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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER RANDOLPH. UTAH THE RICH COUNTY REAPER Entered as second-clamatter Feb 8. 1929. at the pst office Randolph. Utah, under the Act of Mar. 3, 1879. Hfm. E. Marshall, Editor and Prop SUBSCRIPTION tl.80 Per Year in Advance ss lUmV T(k AND BELLS LAW1EMC By KATHLEEN NORRIS Copyright by Kathleen Norris WNU Service Gail looked, too. Looked down at good look at your little sister, and I excitement of Far Niente had been the bareheaded, loudly laughing giri want to tell you something! She can pretty generally reviewed. The luck that had brought the Bos a big raccoon-coateman was helping manage her own affairs. Ariel was with Dorothy Camp. So ton Lawrences to California at the be- into a roadster. She Her face, already pale with beat and the boys and I had to console each recognized the ginning of the gold rush has deserted hair, the curve of soft cheek. emotion, grew whiter. other e the present generation. From a was How dyou mean you you saw It ArieL Gail gave Ariel her big sisterly, symtheir have shrunk ranch, holdings to a small farm, and the old family Ariel?" FOR THE MOMENT smile. pathetic home in Clippersville. The death of Was that fun? she, asked, feeling CHAPTER V Why " He looked at her In puz their father forced the three eldest A vast cloud of smoke and big zled surprise. Why, she wds at your that it was somebody else talking, that children to work so that Sam and little tongues of flame began to issue from Ariel might continue their education. Gail had a sick moment of vertigo, house that Sunday night, two weeks it was all a part in a play in one had gone into the windows of a bouse. A man ran Phil, now twenty-fivof their Sunday night charades. the iron works, Gail to the publio li of terror. What she saw, what It sig ago. over to it and pressed the electric belL Fun! They stayed at the Fairseen He had not her Mockersons at was where she nified, and where Ariel brary and Edith to the book departThe door was opened by a woman mont, said the eager Edith. ment of Clippereville's largest store was everything pushed together in a then! Gail sank back. Seventeen-year-ol- d Ariel is becoming a complete demoralisation of mind and who suffered from deafness. Come on, have a change of heart, Oh, did you, baby? problem, and Phil is fascinated by that senses. We went to a movie, Ariel supswim! And then well go up and lets Madam, your house is on fire, ex terrible Lily Cass, whose husband has claimed the man. plied. deserted her. Young Van Murchison, After a while she turned and dazed- to San Mateo. Then then the girl at Mockersons scion of a wealthy family, teturns from ly reached for her brown coat and butHis laughter, the grip of his big Whats that? Yale, and Gail has visions, through Your house is on fire !" he repeated. brown hand, would have been irresisti wasnt Ariel? Or else . . . Gails first toned its belt about She followed her. marriage with him, of the turning of hours ago. But Gail impulse to tell her sisters of her sickWhats that? House on fire? Oh, the Lawrence luck. Dick Stebbins, the other girls downstairs, not knowing ble twenty-fou- r is that all? Phils best friend, has the run of the where she was nor what she was do was hardly conscious of them now ness and fright died away. She dared not risk that yet Well, replied the man, that is all house. Ariel is sneaking out of the ing. Absently, apologetically, she persisted, house at night for joy rides. Phil sugI can think of at the moment! said her farewells. Peace and shadiness held the kitchShe was next to Van on the drive gests, to the girls consternation, that en. The Ariel was expecting some boy world ing, was all that Gail to house. Cass the home. The cars shot away into the they invite Lily with foggy friend goes with Van for a week-en- d for supper; Edith was going to' POORLY DIVIDED frocks, bridge, tennis, polo, the throbbed big engines the Chipps, his uncle and aunt. She is on the night; When closed behind her as a pool walk over to Mrs. Applebys at five trips reached the grade. they Mrs. received coldly by Chipps and her oclock to ask about the fiesta dresses ; top of the long rise, and the machines closes over a stone. guests. She would be home before three Sam was working; Phil had said that could run