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py UL.UTAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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The Character!
Nina impulsively married
David and it trying to forget her
intense love for her stepfather.
Richard, the charming, well
tailored stepfather, shamelessly
talks of loi-3 to Nina.
Honey, Nina's gay, plump,
youthful mother, it wild about
Richard, her newly acquired huj
bflnd. David, a bright young auto
talesman, adores Nina and strives
to make her happy on his small
talary.
Chapter 28
'Lean On Me . .
JN SPITE of herself, Nina drew a
sharp, shuddering breath be
tween her teeth: but Hester lust
sat, as still as death. Over her pale
face had come that look of numb
ness, that Nina knew so well . . .
and with its return, she suddenly
realized that Hester's face had not
been pale a moment before . . .
that she had looked happy . . . ani
mated. After a minute, her lovely new
color came back.
Her voice, when she spoke, was
as calm as ever, and yet it had an
undertone of excitement to it
"You recognized mv voice any
way, didn't you, Hian? And that's
'doing pretty well, after all these
years ..."
"How could I . . . forget? The
last hunt ball you were wearing
white. You had something soft and
misty, over your shoulders, that
floated.
"Tulle. It caught in your studs,
while we were dancing . . ."
"Yes. I wanted to be careful, un
fastening it, but vou vanked . . .
remember? I went about with a
little wisp of it, hanging there."
Hester yanking at her dress!
Tearing it! Hester, who was so
careful and precise . . .
Nina looked at her. wondering
ly, and then continued to look.
That color in her cheeks ... It
might have come from the danc
ing, of course, and yet . . . And that
lilting laugh ...
"You led the band. Rian . . . ad-1
for her . . . and she would havt
been so sure to come!"
Nina found that lhe was holding
her breath.
The music started up again, and
the Irishman stirred in his chair.
He seemed to remember Nina'i
presence for the first time.
"Don't let me keep you ladies
from the festivities, please ... I
was fust about to push along, my
self, anyway." His voice sounded
dreadfully flat, all of a sudden.
I wonder if one of you would be
good enough to send for my man,
Masters ... I hired a car at the inn,
He'll be outside waiting."
Nina said: "I'll go . . .
But Hester cut in.
"Don't bother, my dear." Her
voice was not quite steady. "I'll go
with Mr. McHugh to the car. Give
me your arm, Rian. Lean on
me . . ."
For a moment he hesitated, and
then reached out for her hand.
He must have said goodnight to
Nina, and she must have answered
him. but she was not aware of it.
Her eyelids were tingling with
tears.
She watched them wend their
way, slowly, across the ballroom.
Rian so tall and dark, so splendid,
but for that rigid side . . . those
blind blue eyes . . . And Hester,
helping him. "Lean on me. . . ."
The band blazed gaily. Couples
began to crowd out on to the dance
floor, and presently the two were
out of sight.
David came up while Nina was
standing there.
"Sweetheart; Youll never for
give me ... I fell asleep in the
coat-room. I sat down for half a
second, and I was gone! Darl
ing . . ."
But she wasn't listening to his
apologies.
She put her hand on his arm.
"David," she said softly, "the
most extraordinary thing . . ." and
then she couldn't bring herself to
tell him, it was so fantastic.
Nina had th feeling that it was
the last she, or any one else there,
would ever see of those two; that
as quietly as she did everything
else Hester had gone to spend the
rest of her life at Glymrock . . .
that great bare castle, with its
blind master, and its 86 empty
rooms.
i!ISM;nnn
Rian so splendid, but for that rigid side those blind
eyes. And Hester helping him.
tnlt, now, you were lust the least
bit tight!
"I was quite drunk, Hester . . .
drunk with . . ." he hesitated,
"drunk with youth and life . . . Col
ored boys, they were. Just up from
Baltimore. They were the rage
then, weren't they?"
Hester Comes To Life
MTNA had the strangest sensa
' ' tion, as though she were sit
ting on top of a volcano ... or out
in the open, iust before a fierce
electric storm, when nothing has
happened yet, the leaves are just
beginning to stir . . . and yet the air
is so charged with something, that
you know any minute, the heavens
will open . . ,
The old hunt ball, Hester's torn
dress ... the band . . . There was
nothing of portent about their ac
tual words, nnd yet Nina felt the
thunder in the air.
Again that bricht smile of Hes
ter's. What mis it? . . . Ah, yes,
now she kr.ew. It was warm, glow
ing, as though after years of
walking about in a trance she
had suddenly come to life again.
She only said: "Tell me, Rian,
are you hero tor long, my dear?"
But now Nina knew the whole
story.
Hester was the girl.
And now, she was lovely, not a
beautiful cold statue, but a lovely
woman. Warm . . . human . . .
Hian's words came hack: "It
would have been so easy to send
She never forgot the picture
they made . . . walking away to
gether ... as the band played. . . .
Such A Brave Act
"T SIMPLY can't believe It!"
Honey's eyes were round.
"Hester, of all people! I feel as
though I were dreaming," said
Cordelia, In an awed voice. "Carl
. . . poor Carl . . ."
They were all standing In a
huddle in the middle of the up
stairs hall, at Harmony. It was
Ave in the morning.
