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Show 1 Easy and Inexpensive to Make Hooked, Woven, Braided or Crocheted Rug MAKE T material far VooRSELf , Jill whoa falhtr, Rich, In World War I, fall sharply, Jills were senseless and glared. but half-r- eyes der and t1 e blue and silver of tl e air corps on his sleeve, a man with He did not lift her. He shouted at the mare till she trotted tewil-dere- d vered miHk.ng blue ejes end siltemples. aside, and then he ea: She tut see Julia McFarlares Jills legs straight and picked a stunneddidand stricken look as this wild grape bough and bent it over stranger smiled at her and said, her to keep the sun from her ey 15. I 'Hello, Donley! , Thfsr fence Thpy itar at each other for a h borhc and I long minute, bac,k then Julia gave a down the rocky hill to choked little cry! l5Und?8 the roofs of Buzzard's Hill. 'Richard'" opcaed ber eje and sneezed I John I who had been t0 pusb tbe tickling asleep in his chair, worn out by the Dranch off her face, but brr father. her I 6trflm and excitement of the day. icit arm would not work. oddly closed his sagging mouth and She began to cry in a childish nd said, "What say? Who wav 43 ears nning down her and making wet spots on thetemples drew back as the officer e earth mare lifted her head and nick- - Va.?,cd Ln, 016 room R s Richard!" ered, shrilling a summons Her voice was ' Wheels were coming 0flr?e strangled breath. "It's the lane up "But it s so stupid! With a world an home!" labored on the slope and Rlchard-co- me engine full of unhappy heartbroken people, there were voices. Jill hftVd her Thc old man jumped to his feet people who can t help themselves, head painfully and looked into her and Reared, who cant change things, why grandfather's frightened face. John Hello, Father," Richard McFar-shoul- d people make themselves un- - I. had no collar on and partly wined- - lane said coolly, When it doesn't off lather was happy uselessly? drying on his hllf- - I "So R' you. is it?" John I.s I make sense? shaven whiskers. stare was hostile Its you after Dave looked at her then. "Do twenty five years! What do you want?" you think Dooley is unhappy, Jill? Don't, John I.! Julia protestI don't think she has ever been ed. She said, a trifle flatly, "Come And shes so alone, really happy. in, Richard." But she did not hold Even with Grandfather somehow. out her hand. and me around, and Mamie sputter Nice to see you again, Dooley! in the to Ric and lng kitchen, worry Surprised?" about, shes still so shut in, someJulia's how, so separate and remote. Casconfusion chilled to a controlled calm. She ual things she can share, but real stood still, poised, stony, not feelthings the things that matter never. So I dont even know if she ing anything at all. cares about you, Dave. Im just Naturally, Having mourned you for years as one nobly the fool, rushing in. dead, naturally Im surprised. WiU Then Dave said, "I do love your you sit down? Youve seen that so mother, Jill. He took the chair she indicated theres no use evading. But I and eased the creases of his smart can't talk to her about it, not with gabardine slacks, with the old casthe barriers standing that she sets ual gesture that she remembered. up and defends as she does John I. did not sit down. His white "I know. She retires behind that mustache was quivering like the aloof wall and smiles at you across antennae of an angry insect. His It, but you cant touch her. And if eyes snapped fire. you present any argument she levAnd to what extraordinary cirels you with that gentle kind of concumstances are we indebted for the demnation. She does that to me honor of this sudden visit? he deIt affronts her that other people manded. dont share her mistaken loyalty. Please Julia stayed the old My father has always been sometmans fury with a pleading hand hing splendid in my life, but I cant "Richard has come home. Sit down. put him, like a pillar of cloud, beJohn I. Youre shaking all over, tween me and the things I live with, Would you like a drink, Richard? the way Dooley does. I know that Not now, thank you, Dooley. he wouldnt want that sort of loyaltWhy dont you sit down yourself? y. He was a human person, defiShe would not collapse into the nitely, from the few things that Grandfather has let slip when hes chair. She let herself down care angry at Ric. He liked living, and fully, a bit stiffly, feeling suddenly he wouldnt be as though her body had turned to happy to know that anybody took the veil on his acwood, as though her voice was count. something mechanical, grinding out Yes, he liked living," Dave said, The startled animal floundered, words. So you didnt want to come and he did a lot of it in the few lost her footing, jumped and scramback, Richard? All these years years that he had. He was a very bled to regain it. handsome boy. He had that classic twenty-fiv- e years youve let us go You look funny," Jill said on, with nothing but silence, nothface, like Rics, but he had blue ing but emptiness because you eyes, with a cool direct look. hoarsely. The dim blur of her mothers face wanted it that way? "I know. Ive got the picture of "He didnt dare come back! him. And a sort of laughing was close then, very white, her eyes I suppose youve barked John I. big and terrified. mouth. found out, sir, that Id cleared just does "Where it hurt, darling? Amused, Dave helped her out, all that mess in Washington? It My arm," Jill gasped and lay up though the word that had first would have been outlawed anyway, back again. flashed into his mind was "mockiIts gone! but I paid it all off every penny ng. He was a lot like Ric. Hed It isnt gone. Its broken, I Was there something that had to never been disciplined, he had a think. be paid off? Richard asked coolly, restlessness that kept him on the Dont lift her. Lie still, Jill." not stirred, not troubled apparentmove, he. . . Daves voice cut through the fogDave stopped, embarrassed, feeling that he had said gy morass of pain that was press- ly by the electric currents that sparkled around them