The OREGON 8TATE3MAN, Sakm. Oregon, Satarfay Horning; March 8, 1835
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CHAPTER XXIV.
Every ou of them knew what
Iry meant when she made way
for Fifl. They must have gossip
ed about this talked ot the three
of them, Ken and Ken's wife and
Fifl Devoe.
( What should she do now?
First ot all there was the eve
ning to get through. Laugh a
great deal; talk. No matter what
you said, last anything was well
enough it it had a smart sound.
Kory helped with this; dear Nory.
Ken and Fifl rambled to a win
dow seat and drank a great deal
but Eve kent her look away. To
morrow sh would think ot them
sitting there together; tomorrow
Kite would figure out what to do.
"But tonight she must laugh talk
without stopping.
Play the game. Did other wives
feel this way all empty Inside
w hen they were playing the game?
IMd Ivy feel so when Pierre flirt
ed with Fifl? Did Elma mind
.when Chuck made love to the
young women who always were
dropping In? Well, they'd never
:uess she cared; she would play
the same . . .
The evening went on and on and
on. And when Ken filially was
taking his wife home, driving
t, lumped Air down in the seat of
his car, 'he was no more silent, no
more moedy, no more anything
than alwayp, and he kissed her
good-night, holding her with the
old adoring gentleness till she
wanted to pull away, dash out of
this arms and out ot the house and
out of all things that bewildered
a ad hurt.
And In tie morning Eve found
(hat she was no more able to
think clearly about the. sitnation
.t han she had been last night. Her
first Impulse was to go away, to
go hack to Lakeview where the
iiad been hippy and at peace.
"But you couldn't leave yonr
husband so easily," love argued.
"You couldn't leave Ken so eas
' t.y."
When Fit! tame lilting over the
Jiwn and went singing Into the
studio, Eve put on her coat and
.r ooly tam-o'-shanter and started
out across the fields.
It was only in Nory's workship,
absorbed in Nory's almost illegi
ble manuscript, living In the world
'of fancy Nory had conjured, that
F.ve found peace these days.
Only here, with Nory picking
t the typewriter, pausing to gaze
t the celling with his eyes dream
ing and remote, could Eve think
cf herself as either useful or
wanted. Nory considered her
c pinion worth while; she knew
t:iis since he listened eagerly to
That she had to say and often
hanged his story to meet her
a ingestions.
Sometimes their opinions would
c'.ash, and then they would argue
In gand furiously, Eve and Nory,
suid these time were the best ot
ny that came to the girl since
It hey stimulated her thought and
a.' ought back some of the glow ot
Hiving that had seemed so much a
Jb irden of late.
Every day, once luncheon was
aver and Ken had taken Fifl and
tier pert little challenging smile
tend her endless Tiracity back to
iis studio where they would be
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shut In nntil duk, and once the
table was cleared and the dishes
washed and certain things about
dinner begun. Eve would put on
the wooly tam-o-shanter and the
boyish little camel's-halr coat and
away she would fly across fields
and fences and through hedges
and over the chattering mountain
stream to the brown cottage.
Nory would have a fire blazing
on the grate and he would look
up as she came in and nod absent
mindedly, waving toward the out
put of the day before stacked at
one end of the long table. It all
was very comfortable, very cozy
and interesting and so Imperson
al that no one, not even Ken in
one of his Jealous moods could
have objected. But Ken knew no
thing about it; Eve felt sure he
never missed her afternoons. Fifl
filled bis vision, absorbed his
thought.
Yet Ken cared nothing for Fifi
really. Eve told herself this forty
times a day, stated it fiercely. de
fiantly, her teeth fast closed.
Something In Ken never had
grown up perhaps all men were
so, that growing up meant only
that their bodies became larger
while their dispositions remained
small boy. Like all small boys.
Ken was lured by the idea of
something new, the thrill con
nected with what was novel and
nnknown.
This was what Fifi meant to
him. He did not love Fifi and he
did love Eve. When she was alone
with Ken there was no tiny change
in his manner and sometimes she
doubted that he realized his flir
tation with Fifi was the talk of
the tribe. And this was the princi
pal reason why she went on as she
did day after day, uncertain and
despairing and yet unable to
make any definite move.
. One gray, snow-flurried day
early in the Winter, Fifi made a
hurried trip into the city and Eve,
longing for the rare experience
of her husband and her home to
herself, remained Indoors for the
afternoon. But even in this she
was disappointed for as it turn
ed out. she spent the hours sit
ting helplessly by while Ken
prowled from room to room and
window to window, picking np
things, looking at them without
seeing what they were, putting
them down again; whistling his
soundless tune, lighting vast num
bers of cigarettes and tossing them
away after a puff or two at each.
Things -could not go on. The
thought came to Eve that they
had gone too long already! That
if she wished to save any of the
beauty of the thing which had
been theirs she no longer could
steand aside just hoping, waiting.
Fight she must fight someway.
Ken, hjg kid, stuffing himself
with novelty.
Eve remembered suddenly some
thing that happened a very great
while ago. As a baby of five she
discovered that by climbing on
flourbin and windowsill she could
reach the pantry shelf where the
uncles kept great cans of maple
sugar. And even after old Mrs.
Wiggins found her there and for
bade her the pantry she could not
keep away. And though her baby
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no one but herself, for old Mrs.
Wiggins was all for removing the
sugar to a higher shelf and spank
ing Kve.
