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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH I ? ASK MtJ A quiz with answers offering information on various subjects CLARK MCMEEKIN THE STOUT THUS FAR: Lark Shan-o- n is heartbroken when she learns that her beloved sorrel horse, Madoc, Is to be sold, but can do nothing about it. Her father, Rector Shannon, known as the' had come jogging Riding Parson, home In the pony cart, dead, his body slumped against the dashboard, (he lines trailing on the road. Bethel North, nearest neighbor to the Shannons, held a note against Rector Shannon, and the sale of the horse, she said, would clear that note. ' Lark now began to realize that she hated Bethel. She is now eighteen years of age and she tells Bethel she is planning to leave England for America, to marry David North, Bethels son. Bethel Is much surprised at this announcement. I wouldnt be afraid. Its not that, Jaggers. No. No, Lark. I been thinking. He spoke slowly,, with great effort and thoughtfulness. Ive always felt to you like you be my own little daughter. . . . Bethel sets store by you, too. Dont think she dont. Bethel is a real upstanding wife to a man, a good, just woman. Like she says, whered I be without her? And Bethel dont mean the way she says a thing. I wouldnt want you You know to think Lark said, Its all right, Jaggers. Dont feel so bad. What I want tQ know, Jaggers broke in eagerly, is just only this. Did David, or did he not, ever ask you plain out to come to him? Just tell me that, Lark? He did not. You and Bethel both know that. It was just a thing I was stung into saying, a stupid, foolish thing. He writes you letters, Jaggers said doggedly. And he sends you word in letters to us. Just to you, and nobody else around here, excepting Jack, of course. He do send a kindly word to old Jack, not know-i- n poor Jack Lark broke in desperately. Ill show you his last letter. It came months ago. Theres no doubt about his being busy. Theres no doubt about the way he feels. Cant you understand that I I just blurted out something that Id die to call back? You dont love David? Yes Lark siid frantically. Yes, yes, yes. ... . .,1)0 you want me to shout it from the housetops? Dont you think I have any shame? She broke off, sorry for her outburst, sick over his face. She brought Davids last letter from the pocket of the cart. Together they read: My Dear Girl, I am home in Norfolk, Virginia. My New Orleans Trip was Proffitable. I purchast Interest in the Cargoe Riske Company, but said Company has much Business around Chesapeake Bay and the Virginia Coast, so Likely, I will Remain bere. I sent you a Red Raskall some time ago, which I feel Shure will Become you. I send your Dear father. Greetings and remain Yrs. to Command, David North, Norfolk, Va., Marph 2, 1816. Does that sound like a love letter? Lark asked. . Jaggers scratched his thick gray Well now, he said genthatch. tly, David do say Yours to command. Aint that got a little thought of love to it, Lrk, I ask you? Weve lived Lark was smiling. here since I was ten, and Ive never in these eight years heard you say so many words. It wouldnt be particular necessary for you. to go to the trouble of, writing David,? Jaggers said uneasily. Put on that Red Raskall hank-cheLark. Tie it pretty about your neck, do. Comb your own hair, stead of currying Madocs so shiny, now. If we was to have extra special unexpected company today, say a bit of company from cross the salty, driving up bright and early, on the, Liverpool stage, say, youd, want, to look nice.? David is here! You met him on the Liverpool stage! Why didnt you tell me he was coming? Jaggers, what did you tell him? surHe came as a clean-ou- t I over. twice said prise, Jaggers told- him about your father, Lark, but as to you I said but little, but Hes waiting over very little. to the house. I told, him plain not to come here till 1 fetched you there, WNU from a nail and ran it again and again through her wild locks. She cupped water from the rain barrel and dashed it on her face and smoothed her brown home-spu- n over her slim hips and long supple waist. She was cold and shaking and weak. . . . David! I call to memory, Jaggers said wisely, that David kissed you farewell when he took leave of us all five years back. Lark and Jaggers were walking up the path, up the step and in through the door, into the big dim room," the front room of the North house that was suddenly strange and far-of- f. The room was made small and stuffy by the tall man standing there, the strange big man in a seamans reefer, smoking a pipe, laying it aside carefully on the special Spode saucer Bethel kept there for nice. The man had a thick black club of hair, big hands and feet, a great strong nose and a wide laughing mouth. Lark looked mane-com- CHAPTER II P- b ... Lark. Hes with Bethel. Theres no ing what shes said to him. tell- Oh, want to die! Jaggers, Ill die! I Jaggers, I cant go there and face David North, not now. Loose your hair, Jaggers said timidly, like you used to, and comb it shining. It has a look like flames that way : . . And dont seek to choke yourself 'with that hankcher, ' tie it pretty. Lark laughed. She couldnt help it. To have Jaggers the silent, the pnild mouse,, telling her with judicious insistence how to pretty up for his son, David! She snatched a . new-farrow- ed ? (UfWfUft jrhe Questions gw fw (wfw(w(w(w(w(w(w(w(wfw ft (v (w (u ft (u (W (w 6. What did it cost to build the first 1. Does the United States own the Panama Canal Zone? 2. What is the meaning of comme il faut? 3. What President in speaking of the White House said: You dont live there. Youre only exhibit A to the country? 