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• SERIALSTORY
OF' BRIGHTNESS GONE
AY HOLLY WATTERSON
THE STORY: Ata commence-
ment dance 18.year-old Candace
Bech falls in love with Martin
Corby, a medical -school friend of
her cousin, Peter Frazier. The
three go to the Frazier home
where Candace, an orphan, has
been reared by Peter's father,
Bruce, and. Candace's Aunt Belle,
Bruce's second wife, Peter sud-
denly discovers that he loves
Candace and is jealous of his
friend. He trumps up an excuse
to take Martin and himself away
the next morning. Candace is fu-
rious until a letter comes from
Martin in a few days, asking if
he may call.
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CHAPTER V
Martin's letter was perfect,
Candace decided. She rushed
home and locked herself in her
room, there to read and reread
its contents through the long at.
ternoon. She left it only once, to
go down to the kitchen for a talk
with Mrs. Hobbs; and after a con-
ference during which she felt it
necessary to explain shyly not
once but several times that the
expected guest was Peter's friend,
she felt sure of a dinner fit for
Martin.
She had now only to invite him.
That would be the natural thing
to do, invite him for dinner, since
in that country there were few
places for public dining. But she
must make the reason clear, in a
nice way of course; she must not
let him think her too eager. In
her relief she was now swinging
the other way and was wishing
she might punish him a little for
those days he had made her wait.
She told herself she would have
lilted to wait a day or so before
answering his letter, but decided
against that as being discourteous;
she refused to acknowledge a fear
that if she did he might get it
too late and might not then be
able to come on Sunday after all.
She spent the evening compos-
ing a note that in primness and
formality equaled his own. When
it was finally sealed and ready
she thought she was being very
severe when instead of dashing
out immediately she decided to
wait until morning to post it.
They met primly, too, Martin
trying to live out his fiction that
he had just•"happened" to be in
the neighborhood — even though
the train on which he arrived was'
virtually an express out of New
York—and Candace hers, that it
was as Peter's friend that site was
extending to him the hospitality
of Tuckaways. And there was
little in the atmosphere that would
help to break them down into a
more normal attitude.
The big dining room, intended
for large groups, seemed empty
with only two people in it; and
Mrs. Hobbs, the importance of the
occasion having been impressed on
her, had placed them at either end
of the long table so that each was
as though marooned on a tiny
island of propriety, conversing
forlornly across a frozen sea of
white.
In daydreatnin'g forward to this
occasion she had imagined herself
and Martin exchanging light ban-
ter, herself a fascinating hostess
and Martin an impossible. blend
of suavity and boyish charm; the
reality was bitterly disappointing.
She felt very young and gauche,
and Martin was an embarrassed
youth who ate absent-mindedly
in silence, or who frowned and
cleared his throat as though about
to say something' per'tentous and
the ended up aa likely as not
with an inane remark on tha
weather, She was relieved when
the meal was over and they could
leave the table.
But the who 1 e afternoon
strotehed ahead, a yawning gap
that had to be filled. It was so
hot a day that the cool north ter-
race beckoned invitingly, but that
would mean trying to make con.
versation and the thought of that
in her tongue-tied state was, ap-
palling. Golf was out of the ques•,
tion sinco that meant green fees
and she didn't want Martin to
have to spend the money; but
tennis?
They had their own courts, and
there was euro •to be an. extra
racquet of Peter's somewhere
about and a pair of his shorts or
slacks, The alacrity with which'
Martin accepted left her feeling
unhappily that he too had been
dreading their afternoon alone to.
gether; the occasion was scarcely
living up to her romantic dream
of it.
Out .on the courts, away from
the anxious solicitude of Mrs.
Hobbs and the empty oppressive-
nessf
o the horse, things were
better. They grew hot and their
clothes clung damply • to their
sweating skins, but their; frozen
self-consciousness too had melted.
They rallied each other cheer-
fully, they. even jeered an un-
lucky or a poor shot. By the time
the game ended the last vestige
of constraint between them had
vanished.
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One ball that had been knocked
over the wire netting into the
woods eluded capture. "It has to
be just about here," Candace in-
sisted, "I lined it up with the
maple tree and that old stump."
Having retrieved the others,
Martin had come over to help find
this one. The ground whero they
stood was covered with a creeper
and they were swishing 'the vines
gently back and forth with the
heads of their racquets. They both
saw the ball, they both stooped at
once; their heads met •'violently,
and their hands and . though
their heads pulled immediately
apart in natural reaction - their
hands clung. Martin's other arm
went about her shoulders and he
bent his head, half laughing, to
kiss her forehead where he had
bumped it. It was her mouth,
however, that his lips somehow
met. He strained her to him
abruptly and she clung. Her arms
crept about his neck.
a r
, They sat at the foot of the
maple, Martin still holding her
firmly, possessively, she with her
head resting on his shoulder. She
asked happily, "Martin? You
didn't really just 'happen to be in
the neighborhood,' did you?"
Martin laughed. "Not much,"
he admitted. "I had to practically
sandbag a few people to get the
day off to get out here."
