The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 11, 1935 Page: 3 of 8
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Thsrsdsy. April 11.1«>8
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THE AgFBHMONT STAR
By KATHLEEN NORMS
Ourriftl by KatklMa Norria
WHO Swvtw
SYNOPSIS
Th« luck that bad brought th« Bo -
tM Lawronren to California at the b .
(lUIW of th* sold ru«h ha* deserted
tka present generation. From a 4,000,-
aere ranch, their holding* have shrunk
to m small (arm, and the old family
hems In Cllpper vUle. The death of
their father forced the thron eldest
children to work so that Sam and little
Ariel mikht continue their education.
Phil, now twenty-five, had tfone Into
the Iron workw, Gull to the public li-
brary and Kdith to the book depart-
ment of CllpperavlUe'tt largest ntor«*.
Ssventeen-yciar-old Ariel In becoming; a
problem, and Phil In fascinated by "that
terrible" Lily Caa , whoso husband has
defierted her. Youiik Van Murchison,
scion of a wealthy family. returns from
Y#.le, and On II has visions, through
marrlaKO with him. of the turning of
the Lawrence luck. Dick Stobbina,
Phil' best friend, has the run of the
hotiHe. Ariel is sneaking out of the
houue at night for joy rides. Phil sug-
nesta, to the girls' consternation, th.it
they Invite Lily Cass to the house. Gall,
goes with Van for a week-end with
the Chipps, his uncle and aunt. She Is
received coldly by Mrs. Chipps and her
guests.
CHAPTER IV—Continued
—9—
For a moment (Jail could not the
point. Then It <imii> upon In r with
sickening force, nnii she fell choked
and a little nmiseiited The men hdiiwI;
the iflrls InuKlied brielly, imtl l.enore
•aid, "Jim, don't he so revolllny'"
"You low swine!" ! I nciu Tevis, wbo
was eighteen years old, added affec-
tionately.
"Well, what cun you do?" (lull asked
herself llercely. She couldn't sliiime
Van by irettliiK up und unlklne away
from the group, ller face burned
wretchedly for half an hour. She
would not give In She slept, waked,
breakfasted, went to luncheon at some
club In whose chintzy dressing room
the girls were notably rude to tier,
watched her first polo game. She would
not give In.
Klght, light, light. Slie made herself
pretty, she made herself amusing, slie
fought buck the constant impulse to
say, "Oh, Van, take me home!" No,
no, no! This was tier clmnce; she
would not lose It. She grew almost
feverish, her clear skin unusually pale,
her blue eyes unusually bright, and
was the prettier for it.
Van saw nothing. He was la great
spirits, rushing from one thing to an-
other—cocktails, bridge, tennis, swim-
ming, polo, golf—at breakneck speed.
By Saturday night all these were ex-
hausted, radio und victrola bad done
their worst, and It was decided that
Mockerson's offered the only (tosslble
amusement.
This was at about nine o'clock. Into
cars they all accordingly piled, and off
Into the night they went. A dreary
dressing room, after the cold run, and
the girls powdering their noses, red-
dening their lips again. Another bleak
looking table with a limp spotty cloth
oh It. They were all so tired they al-
most laid tlieir heads on the cloth, and
On 11 was scared when she saw the hip
flasks and the red wine again Van
had driven like a crazy man on those
steep circuitous roads coming over;
he certainly would not tie In a condi-
tion to drive more carefully going back.
Of course, they would get back to the
ranch somehow, but It was frighten-
ing.
Funny to think of herself as home
again tomorrow night, playing soli-
taire. Well, one thing was sure; If she
ever married Van Murchison or any-
one like htm she would cure him of
this sort of craziness.
Mockerson's was as dull as ditch
water tonight. There were parties In
the curtained alcoves, shouting and
alngtng, but the main room was empty.
A heavy fog was rolling in from the
•ea; the motor cars that weat by made
a muffled sound In the dark night
"You're awful cute!" Van said affec-
tionately, covering Gall's hand with
his own.
A noisy party stumbled out of an
alcove and scattered wearily toward
dressing rooms for wraps.
"We ought to be going, too!" l.enore
decided. "This Is too awful!"
