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Show Gay Jumper i Tnt Thats STOUT TUI'S FAR: Hhll ovlf Poland U America, l ark Shag, koa'l ship on Sown. Eh is rati apoa a bland, and Gall H like, bound servant, rescues her. Eh la mad a prisoner al Ihn Inn, bul escapes and Is found bjr her sweetheart, David North, who Is dissolved as a ilpsy la get a tin oa Dr. Matson and his shady deaUnis. Lark and Call faU Into lh bands of Dr. Matson, but escape at aitht, and after weeks of hardships arrlv la Norfolk wher I ark taperts lo meet David. Eh Is told by Mara Hastings, at whoa bom sh stops, that David North 1s not la town. Lark 1s shocked when Mara announces that David North 1s her Sane. They Boon leavs btara's home. -- r no feel of belonging here, no faintest sense of permanence. Lark had tried not to show her own feelings, her keen disappointment that David North had never so much as tried to find her as far as she knew her unhappy convic- tion that she had no tangible right to Red Raskall, her feeling of root lessness, of tension let down too quickly, of an almost painful inertia. Minnie encouraged her to get out occasionally, to ride, to gather nut with Galt, to fish from the little pier on the river. She never mentioned the argument they'd had over the horse. ownership of the Once Lark wrote a letter to Squire Terraine, but he had her doubts that the address Minnie obligingly found for her was right. One bright morning Minnie announced that she was going to the Fair on the Norfolk outskirts. "You an Galt can go, ahe told Lark. See a few sights an a lot o peored-brow- n CHAPTER XVn "He come home la night." Cup lie was pleased to oblige. He mad t Miss Mara 'case you gone. She mad at him, too, an tell him heap o ugliness bouten you. Then be mad at you. Evybody mad. I took m foot In m hand an lit outen dar. Lark said, Cupsie, I can't keep you. I cant pay you. I'm looking for work, myself. Im sorry I made trouble with Miss Mara and Mr. North. But youd better Go right out to the dairy shed, Minnie cut in blandly, an go to skimmin cream. You was pretty You good In the dairy, Cupsie. know where things is at While Taffy was finishing getting breakfast, Minnie showed Lark and Galt her place, with pride, with childlike boastings. I got me a few darkies an I works the Barnes as tenants when I can ketch em. I got bout thirty acres, but they needs a farmin man to see to right" She glanced at Galt, and he nodded. Im your man. Ive walked your place, early. Youve got rich land, Minnie, but youll need a lot of stump burning and straightening around. Go right to it Minnies voice I got ideas had a purring sound. for Lark, too. Like racing Red Ras kali at the Fair. Fair opens up in Norfolk, end o the month. Me an ple." David, Lark thought. She means I'll have a chance to see David. And then she thought, maybe David d la d SEWING on "Charley AL WESSON'Sthe story Fastest Human, In the Best Sport Stories of 1944," beat Pattern No for ssch Sj Nam Addreu TMAKEr ICE CREAM Aovf kmAf k cytteUW A Smooth cosfcAgNo ro davof - f otp a N ?) tot Hu ot po U 4 lot Iin IvU Uom foot phg. tin tom LOIlDOMRiJ ki Cr NoMmod u STABILIZER it So Charley told his story, which makes one wonder whether or not nature hasnt set a certain limit on what the human frame can stand. I was running that afternoon." he said, against a strong field and I know I was never In better condition. I had the feeling before the race that this was to be my big day the day where I would et a new world mark, possibly around 9!i shade faster. I seconds, or even had that record mark In my mind before the race waa run. I was thinking of it while wailing for the starters pistol. At the bark of the gun I was away faster than usual. Al the 50 yard mark I knew I bad made the fastest time of my career for Uial distance. I Increased my speed on the way home and at the 75 or 80 yard mark I could tee that 94 or perhaps 9H all ready for track history. Then a queer thing happened, at this point I suddenly felt my leg ligaments and leg muscles begin to quiver, as if they were bring torn loose from the bone. In that spill second I caught the flash that If I continued this same pace I would probably finish as a cripple. So I called off any continuance of full pressure and eased down. Even then I again ran the distance In 9i, s where I threw away of a second in those last 20 or 25 yards. I found later, however, that my judgment had been correct, for I was sore and lame In the calves of both legs for a week. The speed and the stamina were there, but the physical structure wasnt for that pace. EL Jranniro, (alii. Fr.rlf cents in coin pattern driired. spriffter. Ydu may recall that Paddork on several occasions had run the hundred in 9H seconds. Also that he was the Crsi of the extended Cock to cover this same distance in 9 5. I asked him one day why It was that being able to tie the record