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THE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, OREOOIt
Page Nine.
:. Thnrvald
b.e. ueuift .
t-, faintly embarrassed
1".t - -.. nn much like
"Tkh, it's
Fcy. . 7h e: but I
ramilla
IOU an-"
fcu know.
before the absurdity of
Ion in wmcn
r-.en, " lne ' , '
Lushed until the tears
Lvou see. ' ueorgc i
..viinff weaKiy.
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Life ana " ""-
m,,re. u,..':.- If oil
fan youve miu
nstonce asked between
chagrin,
-orvald sobered at once,
"k. aid. "No, just
ler I got to remembering
. . . . Am i urn ncoi
talking one day wnen
rht I was asleep-'
Constance saici. u
things you rememoerea
me that nrsi niB'.
o lprms. mat you am
ie any more, and that if
really bright I'd have
long ago.
now; ' mere was o
sardonic amusement in
eyes, uo you Know,
tly think better of that
k'e Oh, don't worry.
ing to niaftE iuvc m j
I'd hate to cut in on
frs. . . . ses- i "e louna
he went on witn a
(twinkle as Constances
feed. "A fellow picks up
interesting Intormauon
lying here this way. Peo
you're not dead yet, and
u gure," Constance said,
aren't running a tem-
Ichance. Right now, I'm
person in this house. All
.se is burned out of me.
sort of like your brand
I'. Youre going to be
're for a while, aren't
kuch longer, I imagine,
rdy don't need me any
lid I was brought here
L stand In for Camilla
Do you want to know
why you couldn't make it stick
after my head stopped feeling like
a cheese:
"I do, indeed," Constance told
him. "The rest of my public
seemed to think I was doing
grand good job."
"Well," George Thorvald told
her. "It was your sense of humor
that wrecked you. You saw that
Camilla Wynne is really well, just
funny and the harder she tries,
the funnier she gets. And having
a sense of humor, you couldn't
help making her just as funny as
she really is. . . . If you want to
know, finding out how funny Ca
milla is was the best thing that
ever happened to me. ... Do her
for me again now, that's a good
girl, and make her funnier than
you ever did before. Make her
as funny as hell. I need a good
laugh."
So Constance did Camilla Wynne
as she had seen her in some of
her most heart-breaking and fun
niest roles, while George Thor
vald cackled with weak mirth.
When Dr. Rogers came quietly
into the room, George was begging
with tears running down his
cheeks, "Now do her in 'She Gave
All' you know the way she said,
'But, darling, there are so many,
many things you don't understand
about me. . . . That's because you
don't care enough. . . . That's why
I am going to leave you. "
Mark Rogers watched and lis
tened for a few minutes, laughing
very much as if he wouldn't if he
could help it. When Constance
went out he followed her into the
corridor."
"Well," he said, "I must say
you've hit on the most unconven
tional cure for nervous shock that
I've ever seen. I don't understand"
'But, darling," Constance cut in
on an impish Impulse, "there are
so many, many things you don't
understand about me."
He broke his step and stopped to
look down at her in startled in
quiry. Then as she went on in
Camilla Wynne's most languishing
tones, "That's because you don't
care enough. . . . That's why I'm
leaving you" He flushed, laugh
ed shortly, and fell into step with
her again.
"Dr. Rogers," she said suddenly.
"I'm not really needed here any
longer. I think I ought to go."
He was leaning over, busy with
the fastenings of his bag, and he
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must stay for lunch ! Fan's made tapioca pudding
icmemner, 1 helped you out when you had creameo
carrots at your house, pal.
SIDE GLANCES
did not look up or speak at once.
inen he echoed. "Go?" vaguely, as
u uie woras ma not mean any
thing to him. "Why if staying is
inconvenient for you, I suppose
we ought not to ask you to stay
uy longer. . . . But Mr. and Miss
inorvaid are your hosts, not I."
It was not going at all as Con
stance had planned it. There were
a number of things she had been
planning to say to him if she ver
had an opportunity, and if he would
only say the obvious things that
would give her the proper cues. . . .
But he did not say any of them.
He only muttered something about
being in a hurry, picked up his
bag, and went on with a brief nod.
Constance noticed, however, that
he had time to stop in the sala
where Hildeearde sat at the oiano:
and that It was five minutes be
fore he came out, laughine and
looking years younger, as he so
often did after a few minutes spent
in tiuaa s serene, unhurried pres
ence.
