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btSOfulS: Bob Potoert hat. in
hit ttlff-necked manner, forbidden
Marsha, to explain an epitode out ot
her pntt. He ha also demanded
that the divorce him. Sow he learnt
that hit mother it incurably ill.
and atke Uartha to remain xeith
her. acting the part of the happily
married daughter. Uartha it glad
to do it. tor the lovet Bob very
deeply.
Chapter 21
LECTURE
BOB saw Martha move toward the
door to slip away, despite the
moat pressing of Victorian Invita
tions to linger.
"She knows I want all the mo
ments alone with you that I can
bare," said Bob after Marsha bad
disappeared. He stood looking at
the spot where he bad seen the last
flutter of her skirt, as he continued
to shake a long-extinguished match
"I feel that we lack, Robert, when
she la not here. I have no sense,
with your wife near, ot Intrusion.'
Mrs. Power paused; Bob saw
that she was "displeased."
"I hare been wanting to say
few words to you, Robert, for some
days."
"Yes, Mother?"
"I cannot feel that you quite ap
preciate Marsha, Robert; hera is a
rarely selfless, sweet, loving char
acter."
"Ob, I know, I know that!" he fal
tared.
"Don't pluck at that nail, dear,
You'll make It sore."
"Sorry." He clasped bis bands
raised his face.
"If you had added your word to
my Invitation, dear, she would have
lingered."
He wondered, as he felt a sharp
knife plunged Into an old, dull pain,
whether she would have lingered If
he had added his word. He thought
not.
"Be tender with her, Robert. She
baa sadly lacked affection."
Ha had a flash of her. In Geoffrey
Tarleton'a arms. Ha rose to wander
to and fro and hoped fervently
that It wouldn't last much longer.
This particular lecture was not
easy to endure!
"She loves you sol"
"God!" The old bard plunge of
heart . . . and longing.
"Of course," Bob managed to say
quite steadily, "of course I know
that."
"You accept the tact too casually,
my dear. Every man la not loved as
you are loved by your wife."
"I hope not," he thought with a
flash of bitter humor.
"Marsha says that no woman can
do Justice to herself or the subject
with a man stamping around the
room, Robert." (
He sighed deeply; again he set
tled to the small stool. He mur
mured, "All right, dear. But get at
It. I must change, you know"
"She la so tweet!"
"Oh of course!"
"1 don't mean to take exception,
nor to nag, Robert, but there Is no
'of course' about It. She Is rare. And
to eager to learn. Now, Letltla
would not have been Interested."
"No," be admitted. He hoped It
wasn't wearing Marsha out. Lord,
she was being good about It; gen
erously, marvelously good.
"DOBERT, you should kiss her
when you come In."
"Don't you think," he hazarded,
voice conscious, "that that sort of
thing haa rather gone out?"
"Robert!"
"Well, all right I will hereafter!"
he hastened to promise.
"1 would!" Mra. Powera advised.
"You come In and klsa me. but
sever kiss Marsha, I can see It
wounds her; It shows."
He didn't respond.
"And flowers. Your dear father
tent me flowert every other Fri
day." "Every other Friday, you say?"
he questioned. He laughed delight
edly; he was living one of those
rare, light moments when he was
not haunted by the picture that
Marsha and Geoffrey had burned
deep Into his heart with the acid
that la known only by those who
love overpowerlngly.
"Kiss her." be muttered, "and
tond her flowert every other Fri
day" "You could make It another day.
of course, Robert, If you thought
another day would be better than
Friday."
"Yes. darling!" He rose, patted
her shoulder and hurried up the
Ktalra.
Marsha opened her door to him;
one was wearing toe gom negligee
with the soft yellow fur at the neck
and broad cuffs. He wished the
would get rid of it. It brought too
close to him a moment be would
forget.
"If I may have a tew words with
you?" he said.
"Certainly; come In."
He stepped from hla room to
hers. "Will you sit down?" she
asked.
'Well, perhaps. I want to talk
over with you a few matters," he
answered. "There are several
things."
"Sorry my raiment It so spread
around," she apologized aa he
paused. She picked up from a chair
a filmy bit ot straps and lace, a pair
of golden stockings. He bad been tu
Insane about her; everything the
wore or touched.
He must have bored her fright
fully, he realized, despite the fact
that he bad exercised an amazing
restraint. She remembered bis
kneeling at ber feet; kissing a
small, gold shoe before he slipped
It on for her and how the had felt;
ber Inner plea that ran, "Don't!
