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INSTALLMENT NINE—The Story So Far
Laura Maguire, wife of Mik* Ma-
gutre. happy-go-lucky editor and mayor
of the town, is mother to tour chil
dren: Tom. whose real estate job la
profitless during the depression and who
la married to Mary Etta, secretary to
a big shot. Alec, unable to get a job.
»ho takes up with a fiaahy divorce«
much older than ha; Shirley, engaged
to Jaird Nawsum, who also Is out of a
job sine« his father gave up hls menu-
facturuig plant to stop losses, and whoso
marriage is delayed; Kathleen, whom a
stranger. Ritchie Graham, also a news-
« e
e
paper man. la Interested tn. Ma New-
»utn wants Jalrtl to marry Connie Mavs,
the banker's daughter. On a bet. Aleo
takes out Lou Knight, the town drunk's
daughter. Tom and Mary Etta had just
been guests at a Tave'ii party of Mary
Etta's employer. Ilarvey Cobb Leigh.
The Question»
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3. Opposite.
4. Ituhun (Venetian).
5. Womun.
fl. The Churgres.
7. Fruit.
8. Cities.
1). No.
10. Tlie United States lends all
other nations in tlie production <>f
pctro leurn, accounting for 192,100,-
000 of the 10-10 total world pro
duction of 307,300,000 metric tons.
Second is Rumig with 32,000,000;
third, Venezuela, with 27,000,(MM);
and fourth, Iran, with 10,900.000
metric tons for 1040.
1. Approximately how many
members bus the British house of
lords?
2. What is a euphemism?
3. What is meant by the French
phrase vis u vis?
4. What was the nationality of
the traveler Marco Polo?
5. Nemesis, tlie avenging deity
of the ancient Greeks, was repre
sented as whut, man, woman, or
beast?
6. What river supplies the wa
ter by which the Panama canal
locks are operated?
7. The Science of pomology
deals with what?
8. United States cruisers are
named after what?
The prisoner charged with as
9. Does
the
United
States
award medals or decorations for sault had been severely cross-
achievements in the arts and examined by the prosecuting at
torney, but continued to maintain
sciences?
that he had merely pushed bis vic
10. What Is the leading petrole tim “« little bit ” ’
um producing country in the
"Now," suid the prosecutor, "for
world?
the benefit of the jury, will you
please step down here and, with
The Answer»
me as a subject, illustrate just
what you mean by ’a little bit'?”
1. Seven hundred and forty.
The prisoner descended nnd the
2. A mild name for something spectators were astonished to see
disagreeable.
him slap the lawyer in the face,
seize him bodily, and with a su
preme effort, lift him from the
floor and hurl him prostrate across
u table.
Turning to the jury, he explained
mildly, "Gentlemen, about one-
tenth that hard.”
CHAPTER XII— Continued
"You laugh that off.” snapped hung her white linen hat on its ac
Tom knew she wanted him to pay Tom.
"It doesn't seem funny to customed nail and marched over to
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
for his supper by hunting up his me."
the littered table consecrated to her
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host and being very appreciative of
He reached up to the shelf over the use. The last issue of the Clarion
the spectacle to which he had been bed alcove and dragged down a bat lay there neatly arranged by Tom
\’13V YORK
In the newspapers
invited solely for his wife's sake. tered suitcase.
my for her consideration. Kathleen * ’ and on the street there is more
But Tom had had all he could stom
"What are you going to do?” de did not need to turn to the editorial and more talk of Donald M. Nelson
ach at one sitting. So he stood stiff manded Mary Etta.
page to know what was afoot. Nev for the one-man head of the nation
ly by until Mary Etta was free to
“What do you think?“” he retorted, ertheless. her brown eyes smolder
al defense ef
leave and said nothing complimen opening that drawer in the dresser ing. she read every word.
Miracle-Man Sana fort A W.! .Ii-
tary to anybody.
which was dedicated to his use.
Mike had done it again.