They stumbled up In their turn,
staggered up the smelly, unpalnted
stairs to the odorous, dauip, bleak
dressing room. Its window, on this
raw night, was wide o|*>n, the salty
air blowing In dellcloutdy cold and
fresh.
"This won't do!" (Jail said, going to
doss It Standing beside It. both hands
raised to the center rill, she looked
down at a pool of bright tight from
the tavern doorway below.
"Com* here. Duchess. That's the col-
or hair 1 mesa I" Lucia said suddenly,
at Uall's elbow, also looking down.
"Ash Nond—and that's a real one, too.
Ladk!*
(Jail looked, too. l,ookcd down at
Ike bareheaded, loudly Isughlng girl
• big rsccoon-costed man was helping
Into a roadster. 8he recognised the
ash-blond hair, the curve of soft cheek.
U Was Ariel.
CHAPTER V
Gall had a sick moment of vertigo,
«T terror. What she saw, what It alg-
al Bod, where she was and where Ariel
was—cverythlng rushed together to a
salplets demoralization of mind ami
Alter a while she turned and dssed-
inched for ber brown coat and
DM* Ma i lt a boat bar. She follows*
where sho was nor what iho was do-
ing.
She waa nest to Vsn on the drlvo
home. The cars shot swsy Into tho
foggy night; the big engines throbbed
on the grade. When they reached the
top of the long rise, and the machines
could run quietly, cautiously, through
tbe enveloping thick mists, Gall spoke
for the first time.
"Van, you saw thoae men and the
two glrla—the ones who were waking
so much noise?"
"Didn't notice 'em specially—why?"
Van shouted.
"Oh, nothing!" Gull, actually writh-
ing, saying the soundless words of
prayers with trembling lips, added no
more. But her soul was sick.
"Ariel! Oh, my G—d—not yet eight-
een !"
Then night and fog arid tbe explor-
ing lights of the < nr and tier own sick,
heavy heartbeats again.
It was like a horrible dream. She
was miles—miles from home, from
I'hil and Kclllli, and security and good-
ness and help.
The need to he at home gnawed at
her llesh like teeth; her face burned,
she could not breathe.
"Van. how tar are we from home?"
"From I,os CatosV Let's see—"
"No From < 'Mppersville."
"Oh, Cllppersvllle? Oil-well, about
seventy miles."
Seventy miles' 'I lie) seemed to tall
on her heart like so many separate
blows. Was somebody driving Ariel sev.
enty miles home tonight? What was
slie doing away Iron) home1' Where
did I'hil anil Kdlth think she was? Per
haps I'hil and Kdlth were dead . .
Perhaps they were scouring the town
for Ariel, telephoning I iui.it li.v. tele-
"Ash Blond—and That's a Real One,
Look!"
phoning the Lovelaces! And slie riot
there!
"Papa told ns to take care of tiic
children! And little Ariel, that Mother
only stayed with four days—!
"And what does Ariel know about
danger? Nothing. She's a baby, Men
think she's pretty, and It amuses Iter;
She never dreams. . . .
"Oh, my <i—d! Where Is she now?"
It was Impossible that l'_' hours
must pass before she could be home
again and know the worst. Hours-
hours ! They proved to tie the longest
through.which she had ever lived.
Vaguely, secondary things penetrat-
ed the (laming wall of thought that
shut her In. She realized, alone In her
comfortable cabin room, that slie whs
not going to sleep.
Ariel! Ariel! Ariel!
She walked out under the redwoods
Just as dawn began to paint the west-
ern face of the canyon with streaks
of vermilion.
Then she must have gone back and
flung herself on her bed and fallen
asleep, for she wus awakened by the
other girls' laughter and voices at ten,
and roused herself, stl.ff and half sick,
with heavy eyes and chilled wet feet
She crept down to the main cabin for
breakfast only anxious to avoid notice,
to secure the earliest possible escape
for home.
They were alt going up to San Mateo,
for it ap|>eured that Van was to take
the place of a missing polo player;
every one was very much excited about
the game.
But ahe waa In a fever to get home.
Vaa'a arguments, his pleading, fell on
deaf esrs. Ariel perhaps murdered.
Phil and Kdlth crushed with terror and
doubt, and they wanted her to go to
Man Mateo and applaud the chukkers
of s polo game!
In the end she had her way, and was
established In the roomy empty back
of a big closed car. Van aaw her off
reitroaclifully.
