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Show PAGE THREE BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1932 We're going to make ' yet." our fortunes ' Christmas was coming, and Edith's heart sank whenever she thought of It. In former years the weeks before the holidays had been a time of rapturous anticipation. The other girls at school were like that now. They talked endlessly about the letting out of school, the round of parties, things ihey wanted for Christmas and had hinted for and hoped they were going away, but a voice Inside stopped It and another man got out i'Hello, Edith," he said. "1 haven't seen you In years!" It wasn't until he spoke that she knew who he was. It was Roger Morgan. She hardly knew hlra at all, thu:n the Morgans lived In the next street He was a grownup man, three years older than Ed. and a senior. With tin- - recognition she remeiu bt'red hw she was dressed and felt horribly young aud fooii.sh. "What's I he play?" he asked. "Is never be Charles Surface again. It would have made her blue If she could have realized that but she couldn't The one thing that really broke through wag what Miss Bennett said. "You're a real actress, Edith, and I'm proud of you." They were going to hare a short dance after the performance, but Edith didn't want to stay for it She just wanted to be quiet for a while and all alone so that she could go on living It Ed didn't come borne with them. He and Agatha were going to stny and dance, he said very casually, "that he thougl t you were perfectly corking." She felt herself going pink at that She wondered If Mr. Morgan had said anything else. She wanted bim quoted word for word, with descriptive details, but ber brother didn't seera to go further Into the matter and the couldn't press him without looking sllljwrrbidilj.Jloeerhad Just ATTner been being polite, anyhow. same, she was glad he had been dis-pttM- there. But then, Just as she was beginning to feel warm and happy, and ready to She nodded. It's it's Just a sort begin talking a little herself about of foolish play we're having at school (WNU Service.) how frightened she'd been and bow. The bouse wns still rather queer, miraculously, she'd got over It, and so be what Miss Bennett had said about couldn't It awfully was. that about early, since there was daylight In the John Barrymore, and wondering actress real a be to feel be would how late, It couldn't It room but possibly umpany Q)pyright tytteBQbbs-Merrti-i Agatha and Ed seemed to think the either. She'd lain awake most of the had had she'd what disposed of and began talking and topic sleep THE STORY night, After dinner, In the sitting room dls of other things. Then Ed got up. about succession naps a mere been Mariner Mr. and when dad lighted had another date, made his said he dreams. turbed by CHAPTER L Acting la perfectly cigars and sat together on the sofa Was Ed awake yet? She called to farewells almost bruskly to Agatha, rood raitn in an erron 10 aia a oeisH-bo- r, talking business, "Baby" fastened herRuth Ingrsham, In a business him, not loudly enough to waken him and was gone, with a "See you later, 'way, Edward Patterson, caahler of the self on poor mother. She again apolinsurance a of If he were asleep, but so that he could Ede," flung over his shoulder to her. life in she'd made mistake Chicago agency ogized for the surlege. company, Is wro.igly eaapected by hit Agatha didn't seem especially hear In the adjoining room if he were telling Tet" that of course he must hnH hwn told she knew, a little wife, Julia, of infidelity. Hsr practical can have "we she r,i said, awake. It would be awfully nice to prised. "Now," Accusation, In a letter from a aummer dress for dinner. It had been such dad one since retort, unfits him for business, and he a stupid mistake. She hadn't quite about the new business andInthat inhave htm come In In his pajamas and a real ylslt We haven't had the takes a atiort vacation. Patterson's bis Doesn't summer. had position last resigned sit down on the edge of the bed and Buttermilk Brook, And of course It was a understood. weaknesa is a shirking of responsibilhow well he But surance sucforever?" company. seem was It his that before intensified talk a moderately by ity, have good long perfectly foolish custom, anyway, understood what the change meant to cessful business life In a subordinate It was fun, and for a while It really time to get up and dress. She'd earned position. On his return from his vareally. Hed no Idea. hanliy them she had like old times. There was a seemed and mother had cation he is deeply wounded by his said, a morning's rest, From where Edith sat, she caught mentioned it in his letters. daughter, Edith, hesitatingly telling wasn't to bother about helping with difference, though. You'd thinkreal-of him that his personal belongings were gnatchee, too, of the talk between Mr. be would coming Willard been Agatha something to say and then you'd la the "spare room," having the breakfast Mariner and dad. Dad wasn't agree- home, too. In Just a few dayg now. from the room which