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Show THE SALINA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH THE BRANDING IRON . - By periences, and Joan sat In her place the books In her lap, looking and listening. John Carver had used phrase, When you see her eyes lookin an lookin' at another man" and this Katharine Newlin Burt 8YNOP8IS Copyright by Katharine N. Burt Joan Landie, eighteen years Id, wife of Pierre, is the daugh ter of John Carver, who murdered her mother for adultery. that has got to be like they are" Joan was talking a greut deal and having trouble with her few simple words but I like folks In stories to look like I want em to look." Not the way the writer describes Her lonely life, with her father, In a Wyoming cabin, unbearable, Joan leaves him to work In a hotel In a nearby town. Joan meets Pierre, and the two, mutually attracted, are married. phrase had stuck The In the fall, when the whole country had turned to a great cup of gold, purple-rimme- d under the sky, Pierre went out Into the hills after his winter meat. Joan was left alone. She pent her time cleaning and arranging the two-roocabin and tidying up outdoors, and In grubbing sagebrush, a gigantic task, for the one hundred and fifty acres of Pierres homestead were covered for the most part by the sturdy, spicy growth, and every bush had to be dug out and burnt to clear the way for plowing and planting. Joan worked with the deliberateness and Intentness of a man. She enjoyed the wholesome drudgery. She was proud every sundown of the little clearfng she had made, and stood, tired and content, to watch the piled brush burn, sending up aromatic moke and curious, dull flames very high Into the still air. She was so standing, hands folded on her rake, when, on the other side of her conflagration, she perceived a man. He was steadily regarding her, and when her eyes fell upon him, he smiled and stepped forward a tall, broad, very fair young man In a shoots and ing coat, khaki He had a wide brow, clear puttees. blue eyes and an eager, sensitive, n mouth and chin. He held out a big white hand. Mrs. Landis, he said, In a crisp voice of an accent and finish strange to the girl, I wonder If you and your husband can put me up for the night. I'm Prank Holllwell. Im on a round of parish visits, and, as my parish Is about sixty miles square my poor old pony has gone lame. I know you are lot my parishioners, though, no doubt, you should be, but Im going to lay elalm to your hospitality, for all that. If I may? Joan had moved her rake Into the grasp of her left hand and had taken the proffered palm Into her other, all warm and fragrantly stained. Youre the new aint you 7 she asked gravely. The young man opened his blue and friendly eyes. Oh, thats what I am, eh? Thats a new one to me. Yes. I suppose I am. It's rather a fine name to go and he laughed very by low and very amusedly. Joan looked him over and slowly You look like you could bust smiled. anything youd a mind to, she said, and led the way toward the house, her rake across her shoulder. Pierre, she told him when they were In the shining, clean log house, Is off In the hills after his elk, but I can make you up a bed in the sittln-rooan serve you a supper an welr, m riding-breeche- clean-shave- r, ment of an Intelligent child first moved e, d. rance those books were Jealousy personified but, without a glance In his direction, she had turned as usual to the shelf. "You goin to read? asked Pierre It was a painful effort to hoarsely. speak. She turned with a childish look of "Oh, thanks," he rather doubtfully astonishment. g Eighteen. Is that all? Yon must read books, Thems so much empty you know. space there bark of your brows." She looked up smiling a little, her wide gray eyes puzzled. "Yes, Joan. You must read. Will If I lend you some hooks. She considered. Yes, she said, "Fd read them If youd be lendln me some. In the evenings when Pierres I never away. Im right lonesome. was lonesome before, not to know It. Itll take me a long time to read one hook, though. she added with an engaging monmfulness. Whnt do you like stories, poetry, you magnz'nes? Td li' e real hooks In stiff rovers. Joon, "an I dont like pictures. TM innnrised the clergyman. Why ref?" ".id he. o notion how the folks look "I i o;P pictures of real places, rr sou sr-'- Pierre." I Didn't Fetch You Up Her to Read Pareons Books an Waste Oil. thick lashes and dark, long brows. This throat and face and these strong hands were picked out in their full value of line and texture from the dark cotton dress she was wearing. "Its a pome on a card what father had, stuck agIn the wall." She began to recite, her eyes fixed upon him with childlike gravity. He maketh me to lie down In green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters. . . . Yea, though I walk through the valley of shadows, Thou art with me. Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me. " Holllwell had taken the pipe from between his teeth, had straightened up. Her deep voice, the slight swinging of her body to the rhythm she had unconsciously given to her lines, the strange glow In her eyes . . . wondered why these things, this brief, sing-sonrecitation, had given a light thrill to the surface of his skin, had sent a tingling to his finger-tips- . He was the first person to wonder at that effect of Joan's cadcneed music. she had "The valley of the shadow missed a familiar phrase and added value to a too often repeated line. Joan! Joan! said the an exclamation drawn from him on a what an extraordinary deep breath, What a marvelous girl you are! woman you are going to be! Joan looked at him In a silence of pure astonishment and that was the end of their real talk. Ilol-ilwe- g ll 1 Even constipate ed, bilious, fever- ish, or sick, colic Babies and Children love to take Califorgenuine nia Fig Syrup." No other laxative so Let Lydia E.PinkhamWegetable Com pound Help You to Become Well. 