Show - i : 1 tnAti r L - Culwork That I3 Anything but W5 1 IN DEATH “Cut work without bars?" ! actiy— and that's the ver this lovely Wild Rose doilies or buffet set is w i3 J VALLEY So encouraging do r f t i :! if £ 1 i ? e ? i ' r I 1 H!-: 'itr - $ I ' t ‘ a : :f I CHAPTER— XIV— 20 i i i tl Dy KATHLEEN Continued but that’s nonsense I" Quentroubled tin saui in his honest vo ue "Of course It is!” Serena said She vent over and clung to QuenHe disengaged her hand tin's arm without seeming conscious of her presence and turned to Victoria dear?" 'Why did you come here tender he asked in a concerned voice "It will only distress you horribly You don’t belong in this I" "Siencer asked for me Quent" Vic raised her eyes to his and saw ISerena pale and tense and watch-ilnAnd she felt looking at them an odd twist of something like pity jin her heart "Nonsense or not” little Dr said Inflexibly "I couldn’t— professionally I could not ascribe this to a natural Illness" Serena fared him 4°wn "You could mind your own the said with a hiss on the last word "If you don’t want to do 'It knowing as 1 told you when you got here as everyone knows that he’s been a sick man for years I ay thnt If you don’t believe that a man who takes no exercise and is not strong could cat something or take an opiate that would make him You desperately ill you're a fool oughtn’t to be practicing medicine 'It happens all the time! Men die every day of acute Indigestion coupled with heart failure and if you won’t take the responsibility of so Dr Hardisty will!" "That couldn't be done Serena" Quentin said quietly "I have never had this case But I’m positive— I don't believe — I know — Dr Isn’t seriously suggesting—" "You may do as you think best Doctor" the other doctor said "I would have entue abruptly faith in anything you saw fit to do Cut I personally must decline the responsibility" "I have nothing to do with It" Quentin said briefly Serena turned on him "Spencer had acute Indigestion and he's got a bad heart" she said "Cut believe me If there’s any Inif there’s one word of vestigation talk you’re In this too Quentin I’ll not stand it 1'U not Hardisty face coroner and be questioned while you are quietly enjoying yourself over thert on the lawn with your wife laughing and carrying the children into the house!" "I don’t think that’ll happen" Cut Vicky saw that Quentin said hla faca was pale "I wish you'd called me earlier I" "How do you know what’ll hap"I know I pen 1" Serena said can tell you! Wa had a coroner’s when Gita’s father Investigation died I know what it means! You’ll have to sign that death warrant Quentin or I'll have to drag your name into it You and I’ve talked of what we’d do if ha died you can’t deny that If they put you on oath Everyone knows what we’ve been to each other you had a motive for giving me something that would put him to sleep He told Dr here that I wanted to get rid of him” "Vic do you want to stay?" Quentin asked in an undertone as the breathless voice died to silence "This isn’t your sort of thing" "No Vic won’t go” Serena said at white heat "You don’t think Vic doesn't know that you love me that you’ve been following me making me presents writing me letters" Quenttn looked at Vicky looked away he spoke quietly "Vicky knows just how badly I’ve treuted her Serena" he said "Sha’s always known from the beginning I’m not trying to wriggle out of that If you were really fool enough to give Spencer sleeping powders or anything else I’m in it with you There’s no question that you can drag my name and my children's names in the mud if you want to You can take those letters into court—" "Letters 'If it weren’t saying ” Serena interfor Spencer rupted him "Letters saying everything" Quentin said in a low voice with a level glance at her "Letters saying everything I" he repeated "Cut one thing isn’t true” he went on slowly "I’ve never loved but one woman in all my life never no matter what I raid or wrote or did I’ve always loved my wife always always held her in a place by herself!" went over to him and Vicky dropped her hand Into his but he did not glance at her or teem to know tha she was there "How n cc!" Serena said "So 1 pay the b alone How very nice!" "No ypu and I’ll both pay!’ "And she’ll pay too Quentin said It means disgrace for us all" There was sound at the door of the invalid’s room the amah came out with an agitated face shaking her head Serena gave a short ejaculation and turning went across the hall to her own room and went into it and closed the door The two doctors and Vicky faced the "Ah t ' NoriM t I i KnthliMin MORRIS WNU “I’ve Got an Even Break?" Spencer Asked dies!" Then they were in the sickroom Vicky watching her husband’s rather than the patient's face her own face reflecting the fluctuations of feeling she saw there "Quentin" the sick man said clutching at his hand all personal feeling forgotten in the grips of life and death "you can do something for me can’t you? For God’s sake get me out of this operate do anything! That ass there" he whist pered with a flickering glance that agitated Cudworth "tells me I'm washed up There’s something you can do?" Quentin spoke urgently definitely: "Vic get to a telephone and tell Anna to come over right away with that big package that’s on my desk it’s from Lengfeld’s — she can’t miss it Hush it And just as soon as you’ve