time and again, he had been unable at aome high peak spot to K San duty, told me some y PATTrnV HAFT. l( IMontmrry IIS New recalls a Paddock yarn I have never aeen in print The marine captain, killed In a plane crash wfdle on tear x Egypt" Lark said, Minnie, youve been so more than kind but Im going to take Red Raskall to Squire Terraine. After tha- tDont cross a bridge till you come to it Minnie said. Well eat now an plan later." Barnes had a sight of gossip on him when he come to milk this dawn. Placidly she forked an unfinished chicken leg off Larks plate. Seems old Jarrod Terraine bet his whole plantation on a horse race "You been fidgitlng, Lark, last week, an lost. Lost to Plascutt Dawes' gray imported nag, Thunder Boy. Remember Thunder Boy? couldnt find me, maybe Ive been He swum to shore from the Temp, unfair to him. Maybe I ought to go. . . . you know. Take your two nags, Minnie Before you take Red Raskall to an pick up a bit o suggested, be told to the Greatways you ought Terraines aint there. They left, kit racin money. Right good races up an caboodle, for a place they got in to the Fair. "Im liable to stay a month, once Kentucky, a thousand miles off, on I get there, Minnie said placidly. the Wilderness Trace. Aint that Ill follow em to Richmond an sight? Left last night Lark said, Minnie, you knew that maybe Charlottesville. You been fidgetin, Lark. You Just take yourlast night! Didnt you? I knowed they lost the hoss race, self one good Fair day, an come last week. Howd I know old Plas- back here an run mya house while Thatll be favor. You cutt was puttin' em out so quick? Im gone. extra-cargo when Manny Howd I know the Terraines was wont feel drunk an' takes Barnes off, an gets after takin foot for Kentucky right Midgets gone, an you got the gate the weddin? to tend, with Taffys Minnie said cheerfully, an the house Lord, an fits Cupsies lip to put up with. dont try to talk sense to a fooll Im offerin you a job. You goin All right honey, you two take an to take it? light out after the Terraines. They Id do anything you ask, Minaint got moren about twelve hours Lark said. Gladly! start on you. Youre bound to ketch nie, was for her months Minnie ready em in a couple weeks up in the wilds of the Kentucky mountains. Fair career in remarkably short orlectured Cupsie and Taffy Jarrod Terraines got no reward der. She field hands in direct and and the money to give you. Hes got no right to Red Raskall. But you take anr simple terms. She threatened ManBarnes with a ducking in the give him the hoss, an all you got to ny he went to sleep and missed fret about is gettin back to civiliza- river if too many tolls. She threw a few on still tight tion with your scalp clothes into a canvas sack, put on your head. I give up. . . . No, Fair costume, a red and white her listen! Now dont! you creation that billowed and clung, by You got the horse, hauled him turns, as she took her place In the outen quicksand, brought him to chariot Midget brought to the door. shore, risked your life an limb to Greatest Show Ever Conceived get him to Greatways, got here too the Human Mind to Please, Inby no late to help Jarrod, and through and Horrifye. See Two-To- n struct, fault o yours. If some fella was Minnie and her black Bantam Bodyto dive into the old Temp tomorrow, 55 lb., and can whip weight guard, lost gold an fetch your precious Minnies Weight in Wild Cats, and pieces outen that Yet Sleepe in the Palm of Her would the whose wreckie its in, Hand. gold be? Yours or hisn? Ask Galt. 'Dan made that," Minnie said Galt said, It would be his, Lark. proudly. It kind of takes the eye Thats the way anybody on the coast now, dont it? would figure. Like I figured about Lark said it certainly did. She those gold pieces we found. But you was dressed in the black riding habsaved Red Raskall. Im not going it, pinned to fit by the eager Cupsie. to persuade you, either way. Galt brought Red Raskall and Dosta Minnie to the Lord, listen at him! mounting block and gave Lark You ain't never goin snorted. hand up. He swung his booted, to ketch a pullet thataway. my boy. leather-trousere- d leg over the Ras-kalYou got to boss em. back and reined him in to During the last warm suit Dostas easy trot. to redays of October, Lark began bubThey made the trip to town, stopgain the feeling of strength and a time or so for rest and food ping in woke bling life. She no longer Minnies hampers, in a little from the night, cold, drenched with per- over three hours. It was past noon was back she spiration, imagining jvhen they turned into a woodland on the Tempora, on the island, where handbills and pennants prolocked in her miserable loft room claimed, "The Virginia Circle Fair, at Vumey's Inn. Her sense of ob- With Racing, Trading, Auctioneerher with increased energy ligation ing, Fruits and Prize Tobacco. Come and she spoke to Minnie about it. one. Come