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

— POLLY AND HER PAYS I UNDERSTAND ——y THAT THE LIL BOY —l e || NEXT DOOR IS A ACCOMPLISHED DERN SISSY/ { i1 TOE DANCER/ By CLIFF STERRETT N |1 Ta<e IT ALL BACK, . MAW/ THAT THERE NEIGHBOR'S NIPPER IS . e U " BYiJE3SIE_DOUGLA s,’fi_g}’é jworked before. * Ay “I'll come back in two years and I ¢ SYNOPSIS: Frances Lindsay, ( She had still Ifiwleam that every-|then ncw reconciled with her hus- band realizes that it was her ¢o , Nora Lake, and not oelf who had attracted Fer- More. Was there, then, |that cast chasm to another soul.| |But as she stood there she knew | with a feeling of joy that she still |had Aunt Em ‘and Hallle. Never|=: | until this moment had she known|=: how much they meant to her. = Spring had come. It came in the &= blowing March winds and the swell- | ing of the horse chestnut buds out- | side the window; it came from the | open country with the tang of wild | things pushing through the fecund earth. When Nora let herself in that March evening she heard Hallie's voice and Aunt Em’'s answering laughter. She had them still; she would always have them, she' thought with a queer little tug at her heart. “What do you think?” Hallie; cried as Nora went into the back| parlor. gus significance in Fergus' protest and his impulsive kisses when Nora had told him of her in- fended elopement with Jon Thayer? Jon's wife, Damon, decides not to prosécute Noras father for the fraudulent ex- hibit of Nicholas Thayer’s pic- tures as his own while Jon re- prcaches himself for breaking | his engagement to Nora be- | cause of her suspected connec- tion with the scheme. Her father’s trouble thus averted, Nora’s desperation is lessened and she tells Jon their elope- ment is off. His frenzy causes him to drive the car in which they are riding into the path TR g of a train. | “A letter from Fran?” | Chapter 36 Hallie’s sallow face was burned| |a deep red. Aunt Em’s eyes were ively. he oil stock is good?” “Tell her, Hallie.” Hallie thrust into Nora's hand a long document with a light blue back . . . Nora rustled through the typewritten pages without un- derstanding. “Don't you know a contract when you see it, my child?” Hallie cried. “You remember that letter to Pan- sy? T've done more since—even worse—and the editor wants me to conduct the column. I think the' poor fellow’s a fool or he would never have done it. But I'll make enough money to live on.” “You're wealthy!” Nora exclaim- ed. “Not on $40 a week.” Hallie grin- ned. i They sat entranced as Hallie read through the long dull riga-! marole of the contract. Aunt Em said at the end they thought of taking the white cottage near the McDonalds in the country. “I can grow roses and old-fash- ioned pinks,” she looked at Nora, and there’ll always be a room just for you, Nora. We want you to be happy.” Nora remembered how Fran had sald just those words. Months ago when everything was still before her; when life was a great expec- tation; when anything might hap- pen she could have believed theni.' But now . . . They were going to leave the little red brick house. For the first time she knew she loved it; the HOPES IN SPRING By a minute, a second only, it |1 seemed, they jolted across the tracks and the train swept by, its| hot cindery breath in their nostrils Curiously enough, Nora was not afraid. She knew now that nothing she could do would stop Jon. He was a madman. At some turn, if by a hair's breadth Jon swerved the car, they would be dashed over. She knew all this in fleeting vision as the danger increased. But even this she faced with a kind of tri- umph as though she were living in a dream. If he were bent on killing them both no words would stop him now. They crossed a bridge and she heard the car grind over the boards With a violent clatter and saw the iron rails swing past. At the next turn was a strip of woods that she knew ended in a curve and drop— unless it were carefully taken— straight toward the river hundreds of feet below. She closed her eyes and clenched her teeth so that she would mnot scream. She felt a sudden horrible Jolt. She opened her eyes. The car had come to a standstill. Jon had shot on the brakes. He bent over the wheel, his head in his arms. She saw that he was sobbing. He looked up at last. “I thought I could end it that Way . .. but I couldn’t. You never knew my mother went . . . that H way. It's madness in our family. -4 I never told you.” | | “Jon, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,” she ‘whispéred. back parlor with its cottage piano “But it's no use, Nora?” and the bare floor with the oval “No’ use.” rag rugs, the pussy willow in the “I'll drive you home if you're not |gray earthen jar, the shabby books, afraid?” the basement dining room where “FThey drove back in almost com- plete silence; a silence that was curiously shared as though they €ach knew that the other was re- membering that first meeting and i all' these last months. ¢ Nora had begun to tremble. She bhad not felt the shock in those first few minutes but now her whole body was shaking; after a while H this stopped too. Bhe looked at Jon and saw his they had talked and laughed and planned; the narrow back yard with its straggling little flowers and magnificent tree. The little house would be empty. Perhaps she could find a room nearby, Nora thought, and the days would follow each other and some = day perhaps Mr. Dusenbury would make her his secretary. She could buy flowers and books and hear music and go out to spent Satur- 3 pale clear-cut face unchanged. She |day night with Aunt Em and Hal- i could not hate him, knowing asshe |lie . . . did that he would have'killed them | But she would be part of. their both if his cowardice had not stop- |life no' longer. vl ped him in the end. Poor Jon! So| Perhaps in time charming, so variable, blown about|come lke Miss Brown by every wind of chance, always|bookkeeping department at the of- seeking for some outlet. He was,|fice, pretending that' the''desk 'is she saw, like Julian, seeking Wwith |a house and that when She ‘closes ardor for something that he would |it up and covers the typewriter sh dever {ind, for that something was|is putting ‘the children to bed. lacking in himself. Nora repressed a Shudder at the BShe was sorry for him. And with | dismal prospect. * the pity the last vestage of attrac-| Spring had “come. Spring' with' tion was gone. its urge and ‘its restlessness;”spring Had she not wanted to come |that promised so much. It was onl home after all so that she would |last spring that she had lived ‘in| gee this boy whom she had met in|the Villa Rosa and stolen out inty) the Sussex village? Had her search|the déwy garden at dawn. Only not ended in futility? last spring when all the world lay They had reached Dove Street.|pefore her. But Nicholas and Fran asked her to Kiss him good-by.|and Jon were gone now. She was had relinquished her with|at last alone. ly a struggle; perhaps it was| Nora looked up at Aunt Em. Hal- use he was so sensitive, that|iie had left the room. knew she no longer admired| 1 want" you to have your own . She had wounded his vanity |life, Nora, a full, rich life. Not the | was his most vulnerable|jife of an old woman with me. I because, after all, his opinion|shall have my music lessons; Hal- thimself was very easily shaken.|)je her writing. But that's not for e must have said good-by. But {you, Nora.” only knew she stood watching| They heard Fergus whistling ‘asi car drive dova the street. Sh° ihe came in. The door closed be-| she ‘woulr, never have 10 see | hind him with & bang. v - again. A faint color blew up into Nora's; ' now that he had gone she|cheeks and flamed into a burning ‘a lost, bewildered feeling. She ' always OO scarlet as Aunt Em continued: been aloe, but at first] “your own home, your own mat2, ! had clung to her father; and|your own ehifdren” = o | r ‘and later had | That evening Fergus jolned them, 3 Jon, But now, they there Were gone. | listening to their plans, his eyes, ak directly to each other; -ling away soon. work and study as he had never| | one is alone, unable to reach across yun out to see you and Aunt |QIIIIIlIIIIlIIIllIlIHIIHIHIIIIIIIiIIIlIIIII American Beauty Parlors MRS. 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