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Get them from any druggist Doans Pills At a gathering In the village of Lib erty, Maine, Jim Saladine Patens to the history bt the neighboring Hostile Val ley, and the mysterious, enticing "Hul- dy,” wife of Will Ferrla. Interested, he drives to the Valley for a day’s Ashing,And to see the glamorous Huldy Ferrln. “Old Warm” Pierce' and her nlneteen-year-old granddaughter Jenny live In' the Valley. -Since childhood Jenny has deeply loved yopng Will Ferrln, older than ehe, and who re gards her as still a child. Will leaves to take.employment in nearby Augusta. His father’s death .brings Will back to the Valley, but he returns to Au gusta, still unconscious of Jenny’s womanhood, and love. \ Rapt Carey, something of a ne’er-do-well, Is at tracted by Jenny. The girl repulses him definitely. -Learning that Will 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 Valley. Entering his home unlooked for. Will finds seemingly damning evidence of his wife’s unfaithfulness as a man he knows Is Seth Humph reys breaks from the house. Will over takes him and chokes him to death, although Humphreys shatters his leg with a bullet. At Marm Pierce’s house the leg Is amputated. Jenny goes to break th^news to Huldy. Huldy makes ft mock orJenny’s sympathy, declaring she has Mi use for “half a man,” and ts leaving. Will Is legally exonerated, and with a home-made artificial leg “rarrlesi on,” hiring a helper, Zeke Dace. Months later Huldy comes back. UHll accepts her presence as her right. Two years go by. Zeke and Bart Carey engage In a fist fight, the trouble aris ing, as all know, over Huldy. Saladine comes to the Valley. Bad roads cause him to stop at Ferrln’s farm, where he meets Huldy. Saladine, .caught In heavy rain, takes refuge at Marm Pierce’s. Bart Qarey arrives, carrying Huldy, whom he claims has fallen from a ledge, and seemingly Is dead. Marm Pierce declares her dead, but while Huldy and Jenny are alone, the woman, with her last breath, asserts Will killed her. Horrified, Jenny deeMes to tell no one of the accusation, fihe goes to the~ Ferrln farm to notify Will. CHAPTER VIII —14— ——- When Jenny, thus departing, left Saladine and Marm Pierce alone, thk old woman seemed for a moment al most embarrassed. She looked at Jim with her small bright, eyes. “I’ll boil up. a cup of tea,” she de cided. “It’s piist dinner time, and I’m hungry. ’Low you could eat.a bit your own self.” She filled the kettle at the pump In the sink and clapped It on the stove. Bread from the pantry, jam', butter from the cellar, and a bit of salt pork and some cold boiled pota toes to slice and fry In the sweet fat. “Jenny’s a fine girl,” Saladine sug gested presentlyr “It’s a wonder she ain’t married.” Marm Pierce looked at him with eyes suddenly shrewd. “You said Huldy Kerrin showed yoi* the path down to the brook,” she remembered. “C.o back to the house when you left her, did she?” ' “1 don’t know,” he replied. ”1 looked up, from down below, and saw her still there/* “Jenny told me,” she said, “that you claimed somebody had fished down brook ahead of you.” “I saw tracks In the trail,” he as sented. - v Rain began to drive against the windows, against the glass panel In the door. She said: “Well, everything’s ready. You can set down!” He perceived In her the pent gar rulity of a lonely old woman who too seldom has an audience; and while they ate, he encouraged her, skillfully, to speech. Marm Pierce, at first guard edly and then warming To her theme,- told him about Jenny and^ Will. Once she was well started, he listened with out Interruption, finding In what she said the explanation of much that he had seen today. “She didn't know the meaning of It, first off,” the old woman concluded. “Didn’t know what was happening to her. She wa’n’t but a girl then.” And added: “But Jenny’s growed to be a woman now ...” She broke ofL.peemed to listen; and he asked softly: “Hear something?” “Nothing, dikely,” she said after a moment. “Seemed like I heard some one in the barn. Like as not It was that no-good brother of miae.*’ And she talked on and On; and rose at last and began to scrape the dishes clean and pile them in a pan in the sink. She chunked the fire, noisily. Here It was warm and all secure; but outside the rain pressed down upon the Valley. Then suddenly the woman re you and Jenny, living We alone,” he ■uggested. “The Valley gets some folks,” she agreed. “Folks that don’t know, how to be alone without being lonely. You’ve got to know Ijow to be company -for yourself, to get along around here!” And she added with a wry chuckle; “Just the same, I’m full as well pleased to have you ’round.’