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Show J , , HE Bl I KTIN, BINGH M C VNYON, UTAH Restore Shape Baby's bonnet or a teen-ager- 's skull cap can be brought back to shape after washing by drawing it over an inverted mixing bowl. (WW CLARK MCMEEKIN jfc-- THE STORY THUS FAR: While w. N U S C V C x vov Mine from England to America Lark Shannon'! ship foei down. She I, cast upon an l.land, and Gait W.the, a bound servant, rescues her. Lark It oner at made prl,. the inn by Cony and Mag who are holding her for ransom. She escape, and Is found by David North, her sweetheart, disguised as a ti,y to ret line on the activities ol one Dr Mat on. Gait arrives on the scene and agrees to get Lark to Norfolk, but on entering the boat find Cony concealed In It The two men light, while the boat drifts bark to the Inn. Dr. Matson spares Gait's lire at Lark's pleading, and later while In a gypsy camp, Dr. Matson en- -' deavors to Identify David. CHAPTER XIV His face fell. "Your thoughts be ver on him, Lark," he said glumly, "and his but on his business. No, I don't think we can overtake him. Not tonight. "Twill be all we can do to save our own skins." "He's right," Ginko said. "For-ge-t about David and get a quick start before the alarm goes out. Take the downhill path and work toward the beach. Matson, like as gate and ran across the patch of open ground that lay between them tcthereV01'5 Wh"e hrSeS Wer They could hear the farmer, searching around the house, seeking tor a trace of them. They paused with their hands on the horses' bri-bes as the blast of an olunderbus shattered the silence of the night. The horses shied nerv- - jously. They whispered to them soothingly and patted their flanks. Gait said, "We'd best be off, Lark. The stars are clouding over and it looks as If we might have a smart shower of rata. I'D feel better if we put this place behind us soon." He deposited the knife and the coins safely in the pouch at his waist. The rain caught them before they had gone many miles and forced them to seek shelter in a barn on the far side of Longboat Creek. They were drenched and shivering, but crept deep into the hay and found what warmth they could. Lark awoke next morning with chattering teeth and a hot flushed face. Her legs were cramped and "Now do! Listen to the woman!" The man grumbled. "How in land sakes do we know this boy ain't a thief? How do we know he ain't that very chap Sheriff told us to be on the lookout for, who stole a horse up Horntown-way- ? Fellow in town t'oth-er day tole me to be on the watch. Come inside now, an' let us get a good look at un." He held the door wide open. Gait felt the red blood mounting into his unshaven cheeks. He took a step back out of the light "Do I speak like a bound boy?" he said haughtily. "My wife and I are gentlefolk, both of us. If you have food and a blanket to sell . . ." "What price un give me?" the man asked, his face lighting up with greed, his suspicions now evidenUy allayed. "Til pay you fair," Gait said, in an agony of impatience, as he stuck his hand in his pouch and jingled the coins. The woman said, "I've got an ex-tr- y homespun blanket and plenty meal an' larded fowl, Tom. We could use a bit of cash money with the taxes coming due. ... I could add a bottle of my root tonic. It's mighty good for sick folks." She smiled at Gait. When Tom didn't answer her, but Just stood there considering, she fetched the things and tied them In a bundle which she held out with some eagerness to Gait. When the man, more slow-witte- d than his wife, still didn't say any-thing, Gait held out one of his coins. The woman smiled contentedly and passed him the bundle as Tom, sud-denly coming to life, snatched the coin and slammed the door in Gait's face. Her chills and fever ran their course for ten full days, and she was weaker than a new-bor- n kitten by that time. Anxiously, Gait guard-ed her for another three or four days until he felt her now returning strength would make It possible for them to continue their journey. At last, on the fifteenth day, she said, "Gait, I can make it now. Really, I think I can. Let me try." She stood up and took a few wobbly steps. His arm was around her, sup-porting her and giving her courage. He swung her up and Into Dosta's saddle, steadying her for a moment as she swayed weakly and clung to him. He patted her knee and spoke as If he were talking to a small child. "You're all right, Lark. You can make It, darling. It won't be very long now. Tonight will see us at not, will think you've taken the high-- I way to Norfolk and search that first." For hours they raced their horses along the shore where the beach was firmed by the creeping tide. Red Raskall was by far the swifter Of the two horses, and Gait had to horten his stride so that the small-er black Dosta might keep by his tide. As the sun reddened the eastern aky, they reached Cockle Creek and the Black Narrows. Gait said he had fished all up and down this coast and knew every little bay and inlet. Here was a good place, he told Lark, to water their horses and rest till noon. Gratefully