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FOURTH INSTALLMENT SYNOPSIS . . . Ellen Church. 17 years old, finds herself alone in the world with her artist mother's last warning ringing in Ijer ears, to "love lightly." Of the world she knew lit tle. All her life she had lived alone with her mother in an old brown house in a small rural community. All her life, first as a new baby, then a bubbling child, then a charm ing yonug girl . . . she had posed for her talented mother who sold her magazine cover paintings through an art agent in the city . . . Mrs. Church's broken life . . . the unfaith ful husband, his disappearance . . . and after seventeen years of silence announcement of his death was at last disclosed to Ellen. The news of the husband's death killed Mrs. Church . . . Ellen, alone, turned to the only contact she knew, the art agent in New York. Posing, years of posing, was her only talent so she was introduced to two leading art ists, Dick Alven and Sandy Macin tosh. Both used her as a model and both fell in love with her . . . But Ellen, trying to follow the warped philosophy of her mother to "love lightly", resists the thought of love. Her circle of friends is small, artists and two or three girl models. NOW GO ON WITH TH~ STORY. ' "How," he asked, a trifle gruffy, "about love? Doesn't that enter in to your scheme of things? Doesn't it, at all?" Ellen met his eyes with a chill lit tle expression of withdrawal. "No, Dick," she said, "it doesn't Not at all!" The man's hands dropped quite suddenly to his sides. He turned sharply away. ♦ . * .* "It's the party of the year, The Six Art Ball" Sandy had told Ellen, a few days later. "The one mad revel of twelve whole months. I don't know exactly, why I'm asking Look! 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"Take me or leave me, Sandy," she told the young man. Indifferently. '"And if you don't take me, get it out of your head that I'll spend the evening home alone, bending over the washtubs." Sandy groaned. It was a stage groan. "That's the deseprate point of the whole thing," he told her. "If I don't take you, some hated rival will. And I'll have to watch you as you have a good time, instead of being the guy who's giving it to you—the good time, I mean! Really, I don't know why I want to give you good times, Ellen, or why anybody else does, for that matter. Except Dick, who is, of course, an idealist. You never give anything in return. Not even friendship. How do you get that way, child?" Ellen was posing for an illustra tion. She was, in the illustration a young mother. Sitting before a fire place, was a real one—Sandy's stu dio was deluxe. But the baby was a round-headed, flat-faced doll. Holding it, Ellen looked like a small girl playing house. But she didn't sound that way, when she spoke. "I play a system, Sandy." she said. "A system that I'm beginning to think is fool-proof. I take every thing that comes my way, and give the least possible of anything back. If I find that anyone is too inter esting to me, I cut that person off the list. The fact that I'm willing to go to the Six Arts with you, Sandy, shows how you stand in my— shall we say, affections?" Sandy sketched deftly for a mo ment. "Sometimes, baby," he said at last, "I'd like to smack you. Other times I have a wild desire to take you up in my arms and kiss a little warmth into you. It might as well be me, you know. It will be somebody, some day." Ellen thought back to her talk with Dick. Thought back to other talks, with other men. Thought back to a lost hour, in a garden. And then answered. "It won't be somebody, some day!" she answered, and her mouth was clamped into a firm straight line. "Anyway," he said, after quite a long while, "you'll go to the Six Arts Ball with me. Won't you, darlin'?" Ellen sat down again in front of the fireplaee, and lifted the doll in her arms, and laid her soft cheek against the round top of its hard porcelain head. Over that head her eyes surveyed Sandy almost somber ly. But she nodded her assent. For, after all, it was a good party—the Six Arts Ball, A good party! • ♦ ♦ Streamers of colored silk and snapping balloons, and hurrying waiters—their black suits standing out, like blots of ink, against vivid- : ness of the crowded room. The; steady, savage thud of the Jazz bands i —two of them!