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Zurich Herald, 1946-05-16, Page 2TUR �G a, Mary Imlay Taylor SYNo Psis CHAPTER VIII: Sherwin ( z - lett) accidentally discovers Jordan about to abduct Tarte and hold her as a hostage. They grapple, but again Jordan escapes after wound- ing Sherwin with a knife. CHAPTER IX 'Jim, he's faint from loss of blood —look at him!" Oid Mac intervened. "I'll fix 11im up; you go 'phone for th' due, Jane," he thrust his hand through Sherwin's w•e11 arm. "You come along with true, son. Hello!" he shaded his eyes with his hand. "Say. Jinn, if 1 ain t mistaken—th' sheriff's coining across th' bridge right now!" he added, pointing. Jim gave a quick exclamation of satisfaction. "Su he is. Got a posse, too, Just in the nick of time—it's all right that you didn't go for him now, Hazlett'" Sherwin flushed suddenly to his hair, but no one noticed it. Jane was running on ahead to telephone for the doctor, Mac had him by the arm, and Jim had apparently be- come absorbed in the approaching • prise. "Send a man over fo that horse, Mac," he threw hack as he hurried oft. MacI)owell, stilt holding the wounded ratan by the arra, chuckled softly. "It's one of Jinn's favorites; right lucky Jordan didn't swipe it. By th' way, how d'you come here, son: Hear Jane _screech?" "No! 1 rode that way; saw Jor- dan by accident." 0•1: }. Sherwin's face was set. The old elan peered at hint sideways, ru- minating. "Thunght Yc:u knew the way to 13e,unliugs'." Itis tune was casual, and he went on at once; "It's a pity you hissed baggii' Jordan; he's gut th' ,tart of us now," "We'll have. to Jet him," Sher- win answered abet ntly. He had watched Jane's figure disappearilig into the house and now he saw the sheriff's posse riding up the lung slope to Las 1'alcanas, and his tate changed slowly and lost its softened 1iue�- "It scenes to take :1 good nu.uy men to hunt down One out here," he remarked dry! Old Mac laughed. "A sheriff's posse's something like a . uowhall; th' cowpunchers like excitement. You conic in here an' Jet me see that arid." "it's nothing but 0 flesh wound,' Sherwin said, but lie .et the old Ulan draw 11i111 into his own goal tors and cut off his torn sleeve. "Kinder nasty hurt, ' old Mac said, "but there :riot no runes bro- ken. 1'11 wash it 00' tit' duel] fix it up all right." While he worked, his patient sat by the window watching the posse. He expected to be called to tell his story of Jordan, but he was not, and, as time passed, he began to wonder avhe. 'Then old Mac startled him more. "1. reckor you don't know that Jane's said to be goin' to marry Stenhart, do you?" he asked casu- ally. He felt Sherwin stiffen under his hands, "1 think she will not!" he said sharply. Mac stared. Theu he fell silent, binding the aro a trifle closely, his eyes straying out of the window, fol- lowing Sherwin's. The old man was farsighted, He made out a paper in the sheriff's hand, an 1 after a mo- ment Jim tools it and both men Stared at it. "The sheriff's gut .c description of some nue that's wanted," he said finally. "1'vc seen them papers be- fore now." Sherwin did not answer; his arm was bound up and he rose suddenly and made for the door which opened on the posse, But Maccaught him back. "Don't you do it, son!" Sherwin stared at hint. "What do you mean?" '1'11e olcl man smiled grimly. "1 reckon 1 kinder suspic' why yot. took th' wrong road, son; you don't need to meet th' sheriff here, Jim ain't called for you." For a moment longer Sherwin stared at hint sternly, then he flung himself into a chair beside the table, and leaning across it, buried his head in his arms. Old Mac came and stood beside him, looking down at him pityingly, for he saw his broad shoulders shake with a hard drawn, bitter sob. The older man did not put his band on his shoulder, he was thinking and watching Jim through the window. For some rea- son Jim seemed to be trying to get rid of the sheriff. •"It's a mighty hard nut to crack!" Mac thought, "an' there's an all -fired lot of rea- sons why it ain't always easy to be a righteous judge," and his eyes sank to the bowed head on the table. Jim had somewhat similar thoughts, st.ring at the paper the sheriff had given him. "Got any new men on?" Cutler had asked. "Seen a fellow like that picture?" Jim studied the picture a long time silently, then he looked around at the sheriff. "What's lie wanted for; Cutler?" "Murder, first degree. Escaped convict from Rhode Island; it's for life there, you know." ': Jim nodded. "Better leave the paper with me," he said at last; "new men come along every" now and then." "That's so! Personally t don't think likely he's round these parts; too far off his beat, ch?" The sher- iff moved to the door. "By thetvay, feller, where's that ,feller who mixed it up for Jordan? Send hint along to show us the way he went." "I'll send old Ma'Dowell, he knows," Jim said promptly. "The other man's got a bad arm; I've phoned for the doctor for hien." As he spoke he accompanied the sher-' iff to the door and shouted for Mac. The old man answered at once and got his orders to go with