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Show aicAe fOVQ, 7he eft04m my ts Peggy Dcfin THUS FAR: Alicia starts THE STOaV that there "is iomewmf mignty i:niesi. mt" bout Mr, FaUon' ne'Ehborhood and iTti discu"ed H it She learns that a "Mist vlrtbs" ,lster of Mr' Fal!oIl, UV" ft'e principal and his wife. Megan its. Fallon, and she i it sorry lot lorn at deal ,bout gosslp Mulht wife when she started .boot Wm and his on the top S, per favorite resting place . low hUl beyond the meadow. Tom 0B the rock she nsed ,lIoa was stt!n When a bench when she arrived. , squired about bis wife's health, I, replied: "She is mentally ill." When at Mrs. Mei went to a quilting party her about Tom. Alicia pricks inisrfi, "7. j CHAPTER III t I "I dunno as any of us think the .'feasor's exactly hldln'," she said "An' I dunno's any of us '"'think Pleasant Grove is such a hick of it. Some place, come to think If they didn't folks seem to like I reckin they could go somewhere' curtly. it else." and colored darkly "I'm sorry I even mentioned the fact that I saw you," she laid ungraciously. "But after all, the Ridge Is public property. It's not posted or anything. I had as much right to be there as you and Mr. Fallon! I was merely gathering a bittjew Autumn leaves and some ersweet berries to put in the blue pottery bowl in my front window." a little, Megan was trembling though she knew she was being silly. The little scene with Tom Fallon had been so absurdly innocent; yet there was something in the sly, furtive manner of Alicia's mentioning it that had made it seem evil and I Alicia shrugged. jj scheming. I Megan, still furious with Alicia and her nasty tongue, got away from the quilting party as early as At least Mrs. ihe decently could. Stuart understood, when, at the door the drew Megan aside and said Jorthrightly, "Now look here, Megan, don't pay no attention to that woman. Someone ought to take a 'gun to her and blow her to Kingdom Come, and that's a fact!" down the road, she Halfway . heard a cheerful voice and turned i a pretty girl of seventeen, her irms laden with schoolbooks, came running towards her. said the girl, j "Hi, Meggie," flushed and smiling, and very pretty in a childish, round-face- d, 'bright-eye- way. d "Hello, Susie you're ;home from school!" lightly. late getting said Megan j "Had to stay after school and write a composition. Like a fool, I thought I could get away with not according to the law of have been "called on today, but the darned law M me down. Miss Pound's a holy I terror seems to look at you and ?know without asking a question whether you've done your home-- ; ; work," answered Susie bitterly. I They walked together in companionable silence down the wide, un-- 1 paved road, until suddenly Susie laid bitterly, "I hear the Alicia Jdame dug her little stiletto into you and Professor Fallon todayl That makes you a member. In good 'standing, of my own club." J Megan caught her breath and ,doing one averages, I shouldn't stopped still "How on earth did you hear" she began in amazement. I Susie's little chuckle was dry and uite without mirth. I "Oh it's all over the place," she said. "By supper time, mere won't to a man, woman or child within f I mile of the place that won't know rou've been meeting the professor ecretly m the woods" i "Susie." Megan wailed. "That's ' not true" I "Of course not but d'you think I tor a minute that's going to stop I the story? Don't be a twerp, know It won't!" aaid Susie. I wasn't true that I waa sneaking o8 to meet Bill Esmond elther-ib- ut you'd have a hard time anybody In this town that it I Isn't! Just because one afternoon I happened to run into him at the (county seat and had a aoda with Wm. My mother hit the roof, on i iccount of because Bill's folks are not quite as high hat as mother thinks we ought to R young voice trembled a little nd she blinked hard to clear ber lyes ot threatened tears. Megan asked curiously. "Is that D there is to that story, Susie?" Susie flushed and her eyes were I Meg-pe-yo- u con-Joei- oov-w- ell. be" tormy. "Absolutely! Up to then," she sure, I liked Bill-- we was an honor student, were crazy about him nd he played football like nobody's tmstness-- but Td never had a date lth him In my life. How could when dad and mother practically me up nights? But that after-atomother was sick with a head-Je- , and she wanted some stuff the county seat that Burns t have, and I took the car and Jin arove over. And I ran Into Bill. a Just had his physical and was " but ready to be taken into the Air Corps, and we celebrat-J having a loda.M a aeep Dream ana i . aid quiet)V) iirs-quite a fel-- I j She Uiu8!led nd said. Z "May-- 1 ought to be grateful to the 3 ,lvena0ri wenr.b- -tf nh, hadn't dded. "Oh, u did! He nd the kids n, . -B- raised such W.N.U. RELEASE a row about mv a soda with him, and behaving as though she'd seen me coming out of some foul dive with him-- I'd never have noticed what a grand guy he is! Oh, well" 0 y. regu-lajlyan- .qixre. boxlike so that Its !,.... wHs "'h- i TO BE CONTINUED! juniors oCihe a lilted lll(rif -- dark gray of weathered drabness. But since Alicia had come, she had painted the window trim and the corners