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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS. JUNCTION. UTAH JYDIA OF THE PIN CHAPTER XII Continued 12 Charlie I" whispered J,ydla, horror In her bine eyes and her parted lips. She Jooked at him In utter dismay. N longer was he the debonair favorite of the. high school. In his somber eyes, his thin, cold Ups, bis tense shoulders the young girl saw the savage. But she knew the By HONORE WILLSIE (A by Fr Oh, 3 trick WNU A. Btekse Co.) Berrlo Why, my little girl, I thought you The clasa was supposed to attend in were perfectly happy this year. And body, but there was, nevertheless, and only a very few your clothes look nice to me." He the usual smoothed Lydias bright hair with his of the girls who had no Invitation I tell you, HI from boys would go. Lydia, herself, hand. tale was true. borrow some money, by heck, and get would have cut off her hand rather She moistened her dry lips. "But than appear at her own senior ball you some clothes 1" what can I do, Charlie Im only a raised a startled face. "No I without a young man. Lydia flrL Mortified and unhappy, she avoided No! Id rather go In rags than borIll tell you what you can do. You row money. of her mates during the last week of out almost Were can throw down your murderer friend debt now, and well stay out. Dont school, fearing the inevitable quesand side with me. You can get everyvoice rising hystion, Who Is going to take you, Lyd? one you know to side with me. And, borrow, daddy, her The tenth dawned a lovely June borrow 1" Dont terically. Lydia, never tell Levine, or anyone All right, dearie, all right I" said day. The exercises began at ten and else, what you know about him. It Amos. t eight Lydia was butby wouldnt be safe!" The matter was not mentioned toned Into her pretty little organdie, He leaned toward her as he spoke But the little scene Lizzie was pulling In her black alpaca again and Lydia shivered. I wont," she rankleddirectly. with Amos. A week or so and Amos was standing about In. bis Then she said aloud in later he said at whispered. supper, "Lydia, Im black Sunday suit, which dated back sudden resentment, "But Im not going I can to his early married day. By thinking seriously of moving. two-In- g work-scarre- d I half-pas- nine-thirt- y to throw Mr. Levine down without his having a chance to explain. Who are you to think youve got a right to ask me? Im Just a girl. I want to be happy Just a little while before I grow tip. Ive had too much unhappiness. "Yes, you have had, agreed Charlie, grimly, and that's why you will think about it In spite, of yourself. You understand how I feel because youve suffered.. When are you going to throw Levine down?" Never! Lydias face whitened. she said. What ! When you know hes a murderer? He never Intended to kill your father. Anyhow, I cant help what he's done. Hes like my own father and brother and mother all In one to me. The two young people sat looking Into each others eyes. Suddenly Charlie threw Lydias hand from him, and, like Billy Norton, he strode down the path and out of the gate without a word. Levine did not appear at the pottage for several days. During that time Lydia tried to put Charlies story out of her mind. When John did come out she avoided talking to him and he caught her several times looking at him with a When sad and puzzled expression. they started on their usual Sunday walk, Amos went back to the house for his cane and Levine said, abrupt Been ly, "Out with it, young Lydia! hearing more stories about my wickedness? Lydia nodded, miserably. "My deaf, Levine said quietly, "this Is a mans game. Im playing a rough 1 n and-tumbl- ' - - I k calmly. "Will you go to the senior ball with me?" Lydia was too much overcome for speech. She never before had seen a man In a dress suit I It made of Billy a man of the world. Where was the country boy ehe had snubbed? Here are some flowers I hope youll wear," Billy went on, formally. 'Would you mind hurrying? Its pretty late." Oh, Billy!" brea'hed Lydia, at last. Aren't you an angel !" In half an hour the two were seated In the carriage, an actual, party-going- , city hack, and bumping gayly on the way to the ball. Lydias first duncli.g party Lydias first man escort and he wearing a dress suit and there were only two others In the hall ! Who would attempt to describe the Joy of that evening? Who would have recognized Billy, the farmer, In the cool blond person who calmly appropriated Lydias card, taking half the dances for himself and parceling out the rest grudgingly and discriminatingly. For three hours, Lydia spun through a golden haze of melody and Into three hours she rhythm. crammed all the Joy, all the thrill, that she had dreamed of through her lonely girlhood. At half after eleven she was waltzing with Billy. We must leave now, Lydia," he I promised your father Id said. have you home by midnight. I want to get a stand-iwith your dad because I want to take you to more parties." Oh, Billy! Do you!" breathed Lydia. Well, I dont think theres any one In the world has nicer things happen to them than I do I Oh, Billy, Just this waltz!" At the