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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-02-24, Page 2THURSDAY, FEBRUARY -L 1938 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE BY AGEE HAYS Ann Stays And at his suggestion about going to bed, Ann began picking up her things. “You -can’t leave here tonight!” Merry exclaimed. “It wouldn’t be safe.” And John roused /himself to quick concern, “I’ll say she can’t. Mother! Don’t let her! I’ll-—” He drew him­ self up painfully. “I can go upstairs now, Ann can stay here with Merry.” Helexx questioned Dr. Daily mute­ ly. He shook his head. “Not tonight, John. Maybe tomorrow. He’ll be weak from loss of blood for a while, Mrs. Millington. But not long. It’s surprising how quickly a healthy body can replace lost Iblood.” So Ann and Merry slept upstairs in John’s room. They -had been too tired to talk. But Merry noticed that Ann donned the dainty night­ gown which Helen Millington had loaned her, her eyes moved over the room carefully as if they were try­ ing to photograph the heavy waln-ut bed, the big dresser, the chintz cur­ tains, the bookcase with the shelf where John still kept treasures of his boyhood. As tired as she was, Ann had stood before that shelf, had laid her hand for a moment oxi the little /hand- carved boat, on an old puzzle which John himself had whittled,, on a tiny silver-framed picture of John, dixxx- pled small boy with straight dai’ii hair, leaning against his father’s knee. iShe had sat for a moment in the leather -chair in front of the books, had run her eyes hostxly over them, touching this one and that. But she /had said nothing. And she had given Merry a brief tired little smile and slipped into Ibed beside her.► What About Ann? In the darkness her hand had found Merry’s and /had pressed it gently. Impulsively Merry had returned The little gesture of affection. (Whoever Ann was, she liked her, But it occur­ red to her as a little strange, as she dozed into forgetfulness, that she should be accepting Ann like this— Ann who had volunteered no-t/hing about herself. All iMerry knew was that Ann was dressed wit/h- the same care as Merry herself, that she was clean and calm and attractive. But she had not phoned to- tell anyone she was all right as Merry would have phoned Mother if she had stay­ ed away all night. -Fortunately tne next day was Sun­ day and everyone — even Helen— could sleep late. It was noon w/hen voices from downstairs wakened Merry. 'She turned to see Ann still sleeping, hex* face on -hei’ arm. Iu the daylight there were little -copper lights in her dark /hair, but only traces of waves, “Just wave enough,’ Merry acknowledged. “Hex’ kind of /hair is best with only a little wave. And that creamy skin! She is even prettier than I thought.” ft Merry slid out of ned carefully to avoid disturbing her and went down­ stairs wearing John’s dressing gown over her blue pajamas. It enveloped /her like a great coat. And John, sitting up with pillows prepped be­ hind him laughed at the her. “The clothes, peeking as he indicated Merry. “Feeling better?” Merry She could see that he was. “I’ve been up and shaved already” he said proudly. /• “Um!” Merry surveyed /him from the dressei' where she was getting clean clothes. “Comlbed your /hair, loo. You are better!” “Lucky it’s my left arm, isn’t'it?” Who Is She? She came toward ihim laying down the little stack of wispy underthings she had selected—some for herself and a slip fox* Ann to replace the lovely peach one shredded for John’s arm. “Who is she, John?” i “W/ho?” he askd. A self-con-i scious grin twisted the corner of j his mouth and -under her direct gaze he colored. “Oh, Ann?” “Of course!” “iShe still asleep?” “Yes.” “Well—She’s the book-keeper at the garage. I—well, ^he’s there as long as I have.” “Oh! * . iShe’s—your girl, sight of moths are getting Mother,” he said. in from the kitchen, into my Helen smiled as’ked. down been isn't Stubborn Cases Of Constipation Covistipatidh May Become Serious If Allowed To Continue Keep Your Bowels Regular* With They Do Not Gripe, Weaken or Sicken to say. “Well­ hers and Rooked caught a gleam up the doorway you tell she asked John said she, John?” Re looked down, absently pluck­ ing at his bandage. “Well, I—” Merry came closer. “John,” she said in an almost inaudible voice. “You know when I told you how I feel—about Worth—I asked you if you had ever felt that way about anyone . . . You didn’t—say—but I knew by the way you—looked.” She wondered why she was find­ ing this difficult John. Is it Ann?” His eyes met way but she had in them—a gleam which made her wonder how she could ever have •thought John’s eyes sullen. They were Ibeautiful. “Yes,” he said. “John, I’m glad!” She bent and kissed his forehead. Upstairs Ann had begun to move about. Merry gathered clothes quickly. In the she paused. “O'h! Did Mother about last night?” sotto voice. “I told her everything,” cheerfully. Everything? Everything except what he doesn’t know, the most im­ portant thing of all, Merry thought iu sudden flash of dreadful