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^'^piirr'w" r A- >â-  A ••*• M TURNING POINT Off. Mary Imlay Taylor SYNOI'SIS CHAI>TEH II: Jims friend, Max Stenhart, lies ill with pneumonia In the ranch's sickroom. Old Teresa. the Mexican woman, tiiinka Sten- hart haa "got a devil" In him. The newcomer goes close to the sick man's window, waits until the nurse Is out of the room, then speaks one •word slowly, distinctly: "Sherwln." The sick man is startled, fearful. CHAPTER Tii Her blue eyes widened. Another question was on her lips, but a door opened s'jddenly and the trained nurse came dowp the long corridor toward them. Jane turned quickly. "Anything wrong, Fanny?" The nurse shook her head. "He s gaining all the time." "Fine I" Jane turned i-. an ex- planatory way to the stranger: "A friend of my brother's, Mr. Sten- bart, was taken suddenly ill with pneumonia here; we couldn't let him be moved and he's been having a hard time. Miss Sewell, this is the friend in need who helped oM Mac. Mr. â€" ?" she looked around. "Actually, I don't know your name!" 'John â€" " he began, and stopped, momentarily confused. "But there's more to it than that!" she laughed. His face burned; he was trying to remember what name he had given old MacDowell; unaccount- ably it seemed to evade him, and again he hated to lie to this girl. "Hazlet," he said at last. » * â- â-  Her eyes met his for an instant and he thought there was a ques- tioning look in them, but she wrote his name down mechanically on a slip of paper on the desk. "John Hazlet." It had a bizarre effect; he knew that it would be hard to get tised to it. He blared at it oddly him- self, then suddenly aware that his look might be a self-betrayal, he averted his eyes, conscious that he had lost the thread of the alk be- tween Jane Keller and the nurse; but Jane was sorting the mail for ber. Here are yours, Fanny, and some for Max." She held them out, and the nurse, gathering them all up. departed hastily toward the sick- room. The man's eyes followed her in- tently, not with any observation of the woman herself, but ^s if the door, that she presently opened and closed behind her, had a fasci- nation for him. For a moment he forgot where he was, scarcely sen- sed the unfamiliar outlines of the old ranch-house hall, and was only conscioufi of Stenhart â€" not a hund- red feet away! But the girl beside him leaned forward ami. taking a pencil from the desk, drew a line under the two words that she had previously written on the slip of paper. " 'John Hazlett'," she repeated qiiictlv; tlicn liftinR hrr hi>no«f evp« to his, she added: "that's not your name." * * • Her look threw him a challenge even more forceful than her words. Again he felt the hot blood rush to his face, but 'le straightened hims f. Her eyes seemed to reach to something deep down in his consciousness. A strange confusion swept him: his mouth went dry. He could not meet her with an- other falsehood; there was some- thing about her that seemed to drag the truth out of liini. ^ "You're right." lie admitted barshly, "it's not my name." She stood ;• moinciu -ilent, the wind from the open window beside them stirring her dark soft hair. then she bent down and lit a small himp on the desk. "Isn't that an unusual thing for a stranger to admit so easily?" she asked. "I scarcely know what 1 ought to do about it â€" but," she hesitated, "I don't believe you've come here with any thought of harming us, and â€" well, it's this way, Jim and I have often talked it «ver, so many men come west to get a new start, to retrieve mis- takes â€" if they can I We've felt they ought to have a fair chance, that a man must have a chance to come back I I â€" " she gave him a frank •mile â€" "you won't fail me, will yon, if I ask no questions but give you fairly ) jur chanr; here â€" to make good.'" * * * She saw his gray eyes darken and there were bard lines about his lips; he seemed suddenly older than she had thought him. Then he pulled himself together and met her look squarely. "You i.iay trust me so far â€" 1 came here with no thought of harm to you or yonr brother, I can af- firm that on my soul!" he declared hoarsely. She nodded. "I'm sure of it, and, because I'm sure of it, I'm going to give you your fair chance. I'm not even asking your true name, but â€" " she smiled again and held out her hand â€" "I ask you to make good" He had a confused consciousness of the touch of her soft, corl ling- ers and an overwhelming impulse to speak out, to tell her all, swept him. He paled under his tan and their eyes held each other. It seem- ed as if he must speak, then there was a flash in the night outside le window, a sharp report