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r ktsBAf, 'tm ti, mi 4- hi) tUMtciiHctrts m ' " Chapte'fS ' ' i TTILDRED need nof have wpr JjL ried for (ear her own mother would not recognize her because of the changes that had been affected opon her at the beauty salon. When she finally arrived home at the mall three room apartment she round Mrs. McNaughten in bed vith one of her attacks. Her moth er was given to severe neaaacnes hat confined her to her bed some- ames tor several days. Nerves vere the onlv cause any doctor bad Sver been able to attribute them to, nd since her mother was a bundle if nerves, that was as plausible an explanation as any. The remorse, that Hildred had duspected might visit her clamped down like a diver's helmet over per shiningly coiflfured head. She should have come straight home; f; should have been here to wait on her mother, to bathe her robbing temples, make her a cup hot tea. But Mrs. McNaughten insisted that everything that could have been done, had teen. "You snow there's nothing anyone can do for me, dear," her mother fin ished, "except leave me alone until I get over this." . "I'll leave you alone then, darl ing," she had returned, like the dutiful daughter she always had Been. . It was because of her mother's Complete dependence upon her, in rtany more ways than financially, hat Hildred had become a county aurse. The position might not pay 4s well as private nursing, but it ras steadier with an assured and regular salary. Also, since the hours were definite too, it enabled her to establish a- home for her S other. Hildred's other sister was arried and had four small chil dren so that her house was no place jor a woman who suffered as Mrs. McNaughten frequently did. Her one brother was married to a girl toho refused to have a motner-in-Jaw live with them and since this !efusal was backed up by the fact fiat the daughter-in-law' held the urse-strings, Bill, the youngest IcNaughten never held a job for ang and was perfectly willing to Chapter 4 HILDRED, being young and pretty and newly awakened to a personal interest in herself de . cided she would tell Mamie, in a i round about way, at least, some of the thoughts that had so troubled her she had been unable to rest. She said, "do you think a woman .'knows when a man loves her, j Mamie sat down, on the straight ' Or does she have to tell him show him some way. opening his blind j eyes make him wake up? Is there such a thing as taking too much for ; granted on both sides, I mean if jtrue love is really there?" ! Mamie sat down, on the straight backed chair. She said, "Don't 'know as I know what you would call 'true love,' 'cept in story books and picture shows. Never have I time for them myself. My first husband was a hard worker and I respected him and married him 'cause I knew he respected me and would help me and my family all he could. He died killed in a factory accident But I knew he loved me if he never had time for I fancy words." I Hildred nodded; she knew some ) thing of the hard struggle this rug ged woman had had. I "My second husband was no ac count drank all the time till I had Mo throw him out," Mamie con- 4 tinued. "He could sure make a . vwj iai,a aj ro (JUl uiii mill r love if ha wanted something, like je the price of another drink. Yes, ; yt gotta tU 'em, as well as ',ead 'era. It dont pay for her to let .. 'him, take her for granted, like you & jsay, never... Why don't you come right put and ask the doctor when he means to get married to you. iHildy?" She terminated her own reminiscences with a question that was almost too abrupt. "I could hardly do that," she said. "I guess you are right. I just have taken too much for granted. May be the doctor has, too. But I woke up yesterday. I'm going to do let the wife support him ihijre was noining to oe aone Doai ine situation. . GOULD it possibly be because of ber mother and Hildred's full responsibility, toward herr that Randy took the attitude he did? Hildred had take?, ft for jhl&ted that some day he would asK her to marry him. Hts day were so b W that it might take him quite a while to get around to it . m,. . Until today she hid been wiUlng to wait for that time to come. She had never doubted but that it would. Randy was not a man to" make love lightly to anyone. He was not very demonstrative. But she had taken such a hard tumble for him. He had asked her to work under him and she had accepted his offer. They had been the closest of friends, as well as co-workers ever since. They spent what free time Randy had. outside of clinic hours, together. Taking in a movie one or two nights a Week, or a drive some where there was not much, a small southern town. had to offer besides these in the way of enter tainment, and Randy drove her home each evening after the day's and came to the work was done. npnrtment every