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Storm Country Polly (CONTINUED) "1 don't want you for anything to night. Larry Bishop," she broke out, fumbling with the latch. "An', mind you, dearie, never tell nobody you an' Lye swiped Old Marc's woman. That's a promise, Larry, ain't it?" "Yep," replied Bishop, nauseated. "Then go to bed an' sleep 1" returned Pollyop. "You'll gqf warm, an'—an'— I'll see you tomorrow—mebbe. I won't be needin' you In my shanty tonight" Then she went swiftly out, slammed the door and was away like a winter bird, before the squatter could ques tion her. Swiftly she ran on, her hair almost on end because, to save her friends, she must face the haughty MacKen ize himself. It had been her cruelty that had prompted their act, and now, besides saving Evelyn, she must shield them. The nearer she came to the MacKenzie house, the harder her heart pounded, with dread at the task before her. In the meantime Marcus MacKenzie and his wife's mother were together, the lady stretched out on the divan, and Marcus pacing the floor. Since MacKenzte had left the HoDklns shack, una riaaen madly over the hills, urging every man available to help him find his wife. Secretly he had wept tears such as never had poured from his eyes before in all his stiper ctlloue days. Having set In motion what aid he could summon from town and coun try, he had come back home to the hysterical mother. He had no com forting assurances to give her, or any to allay the burning grief within him self. Evelyn had disappeared us If the ground had opened and swallowed her up. He paused in front of Mrs. Robertson, his dark, handsome face working painfully. • "You're very sure she was feeling well Just before she went out?" he inquired. "She didn't act as if she had anything to worry over?" Mrs, Robertson used her handker chief before she answered. "I can't thick c-f anything," she hes itated, "unless it was about Bob. Late ly he's been so different. I asked Eve one day——" She broke off and dis solved in tears. "Yes, you asked her one day— what?" MacKenzie urged. "It was about Bob," continued the weeping lady. "Eve thought he was suffering over—ovei "Well!" snapped Marcus. Would the woman never cease her everlasting crying and give him a clue If she had one? "Well !" he goaded her on more furi ouily. "Polly Hopkins!" she sobbed. "Eve •aid your continual pounding at the squatters had about broken the boy's •plrlt." "Rubbish I" exclaimed MacKenzie. "Eve wouldn't waste her time worry ing over auch rats. Bob's a fool, I've discovered!—Where is he?" "I don't know," answered Mrs. Rob ertson. "He goea away for days at a time without saying a word to Eve or me. And he looks perfectly dread ful. I think Evelyn's grieved over him." "Why didn't you tell me so before?" cried the man, turning on her swiftly. "I'd have soon made my young genHe i| 1 ë ft! \ .1 <3 "Why Didn't You Toll Mo So Before?" Cried the Man, Turning on Her Swiftly. man put on a sinDe, at least when he's home. It's a shame my poor wife had to be tormented like Biat !" That be had started the rumpus and done his full half of the quarreling never occurred to him. He was de termined to find some one to blame for his wife's disappearance. "Well, there's one thing certain," he ejaculated, after measuring the room several times with long strides, "I can't stay here, but good God 1 I don't know where to go." — A deep groan fell from his lips, and began with heavy tread to walk p and down again. € American Falls and The Big Dam Necessary Signatures Procured For Petitions For Big District All your questions answered For further information address Sec y. Chamber Commerce Reports from every section of the country Indicate that the new wheat yield will be comparable to that of 1921, when the yield per acre has never been excelled. The spring was unusually wet per mitting the storage of an unusual amount of moisture in the fertile soil. Then came a soaking rain about June 16th that practically in sured a crop of unusual proportions. An average yield of 20 bushels to the acre Is generally predicted. A dry fall in 1921 allowed the breeding of millions of grasshop pers which have been a serious menace to some communities. But prompt poisoning activities have for the most part destroyed them. All reports indicate that the 1922 crop will approalh the bumper var iety that makes Rockland and Arbon Valleys and Pleasant Valley and Prosperity unrivalled as wheat producers. Harvest Is exxpected to beginthelast week in July and will last til the snow flies. AMERICAN FALLS un Population 1637, • County Seat of Power County, Idaho, located at Falls on Snake River 24 miles west of Pocatello, Idaho. Progressive little town, live merchants, tributary to excellent