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Show , TIIE WEEKLY KEFLEX. KATSVILLE. UTAH wool A JOSEPH GREER. and-ji- s ENRY v KITCHELL WEBSTER, . r OOPY RIGHT by Ths doeesMERRiiL CHAPTER VI ContlousA ca ford and, most unhappily. by Henry Craven. Joe shook hands with him after the meeting and told him not Jo 'feet had about It . He'd acted In accordance with tbe dear understanding under which hed been elected. He hadn't the heart to etsy around, however, te talk It out with Joe and Jennie, and left with Johtt William-son- . 2 right," she went on; "be as ihck4 m yoq ilk I I wii yos to U. I'm trying to nsk you op. Innocence if good thin to have, hut it Dot tbe unly this in the world. Ton'd lost yoart Ion before you wort na old os tbo U. ImiBoro tys than Ton'd ran you Of a a about her. smack. You'd ot down, you're often Jennie, tired out and .thorougbly told ms, to tbo ode of tho uttrr. dispirited, hadn't much wanted t Toa'ro proud of it, toot Iters um of stay end talk It out either, but ab the way yoa built yourself up from had been detained by an Imperative "AH them. By yourself. Without any help from anybody. Well, the'f like you. Tou're said that yourself, hut I told you you'd aerer he able to remember It Ebe'a ot to Cod thin ft out for herself, eren if ah eta hurt now and then, doln It Nobody can help her unlesa they hein by trusting her to And her own way. And If aha sees that you don't Aada you watching her and spying on her it'll do her more harm thaa any drunken lover could de her nt the rad of a joyride. I mean that Jot ; ' . ... signal from Jo. out the window literally." Ilia only answer, for tba moment, waa to eay that he wouldn't here hollered a woman a good woman could hara talked ilka that Aha ottered mirthless laugh. "I don't bellera yon know much about I doubt if you know good .women. on a when you set one." Tm not going North again." ha Bald, after n hoary alienee. 'There wore n few things I wanted to finish I'ra up, hut they can stand over, I got n job here I can see that couldn't expect anybody elae to do It for me. Ebe's my daughter; tbat'a the difference. I'm going to look after her my own way. 1 don't mean to apy on her. She wont know Tm watching AiUsjl jQuosUanaBut Ta going Ae. knowr With Joe home there wee no longer any seed for Jennie te remain with the girl and o ah returned te her ewa home. The Bret night ah waa miserably lonely. Eba wanted Trlx, ranging In, hugging her nt haphaiard, or the aprawllng on the chair-arrug. talking neither very wisely nor eery wittily, at random, yawning, fondling her aboulder or her knee for moment with a cnrolesa hand, and eaytng ah waa going to bed. Naira, pathetic lorely, young, just beginning to And herself! What light had Joe to come trampling Into this little garden, juet because a momentary casual net of his, forgotten for twenty years, had begotten her! Ills daughter, waa m i ah I Ttelr conferences orer tba patent situation endured for days. It waa sens of the directors that an arrangement should he made Crawford made n formal motion that the he rnada. when it waa mad la stock. This put Jo In n corner. Beal danger alwaya quieted him, end hie argument, though forcible, wta and conciliatory. Tbf fundamental difficulty about organising this company, he pointed out, has been over the question of control. Be had felt nt Brat that since he was putting bla whole fortune Into the company and waa t be Ita technical head be waa entitled to full control.' It had been with the greatest reluctance that he had consented .te n divided control, na even fifty per cent In his hands and fifty la the hands of tba associates. He had relied upon n gentlemen's agreement that this balance should not he disturbed by the tssu nnce of treasury stock. Be felt that the payment of tb Inventor la this stock wee dangerous t his Interests na likely to disturb tkat balance. It n much easier matter for would WlfllsmsonTCwbett, snd Cra wford. or their friends, to possess themselves of that stock than It eould be for him. Be urged, therefore, In the Interest of fair play, that tba cash price, or, rather, the best compromise they could make-on cash basts, be accepted. "Question." Corbett murmured when they had beard him la silence to the end. But' Frank Crawford, efter a glance down the table at Henry Crar-- ra's troubled face, made a little speech of reassure nee. The agreement was still a gentlemen's agreement, and there was ne disposition on the part of any obe to violate 1L The control had from the first been ambiguous, and It would be no more so after the stock sale had been made. There was no res son te believe .that tbe Inventor was not entirely disinterested. Crawford was voting