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Author Of

“One Wide River To Cross”

“The Unknown Port”, Etc.

SYNOPSIS

e Sh Nancy Nelson is a sub-deb, &@ Bay,
frresponsible girl of nineteen, with no
re beyond the choice of her cos-
© for her coming-out party. Sud-
denly, in the market crash, her in-
dulgent father loses all he had, and
is family is faced with the meces-
of a simpler method of living.
At this juncture a letter is received
from_an eccentric relative in Color-
ado, Who offers the girl a home on
what seems to be impossible condi-
tions.
After mucn consideration Cousin
Columbine’s offer is accepted, and
Nancy and Jack arrive at Pine Ridge.
Nancy set out one afternoon to
‘climb to the top of a hill so as to
obtain a view of fhe surrounding
landscape and misses the path Aurora
‘Tubbs had told her to follow. A truck
comes along the road, driven by Mat-
thew Adams, and she asks him which
way to go. They ascend the hill,
look around, and then go on to
Cousin Columbine’s. There Mark

.
___ Luke has broken his leg,
Jack Nelson has been hired to help
out while Luke's leg gets better. With
_ Jack away, Nancy finds that she is
lonesome, and having no books to
read, the idea of starting a public
a library at Pine Ridge seems a good
one, and Nance writes home to get
er parents to send all the books they
Gey could spare and all they could induce
7

_ others to let them have.

Nancy's parents and friends gave
their liberal support to her request
for books, and a sizeable box arrived
in due course. Father Adam painted
a sign for the library, and the Adam
‘ _ boys worked on the shelves for the
apa books and decorations to make the
_____—‘- room look presentable,

_ Jack Nelson, Matthew Adam, and
5 the Nance go to the prairie home of Mat-

_____ thews’ uncle for the ride, and after
> Nance and Jack leave for home, they
are caught in a blizzard. Blinded by
“the swirling snow they collide with a
bus full of school children, which was

stalled across the road with its back

wheels resting in a snow-filled gully.

Their car being wrecked, Jack and
_ Nancy stay with the children and do

all they can to help. The next morn-

ing Jack sets out for help in the bliz-
zard. He succeeds in finding help,
and the party of children and Nancy
are rescued. As a result of the ex-
posure Nancy’s feet are badly frozen
and Jack is seriously ill with pneu-
_monia, but both of them recover.
Now Go On With The Story

CHAPTER XXI.—Continued

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7 He blushed a littlef and Nance
said: “T’ll admit that Jack is. It took

F pluck to leave even the cold shelter
of that bus, you know. But to make

a a fuss over me is—is just ridiculous!
Z I'd have been a coward to watch
those kiddies freeze to death and not
do everything I could. You know I

would!”
rg There was silence a moment before
‘e Matt asked: “Do you remember the
last time we sat under the old pine,

Nancy? You told me then that your
courage had never been tested and
si you wondered how you'd show up in
a pinch. Well, you know now, don’t
you?”

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“T’d forgotten that,” She answered
softly; then lowered her voice still
more, her face flushing a little. “Matt,
will you tell me something, honestly?
I can't ask Cousin Columbine, she
looks so worn and tired; and I’ve got
to know. It's about my feet. These
papers said I’d lost them—that my
legs were frozen solid to the knees.
Was that the truth?”

“Yes, that was true, Nancy. I’m
never going to forget the way I felt
when the nurse told me an amputa-
tion wasn’t necessary. I wanted to
cheer, or—or cry or something. Miss
Columbine did cry when I told her.”
Nance swallowed, and it struck the
young man that she was still fright-
ened.

“Ts there something else you want
to know, Nance?”
“Only—only—well, Mark carried
me upstairs when I came home,
Matt. Are my feet really all right,
ao fore

So she'd been lying there acting
cheerful and worrying about that!
thought Matthew. Oh, she was won-
derful!

“Of course they're all right!” he
reassured her. “You could walk on
them now, only the doctor said you
weren't to go too fast. That's
straight, Nancy. I wouldn't deceive
you a time like this,”

The girl sank back limply against
her pillows.

