* 6
It was a bracelet, charm o£ ,
i&by'g- a gold monkey, about
• fce.siae of a large almond, with
•' aide eyes. The minute Martha
lad seen it site hud begun lo
>eg for it. There weren’t any
nonkeys in the jewelry <*ata
0£8, but Sait sent off and got
ter a bear and a turtle. She
Wouldn't have any truck with
♦hem. She wanted that one,
Particular monkey. Gaby would
lot give it to her; would not so
touch as allow her to wear it
for a few hours at a time. As
Usual, this evening she refused
to k*t Martha touch it
‘‘Yes, and you'll be sorry,”
Martha threatened.
She went upstairs and
emptied a can of pepper in
tlaby’s handkerchief box.
She was always playing
♦ricks of the sort on Gaby, if
ke did not watch her. For my
f>wn part, I wouldn’t have
bothered with watching her but
lor the fact that, more thnn
often, she got the tw^a girls
tuixed up and it was Danny
whose pretty dress would be
lied to the chair to tear, instead
pi Gaby's < or Danny’s hair ;
Would receive the contents of
Chad’s paste-pot; and then
Martha, discovering her mis
take, would make herself ill
With crying and remorse. Just
ns she had hated Gaby from
Ihe start, she had loved Danny;
but she could not: tell them
Apart.
same teaching, the same en
vironments. Ol‘ course they are
alike. One of thorn is play
acting. 1 don't know which one.
i suspect Danielle, on account
of John.”
I ri*ay' as well stale, right
here, that all of this remark of
Sam’s, with the exception of
the giri.s being twin sisters, was
a mistake from beginning to
end. 1 didn’t, at that time,
know much of anything about
their past lives. 1 did know
their present characters. I told
him so.
lie laughed again, and
wanted to know what had be
come of all my theories con
cerning our modern young
girls. Ever since the war, I
had been standing up for them,
through thick and thin.
“It takes a pretty stout
theory,” I admitted, “to hear
a young lady called a ‘damn
good sport,' and see her receive
it as a compliment.”
“Who.said that to who?”
Sam wanted to know
“Who do you suppose?
Hubert Hand to Gaby* of
course.”
nuDcn liana, oam sinu.
“had better behave himself.”
Since Hubert Hand was too
selfish ever to love anything
that bis Roman nose wasn’t
attached to. his carryings on
with Gaby should be classed, f
think, not in the center ring,
but as the main attraction of
the third ring. And he almost
old enough to he her father,
with white coming into his
hair at his temples!
To this day I have never
understood those two, during
those months. Gaby was in love
with John. Hubert Hand was in
love with Hubert Hand. Yet
they hugged and kissed, and
seemed to think that calling it
“necking” made it respectable.
It wasn’t a flirtation, with
them. It was more like a fight,
where each of them was fight
ing for something they did not
jvant. A perfectly footless, none
too wholesome performance.
“You make him behave him
self, Sam,” I urged.
“He is free, white and
twenty-one. And she sure can
take care of herself, if ever a
girl could. Tt’s none of my put
in.”
“What about tbe rest of us.”
I said, “forced to watch such
goings on?”
“Don’t watch. Tf you watch
Relic, and Sadie and Goldie,
that is watching enough for one
woman.”
Belle, Sadie and Goldie were
the Indian women [ had, at that
time, to help me around the
place I suppose they were
pretty good girls. They did all
the actual work there was to
do around the house, except
the cooking, with me directing
them every step they took. But
when I remember bow they all
deserted me, in the time of our
terrible trouble, it, makes me
so fighting mad that I don’t
like to give them credit for
anything, nor think about them
at all. even vet
It seemed incredible even
Martha could bo confused about
the two girls; because, if ever
girls were opposite, those girls
Svere. Of course, they were the
same size, about five feet and
■two inohes tall, I should judge,
«m<l thbe same weight—both of
them too skinny to iriv way of
thinking, flat ns bread-boards.