done that get the amah to get plenty of hot water boiling waI supposo there’s a table here ter a long table flat—” "You think so Doctor?" faltered the other doctor "I know so!" Quentin shouted mad with impatience suddenly "Just lie quiet there Spencer" he added to the patient "and we’ll get you out of this if we can" "I’ve got an even break?" Spencer asked "Not quite so good We won’t know quite what chance you’ve got until we’ve gone a little further Ah here’s our nurse We want a surgical bath here nurse as fast as you can manage it we’ve no time to waste" Vicky ran downstairs ran upstairs for sheets Serena was not in evidence and nobody asked for her The nurse suggested a rubber sheet and Anna panting in with the big bundle was sent flyirg back to the Ilardistys’ for one Frescntly there was nothing for Vicky to do except sit on a chair in the hall and wait— and think— and wait Quentin came out with a nurse’s white apron tied on him back to front and asked for soda Just plain kitchen soda "And you might as well go home Vic this’ll take it out of you" "No I'll wait Quent has he a chance?" "I’m afraid not but we’U try They’re putting him under now we'll know in an hour" "She couldn’t"— Vicky glanced at the closed door of Serena’s "I don’t know But it’s not for him I’m fighting Vic" Quentin said "It’a for all of us It’ touch and go now If he lives we live and If he dies I may have gotten you Into something you’ll never get out of my dear" "You’ll be It toot" TU be In It tooOtvshe couldn’t get me In alan accomplice" Quen- - h ? Sendee Chinese woman as she came to- tin said "But she could do enough to ruin us alL We’d have to go Her Jargon was uninward them The promised away Vic" telligible to Quentin “Wo’d go away" hatted coated cold rosy nurse "And the story would follow us came upstairs That’s all "Amah says Spencer heard your and follow the children voire and wants to speak to you" I've done to yout" Quentin said "The woman— the amah— has proVicky interpreted "My God when I saw her face I duced a bottle half full that would kill ten men Our one hope is that thought the poor fellow was gone!" it was about a dose and Dr Cudworth ejaculated Lemon is the only in lemonade "So did I!" Vicky said "Do you mean — " Quentin had that touches it I If anyclutched her arm his fingers bit thing saves him that’ll save him— that is if we get to the kidney in Into it like a vise he was almost "What d’you mean? Isn't time" shouting "You will!" Vicky said with her he gone?" "Oh no but Quentin there’ no faithful eyes on his and her world said about her and her Ups Vicky rocking hope" "Master say other doctor come white "You believe in God don’t you?" now" the amah said in a singsong "Yes come in with me for God’s Quent asked almost absentminded-iy- sake Hardisty and see what you "I do" thinkl" Cudworth "said as they all door went together to Spencer’s"Then— while I’m In there you pray Vic" He kissed her without smiling without seeming even to see her released her from his arms "My God you are a tower of strength to me" he said "You are a rock of help Pray for everything we’ve got while I’m in there— the kids and the home— everything! 1 always thought — I always turnthought” Quentin muttered ing away "that I’d like my boys to be proud of their father My Vicky heard Quentin mutter as If he spoke to himself: "We all stand there talking while the poor fellow too beginner who’d like to’t hand at it Aren’t they A Death Valley Road Through Rough Earth Formations Ones Dreaded American Desert Has Now Become the Playground of Man Prepared by National Geographic Society Washington D C— WNU Service NEWS that the Thirteen had become the States didn’t reach Pacific coast till years later BarSpaniards riers of distance and desert were such that even after California joined the Union in 1850 it still took weeks to get mail No other from Washington state was ever so isolated Men hated the desert then and the horrors of death from Every trail across it was strewn with bones of men and oxen and abandoned wagons Now the desert is man’s playkids" lie went into the sickroom and ground of trains and motors Planes There was a big Vicky waited robbed the desert of its Spanish chair in the upper hall of course have in shoits the Morrison place and she sat in dreads Now idlers it and clasped her hands to keep pajamas or bathing suits A Navajo sprawl about these desert pleasure them still and prayed blanket richly striped with yellow resorts as in Death valley and fijpt had been if they can’t get this or that favorite and black and scarlet brand of impoited mineral water hanging over the black Iron railing of the stairway she wrapped it all within a stone’s throw of where dying pioneers found not even a about her the night was bitterly mouthful of alkali water! cold The sting has been taken out of Death valley completely by modCHAPTER XV Much of it is now a ern transport national monument and winter visUnSilence and night and vigil seen somewhere a clock struck the itors swarm in over new roads outside in lured by its astounding physical gehours and the ography the dark a rising wind whined unYou can imagine that here a gieasily and now and then a broken branch skittered on the tiling of ant smashed the world to bits the roof In the upper hallways of baked it then spilled seas of paint over the colossal silent