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SECOND FLOOR, WASHINGTON BUILDING 120 North Main Street Phone No. 7 SALISBURY, N. C. INNER COIL We guarantee our Inner Coil Installation. NEW OR REBUILT ONE DAY SERVICE Taylor Mattress Co. PHONE 6 I Awnings Venetian Blinds Make-Believe Bride bv Ruth Harley " FINAL CHAPTER "What do you mean—commit ted a crime?” There was a terrified look in her dark eyes. "Well, they’ve just discovered he’s been at the head of a bunch of racketeers who were systematically robbing his father.” "How could he do that?” asked Maris, suddenly remembering some thing Jimmy had once hinted at. "Well, he tipped them off when truck loads would be leaving the mills. Then the bandits would hold them up, knock out the drivers and turn the stuff over to another bunch of men who would dispose of it and hand Stanley his share.” "But surely they won’t do any thing to him?” asked Maris, remem bering Stan’s haughty mother. "I don’t know. Those thugs who made you ride with them were some of the ringleaders and because Stan tried to cheat them out of more than his share they’ve told on him and now there’s a nasty front page scandal about it all.” "Oh, Patsy; surely they can’t say anything about me?” "What could they say, Maris dear? Not a thing. Of course I wouldn’t wonder if Stan’s scared stiff if he ever gives a thought to what may have happened to you. But there—that’s all past. Of course, though, you will have to resign from Fayson’s.” "But, Milly—Oh Pats, you know I got kind of sore at you not having sympathy with my at temps to step up on the social lad der, and sometimes t used to talk things over with Mifly. I wonder what she’ll say now?” "Don’t bother about her or any one else; they’ll all be so busy talking about Stan’s crookedness that you’ll be forgotten. There, I I don’t mean that exactly, but after j all they’ll realize .you were just one ! of them and when a sTiow-down | came you knew which side of the ! line you were on.” i "You’re a dear, Pat. I’ll never j forget this.” | There was a knock at the bed j room door. "Come in,” called Pat. ! "I was wondering if Miss Maris would be ready for a bite of sup per. I thought I’d bring it up be I fore we sat down.” It was the I farmer’s wife. "I’m afraid I’m making an aw ful lot of trouble for you, Mrs. Dawson,” said Maris. "I’m sure I can get up now.” "You’d better not. A bite of supper and then a good night’s rest and you’ll be ready to start off in the morning. Not that I want you to leave in such a rush, but the gentleman insists he’s got to get to the city.” "Yes, that’s so,” said Pat. "Well, I’ll come down with you and then I can bring Maris’ supper up to her.” By seven o’clock next morning Maris was headed for the city, but this time she had no fear that any moment might be her last. Jimmy Doyle, while a good driver, never took chances, especially when Patsy was riding with him. Already Maris had shaken off the terror that seemed to possess her, and as she told Patsy little in cidents of her hectic love affair, she was almost able to jest about tnem. me uawsons nau treated her as a sort of heroine because of her part in trapping the criminals. Taking it altogether, in spite of all the discouraging things that she had gone through, Maris knew that life still lay before her, and that there would be other opportunities for her to show Patsy that she wasn’t altogether the fool she in sisted on calling herself. But when they reached home and entered the little flat once more, Maris began to realize what her escapade had cost her. She’d lost her good position and the chance to get a better one, and now with conditions still none too rosy she realized that it wouldn’t be such an easy thing to pick up a job. "But you don’t need to worry about that. You need a holiday anyway, so why don’t you make up your mind to stay home ?.nd keep house?” "Keep house?” asked Maris. "Since when could we afford to have one of us do that?” "Well, honey, it’s'like this. Jim -htti t- tfmii i f—i 1iinn ' Maris knew that Rod was the man for her. . ... . , i • 1 i T'-tf 1 J 1 ! 1__ my 5 gui. 1115 rni5c ana wc vc uccia | ed we may as well get married. I Then, as there’s a chance he may! [ be transferred to some other city in a few months, we were thinking we might stay here till we see wTiat happens.” "Oh, hut this will be no place for me!” cried Maris. Of course it will. If we get mar ried next Saturday, then we’re go ing away for a two weeks’ trip, and could stay here and look after things.” i "That would be lovely, but it doesn’t seem fair that I should be living off you.” "Living off me! Nonsense. There are a lot of things I want done and if you’ll do them for me, that will more than pay back any thing it will cost for your keep. And then, who knows, something may turn up for you by that time. Anyway, you don’t need to worry, for Jimmy will be perfectly happy to have you here.” And so, on Saturday evening Patsy and Jimmy were quietly j married, and started for their wed . ding trip in Jimmy’s car. The I house seemed strangely desolate to Maris, as she fixed up the things ; Patsy had asked her to—making ; curtains and things for Patsy’s ; home. She hadn’t tried to get a job. The least she could do was help | Patsy out after all she had done i for her. Once she’d thought of i calling up Milly, but then, Milly was not a girl she really cared to have for an intimate friend, andj( now that she had cut herself off ■ from Fayson’s she decided it would be better to let things stay as they were. As she sat alone in the evenings her thought turned often to Rod. Had he a