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\ TURNING POINT /Sff' Mary Imlay Taylor SYNOPSIS CIIAITICK \i Stoiiliiiit volunteere Sherwln's re/il ii;iiiu'. .lohrj Sherwin. "Ho Ih wanted for iiiurderliif; his uikIo.'" Stoiih.'Mt iJ»M-l:ire>. CHAPTER XI "Do you know why I'm wanted?" Shrrwin asked, still standing. Tlic old fellow nodded. "Seen th' jiapcr you had in your pocket, Slicrwin. Vou'd marked the de- scrijitioii, and it dropped t'other day an' 1 saw it. Th' sheriff talked some, too, when we were goin' to look for th' place where lordan jumped the creek. 1 ain't askin' questions. Voii sit down an' cat.' Sherwin sat down. "Von're a good man,'' he ^aid chokingly. "I'm old," said MacDowcll quiz- zically. "1 ain't (lead set on punish- ing other folks." "Kxcept Jo'rdan.'said bhcrwiu. Mac laughed. ''Well, mayhec! Eat, son, you may have a long hike. Yon can't take th' trains: Cutlcr'll liave yonr picture up in 'cm." Sherwin nodded, eating in silence. Half an hour ago, with Jane's eyes changing as they look- ed at him, food would liave choked him, hut he was hungry now and he ate mechanically. Old Mac, sit- ting down opposite, filled his pipe »nd lit it. Neither of them spoke *or a while and the lig.i' began to fail. It was still daylight outside b-Jl the little room was in the shadow of the hig ranch-house and it was so dim that Mac rose, got a lamp, lit it and set it on the table. Sherwin had fininshed his meal and he thrust his plate aside, look- ing across at the old man's face behind the camouflage of tobacco smoke. At last he spoke hoarsely, forcing himself to it. • • * "You said a while ago â€" wiien you were tending my arm â€" that â€" Miss Keller was to marry Stcnhart. Is that true?" MacDowell considered, pulling on his pipe. "I've heard Jim say so You don't like Stenhart?" "He's my cousin,' Sherwin said in a flat eniotioiik'ss voice. The old man started and took his pipe out of his mouth. "Gosh!" he ejaculated, and stared at the young man dumbly. "He's iny cousin and his testi- mony sent me to jail for life," said Sherwin, and his voice shook. "He lied. He lied me out of the way for fear I'd break our uncle's will. He got fverytliing." "An' you're accused of killiu' th' uncle because he'd cut you off, ain't that it?" Mac leaned his elbows on the table, looking across it at the shadowed face of Sherwin. The lattcd nodded. "The old story," he said shortly. ''Uncle was killed in the garden. He was stab- bed while he slept on the old bench by the cedars. I'd just found him when Max came in the gate; he'd been up the street at the news- stand. He swore I had the knife in my hand. It wa<^ perjury but he got away with it. Uncle and I had had a difference the day before, and peoiile knew of it. That went against me, and Max swore me into jail for life. That's all." • « * Mac was silent for a while, then he grunted. "Did you tell Jim about it''" Sherwin laughed bitterly. "He wouldn't believe nic if I didi The jury didn't. I've served eight years. I was twenty-two when I was sen- tenced. ICvcr been in jail?" he asked ironically. "Come mighty near it once, son. Punchin' a rogue's head got me ar- rented, but somehow the judge kinder agreed with me that it need- ed punchin'." "It's like being in hell â€" to shut a healthy man up behind stone walls for life," Sherwin said bitter- ly. "I won't be taken if I can help it; Id rather dieâ€" only I've got somclhing to do first." The old man looked across undef the lamplight again; something in the white face opposite moved him dceiily. Slicrwin was a stranger, he was an escaped convict, yetâ€" "Don't do it, son," old Mac said gently. Shewin, staillcd, raised his bloodshot eyes to his. "You know?"' "I reckon . do!' Sherwin rose and began to walk about the room. "I cante out here to find him. He wasn't in his usual haiuits in the city â€" so they told me and I'd tracked him patiently, tracked him to lieller's ranch, when I stumbled into your accident and motored you here. It was pure luck, I thought, to get here .-io easily â€" without credentials, tool" MacDowell nodded. "He's gettin' well an' he's sure to hang around Jane." Sherwin raid nothing, but his hands clcnihed until the nails bit into the paims. In tiic silence the little room seemed full of Jane's presence, .'\gain he saw her eyes change, saw he:' recoil! A shudder ran through Mm, fury leaped up in him, he remembered Stenhart's white face, his cowardly cry: "Don't let him kill me!" Again he paced up and down. Ko words were spoken. Old Mac sat thinking, his pipe in his hand. It was still; then one of the men began to sing out under the trees, a Spanish song. In half an hour the moon would rise; now if was pitch dark outside. Old MacDowell rose slowly, stretching his uninjured arm. "Th' sheriff'll be around here for a spell, maybe thirty-six hours. You ran't hardly miss him if you try to get out now; some of 'em will meet up with you. I tell you what I'll do â€" you come along with me now, before moonrise, an' I'll fix you up. I've just been figurin' it out.'' Sherwin .