MEDFOttT) MAIL TRIBUNE, MET)FORD, onEflOX. MONDAY NOVEMBER 22. 1937.
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The Character
Nina impulfivcly married
David and Is trying to orjjit her
Intents lou or hsr tpathcr.
Rlchardt tH charming, uU
tailored stepather, shamelessly
talks 0 lout to Nina.
Honey, Nina's gay, plump,
youthjul mother, ie ujild about
Richard, her netoly acquired hue
band. David, a bright youno auto
salesman, adores Nina and ttrivet
to make her happy on his smalt
salary.
Chapter 26
Encounter With Richard
'I happen to know that Challoner
hasn t a cent over S3,uuu a
rear," Tony waa saying. o"I aLso
bappen to know '.hat two of his
bills last year, in London a tailor
on Bond street, and a (porting
Koods store amounted to exactly
lat figure."
Three thousand dollarsl And
Honey's menage cost her at least
(20,000 a year. . . .
Her mother had said, that day In
the blue and white room: "Bich
lrd is perfectly sensible and
broad-minded about letting me
lhare expenses . . ." But according
to Tony's figures, "sharing" was
hardly the right word, was it?
Tony went on: "Now mind you.
I don't say he doesn't pay his bills,
nd I don't say he procures an ad
ditional income, by any shady
means. I simply say that he spends
every cent on his back and for his
own personal amusement . . . and
lats his numerous friends (and
now, probably, his wife) look after
his living expenses."
Nina did, actually, feel a little
shocked; but she managed to per
suade herself that the standard
David had taught her, that had
eemed only self-respecting and
right in his case, did not apply to
Richard at all. And the very fact
that she was head over heels in
love with him, kept her from real
izing that it was love coloring her
ludgment.
Well, that was that.
Nina went on up to her room,
and devoted every ounce of her
considerable skill, to making her
self look as lovely as possible for
the evening.
She came hurrying down the
great stairway, in little skips.
Her lettuce green evening dress
was of silk net, with taffeta polka
dots appliqued onto it in charm
ing prolusion. It floated after her
like a foamy wave, trying to catch
up with her; and her fair curls
bobbed up, and then bobbed back
Into place again, like the good lit
tle curls they were.
"Nina . . ." It was a low murmur.
At the curve of the landing,
Richard was waiting for her . . .
loitering at the window, with a
cigarette in his hand, so as not to
attract notice.
"Nina . . ." again. He stepped in
front of her. "My crazy, impulsive
. . sweet!"
"Richard!" Or had she said,
"darling?"
"Whv did you do it, NinaT Why
, . . loving me . . .7"
"Please . . . I'm happy. Let me
go. Richard."
She didn't mean, down the
stairs; she meant, let her go free
f him.
"You don't mean that, darling?"
"I must."
"You don't want to havt this
thing over between us, any more
than I. Nina . . . precious, it needn't
have been. You and I . . ."
"Hush. We mustn't talk this way.
Richard. Please."
" 'Mustn't you talk as though
love could be turned on and off at
will!"
Don t come so close, we must
turn It off, Richard."
"We . . . can't"
"Someone is coming."
"We love each other,"
"Help me, Richard . . . darling.
Help me to be good."
"I . . . can't, Nina."
"Someone is coming.1"
Weaving A Romantic Plot
THERE were 12 for dinner that
night, in the spacious white
walled dining-room.
They were going on. later, to the
Hunt ball.
There waj the inevitable talk
N. of horses, and the recent meet and
Tnore horses.
"Dirty big brute, that bay of
Coming's. All but jumped on top
of me three separata times this
morning. . . ."
". . . no grass for grazing like a
mixture of Timothy, Kentucky
blue grass, and red and white
Dutch clover . . ."
"I hear Payson's considering
What Next' for the Maryland."
"Don't like her." remarked Carl
laconically, "lands with a grunt."
Nina glanced round the table
AT SANTA CLAUS
SANTA rUl'J. tnd., Nor. 31.
fCPI The first Renrral snowfall of
1037 brought a deluge of mall to this
sltepr little aouthrrn Indiana village
today and the annual rush of the
world's moat famous txvttofflee began
five weeka before Christmas.
Trucks brought bulging mall
pouchea from the npsr?st railroad
station. 12 mllea distant.
Poatmaeter Oscar L. Phillips called
hia daughter. Beatrice, to help him
with the most unique Job In the poa
tal service
"The Christmas rush already ta
starting.'" Phillips said. "I look for
a record recr. Wei handle at least
1.000 pieces of mall today. Of couree
that figure will Increase every day
for the nest month."
