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ctnd be r v muJ^ave \ s Peggy Pern * W.N.U. RELEASE - T1U STOEY THUS FEE. M Alicia SteTcnsoa has Seen mnrdered!" The ?tory van all ever Pteasaai Grove la Blutei. LaU la Ike afUraoea Tea iHllH by to get milk, aatf tkey talked About Alicia's deatk. Me| was apeet, and lavoloatarily Tom pat his arms around her and called her "dartin*." That evening Meg and her talker sat looking at each other, each remember ing that the other was eat late the night before. "Did yea de It?" she ftaally asked. "No?did yoa?" &he was stunned. Jim MacTaelsh suggested they make a bargain: "Yoa forget that I vas eat ai the hoase?I'll ferget yoa were trystlng with Tom Fallon.** A hot tide of crim son covered Meg. CHAPTER XI She caught her breath and could not believe she had spoken, though the words seemed to quiver in let ters of fire between them. Her fa ther stiffened with a little jerk. His face was white and hard and his eyes were veiled, so that she could not guess his thoughts. For a moment that seemed a cen tury long his eyes met hers, and then he said very softly, "No, my dear?did you?" "Father!" It was a shocked, in credulus gasp that came scarcely above her breath. "How?how can you even?think?" Her father lifted his shoulders in a gesture that was not quite a shrug and drawled coolly, "Why not? You seemed perfectly willing to believe I had!" "Oh, no. Dad." In that breathless moment the endearing diminutive came easily from her tongue. "I didn't think you had?I couldn't ever believe you had?" "Yet you put the question very easily," he reminded her dryly. "It?it was only that I heard you come in last night?a little after one? "A four ? ? *??-? ..UiiUVVO OlVCl JUu tame in, if I remember," said her father calmly, his eyes never leaving her white, ravaged face. "Suppose we make a bargain, my dear Megan." Her father's voice came softly, low-pitched, scarcely above a whisper, in the tone of one conspirator to another. "A ? a bargain. Father?" she managed faintly. He nodded. "You forget that I was out of the house?I'll forget that you were?er?trysting with Tom Fallon on the Ridge," he said in that gen tle, yet somehow terrifying drawl. A hot tide of crimson poured over her face and reached from the collar of her neat cotton print frock to the very roots of her hair. "1 wasn't?trysting with Tom Fal lon I" Her mouth twisted with dis taste at the thought, and the impli cation. "But you did meet him there?" "Purely by accident!" she flashed. Her father smiled thinly. "I be lieve you, my dear?though I am a little doubtful as to whether other people would, if it ever became nec essary for other people to know of that?er?accidental meeting." She put her face in her hands for a moment and her father watched her with a curious tensity. "But, of course, I can see no rea son why anyone save the two of us should know anything about it," he went on smoothly. "Surely if my daughter and I wish to go for a walk in the fresh night air, it is no body's business but our own. Un fortunately, in a murder investiga tion a great many seemingly unre lated facts come out. Of course, there's no likelihood that we should be in any way connected with this terrible affair. Neither of us had any motive to want Alicia out of the way?that is, I had none. I hoped to marry her!" She stared at him, caught by some odd note in his voice. And after a moment he answered the look in her eyes, "Of course if it should become known that you were violently op posed to me marrying her, that you resented the thought of having her here in the house, and had been un able to persuade me to give up my plans to marry her?well?" Once again he lifted his shoulders in that gesture that was not quite a shrug, but that was an effective dismissal. Megan drew a long, hard breath. "You know I couldn't possibly have?" She set her breath against the sob that clutched at her throat "Of course, my dear?I know that you are completely incapable of any A such deed of violence!" her father assured her, and there was a warmth that was very close to ten derness in his voice. "But it won't be what I know that will count, Me gan?it will be what we can prove ?or disprove!" He let her sit huddled in a heap for a moment as though to think that over. And then he said quiet ly, "That's why I say there is no reason why anyone should be told that you and I were out of the house ?though, unfortunately, not togeth er?for several hours last night!" "Whom did you think I'd be likely to tell?" she asked him huskily, after a moment in which she fought to pull herself together so that speech was at all possible. "There will be an inquest, of course," he reminded her. "Un doubtedly we, as her closest neigh bors?and I suppose her closest ac quaintances?will be called to testi fy. And if we simply sky that we went to bed a little after ten?" "But thafs perjury," she whis pered faintly. Her father's face darkened an grily. "Don't t>e an idiot! You did not