Show THE GARLAND TIMES GARLAND UTAH cmd Ae ts® THE THUS CHAPTER XIII "Npt as to the identity no admitted Bob “But I’m convinced that It was some prowler— a would-bburglar who was frightened off before he had a chance to steal anything Though of course lt‘s not usual for a burglar to be supplied frith a knife as a weapon — I don’t believe he brought the weapon with him I believe that he used one of the victim’s own knives —a large kitchen knife—” He broke off scarlet sind embarrassed as he saw Megan’s white twisted face He apologized hastily “Good grief Miss — I ought to be kicked! Please forgive me —I’m thoroughly ashamed— Larry you ought to have better sense than to allow me out with your friends I’m sorry Miss MacTavish — I do apologize — ” Megan managed a faint smile and aid huskily “Please don’t — I— I am a bit squeamish I suppose You see — I knew her well — ” Bob nodded soberly “I know — everybody says you are the only real else friend she had Everybody seemed to dislike her and distrust I guess that’s the reason I her was speaking so frankly Let’s forget it After all a meal like this deserves more cheerful and appreciative table conversation!” When the meal was over and the men were settled in the living room Megan stayed to help Annie clear the table And while she was thus engaged Laurence came back into the dining room and stood at her shoulder and said very low “I Just wanted you to know Meggle that— everything is quite all right There’s nothing at all for you to worry about” Megan looked up at him tears thick in her eyes her mouth tremulous “I— met him by accident Larry I didn’t plan it— truly” He looked down at her frowning ‘‘But — Meggie good heavens don’t you suppose I know that?” he protested almost as though he resented her feeling that she should offer such an explanation She caught her breath and a wave of relief swept over her She smiled through her tears and said huskily “Thanks Larry” “For what?” The frown still drew his eyebrows together “For knowing that you couldn't possibly do anything wrong? For knowing that you couldn’t make or keep a tryst with a man tied up as Fallon is? For Heaven's sake Meggie — I’ve known you since you were a baby-dt you suppose I know you well enough to know that If you met Tom Fallon on the Ridge at midnight it waa an accidental meeting?” Laurence hesitated a moment and then he said quietly “I’d like to ask you something Meggie —mind?” "No of course not” "Then — are you in love with FaUon?” The words were quietly spoken but they took her breath so that she could only look up at him unable to speak But the way the color flowed into her face the look In her eyes gave him all the answer he needed "So that's why you —couldn’t get excited about marrying me” he said after a moment very quietly r She set her teeth hard In her lip not daring to trust her voice to answer him and after a little be said in a tone of the greatest gentleness “Poor little Meggiel A- lways doing things the hard way I” By now she had steadied her voice and she faced him straightly “If — you’ll give me a little time Larry—” she managed His brows were drawn deep now in a frown and his look was he “A little time Meggie?” repeated “For what?” “To pull myself together and get over this — this — craziness about Tom" she said “Because I will you icnow I’ll— I’ll get over It and — maybe If you haven’t got disgusted with me before that — ” Is “Oh I’ll be around Meggie that what you mean?” asked Larry and now there was a grimness in that his in coldness a eyes hla voice "You are the chilled her a little You’ve alwaya only girl for me been I'm a slow and plodding cuss but onca I get my mind— and my heart —made up I hold on Like the a good old snapping turtle that gets have grip and swings on until you to kill him to make him let go But what makes you so sure that you can get over what you feel for Fallon?” “Because I’m going to!” she told him with determination He turned sway from her then as Bob called to him from the hall and a little later they were gone Megan and her father aat in the WMU room for a little In silence after they had gone It was Jim who finally broke the silence “Did you know that she — was married?" he asked heavily "Yes" Megan nodded "Laurence told me" Jim's face twisted “What a laugh she must have get out of me — wantAnd she told me ing to marry her she would— she never for a moment even hinted that she was not a widow!” Megan waited knowing a little of the release that would come to him if he could rid his mind of these revelations “It began at first as a sort of— well joke" he admitted “It seemed to