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i Perfect Stranger H T9 The first thing Celia Brandon noticed about him was the way he sat. As if, she thought, study " ing the man at the corner table truss the top of her menu, he d been propped up in his chair and was likely, at any minute, to go sliding off on the floor. “Does he come in often?” “Yes-m, Miss,” said her waiter. “Every night this-a week, he come. But he does not eat. He just-a sits and sits.” , Celia examined her find more closely. ' His hair was greying much too rapidly, and his clothes were much too shabby for Garibaldi’s, which was on 52nd, just around the corner from the theatre dis trict. RELIEF AT LAST ForYourCGilSH Creoniulsinn relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble lo help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have vour moncv hatk. aCREOMULSION *tor Coughs,Chest Colds, Bronchitis •'Perhaps." she said, "he hasn't the price of a meal.” "Then why does he come?” The waiter's attitude, Celia felt, was a coldly commercial one. The way most folks with some thing to sell looked upon those who had no money to buy. And determined to put the waiter in his place, she said, "I thought his face was familiar. Yes, of course! It’s Freddy Malone . . . i Tell him.” she said, "that I’d like him to join me.” i "Yes-a, Miss!” For a moment after the waiter had delivered this invitation un certainly marked the man’s lean features. But when Celia counter ed with just the right degree of warmth in her own—the degree one would extend to a man fri I end not seen in many years yet j warmly remembered—he rose and came toward her table. I He walked unsteadily and she ! wondered if he might be intoxi | cated. If that explained his pro ppcd-up appearance of a moment ago. Then he was alongside, bow ing just a little from the waist, and she was saying, “It’s so good to see you again. Fred." 1 "Yes. isn't it," he said. "Thanks for asking me over.” His tones made her feel that he was hungry. It was as if every word he spoke was scraped from RICH • SMOOTH • DELICIOUS WHEN SUE SEES YOU CAST AN EYE AT SOME SUCK ^.v^CUICK PmSjiNG By. Give your taste the treat of a lifetime! CHEER WINE Is RIGHT . . . and right at home on all occasions. Next time, go for a bottle of deli cious, energizing CHEERWINE! Cheeruine is in tune with the American taste! * DRINK eerwine Keep a supply at home. , Buy a 6-Bottle carton or ^ a case today! the walls of his stomach, left some mark. And now that he was closer she could not mistake the suffering which lined his face. More than food, she felt cer tain, was needed here. He need ed good cheer. Someone to talk with. “How about a Martini?” she said. “A pepper-upper, as they say.” He turned to the waiter, chuckling miraculously. “A pepper-upper,” he ordered, “for the lady.” Then, when the waiter had gone off and leaning i closer across the white table I cloth, "Look! It’s dammed nice of you. Having me like this, I mean. But I can’t accept—” “Forget it,” Celia said, trying her utmost to spare him. “I don’t know about you, but I'm hun i gry. Let’s con ^gntrhte on din ner.” J “Yes, of course. The dinner.” ' “How about some sea food?” “Not for me.” He made a wry ! face. “I’ve just come from there. Mavbe you took notice of my roll.” "I wondered what it was.” “It’s the genuine article,” he assured her. "A ClycV'-Mallory Line freighter just brought me back from the Far East . . .You see,” he hurried on as if he had iust so much time in which to tell it, “I struck it tough in Sin gapore. Went out there to work for a big oil company. It wasn’t so big. because it folded a few weeks after I arrived. I was on the beach three months, broke to the wide, before I got this chance to work my way home—” hornet that now. Celia said, judging from his tones that every word must be an effort for him. "This Spagctti Italiennc sounds mighty good to me." "But I can't for.net.” he insist ed. "And I think you should hear me out. Have you ever,” he de manded. while Celia could find not a word with which to check him, “known what it is to be hunnry. to starve? "I can well imagine. Celia in terrupted. more firmly this time. "I've hoard New York is no dif ferent than Singapore if it comes to that. But let's get on with ordering now. eh"" "Yes. of course. Ordering.” He sounded the least bit let down. But he bucked up ns the meal progressed. "I must see more of you,” he said. "You do me good." “We do each other good, you mean.” "That's it!" He was as enthusi astic as a school boy attending his first grown up date. "And look." lie assured her, "I'll make up for tonight's dinner just as soon as I get placed.” "Don't mention it.” “I could get a job in Mexico. There's a fellow "But why not try here in New York"" "In