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Show PACE SEVEN flKe, - Geo! ' ,- nit th By a tain. helPfw "wni 0 which' learbj f Kepi earth1 thg tart forced la 1 the a i belm ai W.N.U. SERVICE . ryotAMlCoUc. the at,the The era inter of I -- sorthel nward tt eke of ard with eUt thei see from way ear t- ,red ltr jr Scenes and Persons in the Current News "We wont be. And you may need me where you're going, like you did back there." Oh, I will Conditions are ful In nearly aU piti- these lonely places. No water no food no wool Everybody too Ul to get them." And what have yotTfieen doing about h asked curiously. Getting them myself, wherever I could," she answered, but it's beyond me now. Thereto so much to do. So many alck. I've burled three people myself." She looked at him with haggard dark eye In her worn young face, and the man looked Quickly away. "Whata the government agency doing?" he asked "What about tbe schools? Havent they got doctors?" "Of course. But theyve got their hands full In their own vicinity. Were so far away here on the very edge of the Reservation, you know. But I wont give up a single one of them without a fight and the beat one I can pot op." When they passed the spot at the canyons Up where they had met In the dusk, Starr Stone reached over and laid hla hand on hera upon the 1 Congressman E. W, Marland. who Is the Democratic nominee for governor of Oklahoma. 2 rollco pommel attacking rioting longshoremen with gas bombs In tbe strike fighting In San Francisco. 8 Henry P. Fletcher, Soula covenant," he said; It chairman of the Republican national committee, speaking at the celebration of the party eightieth birthday waa that we made here. From everin Jackson, Mich. lasting to everlasting. No matter what comes, WeD remember the feel of the little winds, the look of the starUt sky; It will go with me to the end,' wrapped In the center of my heart Sonya." Soula covenant," laid the girl tragtcally, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen." And they rode forward Into the dark mouth of the shadowed aisle, the. good woman and the bad man, to that selfless service of humanity which la the Immortal flame In the mortal dross. ltr College Girls Hold a Sweeping Tournament . b W HeJt; est half tto norej rtth i There no one hereabout but Navajoa, and they're few and far I think we won t part," he said. be seen." And what If we arer the girl asked wearily. Why should it mat-ter- r Sonya stepped on the starter and bounced ahead. Sa He was In the country again. fticipft flfihO -. drunken den2 He wopld be here, somewhere, fcrtrlB allows har sometime, Maybe tomorrow. Maybe m hr rspsntant next day. The winds that blew aoft-l- y fZl ti a up from the south fanned her face iM Ksrajo Indians. Vuons sheep ranch with a the little perfumed his wlfs, moon waa fair as breath; Srf and a maiden's brow; t0 Rodnsy Yorker, hut her there were mystery and ecstasy In Nava- -. every shadow of tbs sage. 4 m friendlees mats s wedding, of wlfs goon, 'ytth CHAPTER VII la !i)UnJo, through ths Life mistake Its sins and pen,B,ui Two Fingers util Sonya again 8oul's Covenant. alties," ha answered lowly; Its 0Wli had insultsd he bitterly re- - JJCT the morrow camo and brought grasping at straws, Its compensSonya la alfectsd, flying trips to this hogan and ation. May I come If I'm careful T Stic hears rumors of and that, Comer cried Sonya. Any time, nothing happened but JjTSlCspltan Diablo" death and sorrow, and the sun went any placer .sweets him with hsr Hess, shs again down and rose again on Sonya and And, wheeling Darkness, she rode grange young man. her feverish work. away to hide the sobs that swiftly orer sorrow kls It end of another shook her. at the was, for indicates :l iht at a dance, ha week, when the tide of life In her She came In late at home. Serge & later, asms Is Starr seemed at low ebb with all the and Baba had Arlgtt long been asleep, but at he foes by a differ monstrous labor and the strain Lila waited In the dark patio, rockSh region. He departs of human suffering about, that she ing slowly In the teres Mexican, with fringed hammock. assool-- S came face to face with Starr Stone They exchanged low spoken words I syeterlouely with a feeling nf once again. She had Just ridden and went together