unci be r mu <Locc * Peggy Perm wtia reuca^ . ? ??*I THUS ru: Mas lunu from lull, ? high school girt, that Allele haa ?pceud (outp an mr lowa ahoal her aa4 Tom Panaa meetlug aa the rftdgo. Bho avoided Falloa lor aOTOral dajrs, hot oa Satarda; ho camo lata tha chlckoa ;ard where she was worklaf. She told him of tha gm?lp. -Who ? tar tod thH talkT" ha demaadod. Me? told him It waa allele stoeoaaoa, tha widow. "I U have a talk with her," Tom declared, (ho honed Mm to do aetata# a boot it, bat he left with a (rim laca. Whoa ho came hack b; to pick ap the milk aad e##a ho told Me# that ho dwefht Mrs. Btoreaaoa waa "tola# to maad her wajra." Me tan had her double, lot aha had known Alicia loader. C* . CHAPTER IV Megan (hook her head. "She haa no children," she explained. "She is a widow. She came here to live in the spring, because, as she frankly stated, her income has shrunk so much that she can't af ford to live anywhere else. And she amuses herself by ferreting out small things that people would rath er not have known?and then?sort of broadcasts them where they will create the most excitement." "She sounds like a thoroughly un pleasant person," said Tom grim ly. "And a dangerous one. Where does she live?" "Across the road," answered Me gan, indicating the once drab little house that now wore an air of fresh ness that was almost charm. Tom said sternly, suddenly, "I think I'll have a little talk with Mrs. Stevenson." But Megan laid a swift hand on his arm, stopping him. "Please don't," she said urgently. "After all, nothing can be gained by talking to her. We've all tried It?she only uses our protests and arguments to add more fuel to her talk. We've found that the best way is to avoid her, and give her as little material as we can." Tom nodded grimly. "Just the same, I think I'll have a little talk with her," he said, and before Me gan could stop him he had turned and strode away in the direction of the little silvery-gray house with its green trim. It was almost hall an hour before Tom came back and stopped at the back door to get the two bottles of milk and the eggs that she had waiting for him. His face was grim and set. There was a little white line about his mouth, and his eyes were angry. But he managed a slight smile that tried hard to be comforting, and ' said quietly, "I don't think you need to worry any more. And there is no reason why you should not con tinue your walks to the Bidge any time you like. I think Mrs. Steven son is going to mend her ways a bit." He picked up the milk and the sack of eggs and went his way. After a minute Annie said, as she slid a pan of biscuits deftly into the oven, "Dat Miz Stevenson sho' do make a heap of trouble, don't she?" Megan looked at her sharply. "What do you mean by that, An nie?" she demanded swiftly. "She be'n tellin' folks dat Ruby Mae?dat's Pearl's gal?stole a ring off'n her," said Annie. "An' Ruby Mae, she say she ain't nebber seed de ole ring. An' den dat ole Miz Stevenson, she tell people she found de ring on de back po'ch, wheh she say Ruby Mae done hid it; she say Ruby Mae skeered Miz Steven son gonna call de Law an' she stick de ring up deh so folks think she ain't took it." Annie straightened, put her strong brown hands on her hips and faced Megan almost belligerently. "Miss Meggie, dat po' chile ain't stole nuthin'," she said sharply. "Ruby Mae a good gal! Y'ail knows dat. Miss Meggie?but white folks always believes white folks 'ste'd o' colored folks?an' Ruby Mae cain't fit a job." Annie's inurer lln . II. tie more and her chocolate brown eyea were almost black. "Some times when folks do like Miz' Ste venson?things happen to 'em." They were not more than half way through supper when the front door opened and a cheerful voice called, "Yoo-hoo?it's only me! I'll come right in!" It was Alicia, of course, cool and fresh looking in a brown and yellow print frock, her hair brushed into coquettish curls, a yellow bow tucked into it. She was rather heavily rouged as usual, and if she was feeling the unpleasantness of Tom's visit, she certainly did not show it. Jim MacTavish, always with an eye for an attractive woman, greet ed her with obvious pleasure, and drew out a chair for her. She de murred prettily at their invitation to have supper. And then she broached the subject of her visit; she had bought some new window shades for her house and was com pletely helpless when it came to putting them up, and wondered?so prettily!?if Mr. MacTavish would give her a hand. "I know it's terrible to ask you to help, Mr. MacTavish," she apolo gized, "but