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unci be r muJLove i Peggy Derm * whu. relea^ ? ? M?? M? ' ?* ? Tarts* and feu lather, with Anals, Dm sarrant. In ? > small farm at the , sits af Plaaaaat Grass. Thstr una* la Bits tram chlckeas aa< a law cava, tor MacTastok has hash a neer-do rr ail laa jraara. lata Plaaaaat Orara cams h Hail ?W called kartell AUclk ttsr aaaaa. and karlat takarttat Ike old Brtl ham place aha U Ban a aalfkkar at Macaa't. AUda la a wemaa ot akaat forty years aid, wan draaaed, sad aama uini at a mystery. A atraafer camaa to the MacTartik place to buy mOk aad batter aad e(|i, aad anneaaces hlmtaU at Tarn Fallen, Iks new kith tckool prin cipal. new 11 Tint la Ike Wcitbraak place, ?c ctatct thai kit wife la aa laralld. , CHAPTER n Megan and Tom sat quietly on (he big flat rocks, saying little, their ?yes following the antics of the dogs and cats galloping around in circles on the Ridge. She thought she had never seen the pines look so beau tiful. He asked for permission to All his pipe and light it, and tentatively of fered her a cigarette. "Thanks, no," Megan answered lightly. "It's a habit I've avoided? I don't think I'd care much for it, and it is expensive." Obviously Tom understood the logic of that, and for a moment they were both ailent, until he got his pipe going well. Megan said after a moment when (he silence threatened to become awkward, "How is Mrs. Fallon? Does the climate seem to agree with her, as yoti'd hoped?" Tom's brown hand tightened about the bowl of his pipe until the knuckles stood up in little white mounds. He tbre his eyes from the landscape and gave her a look that was hard and cold and bitter, so much so that she was startled by the sudden, inexplicable hostility. "Mrs. Fallon is?doing as well as could be expected, under the circum stances," he told her. His voice was harsh, and the very sound of (he words told her that he had re peated these words until they had ceased to have any meaning; yat he had never ceased to resent the necessity for them. "I'm sorry if I seemed?inquisi tive or rude," Megan told him frankly, her face hot with color, her head up. "I had no such intention. You have made no secret of the fact that your wife is an invalid. Naturally, in a small town like this, people are interested and anxious to be of service, if they may?" "The only service anyone can do my wife?or myself?is to leave my wife alone," stated Tom, and Me gan's eyes blazed at his tone. She was on her feet now, and she ?aid swiftly, her voice shalung with anger. "You may be quite sure that in the future, I, at least, shall be happy to do so!" She turned blindly to walk back through the pines, but before she had gone half a dozen steps, Tom was on his feet, laying a hand on her arm, in swift, abject apology. "Please wait ? please, forgive me," he apologized humbly. "That was unforgivable of me! It's Just that?well, the subject Is?an ex tremely painful one?" "I'm sincerely sorry that I men tioned it," she told him stiffly, her face still hot. He looked down at her gravely, his hand still on her arm, restrain ing her as she would have walked ?way. "You see, Miss MacTavlsh," he said at last, his voice raw with pain, "my wife's illness is?chiefly men tal." He set his teeth hard when he had ?poken the last two words, and Me gan looked up at him, puzzled. "Mental? You mean she merely Imagines she is ill? That she is a hypochondriac?" she asked, in all innocence. Tom's face was white and rigid now, but his eyes were alive with pain. "No," he said huskily. "I mean that my wife is?mentally HI?that she has the mind of a young child? that she Is not?not normal!" It was obvious that he had tried to say "insane" and had not been able to get the word past his stiff lips. Megan was conscious of a mo ment of stunned, shocked horror. This man?chained to an insane wife I This man, whom everybody liked, with his fine mind and his keen sense of responsibility, and a woman who had tha mind of a young child I "Oht" was all she could say, her tone shocked and rich with sympa thy and touched with keen embar rassment that she must witness his moment of naked, burning revela tion. 'Tm?terribly sorry?" Tom brushed aside the choked, inadequate words and said with a sort of forced quiet, "So you see why it has been necessary for us to?deny the well intentioned call ers?" "Of course," Megan told him un steadily, sick with pity for him. "She is?entirely harmless." he told ber, and his face was wrenched with the pain and the shame of hav ing to put that thought into words. "She is never left for a moment alone and she never leaves ber bed. Bu* if people here knew about her? mental condition?well, undoubtedly uwy would ? well, feel that she I should be locked away I Put In an institution?" The pain of the ' thought silenced his words for a moment, and after he had got him , self somewhat under control he ' managed a smile at her that was little more than a grimace and said, "So now you know. What are you going to doT" Megan flinched from the look and from the words. She looked at him with wide, distressed eyes. "What's it got to do with meT I mean, why should I do anything?" she protested swiftly. "I'm terribly sorry?I didn't mean to pry into your affairs?" "I know," Tom brushed the words away with a gesture of the hand that held his pipe. "But I