farming country. Elevation 4,360 feet. Rainfall average 16 Inches. Temperature mild summers and winters. Usually have two weeks ten below zero weather. Growing season without frost from June first to September 16th. Slight frosts in May and late September. One High 3chool, fully accredited, two grade schools, eight churches, surfaced streets, large auditorium, one threatre, seven garages, four department stores, six grocery stores, four barber shops, five hotels, five rooming houses, one bank, one newspaper, three billiard parlors, two millinery stores, two hardware stores, three carpenter shops, two abstract companies, three real estate firms, three doctors, two dentists, one electrical shop, one library, two fumishingB stores, one bakery, one furniture store, two harness shops, one welding shop, two gas service station«, two implement stores, two feed stores, two dray and moving services, seven elevators, two livery stables, one tin shop, two shoe shops, two butcher shops, two tailors, one undertaker, three drug stores, three lumber yards, four cafes, one vulcanizing plant one flour mill, one jewelry store, two second hand stores, five attor neys. Principle industries—wheatraising, shipped two million bushels from the county In 1921. ' Dairying, livestock, hay, chickens. Farm land, Irrigated and non-irrlgatod, highly productive. Unusual opening for wheat farmers with small capital to make very profitable investment Over 100 miles of graveled roads, balance of roads graded and well maintained. Six hundred automobiles in the county. Population 6,126. AMERICAN FALLS DAM AND RESERVOIR Is there any construction work under way now?... When will it start?...Not for several months. Is there any land open for homesteading?. No, Practically none. When is the government going to open its land for entry?_Prob ably not for five years at least. AMERICAN FALLS BUSINESS DIRECTORY Allen Oil Co. Allen Pool Hall American Falls Brick A Tile Office American Falls Lanndry American Falls Milling Co, Ltd. American Falls Motor Co. American FaUs Natatorlnm Co. American Falls Press American Falls Vulc Plant American Falls Tailoring Company Anderson, R. S, Attorney Anderson, P. A r Attorney Angelly, G. W, Carriage Works Auditorium Theatre Austin's Garage Barnard, Frank, Auto Livery Baird, Spencer L, Attorney. Barney's Place—Cafe Barton Furniture Co. Baugh Hotel Beatty's Fountain A Pastry Kitchen Blaekburn Meat Market Block's Home Bakery "Can't you think of any place she might have gone?" he begged. "You know all her friends. Where would she go If she had determined to leave home?" "Leave home?" gasped Mrs. Rob ertson, her Jaw dropping. "Yes !" faltered Marcus. "I don't know whether she told you or not, but we had some words before I start ed for Cortland." "Of course she didn't tell me," came from behind the lady's handkerchief. "She never tells me anything, but I heard It. You were quarreling over the squatters, and In Eve's condition, I think you might spare her a little. —She's not strong! So much wrang ling makes her sick !—I wish Bob were home. Oh, dear, I can't stand It." "It's Bob that's made all this trou 'He's spent ble," snarled Marcus, several months trying to circumvent me about the squatters, and Eve and I would have had no quarrels at all If he had attended to his own af falrs." He spoke moodily, conscious that he had treated -his wife harshly, yet un willing to admit It. Mrs. Robertson, touched with the same feeling, sat up, wiping her face and brushing back her hair. She, too, remembered now all the bitter words she had flung at her daughter. "Marcus," she said. "If—we—get Eve back again—" "If we get her!" he Interjected, his face going anow-whlte. "Of course, we'll get her. Why say auch ridiculous things?" He turned away to hide the emotion her tremulous question had filled him with. "It will be my death If we don't," he ended. "faring her in," he cried. 1 'Bring her in instantly !" The maid hesitated. "She's queer looking, sir," she said timidly, "and she's wet through. She's one of them squatters." "Bring her In, I said," ordered Mar cus once more, and the girl went out, closing the door softly. Pollyop crept into the warm room, her teeth chattering, her legs un steady. Her first glance fell upon Mrs. Robertson who, when she saw her, made a husky throat sound. Then the brown, fearful eyes traveled to Continental Oil Co. Boise-l'ayette Lbr. Co. Braham 8. R. Livtery Feed A Stock Ex. Carl Johnson Carpenter Shop Christiansen Garage Coleman, John T„ Jeweler Cotant, C. T, Attorney Corner Cigar Store Dan Simpkins, Dray Davie Grain A Fuel Co. Davis Funeral Parlors Dahlien, C. F„ Tailor Evans Merc. Co. Evans Hotel Eldorado Barber Shop Fall Crieek Harness Shop Fall Creek MercantUe Co. Falls