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Chapter 29
New Doubt
SUE ELLEN knew now why
Johnny was delayed why he
had brought Deedora. Johnny had
been with Deeaora.
The thought sickened her.
: It wai Ginny who brought the
details ot the event leading up
ta Riva accident
. At first she determined not to
e-e anyone who would mention
Riv. when Aunt Car came in to
t.ll hor that Ginnv was down
aUirs. It was Aunt Car who
showed a sudden spirit and de
manded that she talk to Ginny.
Ginny tiptoed in ana stood star
ing at her wide-eyed. Her woeful
expression aroused the first spark
if imiurment in Sue Ellen.
"Come in; I'm not dying. I'm Just
lazy.
I harl in see vou. Sue Ellen,
before Toby and I left this after
noon to be married. I am meeting
him at one o'clock and we expect
to be back Sunday. With all your
added worries, 1 aon i expect you
to break the news of my elope
ment to Mother, and will leave
her a note explaining every'
Ginny continued: "Toby Is ao
excited about our marriage, but
terribly upset because he thinks
he helped patch up things with
vr.it and Ft iv. Can vou imagine
anvone with a broken back not
dy'in" . a .
Ginny sat down on the end or
the bed, "Why didn't he die?"
she demanded. "Better men have
died stumbling over their own
feet. Riv's death would have sim
plified everything. Here's Johnny
Harris, as awell a man as any girl
could get"
"What about Johnny?" asked
- Sue Ellen. "Why bring Johnny
' into this?"
"He's In already, observed
Ginny. "Why was he out at Dee
dora'a last night and why did Riv
rush away from there, tirunK ana
quite insane with rage?
"What dn vou mean?"
"You don't know that Johnny
Harris was at Deedora's and that
was why Riv went into a regU'
lar tantrum?"
i "Hn An vou know all this?
"Aunt Heppie heard it last
night He left just a few minutes
Slier niv ana louna mm. nc camr
back and telephoned for help and
he and Joe got him Into Johnny's
car and Johnny brought him into
town. He took him to Doctor War
ren and the doctor had him taken
straight out to Oak HiU in the
aurbulance."
Sue Ellen pushed the break
fast tray aside and sat with her
hands linked about her knees.
"Who knows all this?"
"Who knows? Everybody. There
are stories afloat which would
would make you scream with
rage and die with laughter, if
things weren't so serious. You are
supposed to have rushed out to
Oak Hill and told Riv you would
get a divorce and marry him as
soon as he recovered. Deedora
threatened to kill you for taking
her place at Riv's bedside. Rumors
, that Riv will be a cripple. How
ever, that's not true, for the spe
cialist told Doctor Warren he
would recover." Ginny grinned.
Riv found one way to escape the
draft."
"Ginny how awful to aay
that."
Ginny shrugged. "I thank the
Lord I never fell for his fascina
tion. Look at you and Deedora."
"Why me?"
"Because you have a husband
who's crazy about you and is
wretched because he thinks you
. itill love Riv Moore."
, "Why should he?"
"Why shouldn't he?" demanded
Ginnv.
With this remark. Ginny said
he must leave, as she had a few
things more to do and would call
her when she returned.
"The very best of luck. Ginny
dear." Sue Ellen said soberly.
"Thank you. Sue Ellen, and I
Just know that everything will
straighten Hseu out
The Colonel Begging
A ITER Ginny left Sue Ellen
lay for a long time, ntting to
gether what Ginny had told her.
For some unrxplainable reason,
Johnny had gone out to see Dee
dora while she sat waiting for
him at Magnolia House. Toby,
misinformed by someone, had
persuaded her to fly to Riv as
though he were her lover on a
deathbed, and with a heart sick
and sore and bewildered, she had
forgotten everything but her pitv
for Riv and done something which
Riv might understand and others
would certainly misconstrue.
No one mattered but Johnny.
Did he understand?
There was no opportunity to
learn what Johnny thought or
felt In the following weeks, he
called he wrote. But the con
versation hinged upon Belle
Acres and her success in skirting
the plans he had made for its re
construction. At Christmas tie
aent her a short fur coat with
a note saying that the coat might
be of no use in Mississippi, but
when she came East the note
stopped there. It was the one
scrap of evidence that Johnny
believed that there was a fulure
which they would share together.