end, Lydia looked up with I didn't know a wondering smile. any one could be so perfectly happy, Billy. I shall always remember that of you you gave me my happiest moment." On the way home In the bumping hack, Billy seemed to relax. "Well, did I give you a good time, miss, or didnt I? Could Kent or Gustus have done better? Billy, said. Lydia, last summer I was Just a silly little girl. Now, Im grown up. You were the swellest perYou just son at the ball tonight. wait till I tell your mother about It. Billy went up the path with Lydia to the steps and held her hand a mo ment In silence after he said, It's a wonderful night The A wonderful night. Indeed! moon hung low over the lake and the fragrance of late lilac and of linden blooms enveloped them. Youth and June moonlight and silence! A wonderful night indeed! You are very sweet, Lydia, whispered the young man. He laid his cheek for a moment against her hand, then turned quickly away. borrow enough money, I find, to add they had reached the Methodist to the rent were paying, to rent the church and Amos and Lizzie were esold stone house next to Miss Townes. tablished In the middle of the front My Idea Is to move there Just till you row of the balcony, while Lydia was finish college. Then well go out on shivering with fright In the choir-rooa farm. But It'll give you your chance, where the class was gathered. Lydia." Somebody began to play the organ Lydia hesitated. To move Into the and somebody else, who looked like house next the Townes would be to Miss Towne, shoved Lydia toward the arrive, to enter the Inner circle, to door and she led the long line of her cease to be a dowd. But she looked mates into the front pews. A college about the familiar rooms. professor spoke at length, then Kent Daddy, she said, would you really appeared on the platform. want to leave this cottage? Good old Kent, even If he wouldnt "Id Just as soon," replied Amos. take Lydia to parties Kent, with his Most places are alike to me since black eyes and hair, his ruddy skin your mothers death. I could stand and broad shoulders, was good to look doing without the garden, If I had the on and was giving his speech easily farm to look forward to." and well, but Lydia was seeing him Howd we pay the money back? asked Lydia. After the Levine bill passes," said Amos, Ill have a section of pines." Instantly Lydia's sleeping land hunger woke and with it the memory of She sat In deep Charlies tales. thought. Daddy," she said, finally, were not going to borrow, and were not going to move again. Whats the use of trying to make a splurge with borrowed money? All right, said Amos, reluctantly. But remember, youve had your chance and dont feel abused about our poverty. I wont," replied Lydia, obediently. And, to her own surprise, she did feel less bitter about her meager, homemade clothing. She had had a chance to improve it and had resisted the temptation. Late In March the valedictorian and fight. salutatorian of the class were chosen. In It the weak must fail and maybe The custom was for the teachers to die. But out of It great good will select the ten names that had stood come to this community. As long as highest for scholarship during the enthe Indians are here to exploit, this tire four years and to submit these community will be demoralized. Im to the pupils of the class, who by popusing every means, fair or foul, to ular vote elected from these the valecarry my purpose. Cant you let It dictorian and the salutatorian. To her Joy and surprise, Lydias go at that? Yes, I can was one of the ten names. So were Lydia set her teeth. and I will, she said, as her father Olgas and Kents. came up with his cane. The day on which the election took She and Adam Spent the Afternoon And though this was more easily place was cold and rainy. Amos, plod on the Lake Shore. of said than done and the thought ding home for supper, was astonishec murdered chiefs and starved babies to see Lydia flying toward him in a red bathing suit as he hung Flor troubled her occasionally, she did not through the mud a full quarter of a ence from a yard arm of the Dombey really worry over it all as much as mile from home. What a dear he had been willow. she might have were she not entering Daddy, they elected me valedic Now it all was different. They were torian! They did! They did! Olga her senior year in the high school. This marked their day up. grown After the Christmas holidays Mar- got four votes and Mamie Aldrich ten and Kent, didnt want to up growing ! Ma And Daddy gery departed for an eastern finishing and I got sixty-sitake her to parties. school. The night after her departure mie wasnt cross but Olga was. Oh, Kent bowed and took his seat. The ! In wonderful on call first isn't it Kent made his Lydia sang and somebody prodded quartette ."Valedictorian! My little Lydia! many months. The two withdrew to In the back. She made smartly Lydia I wish vote! and and there make to Scholarship popular candy the kitchen to the platform and be her up way to Lydia's surprise and pleasure gave your mother was here. Ill write gan to speak automatically. to to be have here Hell seemed Kent Levine