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teSTEHOAT; To htr horror
Srsnda lnu thai sns it ntpon
rtbl. far Adelaide's warrv. Af
rcrult 0 brmda'i Bchemt to
(am tho household machinery.
Adelaide belieces sh to loiina
Iter mind. When Brmda explains,
Adelaide ttarlM to recooer, but
Brenda to irrsoonciliabls.
Chapter 29
Heavy Heart
riEENDA (tumbled wearily
''across the hall to the library.
guided by Mac'i hand at her el
bow. She waa numb with misery
and lack of sleep. She hardly
knew how ah happened to be In
a big armchair with pillowa be
hind her tired shoulders, and with
Mae holding aomething in a small
glass to her lips.
. "Drink this," he said quietly,
and docilely she swallowed It.
"It's aromatic spirits of am
monia and will buck you up," he
went on. "Now, Brenda. let me
do the talkim for a few minutes.
You Just ait there and listen until
I'm through. I know what Ade
laide told you this morning
what you told her. And I know
you're planning to tell Eric and
isoBej aoout it, too.
"How7" she whispered. "How
did you know?"
"A word or two from Stern,
aomething that Adelaide let fall
when I saw her just before din
ner; but most of all the facts
themselves. I've been the world's
dumbest idiot not to have con'
nected cause and effect before."
The stimulant was helping her
a little, instead ol tne blur mat
Mac s face had been, it was clear-
cut and friendly, even kindly.
"But I must tell everybody-
"That's exactly what you must
not dol Think, Brrnda. of some of
the harm that will cause. Isobel
will grow self-conscious for you
ran't explain what you did with
out telling why you did itl Ade
laide's friends and neighbors will
see with new eyes her casualness,
htr vagueness. Unconsciously
they'll build up an atmosphere in
which she may learn to distrust
herself again. News remains news
a long time on The Street Most
of us here have ao little to talk of
that they we mull things over
and over until sometimes they
lose their original proportions.
, . , Are you listening, Brenda?"
"Yes."
Then I beg you to keen your
own counselor this aubjecL You've
told the truth to the only two
people concerned: Adelaide, and
the doctor. Now forget the whole
thing!"
In spite of her determination,
her chin quivered, two crystal
tears rolled down her cheeks. Mac
made an involuntary movement
toward her, then stopped, one
hand gripping the back of his
chnir.
"My dear," he said In a big
brotherly tone, "you're making
too much of this. Your motive
was good. You couldn't know
about Adelaide'a mother, or what
effect your little plan would have
on her. She was over-tired to be-
fin with; perhaps already ill.
hat'a what made her put so much
tress on a few silly things she
couldn't account for."
Brenda could not speak. She
pressed her handkerchit-f against
her mouth, and sat there, her
head slightly bowed, all of her
force bent upon regaining con
trol of herselt Mac went on
steadily.
"If you were to blame I mean,
if you think you took a little too
much on yourself he smiled
"and it's feminine nature to try a
bit of matchmaking at all possible
times, I suppose! remember that
you've paid for It over and over
again. You've nursed Adelaide
tirelessly. You've given up your
own work, you've devoted your
self to ua all. And now you've ac
complished what neither her doc
tor nor her old friends could do:
you've found out what was worry
ing her, and set it right Doesn't
that sort of square accounts with
yourself?"
'Far Happier
CHE said huskily: "No. No, Mac,
it doesn't Nothing will ever
free mo from the knowledge that I
very nearly killed poor Adelaide
with my my trying to arrange
other people's lives for them!"
"Trying to help other people."
he amended kindly. "And you
have helped a lot of us. The Street
is far happier for your hsving
come."
"Not everyone on The Street!"
"No. not everyone." he agreed.
"I'm not for one. But the prr
eentage is pretty high for all that
Brenda, let's have a party. Don't
you think there have been enough
tears shed in this house lately,
ennugn anxiety, enough trouble?
What d'you say we drive down
town now and get some supplies.
Come on now. come on," he con
tinued maxinglv. "Be a sport and
come with me!1'
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She cava one last hard swallow,
wiped her eyes openly, and smiled
at him.
"Give ma Ave minutes to pow
der my nosa and get my hat and
coat on!"
It was after ten when they got
back, laden with queer, knobby
bundles. Isobel had returned from
a special broadcast Eric had spen t
the evening drowsing tiredly on
the couch in the living room. Both
greeted the shoppers with enthusi
asm. 'This Is something like!" Erie
said in a whisper. "It's high tuna
we had a celebration."
The reaction from anxiety and
sadness had set in. Even Brenda,
though she knew the days to
come, even the months to come,
might be filled with remorse at
what she still termed her med
dling, waa almost light-headed
with relief tonight The others
were frankly hilarious. Somehow
it added to their fun to know they
must keep their voices down;
must be careful not to drop any
thing. When Eric caught an over
turned chair just before It
reached the floor, it seemed ex
quisitely comic to them all, for
some reason.
