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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD FIRST-AI- to the D - AILING HOUSE by Roger B. Whitman 4- - Ruth Wyeth Spears Flood Control. LIDA BY CHAPTER XII Continued 18 "But since I took extra courses at this year practically over Mothers dead body, I have to stick at them. Debby walked reluctantlShe wanted y toward the door. High me to go to college. "Why Gay didnt asked. want to go? "If you dislike it you here Debby glanced away, a flush staining her olive cheeks. "Im talking too much, I guess. She turned, came back to Gay, threw her arms around her. "I think youre lovely, she said in a rush of impulsive words. "I dont know quite how John managed it you but Im glad Dont you listen to anything j he did. , anybody says, not that theyll say ! much but What do you mean, Debby? j Gay asked, puzzled. But Debby did not explain. "Ive got to go, she mumbled, not looking at Gay, ard went running out of the room. i J I i j i : "You shouldnt have gone to extra trouble for me, Mrs. Houghton, Gay said, as Johns mother came into the living-roowith a tray, "Its no extra trouble. Ann Houghton arranged dishes on the small table before the open fire in the living-roo"Its warmer here than in the dining-room- . Johns mother smiled faintly. Her skin was dark like Johns and Deb-by- s. Her dark eyes, deeply set under straight dark brows, were as somber as Johns were when he was troubled. She held her taller than average figure erect but rather, Gay thought, because some indomitable purpose, through a succession of years, had stiffened her spine, than because she realized or gave a thought to the decorative value of a fine carriage. Her hair was lovely, dark with only a sprinkling of gray. It waved back from her forehead and temples, softening the bony contours of her face. Properly dressed and with the stiffness relaxed she would have the distinction Uncle John had had. Gay wondered if she had ever had his warmth and humor, if she ever laughed aloud. "The fire is pleasant. Gay poured coffee into a thin porcelain cup with a red pattern. "I had no idea it could be so cold here in March. Were accustomed to the cold. Ann Houghton, seated in a wing- chair at the opposite side of the hearth, took a length of knitting from a bag hanging on the arm of the chair. She was never idle, Gay had observed in the two days she had spent in Johns home. Her housekeeping was a ritual meticulously performed. In those moments, as now, when she was not engaged in some active task, her long hands with prominent knuckles and nails, nicely . shaped but unmanicured, were busy with knitting or sewing. "Its healthy but not very comfortable, especially since youve just come from Florida. "I don't mind at all," Gay said quickly. "Cant we go for a walk? "Im afraid I cant spare the time," Johns mother said in the cool deliberate tone which held Gay at an impassable distance. "But you go, if you like. Only you must Her wear Debbys moccasins." glance fell to Gays sturdy but dain-- t tily fashioned oxfords. Its so easy to get your toes frosted. I shouldnt want you to suffer from chilblains the rest of your life. You would probably enjoy a Johns mother said after an walk, interval of silence during which the needles had clicked and Gay had determinedly finished her breakfast. "Its dull for you while Sarah and If we had Debby are in school. known you were coming, we might have arranged something entertaining, though everybody has been storm-bounduring the past two sea-wee- d 'I1 t ' i ; i i i j . j i j j 5 LARRIMORE MACRAE hand into the pocket that contained her cigarette case, reconsidered. Ive enjoyed my breakfast." Ann Houghton folded the knitting into the bag, rose briskly from the wing-chai- r with. Gay thought, an appearance of relief. She took a tray from the window sill and began to clear the small table from which Gay had eaten her breakfast. "Let me help you. Gay, too, rose, stood watching Ann Houghtons competent movements. "No, thank you. I know just where everything goes. Ann Houghtons voice was gracious but chillingly reserved. Amuse yourself if you can with our limited resources. I suppose that John will come tonight. "He said he hoped to when he called last night Ann Houghton glanced at the window through which sunlight streamed in dazzlingly across a frosting of snow on the sill. "I hope he wont attempt it unless the roads are clear. She turned to place the vase containing the ivy and geranium on the mantel above the fireplace. Was she going to tell her that John wasnt strong? Gay wondered. As though anything, other than an emergency call would keep him from coming now that the storm was over. "John is accustomed to icy roads, I suppose, she said, a faint note of He exasperation in her voice. drives all winter. Ann Houghton took up the tray. Its foolish of me to worry, she said, "but when his work isnt involved, I dont like him to take unnecessary risks. Will you go for a walk now or wait until the sun is warmer? I do the upstairs work on Friday while Huldah is cleaning downstairs. Its tiresome for you to be exposed to all the household machinery but when there are only two of us to keep the wheels turning we must observe routine. I try to spare Sarah, and Debby hasnt a natural bent toward housework, Im afraid. "Let me help you, Gay urged, smiling, ashamed of the exasperation her voice had revealed. "I havent a