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Show THE Thursday, May 7, 1936 ASfo. KATH LE EN COPYRIGHT, W.N. U. SERVICE KATHLEEN NORRIS CHAPTER XX 17 Continued all the while Larry was close; perhaps playing golf on the Pebble Beach links, bis white shirt open at bis brown throat, his dark bead bare. The blue sea rippled la la dazzle of spring sunshine, and the gulls flew about crying their shrill piping cries, and the Blys fluttered about like gulls too, pleased when the guests admired the wide porch and the Tlew, so urgent with the little damp sandwiches and the fruit punch. It was a hot day, a rarely hot day for the ocean shore. It had brought forth an eruption of picnics and excursions; cars twinkled In black lines along the cliffs; every little cottage was gay wltb guests. If tomorrow were like today Joe would have heavenly weather for bis housewarmlng. Kuth, Mrs. Patterson, Caroline would be there not Larry. He was going back to the city; he did not dare come, he did not dare risk meeting this girl In white who was so dutifully amusing the Blys, so respectfully raising blue eyes to tiresome old Dr. Bly at the head of the long table. Tony had another night with Brenda; another adoring morning with Anthony's bath and bottle and nap. On Sunday morning Joe came for her in the car, and she and Ruth and Caroline and old Mrs. Patterson were carried off Into the hot world of beaches still satin-blu- e and water, towering eucalyptus and crouching cypress trees. "Now, listen, don't expect too much,1 Joe warned her. "It's only a shanty, really, but I've sort of And up" It fixed It "I'll love He turned In at a field gate, following a wavering dirt road toward the shore, brought them triumphantly to a small bare white house that stood ridiculously square and harsh upon the edge of the cliff. Joe enthusiastically displayed the e rooms that be had had cleaned, cut Into more spacious proportions. This wasn't finished this was going to be great, but It was hardly started, of course. Here was where the bath was going to be wouldn't that be great? And here this was all In a mess, the man who had been doing It bad but look, bookbroken his leg cases here wasn't that swell? Outside they beard the same story. Seeds had been planted all along here and there; the roses all were In, but you had to keep the over them. gunny-sackinCarrying chops and buns and coffee down to the rocky shore, Joe said to Tony: "Come down here and run It, and I'll tear the whole place down, or buy you the Alexander place over at Pebble Beach." "I like It Just as It Is!" Tony, laughing as she stretched a hand to his, stepping carefully over the boulders he took like a stairway, stopped and corrected herself. "I could like It," she said. "I'd tile the floor of the big room and put a big terrace oft toward the north." "Well, blast it, those are Just the things I want you to tell mel" Joe protested. They were down on the damp sand now, among the big rocks; there was shade here from the headland that ran out to eea, on the south; the waves were creaming In in lazy Interlocking circles. "Joe, Joe, Joe darling," Mrs. murmured, established In her scarlet stripes and scarlet hat against a great boulder, her strange black eyes staring far out to sea, 'it's too beautiful. Your bouse yes. It could be improved in minor details. But this this is matchfour-squar- early and get an early start In Or the cool of the day tomorrow. maybe I'll go up tonight" The conversation was happy, desultory. They were all relaxed Into comfortable positions; the food was good. Presently Tony and Larry bad their moment It came when Ruth, Joe, Caroline, and Larry bad started up the beach to a certain rock pool that Joe said was unique In the entire world. He bad taken more than fifty specimens from it and believed there were more. Tony washing cups in the tide edge, had told the others to go on, she would stay wltb Mrs. Patter son. But now the old lady was quite frankly asleep, and when Larry came back for Ruth's cam era, it was quite natural for Tony to say that she would go on with him and Join the others. "How goes it, Tony?" "Badly," the girl answered, with a brief little rueful laugh. 