had been ize It would take so much explaining have must He answer. Ed didn't kit and his wife's bedroom. ing with Mr. Mariner. Once she saw Agatha and Ed were the only two peo that It hardly seemed worth the sue come home awruuy mie, ior him look startled. "Do you mean they ana trouble. By and by Edith found herShe come In. him CHAPTER II Patterton aeceptt the threaten to bring suit" he asked. And ple In the world, besides father got heard hadn't she really loved. Tet, whom Situation as proof of his wife's belief self wondering whether Agatha bad mother, then np and shut the window, and in his guilt. Edith, IT years old, is then, with a glance around as If he she found she dreaded their coming something else to do. She said, tentaShe answer. No door. on his worried over the estrangement of her feared he'd spoken too loud, ha lowtapped runoccasion of a dim the dreaded she at least was parents, having little more than bed tively, "I suppose Td better be opened It and looked in. His ered his rolce and asked some more their coming. It was all a part of her comprehension of the affair. Her mothning along." er only partly succeeds In her efforts questions that Mr. Mariner didn't seem empty. She padded out to the head wish that Christmas this to comfort her, though a lengthy talk hall Agatha remonstrated, "Oh, don't go passionate look the a at for stairs the of acted He well answer to of very to like with her father, in Which he hints"adBut with all its hollow gaieties, might We haven't even begun, Man." It Be to "I'm year, be! yet? couldn't ten. Supposed It for secret Half or tali clock. more less longing past a as if his feelings were hurt, and words be wiped out, forgotten Dy rung hadn't That quite the somehow to Was simply venture" in most people, aomewhat voice sounded last Disguise Impossible The clock must have stopped sulky. But he didn't everybody, so that they could go on ases her mind. The eon, Edward, with Fact, as With ths Handshake the right. There were little gaps when Junior, is at college. night But It was ticking away as act that way very long. Pretty soon from were as they to Just Her From day neither of them could think of anyGot Had Cloak day If Away rectitude an air of he was talking again, as eagerly as without having to pretend. to sny. CHAPTER III. A business matter her She heard thing was Again. knew it it right brings an "inventor," James Mariner, ever. heard the telephone ring, and . She kept these dark thoughts to her They stairs. the mother up coming Into Patterson's life. Mariner needs with the nine I'm About explan o'clock, Scandal for 'The School but as she finally invencould, self as long Agatha sprang up, rather quickly, to $6,000, with which to push hie "Where's Ed?" she asked. Patteratlon that she had some studying to she burst and confided them to mother. I'm supposed to be a man." tion, an automobile choke, and half-hou- r answer It. It was for her, all right, a After a brief in son It interested. "Oh, he went out about do, Edith said good night to their It was one afternoon when they were It was impossible to disguise that in with and it was sort of a funny conversa"He didn't say said. vestigation he decides to go and mother takguests and went up to her room. But fact as, with the handshake, the cloak ago," Mariner, supplying the money in her bedroom upon tion. Edith couldn't help hearing, befine up a such where. Glad you've had manage them go she came heard she What ing a part in the business her wls?n from had again. away costume. got cause it was right in the next room. Charles Surface's tnent. He develops a liking for thesleep. Go back and dress and I'll get down again In her bathrobe to talk from the outand. her embarrassment cold with the her work, a sense of freedom make to she Mother" managed Agatha said, "No," and then, after d duties of his position with over the evening with mother and dad, you some breakfast." was casual enough "I don't her teeth were chattering so she a minute, "I don't know." sound voice somehelpinghehim. listening the Insurance company about She was still thinking re- "Wasn't she the most awful woman want them. What a percould hear he sure Without informing his family, this Christmas year. other present person said quite a lot then, any tarns from his position vith the in- - j thing, Edith perceived, and it made The ever saw? Do you suppose he's look to him answered was, "Well, I "can't think of a thing." After a fect fool she must all but surance company, devoting hi whole you Agatha wished She blue. ta her suddenly really crazy about her, or would he silence she added, still pretty shakily, Dad rescued her by turning to thank time to the pushing of the Invention. She didn't give him that." can't I help her. out Is without seeing hadn't Albert Willard, of old gone An friend, her, like to kill her? lie's afraid for having brought Ed home mother." mean much after that for she of to the Roger value "I of the time say that, really She and skeptical forlorn. frankly She felt hollow choke. Patterson tells his wife of the I expect." effect