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PAGE TWO gfOfii'vJjfDgJFf CHAPTER S 3 ( THERE WAS a briet pause bp fore fan answering movement came from 'inside the door, and the door opened to him. Viola stood in the entrance, dressed to go out, her suitcase in her ‘ hand. "Oh, you’re up!" said Tiggie in a tone of relief. "Hope you’ve slept.” Her eyes gave him the answer, and again in the morning light he was shocked by her look — her transparent pallor, and the shadows that seemed to be ever deepening, imparting to her features an almost unbelievable purity of outline. "1 was just coming to see if I could Hod you,” she said. "Is there anywhere where we can talk?" “Have you had any breakfast?" said Tiggie. She shook her head, with a faint, nervous smile. "No. hut I'm ail right. I ” "Let's go down ami have some'” said Tiggie practically. "And hy the way, my brotheiMn-law Harvey Gilmore —will be there —the man yon saw last night. You don't mind meeting him?" ' Her eyelids flickered n little; he saw that she was nerving herself "Os course not!" she said. J "You certainly needn't,” said Tig gie. "He’s a good sort. We’re |>als Come along down!” He took the suitcase from her, and set it on die side. "We'll leave that here till later." "Couldn’t I just—speak to you first?” she said, with an effort. "I'Vt been thinking n good deal dining the night, and ” Again he interrupted her with de cision. "No, Viola. I'm dnm all tin talking—and the thinking today." He held out his hand to h< r with the words, and as site laid her own Within it. "That’s all you've got to do," he said gently. "Understand?" She shrank a little. "You'ie not going to make me do nnvtlung irre vocable?” she said. "Yes, I am," said Tiggie. Her eyes looked up to his, startled "Oh, what?" He hesitated for an instant. He had not meant to be sudden: but it seemed he had no choice, ipmtlv lie told her. "Presently, when we've had some breakfast. I'm going to take you along to a quiet church in the city where \\%- can he married." She made a sharp, involuntars movement. Her hand went up ><> her face as though to ward off a blow. "Oh, hadn't we better—wait a little ‘ ' ehe said breathlessly. "Wouldn't it be wiser— safei ?” "No," said Tiggie, and lie spoke With a resolution that would not h» gainsaid. "1 don't see any point In It. In fact in my opinion there's I every reason for not waiting. I got a epecial license yesterday, and Har vey has fixed up the rest." She broke in almost feverishly, but she kept tier fare hidden, "nut yesterday—you didn't know—every thing. It was only last night that— that ” "It didn't make any difference," e&id Tiggie simply, "in fact, if I’d needed anything tun her to make ine decide what to do, it would have been that." bhe turned from him; lie saw that she was trembling. "I ought not to let you," she said in a choked voice. ’ it isn’t a question of letting," said Progress is Slow In Rond Projects Over This Sfnte Washington, March 3.—Progress in highway construction in North Caro lina under the $400,000,000 appiopria tion by Congress for public works roads is in-low the average for the whole country according to the Bu reau of Public Roads, If. S. Depart ment of Agriculture, which is super vising the of the State high- StevensoN m °. nday THEATRE, HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY lOp-SB, ".Society CTh eaters’' ON THE STAGE WEDNESDAY ONLY “EUROPEAN PASSION PLAY” Matinee Prices 50c, 76c, sl.oo Plus Tax Night. Prices . 76c, SI.OO, $1.60 Plus Tax Thurulday Edmund Lowe—Ann Sothern JN One Day iiW _ only LET’S FALL IN LOVE” — extra added “ 3 LITTLE PIGS” The Most Popular Short Subject Produced in Colors Tiggie. "It’s just plain necessity. You needn't be afraid that I’ll ever do anything to make yon regret it,” "But you!” she said. "You!" These was a kind of suppressed anguish in her utterance that made him realize the need tor firmness. He knew that he had already estab lished a certain ascendency over her. and he must not suffer it to slacken. "My dear.” he said very quietly, "we re not going back over that old ground now 7 . You are in my care, and I’m going to do all I can to pro tect you. But first I want the legal right to do so. You can’t refuse to give me that—at this stage." She made an odd, blind movement towards him. “I couldn't refuse —to give you anything," she said. "Only —only—are you sure it's fair? Isn’t there —pome other way?" "None.” said Tiggie firmly. “And it's perfectly fair. You need never ask yourself that. Now look here! Wouldn't you like to stay and have your breakfast up here? It'll