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3 IBE PEEQUIMAN3 WEEKLY HERTFORD, N. . C, ; FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1937 Legals NOTICE OF SALE By virtue of the authority con-tained-in that certain deed of Trust executed on the 13th . day of Decem ber, 1934, by C. V. Willif ord and wife,, Mary E, Willif ord, to W. H. Hardcastle, Trustee, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Perquimans. County, N. C, in M D. Book 18, page 535, default having been made in the conditions of said deed of trust, the undersigned trus tee will, on the 2nd day of October, 1937, at 12:00 o'clock, noon, at the court house door of Perquimans County, si. c, offer for sale at pub ilc auction to the highest bidder for cash, the following described proper ty: Bounded on the south by Main or Market Street, on the east by Mrs. Ruth T. Newby, on the north by lands formerly belonging to the Shannonhouse heirs, and on the west PAGE THREB ing the lot now used and operated by said C. V. Willif ord as the Hotel Hertford and the same lot conveyed to C. V. Williford by M. L. Eure, Comm. and registered in the Public Registry of Perquimans County, N. G, in book 9, page 192, reference to which is hereby made. successful bidder must deposit ten- per cent (10) of bid at time of sale. This the 31st day of August, 1937. W. H. HARDCASTLE, Trustee. By Chas. E. Johnston, Attorney. Sept.3,10,17,24. tavious Taylor and wife,- North Carolina, Perquimans County. In the Superior Court, Before the Clerk. Pauline B. Madre and husband, W F. Madre, Jr., Plaintiffs, vs. Evalena (Eleanor) Hall, and husband, Semore Hall, Octavious Taylor and wife, Taylor. NOTICE Th ripfonrinnt.. F!vnlpnn f TClennnr by the Baptist Church property, be- Hall, and husband, Semore Hall, Oc- NOTICE OF DELINQUENT TAX SALE Town of Hertford Sale of property for delinquent taxes to be held Monday, October 4th, 1937, (1936 taxes and other years) at 12 o'clock noon at the Court House door, Hertford, N. C. TOWN OF HERTFORD, N. C. By W. G. Newby, Clerk. WHITE JName Location Amt. Barclift, J I, Penn Ave $ 7 15 Barrow, George W Estate, Grubb st 2.48 Raymond Barrow and Miss Sallie Leary 4.13 Leary, Sally, Grubb st 413 Brinn, Mrs R T, Front st 112.75 Broughton, W J, Grubb st : 14.45 Cannon, E H, Academy Ave 13.04 onappeii, Amur, wiappeii, -je;, Taylor, will take notice that an ac tion entitled as above has been com menced in the Superior Court of Perquimans County, North Carolina, to sell lands belonging to the plain- tins and defendants as tenants in common so that a division might be had; and the said defendants will further take notice that they are re quired to appear at the office of the clerk of the Superior Court of said county in the Courthouse in Hert ford, N. C, on the 27 day of Septem ber, 1937, and answer or demur to the complaint in said action, or the plaintiffs will apply to the court for the relief demanded in said com plaint. This 25 day of August, 1937. W. H. PITT, Clerk Superior Court. aug.27,sept.3,10,17 Chappell, Riddick, Grubb st ... (hannsll Jnlin TP i -rr""i w Congleton, L F, Church st Dotier. Mrs J L Church st Elliott, W T, . Field, D M Estate, Dobb st felton, w A, Dobb st 3.30 58.60 20.63 4.51 20.63 16.50 10.10 16.50 23.94 59.95 30.29 13.51 Fleetwood, Mrs J J, Front st Goodwin, Mrs Ellie, Dobb st Harrell, Mrs Lillie B. : Hathaway, Mark, Dobb st 12.98 jarvis, mrs J K, Uobb st 24.75 Jessup, S P, Front st 30.36 Knowles, R Li Market st 47 45 Landing, W D, R R Ave 16.50 Lane, W H, Penn Ave 10 45 Medlin, N H, R R Ave 10.18 Munden, Tim Estate, 4.95 Miller, Beatrice, 9.90 Norman, Madeline, 6.60 Perry, J