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Show THE LEW SUN. LEW, ITTAH B Y CHAPTER XVI Continued. 23 Nat pulling Skippy In an express wagon. came up to the side of the "Hello!" he said, his smile widen-u, widen-u, with recognition, displaying a Srini tooth. Tm not Admiral Bvrdnow that there isn't any snow." 0f course not How stupid of me. I should have' known. This is py cousin, Miss Oliver, Nat, and Skippy." Mid Ga " 'Hello, Nat." Kate said. "Hello, Skippy-" , ' . . "Hello." Nat grinned again and Skippy ducked his head. "Is Dr. Houghton In now?" Gay uked, feeling her heart leap and plunge. "No, he's not here now. "You mean he isn't here at the house?" "He went away last week. Grand-lather Grand-lather came home. He brought me I whole fleet of boats." "Brought me a boat!"v Skippy piped up. "Is your mother here, Nat?" Gay iskei "Aya, she's here. She'll be pleased to see you, I expect Did you come ill the way from New York? 'Course I like boats better on account of my father's an officer in the Navy but that's some swell car." "Drive them around a couple of blocks, will you, Kate." Gay opened the door and stepped out "I want to talk to their mother." "Hop in, kids." Kate slipped over under the wheel. "Whoopeel" Nat shouted and Skippy echoed his brother's enthusiasm, enthusi-asm, then ducked his head again. The long tan roadster moved away from the curb. Gay walked up the steps of the house and sounded the knocker. Mary Adams, herself, opened the door. Her brown face twinkled with pleasure when she recognized Gay. "Come in," she said. "This is a surprise.". 1 x ,' The wide hallway was familiar, though now there were peonies and iris in the .vases which in March had held bitter-sweet and feathery plumes of pine. Following Mary through the living-room to the porch which faced the lawn, she remembered remem-bered her last day here, the day after John had brought her in from his mother's home. They'd been so distant, she and John, polite to each other, unhappy, remote. Mary must have noticed. Was she, too, remembering remem-bering the end of Gay's visit here? II she remembered, she gave no sign. ' -' "' " ' "Are you alone?" she asked. "It's marvelous to be able ,to use the porch again. You don't appreciate this weather unless you've spent a winter in Maine." "My cousin is with me, Kate Oliver." Oli-ver." "Oh, I've heard John". speak of her." Mary darted up from her chair.' "Where is she? Why didn't you bring her in?" "She's taking Nat and Skippy for a ride. Mary," Gay asked, "where is John?" Mary curled herself into a wicker wick-er chair. "I don't know exactly," she said. "Has he left here," Gay's voice faltered, "for good, I mean?" Yes. He was in Boston last eek." Mary glanced at Gay, then "own at her small brown hands. " know. He wrote me from there." "That there is a chance of his get-on get-on in the research department connected con-nected with the. General Hospital?" ry asked eagerly. "Father thinks " f fairly certain. John made a splendid impression when he interned in-terned there." ''But since then," Gay persisted. ..m , ta Boston now?" We've been forwarding mail to mother's. I re-addressed a let-Z let-Z &ra you this morning. I've arned to know your handwriting Pfetty welL I Iis morning? A letter?" Yes. Why?" Mary asked quick-v. quick-v. in surprise. kJiu" 8 letter whjch shouldn't com. ,elD Written'" Ga "NL "I've R , ead il off or exPlai- Could e at his mother's in Rockland?" Paused..thensaid. "If you don't for you0..0 ftere- or call i-m z . Lke 10 8ec Debby b"t VwS."r!dbebetterifyou-" cor,, he rose- smiJed at Gay EE Dately and wen e o7.,h.OD fte Prch ,0Wng out iei Tbion Tny lawn whe Peo- fohT. al0ng tte fen the ch u ' maple " shaded u dr sand.b()x an(J Jeh?T abSenHy awareof the nvt evo yes rested "Pon. Every eught H. sense in her body was Ei Jnhf a ' state 01 suspense. 110 gone way deliberately. two keys L IDA LARRIMORE to avoid any move from her? Was he, by his silence, making a clean break as effectively as she had meant to make it when she had written writ-ten the letter which Mary, this morning, had re-directed? 