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Tho embargo that v.as to starve David and Fanny Into a return to the maternal jurisdiction was still in full force, but when Mrs. Frosl found that David bad pawned bis fatber3 watch a valuable Swiss re peater and sold lps pearl studs and diamond cuff links to pay the doctors bill, she redeemed the watch and bought back the studs and cult links and returned them to . David FAiti VlIKEIu (.aOIK i Uu.M i, I 1 All. by Bruce Barr A Little Off Color HOWE' FARNHAM by MATTEL LV1 " NE a IV. Fort thin. ' iu josj.: doesn't U6 f to "Al! right I'll try to, Hi tea say tLs.-ev- er ie' .'Well, why work ? Yo.i know why. You know bo Isn't tilted for anything but tile army, ar.d Leila yanked lirtn out of thaL" Leila Daniels, born a Browubeck. was David s second cousin. Bob $ father was a Cloughbarre grocer Bob went to Wesi Point and Leila to boarding school and Europe. After Bob's graduation be was ordered to the Philippines, and Leila, despite family opposition, went with him. Leila bad not liked the Philippines nor her position as the wife of a second lieutenant Bob, specially disliked Cloughbarre and his anomalous position in the Browubeck family. When Leila's father died and left of a million dol her tars, she promised Bob that If be would resign his commission th-- y After Bve would live in Europe. years tn Italy the war drove them home. Leila was a forthright, downrigb' person, strongly maternal and is pable and executive like most of me Brownbecks. To her Bob was now another child, a little sulky, a ft) tie troublesome and hard to mat nee because he could not be npankt ROLLO ROLLINGSTONE byBruceBarr .A Gigantic Greetings - three-quarter- s ROLLO ROLLINGSTONE Plucked KOLLO ROLLINGSTONE Desire Dittoed I by Brace Barr .rr-rTTi- iy ' Boo Daniels spent a good deaf of time with Fanny. The baby was natned Sheila. It had been Fannys mother s Mrs. Trust Uehed to get her hands on the baby. and. If Fanny nr.cthor-fn-iahad wished, would nave relieved her of most of SUeiias cate. But that Fanny pas slcnately did not wisn. All tho past year Fanny had persistently wooed Mrs. Frist, trying to win her at Sooner or later If she kept faction. on trying, wjs 3weet and gentle feel and mad her mother-in-latnelr need of her. Mrs. Frost was later su.e to soripn really learn tc love her. But 1711.4 weak and shaken, titpiy, with her though ecstatic.!! baby at ter bttust. F?buy telt a sudden ch'H, a sudden dark pro monition of sue knew not what, her when she step outside her door She knew then, la a ne9clenraess of vision, that $be would never be able to win Mrs. Fiosts llkiug If she wooed her till doomsday. David bad bad his first raise in salary Fanny was certain he would soon have a second. She often looked back on that summer as the happiest of her life. For all their need of the strictest economy Fatiny was forever giving parties. She would plan and plan work and work, trying ueW recipes that claimed to be both Inexpensive and good but In the end something seemed predestined to happen too much curry powder Id tha sauce the soup burned, the waffle batter spilled os tbe floor. It came to be a commonplace In Cloughbarre that one had tho best time add tha worst food la town at Fanny's parties. David was proud of Fanny's popularity, but he often grumbldd that ho never had her to h' mother-in-law'- or put to bed. but dear and wen loved, lfubt so interesting as his vohngest on. Cob always referred to Fanny and bimseif as tlio rank and file and the Brownbecks 83 their superior Ho had rarious names for officers. them. Leila was the C. 0. (com mandtng officer). David the lieutenant Mrs. Frost the major gen era). Uncle Judd the commander s himself. There was so little barrc fB Fanny, she was so open and above board In all she did, that nothing much was thought of It when Leila and Bob Daniels came home from Europe and Bob began spending so much time at the Frost cottage Leila, indeed, told everyone she was grateful to Fanny for keeping Bob amused; David duhbed Bob Fanny's me cat and begged her to shoo m out of the house before be got oma. Believe Missing : "Well, bows tLe other rank and was Bob's usual greeting to Fanny. "Not so good, thanks," she said one day. "Can't you see l!m fa the guardhouso on bread and water? "Whatv tbe offense now? Fanny laughed. "Well, yon know Cousin Louisa gave a dinner tasf nfght to that Yale professor wbos visiting tbe Enos. I sat next to him yon might guess the rest "I be he had a good time. "I think be did. But so did 1," giggled Fanny "Hes a profess n of literature and I asked him If be had read the latest thriller end he hadn't; so I sketched him tbe plot." Sounds barmlesg; let's Have it "It wasnt the professor who was shocked. It was Motber Frost and Cousin Louisa. I was never so sur prised Jl piy life. I thought I bad been a model of propriety a per feet lady for, once." "Im tfrald you're a common per son said ' Bob. After living for two years on Olympus, nnt to know what Is or is not ladylike Im ? ashamed of you. "Im no worse than Amelia." Tat. tut, my child. Amelia, being David's sister la One of Us. We shut our eyes to Amelia. What did David say? I haven't told him yet; maybe I wont He'a been a little worried nothing Important." said Fanny hurriedly, ' It was the dreaded first of the month, and Fanny and David hna bad one of tbe nnbappy scenes about money that recently bad be come so frequent 1110 by Batee I Bote (Copyright Famkcm) 'fj. : if) Kiiji'mio uptruiifrui i"i by Bruce Barr ; Die? The advent of Bob Oanlele In Fanny' life ha a deeper eigntfl eanct ttan either of them know. Reed tomorrow's chapter. a hunting party during a ROLLO ROLLINGSTONE A Framed-U- p by Bruce Barr Trick by Bruce Barr . blind- ing snowstorm. Brakeman Is Dead Believe Ogden Murder Case Soiree Winslow, Ariz., Nov. 28 (TP) Friends of D. J.' Bird, old Winslow railroad brake-ma- n, missing in the mountains 45 miles south of here for the past 14 days today, abandoned hope of finding him alive. Searching parties 'with the exception 'of four forest rangers have returned from the hifnt. These four men. had not been heard from for four days. Bird became separated from 4 (Continued from Page One) rinued to kick him and he shot him through the heart. Whitleys body was found hear the curb. Allen declared he fled from the scene and the next day left town He said he would plead, self defense. in the Soap manufactured United States last year was valued at $258,812; 08. I "" " MAMA LAkkAAAkkiiAkAk a k a. |