ruin Nathe Morrison house one lamp burned softly steadily from the ture’s emotions range from utmost fury to moods of restful calm door that led Into SpenStand on Dante’s View a peak Low cer’s room came sounds: voices the creaking of a bed and in the Black mountains which towthe clinking of ice and once a ers high above the floor of Death sort of bubbling groan that made valley and you can see over more than 150 miles of this weird inVicky’s heart stop for a moment in terror comparable region Far to the west is Mount Whitney She prayed trying not to think drowsed awakened with a start to highest peak in the United States and below you is the lowest point in find that it was not all a strange dream She really was here in the North America 276 feet below sea And up the valley floor there Morrison house In the middle of the level stretches what looks like vast alkali night Quentin was behind that bedbut that is an illusion for swamps room door bringing all his skill it is merely a coloring of the desert every ounce of strength and knowlAll Alone With a Chipmunk edge and inspiration that he could muster to the saving of Spencer "Do you live here all alone?” a Morrison’s life and Serena was in traveler asked an old man who sat her bedroom only a few feet away before an empty hotel in the hissomehow living through the hours toric ghost town of Ryhn that would decide whether or not "Me and a chipmunk” he said she would be tried on a charge of "My friend’ll be out soon so you murder can see him He always comes to What was she doing? Vicky woneat at ten o’clock" And at ten he dered She had swept away from came! the group hours earlier had closed Borax and a few other minerals her bedroom door upon whatever first made Death valley a busy she was experiencing It was then that the famous suffering place Furious with fear the accusing eyes teams hauled the big of both doctors upon her their flat freight wagons with a water-tanrefusals to perjure themselves in trailer taking weeks on the lonf protecting her still ringing in her rough round trip out to a railroad astounded ears and Spencer strugstation on the Mojave desert gling in death throes of her causing Mining is abandoned now The she had angrily withdrawn Had she borax diggers found a richer more flung herself down on her bed and convenient deposit near Kramer on fallen into dreamless sleep? Vic the Mojave desert where they can wondered bring up huge chunks of glistening "But I'm (just magnifying the glassy borax with a railway close whole thing Into an absolute bugaSo the long mule trains at hand boo!" Victoria told herself “It are no more but you can still see won't happen that way! Spencer the giant wagons standing along will d:e of an operation Quentin Furnace Creek Wash where the can sign a certificate about that tired dusty mules were last unanyway and Cudworth won’t talk hitched Beside these big wagons he's got his own professional repuvisitors now to be pose tation to protect he doesn’t want to That is commonplace be mixed into any murder trial! all about is unreality illuShe’ll go away and this time next sion year we’ll be worrying about someSave one or two tiny favored spots thing else'" where water comes down from the She could reassure herself for a ca lyons Death valley knows no moment then the solitude and on Despite sightseeing buses of the night began to work and private motorcars that throng their spell again and Victoria felt its dusty trails there is still somewith a sort of desperation that if thing very significant m the warn-lnQuentm didn’t come out of that signboards which tell how many room pretty soon miles tt is to the next water The amah appeared Different indeed its destiny presently looking like a little old mahogany seems from that of other California carving in a cotton deserts by man's ircoat rigation ditches! (TO ItP CONTISVEDi Once Arid Regions Now Gardens Maps of barely 30 years ago bore Intercharcb World Movement the words "Colorado desert" across The interchurch world what is now Imperial county with movement originated in 1918 and projected 60000 people the raising of a vast amount If the of money — on billion dollars — for left their prehistoric monsters who tracks about the Salton sea the spread of the gospel and Chris-tia- n could come back they would find religion on entirely undenomi-nationplenty to eat now for this lines It also projected region has become the nathe use of the influence of the tion s hothouse church in bettering social and industrial condition irXeirc:!a ti11 cxpIorcr for the and for this end caused Department of Agrl- surveys to cuture be financed and made The brought some date tuckers was not successful end coL from Arabia which kDsed 4a 1921 - feared thirst !! tokoS Today a huge industry has grown up and the groves there resemble those about Bagdad or Basra in Iraq Much of the desert basin above the Salton sea with its duck clubs and speedboat races is still empty here and there are date and other gardens of astounding fertiliMen must have felt the heat ty the day they gave such local place names as A'Mecca” "Arabia” "Thermal” and "B'skra" Planes from Los ‘Angeles for Phoenix Tucson and El Paso fly down this long hot valley entering from the north through San pass Grotesque tumbleweed rolling over deserts in hard winds looks like brown bears at full gallop Not