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Show TIIE LEIII SUN. LEHI. UTAH " ATTFnNirv 4 ILtPAklMtNy llllilllllliliiAlA .J two keys B Y CHAPTER Xl-Coninned 16 stood looking at a post-card Tor Sargeant A crescent f . j In dark- blue , refleciea " - ---- , a round white tower, a lignt-;' lignt-;' perhaps, rose against a star- ' m.A Knot nritn M1 Sky. A Slim icu - ! 5-furled sail lay at anchor 'it. strip of land where dark ?i pew. Constantinople Phen- 1 naetche. The lettering cuuvejcu to his mind, but the boat & him of the red canoe at lie UAillXkmfc v i -nice aaaresseu mm. i.v. ' . .. . U .taira . ip Abbie aesceimuis ub alking neavuy, uer s L. the rail, her white apron -racking with starch, her round highbred high-bred face wreathed in an amia-ble amia-ble nnfle. "Hello, ADDie, donn saiu. nuuic ! lived with the Sargeants for I mrt one was iuui c a wsmuci v. lie family than a servant, as Hu- jjl was m " """" " You to for good?" she asked, halting at the newel post "I hope so. Til bave supper on In half an hour. XOU sure juur eau frost-bitten?" she asked with kindly concern. "It's lust coming in wnere it's ! warm that makes them red." Td advise you to rub snow on em," Abbie said. "It's a heathen- i life a doctor s called on to live. I don't know why, at your age, I jou're so set on it Give me the I if you re called our, so s i can let something In the oven." The office was shadowy with dusk. John switched on a light and dropped into the chair at the Doctor's desk. Dr, Sargeant would have known how to handle that whining creature he'd called on this afternoon, he lighting a cigarette. He, himself, had been unable to sympathize sympa-thize with the woman who had poured into his somewhat embarrassed embar-rassed ears a stream of self-pity and imagined symptoms. His examination ex-amination had checked with notes on the case he had found in the Doctor's files. Physically, she was as sound as a nut His sympathy I been all for her husband, poor wretch. No, definitely, he hadn't a bed side manner. John pulled the desk memorandum toward him. There were fewer notations than usual written in the clear handwriting of Miss Sprague, Dr. Sargeanfs secretary secre-tary and office nurse. One notation nota-tion was made in writing quite different dif-ferent from Miss Sprague s. It asked him to call the Congress Square Hotel, Ho-tel, Room 201. No name was appended. ap-pended. A guest, perhaps, who required re-quired the services of a doctor. He should make the call. In a few minutes when he'd gotten warm and had finished his cigarette-He cigarette-He would be glad when this period pe-riod of marking time had passed and he could go on with the work he enjoyed. John tilted back in his chair and propped his feet on the desk. He would never be happy in practice. He liked the stark facts of science, unconfused by human contacts, the crystal , hardness of mith that could be checked and Proved. He had thought that he night experiment a little ,on the "de. Perhaps he could when he had oeoome more accustomed to the jwtae of office hours and calls. the present he was too tired nen his long day had ended to do anything more exacting than read f little or talk to Mary Adams oerore he went early to bed. The crescent moon and the red Mat on the postcard the Doctor had SaDed cabin a8ain- He Shffif j36 ka a letter from Gay. h?3. .been ta Florida when last J"11 frora her- was possible for him to imagine the wL v Lved toa As always. dwelled upon the dis-jnjarit, dis-jnjarit, of their separate environ-JeT.; environ-JeT.; Vum of aPPrehension set-W?hubeart- He comforted lit.11 ff at station Sa,But"8'-eatmanyWed- 5hS passed smce and had not come. SetteeSltrfaentbacktothe He to?v ad 8pent at the cabin. oughl d-K rk: There was- he h57r s"bcnscious evasion. Lr"alled fte visit to New -Ives Sf J? them- Iceirai .v. , uc"'anaea clear and nt to feel aK' was more Pleas" tapped l'nythJ?ia might be ftink. as dlsturbing to "ent hhJ3hdJbe5in again me experi- If h abandoned at the cab- omethia tbheCOm terested "6 of the sort, he would L I D A stop this useless brooding over Gay. It was that, he admitted to himself him-self with reluctant honesty, rather than fatigue or lack of time wiiich had prevented his original plan of converting the small room In which the Doctor kept supplies into a laboratory. lab-oratory. In his leisure moments, when he was not actively engaged in keeping together the Doctor's practice, his mind was so filled with thoughts of Gay that there was no room for anything else. It was likely like-ly to be harmful and certainly a waste of time. He must stop it He would call the hotel. Miss Sprague was almost terrifyingly efficient. ef-ficient. She would be sure to ask him if he had when she returned for the evening office hours. He took his feet from the desk, sat forward, for-ward, reached for the telephone Todd Janeway was in Palm Beach. Gay had spoken of it In a recent letter. He was attractive. There was a strong bond between Gay and him. He remembered how she had looked the night they had coasted on the Janeway estate, when she had returned to him after climbing climb-ing the slope with Todd, rested, relaxed, re-laxed, eager