realiza­ tion. Everything except that the murderer followed him home, that he was here in our garage and, being desperate, he will come back. And as she trudged up the steps, a slim ridiculous figure in John’s dressing gown, she could not know that before another noon arrived she herself, would be facing the man who had taken the fender from John’s car. COMES’ | raise a girl -without a father if she has a /big bro-tlxex* who’s responsible axxd—fine—-like you.” iShe saw a flush of gratitude and relief spread over his face and, giv­ ing his pillow a pat, she returned to t-he kitchen. No, she would xxot have to worry about John himself. They might all suffer from his mis­ takes. [They might be murdered in their beds, she thought with a grim tired smile. But John fundamently. was all right. She had not asked him abo-ut Ann. She hadn’t lxeeded to. Every men­ tion that /lie hacl made of her betray­ ed his feeling fox- her. Helen remem- herd that same look in a young man’s face years ago, a look which she herself had elicited. IThe memory brought Merry’s face back to her. When the ycung man of Helen’s youth /had left Helen she m-ust have looked as Merry had last night. She had still looked that way, when John’s father had met her. She had never been sorry she had married Wayne Millington. He had been kind to her, had /helped her to forget the other romance — the golden one. Now seeing this same drama of life re-enacted by her chil­ dren gave Helen a feeling cf iyy, a shuddering sense of and unimportance. [The girls ate (breakfast at They had agreed upstairs tell John, unless he asked, that the crushed fender which he had risked so much to procure, had been stolen, It was a secret which they alone knew and mutual anxiety and dread drew them closer. “I hope ried about ed as she in Merry’s “I her. unreal- futility 1. not to CHAPTER XVII had done, who she dreaded to to discover him she He’d married audible utterly he had man Anu last much con- seen little things un- If it were Helen Millington had risen that morning physically rested but with a heavy heart. /She knew she must find out what John had shot him. Yret know. ,-She was surprised shaving before the bathroom mirror when she came out, “John!” she exclaimed. “You shouldn’t lbe up!” “I’m 0. K.” He gave her a side-long glance and continued to shave. (She stood in the door looking up at him, wondering if she loved /him as much as she would have loved a son of her own and believing did. He was like her own. been only a baby when she’d his father. And now — an sigh escaped her—she felt inadequate before this man become. IThis self-sufficient standing here shaving, .turning aside her solicitude. iShe couldn’t ask him now, so she went into the kitchen and reamed orange juice—orange juice for four. This girl, Ann. Helen comforted herself with the thought of her. She had watched John and night. IThere had been so fusion and yet she had things, a look, a touch, spoken, this early shave, true that Ann was John’s girl, that they loved each other, then she need no longer worry about John himself. A girl with clear eyes and tranquil brow, a girl who had the presence of mind to do as she had done last night— She beard John in the hall and watched him walk uncertainly back i to the .bedroom, heard him drop on I the bed. She hurried in to pull off • his slippers and help arrange his pil­ lows. His lips were white. “Not so good yet?” she smiled. He shook /his head. “I got dizzy.” Will John Explain? She allowed him to rest before bringing his tray and then waited in the kitchen until he’d eaten. It the girls would only stay in bed .un­ til she could talk to him! It was for this she had risen ahead of them. lT.he tray was empty. Helen took it to the* kitchen and .returned to sit beside John’s bed. 'She sat quietly, her gray eyes questioning him. John shifted uneasily. He reached : out and patted one of her /hands 5 awkwardly. j “You’re swell,” he said. “You j don’t know what it’s about, and still iyou act like yo>u trust me . . . His uninjured hand toyed with one of her well-manicured lingers. “You—have n’t ordered me to explain—you have n’t—even asked— Helen smiled frankly. “Do I have to ask?” Her voice was low. “No!” He sat up, leaning on ibis right elbow. “I did get in a, mess, But I’m not ashamed, Mother, It Was for Merry ...” And lie told her, told her all that Ann had related to- Merry the nig/ht before, and Helen hadn’t the heart to upbraid him for anything, though something told her he had acted very unwisely by attracting attention to himself, attracting attention very likely to all of them. iShe said only: “Perhaps it will work out. ’And thank. you for help­ ing me, John, It isn’t so hard to ! youx’ family are not wor- you, Ann,” Helen ventur- smiliixgly appraised Ann house dress. Oh, they aren’t.” Ann assured , “My family* live oxi' a little ranch in 'Eastern Oregon”. IShe stayed at a boarding-house she said, and saw /hex' family ing the holidays. “IThen I think you’d better here- until tomorrow morning,” en suggester wisely and Merry, izing ihow much danger they were in, insisted upon it. Worth Phones ““|They were wiping Worth phoned. “I want I /have to Fosters to tomorrow, And Merry, her heart skipping dizzily laughed. “I’ll throw them all out, myself! The whole dozen!” Wc-rth chuckled. “Gooh. That’ll save time! How soon caxx it be? How soon and how long?” (For a moment Merry thought of Ann. But Ann wouldn’t care. Ann. and John would be glad. /Probably now John, who sat in axi over-stuff -ed chair, his arm in a sling, his eyes lighting every time Ann appeared in the doorway—probalbly now he was aching to be alone with' her just as Merry ached to be with Worth. “Any time,” Merry said. “You don’t know what you’re pay­ ing, lady! 