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c. ws ' -L”". lookinjT out j oranges wetti K---. ■r. '/ "Do you know, dear, I haven’t had a ride with you in a dog’s age. I think I’ll cut out the golf today and go with you. Take me on, will you'.’" Nell spoke with smiling carelessness but the look In his eyes gave him away. “Of course, what time will you get here?’’ She spoke casually. Nell, would never guess the tur moil of unhappiness under that calm. Did men ever divine things the way women did? One man perhaps . . . Robert? as the name stabbed her she turned away -.^Ickly, scarcely hearing Neil’s answer, "ril come home to lunch I think. Then we'll have the whole afternoon together.” E-en In her pain Joyctr heard the change in Neil’s voice. That last word was spoken with so touchingly confident and happy a note. ‘‘All right. I'll be ready. Good bye,” and she ran upstairs and shut herself in her room. There she sat down on the edge of the couch-bed and clenched her hands,* staring dry-eyed out of the big window to the distant mountains. Joyce was wrapped in a mood of warm compassion for Neil. She felt she could not add another unkindness to the many that Prills had inflicted upon him. His eyes haunted her. and she felt more utterly miserable than she had at any time since she had awakened to find herself oc cupying another woman's shoes. She and his mother that way. Riding off with Joyce that aft ernoon, Neil was in high spirit.s. with an elation in his manner that filled Joyce wit’u shame. She rode in silence, hardly an swering his questions, and not looking at him. Neil soon fell in with her mood as they rode along and no longer bothered her with coiiver.sation. Gradually then she began to feel remorse, and wished slie could be less surly with Neil. He tried so hard to please her in evi ry- thing. to adapt himself to her moods, it struck Joyce suddenly how much of that sort of thing he must have been doing in his married life. “Sam says .Mctlready lias a new lot of horses in,” remarked Joyce, "did he tell you there’s a man from Salinas who would Lady Took Cardui And Got Rid of Pain In Her Side “Last summer, my health was bad, BO I began taking Cardui,” writes Mrs. H. E. Slaughter, of Norman, Okla. “My mother had given me Cardui in girlhood, so naturaliy I turned to it when I felt I needed it. I felt run-down and a general weakness. I had bad, dizzy head aches when everything would seem to dance before my eyes. My right side pained me so much, but since taking Cardui the pain has left me. I have taken several bottles 'of Cardui and have improved a 'great deal.” Cardui is sold at drug stores here. like to buy Fire Queen?” “Yeah,” replied Nell, eyeing her sidewise, perhaps to see if her general ewresslon matched the friendly causalness of her voice. “I said I’d like to get rid of her myself but I’d have to consult you about the matter. I hate the sight of the damn’ brute after what she nearly did to you, dear.” A flash of- amusement curled the corners of Joyce's mouth tor a moment as she remarked, "’Vou needn’t consult me. I’m quite satisfied with Rosita. thank you.” “Really? Gosh that’s great. Sure relieves my mind.” A little later they dismounted and sat down on a slope over looking the valley to eat the package of sandwiches and fruit Joyce had brought. To her relief Neil talked about Manzanita top ics: his mother’s condition, Paul’s departure, Sam’s pro gress in the correspondence course, plans for the new subdi vision north of Manzanita, and so on. He finally stretched out on the ground and put his head in her lap. Joyce had just stroked hack a lock of hair from his forehead, thinking absently that Neil ought to he doing something about the increasing thinness of his hair, when the thud of a horsie’s hoofs in the distance caught her ear. She stiffene4 and glanced up with an apprehensive fear clutch ing at her heart and stopping its beat for a moment. There, in an opening between citnnps of oak trees about sixty yards away, on the trail they had just left, rode Robert Ainsworth! He did not see her at first. Then his idly roving glance turned to the couple on the ground. His eyes met Joyce’s, and a quick smile of recognitiou spread over his face. Then his look dropped to the figure of Neil lying with his head in her lap. quizzical shade passed over his face. ‘ Itcllo, Joyce!’’ he shouted iris horse leaped forward under the spur of his heel, and tiiey galloped up the slope. Before Neil could stumble to his feet Ainsworth was drawing rein nearly upon them. •‘This precise situation,” he .said easily, “demands a galloping retreat on my part, but I’m too inquisitive to he so gallant, i prefer to advance and see what happens instead!” Joyce's self-possession left her entirely. She stared numbly at the two men. miserably aware that they were both looking to her for explanation, sr..] even more miserably aware that she knew not how to begin. Neil was the first to come to Joyce’s rescue. “I beg your par don.” he said, courteously, “you seem to know' my wife?” The quizzical smile deepened on Robert's face. "No. I seem rather to have made a mistake ” tie began. .A new, almost in solent note in .his voice whipped Joyce into anger. -All at once she know what lier course must be. It mattered little to her what the outcome of this meeting was; she was determined not to be led into further deceptions. Sa^ Money with THE BEST FOR LESS “No mistake at all,” she said quietly. “Nell, he’s lying if he says he doesn't know me—” She looked from one to the other of the men. Nell’s expres sion was that of the samh partly- repressed hurt that he had shown when Maitland’s name had been mentioned. She knew at once that he thought Robert had tak en Maitland’s place in Frills’ life, but that his value of decency and dignity was holding him In check. Neil's Immediate, uncon scious reaction to this situation did not surprise her; he was showing no reversal of his per sonality. Robert, however, had sudden ly become a stranger to her. Was this her “perfect companion,” was this the man whose subtlety and sympathy she had so delir iously counted on? He .sat on his horse coolly and looked down on them with an expression of amus ed cynicism. If this attitude were a cloak for his hurt feelings, Joyce thought swiftly, it was a less lovely one than Neil’s! These valuations passed through Joyce’s mind in one gal loping second, while she stood there helplessly, wondering where to begin. “May I have the pleasure of meeting your husband?” Robert asked, smiling. Joyce looked at him. “Get off your horse, please,” she answer ed. “there’s a lot to be straight ened out and it’ll take some time. . . . Robert Ainsworth, this is Ncii Packard, my husband . . .” The men acknowledged the in troduction. Neil curtly, Robert with the same hard amusement that so offended Joyce. “Charmed,” said Ainsworth lightly. “Oh. don’t talk that way!” Joyce cried. “I don’t know you at all in this mood—you’re mak ing it terribly hard for me—’’ Robert threw back his heal and laughed. “Think, Joyce, ivhat a lot I’m going to learn from this m-seting! Think of the value of it ait to a novelist!’ Why, I wouldn’t be missing it for any thing! I only wish I had the pen of an Elinor Glyu to write it up adequately—’’ Nell drew forward. “I don’t think niy wife and I have time to stop and listen to that sort of damn' drivel from you—’’ he be gan holly, when Joyce interpos ed. “Oh, this IS all so fantastic! Please, please, don’t begin a fight over it, when neither of you really knows a bit what it’s all about . . . Neil, I've been trying to make up my mind to tell you —Robert, there’s a gooi deal due to you, too! I hadn’t expected to tell you both at once, but since it's happened this way, for Heaven’s sake don't make it so difficult for me! I want to tell both of you tlie truth!” She turned to her liusbami. “Neil, you never tieard of Joyce Ashton, did you? Answer me that. Neil?” “You don’t mean Joyce .Abbott, do you Frills?" “No, no, 1 don’t . . . Tell me this. Neil, what wa.s my name be fore you married me? . . . Don’t look at me as if I were crazy! What was my name before you married me?” “Why, Frills, this is nonsense! Don’t you know your own name? It was Florence Hilton, of course. What’s that got to do—” I “Oh. will you please let me tell you? Sit down, both of you, this is going to take a long time. Please don’t begin by thinking I'm crazy. A’oii’ve both heard of [amnesia victims, of course? Did you know you’d married one, Neil? Did you know that Flor ence Hilton was a girl without a « tl ro' came onto porch nhd me how I felt! That wai Nell, whom I In my first appalP ed state fancied to have been my kidnapper!” “Why on earth—say, how on earth have you kept this all to yourself? How long ago was all this, Joyce?” It was Ainsworth speaking. Neil seemed too stunn ed to take in the significance of It ’all. “I non’t know just how I have kept It all. Of course at first I was so terrified I couldn't think, much less act. Then I’ve always been awfully reticent — hated scenes—and I usually followed the line of least resistance. Neil was Jnst leaving to go on a bus iness trip to Chicago. He kissed me good-bye while I was still in that paralyzed state, and I was left to figure things out for my self! It was all terrible, of course, but In some ways it was fasci nating. Your house, Nell, Is so lovely, and the outdoorness ap pealed to me—It all was so dif ferent from the pinched, dark, meagre life I’d been leading In the- Philadelphia boarding-house that I hung greedily on. . . . And then, of course, I found out about Frills. . . . “Prills was the vicious Imp rite Corey Roofs hove been the stondord for over 60 years. And Ihey cost no more—and frequently less—than un known, untested materials. We sell Carey Shingles and Roofings in a wide range of colors and weights—you can accordingly select the type which will best suit your property in appearance and durability. Be sure you get the greatest roofing value for your money—let us give you a free estimate. 