On New Year's Day. Colonel
Moore called. Riv was back from
the Memphis hospital, where they
bad taken him the same night she
had rushed off through the rain te
see him. Riv wanted to see her
now.
"I have no right to be with
Riv," she told the Colonel.
The Colonel looked old and
shattered. Rumors about Tyler
Springs hinted that he had had
to mortgage Oak Hill heavily to
finance Riv's care in Memphis.
Others said that sympathizing
friends had managed to hush up
a hint that Colonel Moore was
heavily involved at the bank.
"Could you do anything to help
Riv?" pleaded the Colonel.
She shook her head. "Riv will
have to learn to help himself."
Good advice, but after the
Colonel had gone she wondered
just how she could apply that
same advice to herself. Not by
fretting and worrying and misin
terpreting Johnny's actions. Work
might help, and for the next few
weeks she worked feverishly with
the plan to restore Belle Acres to
its former beauty.
Johnny had thought he might
return in January, but January
passed with no mention of that
promise. The weather was not
warm, but clear and pleasant, and
work was started out at the plan
tation and Sue Ellen became ab
sorbed in It and the desire to have
as much as possible done before
Johnny's coming.
It waa a strange marriage. She
tried not to think of it to busy
herself so that the days would
pass quickly until Johnny would
come back. She tried not to har
bor a single doubt about Johnny,
although she knew that gossip
had never ceased about the fact
that Johnny had been with Dee
dora on that rainy December
night and that it was rage over
this, as well as too much liquor,
which was responsible for Riv's
wild driving.
It was not wise to dwell on this.
It embittered her and made her
uncertain of the future.
She bought a car. Johnny had
sent the check and told her he
had put in an order with a local
dealer. She should pick out a car
and a man would teach her to
drive. After that she drove all
over the county to sales Bnd auc
tions, and at last Belle Acres be
gan to take on character.
The workmen finished the re
pairs on woodwork and painting
the first week in February, and
the first furniture was moved in.
Then there were trips for drap
eriesshe worked now in a fever
of impatience, with one idea.
When Johnny came, he should
meet her at Belle Acres. They
would be together there and talk
together and reach that perfect
understanding to which she
looked forward.
Wedding
T7ARM days came in February.
The nights were chill but
the sun was like a spring sun,
brieht and clear and hot on her
neck when she superintended the
landscaping of the great sweep
of front lawn and puzzled over
the clearing of the tangle of brush
and brambles In the rose garden.
Finally she turned the rose
garden over to Aunt Car's super
vision. Aunt Car seemed to blos
som as she worked; she took on
weight and her pale cheeks col
ored a rosv pink.
"Aunt Car! You're beautiful."
Aunt Car blushed. There was
something puzzling about her
confusion.
A few days later Sue Ellen
heard the reason. Aunt Car had
received not one but many let
ters from Johnny's father, the
man she had loved so long ago.
He was in Washington and
planned to come South tofsee her.
He was eager to renew fneir ac
quaintance and meet Sue Ellen.
Aunt Car confessed all of this
one evening when she slipped in
to Rue Ellen's room. "1 don't dare
tell Pleas," Aunt Car said guiltily.
"Aunt Car you still love
him!"
"He says that he has always
loved me."
Then John Harris came. Tall
and grey haired, with bright blue
eyes in a fare as lean anil tanned
and unlined as his son's. Even
Aunt Pleas unbent and showed
little surprise when the an
nouncement came that John Har
ris and Aunt Car planned to stand
up together in a little Episcopal
Church and be married one week
later.
"But Aunt Car he's practical
ly a stranger! How can you know
you'll be happv after all these
years?" demanded Sue Ellen.
Aunt Car was trying on the
dress in which she would be mar
ried. Grey, like her hair, with soft
touches of fur. Her evps were
clear and shining as a girl's. "She
has no doubts," thought Sue E'.len
enviously, even before Aunt Car
said: "I love John and he laves
me. That's all I need to know."