-itopped in his pacing and looked at him, strangely touch- ed. "How about Keller? He wanted me to get out at once." "You ain't goin' to stay on th' n.nch; you fnllow me." Mac picked up the food-pack and opened the door. A .sudden gust of wind blew out the lamp. In the dark Sherwin pressed his hands over his eyes; he was trying to shut out Jane's face! They stepped out into the night, dark before moonrise. Lights streamed from the ranch-house windows. They could hear voices over there: once some one laughed loudly. Mac touched Sherwin's haiul warningly. â- 'We're goin' to th' stabks; ain't nt one there, an' we can saddle U|)." 'i can't take a horse from here!" Sherwin exclaimed sharply. "Kasy, son, I'll lend you mine to- night," said Mac. "1 can ride one of the ranch horses; we ain't goin' so terrible far." » « ♦ 1 hey Willi lo the stables and old MacDowcll brought out the horses. Sherwin hated to lay a hand on one of them but he mounted when the old man told him the roan was his own pro|)erty. Silently, after that, they rode past the ranch-house and out on to the twisting mountain road. Five miles up in the red- woods they passed the limits of I -as Palomas. The wind from the hills grew cold, but the sky was brightening; the highest peaks were already touched with moon- light. Sherwin turned in his saddle and looked dovi-n. Below him lay the ranch; he could just see the lights in the house, mere pin-points of brightness. Darkness, like a velvet cloak, had fallen on the valley. He drew a deep breath. Jane was there, Jane, who had re- pudiated him with her chill look, and Stenhart! His hands clenched. Stenhart's lie had sent him to prison, it |)ur.sued him still. Resolve was hardening iii him. he could not go until lie had killcil liiiii. He rode on again but, all the while, he was aware of those lights down there in the darkness. He had lived eight years in prison but he was still young. The girl's eyes, her voice, her soft hands on his wound- ed arm, had kindled a flame : no>v the flame was made fiercer, more terrible, by jealousy. Stenhart was with her!! Then suddenly he was roused from his fierce revery. Old Mac drew rein. "Get down," he said briefly. "'We can hobble th' horses, we've got lo hoof it the rest of th' way." (To be continued) Outstandingly Good "SALAOA TEA QUEBEC VISIT His excellency. Viscount Alexander, Governor-General, and Lady Alexander, pictured as they arrixed in Quebec City on their first official tour. Following a three-day visit to the uebec capital they went to Montreal. CHRONICLES of GnfGER FARM By Gwendoline P. Clarke Have you ever tackled a job with foreboding and dislike and finished up by really enjoying the work? I am sure ycu have â€" we all sur- prise ourselves once in a while. Well, I was on what I thought would be an unpleasant job but 1 soon found myself getting quite a kick out of it. It took me into homes where I had never been; brought me into contact with people I had never met and show- ed me a phase of life which I had almost forgotten. Incidentally, I walked into one house where there was measles â€" one adult recover- ing, one child still in bed, and a baby at the sniffling stage. Since it was my privilege to have measles myself a few years ago 1 traded on the assumption that i was therfore immunized. t t * The places that I visited weri farm homes and three of them were occupied by youiv; couples, each with a family of three little lots, all under school age. Some- how it gave me quite a lift. Here was young Canada growing up. Here were husky young fellows with â€" I hope â€" enthusiastic and op- timistic young wives who were not tile hard but satisfying job of being afraid to have babies, nor to tackle a farmer's wife. .Xiul the children were such darling-^, and obviously well cared for. One little two-year -old, w' I, his mother said, nearly always "made strange", came tod- dling over to me almost as soon as I sat down and held up his wee arms to be picked up. It seemed lo me there was great hope for the future of rural Canadaâ€" social un- rest notwithstanding â€" while there are farm families around like those 1 saw that day. * t * In contrast I also came across some very lonely tb\k. 