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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH ; W: SYNOPSIS Brooke Reybum visits the office of Jed Stewart, a lawyer, to discuss the terms of an estate she has Inherited from Mrs. Mary Armanda Dane. Unwittingly she overhears Jed talking to Mark Trent, a nephew of Mrs Dane who has been disinherited. Mrs Dane had lived at Lookout House, a huge structure on the sea, built by her father and divided into two, for her and Marks father. 3rooke had been a fashion expert, and Mrs. Dane, a shut-in- , hearing her on the radio, bad invited her to call and developed a deep affection for her. Mark discloses that Mrs. Dane had threatened to disinherit him if he married Lola, from whom he is now divorced. He says he does not trust Henri and Clotilde Jacques, Mrs Dane's servants. He says he is not interested in an offer of Brookes to share the estate with him. Leaving her departmeftt store job, Brooke refuses an offer to "go with Jerry Field, a carefree stepping young man who wants to marry her. At a family conference she learns she mus' live at Lookout House alone, since Lucette, her younger sister who is taking her job, her brother. Sam, a young playwright, and her mother plan to stay in the city. Jed and Mark are astounded when they hear from Mrs. Gregory, a family friend, that she bad witnessed a hitherto unknown will with Henri and Clotilde two weeks before Mrs. Dane died. Brooke had arrived just as she was leaving. CHAPTER III Continued 5 Destroyed it? But how could Brooke Reyburn have known what was in the first will? Perhaps your aunt had told her that she was to be residuary legatee it doesnt seem probable, but women do fool Of course He grinned. things. men never do. Weve got to get busy. If it isnt destroyed, that will may be at Lookout House; youve never liked the Jacques and you say that they hate you. I have an idea. Open your house. Live there. Get friendly with the girl. I would feel .like a sneak to go there to spy on her. You suspect that she may have influenced your aunt to make a will in her favor, dont you? I do. Then give her a chance to prove that she didnt. Take a couple of Japs and go down and live next door. I wont commit myself to that proposition in a hurry. If I decide to do it, will you come with me? Sure, Ive been hoping youd ask me. Philo Vance is my middle name. Stewart picked up the note Youd better lying on the desk. open the investigation by accepting this. The Reyburn girls invitation to dine on Thanksgiving day? I would feel like a spy, a traitor. The turkey would choke me. Do you want the truth about this will? You bet I do. Then go. Dont write. We never send a letter when we can send a man. Phone the night before that you are coming. Shell have less time in which to think why you ye accepting. The time is still far off when the growth of American industry will have reached a state when it can be said that the job is done, that there are no longer any business frontiers. Charles R. Gay. The fruit of the free spirit of men do not grow in the garden of tyranny. Stanley Baldwin. The more leisure we have, the more likely we are to go to sleep mentally and to see our civilization become a back number. Dr. Jay B. Nash. Far too much of many persons lives is put in by using others thinking. Governor Cross. At least 50 per cent qf a mans success depends upon his wife. Dr. Robert N. McMurry. IQ Mm Emilie Loring. EMflOIE vow to make her lovely and attractive in appropriate clothes. That had been her job then and a thrilling job, too, to help women make the most of their good points. How Mary Amanda Dane had toolea her about money. The crippled woman had kept her feet firmly on the ground when it came to spending. Planning inexpensive, attractive clothes for her had been an exciting challenge. She had succeeded. The frocks had been charming, and with her drab wardrobe the invalid had shed much of her crabbedness. Lovely clothe:, did that for a woman. Pity that more husbands didnt realize the fact. Now she was gone and had left a small fortune behind her. Why had she denied herself so many of the luxuries of life? Brooke blinked long wet lashes and said aloud, as she had said many times since she had come to live at Lookout House: Thank you for everything, Mrs. Mary