Show TIMES GARLAND THE GARLAND fes The STOKT andinhei£Love A Peggy Dens FAR: “I’m fond I Ton Lurry” Meg iald quietly ‘Tht ko( enough' be repUed I there eleeT” No one elee Megan assured him but he knew the did not lore him enough They decided to call off their engagement anMbalt another year Jim MacTa visit did not like that arrangement Mre Stuart wai Bret to tell Megan that her father waa "running after Alicia and that It waa "the talk of the town' Megaa could not believe It— didn’t want to believe It "Folke I talkin’ about Mlet Jim and Mlz Steveneon” Old Annto confirmed Annie left a ahlrt of her father’e and Meg picked It up There wag lipetlck on It She mentioned It to Jim that nlghL THUS CHAPTER IX The next morning when she was assembling the laundry Annie came to Megan carrying a shirt of Jim’s and held It out saying In that colorless voice "Do I wash dis one Miss Meggle?” Megan looked at the shirt puzzled And then she saw the unmistakable Signs of lipstick on the collar! That of course had been the reason had brought the shirt to her— so that she might see the lipstick hnarkl WIMU force me to consent 'Ae'selllng the place here—” "But my dear girl I thought we'd settled all that" he pointed out gent‘That's the reason Alicia dely cided that she might as well let Matthews see what he could do with the sale of her place When you come to think of it It would be rather silly to keep both — ” "And you Wouldn’t consider sharing her place?” Megan could not stop the words in time and knew that a frantic hope threaded them "My dear!” her father protested hurt "What do you take me for? A man without- pride or the natural desire to take care of his wife? Most certainly I wouldn’t consider movThis one is ing into Alicia's place much larger and more comfortable and there’s plenty of room No I think the whole arrangement is ideal You are always so overworked with the outdoor labor in spring and summer that I think it will be very nice to have the worry and responsibility of the housekeeping taken off your shoulders” "It won’t work Father" she told him flatly Megan drew a breath and said quietly "Of course Annie — what a silly question!” Megan sat quietly her hands clenched in her lap But after all there was surely no reason why her father should not see Alicia Stevenson If he liked—even to the extent of getting her lipstick on his shirt collar! Alicia was a widow Jim a widower But that night when Annie and Amos had departed for their own cabin at the back of the barn and Megan and her father were alone In the house Megan said Dad that quietly “1 understand you’ve been seeing a lot of Mrs Stevenson?” Jim looked up at her from his newspaper and his eyes darkened with anger “Have you any objections?” he demanded curtly "None at all” she answered him "It’s just that I was a little evenly surprised that’s all— to hear a thing like that from the neighbors Instead of from you—” "A thing like what?" Jim’s anger had as sound “You deepened an— er though I’d been conducting —affair with a very charming and woman” pleasant "I know nothing about It except that — it seems people are talking—” Do you "Pleasant Grove people? think I give a darn what the —scum in this place talk about?” "They are my friends” she pointed out "That’s your own fault” he reminded her “You don’t have to You live in this— this hick hole! had a chance to get out of it — ” “We're getting away from the subject don’t you think?” “If you’re prying trying to find out about my intentions towards Mrs Stevenson” Jim said distinctly a little malicious light in his eyes to no “I have objection telling you I hope to marry Mrs the truth Stevenson —as soon as I can persuade her! She’s selling her place and I think we can make her happy here don’t you?” would bring her — here?” “You Megan gasped Jim’s eyebrows tended surprise laughed at her “And where appalled went though in prehis eyes up a man else would just simple shell stitches raised out a bit The “spines” at top are Sffc- - your father is lonel- “And she is coming to live selling with her us” place and she went on “Oh good Lord you can’t live with her—” “Either that or I have to agree to sell the farm and ehe and father will live In her house” “And you don’t want to sell the farm or go sway from It" Tom understood that without any words from her "I’ve gathered since I've known you how much the place means to you — ” She found it very soothing to sit It was surprising here with him to discover that they knew each other well enough for silence to be so that pleasant and companionable speech was unnecessary Gradually the silence and peace of the pines seemed to drift Into her heart her spirits somelifted s little Someday how she would find a solution to the problems that now loomed so terribly strong and black and evil Perhaps It was only that she was emotionally exhausted and had reached placs where she was conscious only of a lack of emotion that had replaced her grief They talked quietly after that inShe terval of peace and stillness asked about Martha and be told her that Martha had completely recovered She asked hesitantly about Mrs Fallon and Tom told her his mouth taut and tired that there was no change there of “She’s — completely helplesa course and there is no change menwearily tally" he added — her can’t leave "You mean she bed? Can’t get around by herself?” asked Megan remembering with a the morning when feeling of chill he had sat here and had watched that grotesquely posturing figure on the back lawn "She hasn’t been out of bed in months and months” he told her heavily 'The doctors say that there is a thin chance of her recovery That’s why we can’t bear to— send her away If I had the money to pay He for a private sanitarium — ” shrugged and his hands clenched “But I can’t into hard tight fists turn her over to a state Institution Not while there Is the smallest faintest tiniest hope that she can be well Megan shouldn't again” asked she be uneasily having "But treat- ments?" treatments for the past four years" Tom answered wearily “Everything possible has been done and a few months ago the doctors told me that the only hope was to quiet get her eway somewhere among new scehes and Just try to build up her physical condition That might help to restore the lost mental health but they couldn't guarantee It She — went to pieces when our on was born — dead” Megan said her voice shaken