quietly, cautiously, through the enveloping chick mists, Gail spoke oclock. She must be patient She he must go to the ofllce. CHAPTER IV Continued would be rushing into the old house Which I shrewdly suspect is " for the first time. 9 Thomas Street hill! Edith confessed Van, you saw those men and the and what a haven of rest and coolFor a moment Gail could not see the two ness and ease It would be! at three ruefully. , girls the ones who were making oclock. She would find Phil there, Home. The infinite peacefulness of point Then it came upon her with so much noise? sickening force, and she felt choked haggard and wild, Edith stricken, Sam it! Gall, looking at ArieL could not em specially why? and a little nauseated. The men roared ; VanDidnt notice making frightful suggestions about believe that her feverish, frightened shouted. the girls laughed briefly, and Lenore the river and notifying the suspicions of last night had any basis dragging Oh, nothing! Gail, actually writhsaid, Jim, dont be so revolting!" whatever. This was all reassuring, all police. You low swine!" Lucia Tevls, who ing, saying the soundless words of We Lawrences can never hold np soothing. was eighteen years old, added affec- prayers with trembling lips, added no our heads after this again, she It was not believable that this innomore. But her soul was sick. Not that It mattered, if Ariel, cent child of seventeen, In the blue tionately. thought Ariel Oh, my G d not yet eightWell, what can you do? Gall asked frightened and sobered, were home, organdy, had upon her mind any secret een herself fiercely. She couldnt shame were safe! as disgraceful as a midnight escapade I want you to understand that I Van Then night and fog and the explorand miles at Mockersons. more! by Her away face up was getting walking Thirty am a man of parts. from the group. Her face burned ing lights of the car and her own sick, burned by the hot wind, and her head But as soon as they had an opporI guess I married the wrong part wretchedly for half an hour. She heavy heartbeats again. splitting. Twenty miles ten miles. The tunity to speak to each other alone, It was like a horrible dream. She big gas tank came into view, the red Gail went would not give in. She slept waked, straight to the point Hurry, Hurry, Hurry went to luncheon at some was miles miles from home, from breakfasted, Ariel, did you ever hear of a roadA weary traveler was compelled to club in whose chintzy dressing room Phil and Edith, and security and goodhouse called Mockersons? spend the night in the hotel of a small the girls were notably rude to her, ness and help. The blond head, with its drift of flydorp. At breakfast he remarked to watched her first polo game. She would The need to be at home gnawed at away gold hair, came up like a flash. 1 wish I had come the proprieter : her flesh like teeth; her face burned, not give in. Gail knew. And to this hotel when I passed this way Ariel shrugged slightly, wary eyes Fight fight, fight. She made herself she could not breathe. six weeks ago. Van, how far are we from home? on Gails face. pretty, she made herself amusing, she Oh, said the proprietor, I am glad fought back the constant From Los Gatos? Lets see impulse to Yep, she admitted briefly. to hear that. No. From Clippersville. say, Oh, Van, take me home! No, Then there was a long silence. ArYes, continued the traveler, push- no, no! This was her chance; she Oh, Clippersville? Oh well, about iels eyes met her sisters. ing his plate from him, "that egg would would not lose it She grew almost seventy miles. Some of us went over from the have been a lot fresher then. Seventy miles! They seemed to fall feverish, her clear skin unusually pale, Chipp ranch, Gail said, returning the her blue eyes unusually bright, and on her heart like so many separate steady gaze. What were you doing was the prettier for it blows. Was somebody driving Ariel sevGood Stepper there, Ariel? Van saw nothing. He was in great enty miles home tonight? What was Father Listen, Marie! I understand The tone was dispassionate, quiet Ihat that young Van Dusen chap Is a spirits, rushing from one thing to an- she doing away from home? Where But Gails breast rose and fell once, other cocktails, bridge, tennis, swim- did Phil and Edith think she was? Peron a heavy sigh. loafer What what you were, if you were