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t i j Page 6 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19;J, 1 "You sweet." said Rocky unexpect edly and kissed her. It seemed forever that his lip: 'I stayed on hers but it was actually .' only a moment before she was pusn- ' ing him away. "I don't think I care !' at all about having you kiss me," she '! said confusedly. "I dont believe I1 Rocky had let her go as suddenly as ' he had seized her. "1 don't tmnK . 1 care at all about kissing you," he re torted. Still tingling from the contact of. his lips, she started for the Uoor, "Before I go I want you to know that I've never known a more rude, more . boorish, more impossible person than 1 you. From the very first you ve been I awful! As soon as you came home ' you burst into my room, without even 1 the courtesy of knocking and without a word of apology! You assume that . I'm perfectly crazy to have you for a Ihusband." She seized the back of a chair. Her face was white. "In the first place you're th most conceited voung man I've ever metl And after that you're just plain ordinary, con temptible, rude! I don't know your Doris! I don't belive you even have a wife named Dors!" Rocky stood with an amused smile "What do you say wP have dinner, now?" "Dinner!" "Yes dinner. What do you say we come out of the hysterics and have a little food instead? I apologize for everything. I'm sorry. You re right I am in a terrible mess, and you were sweet to help me out by not telling my father and mother about it " H hesitated. "Will you forgive me? ' Rocky knew how to get around her defenses- Feeling this Doris' anger turned on herself. "You had no ngt to kiss mP like that, she said sulkily, "You're married." He sighed. "God help me." "Why?" "I was just. thinking that when my family does meet the real Doris they won t be nearly so pleased. I owe you something for being so nice to my parents. You certainly did the job Doris hired you for well.'' . "You still think Doris hired me?" His lips twisted in amusement. "To be quite frank it seems the alternative to your being a member of the crim inal classes, which seems very un likely." He pulled a heap of card board boxes out Of an easy chair. "My wife is a very untidy packer. Sit down." But Doris had turned to the desk and was looking at the framed picture of a girl. ThP face was familiar. She was excited- Was she going to remember something. "Who is that? Oh!" She knew. "That's the girl who stole my money in the Biltmore." She spoke involuntarily. Rocky answered eagerly. "When? What are you talking about? That is Doris." "Doris?" She dropped her hands helplessly. "Oh! I must be mistaken then." She wa, on her guard but her mind was whirling. Rocky followed her thought. "Non sense. I wouldn't put it past Doris to steal. When did this happen?" "Please" Doris sat down weakly. "I can't tell you." "But you've got to. You mean Doris took your money, and so you decided to get revenge by taking her place." "No, no. I can't possibly explain, "It's all a mistake probably- I only saw the girl for a few .minutes." She was confused. Shp did not know how I w w mm I Don't Think I Care at All About Having You Kits Me," Six Said Confusedly. thing but a rather personal incident in my life until she told me we were going to have a baby. Then I sud denly woke up to the significance of the whole., thing -thp 'way it fitted in with Mother and Dad he broke off "I expect you're thinking what an ass I made of myself over it." Doris said. "Well, I should think you would have told your family more about it, as it seems you had been married for sometime-" Rocky flushed. "You see I got mar ried on impulse. I can't explain it. Then but when I thought the baby was coming it was different. I wanted Doris to change and be with Mother." He looked at Doris wistfully. "G d, I got married just the way I'd buy a suit of clothes, or order myself a din ner. Everybody 1 knew was married and divorced, and remarried to each other" "But I still can't understand why you would go abroad without intro ducing your mother to your wife or about the baby or " "Doris and I had a row the morn- ng that I was sailing. Doris wanted some money. She wanted a thousand lollars. I wouldn t give it to her. Then she said she had to have it be cause she was going to have a baby. It sounded pretty fishy now that I 00k back on it and I thoughtwell there's no use telling what I thought, but I wasn't going to give her a thou sand dollars and leave her alone to do what she pleased if she was in that condition. So I called up Mother, fixed it so Doris wouldn't have a cent unless shP went with Mothei and sailed." Doris sighed. "You can be mean." "I suppose so.'' said Rocky "Where do you suppose she is now?" "I don't know. I can't believe she's having a baby. You don't know Doris She isn't the kind that has babies. ok. ...a- . -i-u-ll And ,wel the way she told it I be- 1 .1 u- T . licve