far from San Gorgonio pass you may visit the site of one of many construction camps on the Colorado river aqueduct project A worker with its miles of tunnels there once found a petrified egg about the size of a coconut Across the valley men dig the great hole that will carry water under the San Jacinto mountains Like the Indians local before them whites say that sometimes this mountain "growls” Geologists say it is a "young” mountain that if there are growls they may be earth tones from subterranean movements along earthquake faults Earthquakes Now and Then Earthquakes occur here when one block of earth crust slips past another along an earth fracture Several such faults extend from the Mojave desert to offshore islands One such slip caused the Long Beach earthquake of March 10 1933 Mud and hot water squirted from cracks that opened in the ground Many people say they saw a waving motion pass across the fields which set trees houses and water tanks to swaying while up from the rocking earth came a roaring sound If a giant could seize the edge of this region as you might grab the lid of a steamer trunk and thus lift the top off southern California you would see below it one of Nature’s busiest workshops Down here in the dark things go on which affect all that live up above in the sunshine Far into the earth miles and miles deep and many leagues long run the faults or fractures that figure in the quakes! but more Important to man on top of the ground are the vast underground basins that hold water for his wells and other great natural tanks from which for decades he has pumped that oil which more than anything else has put this region on a solid economic basis Since exciting early days when pioneers bored and found oil In commercial quantities within the city limits of Los Angeles its flow has increased and southern California has become a financial and geographic center of a Titan Industry Oil Attracted Many Thousands As with the land booms so in the days of oil excitement there came hordes of oil executives technicians drillers rotary helpers derrick men teamsters and truckmen roustabouts pipe tank builders refinery workers and stock salesmen adding their thousands to an already heterogeneous population in and around Los Angeles the fields of Kern county and the Kcttlemen hills One well m KeUlcmen hills was bored in 1933 to a depth of 10944 feet a new record Odd indeed to visitors is the sight of oil derricks set opt in the ocean down the coast from Santa Barbara which pump oil from the sea At the Rincon field a well has been bored which is more than half a mile from the mainland The discovery that holes alreadv very deep could be drilled even deeper and actually deflected to reach new sections of oil pools has pven Huntington Bech new boom From an airplane you look down on tank farms" where oil is stored clusters of white metal tanks appear like giant frosted cakes roofs of still larger rese voirs built like ponds are protected by lightning rods These the roar-in- g refineries the long pip® iinM trains of oil cars and tank steamers loading at the ports are the outward and visible signs of this trade these roses? Delicate shad pink would be most realistic course but the pattern is lovely if worked in thread t match your linen A refresh table set with these would In pattern g most tempting! you will find a transfer patten’’ a dbilie 11 by 17 Vi inches and and one reverse doihe J inches material requ 'remen lustrations of all stitches color suggestions To obtain this pattern send! cents in stamps or coins (cc preferred) to The Sewing (v Arts Dept j&t Household Fourteenth St New YorkNf Many doctors recommend Ntit because of Its gentle actios v the bowels Don’t confuse No) with unknown products j INSIST ON GENUINE Ml lMlkm HOW LONG CAN !j R HOLD HER HUSBAKE have to work at marrl make a euccces of it lie be aelflah wujrmpathtdi way they're mk and you might m well reallM 1 When your back acho and T nerves scream don’t take It M on your huaband He can’t poLbk know bow you feel Vor three generatlonaonewooia f ha a told another how to go “uni ing through" with Lydia E Pb ham's Vegetable Compound I helps Nature tone op the sytti j thus lessening the discomforts 6 ( the functional disorders tUO women must endure in the tb ordeals Of life: L Turning fra j girlhood to womanhood X I 3 it paring for motherhood preaching "middle age" Doq't be a take LYDIA E PIN KH AVI ' VEGETABLE COMPOUND Go "Smiling Through" YOU may but that's the ti ' WNU—W GET RID V Ol PIMPLES ' I Remedy Uses Uagncslitot Stin Firmt and Smooths Co —Makes Skin Look Years Yo New Get rid 0! ugly pimply ekla wi&t extraordinary pew remedy facial Magneela worka tnlracwV clearing op spotty roughensd plexioa Even the first lew make a noticeable difference The rpotj gradually wipe away b‘9 grow smaller the texture ol IMJ itseli becomes firmer Before you ' It friends are complimenting your complexion SPECIAL OFFER ! —for a taw waakt J Here is your chance to try out C? Facial Magnesia s t s liberal will send you a full 6 os bottle®1 ton's plus a regular sixe bos ottff Milnesia Wafers (the original both iorpnlj Magnesia tablets) Cash in on this remarkable oil1' 60a la cash or stamps today DENTON’! Facial Magndlt ! rRooocTf j 4402— I rklok S truer 20rS StTMt LwS laokewtSwleOotoMhef M jomt tpaUX wHirtw J ifeete Str—t Addr—t |