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ctnd ber <v muJLova ? Peggy Dehy w.?u release THE B1VHI lit# ru: EC| FB Urri lk< eaietty. wb?i tke r? kncd kw iMki Martk* iia Hit Tavtah inIM kt, kcUikf ike k*4 k*e* Ml wltk Tan Fallon "Tan arc la love wltk kin." Jin afalk attempted la (el kar t* aall Ike farn, kit ikr re laid aafrtly. Tkc next 111 Larry ram* tor luck and afterward they walked lo aatker la Ik* rM|C. Larry lold ker tkat k* knew aka loved Ike old farm, for k* laved II too. Be told kar ke did not wut ker to aell to* place, and declared ke waited to marry ker wketker tkey Uved la Pteaaaal Grave or to Ike county lent il* klased kar lifkUy and laughed, "I can't any I klame you for aot wanllaf la give all tkla up." CHAPTER VIII They went hand in hand up the path and to the flat rock that crowned the very top of the hill. Megan sat down and Laurence fol lowed her to the rock. They sat close together for a moment, looking out over the scene spread below them. Megan knew the thought that was in his mind, and she tried hard to marshal all her arguments so that he could understand; but when he turned his head and looked at her, and smiled, he said quietly, "I can't say I blame you for not being will ing to give all this up! We are go ing to be very happy here." Megan felt as though she had tak en a step in the dark and plunged headlong into space. She could only stare at him, wide-eyed, her mouth open a little. Laurence laughed and leaned forward and kissed her. "Did you think, darling, that I've known you almost your whole life and been in love with you since I was fifteen, and didn't know what your own land meant to you?" he asked her quietly. "I admit that I was fool enough to hope, for just a little while, that you loved me enough to be happy in Meaders ville. But when you telephoned me in alarm because you had been of fered what we both know is a very generous price for the land, and you didn't want to take it?well, I faced facts then and got busy to see about just what could be done. Be cause make no mistake about it, my love?you're going to marry me, whether we live in Meadersville or Pleasant Grove!" There were quick tears in her eyes, but she smiled tremulously. "Thank you for understanding, Larry," she told him huskily. "It's ?a tremendous relief." Laurence frowned as though not quite sure that he liked that. "You mean you didn't think I would understand?" he protested. "Well, for Pete's sake, why not? Aft er all, we've grown up together. These last years since your mother died, I've watched you fighting drouth and flood and hail, boll wee vil and corn borer and blue mold and chinch bug?when it would have been so much easier to give up and sell out. Don't you suppose during those years, I've come to un derstand what the place means to you? And to be frank with you? I'm kind of fond of the old place my self! Never having owned a square foot of real estate in my life, hav ing grown up on a sharecropper's place?the thought of becoming a landowner?in partnership, anyway ?seems pretty swell!" He grinned at her and said hastilv. "Not of course that I want you to get the idea that I'm merely mar rying you for your farm?perish the thought! I'd marry you if you didn't have a foot of land!" She laughed and let him kiss her. And at first, that seemed quite sat isfactory to Laurence; but after a little he let her go, and sat looking down at the rich dark earth, where his heel was absently digging a hole. "Then you're not in love with me, after all," he said quietly, and there was a note in his voice that caught at her heart. She stared at him, blinking in amazement. "What in the world?why do you?" she stammered. "I'm not exactly a blind fool. Meg gie," he said evenly. "I admit I don't know a heck of a lot about women; but I do know that when a girl is in love, she is not only kissed ?but kisses, in return." The color burned in Megan's face, but her eyes met his straightly. "I?kissed you, Larry," she told him unsteadily. He shook his head. "You let me kiss you, Meggie." he returned. "There's a big differ flDCC. There was a silence, and then she said unevenly, 'Tm?sorry, dear." "There's nothing for you to be sorry about, Meggie. If you don't love me, you don't, and it's plain that you don't." His voice sounded tired. "I'm?very fond of you, Larry," Megan said quietly. "Thanks, Meggie," he answered quietly. "But I'm afraid that's not quite enough." And then, taking her breath away by the unexpectedness of it, be asked, "Is there someone else, Meggie?" Wide-eyed, she