But kindly, wise Uncle Mat In
terfered. "The taste would still
be in her mouth. he objected.
There's a better way to cure."
And Quite suddenly the baby
lure seemed to wallow in maple
surer. Bowl- at It atood ncrr.
where and nobody seemed to pay
any attention, when she helped
nerseii. Ana nearly all her tooa
swam In maple syrup or was fla
vored with maple. In about three
days Eve had lost her keen de
light In maple sugar and the
fourth day finished It for her. It
never had been difficnlt to con
trol her appetite for sweets since.
She recalled this, smiling over
the memory as Ken roamed the
house. She watched him thought
fully and in the end her brows
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drew down la a little concentrated
frown. There were certain thing
she might do, certain measures
that might be taken with no more
than a reasonable amount of risk.
They seemed tricky and cheap
but would not the end Justify the
means?
Not until next afternoon after
the studio dor had closed upon
Fifi and Ken did Eve make a move
however. Then, with something of
an Impish grin, she deliberately
upset three ash tray and over
turned a chair as she went to dress
tor outdoors.
It was not Nory's workship for
her today bnt Haverford. In Ken's
car. She stopped at the town
shoe shop first and bought a pair
of strapped sandals, ugly, bizarre
things like Fifl wore.
"Anyway," Eve told the clerk
as she wiggled her toes in them.
"Anyway, they're comfortable."
She went on to the beauty par
lor then, a room over the barber
shop, and let down her hair. "I
want it cut," she directed and
pointed to one of a group ot bob
bed heads pictured on a circular
beside the mirror. "Like thai.'
"But it's old style," the woman
oblected. "And it's meant for
straight hair. Tour's curls at the
ends."
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The woman glared as It she
thought her customer a" little mad
but, a sale being a sale, took up
her scissors.
And presently a vaguely famil
iar face looked at Eve out of the
minor; a face framed by a round
straight bob and straight, thick
bangs which came almost to her
eyes. Her hair looked glossy and
dark and solid and very much
like Fifl Devoe's.
Eve's next stop was at the gen
era furnishing store, and after
this she tossed her purchases in
to the car and raced home. And
not even the note from Ken say
ing he had gone away with Fifi
troubled her much for she kept
thinking how sick she had been
of maple sugar.
She, threw down the bundles,
snipped the strings, took out a
cheap, bine, plaited serge skirt,
black cotton stockings, -, mid
dy. With a giggle of pure mischief
she carried the middy out to the
veranda and, stooping over the
little gutter which caught the
drippings from the eves, drew
the white linen carefully over the
soft, loose earth.
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BRUSH COLLEGE. Mar. 7.
(Special) Nearly 200 people
gathered at the regular meeting
of the Polk County Federation of
rural woman's clnb held in the
W. O. W. hall at Buena Vista re
cently. Valley View was Joint hos
tess with Buena Vista at the din
ner which was served at 12: IS.
A special feature of the after
noon meeting was a splendid ad
dress given by Gorernor A. W.
Norblad with taxation and adver
tising Oregon as his subjects.
Governor Norblad said impart:
"The Oregon tax bears too
heavily on one class of people and
an effort should be made to light
en the burden. The burden must
be spread to reach those who can
afford to pay and relieve those
who cannot afford to pay. In
talking about selling Oregon,
Governor Norblad declared Cali
fornia has been selling itself by
Spanish history. Oregon has a his
tory of its own and like Penns
the Situation
On The Wing"
S&. MA- ISN'T THIS
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ylvania Is on of the o r n e r
stone a which, the greatness ef
U United States is built.
D. H. Upjohn ot Salem gave an
interesting talk on "Spring Flow
ers and Bulbs," which preceded
Governor Norblad 's address.
Other numbers on the program
included a vocal solo by Mrs.
Dornhecker of Dallas, accompan
ied by Mrs. C. L. Blodgett of
Brush College. Mrs, Dornhecker
gave an encore also. Buena Vista
and Valley View clubs sang their
club songs. Mrs. Frank Fawk.
president of the P. C. F. clubs
presided at the business meeting
which followed the program. Mrs.
Fawk introduced Mrs. Plummer
of Dallas and Mrs. Knower of Oak
Grove, vice-president and secretary-treasurer
respectively.
Mrs. Fawk appointed as a com
mittee to act on the health pro
gram for the year, Mrs. Cooper
of Dallas community club, Mrs.
Oliver of Oak Grove club and Mrs.
D. E. Armont of Suver club. The
next meeting will be held at Rick
reall in June.
A basket dinner will be a novel
feature of this meeting. Mrs. C.
L. Blodgett of Brush College is
chairman of the entertainment
committee for the June meeting.
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CENTRAL HOWELL, March T,
An interesting meeting la the
interests of a Farmers' anion was
held at the achoolhonsa Thars
day evening. H. Metzger was the
speaker for the evening. A crowd
was In attendance.
New Barns Put
Up in Howell
CENTRAL HOWELL, March T.
Two new barns will soon be
added to the list of recent Im
provements in Central Howell.
W. A. Roth has a barn under
construction. F. E. Way Is the
builder for Mr. Roth.
W. C. Rutchman is soon to be
gin building a new barn.
SPEXD DAY IN JEFFERSON'
JEFFERSON, March 7 Vir
ginia McKee, a student of Oregon
State college, spent Thursday af
ternoon in Jefferson.
. By IWERKS
By CLIFF STERRET.
By RUSS WESTOVER
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