—at either end of the long dancing space. And slender , girl bodies in costumes of flame and rose and green and yellow. Houri , and Apache, Columbine and Civil , THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA War belle, Spanish dancer and Rus- I sian peasant. All jumbled together in a noisy, rhythmic, barbaric com position. Here an author —known for his gift of laughter—sat in a box. There a great painter. Making the world,! and himself forget that he had once won the Prix de Rome. Here a woman whose voice raised in song brought tears to the eyes of thou- j sands. There a financier who could j toss of a check for a million dollars ■ without giving it more than a pass-. ing thought. Being bohemian, and having his own rough bit of going! for a few hours out of a crowded; life. Streamers of colored silk and pop ping balloons and perfume and jazz. ! And the throb of feet, the buzz of j voices. And in the middle of it all, Ellen Church. Dancing with Sandy and smiling her chill, provocative little smile across his shoulder, at any maif who passed. Ellen advertising her slim, lovely legs in the brief costume of a page boy. Ellen with one of her much-in-demand hands spread out, on Sandy's broad back, so that other artists might see how pretty her fingers were, and remem ber them if ever they had a nail polish account to do. Sandy—he was a pirate. Nothing startling about that. But cool, with a tattered shirt, and picturesque with gilt ear hoops and a scarlet silk handkerchief, and the eternal Van dyke. 'S'omebody'll cut the whiskers off, before the evening's over," Ellen had warned. "And then what a Samson you'll turn out to be!" "I'm a Samson* anyway, as far as you're concerned!" Sandy had as sured her. "Sandy S. Samson, that's I'm. Without either strength or will, or of character!" Ellen laughed and danced with Sandy, and was glad that he danced well. The cartoonist tapped Ellen on the shoulder. "Yessir, you're my baby!" he told her, and Ellen danced with him. He relinquished her ruefully when the financier, following him, demanded i an introduction. Ellen danced with the financier' and tried not to hate his hot, fat; fingers on her bare arm. After all those same fingers could write a check for a million dollars. The author who built laughter spied her in the crowd, and forgot that he had lost his own girl. The evening went on. Ellen had removed the cap that was a part of her brief page costume. "You're not a page—you're less than a paragraph!" Sandy had thrown at her once, from over the heads of the dancers who passed to and fro between them. She had removed the cap because her head was warm and tired, and ached a little. As she danced passing from hand to hand, like some pretty, mindless toy, she felt' suddenly older than all the rest of! the room, put together. Suddenly! more weary, more tired. Certain' remarks that she had made to Gay came back to her. Also certain j things that her mother, three years ! ago had said. "I'm different from the rest of, you!" she had told Gay. And her mother had said — "I'd rather have you sit on the window-sill, separated from the world by bars . . . than be jostled by the crowd . . Ellen, with hot steaming bodies and sharp elbows and sliding ankles all about her, was realizing that if one is different, one can be a part of the crowd—and, at the same time, be sitting on the window-sill! The most popular illustrator of the year claimed Ellen for a dance, tried to keep her for more. A radio star, prancing by, crooned some thing about "I kiss your hand, mam'selle—" only she didn't give him a chance to