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Show I SOUTH CACHE COURIER- HYRUM, UTAH - w 5 '0 v V $v V ; V V" V4 The Light in the Clearin A TALE of the NORTH COUNTRY in the TIME of SILAS WRIGHT J5 $ v4 By IRVING BACHELLER Blessed blelfeeptag Up With Lizzie, Etc., Etc. XI I 13 V V vV4 $ 3 s Copyright by firing B&cheller CHAPTER 8 3 8 Gold Cuff Links link, m,d,by into no' .atilt,',' h we will give you a new pair. This Is the guarantee that aa with each pair. When you want th. best cuff links made, order from us BOYD PARK FOUNDED IQte makers of jewelry 166 MAIN STREET SALT LAKE CITY Continued. whose waters I love to wash ray waving her iland to me as I stood for hod come out of the courtroom pressed a moment in the edge of the woods, near me and bent over and looked at "Your fellow townsman, Silas I guess God has married us again," the curtain falls on this highly roman- the set eyes of Benjamin Grimshaw Wright, Is now the largest figure tn I declared. und said : tic period of ray life. Washington. We were all worried by the I knew that you were walking on Uncle Peabody came for me that eve"She floored him at last. I knew she resolution of Henry Clay until It began this road and I had to see you, said was about the middle of the would. He tried not to see her, but I It ning. to crumble tinder the Irresistible attack she. "People have been saying such next week that I received this letter tell ye that bony old finger, of hers of Mr. Wright. On the 16th he sub terrible things. from Sally: burnt a hole in him. He couldnt stand a report upon It which for lucid What? Dear Bart: Mr. Latour gave up It. I knew hed blow up some day unand accurate statements presented In They say your uncle found the and drove to Potsdam in the evening. der the strain. She got him at last the most unpretending manner won pocketbook that was lost and kept the Said he had to meet Mr. Parish. I Who got him? another asked. universal admiration and will be re- money. They say he was the first man think that he had seen enough of me. Rovin Kate. She killed him pointmembered alike for Its Intrinsic excel- that went up the road after It was began to hope he would stay he ing her finger at him so." lence and for having achieved one of lost. ' was so good looking, but mother is , "Shes got an evil eye. Everybody the most memorable victories ever a lie my uncle never saw the very glad that he went, and so am I, afraid o the crazy ol trollope." . Its gained in the United States senate. pocketbook. Some money was left to for our minister told us that he Is one She Isnt half as crazy After a long debate Clay himself, com- him by a relative In Vermont. Thats of the wickedest young men In the as "Nonsense! most 6f us, said the lawyer. the pelled by the Irresistible force of argu- hew it happened that he bought a farm state. He Is very rich and very bad. In my opinion she had a good reason ment in the report of Mr. Wright, was instead of going to the poorhouse when they say. I wonder if old Kate knew for pointing her finger at that man. obliged to retire from his position, his Grimshaw put the screws to him." about him. Her charm worked well She came from the same town he did resolution having been rejected by a I knew that 'your uncle didnt do anyway didnt It? My nose was all over In Vermont. Ye dont know what vote of 44 to 1. " Father and mother right In the morning. Sorry that I happened there. It, she went on. With what pride and Joy I heard of couldnt tell you. So I had to. cant meet you Saturday. Mother and The doctor arrived. The crowd this great thing that my friend had acWhy couldnt your father and moth- I are packing up to go away for the made way for him. lie knelt beside er tell me? summer. Dont forget me. I shall be the still complished I figure and made the tests. He Going out with the crowd that eveThey didnt dare. Mr. Grimshaw thinking every day of those lovely rose and shook his head, saying : ning, I met Sally and Mr. and Mrs. made them promise that they would things you said to me, I dont know Its all over. Let one o these boys Dunkelberg. The latter did not speak not speak to you or to any of your what they will try to do with me, and go down and bring the undertaker. to me and when I asked Sally If I family. I heard them say that you and I dont care. I really think as you do, Benjamin Grimshaw, the richest man could walk home with her she an- your uncle did right. Father told Bart, that God has married us to each In the township, was dead, and I have mother that he never knew a man so other. . swered curtly, No, thank you. to hear of any mourners. yet Yours forever, I have got a bit ahead of my history. honest as your Uncle Peabody. Three days later I saw his body lowSALLY DUNKELBERG. Just then we came upon the Silent Soon after the opening of the nAv ered Into Its grave. The little, broken-spirite-d How often I read those words so year ten days or so later It may have Woman sitting among the dandelions wife stood there with the been I had begun to feel myself en- by the roadside. She held a cup in like all the careless words of