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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH theT rich county beapejT s matter FeU 8. 1929. at the pst office Randolph. Utah, under the Act of Mar. 3, 1879 Entered as second-clas- Wm. E. Marshall, Editor and Prop SUBSCRIPTION 81JT0 Per Year in Advance ft uycw ILAWHMC Copyright by Kathleen Norris By KATHLEEN NORRIS WNU Service SYNOPSIS "Howd you happen to know that, and concern toward his children. Dur- drifted happily off Into the deep sleep Van Murchisons Ede?" ing these days Gail and Phil had been of tired twenty-threThe luck that had brought the Boshis voice, still In her ears. a book about old Clippers-vill- e the center- of a happy, laugh, Reading ton Lawrences to California at the beSam had been In bed and asleep you know that crazy book that group. These had been days of picginning of the gold rush has deserted the present generation. From a hardly mentions Grandfather? Well, nics, charades, amateur theatricals, for an hour when the clock struck Phil had walked home from ranch, their have shrunk it had all about some lawsuit, and the sundaes at Dobbins, movies, occasional eleven. to a small farm, holdings and the old family Chlpps and the Kinneys were In It" hilarious gatherings at theaters or night school with Lily. He was now home In Cllppersvllle. The death of Hes awfully nice, Gall said Im- dances. sitting on the steps of the Cass shantheir poetic father forced the three All that was over now. Gradually ty at the end of Thomas street mureldest children to work so that Sara pulsively, out of a silence. and little Ariel might continue their He must be. Is he handsome, the smart crowd had drifted away, tak- muring incoherent and foolish absurdieducation. Phil, now twenty-fivhad Gall? ing to motor cars, hotel tea rooms, ties to the little ear that smelled or gone Into the Iron work. Gall to the Oh collegiate-looking.-" roadhouses. heavy cheap powder and perfume. public library and Edith to the book Edith was silent for a full minute. Gail had neither the money nor the department of Cllppersvllles largest No; the door had been slammed by store. Seventeen-year-ol- d Ariel Is be- Then she said, with conviction, You gowns to hold her own; Phil, always Ariel or rather it had been caught coming a problem, and Phil Is fasci- ought to come to Mullers and get one something of a Puritan, had frankly and slammed by an unexpected gust nated by "that terrible" Lily Casa of those linens. abandoned a company and a code with of wind when her small frail hand had striped whose husband has deserted her. Young I was thinking Id get one of those whicn he had no sympathy, and Edith Van Murchison, scion of a wealthy opened it upon the summer dark. She at the sale. had withdrawn first of all. family, returns from Yale. He and Gail dotted Swiss dresses had stood there, trembling, terrified ' had been close friends before he went Theyre three-fiftFor aetual years now Gall always waiting to see if Sam or Gall or Edith to college and Gall has visions of the You ought to get both," Edith said winced away in her secret thought had been roused, ready to fly to her turning of the Lawrence luck. Dick firmly. from calculating them too exactly Stebblns, Phils best friend, has the room and scramble Into bed at the first run of the housa I wish had a white hat!" I there had been no attempt made on sound of an investigating footstep. There was another silence in the big, the part of Clippersvllles golden But there had been no disturbance dim, whose youth to Include the Lawrences In bedroom, CHAPTER II Continued and after an interminable upstairs, wall brocade not heavy papers had good times. Edith had become just a silence Ariel had opened the door' been changed or cleaned for twenty little bit twisted. In consequence, Just He had brought a large box with years, and whose windows were still a little too prone to explain a merrily florists box. him; curtained In fringed rep. that the Lawrences did not want to Dick, dont tell me you rememIsnt it fun, the way unexpected have anything to do with modern bered my birthday?" Gail exclaimed things happen! Edith said. ways, for they Intended to marry men as he gave it to her. I was thinking we could ask him to worthy of their name. And Phil had "Whose birthday?" Sunday supper." given up society entirely, and admired Mine." They were silent, staring into space. or had admired, for Gail never adDicks dissatisfied look traversed Do you know were very romantic?" mitted it that wretched little social the circle. Edith demanded then. outcast, Lily Cass. I didnt know today was your birthI suppose we are I" As for Gall, for many months she No I just day, he said resentfully. "You know we are. I mean Phils had known herself to be met the boy bringing this In. sinking Into so handsome and so smart, and every- utter commonplaceness. As time went Gall was paying no attention to him. one likes Sam, and everyone regards on she was becoming more and more Her fingers had been experiencing the Ariel as a sort of genius, whos going drab little Miss Lawrence of the liunfamiliar delight of tearing away to Inherit Papas gift, and you you brary; Phil more and more the quiet, green strings and cardboard and can write." underpaid Iron worker; massed layers of silky green paper. certainly Oh, Ede! I had one article in the Edith more and more bookish, Roses wet, sweet roses, two dozen and that was only because It Challenge, of