Sherman County journal., March 19, 1943, Image 2

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to get together and hold lodge. I
wae afraid perhaps the rationing
would make it - impossible.
^Sherman County Observer
«Continued from page one!
I hear ¿that a lot of the farms
¿Established Nov. 2, 1888
ed ten times as many dozen egg3 are changing ownership. My gosh,
Grass Valley Journal
•
as Oregon , hens laid. Oregon’s I won’t know whose land belongs
Established Oct 14. 1897
1931
production was in excess o f 40,- to whom when ! do get home, at
TO! SO LI DA TED March 6,
000,000 dozen. The figures on ex- th isxrate. Well anyway, this la
Wasco News-Enterprise
port came from Edward R. Stet- no time to wonder where a n d
Established Nov. 1891
tinius, those on what the Oregon when I will be able to get land
CONSOLIDATED March 4, 1932
hens laid from the department or again,
t f
♦
Published Every Friday at
agriculture.
_
One
thing
certain,
when
I do get
Moro. Oregon
•
• • •
. located .11 hell or h.gh wuter will
E d it o r
♦».«»s li. Krv'iH'h
Fear of housewives that they , not shake'me loose from my wheat
will
not be able to buy rubber jar country again,
T H B STORY SO FAX'. CUy Storgaa
L rie te d as second class m atter at
On these islands they have su- ha* decided to play a lone hand »yaisst
the Posioffice at Moro, Oregon
rirtgs for preserving vegetables
and" fruit this year appeam to be gar cane, pineapple, banana and E.a H e r . « . . . .
e.w «
Act o ' Congress of March dustry
Ring tho cat’èe country his own way- The
T
b
p
lp
o
-id
n
tu
re
nassed
a
b
a
r
b
e
r
’s
without
foundation.
Present
in-
«van
coffee
plantations.
J
u
a
t
two
meB
bav#
j,e«
i
enemies
lor yean,
8, 1879.
l 11 t h . f t u r n * Z X r o l of shoos dications are that 1943 will
be about anything grows in this dll- having first (might over C lays wge.
bill that turns control of shops
home-can-
mate and if in place there isn’t U la , rb o died h.Uag him and b .lle rtn ,
over to a majority of 70 per cent the ail tnnt reco
>.a;ne .ii „roi, ikov .rontn f>e «'»ould have married Hereadeea.
ning because of the shortage of enough rainfall, well, they crea
i:orcaB ,B B M iita ry flgare, devotad te
in each county. It is the same
canned goods and the point sys- dams cr dig wells (some artesian) h!, ntne-year-eld daughter, Janet. Al-
bill the lobbyists have been work­
F B IL I$ < E |X
ATI 0 N ing on for years. This time it tern, and the neceaaity at, house- and P»mp by electricity into flumes ia..«a iw. « m m . c.Uwrt.. Orua
wives having to depend upon their to the land where needed. Flow- «¡*
^ 7 ’7 7 e .*,7 o t‘*loi°fV.’ X
went over with little debate.
ers
grow
in
abundance
and
are
of
hls
(9rmcr
friends, only Hack Breath
own endeavors to keep their lar
official T ounty paper
The legislature also /passed a dcra supplied. Glass jars and tops v’vid in color and beauty. Whole lit t a . c « , o u • " ' » Ccreadaent
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Fete Borders,
motor responsibility act that is will also be available, it » hoped. »"«’ bloom out In ravishing col-
Payable in Advance
am
frC lJ I O S F C II-
t^
a
ll
intents
and
purposes
an
act
.
• • •
P**-
|^cean is Of color
mea, Ourd Grant, Catherine’s
ONE YEAR ......... .........- - - - - $L50
to make every driver take out
It looks as though after June th -t takes vour breath away; it brother, hesitated about Joining Heren
F R ID A Y , M A R C H 19. 1943
insurance on his car. It is a bad the federal income tax will be is bevond m v nnor powers o f de- 4®«®. but became Morgan's swora ene­
my when he discovered that Catherine
bill —
put through
pajd UU
Qn the UiO
ingtaHment
You have to be here had beeB u fc|g
he
— by the insurance |/<A4VI
VCSSSMIVM V plan. This scription.
apprcciats
nature
in
its
full
that
Herendeen
has
seal
a
»arty
eat to
WHAT THE LEGISLATURE DID men. _ t
{9 the proposal o f the house com- ♦'
find Hack and kill him. Clay starts ool
. , .
