S o u th ern Oregon News Review, T hursday, Ju n e 19, 1947
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I WONDERED why I shouldn't let
* Carl Bullard drown. It wasn’t
that I hated him. He was a nice
L e t the A d s G u id e
enough fellow. Just a boy. of course,
Y o u W h e n S hop pin g
and too sentimental and too soft
and too rich. If only he hadn't m ar­
ried Constance. I'd have saved him
in half a minute, but for that . . . In ­
stead. I watched the water swirl
over his head—and wondered.
No one could know what I had
done—that I had killed him almost
as much as if I had pushed him
down and held him under the sur­
face.
How could they ever know? I was
quiet and s till on the edge of the
pier with my feet dangling in the
cool water and a cigarette between
my Angers. Behind
r i
me sat Carl Bul­
change to
How long would it be before he touched the sand? Two second?
lard's wife talking
This
calmly with some
Ten? But how eternally long a second can be . , .
for the to n ic • H e c t
of her guests, and
Week's
b e h in d h e r the does to me. Yesterday I saw her for made me wish I'd never gone away
on your smile
Best
shore-line of Carl the Arst time in three years, and from her. A glow. Not just friendli­
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B u l l a r d ' s la n d it's worse with me now than it was ness. More than that.
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stretched away se­ then. A lot worse. Deeper. Not boy-
1 I Ir ip i rem«»re film . . . b rin g out
Duv to an u n u sua lly la rg e <l< tnunrt and
It was the glow in her eyes that
c u rre n t conditions, s lig h tly m in i' tim e Is
• I I the natural lu x re of your
rene and smooth to and-girl stuff any more. Man and
re
q
u
ire
d
in
tillin
g
ord
e
rs
lo
r
a
lew
of
the
bjis tic.
C a r l B u l l a r d ' s woman. And she's married to Carl kept me at the cove. 1 wouldn’t
m ost p o p u la r p a ttern s
2 A tpecial in g irt I icnt in C u lm
have stayed at the Bullard place ex­
roomy house on the opposite side Bullard.
en tiM irajtrt n tu J n r m anage . , .
cept for that.
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w h u ti ha* a tonic effect on gum *
She would have married me if
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A
Aock
of
guests
as
dull
and
chat­
.
. . help» m ake them h im and
And I stared down between my things had gone right. They hadn't,
Enclose 20 cents fo r P attern.
rm y. looe up your w u ile ...w ith
tering
as
guests
always
are.
A
hus­
though.
I
thought
a
year
in
Buenos
toes at Carl Bullard’s white body in
C aiox!
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the water.
Aires—at an unbelievable salary— band who kept grinning at her like
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a
gawky
boy,
and
patting
her
arm
I l f u n ri of
h —r b u
He had looked straight at me as : would give me my start. Instead of and chucking her under the chin. AY NE of the handsom est sets of
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he went down. It was a queer, tor­ that, three years in Buenos Aires The glow in her eyes—whenever she ;
sum
m
er
tea
towels
you’ll
see.
tured. pleading sort of a look, as if and amazing bad luck at any and looked at me—made up for all of The big four or five inch fruits are
he knew exactly what was happen­ all forms of gambling gave me a that.
done in the popular ’’gingham ”
ing to him and was trying to tell me taste for living and little to live on.
I wanted to take my stare from cross stitch effect. The designs
Three
years.
.
.
,
with his eyes. He had opened his
There had been letters between us, Carl Bullard's body—now nearly on can also be used on place m ats,
mouth to cry out, shipped a full
the
Arst few months. "Gee, I miss the sand—and look over my shoul­ breakfast cloths and outdoor din­
gasp of water into that boyish chest
der toward Constance. I wanted to ing luncheon cloths.
of his and gone down with hardly you Connie. Wish my year was see those glowing eyes again, meet­
• • •
up.’’
“
I
miss
you
too,
Aleck.
Seems
more than a ripple. Cramps, I
ing mine. But I didn't move.
To o btain 7 tra n s fe rs , c o lo r c h a rt for
like
a
year
already.
Keep
w
riting
guess. I ’d seen the same thing be­
w -
G li ham F r u it Design!
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Instead I thought of something w
often."
te rn No. 54861 Send 20 cents in coin,
fore, but not so quick.
very interesting. I f I were to sit y o u r name, a d d re u and p a tte rn n u m b e r
The cove was twelve feet deep at O U T the letter slowed down after still only a little longer, the pier and
the end of the pier, and greenly
Pick-up Crochet
a while, and then stopped alto­ the house and the cove—and a great
translucent to the yellow, sandy bot gether. My fault, I know. I couldn’ t deal more—wouM belong to Con­ 'V H IS dainty little m illed doily
tom. It seemed almost too clear— keep lying to her about the money stance. She’d be wealthy, and with * is ideal for sum m er “ pick-up”
too innocent—to k ill a man, but I I was supposed to be saving it.
a glow in her eyes when she looked work. It m easures 12 inches across
knew it was happening. I could see
It was well in my second year at me.
—one 400-yard ball of crochet cot­
Carl Bullard's slow, convulsive that I heard she'd been married.
m akes this treasure-piece.
Three years in the Argentine for ton
thrashing. He was not yet half-way The news Altered down to me one nothing, and three minutes on Carl
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down
way or another. I didn’t mind, then. Bullard's pier—for everything I
T o obtain co m p le te
c ro c h e tin g
d ire c ­
ns
fo r the S tarched K u flle d D o lly
How long would it be before he I had other diversions.
wanted. Why shouldn’t I let Carl tio
Be sure you get America’s favorite rice cereal
(P a tte rn No. 5478) send 20 cents In coin,
touched the sand? Two seconds?
