CHAPTER V
Anne, dressing for Betty Lan
le’s party, thought of Charles,
le had not been to his room, but
e had read; his letter again and
ain, and as she read, the things
r mother had said had lost their
ng.
Marion, the maid, was holding
t an ethereal frock orf flounced
lite tulle. “You’re like a pic
•e,” she said.
Anne, looking into the mirror,
shed she might show herself to
arles. A little later, as she
nt along the hall, she hesitated
the door of the guest room.
was open, but a screen had,
n set in front of it. She peep
around the screen and said,
!har»
ed; ib>.
reading,
alone and
“Anne!’’
got your letter.!’
I shouldn’t have written it.”
I’m glad you did.”
Why?”
Because now I shall never
ive the things they are saying
it you.”
Dther people believe them.”
What do I care about other
ile?” She was flaming with
championship of him, and)
e said, “You are perfect in
dress. And now you will go
dance with Garry?”
es. But I shan’t marry
Joed.”
’’m going away.”
xoing away? Where?”
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’o France. Mother and I.”
Toil are going with your
er?”
st then Vicky rounded the
ar of the screen.
»h, here you are, Anne! Garry
king for you.”
hen she had gone Charles
to Vicky, “She must not go
"ranee with her daughter.”
That do you mean?” she ask
isnsely.
d she listened, white-faced,
he told; her.
nor, in front of her long
r, was late as usual. But
iked to keep people waiting.
i was wearing blue—a chif
jn a hard clear sapphire that
asized the color of her eyes.
peads; her bracelets were of
il and little slides of cry
fastened the straps of her
ire slippers.
} asked as Vicky came in,
you like it?”
iry much.”
|got the crystals at a bar
today. Only dowagers and,
ars wear real jewelry these
ky let that pass. “Have you
ute for me, Mrs. Ordway?”
haven’t a minute for any
I Francis is waiting.”
II maid was holding Elinor’s
I |of blue and, silver brocade.
I took it from her. “I’ll
■ 'after Mrs. Ordway. And I
■ you’d go down and help
11 with the sandwiches. Mr.
■ ly is bringing some people
Bjwith him after the dance.”
■ |o is he bringing?’’ asked
I ;y waited until the maid
■ the door. “He telephoned
I tectives to meet him here.”
■ ectives?”
how stupid! I told; Fran
co nothing for a couple of
.Anne will find them.”
ie won’t find them.”
r turned slowly and faced
Why not?”
ause—I know who took
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There was a breathless silence,
after which Elinor said with elab
orate carelessness, “Who was it,
Vicky?’’
“I think I must ask you that.”
Elinor’s head went up. "Well,
if you knew, why didn’t you tell
Francis?”
“I preferred to tell you first.”
“Why?”
“So that you might put them
back.”
Elinor reached, for her wrap.
“Vicky, do you know what you
are saying? I won’t stand every
thing.”
“I’m not asking you to stand
anything. I am only asking what
we can both do about it.”
It seemed to Elinor’s excited
imagination as if Vicky, still and;
composed, was like a marble
statue, against which she would
be shattered. “What can I do?”
she asked sullenly.
“You can tell me what you
have done with them.”
“Well, if you must have it”—
Elinor’s eyes did not meet Vicky’s
—“I took them this afternoon to
Baltimore. I didn’t dare take
anything of my own. There’s that
diplomatic dinner next week and
Francis would have a fit if I
didn’t deck myself in all the fam
ily jewels. If Francis weren’t
such a pig I wouldn’t be driven
to do such things. But I had
promised Lucien that money today
and I had to get it.”
“You pawned them?”
“Yes.”
“Have you the ticket?’
“Yes.”
“Give it to me.”
“But what good! 'will that do
when I haven’t the money?”
“How much?”
Elinor named a sum that seem
ed to Vicky astounding. “I’ve
paid all my debts and I bought
these crystals.”
“And you have none left?”