‘J suppose I’m a moron; but I've
wanted to ask that question for days,
and was too scared!” She smiled
now, at her own foolishness, and
added: “If all those complimentary
newspaper reporters knew I was ter-
rified at the thought of ending my
days in a wheel-chair, I guess they'd
be frightfully disillusioned!”
“Disillusioned!” Matt’s eyes flashed
with protective indignation. ‘‘Dis-
illusioned! Why—”

“Are you plannin’ to stay to din-
ner, Matt Adam?” called Aurora
shrilly. “If so, and you're willin’ to
carry up three trays, you and Miss
Columbine can eat with Nancy.
What say?”

CHAPTER XXII.

‘I am well aware, dear Cousin
James,”’ wrote Columbine Nelson on
the first day of May, “how anxious
you are to get your heroic young
folks back; but nevertheless, I am
going to ask a favor: Let them stay
until Jack has time to fill out again.
He looked so splendid the morning
they started off for Prairie Ranch
that I can’t bear to send him home
to you as gaunt as he is now. A few
weeks of careful feeding will work
wonders in his appearance; and
Aurora Tubbs is itching to ‘fat him
up,’ as she expresses it. If I may
keep them until after the fourth of
July they’ll have a chance to see so
much more of this wonderful coun-
try; and your old cousin will be far
happier.”

A note from Nancy added her plea:

“Don't ever think that we're not
crazy to see you all, but Jack is a
beanpole, and Aurora’s marvelous
cooking ought to fix that in no time.
Then too, ‘Uncle Tom and Aunt Em’
want us at Prairie Ranch for a few
days, just to convince us, I imagine,
that the plains can be warm and
friendly as well as cold and cruel. A
visit there will be something to re-
member; and anyway, Jack refuses
to go home until he’s husky enough
to handle a pick and shovel and can
straighten up the gate posts at
Cousin Columbine’s driveway. They
trouble him a great deal more than
they do her (!); but she does want
the house painted, and couldn’t afford
to because she paid our fares out
here. Aurora told me that. I guess
Uncle Jethro didn’t make any great
pile in Leadville; and I sha’n’t accept
a@ penny of the ‘salary’ she offered as
bait in that comical letter. Your
wandering girl will return as poor as
she started out!

“But I’m feeling wonderful now.
My feet are as good as new. The
library’s booming; and I still get
something of a kick when any one
addresses me as ‘Miss Aladdin.’ I've
not gone back on New England,
Daddy; but I'll miss the library and
those ‘big, open spaces’ we Easterners

Though the family at Edgemere
was disappointed, this plan was ob-
viously best for Jack, and they did
not protest. The boy's strength re-
turned more rapidly than Cousin Col-
umbine anticipated; and by the mid-
dle of May they ventured to make
some of the long-promised excursions
to places not far distant enough to
tire him.

“I'm sick to death of puttin’ up
picnic lunches,” grumbled Aurora one
bright May morning. “And why any-
body in their senses should go to
Cripple Creek when they could stay
away, is somethin’ entirely beyond
me. Not a tree in the whole town,
Nancy Nelson! Not a growin’ thing
lessen you count sage; and those aw-
ful: prospect holes all over the hills
lookin’ for all the world like open
graves in a cemetery. And here’s Miss
Columbine as excited over the trip as
if she’d never seen a minin’ town, let
alone lived in one o’ the pesky places
for months on end! Jack, you're to
drink every drop o’ milk in this
thermos bottle; and if you feel able
to digest ‘em, eat three bananas.
They're powerful fattenin’, as I ought
to know if anybody does. Is it true
Eve Adam's ‘takin’ a whole roast
chicken? I hope for your sakes her
husband had the cookin’ of it. Looks
like the Adams is neglectin’ every-
thing these days to take you galla-
vantin’. It’s a wonder they stop to
milk the cows.”

Eve Adam laughed when Nancy
repeated this caustic comment.”

“But who cares, my dear? We'll
make up the. neglected work after
you leave us; and it warms my heart
to see how Miss Columbine enjoys
these trips. It gives her a new lease
of life to visit the old scenes and
talk of those times with young folks
who are really interested.”

