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"Aniericani are not accustomed to
figuring depreciation costs on real
dcntlal properties,” says Arthur
Slices in “House and Garden." The
business man must count depreda
tion costs on industrial property, his j
■tm-y points out, yet all too seldom
docs he make provision for this'
Item in the upkeep of hiif home..’
“Recent federal and local surveys
»f residential properties have Indl
rated the -tamentnble condition of a
considerable majority of the houses
of America,” comments Mr. Stlres
SYNOPSIS
At a gathering of cronies In the vil
lage of Liberty, Maine/ Jim Saladlne
“All over the American countryside Helena to the hletory of the nelghbor-
we see the tell-tale Indications of ln * Valley-ltd past tragedlea.
that dread depression-born disease
Its superb Ashing streams, and, above
all, the mysterious, enticing ‘‘Huldy,”
dllapidosis. Manor, farm and cottage wife of Will Ferrln. interested, he
■like stiow the incipient signs of de- drives to the Valley te^^day’e AeMng,
. , . , , , though admitting to himself his chief
ray which an Impermeable tl1m_ of de8|re „ to see the (rIamorou , HuIdy
paint would, In many cases, remedy. 1
Repainting, too long deferret Is
unprofitable, points out Mr. Stires.
Not only Is good appearance sacrl
flced—not only is the surface less
suitable for repainting — hut in
mfcny eases the structure itself Is
exposed to serious damage by the
elements. Good paint, properly np
plied—and reapplied when needed—
an
Ferrln. “Old Marm" Pierce and her
nineteen-year-old granddaughter Jenny
I live In the Valley. Since childhood
Jenny has deeply loved young Will
Ferrln, older than she, and who re
gards her as sMIl a child/ Will leaves
to take employment An nearby Augusta.
His father's death brings Will back-
Sj the Valley, but he returns to Au
gusta, still unconscious of Jenny’a
womanhood and love. Neighbors of
the Pierces are Bart and Amy, Carey,
brother and sister Bart, unmarried and
fs the best gunriintee of satisfaction, something of a ne'er-do-well. Is at-
eeonomy and protection. * traded l by Jenny. The girl repulses
“Kxamine the condition of the him deAnltely. Learning that Will
paint* on your own home,” suggests
Mr. Stires. “Is the surface badly
rhnlked and ‘paint-thirsty?’ Are
there signs of Incipient trouble
■round |x*rch steps, column - ha sea,
railings and windows? Has accu
mulated moisture, from any cause
Mistered your protective film of
paint?
Is coming home,- Jenny, exulting, sets
his long-empty house “to rights,” and
has dinner ready for him. He comes—
bringing his wife, Huldy The girl's
world collapses. Huldy becomes the
subject of unfavorable gossip In the
Wttey. Entering his home unlooked
for. Will Ands seemingly damning
evidence of his wife's unfaithfulness
ss a man he knows Is Seth Humph
reys breaks from the house. Will over
takes him and chokes him to death,
“Delay !n remedying any of these although Humphreys shatters his leg
distressing conditions may be more
expensive than you realize," he ex
plains. “Now Is an excellent time to
have painting done. The season of
the year has many natural advan
tages and prices are still low.”
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SLACK-DRAUGHT
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39—3.
with a bullet At Marm Pierce'* house
the leg I* amputated. Jenny goes to
break the new* to - Huldy and And*
her with Bart Carey.
CHAPTER IV—Continued
“Seth ought to t»een ashamed,” said
Huldy ehtdtngly. *Td give him a piece
of my mind, shooting my Will that
way. If Will hadn't already 'tended to
him plenty." And she asked wtth wide
Innocent eyes: “Did you see them cut
his leg off?’’
“1 helped the doctor." Jenny an
swered.
Huldy was all surface sympathy.
“That was hard on you—with you lov
ing my Will so!" Her Inst word bit and
stung.
And Jenny breathed deeply, and
was strong. “1 do love him,” she as
sented gravely. "But yo’re not likely
to know what that means."' She added
Insistently: “Han't you come to him
now?"
Huldy smiled and shook her head.
‘‘1 ain't coming,” she said calmly.
“You can have him. Tell him I said I
. never could be satisfied with half a
man!"
The world shattered into fragments,
us a mirror shatters under the impact
of a thrown hall. Jenny rocked to and
fro as though she had been struck;
and her lips were dry. The lamp was
smoking; a thin thread of smoke like
a black line rose from the chimney
top, to billow Into a faint plume In the
rising atr current above the flame.
The girl leaned forward to turn the
lamp down a little.
“Wick needs trimming." she mut
tered.