Don't! Let me knoel to you and tell
you how cheap I've been and hear
you eay 'I love you! It doesn't mat
ter! I love you anyway!'"
But that dream was past. He
knew how cheap she bad been and
he didn't love ber; and he couldn't
say so, of course.
"Is there anything particular?"
she asked. He was oddly, heavily
silent, staring down at bis hard-
gripped bands.
Ob, yes!" He came back with a
Jerk. "It's about the way I treat you.
I am not sufficiently affectionate."
I tee."
You are good about all this.
Marsha."
'MO. I'm not," the denied flatly.
"Don't offer me AVAn nnm
laurel; I don't deserve It! I'm doing
What I love to do. Mother vnur
mother thinks we're rather chill?"
"mat I am."
"I sea "
"So, you see occasionally. I shall
lave to "
"I understand."
"I hone VOU won't mlnri rv
much." he said. She nmllnA at h
and In a way that he did not under
stand. "And one mom thfntr" h
added. Yet again he hesitated.
"Yes?"
"You must need money."
"No, I don't. Bob. thank von n
much "
"But"
"I have a sufficient Incnm nt
own; lt'a not a treat deal, hut it'.
quite enough I meant to speak to
you bdoui it, nut we never talked of
money save at that moment when
you told rae I could check on vnnr
account."
He wondered whv aba had tnvrf
with Miss Moore to whom h
not suited; with whom she had not
been nanny. Ha had
Marsha to be without Income of her
own.
Marsha spoke as If she had hnrii
his thoughts.
I lived with Aunt Gertrude." aha
said, "because I suppose It sounds
silly and It's not eaiv tn
thought If I left people might think
sne naa lacked In some way. And
she did do her best and I didn't
want them to think ahe hadn't, you
see."
'There are moments whan mi,
make me feel small" Ha ,imit,AH.
he added oulcklv. almmt hruuiv
"You'll have to take money from
me: I owe you everything; you're
doing so much hore."
No. she combated. "I don't have
to, Bob"
"You make It hard for me. Mar.
sha."
"You make It hard for mA whn
you ask to reward with money a
service I long to give; or rather
wnen you ask to nav me for a nrivl.
lege you allow me. I can't take any
thing trom you. Bob."
e II have to talk of thl irfn "
he said, as he rose.
"Roally must we?" ahe ankAit
looking up at him.
I OB. he smiled down on hr
he said his Inflexible, "Yes."
She did not answer the smile. Nt
won't take monev from von." she
said stubbornly.
Marsha!"
'I won't! You can't miVa mA
Don't you understand anything of
this? I can't. You aren't fair to ask
me to."
(Cefrri,!, 1)14, ly X. ecilt,i-Tevler)
Bob loalc at Cli,ltmit
tomorrow,
FREE E
Adult Evening Schools and
Education in Army Among
Methods Being Used to
Bring Light to Country
Br Ferdinand C. M. John
United PreM Staff Correspondent.
ANKARA, Turkey (UP) Illiteracy
is being combated by the Kemallst
government. ,
According to the laat ceiuus. In
1927. only ten per cent of the Turkish
population were able to read.
It la estimated that, at present.
about half of the population U lit
erate.
Aalde from normal achool activity.
progress chiefly la due to the work
of adults' evening schools which were
organized when the Latin script was
Introduced four years ago.
Education In the army, where the
young recruit la acquainted In ft
course of three months with readin?,
writing and arithmetic, also has done
much to diminish Illiteracy.
Education Obligatory
Primary education Is obligatory. j
According to official statistics the '
number of primary schools in 1932
wes 6353 with 13.821 teachers. 318.964
male and 174.833 female pupils. i
The government rapidly Is filling
the gaps, and many a Turkish village
school compares quite well with simi
lar Institutions In western countries.
Great stress Is being laid in all
schools on physical culture for boys
and girls alike.
Education Free
Education la fre of charge. Even
in government boarding schools no
fee for the maintenance Is made.
The Ohafl School, the Ismet Pasha
Institute of Domestic Sciences, the
Commercial High school, the Acad
emy of Mualc In Ankara, with their
splendid equipment and their highly
qualified staff of teachers, furnish
proof of the ambitious program the
Ghazl's government is carrying out
in the field of education.
