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Show TIIE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON 'iFv THREE SHUTTERED HOU 4- Ruth Wyeth Spears By BEN AMES WILLIAMS E. N., time to dissolve. These are harmless. June," she urged. Practically! And they do make me sleep. She laughed feverishly. "Twice this many wouldnt really hurt me, June. Her eyes were haggard. "And I cant help it II I don't sleep, I go mad." She drained the draft That does taste strong, she said with a faint Now run, baby. Kiss grimace. me, and go. Ill be asleep in a minute. June kissed her, made her lie down, covered her over. She opened one window a crack. Kitty d was not a fresh-ai- r addict. June looked at her and saw that she was The girl already half asleep. turned off the light and slipped away. At the head of the stairs she paused long enough to be sure the others were leaving. She heard someone slide the bolt on the front door, heard Uncle Justus say: "1've fastened it, Denman. Then murmuring voices toward the kitchen. They all went out that way; and after a moment Grandpa and Grandma Hurder returned to go into their own room, on the SYNOPSIS Store, Sng home through a torrential Clint Jervies ''young. IRFtCt.UP a girl, scantily clad, running flight down the road. yoiTr'des a short ways, leaves the car He decides to Him,? us Into the woods frmYi his dear friends, Inspector Tope iiss Moss, about his adventure. AL SCEti etui thinks of her as Miss Moss, rT tner guardian, though she and the .1,. dor are married. Clint, having "'I down, now manages the Jervies CHOOll himself. In three shuttered lr, aU gloomy and forbidding, on isrht in , aw HiU, near where Clint picked ay and , frightened girl, lived three one house lived old Denman HER Ella Cour, his wife, who had been Lea-ni, and his daughter. Kitty June. Living in a ind her daughter 0111 Titjj house was Aunt Evie Talne, and brothers Rab and Asa. V Jtrd held old Matthew Bowdon and Ian,!! , l:ife. Living on the estate was a known only to June as Uncle vni nuvU Following their usual custom the Bldg. -- , families gathered in the Hurder Saturday night. Kitty, Junes t1 early wlth a headache. TRUSSES T. !),lt W. well-to-d- lS n nenu, jj. stockings. iana Lea-for- CHAPTER II Continued , 8opp) t the Pan on the table. He said: Ive been e 0USht to get out of ESS CD1 once in a while. )R A cor), why don't you let me show cim Shmiround? Why dont we three go ooi party some night? Ill get r.R,fjrar-ticketand well have din- ENAG5n town." ty laid without turning her p5. "Good night, Rab. Im dead II June! all right. Ill take c. , ... if her." nh it over, Rab urged. ins-i- ce ie here 1 old, except June and And maybe Asa. And Uk"ii, , hd you. ndiuond old compared with June. man to Don't wor-,- c y swung around. lh. she said, a slow passion Im going to get er tone. taj IKA out of this. She sha'nt live g Doeat;ve lived. Good night. 1 WORK! b made an amused grimace at and went away, . Si , s, r r le . , eep tonl8ht Kitty CIWCRVe jlINhiiord whispered. "Or go mad! N one of my bad days. Warm milk for me." bath-flt- , (he took the milk into the lighted the gas on the small the milk so Qp yr there and stirred ,p.4t should not burn. By the time bikewarm. Kitty Leaford was IN THij Jong poured the milk into a N FRA1, and brought it to her mothers The glass was not quite ir rcsrrlid- S l can feel thunder In the air," Kitty Leaford, and shuddered, prepared for the night, as i Buslihb always did, with an elaborate Jmb knew the ritual: mas- V waving-iron- s in unguents FROhair gloves saturated with an .. to keep soft her hands. L . y Leaford still served a beauty reef vanished long ago. U'ipi come in to you if it storms," S FROM ij promised. OURT me a tablet, the older 5 b nan directed. me hesitated. Wont you be to sleep without. Mother? With the milk? she pleaded, y Clotty said petulantly: Dont ar-p- d with me tonight. June. Im not Pif- -; bear it. Theyre in the bath-,?rEL COJ K ground floor, in the east wing. Her mothers room and her own were in the west wing, over the big sitting-room- . A deep uneasiness possessed June. When her owm door was closed and she was alone, she stood still, even her eyes unmoving. It might be, she thought, the sullen electric air which made her thus restless and full of a vague foreboding. -- a' binet! une went back into the bath-torbe rinsed the pan under for loep faucet, delaying, trying to find Feeden. Je argument. She noticed that ti'RKT ire to i milky water was slow to drain r.d pnta of the basin. The trap must becorlle Pegged. S ack-- j. j ptr.n!e !iler mother IONAL called: Hurry, EMENT.!" 