P, Front st 44 22 Reed & Felton, Grubb st (1936) 83.11 Reed & Felton, Grubb st (1931) 101.42 Reed & Felton, Grubb st (1932) 222.20 Reed & Felton, Grubb st (1934) 129.53 Roughton, A W, Grubb st 16.50 Small, Mrs P H, Church st ; 41.25 Stokes, HX) Front st 65.31 Stokes, 03 and Mrs M H White Estate Church st 156.75 Stokes, HC?4.: i tJri 10:66 Ward, RF, Ed Road st 8.25 wnedbee, Mrs T C, Church and Penn Ave. . wnue, Ol, Grubb st Wlfite, W E, Church st White, C W, Williford, C V Estate. Market st ITT" 1 AJI " wuituow. vir v Winslow, E L, Dobb st Winslow, Mrs H R, Grubb st 78.38 .9.08 19.12 36.01 67.52 37.95 82.50 25.52 Pen. Cost $ .29 .95 .10 .95 .17 .95 .17 .95 4.51 .95 .58 .95 .52 .95 .13 .95 2.34 .95 .86 .95 .18 .95 .83 .95 ,66 .95 .40 .95 .66 .95 .96 .95 2.40 .95 1.21 .95 .54 .95 .52 .95 .99 .95 1.21 .95 1.90 .95 .66 .95 .42 .95 .41 .95 .20 .95 .40 .95 .26 .95 1.77 .95 3.32 .95 .95 62.22 .95 20.72 .95 .66 .95 1.65 .95 2.61 .95 6.27 .95 .43 .95 .33 .95 3.13 .95 .36 .95 .76 .95 1.44 .95 2.70 .95 1.52 .95 3.30 .95 1.02 .95 Total 8.39 3.53 5.25 5.25 118.21 15.98 14.51 4.38 61.89 22.44 5.64 22.41 18.11 11.45 18.11 25.85 63.30 32.45 15.00 14.45 26.69 32.52 50.30 18.11 11.82 11.54 6.00 11.25 7.81 46.94 87.38 102.37 285.37 151.20 18.11 43.85 68.87 163.97 12.04 9.53 82.46 10.39 20.83 38.40 71.17 40.42 86.75 27.49 NOTICE Sale of Valuable Property By virtue of a Mortgage Deed exe cuted to me by W. K. Barclift and wife, Nettie Barclift, of Perquimans bounty, for certain purposes therein mentioned which said Mortgage Deed bears date August 19, 1931, and is registered in the office of the Re gister of Deeds of Perquimans Coun ty in Book 17. Page 546, I shall on September 22, 1937, at 12 o'clock Noon, offer for sale at Public Auc tion, for cash, at the Court House door in Hertford, N. C, the property conveyed to me in said Mortgage Deed. Being in New Hope Township Perquimans County, N. C, designat ed as follows, viz.: Bounded on the northeast by Durants Neck Road, on the east by W. C. Barclift and W R. Perry lands, on the south by J N. Foster and J. Carter Perry lands on the west by lands of W. C. Hur dle and on the south by E. A. Good man and New Hope Church Grove. Dated and posted August 20, 1937. A. W. BARCLIFT, A. W. Barclift, Mortgages, aug 27 sep 3 10 17 COLORED Barnes, Isaac, Hyde Park st - 22.28 Bembery, Ed, King st , 9.90 Bembery, Richard, Market st . 16.50 Bembery; Robert, 6.60 Blanchard, John, Ed Road . ' 5.23 Blanchard, A, King St 5.25 NOTICE OF SALE On Monday, October 4th, 1937, at 11 A. M., I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash at the court house door in Hertford, N. C. 103 shares preferred stock of the Auto and Gas Engine Works. Payment guaranteed by W. G. Gai- ther. The right to reject any and all bids is hereby reserved. This September 8th, 1937. T -C T-ll 1 1 i. in. rieeiwooa, ao J. M. FLEETWOOD, Administrator of J. L. Fleetwood, sept 10 17 24 aug 1 Burke, Charles Estate, King st cooper, ueorge w, Dobb st Clark, Adeline D, Ed Road van Ay AU-CMUO MJ &UU AVMU , Dail, Elisha, Dobb and Ed Road "- wail, Elverd C Garden, Davenport. Mam Church st : Douglas,i Louisa Estate, Grubb st Douglas, AW N, Mark st i-.-. uason, Joseph - Estate,' Elliott, Percy. Dobb st : Erwin, Dennis -i-J--.:-...... Evans, Sarah, Everett, Esther, 8.25 20.22 4.95 50.53 1.25 9.90 4.12 13.12 6.60 12.65 7.43 1.65 6.78 4.11 2.75 Everett, Mamie, King st Everett. ' William. --; Faulk, Will Estate, R R Ave . . 8.25 f etton, Annette, Marie st . .... Felton, Alec,: . Felton, George, ' J Felton, James, Ed Road ; Felton, Laura 'and Annie,' Felton. Laura Swain:- i- : Felton, Lucy, Hyde Parki. Felton, Nelson M, Market st felton Lamb, 6.20 2.68 1.45 6.20 7.02 12.38 3.30 16.74 4.95 5.78 3.03 12.88 Homer, William, 3.60 Holly, Alpene, :-- 8.25 Holly, Charles E, Barrow Lane - - . 