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* , * V \ / Thursday, May 5, 1932 MeCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER THRE9 mi LRUBY M. AYRES EIGHTH INSTALMENT At twenty-two the only thing Diana really desired was another woman’s husband. A nervous wreck from the excitement and strain of London’s gay life, she is taken by her 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 the great man himself 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. Before she leaves she goes to Dennis Waterman’s flat, where they are surprised by Linda, Den nis’s wife, who takes the situation quite calmly. “I suppose she wants >oa to mairy her?” she asks Den nis. At the night club where she goes with Dennis, Diana collapses. She regains consciousness in a little country cottage, with a nurse, Miss Starling, bending over her. Dr. “When everyone says that I have rake up all my sins of omission, but a woman living in my house—is don’t you think you are a little to that what you want to say?” blame too? If you had had any— She stared at him with eyes that any real regard for me, would you were pathetic in spite of their al- | have gone prying into my private most insolent defiance, but before life—hoping to discover some she could speak he said in a voice wretched secret which you could of steel: “It is indeed time you and I said good-bye, Diana.” “What do you mean?” “Only that as I have done all I can do for you—all that I am sure you wish me to do for you, there will be no need for me to see you any more.” She caught her breath, mean . . . never?” triumphantly . broadcast among your friends when you got back to town? If that is your idea of friendship, it is not mine.” And then for some moments neither of them spoke, till at last Rathbone turned again. “Forgive me for that, Diana. I have no earthly right to talk to you You like this. It’s absurd for me to be ! angry with you—or with any oil?}. “Never is a long day. It is quite My life is as I have made it; yours possible that we may run across will be as you make it; so try and one another sometimes: the world build it out of something solid that is not such a big place. Any- will stand firmly through the bad way,* I wish you all the happiness days as well as the good. Good- Rathbonc’r: home was close by, Miss i you can* wish yourself.” bye.” Afte/three we’eks Dennis Water-' " But y° u don,t think 1 deserTC “• i, ® h ®. ld “ come clo3 = 30 her ’ man calls. He tells her he will or that I shall get it?” she burst' felt his hand for a moment on aoi have to go away, and his manner, out passionately. “And you don’t | shoulder, heard him say again, Good-bye .... Be happy.” And as he leaves her, suggests that his i pither in snite of what vou love is waning. But Dennis has care ’ eimer ’ m s P lte 01 wnal J ou not been gone many davs before said when I was ill. You treat me Diana finds herself asking Miss like an ordinary patient now you Sr ar Rafhbone rtS ° f ‘ ,uestions about think I'm well again. You promised Not long afterwards she learns teach me to skate, but you’ve that there is a woman living in Dr. never said another word about :lt.” Rathbone’s house, a woman named Rosalie. “Isn’t there someone else better then he was gone. / CHAPTER XIII During the next week quite a .iot happened. In the first place Diana’s car ar rived, and there was the renewed Now GO ON WITH THE STORY qualified for that privilege than I excitement of driving it once more; ‘On the contrary, I am quite sure am?’ driving it at terrific speed with the that you will never.forget and that! She ignored him. She went on i Creature silent and terrified beside you will often think about it, and perhaps sometimes when you begin with a breathless rush. “You said you were my friend, to feel tired and bored to death and now you calmly say to yourself, with an eternal round of so-called ‘Thank God there’ll be no need for ‘gaiety’ you will come back—even me to see her again’ .. . . ‘Good-bye if only out of curiosity—and spend and good riddance,’ that’s what you a couple of days with Miss Star ling.” She made a little grimace. “She might not want me.” “I am sure she will. Miss Star ling has a great affection for you, though you may not believe it.” “That’s a change,” Diana said sarcastically, “for someone to have a great affection for me.” They were at the cottage gate now. She led the way into the cottage. Jenny met them in the narrow hall. ‘1 here’s a telegram for you. miss, on the table in the parlour.” “Thank you.” Diana threw her hat down onto a •chaii and went into the sitting aoom. The yellow envelope lay on the poll >hed table, and she took it up, tearing open the flap with nerv ous lingers.” “Both sailing Aquitania tenth. Love. Dennis.” Rathbone had followed her into the room and saw the cable in her hand. really mean. It’s always what her. “You’ll break your neck,” she gasped once, and Diana laughed recklessly. “That would save a lot of trouble.” she said flippantly. Then a second cable came from happens to me when I really like Dennis Waterman to say that his anybody—they always go away and I departure from America had been leave me. I suppose it will be the unavoidably postponed for another same all my life. I was a fool to think you were any different from the rest. When