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Friday, Jan. 31, 1941
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BIU AMf S WILLIAMS
W. O- Strnict
Ruth Wyeth Spears
CHAPTER XIV—Continued
—15—
time southeasterly, and Richard took : | But Mary knew. So many inci-
every opportunity to catch the sun, , dents out of the past came now to
Then George spoke her name be­ or to take a lunar.
i enlighten her. This man facing them
A LETTER TO MR. DISNEY
hind them, and she turned in quick
They sighted the Diego Ramirez I with a weapon in his hands was
guilty dismay; and George saw her Rocks one morning an hour after ' the same George who could not en­ Dear Walter Disney:
I have just reud in the papers
confusion and his cheek paled. She breakfast; and Mary put on her coat dure the thought of leaving her with
went toward him, forced herself to and went up the companion and I Joseph Neargood at Gilead. He was that you do not think a child could
speak casually.
found Richard exuberant as a tri­ the same George who could not see possibly be scared by any of the
"Well, they’re gone, almost out of umphant boy in the knowledge Fritz Aulgur give her a pearl. He weirder effects in your new picture,
sight now ..."
that his calculations had been ac­ was the same George who was for­ ■’Fantasia.” particularly by the epi­
George nodded. "I think 1’11 go curate. The men forward were ever tormented by a devil of jeal­ sodes in "Night on Bald Mountain,"
below." He seemed hoarse.
"I’ll shouting instead of talking, their ousy. It did not occur to her to and while you muy be right, what
try to take a nap.”
voices high-pitched with triumph, wonder why the passion in him had about the grownups? I give you my
He turned away. Mary, after a knowing that presently they would thus suddenly come to a head. Cer­ word, Walt, that the scenes in thut
moment’s doubt, went with him.
turn at last northeasterly for the tainly he had lost control of him- episode had me creepy for days
and I still ain't sleeping well. If
He did not protest wnen she fol­ long run home.
self.
that comes under the head of enter­
lowed him; but neither did lie look
“Now, I’ll snatch a wink, Mr.
She moved toward him, said
around. He walked rapidly aft to Forbes.” Richard told Mat. "Call pleadingly: "George, you’re sick. tainment. then a great idea for the
Follies would be a night in a
the companion, descended before me when we come abeam of the Let me put you to bed. Please!”
morgue.
she overtook him. At the foot of Rocks."
"I’m sick to death,” he told her.
the companionway she found that he
So he and Peter went below with "Sick of you! Don’t touch me. I've
You are a genius in my book,
had stopped to wait for her; and George and Mary; and Richard
shut my eyes to your wantonnes*
Walter, and nobody Is even a close
when she faced him he asked a flat stripped off his great sea coat.
long enough."
second to you in movie entertain­
question.
Mary said: "You’re dead for
His word stopped her like a ment. but it would be okay by me
"Mary, what were you and Rich­ sleep, Richard. Go lie down."
blow. Richard protested gravely: and. I think, most movie fans, if
ard talking about?"
He nodded. "I could sleep three
"George, you're talking in circle*.
He cried wretchedly: “Oh. I'm days in a row,” he agreed. He
If you've got anything to say, say
sorry, Mary! I don’t want to be went into his cabin and closed the
it What’s on your mind?”
this way! But I've seen you so often door behind him.
"I'm talking about you and Mary
, lately talking to him, and if I come
Mary made George lie down in
making love to each other all the
near you, you stop. I try not to his bunk for warmth's sake, and
time,” George told him; and hi*
notice. I try as hani as I can. But— covered him over. She returned to
own rage choked him, and he
I can't help it, Mary."
her own cabin, and drifted off to
coughed, bending double, clutching
Desperate to reassure him. and sleep. Later she roused a little;
at his chest his face darx with
to stop his questions, she remem­ heard Peter say in the common lack of breath before he could speak
bered the pearls. “Richard's wor­ room outside her door:
again. “Do you think I’m blind?” you would cut out a tendency to go
"I tell you you're wrong. But
ried,” she said. "There were some
in for the creepy stuff. You could
he challenged then.
pearls in a packet in his desk, and anyway, watch yourself. Dick will
throw out the entire night on Bald
"I think you’re crazy!"
they've been stolen.”
Mountain and do the nerve doctors
"I'm
crazy,
am
I?"
George
visi
­
“Pearls? Where did Richard get
and psychopathic ward attendants a
bly
fought
to
control
himself;
to
them?"
speak impassively.