and ragged with pity "I’m so terribly "She’s had There was something stealth the furtiveness of on the stairs— “No?" tantalizing His tone and in the his tread smile were And that’s I’m not selling! that!” she told him again her jaw hard and set her voice unshaken “No! She got up suddenly and caught her sweater The night was mild winter yet there was a dampness and a chill in it that made the sweater and the scarf about her head very welcome as she stepped from the back door into the yard The meadow was washed with thin cold moonlight but under the trees the darkness was so Intense that she had to feel her way from moonlit patch to moonlit patch— until she reached the flat stone beneath the tallest pine and as she reached it her heart turned over in her breast and terror clutched at her for a shadow moved in the darkness and she knew that she was not alone The next moment for sorry—" she had put out her Unconsciously hand to touch him and as his hand closed over it and held it hard for a moment she heard him mutter couldn't be sure something— she what and They were still for a little Megan wondered uneasily about his saying that his wife had not been out of bed In months She knew that she had seen her a slim white form the sunlight gleaming gold on her head dancing a weird grotesque dance — a dance interrupted by Martha who had taken the white figure into the house 'Did Tom 'know she wondered? Did he try to conceal the fact that his wife was not a helplessly bedridden invalid in the hope of convincing people that while she was a ‘‘mental case” she was completely harmless? Of course he and Martha were doing everything humanly possible to keep anybody in Pleasant Grove from knowing that his wife was a "mental case” — She stood up suddenly and said I have to go — I shouldn’t have come at all but habit Is strong” "I’m glad you did” Tom told her “And I hope you didn’t Quietly mind finding me here” “Of course not There’s room on the Ridge for both of us— and who knows? Maybe we’ll both find solutions to our problems here” she answered as she turned to go "No you mustn’t come with me — ” “Only to the fence" Tom told her “From there on you have the moonlight clear to your back door and I can watch until you go Into the house and know that you’re safe” There was a look In his face that made the protest stop on her Ups She nodded and they walked together to the fence Whn she had crossed the meadow and stood at that bridged the the little small busy creek she turned to look back and saw him still standing there She threw up her arms in a little gesture that said good night and caught the flicker of his return gesture And then with her heart considerably lighter than it had been when she left the house she went back in and up the stairs to her own room The house was dark and silent There was no thread of light beneath her father’s door and she was surprised when she reached her own room to discover that she’d been gone two hours to beIcontinuedi crocheted leaves of green thread made separately and then sewn on top It measures 7 by 5 inches and you’ll need to make two similar “sides” and sew them together over a thin layer of lining - STAgLSCRE Released y-” made take his wife if not to his own home?” he asked “You aren’t forgetting that it is my own home— quite as much as it is yours?” the shadow had moved swiftly into Megan sat very still stunned vith and she saw a patch of moonlight of the blow the unexpectedness it white on Tom Fallon’s face “Of course” Jim went on after "I frightened you —I’m sorry—” a moment “when Matthews was an unsteady so sure he could get seven thousand Megan managed for this place Alicia and I planned laugh "And I Imagine I frightened to keep her place and live there you too” she answered him because her place won’t bring over "Well as a matter of fact you But when did” he admitted two or three thousand Then as the you decided not to sell— well Alicia moonlight touched her white face he gave the listing of hers to Matthews added hurriedly concerned: "Why and we feel sure that we can all what’s happened? You’re ill—’’ be quite cozy here together” no—Just— well - “Oh upset— and Megan drew a hard breath “You ever since I was a child I have know that wouldn’t work out Dad ' brought my troubles big and little she said to this spot and tried to find a way “I can’t see why not! There is out of them! It’s a habit that's hard surely ample room— four big bedto break” she added with an atrooms upstairs five rooms downtempted gaiety that had an almost thcVe's room enough stairs— why macabre quality here for half a dozen people —” ’"Could— a friend help?” “If there were forty rooms there She shook her head wouldn’t be enough room under one "I — I’m afraid nobody can really and me —that is the roof for Alicia Stevenson only two people who both!” Megan told him rashly can have no intention of doing it I a un“I think you’re taking very sound as contused and mixed up as I reasonable attitude my dear" said feel — so if you could just overlook her father gently malice twinkling it—” in his eyes “After all having Alicia here will make things much easier And to Megan’s own horror and will She the over take for you Tom’s shocked Surprise she burst mangement of the house while you into tears can give all your time to your beAfter a stunned moment Tom put loved farming! I think it will be a her and held her close all around” his arm about very good arrangement as though she were a frightened be“It’s an Impossible arrangement wildered child and his soothing and you know It” Megan told him words were the words one would hotly have used to a grieving child He shrugged ever so slightly and “My father is going to marry said gently “Oh well If you are Alicia Stevenson” she told him and going to take that attitude — ” He so strong was the bond of friendship pretended to lose interest but Megan them that it did not 6ccur between knew that he was alert that he was to her to be surprised that she waiting tensely for her answer tn him “I know why you are doing this should confide She heard him swear under his Father” she said at last one of the few times In her life calling him breath but pfier a moment he tried of course "Well "Father” instead of the more en- to offer comfort dearing “Dad” “Vou think you wilt I suppose she's s very attractive ! 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