The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 19, 1931, Page 6

S, M 3 SO AL s et e o [ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1931 I'VE SAW SOME AMINULES IN MY TIME, BUT A CROSS-EYED KITTY TAKES NOPSIS: Julian faflurc a< a painter, marry hic motherless Ncra, to the artist, Thaycr, their guest. Sensing thic, her dislike for Thayer pic-s, tempered by an interest due to his being the brother of Jenathen, a cherished acquain- tance of former years. An in- jury to Nicholas’s hand almost cauces ite loss. Nora, nursing him, is conscious of a new re- gard for the painter, though puzzicd by his cynicism. Julian’s anncuncement of his intended marriage to Mrs. Nevers, owner of the villa they are cccupying, «s»ndc her hurrying to Nicholas, who has just learned that his painting hand is paralyzed as the result of the injury. Im- pulsively she acks that he take ber away. Do you mean would 1 marry you?” he replies. Lake, a hopes to daughter, Nicholas Chapter 10 ESCAPE FOR NORA | The color was driven from Nora's cheeks by Nicholas’s brutal re- ply. Her breath was coming so un- steadily that she could not speak and her heart seemed to shake her body to pieces. “I don't kmow what I meant,” she stammered. And yet when she had asked Nicholas to take her away with him, had she not meant that he’ marry her? All these days that she| had thought of him was it not just this that she hoped for? Was this met her single chance of escape? He Jocked so unromantic when she glanced at him. Yet he alone could take her home, save her from Helen Nevers, from this futile life that cshe must lead henceforth be- fside a jealous woman. | “Could you—give me the money? 1 would pay it back!” { “No, but I'll marry you.” “You're sorry for me!” she cried. “Does it look that way? Why did I come to this place? Why have 1 stayed? Why did I tell you last night—" Suddenly she was in a panic. Each way she turned she seemed to be trapped. She whispered: “But—1I don’t love you!” All she wanted was sécurity. She was standing now as though she would run down that hill if hel touched her. He drew her toward' him, but all she said when she feaned back from his kiss was: “Take me home.” She left him with the excuse that she must go down to look! after Magddlenna, but half way down the hill she decided she must BREEDING, PA ! ALL WELL BRED SIAMESE CATS ARE CROSS-EYED. By CLIFF STERRETT WHAT'S YOUR NEW BY THE WAY SAMBO, NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR'S BUSINESS ? BY JESSIE DOUGLAS FOXam |father yet. | She stole around the winding path and stood still. Then c£he saw him lying in the grass, on |his face, his hands clenched in the grass and he was sobbing. She moved back step by step. His bitterness was only the shield of an intclerable sensitiveness. He had seemed callous when he was | suffering horribly. She was not afraid of him now (that she had stumbled on his se- !father no longer needed her; and in that moment she knew she had | found her excuse for marrying him. She liked places better than peo- |ple, Nora decided. Wet mornings {when the brown leaves glistened; ! | cloud-filled afternoons; deep cvc-} nings with their stars. Yet Nicholas had not disappoint-| {ed her. He was kind; he was even |thoughtful. And she, who never!' had anyone in all of 20 years—ex- {cept her grandmother—who thought of her first, was constantly touch- ed and pleased. | She was not excited by Nicholas; but she no longer felt strange with | |him. She was used to his moody silence now. And she believed with ja pride that was pathetic that he needed her. Her feelings did not need ar- rangement; for they were simply | gratitude and pity and pride. It was, after all, rather a splendid thing as Julian and Helen Nevers| told her, that a man who would | one day be a famous painter had chosen her from all the world. But when she was alone it was| of the old Dutch house on the river bank near Albany, where Nicholas was taking her, of which shc{ dreamed as an other girl might have dreamed of love. No one would | ever pull her up by the roots again. And she need not worry about| money, now. Nicholas would give her infinite freedom and she would grow very fond of him in time. She passed over this very quickly. But she was hungry to know alll about Nicholas's people; about his | home.~ She urged him to tell her more. f | “Nothing to tell. That was my brother Jon you met in England, I fancy.” He looked up. He was stackmg' his canvases face toward the wall. He preferred, he had told her, that | she shouldn’t look at them. They were no good. | “No, I've a step-sister, Damon. And her father.” “What is she like?” |cret. Bome one needed her, as her | you mean the color of her hair?” | “Isn't there anything else you | want to tell me?” she persisted. | “Do you mean about my wicked | past?” he asked ironically. | He said no more about his people. | But that night she tried to pin | her father down to facts. | “Julian, you don't think—I mean | you do think that I should marry | Nicholas?” “Think of some one beside your- |self, my child. The poor fellow | would lose his mind if you didn't,” he said airily. An unmarried daughter, tagging you over Europe, especially on your heneymoon, he reflected, would be |a little tiresome. Julian was sitting at the foot cf her bed, smoking, and now she asked him about their relatives at home, “Dreadful!” he shuddered. “But my sister isn't so bad. 