SERIAL STORY
DRAFTED FOR LOVE
BY RUTH AYERS ' ATR'tfi"
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ANN DISAPPEARS
CHAPTER XXIV
A NN followed April upstab-s, her
knock on tht door imperative, t
"Aprill" she spoke her sister's
name.
"Oh, Ann, dont mind ma."!
April was struggling to pull heri
elf together. Sh. walked to the'
mirrored vanity and began to
smear her mouth with lipstick.
"I think it's time we were truth-i
ful with each other," Ann said.
Her voice was gentle. Ber eyes,!
too, were the eyes of the real Ann,
without steeliness or suspicion.
Ann went on, "IV guessed all
along that you've been In love
with Kent Carter sines that time
he came home on leave while
was away."
Ann, you're being absurd.
"No, not absurd, April, but
frank. We love each other very
much, April. We're not alike in
all ways, but we're sisters, just
the two of us, April. Lots of times
I've envied you because you're
beautiful and I'm not IVe re
sented you because yon had all
the admirers, the flowers, the
dates. IVe been jealous until it
hurt But Octavla said something
tonight that expressed what I've
always known deep down but
ha vent wanted to admit
"Octavla?"
"Octavia said tonight when she
was helping me dress, 'Once Ah
thought Miss April had nuthing
more to her than that gold on the
top of her head. Now Ah knows
the real gold is m her heart' "
"Oh wen, Octavia." April tried
to smile it off, tried to find some
way to stop Ann,
Ann persisted. "You've tried to
cover .T3 everything, even to the
way you injured your ankle and
paid oft that wretch of a Winkie
Appleman, and It's all been be
cause you didn't want to hurt me.
I think it's the most sporting
thing rve ever known."
"But you're sflly, Ann," April
(cried. "You're foolish to talk that
tway. There's nothing to what
you're trying to say. Ifs your
wedding day tomorrow. The house
Bs all fixed. Mother and Sad are
o happy for you And Kent
what about Kent Ann? YouVe
forgotten about him in all this
foolishness. Listen, honey, you
and Kent are going to make a
Ann stood there, stffl m fling,
listening without interrupting.
"IT! come to visit you in your
bew home," April finished in a
rush. Tn be godmother to your
first boy." She was up from the
vanity table, almost pushing Ann
urom the room.
"Annie, go down and dance
until morning and then sleep until
noon. And don't get any more of
those last-minute bridal brain
storms."
Ann turned one searching
Iglance on her and then leaned
qmcuy and kissed her cheek.
After that the day was over for
April Burnett
She was too tired to think about
it now, too weary to live it over.
While the trio from Casa Blanca
played In waltz time, she went
to sleep.
. .
"JJHArs why she was up early
the next morning, surprisingly
refreshed, ready to face the last
day before she would be really
free. Yes, once the wedding was
over, she would be clear of all
(remorse and doubts and decisions.
Nip had pushed his way into
her room last night and slept
Icurled on the floor beside her bed.
I "You be quiet," she cautioned
pun, "this is a sleeping house
Ihold." As she bathed and dressed,
April saw that the early morning
sky gave evidence of a sunny day.
A good omen for Ann. She was
glad she had reassured her sister
last night, quieted any doubts in
Ann's troubled head.
Now for the red skating skirt,
and the blue suede jacket If she!
rwent out for a brief walk with I
Nip, maybe it would bring some
color into her cheeks and she:
wouldn't look like a mourner at
the wedding.
"Hush " she kept savine tn Kin.
'One growl out of vmi an.
walk." Nip hushed.
The weddine wa t .
o'clock. Everythina- Wan In rttaril-
new for it, from Oct&vfn-.
tiered cake to Ann's orange blos
soms. The house ipnt .,i.i-
after the festivitimt r.r ii.t
Likely, no one would stir until
noon. Sn n An-tl 1-M i
. - -i" n ner room
bound for the walk, she tiptoed.
that the door to Ann's room was
I ajar. Nip nosed ahead of her,
! poked his nose into the door. April
stepped to close it and as she did;
something struck her as wrong.
The bed was made, Ann's eve
ning dress tossed lightly across It!
PRIL tried to reassure herself.'
Ann hH nmluhl 4
stairs for early coffee. But even
as she went to check, she knew'
that Ann wouldn't be In the
kitchen.
The kitchen was empty spot
less, untouched. Octavia had
stayed up late to wash and put
away the party dishes so every
thing would be spic-and-span for
the great day of her "little lamb's"
wedding.
The other rooms were empty
and the inside lock was still across
the front door. This cut off the
last, dwindling- hope that perhaps
Ann had started off on an early
walk, too.
, "Something's wrong, Nip," April
wiiisjjcito, oreaapjiiy wrong."
Nip knew it and sniffed up and
1 down the haU and behind the fern
screen. Then a door of the
I kitchen creaked and opened. April
' almost jumped in fright
"Who all's there?" a familiar
i voice was asking.
1 "Just me, Octavia."
"Anything I can do for you.
'Miss April?"
No one must know yet; the
house mustn't be aroused. So April
thought quickly. "Yes, Octavia, go
back to bed and sleep your head
off for hours. It's going to be a
hard day."
When Octavia, satisfied and un
suspecting, disappeared behind the
door, April started upstairs. Every
iswp was n agony, even Kip
sensed it his whiskers bristling.
It didnt take long to find the
whit envelop, with her nam. on
it in Ann's room. April held it
afraid to read, fearful of what
answer her sister had found out
jOI the three tangled lives.
(To Be Concluded)
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CREATOR OF STARS
ROSIZON'TAL
1 Famous name
in history ol
the stace.
12 Wall-eyed
pike.
13 Furnished
with a sole.
14 To ac
knowledge.
16 Grafted.
17 Slatted box.
18 Century
plant fiber.
19DucL
20 Horse's
trappings.
21 Lion's home.
22 Viscous.
24 Woolly.
27 Small island.
30 To think.
31 Trappings.
32 Flower
leaves.
34 To abhor.-
35 And.
37 Dibbles.
41 Pennies. .
45 Licks up. '
48 Mountain pass
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49 To walk.
50 Beer.
51 Songs for
-single voices.
52 Empty.
53 Opposite of
cold.
55 He was a
of fine stage
plays.
56 He lived
almost -years.
VERTICAL
lLady.
2 Branches of
learning.
3 Bom.
4 To get away.
5 Flat car.
6 Blank metal
die.
7 Network.
8 Poems.
9 Chart.
10 Greedy.
11 Short letter.
12 He or
trained the
biggest star
of his day.
15 Rovers.
20 Large inn.
22 Genus of frOf
23 He had
standards of
acting.
25 Monkey.
26 Insect egg.
28 Ocean.
29 Upright shaft,
33 Kind of
poisoning.
36 To make
terncplate.
38 Acidity.
33 Horseback ,
game.
40 Glided. '
42 Close.
43 Food
container.
44 State of bliss.
45 Plot of grass.
46 Wings.
47 Saucy.
51 Spain (abbr.)
54 Form of "I."
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