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The Seaforth News, 1949-12-15, Page 6s WEST OF THE SUN A Serial Story by JOSEPH LEWIS CHADWICK *VP, lt. The story thus far Virginia amen crosses tho wild, frontier West by rail and stage to response to a letter from Phil Lawrunee, her Banco, who left Washing• ton to make his fortune In Arizona. When the Lannuse stage Is held un. Lt. Jim Ran. dull, whom Virginia once knew to Wash - ingot', takes charge of the investit:ntioi, and soon learns that Phil Lawrence was ah° bandit leader. Chief loser In the role berg is Steve Barron. Santa Bonita gamb- ling czar. who has long been at odds with Lawrence over gambling debts and their mutual love of Imnyn Correy, donee -hall girl. Biding to Phtln ranch to warn him against Barron who has learned of his part in the stage robbery. Virginia sees the two men shoot It. out. Both men are wounded het Barron Is able to ride ole. CHAPTER XII The two men had separated. The Mexican headed north. Steve Bar- row rode west, was topping a rise. The sun was directly beyond him, huge and blood red. He seemed to ride right into it. through and be- • i MTTERN-4886 sizl:s 34--50 New edition its the ;ltirtirock tradition I A coat -dress, young and slenderizing with long neck -to hemline has graceful skirt ease, cuffed pockets, new revers! Pattern 4886 cones in eizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50. Size 36 takes 414 yards 39 -inch cloth. Send twenty-five cents (25c) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly size, name, address, atyle number. Send your order to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth Street, New Toronto, Ont. ISSUE 45 - 1949 gond its brightness. Tile glare pressed palinfully into Virginia's eyes, blinded him from her sight. It was as if he had ridden -west of the sun. Troopers came and escorted her to their camp. A kindly officer questioned her briefly. Food and water were brought to her. The twilight stole about her. Gray army blankets were spread for her, and as darkness came she selpt. When she awoke under the star- studded bowl of the sky, Jim Ran- dall was bending over her, deep worry in his blue eyes. His voice was unsteady est he talked to her. "Lt. Barrett told me about Steve Barron," he said. "The first decent thing Barron ever did," "1 can understand him now," Vir- ginia said. "He told me -all." An uneasy expression kept play- ing over his face. "i came to bar- gain with Natchi for your release," he said. "But Capt. Hammond, coming up from the south, chanced upon the Apaches and attacked. Hammond didn't know of your cap- ture. It was too late to correct the blunder. Hammond drove the band toward my position. I had to attack -knowing what it would mean to your safety-" "I was to be taken to Mexico," Viriginia said flatly. "If Steve Bar- ron hadn't come -e" She broke off, shuddering. "We crushed Natchi's band and took him captive," Jim went on. "After the skirmish, I struck out with a dozen troopers trying to find the camp. I meant to push south at daybreak -hunting you." * * * He sat beside her. Virginia lay still, watching hint, His face was tired, hie eyes lonely. He was very sober. with no smile at all. He was silent for a long time, thinking his own thoughts, his eyes on the desert. The glare of a fire painted his cheeks a ruddy color. He said finally, his voice dull, "You'll he going back to Phil Law- rence now. He'll be waiting for you. You're going to be happy -and Pm glad." She did not speak, surprised by the solemn depth of his voice. "There's one thing I want to say," he went on, "though you dont want to hear it, It's uselessly said, too. You hate me. But I want you to know His voice trailed away. Virginia stared at him, wide-eyed now, from where she lay. "Yes?' alta said thickly, "It's this," he told her. "I love you." A tremor went through her. Her heart seemed to atop, then start again to pound furiously, ,She felt the color drain from her face. Then she retnembered the last time she had seen hint, how he had held her in his arms in the desert moon- light -and how two hours tater he had gone to Lanya Correy. A hol- low heaviness came in her; entered her voice. CR i xSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 40. vehicle on 1. Large elecrrie runners lights 9. rank down 9. Numeral 12. Space 12. Combining form meaning sacred 14. Before 15. Threatens 17. s�il•ipholatery 20. City lel New York state 24. Web -tooted bird 23. SSlipal! plea 24. Woe la me 28, Abruptly 28. Couch 29. East Indian cereal SO. Front of the root St. Ravingono Pole Ea. Ancient Roman dinner 4. Pander . Stupid play (slang) 20. Goods thrown overboard 48. vegetable 99. Careening 40. fact as chats. man 42. River 1/5p,) 64. Assam silk 49. bink eple tale 4R,11iver in Poland dm. Convey a._..l Sahli DOWN 1 L nab 8, Fish eggs 0. Denial 4. S Ings 5. Those things l'd 2 3 4 6. Sloths 7. Myselt 8. Furnish 5. Three hun- dredth anni- versary 50. Pennsylvania lake port 11. Bird's home 18, Romaine lettuce 18. Was borne 20. Shrub 21. Forbidden 23. Scandinavian measure 25. Sweetening 5 6 IS, Capital of Oregon 26, Solitary 27. Time unit 9. Turned 2. Shores 3. Go by 6. Inaent 6. Shakes 7. Lamb 8. Small nail 0. Pastry 41. Printing toren 2. Terminate 5. Concerning 0 17. 