"You piker!"
"I know It." ghe smiled a sickly
smite at the handsome hoy.
"Why don't you stsy and swim, any-
way. It's noon; you'll cook—driving
home through the valley!"
"I can't. 1 promised Ariel—"
"Ob, Ariel nothing! Listen, I got one
good look at your little sister, and I
want to tell you something! She can
manage ber own affair*."
ller face, already pale with heat and
•motion, grew whiter.
"How d'you mean you—you saw
Arlol?"
"Why—" He looked at bar In pus
•tad surprise. "Why, alio waa at your
haws that Sunday night, two weeks
™JH BHH i* «
te San lis too." :
His laughter, the gHp of hla Mg
brown hand, would have been irresisti-
ble twontjr-tour hours ago. But Oail
was hardly conscious of them now.
Absently, apologetically, she persisted,
said her farewells.
Tho world that waa all pleasure—
swimming, bridge, polo, tennis, frocks,
trips—closed behind her as a pool
closes over a atone.
She would be home before throe
o'clock. She must be patleoL She
would be rushing Into the old house—
and what a haven of rest and cool-
ness and ease It would be!—at throe
o'clock. She would llnd Phil there,
haggard and wild, Kdlth stricken, Sam
making frightful suggestions about
dragging the river utid • notifying the
police.
"We Lawrences can never hold up
our heuds after this again," she
thought. Not thut It mattered. If Ariel,
frightened and sobered, were home,
were safe!
Thirty mites more! ller face was
burned by the hot wind, and tier h«jS?(f
splitting. Twenty mil -t*— h-ji miles. The
big gas tank came Into view, the red
mills, tbe canneries, mill llniilly the
swimming trectops of ('llppersvllle,
from which dazzling lines arose like
hairs of white tire.
(Sail's heart was sulTocatlng her.
She said only Incoherent farewells, as
she descended from the Im'ck sent into
the heavenly green ■diadlness of the
old garden, and catching up her heuvy
suitcase ran for the side door.
oil the threshold of the iiuiet, shad-
ed kitchen she stopped short. Kdlth
was shilling a light refection of arti-
chokes and bread pudding with a honk,
"Martin rhnz/.lcwlt " Ariel, dainty and
eool. was sitting lit the other end of
the kitchen table denning gloves In
gasoline.
Kor a lent revulsion or feeling
mudefiaii leel actually dizzy and weak.
Hut If Ariel saw anything amiss her
smile, of surprise and welcome gave no
sign of it, and Kdlth's delight covered
all other emotions for u space
"Oh. Gall, we didn't, expect you un-
til sup'pertime! Oh. darling, did you
have a good time? Was it fun? I've
been thinking and thinking but you've
not had lunch!"
Kdlth was In her arms, was racing
about tbe kitchen eagerly, mixing Iced
tea. taking rolls from the old biack
Ja pa lined bread box. Ariel got up from
tbe table to come and bestow one of
ller strange kisses, (iail, seated, her
hat pushed off her damp, pale fore-
head, felt that she was still In the
dream, und that things had shifted
themselves about on all sides, strange-
ly, as they did In dreams
"But tell us, tell us, tell us!" Kdith
pleaded.
"And what'd you do last night?"
Gull could hnully ask, when the swim-
ming pool, the frocks, and the general
excitement of Far Nlente had been
pretty generally reviewed.
"Ariel was with Dorothy Camp So
the hoys and I had to console each
other!"
Gall gave Ariel her big sisterly, sym-
pathetic smile.
"Was that fun1" sho asked, feeling
that It was somebody else talking, that
It was all a part In u piny—I'll one
of their Sunday night charades.
"Fnn! They stayed at the Fair-
mont." said the eager Kdith.
"Oli, did you, baby?"
"We went to a movie," Ariel sop
pliivl.
Then—I hen the girl at Mockerson's
wasn't AI lei"' Or else . . . (lull's tlrst.
Impulse to fell ber sisters of her sick-
ness and fright died away. She dared
not risk that yet.
Peace and shudlricss held tbe kitch-
en. Ariel was expecting some boy
friend for supper; Kdlth was going to
walk over to Mrs. Appleby's at tlve
o'clock to ask about the tiesta dresses:
Sam was working; Phil had said that
lie must go to the ofllce.