in that room. too much. ing Jill down. Keep the sun off her face, Dooley. Well get some "This is the first Ive heard of it. For Jills face had oddlchanged, Old John I. snarled, "Ahh-h-h- ! kind of stretcher. y. It was as if something had Julia quieted him again with a but come to her, Theres an army cot. Go with something only gentle gesture. know I. it John where you before, something she had Dave, Sit down, please, John I. We felt and feared a little, and put is. And telephone the doctor. sway, hanging flags and decorations Oh, Dooley, I dont want to be can talk this over quietly, dont you to hide the I dont want to be hurt and think? We can listen to whatever sick! sore place where it had eaten. I Richard has to say. all crippled up! Jill wailed. You help me. She can up. get said, abruptly, Lets go When Loyalty back. Im chilly. No, dont move, Jill. Lie perDave said, can some we have still till Tumbled Down Cold in this sun? fectly till we know whether Mame would say a goose was What can he say now? Twenty-fiv- e frass on my grave just one theres any other injury or not. years late? demanded the old of those If you mean, is my back broken, man. He would not sit down. He shuddery things! Jill tried to laugh. it isnt. I can move my legs and stood facing them, bristling all I everything-se- e? But inside she was cold Its just this arm, over, like a small, gray furious dog, and quaktag. Inside somehow, now, she darn it! Julia thought with a small comer I know, baby. Its a rotten of her mind. jcw. About her father. All the but well get you fixed up rnngs that had never been Theres really nothing to say," said, all shame, Here e they come now. quickly. Richard began blandly, lighting a ngs that her mother had roared back cigarette, looking around for an ash Warded, even in her The station-wago- n thoughts when fa-c.hlIdren were Her I up, and the two men got down, tray and finding none, twisting present. th r had been like Ric. Not a com- - Dave in one leap and John I. backI the burnt match in his fingers. out stiffly. They unfolded the discovered that I missed you all. I ,not some one to lean on, some ing e to be proud of, but a heart-ai- army cot, pnd awkwardly lifted Jill was passing this way on a military an unsolved mission so I came home. riddle, a bewil-rm- onto it. and uncertain element in the No wandering No amnesia? You cant lift her that high, emistry of her mothers life around Europe for years, not knowJohn I. Let me, Julia ordered. Tugging and panting they pushed ing who you were? You just came Realization the cot into the rear of the station-wago- n home! John I. was bitter. Leads to finally, and Jill relaxed and Julias face was as pale as death. Accident giggled a little, wagging her boots This was a death something dying Suddeniy she knew that the look in their faces. in her, an ember dying, a spark ad gbmpsed in Julias eyes Youd get zero on an ambu- sinking into nothingness, the spark ah,,,, so stubborntm-7 iStie looked at that pic-r- lance crew, you two, she said. And she had tended so long, If 8 shrine, was then she turned her face away and ly, knowing all the while that it was kept ot tke Quivering, closed her eyes. rearh3 y ove' doomed to the dry aridness of "s1(achl"8 kind of love that ashes, but refusing to give up. That 11 was what hurt. Remembering that was Spang' Returns Richard Afferent half,r foolish loyalty, that tower she had somehow, bennA something back, remem- - From the Dead built of air and dreams and decep.to much. Things that had A little glow sustained Jill through tive memory that tower built of told that never, she the rest of that awful day. Through nothing upon nothing! knru, """W would be told. No, I havent even a dramatic the jolting ride to town and the anihVhacked.the mafe suddenly guish of being lifted onto that stony story, Richard said. "I wasnt I wasnt even scratched. e, rems- jerked her head Polled up, table, through the torture of splints wounded. ' r of hypoder- I got a little sick of the war after confusion about sick the The and sharply. startled animal floundered, lost her mics. She lay in a high hospital lying around a muddy trench for footiro lumped and scrambled to bed and decided m a druggy, dazed seventy days, so I went to Pans. . and I stayed too long, and explanations Dave yelled warn- - lassitude that though this was purgaand "hia Sytoondi abaad- - tory, at least she had made things would have been awkward, so war I the ended, then suddenly and Dave Dooley. right for Jill go back. didnt because not from did know, a"-She they the saddle la"pdAtv',sting Julia We traced you that far, n her Moulder in the never told her, about the car that rocki went to Paris Your father said. at the lane, her bright rolled under the porte-cocheand spent two months m twenty-on- e arm crumpled tier he'r Buzzards Hill that night. She did in France face startled not see her mother's ,mare jumped And two thousand dollars! the UJs Ies, and then again, ..U stood when she opened the screen door old man ,1, enng put in. Da- -! and saw a tall officer standing shoulhi Jumped down, cued, JillI on (TO BE CONTINUED) there with silver bars ird, nb (pant Cordon, a young Ufiicmnl. H ullt her that hrr broth a dlvorrea and aha it Blr, I taalnf lort to ramp to lnvritlfata. Rle avoid a(, tul aba latar tr him with Sandra Calvrrl, an older, hardened woman. Cpuln Mackey, known a "Old Cyan her ha knew her mother I4t," tell year ato. (ha feala ah bat met aiy kin before Spanf call to tay food Fat bye. later, while riding with Dav irrxm, a family friend who hat alwaya rrrrtlr loted her mother, Julia, Jill nartlea him by atklnf, Why dont yoa Data apeak of ntrry im rootherT U lot f 1 oi ii Vagill hit o.d g i h l' ,n .,i , , s GiT,lS!V;0.:L'i! if try this rdsiwetjs I , t ,, Our ail paitr (., k'. for maki funk.! co. cnxhttrd u Zi rent ilutiiir t t , , , biait.l u,vi , v, if Hi mu f. r "Nr lilrji fui llmd made Huat in Hrrkh hi-iJ M ltih M, rw rw,i4rr bulk II. N b. I'riul name, adjit-.i- . 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