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P'XGT. TEN MEDFOTID MATL TRTBUKE, MTCDFORD, OT?F,00T, SUNDAY. "APRIL 13, 1f)?7 By MARGARET WIDDEMER SYNOPSIS: Eve Mannertficid. goes back to her 200-year-olil house and orchard in Connecticut after five years in New York, She plant to marry gay, ;ity-loving Denny and return to Manhattan. Uncle Henry, an old family friend, and the penniless Feath erstones, with their serious youna son Judge, move in with Eve. Her calm, practical neighbor, George Cleveland, who loves her, comes over evenings with his steel mag nate father. Denny arrives for a weekend and is thrilled to play bridge with Mr. Cleveland from whom ht hopes to get a new job. Chapter 28 Mitzi'i Motive "TfTELLr Denny laid, drawing a ''long breath and stretching. 1 (eel as if I'd been playing contract urith Santa Clausr "Oh, Denny, then" Kv began eagerly. But Marylin, still avid, in terrupted. "Denny, tell us more about Mitel's taking a place at Southampton. Is she really going to? Maybe she'll ask us all for weekends!" Denny glanced at Eve resignedly. The Featherstones, amiably oblivious In their interest in the outside world, had no intention of leaving the lovers alone. "Oh, all right,- he said. "Tomorrow morning." Eve whis ,V!anti see King ms lortunt in pr aepresslon New York, where t de lightful young man could have a good deal more pleasure than without money in the country. "Gosh, Eve, I don't see how jou've stood it!" he cried. "I Ifke it," she said, and saw an opening for what she wanted to say. "But the Clevelands aren't the hunt breakfast sort, Denny dear. You can't say that our parlor In the eve nings is society-column stuffl You saw what a fine, simple sort of man he is. You've met him at last, and he likes you." They were walking on now through the narrow path; Eve spoke back over her shoulder. "Why don't you speak to him directly about the publicity job in Northern Steel? It's crazy to waft for Mitel to pull wires when you're right here on th ground with him. I can't understand it." Denny spoke doggedly: "Mltzl said It would be fatal if I horned in for myself in the middle of what she's doing about it. I'm to go down to Southampton with her over next weekend and help her pick out that place for the summer; she says she'll have it all set up by then. You mustn't forget she's a fine business woman and a natural diplomat" 'Her Mother Taught Her EVE reco;r zed Mitzi's own words shut her lips tight, and recom menced speakint; temperately. Den, I sound like a cat, but yot mustn't swallow Mitzt whole." He gave one of his gay bursts ol pered to Denny aa they said good laughter. "No, you sound as if I wa: They had scarcely taken time to talk of anything but love. night, lingering In the hall outside Denny's room. They had breakfast alone, In their sweaters, out on the bark portico in the May sunshine. The ktr was sharp ly sweol; the green lawn stretched beyond them, glittering with dew 1 starred cobwebs. Above at the end rose the budding orchard. They had scarcely taken time yet to talk of anything but love. Presently they heard Marylln's window closed above their heads; on this day of all days she was getting up, hungry for more talk I "Come on to the orchardl" Eve said, .laughing. They ran out hand-ln-hand. She laughed and threw back ,-r head, looking around her. "Don't you love it, Den?" She had been telling him excitedly about the white French lilacs, and another nearly rose-colored kind, re discovered among the purple ones on each side the tall portico they had just passed; and that the lilles-of-the-valley had spread so that they were having to root some up and throw them away. She flushed and laughed, walking with him down the gravel path thai was bordered with daffodils, past the gnarled June rosebushes. Beyond the strawberry bed. past the tangle of berry vines, three rough wooden steps took them presently to the narrow path between the thickly-growing wide-budding trees. 