of an Inclear with the Mother got up and came and put from town. But. she realized, as she cut in, much to do, either. The day hadn't surprised, conventional adult a made the Mother change he has made. Though Mr. that Morgan her into course car, bolted I won't-Don'- t for his terruption, "No, of pair of comforting arms about her. and In a way blaming herself sne had got started wrong. Then some acact of In Good-by,- " the been and protest, but only saying had hung be act, which she considers rasn, so as bad ducky," silly! It isn't that, When she came down to breakfast she said, what was pretty outspoken cepts the situation. word. another without she said. "We can't do much this thing else when dad interrupted him teleup had if mother Agatha himself to see she asked for mother, "Well, I hope for his sake She looked a little flushed when ahei CHAPTER IV. Edith is made aware year, of course, but we'll manage to something about coming meant but It seemed she hadn't She phoned, soon." to of California does It he He fortunet hadn't go in the the play. family from a of the change like feel back Into the room, but not came make whole anyhow. it Christmas, the the choke as yet being far But dad was really blue. He hardly We must do that, you know, for Ed's course, but what an Idiot he must was probably spending liked to de cross as her voice had soundso bed. quire financial success by her mother tell in Agatba morning seemed to be listening. is think her to have dashed away like father the Ing her she hss decided to topartdo with your She That's sake. ed. said, , without giving Edith thing remembered. that, she tbe cook, ahe and Edith In her the Finally mother said, "She isn't to be worried about. He's afraid if Ed finds that without a word. It was too late fasee a word, "You haven't anyto and over time run say don't housework. Edith tenses you "Why Is she, Ned?" do anything about It now. He was te he'll taken seriously. look Just now, to ther's act a longing for "adventure, how out else do, have you?s Left go things thing her?" mother suggested. f which he had spoken At Chrlst-aa- a "I don't know," he said absently. "I want to stay right here and go to work saying good night In a very self to my room. I haven't half Edith I believe up will," don't I Edith's school, a private one,a putt "Oh, tort of way to mother and dad said. She didn't mean very much by on a play. In which tbe girl hat part and I've got lots of Bew fbtngs guess not I haven't been thinking instead of going back to college. And Edback into his own car. on Ths night of tha lay her brother new line must a have rather and Ed I her. getting terrible. be would about ever got show came that you.n holito It but tbe for she when from spoke, comet It college, ward She was warm enough now, burning. It mom Roger Morgan, whoms aim tonight. He doesn't face facts a college education, you know. Edith said, "I've really got le o. as the and days. With him Is as stronger her stronger a hlld. Tht girl ; Xalth bad known unless they agree with his hopes, but would make a difference to his whole She threw back her cloak and let ing advanced that she didn't somehow I'm helping mother now, you know, a "hit," etpe-alalacting in the play wakes down the window. He couldn't possiher of course that's to be expected from a life if he didn't do that" with Morgan, wMeh'slaasw want to run after Agatha. After last with the house work and I haven't of the old time man of his temperament. And I supbut tha feels a 'ack he home, wasn't coming "I wish bly have meant that he really wanted night It was Agatha's place to come done a thing today. Good-by!- " her later A few Chrletmat spirit. cayt pose it's natural that he shouldn't be Edith said passionately, "or Agatha, to come and see the play, could he? and see her, or call her up. Agatha mother asks Edith It sha would much She was trembling. Tbe tears would about keeping his either." he certainly wouldn't now. mind leaving; her present sehool and well, scrupulous Oh, had very now. She in her eyes in another minute. new friends how of lots had at ths publle high word or fulfilling his promises. He finishing her Studies Mother understood all right, which "Ed's looking well, isn't he?" dad changed a lot since a year ago. out of that house as fast as school. It will mean a saving of sevShe got to be allowed to forget that he's was a comfort, and but for something "' likes eral hundred dollars, Aand Edith agrees, drove off together. "And ' as said they could. ChristLast she too. was Ed different, talk with Roger made them. Bat he talked tonight, for though regretful'y. sacrifices him back?" about have said might to they fine she it Isn't tells her teleEdward her. who Morgan heartensto mas. It must have been Ed Is going she'd pay his own way the first time to me, about changing have to make, Edith would have felt a aware was that She guiltily she been else, had If anyone it If short herself She pulled up decides phoned. through the university, and ashe lot better for their talk. It wasn't forgotten all about Ed. She'd even course