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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH HOTELS By RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL COPYRIGHT D. APPLETON CHAPTER XII Continued to Sarah Lynn -- 13 Sarah Lynns voice said hoarsely, "Buzzards . . . buzzards . . . we were . . . Didnt you know ... dead? Say, listen, were not dead and were not going to be dead! I tell you theyre on the job, looking for us! It wont be long, now! The planes kept flying over them. They returned again and again, but they never hesitated. Kitty stood on her rock and waved and screamed, but the pilots gave no sign of noticing her. You fools, you fools! You blind bats! she sobbed, cursing. Then she made a careful survey of their situation and realized that they were hidden from above by a ledge over the one on which they had crashed. She might gesture and yell the rest of her life without being seen by the fliers. Okeh, then. Ill get out where they can see me, she decided. She didnt try to tell Sarah Lynn. She took half her matches and a sheaf of maps' and charts and walked in the direction of Mt. Umunhum, stopping constantly to mark the trail in some fashion, tying to the chaparral the, ribbon from her hair, her belt, her pink satin garter. When she found a bare rocky space she tore up her papers and gathered twigs and dry leaves and got her fire to going. She broke off branches of manzanita and fed the flame, and she discovered that green stuff Me-di- ll CENTURY CO., INC boy-frien- BLE CLAY PRODUCTS managed to she was beginning briskly when the make her take three swallows. mother interrupted. Two other men came running Mr, Thorwald is downstairs? through the chaparral presently, Goodness, Always. I dont with young Bill Dana following. know when he yes! eats or sleeps. He They set to work instantly under will you kindly go down Gunnars directions and that speed- and Then, tell him exactly what my ed up the affair tremendously, Kit has just said? could see, but she was sure the daughter The nurse hesitated. But, you ace could have done it alone. understand that she is delirious, One thing he did do alone. When Mrs. Dana? It doesnt mean the weight was finally dragged off The and lovely lady drew Sarah Lynn the others stood aside herself large to her full imposing height. and let him stoop and lift her. You will be good to do as She screamed once, a short, I ask, Miss Burke. enough Tell him exactly dreadful cry, and he put her down what she said, and without comon the blankets Kit had spread. Sarment, she said levelly. ah Lynn looked up at him, her eyes Miss Burke disdained the elevator big in her burning face, recognizing and ran down three flights of soundhim clearly. She said thickly, Go proof stairs on her heelless rubber She soles. away! Dont come in here! Aha! So, thats the scenaheld up a warning hand. Fly away rio! she told herself, deciding to in the night! Ladybug, lady bug, fly tell the Norwegian ace exactly what away home! she pleased. She found him as usuWhen he bent over her, murmural walking up and down the long ing, she pointed an accusing finger. hall. ly. She managed to run in to see Lynn Dana every day for a few minutes of aching sympathy. It simply burns me up to look at him, she told her husband. He knows what it means. Do you suppose he blames himself, Neddy? she asked him. That makes it a million times worse if he does. Well, he might at that, Ned Webster had shaken his head. If he and the old lady hadnt given her the plane But, if she hadnt gone up with that miserable bum of a girl Yes, but if she hadnt been a flier it never could have happened to her, he said reasonably. And I expect thats the way the family figures, her mother, anyway. I know, Mary Dana Webster I wish Sally Ann would nodded. come home. She will, later, Lynn Dana said. I cabled and wrote that her presence would mean more to Sarah Lynn in a little while, during the waiting period weeks, months of it, probably. All three of them were thinking that it might be years, as it had been for him. You know, people are no end kind and sorry, but the drama goes out of the situation, presently. I mean, they get used to the fact, and life goes on again, and well, the calls and the flowers and books and things dwindle away. Therell be whole conservatories full of flowers now that Duncan is here, . Mary said bitterly. CHAPTER Her hoarse voice said, packed with scorn, Keep away from me, drunken fool! Once again, Sarah Lynn Dana, social registerite, member of the exclusive suburb of Danavale, became news, furnishing hectic headlines in San Jose and San Francisco papers for many days. She had flown with the notorious and Kitty Medill, famous stunt-flie- r moving picture double for dangerous scenes, who was making a first hop after being grounded by the Department of Commerce for reckless flying; she was lost; she was found, and found by Gunnar Thorwald, Norwegian ace, her fiance; she would die; she would live; she would live, but she would never ywalk again. Shes alive, sure. e It was after this last announceHurt? How? gimlets, ment that Kitty Medill committed boring into her brain. On suicide, on quietly and with a good deal her. Well, you see its dignity. her back. The ship is. I tried to of reticence and They did not tell Sarah Lynn lift it off but about Kitty Medill. They did not, Take me there! the first days, tell her about anyin She turned and ran back, Gunnar She was constantly under opithing. following so closely that he almost ates. Sometimes, when their effect he kept trod upon her. Quick! wore thin, she murmured feverishly, Be