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Show Thursday, November 30, 1914 THE TIMKS-NEWS- . NKi'III, I TAII PAGE SEVEN SEW ISC CHICLE NEEDLEW OliK B W " - mmm m Kathleen Norris Says: m THEODORE PRATT . W.N.U. RELEASE THE STORY THUS FAR: Wilbert Winkle, who operates lie Fixit repair shop, Is notified by his Iraft board that he Is In He breaks be bad news to his domineering wife, imy, who suddenly becomes very tender. Ir. Winkle Is sent to Camp Squibb, (here he graduates from Motor Mechan-c- s school, and then goes home on a fur After the furlough Mr. Winkle (High. inds himself, with his friend, Mr. Tinker, n a big convoy. They land on the island t Tallzo, where they meet several old lals. One day the Japs come. Mr. Win-:l- e dives under a command car wbile it. Tinker shoots It out with a plane. It. Tinker Is hit, Mr. Winkle grabs a nachine gun and mows down the Japs. CHAPTER. XIII he aimed, the officer was pass-nTinker. To Mr. Winkle's imazement, one of Mr. Tinker's legs noved out and tripped the man, sending him sprawling. Mr. Tink-;r'- s jump at him was more of a :rawl, but he made it before the As g Mr. fap could fire his pistol. The hairy hands of Mr. Tinker bund the officer's throat. They held n while the two rolled on the round. Gradually the Jap's convulsive movements stopped and he ay still. Mr. Tinker continued to etain his grasp on the other's hroat, viselike, even when, in turn, here was no more movement from lim. Mr. Winkle turned back to his jiain business. He felt no shock when he saw wore assault boats coming out of He wasn't aware that other men, live men, were in the fox hole with aim. the mist in addition to the two now beaching themselves. He had only the determined desire to kill and nust be overpowered. He didn't hear, above the noise sf his gun, the trucks grinding to a stop in back of him with a shriek of brakes. For some time he wasn't Bware that other men, live men, were in the fox hole with him and that still more were firing from the land for some distance on either side. He didn't know when he left the fox hole and with the others ran upon .the beach with a rifle in his hands. He was astounded, once, to Cjte the bayonet on the end of the rifle, and that he had plunged it into a Jap soldier and was having difficulty in getting it out. Twist, he thought, that was it. He twisted, and the blade came free. It was true what they said. He felt a sharp sting in his left shoulder. On top of his head there was blinding clang. His helmet was knocked off. Something crashed on his bare head and after that he was aware of nothing. Mr. Winkle opened his eyes cautiously. He had been conscious for a few minutes, but he couldn't place where he was. The first thing he saw was the face of Jack Pettigrew. Jack bad only a head, which floated in the air all by itself. The mouth in the head said, "Hello, Pop." "6o you made it, too," observed Mr. Winkle. 'Made it?' " Jack's head 'We're dead, aren't we?" asked Mr. Winkle. "You were dead the last time I saw you. This is Heaven, I suppose. Or is it ?" In some panic he demanded, "Which one?" The head laughed. "We're In an Army hospital just outside of Los Angeles." The rest of Jack came into focus. Clad in pajamas and a bathrobe, he i sitting on the edge of a white hd. There were lines of white beds. "I don't understand.' Mr. Winkle said. "We're supposed to be on Talizo. You and the Japs . . ." "The Japs," Jack grinned, "didn't get anywhere. We've taken the whole island since then. You saved it. You're a hero. You're going to medal. The President told get about you In one of his speeches." "And look at these paper." Jack fhnmaged in locker between the tads aid then held the front naves Lovable Sleepy Time Gift Doll send (Pattern No. 5643) These Wartime Giddy Wives Bell Syndicate. WNU SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK 149 New Montgomery St. San Francisco, Calif. Features. of newspapers so Mr. Winkle could read them. One of them was The weepy Amy alone in the back seat, they paraded through the town to Evening Standard. Mr. Winkle took the blaring accompaniment of the it and saw big black letters which band and cheering people who threw said: a great many bits of paper from the buildings. Mr. Winkle waved WINKLE, HERO OF TALIZO and waved his good arm, and it was "I'm supposed to call the nurse borne in upon him that it was most if you wake up," Jack said. "You've men's dream come notably bebeen out for five weeks. You're not cause this time no true, one called out to talk." supposed "You do the talking," Mr. Winkle derisively. Finally they were deposited in ordered. "And lots of it." front of their house, where a num"You don't have to worry," Jack ber of people were gathered. Among said. "Mrs. Winkle