Show THE SAUNA CALL SALINA UTAH iKE2(IAH COE JosepliC Lincoln Author of xtlcer’s Place Oy "WhittEri Etc Capfn lUuitrkiion lu Ellsworth Youn£ RAffltlow 1 Company 8YNOPSI3 “Halloa!” are you? I Mrs arranging to mova from ton following ths death of her brother for whom she had kept house Pepper widower offers marriage am Indignantly refused CHAPTER I—Continued There waa a sound of scrambling More soot floated In the air Then around tho corner of tho apon his peared Mr Popper crawling was hands and knees hair His streaked with black his shirt front and collar and shirt sleeves were spotted and smeared with black and from his blackened cheeks his red whiskers flamed like the last glowing embers In a ruin “I was Just tryln to belp Kezlah take down her stovepipe” he exsee she didn't have no “You plained man to — ” "YeB I see Well I Judge you got It down Now you go out to the sink and Heavens and wash your faoe earth! Lock at them clothes!" ”1 do hope you didn’t hurt yourself Ablshal" said the sympathetic Kezlah Then as remembrance of what had led to the upset came to her she added: "“Though I will say 'twas your own fault and nobody else's" Lavinla whirled on her "Dear Innocent! me! we Ain’t We’ve got plenty of money we have Widowers with property ain’t no at- traction to us Everybody knows that —oh yes! And they never talk of such a thing — ohno! Folks don’t say that— that— Well" with a snarl In the direction of the kitchen “are you anywheres nigh clean yet? Get your cent and hat on and come home with me” m She Jerked her brother Into the blue coat Jammed the tall hat down upon hlg head and seizing him by the arm stalked to the door “Good day marm” she said “I do hope the next widower you get to take down your stovepipe — yes indeed! ha! — I hope you’ll have better luck with him Though I don’t know who ’twould be there ain’t no more idiots in town that I know of Good day and thank you kindly for your attentions to rur family” Kezlah turned from the door she had closed behind her visitor “Well!" she ejaculated "Well! measured dignified Steps steps I"— here busy morning Aunt Kezlah she choked again — "really I didn’t know you were so popular” Kezlah opened the door Captain Elkanah Daniels prosperous pompous end unbending crossed the threshold Richest man ln the village retired shipowner pillar of the Regular church and leading member of Its parish committee Captain Elkanah looked the He removed bis hat cleared bis part throat behind his black stock and deliberation spoke with impressive "Kezlah" he said "Kezlah I came to see you on a somewhat Important I have a proposal I wish to matter make you” He must have been surprised at the effect of his words Kezlah’s face was a picture a crimson picture of paraAs for Miss Van lyzed amazement Horne that young lady gave vent to what her friend described afterwards as a "squeal’ and bolted out of the door and Into the grateful seclusion of the fog CHAPTER II outlying ridge of Cannon Hill passed Cuptaln Mayo's big bouse — the finest Trjumet with the exception of the Daniels mansion— and descended Into the hollow beyond Here at the cor ner where the “Lighthouse Lane" be gins Its winding way over the rolling knolls and dunes to the light and the fish shanties on the “ocean side” stood the plain meeting bouse of the Regular society rectly opposite was the little parsonage also very straight up and down Both were painted white with green blinds This statement Is superfluous to those who remember Cape architecture at this period practically every building from Sandwich to Province-town was white and green They entered the yard through the gap In the white fence and went around the bouse past the dripping evergreens and the bare wet lilac bushes to the side door the lock of which Kezlah’s key fitted There was a lock on the front door of course but no one thought of meddling with In she begun exclaimed "Back to think you’d been me to stay Cap’n Elkanah First Kyan and then and both of them expressing their wishes to see you alone so— er— pointedly I thought It was time for me to go Surely you give me credit for a little delicacy" “Grace Van Horne! there’s born fools enough in this town without your Grace I ain’t goln’ tryln’ to be one to leave Trumet not for the present I’ve got a way of earnin’ my anyhow livin’ right here I’m goln’ to keep house for the new minister" The girl turned her hat in her hand "Ohl” she cried In utter astonish- ment the handle and moved determinedly to- CAPABLE OF GREAT VARIETY ward the front hall Grace seized her the arm In“Don’t you do It auntie' she whis- Tomato Salad May Be Served In numerable Forme— Ways of Re-“Don’t you do It! pered frantically moving tho Skint It may be a tramp” “I don’t care Whoever or whatA tomato salad is capable of ns ever it 4s It has no business in this house and I’ll make that plain In a many variations as the fillings for stuffed tomatoes but In whatever hurry Just like as not It’s a cat got the way inflict do not eklna prepared in