to n stock payment both because be did not wish tbe company's financial resources depleted and because be did wish the personnel strengthened, as he believed It would be by tbe enlistment of a man whose talents, as an inventor, had been ee highly praised by their net-tleme-nt low-voice- d per-ha- p she'd ask him. But tbe mere sight of hhn waa She'd never seen him before la an ordinary straw hat and regular civilian clothes, and a certain air which ahold regarded as Inseparable from him waa gone. It would he a little toe much t say that he looked cheap, but be would never, for a fact, have served, like this, aa lay figure te hang romances about a disguised prince open. Eh suspected, too, that she had some hat Impaired' herself with hi in. arriving afoot, hot and gusiifd sad flecked with aoot from the vomiting funnels of the Uttia excursion steamers. The pair found a corner here they could sit In the shade. The fact that they loved each other gut Itself declared and accepted as a basis almost at nee Ha put hla ana around her half of the paired people out here were linked that way-e- nd during $ moment ,of fortuitous privacy they biased. as But the feel of the adventure pedestrian, not aerial. Georg pointed out that ha hadn't n job, an A he ad Jed elth a manner vQilch struck her ns a Uttia unnatural practically ne money. Eli had nearly four hundred dollars of her own, she Baldwin) her; hut ha told her hotly that, sben they ran away to get marrleAtt wouldn't he upon her money that they did It, Eh didn't contest the point lacked the spirit te do U. somehow, Anyway, ha weoton to asy they'd lav t come dosa eventually te living on what he could earn. Mr. Greer would do nothing for them, even in tho way of making an opening for him. Forlornly ah conceded this, toe. Ehq knew how Implacable her father! resentments were, though she was rather surprised that her lover should see so clesliy If they'd beh sitting, while they bad this talk, la thbblg roadster, skimming swsllow-llkalong soma whit ribbon of road, or puliedxcp in the ah shad of soma secluded might hara been able to romanticist the Idea of poverty with her lover And Insist npoa embracing It A tiny a single room, anything that sheltered the pair of them together would b enough. But out here on the pier this couldn't s ha done. There were toe many all about SlirtM children caron sucker sticks, rying harassed mothers, a sheepish father hers and there, peremptory denial of any more pennies for tha this wii pleasure I Thie waa leg the weis that Intervened between her father's disastrous flying visit ia August and his final return late la October, Her wishes and her dream contradicted each ether sad frequently tfcemseivee, jtAd her actions followed a beet they could through the mas. Before Joe took up his post as sentry, determine A as he aaiA t know, she had drifted 1st a modus rivecdl with her lever. She saw him eace period la during eiteh of hla Chicago for as long as she could. safety give him, usually la the after-boonIa fine weather they drove out late the country! for had days they found various Ignoble sbd humiliating hiding place la town. They didst plan much Bor hope for much. They merely drift e A dangerously ;hey both knew, compromising as best they could In the with the desire that held-thehanA disinterested It of great grip Beatrice, ns Jennie prophesied she woulA asw through her father's Intentions like so much glass, but tbe note between them was not always -- -- off-dut- y m Corn-stalk- s t t iLarbuncbTiWursoinelh!xip'uiy sleeve? "That stock will stay right where It la, see, until they try to pull Jbelr stuff. I may not have te show down even then. If I ran get Henry. 1 believe I could have got him today If I'd wanted him. 1 could only him once, of course, "Been feeling sorry for the old man, hara you? Well, next time you wait. Wt'vs got 'em by the short hairs, Jesuit, and when we get ready they're going to yelp!" ue CHAPTER VII True Lev, Joe'i misgiving shout the os Beatrice had been making of her liberty waa warranted. Sbe had picked up Georg Burns on a drag store corner more than once, and though this did not happen as often aa her father, with deliberate exaggeration, had suggested to Jennie, the bond between the pair was stronger thaa anything hla speculations ran to. On the third day after George's dismissal Trtx. with na elaboration of clandestlna contrivance, had met him and had u long talk with him. Shed choaen a rradetvona, unhappily, upon tho Municipal pier, a place packed red-lette-r TtifratThyd'tratdirtaRfClr n of luck cam George's way piece He had a plan In minA hat wouldn't tell her now what it was. They exchanged some promises that day t ahe, never