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[¥|SOCIETY MRS. C. R. McMANAWAY, Editor Telephon* Number* 98 or 9125 GOODRICH FAMBROUGH WEDDING ANNONUNCED c Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Vowles Goodrich have announced the wedding plans of their younger daughter. Catherine Mayhew Goodrich of Raleigh. tt» Mr. Douglas Mcintosh Famrough of Chapel Hill. The ceremony will be solemnized quietly on Sunday. July 10. at St. James Episcopal chnrch by the bride's former rec tor, the Rev. Ja.nes Preston Burke. Only members of the im mediate families will attend. The bride-elect made her home ttv Hendersonville until about four V#ar* ago when she enter »d St. »^ith 's school in New York City. Since her graduation she has been doing parish work and teaching in the Parochial school, first in New York but more recently in Ra leigh. Miss Goodrich is a young woman of beauty of character as «wll as of face, and has a charm of manner which endears her to all. Mr. Goodrich is of English parentage, and Mrs. Goodrich is from a well-known southern fam ily. Mr. Fanibrough is the son of Mrs. John Warren Fanibrough and the late Dr. Fanibrough of Rockmart. Ga.. being a member of a prominent family. The bride jfroom-to-be. who is held in hiirh esteem bv all. holds a resnonsi-; ble position with the bank of 'Chapel Hill. where he and his; bride wil! reside after their wed ding trip. Mrs. Goodrich gave a charming j Jittle bridge-tea on Saturday ;i ft -' ernoon at her home in Ashevillej in compliment to her daughter j and it was at this time that the | wedding plans were announced. I Among those from Hendersonville who were invited to attend were Mesd ames Fre<lerick W. Street man. Raden Powe" Shipman. Hurt H. Colt and William Freeze. Misses Elizabeth Cannon. Milli <ent Livingston. Virginia Ewbank. AMene Fluker. Marie I.ouise Nut ting. Anne Weeks and Elsie Ficker. * * * MISS HUNTER HONORS RECENT BRIDE Miss Elizabeth Hunter honored Mrs. G. Reynolds Combs. Jr.. of "Raleigh, a recent bride, with a lovelv tea on Saturday afternoon, the h< >me being arranged artistic fpr with a wealth of variegated flowers. Miss Hunter and Mrs. tombs received the guests infor mally. and Mrs. Robert Settan. of Brevard, another recent bride. I fchowed them to the dining room, j The tea table was beautifully| appointed with a lace cloth cen-1 tered with a silver bowl of sweet I peas and baby's breath. Silver I tfishes held dainty mints. Lighted j tapers were used on the table and In the dining room. Mrs. Charles Hunter was assisted in serving sandwiches, cookies and punch by Mesdames Georgia K Hunter and G. R. Combs. Only a few close friends of Mrs. Combs attended. * * * PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS Col. and Mrs. Dwight L. Rogers and sons, Dwight L. Rogers, Jr., I arid Doyle, are occupying an J atyartment in the Ambassador for a few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Llewellyn lzlar young son. Thomas, of Char leston, S. C., are guests of Mrs. Izlar's mother. Mrs. J. G. Wal drop. with whom she will be asso ciated for the summer at Maple Grove. Mr. Izlar will return home bv the middle of the week and come for his vacation later. ' Dr. and Mrs. G. R. Combs had as their week-end guests Mr. and G. Reynolds Combs, Jr., and DR. E. W. BUSH Osteopathic Physician Ground Floor—410 Main Si. Phone 935-J CARY GRANT NOW 410 LID AY ' * * Katherine HEPBURN Detective Blondell . . and that Douglas guy, Mel . .. find villains felonious!... merely balonv-eous Their acting is daffy delirious . . laffy • . . their fighting: and loving. • just swell! ■ELVTI DOUGLAS I TUESDAY . . on the same program . Clyde McCoy and Band MARCH OF TIME CdROUNfl Miss Judy Combs, wh> will all re turn today to their home in Ra leigh. Mr. and Mrs. T. Raymond Bi bee and family, of Tampico. Mex ico, arrived last nijrht for a visit to Mr. Bibee's mother. Mrs. J. M. Bibee. They have been on a mo tor tour <»f the western states and visited several national narks. Mr. and Mrs. Chailes Schaffer and the latter's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, all of Lakeland, Fla.. have taken the Truex home on Fighth avenue west which they occupied last summer. