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CHAPTER THIRTY-THRRE MR. MERRIKIKLD. Jeremy. Bill and Gaylo dined together t-.-is eve ning. Mr. Weems had pone to vr :t a friend across town. lk:t t:;e •" ly secretary's al-s nee made >o re - ticular difference because ti.o ner was funereal anymj'. The three, young folk responded very politely to Mr. M- rruield s conversational efforts, b it thev ini tiated nothing an« thoy ["y none of their aeeu-toivcc. aaa-tj. The old gentleman. course, per ceived it: quietly ho stud: " l-^tr faces, but 1 am : • • 't -''- •* When dessert w;s done he smacked his lips in audible s;:ti>tactu-r. at the meal. wiped h:s 1:100 a:U dropped the napkin onto his plate. "Something i- disturbing my young guests." he announced. Gayle turned a little pink, oven though she did not look at bint. The truth was. she felt that responsi bility for the somherness here was iier own. T tcitly !.0 Mao paced he: in a position as hostess at ihe Oaks, and a hostess •;> expected to keep evorvonc ' o ••I—I -.vent riding this morning with Jeremy." Gayk finally said, smiling. "My muscles are woefully out of conditio: •: !.->rsi hu k! It was eno'.uh to break tno spell of gloom. Jeremy smikd. aiK the Other laughed outiight. "So you took the young la !y rid ing, Jeremy." his i::<.t.;t:ier said. "Young sir, I envy you!" Now it was Jeremy's turn to blush. He tried to answer, but Bill beat him to it. "So do I." Bill declared. "What's Jeremy got that we haven't got, Mr. Merritield? Ar.r.'t we as irre sistable as he?" The old gentleman chuckled. It delighted his soul thus to be wel comed into their comradeship and banter on occasions. "It y be my gray hairs." he suggested, "but you, Mr. Bailey, have no obvious faults." "It could be." Gayle said, smil ing, "that neither of von asked me and Jeremv did. Don't you think so?" The old man knew he had suc ceeded then. Succeeded in driving away reticence and gloom. For a half hour or so they all talked pleasantly, even Jeremy entering into the spirit of fellowship more than he usually did. This later fact delighted his grandfather still more. Finally Mr. Merritield arose. "Whatever was troubling you three seems to have subsided." he stated. "I hope it was nothing serious. Worry and fretting is for old men such as I, not for youth." He turned to leave the room. "I hope I'm half as cheerful at 78 as you are, Mr. Merrifield," Bill declared, and to that Gayle and Jeremy added agreement. The three young people drifted aimlessly out onto the broad front porch then and. sat together in a canopied canvas swing, a soft, sink-down thin jr susp ended by springs. Bill's lor.? legs pushed to keep them swaying gently while they talked. The talk here carefully avoided what had been on their minds most of the day. Absolutely no mention was made of Lola Montesa, nor of Bill's embarrassing episode with her. For this. Bill at least was I rratefiil. He was glad tn have -He ! talk kept to horscbaek ri ling :l,ul ! othi r assort oil tilings. "I have given some thought -r>— 'ah—that v hUU you S" jgosteu. j Gayle." Jeremy ventured. "1 refer I to tlio—the riiling party." "Oh. Of course, Jeremy! You ll j love it- You coiiM even do it a. i night now. Hie.i s stall a tre | metulous moor! on duly." ; -That would he pleasant. Should I—would yi'is say that I ju.-t lo j phono the others .' I tool as n "Surely. Just ti !■•; In no m:\ b"dy I you liked at the par;;/ here. Jcr leniv. aii'I invite them to be your | uuest on a riding party." Clay! spoke, as it' s!;e were a d:>!in<: !