“You’ll take care of all such things
for him,” Huldy predicted. "Yo’re such
a housekeei>er! But—tending a cripple
j would weary me. I’m going away I"
“You’d not go when he’s hurt, and
needs you?” Jenny whispered almost
pleadingly.
“I’d rather he wanted than needed.”
| Huldy retorted. “But that’s a riddle
to you.”
“Yo’re bound to go?” Jenny asked,
still incredulous.
“I am going. In a little now."
“Where?”
“An old friend of mine,” said Huldy
lightly. “He’s been fishing down at
Hart’s. Soon’s he gets his clothes
changed, he’s coming to fetch me.”
Jenny, suddenly, was almost happy.
“It will hurt Will awful at the first,”
she decided, speaking her thoughts
aloud. “But he’ll come to thank you.
With you gone, maybe he can be happy
again!”
Huldy’s brows knotted, and her lips
moved as though to speak; but she
smiled then suddenly, and she rose.
“Well, anyway. I’m going Now get
out," she said, her tones rasping. "Go
back on to that one-legged man. Long
ns I’m here, this Is my kitchen, and
I'll not hare you In It Go along with
you.” -
Jenny turned without a word to the
door. Her very passivity seemed to
drive the other woman Into fury.
Huldy came to call some black word
at the girl departing; but Jenny did
m>t even turn her head. In the barn,
she paused, hearing behind her, on the
road down from the ridge, the beat of
the feet of running horses. That would
i be Bart, riding back to the farm In
haste. He must have left the wagon
where It was. . . . And as she enfM'ged
into the orchard, she saw the head
lights of a car laboring up the hill,
mid guessed this was the car which
would bear Huldy away.
The stars were clear, the deep wood
►lark and comforting. Jenny came
home in peace. She thought the Val
ley would be brighter, with Huldy
gone; thought there was a rainbow
promise In the starlit sky.
She had no least prevision that
though Huldy might for a while de
part, yet she would presently return.
emi, and Huldy went away,
stayed at Marm Pierce's farm till his
leg was healed; and Jenny was hap
py In attending him. She gave him Hul-
dy’s message, and he received it un
complainingly.
' “Natural for her to -ieel so." he de
cided. “No one legged man Is good
enough for her.”
There was no bitterness In his tone;
but he saw Jenny’s loyal anger, and
he said appenslngly:
“Huldy’s one that takes a lot of
stock In the way folks look. Jenny.
She was like a cat. always cleaning
herself. Took as much pleasure In her
self as an old skinflint does in his
money. And she lived to have every
one Hroupd her the samg. . Farm folk
like us, we’re apt to kind of forget.
If 1 come Into the house with barn
on my boots, It always ‘Bothered her."
And he added: “I can see how she’d
take this. Anybody with two legs Is
kind of hound to feel that a man with
only one leg is no good. It’s Just like
you’ll shoot a horse that breaks Its
leg, or get rfd of a crippled cot. or
dog.”
Jenny, faced by his stubborn loyalty
to this woman who, despite the fact
that she had wronged and flouted him,
was still hls wife, felt a reluctant
pride In him. If he had cursed Huldy,
he would not have been Will Ferrln;
not the man she had long loved. So
she said no word of blame for Huldy,
and the matter thereafter did not rise
between them.
But Burt Carey was not so tactful,
till Will silenced him. Jenny, In the
kitchen, . beard them talking together,
heard Will’s slow tones at last.
“Bart,” he said strictly, “I don’t
want that kind of talk about Huldy.
“Long as I’m Hera, This Is My
Kitchen.”
She was used to gay times in Augusta,
and when I fetched her here, it was
bound to be hard on her. I don’t blame
her none.”
Bart protested hotly: "You was mad
enough, yourself, when you went after
Seth!”
“So I was,” Will confessed. “He was
a man, and responsible. But I dunno
as I can blame Huldy. Anyway, not
for—leaving ,now !”
“She was scared,” Bart Insisted.
“Scared for fear you’d treat her the
same as you did him. She knew It
was her due. That’s why she skinned
out!"
"She had no cause to be scared of
me,” said Will gently. “I wouldn’t
harm her. And Bart, you keep your
tongue off her. If yo're good friend
to me.”
And Jenny, listening, loved him
more and more.
In the matter of Seth’s death. Will
was held blameless. Nom had seen
the beginning of the encounter between
them; but the mill men had seen and
could testify that Seth shot Will, and
tried to shoot him again; and Bart
could testify that Seth had borrowed
the gun, ns though the thing were pre
meditated. So, though Will had to an
swer to the law, he was presently free
again; and when be had learned the
use of a |ieg leg. he went hack to the
farm on the hill.
He dwelt there alone, that winter,
and Bart dally tramped up the ateep
road from his farm to take the heavier
chores off the cripple’s hands; but by
February, Will had become almost as
nimble on hls |>eg as he had used to
he on his sound foot. Only the work
Indoors he slighted, as a man will; and
Jenny sometimes went to catch up
loose ends. She had snowshoes. and
beat a trail through the woods. Marm
Pierce may have felt misgivings, but
she kept them to.herself. There was
in the girl a force not easy to oppose;
a driving force which sent her to Will’s
side whenever he had need of her.
And between them during these win
ter months a bond began to form, and
no longer on Jenny’a aide alone. Will
never spoke hls mind nor hls heart to
tier, nor she to him; yet to them both
the thing was clear. To him It was a
trouble and deep concern. From Huldy
he had had no word; yet to her be still
was bound, and would remain so If she
chose.
He told Jenny this one day. They
approached the subject guardedly, by
long Indirection, naming Huldy not at
all; until at last Will said soberly:
“Jen, no use our dodging around'
the thing. Here’s my look at It A man
might want to say a woman wa'n’t hts
wife. If she’d acted wrong. But I don't
see It so. The way 1 see it. I’m bound
—any man’s hound—long as he’s give
hls word."
And he said: “It looks to me. the
worse a woman Is, the moVe like she
Is to come to the time when she needs
a husband to stand by her. and look
out for her. A man. If hls wife ever
come to him. no matter what she’d
done, and said he’d got to help her.
why It looks to me he'd have to.”
Jenny assented without reservation;
but when she told Marm Pierce, days
later, this word of Will’s, the old worn
an said Irascibly:
“That’s Just like a man! Once you
get ah idee Into the critter’s heads,
there's no knocking It out again. A
man’s worse than a broody hen! Only
sure way to break her Is cut her head
ofT” ■ '
Jenny urged proudly: “Will couldn’t
do different, Granny!”
“You and your Will!" Marm Pierce
ejaculated. "Yo’re as had as him, some
ways. A woman like Huldy, all she de
serves Is a knock on the head. ’Stead
of that, you and him will go pn eating
your hearts out, and she’ll gad around
with this one and that one. ... I’d
like to lay a hand on her once. Fd
trim her comb!”
Yet the girl was content, and when
winter broke and the feeble pulse of
spring began to flutter, Jenny had
<ome to a certain happiness. She was
happy In serving Will, going almost
daily to clean up the kitchen and cook
a hatch of doughnuts, or make bis
cuits, or concoct a pie. To see him, to
be alone with him was for the time
bliss enough for her.
But when the frost was out of the
ground and plowing to be done, the
handicap under which Will must labor
began more fully to ap|>ear. He was
able to do the barn chores; but field
work presented .problems hard to
solve. Bart and others helped him
when they could; hut Will's restless
zeal sought an outlet In great works
about the farm, and the neighbor folk
had their own tasks to do.
For this problem which Will faced,,
chance brought what seemed a fortu
nate solution. Toward the foot of the
Valley there was a farm long owned
by old Fred Dace, whose father and
grandfather had dwelt there^before
him. and who • lived there with hls
son. Nate. But Nate had died a year
or two before; and this spring the
old man likewise sickened and came to
hls quick end. He had no kin about;
but there was a son who four or five
years before had gone west, and this
son now came home.
Zeke Dace was a lean, wiry man In
his middle twenties, who wore a wide-
brimmed hat of a western pattern,
and rode plow horses with a stock sad
dle, and rolled cigarettes with one
hand, and had a laughing, ready
tongue. He had come home, he said, to
stay. The cow business was busted,
jobs on the range were bard to find.
But the Dace farm promised no
great return from even a vigorous cul
tivation ; and Will Ferrln sent for
Zeke and hired him as a hand.
Jenny approved the arrangement.
She liked the newcomer; and he and
Will were from the first a congenial
pair. Zeke had acquired an alien col
or, yet underneath bore still the traces
of his New England ancestry. That
battered old hat of hls amused the
folk hereabout; but It amused him as
nf«^as.it<*dld them. He wore it with
an air; he played a game of cribbage
as keen as Will’s; and the two young
men—they were nearly of an age—
were comfortable enough In the house
there above the brook together.
There were others who liked Zeke,
too. Amy, Bart’s sister, was one of
them. She was older than Jenny, f but
not yet old enough to begin to fade
In that quick, relentless fashion which
hard farm work may Impose upon a
woman. Since Huldy's departure,
whether by accident or not, Bart had
fewer boarders; and Seth Humphreys’
steam mill was shut down, abandoned
and deserted now. So Bart and Amy
were much alone, and Bart went often
for a word with Will, and Zeke as
often came down the hill to stand In
the door of Amy’s kitchen and talk
with her a while. He had a teasing,
laughing tongue that could whip color
to her cheeks; but she liked it, and
she sometimes nursed happy dreams.
