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CHAPTER 51
po\VN THE alley went Tiggie, be
tween the old stone fisher huts, where
the babies sprawled fat-legged on
the steps, sticking their Angers and
storing at him, down to the beach
and the little bridge that crossed the
stream which presented quite an im
posing appearance after the rein
forcements of last night’s rain! Over
the bridge without a pause or a
glance at the gray sen coming in
wreathed in mist, and ominous! Up
the narrow winding path cut in the
eide of the cliff with its stunted
gorse hushes and pink valerian!
How often he had mounted that path
in heaviness of soul! What a load ,
of anxiety had weighed upon him!
How he had sometime. 1 dreaded to
open the cnttane gate!
And now—now of he reached it he
had s o pause to get I lie* overwhelm- ,
ing joy of the contrast. \* he raised
fb* latch, he was whistling like n
Uoy. He had not a '’ate left in the 1
world.
The sound of skipping feet told
him that he had been observed, and
he looked ovei the gate 10 see Joyce,
clod in mackintosh and sou’wester, ,
dancin ’, *o meet him. She lifted her
face to kiss him, her arms closing (
round his neck. .
•'Oh. Uncle Tiggie darling, were (
you really nearly drowned last
night ?’’ was her greeting. “How
dread!' nl! ”
"There's a long way between i
nearly and quite.” said Tiggie.
"How’s Auntie Viola?”
"She's looking rather pale this
morning.” .Joyce told him. “You can :
go up and see her. mummy says.
I’m just going up to the other cot- 1
tage to take care ot Peter, but I <
wanted just to see you first. Oh,
Uncle Tiggie—dear Uncle Tiggie—l
am glad you weren’t quite drowned.” 1
"Than as!” said Tiggie “I'm rath- t
er glad too."
Joyce's arms clung as lie prepared 1
to straighten himself. "You won't
ever do it again, will yon?” she said. ,
"Never,' promised Tiggie obliging
ly. "I've quite decided that it’s one
of the things I'll never do once
much less again- if I h ve any say
in the matter.”
"That’s oil right,” said Joyce, re
leasing him. “Because I'm sure ,
Auntie Viola would die if you did—
quite, quite sure.”
"Oh, nonsense!” said Tiggie. “She's ,
much too sensible.”
Cut Joyce shook her head at the
airy assertion. “No, you don't un
derstand,” she said gravely. “She
wouldn’t be able to help it. She loves
you so.”
They separated, and Tiggie pur
rued his way up the path to the
porch still feeling absurdly light -
hearted, almost light-headed too.
Yes. they would have to tell their
secret very soon.
There war no one about when he
pushed open the door which Joyce
had left unlatched Helen was ap
parently busy in ihr had. premises
Moon Theatre
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
“THE ROAD TO
RUIN”
All. New—Talking—Singing
anil Dancing
No Children Tickets Sold
Admission 11 and 26c
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
Having qualified as Executor of the
estate of Firman Tettemer, late of
Vance County, North Carolina, this is
to notify all persons having claims
against the estate of said deceased to
exhibit them to the undersigned at
Henderson, N. C., on or before the
19th day of March, 1935, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their re
covery. Ail persons indebted to said
estate will please make immediate
payment.
This 19th day of March, 1934.
MAURICE J. O’NEIL,
Executor of the Estate of
Firman Tettemer.
ORPHEUM THEATRE
OXFORD, N. C.
The Greatest Picture Ever Made
“ESKIMO”
(WIFE TRADERS)
2 years in the making in the wastelands
of the Frozen North
Monday and Tuesday, March 26-27
Matinee daily at 3 P. M. u oa r
Night .7 and 9:15 P. M. ... *’‘ .] *;’ '' *' *
■on ne did not go tn search of her.
He went straight up the stairs with
out a pause and knocked softly on
the door at the top.
Jt was ajar, and her low voice at
once hade him enter. She was in
bed. hut partially dressed and
propped up by pillows. Her pale
face smiipd a welcome and she made
a gesture as of drawing him to her.
though her arms were not out
stretched as on the night before.
"You're tired.” said Tiggie.
He bent over her, holding her
hands; then in answer to her look
stooped and kissed her upturned iips.
“You’re tired.” he said again.
She continued to smile at him.
though not. very steadily. "I'm all
right,” she said “Only—some stupid
dreams, that’s all.”
lie sat down beside her. There
was no hint of emotion about him.
but he Kept one of her hands in his.
