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Show THE TIMES- - NEWS. NEPIII, UTAH PAGE SIX ' Thursday, April 17, 1947 NEEDLECRAFT PATTERNS Woman's World Linens With Gay Flowers Make, Plan Summer Clothing 'Beautify Before Warm Weather Comes v A.i fc Tin .1..,....i-- ,, im '.n-- iLjy good-bye- X Julia Ignored the Interruption. "He spent two months trying to find lomethlng, some record, some grave anything that would end our suspense. He went through dozens of hospitals, even the Insane places; he even went out with crews of men who were opening graves! It was g a experience for him and not too happy for me, Richard." "Sorry." Ha let his gaze fall, let his clasped hwids dangle between his knees. "1 didn't think you'd be concerned. I thought you'd be relieved to be rid of me." "Your conscience must have been more acut. than we gave you credit for," said his father, scornfully. "If It hadn't been for Julia's obstinacy, I'd have had you declared legally deid long ago." Richard laughed, a short, difficult bark. "Legally, I am dead. Richard McFarlane no longer exists. Not or. any record or roster, at least I've been Roger Mackey for twentw years now. There was a lot of confusion after the armistice, and I happened to come Into possession accidentally, of course of a pasiport and some other papers. It suied me not to be Richard any longer. I wanted to over. I stayed on in Paris for strt a few years and did pretty well " "Gambling, as usual?" This from John I. Richard's mouth lifted In a condescending, mirthless smile. That smile, too, was an aching piece of Julia's remembering. "I got along," he said, "in various ways. And then things got rather nasty In France there was all that argument about the debts, Americans weren't popular so I came back to this country. I didn't know anything to get into things were a little tough here too, you remember? So I went back to the army. This fellow this Mackey, whose papers I had had a commission. I got it renewed, I asked for service in Hawaii and got it. Then last year they sent me back. I'm at Ridley Field now." Almost Julia cried out. Ric was at Ridley Field. But she caught herself in time, made a little movement toward her father-in-labegging for silence. He caught the gesture, or perhaps he dli! not remember, did not connect Ric with any of this. The old forgot easily. Richard must not know about Ric. All their lives she had built their father up to heroic stature for her children, made him a splendor to admire, but knowing all the while what a false and crumbling foundation she built upon, how dangerous was the structure she raised if a fierce wind blew upon it But she must not destroy it now. She must not tear Richard down, offer that ruin to Richard's son. She must not destroy that pictured inheritance of gallantry. Ric was not strong and courageous like Jilt He had all the weaknesses of the McFarlane men; if he had inherited any strength from her it was latent, it had not begun its growth. Now she could not risk giving him a father who had callously abandoned him even before he had learned to peak that father' name. So she said, rather flatly, "You were at Pearl Harbor, Richard?" His face changed, twisted. His eyes shifted. "Yes, I was thereat Hickam Field. Now I'm at Ridley. But I've worked for what I've got in the army." "So," Julia let her breath out. thankful oh. so terribly thankful that Jill was away! "So you are Roger Mackey now. But why, Richardwhy? All this talk, and I still don't understand It. You must not have cared about us at all. You didn't want to see us aeain, your own father your own children?" "I did think about the kids, of course," he said, "and you. too, But I hadn't been a very Donley. successful husband. You were pretty well fed up with me when I left." nerve-rackin- A Three-Wa- ..i.,,. , nmn .. -1 to come to Washington, happened and he found me and sent for John I." "I gave you money when I had it, Dooley," he said. "And borrowed it back again when the horses were running at Bowie!" she thought bitterly, but she did not say it. She said dully, "You must have been very sick of me. I must have cried too much, been frightened too much, left alone there in that cheap little flat. It was my fault, perhaps. I was too young. I'd always had people to take care of me. I was silly enough to think that all women were cared for when they married; it was quite a shock when I learned that that wasn't always true. I know I must have failed you in a lot of ways, Richard. I must not have been a strong person then a strong woman might have changed you. But you failed me, too, Richard. You failed us all!" "Don't blame yourself, Dooley. The whole thing was a mistake. I merely happened to realize that be- rin. run.i Jill McFarlane, whose father, Richard, disappeared In World War I, falls In love with Spang Gordon, a young lieutenant. He tells her that her brother, Ric, Is seeing a divorcee and she foes to camp to Investigate. Ric avoids her but she later sees him with Sandra Calvert, an older, hardened woman. Captain Mackey, known as "Old Cyanide," tells her he knew her mother many years ago. She feels she knows . him. Spang calls to say , Later, while riding with Dave Patter-eona family friend secretly In love with her mother, Julia, she Is thrown from her horse and taken to a hospital. That night Richard returns from the dead to visit Julia. CHAPTER j!iivA.iini..j y Conversation "1 was nineteen years old!" Julia protested. "I'd loved you and married you, and then I'd been left alone, lor weeks at a time not knowing where you were, even hungry! I had a baby, and then I was going to have another right away and then it was war, and John I. got that commission for you, because he thought war was what you needed that It might quiet that restlessness In you and so you went sway, And left me with nothNothing but this shabby old ing! house, this mortgaged land and no one to turn to till Dave Patterson "But you Just can't come back this way from the dead." fore you did. I took the best way out of it, for you and for everybody." "You took a coward's way out," said his father. "Now now that you're getting old and life Isn't so gay and adventurous as it used to be, I suppose you think you should come back here and find a welcome? Find things exactly as they were before." Richard flared. His eyes took on that icy look that Julia remembered. "Have I said that? Have I asked for anything?" "Not yet. But you've made no decent excuse or explanation either. You walked out on Julia and left her to struggle alone" "Not alone, John I. You've been a rock under my feet, you've been my strength and courage when I faltered!" "You were all I had, Dooley." he said gently, "you and those kids." "They're pretty well grown up now, I suppose?" Richard changed the subject with the facile ease that had always been his gift "How are they?" "They're very well." She would not tell him anything. Not about Ric, not about Jill's accident, nothHe had no right to know. ing. He had no rights at all. "Richard la twenty-seve- J ill' a twenty-six.