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peded ke was fetax to see Alicia, tke
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tke eld farm, every rack aad every
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CHAPTER VI
She knew she could not sell the
farm. She drew a long, hard breath.
But Laurence could not drive to and
from the (arm to Meadersville,
where his own destiny lay. Per
haps when the war was over and
cars and tires and gasoline were
race more everyday matters it
could be done, but not now.
It all boiled down, she decided at
last, to the fact that she could not,
must not marry Laurence, not now.
Suddenly she felt very tired, but
she had reached her decision. She
could not marry Laurence and sell
the farm and go to live in a small
bungalow with a backyard-garden
and one cat and one dog. Her life
was here. Somehow, she must make
Laurence see that. It wasn't going
to be easy, but her mind was made
up. And as though the achieving
?f a decision had relieved her of
some great burden, she threw back
her shoulders, and stood up sudden
ly, spilling a startled and indignant
Susie to the ground. Feeling sud
denly light and free?
A mntTAmanf www (Via knnlwtov/1 Ka
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hind the Westbrook place caught her
startled attention. At first she
thought it was merely something
white hanging on the clothesline,
fluttering in the soft mild wind. And
then she realized that it was a hu
man figure, a woman in white, mov
ing oddly, bending as though to pick
something up, straightening to fling
her arms wide, her head back. At
this distance, she could tell nothing
more than that. And then suddenly,
with a little creeping feeling of dis
comfort, she realized what the wom
an was doing?she was dancing!
Megan stood stock still, her heart
pounding, as she watched the danc
ing woman down below in the back
yard of the Westbrook place.
A queer, oddly rhythmic dance,
grotesque in its lack of grace, clum
sy and awkward. The sun glinted
an the woman's golden hair, as she
bent and postured and straightened
and whirled, her arms outflung!
Suddenly a shorter, darker figure
hurried out of the house to that
weirdly dancing figure. The dark
figure, a short, rather stout woman
in a dark dress, put her arm about
the dancing figure, and managed to
draw it into the house.
Megan shuddered and put her
hands over her face for a moment,
as though to shut out the remem
bered figure swaying and posturing
and turning. Tom Fallon's poor
wife, of course. "Mentally ill," he
had said.
Her own period of troubled inde
cision seemed absurd and childish,
compared to the horror that must
bve with Tom Fallon all the days of
his life: She went back down the
Ridge and across the meadow to the
house.
Annie was getting the midday din
ner on the table as she came in, and
by the time it was ready Jim came
down, a little bloodshot and drawn
about the mouth, but freshly shaven
and neatly dressed.
"Well, my dear," said Jim hap
pily, "I think we're going to be able
to get an excellent price for the
place. I was talking to Matthews
yesterday, and he tells me that we
should get seven thousand at the
very least. I confess I would have
been delighted at six thousand, but
Matthews says the farm land is at
a hieh Deak?"
"We're not going to sell the farm,
Dad," Megan told him quietly.
"Aren't you being a little ridicu
lous, Megan?" He seemed to bite
the words off. "After all, you've
had a pretty hard time of it these
last few years, and especially since
Annie's two sons and the rest of the
available farm labor in the section
was drafted, or went into war
plants. How do you propose to run
the place without help?"
"I don't quite know. Dad," she
admitted humbly. "1 just know that
I'm not going to sell."
Jim said furiously, "Well, you've
certainly put me in a tough spot!
You might at least have given me
aome inkling of the way you felt be
fore I gave Matthews the listing on
the place."
In swift alarm, Megan said hur
riedly, "Oh, Dad, you didn't?"
"I most certainly did," her father
told her curtly. "I happened to run
into him up at the service station
and he was looking for a place for
some people who want to move
down in here?though Lord knows
why! A more forlorn and ghostly
place to live I can't imagine."
"But if you listed the place and
he made you a bona Ode offer and
you accepted it?" she protested.
"Which is exactly what I did,"
her father told bar with obvious sat
isfaction in his voice. "And he's go
ing to bring the people down here to
sea the place the trat of the week.
I'm afraid weD have to sell whether
you want to or not."