and some- thing ripped through his sleeve and spat on the wall behind them. * * • Jane gave a statrled cry, but be- fore she could move, almost before she could think, the man beside her had put out the lights; he siemed to do it with one sweep of his arm. Then she felt herself lifted and "ut back beyond the windov. His voice was in her ear. She had felt his strong arms as he swept her out of danger, and -^he made out his figure as he leaped through the window. There was another sharp report and then the sound of a struggle outside. The girl fled lightly to the kitchen to give the alarn.; she must rouse the men, who she knew were at supper. It must be Jordan, and Jordan was a hard man to handle. Suddenly she felt a thrill of fear for the man who had leap- ed out in the dark; he mustn't be hurt, he mustn't! It did not -eem to her at the moment that he was a stranger. He was a brave man; she had seen his face when he swept out the light.. She ran, panting, to get help for him. "Keep still â€" I'll get him!" » » * .\t the moment he needed il, lie had leaped out on a crouchini; fig- ure, there had been a stniggle lor the pistol, and then the two relied over on the turf, fighting silcn;ly, desperately, each man trying tn get the other's throat. In ;he <laik, Jordan had the advantage; he Icncw the ground, knew where the slope would set his adversary rolling down over a ledge of rock. Strug- gling and cursing, he dragged that way. He had long arms and an iron grip, but he had met his r tch; this man whom he had never seen before had been trained in a hard school. He rolled Jordan over and got his hand almost on his throat, then suddenly they both wen' over the ledge. Below it, Jane had planted poppies. The two men fell together, struck and un- clenched. Jordan leaped u.^ and ran. His antagonist had struck his head on a stone, and there was an in- stant in w-hich he saw stars and heard the shouts from the house; Jane had roused the vacqueros! He rose dizzily to his feet, brush- ed his hand across his eyes, and tried to discern the fleeing figure. The moon was just rising behind the mountains; the sky was silver with it. but the earth was dark, like the botoni of a cup. He ran for- ward, stuniblin.g now and then on strange ground, but, as the sky brightened, he made out the dark figure ahead of him, still rinniing. He did not know where they were going. Behind them was a confu- sion of sounds, in front he began to hear the cattle in the corrals, but he kept on. (To Be Continued) YOUR GUESS A New Orleans doctor says nurses should frequently hold the p tient's hand. But if the patient's wife waiks in on them, Doc, will slie hold her tongue? â€" Ottaw; Citizen. QuaUty Yon*U Enioy â- WJM TEA ROUND HOUSE R. Buckminster Fuller, Wichita, Kans., designed this hemispherical house "from the inside out." Based on aircraft principles, the house weighs only 8000 pounds, packs into cylinder 16 x 4^2 feet. A Wichita aircraft plant plans to begin mass production of 50,000 such houses soon after January, 1947. It's air-conditioned, too, and if the owner gets restless at any time, he can pack up â€" house and everything â€" in two days and be on his way. If it is just the arrangement of rooms that bores him, the Fuller house offers a solution to that, also. He can just push the walls around and divide the house up almost any way he wishes. What it may lack in- conventional appearance from the outside, it makes up in intriguing "evolving shelves" in the partitions, closets that include plexi-glass-enclosed hat racks and have revolving doors, and the curved balcony around the liv- ing room. The house carries with it a unique service guarantee. If it gets cut of order, the drain gets stopped up, or a rivet comes loose, just call on the Fuller service man. Fuller houses are built to stand, and to resist everything from ter- mites to a 180-inile hurricane. CHRONICLES ot GINGER FARM By Gwendoline P. Clarke Permane t waves and trouble with the bull don't make ;. good combination â€" at least that is the â- \\ay I feel about it. It also makes one ask the question â€" "Why go farming?" â€" but unfortunately it doesn't supply the answer. * * * It was this way: 1 had an ap- pointment to get a permanent at y â-  'clock Monday moriiing. It was a job that had long been delayed and which 1 would gladK have postponed still further only self- respect plus the hounding of a husband drove me to it. So there it was â€" 9 o'clock Monday morn- ing. At the time 1 mac'e the ap- poii.tment 1 knew of no rea>on, other than disinclination, why 1 shouldn't keep it, even ihough it did come at an inc>.nvenicHt hour. Came 'londay mornin.' . . . son Bob went out to the barn. Partner followed a little later. In a short while Partner was back, very while, and looking fi r a bull ring that we always keep in reserve. Ten minutes later Bob rc-appear- ed, looking even worse than his Dad, and ivouring one :irm. He told me to phone for the "vet" to help put a new rii.g in tlie bull's nose. • * • I don't Inow even yet al! that really happened, or "who did what, except that Bob got penned up in the bull-pen. nearly got his arm broken, and jumped over the side of the pen to escape. Then Part- ner was tryin<, to do something, slipped or else the bull pushed him, and he fell with hi. leet and legs under the bull. Somehow he managed to get away. .