them! The joyous promise of the romanA dozen and a half, Edith breathed, was in favor of the Bay bridge tic Lawrence youngsters had long Abigail Lawrence! Your composiawed. tions always took prizes at school, and been lost Phil had told Gall, with a Two dozen, Ede." Gail had wrenched the card from your Mothers day article was pub- little patient bitterness, that It was its wire and torn open the wet en- lished on the front page of the San to the Hunter end the Barchi boys that all advancement at the Iron velope ; the ink on the card was Francisco Call. Well, I know." Gall pondered It Works had been given. Months had blurred, but the words unmistakable. a minute, and then said with a sudden- gone by without seeing one single Twenty-thre- e times twenty-threly flushed face, If I should marry any- eligible man coming to the Lawrence more. Love from Van. one who had any money, Ede, and house. She seemed amused and pleased; Hardest of all for Gail to lose had have to work so hard and worry didnt were all pleased. But Galls modthey so much, I believe I could write been her faith In herself. She had manner no He Was Now Sitting on the Steps hint erately gratified gave been so sure, at sixteen, seven long of the bubbling geyser of ecstasy that stories I" of the Csee Shanty. You dont have to tell me that," years ago, that courage, arose within her. This was almost unhigh spirits, and honest service again, noiselessly this time, and hadl believable. Roses and the intimate, said loyal Edith. Are two of your daughters going were the weapons with which to con- slipped down through the overgrown offhand card from Van Murchison Gall was only confusedly aware of to be writers, Mr. Lucky Lawrence?" quer the world. She had been so sure garden, and into the deep green-blacshadows at the gate. In a sky of1 what went on about her, of what the Gall whimsically asked the enormous, that she knew the secret! She had seen herself writing chil- clear dark blue millions of stars had enlarged crayon portrait of her father others were saying. drens stories. Oh, nothing sensation- been twinkling, and In the side lane, "School tonight, Phil? Dick asked. hanging on the wall. al, All of I us nothing classical but simple, deeply rutted frcm winter rains, there are to somegoing Oh, sure get boarding-schoo- l and charming, and ranch had been two other stars, the watchthe Lawrences where, went off put Lucky They together and, In a stories that all girls would love, and ful lamps of a shining low open car. I on back the Edith Gall map daze, prophesied. began lappy automatically Ariel knew Buddy Left alone under her greenish light. that would assure Gail pleasant fame the business of clearing up. Her Raisch very her among an Insure her Gall fell but she knew, as all the town into townspeople. a swam In a mood sea slightly, of happy musing thoughts golden that dfeSI her supply of books entirely Income that would mean pleasure and knew, that he was an overgrown light who had been In Stanford univerShe had been getting beauty for Ariels girlhood, and an opThe kitchen grew hot ; the gas soared superfluous. and whistled. Gall worked on 'ob- tired ad discouraged of late; for portunity to develop the little sister's sity for abont three years and was still a sophomore She knew what the livions. Roses, roses, roses the world months life had seemed to drag with poetical genius. But It seemed that forever forever scent of Baddys breath signified, too. was nothing bnt pink roses. her, to lack its accustomed sweetness forever the once lucky Lawrences Gall had come Into Ariels room, as and interest After all, Papa had Of the couple sunk In the rumble would be poor, shabby, hardworking, was her habit the last thing at night seat, an overcoated man with a coland obscure, that Phil would help to to see that her little sister was comlapsed little bobbed, slick head on his build ships in which luckier men shoulder, she had known fortably In bed. She kissed Ariel, and But should cruise the waters of the world, she had settled In besidenothing. smoothed the discarded folds of blanthe driver that Edith would sell to more for- with a little gasp of satisfaction and ket at the foot of the bed. tunate women the romances she would excitement When she left the room Ariel seemed never realize in her own life, and Gall to be almost asleep. had Buddy Llssen, taste In her own mind only the rap- were only going whispered, down the road a Edith, meanwhile, had come Into ture of typewritten pages, the ecstasy ways, and come back." When alls said and Gails room. of holding her own book In her own done she began, and paused. That suits me, Ariel had said hands, the shy delight of being In- unperturbed. Which God forbid should ever be! troduced In distinguished gatherings Gall Interposed. Youre a good little sport" Buddy as the authoress." had told her. They were out of hearWell, I know. But when alls said Now, on her twenty-thir- d and done. Gall, who are the Murchl-sons- ? birthday, ing of the Lawrence bouse now, and Van Murchison unexpectedly. bnt had he could move faster. He had stepped Theyve nothing money, her back on the gas, and the car had shot like given these Edith said. dreams. how Oh, 4 good she eonld be, how gracious and a projectile into the starry night Still . . . money. . . Gall was sweet and fine she could be If Van TO B8 CONTINUED. laughing at her sister, but Edith did Murchison fell In love with her I That not resent It was all she needed, Just