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By ELINORE COWAN STONE
CAST OP CHARACTERS
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did ther know, however, of tko
fceorcbreiik thllt lay ahead
CHAPTER III
T3ARRY had not yet returned
- from bidding his friend, Lieu
tenant Rust. "Good luck" at the
airport when Linda came in after
mailing Mrs. Trent a ennstmas
cards next day.
It was not until she was prepar
ing, B little forlornly, to go down
stairs after dinner for a long eve-
ning alone with old Miranda that
"j she heard the front door bang,
i onri than a lnstv haritnne lifted in
Joyful, If not too tuneful, song.
As u oy magic, tne om nouse
again came young and alive and
friendly.
t w tuts uiawiug njuiu, mi,! Aicii
was not in her customary seat
Only Captain Trent was in the
room, wandering about, picking
up things aimlessly and putting
them down again. At sound of the
opening of the door he wheeled.
"The Duchess has run out on
- us," he explained, his eyes half
'. laughing, half caressing, on her
startled ones. "Gone to spend the
evening with a sick friend."
"Oh!" said Linda a little breath
lessly. "Then I guess i d better
go and finish wrapping up her
parcels."
But he was between her and
into hers.
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WU 4 V. uu, gwuig tv wave u uigu
and dry, too, are you? At least
you might read me a bedtime
story. Reading aloud's your job,
isn't it?"
"But after all," Linda said,
laughing at his air of a wheedling
schoolboy, "there's nothing in my
contract with your grandmother
about entertaining visiting celeb
rities." "Bring the parcels down and
we'll have them done in no time.
. . . Aw, don't be so tight with
yourself, Titania," he coaxed.
"How are we ever going to get
acquainted if you keep yourself
shut up behind a barbed-wire en
tanglement? Honest it's God-awful
lonesome down here."
SUDDENLY Linda remembered
how very lonely It" would be
upstairs, too. She hurried up and
brought down the parcels.
"You may help me wrap these,"
she said, "but first your grand
mother does want the antiques in
that cabinet in the dining room
dusted and rearranged before
Christmas. You may come and
watch me do those if youll
promise not to touch them."
"But never in all my days"
Barry seemed inexplicably pleased
"have I known her to let anyone
touch those sacred relics except
herself and my own mother."
"Why, it was quite natural."
Linda wished that he wouldn't
hover there quite so close behind
her. It made her fingers unsteady.
"One day when her hands were
bad with rheumatism, she showed
me what she wanted done, and
I've done it ever since."
"Of course it was your hands
that did the trick with Grand
mother," Barry was saying as
they returned to the living room
to wrap Christmas presents. "Did
anyone ever tell you, Titania, that
your hands are like soft white
flowers? . . . Only much lovelier,
because they're so much more
alive. . . . When you look at
them, you can't help wondering if
they can be as warm and sweet
and tender as they look. . . .
How they would feel if one held
them like this, I mean "
He took one of her small hands
in his and pressed it against the
lean, smooth, hard surface of his
cheek against his eyes, and
against his lips. Then, as all the
air about her warmed and tingled,
he drew her quickly toward him,
and into his arms.
TT was much later that Barry
said, laughing out delightedly,
"I'll tell you what we'll do.
Christmas morning I'll hang you
Up on a tree, all done up in tissue
FLAPPER FANNY
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"Why don't you make it 'International' Swinesters? IV.n w,,, ,M ...
pec( to play lor anythme eictpt neajhborhood dancea?"
CopyrlgHt, IQ37, NEA Sink; Int.
paper and silver trimmings to sur
prise the Duchess."
Linda shivered a little in the
warm circle of his arms. All of a
sudden she was remembering old
Miranda Trent's face that even
ing when she had twitted her
grandson with having "a new
sweetheart in every port."
And this was Miranda Trent's
hquse.
Even as Linda struggled to put
her thoughts in order there came
a sound of a cane on the polished
floor outside, and she had barely
time to free herself before the
door opened, and the old lady
stood on the threshold.
In his first startled movement
Barry had struck a vessel of lus
trous Chinese porcelain that stood
on a table beside him. Snatching
at it as it smashed into a dozen
pieces, he cut a deep gash in his
wrist
As old Miranda grimly surveyed
the wreck of her treasure, Barry
caught a handkerchief from his
pocket and stood like a sheepish
schoolboy, trying to staunch the
blood that stained his cuff and
trickled down his fingers.
Years ago, as a child in Paris,
Linda had seen a hideous street
accident; and since that time, try
as she might, the sight of blood
had turned her faint with horror.
Now, though in that first moment
she bent over Barry's wrist, try
ing with her own handkerchief to
stop the red flow, she moaned in
sick little gasps; and as the stain
continued to spread, she wavered
and sat down limply on a nearby
chair.
"Come, come, Miss Benton!" old
Miranda's voice tinkled like fall
ing ice. "Fainting doesn't mend
any broken bones. Please see it
you can't control yourself and ring
that bell."
"Oh, have a heart," Barry ob
jected as Linda got up trembling.
"I've seen hard-boiled marines.
turn green at sight of blood. We
aren't all born to be top sergeants
like you, you know."
"pET my first-aid kit Jeffer
"son," Mrs. Trent calmly di
rected as the old man appeared in
answer to the bell, "and have
Cicely bring some ice and a basin.
And," finished the old lady,
sweeping with her eyes the galaxy
of indomitable Trent portraits
that lined the walls, "if the women
of this house had let their feelings
get the better of them every time
a crisis arose, you Barrymore
Trent might not be here at this
moment nor, in all probability,
the house, itself."
Cicely appeared, and old Miran
da directed briskly, "Hold that
basin here. Cicely. . . Hold it, I
said, not wave it! . . . And Miss
Benton," she added as Linda hesi
tated in the background, "if you
must shake like a forest in a
storm, please go elsewhere to do
it"
Linda retreated with what dig
nity her shaking legs lent her. As
she clung to the banisters in the
hall outside, she heard Barry's
voice in quick protest and heard
his grandmother snap, "Fiddle
sticks! She'll be all right in a few
minutes. So will this scratch of
yours. . . And that's more than I
can say for my Ming jar."
No, thought Linda, by no stan
dards could' she ever measure up
to the tradition of the Trent gen
tlewomen. . . And did not dream
how soon and how bitterly she
was to be put to the test.
In the commercial value of
its products, the fishing industry
ranks first in the state of Flori
da. Mullet is the most impor
tant fish marketed on a commer
cial basis.
Bees, on being transported
from a cool climate to one of
perpetual summer, will soon
cease to gather food for winter,
being content to lire from day
to day.
The black swallower, a fish of
the Atlantic depths, has an elas
tic stomach and often swallows
fish thrice Its size, stretching its
stomach to transparency.
Fishing Is one of the greatest
of tourist attractions in Florida
and sportsmen catch more than
600 varieties of fish there.
By Sylvia
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