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Show t - J i. AT. v V THE RICH COUNTY REAPER RANDOLPH. UTAH Toy Railroading Is Rapid Growing Hobby Among Men tch th Copyright by Ricli By RICHARD HOFFMANN J Hoffmann WNU Service SYNOPSIS Youre certainly not going to wash my socks, said Hal. She seemed to straighten a little In Following his tatheri criticism of his Idle life, and withdrawal of financial defense as she said, And why not? 'assistance, Hal Ireland, son', of a d n it all, because "Why, is wealthy banker, practically without If you were ill, Barry interrupted, funds but with the promise of a situation in San Francisco, which he must would you let anybody else take care reach, from New York. He takes pass- of you if I could? I wouldnt shine y age with a auto party because youre plenty on "share expense basis. Other your shoes, members of the party include an at- strong enough to do it for yourself; tractive girl, Barry Trafford; middle-age- d but for the love of Mike why shouldnt Giles Kerrigan; Sister Anastasia, I do washing for you if youve got a nun; and an individual whom he tn- -, stinctively dislikes, Martin Crack. Bar-- I things that need it? Is it beneath me, rys reticence annoys him. To Kerrigan or something? Wouldnt you shine my he takes at once, but he distrusts shoes If I asked you to? Crack. He finds his intimacy with Ker-- ! Of course. rigan ripening, and .makes a little Well, then. Perhaps you didnt progress with Barry. Through a misunderstanding, at a stopping place, Hal know you wear woolen socks, and Is directed to Barrys room. Instead of woolen socks shrink if theyre not carehis own, and they exchange kisses. done. fully , Next day he tells her he loves her. She I didnt know that, said Hal Tell that she mustnt love him. , answers without giving any reason. Crack bru-- , me more. tally insults Kerrigan. Hal forces him Id tell you lots more, said Barry, to apologize abjectly, and his feeling if youd try to see my meaning, and of disgust toward Crack Is intensified On his insistence. Barry tells Hal that, remember it. ' at her fathers urging, she had mar-- , ' Barry, dyou think I forget anything Tied a man many years older than she, and had promised her fathe?, on his you say anything, even the first word deathbed, to stick to her husband, no you said to me. years ago, when you , matter what happened, for ten years. used to make me mad? was That four and despite years ago, Well, what did I say to you first? ' her knowledge of her husband's unsaid Barry, challenge cheering her worthiness, she is determined to keep her promise, though admitting her love eyes. for Hal. You said We were standing In that place, wherever it was you know that place, and you said No, signals CHAPTER VII Continued off. We were in the car and you said 16 wasnt my cigarette that burned it "Come on, she said. Lets stretch coat. cross-countr- , i . I J , our legs. Lets see Wyoming. ( Lady, have you ever had a good look at my legs? Kerrigan asked, as a question of grave scholarship. No, of course not; I beg pardon. The point Is theyre past stretching. Take my young friend Ireland with you, but let me have him back in good condition. And mind your pup: coyotesll lead a dog till hes tired and then turn on him. "I wish youd come, said Barry. I wish I would, said Kerrigan, but I wont Ill sit here thinking of old, old brandy, and Ill be younger when you come back. Be off. If you run into Hostyles, send me a line by one of em and Ill be at your side in a twinkling say, an hour and a half. At the top of a little ridge to the westward, from which they could look down the road where Rasputin waited, and see across to the mountain range behind which the sun would set they slowed their pace and stopped. Thats not a long walk, said Barry. , Long enough, said Hal Rattlesnakes. Oh gosh! not really? said Barry, moving to him. He watched her without stirring his arms, smiling a little at her and to himself. No, he said. I just wanted you to come where I could touch you and then show you I wouldnt. Im proud of keeping my promise; you must ask me why Im so strong. There was a memory of solemn alarm under her smile. Why are you? she said dutifully. She sat down facing the west her legs doubled and one firm shoulder hunched where she leaned against her arm. Because. he said, stretching himself before her, because youve drawn your loveliness up into a kind of royalty that makes you more beautiful than I thought even you could ije. Because you have a pride and purity In your eyes that goes as far above the world as that peace that makes Sister Anastasia beautiful. And yet your bravery is warm and living; yon dont turn your back on life; and you cant turn your back on the most implacable thing Ive known in li ferny fantastic desires for you, for the beauty behind your eyes, for the beauty She turned from her lonely looking Into the west, glanced from his month to his eyes with that awed, still consternation, and said, Hal, that's not darling, well have to go back. And because, Hal went on, tomorrow nothing you can put against me can stop me nothing. There, Ive , finished. And you can watch the strength and implacability