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4P> MARGARET NICHOLS r S' Copyright, tfU, Mmtmt Q~mm> hkMt, DIMM* fcf «f fm*m Syndic*,. ^ CHAPTER THIRTY THREE Teresa was sitting at the clressing table brushing her golden hair. She wore a green house gown ’ with gold thread shot through it. Her eyes, startled somewhat, followed Alison from the door to the cen ter of the room. “Teresa, is Suzy Sam s child?” Teresa's hand came down slowly from her hair. She laid the brush down and turned it over. Her hand went to her hair again to pull it in place. Then she began to move the things pn the dressing table—the bot tles of perfume, the nail file, the mirror, the deep, crystal ash tray. All the while her shoulders were rigid; her face, Shining from the cream, told nothing. Then her shoulde-s squared and she brought her hands together, rubbing them. Then she sat perfectly still, her hands folded. “You don’t dare tell Sam that,” she said. • “But is she? Is she his child?” “Nicola. I always knew when she came back sorrow would come to roost.” “She’s told only me. No one else.” Teresa looked at her through the mirror. “And you’re not go ing to tell anyone, Alison. Do you hear? You’re not going to tell anyone. It wouldn’t do any good to tell. You’d only put doubts in Sam’s mind. Would you do that to him? In the first place he would not believe you and in the second he would de spise you for being a foolish, jealous girl. You’d only succeed in making a ridiculous spectacle of yourself. Anyone can make a statement like that, you know. How do I know you’re Walter Van Dyke’s daughter?” “It’s wrong, Teresa. It’s so wrong it’s infamous of you cheat Sam again. And you would not look so frightened and your mind would not be so busy working on self defense — if it were not true. Do you know what mother would have done if anyone had suggested I was not my father’s child? She’d have laughed and thought it the best joke she ever heard. You’re not laughing, Teresa. Why don’t you laugh at me? If I were you I’d have to get it out so I could start all over again. Because it will come out. There are three of us who know. Even if I don’t tell, it will come out. Years from now it’ll be too late to start all over again. Sup pose you and Sam are middle aged when it’s known. You can’t start all over again then. And Suzy! What will she think of you? You can’t leave her out of it. You’ve got to tell Sam the truth while Suzy is too Grades 1-2-3 Dripless Trucks Glean Deliveries Burner Installations Burner Service PHONE 7774 Nights—Holidays 5343 Hughes Bros. Fuel Go. Distributors Esso Fuel Oils Esso Gasoline Esso Motor Oils Abbotsford., Quality... restraint... lovely coloring... a floral bouquet unmistakably Imperial. SEE OUR COLLECTIONS TODAY GREGG BROS. 110 Market St. DIAL 9655 young to understand. You ve got to tell Suzy who her father is.” Teresa put the palms of her hands against her forehead. “You’d better go to your room.” “I’ll go to my room. But re member, you can’t go back. Years from now you can’t come back to now. You’ll never be happy. And years from now what Suzy thinks will probably matter more than anything else on earth to you. You’ll want her to love you and admire you and approve of you. Teresa, I wouldn’t want my daughter to ask me who her father is.” Teresa spread her hands across the dressing table and buried her head in them. “I told you to go to your room, Ali son. It’s late and I’m tired.” “You’ll never be happy. You’ll never have any peace. You’ve worked so hard. Don’t you want what you’ve earned? You can’t cheat Sam again and you can’t go on lying to your daughter the rest of your life. ‘Daddy . . . Your father’ . . . It will do it to them You can’t can’t do it to them. You can’t do it to yourself.” “You’re in love with Sam, aren’t you?” “Yes, Teresa. I love him and I’m in love with him. But you and Suzy are my family. You’re the only family I’ve got. I love you, too.” Teresa was motionless when she left her. In th* morning she old An nette she would not be home for dinner. She did not wait for Annette’s pleasantly lifted fea tures to fall because she would have to endure the cold with Suzy in the afternoon. All through that unending day she wondered how she could re turn to the house tonight and see Sam and Teresa and Tere sa still pretending. Flight sug gested itself. Living with Tere sa had become unbearable. But you had to buy a train ticket to somewhere and somewhere at the moment was exactly no where. The sun made' one of its rare appearances that day. As she came out of the business school it seemed to strike her eyes. People were moving along the street, but she had no place to go. Recalling Tim’s “too much time,” she began to walk slow ly. But no one expected anyone to walk slowly. They looked at you as though you were mad. Perhaps I am, she thought. Perhaps I dreamed it. But no, this is no dream. Last night was no dream. Nor is today. Sam’s car is parked before the house. It’s there now, Sam and Suzy will have their play after her walk and Teresa will come home. She’ll change into some thing seductive and she and Sam will have their cocktails and look at the child. Perhaps Sam will think, “This