when Elkanah was here this foreTo remove the noon Don't be scared Grace Come upon the consumer skins deftly try either one of these right along" The girl came along but not with two ways: Plunge for a second into enthusiasm They tiptoed through the boiling water then skim and chill dark narrow hall and peered into the or remove the stem and rub the back parlor This apartment was dim and of a knife against ths fruit pressing still and gloomy as all proper parlors gently with the dull edge from the should be but there was no sign of stem and downward until all the surface tua been covered After a little life this Is almoat as easily Mrs Collin was glancing back down experience the hall with a strange expression on done as when scalded and the skin comes off as readily For t breakfast salad chill the tomatoes cut Into quarters cover with a French dressiby ng ' Kezlah nodded “Yes” she affirmed ‘That was what Elkanah’s proposal to amounted Ha ha! me! Deary When he said ‘proposal I own up for a minute I didn’t know What was com- in After Kyan I was prepared for ’most anything But he told me that Lurany Phelps who the parish committee had counted on to keep house f°r Mr- Ellery had sent word her ter was sick and couldn’t be left and somebody must be hired right off ’cause the minister’s expected by day after tomorrow’s coach And the cap’n waa made a delegate to come and see me about It Come he did and we settIed It I went down to the parson- with him before dinner and looked be place over There’s an awful lot °f eweepln’ and dustin’ to be done afore It’s fit for a body to live in” Grace extended her hand “Well Aunt Kezlah” she said “I’m ever and ever so glad for you I know F°u didn’t want to leave Trumet and I’m sure everyone will be delighted when they learn that you’re going to °U(Z‘ 0 1118 Is going to be your nw Btay’ home now Aunt Kezlah” she "Humph! that Includes Lavlny ! "How queer that seems” P®1" of course I cal’late Lavlny’s de- - served h’m Does seem queer don’t light won’t keep her up nights But I It?“Um— guess I can stand It If she can Now near Must Beem queer to you to be sol the headquarters of everything Grace what Is It? You ain’t real Smell gf your uncle thinks is wicked pleased? Why not?” brimstone any does It?” she asketf From the Dimness of the Tightly Shut- The girl hesitated with a smile tered Study Stepped the Owner of “Auntie” she said “I’m selfish I A r She threw open another door the Volet guess I’m glad for your sake you room gloomy with black walnut and mustnt think Im not But I almost I m not t11 T0ce erant wlth camphor wasdlmlvvls- Bnapped wish you were going to do something dressed lble else You are going to live in the This was a staggerer For once a tomb ain’t It?" was Regular parsonage and keep house for MrsCheerful’s not She have a did ready reply comment Coffin’s “Well we’ll get looked of all parsons a Regular minister some at Grace and at her light and air in here pretty Then witheut words the latter Why so far as my seeing you Is con they retreated to cerned you might as well be ln China soon Here’s the front hall and there's the sitting room' the front stairs The parlor’s off to You know Uncle Eben” “1 you won’t he alarmed" con“Yes” she said “I know him Eben the left We won’t bother with that tinuedhope tbe voice broken by panting This little place ln here yet a while Hammond thinks that parsonage Is Is what Mr Langley used to call his pauses as If the speaker was strugth® Presence chamber of the Evil One a garment “I know- this Into gling ‘study’ HaUoa! how this door sticks!" But Grace presume likely you came The door did stlck'Tnd'no amount mu8 Bem trftnf You see mustn’t blame me and If you don’t on the coach as far as Bayport and call I’ll know why and I shan’t blame then we lost a wheel ln a rut There We’ll see each other once ln a r F°uwas a — oh dear! where is that — this while I’ll take care of that” Is supremely Idiotic — I was saying ’Taln’t locked” commented Mrs The packing took about an there happened to be a man coming hour When It was finished the car- Coffin “’cause there ain’t any lock on this way with a buggy and he offered It I guess It’s lust swelled and stuck rolled up and the last piece of pet to me along He was on his way linen placed ln the old trunk Kezlah from the damp Though It’s odd I to help Wellmouth So I left my trunk to never don’t remember— Oh well! turned to her guest It Let’s sweeten up this settln’ come later and took my Ivalise “Now Grade” she said "I feel as mind on was wet the rained and way room a little Open a window or two though I ought to go to the parsonage through I stopped at Captain Daniels' 1 can’t do much more’n look at the want to do anything before It gets house and the girl said he had gone cobwebs tonight but tomorrow those dark I'm goln’ into the kitchen to get with his daughter to the next town a broom” were to stop here 'at the She hurried out returning ln a mo- but that they on their way So — there! parsonage ment or two with a