Megan drew a long breath and
said quietly, "I don't think so, Dad.
The place was left to us jointly;
neither can sell without the consent
of the other. I am certain that
I can't be forced to accept a deal
that you and Matthews have cooked
up without even consulting me."
"Well, perhaps not," he admitted
reluctantly. "But of course, we will
have to pay him his commission,
even though the sale doesn't go
through, since it was our fault?
yours, rather?and not his, that it
did fail!"
"And his commission is ten per
cent," said Megan quietly. "That's
?seven hundred dollars."
She stared at her father in de
spair, but be merely extended his
cup for more coffee and said pleas
antly, "So I think it would be much
better if we just let the sale go
through?don't you? I'm afraid sev
en hundred dollars is rather a lot of
money in the present state of our
flnancesT-isn't it?"
"Quite a lot," she agreed, pushing
back her plate. She had no longer
"Larry, this is Megan?I'm In a
Jam."
any appetite for the dinner Annie
had prepared while she sat on the
Ridge and reached the decision not
to sell the old farm. "Maybe Lau
rence can figure a way out."
"The only way out, if you are
stubborn enough not to sell, is to
pay Matthews seven hundred dol
lars," her father assured her grim
ly, looking at her with angry sus
picion. "And if you've got seven
hundred dollars available, to be
thrown away like that, it will sur
prise me a lot?after I've been kept
practically penniless for longer than
I care to remember."
"I haven't exactly found it diffi
cult to spend what little money I've
had either," she answered him with
spirit. "And as for having seven
hundred dollars on hand to pay
Matthews?that's a little bit funny."
"Is it? I hope it's a joke you'll
enjoy," said her father as he thrust
back his chair, and leaving his
breakfast half eaten, went out. She
heard the outer door close hard be
hind him.
Megan sat on for a little at the
table, though her appetite for food
had long since vanished; and then
with sudden decision she got up and
went to the telephone and called
Laurence in Meadersville.
His voice sounded warm and
cheerful and eager, as though he
was delighted to hear her say,
"Larry, this is Megan?I'm in a
jam."
"Not you, darling." he countered
gaily. "I don't believe it?you're
covering for somebody else."
"Well, perhaps?in a way," she
admitted reluctantly. Then as brief
ly as she could, she related her fa
ther's conversation with Matthews.
When she had finished, she asked
anxiously, "Do I have to pay Mat
thews' commission, even if the sale
does not go through?"
"Not unless you and your father
both signed the papers with him
authorizing him to make the sale,"
Laurence assured her promptly.
"Thank goodness!" said Megan
youthfully.
The night was superb. A full
moon, silver-white in a pale blue
sky, rode high, and beneath the thick
dark of the shrubbery on the lawn
and the ancient live oaks, the shad
ows were like soft black plush. Me
gan's room was flooded with the
silver-white light when she awoke,
and she lay still for a moment,
puzzled to know why she bad awak
ened. And then the sound came
again, a knocking at the kitchen
door downstairs, a knocking aoft,
urgent, repeated, insistent.
With her heart hammering with
sodden uneasiness, she slid out of .
bed, thrust her feet into her slip
pert, caught up her cotton crepe
kimono hanging across the foot of
the bed, and went swiftly to the win
dow that overlooked the backyard.
"Who's down there?" she called
quickly, and remembered to wonder
why neither Bessie nor Dixie had
barked a warning of the stranger's
approach.
The man who had been knocking
stepped back from the door, and full
into the white moonlight, lifting his
face to her, and she recognized
Fallon.
"I'm terribly sorry to awaken
you," he said swiftly, and his voice
was taut with uneasiness. "But I
have to use the telephone?there has
been an accident?we want a doc
tor.
Megan said instantly, "I'll be
down in a moment."
There wasn't time to do anything 1
but tie her kimono about her, and |
to shake back the leaf-brown bur
nished curls from her face. She went
swiftly down the stairs, and unlocked
the kitchen door.
"Your wife?" asked Megan.
Tom shook his head and she saw
that his face was white and set. His
jaw looked rigid and his eyes were
bleak.
