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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1930)
T& CZGOTl 45TATCSIIAW, tUlta, Oreoa, Vacadiy morning, Febnary D 0 BY WINIFRED VAN V V Ml- II l DUZER p 1 ' ft 'I'f1'' SAe mm in JUs liken. CHAPTKR XV. Kra ktpt to herself for a week, aeelns; HQ one tut Mary and Jim my. BDendinr moat of the time Just lytflt on her bod and staring1 at notnlnjr. She did not Buffer with th'e ache ot loneliaem as the had the nlaht Ken left her at the Hollys. She did not, aa a matter of fact, feel anything but a numbness which seemed to center where her heart used to be and spread from there through her whole being till itthlns; was left of her but a shad ow of the rlrl ..-ho had lired and laughed and loved. Sometimes she asked herself what she had expected ot Ken and always had to admit she did not know. He had said he lored her J that ha wanted her never to leave him. lie had meant this oh, It couldn't hare been Just one ot his moods? He' had said it so many times, so sincerely. This meant marriage to her. All right for Jan to liTe as she did though Eve considered It very tupid; all right for Ivy and El ma to talk about when a woman should . marry , her map and when he shouldn't. Eve was not like them. Too bad for her, perhaps, but she didn't want to be like them. Love, to -her, meant great-grandmamma's rosepoint veil brought out of lav ender and rose leaves and Lohen grin thundering from jthe organ loft in the white church which faced three highways up In Lake view with rice afterward and an old-fashioned honeymoon trip. And after that it did not mean flirting with ether girls hatbands or sweethearts, or having other girls flirt with her husband. Only g few days ago El ma had said, "You're not artistic. Eve; you don't breathe the atmos phere." Well ah didn't belong. Probably aha had expected mar riage from Ken; she had expect ed him to aay, "You're to be my wife; I want you for my wlte.Mi And Instead of this ho had said marriage tied your hands; that it waa not fair. He didn't want 'to marry anyone; he wanted to be Wee. Free to make a girl love him and then talk about the shackles of marriage! She did not want to see Ken, not ever again. She hoped her heart never would come alive and go back to beating; that, all her life there might be . only the numbness so she might not be tempted to the great folly of fall ing In love. But at the end of a week the numbness passed and then pain came Instead. Regret, loneliness, Iocs all of these gnawed at her thoughts day and night, hour af ter hour. Only to hear him speak, to feel his hand on hers, tbo long ing for this became unbearable. Nothing else mattered; she cared for nothing else in the world . . . One afternoon Eve dressed her self, selecting her frpek with great care, a fluffy, sleeveless thing of white crepe de chine. She parted her hair and let the ends curl down her neck almost to her shoulders, running her finger waves low on her forehead. It was only afterward she realized she had done it all in a sort ot dream, without feeling- that any Gross -Word Puzzle By EUGENE SHEFFER nnrM7Trr7 ? to 222 M - I!'3 P25 v 3 i 3T52 33 . . 1 "A' 1 bH H 1 vAA 1 HORIZONTAL. 1 associate 4 projecting edge of a roof g domestic animal 11-iforee in operation IS traveling bag 15 carpet . !; one i pair of mall cranes on a ship's sida 17 part left when the main por tion has been con sumed 19 yield - 20 male sheep 2S possesses . 24 price 25 placet or . areas 26 upon ... 27 seize with the teetk 23 f air on I iorsea f y- necks (pi) 9 journalist Slruboat 13 amphibious ; camiTora. rallied for, its for 14 mixed typa f itorn aawja- ' icr 86 savage 37 Leviticus abbr) 88 meet in session 39 narrow - path 40 cunning 41 picture, likeness ' 43 hilarity 44 powerful explosive 46 ostentation 49 unit of work 60 !-alang 51 decay VERTICAL 1 personal pronoun 2 within 8 African 4 incite 5 affirma tive 6 eacapa 7 econo mise 8 fruits like a lemon 9 bone 10 plural pronoun 12 stroke 14 Chinese weight . 16 decide -' 17 rain storms 18 brownish color Herewith is the solution to yes terday's puzzle. ... - - -- J-L ATM JlCll iWljRE vIcIaIL ,rui Ttff gp MeinIp .el X E E N Wtl iSIEINfTJ 19 Roman patriot, foe of Carthage 21 one-spot 22 epistle 24 mature 25 eittging 27 get the better of 28 repair 29 raving; SO piece of aked 82 Portugese coin 34 fan die 36 bet 37 fertaia inz to the moon 39 form of religious hysteria peculiar to the Malays of Java 40 mongrel dog 42 note of the scale 43 tout '44 symbol foi teUnrinm 45 alterna tive W river in Italy '47perform -.t 48 FlflM'll j and Latin conjaao- tion ot It was quite real. . j She sever knew how she got to Kenneth's, remembering after ward merely that the bungalow had looked deserted and that the lawn had grown shaggy and the easel where they had worked un der the magnolias fallen : over with creepers ' beginning to vlue around It. With fear clutching her throat, Bra hurried across the veranda, tried the door. It waa locked and a painted sign, "Basy No Ad mittance" tacked to the panels. 