* “You Shean—on account of your brother?” “Land, t no I” she said scornfully. _“No, I don’t pay no heed to him. He^ comes and goes. But I’d as soon have* a man in the house right now, for all thatl" He watched her curiously, but be fore she could Answer bis unspoken question, there was a steptm-the porch outside the door; and they turned to see Bart appear. He leaned a steel rod beside the door before he came In. He had changed Into dry clothes, coat and overalls. v “Where’s Will?” Marm Pierce de manded. “He wa’n’t around,” Bart explained. “Nor Zeke either. I figured they’d heard about Huldy and come over here.” He looked around. “Where’s Jenny?” he asked. “Gone tp fetch Huldy’s clothes,” Marm Pierce told him. “It’s a wonder you didn’t meet her!” Bart shook his head, Saladine saw a broad leather belt about his waist, with a halt can attached, and to which a holster hung. “Hullo,” he said. “You pack gun?” “Sure,” Bart assented, and produced it. Saladine took the weapon In his hands. It was an old model, ihe front sight gone, of heavy caliber; and when Jim, holding back the hammer, gin gerly tried the trigger, he found that the pull was feather light, “I atways carry It when f Ing,” Bart explained. “You never know when you’ll run Into a moqse down here In the woods, or a wildcat.” Marm Pierce was-In the dining roum, and Bart lowered his tones. “That’s the gun Seth shot Will Ferrln with,” he said. Marm Pierce returned, and Jim handed the weapon back to Bart. “Gan you hit anything with It?” he asked. “If I’ve got time to take aim,’’ Bart replied. - ’ - The old woman was putting on an oilskin coat. “Barr, you see anybody fishing down brook this morning?” she inquired. "I hear there was tracks along the bank.” “Win likely went that way,” Bart re minded her. “I noticed tracks my own self, wh£n I come down along. Figured It was him.” Marm Pierce pulled an oilskin hat over her white hair. “I get strangled for air, tfhen I stay Indoors the whole day,” she declared, and went out As she closed the door, they heard some thing slither and fall, and saw her stoop down. “Knocked your rod over, Bart,” she called. . - ► “Can’t hurt that rod.” he assured her cheerfully. She stepped down off the porch and disappeared toward the barn. “I Inet Will Ferrln, and Mis’ Ferrln, and Zeke Dace, this morning,” Saladine said. “I was on my way to your place, till I run Into the washout; so I backed up and left my car in Will’s Those deep scratches on his cheek where a branch had raked him were black against the brown of his skin. “No,” Saladine admitted. “No, she didn’t.” “Then put a name on It,” Bart whis pered. “If she didn’t fall, and didn’t : Jump. .” But Saladine was alwaysThcITned to' think twice before he spoke, and there was matter enough for thought here today. He shook his head, silently. Bart—thiugh they were quite alone —wdijapered: “There ain’t a soul around here would blame Will!”, But Saladine-stared silently at the stove, and Bart did not repeat his sin ister suggestion: and a little after. Marm Pierce came briskly In. “Well, you’ve let the fire go out, between you!” she sal<Lsharply. This was aln^ost true^ She w'hlsked off a ild of the stove and thrust a billet In, scolding them impartially. She hung up her coat and hat “Wet to the knees, I am. Got to go change." She left them, departing through the dining room; and Bart’s glance flicked after her through the open door, as though his eyes w-ere drawn Irresistibly that way. Then the two men sat alone a while, till Saladine heard a familiar sound, remotely, com- “Huldy’s Dead!’ yajd.” Bart to <Hd i placed the^lid on the stovKwith a clat ter, and crossed as quiet as a mouse, to the shed door. Jim came to her side, “Seemed like I did hear some one,” she whispered. He touched the latch and swung the shed door wide, to reveal—nothing, “Don’t see anything!" he said doubt fully. But Marm Pierce pointed to the floor. Here were wet, muddy traces where booted feet) had stood, where soaked garments had dripped upon the hoards. "It’s that Win,” Mann Pierce decided scornfully. “He’s ’ forever prying around ! N She abut the door with a, slam. “I shouM think you’d be nervous. “I see it there a while ago,” assented.- “Zeke looked like a sick man, me,” Saladine suggested. Bart grinned as though abashed. “He’s failed a lot,” he said. “But he was an able man, two years ago. He worked me over, proper, one day. The Valley will whittle a man down.” And he added: “Some, like Marm Pierce and Jenny here, they’re always the same, and Will’s always the same, or would be It wa’n’t for Huldy. She’s —twisted him, turned him wron* ways.” His brow clouded. ,“I wouldn’t blame him for anything he was to do. If I was Will, I’d have. ...” He changed this. “If she was mine, I’d have known how to handle her!” Rain, rain, rain; the lash of whips against this little house, the pelt of bullets. “I never did see a place where It could rain as hard,” Bart declared. “Wonder where Granny went," he said,’ half to :himself. Saladine made no reply. The wind was Increasing; there was a hiss of rain drops In thevchimney behind the stove. Barnooked thoughtfully at the door Into the dintfTg room; and said - husk ily, with a nod toward the otfier room: “You see her-this morning, you said. What did you think of her?” “She was a queer one,” Saladine confessed. Bart leaned forward with a deep In tent ness. "Saladine,” he said. “How would she come to fall?” "Got dizzy, maybe? Or tripped over something?” ’“She wa’n’t the sort to get dizzy," Bart protested.' ( “And—the .ledge’ Is all smooth, and It’s good footing there.” “You meau to say she Jumped?” grinned almost In derision. “She look to yon like one that would kill herself, did she?” be demanded. Ing near. He rose and moved to the door, Bart at his shoulder. “It’s Will Ferrln,” Saladine re marked. “And Jenny, ^nmy car.” And Bart said In a low, surprised tone: "So/tis! I didn’t know but Will would’ve got out of the country by now!” » Saladine, to avoid reply, opened the door and stepped out on the porch. Then Will and Jenny, Will with an old suitcase In his hand, alighted from the car and came toward then here. When Huldy. with that black accu sation on her Ups. died, Jenny was at first left desperate; till quick loyally brought her strength again, and reso lution too. Marm Pierce, seeing with out understanding the girl’s deep dis tress, as soon as they were alone asked gently: “Jenny, you all right? I’m troubled about you.” "Seeing her die upset me,” Jenny whispered. “That was all, Granny.” Marm Pierce, only half convinced, yet forebore to question further. “Well, she’s dead,” she said. She touched Jenny’s arm reassuringly. “Child, she’s dead: and Will, he’ll be coming soon. Nought now to keep him away from you . . .’’ Jenny’s pulse failed and the blood drained from her lips. “Don’t, Granny,” sjie protested softly. “With her laying there/ Not now.” And she urged: “We’d ought to dress her In dry clothes. Will, he hadn’t ought to see her so.” Marm Pierce nodded. Jenny’s thoughts were plunging now. There, was in her a blind desperate hunger to see Will, to comfort him, to assure him of her loyalty and silence and deep understanding and forgiveness too. She wished on any count to see him, to be with him now. Yet It was some tim^ before she devised that er- -rand Involving Huldy’s clothes. Even when she proposed this errand, Marm Pierce at first demurred; but longing to be witli Will, Jenny would not be restrained. In a sort of breath less rush, she overbore her grandmoth er’s remonstrances, and so was away. She took by habit, the path toward the woods; and her lips shaped un spoken words of tenderness and com forting. But when she came to the dark border of the wood, the girl paused, shrinking, reluctant to plunge Into the shadows. This path would take her by the foot of the ledge, by the very spot where Huldy a while ago had fallen to her death; and Jen ny could not endure the prospect So she retraced her way and turned aside toward Carey's. And halfway up the hill she saw ahead of her a figure, tremendous In tho dim rain, familiar, beloved. Will, coming toward her She stood, weak and shaken by the sight of him; yet when he came near, lest he might th<nk she shrank from him. she took one step forward to meet him steadily. « Will looked down at her for a long moment in silence. He said at last heavily: “Jenny, where you going in this rain?” V "To find you; Will,” she told him. ’ “Pm on my way ta Bart’s,” he ex plained. “To see If maybe Huldy’s there!” - / Jenny felt her spine chill. “She’s not there, Will,” she said. “She’s at our house.” He frowned In a deep bewilderment “Your house?” “Will,” she told him gravely, “Hul dy’s dead!” The man stood huge above her; wind whipped his hat brim, rain lashed his cheek and struck his face and filled his eyes. He wiped his eyes with his hand, shook the water off his hand, wiped It onxthe side of his coat A storm, visibly, swept across his coun tenance and left a shadow there. Yet she thought he was not sur prised ; and she spoke quickly, to spare him need of speech. “She fell off the ledge down back of your house,” she said. "Bart found her, and fetched her over to our place, case Granny could do her any good. But she died.” He asked, after a long moment, dumbly: “Bart know how she come to fall?” Jenny steadied her tones, made them* all reassurance. “No one will ever know that. Will," she said; and she added: “We did ail could be done !”