you went to Paris you promised to come and' see me directly you got back .... You never came—you never would have fortnight. “Linda, of course,” Diana told herself, but shs did not care much; nothing seemed of great moment just then. iviiss Starling was going up to ed. "Not bad news, I hope?” he ask- When everybody says that I have a woman living in my house—is that what you want to say?” I hadn’t met you in Diana laughed a little uncertain ly. come if I hadn’t met you in the "No, very good news,” she said., j wooaj this morning .... I don’t “That’s splendid.”' know why you’ve come how. I Diana folded the message across stayed out purposely because I London that evening to a lecture on something or other. She had told Diana all about it, but the girl had only listened half-heartedly, and across, keeping it in her hand, thought you shouldn’t have to see wondering why people should The Creature came out of the rouse. “I’ll drive you to the station,” Jiana said quickly. It would be something to do—something tc aelp pass the time. “Don’t drive too quickly, then,” Miss Starling said nervously. She sat with one hand tightly holding the door handle during the ihort drive, and Diana was highly amused. Diana stood on the little country platform till the train went puffing slowly Londonwards, then she turn ed dispiritedly away. The evening lay before her, long and lonely. And the thought came to her: “If Donald were only here.” Funny she should think of Rath bone by his Christian name: she could not remember that she had ever done so before. Well, he had more than once called her Diana. “If Donald were here . . .” Why not? . . . She felt her pulses jerking with strange excitement. Why not drive over and see him? Diana caught up a woollen jersey from the coat rack and slipped it over her silk frock before she stole softly cut and through the garden. The big gates of Rathbone’s grounds were shut, and she had to stop and get out in order to open one of them. Diana went up to the big front door. It was open, and oeyond she caught an attractive glimpse of a wide hall and some bits of old furniture and shining brass. So this was where Rathbone liv ed. Diana stepped onto the inside mat and knocked with her xnuckles on the door panel. Was everybody dead or asleep? She knocked again and *vas con scious cf a light movement in the dimly lit hall. Somebody at last! She took an other step forward ready to speak, and at the same moment Nero, the big Alsatian, came running down the stairs, and then, after the barest hesitation, he moved slowly towards her, walking on tiptoe. Diana spoke his name at once, confident that he would recognize her. “Nero—good old boy ...” and she took another step towards him. She saw him hesitate; saw his gleaming eyes through the dim light, and then suddenly and ut terly without warning he sprang. Like a panther he was upon her, his solid weight bearing her to the ground before she could cry out or leap aside. “Nero!” She could feel his hot breath on her face, and she put up both arms wildly in a vain effort to shield herself before she felt the agony of his great teeth tearing into her soft flesh. For a moment it was just a lurid nightmare of pain and pandem onium: the savage snarling of the dog, her own frantic and unavailing efforts to beat him off, and his hot heavy body crushing her down, before her fear and agony rose above it all in a wild scream of blind terror, calling frantically on Rathbone’s name: “Donald . . . . Donald!” (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.) X Lambs Return Profit Bicentennial Flower Gardens trouble to waste a railway fare on anything so dull. She had offered to drive the “No, thank you; besides, I shall have to come back by train.” So it meant an evening alone. Diana leaned on the gate and decided that after all she hated the country. It would be fun to get into an evening frock cncc more and dance at the Savoy or Giro’s; Six hundred range Rambouiliet ’ambs fattened at the Belle Fourche Field Station, of the United States Department of Agriculture, at Ne well, S. Dak., and recently sold on the Sioux City, Iowa, market, re turned an average of $10 a ton for the alfalfa hay and from 70 to 83 cents a hundred pounds for the grain they consumed. The lambs cesi $4 a hundred delivered at the station and cold at $6.35 at Sioux City, which was top price for fat lambs for the day. When slaughtered these lambs dressed from 49.4 to 51 per cent. A careful grading of their carcasses Tomorrow was the tenth: in a me against your will. You don’t week’s time Dennis would be home, think I want to see you if you don’t The cablegram slipped from her want to see mo, do you?” fingers to. the floor, and Rathbone Neither of them was aware that! Creature up to town in the car but stooped and recovered it. ! the moment was not, without its | her refusal had been quick and de- - “I suppose he is on his way lumorous side. He looked so much cided. home,” he said quietly. . alder than she, and their relation- She looked up, a hard light in her ship had been almost one of for- eyes. mality, she a sick child, not know- “Yes, on the Aquitania.” ing what she wanted of life—per- "And so it udll really be good- haps wanting nothing—and he a bye?” 1 world-weary man w T ho had