it was- just a stall to get money h,rf t ? hCf ' rhai f '(out of me- She denied it while I was C'ln L . AndvRocky stood honj Mth b . ()f ge j w,r Z V' 6 m wouldn't take any chances." with questions. .c ,.,, tk., t ,,-,,., ;.., n..,;. " "til vn uu "The day I met your mother." VYes. I imagine that. The day I sailed. Now tell me about it- Where did you meet her?" Doris sank down, her chin rested on her shouder. She crossed her feet unhappily. "I don't know whether she stole it or not. I shouldn't have said that. I met her in the washroom. I was talking to her and I left the room for a minute. When I came back it gone, and so was she.'' , "How much was it?" "About nine hundred dollars a lit tig more." " Rocky whistled. "That explains many things. Look here, we're got to be frank with each other. : I'll lay all my cards on the table-'' He pushed a soiled pink mule off a chair and sat down- "Don't you agree?" "I don't know. Tell me about Doris." . His voice was low, emotional- "I can't tell you what I've gone through worrying about Mother and Doris. It was cowardly of me to go abroad and leave them together at least that is what I tried to do. But until I saw how a different kind of girl might fit in at home I" his face twisted as he paused to keep his voice on its even level "I hadn't real ised " "I think I understand,'' said Doris. "She was very prettv. I can see that a man might find her attractive." Rocky made a gesture of dissent "It was a ghastly mistake. It's hard to explain, hut to me marriage tv-as nothing. I didn't connect it up with Mother and Dad, or think of it as any- had hired to take her place " ''Doris is d n resourceful. She gets her own way, and she doesn't care much how she gets it " He smilled his friendly disarming smile, and looked expectantly at Doris. "Now Will you tell me how the blazes you got there?" CHAPTER VI It would be a relief to tell some body. Doris closed her eyes. "You're worn out," said Rocky. "I'm a terribly self-absorbed one. You ought to eat something." "I'm all right." He pulled hie chair closer to her. she drew , a long breath, wondering worrying- Half an hour earlier she would not have thought it possible that she could confide irt Rocky. But his friendliness made her former atti tude impossible. She looked at him wistfully. "Listen, couldn't you eat some thing?"; She laughed faintly. "You're hun gry yourself you old fraud. "I'll. "go out and ha supper, though, if you like." , He grinned. "You read me like a book. But you honestly look fagged. I'm going to have something sent up from Reubens. They'll send anything anywhere any time it seems." He went to the telephone. She watched him as he gave the number. After all, she could not go on this way forever. She would have to tell someone in or ter to find her home. "Would you like roast chicken? Lob ster?" .. "I'd love chicken. Sav, Rocky!" "Yes. Babv!'' "All right. I will tell vou!" He raised his eyebrows, nodded "O. K- Spill everything. Just a min ute until I finish here." But it was not until the food had come that she did find the courage to tell him. Meantime she had bathed and was feeling much better. Several openings for the confession had gone by but each time panic seized her. Meantime- Rocky was hungry, and very friendly. He was trying to make up for his former unkindness, it seemed to Doris. "From the way you talked while I was telephoning for this mess of vita mins I thought you had made up your mind to tell me all," he said. "I have." "Well why don't you shoot?" ''I'm afraid you won't believe me.'' "Well, have a shot at it." She drew a long breath. "Begin at the beginning," said Rocky "and re member I don't bite and I don't sting. But aside from the fact that I'm prob ably dying of curiosity, don't tell me if you don't want to." "You are decent. I've got to tell someone, and you're the first person I've met who woudn't think I was ab solutely crazy if I told the truth." She cupped her chin in her hand and went on casually. "You see I've tost my memory. I lost it quite suddenly, and I don't know where I came from- I don't know who I am. or even what my name is-" Rocky was looking at her with his jaw dropping slightly. "The h 1 you say!" She nodded, smiling a little at his atonishment. "Then my Lord maybe you didn't know whether you were married to me or not?" Doris smilled ruefully. "I was re sonably certain as soon as I saw you you didn't leave me in much doubt." "I guess 1 was pretty brutal." Then she told him everything, un able to evad,, his quick questioning, lie found out how she had been riding in a cab wih a man she hated, how she had left him, gone to th Biltmore, been robbed of her money and met the kind littlp woman who had said she was her mother-in-law. As she fin ished she took off her wedding ring and showed him the inscription on the inside- "So you're married, too," he said thoughtfully. "To somebody I hate or at least I think so." Rocky considered. "It