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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER HYRUM, UTAH Diamonds By ETHEL HUESTON Copyright Bobbt-Merri- ll Author of PRUDENCE OF THE PARSONAGE Must be good to be ap. preciated. Those we sell are perfect. Yesterdays prices still prevail with us. BOYD PARK FOUNDED Co. 100 MAIN STREET CHAPTER XV Continued. . -1- 7"Youre the nicest old things that ever lived," said Lark, still laughing, but with great warmth and tenderness In her eyes and her voice. But you can take the stockings back and save your money if you like we love you Just as much. But this the happy donors stoutly refused to do. The twins had earned this wealth of hose, and finally, wiping their eyes, the twins began to smooth their hair and adjust their ribbons and belts. , Whats the matter?" Where are Will you buy the rest you going? of us some silk stockings?" queried the effect. family, Where are we going? Carol repeated, surprised, seeming to feel that anyone should know where they were going, though they had not spoken. Were going to call on our friends, of course," explained Lark. Of course, said Carol, jabbing her hairpins In with startling energy. And weve got to hurry. We must go to Matties and Jeans and Bettys and Fans and Alices and say, Lark, maybe wed better divide up and each take half. Its kind of late and we mustnt miss any. Well, what on earth! gasped Prudence, while the others stared in speechless amazement. For goodness sake, Carol hurry. We have to get clear out to Minnies tonight, If we miss our supper. But whats the idea? What for? What are you talking about? Why, you silly thing, said Carol patiently, "we have to go and tell our friends that weve got four pairs of silk stockings, of course. I wouldnt miss this afternoon for the world. And well go the rounds together, Lark, want to see how they take It, she smiled at them benignly. I can Imagine their excitement. And we owe It to the world to give it all the excitement we can. Prudence says so. Prudence looked startled. Did too busy with your own happiness to bother with an old professor any more anyhow. I have enjoyed our friendship very much, more than you will ever know, and I want once more to hope you may be the happiest woman in the world. You deserve to be. Very sincerely your friend, DAVID A. DUKE. Carol did net hear her she did not surprised at that. He and Mr. Starr naturally had much in common, hear the door closing behind her she both ministers, and both at any rate, had forgotten Connie was there. LAKE CITY WANTED To buy for future development, Several Mines or Prospects with large bodies of low grade oxidized copper at any distance from railroad. Will also consider lead and zinc ores near railroad. If you own oi know o( such properties, write N-n- P.O.Box 1662, Salt Lake City a p full-fledg- ed t, ! ! - SALT be he was very devoted to his uncle, and Mr. Duke stood up and walked Carol grew up very, very fast, and quickly across the room and Carol rose smiled a great deal, but laughed much to meet him,? He put his arms about less frequently than In other days. her, strongly, without hesitating. There was a shy sweetness about her Carol, he said, my little songCarol lay down on the bed and that mnde her father watch her anx- bird and he laughed, but very tencrushed the letter ecstatically between derly, would you like to know how to her hands. Then she burst out laugh- iously. Is Carol sick, Grace? he asked one make me say what you know I want ing. Then she cried a little, nervously, to say? to his sister-in-laand laughed again. Then she smoothed day, turning suddenly she began tremulously, I I the letter affectionately, and curled up her hands against her breast, She smiled curiously. clasping think I on the bed with a pad of paper and and looking Intently, as If fascinated, not. Why? her fathers fountain pen to answer the at his square, firm chin so very near She seems very sweet. letter. Yes. She feels very sweet, was her eyes. She had never observed It My Dear Mr. Duke: However in the the enigmatic response. And Mr. Starr so near at hand before. She thought world could you make such a mistake. muttered something about women and It was a lovely chin In another man Ive been laughing ever since I got your geometry and went away, shaking his she would have called it distinctly letter, but Im vexed too. Hes nice, all bossy. right; hes just fine, but I dont want him! head. And aunt Grace smiled again. You would try to make me when And think how annoyed Lark would be If But the months passed away. Lark, she could see it. I am not engaged to not too absorbed In her own happiness you know Ive been gritting my teeth Jim Forrest, nor to any one. Its Lark. for years, waiting for you to get grown certainly didnt say it was I, did I? to find room for her twins affairs, at Youve been awfully slow about it, She up. and Aunt so fond of Jim that it really is last