natural bent for housework, either, but I can learn. Again Ann Houghton smiled faintly. "Youre far too decorative, my dear, to "To be useful? to be expected to be useful, Ann Houghton finished a walk. The words, forming on her lips, were checked there. The position of Ann Houghtons figure held her motionless, silent She stood with her back to the door, the palms of her hands pressed flat against the wall, looking at a long framed panel between the windows. Her shoulders sagged. Every line of her body, usually erect drooped in some momentarily acknowledged defeat. As Gay watched, her head bent slowly forward until it touched the panel against the wait Gay drew back out of sight and called her name. The reply, when it came, was controlled, free from any hint of emotion. Ann Houghtons shoulders were erect She turned from adjusting a fold of the crisp white curtain at the window to glance with an inquiring expression and a faint smile toward the door. "If you can tell me where Debbys moccasins are, she said, her own voice controlled with effort, I think Ill go out now. "Theyre in her wardrobe, I think. Ill get them. Debbys wardrobe WNU SERVICE erend Henrys attention. Abigail Houghtons sherry-coloreeyes twinkled in her russet face touched with color on the cheek-boneShe turned to Gay who came to her across the priceless Chinese oriental rug which covered the floor of the small parlor from wall to walk "Im glad you came to see me, she said. Thats a pretty name. A relief from our Deborahs and Abigails and Anns. French, isnt it? "French originally, I suppose. My grandmother was Gabriella Lyons. She arrived in New York by way of New Orleans. They call me Gay. And quite rightly so, too, I expect." Gay took the small veined hand Johns grandmother extended, looked down into her friendly eyes beneath neat scallops of waved white You must come to see me hair. when the minister isnt Ill make a pudding for you. Im afraid there wont be time this trip. I'm going into Portland with John tomorrow. Oh, Debby Gay! Are you? d "Ga-briell- a. wailed. Youre making Johns mother smiled faintly. always resembles the spot that the cyclone hit Youll need heavy socks, too. As Johns walking out mother passed her, into the hall. Gay glanced back into the room. The panel, as she had remembered, framed photographs of John taken at various ages. She followed his mothers straight back and briskly tapping heels feeling a curious sense of pity mingled with resentment exasperation, fear. CHAPTER XIII The clock on the mantel, flanked by Chinese vases and branching clumps of coral, struck the half hour. Johns grandmother, Abigail Houghton, broke off an account of some early misdemeanor of Johns and turned her bright quizzical glance toward the sofa where Gay e and Debby sat beside the fire in a polin which a cannel-coa- l ished grate burned with blue and orange flames. "You children will take your death when you go out," she said, "bundled Into all that wool and fur, hot as it is in here. "Might as well come clean. Granny, Debby laughed. "Youve got a date and you want us to go. The spare little woman in black silk with lace at her wrists. and throat, chuckled as though she found remark exher granddaughters tremely entertaining. "The Reverend Henry Longfellow Blake and his wife are coming for I must give supper, she said. Hannah a hand. Shell leave the sherry out of the pudding if I'm not there to see that it goes in. "But should you put sherry in Debby the minister's pudding? asked. "It makes for a more sociable I notice he always stops evening. berating me for not going to church after hes had his dessert." She grasped the arms of her chair and rose to a standing position. A cane with a crooked gold handle fell to the floor. "You can't expect an ld woman who hobbles around on a stick to go to church, she added ns Debby put the cane In her hand. "But you go to the movies. Granny." "Which has not escaped the Rev fire-plac- h j us a very short Gay was conscious of the quizzical expression that narrowed the old ladys eyes. Yes, she said. Im sorry. She was sorry here, in this small warm house, cluttered with curios, but bright and cheerful Looking down into Abigail Houghtons face, wrinkled softly like a russet apple which has lain too long in a basket, she thought she knew how she had looked as a girl Shed had reddish hair, she thought, with those eyes and What are you thinking, my dear? I was thinking how you must have looked when you were a girl, Gay said, a little disconcerted, conscious that she had been staring. Did you Do you mind if I ask Did you have freckles? The old lady laughed. "Hundreds of them. And red hair. I was very Its been a cross all my plain. life." "Applesauce, Granny! You know you snatched Grandfather from one of the most famous beauties in the state of Maine. "And a good thing for him that I did. Her eyes lifted across Gays shoulder to the painting, which hung above the mantel, of a blue-eye- d gentleman with curling brown hair d and wearing a blue coat. "She had an unHer eyes repleasant disposition. turned to meet Gays gently smiling John must bring you to glance. see me often. When is the wedding to be? The question was unexpected. It had not been asked before. Neither Johns mother or his sisters had referred to the subject of marriage. Strange that she felt an odd reluctance to make a reply "I dont know, she said evenly but with quickened breathing. "John