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Social and fieMonal Edited by Billie Saunders Smith t. Presidents A meeting of the presidents cf Womans Clubs of the 16th. district wili be held in Hertford next Fri day. The meeting is called for 11 o'clock, with luncheon at 1. Mrs. J. C. Brett of Ahoskie. who! is district president, has had to resign on account cf illness. Mrs. I W. W. Stcinmates of this city has, b< en appointed to fiil her unexpir ed term, and will preside at the meeting. Mrs. R. T. Johnson, pres ident of the Hertford Womans j club, will be official hostess. Mrs. M. P. Hite of this city will attend as distil reporter. Mrs. J. C. Blancttd? of Hertford is district moving chairman. Miss Mar.iorie ! Fearing, president of the local jun- ' ior womans club will also attend, as will several other members of J the local womans club. The purpose of the meeting is | to prepare for the district meet- j ing to be held at Gatcsvillc on October 17th. The following clubs v. ill be rep- I resented at the luncheon: Alioskie. | Camden. Chowan. Dare. Elizabeth j City. Gatesville. Hertford. Moyock. Murfrcesboro. and Winton. with two junior clubs, th" Elizabeth City club and the Alioskie club. I Visitins Parents Ernest Vicent Bell, of Prince j Edward Island. Canada, is visiting his parents on Euclid Avenue, ex tended for the first time since their resident in this city. Prince j Edward Island, by the way. is a long way from Elizabeth City? about 1.700 miles in fact. Holidays Wit hMother Miss Mary Leigh Sheep, who is working in Morehead City, arriv ed Saturday to spend the Labor Day holidays with her mother. Mrs. M. Leigh Sheep on West I Main Street. Visiting Parents Miss Augusta Walker, who works in the Dean's office at Duke University in Durham, is spend-! ing a few days with her parents. Dr. and Mrs. H. D. Walker on' West Main Street. At Virginia Beach Captain and Mrs. C. H. Wrotan of West Main street left Saturday : to spe nd the Labor day holidays ; at Virginia Beach. In Washington Mr. and Mrs. Worth Gregory, i Mr. and Mrs. Dal Williams and [ Mas. ?yde Garrett left Saturday by OLtt ir for Washington. D. C. Incy expect to return Tuesday. Mr. aad Mrs. Gregory and Mrs. Garrok will stay at the Hotel Pla za ana Mr. and Mrs. Williams will I visit relatives. Returns Home Miss Mayo Armstrong returned to her home on Cypress street Sat urday I rem Morehead City where she has been spending the past three weeks as the guest of Miss Clara Spence. Visits Relatives Mrs. Mamie Duke of the Duke Inn. spent the week-end in La Orange with relatives. CAROLINA TODAY ? TUESDAY % uk i * 'V.- J"f,i ? ? ?>. * ' 1- ^ *?: J : ?;. . ,"5! Vr :,f v-TiVjA'' ;i? ?:- > I" f-' ? ^ i % Rossni Mo":i::Gc: .ir.v mace* L ; a 5 > i.- ai prr/; --n:; r"; < rv- ri' :?*? ^ M'tSSKHtf.'# r? ?jlro? ^ IVIirch cf Time ? Act ; ? ???> kmbi?:2.r:^. j ALKRAMA LAST SHOWING TODAY *"*? w fcAll Vf ^? With MICHAEL W HA LE X JEAN IttCIU ?also? "Phantom Rider" No. 2 ? Act TUESDAY- WEDNESDAY With LYLE TALBOT KARY ASTOR Also COMEDY ACT frAIFTY U/lLLi 1 1 shepard street LAST SHOWING TODAY DICK POWELL in "COLLEEN" ALo COMEDY At Kitty Hawk Mr. and Mrs. Winfield R. Smith of Baltimore arrived Saturday to spend several days at Kitty Hawk beach as the guests of Mrs. - Smith's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Light, at their cottage. The Lighthouse. Visit Miss Bailey Sergeant and Mrs. Douglas Symington and Corporal S. L.? Showers of Langley Field, spent the week-end here as the guests j of Miss Mary Louise Bailey onj Riverside Drive. Week-End With Mother Miss Dorothy Scott of Norfolk spent the week-end here with her moth.or. Mrs. Jay Scott on Selden street. j' Visiting Parents * Miss Faith Hite, who lias been j working in Washington Willi the treasury department, has arrived to spend two weeks with her par ents. Captain and Mrs. M. P. Hite on Harney street. Leaves For Tarboro Miss Marie James of Weeksville, left yesterday for Tarboro where she will teach in the public schools this year. In Norfolk Miss Jane Sawyer and Jay Scott spent Saturday in Norfolk. Returns Home Mrs. O. McMullan has returned heme after spending several days at Nags