grew troubled. Were all a pleasure to the whole family to count Grace often held little conferences to- Carol, and Ive been In such a hurry him one of us, and Lark grows more when Carol was safely out of for you. deliriously joyful all the time. But I! gether She rested limply In his arms now, the way. I know youre awfully busy, of course, and I hate to intrude, but you must write Whatever do you suppose Is the breathing in little broken sighs, not one little postal card to apologize for matter? Lark would wonder anxious- trying to speak. your error, and Ill understand how hard You have known It a long time, you are working when you do not write ly. To which aunt always answered havent He sure wait. isnt you? And I thought I was patiently, Oh, Just again. He drew her Hastily, but always sincerely, shes grown-uhiding it so cleverly. enough yet. CAROL. You are too Then there came a quiet night when closer In his arms. Carol jumped up and caught up her Carol and Mr. Duke sat In the living young for me, Carol, he said regrethat and rushed all the way downtown room, Idly discussing the weather, and fully. I am very old. to the postofflee to get that letter looking at Connie, who was deeply ImI I like em old, she whispered started for Danville, Illinois, where the mersed In a book on the other side of shyly. Rev. Mr. Duke was located. Her face the big reading lamp. Conversation With one hand he drew her head to was so radiant, and her eyes were so between them lagged so noticeably his shoulder, where he could feel the heavenly blue, and so sparkling bright that they sighed with relief when she warm, fragrant breath against the that people on the street turned to finally laid down her book, and twisted lovely chin. look after her admiringly. around in her chair until she had them You like them old, he repeated, She was feverishly impatient until both in full view. smiling. You are very generous. One Books are funny, she began bright- old one is all I want you to like. the answer arrived, and was not at all But I dont believe half the written when he leaned toward her lips, Carol surprised that It came under special ly. stuff ever did happen I dont believe drew away swiftly. Dont be afraid It could. Do girls ever propose, Mr. of me, Carol. You didnt mind once Duke? when I kissed you. He laid his hand No one ever pTypfoed to me, he an softly on her round cheek. I am too swered, laughing. old, dearest, but Ive been loving you No? she queried politely. Maybe for years, I guess. Ive been waiting no one wanted you badly enough. But for you since you were a little fresh' I wonder If they ever do? Writers say man, only I didnt know It for a while. so. I cant believe It somehow. It Say something, Carol I dont want say that? seems so well some unnecessary, to feel timid with me. You love "Certainly. You said pleasure but Carol and I were talking about you way. me, dont most excitements very pleasing, you? Tell me, If you do. of the It this afternoon. She looked up at him despeI. time. Come on, Larkle, well have to I Carol looked up startled. walk fast. I well, I made you say It, rately. What does Carol thlbk about It? And with a fond goodby to the gendidnt I? he queried. erous family, the twins set out to Did you want me to say it, dearest? Well, she said she thought in ordl Have you been waiting, too? How spread the Joyful tidings, Lark pauscases were to clever enough nary girls have ing at the door just long enough to yon get what they wanted without asking long explain gravely, Of course, we wont Oh, a long time; since that night for it. tell them er just how It happened, Carol moved restlessly In her chair, among the rose bushes at the parsonyou know. Lots of things In a parsonher face drooping a little, and Mr. age. age need to be kept dark. Prudence Since then? Duke laughed. says so herself. Yes; that was why it didnt break Of course I know none of our girls would do such a thing, said Connie, my pledge when you kissed me. BeCHAPTER XVI. serene in her family pride. But Carol cause I was waiting then. Do you love me? says she must admit shed like to find The Girl Who Wouldnt Propose. Oh, Pfessor, dont make me say it some way to make a man say what not toIt took a long time for Carol to reanybody could see with half an eye right out in plain English cover from the effect of Larks disloyhe wanted to say anyhow, only night. Im pretty nearly going to cry She twinkled a little alty, as she persisted In calling It. For Connie stopped abruptly. Mr. Duke now, and several weeks she didnt twinkle at all had turned to Carol, his keen eyes then, like herself, yon Tinow what cryBut when at last the smiles came easy searching her face, but Carol sank in ing does to my complexion. again, she wrote to Mr. Duke, her But he did not smile. Dont cry, the big chair and turned her face away We want to be happy topfessor no longer, but now a from him against the leather cushion he said. She