met his glance, "But?how could there be some one else?" she protested. "I'm asking you," he reminded her. "It's?it's a crazy question, Larry ?I don't know anyone else," she pointed out. "That's not quite flattering," he assured her, and now he seemed amused at her confusion and her bewilderment. "Never mind, dar ling. We'll let it go, for now. But I wouldn't want you to marry me, Meggie, unless you felt a little about me as I feel about you. I guess I don't quite expect you to be?well, as much in love with me as I am with you; the wise people who claim to know about such things claim that one person in every marriage cares more deeply than the other. I don't mind a bit if I love you more than you love me. Maybe that's the way it should be. I'm afraid I'm not wise enough to decide that. I only know that unless you're?more than just fond of me?it wouldn't work out." Megan said faintly, "You mean you want to break off the engage ment, Larry?" "Do you, Meggie?" he asked quietly. "Why?why?no, Larry?of course not," she stammered, and put out a hand in a helpless gesture. "I?I I || | M 1 I She shot Megan an oblique look and then came out frankly with what was on her mind. think I've always expected that we'd be married some day. It's?well, I've sort of grown up with that thought. Maybe?could it be that that's the reason you don't think I love you enough?" "It isn't that I think you don't love me, Meggle ? I know you don't," he told her. "I've tried to kid myself that you did, and tried to hope that once we were actually engaged, you'd?well, warm up to me a little. But when you thought of setting a date for our marriage and realized that you couldn't give up the farm or the dogs and cats and cows and chickens, to make a new life with me somewhere?or any where!?that was all I needed to convince me that you're not ready to marry me yet. If you loved me as I love you, Meggie, nothing in the world would be as important to you as being with me?anywhere, anyhow." He broke oft as though searching for words with which to make his thoughts clear to her. "It isn't that I'd want you to make even the smallest sacrifice to be with me, Meggie," he pointed out. "It's just that if you loved me the only way I could want you to?you'd be willing to sacrifice anything and everything just so that we could be together. Do you understand, Meg gie?" She was still for a moment, and then reluctantly she nodded and said faintly, "Yes, darling ? J under stand." "Then we'll leave it at that, for the present," said Laurence as he stood up and drew her to her feet. "And now Annie will be sending out a searching party for us if are don't hurry," he added, smiling, deliber ately breaking the growing tension, struggling for a lighter tone. Suddenly, a mist of tears in her eyes, Megan turned to him impul sively, put her hands on either side of his lean, pleasant brown face and stood on tiptoe to set her mouth, cool and fresh and sweet, on his. Involuntarily his arms went about her, holding ber close and hard against him. His mouth on hers was urgent, demanding, seeking a response that, after a moment, he knew with a sick certainty, was not there. And then he released her, smiled at her, his face pale and set, and half under his breath he said huskily, "Thank you, darling." Annie was just finishing the last preparations for the midday dinner when they reached the house, and Jim came in, well-groomed and deb onair, quite as usual, as they were ready to sit down. He greeted Laurence with an ur banity that was almost patronizing. but after a few moments ne said briskly, "Well. Larry, my boy, 1 | hope you've been able to persuade this firl of mine to be sensible." Laurence answered lightly. "I'm not sure I feel that she needs any persuasion along such lines. I've always considered Meggie a very sensible young woman!" Jim tried to laugh, patting his crisply barbered gray mustache lightly with his napkin. "Sensible young woman? That hardly sounds as loverlike as I would have expect ed under the cirumstances!" "Oh, I'm a very sensible young man," Laurence assured him pleas antly. "And sensible young men don't go in for a lot of romantic ' nonsense, nowadays." "Don't they, now?" Jim was elab- ! orately surprised. "Well, of course, | things have changed a lot since my ? day! But seriously, I feel that we have a splendid offer for this place, j and since you and Meggie won't be able to run it yourselves, and a i tenant is very unsatisfactory?" "Megan seems to feel that it would be best for us not to be mar ried