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S: _ i a ''i'*' TURNING POINT \4f, Mary Imlay Taylor SVNOl'SIS n V: Teresa likes the v,^»^iii:t iinil learns that he, too, jpfs .Stc'iihart. Hazlett tries to lake Teresa say why she hates Stenhart but the old woman re- ftusea to tell him. CHAPTER VI Hazlett stood a monicnt lon- ger, listening to Ah Ling's chatter yrilh old Mac. He couU! smell the •trong tobacco in the old man's pipe. Stenhart's dark head was bent over his newspaper. His profile was handsome, clean-cut as cameo; his hands looked thin and white. Far off by the corrals some men were building a new gate, and the distant sound oi their haminers came on the wind. (The stranger left the shelter ot the low adobe and walked swiftly over to the trees. On the turf his footsteps made no sound. The pa- per rustled in the invalid's long lingers, and he stirred uneasily, as If he felt a presence, and looked up. The paper dropped to the ground and he cowered in his chair. * ♦ * "My God, Slicrwin, you! How did you come here?" ..^. The young maj-, .-.^..Jiiig in the •'•tilx'-, '.^uKcd back at him, quite immoved. "So you know me? I came a long way, Stenliart. "Look well at me â€" I came to kill you!" In tlie terrible silence the ham- mers seemed to grow clamorous. Stenliart tried to rise. "I'll call helpâ€" I'm still a sick man, John SherwinI" he babbled wildly. Shcrwin thrust him back in his chair. 'You coward!" he said bit- terly. "You'll have your chance; I don't deal blows in secret â€" as you do!" Stcnhart groaned. "You're crazy â€" I always said you were! How did you get here?" 'That's no affair of yoursl I came to kill you." Stcnhart gripped the arms of his chair with shaking hands; he was not a well man but he tried to Bummon his old courage. "I'll raise the alarmâ€" why, I can setle you in five minutes, Sherwin!" Shcrwin's eyes glinted like steel. ''.Can you? Try it!" * * « Stcnhart tried again to rise, then â- omething in the other man's look held liim, he shrank. "My God, what do you mean to do? You â€" you can't kill me out here â€" in cold blood!" "I can," replied his tormentor, "but I mean to let you think about it, imagine it, wonder how 1 mean to do it. It would be too pleasant if I finished you now!" Hope kindled in the other's eyes: he knew a way to end this brag- gart. "I'm obliged to you for a res- pite," he said mockingly; "thank you!" But it was Slierwin who laugh- ed, and the sound of his mirth sent a horrible chill through Stcn- hart. "I know your plan, Friend Max," he said coolly, "but it can't •avc you. I shall kill you just the •aiiie â€" only a little more quickly." Stenhart's courage began to rise, his face reddened. "You'll not stay here; I'll make Las Palomas too hot for you! You'll see. I can make any place too liot for you." Shcrwin looked at him steadily for an instant, then he spoke as steadily. "It wouldn't save you, Stcnhart â€" n >tiing will save youâ€" but the sooner you drop that stuff the longer- you'll live. Get me?" Stcnhart writlied in his chair. "Yon can't do it! You don't mean to do it! You're threaten- ing me to â€" to husli me up!" * » ♦ SlicTwin bent down and, grasp Ing the arms of his chair, he look- ed deep into his eyes. "You know what I've endured, you know what you did â€" do you think that 1 wouldn't kill you?" Stenliart, staring back into those stcl gray eyes, wavered a n 'I blanched. He will still weak from Illness; his limbs shook. "You â€" you fiend!'' he gasped. "You rail me a fiend- what do you call yourself, you liar?" Shcr- win's voice was low but it was terrible. He let go tlio arms of the chair and straightened himself. *'Yon'rc half sick still. I'll let you get your strength first, butâ€" I shall Jcill you presently." Stenliart said nothing; he was shaking now from head to foot. Somctliing deeper than his fear of Fhcrwin shook him. He set his teeth, l)ut they cliatiered. Slurwin. watrliing him, laughed. Then lie looked toward the house and saw l'"annv .Sewoll emerge, car ISSUE 17â€"1946 rying a tray. "Your -nurse is coming," he said to the invalid. 'Get your strength quickly; I don't care to kill a sick man, Stenhart." Stenliart leaned back in his chair and shut his eyes. He was feigning more weakness than he felt; he was trying to plan some way to rid liimself of this peril, for he knew that Sherwin meant every word he said. He would kill him! Though his eyese were closed, he listened keenly and he heard Sherwin's foot- steps retreating across the grass; then came the rustle of a woman's skirt and he looked up and saw Fanny Sewell coming vi/ith her little tray. The sun was shining on her hair and her serene face, and he tried to think he had just awakened from a liightmare. » » ♦ Sherwin, passing the young nurse, ..ent to the house. The door stood open and he entered, going at once to Jim's desk. He had promised Jane to straighten the accounts; mechanically he sat down to his tas'' b"t !'