So this early summer In the Valley
passed serenely; and Jenny was a part
of this serenity. She had no least
warning of what ’was to come. '’
If was mid-July when Huldy re-
turhed. There had fallen one of those
periods of still, hot weather when hay
ripens quickly; and Zeke and VY111
were busy with the harvest. Will could
drive the mowing machine, or the
rake; and when it came to load the
hay cart, or to put the hay in the
mow, he palled a board across the foot
of hls peg leg to make a sort of snow-
shoe which enabled him to stand se
curely. Jenny had gone this day early
to the farm; had helped for a while
In the fields, pitching hay up on the
cart with Zeke while Will stowed It
there.
But later she went to the house to
get dinner ready for them; and at a
convenient time they came stamping
into the kitchen, and Will made a jest
of that clumsy foot of hls, and Zeke
tossed hls wide hat aside, and' they
washed themselves at the sink and so
sat down. Jenny served H>em, set the
heaping dishes on the tabte, then seat
ed herself to eat with them; and the
three were laughing together at some
word Zeke had said, when a car drove
Into the yard.
A car with a rpan at the wheel and
Hnldy by his side.
They saw her through the open door;
saw her, and sat stilDand frozen while
she descended and jrapie toward them, i
The man stayed In the car.
Jenny thought That' Huldy wt^s as
beautiful as ever. She found herself
on her feet, facing the dtwir. Will half-
turned in his chair as though to rise;
but that, hoard nalled^across the end
of hls peg cVamped under a rung of :
the chair and prevented. Zeke looked
questlonlngly at Will, and then at Hul
dy; and Huldy stood smiling. In the
doorwa’f.
Then she laughed. “I see you ain’t ,
lonely, Will?” she said. He tried again
to get up. “Where’s your crutch?” she
inquired jderisively. “Want me to fetch
It for you?"
Jenny asked: “What have you come
for?” Her tone was steady, her heart
still.
"Don’t worry,” Huldy told her. “I
don’t aim to stay. I left some clothes
here;, .-come to fetch them. Unless
you've been wearing them!"
“They're In a box In the attic,” Jen
ny said. Ignoring the taunt “I put
them away.”
“Moved in, have you?" Huldy com
mented. “Seems like you was in quite
a hurry. I waited till he married me.
anyway!”
Jenny’s cheek was white; yet she
curbed her tonjfhe, and Huldy turned
to Zeke. “I don’t know as I know you,”
she said amiably. “But you look like
you had sense enough to realize three’s
a crowd!”
Zeke grinned, deriding her. “From
what 1 hear, three wouldn't crowd you
none,” he retorted.
Her brows lifted. “So you been hear-
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WHEN THEY SHOW
THESE SIGNS
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Few things keep them back like a lack
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So give everyone Ouster Oats even,
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Will wrenched the board off the end supply iu
of his leg. with a squeak of drawq
nails, freeing his foot. He stood up
“to face her. “Huldy,” he said huskily,
“you’ mind your tongue, t^ome In If
you want. Yo’re always welcome here.
But mind your*tongue."
Huldy w as for the moment silenced;
but Zeke spoke to Jenny. “Where's
thfs box?*’ he asked scornfully. *TH
fetch It down for her."
“In the attic, the far end," Jenny
said. “By the window."
Zeke turned toward the attic stairs,
behind the stove; but Huldy spoke to
him. "Yo’re In an awTul hurry to get
rid of me,” she protested.
Zeke hesitated, looked at Will “Ml
pack her back In the car out there If
you say. Will," he offered, hls cheek
hot
Huldy whispered mockingly: “I
guess you don't like me at all!”
“Not a bit, lady,” Zeke assured her.
“Nor any of your kind."
"How do you know my kind?" she
challenged.
“I’ve seen enough of ’em, In gutters
and around," he said mercilessly.
But Will turned upon him. “Zeke,
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(TO BE CONTINUED)
Longfellow’s Evangeline
Result of Story to Poet
Evangeline of the poem was written
as the result of a story communicated
tqr Longfellow long after the actual
events occurred and one cannot be very
definite on the facts behind It, accord
Ing to a writer In the Detroit News
In Philadelphia there Is a tradition
that Evangeline wandered about New
England all her lifetime and In her
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1931.
Longfellow. In a letter to a Phila
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came to select the Philadelphia poor-
house and old Catholic graveyard for
the final scenes of his poem. This Is
published in the preface to Evangeline
In Longfellow’i complete poems.
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