they curled up In the and and were soon fast asleep. Lark wakened first and, rising on her elbow, lay watching Gait. How long he looked, lying there, how re-laxed . . . how beautiful. What latent strength he possessed, what manliness, she thought. In a moment he opened his eyes and smiled at her. "I'm hungry," he laid, "simply starving. Looks like we'll have to find us some oys-ters, Lark, do you mind?" "Anything would taste good." She at up and shook the sand out of her hair. "Oh, Gait, It's so good to be alive, to be free. Do you think those men will come back? Do you think Matson will send out others?" "I doubt they'll find us," Gait aid sturdly. "We can make a race for it, if they do. Our horses are wifter than any of his, and now that we've found our freedom, both you and I, by God, we're going to keep it." Lark thought, he said that not like swearing, but almost like a prayer. "I'm beautifully hungry now," Lark said. "Where's your cobby-knif- Gait? You must teach me to open oysters so the next time I am hipwrecked. ..." In an instant his mood veered with hers and they were laughing together, wading down to the wa-ter's edge, here in this hidden cove, and scooping up handfuls of oysters, tearing them loose from the sandy beds, opening them and lapping up the rich food. Carried her tenderly inside the lit-tle shelter. her shoulders ached unbearably. It took all the strength she could mus-ter to suck one of the handful of eggs which Gait found in the hay and to allow him to help her mount Dosta In the early gray of the bleak autumnal morning. The long day's riding was com-plete misery and, except for Gait's kindly consideration, would have been unendurable. The two horses, with the feeling of the road in them now, set their pace at a steady even gait. That night they were lucky enough to come on a hunter's lean-t- in the woods. Gait lifted Lark from the saddle and carried her tenderly in- - i J ,u lutla oholtar rtllinff what the ferry. Tomorrow we'll be in Norfolk. David will be there, wait-ing for you." "David!" Lark repeated the name slowly, stupidly. "David will be there waiting for me." "David Isn't here? He hasn't been here?" Lark asked anxiously. "Oh, I'm so dreadfully worried." She sat on the very edge of Mara Hastings' horsehair sofa in the prim parlor of the house set a little way back from the tree-line- d street in Nor-folk. "David . . . Captain North is not here." Mara pursed her lips and tranquilly continued to net a small silk purse. "I thought I made my-self quite clear on that point a few moments ago. I did not say he had not been here. You did not ask me "Look!" Lark pointed to a near-by scrub which was laden with red berries. "Do you think they're poi-on?- " "No, they're not poison. They're ground-apple- s. Plenty of 'em on Assateague. I've tasted them of-ten." He pulled cluster after cluster and loaded her lap with the wild fruit. "They're good," she said, miling at him companionably. "Taste!" She put one in his mouth. She followed him to where they had hobbled the horses near a small stream of water which meandered down to the shore. The horses were hidden here and could crop the ten-'de- r shoots of marsh grass which peared up through the sandy soil. Darkness found them skirting westward behind Gargathy Inlet Once during the afternoon, they had eeen a lone horseman and crept into the tangle of undergrowth till he was safely past them. "There's a cottage yonder, Lam aid "Maybe we can get Into it. It would be fine to make a fire in a fireplace and curl up on a dry floor In front of it." Gait nodded and they circled the darkened cottage. A shout from within stopped them. "Who's there?" A sleepy voice called roughly, and a man came out roof and stood under the gabled which protected the colonade, peer-ing out into the night. Lark and Gait crouched low in the thankful that tangled undergrowth, they had left the horses tied some little way off in the woods, me 1 rtenmg f.mr stood for a moment clung close togeth intently as they scarcely daring to baw- IT, I heerd "I heerd un," he shouted. and thievta try Z plain, poachin' thet to find thet ole treasure to God ain't here. I'll get un. swear I will. Ml blast un sure! turned back into the house. ,, We'd better make a run for "" he e Gait whispered. about till dayng gun, he'll tramp and find us sure." to their feet Br(,fuuy They got from toe pullln. their woolen clothes shaking the dne horn bushes, leaves from their hair. er5 out through the broken-dow- n Slue U1C imit aij.fc., dry boughs and leaves he could find, for a couch. He laid a snare in the undergrowth and was fortunate enough to catch a wild rabbit. He slivered and whittled a branch into fine shavings with his cobby-knif-and, when he had started a fire with his flint and tinder, nursed it along with Infinite care until it would take hold of a sizeable dry log he had been able to find in a corner of the lean-to- . For a time the hot strengthening meat seemed to put fresh life into Lark, but toward midnight her fever rose and the chills gripped her once more. Gait sat helplessly by, chaf-ing