< “I guess you would," he agreed. "Even for Huldy. I been out hunting her. I didn’t know where, she’d gone. Her and Zeke.” ' — The girl’s pulse lifted. “Zeke? Where’s he?” * “He was always around where lluldy was.” Will conft'ssed, humbly. “I dun- n_o where he’s got to./now." And he asked: "Wa’n’t he with her?” - ' She looked at him Intently, bravely, searching his countenance. “No, Will," she said. i’Not that anyone knows.” His shoulders bowed as though under a crushing load; and after a moment’ he said heavily: “Well, I’ll go on over.” But Jenny checked him. “I have to get some clothes to dress her," she said gently. “You’d best come back to the house with me, show me her things.” He accepted this without speech; and he and Jenny climbed the steep grade side by side. In Will’s barnyard Jenny saw a car standing, and so re membered Saladine. “That man, he’s over t’the house,” she told Will. “I guess he wouldn’t mind If we drove his car over. He’ll want It, and that way we can keep Huldy’s thing* dry.” “Over there. Is he?" Will echoed, with haunted eyes. “Last time I hm Huldy,” he said, "she was taking him off down to the ledge. Said she’d show him the brook trail.” And his brow furrowed. “I want to t#lk to him,” he said, ominously. “He left her on the ledge," Jenny urged. “He never see her, after." They went Indoors. “Now you get some dry clothes onto youAjtbe bade him. “I’ll pack the things we’ll need for her. Where are they, will?’’ He looked at her In a sort of shame. “In there," he said, and pointed through the dining room door to the bedrooom beyond. “That’s hers. I mostly slep’ up attic.” He opened a door beside the stove, and she heard him climb the narrow stairs. (TO BE CONTINUED) Marriage It Insurance Against Most Everything " ■ / A married man lives longer and Jess likely to end up In (he work- houae than a bachelor. So says Ed win S- 6urdell, professor of econom ics arid social science at the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology. The professor Is further of the opinion, ohsed on his stories of the subject, that married men commit few crimes atjd less often go Insane The unmarriedvman has less at stake In the community because he has a lower status. Marriage Is the beat insurance In the v orl( l — Insurance against crime, Insanity, poverty and premature death. Now Sdence Explains Why So Many P Past 40 Feel That They’re Slipping Lo6ingTheir“Grip” onThinga Many people ’round 40 think they're “growing old.” They feel tired a lot * . . . "weak.” Have headaches, dizzi ness, Stomach upsets. Well, scientists say the cause of all this, in a great many cases, is simply an acid condition of the stomach. Nothing more. i All you have to do is to neutralize the excess stomach acidity. When you have one of these acid stomach upsets, take Phillips’ Milk ’ of Magnesia after meals and before going to bed. That’s all! Try this. Soon yoil’ll feel like another person! Take either the familiar liquid “PHILLIPS’ ” or the convenient new Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia Tablets. ALSO IN TABLET FdRM t Phillips' Milk of Magnesia Tab lets are now on sale at all ‘ stores everywhere. Each tiny | > let is the equivalent of a teaspoonful of Gen uine Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia. Phillips’ 7MUA. of ATajfte&ia- First and Foremost What Is the quality nibst missing Id character? S<*lf-respect? The Man Who Knows Whether the Remedy You are taking for Headaches, Neuralgia or Rheumatism Pain* is SAFE is Your Doctor. Ask Him Mediterranean Cork-Oak Provides Stopper Supply Cork stoppers are cut out of the corky layer of^the bark of the cork tree or cork oA of the Mediterranean. Spain and Portugal chiefly supply the world with cork. The cork tree Is not of great sjze, generally 20 to 00 feet high, the trukk often -three feet In diameter, much branched, with ovate-oblong, evergreen leaves. The tree Is usually twenty to twenty-five years old before It yields a gathering of cork, and attains an age of one hundred and fifty years. About every eight to ten years a crop Is taken frdm the tree. Besides being used for stoppers, cork Is much used for floats of nets, life belts, etc., and because of Its Imper meability to water, and being a slow conductor of heat, Inner soles of shoes are made of It. The cork tree, occa sionally planted in England, has been found to do well In certain pj\rts of the United States.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Nicknames of Presidents - Not all of our Presidents had nick names. Here are some of them: Washington—Father of His Country. Jefferson—tied Fox. Madison—Fath er of the Constitution. J. Q. Adams —Old Man Eloquent. Jackson—Old Hickory. W, H. Harrison—Tippe canoe. Polk—Young Hickory. Taylor —Old Rough and Ready. Pierce— Handsome Frank. Buchanan — Old Public Functionary. Lincoln—Honest Abe. Johnson, —Tennessee Tailor, drant—Hero of Appomattox. 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