of the house a rich deep green; there were green window boxes at the windows, and the place had taken on a rather surprised They walked on in silence and at perkiness. the gate to the MacTavish place, "Oh, well" said Susie at last, they stopped and Susie said suddenly, "Meggie, Is there any truth and heaving a sigh. "If I don't get on home, mother will have connipin what Stevenson says about tion fits and upset dad so that his Mary Rogers?" dyspepsia will be worse than ever "Mary Rogers?" Megan repeatand I would like to go to the ed puzzled. school dance the Saturday after "You know she got expeDed lan Thanksgiving." month and she's gone to stay with She said good night and ent on her sister and learn to be a war the A quarter of a n.i2e road. along worker a riveter or something" farther on, she would come to the Susie explained, and after a mored brick ment blurted out, "The Stevenson-- er substantial, house that was Pleasant Grove's witch says Mary is going to finest have a baby, and has dropped a child home. Susie was the only of Lawyer Bartlett and his hint that Bill may have some part wife, Maysie. The Bartletts were, In the matter" next to the Burns, Pleasant Grove's Megan said explosively, disgust in, most substantial citizens, and Mrs. her voice, "Goodness, Susie what Bartlett was not one to let the a foul story!" town forget that for a moment Susie nodded wretchedly. There were times when Megan felt extremely sorry for Susie and tonight was one of those times. She sighed a little and went into the house, where Annie had supper almost ready to serve. Her father was waiting for her, very comfortable in his smoking jacket and slippers, provided with a new book (which had cost three dollars and a half, and which Megan could have borrowed for him from the small, but good local library) so he was Inclined to oe For which small favor, genial. Megan told herself wearily, she was glad! For the next two or three days, although she told herself she was being a fool, Megan deliberately avoided seeing Tom Fallon at all. He had been In the habit of stopping on his way home from school late In the afternoon to get milk, butter, and eggs which he bought from her. She had always been the one to give them to him, but for the next two or three days, she saw to it that she was somewhere else when he stopped by, and Annie, puzzled and watchful, waited on him. But on Saturday, she was in the chicken yard checking up on a setting hen who was due to hatch her brood In a few days, when Tom came to the back fence and spoke to her. "Good morning," he said, almost warily. Megan turned, startled, and felt her face grow hot, even as she Megan asked curiously, "Is that greeted him casually and matter-of-factlall there is to that story, Susie?" He waited for her to come to the fence before he said anxiously, of is the that it dickens "I know most folks agree that the Steven- "I've been a little worried and I've tried my son's not a liar but that she just deeply puzzled. darnedest to think what I could has an unholy capacity for scatterhave done to upset you " ing damaging truth about where it can do the most harm!" she admitMegan laughed and' hated herself ted. "It's Just that well, I'd hate because the laugh sounded artificial. "What nonsense, Professor!" to think he'd be mixed up In any"But you have avoided me, and thing like that--" Megan said forcefully, "Well, I thought possibly something I said from my own personal experience, or did" he began anxiously. I'd say Alicia Stevenson has a fatal Megan looked up at him and said ability to pick one tiny shred off quietly and frankly, "I see you and embroider it to an incredible de- haven't heard the news, Mr. FalI went for a walk on the lon!" gree! three-rin- g Puzzled, noting her use of the forRidge, with my usual circus, and quite by accident, Mr. mal prefix rather than the careless Fallon was also there and we ex- friendly "Professor" that was alchanged a few words. But this most a nickname, he said quickly, afraid I No, I am afternoon, Alicia let drop the infor- "News? mation that since he and I'd spent haven't- -" hours together on the Ridge I must "I feel very silly to be relaying It know him pretty well!" to you but I know Pleasant Grove so well the attitude toward teachSusie nodded meaningfully. "Sure that's why I said you were ers, especially towards the principal now a member in good standing of of the school" She floundered miserably and was silent my club!" she answered. Megan laughed a little. "What Tom said quietly, "I think you club is that?" she wanted to know. had better tell me straight, Miss "The Club of 'Why the devil MacTavish" doesn't somebody do something to "There seems to be a rumor shut Alicia Stevenson up?" an- about that you and I have been swered Susie. "It's composed of meeting secretly on the Ridge" woman and She let him tiuve It almost In a practically every man,of ten miles of child within a radius single breath. Personally, Td Pleasant Grove. Tom stared at her as though he like to see her with her throat cut thought she had lost her mind. And from ear to ear!" then his face hardened and his eyes "Susie!" gasped Megan, between blazed and he said