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% 'Thursday, March 24, 1932 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER THREH m v LRUBY M. AYRES theJOWN SECOND INSTALMENT absurdly difficult. It must be all or nothing; she Diaia t rTlTl t y y ~dIsii4d e w < S ly anothef had said that scores o^ times, and woman’s hflsband. A nervous wreck from the excitement and strain of London’s gay life, she is taken by Iier aunt, Mrs. Gladwyn, to a fam ous specialist's office. . The phy sician ..orders her to the country to take a long rest. ~ She rebels, but the doctor is handsome and sym pathetic. She learns that he is not •be great man hiihself but an as sistant, Dr. Rathbone. “God made the country and man made the town,” he tells her, and she agrees to go to a rural retreat. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY “And where does he suggest sending you?” “On Dartmoor, to a cottage where I can go about without shoes and stockings and get sunburnt.” “W$ll, are you going to take his advice?” Diana giggled. ? He toki me to go tomorrow—or tonight, if possible, and take you 'with- me.” t Mrs. Gladwyn sat bolt upright. • “The man’s mad, ’ she declared indignantly. Diana reflected, thinking of Rathbone a little wistfully. A had seemed such a particul arly sane person, in spite of his blunt manner, and yet she knew she had no intention of following bis advice. i “I’m not going tonight, anyway,” she said. “I’m going out to din ner.” • • “You look more fit for bed,” was her aunt’s retort, but she felt re- lieyed; the mention of dinner made [her more hopeful. She did not want to go out—at [least, half of her did not want to go, that miserable sickly physical part of her that seemed to cry out | only for rest and sleep- but the other part of her, heart and brain, was on fire for the ihoment, when [she would be again with the only toerson in all the world who mat tered to her. Two days since she had seen him -eternal days, year long. It was for him she had stayed ip jtown—in order to be near him jwhile his wife was away, and in ppite of all her eager anticipation phe had got very little happiness it of their days together. He was difficult and exacting, md in her nervous state of health le felt unable to cope with a sit- ition that was rapidly growing tut of hand. Tonight they were going to dine it his flat CHAPTER II _ v Driving aW&y in the car with lennis Waterman, Diana was once sain angrily conscious of her Weakness and* lassitude. An only son of extravagant peo- who had died leavj$g t him with ithing but a crop'of debts, he had irried Linda Dawson, a rich girl they had quarreled over it and said good-bye forever, only to find they could not live without one another. And now here they were again, back on the old ground, with no thing decided. The car stopped and Diana roused herself with a little laugh of apology. They went through the big door and were whirled upstairs in the lift. It was as she entered the room with its shaded lights and dainty appointments that Diana suddenly remembered that this flat belong ed to Linda. There were a hund red signs of her everywhere; it almost seemed as if her shadow sat in a corner of the big cushioned divan, laughing at them in her in imitable way. When Dennis tried to take her wrap .she resisted. “I wish I hadn’t come.” “What nonsense.” He kissed her hands and her soft throat. “You’re tired. I’ll mix you a cock tail. You’ll feel better directly.” He bent and kissed her. “Now drink this and see if it doesn’t put new life into you.” She sipped it and put the glass down on a table at her elbow. “I suppose you think I’m horribly cheap,” she said slowly. “I think you’re adorable.” She considered that. “But ador- she said with “Oh . . . Linda- a little shiver. He took no notice, he went on rapidly, taking advantage 'of her momentary softening. “We can go this week—why not tomorrow? I can meet you some where outside London. Think of the joy it will be, my dear. Just you and I together.” “And when we come back?” she asked hopelessly. “We shall have to come back, of course.” • He kissed her hair. “Why look ahead, my dear? Isn’t the present enough? And it won’t be the last, the only time. We shall often be able to go away together again. Wo^’t it be better than this, anyway? We seem to spend our lives now saying good-bye.” He turned her face up to his and kiss ed her lips. “Say yes, my darl ing.” She closed her eyes before the passion in his; she seemed to have no will left, no power of resistance; she