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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM. UTAH IebonyI S WATERS j tures on thely Impulses of the moment They had a common unspoken feeling of being In a play. The wind sweeping wildly from the mountains rattled the heavy window frames and swayed the maroon rep curtains softly. They had a sense of empty rooms and hidBerenice den projects about them. forgot even that she had ever felt fear In the place though the everpresent mystery was still sharply with her. ! j By Anna CHAPTER V McClure SHoll When every one but himself had gone to bed, Payne sat down to read the diaries of the late Dr. Jethro Bracebridge, but he had no Intention of going back to the earlier years first, on the track, as be was, of the situation in Lostland academy Just before the deaths of the four Bracebridge children. It was easily traced, as the diaries ended abruptly ou the of September of the year twenty-nint- h of the drowning. On that fatal day. Doctor Bracebridge had ceased his records, never to open them again. He evidently had been a man of deep scholarship, and of what Is sometimes missing in conjunction with scholarship broad and deep sympathies. In one place he had written: The thinker Is sometimes more likely to go astray in his conclusions man of action. than the warm-hearte-d Education should never be carried beyond the point where it stultifies spontaneous and generous deeds. Life was meant to be loved out; not thought out. Payne turned back to the approximate date of ' Doctor Bracebridges second marriage, and found this en- 5 S Copyright I by W. a. Chapman WNB Service SYNOPSIS On her way to a faculty position In Losttand Academy, Janet Mercer meets Prof. Arthur Fleming, also on his way to the Academy. At the school they are struck by an air of mystery pervading the place. Gordon Haskell, proprietor, welcomes them. Wilton Payne completes the Academy faculty. In a schoolroom Janet finds a group which the teachers had supposed were scholars, are wax figures. Haskell explains unusual circumstances connected with the conduct of the Academy. Among the pupils Is Berenice Bracebridge, daughter or the late owner of the school. The story of the tragedy of Lostland Academy Is that of two sisters and two brothers of Berenice, who lost their lives in the water, at the same moment, some years ago. The wax figures were modeled In the likenesses of the four children, and Doctor will provided that they Bracebridge must be preserved. Payne learns from Berenice that the uncouth giant whom Janet had seen with Haskell is named Balder, and Is a valuable servant. From an old farmer, Jerry Moore, the only witness of the drowning of the children, Payne learns particulars of the tragedy. He begins to take an Increasing Interest In Berenice, as Fleming does in Janet. CHAPTER IV Continued 14 Not tonight Dont forget to put out the lumps when you go to bed. Tli see to it," Janet said. You wont come tn, sir?" Payne asked. He had noticed Haskells reluctance on other occasions to linger In that library. No, I have work to do in my room. 1 Berenice looked after him with a I speculative, half maternal air. hope when Im off his hands hell enjoy life a little. Must everything go on like this until you are twenty-one?- " Or until I marry if 1 marry before Then the guardianI am twenty-one- . ship trusteeship passes to my husthen to band until I am twenty-on- e me absolutely. Mrs. Denver laid down her knitting. My child, why dont you marry? A nervous silence followed this remark. Payne put his hand over his eyes as If to shade them from the light, and Arthur and Janet looked like people at a play Just after the curtain has gone up. Mrs. Denver resumed her knitting. Berenice stirred the fire and great tongues of flame sought the black case of the chimney. Then, feeling strangely Juvenile together and as tf skirting the dark wood of fate, they drew around the fire telling stories. Then Payne said, Someone must be delegated to get fudge. Ill go, said Berenice, rising. Ill go with you." No, please." Payne waited ; gave her a little start, then followed her. At the foot of the staircase she turned, not toward the kitchen, but toward the room where the figures were kept Berenice, his voice had a stern yet tender quality. She started violently. looked back. Oh, why did you come? Because-- ' I thought you might do this. You watched the door too much. I supI was getting afraid again pose the anniversary and Mother Mar-tha- s tolling the bell depressed me I wanted to see their dear faces be kept from thinking they could ever harm me. Its a foolish fancy but it came, and I thought I would look In there first before I got the fudge. He walked with her down the pasWill you take one of the sage. lamps from the brackets?" He lifted It down. ' She turned the handle. Why, its locked, and theres a new lock ! Oh, he must give me the key; he must! Dont you think Its just as well to have this room locked? The figures are safe from prying eyes and meddling hands and I am sure your guardian will give you a key." "He may not. He Is very firm at times. Maybe he thinks its better for your health and spirits not to go there too much. Perhups he Is right and after all now you will think me foolish again, there was something else beside fear. I suppose Ive been like a little girl with her dolls who doesnt want them to be