knows. I went them was Mr. Wescott, who had evihome to see my folks. I'm here come out to see for himself. now only for a check-u- p before I dently And having seen, he didn't find any join my new company. We're headreason to laugh now. He couldn't ed for the Philippines this time." say anything at all when he opened "You left out something," Mr. his mouth in that endeavor, but Winkle said. "The most important simply stood there with his lips partThe and part. Alphabet, Freddie, ed, gaping. the others . . ." Mr. Winkle greeted him warmly In a low voice, Jack said, "I was shook hands before going on and the only one." with Amy up their walk. It was a moment before he could Mr. Onward, the reportographer, ask about Mr. Tinker. Then he whom Mr. Winkle had seen at the spoke only his name. station taking pictures, followed "No," Jack told him. them up the walk. "Listen," Mr. At least, thought Mr. Winkle. Mr. Onward asked rather humbly, "how Tinker had got his Jap himself. about an interview?" He would always cherish thinking "No," said Mr. Winkle, "no interof the sight of Mr. Tinker with his view." hands around the Japanese officer's "But" Mr. Onward began to throat. plead. I "That's why want to go back," "Use the same one you printed Jack said. Mr. Winkle suggested. "I'm going, too," Mr. Winkle told before." "That was a good one." him. Alone together in their house, Mrs. Mr. Winkle enjoyed, instead of shying from, every moment of his Winkle dabbed at her eyes with her reception when he arrived in Spring-villHe beamed at the huge crowd waiting at the station. With satisfaction, he saw and heard the American Legion band which had turned out for him alone this time. He read the banners and posters people carried. He admired the decorations, one of which read unashamedly: "Our Hero." There was Amy embracing him and murmuring brokenly, "Wilbert . . . Wilbert . . ." "Look," he said. Right there before all the people he lifted his arm to shoulder height, telling Amy, "That's as far as it will go." Amy stared at him, embarrassed and stricken. The crowd hushed. "It's good enough for holding you," Mr. Winkle told his wife, putting his arm around her. The crowd roared its approval, while Amy, blushing, whispered to him, "Wilbert, you're changed more than ever." The Mayor stepped up and gave him the keys to the city, in the form of a large wooden key painted gold and festooned with gay ribbons. Then came the most important part of the ceremony, the part that made Mr. Winkle most appreciative and brought a lump to his The Colonel pinned the medal on throat. his tunic. His own commanding officer being some distance away, it had been handkerchief, touched his medal arranged for the Colonel who com- with one finger, dabbed some more, manded the camp where Mr. Win- and asked, "Whoever would have kle was inducted into the Army to thought?" "Not me," said Mr. Winkle. present him with the Distinguished Service Cross. "Not I," she corrected. She spoke The Colonel read the citation from a little sharply, as if trying to hide a scroll. ". . . awarded to Wilbert her emotions or expressing a desire George Winkle . . . distinguished to bring him down a peg in case his himself by extraordinary heroism popularity might have gone to bis in connection with military operahead. tions against an armed enemy . . . In trying to determine which It beyond and above his duty . . ." was, Mr. Winkle saw the answer to The Colonel pinned the medal on his speculation on whether or not his tunic, stepped back and saluted Amy would continue in her new rehim. Mr. Winkle was so surprised gard for him, or revert to the old. at being saluted first by an officer, He found a number of things to and especially one of such rank as support his belief that war had a Colonel, that he forgot to salute changed her as permanently as it back. 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Cough medicines usually contain 5643 pf life-lik- V For complete cutting, pattern, sewing and Bnishing instructions for the Crib Doll By KATHLEEN NORRIS of the husbands who SOME enduring in terrible far-away-pla- are naturally worried because the little woman at home is having such a hard, dull, lonely time. Other husbands have the problem of Capt. Jerome Blank, who writes me from Guadalcanal. 