Head as the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Buxton White. Leaves To Teach Miss Mary Heath Lewis of Penn sylvania avenue has left to resume her duties as teacher in the high school at Stokes. N. C. Visits Relatives Clarence D. Powell, district su pervisor of the local NYA. spent the week-end with relatives in Clinton. In Washington Bill Culpepper of West Main street is spending a few days with friends in Washington, D. C. Returns Home Calvin Twiddy returned today from Cape Charles where he spent the week-end. Mr. Twiddy was accompanied home by his wife who has been visiting relatives there for the past two weeks. I Hertford News ( Thursday evening, J. C. Blanch-1 ard and Company Department I Store was at home to its patrons, featuring the leading fall styles in coats, dresses, and millinery, madelled by several attractive young ladies and children of Hert ford. The men's display was al so splendid although no models | were used. After the fashion show, punch and wafers were served by Misses Bernice White ; and Edna Ruth Cannon. Those serving as models were: Misses Mary Helene Newby, Mary Towe, | Jean White, Marjorie Buck, Pat Edwards, Helen Mae White, Bar bara Anne Winslow, Betty Jean Winslow, Mesdames Joseph Towe, Jr.. Sydney Broughton, and Little | Randolph Winslow. Personals Mrs. Joe Towe, Sr., left Friday for a Norfolk Hospital, where she i wil undergo treatment. Miss Mattie Catling White of Raleigh will spend Sunday with ! her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. A. I White. Miss F-ances Fowler will leave Monday for her school work in Marion. Mrs. Reginald Tucker and son, returned yesterday from a visit with relatives on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Miss Belle Fagan of Norfolk is the house guest of Mrs. R. W. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. William Perry of Norfolk are the weed-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Perry. Mrs. Dick Potter and son of Florence. S. C., have returned af ter a visit to her parents. Miss Harriet Frances Madre of Richmond is the week-end guest of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Madre. Mr. and Mrs. George Chappell of Washington, are spending some time in Hertford renewing old ac quaintances. They are stopping at Hotel Hertford. Mrs. G. I. Bullock and son. Tora mie. returned Sunday to their , home in CreeUmore. alter a visit ; to Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Knowles. William Murphey Moore left Sunday for his home in Brewster, N. Y., after a visit to his grand j mother. Mrs. Ida Gregory. Most of Hertford's stores and business firms wil close at 1 P. M. ' Monday to observe Labor Day. At The Shoe Store Head Clerk: "What's the mat ter Jodkins? Can't you help the customer?" Clerk (desperately): "No, sir, He's trying to^fihd two shoes that . squeak in tlie Edenton Personals Edenton, N. C.- Sept. 6.?Of In terest here is the marriage oi Miss Margaret Garland Stephen son. attractive daughter of Mrs. Stephenson and the late Captain Samuel X. Stephenson to Thomas Merrick Long of Norfolk, son ol Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Long of Sea board, which took place Saturday at high noon in the Memorial Methodist church. Norfolk. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Archie Acy. The church was decorated with gladiolii and light ed candles. The bride who was given in marriage by her brother Stuart X. Stephenson wore an ensemb" of brown mellow spun crepe with antelope hat and accessories to match. Her flowers were a shoul der corsage of Sweetneart roses. Following the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Long left for a wedding trip north and on their return will reside in Norfolk, Va. Mrs. M. A. Evans left Satur day for her home in Elizabeth City after being employed here at J. H. Holmes for the past two months. I H. B. Chappell is quite ill at his heme on E. King street. Miss Connie Fr.gan left Sunday for Franklington to visit friends before returning to her home in Garden City, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest White and Mr. and Mrs. Yates Jordan spent the past week-end