'Hut Not For Our Sort' 1"MIEY had climbed the steps and X were in the midst cf the orchard path before he answered; and then II was seriously. He stopped. His arms closed round her as they stood amon the leaung trees in a little clearing, the warm sun on their shoutders. "I'd like it well enough as a back ground to the Clevelands' sort of life; riding horses and country clubs ina nuni oreaxiasts and games. But not for our sort of people. Nothing but God's countryl Well, people like us have to have the pleasures we can UTord. and we can only find them In cities." He was speaking more seriously than usual, her gay Denny. He hadn't talked much, ever, of his early life, out what tittle he had said had given i pretty clear picture a guy spoilei lad with an indulgent mother; Vir ginia country-house; pome fort of fi nancial crash, or it may merely have been that the mony had come to an md; the mother remarrying, -a man Qono too fond of Denny; and Denny the cat and Mitz a canary! What you mean, darling?" "I think Mitzi'g dragging It out on purpose. Just to have you around." Eve said resolutely. "All of us girls have heard her Ulk about her tech nique with men. How her mother from Alabama taught her." "Oh, yea " Denny was laughing ays in. "Mother was the belle of the countryside, like all proper South- ern mothers any other attitude about a Southern parent Is undaugh terly. I remember! This is rich!" Encouraged, Eve went on. "She works It out like a business. She tells how you should send your self passionate anonymous notes in boxes of orchids, timed to open when men are there to hear about them. She asks different men in for "cock tails alt alone, three at a time, and pretends each one has broken in on the other without her knowing. She buys herself theater tickets and pre tends to the men she asks to go with her that the tickets have been given her by other men. . . ." Denny grinned at her. "So she doesn't really like me a bit, I'm just window dressing?" "Of course she likes you. That's not the point. The point Is, if she'd do such things, and she does, she's capable of stretching out all this Job business Just to keep you beauing her around." "Well." Denny said tolerantly, "I think all that orchid stuff Is sort of feminine and cute, but it's different from anything so important as get ting a man a belter Job. I don't think you'ro fair to Mitzi, darling." Ho stood still and took Eve's hands as they stood under the budding trees, and talked more seriously. "Girls don't understand, dear. MiUl is not only an old friend ot Mrs. Cleveland's, but Mr. Cleveland has been awfully interested in her too. This new publicity department In Northern Steel isn't to be got by Just going hat in hand and saying. 'Sir, I am a worthy young man.' You have to have friends at court as well as deliver the goods. If I thought tack ling him myself would mean that I could get the place and we could get married, don't you think I'd have roped and tied him last night?' Eve began to say, "So you think hit friendship for us doeeYt coiMt?" when there was an interruption. "I sa. I'm afraid I'm eavesdrop ping," said George's slow voice. (Copyright, IP.tr. Margarft XVMitrmirt lllen Walton eonfefi her Intense love for George, tomorrow. TO PCWTt.ANP. Ore.. April 17. i API Vl vac loxi s and prouA.Mv, Miw Ruth Clement, pmnai representative ot Mavor Hoi of 8in VYsnctww brought a temporary halt to Mavor Jowph K. Carson's rampnmn against California's hrdrr bug Inspection. The Portland mayor's refusal to rik the "hiimlluitum" of having his baguage tnpwid at the aru line In order to uttrixt thr Ooldeu Oat flfta had all 8n Pranriivo worried, "even the bugs." Mis Clement said hre yesterday. On her word that it timpertors would he "very nice'' to first visit or Mayor Carson "aid he "couldn't possibly resist' Mayor Rons! nor bis rprfntativ. Closing time Tot Too Lata to Cls- j If? Ada l 1:30 p. m. 10 FIGHT LYNCH BAN WASHINGTON. April 1 7 f AP ) - Contirasinniil lenders predicted today the urst ar.t'.