In his design. I hope I succeeded in per "It who told her she'd have would about cry. ts leave school and take herself to that, thinking Agatha to suading him out of It tonight, but I until hours afterward, lying In bed try seconds about the got a few a business eellege, fitting for had him he told about must worried forgotten have of was. She sort seemed Mother become her father's stenographer. At don't know. If the thing's right as It ing to get off to sleep, that she began play. And here she was, actually on first he Is shocked, but her determinaher low spirits and tried to cheer to go right after lunch. That was why realThat's could he mother hasn't whether argument. any evident. Is stands, wondering tion the way to the performance! Suppose she hadn't been surprised when he her up. the question everything comes down ly have been talking just about sacri she were to forget her part? down after sort of let feel I rushed off like that But she'd told her finishes "I V. Edith guess CHAPTER we'll put it fices In general, or whether there was When dad pulled up at the entrance course and takes the position In her to. If the thing's right, she said. "Isn't it funny, him he could come back after hie sislast night," ' He Mariner." foreno or she over. Mariner some special sacrifice that father's office. She cheers Patterson with a "Well, good luck, my dear! In are time All the had mother? ter you gone. She was probably to he goes her At urging by her presence. rose stiffly from his easy chair and saw. She didn't dare let herself think We'll see you after the show," she was vacawas It out as a salesman to sell the choke. school you keep wishing have telephoned him but be hadn't tossed the end of his cigar into the what it might be. He ts not Hogether unsuccessful, with misery that she - - i so vacation when then paralyzed and waited. extion r time, wss a it trying though he admits shows Agatha got home two days before could hardly get out of the car. And, grate. were an inclination she gone yet?" That wish of "Has sort He'd Mar'ner you said, comes, you perience. Edith but the factory. He is There was another silence after that the performance of the. play, ts keep away from "ln.ei.tlon." though she wouldn't have believed It was when Agatha had said "No." He'd back in school. That's the way I feel Finalon another workingdeclares Edith found It appalling. She couldn't hardly had time to see her at all. She possible, she went on feeling worse with dissatisfied Is he asked how much longer she was going this morning, anyhow." ly he sav anything; she didn't believe she almost felt hurt, though perceptibly she , their selling policy and wants to take She discovered and worse. of queer about sort acted Mother to stay, and Agatha bad said she to a businest trip through theIs countryand could move. And she knew that moth. let down, anyhow to find that couldn't speak In anything above a to the tried wife subject change didn't know. And then he'd asked there, that She California. Mariner's i knows- he wants to Join her. er, whose hand was clasped In hers. Agatha's time was pretty well filled, whisper. Her voice was gone altoPatterson she a got he must have to tell Edith up after minute, And then, Agatha ' Mariner too. She tried not to feel that way same way. finally- admlte it Patterson were the felt and hands feet Her another engagement, and went had gether. she away. and him f00 "for the trip," though gives vnnw tt means Mariner's connec He looked around at them at last. about It. It was silly to wish that her numb. She'd thought and passionately did telephone, said of course she wouldn't had noon About Agatha Agatha tion With ths businest is pracucauy and almost started, as If he'd forgot best friend was dangling around for- hoped she was going to be frightfully and In the of pleasure at the told him not to be silly. and uprush . ended. ,V; ten they were there. "Don't you worry, lornly with nothing to da but wait ill. They'd find her unconscious there mere sound of her voice, Edith forgot But she hadn't cared, really. She CHAPTER VL Patterson really hat vou two," he said. - "I'm not really for her. It wouldn't have amounted That would stop the her doleful Imaginings. In her corner. was telephoning him now, that the success in of measure personally a and Agatha hadn't Better that than disgrace. She coast was clear and that he conld believe worried myself. I've seen nothing yet to anything if she "I thought you were probably sleepselling the choke, and comes tobecomes once. play. believed like that he will make a salesman. He make me think we aren't right been such awfully good friends something to to want come. Edith knew It as well as If really man of means. ing oft last night, and I didn't It made her pretty melancholy when was going to happen. Terhaps she'd acquainted with a seems ' "But heard the whole thing. she'd to take an explained. Agatha disturb "Jake" Gorman, wht you," she had time to think about It. e e Interest in the choke and talks Invaguetell Miss Bennett. and stay better can't over now, you, come