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CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Maey Phones 1000 - 1001 Saturday , Chicken Supper, Zfon Lutheran • Church, 5 to 7 p. m. ■ Public Party, Moose Home. 8 p.tn. Monday ■ | Dramatic Department, Mrs. Har-j I old Zwick. 7:30 p. m. i Music Department, Woman's I club, Mrs. VV. A. Klepper, 7:30 p. m. • 1 Arl Department, Mr«. A, R. Ash(voucher, 7:30 p. m. literature Department, Mrs. ■ George Flanders, 7:30 p. m. Pythian Needle Club, K of P. | Home after Temple. So Cha Rea Dinner. Rice Hotel '6:30 p. m. Research Club, Mrs. Nellie Haney 2:30 p. m. Tuesday Psl lota XI. business meeting. Mrs. Leo Kirsch. 7:30 p. m. Trl Kappa Business Meeting. Elk's Home. 8 p m. Zion Reformed W. M. S., Church Parlors. 2:30 p. m. ; Dutiful Daughters' Class, Mrs. Ho- ! mer Maloney, 7:30 p. m. Wednesday Historical Club. Mrs. Ben DeVor, 2:30 p. m. Shakespeare Club, Mrs. Burt Townsend, 2:30 p. m. Zion Senior Walther League, i Church (Auditorium, 7:30 p. m. Thursday Homestead Home Economics ! Club. Mrs. Harry King. 7:30 p. m. 1 Ever Ready Class, Mrs. Charles ‘ Fletcher, 7:30 p. m. I ritualistic chairmen, Mrs. Marcella ; Ijoshe, Mrs. Bernard Loshe, and Mrs. Dora Cook. The door prize j was presented to Mrs. Virgil Drap|er and the contest prize to Miss Mary Coffee. Bunco was played and prizes given to Mrs. H. Tester and Mrs Lloyd Kreischer. Delicious refresh melds were served at the close of I the evening. The music department of the Woman's club will meet at the home of Mrs. W. A. Klepper Mon day evening at seven-thirty o'clock. MRS. SIGURD ANDERSON IS HONORED WITH SHOWER Mrs, Ford Schafer of Ft. Wayne entertained with a lhien shower Thursday evening, honoring Mrs. ' Sigurd Anderson at the home of Mrs. Grover Odle on Seventh ! street. Four tables of bridge were in i play and prizes awarded to Mrs. j Lela White and Mrs. Robert Shra--1 luka. At the close of the games, a

Krasna originally had a tragic ending on the George Raft-Sylvia Sidney picture, "You and Me" But Paramount decided people don't want depressing movies now, so the story has been changed to ! give it a happy ending We watch Director Fritz Lang shoot an amusing scene, the robbery of a department store. It is comedy, because Sylvia Sidney traps the crooks and demonstrates to them on a blackboard how there can be no profit in the venture. She analyzes the figures like this: a "Loot, $30,000. "Fence pays 15 per cent, which nets $4,500. “Expenses: getaway car, $500; three trucks, $600; three watchmen, $300; two stock-room men, $100; eight getaway tickets, $300: lawyer, SI,OOO. Add one-third split to the boss, $566.66. and the gang gets a total of $1,133.34." A novel way of proving that crime doesn’t pay. Two of Hollywood’s champion scene stealers, Hugh Herbert and

Fritz Feld, are doing a shot together in "Gold Diggers in Paris". They are supposed to be two excitable Frenchmen meeting backstage. Also in the scene Is a Great Dane dog sitting on a table. It is an edu-

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cation to see these two experts try to take the play away from each other. For every “woo, woo” of Herbert’s, Feld counters with a gesture or a grimace. The scene is almost finished and the score is about even when the Great Dane suddenly lifts its muzzle and emits a plaintive wail. It breaks up the company. “Take the dog away,” says Director Ray Enright, "we’ll do the scene without him.” “I should think so,” says Herbert. “Woo, woo! Two of us is company, three is a crowd!"

