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We are agents will be pleased you on, any quantity **wired. See Youc�•IHome eirir Books Counter made in cost no t,rdinary give and to quote style , or Prirlter.Fk ,. to CHAPTER VI11 . . SYNOPSIS After Mark ,Q►1e,8,,ander's • beauti- ful wife Ellen died, her whole family betaine interested in Val- erie, El1en'e daughter by -a for- mer marriageand in the trust fund left Valerie. All Mien's sis- ters, save Shirley, frightened Val- erie --by assuming she would live with them, but Mark Came to the rescue and, took Valerie on a long trip. On the way home, he and Valerie niet Lucy Tredway, own- , er `of a broken-down travelling library. Mark hired her to tutor Lucy aid brought her home. El- • sie, trying to make the most of the opportunity,. appeared at the house on the day they returned - and was startled • to ' see Lucy there, She left in a quiet" huff and has just called' Valerie to see if Valerie will spend the day with her. Valerie is talking things ov- er" with Lucy. Valerie moved a little would tell Lucy, "You' like leer! Mrs. •Waterford, I mean: My mother did. This is, I suppose she, did. They were together a good deareeanyway, whenever I was home: Of course, that wasn't very, much."' Lucy , wendered if it was possible that less than ten years lay between often She Methuselah, getlike, th t," shesa "I .. Valerie looked up. "Really?" she asked hopefully. "Absolutely. And when I do, I turn it into a kind of game. 1 .call it 'Mak- ing Excuses.' Not for yourself—that's not so good—but for other people. Es- pecially when you don't like them. I think, maybe they 'aren't happy, or their shoes don't fit, or somebody drop- ped them on their heads' when they were babies. You know—like that." Valerie laughed. "That's fun," she said. "I wonder what I could think up for Elsie? Would the head -dropping one do?" "Well—first, tell me why youdon't like her?" "Do you like her?" countered Val- erie. • Lucy thought furiously. "Well— how do 1 know? It's a little soon to tell. You see, I never Iaid eyes on her until last night." - "Oh," said Valerie disappointedly. "But sometimes you can tell right away. Look at father and, me and you." "I suppose that was an excep- tion." Lucy wondered ewhy she was fighting on Elsie's side, and couldn't. discover any reason except that she wished to teach Valerie tolerance. "It's like this," Valerie explained. She drew on the bright chintz of her chair with a pointed finger. "She's nearer. She see—I don't going from here to here, you see." She made a straight line between two points. "But she doesn't. She goes this way—" A series of curves indicated Elsie's circuitous course. Lucy looked at, Valerie in amaze - went. "And then she wants to ask you something terribly, and she some when she married WM.. Then after,,a wthile, they weren't married any 'mere. If she was lonelyi why didn't she keep him?" e "I give it up," said Lucy. ' Shehad rather a -feeling of being carried oyer her bead,: She heard with, relief Mark's knock on Valerie's door; and Vale- rie, with her young arms around him, forgot Elsie and . the game of making excuses. She didn't think of her again until an hour later, as she and Mark ' and LUcy sat swinging their bare legs over the edge of the pool after an exciting game o$ water ball in its green depths. • * * Valerie, Mark, and Lucy swam every day, even when it reined. Mark, fired by their enthusiasm, was already making plans for an indoor winter pool. McTavish had left the kennels, and was never far from Valerie's heels, running frantically on .. his short ` black legs, Mark had come to look on himself as the father 'of a family, and he liked it. He thought of Lucy as al- most as much of a •child. as Valerie. It never failed to astonish him when she spoke to him maturely. Even when he remembered the diplomas and degrees, and knew that she and Valerie kept regular school hours. He found himself urging them, not to overdo the learning business. To enjoy the summer days which were Iengthening magically. He took to coming home earlier to play around the poo]" with them before dinner. He felt as young as they were, which ' autonished him a little when he stopped to think aisput it at all. Mark looked at the placid patty -n of his days, and marvelled. His life had seemingly crashed- so' thorough- ly; arnd yet here it was, weaving itself as if nothing had happened. He hardly realized how much of this- was Lucy's work. Mark found Elsie and even Shir- ley vaguely disturbing. He was be- ginning to realize he had known them at ' all. He didn't even now suspect why "this was so, or guess that EIien had guarded- him so subtly frons ' every woman except herself. He had danced with them and sat beside them at dinner, and found ,himself looking into Ellen's eyes again before they became to