Carl had come out and read
them Hester's brief note, in a
queer, strange voice, and then ex
cused himself. Cordelia had gone
to him, nnd taken his hand. He
had held on to It tightly.
"To do such a ... a brave thing,
she must care so very much, that
I am not going to try and stop
her," he said gravely.
He had looked stunned ... but
not broken.
Honey and Cordelia and David
and Tony, all said various things,
in subdued voices . . . but Nina an?
Richard onlv looked at each other,
saying nothing at all.
One thought beat, relentlessly,
in Nina's brain.
"She had the courage to give up
everything ... to hurt people! She
was brave enough to go away with
the man she loved . . ."
(Cfipyrinht, XIST. ilariertt Btrsng)
Aunt Carrie ralwa Nina'i Iran tt
Honty'i health, tomorrow.
YOUNG DOCTORS GET
SEL
LONDON (XTp) A long list of
rto'" end "rton'u" to fluid them
to ccc and popularity mons
ptUlcnt Jim bwn oirtrwl ttudnnU
of th WtBtmlnttr Hospital MtvUcnl
school by air Seymour lllckt. fumoun
actnrmawwr, a miking a a "patient
01 to yearn' blnnctlng"
"1 have enjoyed a (treat many very
pu-ajmnt illnciNH'S in my time." he
aaid 'In I act, tit time. 1 have almost
brvn a pnis5imal patient. That 1
my only eru.e for having lhe temer
ity to come here and give you a few
arraps of advice to remember when
you Irave tha hospital and embark
on fifneral practice."
Here are sir Seymour 'a Do'a ano
Icn't mr ymn,; 1o;tor.
Don t Jttp jour paUeuU waiUi.
i Don't lt your wife talk about
medicine and aurgery in private Ufa.
Don't give ua amall talk in the
conau 1 1 1 ng - room .
Dnnt try and Impreiw on ua that
you're attending Lord and Lady Up
Mirk. Don't allow aoandal to ba talked
In your presence.
Don't back horae.
Don't go to the moneylender.
Don't talk medical ahop in mixed
company.
Do alwaya dreaa for the part.
Do cultivate an eaiy, tmlHng man
ner. Do employ a trolling parlormaid
to open the door.
Do be definite, even If you ar
wrong.
A general practitioner' patient,
said Sir Seymour, are divided Into
four kind.
"Fifty percent of them are natural
people be very kind to them." h
ad vised. "Thirty percent are thy
treat them with tolerance. Ten per
cent are anoba give them a ewift
kick In the nanta. And ten percent
are Idiot. Get down on your kneA
and thank heaven for that laat ten
percent for they'll never find you
out."
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The world has thrilled to tht poem
In quaint Hoooler dialect of a typical
mid-western autumn, which first ap
peared In the Indiana poll Journal
under the name of "Benjamin P.
Johnson of Boone." a famous pseud
onym and character developed by
James Whltcomb RUey, American
poet.
Strange as It seems, Riley not only
won hla literary laurels by writing
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his first recognition as a poet by
forging the name of Edgar Allan Foe
to one of his own writings!
Big news reached the literary world
one day In 1877 In the form of a news
story and poem published In the Ko
komo (Indiana) Dlspatcb. The poem,
characteristically entitled "Leonanle,"
appeared over the Initials "E. A. P."
An accompanying story by the editor
declared the poem to be a lost work
of the Immortal Edgar Allan Poe.
It allegedly had been discovered on
the fly-leaf of a copy of Alnsworth's
"Dictionary" by a traveler In an old
Inn near Richmond, Va.
A storm of comment was provoked,
one literary faction claiming the
poem to be a genuine work of Poe.
another labeling It a fake. Finally
the publisher of the Dispatch. J.
Oscar Henderson, broke down and ad
mitted the whole thing was a boas,
perpetrated by himself and a young
sign painter named James Whltcomb
Rltey. Even then many critics re
fused to believe that they had been
duped and clung to the Illusion that
the poem actually was written by
Poe.
Riley, author of the hoax, had
written the poem to prove that his
heretofore unsuccessful efforts to win
recognition with his poetry were elm
ply due to the fact that he was an
unknown.
EXHIBIT COMMISSION
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 24. (PI The
Shasta-Cascade exposition commission
filed Incorporation papers today with
the secretary of state. It has as Its
objective the publicizing of the at
tractions and advantages of the
Shasta-Cascade Wonderland and the
furnishing of an exhibit at the 1939
Ootden Gate International exposition.
Counties In the Incorporation are
Tehama, Lassen, Modoc, Siskiyou.
Trinity and Shasta In California, and
Lake. Klamath and Jackson In Oregon.
Directors named In tha papera in
cluded Marshall Cornett of Klamath
Falls.
The Weather.
Northern California: Pair south
and Increasing cloudiness north
portion tonight and Thursday prob
ably with rain extreme north coast;
cooler south portion tonight; mod
erate northwest wind off coast, ex
cept aoutherly off extreme north
coast.
Oregon: Occasional rain tonight
and Thursday, moderate temperature;
fresh to strong southerly wind off
coast.
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