The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, March 01, 1940, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTHE NEWS AND THE HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON SERIAL STORY- $15 A BY LOUISE HOLMES WEEK eonrumwr, i- MX SIRVICK. INO. CHAPTER I A rTN BROWN had the fidgets. i To tell the truth, she w reaching the and of her own par ticular string and whether or not ah would b abl to hold on to tha frayed and was debatable question. It had been almost year, 828 dajn, to be exact, since sh had found her Job It couldnl by any stretch of Imagination be called a position In Mrs. Prlngle'a ' Make-Over Hat Shop. Sh had ' been desperately alon then. She " was desperately alon now. . She heated creamed dried beef, frugally held over from tha pre vlous evening's dinner, on a gas plate In a corner of her uncom fortable little room. Sha made a slice of toast. She ladled four stewed flgs Into a dish and placed two cookies on a plat. To give her morale a lift, ah took two precious silver spoons from a bu- .;. reau drawer, reacting delightedly, ; as always, to their satiny luster. . Sha tried to eat, really tried. It was useless. Getting water from tha bathroom on tha floor below, she washed tha . dishes. Sh ; wrapped the spoons In tissue and put them away. Then sh tried all . tha usual things, an hour of con' struct! v reading, a magazine story, the triumphant, happy end- Ing adding to her depression. She played three games of solitaire. . It was 8:30. . Suffocating loneli ness crowded In on her. The lone liness had become so real a thing that It seemed to have form and substance, terrifying form and .' substance. Ann glanced at the evening pa . per, her eyes skipping over war , sews, avoiding the most recent , murder. Turning. to the society . page, ah looked at the pictures of . brides and debutantes and out-of- : town visitors. Suddenly her eyes widened. 1 "There," sha said aloud, "thafi , the way ni make my new dress." Sha studied tha picture of a girt who had been caught by a candid . camera as she stepped from a '. smart roadster. "That's just thi , way rn make It" Ann cut out the . picture and pat It in her purse. II was 8:45. . Ann undressed. Taking her bath '( towel, praying for hot water, Jusl .; little hot water, she went to the ancient c-atnroom. ," Ann had the only room on the ' third floor of what had once been i fine old home. It was on Chi' icago's West Sid and built before Ithe city's elite decided upon tha tvidnity of Sheridan Drive as the . (correct address. Ann's miserable . (room had one quartered a serv . iant ' JT was a few minutes past 9 when she turned down the shabby ,' rwom coverings of her this bed. !ar beauty-loving fingers resented n feel of tha cotton blanket and coarse sheet She switched oS her . Ilight, opened the window. The . Ideep, broad casnment window was jthe room's sol redeeming feature. - I Ann paused beside ' it as soft i; spring air crept up from the alley oeiow. : ! She gazed at a lighted window a cross the way. There ha was, tha . fcig. dark young man. Ha sat in a . iwooden rocking chair, his cheek . resting on a clenched fist, reading ; steadily. 1 Ann knew that sha should not atand in her window and gaze at ' the young man. It wasn't polite. Just the same, she had done It often. Not that sha was roman 7 tically interested in him Ann was not romantically inclined. She had her own ideas concerning love. It , was a luxury and luxuries were . not lor her. Sha went to bed, lying tensely ' quiet Dreading sleep, she lay wun ner eyes open. The dream might come if she slept and the ' dream was a shattering thing. She was always fighting, her way . through a crowd on a downtown . street, part of the crowd, but in . visible. In the dream she was Jos . tied this way and that, battered until she finally fell to the slde- waus, ragging ana pleading. Feet trampled her and she cried out No one heeded her cries, the feet tramnlH mnA lrf.l . a scuffed until she awoke, sobbing iier prgresis. Ann aid not know ,' that a psychiatrist would have , credited her dream to a lonely flx- ., uon; sne only Knew that its re . surrence was wrecking her nerv . ous system. She lay very still, her slim little ooay airaigm unaer the blanket She was getting too thin. Eating slone, day in and day out did not make for appetite. Ann's hands clenched. It wasn't reasonable that a girl like herself, 20 years old, pretty enough, eager ; to make friends, should go on for . 828 days utterly alone. ; Pretty enough? That was put- ting It much too mildly. Ann had shining bronze hair, its golden ; high lights and lovely wave had ' been lavishly granted by nature. Her cyeo were dark gray, wide and childish, her red mouth curved .' deliclously. .. ' Sometimes Ann wondered how . long she would continue to walk ; alone, how soon, for sheer want i of companionship, sh would re- ipond to the masculine advances ; which constantly cam her way. . Sha tried to think of pleasant ; things. Her Job only f 15 a week but Just $15 better than nothing, j There had been a rather dreadful time before sha got tha Job. Sha was lucky that her fingers were clever enough to turn shapeless old hats into smart creations. Her new dress tha picture in the pa per was . stunning, it would be lovely for spring. Ann moved restlessly. The dress would be lovely but where would she wear It? Who cared