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The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Bungay worning, ociiu
by GLADYS
JOHNSON
A fascinating story of an American
girl who seeks the destiny
of real love.
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it, Ardetb, say you're my girl."
She had began to struggle
wildly, but In silence. Fighting
herself now, because It was ex
citing and pleasant to hate Keil'a
turns about her.
"Please let me go! Neil, they'll
wonder somebodyll come out
and Hud us "
"Sh-h-h!"
The warning stilled her. She
ceased to struggle and Neil's arms
grew tense about her ae loot
steps scraped on the wooden steps
outside. The front door opened.
Heavy footsteps going up the
stairs over their heads.
The girl smothered a nervous
giggle, and In the dart Neil grin
ned. A door upstairs opened. Shut
"It's Tom!" The girl's whisper.
Tve got to go!" .
The spell was broken. He did
not resist when she drew out of
his arms, hut fc hung on to one
hand and asked softly:
"Want to go to a movie to
night?" "Can't." She was groping fer
the banister. "Have to wash out
some things for tomorrow."
"Why?" came his quick, sus
picious whisper. "Who are you go
ing out with?"
She laughed teasingly. Snatch
ed her hand away and rap lightly
up the steps.
He thrust a quick hand through
the spokes of the banister and
caughC one all m ankle.
"Who you going out with?" he
repeated darkly.
She squirmed. Smothered a
laugh. "You! Foolish! Now will
you let me go?"
"I'll be up in the morning "
He freed her and she fled up the
stairs.
In the dark upper hall she
stopped for a moment to collect
herself, pressing fingers against
her hot cheeks to cool them.
Sharp eyes were waiting" beyond
that door which showed a yel
low streak of light at the thresh
hold. Ardeth pulled her hat straight.
Tucked the ends of her hair un
der. Smoothed herblouse cromp- j
ed by Neil's embrace. j
Nell shouldn't do that wait j
each night for her to come home, j
He reached the house a whole
half hour before she did. At the
sound of her footsteps lie would
slip out of his.avn flat and meet
her In the hall.
The dark space under the stairs
had seen many such silent skirm
ishes as It had witnessed tonight.
Of course there was nothing
really wrong. After all she was
Neil's girl. Some day, she sup
posed, they'd get married. That
was the way marriages happened
in Ardeth's circle of life. You
saw a boy you liked or some-
' times you didn't even like him
but there was no one else around
at the moment. You went to a
party with him or to a movie.
You went again. Pretty soon peo
ple began to expect you to be al
ways together. Pretty soon you
found people expected you to get
married. So you did.
Ardeth was Neil's girl. For
three year3 she'd been called his j
girl before then, in fact he'd j
he'd gone with her. Ever since j
she'd come to live with aunt Stel
moment, how like Aunt Stel she
would be in a few years' time.
Ardeth flushed hotly.
"You y)u nasty little spy!"
Her voice was low and it shook.
"Spy!" Bet leaped to her ; guns.
"A person doesn't have to spy
to see what a fool you make of
yourself yojj boy-struck thing."
"Boy-struck!'- Ardeth ! was
stung into defense. "You're the
boy-struck one! Hanging around
the phone every night hoping- "
"Stop it!" Aunt Stel leaped in
to the breach. Pointing the: carv
ing knife at her niece to empha
size her words. ''Let me tell you
one thing, my girl. If you---"
"Oh, for God's sake!" Tom's
bellow drowned them all Out.
"Shut up, can't you? How'd you
expect a guy to read his paper
with a pack of women yelping
about?"
Crushing silence followed, for
Tom was czar here. Though
only twenty-six years of age, he
was the elder son and had been
th mainstay of the family since
Uncle Ed -had died.
He transfixed them with a
glare before he returned to the
sporting page.
With an air of injured inno
cence Bet subsided. Fan and
Paul, the twins, who had bright
ened up at the promise of a quar
rel, turned in disappointment to
their bread and gravy and resum
ed their efforts to kick each oth
er under the table, undetected.
Aunt Stel set her face and grudg
ingly served another portion of
potroast.
Ardetb went into the bedroom
and pulled off her hat and coat.
She hated these scenes coming at
the end of a hard day's work. The
depression which she always felt
in this shabby house was creeping
over her again.
She hated this room which she
shared with Bet. She hated the
"golden oak" bed and dresser,
scratched and warped with the
years. The worn carpet. The; brok-
i en-armed rocker.
AH the little softening touches
tho room owed to her. The pink
shaded lamp on the dresser
Neil had given her on her last
birthday. The cretonne curtains
three Sundays had gone Into
their making. The pink bedspread
that had taken the savings of a
month.
About the frame of the mirror,
little photos of her Sunday out
ings. Pictures Neil had taken. One
of herself feeding the swans in
the lake. She was looking up and
laughing, her hair a light-touched
tangle. That was her last Easter
drt3 . . . She'd sewed on it for
a mcnth and sheJiad saved for it
for three.
Ardeth's bitter eyes looked
back at her from the mirror.
So much .struggle for so little.