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Smith and children. Miss Barbaia. and Wil son. of Charlotte, are spending: the Fourth of July week-end as truests of Mr. and Mrs. Geor<_re M. Flana iran and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Flanagan. Miss Doris Baker, of Holly Springs, is the guest of Miss Re becca Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Davennort. Jr.. and Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Mar tin have returned to Atlanta. Ga.. after a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Martin at their home in Sylvan Heights. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Lewis of Birmingham. Ala., are here to spend several weeks with Mr. and Mrs. A. Lewis. Katharine Durham, young daughter of Mrs. Albert Durham, is at Camp Keystone near Brevard for the summer. Albert Johnson and his younger sister. Beth Johnson, accompanied relatives from Asheville to Dan ville. Va., for a short visit. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Settan. of Brevard, are week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Arledge. Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Ball are in Morristoxyn; Tenn.. for two days, after which th< v will spend the latter part of their vacation at Lake Santeetlah. Mr. and Mrs. N. Ralph Pippm and daughter, Pauline, of Allen dale. S. C., are at their home on Sixth avenue west for a short stay. Thev came especially to place Ralph Pippin in camp. Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Jervey and daughter, Miss Klizabeth, of Greenville. S. C.. returned to their home yesterday after a week-end visit to Mrs. Dora T. Sossamon. Mrs. Hudson I>. Baines and young daughter, Dorothy, of Washington, D. C.. are here to spend two weeks as quests ot the former's mother, Mrs. J. G. Wal drop. Mrs. George Mend and sons. George, Jr., and Gaillard. and Misses Louise Kllison and Nellie Pearson of Winnsboro, S. C., are occupying the Burckmyer cottage for two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Rut ledge. the former a well known author and lecturer, who reside at the Hampton plantation in South Carolina, and the Misses Lucas, of Spartanburg. S. C.. were guests yesterday of Dr. and Mis. F. W. Kwbank. \\\ Craig Forsythe, of Birm ingham. Ala., spent the week-end with his mother, Mrs. W. C. Forsythe. Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Truex and son. Crawford Truex, are guests at Roseniont Inn for the summer while their home is rented. Mr. A. I>. Martindale, who has been with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Martin, has accepted a posi tion in Asheville. MELBOURNE POPULATION MELBOURNE. (IP). — Mel bourne, whose population declined to 1)22.000 in 11)33, has now re turned to its pre-depression po sition as the sixth largest city in the empire, with 1.025,000 in habitants. London, Glasgow, Birmingham, Sydney and Calcutta are the first five. CHILD FALLS 40 FT.; UNHURT CLEVELAND. (I P). — Three year-old Sheila Hahn fell 10 feet from the window of her bedroom, but suffered no injuries. She was sittiny on the window sill swing ing her heels when the screen gave way and she fell to a con crete drive below. GOLDEN SPADE USED PHILADELPHIA. (UP)—Hen ry W. Breyer, 3d, turned over the first earth to open construction of an addition to the Sunday school of the Park Congregational church with the same gold spade his mother as a little girl broke » round for the church 32 years previously. New Zealand was the first coun try to give women the right to vote, in 181)3. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY LOST — Pair glasses between Washington St. and ice plant. Return to 213 Buncombe St. LOST — White male collie. An swers name Chief. Red collar. Mrs. L. I!. Prince. Phone 1K0-.L WE BUY OLD GOLD SHERMAN'S SPORTING COODS STORE Saves 4 Sisters From Mississippi Plunging three times into the swollen Mississippi river near New Madrid, Mo., Dorothy Tid well, above, 12-year-old farm girl, saved her four younger sisters from death when they were trapped in an automobile that rolled into the river. While a number of men looked on, Dorothy pulled two of the chil dren from the car before it submerged completely, then dived twice to rescue the others. .WAR'S HOT BREATH FANS REARMAMENT (Continued from page one) war would continue for four years and involve all the major powers although the experts say that if there is another interna tional conflict it will last much longer and probably bankrupt the world. They point out that a war I between any alignment of pow ers. in which neither side would have an overwhelming superiority, might continue indefinitely — or until economic collapse brought the nations to their senses, i The experts say that the Sino j Japanese and Spanish