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Show iiS 12.1337- l- -rch - IE1 fit-s- VWDDJFPEN tree-trun- Harlan Hatcher. ration ( Wriest fjht 'w . our hes ( conn,. .4 result. a ' Lhera. bewnj - file njfH StMK CHAPTER m oeni 13 iW I bare parts oi the place I like ebo said. Cranesuest aud Fumade ne tbe bouse. y hollows lcre by lie tiier theyre best k!,(ov wood begins to bud n the spa. e or the white dogwood blooms, toucb-"nJVf'itetuhcr when the wild are ai.-- t high with yetlow-- I red spotted hags and two red bumble-bee- s h on each one, and andshoul-i- n a din? down Into them the jellow dust." That sounds the best," Reuben Some er been to, . ti h Ni,' It's right pretty when the creek fzn over and the bushes are ,ed with lee and the snow bangs I guess It Is alihe pine trees. ts t good place to be." 1 oil'll be getting tbe survey done er atfj n gues?" 1 now. It won't be so yery r, I'm afraid thet in in last J of te much longer what will yon do?" Ill see If It closes on the map, thea II take It back borne and father will or maybe I will and fix Up ke the Tabulations Thea 1 seemed different from the other one and In communion with all the rest of her being. 'Julia was now at the gate of her garden. She stood looking at Cynthia and Reuben. Ved better go back now," Cyn-thl- a said. The cows, heavy with the long day, were coming slowly In file around the hill toward ihe barn. Everything was stirring gain Into life for feedlng-tlme- . "I like to come down this valley this time of day," Reuben finally said as they neared the yard. It seems like everything Is doing Just what It was Intended to do." "If you look close you can see Saul climbing back to Cranesnest Shelf," Cynthia said. I see him," Reuben answered. Ahral was already In the yard. He smiled boyishly, and when Cynthia had gone into the house, he said to Reuben, Oh, youve been surveying." ' Reuben smiled at AbraL He liked bis spirit and bis energy. "Yes, AbraL Theres a lot to be surveyed on this place." papers. you dont have to come back after you've finished run- - more nr g I might have to the piece cut off Shellenberger." There was a pause. 1 fien he added, When jou jo to Itkevllle?" In September. Jesses going too. That depends. ie back about hasn't told Daddy be yet Hes read law with Tandy Morgan." I tlmik Dint will be fine." ire you going to follow survey- - les. Tl ere's lots of work to do this country. And the towns are ri, mImi tm my and the counties thinking . I want to be tbecoun-surveor some duy." Oh, that would be a fine Job for an. As good as the law." I k nd of bate to see a place this go over to a man like r to rut Into. Tbe Big dy slopes where the timber I off are things." Its Just the part down the creek I you w ont see It from here. But netlmes at night I can hear the cs t liking about whats going to pen to them and It goes from to another all over the hills and s away in a sigh on our creek. II I reckon people need timber." wing, a not eat road-- mm nadhe brwitH Nihni iLchwi M 6M 9 Dm Shel-erge- awful-lookin- a that bed.,' and a reckon." sat In silence, listening to life all about them. Isnt all this cooking and board-lmany too hard on just you They olds o m t your It came aosud-iland without preparation that was slartled. Why, no, lteuben. A body Just a && tvt think much about it. Tour mother looks a little worn Dont you think so?" I guess I Just hadnt thought of nr CHAPTER XI an afternoon NEAR the endlaterof Into days July Reu- ben Warren drove tbe iron spike of the Jacob's staff Into the ground below tbe mll and brought to a close the uncertain Hoe around tbe Pattern lands. Day after day from dawn to dusk they had pushed It through the way through the timber, climbing over the ridges that layNIfeless In the noonday beat, and dWn Into cool damp hollows where tlte birth gathered In the afternoons. xThen they had. marked off the portion for Shellenberger, cutting across the place from the jutting point hq the Big Sandy watershed overlook- lng the river where the long ridges tolled Into form opt of blue and Inrich earth at distinct space, to-t- he the foot of the Pinnacle on Gannon creek In view of Cranesnest Tomorrow Reuben would be leaving this place where be had lived through the days of spring and early summer. He would ride In silence behind Sparrel to PIkevllle and thea by boat down the Big Sandy, sitting on the prow to watch tbe Pattern lands be bad surveyed come Into view and recede and pass Into tbe bands of. Shellenberger, It was the first tlmeJie bad ever been sorry to completea Job In tbe hills and return borne. He bad had enough experience in the changing world to foresee that the loveliness of Wolfpen eould not survive the wave of development which would some day sweep over It. He was sorry. He stood by the kitchen window, smelling the scent of poplars and pine trees on the light breeze from the hollow. Cynthia found him there for a minute alona The s and tbe deeds were tied In a bundle on tbe table by tbe compass, ready for the Journey. In the corner were tbe pins, the chain and the