THE NEWS AND THE HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS, ORE.
SERIAL STORY
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"Ann, th audition
doesn't matter. Kent is !
homo on leave. He needs j
you. He loves you!" !
YBSTERAYl Kent fl hnt fv
flirrd days. n mi Injured 1m tha
nploalon of m dad bomb, bat hU
licht im not permanently fm
paired. Doctors bellero an opera
attlon will reotore It. Ilo tnlfca on.
tltl bellertnff Ann la beafde klra.
He aka abont April, ealllnn- her
tho MGUtterbnaT.w April la fnrionm.
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ANN REFUSES TO RETURN
CHAPTER III
APRIL managed to leave Kent
at his gate with a murmured!
answer. I
It wax an answer that said noth-
tog but promised much in the;
manner of. all sweetnearts.
'What mattered now was that
the was tearing down the hill,
escaping from what had been the
strangest situation she'd ever
known. The wintry air smeLled
good, free!
Kent Carter, temporarily blind
ed, bad taken her for Ann, the sis
ter with whom he was In love.
Ann was away, but she'd be back
tomorrow tt April had to turn the
world upside down to get her.
She wasn't doing this for Kent.
Kot at all. Ehe was doing It for
Ann.
Glitterbug. indeed! Kent Car
ter would eat those words some
day. Then she shrugged. What)
dinerence did it make what hei
called her e was nothing to)
her. i
Octavta was waiting, ho eringi
In a way that made April alert.,
"How come you take so long,,
Miss April?'' Octavla asked. "Dat
train was on time 'cause Ah heard:
her tooting same's usual. You!
meet Mister Carter okay and gives
him the message?' i
"Mister Carter Is safely at home
In the arms of Auntie," April an-l
wered, "And if you wonder why!
I'm lata, you should take yourselfj
downtown to see the traffic jam!
caused by the free barbecue inj
the bandstand square." 1
"Free barbecue?" Octavla was!
thrown at once off the scent, or!
rather thrown on it The scent of!
ham and pork roasting on a spittle.:
Knowing she must get Oetavia i
cut of the house at all costs and:
at once, April went on. "You bet
ter join the Jamboree, Oetavia.,
There won't be a hambone left in'
another hour." . i
"Sure 'nuf?" Octavla's eyesi
rolled and her voice rolled, too.i
until she remembered that she had'
to be on duty while her "folks"!
were off camping. She said as!
much to Miss April. j
"Just as long as you're homei
in time for breakfast," April said.l
"you can go your merry way with I
my blessing." j
!
IVmiEN the house was quiet at!
I last, all the flippancy vanished!
from ApriL It was 9 o'clock. .
fWithin the next half hour the!
three handsome swains who werei
taking her to Casa Blanca would :
be ringing the bell. She must
hurry to reach Ann by long dis-'
tance, to make the homecoming
arrangements, and then to figure:
some way out of tonight's datei
with Kent Carter to which she had!
committed herself.
In the dimly lighted hall where
the telephone table stood, April
looked up at the small oil portrait
,of Ann. An artist who had owed
Dad money for settling a damage
suit had painted it when the sister
was 16. But Ann hadn't changed.
There were her eyes, brown, wist
tful and appealing; there was the
anole-brown hair and the quiet
(brow. "She doesn't need to be
beautiful," April said half aloud.
"'She can sing and how she can
sing!"
"Here goes," April thought, and
Whirled the dial for long distance.
'I want to place a call to New
York.'f
Then Almost hpfnro Kh rnnlrl
Itake breath, someone was answer-1
ling at the other end. i
: "Hello," April said to the un-
Ifamiliar voice, "I would like tol
speak to Miss Ann Burnett." '
"Ann Burnett? I'm sorry, but I'
(think she's just gone out." ;
"Oh, no," and April, who had
i forgotten about placing the call in
iperson to Ann, fairly wailed.
'"Please, I've got to get her at
once."
"Walt a minute. Maybe I can
catch her." The strange voice
drifted off and even 500 miles
away, April could catch the sounds
of hurrying steps and a door open
ling. - -
i And then, unbelievable but true,
ja voice came through the wire i
the voice that might have beenj
mei uwu, su identical was ih jnlt
hello," Ann was saying.
"Ann, dear, this is April!" And
Ithcn, because she was trembling,
lApril cradled the telephone in her
(hand and purled up on the lounge..
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"Oh, April dear. What's wrong?"
The quick pulse of fear traveled
I the miles In a split second.