Pharmacy F'anuers Barn First National Bank Gem Restaurant Globe Grain A Milling Co. Golden Rnle Merc. Co. the tall man, no ionger an enemy to be hated, merely a wounded human crea ture, like her dear ones In the Silent City, to be loved and comforted. "I got your woman In my shack," said Pollyop, straight to him, swallow ing. • "God be thanked," screamed Mrs. Robertson. Something snapped In MacKenzie's head, and for a moment he feared he was losing his mind. Polly thought by the blank expression of his face that his wits hud gone completely. Ignoring the woman whom she de tested, she went rapidly to MacKen zle's side. "I had her roped up in the bed when you was there tonight, mister," she told him, the words tumbling over each other in the haste of confession. "1 were goin' to chop her head off to get even with you. But—but—my dead Granny Hope, an' the Biggest Mum my In All the World wouldn't let me." It seemed an eternity to the quak ing young speaker before Marcus threw up his head and took a long breath. • "She—she's alive?" he demanded hoarsely. "You're very sure she Isn't dead? Girl," he bounded up and grasped Pollyop's arm, "If you lie to me^-" "I ain't lyin' to you, mister," Inter rupted Polly dully. "You don't need to be scared for Miss Eve, but now you'd best come along to my hut an' get her. She's mournin' for you in Granny Hope's coop-hole, covered up with blankets." Something like a huge fist struck MacKenzie. The conviction that the squatter girl's words were true lifted him Immediately from the bottom depths of hopelessness. The sudden Inrush of Joyous relief brought with It a mental Illumination, and he saw himself as others hud seen him. The terrible, blighting uncertainty he had borne for a few maddening hours the girl before him had known for months. If she were to blame for his suffering, what was the v measure of his own responsibility? He turned swiftly to his mother-in law and «aid huskily: "Call some one to get this child Will any new land be watered from the American Falls Reservoir? Yes. The greater Fort Hall project probably will contract for water to use on land now dry farmed. This land will not be available for five or ten years. The North Side Minidoka project will also be opened If water is made available from the American Falls dam. This is not less than five years distant. What will be done with all the stored water?_It will be used by Irrigation and Canal Companies already operating and which desire more water than is now available. There are thirty four of these com panies in the Staate River Valley now. When will the reservoir be constructed? It may be several years but present indications are that the Reclamation Service will be in a position to begin construction about the spring of 1923. Is the reservoir a sure thing?.No. Before it Is a sure thing, an irrigation district must be formed from among all the companies who want more water. Following the formation of the irrigation dis trict a bond election must be voted. Then bonds must be adver tised and sold In an amount to pay the installments on the cost of the dam and reservoir as they fall due. How much is that?.—Between five and ten million dollars. What has been done to date? The petitions for the calling of an election for the formation of an irrigation district have been circu ated and were presented to the Board of County Commissioners of Twin Falls County Saturday. July 8th. The petition represents 141. 868 acres of land or 21,000 more than required of the total of about 690,000 acres in the district. The petition weighs about fifty pounds and was accompanied by three feet of maps of the district over forty feet in width in addition to maps of the reservoir. The petition will be considered at a meet ing of the eounty commissioners July 24, the earliest possible date under the law at which time date of final hearing will be set which final date will be not doser than 30 days. Copies of the gigantic peti tion will be filed with Warren G. Swendsen, State Commissioner of Reclamation. Along with the petition there was filed a 320,000 bond a« a guarantee of expenses in case the election for the ercation of a district failed to carry. The bond was signed by Cal. L. L. Evans of American Falls, and R. E. Sheppard of Jerome. How much land is included In the petition?.Approximately 600 - 000 acres. What Is the nature of this irrigation district?_It can' be formed for the exclusive purpose of voting bonds for the purchase of water according to the opinion of Attorney General Black, of the State of Idaho. No Invested rights will be Interfered with. When will the town of American' Falls be moved?