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T H E S T O ftY T H U » F A R : M egan Mae-
Tavisfc an» ber (a tb e r. w llb Annie, ibe
se rva n t, live on a «m all (a rm a l tbe
edge o l P le a ta n l G rove. T b e lr liv in g la
m ade from eblcbena and a lew r o o t ,
to r M a rT a v la b baa been a ne'er-do-
w ell lo r yeara. In to P leaa an l G rove cam e
a wom an who r a ile d beraelt A llela Slev
enaon. and b a tin g Inherited tbe old Brig
bam p la re th e la now a neighbor ol
M egan'a. A licia la a wom an ol about
fo rty yeara old, w ell d retaed , and aome-
tblng o l a m yatery.
A atran ger cornea
to tbe M a rT a v la b place to boy m ilk and
h o tte r and egga, and announcer h lm aetl
aa Tom F allon , the new high arhool p rin
cip al, now living In tbe Westbrook place.
He a t a lt i th at bia w ile la aa in valid .
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THE N e L„
they would — well, feel that she
should be locked away! Put in an
institution—”
The pain of the
thought silenced his words for a
moment, and after he had got him
self somewhat under control he
managed a smile at her that was
little more than a grimace and said,
"So now you know. What are you
going to do?”
Megan flinched from the look and
from the words. She looked at him
with wide, distressed eyes.
"What's it got to do with me?
I mean, why should I do anything?"
she protested swiftly. "I'm terribly
sorry—I didn't mean to pry into
your affairs—”
“I know." Tom brushed the words
away with a gesture of the hand
that held his pipe
"But I think,
somehow, I wanted you to know.
After all. you are my nearest neigh
bor. We see each other often—
it’s inevitable you should wonder. 1
—I hope you won't feel it necessary
to
Megan's face flamed with hurt.
eyes
Poor man! and—poor worn-
im! She shivered a little and hur
ried as she went, as though to run
away from thoughts that bit too
By* aul allon
deeply.
One of Pleasant Grove's favorite
autumn diversions, when the har Heleaaed by W t i l t n N ew spaper Union.
vest was in and the winter greens ARMY-NAVY U NIFICATIO N
had been planted, and it was still too SHOULD START AT ONCE
warm for "hawg-killin’.” was quilt
WASHINGTON - Mr. Truman
ing parties.
made the proper move to get his
Through the scant leisure time of army-navy unification bill through
winter, most of Pleasant Grove's congress. The navy had performed
women pieced quilts, out of "scrap an all-out lobbying Job ugainst the
bags" and carefully hoarded bits of program. It was In churge of Navy
material; and then when the quilt Assistant Secretary H. Struve Hen-
top had been pieced and finished, sel. who worked through the Navy
the owner notified her friends that League promoting speeches and
CHAPTER 11
she was “putting up" a quilt and articles by admirals, and arousing
they were invited to come and help naval affairs committeemen in both
Megan and Tom sat quietly on
her quilt it.
houses. If Mr. Truman succeeds
the big flat rocks, saying little, their
A few days after her talk with in stopping navy agitation, he will
eyes following the antics of the dogs
Tom on the Ridge, Megan went over get his bill through because there
and cats galloping around in circles
to Mrs. Stuart’s, where there was is no other opposition, except that
on the Ridge. She thought she had
a quilting. There were greetings, which may be continued by the
never seen the pines look so beau*
tifuL
a breezy exchange of pleasantries, naval committeemen who fear they
while Megan settled herself, brought may lose their seniority standing in
He asked for permission to fill his
her thimble out of g^er pocket, their committee jobs. But the bill
pipe and light it, and tentatively of
fered her a cigarette.
threaded her needle, and set to is not on the program for this ses
sion. The calendar of both houses
work.
"Thanks, no,” Megan answered
There were perhaps a dozen wom is already crowded for the next
lightly. “It's a habit I've avoided—
en about the big frame, which was several months, and the leaders are
I don’t think I'd care much for it,
opened to its fullest width, the width planning a summer recess to let
and it is expensive.”
and length of a double bed. Megan the legislators go home and mend
Obviously Tom understood the
talked
lightly and carelessly to her their broken fences in preparation
logic of that, and for a moment they
neighbor,
the pretty little Whitaker for their re-election campaigns.
were both silent, until he got his
L 'M B R O ID E R these fruits in hat-
The navy n-ver had much of a
girl
whose
sweetheart had just been
pipe going well.
ural colors on dining linens.
case.