“Oh. I don’t great favor.
a a
"They were mine.” Once begun,
blame
you
so
much.
Why
wouldn’t
she must tell him everything; but
•
I
know
this
is
supposed to inter­
you make love to her. when she
at her word, his hand tightened on
pret
a
musical
composition for
begs for it? Captain Co-r. leave
her arm.
her alone.
No matter what she drums, bass fiddles, cymbals, horse
"Where did you get them. Mary?"
says. Because if you ever touch pistols, dynamite caps and saxo­
"Jarambo gave them to me the
Mary again, or speak to her. I'll phonists with the D.T.’s, but if it
day we left Gilead.”
does so. then Moussorgsky should
kill you.”
"Jarambo?” His eyes cleared
have stayed in bed where he could
Richard said miserably: “Man.
with relief “I suppose he'd had
never make the hair of a movie
you’re sick!”
them for years. Probably dove for
fan stand on end. man or boy.
“Maybe I am. But I’m not too
them himself. Was that it?”
•
sick to pull a trigger. I’ve killed a*
"No,” she said. “I think I know
"Fantasia
”
is
a
beautiful thing
big a man as you, with a pick­
what happened.” She told him the
axe. and he had a gun! Don’t you full of what the critics call enchant­
truth, or her best guess at what the
touch Mary'again, or speak to her. ment, but a smart spectator will
truth might be; she related now at
"Speak to her?” Richard echoed. grab his hat and make for the near­
last the massacre at the island, and
"Why.
sure I will; and I'll touch her est exit when the Bald Mountain
the burning of the ship.
too if it comes that way. Have stuff starts. It is nothing but 20
"They had killed Aulgur, you
minutes of skeletons, ghosts, fiib-
some sense! Why wouldn't I?”
know,” she reminded him. “I sup­
berty-gibbets and assorted appari­
pose these were his pearls, and they
George cried explosively: “Be­
tions flying across the screen like
got them, and Jarambo found them
cause you’re in love with her, and
they was fugitives from Hades, and
on their schooner.”
she with you!" But on hi* own
I mean the basement not the mez­
He sat down, shaken by what he
words, a paroxysm of coughing
zanine floor. A skeleton rates at the
heard, fumbling for solid ground
swept him. bent him, silenced him.
bottom of the list for purposes of
again. “Our islanders slaughtered
He dropped the revolver on the desk,
public entertainment, anyhow, even
those men?”
clutching at hi* chest with both
If it is a quiet, dignified unassuming
hands. It was long before he could
"Yes!” She said. "But they did it
skeleton. And when a skeleton turns
because they loved you, George.”
speak again.
out to be a jitterbug acting as if it
After a moment he cried in a sud­
Through that long moment Rich- was being auditioned for a ballet it
Mary begged: "Geerge, please.”
den strength: "Mary, I'm glad they
ard looked at Mary, and Mary is no good to nobody nohow, even
did!
The world's better without blow you to pieces. He keeps a looked at Richard. Before the mo­
with the Philadelphia Symphony or­
them.”
ment ended, each knew.
gun in the top drawer."
chestra as sponsor.
"Yes."
It was true! While their eye* met
She sat up in swift alarm, As
• *
"Mary, why didn’t you tell me her feet touched the floor, she in that long exchange like a revela­
The episode should be retitled
all this before?”
heard Peter go on deck again; and tion, like vow* exchanging, these "Heebie-Jeebies in Technicolor."
"You were so ill.”
two forgot George, racked and help­
then George opened her door.
• •
"Did Cap'n Corr know about the
He grasped her arm, his Angers less by the desk. His words un­
massacre?”
Give them skeletons two weeks'
crushing it so that she uttered a low locked at last a long-closed door.
"Yes."
cry of pain. She looked up into his What he said was true, and while notice, Walt, and give Bald Moun-
"Does anyone else aboard know?” face and saw it twisted and con­ their eye* held now. they both knew tain back to Hitler, where it must
"Corkran knew, of course. He’s vulsed by some terrific passion; and it! They knew that they had loved have come from.
probably told everyone. And they she whispered in a quick terror:
Yours for fewer goose pimples,
each other always, and would love
all saw the smoke from the burning
each other always. They had not with sound.
"George! What’s the matter?"
schooner before they reached the is­
Elmer Twitchell.
He said harshly, “Come out here! guessed the truth before; but they
land.”
• • •
I want to talk to you and Captain knew it now forever, beyond doubt,
He nodded briefly, said in a slow Corr.”
beyond change, beyond forgetting.
