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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS 01 lit 3,-ocstrenuous adventure she took a hot shower and flung herself on the bed, too utterly tired to go down to lunch. Julia found her there and looked at her shrewdly. Youre taking this the hard way, Jill. Ive brought you some cold milk. Drink it and go to sleep. Youre being very gallant, but try to be reasonable about it. I have to do something, Dooley. Life has to be for something or about something. Mine isnt. Its just a purposeless existence, just using up days. And there are so many of them, and theyre so long! Julia dropped into a chair. She wore her heavy jeans, and she was wait for it quietly, with considerable warm and weary, too. I know. determination. You havent had to learn yet how Grim. Very grim! long years can be, Jill. I hope you Have you found anything yet never will. . that you really wanted and didnt How did you bear it, Dooley, get? Something you really wanted, that last war? You arent changed, I mean not a whim. you arent old. You havent any lines Jill set her teeth. Was he trying in your face. her, trying to get past the rigid I had two children to take care control of her chin and her care- - of. And I had hope. And I, Jill said sadly, over the rim of the glass, havent anything Twenty-fivyears have elapsed since thinking of the wonderful time Ive the disappearance of Richard McFar-lan- e had In World War I and bis wife, And trying, Jill asked, her head Julia, is beset with fresh worries as the tilted a little, to remember how with aid the raised has she children John I. McFarlane, I look? of her father-in-laHe bent his head, and his eyes become involved in World War If, Ric, washed out in the air corps moved over her slowly and soberly. 27, has while Jill, 26, falls in love with Spang I wont-havto try. Hair like Gordon, a young lieutenant. Julia con' h a new shell and a sassy tides her troubles to Dave Patterson, nose an old family friend who has always Jill Disposition like T.N.T., secretly loved her. Jill and Spang ge to a dance and Jill discovers she is supplied, keeping to the airy mood set. If things don In love but is nettled when Spang apparently doesnt return her feeling. She happen when I want them to, I exacts gay, however, to conceal her own plode all over the place. love from him. No, Spang said quietly, you arent like that. When you go up against a thing you really want, you CHAPTER V e should do. You mean about something me?" He broke oil a head of goldenrod and examined the small sulphur-colore- d blossoms minutely. No, not about you. You suit me fine, Ive had a grand time, and I hope Ric. I suppose hes in some sort of trouble? That happens, she said stiffly. Ric and I were pretty good friends at college, Spang went on. We lived in the same house, and though I finished two years before he did, we wrote now and then and kept in touch. Then this war came along, and I got in early and got my commission, and of course Ric was an enlisted man, so that complicated things. But Ive managed to see him occasionally. And you dont like what hes doing? Is he ducking out of things, breaking regulations, that sort of thing? ( "I dont know about his service record. I havent any contact in that direction. But the last time we were in town I saw him with a woman. They were both drinking, and though Ric wasnt tight, exactly, he was talking too loud. He wanted me to meet her. Did he salaam properly before the shoulder-bar- s and the beautiful whip-cor- d breeches? Jill spoke more bitterly than she knew because her heart was hurting from gold-spangl- ' ; liv-j,i- Ric Provides a New Worry You do know, Spang, more than me! I dont have to youre telling be protected from the truth, even if it isnt pleasant. No, I really dont know anything definite, Jill. Im just worried, ..thats all, and since Ive met your mother and seen the sort of home .Ric has, it bothers me. It may be just another episode. Ric had a few when we were together. I The trouble is, Jill said, Moth-e- r spoiled Ric terribly. My father didnt come back, and I think she needed somebody to lavish all that jlove upon, somebody to keep her (heart from breaking. I was just a good egg, somebody she could talk but Ric got her deep affection. ito, anything he does thats would hurt her frightfully. Id hate to tell her. Ill decide whether ought to, after youre gone. You couldnt do anything about it any- j way, could you? No, I couldnt do anything about it. Rics a man, hed resent any interference from me. Hed have a right to resent it. Of course he may be shipped out, and that will I put an end to the affair.. Then it is an affair?" "Jill, Ivetold you all I know. Ive heard her discussed in various and heard the things other about her, thats all. Ive men speak of her when they (Places talking without inhibitions. is pretty young isnt so young. jHes old enough to have a little Jill said angrily. walked down the lane, after that. isnt going to say anything, he doesnt care at all, Jill with the painful knot of anger and tears growing inse, and tl srht in her throat. talked of the future, but of a future in which she part or any other woman, could be called a comfort A month from now Ill back on this week-end. Jullas face changed, paled and grew taut. What a ridiculous suggestion, she said stiffly. ful eyelids? When I find it Ill get it some way, some time! Desperate, eh? Spang laughed a little.' But the laugh was shaken, and so was the pressure of his hand on her elbow uncertain. Your eyes dont give you away as a desperate female, at all. How do they look? Inane, I suppose? Oh, sort of sweet and melting. I think youll find ways to get what you want without any fight. So her eyes were melting! But they were melting, they were practically dissolving, and if she talked any more shed be crying like a fool, because she was in love and men were so unbearably stupid! She said coolly, Ive trained my eyes to lie very politely. Lets hurry, shall we? I smell the roast, and Mamie gets peevish if dinner waits on Sunday. She belongs to the Holiness Church and they have services in the afternoon. After that the day wore on, her grandfather telling over again interminably the story of how Buzzards Hill had been a military hospital in the Civil war, Julia trying to efface herself and maneuver John I. away so that Jill and Spang could be alone. Sweet of Dooley, Jill thought, but all quite useless. Spang wasnt in love with her. How could he be and keep so carefully silent about it? Thank heaven, when she put him on the bus at dusk, she hadnt let herself go, hadnt been careless enough to let him see how utterly lost she was! He had held both her hands when and she had promhe said good-bised to come down to the field again as soon as she could, and then, he had given her a gay little saiute and climbed aboard and been rushed away out of her sight. 