'aVhe girl opened the cabinet and out a familiar bottle. The bot-bad no label. She removed the sun f ci lfb and let one tablet roll into her She set the bottle down on ...J edge of the basin and was about EQJJNjreplace the cork when Kitty Lea- - nr h eoUed: ciJune, I'll take two tonight. I to go to sleep quickly, sleep OGllt"" made an unhappy gesture, her hand touched the uncorked file. It fell into the basin, spill- J tablets. She rescued it hastily. id re was still a little water in the in, and the spilled tablets were nd W 'dy half' dissolved. There were bree remaining in the bottle. J .Iiaie atood in some consternation, . . mother called: was that? June, did you fin them?" :ient, RfT tipped over the bottle, "1 spited one or two. Watf'cwa Tor heavens sake, be careful," wy Legford cried fretfully. always when they go faster than he A r3nka they should. Bring me two. - June took one more tablet out of bottle, so that she had two m band, while two remained. She Tkl the bottle in its place and went ck into the other room. She said: 131 1 Mother, 1 wish you wouldn't take sftem both. You remember what Appened that other time? "I took three that time, her (other retorted. "Two won't huit . le." You were awfully sick!" I must get to sleep, Kitty Lea-ii- i bisiited She picked up the iab-Jp- ? it from her daughters palm and topped them in the warm milk. wated a moment to give them cn Doc-Cabl- cross-examin- n- lt 1 CHAPTER III June undressed slowly, listlessly. There was nothing in life as she knew it which could provoke her to eagerness. Her movements were automatic, her thoughts went round and round a familiar circle. This was her world. These folk who had been here tonight, and Uncle Jim, who lived in the hut by the pond. She thought of him now with a faint smile. There was sound mirth in him. He used to laugh at these people here; contrived nicknames for them all to make June smile. Grandma Bowdon was the Iron Hand. Aunt Evie the Velvet Glove. Grandma and Grandpa Hurder were the Conquered Provinces. He never sought to make June laugh at her mother, she remembered now. Once or twice she had tried to persuade Kitty Leaford to go with her to meet Uncle Jim. Youd like him, Mother, she had urged. I know you would. But her mother would never go. The girl went mechanically about the business of preparing for the night. Her eyes drifted around the ugly room. She loosed her hair and brushed it slow ly for a while, watching her reflecmarble the above in mirror the tion slab. The house long since was still. When at last she turned out her own light and opened one of the tall windows, she saw Aunt Evies house next door was dark and silent too. Also she saw, far off, a flicker in the sky; she even heard the rumble of thunder. Yet the storm might not come this way, or if it did, her mother might not waken. She got lrt0 the big bed and lay without for drawing any covering over her. was the night was hot, and the air lifeless and still. The old house creaked all around her; mice scurried in the walls. She must have slept at last, and for an indeterminate time. It was a gust of wind which woke her, a sudden quickening in the tempo of the night. Then lightning etched a net of flame across the sky, and the in her crashing thunderstroke burst ears. June was not afraid of thundershowers; but her mother, despite the drug she had taken, might have waked: June decided to go in and woman see. She knew the older cower- were awake, she if would be. a car. But she took no time to think of these things. She was already racing across the lawn; she found the gate in the hedge, and felt the smooth hard macadam under her feet, and ran swiftly. Occasionally lightning flashes illumined her way, kept her in the road. She had gone halfway to Doctor Cabler's house when a car came down the hill behind her. She tried to run faster, to escape this pursuer; but this was vain, and she turned off the road, and fell, and scrambled to her feet and stood like a wild creature brought to bay. The car stopped beside her, and someone asked a question. She stammered something, for this was a man's voice, and June was not habituated