4. Submarines use peanut oil. For what purpose? 5. Do elephants, as well as camels, have water bags for a reserve supply of water? B-2- 9? The Answers 1. No, it has a perpetual lease for a down payment of $10,000,000 and a yearly rent of $250,000. 2. Correct, or as it should be. 3. Theodore Roosevelt. 4. For underwater cooking. Peanut oil will not smoke unless heated to over 450 degrees heat. 5. Yes. 6. The first cost $3,392,396 B-2- 9 to build. They now cost $600,000. (CHILDS ISOLDS Extravagance Heres a nickel, my poor man; tell me how you beOld Lady came so destitute? Tramp Because maam, I was like you, always giving away vast sums to the poor and needy. Repartee A Red Indian of considerable culture was engaged to play a part in a Holly wood film. One day, while he was in the studio awaiting instructions, a film star approached him with the ideai of showing a little consideration to " the poor savage. Well, he said kindly, how do you like our city? Very well, thank you replied the Red Indian; how do you like our coun- -- , try? . A dear. Consolation? telegram from George, Well, did he pass the examination this time? No, but he is almost at the didnt Thats fine., David stood up, top of the list of those who failed. looked down at her. Its good to know a mans been missed. Ive alHas One When this vacuum flask is ways been over fond of you, Lark. But well sometimes a girl does filled it will keep things hot for get a sort of notion, a very young you indefinitely, remarked the g little salesman to the girl, I mean I didnt get any notions, Lark man at the counter. Not any notions at ' No thanks, he replied, Resaid, flushing. David. I, just got awfully mad treating hastily., VI married someall, at Bethel. Shes sold Madoc, my thing like that. thoroughbred horse. You remember Madoc, dont you, David? She So How to make enemies: sold him to the livery-stabla won your boys scholarship. Poor little Lark. David pulled a Your wife must be a clever stool to her feet and sat there. woman. Dont think Im not worried, Lark, because I am. Dont believe that London Pillboxes Ive forgot the money your father Ingenious loaned me the very money, may- Deceived Even the Natives be, that he had to borrow back from London is now demolishing the the Old Lady later. And if I had it to spare Id give it to you to buy many pillboxes erected in 1940 to Madoc, and Id take you to America, defend the city against invasion, and set you up on a hill says Colliers. Although concrete I dont want money from you, fortifications, they were never deLark said desperately. I dont want tected by the aerial cameras of you to feel you must burden yourself the enemy, being ingeniously camwith me or my troubles. Cant you ouflaged as newsstands, informaunderstand, David? I didnt kpow tion booths and similar small you were coming home. I oh, Da- structures. For some time, they even devid, I wish you hadnt' come home! ceived passers-by- , despite having Ill be going soon enough, Da- such facetious as: Closed signs vid said a little stiffly. Tonight, on not open during the Sundays; If I had known youd act certainly. like this, maybe I wouldnt have tak- week. en the time from my business to come here at all. It isnt my fault if you spoke hastily about me. . Oh, David, Of course it isnt. I say such awful things! If you just knew how I feel! The way you spoke, just now, would make a man think you didnt even like me, Lark. I have always been fond of you. If you have missed me, why would you wish I hadnt come home? There was a sound at the door. They both looked up. Jaggers stood there, smiling. He said, I left Bethel in church. Shell go for me about it, but I had to know. I had to be sure. I heard you say youd take Lark, Son, as. I knew you must. Ive prayed for it since the stage brought you here, and maybe before, David. I can get the money for Larks passage from Bethels iron box, under her bed. It is rightful money for Lark, because her father helped you, David, when you had no way to get help. Im not going to take any monJaggers, you cant ey, Lark said. steal from Bethel! David, he Most young mothers use this modem way to relieve miseries of childrens colds. At bedtime they rub Vicks VapoRub on throat, chest and back. Grand relief starts as VapoRub . . . PENETRATES to upper bronchial tubes with its special medicinal vapors, STIMULATES chest and back surfaces like a warming poultice. Often by morning most of the misery ofthe cold is gone ! Remember ONLYVAPORUB Gives You this special double action. Its time-teste- d, home-proved- the ... remedy for relie v- - best-know- home n G rw L) f vaporub ing miseries