This u?!y room. That cheap
dres?. And there were girls v.ho
had everything they wanted. The
girl she talked to in the store
today- -Jeanette Parker. Would
the time come when she, too,
would have everything she want
ed? Ardeth wondered.
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A silent straggle in the dark ball.
Shut up, caH yon? How do you expect a guy to read his paper?"
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Her father had named her
deth.
As Aunt Stel succiatly remark-
I ed. "He would!"
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and. found Neil Burke in the flat " dS ""f U1 J ' ,
bolow j rull s Igve of the strange and the
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night like this. It made her late
for dinner and she. wasn't sure
she liked it. ,
Something leaped in her l.'e. :t
at the memory of his mio-i about
her there in the dark, 'iut she
wasn't sure she wanted Nefl to
kiss her like that.
A shrill voice lifted be end the
door and Ardeth ht'-Tird'y enter
ed. ;
The blaze of th? r-.Vm v.as daz- 1
zling after the dark hall. For a j
moment the girl stood
cgainst the door affr
shut it, blinking.
She could dimly sec the others
look up from tpe dinner table.
Ardeth was amazingly like her
fjthei which was perhaps Aunt
?tel's cbtff reason for disliking
her. You don't care to have a re
nar.dcr of your secret and hope
less love underfoot day and night,
though you deny that lovfc, ven
to your?elf.
Jim Carroll had worn that
sr.iue look of gay courage. That
almost rapt air of gazing at some
brave sight hidden from others.
Charm had played like a flame
lsanin" I w:inin mm an unconscious mag
he had ! netisul wnich had drawn hearts
to him as a light draws moths.
The flame of him had ' drawn
the pretty pale moth of Ardeth's
riclher.
R-.it thev rftiihl bpr aril
though none of the five could" ! 5oIden by
have expressed it in words, there
was something vitsl about the
girl as 6he stood there, which
turned her to a flame dancing
across the common grey of their
lives.
Long after she had passed out
of their sphere each of them
could recall Ardeth as she stood
against the door. A gplden girl
not even the blaze of unshaded
electric light could dim the rad
iance of her. Youth and dawning
passion 'had kindled a fire which
played la her eyes. The hair whicn
escaped from, her hat shone with
vitality and the cheek tt carress
ed was the golden pink of a ripe
apricot. Tender and lovely as
ehe stood there, her eyes touched
with dreams, her lips tipped with
smile.
But dreams ' and smiles had
nothing to do with Stella Har
rison. From her place at the end
of the table where she was carv
ing the potroast, Ardeth's aunt
relieved her mind.
"It's a wonder to me you
wouldn't try to get here to
your meals on time for once!
Of all the inconsiderate people!
Here I can cook my face to .death
over a hot stcve for you and you
think you can come in like a lady
when you please, with never so
mach as a thank rvu!'V
The flame died down in Ar
detb. She had the startled look
of one rudely awakened.
"Oh . . . r msorry. Aunt Stel.
I I had fo stay a little later.
Mr. Hugeson wanted us to check
some new stock "
She was checked by a snort
from Bet. Aunt SU'i's elder
tlaughter,a girl a year younger
than Ardetb.
-"That's a hot one!" Jeered Bet.
' "I suppose you think we don't
know you were down there In
the hall necking with Neil Burke!
Honestly, I should think you'd be
ashamed! I'd die with shame if
. anyone opened the door and
walked in on you!"
A hard, prim little line came
around Bet's young mouth when
eb& said this. You saw, In that
She had married this
of hers had born
him a golden child. And ; in her
secret heart she had neve'r ceas
ed to marvel that Jim Carroll
had ever wanted to marry! her at
all. It had lent her a! dazed,
slightly breathless air at times.
She never bad understood the
vivid joy of life in him. She was
content merely to Idolize him. A
frail, slightly pathetic i figure
Thelma Carroll had been swung
violently through life by the blaz
ing comet of her love. She; lived
only In the Tlvid flame of her
man and when that flame went
out Jim Carroll coujd not resist
the hot excitement of war, though
he had a wife and child depend
ent upon him Thelma had quiet
ly faded away from the earth.
Ardetb had come to liv with
Aunt Stel at the death of ; her
parents.
Aunt Stel had hidden her feel
ings well. No one had guessed
the violent Jealousy which swept
her when handsome : Jim Carroll
had come courting her younger
sister, Thelma. After Thelma's
marriage Stel had married ; Ed
Harrison, Just to show Jim that
she could.
Not even Ardeth guessed !hy
her aunt was so severe with her.
She supposed it was because of
Bet. ; M
To a certain extent she was
right. Betty Harrison, ; sandy
haired and pasty, seemed j more
uninteresting than ever by com
parison with her cousin. ; ;
At twelve, Ardeth could not be
sent to the corner store without
annexing at least one attentive
male escort. But Neil Burke, by
a sort of Kouatter's rieht through
fits icsiuciiw i u 1117 nai. ctw n ,
quickly established his monopoly
of the girl, tl was then that Bet
experienced the same Jealous
pangs her mother had : known
some years before. : j
Curled up on their mutual bed
now, elaborately filing her nails.
