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Show 4 THI WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSVILLE, UTAH r uu'ii miMiiiippi a The Mississippi river commission ays that according to the latest ear- vey. rise widest point oa ths MJsals-s!priver at ths hank, full stage, as found TT miles below Cairo, HU where tbe river was H.L.'O feet across. ID It narrowest near Us source, being""' teM than fd foeCbetseva Lake Itasca ani Minneapolis. 4 Moon and tha Tidee tides occur when the the sun and tbe mmn The moon, beli.g closer than the aun, baa the tttr.-unr "pulling rw fu'.U the water vln, er." but the uni .t la when tluy pull together ta The Mglievt of attrcij,na act In uru-n- . to the- e n I . - xtr-me- CHAPTER VIII Continued.' . ' -t- 7arms again. her to had He jldded that what wa wanted." ha said. w shouldn't have te depend oa Mount Yeeavlaa. It' can be managed teore hBhiythathsL- Dot ttUbe a long while tefore I'm ready te die, even Uk thla. There's toe much left te he lived through. I'd like te sail late the Bay of Naples with 70s. for one thing, and hare a look at that old Do 70a remember some, volcano the first time we talked said 70a thing together, about wishing 70a could be there with be when I hdd my first look at all that! Its going to work out, some time, you know. Fv knows it. in a way. ever since 70s said tt We could do It, at that. Tomorrow. There's a Dutch boat sailing for LisOh. It's all right te laogh. but bon Its going te happen some day." "There isnt a city la Europe, Joe her voice was somber enough bow "where we wouldnt be running Into people all the time who knew me. And whe'd know what I'd dona. Oh, lfs a lovely dream, my dear, but It will never come true." Again, and thla time bruskly, he disengaged himself from her arm. He rose giddily te hla feet, polled up a chair, and sat down oa It. "Toa see." w cast get away from It ; ha said, lit keeps coming back. Wav got te (talk It out; decide whet were going fect iua with uhleh she played her part. But when at last the proprietor left them, with a bell to ring when they should be ready for their final course,, she turned straight hack te their own affair and In an. even voice e hla hopes to pieces." Itjp no good. Joe," she said. Tt will never happen that thing youve been talking about. I know yoa had spokea about It before about tha time coming when Td be ready te ge Break my ova Ufa away with you altogether, and try te hold oa by yours. I've let myself dream tome times that I would, hut it's never been anything but a dreem never eta be. I suppose If I had say real courage but I haven't Joe ; not a scrap." He contradicted her roughly, trying te pnt a coavlctloa behind the words that waa not there, it was her tone thst told him the truth, not the thing she had been saying. "I am la love with you. end I'm not with John never waa, I guess. All ths same, love Isnt the only thing In the world not for me." ner voles If - te Jfrfo do. But I wUh 1 didn't nuke yon's unhappy." "Ton dont need to worry about that he said. "Tou'v been a lot kinder to mo than I deserve." "But I'm unhappy, loot" she sobbed, tnew w He pulled her up then In hla arms and kissed her, and aha, with a sigh, returned the kiss. "Weve still got an hour," he said, and for a long while after that they spok of nothing more te the purpose than tit sailing gulls and the sheets ef silver left by the receding tide. She .asked him. though, at. the end of a protracted alienee,, what he was thinking about. bee trying not t think about "But I am s beset, confessed. it," he and I cant get it out of my bead." She neither spoke nor stirred until he went on. All you'd have to do tomorrow would he to keep your Mr. Wentworth from actually putting you on the train. You corns down te the same station, but you take our little train Instead. And Im oa It And we com out here end have our little holiday. Two Oh. I know days eut of e lifetime It's Impossible. But you asked what I was thinking about, and that waa It" "Do you want me to do it, Joe?" The simplicity of the question, and the Intensity of the emotion that propelled It literally, for an Instant stopped the beat ef hla heart Hla eyes filled with tears, bnt through tha blur he could see hers, wide with a sense of great adventure, gaalng up at him. "I dont know, he said. T dont know whether I want you te or not Ilbr arms tightened about him and ah uttered a shaky laugh. "I love you for aaylag that