coming Into me with every minute of my promise. Hal, she said hopelessly, stripping her hat from the golden luxuriance that ran simply back from the round of her forehead. She faced the west again and watched it, trying its farthest distance with the sorrow of her teyes. Then she turned to him and said artlessly, What about your socks? Socks? said Hal, his look laughing as he glanced at them. What about them? Tve got things to wash out tonight, or whenever we get anywhere, she said. If youve got any things, 1 can do them, too. ; I Playing with toy railroads Is today one of the fastest growing hobbies among men In the United States. Nearly every large city has its miniature railroad society whose members own elaborate systems ranging in cost from about $30 for small electric lines to $10,000 for real models which run under their owh steam over a mile of track, hauling ten tons at 30 miles an hour. fence posts for a fire when they came to the car. HI there, he said comfortably, as If they had kept house together for a long time. "Got the sun put away all right? Yes, said Hal. Very prettily, too. Whats the fire for? Goin to have a blizzard? No, said Kerrigan. Just like to attract attention. "Havent seen any to attract, said Hal. But you know your publicity out here better than I do. There was a pleasant murmur of welcome as Barry got into the car where the others still waited. Hal, with a strange, assured feeling of peace upon him, looked up at the first stars and breathed his chest clear-ridin- g Cause 1 found one o my sheep drownded futher up the crick where he was drinkin, an I wanted tknow how it tasted. Did you tell him that? said Kerrigan. I told him, said the man. He didnt like it. Youre a sheepherder, said Kerrilyin gan. said the man, with a quick nod of pride. Only I aint jus now. He nodded again, his I been fired. stained mouth open. I live over tother side there in the shed by the Old South Corral. An when I feel like It some day. Ill tear it down. Whyll you tear it down? said Kerrigan. Itll make em sore, said the man. You can have anything you want up there. If you want to tear the shack I am, slowly full Lord, its good, he said to Kerrigan. You shouldve told me Id like down. Ill help you. "Thats mighty nice of you, said Wyoming. With the night com- Kerrigan, but I guess well just sit plete and the fire going, they made a here for a while. thin supper from Mrs. Pulsiphers orThe man watched the fire a little anges, the popcorn which she ordered longer. Then he turned and grinned at John to uncache, and some agglomKerrigan and said, Well, I guess Id from a bag in Ker- oughta get back. Moons cornin up. erated fruit-drop- s Well, good night to you, said Kerrigans pocket. The atmosphere was subdued, quiet, the voices not quite rigan. tentative but variously respectful, as Good night, said the man, and if some one were asleep nearby. And abruptly started clumping away again. each time John, after a silence, wonThe late moon floated up clear and dered where that Mr. Crack was. Hal brilliant to pale the stars with its gray-blu- e felt the peace upon his blood freshly dusk, and they moved from the a peace assured of strength, of Bar- running board, nearer the fire, to watch your Barry chuckled at him, slowly and rys nearness, and of his final coming that bright drifting. "Youre at liberty, Kerrigan said huskily, with her head a little back to her after the term of his promise. and her firm, white throat full. Close, Those in the car got out to stretch to Barry, to lean against my friend Mr. Ireland, close. Im glad you re- and stroll briefly and look up into the Ireland and have a nap. membered. I used to watch you being night; and past ten, when John gave She gave her soft laugh and relaxed made mad by me and love it And a yawn that echoed in the shameless against Hal, as if shed been waiting cavern of his mouth, Mrs. Pulsipher for Kerrigans permission. Her hair suggested sleep. She and Sister Anas- touched his cheek as she settled her tasia disposed themselves in the back head to his shoulder; she looked up at seat, while John cramped his gaunt him in sleepy comfort, saying: Too lanldness in the front and Barry, Hal, heavy? then pressed closer to him and Kerrigan sat along the running and closed her eyes. And in the natboard, watching the fire and talking. uralness of that, Hal was near believListen. said Barry suddenly, inter- ing he had dreamt the obstacles to rupting her own speech. Doc raised his their united fortune: her trapped alhead for a grunt, sniffing. There comes legiance to that man, that husband, was too grotesque a sacrilege. somebody. The slow, moon marked the moving They listened. A coyote the pale, pretty ghost of a guilty dog passed of the night across the sky; and Hal on the edge of the gloom beyond the and Kerrigan sat together in it, by fire, and Barrys hand came to rest on Barrys sleeping kept silences that were broken only by the soft settling Hals knee. It is somebody, Kerrigan muttered sound of the fire, or murmured of in a moment, looking at his watch. things not so much satisfying in themselves as in the fact that they spoke Hes been long enough. Its eleven. of