:o a cabin BY LIDA LARRIMORE t> MACRAE SMITH CO. WNU SERV.CE CHAPTER XVI?Continued. ?23? Nat, pulling Skippy in an express wagon, came up to the side of the car. ??Hello!" he said, his smile widen ing with recognizer., displaying a missing tooth. "I'm not Admiral Byrd now that there isn't any snow." "Of course not. How stupid of me. I should have known. This is my cousin. Miss Oliver, Nat, and Skippy," said Gay. "Hello, Nat," Kate said. "Hello, Skippy." "Hello." Nat grinned again and Skippy ducked his head. "Is Dr. Houghton in now?" Gay asked, feeling her heart leap and plunge. "No, he's not here now." "You mean he isn't here at the house?" "He went away last week. Grand father came home. He brought me a whole fleet of boats." "Brought me a boat!" Skippy piped up. "Is your mother here, Nat?" Gay asked. "Aya, she's here. She'll be pleased to see you, I expcct. Did you come all the way from New York? 'Course I like boats better on account of my father's an officer in the Navy but that's some swell car." "Drive them around a couple of blocks, will you, Kate." Gay opened the door and stepped out. "I want to talk to their mother." "Hop in, kids." Kate slipped over under the wheel. "Whoopee!" Nat shouted and Skippy echoed his brother's enthusi asm, then ducked his head again. The long tan roadster moved away from the curb. Gay walked up the steps of the house and sounded the knocker. Mary Adams herself, opened the door. Her brown face twinkled with pleasure when she recognized Gay. "C ne in," she said. "This is a 5ur> ise." Tue wide hallway was familiar, though now there were peonies and iris in the vases which in March had held bitter-sweet and feathery plumes of pine. Following Mary through the living-room to the porch which faced the lawn, she remem bered her last day here, the day after John had brought her in from his mother's home. They'd been so distant, she and John, polite to each other, unhappy, remote. Mary must have noticed. Was she, too, remem bering the end of Gay's visit here? If she remembered, she gave no sign. "Are you alone?" she asked. "It's marvelous to be able to use the porch again. You don't appreciate this weather unless you've spent a winter in Maine." "My cousin is with me, Kate Oli ver." "Oh, I've heard John speak of her." Mary darted up from her chair. "Where is she? Why didn't you bring her in?" "She's taking Nat and Skippy for a ride. Mary," Gay asked, "where is John?" Mary curled herself into a wick er chair. "I don't know exactly," she said. "Has he left here," Gay's voice faltered, "for good, I mean?" "Yes. He was in Boston last week." Mary glanced at Gay, then down at her small brown hands. "I know. He wrote me from there." "That there is a chance of his get ting in the research department con nected with the General Hospital?" Mary asked eagerly. "Father thinks it's fairly certain. John made a splendid impression when he in terned there." "But since then," Gay persisted. | "He isn't in Boston now?" "We've been forwarding mail to his mother's. I re-addressed a let ter from you this morning. I've learned to know your handwriting pretty well. I?" "This morning? A letter?" "Yes. Why?" Mary asked quick ly, in surprise. "It was a letter which shouldn't have been written," Gay said. "I've come to head it off or explain. Could he be at his mother's in Rockland?" "I don't know. Why don't you?" She paused, then said, "If you don't want to go there, or call, I'll call for you." "Will you? I don't? There are reasons. I'd like to see Debby but I'm sure it would be better if you?" "I will." She rose, smiled at Gay compassionately and went into the house. Gay sat on the porch looking out across the sunny lawn where peo nies bloomed along the fence and the fvliage of a maple tree shaded the children's sand-box and swing. She was only absently aware of the objccts her eyes rested upon. Every nerve, every sense in her body was caught up in a state of suspense. Had John gone away deliberately. to avoid any move from her? Was he, by his silence, making a clean break as effectively us she had meant to make it when she had writ ten the letter which Mary, this morning, had re-directed? She started up as Mary returned to the porch. "He isn't at home," Mary said. "His mother thinks that he may have gone to a cabin down east n^-ar Machias?" "John is at the cabin?" Gay's voice was light and breathless. "They aren't sure. They've had no word. They're holding his mail." "Of course he has. I didn't think?" Gay glanced at her watch. "We can make it before night. Thank you, Mary. I must find Kate." "You're going there?" Mary asked doubtfully. "It's a fairly long drive. I had expected that you would stay for lunch, at least." "No. We're going. Wish me luck, Mary. I'll need