“Not a penny.”
“Then I must get it from my
bank as soon as possible.”
Elinor clutched Vicky’s arm.
“You’re"going to get them back?’’
“I’ll do my best.”
Anne was having a wonderful
time at Betty Lanvale’s party. She
was young and she loved to dance
and men flocked about her.
When the music stopped the
couples began to drift toward the
dining room. Garry guided Anne
through the crowd. There was a
hall to cross before they reached
the dining room—a great vaulted
hall, hung with tapestries and
portraits of dead and gone Lan
vales. Set out in stone urns were
orange trees, heavy with fruit,
and it was against the background
of green and glossy leaves and
golden globes that Anne saw her
mother.
As Anne came up Elinor said
hurriedly, “I was looking for you,
Anne. David and I are going
over to the club with the Dorsays
for bridge. We’re fed up. Garry
will drive you home.”
“But, Mother!”
"What'/"
“Oh, nothing.” Anne didn’t
want to go with Garry, but her
mother wouldn’t understand.
There really wasn’t £my reason
except that he’d try to make love
to her. And how could she tell
her mother that?”
Elinor opened her bag and took
out an envelope. “I want you to
give this to Vicky as soon as you
get home. Even if she’s asleep.
I want her to have it tonight.”
Just then David came up and
Elinor went with him, her head
high, her ©ounces trailing. The
look in her mother’s eyes and the
whiteness of her face had fright
ened Anne. What was in that
letter to Vicky?
When at last she started home
with Garry the rain was coming
down heavily.
“Gee,” Garry said, “This is
something like it, Anne, isn’t it?’
“Like what?’’
“Oh don’t begin by asking
questions.” He laughed a little
and leaned down to her. “I’ve got
you alone at last, my darling.
Dead silence, except for a
swish of wet leaves as they passed
a great tree by the gate.
“Did you hear what I said?
99
“Yea."
"Why didn't you answer?”
“Because I’m not your darl
mg:
The rain was beating now
against the windshield, a cloud
burst that impeded their progress
and, obscured Garry’s view. At
ist they stopped with a sudden
i k. Garry opened the door and
it out, and then came hack to
)' iv, “There’s water in the engine.
’s hopeless to try to fix it in
• is storm. We’ll have to wait
i ntil someone comes along.”
vjoky, waiting up for Anne,
’ -ordered why she did not come.
It was a dreadful night and Vicky
was nervous as a cat. She had
had her interview with Francis
who had arrived before midnight
to meet the detectives. She had
waylaid him in the hall and' had
asked for a few moments alone
with him.
i “It’s about Anne’s pearls,” she
[said. “I know who took them,
but I’d rather not tell you. I
wish you’d trust me to get them
back and not push the matter
farther.”
“If it were anyone but you,
Vicky,” he had said, “I wouldn’t
listen for a moment. But you
must have your reasons( and good i
ones.”
“Please,” she had implored.
“Send the men away before Anne
comes. Say that it was all a mis
take and that the pearls have been
found.”
“But they are not found.”
“You shall have them tomor
row.”
He had then dismissed the de
tectives, and, coming back to
Vicky, had talked of other things.
Through it all Vicky realized his
thoughts were turning and twist
ing in dark channels. At last he
had said, “I spoke bo Anne about
going with her mother, but I’m
not keen about it.”
“Why not?”
“She still needs you. She’s
just a child.”
“I know.” Vicky was staring
into the fire.
Francis, leaning forward, had
said, “You’ve been more than a
mother to her, Vicky, andl you
mustn’t desert her now.”
“I’m not deserting her, and I
have thought of this. If you can
spare her, I’ll take her home
with me and we’ll spend Thanks
giving with my people. She needs
to be away from Garry—from
everything.”
It had been late when Francis
left her, and now Vicky was wait
ing. She went to the telephone
and called up the Lanvale resi
dence. A servant reported that
Miss Ordway had driven away an
hour ago with Mr. Brooks. Mrs.