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Ills be absolutely sincere all the time, othof signing proxies. What I should like scheme Is simple enough, too. erwise youd often have to think up now is the pleasure of Indorsing a diviYoure a fine actor, Wulter," he something besides Dear Sir in startidend check." Register Joy. yells. ng a letter. 1161 Explained. Boston Lady How much are these string beans? Boston Huckster Seventy-fiv- e cents a quart. Lady Isn't Huckster Walter registers Joy. That Is, you used to be a fine actor, hut youre slipping. Now register disgust." And Wulter does. Insect and Reptile Stowaways. Spiders, tree frogs, lizards, and Yes, madam; but these snakes are often found concealed In beans. Yule cargoes of pineapples, banunas, and other fruits from the tropics. that rather altitudi-nous- ? He stood up with one of his lithe, are very swift movements, all In one rippling Record. By G d, youre not, though !" piece. said he, strode over to her, snatched Why He Stopped. the volume from her, threw It bnck I thought McMiser had taken up Into Its place and pointed her to her golf. lie doesnt seem to he playing chair. now. Yes, he started, but he has You set down an give heed to me given it up. lie lost his ball. Bosfer a change, Joan Carver, he said, ton Transcript. I his smoke-colore- d eyes smoldering. didnt fetch you up here to read parThe Income tax Installment always sons books an waste oil. I fetched falls due when you can leust afford He stopped, the money. you up here to choked with a sudden, enormous hurt tenderness and sat down and fell to Into smoking and staring, g It Heres the Impossible Task. for a man to live on his Telegraph Wires in Uganda. Telegraphs In Uganda are not always reliable, as the natives covet and often cut down the copper wlr for making Into bracelets and Time Saver. Efficiency expert (to central) Would you mind if I gave you th number all five times at once? Life. Is easy Its Impossible for greedy people to wifes money hut he has no chance at all of getting to heaven on her re- be grateful. ligion. New Orleans States. Quiet. Was It a quiet wedding?" Very. They didnt even hnve tin cans tied to their automobile. He who does no wrong has no of the law. a fire. And Joan sat sllemt In her place, puzzled, wistful, wounded, her idle hands folded, looking at hla for a while, then absently before her, and he knew that her mind was busy again with the preacher fellers books. If he had known better how to explain his heart, If she had known how to show him the Impersonal eagerness of her awakening mind I But, savage and silent, they sat there, loving each other, hurt, but locked each Into his own Impenetrable life. After that Joan changed the hours of her study and neglected housework and sagebrush-grubbing- , but nonetlie less were Pierres evenings spoiled. When he talked he could not escape of having conthe consciousness strained his audience; she could not escape her knowledge of his Jealousy, the remembrance of his mysterious outbreak, the Irrepressible tug of the story she was reading. So It went on till snow came and they were shut In, man and wife, with only each other to watch, a tremendous test of This searching Intlmacj came at a bad time, Just after Holll-well- s third visit, when he had brought a fresh supply of book. andMilkGrapeNut One of the few COMPLETE FOODS watch robust men and WHEN you at work or at play, does it ever occur to you that their strength and health are largely due to the kind of food they eat? and milk supplies comand nourishment of the balanced plete highest order. This delicious dish provides the valuable wheat and milk proteins; the food minerals, phosphorus, iron and calcium; also the vitamins. Grape-Nut- s (TO BE CONTINUED.) English Law Seems Unfair. Under the English law the wife ol a criminal Is legally Justified In doing CHAPTER V all she can, short of committing anPierre Becomes Alarmed About His other crime, to shield her husband from Justice; although any other perProperty. The next time Hol'.Iwell came he son doing so would be liable to be brought the books, and. finding Pierre charged as an accessory after the fact. at home, be sat with his host after But a husband Is forbidden to shield supper and talked mens talk of the' his wife who Is a criminal His duty country: of game, of ranching a little is to band her over to tht affiesrs ol gossip, stories ef travel, hnirorom: ex Justice Because of its nutritive properties, its crisp texture, and its easy digestis the ibility, Grape-Nut- s cereal food for young and old. best-balanc- ed When used as an ingredient in other foods, it adds remarkable zest and valuable nutritive elements. Recipes will gladly be furnished on request. KS -- fear Many a man Is too lazy to marry; rich widow. hot-eye- the J.T What He Wanted. HIMDERCORN8 Mun. tonifortie Orm Oil' loosed, (&, iupi oil polo ne had held stock In the company MAked walktog rwr. Ik fc? Btll or fit Draf feel, for a number of years. Once a year rid your system of Catarrh or Deafness flik Hldoox CbomiwU Work, FfikbofM, M. X, he had received a letter giving glow- caused by. Catarrh. INFLAMED EYES Sold ky drutgUti for over 40 yen ing accounts of the companys prosUse Dr. Thompson's yowater, Buy at yourdrogfldts or pects, with the usual proxy Inclosed F. J. CHENEY &. CO., Toledo, Ohio N.Y. Booklet. River, high-strun- Holli-wol- l, work. Have you books? said Joan ; Its right hard "No, labor, reiftftn. Pa learned me my letters an I can spell out bits from papers an advertisements an what not, but