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Show 1 I m fond of your jnother. She has an extraordinary effect on me. Makes me feel good inside and out -i- dle a steam bath and a' sooth- by a Swedish masseur." Gosh. Dome! Margery, since she has those children, doesn't talk my language. I cant get passionate over croup and adenoids and spinach, can I? But Kezia has a streak of wickedness I understand. Fun U her maneuver her Then she beoke a piece of toast, crumbled it thoughtfully. I supond twen-p- g pose 1 might have come doven." , pretty. aelfiah Corinth Iron achool Her mother- smiled as she saw ,'T,V vTVr older brother, Hugh. i in victory Kezia was where home sight J. o the Mrh ashamed of her action, but had warm-'TrZTwot her, Fluvanna. nficing end anderataod.ng d had to defend it V her. Ketiee enter. "She has a tough time at home. matronly erith the ear. No wonder she comes here so i at lunch with them. TJTdSU h.. pleaded a previ- - much. Cousin Gavin is too nervOn the yhck one hi.of ous to allow the radio to be played by rirtrel plant founded Doe Hiller, a when he'a in the house, and her . Hugh pae mother, pretentious and calculathmn he no longer aee trend Oorne'e antipathy, ing, tTl. b(a0,e nagging the life out of her ujrlh waken, the neat morning what a mother! shuddered Kezia. huiband. Jim, late fawn .bout her .be leara Keaia I have no reason to be envious VeWble character jn,, Pendleton come, over of Ellen. If a man goes romantic flMtically inclined girl who la a over her they think of Lizzie for Fluvanna', and a lavorite synopsis 'I C! - 5 -e- Mar-Sn,- r tit i V,ej She happily engaged to 4 tella Fluvanna abe Jerry Purdue. then mother-in-la- its good-b- y ' Ellen! sat there, her eyes dreamy and suddenly misted. "I'm so mean, she faltered, and youre so She CEiPIEB I Continued I Mother were as easy tc ss you. Fluvanna. tap to rueful Shc imile. a pyf Il nor Father. b pleased the that tellinp hard part )k L perhaps Til wait a while. Cnna called up the stairway Ca ii here. Hurry down. vuh aid 4k nr o i a k Ibis pa with the flowers returned Wed in vases. 1 mustnt stay I went out early a to the ravine and left word rdbe back by breakfast time. I ll stay until I aee 1 worry. U, Nice to have her home. breakfast iur, so lonely for you. .Turns nodded. Very nice Td have been much lonelier certain person hadnt been kind about comint often! Not '? . . . Pouffl Just never get . you're 1 I loved coming fascinating U tired of being fascinating isnt sat down on the 1 beside Fluvanna. 1 could tune in with lyoe-perh- aps nrl" She zport deny Be understood. He under Jt everything 'annna patted her hand. good to me! Oh, Mother, how do vou put up with me? Fluvanna was moved, as she always was when Kezia was peni-.e- nt and misty-eyeeven though she knew it did not hinder her rom doing the same thing over again directly. The girl rose in a sudden whirlwind and came around to her chair, laid her cheek I know I'm horagainst hers. rid! Charming, emotional and impulsive like Jim. Her heart plunged vith misgiving for Kezia, a vague anxiety. She caressed her automatically. Kezia went back to her chair. Be nice to her when she comes again or, better still, telephone her. I will, Kezia nodded between oitea. Ill telephone her this aoon. Pete told me about this Purdue ahe has been going with very smooth looking like Ronald Theyre all betting it won't last a month! I wouldn't be too sure. Kezia looked up quickly. have you a scoop? she tell you anything? Not for the public yet So keep d, ' Col-ma- n. happiness came to May I tell Kezia?" secret pa laughed. 1 danH mini it No? Kezia's brows went up. I Bugb-- do . tex-HugHea Well, is that a headline! Ellen ndentanding tort of person. over! Cheers for Ellen! I favorite cousin among bun' put it, I'D Kezia rose from thd table. hr breeze around there after I get ) elder woman knew the was tennis and ask her pleasure out of her naive through playing to over some night him bring (uoa so the encouraged her. soon. She dropped a kiss on her met Jerry in April? ID teD her that mothers hair. Tvt seen while Im immured in the halls of pk no last fall of him for a long time. leiinj she grabs off the bestwould come then stay away. learning, in town! man looking see, he thought his family A matter. His father is a roll-the mil and hit CHAPTER H uncle runs Mw store. He said he could The backyard lawn of the Hugh nng them to meet us and all (relations you and the Ren- - Marshes was veiled in the transluWoods, the Moffata. the cent light which comes just before we The west was a faint are an awful