wars have ' proved conclusively that military defense is stronger, than the of ! tense, indicating that a short war | is more or less an impossibility I between forces of anywhere near comparable strength. The World war, according1 to their figures, drained more than $350.000,000.000 from w o r I d treasuries. Of the total $200,000, 000,Ooo went for war machines. Destruction of property and stop page of industry accounted for the remainder. I Students of military strategy j say the airplane has introduced a j new element in war and probably j would be responsible for increas ! ing the amount of property dam age many times over. The effec | tiveness of this weapon, they say, has increased more than a hun dred-fold since 1918. It is estimated aerial bombard ment of Shanghai alone during the current Sino-Japanese con flict has caused hundreds of mil lions dollars of damage. Losses in Spain where the civil war has been raging for two years, are placed at several billions of doi la is. The experts point out that de velopments in aviation have brought all the world capitals, in cluding those as far away as Bue nos Aires and Rio l)e Janeiro, within range of enemy bombers. They believe it possible for a na t i o n having superior aerial strength to destroy an enemy's industrial structure with a few months of concentrated attack. The cost in damages to prop erty, stoppage of work and other contingent factors can not be es tablished but it is estimated such I an attack on the eastern indus- ; trial section of the United States , would cost at least $25,000,000, 000. Assuming such damage wrte inflicted upon all the great na tions, it is doubtful, the experts say, that, civilization could sur vive. SATURDAY ' Maximum—90 degrees. Mini mum—f> I degrees. Mean—70.5 i degrees. Day's range — 22 de j grees. SUNDAY Maximum—SI degrees. Mini ' mum—07 degrees. Mean—74 de grees. Day's ranue—14 degrees. | Rainfall—.21 inches. i Normal mean temperature for July—72.5 degrees. Rainfall to date—.21 inches. Normal rainfall 0.08 inches. Begun in the 12th century. No tre Dame Cathedral, in Paris, nev er has been completed. Headaches • Neuralgia: Muscular Aches Thequick-acting prescription-type in gredients in tlie"B( '.n furuuiLi are also most effective for relieving simple ner t vousnessand functional periodic pains. 3 At all drug stores, 10c and 25c sizes. MRS. METEER I BURIED TODAY Kentucky Native Had Been Resident of City for 25 Years Funeral services for Mrs. Su'an ! Elizabeth Meteer. 8-1. who d:ed at her homo on First avenue west on Saturday morning at f>:05 o'elock after an illness of about five years were held this morning at 11 J o'clock from the Presbyterian | church, 'of which she was a mem her. Services were conducted by the pastor, the Rev. L. T. Wilds, and burial followed in Oakdale ceme terV. A native of Sharpshurg, Kv., she was the widow <.f John Me teer. She came he c from Co-1 lurnbia. Mo., and had been a resi-1 dent of Hendersonville for the past 25 years. She is survived by two sons, ' Guv K. Meteer, of Hendersonville, J •itid L. R. Meteer, of New York ' City, and two grandchildren. LUSTY BALLOT BATTLE LOOMS (Continued from one) the administiation in his post as a member of the tax-making ways and means committee. He is ex pected to praise Thomas' record in a speech at Oklahoma City on J July Thomas has supported virtually ) all of the new deal's sweeping pro gram of social and economic re I forms and in return has seen some I of his own monetary theories j translated into action by the ad i ministration. The importance of j his re-election, so far as the ad- j ministration is concerned, lies | partly in his strategic position on two important senate committees. He is the second ranking Demo crat on the powerful agriculture , committee, preceded only by Sen-1 i ator Burton K. Wheeler, 1)., Mon tana. The new deal is making every effort to prevent the re nomination of Senator Ellison D. , (Cotton Ed) Smith, of South Car olina. conservative Democrat who has fought many of the adminis tration's farm measures as head of the agriculture committee. Montana primary voters go to j the polls July 19 and in Texas j July 23. None of the senators J from the two states is up for re nomination and no national is sues are involved. Senator George McGill, a New Deal Democrat, i* up for renomination in the Kan sas primary on August 2 and Sen ator Bennett C. Clark, a 50-50, New Dealer, faces Missouri Dem ocrats on the same day. Senator George