The legislature also did several mjMc<. Qn wayR an<J m!.ans, anJ K| ory
Oregon’s 42nd legislative as- other things, some of which were ¡f tJ)e w „
sed by house and
Write again, brothers, please to find him first. He gees to Freeyert,
to Kern Case's store, where he thinks
sembly which adjourned Wednes- of importance to the state, but aenaU R wi„
ea>ier
pay thl, Sincerely yours,
he will find Hack. Herendeen arrives,
day night of last week after 8 » th e m a in .„terest was in these. U x than trying u meet it in „
Vernon E. Shipley and there is a free-for-all fight. In the
midst cl the fight. Hack appears. Her­
day. of more or less important The wine bill that received .o ,ump , um Xnything can happen
endeen and his men are drives off, bet
struggle probably did as m i n to much «rgument and attention put
June however, and the
not before they have set fire to tho town.
As Clay, Hack and Kern Case watch,
amend the state’s laws as has any the fortified wine in liquor stores,
paying plan may be
the whole town. Including Case's store,
other group of legislators in re- where It « „ be found, but maybe kkked ont a, the window.
burns to the ground.
cent times.
not so easily.
.
Now continue with the story.
. The tax situation obtained the
It was a very good legislature,
roost wttehtion largely becr.uso the composed of conservative intelli- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
CHAPTER XU
people of this state have ocen told g ent men in the main, with few
Wasco, Oregon, March 11, 1943.
The U lers ac. -a rcr^ft sun is de­
for month, and years that Ore- of the mental or emotional freaks
It was beyond midnight when Clay
si«, ied for ¿.'cat r range a;.d heavier
Sherman
County
Journal:,
,
reached
home. H arry Jump, night-
gon’s tax laws were such that no of other sessions.
■*e a nt.-air-
calibre t?n > 1
Dear Sira:
hawking around the yard, followed
one would come to the state to
i,- * .’ey ore him into the kitchen and watched
I think the people wUl be inter­ craft or r.-p :j
live unless they were changed. It THE LIFE OF RILEY
and na i ?
mechanic; ! y
ested to know1 <my brother, Cap­ coetly. ’i -C I v .4,-3 1 elo.s n ou ' t him strip down to the waist and
La not true, but the repetition of
Of all the unhurried, uninhlbiti d
tain Earl C. Williams was award­ CU.Î3 an: j..I -né'. 4,.- ;:,C33 Wh.ç? wash. Morgan’s cheeks showed the
it daily by men who should know places to live the towns of the
ed posthumously the Purple Heart a L e’ ^rs , «. ’..e - . f jn. runs u.) i .> battering of Herendeen’s fists.
•better made it an accepted state- county of Shenman apparently win
Morgan went up to his bed and
decoration for making the supreme ÇKJ.fCJ.
the
fur
lined
bathing
suit.
lay
there, his brain pulsing within its
I
ment .
sacrifice in defense of his country
skullcap and strong pain traveling
Business s ta rts between
nine
Those who held most boldly and eleven o’olock after the morn- «JanuarY
through his left arm from a bro­
» 1
that the tax situation must b e
ken finger. It made him remember
M y brother was well remem­
ings* mail is leisurely distributed,
the older fight. Both of them had
changed were those with a panacea
j
bered here, living with us, getting
\
. the second pr third cup of matuti
been younger men, soon recovering
<o take the ©lace of it—and which
his eighth grade diploma at Emi­
.
x nal coffee is consumed and th
from the misery of that beating.
often contained some measure th a t
grant
Springs
in
1931.