5 She started up as Mary returned to the porch. "He isn't at home," Mary said. "His mother thinks that he may have gone to a cabin down east near Machias " .1 "John Is at the cabin?" Gay's voice was light and breathless. "They aren't sure. They've had no word. They're holding his mail" 'Of course he has. I didn't think" Gay glanced at her watch. "We can make it before night. Thank you, Mary. I must find Kate." "You're going there?" Mary asked doubtfully. "It's a fairly long drive. I had expected that you would stay for lunch, at least" "No. We're going. Wish me luck, Mary. I'll need it" Mary Adams smiled and pressed Gay's hand. "I think you'll carry your luck with you," she said. CHAPTER XVII John placed a log on the fire, went to the doorway, stood looking out across the lake. Dusk was falling. The last reflection of the sunset had faded from the still surface of the water. Across the lake a loon screeched mournfully through the silence. si-lence. John closed the door and returned re-turned to the fire. He should prepare something for supper, he thought standing irresolutely ir-resolutely on the hearth with his back to the fire. Funny how he had come to dread getting supper. When that had been accomplished, the day was definitely over and night had begun. , He was able to get through the day fairly well. While the sun shone, he made fishing from the canoe ca-noe or lying on the float an excuse for being out of doors. But the nights were unbearably lonely. He shouldn't have returned to the cabin. He should have taken the walking trip through Canada which he had half planned when Dr. Sar-geant Sar-geant had insisted that he take a two weeks vacation until the Boston matter was settled one way or another. an-other. He would be able to make the decision he must make more calmly and with less pain anywhere in the world except here. The cabin was filled with ghosts of Gay. He saw her everywhere, on the couch with the lamplight falling across her hair; seated on the footstool beside the hearth in a characteristic position, posi-tion, her arms hugging her knees; coming out through the door of the bedroom she and" Kate had occupied, her face fresh and smiling after a long night of sleep, in a jersey and slacks, a ribbon around her hair . . . He hadn't expected to feel as he did. He had thought that he would be able to make the decision here. He had not questioned his ability to think clearly and logically, to discipline disci-pline his emotions. Strange that he had not considered the pignant insistence of memories, the ghosts of Gay that lived on in the cabin. But he must make a decision. If he secured this post in Boston, he would have to decide whether he was willing to have her there with him, using her own money to provide pro-vide a place for them to live or whether it was wiser, for her ultimate ulti-mate good and his own, to make a definite break and follow, alone, the course he had charted for himself before he had declared his love to Gay. It was all or nothing. There could be no compromise. The next time they met But would they meet again? He had sensed in her letters a change in her feeling for him since she had returned from her visit to Maine. He couldn't blame her. It had been pretty awful for her, as estranging as his visit to New York. She loved him. He did not question that He loved her. But was love enough? Was it as fresh and as steadfast now as it had been here at the cabin last fall? Could any love survive sur-vive the misunderstandings, the quarrels, the bickering to which their love had been exposed? Wouldn't it be better? He wouldn't think of it now. He would build a fire in the kitchen range and prepare supper, making a long job of it to keep night from coming too soon. He went out into the dusk, filled a basket with chips and birch logs. None of his senses was secure from ghosts of Gay. The smell of pine needles and freshly chopped wood recalled the night she had slipped out of the cabin to meet him, the night Todd Janeway had arrived. His eyes lifted above the pile of chips. They had sat there, leaning above the legs. She'd worn a sofi white dress fastened up under her chin and her hair had curled loosely to a cabin. MACRAE SMITH CO, against her shoulders. He'd loved her so, then. He loved ber now. If they might have stayed here He lit the lamps in the kitchen, laid the fire carefully, taking a great deal of time. Yellow flames curled around birch-logs in the stove. He collected ingredients for flap jacks; butter, milk, flour, eggs There were the fish he had caught this morning, cleaned and salted, ready for the pan. Cornmeal, salt pork cut in strips. He placed the fish in the pan. Through the sputtering sound they made, he heard a car coming in the lane. One of the acquaintances he'd made at the store in the village, perhaps young Dr. Reynolds, stopping stop-ping in on his rounds. Any visitor would be welcome. Whoever it was would see the light and come in. He couldn't leave the fish. He heard the motor of the car race, then die off into silence as an ignition key was turned. That motor mo-tor 1 No one of his acquaintances here drove a car with such power. His hand, holding a fork over the fish, was shaking. He turned, his heart thumping, a singing sound in his ears. The kitchen door stood open. He saw her coming toward him through the dusk, running across the clearing, clear-ing, up the steps. "Gay I" he cried, and plunged forward to open the door. She came into the kitchen, hesitantly, hesi-tantly, as though