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v " - ' The) OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregqp, Sunday Morning, March 1539 PAGE "SEVENTEEN if- 5. w -- r . 1 XnnKs woriE BY WINIFRED VAN DUZER 3" 1" eit would donee enre with hit wife mnd mil the rest lA J evening with the French girL CHAPTER XXV. Ken went town to New York early next iteming to see Bar tjn Wade. "Nobody evtr lets me alone," ha kept grumbling while Eve bustled a boat the kitchen mak ing coffee, trying to brown tout without burning it. "But you are awfully late with your stuff, atrel boy," He's been patient." "Well, I guess when you con aider my public 'Sky Lines' has all the bet of the deal. Not an artist on the ftaff gets the stack of fan , mail I do. 'Manhattan Myths' would give me twice the show mnd if Wade's going to get snooty " Eva murmured, "Oh, any of tiiem would like you to work for them, dear. But of course 'Sky Lines' is very high class. Well, ?e what he has to say." It was the way she must talk ta Ken all the -i.hile, like coax ing a child. It was one of the taiags they had in mind, the people who had said as much as they dared to her against marry ing an artist. This eternal play tag up, mafcing him believe the magazine world would fall with out his work. She had been fas cinated by glamor those days bat now after only a few months most of the shine had rubbed off. Tactfully with Infinite patience she woud bold the thought ot deadlines before him, flattering, persuading, winning him over to working when he would hare gone to the elnb or to Elma's or just loafed about. And more than once she had gone through his sketches and mailed a number ot them secretly, allowing him to think he had done it himself. He was in a great hurry to be off, coming to the table to stab at his grapefruit, rushing into the bedroom to grab a tie, knott ing it all awry, Jerking it off and tossing It on the floor, dashing back to the table for a sip of coffee. Eve patted her shorn locks self-consciously and waited for him to say something but In a little while she realized that he had not really looked at her all orning. "As If we'd been married years and years," she thought with a little sigh. And aloud she said, "We're quite thoroughly mar ried, aren't we. Ken?" Married tight and fast and clamped down and bolted." "Certainly we're married." He Cross -Word Puzzle By EUGENE SHEFFER T" T" v" jH 7 e i to m9 n m" 27" 2 mw So P-M m -B8a.L' iv6 1" HORIZONTAL. 1 What Eagllsh dnuutWt Tatar Tmm"! Of what eanatry is Belgrade) tka capital? 11 Melody. 12 Drink in small quantities. 14 Incline. 16 Light ene-hotse carriage. 15 Seat without a back. IS Finish. 10' MsVe. 20 Exclamation. 21 -Lolricate. 22 Short for Alfred. 23 Beast el harden. 25 Wfc wrete "20,000 Leagues Under the Sen"? 24 -Consumed. 27 What ia (be capital af CaW raaa? 20 What aid St, Patrick drlva act ef Ireland? Sl4ree4oed sloth. 2--SuiBx;prtaiaiirto'.'k.J' SJ Fine rain which' falls oat ef a clear sky. 37 What Is tka aaaaa far tka lamia aaaalaaa araaa tka aaa, saem aaly ia a fetal eclipse? 41 Beverage. 42 Waal was tk first vanae at the entlaw wkaee rosert was Skerweed Forest? . IS Annoy. 44 Symbol for lithionv 1 5 Suffix : footed. 46 Drinkinjr vessel 47 Symbol far tantalum, 45 Short poem. 69 In art; nude figures. 12 Hele in the groand. S fiepast. . IS Roman god af aarticalar 1 locality. What jaatiaa aiatara sta wkaee giraa ia is Baaaaa, ptayad ia "Bread? Mal Jy"? IT Person'! property. - If Wild reTelry. . vertical; 1 Wkat city ia MasepataaaU It tka capital af Irak? Sonrlike. :' r2). Jt Te esuiBv .4 Egyptian sun god. 5 la tka Old Testament, wkat aaea waa tka .adapted daagk tar af Maroacai? 6 Dtenals for eating. 1 Symbol for rabidium. I Stinginc insect Inbred. 10 Muddle. 13 Wkat saaidaa ktaad ky Zaaa did Harm tarn iata a kaifer? 16 Rescue. 17 Legal claim. 24 Trap. 26 What city an United Stales is aetea1 far tka aaaaafactara af tlraa? 23 Complete. 30 River ia Switzerland. 33 WU aakad tiered far tka kaa4 af Job tka Baptiat aa a naara far kar Jaarjagt 14 Cuti off the final rjUable. S5 Press with a flatirea, 36 Small reaadlsh mass. 37 Wkat Raaaaa ratar dafaalad Catiline's caaspiradaa? 33 Burden. 39 Indigenous. 40 Child's marbles. 49 Take food. 51 Deposit account (akkr.). 62 Hawaiian food. 64 Note of the scale. 66 Lcw German (abbr.). Herewith is the eolation to Sat urdays pnzzle. mam t3TgtDt)Yigl0 rf gave her a sharp glance as he shrugged into his coat. "What did you think? Be back early, red-head; get an early start to night." A quick duty-kiss, a bang of the door and he was gone. And for the first time since she had been his wife Eve did not rush to the window to wave as Ken sent the roadster- hurtling Into the drive and blew his "too-oo-o" at the turn of the street. There was a party tonight, the regularly weekly dance at the Pen and Brush club, and he ex pected her to be ready. Dinner all waiting when he came In and his Bhirt laid out with the links in the cuffs. He had been surprise ed and pleased the first time she had done these things for him, and now he took it all as his due. They would call for Fifl and go on to the club and Ken would dance once with his wife and all the rest ot the evening with t" a French girl while Ere aatCed and pretended smiled and pretend ed. But Eve did not go through her usual flurry of preparation today. She put dinner on the table. This was her duty as a wife and her conscience would not allow her to shirk. But afterwards she wet her hair, soaking the curl out, and brushed It down flatly against her head and put on