Show Y Ray Gashes In An AnBy By B Richard Hill iU Wilkinson WrO NO ONE would have believed Ray Sharon capable of strata strata- gem One look at him and you would have catalogued him in the reserved conservative conservative- class of young oung men who adhered to the ac ac- accepted accepted accepted patterns I dictated by pro pro- Minute and con- con pro pro-I Minute 3 3 Fiction He wasa was as asa j a good looking boy b o 0 y with soft brown eyes and a sensitive mouth He worked as a clerk in the South- South Southport Southport Southport port Trust Company There was a future there for him It occurred not even to Ray that the fine reputation he had could be used as an asset cashed in on Not that is until Phil Clairmont came cameto cameto cameto to town Clairmont had been born in Southport At 18 he had gone off to college and not returned He had been a football hero an Amer All I ican quarterback After graduation he had sold bonds and football teams and written magazine maga maga- magazine magazine zine articles on gridiron tactics and given a series of lectures over the radio He had made quite a success Two winters later Phil re re- returned returned returned turned to his home town for the Christmas holidays The folks gave tave him quite a reception They held parties for him and asked him 10 to talk talk at this function and that He stayed through New Years Year's which I Iwas was longer than he intended The reason that he stayed was Sheila Farnsworth who taught the seventh grade Sheila was a native of Southport She had wheat-colored wheat hair and blue eyes She had known Ray Ra Sharon all her life She liked him When they grew up and Ray began be be- began began gan taking her around round she was quite happy CLAIRMONT met her at atone atone PHIL one of the many parties that were held in hi his honor He remembered remembered remembered who she was and was quite 3 C CHe lie He had been a football hero an America All quarterback I surprised that she had grown up I and blossomed into something that was vas w s easy e sy to look at Sheila was after all only a normal nor nor- normal normal mal girl Phil Clairmont was famous When Phil took an interest in her she was flattered It gave hera her recognition that most any girl would have delighted in No one blamed her No one condemned her herfor herfor herfor for it If anyone felt about it atall at atall atall all it was a sensation of envy Afew A Afew Afew few wondered about Ray Sharon A smaller few felt sorry for him 4 Occasionally she saw Ray and thus it happened that one wintry night Ray and Sheila set out in the formers former's coupe for the distant town of to attend a bankers banker's I ball there It began to snow before I they were a half hall hour on the road I Wed better take the old road through the woods he said It will shorten the journey by five miles Sheila thought this would be a good idea They left the main highway high high- highway I way WilY and cut through the woods But neither anticipated that the I I storm would reach such I Two miles from the highway they got stuck I Ray didn't mince matters He confronted the situation squarely I IThe The chances were even that both I would perish At any rate he had I something he wanted to ask Sheila in case he didn't get a chance later on i ie He e asked it Sheila thought of many things among them I what a ninny shed she'd been Ray was the man man she loved the only man she could ever love With death staring her in the face she r realized this to be a fact She put ht r arms around Rays Ray's neck and told him exactly how I I she felt I I I An hour later Sheila dropped off I i I I into a doze When she awoke she j I Iwas I was lying on a couch before a blaz blaz- blazing blazI blazing blazing ing fire Ray was feeding her hot i II I soup No one could have believed Ray Sharon capable of stratagem He was too definitely catalogued Which is why not even even Sheila sus sus- suspected suspected suspected that he had planned it all that he knew about the camp had stocked it with firewood and pro pro- provisions provisions provisions visions had stalled his car on pur pur- purpose purpose purpose pose had removed most of the fuel It had required a courage which he had never suspected he pos pos- possessed possessed possessed to cash in on his assets |