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 19M8.

lovely true course luncheon was served i»y Mrs. Schafer, Mth. Odle and Miss Eileen Odle. Little Junior Odle then presented Mrs. Anderson with a note directing her to the gifts. Out-of.town guests Included Mrs. Keith Fields lof Portland, Mrs. Robert Ponnot of Fort Wayne and Mrs. R. W Williamson of Fort Wayne. Other guests were the Misses Eleanor Pumphrey, Eleanor Rep. pert, Glennis Elzey. Betty Trleker, Jane Augenhaugh and Mary Jane Foos, the Mesdumes John Moore, Don Stump, Cecil Melchl, Lela White and Robert Shralukn, and i the honor guest, Mrs. Anderson, fRILEY P. T. A. MEETS HERE FRIDAY AFTERNOON The Riley P. T. A. met Friday afternoon at the school with forty I members and guests present. The third grade pupils sang a 'group of songs including folk songs from foreign countries. Mrs. Ivan Stueky played three selections on her accordlan. A Founders Day Collection was take n and $3.28 was received. Mrs. Gertrude Myers of Fort Wayne continued the discussion of the book the group is studying, entitled ‘Tntyfng Apron Strings.’’ A social hour followed, during which refreshments were served. The committee consisted of Mrs. Clifford Hakey, Mrs. Jack Freidt, Mrs. G. A. Light. Mrs. Hazel Moore, Mrs. Carl Moser, and Mrs. FrankFisher. The Art Department of the Woman’s Club will meet at the home of Mrs. A. R. Atihbauoher Monday evening at seven-thirty o'clock. Mrs. i R. D. Myers will be the leader and her topic is “Indiana Art” A topic front the magazine of Art ' will also be reviewed. The committee also includes Miss Kffic Patten anil Miss Doris Nelson. Elee- ■ tion of officers will be held and a'i members are urged to be present. BILLY BOLLINGER HAS BIRTHDAY PARTY Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bollinger of the Homesteads entertained nineteen friends of their son, Billy, on the occasion of his eleven's birthday anniversary Friday afternoon from three-thirty to six o'clock. Games and contests were enjoyed and prizes were given to Richard

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t— CHAPTER XXIV Tommy Gale was buying Gina a Irink in the Brevoort bar. It was five o’clock in the afternoon, she was wearing a sheer print frock and a frail black hat, and the drink was a lemon squash, * The night before, on a moonlit beach in Connecticut, Caroline had told Alec she would marry him if that was what he still wanted. It was what he wanted more than anything in the world and he said so. Back in town this morning, he had called Tommy on the telephone and suggested they dine together that evening. Tommy said now, “I’m having dinner with Alec tonight.” Gina pulled off the frail blpck hat and ran her fingers through the dark hair that curled damply against her white forehead. She remembered suddenly that she was sailing for Europe in three days and that she had asked Tommy to meet her here today because she wanted to ask him to try to see more of Alec while she was away. She said, ’’l'm glad to hear that . . . you have managed to neglect him rather badly during all these months you have been home.” Tommy’s mouth went suddenly young and hard. “1 suppose I have, but I doubt if he has noticed it.” Gina was positive he had not seen Alec for weeks. He knew that Caroline’s play had closed early in May and that she had taken a place in Connecticut. And he knew, because she had just finished telling him, that Alec had finished the apple orchard and was producing it himself in the fall with Caroline in the leading role. She said now, ignoring his last remark, “Well, Caroline will be playing stock in Baltimore all summer and I shall be abroad. It would be nice if you managed to see him ; now and then. He adores you, Tommy. If he has seemed to be occupied with other things this past year, it doesn’t mean that you still don't continue to be pretty important to him.” Her voice sounded suddenly tired and looking at her, he saw what he had failed to see before—that without the flattering brim of that frail black hat, her face was thin-cheeked and we ry-eyed. Then she smiled at him and he forgot evAything except that she was probably the most beautiful woman he had ever known . . . more beautiful even than Caroline, who wasn’t, he supposed, actually beautiful at all, only prom- ! ised to be some day. . . . “It’s funny to think that I gave up a job I really liked to come hpme to be with you and Alec and yet I haven’t seen enough of either of you, during the last six or seven months, to have made it worth while.” She laid her cheek against her band and considered him gravely, her eyes thoughtful. “Yes, it is funny how people plan things one way for even so short a time as a | few months, and very often it all works out quite differently. But if ; you haven’t seen much of Alec and : me it has been more your fault than i ours.” “I know that.” Tommy’s face I tightened unexpectedly, he thrust I his next words at her almost I