him any more than figures moving across a stage. Elsie had invited herself to dinner at -Wide—Acres twice before Shirley showed up at all. Elsie never men- tioned her, and Mark almost forgot she lived only a scant ten miles away. He was ashy ed to find how completely she was , out of his thought, when he came home late one afternoon in June to •find. her. sit- ting With Valerie and Lucy at a table under a huge gay umbrella at ' the edge of the pool:— 'They were all in s,wimml{n'g suits, and . they hailed him as the caught sight of them through the trees; and came across the lawn. Shirley was at her best in the water. She gave him her hand, her long grey eyes a Mark told Shirley about Lucy. doesn't. She just talks around it, until you get all mixed up and tell her something you don't want her to find out. So you see, she isn't a very nice person. At least, I don't think so." "She's rather nice to look at," suggested Lucy. It was the only thing she could think of in Elsie's favor. "Not to me. It's sort of like smelling a lilac, and 1heli' a tuber - rose. Both of them are sweet, but the tuberose is shivery. Anyway, it is to me," Lucy wondered if .it wasn't, somehow, a rather eomplete summing up. "I suppose it isn't nice, feeling this way, but what are you going to do?" "There are the excuses I told you about:" "All right, 'You begin." "Welk--" said LuCy, "'She's alone, isn't she? Being lonely often makes people disagreeable."' 'tiS•lie didn't ha'v'e to be," explained Valerie. "There was .liter husband. 13o was quite nice. Not very„ baud - 'clothe or.. noting, but $ice. And +s +fie 1t11;e li c izatuet verse stiOneg or . d -1 little somber under the yellow hand- kerchief that bound her head. "Hello, Mark," she said. Valerie thought how nice it was to hear her father's name instead of Elsie's invariable . s'darling." "I got tired of waiting to be scent for. Valerie was goiing to telephone me, but she never did. So just came over." He looked at her with approval. Women were like • gay sliml boys these days, in their brief suits. He kissed Valerie, and hurried to the house, coining back in his awim- ming togs. He 'caught Shirley, by the hand, and together they took a runniiig dive. Shirley came t¢ the surface first, shaking the v'ater , from her eyes, and Laughing in his face. She put her' hand en his shoulder, and they swam slowly to the far side of the pool, "You didn't mind my coming?" She asked. Even in the watek, ,,he was con seloue of a fresh, faint perfume. "My' dear---" he protested. "I 1 tight mna'Ybe Shatters , Were to 44* -' onr the dtt'taide !cooking 1411,44 S�n,•e f�i6.a. uaue,Sa., where 1 suppose they belong, f?nly,:. I get tired of hearing all about yea from Elsie; so I Chucked alt my pride overboard" and . came to hunt you Up.'!* "Elsie ran in ono ; night to see if we were back,-eicplained Mark. He stood! beside Shirley, treading water and '!sinking she floated as lightly as a lily on the surface of the pool .I_ndeeds she was like a water lily anyway ; with her warmly waxen skin. "It just happened that we were. /1'hen she came over late one afternoon, last week, and there was a thunderstorm, and she was afraid; so she stayed until if was ov- er, which happened to be after din- ner." Shirely- let her lids droop over her long eyes. She opened them slowly to look,up at him. "I see," she said. He wondered at the sudden warmth of her voice. "Well keep you too, if you' don't look out," he told ,her. He had forgotten she was so lovely. - Shirley turned, dipped with a lithe length of body, and swam away from him. She clam -bed up a. ladder and dropped to the edge of the pool. Mark followed and . swung himself up beside her. "How about it?" 'he asked,, "What?" "Dinner." "May I'—soon?", • '"Why not tonight?" "Can you imagine Chiltern?" she la ghee, "Yeu see, I haven't any clothes. I just ran over in this— plus a beach coat. Elsie said you swan} every day, and I couldn't re- sist.She hates the water so, I think it was rather mean of me," "What rot," said Mark. He re- membered Elsie's legs from t h e days of short skirts, and her lack of enthusiasm for the water was sud- denly explained. They sat inthe late afternoon sunshine, and watched Valerie and Lucy chase a ;ball at the other end of the long pool. ' "How beautifully they swim," said Shirley. "In fact, they're both rather lovely. Elsie told me about your find. Or did she, I wonder? I imagined somebody a bit different. Funny how differently people register, isn't it?" "According to the registree, I guess." "Exactly. I was looking for a girl who—well, sort of knew her way about, so to speak-" `— "I don't imagine Lucy would get altogether' lost in the dark, said Mark wryly. If you mean she has , ,poise, I agree with you. But poise entirely without guile. I don't specially want to •.like her — but I find .1 