her cold hands and calling her name over and over again as she tossed and raved about the ship-wreck, and about that first dread-ful night on Ghost Island, when she had found Clink Swalters and had been unable to save him. Next morning there could be no thought of their continuing their Journey. Lark was dreadfully 111, that was plain to be seen, and Gait was in a frenzy of anxiety. His nursing was awkward, but tenderly loving It comforted him consid-erably that in her raving she made no mention of David North's name. When night came he knew he would have to have help If he were Lark's life. She seemed to save asleep fcr the time being, or else she was sunk in a dreadful, deep uncon-sciousnes- He wasn't sure but he for awhile. He had to leave her knew that. He had scarcely thought what sto-r- v he would tell when the man of confronted him with the the house suspicious surliness accorded strang-ers in this section of the country. My wife is sick." Gait heard his own hurried voice mumbling those words, and knew in that instant that were the truth he wished they "We're headed north from Norfolk toward Snow Hill Landing where her folks live. Can I buy a blanket and some food from you?" "Un don't look old enough to have wife " the man said consideringly. a do." A d "Bring her here, now small woman pushed up be-hind him and peered out at Gait that." "I would have thought. Miss," Gait said, with obvious irritation, "that you would have volunteered the information when Lark first asked you." "Captain North was here last week," Mara said. "He has gone back up the coast now." "Looking for us, of course." Lark smiled at Gait. "Poor, dear David, I'm sure he was frantic with worry. I was ill, you see, Miss Hastings, and that delayed our arrival. ..." Mara smiled patiently, as if she were humoring an excitable child. "You needn't worry," she said with, a slight edge to her tone. "Captain North did not go back to look for you, Miss Shannon. He went to Bal-timore to attend to important busi-ness for the Cargoe Riske Compa-ny." "Important business Oh, I see," Lark said flatly. She glanced down dejectedly at her hands which she was twisting In her lap. She felt suddenly very tired and very weak. "You will both want baths," she said, with her hand on the painted china door-kno- "I will have warm water sent to your rooms and will find some more suitable garments for you, Miss Shannon." Lark glanced down in quick con-fusion at her tattered gipsy finery. "Oil, " she said, "I'm so dreadfully orry. We've disgraced you by com- - ing here like this, haven't we? We didn't stop for a minute to think. We were so tired. . . . I've been so gick." "I hope that no one saw you en-ter." Mara led the way up the nar-- row carpeted stairs. "I believe all the children were engaged in their classes and there are not many of my friends on the streets at this early morning hour. One does have to be careful of appearances when their school has as select a reputa-tion as mine. You understand that, of course. Miss Shannon?" Gait stopped stock-stil- l a few feet below them on the landing. "Lark," he said, "since David isn't here, I'd say we tell Mistress Hastings good-b- y and take our foot in hand." (TO BE CONTINUED) AL WESSON'S story on "Charley the Fastest Human," In the "Best Sports Stories of 1944," recalls a Paddock yarn I have nev-- i er seen in print. The marine captain, killed in a plane crash while on war duty, told m some years ago about the most interesting split second of his long career as a sprirtter. YCU may recall th?t Paddock on sev-eral occasions had run the hundred In 9ss seconds. Also that he was the firs': of the ex- - GrantlandRlce tcndea f,ock to cov" er this same dis-tance in 9.5. I asked him one day why it was that being able to tie the record time and again, he had been unable at some high peak spot to beat it. So Charley told his story, which j makes one wonder whether or not nature hasn't set a certain limit on what the human frame can stand. ' "I was running that afternoon," he said, "against a strong field and I know I was never in better condi-tion. I had the feeling before the race that this was to be my big day the day where I would set a new world mark, possibly around 92s seconds, or even a shade faster. 1 had that record mark in my mind before the race was run. I was thinking of it while waiting for the starter's pistol. "At the hark of the gun 1 was away faster than usual, At the SO yard mark I knew I had made the fastest time of my career for thai distance. I increased my speed on the way home and at the 75 or 80 yard mark I could see that or perhaps 9, all ready for track his-tory. Then a queer thing happened, at this point I suddenly felt my leg ligaments and leg muscles begin to quiver, as if they were being torn loose from the bone. In that split econd I caught the flash that if I continued this same pace I would probably finish as a cripple. "So I called off any continuance of j full pressure and eased down. Even then I again ran the distance In 9, where I threw away two-fifth- s of a second in those last 20 or 25 yards. I