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Show THE RTCH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH CHRFULCtW THE The moon is high in the CLARK MCMEEKIN .solemn safe. Her and her father, Squire Terraine. Complained they lost six fine horses. Half wild, those folks, postin rewards for horses no doubt drowned, because one fellows big gray horse swam all the way to shore, safe as a muskrat horse man, owned by a squeaky-voice- d name of Plascutt Dawes. Lark shuddered, remembering those horses in the ships hold. There was a powerful big woman, Minnie Buxtree, he said. A a couple of bound wenches. . . . and a man baby preaching a prize horse, from quicksand. those Terraines and that Mr. Plascutt Dawes, I mentioned to you. . . . I disremember any Clelia. There CHAPTER VI was but a few. He glanced at the sky, stood up, But suddenly the ponies seemed to sense the alien human presence stretching his arms, a slim and beauand shied back in fright, stamping tifully muscular figure in the pale their tiny hoofs in a very ecstasy of light. He blew out the horn lantern. He said, Sun be up in a minute. fear. On the instant they wheeled and galloped, with flying manes and Is this island far from the maind heads, across the narland? Lark asked. row spit of land. You could see it if it wasnt for Red Raskall, who, a moment ago, the September fog. Its ten miles, had been apparently as bewildered . maybe, maybe a little better now as Lark, neighed and quivered Virit Some call The Peninsula. with equine understanding. He flung ginia, some Maryland. Lot o isup his head and his clarion call lands hereabouts. See them, easy, challenged the mares. Racing ahead on a clear day. This is Ghost Isof them, he led them straight across land. Theres Hurricane Island, and the point of the narrow island and and a lot of little nameIsland, Pony scraminto the dashing surf. In a of marsh grass and sand. hitches less bling mass they were after him, Chincoteague, off yonder, is big, with l, whinnying once rushing, people on her. Assateague, too. Not more with delirious delight. many people come to this place. It was midafternoon now, and the Thats why I keep my things here, shore would seem less lonely, less what things I got. Guineas on the terrifying. Even the noise of the shore, hate and' fear this island, and breakers, loud and rhythmic . proper. compelling, wquld be better than Guineas? their far-obooming here in the interior, where their faint thunder Oysterin people, along the Peseemed but an accent to the sininsula. I bent Guinea, but I recklence. on I look like one, all right. I I The outcropping ridge of rock exlive with em. tended clear through the island and Ive never seen any. ended at last in a sort of shelving Youll see em. . . . Smell em tableland of stone, perhaps some before you see em. . . . Smells fifteen feet in circumference, just the bottom of an old boat, does like above the beach. From here she Guinea folk., I hate them, all the could see the water and be able to way through my body and soul. . . . attempt to flag any passing ship or Im bound to Cony, four more years. approaching fishing boat. She noted Four more years. My folks died at once that to one side .the rocks off when I was twelve, and Sheriff were piled up in a kind of pyramid. bound me out. Ive served pretty Carefully the stones had been placed six years. Ive got four more. near to make a shelter. Im nineteen, and' Ive got nearly Why it was a house, a little playfour years house, almost! Eagerly she bent to You change from one minute to examine it. the next, Galt. At first I could Bending low and peering into the hardly understand a word, you said. shadows at the back, Lark saw a But now you sound pile of things, stores and treasures in a I reckon I picked up a lot of heap. A pony skin had beeh stretched as a cover but Guinea talk. My fatherd break me of it if he was alive. He had a scorn had slipped off. She crawled inside and gathered up the things, bring-in- g for Guineas, though he doctored em when-thehad a need. them out with her. Your father was a doctor? j She sat down then and spread them out in front of her. Here r, Doctor and preacher and Were a small curving knife, flint and Galt said with a clear note He was ever a great one of pride. tinder, and a wooden box of hard I was shipwrecked. They were a little for books, too. I can read. Can moldy and damp, but Lark ate them you? He colored up, watching her With ravenous delight. A while ago been here days and nights such a closely. s, she had found some bitter red long time. She tried to steady herLark said that she could, but these had not half satis- self against, the trembling, sick re- and he said gravely quickly, defensively, I fied her hunger. The box was full lief flooding through her at the blesscould. un knowed Likely un took me Of biscuits. There would be enough ed shock of another human presence. for a fool to ask un that. Why do to last her for several days, she That Tempora ship, I reckon. un have to question me so close? thought. She held them in her Yes, Lark said, Yes, the TemI wont question you: Lark hands, longing to eat them all now, pora. She knew she was going to smiled at him. And you dont have but knowing how foolish that would could feel the sob tearing it- to talk Guinea to me. I understood be. With an effort of will power, cry, out of her. She sat down, bleakself you better a while ago. she returned most of them to the ly, in the sand and put her head in He went to the and brought box. her arms, giving over to the thick, back a slab of dinghy bread and some She found next a ships sobs. You must be huna neat little folding contraption, punishing strong cheese. Im sorry you had to get washed gry, lady. Have bread. which could be pulled out and fohere. Pity you couldnt have in cused. She went down to the edge, games Lark. Lark acceptin that that come in. ed My been of the water then and adjusted it some bread and broke off some . . This is a mighty lonesome Thank you, Galt. I am cheese. carefully to her vision, hoping that, ." in the fading light of the late after- place