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"Tell BillGdodbye * written for and released by SifJHane wizard ('Ml CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION __ _ SKNUPSiS THE CHARACTERS: FABIENNE SEYMOUR, rich young and beautiful. NICKY BARTLETT, wealthy and in love with Fabienne. ELLEN CHAPMAN, young and cap able mistress of Willoughby house. YESTERDAY: Babienne meets Dr Bill Mallory at the settlement house, finds he annoys her. CHAPTER EIGHT THE ORTHOPEDIC clinic was open only on Fridays. That meant that Fabienne had a whole week, with a long week-end in between, to wait to see Dr. Mal lory again. It was a week that she could have lifted out of her life and put in a frame. For the first time in her life she experienced anticipation. It was something that stole over her sweetly at unexpected moments and possessed her utterly. In those mo ments all her senses were quickened. It was a physical thing that made her aware of the breath in her body, the acceleration of her pulse, the beating of her heart. It was something that laid a touch on her making her cheeks glow and her eyes soften It was something that made her look long and critically into her mirror in an effort to see hersc-if as he might have seen her. "Arrogant! ! Completely impossi ble. ’ she said distastefully to the imnc red reflection. it had never happened to her be- j loiv. This wanting just to look at a man again, to hear his voice, to have hint touch her. In her twenty-four years she had nn-t many men whom she had found attractive, but none like this man w io could make her heart beat faster just by thinking of him. She Had met nanusome men. heroes, princes, earls and million aires, and claimed them for her own. She was admittedly the most popular girl in whatever crowd she moved. She had only to lift the telephone — or her eyes — to the man who attracted her and the con quest was hers. And once they were conquests, she was done with them. She was hored. But this man would be no ease conquest. She qualified the word with “easy.’’ This man, she thought, would not line her because lie would not let her be his world. He had a world of bis own and she wanted to know what it was — that east world of medicine — and look into it with h t„ She didn't say that to herself at the beginning of that week of waiting. No, she told herself that she was piqued because he was the only man she had ever met who had treated her as he did. Hut the week went on. She went to the movies one night with Ken Hemingway. They saw a picture in which the hero was a physician. Sitting there in the darkened theater with Ken, Fa bienne saw, not the cinema actor, but Dr. Maliory. Her finger tips tingled and when they came out of tiie theater she called herself an idiot for going romantic on herself. if she was going romantic, she was going it headlong, for she soon gave herself up to thinking about b'm when she was with others and wanting to be alone to thing of him. On the borderland of sleep she tried to recall his face and found that it was buried. She had only a SENSE of it. Once she caught herself on the verge of asking Miss Huxley about bun. Where did he practice? Was be successful? With what hospital was he affiliated? But she dared not give herself away. She had no interest that whole week outside of Willoughby house. She would cheerfully have stayed there for sixteen hours a day. He might come in at any moment and she not be there to see him! It was sheer idiocy. It was mad ness. It was terrible. It was wonder ful. She frowned upon her expensive drawing room in the hotel, envis ioning him there in one of her chairs. She filled the room with flowers daily and debated getting some of Gertrude’s things from the apartment rented to the Derwents. She bought a hostess gown the blue pf the sky, with a flash of silver like the swoop of the gull’s wing Slashing the length of its floating Bkirt. She put it on and inspected it as if it were a wedding gowfi ffilien she put it away to wait. And she had conversations with herself, imagining herself talking to him, asking him about his work, .telling him the truth about herself. For with all this she was learning eomething about herself and why Bhe had gone to Willoughby house. “All right, Miss Seymour," she said to herself, "Granted that your motive was almost a spite motive going there to work. Deeper than that there might have been some thing more gold than brass. It was selfish, yes, but who am I to ques tion my sub-conscious self?” At that point in her monologue, Sue Achi'icioss rang up to ask her to play bridge. Fabienne was glad to accept. It was only Wednesday and she had 'two more days to wait. She had never waited for anything in her life before. She’d always been able to fill in the rare lulls. ("Hello, Ned? . . . This is Fabienne Sey mour .. . How sweet' of you to remember me! I rang up to see if you'd come and have a cocktail with me and some other people to morrow? .... Good!!") And waiting Was all she could do. Thursday, she said casually, “Is It Dr. Hopkins, or Dr. Mallory whe takes the. afternoon clinic tomor roivZ" "Dr. Hopkins*." Fabienne’s heart sank. Then she remembered that she was going to call an extra rehearsal for the chil dren’s play. She called it for six thirty. She'd be there when h< came. She woke at seven in the morn ing. She had over an hour to dress But she had never had anything to dress for as she had that day. She tried on the black crepe Gertrude had sent her from Paris