'There was one poor old fellow, living alone, his barn burnt to the ground, his son in hospital, no one around but he and the dog working amid the charred and blackened rubble of what had once been a splendid barn, and v.hich. at the tife of the fire, had housed the season's crop and some sheep, all of which had been lost. I stood looking at the tragic remains of a life time's work as the old man told me his story. » ♦ * The next call was a lot more cheerful. Here was an oldish couple, happy in each other's coui- l)any as the sands of life rim .slow- ly out. I imagine that was now all they A'autcdâ€" all that a lot of aged couples want â€" to livt out their lives together. ♦ ♦ ♦ Then I came to a farm woman living aloneâ€" except for hired help. .She seemed perfectly content ex- cept for her worries in getting car pcnters, paperhangers and extra f.inii help. "But Yet," I remarked, "in spite of all these difficulties you persist in carrying on?" "My goodness, yes. What would I do aw-y from the farm? Imagine me in a little two-b. -four in town!'" I could see her point all right because, even as we went around to visit her chickens, two little pet lambs gambolled along behind us, occasionally bleating plaintively because they knew it was nearly bottle time. Living on a farm undoubtcdyi gets to be a habit. Or shall we sa.. the roots one puts down are like tap roots. If any attempt be made to dig up the main root there i» still lots of life in the runner^. Many {arm folk are past doing the hard work incidental to farming but yet there are still so man\ small roots that are still active. Love of the outdoors; the satisfy- ing sense of working with depen- dent living things; the perennial fascination of watching Nature at work-all tied up with, and an in- timate part of our daily life. For instance, one gets far more satis- faction from watching a tree in bloom in one's own backyard than by driving through the Niagara fruit belt in blossom time. That admittedly is a feast for the eyes but in our own backyard one takes as much interest in the trei when the blossom is dying as when it is in its full glory. Watching to see if the fruit has set; guarding against tent worms; watching the small fruit grow and develope. This year â€" especially the apples! TABLE TALKS.. Canned Rhubarb Remained Aloof .\ shell buried eight soldiers alive in a dugout: two were English, two Scottish, two Welsh and two Irish. When the rescue party finally extricated them, the Scots were praying together; the Welsh were singing: the Irish fighting, and the two Englishmen hadn't been intro- duced. The rhubarb, .lative of the prov- irxe of Szechwan, Kansu and ot Tibet, Wis eagerly adopted from the Chinese. It was an important feature of overland trade with .•\ncient Europe and in 1750, three precious parcels, containing rhu- barb seeds were brought from the West by a Russian Caravan, to be sent as a gift of the Russian Gov- ernment to the botanical societies of England, Scotland and Ger- many. Rhubarb, although it is so old and has travelled so far from its native habitat is the first fruit to appear i'- the Can; dian gardens and brings a welcome change in tl.e dessert pattern. Early rhubarb, rosy and tender needs very little cooking and also littln sugar, which is an advantage in these days of rationing. If the garden contains a large patch of rhubarb, canning part of it would prove to be a boon next winter. It is wise to can rhubarb \hile the stalks are young : iid ten dcr. Later on in the summer they arc apt to become woody. The home economists of the Consumer Section of the Dominion Department of Agriculture recom mend several methods of canning rhubarb. Here is one method that will prove a favorite when a serv- ing of fruit is desired for lunch or supper. It is called the "dry sugai method", and is a real short-cut. For 1 (piart of canned fruit, use: 4 cups rhubarb, cut in one-inch lengths, 'A cup sugar and boiling water. Pack the quart scaler half full of cut rhubarb, add about ^â- ^ ci the sugar. Coiitinue to pack sealer with alternate layers of rhu- barb and sugar. When full, cover with boiling water to within one quarter inch of top of sealer. .Seal lightly, and tilt gently back anif forth to dissolve sugar. Loosen seal slightly and process in boiling water bath, allowii'g fifteen min- utes for pints and twenty minutes for quarts. Remove scalers from water bath, complete the seal antl allow to cool in an upright position. Sunday School Lesson Expressing Our Friednship for Christ Mark 14:3-9; Luke 10:38-42; John 11:1-3. (iolden Text,- -Beloved let Ui love one c-.-iother: for love is oi God.