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Interested, he drives to- the Valley for a day’s Ashing, and to see the glamorous Huldy Ferrln. “Old Marm” Pierce and her nlneteen-year-old granddaughter Jenny live In the Valley. Since ^childhood Jenny nbs deeply loved young Will Ferrln, older than she, and who re gards her as still a child. Will leaves to take employment In Augusta. Hia father’s death brings him back to the Valley, but he returns to. Augusta, still unconscious of Jenny’s womanhood and love. Bart Carey, something of a ne’er- do-well, Is attracted by Jenny. The girl repulses him definitely. Learning that Will Is coming home, Jenny, ex ulting, sets his long-empty house “to rights,” and has dinner ready for him. He ^mtnv-^brlnging his wife, Huldy. The girl’s world collapses. Huldy be comes the subject of unfavorable gos sip In the Valley. Entering his home unlooked for. Will finds seemingly damning evidence of his wife’s unfaith fulness as a man he knows Is Seth Humphreys breaks from the house. Will overtakes him and chokes him to death, although Humphreys shatters his l.eg with a bullet. At Marm Pierce’s house the leg Is amputated. Jenny goes to break the news to Huldy. Huldy de clares she has no use for “half a man,” and leaves. Will Is legally exonerated, and with a home-made artificial leg "carries on,” hiring a helper, Zeke Dace. Months Jater Huldy comes back. Will accepts her presence as her right. Two years go by. Saladlne comes to the Valley. Bad roads cause him to stop at Ferrln’s farm, where he meets Huldy. Saladlne, caught In heavy rain, takes refuge at Marm Pierce’s. Bart Carey arrives, carrying Huldy, whom he claims had fallen from a ledge, and seemingly Is dead. Marm Pierce de clares her dead, hut white Huldy and Jenny are alone, the woman, with her last breath, asserts Will killed her. Horrified, Jenny decides to tell no one of the accusation. She goes to notify Will. With him Jenny returns to Marm Pierce's. She has told him of Huldy's death, and he Is bewildered. CHAPTER VIII—Continued —15— She went into the room that bad been Huldy’s, moving warily, as though half expecting to meet the other wom an there. She selected what she required; and then on impulse, she made Huldy’s bed. Huldy’s nightgown she put away; and when she was done, the room was In Immaculate order. It pleased Her to leave all things as Huldy would have wished to leave them. \Yhen she had packed the suitcase, she came back to the kitchen, and called up the attic stairs: “I’m ready, Will.” Ho answered her, after a moment. “I’m coming, Jenny.” When they were’ In Saladine’s car, Will said: ’The road looked to me like we could get through down to Carey’s, Jenny. We’d save a lot Of time that way.”* She made no comment, trusting inch masters to his Judgment; and he turned the car down the hill and drove on across the bridge, past Bart’s, out. to the Valley road? and thus in toward Ma*m Pierce’s farm. In the yard they stopped, and Will took the suitcase from the back of the car. Saladlne and Bart were on the porch to meet them; but If Will had known a passing doubt of Saladlne, It was forgotten now. He said to the other man: “Jenny told me you was over here. I didn’t know as you’d mind If we drlv’ your car over.” “Clad you did.” Jim agreed; and 'art gripped Will’s hand. “Guess you know. Will, how I feel about this,” he said. * “Guess I do,” Will agreed. They all came indoors. “Set down here by the stove, Will,” said Jenny softly. “Your hands are bound to he cold. Take off your coat, and dry.” “I went out to find you. Will,” Bart explained. “But you wa’n’t there.” “I was out hunting them,” Will as sented. and he looked at Saladlne. “She didn’t come back after she went with you,” he said. ‘‘When it come on to rain, I went to find her. Huldy was foolish about rain, kind of. She’d stay out In It, claimed to like It.” He added: “But I couldn’t find them now^ergs*” “Where’s Zeke?” Bart asked. “I dunno,” Will confessed. “I ain’t seen him sence.” ,, Jenny took the suitcase into the din ing-room where Huldy was, and closed the’door between. Marm Pierce was there; she said crisply: "Back, be you? getch