the same sad smile on her face that I bad I botyoung compassed by a new and subtle force. her hand with some honey on Its noted when I first saw her In the hills. It was a thing as Intangible as heat tom and covered with a piece of glass. Rovin' Kate was there In the clothes She Is hunting bees, I said as we CHAPTER XIII. but ns real as fire and more terrible, it she had worn Christmas day. She was seemed to me. I felt It first in the at- stopped beside her. greatly changed. Her hair was neatly She rose and patted my shoulder The Bolt Falls. titude of my play fellows. They decombed. The wild look had left her Three times that winter I had seen nied me the confidence and intimacy with a smile and threw a kiss to Sally. was like one whose back Is She eyes. which I had enjoyed before. They Suddenly her face grew stern. She Benjamin Grimshaw followed by the relieved of a heavy burden. Her lips whispered together in my presence. In pointed toward the village and then at Silent Woman clothed In rags and moved as she scattered . little red all this I had not failed to observe that Sally. pointing with her fingerr The trial of Amos camera. He had squares of paper into the grave. I supShe means that there Is some danHenry Wills had taken a leading part It a crazy whim of pose had "blood on his feet,Jr The invisible, Inaudible, mysterious ger ahead of you, I said. they used hers they thought saw who her do It. I they to The Silent Woman picked a long Ltfckltyspllt say, all the way thing wrought a great change In me. It understood the curious I that thought 'vL having followed me through the day and lay blade of grass and tipped Its end in to Lewis county In so did the schoolbit of and symbolism 1 attacked the two and sligl down with me at night. I wondered honey at the bottom of the cup. master, who stood beside me. Doubtwith a bowie J what I had done. I careful y surveyed She came close to Sally with the blade men the pieces of paper numbered her ill to detain him at of Gd less grass between her thumb and finger. my clothes. They looked nil right to curses. also shot at an omTv She Is fixing a charm, I said. diy me. My character was certainly no The- scarlet sins of his youth are of efa a where She smiled and nodded as she put Lowvllle, hisSb, worse than it had been. How it preyed down with him In the dust, fected. He had been ldcj by all lying upon my peace and rest and happiness drop of honey on Sallys upper lip. Httcket whispered as we walked away these so and his clmracter as a men, She held up her hands while her lips that mysterious hidden thing together. man been) us. had moved as if established. desperate she were blessing One day Uncle Peabody came down (END OF BOOK TWO.) I suppose it will not save me If I This in connection with thq scar on his to see me and I walked through the face and brush the off. which boots said the it tracks, Sally. village with him. We met Mr. DunkelBOOK THREE We went on and in a moment a bee of Amos fitted, and the broken gun berg, who merely nodded and hurried stock convinced the on she of his the guilt. jury honey. Nervously along. Mr. Bridges, the merchant, did lighted I remember well the look of the Which Is the hot greet him warmly and chat with struck at It and then cried out with venerable Story of the Chosen Judge Cady as he prohim as he hpd been wont to do. I saw pain. nounced the sentence of death upon Ways. The bee has stung you," I said. that The Thing ns I had come to She hand- Amos Grimshaw. A ray of sunlight her her covered with face also. him of .think it was following CHAPTER XIV. slanting through a window In the late Uow It darkened his facel Even now kerchief and made no answer. nfternoon fell counsome a his Wait minute Ill get upon clay," gracious I can feel the aching of the deep, I said Uncle Peabodys Way and Mine. tenance, shining also, with the softer as I ran to the river bank. bloodless wounds of that day. I could Is a bad thing to be under a heavy . of It his some I spirit.- Slowly, solemnly, clay and moistened It light bear it better alone. We were trying withfound to ones self of which, thank he water kindly, of the doom. the obligation and words returned. spoke to hide our pain from each other when It was his way of saying them that God, I am now acquitted. I have I look me at she There, groaned. . How quickly my jwe said good-byfirst made me feel the dignity and known men who were their own worst The bee hit my nose." uncle turned away and walked toward deof the law. The kind and fa- creditors. Everything She now uncovered her majesty they earned face, vil! He came rarely to the jthe sheds to went tone the demands formed In almost his me of voice therly her satisfy swiftly beyond recognition, put lage of Canton after that. mind of that supremest court which of vanity or pride or. appetite. I have nose to swollen one of having great May had returned a warm bright size and redness. Is above all question and which was seen them literally put out of house May. I had entered my seventeenth You look like Rodney Barnes," I swiftly to enter Judgment In this