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PA'GE EIGHT MEPFO"RP MAIL TRIBUNE, fEDFORD, OBECrOy, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IT.'. 193 6. THE WORLD WITH A FENCE A New Ncvtt by Marian Sims SYNOPSIS: Carof ignnir, epent working In Blak Thornton't advertising agency, ha taught her two thing! On M that it it were not lor Blaks't older and selfish wile. ehe might become muoh in terested in her employer. The other is that ehe is becoming popular with Atlanta' "beat young peo ple' Even Porter Murray who hot been Atlanta' prise bachelor catch for a good many year. And Carol' company delightful. Porter it driv ing Cam home Irom a most expen sive dinner ; he no atopped in front of her apartment. Chapter M BRIDE8MAIO VOU wouldn't tell me we were out of gas?" Carol asked. "I would It I could get by with it." Porter put as arm around her and drew her towards him; put his tree hand under her chin. "I've been wanting to do this tor two months." Her first impulse was to refuse htrn. She hadn't kissed a man since Denis, almost a year ago. but she had wanted a great many times to ha kissed. Not by anyone she knew; merely an unfocused desire to feel a man's arms holding her, and a man's mouth on hers. i Ehe supposed every girl felt that, jbnt she resented the hunger never Itheless. Kisses were not significant any more she was modern enough to feel that but none of the men who bad attempted It had appealed eyes were grave again. "The break will do you good." Oh, stop ltl she wanted to scream Be a regular employer, so 1 can re member that that's all you are. Stop considering me being so damned human. No woman Is proof against that, week In and week out. ... She stood up quickly, and Blaks rose and stood looking at her with sober, searching eyes. "If you want to go a day earlier," he said carefully, "that will be Quite all right." "Oh, but 1 don't, thanks. . . ." She turned and lied to the Impersonal haven of her desk. SBE wrote Ellen that night, and managed to be convincingly en thusiastic. At her lunch hour the next day she went to the big store and sought out Mrs. House. Cor nelia, drifting by, spied her. "Hullo! What're yon looking for?" , She suppressed a smile. "A period dress In orchid taffeta," she said seriously. Cornells, stared at her. "For oaf a sake, whyr "Oh. 1 Just thought I'd like one. I need a new dress. . . ." Cornelia's face was a study. Sales manship fought a ludicrous battle with honesty. "Oh," she said blank ly, and Carol burst Into laughter. "Hullo," eald Cornelia, "what're you looking for?" lo bor. And so she had put them off with a casual laugh. But tonight the hunger was keener, and so she let him kiss her. When his lips touched hers she stiffened. "Not like that, please." "Sorry," he said huskily, and tried again. This time the kiss was light and slow snd expert. "Is that 'better?" ".Much," The hunger was satisfied for the momont, so sbe ssld quietly: ' Xot'i go home now." , He hesitated as If In protest, and then acquiesced. "Okay." He drove to the entrance and got out to open her door. "Is It too late for ma to come up for a while?" "I'm afraid It Is. Don't forget I'm one of the toilers of the world." "I won't. Well-goodnJght, I'll call you tomorrow or next day." Sbe said; "Please do," and left him. .JTAHLY In October there was an i- ecstatic letter from Ellen. She was to be married on the last Satur day in October, and she was count. Ing on Carol for maid of honor; sbe ihad selected Saturday because Csrol i would be better able to get away ifrom the office then. She put the letter aside and smiled ruefully. Ellen, bless her, was run nlng true to her own enviable type. Ellen would Insist upon and revel In every one of the traditional, faintly ludicrous gestures. And a pe riod dress, to be bought, of oourse. jfrom Carol's own salary! But she would have to go, unless Blake couldn't spare her; that was a ray of hope. She spoke to him about it the next morning, nil smiling ruefully. "If you think 1 oughtn't to take the time, 1 hope you'll say so. It won't break me up." He cbuckled and she knew he un derstoodall the things she hsdn't eald. "Of coui so you can talcs Ihe time; It won't mean but a day and a half from the office. If you want an out I'm willing to be Simon Leiree and put my toot down, but actually It's up to you." She wrinkled ber nose. "Oh, heck! 1 gums I'd belter go; 1 wouldn't hurt ber foellngs for Ihe world." "1 think you'd better go too." His "rm going to be maid of honor at Ellen Sauds's wedding," sbe ex. plained, "snd that's the presorlp tlon." Cornelia's eyes crinkled. "Yov ass! I thought you'd gone crazy." Mrs. House appeared with tb model In pink. It was a else four tees, and Carol slipped It on whlli Cornelia stood by with her eyes pro fesstonally narrowed. The dress wai bouffant, with a dropped shoulder and a tlght-attlng bodice. , Cornelia grinned. "Of course II looks like a bridesmaid, but It's sol so bsd as I expected. If It weren't tor that gosb-awful pink. . . ." Carol sighed. "Orchid wont be much better." She looked at Cornells and laughed. "What'U you buy It back tor, If I take good cars of It and don't spill a highball down the front?" "Not a cent," Cornelia said llrmly. "We wouldn't