the sound of his voice had checked the impulse which had brought her swiftly to him through the dusk. "Hello, John," she said. They stood staring at each other like strangers. "Where did you come from?" he asked at last "How did you know I was here?" "I wrote you a letter," she said quietly, "telling you that I was going go-ing to marry Todd." "I have not received it" "No, it's in Rockland." "Have you been there?" i She shook her head. "Mary called your mother for me. She, your mother, moth-er, thought you might be here." The singing in her ears dimmed ber voice to a thread of sound. "But if you wrote me that" he asked, "why are you here?" "Because I didn't mean it I discovered, dis-covered, after I'd mailed it that I couldn't I tried to get to you before the letter did. I drove last night to Portland, then on here today." to-day." Her eyes widened, then closed. She swayed, reached out for the table. "John I" He caught her, held her. She clung to him. They kissed. Presently Pres-ently she drew away. "Are you glad to see me?" she asked. "Glad! Oh, Gay!" "Will you still be glad when 1 tell you that I'm going to stay?" "Are you?" "Always as long as you want me. . He looked down into her lifted face, weary but radiant her eyes shining softly through the tears that misted her lashes. "Will you take a STAR1ltlG...in thNext Issue... in RWK the By Helen Topping Miller When her husband died, Virgie Morgan, a strong, courageous woman, took into her own hands the management man-agement of the Morgan pulp milL She needed all of her strength . . .. and all of her courage! Read this engrossing, story of Virgie Morgan and her daughter, Marian, and of their struggle against unscrupulous enemies. Read how Branford Wills, an outsider, finally gains the confidence of the Carolina mountain folk and falls in love with Marian; of how old Tom Pruitt takes the law into his own hands. YouTl find suspense, romance, an exciting plot in "Hawk in the Wind," one of Mrs, Millers most absorbing ab-sorbing novels. DON'T MISS A SINGLE CHAPTERS WNU SERVICE chance, Gay?" he asked gravely. "Can we make a go of it? Will you be happy? In spite of everything that has happened or will happen, do you still want to marry me?" 'Darling!" She smiled. "Would 1 have driven all these miles?" His lips against hers stilled her voice. They had in that moment of reconciliation, of faith and trust renewed, re-newed, no need for words. His arms, holding her, were strong and secure and safe. Her vital young body pressing close to him, was promise prom-ise and an assurance. Moments ticked away unconsidered in the secure se-cure realization of weeks, months, years stretching in a bright open vista ahead. ' "I beg your pardon," a voice said from the door. , . They drew apart smiling. Kate came into the kitchen. fit may mean less than nothing to you," she said, "but something is burning." "Good Lord!" John groaned. "It's the fish!" ; He glanced around with a dazed expression. Kate caught up a dishcloth dish-cloth and grasped the handle of the pan. She turned to regard Gay and John with an expression of studied stud-ied derision which failed entirely to conceal the emotion in her eyes. "Get out of here," she said. "I'm hungry. I want something that's fit to eat." Still fuming, she slapped the pan in the sink. Gay and John looked at each other and broke into laughter, laugh-ter, then, hands joined, went out into the dusk. THE END. 'Built-in' Type Furniture Is Latest Building Trend Built-in furniture is rapidly increasing in-creasing in popularity. In planning a built-in corner cupboard, upholstered uphol-stered wall seat or some other piece of furniture, the home owner should decide well in advance about such important . details as what fillers, finishing materials and colors to use. According to an authority on hardwood hard-wood finishing, it is important that the right fillers be used in accordance accord-ance with the color and consistency desired, and also that the filler be wiped at the proper time. A filler is basically a mineral pigment such as an asbestos compound, silica, whiting, or clay, bound together with a small amount of vehicle and thinned with gasoline or mineral spirits. There are many finishing materials, and most of them are well known , to the home owner. Among those most often used are white and orange shellac, rubbing varnish and spar varnish. Because there is such a wide choice of colors and demands vary so greatly, each home owner should select the color, for his built-in pieces so that they will be in bar mony with the general style of the room. The natural color of wood represents the warm side of the color scale, and, remembering this colors should be selected to conform con-form with the usual rules governing good decoration. Wine KAJ hi Pew Pearson ON THE