Johnny wired congratulations
and regrets. He had hoped to at
tend the wedding but he would
be in Tyler Springs the following
week.
The next week! There was so
much to be done. After Belle
Acres was almost ready, the rains
descended and ruined all the lawn
and put an end to work until the
storm was over.
Rain and more rain, a steadv,
miserable downpour which lasled
for a week with no sum of ces
sation, and with the rain all the
old doubts returned. Whv be so
sure that Johnny loved her?
Te be eontlnaed
FLYING CLUB'S PLANE
SMASHED BY HIGH WIND
Marshfield. Nov. 15
A gust of wind ripped a light
Arrow't Newest . . ,
shirt
-J BRIGADE STRIPES
$2.50
found only at
Store for Men
airplane belonging to the Sun
rise Flying club trom its moor
ing lnte yesterday and blow it
MO feet, smashing the wings and
fuselage.
The plane had been moored
with rope. William Miller, presi
dent of the club, made up of
Marshfield and North Bend busi
nessmen, said the plane would be
trucked to Portland for repairs.
CONVICTION UPHELD
New York, Nov, 15. i.-pi
The appellate division of the
state supreme court today up
held the grand larceny and
forgery conviction 13 months
ago of George Scalise. former
president of the International
Bu'lding Service Emplojcs L'n
lion CAi'L).
On the Radio Chains
STATIONS!
Chain affiliation and whera
thry are on the dial:
KsLK (Milt) 13.(0. Portland,
KI.X (NHI -Blue) IIWI, Portland;
HI, A (.NBC-Hill t, MHS 1310.
fcpokane: KC.O t.NHC-Hlue) 810.
Kan lranrleo; KOW (SHC-Hrdl
6!U. Portland; KJR (MR-Blun
looo. braille; K.NX (till) 1010.
lot Angrln-. KOA (MIC-llcd) S.VI.
Denver; KOIN (CBS) 9u, Port
land: HOMO (MiC-Rrd) S0.
HrattlF-, KPO (NBC-Krd) 680,
Ban rranclsro; KSL (CDS) 1160.
anlt Lake CUT.
- lime shown Is P8I
Sunday
5:00 p. m. Edgar Bergen. KPO,
KOW, KOMO; Columbia Workshop.
KNX. KSU KOnV; Voloo of prophecy,
KEX; Gospel Clinic. KJR.
A:30 p. m. Concert by Alvlno Rey.
KJR, KEX; One Man's Family. KPO,
KOW. KOMO; Spelling Beellner,
KNX; Musical Highlights, KOO; Cas
tles In the Air, KOIN; Off the Rec
ord, KSL.
6:00 p. tn. Sunday Evening Hour.
KNX. KSL, KOIN: Orandpappy and
His Pals. KOO. KEX. KJR: Manhat
tan Merry-Oo-Round. KPO, KOMO.
KOW.
6:30 p. m. Bookman's notebook,
KOO, KEX; American Album of Fa
miliar Music. KPO, KOMO, KOW;
Conr. of Jewa and Christiana, KJR.
7:00 p. m. Hour of Charm, KPO,
KOMO. KOW; Goodwill Hour. KOO,
KEX. KJR; Take It Or Lean It. KNX.
KSL. KOIN.
7:30 p. m Helen Hayes Theater,
KNX, KSU KOIN: Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes. KPO, KOW, KOMO.
I 00 p. m. Crtma Doctor, KNX.
' KOIN"; Vara Vague, KPO, KOW.
KOMO. Inner Sanctum, KOO. KEX.
KJR.
i 6:30 p. m. Jack Benny. KOO. KJR.
KEX; I Waa There. KNX. KOIN;
Beau Bolr Musleale, KOW; Highway
Night Express, KOMO: Etchings In
, Brass, KPO.
! e 00 p. m. Walter Wlnchell. KPO,
j KOMO, KOW; Irene Rich, KOO,
KJR. KEX; Leon P. Drews, KOIN;
String Ensemble. KSL.
30 p. m. Highway Night Expreas.
KEX; Memory Book of Melodies,
KOO; Quia of Two Cities. KOW.