Their faces, just their faces, did
look alike. They both had long
hrown eyes, straight noses,
email mouths Gaby painted
her lips until they looked inucu I
fuller anil more curved than
Danny's—pointed chins, and
complexions the color of real
light caramel frosting. Danny’s
cheeks showed a faint pink,
coming and going. Gaby paint
ed her cheek-bones, clear hack
to her ears, with a deep orange
pink color. They both hail
wavy, dark hrown hair, cut
just llie same in the back, real
close fitting and down to a
point, lint Gaby brushed her
hair straight back from her
forehead, and put varnish stuff
on it till it was as sleek and
shining as pntent leather. She
left all of her ears showing,
and she always wore big ear
rings, dangling from them.
Danny parted her hair on the
aide, and allowed it to wave,
loose and soft and pretty. She
never wore earrings. Gaby’s
clothes were nil loud colored,
or seemed to be—black turned
gaudy when she put, it on—
and they were all insecure ap
pearing, too defiant of paper
patterns to he quite moral.
Dannv’s clothes were as neat
arf1 nuife a pigeon’s.
i\o wonder mat tuose lre
quont mistakes of Martha’s
made me decide that she was
losing her eyesight. T spoke to
Sam about it, suggesting that
Mrs- Rielicr would hptlcr take
her to San Francisco to visit
an oculist.
According to his usual cus
tom, Sam laughed at me. Tic
aaid that he had about con
cluded that Martha was the
only one on the place who
could use her eyes to see deeper
than gee-gaws and fol-de-rols.
“If ymi are insinuating,” I
said, “that those two girls are
alike in any respect, inside or
outside, you’ve lost your
Rouses.”
“Why shouldn't they ho
alike?” Sam questioned.
“They are twin sisters. They*
were brought up together- they
have had the same friends, the
CHAPTER VIII
Atmosphere
The girls had been on the
Desert Moon a little bettor
than six weeks when, one even
ing Sam came out into my
kitchen where T was retting
bread. Belle, Sadie and Goldie
had gone home- and I had
tidied up after them, as usual,
and everything in the kitchen
was sweet, and clean, and
shining. 1 had the doors tight
shut, so I couldn't hear the
radio screeching away in the
livingroom, and the windows
open, and the evening breeze
fresh from the deserts came in,
blowing back my ruffled white
curtains and purifying the air.
“Mary,” Sam began, real
solemn for him. “the ancients
used to have cities that they
called cities of refuge. No
To Outline Criminal Code.
Washington, 0. D.—Approval of a
new series of model statutes to cor
rect defects in criminal procedure
throughout the United States wll!
be discussed at the annual meetin'
of the American Law In3titu:
which convenes here May 8th.
The proposed new code, known
as the code of criminal procedure
will be submitted by the institut
council for consideration during
the sessions which will continue
through the week. This new cod
was prepared following the recom
mendation of a committee const t
tng of the late Herbert S. Hadley
Homier governor of Missouri. Sec
retary of State Henry L. Stimson
’.idee Charles C. Nott, Jr„ of New
York City and William E. Mlkrll
■f Philadelphia. Mr. Mikell and Ed
win R Keedy. professors of law
'.t the University of Pennsylvania
ive prepared the code which is
signated to eliminate outworn
chnicalicles in criminal law pro
dure ’and bring about greater uni
rmity and simpliflcaton among
ae various states.
It Is expected that the entire code
‘U be approved by the institute in
is final ioi’in and that following its
doption by the institute the model
tatutes contained in the code will
oa accepted and enacted by legis
' matter whit a fellow had done,
if lie could get inside into one
of - those cities, lie was safe.
Your kitchen always kinda
seems like t i * a t to me—a city
of refuge.”
“Lands, Sam,” I said,
“what have you been up to
that you are heading this
safety first movement?”
To teJI the truth, 1 was a
little put out with him for
moseying i:i there when I was
setting bread. Like most men
I’ve known, Sam never had any
particular hankering for my
company unless lie thought I
could be of some use to him.
Generally, 1 am glad and proud
to help Sam, anyway 1 can ; but
not when 1 am setting bread.