i Cottrell and Jerry Ketehum. At the • close of the games Mrs. Bollinger served delicious refreshments. The - honor guest received many pretty - gifts. i j Those present other than the honI or gest, Billy. Included: Max Ogg. derry Ketchum, Richard Cottrell, Bobby Planner, Billy Hawkins, Richard Bollinger, Billy Elchhorn. I Charles Chllcote, Eugene Lough, Jackie Raer Dwight Marshall, Don- .; ny Kirsch, Donald Ilrunnegraf, • Kleth and Billy lllleman. Junior and , | Dickie Hart, Tommy Ahr and Roy ~ Cook. l| MR. AND MRS FUHRMAN ENTERTAIN CLASS MEMBERS Members of the Mt. Pleasant j Bible class enjoyed a :pot luck «up- ' per at the home of Mr. and Mrs. • Francis Fuhrman, north west of | town, Friday evening. The class j studied the book of Mose 3. Music i j was enjoyed during the evening. j j Guests Included Messieurs and ! ! Mesdames Roy French, Harold j French, Rev, and Mis. Reynolds., Frank Singleton, Merle Sheets, Virgil Draper, Francis Fuhrman, Million Fuhrman, Earl Fuhrman, Everett Singleton. Esther Reynolds, Avanelle and I Vera Biehold. Ellen and Irene Dra- j per, Estella and Evelyn French, Jea-! ! nette Fuhrman, Maybelle and Nor-! ma Sheets. Kathryn. Roger and Kenneth Singleton, Rex Hunbarger, Ralph Sheets, Earl. Bobby, Charles and Paul Fuhrman and Lawrence and Edition Biehold. — Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Peterson and John Everett entertained at din- i ner Thursday evening for Mr. and Mrs. Dick Holbrock, sons Herbert 1 and Ted and daughter Miss Geraldine of north east of the city, Wal- | ter Adame of Fort Wayne and Mr. ! ; and Mrs. Arthur Hall of north east i of town. The Dramatic Department will meet at the home of Mre. Harold Zwick Monday evening at seventhirty o’clock. All members are urg- j ed to attend. PHILO CLASS HAS REGULAR MEETNG The Philo class of the Fl/st Bapitist Sunday school met at the home i of Rev. and Mrs. Homer Asny with Miss Jane Augenhaugh assisting [hostess. Twelve members answered

] angrily. “And if I have stayed away from both of you pretty consistently, ; I have thought that you. at least, must know why.” « For a long moment, Gina continued to regard him steadily. Then she said, her voice hurrying huskily over the words, “My dear, I have thought sometimes that I did know, but I have hoped that I was wrong.” “Well,” said Tommy, “you weren't wrong. You were God-awful right.” He said abruptly, “Let’s talk about you and this Paris trip. When do you sail and how long do you intend to be gone?” “I sail Wednesday night and I’m going to be gone indefinitely. I’m going to spend a month or so sketching in Normandy, and later in the ' season Barry has promised to get me some London commissions. It will probably be late autumn before I return. . . .’’ And she thought, “It’s utterly stupid of Tommy not to see that he isn’t the only one who is being hurt. ...” Then she remembered that if Tommy ever thought of her and Alec as lovers, it was as something that was over and done with at least ten years ago ... and ten years is an incredible long time to the very young. It seemed a long time, even to her, sitting this afternoon in this quiet place, sipping a long, cold drink that Tommy had ordered for her. Ten years ago . . . she had been twenty-two that summer of 1926. She had worn her hair shingled and danced with Alec on hotel roofs to “Tea for Two,” in a rose-biege georgette crepe dress and a hat that was called a cloche ... that was the summer, she remembered, when women concealed their eyes and revealed their legs, and she had been glad that hers were nice because there seemed to be so many suddenly that weren’t.. . . And that was the summer, too, that she and Alec began going more or less regularly to Tony’s and some of the other speak- < easies. ... It was the summer after ’ she had got to know Barn? Bedard really well, and he had said to her, “Gina, you’re a fool to dream about Paris . . . and starve in New York. . . .” It was the summer she began 1 making money. Quite a lot of money. < It was the second summer after i Helen Gale came back from Kobe, 1 Japan, with young Tommy. It was < the summer she and Alec began to • be too busy with their separate 1 careers to think about getting mar- ' ried. ' And now Alec was thinking about getting married again . . . but not > her. To a girl named Caroline who, in that summer of 1926, had been ’ ten years old—a slim-legged child, < with a mop of bright hair, who even 1 then probably liked to dressup and < play at “show-acting,” a slimlegged child who even then was 1 growing up as fast as she could \ manage it, so that in a not too far ■ distant October, Alec might open a door of a New York apartment, discover her on the other side of it, and t fall in love with her. ... 1 Gina came back abruptly from ten j years ago and Alec, to the Brevoort * bar and Tommy. “I have to run, * darling. It’s fun sitting here with c | you like this but I’v* still a thousand I things to do. . .

