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THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON, NORTH CA ROLINA, FRIDAY. JUNE 3,1938 SHINING , arv • ■■ PALACE - ■ * ■ n . ._■ . • B.v C.HRISTIXE WHITING imioiemi;k rkr>". , ' t f* . > >* «}-• ~ • 'i Cupj ri;|til b> « b« istinr WltlliO'i I'urmcntcr WXE JIEHVIEE rj: : THE STORY Leonora Lambert persists in her intention to marry Don Mason al though her foster-father, James Lambert, tries to dissuade her. Leonora suspects that her half brother, Ned, has influenced their father. Lambert offers to give Don a job for a year, saying that if the pair elope, he will disinherit the girl. Don attempts the work offered but becomes nervous and tired, d« daring he feels sitfled. Nora is dis tressed and begs her father to end the experiment. Ned tries to induce her to doubt Don. When accused of having given money to a girl whom he had helped in charity Don knocks Ned down. He and Nora elope and settle down in Maine. Lambert refuses to communicate with them, but sends the girl her clothes and SI,OOO. Don and Nora go to Capri for the winter. Their son is born while they are away, Don having work on a London pa per. Don is sent to Cape Town, has typhoid, and his work suffers because of ill-health and worry. They return to America. A friend gives Nora a parting gift of a Kimberly diamond. They buy an old house in Maine and remodel it. They are sent to California on an assignment for the London paper. CHAPTER XII They reached Chicago on a bleak November morning. Wind was blow ing across Lake Michigan in wintry gusts, and the weather man pre dicted snow. It came, a blizzard out of the north. For two days they were storm-bound in a boarding house run by an old nurse of Con stance Venable’s—one of the many whom Carl’s unfailing generosity had helped. On the third afternoon when the city was digging out of snow drifts and the sun was making a half hearted effort to show its face, their hostess said: "Why don’t you two go for a little walk? I’ll look after the children. I’d really like to; and a breath of outdoor air will do you good.” "Come on,” said Don, brighten ing at the prospect of some activ ity. "If you get tired, Nora, we’ll -drop in at a movie for an hour.” "That’s right,” urged the woman, Clad to be of service to these friends of her beloved Venables. "You’ll find a theater three blocks down. It’s a cheap place, opened only a week ago; but it’ll do to get warm in." "Sure!” agreed Don. “and a lurid picture won’t hurt old folks like us!” The wind sprang up again as they started out; and the sun, discour aged. retired behind a cloud. "I guess three blocks’ll be about anough!” Don laughed as they ducked their heads against the weather. "Those Italian winters have spoiled us, Nora; but I hear we’re liable to fry in Arizona. That’s one place I haven’t been, my dear, and I’m crazy to see it There’s our theater ahead now. Looks cheap all right. I bet the snow’s packed solid behind that false front root There’s weight to this snow, Nora. I hope—” What Don hoped was lost in a gust of wind that fairly blew them into the lobby of the theater. “Perhaps we’d better go right back,” gasped Nora. "The wind is certainly getting worse. It wouldn’t surprise me if it stormed again.” » "Me, either; but you’re complete ly out of breath, dear. Let’s get "There’s our theater ahead now.” inside and rest for a few minutes. It’ll be easier going home with the wind at our backs, you know. We can sit in the last row, Nora, and slip out any time we’re bored. You need to rest after that fight with the elements.” This was sane logic, so they went inside. "Looks as if all the kiddies of the neighborhood had come in out of the storm,” Don whispered as their eyes grew accustomed to the dim ness. "Why didn’t we think to bring the boys?” Nora smiled. Don always regret ted his sons’ absence when other children were in evidence. She said, softly: "They’re better off where they are. There’s such a crowd, and the air is terrible. Why!