was so tired of fighting. What did anything matter as long as she did not utterly lose him? “Yes . . . yes . . . yes,” she whis pered “You shall never regret it. All my life ” He broke off, his arms falling from her. There were voices in the hallway outside, a woman’s voice, laughing and amused, and one of the maids, concerned, flustered. Dennis stood motionless his head turned towards the door, his face ’* \ m m ■vm 3p She felt his arms around her, drawing her close to him, and with a return of the passion he always seemed to awake in her, she turned and clung to him. i r f white. .. CHAPTER III perhaps, but it seems a shame to leave you directly you come home.” Linda finished her drink and set the glass down on the table. “Oughtn’t you two to be going—or isn’t ten o’clock late to join a par ty?” Diana stood, up. “I really don’t care a bit about the dance,” she said. “Let us call it off, Dennis, shall we?” But Linda would not hear of such a thing. “Of course you must go. I insist You make me feel sorry I came home. Dennis, insist that .she goes.” Dennis shrugged his shoulders. “It’s for you to say, my dear. You know if you want me to stay—” “But I don’t want you to stay. Diana, go to my room and put some colour in your cheeks, you look like a ghost. I just want to talk to Den nis for a moment.” Diana hesitated. She was hat ing this woman for her friendli ness and self-control, envying her glowing health; hating her unrea sonably, no doubt, and yet she had hardly known how to bear herself since the moment Dennis went for ward to kiss his wife. “I really don’t care if we go or not,” she said with an effort. “It will be frightfully hot in the Savoy, anyway.” “Run away,” Linda said. She shooed her iflayfully to the door, closing it' after her. Then she turned to her husband. “What’s the matter with that child?” she asked. “The matter?” Dennis raised his brows. “What do you mean? She doesn’t look as fit as you do, cer tainly, but then she goes the pace too much. You can’t keep her still; she’s a mass of nerves.” “And is that your fault?” his wife asked quietly. “My fault? My dear Linda— what on earth do you mean?” “Don’t let’s pretend, Dennis. You know quite well what I mean. You’ve been making love to her for months. I’m not blaming you any more than I am her—any woman is a fool who lets a married man make love to her; but I’m sorry for her because she’s not so experi enced as you are. .. It’s not play ing fair. I suppose she wants you to marry her, is that it?” X PAINS When you take Bayer Aspirin you are sure of two things. It’s sure relief, and it’s harmless. Those tablets with the Bayer cross do not hurt the heart. Take them when ever you suffer from Headaches Colds Sore Throat Rheumatism Neuritis % Neuralgia Lumbago Toothache When ' your head aches—from any cause—when a cold has settled in your joints, or ybu feel those deep-down pains of rheumatism, sciatica, or lumbago, take. Bayer Aspirin and get real relief. If the package says Bayer, it’s genuine. And genuine Bayer Aspirin is safe. Aspirin is the trade-mark of Bayer manufacture of monoacetio- acidester of salicylicacid. '&U DEMAND BEWARE OF IMITATIONS mub NEW able things can be cheap,” she said painfully after a moment. ■ There was a discreet tap at the door, and Dennis sprang up and went oyer to the cocktail table again. V, “Pome in.” ^ “Dinner is served, sir*” They went into the dining room. had been blinded by her love^^AS^ 8 T™' th0 “f ht with a little quiver, and when they Lr him to his selfishness and use- tssness. [But she was no fool, and once |e had recovered from the shock disillusionment she had set her- lf to smile and remain friends th a husband whom she still red. 3he never questioned him about mode of living, or objected to t friendships, and the nearest ap- •h they had ever had to a had been over money mat- ( s when she had calmly told him her banking account was no ger at his disposal. le would receive an allowance, , said with a friendly smile; her citors would attend to it, but he st keep within its limits, and no ther debts would be settled for i. iennis had tried anger, wounded lity, and finally cajolery, but la had been immune to them •m not quarreling with you,” said calmly. “I don’t think I’m angry with you, because I you can’t help the way you’ve brought up. You ought to be to now, I suppose, but I can It’s impossible, so I have made arrangement for both our s, and you will be quite free to our way, and I shall go mine.” jma was difficult; she loved and