Ordway had gone on to the club.
So that was that. As she won
dered whether she should tell
Francis there came, suddenly, the
sound of a motor. She flung
open the door to find Garry
stumbling through the storm with
Anne in his arms.
“She’s half frozen,” he said.
“Who ever heard of such weather
at this time of year? My car
stalled and I had to wait until
someone came along.”
Vicky interposed, “Who found
you?”
“Elinor and David. Coming
back from the club.”
“Elinor?’’ Vicky’s voice was
startled. “Where is she?”
“Out there in the car.”
But Elinor was not in the car.
She was standing in the hall.
“Where’s David?” Garry asked.
"He’s gone.” She came for
ward, more like a wraith than a
real presence. It’s an awful
night,’’ she said in a toneless
voice. “Has Francis oome in?”
“Yes.” It was Vickey who
answered.
“Well, I’m going up,” Elinor
said presently. “You’d better
get Anne to bed, Vicky, and send
Garry home.”
“That sounds as if I were in
disgrace,” Garry protested, “and
nothing is really my fault. Blame
it all on Anne. I asked her to
marry me and; she wouldn’t so
I ran the car off the road and
asked her all over again.’’
He was trying to carry off the
situation lightly, but only he and
Anne knew that there was no
lightness in him. For in that
hour of darkness Anne had; defi
nitely defined her position. “I
can’t marry you, Garry, and I
won’t.” And something remote
and resolute in her manner had
at last convinced him.
Yet now when he left her, he
lifted her hand to his lips. “This
isn’t the end, Anne.” But it was
said as one who, with his back to
the wall, cherished! a forlorn
hope.
Anne smiled and then forgot
Mm- “Here’s a letter Mother gave
me for you, Vicky.” She was
glad to get rid of it. Now that
her mother was safely at home
the letter no longer worried her.
(To Be Continued)
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Host—“When I was a young
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satisfied till I’d smothered my
wife in diamonds.”
Guest—“Most laudable. But
why in diamonds?”
Worth Patenting
“So, that new girl of yours is
laizy?”
“Lazy? Why, the other morn
ing I caught her putting popcorn
into the pancakes to make them
turn over themselves.”
A HELPING HAND FOR ALL
American Red Cross Roll Call Poster for 1939.
Today and Tomorrow
by FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE
WALKERS . . hazard
People walking on the highways
account for more than 39 per
cent of all motor fatalities, the
National Safety Council has con
cluded after three years of study
of the facts and figures. Last
year 12,500 pedestrians were kill
ed by automobiles in the United
States.
We hear a lot about drunken
drivers, but 13 percent of the
roadwalkers killed had been drink
ing, as compared with 9 percent
of the drivers who suffered a
similar fate.
Children running into the
street, and old people who became
confused in traffic, figured largely
in the year’s motor deaths.
Most of that sort of accidents
occur in the cities, where more
cars are passing and more people
are trying to cross streets. Where
the police have adopted effective
measures to regulate pedestrians
at crossings, as in Washington,
the toll of motor deaths dropped
rapidly.
The proposal to place all walk
ers under the same sort of con
trol as drivers is gaining adher
ents everywhere.
DUCKS ' .t . . stop
Driving down the four-lane
Taconic Parkway a few miles i
north of New York City on a
recent Sunday, I saw the car
ahead of me come to a sudden
stop. The driver signalled, and I
direw up alongside of him and
stopped, too. At the same in
stant two cars coming in the op
posite direction stopped a few:
feet ahead of us. In a couple'
of minutes there were a hundred
or so cars lined up, honking their
horns impatiently.
What had happened. A mother
duck had chosen that particular
moment to cross the highway
with her brood. With a dozen
Puffy ducklings trailing in single
jfile behind her she took her own
| good time, waddling along with
an occasional “quack” to her
little ones, completely unconcern
ed with the fact that she was
holding up traffic on one of the
busiest roads .leading out of New
York.