tonight. to suspicion. way Amos with tight clenched fists and want to talk for the most part about for the exercises. Lizzie with her lips a thin seam of ! won Is He salutatorian. Kent "And Margery nervous compression, were swelled Hasnt she grown to be a beauty? by Just two votes. I've got to begin with vanity and torn 'with fear lest to- plan about my dress. he said, beating the fudge briskly. she forget her lines. beautiful. was to replied "She always Now, I'm going buy that dress, But John Levine, who had dashed In Lydia, though shes an awful silly. Lydia, if I have to borrow money. You late and stood unnoticed In the crowd she and to talk never reads about anything, She arent going begin any under the gallery listened Intently,, flunked all her Thanksgiving exami- earning it. while he yearned over Lydias Immanations. Oh, all right," said Lydia, hastily as as to borrow. White ture beauty like a mother. Margery You wont have pretty Anybody AeM so," she ended, when we say doesnt need to be brilliant, said goods is always cheap and Ill get It 1,'ood-tyou all must remember that I so can lots of hard Kent. put right away we go out into the world resolved to And she spoons, and you dont work on it. What's your speech going to be live up to our motto. That we believe think much of girls that spoon. Lydthan about? asked Amos, as they turned with our forefathers that governments ias cheeks were .a deeper pink derive their Just powers from the conin the gate. usual. of the governed. That all men sent to Bad think time about I be havent catty, Lydia! Shucks, dont are endowed by their Creator with out It all while I'in Ill Kent. that. plan growled certain inalienable rights, among Kent called several times during the sowing. which are life, liberty and the pursuit not did to asked never Lydia. congratulate Billy he Lydia but winter, And that because the He passed her Just as he had during of happiness. go to a party nor did any of the other New in the Middle Kngland a curt people with little all the months, boy friends she saw daily In schoolfrom the cradle of libare far West was tell the To Hello. over chummed truth, Lydia she whom boys with ashamed of herself for her erty where these Ideas were born, livlessons, who told her their secrets, heartily of Billys plea. She ing among foreigners it behooves the a mental reception as shabby yet equal, her treated who been had unkind and she members of our class to carry our she knew or to slipped call, never asked her motto Into their dally life. Love of boxes of candy into her desk or asked missed the desultory companionship leads us, and so farewell ! country with bad had or she sundae a Billy. for store her into a drug was a foolish, sentimental little It of went dress the The preparation a hot chocolate. one or two real thoughts with well. The on speech speechmakamazingly of affairs state Nobody resented this in John and Levine smiled even it customwas As was less simple. more than old Lizzie. After Kent's ing filled his eyes. tears the while He class chose the motto, Lydia to ary, said she Lydia, third or fourth call, no subthat told himself of all for least one, her Amor Ducit Patriae, closing the door behind him, "Yes, to find probably Lydia herself, realize'd the sweated and inordinately see and ject here you, out come Kentll cynical application of the class motto but I notice he dont take you any- something to say. She complained four years to Lake City conditions. where. If you had fine party clothes bitterly because during the The diplomas were distributed. The at all was ' and lived oil Lake Shore avenue, hed at high schoollovenothing or of about pamorning was over. country, great taught be bowing and scraping fast enough. After dinner Amos rushed back t care triotism, or anything that would make I dont head. her tossed Lydia the factory. Lydia hung the gradua the motto suggestive. about going to parties. Amos answered her plaint Indig- tion gown away in her closet and she old the Insisted lady. You do, too, Well, for heavens sake! and Adam spent the afternoon on tin Youre eating your heart out. I nantly. lake shore, where the delicate spien And you a descendant of the Puriknow. I was young once." dor and perfume of June endeavored become the old of whats tans! Lord, his paper. from Amos looked up ! in vain to prove to Lydia that the I No. at all. wont stock you help did "Lydias ton young to.