amuse her to give the Pleasant Grove folks something to talk about I was lonely and I suppose she got a kick out of making a fool of me — ” He broke off and passed a hand across his eyes and looked atraight “But I didn’t kill her” at Megan with a simple ha finished quietly living Fruit Designs to RELEASE “Don’t S Gay Appliqued Party Dress mujova Peggy Perm FAR: Amo husband revealed that when be ia comlnf borne late atIn night be aw k (boat bury aomething a graveyard Also Amos revealed that be had seen (eg with Tom Fallon that night Laurence enlisted the aid of Bob Reynolds a detective and they set to work to solve the mystery of Alicia’s murder After careful checking they were Inclined to believe Amos’ story Jim MacTavtsh same in as Larry Reynolds and Megan were ready to eat He was tired his shoulders drooping Reynolds announced abruptly that It was an open and shut case and Jim almost dropped the carvLater Meg tells Larry that ing knife Che and Tom bad met accidentally STORY NEEDLEWORK-PATTERN- kid yourself my dear — we Nor seen the last of this! haven't heard 11 either” he corrected her “Had you realized that if swiftly Amos was on the Ridge that night as he must have been to tell Larry the story he did the chances are excellent that he saw you— as well as the ghost?” Megan nodded her face white but her outward composure commendable “I know that he did Dad” he said quietly “He told Larry” Her father’s body Jerked like a marionette on a string manipulated by an inexpert puppeteer “Told Larry— that you were on the Ridge with Fallon?” he repeated aharply Megan nodded For a moment Jim was very still like a man suddenly paralyzed And then very carefully he asked “Did he tell that fellow Reynolds?” Megan shook her head her hands cold in her lap “He— didn’t seem to think it was necessary” she managed the words with difficulty “He seemed to think that the fact that I was there gave me an alibi If I was there at that time I couldn’t possibly have been across the road —even If I had had a motive" of “Which Her father nodded course means that Larry doesn’t know I Intended to try to marry her and bring her here” he finished the thought for her Then he smiled a mirthless smile that made him look suddenly very old and very tired "Now if only aomebody had seen me going for my walk—” did” said “Perhaps somebody Megan eagerly He shook his head “I saw no one — after I left Alicia” he said quietly and distinctly She stiffened a little and her eyes were wide “You — saw her — that night?" she her lips pallid whispered “At said Jim and heaved a sigh as he ran his fingers through his magnificent crop of hair “The way I figure it she couldn’t have been alone after I left her more thqn ten or teen minutes” His fingers trembled a little at ha filled his handsome pipe and tamped the tobacco carefully into the mellow bowl but his eyes did not leave Megan’s white frightened face “We quarreled” said Jim quietly “when she admitted that distinctly she had not the slightest idea of She called me a — with are you in love “Then marrying me pompous old fool and a Fallon?” stuffed shirt and a lot of equally that was somehow oddly dignity But I did uncomplimentary things touching not kill her Megan I swear it’’ “I know you didn’t dear” Megan Suddenly Megan was on her knees assured him swiftly beside him her arms close about him her cheek hard against his all He studied her for a moment and the ugliness and the animosity that then he asked in a puzzled tone had colored their relations for years how did you and I atari wiped out between them in this mo“Meggie doI’ve other? been each disliking ment when she ached with pity for ing a good deal of thinking lately him and when for the first time in You’re a her adult life ahe had I admire you very much begun to have fine girl and a brave ' girl and — some glimmering of understanding well I can’t quite understand why him it ia that we seem to rub each other “Of course you didn’t dear— no the wrong way all the time I’ll prob- one could believe for a moment that ably be Just as hard to get along you did” she told him her voice with tomorrow as I was yesterday shaken with emotion —only tonight I’m— well I’m loneJim put hia arm about her and ly Meggie and tired and maybe — Just a little afraid Could we sort seemed to welcome her nearness the sheer creature comfort of her of— be friends do you auppose?” warm presence and her sympathy “Of course Dad I” Sha bent swift “Thank you my dear— but I’m ly and kissed his cheek afraid a great many peopla could Jim looked at her for a moment And then nodded at though ha had be persuaded to believe that I did” he pointed out to her at last “The reached some sort of decision circumstantial evidence against me Both Jim and Megan were allent We did quarreL la pretty strong for a bit each with hia own thoughts I am the last person — Undoubtedly of their relationship And save one!