found later, however, that my judgment had been correct, for I was sore and lame in the calves of both legs for a week. The speed and the stamina were there, but the physical structure wasn't for that pace." Gehrig's Hard Luck Much along the same line, which proves again how difficult it Is to crack certain marks, is Lou Gehrig's case. Here was another star who came within a half turn of setting one of the greatest records ever written by the ash. Up to June 3, 1932, only two men In baseball history had ever hit four home runs in one game. The first quadruple blast came from the bat of Bobby Lowe of Boston in May, 1894. Two years later big Ed Deleharrty of Philadelphia, one of the great hitters of all time, plas-tered four out of the park to tie Lowe's record. Sixteen years later Lou Gehrig had his big chance. Facing the strong Athletic team of that season, Gehrig hit a home run his first four times at bat. He was now on even terms with Lowe and Delehanty, with another chance left. On his final appearance Lou caught one solidly and squarely on the snout. It was the longest of his five hard smashes, but In place of traveling slightly to left or right, the big blow was caught In deep center against the fence. It was a matter of raw luck thai kept Luis Angel Firpo, the Wild Bull of the Pampas, from putting across the greatest ring sensation of all time. Few recall that the ring had been lifted that night at least 2 feel above normal. This move had been made to give the big crowd a bet-ter chance to see the fight. The drop from the ring to the press seats was a deep one. I recall saying that I'd hate to have d Firpo fall across my neck from the lifted plateau. It so happened that when Dempsey came through the ropes his body fell directly at Jack Lawrence, who in-stinctively put up both hands to pro-tect himself. If Dempsey had top-pled a foot to the right or a foot to the left the champion would almost certainly have gone all the way down to the press rail or at least so far down that he would never have had the slightest chance to get back through the ropes in time. It Is by such narrow margins thai sport history is often written. College vs. Pro Football Greasy Neale, coach of the Phila-delphia Eagles, a team that lost only one game last fall. Insists that hi high-flyin- g Eagles would have beat-en either Army or Navy last fall. Coach Steve Owen of the Giants doesn't agree. "Army had too much youth and speed, plus a lot of power," Steva said. "We have too much experienca just as much speed and just ai much power," Neale counters. Mastitis an Inflammation Mastitis is an inflammation of the udder which may reduce the milk flow and ultimately destroy the func-tional tissue of the udder. Protect Tabletops Pieces of felt cut from old hats and glued to the bottoms of vases, lamps and ashtrays, form splendid table-to- p protectors. Forest Industry More than a million American workers and their families make their living directly from the forests. WALKER, Kee-- L T and others on 'lot were discuss-fo- r the filming d It Corporal War-lenWy- , turned to j remarked Bob in the armed n .noW that you surely points to become ugh crack was occa-(ac- t The that out of eight made, six have er has of the armed i(orms al life he was turned of defective eyesight. !0nbeat Walker's rec-- i Ito uniform for eight rieS suffered in that cident two years ago ivilian in private life. I was about to be in-- like Johnson, met m of a motorcycle j worn uniforms in a. He and Johnson ) in "Early to Bed," nee his recovery and iey will star in a y called "My a Band," for United ;heduled to go before 1 4 Mm r ire jgBj to lOt DORSEY lis some time during the iDorsey is on the Coast for siftemoon radio program, Gardner, former singer I Lombardo's orchestra, Ike armed forces, has just Bronze Star for brav- - Held of battle. Kenny, tried to Elaine Lombardo, Iin, is a first lieutenant n Third army, i myth that all you have rak into pictures is sit on stool near Hollywood land be discovered by a I Lana Turner was, they I Ann Sheridan's sister s picture to the Dallas taie became a star. But vis, Ida Lupino, Jennifer I hosts of others worked Wore they ever heard the month's search and two itreen tests to find just the h suit for Jane Russell beach scenes for Hunt ll "Young Widow," the ded in Jane's own clothes tens of suits had been knitting mill in Oregon tissioned to make special 'I see Jane wearing one I last year at a neighbor of her classmates in W class at Westlake Girls began their vaca- - J Temple went back to ! "faded for the Pacific m an extended tour of " H" latest picture Seeing you." kyisone of Hollywood's stic collectors 0f 16- - collection rates with 2 Grant, Deanna Dur-W'- o and Alice Fave. Ron "Those Endearing he acquired a print 'ce, "Border ." she mnde it, and O'Brien in it. And mly good in it, too. P??rt government agen-N- n material for the IB;hT0M" Friday eve- - ? 18 the ro bv Dan Seymour C ,rarnalizations of revealed. Sff-MeenF.-r- efll, jjfr "' "take a concert 3 " Spngsfw rotei in N 5ror. 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