â-  -.i.iu was full of the scene under the treos, of Stenhart's aghast face. He had no pity for Stenhart's apparent weak- ness; he had evidently been near death and he was glad that he had not died. If he had died he would have escaped. Sherwin knew that he did not want to escape in that way; it would be too easy, too gentle an end. A sudden fury swept him; some primal passion, some instinct of vengeance inherited from a primitive ancestor, a caveman or a pirate, possessed him. It was all he could do to keep his seat there, not to rush out again and confront the man. The effort shook him; he saw the perspiration start out in beads on his hands. Then he controlled himself sternly. There was plenty of time, nothing could interfere nov/ â€" he had found him, found the coward â€" * * * There was a little rustle of paper; a breeze from the window had got among the papers that his violence had shaken out of the pigeonholes. It lifted a thin tissue covering a flat cardboard and rustled it. As Sher- win looked down it blew the thin paper completely away and he saw what it had covered. A photograph, the photograph of a very young girl, iier hair in braids on her slim shoulders, her chin lifted, her eyes looking up at him, a smile on her full young lips â€" Jane! Unconscious- ly a great change came over him; the blood rushed to his face, his eyes softened. JUST A MOTHER Garden Notes By GORDON L. SMll H Flowers For Show A really wonderful showing can be made with a few annual flowers and with very little effort. Cosmos, giant marigolds, zinnias, petunias, portulaca, nicotine, alyssum, are easily grown almost anywhere in Canada. Some of the larger flowers like cosmos and marigolds and nicotine can actually be used in llie place of shrubs. Seeds should l)c started early and in finely pre- pared soil. Plants are transplanted to permanent quarters when they are well established with several sets of leaves. Some time can be saved by buying ready-started bed- ding plants. For husky growth tall cosmos, gladiolus, dahlias, giant marigolds and zinnias should have ;il)out two feet each way. Petunias, nasturtiums, medium marigolds, need about a foot apart for best results â€" smaller things like alys- sum require six inches each way Give Them Room After the first garden is planted llie next major job is thinning and .â- -liacing. This is most important and applies to either flowers or vegetables. Crowded flowers will grow thin and spindly, will not bloom freely and the biggest plants will topple over in the first storin. They should have half as much room between as they grow tail. This means about 4 or 5 in- ches for things like nr.sturtiunis, less for alyssum, much more for tall marigolds, cosmos or spider plants. With vegetables â€" leaf lettuce, carrots, beetsâ€" a couple of inches between plants is sufficient. Beans and peas should have 4 to 6 inches between plants, and as all the seed usually germinates it should be planted to about this far apart. Rows should be from 15 inches to 2 feet apart. Corn is usually plant- ed i to 6 seeds to a hill, aliout 18 inches apart each way or rows t. to 3 feet apart. Sunday School Lesson When Joseph Lux, Chicago, brought home a stray alley kitten, Princess, his eight-year-old spitz-terrier felt her mother-love re- kindled, and adopted the youngster. Here she gives the kitten a true cat-like cleaning. CHRONICLES oi GINGER FARM ay Gwendoline P Clarke Tills is one of those times when I hardly know where to begin â€" so much has been crowded into one short week. Take Thursday for instance. When I was trying to light the kitchen r.re first thing in the morning part of the grate dropped out. Then three hundred chickens arrived on the 8 o'clock train. You who are in the chicken business will know the time it takes getting a few hundred chick- ens comfortably settled in their new quarters â€" setting the stove so that it is neither too hot nor too cold. Yes, setting it just right â€" so you think â€" then back to the house, maybe to get a few dishes done ... off to the chickens again â€" to find the stove is too hot. You set it again and leave it while you get potatoes peeled for dinner. Then another trip to the brooder house â€" and this time the fire is toe cool! In the middle of tliis Partner comes to the house for hot water. Mary has just produced a calf. In between cows and calves, chickens and stoves, I manage to get some kind of dinner on the ta- ble. After dinner I think how grand it would be to have just about thirty-nine winks. But it can't be done. " ♦ * ♦ It is the day of our local Institute annual. And an annual meeting is the one meeting of the year one feels morally bound to attend. So awaj' I went to the meetingâ€" a lit- tle late in getting there and the first to come away. And from that time until late at night the chick- ens kept me occupied â€" more so than usual because, you see, I was experimenting with an electric brooder stove, the running oi which I knew absolutely nothing. But I had heard plenty â€" that they are great time-savers, easy to