broom and a most that’s right at last! — so I came hopdisgusted expression The door was open "How's a body goln ’to sweep with ing to find them and I came ln The captain and hla that?" she demanded exhibiting the the business end of daughter were not here but as I was frayed utensil wet I thoughht I would seize which was worn to a stub “More like pretty h °PP°rtuIllty to change my clothes a shovel enough sight Well there’s M had some dry— er— things In my va pretty nigh dust enough for a shovel so maybe this’ll take off the top lay- lise and I—well then you came you — assure you I— well It was ers S’pose I’ll ever get this bouse fit see and — I’m coming for Mr Ellery to live ln before he the most embarrassing comes? I wonder If he’s a particular now’ door The two ln the The opened man?’ room huddled close together Grace who was struggling with a re sitting Kezlah bolding the broom like a fractory window paused for breath ready for whatsoever might de"I’m sure I don’t know” she re the dimness of the tightFrom velop plied "I’ve never seen him” the owner Sol was so bad the ly shuttered study stepped ‘Nor I either of the voice a stranger a young man Sunday he preached that I couldn’t go bis hair rumpled hla tie disarranged to meetln’ They say his sermon was and the buttons of his waistcoat filling fine all about those who go down to buttonholes the Despite this Thais what got the eea ln ships of th hagty toUet n Mnl parish committee guess they re all he was not unprepossessing darkness I wonder if he’s as finelook-old Balts Incidentally he was blushing furiously In’ as they say?” “I didn't speak” be said "because-Miss Van Horne tossed her head you took me by sifrpriee and I wasn’t She was resting prior anWas il“ making 'las I explained— er — presentable Be- other assault on the window I was afraid of frightening you sides r snn irnnnr i e J® a conflsgure you I hurried as fast as I 4 8Pldera had bl“er °“ elr and ? could “th y°u Kaa to The end of the world 8 ' B°n robes ®nd ePre88lon chanS®d AuntJ Jou musn“' mtad mi I loM alk”-- hl8 cornin’ for them even though it missed was a twitch at the corner of there I was a fire for the Mlllerites selfish pig But when they had you don’t you his mouth —“I tried to still fasthurry their doin's a few years ago You ask me to like this precious minister er not me hear you might and hoping can stay here and wait If 'twon’t be of yours because I shan’t do It He could make my appearance — or my too lonesome We’ll have supper when has no business to come and separate As for entering the escape — sooner I get back" me from the best friend I’ve got I’d house — well I considered It in a way She threw a shawl over her shoul- tell him so If he was here— What my house at least I knew I should was that?" a ders draped white knitted “cloud” live In it for a time and—" Both women looked at each other over her head and took from a nail ‘Live ln It?” repeated Keziah "Live a key attached by a strong cord to with Btartled faces They listened ln It? Why! mercy on us! you don’t a block of wood eight Inches long tently to say you’re — " wa’n’t that funny!” whis- mean “Elkanah left the key with me” she "Why She stopped to look at Grace That “I thought I heard—” observed "No danger of losln’ It is pered Kezlah young lady was looking at her with an So "You did as well lose a hear there Might lumber did I What do expression which as It expressed so you suppose — ” yard” is beyond ordinary powers much very It sounded from the of They left the house asd came out description Into the wet mist Then turning to front room somewhere And yet there name Is Ellery” said the “My can’t be In there ln which because— °°“ tht ae IalL iitpariBh°n In Which Kezlah Unearths a Prowler The fog was cruel to the gossips of Trumet that day Mrs Didama Rogers who lived all alone except for the society of three cats a canary and a white poodle named “Bunch" ln the little bouse next to Captain establishment never entirely recovered from the chagrin and discaused by that provoking appointment mist The fog prevented Mrs Rogers’ noting the entrance of Mr Pepper at the Coffin front gate Also his exit under It shut from her view sisterly arrest the majestic approach of Captain Elkanah Daniels and Grace's flight her face dimpled with smiles and breaking into laughter at frequent Intervals For a young lady supposed to be a devout to hurry along the main road a handkerchief at her mouth and her eyes sparkling with fun was a circumstance calculated to furnish material for enjoyable scandal And Didama missed it Other happenings she missed also Not knowing of Captain Daniels’ call tpon Kezlah she was deprived of the pleasure of wonder at the length of hla stay She did not see him In company with Mrs Coffin go down the road ln the opposite direction from that taken by Grace Nor their return and parting at the gate two hours later It vaa three o’clock in the afterthe direction noon before a visitor came again to the right Tru calls Irony the Coffin front gate entered the yard met with unconscious ‘‘downtown’ end rapped at the side door they climbed the long slope where the main road mounts the Mxred the door P‘ theldencs i anybody " th broom b STJSSrSSlg an Great Gift (J The most biting valued gifts are We Store in wedding specialize and anniversary holiday high quality birthday Store and permanent from a Jewelry CAP low price 'ifsi OPT UTAH REMOVEDI AND BLACKHEADS remarkable for you desire complexion the velvety ol tbe skin and free from blotches pimple and blackheads? 