At midnight they trooped to tha
kitchen and foraged. Brenda made
sandwiches of the remains of the
roast Isobel brewed a pot of cof
fee black enough to have fright
ened sleep away from Morpheus
himself. Mac brought out pickles,
strawberry jam, and the big black
olives intended for tomorrow'i
dinner. Eric sat on the kitcben
table, swinging his long lege and
cheering on his fellow boarders.
Reunited
IT WAS nearly one o'clock and
they had almost finished their
impromptu meal when a knock
at the back door startled them.
"Who on earth?" Isobel ex
claimed. Mac shot the bolt and opened
the door, peering into the dim
light. He peered, he stared, nil
eyes almost popped from his head,
as Eric told him afterward.
"Saltus!"
"And Linda," announced tha
artist proudly. "Let ua in, Mae.
We saw the light on in the living
room and went to the front dooi
but were afraid to ring for fear
of waking Adelaide. Then I caught
sight ot the light streaming out ol
this window and we came around
to see what's going on out here."
He gazed radiantly from one to
another, the bitterness gone from
his eyes, joy fairly leaping from
them. At his side stood a slender
woman whose face reflected some
thing of his own emotion.
Will you tell me. Mae de
manded, "what in the name of
all that's sensible you're doing
strolling around at this time ol
night?"
Here Linda. Hugh said
again, as If that explained every
thing. "You all know her all but
Brenda. Brenda, you blessed
child, this is my wild
"Why 1 Brenda a blessed
child?'' Eric wished to know.
"Because bless her little inter
fering heart and soul! it was she
who brought Linda home to me."
"How?" asked a chorus of
voices.
Saltus threw his wife a humor
ous glance. "May I tell 'em dar
ling?" For the first time Linda herself
spoke: in a sweet drawling voice
which held a thread of laughter.
"No. I'll do it myself, Hugh.
You're sure to make it out worse
thun it is. It was Brenda," she ex
plained, "only not in the way she
had planned. I mean having Jim
talk to ma didn't do any good.
He'd done it before lots. But
that girl in New York that Brenda
wrote to! She kept telling me that
Brenda said Hugh was wonder
ful and well," she admitted with
charming honesty, "I got jealous,
that's all. You see, I'd planned to
come back when Jim when Jim
did. I suppose that I'd thought I
had Hugh In a sort of cold storage,
waiting to be called for. The idea
that he might get interested in
another woman didn't appeal."
She smiled at Brenda.
"So she thought the matter over
and came to claim her property,"
was her husband's triumphant ad
dition. Brenda had paled and flushed
and paled again. It frightened her
to realise how greatly she could
influence the lives of others. A
gentle pull on the rein here, a
Mirk of the whip there, and peo
ple seemed to respond like high
spirited horses. It wss lueky that
tilings had turned out well for
the Saltuses.
"But they quite easily might
not," she brooded. "My letters
might have made Linda fun away
where Hugh could never have
found her.
She was very quiet during tha
subdued chatter that followed.
She made mora sandwiches for
the callers, she smiled and said
an appropriate sentence or two;
but for the most part she sat
eyes heavy with weariness, heart
heavy with a new grief.
Continued tem.riew
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home in California and a hos
pital for the Insane at Boiling
ham . Wash., was urged by Gov
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REALIZES "TriftT SOME
1riitJ6 HAS 60TT0 BE
CONE BECAUSE PIECE IS
MELTirJS RAPIDLY"
Is Captur.dl
ernor Culbert L. Olson today
in letters to two committees
of the house of representative.
Germany Charges
''Cruel Murders"
Berlin. June" 7. AP) by
radio) The German radio as
serted today that 72 German,
Italians, Russians, Hungarians,
Netherlander. Belgian, Danes
and Swiss had been "cruelly
murdered" behind the allied
line in connection with the
German offensive in western
Europe,
Closing tune tor Too Late to Claa
elf 7 Ada is 1:S0 p. m.
By GLUYA3 WILLIAMS
TO LOOKS FlRTivTIV ARCUriP
TiUDlnfc To SEE IF THERE'S AhV
HftVI A
PLACE HE CAN DISPOSE Of
REST Of HIS PIECE
fVTsiTlMNOUTrl AM
SWAU0W4 HARP, DIMLY
AWARE THAT HOSTESS IS
ABOUT 1D TRESS HIM TO
TAKE ANOTHER PlECE
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Blllerne-s of Ihe n1l war gone, the t'nited Stutei Koterninent honor, the memory of 2.13B Coofederata
ulfllrni mlth an K.-riot nhelKk at I'lnn. Point nallon.l cemetery. In the northern .tiite of New Jersey. Hera
alM are burled 135 1'nlon Mildler.. The 2.1341 C'oufederates, raiilured at the Battle of tlettitburr, later died
of cholera at fort Delaware.
KEYEKE'ft ARREST
Paul Revere, of ftt. Paul, Minn.. mut hare said: "The bluecoat. are coming! when Red Wing cops chased!
hlin for npeedln:. that the cops thought of hit name I. not on record.
ftlNUAY: Armies on skU.
PAUL REVERB
For speedim!
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ONLY UNDER-HMD
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