By Martha Ostenso. Caleb felt secure and mellow after Bis encounter with Amelia. She had betrayed by her attitude that she Would not abet Judith in any Scheming. = And, thorough egoist #hat he was, he could not concelve Jude's crossing him without the Support of a: least one other mem- Ber of the family. Caleb had no "special desire to bring matters to a elimax in regard to Mark Jordan. As it #t00d now the thing savored of Mntrigue and the pervasive, subter- san contro] of a Master. In a sense, had lost its serious signi- fleance and had become a sort of ' by which he amused himself. denouement, while #t would per- tighten the screws on the fix- } on the farm, would make him less mn heroic figure in a mystery. For Caleb, although he had known of Amelia's moral defection before Me had married her, had always Jooked upon himself as the Betrayed And cheated victim in a triangle. It was perhaps this which prevented him from ever feeling pangs of re- morse for his acts. His sensibilities Were crystallized in the belief that dite had done him an eternal wrong, - Which no deed of his own could over- Avenge. LJ . » On the last day of June Caleb Went to the city in the south. It was semi-annual journey which oc- .only three or four days, and Was made solely for the purpose of Saying In such provisions as could Mot ba obtained at Yellow Post or At Nykerk, put it was attended al- v: by a show of solemn import- ny And there was never a re- deasing of tension after Caleb's de- Parture: he always took pains to tasks which would remain be- like stern images of himself. ~ Jdith was free to go where she liked without discovery for four days. But she did not try to find Sven Sandbo. i Chapter VIIL Caleb was away, but things went with the same unbroken mono- ¥: iMartin finished the wagon id, and dreamed his dream of the House; Amelia and Ellen work- i the garden. milked, churned, sent the remainder of the cream the Siding with Skull Erickson, im whom the cans were borrowed the purpose. Caleb did not be- fn buying them for so short a on, Judith and Charlie tended Hvestock. 'aacher, free of her school Fr two weeks In the month ly, watched the Gare out of the pity of her heart, and came no closer ) any of them. Ellen harbored a Breely concea'ed. resentment for thing about Lind Archer, from } dainty underwear she hung on line to dry, to the manner in she taught the children at pol to look for beauty in every thing. She pointedly refrain- from remembering whether Lind k sugar in her tea or not, so little 'the Teacher and her tastes mean br. Martin avoided her out of r.shyness and awe. Charlie was 's unbending, and offered to "eatch" with' her mow and 'but the hoy, old as he was, peevish, and sulked when he 'mot get his own way, and Lind draw nothing from him that not a reflection of Caleb. d 'was nonpulsed by Judith. r the girl spoke to her it | & brusque, almost offensive je. The Teacher had gone to the ps' one evening, where she fre- met Mark Jordar, and Sven asked her why Judith went out or way not to meet him when ght in' the cattle. But she ue { could get no response from Judith | | when she approached her in Sven's | behalf. It hurt and surprised her, | especially after the pleasant Sunday | when the girl's restraint had been | 80 completely broken. $ On a drowsy afternoon during | Caleb's absence, Lind took . the little pony of the Sandbo children | and rode to the homestead of Dora | Brund, Mrs. Sandbo's married | daughter, who, according to her mo- | ther, lived a life of ymisery under a] brutal husband. '""The poor girl," Mrs. Sandbo had lamented. "She vill be so glad vhen you come." The traif ted several miles along a swamp mottled with clumps of floating moss and rank, hair-like grass. The landscape had a suave bleakness, as if it were complacent in its poverty. Lind wished that Mark Jordan were with her. She got 50 much from him of warm ease and . con- templative companionship. © There was an impersonal glow in him. He offered her always a deliciously casual intimacy that never once had bordered upon a redeclaration of the feeling he had expressed on the night when she had come in upon him out of the rain. It piqued her to know, however, that the thought dwelt just behind his eyes whenever he looked at her, and that there had been times when she had not Jared to meet his eyes for fear of precip- ftating the moment that each knew lay ahead. Lind was wisely aware that she could not see much of Mark with- out causing comment of a malicious nature among the settlers. The in- tolerance of the earth seemed to have crept into their very souls. And the school teacher above all was looked to as a.model of propriety. But there were moments when Lind could have thrown her concern to the winds and fled from the over- hanging chill of the Gares to the shelter of the Klovacz homestead and buried her face in Mark Jor- dan's shoulder from utter loneli- ness, She looked out now upon the level monotony of the prairie with its low ragged woodland on the west, north of the Gares', and won- dered how she would live through the summer. Were it not for Mark, who, she knew, would miss her keen- ly, she would have gone back to the city for the short vacation. Back among a few lean shreds of birch trees, stood the "shack" of the Brunds. It was covered with tar paper and perpendicular lathe. It looked like a flat pan upside down on the ground. In the only window at the front of the house hung a lace curtain with frayed edges. The slanting barn and the two ungainly looking outhouses that could be looked straight through, so large were the crevices in them, stood be- low a slope near the margin of Latt's Slough. Joel Brund's cattle stood knee deep in the water, all startling absently at Lind. Dora Brund opened the door and looked at Lind with round china- blue eyes. Her face was emptily pretty, her full small mouth had a sulky droop. She wore a pink wrapper that was sticky with food, and on her round breast dangled four Mnked safety pins. An odor of cheap talcum powder hung about her heavily. "I am Lind Archer," the Teacher smiled at her. "Your mother told me where you live and I thought I'd like to call on you." +'Oh--yes, you're the Teacher," Dora said. 