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for there Is not the danger of burning Paw— A woman of 30 who chases as on top of the stove youth of 18 my son— Cincinnati Enquirer German Dumplings Grate three or four cold boiled potaThought Consoling toes To these add two thoroughly A sharp gust took Jones’ new hat beaten eggs a little salt and Stir ln enough flour so you He stood on Broadway and saw it cup milk career down Vesey street on the can form into balls with your hands Be careful' not to get too stiff and wings of the east wind and disappear flout your bands beyond recall Drop into boiling “Well" he said "a straw will show salted water and boll about 20 minutes When they have boiled about which way the wind blows won’t It?” ten minutes turn over quickly without Advance Information Into them and fork cover sticking Pour gravy over them same “Young man we need brains ln our again as for potatoes business” “I know you do That is why I’m Gravy made after frying pork chops is best looking for a Job here’— Baltimore American Colonial Cushions Too Practical For the bureau of q)d mahogany or “Never count beyour chickens the mahogany shaving case a pin fore they are hatched” cushion not too frilly Is needed Such "Of course" sneered Mr rirosslots a one Is shown ln a "colonial cushion" You’re another of those people who a copy of an antique Even these mod- want to take the chief pleasure out ern- copies come from old Salem It of the poultry business"— Washing is square in shape and of mahogany Star ton on four high feet standing Within the mahogany frame Is the A Dead Shot Of course cushion made ln any color "I never saw a girl that could hit the cushion part may be renewed aa often as one wishes so It makes quite anything she threw at’’ “Well you never saw my girl throw a durable article hint— IndlanapoHs Star Rellih Hamburg In the Discard For a change sometimes after "Pa what la a discarded grinding the meat and seasoning It man?" beat an egg and mix with it fry out “A politician who Is so thoroughly some salt pork turn the steak ln spiddown and out that he crn’t even sell er and brown on one side then turn article"— Kansas City magazine on and brown the other By using Jourral care It can be placed on platter In a whole slice and is very nice Folding Headgear "These collapsible opera hats ara To Bake Fish a great convenience” Il baking fish lay It first on a piece “So?" of clean greased cotton cloth then lay “Yea you have no idea hew much It in the pan It can be lifted out easroom they save In a flat’— Louisville done when ily OourlerJournaL la BtudY door pa8to “ t stuck from ths damp On the occasion of his year tenantry because — well because I remember funeral the mourners came and went now that It was open this mornin’’’ Mrs Coflfln thrust the key Into the Before her companion could fully keyhole of the side door and essayed grasp the Import of this paralyzing to turn it fact Kezlah strode down the hall and seized tho knob of the study door no purpose “I don’t see why— This “Whoever you are In there" she must be the right key because— commanded sternly “open this door Well I declare If It ain’t unlocked and come out this minute Do you That’s some of Cap’n El- heart already! I’m orderin’ you to come out” kanah’s doln’s For a critter as fussy There was an Instant of silence a d Partlcular t B°me things he s then a voice from within made answer careless enough about others Mercy a man’s voice and its tone Indicated we ain’t had any tramps around here embarrassment Come In” lately “Madam" It said “I— I am— I win She led the way Into the dining be out in another minute If you will room of the parsonage Two of the Just be patient—” blinds shading the windows of that “Come out then!” snapped Kezlah Of all the Pat!nce! bBf? 0pe"dfhwben abe °J£‘ aad cheek! dont you come out and dim gray light made the room now? to In “Well be forsaken frank since you Insist" appear c°uld ah® hh“ perJ black walnut v ?'ln cen‘er’ clo8ed t0 ?4enaa°“ Pard'menBi°ns bcauB ad at®“ al°n® f°r B0 8 !!ac anut chairs ? ba a®anBt the wal1 at regular 6 nig carpet and braided v mot- made donations from the the green painted floor the dolorous pictures on the walls “Death of Washington" "Stoning of Stephen" and a still more deadly “fruit piece” committed In oils years ago by a now deceased boat painter The blinds and a window being opend more light entered the room Grace glanced about it curl- thl ‘np4’ A not the to a at a a |