"It’s a waste of time to dream,” he
said, "when the reality is so good."
"Yes, Isn't it .1 waste of rime?"
Her voice followed his like a soft
echo. ”1 never knew how reality
could be till now."
“Thai's better.” said Tiggie
“Dreams are rotten things.”
“Oh. rotten.” she agreed, (lie quiv
ering smile still on her face.
"And that’s why you haven't come <
down?" pursued Tiggie.
“Yes. I was lazy, and Helen ad
vised me to stay here. She said tihere i
was nothing to get up for as I i
couldn't go out " I :
“That’s true." said Tiggie. with a I
glance at the mist blurred window •*
pane. "Pool old Harvey is of the
same mind. He's still in bed too.” *
“Oh, is he? I wondered.” Her '
look fell, and suddenly be saw a wave
of color rise in her white cheeks. I
"Tiggie!” she said, “your hands!” :
"Oh, sorry!” said Tiggie. hastily
concealing them under (■ corner of |
the sheet. 'That happened last
night. I ought to have put some
gloves on.” i
"Lfjt me see them!” she said.
“No. really!” protested Tiggie. ,
“It’s nothing—nothing whatever.”
“Please!” said Viola.
lie could not resist her. She drew
t-he sheet away and examined his i
injuries with deep concern.
“Nothing’” she said, and lifted the
damaged hands and held them '
against her breast. “How those cuts
must hurt!”
“Nothing could hurt —like this.”
said Tiggie. clumsy with embarrass
ment. “I’m ashamed to have let you
see it. I forgot.”
“You always forget—yourself,” she
said.
“Oh, I say!” he remonstrated.
“You don’t know me very well.”
She raised her eyes to his. and they
were shining as though the soul be
hind them gave them light. “1 know
you so well—so well, Tiggie.” she
saiit. “And that's why I love you so.
There is no one in the world like
you.”
“Oh, hut darling ” said Tig
gie, greatly abashed.
She laughed at him softly,, fondly, I
(Coyjnyht by F.thel Mart/ SamoeJ
Education Association
Would Retain Sales Tax
(Continued Ira °a*e One *
carrying out its aims, are in politics
up to their necks this year, with their
chief objective to elect members to
the General Assembly who are in fa
vor of retaining the sales tax and in
creasing teachers’ salaries back to
their old levels, or even higher, if
possible. There was much talk in the
hotel lobbies and hotel rooms about
the injustice of the present pay of
school teachers and school officials
and many expressed themselves that,
instead of getting only eight months
pay they should be entitled to the
NftA pay scale for white collar work
ers and that this should Ihe on a t'welvc
months basis. Tt was mentioned tha:
only four statefesfiow pay their teach
ers salaries that would conform with
the NTIA code regulations. But none
of this talk reached the surface, since
the leaders know that if they try to
get too much at one time, they are
likely to antagonize the public.
So for the time being the more con
servative leaders are advising the su
perintendents and principals and
teachers to be content with trying to
get their salaries back up to the 1929
level, when they were approximately
30'per cent higher than they are now
Some teachers, of course, have been
cut considerably more than 30 per
cent, but not by the State. These are
those who were teaching in cities and
counties that were paying their teach
ers more than the State salary sche
dule because of local city or county
supplements, and where the people
have since refused to vote these sup
plemental taxes.
It is generally agreed in govern-
HENDERSON, "(N. CJ DAILY DISPATCH, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1984
shaking her head. “Thanlt you for
calling me that! It's the first time,
isn’t it? Say it again, Tiggie! I like
it —from you.”
“My darling!” he said. "My own .
darling!”
His arm siid behind her pillow,
and he felt the sweet yielding of her
as she gave herself into his clasp. '
With her forehead against his neck
she said, “That’s just how I’ve
wanted to be for ages and ages.”
She made a little nestling movement.
“Your dear big arms round me—like
this —holding me safe Tiggie, have
you seen Harvey’s picture?”
“No. I've heard all about it.” said
Tiggie. his cheek caressing her hair.
“1 thnk it’s going to hr rather
wonderful.” she said. "It's curious
hut he seems to have got right inside
my mind to do It. Do you under
stand. Tiggie?”
“I shall." said Tiggie tenderly.