He
gradu­
This one would stick, it would be
proprietors have decided that may-
would relieve them of some taxes.
ated from Rufus high school in
buried physically in them as long
_ , be something should be done t h i s ___
~
as they lived, and the sting of it
The members of legislative tax day after all. During this first
an
® n
T»v r°n
would never leave their minds.
committees found that Oregon’s two or three hours of the speed- ”
’
w m
. ?*
At two in the morning, his broken
gift tax was too high in corwpari- ing day there is some discussion
. pn ’
. ’ °
ra*n
hand on fire, he dreseed and went
son to other states and that while of the inequities of the new deal
ipmo
«•
downstairs; he lighted a lamp in the
there was not much income from (maybe the plentitude of these
- t__n5 Ver .** .
m
«t.1*
kitchen and shaved himself for want
a gift tax it did cause some peo- causes the delay) there is comment *
¥* '
’.TT W 5*
u
of something better to do—watching
We want our fighters to have tue
pie to live in other states or. at on the war, labor absenteeism and,
tr
OA best equipment possible and your the bruised, patches on his face slow­
ly change color. He stoked up the
l « t . n th.™ to ret,™ ond d i- of coume. .in ( . l « y . . conwr-
kl' ^ . “ »rt.on j .n u .r y 2<l.
purchase of W ar Bonds will help pay Stove and put on the coffeepot; and
poM of their property. It w *. nation^ topic of interest).
• .
1 -
..
.
eonn- for these guns, giving them an ad­
sat on the porch in the moon-shot
Chanc^i .hy «duetion t h .t will
The™ 1. no hurry to do .n y- ty ’ fln,t c“ ualty of the WBr’
vantage over our enemies. Buy War heart of night. Wind drifted across
Yours tru ly , M rs. Geo. L. Fox. Bonds every payday. At least ten
probably‘-cause the income from thing, no hurry to do nothing,
the flats, cold and sweet Harry
percent of your incorp«, or as much
this source to be some $60,000 or just no hurry. We live the life of
>3CO* Oregon
Jump appeared from the shadows,
as you can buy w ill help pay tlie
saying in his sleepy, irritable voice,
$75,000 leas per year.
Riley. Do we like it? No. Like
The following is a letter writ­ war cost, provide you with a nest “ Well, if you’re goin’ to slay up
Of more important measures every lizard who fin<fc an oasis in ten to the Grass Valley I.O.O.F. erg for the future, and pay you good I ’ll turn in.”
y, 5 J r n t n r y Dr/'arlf*ent
probably the adoption of an elec- the desert we long to try the «and« lodge by Pvt. Vernon E. Shipley, interest.
Morgan got up from the chair, un­
I
tive 'community
property
law
is
hardship
again,
and
like
the
—r - - - -
..
.
.... .
. ,
who is with the army in the Pa- ------- Buy W a r Bonds Today ------ able ta take the punishment of his
of the rre.U .1 ¡m p.rt.nce. Under l«erd « » • » « willingly get be-
hand by sitting still. He went in
and drank his coffee, black and hot.
thl. lew U will be powible for yond the right of the prim tree».
2j j943
and returned to the yard, pacing out
husband and w
wife
to own their
ile to
kneir
Graas V alley Lodge No. 131, I.O.- N O T IC E T O C R E D IT O R S
through the long-thrown shadows of
property jointly .n d epht ell com-
New . »ccount. lndlc*te that
c Q
G rM s Va)|
Oregon,
A ll
persons
having
claims the pcplars. The weathered juniper
munity Income. It 1. « tln m te d f » " » bloe U doing . better job, of
Brother>;
against the Estate of B a rt B ur- poles of the corral showed ,whitely
that this will make a saving to looking out for the farmers than
Thank you very
much
f o r rell, deceased, are hereby notified *n the moonlight; across the valley
Oregon taxpayers of some $8,- it is in looking out for the nation. sending me m y certificate of due* to present them, w ith the proper
outline of silence. eve^ the night
000,000, It will also reduce Ore­
for this year. I t w ill perm it me vouchers and duly verified, to the he walched thig ,and hig ,and alow.
gon income tax income to some
to visit the Odd Feflows lodge in undersigned, the duly appointed, |y turn through the night from glow-
extent but will Increase It also
th?se Islands.