2.90 Holly, Jesse, Cox Ave . 10.32 Holly, L D, Dobb st ' , 9.90 Holly, Malinda Estate, Dobb st , 7.85 Lassiter, Hariet 'Estate, Grubb 5.78 Lassiter, .Herbert, Road st 6.05 Lloyd, Pearl, Dobb. st - , 8.25 Lillian, Lyons, King st 6.20 Lyons, Washingtons, ; King st 20.68 Mercer, Harry and Beulah, . 5.80 Felton, .William . Percy R R Ave , Franklin, Prentis Estate. B Lane Harrell, Anderson, Market st . tiarreu, John Henry, . Nixon, J C, Ed Road st worrieet, Jas, Ed Road st Overton, Eugenia, Overton," Miles, Cox Ave Parker, Essie,. Dobb st o. . 'arfcer, Henry 'Estate, Dobb st Reed, Elisha Estate, King st Keed, - Wilson VSatterfield, F H, R R Ave oaiienieia, wine, vox Ave : Sharp, Dr W B, Ed Road, Dobb st Skinner, John 9, R R Ave Spraill, M G, Market st"--2--.L..i Stallings,. Alonzo, Dobbs st. , Stallings, Isaac Estate, King sC Sutton, B J, Dobbs st Taylor, Katie Estate, King st j Thompson, W J, ' - Walters, Harriet, - , Welch, George Estate, White, Herman,' King st Winslow, Annie M, Dobbs st Wood, John B, Dobbs st k I Wright, Ruth, .uJ 14.85 .;:-9.90 , 6.20 18.15 4.13 8.25 8.97-. 8.60 10.32 9-08 10.32 6.40 34.10 , 4.95 , 10.82 8.80 - " , 4.95 - , '. -6.60 . - 8.25 X 20.20 , 4.95 , 7.70. j 11.00 - 6.20 2.70 1 -ii - 7.70 9 .95 .40 .95 .66 .95 .26 .95 .21 .95 .21 .95 .33 .95 .81 .95 .19 .95 2.02 .95 .05 .95 .40 .95 .16 .95 .52 .95 .26 .95 .51 .95 .30 .95 .07 .95 .23 .95 .16 .95 .11 .95 .33 .95 .25 .95 .11 .95 .06 .95 .25 .95 .28 .95 .50 .95 .13 .95 .67 .95 .19 .95 .23 .95 . .12 .95 .50 .95 .57 .95 .14 .95 .33 .95 .12 .95 .41 95 -.40 .95 -.81 .95 .23 .95 '.24 .95 .33 .95 .25 .95 .83 .95 .23 ,95 .59 .95 .40 .95 r.25 .95 - .78 .95 '.16 .95 .83 .95 .86. ,95." .14 .95 ' .41 .95 .36 .95 Al ,95 .26 .95 ! 1.36 ,.95 . .19 .95 . .41 .95 ' .13 .95 . .19 .95 ., .26 .95 .33 .95 .81 .95 .19 .95 . , T.31 .95 .. t .44 .95 . .25 .95 .11 .95 24.12 115 18.11 7.81 6.89 6.41 9.53 21.98 6.10 53.50 2.25 11.25 5.23 14.59 7.81 14.11 8.68 2.67 6.96 5.22 3.81 9.53 7.40 3.74 2.46 7.40 8.25 13.83 4.38 18.36 5.10 6.96 4.10 13.83 15.82 4.69 9.53 3.97 11.68 11.25 9.11 6.96 7.24 9.53 7.40 22.4b 6.98 I. 6.39 II. 25 7.40 19.83 5.24 v 9.58 10.28 4.69 11.68 10.39 11.68 '7.61 86.41 6.09 11.68 4.38 6.09 7.81 9.53 22.06 6.10 8.96 12.39 .7-40 North Carolina, In The Perquimans County. Superior Court Before the Clerk M. L. Cartwright, Annie Ownly Lane and Husband, Thomas Lane, C. F. Harrell and A. L. Ownly, Pe titioners vs. Rennie Ownly and Mildred Harrell and Mary Elizabeth Harrell (Minors). NOTICE OF SUMMONS The above named defendants, Ren nie Ownley and Mildred Harrel and Mary Elizabeth Harrell, will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Perquimans Coun ty, North Carolina, for the purpose of sale of certain lands for parti tion, in Belvidere township, said county and state, known as the R. M. Ownley land, containing (130) acres, more or less, in which the said de fendants are interested parties; And that said defendants will fur ther take notice that they are re quired to appear at the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Per quimans County, North Carolina, in Hertford, N. C, on Saturday, Sep tember, 18th, 1987, at 12 o'clock, M. ana answer or demur to the Com plaint filed in said action, within the time allowed by law, or the plain tiffs will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the complaint. This August, 17th, 1937. W.H.Pitt,, Clerk, Superior Court, . Perquimans ; . County, aug 27 sep 3 10 17 NOTICE OR, SALE, -By