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m -wo on? BY WINIFRED VAN DUZER J CHAPTER yttt Fill dropped in as Kea and Eve IWere having bacon. aad nt lata In the afternoon. Bhe had given wp the idea of "We Said Good f"" iino nJority of ae pronounced it terrible, fcut wished Ken opinion on "Se cret Sina-'Was this a good title? -You wouldn't hare the feel ing," she said to Ere, "since you re not the artiste. But sat Ken - oo. la. la! What do yon say? Is is good?" ' Ken growled "loucy" and nil went down The Lane to gather opinions. Ere heard the next day that she had locked herself in her Bhack with her inspiration and ibertypewriter and when next anybody saw the vivacious, slat tern little creature September ;was well on the way. In the meantime Ken had reached what Eve later came to now as his most difficult mood, si state, of mind wherein he seem ed unable to work or even to re rnain la one place. Over and over he tried to put her fsce on paper; tour after hour she posed wait ing, hoping, half despairing when she realized. how restlessness had taken possession of him. And al ways he would, throw down his crayon, spring up to tumble at a icigarette, begin to pace to and fro. Even her portrait, the pic ture he had started in Lakeview r Eve beside the cradle, failed to told him. - And then one Sunday, evening iwucn oy naa gone to lam Pen ad Brush elnh for fcpneared, mora soiled, mora rumpled and slattern and down at ttteels than ever shelud been. But Bier story was finished waa like a burning flame as she told And Ken, with -his eyes nar- rowea, jeanea forward, called down the room, 'ramltnrer to morrow. FifL Reen Irt??Hn A iyour type. Want to do year pic ture, Fill, ,. One o'clock tomor row. The French rlrl whirlAri ikm.) ave him a searching look, cried r ua, yes, one O'Cioca." Around the first of September l?.v maae a hurried, trip into piaverford one afternoon. She fwas flying along the street busily considering -the relative merits of lamb chops and veal loaf for din ner and whether she had nut the correct number of collars on- ffven's laundry list and If it would te possible to coax Ken to cut down on cigarettes and make him Relieve he had thought of it him self and if Ken sometimes felt a tiny bit irked by matrimony. She was moving so fast and thinking so deeply that when sud denly a newsstand window caught Pier attention she brought up with suddenness that all but jerked Jier from her feet. For there gainst the pane, repeated over 3d over and over, was her faca! Of course it waa not Just pre cisely herself. Eve considered, as he pressed her nose to the glass nd blinked at the new Issue of 'Sky Lines." The girl In the pic ture had hair slightly redder than pre'a and her eyes were browner fend her lips more curved. The likeness waa Eva as sometimes aha bad dreamed herself; it waa eve as Ken had seen her that day under the magnolias when she posed for him the first time when Spring was In the air and romance folded them like a shin- ng garment Hurry and worry, all forrotte. she stood there looking and look ing, ana little, shivers of pride crept along her spine to her arms and tingled in her finger-tips. Pride of Ken -oh, supposing he were a human barometer what of It! She must take mora trouble to understand, to see that only tnings wnich pleased and inter ested would reach himt To think of being his wife ... to think of actually being the original of that picture ... . Her heart seemed to fill no and overflow; it was almost more than she could bear. Other magazines for which Ken sometimes made covers appeared later in the month, and always fcve would view them In a breath less awe; she knew that so long as she lived she never could see her picture, work of Ken's heart and hand, with Indifference or even with calmness. Some of these things passed through her mind as she loitered at the window of Ken's studio one afternoon watching from behind the curtain while her husband placed Fifl Devoe on a bench un der a wall of blossoming cosmos. settled bis easel, wrapped the paint-daubed smock about him self and set to work. Flfi Devoe . . . The Chinese robe waa around her and aha wore it raklshly, dropping from one shoulder, with her round black eyes snapping. How glossy and dark and solid looking her hair was a. blot of India ink above her provocative face. , . Sloven young thing but the robe hid that Eve rested her head against the window-casing. There was no reason why she should not have gone out in the garden and watched the progress of the pic ture; no reason -excepting that it waa not according to the ethics of the tribe. Let them suspect her or keeping a watch on Ken oh. no. They might think her Jealous. A hot sense., of outrage west twisting through her now; she rushed away to dash her face with cold water lest the tears which would keep stinging her eyes leave tell-tale traces. .What was best for Ken she wished him to have surely she wished this, always and forever. But if only aha needn't feel this sense of separation from him now that he was out in the garden, wosfcing -without her at his side. If only life .might have gone on as it had so 'long ". . . Oh. funny she had thought of the past six months as a great while. Six months ago she had never seen Ken, knew hint only as one who painted pictures she liked. And now they had met and fallen in love- and married . . . how strange life was. A dim little hope kept stirring in Eve's thought; a hope so dim and so, secret that she waa ashamed to look at U squarely. Supposing Kea discovered after he finished this first picture that Fifl was not the model ha wanted after all? Suppose he should come in one day and say. "Hi. red-head you're the one I need- cant work without your " Supposing oh, well. The dim little secret hope took oa life and color when the pic