13 14 xseiegesifee 6 Answer elsewhere on this page Fellow Travellers -Airline stewardess Edith Bodie introduces Mr, Poodle and Madam Pheasant at the airport before their departure as fellow passengers on a New Pacific Coast all -cargo flight. Cargo on the first plane also included woollens, mush- rooms, machinery, household goods, baby chicks and 24 martens valued at $14.000. I AN iEoP,S?1 2fouh Prot ,,si y Can a se-Bcre "Dear Anne llirst: Please help met My husband has started dating a girl who lives 1" another town. I know the days he is going to be with her. I don't know what to do. "He never takes the any place with him now, and is hardly pleasant. The way he acts, I cannot show hien any affection. (He also receives letters from her.) "I have tried to be a good wife and a good mother. I do not want to leave my husband, nor my home. "Go away," she said, "Please, go away." She turned her face away from him. She heard him rise, was aware of hien standing beside her looking down at her. Then he was gone. Phil Lawrence came to the little adobe house in Santa Bonita when Virginia sent for him. He cause slowly, reluctantly, limping on his injured leg. Virginia saw him clearly now; he had changed. He was not the youth she had once known affection for. He was a stranger. They faced one another in the cool shaded room, actually very close but seemingly a million miles apart. Virginia's voice came sur- prisingly steady. "Phil, you are in love with Lanya. That is true, isn't it?" "It's true, Virginia," he replied hollowly. "I love Lanya. I've want- ed her for so long ... even while 1 kept writing letters of my love to you. It was to Lanya that 1 wrote that message that brought you here. Steve Barron had been annoying her. I didn't send it. It lay forgotten. Then I must have started a letter to you on its re- verse side. I left the letter to pre- pare my dinner. Just as I was about to eat Barron's men came and drove me away. You were puzzled over that uneaten meal. Hank Muidane stopped by the ranch, found the letter, and its en- velope, and sent it on its way. He couldn't know the letter was un- finished, for he can't read." "1 understand, Phil," Virginia said. "You were merely afraid to tell me the truth." "I'm a coward, Virginia." "Don't ever be again, Phil. Don't ever be afraid again. Go to Lanya now, and start over with her. Steve Barron will never return." He gave a bark of a laugh. "If I do that," he said, "Jim Randall will send me to prison for those stage holdups. He warned me-" "Warned you!" Virginia said puzzled. "Yes -or rather threatened mo. I was to give up Lanya and go on with you. He went to Lanya that night he was camped outside of town -and told her she had to break with me." "Phil) Are you sure?" Her eyes were shining, her cheeks bright with color. Ile stared, then nodded. "I'm sure," he said. "It's true. He means to look out for you." To look out for her! Virginia's laughter was almost hysterical. Olt, it's all right, Phil," *he cried, "Go to Lanya. And if Jim Randall comes to you, tell him I broke with you -not you with mel" He regarded her blankly for es moment seeming reluctant 'to go. Then he turned and walked out of the house and out of her life. Virginia sent her luggage on to Lannasa the next day, for the trip home. She followed, riding through the bright morning with a rancher's family who also meant to board the Lannasa stage. They reached Fort Winfield at midday, and the post commander's invitation to lunch was not to be refused, Virginia saw Jim Randall across the parade, but she could not catch his eye. Theis while ate was having lunch ehe sew him (Continued Next Week) Ills But it seems that he doesn't want me any more. A Serious Wife." * There are two things you can * do: * fell four husband you know * of Isis philandering- after all, if * he is so brazen as to receive let- * hers from the girl, he can hardly * wonder at that. Ask him where * you have failed in being the only * woman in his life. This may un- * fold criticisms of you which you * did not suspect existed and pre- * sent a situation about which you * can really do .something. * Or you can ignore the whole * circumstance. Go your customary * way, without acknowledging that * your life has lost its meaning. * And wait for the consequences - * the affair dying a natural death, * or your husband asking for a * divorce, * Should he ask that, I urge you * to refuse. And for his sake. * Deserting a faithful wife and * leaving children fatherless is not * a step tot be taken on impulse. * An affair so recently begun is * never reason enough for a separa- * tion; it may be a flash in the pan, * an outcome of some change in his * nature for which his age or his * present mood is responsible, and * for which you are not to blame, * By refusing divorce now, you pro- * tett hint against dashing into * another marriage which he might * regret in six Months. * Tell hint that if, in a year, he is * still of the same mind. you will * consider it. But not until that * time. * Remember that so long as you * are his wife, he