do it. An actor —world weary, with four wives in his background, started to ward her, across the floor. Started as one who seeks, who thirsts, after youth. Ellen, seeing him come, felt a swift nausea. "I'll find Sandy," she said. "He's got to take me home. I'm tired of being pawed, and patted, and treated like something that's ch e a p . What—" But she never finished the thought, or the sentence. For "sud denly he had loomed up, put of the crowd in front of her. A tall young man, with wide shoulders and the brown of the sun on his face. And looking out of that brown, the bluest eyes that Ellen had ever seen. He smiled down at her —very far down —for a moment, before he took her, unresisting, and without even so much as a by-your-leave, from the arms of her partner. Ellen, with something odd and disturbing In her heart, with something hot pounding against temple and wrist, smiled back at him. Ellen's partner, scarcely able to stand, but extremely voluble withal, protested. "Say, how'd you get that way?" questioned the partner. "I had- this waltz with the lady—" But the young man, still smiling down at the tousled, curly top of Ellens head, danced away. Ellen, feeling his arm grow tight about her body, knew that she should have re sisted that embrace. Even during the free and easy atmosphere of the Six Arts Ball, there were certain conventions especially when the conventions concerned the tawdry business of picking up! She should have made some sort of a protest, whether it rang true or not. But oddly, it wasn't possible for Ellen to draw away from this young man's clasp. Not that he was holding her In a rudely tight manner—but be cause she seemed to lack the strength, both physical and mental, to draw away! Why, she had scarce ly the strength to speak, to answer coherently his opening sentence. As she made an effort, a real effort to find words, her mind was saying jumbled things. 'Miracles don't happen," her mind was saying. "They can't hap pen! One didn't allow them to hap pen." The young man was speaking again. Repeating himself, as if he couldn't think of anything else to ■say. "Where," he questioned again, "have you been? All of this time!" Ellen had caught hold of her speeding emotions. She found it possible, at last, to answer in kind. "Why," she answered, "I've just been sort of waiting around. Know ing that if I waited long enough, you'd find me. Knowing that—" The thrill that shot down all through her spine, to the very soles of her feet. It was because the young man had kissed her. Kissed her ever so gently upon the very top of her head. Ellen pulled back in his arms to survey him. She'd put him in his place! She'd be cool and scornful and— But her eyes didn't reflect scorn! They dwelt instead upon that brown face. Upon the crumpled Pierrot ruff, under the brown square chin. They rested a mo ment upon the broad shoulders. And then they traveled up, to be lost in the blue, blue gaze that was bent down upon them. To be lost for so long that the young man's voice, sounding huskily, brought with it the crash that comes at the end of a falling-through-space dream. •"Let's cut away from this place," ~ /W\ FINE |fjSsS| REPAIRING ® Two Expert S Repairmen In Charge O. W. STEELE Jeweler E. Main St. Elkin, N. C. TIUJSSES TURNER DRUG CO. ELKIN, N. C. /?/?/? coTds 000 FEVER first day Liquid - Tablets HEADACHES Salve-Nose Drops in 30 minutes After something hap pens it's too late to in sure! Let us provide you adequate protection TODAY! Better be SAFE than SORRY! Paul Gwyn INSURANCE ALL LINES Security Service Phone BSB Elkin, N. C. * said the voice. "See? We —we've got to get acquainted, you and I. And we can't in this mad house." Ellen danced in silence half way round the crowded floor. She needed that breathing space of silent mo tion, in which to think. CONTINUED NEXT WEEK Porks were first used in 1220. Many people were opposed to their use at first. Sale of Land for Taxes By order of the Commissioners