New Ross Aide.
POKTLAND, Not. J (UPI U J
Olendron assumed hu duties Kxlsy as
executive assistant to J. D. Rosa.
Bonneville administrator. He former
ly waa wsiii ihe V, 8. Shipping Board
In West in ton.
i iAmvanu
y MARCAAET CUION HEUZOC V (J
The flickering light from the tali
silver candeiabras, shining on the
crystal, and the women's jewels,
and the bright shades of their eve
ning gowns, gave an unreal air to
the scene . , . like a magazine illus
tration, or the setting for a play.
Still glowing from Tier encounter
with Richard . . . glowing with the
knowledge that he did love her . . .
Nina allowed her romantic fancy
to run away with her. She looked
again, at the people about her, and
thought of them in terms of the
theater.
Honey there, on Carl's left,
watching Richard . . . straining to
hear what he was saying. Wearing
a goldy satin thing, with topaz,
the color of her hair . . . her name.
Head over heels in love with a
young husband, who, in turn,
loved someone else. How did she
think he felt about her? How did
he? . . . That was part of the play.
Tony Leeds, next so brown and
correct looking glancing again
and again at the lovely girl beside
him ... in whose eyes, when she
did return his gaze, there was only
friendship to be found.
The girl was Cordelia dark and
beautiful, in clinging American
Beauty crpe, listening to an anec
dote, mat uari, at tne neaa oi tne
table, was recounting. What story
could you weave about her? She
never fell in love with anyone . . .
perhaps that was it. Perhaps that
was part of the plot.
And young Tommy, on her left
side. Red of face, eager to please
both Cordelia and Colonel bel-
fridge's sedate wife . . , but mostly
Cordelia.
David then . . . with his adorable.
scrubbed, healthy look . . . not in
the least afraid of the Colonel's
wife, and thereby making a great
hit with her. Sweet, funny David,
so very crazily in love with his
wife, who . . . Nina laughed at her
plot. It was so intricate.
And next Hester . . . There uaa
character! Hester in white, a
medieval portrait . . . and just
about as alive looking. Was there
a story there? Or did she deserve
a good shaking? Was she capable
of loving anyone?
At her left. Sid Colonel Selfr die.
the weather-beaten M.F.H.: and
Lilith so unlike her name in her
inevitable black lace, straightfor
ward and friendly, with a trace of
powder on the end of her nose, as
concession to the festive occa
sion.
And Richard Challoner.
Nina's fantasy plav. stoDDed
there, and became a dream ... a
wicked, lovely dream of being free
to roam the world with him. never,
never to leave his side.
It was shattered bv Carl, beside
her at the head of the table . . .
one of the players she had forgot
ten to analyze . . . ruddy cnoeKed
and handsome, in his full dress
hunt "color. Could he be happy,
with oueer. wraithlike Hester for
a wife?
He said: "Dreaming. Nina?
And she said; "Yes," without
blushing.
The Sound Of Footsteps
THEY all drove over to the ball
shortly before 11.
David groaned, as he got in a
car beside Nina. Groggy with
fatigue, his muscles aching from
the unaccustomed exercise of the
morning, he contemplated the ap
proaching festivities, and the fur
ther necessity of heaving his poor
body about, with consternation.
Hia thoughts, he told her,
strayed continually to the warm
fastness of his comfortable bed.
Would Nina be a lamb and sit out
with him, from time to time, when
he simply couldn't carry on?
And it ras because Nina was a
lamb a willing lamb, as a matter
of fact that they found them
selves watching (he dancing from
the sidelines, in the early hours oi
the morning.
The Hunt ball was being held In
one of those huge houses, of which
there is at least one in every well-to-do
community, and which is in
variably called "The Manor," oi
"The Hall."
This one was 'The Manor," and
Nina and David were sitting in the
half-gloom of the conservatory,
from which they could view th
scene.
After a minute, David said
'This comfortable armchair, and
this dark, are having a deadly ef
fect on me. sweetheart. Would you
mind if 1 limped out and got a
drink and threw some cold watei
on my face? . . . Shall I get some
one to . . .?"
"No, darling. I'm tired, too. Til
wait here, quietly. Run along. . . ."
He kissed her and departed.
He had only been gone a minute
or two, when the sound of slow
footsteps attracted her attention.
Her heart leapt right up to her
throat.