All! He had Galt was certainly happy. on his high, precarious done remarkable things with Min- boxMidget, Minnies chariot, gave a loud cf her land already, managing nies next hirrap, Capped the lines, and lazy field help. Plannire Minnieyears was brought the ponies in between the land. the readying crops, with a flourish. Galt and said big gate-tregreatly pleased with there's affecThat Her my tent! Minnie so a dozen times a day. over the chariot, piint-m-g outbut all and was tipped Lark plain for tion take it out a Ill you two to the Lark very recognized spoken, and real bond between them, but she had track an make you known to some red-gol- gent friends wholl spot you for a two. But keep your eye on your host flesh, on account these boys Is like to sell em off when your backs Is turned! Minnie shouted greetings to the Schwassel-boman, a gaunt sharp-face- d fellow, fitting on a wagon tree mending the costumes of his Punch and Judy player. She yelled at two cronies who were stirring a pot of Bubble and Squeak. She made a lewd remark or to to the snake charmer, and greeted the auctioneer with a mighty hug and kiss. People were gathered near an encampment of gipsiei in the creek ravine, below the bumble-puppgame. Lark glanced toward them and pulled up Dost. A boy's figure, in soft white silk blouse and velvet trunks, stood silhouetted against a white-pin- e upright board. As she looked. Lark saw a silver Rash in the air, heard faint ping and a dull, soft reverberation. A knife had gone through the air and had (truck the pine board, burying its tip deep in the wood a quarter Inch from the arm. boy's statue-lik- e The crowd watched, breathless, and Minnie called to Midget to pull up, for Goda good love, because thia waa something! Fast as flying knives came, birds, the bright-bladeoutlining the boy, making the soft ailk of his blouse shiver and flutter, pinning a lock of his black hair to the board, piercing the wood so near his pulsing throat that a long sigh went up from the crowd. Lark said. Ita Chal, Galt" Galt nodded. When the performance waa over they rode to the woman was group. A white-haire- d putting away the knives. She was Chals mother and Dostaa. She nodded briefly when Lark spoke to her, thanked her for her help that dreadful night Then she went into her red tent, fastening the flap behind her. Chal and Ginko were going through the crowd with tambourines, begging money, boasting of the breath taking skill of Mother race or d her brine-soake- d to an unuul!y Inrre demand and rurreil war cumtitluna. ilirhtly mor Uino I a lew of rruirrd In tilling oitlns Ui niotl popular pattern numbers. Send jour order lo: Du CLARK MCMEEKIN PI from Smig-Waistc- FAVORITE co.stume in every little girls wardrobe is the goy jumper that combines so nicely with pretty blouses or soft harThe style monizing sweaters. shown has a snug waist, ribbon-laceand the popular full cut skirt. d, Pattern No. 1174 Is designed for sires and 8 years bie , Jumper, marequires 1, jards of M or terial: blouse. 1!, yards; l'y yards for lacing. 4. 5. S. 7 rib-bu- n pLIOUSEHOLD iHiirrsisi Never clean s toaster until D 0 ROTHY LAMOUR its cool and the cord is disconnected. Old Turkish towels make fine fillers for potholders. many "el: b p'CI?.7to Informed U'JJ powder. Ginko was pleased to see Lark and Rinse milky dishes in clear cold I told you, Colombo, that water before washing them in aome day I would ask a favor of povfott warm soapy water. He grinned at Lark. The you. mayor wishes our band to leave NorThere must be air space between folk, why, God knows. You can get all bowls, bottles and dishes us permission to stay and make placed in the refrigerator. If there money by asking your great and is not, remove some of the conpowerful friend, David North, to tainers for proper refrigeration. speak to this stupid mayor. ECONOMICAL! Larks pulse began to quicken. She Clndr Block U Three or four thicknesses of tFTmJlF proof, pprnu said, "Very well. I will see him, U Ideal for bomei, gauze worked around the edge Ginko. I should like, too, to recoop, dairy boueee rto with cotton crochet is turn this mare to Mother Egypt. just the .Vi, AiaiiablpioaojrqiiMtit;, . thing for face cloths, which are so She feels Ginko shook his head. scarce. the black mare bewitched her She is a fool but she daughter. Gehrig's Hard Luck throws her knife well, no? Much along the same line, which Lark walked slowly toward the proves again how difficult it Is to Cargoe Riske cubicle under the certain marks, is Lou Gehrigs crack sevsee She could rusty magnolia. eral men inside. One of them was case. Here was another ofstar who came within a half turn setting standing up, coming toward her, one of the greatest records ever into the sunshine. . . . David. He was beside her, taking her two written by the ash. Up to June 3, 1932, only two men hands, his face thin and tired and