lonely or unhappy, even though she knows they are not alive. Later In the evening she showed him some old diaries kept by her father. Tve often thought they ought to be published ; lie put down so many comments on current events, as well as the academy news. Would you look over them for me some time and tell me what you think could be done with them? He promised her to look through them. The four had played cards, eaten fudge, chatted, with Mrs. Denver placidly knitting In the background. They thought her quite adorable In her faculty of being with them strie- without any of the middle-aged try: Mrs. Haskell Is a dear woman I would not be surmost lovable. prised if after our .marriage, Berenice did grow to love her as her own mother. The child is only four. The first mention of Gordon Haskell rather surprised Wilton: Well, he arrived at five to take up his new duties; and I must confess The Heroine By LARRY ALLAN , by McClure Newspaper Syndicate WNU Service. hamlet of Hartwell INTO the little day came walking and riding, s of the human living countryside, all Intent on getting as close to the shrouded monument as the crowd of earlier arrivals In the public square would permit All Hartwell, all Hart county, all that section of Georgia, were there on that day to take part In the celebration Incident to the unveiling of a beautiful monument to Nancy Hart, Georgias Joan of Arc, the brave American woman who had killed her share of Redcoats In the Revolution and had Inspired her men folks to go and do likewise. The little town of Hartwell and Hart county had been named after her; there was a Hart street; and row a monument erected to her everlasting memory with funds voted by congress was to be unveiled with all the pomp and ceremony befitting such an occasion. The governor made a long and speech extolling Nancy Hart and her brave deeds. The lady representing the Daughters of the American Revolution read the paper on Revolutionary Heroines she had so carefully prepared. Several patriotic songs were sung. Mrs. Juanita of Floyd, a Nancy Hart, sat among the guests of honor on the platform facing the shrouded monument, nervously awaiting the moment when she would jerk the rope to loosen the canvas covering and let the monument stand out In all Its beauty. The governors speech extolled Nancy Harts heroism In resounding words and grandiose phrases In a typical patriotic display of verbal pyrotechnics, but sitting next to me was Cracker who told a tobacco-chewinme In words of one syllable the story of Mistress Nancys heroic gesture. cross-section- d g MODERN MAKERS OF LIVE SLANG Ten Writers Get Credit for Enriching Language. Wilfred J. Funk knows words. He ought to, because he publishes dic- tionaries and writes poetry highly dissimilar occupations, but both dealing in words. So he may properly qualify as an expert on slang. One feels that he is a bit too exclusive, however, in crowning only ten Americans as the fathers of modern .slang, or the argot of contemporary Americana, If you must give your slang a highbrow label. This Is said in no disparagement of the magnificent audacity with which the ten he mentions have committed mayhem on Innocent English. The ten Sime Silverman, H. L. l. Mencken, T. A. Dorgan, Walter Bugs Baer, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Gelett Burgess, George Ade and Gene Buck are leaders, no doubt, In the creation of the new and startling jargon.' But their task is shared by thousands of others, mostly anonymous, who daily are coining new language and putting It into circulation. The chances are that the most popular and enduring examples of slang, should they be traced to their birth by a careful scholar, could not be given a definite paternity. Like Topsy, they just grew. Not a few of them grew on the sport pages of American newspapers. Witness the verb to Merkle, or to pull a Merkle, which arose from an unfortunate but spectacular incident In a certain world series of 20 years Win-chel- ago. And long before the modern Amer ican sport page bloomed to Its present flower of lingual license, slang was being built In the same manner. Artemus Ward, Orpheus C. Kerr and Petroleum V. Nasby were doing It half a century or more ago. And before them were other generations 6f atslang founders. Some of them In their fame of day. bit a . tained Most of them are forgotten'. Long ago the wise began to recognize that slang Is good English In the making.' They poo poohed the strictures of the purists and Is now in Much the dictionaries, frequently without the patronizing label of colloquial. Happily all slang does not make the grade of good, or accepted English. Frequently it is not apt and falls of its own weight Good slang (and we maintain that the definition is valid) should be direct, illuminating, a detour to greater clarity along the sometimes tedious highways of language. As such it merits a permanent place in the language and if it Is good enough it will attain it Cleveland Plain Dealer. 