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WOMEN! try this If you’ra Woven Braided or Crocheted Rugs make vr material for hooking can be salvaged from old clothes and blankets yoorself J1H McFarlane whot father ard disappeared la World War la loro with Spang Gordon a Rich- falls young He tells her that her brothlieutenant er Rlc Is seeing a divorcee and she goes to camp to Investigate Rle avoids her hut she later sees him with Sandra an older hardened woman Calvert known as “Old CyCaptain Mackey anide” tells her he knew her mother many years ago She feels she knows him calls to say Spang Later while riding with Dave Patterson a family friend secretly In lova with her mother Julia she Is thrown from her horse and taken to a hospital That night Richard returns from tho dead to visit Julia CHAPTER ) X Julia ignored the interruption “He spent two months trying to find something some record some grave — anything that would end our suspense He went through dozens of hospitals even the Insane places he even went out with crews of men who were opening graves! It was a experience for him —and ard” not too happy for me Rich- happened to come to Washington and he found me and sent for John I” “I gave you money when I had it Dooley” he said “And borrowed it back again when the horses were running at Bowie I” she thought bitterly but she did not say it She said dully “You must have been very sick of I must have cried too much me been frightened too much left alone there In that cheap little flat It was my fault perhaps I was too I’d always had people to young take care of me I was silly enough to think that all women were cared for when they married It was quite a shock when I learned that that wasn’t always true I know I must have failed you in a lot of ways Riohard I must not have been a strong person then— a strong worn' But an might have changed you You you failed me too Richard failed us all!” “Don’t blame yourself Dooley The whole thing was a mistake merely happened to realize that he “Sorry” He let his gaze fall let his clasped hands dangle between his knees “I didn’t think you’d be concerned I thought you’d be relieved to be rid of me” "Your conscience must have been more scute than we gave you credit for” said his father scornfully ‘‘If ) i 0 It hadn’t been for Julia’s ob- years old!” Julia and marbeen left time — not knowing where you were even hungry! I had a baby and then I was — going to have another right away and then it was war1 and John I got that commission for you because he thought war was what you needed— that it might quiet that restlessness in you— and so you went sway And left me with Nothing but this shabby old house this mortgaged land— and no one to turn to till Dave Patterson ”1 was nineteen protested ‘Td loved you ried you and then I’d alone for weeks at a Our booklet give instruction! for making hooked woven braided crocheted and other types of ruga Send 29 cents (coin) for "New Ideas for Handmade Ross” to Weekly Newspaper Service 243 W lltk St New York 11 N Y Print name address booklet tiUe and No as she had alshrinking receding ways done when he looked at her with that cold blue stare now on “What happens depends As for what I’m goyou Dooley ing to do— so far a I know nothing!” “But— you can’t just come back this way— from the dead!” I came ‘Tve never been dead back because suddenly I wanted to see you hear your voice again If I to go back being you mean shall the anRichard McFarlane again It would be awkward swer is no I’m la the and embarrassing There's war going on “nil arnfy on that" FU concentrate it’a over I’ve had twenty-liv“Richard want to shake hands John I thrust his pockets drawing in “No I wouldn'tl ashamed that I am rlane” Father?” hands into his his brows You make mo also a McFa- Without a word Richard walked out of the house They heard hia car roar off down the drive John I sank into a chair and his head into his hands dropped Julia went quietly and kissed the thinned spot on the top of his head She did not speak David was the unworthiness of Abmourning salom and there were no words to touch the dignity of that grief She went numbly groping for the stair rail up to her room Somehow she had always known! Always unaware perhaps at times she had been waiting for of this odd feeling the pressure was Thera uncertain dread strange and psychic bond a vibration that lived on between two people who had been married and aha knew now that that quivering tia lived on bridging years and silence binding her to Richard even though the bond was bitter Eventuhad him drawn back to her it ally She had seen the nostalgia in his eyes though he hsd tried to hide it behind his old cool