It. Into Pat. ly of putting money Ed, they learned at last, was getting her took Bennett plight Miss But to comes the didn't She Gorman absence lunch?" quarrel openly either to terton's home en the very day of the performwith much She said an utterly unbewith Ed. She even or factory. Edith handles him and would she with calmly. to Agatha started say Edith Is Impressed. business tact, and ha ance, and not until dinner time Just lievable Well, whether she had to fright? "Stage don't "I thing. drives with him. In his oar, to her forbore Inquire of something. then before or Just after, they couldn't tell, ths two men The greatest believethought a good sign. and so kept ether's club and leaves a went for that's "Ed said. she quarrel I'd grounds better," note from Roger, for his telegram was obscure. talking buetneat.herA on d have It worst. she'd always I and say, that of the actors, alive action I her before they possibility got up out somewhere congratulating cheert her Immensely. (Trken. From Searchlight) They had an early dinner which said that John Barry-morcall. With It heard I've Hell that Independence, him telephone seen at all haven't reaiiv In Oorman continues to shownoInterest to On January 18, the first classes for Edith was too excited to eat. and then whenever he opens a new play, desire be back pretty soon, I guess. Why each of them separately she had seme tbe businest but Mariner displays were held at the Bear River she dressed at home in her Charles feels Just as bad as you do now." adults from writes Invest money. really good times. It was only as a don't you come over here?" California that he has corns to the con- High School. Three hundred people Surface costume. Father was to drive wasn't yet knew that possible; She and couple that Ed and Agatha made ber clusion ths choke It "no good," There was a perceptible hesitation then come back " was a flavor of comfort In It. though almost having the attended the first evening and nearly her to the school and there Patterson, Then unhappy. said, Agatha over the telephone. same conviction becomes discouraged. twice that number the second Mon for mother, and Ed If he came. She she until didn't miracle deal over ber a Tbe happen She good to puzzled up hia stay German hat not finally mads not "Why, Ed's here, ne's going reAsday evening. They come from all ov kent hoDlnz. of course, up to the very had been some minutes on the stage. about this mind about Investing, but hat come phenomenon. better So feelings too. you'd to lunch, fuses. He Is abort to bs married. Pat- er the Bear River Valley. The class last minute, that he'd arrive before She heard herself saying the first few to about had Ed that get silly suming along." terson tells his wif. and Edith that But It came time to start lines but she was sure that nobody in a girl and Agatha about a boy, she'd Willard has refused to tend him money es begin at 6:15 and last until 9:15 she left. Edith told her blankly, "All right," from heard been to had the him give lecture work. The peo before anything could hear. But when he needs, advising are and audience mostly the have thought It better that they turn "I guess I will." business up. He can raise money by Uncle Oliver onto the on their home. His pie have their choice of three classes him. brought toward each other than that they a they to want mortgage go. she didn't patting Somehow, She felt awfully hollow as she put stage, and Moses introduced him, The subjects wife's ungrudging and Immediate con- during the evening. should drag tn a pair of outsiders, but feel made her queer there Ed's Edith him. Infuriate being seems to sent aa old quilted black silk cloak'of something queer happened to her. She she didn't believe now that she'd have taught are: English, Literature, Type on leaves thsm together. about It. And why hadn't Agatha told borrowed beforeot that she had forgotten that i her he was there In the first place, minded the latter alternative so much. Taxation, Astronomy, Mathmatics, mother's which she'd to her ankles, CHAPTER VII. Pattereon't IndignaPsychology, Inter cause It came way down speech. She heard herself saying It Instead of waiting until she had to do There was something subtly Infuriattion at hit wlfe't unfair attltudt for, Government, Shop, went out to get Into the car. and for and In a new voice that wasn't hers at all. try-a Gymnastics ior sfter end a time, fiai.iet, Decoration, so! Probably they didn't want her ing about a relation between those twe is long hit- women and athletics for men. Another car a great big one which It was Charles Surface's ; light, clear, scene, daring which he loses recIng which left her out It seemed like a to come and had been surprised when i there Is a partial temper, though,leaves wood made of recognize vardidn't Immediately wasn't she at She started was movement vibrant Cor. This house. the snclllatlon, he betrayal . .. she said she would. If she could only man seemingly Is his last hope. He ious places throughout the State of pulled up at the curb right behind any more, she was made of sir. She a good excuse, she'd call up It was perfectly terrible the way of think him (it it his goee to him, finding front the a sort of electrical Just as she opened Ed's engagements kept him running and say she'd changed her mind. wedding day) In a highly - nervous Utah.