'I’m half way to the door now I” And Merry hung up feeling almost guilty that with such danger hang­ ing over those she loved, she ■could be so utterly happy. In all of the excitement since she had left the re­ union dance last night (was it only last night?) she had forgotten to worry about Worth’s crytic phone call, his brief, low-toned regret that he would miss seeing her. And uow as she rushed to tell Mothex* and Ann she wondered again what had kept ;Worth last night. But she didn’t , worry now. It wasn’t important now That she would see him so soon. ; “Do you mind /how long I’m gone, .Mother?” she pleaded, little stars gleaming in her eyes, hex’ face radi­ ant with eagerness. Helen pondered. “Not if [Ann will not mind staying with John a while. I, promised the Bentleys I’d go out to West Lynn with them this after­ noon.” Merry raced to hex’ room, but not befox’e she had seen Ann’s smile,. “Bless her!” she whispered. “Bless Mother! iShe’s doing it . purposely How can she be so wise and under­ standing!” Five minutes later Worth was at the front door, squeezing her hands furtively, kissing her with his eyes. “I want you to- meet my brother, John,” she wispered, kirn albout his arm.” Worth and John other with mutual Merry went after Ann to introduce her, too. “We’ll all be one family some day,” she told herself, “I hope. And the gi’eat happiness which she had felt swelling within her subsid­ ed abruptly. Ann’s face betrayed her astonish­ ment when Merry introduced Worth, Merry felt a quick urge of pride. Worth Hunter! Of course. Ahn knew him. Everyone did. But Ann ack­ nowledged the introduction with serenity. Merry and Worth left at once. In dur- dishes when to- see you,” throw out do it. you know.” he said. “If a dozen Bob I have to go- back "but don’t ask greeted each interest. And the car they sat a moment gazing in­ to each other’s eyes in rapt adora­ tion. At long last Worth laughed gent­ ly. “Where to? I mean-—-I suppose we must go somewhere , . Sitting here in front of the house isn’t—> He extended his hand in smiling helplessness. Merry sighed. |Then, as one does awakening from a beautiful dream to sad reality. “Oh, Worth! I for­ got!” she said. “It probably isn't safe fox- us to go anywhere now.” “Why?” “You saw John’s arm?” (She went on from there, giving in detail all that had happened last night, “(So you see,” she finished, “inhere may be some one watching us right now —the real murderer.” Worth’s Plan [They turned apprehensive eyes to­ ward the high laurel hedge across the street, toward the shrubbery in every visible yard. It was a quiet Autumn afternoon with [bright leaves wafting slowly and, like justice, ar­ riving unnoticeably but inevitably. Worth stared at a drift of them in the street ahead. “Well, lit said at last, “that makes what I have to tell you all the worse.” Merry caught hex; breath, bracing herself for it and waited. Worth ■drove away, turning aimlessly at the first corner. “I guess you might as well know. I was ready to tell you to give your­ self up and I would, I made a hyp­ othetical case of it to dad. Just said, ‘Supposing this blonde they about isn’t really guilty, etc, Dad said even if she was acquitted people are funny. Some of them read all the bloody details, but don’t read the part where she was found not guilty. A lot of them sus.pect hex* anyhow—you know that old say­ ing about where there’s smoke, there must be fire . . . That’s t-Iie tronlble. It would be a mess for you always.” (To be continued) . TOLI?BRoi'HERS ON SOUTH AMERICAN TOUR PENSION, ALLOWANCE BOARD MEMBERS NAMED talk etc.’ a Some >T. P.’s Are Like Tliat ITihe Justice c£ the Peace recalled witness: “My man,” he said stern­ ly, ‘‘you may have yourself commit­ ted for .perjury. You told the court j-ust now that you had only one brother but your sister has swprn shle has two. Now which is the truth?” Mrs. ,S. L. Toll, parents brothers, Ellsworth and known travel lecturers, to London on March 1. Toll was formerly Rev. and -of the Toll Leroy, well are moving Rev. Mr of Central Methodist church Thomas and was a member (London conference of the pastor at St. of the church during the greater part of his min­ istry. Mrs. IToll is a former St. Marys girl. IThe boys themselves left on another bicycle tour, this time to South America. 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