Sunday night for a cold supper and hot biscuits. He always kissed her goodnight. She had been quite satisfied with things as they were until today. Her mother was sleeping sound ly, thanks to the sedatives she had taken, when Hildred left the apart ment So that if her daughter still looked like a new person, she had not yet been given the opportunity to make such discovery. When she reached the clinic Doctor Randolph Baird was not there. He had been called out into the country to perform an emer gency operation on a child who had been coming into the clinic for over a year. Mamie Taylor, the middle aged woman who complet ed the "staff" of the clinic, though she was not a registered nurse, told Hildred that the doctor prob ably would not come in today. Hildred was disappointed. She had not wanted to see Randy so muchk it the' ifld wanted film tS see br, although she had lread tntcipited his. reaction, that hi would not notice any change In her appearance at ali UithkHMi 8ot dii&pifom? her in this. -She squttrted her eyes toettalativery bMifhi her sct clesi twisted. Mr heifd toftfc tti thick cYdO 6f. Sitae whal urtfuty gray fbwrt haw, frftm; one, sldeior iner. wnai i mean.. Tw doctor xoia me aooin that How's your arm this morn ing? Yea Jook different, not just the way you got your hair. YffO oughtnl get yourself in such fixes: you-might' not get out so eisf next time. I like it, though, what ever you did." Mamie always talked that vffif, All mixed Up. But it always cime out all right once you got it sorted. Hildred smiled and said. "I'm all right The arm aches a little. I'll try not to get shot at again at least not any way soon." At that it might not be a bad idea, as it had cer tainly started things rolling that might never have started other wise) "I lust had my hair done. Mamie do you like it this way, up oH my face? Makes me Lesslng J. rioscnvald Gives Library Of Cbil Gill 01 Ilnre Books m to fdiirself?" ihe asked. "Be, sides trying to get bumped off. I off my face? Makes me feel kind of naked, if you know whet 1 mean, with my whole forehead showing and the back of my neck and even my ears and I got some hew make-up." "You look like you're dressed enough,!' Mamie commented dryly. "There's nothing wrong with the back of your neck and it's no dis grace to show your ears. Too bad it hurts. The doctor said to tell you hold with gilding the lily but when to take it easy today. I never did your mouth is painted up that way it shows what a nice mouth it is and makes your teeth show up how white and regular they are, too," : , UTV,.. tfcanlr tmi Momlot" WiM- red was pleased in spite of herself. It was nice to have someone, even if it was only Mamie, remark these improvements. something about it though whai, 1 haven t the slightest idea. I'm going to have dinner with another man this evening." You don't sayr Mamies eyes beamed approval, from behind the spectacles "What's his name and wherever did you meet him?" "He was the man one of them who found me yesterday and drove me "back into town, Hildred ex plained. "His name is Lanier Lu cien Lanier," she finished, answer ing Mamie's last question. IF a bomb bad exploded under Mamie's chair she could not have looked more startled. lAicien Lanier, Mamie was saying, rolling the syllables over and over. "It musta been him. then, LJhey say a.sjp hoVwAhere was talk ot them opening up the big house again. She's never come back, not since the old gentleman died and she took the boy with her and went to live in foreign parts. To think it would be him you would be meet ing, Hildy. Gold doorknobs they say, in every room and the bath fixtures. ,1 got that straight enough from Martha, my oldest, when she was upstairs maid that last winter. As for the danger, I reckon that kind is gentlemanly enough when it comes to fine manners and all but if I Was as pretty and young as you, that would make me the more careful." "You might try explaining a little more," Hildred suggested, her smile deepening to show her dimple. This was one time she could not sort Mamie's sentences. "I thought, I did explain clear enough. The old gentleman that died was .Luclen'i grandpa, the one that bought up all that land, hundreds of acre and had such a fine house built square in the mid dle of it ' ! ,J , The old mafft daughter Mamie went on, in fief owh roumf aTjout way of explaining, "married a count that musta turned om a' fjo account, like they say. Shi came back home soon after and had the fey lane teds , WASHINGTON, (AP) Less itti J. RoSenwald ft'as Just given the Library 6f Congress another priceless gift at rare books'. The son of the late Julius Rosen wald, Chicago Philanthropist, be gan a fabalous collection of books fnd prints more than 25 years ago, In 1943 he deed hfs collecti6n of books to the Library of Congress and his prints to the National Gal lery. The