- - Anyone, except high school theirs A man with a suitcase was felt, rather heard, now stats. la the course of conversation I students, may attend. These classes door. crackle of amusement It came from Only, without a better excuse than round. From the time he got up. carries Patterton learnt that Gorman It was EdlShe out. Why, on getting the audience. She had made them do she could tblnk of, she'd only look a once Monday ones held week, Interettt are toward noon, until be came no life Insurance and at along him In a policy for a considerable turn. nights and are free of charge. This cried out the fact to her mother and It She could make them do It whenbed at tome unknown small to Shs'd and ridiculous. home and cross sulky offlcs and ths walk to meet him. Nat They visit the Insurance ever she spoke. It was the most wonshe'd come home right . hour la the morning, they never saw made out. Patterson'! com- night school gives the parents an idea flew down the but to have go, policy ts an the transaction Is mors what their children are doing and at urally she forgot all about Charles j derful thing that ever happened In tbe mission after lunch, and leave the pair to him at all, except when he dashed than bs could hsvs Inmads out of Marfor a moment, and she had world. home to change his clothes. Dad, the years. Arriving the same time they are benefited by Surface iner's "Invention" themselves. , wife almost hysterisomething better to do with her hands she kept away from the heme, he flnde bit the In wings of could see, was getting pretty eere her it. preThe austerity carefully cal with fear over what might have rhan to keep that silk cloak huddled She had a feeling that If o:o other girls. after and last didn't about It, though It was several days attitude long been the result of their quarrel, conpared bout her legs. She didn't at first 'see she talked or even listened to what her attitude, with hie reaction, he said anything. Ed house. Wlllards' before the reached she vince them both that there has always The curfew tolls the knell of part why Ed should stop to stare ai her In they said, the virtue would go out of first with It the well (To Be Continued) destroyed been mutual love, though misunderpretty Is com. that bewildered way. Then she re- her. day, ing standing. Their reconciliation so were sound said. Ton he thing sells the "choke conplete. Patterson for A line of cars winds slowly o'er the membered nd explained. She went on feeling queerly remote, him. Is ended, but cern," and that, asleep when I looked In at you about toLandlord: "This room was formerly It's the for dressed play. "I'm lea. be feels he hat "found himself"It and almost disembodied, after the thing nine o'clock, that I thought you the knows. hs absent-mind business, occupied by a chemist He invented hit real fife night." Apedestrain plots his was over, triumphantly over, an acInsurance. Edith returns wouldn't wake up before noon." selling of and her to came he hugged At that a new explosive." ed way. to her. echsollng, her "bwelness career" claimed success; and people came and lie hadn't forgotten her, then, after over. lut It la tn older Edith and a My, but It was good world quite unex And leaves the enthusiastically. kissed her the or through her, Prospective Roomer: "I suppose till happier home, through.- Patttrtea't to Lave him back! What an Idiot bugged ber how told pectedly. and those perfectly about "beginning sf adventaraspots on the wall are the results makeup And then they began talking .T she'd been to wish he wasn't coming. o:o wss It been. she'd delicious, splendid how splendid she'd been in the play. of his experiments." Dad got out of their car, of course, to realize that Indirectly, them wasn't Landlord: orIt we possible the "Well, let "Shall but that people enjoy gave contributed something Ed Ogden Service Fruit Co., newly hurrying down tbe it was had we better have and mother mine enr ovtr; that the would probably her a thrllL "Roger Morgan told me," Those are the chemist" started to back ganized firm, will open produce selves a little or other The walk. your speech now?" house. to get. They made Kami so mue they talked that way that she could hardly stand it. Certaluly there wasn't going to be any money to spare' una jrar. could tell by the way dad looked when he came home night after night ror dinner and sat, forgetting even to pretend to listen, while she and mother talked about things that had happened during the day. The only reference he ever made to Christinas was to figure out once in a while how many days 11 would be before F.d got home from colv. c4 Aove ky Henry Kitchell Webster m-- u It tni!.'lnr -- . , i and-drie- I 1 half-heartedl- ossessed -u-npacked ly ... - I , . Adult Education Classes Taught mlBin-terprete- e, . ' y. . , |