a week be fore. Too ornate. She took it oft and put on a pale blue woolen Skirt too short. She dropped it on the floor for the inaid to pick up. Her black velvet called for pearls and pearls in a settlement house i were like tulle at a bridge party. She decided on a scarlet Shetland suite with a finely pleated batiste blouse. “Good morning. Lovely day isn’t it?” she caroled to the doorman who told her her car was parked on Fifty-eighth street. A policeman stopped her for go ing through a red light and hadn’t the heart to scold her when she smiled so brightly at him. Oh, it was wonderful to be going to Willoughby house. Good old Elihu Willoughby! She parked the car with a flour ish and went in to fill the day with work that would pass the hours until night. The evening clinic opened at seven. It was November and darkness fell early. Fabier.ne got up to draw the curtains at five o’clock, and her hand on the fabric was arrested and shook a trifle when the voice she had been waiting an intermin able time to near spoke from the door: "Heilo,” he said. “Hello,'’ she said. That was all for a moment. Then: “Aren’t you early?” “Got a date,” he said. He wore a trench c at over his tweeds and the bulk of him was tremendous. ■ ■ -. — "Been keeping up the good work all week?” She nodded. "And thinking up all the right answers,” she said. "Some time when you have tjme—” she started to say. Then suddenly Ellen Chapman, dressed in her inexpensive fur coat and a dowdy little hat, was at the door, walking into the room .tuck ing her arm in Dr. Mallory’s. And Elien was saying, "So you and Bill have met?” BILL, was Ellen’s Bill! Fabienne’s lips felt stiff. She said, "Yes, I’ve met Dr. Maliory. Ellen wasn't hardly listening. She was saying, "Do you want to dine at Luigi's, Bill? Or shall I get supper at my place? We’ve an hour and a half.” "Your p’ace, of course. Good night, Miss Seymour.” (To Be Continued) Shipments Of Planes, Oil Boost U. S. Exports WASHINGTON, Jan. 1-3.— tJ*”) — Large shipments of airplanes, petro leum and metals to England and France helped boost Unite! States exports in December to SSoa.OtO 000 —toe largest sum for any month in nearly ten years. The Commerce department said the total was $71,000,000 more than for November and about $92,000,000 above December, 1938 Airplane exports to the Allies alone amounted to $29,090,(00 ac counting for most of the increase in Anglo-French purchases from $44,176,000 in November to $85,780, 000 in December. WILL SIGN LEASE NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—(JPi—Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker, president of Eastern Air Lines, announced to day that the company would sign a 10-year lease for hangar space and other facilities at LaGuardia field “before the end cf the week.” ■- ■ ■ THIS CURIOUS WORLD BF^™7 ARCTIC ISLANDS AND BACK RIVER PRESERVE, A SAME AND F=t_»R PRESERVE OF CANADA, HAS AM AREA OF A\ORE THAN *439,000 SQ.MILES. COPR. 1M0 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. semaphore TELEGRAPH, BY MEANS OF WHICH MESSAGES WERE SENT IN /<3<SA>AV<S' FROM ONE HILLTOP TO ANOTHER. ('B7H A/VO /SW OBV7Zy/CV') I'It _ANSWER: One who kills a king. DAILY CR05SW0RD PUZZLE 1. Cheat 5. Vestiges 10. Soon 11. Purpose 12. A fat 13. Ascended 14. 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I I AM THE I DISTRICT fl ATTORNEY B OF THIS I CITY- M I ME IN CUSTODY—THIS tSAN OUTRAGE- l DEMAND MY RIGHTS - YOU’LL PAY FOR THIS. OACK BLACK r YOU? I MIGHT 1 I HAVE KNOWN YOU . I I WERE BEHIND THIS! I I WELL, YOU CANT T I GET AWAY WITH YOUR GANGSTER METHODS / jV^_W1TH ME—I’LL—I YOU'LL SUTTON YOUR UP AND LISTEN-YOU PLAN TO GET JOHN TECUM a Kr-BUT YOU'LL HEAR WHAT rVE GOT TO SAY FIRST GANGSTER? ME? MAYBE ONCE- FOR FIFTEEN YEARS IT WAS SMART. FASHIONABLE 1H1 TO BE KNOWN AS A GANG CHIEF- H NOW IT IS ALL REFORM M STUFF EH? GOOD "SO I, NICK#^® GATT. BEGIN BY REFORMING I 71 YOU. JUDGE HARPE— J\ EH? I te--#Sv-nsl9 WASH TUBBS A Queer Accident By Koy Crane I IAB. WINDLASS,THE OTHER HOTEL SENT WORD THAT VOLIR WIFE HAD ARRIVED \ WELL, FOR GOSrt^ SAK.ES! WHAT'S ) SHE DOING IN ' TOWN? VOU'LL PLEASE EXCUSE / , ME, CAPTAIN / ^EASV y' HW! I WONDER IF HE IS A 6E0L06IST AND ON THE LEVEL? 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Jl jr « AHEAD, FELLAS. | I'VE LIVED N BOVS' f BOARDIN' SCHOOL' | vou cant weev j * i THE GUMPS Score One For Mama / INE &££N LiviNt, in A \ / FtXsUS PARADlSE-IMAfc»INE \ ( SUCH THING'S fciOINfciON RltrHT, =\ UNDER hNY NOSE — _/ \ AND I DIDN'T EVEN f M^susfect'! y / WE, WITH MV SOCIAUN BACKCaROOND, forcedto\ MINCsLE with COMMON ) THlEvES/tfHERE'S No / I TELLINCj WHAT THAT ( I'\ UTTlE BLONDE CROOK/ ft, WILL BE DP TO NEXT-7 A IT's Time i Took A J |\mand in this/ 'this is a\ SURPRISE.' OoME IN,MRS fleecer -its So Nice TO VSEE YOU-^> /^M^OTHER&\ To &ANDT pleasantries! I VMRERE i \ t<5> SHE? / SOUSEtN T££^NOT mtv reoME LY-VOU .'6EL.EN/E, e/_/ -r-> /shoplifter! \ \ WHAT DO VTOO meamT j BRICK BRADFORD—And the Metal Monster By William Ritt and Clarence Gray THE ROOF OF THE METROPOLA TRUST, WHERE BLUE HAS DEMANDED #10,000,000 PROTECTION MONEY BE PLACED, FAIRLY SEETHES WITH POLICE I AND ! GUNS % > M IF THIS "METAL MONSTER" WHO HAS THREATENED THIS CITY COMES HERE TONIGHT, g YOUR HONOR MAY REST J ASSURED HE WILL BE DESTROYED.' p IF HE COMES BY AIR THOSE SEARCHLIGHTS AND GUNS WILL SURELY GET HIM AT THAT VERY INSTANT AVUBlUES ^ p | REACHES THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CHY' > g SWERVES TO AVOID PASSING OVER.- j