Show THE GARLAND TIMES UTAH GARLAND PRETTY SLUMBER- WOOING PAJAMAS PATTERN By EMILIE LORING Copyright by The Penn Publlahlng CHAPTER “Nothing You- can V—Continued hurt him again Mllly -" “So rve run Mllly Gooch to earth Mademoiselle Mlllee! And last) She would be I" with you Gerard RodWith a smothered Imprecation to Len face wheeled ney Calloway who leaned against the aide of the door With difficulty he kept his rolce low "Don't you see what has happened If you can't keep your dirty mouth hut get out" The sound Calloway made was more snarl than a laugh though an expression of sardonic mirth doubtless had been his Intention Tm going" Be turned to Prudence who white and still knelt beside the couch on which Jean was stirring restlessly child would get "Any wise to what’s been going on between those two Miss Schuyler" Rodney Gerard shut his teeth hard Into his lip Prue could deduce anyvoice and Imthing from Calloway's What would she think I plication Mllly Gooch caught his hand and with a choking sob laid her cheek against It “What shall I do Roddy? gone and I have only you now" Half of her appeal to him was genuine grief half was staged to Irritate Xn Calloway who was glaring at her from the threshold Gerard decided With a suggestive laugh Calloway The physician touched departed shoulder “You’d better get thut youngster borne — quick” “I will" Rodney bent over the girl crouched beside the crumpled body of the clown lie freed the hand she still “I’ll see you tonight Mllly clutched Pull yourself together" He Inld his band on the bowed bead before be turned away “Come Jean I’ll carry you dear” The town behind them Gerard sent the roadster forward along the smooth road between its gay borders of fall shrubs Once he looked at Prudence Che had her face against Jean's hair the child's lung lashes lay like fringes on her pale cheeks lie said gruffly “What a A town burns up ! A A circus is thrown off schedule clown sent scouting lie took a chance on your garden — he'd try anything once — and then — a man who hates me lays his hand on my shoulder — and this for Jean — and tragedy for Chicot Chicot's daughter her husband and child lived in the red brick liouso when Mllly Gooch was a little girl lie visited them That was what he meant when he said that he had yesterday lived In this region" “I suspected you had seen him be- at fore" “And because of what Len Calloway Implied you have me tried and sentenced Pll bet" She did not answer only pressed her cheek closer against Jean’s hair lie kept both hands tight on the wheel Why bad he let Jber Invade his life? Why had he allowed her to make him misermadly happy or so infernally able by a look? Rapture and agony He knew what the words meant now "I’ll drop you at your gate" he proposed curtly "No I will go on to High Ledges I won't leave Jean until I see her with her mother” Jean opened her eyes and lifted her bead from Prudence's shoulder “I’m not going home until Mother bas gone There's nothing the matter with me except that I feel kind of dizzy It helps steady things to keep You won't mind if I my eyes dosed atay with Miss True for a while will you Uncle Rod?" "You should be with your mother dear" “I'm not going to be with my mother o that’s that" “Getting back to normal fast aren’t you K K?" "Course Let I am Uncle Rod me stay with Miss Prue today that's a Hi wait on Mr David I love peach him" She began to cry "Let her stop with me" Prudence pleaded "No She's going back to High Ledges and I hope I land her there I had before her mother gets away persuaded her to leave Jean with me It is only fair that she should know what happened what a flop I am as a guardian" Except for an occasional query as to Jean's comfort Gerard said nothing more during the long ride home They reached the rqd brick house Gerard looked down at Jean K K “Pull yourself together If you and I are to be on our own we’ve not got to go forward like soldiers have to we do when things whimper Get me?" we don’t like Jean straightened wiped her eyes gave him a watery smile I feel “Sure I get you Uncle Rod line now really I do" She slipped a hand under his arm "Perhaps perhaps Mother has gone already” she whispered hopefully In his mind Gerard echoed the hope they approached the house of stone and oak which his grandfather had as ' Co built He stopped the roadster at the front steps Judkins appeared aa If by magic Gerard sprang from the car" lifted Jean out “Where's Mrs Walter Judklna?” “She went soon after you left sir She decided to motor to the city" “Ask your slater to take a look at Miss Jean to will