for a lone girl by herself. hungry. If it hadnt been for your I biscuits I dont know what Id have Lark said again, childishly, noon, she might be able to catch did I eat hurt didnt on of a horizon. things. sail your the done. sight At last she acknowledged defeat some of your biscuits? I suppose I wish Id guessed, he said and utter discouragement and crept they were yours. that you were out here. I simply, He sat down Un was hungry. back to the little rock shelter where, wish I had. after breaking one of the remaining in the sand, opposite her, staring at He was speaking with a slow Im glad un found biscuits in tiny pieces and eating it, her intently. I never saw you, a while prideful care, watching her, waiting bit by bit, she finally curled up to em. for her word. They lay in the sleep. She tried to mound the sand back, just somethin . movin, an I sand in every the of the fog bushes shade He broke iafraid was over her body and still keep her off, Cpny the stone wall and scrub pine. face free. The fog had come in then went on. My few things aint and once more, and its clamminess was much. I take shame for yellin at A delightful sense of peace and rest stole over Lark. She closed her like the touch 'of a cold, dead hand, un, like I did. Thats all right. Lark could con- eyes. like the hand of the Moor. ' , When she awoke, startled, feeling Like an animal. Lark burrowed trol herself now, could try to smile icatch of the loneliness again, man this the at with tall, gentle young deep into the sand. Again and again she woke during the endless night, the tragic eyes and the calling out for him, Galt said genwoke to ease her cramped body half almost savage way of speak- tly, I watched un asleep, there, and I couldnt think to waken un. Un from the suffocating weight that ing. Im Galt Withe. Im bound serv- looked so happy like, and and so overwhelmed her. ant to Mag and Cony Vurney that pretty, Lark. . . . But wed better When she wakened she was steamthink what to do, wheres the best and arms face were runs the inn over to the Peninsula. ing hot, and her off He toward the sunburned." gestured cloudy place to make for. painfully We tried to help that sinkin She walked inland to the shade west. Youll take me to the inn,! Lark and sat for a while in the cooler ship. You could see the rockets said, astonished, wont you?. When hurshadows of the trees. She drank at plain. But it was a coast-wis- e you go. . . . Why, Galt Galt the spring, drank deep and long, ricane. Couldnt no small boat make All her arguments, all her pleadletting the water trickle slowly down out. Twas a great wonder anybody ings and reasonings were lost on her parched throat. She walked in come out of it alive. him. He said, simply and stubbornLark thought of those the low valley, letting her bare feet ly, I dont aim to take you to the crush the sweet green grass under- those little boats. Lark. He repeated it doggedShe said,- I was in a boat and it inn, foot. ly, maddeningly. It was just before dawn the next went down. It didnt even get a I certainly dont aim to stay morning that Lark awoke to hear start. I guess all of the others in here! She mocked him, furiously, m the splash of oars and to discern that boat drowned. his own thick a the dim outline of an approaching Doubtless. . . .1 A girl, bout your way. ' dinghy. age, was in the boat that got in (TO BE CONTINUED) THE STORY THUS FAR: Lark Shannon, whose beloved horse, Madoc, was sold to clear a debt when her father, Rector Shannon, died, sails for Americafrom England at the invitation of David North, her childhood sweetheart, who has Just returned to England from America. David, however, disappoints Lark by sailing the night before, and she is forced to make the trip alone. When in sight of the Virginia coast the ship encounters a violent storm and it is necessary to cut the horses loose to give them their chance. Lark manages to get into a lifeboat but it is swamped. She grabs a spar and when she awakes feels solid ground beneath her. She saves Lancer, , high-tosse- j After a time the awkward dinghy pulled up from the tide and was beached not far from her. A man, a boy, in rough dungarees and with unkempt hair streaming to his shoulders, was coming up the sand, coming straight toward her. She stirred and he stood for a second listening, hardly more of a human figure than the ponies had been. He was tall and gaunt, but there was' a narrow straightness about him that spoke of youth and of unreached and unrealized male strength. Larks urgency roughened her voice and coarsened it. Here, she Here! Im by the rock cried out. shelter! I see un! You leave my things The figure came running tobe! ward Lark, catching up a short, heavy oar from the beached dinghy, waving it threateningly, holding the flaring lantern forward in the other hand. Im not hurting your things! Lark screamed at him. You be a girl, bent you? What you doin here? He was quite near her now, a tall, unkempt young man, unwelstaring at her with deep-se- t coming eyes. I was shipwrecked. I washed up here days ago. . . . I I thought nobody would ever find me. Ive ... Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE SEEMS like sheer inspiration to team Eddie Bracken and William Demarest on the air as well as on the screen. Nobody who saw them together in The Miracle of Morgans Creek and Hail the Conquering Hero will ever forget the hilariously funny scenes they played together. Now, at 8 : 30 Sunday evenings, E.W.T. on NBC, we have The Story of Eddie Bracken, supposedly scenes from his life, with . ... , neat-stack- ed i poli-ticke- ship-biscuit- s. ber-rie- spy-glas- s, . life-bo- at ... half-gentl- e, life-boat- s, . - half-gentl- e, half-Guine- The world is deep in e. veil oF sleep, .7 And God is whispering through - .the trees. UTO"! V.-- Features. WNU CLASSIFIED DE P A R TM ENT AGENTS WANTED LADY WANTED In every community, both rural and city, to sell line of household necessities to her neighbors. Our line in. eludes such scarce items as cheese and laundry soap. Liberal ),commission. 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