arrogance And now what? What lay ahead? What threatened her her peace of mind her pride for her children? There wa Ric What if Richard out found about Ric learned where he was made contact with his son? And then there wa Dave She knew that Dave loved her with another kind of love deeper finer—no Are or passion no young fever but the lasting love of a man who would cherish a woman forever Julia flung herself down on the bed “Oh Dave!” her heart cried out “Now that it’s too late I do love And what am I going to do?" youl Jill turned her head on the pillow eased her body from the cramp of her splinted arm and taped shoul- Oa ‘CERTAIN DAYS’ Of Moet- bfemale functional monthly disturbances make you feel nervous Irritable so weak and tired out—at such times? Then do try Lydia X pinkhem'a Vegetable Compound to relieve such symptoms It’s jamout for this! Taken regularly — Plnkbam'e Compound helps — build up resistance against such distress Also a great stomachic tonic 94 4 That Hang On it Creomulsion relieves promptly because It goes right to the seat pf the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm and aid nature to soothe and heal raw tender Inflamed bronchial mucous membranes Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back am uuwmvsssw y for welcome fast relief from k Rub in contains up to pain Gentle toothing 2 Va times more of those famous agents known to all doctor— methyl ealicylate and menthol —than five other widely offered Insist on the original Baume Analgdaique genuine It acta fast where you hurt Beware Coughs stinacy I’d have had you declared legally dead long ago” Richard laughed a short difficult I am dead Richbark “Legally no longer exists ard McFarlane Not on any record or roster at least I’ve been Roger Mackey for twenty years now There was a lot of confusion after the armistice and I happened to come into possesof course — of a sion — accidentally passport and some other papers It suited me not to be Richard McI wanted to Farlane any longer start over stayed on in Paris for a few years and did pretty well — ” as usual?” This from “Gambling John L mouth lifted in a con Richard’s descending mirthless smile That smile too was an aching piece of Julia’s remembering "I got along” he said "in various ways And then things got rather nasty In France — there was sty that argument about the debts Amer's icans weren’t popular— so I came I didn’t know back to this country anything to get into— things were little tough here too you remember? So I went back to the army “But yon Just can’t come back This fellow — this Mackey whose this way — from the dead” I papers I had— had a commission got it renewed I asked for service fore you did I took the best way in Hawaii and got it Then last out of it for you and for every year they sent me back I’m at body” Ridley Field now” "You took a coward’s way out’1 Almost Julia cried out Ric was “Now— now that said his father But she caught at Ridley Field you’re getting old and life isn’t so herself in time made a little moveas it used to gay and adventurous ment toward her begbe I suppose you think you should He caught the ging for silence come back here and find a welgesture or perhaps be did not re- come? Find things exactly as they member did not connect Ric with were before" any of this The old forgot easily His eyes took on Richard flared Richard must not know about Ric that look that Julia reicy All their lives she had built their membered father up to heroic stature for her “Have I said that? Have I asked children made him a splendor to for anything?” admire but knowing all the while "Not But you’ve made no what a false and crumbling foun- decent yet eior explanation excuse dation she built upon how dangerYou walked out on Julia and ther ous was the structure she raised if left her to struggle alone — " a fierce wind blew upon it But she “Not alone John I You’ve been must not destroy it now a rock under my feet you've been She must not tear Richard down and courage when I my strength offer that ruin to Richard’s son She faltered 1” must not destroy that pictured in"You were all I had Dooley” he was not Ric of heritance gallantry said gently “you and those kids” strong and courageous like JilL He "They’re pretty well grown up had all the weaknesses of the Mc- now I suppose?” Richard changed Farlane men if he had inherited the subject with the facile ease that any strength from her it was latent “How had alwaya been hia gift it had not begun its growth Now are they?” she could not risk giving him a fa"They’re very well” She would ther who had callously sbandoned Not about him even before he had learned to not tell him anything nothRic not about Jill’a accident