merely The colour rose quickly in her done his duty by healing her face and died down again. , ugamst her wish or desire. “I don’t know . . . there’s nothing Diana went on, her voice raised [ fun to drive home in the early settled . . . anyway, I don’t see why a little: ! hours cf the morning through you should be interested.” ! “Well, why don’t you go? I don’t brilliantly lit and almost deserted “I am interesfed because I like want you to stay. As you say, you well enough to want you to be you've done everything I can pos- happy,” Rathbone answered, “And sibly wish you to do for me—you’ve because there is such a conviction done what your job is—more than in my mind that you are making you are paid to do, I suppose.” , was it his idea of happiness always a terrible mistake.” He let the childish insult pass, to keep her down in the country The colour rose again swiftly to and she broke off for an instant, and walk hand in hand with her gia e the very roots of her hair. biting her lip hard to hide its through lanes and woods? “Well, you should know,” she trembling, only to rush on again: Diana had not seen either of ^ „ T said defiantly. “Why didn’t you let me die? I them for more than a week and olTCCt 1 ciX J)ll( Rathbone was silent for a mom- didn’t want to get well . . . I’m no she suspected that they were delib- ent; then he said in rather an ex- good to anyone—there’s no place I erately keeping to the other side pressionless voice: in the world where I seem to be • “Two blacks do not make a white, j really wanted.” Diana.” And then, as if suddenly realiz- “I know that, but all the same— ing how far she had lost her self- it’s rather—cheap, isn’t it?—to control, she hid her face in her preach to me when everyone says hands. that you—that you—” Rathbone walked over to the win- She stammered and broke off, dow, standing with his back to her, end Rathbone took up the words as he said: for her. j “You seem very determined to vas only one cull and nine com- jmon carcasses, 38 per cent of the . , T , , .. revealed that in the entire 690 there streets: London was a wonder city ^ I at night. Did Rathbone ever take Rosalie ^ . , group grading good to choice and 60 per cent medium to good, most of the latter missing the higher only because of excess weight. Something-or-other to London? Or First Of Mav of the village. Street tax will be due first of She sighed and made a little May. All males between the ages grimace. j 0 f 18 and 55, except those exemnt Well let them . . . Rathbone must ! by law, must pay 32.50 street tax be rlissing her just a little seeing in the month of May. A penalty thac she missed him so terribly . . .jof 50 cents will be placed on all ' Be happy.” That was the last thing he had said to her and since then she had been more miserable than ever in her life before. delinquents first of June. Pay Chief Crawford or the undersigned. J. O. PATTERSON, ' Clerk. While it has always been neces sary to make certain gardens use- :ul, it is possible to allow the space and time for gardens which con tribute chiefly beauty in this land of great open spaces and un-crowd- ed areas. Fragrance has always been a deciding factor in the choice of flowers for home gardens. The sternest and most austere have .softened before the incense poured from the heart of rose or carna tion. Indeed it is often wondered that flower fragrance had not oow- er equal with the power of sweet sounds to soothe the savage breast. Surely it is to flowers very like the voice to man wherefore, mayhap it is the garden choral. It is in the charm of the old garden, as well as its form and plants, which we are seeking to re call when we make a new one like it; and this charm lies in the an cient estimate of homely, simple things at their true high worth. Old fashioned gardening is not summed up in the planting of a flower garden wherein the walks and beds conform to the lines laid down in some old design. Many garden:', according to the Division of Information of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission, will sug gest the Colonial influence by planting flowers included in the following Tst: Anemone coronaria; anemone; many colors and mistures of red, blue, and white. Anemone hort- ensis; Spanish and marigold; red, rosepurple, whitish. Anemone fulgens; Scarlet and John, Robin Hood; vivid scarlet, black stam ens. Anthemis cotula; dog fen nel, mayweed, white. Anthemis nobilis; double chamoile; white. Anthemis tinctoria; yellow star- wort; yellow, brown center. An- thericum Liliago; St. Bernard’s lily. Savoy spiderwort; white. Centaurea cy annus; Cyanus, cornflower, bachelor’s buttons; blue, purple, blush, red, white or mixed. Centaurea moschata; Sul tan’s flower, sweet Sultan; white, blush to purple, yellow. Cen taurea nigra; great cyanus, Span ish sea knapweed; blue-purple. Centaurea splcndens; Spanish cornflower; pale purple, blush. Cheiranthus Cheiri; wall flower or winter gilllflower; varieties that are “great single, deep gold, great double, red, pale yellow.” Chenop- odium botrys; oak of Jerusalem or feather geranium; for foliage. Dianthus plumarius; Scotch, grass, garden or pheasant’s-eye pink; white, light red, purple— “mostly single, some feathered.” Dictamnus albus; fraxinella or bas tard dittany; white. Dictamnus