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ffo HAVI KEEP! hr King Uatm, Srmfort* )ANE ABBOTT | j U-r^R thirty-nine f8** very soon after. He Bill c®"16. fioweis down al the *b0,t bed. bent and kissed : rf lone kiss on the- lips. Pe' ...,d not hft her eyes to jae "°L See the disappoint : &ce- ‘ c convinced must be rent sbe„ e She held to his ,’vc you seen the baby?” iii- j-]j have a look at it -Sot 1 ; o,,. Everts says it’s tea 1 * a!1d hands and all e-fee'- jfs enough to know it snu i"> And that you’ve through all right!” 10 j „nt -tone home and slept B«had ‘e“ lad told him to. 5 framed nerves and his in :ver I! habit of saying littie his feelings were deepest ok-," voice a strained, clipped avc his 5 /irnnoed hsnd. s' K"iie - 4,1? W'ni Nellie? 4,vas my mother s name. Jb ‘Vs so But wasn t r really Tn r- Helena or Eleanor? "f.s a nickname.” f-VoSNellie.” She added: “It’s ,v b*^y is darling!' Bill said with r He put his lips to her ! , -And vou may call i’ any VOU like. 1 wish I d known '' bad it in mind, though; Moth r go /'-'ADYW/TH} ► | ! Set sail for sheer enjoyment ■ with Ginger . . . with spar- ^ kling Canada Dry Ginger ■■ Ale. Iti dewy-cool goodness P perks up spirits, refreshes H jour taste! Go steady with | Gin(er - go steady with 1 Canada Dry! | ■ / —t * y go (STEADY WTTH CANADA // e* asked me about it. She’s tele phoning round for- me. She sent her love and she’ll be in to see you after a day or so She insists that I stay there until you come home so I went to the apartment, put it in order ana locked up—” Diane realized, now, the tired ness in his voice. She glanced fully at him. “Bill, you look a lot worse th-an I feel! Was it terrible for you?” He laughed. “Pretty, bad. But i s over. Doctor Everts says you 11 be sitting up in ten days, home by the end of the second week. Say, Di, mother suggests we get Annie Harkness to take care of the baby She isn’t a grad uate nurse, but she’s good. Moth er had her for *me. And a woman v/ho’s .older like that would take a lot of responsibility off your shoulders—” “We don’t have to decide it just now, do we?” Diane countered. He thought she was exhausted Be said quickly, a little contrite ly: “No, you’re to’ rest, not think of anything.” She had expected to be bored by her enforced stay in the hospital, to hate the fussing over her. But she found it exciting; the nurses, rustling in, Doctor Everts on his calls, the internes, even the clean ing women, only emphasized the importance of this miracle of the hie Kv Flowers came, box after box, cards, gifts. Seemingly the whole world wanted to pay tribute. One afternoon Lois opened the door wide enough to toss a tissue wrapped package to the bed. “Scared to come closer, Di! I’m allergic to the stork!” Vanished. Roses from Danny, two dozen long-stemmed roses. Mrs. Arden expressed her hap piness that it was over and both Diane and the baby so well. Bill’s father held her hand, spoke proper words of congratulation Paula came, kissed her. “I’m glad you’re calling the baby for your mother. It’s pleased Joe.” Diane saw tears in Paula’s eyes as there had been in her father’s. Bill came in every evening, tele, phoned to her every morning. But Diane’s high moment was when the nurse laid the baby beside her to feed. Then the white-walled room became a cloister, shutting them in together. The first time she had felt some terror at being left alone with so helpless a bit of humanity, but that was soon lost in her joy of possessing it. Soon she dared tighten her arm about it hold the small hands in hers, cuddle the pink feet, bury her lips against the sweet-smelling golden fuzz of hair. The warmth of its body one with hers, the baby would sleep and Diane would lose herself in bliss ful dreaming. No troubled thoughts could touch her now; they belonged to a world outside this she held in the curve of her arm. They belonged to that other self she had been. This self, born with the baby, had nothing to do with them. It was, she thought, one still afternoon, the metamotphis she had expected to happen to her when she married Bill. She smil ed, remembering that Paula had said it was good for a girl to have a baby because then she had something to think about besides herself. She had Nellie, now. It would be Nellie first, always. • She believed she was thinking of the baby when Bill again brought up thg matter of engag ing Annie Harkness and she op posed it. “If Nellie should be sick—we ought to have a trained nurse, at least for a while, Bill.” “Annie’d know what to do, as well as any trained nurse.” With patience Diane marshalled other arguments. "It's very im portant to keep up the hospital training — Annie’s old-fashioned, she’d want to rock Nellie!” “You can tell her not to,” said Bill, as patient as she “Bill, don t think I'm stuooorn or just want to have my way! I really feel very firm about this.” Firm, because she was thinking of Nellie. “I want to take Miss Tier ney home with us. She’s that pret ty nurse who came in yesterday when you. were here. She adores Nellie — says Nellie’s the best behaved baby in the nursery. And it’s that training that is so im portant—” He yielded, but net without say ing: “If you 'don’t know anything more about her than that she s pretty—we know everything about Annie! ” J. Emmet came again and DonC IK**' pictorES two p*°eS °r__ SATURDAY EVENING POST I JUNE 14 ISSUE An Advertisement to AM America nT-'kSml ^eat* about them! Then ask yourself ’ether Quonsr. ts aren’t the answer to your build* th nqu'rements. Well be glad to help you adapt' set *Vu?”set 20> Quonset 40, Quonset 24 or Quon uhiple to your particular