You know "Yes, I know. The old ladys voice was impatient. "But theres a way around anything if youre smart enough to find it I met my husband at a Fourth of July picnic and we were married the first of August. Neither of us ever regretted it At least I know I didnt and if he did he was too much of a gentleman to tell me. nest (TO BE CONTINUED) visit. side-burn- smoothly. "Besides, its cold upstairs. No, you stay here by the fire until its warm enough for a walk. Have you an interesting book? There are magazines on Uie table. "Ill amuse myself. The warmth and friendliness faded out of Gays voice. She walked to a table against the wall and picked up a magazine. Johns mother went out of the room. Gay returned to the hearth, dropped into a chair, sat with the magazine unopened on her lap. Ann Houghton resented her, she thought It was obvious, though no reference had been made to it, that she was opposed to Johns marrying her. That was a little ironical. Mothers of eligible sons had courted her persistently since she was seventeen, that toothy dowager in England, the Swiss countess who was a patroness of the school she had attended, mothers in New York and Palm Beach and Southampton. She was relieved when her engagement to Todd had put an end to that form of pursuit. It didnt matter, except just now, when she was here except that she felt, or imagined she felt, a difference in John. The afternoon he had brought her here, at dinner, later in the evening, she had felt Ann Houghtons influence working a change in John. It was nothing she could define, a feeling that he was seeing her through her mothers eyes, weighing her words, her gestures, her reactions to the family life familiar to him by some scale of values which his mother supplied. days. She had imagined it, A feeling "It was inconsiderate of me to have brought a blizzard. Coming perhaps. But when he came tonight, almost directly from Florida, I would she feel the same tension and strain? There was no change in Ann should have done better." Ann Houghtons faint smile was Houghtons manner toward her. her only acknowledgment of the Would John? But this brooding was morbid. pleasantry. "I dont, ordinarily, encourage She needed to get out of the house. gaiety during the week," she went The sun was shining and the sky on. "This is Sarahs first year of was clear and blue. She wanted to teaching in the high school. She is explore the town where John had naturally eager to make a favorable lived as a child, a boy, when he impression and she isn't very had spent his summers during the period that he had been in college strong. Sarah looked strong enough, Gay and medical school. She would ask thought, though a little subdued and for Debbys moccasins, since that unhappy. No, not actively unhappy, seemed to be important The magaresigned. A little gaiety, the thought zine slid to the floor as she rose continued, would do Sarah more from the chair. good than her mother's persistent Climbing the stairs, she heard no Still that was Sarah's sound on the upper floor, but as she coddling. concern and her mother's. walked along the hall, she caught "It's pleasant just to be here," a glimpse through the open door of Gay said. She pufhed her chair Johns room of Ann Houghtons hack from the table, slipped her brown skirt and dark red cardigan d SMITH CO. sweater. She paused in the hall outside the door, meaning to ask for Debby's moccasins and to tell Mrs. Houghton that she "as going to take Where can I get QUESTION: and booklets on flood control? Answer: Apply to the U. S. de-- i partment of agriculture, Washing- -' ton, D. C. It is also probable that your own state department of agriculture can advise you. Restoring Paintings. Question: I recently rescued a couple of paintings and prints from an attic. The paintings are grimy, and one is scaling. The prints are Weatherbeaten, with brown marks. How can I restore them? A painting that Is Answer: cracked and scaling should be treated by a professional restorer; any home method is likely to do irreparable damage. To clean the other painting, pat with a damp cloth in one corner to see if the paint is fast color. If so, go all over the painting with a pad of soft cheese-clotwet with the suds of a mild soap, which will loosen the dirt; follow with other pads of clean cloths damp wdth clear water. 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A Many of you have met her in Sewing Book 5. She is the same resourceful young lady whose adventures with an old dresser, a fish bowl and a piano stool are described in that book; and who remodeled one of the old rockers in Book 5. Todays sketch shows another of her slight o hand tricks with a chair. There it was in a junk shop window, "Did you ever see anything so impossible? I said, "It looks AROUND .he like a pompous old dowager with And the little a pompadour. bride said, "Yes, but I think Its personality could be changed; I can see it as a jolly little old lady sitting in the corner with a gingham apron. Sure enough, the next time I went to see the Bride, there was the chair sitting in a corner painted a cheerful green and with white gingham cushions. The legs had been shortened, as shown here, and the pompous back had been cut dowm. That was all. but the change was If you are interested complete. in adventures in homemaking be sure to send for Book 5. 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