qualified and acting adm im stra- ing shapelessness to the first hard
because of smaller federal tax de­
You fellows are pretty swell to trix of the Estate o f B a rt B u r- shadows of false morning. A streak
w rite me. A lfred Payne and Clyd'? rell, deceased, at the office of T . showed over the eastern hills and the
duction* Whether the complica-
t io u t h it t f e «)•» Uw Wiil cau»c From the O be.rver, M « r. IS, 1904 strad lev have w rjtten u
,e t. Iiaster Johnson in Mop0i Oregon, ’J ® '« , began to riir In the c o r r.t
beyond
w ithin six months fro m the date
Asthmatically coughing: at
B.
F.
Hoover
h
w
begun
brick-
U
fa
which
,
appreriate
Is
will be worth the $8,000,000
something else again.
•
m aking at Wasco.
mere words. Now, I receive one of the first publication of this no- flve> drawn and wire-nerved, Morgan
Born. To tbe wife. of H. Pape,
y ^ , |,0<)> F ran k. Believe me. tice, to -w it: March 12, 1943.
ate breakfast with the crew.
A new method of estimating tax
g-jves me a new lease on life.
Leota B urrell, A d m in is tra trix
He said to Jump, “ I ’ ll be in town
receipt! so that income end excise at Gorman, an 8 lb. boy. A11 do-
taxes can be reduced if income ing well.
Do you know, I have talked to Date of F irs t Publication, M arch ior 8 couple hours. Stick close to
the house until I get back.”
from them reaches too large a
Last . 8unday s «now
storm f ejjows f rom practically every 12, 1943.
Afterwards, all his muscles sore
figure was written into law and stopped plowing early this Week, sU te Jn the v g , and a|most to Date of Last Publication, Aprtl
and strained and ragged, he climbed
through it a reduction of prob- but it left sown fields steaming
man
Swears that his state 9, 1943.
18-22 the stairs to Janet’s room and stood
ably 20 to 30 per cent in income like a vat of barley in a brewery ¡g <<God»8 chosen land”! It is in-------7------
a moment by her bed. She lay in
and excise taxes may be expected before noon.
evitable that environment will N O T IC E TO C R E D IT O R S
a curled bundle, both hands drawn
for 1944. No reduction could be From the Observer, Mar. 21, 1924 mojd any man’s life and wav of
near her face. Her lips were soft.
Notice is hereby given that C. almost on the edge of a smile, as
made in 1948 despite the roaring
An auto party comprising Mrs. lin k in g . I know for certain what
of those who had made large in- 0 . L. Belahe and daughter Linnie coun^fy and state I am coming A. Tom hak been appointed A d - though her dreams were pleasant;
m inistrator of the Estate of ®od this way, unconscious of him,
comes in 1042 and dreaded the and Mns. G . E . Mathews and home to; you can bet on that
ficor^e W Pn-npv Deceased and Bhe showed Morgan a childish
u early
v Thursday x
tsnnKert once
"
Kamey O eceas d ,
sweetness that held him there. Iong-
tax gathered in 1948 more than LaNelle left Moro
y Rpe young
younR w . . Brinkert
F ü g nuan C ounty ^mirimi
¿ions were increased from >25 ta
$39 per month with a probable
shortage in liquor revenue it is
easy to see that the legislature
might have been too generous in
giving up tax revenues and in
raising appropriations despite the
fact that it had a surplus to start
with.
’ ‘
The legislature adopted an oc-
cupational disease bill, -without the
trial by jury feature «
much
named by labor, but .till a bill
that if signed by the governor
will give protection to workers
whose health is damaged in in-
Kally’s Collar.
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ADDLEa"dRIDE
By
E rnest M aycox
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her her eyes showed him something
that warmed him through and
through: it was a swift personal in*
terest, a little saddened by what
she saw, as though his injuries hurt
her heart. “ Bones McGeen came by
the ranch late last night and told us
what happened.” She watched him
quite closely, one strong line of
worry across her forehead.
