CHAPTER II ^ It was strange to oe here in this ^’lace that was really her home, and she knew in her heart that she would never be anything but an a lien here. These strangers were her parents, her brothers, her sis ters. She liked Honey sincerely and admired her; she felt that she could very easily learn to love the small Susan. Pete was still an un known, but she had liked his gaie ty and good humor and she felt that they could be friends. As for her mother and father—well, she reminded herself as she tried to settle herself to sleep, three was really no need for her to know them very well. Home, for her was the handsome, spacious apartment in New York, with Aunt Judith and her friends. And she was a little suprised to realize that she had not thought of Martin Gray for several hours, nor had she wept for him as she had wept long and secretly in New York. When Celia finally fell asleep she slept heavily. It was eight o’ clock when she awoke. She got up hurriedly, afraid that she might upset the routine of the house hold by oversleeping. At the foot, of the stairs, she heard a slight sound in the kit chen, and there she found Susan, dressed for school. “Isn’t anyone else up,” Celia asked. “I thought everybody was up and gone hours ago. “Oh. no, that was Honey going to work,” said Susan. Celia followed her to the door. Susan caught up her books and a hat from the hall tree and over her shoulders said breathlessly “I’ll have a nice hot lunch and it only costs a dime—” There was the hoot of a bus horn, and the little girl fled down the walk to where a big yellow school bus had slowed for her to scramble aboard. The next moment it had gone, and Celia stood in the door way looking after it, frowning. She made coffee and toast and was just settling herself at an end of the scrubbed kitchen table when she heard footsteps on the stairs. A moment later Rusty thrust a red head into the room. “Oh—hello.” he greeted her, and looked as though he might draw back, but the next moment the How women and girls mhy get wanteil relief from functional periodic pain Cardui Is a liquid medicine which many women say has brought rellet irom the cramp-like aeony and ner vous strain ot lunctxonal periodlo distress. Here’s how it may help: 1 Taken like a tonic. It should stimulate appetite, aid diges tion,* thus help build re sistance for the “time'* to come. 2 Started 3 days be fore "your time”, it should help relieve pain due to purely func tional periodic causes. Try Cardui. If It helps, you'll be glad you did. > CARDUI 3* «CC LA»tL OIWCCTIONW smoll of coffee drew him in. “Don’t tell me you can cook.” “I won’t,” promised Celia, smil ing. “But any idiot can make eoffee and toast.” “I don’t suppose you planned on inviting somebody to share that coitec? It smells like the kind on ly a very smart girl could make.” “There’s plenty,” said Celia quickly. “And I'll make some more toast. Perhaps you’d like acouple of eggs? I’ve found some in the icebox and I think there’s bacon, too.” “Food for the gods,” said Rusty solemnly. “I’m not a god, but you’d be supristed how hungry a plain everyday guy can get!” And so she cooked breakfast for them both, and they talked politely across the table and were on the way of becoming friends. C’oo uidn't particularly like him, but then she didn’t dislike him either, and being a well brought up girl, she could do no less than treat him with courtesy here in this house that was, strange as it would always seem to her, her home. When they had finished, he in sisted on helping her with the dishc , and when the kitchen was once more as neat and shining as sl>e Ir d found it, they went out of the kitchen together and along the Around them the house still slept. There was no sound save the birds and a soft spring wind in the ‘T think I’ll take a walk and see •'Dine of the country,” said Rusty, expanding his chest, breathing deeply of the clear spring air. “f’°re to come along?” fbanks, no,” said Celia and, as though afraid that she sounded un duly curt, she added, “I have an i dea that Ruby Pearle would be pleased if I’d clean my own room, and I’ve not quite finished un packing, so if you'll excuse me—” “Oh, sure,” he said, and strode off down the path to the orchard and was soon lost among the trees. She was too restless just to set tle herself somewhere with a book, and so she went out of the house, down the weed-grown drive, care fully avoiding the path through the orchard along which Rusty had disappeared. She crossed a little woden bridge and went up the hill beyond and around the curve where it joined the highway. And then she stop ped, startled. For across the road a very handsome and expensive station wagon, all shining blond wood and maroon fenders and hood, lay helplessly on its side in the ditch, like an insect that had fallen and can't turn on it’s feet again. Celia stood staring at the over turned station wagon. It lay help lessly on its side in the ditch. A girl came«out from behind the car as Celia emerged into the high way. She was in