crowd, darkness. toow. Not that hea ashamed saffron streaked with mauve; birds a People! He says they are talked in sleepy twitterings; willow. in a cooed wood dove pcople aved to tend school in the East . Dorrie reclined on a wicker . ; hes f proud of them . chaise longue and Hugh sat near a B wouldnt da . . Just her amoking a pipe. Hugh's eyes the arabesque pattern himself go because were on vine. t aiher has of the trumpet money? aUowed the evening paDorrie then In a low V !?dW Hugh, Wd Jerry that tb fact per to drift to the ground. . lazy. constitutionally I'm We meant all this Slut night? So own watch purposes." oval ! light had entirely faded. The dusk ringed her around wuth magic. Her pale green dress shimmered like moonwheeleu restlight. A lessly overhead, uttering a raucous cry. Hugh, whose passionate feeling for her had never dimmed, felt her enchantment heighten, surround him with a mystical contentment and yearning. His eyes held hers. Youre lovely," he said on a breath. Thank you, she murmured, smiling. The telephone tinkled inside the night-haw- k house. ID said Dorrie sliding off the chaise longue. go, She never walked briskly but when she came back she moved with more animation than was her wont Its the Whitneys," she announced. They want us to go out to Freeland Farms and dance. Hugh gave a regretful look at the yard, bowered in bush and t every - Xt ? Z: u. Csr 0 got h , e tc "M-mm- ." "Arent you Interested? Did you Yeud Better Take It the Way I De It each other, hear what I said? That you ere lazy? Yes, I vine, at the moon, climbing now, t priceless g heard. I dont know what we can a shimmering globe above the greater than do about b Sort of nice here, trees. pot-eaiin- Cjfki the world. sed her Impulsively. IW? it She shrugged and a curling smile commented. never liked to see crept She stood there, waiting lor ,weet child and a that he mouth. her around him to say more. The expression rj one. have of her face was veiled, but he felt that you means It nothing then Ellen rose. I a tam-a vitality flow from her, e curlazy wife? for the rent of something indefinable. make things You pretty be down hi a W JF11 Your cushions. Do you want to go? sked me to call her house curtains, i clothes you spend s lot of time Thats for you to decide, she I Shetl fhe pUylnf ten sewing. almost coldly. answered ' to the stairway. But thats what I like to do! He took her attitude for re? . . . Ellen la in I mean I'm lazy because I doot erma proach. He stretched his Combut dont to wefl I ought ga lazily. "TeD them, ezia murmur to her- - do the things want to! You see there's s distinc- ing for us? -A tew tion. replied: yej. Can you be ready la tea ' minutes? Tm not complaining.. Anna announced His mind slipped sway to the He nodded. "But we wont stay wm w.ftinw the Cincin- late, remember! I have a Job to .If they landed, the door, the plant from Day-to- n hold down if Cun hasnt one the and nati order ter fc it would keep them running aD She started for the bouse, then would there when her besd with her secret through June, t turned You always say that we be e natural recession. They hadn smDe. consmaH ihsd plant done btdly for a wont stay late, remember' 1 rted isJLC,rc!ly conditions. "But we always do! sidering I "You're not thinking about me She vanished in the rear door. At Dancing. said Dorrie sharply. . The Whitneys. He knocked toe least It wasnt bridge which had Who else? ' Wl murmured ca ashes out of his pipe. "XX X think jy become so complicated lately with tor jroUt it f business ,iIky about the iv,ald the new scoring end new systems feu b our rht was Ellen isnt it? which people quoted so confusinglin the morning Tm trying to make a confes- ysion. but you wont listen. Freeland Farms always a crowd. I n Vt i J! 'j-v- to aee what 1 ;aVr!Z.j nd mak plans! I10 intend aroumc withber n the 3 V .Si ue fe; sn?; iXfrnr.or. - X His left brow went up In bother-in- g morous twinkle. "Whit's your conscience? I should have your family here beonce In a while. We're always Its relatives. ing Invited to your one of the things 1 ought to da but don't want to. You mean you dan t care lor The floor too small. wanted to Hugh. Coming. ga . But Dorrie - He rose chtir reluctantly. from his Whitney was of medium drink of coffee S do JS florid, and with curly brown height, think such vCfgjv unpleas y hair. He was cheerful, talkative, Xayel together a dsjj end bad an amazing vitality. He you wer malL my family? h was restless, liked to go places, be 1 dont care for many people, with people; be was full of vision10 do I? ahe tossed back, smiling. making money bc nd ary schemes forfollowed through. never No; but I thought you be which u ter Mother fly VIRGINIA VALE cx- - cited over her t'ir-trip to New Yoik than Olivia tic llavilatul was. For jeats she .t lud iheamt of, taking-th- e trip tuiin her home town (Sarato- ga. Calif.) but she had always supposed that she and her mother and would make it in a car, stopping curj-wherseeing ever) thing. , si-.!