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Zurich Herald, 1937-04-15, Page 7By KATHLEEN NORRIS 9 Synopsis for preceding instalments; After two chance meetings with young Peter McCann, son of Judge McCann, Sheila Carseadden found herself in love with hire, During 'a secret ,,,ening, the boy confessed the truth: he was engaged to an- other ,;irl, Gertrude Keane. The library (their sereet meeting place) was loet:ed for the night when they went to leave While endeavoring to escape, two igen suddenly ap- pear. they force Sheila and Peter into an automobile, and drove them to a farmhouse in Northern Con- necticut. Ken, one of a gang of bootleggers, explains it is necessary to hold them temporarily. On the third day, Sheila and Peter are re- leased. 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"What complicates it," he said, directly to Joe, "is that when Sheila and Pete got to town tonight they went straight to a pollee station and turned in the story. The bootlegger story, I mean. So that whatever we do now, it's—well, it'll cause some little confusion," Frank concluded, with his grave half -smile for the dis- tressed and attentive circle. Sheila looked thoughtfully at Frank McCann, studying his face with childlike, vague, serious eyes. He was as dark as Peter, with Peter's blue eyes. But his shoulders were squarer, and there was something definite, poised about him. He made Peter seem like a little boy. "Be a good girl," he had said to her. And he had called her "Sheila." .After she hacl run away from all the hatefulness, from this new, accusing, suspicious Angela, and this repro- achful Joe, and this totally unknown Ma, then she knew that she would take these magic phrases out of the very inner chamber of her soul and taste them over and over again on her tongue. "Now, tomorrow being St. Pat= rick's Day,' it's a holiday," Frank was saying. "And my mother wondered if you and Joe and Sheila would come down to our house in the morn- ing, Mrs. Carscadden, and then we can talk the whole thing over. Ma glanced at Joe, and Joe nod- ded. "I will!" Ma then said solemnly. "Sheila, step out here into the hall a minute;" Frank said. "1 want to speak to you." "Sheila, I know how you feel. It's been terrible rough on you," Frank began. "But you musn't blame your folks. What else could they think when those wires came, but that you and Pete had run off together?" "Will the morning papers have the story that we were married?" the girl asked, sombrely. "Well, they may. But what do you care, if—"Frank changed the form of his words—"since it's not true?" he asked. "I do care," she said, stubbornly. "Can't you look at the whole thing as a sort of adventure, something that might happen in a movie, say? You and Pete will think this is a great joke, some day," "There's only one thing," Sheila began suddenly, after a troubled stu- dy of his handsome, clark face. "I won't marry Peter McCann. Not if the Church itself—" "Listen, listen," he said soothing- ly, his hand on her arms, "you don't have to get so excited about it. You don't have to. You don't have to marry anyone, if you don't want to!" "You don't think I ought to mar- ry Peter!" she challenged him. "1 thought—" Her earnestness af- fected hint in spite of himself, and he looked at her with his kindest expression. Sheila seemed small and pale, in her scant old cotton gown, with her tumbled coppery bang (al- lying on her broad forehead. She had backed against the wall, she was fighting for her life. "I thought you'd want to, Sheila," Dank said sympathetically. "Frank!" Suddenly she was cling- ing to him, jumbled against hien, soft and warm and sweet. "Don't let them make me!" If he said anything to her she did not hear it. His arm was about her for a minute, his terse against her hair, Then they had drawn apart, gad his fingers, that had been gripping hers, were loosened, and lie was run- ning down the stairs. Sheila stood dazed, alone in the hallway. After a while she turned toward the kit- chen; a strange light was in her ab- sent oyes, a dreamy smile on her lips. She moved like a sleepwalker.. When Sheila reentered the room it was to a sulphurous silence on the part of her mother, who was alone there. Joe had gone to • bed in the front room, and Angela Was in She- ila's place in the big bed, crying, asleep, or feigning