-Vfler wait- ing as long as I could at the house I sneaked down to the barn and found that while they were wait- ing for the "vet", my men had managed between the two of them, to get the new ring into the ani- mal's nose. Naturally they were taking a chance â€" but it was also a risk to have a full grown bull tied in a stall without a ring in his Pose. Fortunately he was not cross but he was very nervous and excited and. when Bob jumped over the side of the pen, he was just about as scared as Bob. * • » Well, I need hardly tell you I wasn't worrying much about keep- ing an appointment with a hair- dresser at that time. However, halt an hour later I went out again â€" just to reassure myself â€" and found all was juiet on the barn- yard front, with Partnei insisting that 1 get away after my hair-do. • * • So I went, and when I got back it noon there was dinner to get, and after dinner ail my morning chores to do and this story to write. To tell you the truth the .â- -pirit was not very willing and the flesh even less so. and I succumb- ec to temptation, turned on the radio to list.^n to Douglas .Abbott addressing the Canadian Club, and settle myself comfortably on the cuKch "for just a few minutes. ' But alas what Mr. Abbott said I'll never know. The only thing I heard was the telephone rin.giiig. It lirought me to my feet in a da/.o and I am still wondering what kind of answirs I gave to the per- son who was calling. I hope they were sensible because it was all in connection with dishes and things I vas to take in preparation for t catering this week, and of which catering this wek. and ol which you will pr bably hear more m onr next. Sunday School Lesson Jesus and His Friends Jchn 15: i2-21. Golden Text. â€" Ye are my friends if ye do the things which I comman.: you. John 15:14. True Discipleship Jesus loved little childrc- and welcomed them to Him at all times. When the disciples rebuk- ed the fathers and mothers Jesus %vas indignant and declared child- likeness was the trait of all true discipleship. To be like the Lord, one must be like the ch.ld in its do- cility, huinility and simplicity. Jesus Selects .Apostles Jesus ' id spent all night on the mountain in prayer. In the morn- ing He selected fiom Tis disciples twelve men whom -le entrusted with power to heal the sick and cast out evil spi.i.s. lie ordained them to their apostleship. Jesus second great preaching tour lay through the leading cities and villages of southern Galilee. Everywhere He preached the good tidings of the kingdom. He was accompanied and aided by the twelve and also by a group cf godly women. Jesus' Search for Sinners On His last jouri.cy to Jerusal- em Jesus' teachings were attract- ing atention far and wide. His 1 '-acles amazed the multitude. Jesus moved freely amen;, the low- est as well as the highest in His search for sinners, thus coming in contact with those who needed Him. He made Himself at home alike at the feast of the orthodox Pharisee and at the feast of the dt^pised publican. God's Purpose Toward Sinners The liading religionists ot the time bitterly criticized Jesus be- cause He was accessible to those who disiegardcd their cprcninnial law. It was a powerful thrn.sl which they aimed at Him when they declared: "Thi> man rcceiveth sinners, and eatetl with theni. Their idea of goodness was that which manifested itsol; in with- drawing from t'lc bad Christ's idea of goodness was that which mani- drawing from the bad. Christ's idea to that end He i icved nmcmg them, liod's purpose towards !?in ners is love. Fame of Jesu: Spread'- The first pnhl', appearance '^i Jesus ui Jerusalem must hav< made a profound impression for it reach- ed through the in.i. ses to tl e Saii- hedrin. The inquirer w:< N'icod- emus. the earliest and most re- markable of the Sanhe<lrisls to ac- cept Jesus. He was a member of the highest rcligio.is court of the Jews .'nd a man ^( great wealth. One ot the best liome ways to help BOHOVP lieOBUMM) it your blo«d lacks iron! Vou Rirls and women w he suff ci so Irom simple antmia that Tou'repolc. wcalc, "dragged out" â€" this may tx due tc lack ol iron m blood. So try Lvdia E. Pinkharo s^Cbm pound 1 .