No
one
can
oppose
unification
reported injured in action in Italy
I t ’s just cross-stitch but it looks
Megan said after a moment when
and who was grateful for the chance as a theory. Appalling duplications like gingham applique; use on
the silence threatened to become
of army and navy services filled
to talk about him.
scarfs, too.
awkward, “How is Mrs. Fallon?
Suddenly Megan heard the name, th- committee record of hearings.
Does the climate seem to agree
’lessor Fallon” and looked up. Army and navy competed with each
with her, as you'd hoped?"
Alicia
Stevenson was watching her other in bidding for such things as
Tom's
brown hand tightened
clothing, for example. In that line,
shrewdly, a little knowing look in
about the bowl of his pipe until the
one service might have a surplus
her
small,
dark
eyes
that
made
Me
knuckles stood up in little white
of some items while the other had
gan
oddly
and
absurdly
uneasy.
mounds. He tore his eyes from the
a deficiency.
Mrs. Burns, who was president of
landscape and gave her a look that
In negotiating their separate con
the Parent-Teachers' association of
was hard and cold and bitter, so
the local school, was saying, " I think tracts, they were actively compet
much so that she was startled by
To shorten a belt, mark the cor
ing against each other. Then again
we re lucky to get a man like Pro
the sudden, inexplicable hostility.
on small islands like Guam, there rect length and remove the extra
fessor Fallon here.
The school
"Mrs. Fallon is—doing as well as
would be a naval hospital construct amount from the buckle end.
board says his qualifications are ex
could be expected, under the circum
—•—
ed and maintained a mile away
cellent and his references are ex
stances,” he told her. His voice
from an army hospital.
It was
Lemon and orange skins can be
tremely
good!”
was harsh, and the very sound of
shown also that in armament the
Mrs. Stuart bit off a thread and navy and army encountered need grated and used for flavoring in
the words told her that he had re
cakes, puddings and other des
patted her last stitches into place less conflict.
peated these words until they had
Furthermore, the serts.
before threading the needle afresh. building of separate airports around
ceased to have any meaning; yet
"Sort of makes me wonder how the world caused duplication waste
he had never ceased to resent the
When best linens get worn, cut
necessity for them.
come we could get a man like ‘fes in many instances.
around weak areas and insert cro
sor
Tom.
in
a
little
bitty
place
like
“I ’m sorry if I seemed—inquisi
cheted motifs in othr spots.
this,” she said, as she moistened the NAVAL D ELA YIN G ACTION
tive or rude," Megan told him
They’ll look as if they were intend
tip
of
the
thread
and
squinted
at
In
the
face
of
such
overwhelming
frankly, her face hot with color, her
ed so.
the eye of the needle, trying to in evidence, the navy centered its
head up. " I had no such intention.
— o—
sert one through the other. " I don't campaign largely upon delaying ac
You have made no secret of the
When
buying
needles, choose
reckin
it’s
anything
ag'n
the
man,
tion
by
congress.
Its
basic
fear
and
fact that your wife is an invalid.
though, if he wants to live in a little claim was that the navy was to be those with a smooth finished eye
Naturally, in a small town like this,
country town—’
put under the army by unification and smooth, sharp point. Thread
people are interested and anxious
"Maybe Megan could tell us more —Which simply is not true. The won't fray as easily and point
to be of service, if they may—”
He looked down at her gravely,
Thomas subcommittee has import won’t catch in the fabric as you
"The only service anyone can Jo his hand still on her arm, restrain about that,’’ said Alicia silkily.
"About what?” asked Megan, ed now u bill which proposes to set sew.
my wife—or myself—is to leave my ing her as she would have walked
— o—
crAvenly pretending not to under up the unification this way: A sin
wife alone," stated Tom, and Me away.
gle
secretary
of
common
defense
in
stand.
To
make
a
handy
rack for gar
gan's eyes blazed at his tone.