of the Town of Elkin, I will sell at public auction at the courthouse door at Dobson, N. C., for cash, on Monday, December 3, 1934, at 2 o'clock P. M., the following town taxes and special school district taxes for the year 1933. Cost on each name $1.30. DIXIE GRAHAM, 11-30 Town Tax Collector. Chas. R. Alexander, Pers. Prop. $1.30 L. E. Aldridge, Pers. Prop $3.25 Raymond Allen, 1 lot. Highway No. 26 $15.63 American Play Yard Co., Pers. Prop. H. L. Arnold, 2 lots, Gwyn Ave. and Bridge Street $23.61 Lewis Barber, 3 lots W. Main, Elk Spur St., Gwyn Ave $54.00 H. H. Barker," 4 lots, W. Main, Elk Spur, Surry Ave $164.50 Robey M. Bates, 3 lots, North Elkin T. G. Baugus, Pers. Prop $1.68 Mrs. J. H. Beeson, 1 lot, W. Main St $72.15 J. A. J. Blackburn, 1 lot, Sunset Park $10.60 Treely Blevins, Pers. Prop $1.45 J. A. Blevins, Pers. Prop $4.82 Blue Moon Tea Room, Pers. Prop. Carmel Billings, Pers. Prop $1.38 Paul Billings, Pers. Prop $1.49 C. N. Bodenheimer, 1 lot, Elk Spur Street $43.65 R. G. Boles, 2 lots. Sunset Park SI.BO C. K. Boren, 1 lot $5.40 W. L. Bostic, 1 lot $17.38 Boyles & Palmer, Pers. Prop. $9.40 Elmer D. Boyles, Pers. Prop $6.62 J. F. Brewer, 1 lot SIO.BO C. H. Brewer, 1 lot, Bridge and Mar ket Streets $422.50 J. Ted Brown, Pers. Prop $4.00 J. C. Brown, Pers. Prop $3.25 Mrs. Nell H. Brown, 1-9 of A. L. Hendrlx Estate $28.44 Sam W. Brown, Pers. Prop $9.63 Eula Bryant, 1 lot, W. Main St. $9.60 Jess Buelin, Pers. Prop $13.00 W. E. Burcham, Pers. Prop $12.70 Mack Burcham, Pers. Prop $1.83 S. M. Burcham, Pers. Prop SI.BB W. P. Burgiss, Pers. Prop $8.87 T. E. Burgiss, 1 lot, Elk Spur St. Mrs. N. J. Butner, 1 lot, Elk Spur St $4.20 W. J. Byerly, 1 lot (Greenwood Property) sll.lO Noah M. Casstevens, 1 lot, W. Elkin Central Investment Co., 1 lot, Surry Ave., 1 lot Elk Spur St $60.00 Mrs. J. W. Chappell, Pers. Prop. J. W. Chappell, 1 lot, Elk Spur St. Annie and Minnie Chatham, 1 lot Surry Ave $9.00 Geo. Chatham, Jr., 1 lot, W. Main St $30.15 J. Harold Click, 1 lot, W. Main St. T. H. Cockerham, Pers. Prop $1.75 G. H. Cockerham, Pers. Prop $2.15 Mary L. Cockerham, Pers. Prop. Mrs. D. J. Cockerham, 1 lot, W. Main St $60.00 W. W. and Bertie Cockerham, 1 lot, W. Main St $49.20 L. E. Cockerham, 1 lot, N. Elkin Ella Cockerham, Pers. Prop $28.80 Fred Colhard, Pers. Prop $4.00 A. M .Collins, 1 lot, Eller St., 1 lot North Elkin $26.70 C. D. Coffey & Son, 4 lots, Bridge Si $181.71 L. R. Combs, 1 lot, Ridge and Spring Sts 1 $17.78 C. A. Cooper, Pers. Prop $1.75 V. G. Cosifas, Pers. Prop $5.65 M. M. Couch, 1 lot, Shoe Factory Mrs. Ruth B. Crater, 1 lot, Bridge St $12.00 E. W. Crews, Pers. Prop $1.75 Noah Darnell, 1 lot, N. E1kin..524.95 Robert Darnell, Pers. Prop $1.40 T. M. Darnell, 2 lots, N. Elkin $40.12 Arvil Darnell, Pers. Prop $1.15 O. F. Davis, Pers. Prop $5.60 H. C. Davis, Pers. Prop $1.42 C. H. Davis, 1 lot, W. Elkin ..,$19.50 Herman Day, Pers. Prop- $2.42 W. R. Dinkins, 1 lot Sunset Park Dixie Barber Shop, Pers. Prop. $4.50 R. G. Dorsett, Pers. Prop $6.65 B. W. Douglass, Pers. Prop $2.65 W. M. Dowell, 1 lot, Bridge St. $12.00 H. V. Durham, Pers. Prop $4.38 E. M. Eldridge, 1 lot, Elk Spur St. Elkin Barber Shop, Pers. Prop. $7.50 Elkin Roller Mills, 6 lots, East Main St. and Pegram St $117.00 R. P. Eldson, Pers. Prop $12.53 Fred O. Eldson. Pers. Prop $5.80 G. E. Evans, Pers. Prop $2.15 Council Carter, 1 lot, West Elkin Mountain Park Inst., 1 lot, -West Elkin sl2 00 James Ferguson, Pers. Prop!.." $1 24 S. P. Fletcher. 2 lots, N. Elkin $22.75 Finney & Smith, 4 lots, Hendrix Heighta..„ $4.80 Noah Foard, 1 lot, N. Elkin .$18.26 Dr. R. R. Qarvey, 1 lot, Hendrix Heights $21.60 J. P. Qilliam, 1 lot, Gwyn Ave, $30.00 Mrs. Marion Oilliam, 11 acres. North Elkin $9,60 T. C. Green, Pers. Prop $2.15 E. C. drier, 1 lot, Bridge St $75.00 Parks Q. Hampton, Pers. Prop. $3.32 Lonnie Hanks, 1 lot Frank!.n and Surry Sts SBO.OO W. Fletcher Harris. Pers. Prop $6.55 Fletcher Harris 00-., 3 lota, Bridge St— - $36.00 Thursday, November 23, 1934 1 " 1 ■ ■ \Jheomafcupn 9 Ymt owa Araggwt b MlWfaiad to dwwfvltr rtfand yoar n««r m Mm «pot If |M art Mt r*ll«v«d by Cwoawtafa*. C. H. Ha.