Into the allent ,ai the Is falling la down the sounding aisle of Tall can- house. owtlaw. An Influent to come out on the dusky lev As Lila struck a light she looked g the Indiana keeps yon ela, when she saw him. Un d'Oro across Ita flame at Sonya. auj day a stood like a statue against the great Youve seen him," she said. waUs lip, a dim and shining shape Tea. At Tall canyon." VI Continued of gold, and the, man In hla saddle CHAPTER VIII That waa all and the two women held hla hat In hla hand and looked went their ways on soft feet. i tit time, these days, at her steadily. That meeting In the dusk at Tall Cloud of Portent k tried to think It was Sonya looked back, and such a canyona Up was the beginning of a N TUB hard days that followed, .grind Buffering she light broke on her tired face as strange and pregnant time. Two Sonya knew a fire of ecstacy ong her lowly peo- - should have bumbled any man. It days later Sonya, wringing hot among the dark shadows of disas,ixt better. The deep-i- l humbled this one to the very dust, ter. Wherever suffering and death the deepest fear. beholding. entered the lowly hogans, there the m inder all the rest. Starr Stone F she cried aoftly In steady handa of Starr Stone were rid the memory of a 1 the silence. Oh, Starr Stone Ton bulwark and a help. They were k face shove her head, have come back I - ' ' j1 aa a womans with a hungry J gentle !n inn that . , ' , shook, and Td come back from hell's to the a parched child, cup holding V. payiny, Uombre, you edges, be said soberly, Miss Bavt I. lips, bathing hot dark faces with 'A 4 aria. I cant help myself." pro.1 a little rag, and once be brushed M passed since the I dont want .you to," she said a dead and braided tbe black hair of " uncos pMdllngers ranch, and swiftly. Never. You must come to mahala before they burled her.' The first annual broom (weeping contest, held at Virginia Bench. VaT for college girt vacationists, Ix broom d as breath of news me always." and wa winner th second got from New of left, Pierce Mis York, talent. new And that day Sonya wept against much red Virginia Stone and the sinister She had stopped a few feet from hla shoulder for sheer misery at the I he bad followed from behim, and the man reined close tragic fate which had made of thla ht Servant of the Lord, side her, laying a hand on hers, man an outcast and a pariah. d come to draw toward looking into her face at If he could So the hectic day passed, w 1th could toll her things, not look deep enough. count of them and these two little it vanished from the Of course you know," be said together at their humble working simply, that I love you." Once the girl told him, tasks. Of course," she said. 'orgotten Rod entirely, Youre no lost soul as youd have i forgotten "That Im dust under your feet the menace me think. You're of that brotherto let no people no nothing. Less than that But I want hood of which Christ spoke when i take her from him, you to know too that I love you as he said, If ye do It unto the lea rorld. llad she stopped a better man could never love you. of my brethren, ye do It unto these, die would have writ-ifalldont love you no. I worship of the world." And me. Servers as a shield you, could kiss th print of your lithe had made no answer. his presence. But tle foot In th sand. Youre a white They kissed each othei now at wnember, and In New angel on th atatrs of heaven, and softly, as If the thing the parting, hell In and Blake Pm th' devil a pit waa pi sending them was so precious held between tot very day. in those separating miles, for Serge, that a carelesa touch might destroy to 'little town for sup-thme..' I come back to look at you It utterly. To the man there was next after- - because I cant atay away and tragedy and flark sorrow ln every fofrelt mrlife every TtmeTTwant Come touch of Sonya's Ups, her hands, tbe You Have Stone! Starr Oh, a as sort know that, proof, read. Write you to tender brushing of her cheeka Back!" plane out by Friday. of." against him. He waa blessed be1" cried the cloths from a steaming water-baskdont need proof i all dreams, humbled beyond yond drove In late that girl wildly, and 1 know that tool on a hngan's sandy floor, looked all Imagining. lent her answer. Have known it ever since the night up as a