She sighed. "If you felt that
way, why did you make me wait
so long for a letter?"
"So long!" he repeated, amazed,
"Why, I wrote so soon it was
hardly decent."
"Oh, Martin, decent, after the
way I hinted to you! 'I won't
even budge from this place!' I
said. What was that but a hint
I'd be waiting for a letter?"
Martin drew her closer, he
buried his face in her hair,
"Sweet," he said softly, "my
sweet."
Abruptly his mood' changed; he
grew bitter. "I have a hell of a
nerve," he said, "coming ' here,
behaving like this! You ought to
tell Inc to get out of here, you
ought to send me packing—" '
Candace asked fearfully, "Why?
Why, Martin?" as though hall'
expecting hint to adrnit a wife
and several children hidden some-
where; and when he said savage-
ly, "Why? A guy like me, with
not a penny to his name, daring
to be in love with a girl like
you!" 'She sighed with relief.
"Martin, as if anything like
that could matter!" She looked
thoughtful, "I've been thinking,
Martin. I'll go into training, I'll
get to be a nurse, maybe I can
even manage to get into the same
hospital where you'll be interning.
And then afterward, after we're
married, I can be your office
nurse, I can be of some help to
you, I can share your interests—"
Martin said grandly, "That
won't be necessary, I'm going to
he a fashionable physician and
make a stint of stoney. I'll have
squads of office nurses, and you'll•
have maids by the dozen—"
But though he spoke lightly he
was inexpressibly touched and
stirred. Brought up in a hard
school that had taught him wart-
cess of people and their motives,
the manner in which Candace had
shownher utter trust in him, dis-
daining coquetry, he found deeply
moving. He drew her fiercely
close and kissed her, He had not
believed he would ever feel so
deeply about anything,
(Continued Next Week)
Belgians are reported to, be keep-
ing their last prnvislons or tea to
offer Allied soltliors when they Iii•
vatle.
VICTIM OF MOB
Jacques Doriot, the radical pro
Nazi French leader of Paris, is
reported to have died, presumably
of injuries received in a beating
suffered at the hands of a mob
which attacked him recently. Dor-
iot reportedly was planning to
oust Laval and rule France with
a private army of 2,000 thugs
enrolled front the streets of Paris.
The Winter Care
Of House Plants
Nowhere is one likely to find
better home-grown geraniums, be-
gonias, African violets, crassulas
and many other plants than in the
farmhouse without a central heat-
ing •plant, Cooler rooms, with
their moister atmosphere, are part-
ly responsi'ble.
Calceolarias, freesias, ciner-
arias, azaleas, cyclamen, daffo..
dile, tulips and other flowering
bulbs are . among the plants that
may be expected to thrive and
give better results .in the cooler
temperaturesprovided, of course,.
that the individual requirements
of light and moisture are supplied.
Most cacti and succulents, con-
trary to popular belief, •will not
suffer from cold night tempera-
tures. In the desert they are ac-
eustomed to a sudden drop of sev-
eral degrees at night.
Many of the old stand-bys,
philodendrons, sansevierias, Eng-
lish ivy, tradescantias, pendant's,
aspidistras, kentias and the like,
can withstand fluctuations of tem..
perature,
Careless Gossip
A guest said recently, upon
leaving: "I like to come here. It's
the one place I can say anything
I want to, knowing it won't go
further." The compliment should
really have gone to my mother,
Constance Cameron writes in
Reader's Digest.
One dgv when I was about
eight, I was playing beside an
open window while Mrs. Brown
confided to my mother a serious
problem concerning her son. When
Mrs. Brown had gone, my mother,
realizing I had heard everything,
said':
"If Mrs. Brown had left her
purse here today, would we give'
it to anyone else?"
"Of course not," I replied.
Mother continued: "Mrs. Brown
left something more precious than
her pocketbook today. She left
a story that could make many
people unhappy. That story is
not ours to give to anyone. It is
still hers, even though she left' it
here. So we shall not give it to
anyone. Do you understand?"
I did. And I have understood
ever since that a confidence or a
bit of careless gossip which a
friend has left at my House is his
not mine to give to anyone.
Japanese Planes
Less Formidable
United States experts now re-
port that the Saps no longer are
givimg a first rate perfom nan•ee
in the ale. Something seems to
have gone wrong. They are less
formidable than at the start of the
war.
Thie is evident in'two ways, both
highly significant for the future.
First, Jap pilots are not so good
as they were, indicating a lot of
pilots killed and a felt in the Jap-
anese air training prograde. Sec-
ond, the nnzbems of planes are
definitely smaller, indicating pro-
duction difficulties.
To the experts looking not only
at the dayby-clay action but at the
long-range trends, these *Pastors
are strongly heartening,
Convoy 3,000 Ships
In Dover Strait
Britain has p,a s s e d 8,000
freighters in convoy through the
20 -mile -wide strait of Dover in
the last two years, the admiralty
has announced, This was accom-
plished in the face of German
bombers and fighters and power-
ful guns mounted on the French
coast,
The channel mobile balloon bar-
nage flotilla steamed 227,000
miles prote tint the ships from.
low-flying atrcrali,' G e admiralty
added.