at Nags Head. Miss Helen Willis and Miss Evelyn Webb of Farmvillc spent Saturday with Mrs. M. G. Brown on Queen street. Tom Chears returned Friday from New York, where he lias been spending a week. Mrs. Gordan Blow spent Satur day in Norfolk shopping. Mrs. A. R. Nicholson who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Loyed Burton left yesterday for her home in Norfolk. Miss Ruth Jones of Norfolk. }s the guest of Mrs. Jones on Queen street. Mrs. P. Staler of Norfolk, has returned to her home after spend ing the past week with Mrs. Sam Holmes on Oakum street. J. Frank White; Fielding Tan ner; Frank Hughes; and Roy Spry spent Saturday at Ocean View. Miss Rebecca Hollowell left yesterday for Mars Hill where she will enter Mars Hill college. Miss Clara Smith leaves today for Greensboro where she will en ter Greensboro college. Miss Margaret Hollowed; Mrs. Wallace Jones and Miss Agnes Chapped spent yesterday at Nags Head. Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Tunstall and two children Burnap and Madeline left yesterday for their home in Norfolk, after spending the week end with Mrs. Sam Holmes on Oakum street. Miss Sainte left yesterday for Mars Hill where she will enter Mars Hill college. Mrs. J. H. Ballard delightfully entertained at her home at 803 W. Church Street Saturday morn ing, honoring her neice, Miss Sy bil Harris, of Durham, who is her guest. Various games were played, after which the young guests were serv ed refreshments. Those invited to meet to Miss Harris were: Misses Carolyn Mas sie, Mary Louise Daniels, Lois, Deans, Shirley Perry, Hurilla Love, Geraldine Hughes and Mary Eliz abeth Love. So. Mills Personals Miss Maline Riddick spent the week-end at her home in Whaley ville. Miss Anabel Wood went to her home in Woodville over the week end. Mrs. Ferman C. Lewis has re turned to her home in Norfolk after spending the week with her sister, Mrs. Herbert Mullen. Miss Inez Stevens visited friends in South Norfolk over the week end. Miss Montine Ward spent the week-end at her home in Hobbs ville. Miss Aline Spivey has returned after spending the week-end in Hobbsville. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Jones and baby left Saturday for their home in Baltimore after being the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jones. City Noises "Sleep well in the country ?'K ! "First night I couldn't sleep at all. After that I hired a farmei , boy to sit in my automobile anc , blow the horn all night. Then ] got along fine."?Grit. I Queen of the Great Lakes ? aaa im* "QUEEN OF THE GREAT LAKES" will be tne title conferred on this dainty lass at the carnival of the Great Lakes to he held soon in Burnham Park, Chicago, at the site of the Century of Progress Ex postion. She is Miss Mary Dunbar 19-year-old model, Mayor Ed ward J. Kelly will bestow upon her the official crown, at the opening of the carnival. Caroline ChatfSays Yoihi<? Girl Inilicls Ilor DivorriMl Fun'iils W lio Break: Up Hit Homo ami Consign Ilor to Live With Un sympathetic Ohl l'oeple. DEAR MISS CIIATFIELD: What docs a person do when so bored with life that she would gladly die if there were somebody to kill her, or kill herself if she had the nerve? _ I live in a small town _ My parents are divorced and I stammer so badly that I run myself crazy trying to get out what I have to say. I am not ugly but my stammering is ruining my life and may parents say they cannot afford to send me to a school to be cured. We live with my grandparents and | it is not like having your own home. A shack would be better i than living in somebody's house and feeling that every bite you eat is seen by your stingy grandmother. All she ever says i my complaints is "Just wait, your time will come." But how will it come? Now Miss Chatfield, uon ; tell me I am not old enough to understand life. I have heard that old story and I am sick of it. I understand this much: this is no way to raise a girl... ALICE II. ANSWER: Dear child, you are suffering because the parents who brought you here didn't consider you when it suited their selfish pleasure to sepa rate. I will grant you there is m:g:ily little of your cloud's