L. Berry, D., Term., millionaire labor leader, banker and agriculturist, seeks re-1 nomination in the state primary j August 4. He condemned the New j Deal's spending program and oth- j er administration measures but. the president is not actively op posing him. The Tennessee pre primary situation has been high lighted by a clash between Gov ernor Gordon Rrowning, who is • backing Berry, and Ed Crump, po litical boss of Shelby county, who is supporting Tom Stewart, Win chester attorney. The August primaries are dom inated by Senate Majority Leader Allien W. Barkley's bid for a vote of confidence on his record in his : contest with Governor A. R. | (Happy) Chandler. Chandler's i campaign manager has charg- I ed that relcif funds are be- ! » STORIES IN STAMPS \ppointed an Enemy fo His Cabinet man more violently de« nounced Abraham Lincoln x>th before the Civil War and uf *> 1862, than Edwin McMasten Stanton. A Democrat, opposed tc ilavery, Stanton nevertheless was i firm defender of the constitu ional rights of slaveholders. Thui | le bitterly opposed Lincoln, whost 5arty he hated and distrusted ?ven more. Stanton became attorney gen eral under President Buchanan He did what he could to strength en the weak policy of the Presi dent. Thus he came to the atten :ion of Lincoln, who later thought "je saw in Stanton a good war minister. In January, 1862, Lin coln invited him to join his cabi aet in this post. Stanton did. He proved often harsh, caused :onsiderable friction among Union generals. But he thoroughly reor ganized the army, cut through a maze of fraud and red tape, in fused new energy into the high command. Not the least of his i achievements was disbandment of 300,000 soldiers at the close of the 1 war. Later he served in the cabi- I net of Andrew Johnson, but with incessant turmoil. He constantly ' opposed Johnson. Stanton died in Washington on Dec. 24, 1869. He is shown above on the 7-cent issua of 1870. The stamp is enlarged. (CuurrJjcfac. 1933. Service, Icc.J Seals Retires After 45 Years Of Rail Service K. R. Seals, of Fletcher, who joined the Southern Railway when locomotives burned wood, hand brakes were used and lighting was by kerosene lamps, has retired af ter 45 years' service with the rail wav. His retirement was effective on June .'>(). For the past 32 years he has been station agent at Fletcher. He beiran his railroad career with the Richmond & Dan ville system, now a part of the Southern, in June, as an agent-operator, lie entered the service of the Southern in 1904 and came to Fletcher in l!)0P>. CHINA IS FAR FROM DEFEAT, DICTATOR SAYS Tontinuerl from nap° one) civilization which mankind has managed to create through the centuries find a permanent and stable security. Our only aspiration is to con solidate the national unity which we have achieved and to be al lowed to undertake, without mo lestation. the tremendous tasks of national reconstruction which face us. We are now engaged in a life or death struggle to preserve our right to live in peace and at peace with other nations. Our case against the Japanese, whose land, .'naval and aerial forces are killing our people, and destroying everything that is vital and precious in our country, is clear. There will be no end to the present hostilities urnil the Japa nese realize their folly or until their troops are driven off our soil. 1000 DEAD, 1000 WOUNDED AT SWATOW SWATOW, Kwanj»tung Prov ince. South China, July 4. (UP) — (By Radio)—Chinese municipal authorities today estimated about 1,000 civilians were killed and 1,000 others wounded in Thurs day's aerial bombarding of the eitv by Japanese naval planes. More than 100.000 civilians had fled into the hills fearing that a Japanese land occupation of the city was imminent from the .Japa nese base established last month on N'amao Island, off the port. British and American warships were standing by to protect then nationals. The British consulate had for warded the British embassy in Shanghai a protest from the man ager of the British Asiatic Petro leum Co.. who said the biic storage plant of the company had narrow ly missed destruction when .Japa nese bombs fell within 100 yards of it. The majority of foreigners re sisted the urgings of their consuls that they leave. They seemed determined to re main for the time being, at least, while Chinese authorities protest ed that the Japanese raids were against a completely peon city which was without anfi-aircraft or any other defensive means. Chinese