Jack thrilled over that trip to
Cripple Creek; but the day they visit-
ed the scene of Marsh Pemperton’s
colossal hoax, stood out, a high light,
in Nancy’s memory. This was dur-
ing the first week in June, a day with
soft, white clouds drifting across the
sky, and air like mid-summer. Their
road led past ranches where men
were ploughing immense acres; then
on through mile after mile of yellow
pines.- Seated between Mark and
Matthew in the old truck (the com-
fort of the new sedan being given
over to the older Adams, Cousin Col-
umbine, and Jack), Nance caught her
breath at occasional glimpses of dis-
tant mountains, some snow-rimmed.

“T’m all but speechless over this
scenery,’ she confessed, while the
boys smiled in amusement at her en-
thusiasm, “yet those two idiots”
(with a backward glance toward
Luke and Mary ‘Taylor, seated on
cushions in the rear), “are jabbering
away as if there were.no ‘wonders
to behold.’ What ails them?”

“Love's young dream, lady,’ Mark
opined as he slowed down for a
thank-you-ma’am. “Luke’s always
been more or less what Aurora calls
‘sweet’ on Mary; and that girl has
certainly blossomed out just lately,

the result, I believe, of association
with Miss Aladdin.”
Nance taughed; and Matt said

solemnly: “With all due respect to
Miss Aladdin, I’ve a notion that our
kid brother is responsible for that
change in Mary Taylor.” He turned
to view the unsuspicious couple seat-
ed below, and added: “At any rate,
they're both oblivious to the scen-
ery!”

Mark chuckled, and rounding a
curve, announced: “‘Here’s your pion-
eer cemetery, Nance=the one Miss
Columbine told about. Shall we view
it from here, or are you determined
to climb that slope in this hot sun?”

“What did we come for?” the girl
responded; and as Matt sprang down
she took his steadying hand and fol-
lowed. “I wouldn’t miss seeing this
place for anything. Aren’t you all
coming?”

Mark shook his head.

‘Tm starving. I’m going to forage
in the lunch box. What do you say,
folks?”

This last was addressed to Luke
and Mary, to whom the lunch box
seemed more alluring than the ceme-
tery. So it was with Matt alone that
Nance explored that tragic spot, look-
ing down soberly on graves protected
only by sagging fences, the marking
on their wooden headboards almost
obliterated—some wholly lost amid
an overgrowth of weeds and bushes.

Perhaps it was the history of the
place that silenced the young people.
Neither spoke for a time; and then
Nance stooped, laying a spray of
blossoming pink kinnikinnick on one
small unmarked resting place.

“Somebody's baby,” she explained,
flushing a bit for fear that Matt
would think her sentimental; but to
her relief he added:

“And all because of one man’s
greed. I'd hate to be responsible for
such a place, Nancy; yet when my
time comes I'd rather lie in this wild
tangle than in a city cemetery with

joke about. Tell Phil I'm sending
him some real Indian arrow heads. . .”

a neatly mowed lawn above me, and
a ‘perpetual care’ sign over my head.”

Dont
Guess But
Know
Whether the “Pain”

Remedy You Use
is SAFE?

Don’t Entrust Your
Own or Your Family’s
Well - Being to Unknown
Preparations

[HE person to ask whether the
preparation you or your family
are taking for the relief of headaches
is SAFE to use regularly is your
family doctor. Ask him particularly
about “ASPIRIN.”

He will tell you that before the
discovery of ‘Aspirin’? most “‘pain’”
remedies were advised against by
physicians as bad for the stomach
and, often, for the heart. Which is
food for thought if you seek quick,
safe relief.

Scientists rate “Aspirin” among
the fastest methods yet discovered for
the relief of headaches and the pains
of rheumatism, neuritis and neural-
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“Aspirin” Tablets are made in
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Demand and Get

“ASPIRIN”

His voice was thoughtful, and with
sudden inspiration the girl quoted:

“Under the wide and starry sky
Dig my grave and let me lie.’

“Ts that how you feel, Matt?”

His eyes lighted at her intuition;
but before he could reply, Mark’s
laughing voice broke in upon them.

“Both poetic and appropriate,
young lady; but you two seem to
have forgotten that we're on our
way. The old folks have caught up
with us, but they’re too lazy to get
out, and Jack's already explored this
melancholy scene. There's still ten
or twelve miles ahead if we're to eat
our lunch on the shore of the Platte,
as Miss Columbine has set her heart
on doing. Have some cake?”