Daughter Listen, papa! I met him ming, polo, golf at breakneck speed. haps Phil and Edith were dead. . . , By Saturday night all these were exPerhaps they were scouring the town there and saw me, I suppose! Ariel Monday, he took me motoring on Tuesblurted, in a tone that was meant to day, swore eternal devotion Wednes-day- , hausted, radio and victrola had dene for Ariel, telephoning Dorothy, teletheir worst, and it was decided that phoning the Lovelaces! And she not be bold and turned out merely tremproposed Thursday, and is going to break the news of our engagement Mockersons offered the only possible there! bling and frightened. Papa told us to take care of the Gail took the shock without a to you tonight which is Friday ; if you amusement sign, This was at about nine oclock. Into children And little Ariel, that Mother on patiently. call that loafing on a job, Ill give up. going cars they all accordipgly piled, and off only stayed with four days f Who were you with, dear? Detroit News. into the night they went A dreary And what does Ariel know about Oh, dont dear me I protested ArieL dressing room, after the cold run, and danger? Nothing. Shes a baby. Men in sudden ugliness. -- You know you Hit Bad Arm the girls powdering their noses, red- think shes pretty, and it amuses her. think Im a lost soul, and youre goJack has been vaccinated and moth- dening their lips again. Another bleak- She never dreams. . to tell PhU, and stir up all sorts ing er wants to sew the red ribbon to his looking table with a limp spotty cloth "Oh, my G d! Where is she now? of trouble. on it They were all so tired they alcoat It was Impossible that 12 hours TO BE CONTINUED. most laid their heads on the cloth, and must pass before she could be home Jack Sew it on the other sleeve, Ash Blond and Thats a Real One, Gail was scared when she saw the hip again and know the worst Hours mother. Old Whaling Trips Kept Look! Mother But you must have it on the flasks and the red wine again. Van hours! They proved to be the longest Sailors Away Four Years bad arm or the boys will hit against had driven like a crazy man on those through which she had ever lived. mills, the canneries, and finally the In the old days of the steep circuitous roads coming over; Vaguely, secondary things penetrat Swimming treetops of Clippersville, whaling Inmen who went to sea In the ed the flaming wall of thought that from which dustry, J&ck Mother, you dont know the he certainly would not be In a condilines arose like dazzling tion to drive more carefully going back. shut her in. She realized, alone in her hairs of white fire. search of these prized creatures of the boys at school. Of course, they would get back to the comfortable cabin room, that she was Galls heart was suffocating her. deep were often gone from home as ranch somehow, bnt it was frighten- not going to sleep. She said only Incoherent farewells, as long as three or four years at a time. Must Be Something Wrong I Ariel! Each whaling ship, says a writer In Ariel! ing. Ariel she descended from the back seat into Wife Is my hat on straight, dear? to think of herself as home She walked out under the redwoods the heavenly green shadiness of the the St. Louis Funny carried Husband (in a hurry) Yes, quit again tomorrow night playing soli- just as dawn began to paint the west- old garden, and catching np her heavy four boats. When a straight taire. Well, one thing was sure ; if she ern face of the canyon with streaks suitcase ran for the side door. whgle was sighted these boats were Are you sure? ever married Van Murchison or any- of vermilion. let down Into the water, each one On the threshold the of shadquiet, Yes, yes do come along. one like him she would cure him of Then she must have gone back and ed kitchen she stopped short Edith manned by a helmsman, four oarsmen I Oh, dear, must go back home, then. this sort of craziness. flung herself on her bed and fallen was sharing a light refection of artiand a headsman. The helmsman carYou see, it is not fashionable to wear Mockersons was as dull as ditch asleep, for she was awakened by the chokes and bread pudding with a ried sharp harpoons, to which lines book, this kind of hat straight Stray Sto- water tonight There were parties in other girls laughter and voices at ten, Martin Chuzzlewit Ariel, dainty and were attached, and