shadow darkened the doorAnd be knew how fleeting thla Sht epidemic, she wired, of the dance when you followed way to the east Starr Stone stood must be, how soon life and " paradise a Sonya. when you followed there leaning hla graceful length Ita mandates must take blm away V left the Tea when I followed and left against the llnteL straggly small It waa thla from her forever. .nation under the thin you standing there In the open Boor Is there anything needing to be knowledge which made the ennoon she came upon Uke the yellow dog I waa and done that a husky man can do? he chanted days so short, so unreal Jack Medlca, giant member of Water to bring, Jjde plodding in the am 1" asked soberly. And by the end of that week the Three burros, their team, of SeNo! Because you had to I Be- - wood to get?" her the Washington A. lessened. strain Everywhere new worldto ? tW sbuming In the cause If you double-cros- s the Is the said Wash., quickly. girl attle, their from Plenty," people were gettlDg np tore two mile swimmer, haring neHush I Im here now. Lets talk Both of those. Every one In this packs and a hogan floors, thin brown shapes champljn rto a thin old man In for a Uttle while as If we were two distance In 20:57.8 In two the the la down gotiated except In dark their faces, family with big eyes hoae A. U. outdoor mento A. national silvery hair shone ordinary people, with nothing bethe children." and no more were lying down. The Nil beauty. A meet at tween na to prevent Tou 're work-in- ., Century of rrogres Without a word the man turned epidemic was dylngout. Those title - - Despite the NBA code of th cork manufacturers, A. Fiddle, head Winding, Sonya drew yourself. to death,", he said, and disappeared," and presently he that were left began to be busy Id Chicago. of the Del Monte hotel at Del 'Monte, CatlL, being horticulturist searching her face with anxious waa back with two basket of wa making new hogans before tbe sumon making bis own corks. He Is shown here fashioning insists Scotsman, atng, gir-l- tk eyes, Inside the door mer should be gone, for they would set own bottle from the last surviving tree brought to Calithem HEAD ter. He NEW his a cork for ROTARYS you? Its nothing. My part In Ufa. A and went away again, returning not Uve In any house where death fornia from Spain In tbe early years by the Jesuit fathers. & good one, a great one." daughter," he with great quantities of the had been. They feared tbe tchlndls, later Maybe. But youre a woman, bleached and straggly dead wood of or ghosts of the dead, and malevoyou? och sickness and so sweet so beautiful Im afraid tbe But they looked at among juniper scrub which clothed the lent spirits. .to said gravely, and for you." here. He replenished the Sonya and Starr Stone with long, uplands "Dont be. I wont die. Nothing outside Are where Sonya had been looks, unfathomable looks, and kill me now." could "le you pray a beating her stones .fur the water; sometimes a woman touched the Why now?" baskets, set the latter In to heat girls hand tentatively, or a man "Because," said the girl gravely, Snnja hesitantly, again, poured fresh water Into the aid some clipped, guttural word Ive got a fight ahead. A light to basket have to to carry at her elbow. which the latter could not underto to eat about?" be stand and Sonya Interpreted. strength, yon know." take yon from whatever bolds you, Anything 5t And strength and Ill do It Weve just begun asked practically. Hoeteen Little Man aaya we are flan, never fear. Take you and L Starr Stone." little. There was mutton the Healing Winds," Or, Our medVery Uat 111 i Her face was like a flower of the two One. daya back, but the man' down icine la better medicine than Yellow I saw him filled by a Ut- dusk, beautiful and dim, but the woman, too, and tbe last Bucks." and N be fire gras;ed my arm with a stern courage, a white bad on me. 1 carry cereals, went And now Life made ready to take - . tV'- 2! The old, you know, of the spirits Ilia hand on hers but Pm nearly out of those." Its reckoning. She had lived In ' "oft In the flesh, closed tightly. Slowly he leaned toOx ,r 0. IL," be said briefly. Ill these rushing weeks, lived very 17v And he asked ward her and Sonya leaned to meet of dark the known that" full very fast, doctor