a-r. 1 k" -v5 .. . la t : an .';-. ..' SERIAL STORY OF BRIGHTNESS GONE BY HOLLY WATTERSON ' " ', . . 'S&SS&tf LAST REHEARSAL ! CHAPTER XVni ' MARTIN realized that he was late for the rehearsal. He wUhed lived ly that he might skip It aiiogeUier, couunue right on to ' the club and the bachelor dinner that had been planned for him. He wan too bone-tired really to care much, yet he found himself Hoping uneasily that Faith would not be upset again. He wasn't late ,on purpose. Mrs. Timothy Bimmons' vague symptoms hod been, if anything, more vague to right, but the hod certainly made tip. In quantity for anything that they might have lacked In quality. The weather had something to do with that, he supposed. But he wished that she hadn't decided to have an "attack" just tonight He walked up through the nave of the church, shaking the wet from his coat as he went, and Faith detached herself from the group at the altar to meet him. She called gaily, "I hope tills Isn't an Indication of wriat'i going to happen tomorrow," and she was smiling, but he felt her tense as he bent to kiss her and she didnt meet his eyes but looked past him with a bright blind look that was the usual prelude to a scene. He groaned inwardly. But he smiled at the others. One u til girls said, laughing, "You're too late, the minister's been called away," but the pastor said, "No, no indeed. Doctor. I'll stay while you go through it once at least, quickly." "The thing didnt take long but It seemed ages, conscious as he was of Faith standing aside so tensely while he went through the prescribed motions with the girl taking her part He knew he eould depend on her to keep smil ing in front of people, she would not subject him to a public scene; but he knew he was due for hours of coaxing and cajoling. Yet even through his irritation he was con scious, of pity. Because she really suffered. She was really ill after one of these scenes. He wondered how on earth a girl could get to her age and cot realize that noth ing in the world mattered as much as she seemed to think, that no body was worth this devotion, this wearing, possessive devotion. ' AT the door when the group was breaking up she said with that bright hurt smile, Td better go borne with the girls, dear. You go right on to your party. You're already late." . He shepherded her to Ms car firmly. "Nonsense," he said, "tfhat can wait" . - 1 '. "Hail the bridegroom goeth," one 'of his ushers shouted to the others in warning. "Hey, Corby, aren't you coming to. your own shindig?" .-' . Martin laughed. "Soon,"' he said. 'You bet See that you birds don't git too many up on me." Faith was weeping, he. knew that Over the swish-swish of the windshield wiper he beard an oc casional sniffle, and sidewise ha saw her dabbing surreptitiously at her eyes. When he could no longer appear oblivious, he pretended great sur prise. "Why, darling, what's the matter?" She pulled her hand away from his touch. "Nothing," she said stiffly. "But there must be," he said. They had come out onto open highway. He drew over to the side and stopped. "Tell me," he said, "what is it?" - 'You don't even care," she said passionately. . "You don't even care about gelling to your wed ding rehearsal on time. You keep me standing around waiting, hu miliated, and you don't even care." . Martin captured her struggling hands. 'You're marrying a doc tor, my dear," he said firmly,- "a ' man whose time is not reajly his own, not a boy who can run around with you all the time, be at your beck and calL There will be lots of times when you'll have to stand around and wait Lots of times when you'll be disap pointed at the last minute becausa I've been called out on a case." He added gently, "I couldn't help it, you know that. I phoned that Mrs. Simmons wanted me." . "Mrs. Simmons!" She mimicked him furiously. "That neurotic old fooll You told me yourself there's nothing really the matter with her. She's more important than I am, I suppose; she's more im portant than our wedding re hearsal!" "I'm afraid she is," Martin said. "She's a patient And inciden tally," he added. In a way that meant it wasn't incidental at all, "I see I've made a mistake fa mentioning my patients to you. I han't do it again. And you're riot to speak of any of them in that tone of voice; not to me, nor to anyone else." She said coldly, "I see. You're to have everything your own way. Cock of the roost." She lashed out unexpectedly, so that he saw what actually had been troubling her, "How do I know where you really were?" ' "What do you mean?" he ie-: manded. ... . "Just what I said. You told trie you were at Mrs. Simmons'. How do I know you really were? I can't call up, can I, everywhere you say- you're going, and ask, "Dr. Corby said he was calling on you: Is he really there?' ". ; He was suddenly angry with . rnge that mode him want to shake her until the teeth ratlleU in her spoiled, pretty head. He warned in a voice like cold steel, 'You ever try a trick like that and I'll ini-", , 'vYbifll what?" she taunted him. "I'll give you the spanking that you should have had long ago. I'll' give you the hiding that such a childish trick would deserve.. I warn you." ' ' ' TJE stepped on the starter, threw the car into gear and they shot forward again through the opaque Wall of rain. After a long while Faith's hand crept over and touched him. She said contritely, all the anger gone, "I'm so sorry, darling. So awfully sorry." ' . Martin said gruffly, "You've had a bad time, too many parties, too much excitement And I'm tired. We were-both wrong. Let's for get it It's all right" -.It was not and he knew it He saw with a sudden blinding clarity just how all wrong the thing was. He-had Called Candace jealous and-nagging once because she had accused. him, rightfully, of cheat ing; he thought of the three years in back of him since then and the lifetime ahead of him and he knew he was due to find out even further what a jealous woman was. He smiled bitterly in the darkness. The mills of the gods grind slowly, he quoted. .... He'd been so sure he could handle the thing at first, so sure he'd wind up having the Harts hornes as influential friends and nothing more. By the time he'd decided that wasnt going to work, not with Faith who was so intense, he'd lost out on his chance to mention Candace in any way at all without having the Harts homes completely down on him. There didn't seem to be anything to do, according to his way of thinking, but take advantage of the "out" Candace gave him. A small, blurred red light was suddenly visible directly ahead through the rain. A lantern on the back of a slow-moving truck. He slammed on the brake. The road under them became a greasy slide over which they skimmed toward that light with terrifying speed. Martin's arm shot across in front of Faith to keep her from slamming forward when they crashed (To Be Continued) We feci that there ha jiit got to be more revenue and that there will have to be some kind of legislation as a deter rent on spending by the public i and an incentive to save. Sec retary of the Treasury Henry I Morgentltau Jr. .THIS CURIOUS WORLD ftJgS1 ' V -A POUND SHELLAC ; REPRESENTS- S-X AAOMTMS' WORK. FOR SO,000 THE INSECT, LACCFEIS LAcerA, A SUBSTANCE FROM WHICH ALL ,TUE SHEU-AC; IS MADE COWL 1M2 BY NtA eCKVKt. MC CLAMS DONTTALK... BUT THEY GAVE AWAV THE SECRET OF HU6E COPPER. DEPOSITS IN ALASKA, WHEN WINERS DU& THE CLAMS Tff EAT AND FOUND THEY coazaaso cwsse. FIREMAN IS ONE WHO IS ONE WHO PU7S OUT FIRES,! T. M. mol u. s. pat. orr. t L NEXT; Big game hunting and monkey business. STAR-SPANGLED SINGER HORIZONTAL 1,5 Pictured I singer. 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PETEyAf rv oo'p WUGSV f 'wuyi- VT V LAST, HAVEYUHf T r A ' n. vjf-il OUT AIIAT1. HAPPENED TO OUYAO -,cn airT -Tu' it. i -ri ir- Tin ! i r M002Yf;,..IT'STH, lZ:"ZZuJX, VLAWii.TH' WHOLE By V. T. Hamlin Mi ()