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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, IIYRUM, UTAH B THE would creep back Into his thought The bold frankness of the mans face settled to a deeper thoughtfulness; he looked down at the new orchid among the old, fresh and piquant as when he dug it out of the fence corner; glanced. toward the cottage, and set his feet to the rough path that led down to the fallow yard. red-roof- F I s A Tale Of TheFlatwoocU CHAPTER VIII The Fairys Secret The furnishings of the cabin under the crimson rambler would have been a revelation to a stranger entering the of door for the first time. A Mooru! s rug from the Orient covered of the rough floor, stopping Illuitatiorurby Just short of the cook 6tove, which, with its array of utensils, occupied the MyeVj- other fourth. The bed was high postBU)-KiflThe Co. CejhjrijM.ftj ed and canopied, dressed In the finest and the face of his memory rose to his linen and hung with faded tapestry. mind as distinct as a reflection In The chairs were handsomely upholTHE FAIRY d Unbelievable stered, while a center table of Whispering spring. rosewood stood In the though It was against all reason In SYNOPSIS. On the banks of of the floor. the Wabash stand Texie Colin the light of that terrible letter he and Jack Warhope, young and the south wall an American Along saw the resemblance she had fancied very much in love. Texie is the of silk flag hung draped, and under its only daughter of old Pap Simon, vague, half Intangible, but none the r. lopped-u- p rich man and Jack center two pictures the less a resemblance. is the orphan bound boy of Pap With the tail of his eye on the log, beautiful face of a woman; and In Simon, who had foreclosed a mortgage on the Warhope estate. the woodsman went on with his work, the companion frame, the fine, upAt first Texie and Jack talk sadly of a soldier In the unistanding of Ken Colin, the girls missing apparently absorbed In it, really with form of figure a colonel of Mounted Rangbrother. Then Jack says that In no other thought than to put as great ten days his servitude will be ers the man and the woman who had a over, that he will ride out Into length of fence row as possible bethe big world to seek his fortune. tween himself and that scowling face, dreamed the dream that never came Both know what that will mean true. and In as short a time as was prudent. to them. Texie and Jack talk of The woodsman had finished his task the red lock of Red Colin," InThe moment he thought himself out at the barn and feedpens that evening herited by Ken. And Jack says of sight, he took out a rail of the fence, and hes coming back as soon as he returned to the cabin, where, finds gold in California. Then crawled through the opening and, with arrives the new preacher, Rev. deeply thoughtful he was half meevery caution known to woodcraft, chanically Caleb Hopkins. Pap Simon ina fire in the cook troduces the villagers to the new crept back through the underbrush to- stove whenbuilding his quick ear caught the who was a college mate preacher, ward the log. The broken outline of It sound of a of Ken. At supper at the Colin light step coming along the home the preacher tells how the at last came into view through a clump from the orchard. He laid down path boy lulled a gambler and disapof hazel. He raised his head ever so the His father attributes peared. little and lay listening. Not a false door.kindling and turned toward the Kens fall from grace to his red lock of hair. Then Pap Simon note disturbed the soft purr of nature; has a sort of stroke, brought on The light step had stopped, and the pulse of the woods beat normal. Texie stood by reading a letter from Ken, outlined In the doorway, who somewhere in New He dropped his head; crawled up to her curses his father onYork," his death alive over the eyes dancing the log. The leaves were flattened and bed. A postscript by another of t..ken the alert thought having hand says he is dead. At the vilstill warm, but the man was gone. woodsman by surprise, the round wonlage store and post office Loge He searched the moss and leaves un- der of Belden, a newcomer, says he saw her throat and cheeks touched the new parson with his arm til he found the trail the scrape of a to a blush by the waning sunsofter around Texie. Jack licks him, boot in a spot of moist ground at the shoots a pistol from his hand and that in under the crimlight slipped makes him say he was mistaken. foot of an oak. After that It was easy. son rambler. The preacher and the villagers There were two sets of tracks. To his Jack discovers the go fishing. The man dragged off his hat The A preacher carries a surprise one set led back toward the girl glanced over the cabin; lifted her footprint on a concealed housecliffs above the homestead. He fol- eyes. boat fits the preachers boot. A lowed It At a point along the bluffs drunken ruffian disturbs a vilJack, youre the best housekeeper lage festival and stabs Jack in that commanded the nearest view of In the the shoulder. Flatwoods. The preacher the cabin under the crimson rambler makes him leave. The floor creaked with the weight the mussed leaves and broken weeds of him as he came to the door. He had to stoop to pass under the lintel, CHAPTER VII Continued. and his massive shoulders spread al9 most from jamb to jamb. The morning was far gone when the It aint me, he said In his slow woodsman finished his task at the way. Theres a. wonderful fairy about these hills somerfs that slips in when As he stood leaning against the Im off In the fields, and no matter fence, the events of the day beforej how upside down Ive left things, she crossed his mind the heelprints on touches em with them small hands jist the dusty deck of the concealed housefairies has got, r mebbe says r sings the boat; the soma wonderful charm to em, and spark of flint that had transformed the when I come back, there they are, all peering eyes of the preacher when he spick and span. Some folks says ther faced the desperados knife. From aint no fairies, but I know ther lethis, his mind reverted to the words of one, anyhow. Belden about what he had seen