'Tes, I know. It goes badly," he agreed seriously. They walked along, Larry war Ing the camera at Ruth, a hundred yards ahead, who had stopped to look back. "Oh, dear!" Tony said. In youth ful despair. After a minute she went on, in a different tone: "Then I'll tell yon what I'm going to do, Larry. I'm going to New York. It's a long way away, and I would have to work terribly hard there. I could get on a newspaper there. have to get away, Larry. There's no happiness here." The man said nothing. They were crossing a rise of rocks now, and he stretched a band to ber. "And I hope," Tony said, finish lne her sentence, "that I will for get it alL" "I am afraid you will," he said In a hard voice. "Ah, Larry my dear, never be afraid of that I I'm not like that I've never cared before, not for I'll never care again this anyone. way. We have to to separate, and to to get over It " Tony said, under her breath, "we'll not see each other, Larry, not hear each other's g Pol-hen- is less !" "Wee-ell( , this is what I bought, after all," Joe reminded her, & well pleased. The rotund buns were toasted ; the coffee poured like smoking am ber Into the white tin cups; the chops were sizzling In the last stage of perfection when there was a hall from the cliff. The four women and Joe looked up. It was Larry. Tony, her hands occupied with tier chop and her cup, merely waved at him as he came down the rocky stairway; she could wait, now. "I got homesick: for alt of you, driving In last night, so I tele phoned Arnoldson, and we had our talk at breakfast this morning, and I started right off again! I thought I'd like to have a look at Joe's houBewnrmlng, and then maybe we could nil hnve dinner at the lodge tonight. But I've got to turn In "But what?" he asked. In the un encouraging, tl.e almost harah man ner he bud usi'd throughout 1 shouldn't." "Ilow'd you mean yoti shouldn't?" l mean," Tony said hesitating ly, "that I won t tell Bendy. That ort of feeling." "I see," he said, troubled. "It's Just driving up to town with you. And Ruth thought noth ing of our driving up from Santa Barbara!" the girl argued. Ve, but It's different now," Larry reminded ber honestly, In a tone thut brought the color suddenly to her face. "But we won't see each other much, from now on. 1 go to Los Angeles on Weduesduy TIMES-NEW- S. NEPIII. UTAH wife. But at li'nst I'd make home, I'd have children, we'd travel. The other way I'd myself, and you'd hate mo." "I'd never hate you. I'd want go home to you, Jarllnj not froir you." There seems to be a bllht m me, lony said somberly, "l don l seem to do things as other girl: do." 'I'll tell you what you seem to ou seem to me, the man said. me the most wonderful woman la the world, a woman who Is golnv to he admired, loved, followed, wherever she goes. You're In my heart and nty mind and my soul all day and all night, Tony, younij ulght" and brown and beautiful." "And Cliff Is to be married five "It's too bad." Tony said nftei weeks from yesterday, and after a while, in a wistrui eciio or net I'll that yes, then, go East," Tony own voice. "It's too bad, Larry, said. could we I've Just thought couM "Life Is ahead of yon, my dear. we tell Kuth?" With your beauty, your wit the Tell Ruth!" something that makes everybody No, I suppose not." love you, that makes you Tony." 'It would be a thunderbolt to "Don't talk that way," the girl ber. It would shake the very foun Interrupted steadily. dations of her life. No woman evei "You're very beautiful In that felt so married as Ruth. And sh white outfit, Tony." loves you next I believe, to hei "If you think I am ! mother and me. That log"I'll stop at the hotel, anyway, ical mind of hers perfectly would begin at tonight" on It, imagining things, Her blue eyes met bis for the working She'd lose you and things. fearing fraction of a second; there was me, too. Ruths yon know ber, time for no more. They scaled a and you love her," he added restrise of black wet rocks; slippery "but Ruth's not not easy Joe reached .down a bracing band lessly, to Tony; they were at the pooL nine-thirt- y CHAPTER XXI PAGE THREE New Slit Sleeves Go With This Spectator Sports Frock FALLING HAIR the side pleats of the nUIrt liar with the action pleats In tho brick blouse. Barbara I'.ell Tam-n- i No. 1S(VS It Is available In sizes II. ill. 