virtue of a Mortgage Deed exe cuted to "me by Benriie A. Lamb and wife, Fronnie Lamb, for certain pur poses therein mentioned, which said Mortgage Deed bears date of Feb ruary 10, 1930, and is registered in the. Perquimans County Registry in Boob 17, at page 362, I shall on Sat urday, October 9, 1837, at 12 o'clock M. offer for sale at public auction for cash, at the court house door in Hertford, N. C, the property con veyed to me in said Mortgage Deed to-witr v ' ' That certain tract in Belvidere Township, Perquimans County, North Carolina bounded on the west by the Chappell Hill public road leading to Goodwin's Mill and on the north, east and south by the lands of. Willis H. Lamb and Benjamen Lamb, con taming 80 acres more or less, known as a part of the ' Benjamen Lamb home tract.-' " '- !. This 7th day of September, 1937. H. I. COPELAND, Mortgage, ; By H. G. Winslow Attorney-at-Law. eept 10 17 24 aug I . Ancient Dwelling! Identified That , the inhabitants of mud and ' brick houses found in Chagar Bazar, noruiern oyria, were members of the kingdom of Mitanni that flour. 3.76 ished 3.500 years aeo. has been ds. -31 5- ;, 8.96 termined by archaeologists. . NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND Whereas, on the 22nd day of Nov ember, 1934, Mrs. Minnie Lee Elliott and Josiah Elliott executed and de livered unto W. O. McGibony, Trus tee for Land Bank Commissioner, a certain deed of trust which is re Corded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Perquimans County, North Carolina, in Book F. L. B. 1 at page 201; and Whereas, default has been made in the payment of the Indebtedness thereby secured as therein provided, ana tne trustee has been requested by the owner and holder thereof to exercise the power of sale therein contained: Now, therefore, under and bv vir tue of the authority conferred by the said deed of trust the undersigned Trustee will on the 8th day of Oct ober, 1937, at the court house door of Perquimans County, North Caro lina, at twelve o'clock noon offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, the following real estate: All that certain tract of land con taining Eighty and 4-10 (80.4) acres, more or less, known as the "Aleathia Lane Place," in Bethel Township, of Perquimans County, North Carolina, located on the Yeopim Public Road. about 7 miles north from Hertford, North Carolina, bounded on the north by the lands of V. R. Perry; on the east by the lands of T. Broughton; on the south by the lands of T. Nixon; on the west by the lands of Nixon Hollowell. Ihe property is more fully des cribed by metes and bounds in the deed of trust above mentioned, to wnicn reference is made. This property is being so'd sub ject to an outstanding deed of trust executed by Mrs. Minnie Lee Elliott, and Josiah Elliott to The Federal Land Bank of Columbia recorded in Book F. L. B. 1, page 200, in the of fice of the Register of Deeds of Perquimans County, North Carolina. This the 7th day of September, 1937. I W. O. McGIBONY, Trustee. T. W. COSTEN, Agent and Attorney for Trustee sept 10 17 24 oct 1 NOTICE OF SALE By virtue of the authority contain ed in that certain mortgage deed ex ecuted on the 14th day of August, 1926, by Washington Lyons, to L. E. Taylor, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Perqui mans County, N. C, in M. D. Book 14, page 470, default having been made in the conditions of said mort gage deed, the undersigned mort gagee will on the 9th day of October, 1937, at 12:00 o'clock noon, at the court house door of Perquimans County, N. C, offer for sale at pub cash, the following described pro perty: Beginning