BATTLEFRONT REPS: Chunky Representative George Bender of Ohio doesn't know whether to be sore or to laugh. As G. 0. P. chairman of Cuyahoga county, which includes Cleveland, he received a number of requests for the much-publicized "Willkie kits," a compact got up by the Willkie clubs containing material to organize organ-ize one of these clubs. Bender wrote to the national committee headquarters headquar-ters in Chicago, directed by Executive Execu-tive Director John Hamilton, for a supply. Much to Bender's surprise he was advised that if be sent a check he would receive the 100 kits be wanted. want-ed. Bender sent the check and a few days later a large box arrived containing 100 kites, huge contrap tions that sail through the air with the greatest of ease and with the names of Willkie and McNary so placed as to be easily seen from the ground. Note The Willkie kit contains a folder about the nominee, a pledge, a long sheet for signatures of those desiring to form a club, and pieces of peppy campaign literature. DEMS: To those who followed the last turbulent night of the Dem ocratic convention, Francis W. Durbin will be remembered as the rollicking speaker who nominated Bascom Timmons, veteran Wash ington newsman, for vice president A leading Lima, Ohio, lawyer, Dur bin is a candidate for congress. ' After Senator Charles McNary's acceptance speech, Durbin wrote him, "Congratulations on your speech. It was the best New Deal speech I've heard in a long time. You are a grand fellow and I'm sorry to see you in such bad com pany." A few days ago Durbin received the following telegram from McNary: Mc-Nary: "Thanks for your kind let ter. When you come to Washington shall be delighted to see you." DUTCH EAST INDIES One reason President Roosevelt and his naval advisers are not greatly perturbed about Japan's signing a formal alliance with Hitler Hit-ler and Mussolini is a confidential survey U. S. naval experts have made of the Japanese navy. This reveals that Japanese warships war-ships have on hand only enough oil for about 2 months of warfare. Japan gets its oil chiefly from California and the Dutch East In dies, having almost no supplies of its own. That, of course, is one reason she covets the Dutch East Indies. However, naval surveys also show that the capture of these islands will not be as easy as might be expected. For the Dutch islands of Java and Sumatra have been preparing for the threat of Japanese invasion for two years. About 20 Dutch sub marines are stationed in these wa ters, plus about 300 bombing planes, many of them purchased in the United States. Finally, the islands are well fortified with carefully concealed con-cealed big guns. Result is that military experts be- lieve the Dutch could hold out against Japanese naval invaders for about four months. And during this time, Japan's oil supply, if embargoed embar-goed by the United States, might become exhausted. This may be one reason why the Japanese have made haste slowly in their contemplated plans for in vasion of the Dutch East Indies They did not want to move until they were sure first that Britain war in a desperate position in its fight with Hitler; and second, that the United States was worried about Europe and did not want to get its fleet preoccupied in the Pacific. i ARMY SPECULATORS The army has changed its method of acquiring land for new govern ment plants. Hereafter the nego tiations will be carried on in a "gold fish bowl." . Real estate speculators long have been a sore spot in army plans for plant and airport sites by snapping up options and kiting me price of desired property. So hard-hitting Assistant War Sec retary Robert Patterson has insti- tuted a new procedure whereby the army, after making the necessary confidential surveys, will announce publicly that on a given date representatives rep-resentatives will appear to buy or lease a specified amount of land, Patterson believes that if property owners know that the government is In the market they will not give options to profiteering speculators, Note Tried out in Union Center, Ind., where 13,000 acres are being acquired for an ammunition loading plant to employ 6,000 people, the new "goldfish bowl" method proved successful. AIRPLANES FOR WHISKY If yen speak about "all aid to Britain short of war," don't over look the American consvwption of Scotch whisky. It is an aitual fact that U. S. Imports of whisky from Britain during the first nine month of the war exceeded the V. S. ex ports of military aircraft to Britain. Here are the figures: We sold England $23,231,000 worth of planes England sold us $26,209,000 worth of whisky. In fact whisky is the larg est single item of our imtcrU from Great Britain. rine&l Gland Imbedded in the rear part of the brain, the pineal gland is sometimes described as a human remnant of the "third eye" of prehlstorie animals. ani-mals. Little is known about it but It seems to affect sex. Plane for Suicide Stealing an airplane after a girt jilted him at a dance, young Heinz A. Glogauer took oft from aa airport air-port at Kimberly, South Africa, and killed himself by crashing the ma chine at full speed. Spectacle Glass Because the 2,600-degree heat used to fuse spectacle glass would melt ordinary thermometers, the temper ature et the glowing, mass is meas ured by the light It gives off. Ji$k Me Jlnother O A General Quiz The Qaestlon$ i. What term is arjnlied to two places on opposite sides of the earth? 