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Ly. MAY 9, 1940 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER Page 5 bu JANE LITTELL rnvrsueKit ,- fed CHAPTER SIX ,v asked Lona, Ling to take you to my foment I eT foot into it ain. tat WY i 4.0 T wvn't. to lay tne gnow 1!" she echoed, startled, ''of what might have id Chet, not looking at her. .nt" he said briefly to the "Accident, ne ",u w L.uinH the desk ."Get Dr. L send him up. The young I stay in my Place unW en they got out of the ele- id went into an aparnncu. I j.j n nt Leona s wild- L, She didn't see much of kieht, thougn. 1 n was the lace L back at her from the She lOOKea llfM a 86;- I ,. with black, Lth it her cheek bone had W of all proportions, one trrible. . I ghastly to have tnai nw j fncs staring back at in another mirror only an L VoH told her how Deaun- . She turned away from fade her blinded way to the have Chet see her looting WINS IN A RACE, BUT BURNING WINS My in A CIGARETTE. I m CAMELS. CAMELS sTRA MILD, EXTRA COOL J THEIR SLOWER BURNING ME EXTRA SMOKING k KELLY, Daring Speed Act ; Motor-Cycle Racing recent laboratory tests, jlELS burned 25 slower 4 the average of the 1 5 other (he largest-selling brands fd - slower than any of I. That means, on the av It, a smoking plus equal to h : J SMOKES rez PICKf Xtra mildness, extra pS, EXTRA FLAVOR- AMIES jirning Costlier Tobaccos like that brought new tears. Chet who had told her she was beau tiful. And she so wanted Chet. to go on remembering she was beau tiful. And now he wnuldn t. He would alwavs be remeip.berine' that poor swollen face and that black eye. The black eye that Pike had given her. whether to put hot water on the contusion and cold water on the eye, or the other way around, Chet was saying to someone. And then a verv efficient some body had turned her over and was doing things to her poor face. They gave her something fizzy and salty to drink, too, and long before the doctor had finished with her she was fighting to keep her eyes open. And the next thins- she knew, she was waking up in a strange room, and it' was dav time, for the sun was trying to get in through the funny window blinds that were made of overlapping slats. It was a beautiful room. The cur tain and the snread on the un used bed beside her were of soft jade taffeta. There was a chaise lounge with a little table beside it and a lovely lamp on it. There was a dressing table and a little bench in front of it and a cushion covered with that same jade taffeta. Oh, a lovely room as lovely as any bed room she had seen in the movies, Chefs room! She was a long panicked moment trying to remember where she was and how she happened to be there, and then she sank back among her pillows, remembering only too well. Pike had struck her ! Pike had given her a black eye! Pike had taken Chet's cheek away from her. Oh, Pike would think she was the sort of a girl Christine was. And Pike would never marry her now. Well, she didn't want him to, did she? A surge of rage at what he had done wiped Pike out of her heart forever. After all she had done for him! What did she want Pike for a husband for, anyway? Chet said any man who would take money from a girl would strike her. And she wasn't going to risk any more blows. Then she heard the telephone shrill and Chet answering it. "Yes. T know where she is, you cheap hoodlum, but you'll never find out from me. And it you ever lav a finger on her again I'll tear you apart with my bare hands. What? wen, n ner office calls up again you tell them itll be ten days before she's recov ered from the beating you gave her, and if they don't want to hold her job open for her 1 11 see inai v .nnther. And vou needn't try to cash that check you stole from her, for I've stopped pay ment on it. . . . What? Ureat! in get a great kick out of sending you up for forgery." After that there were sounds that could only come from the kitchen and the smell of delicious coffee. And pretty soon there was a knock on the door and then Chet was there. "Better, Beautiful?" he asked. "I'm better," she smiled, pulling the covers up around her neck, Kf Tv, cure nnt beautiful today." ''The doctor did a