Show Marion Finally MetHer Met MetHer I Her Match I By JACK WOODFORD Cc C by McClure McClara Newspaper Syndicate Service An ARION ON took a particular delight In swinging along the countryside country country- side In her big roadster It was such sucha a n powerful car and ana she was Vas such a smallish girl Not too small perhaps not too small to support the largest of big hazel eyes and a mop of ot reddish reddish reddish red red- dish gold hair and a pretty face whose striking beauty seldom failed to cause men to look Impressed It It was nice to drive the big car because it had the power of ot a great many large and puissant and happily contented horses It was nice because it signified and was a s symbol of her vaunted independence of men Her Der father futher had died when she was was' very young and her mother had reared her there were no other children chil- chil dren In the family Marion Marlon had lived In a womans woman's world At high school she had haa picked up and in college she had confirmed a feminist viewpoint She told herself that she was an Individual Individual individual In In- content and happy and ana able to be sustaining self-sustaining completely In In- dependent Of course there were many hours she could not explain now that she was two twenty-two when she ehe felt a lack in her self self satisfied world But today she felt exuberant and andas andas andas as though she were sifting sitting on top of ot tHe he world which In point of ot fact she was almost doing since she was nearing nearing nearing near- near ing the top of Mt 1 Afton Aiton which was one of the highest hills in Virginia At the top there would be sunset and then on the other side night Another reason renson she felt exhilarated was Inherent In the fact that she had all of ot the long way up the mountain ever since she had stopped at the bottom bottom bottom bot bot- tom of It for gas and ana a cup of ot coffee corree and a sandwich kept ahead of a handsome handsome handsome hand hand- some young man behind her who had had sought at every opportunity to pass her It gave her a thrill to best him because he was male even If he was wasa a rather extraordinarily good looking male as she remembered from seeing him at the base of the hill hilI He was tall and broad of ot shoulder and narrow of hip and his dark brown brown eyes had twinkled in their depths His hair was sleek and dark and his face was clean cut clean cut and handsome At the Uie top Marion Marlon paused only long enough to watch the sunset while he caught up to her then she went into gear and started the long descent with his car not far behind her It was when she reached a a level stretch of road which curved around the side of the hill hiU that her car suddenly went dead Unspeakably dismayed because It was dark darle now and the time of ot year for rattlesnakes moccasin snakes and copperhead snakes on Mt Afton she got out with her flashlight to see what was the trouble At this this moment he drove up behind her and jumped ou out of his car with a cheery I 1 thought you'd exhaust that boat boa sooner or later Boy Boyl How you can drive arIve May 1 I be of assistance No thank you she said coldly He tipped his hat and said Oh very well wen and climbed back into his car As he was about to drive off ofT she said weakly W Well ll you might be gentleman enough to stay here until I get started started started start start- ed anyway Sure Sure he grinned and Jumped out of his car again All I need is a kind word Smile at me and Ill I'll positively purr for tor you Dont be silly she rebuked Impossible not to be he Insisted A mountain side and darkness and a strange autumnal haze In the air I feel positively goofy Would you like to ride down the hill hiU In my car or would woula you prefer Id I'd go and get a service truck up here bere for you Theres There's a garage at the base of ot the hill hm You might look over the car and see If It you can find out what's the matter she suggested haughtily I know what's the matter he told her your cars car's exhausted from the way you drive It But they both looked nevertheless for some time without success At last he said Ill drive you down In my car and well we'll send a service man up to get yours youra since you dont don't want to stay here alone Im I'm surprised that such sucha I a n capable young looking looking young lady should be afraid to remain a couple or hours alone on the side of ot a hill tonight The drive down was very slow but buthe buthe buthe he turned out to be a fast fust worker When they reached the bottom of the hill he lie confessed I put a sm small ll puncture In your gas tank when you jou were eating a sandwich sandwich sand sand- on the other side of Mt Afton Aiton Back on the hill when they went up tIp with some gas and a plug to fix the tank leak he be said Beside confessing that I love you and want you for my wife Ive I've got gotto gotto to lo unburden myself still further urther Your mother who was once engaged to my father and may be again begged me meto meto meto to follow you since you ou were bound to climb Mt Afton Aiton alone ah She warned me roe you were headstrong Now if It you'll even speak to me again after those two confessions wont won't you ou please Just say Yes And what with the night and the haze and the splendid splendid did moon and ana the sudden springing Into sharp prominence of that void Toia she had haa noticed of ot late Marlon Marion managed managed man man- aged a reluctant Yes But when they reached the bottom of ot the hill a second time the reluctance reluctance reluctance re re- had all gone gene and Marion Marlon was all for cutting out the hole In the gas tank and keeping it for tor a souvenir |