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Eastern Daylight Saving Tima THE Salt Lake Citys 'Newest Hotel MEWIHI0USE DfiCfeTElL Nancy was born In North Carolina some twenty years or more before the outbreak of the Revolution, and eventually married a husky young mountaineer named Benjamin Hart. Some time before the Boston Tea Party they felt that that section of North Carolina was getting and migrated to the wilder mountain regions of Georgia. When the Colonies rose in revolt Georgia called on her sons. Among the first to respond was Benjamin Hart. One rainy, muddy day when the small handful of patriots left behind to protect homes and families were out on a scouting expedition, and Nancy and her small daughter were industriously preparing the days food for the men, five Redcoats suddenly rode up and surrounded the home. A quick search by them revealed that there were no male rebels on the premises, but instead of going on their way the Redcoats, smelling the fragrance of Nancys cooking, demanded Oh! He Must Give Me the Key; that she serve them. Now Nancy was He Must!" just a poor lone woman in the wilderI am disappointed In him, though ness, but all of those pioneer women whether this first feeling will wear off, were spunky. She hated Redcoats and a heartier one take its place, reand, being an extremely finicky housemains to be seen. keeper, she was as mad as a hornet at the Redcoats for tracking up her Two weeks later: "Jethro announced to me that he kitchen with their muddy boots. And so Nancy laid the table and disliked Gordon Haskell, and did not busied herself about the fireplace Intend to be his student. I remonstrated with him, but the lad, with all without a word of protest It was while she was going to the bln for his fine qualities. Is at times hotmore cornmeal the thought suddenly headed and obstinate. Althea, Norman and Isabel show this aversion to came to her that the patriots might return while the Redcoats were there. Gordon ; apparently only little BerNot realizing their danger, they were enice likes the poor fellow. She allikely to walk right into trouble. quite on his knee him lowed to take her With that thought uppermost In her yesterday and hear her say her letmind she gazed around seeking some ters. Poor baby! Education at presmethod of escape, and It was then ent Interests her but slightly. that she noticed that the Redcoats, Six months later: their vigilance lessened, had stacked I Intend to appoint' Gordon their guns in a corner of the cabin. with Mrs. Bracebridge, In Without exciting their suspicion case of my death, over the five chilwalked toward a table near dren. I shall, of course, provide for Nancycorner of the room and reached that him, too; though not in the measure down as If for the Jug of molasses I do for the others. I am sorry the she kept there. Suddenly she whirled, him to for it leads hate so, youngsters seized the nearest rifle and fired a series of minor outbreaks between point-blan- k at the unfortunate Redthem. Privately I think Gordon a coat who had gotten up from the rather savage teacher; some men are bed. The four just others Jumped to their like that too impatient of a pupils feet, but even as they did so Nancy I have asked him to be limitations! had seized a second gun and stood more gentle and more nonchalant with aiming it at them, his scholars. Children as a rule reI killed one!" she cried fiercely, spect and like people who are rather and if you make a move Ill kill casual toward them. The intense adult ' you! is their abhorrence. Perhaps they ' Then she sent little Nancy scurry, know better than we do that a rage out to give the alarm. It so hapfor reshaping life is not according to fng pened that the little group of scouts the sweet reasonableness, of the di- had heard the gunshot and had I vine policy. Gordon Is ambitious turned toward the cabin. doubt greatly if he cares to bury himThe four King Georges men, each self long at Lostland academy; so the fearful that he would be sent to his children and their arch-fo- e may be sepdeath If he made a move, stood there arated naturally. helpless until Benjamin and the ConIn the last year, Gordon Haskells tinentals arrived on the scene. name appeared very seldom. Doctor And theres the story Just as It Bracebridge evidently had other things really happened, the old Cracker exto worry him an epidemic of measles plained. i c in the school, and a series of thefts, Just then the lady pulled the cord, particularly one large sum from the the canvas parted, and amid the aplocked drawer of a desk In the library. plause of the gathered Georgians the In another place was written : monument to Nancy Hart was reI am afraid It Is Balder; a sullen, vealed. I was disappointed. It was an disagreeable fellow, but as he does obelisk, and not a statue of the twice the work, when he chooses, of Redcoat-killin- g Nancy. . an ordinary man. It doesnt seem right Why didnt they have a statue of to dismiss him merely from prejudice Nancy so we could see what the great or the suspicion of something we cant heroine looked like? I asked. prove. Ive given up trying to reconWell, you see," my local historian cile my Incomparable four and Gor- explained, It was on account of don. That, too. Is a temperamental Nancy herself. The citizens thought matter, and with such chemistry, one it might look kinda funny. Did yuh does well not to meddle." ever see this movie fellah, Ben TurPoor man. It would have been bet- pin? Well, Nancy Hart was Just as Thats why she was able ter If you had meddled," Wilton re- cross-eyed- ! to bluff them Redcoats, each one flected. Those boys and girls probthought she was aiming straight at ably diagnosed Haskells character bethim! ter than you did ! 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