CHAPTER r\VKNTY-FIVE
ANNE STOOD silently on the
wfiart ami took a deep r (. qer
rigarel, then bit w out the smoke
slowly. You I. : t know i «■ mlieil,
did you'’ sli 11;. P.usseli. 1
rave it up for I'albot - as I gave up
other things lonigh’ is ‘he first
tune I danced I used lore to
dance Now yon can lecture me on
both mv bad habits t 'I an."
•^he sat down on a pile that was
Just tall enough tu.ss.ll seemed
very tall he stood in front of
| er Sh> cm.M si.e past him to a
house or "the island" that was all
lighted up Hi’ .|* hr.-t/e ouehed
her '’ah as ’he laughed, laving:
"Don't you know just how to he
el n
“No. I don't ”
“Hut you wi re shocked when you
saw i was kissed tiy Dan. weren’t
• ou ?''
He took her land “Anne, Pm
serious ”
“3o am I ” She drew away and
made a gesture with hei cigaret
"If I feel like kissing your hrothei
there is no r. asun whv ! shouldn't
I'm quite fond of him And he car
be verv charming when he want;
to be He was tonight Also I must
be going back as I h ft he front
door unlocked Die f it —.an 1 just
met on the street might be a bur
glar '■
She stood up and snapped hei
cigaret a wav It didn't taste good
She hail gotten out of ttie habit o
smoking It belonged to anothei
period of her life Smoking wen'
with Dwight Dwight was dead anc
buried as far as she was concerned
He had been like the arc of flami
the cigaret drew pahlv in th<
moonlight before it hissed out h
the water On the bottom it niigh
be rubbled a. by a crab .ho wouh
fiad it inedible.
Hassell took her arm and the
began to walk off the pier. She hai
never known him lo be so silen
and uncertain of himself. She rath
er liked that, as she had enjoyei
Dwight Raynor's confusion in the
lobby of the hotel.
“I want to talk ab-.it Dan,” he
•a:d suddenly.
She laughed very softly. “1 dare
say you warned him about me.
loo."
"No. i didn't talk to him. I tried
to go to bed but l couldn't sleep."
“As had as that? I'm sorry.
Weie you thinking of me?”
“Ye.s, Anne.”
Something .n his voire made her
stop smiling. She looked up at him
quickly.
"It <sn’t as serious as all that.”
“It really is. I don’t wane you to
get fond of Dan. 1 know how de
lightful hr can be. He has been
around a great deal, lie can say
pretty things to a girl ’hat don't
have any meaning fit alL He won't
mean any harm, but he Is that way.
To him nothing is serious, nothing
sacred. He thinks nothing can hurt
turn, and perhaps nothing can.
Some people are like that. He can
have fun telling you e loves you.
and then pie k up his hat and run
away.”
“Run away.” She repeated his
last words softly. “We all run
away. At least we try to. And
sometimes wa succeed. vVhy don't
you confess you're really shocked
because we were (laming In your
house and all the gossips will think
you were there and getting vmy
frivolous."
“Gossip Is sera us 'n a small
town. Anne.”
“Nut tor me. I'll pick up my hat
and run away. W'liat str* ;s have 1
to tie me here If nobody wants me
aroind? I'm as free as—as Dan."
"Not quite. No one in the world is
really free anyway. Dan isn't 1 am
very fond of him. He means more
to me than he realizes. I want him
1 to stay with me.”
She nodded. “I see. You’re afraid
' I'll dri’.'i him away."
I "Y'oii don’t see, Anne. I haven’t
■ told you before because I wasn't
• sure myself. But I am now. I should
I have known long ago. I—I love I
yon. loved you from Pro moment
saw you. 1 can t le. Dan hin t you.
\ml I can’t let you hurt him. I
vnnt you both. You both m";in
ivcrything to me.”
As he spoke he had caught tsifh
icr arms, and his hr id was bent so
le coulo look deep into her eves,
'lie was startled at last, fllie shook
ur head slowly.
"Y'oii—you can’t mean it.”
"I do mean it, Anne darling. Let
ne cr.ll you that. I ve tried to blind
myself, but 1 can’t any more. I love
/on. .t lifts a weight off mv heart
[ust to he aide to sav ‘t_ I’m net
rying to sweep you (F vnur fee-t,
1 have no right to ratili you in rc.y
inns as I want to. lint I mv t tell
you.”
She drew away gently. “You
can t mean !t, Russell. What of
Laura?”
“Laura doesn’t matter. You do.
Anne, dearest, 1 want to ask you
to marry me.”
“You mustn’t.”
He put his arms about lie., “1
love you. 1—”
She put her hand over Ills mouth.
"Russell!”
"Let me kiss you. Let mr touch
your lips.”
llis mouth pressed against her3
and for a moment she was helpless
in his arms, i'lien he released tier.