- cr e, ituKilly, t,hr had no idea that me day she would take it by plane hccou.,0, os a motion picture she couldnt be spared fiom 1! e stud o long enough to drivi! 1'ul that's the way she finally did it. And the thing she Iked nio-was the view of Tennessee from the .ur in the very early morning. She. had a grand time in New Yotk. Her latest picture The Charge of the , s, ae-ln:.- Light Brigade," had just been released. and the critics had raved about her beauty, ss they always do. H course, Mary Bickford's plans arent really exciting news any more, but all this autumn newspaper editors In the Fast have been spurred into action by the rumor that Miss Pickiord and Buddy Rogers were being married that night. And when it was ! learned that she was f on her way to New York, supposedly to dispose of her Unit- - Mary Iickford cJ Artists holdings, marry Mr. Rogers and sail for Europe, a lot of people sighed with relief. If only shed get married and end that story once and forever, they exclaimed, it would be a blessOf X ing. Clark Gable Is to have the reveled role of the here f Idiots Delight, when the play la transferred to the Were not to be out late!" called screen. Alfred Lunt, the very talDorrie, mockingly. Husband s or- ented actor, hat hern doing It on tho ders! Just before we started!" stage for some time, with hla wife, They found s table near an open Lynn Fonlanne, playing opposite window at the Freeland Farm. aimdlm( nd M ,BCoeatful pUjr old country mansion which had that a staggering price was paid been turned Into n road house. for the screen rights. The space for dancing was limited, and waiters zigzagged and reGreta Garbo may have new comtreated with their laden trays, to petition in the person of Tamara avoid the swaying rnuplea. It was Desnl a foreign importation who arnot so hot as Hugh had expected; rived in this country recently. Kor- a breeze came in from the west; da uho is responsible for so many the room had good ventilation, ex- . v of the good English films, halls her tending up two stories with win- as s great discovery. YouD be dows near the roof. able to Judge her possibilities for Hugh saw Ellen Pendleton across yourself if you see Fire Over the room seated at a table with Jerry Purdue. The drama of their preoccupation with each other There has been a lot of speculadrifted through the noise and cig- tion about whether Randolph Scott's arette' smoke. Ellen's face was bride would live in Hollywood or flushed, her eyes were luminous as not Most of her interests, (except d she toyed with her food and her husband) center in her country to Jerry propound some theplace in Virginia; it'a said that she ory. Isolation enfolded them in tjie tried to persuade him to abandon nndst of the crowd. Hollywood end live there, but he reSee fused. He touched Dome's arm. Ellen with young Purdue?" Now she's consented to try He She smiled and nodded. but if she doesn't like it sheU looks the sort she'd fall for, lean return to Virginia, and the marShi ex- riage wUl develop Into one of those and dark with a way!" fato the others. Hugh'e ones. plained vorite cousin with her young man." Alibi? A cousin? said Cun. If yog find that sports events are Joan fanned herself with the being broadcast mack better than menu. Dont you know Hugh's they ever have been before, yen can related to all the Pendletons? thank Red Barber for tbe ImproveThat's Gavins .daughter, Ellen. ment. Be went to New York frem I vow the whole town's a cousin the Middle West to help announce said Dome languidly. tbe World Series; and after his Brat to Hugh. Hard to ha've any personal con- appearance on the air tbe inner versation. I never dare express circlet of tbe broadcasting business an opinion of anyone I meet for were running aronnd la circles apfear of insulting a connection. El- plauding bis performance. Without len is third or fourth in degree any donbt be was the tops, so far as what is it, Hugh? that typo of broadcasting waa conAbout that. Greatgrandfathers cerned. Time hat proved that hea were brothers." Just as good when Its football that StiD they caD it couslnl She bo la talking nbont. , studied art for a