albus; rubra; rosy purple. Digi talis ambigua; foxglove; “great yellow.” Digitalis lanata; “yellow ish dun.” Digitalis purpyrea; white, purple. Fritillaria Maleagris; greenish, white, purplish, yellowish. Fritill aria Pyrenaica; “dark sullen blackish green.” Fritillaria Vert- icillata; white, not checkered. Gladiolus Byzantinus; purple. Gladiolus cardinalis; red or scarlet. Hemerocallis flava; day lily; yel low. Hepatica triloba; Uverleaf; pale purple. Hepatica angulosa; white, blue. reel. Hesperis matron- alis: rockets, double queen’s gilli- flower. dame’s rocket, damask vio let; white to lilac, pink and purple; single and double. Hyacinthus; hyacinths. Impatiens Balsamina: “female balsam apple;” three shades of pur ple; single or very little doubled. Lilium pomponium, Pyrenaicum; yellow. Lilium pomponium, aure- um; yellow. Lilium pomponium; red, spotted. Lilium monadel- phum; yellow, tinged at base and tip with purple. Lilium bulbifer- um; dark reddish orange, spotted. Lilium croceum; bright orange; common. Polianthes tuberosa; tuberose; white. Primula auri cula; bear’s ears; white, buff yel low, scarlet red. Primula vulgaris; primrose; pale yellow. Scilla Ital- ica; Italian squill; pale blue. NEW Miss Orrine Z. Conrad of Calhoun County, Iowa, wrote a story of her seven years in 4-H club work. It won her an agricultural college scholarship worth $500! “I had started when seven years old baking simple things like cust ards and graham gems, but never experienced any joy like that when I baked my first whole wheat bread,” she relates. She had fol lowed the club rules learned at the 4-H meetings, she pointed out. “The charm of competition caus ed me to mix bread in the evenings after a day’s school teaching and rise early the next morning to bake the bread before leaving for school,” she continues. It was all to win a sack of whole wheat flour and the honor of being the first to complete five bakings of whole wheat cereal yeast bread in her ciub. Orrine baked in 1931 a total of 2,130 articles, saving $26.79. She also planned and prepared 254 meals for 1,270 people. In 1930 this ambitious, happy girl canned .117 pints of food at a saving of $25. Heme furnishing, in the i.wo 3' , ears before, was the crest of she wave in her club experience, she states. She made two things which she prizes very highly. One is a make-shift dresser for her aunts. The other is a reading center con sisting of a bookcase made from walnut table boards out of the first table her grandmother owned af ter coming to this country from Scotland, and an end table and small what-not out of large what not given her grandmother as a wedding present from her father. All of this made a unit which she. says money could not buy. In these tv/o years she made 67 art icles at a saving of $188. “Orrine’s influence as a club member spread into all parts of the county in various ways,” says County Agent William Darbyshire. “She organized new clubs, substi tuted. for leaders who could not function and talked at an annual farmers ana merchants banquet. After her trip to Washington as a delegate to the national camp she visited and spoke in nearly every township in the county.” zxt Improving Farm Homes Discussed Over Radio Eyes examin ed. Spectacles, Eye Glasses, and Artificial iGyes fitted withoui Drugs, Drops or Danger. DIt. HENRY J. GODIN Optometrist! 95f> Broad Street Augusta. G» Mother antelopes in the rattle snake country are said fearlessly to cut reptiles in two with their sharp hoofs, when the lives of their young are endangered. CLEMSON COLLEGE, April 30.— The greatest wealth of South Caro lina lies in her soil, and economic and social progress of our rural life will be reflected in the im provement in farm homes, said J. T. McAlister, extension agricultural engineer, in. a radio ualk presented over WIS, Columbia, Tuesday morn ing, April 25. as a feature in the observance cf Better Homes Week. Pointing cut that farm buildings and equipment in the state are not in attractive or v/ell-cared-for con dition. Air. McAlister gave as two explanations the lack of sufficient income and tenancy, but stressed the fact that substantial improve ment is taking place in our farm homes, an important factor being the work cf heme demonstration forces and other agencies. Often the improvement may not show in the farm dwelling but is to be found in interior facilities and practices. With easily obtained and free or inexpensive aids from many sources, those who wish to build a new’ home or improve an old one may do so more easily and at lower cost now than heretofore, Mr. Mc Alister stated, the matter of details being a personal matter to be set tled to the satisfaction of those who call it home. The major con siderations are, of course, appear ance, convenience, permanence of construction, and cost. Appear ance, not always given sufficient consideration, does have real value. Convenience of location likewise has real value, and convenience of interior arrangement has great im portance especially to the house wife in her efforts to make a house a home. So. too, permanence of construction, with which cost is closely related, is a prime consid eration, the chief factors being building material used and paint ing for preservation as well as for appearance.