— to see her alive Ha cocked an eye at her humorwhen I left her in a fury of Injured “Of course you understand ously I and bruised pride ahlftlesa and as I’m Just lazy that went for a long walk alone and saw and generally no ’count aa ever for no one I returned home here well all that I’m auffering a change of after one o’clock — by which time heart tonight But you know Megshe had been dead according to the gie the whole thing boils down to doctor So for at least an hour the fact that I’ve been jealous of you see — ” you aince the day you were born “But you didn’t— you couldn’t — the astonished Dad?” “Jealous have done It Dadi Nobody could ever make me believe you did!” ahe Megan repeated him as though he bad comforted "I adored your moth He nodded er Meggie I know now that it waa been the child she the parent It was long before she slept that a Jealous possessive love the tori of thing that makes a spoiled little night but in spite of the unpleasant turmoil and excitement of the last boy say ‘If we can’t play my way hours she was more at then I won’t play at all’ We were peace than she had been in a long happy at first I was first with her her every thought was for me for time She could begin to understand wella little and to underfather her comfort my happiness my my stand is to forgive And then— you came along being She was conscious only of the fact and took up a lot of your mother’a and I had that she and her father might hope and thought tenderness to live together now with less fricAnd like the to take second place tion less animosity than before And that I waa I resented 11” the thought had healing and com“Oh but Dad— that’s— why that’a She waa able to fall she said fort in it Poor Mother!” wicked! and asleep at last emotionally “It wasn’t Just above her breath and when ahe exhausted than more me ahe loved she that she felt woke in the morning I was needed that it her loved you than and more refreshed stronger more” in spite of the in many months “And I resented that tool” said horror of the last r hours her father and In spite of knowing that the next few days were going to be far from She Megan could say nothing pleasant could only wait her hands linked her morning She had finished her eyes clinging and waa busy with a aeed tightly together chores to his face catalog and an order blank when Laurence it a effect arrived what “Odd chastening with excitement Annie has on a man when he realize that den he has made a complete and un- showed him into the small and hovered fool of himself!" he said where Megan worked mitigated at last “I feel at though I’d been anxiously “It's ail right Annie— we tound kicked— almost as much as I dethat proves that Amoa something serve to be! And that ia quite aome was telling us the truth— that la that Incidentally'" he did see something at the old “But It’s all over and done with that night” sold ground burying Dad— we can have a lot of fun toLaurence quickly gether—” Megan began eagerly with “Over and don Meggie? (TO BE CONTINUED) t Cross-Stitc- h TT ALWAYS has been our belief that the time to compare athletes is at the end of their careers For example why try to compare Ted Williams after five seasons with Ty Cobb’s 24 seasons? Why try to compare Bobby Jones retired for 16 years after win- ning 13 national and international championships with Byron Nelson so far has won 3? And don’t Tj Cobb in the forget that Jones ran U S Open eight out of nine year Ted Williams and Byron Nelson have many years left in which they may rise to even greater heights or for one reason or another suddenly fall away I recall just about the outbreak of the war when more than a few above were placing Joe DiMaggio outTris Speaker as an was and still field star DiMaggio But even is a great ball player Joe’s most vehement supporters today wouldn't place him above the flight of the Gray Eagle the class of all outfielders in the air or along the ground who could also hit from 350 to 386 in his better seasons through a long stretch of time Take Ty Cobb and Ted Williams Ted Williams Few pitchers could hitter But is the longer harder how many remember that Ty Cobb led the American nine league years in a row — that he led the American league in 12 out of 13 Think that consecutive seasons one over What hitters were in Cobb’s road? What