His voice was husky with motion.
“Han't you sav .nythiny at all?
Don’t yon even like me'”'
She laid ». hand on his arm.
“Moonlight Is dangerous. There is
nothing La me to say. lotuor
row ..."
“Tomorrow I'll only ove you
more."
She laughed tightly. "Yo. may
he sorry you were foolish Now I
must get in. Mrs. Reynolds may
want me.”
“And vvliat about me? I want
you.”
file took his arm. “You can walk
home with me. Let’s not say any
more tonight. It would lie 'no easy
•o lie foolish. Please believe me
'To He Continued)
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During 19-13, American business not only won the battle on the
production front but it stlso paid into the federal treasury almost
half of the taxes collected by the federal government. Total federal
tax receipts for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 1943, amounted
to a little more than £33.5 billion, of vhirh aim. - t £10 billic-u was
collected from business in c -rporati-.n ir. on- and excess profits taxes.
The federal government received £0 £< billion in personal income
taxes from individuals, not including payioil taxes deducted for social
security, which amounted to an additional £1.3 billion. The combined
revenue from liquor, tobacco, excise, estate and gift taxes, us well as
from miscellaneous taxes, totaled approximately £4.5 billion.
High income taxes on business and individuals may he excusable
when national income is at peak levels but they would a-t as a brake
on the economy in the postwar era, preventing the mainti nance of
high employment.
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Wisdom Teeth Useless
By LOGAN CLKNDKNI\G, Ml).
THK SMALLKST ana of the
human i.nme which has created
tor it-ell a medical specially is
the third molai tooth—or wisdom
tooth. Comparatively the special
ties of the eye or the ear and
throat covet- huge areas, because
Hr. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
both eye and ear specialists have
to know a great deal about the
brain, and he ides the functions
with which they deal, seeing and
hearing are most intimately asso
ciated with human personality
and happiness. Hut the wisdom
beeth in spit.' of the name given
them have nothing to do with wis
dom or personality or brain func
tion. They rate a specially simply
and ahute on account of their all
tiled inherent cussedness.
Wisdom teeth are really ves
tigial structures, hut they don't
know it. We don't need them, but
they insist on climbing aboard and
only too otten, like extra passen
gers generally, they make trouble.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1 think it
was, said that we are each like an
omnibus in which all of our an
cestors are riding and every once
in a while one of them sticks his
head out of a window and embar
rasses us. Bo with these vestigial
structures--the appendix and pos
sibly the tonsils are other exam
ples, of value only to undertakers
and surgeons. They are as out of
date as dodo birds and fascists.
A hundred thousand years from
How wisdom teeth may be really
vestigial, like human tails. As a
matter of common sense I am sorry
that evolution took the turn it did
and made tails completely vesti
gial structures. I was wrapping
and tying a package the other day
and a tail would have been very
useful—to bold down the knots.
Semi-vestigial Third Molars
The third molars, upper and
lower, are semi-vestigial because
the jaw of modern man is not big
enough for them. Our ancestors,
the cave man or pitlieeanthopus,
made good use of them. He had a
large prognathic jaw and he pr«.li
atily cracked open hones with his
teeth to get the marrow -,i he
needed hie heavy ones. But in this
day and age of the receding dun
they are pure trouble.
They insist on coming in to the
picture after all the oilier teeth
are in place and a fellow is all
comfortably set. for life. At the
age id wisdoin, a* some i \ nil -.op
posed when he nicknamed them.
They don't even begin to calcify
in the jaw until the age of eight to
ten years, while the lii-t pei ma
llei. t molars are ealcilied at birth.
And they don’t try to push up into
place up til somewhere between the
seventeenth and thirtieth year.
Often Imparted
Besides this they often get laid
down sideways and when they
start to grow they push against
the roots of the other teeth and
get impacted. They may grow out
in any direction. One specimen
shown in the rooms of the London
dental society blithely came out
on the outside just beneath the
angle of the jaw.
In performing these gyrations
they make all sorts of trouble.
People at the age of "wisdom" who
have neuralgia in either upper or
lower jaws should think of an uii
erupted third molar as the cause.
They may do even worse things.
Upson records patients who had
insomnia, melancholy and serious
nervous disorders. Lyons reported
four patients with epilepsy wh OSti
seizures entirely cleared up after
removal id’ impacted, unerupted
third molars.
The X-ray has really put the
science of third molar surgery on
the map, because with it the exact
position and condition of the
teeth can be seen. To treat the
complicated cases really requires
tlie services of an expert.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
D. E. A.:—Is it possible for a
teen age child to get rid of
asthma?
Answer: Yes, when it begins
young the child often outgrow.
asthma, just as children outgrow
infantile eczema, both diseases
being caused in the same manner.
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