Bet registered large scorn pf Ar
deth before the mirror. 1
'For the love of Pete quit
primping!" she said sourly.: "A
person'd think you: were j going
out with the Prince of Wales."
Ardeth laugftfd- without mal
ice. The discontent of the! night
before was gone. Such a Biraple
thing as a Sunday outing! could
send the "joy of life bubbling
through her. : H
Ardeth loved Sundays.; (Loved
the delicious sense of leisure they
brought ... to dress in one's own
time ... to put on oneis best
things even that was an adven
ture. I
She was going for a rids with
Neil in his cut-down Ford. But
the sun was shining and she was (
wearing a sport dress which she j
had bought in a noon-hour sale
the day before. At twehty that is
excuse for being happy. I S
She turned before thej glass
now in innocent vanity., Ardeth i
roved being pretty loved the feci
of her silk stockings! : ' i
Those silk stockings! I Aunt
Stel's basilisk gaze fell. oo them
now as she stood in the doorway,
swathed in a frayed silk kimona,
whose painted iris had long with
ered to a discouraged greyness.
"New stockings again!: Silk all
the way up, I'll bet though the
Beehive, basement had a sale on
lisle tops last week! Why any
decent girl has to have heif stock-
rings silk where they don't show.
beats me!" ; ;
"It isn't Just the looks, ; Aunt
Stel," Ardeth explained j absent
ly, her attention going to 'pulling
on her hat without disarranging
her hair. "It's the feel. It's Just
to know that they're ill silk."
"Well, be sure you don't have
a tumble with your fine! ideas!"
retorted Aunt Stel, darkly. "And
those flimsy silk and lace things
you wear underneath going
around half naked, the way no
good girl would dream of going
when I was young "
Their havy disapproval lay all
about her like a wet cloud.
But balm to her young pride,
the look Neil turned on her as
she came down the front steps in
response to the toot of the auto
horn.
Slim and vivid and golden In
the morning sunshine,' she was.
Creams and browns of the new
sport suit playing up to the gold
of her hazel eyes glowing under
the brim of the new brown hat.
The young fellow's black eyes
devoured her. He breathed "Gee,
you're sweet " as she sated her
self beside him.
Ardeth's heart leaped under
his gaze as It leaped when be put
his arms about her. bat there was
a little uncomfortable edge on her
thoughts at his fervor.
It was pleasant to have Neil
say nice things but when he
grew so serious she was a little
afraid of him.
Neil's whole family was queer
His father. Cemus Burke was
a bitter, unsuccessful man who
vented his disappointment of life
by railing against everything.- His
quarrelsome disposition had .won
him a "reputation as a trouble
maker. WOrk was becoming In
creasingly hard for him to obtain
that added to grievance and bis
railing; thus the circle rounded
on itself.
Nell's mother was dead. His
grandmother kept the bouse. A
mystic did Irishwoman, half liv
ing In a fanciful world of her
own.
The boy's fiery nature had been
warped by the constant associa
tion of these two. At twenty
three he was on the defense
against the world. Romantically
good looking he fluttered fem
inine hearts in the neighborhood,
but in all the world there was
only Ardeth Carroll for him.
Perhaps he already had some
inkling that he might lose her,
for he was passionately Jealous.
He swept the girl along on the
surge of his own emotions, try
ing to snatch by force the love
he was not patient enough to fos
ter. Ardeth had learned to dread
the black moods of Neil.
She strove gallantly now to
put the situation on a lighter
plane.
. "Oh, it's gorgeous to be out
in the sunshine!'' She smoothed
the jileats of her short skirt.
"Go out through the park? Neil,
let's see the other cars."
It was the first bright day af
ter a wyk of fog. The park high
ways were crowded- sedan and
limousine; snappy roadster and
cut-down Ford.
Little of the snob in the heart
of Ardeth. however. The big sil
ent cars spinning past moved her
to admiration, not envy. Enough
to be alive and happy in the sun
shine today. To know one was
pretty and young. To feel this se
cret thrill of expectancy holding
one's breath, it was, In a way
waiting for something glorious to
happf n.
The cars were checked. The
equestrian path crossed the high
way here, and the traffic officer
was permitting the riders to cross.
Sleek proud horses carrying
sleek proud people. They moved
through a different world, these
high-stepping horses and the men
Ardeth.
That blonde girl there In the
linen trousers and black coat a
pretty girl, and so sure ef her
self. Look at her turn and speak
to the man on the bay mare be
side her.
That man! Ardeth found her
self sitting tense leaning for
ward, her heart in her eyes.
A tall and laughing young fel
low riding so easily. The sun
gleaming on his brown hair,
flashing on his white smile-
As though the intent gaze of
the girl drew his, the young fel
low suddenly looked oyer. His
eyes plunged deep into the eyes
of the girl as he went by.
At her side, Ardeth heard Neil
draw in bis breath jealously.
(To be continued)
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FURLEY, Kas., Sept.
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Farley State bank Friday routed
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Merrill, whose Institution often
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The pair battled around the lobby
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utes The intruder finally fled
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