whether or not her clothes were lovely? Drowsiness crept over her. a a SUDDENLY Ann was screaming. She was sitting up in the thin bed, a trembling hand pressed over her mouth to stop the screams. She had been under trampling feet smothered, crushed "Say something wrong over there?" Ann's frightened face turned to the window. Pale yellow light ihone from across the alley. She crouched under the blanket still held by the horror of the dream. "Say what goes on?" Ann slid out of bed. her little feet hunting slippers, her hand reaching for a robe. She stumbled to the window and leaned out "Nothing goes on," she qua vered. The young man leaned from his window, outlined clearly by a shaft of moonlight Tha two windows were not mora than 30 feet apart "Are yon there? I cant sea you." Tin here." "I heard you scream." Ann tried to laugh. It wag a shaken little sound. "I had a bad dream," she confessed. 'Oh. I say that s shame. All right now?" "Yes all right now." She was crying, not because of the dream, I but because of the rich sympathy j In the young man's voice. It was 1 as it his voice lifted her out of the way of the trampling feet "Well good night" "Good night and and thank you." e e ANN was restless and wide awake. Pulling down the blind, she switched on tha light which dangled from the ceiling. Sh made a cup of cocoa and drank it slowly. Still in no mood for sleep, she sst down with the psper, turn ing to the personsl column. Ann often read the intimate little items, they gave her a vicarious contact with the humming world about her. Her eyes slid downward and itopped at tha word, "Lonely." It was followed by a number, Kits. "Refined gentleman wishes to make a friend," she read. "It in terested please write." If Ann had found tha phrase, "Object matrimony," she would not have given the personal an jther thought But Lonely it taught her interest Someone els) (ound the city a friendless place. It the writer were only a girl Mora than anything else Ann wanted a girl friend, someone with whom she could laugh and talk and go to tha movies. A refined gentleman-! well, a refined gentle man might be better than no one at all. Lonely the pity of being lonely, the dreadful, heart-breaking pity. Ann read the Item again and again. Her cheeks grew flushed. She found paper and pen and ink. (To Be Continued) Actually, a penthouse is a structure in the form of a shed or roof with a single slope af fixed by its upper edge to the wall of a building. Today, we describe it as an apartment on the top floor of a building with a terrace attached. According to a Mexican arch aeologist America got its name from a -Mayan word, "Ame-rris- kln," which means "Land of tha Brilliant Sun," and not from the name of tha explorer, Amer igo Vespucci FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia VeUIOMet.aa. f H RM. at ft. tT Of.- OUT OUR WAY BY J. R. WILLIAMS OUR BOARDING HOUSE With MAJOR HOOPLE "But I've never had to work. Fan." "You can afford to put your pride in your pocket If you put . in a paycheck, too." ARMY HEAD HORIZONTAL 1, 7 Pictured French army - official. , 12 Antelope. 13 Sea yarns. 15 Split pulse. 16 Spirals of wire. 18 Labor scab. 10 Nimble. 21 To abound. 23 Unique person 24 Mister. 26 Having no rest 27 Giant king. 28 Geographical drawing. 30 Foot 31 Roof ornament 32 Part of tha iris. 34 Split. 36 Pluck. 37 Goddess of peace. 38 Doctor. 39 Hops kiln. Answer to Previous Pnxzle ill JB 41 Not at all. 42 Compass point 43 Unless. 44 Finale. 46 Crucifix. 48 Old womanish. S3 Milksops. 0 55 To prosper. 56 Small gratuity 58 Palm lily. 69 His military title. 60 He graduated with honors from his military . VERTICAL . 2 Since. 3 One. 4 Lews. 5 Court 6 Pitcher lug. 7 To acquire. 8 Like. 9 Brinks. 10 Beasts' home. 11 Sick. 14 Light 16 He is tha in chief of tha French, army. 17 Unselfish 15 Stupid. 20 Efficient managers. 22 Boundary. 23 Whirlwind. 25 Less common 27 Expands. 29 By means of. 31 Adam's mat. 33 Egg-shaped. 36 Presses. 40 Pope's triple crown. 43 Midday. 45 Desert fruit 47 Poem. 49 Nothing. 501 am. 61 Varnish ingredient 52 Self. 54 Hog. 56 Pair. 57 EU. VVeLL.VOUMCJ MAN, LATBLY HE3 GOT THEY ARB HB'LL VOUVB COMPtSTeO A HABIT OP 1 f PROBABLY Be A f YOUR APPRENTICE - ( NVUilM' KIDS FOREMAN BY TH' J AHIP AND HERE'A JUST OOTATHBlFt TIMB ITS NRCSf YOUR DIPLOMA. I I, X TIMS THIMk, W SARY TO HAVE A -I J MOPS YOU Wilt J g THSV'RE OCTTW I I COLLS OPLOkVk ALWfS BE A . I SOMETHIN' A V TO BT A JOB V I CREDIT TO -OCd. I ,i , OOODA&A IN A SHOP.' J SCRAPS OP PAPE&. P&ROON MV BRASS, MRS. HOOPLB, BUT SCRAM &CHHG, TO RUN IN A. SPECIAL RACE. AND IP VOL) MAV 5 UNDKR A RUe,YOU MIGHT DOST IT OFF AND TURN INTO TEN IP TUB OOG IS LUCKY.' J(VVil.IAM5 SCRAPS OP PAPER. LISTEN, MR.TWIG46 I'M A RATHBUK). FROM D6SP KENTUCKY, AND OUR I FAMILY MOTTO WA?, DON'T BET ON IT UNL1S9 IT HAft FOUR LK&8 .vOHEM CRAKIDRA OOT TOO OLD TO WALK, MB RAISED MICH AND TRAINSO 'CM TO RACE FOR TUIs CMEESG VUAIT I'LL &W VOO GO THAT'S MV BST' I II a I X- . - . . tf .1-1 .m.mum. ..uMamaSrw 5! RED RYDER BY FRED HARMAN ytftS SECRETLY ROP AM' TU' WA-TN' -iVUjJvce. ,ao ' "T TK NEAAET I J" k- I RU-n.. FUSOBRaTB f YCX7V fctwa.'D TmaRAPX Ajs' J I ,Tl V.TH' rAASWA. AM Ml IfMHIt&CONIRACt WIH.6T VMEErf" TStSiw .iMLJSi ftofcss v)isr . J VJITM "rwat AfX I urn fiaovo- RYOeH , am' Cor. Aya r tooT a woPornoi vortVl! 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