is my former wife and this is my child and this is where I belong. I want to see my daughter grow up and Teresa is her mother. And Teresa has changed. No less provocative, but softer. Kinder and older. She’s beauti ful and exciting and intelligent and lonely. I’m alone and lone ly, too.” Were these his thoughts to night? But what of love, Sam? Love, so maligned, so exalted, so little understood. His eyes were so filled with iife and his thoughts and feel ings. But wasn’t it kinder to see them made empty for a lit tle while now than later? Be kind to him, Teresa. Be honest. You must tell him. Only you can tell him. Don’t cheat him again. Don’t let the years accumulate over your lies. They’ll consolidate into one big one and that will be the es sence of your life. Perhaps Sam and Suzy will pity you if they find out. And pity is worse than anything. Pity is not for you, Teresa. In a shop window she saw her lips moving. She walked away quickly and turned the next cor ner and walked until she came to a theater. She did not know what picture was showing, but she went in. The darkness made her anonymous. It was dark and cold when she came out. Teresa and Sam and Suzy were having their des sert now. The candles were lighted, revealing the new gold in Teresa’s hair, her firm white arms, her high breass. Suzy was eating greedily. She always ate desserts greedily. Sam was thinking of a cigaret. Annette v/as moving around the table. One of her shoes always squeaked a little. Alison faced the wind. There were lots of people on the street. They looked into the shop windows and uttered ex clamations and groaned about the prices. They stopped and told one another their troubles —their colds, their boy still in the Philippines, their boy friend from Seattle, no nylons yet. America marches on in its lit tle people wrapped up in mil lions of individual little worlds. She was hungry. She went in to a restaurant and ordered soup and coffee. Then she light ed a cigaret and looked at the clock on the wall. Her chest felt congested. If she went back now she would only have to stick her head briefly into the living room and say, “Hello. I’m go ing right up. Hello, Sam. Good night,” and climb the stairs to her room. Was the living room filled with throbbing music to night? You set a good stage, Te resa. Food and wine and mu sic. Did you buy a new dress today to wear for Sam tonight? You set an alluring trap, Tere sa, and bait it with another man’s child. The street on which Teresa lived was shadowy and still. Yes, there was Sam’s car, still loyal, still muddy. The .yellow silk curtains were drawn. Suzy slept and Sam and Teresa were in the living room. She lifted the knocker and dropped it. She felt as unwel come as a beggar and a little sick. Sam opened the door. It was true what she had been think ing. His near-black eyes were full of life and his thoughts and feelings. They searched her face, no, examined it so gladly that she thought there was no secret she could ever keep from him. He was glad to see her. The warm excitement in his eyes told her so. (To Be Continued) GROWERS WARNED ON DAMPING-OFF Dr. Mitchell Jenkins Ad vises Immediate Use Of Fermate Drench Lettuce growers of the Cape Fear valley were advised today by Dr. Mitchell Jenkins, horti culturist in charge of the vege table Research laboratory here, to use the Fermate drench for control of damping-off in plant beds as soon as the beds are seeded and the plants begin to emerge. He predicted damping off may be more severe than usual this year because of the wet weather that has prevailed during much of the fall seaosn. The drench recommended by Dr. Jenkins is made by mixing one pound of Fermate with 100 gallons of water. The mixture is applied at the rate of one gallon to each two square yards of bed area. And ordianry wa tering can may be used to ap ply the drench or it may be sprayed through a coarse spary nozzle. Dr. Jenkins says it should he applied as soon as the plants begin to come up and once each week thereafter until the plants are ready to set in the field. The treatment must be started before the disease appears, he warns, as it is not effective aft er damping-off has begun to kill the plants. Other Steps Other steps recommended to help in the control of damping off include treating the seed be fore planting with either sper gon or cuprocide, and locating the bed where it will be well drained and exposed to sunlight as much as possible. Seed should be planted rather thinly but evenly. Dr. Jenkins recommends that growers have their soil tested for acidity and that they apply dolomitic limesone or basic slag to remedy the acidic con dition if indicated. Application of limestone should be well in advance of planting time if pos sible, he says. Varieties of lettuce most adaptable for this area are Im perial 847 and Great Lakes varieties, according to the hor iculturist. JURY DEBATES WEST WILL CASE WITHOUT REACHING DECISION NEW EERN, Nov. 14 — W— A Superior court jury de liberated three and a haif hours without reaching a verdict to day in the suit brought by Mill ard Stanely West of Wilming ton, Ohio, to break the will of his father, James M. West, mil