'Sit down, please, and I'll get my clothes on. I been work- ing round all day. You got no idea how it is ih a place like this. ' No IF HAIR IS DRY BLAME CONSTANT CURLING, WAVING Girls just must curl and wave bob- bed hair to appear their prettiest. But constant curling and waving burn and dry the luster, vitality and very life from the hair. To offset these bad effects, just get a 36-cent bottle of delightful, refresh- ing "Danderine" at any drug store or toilet counter and just see for your- self how quickly it revives dry, brittle, lifeless, and fading hair. "Danderine" is a deperdable tonic and will do wonders for any girl's hair. It nourishes, stimulates and strengthens each single hair, bring- ing back that youthful gleam, glint and vigorous luxuriance. Falling hair stops and dandruff disappears. "Danderine" is pleasant and easy to use. INT NINN NN NIN NANI NINN time to clean up decent, even." Her voice was reedy and petulant as a chiid's. While she was gone, Lind looked around the room, one of the two in the house. The linoleum on the floor had been washed in streaks. A little iron stove in the cormer had spilt its ashes from the grate. On the oll cloth of the table were little clots that looked like dark gum. A smell of old rags filled the place. Dora came back presemtly from the other room, the door of which was closed. She had put on a pale blue figured cotton dress ornamented with rosettes of black velvet, and looked listlessly pretty. She sat down in a chair by the table and rested her cheek on her hand. "My, it's getting warm, ain't #?" she said with a sigh. "How do you like it up here?" "I like it very well. I find ¢he people most interesting," Lind told her. "You and your husband have been back only a short time, your mother tells me?" "Yes--and long enough. I'm near dead, I'm so lonesome," she fretted. "This is the slowest place on earth. Nothin' ever happens except the weather, and it's rotten most of the year." "Does your husband stay here long?" "Expect? He never thinks of any- thing else. Never been anywhere else, except the six months we was away In Nykerk. I wouldn't care if we had a little pleasure once in a while, or if I could get some de- cent clothes, or somebody to look at 'em. But he don't care whether I've got anything or not. Don't know the difference between a coat and a hat." Her eyes traveled discontend- edly out the window. "You have po Brund?" *No--thank God, and I'm not goin' $0," Dora asserted. "That's a pretty waist you got on, Miss Archer. Get it in the city?" She scrutinized it avidly, biting her under lip with her small white teeth. "Yes, But you could make one very easily." - Dora shrugged. "I ain't got any sewing machine, and if he got me one he'd expect me to do all my own sewing." She sur- veyed Lind from head to foot with a sort of grudging admiration and envy. . Then she rose and went to the stove from which she took a small granite-ware coffee pot. She emptied the grounds out of it into a pail that stood near the sink, rinsed it out briefly with cold water, filled It again and replaced it on the stove. With limp hands she measured out expect to children, Mrs. KEEP YOUR { It is surprising how a lawn that | you left last fall as level as a table | has developed - depressions over | winter. Even the best of them will | do it and where there was a smooth shining bedspread of snow early in the winter the melting in spring shows that there are puddles here and there. The settlement of the soll after the heaving of winter thawing and freez- ing is to blame for some of it. Then, too, it is tmpossible to produce an exactly uniform density and texture of soil and for a few years after the lawn is made these small depressions | will occur and will have to be reme- died. Some of these may be remedied by the use of the lawn roller but do not use the roller when the soil is so wet as to be muddy and easily yield- ing. This is likely to increase the difficulty. The best method Is to wheel a bar- row of new soil to the lawn and fill in the depressions, adding fertilizer and seeding, and then apply the roll- er to bring it to a level with its sur- A ~ al LAWN ON THE LEVEL needs afnual care until the soil is thoroughly established. "Cut, watered, and rolled for 300 years," is on English lawn motto. It ought to be a good lawn after all that. We can do it in three years with good grass seed, good prepara- tion of the soil in the way of pul- verizing, leveling and adding fer- tilizing. The cutting and rolling is merely incidental---the maintenance part of fit. All we need to remember Is that the grass Is a plant and that it needs the same attention as any other plant to do its best. It must have fertility, moisture, and cutting. The best fertilizer for grass is one that will maintain a porous surface and give the required food. There is no one standard, staple fertilizer for grass. The fertilizer required de- pends upon the kind of soil and the kind of grass. A good dealer will tell you. Dry soils need a potash