Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1935-09-18

And Bart said In a low, surprised
tone: 80 'tisl / didn't know but
VIII Would'ye got ont of the coun,
try by now!"
Saladine3 to avoid reply, opened
the door and stepped out ON the
porch. Then Will and Jenny, Will
with an old suitcase in his hand,
alighted from the car and came to-
ward them here.
When Hubby, with that black &C.
cusation on her lips, died, Jenny
was at first left desperate; till
quick loyalty brought her strength
again, and resolution too. Marin
Pierce, seeing without understand.
ing the girls deep distress, as soon
as they were alone asked gently
"Jenny, you all right? I'm trou,
bled about yOu."
Seeing her die upset me-" Jenny
whispered. "That was all, Granny"
Marin Pierce, only half convinced,
yet forebore to question further.
"Well, she's Dead" she said. She
touched Jenny's arm reassurlngly.
"Child, she's dead; and Will, he'll
be coming soon. Nought now to
keep him away from you. :"
Jenny's pulse failed and the blood
drained from her lips. "Don't,
Granny" she protested softly.
with her lying there. Not now"
And she urged: "We'd ought to
dress her in dry clothes. VIII, he
hadn't ought to see her So"
q Marin Pierce nodded. Jenny's
thoughts were plunging now. There
was in her a blind desperate hun
ger to see Will, to comfort him, to
assure him Of her loyalty and ST.
lence and deep understanding and
forgiveness too. She wished on
any count to see him, to be with
him now. Yet it was some time be-
fore she devised that errand in
volving Huldy's clOthes:~
Even when she proposed this
errand, Marin Pierce at first de-
INJURED; but longing to be with
Win, Jenny would not be re-
strained. In a sort of breathless
rush, she Overbore her grandmoth-
er's remonstrances, and so was
away.
She took by habit the path to-
ward the woods; and her lips
shaped unspoken words of tender
ness and comforting. But when
she came to the dark border of
the wood, the girl paused, shrink
ing, reluctant. to plunge into the
shadows. This path would. take
her by the foot of the ledge, by
the very spot where Hubby a while
ago had fallen to her death; and
Jenny could not endure the pros
pect. So she retraced her way and
turned aside toward Carey's. And
halfway up the hill she saw ahead
of her a figure, tremendous in the
dim rain, familiar, beloved. viii,
coming toward her. She stood
weak and shaken by the sight of
him; yet when he came near. lest
he might think she shrank from
him, she took one step forward
to meet him steadily.
Will looked down at her for a
long moment In silence. He said at
last, heavily:
"Jenny, where you going in this
rain?"
ITO find you. Will," she told him:
'T'm on my way to Bart's," he ex-
planned. ITO see If maybe Huldy's
therev'
Jenny felt her spine chill. "She's
not there. WILL" she said. "She's at
our house"
He frowned In a deep bewilder-
ment. "Your house?"
"Will," she told him gravely,
"Huldy's dead!"
The man stood huge above her !:
wind whipped his hat brim, rain
lashed his cheek and struck his face
and filled his eyes. He wiped his
eyes with his hand, shook the water
off his hand, wiped 1t on the side of
his coat. A storm, visibly, swept
across his countenance and left a
shadow there.
Yet she thought he was not sur
prised; and she spoke quickly, to
spare him need Of speech. "She
fell off the ledge down back of your
house." she said. Bart found her,
and fetched her over to our place,
case Granny could do her any good.
But she died"
He asked, after a long moment,
dumbly: "Bart know how she come
to fallY
Jenny steadied her tones, made
them all reinsurance. mo one will
ever know that, WILL" she said;
and she added: eve did all could
be done!"
81 guess you would" he agreed.
His shoulders bowed as though un-
der a crushing load; and after a
moment he said heavily: "Well, I'll
go on over"
But Jenny checked him. II have
to get some clothes to dress her."
she said gently. you'd best come
back to the house with me. show me
her things"
He accented this without sneech: