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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1939-10-26, Page 7"It DOES taste good in a pipe!" HANDY SEAL•fi1GHT POUCH • 15¢ %/%.LB, "LOI<-TOP" TIN • 6O also packed in Pocket Tins • SERIAL STORY O Ti TO COPYfi IGHT, 1939, NEA SERVICE. INC. BY ELINORE COWAN STONE CAST OF CHARACTERS JANET DWIGHT, heroine. She was engaged to handsome young architect LANCE BARSTOW, hero. Lance, had great dreams for the fu- ture. So did CV NTHIA CANTRELL, orphaned granddaughter of great-aunt Mary Cantrell. Still another dreamer was BARNEY McKNIGHT, newspaper- man. But Barney was more than a dreamer. Last Week: Janet finds Aunt Mary seriously ill. A few days later she learns that Barney has bees. sent out of town on a news- paper graft expose. CHAPTER XIX "I{now hint, do you?" exclaimed the old gentleman, gazing at her with fresh interest. "Well, I have an idea he's worth knowing. I've seen one or two articles on cur- rent topics he's had in the maga- zines.' "Did you like them?" Janet ask- ed. "He doesn't miss much, and he's got a way of putting things so that you remember them. Most young men, if they're worth their weight in pig -iron, start out in life with an idea that they'd like to take a crack at some of the modern dragons that need killing — but very few of them actually do .. . 1 never did. Sometimes I think, even now, that it might be fun. to have a, -try. There isn't a heck of a lot of fun left in -life after "I suppose not," Janet said ab- sently. "1 mean -no one would ever guess you were over 70." He chuckled a little at that. "Oh, do you have to go?" he exclaimed as Janet got to her feet. "I'm afraid so. But it's been nice to talk to you, Mr.—" "Justin. Abner Justin. Well, 0. TO Y ,a80 41/00 BECOES. 396 TON" lamuird maybe we'll meet again some time." "I hope so, Mr. Justin," Janet found that her best smile —the one she hadn't felt like using for weeks—was still working, and used it. "That's better," he said con- tentedly. "Now you look like yourself." He's a lamb, Janet thought as she went off down the trail. Cynthia's message had said that he and Tim yould be at home sometime during the week after New Year. The news had seemed to put new life into Aunt Mary, who in spite of having shown amazing vitality, was thin and spent, and suffering miseries from her broken hip. On Christmas morning, her room a virtual garden of flowers, she inspected her gifts with the frank interest of a 10 -year-old. There was a throw, woven of the finest eiderdown, as unbelievably light and fleecy and soft as a fairy coverlet, from Cynthia and Timo- thy Benton. Janet spread it out over her, and she lay, from time to time trailing her fingers over the delicate fleece and smiling faintly. It was after midnight—long af- ter Janet had gone home—that she said quietly to the nurse, "Such a nice Christmas! I'm glad 1 had this one more . I thought I'd stick it out till New Year; but something tells me I'mn not going to make it after all. . . Well, I've had an interesting time while • At leafed-. •. . 411 right, call the doctor if you must; but it's no use No, I won't hate my niece dis- turbed. This business of dying is something you have to attend to for yourself, anyhow. Just tell her in the morning that I went very quietly—in my sleep. Peo- ple like to believe that." And so, having made up her own mind on the subject, Aunt 1Vlary died, as independently and composedly as she had lived. Janet, who had been staying with Sylvia Grant, went alone to the apartment after she heard. She wanted to sit quietly for awhile among the things Aunt Mary had lived with and loved. She had hardly taken her wraps off before the knocker sounded at the front entrance. When she op- ened the door, Barney McKnight stood, grinning down at her. He was startlingly gaunt, and his blue eyes were sunk deep in their soc- kets; but they were bright with excitement. "Well; sister, I'm back in your midst," he cried. "Seen the send- off the News gave my story? .. . Where's Aunt Mary?" Then at sight of Janet's face, he broke off. "Good Lord, Janet!" he burst out. "What's the matter?" "Aunt Mary's—gone, Barney," Janet said woodenly. "She's dead. She died last night. "Dead—Aunt Mary!" His face was as blank as his voice. "Oh, Jan! Why, 1 can't—people like Aunt Mary don't just die—like that!" "Don't they?" Janet asked dul- ly. Then, seeing how utterly stun- ned he was, she asked, "You don't mean, Barney, that you haven't heard — anything — all these weeks ?" "How could I," he demanded. "For almost two montlisTce been facing across the eontinent''ofl the coat-tails of a guy who was barely three jumps ahead of the .polige. The police didn't get hint--l:ut 1 did. That's how I found out where to look for the written evidence I. needed, and --oh, skip that! It doesn't matter now," "But, Barney, do you `:mean you've just got back?" "Not exactly. But the people I've been seeing since I did aren't the kind you would know. Since. J came—after I'd seen the people this man sent Die to—I've been camped with a pot of coffee handy and a wet towel around my head, spilling the story onto paper • as fast as I could write . Oh; Jan, you poor baby!" He put his arms around her;: and she leaned against him while she told hind what had happened, crying passionately for the first time. "They said it was her heart, Barney," she finished. "All of a sudden—after we thought she was better—it began to grow weaker. And then it just—stopped . . . .` Oh, Barney, I wanted you so ter- ribly all that time! And you did not come." She felt his arm stiffen under her head. After a breath, he said with an intensity she had never heard from hind before, "For God's sake, Jan, don't say things like that unless you mean them!" "But T do mean it. I kept thinking every day you'd call: Even Lance did—and he knew • Aunt Mary didn't like him ... She loved you, Barney." He was silent so long that she lifted her head. Then he said; "I'm here now, Janet. And I'll always be here if you'll let me. Do you remember. what I told you that morning when we were stuck in the fog? You said something silly about my making an honest woman of you, and I said I could think of a lot of things I'd hate worse. That was a mass terpiece of understatement, Jan. . . ..I couldn't say much more that morning -not till I had some- • thing to show you." Janet drew a little away from, him. After a moment he released her slowly. "Why, Barney!" she breathed. "But I never thought of us—in. that way." "Of course," he said. "Just an- other pipe dream . But I thought you understood all along. 1 supposed—well, we have got used to each other." "But all along I thought it was Cynthia you wanted . . We seemed just—grand good friends." "Well, that wouldn't be such a bad start, would it? As for Cyn- thia, that never really meant any- thing to either of us. 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