"Which I shrewdly suspect Is
Thomas Street hill:!" Kdlth confessed
ruefully.
Home. The Infinite peaccftilness of
It! (iail, looking at Ariel, could not
believe that her feverish, frightened
suspicions of last night had any busts
whatever. This was all reassuring, all
soothing.
It was not believable that this Inno-
cent child of seventeen, In the blue
organdy, had upon her mind any secret
as disgraceful as a midnight escapade
at Mockerson'a
But as soon as tliey had an oppor-
tunity to speak to each other alone.
Gall went straight to the imiIiil
"Ariel, did you ever hesr of a road-
house called Mockerson'a?"
The blond head, with Its drift of t!f-
away gold hair, came up like a flush.
And Gall knew.
Ariel shrugged slightly, wary eye*
on Gull's face.
"Yep," she admitted briefly.
Then there was a long silence. Ari-
el's eyes met ber sister's
"Some of lis went over from the
Chlpp ranch," Gall said, returning tfcft
steady guse. "What were you doing
there. Ariel?"
The tone was dispassionate, quiet.
But Gsll'a breast rose and fell onre.
on s heavy algh.
"Whet—what you were, if you were
there and aaw me, I suppose!" Ariel
blurted. In a tone that waa meant to
lie hold and turned oul merely trem
bllitj and frightened.
Gill took the shock without a sign,
golpg on patiently.
"Who were you with, dear?"
"Oh, don't dear me!" protested Artel,
la sudden ugliness "You know
UMofc I'm a lost soul, and you're go-
ing to tell I'hil, and stir up all
of trouble."
TO mb romtihdbd.
British Children Help
Malt* National Survey
After live years of arduous labor
a survey of Lnglaiul, .Scotland and
Wales U about to he rnude available
by the London school of economics.
Aa described by the Morning Post
It would be a veritable Domesday
Book, except for tbe fact that It does
not record the recent partition of big
landed estates. Nevertheless, it Is ex-
pected to contain information 4of the
utmost value to the ministry of agri-
culture, the forestry commissioners
and town and regional planning au-
thorities.
Some of the conclusions which
have emerged from tbe survey are
curious:
Tin: post-war decline lu arable
fanning lias released large areas of
relatively poor land, which, under
present conditions, could be most
profitably utilized for afforestation.
Apart, from obviously poor soils,
the change from arable to pasture
land lias been greali.-t In the rase
id' heavy soils, which, while capable
of yielding good crops, are expensive
to i ultiva: .
Kudor the direction of county di-
rectors of education; more than HKi.
(HNI school children have taken pari
la the collection of Information and
the preliminary itoloring of t; inch
maps to show the list's to which land
Is put.
Hsre'i Renl Peitimiim
Kvery person of mature years, re
gardlng the younger generation with
an unbiased eye, must have been
.struck by the disquieting revelation
that the race is declining. In a worm
ill wliirh all the phi values are being
scoffed at and all the ancient beliefs
questioned, only one postulate stands
like stone that the present genera-
tion, by which H meant the adult
portion of it. is the most wonderful
and virtuous that I lie earth ever pro-
duced. Spurt froth this one shining
exception, there can be little doubt
that generations are not what they
used to lie. Humanity is going to the
dogs. -Melbourne Argus.
BOYS! GIRLS!
Read the Grape Nuts ad In another
column of this paper and learn bow
to Join the Dizzy Dean Winners and
win valuable free prises.—Adv.
Alamiaum Plentiful
The most abundant metallic ele-
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R
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PUPFBPED VfGETABll
SEED
LIKE
must pr*duc«
LIKE
Tun first ste[i in raiding
|iii/.c-wiutii;i^ stock is the
careful selection of parents
. . . sires and ilatns whose
characteristics have been
determined through many
generations of perfect sires
and dams. The same law
applies in the vegetable
kingdom. The Ferry's
Purebred Vegetable Seeds
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perfect plants. They will
grow true to firmly estab-
lished characteristics of
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Slight or dsn t
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to straighten out your bowels
relieve constipation)—«ak*. a "
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"Wo take Black-Draught for fitt-
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Freshen up by taking this paniy
vegetable laxative, if yoo have • tend-
ency to constipation or slnggishMSS.
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