"You may be quite sure that I
the cabinet, with three secretaries den hose, nail eight or ten large
"Why
a
man
like
Tom
Fallon
She was on her feet now, and she
shall reveal your secret to no on
would be satisfied in a little hick under him, one each for army, air twine spools on the cellar wall, all
said swiftly, her voice shaking with
why should I? What right—or ne town Like Pleasant Grove," said and navy; then an over-all chief of of them to form a circle like the
anger. "You may be quite sure
"After all, you staff (with a recommendation that face of a clock. Diameter of the
that in the future, I. at least, shall cessity—would I have?” she told Alicia, smiling.
him sharply.
know him so much better than any the President rotate this office be circle should be about 22 inches.
be happy to do so!”
tween the three services, giving it
Tom smiled at her, a white, faint of the rest of us—"
She turned blindly to walk back
"I sell him milk and butter and to army for a year, then to air and
through the pines, but before she smile that was somehow very
tragic.
eggs, yes,” Megan told her curtly. then to navy), three assistant sec
had gone half a dozen steps, Tom
"
I
know
you
wouldn’t.
Forgive
“ I'd hardly say that made us old retaries representing each branch
was on his feet, laying a hand on
of the service, and finally legaliza
her arm, in swift, abject apology. me. I ’m clumsy and stupid, but friends, though.”
tion of the joint chiefs of staff set
not
intentionally
or
wilfully
so.
For
"But
I
thought
during
some
of
"Please wait — please, forgive
those long hours you’ve spent to up during the war to provide co
me,” he apologized humbly. “That give me—for everything?”
Megan melted beneath the look in gether on the Ridge, he might have operation in strategy between the
was unforgivable of me! It's Just
services.
that—well, the subject is—an ex his eyes, and put her hand in his told you something of himself,”
This setup preserves the navy as
and let him draw her back to the suggested Alicia, limpid-eyed, her
tremely painful one—”
just as much an independent unit
voice
soft
as
satin.
flat
stone,
where
she
sat
down
once
“I'm sincerely sorry that I men
as the army or the air forces. It
tioned it,” she told him stiffly, her more. And as though the revela
does not put the navy under the
There
was
a
startled
gasp
about
tion
of
his
tragic
secret
had
cleared
face still hot.
army. But it is true the army,
He looked down at her gravely, the air between them, as though the quilting frame, perhaps not so numerically, is stronger, and may
much
a
gasp,
as
a
sense
of
move
they
were
friends
now,
they
spoke
his hand stiU on her arm, restrain
ment that made Megan know they wield a greater influence in the
ing her as she would have walked of other things.
combined department than the ad
away.
His mind was keen and alert; were all staring at her, startled, mirals or air arm. despite the legal
wondering—waiting.
"You see, Miss MacTavish,” ne Megan read a great deal and used
Megan drew a long breath. “Just equality of each branch.
said at last, his voice raw with pain, her mind to think with, and it was
Delay in enacting the program
what
do you mean by that?” she
"my wife’s illness is—chiefly men for both of them a pleasant experi
until next year will greatly impede
asked
Alicia
sharply.
tal."
ence to be able to talk of things that
Alicia’s eyes were wide with sur efficiency in national defense. Even
He set his teeth hard when he had had nothing to do with Pleasant
prise,
but there was a trace of If the legislation could be enacted
spoken the last two words, and Me Grove. Megan liked her friends and
today, at least a year or more
gan looked up at him, puzzled.
her neighbors, but there were many malice in their depths also.
would be required to work out and
"But,
darling,"
she
protested,
her
"Mental? You mean she merely times when she hungered tor im
effect the vast details of reorganiza
imagines she is ill? That she is a personal talk of matters far afield voice artificially gay and sweet, tion.
‘what could I possibly mean except
hypochondriac?” she asked, in ail from Pleasant Grove, and she en
Park oft the highway
innocence.
joyed this contact with a stimulat that I've seen you and the gallant
While the Soviet seems to be
professor on the Ridge—”
i f you can possibly do
Tom’s face was white and rigid ing mind.
leisurely withdrawing its military
"Once, quite by accident, when I army from Iran, it is leaving be
so. N ext best place is on a
now, but his eyes were alive with
pain.
