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THE CAT (Continued from page 1) Presently she opened the door again and motioned to me to fol low her. We climbed a pair of steps, then turned left and climb ed some more steps. ,A.s I followed the landlady I thought of home, of the many warnings against gettting mixed up with “bad women’’. I was re assured, however, to some extent by the fact that she was old enough to be my mother. On the second Hjor she softly opened the door to a room and nodded to me to enter. After she had closed the door 1 heard her footseps going back down the steps and I felt better. By the time I had removed my clothes my eyes had become ac- customed to the dark I could make out objects in the room. Along side my own bed was another and the lump in the middle of it told me I was not alone. I quietly slip ped into bed and was about to doze off when a voice from the other bed demanded: “Who are you?” I told her in a very nervous voice who I was. “Well, quit making so damn much racket and go to sleep.” I did. I was much ashamed next morn ing for sleeping in this house and got up early and tried to slip out unseen. The landlady was already up, sweeping off the front porch. “Where you going, son,” she ask ed. I told her I was going to try to find some work- “Where you gonna eat?” At that I sat down on the steps and said nothing. The landlady continued to sweep. Finished she knocked her broom out on the edge of the porch, sat it in a comer and told me to come on in the house. I again followed her down the hall, this time to a door opening upon the kitchen. A negro woman was preparing breakfast and the aroma of good food almost caused me to faint. I found my way to a chair at a small table, however, and the landlady took up a plate and began to fill it at the stove. As I began to eat the landlady be gan to talk. She told me the com plete story of her life. It has been said that a woman never forgets her sex; that she must always have social communion with a male. I suppose that is the reason she talk^ ed to me, runt of a male tho’ r was. She said that she was born at Sampit, a whistle stop on the Georgetown and Western railway, oetween Lanes and Georgetown. She had not been “betrayed” she said, but entered a life of “sin” openly and boldly because she wanted things that her tenant- farmer father couldn’t give her. She had no regrets, tho’ she admitted that advancing age was bringing a loneliness that was disquieting. I could not help but offer the landlady my hand as I took leave of her at the steps and into this hand as I attempted to withdraw it she pressed a dollar bill. I guess this old girl has long ago gone to hell, -for that is where "sinful” women go, as I under stand it from the preachers. But 1 hope not, and I get certain consola tion that all may be well with her from a little verse by the great preacher, Martin Luther: “Who does not love wine, women and song, Remains a fool his whole life long.” Yes, Martin said that, my Luth eran friends to the contrary. And he didn’t say woman—he said wo men. Mr. Mrs. LeRoy Anderson and son, Eddie, have returned from a week’s visit to- Mr. and Mrs. Mar tin Gaudian in Washington, D. C. They also spent several days in New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Mighton recently moved from New York to Charles ton, where Mr. Mighton is manager of the Socony Vacum Oil Co. WANTED—Scrap iron, brass, cop per, lead, zinc, aluminum, pewter, old batteries, radiators, all kinds of rags, old waste cotton, mattress cot ton. Also old feather beds and pil lows filled with goose or duck fea thers. We also have a nice line of groceries. W. H. Sterling, Vincent street. 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Aquella is for interiors; Aquella No l for exteriors. Place YOUR ORDER NOW. - Phone 400 - UlEIIS THURSDAY SING YOUR WAY HOME Jack Haley, Marcy McGuire Added: FLICKER FLASHBACKS FRIDAY and SATURDAY CHARLES STARRETT in 'Oullaws of the Rockies" Added: DAUGHTER OF DON Q and VERA VAGUE Comedy ’MONDAY and TUESDAY The Picture Will Panic You! THREE'S A FAMILY Marjorie Reynolds and Charlie Ruggles Added—PATHE NEWS WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY ADVENTURES OF RUSTY Ted Donaldson & Margaret Lindsay Added: SELECTED SHORTS Admission 9c-30c every day Opera House SATURDAY —On The Stage— THE TENNESSEE RAMBLERS Added: "The Crime of the Century" Added HOP HARRIGAN - Comedy Show opens at 1:00 o’clock Stage Shows at 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 P. M. 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Misses Mary Johnston, Eulalia Buford and Mary Nancy Robertson, of Columbia, spent the past week end at Myrtle Beach. Card of Thanks I wish to take this means of thanking the voters of District 3 for your splendid support in electing me to the office of Magistrate of this district. I assure you 1 will do my best to serve you efficiently. Claude Wilson. Madam Jeanette MYSTIC MAGIC. READER AND ADVISOR COLORED AND WHITE Your life unfolded before you reyes. The vow of silence is broken. Overcome enemies and ob stacles. Are you crossed? Come, learn the sev en keys to power from the Seventh Daughter. She tells you how to gain the love of the op posite sex, obtain property, settle lovers quar rels, restores health or help get the job you want. Regain your youth and vigor. Come now! It would be a shame if these things could all be'yours and you fail to grasp them. Does what others claim to do. Reads your entire life without asking you a single question—as you have and will live it! 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