threw them into ries Magazine. the curtained alcoves, shouting, and and roused herself, stLff and half sick, cool, was sitting at the other end of the body of the whale. singing, but the main room was empty. with heavy eyes and chilled wet feet the kitchen table, cleaning gloves in Then began a great battle. The A heavy fog was rolling in fronf the She crept down to the main cabin for gasoline. JUST TERRIBLE beadsman attacked the whale with sea ; the motor cars that went by made breakfast only anxious to avoid notice, For a moment revulsion of feeling lances, but the maddened monster often a muffled sound in the dark night to secure the earliest possible escape made Gail feel actually dizzy and weak. dragged the boat for many miles Youre awful cute Van said affec- for home. But if Ariel saw anything amiss her through the water. Often, too, be tionately, covering Gails hand with They were all going up to San Mateo, smile of surprise and welcome gave no dived to the bottom, and the lines on his own. for it appeared that Van was to take sign of it, and Ediths delight covered the harpoons that held him paid out for A noisy party stumbled out of an the place of a missing polo thousands of feet player; all other emotions for a space. alcove and scattered wearily toward every one was very much excited about Oh, Gall, we didnt expect you unEventually, however, the whale had the game. dressing rooms for wraps. til suppertime! Oh, darling, did you to come back to the surface to breathe, We ought to be going, too Lenore But she was in a fever to get home. have a good tinje? Was It fun? and then he was killed by a lance Ive decided. This is too awful Vans arguments, his pleading, fell on been thinking and thinking but youve thrust In a vital spot They stumbled up In their turn, deaf ears. Ariel perhaps murdered, not had lunch! Today most whalers are strongly staggered up the smelly, unpainted Phil and Edith crushed with terror and Edith was in her arms, was racing built Iron shlMmd the small boats stairs to the odorous, damp, bleak doubt, and they wanted her to go to about the kitchen eagerly, mixing iced are equipMjJbannons to fire the room. Its window, on this San Mateo and applaud the chukkers dressing tea, taking rolls from the old black harpooLfntu tne whale. A charge You look unhappy, old man. raw night was wide open, the salty of a polo game! japanned bread box. Ariel got up from of blasting powder attached to the haram. I am almost as unhappy as air blowing in deliciously cold and In the end she had her way, and was the table to come and bestow one a woman with a secret nobody wants of poon then kills the whale, which Is fresh. established in the roomy empty back her strange kisses. Gail, to know." her seated, dragged back to the parent ship by a This wont .lo! Gall said, going to of a big closed car. Van saw her off hat pushed off her damp, pale fore- windlass. close it Standing beside it both hands reproachfully. The Habit of Complaint head, felt that she was still in the raised to the center rill, she looked You piker I suppose you were thankful for dream, and that things had shifted 41 Leisure Hours down at a pool of bright light from I know It" She smiled a sickly themselves about on all sides, the heavy rain." New The York committee on the Use strangesmile at the handsome boy. Oh, yes, replied Farmer Corntos-sel- ; the tavern doorway below. ly, as they did In dreams. of Leisure Time discovered that the Come Duchess. Thats the colhere, Why dont you stay and swim, anyBut tell us, tell us, tell us! Edith average individual though I dont see why them 1 mean! spends tbi 168 or Lucia hair said suddenly, way. Its noon; youll cook driving pleaded. weather folks couldnt pervlde to keep hours in the week thus: 77 h? frs for at also Gails down. home elbow, the looking through In And valley! it the fields instead of lettln it stray whatd you do last night? sleep, meals and fe; 40 personal 1 cant I Ash blond and thats a real one, too Gall could finally ask, when the swimpromised Ariel around, muddin up the roads. hours for work; 10 hours Jlng to Look tf Oh, Ariel nothing ! Listen, I got one ming pool, the frocks, and the general and from work, and 41 hours-- eisara. v SYNOPSIS d ash-blon- d 1 4,000.-acr- e, pleasure-swimm- 1 1 1 1 . Globe-Democr- sharp-prowe- d , . ! 1 1 .I , 1 1 II |