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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1949-06-30, Page 6L.1vwfQ1 wdiI! F' fel WEST OF Til. SUN lee tees, e !eke .n \OPNfN The slur, thus tier: Virginia lines re• eeives a letter from Phil Lawrence her fiance 'urging her to corse to him at onee at Nanta Bonita in the heart of the un. settled frontier West. By rail and stage she reaches Fort Winfield where L. ,him Randall, who met the stage at tannest* O.11.11 whom Virginia had onee been in love with in Washington, reports the holden ie which a money box for Steve Barron, gambling vier, and a cameo pin of VB. - glide's were stolen, 4fartha Benson, wife of the Vert Carnmandrer, reveals a dis- trust of Phil Lawrence -a feeling which Jim Benda)! and others, seem to share. iim explains at last that Phil and Barron once quarrelled over a gambling debt. CHAPTER V The Arizona moon rose over the distant hills, big and round and red. A detail of calvary came through the wide gateway and rode across the parade ground. Lights glowed behind the windows of barracks and officers' quarters, The army post bustled. Virginia's glance came back to Jim Randall, He sat on the edge of the 13ensons' porch, close to her chair, idly smoking his cigarette. He was watching the troopers ride across the field, fie had looked everywhere but at her, during these,, past few minutes of silence, The deliberate way he avoided her eyes convinced her that she was right in believing he lied. Virginia said finally, "Is that the truth, Jim?" His eyes came to her. "The truth," he said. "Phil Lawrence and Steve Barron quarreled over the gambling table in Barron's place in Santa Bonita. Of course, I may be wrong. I'rn repeating gossip. * * e She considered him a moment, then said, "Whv does mention of Phil's name make people act strangely?" "Does it?" "You know it dors." "Really, Virginia,• I think you Imagine-" "Nol" Her voice was a little high, "1 don't imagine it, It's real -a def- inite change in their manner. I no- ticed it in you, and in Martha Ben- son. And last night I overheard you and Steve Barron talking-" Pleasure to seefun to dot This picture can so easily be embroidered •-•- it's in single and outline stitch. Frame or line it, Provide your home with color aind art! Pattern 638; transfer of picture 1S x 1954 inches, I,aure Wheeler's improved pattern slakes needlework so simple with its charts. photos and concise direc- tion,, Ser'bd TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in wine (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Needlecraft Dept., Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., Neve Toronto. Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME Itttel ADDRESS. ISSUE 81' •-- t94 "Perhaps," he said slowly, "we were talking of someone else." She shook her head definitely. "You weren't. You talked of Phil and ate, Jim, why aren't you honest with me?" He laughed shortly, and his cig- arette Blade a shower of sparks as he flipped it away. He rose sand faced her. "Tomorrow I'm taking you to Phil Lawrence" he told her. "You eau ask flim all these questions." She rose and stood before hint, hating him for the past and loving him a little because of it, .too. He was tall and handsome, his smile giving hint a world of charm. His nearneee suddenly disconcerted her, and she breathed a silent prayer for her love for Phil: She didn't want to nnalce a fool of herself over this titan again. * * * "1 shall be glad for tomorrow," she said. "Good night, Jinn, . ." And she turned toward the door. "Virginia. . " His tone held her, brought her facing hint again. She wished he wouldn't say her name just like that. She waited silently. He said, "Every time we talk it's of Phil Lawrence. Sometimes I don't like that at all." "I'tn sorry I bore you." His words carie, a tow whisper. "You don't bore me," he said, "On the contrary-" He reached for her hands, and his touch made them tremble. Virginia felt as she had when he walked into the hotel iobby at Lannasa, all her. strength leaving her. She possessed no will to resist hien, and when his hands went to her shoulders and drew her to him she was pliant as clay to be nnolded:by his hands. Her hands went to his chest, but with no pressure in her arms to keep their bodies apart. He held her roughly against him, and she trembled while he kissed her, In the moment it took, her weak- ness went and her will became her own again, And the shame she felt drew the color from her face. She blamed herself more than hien, for that was his way, and there should be nothing in her to want his kisses. She drew away from hint and could breathe again, but not in the same calm way. * 1• "That's so very like you," she said heavily. "So very like you." "Pm sorry, Virgihia." She looked at him wretchedly. "Can't you see I've changed?" "You've grown lovelier, more de- sirable. 