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Show ' THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA, UTAH measureless, Ineffable, In the bank of the gutty. He, too. bag a wonder of their young wife and numerous offspring, but the womanhood!. We sprang from the exact number bad not yet been ascen wagon and I donTfcnew how Itbap-pene- d tainetfc"" Ole Jean ran straight Into my Ay tank thar bane plenty, anas.. Not Marjorie I didnt see wh&t Hansen pad. said, when discussing the became of her I didnt stop to look ; subject with Spoof. And as Old reJean ran straight Into my arms! I garded his own six hopefuls as yhst self to say, partly' because I felt nyy held her there, held her with the a qlce commence, the Imagination silence was beginning .to shouf, and. strength of ten week's harvesting In waa rather 6tlrred by the possibilipartly because of a real anxiety abbut my niusrtes and of all my .young hot ties of what the cave on Thirty-sithem. boyhood In my veins; held her and might disclose to the census taker. . How do you say his name? Spoof I believe so. I didn't see them, my- kissed her $nd would not let her ' self; came In by the south and. land-e(- l go. , . . Tor the first . time since had Inquired. . Yah don' say it. Yah sneeze it," first with your neighbor, Spoof. Cap- we had been little children together, Ole explained. I stayed overnight with him, ital playing by the dam where the said SpooL Speezit thatll do, and smoked iipnearly all of Ills Eng- wheel aiffoss the river tossed Its danclish tobacco. At breakfast .1 flnished ing diamonds In the air, I held her And so, quite without 'h-I- knowledge his .last Jar of marmalade, so If Spoof and kissed aer and would not let her or consent, our Russian neighbor supplied with an English name; a is flying a' flag 'of distress when you go. Across the fields ofcrlsp and brittle name which may some day who reach home you will know, the caiwe knows? tie borne with pride by one gi'ass vfe trudged together, disregard(tf It. Imagine pn Englishman Without . ing the trail ahd the measureless gwonn of our best families. marmalade breakfast without marAmeriThen wus an homeof there as we world sunset that swept Burke, malade! My dear fellow, Im English, of our happi- can from Iowa, a man with a lust for myself, and I I assure you. it. Isnt ward on the fiyod-tid- e ness. Her Jirm little arm pressed tight labor and for doing things oq a big . done. against mine anil our IimbS swung to- scale.. He and his wife had landed Hut. the girls? " I persisted. Oh, yes. Spoof has beou keeping a gether In the rhythm of our stride. And on section Twenty about the middle neighborly eye on them.. I meant to When I looked down In tier fate I saw of August, and, Ignoring the tr&dition cull on you, of course, but when a MJght ffliat was .not altogether the that it is useless to break prairie sod in the fall, had already turned over a Spoof told me you were away I Sjtnved glint of the setting sun. But .In. that.most poetlp nfoment of broad srrip from end to end of their with him. He assured me that every-- ' tier life Jean forgot to be poetic. Otlce. quarter section. I.urk it was who Indue is fit. at Fourteen aialTVf-ritv-two- . troduced mules Into the settlement. This was good news and a weight off moreshe slipped her arm, about me. able to our minds. Besides, It wqs evidence Gee, Its good to have you home From w l?;rt the girls were " gather from Spoof mules called for again, she said. that in the twinges of my jealousy And In what should have been my an' even more extended vocabulary Drool; I fell somewhat short of . . doing him justice. Hsmilwtis a decent supreme hour I found myself wonder- than did oxen. "And believe u that to wnnt was feliow-love whether you Jean's ing and Was plujfhg the game. passion Spoof told you all these things. with. "Just a suggestion,' said the police- or just plu'In loiieliness.. out ever coming into the house?. I This is your man, after a moment. . . . Challenged. lirst 'Uinunin on the prairies, and you CHAPTER IX. a over . the Neper fot doorstep, he too cffrefiir about. lire. These fant warm. days and frosty nights are Ihe lAat .was a busy night on Fourteen. said Jean. "That is,.hardly ever. It's most dangerous time of the year. I( The girls confessed that they had been a blgrounlry ; why be so. particular . found 'Spoof hiwl.no ffre guards, so I on the lookout for Us since the first of for a fpot or twu? Oh, I'm not ; not at all. Fm mereshowrtf him how to make them, and I the inoflth. They Iitref even borrowed took the liberty of hlntwig Unit he get Spoofs field glass so that thgy could ly checking up what you said last Over to Fourteen and Twenty-twand sweep the horizon .to the eastward tar In my Intoxication over. your see that the buildings are proj&rly beyqnd Mrs. Altons. And How could you, Frank? . protected. Hes the strangest sort of chap, Is I with .that to satisfied. had he We thunk ed Rroqk, and lie saluted Spoof, said Jean. Yill you believe Rut the best is yet!' Marjorie-exclaimeand rude away, his red "tunic slowly me, he hasnt been inside this, house "Guess who's married? . since you left? Used to. wuilk over Jake!. we answered togeher. from time to tfme," and see that tne Olj, somebody told. Yes, Jake. H4 pigs and the cows were living in har5 and nls wife ure settled. on Sixteen. and had mony, npt given that. the fuel "a little shack up, and Jake out, but was always in a rush home Thqyve is the community jji Jte calls farming again. .Never siw .such a man for are he says, Acqualntfinces, work ; quite different from what fie it. all about this to be able Ill cultivate be. used to Jack looked his sls.er over with an year.1. He spends most of his time at Spoofs, but I dont .notice that eye that did no't reserve 'all Its .apwork goes aldng any quicker, Spodfs for We Marjorie. proval thought you on account. They called on us jthit would have, been an accomplished a couple of dimes Jake and. his wife, he now, said. banjoist.by I nteifti; they have the advantage "over Not a lesson not a single lesson-ia light all this time, Jean grumbled. And the other settlers of having a team of which and wagon ponies, now I suppose hell be.ower tomorrow niiike-- it easy for them to get abont. to Indulge bs with the pent-uleisure Mrs. Jgke Impresses one .as being of two months I and with perhaps angular Jeans .nalvette was little greater more heart Incompetent, her than-lappear, than mine. We had been brought up ance would suggest. They say it was with a sound tralnfhg ln tlie rudlmens an aguncy match." of behavior, but with little knowledge At thy t point we took up the story, of Its social complexities. My feeling with Jakes account of hi courtship In the matter was a mixed sense of and wedding, censored, of course, to surprise that our neighbor, usually so suit the audience. . , friendly, had hell aloof at a time when Thats said Marjorie, lies, mostly he was particularly needed, and of anIn her matter-of-fac- t H way. noyance that Jean should be so oh-- . JorJipr all right, but he went vioutiJy put out about it. to Minneapolis to iheet her, and it The girls had a strange treat li re on serve for us. It was Jean who told was only when he promised to go a to homestead consented that she us of It, although, as It seesied to me, me thpt muvlv; said her manner suggested a certain lack conte. She told shed had of the town, and of frankness very unlike Jean. I Held Her and Xissed Herkrrd Wbuld It wantetf o enough from everything get away a seemed that few days before' our Not tot Her Go. and everybody, She lias a touch of return a jack rabbit had loped up too ; said, I guess thats what fading out, of vieiv In the uloud of dust wit hid easy distance of the shanty humor, which his horse kicked up from the door, where he perked himself on his I .did, alf" right, when I came oyt on " witlT Jake. the bone-drtrail. hind legs, taking observations. MarBut He had her the telegram? . said jorie took the Very decent chap. Brook, pin down from thp tejeghain. .Jack, after a while, and I svld,Y-It with "great deliberation, wall, aimed 'TIe must ' have faktfl that. He It was with a strange pounding of and fired. he would meet you boys before knew the hearjt that we at last discerned fhe Jean declared fhat "the rabbi! was outlines of luv shacks of our little not hit,, hut that he died of right. lie went back, and he had a "story Mrs. Alton's cuihe first Be that as It may, he furnished the .made up to shoV himselfin the test settlement. light possible. Into vletf, thOn Spoofs, then, togofher, filling for a very deep and tempting How about Mrs. Alton? I asked. the buildings on Foifrteeu and "Twenty-trabbit pie. come doesn't out. She Weve gone wo. A gust of homesickness swept And only to think,. .said. Jean,- - her ovr r a re-- . and she times, couple pf a sudden lip oJtxMl; possession of me, bright eyes dancing, it would scarceus with but ceivjes great friendjiness, and I realised for the. first time. how. ly have kept any. longer. We were when we ask her to return our visit much I hud become attached to the managing td freeze It a. little .at she always makes out thatshe cant little square cm the .thousand mile 'nights, but It would thaw out during leave the boy. Of course she co'uld-brinCihifie of the prairies which I. had althe day.. , . . him with her, "so that is only ready learned to UimTTTif as homo. I dont knyw hut It Is a little overan exciisfe. For some reason she Gaunt and hare they may ht hut the kept as It is, Marjorie admitted, hut wants to stick "close to her. homeprairies have a way of winding themwe're going to.eat-- lt tonight.. And stead. . selves about the heart with bands that so we sat about our little table with are stronger than stgel. the great rabbit pie in the nridijte, If" we had been anxious, we w;ero .a.Tjd great hv!pings of es Frank doesnt seenvto be geteager, too; eager with the news of and o (lions, on our plaJ.es, and flaky ting along very fast in his wooofseason's mirk; with " hi to. hvead and "yellow homear.ide ing. 