she wanted to be his wife [nost unreasonable desire. ier fellows had their love af- without the knowledge of wives, but there Diana was were served Dennis sent the maids away. “Do you mind?” he asked. “We can’t talk if they stay.” Diana had made a pretense of eating, but now that the servants’ watchful eyes were no longer there she gave it up and leaned back in her chair. “What’s going to become of us. Dennis?” she asked. He did not answer for a moment, and when at last he spoke he care fully avoided looking at her. “I brought you here to about that.” “Oh!” A little shaft struck her heart again, mean—will Linda . . . ’ “It’s Linda,” he said hoarsely. Linda came into tihe room smil ing and cheery. She looked the picture of health and was charm ingly dressed in a cool summer frock of black and white with a shady hat. She pulled the curtains back and flung the casement wide, then she turned and looked at her husband. “I hope you’ve been entertaining Diana properly,” she said. ; “And may I have a drink? Some thing long, with plenty of ice.” Dennis turned tow the side table and began mixing a drink with hands that were not quite steady. “I wish you’d let me know you were coming” he said. “I’d have met you at Victoria.” Linda laughed. “How sweet of you! But I was quite all right. Tony Jevons came over on the same talk boat, and he looked after me. Have you a cigarette?” of hope She flung her hat carelessly “Do you down on the couch, smoothng her glossy hair carefully. ’Linda will never divorce me.’ ‘Are you two going _ _ on some- She stood up, holding the back of where?” she asked. “Because if her chair for a moment with aa you are, don*t mind me. I shall overwhelming sense of weakness; have heaps to do—there’s a pile of then she went before him back to letters waiting for me in the hall.” Dennis gave her a cigarette and the room with its shaded lights and curtains undrawn against the sum mer night. She felt his arms round her, drawing her close to him, and with a return of the passion he always seemed to awake in her she turned and clung to him. Don’t let them send me away from you, Dennis. Don’t let them send me away. I love you so much so much’.’ v “And I love you too, my dear, you know that.” H Then let me take you away. Isn’t this our moment? - With Linda abroad—” lit it for her. “As a matter of fact, we were go ing on to join some people at the Savoy,” he said, carefully avoiding her eyes. “But as you are here—” “As I am here you are quite pre pared to do the polite thing and stay at home, is that it? My dear boy, don’t be absurd. I should hate to disappoint Diana, too, though I must say she looks more as if she ought to be in bed than sitting up till the early hours.” Diana roused herself with an ef fort, the hot colour rushing to her face. “I’m quite well. A little tired, > When town boys go in for 4-H club work it is a little unusual. And when they go in for farming on man’s sized scale it is more unus ual. For these reasons the story of the two Borgelt brothers and V their farming operations in King- man county, Kansas, is one of the good one^ of the season. And it only goes to show that club work wjll do the same for town boys that it does for country boys if the town boys are as serious. The 4-H club projects of the two boys, whose names are Harold and Earl, and the encouragement of their parents are greatly respon sible for the boys being where they are today. Leading up to this suc cessful culmination of their club work are a number of interesting incidents. First, their father is a country town merchant. For a number of years he ran a store in Belmont, and it was while the fam ily lived there that the boys be came interested in 4-H club work. And the boys carried on against obstacles. First they had no land, so they made an arrangement with a farmer near town to supply them with the accommodations they re quired for their projects. Again, this made it inconvenient to look after their enterprises. But they were not the kind of boys to be easily discouraged. They are the kind of boys who probably fight hardest when the score is against them. Harold was very much interested in livestock and produced such fine baby beeves and kept such good records that he was named county champion four different years. As a climax he was award ed a free trip by the Sante Fe to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago. The boy received many other recognitions for his good work. Earl had an early bent for dairy ing, and mastered the