-nes, 1 lot, Chatham Park J. B. Hemric, 1 lot, E. Elkin $4-82 L. H. Henderson, 1 lot, E. Elkin Luther L. Hendrix, 1-9 Hendrix Es tate $28.44 Chas. W. Hendrix, 1-9 Hendrix Es tate $28.44 W. A. Hendrix Estate, 1-9 Hendrix Estate* $28.44 C. M. Holcomb, 3 lots Sunset Park J. Marshall Holcomb, 1 lot. Elk Spur St $28.10 Holcomb Bros. Co., Pers. Prop. Mrs. Ella Holyfield, 1 lot, E. Elkin Johnson Oil Co., 2 lots, Vine and Bridge Sts $76.20 Johnson Motor Co., 1 lot. Bridge St. R. C. Johnson, 2 lots. Main St. $6.30 J. Z. Johnson, 1 lot, Shoe Factory Road $9.40 F. A. Lineberry, 1 lot Shoe Factory Z. E. Long, 2 lots, Chatham Park Minnie H. Lovelace, 1 lot, W. Main, 1 lot, Bridge St $30.40 R. L. Lovelace, Pers. Prop $1.15 A. M. Luffman, 1 lot. Main St. $26.40 J. W. Madison Est., 1 lot, Gwyn Ave. J. H. Madison. 1 lot, N. E1kin..515.47 J. A. Marion, Pers. Prop $2.44 D. E. Marion, Pers. Prop $1.71 Mrs. D. E. Marion, 1 lot, E. Elkin G. E. Martin, 1 lot, Hospital Road I. T. Martin, 1 lot, East Elkin $6.99 Mary E. Martin, 1 lot, Chatham Park Dallas C. Martin, 1 lot, W. Elkin Martin's Inc., 3 lots, W. Main St. 1 lot Elk Spur St., 1 lot Hendrix Heights $50.85 C. G. Mathis, 3 lots, W. Main, Main. Elk Spur Sts ....SIOO.BO Mrs. J. W. Mathis, 1 lot, Highway No. 26 $4.80 Dewey G. Mason, Pers. Prop $2.50 S. O. Maguire, Pers. Prop $7.65 T. P. Mayberry, Pers. Prop $6.25 J. S. Mayberry, 1 lot, Bridge Street Mrs. Rebecca J. Miller, 1 lot, High way No. 26 $18.75 W. N. Minnish Est., 1 lot, Chatham Park $12.00 C. R. Money, Pers. Prop $1.39 Ed Murphy, 4 lots, Sunset Park SB.OO R. C. Newman, 1 lot, Shoe Factory Road $lO/75 Myra Newman. 1 lot, Sunset Park Silas Nichols, Pers. Prop $4.90 Nu-Way Cafe, Pers. Prop..; $7.50 Claude Oliver, Pers. Prop $2.60 Loyd Pardue, Pers. Prop $2.90 Mrs. J. W. Pardue, 1 lot, East Elkin Mrs. Mamie Pardue, 5 lots, N. Elkin W. F. Pardue, Pers. Prop $4.67 John Park, 1 lot, Gwyn Ave $40.85 •W. B. H. Pegram, 1 lot, East Elkin Mrs. M. A. Pegram, 1 lot, East Elkin Shirley Pegram, 6 acres, Pegram Land $4.80 L- O. Phillips, 1 lot, Highway No. 26 $2.20 Floyd Phillips, Pers. Prop $3.65 Mrs. Vetra Poindexter, 1 lot, W. Main St $72.00 W. R. Powers, Pers. Prop $2.50 Richard Pruitt, Pers. Prop $2.80 Dr. B. E. Pulliam, Pers. Prop. ...$6.85 Mrs. J. W. Ratledge, 1 lot, Bridge Street $7.95 W. O. Ray, 1 lot, Chatham Park P. C. Reich. 1 lot, West E1kin..573.80 P. P. Roberts, 1 lot, Church Street Ray Russell, Pers. Prop $2.15 Sales Cash Store, Pers. Prop $9.00 Mrs. F. J. Settle, 2 lots, Shoe Fac tory $9.00 W. H. Settle, Pers. Prop $1.54 A. W. Shore, 1 lot, Main Street..sß.7o Walter Sloop, Pers. Pr0p.....-; $2.35 Raymond Smith, Pers. Prop $2.15 J. F. Smith, 1 lot, Shoe Factory Road... $2.40 Mrs. W. J. Snow, 1 lot, Gwyn Ave. „ $36.00 Mrs. R. H. Spainhour, 1 lot, Chatham Park $12.10 DeWltt Sparks, Pers. Prop $4.00 H. J. Steele, 9 lots, N. E1kin...517.58 C. W. Steele, 1 lot, Bridge 5t...524.00 Hasten Swaim, Pers. Prop $1.97 M. P. Swaim, 2 lots $2.40 J. C. Swaim, 1 lot Greenwood Place Dr. J. T. Taylor, 1 lot, Elk Spur St. Mrs. Matt Thompson, 1-9 Hendrix Estate $28.44 Everett Tidline, Pers. Prop $4.00 J. A. Vanhoy, 1 lot, Cedar St $9.60 Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., 1 lot, East Main Street $93.75 J. W. Wagoner, Pers. Prop SI.BB V. WhaUey, 1 lot. Elk Spur Street „ $8.90 Mrs. Ada Whitaker E6t., 1 lot. Elk Spur Street $15.00 C. E. Whitaker, Pers. Prop $1.53 J. O. Willard, 4 lots, Traphill Road Annie B. Wilson, 1 lot, Chatham „ Part $69.45 R. C Wiles, 1 lot, Chatham Park , $9.08 J. R. Windsor, 2 acres, Hendrix Heights. $35.05 R. C. Woodruff. 7. lot, N. Elkin $24.85 James Young, Pers. Prop $4.75 Carl Young, 1 lot, Elk Spur St. $27.25 SCHOOL DISTRICT J. 8. Greenwood, 1 lot on Church St. and Yadkin River Farm $10.40
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