needs. Just reach pllone, or write. "ATTHES steel products corp., ^*•1 Castle Street Phone 2-1465 P- 0. Box fiOft Wilmington, N. C. -ossea a iormaj muring uocument into Diane’s hauds. “There’s that house you wanted! Though why is beyond me. It 11 fall to pieces, come a strong wind.” “But Dad—” Diane looked only startled. I told you I’d give you some thing when the baby was born, didn’t I?” There was some hurt in his voice, and coming into his eyes She put her arms around his neck, pulled his head down to hers. You’re an old precious! But you spoil me so. A little gift! Just an estate!” “You can hav6 mere, any time you say the word,” he muttered. She unfolded the paper when he went away. Its legal phrasing was bewildering, but she gathered from it that Diane Tarrell Arderi was owner, now, of “said land and buildings thereon.” She had thought of a little boy that afternoon! But—a passion of love swept her — Nellie would swim in that swimming hole swing from those trees, climb the sheds, run down the Jong lane, over the meadows! Grow sturdy in that pure air— . “I’m thinking of Nellie,” she said to Bill, that evening. The deed was In Bill’s hands. He had read it anr. she had told him of the afternoon she had found the house, of how much she had liked it, speaking a little ur gently against the stiffening she saw on his face, the way his fin gers crushed the paper in them. And it would be wonderful for the baby, out there. I’m thinking of her!” “You know how I fel about not living on your father! You might have made that clear to him!” “Bill, I couldn't refuse it!” But she could not tell Bill why. It con cerned her father too intimately. She finished: “It isn’t so far out that you’d mind the driving. Only a little more than eight miles—” Bill put the deed down on the bed. “It happens that three miles out the Duell Road is the county line. If I run for District Attorney I have to keep my residence in this county. So, Di, I’m afraid you must rent this newly acquired property of yours, or return it to your father.” He smiled in his re lief at this turn in the issue. “Oh,” said Diane, regretfully. Then: “But if you don’t run?” “Not a chance of that. It’s as good as settled.” But Bill was gone in a few min utes and the baby in and there was no room in Diane’s heart for disappointment. “I guess you’re glad you’re go ing home tomorrow,”’ said the nurse when she! gathered up the baby Diane did not answer with the promptness most patients gave to the amiable question. Her eyes swept the small room a little wist fully. Then she said: “As long as 1 have the baby!” The nurse thought that was a queer way to put it, and from a girl who, it looked, had every thing. (To Be Continued) “There is many a barnacle scratched rump in the Jap army today’’ was the classic remark ol a submarine commanding officer to his crew as all hands watched enemy troops attempting to slide over the side of their listing trans port. Mendota Ends Iceberg Search And Resumes Northern Cruise Coast Guard Cutter Fails To Locate Reported Iceberg Special to The Star USCGS MENDOTA AT SEA, NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN, June 11.—The Mendota reports the con clusion of her search for the ice berg now dubbed “Dumbo” (in a position about 1,300 miles due east of New York City). On two oc casions a patrol plane was dis patched from Argentia, Newfound land, to aid in the seardh, but all results were negative. The elusive iceberg, when reported by the SS Esso Glascow, was esti mated to be 50 feet high and 200 feet long. the position given was directly in the North Atlantic steamer track. Because of the high sea and air temperatures encountered in this area, and because of the many ships in the steamer lahes none of which reported the berg, it appears now that the berg has broken up and melted or that it was a case of mistaken identity in a fog and that it never existed. The Mendota has been ordered tc return to Argentia to refuel and to continue on the interrupted northern observation cruise, Sees Queen Elizabeth On the morning of June 7, the men on the four to eight watch were treated to a rare thrill. At about 6:30 a. m., the Queen Eliza beth, steaming westward towards New York City at 28 knots, cross ed the bow of the Mendota as the latter ship pursued her search | plan. The Queen showed the usual courtesy of the sea when she dipped her colors to the Mendota despite the distance of almost four miles. Drills Advantage was taken of the splendid weather in the Gulf Stream to run through numerous boat drills, including an abandon ship drill. The three civilian hotographers, who are aboard making a documentary film on the International Ice Patrol for the State Department, took full ad vantage and recorded everything on film. Swimming In Water 15,000 Feet Deep That afternoon, swim call was ’piped. After so long a period in the frigid waters of New England and' Newfoundland, the officrs and crew responded enthusiastically and enjoyed half hour of swimming and diving in the 63 degree water. A high diving exhibition featuring swan dives from the 35-foot high wing of the bridge was put on by Lt. (jg) David D. Fritts, USCG, 2418 Third St., N. E., Washington, D. C.; Clarence J. Barton, Radar man, third class, 1227 E. Whitner St., Anderson, S. C.; Charlie D. Davenport, fireman, firse class. Box 232, Williatnston, S. C.; and Richard A. Marchand, seaman, first class, 21 N. Clinton St., Poughkeepsie, N. Y., with no fear of striking bottom which lay some 15.000 feet below. No word concerning the Men dotas’ return to Wilmington, N. 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