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the rrlnnlfd rouns Irishman
TAKES TO ITER
fiAN rRANClaiSO, Not. 32. (UT)
The U. 8. 8. McCMl, new four mil
lion dollar dMtroyr nd fimt nvl
ww! to be built in ft prlrntfl Rhtp
yard on th wr at co.m inc the
World wr, vu launched Saturday at
the Bethlehem shipyard.
Te ahlp waa chtiMened by Mtu
Eleanor Kenipff. daughter of Rear
Admiral Clarence S. Kenipff, com
mandant of the 13th naal district,
before a crowd of civic and state
official..
The new alup aa mtmeft after
Lieut. Edward Rutledec McCail, naval I
hero of the war of 1813,
, ,
Milt Maitil Klltrtl ;
NORTH BEND. Ovt., Nov. 33. lAP j
Injuries suffered uf struck by a '
broken saw at the ItmptTe Lumber
company were total to U W Brigs.
35, of Charleston.
Yrgetiihle Miel Mud)
WASHINGTON. Nv 33 AP.
Authority to spend 11,000.000 on ex
periments lth tenable fuel in
be sought, hy Representative O.
Wo !!) ( 'ink of Ktaha ami Claini
La oi CslUornta,
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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.ON WHICH THE C0U6
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tub &UION DOLLAR
x WAR DEBT
Clirard College
In enjoin and require that no ec
clesiastic, missionary, or minister" of
any sect whatsoever, shall hold or
exercise any station or duty whatever
In the said college; nor ahull any
such person ever be admitted for
any purpose, or as a visitor, within
the premises . .
In these no uncertain terms did
Stephen Olrard, founder of Phlladel-
hla's famed orphanage. Olmrd col
lege, emphaaln his secularlstlc Ideas
in his will that endowed the Institu
tion with some $6,000,000 !n 1831.
Born a Frenchman, Olrard went to
sea as a boy. He endured much ridi
cule because of the loss of one eye,
and early adopted a philosophy of
utilitarianism. It waa his love of
free and unfettered thwupht that led
Vandalism Costly
PORTLAND, Nov. 32. (AP) The
cost of a special police force to
halt vandalism in Portland's labor
war exceeds $1000 a day, police of
ficials said. . The principal cost Is
wages, with tar gas. gasoline ana
other Items estimated at 1,244 a
month.
TAILSPIN TOMMY Tha Talkative Passenger 1
While tommy's
amd skeete(?'s
attentiom was
diverted at
dimmer , dirkmam,
the sad-faced
pas5enger, dropped
tablets into
their coffee. but
whatever was his
motive, the boys,
so far, feel mo
ill effect .
KIEAf1WHILE , THE
PASSENGERS
AT THE MARQUEE,
ARE BEING BORED
BY THE TALKATIVE,
MR. BLURT 2 .
BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER
BtW AW' JUUE ARE - AH ,yjOl).0UT) TUIUO
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THE NEBBS He Wm So Handsome
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him to ban ecclesiastic! from Girard
college, believing as he did that
young minds should be sheltered from
clashing doctrines and sectarian' con
troversy. Religion, however, plays a large
part today In the daily routine at
Olrard. Daily chapel, service Includes
Scripture reading and prayer, with
an addrens delivered by a staff mem
ber or visiting speaker although
never a minister.
Olrard emphasized In hia strange
will that he djd not intend to cast
any reflection upon any religious
group or person by his non-sectarian
tenets in founding 'the colloge that
has endured 89 years under those
principles. t
British War Debt
During the conrw of the World
Flood Project Hit
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 22. ( AP)
Value of the flood control features
of the proposed Willamette valley
project were stressed at a luncheon
here by Col. Thomas M. Robins, U. S.
army division engineer, who added
that "all essential projects'" are not
warranty now.
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who did
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war, Great Britain borrowed sums
from the United States aggregating
more than 4,6OO,00Q.OO0. In 1933
repayment was begun on annual In
stallments of about 180.000.000. but
was suspended In 1932 with the Hoo
ver moratorium. One conscience
stricken Englishman's sporting blood
prompted him to continue the pay
ments and he forthwith milled the
U. S. treasury the sum of one farth
ing (worth !i cent) to be applied
toward his country's debt.
If every one of the 486-odd mil
lions of British subjects In the em
pire contributed a farthing a day to
ward the war debt, in about five
years It woUd become non-exlstant.
Tomorrow:
Orlchiiite?
How Did "Blackmail'
Gets Federal Post.
LA GRANDE. Nov. 22 (AP) George
T. Cochran, attorney, waa appointed
by Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes-
Saturday to a commission to investi
gate financial and economic condi
tions of United States and Indian
reclamation projects.
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