kill her. Neither did I. So what possible difference can it make?if nobody knows that we went for a walk? I'm absolutely positive that I wasn't seen; I feel equally sure you were not. So Where's the harm if we protect ourselves in a situa tion that could easily become very unpleasant?" She hesitated and he said quietly, "Because, Megan, if it becomes known that you and I were not in bed and asleep?that you were out on the Ridge with Fallon?it's not only going to be extremely unpleas ant for you, but it's going to finish him, once and for all. He'll never be able to get another job as a teacher no matter how innocent and accidental your meeting was. Peo ple will remember Alicia's little thrust about your spending 'hours together on the Ridge,' and people are good at adding two and two and getting six or seven." Megan said quietly, "Where were you, Father?" sense me, snn?oni coma l uu to yo'?to' n few minutes?" He sat very still for a moment, his eyes clinging to hers, and she thought he scarcely seemed to breathe. And then he said casually, "I went for a walk." And as proof that he had had his say on the subject and no intention of speaking again, he got up and left the room. She couldn't believe that her fa ther had killed Alicia Stevenson. It was an incredible thought; but he had been out of the house, and he was very anxious that no one should know about that. And she thought of herself and Tom Fallon, on the Ridge. And then she remembered his face tonight and the tone of his voice when that little word "darling" had slipped out ? the look in his eyes, naked and poignant and un ashamed, the warmth and tender ness in his shaken voice that had been like a shining garment wrapped about her chilled body. "Oh, no?no?I won't have it like that! I won't be in love with him?I won't!" she wailed, deep in her frightened, stricken mind. But her neari wfm reienuessiy on, z ou can't help it! You can't stop it. You didn't ask for it?but you can never deny it! He knows it, too? he feels as you do?you saw it in his eyes, heard it in his voice tonight. You love him and he loves you?and he has a write who has a greater claim on him than if there were children. Your love can never, nev er mean anything except heartbreak and self-denial! You know that? but you can't stop loving him! Any more than you can stop breathing!" The inquest was held the following afternoon in the rickety, nondescript little frame building where the Draft Board met, and it seemed that, ex cept for the few bedridden in the town, everybody was there. Everybody, that is, except Megan and her father. For contrary to Jim's uneasy fear, neither he nor Megan had been called to appear. Little Betty Hendrix, Bill Logan, Mrs. Stuart, and a few of the others who had been first on the scene had been called. Megan did not quite know whether to be more relieved, or more frightened that neither she nor ber father had received orders to appear. But she had firmly declined Mrs. Stuart's hearty invi tation that she go, anyway. Megan made herself keep busy throughout a day that seemed age long. When Annie put midday din ner beside Megan and asked, a faint uneasiness in ber voice, "Miss Meg gie, is Mist' Larry comin' tomorrow night?" "I suppose so, Annie," Megan an swered, and quivered a little inside at the thought of facing Laurence I with the thinf that was in her heart; the thing that had been there?who could say how long??but whose presence she had not discovered un til under the shock of Alicia's death. "I like to talk to him, Miss Meggie ?el yo' think he ain' comin' any how, how 'bout yo' calling him up and askin' him to? So I could talk to him?" Annie was grave-eyed and portentous. Megan, jerked out of her unhappy abstraction by Annie's tone, looked up at her curiously. "Why, Annie, what's wrong? Why do you want to talk to Mr. Larry?" she asked, puzzled. Annie drew herself up a little and there was a gentle, yet implacable dignity about her as she said firmly, "It's a private matteh. Miss Meggie ?but it's powahful important. Yo' call him fo' me?" "Yes, of course, Annie," Megan answered and Annie thanked her and went out of the room, padding softly in the heelless felt slippers that she wore to "ease" her feet. But Megan did not have to call Laurence, for at about four o'clock he came down the road and turned in at the gate grinning at her warmly and happily. "I came over with the coroner and some of the county officers," he told her cheerfully, dropping down on the steps at her feet and baring his head to the soft wind. "Pleasant Grove's certainly getting her name in the papers. There was a newspaper correspondent for one of the Atlanta papers at the inquest." Megan asked, after a moment, "What?what did the inquest find?" "Death by means of a sharp in strument at the hands of a party or parties unknown," answered Lau rence, looking up at her white, drawn face with surprise. "Oh look here, darling, I had no idea you were such a close friend of