Sleight -of-Hand, ington friend
Mary Etta stood very still for a
“Did you ever see anything like
The very paper crackled with the
informs this
"Calling it a day and remarks he had to make about un /s Don M. Nelaon
the way Harvey manages that three minute.
writer that
ring circus?” murmured Mary Etta quits?” she asked at last
scrupulous financiers in general and powerful New Dealers, as well as
Tom was stuffing shirts into the Banker Eugene Mays of Covington’s
on the way to the car.
Important members of the opposi
suitcase. "I’m a failure. As a pro leading bank in particular. Kath
Tom grunted.
tion are working to Die above end.
"Sulking again?" she inquired vider and as a husband. But I’m leen had to admit that her father,
There has been much favoruble
not
going
to
be
kept
by
a
woman,
crisply, turning the key in the ig
when he decided to set off fireworks, comment on his showing in a recent
even my wife.”
nition with a snap.
did a thoroughly good job. No won radio debate on prices. Processed
Mary Etta caught her breath. "I der Eugene Mays had paid the Clar
"If you must know,” said Tom.
through several alphabetical scram
"I'm fed up to the gills with Harvey warned you when I married you ion’s editor an early morning calL bles at Washington during the last
that I'd not let any man swallow Kathleen shivered a little. The bank
Leigh and everything about him. Do
year, he has been appointed execu
my personality."
er was a very imposing figure in lo
you realize we have him for break
“I know. And probably you’re cal concerns. Naturally he resented tive director of the President's new
fast. dinner and a bedtime story?”
right. But I happen to have a per having sarcasm of the most virulent Supply, Priorities and Allocations
“You just can't bear success—in
board. There seems to be a growing
sonality too. As well as a little nature directed at his policies.
somebody else. Can you?” She
belief that if anybody can perform a
pride of my own. You might possi-
glanced at him curiously.
"You
In the private office somebody guf micracle, he can.
bly pay my bills and retain some
have even hated me lately, haven't
fawed. It was Mike of course, laugh
shreds
of
respect
for
me.
But
I
you?"
Mr. Nelson probably would
ing in his caller’s infuriated face.
couldn't let you and feel like any
concede no more than a depre-
Tom went white. “Do you realize thing except my wife’s lap dog. A faint grin traveled over the har
calory wave of the hand lo this
assed faces of the group outside.
we've scarcely spoken a civil word
These past six months have proved
miracle business. Tall, bulky.
It was so exactly like Mike to treat
to each other in six months?”
that, don't you think? Between us
bespectacled, slow-moving. and
"Yes,” said Mary Etta in her we've killed our love, All it needs Mr. Eugene Mays’ important anger
deliberate In speech, he would
cool, unemotional way. "I realize now is a decent burial. And I fancy to a cold douche of derision. But
resolve the bewildering compli
Kathleen did not grin. It might be
all that”
cations
of plane and tank pro
very
audacious
and
gallant
of
her
“Where are we drifting. Mary Et
duction in orderly and methodi
father to tweak the lion's tail and
ta?” asked Tom in a stifled voice.
As Promised
cal processes Instead of alrlght-
then snigger about it His daughter,
"I wouldn't know."
"Show me an Irishman nnd 1'11
of-hand. The former and never
however, was thinking of the num
show you a fool."
Her flippancy flecked him on the
ber of people in Covington who owed , the latter is hia unfailing pro-
"Well, I’m an Irishman.”
raw. He stared unseeingly straight
cedure.
Eugene Mays money and who
"Er—and I'm the fool!”
before him and thought of their brief
jumped through hoops at his signal.
tempestuous courtship. They hadn’t
Mr. Nelson's business career of
The door of the inner office came
known each other very well. Tom
29 years has been given entirely to
Some rheerful philosophers tell
open with a sharp crack, and every
was barely twenty-one, Mary Etta a
Sears Roebuck & Co., of which firm us that money does not bring hap
body in the main office became sud
few months younger. He hadn't in
he became chairman of the execu piness, but it does help one to be
denly tremendously occupied with
tended to think of marriage for
tive committee In 1939 He became miserable in comfort.
his own tasks. Mr. Mays, however,
years. But somehow after he met
a defense aide at Washington a year
did not condescend a glance to his
Mary Etta he could think of nothing
ago. He joined Sears Roebuck as a
No Chance
audience. He stood on the threshold,
else.
chemical engineer, for which he had
"Ever had any organic trou- ’
facing the other way and brandished
Starti»» OOeber III end fvury
been trained at the University of ble?” asked the medical officer.
