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TRUE I BY THE SUN BY Lida Larrimore • UdaLurlmor*. WNU Scrviea. CHAPTER XV—Continued ;g “I'll do my best,” Jim promised. "After all I’m only repaytog a debt You sent me out to the Vaughns'.” "I did, didn’t IT” The thought seemed to give her pleasure. “Jim," she said hesitatingly, “are you—? Is Cecily—?” "I’m not and she isn’t” Jim re* plied. "Site’s going to Bermuda with her father.” "Then she hasn’t good sense!” Dolly said warmly. Jim smiled. “You’re prejudiced. .You like me,” he said. “Oh, I do.” She slipped her en gagement ring on and off her fin ger. "I hope she'll come back from Bermuda,” she said.' “I hope you’ll get what you want You’ve been swell to me.” Miss Penny opened the door. “Time’s up!” she called brightly, “Go away, Penny,” Dolly said. Jim rose from his chair beside the bed. “Miss Penny is right” he Said. “You must not get tired. I’m going now.” “Okay, Mister. Good-by. Thanks for coming. Thanks for the orchid and Joey’s Job. Thanks for every 'thing.” “You’re more than welcome. Good-by.” He walked to the door, turned to look at her again. Her eyes, fol lowing him, were wistful. One hand lay against the orchid at her breast. Jim smiled. She returned the smile, her eyes narrowing and crinkling in the way he remembered. “Look, Penny,” she said distinct ly. “You didn’t know I was en gaged, did you? To the Prince of Wales. See this. It’s one of the crown Jewels off Queen Mary’s hat. Yes, I’m sleepy. Here, don’t touch that It’s the Only orchid I’ve ever had and I’m not going to let it get away from me.” Jim walked slowly down the cor ridor. Bravery and bravado. Dol ly, too, had her share of them. Absurd to feel a lump in his throat No, it wasn’t absurd. He had Just said farewell to . . . Wasn’t the elevator somewhere in this direction? Never min0, he’d walk . . . . . . “And the dressing-case and the camera," Miss Parker said, checking the list in her hand. “Cec ily, is that all?" “You’ve forgotten Father’s walk ing-stick," Cecily teased, "and my purse and this book Jim gave me ■which I mean, absolutely, to read." Miss Parker smiled abstractedly. “I know you think I’m a fuss-budg et." she said. “But with all this—" Her sweeping gesture included the luggage in the center of the living room floor and the trunks standing in the hall. “You can’t possibly be sure you have everything unless you keep this list Last year when the Beaches went abroad, one trunk followed them all over Europe.” “How awful!" Cecily laughed. “Imagine being pursued all, over Europe by a trunk. Can you think of anything worse, Jim? Especially one of the Beaches' trunks, that Saratoga, for instance." Jim, attaching printed tags to the luggage, looked up and smiled. Cec ily was thinner, he thought Or perhaps that was the effect of the dark wool suit she wore with a bright scarf knotted under her chin and a small dark bat tilted rakishly over one eye. No, she was really thinner. Her eyes were too large, now, for the slender oval of her face. He looked down at the in scription on the tag—“Queen of Ber muda”—hating the ship that would take her away from him over so many miles of salt gray-green wa ter. "The trunks, Jim?" Miss Parker worried. “Have you tagged them?" “He’s tagged everything except me." Cecily’s color was high, un naturally so, Jim thought She had been excitedly gay since she had come up to the house an hour ago. But she had not looked at him di rectly. Her eyes, whenever he had attempted to hold them tor an in stant had danced away from him, evading an unspoken question or reply. What was she thinking? Was she glad to go? "Here’s a tag for you,” he said. “Where is the proper place to tag a lady?" “Keep it for,whatever we’ve for gotten. I wafit .to say good-by to Xady.’ Will you come with me,, Jim?” The October air was clear and gp.rirUng. in the garden the late and scarlet sage burned with clear hot colors. The wind i rustled through leaves fallen on the lawn, blew them dancing across the grass. “I like the autumn," Jim said stoutly, closing his mind to a pic ture of Cecily hi a bathing-suit on , . : “We’re going to fish,” Cecily laid, I (till carefully- avoiding a direct l glance at Jim. | He law her in short* and a j spreading straw hat, fishing. “Not tor the rainbow-colored ones,” he I said. “They're only to be locked at through a glass bottomed boat” * “Have you been to Bermuda, Jim?” “Once or twice.” He thought of the evenings there, the stars hanging low in a deep sapphire sky— “I've told every little star Just how sweet I think you are.” “I’ve never been there,” Cecily said. “There are lilies, aren’t there?” “Onions,” Jim said, “at tills sea son. Do you like onions?” “I adore them.” She went Into the stable, walking ahead of him. He could not see her eyes. They stood beside “Lady's” stall. *T always hate to leave *Lady.' ” Cecily stroked the mare’s soft nose, fed her a lump of sugar. “You’ll take care of her for me, Jim?” She looked up at Jim. He was looking at her. t “Cecily—” he said softly. “I know.” Dark lashes curtained her eyes. “I feel that way, too.” “How?” “As though this moment was the end of the world. We’ve so many late.. ™"illlI Td No Ides How Much I Cored for yon.” things to say and so little time. I feel shy with you, Jim. That’s odd, isn’t it? I’ve never felt shy with you before?