'Anyone is dreadful who doesn't admire me. Emily told me once T was wasting my time. I might give fame a rest. And earn my bread. That is the way - the bourgeoise talk,” he warned her. ’ He always slid away from under her fingers like this. But with Nicholas it was differ- ent. She could say anything that came into her head to him and he would answer her honestly. She asked him a little timidly if he were happy. “Happy—who is?” he asked her. “Remember, Nora, take all you can get out of life. But don't pay too much for money.” She sat thinking. If she had had money, would she have married him? Her father said that romance was the dream of fools. And she had plenty of romance to last her; if romance meant rushing from one place to another in pursuit of some- thing you never found. The days went pell-mell past. The last one was on them. Nicho- las was going ahead to Naples. He told her their plans carefully, as though she were a child; and she sat looking at his thin hawk-like nose and cold eyes. No one to see | him so would ever know, as she did, how infinitely kind he was. But at the end she said in a panic, “Nicholas, you don't have to marry me, you know!” “But I am going to,” he said. Julian burst in to say. “The fiacre’s at the door. You'd better hurry. We'll wire you, my dear fellow, the hour of our arrival.” ‘And two days later Nora and her father left. She was seeing the last of their borrowed Villa Rosa. Nora turned to her father anx- iously to ask him if she looked all right. “You look charming! Charming!” he told her, his eyes twinkling. But she wondered a little doubt- “What are any of us like? Do go back to tell him not to tell her A Hollywood Style Shop Near Old Cable Office - « o d IllmwwmlflflmflIIHIIIIII]IIIllllllllllllIlllflllflll}!lllllIIIHI|IIIIIIIIIIII!IHIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlII Buy More COLEMAN’S Hollywood Style Shop Pay Less COLEMAN'’S T Much Less Near Firsi and Mai4n fully if the old blue suit and scarlet {Public-Owned Utilities blcuse were just the thing for a bride. She paused on her beret at a more jaunty angle, while father remarked that things had turned out splendidly for them. 'She wondered if they had. For now she was in a kind of panic. Nor did she relax until she sank {into the seat of the second-class carriage. She was going to be married. She supposed she should be happy; and she had never been more mis- erable in her life. At last they all leaned out to see the plume of smoke that hung above Vesuvius in the brilliant air; and Nora knew they were near Naples. Their bags went pitching through the windcws to the plat- form. Nora was between laughter and tears when Nicholas jointed them. Nicholas was strangely excited. His hand would be all right, he assured them. Her father asked Nicholas if he had the ring, and the tickets for the boat. Nora moved in a dream. The only real person was Julian who was steady and calm in the rectory parlor where they were married. At last it was all over. Nora found herself clinging to him. If only it were Julian who was going home with her! For now Nicholas was sunk in a brooding silence. Nicholas tried to hurry her at the dock, but Julian drew Nora aside and pulled out of his pocket some bank notes that ha thrust into her hand. She hugged him, wondering even then if he had borrowed the money from Nicholas. (Ccpyright, 1930, Jesse Douglas Fox) Nichela”’ injured hand will trouble him no longer, he tells Nora tomeorrow. And morning proves his prediction. Aim of Gov. LaFollette (Continued from page 1.) ing limit has in many instances been the barrier to municipally- owned plants. Sponsored by Sen. O. §. Loomis, one of the young Progressives. in the upper house, a bill permitting the creation of power districts has been passed and signed by the Gov- ernor. It will permit municipalities to connect their utility plants to gain the advantages of mass pro- duction. Open Way To Competition. 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After refréshments at the Arcade Cafe, the party took a ride| out to the glacier, returning home on the midnight ferry. | ARV e | TERM ENDS AT CHICHAGOF Mrs. F. A. J. Gallwas and daughter, Alberta, returned home on the America I last night from Chichagof, where Miss Gallwas has | been teaching school for the st nine months. Mrs. Jack Phillips, wife of one of the employees at Chichagof, returned with Mrs. Gall- was to be her house guest for some time. — e WATSON UNLOADS FREIGHT L AINT GOT THE FAINTEST NOTION INTERIOR HAS BIG INCREASE —— INPREDATORS {Wolves and Coyotes Over- run Upper Kuskokwim —Snow Kills Caribou Information has just been re- ceived by the Executive Office of the Alaska Game Commission that there has been an unusually heavy increase in the numbers of coy- ctes and wolves in the upper Kus- kokwim region during the past winter. It is reported that the animals have been very destruc- tive to game and fur alike. 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