them here. not Hal Its said, Impulsively Every so often Hal looked down at Crack, and wondered why he was so face her dark lashes laid in Barrys coolly sure. radiant little a fringe on each smooth him looked at around slowly, Barry vital her lips at rest together, cheek, How dyou know? she soletaniy. and oblivious of her gentle breathing said. And once when Kerrigan hapcare. Hal moved a little Inside his clothes. to glance at him as he looked "Doesnt feel like him, he said. He pened up, they smiled at each other as If gave a short, uneasy laugh of depreshe somehow belonged to both of them. cation. (TO BE CONTINUED) The footfalls made by heavy, stiff-sole- d shoes brought their slovenly The First Wait. beat nearer and stopped. Hal got up not come into existence In did Waits A car. broad and walked around the In ancient times manner. a haphazard from as a and white distant fire, glow, to perform, definite a function had was spread in the east where the moon they She Gave Her Soft Laugh and Reall were stalwart minstrels and one no could see they he would but come, laxed Against Hal. he called attached to the court of the king. Their down the road. Evening, duties consisted of tramping the streets now she said, her voice touching into the dark. at night, keeping law and order, and the edge of sorrow, then evading it in Evenin, evenin, came a cracked a little sigh: now Im asking you to voice after an interval You the folks proclaiming the time at certain intervals. Later they developed into let me wash your socks. got the fire? I seen it from a way players and until one hunback and come to see what was goin dred years ago had an official standing The sun set in bold, steady red. a on. was the custom for short ledge of cloud fastened across He clumped up to the fire a tall, in, London. It waits to serenade to swains engage whole of the the and on no his tangled hair, hat dry spread it; ratty man, lady-love- s at their night, on payment land the tawny, tufted sweep of plain shirt dirtily open at his throat, blue-jean- s but a of fee, eventually they comrust and and gray emery cut off about three Inches above ground, the loss of sleep and the practice of tile flat ter s. under plained strata of His of veteran his the tops stripes races of rock, the high, heavy moun- grinning lips were stained at the cor- was abolished. At one time the custom tain peaks piled beyond all came by ners and his bright, empty eyes was so established that there was ala soft, purple clarity, as If they stood watched the fire, not any of the three ways music in one street or another from 1 to 4 a. m. Tit-Bit- s Magazine. in tinted water. Hal and Barry had who were near it. risen to watch the silent glory of the You folks strapded, ey? he said Pintail Ducks colors she with her back against him cheerily in a minute. are trim and handsome, ducks Pintail and her hands clasped over his, the Looks it. said Kerrigan. ever on the alert for slow rhythm of her breathing under I run into some folks last year was but usually-shy- , his touch. stranded, he said. Over tother side. danger. They are very rapid fliers. She took a faltering breath and let Seems like Im always runnin into Pintails are not noisy ducks. The only it go reluctantly; and Hal his mouth folks thats stranded. He , grinned notes they utter are quacks, which sound very much like the quack of the near the faintly fragrant thicket of happily at the fire. half-curla fella whispered Wtat? out see to the common mallard, in the field, male Didnt go She turned her head to look at his highway and get a lift into town, did pintail ducks may be recognized by their white bellies and the conspicu lips, then up at his eyes, her looking you? Hal said. Late this afternoon? ous white line which runs up the side abman town? stood the she then said what To intimate, expectant; of the head and neck. The long, pointaway from him and returned to the sently. ed central tail feathers are another disAny town, said Hal. fading colors of the western sky. man. Last to last the tinction, and so are the light edgings week said she No, f said; beauty Beauty seen a feller get a lift out on the of the rear of the pintails wings when forever, in a few minutes. He pressed her hand before he let road. Goin west, he was. But I mind the duck Is in flight The female pintails are slender, streaked brown ducks it go, watching her. I spose while we these other folks was stranded therecan find the way wed better go back, over tother side. I come on one of similar to the female mallard, but more d lie said. Some day, well never have 'em drinkin water out of a little crick slender and without the blue patch on the wing. we got I says to him, Hows it taste?' to go back. With a limber bending of her body, an he says Good, an I says, "Thats Easiest Form of Worship she picked up her hat, and it swung good, Im glad tknow an he says. He between them in her hand as they Why? an I told him why. Adoration Is the natural response ot laughed silently without looking at any man to the sense of the greatness of started down. j It wasnt cool, but Kerrigan was ar- of them. 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