you? I want phone" “Yes sir Mr Armstrong arrived aoon after you left" "Armstrong! So soon! Where la he?" “He went for a walk Mrs Walter was Just going and things were In kind of a stir so he — He coughed behind bis hand discreetly “So he stepped out I get you Go up and lie down Jean and If you are good and feel fine you may dine with us K K he's You’ll like Jim Armstrong a great old boy" “I won’t move from the couch all day If only I may have dinner with you Just as If I were grown up Uncle Do you suppose Mr Jim will Rod I wonder— I wonder If he like me? will fall In love with Miss Prue — too" Gerard felt hla face warm with color “That last wisecrack has shown me that you are back to normal K K Now listen one quite hack to normal more like that and you’ll spend the winter In the bosom of your fhmlly — In New York city" After dinner Jean sat on a low stool Elbow on her knee beside the fire her eyes were on chin In one hand Jim Armstrong spectacled sinewy with an bigness “It’s corking to have you here Jim unless you've You haven’t changed grown heavier" Gerard commented “It’s grand to be here Rod I won’t say that you haven’t changed In the Where’s that last two years though lazy drawl which drew the female of the species after you In squads?” "I chucked that when I decided to I’m In business become a lumber king now as I wrote you At least Tm making a atab at It At present I've struck a There's a snag guy here named also in the lumber busiLen Calloway ness who threatens to boycott any for me" man who work “What has atlrred this Calloway up?" Mlsa “I beat him to It In persuading Schuyler to engage me to cut the timber In a tract Bhe owns" She doesn’t “Who Is Miss Schuyler? belong by any chance to that family —" Gerard glanced at Jean whose ears were fairly standing out In eagerness to hear "She Is a sister of David Schuyler He was a New York lawKnow him? yer” Poor —" “I’ve heard of him “Miss Schuyler Inherited a tract of with a house and woodland along other land She came here to farm — her brother’a health had broken down Calthe aforementioned Immediately loway — " "Hate him pretty much don’t you Rod?" Jim mutter “It Isn’t a chuckling SI Puffer who worked for the new uncle and la a sort of handy owner' man for her told her not to let Len I decided tliat I would cut for her cut for her and myself— that's when I sent for you Calloway was furious as — well we've had trouble over another matter" Arm“Is Miss Schuyler— young?" strong quizzed as he lighted his pipe “Yes and so pretty" Jean chirped "Mother Puffer saya that her eagerly eyes are like brown pansies and that her voice would coax the birds off When she laughs her eyes the bushes are all gold spangles" “K K you’ve been so quiet I had forgotten you were here It'a time you Toddle along now like went upstairs a good glrL” "All rlghty Uncle Rod" She kissed him and with a little curtsy said goodThe two men night to Armstrong rose and waited until she had left the room Then the forester dropped a question “Has this man Calloway by any chance a sentimental Interest In your neighbor?" “He’d better not have" "Why the growl?" Rodney Gerard rose Impetuously and stood back to the fire “Here are my I'm mail cards face up on the table I will marry about Prudence Schuyler her If I have to move the world to do 1L Get that atralght?" I can “I’ll aay I get tt straight read a 'No Trespassing’ sign when I Does the lady see one believe me with the spangled eyes realize that she Rod?" la posted “It's no Joke to me Jim I guess the old song’s right ’Love has a mean THE STORY WNU ing all Its own’— to different people Mine Is the brand The first time I met Prue — I can't explain It to you you will think I’ve gone goofy— I felt as If— as if the universe bad been made over and I was reborn— with an ambition to grab the world by the tall and a determination to make the girl love me" “Haring to go off the deep end aren’t you? Urn Pretty serious Jam you’re In Roddy" “it darn well Is" laid his hand on Gerard's Armstrong shoulder Ills eyes were warm with affection “Ruck up ! I don't know how any You generally girl could resist you get what you want To return to our muttons Contracts made to sell your lumber?" "Not a contract I have been so what SI Puffer calls het up with this fight with Calloway that I hadn't I would where thought dispose of It” "You’d better get busy on that end I'll give you a list of going concerns then you'd better hustle after business Do we start our Investigation of the timber tracts tomorrow?" "Yes" Gerard glanced at the clock "You'll excuse me Jim If I break