at the corner of the in tersection of Covent Garden and King streets running south on Covent Garden street 72 feet, thence east on a parallel line with King street 39 feet, thence north on a parallel line with Covent Garden street 72 feet to King street, thence west along King street 39 feet to the corner or place of beginning, the same being the lot this day conveyed to said Lyon's by said Taylor and this conveyance is made to secure the purchase price of the same. Dated and posted this 4th day of September, 1937. L. E. TAYLOR, Mortgagee By Chas. E. Johnson, Attorney, sept 10 17 24 Oct 1 NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of Charlie W. Chappell, deceased, late of Perquimans County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned at Belvidere, N. C, on or before the 31st day of August, 1938, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This 31st day of August, 1937. MRS. PENNIE CHAPPELL, Administrator of Charlie W. Chappell lie auction, to the highest bidder for sept 3 10 17 24 oct 1 8 THERE'S ONLY ONE By SOPHTF KFHH V Sophie Kerr Underwood. WW . . X WNU Service. SYNOPSIS Preparing to close her summer home and spend the winter In France with a great-aunt, Anne Vincent, a middle aged widow, accedes to the pleas ot her adopted daughter Rachel, twenty and pretty, that she tell her about her real mother. Anne, an unselfish, understand ing soul, finds the task difficult, since she feels Rachel is putting a barrier between them. Rachel learns that her real mother was beautiful eighteen-year-old Elinor Malloy, deserted by her young husband, before Rachel's birth. He was killed in the World war. In desperate financial straits, Elinor had agreed to Rachel's adoption at birth by Anne, whose own baby had died. Elinor sub sequently had married Peter Cayne, a wealthy New York business man, and had a son. To soften the story for Rachel, Anne omits telling her that her mother had been callous and selfish and had said: "It's odd your baby died and mine didn't." Rachel goes fishing with Bob Eddis, a local boy who runs a library and does wood carving. CHAPTER II Continued "Bob, Msten. I wouldn't tell any body else in the world about this, but I know you won't spill it around. Mother was telling me about my real mother. She's always said she would when I was twenty-one, but a little while ago I got thinking about her going over to France and if anything happened to her I might never know. So I've been trying to get her to tell me and finally she gave in. I can't tell you how it makes me feel, I'm not quite sure myself. I seem to be someone else. Maybe it'll wear off, but right now you see I keep on puzzling about 1 them, my real father and mother in relation to myself. What did they give me that was in their natures, what did they have to give? How much am I theirs and how much am I" "Why do you think about it at all? You've known all the time you were adopted, everyone's known it. You used to brag about it disgustingly the first summers you came here and make all of us kids feel as jealons as the devil because we'd merely been born. What's all the sudden uproar about? She hasn't written to you or anything, has she, your real mother?" "No. She's never shown the slight est interest In me, apparently doesn't care whether I'm dead or alive." "That' what's burning you up, you always did hate being ignored." Rachel tilted her head cockily. "I never am ignored," she said. "You rose to that one like a blue fish. Go on, get those lines over and stop beefing. How do you get this way? Look but. that one's twist ed." Rachel applied herself to paying out the lines with