“I was
you were bad,y hurt' 1 hOp*
you paid him back. I hope you
smashed the lights out of h im !”
He managed a grin. "He’ll take
np beauty prizes for a spell.”
'They had this power to be pleased
with each other, to cover up serious
nets with a light, touch-and-go. hu­
mor.
He said: “ I ’m glad I crossed your
trail.
What are you doing?”
; “ I was coming your way. I want­
ed to see how you were.”
“ Did you tell Gurd you were com­
ing. ’ v
“ No.”
“ What’s the m atter with him?”
She lowered her head and drew
patterns on the soft forest soil with
le r finger-point Her hair glowed
darkly in the morning’s lig h t it
deepened the color of her cheeks.
“ I don’t know,” she said in a re­
served voice. She wouldn’t look at ’
him during these moments. “ It is j
Herendeen's influence. I suppose."
She lifted the soft earth in her
I.and and let it slide between her
fingers. Her face was sweetly so­
ber. Her long And fresh-colored lips
expressively changed shape when
she looked at him. “ No explana­
tions. no apologies. That is the way
you've always been.”
“ What else can anybody do?"
“ Nothing. I guess. Only it makes
it hard for people to understand you
sometimes. To know what is in
your head.” ---------- r
"You never had any trouble figur­
ing me out,” be reflected.
■'Ah. but I have a special gift that
way.
1- know you through and
through.” They were silently laugh­
ing at each other, influenced by an
Undercurrent which always buoyed
them up when together. She turned,
lying back on the ground, her body
full-shaped against the folds of her
riding habit
She pillowed her head with her
hands and watched the bright blue
patch of sky showing through the
pine-tops, speaking in a distant
dreaming voice:
“Nothing ever
changes. Clay The earth, the wind
or the sun. Or the things I want
or you w a n t”
He remembered what Ann Mc-
Garrah had so swiftly asked him:
What had he wanted? Now. not
knowing what it was. he asked Cath­
erine: “What do I want?”
> She saidAin a faraway tone: ”1
wish I knew.”
' “What do
you w a n t? ”
She turned her head, so close to
him ndw that he saw the gray flakes
of color in her eyes. The dance of
laughter was in them, and an In­
expressible gravity was in them,
both humors blended. It was the
way she hid herself from him when
she chose. “Never ask a woman’s
age. never ask what she wants.”
He said indolently: “I wish I had
a steak, with onions
Maybe Ger­
man fried potatoes and a piece of
apple pie. Now that’s what I want.”
She said: “ Do you remember the
night we rode to Freeport in the
rain and ate Kern Case's flapjacks
and coffee, and played rummy un­
til he got scandalized at our conduct
and sent us away? It was awfully
dark in the Potholes that night,
p a y .”
“ What ever happened to that
brown dress?”
She said in a wondering tone,
“ You still remember it?” Then she
added quite gently: “Somewhere in
^ws
+lfovasl uAinrn
the attic. Clay. It is up there with
they expected l X.
to in 1AJJ
1944.
fo r D/xm
Portland
where tVlAV
they PYnort
expect 2
-p
R
w
j,j]e
t
he
other
boys
I
^as
38
such.
A
U
persons
wondering
and
strongly
moved.
It
IP a
Auditing of income /tax returns to attend the piano recitals given },aven»^ geen 8ince Sept, or Oct. having claims against said Estate
that uttle-girl look, full of faith all the other things I outgrew and
put away to forget and never quite
*is never done In the year they are in that city by Paderewski.
Th
are aI1 in a different outfit ;re hereby notified and required to Hnd belief, which struck him so forgot Would you want to go back
received and the 225,000 that will - The school faculty, pupils, and and R jg by chance only tf wc present the same duly verified to hard It would not. he realized, be to those times. Clay?”
be fifed th i. .prinr will »ot be fl- D o « ., .tudy club will give » p l.y - m e e t And then they may have '» id A dm inistrator at Ru/ua^Ore-
H^feri tt« ' “ No,” he said. “ I guess n o t"
nally checked until some
tim e in ground benefit A p ril 11th a t the j oined a taak f orc€
i have no 20n' w ,thin S1X lmo™ ^ * r OnJ
lined out for War Pass, reaching
She said: “ There’s something
else 1 came np here to tell you.