Will?” “He’s In the kitchen,” Jenny assent ed. “I want to get her dressed first, make her look as nice as we can be fore he sees her.” Marm Pierce nodded, watching the girl; and she saw that Jenny’* coun tenance was Illumined, and by much more than mere happiness; much more than the selfish happiness which, if she loved Will she might find In the fact that now he was free to love her, too. It was as though she were committed to a task In which she found peace and. pride. While they were busy here, the rain was pitiless outside. The afternoon, though It was not yet late, was al ready ahronded In a sort of dusk when Jenny went St last to bid Will come In. Will followed her Into the dining room where Huldy lay; and he stood looking down at his wife’* body, hl^ shoulders bowed. Jenny was close be side him, almost touching him; her head nodded faintly once or twice. It -was as though she spoke words of comfort and of heartening; yet her lips did ^iot move. Then he went back into the kltcheh; and the three, Bart and Will and Saladlne, stayed there, huddling near the stove. Will l\iid the* dull demeanor of a man numbed by shock; he mut tered ruefully: - “They’ve got Huldy all dressed nice. It’s a comfort to me for woineirffo han dle her. ’stead of a man.” . . f'. And after a moment, fretfully: “I can't make out where Zeke has got to. He wa’n’t one to go off, a day like to day. \Zeke didn’t like rain.” And still later, he said: “I’ll want her to lie at home.” He added hum bly: “Dunno as she’d want It so; but —I’d want It that way. I’ll have to get word to Joe Matthews, over t’Lib- erty.” Bart suggested, helpfully: “I can go over to my place. Will, and tele phone. Saladlne here can drive me over.” Saladlne was quick to assent to this suggestion, and for a definite reason. He himself had been wishing he had access just now to a telephone. So he and Bart set out, and when Jenny heard the car depart, she came Into the kitchen and found Will alone, and asked where they had gone. Will told her, and sh^ stayed with him. Marm Pierce, when her task In the dining room was done, left them alone. “I’m going up and change my dress.” she decided. “I’d feel more fltten In something decent." Jenny smiled at her in grateful un derstanding, but Will sat silent, and JCnny came beside hiifi. Huldy’s ac- 'Tm going with you, Will,” she told him. Will’s head rose a little. “Why ^es, Jenny,” he said slowly. “With me, If yo’re a mind!” And they went out. 3onny closed the door with a sense of escape, a deep relief. Alone with her, Will wns Se cure. Yet If she could have read Sala^ dlne’s mind, she would have been dis mayed ; for Saladlne had taken advan tage of that trip to Bart’s house to telephone Sheriff Sohler in Liberty. It was Increasingly clear to him that not accident nor any sudden Impulse to self-destruction had hurled Huldy off that high ledge. <And If murder had been done, then the sheriff should be here. And Ha Stood Looking Down at His Wifa’s Body. cusation had begun to lose, in the girl's mind, Its shocking force. She was pre pared to let this secret of Huldy's last word remain forever hidden, to let Huldy's death pass as accident. She herself could forget, and none other need ever know. They still sat here. In half darkness, when Bart and Saladlne returned. Jenny went to the door to meet them. Will asked Bart: ‘‘Did you get hold of Joe?” Bart nodded. “Coming to night, Is he? What time’ll he get here, you figure?” “Might be an hour or two." Jenny heard a step In the dining room, and heard the blinds drawn down; and then the door opened and Marm Pierce emerged. She had changed Into black. Jenny said softly; “Yo’re all dressed up, Granny 1” The old woman spoke apologetically. “Well I know, Jenny,” she admitted. "There wa’n’t no real sense In putting on my best, a night like this, and me not going anywheres.” She looked at Will. “But I got to thinking,” she de clared, “If Huldy’s going to stay here tonight, I’ll be respectable to keep her company.” Will got to his feet. “I better go up to the farm and milk .the cows and chore up,” he decided. "Won’t take me long.” Bart protested: "Sho, Will, Zeke