_That depends upon when money is available for the building of the dam. At the earliest it will not be moved before the Fall of 1923. Where will it be moved to?._ sent location. Who will pay for the moving?.The Reclamation Service. The government will buy up the city property, move it to and establish it on the new model townsite and then sell it to the public. In this way it will recover the major portion that It expends for city property. Has any moving or Improvement of the new townsite taken place? .About half a mile east of its pre No. Would you advise me to come to American Falls for work? Yes If you want ranch work. There is no construction work at the preesut time. Who phould I write to for a job on the project?_There are no Jobs, but if you must know who to write to, address your letter to Barry Dibble, project manager, U. S. R. S„ American Falls, Idaho. Hager Brothers Tin Shop Hanson Battery Service A Machine Shop Highway Service Station Hotel Remington Howland, F. G. Co, Merchants Idaho Power Company Inter-Mtn Milling Co. Kosankb, J. F. Co, Real Estate Krug, Minnie, Restaurant LaMothe, A. D, Dentist Logan, Dr. V. G, Physician Leader Hardware Co. Loofbonrrow, W. C, Attorney Matthews A Kerr, Real Estate Mayne's Cash Grocery McAfee Second Hand Store Myers, Maurice M* Attorney Noth, Dr. Richard F, Physician Odtoon Dance Hall OUver A McKown Hardware Co. Hammock's Cabinet Works some dry clothes. Take anything of Eve's you can find that will keep her warm, and for God's sake, take those ragged boots off her feet !" He sprang to the bell. "I'll order the team." When he had given his orders to the servant who appeared at the door, he sank hack into a chair, and Mrs. Rob ertson went swiftly out. Utterly oblivious of the squatter girl's presence, Marcus MacKenzie liurlqi) his face In his hands. The new Pollyop, the Polly of the Sun, crept forward and touched him. "Your woman's all right," she said huskily. "Don't cry ! She told me about—about the little kid a-comln' In the summer, an' she howled like mad to come along with me. But I says to her she couldn't walk all this way to you without dyln'." The soft tones vibrated sympathe tically ns she voiced the assurances. MacKenzie thrust up nls hand and clutched the slim brown fingers. "Tell me something about It while we're alone," he whispered. Pollyop shuddered. "Well, sir," she began, so low that MacKenzie had to raise his head to hear, "all the squatters hate you, but none of 'em was wicked like me. 1 said, I did, that you couldn't be hurt no way only through your woman, an' —an'—I was goin' to cut hfer head off with the ax an' then sling 'er In the lake. I s'pose I'm goin' to get sent up for years, but I Just had to come and fell you." Before MacKenzie, aghast at the «langer his dear one had faced, could answer, Mrs. Robertson entered, fol lowed by Evelyn's maid. "I'll get my coat," exclaimed Mar cus, Jumping up. "Dress the girl warm and send along Evelyn's fur motor coat." A furtive smile curled the maid's lips as she helped pull off Jeremiah's heavy coat, and then grew broader as Pollyop slipped out of Daddy's great boots. Yet the woman admitted to herself as she dried the wet feet and attired the squatter girl In her mistress' beautiful clothes that she was pretty, even prettier than Mrs, MacKenzie. When the robing process was fin ished. Mrs, Robertson jjanced oyer the Parr, Frank, Real Estate People's New A Second Hand Furn. Store Perry and Walton Wholesale Produce Phllbrick A Greenwood Corp. Pollard, O. W, Coal and Fuel Power City Garage Power County Abstract Co. Riverside Mercantile Co. Roekland Pharmacy Rogers, E. J, Dentist Savoy Hotel Schlitz, Dr. C. F„ Physician Schwarz Bros., Billiard Parlor Shorty's Cafe Skaggs Cash Grocery Smith Auto Co. Sparks Meat Co Sykes, J. T, Real Estate The T Thiel rhernhlU lee Co. West Hotel Whitehouse Barber Shop Zaring Grain Co. oggery, Shoe Store. Welding Co. '.ttle figure and grudgingly acknowl edged to herself that there was some thing of elegance In the girl's bearing, even If she were s squatter, "Come here!" she said. A haughty gesture Indicated the spot. "Right here before me." Polly's shaking legs carried her within a few inches of the august presence. "You're very sure, girl," asked Mrs. Robertson, "that my daughter's safe In your shack? How did she come there?" Polly remembered Larry Bishop and Lye Braeger. She had been instru mental In bringing them within the prison shadows, and If any one suffered from the deed done that night, it must not be her friends. She alone must take the blame 1 "I wheedled 'er there, ma'am," she replied humbly. "I'm goin' to tell her man all about it." Marcus entered and started back as he caught sight of Polly. How beauti ful she was, bedecked in his wife's clothes! Then it came to him that even In her rags she had had a dis tinctive