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Show THE SAUNA S1TN. SAl.liVA. ITAn Snug Bloomers to Protect the Tols PATTER Copyright by Ben Ame William. WNU tfervic-tt- 0021 BEN AMES WILLIAMS y 3ES am After the sheriff spoke, there was one to find; and we ain't likely to fiud "I cun see a plenty," she said crisply. "I'd silence for a moment; then Jenny him, long as we're setting here!" 'The sheriff said, floundering: Nor you cant find him outside, like to talk to this Zeke. Might be had a respite for Joe Matthews, the At A gathering In. the vlljage of LibMarm Show Pierce cried sharply. came of the out "he'd know dining to Will, the listens undertaker, Saladine Maybe Jim something. erty, Maine, Valsome sense. Sheriff ! You couldnt see him. Looks like Id have room. He spoke to Will. fetch he'll history of the neighboring Hostile"Hutley, and the mysterious, enticing to talk to t hat man. "There, Will," he suld. "Ive done Zeke ten feet away, a night like this. dy," wife of Will Ferrln. Intere-ted- , Hut when Will and Jenny presently all that needs doing tonight; and If If he was a mind to hide. Set down. he drives to Hie Valley for a day's I you want, Ill carry her home." He Use your head, 'stead of your feet Use fishing, and to see the glamorous Huldy did return, they were alone. Ferrln. "Old Marm Pierce and her was Will eyes!" your This hour she spent with hesitated, added; Hut If you take my nlneteen-year-olgranddaughter Jenny "What good's my eyes going to do advice, let her lay here tonight. I cun live In the Valley, Since childhood for Jenny deeply comforting. Huldys me here?" he urged. unIn had a better accusation faded Into cloudy 'tend to everything a sight Jenny has deeply loved young Will Theres been enough to see, If you Ferrln, older than she, aryl who re- reality, like' the substance of a dream. the morning." gards her as still a child. Will leaves .Hut Jenny now, more than any other Marm Pierce said: Slip's welcome wa'nt blind," she told him; and she to take employment In Augusta. His looked briefly at Jenny. "Jenny, she for a felt emotion, sympathy grievous Will! Jo stay, father's death brings him back to the You were almighty Valley, but he returns to Augusta, still Will, for the remorse she knew he Will nodded. "Well, likely thats said sharply. seared a while ago. I think you know unconscious of Jennys womanhood nd must endure; and she strove In small sensible, lie agreed. l, love. Ftart Carey, something of a to reassure and comfort him. something morell you've told. You was The ways' la attracted by Jenny. Jenny, while their attention was thus down brook this morning. Did you see her but not sup by words, by steady turned away from her, opened the door girl repulses him definitely. Learning at all? Her hear exside. his at Is anything Will anything, that porting presence coming home, Jenny,and stepped out on the porch, gratehouse "to rones were Insistent. . They trumped In silence 'through the ulting, sets his air. In rights, and has dinner ready for him. woods, the lantern swinging In Wills ful for the taste of 'cool, moist Jenny, though her heart was poundthe kitchen she heard the sheriff say He comes bringing his wife, Huldy. hand making the black shadows' of the ing, spoke after a moment steadily The girls world collapses. Huldy be: I guess, Joe, you'll want comes the subject of unfavorable gosThe way was clear before trees along the way swing like somber doubtfully enough. I now. know home dont to go along sip In the Valley. Entering his home pendulums. They crossed the brook, her doubts resolved. Hut she all now, us I ought to leave yet, though. I'd unlooked for, Will finds seemingly told you I heard some "I said: came and the and climbed only steep trail, like to see this Zeke Dace, first. Hut .damning evidence of his wifes unfaithfulness as a mun he knows Is Seth up through the orchard to the barn, I wlsh't you'd bring Doc Harris In the one talking, In the woods. Marm Humphreys breaks from the house. and while Jclmy held the lantern, Will Pierce protested Irascibly: morning. I want him to look her over, Will overtakes him and Chokes him to le the cows Into the tie up .and In that to scare you !" She Nothing the undertaker When presently death, although Humphreys shatters came closer ro the girl. "Jenny, I can there. He pulled down his leg with a bullet. At- Marm Pierre's to depart, Jenny drew aside came out see more than most; but 1 cant see house the leg Is amputated. Jenny goes hay for them, and went to the kltchPO out of his way. Solder and Saladine to break the news to Huldy. Huldy