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BYKOPSia: Whan Carol Tor
rance wie teaching echool in Aeh
boro ahe found it mpoaatbla not to
worry about her frienda and her
pupila. Bha thouuht aha waa escap
ing worry for a while when aha
went to work for Blake Thornton
in hie adverttaing ageney in At
lanta, but aha waan't. For there ia
aomething very attractive about
lilake. and there ia aomething very
alrange between Blake and hie
older, eelfiah wife Irma. Blake ia
viaitlng Irma over the week-end in
her mountain retreat.
Chapter 2T
PARTY TRICK
"N Sunday morning Margery tele
phoned. "Some of the crowd are coming
by this afternoon," she said. "Can't
you come too?"
"I'd love to," Carol said promptly.
The Idea of spending her first Sun
day alone had no charms. "WhenY"
"About five. Harry'll come over
and get you."
She demurred faintly at that, but
Margery was firm. "He's got to go
out tor lemons and White Rock any
how this Is very Impromptu.
Around five, then."
There was time, Carol decided,
to try the Sherwood pool before
lunch, so she put on her bathing suit
and went down.
The pool was noisy and ohurnlng
with children who made up Is
energy what they lacked In numbers-,
and the entire bank was
fringed with motionless, prostrate
forms, sunning themselves: forms
that never moved except to turn at
Intervals and sun other portions of
their anatomy.
. Most of them were women, and
Carol reflected humorously that she
had never seen such a motley col-
ilectlon of fat thighs. Some of them
iwere as white as grubs, some were
jat the raw-meat stage, a few were a
smooth golden brown.
Hereafter, Carol resolved, she
;would take her swims at sight, and
let her own lovely tan go. She bated
'the sight of so many fat, soft peo
ple prostrate In worship before the
tun. , t
I Harry was late, but that was to
Ibe expected; Harry was always late.
He was two weeks late being born,
he explained once, and he bad never
yet caught up. He burst In at half
past Ave, grinning and unapolo
getlc. "Ready to go, sugar?"
"For the last half hour."
"Well, nobody ever means It whan
Ithey say a certain time; they mean
-aome time after that."
She laughed. " usually go on that
theory, '.ut since you're the host J
thought you might want me to be
r ady."
"1 Bid, but 1 bad a golf date and I
got tied up." He eyed her critically.
"You look good enough to eat. Come
on."
They stopped at a drug store tor
White Rock and lemons, and then
drove -madly home. Three of the
guests bad already arrived, and
Harry pulled her into the living
room and made a flourishing gesture
In her direction.
"Carol Torrance Betty and Jerry
McElroy and His Nibs, the Honor
able Porter Murray,"
lie had shouted the names at the
top of bis voice, and Carol was about
to speak when he added In a low
tone:
"Carol's terribly deaf, folks: youH
hare to talk loud."
She turned on him to say: "Why,
you dirty liar!" but he cut In swiftly.
"Betty and Jerry McElroy and
Portor Murray." as If he were an
swering her.
Margory giggled and screamed:
"111! I'm so glad to see you. Dont
you want to 'rest your hat'?"
nPHKl Idea of deafness bad possl-
bljltlei. she decided, so she com
posed er features with an effort.
"No thanks. It's perfectly com
fortable."
Porter Murray shouted. "It's aw
fully becoming; I don't blame you,"
and turned to Harry.
"That's a damn shame," he said
In his natural voice. "She'd be a
knockout tt she wasn't afflicted.
How did It happen?"
"Mastoid." Harry explained brief
ly, and Carol exploded in a rather
unconvincing cough.
Porter Murray was solicitous. He
was a patent-leather man ol forty or
so. and obviously a squire of dames.
"Fix aor a drink, Harry," he or
dered at the top of bla lungs, and
Harry began opening liquor and
White Rock. Carol subsided and
smiled ravlshlngly at Portor Mur
ray.
Two more couplos arrived, both
strangers to Carol, and the game
went on undei Harry's expert guid
ance. Porter exerted himself man
fully, with occasional asides that
convulsed her.