worn-- I, him, his eyes, his breast his Ups. In K; of her mlnlstra and on about th went of light pity, sorrow, Sonya him God for strength, the darkening night ahe kissed and In tbe course of an hour great joy, the pleasure of good he said, If I was and knew she had never kissed a tlona, the dressed car- work well done. She bad bloomed Just 80- - They aU man before. What she had given he was back with sheep, In the glow of such love as she had a slanghtered of freshly cass comof God, daughter. Rod Blake waa pale friendship small never dreamed of, what time ahe he comment put Without pared to the tide of life which encook. to could spare to It, and felt as though Robert L. 11111 of Columbia, Mo., pieces painfully. Her gulfed her now. said he she were richer, more vital In all who waa elected presldent of the do will nicely," Thta Then she drew back, pushed the with the ex-I- n nature. Now, International at Detroit when Sonya came out of the hogan. the reaches of her her. hair from her forehead. of the sickness, Rotary cessation tallthe In h with meat the the life I've hung said slowly, "what ahe laid, tell Strange, find back of the she turned her eye toward the fuwas he? Grain Centarle Old doef to ns against our will In spite est scrub, I could In a couple of ture and wbat It held. it corral Wrapped Stores of grain one thousand old of all weve ever known, ever an told Starr Stone, Now," ah sacka. Its In good shade and should ever planned." year old were unearthed duringri yeUow aa us." of think to next? What Great music, greatly played, la offered to-- ' visitors to th Chicago all out we'll cool ancient begin ever right the excavations ol Jhe God, yea!" he echoed, head. hla this shook But on the Swift Bridge of Service, shown above. In the huge Stone Bald. the But Starr -clty of 'Suvara, The aite of Worlds fair TPely, known, ever"planned I" back I ahe la Nothing," must of think famous Chicago Symphony orchestra, nnder the leadership you. heli baud. tbe between said, Lr'he flourished priceless." th town, which "But we sn vflght ! night some g.n cried. was over over Is Sonya hour Eric DeLamarter, two gives concert etch afternoon and evening. The of later, Dr, And when, My reprieve Tenth and Thirteenth centuries, We dont need to sink uni00 nlght, to the nditorium hack b open-atret- o levels, hot HI crowded tat every performance prove the people; the of across age out the rode ago. 1 village tlng days by now occupied OB." der Its blows flrst-cla- s hi on music. her beside I rode belong." Stone where appreciate To a certain point," he said. "Be- Starr V 5Qd th burro panllkova. In the Tartar republic. ' OOKTUWBD CTO B golden horse yond that no." worsts ft 4 n VINGIE E ROE T. Start lurvi the aou. 'f H AME OF THE h SHjuenc end -v f.. h; "Tea! As long as thereto life! I knsw what the human soul is made oflta strength, Ita courage. Uen-a- nd women too have done great things, against all odds, because of It Strong men, strong women. Everyone falls. Only weakling stay down. Anyone can get up tf be wants to hard enough. If be has a reason. I'm your reason." The man groaned audibly, an word of despair. If I had the world," he said thickly, Id give It all to be worthy to make youthat." He atralghtened Inhls saddle, gathered hla relna, Come," he said, I mustnt keep you. Do you mind If I ride with yon bitT Its dark enongh no one will ee yon riding with a man whose head carries a price." Once again the cold fear shot through Sonya ai she turned and rode out across the desert at hla side. At a lift In the dark aage levels Starr Stone stopped and held out his hand. I have he said simply, for a certain length of time. Ill be In this country for Its duration. Do yon mind If I keep coming back while It lasts?" p Oh," the girl said with a sudden catch tn her voice, you break my heart I What la all this? What , 3 ed or ui Tine a "Cut nn yln p the the notoi echoooer tore Intof eked the' canary j oTernee Times :n Insists on Making His Own Corks champion miler I be-to- d e jf Sk o coontrti bt Id lit lea. The 100. Hal Braill low Fui In Cora Blrlera scoop t; anJ, e net -- Fine Music, for Worlds Fair Visitors more helping oiling It i st d ias Ai" .nn Mji he a d a;. - t tfa-halre- ' d q; VP 1 C! de-Ire- Bul-garta- o- daugh-,W,teUI- r ti-- - |