evacuating this south China treaty port straggled across the harbor to the south or pushed westward into the interior, cart ing or carrying their belongings. Thousands of otheis congregat ed along the waterfront, hopeful that the nearby foreign-owned property would be spared in any future raids and thus keep them selves out of the danger zone. in-;- used to coerce voters to sup port Barkley. The accusation was denied by WPA Administrator Harry L. Hopkins. Barkley beat down two attempts in the clos ing days of the recent congress to set up an independent senate committee to investigate alleged instances of use of federal funds in primaries or the subsequent election. The Kentucky primary will be held on August (j. Another situation which will be receiving considerable atten tion is that in Indiana where Sen ator Frederick M. Van Nuys, Democrat, may be taken back in to the party fold. Van Nuys was read out of the state party coun cil by Governor M. Clifford1 Townsend's machine because he opposed President Roosevelt's su preme court enlargement bill. Latest word from the Hoosier state is that the Townsend fac tion is ready to make peace and may go so far as to endorse Van Nuys for re-election. Van Nuys has indicated he will run as an independent if the par ty convention fails to nominate him. FORGE EMPIRE LINK CANBKRRA. (UP) — Prepara tions are now being made to set up the first short-wave station to be operated by the Defence De partment of Australia. Through it the Australian navy will be able to communicate direct with the British admiralty and with British ships all over the world. The authors of most of our nursery rhymes are unknown, but it is believed that some of these rhymes we owe to famous writ ers. BALFOUR NIPS! SALUDA. 11 TO 9 Latter, However, Wins 1st Half of League Schedule In the Blue Ridge Industrial, league on Saturday. Ralfour de feated Saluda 1 I to 9; the game between Chipman-LaCrosse and Green River had not been report ed today, and the Brevard-W. O. W. game was not played because of the withdrawal of the Wood men from the league. The Woodmen withdrew at a I league meeting last Thursday af | ter reporting that almost half of 1 the players had left the team. At ! this meeting Chipman-LaCrosse i was awarded both games of a pro 1 tested double-header with W. 0. I \V. on June 25. Bv this action, j Saluda was the winner of the first | half of the league play. Saluda got 14 hits off Hammett and Ash on Saturday, while Bal four got 13 off Staton and Ward. D. Heatherly led Saluda at bat with four hits in five trips to bat and B. Crisp led the Balfour hit I ters with two doubles. F. R. CHALLENGES U. S. TO FIGHT ON FOR PEACE (Continued from page one) so long as we cling to the pur poses for which it was founded to preserve under the changing conditions of each generation a people's government for the peo ple's good," he said. "The task assumes different shapes at different times. "Sometimes the threat to pop ular government comes from po litical interests. Sometimes from economic interests. Sometimes we have to beat off all of them to gether. "But the challenge is always the same — whether each gener ation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devo tion to attain and retain that greatest good for the greater number which this government of the people was created to en The president's address was brief. As he concluded, the flag which draped the forty-foot lime stone shaft of eternal peace was dropped. A moment later, by a miracle of science that the men who ' fought on Oak Hill would hardly I have credited, the sinking rays of [ the sun touched an electric eye. I This sent an electrical impulse t through a device which ignited I the l'lame of gas which is to burn eternally from a bronze urn at i the crown of the shaft. Only actual participation of the aged veterans in the ceremony was that of the chaplains. Con federate Chaplain J. J. Methvin, Anadarko, Okla., a frail 91-year old minister with a wisp of a goatee, offered the opening pray ! er. Chaplain Martin V. Stone of the Grand Army of the Republic! closed the service. Governor George II. Erie of Pennsylvania introduced Mr. Roosevelt. I 'GOD' IS SUBJECT OF SCIENCE SERVICES "God"' was the subject of the lesson-sermon in all Christian i Science Churches and Societies on Sunday. The golden text was' from Psalms 20:5. "We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our ban ners." Among1 the citations which1 comprise the lesson-sermon was