"It's Martha, my wife's sister,"
he said curtly. "She?fell and hurt
herself. What's the doctor's ring?
I have to hurry?they're there alone
?both of them completely help
less."
Megan said quickly, "You go
back, and I'll call the doctor. If
he's not at home, and out on a call
somewhere it may take a little time
to get Kim. So let me do it?"
Tom said huskily, "Thanks,
You're?you're more than kind."
He turned and went swiftly out
Into the moon-washed darkness and
Megan went to the telephone. The
doctor was out, and it took some
little time for her to locate him, and
then it was with the assurance that
it would be an hour at least before
he could make the call at the West
brook place.
Megan put down the telephone and
hesitated for a moment. Then she
ran upstairs, got swiftly into out
door shoes and stockings, a skirt and
a light, warm sweater, because the
night was chilly. She tied a scarf
about her head, caught up the little
First Aid kit that she had acquired
as part of her civilian First Aid
work, and let herself out of the
house.
She was answering the call of a
neighbor's need as instinctively, as
thoughtlessly, as had always been
Pleasant Grove's custom. People
who had been enemies for years,
who never spoke when they met,
laid aside all personal animosities
when the enemy was ill or in trou
ble, and "pitched in" to help. It
was unthinkable, in Pleasant
Grove's creed, that one should do
anything else.
She went quickly down the moon
silvered road, crossed the little
wooden bridge, and went on up the
low hill, turning in at the weed
grown, gateless drive, and through
the shrubbery that had run riot and
that tonight gave the house an air
of mystery and furtiveness that was
almost unpleasant.
There was a light in the kitchen
and another in a corner room at
the front. But the kitchen door
was closed and it was there that
Megan knocked.
She beard the murmur of voices
before she knocked, then an instant
silence, and the movement of feet
coming towards the door. The door
swung open and Tom stood there,
his coat discarded, his sleeves rolled
up; behind him she saw a kitchen
that was spotlessly tidy, though de
pressingly drab, and a short, stout
woman huddled in a chair, her face
turned over her shoulder to look at
the door.
Megan said to Tom, "Dr. Alden
will be here as soon as be can make
it. I thought perhaps I might be of
some help, before he gets here. I've
had First Aid training?"
The woman said harshly, sharply.
"Don't let her in, Tom?don't you
let her in!"
Tom flushed darkly.
"I am always glad to do anything
I possibly can for a neighbor," Me
gan assured him. She crossed the
threshold to face the woman, whose
dark, angry face and blazing eyes
watched her angrily.
"There's nothing you can do, and
we can wait perfectly well for Dr.
Alden," she stated grimly. "So
you'd better go on back home."
Tom turned on her and said,
through clenched teeth, "Martha, be
quiet?she?she knows," and moved
his head towards the closed door at
the left that would, Megan knew,
open into that corner bedroom.
Martha looked startled, incredu
lous; and then anger lit up ber face
and she turned away, her teeth set
hard above what must have been a
furiously savage anger.
Megan hesitated, looking down at
the woman, and Tom bridged the
tense, unpleasant moment by say
ing quietly, "Martha?fell and hurt
her ankle. I don't think it is broken,
but it is swelling fast and very pain
ful?"
"Would you like me to make you
a cup of coffee?" suggested Megan
gently. "Or perhaps a cup of tea?"
Martha wiped her forehead with
the back of her hand and said husk
ily, reluctantly, "Well, I guess you
might as well?it would taste good
?tea, not coffee/;
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Lesson for August 18
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JESUS AND THE 8ACREDNESS
OF HUMAN LIFE
LESSON TEXT?Exodus J0;U; Matthew
5:21-24; 10:B-31; 18 10-14.
MEMORY SELECTION?But I say unto
you. That whosoever Is angry with his
brother without a cause shall be In danger
of the judgment.?Matthew &2X.
Human life is sacred, and that is
not primarily because of any law
of man, but because God created
man in hii own likeness and image.
Since that ia true, no man has
any right to take the life of another
for any cause except at the direct
command of God. Only by the
orderly process of law for the pro
tection of society and in accordance
with the Word of God may there
be any such action by man toward
man.
