The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17

dertouc. but it had TO bc done. !
did it, and ~ going TO trust the resi-
to the Lord -
Aud tic Lord did respond. for it he
gan that nigGt and kcpl II up for three
DAYS. The water filled the well.
IT'S tho turn in the lane, vowed
| Perky, and YOU always come 10 1T ~
! You keep on going.
! And, oh, how We did work those next
three weeks! One bopr, ono ambition
actnated us ALTO get enough money
saved TO takc'us back 70 civilization.
| On tho twentieth OF December our
engine broke down. We met the sItua-
tiou with celebrity born of dcsperatlor
| VIC had just enough money to pay Tor
! the duplicate parts. 10 wlrc Tor ihcm
and 80 buy week S provisions. NlIour
always made the trips to the sthcioh,
hut this time Perky insisted on gong
Long before daylight the next morn
nig ! got up 10 help HIM Off.
+" And about the Kids, Perky. !
vcntured. 40 don't let consideration for
them worry you. II we can Z do thing,
we can t do it. and that s the end OF
| ii. -
F." Not for mc--it isn't the end, " he
replied sadly
He got bacl; Chritnas cyc. ] was
standing in front OF the siorc when he
came Jogging along with the burro aud
thc rickcty cart.
Help nc get these hoaes IN b"tor"
thev come he said, noddIng toward
the children who were swDrming toward
the tents. We carried them TO tho little
back room and locked tho door.
Now. kids he said, addressing his
| little audience, go home aud don !
como back here till s o o'clock tonight.
| Tily will get you a mack to eat over at
Bruudage n old tent, Light out now
the whole pack Of YOU.
Marvin must have opened up ms
heart aud given YOU credit. obscrN Cd
when we set about unpackIng the Var'
oUs bundles.
'nou t YOU think it-ot Marvin. hc
replied.
"Tben, began. bat he interrupted
| me.
''lou are wondering where ! got all
this extra stuff. aren Z YOU! hc asked.
. You don sec how | could order the
repairs and get all this too, unless old
man Marvin opened his Gcart along
with an account and YOU know he 81
| never do that. lie looked nj NE
hit uncasilv and then went on. = 1t "as
either break with ihe kids or tho com
pany, and-well, since ! IN the biggest
part OF the Separator company: | de
cidcd not to order The repairs.
" But, Perky, think, man! = crlec
aahast
81 won { think for the next tTontl
fouy hours, he replied stubbornly
"After that IN at Your service. l,ol
the present lot S get TO work on this
Christmas tree.
II was new attitude for Perky but
| had 30 trouble in seeing the fuIlity
Of argument, His voice had = sort OF
dcvil-may-carc ring 10 1T that put i
! strange rccklessness into my own dc
| Spairinu marrow. As We worked the
worry and privation Of the last ycal
slipped away and thought only OF tho
feast that was 70 precedc the famine
wish you could have seen oul
| Christmas tree
a piece of thin siding, toe-nailed tc
the floor and supported b. raftel
overhead For branches a half doZer
automatic fly brushes which Ferly had
brought long ago 10 keep the flies OIL
his sidewalk display, When We inscrtc,
the long arms drapcd with pink paper
wound the machine aud set them going
IL was the wcirdest, most outandisl
tree ! ever saw,
From the waving branches we sus
pended a lot of fireworks left from tn,
pink candles and tho children s pres
| ents.
All the time VIC were working thr
strains of treble music waited to II.
from my tent. 1t was TiIly drilling Tho
children. For three days she had beer
hcroically at IL,
When it was finished Perky stooc
back and surveyed il critically.
Marvin was telling me that this ole
shack was hoodoo, he said, "that
two OF the government engineers dice
here and that IN old prospcctor whc
used to hang up here WAS murdered fol
his money, After tonight il can't b.
said the old place hasn t seen at leas
one good time.
At eight we lit the candles and The
children troopcd in, Whatever Perky !
folly might cost Us. was amply rcpai,
by the light in their faces,
Perky had nc start the ball To rolling
by reading the first lines of the Dec
laration, and Wilbur did the honors fo1