hell's it, the rain. It was coming down in ly from his cheek. "Carried." Ld oS." Young Thresher glanced beyond ht3l Thresher? You think I've done him ue aia col know hy fce was " Thank you, Nell. It's torrents, teeming against the window, good of yon g " More fool you." frightened; certainly not because of to the dim figure of the butler, waif-vwrong. Day and night you've nanjed turning the streets to riven. The com to tell me." hall And his on hand the with Well-nd;xr. Jim." B:,t trv "Thit's ripht 7 But HE'S his ow Yotit!g ThreAer. heart wis at me to make good to him. sleep m; peaceful, lay stricken under its gray glacial line. The train wa moving now. Ha r.Ti you're your.z yor do.. , kr.r. He stood up, straightening his kv s your chance. He could see the fields Thresher's beating thicklv against his r:bs in there wan some one els. Uendxarsh Say the word snd walked betide' her window. "Nell wa!-it. Elen and me hy, we'd been shoulders and smiling at ber. fields that had once been hial It wa I'll dear the mortage IJ1 set him on naming agiinjit tome, veiled, unreeoe-n:ir- d saw her. too. p'raps after all one day youll come e.Vr s.ni'c we It wasn't even as 'hou;h m; c'l. as thev ch!I She "It's the we.tit lifted from a though the Sansa walls of Madame home." little woir.in almost frail his feet scam." i was k:a be were a!:osthr rurprjied He hadn't i O'lnc 1 hrej.'.t r wan her heart be has a face She Shell He see flesh l.ke couldn't her done was now. " Dear don it Uun, grand Gita's private room were giving way, looking. Her think of it There her. too. She was a prei'v !h:rg ani heard from the Threshers since the old worn ve.l over ber skeleton. Through had covered it with her trembling hind. now, I know. And it's you we owe it and that beyond them the fields lay aren't no mira?eS" ahe had a tr.ck of deai..--.; had rh s.'k mn rud a stroke rumr.j him. it one could trace the bone of her The silence seemed to become aucLble in wait like a black tide. to, NelL" He walked faster. Ha could not let " You don't owe me nothing. be" l.ke no one e s ; It a" lood But they wre always there, lurking on f ire The marked cheek bones and the It's He felt despair dutch at him. " Come her go. to break into a soft perautent murSuddenly he stood back, bold- h f rer r.i l t Leona. Let chinre on, TEt tuiBstiiV very straight wid-- " " ' ayaflf a lucky yrur.g chip to ff her. i!lp ECTOM. to saw familiar he that That's how You a sound that s'i!l lay cloarhed srvnst her. ing to it as not can't You're drunki" it" ' gallantry. " I'd like to know one I tell youJa Ir.t ha; t h, re bad some ominous significance. S'true. I'm drunk. Gotter be. thing." "Why. no.' But afterward we talked i thoiiKh she held some inBut I believe in miracle," be Leon darrned sail "I'd'Lk to know how visible sx;il about her ahouldcra, wa i over, and be promised" you'r twenty-threThe rain-Gotter do something. Ellen said, By L A--. s1 ay s H! ril . HESD it it e, ." s i.i--- i H" 1 H' f l cU'-.ie- a!r , kJ . e.'.-- tn e, 1 br-'t- . nu |