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s “STORY of ha 7 H = : 5 ; 5 ¢ ; N 3 ” sr ne 7 3 ck : 5 ¥ ; 1 % AF i ge : i : ; : loo: | To THIS'LL : KI'S THE races B77 : GO UP IN IT MIGHT COME | FA Tot gs | SMOKE IN HANDY TO ol | | LIKE TH' REGISTER KICKS >is Li MIT eo CELLULOID WHEN THEY'RE igo a | x Ne — ~ SMOKING 2 - TRYING TO = Ds 7 i a ( ECONOMIZE ON By ADELAIDE HUMPHRIES : COAL AROUND a De Bustblnial HERE w HAW +. + CAST OF CHARACTERS HAWP = _, SALLY BLAIR — Heroine. She had : o “everything that popularity could win her, ox : | i DAN REYNOLDS — Hero. He might ; Have had Sally but while he was king a] i ! " coREY PORTER was king of the social But go on with the

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learns that Dan has [eft the city. Sick ¥ ‘at heart, she awaits Corey, whom she ~ hopes may bring some news of Dan.

| CHAPTER NINETEEN "ALMOST a week had gone by _ 4X since Dan had gone away so unexpectedly, without ‘leaving any f'word, or saying goodby. Sally still “eould not accept the fact that he ~had gone. She would not accept #the fact that she would not hear from him. i | favive. | , ..Corey had not been able to give Swi 12-31 COPR. 1938 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. -— any light on the mystery. He in-| “Hey, Mom, look at him picking up peanuts with

sisted that Dan had not said any- |= thing, during that last evening |’ LAPPER FANNY

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Ce nat toid im that Dan nad - A ; ABN NCH His ~ /Look’-nyaR WI IF MARRYIN' } | LP A CHEAP SHOOTIN: Son that she was convinced, by his : J 8 NAMES SEE ARON Ii , < ASH H ar _.4ery surprise, that Corey knew NER ie iy A smething about it. G0. : i= ‘If Corey secretly had been pleased, almost exulted, he had given ‘po sign of that. He said| he _ «thought it most ungrateful for Dan to behave in such a manner, after #gll Sally and her father had done *y =for him. | “But he didn’t know what #Paddy and I had done for him,” . Say had reminded. If he had, “that might have been his reason { “for, going! For Sally knew Dan’s|- . szfierce pride, his dislike of being shelped in any way; she knew, too, _that he would not have understood her failure to tell him that her father had been his benelac-

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tor. She asked her father to find out «from Mr. Frank Devon if Dan had been sent away by the firm on a business matter. Mr. Devon ~was sorry to say that young Reyn- ir 3 ) olds had resigned from the firm. yn “Didn’t he give any reason for : ; : _resigning so abruptly?” Sam : Blair asked. He knew this would ..a ‘severe disappointment to his aughter. In fact Sam Blair was “disappointed in the lad, himself. “Only that he*felt this was not the right place for him,” Mr. *Pevon returned. He added that he . had been sorry the young man had felt that way as he had been =making nice progress. 8 » 2

-Q ALLY knew there was something else behind Dan’s sudden departure. Solething that she did not “understand, but that nevertheless ‘ had caused Dan to go away without ~~ saying a word. She still would not _ give up hope that he would send her word of some sort. She had to cling “to this. She simply could not believe that Dan would disregard their ~ efriendship in this way. He had had some very good reason for acting as he had, she told herself stubbornly, over and over. There was some very good reason why she had not heard from him. “She believed this, because she believed in Dan. But it did not keep ‘her heart from aching; nor lift the =heavy weight that had settled—for good, apparently—on it. She was never to forget the morn=ing the letter came. She had looked for a letter so many mornings. Always with that spring of rising hope that always—until this morning— died away. This morning brought the letter she had waited for so ong. She held it against her rapidly beating heart for a long moment before she gave herself the exquisite delight of reading what Dan had to say. Sh 2 8 2 INHE letter was postmarked from the little town in the hills of *New Hampshire from which Dan had come. He had returned to his . .home, then. The letter began, “Dear Sally.” It was very short. It was signed simply, “Dan.” %* ‘But its contents were what Sally read over and over, first with that

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{want you to think me ungrateful | for the friendship you gave me. But “you were right. I am a coward. When it comes to your gay, glamorous world. I thought ‘I could ° “adapt myself to it. I thought, for awhile, that I was happy in it. But it is not the kind of world I want, iA “#mot the kind of life I planned. To E\ATN

| be perfectly honest with you, you are| [Ear || not the kind of girl I want, either— i Sil a =as I told you long ago—Sally Blair.” | {i |. There was no other signature, except his name. No address. No post- . |sscript. Nothing more. Not even any- , ‘thing to read between the lines. Oh, surely this could not be all that Dan had to say to hér! All " that he ever would have to say. This last thought struck her like a blow over her heart, banishing | hope entirely. For this brief letter “was farewell; it was finis: Every- ~~ thing was over—forever—between herself and Dan. et : # 8 #

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3 4 be be honest”—yes, Dan was \ “4 always that, he could not be . otherwise—“to be honest,” Sally read again, “you are not the kind . of girl T want, Sally Blair.” She “knew this should arouse her resentment, her hot anger, her pride and scorn. But that would come later, all of it, Now it brought only a dull .ache, an empty sense of Jitter loss, : t kind of girl did Dan think ghe was? Hadn't he told her, that ove day by the brook, that he bei in her? Hadn't she proved £6 him, during these happy months

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But Dan had gone. away not knowing about that. He would never know about that now.

ment of weeping. For Sally Blair, who was the prettiest, the most

‘of friendship, that she was the kind of girl he should believe in? : : Looking deep into her own heart - Bally knew that though she had tried she had not quite succeeded, ‘had not’ quite played fair. She hau told Dan the whole , about herself and about her father, that they had been the ones help him; she should not have wed any deceit, no matter how all, how right it had seemed at time to her, to lie between them.

Sally took the letter and placed it in her jewel case, turning the key. ‘It was not until later that she was to take it out once more, to tear it into small jagged fragments which afterward -she was -to burn and which, still- water, she was. to weep over as ashes. : : : She wept now, hopelessly, despairingly, her slender body, thrown face downward on the beautiful silk and lace covering her bed, an abandon3

popular of all the glamour girls, who had broken so many hearts during her short reign as queen of them all, had had her own heart broken completely, irreparably, now.

“(To Be Continued)

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