staff. He "I guess It's all finished. smiled. It will be different tomorrow when yon are gone," she said. "It's been a good place to be In, and It will be a good place to come back to," he said. "But I suppose youTt soon be busy over at tbe Ind had surprised her again by klad of observation which men-:- k dl(1 not make. She turned and ked full at him., '' Tcure different, Reuben." Q smiled at her, a singularly fe and engaging smile. Different how and from what?" "I don't know how to say It. But u are." "ell, so then are you." He felt the thrill of these ad nces which came unwilled Into d then as curiously retreated Is Doug Mason what you call stitute." lerenu" he asked. "I reckon so. Will you have any Why him?" more to do here at our place I "Oh. 1 have seen him look at you "It doesn't look like It now. him "Then nre yon wont be coming when patched yon backT" she said. Dy0U He note-book- III ACT ;itf ient, an. a 'V- Aryouold lends?" and runs the c sn,-his Daddy died. Hes he'8 Just a good neighbor his mothers not welL" Jiey had been led far deeper 8urfce of their talk since " moment by the ug table. Cynthia began to t,iat they had both dressed one! ord nd set him before 'mol of their new re dp. Nothing else seemed to Rood boy kji lies' 1(1 .i pjik irl ( tiXe s't draf r i i d ' thl entrnced moment wealing new experience wllb indT h,lman being. Her open along the dellcate green 0 ertn f the etone dividing ,n. ritbeVr pol",aw,tb ber fingers, his long brown and -. jarred hand gently upon It nd U" am0D OS. frond I"! .k lv . .nJI? r 1 Ih7 , dreamed of finding whe I started up ,npar,f didnt come, ,0 !" lob that to look after himself." 'uchr rvBn,.ha,,e n,,nde, 0181 ,0 . Vnth,a be akod. answered. fmpd to h nothing more 0 k pt t e hills longer than all her peopler She would listen tensely to the saw makt Us ing noisy attack and then settling into a steady rancous scream as It sliced off a piece from Its side. A shiver would pass through her spine. The became a living thing suffering mutilation, and she wondered whether the screaming came from the exaltation of tbe furious saw teeth, or from the hurt tree In Its cry of pain. The mountain men were coming to Wolfpen and Dry Creek with xe 0D thGlr houllr looking for . kxhey-caiaa-fratbe cabins. in the squeezed hollows where farming was already growing precarious, hearing the ruifior that there was cash to be had for chopping timber on Sparrel Pattern's place. They cleared away the flat at the mouth of Dry Creek and erected shacks for the men and sheds for the mules and a blacksmith shop. Then their axes and saws gnawed at the boles of tbe trees through the hollow and up the hillsides, spreading relentlessly like a grim disease. A few sharp slaps of an ax, the thin swish-swasof a saw, then a shout from the men, a slow groan rising to an explosion in the final crash and dying away to a whisper in the limbs waving through the air to the ground. Over and over through the weeks; the attack, the cry of surrender, the crash and sigh of the fall, spreading up the hollow. The heavily timbered spot where Barton had caught 'possums, which always lay so silent and black Id the mornings under the Pinnacle, became a thick group of men In a settlement to themselves. And yet not to themselves, for these aliens seemed to press In upon Wolfpen Itself and to swarm in a multitude beyond their appointed place even though they kept to their hollow, and the sound of their axes could not be heard over the back of the ridge between. Cynthia could see them sometimes pilfering about everywhere, and every rustle of the leaves In the trees by tbe bouse became a cry of panic spread through all the timber; Then there was always d . nd T'?'. It lie In ber lapi. It "Ill be coming back," he answered. "It may be September and It may be spring and It may not be to survey. But IU be coming back." The spirit of the place changed abruptly after Reuben went away. Released from the survey, Jasper. Jesse and Abral were deep In the neglected corn and the Wolf-pecrops heretofore unknown on Cynthia found tha day very when It long and the work Irksome was done for Shellenberger and Mnllens. Shellenberger filled up the valley with hls presence sod bis lumber lng operations. Tbe old'grlstmlll was converted Into a aawmllL One well change In a generation wsa established by precedent, but two. and not only In a generation but In a tingle year, threatened the stability of a man customs. Sparrel was too engrossed In tbe mechanical details of rigging np the saw and ripping out boards for the camp to be sensitive to It But to Cynthia tt was all new and disturbing. Sometimes she watched the smoke on boll np through the laurel bushes whirl-nthe rinnarle and the bright aaw bite Into the bndv nt a ID enh These yellow log which had g h do as they were told; more often they would do ss they liked aud meet the sour looks of Mullens with a passive and child like silence. They were difficult and individual as children, and Mullens did not know what to do abput J So he swore at them and murked on each tree