Amanda. Thanks billions. She swallowed the lump which rose in her throat whenever she thought of the womans incredible kindness. Hardly the time to go sentimental when at any moment the family might burst in on her. ILflDIMRKfi WNU Service. night in your garage. Hes crazy about that coupe you gave him, Brooke. He has named it Lightning. And can it go! Whos the tall gent with the undertaker expression who pulled our bags from the car as if he were extracting upper and lower molars? Henri. He and his wife, Clotilde, worked for years for Mrs. Dane. I kept them on, to help me settle. They take a lot of handling, believe i or not. I believe it. This room looks like part of a House Beautiful exhibit. Its corking. Wait till you see the rest of the house, Lucette. Heres Sam. I would recognize his bang of a door if I heard it in Timbuctoo. Welcome to Lookout House, Sammy! Its wonderful that the theater closed just at this time. Yeah! Its all in the point of view. There are them who think otherwise. However, Im not kick- "Quotations" If taking to the sticks to be chaperoned by big sister will make Mothers visit happier, weU settle down here with bells on. Shes earned all the fun she can get. Shell have one grand time and mow those stiff Britishers down in swaths and come home Countess Whoosit, or I miss my guess. Dish-Dryin- g Is Celia Reyburn proLucette! tested indignantly. With Dont mind her Mother, Broke reassured. By the time you return your younger daughter will social have acquired all graces Just a minute! Now I make a condition. I come only if I keep on with my job. It would mean early and late commuting, Lucette. Ive thought that out. In Sams convertible we can make it. But you and Sam wont be coming down at the same time, and Dont be so sure, Brooke. Sam ing. He caught Brooke in a bearlike aimed a nutshell at the parrot. The theater has closed permanently and hug. He kept his arm about her Im up against one of those simple looked room. around the as he economic problems, wheres the Swell joint youve got here. I next from? Ill go to job coming like the greenhousey smell from off Mother and those plants. Say listen, weve New York to see Now take that producers my play. missed you like the dickens, havent to sniff around for barhave begun Mother? we, We have, Sam. Celia Reyburn gains, I may get my chance. Brooke attempted Sam dear Wed better steadied her voice. to her voice. Bad and lighten dismayed get emotionalizing ready stop for dinner. I have kept house years enough for him to be out of work r. enough to know that promptness without having her turn Youll find something. I read the at meals helps to keep the homPattern 5858 other day that the theater is on the emakers lifes walk easy. If you dont oh, SamYou would think of that. MothMore fun than a picnic . . . dryer. It isnt dinner to night. I planned my, what a chance for you to write! d dishes with these ing not a buffet supper, not being sure at Why give your play a try-otowels. Put color into with them do for Well it here? towns from the the relatives time what big my town would arrive. Come upstairs welfare fund, in the Club House the- cotton floss, and youll have the ater. What a chance to try Is- gayest, gladdest set ever! Heres and Ill show you your rooms. pick-u- p work that fairly flies for A family might get on each othlands Arise on the dog! each in 8 - to - the - inch motifs at did ers nerves, as of course it News flash! The Reyburns stage crosses. Think what a welcome times, but there was nothing like it, a play! Lucette cut in. a gift just pair of these would Brooke concluded fervently, as after Why not? Brooke persisted ea- make at bridal shower or housein front cushion floor on a Most of the summer homes supper gerly. warming. But chances are you of the library fire she leaned against are to be kept open during the winwilling to part with a her mothers knees. ter and Answer the phone, will wont be one of this handy set. In single Perhaps it was because she had you, Sam? Take the message for 5858 you will find a transbeen too absorbed in her own con- me. Ive been pestered to death by pattern of six motifs averagfer pattern cerns before to notice, but Sam and tradespeople and insurance agents 7 5 by inches; material reLucette seemed to have grown old- wanting to sell me something. Tell ing ; color suggestions ; quirements er, to have changed, seemed also to them Im out of town for the eve- illustrations of all stitches used. on their have something weighty ning anything. 