hew group of magni ficently illuslratea bodies tfrid man pscripts will, be on display in the Library extfibttiorr hall through out this summer. Arrtftnp he books are a number bt tM volumes printed in the lRh Ce'nttrry by William CxtQ". the first. English printer. Mr. Rosen wad how has lb" of the 100 books which Caxtoft printed. One of these, the "Game and Playe of Chessi," is the second book to be printed in the English language. It is a morality book, using chess nieces, as examples and showing how their counterparts in real life should conduct themselves on a high ethical plane. Another interesting item is the world's only copy of "Helyas, The Knight of the Swan", printed in London in 1512 and said to have cost more than $10,000. There is also a 12th Century manuscript about the book of Exodus. Its brr ginal white deerskin binding is the oldest binding ih the Library 61 Congress.. Frederick R. Ooff. chief. of the rare bobks" divisiofi of tKe LfWa7y of Congress, says that Mr. Rosen wald has been able to "buy for the Library things which have bre" 'lacking for many years that thi Library has never been able to al ford." He has not piven his collet ;ons to h Alma NJ-'ter. nr private institutions, but to a)) the peon' and no strings attached,', says Mr. GOff. i Mr. Rosen'W'd's collection c prints and books is now runnirif J into millions of dollars. The rar books, which number tfell over 1 000, are kept in an air conditionef wing of his residence, near Phil' delphia, free from noise and dus ' .'Elaborate devices are set iip ii , his Alverth'orpe Gallery at .f"r. kinstown. Pa., against possible theft or fire. One of these is ah electric beam, put in operatibi through the night. If someow crosses its path an alarm rings if a neighboring village, bflngini forth the police. The annual loss Of soil fertilirj through erosion and leabhing fr estimated to be about seven time'! the amount used by crops. baby. It was. a boy. He gets ft alL the whole plantation. 'Cause the old grandpa had been so mad, about the count I reckon, he'd made his will leaving it that way. She the Countess, only stayed on until the old man died. Wonder why he'd come back now, the boy, he would be a man, of course, and if r-e's gonna stay." Hildred could not answer that, t (he rest was beginning to clear up. She knew as did everyone who ever came here about the big plantation with its groves of tur pentine and cypress, as well as rtfe various Stories rumored about the magnificent house built so far in road that no outsider had ever so much as glimpsed it There were tales, too, about the owners, but they had mostly" died down as the place had been run so long by i caretaker and the negroes employ ed to work the land. These made up a small village in themselves as they were so many in number; Now that she knew who Luclen Lanier was she was sorry she had not found some way to refuse hia invitation "1 wish I wasn't going," she told Mamie. "Once won't hurt," Mamie con soled her. "The doctor might set up and take notice if he thought vou was keeping company with the'; fikes of Lucian Lanier. If only for that, I'd go though Just this once if I was you." "It'll only be once" HildVed as sured her. That would hardly give Randy reason tor jealousy, or to believe she was being "courted" or "keeping company." Yet it might be enough to snake him up a teeny bit She wondered what Mamie meant by saying Mr. Larder's mother was a "sight in herself," That aroused Hildred's curidsify ! as much or more, than the prospect j bit seeing with her own eyes the grandeurs that, undoubtedly, rum- : art naa increased lar beyond real ity, ,; STif was decidedly glad she had bought the blue dress. , (To be continued) JWJL jAiL aAL 9fc$ The 5(!-tt badition Una should KOT be adjusted for the poUtical ambitions of any man. Kerr Scott lives in the West and ho cannot rightfully claim to be an feastem candidate. Alamance tidunty has always been considered a part of tie political wesl Thomas It Holt was electei M from Al mance County as a Westerner, the last tftrea fientcnant-govern-ors froiri the Vesf nave come from counties farther East than Scott's Alamance - Elmer Long of . Durham, S&sdjf Graham of Orange and Reg Harris of Person. ! ' In 1944, Mr. Scott, now seettrid te adVernofsfuD as a candi- dite for the East, sought support to run fer t&U S. Senator against Bob Reynolds of Buncombe as a candidate from the West. 7ilh Scot! it is aartnt iSast U West iicf is feist as the folitical whini of the moint &tatei v; ; Donyb;W'50 tradition! Vote for Charles M. John son, hisi riin in the first primary, and the only candidate Ut J to Ecst ia&iJKZsg for Gotem..-. r: :':t "Fral.r.fiv I Acllo." men Son "BiS Brother" Wood Want to Help Your "Big Brother" Woodmen ore now engaged Ih a campaign for boys. 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