\B1.ETS with added iron -one ol the best home ways to hflp build up red bloodâ€" m such casm. Pinkham'a Tablets are one o« tbt moat effec- tive iron tonics you can buy! <»«»>>â- >•••••â- â- â€¢â€¢â- â€¢â€¢â- â€¢â€¢â€¢â€¢>•« TJIRLE TALKS ---Desserts [â- â- ^â- â- â€¢â- â- â- â- â€¢â€¢â€¢â€¢Â»i Always remember the dessert course should go hand-in-glove %,ith the main course â€" the one complements the other. If the main course has been heavy, then serve a dessert which is Hght in texture, with a fresh, tart flavor. On the other hand, if the main course has been light, it gives the homemaker ample scope to use her rich steam puddings, or heavy sweet desserts. The home economists of the Consumer Section, Dominion De- partment of Agriculture, suggest that you serve some hot and some cold as an antidote to monotony. Steamed Whole Wheat Pudding % cup shortening y^ cup granulated s-t 1 egg 5^4 cup light molasses '/2 cup milk I^ cups whole wheat flour 7 teaEpoons bakini; powder 5'4 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt 54 teaspoon cinnam m y^ teaspoon cloves y^ teaspoon nutmeg f^ sup seedless raisins Cream shortening, add sugar gradually, then the well beaten egg. Combine molasses and milk. Mix the dry ingredients thorough- ly and dredge raisins with jl small portion of this mixture. Add dry ingredients to the first mixture al- ternately with the liquid. Lastly add the raisins. Steam in individ- ual greased moulds for 45 minutes or in a large greased mould for 1% hours. Serve •. ith Lemon or Brown Sugar Sauce. Cover moulds with waxed paper or cheesecloth while steaming, to prevent the pud- ding from bjcoming soggj-. Six to eight servings. Coffee Spanish Cream 1 tablespoon gelatin 5-4 cup cold coffee 2 egg yolks 5-4 teaspoc salt 3/4 cu" hot coffee I cup hot milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 egg rhitCL ^4 cup sugar Garden Notes â€" By GORDON L. SMi'J H _ Try Something Mew Most of us are too conservative about vegetable and flower variet- ies. There are nu..iy new offer- ings in today's seed catalogues, vegetables and flowers developed or vasth improved duri .g the war. For years we have been content to grow a very litnited variety â€" beans, carrots, peas, lettuce and potatoes an ' corn covering the complete range in too many gard- ens. This is a great mistake as scores of vegetables can be grown to perfection anywhere in Canada and, in addition, there are usually several difft.ent varieties of each. In recent decades here has been some improvement liut the average garden is still limited. Improved Varieties In addition to the standard kinds noted above, three are many otl-ers that should be included such as spinach, swiss chard, pep- pers, turnips, pa.sni.<s. onions, broad beans, kohl abi. red cab- bage, musk and 'valer melons, broccoli, endive, cress, parsley, head lettuce, brusstls sprouts, cel- ery, Chinese cabbag . some of the white >weet corns, as well as the bantam. >y beans, etc. , Another oint too often over- looked i> the iiitr,.di'Ctioi; of im- proved varieties. Some of the old standbys of tcr years ;'go are com- pletely overshadowed by earlier, smoother or harder sorts. Bv choosin.1., carifully oae can create a vegetable gar<ler. that will not oidy have much more variety than was possible a geiicralion ago but one thai will yield higher quality and over a nuicli longer period. Princess Is 20 On Easter Sunday Princes> Klr:abeth .vUl he 1\) on Easter Sunday, April 21, when h family party at Windsor Castle will a.ssemb!>- for liie event. The Court will go into residence at Windsor a 'ew days before Easter. The Kinfi, and Queen used the private apartn.ents i the castle throughout the wa. but the state rooms were closed. These now have been reopcncil. Soak gelatin in the cold coffee. Beat egg yolks ; nd salt.' Add hot coffto and milk. Cook ovet; hot water, stirring c iibtantly, un- til thickened enough to coat a spoon. Add gelatin and stir until dissolved. Remove m heat, add vanilla and cool. Whe the mixture begins to thicken, fold in meringue made by adding the sugar to the stiffly beaten egg whites. Turn into a lightly greased mould or in- dividual sherbert glasses. Chill thoroughly. Si.x servings. Vou will Rnjny Sr.'l>lnu »( The St. Regis Hotel r<tii<i.\T<» % ICvcry K<Miii> tvliii ilulb. Sliuwcr nnd Telepliiine. % Slnitlp. S2..'a Mil â€" Douhip, S:!..'iO u|>. % faodit l-''<ioft. Olniiiu iinil Diinc- Ibu MKlKly. Shcrliuurne ul C'lirllon Ti-i. n.\. 4i:i,-. 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