KOMO; Baker Theater, KOIN; Regal
Ambllnga, KPO; Sunday Evening on
Temple Square, KSL.
10:00 p. m Reporter Newa. KPO,
KOW, KOMO: Screen Oulld Theater,
KNX; Tapestry Musleale, KOO. KJR.
KEX: News. KOIN: Hollywood Tem
ple. KJR; Salon Orch.. KSL.
10:30 p. m. Paul whlteman'a
Orch, KPO. KOW, KOMO. Dance
Orch, KOIN, KNX; Amen Comer
Prgm., KEX; Sabbath Reveries. KSL.
11:00 p. m. Bill Clifford's Orch,
KEX: Ken Stevens. KOIN, KSL:
Strings that Sing. KPO. KOW; News,
KNX. KOO.
Monday
6:00 p.. m Adventure Stories,
t KUU, KEX, aju; vox pop. KSL,.
, KOIN: Stars of Today, KOW; Jan
Arden. KOMO; Don Wln&low of the
Navy. KPO.
6:30 p. m. News of tha World,
KOO. KEX, KJR: Cocktail Hour,
KOW; Bill Henry. KNX: Leon P.
Drewa. . KOIN"; . Three-Pour Time.
KOMO: Waltz Rhythm. KPO; Voices
of yesterday, KSL.
6:00 p. m. Radio Theater. KNX.
KOIN. KSL; Dr. I. Q., Jim McClaln.
KPO. - KOW, KOMO; Secret City,
KOO, KEX; Scandinavian Reporter,
KJR.
6:30 p. m . For America, We Sing.
KOO. KEX; That Brewatar Boy, KPO,
KOW. KOMO; Tropical Mooda. KJR.
7:00 p. m. Mercury Theater. KNX.
KOIN. KSL: Monday Merry-Oo-Round,
KOO, KEX, KJR: Contented
Hour. KPO. KOW. KOMO.
7:30 p. m. Cavalcade of America.
KPO. KOMO, KOW: Btondle. KNX.
KSL. KOIN: Modern Music Box. KEX:
Greater Washington Hour, KJR;
Amateur Hour, KOO.
8:00 p. m. Amos 'n' Andy, KNX,
KOIN, KSL; Fred Waring. KPO.
KOMO, KOW: Herbert Marshall.
KOO. KJR. KEX.
6:16 p. m. Lanny Rosa. KNX. KSL.
KOIN: Lum and Abner. KPO, KOMO.
KOW.
8:30 p. m. I Lova a Mystery, KOO,
KEX. KJR; Richard Crooks, KPO,
KOW. KOMO: Oay Nineties. KKX
KSL, KOIN.
0:00 p. m Telephone Hour, KPO.
KOW, KOMO; True or False, KOO.
KJR. KEX; Vox Pop. KNX; News.
KOIN; Sports, KSL.
0:30 p. m. Hawthorn House.
KPO. KOMO. KOW: Hollywood Show
case, KNX, KOIN: Nat'i Radio Porum,
KOO; News. KSL. KJR; Moonlight
Sonata, KEX.
10:00 p. ro Paul Whlteman'a
Orch, KOO. KEX, KJR: Reporter
News, KPO. KOW, KOMO; Master
works of Music. KSL; News, KNX;
Five Star Final, KOIN.
10:30 p. m Ed Stoker's Music.
KOW, KOMO: Carl Ravazza's Orch,
KJR; John Sullivan's Orch, KSL:
Broadway Bandwagon, KEX; Ran
Wllde'a Orch, KOO. Masterworka of
Music, KNX; The World Today.
KOIN: Concert Hall. KPO.
11:00 p. m. Bob Bradley and Er
win Yeo. KSL. KOIN: String Sere
nade, KPO. KOW; This Moving
World. KEX. KJR; Netra. KNX. KOO.
Reveries. KOMO.
ECONOMY PROGRAM
Washington, Nov. 15. (JP)
Secretary Morgenthau said to
day he believed $1,000,000,000
could be cut from non-defense
appropriations and outlined an
economy program which would
eliminate federal highway aid to
states completely in the fiscal
year 1943-44.
FATAL COLLISION
McMinnville, Ore., Nov. 15. .