ture was finished and Fifl did not appear for two. days. Then' Eve heard that she had gone to New York and shortly she was back again la the gardea with Ken. She seemed to have forgotten ner work but thea Eve had to admit Ken would allow nothing to stand in the way of his own work and Fifl encouraged this at titude. All through October Flfi came every day. Cosmos blossoms sprang out like twinkling stars. white and pink and purple In their leafy foliage and made a frame tor the dark, Inviting eyea aa tks haew-atukhe amm Tiaa toamos tea and stem labvad afwall to tha dahlias and faint ed Fifl there looking much like one of the wine-red blooms as he put her on paper. Maples turned goldet and try ran blood-red as open velni over walls aad hillsides aad every morning brought a bint of chill, a mere threatening breath of the Winter to come. And now Ere had become too Quiet, given to long silences and a misty smile that laded before it really began. She looked rather thin; a little whiter than the girl Ken bad met on (be train going ap to Haver ford six months age. And there waa- a half-frightened, half-wist-fal droop to her lips. She would have said she was happy; she would have declared this up and down and believed it perhaps. A tiny bit tired was the excuse she gave Kory when he fonnd her the fourth day band-running cuddled up in the warm sunlight on the south aide of a great boulder la a field near his cottage. "I sort of think I need a tonic or something, Nory. I'm feeling wonderfully, you know, only I like Just to sit here in the sun. Perhaps it's only that I'm lazy. Chy t tamed in last nlghT t Ight telock -'- . She stopped abruptly, wonder ing If that had beet Wo much. No use letting Nory get a wrong impression. It wasn't Ken's fault that Flfi had kept him till after twelve wben ba took her home thing for- kirn to take her bama last night and surely ft waa the since Eve had delayed dinner, what with one accident and an other and the funny tiredness that seemed to make her do ev erything wrong. Fifl remained for dinner every night now, since the days were short and Ken lik ed to begin work early, she came mornings instead of early after noon and so of course was a somewhat permanent luncheon guest. Fifl was amusing all energy, with her witty, stlngtng remarks, her Quick nervous laugh. Bat her rtraalty only made Eva feel more than ever weary. Nory slouched against the boulder with the effect of twin ing his long self around It and his eyes were, very dreamy as they turned far across the valley, trac ed the serried line of the Rama pot. "Tell you what, dryad how'd you like to do your uncle a favor? Read a few chapters! of my aew hovel; let mo know wlat Ton think? Xx ft wewMa wo too sntcfc of a boraT" : "Nory, near! Sbo .Juntae tp. all her weariness gone for tha moment "But could I really? I'm not artistic, yon know haven't the feel " "Who toll to uthat?" ba broke fa harshly. "Emma Holly, 111 bet Ton know better than to listen to such trash. It's a go, then?" She thanked him with her eyes a-light And found that in the library-workshop of the brown cottage, poring over scratched and criss-crossed and interlined manuscript she could forget Fifl Devoe the sound of her and the sight of her and that even Ken did not seem to fill her thoughts quite so poignantly. But memory returned with the swift ruthlessness of a flashing blade. (To be continued) 8IL.VERTON. March S Otto Borgea, 41, died at Silverton Sun day morning following a siege of typhoid fever. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon from the Larson chapel and inter, ment will be made at the Sil verton cemetery. Rev. J. M. Jen sen of Immanuel church will officiate. IT POUD MEET . PORTLAND, Ore., March (AP) More than 300 federal foresters, state foresters, timber operators, meterologlsts and sci entists met here today la the an nual conference of the western forestry and conservation asso ciation. Monday's session was devoted to the formation of committees and as a period to allow the par ticipants to gather for the follow ing two days of meetings. Growth of the association was summarized in the address of A. W. Laird, president, whose paper was read by Walter B. Humiston, assistant to Laird in his official capacity as manager of the Port land Lumber company. E. T. Allen, manager of the organization, discussed forest fire prevention work. He credit ed the association .with being largely responsible for fire pre vention development la the Pa cific northwest. E. H. McDaniels, United etatea forest srrice, atressftj.po emnarltles t the last season la a Jsmmary of the itzf forest tiro amage. - Hi advocated careful study of each tiro season for its value In combating flames la fu ture season. V; : : Failure of the forest serrico to provide Immediate and proper service during the last tire sea son was pointed, oat by MaeDan iels. "There la not much profit, he said, "in protecting our for ests for nine years and letting them burn up oa tha' 10th be cause statistics and averages of previous years Indicate tha Benson is over. Last year tarnishes am ple grounds tor a revised treat ment of late summer and fan OtM.- - , . ' Technical discussions of two menaces to the forests, insects and diseases, were made by J. B. Woods and Dr. B. E. -Hubert Timbermen and foresters hare favorably received the forest .in surance study, for which pro vision is made la the Clarke-Me-Nary act, H. B. Shepard, senior forest economist, told the conven tion. "The response I have had from all agencies I have so far visited with regard to this typo ot In surance," Shepard said, "has been most encouraging. MICKEY MOUSE By IWERKS ' " ,ats a ! ii., . 3-C "POLLY AND HER PALS "When There's A Crowd By CUFF STERRETi; IT B&feN H13 UPvATTlC. TWS JOW. 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