He had not been sure she liked
a fleshy fist in the general direc
Wednesday Night
him at alL Being Mary Etta she
Missouri. His friends have noted
“No, sir,” replied the recruit.
tion of Michael Maguire's gamin-
WITH
that thus he would bring a technical "I’m not musicul.”
had been more antagonistic than en
esque grin.
couraging. The day Tom asked her
equipment to the job, as well as
"Keep on printing these infamous
out of a sudden mad impulse to
long experience in organization nnd
These Days
attacks on me and my institution,
elope with him over the week-end.
co-ordination if he should be as
Mr Meeker—So you're lost, little
Maguire.” he said. "and by God.
he had half expected her to bounce
signed a one-man seat in the defense
man? Why didn't you hang on to
I’ll break you.”
an ink bottle off his head. Not un
wheel-house.
your mother’s skirt?
Mike
grinned.
til they came out of the County
Jackie (sniff)—Plcath, thir, I
"I’ve been broke before. Mays,
He's slightly red headed but
Courthouse,
the
license firmly
couldn't reach it.
By
better
men
than
you.
But
I
’
ve
isn
’
t
that
way
temperamentally.
clutched in his perspiring hand, had
never yet been scared out of telling
In this connection, he Is an in
FStSfNtfD SV
he believed in her surrender.
Off Color
the truth if it needed to be told.”
veterate pipe-smoker, the same
But then Mary Etta never had ex
Inn Dear me, uhal't wrong uith your
being the classical deterrent to
Kathleen was aware that Ritchie
actly surrendered.
rat ?
' Graham had come in by the street
going off half-cocked. He was
Mona lit art trouble.
On their brief honeymoon before
shoved around considerably In
door and was listening to the en
“Vo, no. You mnui heart trouble.’*
each of them returned to their re
the
more
or
less
broken
field
of
counter with every manifestation of
“No. I '<rv it*I art trouble. Il tual-
spective desks, she had never even
the earlier defrnse drive, but
pleasure. Of course it gave him a
lourd a tube of paint.“
in his arms quite let herself go. She
“What are you going to do?”
Treatment of Men
has shown a capacity to get on
thrill to see Mike risk financial an
did love. Or rather she had. He
demanded Mary Etta.
with his workmates and Is cred
Meant to Do It
nihilation for a principle. But Kath
There
is nothing to do with men
was convinced of that. Or she would
ited with ability to clear log
"Did you ever take out an in but to love them; to contemplate
leen thought of Laura who was al
never have married him. Mary Etta you won’t be long about that after
jams and get things done. He
surance policy?”
ready stretching dollars till they
their virtues with admiration,
had played fair. She did not be I’m gone. Good-by. Mary Etta.”
Is 5.3 years old, a native of Han
"Yes.”
groaned,
and
Kathleen
did
not
fee)
their faults with pity and forbear
She turned quickly away without
lieve in maudlin sentiment But she
nibal. Mo.
"Accident?”
thrilled as she would have a year
ance, and their injuries with for
asked no more than she was willing speaking. Tom stared at her for a
"No; I did it on purpose.”
giveness.—Dewey.
moment. And then very gently he ago at her father's debonair disre
to give.
gard of consequences, he felt a lit
life of Artemus L. Gates has
She proved a curiously exciting opened and closed the door be tle sick.
wife. Tom admitted that. There hind him. It was exactly as if he
> one continuous anti-climax.