BACK HOME STUFF
scorn of himself: "Everyone knew
Holding her, he wrenched open
Each thought wonderingly: I was
(In the other world war.)
but me, but no one told me.”
the door of Richard’s cabin; and blind not to know then that this was
"Don’t Talk War” signs hung be­
"I knew how unhappy it would Richard asleep in the trzik opened
true.
hind the bars of all the cafes in
make you.”
his eyes, his head rising from the
But now they knew. Now they town . . . The town's best-known
He laughed shortly. "I know now piUow, and then his whole body rose
where I stand with you all. You as he came to his feet in a sharp knew; and the knowledge was a saloon owner, who tor years had
gulf, deep and terrible and hopeless. worn his mustache Kaiser style, sud­
think me a weak woman of a man,
alarm, steadying himself with his Their eyes held hard, till George denly found himself in a spot . . .
who has to be guarded and cajoled
good hand.
I recovered; and they did not know There were German spy scares ev­
and shielded, protected from the
"What’s wrong?” he asked. He he had recovered till he crossed to ery day ... A fellow dropped
truth.”
brushed past them into the common thrust at Mary with a movement into the local newspaper office from
"Please, George."
room, leaped toward the compan­ like a blow, to break the bridge of the New York Tribune to promote
He shook his head. "Oh, I sup- ion, thinking only of the ship, think­
their exchanging glasses, and to cry, a fund for "Marjorie's Battle­
pose I’ll be all right when I’ve ing her in danger.
pitifully furious:
ship” . . . There was talk of meat­
thought it over; but it’s pretty bard
When Richard, emerging from the
"Don’t! Stop! You shan't even less days and heatless night* . . .
to find yourself so contemptible in cabin, brushed him aside, George
Nearly every war bulletin men­
the eyes of other men!” He went had lurched toward the desk; and look at him so!”
to his own cabin and shut the door before Richard reached the foot of
She spoke in a panic of haste, des­ tioned Von Kluck'i left wing . . .
The kaiser had promised the troop*
behind him, shutting her out
the com panion way, George dragged perately denying, a* much to per­
Christmas dinner in Paris . . . Pres­
When he appeared for supper, he open the top drawer of the desk and suade herself a* her husband.
reemed to be himself once more, lifted out of it the heavy old revolver
Mary whispered: "George, George ident Wilson arousec a storm of edi­
They were all cheerful at the sup- always kept there. At his cry, his it Isn’t true!” She looked at Rich­ torial comment by declaring "There
per table, Peter did most of the command, Richard turned and saw ard again. She knew it was true, is such a thing as being too proud
talking, a* he was apt to do. Since the weapon leveled at him firmly. knew he knew. "It isn’t, please!” to fight” . . . Remember?
• • •
that day when he killed the whale For a moment he did not move, she cried like a prayer.
which had broken Richard’s arm, staring in a bewildered astonish­
George faced her, challenged: “So
BROKEN GENTLY
he was exuberantly sure of himself, ment; but then, his concern still for it’s not true?”
At six, complete with cheek of tan,
inclined to condescend.
"Of course not!”
his ship, he said curtly;
He wished to be a fireman.
At dark that night, the weather
He lifted one hand, brushed it
"I’ll be back!" And he went up
changed; the wind came more the companionway.
past her like a scornful blow. At ten ambition took a hop—
southerly, and it stiffened, and was
Mary began to understand what "You’re a liar!”
He prayed to own a candy shop.
cold. Richard shortened sail a lit­ was coming; to foresee the content
Mary begged: "George, please!”
tle, stayed on deck most of the night of the next half hour. She heard,
He swung to her, staring at her At oh so sweet sixteen his heart
watching his ship, using as much as though far away, voice* over narrowly. "You want me to believe Ached to play an actor’s part.
wind as he wisely could, extract­ their heads; but she did not look up. you don’t love him?” he demanded.
ing from the half gale all it would She stared at George as though he
"I don’t, George."
At twenty, spirits all aglow
safely give. The weather got no were a stranger seen for the first
He grinned mockingly. He slipped He hoped to own a Wall Street Co.,
worse next day, but it got no bet­ time; and she waited for Richard to hi* arm through her*. “All right,”
ter; and Richard drove her care­ return as for a rescuer.
he said. "I believe it I believe And now that he's reached forty­
When he descended the compan­ you. You’re my wife, and you love
fully that day and the day* that
eight
ionway, he closed the scuttle be­ me. Is that true? If*
followed.