Ill come, Joe. m give you those two daye Wt'va got to be starting back now. You ge find the man and tell him. Hed betme Ilk this. ter not Jo mad bis arrangements, and they caught the train and contrived, very tidily, how her mooting with Alice Wentworth at stx should he mad plausible. Violet managed her meeting with Alice Wentworth with entire success But Alice mad her Jump, though, by saying bolding her off In both hands for a good look, "Youve been deceiving John, Violet Tv never seen you looking prettier, or any younger, hardly, since I waa your bridesmaid. Have your redcap give your bag te Wrenn ; too." and give him your at dm the arrived the htg they By brown bouse oa Riverside drive Violet waa near enough to her natural self. There was nothing the matter with her, except she couldn't sleep. "I guess you had better telephone John, If you feel equal te It" kllc told her, when ah had gone up te Vloleta room"h'a been trying te get you all day. There was a long allencs Finally Violet said, "I see what happened. John thought I waa coming on tha Broadway. I waa, but I missed tt And be always langhs at me for missing trains, a I didnt call him up and tea him I suppose I ought to telephone him now "My fleer," said Alice, "you cant talk across the room te me, let alone to Chicago. 111 wire John that youva got here all right or telephone, If about mi 1 deep-draw- Tt n up Sheridan road, she rolh-- l at thw te him snd held hU hand! or four mile from home he T!ir told ter ba had Margaret out there to after her and ! thlcga off that she mightn't want to bother with. doeuTst"' you off.- Violet said, with a small nervous laugh. "A long as she's there." she went oa s moment lateP, I think HI tell Because she you a uiethiug now. makes it hard, somehow this Is what I meant Just now for me to talk ta you. Well, thats all It U, reelly. I don't want you staved off. John, by I dont want to be let anybody. alone. To go my own wsy. That sort of thing. I know I've mad you think I did. That's a trick most women have. I guess. But they don't mean It At least I dont Not any more. ld like to have you with me all the time. Day and eight. lie looked at her gravely ; almost If that had been possible for John suih lously. "Violet" he asked, "have yov been frlghtenod'by anything! Or anybody! Are you afraid of anything now? Sh met tls look steadily. There Ian t a thing. Theres only on thing. And that Is that lame day you may get tired of me." At the look this drew from him she uttered e sobbing laugh end flung herself upea him. "It Isnt a night watchman I want you for," ahe said. s all right If she eat who had gone hack Te Chicago. and brought him 11 sound up by sd'uittirg that he had rea.hed the end of his ptnvKal snd medal powers and that Jeun.s would Lata to hit poser"? attorney end en leaver to vav wKsT she out of tL wreck. lie wound up. "Tou'fl Just have t do the beat you can. Jennie. I'm through. For thla round, at least." She caught eagerly at the hint ta that last phraao. iHntor Bennett, ah supposed, had tha cure In charge. "lh, yea," he Mid. "Bennetta get a place tn mind where they've got a system for treating my complaint. Going down there wtth me tomorrow. Turns 'em out as good as new, they say." Presently he spoke again. There's one thing I was forgetting. 1 want ame money. About a hundred and la currency. fifty dollar Bring It around tomorrow morning early, will you! Bring it yourself and see that I get it." Evidently It waa q relief t him that he'd succeeded tn remembering this. This concluded tha business, and now he relaxed. Ha didn't want her to go. He wanted ta talh. Let Jennie ring up the dlalng-roorsad order herself some dinner. He had hla owe meals at nursery hours. Nursery meals, too. But thee weren't reasons for starving her. She didnt feel much lih eating, but ah did ee he asked, tad was by the pleasure he took la the convivial atmosphere which her tray, when it arrived, created. II mocked "I never himself, but sot bitterly, thought Td be asking a lady ner with me Ilk this," he observed. She tried desperately te think of t aay, bat something found herself speechless. "I know wbat you are thinking about," he went on, In a darker tone, Youre thinking that If I'd taken year advice, another time w had dinner tkf he a.itue I a 1 dont want to talk H she said CHARTER IX fiercely, at the end of a lienee. ."Talking wont get ua gay Below the Falls. .where "1 guess you're right about that From