the exact spot where he wanted It cut If he then stood by and watched, they would cut low; but when be turned sway they would straighten their backs and cut high. They were not happy at the camp. "'hen they got homesick or took a tt faA-- Cynthia carefully recorded on a piece of paper. There was Sparrel losing imperceptibly bis first pleasthe survey of ure In tbe steam-mil-l, bis lands and the new saw. Abral was now working for Shellenberger, Jasper was silent, Jesse was more than ever absorbed in bis own plans, Julia was tired, Reuben was far off down tbe river in another world; It was no nse making believe that the corn and sweet potatoes were the same as In other years, or that JuUas hollyhocks stood np In the same proud grandeur, or that the lumbering was Isolated over tho ridge. Dry Creek pressed ruthlessly In. It grew more emphatic with the difficulties at the camp. They had come on gradually, Inteaslfylng a little from day to day before they came to a crisis. They were reflected In Sparrel's taciturnity and tbe troubled mood which followed him Into the house, for there had never before been any 111 feeling between men on Gannon creek. Tbe mountain men could not adapt themselves to the discipline of super vised lumbering operation. It was partly Sbellenbergers air of detached authority which they found barely tolerable. Not that be kept his own counsel and ate only at Sparrel's, but that ho went among them as though they were trees or mules, and acted so superior by virtue of his ownership of Sparrel Patterns timber and not one man to by right of character, not bee. i It wsiamong the Big Sandy men. It was more especially Mullens. He had his own superiorities as boss of the work. He said little to tbe men beyond t few terse orders. Moreover he had his own methods for felling trees, determining log lengths, constructing the dam, for every single detail of the logging. He Insisted on telling these men whd had lived their lives In the hills and swung axes since they were a tree, how striplings, how to fell shr.nld far above the ground they It be- rut. and where to stnnd when .wuuld tney jan to hvra,-Someti- mes VER at the Paramount Astudio,you are, jusl wallflower if you dont know your American history. Director?, players, authors and any visitors who happen to be around swap stories about coming iu. pioneer days, and anyone Ahral said that the men were beto It think ginning ought to he pay- brash enough to mention curday some time, but that neither rent events, like who won the had second race at Santa Shellenberger nor Mullens Anita, said an) thing about It yet or what last happened night And since they were not accustomed to hiring out-f- ur a wage, they did whether they should ask" about the time.of their pay or just wait until the Job was finished up. Sparrel seemed to take It as being all right, so It mu-,- t he, but a little ready money would come In bandy. This geuerul unrest culminated In the latter part of August. The occasion was the accident and first casualty on the Job. They were chopping the greatest poplars In Dry Creek. Grover Sims was standing near by watching them bring down one of tbe finest of them alL Mullens happened to be there at the moment the tree began to lean. He shouted sharply to Sims to jump np the hill out of the wny. The boy was startled by the shouting of Mullens and the loud cracking of the giant bole breaking away from ot-kpow g .1 Here" By VIRGINIA VALE notlon to leave the camp for a few dais, they quietly shouldered their axes and went. They returned w hen they got ready 'and they did not expect any unfavorable notke to be taken of their going out or their The-moan- Up ! Movie Radio forhom,.. the stump and crashing through the smaller trees. In nervous confusion he sprang full Into tiie path of the falling mass. It caught him squarely, knocking him down as though he were a reed, pinning him under tbe heavy trunk, and crush-lnH ad he staved In his lungs. where he was before Mullens shout uce from Dry Creek, for he still ed, he trttuld have been safe. s ate at the house and slept between had ceased by the time Sparbis two sheets and made no men- rel got to bim. It went qulcky tion of the money for his keep wblcb through Dry Creek that It was Mullens fault, and If he had kept his mouth off of the boy It wouldn't hare And happened. wy, an)wayt should they be down here In a lumber camp at the risk of their lives, working for a fore'gner like Mullens when they might just ns well be at borne and their own bosses, as they had always been? They quit. They were quiet about It. Some of them told Mullins they fJ allowed they'd better be getting back home now. what with Hie corn about ready to cut and tilings about the place to be attended to, and they'd Just have their time. Mullens said be couldn't pay them until Shellenberger got the money. And they said that they reckoned If It wasn't handy theyd Just wait iround for It, and It belter not be tolKlong. So while they were bury ing Grover Sims on Du; Briiliy, Shellenhe?Er took one of Sparrel s