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EIGHTH INSTALLMENT
A quiet mood seemed to have
descended on Barry. When the cof
fee was finished he smoked for a
few moments in silence, his eyes
coming back every few seconds to
the clear little profile turned toward
him. Anne felt that restless scru
tiny.
"Weren't you," she asked sudden
ly, "going to tell me about the town
of Duane?"
"So I was." He shifted his posi
tion. "It's just the story of a man
who wanted to turn a desert into a
garden. He was my uncle, Robert
Duane. He worked like a giant for
it, and died broken and ridiculed,
and discredited."
His face was black as he stared
down at the lake.
"He loved thip country. He came
here from the East years ago, and
he came across this lake and took
over a big tract of land. He saw
that this lake was the biggest body
of water in miles, but useless to
those dry plains down there, and he
began dreaming pf the things that
could be done."
"I see, said Anne, softly. "It was
a big dream."
"Yes, it was big. It was par
ticularly big for one man to swing.
He built this place, and after that
I came and lived with him every
summer."
He stopped, frowning remini
scently.
"When they actually started work
on the dam, people began to take
serious notice. They remembered
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what was being done in the Imperial
Valley. Eagle Lake swarmed with
workers, and the dam grew. And
then the big day came.
"It was a great day. No matter
what came of it, it can never be
anything less than that. The signal
was given and the water rushed
down the sluceways to make his
wilderness blossom. Everybody
cheered, and Uncle Bob gripped my
shoulder and said, 'Barry, you and
I believed in this when other people
laughed. When I go, this is to be
yours."
Barry looked at her with a
twisted grin.
"So this is my inheritance, and
anybody down in Marston would
tell you that it's no better than
junk. For after the first big mo
ment, the tragedy came. The irri
gation was there, but it didn't ir
rigate. The valley was full of gravel
sinks that no one had suspected, and
the water drained off as fast as it
was run in. It was a complete,
smashing failure."
"Oh, how dreadful!" It was all
that she found herself able to say.
Barry threw away a half-con
sumed cigarette and arose.
"The Pinos isn't the only stretch
of arid land around here. There's
the Junipero, bigger and better, and
with a soil—it isn't really sand
that will give its very heart to you
for a steady supply of water. I
want to use this dam to irrigate the
Junipero."
He ran a brown hand through
his hair and laughed abruptly.
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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE. ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
I "I suppose you think I'm chasing
i an elusive rainbow?"
1 "Why shouldn't you, if you've
found one that's worth chasing?"
"You darling!" His eyes kindled,
j "For these kind words . .
j She jumped up and gave him a
. prim little marionette's bow. "Come
r on, lazy, I want to go down by the
r lake again."
1 He arose obligingly and followed
! her, overtaking her in two strides.
> They went down side by side, and
where the pitch was steep he caught
L her arm in his. Within a few yards
of the water's edge he spread out
. his coat for her to sit on and
j dropped down beside her.
{ "Anne, will you marry me?"
"You're a sudden person, Barry."
■ She edged for time. "Do you real
■ ize that we'd never met until a few
I weeks ago? Just four —"
I "Four days was enough for me.
' Anne, darling, I don't want to rush
• you, but you know how I feel don't
you? I love you. I keep seeing you
I here all the time, every day, every
. hour. You and I together. . .Anne!"
Warmth flooded over her; there
was a singing tingle in her veins.
l Why not? Who in that distant,
> outside world would ever know? Just
1 the two of them, here in this se
- eluded place.
i Temptation tugged at her. "Take
[ your chance!" it whispered. "Take
s it! . . ."
And then recollection flooded
L back, crawling over her like an oily
wave.
"Anne, look at me!"
Her throat felt stiff and dry. "Oh,
Barry, please! We've been such
good friends. Don't let's spoil it."
"Oh —spoil it!" The warmth died
out of his face. He looked stung
and hurt, and suddenly tight lipped.
"Sorry!" he said curtly. "I must
have got the wrong idea. I thought
—well, it's been rather nice, going
around like this, I had a feeling . . .
a hope ... it was getting to mean
something to you, too . . . my con
ceit, probably."
The words came jerkily. ' He
looked up suddenly. "See here, is
it because of somebody else, or just
! because I'm myself?"
She shook here head. "There isn't
anybody else. And I hate to hear
you talk like that. Barry, isn't it
possible to like—to be awfully fond
of somebody without—"
"Not for you and me." Barry
looked at her moodily, softening be
cause she really did look unhappy
about it, and because she was so
lovely—so damnably lovely.
"All right," he said, and forced a
smile. "We won't let it spoil things.
It's not your fault if I don't make
a hit with you. But don't think"—
he reached out and laid a firm clasp
on her wrist—"don't think that I'll
give up without an everlastingly good
try."
She would not look at him.