'Sector J(«es Law : J! ■ . the Msed by the *4^ Dollar Tax Leyitd Oa Outdoor Sigm Situatiim Ik -CSnb Farors War U* Crime entoretuneht the crime wave weilfe Solicitor John R. weekly luncheon meetthi^:. at Kiwanls club Friday'^ and the club Went on record a« solidly behind the movement to. enti, crime In 'Wilkes county. Attorney J. H. Whicker was program chairman for the day and presented the solicitor. The present crime wave started dur ing the World war, the speaker asserted, and a spirit of indiffer ence on the part of the public has contributed to its success In j breaking down the morale of the I country. » Solicitor Jones made what members of the Kiwanls club con sidered ode of the ablest ad dresses of his career. The club voted to pass a formal resolution In support of the movement against crime and to place it upon the minutes of the club. iT^e U>ard of directors an nounced that the club has pur MegrcfaaiMs, WarehoaseBieii mm Ottaen Mast Pay ’Tax Signs Destroyed^ The revenue act of the 1983 general assembly placed a .check on ooMpor' advertising by mer- chantsi warehousea and others. It Ip revealed, f. The state revenue deparimOnt is alrsady setting np machinery for oplleetlon of taxes on ontdoor signs.' .^Ilnder the 1983.revenue act, lUl iNvate that had' taken possession of my i gjj^ged a page advertisement in body while I was an amnesia premium catalogue of the victim. I found out that as welll^j.^^^ association, as having gotten Joyce Ashton a good husband and a beautiful home, she had made that hus band desperately unhappy, been a cross little beast.” Neil looked up, “Do you mean to tell me you don’t remember having married me?” "Vos, Neil, just that. I’m try ing to tell you that I remember nothing between the time of the taxi accident in Chicago two years ago, and the recent acci dent on Fire Queen!” “Humph.” Neil looked closely at his wife, as It trying to fath om some hidden reason she might have for making a fool of him. ‘ Neil, haven’t you noticed that I’ve been different lately? Look back to your return from Chi cago that last trip. Haven’t I been less reckless, less trouble some generally, than the Frills you married?” (Continued next week) T. A. Finley, county game and forest warden, was a guest of his father. Judge T. B. Finley, and Jones Holcomb, of Elkin and North Wilkesboro, was a visiting Klwanlan. anlMi the signs • the property on place ol business is locainl^ Unless the adfertlsliig carry the license plstee the re*9nae department and bk eominisetOB employes will struhted to summaTlly de them after that date. Revenue Commissioner A.' Maxwell believM the state’s nue from outdoor advertisii be materially Increased by new taxes on outdoor slgns.’| O.'^. Thomjwon, assistant' misstoner.of revenue, said';; 50,009 metal tags bad been talned to sell to ontdpOT advs He also pointed out, concern* using the land- of North Carolina to erect I,, to advertise toelr products . i mast pay a tax of 81 ner alvn to outdoor slg the state In taw, but the maxi-)'fr- mum tax to he collected from any private concern for signs is $600. A feature of the'plan to 'make the outdoor advertlsera pay their tax Is to Issue to each concern advertising on the highways a metal tag similar to the state au tomobile license. Each tag car ries a number and on every sign erected after July 1 as well as those already erected must have the tag tacked on the sign so that it can be seen. Filling stations, stores, out-of- state concerns and others must pay this tax of one dollar per sign j SANDWICHES Tomato : Hamburger GREEN LANTERN Ci “Oean—Sanitary—^Moder -North Wilkesbons 10th St.. For Comfort aad buy good Shoes—then them repaired at— Right-Way Shoe St “A LittCe Neater, • Little Better." Francis Sisson Makes Attack On Bank Law Four Men Lose Lives When Trucks Crash On Highway Wilson. June 22.—The of two trucks that Immediately went up in flames took the lives of four men near here today while a fifth escaped with slighl injuries. Marion Truluck. of Lake City, S. C., and Frank Brockington, of Olanta. S. C„ were instantly kill ed when two machines crashed head-on near Lncama. nine miles from here. They were riding to gether. Herman Waldron, of Lumber- ton, pinned beneath his steering wheel, was burned to death—his body 30 charred it was unrecog nizable. Vick Graves, of Monroe, AVal- dron’s companion, died in a hos pital a few hours after the col lision of burns that covered his body from head to foot. Hot Springs, Va., June 22.