defor the pall and returned, to milk. What was It scared you. a crossed with him to where his truck everything. clares she has no use for "half a man, he sat. while while sheriff said that stood Whenthe by, ago? silently Jenny Will la legally exonerated, and.leaves. about wishing Ilufily had come to, beand with a home-mad- e artificial leg Ids head against the wurm flanks of "carries on," hiring a helper, Zeke the cows, the lantern hero beside him fore she died? What was It, Jenny?" Dare. Months later Huldy cofftds back. on the (lour. . she demanded. Will accepts her presence as her right. whlcti t He R(uke only once Tiie girl smiled slowly, as at some Two years go by, Saladine comes to Id like to secret thought. the Valley. Had roads cause him to Ailed both" their minds. top at Kerrlns farm, where he meets know where Zeke's gone to," he said. Go on, Jenny, said old Marm Huldy. Saladlng, caught In heavy rain, "Hell be around by and by," Jenny Pierce. Tell the truth and shame takes refuge at Marm Pierre's. Hart the devil! Carey arrives, carrying Iluldy, whom promised ldin. "It's all right. Will." Hut her own words faint ly startled he claims hnd fallen from a ledge, and Jenny took at Wills bowed head seemingly Is dead. Marm Pierce dehe'r; since clearly, If Will must live her smile suddenly was radiant as and clares her dead, but while Huldy and with the secret had knowledge that-h- e the sun. It dont mean a thing to me Jenny are alone,1 the woman, with her last breath, asserts Will killed her. killed Huldy, the world, could never now," she protested softly. "Because .Horrified, Jenny decides to tell no ons he all right for him again; and she I can see It wan'r true. of the accusation. She goes to notify wished suddenly to .take him In her What was it, Jenny? the old worn Will. With h'lm Jenny returns to Marm an Insisted. Pierce's. She has told him of Huldy's arms, and. tell him that she knew, and Hut she perheld him blameless. Zeke death, and he Is bewildered. Iluldy did come to, for a minute, Dace cannot be found. Saladine Inceived that to do, this, to confess her before she died," said Jenny then. forms Sheriff Sohler, by phone, of Hulwould be to his 'of Marm knowledge guilt, Pierce cried in a deep Incredy's death. The sheriff comes to Marm . open between .them a gulf never to be Pierces farm. . dulity: ' bridged. Jenny, she never did! .So she wu's silent;, and later, tfhen She couldnt. And Bart exclaimed: CHAPTER IX Continued they came hack through the wet Why, she was as good as dead Jenny! 16 she decided that this wus a before ever I got her here! Rained hard last nifftit. Hart remutter none should ever' know. And She did Jenny repeated slowly: minded hliu. They was fresh today. thus resolving, she fouad strength for anyway 1" And for a moment she said I see them tnyself, when I fished the task before her, and was at peace no more. She stood near the cabinet down." aguln. Huldy was dead. Let It be by over the sink, where knives and fork The sheriff asked : "Carey, you got accident. The world would presently and cooking drslies were stowed away any Idea whod want to hurt Mis forget that Iluldy had ever lived. Bart was b. the door Into the shed. Ferrln?" When with Will she came back to the Marm Pierce was between Jenny and "I wouldn't go to little house In the Valley, she had Hurt hesitated. the stove; and Sheriff Sohler sat In Jenny Stood Silently By. say, he said, lie added, with a deep somehow stilled her fears. front of the oven with his greatcoai Not unless It was Zeke. reluctance: stood, spoke with him there. Then loose about him. Till she saw the sheriff there. Zeke Dace, works for Will. Zeke was . When they came. In, she .felt her Hart Came out, and said to Jenny Will was beyond the stove, near the kind of crazy about her, and Jealous strength drain away. Hut then, and casually : other door, impassive, waiting. of her. lie might have got mad at by Will himself, her foreboding was "Hot In there, ain't It. And In a watching Jenny, thought her." Yet he added honestly: Ilur turned Into fenrful certainty; for Will lower tone: "Don't you worry, Jen! sheSaladine, seemed In this moment to wear a Will don't 'low that Zeke would touch said to this man: Nothing to be afraid of." mantle of grace. She looked at Will, her." He too had seen her terror then! and her eyes held his, and her tone "Why, Sheriff,, what fetched you Where la Zeke?" the sheriff asked. here?". It must have been plain, for them all was gently mirthful I kind of to see. Hart shook his head. Dunno. NoThe sheriff hesitated. Hut even as she