Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1935, Page 26

DAILY SHORT STORY. PAID IN FULL Plans for Revenge on the Man Who Broke Her Sister’s Heart Strangely Fell Through. BY LOUISE HOLMES ANDREWS. YOU would never think to look at Carol that she could hold a grudge or seek revenge. She was the fluffy type with golden hair and big blue eyes. But that was what she was thinking of, re- venge, as she filled baskets with wild flowers and placed them advantage- ously on the broad, shady porch of the little Summer cot- tage. It was 10 o'clock of & perfect Spring morning and in just five hours that porch was to be the scene of her wedding with big, bronzed and joyous Keith Vincent. To Carol the nearness of the aproaching wedding | brought back with startling clearness | another wedding day, just last Christ- mas time, when the library at home had been cramped with gifts, when Keith had been the prospective bride- | groom, as he was today, and Mary, Ellen, Carol's lovely older sister, had been the bride. | Carol had come from college two | days before the wedding and then. It was horrible, that which had fol- | lowed—horrible. The something had passed from Keith's honest eyes to hers and back again when Mary Ellen introduced them, so proudly, so hap- pily—something as quick as a lightning | flash and as relentless as fate. It had only lasted an instant, but | it had made Carol unsteady—so un- | steady that she toppled off the step- ladder when she was helping Kmh‘ arrange great branches of fir over | the mantel shelf. Even so nothing could have happened if Keith hadn't caught her as she fell, and even ‘ that would have been but an incident | had he not held her in his arms, | had not his eager lips sought hers. | But the terrible thing—Carol cov- | She Toppled Of want to get it over early 3o mother and daddy can meet Mary Ellen.” As she lighted the stove Carol wondered what Keith would think if he knew her hat and coat and bag were hidden be- hind a log in the ‘woods It was after 12:30 when the eager parents of Mary Ellen drove away to meet the train from the West and 10 minutes later when Carol re- membered some- thing concerning which she must see Mrs. Farrell at once. “Better stay here, Keith,” she urged as he showed every intention of accompanying her. “They may come any minute with the ices and cake.” Running along the path, she turned to look at Keith, staying reluctantly behind. Would Keith care when he found her note after she was gone? What if he did? She wanted him to suffer as he had made Mary Ellen suffer. But Mary Ellen would realize that she was the one he had always loved and wanted, and Mary Ellen’s broken heart would be healed and—and everything would be all right. As for herself, with this gesture she paid in full for that one mad moment in front of the fireplace at home. As the bus lumbered into view it seemed to shimmer and swim and Carol was amazed to feel tears streaming down her cheeks, to hear her breath coming in choked sobs. The bus came to a stop, the heavy door swung open and hesitatingly she put her foot on the “Carol! Oh, Carol!' and Carol whirled at the sound. Mary Ellen was getting out of a car, running to meet her. Where were mother and daddy? was following her, the Stepladd bareheaded and a voice shrilled, | A young man | TfiE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1935 BILL FRAMED TO END M’CARL-NAVY FIGHT Appropriation Measure Would Permit Payment of Disputed Travel Expenses. By the Assoclated Press. To settle the controversy between Secretary Swanson and Controller General Mc the House Naval Committee has agreed to seek in- clusion in the Navy’s annual appro- priation bill of a clause to permit pay- ment of travel expenses for office sent home to await retirement. While such a provision may be ruled out on a point of order, the commit- tee thought it might not be able to obtain action this session on a sep- arate bill, A ruling by McCarl against the Gov- ernment’s the travel costs for paying e el ment recently brought a strong sent from Swanson and word that he would leave the final decision up to the President and the Attorney General. N e RUG RELIC OF CZAR Persian Piece to Be Feature of Connecticut Avenue Exhibit. A large Persian rug, worked with intricate hunting scenes, which for years adorned a palace in the Cau- casus, owned by a member of the Czar’s family, is on view at the May- flower Hotel, along with other exhibits or the Connecticut Avenue Associa- tion’s style show. The rug was lost when the owners fled before the advance of the new regime. It fell into the hands of Lieut. Comdr. Hamilton Bryan, U. 8. N, while he Was in Tiflis, Georgia, Caucasia, in 1919. The authorities later confiscated the rug, when the American sought to bring it across the borders. By chance, Comdr. Bryan came across the rug years later in a Con- stantinople store. He convinced the authorities of his ownership and brought it to this country. The rug has been loaned a Connecticut avenue dealer for display. It measures 13 by 18 feet and is valued at many thousands of dollars. FREE OF SLAYING COUNT Friend of Killed Girl Released in Preliminary Hearing. SAN MATEO, Calif., March 21 (). Florencio Alcalde, 22, was freed at a preliminary hearing of charges of murdering a girl friend, Kathleen Robinson, 26, as she walked along a sidewalk here the night of