of childrens colds. Shoulder a Gun Or the Cost of One BUY WAR BONDS llap;r Relief VJh:--n VouVc Sluggish, Upset . e. . . fire again, accurately, with a certain assured neatness. Im clean as a pig and have no need to ready or have my sins washed at service. Ill stay here and talk to Lark. Bethel came down, bonneted, shawled. She passed through the door, and then turned and said, Lark, ask David to tell you about Mara Hastings, why dont you? Youll want to hear about her, I make sure. She was walking down the path then, to the gate, waiting impatiently for Jaggers, who followed, damp, hair slicked down, looking excited and sprightly, closing the door behind him. Is Mara Hastings a lady in America? Lark asked David, Because if she is some quickly. one you are fond of, David, I am happy to hear of it. I wouldnt want she paused miserayou to think I wouldnt and on then rushed bly, want you to misunderstand about the silly thing I told Bethel. Mistress Mara is a fine lady, David said slowly. A smart lady. I am friendly to her, and she is to me. It is not a promise. I am not what youd say a promised man, Lark. Oh, no, David. I didnt mean what I want to say is I I lost my temper at Bethel last night. I told her awicked lie. I said I was was thinking well of going to you in America. I wish I had bitten off my tongue before I said it! I was afraid, he said simply, that- you well had thought too much about me, Lark, while I' was gone. From what the Old Lady said, it seemed like maybe you had. Oh I did think about you, David. I thought about you all the time, and missed you very much. But I N (W ? ? tired-lookin- , - NN SERVICE - , r. - N O-- N ? , David was real. He was here. at him, tried to make a little curtsy, tried to speak his name. Bethel gave her a push. Havent you the manners to greet David? The big man took a step toward her, lifted Lark in his arms, and kissed her. My pretty dear," he said. Lark, its good to see you, it is that." Yes, Lark said at last, it is Well! see you, too Dayid.V I always said, David went on, good to , coloring up considerably, Id come back and fetch you, Lark, didnt I, Girl? And so I will, and damned if I wont! Youre a pretty dear, n womand you will be a an before many years. Lark is eighteen, Bethel said. Old enough to get married, and willing enough, if you judge by her talk. I dont want to get married, Lark said hurriedly. Really, David, I am not thinking of a thing like getting married. Davids appreciation and amuseThere is a girl of ment echoed. spirit! I always said you were a girl of great spirit, Lark. I notice you are wearing the Red Raskall. It becomes you, sure. I had thought to send you a Blue Betsy more suitable to a female. But I took a notion for the red. g Red suits Lark Bethel was suits her a caution! Red do suit our Lark. Jaggers stood up, too. There bent a prettier, spiriteder, better girl living, than Lark. Bethel sniffed, and David said Lark was a wonder, sure, and Lark sat cold and tongue-tielistening to the bells for services at the church, their familiar peal making the prisms on Bethels good candlesticks vibrate in the stiff chilly room. Bethel said. Twenty minutes, Tie up your hair, Lark, and get into decent clothes. Since you wouldnt wear mourning for Rector, you might as well put on your good blue bombazine with the lace collar and cut a great figure. Im not going to service, Lark said.. Ill stay here. Very well. Bethel swept from Shame can Work havoc the room. Service in on a deceitful spirit. twenty minutes, Son. Not for me. David spat into the full-grow- ris-in- d, . ... , WHEN CONSTIPATION makes you feel punk as the dickens, brings on stomach upset, sour taste, gassy discomfort, take Dr. Caldwells famous medicine to quickly puU the trigger on lazy innards , ana help you feel bright end chipper again. DR. CALDWELLS is the wonderful senna laxative contained in good old Syrup Pepsin to Nuke it so easy to take. MANY DOCTORS use pepsin preparations In prescriptions to make the medicine more palatable and agreeable to take. So be sure your laxative is contained in Syrup Pepsin. INSIST ON DR. CALDWELLS the favorite of millions for 50 years, and feel that wholesome relief from constipation. Even finicky children love it CAUTIONi Use only as directed. SENNA LAXATIVE cmuMUM SYRUP PEPSIH mustnt Jaggers was hurrying up the stairs. David laid his hand on Larks arm. Would you like to go to America, Lark? I would like to go, David, but its wrong to use Bethels money. And Id hate to be a care on you. . : . I couldnt think of such a thing! I would take you to Mistress David said, Mara, of course, though it may be you are too old for going to school. Perhaps you could teach. . Mara would find something, I feel sure. . . (TO BE CONTINUED) Get this fast, welcome relief from muscular pain and ache! Soothing, gently warming Ben-Gacontains up to 2 Vz times more methyl salicylate and menthol famous agents your doctor knows about than five other widely offered rub-inThats why its sq fast... so , soothing. Always insist on genuine Ben-Gapain-relievi- ng s. y! Copyright, 1944. byThos. Leemiag St Co., Inc.' i: : fjwicj II TOM -- IIlO j:- v:V ' ! |