the roll call. Following the business meeting a social hour was enjoyed during which refreshments were served hy the hostesses. oM " 11 ■ —♦ Adams County Memorial Hospital ♦- - ♦ Dttimlssed Saturday: Miss Virginia Shady, route 1; Ivan Sheehan,; Monroeville: Mrs. Edward E. Mower, 334 N. 9th street; Walter A. Whlttenharger, route 3. Admitted Friday: William F. Bruhn, Geneva; Charles Roebuck, 1105 North Second street; Zeal Miller, route 1, Berne. 0 Lieut, latrry Letson of Chicago j j visited friends in Decatur Friday , and Saturday. Von Eichorn of Bluffton, a candidate for joint senator, visited here last evening. Mrs. David lArcber of near Pleasant Mills was In the city today, j She Is recovering from severe ! bruises received when knocked | down by a cow a few days ago. She i has been a faithful subscriber to the | Dai'y Democrat for many years and ! has renewed for this year. F. E. France has purchased a new Buick car and is ready for a trip ■ to Florida, James Lake or any other place where the lure may call. ; Mr. and Mrs. Chalmer Porter, Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Thomas. Dr. and Mrs. E. P. Fields and nobert libeller and Mary Cowan attended the military hall held In the Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce building Friday night, lit was spon--1 sored by the reserve officers of this area. DOG PROFICIENT JUGGLER USING 12-FOOT BOARD Aberdeen, Wash. —(UP)-- Ross Mates would be surprised at anything that Copper might bring j home. Copper is a Belgian shepherd, smaller than the type know as police dogs. The dog a'ready has carried home ■ shiplap, two-by-fours and other

Tommy called a cab and she kissed him good-by. She would not see him again before she left New York. Only Barry Bedard would see her off on a boat that sailed three days later. Barry . . . and possibly Alec. If he was in town and not with Caroline in Connecticut. When Tommy let himself into the flat at thirty-eighth Street half an hour later, the telephone was ringing. Answering it, he was a littls surprised to find it was Roxanne. It was the first time she had called him in weeks. There had been a time back in April when she had called him every day, but that hadn't lasted. . . . He was surprised therefore to answer the telephone on this hot June evening and hear her voice. She said, “Hello, Tommy . . . how are you!” He said he was fine. Inquired politely for her own state of health. She skipped this and the deliber ate coolness in his voice, and went straight to what she wanted. She wanted to see him. That evening if possible. She said in that clear, almost indifferent voice which could grow so surprisingly turbulent in ardent moments. “The family are in the country but I’m in town for a few days. Supposedly to see my dentist but really, darling, to see you. I thought perhaps if you were free for the evening we could dc something.” How like her, thought Tommy, not without certain grudging admiration, to hurdle over all the weeks he had kept away from her, re-establishing by the very off-hand casualness of her manner all that old, pleasant intimacy of their former relationship. Grinning a little at her audacity, he replied that he was sorry but he was dining with Alec. Otherwise it would have been delightful. There was a little silence, during which he began to feel slightly uncomfortable, then she said lightly, “In that case, why not drop in here later?” Tommy knew what that meant. With the family in the country there would not be more than one maid in town. After ten she would be off duty. The apartment would be quiet and cool . . . there would be something to drink . . . they would turn on the radio and dance for a while .. . after a little they would turn the radio off. And it would all begin over again. And he didn’t want it to begin over again. He .said, “I’m afraid it will be much too late for that—” Roxanne laughed briefly. “No, it won’t be too late. . . . I’ll be alone and I’ll be expecting you.” She broke the connection softly but definitely. It was a habit, Tommy thought half disgustedly, half humorously, ; that had always made it practically imr ssible to win any arguments -h her on the telephone. Not, of course, that he intended to do anything about this. He didn’t. He was, he told himself, well out of all that. Nevertheless he was glad that he really had had a dinner engagement. He was glad that he was dining in an hour with Alec. (To be continued) OopyrliM. HIT. to King TnturM Syndicate, Im