through his shock and pity for the girl whose teeth, "Where in blazes who'd try bloodthirsty words were at such to start a He like that?" comical variance with her Dresden Megan made a weary little geschina prettiness, her young, smooth ture. flesh and shining blue eyes and "It's too silly and too cheap to golden hair. notice," she pointed out to him. "Oh. It won't happen, of course,"' "Except that since you are new "People like here and this Is your first year oh, said Susie ruefully. that live to a ripe old age and I feel an utter fool about the whole then turn into hen's teeth! They thing. But I thought It would oe never die or have accidents!" better if we well, we've done notharm about the slim ing to start gossip, so It seems a an put Megan a little little difficult to know how to stop shoulders and gave Susie -let her get you It--" don't Well, hug all, everybody Tom said sternly, "Who started down, Susie. After this talk?" knows what she's like." "Mrs. Stevenson," answered Me"Sure and when she sticks that i tnrtffue of ners into their gan frankly. "She happened to be But of on the Ridge the afternoon we met affairs, they say nt in.,' Rut arhpn nut course, wan by accident, and chose to believe else d she's stabbing somebody " they that we were meeting there Susie 1 wonder' as secretly as possible" "Now lay such truth that "But that's nonsense1 she could pointed out, with agree with her not could only Megan possibly believe anything so soberly. go darned silly!" Tom exploded. "I don't think she really believes stood In It. but she seems to get quite a lot For a little while they uneascf pleasure out of dropping little silence, both of them looking road and to the shabthe across significant remarks." . ily where lighted Puzzled. Tom said, "Who is this by little old cottage Alicia was M window, proved that set well h k Mrs. Stevenson? I suppose she has The cttage child In school, but I don't seem home were a few from the road and to recall the name, though it's not trees surroundmu it nevw Pn-ed- . unusual, of course " tre SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS t It t1 in WASHINGTON By Walter Sheod WNU Corrmipondtnl WNU Wishmiton Surau MM E St.. N. W New 'Surplus' Law Gives Veterans Better Chance rESPITE the fact that congress has granted veterans of World War II a No. 1 priority on purchase of surplus war property, these veterans are in for another disappointment. Much propaganda has gone out over this latest fiasco on disposal of war property to veterans, but Gen. Edmund B. Gregory, administrator of War Assets administration, frankly states that only a limited number of specified items have been set aside for exclusive "All oi purchase by veterans. these items," he says, "are in extremely short supply and it follows that there simply will not be enough to meet veterans' demands." And that's the fly in the ointment, for the impression prevails that under the new law the veterans will get about anything and everything in surplus and there won't be much left for the general buyer. Tha simply is not true. All the new law does is to put the veteran in a little better buying position, and it is highly probable that there will be no marked effect on surplus disposal as now conducted. The limited list is supposed to include certain types of automotive vehicles, tractors, construction, mining and excavating machinery. agricultural medical, surgical machinery, and dental apparatus and typewriters. The priority docs not apply to land or buildings. If past experience is to be nny criterion, there will be from ten to a hundred requests for every item offered the veterans under the new priority, because there is not a sufficient supply available and likely there never will be. Goods Will Be Allotted Veterans likely will be limited to a single unit of purchase. For instance, a veteran likely will be permitted to buy only one typewriter, but if he wants to buy a tractor too, his certificate may be modified to permit this, provided there is a But apparenttractor available. ly if he is in business he couldn't buy a dozen tractors or a dozen typewriters. General Gregory says that there J will be no system of government retail outlets selling surplus direct to veterans, and congress has made it clear it intended no such enterprise. So if you are a veteran and make application to buy a truck, here's what will happen. Say there are 30 trucks available. The regional office has 100 certificates ol application and 10 personal use certificates on file or a proportion of 1 to 10. Notification will be sent to the three applicants for personal use whose certificates bear the oldest dates, and the 27 applicants for use whose certificates bear the oldest dates. So 70 veterans will be disappointed. As more trucks become available, however, the veteran who is unable to exercise his priority on a personal use certificate will be notified a second and third time and then his certificate will be placed in an inactive file. There has also come to the attention of the WAA some Instances of veterans being used in c qnection with black market purchases of surplus prop erty. 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