the ninth of October, when 1 Jo telegraphed Jennie for Informahe agreed. "That's the way I feel tion oa tha totals ef the drafts that about It, toe. lta always simplest te were coming la, hie office heard as do a thing first and aava your talktng 'till afterward. This la what well do, word of him until within a week of a User Chilean the There's expiration of WlUlamaona offer. .Violet sailing It waa aa anxious time for Jennie, for Valparaiso Saturday. Thatll give saved from being desperate only by a us time te get our passports and any me wo need.' down asseveration ef.her faith together,-abocontinual a letter I wanted te They know thing that Jo would turn up la time, bring- writ to Pasadena, I wouldn't have .there, and theyll take you' for granted as my wife without a question. ing torn sort of means at salvation been wandering around the streets, .There's nobody whod think of asking with him. seeing red. Well, I give It t yon. Noa question... Wed leave all thla clean Yoa were right about that, Jennie." . But oa Tuesday, the second of behind. Start fresh, both of us, on n vember, just as she waa getting ready She gathered up her courage and te leave the office et the end of the plunged. "I don't think you'd say life that was worth living. Something weve never bad a chance at I've "I've Let MyeslfI Dream fiometlmse afternoon, a boy from the Stratford that. Jet, if you could see Beatrice aa That Would." ever bad a wife I havent even a hotel brought her a note written ta ah la now. legal on now and youve never had ran thin, betraying an almost hysterilesdpencil, in a blhd io jlttle llk "Too been seeing her!" hi naked-"Oncthe either. truth. Joe'g that momentarily aba doubted That's a, husband, cal note. . "Why, Aon n In that country In a white. Not often. ' 81m te her Tea know It yourself; found it ent asked the It simply signature. those Is It came Into the office twe or three Valparaiso, wherever him es soon ea ahe weeks com up end et last Hed divorce yon If yoa asked people woold all ba foreigners, talking ago, on her way through Chihim to, and then wa could make It all a language I don't know a word oC could, telling her the number at the cago. room he was In. Ua had scribbled the square go anywhere we liked. And 1 wouldn't bare anybody but yon. I "Hasnt been coming t you for la the meantime words, Tta all right." after signing, money, has ahT Jennie, If Its better than want people around me that Uk me. youve but thla aha took aa referring merely mucking around hers in this. There Joe, tt Isnt thinks!!; that's alL Its " her any given eite the propriety of her visit wont be anything hard .about simply frantic to talk about asking "Shes nevar asked for any. Im With a ther. Not after youve once said youll John te divorce ms. John I Then premonition Joe. I do It And you, wilt Its written down there's Dorothy, ti that everything that mattered had going to tell you eometklng, I didnt want don I It to have guess ego. ought long la the books that yon will!" utterly gone wrong, ah went AloBf She sent back that thousand dollars I knew youd you to' talk about with tha bellboy te the hotel end Thats a craxier dream than the spoil this on little day of ours if you you gave Georg when you discharged had him show her up te Joes room. other, Joe, she said, uneasily. "I did." him. He Insisted oa It, she said. She wish yon wouldnt talk ilka that He called la answer to bet knock, "Wbat did you unnt thla day fort" ent a check for tt ta that letter yon I Theres not. a thing In It" ha eon "Com In, Jennie, if that's you. Joe asked. me tear up, unopened. Bat whoa had tradicted her. "that isnt plain com It vas then nearly Jlx oclock, fully I told bar wed She dried her eyes, and echoed hla torn up tbe letter, she tnon sense"; end ha went ea for a dark long since yet hla aald let that settle It words with a stare and a while te enlarge upon the practical room vaa unllghted save by a small blush. He surprised Jennie by laughing at Ity of It He had a thousand dot night-lamupon the bedatand. Joe, thin "Thats Uk Trix," he remarked T wanted to see you," aha. stamlars la hla pocket and ten thousand mered. all alone, waa Bitting la aa easy ebstr She had plenty more te aay now, bat more which was almost as. accessible. thst had been drawn up to on of the "I knew you were unhappy, sad 1 Hed been keeping It handy, for years, was mlaerablst sad I windows, a rug across hla knees. Ua She thought on the off chance of