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CHAPTER 1 THE plume on her widebrimmed hat touched her cheek with a feathery caress. She was aware of it as her fingers curled reaching for the champagne glass. Then suddenly she closed her eyes. It was patent that she was marking the scene upon her memory forever. Forever when she would be Mrs. Richard Jessup. Candlelight flickered over the acene striking points from the glittering gold on the uniforms of the officers, accenting the bare shoulders of the women in their evening dress. As if to pace the tempo of it, violins sobbed the alow cadence of a Viennese waltz. “Juliet, I love you I I want you to be my wife, my princess!" Juliet's eyes seemed to swim open. "Rudolfo! Your king would never permit our marriage. You must forget the American girl who loves you. But I shall never forget you! I shall remember whenever Spring comes again.” Silence. A beautiful, throbbing silence —soon shattered. Not by the ring of steel against steel, not by the roll of drums but by a ten-year old voice with plenty of sturdy lung power back of it. “Hey, Julie! Cosy says you can’t have your bath until after supper because you use up all the hot water and she wants to get the dishes done early because this is Ladies Aid night and she's chairman of the fair committee and we’re having corn fritters.” The candlelight, the violins and Rudolfo disappeared. The plume that had caressed her cheek was only the end of a towel that bound her hair, protecting it from coldcream. “Corn fritters!” she muttered scornfully as she regarded the plump figure of her young sister bounding into the room and onto her bed. The bed creaked under the three-point landing. “Get up, Priscilla Allerdyce! You’re sitting on my dress that I spent a whole hour pressing!” “Good night! A vhole hour to

ptess a cotton dre; " I’ll do it over for a dime. I could use a dime. Can I?” Julie didn’t answer her. She had picked up the burnt orange organdie and was tenderly smoothing the folds of its voluminous skirt. “It is effective,” she pronounced as she held the frock up to her length and studied herself in the mirror. '“Corn fritters,” Priscilla repeatccCadding ecstatically, “With bacon curls.” Priscilla need not have a...led to her first announcement. (Already the scent of frying bacon floated up to them. There was seidfTfti any secret about what was cooking in the Allerdyce house. There were other scents mingled there. All of them were pleasant. And just as the appetizing odors of Cosy’s cocking told that she was a good cook, the other scents told you things about all of them There was tfie inviting, mustiness of books, old lather and’tobacco which sketched Rrofessor Allerdyce. There was the romantic aroma of Julie's perfumes, Julie’s corsages and Julie’s sachets. There was also a puppy smell, and earth and flower scenU which Priscilla, an ardent puppy fancier and amateur gardener, brought into the little white house at the edge of the

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campus of the Ramsey Preparatory School for Boys. Julie, donning her crepe kimono, wrinkled her nose daintily and decided she must speak to Cosy. Not that speaking to Cosy—housekeeper and nurse to the two motherless girls—would do much good. Nevertheless at supper Julie said firmly, “Cosy, hereafter when I have an engagement with Dr. Dick will you please not cook anything that smells to high heaven?” Cosy deposited her platter, stole a gratified glance at the pleased surprise on the professor’s face, and answered in her unruffled way, “When you're doin’ the cookin’,

/ \ / / \ “It is effective,” Julie pronounced as she held the frock up and studied herself in the mirror.

Julie, you can git what you like. Besides, you got no date with Dr. Dick tonight.” Open-mouthed Julie watched her sail back to the kitchen. “That’s what she sent me up to tell you but I forgot.” Priscilla contributed the information as though it were of no importance that this was the night of the Opening Spring | Dance at the country club. Or that this was the night that was to mark the triumph of Julie’s winter campaign. This was the night that Julie meant to receive a proposal from Richard Jessup, the only eligible maie in Fayette. Julie put down her fork and bristled as her evening clouded with a dark disappointment. A disappointment unrelated to the more tender emotions. “Perhaps you’ll favor me with the rest of the message,” she inquired haughtily. “You weren’t home when he telephoned.” “Naturally.” Priscilla laughed in the sudden, startling way of ten-year-olds and jeered. “Naturally’# right! Dad, when the phone rings you ought to

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r see how fast Julie can move. Susie Twining says she ought to have a , fire pole cut through the floor to ■ save time.” t "Dad!” Julie implored. “I'm trying to tell you," Priscilla i continued cheerfully, “Dr. Dick said Miss Millie has a bad cold and he I wanted to see that she was fixed up • and he’s sending Tommy to take you I to the dance and if Miss Millie's all ; right, he’ll drop in later.” “You might learn to speak in I . sentences," Julie answered coldly. Her mind assimilated the thought that Millicent Dodd was that impor- ; tant to Dr. Dick. “Ain’t you goin’ to eat any more,