do, enormously" "You woul!d;" Mark said. "When 1 think of generous women, you come first: " As a matter of fact, you're a .'sort ,of all-round first -rater, come to thunk of lt. A•ud darned beautiful! •I suppose you hear about it once is a while?" "Not from .you, anyway," said Shir- ley. "I don't think you ever told me before. Do you realize that, Mark?" "The oversight will be remedied," he promised. She put a band on his shoulder and jumped to her feet. She gather- ed a white wrap of fleecy towelling from the back of a chair, and wrap- ped herself in it. -. Valerie and Lucy climbed out of the .pool, to put out dripping hounds. "PIease come back very soon," said Valerie. "It's been such fun having you!" "Thanks, my sweet." Shirley lean- ed, and kissed the oval of her cheek. She clasped Lucy's hand foga mom- ent. ,"I'd love to see more of you," she said. "I think Mark and Valerie have had a great break, finding you." "You're kind--" said Lucy. Her eyes. followed Mark and Shirley to Shirley's roadster, parked over • in the drive. "Things do puzzle me," said' Vale- rie. "I almost love her. At any rate, I like her a big lot, and I don't know why." "I know," said Lucy. But w,ht n Valerie asked why, she only said she'd be flret to reach the diving board on the other .si'de of the pool. * * * Mark came out of his office one hot day, in early August to find Elsie sitting, parked, at the factory ,gates. At first he thought his eyes were playing him tricks, and he "kept his course to .where his roadster waited beside the curb. But the sound of Elsie's voice calling his name left him in no doubt, and be crossed to her car just as her chauffeur opened the doth-' (Continued. Next Week) Little Tommy had spent his day at school. Mother was anidous to know how, he got on.. ',What did, you learn, dear?" she asked. "Didn''t learn mothin" Dame the discouraging reply. - "Welil, than, what • did you do?" Mother persisted. "Didn't 'caro nothin'. A „woinan want- ed, to know lidw to Spit 'dog,' and 1 told ixty. �`i1'tl 'u 11x11,' first t„ 3 tu,L,m a .sem i f" . 0Q,000 P'1'1, der• ' s, 'ii obi grouu �r s sasxx# t d sinner of lytic I9 are , «lot snore , I9 m1ot ►rizetl,• r� ns. tertatjwn dlffi ultie}i p?psei t lxe d fraction et niechani ed (fighting' ve- h) ` 1C1eand motorized (tranisl ortatjon vehicles) units going asborg .ot first: At the same'•'titne Hitler must hold out sufficient forces 'to guard agait all poes hie eventualities ei,sewher'e, in addition 'to' the, Gestapo and 8 S. units, which can: put down ruthlessly sporadic insurrection, Ten divisions to, the eastezu• frontier lest Josef Stalin fret, tea more in Rumania, ten in. France, five in the Low . Countries, and five, in Norway would appear -to be the minimum, es- sential. In addition, a new . cloud now hangs over the Axis horizon. It may not be many more days before the Mediterranean becomes in fact an English lake and Wavell's superb Army of the Nile footloose. Desper- ate men do desperate things. A Brit- ish Expeditionary Force in Italy, While improbable, may not be an im- possibility. Hence ten more German divisions may, well be ear -marked for the Brenner Pass, as well as a con- slderable fraction of the Luftwaffe. Since Herr Hitler, once his inva- sion be launched, will have staked his all on one throw, it may be, assumed, then, that he will have 204' divisions available for his - expedition. The transportation problem involved is truly stupendous. Britain., it is said, has more than 1,500,000 inher regular Home forces. Ex'eluding the Royal Air Force, posi- tion anti-aircraft , artillery and . the garrisons•of all harbor and airport defenses, which must hold out, it may be expected that some 60 divisions are available as mobile ground forc- es. But behind that—perhaps we should say, in the circuanstanees, be- fore it --stands the Home Defense Force of some 1,500,000 more, This Iatter is' particularly important, be- cause through its use the mobile troops of the army can be held in- tact for their real business—counter- attack, iestead of being frittered a-, way on wild-goose chases against feints, false alarms and subversive activities. • A sixty -division mobile 'reserve_ be- comes something pretty substantial under the circumstances. However, we must 'subtract the troops of the Ulster command in Ireland. Its strength is unknown; a guess might put it at up to 10. divisions—suffici- ent to dominate or assist the Irish Free State if necessary against Ger- man invasion, which, because of geo- graphical position, must in last re- sort be considered as a secondary but important threat. 