I’ve got away? Something Important SI Puffer Is to take care of tonight engaging men to go along with us tomorrow to cut" Puffer appeared In the doorway "Here he is nowl Come In SI This who is my old friend Jim Armstrong has come to toll us what trees to take out" "Pleased to make your acquaintance Rod I’m plumb disJim Gorry-mDon't know’s we’re goln' to couraged need a forester" “Why not? What has happened?” "Now don’t fly off the handle like that Just beenuse I hint we’re In for trouble Whatta menn Is I've boon all over the village tryin’ to hire men to cut for us tomorrow They all had I cornered some fool excuse one of ’em an’ Jest squeezed It out of him that Len Calloway had let It be known that none of them would get more work from him— ever — If they hired He He’s got ’em scared out to you pointed out that you might start out big nod but you wouldn’t stick that this was Just a fad of yours an’ where would they be when you quit?" “II Quit I" Gerard's blue eyes were black “Go back and tell those men that there Isn't room In this town for Len Calloway and me and that I am staying” CHAPTER VI challenge to Calloway had been but could he back It up good theater Gerard asked himself as a few moIlls ments later his car shot Into the highway between the two great Iron gates set In stone posts at High Ledges He wanted to reach the show grounds bePerfore Mllly went on for her act If he he her couldn't but help haps didn’t she might turn to someone not so disinterested as he Ills thoughts turned back to the first tune he had seen Mllly Gooch Her father and mother had hired the old red brick house for most nothing and had lived there one summer while out of a circus Job lie at High Ledges from prep school for vacation had spent every available hour with the family listening to their stories of the Big Top After the Gooch family left the red brick house for the circus Mllly had come each year to visit the Puffers to get “fed up" and some red blood Into He her Mother Puffer had told him she had had seen her rarely but grown Into a stunning looking girl her narrow eyes and her expert use long of them had caught Len Calloway Had It been Just an exciting game with her? She had become engaged to him Next he heard of her he had received a wire: MUST SEE YOU STOP "ROD SHOW IN YONKERS SATURDAY STOP DON'T FAIL ME “MILLY GOOCH" He could recall even hla amazement at the summons Why had she sent for him? In that far away summer Walter had been more of a friend than he he had been fascinated by her mother Of course he would go the defiance In her He remembered big dark eyes the whiteness of her aa ahe had face under Its : whispered “1 — I’ve walked out on Len Rod" lie recalled that be had laughed at her— It was unbelievable that Calloway would release anything he once had held She had retorted : I — well your “Yeah tt Isn’t a Joke brother Walter' been my bey friend I Just burn him up I’m sick of riding I'm feeling bum or not riding whether FROM THE BEGINNING Prudence Schuyler come to Proiperlty Firm Inherited from her uncle to make a new life for hereelt and her brother David hie heeltb broken by tragbarn loft Into the arm edy The eecond day on her (arm Prue telle from the la tt once a mutual atot Rodney Gerard rich young man a neighbor There but Prudence decides to maintain a cool attitude toward him She traction men since her esteri husband ran away with her brother' wife Len Calwith Rod loway tries to buy Prue’s timber but the dislikes him end contract to dispose of the trees True la visited by Mra Walter Gerard and her They are hateful curious persons and leave Prue daughter Jean David cornea to the farm A clown appears advertising a circus In a rankled ehow While they are nearby town Prut accompanies Rod and Jean to the watching the Jared Chicot an old clown Is accidentally killed Bervlo and having Graudpop out of a Job half the time I'm going to be a lady and be taken care of and take care of him” Gerard “Walter felt again the shock that had brought him up standWalter has a wife” ing "Walter remembered lie her laugh “Say IHg Boy Vhere have you come from? Been asleep since the Puritans landed?” lie had caught her hands tight In his “Look here Mllly you can’t do that' Walter Isn’t worth It Mllly I Promise that you — you won’t Mllly — until I see you again" Quite plainly now he could see her hlnlng eyes as they had met his “Listen If you care what I do I promise Roddy" lie sent the car ahead In a burst of speed A string of wagons was leaving the show grounds as he entered That meant that the audience was In the big tent