'good-by- ' to her." AGONIZING SUSPICION Far harder to bear than tropical heat, galling insects and the danger from the ene- my is a soldier's haunting fear that his wife may be wandering from him in his absence. When he has her veiled admission in writing that she has been unfaithful, the bitter chagrin is almost maddening. What can I do, asks an unfortunate officer. "I am in a state of indescribable agony. I cannot eat or sleep. If she has really betrayed me, I can never forgive her.n "There is not a man down here," says his letter, "who is not sick for home. Every one of us talks of it, dreams of it. Through heat and fatigue, insects and prickly heat, long hikes through rough grass, long waits under the simmering midday sun, the men talk of trees, and the shady porch at home, and Mom's or sleep. My mind is filled with cooking. We know we have to get his detestable triumph, his smugwe'll it, this and through get through but Lord, how 'we want the day to ness at home while I fight through arrive when we can start for home! hot day after day down here. At one moment I want to write her a scald"Well, what I'm writing you at another I find myself about, Mrs. Norris, is my wife, Dor- ing letter, is. I'm 42; she's 28 and extremely weakening into tears of pity and love. If she has really betrayed lovely. Sometimes I don't dare let me, I can never forgive her. But is. how myself think lovely she how shall I know? If she has just After a most unfortunate first marbeen foolish but no, those phrases riage I was divorced 11 years ago; I quote above mean more than that. six years later I met Doris, who had also had an unhappy young I am miserable, miserable, miserable. What position shall I take? marriage. Both our former part- What can I do?" ners have found other mates, so that we felt entirely free to marry, You can do, my dear Captain and for two years our love story was unclouded and exquisite. Then Jerome, what thousands of other came the war, and I came out here. husbands and wives, with all sorts Doris cried bitterly on the dark day of new problems to face, must do after the war. You can come home, I said goodby to her, and the memmeet your wife, look your changed of her little ory lonely figure turning circumstances in the face, decide away haunted me. "But now it's all different. She is where you will live and what line work you want to take up, find a living in a group of friends, who of like herself are idle, with plenty of house, settle down to matrimony and money. She is having a whirl of a forget the past. If you want to be happy if anyone wants to be hapgood time. It is all dancing, drinkpy after this war, it must be by a She card clubs. ing, games, country goes to races and night clubs, buys heroic closing of doors. It may be new frocks and hats; is in Florida that Doris' charm and beauty and with one friend, going to Santa Bar- leisure were not proof against tempbara with another; she visits a lux- tation. Well, you chose her for those urious Adirondacks camp and "never very qualities; you didn't want a sensible, modest, faithful little womin her life had such a gorgeous an who would keep your house and time.' your memory safe. One Man's Name. War develops abnormal situations. "Of late months the name of one man has been in her letters, or rath- In which men and women act as er has been conspicuously dropped they would never act ordinarily. from her letters. But my jealousy There is going to be an enormous supplies his name. He is a rich amount of straightening and adjustand attractive young fellow, deing to be done when the war is over. barred by a mild stomach com- It is for every one of us to lessen plaint from active service; Idle, the grand sum total of that uncomamusing and unscrupulous. Dislike fortable process as much as we It is for every one of us of him and envy of him have been can. burning me up for weeks; I cannot to overlook, forget, forgive in every get him and the thought of his ad- direction; not to demand explanamiration of my wife, out of my tions not to rake up the past, not to indulge suspicion and curiosity. mind. "Now comes a letter from Doris Doris is evidently a little fright- that has set me on fire. She is ened herself at the length to which making a long stay with her moth- she has carried this flirtation. But er, a thing she never wanted to do being beautiful, young, idle and rich, before. She says she 'is a sorry and she will presently embark on anashamed little girl who played too other. Steel yourself not to bother long with fire,' and that when I your head about them. When you come home 'there is something I come back, expect a welcome from must forgive her.' Also I am not a loving wife, build your lives toto believe anything Margaret or Sal- gether as If there had not been this ly write me. These are my sisters. grim Interruption, and whatever you She says she is 'done with Tony do after you have given peaceforever. time marriage a fair trial, let mat"Mrs. Norris," the letter ends, ters go on as they are now, and "this has thrown me into a state of solve tomorrow's problem when toindescribable agony. I cannot eat morrow comes. 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