her late twenties; a thick, tawny mane of ruddy brown hair hung around her shoulders and her lovely face was dark with anger, her brown eyes blazing. “Hello,” said Celia, and added swiftly, “Are you hurt?” : "Only in my pride,” admitted the other girl. “1 fixed the steer ing knuckle on the darned thing hH AUCTION SALE OF FARM MA CHINERY AT MY HOME NEAR TRYON SCHOOL ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1945 Beginning at 10 O’clock, I Will Sell at AUCTION for CASH the following One Set of Wagon Harness One Two-Horse Wagon in excellent condition One Deering Mower and Rake One Two-Horse Oliver Turn Plow One New Drag Harrow One Cole Combination Planter One Cole Guano Plow One lot of baled Straw A number of Plows and Plow Stocks and Cul tivators. S. E. PEELER BESSEMER CITY, N. C., R-2 myself only yesterday afternoon, I and then when I turned into the highway here, something snapped, and the next thing I knew there I was on the bank and the darned wagon in the ditch.” She looked at Celia as though j seeing her for the first time, and I said coursly, “Youur’re* new in these parts, aren’t you- I don’t re. member seeing you around before. I’m Catherine Mallory. “I’m Celia Bartlett,” answered Celia, smiling, “I only arrived yes terday.” I “Bartlett?" she repeated quick ly | Celia colored a little and her chin went up, her eyes frosting ever so little. “Yes, one of the “Crazy Bartletts,” she said curt ly i Catherine eyed her curiously i and smiled. “Take that chip off your should er, gal,” she ordered sternly. “You j evidently didn’t hear me when 1 j said my name was Catherine Mal i lory—or haVen’t you been around j here long enough to recognize the I name? It’s a symol of horns and cloven hooves. Celia relaxed a little and now her own curiosity was lively. I'm afraid I haven’t heard the name before she admitted. Catherine nodded, drew smoke deep down into her lungs and let it drift from her nostrils, as she stood with one hand in her pocket, her eyes on the station wagon. “We-el, for once, Win and I are going to be allowed to be the first to relate our story,” she drawled, amused and a little resentful. “You see, Win, my brother, and I cho'ose to ignore the war, and i that’s a cardinal .crime in these parts.” Celia's eyes widened. “Ignore it? That sounds like the neatest trick of the week—if slightly im possible,” she admitted. “Well, it isn't impossible at all,” answered Catherine forthrightly. “Of course it took a bit of plan ning. Win’s pretty clever. As far away as 1939 he couuld see the handwriting on the wall. He bought the old Ives place, and we remodeled it and made it comfort able. Then we started stocking it up with the things we knew | would be hardt o get, or impos i sible, once the war actually got going. She turned her head and looked sharply at Celia, frowning, ready to take instant offense. “Does it seem to you a wicked and shame ful thing that we tuurned our cars ovei to the Red Cross and bought new ones? We bought an ample supply of tires; we bought out who.^sale grocery concern, and brought the stuff here and built a special air-conditioned storage vault to hold it. So now, because we have enough to eat and enough to live on comfortably, and be cause we are not taking ‘an active part in the war,’ we are ostracized by the funny little people all a round us. Win, who is thirty-six and unfit for military duty, has invested all but a few thousand dollars of our iacome each year in war bonds. So if we choose to ‘sit this war out’, is it anybody s { business but ours?” Celia said laughing a little. “Well, don’t be so belligerent a bout it! I’m a stranger here my-i self.” Catherine smiled at her. “Oh | sure—sorry.” I She looked at Celia again and ! said carelessly, “I’ll have to get somebody to do something about j this darned car. Care to come up to the house with me and have a drink? I’d like you to meet Win and the others, too.” | "Thanks, I’d like to,” said Celia | sincerely, and as they walked I through the leafy tunnel-lik° drive I she said curiously, “You mention I ed others—your family? i “Nope, Win and I are all that's I left of the Mallorys,” said Cathe rine casually. “But w'e usually | have a raft of house guests.” She led the way into the house, and charm and elegance. She had time for little more than a quick I Celia had an impression of space appraisal before Catherine led her along the hall and into a din ing room that had a wall of glass 1 that could be slid back to bring a truly beautiful garden almost into the room. Here half a dozen peo ple sat negligently about the table, | dwadling over coffee, smoking, j arguing. i “Hello, everybody,” said Cathe rine. “This is Celia Bartlett. Celia I —sit here by me.” ! She pulled out a chair, and as Celia seated herself, her hostess the others smiled politely. The young man at the end of the table turned out to be Catherine’s bro ther, Winship Mallory. He, too, had been studing Celia, and now he leaned toward her a little and said pleasantly, “I’m quite sure you re not a