for another year," Laurence said gently. "And therefore, she will want to run the place herself this year, at least." "Another year, eh?" he said at last. "Sorry?thought you two were in love with each other and had been waiting several years for you to get a start so that you could get married!" "As I said before, we are sensible young people, ineggie ana i. aiow and sure is our motto," Laurence told him. Jim's jaw set and he made a pre tense of eating, but after a little he looked at his watch, thrust his chair back, and asked to be excused un der the plea of an engagement They heard the outer door close behind him with a bang that threatened its old-fashioned glass panel. "I'm afraid he's upset," Lau- , rence's words were wry with un derstatement. "He won't try to make things difficult for you?" "Goodness, no?and if he does, it won't matter. I'm not in the least afraid of him!" She laughed at the very idea. Laurence nodded. "But if there should ever be anything to?well, to make you feel you need help?you'll remember my telephone number?" he reminded her. "Of course?didn't I yell for you the minute I thought Matthews was going to insist on that commission?" In the next few weeks, life in Pleasant Grove, on the surface at least, was entirely normal. The draft called up more and more young men for the armed services; several girls registered for the Cadet Nurses' Training Corps; Bud. Harrison's oldest girl, twenty-year-old Marianna, joined the WAC; Preacher Martin, beloved and feared for his "straight talk ing' " to evildoers and the like, fell on his front steps and broke his leg; the Jordans, over behind Turkey Bend, had another baby. But there were currents under neath that popped above the sur face now and then, and to no one's very keen surprise, Alicia Steven son seemed to have a large part in them. Her malicious tongue, her sly i little smile that hinted at so much she did not say, the way she had of always being in the very middle of any untoward event, filled people with angry unease. "It's got so a body ain't safe in their own home nights, with that woman snoopin' around," Mrs. Stuart complained to Megan one afternoon as they sat sewing before the fire that the chill rain made very welcome. She shot Megan an oblique look and then came out frankly with what was in her mind. "I can't imagine what your paw sees in her, anyhow." Megan dropped the tablecloth she was mending and stared at Mrs. Stuart. "My father?" she gasped incredu lously. mi a. oiuarx snineo ana sei an unusually sharp stitch in the diaper she was hemming tor the newest "Jordon youngun." "Well, If you don't know that the way your paw's runnin' after that Stevenson woman is the talk of the town, it's high time you was finding out, 1 say," she snapped belliger ently. "They're always ridin' around in that car o' hers?and where she gets the gas, nobody seems to know, but folks say it's 'black market' and she gits all she can pay fer?or what your paw can pay fer." Megan said curtly. "My father does not patronize 'black markets' for gasoline or anything else. And I doubt very much whether be has seen Mrs. Stevenson more than half a dozen times?" "Half a dozen times would be a-plenty, with some folks," Mrs. Stuart cut ia as curtly. Later, when Mrs. Stuart had gone, Megan got up and went out to the kitchen. She thought Annie looked at her covertly, but she couldn't be sure until suddenly, as though she could no longer keep her words to herself. Annie said, "Miz' Stuart's right. Miss Meggie?folks is talkin' about Mist' Jim an' dat Miz' Ste venson?" "That will do, Annie," said Me gan sharply. (TO B* OOWTWUkDI * IMPROVED1 J,,M" i UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday i chool Lesson ll'NBAT SCHOOL*?IS.S EMS By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. CM Tb* Mo?djr Blbto Institute at Chics?. Lesson for September 1 Lesson subject* and Scripture teat* se lected and copyrighted by International Council ol Religious Education, used by permission. JESUS AND RIGHT USE or PROPERTY LESSON TEXT?Exodus 30:LI; Proverbs 30 7-S: Matthew 5:20-33 MEMORY SELECTION?But 1*7 up (or yourselves treasures In heaven, where j neither moth nor rudk doth corrupt, and ' where thieves do not break through nor 1 steal lor where your treasure Is. there wlil t your heart be alio (Matt. (.30-211. Labor Day tomorrow! And much ' in the thinking of all America will J be the right division of the fruits of investment of time and money. I Property rights are fundamental. God's Word teaches us the proper attitude