it's simply impossible to get anyone to do anything in this crazy little place?I mean to hire anyone. It makes one terribly de pendent on ana's friends. I'm afraid it's a- terrible Imposition?but?" She fluttered her hands and the light glimmered on two very good diamond rings that she wore. Jim expressed himself as delight- | ed to be of service, as he rose from the table and went to get his tools. A moment later she and Jim were going down the steps and along the walk. Annie, coming in to clear the ta ble, frowning blackly, said unex pectedly, "Whut's dat 'oman up to now, Miss MeggleT" Megan tried to laugh. "What do you mean?" "Comin" ove' heh, an' takin' Marse Jim away?you s'pose she makin' up to him? Rollin' heh eyes like dat?" Annie's anger was mounting and Megan rose swiftly. "That will do, Annie," she said firmly. "Mrs. Stevenson wanted Dad to help her hang some window shades?" "An* she too burnin' stingy to pay somebody, so she get Marse Jim to do it fo' nuthin'," Annie finished I i? on He was at the table having his Anal cap of coffee, when she came into the dining room. angrily, departing with a tray load ed with dishes before Megan could answer her. Megan went on into the shabby, comfortable living room and sat down with a mending basket. But though she sewed until after ten, which was disgracefully late ac cording to Pleasant Grove's early to-rise habits, her father had not come home when she finally went to bed. Indeed, she had been in bed for some time and was almost asleep before she heard his cau tious entrance and the door of his room closing behind him. In the morning, she had already had her breakfast and done her morning chores before her father came down. He was at the table, having his final cup of coffee, when she came into the dining room. He looked up at her a little defensively. "That Mrs. Stevenson is a de lightful little woman," he stated firmly. "I can't think what this filthy-minded little town means by low-rating her as they have. I've heard all sorts of gossip about her. I have never had a chance to get acquainted with her?but now that I have, I intend to defend her when ever I get a chance." Megan looked at him, atartled, and then she smiled. "Look, Pops," she said firmly, "Alicia is getting exactly the treat ment she seems to want. She has an absolutely scandalous tongue and she goes around making people miserable by ferreting out their pitiful little secrets and broadcast ing them?" "People have no right to be upset about the truth?" her father began sternly. Megan said quietly, "Yesterday at Mrs. Stuart's quilting she dropped the information that I have been seen meeting Professor Fallon secretly on the Ridge." Jim stared at her for a moment, and then his handsome, rugged face began to darken with anger. "Is that true, Megan?" he demanded sternly. - "I met him on the Ridge once, purely by accident, and talked to him a few minutes," Megan an swered quietly. "After all, he is a customer of ours?he is a fine, in telligent, interesting man. I could not very well turn around and walk away, refusing to speak to him, could I?" "Certainly not?but you didn't have to keep going back to meet him again," snapped Jim furiously. Megan held on to her temper witb an effort. "I've told you that I saw him there just once, purely by accident," she told him levelly. "Well, then, what'* all the fuse about?" snapped Jim. "The fun la because Alicia gave the impression at Mrs. Stuart's that I was meeting Tom there almost daily?and in secret," Megan re turned. "Then you should have ex- . plained?" "I did," Megan cut In. "But the harm had already been done." "Harm? What possible harm could come from such a thing?" "None at all, except that Alicia dropped her little information in the exact way to make It sound ugliest ?and of course the women around the quilting frame were most of them mothers with children in the school, and they promptly began to wonder?you could almost see them wondering?just how much truth there was in the suggestion, and whether Tom was the right man to hold the job he's got?" "You keep calling him Tom'," her father cut in suddenly, and there was a curious, almost a sus picious look in his eyes. Megan set her teeth for a mo ment, and then answered quietly, "I have never called him anything but 'Mr. Fallon' or 'Professor Fallon' to his face." She laughed and made a gesture of helplessness. "You see how well Alicia does her work?" she said dryly. "You wonder why the women at the quilt ing party yesterday afternoon could think for a moment there was any truth in