give you time to get used to the idea. Then, when I've had mine. I'll come up and fetch you. and we'll just go off and get the thing done. Come! How does that strike you? You’ll he ready for me will you?" She had turned hack into the room. She made a small gesture with her hands. "I don't know —what to say to you," «he said. “That’s all right." said Tiggie cheerily, looking at his watch. Prac tical determination was his plan of action at this stage. He had used it before with success. "In half an hour's time then! I'll tell them to send you up some breakfast. You'll lie ready?" He paused, willing she would turn and face him; then, as she did not, he went straight to her. halting close behind her. "Viola!" he said. She turned very slow ly in response, not willingly, but as though she had no choice. Her face was set. im mobile. "Yes." she said passively. "T’m counting on you," said Tiggie with emphasis. “You'll he ready?" She bent her head; her eyes were downcast. "Yes." she said again. "Very we'l then.” said Tiggie. "That’s settled.” And with the words, he turned and quietly left her. lie had gained his point. He knew that she would make no further at tempt to resist. Yet as he went away he was conscious of no feeling of elation. Rather was the weight ne carried at his heart almost a. presage ot tragedy. m ♦ * Harvey, openlv skeptical of the ecclesiastical elerrtenf. and a gray haired verger of almost unbelievable sanctity, were the sole witnesses of that strangely unreal yet strangely impressive wedding. “Why on earth did he choose a church ceremonv ?" was the wonder in the mind of Harvey to whom the whole affair seemed unnecessarily prolonged and theatrical. The elderly eiei gyman who con ducted the service had a weary look, as though he were wondering the same thing, hut he conscientiously did his best to muster a little en thusiasm and prevent his thoughts from straying in the direction of a parish matter w‘hi> h to him was of infinitely greater impoxtanee. Pertainly the attitude of the two (Copyright by Ethel Mary Savaae) way departmets actually engaged in carrying out the program. On Feb ruary 24., 74.5 percent of tlxe total $400,000,000 Federal highway appro priation had been allotted to work in progress. On the same date 55 percent of North Carolina’s $9,522,293 appor tionment of the total fund had been put. to work. In Nortn Carolina a total of 184 pro Jects, estimated to cost $8,197,000, had been advertised for contract, including regular Federal-aid and State funds, 147 projects had been awarded to con tractors or started hy day labor; anu 77 projects, employing 3,905 men, were under construction. The public works HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1934 parties chiefly concerned was not such as to excite any very keen l»* terest. The man, sturdily built, un« romantic in every detail, held a Prayer Book with one finger inserted in the leaves of the Marriage Service for reference, until the loudly-whis pered instructions of the attendant verger convinced him that this was unnecessary, when he turned with a business-like air and# landed it tc Harvey, who studied it with an air of impersonal criticism for the rest of the service. The girl, wrapped ia her cloak, her hat brim drawn down over her small pale face, seemed in tent only upon fulfilling her part with as little delay and ostentation aa possible. She betrayed no sign of agitation though the husky quality of her voice made her words some what indistinct. The hand upon which Tiggie eventually placed his ring was very cold but quite steady. She behaved like a perfectly regu lated automaton throughout. No, the officiating clergyman vti perhaps not greatly to blame, though he blamed himself, for the failure t* fix his full attention upon the mat ter in hand. They were so obviously desirous to get the thing over and he gone. In the vestry, after he had biesned them, he essayed the old time-worn jokes suitable to the occasion; but only Tiggie laughed, and that per functorily, and so evidently from a mere sense of decency that he speed ily refrained, suffering his tired and rather gloomy thoughts to travel hack to the parochial problem which was harassing his mind. He wu too hard-worked to have time or energy to spare for these strangers, though he did throw a glance of dis approval at Harvey for remarking that the good deed thus duly com pleted and ratified ought to earn them some abatement on the credit side of virtue in the celestial pass book. Again it was only Tiggie who laughed, and that somewhat grudg ingly, but Harvey