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r jjaffljary 1, 1940. 4 SERIAL STORY BLACKOUT BY RUTH AYERS COPYRISHT. IM. NKA aiavici. INC. I 4 CHAPTER V ilary drew back at the s'Sht of tiee eyes staring irom the , idowt. 'leal paralyzed her for an agon al second and then, bracing her against the lash of spray, she i along the darkened deck. Her Ct blew off in the wind. Her ; lipped on the wet floor. $ all the time, staccato sharp irilnd her came hurrying steps, irlhe could reach the salon door tj would be safe, .anting, she came to the door ll swung herself against it. In .,( muffled light of the room, jost deserted now before the ner hour, she breathed a quick jrer of relief. The safety of the tn five her courage. Cautlous lh ppened the door a crack. KVeaning against the deck rail 'jctly opposite was a man's f'jched figure, hat pulled low on li forehead. In the darkness he nothing more than a silhou- clary waited no longer.. When t, reached her cabin, her maize l tumbled on her shoulders and . blue eyes were wide. ' T $ ' ana,' awaiting her, looked up a shy smile of greeting, h asked quickly, "What's (1ng1 You're trembling." ''It's nothing," Mary answered. Imagining things. Ever since .boat sailed I've been on edge." But something must have star you. You're white as a ghost." 'lary took off her tweed coat irly. 1 "You'll probably think ' crazy, but it's true something startle me. I could have sworn an was crouched behind the 'ipanionway watching me. And ' almost sure he followed as as the salon door." nna's hand flew to her mouth I gesture of fear. "Oh I won- what it means. So many nge things are happening in war that it's enough to make U lose your mind. Spies are rywhere. You don't know when .re being shadowed or why. c'one is safe." Then, her gentle 'f growing bitter, "I hate war ""bate it. Why must people tor :ih and kill each other?" orae broke into sobs. Mary, y at once that she had startled Uk frail Anna, reached out a 'Molting hand. "I probably K'ined the whole thing. Most 'My ' it was what we call In Yankee slang a 'pipe dream.' Let's forget it. "And what's more, Anna Win ters, we've been moping too much. We've stayed In this cabin as if we were in hiding. We've got to step out you and I. We'll go up to .dinner in a blaze of glory." Anna looked up uncertainly.' Mary, aware again of how strangely drawn she was to this wisp of an English girl, contin ued, "I was considered a clever stylist in Paris before the war started, I know what clothes can do to people. We'll dress gor geously tonight and forget the war." "That would be fun." Anna's eyes lighted for a second and then sobered. "I'm sorry, but I can't go. All I have are my uni forms and the plainest clothes. I haven't anything for a party." "But look! I have trunks full of clothes. I'll pick out a frock that will do exactly for you. You're just about my size and height When I've dressed you up you'll be ravishing." Mary began shuffling through the closet where the beautiful gowns had been hung. He eyes glistened when she came to the Robin Hood red frock, slimbodiced and with a skirt that fell in rip pling cascades of chiffon. In the darkness of the closet she pressed its folds to her face. This was the dress she had worn the night when she had first met Vincent. Suddenly, all the rap ture of her romance came flood ing back. She remembered Vincent s first words after they had been intro duced. "It it you or the dress that's so gorgeous?" he had asked with that intriguing uplift of his left brow.. Demurely she had answered, "It's the dress." And all the time, of course, she was trying not to show her breathlessness at meet ing this gentleman soldier. Vincent had answered: "Why, to be sure. Probably when I meet you for lunch tomorrow I'll ask myself how I could have thought you were the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen." It had been like that. Swift, inevitable, a love that had thrown them together in the midst of a war-mad world. But that was in Paris in Sept- FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia :0,;i i i COPR. 140 BV NU 8CRVICK. INC T. M. HCC. U. S. PAT. Off. X tWFFBCE EttUOIPimfiNT y 7 b f n k mm :( I m MM "okl They gave me dozens, of calendars! An' they're per :ttly good all we gotta do is mark out the '39 an' print s I ." i in 1940." SIDE GLANCES 'A H KM 1Y ttTOCt, Wt. t.M .twt.w, . . J second-rale- but cpul you do itr. THE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON ember. This was now, aboard the Moravia, plowing through winter seas to New York. Mary turned to Anna with the red dress. "This is what you're going to wear." Anna Winters touched the crim son dress. "Oh, no, I couldn't," she protested. "It's too beautiful for me. I'd be out of place in it. I couldn't." . "But you will," Mary said firm ly, "and we're going to start right now to make you a knockout." Anna's brown hair was brushed into a swirl with clusters of curls pinned over her ears to give breadth to the pinched face. All the tricks of the trade Mary had learned as a fashion designer were brought into play. The new flag-red lipstick, the tawny pale powder, the alluring eye shadow paste these came out of a kit to make Anna blossom from drabness to charm. Mary's own shimmery lingerie, sheer stockings, and gold slippers went on her cabin mate. And lastly, the Robin Hood scarlet dress. Anna Winters gasped as she stared at the mirror. She was lovely! "There," said Mary, "while Rome burns, you're going to dance, Anna. You look like some thing out of a fairy tale a beau tiful damsel waiting for a Prince Charming to claim you. And who knows, maybe one will. Anna glowed with an inward, radiant happiness. "I'll wait for you," she 'said. Mary shook her head. "No, you're to make your entrance alone. I'll join you later after I've had a chance to make myself properly alluring." The English girl's eyes suddenly brimmed with tears. "I want you to know," she began in a muted voice, "that you've made me hap pier tonight than I've ever been, in my life." For a minute, the two girls looked at each other the gentle governess and the American styl ist. So unlike, and yet at this minute, so strangely the same. Same slim, graceful figures same smart coiffeurs, and more hid den grief in their hearts. Mary Carroll knew then that this minute would be stamped in her mind for all time. Nothing could ever blot it out. In a life time, she would never forget Anna Winters standing before her like a bright red flame tragic and beautiful. (To Be Continued) LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE Happy New Yearl By HAROLD GRAY Champion speller of all time in North Carolina was the late J. J. Allen of Louisburg, N. C. He could not only spell any word given him, but also cyild tell the page, number, column and how many words from the top it was in the old blue-back speller. mm in m. in - - T - nnriDC While "Isms" rNVDC kept the Rep. 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