to encounter strange men. But instantly, while he used some persuasion, she found herself in the seat beside him. He offered her his coat, but she refused it. Then this young man beside her turned out the dash-ligh- t so that darkness drew a protective garment over her, and she was warm with gratitude to him. She She watched said: Thank you him covertly, controlling her breath. He asked some question, suggesting that she was afraid, and she told him that she was not afraid. Yet her knees were trembling and her fingers pressed her palms. He spoke again, but she did not hear him. She watched the road, and at the beginning of the path through the wood to Doctor Cab-ler- g house, she bade this young man stop the car. He did so, and she alighted, and ran away along the path. But hidden in the wood, she stopped to look back; and she stayed there till he drove on, watching the headlights of his car till their gleam was lost behind a screen of trees. When he was gone, she stood like one bereft, as though with him a part of herself had departed too. But then, in the darkness and the sand. rain, terror returned to spur her on. The girl backed away from the She ran up the path and so came bed, her hands pressed to her lips. pounding on the Doctors door. At length a flashlights beam She turned and ran down the stairs to the telephone in the hall. came down the stairs; she could see The instrument was dead. She it through the panel of the door. It snapped on the hall light an elec- struck her in the eyes through the tric bulb hanging by one wire in glass; and at the same time the door opened. The light was in her the midst of the gas chandelier and in that naked illumination she eyes, and Doctor Cabler exclaimed: "June! God bless me! tried the telephone again, without She whispered: response. Terror was clamoring in her; she Come quick. Doctor Cabler! tried to fight it down, to think what Come in, June, he commanded, she should do. and led her into the hall and shut You're drenched. What Grandpa and Grandma Hurder the door. were asleep at the end of the hall, is it? but she knew there was no help in Oh, hurry, hurry!" she cried. them. Even if there were help anyIts Mother. She's dead! where. The word on her own lips struck Then the electric light faded and her like a blow. She had not till died, and June stood in the dark this moment shaped this word even hall like a tomb. She was stifled in her thoughts. Oh, hurry, she by the blackness; she gasped for repeated; and thought in a dispasbreath; and the front door blew sionate apathy that the injunction open, banging against the wall, and was absurd. If her mother was the girl choked back a scream. dead, there could be no reason for She was swept by desperate and haste. This had not occurred to her nameless terror; a gust of ram before. came sweeping in, and June ran Eh? the Doctor exclaimed. blindly to meet it, out through the Dead? door, into the full beat of the rain. said June, in an empty Yes, The touch of it was sweet and cooL Then she remembered that the tone. Even though the admission front door was always locked and convicted her of folly, convicted her bolted. Uncle Justus had bolted it of having lost her wits, of having the slightest occasion tonight. Why had it opened of it- run without half a mile through drenching rain, self? Blind panic possessed her utterly; yet she had no doubt that what she was true. yet she clung to one thought: she said must fetch Doctor Cabler. Kitty Leaford was dead. Of this, She might have roused Rab or now, June was sure. Asa, asleep next door. Rab had even (TO BE COM! MED) Then the electric light faded and died. pis tie img ing now. and crying out as though from an actual physical pain. The girl got out of bed and crossed the hall to her mothers door. Without opening the door, she listened, but she heard no sound from within. Yet still June hesitated, uncertain, uneasy for no reason. In the end she opened the door and spoke softly into the darkness. "Mother, are you all right? But there was no reply, and June was reassured. She was about to return to her own room, when lightning flashed again, close by, and the glare of it was bright in the window by Kilty Leafords bed. So June saw her mother for this instant, clearly. And when the lightning passed, the girl stood still, her eyes dilated. There had been something alarming in her