be lucky enough to sell that model more than once. 1 tell you what," she suggested; "You eould dye It black afterwards. That wouldn't be quite so bad. It makes you look real demure, and the men 'II love It. Sophistication's wasted on a man anyhow," she said crisply; "most of 'em would prefer this little pink number to the smoothest Im portatlon In the store." Carol scowled at her. "Fat lot of comfort you are!" She turned to the bewildered Mrs. House. "What's the tariff on this?" "Twenty-nine seventy-five." Mrs.' House made a valiant effort. "It's an excellent value, I think," sbe added earnestly. "Well It might bs worse. Take It off, and order me a fourteen In or chid damn It!" She looked at Cor nelia. "Had lunch yet?" "No. Hsve you?" "Not yet. I'm not very hungry after this, but 1 have to keep my stren'th up. Let's go upstairs and get a bite." Cornelia glanced at her watch "Okay. Let's." (Copirrlgt. ttSI, by Uarlan Sims) But Carol tlnde, tomorrow, she eannot escape Blake'a attention. BE SAYS PRISON EXPERT CHICAGO, 6ept, 17 (AP) flan Inrd Btw, heed of the It. . bureau of prlwina, enealled county to fity as a ''roiten" eystm whl-h "de UKrately wres the .Iveo" of no1e In rrime. H- ituevr his. aupr-irt behind a flrlve to ebolieh them aftei tending a ttirulng "Indictment" at, the Sfltn annual oomtreea of the American Pr'.eon Association. There were elht mawns. he mjd, why the aytm should be wiped out a the congress' committee on Jam advocated. Taey vuti 1. Ineertmtv, u demonstrated by the escape of the late ,lohn Dillln ger snd Harvy BaJley. 9. Inefficient personnel. S. Almost Inevitable dirt- and filth. 4 Continual ptwn.- of idle, new 8. Vu c of engregatii'o of negro and whiles, men and women, and Ju venile and edult prisoners. t? "Almost uubeltevmhl. laxity" tn Uie handling of prleonere "who could affnrd to pay for" eKh privilege at attendance at ball gemee and rt tracks. 7. The fee eTPteiri of paving Jail administrators 8 "Continual presence of political c-iitrol " Pate whirled the prison rename for "pawing resolutions veu after year in condemnation of the county Jail" without getting action. Be correctly corseted in an Artlsi Mudel by Jtlielwyo 8. Hoffmann. WHALER BREAKING UP . ON AKUTAN ISLE ROCKS 6BATTLB, tVpt : 17 (AP) Cas guard headquarters reported here to day tab 05-foot 6te4 whaler Westport of Seattle wae breaking up on the rocks QiS AJcutan Island in the Aleu tian chain. ' ' Commander . W. Derapwolf of the coast guard Bering Sea patrol wire leseed that the Weatport'e crew .was safe and en route to Unalaakal Th ooest fuard eaid foe ve&sel was. a total wreck andrtfoat all equipment was let . FIRST BUILDING PERMIT IS ISSUED FOR CAPITOL RAliEM. .Sept. 17. (AP) The city of fialam Issued the first building per mit for the ' new state capital when the'lnapector passed upon the excava tion proposal estimated to cost 400. Work of removing trees on the site and construction of the superintend' ents's quarters has been In progress several days. Excavation work will start immediately upon completion' of the fence around the site, . WINDOW GLASS We sell window glass and will replace your broken windows reasonably. Trowbridge Cab inet Works. Join Hollywood Doubles Contest Corley Photos. 215 B. Main. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX for further proof address .the author, Inotoalng a stamped enrelope for reply- Reg- D. 8. Pat OS. 1 ftR6 TORN ttoWM FROM. . villr JohnsiJ., j Anp ftedfcie U6nt& in hisowm X7. HM WOW hiP IN COrVSpiRfcCI&J Telephone Prolilbltlon With hie entire reign as 34th Sul tan of Turkey made ceotlo by a net work of IntrlguM, sMasstaatlons snd rebellions. Abdul Hsmld II, various ly known sa "Abdul, the Damned," "The Unspeakable Turk." and "The Great AsMesln," waa in constant far of his life. Though he had telephones end electric lights In his own luxurious apartments, he forbade their instal lation snywhere else in the entire city of Constantinople, fearing that they would facilitate the plotting of conspiracies eglan&t him. As a consequence, in , 1801, Con eantinople was the only capital In the world still lighted almost en tirely by gas. It Is believed only five buildings In the whole city were lighted by elenr.riclty and the equip ment, for these hsd to bs smuggled la- . Abdul's tvranlcel and unstable reign was finally brought to an end by the Young Turks, e revolutionary politi cal party, In 1808. The deposed Sul tan wsa banished to Salonika where he spent much of the remaining nine years of his life In making writing desks, being an expert cabinet maker. TrIple-TIo Man - Competing for St. John's university In a trlsngular meet held st Victory field. Woodhaven, N. T.. May 18, lew, Henry" Egal competed to tie 890, the one-mile snd the two-mile runs. Strange as It seems. In all three events he ran dead heats for firs with members of bis own team. Skyscrapers TJnder modern methods, skyscrapers sre wrecked from the botom up. The baeemente are first cleared of all partitions, holes then being cut through the floors, a story st s time. Through these sre dumped all the debris of the demolished floors, leav. tng only the building's steel skele ton, which Is taken apart later. 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