mat- and home, thrown neck and crop into jear and the work of the term was said with a laugh ns I applied the clay ter and In others related to it. the street, as It were, by one or the finished. to her afflicted nose. Slowly the crowd moved out .of the other of these heartless creditors naving nothing to do one afternoon, "And I feel like the old boy. I think courtroom. Benjamin Grimshaw rose each a grasping usurer with unjust I walked out on the road toward my nose is trying to jump off and run and calmly whispered to his lawyer. claims. for a look at the woods and away. He had not spoken to his son or I remember that Rodney Barnes fields. Soon I thought that I heard the We were nearing the village. She seemed to notice him since the trial called for my chest and me that fine sound of galloping hoofs behind me. Wiped the mud from her prodigious had begun, nor did he now. Many had morning in early June when I was to -- 1 looked back and I saw Sally round- nose and I wet her handkerchief In a shed tears that day, but not he. Mr. go back to the hills, my years work In ing the turn by the river and coming pool of water and helped her to wash Grimshaw never showed but one emo- school being ended. I elected to walk, toward me at full speed, the mane of it. Soon we saw two men tion that of anger. He was angry and the schoolmaster went with me approaching her pony flying back to her face. She us in the road. In a moment I ob- now. His face was hard and stern. He five miles or more across the flats to pulled up beside me Just as I had served that one was Mr. Horace Dun- muttered as he walked out of the the slope of the high country. imagined she would do. Soon the senator will be coming, kelberg ; the other a stranger and a re- courtroom, his cane briskly beating the Bart, I hate sdmebody terribly," markably handsome young man he floor. he remarked. I have a long letter said she. The Silent Woman as ragged ns from him and he asks about you and was, about twenty-twyears of age Whom? and dressed in the height of fashion. ever was waiting on the steps. Out your aunt and uncle. I think that hes A man who Is coming to our house I rerae'mber so well his tall, athletic went her bony finger as he came down. fond o you, boy. on the stage today. Granny Barnes is figure, his gray eyes, his small dark He turned and struck at her with his I wish you would let me know when liying to get up a match between us. mustache and his admirable manners.-Bot- cane and shouted in a shrill voice that he comes, I said. Father says he is rich and hopes ho 'were appalled at the look of rang out like a trumpet in his frenzy ; I am sure he will let you know, Go way from me. Take her away, will want, to marry me. I got mad Sally. and, by the way, I have heard from about it He Is four years older than Why, girl, what has happened to somebody. I ennt stan it. Shes killin another friend o yours, my lad. Yere me. .Take her away. Take her away. a I am. Isnt that awful? I am going to you? Jier father asked. lucky one to have so many friends Then I saw what a playful soul was Take her away. be just as mean and hateful to him as sure ye are. Here, Ill show ye the His face turned purple and then letter. Theres no reason I can. Sallys. The girl was a born actress. I Been riding In the country, said white. He reeled and fell headlong, shouldnt. Ye will know Its why I guess theyre only fooling you, I writer, like a tree severed from Its roots, and she. Is this.Mr. Latour? said. probably. I do not. This Is Mr. Latour, Sally, said her lay still on the hard, stone pavement. (TO BE CONTINUED.) No, they mean it. I have heard It seemed as if snow were falling on father. them talking it over. Saw Her Limitation. his face it grew so white. The Silent They shook hands. He cannot marry you. I am glad to see you," said the Woman stood ns still as he, pointing Edwards highest ambition was to Why? ai him with her finger, her look un- some day be an engineer. He delightstranger. ' It seemed to me that the time had say I am worth seeing, said changed. People came running toward ed in the workings oMUs electrical enThey come for me to speak out, and with Sally. This Is my friend, Mr. Baynes. us. I lifted the head of Mr. Grimshaw gines, and one day he undertook to burning cheeks I said: When you are tired of seeing me, look and laid It on my knee. It felt like the explain the various parts to Janet Because I think that God has mar- at him. head of the stranger In Rattleroad. She listened Indifferently and finally ried you to me already. Do you reI shook the hand he offered me. Old Kate bent over and looked at the he became exasperated and said : member when we kissed each other Of course, we cant all be good eyelids of. the man which fluttered Oh, well, go on and play. I dont by the wheat field one day last sum- looking, Sally remarked with a sigh, faintly and were still. suppose you will ever be anything mer? as If her misfortune were permanent. "Dead she muttered. more than a mother, anyway. ' Yes. Mr. Horace Dunkelberg Then, as If her work were finished, and I We had faced about