mother's posture, in the way she lay along the bed. With an abrupt movement June turned on the light. An coming from the open window in her own room blew her door shut with a reverberating crash; and she leaped with dismay at the sudden sound. But her mother had not roused did not move as June bent over the bed. Mrs. Leaford lay on her side, her head pillowed on her left arm; her right arm limp along the coverlets. June had seen her in a drugged sleep before, and there was nothing patently alarming in her appearance now. But though her mother lay on her side, her head was turned so that her face was upward. The posture looked uncomfortable; and June very gently tried to move her mothers head to the left so that it might be at ease. s But when June touched Kitty cheek smeared with unguents, her heart turned cold. June caught her mothers shoulders. She shook them; she cried: "Mother! Mother! But Kitty Leaford made no response. June might as well have shaken a bolster loosely stuffed with Lea-ford- Let me satisfied e (jrardeners c) Changing Methods CERTAIN garden practices WNU SERVtCt fopyri! ped, TIPS a, SEW HOP?. - J"nm 52?a&. UTAH BACKING FOR POCKETS f Li She-Wo- lf ! There is one little spot in Rome that is missed by the hundreds of thousands of visitors who go each year to the Eternal city. Usually when a foreigner thinks of Rome, he thinks in terms of the Colosseum, the Forum or the Pantheon, writes Andre Simonpietri in The Rich- - sturdy childhood. When the two could feed for themselves, so the legend has it, the noble creature took herself off to a secluded spot and there let her animal soul speed on its way in peace. Then the two youths went forth into the tribes that inhabited the Sabine hills, and there they barmund If he is an artist, his desire is to tered for wives. Upon their return see the Sistine Chapel and Michael they set about the business of founda Angelos Last Judgment, or per- ing new race and a new city, after haps Raphael's rooms. If he is an having divided their tiny domain. architect, he will want to visit SL Peters Basilica and study Berninis Color of Horses colonnade, or muse over the imFew seem able to describe people mense and inexplicable arches of the color of a horse unless their a he of If Caracalla. is the Baths A bay concerns horses. occupation politician, he will try to pull enough horse, notes a writer in London Anto arrange an interview with strings swers Magazine, is a reddish-browIf he is a Catholic, he with black Mussolini. mane, tail, and points; will want to see the Holy Father and sometimes with a white blaze or his blessing. receive Chestnuts have the mans, stocking. So. perhaps that is the reason so tail, and points of the same hue at very few ever locate this gem, the the rest, or lighter. Brown horses where Romulus and Re- frequently have dark points. house A of Rome, pillowed founders the mus, clipped light brown may be mistaktheir baby heads in the furry side en for a chestnut. A roan is a horse whose body color (brown, bay, oi of the You'll remember the story of how chestnut) is flecked with bluish the two little waifs were found by gray. A strawberry roan has blu spots on a bright bay skin. the wolf on the banks of the tawny Tiber, and how the savage beast, A piebald has patches of black on her motheily instincts aroused, car- a white ground. A skewbald is ried the foundlings to her lair. There splashed with brown on a white she suckled them and nursed them ground. In speaking of a horse's through tn weaknes' of infancy to height, a "hand is four inches. Times-Dispatc- n she-wol- ish-gra- y edge BINDING h 'T'W'O pockets on the inside of A tins pantry door are used for dish towels the upper for clean towels; the lower for soiled ones. The pockets themselves are made from four dish towels with bright red holders and are hooked onto the door with brass rings. All the dimensions for cutting, and directions for making are given here in the sketch. If toweling by the yard is used, 3'i yards will be required. These directions are not in either Book 1 or Book 2, so be sure to cut them out for reference. Each of the books contains complete directions for making dozens of other useful things for yourself, ( Safety Talks d Driving Ability ts that automobile drivers reach the peak of their skill and ability after 20 years of age. Recent studies, said the council, indicate that drivers under 20 years of age have the highest accident rate. This rate decreases quite steadily to the age of about 50, and then increases sharply cv ' ETUA authentic patchwork stitches. dress, Mis. Spears, 210 S. St., Chicago, AdDcs-plain- cross-pollinate- d untrue. 