CI1APTKR THIRTY-2KVEN W1IKN MARTIN reminded K». rcii, in explanation of the tliather my machine in li's trail<"\ that he had come smith partly bceause of Ills health, she took it as an open ins to ask the question that hail been l>othcring her in regard to liim for some time. She said. "Yes. you did tell me that. Martin, anil 1 was thinking, not long ago. how well you are looking, fattened out am! sun tanned. Your health is not su had that it would keep you from being drafted, is it?" Sue knew that was rather an abrupt way of putting her question, but she simply had to know what Marty was going to do about the war. it he did not mean to do his part in it. That scowl appeared between his nice blue eyes once more. Ilis an swer was as abrupt as her quer, tion. "How should I know? I haven't beer, asked to pass a physi cal— recently." "lint if you did pass, you . . . you'd go, wouldn't you?" Maybe he was sensitive on this matter of his health: ccilainly he was not acting naturally; never before h:al Martin been so abrupt ami withdrawn from her. "I'd have to go or go lo Jail, or a conseientioll.s objector'.) camp, I believe." "llut you aren't an objector ... you'd want to go, if you were phy sically able, wouldn't you. Marty?" There—she had put it straight I enough this time; she waited al most breathlessly fur hi.-: answer lo this. It meant so much to her, more than she lilted to admit. He did not answer for a second, then his face relaxed again into his slow smile, although rather as if he forced that wide grin of his than that it came spontaneously. "What is this?" he asked. "A third-de gree? It might not be a matter of what I wanted to do, your honor. And, before you put me through any more on the witness stand. I might remind you that long ago. when we first met. I warned yon you would have to take me as you found me and believe 111c to be what I told you I am." "I did not say that I didn't be lieve in you." Karen returned, the faint color making her lovely face more lovely still. "I didn't mean it to sound like a third-degree. It's just. well, if I were a man. I'd be anxious to do my part." "Rike your Prince Charming." Marty broke in. "Which reminds me to say that lie seemed a fairly dcccnt sort, in spite of being so perfect. I always suspect perfec tion, you see. my lily n.aid. And I am equally pleased that you do not happen to be a man." Karon knew he was deliberately not only trying to turn the conver sation into different channels, hut he was trying lo make her angry. "Paul doesn't pretend perfection; he has hifl faults the same as every one 1, Rut at least !;c is honest about them." "Meaning that I'm not," Martin said. The sniiJe loft his faro again "I'm sorry, Kay, hut you'll have to accept mo as 1 am, t«o. or not at all. 1 think It's very lino of you to beli«ve in mo, if you are sure you do." Slif should still have been aniiry. but there was such honesty in his eyes now. in lli«» directness of that statement, in spite of its indirect lioss, that she found she did believe in him. She said. "I do. but maybe tlieie are others who won't. What I mean is. Marly, people are so apt to believe the worst of other peo ple. And 1 think you ought to know that there are some doubts about you and what yt.it really are down I tore for. I'm not just saying this. 1 happen to l.now, allhou.eh 1 cannot tell you how, that you are living watched." She had not known that she would t< 11 him that, and that it had been part of her reason for coining to sec him. although now. as ::hc told him. she knew it had been. She had not promised I'aul that she would not wain Marty, al though Paul had taken it tor granted she would not. She had to warn liiiu. It Martin was headed i"or trouble of any kind, she could not stand by and not do that much. He ilid not liave anything to say to that f ir a short while, either. His face still was thoughtful and serious. Hut he reached over and took Karen's two ham Is in his; his blue eyes looked into hers. "Thank you. my dear." he said quietly, "for tilling me that. Not because I am in any danger, but because if it i.: so, 1 prefer to be aware of it and because your telling me shows that you do believe in me." At his touch Karon's heart had leaped into her throat: she wan', .-d to withdraw her hands from his. yet could not. She could not explain the commotion within herself: it was such a mixture of joy and re lief. apprehension and fear. "I'm going to have lo ask you to go on that way." he went on. "be lieving in me. accepting me and whatever I do on trust. It seems." he gave a little grimace at this. "I must keep on askin:; that of you in regard to everything." She know he referred now to that moment in the tower So ho had not forgotten it: it had meant something to him, as it had to her. It must have been triumph that caused her heart to beat so wildly now. F.ut this was not safe -this was dangerous—to be here alone with Martin, his hands holding hers. She did withdraw her own. il reluctantly. She would show him this time that she could be the stronger of the two. She said. "I'll go on that way as long as you ask it of mo." Only yesterday she hud told Paul that she would go on, as before, with him. It seen led she must have faith in two nun. rather than in one or crivh separately Martin sv.id again. "Tharfk you." He left ofl the "my dear" he had . ct'dcd before lint it held us much i sincerity, as much tenderness Then — hp changed