I aint never read a book straight out. I dunno," she added presently, but as Id like to. Pierre can read," he told him proudly. Im sure youd like to. He considered her through the smoke of his pipe. He was sitting by the hearth now, and she. Just through with clearing up. stood by the corner of the mantel shelf, arranging the logs. The firelight danced over her face, so beautiful, so unllghted from within. "How old are you, Joan Landis? he sked suddenly, using her name without title for the first time. Yes, HEALTH Harmless Laxative to Clean Liver and Bowels of Baby or Child. sin-bust- come. dish-washin- In to a knowledge of Its own Intelligence ; Yes, sir. But you can make np a the gratitude of savage loneliness whole lot on what the writer describes. toward the beautiful feet of If he says her eyes Is blue, you can tion. A consciousness of herexploraclean see em dark blue or light blue or Jest a consciousness of her young, mind, blue. An' yon can see em shaped untamed spirit, had come slowly to life round or what not, the way you think In her since hei! talk with Holllwell. about folks that you've heard of an was peculiarly a woman that Is, Joan have never met" the passive and receptive It was extraordinary how this effort Pierre had laid his hand on her being. heart at excited Joan. She and she followed him; now this had was rarely but she was young parson had put a curious finger usually passive or stolid; now there on her brain. It followed him. Her was a brilliant flush in her face and husband saw the admiration, the gratiher large eyes deepened and glowed. the tender excitement In her tude, "I heerd tell of you, Mr. Holllwell. frank eyes, and the poison seed sown Fellers come up here to see Pierre John Carver's hand shot out roots onct In a while an one or two of 'em by and tiny, deadly branches. spoke your name. An I kinder figured But Joan and Holllwell were unout you was a weedy feller, awful aware. Pierre smoked rapidly, rolling solemn-like- , an of course you ain't, after cigarette; he listened but Its real hard for me to notion cigarette with a courteous air, he told stories that there aint two Mr. Holllwells, In his once he went slow Ive ben out to soft, in a voice; you an the weedy fresh and, comlog bring picturin. Like as not Ill get to ing back on noiseless feet, saw Joan thlnkin of you like two fellers. Joan and her Instructor bent over one of Seems like when I onct get sighed. books and Joan's face was almost a notion In my head It Jest sticks there the of a stranger, so eager, so flushed, that some way." with sparkles In the usually still gray Then the more wise notions you eyes. get the better. Ill ride up here In It was not till a week or two after a couple of weeks time with some second visit from the clergyman this as books. You may keep them long that Pierre's Jealousy smoldering as you will. All winter, If you like. broke Into flame. After clearing can we talk When I can get up here, the supper things with an abthem over, you and Landis and I. Ill away sent air of eager expectation, Joan try to choose some without pictures. would dry her hands on her apron, There will be stories and some poetry, and, taking down one of hef books too. in a shelf corner, she from their I aint never read but one pome, would drawplace her chair close to the said Joan. lamp and begin to read, forgetful of And that was?" Pierre. These bad been the happiest floor the on She sat down the by for him; he would tell Joan hours hearth, her head thrown back to lean about his days work, about his plans, chimney-piecagainst the cobbles of the about his past life; wonderful It was her knees locked In her hands. to him, after his loneliness, that she That magnificent long throat of hers should be sitting there drinking In ran up to the black colls of hair which word and loving him with her had slipped heavily down over her every wild Now, there was no dumb, eyes. ears. The light edged her round chin no and talk listening. Joans absorbed and her strongly modeled, regular feawas turned from him and bent face tures ; the full, firm mouth so savagely over her book, her lips moved, she pure and sensuous and would stop and stare before her. The eyes were mysterious under their After a long while he would get up and got to bed, but she would "stay with her books till a restless movement from him would make her aware of the lamplight shining wakefulness upon him through the chinks In the partition wall. Then she would get up reluctantly, sighing, and come to bed. For ten evenings this went on, Pierres heart slowly heating Itself, until, all at once, the flame leaped. Joan had untied her apron and reached up for her book. Pierre had been waiting, hoping that of her free will she might prefer Ills company to for In his Ignothe parson fellers m accepted. Evidently he did not know the ways nd proprieties of this new parish" of his. But Joan seemed to take the situation with an enormous, calm Impersonality. He modeled his manner upon hers. They sat at the table together, Joan silent, save when, he forced her to speak, and entirely untroubled by her silence, Frank eating heartily, helping her serve and talking a great deal. By the end f he had her history and more of her opinions, probably, than any other creature she had met. What do you do when Landis Is away?" She told him. But In the evenings, I mean, after MOTHER! GIVE SICK BABY CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Flerre's sensitive and Jealous memory. What Joan felt for Holllwell was a sort of Ignorant regulates the tenand respectful tenderness, the exciteder little bowels them?" CHAPTER IV I THE BODY BUILDER There's a Reason Sold by Grocers Everywhere I Made by Postum Cereal Company, Inc., Battle Creek, Mich. |