'Once ashore, it's th,e->Army{s--pfd gin." Originally- uttered with refer- ence to land amid `sea power, this ad- age holds true today in- three-dimen- sional warfare. Parachutists and air infan'try, once landed from transport planes, operate as ground troops. Con- versely, aerial combatforces in sup- port of landing operations must be highly, co-ordinated with the objec- tives of the ground troops if they are to be of any material help, at the crucial moment. Their role is -par- ticularly that of fire power in. spurt- ing dives against strong points and is- olated spots of resistance—both de-' fen sive and- offensive. Unco-ordimat- ed, their efforts take the guise of Prince Rupert's cavalrymen, w h o swept the field only to find on return- ing that the plodding Roundheads had won the.. real battle. Supply adod reinforcement of the un- its gaining the first toe -hold on hos- tile terrain are extensions of the orig- inal functions of both navy and air arm, with these differences: the navy can fetch only to the beach, and can support by gunfire --none too well, be it remembered—to the limit of range. The air arm, both as ferrying and supply agency, and as an extension of fire power, can go anywhere with- in cruising range, so ,song as it be el/interrupted by hostile air and anti- aircraft artillery. Ta date, 'all German invasions in this struggle have followed one gen- eral objective pattern—psychological breakdown followed by armed envel- opment. Parachute troops drop as advance guards securing landing places for air infantry, winging in as the subversive forces within the tar- get dation go into action, Terror, confusion, dislocation of communica- tions and general sabotage follow. In a word, pandemonium. Such tactics worked in Norway, Holland, Belgium and France. But Britain has had eight months t� prepare, Her people have under gone the scream, of the Stuka, the rending explosion of the bomb; the civilian population has been drilled to stand fast. What Britain has yet to undergo are Fifth Column activi- ties. Considering the press stories of food hi -jacking in England today and the bumulative strength of commun- ist, fascist and alien elements there, these constitute a real danger, Three thousand men an hour—less if guns and light vehicles take up part of the space—can be landed, tbeY say, by Germany from the air on any one spot in an hour, if uninterrupt- ed. !Density of shore: landings is; of course, a moot question. Home guards will pop up, of course, at each threatened spot. They may be hailed in good English, see British tit>r ifornts; similar incidents happened on; the Continent. Anti) thousands of sets Of D000 1100 were . captured on the, direc404 Rf your seer ski of figures Rayon ",la reputed have be found ;by an gnglish sclf nti,$t wort on electric Rght. 11:0 encs then' scientists , are always doing things like' that. There was the an, pie that hit+ -Newton, r'einember", li'Ut •to get back to rayon. Rayon life all Gaul, is divided into 'gree parts, "13ein,berg Fibre," Acetate Rayon an,d Viscose. Bemberg Fibre is tops in rayons ersatz but alack, is produced; by only three factories -in ' the world. The Ger- man plant is out, but definitely. Front. the British plant we get, or have been getting, a little; but Britain, too saves foreign exchange by embargo - Continent- Anythingto cause. uncer- tainty, hesitation. After that — well, civilians in arms have' no rights, can expect no mercy. • "When people are fighting for their existence'. on this planet and are fac- ed with the fatal question, to be or not to be, all considerations of hu- maneness or aesthetics crumble into nothing." Thus Adolf Hitler in "Mein Kam;pf.1' But the men—and. women,, too.—of the Home Defense Force have heard of such rases.; have undergone months of indiscriminate bombings ; have been warned of the gas and the liquid fire to come. They, too',' will have little time for the niceties. , Toe -hold the German. troops may be expected to get. Reinforcement and supply to build up these hundreds of little viper nests thiougihout the and, to a strength capable of grap- plieig with 50 -odd divisions of regular troops—well, these are horses of dif- 'eren•t color. LTnless Nazi technique has built ne some still undiscovered terror to par- alyze initial defense, it will be cliff - cult to cope at equal strength with Britain's defenders, to win thewall-to= wall, ditch -to -ditch„ house-to-house op- ening fights; to hold them against lo- cal counter-attacks; finally, to as- semble and supply sufficient troops and material to ensure success against organized large-scale often-' sivest the defenders. It will take, every one of those 200 divisions Herr Hitler can spare. Four basic questions "challenge. How long willit take Hitler to put n Britain an army of 3,000,000. men, fully equipped with tanks, artillery, and all the impedimenta . of modern war? How long ' and with what car- go carries can he supply this army? How can hg. _eliminate the British Navy? •Has he sufficient strength to eliminate the Royal Air Force? The first two question's remain to be an- swered. The last two .thus far have been answered in the negative, or there would be no England today. V'ewed dispassionately and academ- eally, ` a successful invasion of Bri- tain appears to, be imipos•sible. But wars are not won or lost by slide - rule. Mem,. riot machines, are the fin- al inal factors. alit 'bat k yc tory° ags l ulr :;kre ui Sl ?1Re ;. A elate Rayon i Mise . rpondville, Buie,. !lilt` a sin manufacture' is hind'er+� since base of Acetate Rayon'.; linters . 