the cotton stockings end the blue serge skirt and the middy with the earth stains on the front. And when Ken came home she was in the living room, lounging in an easy chair under a bridge lamp with a magazine on her lap and her feet on the table and a little dust of ashes over the rug where she had flicked her cigar ette. Something of a trick for her to smoke nonchalantly and with an air, for Eve hated cigarettes. He came bursting in, calling that everything was all right; he had seen Wade and Wade aad decided to be reasonable. "I reminded him that my pub lic would trail along if I went over to 'Myths' What time Is it, sugar-lamb? HI, what you been doing to your hair?" He really saw her at last stopped in his tracks and stared. Bhe felt a flush crawling op her face and held her breath, answ ering In rtfi s laughing, nervous way, that she wanted a change. "Trying to be like other folks, ole sweet. All this persnickety stntf I see now what you meant about nobody fussing around here, WeU, let's eat. He eyed the middy, the sandals and the cotton stockings. And followed her to the dining room in a still, bewildered way, rub bing his chin. She felt his covert glances all through dinner and fancied he went to dress with a drawn breath of relief. But Ere did not change her clothes. She attacked the dishes In the sink, dabbed powder on her nose, put on the tam and the camel's hair coat And when Ken said "Ready?" waiting politely, she laughed and shrugged and ran out to the car, The evening would hare been a strain for five had she not been so Interested in the -part she had chosen to play. Every little pert mannerism, every provocative word and gesture, everything that ever she had seen Fifi do. Eve adopted for her own. She exag gerated a bit, burlesqued a bit, took care that Ken should miss nothing. If the tribe understood it kept Its hands off. After aU fair play was In the code and U a wife da- elded to turn temperamental it was her own lookout Nory'i quizzical scrutiny informed Eve that ha understood but Ken she knew was all at sea; the sparkle she worked so hard to keep go ing, the endless cigarettes she pretended to smoke, the careless manner in which she scattered endearments all of this amazed and muddled him. And he was so lost in trying to figure it out that he paid very little attention to Fifl Devoe and in retaliation Fifl devoted herself to Pierre Garr, and the party broke up earlier than usual. There followed the strangest week that Eve ever had imagin ed; a week when she made herself keep always on the move, always chattering, laughing, gesturing, al ways so full of animation that she began to feel like a wound-up machine. And all the time Ken grew more silent, more watchful, gentle enough with her but irri table with everyone else, making excuses to run In from the studio to see what she was doing, short ening his hours of work, short ing at Fifl when she came to pose and sending her away with scant courtesy. (To be continued) BUD ATTACKED UPON PAST RECORD PORTLAND, Ore., March S. (AP) The Oregonian tomorrow will say three game bills intro duced by Governor A. W. Norblad when a member of the 1929 sen ate are now being used against him among sportsmen in Wash ington county. R. B. Denney. sec retary of the Washington county Rod and Gun clnb, the Ore&onian will say, has issued a circular let ter to uie sportsmen of that coun ty inclosing copies of the three Norblad "joke" bills and pointing to them as proof that the gover nor is opposed to sportsmen al though making a bid for that rote. The bills are senate bills N'os. 222. 223 and 224. introduced by Norblad and read the first time February 19. 1929. The bills were referred to the committee on fish eries. One bill, S. B. No. 224, was passed by the senate, which then reconsidered and killed. The bill made it unlawful for any parrnoa to re npoa privately, owned land above the ordinary low water mark on any atream without written permission. The provisions of the act did not apply to residents of the county where the land was situated. The second bill made it unlawful for any sportsman to go upon privately owned land anywhere In Oregon, whether the land was fenced or not. for the purpose ot hunting or angling, without written per mission. The proposed law was no applied to residents of the eounty. These bills were sent to the com mittee and there died. The third bill provided a li cense fee of $26 to hunt deer. Ot this sum $5 was to go to the game department and $20 to the state fire patrol to augment funds to engage the services of fire war dens and forest patrols to prevent conflagrations In forests. The bill passed the senate and was later reconsidered. Schools Aid Farm Program RALEIGH, N. C. (AP) North Carolina's "live at home" farm program Is being, aided by 875,- 000 school children. The object is to have the state produce its own foodstuffs. MICKEY MOUSE By IWERKS 1 place for y V K , IS rxi r VIVja' K great. 1 Aic v (o S .l' "POLLY AND HER PALS'1 A Horeo 'Hide"' By CLIFF STERRETJj H6CK Of-A LOTTA 60OO n MS TO 6& SMUGGLED rwTD AM' ATTIC! I SAv MOrTfc Oh My Ll'L DAU&HTtrC 6H?Tf?U2D&,-WH&K 1 Wa.S PEEPlKf' Ifsl COSTUME: , WHAT 5 e&JMA CHAKG& y0Uf? KWMEr, ASfVI I THIS H&RS WILL -I I fyf STARS. rf-V&U I y-k-ka.fc aV aa- II w ? I f -a i I ar-a.vi a - . - a -Asn a i m -EWl 1 TiAl THTP-f? TLA 11 V VI SrxyJ5s9 I I Q. 1 m al ai r mi - . I B aaw assa s i TrTVX'rTlTTea 1 Ji-i I 1 ssa. I .W. av a-aw an. 1 1 A W THfcRHr' MOW ALL I 60TTA -Da is RecoMpLe maw, To US 9WKfls(3 A'HOSS. 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