what she was hinting?and yet you yourself, my own father, are wondering uneasily If maybe 1 haven't been just a little?well, in discreet!" Jim rose from the table and flung his crumpled napkin down and snorted. ?aty "That's idiotic I I'm not wonder ing anything of the kind I I'm just puzzled to understand why sane, normal people like these in Pleas ant Grove should so cruelly mis judge a woman like Alicia Steven son. I confess I was amazed last, night, to discover how childishly friendly and simple she is. Why, I'm positive there isn't a malicious bone in her body I Maybe she chat ters too much?but I'm convinced it's merely a guilty conscience that makes people think she's talking about them! You know the old say ing?'if the shoe pinches'?and he strode out of the house. For the past two years, Megan had had two dates a week with Lau rence Martin, from the county seat. Laurence was a? Pleasant Grova product who had, by grim determi nation and an almost superhuman amount of labor, managed an edu cation and a law course. Two years ago, he had gone to the county seat and into the office of old Judge Gra ham, where he was getting much valuable experience and very little money. He and Megan had grown up together in Pleasant Grove, al though Laurence was older than she by several years. He had been quite honestly disap pointed when he had been rejected for military service, partly because of his eyes, partly because of a stomach disorder resulting, as Me gan knew very well, from an im poverished childhood, and malnutri tion during the years he had been fighting his way through law school. On this Tuesday night, Megan dressed for his arrival, with a feel ing at relief that she was not facing any complication in Laurence's ar rival. She liked him sincerely. She had, she admitted to herself, thought of marrying him. He wanted her to, when, as, ' and if he aver achieved a position that would make it possible for him to support a wife. That was an understand ing between them that had no need to be put into words. Tonight, standing before the mir ror in her neat, cheerful bedroom, she studied her reflection in the mirror, with a soberness and an in tensity that she seldom bothered to give the girl in the glass. She sel dom had time to do more than glance at herself as she brushed her hair; hut tonight, dressed and ready for Laurence, she looked at herself thoughtfully, trying to see herself with the eyes of someone else, or a stranger?perhaps of Tom Fal lon. due saw ? gin a nine (Tver me dium height, neat, trim, well-round ed figure bom of the hard work and outdoor exercise of her daily life; she saw leaf-brown hair that had no need of the curling iron and that the wore thoulder length be cause it was less trouble to have to go to the barber shop once in two months, than every week; her eyes were her best feature, her chief claim to beauty. They were gray blue, long lashed, get well apart be neath airy brows. She was not beau tiful, she told herself with an al- , most impersonal frankness. She looked healthy and wholesome, and that was all! As she reached the foot of the stairs, her father turned, almost i guiltily, from the front door, and said stiffly, "I knew Laurence would . be along soon so I thought I'd step 1 out for a little fresh air." He was dressed, she saw, la his ' "best" suit, ordinarily reserved for trips to the county seat sad rare trips to the city more than a hun dred miles away. (TO ax cosrnxuKD) IMPROVED ~L J J 11 UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday i chool Lesson _ By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D D. Of Th? Moody Bibl* Institute of Chicago. Released by WesUra Newspaper Union. 1 Lesson for August 4 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. JESUS AND THE SABBATH LESSON TEXT - Exodus ?:?; Mart 1:23-28: Matthew 11:9-13 MEMORY SELECTION?Thia it the day which the Lord hath made: we will re joice and be (lad In It.?Psalm 11S.M. "The Sabbath was made (or man," and was ordained of God for the good of man's body and soul. It was intended to be a day of glad fellowship with the Lord. Since the Sabbath ? the seventh day ? wis essentially one of rest and worship, the principles which surrounded it and directed its life may be applied to our day of rest, which is the first day of the week? the Lord's day. That word "rest" sounds a little strange in this busy world of ours, and yet it is an important one. It means quiet for the struggling one, calm for the troubled, repose for the weary, cessation of labor for the worn-out one. God in his