'grow4_ sun. nu, Uncle` deep South,. Viscose Rayon. faces a ,hent, manufactured as it is from °! Spruce wood pulp of which v'e # sufficiency. Two year sand cords. ,of 'Canadian fflUatoe P'l I wo went into draping milady's legs one enrd incidentally, ' produces s thousand pairs of stockings, or twelve, thousand stockings, or an 'awfut loi*• ' of runs: Canadiatis tuna pule into pedal protection, up at Cornwall, >t.. Shrewd publicists- have done a "bee ter job of advertising nylon but pulls, , licity has far exceeded production. It • was only perfected after ten:years of, research by, the du Pont people and:..; although this was in 1938 therestilt isn't anywhere enough of nylon Sun- - day bests for even the Canadian wo- men -who don't have allergy to it. So far Canada is .not producing nylon • but fibre imported from the U.S. is • knitted in a number of - Dominion mills, A local firm is at work on a factory capable of handling the semifinish- ed fibre but even this plant will not do a complete chemical processing. Nylon fibre, as you've very probably heard, comes from a resin Which comes from a tar which- comes from soft coal. Finished Here aw Lisle (named from France's: 'textile city of Lille) will probably not be a major factor. Madame accepts it which is something but the manufac- turers find lisle fibre, made from southern U.S. cotton, spins most slowly and spins at all only on ex- pensive machinery; presently lisle is only mercerized in Canada, earlier processing being for the most part done in, Great .Britain. Where does ,,Canada stand lin a world of silk stockings.? Per Capita Miss and Mrs. Canada wear them as extensively as they're worn anywhere.. But what is truly paradoxical is that the Dominion, which produces no silk is, the wprld's largest exporter of silk stockings; in 1934 some sixty coun- tries imported' from Canada more than 521;11D'0`"palie of silk chose valued' at over three million dollars. The war of course has lapped off many,,,„,of the markets but there still are markets and while these markets exist they must be served. Ottawa therefore will license the import of,. 'enough , silk to • permit manufacture of sufficient stockings to cover re- maining markets; for 'foreign ex- change must be secured • wherever possible. T. eSNAPSNOT GUILD PICTURING THE HOUSE Automobile headlights provided the illumination for this novel picture of the house, taken with a time exposure on high speed film. ALMOST everybody has taken pictures of the house in the daytime—but how about a picture at night? All you need is a location where the camera won't be dis- turbed, and, of course, a camera that can be set fora time exposure. Naturally, the house' must be lighted in some manner—either by automobile headlights, by street. lights, by moonlight, or other means. The light doesn't hale to be extremely strong—if it is weak- er, you just expose for -a, longer tine—but the illumination should be fairly even on the side of the house that you picture. For just a portion of the house, you can use a dash bulb, if your camera bas a fast lens and is load- ed oaded with high speed film. For ex- ample, if you have an f%4.5 1en0, the flash can be used 40, or 50 feet from the hoose, with lust oire meditzni-; elsed .Mash bulb in a geed refledtdr. Automobile headlights provider fine illtcmination fora single;ter house, if r 9: Cat is parked eare'#ut;i#��,;. 26, The exposure will vary, according to the distance of the car -from the house and the brightness of the lights; so it is best to take several shots, increasingthe exposure time in each case. Moonlight shots are easier to take than you may Imagine. On a clear night, with full /noon, an average exposure is 100 minutes, with a box camera, and average .speed film. If there is snow on the house roof and on the ground, this time can be cut in half. And, of course, if you use high speed film less exposure is re- quired. Remember that for all •time exposures, the camera must b'e placed on a firm, solid support. Another Interesting stunt is to take a short time exposure of the house just at dusk, when there is still Some light in the sky but -the, house lights show up brightly. Oiily as few seconds' exposure Will be needed for each a shot, and it wlti add- interest to your snaloiliti C ilWon, ' 1 e, ° Jnhn wan diYtf f!r is is