think, somehow, I wanted you to know. After all, you are my nearest neigh bor. We see each other often? it's inevitable you should wonder. I ?I hope you won't feel it necessary to-" Megan's face flamed with hurt. Be looked down at her gravely, his hand still on her arm, restrain ing her as she would have walked away. "You may be quite sure that I shall reveal your secret to no one? why should IT What right?or ne cessity?would I have?" she told him sharply. Tom smiled at her, a white, faint smile that was somehow very tragic. "I know you wouldn't. Forgive me. I'm clumsy and stupid, but not intentionally or wilfully so. For give me?for everything?" Megan melted beneath the look in his eyes, and put her hand in his and let him draw her back to the flat Stone, where she sat down once more. And as though the revela tion of his tragic secret had cleared the air between them, as though they were friends now, they spoke of other things. His mind was keen and alert; Megan read a great deal and used her mind to think with, and it was for both of them a pleasant experi ence to be able to talk of things that had nothing to do with Pleasant Grove. Megan liked her friends and her neighbors, but there were many times when she hungered for im personal talk of matters far afield from Pleasant Grove, and she en joyed this contact with a stimulat ing mind. He walked with her to the barbed wire fence, when she saw that she must go because the evening was ending; he laughed a little, and obligingly held up the lower strand of barbed wire so she could crawl under it without snagging her skirt. "There really should be a gate here," she told him, getting to her feet on the other side of the fence, laughing across the four strands of barbed wire at him. "But I'm like the man who was going to fix the leak in his roof, only he couldn't work while it was raining; and when it wasn't raining the roof didn't need mending. I somehow never get around to itl" She whistled. The two dogs came bounding to her, and the four cats stepped daintily out of a great thick et of honeysuckle vines that sprawled at the comer of the fence. And as she walked back down the meadow path to the brook, she looked over her shoulder, and lifted her hand to him in a gay little ges ture, as she saw him still standing there. He lifted his hat to her and bowed in a gay burlesque of a sweeping old-world gesture, and she went on, her heart a little light er for him. She was terribly sorry for him, but she admired the gal lantry with which he carried his burdens. And, looking across the fields toward the drab little five room frame house that eras the Westbrook place and that now held 4 this pathetic woman, his wife, *ie felt the tears in her eye?. Poor man I and?poor woman! She shiv ered a little and hurried as she went, as though to run away from thoughts that bit too deeply. One of Pleasant Grove's favorite autumn diversions, when the har vest was in and the winter greens had been planted, and it was still too warm for "hawg-killin,," was quilt ing parties. Through the scant leisure time of winter, most of Pleasant Grove's women pieced quilts, out of "scrap bags" and carefully hoarded bits of material; and then when the quilt top had been pieced and finished, the owner notified her friends that she was "putting up" a quilt and they were invKed to come and help her quilt it. A few days after her talk with Tom on the Ridge, Megan went over to Mrs. Stuart's, where there was a quilting. There were greetings, a breezy exchange of pleasantries, while Megan settled herself, brought her thimble out of her pock et, threaded her needle, and set to work. inert were perhaps a dozen wom en about the big frame, which was opened to its fullest width, the width and length of a double bed. Megan talked lightly and carelessly to her neighbor, the pretty little Whitaker girl whose sweetheart had just been reported injured in action in Italy and who was grateful for the chance to talk about him. Suddenly Megan heard the name, " 'feasor Fallon" and looked up. Alicia Stevenson was watching her shrewdly, a little knowing look in her small, dark eyes that made Megan oddly and absurdly uneasy. Mrs. Burns, who was president of the Parent-Teachers' association of the local school, was saying, "I think we're lucky to get a man like Pro fessor Fallon here. The school . board says his qualifications are ex | cellent and his references are ex tremely good!" Mrs. Stuart bit off a thread and patted her last stitches into place before threading the needle afresh. "Sort of makes me wonder how come we could get a man like 'fea sor Tom, in a little bitty place like this," she said, as she moistened the tip of the thread and squinted at the eye of the needle, trying to in sert one through the other. "I don't reckin it's anything ag'n the man, though, if he wants to live in a little country town?" "Maybe Megan could tell us more about that," said Alicia silkily. "About what?" asked Megan, cravenly pretending not to under stand. "Why a man like Tom Fallon would be satisfied in a little hick town like Pleasant Grove," said Alicia, smiling. "After all, you know him so much better than any of the rest of us?" "I sell him milk and butter and *g?s, yes," Megan told her curtly. "I'd hardly say that made us old friends, though." "But I thought during some of those long