There is something about set*
ting bread that gives any moral
woman a contented, uplifted
feeling that she likes to indulge
in, undisturbed,
“I haven’t been up to any
thing,” Sam answered, “and I
don’t aim to he. But, Mary,
some time ago you came to me
with some suspicions. I laughed
them off. 1 am not' laughing
now. I’m worried. Queer things
are going on around here.
What I want to know, now, is
what do you kuow?”
“Nothing. What do you
know?’1’
Nothing,
“What do you suspect, then,
Sam?”
“Nothing. Wiiat do vou?”
“Nothing”
That, I see now, wouldn’t
have been a bad place l'or us
both to laugh. Neither of us
did.
“Have you any idea,” Sam
questioned- “why the girls go
prowling all over the place,
afoot and horseback, day
times, and night-times, 100,
when they should be in their
beds?”
I unfolded a dishtowel and
spread it over mv pan of bread.
It was ready for rising and I
had not got a bit of uplift out
of it.
“If I told you,” I said,
you’d only speak your little
memory-gem, about so much
good in the worst of us.”
“No, I won’t, Mary. I’m all
set for listening.”
“Well, all 1 know is just
what I We known all along.
Thpy are hunting for some
thing.”
“Sure they are hunting for
something. But what ”
“I don’t know. But, what
ever it is, they are going to use
it to get revenge, to injure
maliciously somebody. ’’
“Revenge, bell!” Sam said.
“Have it your own way.
Only I happened one night to
hear Gaby say to Danny that
they had come to this ranch for
the purpose of revenge.”
“Revenge, hell! Sam re
peated himself. “Unless they
are sore at me about Canne*
ziano.”
“It doesn't make sense. They
hate Canncziano. I’ve about de
cided that they have come here
to get revenge on, maliciously
injure, someone who isn't on
the place-”
‘“Brighten the corner where
you are.’” Sam scoffed, “But
never mind. What else did they
say, when you happened to
overhear this revenge re
mark?”
Jt he was ready, at last, to
listen, I was sure more than
ready to tell what little I knew.
I told; even to confessing about
hiding in the clothes closet.
“Well, well,” he drawled,
when I had finished my story,
“we are probably making a
mountain out of a molehill. T
wouldn’t go pussy-footing
around after them, any more,
if I were you, Mary. There’s a
screw loose somewhere, that’s
sure; but it is not in the Desert
Moon’s machinery. We’ve got
nothing on our conseienee. We
don’t need to worry.”
Don’t need to worry! Sain
and I, sitting in that peaceful
kitchen, talking so smart and
frivolous, and deciding that we
did not need to worry is a
memory 1 could well he shed
of. We didn’t need to worry a
bit more than if I'd used
arsenic in mv covered pan of
; bread; not a bit more than if
there had been a den of rattle
iatures in the states where reform
:n criminal procedure Is particu
larly necessary. Defects in criminal
procedure are not uniform and tht
.U3titute believes that most state
.vill follow this course in remedyin
oecific defects in their procedure
The proposed code marks the firs
completed step In the institute ,
program to correct the present un
certainty, comolexity and delay xr
the American law. Following a plai
established in 1925 the work ha'
proceeded steadily since that dau
under the supervision of two ex
perts and has received generous co
! operation from individual lawyers.
1 snakes in the* cupboard under
the sink, or gasoline instead of
water in the tank on the back
of the stove.. That is how safe
and peaceful we ready were, at
that minute, if we had had
sense enough to know it. When
1 realize that four weeks frort
that very evening, thre
people—
lint l guess it would lv
hotter 1 o tell things straigh
along, as they happened. li
seems to me a good book can
not. be hurried, any more than
a good eake can. “Mix and
sift the dry ingredients," is
1hc way all recipes for cakes
begin.
However, since I suspect that
T knew a sight more about
making a good eake than I did
about making a good book, and
since the young man from back
east—Indiana—in Nevada for
his matrimonial health as are
about half of the population
here, happened in just after J
had finished writing the above
paragraph, I asked him
whether he would, for a con
sideration, read and correct my
manuscript.
He had said- when he nan
come in from his fishing on
Boulder Cretk, that afternoon,
and asked to buy a meal, that
he was an author by profession.