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Starfish and baby crabs, flowerlike anemones, violet rmlrrn Tio. 1S0S-prickly sea urchins and huddled was like some friends I Some are chosen and some are not. k colonies of mussel shells NOT longlowagoin Ispirits. . .out of . as you remember. And this is one were all there, set In a Botticelli sorts. . .tired easily and looked terrible. I knew A pretty chosen "summer" of the sea of flowers, background tiny I had no serious organic trouble so I reasoned bad pun, but this perfectly stunning starry sea blossoms and polished B'jnsibly. . .as my experience has since proven... frock makes for up spectator sports bits of rock. that work, worry, colds and whatnot had just wear It can And It you yourself worn me down. When they all walked slowly back In If you'll send when summer sets across their own earlier footsteps The confidence mother has always had la for the pattern now. when S.S.S.. Tonic. ..which is still her stand-b- y In the wet sand the tide was goIt Is surprisingly easy to make. convinced me I ought to she feels ing down, and a rich blanket of and with the aid of the try this Treatment... I started a course. ..the fog was pushing In against the color began to come back to my skin... I felt chart. Illustrating the cut and fit of AS hazy western sunset Stiffly, wear better ... I no longer tired easily and soon I the new slit sleeves and the way to ily, they went to the cliff, and stood I have come were back to "Yes, those felt that stitch-uthe youthful pleat and for a moment to look at the wide back to where I feel strength ... it is great to feel lighting realize will bodice, you Immediately panorama of the glittering sea, and like myself again." S.S.S. Co. strong again and like my old self. how automatically It goes together. packed themselves into the car. a of bodice lot to The blouse has It, "Where to, Tony?" even makes you suspect that It's "Brenda's, please, Joe." held underneath by an elastic band. "we said all drive Ruth, "Tony," up Tuesday. Could you stay?" Rutn, id love it But I'm go ing back with the Brewers tonight; There Was a Smell of Grass and OR, HOW AMERICA'S ACE they pick me np at the hotel at Earth. CAPTURED AL.BEN-DEfive. I've got to turn In a column ROBBER THE about I like don'l that things tonight" "Come up and have dinner with know that any woman would be, us Wednesday night, Tony, and but she's the last one to see oui I'm hers as much as hei play bridge,". Ruth said, at Bren side. da's doorway. "Joe's coming In. emeralds are, or her car, or her InSTEAK. 2fjUSrA.ltH0UiHI? mify mtl (Wl RHcW DCUQFD come, and she can't see It any oth 1 Larry'H be In Los Angeles." ! USTEH wins miEHOS MY AND JH& I THEBES A IDT V MELVIH PURVIS, I ENOERS...SEEN AL 'Krer Of I I think could. NAfi USED 70 BE A BRICK way." ffi fl PHONS NUMBERS "Wednesday? HAD SENT OUT In a great rocker on the porch, "Funny thing, marriage, Isn't It, voices 1" " behind a pillar, Tony Larry? I'd never want to hold any Inconspicuous RE,lf rKTfewara -l ti i v TO BENOERI i' x i i EACH NUMBER. I And then, after a silence : "Larry, watched the v iv. w a. i ri i i ran run ml Dcnucn. vr n mwfcilJ-re' pleasant Intermingling man like that Oh, I'm so sorry, to who di RIFI HAD WHO do you think JUST 'it: go?" ought streams of hotel life come and go, I'm not sorry that all thla r, LED THE MAILS ATA W br? J rected the capture of OF A CONSTRUCTION PHONE? The man hesitated a moment and Her suitcase was at her feet The my dear, Jl Cerf moa after said, ' V"'" happened," Tony LS MIDWEST AIRPORP-- J Tthen said briefly: "Yes, I do." COMPANY... "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Brewers came, and she went down ment "It's taken all the Joy oul WE ICT "It will kill me," Tony said. "Baby