Julie? We got strawberry shortcake,” Cosy said at her elbow. Julie sighed resignedly. Cosy cut a generous slice and, scooping up berries and cream, drowned the cake. She put the plate in front of Julie. “Well .. .” Julie said, weakening. Priscilla put a huge gob into her | mouth, smacked her lips and licked her spoon. Between these pleasant operations she said, “You don’t know when you’re lucky. I thfhk Tommy is beautiful!” i “A Prince Charming!” Julie re- r torted. “A Prince Charming with a truculent air, a*turned-up nose. A poverty-stricken law clerk with a lordly air, a conceited. .. “I mean to marry him when I grow up,” Priscilla continued dreamily. “I asked him if he’d marry me and he said he had no objection except that he certainly didn't want you for a sister-in-law.” “Is that so?” Julie returned I sweetly. That was rather too bad. What would Tommy say when he learned that she was going to marry his idol, his precious brother, Dick? j (To be continued) Copyright by Marie Bl Izard Distributed by King Faatureg Syndic*ta. Im.

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1937.

I SYNOPSIS I Julie Allerdyce, 19-year-oid daughter of Professor Allerdyce of I the Ramsey Preparatory School for Boys, intends to get herself engaged to Dr Richard Jessup, the most eligible bachelor in the little town of Fayette, New York. Tommy Jessup, the doctor's younger brother, adores Julie, but he is still in college and Julie scorns him as a child, while she looks forward to a glamorous future. Julie is furious when Dick telephones that be has to make a sick call and is sending Tommy to escort her to the spring dance. If passible, Dick will go to the dance later. CHAPTER II “Julie, you gonna take a bath?" Julie scorned to answer Cosy. “If you are, you can take yourself right upstairs this minute ’cause I’m not goin' to light that heater agin. I’m goin’ out of this house by seven I’clock so git along. There’s plenty of hot water for you, I got all I want.” Julie thought she had had all she wanted too. She wondered what it would be like to have her dinner in a Jacobean dining-room, served by a butler who certainly wouldn’t ask her if she was going to take a bath. She wondered what it would be like to be dressing in a tulle gown that cost three hundred dollars instead of in a little organdie she had made herself. She wondered what it would be like to make a breathless entrance into a ball-room—and hear people murmur, "Who is that pretty girl?” - “But they do that now," she said dolefully. And so they did. Only Julie Aller-1 dyce wasn’t pretty—she was beauti- | ful. She was tall, her bones were small and gave her slenderness a fluid quality. She had deep greygreen eyes which were often more grey than green because of the shadows cast by her long, dark lashes. Her skin was ivory-tinted and the mass of her red-gold hair seemed sometimes to burden the head she carried proudly on her slender throat. Her mouth with a provocative short upper lip was full and generous. If Julie hadn’t been so beautiful, she would never have been unhappy. Nature had dressed her all up and she had no place to go. The stunning truth of that had first struck her five years before when she was only seventeen. Julie had been boy-conscious from the time she was a long-legged sprite with burnished curls down her back. When the Allerdyces left Boston for Fayette, she was ten. From the time she was fourteen until she was seventeen Julie was in a seventh heaven. She had an entire school to pay her court as the prettiest girl in town. She danced her feet numb at the > school dances, screamed herself hoarse-—doing it prettily—at the hockey, football and basketball garhes. She collected autographed pictures of heroes, fraternity pins and dance programs. She bad sentimental poetry written to her, received countless valentines and was invited by all five of the “outstanding men” in the senior class to their i prom. Life was very exciting then even ’ i if you were so poor that you had to knit your own sweaters and make , your own dance frocks. Julie had squeezed every moment

' beach of the river. There were I uo Chinese or other ships in the ! vicinity, except the American ships i she was convoying. I 4. At the time of the attack. ■ ! 1:27 p. m. “the weather was clear I iwth good visibility and uo wind, i The planes were clearly visible in j spite of their altitude which may i not have been as high as reported -to me at the time (about 4,000 feet).” I 5. The bombing attack contin-! 1 ued for about an hour, with the I attacking planes diving to within! 1 100 to 200 feet of the Panay, from: which distance the American flags I should have been clearly visible. ' “From then (1:27 p. m.) on the I planes bombed us continuously 'until about 2:25 p. tn.” Hughes: I report said. “They appeared to be' attacking us in relays of two or three each. The first group that came over bombed from a considerable altitude which kept them I beyond range of our Lewis machine guns. Later when the Panay was visibly smashed up.! : they came much closer and not ; only let go their bombs from low i altitudes, of perhaps one or two I hundred feet, but also machine i gunned our decks, firing as they ■ came down, diving.” ' 6. “It should be remembered