The looks of him almost made
me decide not to put myself in
his class. I don’t know why it
is that easterners coming out
here and buying the same sort
of clothes that our men Avear,
look so ridiculous in them; but
they do. Anyway, I invited
him to stay to supper, and then,
as I have said, made the prop
osition about the manuscript.
lie said that he Avould be
only too happy to edit the yarn,
but that it Avould probably
take him several days to do it
efficiently. In other words,
though he grandly refused the
consideration, he got three full
days of board and rooms and
fishing on tiie Desert Moon in
return for around t'vo hours of
Avork.And I got my clean pages
all marked up with “vvhorns”
and “Avhichs” and funny do
dad marks. It took me more
than tAvo hours to get them all
erased.
“Now.” lie said, when he
finally had read it, “1 am
going 1o be franlx with you.
you mention dry ingredients,
in my opinion, you have far too
many dry ingredients, and it
is taking you much too long
to accomplish the mixing pro
cess.
“A book, to be successful,
lias to move swiftly. This is
particularly true of stories of
crime ami their detection. A
properly constructed story of
this sort, begins with the mur
der. The wisest thing for you
to do, is to burn all of this that
you have done, and make a
fresh beginning, at the time of
the first murder.
“In the new copy, do at
tempt to get in some atmos
phere. You must make your
readers feel the setting, as it
were. Bring them across the
wide multicolored deserts that
lie between here and Telko, to
this marvelous farm. Show
them the massive mountain
ranges surrounding it; let them
breathe the rarefied air, drink
deeply of the beauty. Give
them the changing colors of the
mountains, from their jade
greens 1o their rich ruby hues,
with the purpling cloud
shadows swaying across them.
Let them hear the scurrying of
the desert rats, the calls of the
owls, the howls of the coyotes.
Paint for them the slender
white trunks of your aspen
trees- and the green quivering
of their leaves. The harsh,
rugged beauty, the color, the
wonder of this northeastern
Nevada of yours is marvelous
beyond description. But for all
of it that your manuscript
shows, the action might have
taken place on a chicken farm
in Vermont.”
(TO B> CONTINUED)
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Looked That Way
Prom Die Muskete, Vienna.
A women and a man came round
' the corner In a car. He put out his
hand to turn to the left; she to turn
to the right.
Traffic Policeman: What do you
want —a divorce?
judges and bar associations in all
parts of the country.
The code is based upon practice
•:perienoe in criminal procedur
uid actual cases and decisions ob
rved in the past. Consideration h
ikon of the different dispositioi
f local and state courts, and each
atute in the code is suppiementec.
■y information as to what the var
ous local courts have decided there
pon in the past. The code will thu.
,-e applicable throughout all part
>; the country and should do much
o aid and clarify the administra
lion of justice.
r lederal
FACTS
Farm wages on April 1 were the
lowest lor that date ever recorded
by the United States bureau of
agricultural economics. The bu
reau’s index of farm wages stood
at 162 per cent of the 1910-14 pc-i
rioa, which is throe points above1,
the January Index of 19.10 and five]
below that of April, 1929. The rea
son given Is the large supply of I
farm labor caused by the small1
volume of Industrial employment
at present.
The livestock industry must
modernize and junk its obsolete
methods, is the advice given by Dr.
John R. Mohler. chief of the United
States Bureau of Animal Industry.
He urges livestock men to rid their
herds of low production cattle,
scrub and grade sires, and animals
affected with communicable dis
eases.
The new 1930 department of
agriculture’s yearbook of agriculture
is off the press. It contains a wealth
of material and instructions on
scientific framing.
United States citizens consumed
less meat in 1929 than in 1928, ac
cording to a recent survey taken by
the department of agriculture. Con
sumption for 1929 totaled 16,803,
000,000 pounds, while that of 1928
was 16,955,000,000 pounds.
Furthering its research work in
foreign fields, the department of
agriculture has H. L. Westover and
W. E. Whitehouse, of the bureau
of plant industry, surveying the
plains of central Asia for new va
rieties of alfalfa, melons, apples,
apricots and almonds.