to be with him again. She had broken away from Todd and come swiftly to him, smiling through the fire-light. How strong was that bond? Had his trip to New York convinced her that she had made a mistake? He I wouldn't think of it His hand reached for the telephone again, halted, knotted into a fist A rap sounded at the door. He Ignored it At a second rap, he wrenched his thoughts from an imaginary scene on a moon-lit beach in Florida and made a somewhat irritable reply. The door opened. Mary Adams, Dr. Sargeanfs daughter, stood hesitantly hes-itantly on the threshold. "I'm sorry," she said. "That's all right Mary." John's face cleared. "Are you in a good humor?" "Fairly so. Why?" "I have an apology to make for my younger son." Contact with the tropical sunshine had given Mary Adams' skin a permanent tan. She was slight and worn, at thirty, from having dutifully, and gladly, followed fol-lowed the fleet from having had two babies, "each In a different language" lan-guage" as she expressed it from the struggle to keep up the necessary neces-sary front on a naval lieutenant's pay. But her dark eyes in the sharp pixie-like brownness of her face were animated and cheerful and the stories she told of her vagrant existence ex-istence were a source of amusement amuse-ment to John. "What has Skippy been up to?" he asked. "Look, John." She held out a crumpled sheet of yellow paper. "This telegram came for you yesterday yes-terday afternoon. I left it on the table in the hall and supposed you'd gotten it when you came in. But Skippy must have. You know how he's always looking for letters from Nat. I found it in the pocket of the sweater he had on yesterday. I think he's eaten most of it There isn't much left" John took the paper from her hand. The only typewritten words which remained legible were "NOON TOMORROW GAY" He looked up from the paper to Mary Adams. "Abbie took a telephone message just after noon when Miss Sprague was out for lunch. It was from the Congress Square." "Do you suppose that was Gay?" he asked in a dazed voice. "Abbie said it was a lady. She never gets names straight, you know. When I found the telegram I was pretty sure" "Then she's been here all afternoon." after-noon." John fan his fingers through his hair effecting crisp disorder "Why didn't you call the hotel?" "I considered it but I thought she might wonder why I read your telegrams." tele-grams." "What will she think of me?" John asked still in a dazed and bewildered be-wildered voice. Mary's face twinkled with sympathetic sympa-thetic excitement "lve spanked Skippy if that makes you feel better," bet-ter," she said. "You'll bring her here, won't you?" "May I?" "For dinner, If you like. We can open the emergency bottle of olives. Or maybe you'd rather" "After dinner," he said. "Will you take care of her during office hours? Is it imposing?" "Imposing! I'm hysterical with excitement." John's diffident smile widened into an Irrepressible grin. "Mary," he asked, "did you ever feel as though somebody had socked you in the pit of your stomach and a million mil-lion stars were bursting inside of your head?" He reached for the telephone. Mary moved toward the doorway, smiling. to a cabin ARRIMORE MACRAE SMITH CO. WNU SERVICE "I feel that way every time Nat's ship steams into port," she said gently, and went out and closed the door. John laid down the menu card and the waiter moved away. He smiled diffidently across the narrow nar-row table at Gay. "A straw hat" he said. "You've torn several leaves oft the calendar. calen-dar. This afternoon I was sure we were in for a blizzard." "Don't you like it?" Her smile was constrained. "I'm more polite than you were. It's nice. Looks like a halo. Have you had a pleasant winter?" "Very pleasant thank you. I got a little weary of palm trees and bathing suits, though, I wanted to see snow." "Is that why you came?" "Well, variety You look" Her glance dropped from his face to the table. She constructed a wigwam with a knife, a fork, two spoons. "Are you working hard?" "You haven't forgiven me, have you?" His voice softened. He bent toward her across the table. "I He would be glad when this period pe-riod of marking time has passed. don't blame you. It was dreary not to be met at the station. I can't tell you how sorry I am. What did you do all afternoon?" "Stayed in my room. It has matching draperies and counterpane the color of melted raspberry sherbet sher-bet There are twenty-fleur-de-lis, light gray on darker gray, running lengthwise in the carpet irom tne window to the door." "Is that all you could find to amuse you?" His laugh was reluctant. reluc-tant. "Oh, no." Her voice was light and quick. "I read the telephone directory direc-tory and the Bible. The Psalms are rather wonderful. I think I should have liked to know David. Da-vid. Is he the same David that killed Goliath? I wanted to ask you. I'm sure that your Biblical training was more sound than mine." "Gay, look at me." She lifted her eyes. A half-smile trembled across her hps. "You had a miserable afternoon, didn't you? Alone and thinking What did you think?" "I spent most of the time wishing that my impulsive nature had