infinite wisdom saw that without rest man would soon destroy himself, and he made pro vision for one day in seven when labor should cease and man should be free for that recreation of soul and body which should fit him for the labor of the week. I. A Day of Holiness (Exod. 20:8). God gave his people a holy day to balance .up their days of la bor and to bring blessing to their souls. On that day he decreed that they should come apart from their labors, turn (com jH&ula? .interest and turn their hearts and" mfnds to tfeg unseen and the eternal. Man would become so engrossed in the things of this world that he would | soon forget; therefore, God com- : mands him to stop and worship. That should be sufficient to cause his people to "remember" the day "to keep it holy." Notice that the day of rest was to be not only for the family, but also for servants and for visitors. The employer who unnecessarily operates his factory or office on Sun day violates this commandment. Note also that the man who is to rest on the seventh day is supposed to work on the six days. Some neglect to do both. This matter of keeping the Lord's day holy Is one which has tremen dous implications in the lives of our children. Many men and women who have had built into their own character! the stalwart virtues nur tured by family attendance at di vine worship have not only forgotten their own continuing need, but are destroying the Interest of their chil dren in church attendance. It is serious enough to go astray in one's own life, but to lead one's children astray is an appalling re sponsibility. Let's keep the Lord's day as a holy day. n. A Day of Helpfulness (Mark 2:23-28). The formalists of Christ'i day, the Pharisees, had overlooked the heart of God's law and the holy living which it was intended to produce, and had bound up even the observ ance of the sabbath (which was in tended to be a day of rest and glad ness) in luch a mass of technical "thou shalt not's" that it was a day of fear. The accusations against the disci ples because they had taken and eaten grain was not on the ground that they had stolen, for the law (Deut. 23:29) guaranteed that right to the one who passed through his neighbor's field. The Pharisees con tended, however, that the disciples had workad on the Sabbath in pick ing and hulling the grain. God'a laws are helpful laws, and it la only when men pervert them, or add to them their own traditions and interpretations, that they be come burdensome to anyone who is God-fearing and obedient. m. A Day of Healing (Matt 12: ?-13). Jesus made it clear that healing of the body (yes, and of the soul) was most appropriate on the Sab bath day; in fact, that is the very day for it. The healing of the man with the withered arm revealed that back of the Pharisees' professed concern for the Sabbath was a real hatred for Christ. It is an appalling thing that in the house of worship on the very Sabbath day, these men, outwardly so religious, were plot ting against our Lord. Jesus cuts across human hypoc risy and hatred to declare that the true keeping of the Sabbath is to do the work of God. No work of neces sity (like plucking the grain) or of mercy (like healing the withered arm) is ever out of place on the day of rest. A werd of caution is needed, for some have sought to interpret this Scripture as providing biblical ground for doing all sorts of things on their day of rest. That day is for man's good, not for his detrac tion. His greatest good is served by rest, worship, spiritual develop ment, Oiristian fellowship, and the doing of deeds of necessity and mercy. Tha desecration of the Lord's day in our time is a serious matter. Let us wot contribute to it. lUJlom* ^oum I deftositeA, Lin WASHINGTON lly WoHw Stood I WNU Cenwpeedee# WHV Waahimgtoa Bwmu. lilt Eft St.. M. W. Crowded Capital Slowly Resuming Former Charm \AfAshlNGTON is the biggest '' county seat town in the coun try. It is a beautiful city of broad, tree-lined streets and avenues, of stone and marble public buildings, exquisitely beautiful parks and statues, laid out with pleasant sym metry, roughly in the form of a wag on wheel with its avenues emanat ing from the Capitol and the Mall. But Washington Is a city of con trasts, and its beauty but lightly masks its slums, for in the shadow of the national capitol, of the or nate senate and house office build ings, there are slums and blighted areas equal in squalor if not In ex tent to that of any large city. Fifteen years ago Washington's population was something like 350, 000. It had the air and atmosphere