perfect calm. "What's burning you up is that we're talking about me and not about you," she said amiably. It had eased her tension to tell Bob, some of the strange bitterness she'd felt was gone. Proportion was com ing back to her life. They stayed silent, absorbed in their catch. At the tenth fish Bob dropped the lines. "That's enoutrh: two for you and one for me and two for the Kreels and five for Mrs. uunys boarding - house. Look, nacne, you steer around the lieht house into the lower bay and I'll get out my trough and clean these nsn right now. How's about It, wenenr- All right. You can come along up ana eat witn mother and me? there won't be much, for Ada's brother is sick pnd she hadn't been working for us for three days, just wnen we needed her most, of course, with all the packing. But there'll be enough, with the fish." "I'll have to stop In my house and wash and put on clean clothes. Your mother would throw me out If I showed up In these stinking rags." "Bob, I do think It's dumb of you to stay on here running a town 11- Drary and doing carpentry and "That's your theme song, isn't it? Nevertheless I'm going to stay. There's only one bad spot in the program, Rachel, you won't be here. I wish you'd stay with me." "Oh, Bob, are you going to begin on that again?" "I certainly am and I shall keep right on till you give in. You think it's dumb for me to stay here in this perfectly grand place and keep on with my work and be independ ent and not worry about money, but you're the dumb one, going back to New York and racketing round with that crazy crowd, gin and hot jazz and wisecracks and a lot of cheap foolishness." "My heavens, you're full of pur ity and virtue all of a jump. Don't be one of those tiresome people who find something odd to do and then try to convert everybody else to doing it. It only shows they know it's no good and want to bolster themselves up." "That's not fair." Rachel smiled. They had almost reached the pier, first of a row of half a dozen that made the mooring place of Rockboro's fleet. "It's as fair as saying my friends are gin and jazz babies. They're not and i1 1 fk-j "She's Never Shown the Slight est Interest in Me." you knew it. Anyway. I'm eoine to get a job. And mother thinks it's all right." The boat slid alongside the pier and Rachel climbed out. "Going to tie up?" "es, catch." He threw the rope and turned to put a tarpaulin over tne engine, then set the basket of cleaned fish on the pier and leaped out beside Rachel. "Six o'clock," he said. "Heaps of time." They saunterad the length of the pier and up from the water front tnrougn a short street of small houses and stores to Rockboro's main thoroughfare At length they came to a shabby mansara nouse. "Here's Duffy's Take out the fish you want to give ner ana i ll go on with the rest." "Come into the shed a minute and look at my drawing for a mantel swag. I've got some new wood, too, Desi pine I've had this vear. I'll go through the kitchen and meet you round there." He picked out five fish and disappeared down the sido path. Just beyond Mrs. Duffy's and not wen back in her yard was a build. ing which had once been a wood shed and was now Bob Eddis liv ing quarters and workshon. He had put in windows and painted the out side white with a red raof and red trim, but its original ruirnose wa .4,11 -1 1 v . aim uuvious. itacnei alwava felt after a pause. 