1 see that." "I -Oh, Jim, I don't want that!' "I'm sorry," he said again. He turned, stepped down from the porch and strode away toward head. quarters, Virginia dared not enter the house and face Martha Benson's sharp and knowing eyes. For Martha was al- ready saying from within: "Was that Jim Randall, Virginia?" A Guy's Best Friend Is His Mom -Neither presence of hiunans or bars of a cage keep a certain Mrs. Robin from feeding lief baby his formula on schedule. This baby bird (arrow) was rescued from a cat by 1VIr. and Mr's, Stephen Eva, jr., christened Lucky and housed in an old bird cage to recuperate. Every 15 minutes, from 6 a.m. to 6.30 p.m., the mother bird flies from her nest behind the Eva garage, through the open dining -room window, with a beak full of robin baby food for her young one. Through the distant gateway came a rider. Virginia knew at once that it was Steve Barron. He had a stiff but easy way of sitting on a horse that marked him from other men. He dismounted a little way off and came to the house on foot, He was still dressed for the trail, coat - less, his trousers thrust into cowboy boots, a gun belt about his slii:n middle. He swept off his sombrero and carie smilingly onto the porch. "I've come to say adios, Virginia," he said "That is, unless there is some favor I can do." "There is a favor, Steve," she troll him. "Tf you will." "Anything." The way he said it was meant to convince her; there was eagerness in his voice. "What would you have me do? Attack Natchi's hand singlehanded? Or bring you silver from the hills-?" "You're laughing at me," she said, "I thought you meant what you said." "1 do mean what I said, fern try- ing to say th a roundabout way that I would .do anything you asltied" "Steve, you're melodramatic!" * .r * He laughed. "My mother was Mexican. Her father true Spanish. The Spanish, I'm told, are very gal- lant toward beautiful ladies." "Now you flatter tae." He shook his head in denial. "I think you are very beautiful, senorita. But the favor, Virginia?" "1 t is not very much," she said. "Tell me about your quarrel with my fiance, Phil Lawrence." "So you heard? Did Lt, Randall -of course he did. Well, we did quarrel, Virginia, Your Phil has a passion for gambling, And I am a gambler. We played poker, and his tuck wasn't running. He lost. After: ward, he drank a lot. He accused ale of being crooked." "Yes?" Virginia said thinly. "What then?" "That is all," Steve said. "Phil • Lawrence threatened to even mat- ters with me. T had to protect any` self. I had my men see hint out of town, That is all. Our quarrel did not develop into gunplay." (Continued next week) THAT'S DIFFERENT .Bind lady: My good man, are you looking for work? • Wayfarer: 1 hope, madame, you will not press that question; what I ail looking for is a job. .ROSSWORD oRD PUZZLE 1. Medieval tab el. 30 i end intr to eat 7. Persia away 8. Roman SI. Nothing measure 31, Scotch river 8. Constellation eB. 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Orlent,nl weight tlN Nocturnal brad d7 (onletnptuet 4 eixt,ra+giniuq Answer elsewhere in this issue LAN NE 1F4U ST C' MY BUY friend and I have been engaged for over a year, and intend- ed marrying this summer, (We are both 20). But he has had bad luck, and now it looks like an- other year nlust pass before he can afford to support a wife, "1 just can't face it!" "We akAklan Hing now to slip bier to the,:.,, ct town and get married without telling anybody. Then it 'will be too late for thele to make us trait any longer. I will stay at my home, and with his family - hut at least we will know we belong to each other. "\'1'e all get along fine. f{is family are wonderful to me, and •, my mother and father Think ire's splendid. We hate to do anything deceitful - but auythieg could hap- pen in a year! "Aren't you fervour side? 1 prom- ised slim I'd ask you first. lmpatiertt. * 1 HlOPE you two impetuous * youngsters will give this more * thought, and not betray the par- * ents who trust you. * Until you are parents your- * selves, you cannot know how you * would hurt your own if you * sneaked off for a secret marriage. * You are their only daughter. They * have brought you up with loving * wisdom, and, 1 hope, the proper * idea of the sanctity of marriage. * Yet, because you feel you can- * not wait longer, you would fore- * go the solemn dignity that be- * longs to, marriage, and make your * vows without the blessing of those **who love you most. ' * Marriage does not mean only * belonging to each other. it means * the establishment of a separate * hone by two people who are * ready to assume its responsibili- ▪ ties - who regard it as the most * vital step they, will ever take, and * who want to take it under the * most favorable circumstances. * You are not showing that you * are worthy of it, when youcon- * sider making it a fly-by-night * escapade. * Every girl dreams of being * married in her church, or at home, * with her family and her friends * to wish her well, She sees her- * self radiant in her wedding array, * her father giving her away to the * man she„ loves, and the minister * of her church giving them his * blessing. S4ie walks. down the * aisle with her new husband, its- * pressed with the solemn vows she * has made, and a prayer in her * heart that she will be able to live * up to them. 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