hers." "I?wasn't, really," admitted Me gan. "But?1 knew her and?it's been a shock?" "Of course," said Larry gently. He took her hand in his and held it closely. "We won't talk about it?" "Yes!" said Megan so sharply that Laurence turned surprised eyes upon her. Megan managed a faint smile and said, "I?I really want to know?whatever they could learn?" "Well, it wasn't much," said Lau rence. "No trace of the weapon, a knife or a dagger of some sort. No trace of robbery or anything of that kind. The girl at the bank said she had cashed her usual monthly in come check for fifty dollars, a few days ago, and her purse was found with more than thirty dollars in it. They feel sure that if she had sur prised a burglar at work, he would not have left the purse. They be lieve that she was killed by someone she knew?or at least, someone she was not afraid of. TTiere were no signs of a struggle in the place." Megan sat very still, her hands locked tightly in her lap. Killed by someone she knew I Someone she was not afraid of! "There was one sensation," said Laurence after a moment, not look incr at Matran his pvp? war* nn th? garden, where, despite the fact that it was almost Christmas, a few lata zinnias and marigolds were still in bloom and the chrysanthemums were great shaggy things of glowing beauty. "That was when the tele gram from her husband arrived?" "Her?husband?" she repeated in credulously. Laurence nodded. "That seemed as much of a shock to everybody there as it is to you," he told her. "But it seems that when the detec tives were going through her papers yesterday they found that she had a husband and that he was the one who was sending her fifty dollars a month. They wired him and the answer was brought to the inquest this afternoon. The husband is somewhere in the west, but he's fly ing east to claim the body. Should be here tomorrow or next day, they thought." "But she was a widow!" Megan protested, dazedly. "Apparently not," said Laurence, looking up as Annie appeared be hind the screen door that led into the hall. "Hello, Annie?how about putting another plate on the table and letting me stay for supper?" "Yessub. Mist' Larry?us sbo' be glad to," she assured him, beaming, and then asked uneasily, " 'Scuse me, auh?but could I talk to yo'?fo' a few minutes?" Laurence looked surprised, but got to his feet. "Of course, Annie?don't tell me you want to divorce Amos, after all these years!" he laughed, excusing himself to Megan as he moved to wards the screen door which Annie held open for him. "I ain't suah. Mist' Larry, dat 1 ain't gwine git rid o' dat shiTless, no'-count nigger, sbo' nuffl" she as sured him darkly as she led the way to the kitchen. Megan got up from the chair where she had been sitting for more than an hour. In the late after noon, the sunlight bad been warm and pleasant here, but with the com ing of dusk, a chill little wind got up and tiptoed through the trees, 1 and she went into the living room, where she built up the fire, making it brisk and cheerful. | (TO BB cosrnxuED) ?U. b UU. ? ^OVED^1^ " UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday i chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lessou for September 22 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. JESUS AND THE LAW OF THE STRANGER LESSON TEXT? Exodus 22:21-23; Deuter onomy 24:14, 15: Matthew 25:24-41. MEMORY SELECTION?The Kln( shall answer and say unto them. Verily I say unto you. Inasmuch as ye have done It unto one ot the least of these my brethren, ye have done It unto me.?Matthew 25:40. There is as much need today for the words of counsel and ad monition regarding strangers which we find in our lesson, as there was in the dsys of Moses, for there seems to be an almost complete breakdown of neighborliness both between nations and individuals. I. The Law Required Neighborli ness (Exnd. 22:21-23; Deut. 24:14, 15). Our heavenly Father as revealed to us in his Word is a Father in deed, one greatly concerned about his many children; but especially does he care for those who are weak and needy. The laws of ancient Israel made provision for the feeding of those who had no fields. The corners of the field were left uncut at harvest time, some of the grapes were to KA 1 A#4 #\ri iU. ? ? 4L.4 *L ? VF?I UiC ?UIC, CM.