in the The girls expressive face was alive little park. and eager. A face rose before him a face comWhy dont yu try some day t pelling In its easy suavity that. In trap your fairy? spite of Its studious severity, seemed The heart of the big woodsman rose to have a strange fascination for to his eyes. For a transcendent moTexie. He knew she had let him walk ment the man in him, sprung from home with her from the festival a generations of soldiers and gentlemen, privilege that meant more In the supremely dominated the bound boy. than anywhere else in the He drank in the wonder of her hair, world. A deep breath came up out of the plump soft mystery of her throat his breast; his hand gripped the fence and bosom, and his hands Instinctiverail hard. ly reached toward her. But many an Insistent task lay waitId give the world I ing. The thought roused him. As he He stopped; the transcendent moraised his arm to put on his hat, the ment passed. He dropped his eyes and sweat got at the cut in his shoulder crushed his hat rim In his powerful and stung him. The Leaves Were Flattened and Still fingers. He had Intended to haul In some The girl bent her head and a deep Warm, but the Man Was one. shock corn from the bottoms. He thoughtfulness filmed the brown of frowned toward the wagon; plucked beneath a clump of bushes at the very her eyes. the blouse loose about his shoulder; brink of the rocks showed where the Jack I finally went up Into the woods to In- renegade had concealed himself. Three He felt the slight tremor In her spect a string of rail fence that would matches, with which he voice and half guessed what was comhave to be repaired before the stock had probably lighted his pipe, Indicat- ing. cattle could be turned out of the lower ed that he had remained some time. That face las night It hants me." lots Into the upland pasture. Jack glanced down at the tiny cabin, Involuntarily he glanced up at the He had spent some time readjusting the barn-lot- , turned and followed the high brink of the cliff, where, under fallen rails and straightening crooked trail back under the trees. a clump of bushes, lay some mussed Past the log It led, away to the leaves and a pinch of pipe ashes. panels when a tiny spot of color In a corner of the fence caught his eye. north, down the face of the wooded Dont let It," was his slow answer. jror some reason It arrested his In- bluff and into the narrow road that Theres the pilot of the Obenchaln, stant attention. In a moment he was threaded Eagle hollow. He followed It now, looks a powrful sight like Lark .down on his knees parting the weeds within sight of the rude hovel at the Sharp, and they aint a mite of kin in and tangled brambles where a yellow head of the hollow Into which Loge the world. orchid had just unfolded the mysteries Belden and his sister had lately She pondered the answer and seemed of its enchanted slipper to the sun. moved; stopped; studied the place much Impressed, even relieved, as he He rose to his feet after a time, but critically for a moment; finally turned, fancied. stood gazing down at the flower a climbed the bluff and, with an unHows Pap Simon tday? comfortable feeling of hidden eyes Por father! He aint hardly left spot of gold in its mean setting. Hes Stopping a few minutes later to upon him, returned to his task at the the house sence that night ease his shoulder a,bit, he happened to feice. wrote and wrote, and looked at papers The forenoon was gone by the time in is safe I didnt know e had, and glance over the fence into the woods. The. act was purely Involuntary, but a he finished it. As he trudged back, this afternoon he had Zeke Polick up sight met his eyes that Instantly drove the corner where he had found the with his notary public seal. A shadow every other consideration out of his yellow orchid drew his eye irresistibly. flitted across her face. She laced her mind from behind a log a man was Raking away the dead leaves he dug smooth fingers ; gripped them. That at him. it up, being careful to leave enough terrible letter! Hes read it and read glowering He ducked out of sight in a flash, soil about the roots to prevent their It Pore Ken I and the woodsman stooped to his task withering, and carried It in his hands The man reached his arm up ovei carelessly; without so much as the out through the trees and up among the door ; absently felt a spray of rose flick of an eye to betray that he had the tumbled ramparts of Black rock. vine, Its buds swollen big with the In the tiny flower bed at the foot mystery that was soon to be revealed. seen anything at all but he had caught a distinct view of a slouch hat, of the sandstone pinnacle where the The girl glanced at the hand among a rough flannel shirt, open at the col- three names were carved, he hollowed the rosebuds and slowly turned to th and frank and thoughtful face. lar, a glare of dark eyes that smol- out a place in the rich dered In a face dark and scowling and set the orchid with the others all of covered with a stubble of black beard them doubtless having come there at different times In the same way; rose the desperado of the festival. Texles startled whisper, as she had to his feet and stood deeply ponderfastened the bandages about his shoul- ing. as his gaze rested on the three der the evening before, flashed across names carved In the rock. That bafbis thought. The face behind the log fling resemblance, In spite of him, (TO BE CONTINUED.) David AeyyonS; ThaBlua soft-tone- d three-fourth- Iwia The Economical Quality Car Chevrolet prices are not the lowest on the market, yet Chevrolet economical transportation averages lowest in cost. This average cost considers the purchase price, interest on investment, depreciation and all operating and maintenance costs. A detailed comparison with any other car in the low priced field will convince you that Chevrolet is the best buy because of its superior quality and because the purchase price includes full equipment. More than a million Chevrolets are now in use. Twelve huge plants are now building them at the rate of twenty-fiv- e hundred per working day. 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