silver lining turned toward you, but you can come out of the gloom, if you put your mind to it. Here are some suggestions: There is a famous stammering school which works miracles with its pupils. The treatment is so simple that you can try a part of it at home, being your own teacher. Don't speak a word for ten days ox two weeks but use a pad and pencil and then when you begin to talk, speak very slowly, one woi-d at time, with pauses between. This will enable you to overcome the nervous frenzy which your stammer- | ing is causing. Maybe when your mother sees the improvement she I will have a heart and get up the money to send you away. Perhaps a shack would be better than living with your grand i parents, but there is an army of roving young people who haven't even a shack, not a place to lay their heads or food to satisfy hunger. You are better off than these. The next time your grand mother looks at you as though she begrudging you the meal, re member these hungry ones. Your time will come and you must be ready for it. Instead of sit ting by bored and longing to die, get yourself some good books and read. You will find out that everybody has it tough sometime in life, whether they be people in history or infiction. The disappointments and the hardships don't matter much because they pass. The import ant thing is what they do to your disposition and your character. Now buck up. show your selfish parents that you can take it. show them ' that in spite of the raw deal they have handed you. you can come out on top. CAROLINE CIIATFIELD Problems of general interest submitted by readers will be discussed in this column. Letters unsuitable for publication will be answered i personally provided they contain stamped, sell-addressed envelopes. All names are held in confidence. Write Miss Chatfield, in care of i this newspaper. STAR SIGNALS BY OCTAVINE For persons who believe that human destiny Is guided by the planet, the dally horoscope Is outlined by a noted astro loger. In addition to Information of personal Intorost, It outllnos Information of special Interest to persons born on tho designated dates. SEPTEMBER 8, 1936 Birthdates falling between May 21 and June 20 are most likely to be affected by today s influences. General Indications For All Morning?Very bad. Afternoon?Bad. Evening?Doubtful. This day is centered around a state of confusion. Postpone any action. Today's Birthdate You may have to make great effort to succeed. Do not specu late or leap in the dark if you wish to succeed. Grippe, colds, intestinal pois oning, as well as difficulty with partners, may be experienced dur ing Oct. 1936 through Jan. 1937, if you do not build your health up now to avoid this. Get plenty of rest and do not add to your re sponsibilities. ! Your home life should expand and pleasure and romance should come your way during Feb. 1937. Danger Oct. 19 through 26, 1936. Seek 10, 000 Zoo Backers. Toledo. (U.R)?The Toledo Zoo 1 logical Society, which supports [ the Toledo Zoo, has planned a campaign to enlist 1000 mem Creswell Personals j Entertains Friends Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Woodley en tertained their many friends at their home Friday evening. Cards and dancing were enjoyed. There were several tables of contract, auction, and setback. High score prize in contract and in auction was won by Mrs. Clyde Smithson. High score prize in setback was | won by Mrs. C. II. Adcrhalt. A ! delicious salad plate was served j after which the floor was cleared for dancing. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Smithson, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Smithson, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Starr, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Starr, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Har ris, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Backman. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Peal. Mr. and j Mrs. A. G. Walker, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. Leon ard Motlz, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bateman, Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Co hoon of Columbia, N. C., Mrs. Ce cil Gv/ain, Mrs. Sadie Green, Mrs. Nannie Armstrong, Mrs. J. H. Reynolds, Mrs. Mary Armstrong, Misses Ruth Miller, Mary K. Davenport, Grace Stiliman, Mar garet Ann Swain, Sally Carter, Virginia Phelps, Thclma Cooper, I Messrs. Josh Woodley, D. E. Wood j ley, Robert Woodley, Preston Woodley and C. H. Aderhalt. BASIL STILLMAN DEAD Creswell, Sept. 6.?Funeral ser vices for Basil Stiliman, 38, who died at the home of his mother hear Creswell Tuesday night at nine o'clock, were conducted from Oak Grove Baptist Church Tliurs day morning at ten o'clock by Dr. I G. A. Martin. Burial was in Mat- j i thew County, Va.. the burial place '. of Iris wife. He had been an in valid for eight years. He is survived by his mother, j Mrs. Eloise St.'llman; four chil dren, one by his first wife who was Ruby Tarkington, and three | by his last wife, Annie Belle Fos- i ter of Matthew County, Va. They ] arc Mrs. Nannie James of Eden ton, and Jean Walter, and Jack. He is also survived by six brothers: Edward and Gilbert Stillman of j near Crcswcl), Phillip stillman of j Petersburg, and Rev. W..':e Still man, Mercer Stillman t... Joe Stillman of Philadelphia, an-? c sister, Mrs. Gilbert Patrick of | Creswell. i The German Club of Creswell will present Newell and his Royal Campbell Orchestra here on Sept ember 8 at 9:30 P. M. This or chestra has been playing at Nags Head this summer, and has had a three month's engagement at Daytona Beach, Florida. They i played for six weeks at the Robert E. Lee hotel. The program will feature Woodley Pettman, vocal ist, and the three Campbell broth ers. Personals Mrs. May Simmons has gone out of business and moved to her farm in Tyrrell County. i Clyde Smithson has rented the store vacated by Mrs. May Sim mons and expects to make a mod ern dance hall. Mrs. Sadie Spruillfenil Mr. Mr x I ic Alexander of Washington, D.11 C., ere the guests of Mrs. Rennie jc Alexander. I < NEGRO TAKEN TO HOSPITAL j Creswell, Sept. 6.?Sheriff W. D. j ( Pea! and Mr. H. R. Stillman car- ] lied a negro woman of near Cres- | well to Goldsboro Friday to be ] admitted as an inmate to the State I-cspit'il for Negroes. Bis ma! Swamp Canal Banks To Be Cleared I ; South Mi'ls, S:pt. 7.? Work has started cn the c'carancc of the Jhiv.a! o'v-yt.p canal bank on) rob j 17. Mr. Roy Saunders of j Burgaw, a landscape gardener, arrived ten t'e.ys ago to line up the work and. onperv.se tiic work which is being done by local men. The project - :io\V"4n process will take probably two months. It em ploys approximately thirty men, v/lio work two shifts. One shift goes to work on Monday and works in til Wednesday and the other shift goes on Thursday and works until Saturday, each making a thirty hour week. The jMo.icci is to clear out all of the useless underbrush leaving the trees which will add to the beauty of the drive. It will be cleared quite r. few feet on the light side cf the George Washing ion highway and to the canal on the left side. The clearance begins at the Virginia, Carolina line and is extending to South Mills. The money for this work is ap propriated by the government to ;he state, who ftn;)!')' With the thick cleared away the < >een from the highv. do a drive of which . ients of eastern C ' proud and one whir; tourists which toui ' Florida will enjoy. SUNDAY V ! ?! A marriage lie r. yesterday by R- . J. C. Spence u> -Jo Crabtrec. 23. of I' ? ? Mae Mansfield. IS. <: The girl's par :u . ." Richard Mansfield. Crabtrec is a son of Bunn Richard Cu eigh. They were Justice of Peace I ' SELL TIL | on BUY TK! THROU(;i! DAIL1 INDEPEM) Want-Afl 1 BIB IG RT "STAB! ! ? '1 By MAIIY SCni MA? ! |i Copyrljhti by Macrao 3n'th Co. WNT P^rvio* >' (SYN0PS,S ff\;f Kezia Marsh, pretty, selfish ?ntf twen ty, arrives home in Co-irith fro-:'. s:Uvoi and is met by her older brother, He drives her to the Mat?H horre wp?r; her widowed mother, Fin van.ea, a warm hearted, self-sacrificing and urnlm si&;*-.llitg soul, welcomes lier. uczia's sister, Mar gery, plump and matronly v.-I'll the care of three children, is at i'.'