uneonsciousnes';, Sheila could not tell. It was a little hard to manage a dignified perform- ance of disrobing and ablutions with her mother's steely eyes upon her, and with the consciousness that she would presently conte to bed in the same small room with her, but She- ila achieved it. . At eleven o'clock the next morn- ing she and her mother and Joe pre- sented themselves at the McCann. mansion. Part of the way they rode in a bus, following the Fifth Avenue side of the park in the holiday -morn- ing excitement. Crowds were already gathering for the St. Patrick's Day parade. Bands were abroad. There was snow left in the park,"great stretcheso f it, un- der the bare trees, and there were. "Story on Page Twelve" the line nedey the picture hall been, And un- fortunately the story on page twelve had been absolutely true, Miss Cars- sadden, a belle of the Bronx, and the daredevil second son of the wells known judge, whose college exploits had caused his family and friends so mach concern .a few years ago, had ,appeared at a police station early on Monday evening, and bad told the following story to Police Sergeant Frances X. O'Reilley. The tale of bootleggers, abdiction, escape followed. The young couple, the newspaper continued, whose ab- sence from borne since Saturday night had been something of a my - story, denied their marriage, al- though official announcement of it had been made by Mis, Carscadden's mother, and by judge a°ui 1.lrs. Paul 13, McCann. Sheila's bretl.er Neely and his wife, Lizzie, arriving early at the Carscadden anartment to discuss this calamity, had exclaimed and tut -tutted about the kitchen until Sheila had felt ready to ;murder them both, "What I can't understand is why T.:11,1 wanted to talk to Peter McCann, Sheila," Lizzie had lamented, over and over again, in her wondering, innocent voice. "You knew he was going to marry Gertrude Keane—it was in the papers." 'Well, he's got scads, for one TWO-WAY CROCHET COLLAR Mayfair b eerlle-art Delicate strands of chain sti` 'h . dress up your favorite frocks. 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'But the tabloid paper had had a picture of Sheila and Peter on the front page; Sheila Iooking perfectly wild in her tousled travel -crumpled clothes, and Peter like the scared, lanky boy he was. And under this the caption had Leen, "Love Bird Fly Home. Bandits, Not W.dloek, Claim. Assert Telegrams a Hoax.". Ma, seeing this, had collapsed with a deep groan and had had to have: smelling salts again, and while An- gela wept and fanned Ma, Joe had muttered that somebody better look out or he'd get his face lashed in. • hing," Neely, who was slow-witted, sO d. ttScads of what, Neely?" Sheila h*d asked, in a dangerous voice. "Dough," Neely had explained, ,rtlessly.. "Oh, I see. I ran away with him because his father hacl lots of mo- ney?" . "Well, Sheila;" Lizzie had taken it up, in her plaintive tones, "why else would you? You hardly knew him—" "There you are," Sheila had an- swered. "Why else would I?" "Tinge to go," Joe had said ab- ruptedly, at this point. And the par- ty had started out, anxious and silent, for the McCann house. "See," Lizzie ;had said in the hall, in her whining,, a'"ersistent voice, "I'd go with: you gladly to the Mcann' if.I could be of any use!" "No, thanks," Joe had said briefly. Usuallfhe liked Lizzie; usually they all did. Her father lead a big bakery business where . Neely worked. She was .a wonderful wife to Neely, and she could be very funny describing the funerals of her aunts, and the way her Uncle aim acted when he had to' change his wooden leg. But today she had jarred. , "I thought maybe, on account of Mother Carscadden---?" she had said tenderly. At which Mrs. Carscadden had answered for herself. "Get out, Lizzie, there's a good ger'rl!" Lizzie had withdrawn with tears in her .eyes, and Joe, Sheila and their mothter had gone . on their separate way. The McCann house, when they reached it, looked very large and handsome and formidable, and the entrance hall, when the obviously excited and sympathetic Mamie ad- mitted thein, quite overwhelmed Mrs.. Carscadden with its magnifi- cence. She kept close to Joe, her eyes exploring the great curve of the stairway, witht its stained glass window and its palms, the rugs and the Curtained arches To Be Confined. Try alada Orange Pekoe Blend The a• Home