couple of years. Paints very weU they say. Poor William FoweD Is stlD havI see. Cuckoo Art? said Cun. ing trouble with that left eye and but beautiful stlD reigning as a Dorrie moved in her chair sUght-ly- favorite Libelled Lady Is asked Cun. his eyes Dance? bis latest, with Myr-n-a on Dorrie. Loy, Jean Harlow and Spencer They went off together. Joan? swell Hugh stood up. Tracy, and As they swung into step he said, It is. One of picture "Well, Jonny, the troubles ere aU the best A b I n g s over. Pm ever so glad that Cun about it is Jean Harhas work. Youve been e brick, lows return to u but I could see It was hard on you. comedy role. When , Joan gave a smothered exclamaever she goes drs- tion and did not reply. H looked Powell iUc,,M down. Joan's eyes werf XUled with William Suzy, most of ber tears. her never to do it admirers implore Hurt What did I say? . . tgain. He you? . . . Awfully sorry. Come on; we'D was dismayed. ODDS AS'D EADS . . . Doru Dud. He led her through go outside. ( jtrtt picture, A W mims Rebels," ley the screened door to the long with K ether in llrpbum) it through with RKO, because they wouldn't let veranda. ' Overlook her hep e a voice in wire ting her rolee They sat In a swing. Incidentally, the seats T eery good li Hugh. Nerves, I think." She .in. , her Ferdinand firti picture dabbed her eyes with his handkermotion French star Cravet, picture the strain. from relief chief. "And work bore over kho'U it (end expeck CD up his ed to howl A man has to work to brought hit bJ all Cun has to be busy wife with him . , over), time worth miU . Shet more than most men hes built lion Bebe Daniel end Ben Lyon that way. Then you spoke to me have been choten as the fir I tele sweetly end sympathetically and vision tlart of the regular television jo tervice in England, where they ve I went to pieces. Fvemount may picturet Hugh sat beside her- feeling making touched and bewildered. 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You see, no confidence in me at all! and from one who knows me best! Anyhow were here, and it's a grand nighfcand were aD good fellows! I felt like a celebration and told her to call you up. 1 knew But a little Hugh would curse. night-lifis good for you, you old t& k I 2 uc cyeding through sheer charm of manner and enthusiasm, but. had been out of work since the Nov ember before. He was thoughtful and kind to his friends, and when Hugh had been laid up with Influenza the winter before, had sat up uh him all one night Joan was small, with an complexion, straight black which she dressed aeverelv great- smoky gray eyes with black lashes. Hurry up, she called os and Dorrie came down the we're simply bursting to tithe news! What asked' !k,.;h news? Did the old man come thr. Eight the first time! cried Congratulations! W climbing into the' car. ful. said Dorrje. , He has a job with the C:, people and starts work the t . t the month!" "You see how glad she is : rid of no!" complained Cun ' of having, me underfoot area house!" "You weren't at home So then-- ? I m going to throw a big dinner, have them all tins Friday night. Suit you?" Hugh hesitated. Youd like it, wouldn't you?" she challenged, I'd like having them here of course, but I w.sh it were because you wanted them. Not a concession to my feel.r.gs Dorri turned her head to one side and looked at the willow tree After a moment she said with : slow sulkiness. You'd belbr take it the way I do it" He watched her w.th pczzled pain, watched her until he saw the coldness trek from tier face, and another emoi.on come over ,t. She i said in a hunt voice. You're You went down town ever a.; worth a doren of me, Hugh. flashed Jouti. He wa relieved What's Will you have to travel. C ,n brought this on? he inquired asked Dome Laughing. More or less several d .s She shook her head "Call it a week. And they came to n v mood." ure! which Js important." Forget it Dorrie. You can be Well look after Jonny f r pretty sweet yourself!" , He felt when "lake you're away suddenly happy. She was chary j arouhd Kh. Dorrie?" wuth admissions of feeding j He Of course." never knew exactly how deep he Joan's elation gave a lilt to feeling for him was. The occ i sional glimpses into her mintf quiet voice. "It's the mod gloriwhen she grew introspective as to- ous feeling J, Almost worth the agnight were rare and accordingly ony of suspense for eight months to experience it Although I mud say precious. Cun was marvelous about u alThe western - V. He was an excellent salesman, nevEionco Vvxaer E. SUTTON, Cenerol CIUUNCEY Assist. Can. XT, X7ZZT L'umjv |