the posse. He ca,st a sharp look at Jim's face and obeyed without a word. At the moment Jim scarcely no- ticed that he did not suggest that the man whom they called Hazlett should go, but he thought of it as he turned back into the house, a turrow of worry between his own brows. It seemed as if Mac had caught at the meaning of things by in tinct, or had he found out some- thing himself? Standing alone in the hall, he took out the sheriff's pa- per and studied it. The picture of the escaped convict was unustally clear-cut and good, the description accurate Jim was still studying-- it stepbehind alight n hen he heard him and turner: to meet Fanny Sewell. The young nurse caught the trouble in his face at a glance. "There's something wrong!" she said quickly. "Nothing muesli wrong when 1 see you!" Jim answered heartily. But she was not to be put off. "You're worried!". For answer Jim held out the pa- per. "Ever see that face before, Fanny?" The girl• gave it a startled loo!:, then she scrutinized it carefully, her own face changing shall !y. "Olt!" It was an exclamation of dismay, as she lifted he troubled eyes to his. "Can't be mistaken, can it?" Jim asked grimly. "It's terribly litre him — what's the crime?" Jim turned the paper 'ver. "There's a statement — pretty bad, tool" * r Fanny began to read it slowly, her face losing its happy flush. "He's saved my life — and got jane away from Jordan today. It's -- it's darned hard to know what to do!" Tht nurse did not seem to hear •him. As she read she paled, and suddenly she caught at a chair and gasped, her eyes dilated. "Good Lord, Fanny — my darl- ing girl, what is it?" j im forgot his quandary as he caught her in his arms. "Nothing!" she tried to senile. "1 — 1 was a little dizzy — there's Jane now!" (To be Continued) Th Quality Tea THE WILL TO LIVE Straining at the plough in •place of their dead water buffalo, these Chinese peasants wonder dully"whether they'll live long enough to harvest their crop. CHR?r_aNICLES of GINGER FARM By Gwendoline P Clarke • • • • We were sitting a: supper. Satur- day night. Presently Bob glanced up at the calendar and said remin- iscently; "This time a year ago. just exactly where was I? Yes, I. remember—it was at a little place just across the Rhine. I wrote zou a letter from there, Moran, did• you • happen to keep it?" Yes, I kept the letter and now, a year later, it is even more interest - in„ than when it was written. Here it is, in part: "Saturday, .May '. 1945. Canad- ian Army Overseas" "I intended to write yesterday • but there was no opportunity nor any official _news. Now I am wonder-•, - h1g—will, this be the day to re- member through the years to conic? At 4.30 this afternoon we, were given the official itews'of Germany's surrender by army dis' patch. Vvhat was it like back home? I ain sure no one in Can- ada could quite realize what it was - like out here but. Lam going to try and tell yoti. "On May 4. the Traci- began to take a new interest in the news, not wildly, but casr,ally , asking first one person and. then another We had a very long drive_ that day and occasionally bits of rumour would be picked up along the way and spread around among .the boys. There was really no excite- ment. Life went on jiist the same as before. Life—and death.. Out- wardly no one expressed any par- ticular elation. But we• were all tense, expecting big news at any moment. friday evening we were billeted well forward in Germany. Someone started a rumour that peace was to be signed on May 3, It did not create much of a stir, it was accepted casually as just an- other rumour. "Satur.'.'ty morning we were idle, waiting orders. There were all kinds of rumours . that we welt: moving back to Holland; that we were to stay put; that we were Garden Notes By UU.KUVN 1. SN1;•I H Big Croppers When, space available for the vegetable Barden is very limited bulky plant like corn, peas, tom- atoes, potatoes and other large vegetables create a special prob- lem. Unlike letti ce, spinach, beets, beans, carrots, etc., which can be fitted into rd' vs'only 15 in• ches apart if necessary, these other things take up considerably more room. Corn, tomatoes and potatoes need from 18 inches to 2 feet be. tween hills or plants, and if one 1s to have enough green peas for s meal from one picking then at least 30 feet of row, and preferably 50, will be necessary. In a Small Garden Most sir all garden operators— those with only a plot 20 feet or so each way at their clisposat—usually decide after some experience to abandon potato growing alto. gethter. And the experts agree that they are wise. The first new po- tatoes tight from the garden at the door are a treat, but there are other things that take up less room the other three vegetables men-. tioned should not be given up without more consideration. it is absolutely impossible to duplicate ' the quality of peas or corn righs out of the garden. As a matter 01 fact a' distinct change takes place in both vegetables in from two to four hours after pickit.gt The su- gars chang to starches and that is the reason why ordinary 'bough' corn and