ought to be easy enough to find out who you, are, You look to me like a girl with a large devoted family- Probably all out looking for you? Didn't you look in the papers to see if there was any thing about a missing girl?" "Your family doesn't take any pap pers." "H 1, that's right. One of the old eccentricities."' His eyes were ten der. "Say, this is a d n shame. I'll make inquiries at the police station, and we'll find out who you are in no time- Then if vou don't like your husband you don't have to go back to him do you?" DorLs felt frightened. "I don't know. TherP was something dreadful you know once I was listening to the radio, and something was said, in the news of the day I think it was, that brought it all back to me but only for a .-econd. then I f.unted. It seems a if there is something so aw ful in my past that I just don't dare to remember it." Rocky leassured her. "Oh that isn't very likely. Doris. You've been badly shocked. Perhaps you were in an ac cident. " "I've thought that if I could see the papers pel-hap there would be something in them that would help me to remember " "That's an idei. Supposing we go out now and buy some papers. I't's much cooler now." He walked to the long windows and looked down into the street- "We can ride around or HIGHER FEED PRICES NECESSITATES CULLING Careful culling of poultry flocks is imperative to the lowering of pro duction overhead in view of the in crease price for feeds. "It should be the aim ot the poul try man not to have overcrowded hous es at the beginning of the laying season," says Ray S. Dearstyne, head of the poultry department at State College. He gives five requisites for bringing the pullets to a profitable condition this fall. These are: 1- Eliminate weaklings. In every flock of developing birds there is a per cent that cannot keep up with the majority. These should be marketed as early as possible to take advantage of broiler prices. 2. Cull the layers. Careful con sideration should be given to the number of this year's birds to be carried over for breeders or layers for next year. Breeders or layers moult season yield little or no income. 3. Scant feeding is expensive. The feeding of mash on the "dole" system is unwise and will show later in de velopment. 4. Guard against parasites. The spending of a few dollars for worm tablet,, may be the saving of a great many birds later in the year- Worm all developing birds at about 14 weeks of age. Hens carried over for next year should also be wormed, and poultrymen should bg on the look out for lice and mite infestation. 5. Plan Autumn grazing. The care ful poultrym,an will have a definite grazing crop program as green feeds are the cheapest source of certain something." He looked at her over hi- shoulder. "Would you like to go and see some girls waving their legs around in the theater? Please, let's." (To be Continued.) tar..-'-tJir.lr ".hi-:- . cu; "-ar. necessary vitamins. T! tumn is the time fur grass, clover, rape an,j which may materially costs during the coming ic.aiieu niioi illation ' crops may be secured in thL- K Circular, "Grazing Cr "'.' try" which will be mai'k-.i .";, quest to the Agriculture re state College. Vi- NOTICE OF TRUSTTFsitfF On Monday, October i. eleven o'clock. A M ... ,., 'JJ Jl- house door in the town of Wavn,. imim varuiuia, i will sell a uKr" outcry to the highest bidder Vra the following lands and p tmi- ' lying and being in Wpyesv' Township, Haywood County,". Nor h Carolina, and more paricii'ar'" bounded and described as follow' '"' BGINNING on a stake "n' h. Northwest side line of the Coun-v road and the Southeast corner of Mr Ross' tot. and runs N. 13 V. 732 fee' to a stake on the Southeast side of the public road; thence N. 53' F. 9iq feet with the side line of said road tn a stake; tnence &. 14" w F.. 744 f with the Stringfield line to a stake on the Northwest line of the coun'v road; thence S- 57 W. 200 8-10 fee; with sideline of said road to the Be GINNING, containing 3 95-100 acres" more or less, and being the same lands conveyed by Thomas String field, and wife, to W. C Phillips ar?d wife. Myrtle Philliips by deed dated November 20, 1926, and recorded in Book 74, page , Record of Deeds of Haywood County. Sale made pursuant to power c salfi conferred upon me by deed of trust executed by W. C. rhillip and wife. Myrtle Phillips, dated Decern her 29, 1926, and recorded in B ok 11. page 233, Record of Deed of Havwood County. This the 8th dav of September, VjK GEO. H. WARD. Trustee No. 100 Sept. 14-21-28-Oct. T, Fnmial T7 n nee 11 taxfay: AUPrw es Have Not Been Paid Will Be Advertised for Sale Thursday, October 12th, And Will Be Sold on The First Monday in November. In Order to Prevent Property from Being Sold And To Avoid Additi onal Cost, we Urge All Who Have Not Paid 1932 Taxes To Pay Once m You Giving This Matte Board Of Co mmissioiers Of Hciywood County
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