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Dinosaur national monument, at the base of Split • mountain in northern Utah, is slowly emerging from the blueprint stage. The world's richest prehistoric bone pile has been visited by thousands of tourists since it was opened to the public last summer. When completed, the park will be the "crowning educational jewel’' of United States national

pieces of lumber. , He usee them in a self taught j juggling and halacing act with which he amuses himself for hours at a time. |A>t present he is using a piece of shiplap 12 feet long, but will do nis trick with any stick of this or greatj er length. Copper lifts one end of the board :in his mouth and slides his teeth along it until it balances. Then he twists his body and gives the board a litt'e toss, maneuvering so the - lumber drone on his shoulders. He

CHAPTER XXV Within an hour and thirty min□tes. Tommy knew that Alec was about to tell him that he and Caroline were engaged to be married. He didn’t know how he knew it, he hadn't known it that morning when Alec telephoned and asked him to dine. But he knew it now. So presently when Alec, after ordering the fish and the Chablis, said, “Last night Caroline and I became engaged to each other . . .” he was able to receive the announce- | ment with a perfectly composed face. They were dining at fine of the most important men’s clubs in the city, and Alec was, Tommy decided, by far the best-looking man in the room. He looked at least ten years younger than most men of his age; the result, no doubt, of being flat- ; waisted and having hair which had only begun very recently to recede a little at the forehead. Tommy brought his mind back with an effort from thinking that Alec did not look at all too old to be Caroline's husband . . . that they would make an outstandingly handsome pair walking down the aisle of any church they happened to be married in. . . . Above the fading sound of a wedding march, with the scent of bridal roses still making him a little ill, he heard himself saying, “That’s fine, Alec. That’s simply swell. She is a lovely girl and I hope you will both have a very happy life.” Alec said, “I think we shall. At least I shall try very hard to give her a happy life.” Then ,he said, still looking very handsome but a little perturbed, “Stop me if I’m wrong, Tommy, but there have been times when I have thought you didn’t like her. When I have thought you even disliked her for some reason. ..." Tommy stared at him, thinking, “This is a hell of a mess. Whatever I say now has to be convincing . . . it has to be so convincing he will never give it another thought. . . .” “You must be crazy, Alec,” he said, “I’ve always liked her. Right from the beginning. If I haven’t hung around more with both of you it’s only been because I didn’t want to get into your hair. I thought you’d understand that.” Alec’s face relaxed abruptly and he laughed. “You can’t imagine how relieved I am to hear you say that. You two happen to be the only persons in the world, except Gina, of course, whom I care a damn about ... and you can see for yourself how awkward it would have been if you hadn’t happened to like her.” “Well, don’t give it another thought. I do like her. I like her a i lot.” After that they talked of other things ... of Gina’s trip to Europe and Alec’s play and the chances of Tommy’s getting a decent job again. And presently it was ten o’clock and Tommy was saying that if Alec didn’t mind, he had a sort of date with a girl whose family were in the country. He said, “I promised I’d drop in on her later and take her dancing or something. ...”

parks Skeletal remains of at least 11 varieties of dinosaurs have been found imbedded in the sandstone clay. Scientists say 50.000.000 years of the earth's history are chronicled in the layers of rock which flank Split mountain. The state is constructing a highway to the area from the little town of Jansen on Route 40.

I shifts his position until the hoard t balances on his shoulders and walks t as far as he can without losing the j i load. When the board fallti off, he starts all over again. t . o Girl Plays in 3 Orchestras ‘j ! i Painesville, O. —(UP) — At the I age of 16. Elizabeth Harrison of i Painesville now plays a trumpet in > the Cleveland Women's Symphony I ochesta. She took up tumpet play--1 ins at the age of 9. She also playc ‘ in the Harvey high school and the