local pro uuct, Miss Bartlett.” “I dune down irohi New York yesterday,” she told him. 1 am visiting my family, the Bart letts.” The slim, pretty redhead who! sat next to him on the opposite side of the table flashed Celia an unfriendly glance and engaged him in a lowvoiced conversation. Catherine, beside Celia, said under her breath. “Jennifer Lawrence is a louse. Shes going all out to marry Win. I’d be a little worried except that Win’s known so many Jennifer Lawrences in his thirty years, he’s pretty well insulated against them! Only I wish she’d go home—she’s beginning to be a ftill-sizd, copper-riveted bore.” Celia was beginning to believe that it would not disturb Oathe-1 rine in thee least if Jennifer her self bad heard her. As they left the breakfast tahlte' ! Win Mallory saw to it that Jenni fer Lawrence did not intrude.) Deftly he guided Oeiia out in the garden, where he proudly showed he, all his plant specimens. When at last she insisted that sh< must go home, she had pro mised to come back for dinner the i following night; she had also pro mised to go horseback riding with Win the following morning. When they came to the drive, a handsome shining new coupe wa j waiting, and Win guided her to ward it, saying cheerfully, “I’ll run you home.” “Oh, hut that’s ahsurb,” she pro. tested. “It’s not a mile.” “Much too far for you to walk,” Win assured her. “Besides. I will know then where to find you in | the morning for our ride.” He put her into the car and got in beside her. Catherine called from the terrace, where she stood besid^ the sulky Jennifer, “Bye, Celia. We’ll be seeing you a lot." The sleek and expensive coupe had turned now and was run a long the weed-grown drive to pause at the side entrance to'the Bnrtlette home. Celia saw Buzz and Mary Sue in the,. garden. They straightened to look at her; but they did not come forward. Rusty, coming up the path form the orchard, paused beside the car as Celia said lightly, “Mr. Randolph, I'd like you to meet Mr. Mallory.” Win shook hands with Rusty, his eyes taking in the little plastic jacket. “Back from the wars,eh, Randolph? How was it? Win asked Rusty looked at him carefully, as thouugh he had been a new ex perience, and said almost without expression, “A trifle rugged—blit illuminating! Very.” (TO BE CONTINUED) USE EAGLE ADS BUY BONDS "'the-HULLABALOO I My LYTLM MULL FEAR THE ATOMIC BOMB Fear is about the only instru ment which seems capable of re straining us gorillas from indulg ing in even greater excesses than1 those with which we have become I familiar. Fear of punishment in this earth prevents us from com-, mitting many a tempting crime: Fear of what the hereafter might hold keeps some of us on the ] straight and narrow path. The enemy’s fear of our chemical potential prevented the use of poison gas in this last war, and fear of retalia tion will probably be the means of holding back those nations which are tempted to use the atomic bomb in the next war. Euro e, the womb of war, is di viding itself as usual into blocs—, Lhis time an eastern and a western bloc. V, hen the people of these combinations allow their dumb politicans to bring about the next war, the great fear will doubtless j be of the atomic bomb—unless we have discovered something even' more devastating in the meantime. One of these opponents may de CHERRYVILLE DEFEATS N. C. S. D. 18-7 Cherryville defeated N. C. S. D. 18-7 Inst Friday in a hard fought game. The “Ironmen” started off with a bang when after exchang ing punts, Harry (Swifty) Rudi sill runs the entire field for a touchdown (100 yds.). The “Iron men" scored again in thP first quarter when Wright faded back on X. C. S. D.’s forty-five yard line and threw a pass that Black took over the goal line for a score. Both extra points failed. In the Second quarter X. C. S.t>. scored their lone touchdown by a series of pass plays that baffled the “Ironmen". The score was made b.V Saunders, The extra point was good and made by Bled soe. In the third quarter, the “Iron men’’ scored again as Blackwood, who played head-up bull at center, intercepted one of the tosses a bout nrd-field and raced to N. C. S. D.’s eight yard line before being knocked out of bounds. Wright plunged for the score on the next play. Xo scoring was done in the 4th quarter and the game ended 18-7. N. ('• S, I). led in first downs 11-8. For Cherryville, "Swifty” Rudi sill, Blackwood, Wriglu and Black wood were the outstanding play ers. For X. C. S. D., it was Saunders. USE EAGLE ADS cide it can, by an overnight sur prise attack, so disorganize the enemy by destroying all his cities and other centers of activity, that he will be made impotent. The op posing force will be speculating along these same lines—offensive ly and defensively. When one of them,wakes up in the morning to find itself in ruins, it will still be capable of sending off a thousand prepared plans from a thousand hide-outs to all the great centers of its foes and pulverizing them. 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