swell job." said r-hpt Rtnrinfif closely. "Now, lisien. There's a big woolly robe of mine SCOWS SCRAP BOOK , i ARRIAfiF lONFY II By R. J. SCOTT in the closet, Put it on and come out and see what a good cook I am." Leona hurried, for several rea sons. She wanted to get to Chet, erful good. And she wanted to see the apartment that Christine re fused to live in. Imagine refusing to live in a lovely place like this! There was a rose-colored silk rug on the living room floor. There was whitp mar ble fireplace. There was a piano ana aown tne little hall was ex- nct.lv t.hp Icitehpn sVip hnd lrpnmpd of all her life, only it was jade green instead of blue! And there was Chet, with a funny little rubber apron on, tak ing bacon out of the broiler. And in a cute little corner there was a breakfast nook, the table all laid for breakfast, with an electric per colator steaming, and an electric toaster sending up a warning sig nal of smoke that made Chet jump to it. Chet had actually cooked their hrpnkfast. ! And it wn a mftrvelous- ly good breakfast, too, served on the prettiest dishes she had ever een. 'What a lovely, lovely home," she sighed. "Christino mils it h rjic-stv." said Chet, not bitterly this time, but almost carelessly, as if it did n't matter what Christine said any more. "Oh, she couldn't!" cried Leona aghast. "Oh, yes, she could. Anything but fifteen rooms with six baths and a half dozen servants is a pig-sty to Christine." rhpt Rnt. down onnosite her and poured her coffee and buttered her toast and opened her eggs, while she thought out his last remarks. "Know what your boy friend did?" he said, handing her her eggs. "He forged your name and cashed that check." "He Oh, how awful! That that's criminal. He he could go to jail for that!" she cried aghast. "Serves him right," said Chet. "Mnvhp that will teach him to ap preciate girls like you. Not that holl pvpt find another as won derful as you are." "Oh, don't, please!" she begged. Chet! Don't send him to jail." "He he's just a poor boy, Please, riiott rwi't spnd him to jail." . ... ,, I'T.iatnn. He knows better, an i,t And so am I a poor boy. It isn't so awfully many years ago I was driving a truck myself. And I'd be making more money than I'm making now if I was driving a truck again. "You!" she cried in amazement. Then, "Oh, then don't punish Pike! Hell be punished enough, losing me." Then it was that Chet reached across the narrow table and caught both her hands, his eyes very glad and tender. "Then he is losing you," he said. "II'm afraid so," she sighed. "Any man who would strike a girl before he was married to Jier wouldn't make a very good hus band, would he? Anyway, if there s one man like you in the world, there's probably more, isn't there? Solemnly he shook his head, al though his eyes were dancing and ' fl' ! a i;i I , J!1 I Ml! LEAPHin,i Oll,RLLV ort i . InEIR. KMEES DOM1 n v s A bed ' rillH-BkLLr- witl BE.CAM XJrtVI . REAL OH K ROD K A. BRIPE -TWt fBACKS CLEAR , m WHtW M A. BOX At(t Bo0A a smile was tugging at his lips. "I'm absolutely and positively the only one in capitivity." 0 oh!" she said thoughtfully, worriedly. "Thinking about marrying some one like me?" he asked. Quick crimson added a new color to the poor little bruised face, but she met his eyes bravely, and nodded. "I never knew men could be as wonderful as you are," she ex plained, half under her breath. "They can't, Leona," he teased her. "There's only one of me and you'd better marry me. Then you'll have the original model and not a copy." "But you're already married," she protested, her eyes startled and shy, her whole bearing begging him not to tease her. "I won't be loner. Christine will see to that. Will you marry me as soon as the divorce )s over.' Wed Viuvp monpv pnoueh to live in this apartment, and keep the car for a while, anvwav. and this depression Ciin't last forever. But we couldn't do much splurging around at night clubs and theaters." Tt wns like reudinir. a pace of print to read the expressions that chased themselves over her startled little face. And Chet watched her think it out with tender amusement "Will you?" he repeated. SVio nndiled thnt crimson tide