! "We're perfectly all right," April
I made herself say steadily. "Mother
and Dad went up to the cabin to
! build log fires and spend a rugged
i week-end. Oetavia has taken her-;
self downtown and at any minute:
iNip is going to howl hello."
"And you?" There was gay re-,
I lief in Ann's question. ;
"Oh, me. I'm my same gorgeous i
self, Annie. Reason I'm calling up ;
has to do with you, Ann. You've
got to come home at once this
vri'V night, on the midnight train."1
"But why? There is something
wvong, then!"
"No, Ann, everything's as right,
ks right can be. Better yet, Kent
Carter came home today."
"Kent! You mean for good, from
Fort Dodd?"
"No, honey, not for good. On
' leave until Monday night. Now
listen quick, Ann, because every
word I'm saying costs money. It
was all unexpected, I mean Kent's
coming home. Naturally, he's
crazy to see you."
All the things she'd meant to
say vanished in Ann's quick an
swer. "But April, I can't come
home, even to see Kent." She
paused briefly, went on, "As a
matter of fact, if Kent only knew
lit, he was the one who spurred
me on to take this New York ven-
iture. And now I'm having my
chance at last Tomorrow night I
lhave an audition with Vivano
ithe great Vivano."
April clutched the telephone
I stubbornly. "It doesn't matter,"
ishe wailed. "You'll have to post-
pone it cancel it anything."
Ann might not have heard her.
She was saying, "I've lived for
this time, worked for it It may
be the making of my future. Yes,
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HORIZONTAL
1 Pictured
glossy black
bird.
5 It is called a
bird.
1 1 Promise.
12 Winged shoes
of Mercury.
14 Branch of
learning.
16 Stiff collar.
18 Pierced with
a gore.
IB To exhaust.
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20 Nude.
22 Musical
syllable.
23 Front of an
army.
24 Hermits.
26 Being.
27 Railway
(abbr.).
28 Gnawed.
29 Palm lily.
30 Touched
with toes,
32 Toward.
34 To attack
36 Sloth.
37 To corrode.
39 Demure.
41 Written
discourse.
44 Dismal.
45 Challenges.
47 Breezy.
48 African
tribe.
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to the
crow.
51 To fore.
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tion for Vivano."
ANN'S voice, Yes, while April
anil Ann talked alike and
laughed alike, Ann's singing voice
went away ahead and beyond
April's. It was a lovely contralto
and everything must be done to
keep it that way.
Mother was always particular to
have nothing disturb Ann before)
a recital. April knew if she told
Ann now about Kent's blindness,
her sister might go all to pieces.
It might even spoil the audition.
So instead, she almost bawled Into
the 'phone. "Kent loves you, Ann.
Ho's craiy about you."
"Of course ho is." Ann gave a
small sigh and then with the quick
little gasp characteristic of her,
asked, "Did he tell you so?"
"Yes no." April floundered and
then, blessing of blessings, Nip
rnmo bounding to bark his
"howlo."
When the barking was over, so
was the bad minute. Ann, appar
ently being hurried away by some
one who stood at her elbow in that
hallway 500 miles away, spoke in
her same, lovely, gentle lilt
"You send word to Kent April,
that I'm heartbroken I can't make
it. But don't dare tell him about
the audition. That must be kept
a secret until I know it's a suc
cess," So that was that! She, April,
was to send word to Kent Carter
that Ann was heartbroken but
couldn't get to Pattonsville.
These were Kent's three days
against the darkness)
Out of her confusion and de
spair, a flash of sheer inspiration
struck April.
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Although land In farms was
greater than ever before, the
1940 census reported a 3.1 per
cent decline in the number of
farms since 1930. The new total
is 6,096,789. compared with
6.812.3S0 in 193S and 6,288,648
in 1930.
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6 Native metal.
7 To free.
8 Go on.
9 Artless.
10 Itinerant
11 It Was
formerly -or
revered.
13 Learning.
15 Tensibility.
17 Worm.
21 Musical tone.
25 Golf terms.
31 Absconds.
33 Beginning.
35 Moldings.
36 Sugar.
38 Coin.
40 Barks.
42 Sun god.
43 To assist.
45 Clock face.
46 Auction.
49 Ocean.
50 To soak flax.
52 Father,'
53 Ream (abbr.).
55 Preposition.
57 Either.
52 3.1416.
53 To harvest.
54 Pretense.
56 Therefore.
58 It preys on
, and eats
everything.
5!) Colonist
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2 Aroused from .
sleep.
3 And.
4 To scold.
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