He walked with her to the barbed was out for a walk—” Megan be hind a political army which has an
¡freight stretch of road. I f
"No,” he said huskily. “I mean wire fence, when she saw that she gan, but Alicia interrupted her with excellent chance of absorbing the
you must park on a curve,
that my wife is—mentally ill—that must go because the evening was pretty concern and an apology that country, as Britain and the U. S
a light should be set on the
she has the mind of a young child— ending; he laughed a little, and was worse than the most open accu have no armies on the ground, m ili
road some distance back.
that she is not—not normal!”
obligingly held up the lower strand sation.
tary or political.
Be sure neither you nor a
It was obvious that he had tried of barbed wire so she could crawl
Of course. I'm terribly sorry," I Next possible Russian move may
bystander blocks off the
Alicia interrupted. "Please don't I be to cut the nearest slice of Turkey
to say “insane” and had not been under it without snagging her skirt.
view of your tail-lightl
able to get the word past his stiff
"There really should be a gate say any more. I never dreamed— already defined in the official Mos
lips.
here,” she told him, getting to her I mean I wouldn’t have mentioned cow journals. This is a thin slice
feet on the other side of the fence, it for the world—” She was pret- j running about 200 miles westward
Megan was conscious of a mo laughing across the four strands of tily confused, and Megan could feel in length along the Black sea with
ment of stunned, shocked horror. barbed wire at him. "But I ’m like the hint of tension, of curiosity, that a depth of 75 to 100 miles inland
This man—chained to an insane the man who was going to fix the crept about the room.
The Turks could not stop such a
The women who had been her I move without naval assistance from
wife! This man, whom everybody leak in his roof, only he couldn't
liked, with his fine mind and his
work while it was raining; and friends and neighbors all her life the British or U. 8. Their frontier
keen sense of responsibility, and • when it wasn't raining the roof looked at her and then quickly armies could easily be by-passed
woman who had the mind of a
didn't need mending. 1 somehow away, very carefully not meeting by Russian amphibious landings in
young child!
her eyes, trying not to meet each their rear.
never get around to it ! ”
A late grapevine report to trust
other’s eyes, elaborately pretending
"Oh!” was all she could say, her
She whistled. The two dogs came
to be very casual.
worthy authorities here indicates
tone shocked and rich with sympa
bounding to her, and the four cats
This Is ridiculous!” said Megan Russia is in no condition to try this,
thy and touched with keen embar
stepped daintily out of a great thick
Her
hotly. "You’re trying to make peo or any other major venture
rassment that she must witness his
et of honeysuckle vines
that
ple believe that I ’ve been—sneak casualty list from the war has not
moment of naked, burning revela
sprawled at the corner of the fence.
yet been published ’ and no one
ing off to meet Mr. Fallon—”
tion. " I ’m—terribly sorry—”
And as she walked back down the
knows how many she lost.
"Why,
darling!”
protested
Alicia,
Tom brushed aside the choked, meadow path to the brook, she
Russia’s manpower shortage has
inadequate words and said with a looked over her shoulder, and lifted wide-eyed, hurt, though secretly en
In your car or at home—wher
sort of forced quiet, "So you see her hand to him tn a gay little ges joying, as she always did, this by no been made acute by critical short-
ever
you need a flashlight—rely
tages
of
farm
tractors,
locomotives
why it has been necessary for us ture, as she saw him standing there. means unusual result of her mali
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to—deny the well intentioned call He lifted his hat to her and bowed cious dropping of bits of informa and trucks to an extent where she
cannot hope to supply her people
ers—’’
for them by name. For "Eveready”
in a gay burlesque of a sweeping tion here and there. " I didn’t say
batteries have no equals . . . that’s
"Of course,” Megan told him un old-world gesture, and she went on, anything of the kind. All I said was with food and necessities.
Economists noted Stalin's goals
steadily, sick with pity for him.
why you’ll find them in more flash
her heart a little lighter for him. that it was obvious that you knew
lights than any other battery in the
"She is—entirely harmless,” he She was terribly sorry for him, but the man better than any of the rest for the fourth Five Year plan, tc
told her, and his face was wrenched she admired the gallantry with of us, and that you should therefore end in 1950, were lower than his 1942
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