He wishes he could hibernate!
hind him, shutting them in. He
"Yes, yes, yes. *•
—Richard Avedon.
CHAPTER XV
stopped at the foot of the ladder,
"You love me with all your
• • •
looking from one of them to the heart?"
DO YOU REMEMBER—
George coughed more and more; other. George had turned, stood
"Yes.”
Away back when all school teach­
but in spite of Mary’s urgings, he braced now with his feet wide apart,
"And soul?"
ers were above suspicion of being
went on deck every day, refusing his back to the desk. The Venturer,
"Yes.”
enemies of the American way of
quartering
the
seas,
was
combining
to be coddled, interested in this
“Fully and completely and pas­ life?
westward passage of the Horn which a pitch and a roll in an exasperat­ sionately?"
• • •
they were approaching; and he ing motion, slithering upward at an
"Yes, yes, you know I do.”
These are times when the fellow who
angle, poising, lurching down again.
asked Richard many questions.
He had begun this catechism in rose from newsboy to millionaire cap­
George had put on some compo­ tones derisive; but under her ear­
"We’re all right,” Richard as­
italist wishes ha could reverse the trip.
sured him. “The only thing I don't sure. He was steadier now, and qui­ nestness, hi* derision faded. He was
• • •
want to bit is fog. We’re apt to see eter. He backed against the desk, so lost without her, wanted so much
The football rules committee
icebergs any time. I’m shortening still holding the revolver, and faced to believe her, that he began to do made numerous changes at its re­
sail at night As long as it stays them both; and he spoke in crisp, so.
cent January meeting, but still did
She saw with a slow rising hope nothing toward the most needed re­
clear, we can see ice a long way slow tones. He said evenly: “I want
this
business
between
you
stopped,
from the crosstrees, and we can tell
that he did begin to believe her;
form of all: a rule making touch­
and she thought fear would live with downs by officials illegal.
pretty weU before dark if there’s today, now.”
Richard stared at him; he looked her always now, fear lest he dis­
any ice ahead of us. And the nights
...
helplessly at Mary. "I’m so tired I’m cover the truth. She thought: All
are short That helps.”
Harry James says It looks as
He himself now kept the deck dur­ dumb,” he said, speaking to her, my life I’ll have to lie to him, pre­
If Mussolini was the type of
ing the brief hours of darkness, not not to George. "Maybe it’s because tend, make him believe I love him.
man who could keep his chin
going below at all, sleeping in the I’m short of sleep. I don't know If he knew I don't, he would die.
up only in the newsreel*.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
daytime. Their course was by this what he’s talking about.”
• •
the sketch shows how the two
piece* of the slip cover were
made.
• • •
NOTE: You will 'Ind more Illustrations
for making over dining room chairs, oM
rockers and armchairs In Mrs. Spears'
■ looks 5 and 8 Also directions for design­
ing and making rugs; hooked, braided
ami crocheted
Each book has .13 pages
of illustrated directions. Mend order toi
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llrdfuid Hill*
Now York
Enclose Kir for Books 3 and 8.
Naina .
IF A CHAIR ia «11 leg*, angles
Addirai
* «nd
curves
in
the
winiig
places, a slip cover inay do ms
much for it us « becoming frock
will do for un awkward girl. The
right color, a dush of style, fabric
cut to bring out graceful lines
and cover defects, nnd presto—
a new personality for the ugly
AMfRKAS
duckling!
cno/cfsr
That was the treatment given a
POP CORN
act of old chairs like the one shown
here.
A two-piece frock was
planned to repeat tones in the wull
paper of the room in which the
Great and Simple
chairs were to be used. The bold
The greatest truths ure the sim­
stripes of the putty tan, green and plest, und so ure the greatest men.
wine red material gave just the
right contrast with the flowered
pattern on the wall. Narrow green
fringe was used for edging and
Most delicious "bag"
of the season ... quick and
AROUND
THE HOUSE
easy to prepare i I i nourishing
... economka/. 1i order, today,
from your grocer.
Grease the measuring cup be­
fore measuring syrup or molasses
and it will not stick to the sides
of the cup.
• • •
A window box of seasoning herbs
Is handy for winter cooking.
• • •
Ivy grows best in water in the
house and in a glass vase through
which light may reach roots.
• • •
If rubber gloves are sprinkled
on the inside with corn starch or
powder they will slip on more
easily.
•
•
•
To revive frozen house plants,
set in a cold closet in which the
temperature is near the freezing
point and let plants thaw out slow-
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