art of devel oping dairy calves in such a fine manner that he was named coun ty champion in this line. He also Experience Service Facilities Those are the important things in measuring the worth of a funeral director, and should be borne in mipd when you have occasion to choose one DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE and there is no additional charge for service out of town J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, S. C. fected his technique until he won coveted prizes in baking and on his canned products. But farming a section of land does not give Earl much time to do house work, and he does not have to for his mother runs the home for the boys, and for Mr. Borgelt also won drives back and forth to his store. Where did they get the farm? Well, Father Borgelt has the an cestral love of his people for land, so when he bought his present store he soon after bought the farm. The boys have been farm ing it two years, and for beginners they have made a fine showing. Wheat, of course is their main crop, but they are introducing sweet clover and other crops with a view of diversifying and getting a rota tion which will keep down weeds and improve the soil; Their 60 acres of Turkey wheat grown last year as an experiment yielded 29 bushels, or nine better than their own variety. They use five horses for light work and a tractor for the heavy. Six cows are kept in milk and with 14 sows and a good flock of poultry they have a nice start in livestock. In this and many other ways they are applying the knowledge they gained in club work, and gained while’they might otherwise have been fooling around doing nothing. HKfi® FOR THE S keep for weeks if it is kept covered. When you wish to serve it, set the can containing it on a rack in a pan of boiling water and let it boil slowly for about an hour. Good Vegetable : ^aiad— Use any cold cooked vegetables you have on hand. Chil them thoroughly and combine them care fully and attractively. String beans and cauliflowe^ go , well together. Diced beets and peas, lima beans and carrots, carrots and peas, chop ped spinach alone—these are but suggestions. The cook with an in stinctive feeling fdfy'what is good in combination wili devise a salad out of any left.-qver . vegetables she may have on hand. *: i & Easily Made Toffqe:— - v> make ordinary toffee put a pound of granulated sugar in a saucepan, with a teacup of water, a quarter pound of* butter, and a small can of condensed milk. Cook this slowly for three-quarters of an hour, stirring occasionally to keep from cooking too fast. To test it let some drop from’the end of a spoon on a cold plate and if when cool it is the consistency of toffee it is ready to take from the fire. Add a few drops of vanilla. Have a plate or plates ready buttered and turn the toffee on this td harden. When it is fairly solid cut into pieces of desired size with a clean pair of scissors. Roll each piece in a little powdered sugar and do up in a little piece of oiled paper. *Xt HUMORETTES to xy N AKCY HAPT Pastor—So God has seen fit send you two little brothers? Little May—Yes, and he knows where the money’s coming from. I l^eard daddy say so. English Plum Pudding— Chop fine one-half pound suet, Pessimist—I told you carpenters add one-half pound currants, one- wouldn’t continue to get $11 a day. lalf pound finely sliced citron, one- j know several persons who have half pound brown sugar, the crumb offered Bill Sawyer no more than rom the inside of a pound loaf of $5 a ^ay bread, one cup pastry flour sifted Optimist You’re with a half tablespoon of ground cloves, one teaspoon of soda, a half ablespoon of cinnamon, a half tablespoon of nutmeg, a teaspoon of salt. Then, when these dry in gredients are very thoroughly mix ed, add one cup milk, a quarter cup cider, four well beaten eggs and two tablespoons lemon juice. The original recipe of course called for brandy. Grape juice may be used instead of lemon juice. The batter is poured into greased cans, covered lightly with their tops, and had a liking for cooking and per-! steamed for three hours. It will crazy. Why, Bill would never work for less than $11 a day. That’s what his last job paid him. Pessimist—When was that? Optimist—Oh, a little over a year ago. .X Eighty-nine per cent of the corn grown in the United States is fed to livestock, an exhibit on the sub ject prepared by the United States Departftifent of Agriculture* ‘says. This com constitutes 25 per cent of the entire sustenance of livestock.