* “You’ve never considered me as a person before. I’ve been s confi dante, a shoulder to weep on, an extra man in and about the house.'* “Something is different" She leaned against “Lady’s" stall, still absently stroking the mare’s quiv ering nose. “Everything. But this time I must be sure. I loved Jerry. Perhaps I still love him. I don’t know.” ‘T love you, Cecily. It’s a relief to say it openly. I could keep on telling you indefinitely." His arms were around her, holding her close, his lips were against her cheek. “Don’t go to Bermuda. Stay here and help me run the riding acade my. We’ll make the house into a home for us. We’ll—" He broke off. *Tm crazy, I guess." She drew away from him. “I must go, Jim," she said slowly. 'T think I know, but I must be sure. Do you remember what you told me that evening at Dutch’s, that things ’ which seemed true and charming in a shadowy place—” “I remember. Did you under stand? I wasn’t sure." She nodded. “I hated myself for being critical of Jerry. Unconscious ly, I suppose, I was comparing him with you. I'd no Idea how much I cared tor you—not even that night in the garden, until—” "When?" Jim asked. "Can you ten me?” "The night of Marjory’s wed ding,” she said, “when I first sus pected that Jerry was responsible for the Quinn girl’s being hurt It was a question of Jerry or you, of Jerry or you, and it didn’t occur to me to doubt the truth of your sto ry. /That night lying awake, think ing of It I wanted your story to be true.” "Cecily—Darling—” “It’s so confusing,” she said slow ly. “I don’t know whether I love - you or not Jim. There’s lots of sun in Bermuda. Perhaps ru find out” She laughed shakily. “You’re mak ing love to me in the stable, Jim. Or am I making love to you?” “Appropriate, isn’t it?” he asked. "The first time I saw you, you were riding *Lady.' Cecily darling, I do love you so. That evening to the garden — the things I said were mere bragging. I’m not going to get over you. I’m not going to for get which song it is that makes me sad. I—” A shadow darkened the doorway. “Cecily!” Mr. Vaughn called. “We’ve got to get started. The steamer won’t wait for us. She sails at half-past five.” He disap peared abruptly. Cecily moved away from the stall. Jim followed her. They went out into the sunlight, into the clear sparkling air. “Cecily, aren’t you sure now?” Jim asked. “Must you go?” "Yes,” she said firmly. "Father is taking this trip for me. He’s beei^so fine about everything. I’m going fishing with him.” “You’ll write to me?” “I’ll send you postcards,” she promised. “Those bright colored ones with heavenly blue water and flowers as big as cabbages.” Nearing the group about the se dan, they walked more slowly. “Don’t go. Cecily,” Jim said. “You might fall oft a bicycle or get eaten by a shark or meet a charm ing Englishman with a title.” She smiled. ’‘You talk so per* suasively, Jim.” “Hurryl" Mr. Vaughn called, standing beside the sedan, his watch in his hand. They Joined the group about the car, Miss Parker, Nora, MacPher son. Their hands met and parted. “Good-by, Cecily.” “Gdod-by, Jim.” Mr. Vaughn cleared his throat “Get in here, Jim,” he said brusquely. "You’d better drive over to New York with us so we’ll stand a chance of catching the boat.” Jim saw Mr. Vaughn’s hall grave, half smiling expression, saw the shilling expectancy in Cecily’s dark golden eyes. He shook his head. “No thank you,” he said. “I’d rather meet you at the dock when you return. I don’t like farewells.” There was a chorus of good-bys, parting instructions. Miss Parker’s warning not to lose the luggage list, Nora’s importuning all the saints in the calendar for a safe and pleas ant voyage, MacPherson’s quiet “God’s speed.” The sedan moved slowly along the drive, picked up speed, disappeared around the curve between the dark hemlocks. Miss Parker and Nora went into the house. MacPherson touched Jim’s arm., “Don’t look so forlorn, lad,” he said, his eyes twinkling under the shaggy brows. "I’m thinking the trip will be a short one.” Jim’s eyes turned from the wind ing drive between the hemlocks. He smiled at his old friend. ‘T thfair so, too,” he said confidently. “Think?” The smile deepened, shone in his eyes, banished the lines of strain and fatigue. “Pm sure. I’ll meet her on a dock in New York three—perhaps two—weeks^rom to day.” THE END Science Advances in Telepathy Tests; University Man Gives Much Information Is telepathy, mongrelized by years of vaudeville trickery, at the thresh old of becoming a science? As tonishing experiments have pro gressed W