a break just Of course." She answered the unEarly Rhinoceroses an Indication that wonderful things Scientific research Indicates that the completed suggestion with a smile. could happen, that poor girls were earliest North American rhinoceroses But I mean that money Isnt isnt sometimes sought In marriage by rich were those which appeared on the like birth," she pursued. young men. Gall went about the room quickly, plains of Wyoming and Utah, along Mrs. of in business Murchison. the Young horse, in Eocene After all. with the four-toe- d long adept making If she was married at say this time times, about forty to fifty million years It ready for the night She said her next year nobody could say that she ago. In Ollgocene time, abont 35,000,-00prayers In a brisk, businesslike way, had been an old maid. Twenty-fou- r with her eyes on Ediths face, and got years ago, they are known to have that was young to marry. And then. been numerous In the great plains reinto bed. Her sister came to sit. at Ede should marry It would be easy gion about the Black hills, where they her feet It would be wonderful If one of ns enough to find beaux for the other became adapted as ordinary plains and It Would Be Wonderful if One of d married well, Edith offered dreamily. rungirls, with the Murchison money and woodland animals, as Us Married Well." On the strength of two dozen roses," ners, and as river aniposition behind her! The fan of it! The beauty of it! mals. In Miocene and Pliocene times Gall countered. "At a time of the been dead for almost seven years now, year when roses are two dollars a and they had been hard, puzzled years And why not? Other girls had had the first about 20,000,000 and the latfor the children he had left behind that much luck, and much, much more. ter about 8,000,000 years ago, they redozen !" Drowsing off to sleep In the sweet veled In the rivers which flowed eastThey have scads, Edith mused, un- him, years barren of results. The old house had grown shabbier, the garden summer darkness. Gall heard a door ward across the plains of Kansas and diverted. Murchisons Mills. I suppose they more of a jungle, the children them- bang downstairs, Just as - the clock Nebraska. Gall agreed .soberly. selves had grown only poorer and more struck a drowsy eleven. have millions, The LawBut hes not really a Murchison, Ede." bewildered. There appeared to be no rences, haring little to protect, rarely Diet of Amazon Indians locked doors; perhaps this was Sum "He was adopted. Nobody ever calls escape; there bad been no miracle. Cannibalism, according to an auJust at first there had been a de- coming in late, perhaps it was Phil. thority, Is never practiced him Kinney." merely to cided social movement toward the or Anyway, unless It banged again she gratify an appetite. The Indians Was lie legally adopted? of Oh, yes. He was only five when his phaned Lawrences; Immediately after did not propose to get up to bother the upper Amazon dine on caterpillars mother got a divorce, and when Vans Patterson Lawrences heroic death In with it and grind up the bones of thetr an As it happened, It was neither, but cestors for an Ingredient of their 'ether died Mr. Murchison practically overcrowded Washington, all Cllppers-vtll- e pophad made a gesture ef kindliness Gall could not know that snd so she ular homebrew. , , dopted him. e, - fun-lovin- 4,000-ac- NO CHANCE REPORTED A boastful American was holding fourth on the merits of his watch to a number of uninterested clubmen. At last one of the men decided he could stand It no longer. "Thats nothing," he Interrupted. "1 dropped my watch Into the Thames a year ago, and Its been running ever since." The American looked taken aback. "What I" he exclaimed, the same watch?" The other rose and slowly moved to the door. No," he replied, "The Thames." London Express. - g re ... e, y. - AND HE KNOWS hard-workin- g, h. Mr. Arts told me my face classic. What Is classic?" Oh, most anything old." was Would Hire Been Difficult ' Well, my dear sir." said the medical man, beaming at his new patient, and I suppose you followed my prescription? Good gracious, no, doctor," returned the other. I should have broken my neck If I had." The doctor staggered back. "Eh, what? he ejaculated. The other doctor who came to look at me threw It out of my bedroom window," said the patient. Answers Mag azlne. Too Much Change in Hours farmer had een visiting relatives In the city, but was glad to get back A home. Dont you enjoy city life?" a neighbor asked him. Oh, It wouldnt be so bad I guess, if I could get used to going to bed at my usual getting up time." Love Must Wait "There goes the only woman I have ever loved," commented the doctor who was chatting with the drug store man. Why dont you marry her?" the drug man Inquired. "I cant afford to, whispered the doctor. Shes my best patient Pathfinder Magazine. Force of Habit The dentist dived Into his for a spark plug wrench, bent hood of his car, and said, smile designed to allay all too) box over the with a nervous- ness: Now, open your mouth wide, please." PIFFLE! - e e, ! k big-bo- -- 0 swift-foote- heavy-bodie- d Why didnt you marry that girl?" "Another woman came between ns." Huh." Just as I started to propose the telephone girl cut me off! What the Iceman Said Daddy, If you give me 10 cents I'll tell you what the iceman said to mamma. Dad (all excited) 0. L, son, heres your dime. Boy He said, "Do you want any Ice today, lady?" Boy - |