apolo will tell me tomorrow. ToYou young minister. Connie, she said, of course no night. Then She Smoothed the Letter Affec-U-p glzed sweetly for her long delay. night on the girl would propose, no girl would tionately and Curled But you will forgive me when you Tonight, she said sweetly, turning want to I was only joking Bed. wrote. have read this, she Cupid Is In his arms so that her face was Mr. Duke laughed openly then. Lets Of delivery stamp, though Lark lifted her She working havoc, In our family. him again, tonight toward and a take go walk, shant we, Carol? course no one outside the home circle eyebrows them and her lifted arms, softly put a quizzically, and Aunt Grace knows yet, but I Insisted on telling you smiled suggestively, and her father Its Yougrand night. about his neck, the laces falling back to rid of neednt me, go get because you have been such a grand looked up with sudden questioning In said I was just going and showing her pink, dimpled elbows, Connie, rising. good friend to us for so long. We may his face. Carol made no comment, only anyhow. She lifted Tonight, my dearest seem young to you, because you cant ran up to her room and locked the door Oh, dont go, said Mr. Duke po- her lips to him, smiling. forget when we were freshmen, but once more. THE END. litely. we are really very grown up. We act Dont go, echoed Carol pleadingly. Carol, you awful little scamp, you did quite mature now, and never think of that Relax and Rest. on purpose, and you know it. You Connie stepped to the doorway, then finish I didnt But my jokes. playing never mentioned Larks name. Well, If of relaxing fs an excellent habit The and looked back at them. Sudnews, did I? you wanted to give me the scare of my paused Just a while previous one, den especially illumination came to as her she you succeeded. Of course, I dont It is Jim Forrest he was in high life, to sleeping time, for In this way one clear-cuscanned to lose their mans want the I little and knew faces, my chum, school when we were. Remember him? very well that no man In his determined, eager carols shy and prepares the mind and body for that Larkle and I were out to spend a week, senses would allow his sweetheart proper to be scared and hopeful. She turned quick- subconscious lapse which restores and but I neednt go Into particulars. as good a comrade to another man as I back her sister, pain darken- health and vitality. One way to In toward me. Of course I was ly I knew you would be Interested. The want you to beOf tocourse her to I Carol was the last of duce relaxation and sleep Is a fresh be disappointed. eyes. ing expected whole family Is very happy about It; busy for a while. Of course I failed to all the It would leave her alone wholesome condition of body, and so girls with he Is a great favorite everyone. see the sterling worth of Jim Forrest. I and was too he old for her. Her lips the matter of the dally bath Is an ImBut how our family Is going to pieces see it now, though. I think hes a prince, a and her face shad- portant detail to be considered. Innear as and little, in worth quivered your being family He is nice. Still, since It is Jim as be. Im sure well be owed more darkly. But they did not deed, very often when body and mind could anybody Isnt he? But you wouldnt dare say great friends, and tell Lark for me that see it. The mans eyes were Intent on seem too weary to rest the hot or cold no. I am waxing enthusiastic over his good one thing that will Carols eyes glittered wickedly as qualities even to the point of being In- Carols' lovely features, and Carol was bath proves the besides slender her am I Tell her Induce articulate how for, Connie cleansing the studying sleep, happy fingers. she sealed this letter, which she had over it, a good deal happier than Ive been calms the nerves, and a settles drew and looked it breath, down body, long a care. few And with greatest penned for the past several days, and I am wishher sister with a great protecting and consequently invites relaxation. days later, when the answer came, she ing them both a world of Joy. Im hav- upon In her heart. She wanted tenderness one I and well worth not it at the flqd stairs ing myself, danced gleefully up I shake could for to catch having. The Unspeakable Turk. her Carol, you, up In her strong young all mature In manner, and locked the playing such a trick on me. I can see arms and just her out : This of the expression came Into general carry wildly she while read behind her door you crouch down and giggle when you read this. You wait, my lady. My turn room away from the man who sat use during the Bulgarian agitation of Deaf Carol: Is coming. I think I'll run down to there waiting for her 1876, on its appearance In a published Indeed I am very Interested, and I wish Mount Mack next week to see my uncle Carol lifted her face at that moment, letter of Carlyles to George Howard, Tell world. Jim for in the hes not