hours you've spent to gether on the Ridge, he might have told you something of himself," suggested Alicia, limpid-eyed, her voice soft as satin. There was a startled gasp about the quilting frame, perhaps not so much a gasp, as a sense of move- 1 ment that made Megan know they 1 were all staring at her, startled, I wondering?waiting. < Megan drew a long breath. "Just 1 what do you mean by that?" she 1 asked Alicia sharply. Alicia's eyes were wide with sur prise, but there was a trace of ' malice in their depths also. "But, darling," she protested, her 1 voice artificially gay and sweet, ' "what could I possibly mean except that I've seen you and the gallant professor on the Ridge?" "Once, quite by accident, when I was out for a walk?" Megan be gan, but Alicia interrupted her with pretty concern and an apology that was worse than the most open accu sation. "Of course, I'm terribly sorry," "Alicia Interrupted. "Please don't say any more. I never dreamed? I mean I wouldn't have mentioned it for the world?" She was pret tily confused, and Megan ceuld feel the hint of tension, of curiosity, that crept about the room. - The women who had been her friends and neighbors all ber life looked at her and then quickly away, very carefully not meeting her eyes, trying not to meet each other's eyes, elaborately pretending to be very casual. "This is ridiculousi" said Megan hotly. "You're trying to make peo ple believe that I've been?sneak ing off to meet Mr. Fallon?" "Why, darling!" protested Alicia, ?ride-eyed, hurt, though secretly en loying, as she always did, this by no means unusual result of her mali cious dropping of bits of informa tion here and there. "I didn't say anything of the kind. All I said eras that it was obvious that you knew the man better than any of the rest jf us, and that you should therefore know better than we why he was silling to hide?I mean to bury him lelf in a little hick town like Pleas- 0 int Grove." c Mrs. Stuart eyed Alicia belliger- D mtly. _, t <to n oornvuxD) b IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday i chool Lesson Lesson for July 21 ?????<? and Scripture KrU ?? ptrmwmL I JESUS AND TRUE WORSHIP LESSON TEXT?Deuteronomy 1:11-14. is. 10; lulih 49:10. 31: Mark 11:10-34. MEMORY SELECTION?God to l Spirit: ond they that worship htm must worship to oplrlt and Iruth John 4:14. The one true God is worthy of the wholehearted worship of all men. The second commandment, which we studied last week, forbids all and every idolatry and thus re quires exclusive worship of god. It really means something in the life of a man to worship God in sincerity and truth. It makes life worthwhlls both here and hereaft er. I. Worship Balances Life (Deut 8:11-14). Prosperity is usually thought to be a blessing. We fear depression and poverty. The Lord through Moses warned his people that pros perity was dangerous. It still Is. because material things have the power to so satisfy the natural de sires of man as to make him for get his spiritual needs. Is it not true that material pros perity usually brings with it a cor responding decrease in spirituality. Life values are weighed in gold, silver, wheat and iron instead of be ing viewed in the light of God's Word. Worship of God will balance life for it will keep man from forget ting God and his laws. In the wil derness Israel had to call on God for daily bread. Now that they were to come into the promised land they would be apt to think they produced their own food. * n. Worship Protects Life (Deut. 8:18-20). One of the most mischievous mis takes of life is the idea that man is the maker of his own money. Only God can give man the power of band and heart, of muscle and mind, which brings forth wealth, and then he can only draw it out of God's resources in mine or field or sea. This fallacy of man leads him astray, and he begins to worship the very powers he uses and finds pleas ure in the gods of this world. That way leads only to eternal destruc tion, to spiritual death. How is man to be delivered from this awful destructive force? By a right relationship to God, by wor ship of and devotion to the Lord. Israel had a covenant with God, and in the keeping of it they would find deliverance from all which would pull down and destroy?yes, and from the judgment of God (v. 20). n c wuu uv ocuevers m t~nrist are under the new covenant of grace. If we have been born again wa have the promise of God that we have eternal life. But let us be clear that it i* possible for a Chris tian to so forget God and his cov enant with the Lord as to lose his fellowship and Joy, and to be use less and fruitless. III. Worship Strengthens Life (Isa. 40:30, 31). The Christian life is not an easy one to live. After all, who wants it easy? These is, however, full provision by God for the power needed to live a life as victorious and exultant as that of the soaring eagle. That power is for those who "wait upon the Lord" (v. 31). It is taken for granted that those who are old may become weary end faint, but the fact is that even the youth have this disappointing experience. We, leaders in the church and parents, are apt to forget that youth s often a time of great struggle, rhe young man or woman must nake the choices of purposes and deals which will determine their bl ur e. Too often youth, left unguid ed and without the balance of a ?eal faith in God, makes the wrong :hoices and winds up in bitter dis ippointment. Only G*d is sufficient for the need if our young people but he is suf Icient. Let us teach our boys and [iris to wait on the Lord. IV. Worship Completes Life Mark 12:28-34). Here was a man, who, by the tes imony of Jesus was "not far from be kingdom of God." He was very lear to a full devotion to God in Christ. He knew "all the answers," mt he did not follow the teaching rhich be knew to its proper and ileased conclusion. It is terrifying to think bow close i man can come to entering into ternal life, and yet miss it altogeth r. It prompts the writer of these iotas to ask you, the reader, very arnestly, Have you entered into ternal life through Jesus Christ? 