Face" Nelson, and and talked to them; came back to of my life, but It's put something PLAINE0THAT' THAT HE ' 3 JW.P others; Mr. Purvis reveals HUNG OUT A LOT AT "If you go, at least you shan't her secluded chair. The die was else In, better than Joy. I'll nevei Wv' WANTED TO HIRE lr ? JTUANg used in methods here caphe 'JOE'S salary," cast now. "EVE" worry about money lose that anyway, that I love a BENDER. FINAUy f Names criminals. turing 00ut IN A SMALL MISSOURI "I've newspaper friends said. Srl ;7 -- XX. At six o'clock the wide drive, the man, want blm, want to belong ta V.,i WiUXA been of AND SO....' course, have, TOWN, and were of the hotel porches steps him" changed; deserted; everyone ' was dressing "Steady!" Larry said. for dinner. "I'm steady. I've been thinking GETS AL BENOi R. IN HIS " THE "MISSOURI BLOCK" WORK, CHIEF! Her heart rose into her throat It all over. I've come to see how A CALL AT 12 30 THE SAME DAY. NOT! THAT PLACE IS A IN I WE WILL WF'iL JUST PI! BENDER... I was alL MRS. car here now, Larry's can't compro It TENEMENT FILLED WITH CHILDREN! now, It Is, that's THERE AND PUT THE ALDOESNT NEED s DONOVAN, I WANT VOU TO PUT A before seven o'clock Of mise, and you can't get free, and GUNS ON HIM) AL. 01! IS JOE DOWN r -- f USTEN. A JOB... BUT HEU MISSOURI BLOCK ON OLD ROUTE J5 ,sL-COFFEE POT... I GOT WORD OAT "Thank goodness you're here 1" so I'm going away." J BE HOME AT NOON. TODAY! I HAVE THAT AN" ARI ARE ONTO YUH, ' U I VOU CAN TALK TO he said, big and businesslike In his A HUNCH BENDER WILL BE Larry cleared his throat EVERY ROAO OUTA TOW- NHIM PERSONALLY THAT ROAD TODAY! TRAVEUNO . "It's too bad It has to happen (I big brown overcoat and driving cap. BUT USSENl DAT OLD ROUTE TRAFFIC TODAY AN'DEY J J TO OPEWEO me this said way," he "Here, give mildly. your bag hop in. TO SLOW DOWN aint wise to rrl A RUSE OP wouldn't have known what to do Tony Jumbled herself up against A FLEEINO BANDITS CAR SO HE If you'd happened to be inside, hav his shoulder, spoke in a different CAPTURED. AND IDENTIFIED BE CAN I THANKS, JOE CARS ARB PARKED AS SHOWN IN ing dinner or something I By the tone. I'LL LAM OUT luckiest chance in the world Fitch DIAGRAM, SO THAT BANDIT WILL "We have the rest of this drive ON ROUTE 3 BE FORCED TO WEAVE SLOWLY : me in want there Larry," she said. "Let's forgel JVCttUiGirrjtmrty telephoned they BETWEEN THEM, WHILE STILL. UNfw j in Ruth took the round eleven. that maybe It's all we'll have." Jfi'jTHANKS, OP THE TRAP.... SUSPICIOUS 1 MRS. BENDER! I 1 jfcSi'iik It was quite dark now. While They were In the car. They had they bad been talking the car had left Del Monte behind them and been moving northward through 30 MINUTES LATER SO YOU THOUGHT YOUTJ GIVEN US THE were smoothly moving north. If the dark masses of the hills, and SUP, EH BENDER? WEU,1 WAS THE misever I CORPS TO HAVI ASK) iOWl CP POST ( Tony had any doubts, any I I i through the flat wide valley of the I MAN WHO PHONED YOU AT NOON TODAY J 4JM TOASTOS FOR BREAKFAST! givings, they were gone now; the Santa Clara. There was a smell ol NOT JOE I C JUST THE THINO TO STAKI vrr ' J, world was all heaven in the soft grass and earth, and of dust and y V """ y "t twilight, with Larry's big shoulders the sharp dews aromatic, primi beside her. tive, reminiscent "We'll have to face It, Tony, that "It makes me feel like a little 11 we love each other, and that we I to be going home In the again girl WHAT'S THE USE I can't have each other. I'm not go- gloaming like this." n --vou cant Jr ps 1 GET AWAY FROM ing to tell you what you mean to "How simple it all was for us f F V the me. I have no right The only then." It Is to to do face and work thing "Wasn't it? And maybe when one NOTt TMI? MAN WAS TRIED, CONVICTED, it out somehow." AND SENTENCED TO SERVS A TERM Or gets to be very old, Larry, eighty YEARS IN THB FEDERAL PENITENTIARY. "One of the things," he added, or so, it all goes back to that, t "l Am Afraid You Will," He Said after a space, "that holds me ev-to being happy and managed and tak her. She's not strong; she did G-M- iri! In a Hard