Corner By ELEANOR DALE Old and New Rolled Into One Even though you may be very mod- ern and progressive and on the alert for the latest ideas in homemaking, you'll have to admit that there are some old-fashioned foods that are still tops. Like some of our favorite Gilbert and Sullivan operas, which, though written years ago are as mod- ern as tomorrow, so some of the foods that delighted our grandparents are just as popular and edible today as they were years ago. We are thinking particularly of the Old -Fashioned Jelly Roll Cake. It has steadily held its popularity for a good number of years and will contin- ue to do so. In fact, it should be better when you make it than when your grandmother made it because of our modern baking methods and particu- larly because the present-day woman can purchase the finest cake flour that has ever been on the market. Science has produced a cake flour which is 27 times as fine as ordin- ary flour. This has taken years to do and grandmother may not have been. able to buy this extra -fine flour in her day. But you can, and when you make this old-fashioned jelly roll with the most modern cake flour, you have the old and new combined in a perfect cake which will explode the myth that grandmother's cakes were better! Either alone for dessert or served with ice cream, Jelly Roll will become a family favorite and you will want it on your hurry -up list because it is no easy to hake. Old Fashioned Jelly Roll % cup sifted cake flour; 3-4 tea- spoon baking powder 3,4 teaspoon salt, 4 eggs; % cup sifted sugar and 1 tea- spoon vanilla; 1 cup jelly (any flav- our). Sift flour once, measure. Combine baking powder, salt and eggs in a bowl. Place over smaller bowl of hot water and beat with rotary egg beat- er, adding sugar gradually until the mixture becomes thick and Iight col- ored. olored. Sees Gain In New England Prince Edward Island Farmer Makes Tour of Four States CHARLOTTETOWN — 'Business seems to be on the pick up in the New England States," said M. J. Power of Summerville, P.E.I., on his return from a five -weeks' tour of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ver- mont and Maine. A successful farmer himself, Mr. Power was greatly interested in the 1,000 acre farm in connection with the Institute for the Feeble Minded at Winthrop, Mass. Several Prince Edward Islanders were employed there. he said. The farm includes 200 Holstein cattle comprising 150 cows. There are 2,000 patients with 400 attendants. There was a big demand for island potatoes and he cited a case where a bushel and,,a Half bag was sold for $3.10 in a retail store in Roxbury. Prince Edward Island turnips are considered the best that could be obtained, retailing for 31,E to 4 cents a pound for the larger size and 5 cents for the smaller ones. Simmer' Dessert Waffles 21/4 cups sifted cake flour; 23/0 tea spoons double-acting baking powder; 2 teaspoons sugar; 2 egg yolks, well beaten; 11/z cups milk; 2.3 cup melt- ed butter; 2 egg whites, stiffly beaten. Sift flour once, measure, add bak- ing aking powder and sugar, and sift again. ' Combine egg yolks, milk • and butter, add to flour mixture, beating until It is smooth. Fold in egg whites. Bake in} hot waffle iron. Cool waffle, Serve a , mound of vanilla ice cream on each section of waffle and cover with some ' crushed, sweetened fruit or sauce. Makes five or six 4 -section waffles. Remaining waffles may be served cold with any fruit sauce poured over the top of them. Chocolate Walnut Dollars 23/2 cups sifted calve flour; 2 tea- spoons double-acting baking powder; 1/4 teaspoon salt; teaspoon cinna- mon; 1/ cup softened butter or ether' shortening; 1 cup sugar; 1 egg; 2 squares unsweetened chocolate, melt -1 ed; 3/2 cup chopped walnut meats; 1, teaspoon vanilla; 2 tablespoons milk. ) Sift flour once, measure, add bak-1 ing powder, salt and cinnamon, and ) sift again. Combine butter, sugar, egg) and chocolate, beating thoroughly, add nuts and vanilla. Add flour, alternate- ly with milk, mixing well. Place of ) waxed paper and shape in rolls, two ) inches in diameter; roll each in wax- ) ed paper. Chill overnight, or until firm ) enough to slice. Cut in 1-8 inch slices 1 and bake on ungreased baking sheet' in hot oven (400 degrees I'.) 8 min -1 utes. Makes four dozen cookies. 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