of a southern city. It was easy going and unhurried and its pulse quickened only when congress con vened. It was a city of tourists, the native population looking upon them with condescendingly good humor. Today Washington's population numbers over a million, and in the metropolitan area which spills over into Maryland and Virginia acrosy the District of Columbia- UneT the total population runs something like 1,300,000. These people have flocked into the capital city from every cor ner of the nation, once the world, and today Washington is truly cos mopolitan in population if not in its physical plant. ccCy* ? City to Remain Big "* For the city, its business district, its utility facilities, its planning, zoning and housing was set up for a city of less than half its present size and although there may be some reduction in population as gov ernment, its only industry, reduces its staff after the war, civic leaders here do not foresee an appreciable reduction in the size of the city. ' So during these 15 years Washington has loomed, and particularly the past Ave war years the place has been packed and jammed with hurrying scur rying humanity. Stores are crowded and lines even form to get out of these stores; people are living doubled-up In apart meats, single apartments having as many as Ave or six people occupying space Intended for one or two; streets teem with shoppers; traflle Is slow; street cars and busses are paeked; houses are at a premium, of coarse, although there is n tre mendous building boom under way In outlying Maryland and Virginia in the metropolitan area which includes Bethesda, Silver Spring, Takoma Park, Hyatt* ville and other communi ties in Maryland, and Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church and other near-by towns in Virginia. Life ia complex here today. Con gressional debate draws no packed galleries from local gentry; trans portation and other facilities have barely kept pace with growth; food is in short supply; there has been little or no beef in Washington for months; restaurants feature seafood dishes at prices which paralyze; there are lines waiting for tables; sightseeing busses have started op erating again; the capitol dome is again floodlighted; business and of fice space is at a premium witn rents outrageous; huge foreign gov ernmental agencies such as the British Purchasing agency pnd the Russian Purchasing agency are giv ing up whole apartment buildings which they occupied, and these are being turned back to tenants; gov ernment agencies are being reshuf fled and the people of the dis trict at last see an opportunity to gain the ballot. Civic Pridm Lacking For this capital of the greatest democracy in the world is the least democratic city in the world . . . its people are taxed without repre sentation ... its government is a hodge podge affair, unrepresenta tive of the people . . . and congress now seems inclined to grant these people the right to vote. Because of the fact the people have no say about their city government there is no civic pride here T. . there is no civic leadership ... for congress and the commissioners named by the President and approved by con gress run the city. Big Partie* at Embatsiet Social life here Is largely eon Bned to homes and to diplomat ic centers. The embassies Sbd consulates along Massachusetts avenue and Sixteenth street pro vide the settings for lavish par ties and entertainments. Pri vate elabs also furnish social life for their memberships. There are as trst class night elabs, and hotels, overcrowded as they are, have few facilities for this purpose except at the ?tatter and the Mayflower. NEEDLEWORK PATTERNS PineaDDle Potholder to Crochet 5789 ; ) r * Due to aa uneeuaUy large demand Mi current conditions, sughtlv more time to equired in filling orders lor a tear of the noet popular pattern numbers. SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK 114# Sixth Ave. New Yerfc, M. T. Enclose SO rents for patten*. Address flf pee are rea dowa?bacsaee you're not getting al the AAD ? Remla? roe nasi sterl tdk lag Scott's EmeUtoa to premptlr help briar heck narfy end steeMM and torild l|totl ll. Good-tasting Scott's Is rfcfc to asters! AAD vttaatas sal ??rrry-heildfaag. SaSBral eE. Bar toder 1 Al dsaggbfo. INDIAN LODGE . lake front hotel (with cabinet hi the ocono Mountains near Phlla. and M.YjC. wimming, riding, tennis, aquaplaning, etc. Excellent food, marvelous location. Mrs. Mary Wettager. Indian Ledge aftea Pike Co.. Pa. Ph. Rowley. Pa. 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