Voice. ing every day for every day." erything for me before I got a love that mind of yours, Tonj "I YOU SEND FREE AND I BOYS GIRLS!., this fix regulation size junior there; I'll take care of that. Grant start; we had a boy and lost him. the way It works." BADGE. ..ENROLL YOU ON THE SECRET ROLL OF MY JUNIOR ..AND SEND V and Kate, and Odd and MabelAny talk of our separating now YOU A (10 EXCITING BOOK THAT TELLS YOU ALL ABOUT CLUES, SECRET CODES, INVISIBLE. For a while there was silence, wonderful people they'll keep an would break ber heart; she's not ..OTHER'lNSIDE INFORMATION THAT ONLY KN0W...REA0 I WRITING, done anything mean or small to while the miles flowed by. Pres eye on you." BELOW HOW TO JOIN AND GET THESE ANO MY OTHER FREE PRIZES! the said: ently 1" girl She me. like she burst be loves "don't treated out, that "Larry "Would Ruth mind this?" "And your little finger," he went don't ever forget me!" "She would surely mind how we "There'll never be anyone else.on, as Tony was silent, "is more The We've no time now," Larry said to me than anything else In the feel about each other," Larry an swered. hurriedly, "when are you going world. The way you pull on your crisp, (TO BE COXTWVED) back to town?" hat, the way your mouth works, TOASTIES! POST brown TO JOIN! Send two tops from Post whole of you and long, "Tonight Brewer of the Chron the Toasties packages with coupon below, Icle, and his wife, and some cou lying as you were today In the Crossing the Date Lin "TTAVH a big bowl of Post Toasties for Boys' Badge (left). to Melvin Purvis. He'll send you his offisin or sister or somebody, are go sand " He stopped. Crossing the equator has nothing Division Girls' That's breakfast jLJL Badge every morning!" cial Junior For a long time neither spoke, to do wltb a change In time. It Is badge s i s his big, ing np, and I meet them at the ho (above, right). Both mighty good advice from Melvin Purvis! are book' that tells how to become Then Tony said staunchly: when crossing e the International tel at five." thrilling of polished Take YOU it It's a rule ought to follow! and a catalog of OTHER a Junior en"Could you get out of It with the "Well, Pm going away. I don't date line, which lies In the middle from Melvin Purvis, Post Toasties are the ameled indesign SWELL FREE PRIZES! blue. know how I can. My heart'll be of the Pacific ocean and roughly others and drive tip with me?" g grandest-tastinbreakfast treat ever! Tony considered, her color fluc like a stretched piece of elastic corresponds to the one hundred and They're delicious, too, with luscious fresh WNU MELVIN PURVIS tuating. "When would we get Into between here and New York. I eightieth meridian, that the trav fruit or berries! a Post Toaiti.s, Baltl. Cr.dc, Michigan town?" can't stay wnere i see you, or eler loses or gains a day, depend Post Toasties are made from the sweet I enclose . . . PoB Tole ptclcwte row. Pins, one." could see you, or could telephone ing on which way his vessel is mov "About half-pas- t litde hearts of the corn, where most of the end me the items checked beiow. Check whether were a would ). love It sol" you. If you divorced," Tony Ing. It Is boy ( ) or iri "Oh, Larry, I purely arbitrary ar flavor is. And each golden flake is toasted ( ) Membership Bide, (send I ptckire tops) "Get out of your engagement, said, "even then I'd not have an rangement made necessary by ou double crisp so it keeps its crunchy goodKin (send 4 pdu lopi) J junior ( ness longer in milk or cream; OFFICIAL JUNIOR then, and I'll pick you up at the easy .ow to hoe. People like Ruth method of reckoning time. Sailing Nime RING You can too much; they feel too much west across the date line, a day la 2 nine. i hotel at half-panow The Toasties Post Get your Better Corn Flakes"! And join the Junior gold finish. Fits any i Street. against the younger woman who lost; crossing it eastward adds get some dinner there?" " from man an a. older draws day. away finger. Free for 4 Post II Cfty Corps without delay! "Surely. But Larry ft",r m U.S. A.) 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