In baseball history had ever hit eager. He said, "Lark where unIn one game. The four home der heaven have you been? She told him the things that had first quadruple blast came from the happened. He frowned when she bat of Bobby Lowe of Boston in mentioned living at Minnies May, 1894. Two years later big Ed You could Delehanty of Philadelphia, one of house. He said, have stayed at Mara Hastings' till I the great hitters of all time, plascame. I dont feel that Minnie is a tered four out of the park to tie suitable friend for a young and Lowes record. tender female. I Lark, I am deepSixteen years later Lou Gehrig had his big chance. Facing the ly troubled about you. Lark said, Tve been with more strong Athletic team of that season unsuitable people than Minnie. After Gehrig hit a home run his first four the Vurneys and and Dr. Matson, times at bat. He was now on even shes wonderful. . . . And I couldnt terms with Lowe and Delehanty, have stayed at Mistress Hastings, with another chance left. On his final David. I am sorry. appearance Lon caught one solidly I will come to you. Lark, David and squarely on the snont. It was said firmly, as soon as I am free to. the longest of his five hard smashes, My case against Matson will have to but in place of traveling slightly to be settled, of course. It is of great left or right, the big blow was caught importance. But I do not want to in deep center against the fence. neglect you. Lark. You are sweet It was a matter of raw luck that and brave, if a little impulsive. But kept Luis Angel Firpo, the Wild Bull do not think I have forgotten you, of the Pampas, from putting across because I have not. I have worthe greatest ring sensation of aD ried greatly about you. If you would time. Few recall that the ring had only come back to Maras been lifted that night at least 2 feet Lark said. David above normal. This move had been David, I keep made to give the big crowd a betyoure so different. seeing you in that gipsy dress, your ter chance to see the fight The drop hair wild, your life in danger, and from the ring to the press seats was now now David, I hardly know a deep one. 1 recall saying that Id hate to have you. I dont know you at all. Firpo fall David looked worried. He said across my neck from the lifted patiently, Of course you know me. plateau. Lark. I joined the gipsies because It so happened that when Dempsey I had to, to catch Matson. came through the ropes his body fell To make money for your com- directly at Jack Lawrence, who inpany . . . But, David stinctively put up both hands to protect himself. If Dempsey had topIt was my job to catch him, David said reasonably. "Of course pled a foot to the right or a foot to I was troubled over you. Lark. I the left the champion would almost roust reward Galt suitably for bring- certainly have gone aD the way or at least ing you safely to Norfolk. But if I down to the press rail hadnt got my evidence when I so far down that he would never have had the sbghtest chance to get did "It's a little gift for the Sergeant. I You had back through the ropes in time. Of course, Lark said. to get it . . . But I dont believe It is by such narrow margins that thought he'd get a big kick out of it" I would offer Galt anything. If I sport history is often written. At last you can buy off the were you, David. It might fresh, daUdEvere ady flashlight Pro vs. Football called David from the College Someone batteries you need! Your dealer has them now, in the size that fils Riske cubicle. He excused himself. Greasy Neale, coach of the PhilaHe would see Lark later, he said. your flashlight. a team that lost only Eagles, delphia Naturally, theyre still on the Lark walked to the track, the weather-beone game last faU, Insists that hi job with the Armed Forces and aten stands. Galt was entering g Eagles would have beatessential war industries but Red Raskall in a race. A tug of en either Army or Navy last fall there are plenty for civilian use, excitement caught at Lark, a sudden Coach Steve Owen of the Giants as well. wish to ride the horse in the race, doesnt agree. So be sure and a,k for fresh, dated Esercady flashlight batto dash into the wind, to gallop, galteries. The f amous dateAme pro "Army had too much youth and lop. She touched Galt's hand. She a lot of power," Stevs that you get a jrtsh, plus speed, we Could said, said. battery every time . . . your very Two pound entry, Galt said. I best assurance of dependable We have too much experience lot rice and long battery Lie. paid it. . . . Lark, I want you to ride Red Raskall. Will you? just as much speed and just as The yard Eccrtaily u a regutrred tiade mark of National Carbon Company, Inc, much power, Neale counters. (TO EE CONTINUED) Galt tooth CRLOX two-fifth- ... f' Everybody Loves Themt s toll-gat- EfGfJTEFl f&OfJLELJTS with fresh.Evereadv Batteries ... 220-pou- high-flyin- er |