A cotton fiber sorting machine
developed by D--. R. W. Webb of the
bureau of agriculture economics,
is said to be very accurate in separ- j
ating cotton fibers according to
length. It Is a great improvement
over other machines and over hand
separation.
The shifting of the farm popula
tion to cities was less rapid in 1929
than It was in former years. Ac
cording the the department of agri
culture, 1,878,000 persons moved
from farms to cities last year, as
compared with 1.923.C00 in 1928: 1,
978.000 in 1927, and a peak of 2,
155.000 in 1926._
Feed vour dairy animals more
protein in the form of legume hays,
is the advice of the bureau of dairy
industry. An acre of clover hay will
furnish about three times as much
digestible protein as one of tim
othy hay, and an acre of alfalfa
hay nearly seven times as much.
The High Cost of War.
From Louisville Courier-Journal.
In an address on Armistice day,
1927, in which he defended his pol
icy of isolation and lectured Eu
rope for its failure to understand
the United States, President Cool
idge vigorously disclaimed the
charge that America had made a
profit out of the World War, and
declared that “up to the present
time our own war costs, after al
lowing for our foreign debt expecta
tions, are about *30,500,000.000. The
I repercussions of that speech are
fortunately now in the past. Its
sharp language Is forgotten. Its im
plication that Europe might stew In
its own juice have left no lasting
impressions. The figures emphasiz
ing the high cost of wafare alone
remain.
In a statement just issued by the
treasury department they are re
emphasized. There is a slight dif
ference due to the passage of time
and the fact that Mr. Coolidge was
dealing with approximate figures.
The 36.500,000,000 has become $37.
573,950,000, or rather this was the
net cost of the war on June 30,
1929. The gross cost is the appalling
sum of $51,400,000,000, which includes
not only the outlay for carrying on
the struggle and loans to the Alies,
but adjusted compensation, insur
ance, vocational rehabilitation and
hospitalization. As the treasury
points out, the American people are
paying more than $1,000,000,000 this
year as a result of the war. It also
indicates that war costs and the an
nual bill lor national defense make
up about 66 per cent of all govern
ment expenditures.
Facts such as these must be tak
en into account in the recurring
arguments in favor of war debt can
cellation. In spite of its material
prosperity the United States is
shouldering a burden four times as
great as that imposed on Germany
bv the Young plan. These facts also
should be a forceful deterrent to
war and an argument in favor of
disarmament, but seemingly they
are not. ,
Q. What is known as colonial ar
chitecture? B. W.
A. When speaking of colonial
buildings, none should be included
of a date later than 1776. In New
England most of the building of co
lonial times were of wood and were
built bv carpenters who also were
shipbuilders. These artisans de
veloped a style that had a flavor of
its own and differed in many re
spects as to detail from that done
in New York, where the settlers had
a Dutch background, which v.'as
again different from the English
background of New England. The
colonial style of Pennsylvania is
characterized by sturdiness and
solidity. Most of the biuldings were
of brick or stone and the detail was
not so delicate as that of New Eng
land.
■ » - ■ -♦ ♦.
Slippery.
From Tit-Bits.
Mr. Jones was going to town, so
his wife asked him to call at the
grocer’s and order a pound of but- '
ter. two pounds of lard, and three
gallons of oil.
“All right," said Jones, “but I'm
sure all those greasy things will j
slip my mind.”
----M
©. What is vodka made of? E.
O. W.
A. Vodka is a Russian distilled
alcoholic liquor, commonly made
from rye, sometimes from potatoes,
and rarely from barley. Sometimes,
in Russia, the term is applied to any
kind oi Whisky or brandv.
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Theodore Dreiser, talking at a
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sory hath* with a view to arresting
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“Well,” lie went on, “the Russian
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“I was talking on • day to a white
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“‘How old are you?’ I asked him.
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“‘Did you ever have a bath?
said I.
“The old fellow drew himself up.
He was affronted.
“ ‘Plague take you, sir,’ lie said.
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I time.’ ”
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