1044 or 1045. Taxpayers
w ill get school auditorium fo r the
put - way of knowing.
date of tb® fir8t PUbbcatioh of thia town beyond sunup and going direct
Herendeen has sent over the
a reduction in taxes more quickly pose of providing more playground
fn fact^ j can»t th jnk of a n y notice. The first, publication is ly
Charley Padden’s house,
mountain for the Ryder boys.
by reducing the 1944 tax than by apparatus and
improving t h e wKere j would rather be, except February 26, 1943, ,
Charley was the only doctor in
' They’re gunmen. Clay.”
providing a nrfund program for school ground.. A candy sale home of cou„ e But then wp a]1
C. A. Tom, Administrator, the c«umry a man turned rough
He said, “Tim e to go.” and held
this year, the yowls of the politi- will be part of the program.
hav<? a job u compipte first, an.l J . T’? CJr.
had. somewhat profane and appar-
out his hand. His fingers were warm
and strong, they had a pressure as
cians hot (withstanding.
A professor says that bathing
better we are trained and pre- lhe Dalles, Oregon.
**
enl)y canouse<j t© patn m others
A bill mas .passed giving mem* is an unnecessary custom engaged pared wi|j defeat our enemies Atto™ey for Estate.
10-1 u When he saw the broken finger and she pulled herself half-upright and
bera of the armed forces an ad- in for the purpose of gaining ao- thoroughly.
--------------------------------- --------------- the bruises on Morpan’s face, he for a moment her shoulder softly
touching his chest she watched the
ditional exemption of $3000 in in- cial prestige. Yes, it helps a man
j am giad to hear-you are able Moro Lodge No. 113, L O O F. sald: “The other customer came in dust dancing in a shaft of slanting
before daylight I took four stitches
oome tax. This will /probably cost to get into society and also to _===^ =s====sss=sJ<=!=;5=ss==SBra
M « u r r i 0.rn T n3N ■"
“P ™ v
1’;’ ’L r ;
sunlight her eyes half-closed. “ No,”
the etate a quarter of a million live with himself.
she murmured. “ I guess I wouldn’t
dollars of expected income.
From the Observer, Mar. 20, 1914 ^ • reka
N® 121 A .F .^A .M
either.”
Meets
on
the
1st
and
3rd
Thurs­
I.O..O.F.
hall
Tra>
„N
o
..
gaid
Clay
..go
ahead
and
. “What?”
The intangibles surtax wae Y t 1
The school house and equipment
sient and visitir< dorft ulk
damned much/» -
“Go back to old times. We’d do
day
evenings
of
earn
pealed which will reduce state In- at Grass Valley burned e a r l y
the same things, and make the same
month.
Visi'ing
t
t
pro­
••rti
brothers
are
cordi
Rounding
the
bend
of
the
trail,
a
come by another $250,000. This Wednesday evening;
cause un-
mistakes. Nothing changes.”
ally invited to meet iew m inutes later, he saw*Catherine
bers are cordially in-
has been one of the taxes that known. It was a modern brick
She turned her head to him. her
rith ns.
Grant dismounted in the trail, w a it
vited to meet with us.
have been held up as dangerous to building and had about $6,800 in-
lips pressed in soft humor. But the
Charles C. W ilaon/if.G r. .
ing
expression on Morgan's face sent
nehtiement by new comers.
surance. ■
When Morgan dismounted before
I’eicy Thompson, Sec.
W . F . McLeod. W .M .
the smile away and for this short
When it io realized that th i ap-
The street committee of the G V . Belknap, Secretary
heady interval of time they were
propriationa for the state were city council are to be cortgratu-
♦»pine Rebekah Lodge No. 11$ Bethlehem Chapter No. 78, O.E.S. remembering the same things,
increaaed by oveT $7,600,000 and lated upon the neat way the fm-
hard-touched by them, dangerously
iWHtinnnnxKHnxnnnnKSunn::
Moro. Oregon
Moro. Oregon
that the federal income tax will .provement of Main street is be-
Meets Every Second and stirred by them. That old closeness
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lay of each month.