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MASON CITY. la. 5r 13. AP
' Jnnifii RoomvpU, on of the Presl
:1pnt, Mid today that "bad spot' on
tho economic syntm "ire being re
mo.'rd," and condemned those who
tell tiA thnt It 1ft no good trying to
make America better." ,
Addressing a Democratic rally, he
icfcrrvd to the President as the na
tion' "ijeiiprnl m natter." and tald the
admlnl.Hrutlnu ia removing the "bad
ipotA" in "wbat we call the American
(ray."
"I could go tor ber In a big way It
she wasn't deaf," be confided to
Margery, "but I'm already getting
hoarse. Somebody else will have to
take over." He launched Into a par
lor story about a small Negro In a
racing stable.
Carol looked puzzled.
- He repeated it at the top of bis
lungs, and she gave up the struggle
and laughed herself breathless.
"I can't keep it up, Harry," she
gasped. "Another thirty minutes of
this and I will be deaf." She smiled
apologetically at the bewildered
Porter.
"It was one of Harry's cute Ideas,"
she explained. "I didn't know he was
going to do It until he got me In
here. I'd forgotten bow many bright
ideas he bad."
Porter Murray crimsoned slowly.
It had just dawned on him that she
had heard the asides as well as the
rest of bis remarks. She reassured
him quickly.
"Don't worry; I call that real gal
lantry. It's a lot nicer to overhear a
compliment thai, to hear It."
The party grew In size and vol
ume, and the talk was full of per
tonalities. She listened for an hour'
with as expression ot Intent Inter
est, and felt that her face was con
gealing. After a while the guests began to
drift away, until at last no one re
mained but Carol and Porter. He
said gaily:
"Why don't we all tour go down
town and get a sandwich?"
Margery looked at Harry. "I don't
know whether Elvira would stay
on. I only asked her to stay until the
children were In bed."
"Walt a minute," Porter ordered,
and disappeared Into the kitchen
before they knew what be was do
ing. He came back immediately.
"She aays lt all right," he an
nounced. "Get your hats."
Margery said: "Porter, you ought
n't . . ." itnd Carol reflected that a
generous heart must beat beneath
bis perfect shin front. Elvira prob
ably reoognlzed but one form of
argument
Harry grinned shamelessly. "Oh,
he's one of the big rich. Don't de
prive him of the plea;ure."
They drove hilariously off In
Porter's sport phaeton, and ate club
sandwiches at the Boar's Head.
Afterwards he dropped Harry and
Margery at their house and Insisted
on driving Carol home.
"Won't you come in for a while!"
she asked when they reached the
Sherwood.
He accepted promptly. "Thanks.
I waa hoping you'd invito me."
He stayed until eleven, talking al
most constantly; skating blithely
over surfaces. Carol decided he was
one of the eligible that Cornelia
had dismissed so contemptuously;
a sort of cosmopolitan Ben Tyler.
She let him talk to his heart's con
tent. He got up finally, with flattering
reluctance. "How's about dinner and
a movie with me next Thursday?"
"1 think that would be grand."
"So do I. About half-past seven?
Then we can catch a nine o'clock
show."
"Fine. I'll see you then. And it's
been a lovely evening."
She know from the speculative
look In bis eyes that he was debating
the possibility of kissing her good
night, so she smiled with twinkling
finality.
"Goodnight,"
He shrugged and grinned. "Good
night, darn your
When be bad gone she undressed
slowly and almost happily. Even a
single engagement ahead, with even
a Porter Murray, kept the days from
being quite empty.
TPHB city gasped and sweated In
-l the clutch of August. The morn
Ing cars were merely tepid: the late
afternoon irs were crawling, clank
ing Infernos. Today, the evening pa
pera would announce with sadistic
glee, was the hottest tenth ot An
gust since 1892, and there had been
two prostrations a thing almost un
known In the South Tbe sun was
molten brass In a cloudless sky and
drouth hovered, grinning at whirl
ing lawn sprays.
At Rock brook Irma Thornton read
of the beat wave with detached In
Interest, as people read, uncompre
hending, ot a famine among millions
In Chins. Blake went about his busi
ness like a machine, and noticed In
differently that his clothes were be
coming too big tor him. Carol dis
carded a great deal ot apparel she
bad hitherto considered necessary
to a business woman, and found the
world too weary to notice or care.
If the society columns were to be
believed, No One remained In town.