Both of these truths are declared
in Scripture in God's covenant with
Noah (Gen. 9:5, #), which was made
possibly a thousand years before the
Ten Commandments were given to
Moses.
I. The Prohibition of Harder
(Exod. 20:13).
The word "kill" in this command
ment is one which means a violent
and unauthorized taking of life, and
is therefore more properly translat
ed "murder."
Not all killing is murder. A man
may kill another entirely accidental
ly, or he may be the duly con
stituted legal officer carrying out
the law of the land in taking the life
of one who has forfeited his right
to live because he has slain another.
There is also the right of self-de
fense, be it individual or collective !
as in war. But these are the only I
exceptions; let us not attempt to |
justify any other.
Murder is more prevalent than
most of us suppose. In 1944 there
was a murder every fifty minutes
in our land.
Do not forget the deaths, the de
struction of life, by avoidable auto
mobile accidents. Some of these
were really murder because the
one responsible drove with defec
tive brakes, dangerous tires, or
while he was intoxicated. Add to
these the deaths in industry caused
by failure to provide proper safe
guards or healthy working condi
tions, and by the exploitation of
child labor, and we say that we
should cry aloud, "Thou shalt do no
murder."
?. The Provocation to Murder
(MaU. 5:21, 22).
Murder finds its provoking cause
in the heart of man. Our Lord was
concerned about correcting the de
sires rather than to apprehend the
offender after the act had been
committed. It is the better way,
and the more effective one.
In this matter of murder, Jesus
cut right through the outward as
pects of the matter and pointed out
that an angry hatred in the heart
is the root of all murder. If we
hate, we have murder in our hearts.
Circumstances may hinder its ful
fillment, but the danger is always
there until we remove the cause.
May God help those of us who
have strong feelings that we may .
not yield them to the devil in such
anffer aaainst our hrntharf
m. ne Prevention ef Mnrder
(Matt 5:23, 24; 10:29-31; 18:10-14).
Prevention with God means more
than putting up a barrier to try to
keep men from killing one another.
He deals with the heart of man,
and when that Is right the whole
life will be right. There must be
1. A Right View of Self (Matt. 8:
23, 24). We must learn by prayer
and humility of heart to suffer at
the bands of others, to keep peace,
to seek our brother's welfare.
Note that it is not even a question
of how we may feel against our
brother. If he has aught against us
we are to do all we can to win him. ;
We who believe in Christ are to
be in deed as well as word the
children of our heavenly Father I
(Matt. 8:45), loving not only those
who are kind to us but also our ene
mies.
2. A Right View of God (Matt.
10:28-31). He who knows when a
sparrow falls to the ground is con
cerned about the smallest detail of
our lives. No man can lay hands
of violence on another man with
out having to reckon with God about
his misdeeds.
Our God is not afar off and too
concerned with eternal affairs to be
interested in the sufferings of the
individual. He is here now, and we
should count him into every rela
tionship of life.
3. A Right View of Man (Matt.
18:10-14). Even the little ones, ap
parently defenseless and at the
mercy of a cruel world, have guard
ian angels who have access to the
throne of God. He has a special
interest in the lost and rejoices
in the rescue of the one who has
strayed, so we see that even those
whom the world regards as weak
and unimportant are in the mind
of God for good. He watches over
them.
The man who sees himself for
what he is, and who realizes what
God thinks of man, will find that
he agrees with the command ef
God. "Thou shalt not kill."
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Aft.. WASHINGTON
? By Walter Stood
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Hawaii Expects to Become
The 49th State in 1M7
l-I ONOLULU.?Citizens here al
most without exception expect
statehood (or Hawaii as the 49th
state in 1947. They believe they de
serve it, have earned it, in peace
and war, and all factions have com
posed their differences and are pre
senting a united front in favor of
statehood.
Your Hometown Reporter made a
trip over the Island of Oahu en
route to the atomic bomb tests at
Bikini and. in talking to many rep
resentative citizens, gained at least
an over-all picture of how and why
all opposition to statehood in the
islands has melted away during the
war years.