Couldn't he see that he was tearing
her heart out? "It's no use, Barry,
I like you awfully, but—"
"I don't want to be liked," he said
savagely. "I'd want you to be just
as crazy about me as I am about
you. I'd never be satisfied with Just
possessing—l want all of you."
All of her! She felt desolate and
a little frightened. It occurred to
her that no matter what came to
her now—love, friendship, trouble—
she would always have something to
hide.
A restless week crawled by. An
other, flat and uninteresting, trudged
stolidly at its heels. The days were
Just days, one of them plodding)
stupidly after another. Barry still
came down to Trail's End, but he
seemed always to be on his way
somewhere else.
Playing around with Barry was
dangerous, but letting him go left
a blank emptiness. Anne worked
violently indoors and out, but the
zest had gone from it. Warmth
and color had gone.
The day had not been of the kind
to encourage a stiff morale. A hot
wind had been blowing in from the
desert for hours. Anne sat for a
while beside her tinkling little creek.
"Miss Anne, are you out there?"
"Coming, Martha. Anything I can
do?"
"I wish you'd do up that package.
Boone's going to stop for. I've left
some paper on the table."
Martha had left a sheet of news
paper spread .out for her. Anne
looked down at it, idly.
A heading caught her eye. It was
a Los Angeles paper, and it was two
months old. She leaned over the
spread-out sheet. Then she was
very still.
To Martha, out in the kitchen,
there came the sharp sound of
tearing paper.
"Oh, Martha, I've torn this! Have
you any more?"
The voice was careless, hut her
eyes were brilliant with excitement
as she came to the kitchen door.
She tied the package up swiftly, and
then vanished into her own room
The newspaper went also.
Once behind a closed door she
spread it out again with shaking
fingers. She read again, more cure
fully this time, scanning each word
for some hidden meaning. Relief |
was creeping all through her, warm j
and lovely.
"Thank God," she whispered, "I
don't have to be afraid of that!"
The last words were shaky ...
Mustn't get hysterical.
When she came out a few moments
later there was a lilt in her voice
which Martha had not heard for
days.
"I'm going for a little run before
supper," she called, and went out
toward the corral. A few moments
later pinto and girl flew past the
kitchen window with a clear call (
and a scurry of hoofs.
"Somethin's cheered her up
mighty quick," she commented.
At one side of the room hung two!
of Anne's dresses, freshly ironed.!
Martha went into Anne's room to;
put them where they belonged. Then i
arms akimbo, she looked around. On
a chair, half concealed by an orange
cushion lay' a folded newspaper.
Martha picked it up.
"I do wonder what started her off
like that. Well, if it's in print it
can't be any secret."
Martha sat down to read. There
were only two sheets of it and thej
news would be stale, but she
plodded through it carefully. There
was political news* which she
skipped. Somebody had been
brutally shot down in a hold-up. A
bold headline featured the latest di
vorce scandal, and a "mystery wom
an" who had vanished into the
blue; a smaller one noted the death
of a once prominent financier. Some
young girl had been drowned andj
the body had not yet been recovered, j
and a very rich man had offered a
reward for it. A brief two inches of
type said that the man found badly;
wounded in the outskirts of Ventura
had been identified, but refused to
name his assailant. A screen lumin
nary had just received his final de
cree of divorce.
Martha read patiently.
"Murders and suicides and di
vorces!" she sniffed. "I don't see
much in them to cheer anybody up.
Hmp!"
There was a spot on Barry's,
homeward way—or rather, out of'
his way—where Trail's End was in i
full view. He detoured until he I
reached it, and pulled up, half]
tempted to turn and ride down.
Out from the modest group of !
low buildings a dancing speck came,
a girl and a pinto horse. How Anne
did love to ride!
The pinto was sweeping on glori- I
ously. They would pass almost
beneath him. He turned Captain'
about.
'Old man, if we go around by j
the trail it will take half an hour
at your prettiest, but if we take the
old slide we can join the lady pron
to."
Pronto was a word that Captain
understood. He took the steep plunge
valiantly and without a pause.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK
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By virtue of the power contained
in a deed of trust executed by W. M.
Childress and wife, Rosa Childress,
to the undersigned trustee for A. P.
Hanes, which is recorded in the of
fice of Register of Deeds of Surry
County Book 77, page 164, the debt
therein secured being due and un
paid, I will sell at public auction for
cash at the court house door in Dob
son on Saturday, the Bth day of
September, 1934, at one o'clock P.
M„ the following real estate lying
in Surry County, N. C., being the
entire one-fifth undivided interest
of W. M. Childress and wife Rosa
Childresss in the lands owned by R.
J. Wall at the time of his death, ad
joining the lands of E. W. Walters,
A. J. Key, David Childress and oth
ers, containing 100 acres more or less.
Said lands will be sold to satisfy said
debt, interest and cost.
This the 7th day of August, 1934.
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