cannot marry * anyone else. * If you had told Inc more about * your life together, I could counsel * you more definitely. You must * choose which course seems best; * only your daily life with your Itus- * band, and his temperament and * your own, can determine that. * * * If your husband is wandering, choose your course wisely. If you confide your problem to Anne Hirst, fully and frankly, she will help you. Address her at $ox 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Upside dowr 'r prevent peeking, Q 9 3 d 3 N O 7 3 2/ 7 b' N N 3 N 3 J 21 S.:aSd 3 d 8 Z at 3' n a/ 2/ 3' s 3 7 6' S A a H S O a s 4 L d &! nt 0 1 .2 d N 0 ds /2/ 76' 3 /' 3 7b (/ 2 3 02' N71 d6'f5' 1.4 SUNDAY SCliQOL, LESSON By Rev, Barclay Warren "THE STIk'FERING SERVANT" Isaiah 53;1-2 Golden Text: ."Surely He Has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows." Isaiah 53:4, If one will read ,today's lesson and then read. the 'account of.... Christ's passion and death in Matthew, Mark, Luke or Jahn,: he cannot help but be amazed at the accuracy. of Isaiah's picture. How did he know, centuries before, of the manner and significance of Messiah's sufferings? There is only one answer: Divine revelation. The law said, "He that is hanged is accursed of God," Dent. 21:23. Here is Jesus Christ, God's Son, bearing in Himself your sins and my PPins, it helps to bring this mat- ter nearer to our hearts if we read it, using the singular pronouns, ex.,• "He was wounded for my tians- gressions, He was bruised ton my iniquities; the chastisement of ;my Peace was upon Him, and with His stripesI am healed." The cross that was once the syid-. bol of shame has become the sign of glory. Here God shored His unspeakable-, love for tic• T' •rh this offering •once made, all who will may find forgiveness and cleansing, for their sins. 'Tis not the cross we worship, but, the Christ of the cross. "The Christ of the •cross is the theme of my song;. 'The wonderful Christ of the cross. He atonement has Blade, He my ransom has paid, So I'll. praise Him, the Christ of the cross." In Independence, Mo., a detend- ant'was charged with selling 1 caw to ,a farmer for $150, then stealing. it 'front the buyer and reselling it to a packing house GhicklenTurnove made with Magic Combine and chill 134 c. finely -diced cooked chicken, 34 a. medium-ebick white sauce. Mix and sift into bowl, 2 c. once -sifted pastry flour (or 11( c. once -sifted hard -wheat flour), 3 tsp. Magic Baking Powder, 3 tap, salt, 1 tbs. granu- lated sugar. Cut in finely, 8 tbs. shortening. Mix 1 beaten egg and 9i o. milk. Make a well iu dry ingredients, pour in liquid and mix lightly with a fork. Roll dough out to 34" thickness; out into 4° squares. Place about 2 tbs. chicken mixture on each square, near corner. Fold dough over diagonally, making triangles, Seal edges by pressing with fork tins; prick tops. Bake on greased pan In hot oven, 450°,16 min. or until golden brown. Sweet Luncheon Treat SUGAR -PLUM LOAF Measure into small bowl, 34 e. lukewarm water, 1 top. granu- lated sugar; stir until sugar is dis- solved. Sprinkle with 1 envelope Fleischmann's Royal Fast Rising Dry Yeast. Let stand 10 min., THEN stir well. Cream 34 e. shortening; gradually blend in c. granulated sugar. Gradually beat in 2 well -beaten eggs. Stir in c. milk and yeast mixture. Stir in 1 c. once -sifted bread dour; beat until smooth (mixture may curdle). Cover and set in warm place, free from draught. Let rise 1 hour. Stir in 1 tap. Balt, 31 c. washed and dried seedless raisins, 34 c. chopped walnuts, 3i c. chopped mixed candied peels 3.5 c. cut-up candied cherries. Work in 4 e. once -sifted bread flour. Knead lightly but thoroughly; form into a smooth ball. Roll out to flt a greased 8 -inch round pan and fit into pan. Grease top. Cover and let rise until doubled in bulk. Bake in moderate oven, 850°, about 1 hour. When Ioaf Is cold, frost with Plain Icing. Plain Icing: Combine 3a c. sifted icing sugar, 134 tbs. milk, 3i rep. vanilla; beat until smooth: deniameocesumennompomenommem New Fast -Acting Dry Yeast Needs NO Refrigeration! Stays fresh and full-strength on your pantry shelf for weeks! Here's all you do: erge In a small amount (usually specified) of lukewarm water, dissolve thoroughly 1 teaspoon sugar for each envelope of yeast. Sprinkle with dry yeast, Let stand 10 minutes. IAD part of the total liquid called for in your recipe.) THEN stir well. (The water used with the yeast counts as Gee 49 /120/1t.43" $uppiyl' t today- eeWf4.Ws 7;4. THE FIRST HUMANS to oat wattle rallied the grain near their primitive dwellings and ground k up Roy food. Today that delicious, crisply appetising cereal treat Post's Grape. Nuts 81 ices - In 70ur* eta any grocery store ... reedy to serve ...easy to digest ... wholesome ... noostdehln` .. , good for on the Ramify. Don't mind if your menfolk develop "cave. man" appetites for Post's Grape -Nuts Finites. Every delicious epoonfnl provides helpful nourishment from TWO GOLDEN GRAINS •r sun -ripened wheat and malted barley .. . useful quantities of carbohydrates, protein, phosphorous and iron. For joyful, health/nl eating sok today for Poet's Grape.Nuts Flakes. Gf 189