- go If they senior ball was of no consequence. It out for yourself. Think ask? don't they ask her. But why out It After the supper dishes were washed think And did, Lydia I sit.tlng live and Its because I'm too poor on the front steps with her sewing and she sat on the steps in the dusk with ano far out and I dont epoon, to the sighing of the pine by Adam's head In her lap when a carswered Lydia. "I don t care, I tell listening he riage rolled up to the gate. A man gate. And Just to prove that she you. one flaw In Lydias came swiftly up the path. Lydia with was but There in face Unwed her aiant care, I.vdia d a gasp recognized Billy Norton. Billy, happiness. Nobody asked her to her hands and began to cry. senior ball that was to take wearing a dress suit and carrying a the Amot crossed real pain A look of on graduation To be bouquet of flowers ! night. face. Tie got up hastily and went t place be said U was not as Invitation affair. Good evening, Lydia, sure. Lydia's side. On all side but one were pine woods. The one side was bordered by a little lake, motionless under the July sun. On the edge of the pines wers set dozens of tents and blrch-barwlck-I-upIn the center of the meadow wa a huge flagpole from which drooped the Stars and Stripe Already the meadow was liberally dotted with sightseers of whom there seemed to bo as many Indians as whites. "Isn't It great!" cried Lydia. What do ws do first T' "Well," said Irvine, Im free until three oclock, when the speeches begin. Therell be all sorts of Indian games going until then." This Is Just a celebration and nothing else, John, Isnt It? asked Amo. W "Thats all," replied Levine. to th a was It Jolly way good thought Indians. At the same time tt gav folks a reason for coming up here and seeing what we were fighting tor and, last aud not least, It was the Indian agent's chance to come gracefully over on our side, lies done more of the actual work of getting the celebration going than I have." I wonder why?" asked Billy, suddenly. "All there Is left for him to do," said Levine. "Lydia, before the speeches begin, go up In the pines and choose your tract. Ill buy it for you." The whole thing's wrong," muttered Billy. Levine gave him a quick look, then Youd betsmiled a little cynically. ter go along with Lydia and take a look at the pines," be suggested. Id like to look at the pines again," said Lydia. "Come along, Billy." They entered the woods In silence aisle until and followed a the sound of the celebration was 1 n sun-flecke- d muffled. Billy leaned against one of the great tree trunks aud stared thoughtfully about him. Im all mixed up, Lydia," he said. "Its all wrong. I know the things Levine and the rest are doing to get this lnnd are wrong, and yet I dont see how they can be stopped. I came up here last month to see how bad off the Indians were. And I saw the poor starving, diseased brutes and I cursed by white breed. And yet, Lyd, I saw a tract of pine up In the middle of the reservation that Id sell my soul to own ! There was understanding in Lydias eyes. Oh, the pines are wonIf ose could derful," she exclaimed. And I suponly keep them forever pose thats the way the Indians feel about them, tool" "Its all wrong, muttered Billy. It8all wrong,' ' and yet, more firmly, "the reservation Is doomed und If we dont take some of It, Lydia, well not he helping the Indians but Just being foolish." "To have It and hold it 'for your children's children, " exclaimed LyYou and yours to dia, passionately. live on it forever. And yet, Id see a dead lndiun baby and starving squaws behind every tree. I know I would." I tell you wliut Im going to do, Im going to said Billy, doggedly. get hold. of that tract. Im not going to deceive myself ttiut Its all any-- , tiling but a rotten thieving game we whites ure playing, but Im going to it, anyhow. Ill pay for it, somehow, und Ill go on doing what I can to see that the Indiuus get w huts left of a decent deul. The two listened to the wind In the pines, then Lydia said, We must get buck for the speeches. Levine hud just finished his speech when Billy and Lydia got within hearing, and lie introduced State Senator Janies Farwell as the chief speaker of the day. His audience, standing in the burning sun, was restless. The Indians, understanding little that wus said, were motionless, but the whites drifted about, talked in undertones ail'd applauded only when as a fitting peak to all the efforts of the ages toward freedom, Farwell placed the present freeing of the Indians from the reservation. CHAPTER XIII The Indian Celebration Jt was three or four days later that news came that the Levine bill had passed. H was a compromise bill ns John had intimated It would be to the half breeds in the woods. Only the mixed bloods could sell their lands. Nevertheless there was great rejoicing in Lake City. Plans were begun immediately for a Fourth of July celebration upon the reservation. Kent to his lasting regret missed the celebration. Immediately after school closed he had gone into Levines office and had been sent to inspect Levines holdings in the northern part of the state. Levine returned the last week in June and took charge of the preparations. Amos, who never had been on the reservation, planned to go and Levine rented an automobile and invited Lydia, Amos, Billy Norton and Lizzie to accompany him. As they neared the reservation John halted the car. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Colds Cost Money It fa Miimattd that m mfitror from cold lotos Ihi day tin rota work in a year, i FORTIFY YOURSELF AGAINST COLDS, GRIPPE DR. PIERCES GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY AO Dealer, liquid or Tablet ER OVER zm YEAR haarlem oil has been a worldwide remedy for kidney, liver and bladder disorders, rheumatism, lumbago and uric acid conditions. 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