— Francis H. Sisson, president of the American Bankers associa tion, today launched an attack upon what he termed the "basic unsoundness” of -the Glass-Stea- gall banking bill In an address before the Virginia' Bankers as sociation. .Mr. Sisson contended that “the basic thing has never been touch ed” by the bill, and “that la what we have to come to—I refer to the English-Canadian system.” "I am sorry to have to disa gree with your president about the Glass-Steagall bill,” Mr. Sis son said. “In my point of view It is an exceedingly dangerous bill that will ultimately force Its crash own repeal.” Minstrel Show Will Be iiig, June 29, at 8 o’clock under the auspices of the church league. K»?,! colored people, including members of the popular Sunset Quartet of this city, will be in the performance. The admission charge will be i Wilkesboro Mfg. Co. All Kinds of Building Material ROOFINGS AND SHINGLES “.STANDARD FOR OVER 60 YEARs” past, without a life? A’ou’ve got to help me tell this story, Neil, because I remember nothing be fore the morning after Fire Queen threw me on my head!” Neil was staring at her dumb founded. ’’A'on’ro not serious, Frill.s? Why—what—when—” Robert .Ainsworth said, “Lord! Tell ns what you’re driving at, Joyce!” Joyce suddenly found it pos sible to talk to these two men. It was as if her mind had for so-me time been preparing the story it had to tell, so that the words came swiftly, tensely, dra matically. She told them of be ing born Joyce Ashton, of her early life in New England, of her aunt and uncle, of her work In Philadelphia and then of her start toward the Coast In search of adventure. “I remember getting into the taxicab in Chicago In the snow—’ that sort of light snow when the streets still aren’t quite ■Wet, but the dirt makes them sticky. The taxi skidded violently—there was a crash—and when I woke up 1 was in. a bed, on a sleeping porch. 10 and 15 cents and the imo-1 recently announced he would ceeds will be used to defray the seek to unseat .Abernethy and the expenses of the Epworth League congressman will be a cardidnte members to the Epworth I^eague institute. CASH! CASH! CASH! CASH! Cash in your old books, magazines, newspapers and any kind of paper now. For a limited time I will pay cash on delivery for all kinds of old paper. Must be dry and in good condition. T. C. CAUDILL, Meadows Building North Wilkesboro, N. C. PAY YOUR CoimtyTaxes You will save money for your^lf an^ at the same time help your county. A settlement now will be greatly ap-. predated. W.B. SOMERS, Sherifi I. .?»•, lOrf - JOE. CAMELS ARE MILDER- aren't they? YES, AND THEY HAV/E A BETTER FLAVOR, too! V ccol^e^’tctaccoo'tajtc Insurance Rate Increase To Be Effective June 30 Raleigh, June 23.—The recent ly granted 7.6 per cent average increase in workmen’s compen sation insurance rates will become effective June 30, Insurance Com missioner Dan C. Boney announc ed today. Since the compensation law became effective in 1929 there has been one other increase. The carriers were allowd a 3.5 pr cent boost in 1931 to take care of tax increases. Petitions of carriers for in creases of 12 to 15 per cent, the former being asked by mutual companies and the latter by stock companies, recently were denied by Boney. Pay Special Liense Taxees Before July 1st To Avoid Penalty 5% Per Month WiB Be Added On and After July 1st, 1933 I Hamilton Expects to Oppose Staged At Arbor Grove Abernethy In 1934 Contest Raleigh, June 22—Luther Hamilton, Carteret county’s rep- A minstrel show will be given at Arbor Grove Methodist church near Millers Creek Friday even-1 resentative in the general assem bly, told friends here today he Service Stations, Garages, Dealers in Pistols, Cartridges and Fireworks; Pressing Clubs and Laundries; Installment paper Dealers; Loan Agents and Brokers; Lightning Rod Agents; Automotive Equipment Dealers, Peddlers, and Horse and Mule Dealers, are among those liable for special county license tax. expects to soon announce his candidacy for the congressional seat from the third district, which is now occupied by Charles L. Abernethy, ot Craven county. Graham A.' Barden, ot Craven, W. B. SOMERS, Sheriff and (,’ounty Tax Collector for re-election. Barden is also a state legislator. Listen, Folkst L S. LOWE' has a big stock of merchandise that is to be sold at once, if pos sible, regardless of price. THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY # f TO BUY WHILE PRICES ARE LOW AND BEFORE THE SALES TAX IS ADDED. Don’t Delay — Come Todd] "r- STORE LOCAT^ ON *C” STREET OPPOSFTE NEW POSTOFFICE SITB
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