some emergency round at her and nodded toward looked broko off here, and after a moment's that would call for It,. That. weald silence finished another chair that shared the emwith a flash, of anger, lo enough to give him a atari, and a "Theres something beastly about you brasure, but mad no other move.. atari was an he had ever wanted, any sometimes, Joe." It vaa all aba could do not to weep. where. Down la that pari of tbs did not eeem possible that the six It T guess that's true of moat of ua, world opportunities for a maa of hla nine ah had last seen him, ta weeks I to bo "but mesa didnt said, dully, profession were thick as dandelions. bo TargOt could have made neb devasyoud rather." beastly then." They went te seed faster than yon changes la .the man aha knew. ner response to hla humility was "Ns Wire la better," Violet mui tating rould pick them. Td never ask yon was He shrunken, chilly huddled unmured. ) take a chance with hardship," be another lightning change of mood. hla the hand he finally ofder Despite their protests, ah dill come fered herrug; ksaured her, earnestly. 1 can keep Her hand darted out across the table waa alack and hla voice spirhla. sorry, Jos, down te dinner and played bridge fuJob as safe from the meannesses of sad rested upon the pitiable effort he despite itless, ah said. T wish w could be a little riously all the waning. It waa her as John Williamses css. manner. She hla familiar made at last night oat. she told them, snd the aacootrollabl restlessness as happy." . speechless, stood the limp holding Down la the burled recesses of hla only thing In the world she dreaded talked, her frantic attempts to turn ta both her had her own. he hand given lm aside from the thorns, served only spirit there had been a shattering waa going te bed. Doctor Brown could It with ever he exlets "Oh, get 0 feed kin elation, for that hour be burst ef laughter at himself for. a ro- make her do it. but nobody ole could. claimed et last. "Sit down. You want Vas fully klmseU again. The lassitude mantic. unbelievable fooL It was that And,' Indeed, when ah knocked on morn- te know what's happened, I suppose. as conquered, the tortured serves In caress tag touch of Violet's head that Alices deor, about fir la I'm licked that's the abort of it" )uaC the gnawing; obsessing need of seemed somehow t have brought ing, ahe was not undressed beyond a Tour sick," ah retorted. That's tlcobol forgotten. He revealed the down the whole house ef cards. It had negligee, dor had she lain In her bed. tha mala trouble. She was beaten by then. While hlng be wanted her te see, not in happened before rite Innkeeper bad "See that In tha dark, a mak te come back that fearing. whitJo might da In, hi rag suggestion a drains grta. "Well, . JrT1PUvt generaJiUfx.. hut. .in ked.wUh lashes of concrete reality, fragments they com and live her a few days, at being disappointed she resolved to youre wrong. What you see la only a f hla own experience. Illuminative or ho would have been surprised by go beck te Jobs And so she told of the biggest drunk I ever the momentary gleam in Violets face Alice that aba must take the first 'tparks of the most minute detail. it must bar been. I I guess had, He train back te Chlcags with which eh responded to f It was she now who resisted hla at the start, till He Was wasn't except there, In her face, knowing Shrunken, Chilly Huddled the give John, who met her In the after It was all over, but there Irma, but he won her to them at last had looked for It my there. k would a foot be Under HI Rug. What tt LaSalle Street station at seven oclock best lad stilled her protests In them; quion It" Judgment hla bis and with had been, most chivalry next . the tted her trembling. morning, the electrify"Celebrating something, were you?" decided te wait and let the alienee "After an." he said, when ha had precious ideals 1 Well, they under- ing surprise be had experienced since she asked, keeping back the tears. work. After a while be aald, "I supshe had told him, twenty years before. llased her for the first time that day stood each other, now I Ton might ssy I was. In a way. pose she got a baby by now." -- "tUi la what matters." sUrne In lunch finished their ah would marry him. Tbe sort It wasnt over that They Hla voice, having sold our flax. "No." all told him. "No signs ef I their boat had withdrawn oaceUf bug and kiss she bestow erth sa lt was with passion, subdued noSTborr'ed to