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Empire Waiting
To Be Opened Up
Moet Alberta people know that
the territory which lies between
Edmonton and the shoves of the
Aretlo is one of the richest uncle-.
veloped afeas on the face of the
globe, says The Calgary Herald.
What they ought to realise is
'that bhis territory,' through the
exigencies of war, is being opened
up. The Alaska highway, built by
the: 'skill and sweat of Americans,
is cutting through this great dark
land. When the war ends, the lid
of the treasure -box will be lifted.
What will be found inside, few
men know, but most of them can
guess by what has been found up
there already. me north is Holt
beyond all telling..
The highway was not built to
help Alberta. It was built to de-
fend America against the Japan-
ese, and to build stepping -stones
into Japan itself, But, because the -
highway has been built, Alberta
will invariably draw great benefits
from. it.
Maori
New Zealand extends its war en-
rolment to Mairo men up to 59
and women to 30, notes The New
York Times. A rine, upstanding
tour, the sun-tanned Maori of that
dominion, equal in citizenship
with the whites; superior to most
in.physque. As football players
they are hard to beat. As law-
yers, orators,army officers, they
excel. Knighted, they remain proud
of their tattooed ancestors. They
held out for years against the
giish and were at last pacified
but not conquered. Once they had
a company of colonists surrounded
in a stockade and helpless for lack
of ammunition. They raised a flag
of truce and said, 'This one-sided
battle is no good. We will divide
our powder with you." They call
New Zealand "The Long White
Cloud." So it looked to them in
the old days when they were sea
rangers.
TABLE TALKS
SADIE B. CHAMBERS
Cranberries
Cranberries are a splendid fruit.
The iron content is very valuable
and then they do give a zest to
most any menu. Of course they
require a good deal of sweeten-
ing, but remember corn syrup and
honey and I think you will get
along alright.
For years women have been.
discovering the versatility of the
cranberry.and thanks to more mi.
entitle ways of growing and mar-
keting, the cranberry appears in
the early Fall and remains
throughout' most of the winter.
Appetizers
'1'o begin with for the first
course the bright color of the
cranberry is most appealing. The
cooked and sweetened juice, chill-
ed, may be 'used alone or mixed
with pineapple juice, or with
ginger ale.
Another colorful appetizer is
grapefruit sections with red cran-
berry juice poured over them.
Care should be used ]n the
cooking. Many cooks do overcook
the cranberry. Five minutes after
they begin to snap is usually the
time,
Cranberry Snow
3fa cup thick cranborey sauce,
strained
2 egg whites
Beat the egg whites until stiff
but not dry. Fold in the sauce or
cranberry jelly, a little at a time,
and continue beating until the
mixture will hold its form. Pilo
in individual serving dishes and
servo with chilled custard, flavored
with vanilla extract. Use tbe 2
egg yolks, 1% cups milk and sugar
to taste to make the custard,
Cranberry Sherbet
yy. cup sweetened condensed milk
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons melted butter
3a cup thick cranberry juice
1 cup' cranberry sauce
2 egg whites
'Blend the condensed milk,
lemon juice, butter and cranberry
juice, Stir into the cranberry
sauce and chill, Beat egg whites
stiff but, not dry and fold into
the chilled mixture. Pour into
freezing tray of the refrigerator
with tempeiatnre control set at its;
lowest point. Stir once or twice
during freezing, Will serve 6..
Cranberry 'Muffins
1 egg
% cup milk
4 tablespoons" melted butter
2 cups'sifted flour
4 tablespoons baking powder'
%. cup sugar
8 teaspoon salt
1 cup of cranberries
Beat the egg slightly; add the
milk' and melted butter. Pour
into the dry sifted ingredients.
Roll the berries in two more table-
spoons of sugar and fold into the
batter. Do 'tot stir the mixture
any more than necessary. Pour
into greased muffin tins and bake
in a moderate hot oven for about
30 minutes.
Steamed Cranberry Pudding.
2 cups cranberries
1% cups sugar
1 cup water
y8 teaspoon nutmeg
2 cups sifted pastry flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
tai teaspoon salt
t8 cup butter
1 egg
2 tablespoons milk
Few grains cinnamon
Wash and pick over cranberries.
Place one cup of the sugar and
water in a saucepan and bring
slowly to the boiling point. Boil
about ten minutes or until a thin
syrup is formed. Add the cran-
berries; covet: and simmer gently
until they are clear and transpar-
ent. Pour this into the bottom of
a shallow pan about 8 by 8 by 2
and sprinkle with nutmeg. Sift
together flour, baking powder,
salt and. remaining sugar. Work
in the shortening until the mixture
is crumbly; add egg and milk,
beaten together. Spread batter
on top of the cranberries. Sprinkle
with cinnamon mixedwiththe re-
maining one tablespoon of sugar.
Bake in a moderate oven for 40
minutes. Serves G.
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