Internal reforms of Hlkmet Bey.
energetic minister of education, leave
no doubt that it is not the facade
only which Is being changed. He haa
ruthlessly dismissed over -30 profes
sors or Istanbul university as not
corresponding to modern standards
of science.
Most of them have been replaced
temporarily by foreign scientists.
otner experts are Invited1 from
aDroaa ior high and secondary
W.11WU,
THE PARKING PROBLEM
UNWRITTEN LAW SLAYER
IS HELD FOR HEARING
WOODLAND. Cel., Aug. i. (UP)
Judson Charles Doke. war veteran
end Ban Leandro city official, was ar
raigned tcday arid charged with the
"premeditated first degree murder" of
his young wife's poet-lover, Lamar
Holllngshead.
Preliminary hearing will be held
August 22.
Too "Nosey" with Bull.
ZANE8VILLE, O. (UP) When he
attempted to twist a ring In a bull's
nose, James Ford, 45, farmer of Ful
tonham. was injured seriously when
the animal became angry.
SAMS VALLEY, Aug. 3. fSpl.)
Plre broke out on the Archie Downs
place at 9 o'clock Sunday night and
before being detected had spread to!
the grain stacks, resulting in the '
loss of eight stacks of grain or an 1
estimated loss of 1000 bushels. !
Help was quickly summoned J
through the George McDonough fam-'
uy, out the grain was practically
gone when help arrived.
Mr. Downs attributed the fire to a
party of squirrel hunters who he be
lieved dropped a cigarette while pass
Ing through his plsce earlier in the
evening.
Communist Funeral for Two.
CLEVELAND (UP) Communist
funeral services were held for Samuel
Arsentlnl, 42. and Mrs. Vlnnle Wll
llsms, S7, shot to death during a riot
at Cuyahoga county relief admlnis
trstlon office. The double rites were
srrsnged entirely by the communist
party. Police guarded the procession.
Probate Court Judge Dead.
WILMINGTON, O. (UP) Judge
J. S. Klmbrough, 89, Civil War vete
ran, for many years on the probate
court bench and once superintendent
of the Soldiers' and Sailors' orphsns'
home st Xenla, O., died here recently.
Irrigating Now.
OGDEN, Utah (UP) P. A. Hulsh
solved his drouth problem for $5. He
started digging a well, ssnk It 25 feet. I
struck water, bought pipe for 5, and
now has a steady stream of fresh
water.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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PARKS CARf, AND R -TURKS
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PARKS AUTo AT LAST, AND
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AND 50 COMES IN FOR
SUPPER HALF AN HOUR
LATE, CP1.AIHIN6 HE
COULDN'T BE QUICKER
BECAUSE OF SO MQNV
CARS TO PARK.
M. Payne
CALVES' TENDONS
T 'VULNERABLE'
IN A TENNIS BAT
BEVERLY HILLS, Csl. (API A
fellow usmed Achilles, mythology has
It, vulnerable In the heel, but
the tendon which bears his name
may produce string for tennis rac
quet, oiighrr than snythlng yet used
lor this ptirme. j
Testa made at the Unliernty of
Southern California laboratory here
by rr. Ernest A. Rayner mowed thstj
suing nude from the tendon of a I
calls heel withstood the pounding
of lennts bslln for an accumulative ,
effort of 308.961 bloms. mhlle the 1
closest rival, the best brsde of sheep
gut commonly used in racquets. ws
more thsn 53,000 strokes behind
Other specimens Here some loo.oou ;
blows behind, all ot them ranging i
from 24.V24A blows to tBS.oan blows
before they broke.
Elasticity tests showed the new
string to vsry only 3 centimeters In
detlectlon as against 2lt to 5 centt
melers for the other strings tested.
Put to the extreme humidity test,,
the string made from the ralf s ten
don, alter being soaked half sn hour
In wster, came back to its onglnsl
starting point, while the other spec.
Imens showed a deflection of from
J to a rentlmeteri..
The tests. Dr. Kayner said, shooed
the new siring not only to be more
niKKfd. but m0 that It would with
stand atmospheric changes better,
retaining Its fine tension essenllsl to
championship play,
j The string is made through a com
I pinnated process. Dried calf's ten
I dona are exploded under pressure
I Into a fine fiber, which Is spun and
then wo-en Into a cord which is pol.
, ished down to standard string sires.
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stomach pump sobered up Taul and
pnllca bfusn qiirstlonlne his fattier,
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