on ougC Pa But Trig has developed a eVAl word, him on the platform wa unusual self te the ear that was ee sear hla mpre. and then. a pound nor a dollar. tot layet wjthoota for thla last year. I said ah waa to she When the veranda. enough, but nothing t what followed. But celeTrstJon Isnt n bad word for 'P. "Toure la love with me. Youve returned and 1 think she la, married, happily had herself the made Illness as seated of her She upon davenport ouad out what It means at list. Yon light they It, at that even work out aay doesn't but if It n guess what It will bs. Ilka. Pa Is be sst beside her, but not very close, walked through the station te the car beaten ns, then, too well, ah won't b smashed by' It. "They've really ore with yon. And I know wbat It and with bla hands deeped between tn which hed driven down from Lake hav they, Joe!" Shes been studying hard; learning a idS mean. I'm not s green boy, guess-n- bis. knees. She asked him wbat time Forest te meet her. Shed had a silly There waa a long stretched alienee. whole lot ef things. Fhea found a nor ta ox who has forgotten. It waa, and ha told, her quarter te attack of the flatten, had got over it, "It wasnt beat me," be said that they ' of ; money, quits a lot ef wsy three. Ton cant go back, now, Violet I ; and had com home aa quickly as she at last. couldnt have done 1L money, earning "They a Ita way, but ahaa funny She did not return Lj kiss, bat she "Just a little more than an bear could to reassure him thst she was an It waa the other I guess yoa As thing be." as can of It proud have found she commented, thla rather know that, dont you? Didnt left," y unresisting, acquiescent In his forlornly. right Hed see COS TtJCCED. (TO "Win that be long enough, do you hard te believe had not her looks com- - anything queer when yoa ram yon t up She may bare thought, during a for you to forgive me In? I pletely born her out Not about . ; Fargo in September! Docking the'Doe. adfnl of minutes, that the would ge don't think I can beer tt If you don't. After they were eested la the car. them; about me!" a doctor by the year makes Hiring 1th hla. He sensed victory la the "There's notlJng te forgive," be said. with tbe chauffeur waiting to be told Eh nodded. "Whisky, you mean!" slckfleva a pleasure. Tbe patient. In!r, at least. But when they beard "Tov'rv perfectly right about It about where they wanted to go, be naked Then slowly and carefully Joe told stead of grieving over the bni, css look 'it Innkeeper coming heavily toward the craziness of my plan, I mesa. I've her Jocularly, ao that U would be! how things had seemed about to break forward to the first of the mouth whe te tell them their lunch was bees a foot And Ive times f being easy te refuse If shed Ilk te have right for, him in New York, only at he will dock the doc. break fa at the club with him before the last moment he had taken a drink 'dy. sne struggled erect like eat what you rail a beast." ' xrtled out of a (beam. "I dual call you that! Except ah drove home. and that bad led te a big drunk, at Only a Rumor. Before their l f, while he wsa ws!t-- t when I'm a frightened I don't know ' "Cant yea com bom t breakfast the end of which he found "She'e going about telling everyone himself In upon them, aba soared Joe what I'm saying. Of myself. Joe, with me, John!" eh asked "Jest for Believe. that I committed tuidda tad aha knows xwgU tt waa a faculty of hers he had more than ef you. I'm the worst the rid sad the visit And behind When he became master of himself Tv never dons ruck thing aa that 'tea woaderen at before by the per coward la tbe world ; thats the rath Aia be had wired Doctor BecneiL la 2 asy Ufa, axli a ag sourt. Jeffreys statuesque back, aa they tight-draw- n trunk-check- it it alow-burnin- g - te'dl' M ut . UteJ Magical Ringt rvtiih'iv. Snj-- me iwt hsert-slckenln- g -- out-of-doo- hl Mich a h util Ita f mint, blj Mxxhnl ring with lu r. in; " the iiecruinaritc lh'cripthr.. to wearer Immune the mule uhl epilepsy. !l tig with S prcclouw M.ahcaperes Jewell" In the pad i bead protected babe and their mothers new i against witchcraft. "At.anv-raptua.- I timd'-toti- e Ix-rt- A Great Neighborhood a.n had lived la quiet aurrouad-Ing- a and played a great deal with lit- My We movej Into a new made up of real boya of all agea One day an rushed Into thw Oh. mother! house and exclaimed: Tlda la the greatest neighborhood. 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