the following from the Bible:' "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24). The lesson-sermon also includes the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, "Sci ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Ed dy. "Not materially but spiritual-: ly we know Him as divine Mind,1 as Life, Truth, and Love. We shall obey and adore in propor tion as we apprehend the divine nature and love Him understand inj;ly, warring no more over the corporeality, but rejoicing in the j affluence of our God. Religion will then be of the heart and not of the head. We worship spirit-1 ually, only as we cease to wor ship materially. "The true wor shipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth" (page 140). j The blood pressure of a human | being is 20 points higher when awake than when asleep; Pace's Market " High Grade Meats and a very Complete Stock Staple and Fancy Groceries Phonei 206-7 620 N. Main ! NOTICE TO FARMERS j « "* I We are buying Irish Potatoes daily paying market prices CANTRELL PRODUCE CO. Hendersonville, N. C. Phone 275 BY EDWIN RUTT Copyright 1938.NEA Service Inc CAST OF CHARACTERS JOSEPH SANDHAM—hero; We thought he was on top of the world until he smacked into KELLY ARCHER—heroine; she thought the was headed for the altar until ihe smacked into ED, the WEASEL—gangster; he thought he was headed some where, too, but affairs some how got mixed up. * * * Yesterday: Joe stops to unload the candy before entering Canada and Kelly flees down the highway like a red-headed deer. The Wea sel raises his hand to shoot. CHAPTER X A quick glance was enough to show Mr. Sand hair? what to do. With a lightning-like movement he knocked the Weasel's hand tr> ward the ground. "Don't shoot, for God's sake," he shouted. "I'll get her." Then he was off, speeding after the fly ing Kt'lley. He overhauled her within 40 yards. The Weasel lumbered up, puff ing. "I—I could kill you both," Kel ly said savagely. "Hoity-toity," said the Weasel. He grasped her arm. Joe's right first clenched. If this big baboon attempted to maul Kelly he was going to take a pop at him, gun or no gun. But the Weasel didn't. He escorted Kelly back to the car in genteel fash ion. "Now, me gal," he said. "Don't try dat again." "I'll try the first chance I get," stormed Kely viciously. "Why didn't you shoot me if you're so tough about everything?" The Weasel pointed to Joe. "Him. He got right in da way." In other words," put in Joe, "I saved your life. Our grandchil dren will hear about that." "Well, why didn't you shoot him too?" Kelly said to the Weasel. "It would have been a service to humanity." The Weasel gunned. nun uh me's pals." "Two of a kind," snapped Kel ly. Joe climbed into the ear. "Well," he said, "if the abuse session is over, let's go. Time s a-wastin' " * * * The Weasel helped Kelly in. She resumed her seat with bad grace. "I wish 1 had that gun for two minutes," she said spitefully. "1 <1 make the fur fly around here." "Dis dame," said the Weasel jovially, "is damn near as tough as Cissy." The crossing of the border was uneventful. A preoccupied cus toms official took a sweeping glance at the empty car, Joe filled (Hit the necessary papers and they were in. Through the ceremony the Weasel sat on the front seat with Kelly. his gun pressed against her side. Once on the road for St. Cath arines, however, Kelly found speech again. "Leek here," said Kelly, in per plexity, "what is this anyway "Shall we tell her?" Joe asked the Weasel. "Why not?" said the great man. "We're almost tlere." "Well, then. Miss Archer," said Joe. "let me inform you that you're being kidnaped." Kelly Jumped. "Kidnaped?" For a moment Kelly looked grave. Then she gave a light laugh. "That," she said, "is the most outlandish thing I've ever heard of." Joe spoke now at length. "For a long time now I've been looking around for a way to make some easy dough. Well, 1 ran into you by chance. And when that business of going to Huston came up, it gave me an idea. I thought you came from a pretty well-to do family, probably. Your uncle's house was quite hotsy-totsy, any how. And I . . . well, I decided to make a killing. I never, my dear young lady, had the slightest intention of taking you to Boston. I was waiting for a convenient opportunity to slug you over the head, toss you in the back of the car and hit for the camp of a friend of mine u.