loveliness. Both Bob and Eve lyn— As that precious name went through his mind, his thoughts flew to the squatter's hilt where his frail young wife awaited him. "Come along quickly," he said, Jo Ing directly to Polly. How changed he seemed, how gen tle he was as he took hold of her arm sod led her away ; and so preoccupied was she with this thought that the beauty of the clothes which she wore made no impression upon her. She wondered dully when MacKenzie lifted her bodily into the sleigh and the coachman chirruped to the horses, Just what he Intended to do with her to morrow. She looked back upon the time the authorities had sent Meg Williams to a reform school and also recalled the girl's home-coming after her term had been served. Now that she, herself, was In danger of the like treatment, Pollyop searched her mind for the de tails that Meg had given of the hor rible place. As the. horses trotted alon g the bou levard. Pollyop's chin sank" info ŒÏ warm fur about her neck, and until they turned into the narrow lane from the road, no one spoke a word. "Go straight to the lake. Hank." ordered Mackenzie, and at the sound of his deep voice, Pol! y op felt another shock of surprise. She had heard It so often in strident abuse ! Now It was actually pleasant to listen to! Down the hill through the furry flakes of snow the strong horses picked their way. Once the cutter nearly turned on Its side but righted itself. The Hopkins hut was dark when they > l/l P' „ill V' .'"I 4 \ L I / \W ) is X (,,¥| ri ! - i He Put the Girl Down Before the Door. drove up before it, Marcus Jumped into the snow, picked Polly out of the cutter as if she had been a kitten, and waded through the drift to the nar row path leading Into the house. He put the girl down before the door, and turning, called to the coach man : ■> "Drive the team down the road. Hank, out of the wind! Til call you when I want you !" It was Pollyop's trembling hand that unlatched the shanty door It was she who struck a match and touched It to the candle. Then she pointed to Granny Hope's room. "She's in there, mister," she said, trembling like an aspen leaf. Then because she was about to face an outraged wife in the presence of a powerful husband, she sat down, shaking with fear from head to foot. CHAPTER XVII In thv meanwhile a covered carriage containing two men and a little boy was making slow progress along the drifted boulevard. About two miles from Ithaca a double cutter, with sleigh bells ringing, dashed by them, the little light on the back of it glow ing like a steady red eye until a sharp curve in the road blotted It from sight. "Somebody else out, if 'tis a bad night," commented the older man, who held the boy. "They went awful fast, too. Daddy Hopkins," murmured the child. "Didn't 'um, darlin'?" "Yep, son," was the reply. "Sleighs go over the snow better'n wagons." The words hardly penetrated the younger man's revery. His thoughts were busy with a squatter girl who would have a real Thanksgiving the next day. Her Joy he could picture, but he could not Join It. All his thoughts of her were marred by an other vision that poisoned his every moment. Never since he had found Uscar Bennett dying In Polly's lied had he known a peaceful instant. When the vehicle came to the cor ner where MacKenzie's magnificent turnout had swung into the lane lead ing to the row of squatter shacks at the lakeside, Robert Percival opened the carriage door and thrust his head out. • "This is where we turn," he shouted to the driver. "Go slow ! The drifts are deep all the way down." When he settled again into his seat, he remarked : "It's a bad night, Hopkins. Per haps it would have been better to havs waited until morning, after all." The other man bent over the boy's head and laid his face against it. " 'Twould had to be something more'n a snowstorm to keep me In Ithaca all night," he returned. "Where my pretty brat is, 1 want to be." "Of course, of course»" sighed Rob ert. But tie did not utter aloud tha thought which flung to bis lips that he was tortured by the same wisli, too. What he did say was: "Your daughter will be asleep, Tvs no doubt." "Mebbe," Hopkins answered. "But Pollyop'U be glad to hop out of bed for her daddy an' Jerry baby !" Then he coughed as If trying to add something else. "1 been wantin' to tell you all day, Mr. Percival," he said awkwardly, "how grateful I be to you. It'a kinds hard to say it in words. "There's no need, I assure you," re turned Robert. "The only thing I re gret Is that you should have been com pelled to stay In prison so long." "But we're home now !" was the hap py answer. "An* Tm thankin' you for me an' my brats too." "Pollyop," squealed the child, wrig gling. "Daddy. Wee Jerry wants Pol TO BE CONTINUED