it." Mary Adams smiled and pressed Gay's hand. "I think you'll carry your luck with you." she said. CHAPTER XVII John placed a log on the fire, went to the doorway, stood looking out across the lake. Dusk was falling. The last reflection of the sunset had faded from the still surface of the water. Across the lake a loon screeched mournfully through the si lence. John closed the door and re turned to the fire. He should prepare something for supper, he thought, standing ir resolutely on the hearth with his back to the fire. Funny how he had qpme to dread getting supper. When that had been accomplished, the day was definitely over and night had begun. He was able to get through the day fairly well. While the sun shone, he made fishing from the ca noe or lying on the float an excuse for being out of doors. But the nights were unbearably lonely. He shouldn't have returned to tne cabin. He should have taken the walking trip through Canada which he had half planned when Dr. Sar geant had insisted that he take a two weeks vacation until the Boston matter was settled one way or an other. He would be able to make the decision he must make more calmly and with less pain anywhere in the world except here. The cabin was filled with ghosts of Gay. He saw her everywhere, on the couch with the lamplight falling across her hair; seated on the footstool beside the hearth in a characteristic posi- j tion, her arms hugging her knees; coming out through the door of the bedroom she and Kate had occupied, her face fresh and smiling after a long night of sleep, in a jersey and slacks, a ribbon around her hair ... He hadn't expected to feel as he did. He had thought that he would be able to make the decision here. He had not questioned his ability to think clearly and logically, to disci pline his emotions. Strange that he had not considered the pignant insistence of memories, the ghosts of Gay that lived on in the cabin. But he must make a decision. If he secured this post in Boston, he would have to decide whether he was willing to have her there with him, using her own money to pro vide a place .for them to live or whether it wal wiser, for her ulti mate good and his own, to make a definite break and follow, alone, the course he had charted for himself before he had declared his love to Gay. It was all or nothing. There could be no compromise. The next time they met? But would they meet again? He had sensed in her letters a change in her feeling for him since she had returned from her visit to Maine. He couldn't blan her. It had been pretty awful for her, as estranging as his visit to New York. She loved him. He did not question that. He loved her. But was love enough? Was it as fresh and as steadfast now as it had been here at the cabin last fall? Could any love sur vive the misunderstandings, the quarrels, the bickering to which their love had been exposed? Wouldn't it be better?? He wouldn't think of it, now. He would build a fire in the kitchen range and prepare supper, making a long job of it to keep night from coming too soon. He went out into the dusk, filled a basket with chips and birch logs. None of his senses was secure from ghosts of Gay. The smell of pine needles and freshly chopped wood recalled the night she had slipped out of the cabin to meet him, the night Todd Janeway had arrived. His eyes lifted above the pile of chips. They had sat there, leaning above the logs. She'd worn a soft white dress fastened up under her chin and her hair had curled loosely against her shoulders. He'd loveH her so, then. He loved her now. If they might have stayed here? He lit the lamps in the kitchen, laid the fire carefully, taking a great deal of time. Yellow flames curled around birch-logs in the stove. He collected ingredients for flap jacks; butter, milk, flour, eggs? There were the fish he had caught this morning, cleaned and salted, ready for the pan. Cornmeal, salt pork cut in strips. He placed the fish in the pan. Through the sputtering sound they made, he heard a car coming in the lane. One of the acquaintances he'd made at the store in the village, perhaps young Dr. Reynolds, stop ping in on his rounds. Any visitor would be welcome. Whoever it was would see the light and come in. He couldn't leave the fish. He heard the motor of the car race, then die off into silence as an ignition key was turned. That mo tor! No one of his acquaintances here drove a car with such power. His hand, holding a fork over the fish, was shaking. He turned, his heart thumping, a singing sound in his ears. The kitchen door stood open. He saw her coming toward him through the dusk, running across the clear ing. up the steps. "Gay?I" he cried, and plunged forward to open the door. She came into the kitchen, hesi