mules for twodqys and when he came back there wasjiioney to pay "I Never Even Dreamed of Finding Anyone Like You When I Started STA R DUST ' at a cafe, is quickly squelched. To r the great success of "The Plainsman" goes the credit-- or the blame for all this pride in the past The company is so enthusiastic over that picture, and the forthcoming "Maid of Salem" that they are delving Into history for their next big production, "I, James Lewis, the story of the early days of the Wells-Farg- o express. Actors are apt to be a pretty and pessimistic lot when know them you well They are always worrying because the career of an actor Is apt to be short, always pointing out men In the extra ranks who only a few years ago were stars. Now they, have suddenly discovered their worries were imaginary. Jack gloomy that Holt, after twenty-taur-.yea- ri In. . pic-- tures. Just signed a new contract With Columbia to make six Westerns a year. He Is as popular as ever, maybe more sa For weeks Clark Gable has been completely mystified by receiving high offers for the decrepit old Ford Carole Lombard sent bim as a valentine last year. Now the truth is out. A Mr. Brown of Richmond, Virginia, wants to buy It to exhibit at County Fairs. But Clark wont sell unless Carole gives him permission. Instead of raving about Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney In the gripping. tragic You Only Live Once," Hollywoodians come out of the theater making up silly couplets. That is what the company gets for dispensing with grammar In the title. One of Henry's best friends said, 'You Live Only Once may be better grammar, but You Only Live AnothOnce is elegant drammer. er one, playing with the same idea, You Live Only Once may said, be more grammatical, but You Only Live Once' is very dramatical. too, Creek. Cynthia felt the alteration In herself and noted It In the others and thought on It as she tried to finish tbe cloth that had been already too long In the loom. I never In my life got such a little bit at a time Rears like a done on a piece. bodys day Is so tied np with other folks doing I can't get any work done and out of the way. Part of It Is the way nobody doesnt seem natural Mother acts like she was tired all the time and she doesn't show off her flowers when Amy comes or offer her any Seeds and she doesnt say much. I don't see when she's going to dry apples and make Jelly and pnt thlnre away. (TO BE CONTINUED) Chestnut, Greek Tree The word chestnut comes from the first home of the tree a Greek city called Kastana. situated In that part of Greece known as the Pel The strange, beautiful ponnese. tree of Kastana was planted In other countries, and gradually Its The KAstana or name changed. rastana tree became In France the chain Igne, and In other countries U.xbestnuL . The Sewing song Maybe you heard Fred Astaire Introduce it over the air recently. That is team work for you. Myma Loy Isnt complaining, but she does think wistfully nowadays of W. S. Van Dyke, and the way he can direct a marvelous picture like "The Thin Man" or Us in eighteen or twenty days. She has been working in "Parnell for three months and the end isnt anywhere in sight John Stahl who directed "The Magnificent Obsesand many sion other thrilling pictures, Is very deliberate about his work, and In making "Parnell he Is just as apt to have Myrna and Clark Gable do scenes over and over as be is to repeatlhe scenes of minor players. these three lovelies together to pose for the camera this week. Theyre under the strict tutelage of Dame Fashion Just now, learn-in- g the latest lessons on how to be well turned out this Spring without benefit of a private mint You can understand, then, why the above, center, sort of jumped the gun, so to speak, and was already on her way when the A Frock That Clicks Speaking of things clicking, dont think that new princess gown shes wearing isnt doing it in a big way. Cant you see from where youre sitting that it is simple to sew besides being a of the first order? 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The woriwns at a stahdtiliT Susan Fleming thought that she So now what?" bh llenbHger had retired from the screen when said to Mullens. "Go down-rive- r and cot me some' .she married Harpo Marx, but she nlen who know how to he told what made the mistake of stopping in at ihe studio to have luncheon with her hitsb;iand, and first thing she The month of August was going knew the director called out, "That by on the rumor of thee troubles girl over there shes Just what I've at the camp. In other Augusts, tbe been looking for. So, she is playthought of disputes among men ing in A Day at the Races" with never came Into Wolrpeu or disher husband and hjs giddy brothers. turbed the head of C)uthla. Tbe talk bad always been of the growth Ginger Rogers is v not only tbe the lambs had made, of the rams most popular girl In Hollywood and ewes to be sold or slaughtered, these days; she is the most surof the thickness of the clover In prising. 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