was their class? Practically no one except Shoeless Joe Jackson Tris Lajoie Napoleon Wahoo Sam Bahe Ruth Speaker Crawford Bobby Beach and a few of that ilk see they are now comparing Bob Feller and Walter Johnson No certainly two of the giealcst one can tell me that Bob Feller or anyone else had Johnson's speed Feller has a greater variBut Johnson’s ety speed was enough They usually beat him to 0 or 2 to and even working with a outfit he still could win more than 30 games a yeai pitching against some of the great hitters of all time But none of these great hitters was on Old side The idea is that Barney's Johnson has already turned in his record Feller still has many years to go Feller isn't working with much of a ball club either He is to a certain extent in Johnson’s spot Johnson pitching for the Athletics in those days could have won 40 once Feller games more than working with the Red Sox could be another winner There will be time enough later on to rank Johnson and Feller who ‘Old Pete Alexander If you talk to hitters who faced him and who have been around they won't nominate Walter Johnson or Bob Feller as the top master of the pitching tribe They won’t give you Cy Young who won 510 or Christy Mathewson Their nominee is an entry known as Grover Cleveland Alexander alao known as "Old Pete” Working with the lowly Phillies Alexander won 31 games in 1915 33 games in 1916 and 30 games in 1917 a total of 94 games in three consecutive years with a ball club that never belonged — outside of Alexander In 1916 he pitched 16 shutout games most of them in the Phillies’ bandbox park Through six years he had an earned run averruns per game age under two As a rookie in 1911 he won 28 games with the lowdy Phillies Alexander was a stretcher bearer with the army In 1918 one of the tough Jobs of any war He then had been pitching seven years On bis return to the Cubs in 1919 and 1920 he allowed 172 and 191 earned runs per game an incredible his Through performance career Old Pete had no interest in any form of training He happened to be an eccentric genius a great artist which so few are He knew exactly where 'the ball should go to certain bitters and he could put it there too who had batted Johnny Evers against the best once told me that Alexander was the only pitcher he ever faced who made him feel like throwing his bat away “I knew how useless it was” Evers said Fruit Motifs for some Looking 5600 Send complete pattern for the No Duck Flock (Pattern sles 2 3 and 4 years included In pattern Send 20 cents in coin your name addresi and pattern number To obtain Babv 600) your order to: SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK 709 Mission St San Francisco Calif Enclose 20 cents for pattern No Name Address Instead of buying assorted colored sox for the children in the summer buy several pairs of If any beidentical white sox come lost or worn out the remaining sox can be matched — — Line the lower edge of dad’s trouser pockets with a piece of chamois This material is sturdy and keys and other objects he carries in his pockets won’t quickly wear through it — — When planning the location of a new building for the farm keep in mind the possibilities in arrangement as well as appearance vu yon are run down— bsesuss AD all the you're not getting Vitamins you need— start taking Scott's Emulsion to promptly tad halp bring back eaerpy stamina and build reewtanea naturnl Buy today Scott’s Is rich la AD Vitamins and natural sIL druggists 'SCOTTSlEMULSl tmiisinoMiimgnc Keeps for weeks on your pantry shelf You can bake at a moment’s notice If you bake at home — you’ll cheer wonderful New Fleischmann’g New t Fast Rising Dry Yeast Fast Rising stays fresh potent for weeks on your pantry at any time shelf lets you turn out delicious bread quickly no house in the No more being "caught short” without yeast could use it With spoiled dough because yeast weakened before you New Fleiscb mann's Fast Rising you can start baking any time finish It’s ready for action when you need it baking in Get New Fleiachmann’a Fast Rising Dry Yeast at your grocers Buy U S Savings Cardinal Class the boisterous and Overlooking heartfelt boos from Brooklyn the Cardinals have been the class of the league from the start They have had no better ball players than Dixie Walker and Pete Reiser and Pewee Reese But no sane baseball follower can tell you that the hustling Dodgers to match Stan have the class Marion Musial Country Marty TerRed Schoendienst Slaughter and Moore ry Whitey Kurowski simpit these work pick-u- warm days? 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