thought this, She told me you did It, Will, said body's seen him sence. hoped youd bring this Zeke Dace back she realized suddenly that she was no Jenny, with a smile on her lips, and came out of the din Marm Pierce with you," he suld, evusively. longer afraid, and wondered why. And her glance serene. She- told the sheriff she I dunno where Will shook heud. lng room. then, without speaking to Hart, she Hart uttered a low ejaculation ; but was glad to have him here. Zeke's got to," he admitted in troubled came quickly back into the kitchen Marm Pierce spoke In brisk Insistence. He nodded, and asked slowly: "Was, tones. "He wan't to home." And he where were Marm Pierce and Will. Her How come you didnt call me?" when she got here, persisted" Hut Sheriff, what fetched hand touched Will's sleeve, and peace Mis Ferrln dead "I didn't waut you," Jenny told her ma'am?" filled her; and a deep enlightenment you?" gently. As good as, the old woman asJenny was breuthless, waiting for the and certainty, like a revelation. The more fool you I said Marm She wus all broke to answer. Then Saladine said gravely: sured him. Then the truck departed, and Hart Pierce briskly, her patience near the . pieces, aud bled white, and she' died "1 sent for him. Will. and Solder and Saladine returned in- breaking point. "What happened? before 1 got around to it." What (or?' Will stared at Saladine. After a moment the sheriff she demanded. doors. Didn't come to?" he protested, bewildered. appealed to Saladine. "Jim, he said Mis' The sheriff spoke heavily. No, Marm Pierce told hint. "No." And then the sheriff said: "Why Looks like you could figure somePierce, you let her tell It her own You look her over, did you?" the Will, the thing Is, It looks to every thing out of this business. I guess you way," he urged. So Marm Pierce was He explained:"1 body as If maybe 511s Ferrln didn't sheriff urged. was the last one to see Mis Ferrin silenced; and Jenny's eyes turned guess likely I'll want a doctor to see Just fall off of that ledge.- They think alive." to Will. The big man shook and I again her, but you might have noticed some someone nmybe throwed her off." I don't Saladine shook his head. where he stood, as though this swayed sirang-lingly- . her." on constricted hurt throat special Jenny's Into it at all," he confessed. see had to say had struck him that Jenny The hounds were on the trail. The old woman told him: "Why, Hart turned to Will. "How about nerveless. she fur from heard Looked Sheriff. away As though she was hurt cruel, he urged. Will? "Didnt you (TO BE COSTIMUED) Killed her, you you. like she'd fell on her head and side. Will stammer: her screech when she fell? I'd hear cuts mean?" and There was scratches alj over have said everybody lu a mile could Mastiff Is Considered "Something like that. her; and a deep had "cut on her neck. have heard that.. It sounded mighty I bowed. head fils with stood wus Will where she'd And her face British Isles' Oldest hanged loud to me. hit a tree, or a rock or the like. giucss not," he said firmly at lash There may he older breed of dogs head. "The noise his shook Will noth"Whod do that?" I mean to say," he persisted, than the mastiff but not so In the . ." "I 'was thinking maybe this Zeke wouldn't carry up to the farm, with British Isles for here t His dog Is con. to show. ing t he idll between, and the trees." He Dace." Sohler suggested. The old woman shook her head sidered the oldest of them all. Its ori"No looked at Saladine. "1 mind," he said, Hut Will shook '.his head. Nothing that she couldn't have got gin dating back to the Sixth century B. off went with Zeke "when you Iluldy, Whaiever did Sheriff. he Insisted. from falling the way' she did. lie come out of the shed like he'd go C. At that time, writes Albert Stoll, He wouldn't The sheriff sighed as though dlseour happen, it wn'n't Zeke. in the Detroit News, It was (jlong after you. I stopped him, made Jr You go to hurt her." And he continued aged, and Marm Pierce asked: into Britain by the adventurThere might have him slay behind." And lie continued brought didnt know Iluldy, did you. Sheriff?' half to himself: traders and was adoptous Phoenician I moment: "Seems like a kep Ive heard tell of her," he answered. been some to hurt Huldy; buf not after for hunting and In Britons the ed by a sight longer'n it'd take Guess the whole county has. If It '.eke! Why. Id as soon think I did' It him there warfare. to the brook. down to Supyou get comes to that," the old woman as- myself," he said. For years the breed was used to on the Jenny felt the shock of