h.s mood. with the lightening capacity nt which only he was master, Ivt oniing his usual Kay. iliainiing sell, adopting, :ou. t!io old say mockery. "| believe the way ti- the feminine heart :s via a uniform lint. cvi n in war. Kay. wo cannot all wear gold but tuns ami ■nsipnia. Your airman certainly dors himself prom! in bis. even if it's not icgitlnr Army yet. And while we use on liiat subject. I hope you won't shed yeur feminine apical l• >r ;i uniform of any sort. The ie;:etion i e-.ictly tin- opposite with a man. I lis luait bc-its a liiiieh f:: •••r tal-a-tat-tat when he pinups-s a pal in a prel'y pet-up like the hlii" you're dolled up ui nt '.v. mat) long your eye:; ami coin pigmented by a soft rose scarf l;lre you've pot arouiul your nock to match the ro.es in your cheeks, tli.in it tloes :f the same lovely ap pears ir. .ionic regulation pet-up." Karen smiled, nniiwil al the elo quence !:• poured into that lather over-long speech. Kiniling, too. lie. cause ol what i.er answer was. "I am to pi ', my iicil Crocs uniform next we< 1;. Ambulance Corps. I just passed my examination. And our station wagon i.s to lie turned ov« r to thi outtit. too." J'he laughed at Iho il. inav on Marly';: expressive faee. "It's really a I'.om-y, the uni form. gray-blue and man tailored. And the dtickicst little i.ip I ever won . I in terribly sorry you won't think my blue eye.s as blue, or my checks im mar like i uses that WAS a speech. eonii'.p fi nil Martv. • t Hint:' "but I think I shall look Unit" nice in it. truly i do." "Wee is me." M::i:y said, rolling his oyes comically. "Yet maybe 'tis i t** r thus My poor old heart is weak enough as it warned yon or.cv with it. captain 1 you facts, hmvev proved what I ji! a; ri.ai i*us affixed mental organ. A twice as rapidly ! ears in uni tary slow:; (!«.wn just . a sweater-girl f:>.«hi:>n< .1 to tinif. l;i !iieiuber. I •t to tamper s only telling .'"i icnce ha" by a tiny 'hat tempera ■ -it.an's beats •l a Male ap ni . cibly when ■ any garment : '.li'.v. IJut ?ei funny things." are." Karen -lie.artedly with heart h:i«i taken ts recent high nlv had remem she had read — i' Jii--i* the other iiio ah< ut dia I'lie government r that every (me "They ccii.t could aprce a '■ that. But Iter own a tumble from heights. She siiddi hcred what It Wa no. she had hc:iid day ovi r the ra thcrmv maehi:. had issued an or.U wns to lie 11pi. ti led, for a dia thermy machine could he •.'.inverted into a short-wave sending cot She wandered if Martin bad heard that particular broadcast, and il' ho possibly could have been using his big diathermy machine for any such purpose as short v.av-.v He had not I <:i using it for a health treatment. lie had been not only taken by iiipu: i. hit: noticea bly iiteltirl'?il, ' n hac! f.-nnd i r . *;«• •iiiin:i:':i) Quick Removal to Hospital Ship ~J U. S. Aim* Sitzn.il Corri Photo u. 5. Atmv SiQn.il Corpx Photo U. S. Army doctors send the cream of their staff to front line evacuation hospital . Oiiiclt treatment, prompt removal, saves hundreds of lives. Kver.v modern surgical appliance known to the profession is at hand. Your War Bonds bought this equipment, but more will he needed urgently as the iiThtin-j tempo increases. Are you hiiyins War Bonds to give our bovs a chance for life? V. s. i>. ; tattmtt.t MESSINA RAILROAD YAKjl 5 TOOK A bt.A 1 1HG Tills »s Hi? ruin 'tur l|■ Mr«sliia, lust stand of the enemy on Sirlly. Itails lir twisted, roadbed* arr torn and rolling stork has vanished undir lit. ilivln.,. storms of our liomlilnes. (I ulernatlonal •Soiindphnlo.) Migraine Attacks a Puzzle By LOGAN CI.KNUKXIVC. M.|>. AMONG Tin: m»*t m;.-« prions 1 sort of maladies at** tin* attacks | which conic along i vory owe in a while with no wsiiniiiK an.I mi ap parent cause. I iiU'ati, for in stance. what is called >h!i lie; I ache or migraine. Here a person l)r. Clcndening will answer questions of general interest only, and then only through his column. is going aloiiK in tlie best of health and out of a clear sky, with no change in eat inn habits, no dis sipation, no extra work or exer tion, bingo! he begins to have a headache that was meant for a hippopotamus. These people resent this par ticular form of Nature's habits and 1 for one don't blame them. An earned headache is one thing. You know who is responsible and you take your medicine. Kven a headache that you haven't exact ly earned, one that comes from having caught a cold, you can take with a certain degree of philoso phy because you km»v dial is part of life and everyone has to bear such a burden once in a while. These sick headaches, however, have just been wished on you, probably by some ancestor, and they are going to come every so often whether you sit up reading too late, or eat too much dinner, or have your wife's relatives in, and you just have to bear them. I don't have them myself, but I can understand the resentment of the person who eiiif.rgeineiit of the heart'.1 fan the gallblad der be remove ! when tlieiv i some enlargement of the heart'.' Answer: (ia!lb!ail < n . stout.. WCM.L.ON, no, IS 1-ile, *i ^ Jfif fifw. vV 5 "5 y :j\l >'i V ^ r.nf ' P5X*M£>p ■>HlO wtKiHlf NlAft^Y 'f'VO -foKi *.».P **[/ A. Uoott « cf 57 CiuAl! fit-f 1 !^1 iUM , < ..t ' ■- - J&r ^A.LMON fA»t I * rS > <"*Wb: \iK JA^KEtS 6* trtl CO!.OB.lK • «{ >U i. >.! :■• fciuit, U •■• :>k, ^ THE OLD HOME TOWN T" B^STANLEY ~T77y] THIMBLE THEATRE—.Starring Popeye A 'SHORT CIRCUIT IN