fertilizer. Moist soils are likely to need phos- phate fertilizers and nitrogen is al- roundings. This spring patching Beds of annuals of a single variety, and that preferably a simple color tone without distinct markings, un- doubtedly zive the finest effectydn the garden. One need only plant a bed of the beautiful Rosy Morn petunia beside a bed of mixed colored petunias to test out the idea. Most of us like variety and this is obtained by grouping colonies of color in harmonious arrangement, There is a lighter petunia of the same type as Rosy Morn, also a much darker one, the three blending beautifully. Also there are blues which would go with it as well as whites for con- trast. Beds of yellow, | salmon, scarlet snapdragons are brilliant features of park plantings. The purple verbena venosa in great sheets is also used for brilliant ef- fect. Some fow flowers which are naturally mottled or variegated are as effective mixed as in beds of a single variety. The pinks are an ex- ample. The butterfly flower or schizanthus, not enough grown, is another plant of marked variegation pink, or Annuals give continuous bloom from June till' frost with a proper selection of varieties and any 'day Is a good time to start planting if you neglected it last "fall. The earliest annuals to come into bloom are those from f or 'winter-sown seed which come up with the first warm days of early spring, defy frosts and keep right on growing. Of these annuals, cornflowers, an- nual larkspurs, and. poppies may be scattered over the beds now , and rains and snow will take care of get- ting the seed into contact with the earth and about the first of June they will begin bloomfaz. All three plants mentioned are difficult to transplant and sowing now is the best way to handle them, thinning them as soon as the weather permits working outside. In planning the annual garden there should be a selection of the earliest blooming, those for mid- season, and then the late bloomers. Phlox Drummondi and French mari- golds are, early bloomers from seed. Dora Brund, promising to call again. When she got outside the house:she breathed with deep relief. Down near the thatched barn she saw Joel moving about, as though he were as heavy in spirit as in body: an ox, dimly, uneasily aware of a man's pride. i » * -. Riding home, Lind met Mark Jor- dan, who was on foot. He had been at the Sandbos'. She felt that she had known all along that she would meet him---she needed him to-day. A fleet wonder passed through her mind that they had not acknowl- edged each other long ago--what was keeping them apart? When the thought was gone she would not be- lieve that she had harbored it. It was not for her to make overtures, after what he had said.. © "Lind," Mark sald softly, his arm across the pommel of her saddle, "you always comie at the right mo- ways an essential, SOLID COLORED BEDS BEST In the individual flower which Is as well mixed. The snapdragons have usually a lip of yellow or white in contrast with the color of the rest of the flower and related shades go well mixed. The French.marigolds, sometimes no two flowers on the same plant being exactly alike, are a natural mixed planting. But those annuals which show distinct colorings in the varieties and come irue from seed are best in colonies of a single color. A flaming bed of scarlet zinnias is vastly more striking than a mixture of pinks, 'yellows, oranges and scarlets. The nasturtiums are good for mixed plantings as the flowers are 80 well commingled with the foliage that the color mass is diffused at best. In arranging an annual garden or border the colors most favored may be selected In the different an- nuals and a handsome color pattern laid down. Plantings all in yellow, blue, pink, red or white are readily arranged although they have the fault of monotony unless relieved by \ contrasting plantings. CONTINUOUS BLOOM FROM ANNUALS The marigolds bloom till cut down by frost while the phlox is of shorter season. Both should be planted liberally for early bloom. Asters are late bloomers for the most part. The early flowering types will be at their best in early August and then with a selection continue the aster pageant until Oc- tober. Zinnias get going in August. The glowing scarlet of the salvia does not manifest its full glory un- til late summer. Verbenas and ten weeks' stocks will begin to make a fine display by mid-July and continue the rest of the year. Snapdragons should be sown early outdoors or in a cool place in- doors. They like a slow cool start to make the best progress. Petunias started early will be ready to spread a cloud of bloom over their beds by mid-June. Select enough early blooming an- nuals to make a display until the later midsummer and autumn crop gets going and avoid a bare stretch in the garden. continuously ment--Ilike hope." Lind looked down into his eyes. "It's ages since I saw you last. I've been so busy promoting the children. What have you been doing?" She strove to keep her voice even. "Well, I have most of that brush cut down. I'm starting to burn it now, before the leaves get too dry. I dont want to start a bush fire." Mark stroked the muzzle of the horse. As she was silent, he said, "Come home with me. I need scientific nourishment. I'll walk slowly be- side you vhile you gallop your horse." Lind laughed at his non- sense. Impulsively she reached down with her hand end tugged at his hair, "Are you so vain that you have to show your hair off to the birds?" she teased. "Better be careful or they'll be wanting it for their nests." 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