a great blow.' posing you didn't stop any time sented, . Hut you can see for your the larger wild animals and In hunt Then Hart chuckled; and Will turned ledge." self, a lot of things might have haphear halting Imt as the centuries "1 didn't, Saladine said. Whats the matter to look at him. pened to a woman like her." It was adopted as a guardian passed a for moment-silence was ! There It was account of her, Hart re Hart?" he asked. "What's funny?" for property and as a canine comWhat you said," Hart told him. then Will spoke again, gropingly. minded them, that Will killed Seth for those who fancied the I panion I mean. think t Will. I dunno as I blame him Hy the time "Thats a Joke, figured youd be Humphreys. breed of dogs. larger I dunno as he went to kill Seth ; but you'd hurt Huldy," he explained, and gone," he explained, "I left Zeke and be either fawn with a Mastiffs may but when it come Seth had a gun. and Will, with tiis leg he added hotly: "Not that nnyhody'd went Into the house; brindle. or They weigii face dark I She needed It!" He on to rain, 1 wondered where Iluldy shot to pieces, he had to hang on to blame you 170 pounds and stand to from lot) around 1 sheriff. on the to come out the porch and Anyone 'was. Seth's neck or get another bullet In spoke about 2S inches high at the shoulderp. here will say the same! yelled for Zeke, but he didn't answer, him. Hut Huldy was back of that." "I According to the American standard of him. a little I moved Will I to so went hunting them. started feovarj I heard she'd left Will, sence," the should be large, masdon't tivke that kindly. Hart," he said go down the path to the brook. Hut perfection they Sheriff reflected. with a well-kni- t and sive powerful from of talk I In want "I use that don't .kind divided there wa'nt any then Hart explained. "She come back, be wide apart should The frame. legs that." lie added with a glance at She took a shine to Zeke and de- you or anybody. Not about Iluldy set. The coat is short and squarely 1 . Not now." where see tracks . Saladine: you'd cided to stay. too fine over There was, briefly, silence .. 'ut after gone down, where your boots had and close lying but not Will take her back, did he?" neck and back. shou'klers. the him o h.t.f a sheriff ." the said, moment . . Dunno as he could help It," Hart, slipped. Hoots? Saladine spoke quickly, self, In. almost querulous tones: confessed; and he said slowly: WiP International Childishness "Its a pity she didn't come to long I've got shoes on. .It was someone he f lways stood a lot from her. Sheriff! her!'" In February. 1020, at the first plenIt want me." No matter what she did, 1 dunno as enough to ted what happened to else," he Insisted. It hoot seemed was And to suddenly said "It Will added ary meeting of the Inter allied commisJenny lie he'd harm her. stubbornly: harshly: fsn.-"Hut If he did, 1 wouldn't blame him!" that this familiar kitchen was. very tracks that 1 see. Somebody with sion and the Germans, a pretty was played out when the German chief The old woman's stiarp eyes flxedon small, and crowded, and stifling Imt. hoots on had gone down the trail." Guess Zeke had insisted on opening the meeting. In And Hart spoke. You trying to let on that Will She felt strangled, and her hand flew ,bim. to her lips, and stark terror choked hoots on, didn't he?" killed her. Hurt?" she asked. In a mat spite of the fact that the allies wen No her. Will considered, and he nodded. LikeThen shg saw Marm Pierce Imposing terms and the Germans atone. "Speak out. - nn pro Yes, he did. I mind, sense in talking around corners." ccepting them, a oonipronrswatching her with eyes suddenly keen ly," he agreed. he wherein made to had felt He did." cedure smothered, now. Im not letting on a thing about it," and shrewd; and she and the all ed delegatoms e I'm trying to see and shrank hack 'nto the corner by The sheriff stirred. "The way it Part n "od her rcini'il rooo sionii' the 'Zcke'a me." tinhe decided, the lered on the same as you." the door looks to SYNOPSIS Breaking In New Shoes Is All These Girls Do Nobody likes to break in a new The old ones feel bo comfortable. Suppose, however, It was your job to test new shoes by breaking them In, you would have, to say the least, one of the oddest of vocations. Then you would be on a par with Miss Peggy Itobertshaw and Miss C. Davies of Liverpool. All these two English girls have to do Is to walk 12 miles each day, wearing a pair of new shoes to test them. Each girl has a pedometer attached to her leg. 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