'Is he going to win or lose? mticlpatidn of the bright faces which liutter within reach, and the- - light ootid gm;t the roll of crisp new batik heating down from an oil lamp on the hills that .Jack carried, in an Inside wall, anil would not have (TO BB CONTINUED.) . . ehanged vest podket : eager to the load places with anyone, on earth. of provisions .and supplies which had. The next day revealed changes In Tested Patrons Hospitality been bought w'itli 'part of o.u'r earn- Hie neighborhood which Ce had not Stepping Into u taxicab the other ings. . . had time to notice of discuss in the 'day, says the Farig Intrnnsigeant, a We must have been'fully a mile from A number of settlers, had tare discovered a evening. package of cliocot the houses whet) we discerned the come In. 'The girls had not seen 'any latelying on the seat.. Without hesitfirst evidences of life. A little figure of then, b.ut could .give almost as ation-lie put it in Ills pocket, paid the darted out of the shack on Twenty-twaccurate descriptions ns though they chauffeur, adding a good pourboire, to the edge of the gully ;'then for a few had. It seems Spoof-- had come ovt-und was about to. depart when minutes sank from sight; then reap- to Fourteen every Sunduj afternoon called out: What about my peared on our side of the stream and during our absence, and, for all the chbcolafe? ' rushed Into' the shuck on Fourteen. Your chocolate? queried the client, shyness against which Jean had proinstantly two figures appeared at tested, he had managed to regale the1 greatly taken aback. Then the chauf--fearthe door; paused for a moment, then girls with he gossip soft lie" commuexplained that he was testing the. swooped like . wild things . down the nity, for- - our two little shnvks were honesty of his fares, and of eleven trail toward us. An.d we stood up on really becoming the center of a neighwhoni he had carried that morning the top of jthp wagon and waved our, borhood. From Spoof they learned only two had Informed him that a hats and yelled like mad, until even that the Browns had landed .frtu package of chocolate was lying on the Spoof down on section Two must have England with three children and hard-l- y jieat. The two honest folk were a ser heard us. And old Duck and Bright, anything else,' and had built a gea'nt leaving for Morocco and a mitheir phlegmatic souls. at last awak- shack . on .the' southwest quarter of lliners messenger girl. Honest-peo-piened by that strange power that lies Fonr. Mr. Brown liad been a game are scarce, said the philosophic nt the root of all creation and which Is keeper In England-Ills wife was a chauffeur. wistful little body who seemed likely friendship and love and all the affection which lie between to have plenty to wist over before her Rough Stuff or perhaps It was by the smell gf the children were raised on the living that-He nTet and wooed her. She was hnyspuk at their own stables joined gamekeeper would, wring from the coldly indifferent. He showered cost-- ' in the spirit of the occasion and broke soil. . Uji the northwest of Eighteen, !y gifts on her. She enconmged him. torih in a most surprising gallop, their Just four miles wt.it of ns, a Scottish She was bored. . He married her. g hoofs and t heir trace-chain-s shipbuilder named Smith had located, He laid himself at her feet. See the whifllctrees as they lie appeared to he unmarried. Three tranipied on him. n- n miles north of us,, on Thirty-four- , He was faithful and loyal. She Soon wp came up. and there were named Hausen hud built a flirted. tne girls, wonderful, lithe, sunburned, shi.nt.v twelve feet in which He lost his temper. She liked him. m 'limit, bniless. g- l ien iia.r with his wife and six he was He knocked her down. She adored hilr-nl".g 'iti the guhh n I, i.t at Hie end o; a Ilussian an! n Thirty-sihim, and they lived happily ever f l ...iseli i Mi rd, d ..l'i a sort of cae to iu i ier. M. S.. In Lonaon Mull ivi'i:,i h g eam- - had ln, beaaty and N-EIG- I Stead- - u Robert By Th The of" Puncher," Author . . WNU Copyright by Hubert Stead HOME AGAIN ' .. Lured by bis playmate, Jean Itne, Frank Hall, ared six, ventures on the forbidden wall of a dam, In a email Ontario town. He falls. Into the water and is saved from possible death by clijilng to Jeans outstretched arms. Next dayJean Informs Mm that because of their adventure of the day before be ie 4n duty bound te marry her lie agrees when they are grownups. With Jean brother, John, also aged six, Frank begins school. 