'Almost" will not avail; you can be Imost saved?and eternally lost. The true nature of worship is re ealed in this lesson as a loving de cadence on God at all times and i all circumstances. Wa recognise 1m as the one who can supply our very need, spiritual and temporal. 7e accord to him quick and full bedience. We find in him such omplete satisfaction that we can ot .withhold our love and his love rem our fallow men. We worship iml - ? r-i -to: I . Fh__ BIO BUSINESS AND TAXES WASHINGTON.?Juciest gravy In tha current tax legislation la the ) continuance of the carry-back of un used exceaa profits credit The sen ate finance committee, always friendly to big business, not only knocked out the excess profits tax last year, but retained carry-back refunds. This permits corporations whose current earnings do not pro portionately match their 1930-1939 earnings, to claim adjustments In their 1944 tax payments. This Is one reason some firms didn't worry toe much a boat pro - longed strikes. General Motors . alone wlU probably hit the treas ury for a refund of M million dollars. To head off this drain on tha treasury, Rep. Cleveland Bailey of Clarksburg, W. Vs., Democrat, Introduced a bin last January to repeal the carry back provisions. On January 13, the bouse ways and means com mittee asked the treasury for a ? report. nccenuy impatient Kep. Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, Democrat, pro posed that congress act independent ly, without waiting for the treasury report. He pointed out that large credits can be claimed by corpora tions which actually make more money this year than they did in any of the years from 1936 to 1939, simply because their capital invest ment is now larger. Mills charged that many large corporations are taking advantage of this loophole, and as a result the taxpayer foots the bill for the expan sion of private Industries. He also listed a long series of "abuses and transactions which will no doubt be resorted to in order to create car ry-back refunds or tax credits." ? ? ? KANSAS ATOMIC STRAW The Eastman Kodak company has been having trouble as a result of the first atomic bomb test in New Mexico?one year ago. Eastman found that, for some mysterious rea son, some of its film was turning black before exposure. Finally ex perts discovered that the film had been packed in straw which came from western Kansas. After the Log Alamos bomb test, radioactive dost from New Mexico settled on Kansas wheat fields, and Is still so powerful that the Kodak company has had to stop using Kansas straw for packing film. ? ? ? TRCMAN WRITES A VETO President Truman was convinced that the half-breed price-control bill would not work. The Taft amend ment, he especially argued, was ab solutely impossible, and he cited ac countancy experts of various big manufacturing firms, all of them against OPA, who branded the Taft cost-plus formula as likely to bring chaos to industry. "I Just have to put what I con sider the country's welfare first," the President told his congressional leaders. "Let's not fool the country and give them something that won't work." When they told him that they would not be able to persuade their reluctant colleagues to pass any sort of price-control bill, the President replied: "If It's this or nothing, then we'll Just have to take nothing." Among other things, the Presi dent figured that during the chaot ic period sure to follow if the poly glot price-control bill were passed, congress would claim it was his fault for not making the bill work, when, in actual (act, the bill was unworkable. He felt also that if : congress did dare to go home with ? out a price-control bill, things would be hotter Ifor them in their districts [ than in Washington. He also warned that in this case he would call a special session of congress. ? ? ? WHO WON THE WAR? It '. now getting close to a year sincv. the end of the war with Japan, and yet the strategic bombing sur vey for Japan has not been made public. Inside reason is a vigorous backstage tug-of-war between the army and navy which boils down to the basic question: "Which of them won the war in the Pacific?" Civilian members of the survey staff, however, summarize the situ ation: 1. Heaviest damage to Japan was inflicted by U. S. submarines. They had just about shut off all Jap sup plies towsrd the end of the war and Japan was paralyzed. 2. Next greatest damage was done by long-range army land based planes. 3. The navy's carrier . based planes were important, but ranked second to the B-29?. ? ? ? 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