lout of it but wncn she wm seveni teen, she realized that prep school I boys, after all, were not men They were only little boys, and w hen they went away, back to their homes in New York, Palm Beach or Newport, they would not long remember her She heard about the outside world from them. The knowledge that there was a great, big, glamorous world outside and that there was no possible way in her scheme of things to enjoy It, came to her with a sudden. stunning force. She had taken stock of herself and her possibilities, spending a long hour before her mirror. Then she had said to the determined girl who faced her there, “I can’t sing and I can’t even tap dance. I wouldn’t be a stenographer or a trained nurse if my life depended on

ZP''; • • IB Julie danced her feet numb at the school dances. it. I can’t find any way to get out of she had had a purpose in being nice Fayette and if I could, I’d hate liv- to all her beaux, showering them ing in a furnished room. Even if with the flattering attentions of a the city is the only place where I’d popular girl. Going out of her way meet the kind of a man I ought to to learn their likes and dislikes. Like marry. But I’ll make the best mar- reading about the Yunger ian Case riage I can. Julie Allerdyce, you’re so that she could discuss it with pretty and you’re not going to Judge Merriam. Like joining the waste!” hospital charity league because . . . That had been when she was sev- because that was one way she enteen. When she was nineteen she could force Dick Jessup to notice realized that the kind of a marriage that she was a grown-up, sympashe wanted was as nearly impossible thetic woman and not the little girl as flight to that other world she he remembered. knew about but had never seen. And all of this for what? Because Then Dick Jessup had come back she wanted to get married? Not for ’ to live again in “The Old Jessup marriage itself, perhaps. She was Mansion” and to practice medicine, too independent of spirit to have Julie Allerdyce was thinking minded not marrying but she about Dick Jessup. He was, she con- couldn’t face the appalling future of eluded, the best from every point of boredom, of growing into her thirsecurity that Fayette had to offer ties like ... well, like Millicent Dodd her. who had nothing to fill her time but There had always been beaux for managing charitable enterprises, her, she thought this night of the (To be cont i nue< j) Opening Spring Dance at the Coun- c»p n w w x.n. biu.m try club as she mixed her powder, ouuibuud bra tn* rtaiurw syndicate. in*,

that the attacking planes concentrated almost all their efforts on I I the Tanay during at least the first j I half hour.” Hughes said. 7. The planes attacked and I machine gunned the email boats in J ' which the Panay's survivors, I many of them wounded, escaped to i shore. ! 8. A Japanese surface boat I , machine-gunned the sinking Pan-1 ! ay. before a boarding party of I Japanese soldiers went on board. The report revealed that the : I Japanese army officer, a Lieut. | j Murakam, who boarded the Panay before the bombing, questioned * Hughes about Chinese troop move- ' ments. Hughes continued: “I said that the United States I was friendly to both Japan and I China and therefore I could net ' give him any information about the Chinese army.” ' Murakami Hten invited Hughes j to repay his call, ashore, “which i invitation 1 respectfully declined Four hours later the Japanese ; planes appeared and attacked, i Hughes was wounded by th? first bomb explosion. He said: “I lost consciousness for what , nnmt have been only a minute or I two; when I came to I discovered, myself on the deck of the bridge

blending the white and rachtlh to the exact shade of her ivory skin. There had been Professor Digby Barker. There had been young Judge Merriam, Hilton Jarvis and Stephen Mather when they were home from college, and there was, of course. Tommy Jessup. She stirred the powder angrily, thinking of Tommy Jessup. She was angry with Dick for sending Tommy in his place. She'd had enough of that snub-nosed brat who treated her with fine scorn and highhanded methods. He was, she thought, the only boy she hadn’t been nice to. There wasn't any reason why she should have been. Her own thoughts demeaned her. They led inevitably to the end that

badly stunned with my head cov- ' cred with blood and my right leg ! painfully injured at the hip making | it impossible for me to rise to my I feet.” After recounting in chtonoiogical . order the details of the attack and bow. the wounded were cared for 1 when they reached shore, Hughes praised his crew. COURTHOUSE Real Estate Transfers William ('. Gillespie et iix to Menno E. Schwartz et ux, 39 acres in Blue Creek twp. for sl. ATTENTION Former Members of the MOOSE Through a special ruling of the Grand Lodge, all members dropped for non-payment of dues may be reinstated into the order for the payment of

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