And saying it, he thought that all the time he had known, he supposed, that in the end he would go back ... that in the end he would go back and everything would begin over again between them. Three days later, Caroline went to Baltimore. The night before she left, she walked slowly about the candlelit living-room of the small house in Connecticut, pausing now and then to touch the polished top of a table, to run her fingers lightly over the keys of the piano, to glance for a moment into the dark depths of an old mirror. Alec, watching her with amused eyes, thought, “She is a funny, unpredictable child. She’s saying goodby to the place, I suppose.” “You’ve been fairly happy here, haven’t you, Caroline?” he asked. “You’re a little lonely at leaving it, aren’t you?" She nodded, leaning thoughtfully against the dark curve of the piano, her dress white and drifting in the candlelight. “Yes, in away I suppose I am. I’ve been here such a little while, but I’ve iiked it so much. I’ve felt so peaceful here, Alec, so beautifully secure. He laughed at her from across the room. “Silly kid . . . you are much too young to talk of peace and security in that solemn sort of way. No one wants either, really, until they are done with living, and you haven’t even begun to live, yet.” Caroline said, “Haven’t I, Alec? I think I have.” And was a little frightened at having said the words. Or, rather, at the flare-up of that old emotional turmoil which had forced her to say them. It was absurd, of course, to believe that what had happened between her and Tommy Gale, or perhaps what had not happened between them, could possibly have affected her so deeply that she should be feeling tonight that she had lived a lifetime during those astonishingly brief encounters with him. Those astonishingly brief encounters during which he had managed to sweep aside all her young reticences, leaving her as wrenched and defenseless as a sapling torn by a strong wind in the springtime. . . . Here in this quiet house by the water she had been safe from all that. Here there had been only long hours in the sun and Rose Martell’s impersonal cheerfulness and Alec . . . Alec who would never snatch and run, leaving her to bind up her wounds as best she could or, failing that, to slowly bleed to death. He regarded her with a grave detachment. “But you wouldn’t want to stay here indefinitely ... not go to Baltimore I mean?” “Naturally not!” Her quick, light laughter rejected this idea promptly and definitely. “It’s only been so nice, I suppose, because it’s been a holiday, really, before I went back to work, again.” “Which means," thought Alec, a little wryly, “that she still isn’t at all in love with me. If she were, all this would havt meant much more to her than just a holiday.” Bui then, he hadn't ever believed that she was. So now he kissed her lightly, as he had disciplined himself to kiss her, being eajratul never

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to let her see how much he desired her, how much more he wanted her than she had ever yet wanted him. And kissing her like that, he was a little relieved that she was going off to Baltimore the next day. Seeing her so constantly, being alone with her so much and never being able to let go, to be completely ardent and natural with her, had become more emotionally difficult than he was willing to admit even to himself. He preferred to believe that he could say good-by to her the next day with so little acute regret because he was going to be so unusually busy getting ready to produce his new play in the fall and because he would be seeing her every weekend all summer. The summer to Caroline was constant hours in the theatre, not nearly enough sleep, icy cold showers, the thinnest possible linen frocks because they seemed cooler somehow than silk, low-heeled white sandals, a chicken sandwich and a glass of milk for lunch because it was too much effort to order anything else. It meant working harder than she had believed anyone could possibly work. It meant learning more about the theatre than she had believed there was to learn. It meant growing more self-confident and at the same time more humble. It meant rehearsing a new part every week. It meant being too tired most of the time to think of anything except her work. It meant Alec coming down from New York for weekends. The weekends were all more or less alike. Alec motored down in his own car on Saturday afternoon. After the matinee, they drove out into the country and had dinner. After the evening performance they went to one of the hotel roofs and danced. Not very late, because she was invariably too tired. Sundays were nice, unless she had to rehearse most of the day, as sometimes happened, depending on how important a part she was to have in the next week’s performance. Sundays that she didn’t have to rehearse were lovely. It was pleasant after the routine of the week to have Alec plan her day for her. To have him say, “We’ll do this and that. .. .” And then it was Monday morning with a nine o’clock rehearsal posted on the call-board. . . . The weekends were more or less alike, except one. That one that came just at the beginning of August. That one was different. On Friday Alec telephoned that he was bringing Tommy down with him. He said it just like that, casually, at the end of the conversation. He said, “I think I’ll bring Tommy down with me, if you don’t mind. He’s been stuck here pretty much all summer and he needs to get out of town.. ..” Caroline said no, of course she didn’t mind . . . and felt that fierce racing of her blood to her heart, and knew her knees were shaking uncontrollably. Presently, when Alec said goodby, she tried to get hold of herself, to face the situation coherently and without that sick excitement which amounted to almost a physical ache. (To be continued) Copyright, HIT, to KIM rootgroo Syndic*!* Im.