to have anything more te do with Wart or hla bunch, or any on like them, end te quit he had dona, absolutely, drinking two months before ; be, never to take another job aa chauffeur, but stick It out for something that looked toward tha future; and not to loan himself where ah couldn't find him If aha needed him. They parted mournfully enough, but comforted somewhat by tba meeting, for all that Hed never distrust her again, ha aaiA whatever happeneA lit had thought when her fatlter fired him, that night on the way to tha train, that aha might have thrown him over mada him tba goat "I never told him anything about you," Trtx asserteA "Hew do yon suppose he found out?" It must hava bees Mlsa MacArtbur, then. George had talked to her. He'd had o much on hla chest that night that he'd had to blow off to somebody. He'd realised be was giving himself away more or lets, but had thought Jennie too good a friend to tak adSo tha 'warmest emotion vantage. Trlx went home with that afternoon was a lively hatred of Jennie. This waa short-liveof course, for It was on that very evening that Jennie offered' her treaty and won a victory. This might. It Is easy to bell' e, have been much more complete than It turned out te be; foe, after all, Jennie falleA Beatrice aaw George, for the first time since their parting, tha day aha read la tha paper of bla having got' a service. job aa pilot la tha They had aa afternoon together. In tbe ear again, revisiting some old Daunts of theirs, butdeeplto jihejw in nt ic a ccessories it waa not a very happy "time, pressed her hotly raw to marry him and said some pretty bitter things when she refused te Wasn't the job promise anything. good enough te suit her? Be got a base pay of fifty a week and five cents a mile. On the Cleveland run this figured nearly fifty a week more. And between round trlpa, one day each If ahe way. he had two days off. wouldn't take him at that T couldn't stand it. waiting. Tou'd be away half the nights, even." They both thought, when they parted that day. that U waa the end of everything. Going to school, though It represented at first nothing more thaa a random attempt te escape from the tyranny of her need of him, afforded her, presently, a more hopeful Idea. Most of her fellow student, the founA were not here to pas the time nor even to Improve themselves, but with tbe sharply defined aim of learning m earn themm-lve-s a living. He waaT very sympathetic toward this Idea when she broached It te him g they were alwajs a the edge of oxer It, knd she was none too confident of It hersrlf. Indeed there waa nothing very confident oc dear about her lift, within oc without, dur-d air-ma- n re "Coed Lord, Yeel Didn't You Ee It?" that hot August day with trtppers and resonant with brass hands and tbe chant of barkers for the quarter-hourlexcursions te Uncoin perk. She'd come off without ibe car though Jennie had by this time licensed her use of It partly from a fear of being spied upon and partly from aa Idea that ahe might never go back at all to her father's house. There waa no hope of any real happiness for tier there after what had happened; FlieVne wcow.iiiat' she loved George, and' If her i distorted memories could be- trusted she'd avowed tbe fact te him during their banana-munchin- y - drive home from Glencoe. Why Shouldn't they, then, run off today to Milwaukee or somewhere and get married? If ha asked; her to, ahe jut quar-relia- , X fere Fin the tenderness. Trlx sometime believed la tha honesty ef her own managed te think aha loved him ee well aa ever but ah never wholly trusted hla. Her hr n hedge that ahe waa being watched spied upon was . fortified -- were to minute t be reported: glance at tha superscription of n letter, the toe casual tons of n question, an eiplanatlon a Uttia to circumstantial of his plana for the day, an occasional something queer, about a telephone call. , She took a rather cruel pleasure, though It wasn't entirely wanton, la feeding hla suspicion with false dews, making small mysteries of nothing. Sbe didn't believe be was on the main trail. Ware, whom eh hadn't seen since bis licking, end some of bl associate were still In ber fathers thoughts, and ht seemed uneasy, too, about some of tha new friends Ahe had mad at school These suspicions of hla ah deliberately Inflamed Tbe victories were not all with ber, however. U waa a strategist, too. Within n week of hla return he mrf nenvered ber out of half ber liberty by appropriating the roadster to hla own ue. Tho closed car was at her disposal but since It was n limousine the chauffeur naturally went with It and this i unesctpable social convention mada It useless for the most Important of her purpose. let