>u: sister. "Say that you will provide the horses and that vou will start from here, i hope you invito Bill and me." "You'd bettor!" Bill growled. "Oh. I say—of course!" Jeremy I was pleased, "i—well. I owe a creat deal to you two. But for you I would not have—" "Skip that. !eremv." Bill poked i him playfully. You're a swell egg. really But you keep it sort of hid den. I'm talking tranklv. ••i • •• put in. "you cuu .i t -ill hour or so and come back here to dance." "I. ah. do not -lance. Gay'.e but—" She sat up 'raight. "I'd forgot- j ten! I was going to teach you. 1*0:' cockiness sakis. Jeremy, come in side with me this very minute and j we'll have a lesson. Bill, you—you j can .lance with a broom or some- j "I'm no witch," Bill protested, following them in. Graham, the butler, helped them clear off a rug or two in the big room near the piano, but then tluy remembered that only Gayle could ! play. "There's not even a radio or a Phonograph!" Gayle lamented. "I—I shall purchase one, both, tomorrow!" Jeremy declared. "I have s •:nc funds. I have done some figuring today, anyway, and I was quite astounded. If I allotted my self $100 per week, which is far more than I use. I'd have money enough to live for more than 150 years! I had no idea: My parents had set aside a trust fund, and then I inherited some, and there have been dividends on investments mode for me, so that I find myself in a position of some financial re sponsibility when I had not thought of it at all. It is really most dis turbing!" Poor Jeremy was quite sincere, so that in spite of her inclination to laugh at the odd situation, Gayle controlled herself. Bill just couldn't help being a trifle sarcastic, though. "I do believe," said he, "that you might afford some sort of music box, then. Say a second-hand one, maybe.'" "No," Jeremy gave a serious thought to that. "That would not be satisfactory, I am sure. I shall want—wouldn't ■ "i go with me tomorrow to choose what is needed. You—you are my only friends!" Gayle squeezed Bili's arm quick ly, furtively. "Certainly, Jeremy, any time you say," she spoke earnestly. "It will be a pleasure to help you. And Bi'l will help you select the saddle horses we discussed, too. Remem ber?" "Y:s! Yes. surely. Will you. Bill?" J ' Dill nodded, and Gayle stepped to Jeremy's side. Dancing is largely a matter of moving in march time rhythm, Jer emy," she began. "We don't really ntv.l much music tonight. Instead of walking, you just slide. On the Kills of your feet, like this. Come >'!i . . . slide, slide, slide, slide . . . tnat s right! One, two; one, two; on.\ two ..." ' For a half hour she taught him, a."'l 1>:II lound himself an unneces sary .I'.junet there. He drifted back onto ';ie porch, but he was near a window where he could see them under the lights within. The longer he watched, the les» enthusiasm he had for watching. There is simply not much pleasure watching another eligible man cance with the girl you love; and in the process of teaching Gavle naturally had to hold Jeremy quite elose, had to be more intimate with Mini than might have been required ;:i an actual dance. It was plain, too, or at least Bill thought it was, that Jeremy en j<»yed t lie session immensely. The ihish of excitement on his face proved that, and the bright anx lousncss in his eyes. He wanted so to please Gayle, to learn, to be a pa it of things. Jeremy had talked i"ss and less of bookisl? tilings lately. He was definitely respond ing to the treatment Mr. Merrifield had arranged for him. Its only natural that they olioiiiil get married." Bill told him selr, there in the darkness. "Chris topher. .si00 a week for 150 years! . "t counting what the old gent is -•mo to will him. And me—I've "°t ab°"t ••J(J in R»y jeans, expense money. He sighed heavily. Life has a pe culiar way of mixing up the people on this earth, creating the ex tremes and the heart aches and the good luck and all. Now take this business about Lola—no, skip that ho d.'on t want to think about that any more tonight. Eut the day had been pretty well scrambled. Even -Mr. iWerniiold had detected that, at dinner time. •Tomorrow I've got to get things going. Bill mused now. "These girls have got to be kept busy, some way." J It was a way of saying that he must not let his mind dwell on personal things. And yet the girl he loved was just through the window uancmg and laughing with a mil lionaire who obviously worshiped her, too. This very day that mil lionaire had completely disarmed Bill as a love rival by declaring ii» friendship, by offering Bill all his fortune, if needed, to help Bill out of trouble. Besides