been more , rigidly disciplined in early youth." "I'm glad it wasn't" "Are you?" The half -smile faded. "Do you remember the night I left New York you told me that you'd come to see me some Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon?" She nodded. "Every Tuesday night since then I've thought Tomorrow is Wednesday. Wednes-day. Maybe Gay will come.' " "Today is Tuesday. I couldn't wait until tomorrow." They broke into soft laughter, free from constraint The waiter placed food before them, hovered solicitously. solici-tously. "That will be all," John said in definite dismissal "The effect you have on waiters and taxi-drivers and bell-hops," he continued to Gay when the man who had served them had stationed himself at a discreet distance, dis-tance, against the wall beside a thicket of potted palms. 'Tve been in here pretty often and no waiter ever hovered over me like a setting-hen setting-hen over an egg." "Egg! I hate you!" She laughed. "What are you going to do with me?" "Kiss you again as soon as I get a chance." Her eyes softened and shone. The crisp frills on her blouse ruffling out over the jacket of her dark tailored suit rose and fell with her quickened quick-ened breathing. "I'm trying to be practical. You make it very difficult diffi-cult Am I to stay here at the hotel?" "Certainly not" His expression was offended. "But I don't mind. Now that I know you're glad I came, I'm sure I'll become attached to the fleur-de-lis and the raspberry-sherbet counterpane." "You're to stay at Dr. Sargeanfs tonight Mary sends you the invitation." invita-tion." "Mary?" "Dr. Sargeanfs daughter, Mary Adams, mother of Skippy and Rear-Admiral Rear-Admiral Byrd." Her eyes widened. "John! Are you delirious?" "I think I am, ' a little. I can't get used to having you here. I was referring, however, to Mary's older son, Nat He was being Admiral Byrd this afternoon in the swing. They're' nice kids. I think you'll like Mary." The headwaiter, patrolling, halted beside the table. "Everything satisfactory, sir?" he asked, addressing John, but with his eyes sliding toward Gay. "Yes, thank you," John said curtly. "The steak is broiled as you like it?" The headwaiter's suave, discreetly dis-creetly interested glance was for Gay. "Not too rare or too well done?" "It's very nice, thank you." The headwaiter strolled off. John scowled, then grinned. "You see," he said. "That never happened to me. The desk-clerk told him who you are." "Oh, nonsense. You attach too much importance to my name. Nobody No-body in Maine ever heard of me." "I don't believe it Well, if that'.s true, it's the way you look. They think you're a movie star. That golden-brown tan " "Don't you like it?. I worked awfully aw-fully hard to get it. Maybe I could have myself bleached." "Don't you dare," he said. "I love it You're freckles scarcely show at all." She made a laughing grimace. "Not that I object to the freckles," he said. His voice softened. His dark eyes, regarding her across the table, were bright but tenderly grave. "I love everything about you. You're a little breath-taking until I get used to you. I think I remember, but each time you're a shock. You have beautiful bones." "Can't you forget your profession for half an hour?" "Good Lord! No, I can't" He glanced at his watch. "We must go. Office hours." He halted in the process of pulling back his chair. "But you haven't eaten anything" "Neither have you. The head-waiter head-waiter will think the steak was too well done or too rare. And all these lovely French fried potatoes?" "I've got to go, Gay." He signaled the waiter. "You stay and finish and come up to Dr. Sargeanfs in a cab." "I will not" Her voice was indignant in-dignant "I didn't come all the way to Portland, Maine, to eat French fried potatoes." (TO BE CONTINUED) Battleships Using Atoms Is Scientific Forecast Operation of battleships by atomic energy was intimated as a future possibility by Dr. Arthur H. Comp-ton, Comp-ton, of the University of Chicago, 1927 Nobel Priz winner, during a discussion with Dr. E. O. Lawrence, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the atom-smashing cyclotron. "The progress being made in the smashing of atoms by the cyclotron, and which thereby releases the energy en-ergy In them, is of more importance to the world today than the war in Europe," Dr. Compton declared. "The energy in the atoms is that used in the sun and stars. It is hundreds and millions times greater than all the rest of the fuel now available in the world. "Already the science of releasing this atomic energy has advanced to such a state that one of the greatest worries of scientists at present is what to do with it once it finally becomes available." Dr. Compton pointed out that one of the greatest elements to be considered con-sidered In the release of atomic energy en-ergy is that there can never be any corner on atoms, such as can be brought about on coal and oIL but that there can be a corner on the understanding necessary to use their power. On this point he declared, the United States has the greatest chance of obtaining such a corner, for the work necessary to arrive at this knowledge is now being