quick! saying. anxiously. When they reached the wreck KitGunnar . . . the name came ty Medill shut her eyes. She didnt through the confusion again and want to see his face when he saw again. Gunnar Sarah Lynn, but it was almost as Her mother, her beauty deepened if he bad to hear him. It sounded as clarified by draining grief, hung and had flung himself down on the over her in an agony of tenderness. ground beside her, and Kit thought Yes, darling! What is it, darling? he must be talking in his own Swede What are you trying to say? Tell lingo, for she could not understand Mother! the words, but she understood perLet me. the nurse said capably, Yes. Gunnar. I her place. fectly the terrible, racked sobbing. taking When she heard him working Kit understand," she said slowly and took her hands away from her eyes clearly. You want to see Gunnar? and looked at him. He was working The head, held rigidly in a frame, so fast, so. furiously, so surely, with could not move, but the eyes rolled such fierce efficiency. He wrenched wildly in negation. No, no, no! Tell him and chopped and tore away, twist- She made a great effort. tell him ed and pried, dead white, with sweat to Yes. I understand. What' shall pouring from him. It seemed that I tell him? cold the frenzy, Kit, watching Dont come in here . . . Dont he could have done it all with his come in here . . . Go away! bare hands. All right, dearie. Ill tell him. Once he called to her and pointed Give her water Now you go to sleep again." Miss to his canteen. a small drink at first. He looked at Burke straightened up. She was Only young enough and gallant enough to her fully for the first time. he revel in the drama of the case and need help, your I that may. she thought that particular phase of said levelly, I would kill you. delirium pretty sad. She followed You neednt trouble yourself, Of I can tend to Mrs. Dana out into the hall. she said jauntily. a mean close thing, doesnt that crawled course, that little chore. She Ice-blu- ... 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In an incredibly short time the planes were back, three of them, dipping and circling. She could see the pilots peering down. She stood away from the fire and tore off her blouse and waved, and one of the airmen waved an arm in answer. He flew perilously low, and she recognized the Hermod with Gunnar Thorwald leaning out to look at her. She pointed back toward the place where she had left her passenger, and he nodded and flew away in the same direction. Kits knees gave way and she sat down and the breeze blew acrid smoke into her eyes and mouth, but she was up in a moment, running back to the wreck. Babe, its okeh! Hes here! 1 mean, he will be in a minute your in his bus! Kid, its all. d right, do you hear me? If Sarah Lynn heard she gave no evidence of it. 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Arent you satiswould live. the greatest bone specialist this side fied with the suffering, the agony The BELVEDERE of Chicago, wont make any prog- she was bearing down on him in HOTEL APARTMENT Do you want to kill nosis yet about the spine.. soft fury. Lake City Salt So. State St.. 29 Conrad Jordan, who had left Ta- her? Calvin O. Jack. Mgr Tel. Was. 170 in bed. to the hoe instantly But Gunnar had reached the search, join SALT LAKE Week No. 3833 remained to look after Gunnar. He had leaned over Sarah Lynn, WNU Though theres nothing I can do, shaking, and said her name. Shrews Savage Animals he admitted to Lynn Dana, except She was as nearly white as the The little shrews are exceedingly walk up and down that horrible- olive and amber and ivory of her smelling . hall with him, burbling skin could be, and her nose, her savage and voracious animals and about all the injured spines Ive brow, her chin, her cheek-bonwill fight and devour one another known cured, and dragging him out were as sharp and salient as if they upon the slighest provocation. Over to eat infrequently. He begrudges had been chiseled from marble. Her considerable periods of time, when every instant away for fear it might eyes flew open, bigger and darker in captivity, they have been known be the time they would let him see than ever, sunk in shadowed holto eat their own weight in meat on her. He shook his head. And why lows, and a startled recognition an average of once every three came into them at once and a blaz- hours. cant he see her? Why, I understand that no one ing joy. his friend began. (TO BE CONTINUED) Last of the Bastille On the contrary. All her family, In the cellars of some houses on the old governess, the large, Rahks in the Army in Paris, can the Rue The various ranks in the army be seen the basements of what were plushy, optimistic aunt Thats the are as follows: abominable part of it. once the towers of the Bastille, the was officers: corporal, sergeant, staff The man in the wheeled-chai- r famous prison of the French revoluaghast. He seemed to have aged sergeant, first sergeant, technical tion. years in days. You think they are sergeant, master sergeant. Commisdefinitely determined to keep him sioned officers:, second lieutenant, Cleveland as a Hangman away from her? She isnt conscious first lieutenant, captain, major, lieuCleveland sprung the trap Grover tenant colonel, colonel, brigadier enough to ask for him? Even if she is, they wont let him general, major general, lieutenant of the. scaffold with his own hand on two occasions when he was sheriff in! Mary Dana Webster said hot- - general, general. of Erie county, New York. A . 1 -- -- lH-To- , . n ' . i Motor well-groom- well-bre- es Saint-Antoin- e, |