1 the place, it made her see a man who was not in the least like the one who ragged and joked with her, fished with her, danced with her and took her to the movies. This was an austere and ascetic man with his ideas and philosophy organ ized to his satisfaction. The living room was as bare as a room could be, with white walls and a black floor, two splint chairs, a black oak table and chest and small bed, this last covered with an exquisite white quilt, the plumed design and fine stitching a marvel of ancient taste and skill. One entire wall was a cupboard in part of which he hung his clothes; in the other the cook ing stove and sink, his few pans and dishes were kept compact and hid den. As Rachel looked round it she had an instant's vision of herself living there with Bob, serene, con tented, a life without stress, leisure ly, thoughtful, tender. "No," she thought, "it's too adult for me. This isn't any place for youth." Bob came bursting in from the outside door. "Now look!" he said and pulled down a long elaborately drawn design of a swag in fruit and leaves. "How's that?" "It's grand. But it'll be awfully hard to carve." "That was the idea. Anybody can do easy bits." He smiled at her. "You think I'm just a nut, don't you, Rachel? You don't see how I can get such a kick out of a piece of wood and a bunch of tools?" "If you want to hear it again I'm pleased to oblige: I think you're perfectly crazy about practically everything. Now I'm going home and you skin into clean clothes and come right along." She saw Anne sitting on the ter race and waved her hand and called& to her from the road: "Bob's com ing up for dinner and I've brought : some fish. I'm going to .ake a a couple over to the Kreels." Anne had been waiting for her anxiously, but now she relaxed. Ra chel couldn't have been greatly agitated if she had gone fishing with Bob and asked him to dinner. What, on earth they'd give him to eat she hurried to the kitchen and wa& investigating supplies when Rachel returned, laughing. . -,. "There's a frightful row going on over there, Mrs. Kreel and Sister Susie are raving about our letting Mr. Kj-eei use the radio. He ought never to have let them know it. My heavens" she looked at Anne's rummagings "nothing but bread and potatoes and a bit of cheese!" 'I'll bake the potatoes and toast the bread," said Anne. "There's a can of asparagus, that'll do for sal ad, and a can of apricots for des sert. There's enough coffee for to night and some in the morning before we start." Through this homely patter Anne had been listening to Rachel, watch ing her to discover if there had been any change, any ferment of feeling since their talk on the beach. She could detect nothing. The barrier which had been high between them before she had told Rachel what the girl demanded to know seemed to have gone. Bob srrived before the meal was ready, bringing cocktails in a paper container and a package of salted nuts. "They're probably stale," he said. "Thoy were bought for the summer folks and as you're the last to leave it's right you should have them." Rachel had put on the yellow crepe dress she'd saved to wear the next day, she had tied a velvet rib bon about her head and pinned a knot of floppy velvet roses at the point of the plain collar. "Decora tions for the party," she explained. Bob poured the cocktails with cer emony and the cheese canapes looked smart and professional. "Re newed assurances, girl friends!" he said, lifting his glass. "And am I going to miss you!" "You could come to New York," said RacheL "So you mentioned. You know, Mrs. Vincent, I've been doing mr best to persuade Rachel to marry me and stay here this winter in- stead of leading the wild life in the ' great and wicked city. She won't listen to me. I wish you'd use your ; influence with her," (TO BE CONTINUED)
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