4 V. Talk Between Julia and Jill A The heat settled, drowsy and enervating as it pressed upon 'the world in August, and Jill grew a little wan. She tried gallantly to fit herself into the quiet life of Buzzards Hill. She pretended an excited interest in the nfew pigs, though privately she thought the wriggling, hairless little things revolting, and thought what an amazing thing mother-lov- e must be, that it could believe any new creation lovely. She even put in a warm morning digging in the garden that was going sadly to weeds since Fosters son had gone off to the army. At noon she went back to the house, soaked in perspiration, a good manicure a sad ruin, and every muscle screaming weariness trom the unaccustomed activity. After that Wear year-roun- all! It turned out that way, did it? I didnt want to ask any questions. "It turned out that I fell in love so deeply I was practically shame- youll let me come back again. If Im not shipped out. No, its about disappointment. leaf Spang laid the on top of her head. Dont be nasty, gab Can I help it if this army is '5 all stiffened up with military cour-- ! tesy and stuff? I still like Ric. Thats why I didnt like what I was seeing. Shes older than he is, shes I been divorced, her first husband i was an officer who got kicked down- stairs after Pearl Harbor. Shes there in the hotel, and a sergeant I know pretty well told me that Ric was seeing a lot of her. Shes a handsome wench, one of those silver blondes with nice skin and a helpless look you know the type. I have a feeling your mother wouldnt like it, but still I hate to say anything. But surely Ric couldnt get serious about a woman like that? I I dont know to Of all the problems which livestock farmers face during the winter, one of the most annoying is the task of preventing ice from coating the surface of their stock tanks. An adequate d water supply is essential to enable dairy cows to continue top milk production and to maintain economical gains on beef cattle and hogs. A pressure water system will do the job most of the year, but what about those freezing months farmers now are facing? The following results of tests conducted by Purdue university help in approaching the problem: There is er at Proud Higher Production Can Be Secured With Control e Then abruptly Spang cleared his throat. Ive got something to tell he said, and Im your mother, worried whether I should tell her or not. Maybe youll know what I ll & Ijou l Increase Milk With Electrical Deicers five-inc- hair-trigg- lAJideSadtiedParty less about it. And to all appearances, Spang didnt. He liked my eyes, he thought you were a handsome woman, he said he had a good time, and then he talked about the job he had to do and hoped hed see me again. If thats love, Dooley, what kind is it? Perhaps the bravest kind of all, Jill. The kind a man keeps to himself because he knows he has nothing to offer a woman, .nothing but uncertainty and dread and grief. Even those are better than nothing at all! You wouldnt know, Dooley, how awful nothing can be. Emptiness! Time going on. Oh, I know Im talking like an idiot. I told you I hadnt any shame at all. Dooley, I want to go down to the field I want some new pretty soon. knockout clothes and one of those feather hair cuts and to have my eyebrows touched up. Why did. I have to get these ferocious brows, Dooley, when yours are so delicate? Youre a McFarlane, too." There were dark McFarlanes and red McFarlanes. I got a little from both strains. Your father was almost a blond. His eyes were blue. "Blue eyes would be horrible with my hair. I could see Ric if I went down to the field, Dooley. That is, if he isnt shipped out somewhere. He wont get a furlough, you know, for ages. Do you think you really want to go, Jill? You know there is such a thing as being too eager. Oh, Dooley, they buried all that stuff with Augusta J. Evans! A nice girl would stick quietly at home to be wooed and won, but try sticking and see what it gets you, how beautifully youre stuck! I have to see Spang again before they send him off to Africa or some other hideous spot, or Ill curl up and die! And I havent an inhibition in the world, but I do have sense. Nobody knows what a fool I am but you, Youve been through this Dooley. waiting business. You know how it hurts. Jill if 8116 12-2- 0 Smart Frock e DRIGHT buttons make a trim for this smart dress. 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And I dont like riding. I cant risk being lame and stiff, with all I have to do here. Why dont you fall in love with Dave? she asked abruptly. It would simplify everything. Julias face changed, paled and What a ridiculous suggrew taut. gestion! she said stiffly. Whats ridiculous about it? Daves been in love with you for centuries dont tell me you didnt know it! You must be blind. Even Grandfather suspects it. I observe his sly look whenever Dave comes around. He likes Dave, hed be terribly pleased, I think. Julias frozen expression did not change except that pain crept into her face, darkening her eyes, makDave ing her mouth a wan line. is a gentleman, she said, evenly. He would not fall in love with another mans wife. Jill puckered her brows. "But, Dooley twenty-fiv- e years! Just because Grandfather couldnt find any grave when he went over there maybe my father is the Unknown Soldier. When you took us to Washington I pretended that he was lying there. I felt beautiful about it. 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