-l John 4:7. Mary's Act of Devotio i Mary ;ioured over the head oi the Lord the most precious thing she possessed, spikenard. This was a pure liquid ointment, the costliest anointing oil used for the anointing of Kings. To the mater- ialistic minds of the disciples this act of Mary's was a sheer waste ol iiioney. They were blind to the higher value of love and devotion. Jesus highly commended Mary for her act of devotion, to the cm barrassmci.t of her critics. Thar which was mean ir llieir eyes was iKautifuI in Christ's This wo- man's act h".d for its motive a fer- vani love, and that love made it a good work in God's sigh, He de- clared the fitnes' of her act as foreshaJiwing His approaching death ar.d burial. • lie account of Mary's love and gratitude has gone forth inf.. all lands Cnrist Among Friends Our Lord is upon His great journey which is to end at Calvary, and here we ;ec Him entering the village of Bethany where lived His friends l^azarus, Martha a id Mary. The fact that Marth:. received Christ into their house implies she was the elder sister. While Martha is busy with the care of the house- hold Mary "sat at Jesus feet", an- xious to learn some fresh lesson from His lips. Martha cha:-ged her Lord with being indifferciit to her cares. By teaching Mary, Mar*ha felt He was encouragii:g Mary to neglect the household duties. Martha Is Rebuked Jesus gently rebukes Martha not for her active servic, but for being so full of care and trouble that her service for Christ instead being a pleasure had becr.i.ie a burden. A rievious sickness had over- taken their bro'nir Lazarus and Martha and Mary were sore dis- l.essed. They did not say, "Lord, come at once and heal our brother" they simply told Him the fact that he was ill To On^ that loved it was enougii to send tidings; enough that He knew it, for He does not love and fo sake. Princess Wears Mother's Clothes London's first race meeting since 1940 brought the sunniest Easter of the century. So there were record crowds at Hurst Park race course. The King and Princess Eliz- bcth were there. They moved among the crowds around the pad- dock with as much unconcern as any of the holiday-makers. No ostentatious bodyguard; no uni- formed police. The Princess, now 20, wore blue serge coat, blue hat an I veil. Many commented that it was hardly suit- able for such a hot day. But the Princess suffers from the lack of clothing ration coupons, as does everyone else. She posses- es few clothes specially m?de for her. Most of her wardrobe was originally her mother's and has been altered to suit her. ISSUE 22â€"1946 Length of Foot In Inches Is Size of Nylons Here is some timely advice from the manufacturers of full fashioned nylon hosiery to those women who have been complaining about their new nylons being small in foot-size. Most retailers are advising women to buy a half size larger in nylons, with the, result that they are not getting proper fit in nylon ' hose. It is not only the length of the foot but also the heel fit which is important. If the stocking is too long, the heel splice will be pulled up too high and vice versa. The answer to the problem liei apparently in making sure of foot sizes by measuring your own fool accurately. The length of the foo( in inches should be the size of youi full-fashioned nylons. If your foo' is very wide, however, you may b< more comfortable in a half siz< larger; if very narrow, possibly i half size shorter would be a bettei fit. But to get the correct size in your glamourous new full-fashionei! nylon hose, make sure of your owr foot measurement. MORNING BLUES are banished when breakfast includes Maxwell House. This gloriously rich blend of extra-fine coffees is "Radiant-Roasted" to de- velop the fidl goodness of every coffee bean. You Will Bnjojr Slnrins At The St. Regis Hotel TOnONTO 9 l.\rry Itoom nl(h Ilath, .Shower nnd Telephone. C .SinKle, $2.sa up â€" Double, $3.^>0 up. t.oud Food. Dining: nnd Dane* lniÂ¥ Mshtly. Sherbourne at Carltoa Tel. RA. 413S Smart Girls Always Carry Paradol in their Handbags Thev know that Paradol will re- lieve tnem quickly of headaches, and other discoinforta, as well as help to cheek colds. One girl writes, â€" "Until I used Paradol every month I suffered al- most unbearable pains. It is the most quickly effective relief I hafe ever used and there is no disagreeable aftereffect." Dr. Chase's Pa R A D o L For Quick Relief of Pain *â- ..â- ..â- â- â- .â- . .â-  -^-..ir- â- - .1 -''...â-  â- â- -• - •v:.Ai,Wi..:^-'vi "Fire? Goodness, no! Since I've been serving Grape-Nuts F/oket for breakfast, my husband decided the stairs were too slow." ^ .... . . ^^ ^^^ muscle; phosphorus for teeth and bones; iron for the blood- and other food essentials." "Omm . . . may I step in for a bowl- ful?" "Certainlyâ€" and X want you to try the simply grand muffins l"v» juat finished makin? from one of the recipes on '- Ontpe lUta Flake* pack"' " ~ " ' "Would you believe It, I've found that same thing everywhere I've eall- ed this morning â€" people rushing downstairs to taste that maity-rieh, nut-sweet flavor ot Post's Grape-Nuts Flakes." "And you should sec my family tear Into the day's activities on that good nourishment Grape-Nuts Flakes give them: carbohydrates for energy; pro- *^ *^ m « >• 4 T > % 1 .« V â- A â- *. â- â™¦ •« to- â- r * 4 â- 4 r â- I : I