111. ASK ME O ANOTHER f A Quiz With Answers Oiler ing Inlormation on Various Subjects because the moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that it reWhat by volves around the earth. Thereing 40s? that fore, it always keeps the same 2. Who had the "face face towards the earth. launched a thousand ships? 6. A thief is one who deprived 3. How fast could Walter Johnanother of property secretly or son throw a ball? 4. Is there such a thing as a without open force, as opposed to a robber who uses open force or double-jointe- d person? 5. Has anyone ever seen the violence. other side of the moon? 6. What is the difference between a thief and a robber? The Question step-by-ste- 'T'HE National Safety council also want Book 1 SEWING, for the Home Decorator. Order by number, enclosing 25 cents for each. With orders for two books we include FREE, a leaflet of 36 is 1. your home and to use for gifts and bazaars. Book 2, Gifts, Novelties and Embroideries, contains 48 pages of p directions which have If helped thousands of women. your home is your hobby you will meant the Roar- The Answers 1. The streets of New York be- tween Fortieth and Fiftieth, especially the Times Square district. 2. Helen of Troy had the "face that launched a thousand ships. 3. A test made at the Remington Arms Co., showed that Walter Johnson threw a ball at the rate of 122 feet per second. 4. No. Loose or stretched ligaments give ttie appearance. 5. Inhabitants of the earth cannot see the other side of the moon, s? KILLS MANY INSECTS ON FLOWERS VEGETABLES SG44 FRUITS & SHRUBS Demand origlnat eealed bodies, from your dealer Salt Lakes NEWEST HOTEL iywi.d Awkward Exchanged Tastes "Mum, what was the name of tastes do "How childrens the last station? as they grow up! comchange I dont know. Dont bother me. plained the mother. "When my Im reading. two were small, Johnny loved sol"Well, I m sorry you dont diers and Mary was mad on know, because Jimmy got out brightly painted dolls. But now there. Mary is mad on soldiers, and runs after every painted Johnny Mother to Child No, no, dear, doll he sees. you must not put out your tongue every time you see the doctor! Applicant Im sorry Ive lost Mrs. Bigwig's reference, but these Good Judge initialed spoons will show that I The judge, after calling at the worked there. a office of brilliant lawyer friend, on the lawyers left a She Named It! desk. The latter ordered his clerk to take the volume back to the "Why, Jane, protested the mistress, "that cake is as black as a judge. "Ask him, he said, jocularly, cinder. Did you cook it according what he meant by bringing me to my instructions? a "Well, no mum, replied the "Ask him, responded the judge, culprit. "It's one of me own law-boo- k law-boo- Hut in Which Romulus and Remus Were Suckled by Still Standing rVSE FOR widely followed a generation ago have now been proved unwise. Gardeners formerly allowed vegetables to grow as large as possible. According to Harold N. Coulter, vegetable expert of the Ferry Seed Breeding Station, this practice gave a higher yield in pounds, but very often lowered the quality of the vegetables. Some vegetables, of course, like tomato, must be mature to be palatable; but carrots, cucumbers, beets, summer squash, turnips, radishes and others are more tender and tasty when not much more than half grown. To keep a regular supply of vegetables of proper eating size, gardeners are finding also that it is advisable to plant oftener than once or twice a year. Gardens prove more enjoyable and more profitable when successive plantings of favorite crops are made every two or three weeks, providing gardcn-fiesvegetables for the table ocr a long season. Few gardeners nowadays save flower seeds. Fine flowers growing in the home garden often are by others of the same species, making flowers grown frum their seed inferior and "how he knew it was a law-boo- Hofei TEMPLE SQUARE Opposite Mormon Temple HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Rates $1.50 to $3.00 It's a mark of distinction to Stop at this beautiful hostelry EHNEST C. KOSS1TKK, Mir. |