had not spoken with the idea of provoking merri ment. He only expressed the sar donic thoughts with which his satyr like brain supplied him. And the dim church, with its long aisles and narrow stained glass windows through which the sunlight could only point long thin fingers here and there, was not in his opinion a very inspiring place. The general atmos phere depressed him. and the fusty smell of cassocks and surplices in the vestry did not improve things. He voiced the decision later that the w hole edifice wanted fumigating. The catacombs of ancient Rome could hardly have been less stuffy. Rut perhaps religion throve best in such surroundings. To which Tiggie, newly married, responded prosaically, "Oh, let's talk of things we know something about!” It was then that Viola, who stood between them veiled in silence, ut tered a faint laugh which made them both turn and look at her with con cern. They had reached the dark porch of the church; both clergyman and verger had faded away behind them and the roar of lorries and txades men’s vans filled the street in front. Tiggie spoke over her head to his faithful supporter. "Go and get & taxi like a good chap!" cm ia: continued) funds involved in Ihe advertised pro jects amounted to $5,236,000, other Federal and State funds making up the balance of the total estimated cost of $6,196,000. .WORLD. at a Glance By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer New York, March 2. —President Roosevelt is expected to reply to his critics by radio. The president retains his jovial mood at press conferences. Observers in New York wlio have traveled around the country recently report that the president’s support a mong the people is stronger than ever. TROIJBI.ES The president is keenly aware of his troubles. In his radio talk, he may bluntly put some questions to the people. It seems likely that the president will discuss regulation of stock and commodity markets, airmail contract cancellation, and the NRA —-particu- larly its labor provision and resistance to them. MARKETS The president is likely to ask a single question concerning stock and commodity markets. That question will be: Do the American people desire a repetition of the 1928-29 speculative debacle? Tremendous pressure is being brought by New York financial inter*, ests on members of congress, the pre sident has been informed by Demo cratic leaders. AIRMAIL The president is convinced that evidence proves there was collusion in the award of airmail contracts, that operators who were not on the “in” were squeezed out, and that the government suffered losses of $48,800,* 000. He will discuss his position on that —in any radio talk that, is likely to occur. As to the sacrifices made by army flyers—the president has been urged by high army officers to respond that the test has (been in eoctrordlnary weather and that the army considers this a proper time to call attention to the fact that its equipment has been neglected. To any observer in Washington, the debacle on the airmail will continue for some time. One is likely to read of it in his newspapers for weeks to come. "FOOTLJGHT PARADE" A bevy of beautiful girls, and an all-Mar cast, headed b y Jimmy Cagney, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, and Joan Blond ell, moke “Footlight Parade ” a picture always to be remembered. Here are some glimpses of the splend ors awaiting you In this latest Warner Bros, masterpiece coming Monday and Tuesday to the Stevenson theatre Farm Colony Basis For Agricultural Aid Plan Placing of Idle Tenants In SelfSu&taining Farm Vil lages Proposed by W. T* Couch, Director of sity Press; Sensible aind Simple Chepl Hill, March 3; —‘A farm' col ony plan which he believes is as sen sible as it. is simple has been ad vanced by W. T. Couch, director of the University of North Carolina Press, who has recently edited a. book embracing a symnoosium of views on “Culture in the South,” which has attracted national attention. His proposal calls for the establish ment of numerous farm colonies which would e fashioned after tiio.se formed in North Carolina, by Hugh Mcßae of Wilmington and by the federal government at. Norris, Ten -1 nesisee. Mr. Couch, however, would establish the larming village on a different principle from Mr. Mcßae's and would have it iess industrialized than the Tennessee colony Os the six million farmers in the United States, approximately one-half are in the South. Os tlx is number one half are cotton farmers. By a further reduction, according to Mr. Couch, one half of these could raise suf ficient