a nprmanent color now. Then he was beside her on the little iade ereon bench and four minute ce-c-s were forgotten. Gently he put his arms about her and felt her bare white arms that the sleeves had slipped back from go about his neck. Her cheek was pressed close to his for a moment and then he found hor lips and found upon them an ecstasv of delight he had never dreamed of. Found there the sheer, hlindinir bliss that he had said only Inst, niirht he didn t believe existed Found there a foretaste of an un known paradise. TViot kHp hnd found it. too. he read in her wide, startled eyes when at last he could break that amaz in .nntrt lonr pnoutrh to look into her eves. 'Anything like Pike's kisses .' ne asked jealously. Speechless, she shook her head still with that dazzled, newborn llovelight in her eyes. "Want more samples before you decide to marry me?" he teased her softly, happily. "Yes! No! I mean Oh. Chet! Do vou really want me? Just a poor little dumh stenographer who didn't know imitation from real?" "You know the difference now Starting Next Week - -"SPRING FLOWERS" By SUSAN DULAIN - - another Interesting Serial . . . packed with Unusual Events! A beautiful young girl, whose differ ence and lack of personal charm are caused by lack of romance, is thrown with the town's wealthy and most handsome young an ... AND THE SPARK OF RO MANCE IS KINDLED! A beautiful story, in another of the short series kind. TRANSACTIONS IN Real Estate (As Recorded to Monday Noon Of This Week) don't Vou?" "Oh, ves! Chet I I just about worship vou!" "Ynn sweet babv ' he murmur ed, gathering her So close that she could scarcely breathe. "I think, maybe, between us, we can dis cover what love really is." "I know." she told him quickly. "It's -it's always taking the pun ishment and giving the other all the good things." "Like you did with Tike." "Like you did with Christine," she flashed to his defense. "Oh, Well. You give me the de votion vou were wasting on like, and I'll give you what I was wnst- ing on Christine." "And lots of kisses," she inter rupted happily. And a long, long time after that, he remembered that he hadn't nn- swered that. 'And lots of kisses," he promised her. It was Leona who cooked the- breakfast they really ate. And Leona stayed on there m Chet's apartment until her eye was fit to present to n curious world, and Chet went back to his borrowed apartment in the Hotel Perique, when he was so sleepy he couldnt stay awake any longer, Hut he came over every evening. It didn't even matter that when she went back to the office she found another girl in her job, for Christine was rushing the divorce through the courts with a speed that only wealth and importance could have mnnaged. And oven that wasn't fast enough for Chet, who fumed and fretted with an impa tience that delighted Leona, be cause the day was so long in com ing when they could be married and really, actually belong to each other forever and ever. And Chet didn't do anything to Beaverdam Township W. L. Thompson, et ux. to Chas. L. Sheppard, Jr. Julia Morgan to H. A. Osborne. R. D. Gaddus to James A. Sisson. J. L. Smathers. et ux, to Howard Cole. J. B. Thompson, et ux. to F. T. Ball. J. L. Johnson, et ux, to Fred T. Bail. M. C. llurkins. et ux. to Noel C. Fisher. J. L. Swafford. et ux. to Amanda Swafford, et ux. Mary W. Freeman to W. W. awe, et ux. Julia E. Morgan to Clarence E. Stromr. J. Medford Williams, et ux, to i,viiuan tviMiaiua, w UA, Lecu township H. R. Mauney, et ux, to T. J Mauney. rivda Tnwnchin Crockett Hi Medford to Wayne Medford. N. D. Robinson, et ux. to W. A. Spark, et ux. A. E. Warren, et ux. to C. Huirh Rogers, et ux. Ivy Hill Township Roy Bradley, et ux, et al, to Pike for fnrcino. rtiut oioV PiVe had trouble enough returning the money to tne man who had cashed it for him. So Chet let it go at that, and took his reward for his leni ence in Leona's soft arms. (THE END) Reed Parion. I Pigeon Township Harley Wells, et ox, to L A. McLain. Waynesville Township Lee Jordan, et ux. et al. to Robert Scates. H. B. Milner, et ux, to Arthur Coward, et ux. Robert Scates. et ux. to R. L. 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