Lorrln Thurston, publisher of the
Honolulu Advertiser and an anti
statehood advocate until a few
years age, expressed the main fear
in the minds of many citizens over
statehood, a fear which has been
dissipated. That fear was lap dom
ination of the islands doe to high
birth rate among the Japs and their
likely on-Americanism. The past
few years, however, have shown
that the Jap population and birth
rate rapidly are declining and the
war years proved the Japs en the
island loyal to the American eaase.
Not one act of sabotage or any oth
er un-American act was found dur
ing the years of war. As a matter
of fact, the Jap regiments from
Honolulu in the American army
were the most decorated regiments
to come out of the war.
niiumrr irar was Lilc cuevv ut
statehood upon the sugar industry,
mainstay of Hawaiian economic
life. With sugar quotas set for three
years, however, heads of the indus
try have come to feel that they will
have a better chance for success
in favorable laws pertaining to the
industry if they can align them
selves with the other sugar-growing
states of Louisiana, Mississippi and
Florida, than by remaining as a
territory. Sugar in Hawaii is a 80
milhoo-dollar industry. Next comes
the pineapple industry at approxi
mately SO million dollars, with tour
ists rated as the third industry
and shipping the fourth.
A Seriout Drawback
One factor may have to be
changed if statehood comes to the
islands. That is the present land
laws. These land laws have been at
once a blessing and a curse to the
progress and growth of the islands.
They are a result of the land grants
msde by King Kamehameha when
he started out to democratize his
kingdom and divide the land among
the people. Five per cent of the
land was retained as belonging to
the king and the royal family. This
land today is in the hands of the
Bishop estate, and the rentals and
proceeds go to support the schools
of the territory. One-third of the
lands was given to the various trib
al chieftains and these lands to
day make up the large landed es
tates and can be leased only for a
period of 30 years. Another third
was set aside as public domain and
these lands now are owned by the
government of the United States,
taken over when Hawaii became a
territorial possession. The remain
ing third was given over to the peo
ple and it is only this third of the
land which can be bought and owned
in fee simple. Hence no race or
group ever can obtain control of
the lands, a fact which has up to
this time been fortunate, with so
large a percentage of the popula
tion being Japanese, Chinese, Kore
an, Portuguese and other national
ities. But at the same time this
situation has prevented any large
influx of white population, since land
is at a premium and there can
be no large real estate development
such as has taken place in this coun
try.
Little Farm Land Left
AIm surprising to this writer is
the (set that there is little acreage
left (or further agricultural enter
prise. Our informant declared that
all the land in the islands available
for sugar, that is, lsnd from sea
level to about 1,500 feet in eleva
tion, is planted to sugar; all avail
able land suitable for pineapples,
or about 90 per cent of the world
supply, from 1,500 to 1,800 feet in
elevation, is already in pineapples;
and the balance of the land above
2,000 feet is inviolate government
land in woodland for water supply.
The timber acts as a "blotter."
Water is roost important for the
growing of both sugar cane and
pineapples, for almost every foot is
irrigated from artesian wells. This
leaves only small valleys and coast
al areas for farming, dairying and
ranching and for the cultivation of
fruit, bananas, coffee and other
products, including various vege
tables and small grains.
Population of the islands now ex
ceeds sec. SOS and the value of the
real estate and resources exceeds
that et any "other state at the time
of admission to the Union with the
possible exception of Oklahoma.
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7 A General Quiz " \
The Question*
1. Can you name the three great
pyramids?
2. The President of the United
States is commander-in-chief of
the army and navy. Can he wear
a uniform of the armed forces?
3. When were the Hawaiian
Islands found by James Cook?
4. What rank in the army lead
all other grades in the number of
decorations for heroism?
5. The Pied Piper of Hamelin
lured the rats into what river?
8. How much do Americans
spend on newspapers, magazines
and books a year?
The Answers
1. Khufu, KhafTra and Men
kaura.
1. No
3. In 1778.
4. First class privates. The total
number of awards?excluding the
Purple Heart?was 1,723,344.
5. The Weser river.
6. Newspapers. 3727.880,000;
magazines. $311,733,000; books,
$306,379,000.
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