tantly, as though the sound of his voice had checked the impulse which had brought her swiftly to him through the dusk. "Hello, John," she said. They stood staring at each other like strangers. "Where did you come from?" he asked at last. "How did you know 1 was here?" "I wrote you a letter," she said quietly, "telling you that I was go ing to marry Todd " "I have not received it." "No, it's in Rockland." "Have you been there?" She shook her head. "Mary called your mother for me. She, your moth er, thought you might be here." The singing in her ears dimmed her voice to a thread of sound. "But if you wrote me that," he asked, "why are you here?" "Because I didn't mean it. I dis covered, after I'd mailed it, that I couldn't. I tried to get to you before the letter did. I drove last night to Portland, then on here to day." Her eyes widened, then closed. She swayed, reached out for the table. "John?I" He caught her, held her. She clung to him. They kissed. Pres ently she drew away. "Are you glad to see me?" she asked. "Glad! Oh, Gay!" "Will you stil) be glad when I tell you that I'm going to stay?" "Are you?" "Always?as long as you want me." He looked down into her lifted face, weary but radiant, her eyes shining softly through the tears that misted her lashes. "Will you take a chance. Gay?" he asked gravely. "Can we make a go of it? Will you be happy? In spite of everything that has happened or will happen, do you still want to marry me?" "Darling!" She smiled. "Would I have driven all these miles??" His lips against hers stilled her voice. They had in that moment of reconciliation, of faith and trust re newed, no need for words. His arms, holding her. were strong and secure and safe. Her vital young body pressing close to him. was a prom ise and an assurance. Moments ticked away unconsidered in the se cure realization of weeks, months, years stretching in a bright open vista ahead. "I beg your pardon," a voice said from the door. They drew apart, smiling. Kate came into the kitchen. "It may mean less than nothing to you," she said, "but something is burning." "Good Lord!" John groaned. "It's the fish!" He glanced around with a dazed expression. Kate caught up a dish cloth and grasped the handle of the pan. She turned to regard Gay and John with an expression of stud ied derision whicii failed entirely to conceal the emotion in her eyes. "Get out of here," she said. "I'm hungry. I want something that's fit to eat." Still fuming, she slapped the pan in the sink. Gay and John looked at each other and broke into laugh ter, then, hands joined, went out into the dusk. [THE END] 'Built-in* Type Furniture Is Latest Building Trend Built-in furniture is rapidly in creasing in popularity. In planning a built-in corner cupboard, uphol stered wall seat, or some other piece of furniture, the home owner should decide well in advance about such important details as what fillers, finishing materials and colors to use. According to an authority on hard wood finishing, it is important that the right fillers be used in accord ance with the color and consistency desired, and also that the filler be wiped at the proper time. A filler is basically a mineral pigment such as an asbestos compound, silica, whiting, or clay, bound together with a small amount of vehicle and thinned with gasoline or mineral spirits. There are many finishing materials, and most of them are well known to the home owner. Among those most often used are white and orange shellac, rubbing varnish and spar varnish. Because there is such a wide choice of colors and demands vary so greatly, each home owner should select the color for his built-in pieces so that they will be in har mony with the general style of the room. The natural color of wood represents the warm side of the color scale, and, remembering this colors should be selected to con form with the usual rules governing good decoration. Science Advances in Telepathy Tests; University Man Gives Much Information Is telepathy, mongrelized by years of vaudeville trickery, at the thresh old of becoming a science? As tonishing experiments have pro gressed to a point where private home tests are invited. With them goes the candid warning that, de spite the fun of using the mind as a messenger boy, there is hazard, perhaps tragedy, as a possible re ward for psychic tinkering. The man who took telepathy out of the music hall and put it into the laboratory is slim, youthful, im F ?tuous and mop-haired, a rapt be liever in the theory that the human mind is, to more or less degree, a sensitive broadcasting station with messages for those with minds ca pable of tuning in the right wave length, says the Literary Digest. He is Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine, whose