op- erate, athough not too satisfactory in cold weather unless there is other heat in the pen. But at any rate I thought it was worth a try. Keeping a coal stove going is a chicken-raiser's main worry .There is always a danger of the place getting over-heated in cold wea- ther, and you need the tiugic of 4 magi to keep it alight in warm weather. So, says 1, what's the good of the hydro if you don't make it work for you. * * * To cut a long story short the electric brooder has been in oper- ation now for nearly five days anj 1 am really delighted with tlie re suit. It is so clean, and, when one understands its mechanism, very easy to operate. Last night the wind got quite strong and it was a real treat to lie in bed and lis- ten to it without having to worry about either chickens or fires. Naturally there is one draw- back to electric brooders â€" and it is a serious one â€" if the power goes oft you're sunk. As a matter of PEOPLE ARE SAYING that Maxwell House Cof- fee is extra delicious. It^a true . . . because Max>vcll House is ^'Radiant-Roast- ed'' to capture the /iiM goodness of its supremelx fine blend ! AKVDOMU WfAKJIRfD due to simple anemia You girlii and women who suffer «o from simple aneroiit that you're pate, neak "dragged out"â€" tliis may be due lo lack o iron m olood. So tnr Lydia E. Pinkham^ Compound iabi.kts with added iron â€" ontro tlie oeai nome ways lo help build up red olood â€" in nucn caa«. Pinknam't Tablets are one o. the oiott eflective iron tonics you can buy. fact it went off for about five minutes this morning. I almost developed a case of nervous pros- tration. The only way I can think of tu meet such an emergency is to put several sealers filled with hot water and wrapped in old socks under the hoover. And no doubt by the time one had heated the water and filled the last sealer, the power would be on again. Life's like that â€" haven't you noticed it? » * ♦ Kow to get back to the first thing that happened Thursday morning â€" the broken grate â€" which unwitting- ly provided a striking illustration of the difference between two gen- erations. To put in a new grate there was a front plate that had to be re- moved. The screws were seized up and from past experience we knew the only way to remove them was to drill them out. 3o Partner got the brace and bit and started the job. But he found it pretty hard work so he told me to get Bob to put his young strength on the job when he came up from the barn. Bob took a few turns at it and ex- claimed â€" "Heck â€" there's no sense in sweating your heart out at that job! An electric drill will do it in just about five minutes. And I can easily borrow a drill." You see what I mean, don't you, about the difference in two gener- ations? * * * 'Vhile I have been typing the weather has cleared. It was rain- ing this morning but now the sun is out and it really looks like spring. DalTodils are swaying in the wind; sweet scented violets shyly peek through grass and leaves; a saucy robin is perkily singing from a fence post; and my men are away to the field, one with the tractor, the other with the drill, sowing our first esed of the season. Decisive Moments in Peter's Life John 1:42; Mk. 8: 27-29; Lu. 22: 64-57; 61, 62; John 21: 15-17; Acts. 5: 29. Golden Text â€" We ought to obey God rather than men. â€" Acts. S:2y. Simon, Named Peter Our Lord bestowed on Simon a new name, Peter, which signifies a piece of rock. The name is sym- bolic of the rugged strength of character which its bearer was to display as an Apostle. The iirst question â€" "whom do men say that I am?" â€" was to pre- pare them for the next question and to draw out the difTerence be- tween what the people said of Jesus and what His chosen dis- ciples believed about Him. Peter acts as leader and spokes- man for the rest. In his full con- fession â€" "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God" â€" Peter declares our Lord's office as well as His nature. Peter's Denial of Christ The Lord Jesus was seized ana 1-rought before the high priest. Where was Peter who promised to be faithful even unto death? He "followed afar off." teter, though seeking to hide his discipleship, boldly joined the men who haa arrested his Lord and warmea himself at their fire. Accused by a maid-servant ot being with Christ, Peter denied all knowledge of the Lord to whom he had promised steadfast loyalty. Later he denied his Lord again with oaths and curses. Peter Fully Repents The cock crew and at this moment our Lord turned and caught the eye of Peter who re- membered his protestations again- st the very thought that he would deny his Lord. The look of Christ had pierced the guilty heart of Peter; it brought instant sorrow and repentance. Humbled by his fall Peter dare not say he loved Christ more than his brethren. He simply appeals to his Lord's knowledge of heart and leaves it to Him to judge the strength of his love; "Yea, Lord; Thou knowest that I love Thee."' 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