will do the chores." Will shook his head. “I dunno as Zeke’s there," he reminded them; and he said, looking at them all, hlS eyes moving as though with an effort from one to the next: “Zeke will be upset about this. He’d do anything for Hul dy. He’s going to take It almighty hard.” He was silent for a moment, said then again: “But the cows; they’ve got to be milked.” Even In this hour of death and sorrow the small cUflly tasks could hold a man In bondage. “Yea, Will,” Jenny agreed. “You’d best go. I’ll fetch a lantern.” She went Into the abed, and he be gan to put on hla coat and hat; hot In the abed she donned her boots and oll- skltfs, returned all accoutered tq. face, the storm. Will looked at her, and she saw something leap In his eyes. Then jshe opened the outer door. CHAPTER IX • Yet Saladlne was relieved to see Will and Jenny thus depart to tepd the cows, for he thought Will might well resent his having summoned the Sheriff. Even Bart had resented It, a while ago. “I dunno as Will’d like It,” Bart argued. “And I don’t aim to get Will riled at me.” Saladlne said: “You don’t have to do it I’ll telephone the sheriff myself.” And despite Bart’s resistance, he got Sheriff Sohler on the wire. These two were old friends, 'and Saladlne spoke excitedly, telling what had hap pened. “And Sheriff,” he suggested, “there’s a steam mill down below here. You better find out If any of the men from there were up this way. And see If Win Haven is In Liberty. He stayed with Bart Carey last night, but he set out to go to Liberty this morn ing.” When he hung up the receiver, Bart predicted, with a wry amusement In his eyes: “Win’s apt to climb yore frame, old as he Is, for setting the law on him that way." Saladlne made no comment, and they went out to the car and so came back to the other farm; but when Will and Jenny departed, Saladlne was glad that Will would not be here when Sohler should arrive. When the two went out, Marm Pierce said doubtfully: “I dunno as that’s fitten! I dunno as I’d ought to let her go.” No one replied, and she lifted her head. “But I dunno as I could have helped,”.she confessed, her toqes not displeased. < “If the glass Is out of a window, the rain will come In,” she said. “If a dam breaks, water flows downstream.” Her eyes met Saladine’s. "Waiting Is a long weary business when yo’re young,” she told him; and then she chuckled. “I guess I can throw that lily root away!” she said In an obscure satisfaction. And then she added briskly: “Drat that Jenny! She’s gone and left me to get supper, and me In my best bombazine!” . She found an apron, tied It on. As she began to>be busy, she looked at him reflectively. “You ain’t In any hurry to get home,’’ she remarked. “We can put you up If yo’re a mind -to stay.” SfUadine hesitated. “Why, much obliged," he said. He thought the time to speak had come. “Mis’ Pierce,” he said, “I dunno as you'll think I did the right thing; but It looked funny to me that Mis’ Ferrln would Just— fall off that ledge!” “I sh’d think It was,” she agreed sharply. “And there wa’n’t no reason she should Jump.” “She wa’n’t the kind for that I” “Sheriff Sohler Is in Liberty ^oday,” Saladlne explained. “I telephoned him from Bart's, and told him he’d best come In here.” r ~ Silence was long. Then she asked: “Is he coming?” “Yes.” She nodded. “Well that’s a relief to me,” she decided. “I’m an old woman, but I can see a hole In a doughnut as far as the next” She spoke to Bart. "Folks around here don’t bother the sheriff much wirh their troubles,” she said, as though ap pealing to him for confirmation. “But I say It’s the fitten thing to do. I don’t see as It can do a mite of harm." She looked at Saladlne keenly. “You figure someone pushed her off of the ledge, do you?” she asked. Barf said earnestly: “Sure, Granny! That ledge la as safe as your floor here. She couldn’t fall off unless she did It a-purpose; and she wouldn’t!' Marm Pierce nodded briskly. -^Tbat’r the way It looks to me,” she agreed. J‘So It comes down to a question of some one did It Bart who do you reckon Jt was?” He shook his head. ”1 wouldn’t say a word,” he declared. *Tve took no tice that