toward our own rights and the rights of others; namely, hon esty, yes, just plain old-fashioned honesty. In such a time, the believer in Christ needs to be doubly vigilant lest he accommodate his own stand ards of honesty to those of the world. I. Honest In Purpose (Exod. 20:15). We cannot tolerate anything in word or deed that can be regarded as stealing what belongs to another. The very commandment against stealing implies that men have a right to that which they have made, earned or saved. If no one had any property rights there could be no stealing. Some of our modern political and social isms deny such rights, but their reason ing is cle irly not biblical or Chris tian. "Thou shalt not steal," forbids ev ery kind of theft, and this includes more thiyi robbery or ordinary stealing (see Lev. 19:11-12). It relates to every kind of falsa dealing with another, such as op pression or the withholding of Just wages. That, too, is stealing in ! God's sight. Perhaps we ought to be more i specific and apply the truth to our own day. Stealing includes such things as loafing on one's job, bor rowing money from the cash draw er, taking goods from the stock with which one is working, stealing an other man's sermon and preaching it as one s own, lifting material out of another man's book without cred it. contrartino HoMq ?na ???? I ? o "*v~~ U,,C V-OM never pay, using false weights and measures, adulterating food or oth er material, "watering" milk for sale, seling worthless stock, dodg ing taxer or lying to the tax as ? sessor, or using a slug instead of a nickel in the telephone to escape j proper payment. One might add gambling (which is taking another man's property by skill or by chance), making an un duly large proAt on the labor of another, making money out of the sorrows and failures of others, etc. To be honest means to be fair, and | that has broad implications. IL Humble in Practice (Prov. 30: 7-9). It may sound a little odd to hear this man pray that he should be de livered from prosperity. To ask to be kept from poverty is certainly to make a wise request, but to be delivered from riches, why that's certainly not sensible. So reasons the world, but as usual, it is entire ly wrong. Experience has demonstrated that the man who has an abundance of good things usually becomes self satisfied, assuming that he deserves the credit for his affluence, he for gets God, and what had been a good and useful life is soon destroyed. On the other hand, it is true that j extreme poverty tends to break down a man's morale. Watching his family starve is not conducive to honesty if a man can lay his hands on something to save them, ! whether it be his or not. We do not ' justify stealing at any time, but we can well understand that starvation can turn the mind of a normal man I into abnormal channels. III. Htlftnly in Principle (Matt. 6:25-28). The Bible ii concerned almost en tirely with life on this earth. It tells us very little about heaven except how to go there. But (and hers is the important point for us just now) it does give us laws from heaven for life on earth. Our life here, our attitude toward property, la to be heavenly in principle. We are not to be anxious (the correct translation of "take no thought," ??. 25, 27, 31) about our life, about food, raiment and other necessary things. Proper fore thought is all right, but worry? Never! How shall these things be pro vided? God will provide. Consider the birds. Do they have nervous breakdowns about where their food and shelter are to come from? They | cannot even pray and they are not | able to work, and yet God feeds them. Consider the glory of the flowers of the field, for not even a king can dress as they. The Lord does it. "Are ye not much better than ; they?" What about the future ? It is in . God's hands, and even if it were in our hands what could we do with it? Even tomorrow with its needs, its blessings, its Joys and its sor rows is not here yet, and when it does comes there will come with it Cod's svscioua orovision (v. Mi. *)oum , RefHViieA Lb WASHINGTON | By W altar Stood I MWCm?aM WNU W etbimgtam Bureau. UU SyaSt .B W. U. N.'t Food Organization Diteauat World Probltm* CARM leaders, agricultural ex 1 perts and government officials interested in agriculture are plac ing great stress on the outcome >f the meeting of the food and agri cultural organization of United Na tions, which opened its fourth ses sion in Copenhagen on September t. The session likely will last ap proximately two weeks. Organized in the