"If it's war you want,” said Eu
had been moments when he could had slammed the lid of a coffin on
From the day of his 90-yard run in
Mays
in
a
suddenly
colder
and
gene
have wrung her neck. Interspersed a fragment of his heart
the Yale-Harvard game of 1917, he
more ominous voice, "say so. But
with the delirium of loving her so
has been
you had better take into considera A. L. Gate» Long
CHAPTER Xin
wildly it frightened him. But he
slipping
tion the fact that I have influence in
was never indifferent to her.
steadily. In
Hat
Been
on
the
The demand ia for competent, well-trained young women
Kathleen Maguire was late get- this town. I can cut your advertis
the World
‘T had another letter from old
with health, ambition and agreeable personalities.
ing
accounts
to
a
quarter
of
what
‘
Dovun-and-Down
’
war the best
Colonel Shoup today,” he said later ting down to the office the following
they are. Likewise your circulation.
morning.
he could do was to become Yale's
while Mary Etta was cold creaming
You can afford the best training available.
Of course it did not make a lot of Maybe you don’t realize that.”
most decorated war hero. He didn't
her face.
"That’s your ultimatum,
difference when Kathleen reached
Now even become a bank president until
Time NOW ii your most precious investment.
"He dies hard, doesn’t he?” she
her desk. Officially she was the suppose you listen to mine," Mike he was 33 and was probably near 30
observed. ”1 should think he’d tire
Clarion's society editor. But she said with a thrust like the glitter before he gathered his first million.
of wasting postage."
Inquire about the opportunities awaiting you in Beauty
suspected that Mike would not blink of a rapier. "You have ten thou
And now he has dragged along to
Culture.
"Listen, Mary Etta,” said Tom an eye if she failed to show up at sand depositors in your bank. And
thickly, "I know you hate small all. For years he had been every a couple of hundred stockholders 46 before being named by the Presi
towns. But we can’t go on like this. thing from janitor to political econo who leave everything to you. You dent as assistant secretary of the
I grant you Colonel Shoup's proposi mist on the paper if the emergency are the bank. And it's a hell of a navy for air. His final slump from
tion sounds like piffle on the sur arose. And he was still capable of responsibility. Because this whole that golden November afternoon of
Rsouitf. School
^bidlinclion.
face. Fifty dollars a month and writing every word in any edition community would be sunk if you got 24 years ago probably will be when*
commissions, if any. But he’s got without missing a stride. Neverthe your tail in a crack. Now as bank they make him president of the
209 Union Street
Seattle, Wash.
the best real estate business in Cov less Kathleen took her job as seri ers go, you’re not so rank. But you new League of Nations, after the
ington. And he’s offering to let me ously as he allowed her to.
could be sweeter. That western deal war.
buy into a partnership on the in
In many ways the staff, due to you are dickering with smells to
lie entered Yale from Cedar
stallment plan. It’s exactly what Mike’s penchant for broken-down heaven. So do one or two other
Rapids. Iowa, his home town,
I’ve always wanted. And”—his voice humanity, was as decrepit as the juicy pies you've tried to stick your
Lonesome
Impolite
guessed right on our entering
quivered—“a couple can live on fifty purely mechanical end of the busi finger into recently.
The people
"He’s as dumb as an oyster.”
Jack
(in
front
of
dental
display
the
World
war,
joined
an
ap
dollars a month in Covington. I ness. Mike had an unique manner ought to know that sort of thing is
"How do you know that an oyster
window)—I believe I’ll get myself a
prentice flying group and was
know a four-room house not far from of selecting employees. He was al dangerous to their interests. And
is dumb?"
set of teeth like those over there.
ready
when
the
call
came,
vol
Mother’s that can be rented for ways hiring some derelict because they’re going to know every time you
"Because, if it wasn't, it would
Virginia—Hush, don't you know
unteering in the naval air serv
twenty, and whole families nowa he was down on his luck. At pres try to pull a fast one. My advice to
kick because it didn't have any
it
’
s
impolite
to
pick
your
teeth
in
ice.