experiments at Duke univer sity keep people awake nightly from North Carolina to California. Mainly, success depends, he says, on possession of the "gift" to some extent, favorable mental conditions to a large extent. Then: "First, a genuine interest is re quired. Preferably a fresh spon taneous curiosity to see if you can do it." | In more than 100,000 trials, con ducted since 1927, he has obtained results that seem billions to one against the operations of pure chance. Mathematically, at least, he has showr. that, in some per sons, perception without use of the ordinary sens? does in fact exist. Support for Dr. Rhine's faith can be found in "Man, the Unknown,"* the recent book by Dr. Alexis Car? rel, who wrote: "Those endowc;! with this power grasp the secret thought of other individuals without using their sense organs. They also perceive events more or less remote in space and time. This quality is exceptional. It develops in only a small number of human beings. . . . Clairvoyance appears quite com monplace to those who have it. It brings them knowledge which is more certain than that gained through the sense organs." Dr. Rhine experimented with chil dren, then college students. The results were dismaying. Then he tried hypnotized subjects and, final ly the key to science, specially gift ed students. Results followed im pressively. He is careful to distinguish be tween clairvoyance and telepathy. Clairvoyance, he says, is percep tion, such as symbols on the cards. Telepathy is "mind-reading." Per sons gifted with one ordinarily pos-, sess the other. ( Distance, he holds, makes no dif ference. Indeed, better results are obtained when test objects are sepa rated by rooms. High scores ob tain when several miles intervene. Remarkable results were obtained at a distance of 100 miles. "With all its dangers it is, I be lieve, the greatest field for intellec tual adventure that the student has before him today," says Dr. Rhine. "The perils add to the zest, and the sizii of the game is unequalled." Wise and Olfterioit? VI KN may U- fools to marn 1 1 but what rise is thete (OT a girl to wed? Barbrrs ol#-Nl In chargr /or ihut in* ihr ffsiiaiil tiilli , |W| /ore. Photographers are responsi. ble for many ol life's tnisrepre sentations. The man who keeps tellinj girls love makes the world m round is seldom on the squire. Many a painter who claims to be wedded to his art is in reality a grass widower. Jill say that murriun? m |oi?. honor, and no pay. StrangeFiitJ More Japs Here Choic of Nationality All Ways to 'Home' ?. contrary to the impression cre ated by our numerous Chinatowns Chinese laundries and chup suej restaurants, America has only hail as many Chinese as Japanese resi dents. Incidentally, 20 per cent ot the Chinese and 40 per cent of the Japanese are women. C. When a baby is born of a Turk ish mother and a French father, while aboard a British ship in American territorial waters, his parents may claim for him any one of the four nationalities. C The average - sized Atlantic coast oyster strains its food from about 18 gallons of water a day; i species of Mexican squash storu enough moisture at one time to keep itself alive for 15 years. ?. Homing pigeons in the service of the United States army signal corps have not only been trained to fly as far as 63 miles in dark ness, but also to locate their "home," or loft, when it is mount ed on a truck and moved man? miles every 24 hours.?Collier's. DON'T BE BOSSED BY YOUR LAXATIVE?RELIEVE CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAT ? When you feel gassy, headachy, ker due to clogged-up bowels, do a* millions do?take Feen-A-Mint at bedtime. Next morning ? thorough, comfortable Telirf, helping you start the day full of jeer normal energy and pep, feeling Eke a million! Feen-A-Mint doesn't dhtnb your night's rest or interfere with worktto next day. Try Feen-A-Mint, the chewii* gum laxative, yourself. It tastes good, if? handy and economical... a family supply FEEN-A-MINT To< Either Way "What's your name, boy?" "Jimmy, sir." "No, I mean your full name?" "It's Jimmy, full or empty." Each Finer Every babe born into the world is a finer one than the Jast.? Dickens. Shortest Outlet A railway line is now being laid across the Caspian steppe. It will link the northeastern coast of the Caspian sea with the Orenburg rail way, thus providing for the Emba oil and Caspian fish the shortest out let to th? Industrie 1 centers of So viet Russia ^ Co-operation Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.?Sophocles. TEACHING A CHILD VALUE OF PENNIES A child of a wise ? taught from early ch'Mho?^^,. eome a regular reader of asrssa-sSSa SS^SK?SS from making every permr

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