and were walk- laughed heartily for I had told him In she turned and made her way through Difficult Men to Handle. ing back toward Canton, I close by the a whisper what had happened-tThere Is no class of men so difficult Sally the crowd and walked slowly down while Mr, Latour looked a little em- the street. Men stood aside to let her to be managed in a state as ponys side. those May I kiss you again?" barrassed. pass, as If they felt the power of her whose Intentions are honest but She stopped the pony and leaned "My face Is not beautiful, but they spirit and feared the touch of her gar- whose consciences are bewitched. toward me and our lips met in a kiss say that I have a good heart, Sally ments. Napoleon. the thought of which makes me lay assured the stranger. Two or three men had run to the mobow a head and : my on. down my pen I excused myself house of the nearest doctor. The crowd In They started cases It is as difficult to ment while I think with reverence of and took a trail through the woods to thickened. As I sat looking down at stay many at the top of the ladder as it that pure, sweet spring of memory In another road. Just there, with Sally the- dead face In my lap, a lawyer who Is to get ther spirit. fy led - 1 . - - o -- . ; . ! o - SEKD US YOUR FROZEN, DAMAGED LEAKY RADIATORS branches. We save you time and H. & E. Radiator & Welding 252 Edison Street, Salt Lake HELP WANTED money, Co. City.Ut&h iiSSS2rsriS towns need barbers; good opportunities one tor men over draft age. Barbers in army hav good as officers commission. Get in few weeks. Call or write. Moler prenai, Barbs 43 8. West Temple 8t.. Balt Lake Oii College, WERE MARVELS IN CHILDHOOD Those Whom tho World Has Reeoj. nlaed as Men of Genius Remarlb ablefor Precocity. One character common to genltu and to Insanity, especially moral insanity, is precocity. Cesare Lombroao, professor of legal medicine, University of Turin, relates that Dante, when nine years of age, wrote a sonnet to Beatrice; Tasso wrote verses at ten, Pascal and Comte were great thinkers at the ages of thirteen, Fornier at fifteen, Niebuhr at seven, Jonathan Edwards at twelve, Michel Angelo at nineteen, Gassendi, the Little Doctor, at four, Bossut at twelve, and Voltaire at thirteen. Pico de la Mirandola knew Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean and Arabic, In his childhood ; Goethe wrote a story In seven languages when ho was scarcely ten ; Wleland knew Latin at seven, meditated an epic poem at thirteen, and at sixteen published his Welt poem, "Die Tollkommenste Schiller was only nineteen when he wrote Rauber. Victor Hugo comIrtamene at fifteen. Pope posed wrote his ode to solitude at twelve, and Byron published verses at eighteen.. Moore translated Anacreon at thirteen. Meyerbeer at five played excellently on the piano. Claude Joseph Vernet drew very well at four, and at twenty was a celebrated painter. At thirteen Wren Invented an astronomical Instrument, and offered It to his father with a Latin dedication. Raphael was famous at fourteen. Beethoven composed three sonatas at thirteen. Elchorn, hfozart and Eybler gave concerts at six. Weber was only thirteen when his first opera, Das Waldmarchen, was presented. Bacon conceived the Novum Organum at fifteen. Charles XII manifested his great designs at eighteen. RIDICULOUS FAD OF FASHION s Worn Description of Women Some Centuries Ago Appears Almost Incredible. Head-Dres- by plays constant pranks with hair. Addison says In the of 1718: There Is not so in as a ladys nature thing s ; within my memory I have known it to rise and fall above 80 In the reign of Henry VI, degrees. ladles wore horns, having on each side ears" so large that when they would pass through the door of a room It was necessary to turn sideways and stoop. It was judged necessary to en-- , large the doors of the Chateau de Vincennes. The correct angle for the hair was 45 from perpendicular, which entailed great, strain upon the hair Little growing from the forehead. thought of what wo call cleanliness or even decency was present at the hairdressing of that day. Not only was the hair left untouched for a most revoltingly long time, but materials were used In the dressing of the hair and making the rolls (as Anna Green Winslow related), which were most Incredible. The Boston Gazette of tells of a young woman May, 1771, driving In Boston streets- - who was thrown from her carriage and her high tower partly torn off. It proved to he staffed with yarn, tow, wool, curled hair, and even hay. Fashion a woman's Spectator variable a head-dres- Net the Right Tune. A certain man was angry one night or and began to swear in the presence she his wife. The latter, thinking demight shame him Into quitting, fercided to imitate him and swore he vidly, using the same oaths that did. He looked at her in amazement for a few minutes and then remarked Well, you have the same words hut you havent got the right tune. Exchange. New Invention. An Inventor has equipped a Par" chute with hand operated propeller9 on the theory that a user can guide W descent thereby. . |