2. During which war was the U. S. secret service established? 3. What is a misanthrope? 4. How lone does somethinff that Is ephemeral last? 5. Which is nearest the center of the earth, the ecmator or the North pole? 6. The President of the United States may make treaties with other nations provided how many senators concur? 7. "Don't tread on me" was a slogan Inscribed on what? 8. On what date did the nresent century begin? 9. What would vou b imaMa in do if you lacked lachrymal glands? The Answers 1. Antipodes. 2. Civil war (July 2, 18C4). 3. A' hater of mankind. 4. One day. 5. The North cole. fThe earth Is slightly flattened at the pole.) o. One hall of senators riresent when treaty is considered. 7. Early American naval flags. 8. January 1, 1901. . 9. Shed tears. HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS For Best Results After putting water and soap into washing ma chine, let it run for a minute or two to dissolve soap before putting in clothes. When sweeping a room open all the windows and sweep toward the center of the room. This prevents the dust from settling on the wood work and the walls do not get so dusty as they otherwise would. Rickrack braid makes a gay finish fin-ish for bedroom, kitchen, bathroom bath-room or play room curtains. It's equally effective on plain, figured fig-ured or colored materials such as unbleached muslin, chintz, dimity or lawn. a a Let the dirt around a potted plant come within half an inch of the top of the pot. Then fill the pot with water every day for the average house plant. If you have unusual plants ask your florist about the amount of water they need. .: Witch grass, which is the bane of many garden makers, can be wholly eradicated by the simple process of cultivating with a wheel hoe, or, for that matter, any hoe, twice a week. Once a week will not be sufficient, but once every three or four days will certainly kill it out. All weeds can be dealt with more effectually now than earlier In the season, for much of their vitality has been expended. i it i i J& fy, V4 A Our $200,000.00 nmodalin? end refurnishing program ham mad available tha finaat hotel accommodations in the Weet AT OUR SAME POPULAR PRICES. CAFETERIA DINING ROOM BUFFET MBS. i. H. WATERS, Prtldtnl Monojta J.HOLMAN WATERS and W. KOSS SUTTON Hasten Slowly Hasten slowly, and without losing los-ing heart put your work twenty limes upon the anvil. Bo ileau. Strange Facts 1 More Japs Here I I Choic of Nationality I ill Ways to 'Home' C Contrary to the impression created cre-ated by our numerous Chinatowns, Chinese laundries and chop suey restaurants, America has only halt as many Chinese as Japanese residents. resi-dents. Incidentally, 20 per cent of the Chinese and 40 per cent of the Japanese are women. C When a baby is born of a Turkish Turk-ish mother and a French father, while aboard a British ship In American .territorial waters, his parents may claim for him any one of the four nationalities. C The average - sized Atlantic coast oyster strains its food from about 18 gallons of water a day; a species of Mexican squash stores enough moisture at one time to keep itself alive for 15 years. C Homing pigeons in the service of the United States army signal corps have not only been trained to fly as far as 60 miles in darkness, dark-ness, but also to locate their "home," or loft, when it is mounted mount-ed on a truck and moved many miles every 24 hours. Collier's. ibove All Things This' Fclloiv Was an Optimist A contractor borrowed a badly worn car from a friend for an emergency trip. With an employee em-ployee he set out. A little way down the road he noticed the brake did not work. After another mile they were rolling down a smooth road toward a bridge. A glance showed a six- foot gap between the bridge and the bank. Viciously he pulled at the emergency brake, only to find that It did not work. Then he discovered that the gas pedal had jammed down. Turning to his companion, he re marked cheerfully: "Well, here's hoping the gas gives outl" INDIGESTION may fleet tha Heart GMtrpTdinthittimrhoriniletmAy arttfksa hUr-lnicKtu- on tha heart. 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