a point where private home tests arq invited. With them goes the candid warning that, de spite the fun of using the mind as a- messenger /boy, there is hazard. perhaps tragedy, as a possible re ward tor psychic tinkering. The man who took telepathy out of the music hall and put it into the laboratory is slim, youthful, im petuous and mop-haired, a rapt be liever in the theory that the human mind is, to more or less degree, a sensitive broadcasting station with messages for those with minds ca pable of tuning in the right wave length, says the Literary Digest. He is Dr. Joseph Hanks Rhine, whose experiments at Duke univer sity keep people awake nightly from North Carolina to California. Mainly, success depends, he says, on possession of the “gift” to same extent, favorable mental conditions to a large extent Thai: “First a genuine interest is re quired. Preferably a fresh spon taneous curiosity to see if you can do it" In more than 100,000 trials, con ducted since 1037, he has obtained results that seem billions to one against the operations of pufe chance. Mathematically, at least he has shown that in some per perceptian without use of infact be found in "Man, the Unknown,** the recent book by Dr. Alexia Car rel, who wrote: "Those endowed with this power grasp the secret thought of other individuals without using their sense organs. They also perceive events more or less remote in space and time. This quality is exceptional. It develops in only a small number of human beings.... Clairvoyance appears quite com monplace to those who have it It brings them knowledge which is more certain than that gained through the sense organs.” Dr. Rhine experimented with chil dren, then college students. The results were dismaying. Then he tried hypnotised subjects, and final ly the key to science, specially gift ed students. Results followed im pressively. BO is careful to distinguish be tween clairvoyance and telepathy. Clairvoyance, he says, is percep tion, such as symbols on the cards. Telepathy is "mind-reading.” Per sons gifted with one ordinarily pos sess the other. Distance, he holds, makes no dif ference. Indeed, better results are obtained when test objects are sepa rated by rooms. High scores ob tain when several miles intervene. Remarkable results were obtained at a distance at 100 miles. “With all its dangers it is, I be lieve, the greatest field for intellec tual adventure that the student has before him today,” says Dr. Rhine. "The perils add to the zest, and the stae at the ggK* is unequalled.” SO HE WAS A collection manager for a Bos ton business house was criticizing a certain European country's credit. "That country's credit," he said, "reminds me of an anecdote. “A young man in a restaurant or dered an expensive dinner with champagne, and the girl who was with him remarked: “ ‘Gee, you’re flush.* " *Yes,’ he said, ‘I borrowed a hun dred last night from Jaggers.’ “ ‘From Jaggers! But I thought Jaggers was so tight.* " ‘He was.* "—Philadelphia Bulle tin. Knowing Him Like a Book “He has a title?" remarked Miss Cayenne inquiringly. "Yes,” replied the young woman. "Have you learned all about his personal history?” "I don’t think I have.” “Well, I should advise you to do so. In my reading I have found that a very charming title may go with a highly unsatisfactory story.” Incapable Mrs. Buggins—How long has your husband been working at the brew ery, Mrs. Huggins? Mrs. Huggins—He’ll have been there five months tomorrow. Mrs. Buggins—And how does he like his job? Mrs. Huggins—Very well, I think. He’s not been able to tell me yet FIRE! FERE! “I understand the speaker deliv ers his talk, with burning eloquence." "Well, the one I heard yesterday was incendiary." Picked Up Panda -4 That’s a good-looking overcoat, old bean. Where did you get it? Monium—Oh, I picked it up at Blank’s. Panda—Blank’s? I didn’t know there was. a restaurant in town by that name. Really "Yes, lady,” said the sailor, re lating his experiences, "I was once shipwrecked in the Atlantic and I lived tor a week on a tin of car dines.” “Dear me,” cried the old lady, "weren’t you afraid of falling off?” And Smarter, Too The teacher had been giving a lesson on modern inventions to his class. "Can any of you boys,” he said, “tell me of anything of importance which did not exist fifty years ago?” "Me!" exclaimed one of them. Wishful Waiting Husband—Why does a woman say she has been shopping when she hasn’t bought a thing? Wife—Why does a man say he’s been fishing when he hasn’t caught anything?—Pathfinder Magazine. New Experience "Where are you going for the sum mer this year?” , "I’m looking forward to a new and interesting experience,” said Miss Cayenne. "The family is going to remain at home.” Her Harbor Traffic Cop (to woman motorist in difficulties)—Hey, don’t you know this is a safety zone? Motorist—Of course! That’s why I drove in here.