8h knocked, then beat a tattoo till her khnckles bled. And a tar- away voice called at last "Hey, cant yon read the sign?" "Kenneth!" she cried, "Ken neth!". Stew then; the lock turned. A gaunt; haggard-eyed boy appear ed, rumpled, nnshaven, staring as if she were a ghost. "Ton!" he whispered "It's font "fti dearest, Nearest Kn He put out a shaking hand, touched her arm, her hair, drew hli fingers along her cheek, "it's you. Era , . ." ' "Won't you kiss me. Ken? Say you wanted methat you're glad Ken" ' She was In his arms then; ho took her Into a room mora dis heveled than himself, strewa with elgaretta stubs, old newspapers, sketches begna and tossed aside sketches ot himself. And all the time he was saying, "Why, Eve? Why?" "Ken you shut yourself In here? Let ma gather these draw ings oh, a shame to spoil them so. Let me do something tor you" . But he wished only tor her to sit beside him, hands la his, bright head turned against his dark one. "Why, aweetheart." "How much do you love me, Ken?" "How much Is there? That and more. And you lore me. I know this now; you love me. Eve. We shall be married tomorrow. Or the day after maybe . . ." "But Ken!" Did he know what he was saying? Or didn't she understand? "The day after, ha went on. Toaaorroir X'U work , . Era "But Ksi, yon laid you didn't aelisva tn marriage. Ton said you said marriage was unfair ' -Oh, he said eiflly. -Not for us. Not for yen aad C Do yon think I co aid lira without you? Haven't worked in a week" And that was the way Evelyn Reads and-Kenneth Wilmer be came engaged. la a headlong, breathless manner, swept togeth er by the sweetness of reunion and Ken's Impatience and the Joy that came springing in Era's heart. Only, she said, they must wait. "I want to go home to be mar ried, dearest In the church where I was christened and confirmed. It's a lovely church. And you must meet my family the uncles It they're anywhere around. Uncle Mark and Uncle Luke and Uncle John are away nearly all the time but the oldest one Un cle Mathew stays on the farm. He has heart trouble, you see, and" Ken, shaking with laughter in terrupted to ask If the farm were a saint's calendar. "I don't sup pose there's an Uncle Paul and Peter and James?" "They're darlings. My mother was the only sister and I never knew her or my daddy either. Tito ancles trough saa sj, aspa eiafly - Uselt Mathew. Ton must apead a few days there, dear; see what kind ot a family you're go lngto marry Into. """" CTo be continued) , STOCK PRICES 10 HUM LEVEL NEW YORK, Feb. 21 (AP) Stock prices drifted lower in the dullest session of th stock exchange in more than a month today.- Further drastic declines in the wheat and cotton markets and Indecisive week-end busin ess reports effectively turned tho damper on speculative enthusi asm. Total sales were only 2, 320,420 shares, about 240,000 less than Friday's.- Losses were largely moderate, the price Inde-x of 90 leading shares showing a decline ot less than 2 points, and the market suf fered primarily from lack of de mand rather than extensive of ferings. A "bear" group operat ing from southern resorts waa aid to ban hpplUd-A-Httle pres sors here and tkfra, but It was of a cautious, sort. .. A disappointing item of the day's news was a report that steel mill operations in the Toungstowa area had slipped oft to about T4 per cent of capacity, compared to 77 per cent a few days ago. More pleasing waa the an nouncement that directors ot Co ca Cola had increased the com mon dividend rate from 1 4 to ft annually. U. 8. Steel closed at 179 H, off 2 net, aad 10 points below Its recently established 1930 high. Utilities generally sagged, with American and foreign power los ing mora than 8 points. In re sponse to rumors of a forthcom ing offering of senior securities. DRIVER IIKLD SLATER LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25. (AP) Thomas Bell, 36 year old plumber, tonight was booked at the county Jail on a technical charge of murder as a result of driving his automobile through a safety tone yesterday, mowing down seven persons, fatally injur ing one and probably fatally i Juring four others. HI VISIT 10 W CITY SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 21 (AP) Andrew J. -Bossy" Glllls, "bad boy" mayor of Newbury port, Mass., arrived here today on the liner Virginia to visit Saa Francisco tor the first time sine he waa a sailor at Mara Island In 1121. . . ; Glllls became a factor In New buryport politics and broke Into the limelight in 1925 after he had served ISO days la the city. Jail for selling gasoline from his ser vice station in violation of a son ng ordinance. "I-was so mad I poked Mayor Cashman In the nose, defeated him for mayor at tho next elec tion and finally repealed the hon ing ordinance." Glllls summoned up his burst Into city politics, and Into the nation's spotlight.' While Glllls had previously an nounced he would "look tha girls over" in San Francisco to secure a bride, he stated later to day that! he would probably re turn to Massachusetts brldeleaa, MICKEY MOUSE Ely IWERKS ! 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