15 cents in stamps or coins Send minds. What was it? What had The silence of the room was (coins for this pattern happened? broken only by the snap and hiss to The preferred) Circle Household Sewing As if she knew what she was of the fire as Sam Reyburn put the 259 W. Fourteenth St., Arts Dept., thinking, Lucette burst out nervous- receiver of the handset to his ear. New York, N. Y. Hulloa. Yes. Miss Rayburn is ly: If Sam can stop that out of town for the evening. Sure, marathon, perhaps hell an- shell be back tomorrow. Oh, it is! Time Repays Labor nounce the latest Reyburn news Yes, Ill give her your message. Time is an Estate that will proflash. Shell be pleased purple. I get duce nothing without culture, but Brooke sat erect. What news? He laid you. Ill tell her. Bye! will always abundantly repay the Sam took careful aim at the par- the phone on the stand. labors of industry. Johnson. rots perch. The nutshell struck its Who was it, Sam? What will bird. and roused the dozing bullseye me purple? Brooke deHells bells! he croaked, and please manded uneasily. ruffled his feathers. A party by the name of Trent. Looks as if he were caught in a NEXT TEAR GO What did he want? typhoon, doesnt he? The laughter TO Not much. Only to say that he Mother in Sams voice vanished. invitation for Thanksyour accepted has been invited to spend the winter giving dinner with pleasure. Westminster College in England with her friend Lady (TO BE CONTINUED) SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Jaffrey. A 4 Year Junior College With the exclamation' Honored for Sam! Two High School and Two College Years to Trying Do you Brooke was on her feet. Beautiful 40 acre campus. Modern BuildSteal the Crown Jewels mean it? How perfectly grand! She ings and Equipment. High Scholarship, Strong Character and Social developDo you know that the Crown jewlives in an old castle, doesnt she? ment. Special Music department. Physiof els were stolen from the Tower cal education. Low Cost T uition. Board Hey, pipe down, Brooke. Theres and Room in regulated homelike a nigger in the woodpile. Wait till London more than two hundred and dormitories. Self help offered. you hear the condition. sixty years ago? Write for Catalogue A condition in Lady Jaffreys inAt that time, the jewels were kept ROBERT D. STEELE, Associate Pres. in a small iron cage on the lower vitation, Sam? I cant believe it. Let me floor of Martin Tower, relates a Be quiet, children. talk. Arms crossed on the back of writer in Pearsons London Weekly, WNU W 3337 the wing chair in which she had and here they attracted the attenbeen sitting, Celia Reyburn faced tion of Captain Blood, a notorious her family. Her cheeks were pink; Irish swashbuckler. SALT LAKE'S NEWEST HOSTELRY Blood disguised himself as a parher eyes, as blue as her sons, were brilliant with excitement. She son and paid regular visits to the Onr lobby is delightfully air cooled during the summer months clasped her hands tightly as if to Martin Tower. Soon he was friendd ly with the keeper, steady them. Radio for Every Room The chair recognizes the lady and suggested that a marriage from the big city, Sam encouraged might be arranged between his with a grin. nephew and the keepers pretty Whats the condition, Mother? daughter. He appointed a rendezvous for the Dont you want to go? Very, very much, Brooke, but couple at the unromantic hour of 7 1 shouldnt enjoy a moment of the a. m., on May 9, 1671. But, instead visit if I left your brother and sister of the nephew, Blood turned up in that apartment alone. Perhaps with three lusty swordsmen, who Im a selfish woman, but I would knocked down and gagged the old like to and will go, if my mind is keeper. Blood snatched the Crown, HOTEL perfectly at ease about Lucette and and while one accomplice seized the Sam. If they will come here to you, Orb , with its giant ruby, another sawed the Sceptre into three parts. and if you will have them But at that very moment the keeHave them! Mother, dont be Rates $1.50 to $3.00 foolish! I have been rattling around pers son returned from a long camin