—Our Paper MUST BE TRUE “I suppose Jane’s going to wear men’s clothes now.” “What makes you think that?" *1 hear she’s accepted Paul’s suit” Busy “My husband seldom gets a day off.” “Why is that?” “He works in the weather bureau. People must have weather.” Referred to the Committee Bella—Your Mr. Robinson is good looking, but I don’t care for his ways. Pfaylis—Rever mind his ways, my dear—think of his means. STRIKES DON’T BOTHER THE Not As Much As the North and East, at Any Rate—] to Enjoy Results of Campaign to Attract Indi By WILLIAM C. UTLEY SPECTACULAR strikes of recent months in the North and East, with their accompanying publicity, have largely obscured from the public consciousness the in dustrial awakening that is taking place in the South. Yet southern industrial lead ers feel that labor troubles outside Dixie will soon be re flected in increased southern migrations as industry spreads out to avoid the diffi culties rooted in over-concen tration. Fortunately for the South, which hi the last 18 months has pressed a determined campaign to attract new manufacturing plants, its compara tively quiet labor conditions have stood out in serene contrast to the hectic scenes which have filled the northern stage. Department of Labor reports show that the number of workers involved in strikes steadily increased in both the North and South during the last six months of 1936, the latest period for Which official records are avail able. But the totals are heavily against the North, which suffered 894 strikes, involving 372,495 work ers, as compared with 105 strikes, involving 29,134 workers in Dixie. The North had its greatest num ber of strikes in August and Sep tember, with 187 in each month, but 163 strikes in October involved the most workers—95,172. The South had 24 strikes in August, keeping 4,563 from employment, but 11,596 were kept out by 16 strikes in Oc tober. South Is Non-Union. During the six-month period 40 to 60 per cent of all new strikes oc curred in four states—New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio .and California— with Illinois and Michigan account ing for a sizable portion of the re mainder. During the same six months only two important strikes took place in the South—one in the Chevrolet and Fisher Bodies plants at Atlanta, and one in the plant of the Celanese Corporation of Amer ica at Cumberland, Md. Both were settled amicably. Scarcity of strikes of either "sit down” or "walkout" variety in the South is easily explained. The South is relatively non-union. With indus try less concentrated than in eastern or middle western regions, it is less susceptible to strike epidemics. Some industrialists deem it prob able that public opinion will have outlawed the “sit-down” before the South can be effectively unionized; if “sit-downs” should appear, state Contested workers, these! They ore enjoying them tlon hall built by a large paper manufacturer with southern cities. centralized industry, would be much more difficult to carry out. Southern states are now making It easier than ever before for indus tries to migrate to points within their borders. The first year of Dixie’s industrial promotion drive 1936—brought $322,000,000 in new plants and equipment, the greatest one-year development in history. Leading the pack were paper com panies with investments totaling $60,000,000 in new plants; petro leum refining, with $50,000,000 in new distributing plants and pipe lines, and iron and steel manufac turers with a $53,000,000 expansion program. During the first quar ter of 1937 the pace was main tained, with $92,964,000 in industrial and engineering construction con tracts awarded. Prominent among the reasons for this sudden metamorphosis of a civ ilization that seemed destined to re main permanently agricultural, has been the extension of hydro-electric power to the most remote regions, resulting in an abundance of cheap energy in places which had been without it owing to lack of coal for generating or lack of distribu tion lines from hydro-electric plants. In addition, the South pro vided a ready market, lower con struction and maintenance costs, and plentiful raw materials. Of it, Arthur D. Little, the noted indus trial engineer, said, “Nowhere is there likely to be a greater exten sion of industrial activity.” ' Now the South has “gone out after the business.” States have conduct Louisians is offering manufacturers a new field of industry with re cent chemical discoveries of the possibilities of converting sugar cane tops into industrial alcohol. Inset: Gov. Richard W. Leche signing con tract to give a container manufacturer ten years tax exemption on ad dition to plant, to cost 9400,000. and local governments should profit by the experience of their eastern and middle western neighbors in handling them. Wages and employment in the South have increased more rapidly than in other sections, while hours have not increased as much, and this undoubtedly has some bearing on the absence of strikes. The