accomplished accom-plished in this country. It also is here that the progress is greatest By VIRGINIA VALE (RtleMd by Wiftcrn Newipapr UnlonJ HOLLYWOOD is all agog over a contest that's to take place on August 25th at the RKO studios. The participants par-ticipants are Jack Oakie and George Bancroft, and the event is of all things! a table-setting contest! It all started when a Los Angeles department store persuaded ten prominent men about town to set tables as each thought they should be set. Oakie and Bancroft saw the exhibit and the argument was on, each being perfectly sure that he could out-do the other if ever heaven forbid he bad to set a table. ta-ble. First thing they knew, they'd arranged the contest; the only rules are that they'll use modern Amcrl- -A - 1 ssf 1 iiTiiir- - VIVIAN LEIGH can glassware and keep expenditures expendi-tures down to $40. The loser will set a table and serve dinner for 16 of the winner's friends. Vivian Leigh and Laurence Olivier Oliv-ier are to be co-starred in a story based on the romance of Lord Nelson Nel-son and Lady Hamilton, an Alexander Alex-ander Korda picture. Remembering Remember-ing what a superb picture he made of "Henry the Eighth," it seems certain that his version of the famous fa-mous love story of the famous admiral ad-miral will be one of the year's best pictures. Phyllis Kennedy ought to succeed tf anybody should first she broke ber back, and later she accepted advice ad-vice that wasn't very good and lost a grand opportunity and now she's started toward the top again. In 1933 she was dancing with a troupe in Denver, and fell and frac tured her spine. Doctors said she'd never walk again. Two years later she was dancing once more. She was engaged for chorus work in the Astalre-Rogers musicals, and her gift for comedy got her the role of the maid In "Stage Door." Warner Brothers offered her a contract, bnt she hesitated, let people tell ber what to do, and the chance slipped away. She's working now in "Honey moon for Three," and Lloyd Bacon, who's directing, Is helping by build ing np her role. Watch her she's bound to get ahead this time! Douglas Fairbanks Jr. may have been something of a playboy some years ago, but now he's nothing if not a solid citizen. Married happi ly, and the proud father of a three- year-old daughter, he's not only the star of Columbia's "Before I Die,' but its co-producer as welL That means being on the set early and late, whether he's appearing before the cameras or not The girls of Hollywood are wearing wear-ing red, white and blue these days, Penny Singleton appeared at a benefit bene-fit in a cotton evening gown having hav-ing a white skirt and a bodice that was red and blue; Anita Louise, told to wear a novelty necklace in "I'm for Rent," chose a silver chain from which were suspended miniature flags of the 23 American countries; Evelyn Keyes has a red, white and bine straw bat, and Frances Robinson's Robin-son's leather handbag has a flag on either side. Uncle Ezra's Rosedale Silver Cor net Band rehearses longer than the actors on that popular radio pro gram, just to achieve those peculiar off-key effects that drive music lov ers mad. The reason the band has to rehearse so long to sound so dis cordant is that each man is an ac complished musician; "We work harder than Toscaninl," declared Director Bruce Kamman, "Just to perfect a musical mistake!" Paramounfs going to do right handsomely by Joel McCrea he's been assigned to the lead in "Bot any Bay," a story by James Norman Nor-man Hall, one of the authors of "Mntiny on the Bounty." "Bottom Bay" is one ef those high ly dramatic tales, laid in the period Just after the American Revolution. Jean Hersholf s dream of years, a Hollywood home for aged and incapacitated in-capacitated film workers, it soon to be a reality. As president of the Motion Picture Relief fund, he aed members of the organization's executive ex-ecutive committee will soon begin looking for a site for the home. They have more than a half million dollars, earned by the stars who donated do-nated their services to the CBS Screen Guild program so that the money could go into the fund. 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Grass stains can easily be removed re-moved from linens, cottons or white stockings by rubbing the stains with molasses before washing. wash-ing. Delicate colors in washing materials ma-terials will not fade if before being be-ing washed they are soaked in tepid water to which a few drops of turpentine have been added. All vegetables should be put on to cook in boiling water. This holds the major portion of the mineral matter and starch within. The backs of pictures should be inspected from time to time. If there are any holes inhe paper, fresh pieces should be pasted over them, or dust will get in. When stewing fruit, add the sugar sug-ar just before taking the fruit oil the stove. In this way far less sugar is needed than if it is put in at the beginning. When laundering curtains of voile, scrim or any material which has to be ironed, if they are folded so the selvage ends are together and ironed, they will hang perfectly per-fectly even and straight. , yd"' 5 1 |