-., DU UlclV UIC poor could enjoy the sense of self respect as they picked for them selves what God had provided (see Lev. 19:9, 10; 23:22; Deut. 24:19-21, and other passages). The poor man who found work was to receive his pay when need ed. For the one who hired him to do otherwise was to bring upon j himself the judgment of God. He . listens to the cry of the hungry ' worker and his family (Deut. 24:15). Strangers were in a peculiar way subject to the possibility of extor- , tion. They are even today the easy j mark of the one who lives by his wits, the "confidence" man and sneak thief. If any such person reads these notes let me warn him solemnly to keep his tricky hands off the stran ger, for God is watching and will hear their cry (Exod. 22:23). The same is true of widows and orphans. God is their keeper and their defender. Someone may say that all this is Old Testament in its background and principle. What about the fol lower of Christ in our day? The an swer is that n. Christ Expects Neighborli I ness (Matt. 25:34-41). This is a prophetic picture of a great judgment scene. It is not, as many suppose, the same as the judgment of the Great White Throne of Revelation 20. The scene here is not in heaven, 1 but upon the earth. It is not individ uals who are being judged, but the nations of the earth. They are not being judged regarding per sonal salvation, but for their treat ment at Christ's brethren. Who are his brethren? First we think of his brethren, after the flesh, the people of the Jewish race. Scrip ture reveals again and again that I God is watching over his chosen people, even though they are now scattered in judgment for their un belief. He will not hold any guiltless who harm his people (Gen. 12:1-3). The word "brethren" is also used in such a nnaaaam aa Mntthoui 19 48-50 to include >11 who do the will of God. That suggests a broader ap plication of these words. Our attitude toward God ex presses itself in our attitude toward i our fellow man. That which we do . toward those about us is not a mat- ' ter of indifference, but is the basis for God's judgment of our lives. Each of us must answer for the I deeds done in the flesh whether they be good or evil. That is true even of the believer (II Cor. 3:10), whose , salvation has already been deter- ! mined by his faith in Christ. Here in our lesson, however, the failure to do that which shows forth God's law of love is made the ground of eternal Judgment. This is not because an act of kindness itself can be regarded as the ground of division, but because the failure to give it or do it reflects an attitude of heart toward our God and his Christ which is in reality a ! rejection of his way of salvation. Judgment is thus a revelation of i the attitude of the heart, which , marks a man qr wptt.an as being | either saved or lost. It may be pos- ' sible to so becloud the thinking of ' our friends and neighbors that we 1 may go through life looking some- i thing like a Christian, but when , Christ judges, it will all be revealed. Notice the importance of a proper attitude toward those who need our kindness and help. AU too often the only concern of men and women is to look out for "number one" and let the rest of the world shift for itself. Observe also that the Lord identi fies himself with his brethren? what is done to and for them is counted as done to and for him. Compare the experience of Samuel (I Sam. 3:7) and of Paul (Acts 9:3). Touch God's people and you touch him. Eail them and you fail him Serve them and you serve him. I 1k*<Monte Rep&itesi Ik WASHINGTON By Woltar Sheod WMU C?n*?M WMU Wtshimgtoa Burin. HI* By St.. H. W. F?4#ral Funds Will Aid Building of Hospitals IF YOU live in one of the more 1 than 1,000 counties in the nation in which there is no hospital, or where there is no adequate hospital, there is a chance, if you and your fellow citizens get together on the proposition, to get a new hospital at reduced rates?with the federal gov ernment paying a third of the cost. For President Truman has signed the Hill-Burton bill, the national hospital construction act which sets up a potential total of $1,125,000,000 for a five-year hospital construction program. But do not get excited and rush down here to Washington in the belief that one of these hos pitals can be picked out of a hat. No Fundi Available Now Only 3 million dollars of this fund, of which the government's share is 375 million dollars at the rate of 75 million dollars a year for five years, has been made avail able by the 79th congress. This con gress was a cautious congress. 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Other factors deter mining the amount apportioned to each state will be population and value of products. May Not Bonofit Country So whether this will favor those rural counties where hospitals are so badly needed, or whether it will work to the advantage of the more populous urban communities will depend largely upon responsibility placed in the hands of a non-gov ernmental advisory council. This council is different, however. Most public health services such as nurs ing, cancer, tuberculosis and other activities are presided over by an advisory council, but they are ad visory only. The council in the hos pital act has the veto power, not only over some actions of the sur geon-general, who will administer the law, but likely over some state action. President Truman doesn't like this feature of the act and said so when he signed it. At any rate, in counties where there is need and desire for a hos pital, the first action is to determine how much money the local commu nity can raise. 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