speak that father’s name He had no right to know So she said rather flatly "You ing alL no at “Richard had He rights were at Pearl Harbor Richard?" Jill's twisted His is His face changed “Yes I was thereeyes shifted at Hickam Field Now I’m at Rid- Richard Offers ley But I’ve worked for what I’ve No Solution got in the army” "Makes a man feel old Are they “So" Julia let her breath out like you Dooley?” Richard asked thankful thankful— oh so terribly But "They’re entirely unlike “So you are that Jill was awayl they’re both McFarlanes” Roger Mackey now But why Rich"Married either of them?” ard— why? All this talk and I still "No they’re not married” don’t understand it You must not “At least I’m not a grandfather!” have cared about us at all You “Well I’ll thinly didn’t want to see us again your he said smiling Due back for reveille push along own father— your own children?” Have to drive all night “I did think about the kids of tomorrow course” he said “and you too to make it” Richard what happens "But But I hadn’t been a very Dooley successful husband You were pret-t- y now?" Julia cried “What are you going to do?” well fed up with me when I left” He faced her and she felt herself A Three-WaConversation Surely you can years of auapenae spare me any more” “If you create suspense for Dooley I won’t be able to do about it But why create anything it? I’m assuming that to you I am not your husband any more” "But you are my husband! Even though you choose to masquerade and wear a false name though you’ve ignored me for more than half our lifetimes though you knew where I wa when one word from LJOOKED rugs are among the 1 1 simplest to make yourself Inyou would have ended all this misThe foundation for me you are expensive too! ery of uncertainty still the man I was married to may be burlap or discarded linen Richard You’re atill my children's father Nothing can change that” Rocket Brakes “You can change it if you like The Jet power of rockets which Dooley” has so far been employed almost “How can I change It? You mean as a propulsive force is I can divorce you? How can I wholly expected to be used soon in the opdivorce a man who doesn’t exist? — to brake the speed of How could I explain it to your chil- posite way planes and trains in cases of emer' dren?" gency says Collier’s “The kids do complicate things Experts estimate that a train don’t they? They might like me if which travels 1500 feet after the they knew me Though perhap air brakes are applied could be to that?” you’ve already attended brought to a stop in 375 feet or “I’ve given them a hero for a fa- one fourth the distance by the adther!” Julia flamed ditional braking force of forward-firin"You did that for youraelf rockets installed on the locoDooley not for me You're a proud motive woman let wouldn't you your pride keep a man in your life unless h was heroic And you don’t want your pretty picture torn to piece So now by the dismal reality frosa common colds FU take myself off You wouldn’t NERVOUS Do Mi Mae far Pata due to RHEUMATISM for Mild Ask MUSCLE ACHE md COLDS far Ckildrec CREOMULSION for Cough j Chest Colds Bronchitis - r f t I' j 1 — "V "?l H "v- - 7 ’ i ' ft ' i I Y ( "rt ' ”' If ZcZl- - V 1‘ vr''a- i V ?' 'GOO ft We&tism der Dooley you look simply ghastshe said ”I’ve never seen hollow under your eye beWhat’i worrying you besides ly!” black fore me?” 'Nothing” Julia lied gallantly “You’re enough for one dose Do I look so pathetic? I must need some or vitamins It's miss something ing you so much I guess” Jill drew the corners of hsr mouth “You’re a rotten actress Dooin You’re corny as heck and ley When transparent as cellophane you hurt inside it shows through like veins and things under a Have you and Dave had a fight?” I haven’t “Of course not silly aeen Dave since that Sunday And why should we fight?” "I don't know any good reason but you are sort of difficult to understand at times Dooley You’re I think I know so unpredictable what you’re thinking and feeling and suddenly I discover I'm all lost and don’t know you at all” Julia Fails to Deceive Jill I’m a mystery woman! Human enigma But the fewer feelings we all have now the better off we'll be” Julia was being platitudinous she knew and undoubtedly Jill was past that evasive defense probing with her dry shrewd young eyes 'We're fighting a lot of people who’ve done away with feeling ” “And now” said Jill In a mocking voice “the gentlemanly ushers will pass among you and all the ladies will depasit their ballots in And don't vote the basket please for yourselves girls I” she chirped in a bright falsetto tf "Dooley you won!t talk shut up! 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