United States, the FAO has held three organiza tional meetings, one in Mexico City, another in South America and the third in Canada. This fourth meeting is in Denmark. Each of the national farm organ izations has one representative at the meeting to press for the pro duction and distribution plans which were the result of the recent international agricultural meeting in London. The state department, as this is written, has not an nounced names of the American of ficial delegates, but the department of agriculture already hat desig nated several men who will be come, along with farm organiza tion leaders, a part of the Ameri can advisory group. These include Under - Secretary of Agriculture Dodd, production and marketing administration's Shields, Wells of the bureau of agricultural econom ics, Bowles (not Chester) of the foreign agricultural relations de partment, Lambert of agricultural research and Stiebeling of home economics. This meeting of FAO will hatch the first long range program for world agriculture, based upon a worldwide survey, which has just been completed and which includes 70 countries. John Orr of Scotland, director general of FAO, will present the proposals for this food program which, if adopted, will be laid be fore the meeting of United Nations at its scheduled meeting in Octo ber. Many Smaller Meetingt This program is the result of ex ploration into the reasons for sur pluses and shortages in world food supply, and is expected to contain provisions for preventing the re currence of such conditions. In the meantime, committees of the or ganization have been holding meet ings in various European cities on such questions as diet, nutritional goal, possible changes in produc tion to meet the goal, a current appraisal of the food situation in all the countries of the uforld, eco nomics and statistics, forestry and agricultural production and re search. Reports on these various phases of the agricultural picture will be presented to the meeting for rejection, adoption or modifica tion. Farm leaders here are con vinced that the future of Ameri can agriculture is closely bound with world agriculture, and that never again can the United States draw within her shell with a policy of isolation. Our own agricultural market is so sensitive that it will be gov erned largely by world agricultural production, prices and distribu tion. No longer can our expanded production depend upon the domes tic market for consumption. Seventy countries are now mem bers of the FAO and two new coun ra_t_ J ... li in, llfllj a j'li okhkiinm, mtw expected to apply far membership at the Copenhagen meeting. In connection with the economics and statistics report, it might be well to consider the recent report of the bureau of economics of tba agriculture department, supple mented by findings of the Federal Reserve board, to the effect that some 32 million families in this country still are earning less than 13,000 per year. If that figure is true in this country, and it un doubtedly is, think what the meager income must be of untold millions of families of the rest of the world. Most People Have Little Despite the (act that the Ameri can people have savings of some thing like 81 billion dollars in bank deposits, currency and government bonds , . . yet TO per oent of the American people have little or nothing saved for the in evitable rainy day ... the saving being concentrated in the upper in come brackets . . . the people who take in 810.000 or more a year, and who were well off before the war. So the war, which poured hun dreds of billions of dollars late the pockets of the Americas people, still left the temaLrj with the in come divided just about as it was before the war. What then must be the plight of European and Asi atic countries? So distribution, surplus and price too, at this important meeting of FAO will be one of the major fac tors to be discussed in any long range agricultural program in which feeding of the world's popu lation is the most essential job bo fore the organization. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS ^ J'ooi JresLPrelt^if^ Jon? | juniors oCihe T)wo-Jf^iece .3rocLs nn m r* 8046 M50 1531" 11-11 Teen A|e Two-Pieeer Flatten Mature Figure (COMFORTABLE, practical and ^ neat-as-a-pin home frock for day-long charm. Note the unusual yoke treatment, the smooth lines so flattering to the more mature figure. Try it in a brightly hued stripe with novelty buttons in a contrasting shade. ? ? ? 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