this big house like a dried cocopaign in Flanders. He gave the O The Hotel Temple Square has a nut in a shell. Of course I want alarm, and a guardsman captured highly desirable, friendly atmosphere. You will always find it immacBlood at St. Katherines wharf. them but will they come? and ulate, supremely comfortable, Charles II treated the whole afWhos being foolish now? Luthoroughly agreeab!e.You can there1st understand this hotel fore why cette flung her cigarette into the fair as a joke. Not only did he parHIGHLY RECOMMENDED into him don but he received Blood, fire. Her cheeks were almost as You ean also appreciate why Of course court, and granted him an estate red as her painted lips. ft's a mark of distinction to atop his at this beautiful hostelry well come, Brooke Reyburn. Of in Ireland to console him for course well play ball Mothers way. failure to bring off the most daring ERNEST C. ROSSITER, Afgr. fish. burglary in British history. Sam and I arent a Picnic These te sob-siste- up-gra- cross-stitche- ut Laughing, Brooke Dashed the Front Door. for They were on their way to spend Thanksgiving. For the first time they would see the changes in the house ; she had postponed their coming until it should be in perfect or- der. of an automobile The honk-hon-k horn outside was followed by voices singing lustily: Over the river and through the wood, Trot fast, my dapple-gray- ! Brooke Reyburn .food in the door- Spring over the ground. at Lookout Like a hunting hound way of the living-rooHouse. Behind her in the hall a For this is Thanksgiving day. graceful circular stairway wound up The gay chorus was followed by and up. She nodded approval. The and vociferous cries: laughter room was the perfect setting she Whoa there! Stand still, Lighthad visualized for the duchess of ning! Whoa! Argyle since the day she had known Laughing, Brooke dashed for the that her father had willed her the front door. It was so like the Reyportrait. The green of the walls burn family to dramatize its arrival. and trim repeated the color of the In a rush of cold air and excited satin gown of the woman in the dull she piloted her mother greetings gold frame which hung above the and sister to the library. The starmantel of carved black Italian mar- tled parrot shrieked, Stop! Look! ble,' repeated also the shade of the Listen! feathers of the dozing parrot in a Boy, you dont need a burglar gilded cage, threw into relief dark alarm with that announcer.' You polished surfaces of mahogany. ought to loan him to a bank. She had had everything that she Lucette made a gamin, face at thought belonged to his family the parrot as she slipped out of her stored in the apartment over the ocelot coat. She dragged off her garage. Curious that she had found hat and patted the swirl of her so little silver. ,k dark hair. She looked at .the door which Brooke hugged her mother. Its Mary Amanda Dane had told her, wonderful to have you here, Celia Someopened into the twin house. Reyburn, and arent you devastatthing uncanny about it. Whenever ing in that y ensemble! she was in the room it drew her Not as devastating as you are eyes like a magnet. 'Mark Trents in that shimmery white, daughter. house was on the other side. It had not been lived in for years. What It brings out the copper lights in a waste. Had his wife refused to your hair. Brooke laughed. We are' like live there? His wife? She couldnt think of him as having had a wife. two diplomats exchanging compliments, the difference is that ours Why think of him at all? her come from the heart. Wheres She resolutely switched thoughts to her surroundings. This Sam? Dont tell me Sam isnt comwas the same room in which she ing! Lucette held a lighter to a cigahad first seen Mrs. Dane in her wheel chair, but how different. Then rette with a faint hint of bravado. Dont cry, darling. Sam came. it had been drab and heavy; now it Didnt would color. She soft you recognize his voice singwith glowed never forget the pathos in the wom- ing as if his little heart would burst ans eyes as they had met hers, from joy As we approached this nor the eagerness of her greeting. baronial hall? Doubtless he is kissShe had registered a passionate ing his peachy convertible good -- m . . eel-gra- nut-munchi- -- eighty-year-ol- Temple Square cold-blood- ed |