The word passed back down
the line and scores of people got
Out of their cars to see the amus
ing sight of the duck and the
ducklings. Everybody was good
natured about it alL I have yet
ti>, see the motorist who would
^Kberately run down even such
to unimportant and trivial creat
ure as a baby duck.
i : ", __
DARKNESS toll
Most of the animals that are
killed on the highways, and a
large proportion of the road
walkers, meet their fate at night.
One of the best drivers I ever
knew was killed one night a mile
or so from my place in the coun
try because he caught the gleam
of some animal’s eyes reflected by
his headlights and swerved too
sharply in trying to avoid killing
one of God’s lesser creatures.
Driving over Stockbridge Moun
tain in the early morning I often
see the pitiful reminders of the
night’s tragedies. More than
once, in the dim light just before
sunrise, a pheasant has whirred
up from the woods beside the
road and dashed into my car, once
shattering the windshield.
Before the town built a bridle
path along the road in front of
our house, separated from the
concrete by a wide grass strip,
several children were killed each
year by cars, right on the village
street. Now the greatest danger
is to the bicycle-riding youngsters
of high-school age, who prefer the
smooth highway and ride in droves
in apparent disregard of the con
stant flow of motor traffic.
WEATHER ... war
One of the perils of war is the
danger that our Atlantic coast
may be swept by storms of which
we have no warning. The Weath
er Bureau has worked for years
to develop a system whereby ships
crossing the Atlantic Ocean in
both directions report the weather
conditions at regular intervals,
by radio.
By charting these reports it has
been possible to forecast north
east gales, tropical hurricanes and
other approaching disturbances
carrying danger to small craft,
water-front property or inland
regions, in time to provide pro
tection against them.
Now hardly any ship afloat, ex
cept those of the United States,
dares to report its position for
fear of German submarines. So
many neutral ships have been
sunk that none feels safe in let
ting a possible lurking U-boat
know where to find it.
Even the few ships flying the
American fi'ag will not be able to
render the customary weather ser
vice if Congress passes the pro
posed law to keep our own craft
out of the zones of warfare,.
HURRICANES . . Headlines
It is unfortunate that the first
news of the tropical hurricanes,
which are to be expected at this
time of year, always comes to the
newspapers from the U. S.
Weather Bureau station at Jack
sonville, Fla. No matter if the
storm spends itself a couple ol
hundred miles off shore, it is
headlined: “Another Florida Hur
ricane.”
I have met many people, anc
NOTICE OF RESALE OF LANE
By virtue of a decree of th<
Superior Court, made in specie
proceedings for partition, entitl
ed “Mrs. Mattie Edwards vs. Mrs
Alice Rector et als,” I will offe;
for sale at the Court House dooi
in Sparta, at public auction, ti
the highest bidder, at 12:00 M.
on Monday, December 4, 1939, 4
certain tract of land containini
approximately 74.6 acres, lyini
on the waters of Little Riv
er, adjoining the lands of Mac!
Edwards, Emmeline Scott, Wil
Edwards and Glenn Joines.
TERMS OF SALE: One-fourtl
cash; one-fourth on a credit o
six months; one-half upon a credi
of twelve months, deferred pay
ments to bear interest from th
date of sale.
This 14th day of Novembei
1939. 2tc-23A1
S. R. NICHOLS, Commissione
Twin Oaks
Sparta P. 0., Nov. 14.—Mr.
and Mrs. Lon Cox and three
small children, of Laurel Springs,
are visiting for a few days with
Mrs. Cox’ sister, Mrs. Joe Bare,
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Felix Irwin and
son, “Buddie,” of Berwyn, Md.,
stopped with friends here Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Brackins,
Rising Sun, Md., are visiting rela
tives in this county.
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Hash and
children, of Ontario, Canada, are,
visiting relatives here for two
weeks.