> in Vermont, lie isn't using it now and it would have been an ideal place to keep you until I could have botten in touch with your folks. "Unfortunately for me, the Weasel got into the picture and 1 have to split with him. But so what? My cut of the dough we'll get from your father will keep me in clover for a long time. And as for this cussed candy truck," he stated viciously. "I'll run it into the first river once I've got the money." "What utter rot," said Kelly. 'Beyond my name, you know practically nothing about me." "Don't I? I've already told you Lhat I suspected you came from a <v e a 1 th y family. Well"—he reached into a pocket on the in side of the door and drew out the paper that the Weasel had obtain ed from the filling station attend ant—"this confirmed it. Plenty." Wonderingly, Kelly took it. For a moment she stared wide-eyed at her own likeness. Finally she spoke, defiantly. "If you think you can scare my father, you're crazy. He knows 1 can take care of myself." "Meybe so. Rut he'll come through to keep your mother from worrying. She's probably hyster ical by now." Kelly's eyes narrowed to bright slits. "I've never known anyone," she said, "that I detested as much as I do you." , "That's perfectly okay with me," said Joe. "Your opinion is immaterial. I'm after money and nothing more." "You said it," put in the Wea sel, who had listened to all this with approving ears. For a short time there was si lence. Finally Kelly said: "Lis ten, Joe." "Hellor "All those—those things you told me, then? They were"—her voice dropped—"just lies?" Joe laughed, an unnecessarily loud laugh. "You mean about falling for you? Wanting to marry you and all that? Gee, wo men are dumb. I never knew one yet who didn't turn out to be a sucker directly a man told mer he loved her. Of course, they were lies. You don't think I'd be dope enough to want to get married, do you?" Kelly's face twisted. "Now I know," she said, her mouht tight, "that you're the rot tenest person I've ever met." » ♦ ♦ Twilight drew around Ontario. Thickened into darkness. The ear droned on. And presently the lights of St. Catharines winked ahead of them. "Right t'rough da town," the Weasel directed. A half mile out of St. Catha rines, the Weasel ordered Joe to turn off on a dirt road which led in the general direction of Lake Ontario. Down this the car plunged through shadows for ten minutes. Then, suddenly, the Weasel's left hand gripped Joe's shoulder. "Stop here," ho commanded tersely. Joe strained his eyes through the gloom. With difficulty he dis cerned the outlines of a small clapboard house, set hack at some distance from the road. From where the car was parked no light was visible. The place seemed as dark and lonely as the road down which they had just come. "So this is your hideaway, is it?" Kelly said to the Weasel. "What a delightful place. It looks like a deserted grave." "Ain't so deserted as it looks," said the Weasel. "Cissy'll be waitin' for me inside, sure." "Cissy?" "His girl," Joe explained. "The place does seem dark though, Weasel. Maybe Cissy took a run out powder." "Not a chanct," said -the Wea sel. And said it almost reluctant ly, Joe thought. Leaving the car they stole quiet ly around the house. A light was shining from a kitchen window and the shade was only half drawn. They peered in and per ceived a blond girl playing soli taire at the kitchen table. "Dat's Cissy," whispered the Weasel. A modulated whisper from Ed the Weasel might have been lik ened to steam escaping. Inside, the blond girl raised her head, sat ! lor a second alert and suspicious, ■ like a snake listening. The Weasel tapped three times on the window pane. Suddenly the blond girl was out of her chair and darting catlike across the room. The light went out. A moment of silence passed. Then, through the keyhole of the kitch en door, a voice rasped; "Who's there?" The Weasel cleared his throat. "Just me, baby," he said loud ly. "Open up." (To be continued) Magallanes, Chile, uses postage stamps as change when there is a shortage of coins. | Dr. Bertha W. Branttetter Osteopathic Physician Ultra-Violet Ray Treatments Colonic Irrigation Home ana Hotel Appointments Office: Next door State Theatre—ground floor Phone 505 | Residence: 317 4th Ave. West Phone 3-iy-W ! Hendersonville, N. C. STEPP & WALKER (INC.) J NO. A. SINCLAIR, Manager FRESH MEATS HARDWARE FERTILIZER GROCERIES DRY GOODS SEEDS "Everything for Everybody"—Plenty Parking Space East Flat Rotfk. Phone 130-W. ALWAYS SERVICE ALWAYS WILLING call ■ JACKSOK Ml - MEM
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