- " Richard Offers n., i,n . visual witl Our Improved pattern charts and photos, and com plete directions makes needlework easy Send your order to: easy-to-se- n. ami. years of suspense. Surely you can spare me any more." "If you create suspense for yourself, Dooley, I won't be able to do anything about it But why create it? I'm assuming that to you I am not your husband any more." "But you are my husband! Even though you choose to masquerade and wear a false name, though you've Ignored me for more than half our lifetimes, though you knew where I was, when one word from you would have ended all this misery of uncertainty for me, you are still the man I was married to, Richard. You're still my children's father. Nothing can change that" "You can change it if you like, Dooley." "How can I change it? You mean I can divorce you? How can I divorce a man who doesn't exist? How could I explain it to your children?" "The kids do complicate things, don't they? They might like me if they knew me. Though perhaps you've already attended to that?" "I've given them a hero for a father!" Julia flamed. "You did that for yourself. Dooley, not for me. You're a proud woman, your pride wouldn't let you keep a man in your life unless he was heroic. And you don't want your pretty picture torn to pieces now by the dismal reality. So I'll take myself off. You wouldn't want to shake hands, Father?" John I. thrust his hands into his pockets, drawing jn his brows. "No, I wouldn't! You make me ashamed that I am also a McFarlane." Without a word Richard walked out of the house. They heard his car roar off down the drive. John I. sank into a chair and dropped his head into his hands. Julia went quietly and kissed the thinned spot on the top of his head. She did not speak. David was mourning the unworthiness of Absalom, and there were no words to touch the dignity of that grief. She went numbly, groping for the stair rail, up to her room. she had Somehow, always, known! Always, unaware perhaps at times, she had been waiting for this, feeling the pressure of odd, uncertain dread. There was a strange and psychic bond, a vibration that lived on between two people who had been married, and she knew now that that quivering tie lived on, bridging years and silence, binding her to Richard, even though the bond was bitter. Eventually it had drawn him back to her. She had seen the nostalgia in his eyes, though he had tried to hide it behind his old, cool arrogance. And now what? What lay ahead? What threatened her, her peace of mind, her pride for her children? There was Ric. What if Richard found out about Ric, learned where he was, made contact with his son? And then there was Dave. She knew that Dave loved her, with another kind of love, deeper, finer no fire or passion, no young fever, but the lasting love of a man who would cherish a woman forever. Julia flung herself down on the bed. "Oh, Dave!" her heart cried out "Now that it's too late, I do love you! And what am I going to do?" Jill turned her head on the pillow, eased her body from the cramp of her splinted arm and taped shoulder. "Dooley, you look simply ghastly!" she said. "I've never seen black hollows under your eyes before. What's worrying you besides me?" "Nothing." Julia lied gallantly. "You're enough for one dose. Do I look so pathetic? I must need some vitamins or something. It's missing you so much, I guess." Jill drew the corners of her mouth in. "You're a rotten actress, DooYou're corny as heck and ley. transparent as cellophane. When you hurt Inside, it shows through like veins and things under a fluoro-scopHave you and Dave had a fight?" I haven't "Of course not silly. seen Dave since that Sunday. And why should we fight?" "I don't know any good reason, but you are sort of difficult to understand at times. Dooley. You're I think I know so unpredictable. what you're thinking and feeling, and suddenly I discover I'm all lost and don't know you at all" e. No Solution "Makes a man feel old. Are they like you. Dooley?" Richard asked. But "They're entirely unlike. they're both McFarlanes." "Married, either of them?" "No, they're not married." "At least I'm not a grandfather!" he said, smiling thinly. "Well, I'll push along. Due back for reveille tomorrow. Have to drive all night to make it" "But, Richard, what happens now?" Julia cried. "What are you Julia Fails to going to do?" Deceive Jill He faced her. and she felt herself "I'm a mystery woman! Human receding, shrinking as she had always done when he looked at her enigma. But the fewer feelings we all have now the better off we'll with that cold, blue stare. "What happens now depends on be." Julia was being platitudinous, she knew, and undoubtedly Jill was you, Dooley. As for what I'm goprobing past that evasive defense ing to do so far as I know, nothwith her dry, shrewd, young eyes ing!" "But you can't Just come back "We're fighting a lot of people who've dona away with feeling." this way from the dead!" "And now," said Jill. In a mock-In"I've never been dead I came voice, "the gentlemanly ushers back because suddenly I wanted to see you, hear your voice again. If will pass among you, and all the will deposit their ballots in you mean shall I go back to being ladies Richard McFarlane again, the an- the basket please. And don't vote swer is no. It would be awkward for yourselves, girls!" she chirped I'm In the In a bright falsetto. "Dooley, It and embarrassing. war on. Till you won't talk, shut up! Don't InThere"! going army. It's over, I'll concentrate on that." sult my Intelligence with that sluffl' "Richard. I've bad twenty-fiv(TO BE CONTINUED) g e e Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. Box 3217 San Francisco 6, Calif. Enclose 20 cents for Pattern. No LJAVE you ever been caught short with your winter clothing Shorts still hugging tight to the closet walls when the sun turned on its warmest rays and sent you scattering to get out your cottons? This has happened to most of us at one time or another, perhaps more frequently than we like to admit. When it actually gets too warm it's really too difficult to start going over the closets and hemming last year's dresses or even remodeling them, so let's work a little in advance of schedule and get some things ready for summer now. 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