peas simply do not com- pare in sweetness with the saline vegetables picked fresh, cooked and ready for eating within an hour of itervesting. moving still further up: No one !anew anything; 'no one cared very much. It was just another day with another detail to be filled, Everyone knew that peace was inevitably near but no one let up• on his job nor did he want to. In the billet here one group of men were playing cards; another group singing to the accompaniment of a guitar and harmonica. Some were .sleeping, some talking and joking, others working on their trucks— one fellow was doing paint job. "We. moved again . . . up into Holland. There was• . no more news. But this morning we were informed we might have the day off—our very first. That, believe me, really brought forth the cheers. But yet it didn't change ,anything eery much. We made beds; some fellows went out to hunt new girl friends. At 4.30 we .were sunnnoned to the Orderly Room and given the news. It was officially announced that Germany. •had surrendered. There was still 1n.. great excitement—no cheering —just the ordinary murmur heard after any lecture. The men went back to their beds; some talked, •some shaved; but there was no great, show of feeling. To -morrow our platoon will be out on detail again. There is plenty of laughter going on right now but, no one is so optimistic as to feel' our job is done." '0 1, Bob looked over the Ietter quiet- ly: "Yes" he said, "tomorrow our platoon will be• out on detail ag- ain". I remember that all right. It was V.ET Day—but we were working, as usual. One of our trucks hit a mine. The truck was - blown up. Three of our boys were killed. That was what V.E. Day - meant for them." Sunday. School Lenon Learning in the School of Faith John 11: 7-8, 16; 20; 24-29. Golden Text.—Blessed are they that have•not seen and yet have be- lien ed,—John 20: 29. "Peace Be Unto You" Jesus, !laving appeared to some individuals after His resurrection, now appears to the disciples imme- diately after the return of the two from Emmaus. The disciples were in fear of the Jews but with a word Jesus ban- ishes their fears: "Peace be unto you," As He said this He was , standing in their midst, Thomas, full of doubt and self- will was not with the brethren on this occasion and su missed meet ing his risen Lord. Thomas Still Doubts The other disciples hastened to tell Thomas, that they had 'seen the Lord. Thomas should have been convinced but he was not. His wil- fulness is shown in the words: "1 will not believe." The only kind of evidence that would convince Thomas was that' which could be understood by physical sense. The testimony of the disciples had, after all, made some impression • on Thomas, for on the next Lord's day he took pains to 'be with them. There was, on his part, some readi- ness to believe just as there was proneness to doubt. Thomas Believes Jesus comes to His disciples with the same gracious message as be- fore: "Peace be unto you." It is the message He always brings to those who gather ,in expectation of His coming. . • The wonderful grace and pity and long-suffering bf Jesus are evi- dent in IIis words to Thomas and in His whole treatment • of the doubting disciples. Thomaswas wholly convinced at last, and acknowledged' itTin one of the most remarkable ascriptions to deity to be found in the Bible: "My Lord and My God." Thomas Is Rebuked Jesus accepted these titles • but gave Thomas a gentle rebuke for leis persistent unbelief. Be pro- nounces a special blessing 'upon the one who does not ask to see, but believes upon• the naked testimony of the Word •of 'God. How Can i? By Ann Ashley Q, How can 1 test the waffle iron to see if it is hot enough for the batter, A. One way is to pais a teaspoon of water into the iron, close it, and when the steam ceases coming one, the iron is ready for the batter. ' Q. How can I clean a white wool sweater? A. Rub tthe sweater well witil flour. About three cups will be required if thoroughly rubbed uitl1 it penetrates each fold, Shake out well and hang on the line wliile r good stiff breeze is blowing. Q. How can I treat a bruised finger which has been hit with the hammer? A. hold the finger iii water • as hot as can be borne for a few Mill. utes. This will draw out the in• fl enation almost immediately. Q. 1d,ow can 1 prevent raisins from' going to the bottom of, a cake? A. This can be prevented by rolling the raisins in 'utter before placing then in the batter. Too Will Enjoy Sinylon Al The St. Regis Hotel 10111/N10 • l'hcry Room t+'llh Hath Shower wild 'Telephone • single. 0'=.00 up — Double, sa.,50 up • /rum, 1" 1 Mining nod !lane: Inn rJlgh*ly Sherhouroe .11 Co el fon - Tel R A, 4180 Ans C,OM yORTING• REL,f,E .FOR -TI•RED EYES 2 Drops of Marine Eves are rationed—two to a lifetime—so be kind to yours. Whenever eyes feel tired, or smart ... or are reddened and irritated, use Murine. Two drops in each eye quickly cleanses, refreshes and soothes your hard- working eyes. Murine was origin- ated by an eye physician. Apply it daily to ease your eyes. 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