Matthew, who longed to strangle his
brother for this intrusion, neverthe-
less accepted his portion with good
grace; while Nance exclaimed:
“You've saved my life, Mark! I’m
almost passing out. Isn’t the Platte
the river we read about in history—
I mean the one the pioneers were al-
ways fording?”

(To Be Continued)

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Rise In Diamond Prices

Increase To Release More
For The World Market

London’s diamond kings, control-
lers of the world’s supply, are to re-
lease for sale more uncut stones
within a short time than were sold
throughout the whole of the last
year. i ;

So convinced are they in England
that the world has recovered enough
to indulge once more in luxuries that
prices are being advanced 7% per
cent,, and there is confidence that all
stones offered will be sold.

Altogether stones worth more
than $15,000,000 will be offered to
selected buyers from all parts of the
world within two months. The Dia-
mond Corporation, which has ac-
cumulated $45,000,000 worth of stones
during the years of depression, has
been allocated a quota in the sales.
Invitations already have been dis-
patched to representative brokers in
Amsterdam, Antwerp, Vienna, Paris,
Bombay and New York.

The central selling ‘agency of the
diamond groups is in a four-storey
building off Holborn. Every foreign
buyer is shown into a walnut-pan-
elled room. He is accompanied by a
representative of the sellers. On a
square of plain white paper on @
ledge under the window is poured a
little heap of graded, uncut stones. It
represents a fortune.

The buyer examines the stones,
makes his choice, pays his price, and
departs with a tiny package as casu-
ally as if he had purchased a bag of
nuts.

Biggest buyers are expected to be
New York and India. U.S. jewellers’
stocks are believed to be lowest
since the depression. India’s demand
is based on “dehoarding” of gold by
the princes.

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Love is of God, and every one that
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God. I. John 4:7.

Forbearing one another and forgiv-
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Oh, might we all our lineage
prove,

Give and forgive, do good and
love;

By soft endearments, in kind

strife,
Lightening the daily load of life.

We may if we choose make the
worst of one another. Every one has
his faults, every one his weak points,
and we may fix our attention con-
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make the best of one another. We
may forgive even as we hope to be
forgiven. We may put ourselves ih
the place of others and ask ourselves
what we would wish to be done to
us were we in their place. By loving
whatever is lovable in those around
us, love will flow back from them to
us and life will be a pleasure indeed
instead of a pain. Earth will be-
come like heaven and we shall not be
unworthy followers of Him whose
name is Love.

Birds Devour Hoppers

Thousands Of Gulls Land And Clear
The Fields

In certain parts of southern Al-
berta where grasshoppers were so
numerous this summer vast flocks of
gulls were literally covering the
fields, rounding up the hoppers, and
when they had concluded their at-
tack about 75 per cent. of the insects
had been devoured.

Reeve A. Schug of Rosenheim said
that on a field of 60 acres a flock
of gulls glided in from the south and
practically covered the ground. He
estimated about 50,000 on the entire
field. A wave of grasshoppers could
be seen travelling ahead of the birds
trying to evade them as the gulls
walked onward, but by the time the
gulls had dined to their satisfaction
some three-quarters of the hoppers
were no more.

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The only thing Johnny Crossland,
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speeches. And he couldn’t give a
proper address without a live ex-
hibit. So into the classroom walked
Johnny leading a white pony, with
@ saddle 'n’ everything. He made a
good speech, too.

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Rhodesia will establish a mining
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Lectures To Be Given In New York
To Educate Mothers

An institute to debunk the ancient
myth that all mothers are good
mothers was founded in New York
with plans to promote its idea by lec-
tures and clinics. The institute's
program was outlined by Bernard
Deutsch, president of the New York
board of aldermen.

“Every walk in life, to be trod suc-
cessfully, needs long and weary train-
ing,”-he said. “Why except mother-
hood? Let us debunk the ancient
myth once and for all. There are
good mothers, bad mothers, indiffer-
ent mothers, diligent mothers, intelli-
gent mothers, and ignorant mothers.”
By instructing women in proper
care of children, the institute is to
attempt improving the motherhood
“ability” of its pupils.

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