wage differential between the South and other sections was approximately S3 S per cent in 1933; by December, 1930, it had narrowed down to 31.9 per cent Since the southern work er, according to economists, can maintain the same standard of liv ing as his northern counterpart at 20 per cent less cost the South may now claim virtual parity as far as real wages are concerned. Dixie Woos Industry. It is not hard to see why industry Is attracted by the opportunity the South affords for decentralization. For instance, Detroit and Akron could be paralyzed in their produc tion of automobiles and rubber if a single plant gets into difficulties with a vertical union; it would then be within the power of union lead ers to call out workers in all plants in a “sympathy” strike. Sympathy strikes, 'while still possible under de ed active publicity and "selling” campaigns, making generous offers. These included exemption from tax ation for new industries and outright subsidies in the form of free factory sites, free buildings and state trained labor. Lee he Revives Louisiana. Louisiana was one of those which took the lead, capitalizing on under developed natural resources and on new, man-made ones. It stressed the fact that "nowhere in the world is there a greater opportunity for the development of a chemical in dustry than Louisiana, where salt, sulphur and gas occur in close prox imity.” It advertised and “sold” its 4,700 miles of inland waterways, its 1,000-mile highway system, its 10 trunk-line railroads, its large per centage of native American white population. It aggressively promot ed its mineral and timber wealths and its great basic crops of rice, cotton and sugar, supplemented by sweet potatoes, strawberries, soy beans and truck vegetables. Its port of New Orleans was touted as the second largest in the United States, with unrivaled facilities for indus trial shipping. Political interference with indus try in the recent past, coupled with heavy Industrial taxes, tad p ed much industrial growth last decade. But when the a ernor, Richard W. Lecta, wa ed he outlined a plan to m state Industrially. The plan, which was adop pealed the objectionable lice on manufacturing establish effected a more equitable tat refining; encouraged estaUI of a livestock industry by re the tax on cattle, sheep esri created a board of commas industry to court industry; priated $100,000 for promotl proposed a constitutional j ment giving the governor | slon to grant tax exemptions years to new plants and add! existing Effects were not long in • to notice. Building permits i so did department store sals trie power consumption, m turing sales, post office '1 wholesale grocery salee aw indices. Problems of state and legislative problems keg ernor Lecta from starting dustrial program with the fe he would have liked, but $ personal efforts brought la state IS new industries ran value from $100,000 to $$, employing 3,000 in their c< tion and giving permanent I ment to nearly 8,000. Florida is wooing industry aril tax exemption law and is grata municipalities permission to an buildings for manufacturers. Oil are vying with each other to alii new factories, although la)p! that they must be engaged InIK manufacturing, such as geiiasi small housewares, etc.—no fj| which emits objectionable fun need apply. Agricultural Mississippi, eagle replace the lumber mills that M left "ghost towns” along the ri roads, has adopted a plan tol ance agriculture with tadustgj which was sponsored by Gov. Sfl White, ha addition to tax exomilii for five years, it offers free .file ries and free factory sites which, the manufacturer maintains a sp* fled payroll for a stated period years, become his property in m cases. The factories are buQt the municipalities in which ttay j situated, the cities issuing band| cover the cost Other states are proceeding ale the same lines. Alabama offers^ years of freedom from taxes. Ini land's counties may grant pin nent tax exemption on manufactl tag machinery. Arkansas, witt population 70 per cent rural, 1 thrown its working cap in the dustral ring with a large fund advertise the state’s natural . sources and manufacturing advi tages. North Carolina has just i proprlated $250,000 to herald Its traction as a field for industrial i pansion. Texas is now consider] an appropriation of $1,000,600 • jn for the next five years to advert the state’s resources. To date effort* have been c trated upon attracting tufa which could proces* the raw rials of the various regions. ] ana, with its thousands at ac rolling pine land, now leat South in the securing at papi pulp factories—largely a new. era activity. The textile i* has moved almost en masse' Carolina*; the South now 52 per cent of the nation** while New England, for tao|j a century the seat at this M now produces only 38 per <Ng As industrial payrolls jp|g) constant stream ocf wealth for
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