which Bill was already obligated morally not to interfere with any romance be tween Jeremy and Gayle. "Lordy!" he almost groaned in despair now. But that didn't help. Here was a situation, and he couldn t do a thing to change it. As far down the decades as he could prophesy for himself, Bill Bailey saw Bill Bailey as a single man made miserable by unrequit ed love. Utterly depressed, he went upstairs to an early bed. (To Be Continued) War Chariots Right Off the Assembly Line Important arm of mechanized warfare is the tank corps. Greatly outnumbered in this weapon at be ginning of the war, the Allies now are rushing thousands to the front to stem the Nazi blitzkrieg. Here is an imposing array of fa.st baby tanks as they came olF the assembly line in a French factory. (Central Press) Hom Nw.smA> 5Dtf SP°TS J DEAR. NOAH = B=:CAJSEL OUP2- SOt4 (4AS SPOTS. C-OUi-D IT SE CHICKEN POX 7 /VAE MAYS /'CNLO park, calif DEAR- NGAH = \NCUl_D YOU BE AFRAO CP A PCP GON IF YCU W.EW WHOSS POP IT WAS 7 • _ o R M' OOWELL • BOWUIMS GKEEM/Q -nSOAY IS THE DAY TO /V\All_ Nfcoe. LATEST NOTIONS blilillu'xt ti tk.r.f >. , •, |<. |«i DEAR- NOAH - CaA'YOU WEAR- HIGH SHOES WWli_ET ATTENDING? OXFCPD COl_L.EC.OET g Pin_E"Y ^INMFAFDlis, MINN. DEA*?. NOAH = lf=" A FELLOW Y/ANTTEID TO shave: a pic^, would he. have: to use: a HO gI^A ISEP^ T OUSTTM HCWAPO ensAP. FAt-i-3, IOWA. ZIoah N umskuu. DEAR- NOAH-IF A CROSS STREET GOT SASSX WOULD the: traffic light SOCKET? ADELAIDE UAW DE TRjOIT, MICH • detar- Noah — when A KIN<3 REIGNS, DO THF. PElOPUEl HAVE TO CARJ2.V UMBEEOAS 7 BAR.3AEA GARV/N SPRUCE PI ne,n.c. POSTCAED YOUR- NOTIONS NOVAJ mail. thea\ to noam — 5th Columnists! Where?" "Fifth columnists? They're our meat" declared these three chimp resi dents of the Philadelphia zoo when informed of the subversive activities of the Trojan Horse workers. Unwilling to trust defense of the country to mere humans they have organized their own defense unit. That's Colonel Jo Jo in the center, Hanked by his alert subordinates, Annie, (left) and Snookic. War's Echo in New York Every armory in New York State was put under military guard follow ing: order of Gov. Herbert II. Lehman closing the buildings to the public to prevent possible sabotage. Ilere, military policemen guard an armory in New York City. (Central Press) Picture of Things to Come? British freighter Sclvistan, loading armor plate and scrap iron at Charlestown, Mass., is moored only ten yards from the Italian freighter Ditto, also loading scrap iron. Two 6-inch stern guns of the Sclvistan inadvertently point at the Dino. With Mussolini threatening to enter war at Hitler's side, they may someday point in earnest at Italian ships. And He Isn't Foolin This sergeant piiof of^the B^tish Royal Air Force wears a determined expression as he I gunnery practice with a Browning machine gun, somewhere in England Before a man in the R. A. F. gets his douKe wings, he must quality g nner, bomber, navigator, radioman, pilot. (Central Press) Blocked as U-Boat B~ Before evacuating tlio port of Zi-chrnarsro (son mm ) :. • British sank concrete-filled ships, l.lockh * the p< the German Navy. A Belgian soldi* r it is renorted. was almost coiiiui* •tclv destroyed by a->o'. Cruiser to South America The U. S. cruiser Wichita (above) is second 10.000-ton warn nip <•< rw! to South America on a "goodwill" tour. The Wichita'* trip, arn! the Quincy, were described as routine, though it is admitted V .. American flag might serve as a stabilising influence at I.atiii .A t, countries troubled by fifth column activities. After the Bombing Belg-i an refugees search debris of a bombed house in !:• ; • clothing which they need for flight before the German . i n+ "tnl}' was abandoned by others who preceded them France and relative safety. Newcomer to Merchs"* \ i The President Jackson, first of seven American PresidcP i \ tion passenger and cargo ships, slides down the ways a'. N _ M ^ Virginia. The ship, officials said", easily could be convert in case of any national emergency.
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