(J)An -automobile and logging
truck collided head-on south of
Yamhill this morning, killing
Charles Hall, about 60, Gaston,
instantly, and seriously injuring
Edith Tabor, 40, Gaston, driver.
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS
by JOHN MX
'YOUR LEAD, PARTNER'
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
IN fn TKlCX
LEANS TOWARD ALERf
LV, AWtTiKG PARTNERS
KExT-lERD
RELAXES AS PARTNER.
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Tb 6IVE OPPONENTS
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Joe eurk, champion sculler; i'f
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MINUTE INSTEAD OF 30 Xw:f SilJ l
LOWERING AN ENGLISH sveA I A' .xgOs'-) Jf
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-lli. by Fire
O1 Owen asr-
volutuBst4 fireman-'
WAS PLUNGED INTO A BLAZING
BUILDING WHEN A WALL
COLLAPSED HE WAS BURIED
UNDER 6 TONS OF BRICKS FOR
U ln HOURS BUT SUSTAINED
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GENTLEMAN SCULLER
Turned down in his freshman year, Joe Burk finally ma de the crew at the University
of Pennsylvania. In 1936 he started sculling, and that year lost two races. From then until
he retired in 1940. he lost only one other race. That was i n 1939, and came after a run
of 37 straight victoriesl He won the national single sculls championship in 1937, '39, '39. '40.
During the same years he also wun the Canadian single sculls championship. In 1938 and
1939 he won the famous Diamond sculls at the English Henley Royal Regatta, lowering the
previous record from 8:1b to 8:02.
MONDAY: British Stars and Stripesl
By AL CAPP
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GET -l DESARVED T'BE J I rlArinTa. B-BUT THEY CORSET OFF T RIDE AT A AIRFIELD. ) RIGHT. HE S
ACROSS' ) KICKED ACROSS) V IT WERE. J 7iy- FOUND VO' MAKE ME MO' COMFY AH SEEN YO' BEIN' 7 BEIN' MARRIED
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LOST ACCOUNT HE WAS ( AH HE.E.RD, KTTfVC V CAST-IRON L UP A VISION.' AH GOT J DOWN IN THIS Jf WIDDER .
HIM .'.' J MEAN TYO: FUM j h ' ' CORSET IN BOUNCED OUTA TH' S PARRY-CHUTE- J FRUITFUL.'
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TA1LSPIN TOMMY The Spyl
Bt HAL FORREST
SEIZE BOQUAR.? BUT StNOfcXS
THIS IS NOT IN ACCORD WIT
THE HAVANA. AGREEMENT
IT WOULD MEAN. ..WAR.
BOQUAR. IS NOT IN THE
WESTERN HEMISPHERE
QL'AR
BUT.CENERAJ
ALVARADO-.
V BOQUAR.
SHOULD BE
OCCUPIED BY
VER.SALIA...
IT WOULD
MENACE OUR.
CONTINENT..
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AT COSO HONDO A SERIOUS CONFERENCE IS
BEING HELD 8v OFFICIALS OF THE
I'AM AMFP.ICAN PROTECTIVE LEAGUE
I AGREE WITH GEN. ALVARADO
SENATOR... IT IS A CRAVE
PROBLEM, WHICH R.EQU ir.es
SERIOUS STUDY, BEFORE WE
TAKE ANY STEPS WHICH
MIGHT BE CONSTRUED BY
VER.SALI A AS AN ... ER..
OVERT ACT..
I SUGGEST WE HOLD ANOTHER.
PAN AMERICAN CONFERENCE ...TO
DETERMINE WHETHER. WE SHOULD
....OR. SHOULD NOT. .TAKE BOQUAR.
INTO PROTECTIVE CUSTODY... AS
A MEANS OF ENFORCING THE
rt MONROE DOCTRINE
AND I .SENORS.AM AGREEABLE
I SUGGEST THE CONFERENCE
BE HELD AT COROHONOOH
UN AN ADJOINING ROOM. A
SPY LISTENS AND HIS REPORT
TO HIS SUPERIORS Will Pi s.rc
TOMMY AND SKEETS IN PERIL."
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