—Why what —” Her voice rose a little. Her head lifted. Later Nora was to remem ber that she had thought herself ill because the whole building seemed to tremble and the roof looked as if it were crumbling up, slowly. The most curious sensation, a sort of chill, ran over her—all in a sec ond, of course, for Don was already on his feet, holding her wrist in a grip that tortured. Just as they reached the lobby the crash came. And then a cry went up behind them—a cry that was to ring in Nora’s ears for months. It sound ed, she thought, like an awful and terrifying wave of protest from a single throat . They were in the street Al ready a throng of morbid onlookers had gathered People (Oh, fortunate people! > were pouring out of the doomed theater . Po licemen, dozens of them, it seemed to Nora, sprang up like magic Firemen were there, trying to rope off space pushing them back. It was then that Don, who had been stunned into a horrified si lence, roused himself with a convul sive shudder. He turned to Nora— iooked down Into her upturned face —stared into it so curiously that she grasped his • arm, crying: Oh. thank God we are safe, Don!” And still he looked at her . . . An ambulance gong sounded . . . Somewhere beyond the rope a wom an screamed ... A man pushed by them, wild-eyed, dishevelled . . . Above the tumult a child’s terrified voice cried out: "Mother! Where’s my mother?” . . . Don said, still staring down with ’hat extraordinary gravity: “But I must go back, Nora. Those children . They might be ours . . . I’ve got to help . . . You must go home now. darling. Go home to the little boys. They need you . . . Don’t you see that—that I have got to help?” Before she could say one word, he stooped—kissed her —was gone, eluding the quick grasp of a fire man —unheeding thp shout of protest from another. Those feet, those buoyant feet which had borne Don so joyously on his adventures, were bearing him now on still another, bearing him swiftly, swiftly, lest they falter . . . Nora was standing there three hours later when they brought him out. Three hours of horror —three hours of numbing cold —three hours of torment. He was the last to 'arried ten •*, close to the ropes, cried out at sight of him: “Don! Dearest! I’m waiting for you. I —l am here, Don!” Ke heard! Nora knew that he heard. His head turned a little. Something that tried valiantly to be a smile, flickered for one brave mo ment across his face A gong sounded ... A voice: “This way, Bill. Room for another here .’’ The ambulance swallowed him while Leonora struggled to get near swallowed him . . . bore him away . . . She reached out, trembling from head to foot. She touched the wet arm of a fireman. "Please, can you tell me—is —is he . . .” The man wheeled —faced her. "You mean that feller we just brought out, lady? He's hurt bad. Stayed under the balcony for hours tryin’ to free a child that was pinned down. Time and again he was told to quit—that any minute the balcony was due to fall—but he just stayed there —kept on workin’. And not five seconds after he passed the kid to safety the thing collapsed. Tough, ain’t it? It took three of us an hour to uncover him. Say! I take off my hat to a guy like him! I never saw'—My God, lady! is—is he anything to you?” "He —he is my husband,” said Nora proudly; and then, suddenly conscious of pain that rent and tore her, yet not forgetting the dear bur den that she carried, sank gently down into the drifted snow. (Continued Next Week) NEW BUG SCREEN A new bug screen of ‘‘invisible” design which prevents the accumu lation of insects on the radiator core of Oldsmobile Sixes and Eights without detracting from the appearance of the grille, is the latest accessory offered by Olds mobile dealers. The screen, 18 by 24 inches, is of rust-resistant square mesh stock. 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The few' insects which do accumulate can easily be removed by raising the car hood and flush ing dowm the screen with a garden hose. WAKELON THEATRE ZEBULON, N. C. Thursday and Friday, June 2 & 3 JEANNETTE MacDONALD, NELSON EDDY “GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST” —§ Saturday, June 4 808 STEELE “FUED MAKER” Chapter 2—“ Fighting Devil D* gs” Sunday, June 5 JOAN BLONDELL, MELVYN DOUGLAS “THERE’S ALWAYS A WOMAN” Monday and Tuesday, June 6 & 7 SHIRLEY TEMPLE, RANDOLPH SCOTT REBECCA of SUNNYBROOK FARM Wednesday, June 8 — LEW AYRES, HELEN MACK “KING OF THE NEWS BOYS” Thursday and Friday, June 9 & 10 — ROBERT MONTGOMERY, VIRGINIA BRUCE “THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS” COMING— “LIFE BEGINS AT FORTY” “GOLDDIGGERS IN PARIS” Professional Cards IRBY D. GILL Attorney & Counselor at Law Phone 228! Zebulon, North Carolina DR. J. F. COLTRANE Dentist Office Hrs. 9-12:30—1:30-5 M. J. SEXTON INSURANCE DR CHAS E. FLOWERS Physician apd Surgeon Office hv. *s 8:30 - 10 a.m. l-3 p.m. Phone OfT. 2881 Res. 2961 DR. L. M. 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