'I wo years later they are joined 1' Jean and Franks sister Marjorie. A little later Jean cutifldos to Frank, In terse, her hope of some Uy becoming Mrs. Hall. ,IIe accepts the proposal." Frank is fourteen when Ills mother dies. The boys are eighteen when John father is killed in an actidenT. Two ?ears later Franks father and Jdhns mother are married. Dissatisfied with conditions, and ambitious, Mie two boys. .make plans w iso to Manitoba 9 rid horneMeed," the pjris agreeing to po with them. Th y set out. At Regina they meet "Jake, who agrees, to find them satisfactory homesteads. He d'Ps so, and the two friends file claims on Sections 'Fourteen snd Twenty-two- . Jake sagely advises the adveiu- turers In the pbrehase of supdrawn by plies. and in a a yoke of oxen,. and with u cow. the Sour arrive at their future home's Construction of shack, and tlie "making of a garden are their first occupations. A young of Knglishman of the Spoof is a neighbor. Tliey call on Spoof, who is laving In a lent. Spoof, on ids return visit, discloses himself as a man of varied social attainments. Frank s jealousy W aroused. Marjorie discovers that they have a new lie" turns out to he neighbor. . STNOrsiS. lometteaAer't Cow x four-year-o- ld weak lungs an the broken knees an the spuvlned Joints, an If a man pays me enough I put him wise, an don I let him get wise at his own expense, suj-.- L . Tin a specialist, an I charge like a specialist, I;says. Humph ! says she, Jus like that T.etween .your, line words I Agger that you pick ui a dollar now an again by totin these tenderfoot I dunno out over the where she got.lt, but she Had all .the Let language necessary, un more. me see yourbu.nk Look, she says. So. I dug it up, .an. It showed a balance In my faor of forty-thredollars an tVenty cents. Fortunate there was nothin In limliwifc the hundred dollars I .(Mved at the livery stable fer the hoard o the (lyin unis, hut f 'let sleepin dogs lie, as the " . . savin Is. , How old are youTJake, dear? she says, all of si sudden as smooth as ell. Forty-three- , 4 says, perhaps he. cause that was the ligg-- In mj mind tiat- - the imnncnt, ah I Wits shaven 1 ll. little, at that. . " . "Then youve made a dollar so far, sa.vs she, dropping hack to bur riatral toice that kind .o two iiilllwliei Ik an you hesuinds tman em. You'll die before youre sixty, she says; I can ee it in your eyes, alHiough I wasnt lookin' at her, findin that rather painful, an. leave an o less than sixty dollars. Juki', (hat wouldn't buy me an outfit fer the uncial, fer believe hie Tm goitj' to do y.ou justlce. when the time comes. Were gnin to take a homestead. ; Not roe,' I says. .The seat o lity democrat Is ns near. as I wlmt tq get to a homestead. Theyre nil right fer kndbusters, but fe.r a .woman o culIf-h- e hyld-heade- e r wa-ror- a Mrs. Alton. a widowed Knpfll.sh-womawho, with her three1 son Herald hart taken up year.-Mn, a claim. Frank and John leave the homesteads for a time to do a harvest work for wages-od ... .. farm. longer-establishe- ture CHAPTER VIII Continued 5 Fish? Shoals of Say, about four days I begun to get its much mail ns a new millionaire. An I wish I had some to photographs! show but slje Fella burned you, em all up. They were what I rail pictures o real life. I got so much mail, the postman says to me, What-y- n doin, .lake; startin' a lottery? an' says Yep. Guess I wasn't far out, at that. 'Well, Just ns I wns thinkln' o goln to n business college an hirin, a few dozes stenographers, along comes this telegram. lie produced a yellow sheet. em. . thought that would get her, but she wiis as Impervous to compliments us ah ox to an oration, so to speak. If you Very well, says shA won't tirke a homestead, I will. 