.nch with them. Hugh's wife. Dorrie, has pleaded a previ ous engagement. Fluvanna Marsli wakens the next morning from a dream about her late husband, Jim, whose unstable charac ter she fears Keria has inherited. Kllen IVndleton comes over. She is an artistically 'inclined girl who is a favorite oi Hugh's. Ske happily tells Fluvanna she has become en?jped to Jerry l'urdue. Ellen fears that her father and mother, Gavin and Lizzie, will not approve the match. Hugh and Dorrie go out to the Frecland Farms to dar.oe with their friends, Cun and Joan Whitney. Whitney, who has been out of work, announces that he has a new posi tion. Cun and Dorrie dance together and then disappear for a while. Dancing with Joan. Hugh finds her in tears. Apparently she lias some secret worry over her hus band Cun. When Ellen and Jerry speak about their engagement to Ellen's parents. Lizzie is disagreeable until Jerry sympa thizes with her imagined ailments. Gavin, a banker, is cold to Jerry's proposal. While Lizzie unbends slightly, the matter is left pending. . (PgjP& CHAPTER IV Hugh was intensely annoyed as he buttered his breakfast roll. "You say you wrote to him, and then you got this letter? Why didn't you say something to me first?" "I thought I might persuade you to change," answered Dorrie. He shook his head. "It wouldn't do, darling, at all. Insurance is a business I know nothing about. It would take me a year or two to learn?and what would we live on during that time?" "John thinks you might do very well in a few months. See what he says," she tossed the letter ?over to him from John Reeper, husband of her sister Beryl. ; It was a mild communication, of fering little or nothing; if Hugh Iwanted to take up the insurance business in New York, he would put him in touch with the right par ,ties. Hugh groaned to himself that Dorrie should regard this as a busi ness opportunity! The lace on the flowing sleeve of Dorrie's negligee fell away as she lifted her arm to pour a cup of | coffee. "Your father was in the in surance business?you should have some taleft fcr it," she said idly. Hugh disregarded that. "We'd have to move away." ^ "Exactly." "You want to? Leave this little place, our place? The arbor-vitae hedge is coming along so nicely, and the peach and plum trees we Dlanted " "Sentimental as a woman" "I'd hate to leave Corinth?even if this were a real opportunity?and it isn't. The place where you were born sort of gets into your blood. You know everyone . . . and Moth er?she's here." "All the foolish objections first and the real one last!" 1 Hugh looked at her reproachfully. "And you like the steel business? I've heard considerable complaint about how hard that is!" She was using the curling tone he disliked, very soft, edged with malice. "I've spent eight years in it. My grandfather was in it; most of my relatives are. At least I know what it's about." When she did not answer he went on pleadingly. "I haven't done so badly here, Dorrie. And it hasn't been my name or connections. Those don't count with competition keen as it is. I started at the bot tom and they advanced me. I might get a good salary some day ?yes, a really good one." !?? She threw out her hands; a small, wise smile curved her lips. "At least I've asked you! But it has turned out exactly the way I ex pected it to! . . . I'll write to Beryl today." ^ At the plant that morning, he visited .the different department:;, checking with the foremen on the progress of the work. A little after ten a long distance call came in from Congress City i about same steei mesh they hid delivered for, road building. FpUer, the contractor, complained that it was not of the specified thicknc.s. and was much annoyed! Hugh promised to r.crjd a man to look at it at once. Potter was a good cus tomer; it wouldn't do to offend him. He sent for the records, talked with the foreman and decided to make the trip to Congress City him self, a drive of 50 miles. A fine day?and if he drove, why not take Dorrie? They could go over the New Portland highway, which wound along a ridge cf the hills. Fine scenery. He tried to telephone her but the line was busy. She had told him she wasn't going out today?he would have some sandwiches packed at thc club, drive up and