an office?” "Not necessarily.” "Then what?" "Had you over thought of act ing." Celia said as the waiter re turned with a small silver tray containing a half dollar and three thin dimes. You know what they say? If you can't make a go of anything else you're sure to click on the stage. And it seems to me." she added, mak ing a fine show of waving the waiter and the eighty cents a vvav. "that with the experience you’ve had knocking a vund the world you could put a lot of punch ini > plavactma." "Maybe you're right. In fact. I know you're right." "What do you mean?" He smiled broadly. "Simply," he told her. "that I am stage. I've just been putting on an act here. Rehearsing for my new play. I need a girl to play opposite me. She's rich as all get out. Money dosen't mean a thing to her. That’s exactly the kind of girl you are in real life. So how about coming around in the morning to sign a contract? I’m Noel Howard—” "Noel Howard.'" Celia didn't spare the name mentioned with Friendly, Per sonal Service Because of the nature of our service, we take a close, sympathetic personal in terest in the problems of our clients. We do not en courage spending beyond the family's means but on the basis of what they can afford. Regardless of how much is spent, the service is of the same uniformly high calibre. Badger’s Funeral Home West Jefferson, N. C.f Phone 20 _I What kind of company arc your child! 'n keeping? All of you probably have read, or hau told to you, the story of the fa ther who warned his son against some of his playmates, and the son who replied that even though those playmates might do some wrong, he would not follow their example. Then, the father took the boy to the storage bin, pick ed up a half-rotted apple and placed it in a box of sound ap ples. A week, later he took the boy back to that storage bin— and the expected had happened. The former good apples were now partly rotted. Yesterday a woman who works now and then in my home asked to change her regular day for another. On the day she was supposed to come to my home, she found she would be allowed to visit her son. The son was in a house of correction! He was sent there when he was one month past his eighteenth birth day. I hadn’t known about this, but I had known that the mother reared him in Harlem, New York’s so-called den of inequity. Harlem is considered such a tough section of the city that R. II. Mac.v’s delivery man told me once that they never went there to make deliveries without an armed bodyguard in the van with them. The mother said that her son had never spent a night away from home until he was sent away by the authorities; that his sentence was the result of the association with bad com pany which she had not been able to shield him from. She said further that ‘‘the awe around casting offices where where she spent months trying to get a small part in his new production — in any production. "Then, listen mug!" she flung at him. "How about buying me a nother dinner right now? I couldn't eat a bite of that one for thinking I'd spent my last five dollars . . ." Kang” forced him to commit the offense which "sent him up,” and I that lie alone was paying the | penalty, that the more experi enced escaped. j j So watch your child’s play mates. If there is a child with natural leadership who does not 1 wield the right influence your child will suffer from associa tion with him. Maybe you can I help this boy, if you will give the time to him, but you can’t | afford to sacrifice your child. (Funeral Held For | ! Millard Fairelotli The funeral service for Mil lard Faircloth, 73, Whitetop, Va., was held Sunday, afternoon at the Greenwood church with in- j terment in the church cemetery, j Rev. Rudolph Ludwig officiated! STRAYKD OR STOLEN ! Two B. W. T. Walker fox hounds. One male, 24" at shoulders, slender type, almost black back, tan head with wide stripe up back of head. Been gone about two months. One male. 21" at shoulders, slender type, almost “saddle back,” tail head with wide white stripe up back of head. This bound has ('. A. S. tat - toed in ear. Been gone about four w«eks. If strayed a reasonable re ward will be paid for return, or information leading to re turn of them. If stolen Sllllt REWARD will be paid to party return ing dogs and furnishing infor mation leading the the arrest and conviction of the thief who stole them. (’. A. SEORAVKS Jefferson, N. (’. at the service. Mr. Faircloth died at his home Friday. He is survived by his wife, Bertie Faircloth, and the follow ing children: Mrs. Eula Gwalt ney, Oxford, Pa.; Mrs. J. B. Spencer, High Rock, Pa.; Mrs. Dudley Blevins, Konnarock, Va.; Ruby Faircloth, Darlington, Md.; Darrell Faircloth, Bel Camp, Md. 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