Mr, and Mr-. O. I). Hapne.r
(spent .Sunday with relative;- :tt
j Scottville.
I Miss’ Madaline Sheppard, -tu
jdent at Appal a eh On Stat- Teach
ier.s College,: Boone', spent th0
[week-end with home folk at
ISoottville,
j Jack WaT.-h, Boon*, soont Sat
jurday night with 'friends, here,
j Several near relatives;', from
I High Poin t at h led the funeral
iof little Patricia Ann Sexton at
[New Haven Church, Thursday.
Mt. Zion
! Piney Greek P. 0„ Nov. 13.—
Mrs. Maude Mason, Washington,
D. C., and Mrs. Ruth Osborn, of
this community, spent a recent
night with their sister, Mrs. Flora
Moxley, Topia.
Edna Rae and Howard Smith
attended the Armistice Day pro
gram at Piney Creek Friday
night.
Mrs. W. R. Jones and Mrs.
Jessie Dow Sumney, of West
Jefferson, visited Mrs. Hallie
Douglas Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Jones,
Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Sheets and
son, Russel Jones, and Misses j
Dorothy and Jo Shepherd, of Mt. j
Carmel attended the song service
at Mt. Zion Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Hallie Douglas
have heard of many more, who
are afraid to spend their winters
in Florida for fear of hurricanes.
That is as sensible as being afraid
to go to Chicago because of the
giangsters. Only two hurricanes
in a quarter of a century have
swept any part of Florida with
serious results.' Long Island and
New England, last Fall, suffered
more property damage and loss of
lives from the hurricane which de
stroyed thousands of homes and
levelled millions Of acres of for
est, than Florida has ever ex
perienced.
The “hurricane season” in the
Caribbean, where these storms
generate, is over by November
and does not begin again until
July. With the rest of the world
barred to Americans seeking
peaceful comfort in Winter, the
coming’ season ought to see . Flor
ida crowded with visitors There’s,
no better place I know to go,
from December to May.
and Dent Pugh were dinner guests
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hi
| Clay Smith Sunday.
! Mrs. T. E. Pugh and children,
Logene and Fred, visited Mrs.
Bell Blevins Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Moxley and
daughter, Lorene, spent Sunday
with Mi. and Mrs. Lee Black.
Mrs. Virgie Pugh visited her
uncle, D. E. Douglas, Saturday.
Mr. Douglas fell a week-ago and
broke his leg.
Frank Perry, Peden, visited
George Smith Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. J. H. Parsons and Mrs.
Coie Parsons visited Mrs. R. L.
Billings and Mrs. Mary Cox Sun
day.
Rev. R. L. Billings and Lee
Black attended the quarterly com
feren. e at Transou Sunday after
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Bateman
virited Mr and Mrs Halite Doug
las Saturday night.
Mrs. Elbert Ahsher and son,
Max visited Mrs, S. E. Smith
Thura’ay.
Among those attending the
song, service at Mt. Carmel Breth
ren Church Sunday night were
Mr. and Mrs. George Pugh, Mr.
and Mrs. Hallie Douglas, H. Clay
Smith, Dent Pugh and Miss Edna
Rae Smith, Mount Zion.
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“AM actual heroes are essential
men,
And all men possible heroes."
—Browning.
“If Hero means sincere man, why
may not every one of us be a
Hero?” —Carlyle.
“The reformer must be a hero
at all points, and he must have
conquered himself before he can
conquer others.”
“—Mary Baker Eddy.
“There is no king nor soverign
state
That can fix a hero’s rate.”
—Emerson.
EXECUTOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as Executor
of the will of W. P. Warden,
Deceased, I hereby notify all per
sons owing said estate to make
prompt settlement and all per
sons having claims against said
estate are hereby notified to pre
sent them to the undersigned
within twelve months from the
date hereof, or this notice will
be plead in bar of recovery.
This November 13, 1939.
R. G, WARDEN, Executor of
W. P. Warden, Deceased
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