steady nowadays, shej wondered. Was she that stunning! looking girl she had seen him meet? Her eyes filled with tears. She real ized that she had deliberately cut herself off from happiness. Patsy had never mentioned Rod since Maris had come back. Some how she’d been expecting her toj say something about him, maybe! to suggest that she should call him; up or ask him to come to see her. Her tears fell fast. Maybe Patsy realized she had had about enough to stand; that the knowledge—if it really were so—that he had trans ferred his affections elsewhere 111 i .1. n. . _ WUUIU 11U1L nci Uiucu. t- ai, ably thought that it Would be kinder never to mention his name. And yet as she laid her sewing down and wiped her tear-filed eyes, stie felt a desperate longing to know about Rod, even if he were going to marry some other girl. At least her heart would be at rest, and she would try to build up her broken life, to fill it with other in terests. She knew now that she! would never really love anyone as she had loved Rod, and felt there could be no one else. The bell rang. It was only the mailman with a card from Jimmyi and Patsy. "We are having a lovely time,” they wrote. “Wish you were with us.” She laughed as she read the message written in Jimmy’s careless handwriting. That would be a nice idea—to be their chap erone on their honeymoon. | But somehow when she found she could laugh, her fit of the blues seemed suddenly to dissolve. Even if she might never again know the sweetness of Rod’s love, she must | try to keep from getting soured, i Then she thought of the Daw-| [son’s in their comfortable home ini Hie* '£<Jlt?fecticut Valley. She’d piUlIlldCU 1 line u. JV11IV candy. So, slipping on an apron, she went into the kitchen and started to make her preparations. Setting her scales on the table, measuring out the sugar, and tak ing down her box of flavoring, Maris started her candy-making. It was a nice cool afternoon and her caramels turned out beautifully. She was just debating whether to make another batch when suddenly the door bell rang. Pulling off her apron, and smoothing her hafr, she hurried to the door. But when she opened it, her heart almost turned over. Rod O’Rorke was standing on the threshold! "Well, Maris, aren’t you going to ask me in?” he questioned as he held out his hand. "Of course,” she whispered, while her cheeks grew rosy, and a sudden sparkle leaped into her eyes. "But Jimmy and Patsy arc still away.” "That’s fine. I guess they’re hav ing a good time. It’s wonderful weather for an auto trip,” he said. He stepped inside and hung his hat on the hall rack just as he used to do. "Yes, I had a post card from them today. They’re somewhere in the Berkshires,” said Maris. "And you’re running the show alone?” he asked. • "Yes,” she nodded, wondering what had brought him around tc the apartment. "I’ve been making ome caramels. Like some?” she sked. a "You know I would. I haven’t St asted a decent bit of candy since c< —”He hesitated abruptly, and St daris wondered what he had in-, ended to say. | But, leading the way into the utchen, she said, "Help yourself, vhile I put all this trash away,” and juickly she gathered up her mate dais. "They’re great, Maris, the finest :ver. What are you going to do iow?” I "Oh, finish sewing Patsy’s cur rains, I suppose.” "Wouldn’t you like to go to a ihow?” "Maybe,” said Maris, as she bent aver her sewing. Did Rod still love her, she wondered. Surely if he was ?oing with that other girl he would, not invite her to go out with him. Still, maybe he’d expected to see' Jimmy and Patsy; maybe he wasj just being polite. If only she knew where she stood with him! Then she remembered, she had suggested they should just be friends. (Had he taken her at her word? The color dyed her cheeks as she wondered if he knew anything about her adventure. Of course she’d never said anything to Patsy about keeping quiet about it. But Patsy was so loyal, she didn’t need to do that. There was silence in the little room for a long minute. Then Rod put his hand on her slender arm. "Don’t you want to put that stuff away, Maris? It’s a long, long time since I’ve had a talk with you.” "Yes,” murmured Maris, but she did not raise her eyes. Would she ever feel gay and light-hearted ' again as she used to when Rod and she were friends? Carefully, she folded up her sewing and laid it on the table. Then as she turned and faced him again, he caught her in his arms and drew her to him. Raising her face to his, he looked long into her dark eyes, "Maris, my sweet. I’ve been trying to forget you, but it’s no good. I can’t, dear heart. Don’t you think you could love me just a little? I’ve missed you so, my dear.” Her arms tightened about his neck and as she nestled against his heart, she murmured, "No, Rod, I can’t love you just a little, for all this time I’ve been loving you with my whole heart—just you.” "Darling,’ he whispered, "you really mean that?” and again she raised her face to his. But when he saw her glowing eyes he knew she spoke the truth and as their lips met, Maris knew that this was in deed the man for her. And she knew that her most thrilling day was still to come, when she went to the altar as Rod’s bride—a real bride this time, w'th a real man, who would love and cherish her, for her bridegroom. THE END. Onslow County farmers report! more hay than ever before due to the effects of the Soil Conservation1 program. j More than 225 club members :tended the recent 'banquet at ate College following judging ntests at the North Carolina ate Fair. 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