lionaire bus line executive. Judge J. Paul Frizelle re cessed court late this afternoon until 9:30 a.m. tomorrow. The trial began Oct. 6. West was left only $100 in the will. His stepmother and her daughter were left the bulk of the $1,500,000 estate in a trust fund. The younger West con tended his father was mentally incompetent when the will was made. REV. EDWARDS TO BID FAREWELL SUNDAY TO FIFTH AVENUE CHURCH The Rev. J. R. Edwards, only local Methodist minister to be moved by the recent Confer ence meeting assignments, will preach l^|s final sermons at the Fifth Avenue Methodist church here Sunday morning and eve ning. Pastor of the Fifth Avenue Methodist church for the past two years, the Rev. Edwards came here from Clinton where he was pastor of the Clinton Methodist church, and goes to Roanoke Rapids where he has been appointed pastor of the First Methodist church. HIGHWAY DEATHS DROP 9 P R CENT North Carolina Has 1,050 Accidents During First Nine Months Of Year RALEIGH, Nov. 14—<*)—Dur ing September, 79 persons were killed and 546 were injured in 1,050 traffic accidents on North Carolina streets and highways, bringing the total traffic count for the first nine months of this year to 594, Col. L. C. Rosser, commissioner of motor vehicles, said today. Rosser said this was a nine per cent decrease in fatalities and a 12 per cent increase in accidents over September, 1946, when 87 persons were killed and 88 were injured in 897 traffic accidents. The September report, how ever, showed an increase in fa talities over August, when 63 persons were killed and 555 were injured in 1,046 acidents. Rosser said that during Sep tember, 26 persons were killed in motor vehicle collisions; 23 by motor vehicles running off roadway; 19 by motor vehicles hitting pedestrains; five by colli sion between motor vehicle and bicycle; and one by a motor ve hicle colliding with train. Five people were killed in miscel laneous accidents. Seven Children Of the total, seven were chil dren under 14 years of age. three were stricken while riding bicycles; two, while playing in the roadway; and two, pas sengers in cars. Rosser said the September fa talities showed a 40 per cent in crease in motor vehicle-bicycle fatalities; and a 32 per cent de crease in pedestrian fatalities over September, 1946. In urban areas there were 396 traffic accidents which took the lives of 12 persons — four of whom were pedestrians — and injured 115 others — 34 were pedestrians. Urban fatalities showed a 25 per cent decrease over September, 1946. In rural areas, 67 persons were killed and 341 were injured as a result of 654 accidents. A six per cent decrease was noted in rural fatalities over September of last year. Harnett Leads During the month, Harnett county led in fatalities, with six persons killed. Buncombe was second with five; and Cumber land, Mecklenburg, Wake and Wilson had four traffic deaths each. Moore, Robeson and Vance had three each. Ten counties reported two fa talities each: Alexander, Cataw ba, Cleveland; Durham, Forsyth, Johnston, Lee, Perquimans, Rockingham and Yadkin. AIR FORCES VETERAN PILOT WILL ATTEMPT NEW ALTITUDE MARK Raymond Schlachter, Lexing ton, Ky., pilo» and Air Forces veteran, will attempt to break the world’s altitude record for his type plane in a flight from Bluethenthal field in the next RADIO | WMFD 1400 On Your Dial -TODAY— 8:30—Coffee Club 7:00—UP News 7:05—Coffee Club 7:30—Musical Clock 7:55—North Carolina Highlights 8:00—News with Martin Agronsky 8:15—Musical Clock 8:30—George Henninger at the Organ 8: :45— Musical Clock 8:55—UP News 9 ;00—Tommy Bartlett Tim* 10:00—To be Announced 10:30—Piano Playhouse 11:00—Junior Junction 11:30—Marks Machinery Present* 12:00—Noon Day Musical 12:30—The American Farmer 1:00—Best Hour Music 1:25-J-Star-News Commentator l:30_Our Town Speaks 2:00—Metropolitan Opera 5:45—Brotherhood of Railroad Train men 6:00—The Vagabonds 6:15—Musical Program 6:30—Harry Wismer — Sport* 6:45—Communism 7:00—Gridiron Victors 7:15—Bands of the Land 8:00—Ross Dolan, Detectiv* 8:30—To Be Announced 9:00—Gangbusters 9:30—Murder and Mr. Malona 10:00—Professor Quiz 10:30—Hayloft Hoedown 11:0O—New* of Tomorrow 11:15—Tris Coffin In Washington 11:30—Gems for Thought 11:3J—Hotel Ambassador Orchestra several weeks, James Penning ton, New Hanover county field base operator revealed yester day. He said tha Schlachter will use an Aerospor plane, which is being rebuilt and havnig a “souped-up” engine ins ailed by Pennington. Schlachter hopes to eclipse the present re ord of 26,404 feet by ascending to a height of 28,000 feet. BLOCK CONCLUDES MISSION SERMONS Bishop Of California Brings Series To Close With Inspiring Talk The Rt. Rev. Karl M. Block, bishop of California, concluded his series of talks at the mission services in Episcopal churches here Friday. The morning talks on personal religion were brought to an in spiring and uplifting close at the service at St. John’s Episcopal church at 11 a. m. Friday. He depicted Christian life as a source of strength to the man who lives it and a well of life giving water which is passed from him to his fellow men. 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