Gerard stopped before the tent on the wall of which “MADEMOISELLE M1LLEE" was stamped In black letters As If she had been waiting for him Mllly Gooch stepped from behind the curtain drawn across the front of It Never had he aee her look lovelier Her dark hair was Carled close to her head the mascara cn her lashes Increased the brilliance of her narrow the crimson of her eyes lips accentuated the Ivory pallor of her skin Her great dark eyes glittered with tears “You sure are a dependable guy Roddy” She perched on the top of a Say pedestal “Take that chair wasn’t that a terrible deal Grandpop And wasn't It like got this morning Len Calloway to put on his act at Just that minute! That bozo's grown old” “When did you talk with him last Mllly?" “The day I gave him back his ring Look out for him he has It In for you Roddy Doesn't he know that It was Walter not you who made me break with him?” “I came to see If I could help about Won’t you need your grandfather money?” The management “Not from you takes care of that Who was the kid saved?" Grandpop “Walter's little girl Jean" “Well of all the breaks— Grandpop out for the kid of the man he passing She laughed hated" until laughed the sound cracked In an hysterical sob Mllly! “Mllly Stop! You won’t be able to ride If you don't Here look up" He pulled a handkerchief from his pocket “Let me wipe your eyes Now smile as If I were a Johnnie In the front row" She looked up with an attempt which isted his heart All set now?" She choked back a sob Caught the handkerchief “All set Roddy May I have this?" “Sure but what the dickens will you do with It? Haven't any pockets concealed In that ritzy costume have you?” tw TO BE CONTINUED Death Valley an Inferno in Summer Winter Ideal Although It lies below sea level for miles of Its total length of 118 miles Death valley has gained the fame of being an Inferno of heat In the summer while the winter climate Is considered Ideal observes a writer In the Los Angeles Times Death valley's greatest depth la 310 feet below aea level at Bad Water 19 mllea south of Furnace Creek Inn yet only 16 miles In an air line across the valley from Bad Water majestic Telescope peak rears Its crest to 11045 feet above sea level and 11853 feet above the low point of the valley the greatest rise In such short distance of any mountain In the United States Even ML Whitney premier United States peak of continental which towera 14490 feet above aea level rises only 10768 feet sbove the level of Owens valley at Lon Pine The visitor at Bad Water reached by a desert road south from Furnace Creek actually views a higher mountain than ML Whitney when he gazes westward to the summit of Telescope peak 78 Teleacope peak which la an out- standing landmark for many miles In every direction either In or out of Death valley was first scaled In ISCf who gav It the by W T Henderson name It bears because of tbs magnlfl cent view to be bad from Its summit For That Turtle Soap Of the three common kinds of sei turtles ths hawksbtll Is exploited fo tortoise shell and the green turtle foi Its flesh says the American Naturi The remaining one of the association trio the loggerhead teems not to offei any special temptation to man but like the others has Its nest robltef to an extent that threatens Its abund ance A North Americas Spectacle In Alaska Is th Columbia glacier and most spectacular glaelet mot!or world The glacier creates a noise like th rumbling of distant thunder or heavj The roar of the slldln cannonading and falling masses reverberatlni throughout the surrounding mountains 12 miles out to aea be beard may largest in the of the BIOS j Jean simply loathes to cover up her new pajamas with sheets gorgeous and blankets and so she Ungers up with Teddy until the last momenL But it won’t be long now — look at those eyes Beautiful as they are her night things are even more cozy and comfortable and no child living could possibly keep her eyes open very long when wearing them They are neat but roomy with sleeves Just SUCCESSFUL TOUR wide enough there’s a pocket for a “We must go to Stratford" a tourhanky and a smart loose cut of trousist on a visit to England said to bis er— and please don't Overlook the convenient wife way In which they button “Wbat’s the use of that?" asked up In the back Pattern i)103 may be ordered only she “We can buy Stratford postIn sizes 4 6 8 10 and 12 Size 4 recards In London” fabric yards quires 2 “My dear one travels' for someScud FIFTEEN CENTS in coins or thing more than to send postcards! 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