Fourth Thursdays
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commission income, and that pea- ger within our gates,
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“ Herendeen has sent over th«
mountain for the Ryder boys.”
had once seen her—a girl holding
him away with a gay insolence even
as her eyes pulled him on. He saw
now the faint freckles at the base
of her nose and the curve of her
eyebrows and the close texture of
her slfrn, gently browned by the sun
—and the reflection of himself in her
pupils.
She rose and stepped away from
him and did something then that
told him of her thoughts; she lifted
her chin, her face tightening against
a flare of excitement, and pulled her
hands behind her back as she had
done in those old days when she
was afraid of .what was to come.
“ My boy,” she said, breathlessness
in her throat, “ it is time to go ”
“ Back heme?”
She shook her head. ’ ’I'm riding
with you. There’s something on
Long Seven I want to find out. You
don't mind. Clay?”
He had his awkward mon.cnt in '
mounting with his bad hand. They
traveled single-file up the trail to
Mogul's plateau, and afterward rode
abreast across the
ci ow sur­
face of the high meadov.s, beneath
a half warm sun. H ;gh on the
tawny ribs of the Mogul ridge cattle
grazed; a puff of dust rose from
the bounding flight of an antelope
Catherine said: “ It is a beautiful
world, Clay.”
Turning the foot of the Mogul
Mountains, they came upon the
Long Seven yard. Janet was wait­
ing in the doorway, her hands prim ­
ly folded in front of her dress Harry
Jump and Cap Vermilye were near
the corral talking to the nester from
Salt Meadow, Fox Willing.
These three moved toward M or­
gan but he ignored them for this mo­
ment, eaught by this scene of Cath­
erine facing his daughter Catherine
walked forward, tall and pleasant
in the sunlight, not smiling but near
to a smile. Janet's small hands re­
mained locked across her dress. Her
face held its precise gravity, its un­
moved reserve; her eyes were quite
cool yet Morgan, who knew his
daughter thoroughly — the shaded
meaning in her various degrees of
silence and politeness—recognized
an odd restraint in his daughter at
the moment. It was a m iriured re­
sentment, the cause of which he un­
derstood at once. Somewhere along
the last year or two his daughter
had absorbed the viewpoint of Ann
McGarrah
Somehow Ann McGar-
rah had mysteriously instilled in
Janet her own dislike of Catherine
These were the ways by which wom­
en sent their feelings intuitively
across space to other women. Jan­
et was Ann's partisan and her small
clear face, so exactly neutral, could
not quite hide her jealousy.
He
stood by, quietly angered at Ann
McGarrah for what she had done to
Janet, knowing he had no way of
changing Janet’s expression. She
was no longer a child to listen im­
plicitly to him. In her own mind,
in that shadowland between child­
hood and wisdom, were beliefs she
held by her own judgment.
- Catherine was at the porch. She
said: “ I haven’t seen yuu for a
very long while. Janet.”
Janet’s voice tfas slow and cool.
“Thank you. Would you lik ^ a cup
of coffee?”
“ No,” said Catherine, and settled
on the steps of the porch She looked
at her hands a moment, drawing a
deep breath; she was sober and re­
strained. “ No, but thanks. That’s
a pretty dress. I had one once, al­
most the same color. I wore it to
a lot of dances.”
“ Were you my age then?” asked
Janet
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“ I was older. But at your age I
used to dance by myself when no­
body was watching.”
,
do, too,” said Janet.* “How
long did you have to wait before you
could <o to dances?* She spoke it
and then, remembering her father’s
- presence too late, threw him an em­
barrassed look.
Catherine noticed i t She said im ­
mediately; “ It will seem long, as it
did to me, but it really will be so
short a time I ”
Fox Willing moved around to face
Morgan. He said, “ M r. Morgan, 1
rode over to tell you something . .
(TO BE CONTINUEUJ