just keeping yonr mouth shut saves a peck of trouble, some times.” She seemed to weigh this. “I’m thinking Zeke might have, Bart Ain’t you?” “He might,” Bart admitted. “But It’s not my business, and’ I’m not mixing In.” He looked toward Sala dlne and grinned. “Saladlne there, he told the sheriff to check up on Win, and the steam mill men.” . _ •—— There was mirth In Marm Pierce’s old tones. “It wa’n’t Win!” she said. “He might brag and blow, and get big Idees, but It wa’n't him!” Bart said: “Matter of fact, 1 don’t think It was Zeke. either. He’d not hurt Huldy. If It come right down to someone killln her. . . .” He hesl- tated, then muttered huskily: “Well, If I was the sheriff, I’d look for one that had reason to.” • . , Marm Pierce watched Bart with some displeasure In her sharp old eyes. Presently she asked him: “You going home to supper, BartT’ “’Lowed you might want jne here,” he suggested. She nodded, In a surface hospitality. “Certain. Stay where you be. Right now, the more folks around, the better I like It.” She bustled briskly to and fro upon the business of supper, grumbling about the danger to her black bombazine. Then suddenly she stood still, and her head lifted. “Car co'ming;*’ she, said softly. Saladlne and Bart stepped out on the porch, and saw the flicker of head lights through the woods toward the road. The old woman came to join them; and*they watched together while a light truck with a long body pulled into the yard. Two men alighted, and Saladlne saw the big form of the sheriff, and another, who carried a black bag in his hand. Saladlne and the sheriff nodded to one another. Joe Matthews spoke ^to Marm Pierce, stripping off his coat. “The road’s real had, ma’am,” he said. Sheriff Sohler unbuttoned his over coat, but did not remove It " < “Best to keep Mis’ Ferrln here to night If possible,” the undertaker advised. “I can take her home in the morning.” Marm Pierce* nodded. “She can stay,” she said. She opened the door ipto the dining room. They went In together^ and she closed the door. . The sheriff looked at Saladlne, and at Bart He said to Saladine: “Eve ning, Jim!” “This is Bart Carey,” Jim explained. “Bart here, he found her, Sheriff.” Sohler looked Inquiringly at the other man; and Bart explained: “I was fishing down brook. Down back of Will’s barn there’s a ledge, and a steep drop below It I heard a screech, and a sort of thump like a pa’tridge when you nail him. Climbed up there and found her. Marm Pierce Is good at doctoring. I 'lowed maybe she could do something.” “Wa’n’t dead?” “As good as. It turned out,” Bart re plied. “She never come to at all.” Sohler nodded; and Saladine said slowly-: “I see her, this morning. Sheriff. I left my cfcr at Will’s, and she showed me the pafh down to the brook, come as far as the ledge with me. There's nothing slippery there, no way she could trip; and—she wa’n’t the kind to kill herself.” He added: “I was here when Bart brought her.” The sheriff nodded. “I telephoned In to the steam mill,'Jim,” he reported. “The crew had been there all day.!’ He added : “And old Win Haven waa in Liberty, at the store. He told me that when he left Bart’s he w’enf up the road past Will’s, and along the high land till he hit the Mac’s Corner road.” “I told you I see his tracks by the brook,” Saladlne protested. “Or— someone's tracks,” he added fairly. “I took It they was his.” “I bore down on him,” Sohler In sisted. “I’d say he was telling the truth.” Saladlne nodded. ** He said: “Will and Jenny Pierce—she lives here, the old woman’s granddaughter—have gone up to Will’s farm now to do the chorea. They’re coming back!” Sohi'er reflected slowly: “Them tracks you saw along the brook, they might have been old ones.” ' (TO BE CONTINUED) -“ART OF BORING* . IN SEVEN VOLUMES; WE DON’T NEED IT ’ A " ~ "The Art of Boring* In seven vofe times. Bertrand Russell promise* ta write It. ^ - To whet our Appetite* he men:, tloned the scholarly bore, the funny bore, the story telling or reminiscing bore, etc., etc., etc. We really don’t need seven vol umes to tell us* how to bore people, nor even one. 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