-tvnrhtng bill to pw the house In 1A years would encoun ter premier opposition In Mia senate Filibuster have Kitted every pre vious at rempt trt win senate ap proval of such legislation. Even h the bouse adopted the Ciav aan bill late yesterday. 377 to 118. Senator Borah )R., Idaho) crlti.'lred what he rlid an efTort to "force through congre in unjust, uncon stitutional and, in my opinion. o unmoral measure." Southern senators wsre preparing to oppoee th measure, forecast ing warm sectional debate, similar to that which punctuated argument in the house. Oaa alsii rrlbuoa tract ads. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN MX Tot further proof addreti the author, Inelosloc (tamped enrelope for reply. Reg. V. B. Pat Off. VP WHOM &MeRICf WftS NFMED -Seven WnTlo'Xh un-flu rte So. AlhW C7MLV H-Wtfft6 Amp NeveRCDMMWfl? ft WW.., YET Wft-5 APPOINTED fltoT MAJOR of pfsitf. new) of ft PAY AfTfcft toAfomscfc 0II.-C0KTPIININO IrlK-COUJREtWKSd i lV l id'; ii i mj. i i . x a. a, r VS:-.VAf T'A Ul, IVY 1H OVePiR?, BLIND IN 'Hi Hl UEPT HPiNO,,. HcMmbt SrMMata, 1 The Real "tfead te" Dead eye" has been an expression In uh for some time to Indicate un canny accuracy in kicking a football between goal poets, sinking a basket ball through the hoop, plugging the bull's eye with a rifle or scoring in other sport which require good aim Whether or not the expression waa born before Augle Kleckhefer Is diffi cult to ascertain but It might well have originated with him. He reallv brvl a "deAd eye," figuratively and physically. Blind In his left eye throughout his entire career, Kleckhefer ranked with the greatest three-cushion bil liard playera ol the world for nearly 30 yenrs. It started plnylng the game at 10, won his first world's title In 1918. repeated in 1919. 1021. 1927 and again In 1933, before his death at 47. Though normally right handed the 3-cuahlon wizard used bis left hand for shooting billiards In order to line hts shots up with his only good eye, the right. Pilot Major of Ppnln Whether or not Amerigo Vespucci dnservea to have his name perpetual en tn that of the New World will never be known. In letter he left, he laid clnlm to the discovery of much of the New World. Modern authorities on the subject allege that he exaggerated many of his clnlm. Vespucci was a merchant by pro fession and only after ho passed the half-century mark did he go to sea On March 32, 15,08, he was appointed Pilot Major of Spain la charge of Instructing pilot, gathering geo gniphlcal data and generally super vising Spanish navigation. . Cosmetic Alcohol The Arabian word, "al-kohl, from which our modern "alcohol" la de rived, originally referred to a powder of antimony or galena, used by Ara bian women as an eyebrow paint The usage of the word grew to In clude any fine powder obtained by trituration or sublimation, then Tor my essence or spirit, finally for the liquid to which it now applies. Lumber Production Tops Week Before SEATTLE, April 17. (API Produc tion of 171 down and operating mill In Washington and Oregon last week totaled 119.451,5,17 board ft, about 5,000. 000 feet more than the previous week, the West Coast Lumbermen n association reported today. Shipment rose 4.000.000 feet to 123.697,509 feet. The association said production waa handicapped by lack of shipping spnea in water markets. New business last week amounted to 134.32ft.692 borad feet, and the unfilled -order file at the mills to taled 794.9ftft,042 feet. Use Mail mbune want ads Itaselmller .Suicides. PHILADELPHIA. April 17. ( AP) Emmet t McCann, former baseball player who started bis career as an tnfleider with the Philadelphia Athletics, was found dead yesterday In bushes on a golf course near here. Police said aicCann'a right hand clutched a pistol. Use Mat! Tribune want ads. UPPY PURSUIT By GLUYAS WILLIAMS PAV SUNPftV AFTER NOON CflU BECOMES MKRZ Irlfrf Che poppv isfbaow- IN0 1HEM. CflUAlb HIM 1b 60 HOME POPPV, APPAREHHV BKOMR STERNEK. , WFFDiXA -faF COMMAS. 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