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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1945-04-12, Page 7By MARY /WAY TAYLOR rV.,. CeCe .aArese a CHAPTER XVII "He wanted me—he wouldn't take me because of this. Uncle Herbert, I love him. Oh, please, please help me clear him!" She crumpled down again on her knees beside his chair, clinging to his hand sobbing. "I'm wretched!" she wept.. "I wanted to go with lmii } and tie wouldn't take me!" Good heavens!" the old man' murmured to himself. He felt no impulse of rage now, only the weakness that follows it. How extraordinary these new girls were! Then he added, aloud: "That's decent of him. I begin to like him, Pam." "Oh, you'd like him. He's splen- did; he's big—he's generous, and he's suffered! It isn't right, Uncle Herbert, where's your old suspect? Fat and sleek somewhere, getting older and older—no use presently —and all Mark's splendid youth gone like this." "He'll live it down. He's young," Burleson argued hoarsely. "Be- sides, who knows? There are often deathbed confessions, one may clear him presently." She scorned that. "Do you think a man who'd done that—and let youth stiffer for it— would con- fess?" she demanded furiously. * * , He nodded, moving his long fin- gers restlessly on the arms of his chair. "He might, Pam." "He wouldn't, Uncle Herbert, you'll clear him for me, won't your LEL-FA i EPS A WIDE RANGE OB' SMART COLOURS—IS GUARANTEED TO DYE EVERY F"i ERIC INCLUDING CELANESE, NYLON AND MIXTURES 45-5 eV verhsr.-d Whether you overwork, worry or expend your energies in the social whirl, the result is the same— chronic, fatigue or nervous exhaustion. Your nerves and bodily organs are shoo tired so that digestion fails and you lie awake at nights unable to aleep. Perhaps there is nothing that can so definitely help you as Dr. Chase's NERVE FOOD. Many people find this to be the case. Why not benefit by their experience. Ask for the new econ- omy size bottle of Dr, Chase's Nerve Food 60s.-6Octs. 190s—$1.50 ISSUE 15.1045 "Do you care so much, child?" She lifted that flowerlike face of hers. "It's killing me—he's so brave, 1 can't bear it, that he should be called—that!" "Suppose I'd done it, Pam?, Would. you want me—at my time of life—to go out and confess it? When the boy's taken his punish- ment and he's only to start fresh?" He leaned back i m his chair, studying her. "I tell you what I can do, Pani," he said finally. "I've offered to do it already—told Fosdick I can help him to a new chance." ' She scorned that. "You mean money? That's nothing! He can work—I know he'd rather." "I didn't mean just money— I've got a little pull on the rail- ways. I could help him to a good berth. I'm like you, in a way, I think he should have a new chance." * * * "I don't think anything matters half so much as his good name, Uncle Herbert." She was still on her knees beside him; she twined her arms about his arm and held hint. "Who was the man you sus- pected?" "That was only a suppositious case, Pant," he said hoarsely. "I suspect no one at all." She gazed at him wide-eyed. "You're not telling me the truth, Uncle Herbert!" "I'm not—what"? he asked fiercely, frowning. "You're treating me' like a baby. I'm not—I'm a womab and I love a man you helped send to prison. Yes, you did! You testified against him." • Burleson seized her young wrists and raised her to her feet; he had to rise to do it. "Now, you Iisten! You go and sit down and listen! I'm going to put it tip to you." * * * "Suppose 1 did help send this boy to prison," he said bitingly. "Suppose I testified against him— what then? It was mere routine. I knew his uncle well—I knew him ---a little; lie was a boy, tall, lanky, hot tempered, something of a daredevil and the uncle was hiird and close as nails. He had a way of saying taunting things; he could be insulting—politely. Suppose then, someone 'killed hint, struck him down, found that it fitted on to the nephew like a glove—he'd been there, and all that, Suppose he let it go at that, and the boy took the punishment, got through with it and had his chance to make his life over, D'you suppose the ether man- -secure and comfort-ible and belt—would step down to raison to clear hint—after iifceett years?" * * * "No," she replied L'early, "1 doi:'t think he would unl,ss you made him. lie's too bad a amen. A man who lets another suffer tor him is wicked!" "You're right. No one would. That's wliy. it wouldn't do inc any goo0 to shout out suspicions at this day The ssue's dead I couldn't itldtee. any nma'i to step c�•.i from hie plat'• and disgrace ninnc•lf for a—nobody!' "Woul•'n't he?" S,te leaned back in her chair, her eyes brave. "1 don't see why. IIe's got nothing to love." "Nothing to lose?" he repeated, astonished, "No, nothing! He lost every- thing years ago when he let a young man suffer for him, He's worse than a murdered. He's a coward," "You think you love this fellow?" he asked her dryly; "this convist?" he harked the word at her. * * She tried to answer quietly, but her courage failed her, she broke down. "It's killing me to think of him—facing all this—and he wonldn't take me with hint! It's terrible to face it—and to be alone, too!" she sobbed, and suddenly site stretched her arms out 00 the table and laid her head down on SITTER FOR SETTER f°r 1txn.Z.z^V..,... r,:rm,.,. Mother instinct proved too strong in this red hen, owned by Mrs. Minnie Horton of Columbus, Ga. When her eggs failed to hatch she took over from the mother of these young pups, and now the dog is having a hard time getting back to her family . .. that is, until dinner time. them, weeping violently. • Then she broke out again. "Someone did it—and I don't, see how he can think of it, think of leaving Mark toface his sins, and sleep at night." Burleson gave her a long look— s look she did not see. • "Maybe be doesn't, Pam," lie said dryly. "Cone to think of it, I don't believe he does!"' "He ought to die!" she cried fiercely. "He ought to have died long ago!" "Good God!" said Burleson' be- low his breath, and turned away, (TO BE CONTINUED) • 11 wC 3 1?? By Anne Ashley Q. How can I prevent cloudy - looking mirrors? A. Do not place mirrors ''Where the sun shines directly on them. It will make the surface cloudy ,and spot it. Q. How can x prevent sagging shoulders in sweaters? A. The shoulders will not sag if a piece of ribbon, the length of the shoulder of the person from neck to armhole, is attached at each end of the ribbon to the sweater. Q. How can I. avoid a disagree- able odor of the oil stove? A. 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