very well. Dont have any dates. and turned you all the Joy slowly toward Mr. Duke. M. P., dated November 24: "The unme how very much I think he is to be Sincerely, D. D. fine seems a He Connie saw Her eyes. They were lumi- speakable Turk should be Immediately fellow, congratulated. And Carol laughed again, and wiped and I know you will be happy. It was a nous. struck out of the question, and the was doing her eyes. surprise, I admit I knew hehave tense relaxed Connies then country left to honest European guidfigure seemed but devoted you the very The Rev. Mr. Dukes devotion to his once at I she and toward ance. It was not the first time, howturned cant the to me, always. so young Imagine elderly uncle in Mount Mark was a 1 am going, she said in a low ever, that Carlyle had made use of it door. you too grown up for Jokes, though you most beautiful mature In this letter do sound more thing to see. Every few voice. But she looked back again be- In 1831, nearly fifty years before, In than you have before. Lark will be lone- weeks he ran down for a few days, fore she closed the door after her. The Westminster Review, No. 29, In ly. 1 am afraid. and if he spent most of his time rean article on the Nlbelungen Lied, Carol, she said In a whisper, you I am very busy with my work, so you will understand If my letters come less counting his uncles symptoms before youre a darling. I Ive makes mention of that unspeak he always fiequently, wont you? And you will be the sympathetic Starrs, no one could thought so. able Turk, King MachaboL comic-oper- Iftoa MAKERS OF JEWELRY BARGAINS JO IN USED CARS splendid used Oldsmobiles, N,. tional-$2- 50 lo $800. Guaranteed first dan condition-easy terms if wanted by running right parties. Write for detailed list and description, Used Car Dept.,' Randall-Dod- VAPOR Auto Co., d BATHS Salt Lake City IN LAPLAND Writers Strenuous Experience Cleansing Process Finishes With Being Bastinadoed. In Wide World Frank Hedges a vapor bath la the of the Lapps. He says : tler describes The bathhouse of Bulaud Is a small wooden structure generally situated some way from the dwelling house. It is divided Into two compartments, one to undress In, while the other contains the oven which produces the steam. The oven Is arched with large stones or pebbles, and heated by a fire placed beneath. Undressing In the first room, one enters the heated compartment. After a short rest on a, wooden form or bench, which contains a place for the Lead,, the attendants come In and bathe you. Cold water is thrown over the stones, and the hissing vapor soon sends up' fe cloud of steam. The higher you sit from the floor the greater the heat. As t more water is thrown over the stones the vapor becomes so intense that one can hardly breathe. We were soon gasping for breath and covered1 with a profuse perspiration which Issued from every pore of the skin. Hanging up In the room were tender branches or twigs in a green state and retaining their leaves. Dipping these In water, the attendant began lashing-anwhipping me across the legs,! shoulders, loins and back, till my bodyj seemed quite red with the switching., The bastinadoing over, I was then, washed with a soft flannel covered, with soap, after which a Jug of the coldest water was thrown over my! ' head and body. red-ho- JOKE ON SCHOOL VISITOR! i Was Well Fortunately Hamilton Mable Able to Appreciate Unconscious Humor of the Children. The late Hamilton W. Mable, the, American essayist, was one of those genial men who enjoyed a joke on themselves. Rlustratlng this, phase of Mr. Mables character, It la told that when he was a student Mr. Mable made an address in which he told this story: He had visited a school In Philadelphia In which there was a dally The teacher regularly asked the students, Children, what would you do If fire were to break out in this building?" The children all repeated. In chorus, "We would rise in our places, step Into the aisle, and march, On the quietly out of the building. morning when Mr. Mable visited the school, while he was sitting quietly on the platform, the teacher stepped before the pupils and said, Children, what would you say If I were to tell you that Mr. Mable Is to speak to you The children prompthis morning? tly replied In chorus, "We would rise In our places, step Into the aisle, and march quietly out of the building." well-know- n fire-dri- ll. Tact and Charm. Dinner conversation offers the opportunity to eliminate all disagreeable and topics. To lay aside ones worries jceep ones tr&ibles from obtruding. 'The same should be said of all occa, defelons and good form particularly motes that dinners, and formal dinners pt that, should be freed of personal burdens retailed. all times give Interest as well as emtAy to inspire It and one of the who is to let the person phatic ways unhappens to be speaking have your and divided attention. 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