get her. She would probably bo glad to have the outing. With his basket cf lunch which the chef at the ck;b had put up for him, and driving toward home, he felt an expanding glow:within him self at this uneroccled break in the daily order. A day with Dorrie, out under the sky and sun, would work its magic, would smooth out misunderstanding, draw them clos er in harmony. He ?a\v Tillie, the maid, moving a dust cloth over an upstairs win dow sill as he went up the walk. Dorrio was telephoning at the hall table in a low almost inaudible voice as he entered the front door. She turned at the sound of his foot steps, and the look which came over her face, startled, almost an gry, gave him a feeling of shock. She hung up the receiver quickly without saying gocd-by. "What brings you home? For get something?" she inquired light ly. A flush colored h<jr checks. "No. I came to see if you would like to go jaunting." "Where?" "Congress City. The contractor there is kicking about the road mesh we sent. Want to go?" She hesitated. "No, you go along alone. I'm not dressed and there are things I want to do." The telephone pealed sharply. Dorrie whirled abruptly for it, but Hugh had already lifted the re ceiver to his car. "Hello . . . hello . . . hello." lie nung up. i.>u one on uie nne apparently! . . . You don't want to go? What's the reason? Haven't made a date, have you? We could drive over the Portland highway? they say it is beautiful scenery." The flush on her face had faded; she looked rather pale. "It docs sound nice, retonsidering. I'll go." "I had a lunch packed and thought wc would cat along Lone some River." She smiled faintly in approval. "I'll slip into that green dress you like and be with you in a minute." In the country Dorric sang soft ly, a snatch of this, a bit of that, a rhythmical accompaniment to the purring of the engine. They chose the less frequented narrow roads which led past rich farms, gently rolling hill farms, brooks dividing the pastures where cattle grazed, ponds which reflected the blue sky and its cottony wisps of cloud. It was July when the season pauses in stillness. The sparkling, capricious spring was past; there was no hint of autumn. The new highway crested the hills. They drove higher and high er until a panorama of countryside, the sweep of field, the darkness of wood, the stubble of cut grain and shimmer of piled wheat, extended in great rolling distances to right and left of them, so far that a blue haze met the horizon. Dorrie touched his arm. "Let's stop here. Hugh. I an airplane, isn't /. The drop va Wound s'miouslv. caught t?'o gleam o? rtlvorirs o""r sone ? io<3 the 'rinse cf I I Sow which leaned c. "Lonesome River 3 1 "Se?i <h.'it fiat r -c!. strearn? We'll be e. in !? r. ndnuU ?*." T1 -cv descended 9 and came to a sc ; en very oH s> ? called Norwich. A ' of the bridge led ; tance along the i parked the car i mores, and tnkin., ? ket, started rd>"< ; trail by the wnt "Hungry ?" at-k -1 : they came to a 1 ? water. "Ravenous! V.*!' ? She knelt or er t drew out some ch wrapped in Oil \ ?? "I'm Not Checking Calls, 3Iy ih\*r." on a napkin botwc on ' fruit! Ginger-ale ? You thought of ever: you?" "It won't be very r ' "Never mind. I' v how. Have you an < Lunch over they for a few minutes, his her. "You've been nicer t than you've been for Hugh softly. "Have I, old fur.ny?" "I am glad I had to go ' gress City." He waite i. ing to have me go to Got over it?" "It's all right. If you you couldn't, I suppc swered. "Sweet here, j bad we have to leave. 1 here all afternoon." "And yet at first ; couldn't go. When I r ? brows puzzled. "By li ? were you phoning to v. in? You hur.g up wi good-by." Her body stiffened ; ever so slightly. A r tiny pain moved :u I' blow of a small hammr "None of my business . he said with an apol-> "Shouldn't have ark. 1 . cusc me." He sprar. "You would ask l!:.. "I'm not checking y calls, my dear. It v idle question . . . I < how it sounded when I She traced the rock v. ger. In a moment ;he one who is having a L few days shouldn't be t A tive." "Next month?August." "Well, even then.'" si good-humorcdly. The pain vanished. J (TO UL CONTINI I I