In tha teeth of the bleak autumnal weather aha couldn't avow preference for tb open car. In another way, too, the weather helped fore the situation. When Joe finally got round to going North again, about tba middle of November, there wae no possibility of giving the journey the color of a pleasure outing for Trlx. but she went at bis Invitation. During the whole ten days the journey lasteA storms end the mud kept her virtually a prisoner la n lucre, aloa ef small hotels. She wrote long dally letters te George Burns while her father waa away about hla business, and la the evening wbea he came back she entertained him with a sulky nil race, varied.. some time bplr!t-les- s acquiescent In a suggested movie show or by a pretended absorption la a msgstlne. Before they returned they had worn the situation down te Jts last shred of tolerability. Tbe one thought la ber mind was te get, te George as quickly as she CoulA She had figured this a one of hi off days, and w sum haring written she was gmj)g home today, that he would be salting at hi boarding bouse te bear from ber. Ehe w angrily tnrreduteos of the voice that a board eg boose slavey which Informed her. that Mr. Burns was out. and after this assurance had hem rammed home to her there was a black moment or tw wbea sbe turned her wrth upon her lover. Then It occurred to her that he might be the victim of a change In h!a timetable, and railing up the office of the of the air man. she learned that this was true. PUt Burns had taken out tbe Cleveland mall that morning. He'd be returning with It tonuTrow, sosv time around i it noon. A panicky foreboding took posses- Her afternoon's entertslament consisted la looking at furnished rooms which had been advertised for light housekeeping. T the land! die ah aaw ab gave her name as Vim George Bums and described herself aa tha wdfa ef one of the mail avlatora. She got a good deal ef emotional stiaBuloa out nf thin. for they were without exception Interested and in on case s s It stlanKlntt ppntlt and nils dlgsstlan. watted-fe- e hlas-a- e. tine. - hearty JfMiiaa teetk, wee tone U'sh a hod of New SrrU Yacht Quh Salad DieMmqiethe hows a arw Ud dehahi awaits you. Yacht Qub he bac a booths lor 35 yaaes. k b add nch aad cqaamy otwayi study a Wttb awbr ba iwafttMA aad mm tat Oa Tad T UmIhimI l 8,1, ia a laaJif saae ci ta SALAD lit N. a. Curat. iH-- 8c. m Teach Children ToU Cuticura end Ileele o course.- Nets tt rtllma Gal stilly ktllftj nttar aatiad. for You Yaltlcj a NEW Ruled Dallgkt "Ton may not find him quit himself," be warned her, tad added that the doctor's orders wera strict against any excitement Well, of course, Anson knew the sort of terms she'd been oa with her father lately. The pillow were packed behind him so that ht half reclined hla head was lncaaed In bandages, his left for arm lay across hla chest In splints ; there was a strong hospltal-llksmell In the room, ef Iodoform or something of the sort. All this aha was prepared for and Instantly thrust aside as unimportant. What engrossed and frightened ber was tii way he was looking at her as If her appearance bewildered him. as If he found It tmacco; ntable. Ehe said In answer to Its seeming question, "Don't you know me. Dad? . It' Trlx P , "Of course I know you." he answered, petulantly, and thickly as If hla tongue were swollen. 'Im not rat of my head What mada you think I was? Anson been talking 7" "It was just the way yon looked at me." ah said shakily, and then went to him. "Oh, Dad Fm so aorryP aha cried "I didn't knew, of ystr treat as relae explaln-Al- a It ranks iremaoeenr Incomprehensible reason, had coma up late her throat "II waa brought heme, miss," Anson aaiA reproachfully. "Around eleven oclock this morning, la aa ambulance. He'd been la an accident" Sbe was bewildered by this news. In tb first flash It aeemed unfair, sweeping her ewa concerns off the boards, as it did eo summarily. "He's In bed I suppose, eh Interrupted Til go te him., I ran see him. cant I V- - Some Involuntary significance of dissent oa Ansona part was what Sag da her ask that last qaestlon. Ils sslA "Certainly, Miss," but she oho fCuHVl W Travtl Fast on Skis Great epeed Can be attained by experts on skis. It la possible for such persons to travel at the rats of a mils in a minute and a half. Leaps of seventy-five feet are no longer unusual. ' One of the greatest leaps ever mad was by Itegnsr Omtvedt of Chicago In 1016 a distance of 192 feet 9 Inches. I just came In this minute I haven't heard yet what happened or how. Art yon well enough to tell me?" Instead of answering question ho asked on of hie own. "Where you been all day, Trlx?" For moment his look pinned her fast; then It wavered