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TOMORROW WLL BE FAIR Copyright, 1946. by fotcmoo d Du Jar din Distributed by King Features Syndicate ffiosQmcndVujQrdin CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Val turned over on her back and opened her eyes and stared up at the ceiling. She seemed to see Rick Colby’s face there, grave and loving, it had been Rick’s child she wanted, ior whom her empty arms would always ache. Now Rick was dead and she had never known him as a husband, she would never so know him. She would never bear Rick’s child —but she would never bear Wade’s child, either! She would get up at once Val decided, and go and tell Waae so. She flung back the covers and sat up, thrusting her long lovely legs over the side of the bed and into the satin mules that waited there. The white chiffon robe that matched her lace-trimmed gown lay across a (hair nearby and Val stood up and slid her bare arms into it, knotied the satin belt about her waist. She crossed the deep soft rug to the adjoining bath of chromium and gleaming peach colored tile. A glimpse of her face in the mirror caught her attention as she passed and automatically she lifted a hand to push the tum bled, ash-blond hair back from her forehead. But the gesture was uncalled for. Her husband’s bed was empty. His handsome, masculine room was empty, too. Wade had got up and gone to work without disturbing her. Perhaps, in a saner morning mood, he had rea lized that the talk he had pro posed would not be a good idea. Perhaps he had already known the answer she would give him and had preferred not to hear it put into words. Val leaned for a moment against the doorframe, a chill little simile curving her mouth . . . It was an unpleasant and exas perating coincidence that her day should be singularly empty. Just when she didn’t want a lot of time on her hands . . . An appointment at a beauty salon took care of what was left of the morning. She had lunch with a friend accident ally encountered there and that helped use up another hour or so. But the friend had an engagement at three. Of course Val could al ways go shopping. But there was nothing she especially wanted or needed. And she wasn’t in a shop ping mood. What she really want ed was someone she could talk to. And so she thought of Susan Pyle. Going up in the familiar eleva tor, the thought of Sherry brushed against the edges of Val’s con sciousness. She hadn’t seen her sister in weeks, she realized, nor her mother, either. But Leda wouldn’t be home at this hour; probably Sherry wouldn’t either. Besides, Val didn’t feel in the mood for her sister’s candor, her Ievel-headedness that could, at times, make a person feel like a silly flibbertigibbet. No Susan was her best bet. Susan came to the door in re aponse to Val’s ring and that alone should have been sufficient warning that Susan already had plans for the afternoon. She never let her maid off any day but Thursday unless she had some reason for not wanting her Ground. Susan’s smooth black cor onet of braids, her warm olive complexion and flashing eyes were set off by the latest thing in lounging apparel, something moss-green and wickedly enticing. She exclaimed . “Darling—what a marvelous surprise!” and drew Val in and pressed her cheek warmly against her own. Susan’s perfume wras as wickedly enticing as her gown, or even more so. Val said ruefully, “I’m afraid you’re expecting someone else.” Susan nodded. “Isn’t it foul? Why didn’t you give me a ring and I could have saved you the trouble of dropping in—today of ali days.” She smiled, pulling Val down onto a divan and offering her a cigarette. “But I can give you half an hour, pet. I’m free as a bird till three-thirty—then I’m embroiled with the most fas cinating man. Maybe I can only give you twenty-five minutes—he might be a little early and I wouldn’t want things awkward.” “I’ll leave at twenty after,” Val said a shade acidly. “Then you’ll 5e quite safe. He wouldn’t be earl *er than that would he?” “No-o ” Susan held her lighter for Val’s cigarette and her own, “he wouldn’t be any earlier than that today. But after today—” Hei shrug and smile were mean ingful. “Of course, you know you are impossible.” Susan’s complete frankness concerning her love af fairs always amused her friends. Val leaned back and smiled at her through the smoke of her cigar ette. “One of those incorrigible peo ple,” Susan smiled back. “But, pet, I have such fun! Do you blame me?” “It’s strictly your business, the way I figure it,” Val replied cold ly. “You’re so right,” Susan agreed. She asked then, “But how ere you darling? And how’s Wade? We missed you at Lucia’s party the other night.” “I missed the party,” Val said. “It was Wade’s idea not going.” “That again?” Susan asked , with an expressive lift of black eyebrow. Of course, Val had al ready confided to her some of the trouble she’d been having with Wade. “Is the poor old dear still determined to crawl into a hole and pull the hole in after him?” Val nodded. “That describes it perfectly.” “You know,” Susan said, her dark glance thoughtful, “I saw signs and portents of this yen of1 Wade’s to settle down and live like a responsible citizen long ago. It s been creeping up on him for ages.” “Why didn’t you warn me?” “But, pet, it should have been obvious to anyone. Anyone who knew him well, that is ” Susan amended. “And of course I do know Wade well—we’re such old friends. There have been little in dications—oh, for the past couple of years — that he was slowing down a bit.” “I didn’t notice,” Val said, “un til along about the time we got back from Florida. And it’s been getting worse. We have the most ghastly battles.” “Oh, well,” Susan shrugged. “That’s just a part of marriage. Sort of adds spice, don’t you think? I mean, it would be dread fully dull if people were always agreeable.” “Well, at least we’re not dull. ’ Susan exhaled smoke in two straight columns. “You know what pet? I shouldn’t be sur prised if Wade suddenly developed ARMY BOMBERS TO VISIT CITY Will Pay Wilmington Visit On Official Army Day Flights of Army bomber and fighter planes from Myrtle Eeach, S. C., will make four runs over downtown Wilmington on Monday, official Army Day, beginning at 3: 45 p. m., according to Lt. Charles J. Markus of the local recruiting sta tion. Originally scheduled to come over the city on Wednesday after noon during the parade which has been planned as part of the Army Week ceremonies, the planes will appear on Monday, as that is the only day that did not interfere with their training schedule. Lt. Markus, after making a trip to Myrtle Beach yesterday to make final arrangements, said last night that the six B-25’s and eight P 47’s are part of the 477th Composite group stationed at Lockburn Army Air Base in Columbus, Ohio, and now are training at Myrtle Beach. The fighter plane flight, led by Major Turner, will approach the city at 3,000 feet and level off to 1,000 as they fly down Front St. The unit is commanded by Col. B O. Davis. All pilots in the group are Negroes. Since many Salvation Army songs and choruses have been translated into the Zulu tongue non - Salvationist Africans may be heard singing them in the streets and fields almost any time of day. STAR GAZER ARIES L Mar. 22 M Apr. 20 21-29-32 38 41-46-61 TAUBUS & Apr. 21 ■ May 21 4- 7-20-64 65-66-74 ~ GEMINI ff May 22 ^ June 22 3- 8-10-25 28-SO CANCER ^ June 23 »» July 23 1- 2-11-23 37-47-68 LEO ?K July 24 Wi Aug. 23 . 5- 6- 9-22 24-27-72 V1K&U Aug: 24 Sept. 22 \ 34-36-51-53 ) 73-77-78 -By CLAY R. 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