I (Copyright, 193$. by Marian Sima)
Tomorrow, Carol has an unex,
peeled dinner guest,
At one point In hta add res, Jamea
Roosevelt referred Indirectly to Gov
Alt. M- Landon of Kansas, President
Roosevelt 'a Republican opponent, by
saying the national administration
has enabled "many of our state gov
ernments to boast that they hare bal
anced their state budget.
"Just aa an example, the state of
Kansas haa received In grants, loans
and loans insured from the federal
government the amount of Hai.VJO.
3S0.00. y, Indeed, the budpet of the
state of Kansas Is balanced."
Age PenMon Ruling
SALEM, Sept. 19. (AP) Persona
residing In homes for the aged con
ducted by fraternal or religious bod
lea are not eligible to troelve old -a we
pension assist a nre under the Oregon
law, but persons boarding iu pnvute
homes or boarding house for the
aged operated by private individuals
are eligible, Attorney Oenciul I. H
Van Winkle ruled
Wards Installing
All New Plumbing
The Modern Plumbing and Sheet
Metal company, in announcing they
have been awarded the plumbing
contract for the Montgomery Ward
building state that It la thg most
STRANGE
Tor further proof wldreu
cy ej.&K!brt-
PiikburSh Ptofes,
Mr? LosT
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ONLiONS
Pitch ih
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hroTb Himself
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Sir Walter Scott
Faced with a debt totaling over a
half million dollars In 1820 when the
publishing company In which he was
interested failed, Sir Walter Scott
refused to accopt the Ignominy of
going through bankruptcy.
Enfeebled In health at SS and worn
out by his long and prollflo literary
career, he determined to shoulder
tbe financial responsibility and wipe
It out by writing. Asking no con
sideration from his creditors except
time, Scott fell industriously to work.
In the first three years he produced
an astounding amount of copy In
cluding some of his most brilliant
masterpieces. Among his works of
this period were "Woodstock;
"Chronicles of the Canongate," which
Included three separate talos; "Anne
of Oelerstln;" "The Life of Napol-
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unusual remodeling Job ever attempt
ed here.
Even though the Ward building Is
not old, all of the plumbing is being
removed and extra heavy galvanized
pipe will be Installed in Its place,
according to H. 0. Williamson. Mr.
Williamson aaya thta will give a large
amount of extra work to local labor.
AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
the author, tncloelng a. stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Pat Ofl.
If X3. Tttd!3 ' II xT
'If M BuWeP UHPEffMErVTHw
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MtHufht Srndttat lcj&ji
eon," In nine volumes; part of hla
"History of Scotland;' the Scottish
aeries, "Tales of a Grandfather;" "The
Fair Maid of Perth," In the second
aeries of "Chronlclea of the Canon
gate," and several magazine articles.
Th results of his labors from Jan
uary 1828 to January 1818 earned
about 9200,000 for his creditors. Early
In this period his wife died, and
though heartsick, he didn't allow the
bereavement to slow his efforts.
Following the first three years of
his Intense, self-imposed task, warn
ing symptoms of the toll which the
arduous work had taken on his health
still failed to stop him, even when
he suffered several strokes of appo
ptexy and paralysis.
It waa not until his mental powers
started to leave him and he came
to believe all his debts were settled
that he at laat quit work but it
Cuts In
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SKEET3... THOSE MURDERERS ARErjJ
TRYING TO CRASH HIM
Closing In!
Newt
"Nose" palmateer Named
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 13 (AP)
Apolntment of O. E. "Nose" Palma
teer, Salem, aa chairman of member
ship activities for the year was an
nounced by Guy Cordon, state com
mander of the American Legion,
Palmateer la also departmental vice
commander. was too late. During a Mediterranean
cruise on a government, ship put at
hla disposal, he sensed the end and
hastened back to England that he
might die In his native land, 'in
Tweetlslde at Abbotsford, September
21, 1932, he breathed his last and
waa burled st Dryburgh Abbey.
One-Pltn I'pset
In a ninth-lnntng upset, Cincin
nati scored four runs off a homer
by plnch-hltter Sammy Byrd. It hap
pened this way: Cy Blanton had been
substituted for Pittsburgh's regular
pitcher, who. until the fatal ninth,
had pitched shut-out ball. In the
Inst Inning three runs were scored
and Blanton was credited with them
when hts first and only pitch was
hit over the fence I
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