“Yes. you will," she said. “I know
you will Because —you are you, and
you couldn't think anything that
wasn't true. You know. dear. I iik®
Harvey. I didn't at first. I do now
very, very much ”
“Well, dearest? What of if?” said
Tiggie. “I like him too.”
“Yes. But you don't understand
him.” she sgid. “Perhaps l don’t
either—altogether. Rut T know he ,
is very great-hearted. He is devoted
to you. Tiggie. You believe that,
don't veu?”
“Well. I haven’t much choice—
after last night,” said Tiggie.
“Oh yes.” she said. “It was he who
saved you.”
“I'm inclined to think it was more
for your sake than mine that he did
it though.” said Tiggie.
”1 must thank him,” said Viola.
She was silent for a moment, then
said with slight hesitation. “I think
he is rather a marvelous friend to
have. Tiggie. He is very far-seeing
—and understanding.”
“Are you trying to tell hie he’s in
love with you?” said Tiggie bluntly.
She laughed faintly. "No dear.
That’s only his way of putting it—
not yours or rnme. All genius is like
that. Don’t you understand? It is
made to adore whatever calls it
fori h.”
“.Sorry! ” said Tiggie. "Out of my
depth!”
She turned her face upwards,
speaking in a whisper with lips that,
moved against his neck. “Oh, my
dear, it doesn’t matter —so long as
you don't think I’m in love with
him. ’
“Oh, T see,” said Tiggie. He also
laughed a little and kissed her again.
"No. I don’t think that —not being
such an outsize ass as I look.”
“T knew you weren't really,” she
said.
There followed a peaceful interval
during which neither of them found
much to say. The rain was patter
ing on the panes in earnest, and
there was a moaning as of rising
wind out at sea.
(TO RE CONTINUED)
mental circles here that the teachers’
salaries are not adequate and that
they should he paid more than the
average of about S7OO for the eight
months term. State employes here also
feel that the salaries of S4O and SSO
a month which the State Highway
Commission is paying many of its
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1 — Roving
t I— Pasture on or graze.
13— Unbleached
14 — One who revolts r
I*:—Sum up
18— A country (abbr.)
19— Bristly
21 — Initials of famous president
22 — Weapons designed to be
thrown
25 Hunting accessory
26 A colonist
28— Devoured
29 Assist
30— Compass point „
31— New Testament (abbr.)
32 A man’d name
33 Brown horse (abbr.)
36—The son of one’s husband or
wife by a previous marriage
41— In law a thing
42 Tanned skins of animals
43 — Sun god
44 A colorless crystalline com
pound
46 — Negative reply
47 — A doctrine or system
48 — Part of winding stairs
60 —An amorphous substance
62 — Salesmen
63 Combining form meaning'
imperfect
DOWN
5 —A color.
2 Red Cross (abbr.)
4 Potters’ clay or earth
5 One who attends sick
«—Tellurium (symbol)
7 Brown (abbr.)
8— To set again
9 Fat
10-—Not dry
Hum "The Koiiil Kuin”'Playinif :il lho Moon
Monday and Tuesday
employes are inadequate and that the j
salaries of other employes that have j
been reduced to S6O and S7O a month. |
such as hundreds of stenographers j
and clerks are now getting, are inade-j
quote. But the State employes who i
live here in Raieigh know that there ;
is little or no chance for an increase
until the next General Assembly j
meets. They also feel that they are |
just as much entitled to an increase!
as the school teachers, especially when j
■the school teachers were cut only 30!
per cent by legislative enactment,!
while other State workers were cut
an average of more than 40 per cent
and some as much as 50 per cent.
The school leaders were not nearly
as critical of the last General Assem
bly and of the State govern as
they have been in the past, appar
ently realizing iaht the 1933 assembly
tried to do the best it could, although j
many still arc saying privately that !
“they could have found more money i
for schools than they did if they had
wanted to.”
Duck Stamp Bill
Becomes the Law
Bureau Informed;
... - - -
Dally Dispatch Itiirean
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, March 24. —The so-called
“duck stamp bill” levying a special
federal tax of one dollar on those
hunting migratory wildfowl, has be
come a law, R. Bruce Etheridge, di
rector of the Department of Conser
vation and Development, was noti
fied today, . *
This bill received me name of the
“duck stamp bill”, Mr. Etheridge
said, through its requirement that mi
gratory wildfowl hunters must attach
the Federal license to their State li
cense for the special privilege of
hunting this ciass of game.