Three years is a long time. Al­ Bullard drown?
y o u r nam e, address and p a tte rn n u m b e r.
tiie one and only Kellogg1 1 Rice Krbiples!
Ten? But how eternally long a sec­ most as long as it was taking Carl
ond can be . . .
Bullard to reach the yellow sand. IT 'S STRANGE, when you’re tense
and still, how all your senses
Constance had warned him. Said He was near it, now, and not clearly
it was too soon after lunch. Said he outlined. Just a slow-moving blur. become sharp beyond normality.
ought to wait a while. But he had . . . Three years was enough to give While I watched the greenish-white
laughed in that small-boy way he me a lifetim e’s All of everything blur that was Carl Bullard, the
feminine voices behind me, which
had and chucked her under the Argentinian.
chin. And then he had run across
Somehow Constance heard I had before had been unintelligible, oe-
the pier to jum p in over my head. I come back, and she wTote to me. came clear and distinct. Constance
could s till feel the little breeze of Just a friendly, welcome-back note. talking to her guests.
"That water looks so good,” she
his passing. It was cold on my wet That meant she held no hard feel­
back.
ings. The boy-and-girl stuff was said. “ I wish I could go in.”
‘Why don’t you. Connie? I won­
It was the chin-chucking, I think, done with.
dered
why you hadn’t."
that made me sit still while he
And yet I suddenly wanted to see
"Sh-h . Doctors orders.”
sank. Constance was not a woman her, talk with her. I found her here
There was a pause. "Connie! You
to be chucked under the chin. You at the cove. She was s till the Con­
wouldn’t sing swing in a church, stance I remembered, if a little sub­ don’t—?”
"You might as well know now as
would you? That’s what I mean.
dued, a little settled and satisAed.
I ’m a Ane one to talk about
But there was something in her later, I guess. . . . I t ’ll be in Decem­
churches, but that's what Constance eyes, when she looked at me, that ber. Haven’t you noticed the way
I ’ ve put on weight?"
"Why, my dear, we had no idea!
But now I know why Carl has been
so attentive. And that sparkle in
your eye s, Connie. A ll the signs . . . "
The sparkle in her eyes. The
glow.
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Carl Bullard’ s body was on tho
sand at last, tumbling awkwardly,
Horizontal
Solution In N ext Issu e.
shapelessly.
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My cigarette dropped into the
1 Quick to
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6 7 8 9 10
learn
water. I heard it hiss. And then I
4 Colloquial:
dived in without taking time to
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mother
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stand. Carl Bullard’ s grip nearly
6 Sheep’s cry
broke my arm. . . .
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11 Crucial time
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13 Long, heavy
coastal wave
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M s 22 23
15 Toward
ssB
16 Exhibiting
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an omen
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28
18 ArtiAcial
language
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19 Mixed type
S a v e b y th e
21 Dutch cheese
34
Firestone Liberal
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36
22 The color
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beige
Trade-In Allowance.
24 Latvian
YOU CAN WHIP NERVOUSNESS
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26 To throw off
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After we’d spent an hour together
28 Dawn god­
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in his hotel room, this man and I,
S a v e M o r e on
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dess
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I was almost as nervous as he was.
29 Pertaining to
M ile a g e an d
During that hour he had paced up
50
oil
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52
53
54
31 Biblical
and down, his hands shaking, his
S afety.
garden
eyes glancing furtively to all cor­
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ners of the room.
34 To liquefy
S a v e T im e a n d
I don’t need to tell you, do I, how
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36 Cupid
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ineffective a personality he was?
Trobble . . . Use
38 Land
You know, of course, that nervous­
measure
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t
h
e
C o n v e n ie n t
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ness is fatal to a personality, yet
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40 Underdone
nerve specialists tell me that three
42 Nick
F ir e s to n e B udget
out of four persons "wear their
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nerves on the outside of their
47 Blade of an
clothes.”
oar
4 Buffoon
39 Defender of
48 Greedy king
49 G irl’s name
Take the most successful person
5 Apart
the Chris­
51 To leave out
50 Too
6 Slang: com­
you know, the one with the most ef­
tians against 53 Only
monplace
52 Sacred bird
fective personality. Was not that
the Saracens 57 To grow old
statement
54 You and I
person a serene person?
58 Japanese
41
Island
of
Come in and equip your car for summer driving and vacation
7 Gehrig’s
measure
55 Symbol for
Some men and women tell me that
Napoleon’s
nickname
60
European
tantalum
trips.
You can t afford to miss this opportunity to buy Firestone
exile
they are nervous because they were
food Ash
56 Man appoint­ 8 If not
De
Luxe
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43 Talented
born nervous. I think the man who
62 PreAx: down
ed to k ill the 9 Mulberry
44
Interjection
haa
the
most
calmness
and
serenity
10
Violent
dread
for
retreading
and even if your tires are only partly worn
64 River in
bull
46 Bone
Italy
I have ever known, when I com­
12 Therefore
59 Six
you 11 save money by trading them in now. D on't nut u
14 To stir up
mended him upon’ these things, re­
61 Blue dye
. . . COME IN TODAY!
put
off
A n s w er to P o tilo N um ber 18
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Epithet
marked that he wasn’t born with
63 Wing-footed,
20 Entry
them at all. He said he had to ac­
as the bat
quire them.
23 Symbol for
65 To prevent
cerium
from action
"Up till three years ago I was
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25
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* P tectlon a^alnst
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27 Gull-like
37 Crude metal
doctor
put
me
on
tne
right
track.
bird
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He advised me, each night when
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P
extra trao"
the
day’s
work
was
done
to
go
32 Midday
home, take a leisurely hot bath,
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merely to relax all over."
onward
37 To pack
3 Musical
38 Famous
That practice not only robbed him
syllable
violin maker
of nervousness, but made him much
Serie« H 47
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