cotton both for home use and for export. Rut Ibis would have to be on the condition that they till soil best suited for cotton production and employ the most improved farming MOVIE MEMORIES ppi ll® f /WIM l§ •'MB Hr fin jUi Bv Jl I Hi 1 BEB §§ Bg*%jfS « mMSm Pearl White Twelve years ago: After appearing in wild west pictures and convincing di rectors that she could ride, Pearl White began making a. long series of screen serials —dashing melodramas that reeked with thrills. Remember how they would leave you in terrible suspense from episode to episode every Saturday afternoon? methods. ‘‘Texas can raise cotton several cents cheaper than the states located in the Southeast. Although other sec tions might later become able to pro duce it as cheaply” he says, ‘‘the only sensible thing to do at present is to let Texas raise more.” The press director explains that the. majority of cotton farmers are of the tenaril class. This is significant due to the fact that many tenant fa milies have been displaced as a re sult of the governmental plan for the reduction of cotton acreage. Land lords, instead of reducing the num ber of acres held .by each tenant, found it more profitable to dismiss some of the tenants and alio the acre age of the remaining ones to be the same l . “While feden aid lias been a good thing,” Mr. Couch goes on to say, "it has hurt the tenant farmers a great deal. If allotments were made on the NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE, North Carolina: County of Vance: Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in that cer tain deed of trust executed by A. R. Hunt and wife, Bessie Hunt to The Raleigh Savings Bank and Trust. Company, trustee, which said deed of trust is dated May 1, 1928, and re corded in Book 146, Page 301, of the Vance County Registry, default hav ing been made in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and in the conditions therein secured, the undersigned substituted trustee by in strument recorded in Book 181, Page 33, Vance County Registry, will on Tuesday, March 27, 1934, at or aibout twelve o'clock noon, at the courthouse door at Henderson, North Carolina offer for sale and sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land containing eighty on® (81) acres, more or less, situate, ly ing and being on the Townsville to Oxford road, being about five miles West from the town of Henderson, in Williamsiboro Township, Vance Coun ty, State of North Carolina., having such shapes, metes, courses and dis tances as will more fully appear by reference to a. plat, thereof, made by R. T. Gregory, Surveyor, on the 25t‘h day of April 1928, and attached to the abstract now on file with the Atlantic Joint Stock Land Bank of Raleign, same /being bounded on the North toy the lands of G. G. Tillotson, on the East by the Lands of W. B. Daniel, Mrs. Norman Barker and Jesse Knott, on the South by the lands of Baker Shot well, and on the West toy the lands of Baker Shotwell, Bryant and Howard and John F. Hicks and pub lic road, and being the identical tract of land conveyed by deed from W. B. Daniel and wife to A. R. Hunt by deed of date the 15th of November 1924, said deed being duly recorded In Deed. Book No. 133, at, page 15, in the of fice of the Register of Deeds for Vance County, State of North Caro lina. to which reference is made for : more complete description of same. Terms of sale cash and trustee will require deposit of 10 percent of the amount of the bid as evidence of good faith. - This the 24th day of February, 1934. JOSEPH L. COCKERHAM, Substituted Trustee. Robert Weinstein and Victor W. ‘ Thompson, Attorneys, Raleigh, N. C. 1 basis of the family-sized farm, then the family farm as an economic unit could be protected. But under the pre sent system of making allotments on the amount of cotton produced on a farm in the last five, or in the last ten years, the family farm has no chance whatsoever. "If allotments were made as I have suggested, the remaining tenants could be placed in self-sustaining farm villages Large numbers of these tenants, who have, lost their farms and who are at present reduced to beg gary, would welcome an opportunity such as the farm colony would pro vide.” Mr. Couch has just completed a tour of western North Carolina and parts of Tennessee, during which he dis cussed his plan with many different types of people. He says all the edu cators he conversed with thought the plan sound, that all the farmers lit* met declared themselves eager to en gage in such an enferpnze. 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