Proceeds from the sale of the Fed
eral licenses, the conservation direc
tor has been informed, will he used
11 — War cries of a Highland clan
12— Greasy compounds
15— A curve or crook
17 —Article of dressing room
20 —Petitioners
22 Mountain (abbr,)
23 — Senior (abbr.)
24 — Musical note
j 27 —Vexing
• 32— Dry
33 Form of blow
34 To let again
35 — An exclamation
36 — Interjection meaning lntsh
; 37 —A doctrine
138 —Toothed irregularly
39 —Postscript
' 40—Appoint
45—A river in Scotland
47 —Suffix forming the ending of
some feminine names
49 Left side (abbr.)
50 — Rear admiral (abbr.)
51 — Suffix used as an adjectival
termination to denote condi
tion
.Answer to previous put*!*
exclusively for the protection of the
wildfowl for whose shooting the per
mit is required. One provision of the
bill adopted at the suggestion of Re-
MOVIE
MEMORIES
MBW| §l^• 1111
* Florence Turner
Eighteen years ago: This is a
photo of Florence Turner, popu
lar screen actress, just after her
return to the United States fol
lowing two years in England
where she made several pictures
during the war. Before her film
debut she played four years on
the stage with Robert Mantell and
Henry Irving.
Follow The Leaders ....
CHANGE TO SWIFT’S
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suring you fertilizer made especially for tobacco from Best Materials;
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green and brown Certificate on the bag.
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Learn about this new fertilizer for tobacco that won the praise of leading
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NON-ACID FORMlNG—(Physiologically Neutral)
KITTRELL & HARRIS, Agents
Phone 733 Henderson, N. C.
A. H. MOORE,
Planters Warehouse Phone 249
y,
5 * , . H • * *
.present a tive Lindsey Warren, ex
empts hunters under the age of 16
.years from the license provision.
: .Tto'e major part, of the collections
is expected to gc, for the purchase
of migratory wildfowl sanctuaries, in
cluding nesting and feeding grounds.
Legislation of this type has been ad
vocated Ly several national groups of
sportsmen and conservationists for
several years, and virtually all such
organizations approved the bill while
OUR
7 th
ANNIVERSARY
Monday, March 26th is the seventh birthday
of the STEVENSON THEATRE
Tshe
STEVENSON
PRESENTS
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
(Two Days on the Stage)
HIGH HAT REVUE
DROWN AND BAILEY
THE 8 LON DON AIR ES
(■BE Famous Radio Broadcasting
wF Orchestra of Baltimore, Md.
HESTER BAILEY
PV Fate Feature of Musical Success,
JKjfaA “Strike Me Pink”
IgllpiW LOUIS AND PEGI
iHhVC \ { International Favorites
M LUCILLE KAELIN
\ j Aerobatic Sensation
/ J DOROTHY SEBASTIAN
/ w Russian Toe Specialty—
J m World’s Fair Favorite
A/ SIX ENGLISH ROCKETS
Beautiful Dancing Girls
Sweetest, Honest Musical
Comedy in Years
(ON TIIE SCREEN)
RUPERT HUGHES STORY
“Miss Fanes Baby Is Stolen”
With Dorothea Wieck —Alice Brady—Baby Leßo.y
Added Popeye The Sailor Cartoon —“BROADWAY KNTGIITS”
Comedy—Bathe News
Admission 10 and 36c
WEDNESDAY— THURSDAY NIGHT
Matinee and Night (ON THE STAGE)
((e! V AC A If T\in” One Performance Only—
-9* A A JVirNLJ Henderson High School
C HARLES HIGGLES— ; Senior Play
MARY BOLAND- “THE WHOLE TOWN’S
BURNS—ALLEN TALKING”
ALLISON SKIPWORTH <>N THE scrjeEN*—
W. C. FIELDS MATINEE ONLY
“SIX OF A KIND”
FRIDAY
“GROSS COUNTRY Saturday
GKUSS LUU “DEVILS TIGER”
1 IXL 10 KANE RICHMOND"
lew Ayres—Alice White MARION BURNS
pending before congress. It Wa< ,
approved by the national adminJ,°
tion and particularly recommended k
the President’s committee o n
life restoration which made its j* ‘
a short time ago. f,m,!
The closeness of countries | 0 r)
other and >. their interdependence
makes war more difficult to avoid and
more ruinous when it comes