away and left her. "Nowhere much," ah answered "Shopping for while, end then around There didn't seem to be any special point In coming home." "Alone F he aaked She found heraetf crying aa sbe answered yen. When she'd wiped her tear, and controlled her voice, ah afiboraTed Absolutely alone. Dad All day. I havent spoken te a person I knew since 1 left you this morning. There wasn't anybody I knew t talk to. Dad It's true I Ten de treat me aa much aa that, don't you?" He shook hla head but It wasn't, ahe thought, so much la dissent as In perplexity; as If she'd thrown him hack apon some puul of his own. The expression was lost in the twinge of pels the movement cost him. "Boor Dad you must 11 still," ah admonished him, gently. "Tell me what happened to you." ", E CONTtWtxa) (TO hr t l just-wand- Hot Seringa. ering ' ? not Springs Ark, Is widely noted hot waters that flow from T2 for the spring.- Included la a space of tea ecrea oa the west aide of Hot Spring mountain. The water of these spring range ia from 78 to 15? degree F. sal sr especially beneficial Iq the treatment of chronic disease. la four sections of land were hy congress aa a government reservation. Vince then the gsv-er- a roe tit hat estab-lsheon the moan-tsl- a the Amy and Navy General how - tetr-vrst- set-of- f d sion of ber, that she might not again be allowed even such qualified liberty p!tL aa ah enjoyed today. Ia the train ef this ne- Family pride bar ruined the ties ab spent tb root ef the morning prate ef many a fin young man.prow half-seriou- Chew it cjier every meal ' te pened "Father home yet?" ah asked with an affected carelessness which dido) sound just right Her heart for some y es She deposited this "lroa ration" la tb rare of the head porter in oo of hotels, a man tbe smaller down-tow- n who tad already served ns ber ally small matters. It was la one er te be kept tin called for, n matter wbea, tomorrow er next yeer. New If sbe quarreled with ber father In' tb middle ef the night or during an evening party sbe couldn't be kept prisoner by a lack ef clothe. - - all-da- acre-kesbl-s. idaf cot-tig- s, object-lesson- and equ'pptng buying a travelleg-hs- g It with a complete outfit for tbe nor-genc- y she foresaw. Including suit, hat, and shoes, til Inconspicuous and Mrs. Henderaoa deeply sympathetic. didn't see how she could endure the boat lie. suspense ef knowing ber husband , During the month that elspwrd be- might be killed any day, Aay day, fore the final explosion they were to- absolutely! And Friday! Sbe hoped gether more thaa ever before, sad Mr. Burns never had te fly oa Friday I Sim got a thrill, too, from the dm often, for hours tad evea days on enA the surface they presented each other mestlc intimacies one place suggested was ne of unbroken confidence and It consisted ef a sitting-roowith a double bed la aa alcove, a bathroom, and a closet equipped as a kitchenette. Sbe almost hired the place outright, sad aha left with a 'strong Intimation that ah would do so, if it weren't taken in the meantime," witbia er two. Things couldn't ge on as they were at home much longer, anyhow. well make aa rad ef Mightn't ah that Intolerable situation now aa later? But sbe found ra reaching home about six oclock tkat this decision had already been tskea out ef her hand The look la Anson's face when ha met her la tb hall told her that something unprecedented had hap- 1, - The vote was then taken and the' n otion carried. Joe, Jennie, and Na than voting against It It was supported ty WUllamaop, Corbett Craw- thought e U . ah She stood looking oerxtbt lake while ih wilted for the room to etrar. When tit door had shut for the last time, she turned with what beg a as a entile of encouragement for hef defeated bos a But It ended with a gap Joe!" she cried, II was gating after Joha Williamson' beck, with bla most brilliant grin. 'We've got 'em, Jennie I We've got 'em by tb abort hairs 1 "Waa this what you wera working for all alpng? But Joe, why?" "Lordy, yea I Didnt you see It? 1 hoped you wouldnX because It made your face safer, but I didn't suppose I could get by with yoa. I'm pretty good when I fan de that" T don't ee. yet" aim confessed, what you've got out of it unless this Inventor you were so anxious te hev them look up la somebody you own more or less." "U IP said Joe, T own the patents. Patented the whole thing myself as an Infringement before . I was patented tbe others. d n good idea, wasnt It I They might havt found tha thing before dsyt they went la and gummed the whole Her courage wasn't equal te it, nor game. But they didn't, Jennie. Do you think I'd go Into business with hit, either, the truth waa. For the ' ' If he didn't, rZohiJl1 of n |