He
was
a
tackle
in
the
air,
days eat on a dollar a day.”
ent there were old Miller, an excel you, Mays, is to pull in your horns
company in a stew."
public.
as he had been on the ground,
"You mean if the wife does all lent typesetter when he was sober, and leave high financing to the rest
dropping many German planes.
the cooking and the washing and Roger Whyte who could write like of the pirates. But if you don’t,
The British awarded him the
the ironing,” said Mary Etta scorn an angr! H »e wasn’t having nerv then you’ll have to put up with what
Distinguished Flying Cross, the
fully. "Are you seriously proposing ous shakes, end Tommy South, of ever I care to say about you and
French the Croix de Guerre, and
that I give up my hundred and sev fice boy, an orphan Mike had your wildcat business ventures. And
his own country the Navy Con
enty-five a month and move to a plucked off by the scruff of his neck believe me. I'll say plenty!"
gressional Medal of Honor. His
town I hate where I’ll have to work out of the Court for Juvenile De
Unfortunately the peroration of
most sensational exploit was the
like a slave, just so you’ll have the linquents.
Mike’s philippic was somewhat
rescue of two British fliers
pleasure of saying you pay all our
The moment she entered the big spoiled by the failure of Banker
whose bomber had been downed
expenses?”
cluttered room which was the Clari Mays to remain for its grandiloquent
in the channel.
"Yes,” said Tom, his mouth a on's main office, Kathleen knew conclusion.
THE PLEDGE
hard ugly gash.
there was tension In the air. Roger
All this got passing mention in the
Ritchie’s gray eyes sparkled in
“To save your face,” went on Whyte’s frail hands trembled on his his sunburned face.
TO THE FLAG
public prints, as did his appointment
Mary Etta, "I’m to let go of every typewriter keys. Tommy South’s
"I’m pretty good at the sling shot to the presidency of the Liberty Na
it a fine, heart-warming
thing I’ve won from life and turn freckles stood out more prominently if you need any help,” he said.
tional bank. In New York, in 1929,
patriotic custom that began in a
into the kind of female drudge my on a pale and perspiring counte
"He doesn’t,” interrupted Kath at the age of 33, but it was just a
great national public school
mother was. Bending over a hot nance.
Old Ducky Miller had leen with tartness.
"Mike 'never whisper compared to the uproar
celebration October 21, ft 92.
cook stove. Squeezing pennies. Sav dropped a tray of type and just missed a bull’s-eye in his life if he touched off by that 90-yard run.
ing on haircuts. Wearing house stood staring at the jumbled pi. The had something to shoot at that was
SMOKING KINO EDWARD
At this writing Mr. Gates is presi
aprons. Cutting up Sunday's roast door to Mike's private office was practically certain to explode and
Cigars in moments of relaxation or
dent of the New York Trust com
for Thursday's hash. Boiling cab closed, an unusual occurrence.
gum up the works.”
aober reflection on tht high dutfea
pany.
bage till I want to scream. We
Kathleen recognized the symp
and privileges of citizenahip ia
Mike cocked a quizzical eyebrow
Others engaged in Wall Street ac
couldn’t even keep a car."
toms even before her sharp ears at his daughter.
another pleasant American custom.
"No," said Tom. "we couldn’t identified the roar on the other side
Try King Edward today. You'll
"Yes,” she said in a voice sharper tivities who are on the up-and-up at
But we might afford a baby some of the flimsy partition. Grimly she than she realized, "if Eugene Mays Washington include Robert Lovett,
•njoy thia fine cigar.
day.”
wants to, he can move us all into (he not so long ago served as one of
Mary Etta went very white.
the poorhouse. And.” she gave her , Mr. Gates’ directors) who now has
"Just because your mother thinks a
father a hostile glance, "you’d think j a war department post correspond
wife should sacrifice herself to her
it was a circus and laugh. But then ing with Mr. Gates’ new navy sec
I’ve begun to wonder if you’ll ever retarial job; James C. Forrestal,
man and go on and on sacrificing—"
>
"We’ll leave my mother out o:
be quite adult. Or maybe I’ve got who is deep in production-manage
Begin this fine «tory to- *2
growing pains. Anyway the pros ment, and then there is Averill Har
this.”
"It’s funny you married me, when IJ J thy. There H
pect doesn't amuse me.”
riman, who is swing-man diplomat
she's your ideal.”
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