After that evening Mark Rogers
came to the house less and less;
and when he did come, he never
made any occasion to sneak to
Constance alone.
She said to Hilda one day. ten
tatively, "Does Dr. Rogers ever take
time to live to have any real life
ot nis own like other people, I
mean: '
Hilda laughed quietly as if at
some secret thouslit, and said,
should say that Mark is one of the
most intensely alive people I know.
Of course, since you've been here,
he's been rushing around picking
up the pieces that flew while he
was away you know people who
got sick but who wouldn't call a
doctor till he got back. . . . And
you have to know Mark pretty
well, anyhow, to understand him.
He's well, he's absurdly shy about
things that mean a lot to him."
He did turn up about lunch time
the day Constance had begun to
wonder whether she was to see
him again before she left.
He accepted Hilda Thorvald's
invitation to eat with them with a
matter-of-fact, "Fine! I've got my
slate fairly well cleaned up today
for the first time. I may not have
to run out in the middle of the
soup."
As Hildegarde, Constance, Derek,
and Mark Rogers lingered over
their dessert Ernest Thorvald was
off on one of his day-long tours
of inspection about the ranch
Hilda said, "Since you seem to be
living a life of pampered luxury
today, Mark, why not stick around
and get acquainted with you moth
er for a change? She telephoned
that she was coming out this after
noon. Vicento's "gone to town; he's
bringing her back."
Well, well" he smiled with the
special smile he seemed to keep for
Hilda "so Mother's caught up
with me at last! I've hardly seen
her since she got back from the
east last night. I didn't dare. I
knew she'd be bursting with news
she just had to get off her chest
and you know there's no stopping
Mother if you once let her button
hole you."
Constance thought enviously,
Why can't he treat me that way?
Instead of acting as if I were some
thing that had lit on his nose, and
might bite him at any minute.
They had hardly got up from
the table and gone out into the
patio when the car drove up out
side, 'and Mrs. Rogers sailed in
upon them, plump and beaming
and voluble as ever.
"My dear Hildegarde," she be
gan, "how terrible about George!
I came the first minute " Then
she saw Constance, and her jaw
dropped. "Why," she cried, "this
can't be but it is, isn't it? My
dear Miss only I suppose it's Mrs.
Manthon now, of course. Isn't it?
. . . So the girls at Bartlett's were
right! And you two are really
married after your interrupted
honeymoon?"
(To Be Continued)
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE
The Old Chiseler
By HAROLD GRAY
ha! ha! those!
JUST CHUNKS
OF WOOD. ANNIE -
SOMETHING TO
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EVENING -
ENTERTAINS GUESTS
MOSBY CREEK, April 20.
(Special) Guests for Easter Sun
day at the George Morris home
were Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dun
cum, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gibbs and
daughter of Newbury, Mr. and
Mrs. Bain Morris and family of
Pengra, and Merrial Morris of
Cottage Grove.
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CLl'B MEETS
MOSBY CREEK, April 20.
(Special) The Get Together club
met with Mrs. Faye Taylor last
week for an all-day meeting. Miss
Lois Lutz gave a talk on finishes
for better dresses. The next reg
ular meeting will be May 12 at
Mrs. Bains' home.
MOSBY CREEK ITEMS
MOSBY CREEK. April 20
(Special) Mr. and Mrs. James
Lebow accompanied the Mac and
Tony Tonali families to Albany
Sunday to visit with Mrs. Martha
Gurley.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Lebow are
visiting at the James Lebow home.
All) MEETS
GILLESPIE CORNERS. April
19. (Special) La Blue Lone
Cedar Ladies' Aid met at Coyote
community hall last week. A
short business session was held.
The time was spent visiting.
Mrs. Vera Seals has returned
home from a visit with friends
in Portland.
AT Giu.r.sriE CORNERS
GILLESPIE CORNERS. April
20. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rulon
and Tom Clark went to Rojeburg
Sunday to visit Kurk Rulon who is
in the hospital.
An Easter egg hunt was held at
the Lone Cedar school Friday.
After his death.- Edward IV, of
England, was accused by his uncle,
Duke of Gloucester, of having
been Illegally married to Elizabeth
Grey, thus making i! impossible
for the allegedly illegitimate off
spring of tdward to claim the
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