January 26. Justice of the Peace Richard E. O'Farrell, said he could find no rea- sonable or probable cause connecting Alcalde with the case. uring This SPECIAL $A auanice FOR YOUR OLD GAS RANGE —any kind—any condition! FALL PROVES FATAL TO MRS. MARY AUSTIN Resident of Capital for 45 Years Was Active Member of Cal- vary Baptist Church. Injuries received on January 28 when she fell from a chair at her home resulted in the death Tues- day in Casualty Hospital of Mrs. Mary Louise Austin, 82, of 1116 Park place northeast. Her hip was fractured in the fall. Mrs. Austin was a native of West Point, N. Y, and had lived in this city for 45 years. She was the widow of the late Edwin Forest Austin, who fought through the Civil War as a member of the United States Engineer Corps and who later was employed in the War Department. He died 20 years ago at 70. An active member of the Calvary Baptist Church, Mrs. Austin was also & member of the Women's Relief Corps of the G. A. R. and & member of Martha Chapter of the Eastern Star. She is survived by a daughter, | Miss Etta H. Austin, with whom she made her home, Funeral services will be private. 9,000-MILE NON-STOP HOP TERMED POSSIBLE By the Asacolated Press. CLEVELAND, March 21.— Wiley Post 1s confident he could make a non-stop flight of 9,000 miles, some 3,000 miles better than the present record, if he could use a certain type | of military airplane engine in his | plane, he told Amelis Earhart at Cleveland Airport. } | 'The two famous flyers happened to | meet at the airport. Post, who was forced down here on his second at- tempt to cross the continent in the! stratosphere, returned to get his plane. Miss Earhart arrived from New York en route to make a talk at Fort ‘Wayne, Ind, —_— Wife Wins Divorce. ROCKVILLE, Md., March 21 (Spe- cia) —On the ground of desertion, Judge Charles W. Woodward has sign- ed a decree granting to Mrs. Naomi Mae Shoemaker of Dickerson, Md., an absolute divorce from Ernest Lee Shoemaker of Prederick, Lady Wanted The National Society of Am Art desires the services of lady of cullure and, socia} backs-ound to sell fine pictures by prominent American artists at our Exhibition at the Shoreham. and to assist in our Membership Campaign. Un- usual opportunity for a lady with the necessary social contacts. Give full particulars in letter addressed to W. Garrett. Director. the Shores bam.’ Washington, D. C. X KANN'S SPRING SALE OF ROSEBUSHES ered her face with her hands as she remembered it—she, who loved |smiling. This much penetrated Carol's Mary Ellen more than a thousand [ humb brain as she motioned the bus | Offers These Popular Everblooming Varieties Keiths, had clung to him for one|driver to be gone and ran into her | wild moment—and that moment had been observed by Mary Ellen, stand- ing in the door, her arms laden with | hoily wreaths. | There had been words after that. | Carol had heard the murmur from | her bed room, where she was hiding | her shamed face in a pillow, and | Keith had gone aw Mary Ellen, | too, that very night, without a word | to Carol, had taken her pretty wed- ding clothes and gone to Seattle, where she could forget. Two weeks later, when she met Keith on the street, Carol openly en- couraged him. She would be the | girl to show Keith Vincent what it | was like to have hopes blasted and plans smashed on the very eve of their fruition. With that idea in| mind she had led him on to this very day. Tears gathered in her eyes as she thought how she hated him—hated him. Resolutely she smiled and raised tea-wet lashes as Keith came in the back door. “Hi, beautiful,” he exclaimed. “Not erying on your wedding day,” he Carol laughed, slipping past him as she heard her mother’s voice. “I must help with sister's arms. “I brought Clem to your wedding.” Mary Ellen said, laughing and crying and kissing Carol. “For a surprise, vyou know.” She held out a hand to the bareheaded young man. “Clem's my husband,” she announced raptur- ously. Carol could only gasp. “Put_her things in the car with ours, Clem,” Mary Ellen directed. “The poor kid has the jitters.”. She turned to put a comforting arm around the trembling Carol. “It'll be all right the minute the preacher says ‘Amen,’ and Keith is such a darling,” she rattled on. Could this | be the deeply wronged Mary Ellen? “Next to Clem I think he’s the grandest—— Carol! Where are you going?” But Carol had thrown her hat under a pink cherry tree and was racing along the road in the direc- tion of the cottage, where Keith, whom she was going to marry almost right away, was patiently walting for the ices and cake. (Copyright, 1835.) Tomorrow: Little Irving,” by Betty Gailey, is the story of a modern child who was somewhat of a task to this me Edith Helen. Pink Miss Rowena Thom. Pink Mrs. Henry Morse, Pink s Pernet. . Three-tone Willowmere, Pink & Yellow Los Angeles. Yellow & Pink Mme. E. Herriott, Yellow & Pink 25: These at 35¢ ea.—3 for 51 Joanna Hill, Yellow A Pink Golden Climbing Roses at Amerlean Beauty. B W Y an e, Fiak an Mt rerioe Stacehil Gardenta, Yellow e * me. Grego! Spanish Besuty, Pink Yrs. Heary Morse, Pink s. Aaron Ward, Yellow Souv. de Claudius Pernet, Yellow Sunburst. Yellow Talisman. Three-tone Willowmere. Pink and Yellow White Killarney, White J 5¢ each lunch, wedding day or not. We ultra-modern mother. 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