'You cant, says. I, with sudden . You nin't a widow. boldness. With that she gives mo another o' those looks o hers. I will be, In about twenty seconds,, she says, if theres any more discussion,' she says. So here we are." . Have you located?" I ticked Jake, when he was silent for a minute, and seemed to have dropped off Into meditation. Yep. It was easy fer me, knowin' ns I do evry willow between the Souris an the Saskatchwnn." We expressed the hope that iiella Donna would prove a She will, Juke prophesied. Of course, that ain't her real name; I Jus gave you that fer fer Instance, an her first name's Holla,, so it's half true, which Is a pretty good average In this country. Walt til you see us. behind the (lyin ants over to Fourteen an Twenty-two- . I'm on organizin' a school distric tight away. Wp gave Jake our blessing and watched hint ride off In Ids wohhij domocTat with Its- - spring seat to larboard and Ids fat figuresettling down like a suck with, a hat. on It Sitting on the grassy knoll, digesting our lunch by the aid of the straws which each of us wits unconsciously chewing, we watched Jake until lu? was a speck In the distance. Wlmt do you .make of It?" said I at Inst. Im not. .iyjylng, was Jacks cautious rejoinder. "Hither hes married, or lie Isrtt." . Hut we had occasion to be thankful we had fallen In with Juke, for he. had been able to direct us to a farmer within a days drive who hired both tis and our oxen for the harvest, or uiitfl Hie beginning of threshing. It was the niiddTff of October, and theip wns a crisp tang in the ulr nigl ( and n.onmi.,, before we again hit the trail for Fourteen and Twenty-two- . During all this tune we had no word from our homes, ns there was no one to curry mail In or out, and It was with anxious and .eager hearts-tha- t Duck and Iirlght along we huryi-othe homeward winding trail. ' On Hie second day, as- - we were how ling along at the two-aiu- l dip which Duck and Drlght considered the limit of furious driving, Jack drew tuy attention to a speck, on the .horizon alieud of us.. It grew rapidly, and although there was no mirage this time to bring our visitor down from heaven, we soon were aide to discern the scar-le-t uniform of the mounted police. It came along iit the smart "trot to which the police horse Is educated, and in half an hour Harold Brook drew up beside us. the. Della Lane and Hall greeted us. Getting back from your hurvest excursion?" So It was evident he knew we had been away, and why. Cut Jack, 'whether he thought of this or not, answered him cordially. Were on the home stretch," he admitted, "and old Fourteen and Twenty-two will look pretty good to us. rfter cook enrs and cabooses. The lightest kind of a smile flickered about I.rook's lips. And so It should.' he agreed, "with two tine girls such ns adorn your respective homestunis. I was in the district last night." i roreed un"Were the girls well I In 1 "Meet me at Regina station Thursday five p. ni. you'll know me I am the only one In the world. Iiella Donna." Well, 1 reckons right off that Bella Donna alibi, or whatever you call a false name, an that some o the hoys Is pulling a gag on me, hut like a fool down 1 goes to the station, uu there I suw her cornin right up the platform like a sandhill mine' out of a marsh. I knew her, Jus like she said, so when she couuis op I calls her hand. Madam, says I, are you the.lady o' the porous plaster?' Til plaster you, says she, If you give me any o 'yer lip. 15ut do you happen to know a Mr. Jake? says she, gettia out a paper; here's his address. Know him! says I. I should say so. An In ease you're Uiinkln o' marryln him let me tell you somethin, jus between friends. Jake buries a wife once a your, reglar. lie does, eh? says she. Well, Im promisin' Ill he a relic before he's a widower,1 says she. Telle Is what she said, but it didn't sound .right to Is-a- me. Thats bettin on a cinch, says I, moanin' that she would get the red ribbon for relies at Regina fair already, hut my w it goes' over her head, as it of'en does, an she comes hack at me with Whad you know 'bout anybody marryln Mr. Jake? Everythin, says I, humpin' my wishbone with importance. .Jake tells me everythin. Im his spiritooitl ad-vlser, so to speak, which Includes mtrtrhnony. The women that wants to marry Jake lots of em rich, too, madam, I says. 'Im steerin' him clear o' them every day, 1 says,-par- t ly out o sympathy for them, on account o his his severe habit's, 1 says. Who are you, anyway? says she, an with that I flashes my telegram on her. I'm the parly of the first part,' says I, as they say In the law -' -- otliees. To youre Jake, she sa.-s- pullin herself ttp till 'all her angles tooj out . like the haunches of a Mailed musWell, you got V h tang. of a . rerve, she says. I begun to think mavhe she was about right, hut she gave me no time far reflections. Wheres a preacher? she says. You wanted speed, an yer goln' to With th9t' she hustled me get It. over town an had me married before I knew It, so Id have to settle for the supper, as I flggered It out afterward. Then after supper we go to my shack an4 she climbs Into my business papers .like a hound after gar 1 bage. Whad you do fer a livin, may I ask?1 she says. 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